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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-03

NOTICE TO BIDDERS - DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC PARKS, CITY OF INDIAN
APOLlS, OFFICE OF THE BOARD.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS - DEPARTMENT
QP d PqBLIC ,PARKso CITY OF INDIAN
AAIPIOLLS, OFFICE OF THE BOARD,
Notice is hereby given by the Board of
PARK commissioners of the City of Indian
deemed necessary to make the following
described public improvements in the city
Of indianapolis, as authorized By the fol
lowing numbered Improvement resolution
adopted by said Board on the Goth day of
February, 1925.
Improvement Resolution No. g., 1925.
10 construct one ID Reinforced Con-
crete Bridge. in the parks. parkways and
9o0,u1Ieyards Of the City of indianapolis, as
one az Reinforced Concrete Bridge
over the Canal on Burdsal Boulevard.
ON land which is now a part of the
rark and boulevard system of the
City OF Indianapolis
said improvements are for park pur-
Poses and are to be made in accordance
with the plans and specifications on file in
sioners of said city That said Board of
fark commissioners has fixed Thursday
p m; at the office of said Board, in the
CITY Hall. as the time and place for the
pubic consideration OF the proposed inn
provement at which time said Board of
PARK Commissioners viii receive bids for
such work. The successful bidder will be
required to comply with the specifications
now on file and which may be seen lin the
ooiiialce OF SAID Board; he shall deposit a Ger.
tined check in the amount of TWO and
one half e. y eS per cent of thel Engi-
neers estimate of the cost. of such work
bid upon. but in no case shall any such
check be for less than the sum of one
hundred 100000 dollars. said check to
be certified by a reputable bank doing
business in the City of indianapolis, Indi-
lana.
In case no bid is accepted this check
VIII be returned to the bidder, but If ono
OF the bids is accepted and the bidder
shall refuse or neglect TO enter into any
contract with the City of indianapolis
within five 60 DAYS from the time he
shall have been notified OF the acceptance
OF the same. said check shall be forfeited
TO the City of Indianapolis as ascertained
and liquidated damages for the failure to
do so.
l., An aifldayit Of non-collusion as required
by law must be furnished
The Board of Park Commissioners re-
CHARLES A. BOOKWALTER,
RRANK p MANLY,
a. NJ. MAGUIRE
EMSLEY w. JOHNSON
Board OF Park Commissioners Of the City
of Indianapoli
March 27-April g. 1925
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-03
Attractive Modern Home
$500 CASH
New Bungalow

New five-room bungalow; electric light
pantry porehes drilled we'll Eara garage, ft,y-
school and church, $500 cash. S27 month
ly. OSCAR LEE, 400 Castle Hall, $50 E.
Ohio nj .no1T
Evening star., 1925-10-21
Fools Names Like Their Faces.

Two visitors to the battlefield "f
gettysburg have been fined SO each
fu, having dcfaced monuments erected
,r that scene Of heroisln and slaughter
The. two men in question. who were
but the first Of % defendants indicted
in various states for similar offenses,
wrote their uames i'll pencil on one OF
the monuments.
What queer quirll is il IL the human
ego that impels a man, and sometimes
:, woman. thus to besmear monuments
usually erected III memory Of doers of
great deeds? Often this act Of sacrllege
j., performed by people who. could one
SOC them. would look as If they not
only knew better. but would scorn
such a puerile and insulting ofense
against both subject and artist of the
memorial. can 1t be explained by
psychology? Is It an age-oid urge for
immortality; an otherwise Inhibited
craving for Il fame that they know
can never, and with justice, be theirs?
or is it just pure ''cussedness, the
persistently juvenile temptation to do
something forbidden when nobody is
looking?
Whatever the cause or causes may
he, the offense, in the estimation Of
decent people, is Il serious one.
Furthermore, it is an offense said to
be more common among Americans
than among the people of other races.
r.
sons to chip off or pick up parts Of
objects. no matter how regrettable, is
to some extent understa ndable. Most
people have had such temptations, and
If they have succumbed ut least pos
sess something tangible and often in
teresting for their illicit pains. But the
visitor who defaces with his own
| less ssthan.unimportant name and ad-
dress carries away nothing of value
Evening star., 1925-10-21
Prosperity Circulation

only once h"for" il the history Of
the United States has there been as
mucn money in circulation as there is
tuday- According 1" the latest fig
ures from the Treasury the currency
IN actual use is now 81. 81 .G05 .344. an
amount only Exceeded uu tn. LIST uf
November. l92G, when postwar condi-
lions sent it To S5,62S427.732 AT the
present rate uf demand for money the
peace-tiue circulation may within a
year or two reach or exceed this
record.
During the past six months the cir
cula ton Of one-dollar bills has in
creased by forty million dollars. There
is also an increasing demand for
other bills of the smaller denomina-
tionS. notably fives. Treasury econ
unlists maintain that this unusual call
for circulating media is evidence Of an
expanding business.
Some time ago an effort was made
by the Treasury TO popularize the Use
Cf silver dollars as 4 means of reIiev-
ing the pressure on the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, which is kept
at high speed turning out dollar bills.
These bills. the most common in use.
are but short-lived. ranging from six
to ten months. The silver dollar. how
Evening star., 1925-10-21
Gen. Butler in Philadelphia.

Two wears ago next January Erlg.
Gen. Smedlcy Butler Of the Marine
corps was granted leave OF absence
+o +aka the office OF director OF pub
H.. safety al Philadelphia al the re-
quest Of the mayor OF tnat CITY. IL
was announced that Gen. butier Was
To devote himself TO the task OF clean
in. up Philadelphia. enforcing the
laws. establishing Il higher standard
of public morality During the hrSl
year of his term, the year for "nlch
ne had been loaned" 10 the city by
the Federal Government, ne mace
some progress. but met many dls-
coIra rage1nentS. He found the political
situation unfavorabIc to thorough law
enforcement. At the end of the year
of his Marine Corps leave. however at
the request Of the mayor, ana with
his own acQuiesceuce, Gen. Butler 5
tour Of duty IL Philadelphia vas ex-
tended for another year. Now II -
proposed that the leave be again ex-
tended. and that he be permitted 10
remain in Philadelphia during ls2t.
The Governor Of Pennsylvania mas
made q request to that effect. ana
-he navc~ Of Philadelphia, II Is re-
ported. will soon follow suit with q
formal application.
80 far as known Philadelphia IS
still in need Of Gen. Buffers services.
It has not been greatly changed III
- ~ sCp.4 NJ
! observance. Il still requires law en-
forcement. The political conditions
have not changed. There are still
eyastons of the law, still combinations
| Of lawbreakers. still relations, It IL
! well underst ood, between the under
world and the municipal adminlstra-
! ton. The mayor OF the city, backing
! Gen. Butler fully In his efforts TO es-
| tablish a higher standard Of pubic
| morality and law observance, Is ear
! nest in his desire TO support his dlrec-
! ro,. of public safety. He IS UP against
| +he same conditions that are still baf-
| fling Gen. Butler.
The Government can well afford 10
grant this additional leave now re-
duested in order to maintain in
municipal post an officer Of ability
and scrupulous and conscientious
sense OF public duty. There is no mill
rarv need for his services. He Is do
! ing a valuable work in this present
assignment, and there is no reason
! vhy. so long as Philadelphia wants
| him and he wants to remain, he should
not be allowed to continue at his task
! Of ridding one OF the largest Of Amer.
! lean cities Of it's lawlessness.
Evening star., 1925-10-21
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. H4SKIN.

O. If painting has no signature,
can It be identified?-M. h. {.
A. One way of proving the identity
of a canvas is by the examination of
the brush stroke. AS one art critic
has said, THE brush strokes OF
painter are as individual as the hand
writing of n writer
Q. What proportion Of our foreign
born population is ilIiterate?-M. G. NJ.
A. There are 1912, ,754 foreign-born
people in the United States. OF these
1853, ,740 are illiterate, or about il per
cent.
q. Are an extension Of q patent and
spoken In the world?-C. r. NJ.
A. The English language Is spoken
more widely than any other language
in the world except the Chinese. II
is the language of $50, 900 900 persons.
German is spoken by 1lo.000,00O and
Russian by 100 100000.
Q. Are an extension of patent and
! q reissue of patent one and the
same thing IN effect?-H. A. *.
A. They are entirely different from
each other. Under the patent laws,
by an extension of a patent Is meant
q prolongatiUn of It's life, 80 that the
patent remains in force through an
extended period of time. When the
term Of a patent was made II years
in the year 1861, the law respecting
extension was modified so as to pro
vide that an extension shall be grant
ed only by special act OF Congress,
the effect Of which has been that eX-
tensions have not been granted since
such modification took effect. a re
issue Of a patent consists in the grant
of an amended patent in the place OF
one which the Patent Office permits
the patentee to surrender because II
is imperative or invalid on account
Of defective or insufficient speCitica-
ton, or on account OF the patentee
having claimed in the original patent
as of his invention or discovery more
than he had q right TO claim as new.
@. IF the Rev. William Montgomery
! Brown has been deposed by the Prot
estant Episcopal Church, how can he
still maintain the claim Of being a
| bishop?-k. ID.
A. The Rev. William Montgomery
| Brown, who was deposed by the Prot
| eStant Episcopal Church and declared
| to be no longer a minister Of that or
| ganization. was conseCrated June "a.
! 1925, at Gallon, Ohio. as a bishop Of
! the Old Catholic Church. a schismatic
| branch from the Roman Catholic
ChurCh.
! Q. What are the American equiva-
! lents OF the Russian Intoxicating bev-
| erages known as pivo. vodka and
| samogon, and what drink fs most uni
| versal IN RusSia"-W. u. y.
A. The universal drink III Russia Is
| weak tea. Pivo represents beer
| vodka. whisky. and samogon is q
name applied to Inoonshine whisky
| the vodka illegally distilled
| @. How many actual unemployed
| are there in Great Britain?-L l.. r.
! A. On September ! the minister of
, labor issued statistics showing thai
| I,343,T0 men We're receiving doleS
| The registers show that there were
! l94.5 more persons out Of work than
I at the same time in the previous year.
! Q. What Is the origin Of the Steel
| Dust strain OF horses?-W. +. II.
! A The origin Of the Steel Dust
| strain Of horses is obscure. The breed
Evening star., 1925-10-21

ever, proved unacceptable. and very
few are now in circulation in the East
eru part Of the country. although In
the West they are still current. Then
an effort was made to increase The
use of twodollar bills. but this. too,
proved ineffective. There is a preju-
dice against two-dollar bills among
many people. some of whom regard
them with superstition. The chief OBJ
lection. however, is due TO the pos
sibility of confusion with the lower
denomination. Despite the endeavor
10 put this bill in circulation 1t is still
compare lively uncurrent. Now, adj
mitting the failure to popularlZe the
silver dollar and the two-dollar bill,
Treasury officers are planning the
rninting Of a new coin, combination
gold and silver dollar, perhaps having
a gold center with a silver rim.
slightly larger than n quarter and
therefore more easily handled than the
cart wheel" This would be novelty
and might solve the problem OF secur-
inl, an aoceptable small unit OF long
durability.
A government that IS embarrassed
ry the quantity of perfectly good
money required for the transaction OF
business is surely not facing a grave
problem. Certainly the troubles or
the Treasury in this respect are not
colnparable with those OF certain
European governments since the war
which have mad to keep their printing
presses running overtime to supply
the demand simply because or the
rapidly falling value Of each monetary
Evening star., 1925-10-21

and leaves nauseating evidence Of his
personality, taste and ethics.
The fines inflicted on these culprits
will be in the minds Of most not one
penny too heavy. They will make
many look longingly back to the sav-
age ''tabu" which dealt effectively with
such of our prehistoric ancestors as
felt the ignoble urge to link themselves
in some way with divinity or fame. 1t
Is a national shame that eternal
vigilance must be the price of sanctity
Evening star., 1925-10-21
Peace Pact.

We have made IL resolution that to
Peace we'll all agree.
This Earth will be just like the
Heavenly shore.
We mortaIs will together dwell as
happy as can be.
any more.
Wen have no fighting anywhere upon
this earthly map.
Well smile upon the traffic cop as an
obliging chap.
When some one bumps our hivver, IT.
the signal for a scrap-
But We'll never lose our tempers
any more.
So, Lawyer, draw the papers. We are
all prepared to sign
A contract which we wish we'd
signed before.
We may talk of politicians, and their
methods unretined,
But We'll never lose our tempers
any more.
Wen dodge the bootleg bullets and
our doors We'll calmly shut.
Wen pay our taxes bravely, though
we're sure they should be cut.
Well listen TO the actors swear and
maybe say. Tut, tut
But We'll never lose our tempers
any more.
TEL de truth" said Uncle Eben.
"If you waits till you finds it all out
you won't talk enough to git you into
trouble
Evening star., 1925-10-21
Puzzles and Propaganda.

Although crossword puzzles are
somewhat on the wane In this coun-
try they are still popular in Europe.
They are even being put to political
purposes. In Hungary, for instance,
1t has been found necessary by the
government to establish q rigid CEN
sorship over them. According to a de-
cree just issued at Budapest. all puz-
zles, together with their solutions.
must be submitted to the government
censor before publication. This decree
was promulgated because recently q
legitinist newspaper printed a puZ
zle that, when the spaces We're filled
according to definitions, contained the
phrase. Long live Otto"
Cryptograms of all sorts have fig
ured in secret political propaganda in
the past. Repressive measures have
been often adopted against revolu-
tionary codes. Secret communications
have been maintained in the most
open manner by the use OF symbols
and hidden meanings. The crossword
puzzle is the latest mode Of political
promotion. but evidently the iorthy
government In Hungary is prompt to
step on this novelty. Perhaps the
royalist puzzle makers will find some
strange words in their language that
have double meanings that evade de-
lection by the censor and yet will con-
vey royalist sentiments to the in
itiates. This may make the puzzles
harder to solve. In this country
cross wording has become SO easy
through practice and the repeated use
OF even the hardest words that II has
lost much of it's zest as a sport.
Evening star., 1925-10-21
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHuANDER JOHNSON
Left Behind.

Left Behind
man his luck.
But when your pals go fshiu'-
Well. you can't help sort o wishin'
That you could slam your door an
hit the pace that they have
struck.
L never envy Beauty, Wit, nor gifts
of Grace or Song.
But when my pals go flshin'.
look at my position
As one Of cruel servitude, and shout,
There's Somethin' Wrong"
Evening star., 1925-10-21

County fairs are inclined TO resent
betting restrictions which permit pro
fessional horse racing to display al
Turing odds while the amateur stock
with compliments. If there is TO be
race-track betting Of any kind 1t
should he open to all Comers. and not
be permitted 70 drift. under cover Of
moral purpose. into lines Of monop-
olistic restraint.
Evening star., 1925-10-21
LOST DOLLARS ABILuoN YEAR
III-How They Lose Them.
BY VI. y. LETICK.

15.000,0o0 actually put in and lost
Yet if another oil boom came toTnor-
row there would be plenty Of people
left whose idea Of investigating the
situation would not go beyond saving.
Rockefeller made money in oil: there
fore ] can"
Has Other Methods.
There have been gold booms and
copper and boomS in radio and movie
stock. Il great many. big and little,
general and local. but they ali run
true to form. And when there isn't
one the crook has other methods than
just casting his net.
There is the one-call method and the
telephone system and the switching
game: the inStallment system will
serve if the victim hasn't all cash. and
one of the latest is the so-"alled hank
erS shares. In this. Ford Motor Co
of Canada stock has been bought at
$3.50 to $500 a share and sold to the
public at 5000 to $3.50 by splitting it
into one-hundredth parts, each part
being offered at anywhere from S6 to
$3.50 through circular letters which
give the Impression that the Ford
company is letting the recipient in as
a special favor. though Of course, the
Ford company has nothing to do with
the offer
The switch game Is one Of the
staples. Frequently ii is combined
with the instalment proposition.
What is switched is good stock for
bad. or good stock for worthless
check. One way they work it Is this:
How They Work.
a man In Utica, y. Y, owns stock
in a resort hotel. From Jersey City
II a lie,
up the Utica man by phone. The
phone says: This is Mr.. So-and-so.
and l represent a client who is anx-
iouS to get control of that hotel. Now
don't mention this to anybody-the
success of the whole thing depends on
its being confidential, SO if you agree
you must not consult any outsider.
| least Of all a bank. Nobody must get
wind of this. But I can make that
hotel stock worth while to YOU
IT the Utica man accepts the sales
man comes and offers him a check He
may be foolish enough to take It. II
might even be certified-but fake. II
he balks at that the salesman talks
; him into accepting oil stock, say. in
d trade for the hotel stock. Whatever
the Utica man accepts, he is stung.
The man who was only Il voice on the
phone walks off with the good stock
the owner Utn6E
stock the gypper may transfer the
stock on the books to his own name
| and sell it for what it is worth in the
market, or if he doesn't transfer 1t he
simply finds another person with a
minimum of curiosity and sells it to
him.
The same thing is worked on install.
ment purchases. The buyer who
thinks he is paying off on a perfectly
good stock (probably II was not
| bought for him at alb is talked over
before he pays in full, and having con
| fidence by now exchanges his equity
in this good security for something
! worthless, for which favor he usually
| pays in addition a bonus of some sort
! 1t is very much like the little old
| time thimble game; now you see it and
| now you don't.
Copyright. 1927
Tomorrow: who Gets Them"
Evening star., 1925-10-21

Audiences are accustomed TO pro
family on the theatric stage. The
theater, however, may fail. as does the
individual exponent Of objurgation, to
make profanity interesting or i'm
preSSive.
Evening star., 1925-10-21
SAAN-

.Tuprovoked aggression IS loose
term as employed i'll negotiations look
ing t. permanent and universal peace.
II ANYBODY is determined to aggress
there is always diplomatic or lega!
talent available TO discover theoretical
prOvocations.
Evening star., 1925-10-21

John I. Scopes. by selecting Balti.
more as the place where he would FOL
low his career as q student. calls at.
tention TO the fact that the good old
Maryland metropolis is famous for
something more than oysters and ter
rapin.
Evening star., 1925-10-21
4 Clear Course,

'1Tave you any idea Of what you
are going to say when Congress con-
venes?"
81 have answered Senator Sor-
ghum. Il shall say yes 20 every
thing proposed by my own party and
no to everything suggested by The
opposition
Evening star., 1925-10-21

l WC hundred years ago Il DroheT SHt
up his Office in London and advertised
new company for carrying on an
undertaking Of great advantage, but
NOBODY to know what it is" In five
hours he took in 1000 pounds from
investors eager to pay merely for the
privilege Of subscribing to stock later
and then he decamped. He could do
that because England was in the mid
dle OF a boom, remembered in history
as the South Sea scheme. Crooks in
that moment of hysteria tloated com
panies capitalized at $1,000, 900 600
and got a good share Of it cash down.
That is what a boom does to peoples
Judgment.
swintiler now is very much what il
was then When he can he takes ad-
vantage of a boom. And when there
isn't any he sets himself to the job of
making the victim have a little boom
Ill by himself. II the prospect can't
, 90 crazy with other people in q gem
eral boom. why, then, make him go
crazy alone. just long enough to put
the deal over.
That is the psychology back Of the
high pressure salesman. Come in
quick is the Gist of his talk. The
stock is going up soon, or it is set to
go up on certain date; the oil we'll
| is "A guaranteed gusher and there'll be
q rush Of investors as soon as it's
known and maybe there won't be any
stock left for you.
"Mob Psychology"
A boom makes it easy. All the little
fsh come swimming and the fisher
man casts his net. And it is during
boom that the average man or woman
has the hardest time to keep on being
suspicious because boom is a piece of
mob psychology. a mob Is a powerful
machine for crushing out individual
| Judgment. II the investor forgets that,
| the crook doesn't.
In that. then. there lies another
| hint: Don't catch a boom. OF course.
| the temptation is strong. The man
with some money to spare sees an in
| dustry fiourishing. insiders making
fortunes, everything humming. 4
! friend, perhaps. tells him how to get
| Oh the inside, and then he's off, check
! in hand, without stopping to ask the
bank references of the stock seller or
| what the engineers reported on the
| company's properties, and who the en-
gineerS are anyhow, and what is the
| ratio of capitalization to assets, or
| even if there are any assets at all.
As To Oil Booms.
| And the upshot? Well, glance at the
| oil boom. People who were sure that
| no oil company could lose money have
! put 50 2.000, 900. 900 into proving they
| were wrong-and Americas actual oil
| output in 1928 was worth less than
half that. In four years 5000 oil com
panies failed. In the Oklahoma. boom
some years ago it was estimated that
| of all the States oil-producing COM
| panies the stock promotion concerns
| had less than tWo-thousandthS of l
| per cent of the oil; they yielded one
! dollars worth of oil for each S555 of
| capitalization. To be sure, capitaliza-
| ton does not show actual investment;
In the Fort Worth instance the CAPT
talization was s275,0oo, 900 against
Evening star., 1925-10-21

The Washington hall players are
called 1.-The Senators" in the slang Of
sport The United States Senate can
point TO this fact as an evidence that
It IS still held in popular reverence
and esteem.
Evening star., 1925-10-21
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Melba. eminent opera singer. say s
she may go into politics. D'Annunzio,
poet. went into politics. So did Pade-
rewslii, pianist. Why not prfina
DONNA
Evening star., 1925-10-21
1870"

Some of the magnificent East In
dian pulentates who visit European
caritaIs insist on behaving very much
like .'hutt-r-;tud-egg men.