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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-08

might be called a partnership in the
generation and distribution of cleo
trio current from water power. at
actual cost. They've produced the
power, and they've done it efficiently
thus reversing the venerable and
bewhiskered argument that If a
community wants thing done we'll
1t mustn't do 1t itself, but let the
work out to some private person or
corporation.
While we, in most of our Ameri-
can cities, are paying from 8 to IL
cents per kilowatt hour for cleo.
tricity, the towns of Ontario are get
ting their current for from 2 to 5
cents per kilowatt hour-and in
many instances for less than cents.
This rate takes care Of power plants
and distribution, allows for emer-
gency funds, repair funds and a
sinking fund. 1t provides also for
interest, and in from twenty to
forty years it will have paid off this
entire indebtedness and cost of con-
struction. When that time comes
materially lower.
Our Story Different
Down here in the states our cleo
trical story is different. The rates
we pay take care of all the items
mentioned above, with the exception
of one. That one is the sinking fund
which will in time pay off the cost
of construction and leave us, as the
saying is, on velvet. Somebody will
be or 1elvet-but it won't be us. Our
arrangement includes a provision for
profit Not our profit. Somebody
else's profit. Well go right on pay
ing what we are paying now-if NOT
more even after the cost of power
plant construction Is all paid, and
then some. 1t would be expecting
little too much Of human nature
to think otherwise.
About the only real difficulty the
officials of Ontario face now. is the
strange one that arises from the
very cheapness of the commodity
they are distributing to the homes of
the community The price Of cleo
tricity is so low that people don't
bother about it, and what proper
tons that problem will assume when
1.-THE cost of their various plants is
charged off their books, and the
price goes still lower, is worrying
them a lot. The ordinary home in
IL =
two to three and four, and some
times even ten times as much cur
rent as is consumed in a similar
hom Elm the States. It's so cheap
and so good and gives so little trou-
BILE, that people forget to take care
of it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-08
Looking a Gift Horse
In the Mouth

m HE United States Government finds it
increasingly hard to justify its refusal
to join the other important governments that
have recognized the government of Russia.
1t being impossible to overlook deny the
fact that in spite of all obstacles, the trade be-
tween this country and Russia is breaking all
records, government officials are offering inter
esting explanations.
Russia, for political reasons, is trying to
swing all the trade it can to the United
States, is the naive statement by a spokesman
for the Government to a Washington CORE
spondent.
The trade between the two countries dur
ing the first six months of this year amounted
to $58,700,000 This equaled the whole year S
trade for 1924 and was more than double that
of the last year before the war. American ex-
ports were cotton, textile machinery, binder
twine insulators, dyes, tractors and oil we
machinery.
American manufacturers and producers
probably will regard our Government S expla-
nation as highly unimportant, if true
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-08
Dress Up the Tourist
Camps

mi ELL GORDON, the Times amable wom-
IN an hiker who has been going about the
State for a couple of weeks, has found real
dissatisfaction among motorists from other
States with the tourist camp facilities in In
diana.
A number of tourists told her they would
drive several extra hours in order to avoid
stopping in an Indiana camp overnight.
However much such talks disturbs us, we
Hoosiers should get busy and remedy this In
dianapolis has a modern camp and Hiking
Nell has heard no criticism of it. But some of
the larger cities in other parts of the State
have had some good Hpannings.'' In one place
Nell found they didn' t even have rough wood
en- tables.
Tourist camps are the outposts in the bat
tie to attract new citizens to Indiana, these
days
Here's something the State Chamber of
Commerce might look into.
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Outline of Evolution

lutionists who frown on their lowly
beginnings.
So now, as the world got brainier,
1t naturally revolted against a steady
routine of water--and incidentally,
history is today repeating itself in
this respect.
Thus began the invasion Of the
land, first by what zoologosits call
amphibians. An amphibian is one Of
those individuals who can take It
or leave it alone. It's at home both
on and off the waterwa gon.
So we now have fish of many sorts
in the sun and a considerable guam
tity Of half-fsh living partly on land
partly in the water.
Out on the land, giant ferns and
huge-stemmed trees grew in profu-
sion and roting into the ground, de-
veloping into Indiana's coal beds.
And out Of these coal beds de-
veloped coal operators, proving that
evolution Is not always a matter
of improvement.
I deny that there is any connec.
ton between the two facts, yet
strangely enough. the first snakes
developed when the world got away
from the water.
Next-When the World had De
lirium Tremens.
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SCIENCE VICTORIOUS IN
SCARLET FEVER BATTLE

which can be used successfully in
fighting actual cases of scarlet fever.
NCUBATORS, as a rule, hatch
about 60 per cent Of the eggs
placed in them.
An English engineer, L. B. At
kinson, has devised an incubator for
which he claims a much higher
percentage.
Instead of heating the eggs equal
ly on all sides. Atkinson's incubator
heats them to a higher degree on
top.
n RI OUNTAIN chains are the re-
lM suits Of the sliding Of great
Ill blocks of the earth's surface
toward each other.
This is the theory advanced by
Prof Reginald A. Daily, geologist
of Harvard University.
Professor DAILY believes that the
rocks comprising the earth's sur
face rests upon layer of what he
calls basaltic glass, with q tempera.
ture of about 1900 degrees, F'ahren-
heit.
He believes that it is possible for
the upper layers of rock un Ter Ger.
tain conditions to slide along this
lower layer.
Such motion would cause great
sections of the earth's surface to
be crumpled up into great ridges,
resulting in the formation of noun
tain chains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-08

I'm THE cool of the evening,
when labor is done; when
energy's sinking away with
the sun, the thinking Of rest time is
always begun. Your work-a-day
mind turns to seeking for fun.
There's a call to the open; a call
to the free; a longing to rest meath
the boughs Of tree. And nature has
made things quite pleasant to see,
agrowin' out there just for you and
for me.
The quiet of night time, that lasts
till the dawn, comes creepin' in soft
ly when daytime has gone. To HE
to the parkways and sprawl on the
lawn, is soothing to mind. and 10
muscle and Drawn.
There still is the sultriness day.
time has made, in spite Of the night.
with its wide spread of shade. Your
peace with your toll WORKOUT sys-
tenn is made, whenever you turn
unto nature for aid.
Twill really be better when every
one knows that nature intends, with
the things that she grows, to furnish
real pleasure for all those who pass.
I'm thinking of signs that say, Keep
off the Grass"
Copyright, 1925 NEA Service. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-08

C01H1CAGO was so busy with her bandlts
" last week that she neglected to tell the
world real piece of news. This is it
The great meat packing establishments
of the United States are public utilities, in the
opinion of the United States District Court for
the northern district of Illinois.
That is the practical effect of solemn de-
cision, announced verbally, by Judge Cliff. 1t
may mark the first decisive step in one of the
most important economic developments of the
present decade
The decision sounded nnocuous enough in
that it simply affirmed the validity of the pack
ers and stockyards act of 1921. This provides,
in effect, that the Secretary of Agriculture may
inspect the records and accounts of the pack
ers whenever he regards it necessary in carry
ing out the terms of the act But back Of the
decision there is an import Of great signif-
canoe, not only to the packers, but to manufac-
turers and business men generally.
The point at issue was simple enough. The
Secretary of Agriculture through the pack
ers and stockyards administration, asked to ex-
anime the books of Swift & Co. to see, among
other things, if that concern was complying
with the Federal law. Swift g. Go. replied that,
being engaged in strictly private business,
their books were not available for the Govern
ments examination. The essential question
before Judge Cliff was whether great meat
packing company is private enterprise which
is only subject to the customary antitrust laws,
or whether it is enough of a public utility,
enough 'affected with a. public interest," as
the lawyers put it, to be liable to an examina-
ton of its books by Federal regulating
agency.
Judge Cliff decided that the company was
enough of public utility to warrant the ex-
animation of its books by the Department of
Agriculture, and, in so doing, took a step
which if affirmed by the United States SUI
preme Court, will place the packers in the class
of public utilities.
If the Supreme Court afirms the decision
of the Illinois court that the packers are sufi-
GENTLY "affected with public interest," to
warrant governmental examination of their
books on general principles, the gateway to-
ward the pu lie utility field will be opened for
other manufacturing and industrial enter
prises-a gateway upon which vital conse-
quences for the economic development of the
country will inevitably swing.
The more immediate effect of the decision
will be to unite or tie permanently the hands
of the Department of Agriculture in carrying
out those sections of the act which relate to
meat packing establishments. AS long as the
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CARLET fever has been con-
IA quered. Today's most tmpor-
- tant piece Of news from the
frontier of science is particularly
good news.
Medical men now regard the work
of DR.. George F. and Gladys H. Dick
as representing a triumph over
scarlet fever.
These two doctors evolved the So
called Dick test for susceptibility to
scarlet fever.
This consists of the preparation
of toxin from scarlet fever bacteria
planted in sterile broth
An injection of this toxin reveals
the susceptibility of a person to
scarlet fever. No reaction shows
that he is immune. But if the in
lection is followed by the develop
ment of small red spot it shows
that the person might take scarlet
fever if exposed to it.
Now further study has revealed
the case that greater injections Of
the toxin will render immune per-
sons who were originally suspecti-
BILE
This immunity lasts for about
eighteen months.
A third important step has been
( taken in the development of So
called antitoxin, developed after the
fashion of diphtheria antio4in,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-08
NO SUNDAY
DANCING
d.Iwl
vvzTf"UT

ROSECUTOR f. NJ. BROWN
III OF Randolph County, has
- announced intention OF rig.
orously enforcing Sunday blue
laws" in that county. Henceforth
roller skating and similar amuse-
ments, especially dances. will not
be permitted on the Lords Day.
Pobably good people will ap.
plaud the suppression OF public
dances and such secular frivol.
tiles on the Sabbath. Such amuse-
ments not only ecandalize the de.
vout who believe the day should
be given to meditation and spirit.
ual matters but are contrary to
law.
Still II is doubtful II strict sn.
forcement Of Sunday observance
laws will really improve the moral
tone of a community.
Dancing is not inherently
wicked. In fact dancing formed
an important part of all ancient
A3A4NAQG WI ANlnk ACNiNAu
'leaped, and danced before the
Lord" and considered he was per.
forming suitable act of devotion,
not sacrilege. OF course modern
dancing doesn't exactly come
under the category OF religious
worship.
However indulgence in Sunday
dancing is no more a Desperation
of the day than many other Sun.
day diversions that are not spe.
officially banned by law.
There is the reason blue laws"
fail. They are not based on any
real moral principle of what is
right or wrong Sabbath activity
but merely reflect the prejudices
of certain pious crusaders. Proper
observance Of the day is not a mat
ter of outward show but Of in
ward spirit.
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BY Mrs. Waiter Ferguson

~ RECENT magazine article
TAI on the subject Of Men being
Easy Marks for Women,
quotes statistics telling that rs per
cent of men work, while 7S per cent
Of women are idle. 1t continues,
by means Of questionnaires it has
been found that most women really
do not want to work-that women,
as a whole, prefer home and mar
riage to any sort Of a job-and most
of them get their wishes"
One infers by that, that these per-
sons who compiled the statistics
counted all married woman as non-
workers, which is just a little bit
off, we would say.
New York Viewpoint
The author Of this article lives in
the environs of New York City
where the inhabitants dwell mostly
in apartment houses, and like near
ly all other Eastern writer's, seems
to think that the United States has
very sparse population outside Of
radius of couple of hundred
miles from Manhattan
We must grant that there are
many women who live in convenient
apartments, who do little house
work, and raise few, If any, children
But, even at that, we still have left
an excessively large number of wives
who toll upon the farms and in
small homes in town and bring up
babies and sew and cook and clean.
The land is full of them.
Every Monday morning there are
millions of washings hung upon
millions Of lines that have been done
by married women. On Tuesday
millions of married women stand
over the ironing board ION Wednes-
day they bake; on Thursday they
mend on Friday they go to the
Ladies Aid; and on Saturday they
turn their hands to a little bit of
everything. There are still quite a
large number of babies all over the
nation tended by married women.
Know Real Labor
The wife of a common laborer
works longer hours than her hus-
band, and just as the family income
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AN EYE TO
The FUTURE

TT7AST NEW YORK ST. resi-
dents, at a recent meeting.
IL opposed the widening of
that street to fifty or fifty-four
feet, as proposed in the major
thoroughfare plan worked out by
the city plan commission and
passed by the council. The pro-
testants believe a forty-foot width
will suffice.
A greater width, they declare,
will irreparably damage property
fronting the street by cutting off
lawns. They favor the street i'm
provement. but they don't want
II in their parlors.
The New York st. widening
project is the heart of the thor
oughfare plan developed by the
plan commission to relieve present
traffic congestion and provide for
future city expansion. 1t will
greatly facilitate motor traffic to
Irvington, the growing east side
and the National Rd.-which traf-
ic now overburdens Washington
St.
Whether the new roadway
should be forty or fifty feet in
width should be determined by
qualified traffic and planning engi-
neers after exhaustive study, not
by neighborhood mass meetings.
Untold millions of dollars have
been wasted by cities in public i'm
provements because Of lack of vi
sion. Failure of previous gener-
atoms to provide wide enough
streets has been one of the most
conspicuous examples Of this lack
of vision.
In recent years Chicago has
spent immense sums in widening
projects. Such improvements as
Roosevelt Rd and Michigan Blvd.
proved exceedingly costly because
Of the city's delay in undertaking
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BY U. S. Senator George w. Norris
(Written for the Scripps- Howard
Newspapers. Copyright, 1920
KIT the human household
r. drudge from the province of
l Ontario, Canada.
Enter the servant who never gets
tired, nor wants day off to go to
the movies. nor quits her job when
a pinch comes and work piles up
into mountain ahead of her. The
universal servant who would just
as soon work in the country as In
the town.
Electricity. The buxom hustler
who can cook and clean and shed
light in a house, wash and iron,
pump the water, heat it-and at the
same time keep an eye on the barn
and do any little odd chores that
are lying around loose there.
She's a marvel, that servant-and
she's cheap! She's SO cheap and so
willing in Ontario now that the one
objection to be found with her Is
that she does too much. Somebody
sets her to lighting a room, goes
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proves that the smoke abatement
campaign from now on intends to
do something besides acquire
writer's cramp.
For years city smoke inspectors
have hopefully tried to educate
the smoke nuisance, but 1t is as
illiterate as ever. Education
doesn't feaze It. Despite inter
minable notes It still crawls in the
public eye. the private ear. and
over the household linen. What
ever abatement has resulted
hasn't been sufficient to bleach a
chocolate colored morning to a
high yellow.
OF course a s25 fine is a paltry
penalty to. an offending public
utility company worth millions.
To such smoke ordinance
violator It is only sort of judicial
slap on the wrist. But assessed
with sufficient frequency even s25
fines can scratch the hide and
really annoy the smoke nuisance.
It is certainly a more effective
weapon than the letter writing of
previous abatement campaigns.
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"A Mans Idea of IdIeness

increases and fathers work is les
sened, just so is mothers regulated.
The woman married to a well.to-do
broker. who sits all morning with
his feet on a desk, lunches in luxury
at an exclusive club and goes to the
big league game in the afternoon
should not have to be the maid of
all work in her home.
In the main, we will find that
mother generally goes to bat right
alongside of dad, at least at most
points south and west of New York
City.
Being a married woman in the
home is a very desirable situation,
but a vote taken among wives would
probably never class this occupation
as one of pure leisure.
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Hans
Hofm1eier
Says:
WE
SHOULD
TALK
ABOUT
OURSELVES
MORE

Big und gotten bigger shood bin der slogan.
Only de udder mite Shanks Louie gifts boostngs He
salt gotten best gas vadder und electric s der fin
fire departments tss und pocer force nit almost eff
ferry udder Teller officers Vat wood goot citizen
vant9
Uf course nit Tito Ray fon der sout side raising der
dickens aloud Shank Louie wearing silk sockses und der
uprasng und down cameng fun der Bugge ery day. made
der GENERAL pubcks kept open vat maybe 60
ing to habben
Louie silk socks don't any figure aloud
dot 100000 ISIS necessity made der salaries paid by
der city offices Vat he gotten silk socks
sockses ata Such munkey bisness don't put
magnatzm in der efforts gotten PEBBLES und
lift nit Vat needs ISIS goot bunch boosters und
iters.
We who lifts by der sout side bin satisfaction Vile We
gotten many bright ite like der PEBBLES up nort bin
anyhow going kept der mule barn. vite mules und ALL
Der bin dings der side gotten don und
such ISIS der stock und freight trains city by
der reed tracks Dy got not only der noise und quee
ings aber also der odors.
Dit you notice als der Duckvals vky in der
poured dot der sreed in days Afterwards vas full
nit vadder9 wy Because he sober enu tooken
of his jop der Sheriff der condrary Notwithstanding
Veil, Good said vot bleese aloud Shanks Louie
aber Good said he dit Gift he knowed
how Ven he goes fon der Mayors office oud hat gotten
big Storage houses und he will gotten ogedder all der
goot ntentonngs und made dem togedder all broken
political promises und gifts dem sorngs away he wood not
half such much for someding yet You Good not
said by Louie He dude aber er dude nix"
HANS HOFFMEIER,
1922 Sout Vest Streed.
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CHAPTER 8
Prohibitions First Test: The Revolt
Against Water.

|" BOUT the time that living
| a things began to develop some
LII signs of brains and ambition,
they got tired Of a steady diet Of
water.
The first one and two and, three
celled animals were content to live
In deafness, ignorance and Incidence
along the sea shores, often getting
caught in some pool that evaporated
and left them stranded. high and
dry, where they shriveled up and
contributed their bodies toward the
building up of limestone and richer
soil.
But gradually there had been
growing up something which was
then unique and which is still rare
brains. The first brains were lit
tie more than feelers. something that
registered the sense of touch-and
most brains are still largely gov
erned by feelings, while with many
folks the ability to make a touch
is still considered the greatest proof
of brains.
These modern illusions are in
jected for the benefit of anti-evo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-08
SMOKE OFFENDER
PENALIZEO

m HE Merchants Heat and
Light Company was fined
u S25 in city court Thursday
for violation of the smoke or
dinance. This is the first con-
viction under the new smoke
abatement code-which is alleged
to contain teeth.
The Indianapolis city treasury
will not be Immediately enriched
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

them, though the ultimate need
for them was evident years be-
fore the work started.
If the work Of widening New
York ST., is not planned with an
eye to the future rather than preo
ent expediency, there is no use in
undertaking improvement. I'm.
less the thoroughfare is sufficient
ly wide, ten, fifteen or twenty
years hence, the money spent in
widening 1t now will be wasted.
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by the victory.
Nor will our
brunei m o o n
suddenly burst
forth a radiant
blond. The de-
PENDANT C o m
pany filed notice
Of appeal.
So the or
dinance m u S I
still run the
gauntlet OF the
higher courts TO
prove it's right
to live.
n o vertheless
the conviction
is gratif ying.
The prosecution
of this case
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liANNtb star
named Mary Pickford, Anyway,
here's her name In our paper.
Arrested seven counterfeiters in
Detroit. But they were not trying
to pass off tin cans as fhvvers.
Jailed man in 81. Louis for
Matchmaking people In parked autos.
That's protecting our wild life in the
woods.
The girl who is careful about
jumping into autos never has to
jump out Of one.
Now and then we can't see how
some peoples children can keep
from believing in evolution.
It's hard 10 worry about the seri.
Gus coal situation in August.
Some people are so lucky. Mac.
Millan's. ship in the arctic fought
an ice pack for twelve hours.
A Florida man was arrested in
Los Angeles, but not just because
no was from Florida.
Rubber market Is down little.
II seems to hit the bottom and then
bounce higher than ever.
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