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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
GAYLORD NELSON

Of $1,000. No insurance. The pre-
vious month a brand new car pur-
chased by the county was stolen.
No insurance.
OF course, insurance against the
hazards Of fire and theft cost
money. If it didn't it wouldn't
be worth having. And private bust
ness men feel that they cannot
afford to risk the loss Of their
property without such protection.
Why isn't 1t equally good bust
ness for public officials to insure
public property?
It is true the Federal Govern
ment doesn't carry insurance on
Federal buildings. 1t can afford
to carry its own risk. But school
districts, cities, counties and State
institutions are not as big as the
United States-thOugh they may
feel just as big.
Failure Of such smaller govern
mental units to carry fire insur-
ance on their buildings just to save
the expense Of premiums is false
economy. Too often it is merely
saving at the spigot while knock
ing the hoops off the public barrel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
A Sermon for Today
BY Rev. John II. Gum
Text: II win walk in thy truth
Dc DC IL

Text: II viii walk in thy truth"
--Ps. Sc. IL.
T o walk in the truth is to obay'
the law OF truth. Obeying
- the law of truth, man has all
those fine qualities of character
which count for strength and dura.
biity. One is strong and endures
only as he lives in obedience to
truth.
This was the great principle dis
covered by Ruskin in his study of
architecture. He visited st. Marks
CATHEDRAL in Venice. AS he looked
upon that magnificent structure he
was so impressed that he fingered
there to study the laws by which it
was constructed with such endur-
ing strength and perfection. In this
volume he sets forth seven laws as
essential in building. Among these
he sets forth the law Of truth as the
most essential and fundamental.
During his stay in Italy Ruskin
found that some Of the old cathed-
rails We're stiN standing in all the
strength and beauty of their. former
days, while others had fallen away
until they were only shells of thir
former loneliness. Why this differ
ence? What had wrought such ruin
upon some of these temples, while
others remained untouched by any
destroying hand? It has lot been
done by vassals nor by fire. 1t was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04


simply the fate of untruth. One had
fallen because lying stones were
used in building the foundation.
Another had been deserted because
time had exposed it's lying columns,
made of plaster and painted to look
like marble. In another buckets
had been placed to catch the drip
ping rain, because of lying tiles
upon the roof.
If untruth is fatal to perman-
ency of buildings, how much more
is it fatal to excellency in character
and life. Untruth is inferiority and
weakness, which sooner or later will
be exposed. Be sure your lie will
find you out. The builders lying
stones will find him out. The mer-
chants lying cloth will find him out.
The farmers lying seeds will find
him out. The ~hypocrite's pretenses
will find him out.
A man with a hidden falsehood in
his life never feels safe and secure.
That falsehood haunts him in his
dreams and disturbs him in his wax
ing thoughts. Know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free" The
truth frees you from the fear of
some utruth or hidden weakness be.
ing brought to light which would
expose you to shame and ruin.
Truth is the first law of character
and all real happiness.
Copyright, 1925, by John r. Gunn.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
BEGGARS
| ON WHEELS

LIVERY day or two Indian
+ apolis Salvation Army head
IL quarters is visited by an
automobile tramp begging food Dr.
gasoline to carry him on his way
to Florida, California or other dis
tant ~paradises. The beggar on
wheels has become a nuisance
here or elsewhere.
The old-fashioned hobo, with his
soul full of cinders and his ear
full of right of way, who used to
ride the rods of ambling freight
trains has disappeared. The auto
mobile age got him.
Now the ne'er-do-wells, who
have the itch to travel. rescue
fragments Of flivvers from junk
yards and city dumps tie them
together with string and wire,
load in wives and children and are
off north, east, south or west.
They beg food and gas as they go,
infest free tourist camps, and
generally live off the country.
It's a carefree life but 1t is
souring the dispositions Of legiti-
mate motor tourists and hospit-
able communities. Already such
tramps so swarm along the
Pacific Coast that the cities IRE
concerted action to run EN-
out of the country.
A tramp is a tramp whether
rafting from town to town in a
boxcar or a decrepit flivver. The
only way to curb him is callous
indifference to his pleas.
The bandits and beggars on
wheels that clutter up Indiana
highways have about destroyed
the generous camaraderfe of the
open road. Motorists now step on
the gas when passing a stalled
machine instead Of stopping and
offering help.
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'Freshie' Is Forced to Be a Meek Lamb
in Songland Just as He Is on Campus

lures that might be lost to many
hearers in a crowded and noisy audi
forum at the concert itself.
THE piano and pipe organ, notori-
ously difficult instruments to record
in the past, have been brought to
astonishing reproduction now, the
o%ver-tones that impart much Of the
beauty to skilled performance upon
them being retained in the discs and
their performance"
T. + +
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
Blossom Heath entertainers at the
Palace; Anna Codee, at Keith's, THE
Gold Rush" at the Circle; kiss Me
Again." at the Earring; Hes a
Prince" at tho Apollo. Peacock
Feathers" at the Colonial; Gellman's
Band Box Revue, at tho Lyric; bur-
lesque, at the Broadway; THE Tow
err Of Lies" at the Ohio: "WitlMKlt
Carson over the Great DivideVl t
the Isis and the Lawrence Players
at the Capitol.
The Duncan Sisters open a three
day engagement In "Topsy and Eva"
at English's, Thursday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04

1.-THE range Of vibrations set up in
musical instruments varies greatly,
from ABS, "A international pitch,
downward to so for bass instruments
such as tympani and tubas and up
ward to 10000 for the treble notes Of
the piano, celeste, violin and brasses.
The Orthophonic Victrola ecu
rately r%eproduces such hitherto I'M
recorded features Of musical per-
Torrance as the ~after-clang Of the
bells or triangle in an orchestra, the
rhythmic boom of bass or kettle
drums and the rhythmic effect Of
brass and reed instruments either in
solo or in concert.
For vocal recording the effects
attained are equally pronounced.
Large choruses are stated to be so
faithfully recorded, due to the use
Of microphones at the proper
acoustic points before the singers in
stead Of the old method of catching
as much as possible Of the perfor-
nance through a recording horn,
that the listener to the Orthophonic
Victrola actually hears tonal fea-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
Sims Says

About the first real sign of win
ter is when you start wondering
why in the world you cussed sum-
mer.
The black sheep Of the family is
usually made the goat for every
thing.
Women have more troubles than
men. A mans friends never criti-
else him for growing old.
Another advantage a mar has is
when he goes visiting he usually
hopes they are at home.
Trouble with mixing business and
pleasure is you are so liable to ruin
both of them.
Arguing with a policeman is about
as useless as turning on an electric
light in the day time.
The nice thing about being hard
headed is the world finds it much
harder to knock you silly.
Keep looking down and you find
the world is the limit. Look up
and you find the sky is the limit.
Most weather beaten man on
earth is the weather man.
If at first you do succeed, look out
next time.
Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
PARDON BOARD
DOCKET

TINE HUNDRED AND FOR
TY-EIGHT prisoners in In
III diana penal and corrective
institutions have filed petitions for
clemency with the State board Of
pardons for consideration this
month.
This is one Of the largest dock
cts in the history of the pardon
board.
Apparently there is an almost
unanimous desire on the part of
incarcerated law-breakers to re-
gain their liberty. The average
minimum sentence Of the petition
ers is three years and eight
months. The average time they
have served before pleading for
release is one year and three
months.
OF course, the hard hearted
board will not act f%avorably on
all these applications. But why
shouldn't the poor dears behind
the bars expect release after serv-
Ail5 nan vi lllCAI SClANCtAGCo.
An ex-mayor of Gary was pa
rolled from the Federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta the other day
after serving less than half of an
eighteen months sentence for
conspiracy. A Terre Haute
banker - who only embezzled
$50 ,000-was freed from a Federal
penitentiary recently after less
than a years time on a hve-year
sentence.
If clemency is justified in such
cases, 1t is equally justified in
most of the cases now pending
before the State pardon board.
The ordinary garden variety of
thug and bandit is no more n
ing to society than a law-break-
ing mayor or a defaulting bank
official.
The soft-hearted vagaries Of the
parole system makes much of the
so-called criminal justice in this
country a farce. 1t takes twelve
good men to put a criminal in
prison; it ought to take more thar,
n complaisant executive to get
him out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
M ODERN
ROBIN HOODS

@EORGE DUTCB AMBER
SON, escaped convict, much
III wanted at Muncie, Ind, for
the brutal murder of a Muncie
couple, is reported slain at
Muskegon, Mich, by a detective
of than city. After mortaIy
wounding the detective, the latter
wrested the ~desperado's gun from
his hand and killed him with it.
Dutch and his pal, Gerald Chap
man-now under sentence of death
in Connecticut for killing a police
man-were called super-criminals.
They have been pictured as
romantic Enthusiastically, cul-
tured men Of the world. Anderson
was reputed to be master Of
several languages. Sort Of modern
Robin Hoods.
Here are some of the incidents
Of Anderson's supernatural
career:
First arrested when he was 10
in St. Louis for petty thievery.
Served in the Missouri and Illinois
penitentiaries for forgery and rob-
berry. Sentenced to the Auburn
On. " penitentiary in 1916 for
forgery. Helped pull a big mail
robbery and was sentenced to At
lanta. Escaped a year later.
Next in the limelight for the
NTa,,gA ..Hs-1ax. InGf -YrnNr1nV Hn
shot down in cold blood unarmed
Ben Hance and his wife as they
peacefully drove along a country
road. A gallant affair for a court
ly, courageous supernatural.
About as heroic an exploit as kill
ing tame rabbits.
For a season, following that
crime, he disappeared while the
country was combed for him. Then
he bobs up in Muskegon and is
caught passing a bogus $50 bill at
a humble confectionery. And is
pistoled to death with his own gun
as he tries to escape from an Of
fcer.
There is a mighty scrawny
skeleton of facts to carry a very
fast pading Of romance. Stripped
of adjectives the careers of u So
called super-criminals are about as
glamorous as garbage cans or
slaughter houses. The modern
Robin Hood is a pretty tawdry be-
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
Lady Bouquet
BY Hal Cochran

Oh, I know not your name, mai
den fair. But l know that your
sweetness is rare. You're a dear
little elf. 1 can name you myself.
Would there be any harm? Would
you care?
With the rose, meaning love, you
compare. There's the goldenrod's
gold in your hair. AS a lily is pure;
so are you, I am sure. Like the
daisy, there's innocence there.
You're the type Of which man
often dreams. You belong in a gar
den, it seems. 1 would pick you, my
own, If you grew there alone. Your
face, like the pretty flowers, beams.
Through the dewdrops your cheer
is at play. Just a violet, modest and
gay Though your name be I'M
known, like a flower you have
grown. You are sweet little lady
bouquet.
Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
Did You Vote?

It'd you vote yesterday, or were you dis
- franchised by some POLLOCK holder, who
insisted you had not been registered9
There is no way of telling how many Indi-
rights as citizens Tuesday, because of the joke
registration law under which we were forced
to operate. Many of them complained to the
election board and spent hours trying to OBJ
tain the right to vote. Many more who had
jobs to look after did not vote.
Under the law the voter was supposed to
be registered if he voted in the primary. If he
did not vote in the primary he had the priv
lege Of laying off half a day and going down
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
Illogical Kellogg

EV1E very much fear our self-designated st.
wv Peter-of-the-Gate Secretary Kellogg, is a
bit weak in his logic. He bars all the unsuccess-
full revolutionists and lets in those who are
there with the punch.
Just a bit ago he threw a duck-it when
an obscure and would-be revolutionist known
as Shapurji Saklatvala, a British member OF
Parliament, wanted to visit Washington. Sha-
purji was stopped before he got started.
Yet a group of militant revolutionists, men
who believe in the overthrow of government by
violence and who have participated in such an
overthrow, is right now being welcomed and
entertained by Secretary Kellogg, and other
high officials, in the grand style.
We refer to Count Giuseppe di Volpi Misu-
rata, Italian Minister of Finance, and his debt
funding delegation. (And just to keep the rec
ords straight let us hasten to add that this
paper joins in the welcome to the distinguished
Italian and his fellow coUntrymen. May their
stay among us be most pleasant and profitable,
to us and to them.) But let's have a look at
whom, and what, they represent.
The Italian delegation represents the gov
eminent of Benito Mussolini, who made himself
dictator in Italy as a result of a revolution. At
least one high official has since been murdered
because he opposed these revolutionists, and
another, q former premier of Italy, was mobbed
because he made a speech against the Musso-
lini creed. The press Of the country has been
muzzled and some of the newspapers have been
wrecked-sabotaged-for publishing their
opinions.
".There is no such thing as liberty" Mus
solini recently declared boldly in a speech
while dedicating a commemorative tablet to
himself on the house where he was born.
"Where liberals call out for liberty" said he,
"they display ignorance of the rudiments of
the mechanism of government. Julius Caesar is
my ideal, my master, the greatest man who
ever lived"
Violence is all right, Mussolini told the
trade unionists of Italy, providing it is to up
hold Fascism. And it "should be timely and
chivalrous. But when the revolutionary party
holds the reins of government, then violence
should be exclusively in behalf of the State.
Private, individual and sporadic violence is
harmful to Fascism." .
Had King Victor Emmanuel been strong
enough to put Town the Mussolini revolution
and were Mussolini today advocating such VIC
lence from soap boxes on the street corners of
Rome, would be or his followers be allowed to
pass Ellis Island? Hardly. Would he be allowed
to pass nowY He would. Is his theory of sup
preston of all liberty and is his advocacy of
violence and sabotage any the less dangerous
because he succeeded instead of failed? They
are not. They are, Of course, far more danger
Gus; he has proved they will work-providing,
of course, you hit hard enough and use enough
violence.
All of which shows the utter absurdity Of
st. Peter Kellogg's formula of letting in the
successful revolutionists and barring the fail
ures. In fact it shows the absurdity of barring
any alien visitors-we are not discussing i'm
migration now-whoever or whatever they
may be.
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BY Walter ID. Hickman

1~lHE freshman at college has
always been an institution in
IL real life and now he has
lanaed in the best song sellers.
Collegiate" started the college
rage and now Victor has released
the Waring Pennsylvanians playing
"Freshie."
The "Sophs'' lay down the law to
the Freshie In this song, telling him
to take the smile off his face or
they would turn his pants wrong
side out and make him wear EN-
just that way.
They inform the Freshie that he
is just applesauce anyway at the
college banquet. And so the merry
words and the jolly tune Of
"Freshie" as played by the Pennsyl-
vanians, makes this tune the twin
sister Of ucces of Collegiate"
on the other side you will dis
cover Might Blue another one Of
those numbers which has caught
on. Warnings orchestra knows how
to ooze out the blues and the
syncopated stuff. Here is a record
for any home where there is youth
and life.
"Freshie' is a corking dance num-
Der and the refrain fits the melody.
Here is a popular number that has
everything in 1t that makes a popu-
lar success.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
LOSS BY
FIRE

@1HE children's school build
ing at the State s~anitarium
- for tuberculosis at Rock
vile Qnd.), was destroyed by fire
he other night. The building was
erected less than a year g at
a cost of SAT, GOO. No insurance.
Forty-seven thousand dollars is
quite a sum to toss into a bonfire
even for the solvent taxpayers
of Indiana. But such losses of
public property are common.
During the past year a half
dozen costly school structures in
Ind ma have burned. In practi-
cally every case there was either
no Insurance or very inadequate
insur nee. The taxpayers We're
gougad.
La spring a garage, in which
were ored automobiles belonging
to Malion County, burned. County
cars we're damaged to the extent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
Who is the Lord of Misrule?

Who is the Lord Of Misrule?
A mock dignitary who presided
over the Christmas revels OF the
Middle Ages. He was assisted by a
staff Of from 20 to 60 officials and
furnished with musicians, dragons,
hobbyhorses and other paraphernalia
Of fun. In Scotland the Lord Of
Misrule was sometimes known as the
Abbot Of Unreason and in France as
Table de Liesse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
s II TIMES

been observed having a height Of
forty-three feet and It is probable
that on rare occasions they are some
feet higher.
Is the flesh Of wood chucks good
to eat?
II is sometimes eaten although
most people find it too strong and
highly Favored to be pleasant.
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What is the membership of the
Industrial Workers Of the World?
The latest available figures show
a membership Of 10000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04

What is the meaning of the
word Oklahoma?
1t is Chpctaw Indian meaning
red people"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04

What is the maximum height
reached by waves?
Storm waves in the open sea fire.
quently attain a height of from
twenty to thirty feet from trough
to crest. In the north Atlantic ocean
during severe storms, waves have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
The New Victor

This week all over the country,
the Victor people are introducing a
new machine. called the Orthophonic
Victrola.
Here is a machine that puts per
sorality into any recorded music
and this is increased when the new
Victor process record is used.
The Orthophonic Victrola brings
out the piano. the bass, drums and
the human voice so much better than
any other machine that the Victor
people have ever placed on the mar
ket.
This Orthophonic Victrola not only
has more volume. but gives the
nearer the impression hat the art
list is actually in the room.
The Victor Company announces:
"A very remarkable result of the
matched impedance' telephone
principle underlying the joint opera
ton of the sound-box and amplifier
is that the Instruments performance
will satisfactorily fill with volume of
music a chamber a large as the
Louis XVI room at the Hotel Sher-
man, yet in a much smaller room
such as may be found in the average
apartment or home the volume and
clarity will be found to be Of no
more than adequate and satisfactory
proportions, without any change or
adjustment to the playing mechan-
ism.
This phenomenon is explained by
the engineers in charge as being a
result of the careful matching OF
tone-carrier and tone-reproductive
functions in the instrument.
Many improvements
1.-THE improvement in technical
performance Of the Orthophonic in
strument as against the old type is
measured in the new Instruments
range Of from 113 to IL, 900 tone fire.
quencies, as against 300 to 5000 fire.
ouencieS attainable In the old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-04
A Thought

For in the multitude Of dreams
and many words there are arSo
divers vanities; but bear thou III.
Feel. 5; Z.
HV1E are such stuff as dreams are
made on, and our little life is
- rounded with a sleep.-Shake.
speare.
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No law shall bel passed restraining the eein interchange of thought ad opinion, or re-
the right to speak,, write or print freely on any subject whatever Constitution Of
The Washington times., 1925-06-10

yWyHERE are not many good books IN the world
AS man gets older his books slough off and his
library grows smaller At last he has very little
left but his books Of reference.
Nowadays the making of books and almost every
person who has achieved in any line, thinks he
has will have difficulty in compiling his memoirs or his
theories into volume.
Books emerge the press of the civilized world hun
dreds Of them daily is useless to attempt to keep up
with the latest reading.
one travels through the sea Of literature he finds it
very much like travelling through foreign country once
went down the Rhine from the town OF Bgen the
statue Of Gerrnania the distance We looked at IT. but
did not think it worth while to visit it. remember sea
soned traveller me that had missed the greatest view
in Europe by not going up to see the statue OF
When people you if you have read this that or the
other volume you rarely say In fact with lew
exceptions different books to be read by different
sets OF people.
The exceptions to the old classics which uni
yersal in their appeal Time the best critic and book
that has lived twenty hundred years and is still popu
lar is you ought to know and to read for evidently
contains something Of permanent human appeal
many there who anxious TO know about the
books but whose Goethe and Dante and Homer and
Schiller and Shakespeare still undiscovered
It will do every young person good to go back 20 HaW
thorne Washington Irving and Dickens to say nothing
authors and become acquainted with the charac
ters These have lived for long while and contain
an element of education that not IN the modern volumes
There attention given to style and TO Tine
writing in these days that find author who
something and who clearly and succncty
TT good thing to grow with books, to have them
marked with pencil and noted with your hand to
full of ideas whose meanings have been explained
to you with the progress OF the years
Whoever dozen Of these books and refers to
them again and again indeed fortunate For education
consists knowing great many books but IN knowing
a few of them very. we'll