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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09
THE CITY
GROWS

Is FRANCIS F. HAMILTON,
+ city building commissioner.
IL reports that building per-
nits issued in Indianapolis dur
ing the first six months of 1925
totaled s14.177 ,661-a gain of ST.
3S4.S17 over the corresponding
period in 1924. In the six months
1888 permits were issued.
The city grows. Building oper-
ations revealed by the figures are
a real indications Of prosperity
that is gratifying.
The unadorned figures, however.
fail to give an adequate idea of
the extent of new construction in
progress.
1t exceeds in value the total as
sessed valuations of nine Indiana
counties. Buildings for which per
mits have been issued here during
the half year would make a COM
munity larger than 95 per cent Of
Indiana towns. Compared thus.
present Indianapolis building ac-
tivity Is impressive.
And it is not an unsubstantial
boom or mushroom growth. The
city is putting solid meat on its
civic bones. not fat. Money is
being invested in houses, apart
ments, hotels, storeroorls, filing
stations and chicken coops because
Of the actual demand for such
structures.
Occasionally the rhetorical ques-
ton, what is the matter with In
dianapolis?" pops up and is dis
cussed anxiously by civic bodies
and town boosters. In truth, there
is nothing much the matter. The
question and it's discussion merely
serve to arouse lethargic citizens
to greater civic endeavor.
The city isn't suffering from
sleeping sickness, vertigo, slug
gish liver or fallen arches. Its
industrial and business pulse beats
strongly and it is moving forward
steadily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09
A Pure Hokum Act Opens at Palace Today;
Takeetiana Introduces New Fashion Stunt

not wear II on the streets. but she
recommends II 10 those OF the fair
sex who desire TO reduce without
troubling TO diet.
Takeetiana is the wife OF Solomon
Basco. Indian hero OF Alaska, who
performed the most hazardous feat
Of all the drivers who took part re-
laying diphtheria antitoxin into
Nome when that city was in the
grip Of an epidemic a few months
ago. and primitive dog sled teams
we're pressed into service TO trans.
port the precious serum some ZOO
miles from Seattle, Wash. 10 Nome.
Basco drove his dog team, com
posed of seven malamute huskies,
from Tanana and Kallands, a dis
lance of thirtyfour miles, which
was covered In three hours and
fifty-nine minutes AZ n temperature
Of 90 degrees below zero.
Takeetiana also proved her
courage and heroism for when the
call came for her husbands service
she started out alone TO find him
over the line OF fur traps which he
was running, and trudged twenty
two miles on foot before she caught
up with him.
!. :. Il
other Indianapolis theaters today
offer: "Lightnin' at Englich's;
Just a Woman" and Paul Biese and
orchestra at the Circle; 1.-THE Light
of the Western Stars" at the Apollo;
Marry Me-" at the Ohio; the Fear
less Greggs at Broad Ripple Park;
new bill at the Isis and Head
Winds" at the Colonial.
The Indiana Indorsers OF photo.
plays indorse the features this week
at the Circle, Ohio, Apollo and Co.
lonial.
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4 WHIFF OF
FOLSOM GAS

TN1ANDITS were foiled in an at.
X tack on the Elnora Qnd)
@bank the other night by
poison gas released from the vault
when they smashed the combina-
ton. They escaped with their
lives and IL cents.
The effectiveness Of poison gas
as weapon in the warfare
against bank robbers opens a field
of interesting possibilities.
If every Hoosier bank is
equipped to discharge lethal
fumes-in the face of invading rob-
bers, bank banditry will become
precarious A whiff of gas won't
stick up its hands and back into
a corner on command.
Probably the yeggs and holdups
will denounce it as a bHrbarous
weapon and will seek to ban it
just as nations seek to abolish the
use of poison gas in their warfare.
The objection of the bandits will
be just as logical.
Warfare, whether between So
c.ety and bank robbers or between
nations, is messy business. The
object sought is determination of
the enemy. There is no such
thing as humane warfare.
Yet every new device to kill,
MAIN, and disable the enemy more
effectively has always been bitter
ly opposed on the grounds that il
is inhumane. The gallant knight
who disemboweled his adversary
with a ten-foot lance or Dashed in
his head with a battle.ax and
spattered his brains over the
township thought powder and shot
inhumane weapons.
We moderns have grown ac-
customed to having our soldiers
torn by flying steel and disin-
tegrated by high explosives. That's
our idea of humane warfare. But
poison gas seems to us barbarous
and we view with horror the pos
sibility of disease germs being en-
ployed in warfare.
AS long as warfare is INDUCED
in why object to any Of the Inn
plements employed If they are ef-
fective? Perhaps some time we
will learn that it is not any par
ticular weapon, but warfare itself,
that is inhumane.
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HUSBAND
A CHATTEL

IRIS. LOUISE DINWIDDIE,
!MI colored, of w. Tenth ST..
Ill was charged Tuesday with
shooting with intent to kill. She
concluded a marital debate by
taking a couple of pot shots at her
rapidly departing spouse, just as
police officer passed the house.
When rebuked by the law" for
her homicidal effort, she ex-
planned: Hes my husband and I
guess I've got right to shoot at
him if I want to-"
That sounds logical. If hus-
bands aren't chattels what are
they? And with increasing fire.
quency women are exercising that
proprietary right by filing their
spouses with lead, ground glass
and arsenic much to the conster-
nation of the lordly male.
The times are out Of joint and
the world is topsyturvy.
In the old days the woman was
the chattel. wives, submit unto
your husbands . For the hus-
band is the head of the wife" ex-
horted st. Paul. And men actual
ly believed it. From the Apostles
day almost down to the Nine
teenth Amendment the marital
partnership was lopsided. All
wives got out Of 1t was the worst
of it. They were presumed to &C.
cept without murmur a black eye
or whatever their husbands chose
to give them.
Now we are drifting to the
other extreme. Husbands wear a
hunted look and lose their hair
early while wives run the world.
Perhaps If the human race con-
tinues to progress 1t will reach the
point where equality character
ICES the State of matrimony-
where in marriage there is neither
victor no vanquished.
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be the real cause of the incident
was just a touch Of midsummer
madness or the sudden voracity Of
the fish in neighboring streams.
In the younger days Of trade
unionism, when It was fighting
desperately for it's life. strikes
were the normal state Of affairs,
and were invoked at the least pro-
vocation. Union rules were very
touchy. The least infringement
was likely to explode the status
quo all over the shop.
Senseless strikes, involving no
real vital principles, are becom-
ing rare. The powerful and pro-
gressive unions only order their
members to throw down their tools
as a last resort They have
learned that the strike is a pow
eful weapon but It has a terrific
recoil.
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ASK THE TIMES

with copious- drinking Of pure water:
In addition to water in all these
forms he insisted on diet. exercise.
fresh air and mental -epose in the
cure Of disease. thus calling to lis
aid the entire resources Of hygiene
and establishing by a simple yet
thoroughly original combination,
nothing less than a new system of
medical treatment. DIR. Winternitz
Of Germany in 1888 laid down the
scientific principles OF modern
hydrotherapy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09

July.
All the world loves a lover and
tries to sell him something.
Screens are nice, but they keep
you from kicking the cat out a win
dow when you are mad.
When a man starts out to forget
the past he usually succeeds only
in forgetting its. debts.
Life is a gamble, or a gambol, ac-
cordlng to the way you play.
People who are afraid they will be
found out like to think it is their
conscience hurting.
Little boys lead a hard life. They
get spanked for saying the things
their father says.
Camping out gets one in the open.
So do bugs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09
HERE is A HOT
WEATHER FASHION ITEM

Here's something new in fashion
for the summer months.
It's a fur neck and headpiece and
is being introduced in Indianapolis
by Takeetiana. a young Alaskan
Indian woman who is appearing at
the Lyric this week.
Takeetiana is not only wearing
the neck and headpiece. but an en-
tire fur costume. boots. skirt, coat
and all. the outfit weighing about
thirty-fve pounds. Takeetiana does
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| NM AAChAAAA OAA~- 80 -
/" Mite in London" which opens
at the Palace today.
Laid in a cheap music hall in Lon
don, the action Of the piece deals
with a comic, an oriental dancer, a
comic singer. an acrobat, and
belle.
The show carries with 1t its own
audience which has among its num-
bers the proprietor Of the hall and
the cockney in the box.
Dancers Unique" is the title Of
the dance number given by Grace
Elder and her company of girls
Miss Elder initiates Eddie Leonard
in addition to staging many other
steps. A series of new and original
steps are put on by the dancers.
The well-known comedian. Larry
Reilly, appears in Songs and
Comedy Impressions of Today"
An act that will amuse the chill
dren is the one presented by Muir
rays American Beauties entitled,
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Camping
By Hal Cochran

Come on, all you kidlets who like
to go camping. Let's HE to a spot
far away. Let's pack up our lug
gage and set out tramping. There s
really no time like today.
I know a great place that is shady
and cool and surrounded by shrub'ry
and trees. It's right on the bank of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09

Astronomers are carrying those
outposts trillions of miles into space
to stars a million times the size of
our sun.
Physicists are carrying them into
the a-microscopic region of the
atom, plotting the paths Of electrons
SO small that half millions of them
might rest on the period at the end
of this sentence.
The geologist is turning the clock
back millions of years to days Of
prehistoric monsters.
The biologist is finding some of
the secrets of life itself.
This column will be devoted to
dispatched from the front line of
science.
It will recount the victories of the
observatory, the laboratory and the
field expedition.
EVN E live in a universe Of gigantic
IWI explosions. Each year at
least ten stars are blown to
pieces in cataclysms besides which
the eruption of Vesuvius would be
as feeble as the sputtering of a
match.
The Harvard Observatory has or
ganized a systematic watch in both
the northern and southern hemis-
phere for such explosions.
= Suddenly a faint star grows bril-
liant. Or a star shines where none
has been visible before.
When this happens the astrono-
mers know that something has hap
pened to cause a faint star to in
crease it's temperature thousands of
degrees and shoot out great streams
Of fiery molten material.
Astronomers call such star a
nova from the Latin word for new
The Harvard Observatory reports
that an average Of ten novae are
observed each year.
"rN7ROFFESSIONAL suicide is
r. the aim Of the medical pro-
fession." So says DR.. VIII
liam D. Haggard, president Of the
American Medical Association.
The chief aim Of the medical pro-
fession is not to cure disease but to
prevent disease, he explains.
If disease is ever stamped out
entirely, the medical profession will
have to go ont Of existence.
The money you save BY not help
ing a friend is lost
If you can't find your health in
a medicine bottle it may be out play
ing around.
This is the time of the year a
country relative comes in handy.
Better be good. If you don't you
will go where every month is July.
Money talks. 1t counts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09
"That's Politics"

IT JUST why ex-lobbyist William E. Hum
- phrey was selected to fill vacancy in
the Federal trade commission becomes more
apparent each time he opens his mouth or takes
his pen in hand.
By Senate resolution, offered by Senator
Norris, the trade commission was directed to
make an exhaustive investigation into the cleo
trio power industry and report its findings to
the Senate for legislative guidance. The in
vestigation was under way when Humphreys
appointment gave the reactionary interests
control of the commission. Now an order has
been issued putting stop to the inquiry
Resolutions of this type, Humphrey ex-
planned are "palpably for political purposes
and are not sincere efforts to get information. -
He would have done better not to have eek
planned"
If ever a man has established a reputa
ton for not doing things for political purposes,
that man is Senator George W. Norris, whom
the State of Nebraska insists upon sending to
the Senate whether he wants to go or not
His career has been even more independent of
political considerations, if possible, than that
but completely independent of the progressive
organization in the Senate He is Repub
ican, but completely independent of the Re-
publican organization. He speaks and votes
according to his own mind and conscience, and
even Humphrey understands that perfectly.
How much he cares for politics was illustrated
a year ago when he refused to file for a re-
nomination and only became candidate be-
cause friends took the trouble to file for him.
He didn t lift finger to be elected Practi-
cally he was shanghaied into the job
That is the character of the man whom
Humphrey maligns Now for the investigation
he sponsored.
Norris, like many another public-spirited
citizen, is keenly interested in the course to be
taken in the development of the Nation s vast
power resources He is aware of two contend
ing forces in this field, The people in many
communities endeavorng to utilize their own
water power, as found on government land, to
provide cheap light and power for their homes
and industries making striking success
of it when not thwarted by private interests.
That's one force. Private interests, com
mdnQ1QR enormous QndQCldl resources, 6QQ6dV-
oring to absorb all the water power of the
country, whether located on private or govern
ment land-and making real Roadway in their
purpose. That is the other force
The case Of Muscle Shoals brought the is
sue to a head, so far as Senator Norris is con-
cerned. He is chairman of the Senate commit
tee on agriculture, charged with recommend
ing the course the government shall take in
disposing of that great power project. He
wants all the information available to aid his
judgment and the judgment of the Senate
The Senate, as whole, joins in the wish
Therefor the resolution calling upon tie Fed
eral trade commission to investigate and fur.
nish the desired data
No, says the little ex-lobbyist, that's pol
itics.
1t ought to be reasonably clear why
Humphrey was put where he is and who put
him there.
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a small winding pool and the waters
Just up to your knees.
Well dress in the oldest Of clothes
that we've got and we'll swim and
we'll 70 wand We'll fish. There's
plenty of shade where we'll hide
when lis not. Say, tell me, what
more could you wish?
You simply can't know Of the
wonderful fun, till a real camping
trip you have had. Right now is
the season when camping is done.
Say, why not suggest it to dad?
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09

Teleph o n @ s
electric lights,
radio sets have
penetrated the
four corners of
globe.
But one from
tier is still with
us.
Science is the
last frontier.
The great
army of science
is pushing the
outposts of
knowledge out
into the vast re-
gions Of the I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09

THE Acme OF Intelligence" The
beauties" are no other than a large
group Of performing dogs. Robin
son and Pierce have a domestic
skit, Crossed Wires"
Thunder. the marvel dog, is the
feature player in The Silent Pal, -
the photoplay. Pathe News, a
comedy, and a scenic are the short
reels.
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Where and what is the "hyoid
bone?"
It is the tongue bone or the "
shaped bone. 1t is important in man,
because of it's connection with many
muscles and the fact that the per
lection of its form and its exact
location at the base of the tongue are
a considerable element In the
apparatus for the formation Of
articulate and musical notes.
Where did the horse chestnut
get its name?
It is so called from the large size
of the nuts, and, less piausioly, from
the former use of them when ground
as food for horses.
Who now owns the famous
painting of Rosa Bonheur, THE
Horse Fair?"
It was first exhibited at The Salon
Paris, in 1858. After passing through
several hands II formed part Of the
Stewart collection and was finally
purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt
and presented by him to the Metro
politan Museum, New York, where
it now hangs. There are several
replicas by the artist in England and
an engraving of tho painting by
Thomas Landseer.
What is hydrotherapy and by
whom was the system introduced?
Hydrotherapy is the use Of water
as a remedial agent in the cure and
treatment of disease. The efficacy
Of water in the cure of numerous
forms Of disease has been long rec
ognized. In the beginning of the
nineteenth century the cure was
employed by some in the treatment
Of acute and by others in the treat
ment Of chronic disease; by others
as an external application in the
various forms of the bath, but
never in all manners combined. The
combination was first effected by
the original genius Of Vincent
Priessnitz, a Silesian farmer with
whom began a new era for the
water cure. 1t was owing. we are
told, to his successful treatment Of
more than one bodily injury which
he had sustained in his own person
that, about the year 1920. Priessnitz
became so convinced of the curative
powers Of water as to employ 1t
medically in the cure of others. Be-
ginning with external application of
water for trifling diseases among
the poor Of his neighborhood. he
gradually undertook an extended
range of cases and multiplied the
modes Of administration, introducing
the wet compress. the douche bath,
partial baths of all kinds, the serat-
ing process, the wet sheet, together
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a I [ e r union
hours may be
such an assault
on the princi-
pies of the
union and so
menace the eco.
n o m / C stand
ards of the
BARRIERS that a
strike is a log.
ical weapon for
the crisis.
But to the in
nocent bystand-
err 1t would
seem in this
case the whistle
is too big for
the boiler. May
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You can get an answer to any cues
tion of fact or information by writing
10 The Indianapolis Times Washington
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marital advice cannot be given. nor
can extended research be undertaken.
All other questions will receive per.
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be answered All letters are eonhden'
tial--EditOr
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The Last
Frontier
Army of Science Pushes
0utpoStS of KnoWI-
edge Into Realms of
Unknown - New Sc
CretS of Life Are Con-
Stantly Being Found.
BY David DietZ

NEA SerCfce Writer
III LID frontiers have disappeared.
Ii ] Main-st runs across what was
III once the wild and woolly
west.
The North and South Poles have
been reached. The islands of the
Atlantic and the Pacific have been
mapped.
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Amundsen, Ellsworth
and Billy Mitchell

17MUNDSEN and Ellsworth will never
LA again try to fly to the north pole IN an
airplane, according to dispatches from Oslo,
Norway.
cit has been conclusively proved, they
say, "that heavier-than-air craft are dangerous
and Impractical for such work. "
Land sakes Can it be that Billy Mitchell
has deceived US? Only short time ago he had
almost the whole country believing an airplane
could do anything, from snuffng out navies to
Matching eggs
Colonel Mitchell and his school Were and
still are, quite as enthusiastically in favor OF
scrapping our army and navy and relying on
aircraft for our national defense as Amundsen
and Ellsworth were over their plan to explore
the polar region in arplane.
Amundsen and Ellsworth have now put
their idea to the test 1t didn IT, and won't,
work, they both say. They barely escaped
with their lives
Uncle Sam might have no such luck.
T1 HEN there's France.
Colonel Mitchell and other airplane
fanatics keep citing France as the world $ real
air power. She has SO many up-tothe-mlnutc
planes, they tell us, that she could smother
England and has all Europe at her mercy.
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding the
newspapers are full of French reverses in
Morocco, where handful Of native tribesmen,
without any planes, are getting all the best
of it.
Why doesn't France snuff out Abd-el-
Krim and all his followers?
"The terrain is not suited to aerial war
fare, the Mitchell school explain "And be-
sides, the Moors scatter out and refuse to en-
gage en- masse where the airplane would be
effective against them
Quite so. Then the airplane has its limi-
tations after all.
Suppose we followed Colonel Mitchell's
advice. And suppose, like the Spanish and the
French in Morocco we got licked. Suppose
we lost the Philippines, Hawaii and Panama,
and had our coasts bombarded and invaded.
Would it make us feel any better to be told the
terrain had not been suited to aerial warfare
or that the enemy had refused to fight in
manner to facilitate our killing them off from
the air?
The truth, of course, is exactly as has been
stated by some Of our wiser heads all along.
The airplane is a modern miracle and per
former of wonders But there are still few
things it can not do-now.
Tomorrow? Who knows But this is to-
day. And if it comes to war, we want victory,
not alibis.
Our need now, as always, is for we'll
balanced national defense. We must not be
slow to take every inch modern science can
give us, but we should not rush headlong after
every sensational fancy our fanatics and scat
terbrains offer.
Our hats are always off to those brave in
dividuals who risk their lives to prove the
ory But no one has the right to stake
national existence on anybody's particu-
Lon. h11n
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
| THE RIGHT
TO STRIKE
BY GAYLORD NELSON

rP7ECAUsE ]. F. Morgan. who
X has an interest in four
IL Princeton Qnd) barber
shops, bobbed his little daughters
hair after D. m. a few days ago,
his BARRIERS struck. He had vio-
lated union rules they claimed.
Perhaps the strike was justif.
able. Cutting a daughters hair
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09
Tom Sims Saws

Music may hath charms to soothe
the savage breast, but it is usually
safer to run
wExRzE1yszwyEesEywE& than SING
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A | u m | n u m
ware : is almost
useless for throw.
ing at husbands.

S o m e people
like to lie so well
they will do it in
a thunder storm
with lightning all
around.
Mems clothes
may be more
s e n 8 1 b l e, but
women are not
crazy enough to
ryoaY. onatS in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09

= HAT IS asserted to be a pure
II hokum offering is Amateur
Mite in London" which opens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-09

Where did the horse chestnut
get its name?
It is so called from the large size
of the nuts, and, less piausioly, from
the former use of them when ground
as food for horses.