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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29
Crime News

EV1 HEN some women join some club or other
wv and become known as "club women,
they act as if some curious change had come
over them. They seem to feel that they are
different and that their conduct should change.
That is, that they should do something as "club
women" that hadn't occurred to them to do
before they joined up.
Sometimes this zeal for some new activity
takes the form of regulating the conduct of
others. Now and then it breaks out in desire
to regulate newspapers.
It might be discreet to observe right here
that this particular ambition is not confined to
women, but is common to humanity regardless
of sex.
Out in Des Moines the club women who
were anxious to function concluded that good
way to abolish crime would be to have the
newspapers quit printing crime news.
The thought ism t new. The secretive os-
trich is generally credited with authorship of
the idea that if he would only hide his head
in the sand his entire body would be invisible.
And there have been, and possibly still are,
housewives who clean house by sweeping the
dirt under the bureau or sideboard on behind
the door.
OF course that doesn't get rid of the dirt
and disease germs have no particular objection
to this treatment.
If the neighbors come in they don t see the
dirt, but it's there just the same; and the
sloveniy housewife knows it's there even if she
fools the neighbors.
But publishers who know their business
don't run newspapers by printing only the
news that angels might find pleasant reading.
Moths prefer to have housewives keep
clothing in dark closet instead Of being hung
out where the sun shines brightly; and crimi-
nails would like this world better if there were
no publicity for their activities; for they, too,
thrive on darkness rather than light.
Editors don't public crime news because
they love crime. People don't read it because
they delight in robbery, arson, or murder. Nor
would society correct evil it didn't know ex-
listed. Life is what it is. Often it is unlovely
But the more we know of what's wrong with
it the more apt we will be to make it better
We would make greater progress by way
of reform if each of us first reformed himself
before experimenting on others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29
By @. A, Randau

ETI ASHINGTON, April 29.-Sena-
Wl tor Couzens was asked today
~ what he thought Of the agi-
tation for economy and the COM
plains of the merchants and manu-
facturers that too much economy
was hurting business.
He replied, what is economy? Is
it economy to pay a man $500 a
month and have him broken in spirit
and inefficient, thereby requiring ten
broken-spirited, underpaid men to
do the work that five men with or
binary incentive could do much bet
ter? Is it economy to wear cheap
clothes when one can afford good
clothes?
Nowhere have seen during all
this publicity an intelligent discus
sion of just what economy is. 1t
seems to me much of what Is being
classed as economy Is nothing more
than parsimony. Underpaying en-
ployes, thus depriving them Of their
enthusiasm, is not economy by any
stretch of the imagination. Neither
is it economy to deny ones family
or oneself ordinary pleasures or even
Iuxuries. If they can be afforded.
Economy and Waste
There seems to be a confusion
between economy and waste. No
one abhors waste and inefficiency
more than I do, but find many who
confuse these with intelligent ex-
penditures. I think it is the rank
est waste to burn electric lights
all over the Government buildings
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SOCIAL WORKER AT
CITY HOSPITAL

IRIS. MAY d. BALLOU, So
IMI cial welfare worker, has
0 been employed by the In
dianapolis Foundation to assist in
the work of the psychopathic
ward at city hospital. She has
just taken up her duties.
One important phase of her
work. it is announced, will be in
vestigating all cases to prevent in
generation as patients at the hos
pital of sane persons whose rela-
tives might be attempting to put
out of the way.
That sounds a bit dramatic. Out
side of fiction, detention of sane
person in an asylum through ma.
.chinations Of scheming relatives
is supposed to be a rare occur
renee.
But it is not. Recently DIR.
Bahr, superintendent of the Cen
trail Hospital for Insane, in COM
menting on the increase in pa
tents at his institution, said: zone
reason is the increasing number of
aged people whom loving children
have declared insane to get rid
of them"
Thus institutions maintained by
humane society for unforturates
make it easy for individuals to
cvade their socie. responsibility.
OF course the care cf old peo-
pie when they get feeble and alb
sent-minded Is quite a problem. 1t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29
That the Maker of Dreams
Does Not Eat Bird Seed Nor Soar in Air

fame is linked to that grooming
sweet Dreamer Of Dreams" num-
Der.
I noticed that while Lucas was
singing and playing with this num-
Der that in private life (while play
ing) he is no different than in
public.
That is the secret of his great
success. He is always the human
being.
"This may seem like stage talk.
but my greatest ambition is to
please my audience with every num-
Der regardless of whether I am on
the stage, in the air or on pho
nograph record" Lucas told me.
Lucas believe that his work in
movie theaters along with his
Brunswick record making. will be
his chosen fields for the next few
years.
IAN eastern revue producer
wanted to black me up and put me
in show" he said" When / go
before the public I want to go just
as I am"
In other words there is no diff
ference between Nick Lucas the
artist and Nick Lucas the man.
And in that, think, rests the secret
of the great vogue of this man.
Lucas was introduced to thousands
on Brunswick records. His first
number s"Dreamer of Dreams"
placed him in the best selling class
at the side of Marion Harris, Al
Jolson and the others.
His Idea
At the Circle this week, Lucas is
stopping every show with Dreamer
of Deans and my Best Girl"
He has been thinking of record.
ing some of the new jazz stuff, but
this tour has convinced him that the
people want him as the maker of
dreams.
Al Jolson must do a nanny"
song at every performance and
Lucas must produce Dreamer Of
Dreams" at every appearance. Such
is fame and the big men of the
stage give the audience what they
demand regardless of their own de-
sire to do something different.
Today I have permitted Lucas to
step from record disc and become
chummy with you and the entire
family.
We are in safe hands when such
men as Lucas. Jolson, Eddie Cantor
and other make recorded keepsakes
of their artistry.
Have used all of my space tell
ing you about this man.
Next week want to tip you off
to some real imported records.
Indianapolis theaters today offer
the Berkell Players in Little Miss
Bluebeard" at English's; Omar"
Shrine show. at the Murat; con, the
| Campus" at the Palace; Albertina
Rasch Girls at Keith's; Harry Gee
Haw at the Lyric; Lena Daley in
"Brevities of 1925" at the Capitol;
Nick Lucas and LAS Man Desires
at the Circle; Madame Sans-Gene''
at the Ohio; 1.-The Great Divide" at
the Apollo; zone Night in Rome"
at the Colonial; and That Devil
/ Quemado" at the Isis.
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ECONOMY

in broad daylight or in unoccppied
rooms, but / do not think 1t ex-
travagant for people who can af-
ford to have good clothes, good au-
tomobiles and good house furnish
ings or any other thing that is not
harmful in itself.
"Underpaying the cook or any
employee or denying ones family a
radio, a photograph, a piano or
good clothes when they can be af-
forded Is not economy-that simply
Is parsimony. BY this ! do not
mean that citizens should not make
proper provision for the proverbiab
rainy day. / think they should
This does not interfere with intelh-
gent expenditures.
Can Go Too Far
Expenditures can be so cut down
by the Government as to interfere
with the performance Of proper gov
ernmental service to its citizens.
Railroad expenses can be SO cut
down as to take away all Of the COM
forts of travelling. Pullman cars can
be done away with and railroad
right-of,ways may be neglected for
what appears to be a temporary
saving, but in the long run that is
not saving-it is the mere boarding
Of money for no good purpose.
1--WE can all greatly reduce our
standard of living and thereby great
ly economize, which, of course, plain
ly reduces consumption. This can
be INDUCED in to such an extent as
to greatly affect prosperity. A pol
icy of this kind is so interviewer
with the economic forces of the coun-
try that an ill-advised curtailment of
buying on the part of our citizens
would quickly change the present
prosperous aid into one of actual
hard times.
What is the use of saving our,
money for increased production tot
make goods more plentiful and
cheaper If we must not use them for
improving our living standard?
What is the use of the storing away
of new capital to meet increasing
demands if our demands are not to
be satisfied because of an override
veloped economical policy?"
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A PERFECT
STUDENT

T~7ONALD CARMONY, fifteen
years old, who graduates
u from Manila Qnd) High
School this year, leads his class
in scholarship with almost per
feet grades He also has a per-
feet attendance record from the
first day he started to school.
The record is unusual. No
wonder his teachers and others
look upon him as a model student
although he will have few
imitators.
Vest he is said to be neither an
exceptionally precocious youngster
nor a greasy grind. but quite a
normal youth in evry respect ex-
cept his attitude toward school.
He like school and he likes study
ing.
Most lads regard school with in
difference or active hostility. In
stead Of seeking learning with I'M
quenchable ardor they dodge it
whenever possible. They dare
teachers to teach them.
Many highly respected and dign-
flied professional men, statesmen,
and business leaders, as youths.
didn't dream of leading the class
but Of the school house burning
down-and an enforced vacation
from books.
To average youths the hours
outside of school ara the precious
hours of life. Consequently they
develop hardness and absence to
fine arts. They do not abhor
truancy-only it's punishment.
If normal boy with a real Xix
ing for school can graduate at
fifteen with an almost perfect
scholarship record what would
happen in popular education if all
boys should pursue knowledge as
enthusiastically as they pursue
other interests?
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/ favorite bromides.
AS the years tick off and partisan passions
cool, there is less and less opposition to the
League of Nations, particularly among men
who think.
More and more see in American coopera-
ton with the league-even if we do not actual
ly join it-one of the chief hopes of world
peace. And stronger and more insistent be-
comes the demand that the United States adj
here to the World Court at an early date.
Such was the sense of the meeting in
Washington of the American Society of Inter
national Law, which not only urged adherence
to the World Court but cooperation with the
league itself in the codfcaton of international
law. rt.~
Former Secretary of State Hughes under
Presidents Harding and Coolidge, presided
over the society's deliberations and took the
I lead in recommending action.
DIR. David Jayne Hill, Republican states
man and former ambassador to Germany, took
much the same stand.
''When there is on earth general will to
peace" he said, If it can find expression there
will be peace. But there never will be a uni
versal will to peace until there is an open ave-
nue. to justice"
Wherein, of course, he was entirely right
There probably never has been atime, had
you asked the rank and file, as individuals,
what they thought about it, when plain people
everywhere were not opposed to war. But the
plain people had no means Of making their will
to peace felt, no open avenue to international
justice.
So the handful of rulers all down through
the ages have been able to fling their toiceless
subject masses into not-yet-ended succession
of wars
Give the people a chance to make their
voices heard, however; provide them with the
machinery for turning their age-long hatred
of war and dream of peace into acts, and wars
will dwindle in frequency until at last they al
together cease.
The League of Nations may not be perfect
The World Court may not be without short
comings. Certainly the abstentionG of the
United States from their councils have mate
rally weakened their authority.
American cooperation, not only with these,
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Afterwards
BY Hal Cochran

Dark clouds will come, as they al
ways have done, but they soon will
pass on out of sight. Then, when
the worst of the rain storm Is run,
all the blackness will turn into
light.
Gloom settles down when a storms
drawing nigh. Like a shadow, 1t
blots out the cheer. Still, we for
get, when the darkness drifts by,
and the light Of the suns rays is
here.
Living, itself, seems the very same
way, for there's darkness and bright
ness in turn. All Of your troubles
are storm clouds, but say, there's a
lesson we all ought to learn.
The clear silver lining that fol-
lows the storm makes your fighting
it out worth the while. Who copes
with his troubles till better things
form, takes the good and the bad
with a smile.
You wouldn't appreciate good
things at all, if there were not re-
grets in your cup. It's dissatisfacx
ton that spurs, after all, your fighv
till the gloom is cleared up.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

in the entertainment world, 1 gen.
orally discover that members of the
royal family do not wear their
crowns at the breakfast table nor
do they recline upon bed of pigeon
feathers. And Nick Lucas is no ex-
ception to the rule. He likes to
glide over the floor with a compan-
ion to the strains of music. He is
a good dancer. There isn't an
ounce of up-stageness In Nick.
When he is invited to a party, he
does not refuse to take his guitar
with him.
Lucas has arrived at that position
in life where he is generally sure of
finding copies of his Brunswick rec
ords in every home.
The other night l was a supper
guest where Lucas was present. He
had his guitar with him. He made
personal appearance" with his
Brunswick records at the party.
And the favorite at the party was
Dreamer of Dreams"
1t seems that Lucas name and
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for property only assessed at $175,-
900 last year for taxes.
Property is presumed to be as
sessed at it's cash value. That's
an ideal seldom attained, but
usually there is some recognizable
relationship between true cash
value and assessed value. Be-
tween S465.OOO and $4,000 there
is no kinship except in the dollar
sign. Otherwise the sums are not
on speaking terms.
This year this particular prop
erty will be assessed at $2S0,000.
Even that is far below the price
the board proposes to pay.
Obviously either the assessor or
the board is very tender to that
piece of property. Before closing
the transaction tho city ought to
make sure it is the assessor who
has enlargement of the heart, not
the board
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29
Honor to Nathan Hale Unusual

His appearance l should say was
a little above the common stature
in height" says the old letter, his
shoulders of a moderate breadth, his
limbs straight and very plump; reg
ular features-very fair skin--blue
eyes-flaxen or very light hair,
which was always kept short-his
eyebrows a shade darker than his
hair, and his voice rather sharp or
piercing-his bodily agility was re-
markable.
Il have seen him follow a foot
ball. and kick it over the tops OF
the trees in the Bowery at New
York IAN exercise which he was
fond of)-his mental powers seemed
to. be above the common sort-his
mind of a sedate and sober cast
and he was undoubtedly pious; for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON =

always has been-and many of the
solutions attempted have not been
altogether satisfactory.
Savages living one jump ahead
of famine do not tolerate useless
mouths. So the ancient cave
dweller. when he became old. in
firm, and a liability instead of an
asset to his tribe, was pushed
over a cliff and forgotten. AS So
ciety advanced more refined meth
DDS of disposal have been devel-
oped-but the underlying principle
is the same.
Apparently many so-called civil
lied people. even in Indiana, have
only erased the mark of the saw
age from the surface. Underneath
they remain unchanged.
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it was remarked that when any OF
the soldiers of his company were
sick he always visited them and
usually prayed for and with them
in their sickness"
Hale was only twenty-five years
old when the British hanged him
one Sunday morning in New York.
He had been graduated from Yale
only two years before. When the
war broke out, he was teaching
school He served in a Connecticut
regiment through the siege of
Boston. In the spring of 1875 he
was commissioned captain and in
September undertook his hazardous
mission behind enemy lines.
And it was on September %, that
his story ended with the dignified
and patriotic words that have i'm
mortalized him.
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The wise par
ent promises William a box of cigars
if he won't work crossword puzzles
before he is 81.
With malaria starting, this is the
time for all good lemons to come to
the ade of their country.
A fool and his straw hat are soon
sat upon.
June brides are quitting their Of
flee jobs because they are otherwise
engaged.
st. Louis man wants his rent cut
because a neighbours baby cries at
night Alta baby!
Copyright, 1925. NEA Service. Inc)
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PRICE rs , 4 % ,uOV.
Perhaps that is
not excessive. A
downtown coli
scum can't be
erected in the
gutter. 1t will
naturally require
an expensive site.
But $465.000 is
quite a real es-
tate investment,
even for the city
OF Indianapolis,
whose taxpayers
are agreeably
solvent and do
cile. Especially
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29
PLAN MEMORIAL PARADE
Capt. A. j. Ball Selected as Commit.
tee Head.

Preliminary plans for Memorial
day parade Were made at a meeting
of the General Memorial Association
Tuesday night in the Board of Trade
building. Capt A j. Ball. Civil War
veteran, will head the parade COM
mittee, assisted by c. c. Moon, Span
ish War soldier, and Robert Ken
drick of the American Legion.
Exercises are to be held at the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument in
the morning, with the annual pa
rade ard exercises at Crown Hill
cemetery in the afternoon, accord.
Ing to Capt. ID. II. McAbee, general
chairman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29
Times WdshinGt0n Bureau,
1929 Ne1O York AVenue,

CU-l ASHINGTON, April 29.-In
W the new half-cent stamp bear
I ing the Likeness of Captain
Nathan Hale, the United tSates has
conferred an unusual honor. Up to
this time only former presidents,
Martha Washington and Benjamin
Franklin, first postmaster general,
have been honored on postage
stamps.
There is no national monument to
Hale-only a simple shaft erected
in his birthplace, Coventry, Conn,
by his townspeople; and the FIT.
Nathan Hale Park in New Haven.
In the pension archives here not
long ago there was found a descrip-
ton Of Hale written by a personal
friends. 4.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29

was completed by a treaty with
Great Britain. In 1S49 Oregon was
organized as territory, including
the present States of Washington
and Idaho. On Feb. Ia, 1859, the
State Of Oregon was admitted to the
Union.
What department of the United
States Government identifies
stones or minerals, and what is
the charge for such service?
The United States geological sur
vey, Department of Interior, will
make a brief, free analysis of min
erals, oils, etc. Their analysis will
cover only the fact as to whether or
not there is any mineral or oil indi-
cation shown by the sample sub
mitted.
Where does the expression,
Beauty is but skin deep" come
from?
Probably from "a Village Feast"
in Bailey's "Festus." The quota
ton reads: And these are joys, like
beauty, but skin deep"
Was the State of Rhode Island
ever called "Rogues Island?"
This name was applied to the
State in derision when that State
stood out alone, refusing to ratify
the Constitution of the United
States.
When and for what purpose was
the Royal Academy in London
founded?
1t was founded in 1863, is an as
ISOLATION of artists and maintains
free art school. 1t holds an annual
exhibition of paintings and sculp-
ture.
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her a certain sum of money with
which to buy pins. This was known
as her pin money. The expression
has survived, although it now APP
plies to a woman's spending money
in general, as pins are no longer a
luxury requiring a special appro.
priation.
Who was peter the Wild Boy?"
A boy found in July, 1925, in a
wood near Hameln in Hanover; he
was walking on his hands and feet,
climbing up trees like squirrel and
feeding upon grass and moss of
trees. He was brought to England
in 1926 by George I. He could never
be taught to artlculate more than a
few syllables, aud was apparently
an idiot. From 1897 till his death
in August, 1885, he lived on a Hert-
fordshire farm near Berkhamp-
stead.
Has the chairman of a meet
ing the right to- vote?
Roberts Rules of Order says: If
a member Of the assembly, he 0he
chairman) is entitled to vote when
the vote is by ballot, (but not after
the tellers have. commenced the
count of the ballots), and in all
other cases where the vote would
change the result"
How was Oregon acquired by
the United States?
The title to Oregon was first &C.
quired by discovery, occupation and
settlement. Captain Gray discov-
cred the Columbia River in 1892.
John Jacob Aston made the first
permanent settlement at Astoria in
1911, and other settlements were
made in the Wiley Of the Columbia
River about 1A In 1916 the title
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-29
SITE FOR
COLISEUM

@HE board of works has APP
proved purchase Of the
~ block bounded by Washing
ton, Market Davidson and Pine
SITS. for a municipal coliseum. The
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but with all other agencies tending to honor
able peace, is coming, never fear. And when
that cooperation becomes ungrudging and
whole-hearted, the goal of warfess world will
be in sight.
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BY Walter ID. Hickman

TT DIET of bird seed dipped in
TAI morning dew is not the food
1 of the maker of dreams.
or course no healthy two-isted
man could be expected to live long
on such a diet.
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= 1t Is shocking
sometimes to dis
cover that some
of our entertain
ing idols are just
human beings like
the rest of us.
When an artist
such as Mick Lu-
cas- becomes ia
nous as one of
the best record
sellers, we forget
that behind all of
the artistry and
oh RIM q raaI man
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Rob Mrs. Lloyd George

PLYMOUTH, Eng. April %
Mrs. Lloyd George lost a pearl neck
lace valued at $4,000 during a recent
ocean trip from Algeciras.