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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-02
Hurdy-Gurdy
BY Hal Cochran

1 heard an old-time song today,
that runs in sweetest rhyme. Twas
years ago we used to play, THE
Good Old Summertime. And, too, an
ancient member that, Of old, made
dancers sway. Why, surely, you
remember it, that tuneful Moon
light Bay"
How easy one can backward drift.
and in the old days be. Your mind
can take the journey swift, to tunes
like Sweet Marie" Old "Alexander's
Band" was played; the tune was
changed, and then, the strains Of
Annie Lauriee" made me feel real
young again.
1 closed my eyes. and drifted
through, 1.-The Trail Of the Lonesome
Pine" and then a song we once all
knew, came forth, Sweet Adeline."
They all may ring tin-panny, yet
they make us want to sing, for
mystic and uncanny are the memrles
that they bring.
There's quite thrill to listen to
this music on the street. You don't
know what you're missin, If you've
missed this summer treat. 1t travels
through the airway and to years ago
twill span. Give credit. in the fair
way, to the Hurdy-Gurdy man.
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Pensions For Old Folks

Tr1 VERY once In a while conservative old
l. England puts something across that
would make cur political old guard yell its out
ragged and scandalized head off.
The latest proposition is an old age pension
for workers. a scheme whereby every wage
Garner in Great Britain, man or woman, affect
ing some 100000 people or 70 per cent of
Britain's total population, would receive
weekly pension from the age of 60 on.
The scheme has been proposed, not by tie
Labor party, but by Chancellor Winston
Churchill speaking for the Cabinet of Premier
Stanley Baldwin admittedly the most strongly
intrenched conservative government Britain
has had for decades.
Briefly, each male worker would pay 8
cents a week while he worked up,to the age OF
IS, and every female worker 4 cents week.
The employer would add 8 and 4 cents week
respectively, and turn the proceeds over to the
government, which would make up the balan /,
of the premium.
The expense to the government would
range from $20,OOOOOO to $1O0,OOOOOO an
nually until about the eighteth year, when
tHe system WOULD become SelI-suppOrIlnS.
The pension would begin at the age of 65
whether the recipient kept on working or not
When man died. his widow would receive an
annuity for life, plus so much additional for
each child under IA. Orphans would be given
small pensions. And so on.
In short, the project aims to remove the
specter of poverty in old age from the ken of
even the poorest British laborer.
Socialism! Communism Paternalism
Boshevism!'' And heaven only knows what
we would hear in this country were such a
scheme proposed.
We boast of being the premier land of
liberalism, progress and ideals. But are we?
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
TO OBSERVE WEEK

Miss Gretta Smith. head of the
art and music division of the In
dianapolis Public Library. an
nounces the following program in
Observance of Music week, May 3
to 9:
The Indianapolis Public Library
will celebrate Music week with a
series Of afternoon concerts begin
ming Monday. May 4. and ending
Saturday, May 8. These concerts
will be held in the music room of
Central Library every day from 4
to 4:3O p. m. The programs will
consist of several records on the
Ampico Reproducing Piano with
special selections furnished by
pupils and instructors in the Indian
apolis Public Schools as follows:
Monday, Girls Glee Club, Shortridge
High School, Tuesday, Girls Glee
Club. Arsenal Technical High
School; Wednesday. Double Quartet
of the Teachers Chorus conducted
by Ernest Hesser; Thursday, Mr.. w.
f. Tallentire, violinist; Friday, Girls
Glee Club, School %, singing negro
spirituals; Saturday, Miss Goldie
Lowman, soprano.
During Music Week there will also
be exhibits in Central Library of
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Here Is a Real Idea

TN1HAIRMAN OCONNOR of the United
Y States shipping board seems to have
thrown constructive idea in the weller OF
scheming that has marked consideration of our
merchant marine problem. 1t remains to be
seen how it will be taken.
Briefly, O'Connor proposes that any sub
sidy that shall be paid by the American Gov
eminent shall be paid directly to the seemen.
This payment, of course, would be made only
to American seamen on ships owned by Ameri-
cans and flying the American flag. Twenty
dollars a month is the figure he proposes the
Government should pay, in addition TO the
wages paid by the shipowner The total cost,
if every government ship is bought by private
ship owners, would be 100000 year.
The response of the ship owners will be i'll
teresting to hear. Their great complaint has
been that American ships operate at dsad-
vantage in competition with foreign ships be-
cause American seamen demand higher wages
They concede that American seamen are among
the finest in the world, equal to the best, SUI
perior to most. AT the same wage cost, they
have said, no American ship owner would wish
to employ any other than American seamen.
and crew is in itself great advantage, they adj
nit; from the passengers standpoint, i'll time
of danger, it is more than an advantage, it is
sometimes the difference between life and
death.
At one stroke, Chairman O Connors pro-
posal, if adopted, would equalize wage costs
for the ship owners. 1t would enable them to
man their ships with the best seamen that
American ships could have and their part Of
the payment would be only what they would
have to pay for foreign seamen.
In the days when America had merchant
marine that held it's own with the rest of the
world, American boys went to sea. They are
ready to go again, but not at the wages paid
coolies and other orientals. The seamen S act
has improved living conditions for sailors, es-
pecally for Americans. The forecaStle has
ceased to be the hell-hole it once was, thanks
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linen. Education doesn't feaze It.
1t has been abated one-half of
one per cent, or some such
amount, this winter through the
activities of city officials. But that
didn't even bleach our chocolate
colored winter mornings to a dark
tan. A chimney here and there
was tanned That was all.
With the passing Of cold
weather and reduction in coal con-
sumption the nuisance goes into
semi-retirement. But it isn't dead;
it is merely resting for busy fall
and winter. Consequently abate-
ment agitation should not abate.
Indianapolis either has an eff
fective or defective smoke ordi-
nance. During the next few
months while smoke is at a mini
mum the ordinance should be put
in shape. so that in proper season
it cam bite the smoke nuisance as
well as bark at ii.
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have also put in special third class
tours.
One big company advertises as
follows "One hundred and sixty
dollars tax included will take you
over and back. True, If you want
luxury you will be disappointed
What we guarantee is that the ac-
commodation will be clean and neat
and the food good and wholesome,
and, most important of all, as far as
1t is ever possible to be sure, you
may be sure Of congenial fellow
passengers.
On some of the larger, faster
ships such as the "Leviathan,"
such a trip costs 1857 to Southamp-
ton and return
The shipping board has also made
arrangements for listing low.price
accommodations in Europe, partic.
ularly those used in the winter by
university students, and securing
options on them. They say many of
these cost as little as eighty cents
TO one dollar a day.
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THE CURFEW
RINGS AGAIN

wv ARSAW Qnd) children I'M
IWI der 16 years of age must
III be off the streets and out
of public places after 10 p. m. in
summer and 9 p. m. in winter.
The mayor has announced that he
will enforce, at the request of
women, the city's curfew law.
Too many boys and girls fire.
quent the streets and CAD around
nights, complained the women. So
the musty, old ordinance-passed
thirty years ago, but long a dead
letter-is resurrected to save the
morals of Warsaw youth.
Probably it will fail to achieve
it's purpose. No curfew law ever
succeeded in being anything but
a bogeyman for tiny tots, without
power to brighten older children
into paths of rectitude.
Yet for many years no commun-
ity would think of getting along
without its curfew.
1t was a mark Of civic progress
and culture just like a volunteer
fire department or a bonded debt.
Now, however, most communities
are sufficiently distinguished for
cultural purposes by their bonded
debts.
Undoubtedly boys and girls I'M
der 16 are better off at home in
the evening than running the
streets or congregating in public
places.
But parents ought to be able to
handle the situation themselves.
Children of that age are not too
old to be spanked. The heavy hand
of parental discipline is more ef-
fective than decrepit curfew law.
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TRAVEL CHEAPER THAN STAYING HOME

as rich as Europeans think all
Americans are, but who would prob
ably like to travel abroad If they
had the price.
Many, he believed, were hanging
off because they couldn't quite stano
the stigma Of going any other way
than first, or possibly second class.
So last year he organized what he
called Teachers, students, vet
erans', and artists tours" He had
the third class accommodations done
over, cut down the number to be
assigned to one room, improved the
food, and put in bigger staff Of
stewards and stewardesses, and
then did some advertising.
Eight thousand teachers, writers,
artists and World War veterans fell
for it. They became enthusiastic
about the idea.
This year the only trouble seems
to be to get anyone to go either
first or second class. A number of
other big lines are having to meet
the shipping board competition and
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to Andrew Furuseth and Senator La Toilette.
1t may be that O'Connor is offering the
next step forward. His plan deserves the
study Of al those who wish to see a real Amer
lean merchant marine. 1t is likely to appeal
to advocates of an adequate naval reserve, for,
in effect, the proposed 500 government bonus
would make naval reservists-and the best OF
naval reservists-of the American sailors thus
obtained
Chairman O'Connor has given the country
something useful to think about.
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EW YORK, May 2.-She
I'M worked long hours at the
III lunch counter in a skyscraper
on Eighth Ave, making sandwiches
for stenogra piers and busy business
men. She knew how to make just
about all the tasty combinations of
meats, cheeses, fish. tomato and
lettuce that were ever put between
two slices of bread. She was as
mrch an artist in her way as CALI
Curci or Pavlowa are in theirs.
She was middle-aged. but up-to-
date. She had matronly waist, but
she wore her hair in a boyish bob.
She appeared to be at once sensible
and modern. And she had a whole
hearted laugh such as Is not often
heard in this town.
Also she had a way of calling the
attention of the male walters to men
customers being neglected for gig
Cling flappers. Never a man came
into that busy place but what she
saw that proper attention was given
to him. Whether they were old
or young she assumed a maternal
attitude toward men. And that, too,
is an attitude little found in sky
scrapers.
So it was that the two of us fire.
quently chatted about common sub.
jects such as how tomatoes can be
kept fresh until past Thanksgiving
by hanging the plant by it's roots in
the cellar, and how beautiful or
chards are in the spring, and so on.
She told me about her boy, her only
one Of three marriages, who had en-
listed when he was still in his teens
and had gone to sleep forever among
the poppies Of Flanders.
And so I missed her yesterday
when l went to the counter where
she made the succulent sandwiches.
But today 1 heard what became of
her and 1 am happy.
Now please don't think / am man.
ufacturing a bit of fiction along the
o. Henry line. This romance of
Bagdad-on-the-subway occurred in
the building in which 1 work. The
lunchroom Juliet is Genevieve
Yedlin. The Romeo from Texas is
Henry Richfield, prosperous horse
breeder.
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Davy, who, quick to detect his abil-
lty, installed him as his assistant
In 1927 he succeeded Davy as lee.
turer to the Royal Institution and
became professor of chemistry in
1888. He made many notable dis
coveries in chemistry, while in cleo
tricity and magnetism his achieve
ments cover the entire field of these
sciences, and are Of the first impor-
lance. He died In 1867.
What is the best method TO put
ting away wooden clothes for the
summer?
Brush and beat them clean. clean
ing off all grease and other spots
thoroughly. Hang them on the line
In the open air in the sun for sew
eral hours. Tie them in sacks or
bags made of newspaper tightly
sewed together so that no moth can
get in. If mothproof paper bags or
cedar chest is. available it is best
to put them in these.
Why is Ohio called the Buckeye
State?"
Buckeye" Is a common name for
horse chestnut, and the nickname
given to Ohio is due to the large
number of horse chestnut trees that
abound in that State.
Who was the first Pope of Rome
to change his name on assumine, the
Pontificate?
1t was Pietro Osporca or Peter
Hogsmouth. Some authorities at
tribute the change to the anparent
arrogance of assuming to call HIM
self Peter IL, but the general i'm
preston Is that he was glad Ito rid
himself forever from all associations
with his family mamie by assuming
the title of Sergius II. This prece-
dent has been followed by all his
successors.
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lar rules drawn up by the Knicker-
booker Baseball Club. The first Ma
tional Association was organized in
1853, and the first entirely profess
sional baseball club, the Cincinnati
Red Stockings, was organized ten
years later.
What were the exact words used
by President Monroe in his annual
message to Congress in 1923 that
have become known as the Monroe
Doctrine?"
We owe it, therefore, to
candor and to the amicable relations
existing between the United States
and those powers to declare that we
should consider any attempt on their
part to extend their system to any
portion of this hemisphere as dan
gerous to our peace and safety.
With the existing colonies or de-
tendencies of any Europena power
we have not interfered, and shall
not interfere. But with the gov.
VIilillCilIS WIN nave ueCldTeu lDelT
independence and maintained 1t, and
whose independence we have, on
great consideration and on just prin-
ciples, acknowledged, we could not
view any interpositions for the pur-
pose Of expressing them, or controll-
ing in any other manner their des-
tiny. by any European power many
other light than in a manifestation
of an unfriendly disposition toward
the United States.
What was Michael Faraday?
A highly distinguished chemist
and natural philosopher, born at
Newington Butts, London, England.
He received a meagre education. and
at 10 was apprenticed to a book
seller, but devoted his evenings to
chemical ard electrical studies and
became student of Sir Humphry
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CARE OF
INSANE

1LBERT Fl. LOSCIE, coun-
TAI ty clerk, appealed to Gov
LII ernor Jackson recently to
assist in solving the problem of
caring for persons who have been
adjudged insane in Marion County.
The State hospital in this dis
trict is crowded to capacity and
beyond.
No more patients from this
county are being received. Be-
cause of the State administration
economy policy, no provision was
made by the last Legislature for
enlarging the institutions facilities.
Julietta, Maron county's hospi-
tai, is full and no more will DE
received, assert county authorities.
Anyway. they declare, care of
such unfortunates is properly the
duty of the State not the county.
So in the interest of economy they
propose to close the Julietta insti-
tution-and turn it's inmates over
to the custody of the State.
No doubt from the standpoint
of strict Justice to the taxpayer
this course is proper. Marion
county alone in the State main
tains it's own insane hospital
and also supports the State in
situations.
Meanwhile a young man, an in
durable mental case. has been con-
fined in the Jail for two months.
1t has been nearly a year since he
was ordered committed to the
State asylum. but was refused adj
mittance. Other cases are similar
ly awaiting admittance.
Governmental economy is desir-
able. But neither the State nor
county administration can preen
itself on economy practiced at the
cost of humanitarianism. If that's
true economy why not close all
public asylums and save lot OF
public money!
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Music Will Hold Sway in the City Schools
Next Week as Part of Melody Observance
81 USIC will hold sway in the
IMI city schools all next week,
which has been set aside as

!" USIC will hold sway in the
IMI city schools all next week,
which has been set aside as
national music week. Each building
has planned it's own exercises, in
which in the majority of the schools,
the entire student body will partici.
pate.
school, orchestras, primary bands,
drum corps, choruses, individual per-
formers, parents glee clubs-all will
contribute their chare. The assem-
bling of the entire school for mass
and group singing will be feature
OF almost every program.
Many programs are based upon
the music memory contest list.
The public school music depart
ment, Ernest G.. Hesser, director,
will also provide a thirty.minute re-
cital at Cropsey auditorium, main
library, each afternoon Of Music
week, beginning at 4 o'clock. on
Monday the Shortridge Girls Glee
Club will sing under the leadership
Of Claude E. Palmer, head Of the
music department at Shortridge.
On Tuesday the Arsenal Technical
Girls Glee Club, Miss Elizabeth
Kaltz director, will provide the pro-
gram. The Teachers Double Quar-
tet will give two groups OF songs on
Wednesday, Mr.. Ernest G.. Hesser
directing. On Thursday Mr.. Will
lard f. Tallentire. instrumental SUI
pervisor in the city schools, will give
violin recital. The Girls Glee Club
of School No. g. Columbia Ave, and
Sixteenth St. will present Fridays
program under the direction Of Mrs.
Martha Hill. department music
teacher.
The weeks events will close with
a song-recital by Miss Goldie Low
man, soprano. Miss Lowman is an
assistant music supervisor in the
schools. Mrs. Lenora Coffin will be
the accompanist for the Teachers
Double Quartet. Mr.. Tallentire and
Miss Lowman.
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musical instruments made by the
pupils Of sthe Indianapolis Public
Schools and Of old-time sheet music
which came to the Library as gifts
after the old-time concert last fall.
Little Annie Rooney" After the
Ball., Pass Under the Rod"
Father. Dear Father, Come Home
With Me Now" and many others
will be shown in their original form
Of publication. Nancy Lee" ad-
vertises on it's cover the Greatest
Bargains Ever Heard of in Muslin
Underwear" offered by l.. S. Ayres
& Co.
The regular Thursday Evening
Book Talk will be held on May Z,
at p. m, in the Cropsey Audi
forum and will be appropriate to
Music Week. Miss Elizabeth Ohr
will speak on Some Books About
Music" and Miss Gretta Smith on
Music in Fiction"
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TRAILING THE
SMOKE NUISANCE

G-1HE women's smoke abate-
ment committee has sent
G missionaries to all candi-
dates for mayor and city council
asking their stand on smoke
abatement and enforcement of the
city smoke ordinance.
The QUESTIONABLE may embarrass
aspiring office seekers, who hope
to ride into office on roseate gener-
alities, not concrete promises. But
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SUNDAY CONCERT
AT ART INSTITUTE

ON Sunday, May 3. at o'clock
Music Week Concert will be given
at The John Heron Art Institute
under the auspices Of the Indian
apolis Alumnae Club of Mu Phi Ep-
silon. national honorary musical
sorority.
The following program will be
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Times WASHINGTON Bureau,
1929 Ne4D York ATeuue.

T~07 ASHINGTON, May 2.-Thirty-
Wl five thousand well-dressed
LII American citizens will go to
Europe this summer in the white
collar steerage quarters of the
United States Shipping Board boats.
They will be comfortable, they will
be well fed. Their trip over and
Lack will cost them only from $155
to $175. Travel on cabin boats or
second class accommodations on
large ships cost about double this.
III we had the ships, we could
handle double this number" says the
passenger office handling bookings
for the Shipping Board.
When immigration fell off, due to
enforcement Of our quota laws the
company handling the boats for the
Shipping Board began to ponder
what they could do with the room
going to waste on their ships.
ToWne Nylander Of the United
States Lines began to think of the
thousands of Americans who weren't
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hands as much as Coolidge. Half
the folks we meet sell us something.
A happy family is usually the re.
suit of lot Of quiet work on the
part of some one member.
One Of the younger generation
tells us she isn't wild. but she just
simply can't stay kissed.
A spring sneeze is an i'll wind that
blows no good.
You can tell spring by the increase
in medicine advertisements.
Spring clothes look better on a
slender person than on a slender in
come.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc)
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given to which the public is invited
without admission charge:
Marietta Liedzur Laute" from
" I,. Crqdle Song" o;,.... sMae Mac sEU1l
Mrs. James NJ. Pearson.
Lungi dial Caro- Bene" ,..... Secchl
Thou Art the Nightwind" Harvey GauI
Norma Mueller.
Song Sunlight Waltz ......... Ware
ndlu III 1u
,S Sttiar-Eyes J Spsisni
.a Mrs Asel speilman stitt. -.
.TR Rs ssRRSSHisrk .::.:::: SrsseRSRsnSfi
Charlotte Lieber.
Vow Now sleeps the Crimson Petals" = oqiiter
Edith Jane Fish.
THE Years at the Spring" $3.50.
-. 49,. .......... Mrs II. h. Beach
,fMaen9ry T, Dellsilloi e
sMrs. Earl Robert Burroughs.
Accompanies are Mrs; Robert L. Bon
nor Mrs. Frank Edenharter and Mrs. John
Sink.
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they can't dodge
the smoke nui-
sance.
d e S pite the
campaign of ed.
ucation to which
It has been sub
jected for the
past six months
by city smoke
ms p tccr. the
smoke nuisance
is still in the pub
lie eye, the pri-
vate ear--and on
[ h e household
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PROGRAM TO BE GIVEN
BY Y. w. @. A. CH0RIIS


One Tuesday at Hollenbeck Hall,
the Y. w. C. A. Chorus under the
direction of Mrs. Minnie Carr and
sponsored by Mrs. Hugh McGibeny
will give a public concert.
Program follows:
(a) THE Time, for Making Sons Has
(b) "Roadways, Densmore
Betty Jane Watson.
(a) ave Maria" - Schubert Wilhimj
Lorinda cottingham,. e-''''
(a) "Nymphs and Fauns" 80. Bemberg
Miss Bernice Church.
(a) DE Coppah Moon" 49,. Shelley
(b) when a Maid Comes Knocking"
THE FREELY" 49,. r. Frimi
Ladies Chorus.
(a) I'm Ny Garden" 49,. Franz Ries
(b) Spring" ............. Paola Tosti
(a) May Morning" ....... Denza
(b) Lullaby $500: .Cyrilla Scott
Part II will be devoted to a cantata
THE Fishermaidens" $50. Henry Smart
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If take the wings of the morning and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even
there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right
hand shall hold me.-Ps. 1899, 10.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall
fall into the ditch.-Bible.