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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-03
WEATHER OF
OCTOBER

@7CTOBER weather in Indian
IL II apolis broke records dating
u back fifty years. The aver
age temperature for the month
was 9 degrees below the normal,
there was twice as much rain and
twice as many cloudy days as
usual, according to the weather
bureau.
The much-boasted Hoosier In
dian summer was lost strayed or
stolen. And the city's smoke
nuisance got a nice running
start.
Obviously we need new
weather man, or grand jury in
vestigation. The present weather
dispenser is utterly incompetent or
has been bribed by the Florida
realtors.
But even such weather as we
have had the past month is use
ful-better than none. Prof.
Ellsworth Huntington wrote a
book Climate and Civilization,
in which he proved that the high
est types of civilization are de-
veloped in countries with marked
seasonal changes in climate and
pronounced daily variations in
temperature, sunshine, winds and
rainfall. A mild, equable climate,
he holds, is pleasant, but en-
ervating.
He cited the mental and ply
steal lethargy of the people of
the West Indies, after a genera
ton in that even, perfect climate.
as proof of the baneful effect of
such a climate. So Florida had
better not point the finger OF
scorn at our Hoosier climate.
1t is our sometime abominable,
sometimes beautiful, ever-chang-
ing, record-breaking weather that
brings civilization to it's apex in In
diana. 1t stimulates Hoosier
mental and physical activities.
Very gratifying, but October had
better behave next year.
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ACADEMIC AND
ATHLETIC

N7RESIDENT WALSH of
Notre Dame University,
IL South Bend, says that
Notre Dame will not build an ath-
letic stadium until the institutions
needs in academic buildings, dor
mitories and study halls are sup
piled. He has the quaint idea that
the purpose of universities is pri-
marily academic.
That's at variance with the pop
ular conception. Universities at
present seem to be mostly known
for their football teams. And
there has been a perfect epidemic
of stadium building in recent
years. Almost every college has
one or is talking about one.
Even Notre Danes football
team has attracted some casual no
tice from time to time. The insti-
tuition is known as the lair Of
Knute Rockne and the stable of
the -Four Horsemen to thousands
who don't know or care what, or
whether, other branches of learn
ing besides football are taught
there.
Many attack the present system
Of college athletics. They decry
the publicity, popularity and SEEM
ing importance of such contests.
Perhaps athletics are being over
done. But it is doubtful If
scholastic results are harmful. At
present higher scholastic stand
ards are required of college ath-
letes than ever before in the his
tory of intercollegiate competition.
President Walsh has studied the
effect of athletics on academic &C
tivities at his institution. He finds
that classroom work, research
work in library and laboratories
and the general scholastic average
Of the student body is higher than
in the days when athletic pursuits
were not favored by the faculty
Probably other universities
would reveal similar conditions.
There is no incompatibility bet
tween athletic and academic activ-
tiles in colleges and universities.
The former, being more colorful,
more attracts the public eye and is
news. But the classrooms still
function.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON.

vestigated and approved by the
State public service commission.
Yet each time examiners of the
Federal Commission have reported
that public convenience and neces-
slty do not require the line-and
that body has denied permission
for its construction.
Probably southern Indiana can
wallow along without this par
ticular railway. 1t has so far.
However, the public service COM
mission is in better position to
determine the matter than lofty
bureaucrats who ride their swivel
chairs in Washington.
The State utility body is pre-
sumably better acquainted with
Indiana and it's transportation
needs than a Federal Commission.
Yet though the Indiana commits
sion approves an Indiana railroad
project, the line can't be built
without Federal permission.
That's how much authority is
left to States to regulate trans
portation matters within its own
borders.
Orators still speak of the SOW
eign State. That's mere verbal
embroidery. The sovereign State
isn't event a ghost at the present
day-or current fiction. It's his
day. As far as regulating it's in
ternal affairs, from prohibition to
transportation, including many
other matters, a State can only
wiggle feebly under the thumbs
of Federal bureaucrats.
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Pie

a WOMAN in New York, so we are told.
~ won 81, 900 verdict against her land
lord after the ceiling of her kitchen gave way
and showered debris on her.
This was not so much because her injuries
were serious. But never since the accident has
she been able to bake pie as she used to-
The price is small indeed woman who
can really bake pie as it ought to be baked is
worth her weight in gold Hardly any sum, it
seems, is enough to compensate for the loss of
the art
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human university That seems very odd
Most of the complaint that is heard about
American universities is that they are too hui
man. 1t is necessarily charged that too much
time is devoted to the social and athletic well
fare of the students and not enough to their
intellectual development.
The Cornell procedure seems to fly in the
face of the prevalent view of American uni
versities. None the less it would appear to
be amply justified, and to establish a prece-
dent which might well be followed by other
large knowledge factories
The "college boy" of which the country
hears is an expensive looking young man who
travels around to football games in a high
powered car and reaches into the pockets of his
raccoon coat for hundred-dollar bills to bet
on his team This specimen, however, is repre-
sentative of only small fraction of the stu
dents at universities
For every student going through college
in ease and comfort there is another CASUALLY
two or three) having pretty miserable time
His club is a rooming house, his dining hall is
noisy and messy cafeteria, and his refuge is
corner drug store, or possibly the library.
In every large university in the East there
are thousands of students who only see the gay
side Of college life from a distance. Some
know it only through the novels they read.
Cornell will expend the fund raised by the
special tax to organize pleasant social life for
the large element of students who have no
clubs, no motor cars no doting daddies to
ease the course of their university education.
If the money is well expended it is possible for
Cornell to make another notable contribution
to the advance of education in the United
States
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Tom Sims Saws

You can't travel very far on lame
excuses.
This weather is so changeable the
man in charge must be a woman.
You will find the silver lining to
most clouds furnished from lack of
use.
Hope bacon and egg never get a
divorce.
There are several makes Of good
adding machines, but all autos are
good subtracting machines.
Many a neighbours dog is a howl
ing success.
What you believe in isn't so i'm
portant as who you believe in.
Keep your joys to yourself, and
others, thinking you have none. will
hide theirs from you.
Stif1e your good or bad feelings
long enough and they will escape
so distorted you won't know them
yourself.
Good Seattle news. Real estate
man fell out of a window. Proves
all of them are not in Florida.
Copyright. 1915. NEA Service. Incl
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Marguerite Shows How Paris Dances;
Palace Has Real Novelty Orchestra

toned practice just enough to lay
emphasis on a photoplay.
And very justly was attention
brought to that famous nursery
classic, 1.-THE Wizard of o." with
Larry Semon. Just as the book has
delighted countless children, so will
the picture prove a pleasure to all
who see it, be they young or old.
1t has been touched up Just
enough to give It an interest for
adults besides, and including, the
children.
Bartrom and Saxton have Just one
thing to do, but oh, how they do IL.
Their speciality is harmony singing,
and that, you will say after hearing
them, is enough. One of the men
has a fine tenor voice and the other
a barytone. They blend perfectly in
the numbers they sing. L.
Gellmann's Band Box Revue"
exactly describes this company. TO
use that old expression, they look as
if they had lust stepped out of n
band box" The setting and COSTUME
ing of this act are treat to color
hungry eyes and the music and
dancing are still more Of a treat.
One of the features of the orchestra
was the impersonation Of Ted Lewis,
by one Of the members. The dancers,
a man and woman. confine them.
selves entirely to dances OF the
Spanish mode and are excellent.
Riblo and Lacoytine have two dogs
in their act that captivate the
audience with their excellent train.
ing. The act centers on the balanc.
ing feats Of the two dogs.
Dizzy Heights. /, an act laid on
the top of the Alps. A couple have
decided to climb these famous noun
tains during their honeymoon. The
wife's complaints furnish the
comedy.
Lew and Mad Wilson, man and
woman are two fun makers and
with their "wise cracks" will chase
your gloom away.
Wallace Calvin has many sleight
of hand tricks that will battle you I'm
trying to figure them out. TIE is adept
at procuring eggs from nowhere.
At the Lyric all week. By the OBJ.
server.)
l. T. +
Other theaters today offer: "Ths
Gold Rush" at the Circle; Peacock
Feathers" at the Colonial; Hes a
Prince" at the Apollo; THE Tower
of Lies" at the Ohio; burlesque at
the Broadway. Lawrence Players at
the Capitol and with Kit Carson
over the Great Divide" at the Isis.
on Thursday night at English's
the Duncan Sisters open a three
day engagement in "Topsy and
Eva"
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BY Waiter ID. Hickman

m HE eyes of the reading world
are now focused upon Indian
apolis as Meredith Nicholson
has placed the setting of his new
novel, And They Lived Happily
Ever-Aafter," in Indianapolis.
Nicholson has caught the dS'a-
matte beauty of even Garfield Park
and has placed 1t in his new novel.
You will ride up and down Meridian
St. many times with the characters
in the story.
The author takes you into the
business district and even out into
the country. You may even recog-
nize some of the types he has drawn
in this American life novel.
Even 1.-The lights in the windows
Of the Manual Training School, are
reflected Indianapolis is in this
novel not only by name but by care
full drawing.
OF course, Nicholsop's theme could
have been placed in any American
city because the problems concerned
are national and not typically local.
The business world is represented
by the printing business, the bond
business and even chicken dinner
places. Some little politics is mixed
into this story Of American life.
Nicholson has drawn some con.
vincing deductions from the way
certain types of people live their own
lives.
Story of Contrasts
The underlying motive of this
novel is the contrasting Of different
types of wives and husbands.
On one hand you have the wife of
a man at the head OF the bond bust
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they are able to do this big thing.
This orchestra has clever i'm
preston idea-that of showing how
AL Jolson. Eddie Cantor, Harry Lau-
der and other famous people would
play their song hits upon certain
musical instruments.
The impersonators Of this idea are
so clever and so familiar with the
artists under consideration that their
mannerisms have been caught and
PLACID upon the stage during these
impressions.
This one stunt is good enough to
make this organization a big sue
cess, out they play their other num-
bers just as WE'LL They hand out a
lot of real melody.
Herbert Crowley has assembled q
lot of female impersonators for his
revue, 1.-The Different Revue" Most
of the men work along straight bur.
lesque lines with the exception Of
the "prima DONNA" who keeps the
deception up to the end by the means
of his voice. When considered that
this act is done upon burlesque or
travesty lines, the act gets many
laughs.
Billy Beard, blackface comedian.
is back again with some new stories
and other material that registers
with ease. He seems to work easier
than usual, and that may be due to
the fact that his material on the
whole is entirely new. He has a
lot Of sure.fire stuff this season.
Clifton and Kramer in presenting
THE Swede and the Girl" use too
much slapstick material. Their ma
terial is too far fetched.
Willie Twist uses the table balanc.
ing and falling stunt to advantage.
He knows how to put over this stunt
The movie is Betty Bronson and
Ricardo Cortez in Not So Long
Ago."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-03
New
Publications

Houghton Mifflin Company
announces the following books:
1.-The Diaries of George Wash
ington," edited by John C. Fitz-
patrick; Kate Douglas Wiggin
as Her Sister Knew Her."
collection of incidents and
"reminiscences, by Nora Archi-
bald Smith: "Coombe st.
Mary's," by Maud Diver; Bred
in the Bone" a collection of re-
markable stories of the Penn
sylvania Dutch, by Elsie Sing
master: Hunting in Africa"
by Charles p. Curtis Jr., and
Richard C. Curtis; Profits" by
William Trufant Foster and
Waddill Catchings; Short Plays
for Young People," by James
Plaisted Weber and Hanson
Hart Webster. They will also
publish a new edition of 1.-The
Life of Scott by John Gibson
Lockhart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-03

By Hal Cochran

We all have our faults and our
drawbacks, no doubt. The world
was created that way. The man who
is perfect has yet to come out. There
is no such person, they say.
/ mention the fact as a friendly
like tip, for it's one that we likely
all need. Watch out for yourself,
lest you're due for rip up the back,
If you're planting the seed.
It's always too easy to talk about
folk, and find lots of fault with
their being. And though it is
oftentimes done in a joke, you'll al
ways find list'ners agreeing.
Most knocking that's done is a
senseless affair, and it just makes
the knocker look small. Whenever
you have such opinions to air, it
is best you don't air them at all.
To criticise people is all to the bad,
so the next time expressions are
loosed, forget all the knocks that
you ever have had. Speak only in
terms of a boost.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
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UNDERMINING
OF HEAVEN

ER. F. s. C. WICKS, Indian.
I'D apolis Unitarian minister,
III told his congregation Sun
day that Heaven and hell are not
places, but conditions of the soul.
Doubtless many earnest pious per-
sons will disagree. They prefer a
physical Heaven with pearly gates,
white robed angels and everything.
Many present day thinkers re-
ject the old-fashioned Heaven.
A California Juvenile Court au-
thority, in a recent address, said
we would have to modernize Hea-
ven to meet the needs of present
day youth. THE young people of
this age will never be content with
harp music" she declared.
Our abode after death may agree
in every particular with the Bib
lical pictures of our youth. We
may spend eternity busting our
snowy wings, twanging harps and
polishing the golden pavement. Or
the place may be reconstructed to
meet our modern ideas-with ele-
vators, hot and cold running wa
ter. and radio sets.
Different peoples have different
ideas as to the eternal abodes to-
ward which they are bound. The
Heaven of the Christian, the Para
disc of the Mohammedan and the
Nirvana Of the Hindu have moth
ing in common. A believer of one
religion wouldn't be satisfied with
the place Of bliss pictured by an
other religion.
They can't all be right. Even
among Christians the conception
of Heaven is modified to suit diff
ferent ages and different individual
tastes. For practical purposes
probably the old Heaven depicted
in Revelations is as satisfactory
as any.
But what difference does II
make? The description of a place
we have never been and never seen
must be theoretical and discussion
of it a mattrr for professed ex-
perts. To the ordinary layman the
big job is living on earth-not
specializing about eternity.
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ASK THE TIMES

of the United States Senate and
Theodore E. Burton Of the House Of
Representatives. Mr.. Mellon is chair
man OF the commission.
Can you tell ME something about
Michael Arlen, the author of 1.-THE
Green HAITI"
He is an Engllshman Of Armenian
parentage. Recently he has become
popular on account of the type of
sophisticated fiction he writes. At
present he is in this country to SUI
pervise the stalking of his novel,
1.-THE Green Hat" He is the author
of "These Charming People" and
other popular novels.
What is the meaning of the
word "Maru' used by the Japan
csc?
1t is used by the Japanese to mean
Company" Translated literally it
means circle.
What is included in the geo.
graphical term asia Minor?
Asia Minor is the name of that
part of Asia that extends in a PEN
Ursula between the Bleck Sea and
the Mediterranean to the Aegean
Sea, forming a bridge between
Europe and Asia.
What do we mean when we
speak of a system Of checks and
balances in our form of govern
ment?
The trainers of the Constitution
fearing to grant too much power to
any one group or person set off the
three main divisions Of our govern
ment from each other as check
or balance. For instance, the exec
utive through the power of veto is a
check on the legislative, and the judi
cial by its authority to interpret the
laws is a check on both the execu-
tive and the legislative. Within tho
legislative branch of the Senate and
the House Of Representatives are
checks upon each other, and the
Senate's power to participate in
treaty making and to confirm Pres
idential appointees Is a check upon
the executives. In theory, this sys-
tenn produces a balanced govern
ment
Is the word allotted ever
spelled with only one "t"?
Standard dictionaries spell the
word only one way-with two IT'S"
and two 49,
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PROMINENT citizen was
TAI mentioned In my presence
III one day and 1 asked: How
much is he worth?" The answer
was, Half a million"
That is the usual way of esti-
mating a mans worth, in terms Of
dollars. When we want to know
what a man is worth, we turn to
Dunn or Bradstreet to get his
rating.
However, a mans true rating is
not determined by what he owns in
money and property. He may be
worth a great deal more or a great
deal less than his material accumu-
lations represent. know some
men Of large wealth who are not
worth a cent. They are a liability
rather than an asset to society. l
know some others of very meager
means who are worth a fortune in
terms of the higher and more worth
while values. They are our real
millionaires.
Among the forces that are lift
ing this world into a higher civiliza-
ton. the money king may be. and
often is, an imperceptible factor.
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STATE AND
RAILWAYS

C"1HE Indiana public service
commission has been asked
- by the Federal Interstate
Commerce Commission to conduct
another hearing on the applica-
ton of the Owensboro, Rockport &
Chicago Railway Company for per-
mission to construct a rail line
from Owensboro, KY, to Elnora,
Ind.
The proposed neutrality-suspicious.
miles long-would lie almost
wholly in this State. L would tap
coal and stone resources at pres
ent without rail facilities. Eng
fish capitalists stand ready to
finance the project.
Twice the project has been in.
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H FAMOUS old Chicago saloon, padlocked
la after forty years Of existence, is to be
roopened-but as a gospel mission.
Really, no more fitting thing could hap
pen to it. Despite all talk of the cheer and
good fellowship and companionship that the
saloon furnished it is fact that every good
old-time saloon needed some sort of gospel
mission to come along and clean up after it.
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. You can get an answer to any CUES
Bureau. 1922 New York Ie Ave- e~l wash dr
stamps for reply. Medical. legal eeai' and ID
marital advice cannot be given. nor
All other, questions will receive a per.
sonal reply. UnsKned requests cannot
n tsI ans TdI,or All letters are confiden'
Can you give a description of
the death Of Julius Caesar?
Appian gives the following ac-
count of his death: LAS soon as
Caesar was seated, the other con-
spirators surrounded him according
to custom, as friends, having each
his dagger concealed. AT the same
time Attius Climber standing before
him began to entreat the return
of his brother, who was an exile;
and upon his refusal, under pre-
tence of begging it with more hui
mility, he took him by the robe and,
drawing it to him, hung about his
neck, crying out Why do you de-
lay my, friends? Thereupon Casca
first of all reaching over his head
thought to strike his dagger into
in the breast. Caesar, having olsen
gagged himself from Climber, and
caught hold of Casca's hand, leaped
from his seat and threw himself
upon Casca with wonderful force;
but, being at handy grips with him,
another struck his dagger into his
side, Cassius gave him a wound in
the face, Brutus struck him quite
through the thigh, Bucalianus
wounded him behind the head, and
he, like one enrageds and roaring
like a savage beast, turned some
times to one and sometimes to the
other, till strength failing him after
threw the skirt Of his robe over his
face and suffered himself gently to
fall before Pompey's statue. They
forebore not to give him many stabs
after he was down; so that there
were three and twenty wounds found
in his body. And those that slew
him were so eager that some of
them, through vehemence, without
thinking of it, wounded each other. :"
who were the members of the
American debt commission that re-
Gently met to arrange for the pay
ment of the French debt to
America?
Andrew w. Mellon, Secretary of
Treasury; Frank B. Kellogg, Sec
rotary of State; Herbert c. Hoovkr,
Secretary of Commerce; Reed Snoot
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BY Walter ID. Hickman

~ EOPLE who like to gather
r. impressions how they dance
IL in the gay cafes Of Paris may
gather a lot of ideas about the "hoof-
ing" craze at Keith's this week.
Mile. Marguerite and Gill give
their impressions how the hot step
pers in the cafes of Paris strut their
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Stage Verdict

Keith's-Mlle. Marguerite and
Gill shows how they dance in
Paris and how Paris thinks
Americans dance.
Palace-The Blossom Heath
Entertainers have worked out
a real novelty along orchestral
presentation lines. Mighty good
act.
Lyric-"The Wizard of o."
and Barton and Saxton are
easy winners on this bill.
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SLull. i HeS6 udllC-
ers do this cafe
stepping in the
spirit of travesty,
winding up with
them giving us
an idea of how
Paris thinks we
dance i'm Amer
lea. Marguerite
and Gill are big
time dancers.
Their immigra-
ton dance at the
opening of their
act is something
different. Ann
Codee is billed
as a French CO.
nedienne. Some
49,. ..aA
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1t is a difficult job to frame an
orchestra act that is different from
the regular run of such acts.
It is to the everlasting credit of
the Blossom Heath Entertainers that
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A Thought

Let the wicked fOrsake his way
and the unrighteous man his
thOughts.-Isa. ssh.
RI T is no sin to be tempted: the
| wickedness lies in being over
come.-Balzac.