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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
Whose OK?

L. YER hear the old German fable about
LII the farmer and the lawyers The farm
er went to the lawyer for advice, explaining
that his OK had gored the lawyers OK to death.
Simple, . says the lawyer, you just pay me
for my OK. ''But I was wrong" replies the
farmer 1t was your OK that gored mine to
death. y All, says the lawyer, that's quite
another matter
So with other things. During the war
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
BY David Dietz

NEA- SGfG1cG WflteT
CTl HE Einstein theory of rela-
tiVity is entering the most
- critical phase of it's life at
the present moment
The next few months will settle
once for all whether his theory of
motion is to stand intact or whether
large sections of it will have TO be
modified as many felt necessary
when DR.. Dayton c., Miller an
nounced the results of his ether-drift
experiment in April.
DR.. Miller is professor of physics
at Case School Of Applied Science,
Cleveland. He is also president of
the American Physical Society.
The ether drift experiment was
first performed in 1887 by DR.. A. A.
Nicholson and DIR. E. w Morley in
order to detect the motion of the
earth tn. ough the ether of space.
1t failed to do so. One of Elm
STEMS contentious is that it will
never be possible to do so.
But DR.. Miller continued the
Nicholson Morley experiment at in
tervals from 1901 to 1925. Since the
war he has been performing the
experiment atop Mt Wilson, Cali
fornia.
In April DR.. Miller announced that
he was satisfied that the experiment
did show conclusively the motion of
the earth through the ether.
And now DR.. Miller returned this
month to Mt. Wilson to repeat the
experiment yet another time
That is why the time is so critical
for the Einstein theory. For if DR..
Miller gets the same results this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
CHAPTER XXI
The Supreme Test

xvi e caught him wandering down
.W Illinois St.
- His hair was creased and
he wore a jazz-bow tie. His panties
f1uttered around his shoes, with
enough spare cloth to make a sec
ond pair. His socks hung in rolls
down around his heels. He carried
his cigaret in a little yellow cigaret-
holder and on his hip was a tiny
silver flask
There could be no doubt that he
was genuine member Of the "spe-
cies jellybeanious loaferimicus, -
which is the scientific Latin term for
Jelly beam"
And from Illinois st. we carried
him to adeserted spot where the great
test was to be made. We confined him
under constant observation, chart
ing every reaction. At the first note
of a saxophene his shoulders and
feet began to twitch,. At the first
mention Of work he showed visible
fright When placed in an auto he
wanted either to turn the gas wide
open, or else to park
And yet from these hopeless be-
ginnings, we have produced a man
a modern demonstration of evolu-
ton.
First, we hunted up his father
and presented him with an oversize
hickory paddle, teaching him it's use.
Then we forced the subject of our
experiment to go without meals, un-
less willing to work for them. This
was a particularly lengthy course,
for he reached the stage Of working
only after repeated failures and with
much reluctance.
Once at work, however, the ex-
pertinent speeded up. One morning
we found that he had tied up his
socks, and SO we furnished him gar
tiers and he soon learned their use.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
Bill Armitage

G ERIOUS charges have been made against
- Bill Armitage, political field marshal of
the Shank administration, in a suit filed in Su-
perior Court by 1O2 property owners living on
Eugene ST. The property owners charge graft
in paving the street
Their charge against Armitage says:
Defendant William Armitage, by some
agreement with officers of the city, has in some
manner been given some controlling hand in
the matter of award and approval of street i'm
provements, the exact nature and extent of his
power being unknown to plaintiffs, but well
known to the defendants, by which Armitage
acquires some right and interest in each and
all street improvement contracts
Armitage denies the charges.
What we would like to know and what
thousands of other citizens of indianapolis
would like to know is this: Just what power
does Bill Armitage have over the administra-
ton OF affairs in Indianapolis and by what
right does he assume that power?
Armitage is almost constantly at the city
hall, yet he is not an elected or appointed city
official or employee. He Yields great influence
over city affairs, yet the people of Indianapolis
never have entrusted him with any govern
mental responsibility and they never will. His
history in the community is too well known.
Political bosses have no part in city ad.
mlnlstratlon. The constant presence of
Armitage at the city hall has not hel ped the
standing of the Shank administration with the
voters. The public is tired of political bosses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
Women May Be Women Again

Some day again women will per-
haps come to see that being like
men in their dress and habits is nei-
Their charming nor pleasant. Right
now a lot of these girls with their
cigarets and slick hobs a nd swagger
sticks think that they are tasting
great freedom, when they are only
making themselves look worse than
kind nature intended they should.
And think how tough it is on
these poor men, the way we appro-
pirate their nice masculine styles and
their pet designations and their crude
mannerisms. About the only thing
they have left now is chewing to-
bacco, and if things keep on, we
need not be surprised to find re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

@i t is a relief to read that femi-
IL nine styles are coming back.
Al We hope they won't delay too
long. As things are now, it is often
hard to tell the headpiece of a girl
from that Of a boy, and when we
glance at shirtless femininity we can
understand why the men are taking
to voluminous trousers. They've got
to do something in elf-defense.
Putting on fewer clothes and short
skirts and cutting off some of their
hair has certainly made life a lot
more comfortable for the ladies, but
with the men looking like they do,
it is strange that so many women
strive to resemble them.
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vival of the cuspidor in the home.
The act would be justified
No, the 1925 girl is often a mo-
notonous object. If she keeps on
she will speedily have no more per-
sonality in dress than an oyster.
A few frills and furbelows, a little
more cloth in the skirt, bit more
hair on the Uranium, will help these
girls a lot
And they need help. They look now
like something that has just missed
femininity and can't quite attain
masculinity. A sort of strange, sad,
neutral sex.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
THEORY OF RELATIVELY IS
AT MOST CRITICAL PHASE

time, even the most ardent support
ers of the Einstein theory will have
to admit the need for modification.
m I RENCH scientists rise now to
" protest against the verdict in
- the Dayton, Tenn, evolution"
trial.
The protest, signed by the leading
scientists. of France, calls the YER
dict a violation of the liberty Of
thought"
Nine. Curie, the discoverer of ra-
dunn, is one Of the signers. Others
include Professor Paul Langevin, the
famous physicist, Dean Ferdinand
Brunot Of the faculty Of letters of
the Sorbonne, and Professor D'Ar-
sonval Of the College De France.
N old friend for whom astrono-
IA mers have been waiting has
I'll made its appearance, word
from the Harvard Astronomical OBJ.
servatory states.
The friend is Temples comet,
which reappears about once every
five years,
1t was last seen in 1920 and before
that in 1915. 1t was discovered in
1873, by Astronomer Tempel of
Milan, Italy.
Comets can be divided into two
classes-those that swing into view
once and then disappear from our
view forever, and those who revolve
in smaller orbits and so return peri
odically.
Temples comet is a small one,
visible only in a telescope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

date. But with
the rapid expan-
sion Of bus trans
portation 1t may
in the near fu-
ture make an
other p r g t t,y
problem in high
way safety.
A wax, trem-
bling FLYER is no
match Tor a 5-tOn
bus W Q / g h t e d
with a score Of
p a S S e n g ers.
Even at 10 miles
per hour a COLI
sion between the
two is usually
isastrOus. IF the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
POLICE LOOK FOR BOY

Police have been asked to search
for Richard Mcnamara, IL, of 626
Union ST., who disappeared from
his home Friday. When last seen
he was wearing a light shirt and
brown pants and was fbarefooted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

For what does the abbreviation
81. e." stand?
For the Latin I'D est" which
means that is"
What is the size and population
Of Italy and how large is it's army
in peace times?
Italy comprises 1882 square
miles and has a population Of 49,
835,941. In peace times its stand
ing army is 100000 with a reserve
force Of 2,350,000.
Is there any kind of metal which
one may use to weld a cracked
cyliner Of an automobile without
relocating.
No true welding can be done with.
out heating.
! Are the Eskimo and the Spitz =
the same breed Of dog?
TIL, Eskimo and the Splits ere two
different breeds of dogs. although
they somewhat resemble each other.
The Eskimo has a broad skull and
the Splits, which If of Pomeranianl
family, has a round head. The color
of both breeds varies.
Is chop suey, which one buys
in the American Chinese res j
taurants in this country, a real
Chinese dish?
Chop suey is an alleged Chinese
dish that one never sees in China
1t probably represents connection
originated by Chinese to approach
some dish of their native country
the ingredients for which they were
unable to obtain here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
Ask The Times

You can get an answer to any ques-
ton Of fact or information by writing
to The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau, 1922 New York Ave. Wash
stamps for reply. Medical. legal and
marital advice cannot be given. nor
can extended research be undertaken
All ether questions will receive a per
sonal reply Unsigned requests cannot
be answered. Ali letters are confiden-
tial-Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

A man in Kan
sas City can lay
$4,000 bricks a
day. Go out and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
ANOTHER SAFETY
PROBLEM

~7EVENTEEN occupants of
~ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS motor
N bus were injured-three
serIously-when the vehicle collided
with a truck at a N. Illinois st.
intersection Thursday. The public
sevice commission plans an investi-
cation of the accident.
Bus accidents in the State have
been comparatively rare up to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

An Ohio cat fed ESQ miles in an
airplane without losing a single one
of it's lives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

Have you ever
been to New
York? A monkey
frightened people
on Fifth Ave.
d How did they
know it was a
monkey?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

What we can't understand is how
COWS put the shoppers IN milk bot
ties after filing them.
Every man has a strong conviction
that he is secretly right about this
evolution stuff.
An Ohio cat fed ESQ miles in an
airplane without losing a single one
of its lives.
London has a law prohibiting
standing in street cars t-rush hours.
Our law seems to prohibit sitting.
Anyway, London's law prohibiting
standing in street cars will make
them enjoy standing in street cars.
Lies so funny. At Saratoga
Springs a woman had a man ar
rested for stealing her money before
she could bet it on the races.
Count Skrzynsli, Polish minister,
has gone home, and we'H bet even
there they just call him Count.
If they keep on cutting the price
Of autos you can get one paid Tor
before it wears out.
Lawyers haven't much more sense
than women. They won't hardly 7
believe you unless you are telling
the truth.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
Tom Sims SAYS

Today we saw German police
dog leaning up against a telephone
pole sound asleep.
Washington news: Anrdews tells
dry agents to shoot in self=defense.
Is that when offered a drink?
1t was foolish for girl to try to
swim the English channel. She
could have worked her way on a
steamboat
Scientist SAYS the floor Of the Att
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

London has a law prohibiting
standing in street cars at-rush hours,
Our law seems to prohibit sitting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

For what does the abbreviation
81. e." stand?
For the Latin I'D est which
means that is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

the free interchange thought
Indian
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

If they keep on cutting the price
Of autos you can get one paid Tor
before it wears out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

Count Skrzynsh, Polish minister,
has gone home, and we'll bet even
there they just call him Count.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

IdIILIC Is IISIII 81
but it may just
be filing up with
bottles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

Anyway, London's law prohibiting !
standing in street cars will make I
them enjoy standing in street cars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22
Club Members
Iss Punished
Editor Times:

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full" vat ISIS
venting on here
in der city, ISIS
Citing der pee
bles vat did der
biting, yum ufI
der greatest in
centiffs vat eff
fer vas to owns
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

Scientist says the floor of the ATT
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

Every man has a strong conviction
that he is secretly right about this
evolution stuff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

What we can't understand is how
COWS put the shoppers IN milk bot
ties after filing them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

time, even the most ardent support
ers of the Etnstein theory will have
to admit the need for modification.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-22

Y III btfTJcG WTlI6T
f-l HE Einstein theory of rela-
| tivity is entering the most
1 critical phase of it's life ct
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-22
KINKS IN PENAL CODE.
sion.''

In ROTESTING against unaccountable twists
in Minnesotas penal code, which provid,
the same penalty for the criminal wht
shoots man seven times for the one who
FORCES his name to 35 cent check, and which
prevent a boy from buying horse until he is
81 years old, but allow him to choose wife al
49," Twin City attorneys and legal experts con-
sidered remedies in the form of radical revision
through legislation.
"Some of the laws in the penal CODE laws
which have existed for years merely because there
was way of getting around them, ought to
be changed" the assistant county attorney of
Hennepin county said.
"For instance, the code provides the same
penaty-10 years in prison-for assault with
intent to kill as for the crime of forgery No
matter how small the check, a man may be pun
ished as much for forging mans name as for
hitting him over the head with an iron bar until
he loses consciousness"
And the penal code is not all that needs
revision, according to Ramsey County District
Judge G.. M. Orr.
"It is queer thing" he said, "that a
boy is not able to own property in mis- own name
under the law until he is 81 years old But he
is judged to be sufficiently mature at Is to pick
the girl with whom he is to live for life
"The chief cause of divorce in Minneapolis
is that hhe marriage contract is entered without
proper foundation having been laid by the parents"
Minnesota is not the only state that passes
queer laws, either. The penal code of Pennsyl-
vania has been entirely revised because it con-
tanned laws such as one which provided only
$500 and three months Imprisonment for assault
at near one of the states electoral polls, but
$1,000 and seven years Imprisonment for exact
ly the same kind of assault at any other place.
"In other words, it was only about half as
bad to hit voter to hit non-voter," said
William E. Mikell, dean of the University of
Pennsylvania law school, the man who was re-
sponsible for revising the CODE
Maybe it was good idea at that"
professor in a state government class in
the University of Minnesota recently reminded his
students of law passed in one of the southern
states regarding two railroads trains at cross
ing.
"The law stated that when two trains meet,
both must come to full stop; and neither may
start until the other has passed the crossing" he
said"
"The whole system of court procedure in the
United States, to say nothing of the queer laws
that sometimes passed, is antiquated and
obsolete" Herbert T. Park, Minneapolis attor-
ney, president of the Lincoln Club, said "Great
confusion would be avoided by making it con-
stitutional for the Supreme Court to pass on a
law before it is enacted. And the penal code
certainly ought to go through system of radical
revision" sg'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-22

No monument equals the splendid things
neighbors say of one after he has passed on.
Last week the Free Press of st. Peter erected
such monument to H. j. Ludcke, ST., the father
of Mrs. o. H. johnson of Redwood Falls.
"In the death of Henry j. Ludcke ST., which
occurred at the home of daughter in this city
last Friday afternoon, St. Peter loses pioneer
citizen whose worth is seldom equaled and whose
like is seldom seen. Arriving here, as he did,
virtually three-quarters of a century ago, this
statement concerning him is made by his old-time
neighbors without fear of contradiction, since his
life has been an open book to them, older and
younger, for that entire period, during which
he consistently followed policy of personal and
business uprightness, and Of kindness and in
spiration to those about him which will make his
revered for many years. In the homes
Of his children many mementoes of the good
mans genius and of his devotion to beauty and
happiness; some of them real works of art ac-
complished by his own hands even in the later
years since his prodgious productive industry had
somewhat waned. Wonderful as these things are
however, the greatest monument that can be
erected to Mr.. Ludcke and his estimable wife
who preceded him few years ago, is that which
has already been erected in the memory of a
large family of sons and daughters whose great
est impetus to good will be their fond recollections
of the parents gone before"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-22

Marion Cole Fisher Of the St. Paul Dispatch
has said conformists to good etiquette may use a
knife to cut head lettuce and may eat with per-
feet propriety (also with the fork) an under
salad lettuce leaf. Now up hobs the irrepressible
Frank Day and wants Mrs. Fisher to proclaim
that it is equally etiquetitorial to drink tea or
coffee out of the saucer. Don't know why Frank
so much desires this except that it would put
his friend Magnus johnson in the ranks of the
correct. But isn't that just like man-to want
something more in the face of so great
concession? Never knew one of the brutes yet
to be completely satisfied.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-22

The below is bit Of doggerel-we don
even know who perpetrated it in the first plac
But is has germ of reason-perhaps it's bette
to say ga germ of A reason" which entities
to passing thought from the students of TIL
thing called feminine discomfort.
"A Neolithic maiden in prehistoric day
Sought to further culture in her humble
little way;
She painted reindeer in her cave in colors
red and blue,
And the neighbors came to watch her and
to marvel at her, too.
"And so the chieftan of the tribe dropped in
one night to call,
While she was thinking, as she chiseled
bison on the wall,
How men might one day leave their caves
and dwell in huts of clay,
So she said, 'I'm busy, now, and Won't you
go away?"
'But the chieftan proved persistent and he
said, MY dear, behaved
In spite of Art, you know, woman's place
is in The Cave
But he wondered, when he'd dragged her
home, unconscious, by the hair,
Why the God Of Discomfort crept in to brood
forever there"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-22

Even if some of US live to be ninety mine
years old and listen to radio an orchestra
or band every evening of our lives we shall
never be able to acquire the taste for jazz. In
wardly every time the editor hears bit of it
she feels just as the German conductor of the
Convent Garden orchestra must have felt. At
ter listening to his talkative and quarrelsome
orchestra members he burst forth with "Himmel!
Don't sphoke so much l can stand it then and
now, but always, my God, never!" That's what
jazz does to US!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-22

Bess Wilson, editor Of the Redwood
Gazette, get real thrill out of having dis
covered that her taxes have been decreased
this year over those of last year. If Fairfax
had a lady editor, city dads would see
that she never had any taxes to pay. Hows
that for thrill, Bess Fairfax Standard.
Nope Herb! Nothing doin'! We don't ask
anything better of our city dads than that they
continue to treat US as one of the gang. No
special dispensation requested. Taxes in Red
wood Falls are the payment we make for the
privilege of living in the best town in the state
We all pay them graciously, gratefully, promptly
and cheerfully. Probably some of us wouldn't
even admit to thrill when they are slightly re-
duced.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-22
ONLY A NEWSPAPER GUY.

I see man strut through jam in hall,
Take a seat mid the speakers and chat with
them all.
sIs this Murphy" ask, "that the crowd he de-
fes?"
"No." saws someone. "He's one of them news
paper guys"
I see man start on the trail of a crook,
And he scorns all assistance, but brings him to
book,
"Mr Burns?" I inquire. Someone scornfully
replies,
"Burns?" Nav. He's just one of them newspap-
er guys"
see man walk through the door of a show.
Where great throngs blocked by the sign
S. R. o.
els this Goodwin himself that no ticket he buys?"
"Well, hardly. He's one of them newspaper guys"
see man knock on presidents door,
And the sign No Admittance' completely ignore
'Is this Morgan that privacy's right he denies ?"
Morgan? Shucks. It's just Of them news
paper guys"
And some day I'll walk by the great streets of
gold,
And see man enter unquestioned and bold.
"a Saint ?" I'll inquire Old Peterll reply.
"Well, should say not He's newspaper guy"