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, 1925-01-16
Benny LEONARD, LIGHTWEIGHT
CHAMPION, QUITS PRIZE RING
Mothers Wishes Observed by Titleholder in
Announcing Retirement After Retaining
Crown for More than Seven Years

NEW YORK, Jan. 16-(By The Associated Press.)-
Twelve years ago Benjamin Leiner volunteered to take the
place of a defaulting boxer in the Bronx. Last night he
retired from the ring where he is known as Benny Leonard,
as the lightweight champion of the wrold.
In a statement announcing his retirement Leonard de-
, 1925-01-16

The present golf ball weights 1.62
ounces and measures 1.62 inches in
diameter. these specifications being
adopted some years z through
agreement between the Royal and
Ancient club and the United States
Gold Association.
The United States Golf association
favors a ball OF 1.55 ounces. weight
and 1.6S inches diameter.
, 1925-01-16
CAGE SCORES

At Seattle; University of wash
ington 70; Willamette 10.
At Bozeman; Montana State 81
Montana Normak 1t.
At Livingston: Railway Club Is
School OF Mines ~.
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About 10000 bank notes are
printed daily by tho Bank of Eng.
land.
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st. Andrews to
Make no Change
In Golf Ball

LONDON. Jan. 1s.-By The As
ISOLATED Pressl-rhe Royal and An.
clent Golf club OF st. Andrews today
announced that Its rules of golf com
mittee had decided not to make and
reduction In the size or weight of the
ball or to change the specifications
in any way.
, 1925-01-16

clared that he was actuatel by the
wishes of his mother. Always op-
posed tn bis fighting, Leorard said,
his mother renewed her plea that he
quit the ring and the condition Of
her health made 1t imperative that
he accede to her wishes. After a
tire permanently.
Leonard, who has not been active
in the ring since 1929. has held his
present title for nearly, seven years.
After fighting his way through the
ranks for five years following his
first appearance, he faced on May
2s. 1917, Freddy Welsh of Great
Britain. In the ninth Leonard sent
his right to n point behind the Brit.
isher's left ear. Welsh staggered
but reguarded in his excellent style,
Driven to a corner, the Britisher
was forced to lower his hands and a
singing left tent him lettering. Too
weak to raise his arms that had pro-
tected his crown since he won 1t
from Willie Richie. he was power
less before a terrific offensive and
Sill al lAlo ltiliits
After winning the title more than
years ago. Leonard met all
corners and defeated them. Nine
times he encountered lie recently
retired champion of the feather.
weights. Johnny Dundee. and sever
al close battles resulted. After he
became champion he knocked out
Johnny Nelson, Johnny Kilbane,
Young Rector. Leon Johnson. Young
Erne, Gene belmont. Chick Brown.
Willie Ritchie. Joe Malone. Jimmy
Duffy, Mel Coogan. Charley White,
frankie Britt. Eddie Kelly. Joe
yelling. Richie Mitchell, Rocky
Kansas and Pinkie Mitchell.
He lost to Jack Britton in the
twelfth round of a New York bout
In 1923 on a foul. the referee ruling
that Britton had been struck while
off his feet. Way back in the days
when he was starting his climb
Leonard was knocked out by Joe
shrugrue and Frankie Fleming.
In recent months the retired cham.
pion has confined his activities to
the stage and screen and is about to
start on a long vaudeville engage.
ment. Illness overlook him at a
New York theater recently and he
swooned as he retired TO the wings
after he had finished his act. He is
not fully recovered from the attack
, 1925-01-16
BRIEFS

DIES MoINES-connie Currey.
Sioux city, Iowa, bantamweight
knocked out Johnny Lee, New York,
In four rounds.
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For results try a Tribune Class,.
fled Ad.
, 1925-01-16

NEW YORK. Jan. 16.-Love for
his mother caused Benny Leonard,
lightweight champion, to retire from
the ring he said in a signed state.
ment today. For some time his
mother pleaded with him to give up
boxing because she feared he would
be hurt. She became SO inslstent
that finally Billy Gibson, Leonard's
manager. advised him to retire, say.
ing the shock of another fight will
be too much for her."
THE newspapers werc full OF
stories about my training-my fight,
ing" said Leonard In his statement.
They told how l got my eyes split
open The told I got my teeth knock.
ed out. They told how my hands
were broken. And my mother read
every line of It. and then saw me as
1 tcame home. Mother would sit cry.
ing and trembling. saying: MY
poor Benny"
II am thankful to boxing for what
1t has done for me. I was a weak
frail kid when I first started out.
Boxing has given me a strong body.
1t has given me a clean mind. It
has given me lots OF money. More
than that and best of all. boxing has
enabled me to travel all over the
country where I met n lot of real
men. fine men whose friendship
I'M proud OF and shall always want
TO keep.
And I love boxing for itself. IT
is a game OF chance and skill. 1t is
a game OF strength. endurance and
brains. I viii always like to see
boxing. I do not want TO get away
from II entirely"
, 1925-01-16

Los ANGELES. Caiit.-Ths reslg.
nation Of Elmer C. Henderson as
football coach of the University Of
Southern California was accepted.
according to an announcement OF
Major Warren Bovard. comptroller
Of the Institution.
, 1925-01-16
City League
Standings

For results try a Tribune CLASH
fed Ad.
, 1925-01-16

WACO, TEN.-Walter johnson.
star pitcher of the Washington Sen.
ators was, asloed 10 consider tho
proposition Of taking over tho Waco
club franchise.
, 1925-01-16

For results try a Tribune GLASS;
fled Ad.
, 1925-01-16

Mike McTigie. worlds light
heavyweight champion. will under.
go an operation today for tho re.
movai Of a small bone from his right
hand. Al a result. he will be on
the fistic shelf for three months.
Then he viii DO ready to meet psul
Berlenbach. Tom Gibbons. or Gene
Tunney, he said.
, 1925-01-16

Harold Z. Red) Grange. nil.Amer.
lean back OF the University OF I'LL.
nois. and Harold Osborne, olympic
and Universal high jumper. will be
initiated into tho Champaign. III
nois. Order Of the Benevolent and
Protective order OF Eiks. February
rs.
, 1925-01-16

President John A. Hcydler Of the
National League Is opposed TO the
practice of major league teams tals.
ing regular league umpires south
with them during the trimming sea-
son due to tho danger OF two great
Intimacy between the officials and
players. During the regular playing
season umplres a forbidden to stop
at the same hotel with tho players.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21
CHAPTER x
Unnatural Selection

1R. DARWIN believed that
I'M new species originated and
that life was greatly changed
by the operation Of what be termed
natural selection" We who live
in Indianapolis, however, know that
what he actually meant was un-nat-
ural selection, for otherwise how
could we account for our choice of
city and county officials, wives, etc.
Natural selection is also often
termed survival of the fittest' THE
basis of the theory being that oc-
casionally there is some slight
popularity in the characteristics of
any type of animals, which gives
some particular animal a better
chance to live than his fellows have.
Thus the development Of other
animals with that same popularity
is very likely.
For instance, suppose a pedestrian
should be born with legs like a
grasshopper. His chances of sur
viving in downtown traffic would be
tremendously increased, giving him
"a decided advantage over his fellow
pedestrians. Soon there would be a
marked increase in the percentage
of grasshopper legged pedestrians,
tending to form a new species.
Or suppose that a politician should
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21
Settling the War Debts

XVI HILE comparatively few people in this
w country have followed the course of ne
go;iations that finally resulted in agreement on
terms for the settlement of Belgium debt to
the United States, the general feeling is one of
satisfaction that some kind of agreement has
been made. 1t is pleasing to know that the
millions loaned by the American people are to
be repaid, together with part, at least, of the
interest due.
A settlement with France, according to
all reports, will not be reached so easily The
representatives Of the two countries are in for
long, hard period Of haggling. Eventually
a settlement will be reached because it must be.
Americans generally see the matter as SIM
ply one of debt that is due, a purely com
mercial transaction that should be wound up,
although not unmindful of the debtors fnan-
cal situation and quite willing to be lenient as
to the terms of settlement
The average French citizen is inclined to
remind us of the fact that much of the money
borrowed was used in the common cause of
defense against Germany, that it was used for
our benefit as well as their own.
But once elements of this kind are intro
duced into the case, others follow. Americans
begin talking about the manner in which
France is spending her present national in
come, about the size of her army and her ex-
penditures for ornaments. There are sugges-
ii ms that France S policy in such matters be
taken into consideration. in fixing the terms of
the debt settlement
1t is hardly open to dispute that it would
pay America to wipe out all the war debts due
from European countries, if it could thereby be
assured that an en- dhad been made of Euro
pean wars. 1t would be cheap price to pay
for long period of peace. 1t would pay in
money and in men and in all that goes to make
for pleasant living. But the "if'' can not be
hurdled. Nothing much has occurred to indi-
cate that Europe has learned any real lesson
from the war that reduced her to her present
unhappy plight. There is no assurance that if
the billions of debt were wiped out the fnan-
cial security thus obtained would not lead
directly to another continental confederation.
So when it comes to settling with France
there seems nothing can be done save to re-
qui<e that the debt be paid in full, while MAX
ing the conditions Of payment as easy as Dos
sible
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

drinking eighteen gallons of ice
water.
Then he wonders why he dies IN
the prime of life while the rocking
chair philosopher, whose only
regular exercise consists of cross
ing and increasing his knees, APP
proaches the century mark.
Theodore Roosevelt the. joyous
apostle of the strenuous life died
at 61-at about the age when
Chauncy M. Depew, whose
principal exercise was after-dinner
speaking, was beginning his larger
public career. With alarming fire.
quency celebrated college athletes
die at the threshold of their bust
ness careers.
OF course the human machine
must be kept in order both
physically and mentally. It will
rust out by inaction. For the sake
Of all around efficiency it is as
necessary to exercise the muscles
of the back as the appetite and
imagination.
But all in moderation. Too often
the Americans, who gulp down
their exercise in big doses and at
tempt to cure fatigue with more
fatigue, instead Of building up
their own systems strengthen the
muscles of the graVedtgger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21
Our Municipal System
Again

0NCE again we have an example of the
~ failure of our present form of city gov
eminent to function in TIE interests of the peo-
pie.
The city council is investigating the af-
fairs of the department of public works There
have been many stories concerning activities IN
this department which may or may not be
rue.
But Mayor Shank says he will not sign any
ordinance passed by the city council calling
for funds to investigate the affairs of the de-
partment "I have full confidence in the mem
bers of my board of works and 1 am sure they
have no fear Of the result, - he says.
We are not assuming to pass judgment on
the board of works But under any circum-
stances, an investigation is justified, in fair
ness both to the people Of Indianapolis and to
the members of the board Investigation does
not pre-suppose guilt.
But, unless it IAN pass over the mayor
veto an ordinance ,eking an appropriation FOR
the investigation, the council will be powerless
to make an extensive investigation. Thus the
mayor, who is supposed to be the executive
head of the city, can legally prevent members
of the council from making an investigation
they believe to be in the interest of the people
Of the city.
In addition to all this, William H. Free
man, member of the board, insists that the
council can not impeach him because his is an
appointive and not an elective office. Thus.
the board is responsible to no one but the
mayor. If the mayor decides the board suits
him, that settles it so far as the council or any
of the voters they represent are concerned.
Thus, still bearing in mind that we are not
judging the board of works, we have system
that makes things easy for the politicians.
The board and the mayor can do pretty much
as they please and the rest of the city is well.
nigh powerless.
How long would this condition be toIer-
ated in business organization, with business
heads responsible to board of directorsq
There is no good reason why the government
of city should not be business proposition
There are many good reasons why it should be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21

Iowa man tried to make his son
work. So the boy shot him. Maybe
he will claim he is a college bow
A boy tells us he will be glad when
college starts. Says he hasn't had
a decent drink all summer.
Had a slight earthquake in Mex.
leo California doesn't know yet
how those others crossed the border
That's why the Mexican border is
guarded. So tourists won't return
with a bottle full Of earthquake.
When coal starts for the cellar its
price heads for the attic.
Cloudburst hit Fabens, Texas.
making the place almost as wet as
New York.
London has a street made of rub
Der. No doubt the younger children
there are bouncing baby boys and
girls.
Rubber prices are still up. They
are stretched. But some day one
end is going to get loose.
One might say the Moscow
stocking shortage is caused by our
seeing just about all Of the stockings
here.
Water is fine to swim in and you
can drink it by itself, but you can't
improve milk by adding water.
Copyright. 1925. NEA Service. 1nc.)
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Outline of Evolution

! be born with two mouths. He would
be able to make promises with one
mouth while at the same time ex-
planning with his other mouth why
the promises hadn't been kept. You
can easily imagine how, by the law
Of the survival Of the fittest, all
the other politicians except Lew
Shank would soon be talked to
death, while the two-l1outhed species
multiplied rapidly.
In this same way, there must have
come a time in the development of
life when there grew up tree-living
animal, with agile limbs, easily
moved head and semi-erect spine,
which developed and multiplied be-
cause it could live in the trees and
on the ground.
1t was lacking in physical
strength as compared to the giant
serpents and huge mammals with
which it competed, but lack of
strength was compensated for by
superior brain-and the more the
brain was used the better it grew.
So, from this agile, tree-living,
semi erect animal that used it's head
for flight and protection and meals,
there developed the first simian an
cestors.
From this original trunk, Mr.. Oar
win and I believe, there gradually
grew various branches, chief Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21
POWER OF
SUGGESTION

f"lWO Frankfort Qnd) lads-10
and 9-derailed a Nickel
LA Plate freight train the
other day by throwing an unlocked
switch. They hoped to obtain
watches and money from the
wreck, they explained.
The act was suggested, they
said, by story the mother Of one
Of the boys had read to him in
which boys had wrecked a train
and secured rich loot.
The incident will furnish fuel
to the censors who would sup
press crime news, and prevent cir
cuIation of pictures and stories
portraying crime. They contend
from such sources impresslonable
children draw inspiration for
criminal careers.
Perhaps they do. The young of
the human species possesses to a
high degree the initiative faculty
and is particularly susceptible to
the power of suggestion. 1t is
fLIlQE LILO Cl1llo 40 L1QSAlbs
But it is doubtful If every ref
erence to crime and wrong doing
was expunged from newspapers,
movies and stories that all lads
would in consequence be Little
Lord Fauntleroys. Some would
continue to wreck trains and
shoot their papas.
AS long as crime and violence
exist in the world the active youth
will learn about them. A lad can t
be packed in cotton batting and
insulated from all contact with
humanity as it IS, not as it is
pictured in the Rollo books.
It IS not so much what a boy
sees or reads about crime as what
he is taught by parental precept
nd example about virtue that de-
termines his course. The power
Of suggestion can as easily be
made to lift him up as to push
him down. e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21
FRANK FOREIGN
CRITICS

j. SAMPSON. a native of
al India, scored America for
LII it's many faults in an adj
dress at the Indianapolis Y. M.
G. A. Wednesday night. Our
crime record, lynching, pauperism,
administration of justice, and
feminine fashions which are COR
rupting the morals Of mankind"
were all criticised.
Probably we deserve much
criticism. Anyway finding fault
with American manners. customs,
speech, morals and institutions
has become an international pas
time in which foreign visitors to
this country freely indulge.
But we have some virtues.
Among other things we are good
natured. And foreign visitor can
criticise us from A to lizard with
out being torn to pieces. We grin
and bear it and, if the foreigner is
sufficiently distinguished, well pay
good money to hear him lecture on
our faults.
Admittedly America is not flaw
less. But is any country so much
more perfect that it's natives can
point the finger Of scorn at us?
A native Of India scores Ameri-
can pauperism. and feminine fash
ions. In India rigid caste system
has reduced the greater portion of
the population to squalor, ignor-
ance and utter degradation, al
ways on the borderline of starva-
ton. To America they turn for
succor during recurrent faminess.
In India girls are sold in marriage
at an age when American girls are
going to kindergarten.
Until recently casting wife into
the flames of her husbands
funeral pyre was a perfectly
proper custom there. Yet native
OF india says American feminine
fashions corrupt the morals of
mankind.
We are called Shylocks by
Italian publicists because America
insists on payment of war debts.
Yet the original Shylock was an
italian Jew And the very signs
of our pawnshops-the three gilt
balls-are borrowed from the coat
Of arms Of the Medici-the illus
trious Italian family whose
fortunes were founded on outrage
Gus uSury.
Picking the mote of the Ameri-
can eye while ignoring the beam
in their own seems to be the idea
of the fault-finding foreign visitor
to America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21

China wants her tariffs increased from the
per. cent maximum fixed long ago by the
powers which dominate her ports. She pro-
tests, reasonably enough, that while she is linn
tied to this nominal charge on imported goods,
the other powers show no leniency in duties
on imports from China
Great Britain probably will offer no OBJ
lection to small increase in the Chinese Gus
toms, but will insist that maximum still be
imposed. The big fight probably will be over
China s desire to be left free, as any other ma
ton, to fix its own duties at whatever figure
it may choose.
This would be too much for Britain to
swallow. 1t raises the whole issue of extra
territoriality- right of foreign powers to
intervene in China s own affairs running mu-
nicipal governments, courts and customs
Offices.
And there Is where British commercialism
and Americas open-door policy may clash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21
BY David Dietz
NEA Serrioe Writer

" Ca DtTUbC0 WTboJ
ri EET the huarizo and the paco-
IMI vicuno. They are brand new
creatures fresh from the last
frontier, the frontier of science.
The bearers of these almost I'M
pronouncable names are what the
scientists call hybrids, that is, ami
mails obtained by the interbreeding
of different species.
These new hybrids have been pro-
duced ut the experimental farm at
Puno, Peru, under the supervision
of it's director, Colonial R. J. Stordy
The huarizo is a cross between the
llama and the alpaca. The llama is
a large animal while the alpaca is
small. But the alpaca has wool of
far greater values
The huarizo combines the virtues
of both. He has the size of the
llama but wool whose quality ap-
proaches that Of the alpaca.
The pacoHcuno was bred for some
what similar reasons.
He represents a cross between the
alpaca and the vicuno.
Unlike the llama and the alpaca,
the vicuno is not a domestic animal
He is a small animal that lives in
the Andes mountains. Though he
belongs to the camel family, he has
no hump. His wool is extremely val
liable.
BY breeding the vicuno with the
it is hoped to obtain hybrid
with wool as valuable as that of the
vicuno but which, on the other hand,
can be easily domesticated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21
The Chinese Tariff
Wall

N1FTER four years delay, one of the agree
Ia ments reached at the Washington Arms
Conference is approaching practical test
Harassed from within and without by in
ternal disorders which it is powerless to stem
and by the protests of powers which it is inca
pable of satisfying the so-called government
of China has at last called a conference of nine
nations to meet in Peking in October to discuss
a revision of China s tariffs.
Delays in ratification prevented summon
ing of the conference at an earlier date. The
increasing gravity of anti-foreign strikes and
riots in China impelled France to make the
series of notifications complete only a few
months ago. The notifications recently were
formally exchanged in Washington, and now
China has invited the powers to send delegates
to Picking as provided in the agreement.
President Coolidge, alive to the need of
maintaining America s traditional policy of
friendliness toward China, weeks ago appoint
ed John Van A Mac Murray and Silas Strawn
as the American delegates
Strawn and Mac Murray face tough lob.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-21
LNTERBREEDLNG or SPECIES
BRINGS TWO NEW. ANIMALS

~ EMBERS of the French Acad-
IMI envy of Science have revived
@ a forgotten engine which is
more than 100 years old.
Nicephore Niepce built it.
Niepce was the father Of photog-
raphy. He is not as well known to
the world, however, as his assistant,
Daguerre, who perfected the daguer-
rotype.
His engine was an internal COM
bustion engine which used solid fuel
instead of gasoline. 1t ran on pow
dered coal and resin.
The French scientists believe that
although the original engine was not
very satisfactory, they can perfect
it in the light of modern knowledge.
The scarcity Of gasoline and the
ing out some day. is what inspires
the Frenchmen to undertake the
study.
- ERTAIN aniline dyes can be
IL used as antiseptics, recent
- work by DR.. John w. Church
man of the Loomis Laboratory, New
York, shows.
DIR. Loomis says they can be used
for internal treatment as well as for
cuts and other skin wounds.
He says that they attack the in
vading bacteria but not the human
tissues and for this reason he be-
lieves that they may be used sue
cessfully in the near future in treat
ing certain types Of blood poisoning.