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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

reads here will vent back der time vippings NIT
trees branches ding you bin fount oud in der
hays loft udder wood sheds reading dot book Jules
Vernes wrdden aloud der boats der under
and bugges und wagons nit oud dem horses Unser parents
denk der young mind full nit foolishes
book der saidings uf a crazy
Vat you denk uf dem oft PEBBLES wood said now
NIT all der IMPOSSIBLE dngs habbeng all oafer der voortf
Id looks like gotten ISIS yust der beginning only
Eferyding ISIS yust like he said.
Vun ding ISIS not yet pass der trip
to der found oud vat dy gotten up here Wy
Ven dem big opservators told der bin two dwn suns
und dey bin fifteen dousand times brighter as yum We
bin working under und dot dey bin only ffytwo quad
rons miles away, id looks like nit hop skip jump
Good made visits to der und found kind
cheese he ISIS made uf.
Vat Jules predctoned Good SEEM aber Mars Moon
und dem two dwn ISIS fur away permission der
personal observang like der automobiles und SUCH We
hope dot der OWNS stay dy bin der bin
working under ISIS blendy goot enuf.
Van dem moofing pictures Good bring back Moses
NIT der Ten Commandments nd show put
der Niagara Falls maybe dey show how long ISIS fifty
two quadrillions miles,
Der moral ISIS, told you bout
Before nefer known,
Don't try to found oud too much dngs
Vat wasn't uf your
HANS HOFFMEIER,
1922 Sout Vest Streed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
RUSSIA TO HAVE BIGGEST
OF REFRAC7ING TELESCOPES

Periodically announcement comes
from France that plans are being
made there to build reflector with
a mirror 108 inches in diameter. But
this report has been heard so many
times with so little action following
it, that American astronomers have
become frankly suspicious of it.
Big telescopes are so important
today because astronomy has
reached a point where future dis
coveries can be made only with the
aid Of giant telescopes and expensive
supplementary apparatus. Astron-
omers feel that the day is past when
the amateur using a little telescope
can hope to make a discovery of
major Importance.
The group Of American astono-
mers in California at the Mount Will
son and Mount Hamilton observa-
tories have come to be almost a SUI
preme court in astronomy. This is
because they have the finest appara-
tusi in the world and can therefore
subject new theories and discoveries
to tests which cannot be duplicated
elsewhere in the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
Fixing Tax Rates

CA7 NEW angle on the power to fix tax rates
~ is brought out by the opinion of Attor-
ney General Gilliom concerning the rate for
the sanitary district Of Indianapolis. rate
of SIS cents was fixed after public hearing
and was published in the budget. Then the
city council increased the rate to cents
Giliom said in his opinion:
cit is my opinion that the tax rate fixed
in a published budget operates as a limitation
on the power of the common council so that
it can not fix higher rate than that published
after a hearing has been had on such published
rate pursuant to the notice given to taxpayers.
The published rate likewise operates as limi-
tation on the power of your board (the tax
board) to fix rate. :"
Perhaps the people of Indianapolis have
something to say about their own tax rates,
after all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
Many Euents on Musical Menu

4 p. m. at the John Heron Art
Institute. This will be open to the
public.
+ +
In Al RS. ARTHUR G.. MONNIN
INI GER, pianist, Of the faculty
IL of the Metropolitan School OF
Music, will give a recital on next
wednesday for Presidents day. the
opening event OF the Muncie Mat
inee Musicals season.
l. + +
RS Isle CULLEN HUNT has
III. been added to the violin fac
IL ulty OF the Metropolitan
School of Music and will begin her
classes there Eext week. She has
been on the faculty of the Conserva-
tory of Music OF Montreal, Canada,
as we'll as having taught privately.
She has played extensively in New
York and other cities of this coun-
try, having toured Keith's circuit in
a concert company and as a soloist.
!
Several pupils OF the Irvington
School Of Music will give recital on
Thursday night, Oct %, at the
Irvington Masonic Temple. Miss
Vittora Montana, assisting artist.
will play selections on the harp and
Irish harp.
Dance numbers will be given by
the pupils of Miss Ruth Below.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
Ministers

TN7RESBYTERIAN ministers are to get re-
firing allowances, after they reach the
age of 65, ranging from 5000 to $4,000 year.
Which is a lot better than nothing
But if the churches are to continue their
spiritual leadership, they must solve their
business problem, also. That problem is to
have only as many churches and ministers as
are required to serve the people, and to sup
port those churches adequately.
The movement for church unions, which is
timidly beginning, is based in part on the toler-
ance of the age 1t has become absurd for like
thinking. persons to maintain separate churches
whose grounds Of difference long since ceased
to exist But it is based even more Imperative
ly on business grounds.
Preachers must eat, like other people. If
a village can support one minister, or starve
five, sooner or later economic determinism -
is going to teach that village tolerance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

ton of useless laws-with every
legislative session our statute
books become fatter, fiabbier and
more bedridden. Even Senator
Holmes himself fathered about as
many bills in tho last Indiana Gen.
eral Assembly as any of his col
leagues-few outranked him in
that respect
Possibly those he introduced
were vitality important - they
were at least numerous.
And that is the chief af1iction
of our statute books. Whether
good, bad or Indifferent we have
too many laws, we can't sneeze
without fracturing some legisla-
tive enactment. The evil won't be
remedied by lobbying only for the
best laws. Future legislatures can
make themselves famous not by
the laws they pass but by the laws
they kill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
Is Sargent Big Enough
to Say 1t?

r. now much courage has John Garlbaldl
I'LL Sargent, present United States Attorney
General? Has he courage enough to say:
''The Department of Justice, Of which L
am now the head, has done grievous injustice
to the young Senator from Montana. Proceed
ings were brought against him under one or
nv predecessors without justification were con-
tinued by another predecessor OF mine without
justification, under my own administration
without justification I am ending this injustice.
The case against Senator Wheeler will be
dropped It should never have been begun.
1t takes courage to admit you are wrong,
the kind of courage that only few politicians
possess 1t will be the harder for Attorney
General Sargent to make this admission now
that he has allowed his assistants to carry the
proceeding against Wheeler as far as they
have 1t would have been easy for him if he
had acted when he first took office.
The proceedings were started mallclously
by Attorney General Daugherty and were al
\ lowed to continue by Attorney General Stone
6during his brief administration. By the time
ySargent took the office the fact that the Gov
eminent had no basis for it's prosecution was
perfectly clear Then is when Sargent should
have acted. Instead, thus far, he has elected to
close his eyes against the strange maneuvers
of his assistants and has thereby lent his in
dorsement to brutal persecution that is
unique in American history.
Sargent can still withdraw his indorse-
ment. That of course, would be equal to say
ing his department has been wrong all the way.
But if he has not the courage to say this, then
it must be said for him by the Federal court
in Washington, just as it already has been
said by the United States Senate and the Fed
eral Court in Montana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
Pushing Home
Products

II Ohm E. FREDERICK, president of the
State Chamber of Commerce. at recent
meeting in indianapolis to discuss plans for
advertising Indiana to the world at large,
pointed out the need of pushing sale of Hoo
ser products in Indiana.
He cited a case where Indiana firms i'm
ported certain product from Massachusetts,,
while Massachusetts, firms imported the identi-
cal article from an Indiana factory. Such alb
surdities can be cured by proper State adver-
Using, he believes.
! Such instances of sending half way across
the continent, and piling up freight charges,
for goods that could be obtained next door are
not unusual. They are typical of our inter
state commerce.
Indiana uses only At per cent of the coal
produced within it's borders. Yet it imports a
vast tonnage from Kentucky, West Virginia
and Pennsylvania and pays high freight
charges. The bulk Of its own coal is shipped to
the Northwest, whose residents in turn pay
high freight charges on their fuel
Wheat and -four are imported into the
State and homegrown wheat of equal quality
shipped out of the State. And somebody pays
unnecessary freight charges.
Such examples might be multiplied indef-
nitely in every State.
The most useless burden Of American
business is our uneconomic and wasteful sys-
tenn of distribution of our commodities. Like
Sisyphus in the old Greek fable our distribu-
ton system is forever pushing stone up hill
daytimes only to have it fall back nights And
the ultimate consumer pays the freight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
JUDGM EMIT OF
SOLOMON

C~HE State board Of registra-
ton for engineers and land
- surveyors Thursday re-
voked the Indiana license of Harry
Weeks Of the firm of Walker &
Weeks, Cleveland. Ohio, architects
in charge of the Indiana War Me-
mortal project. Misconduct in
specifying patented steel ia which
the firm is financially interested
caused the action.
f.. r. Walker, the other member
of the architectural firm, was ex-
onerated and retains his license to
practice in the State.
Perhaps the decisions strictly ac-
cord with justice and the facts.
But If one partner was guilty of
unethical practice it was as much
for the profit Of the other partner
as himself. In criminal law the
receiver Of stolen goods stands on
about the same plane as the thief.
Just where does the action Of
the board leave the firm of Walker
& Weeks? And where does it leave
the War Memorial project? One
half Of the firm can continue to
supervise the construction Of the
memorial building, while the other
half Of the partnership can't enter
the State in his professional ca
pacity. while the architectural fees
go to the firm.
A very pretty puzzle for me-
mortal trustees and the courts to
unravel
Some of the board members
must have read Chapter Of the
First Book of Kings. In which Sol
ONION adjudicated the dispute be.
tween the two women over posses
sion of a child. And the king
said, Divide the living child In two
and give half to one and half to
the other"
Perhaps that would have been
equitable, though the child would
have been of little use If the judg-
ment had been carried out. Like
wise. the judgment in the case OF
Walker & Weeks isn't very bene-
fetal to the memorial project In
stead Of being clarified In couse-
quence, the controversy is scraIn-
bled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
BY David Dietz
NEA Herpioe Writer

Russia is to have the largest re-
fracting telescope in the world. This
news will come as a surprise to
many people, especially to members
Of the scientific world who are
familiar with the exodus of scientific
workers which took place from Rus
STA to France, England and Amer
lea shortly after the Bolshevist rev.
olution.
The new Russian telescope is be-
ing built in England. The lens is to
be forty-one inches in diameter. At
the present time the largest refract-
ing telescope is at the Yerkes OBJ
servataory in this country. Its lens
is forty inches in diameter.
The refracting telescope Is the
type which most people are familiar
with. It has a small eye-piece at
the end near the observer and a
large lens at the far end.
Larger telescopes Of a different
sort are already in existence.
The largest telescopes in the
world are the rejecting type. sheSe
do not employ a lens at all but a
large concave mirror instead. The
mirror is placed at the lower end
Of the tube and the observer looks
through an eye-piece which is in
serted at the side of the tube. An
arrangement of small prisms or mir
rors enables the observer to see the
image on the big mirror.
The largest telescope of this type
is the 100-inch telescope at the Mount
Wilson Observatory. By 100-inch, it
it meant that the telescope has a
mirror 100 inches in diameter.
Mount Wilson also has 60-inch re-
Hector. The Dominion AstrophysiSal
Observatory of Canada has a ~ d&h
reflector.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
SHACKLED TO
THE WHEEL

~1OYBOY SEELEY, yclept
IL wild Bill" started from
IL Indianapolis Friday on
nonstop auto run to New York and
Miami. Fla, approximately 5000
miles, securely shackled to his
steering wheel. Without stopping
for food or sleep, he expects to
negotiate the distance in six DAYS
and observe all traffic regulations.
Doubtless, if accomplished, it
will be a noteworthy feat, and the
drivers name will be inscribed in
the hall of fame and become a
household word, like that of the
fellow who went over Niagara
Falls in a barrel-what was his
name?
stunt will have an important bear
ing on automotive development.
Certainly the expenditure of so
much energy ought to prove some
thing, either the dependability Of
the car, the stamina Of the driver,
or the leniency Of the foolkiller.
1t is generally conceded that the
automobile is an efficient mechan-
ism. No demonstration is neces-
sary to convince the average man
that it is equally dependable in
tour from coast to coast as in
short spurts from home to office.
Yet the freak driving stunts still
follow each other in rapid success
sion. as if the automobile was a
new invention striving desperately
for public notice.
A couple of high motor club Of
ficials dash across the continent
in four days, leaving a mangled
wreckage of State speed laws be-
hind them. A daredevil pilot
drives from Cincinnati to Indian
apolis. over country roads, at an
average speed of fifty.fve miles
an hour. Wild Bill undertakes to
drive 5000 miles without rest or
sleep. All thrilling performances
but of what user
There is enough freak driving
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
Theatre Guild

The Indianapolis Theatre Guild
opened its season at the Masonic
Temple Friday night by presenting
Merely Mary Ann"
The opening play was a comedy in
four acts, adapted by Israel Zangwill
from the story of the same name.
The play is interesting because 1t
was revived in London under the di-
rection of the author this season.
Bert f. Merling is the director of
this new organization.
The entire performance was
marked by smoothness and showed
what may be expected as the season
continues. The settings were ade-
quate.
The Harrison Trio rendered musi-
cal numbers between acts, and this
feature was highly enjoyable.
The cast for Merely Mary Ann"
is as follows:
Lancelot Ga composer) 8. Bert +. Merling
Herr Brahmson "a music pubiisher y -
Rev. Samuel smeds;e' "a county " yidaF Inns
Jam Biaydes "a medical studenD o.s''''O
Lord valentine tof the Auto@ 2@fb,iIi Ni"S
Club 80. Joseph Grepmelsparker
Mary Ann Merely ......,. Jean Selkirk
Mrs Leadbatter "a lodging house
keeper) ...,.. Mrs. James L. Kalleen
Rosie (her daughter1 go. Betty Sacre
The Sisters Trippet-
Kitty ............... Violet Herltz
Polly ........ Matte Sue Stinnet
Lady Chelmer "a poor peeress) $3.50
,...............M Mrs. r. G. Fielding
Caroline Countess of Foxwell 49,.
.............M Mrs A. r. Dewey
,..a,............ Mrs. F. II, Windate
Lady Gladys Valentine Anita Wandeli
Rowena Fitzgeorge Virginia ,Hinton
The cast possessed much strength
giving the whole an enjoyable
effect. (Observer)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

its parent or
some group of
persons to be the
best lazy ever
born. To its
sponsors it's pas
sage in all it's
pristine loveliness
Is vastly inpor-
tant for the pub
lie veal. A n d
e arm e S t, right
.eous person will
lobby for 1t.
AS a result
though speakers,
writer's, students
Of public affairs,
and statesmen de-
plore multiplied
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

Being hard-boiied is much better
than being half-baked.
Those who want but little here
below have it above their ears.
so long, old top" is the proper
way to address your summer hat as
you put it away for the winter.
Beauty is only skin deep and some
are skinned trying to get 1t.
Wouldn't 1t be great If people
talked as well as they do loud?
Only low rents in this town are
the rents in stockings.
With all the good lies in the
world there is no excuse for a poor
excuse.
Copyright, 1925. NEA Service. lIrc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

The greatest audience ever as
sembled at the Murat for an o.
chestral concert will greet Walter
Damrosch and the New York Sym
phony at the Murat Monday night
when an entire program Of Wag-
ner win be given. An Ona B. Tai
bot attraction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

done by ordinary amateurs, who
achieve a sort Of fame in the
obituary columns, without profess
sional daredevils cluttering up the
highways with their stunts to the
hazard of other traffic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
ONLY THE
BEST LAWS

@TATE Senator Holmes OF
- Gary, in a recent speech to
the Federated clubwomen
OF Indiana, urged them to confine
their Legislative activity to back
ing only the best laws-the really
important measures not to women
but to the public at large.
The advice is sound but It has
a knothole. What are the best
laws?
Each proposed law dumped into
a legislative hopper in believed by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

THE public service commission is now
being asked to regulate traffic in the town Of
Beech Grove. Is there no limit to the possibil-
ity Of State regulationf
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

ANOTHER illusion shattered Leather
manufacturers say that footballs are made
from cowhide What are the sports writers 60
ing to do for synonym for "pigskin game !"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

GEORGE COFFIN is to pick the Repub-
ican election inspectors. Undoubtedly they
will be carefully picked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

WITH the world series over, the yell
leader comes into his own.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

WHO in blazes was it that referred to Oc-
tober's bright blue weather. We call it dull
gray.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
A thought

Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam
out of thine own eye; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the
mote out of they brothers eye
Matt. 7:5.
There is some virtue in almost
every vice except hypocrisy-Haz-
lit,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

Women who marry to become pets
may. be considered catty. but they
M a dogs life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
Tom Sims Saws

Dishwater will take the nicotine
off a woman's fingers.
Most Of us worry so much about
the cost Of living we forget what It
is worth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

What is the value Of a United
States quarter dollar dated 1876?
From % to 80 cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

There Is the
usual crop of hard
winter predictions
put out by those
to whom all win
tiers are hard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

neither side wins,
it may result in a
friendly tie.
Most relatives
are distant rela-
tives when you are
broke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

1t Is . easy to
find Iault, yet
every one keeps
loOIv;~ g. t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

A little argument need not part
f..inr, IL A
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

77OW much courage has John Garlbaldl
I'll Sargent. present United States Attorney
General? Has he courage enough to say
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

Is there such a verse in the
Bible as the following; 1.-THE
fathers have eaten sour grape
and the children's teeth are set on
edge"
This is found in two place in the
Old Testament, jeremiah 1929 and
Ezekiel 1872.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

What are the largest ports in
the United States?
According to their commerce the
seaports are In the order of their
rank: New York, Philadelphia, San
Francisco. Norfolk and Boston.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17
We Are YuSt
Starting

49, j you
nit your
self und yum
der, der mind
gifts full nit
confusings.
1 vas yust
V o n d e r ing
how many uf
der fellers vat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

\ WO concerts will be given to-
day, matinee and night, by
] Bohumir Kryl and his band
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

That's rosemary, that's for re.
membrance.
Pray, love remember; and there is
pansies, that's for. thoughts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-17

From what is the quotation in
Shakespeare which begins that's
rosemary, that's FOR remembrance"
taken?
The quotation Is from Act (,
Scene 5, line 175-176 in Hamlet. En-
tire It reads:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19

Fine Rib Lustrous Rayon Socks, with
roll cuff top; in white, tan, cardinal,
New Britain herald., 1925-03-25
Lieut.. Kennedy Is Given
 Leave to Visit Relatives

Washington, March 25,--Lieuten- ant Frank E. Kennedy, recently brought here from the Napa stato hospital for the insane in California has been granted a months leave from the naval hospital to visit rela- tives in Cleveland. 't
 The action was taken. 1t was indi- cated, on the belief of medical and high navy department officers that being with his family might restore his health.
 Lieutenant Kennedy was commit ted to the institution at Napa from the Mare Island yard, Previously he had figured in proceedings involv- ing the possibility of court martial during assignment to the Asiatic sta tion, the charges having to do with intoxication.