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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-30
The School Board

TO the Editor OF The Times:
ri AM writing you in regard to
your ''write-up" on the dis
IL missal Of eight school.board
employees.
Why cry so loudly because seven
of them were of the Catholic faith?
-Four years ago, about three times
that many Professionals (of which
about 80 per cent were Masons),
were dismissed at one time and with
two days notice-some OF them
with no notice at all and TO some,
no excuse was given for the whole
sale dismissal only that they
guessed wrong" Please bear In
mind that this happened when Mr..
Charles Barry and ais coworkers
were in power, also please bear in
mind the fact that I was one Of the
Protestants who walked out of his
job in order that 1t might be turned
over to one who was not q Protest
ant
ann NOT acq tainted with any Of
the present members OF the board
of school commissioners and 1 have
not made any advances toward OBJ
tanning my old position with the
school-board so in writing this letter
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Not Machines

RUE to the restrictions of our new immi-
IL grafton law, engineers are for the first
time studying the men who run machines as
well as the machines. This is according to q
statement by Dean Arthur NJ Greene Jr of
the Engineering School of Princeton, Univer-
sity
He explains this remark by pointing out
that the supply of cheap labor has been vastly
reduced by the new law, and that, in consc-
quence, the Importance to the employer Of
each individual laborer is far greater.
If the immigration law has indeed brought
this about, we ought all to- bow and give
thanks.
1t WASH t so very long ago that the worker
was considered merely as part of the mach ne
he operated. Everybody knew that if the ma
chine was forced to go the limit for long
period without proper care it would break
down, so the machine. got careful attention
but nobody worried very much about whether
the man who ran the machine broke down or
not.
Industrial fatigue has thus far been in
sufficiently studied, says Dean Greene. We
have learned in the last few years that the hui
man machine cannot be driven beyond a GER
tain speed without burning out the bearings.
The working man has known it all along.
That the employer, too, is beginning to realize
it is one of the most hopeful signs industry has
given us in many year.
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Now, Billy, Go To 1t!

T~lOL. WILLIAM MITCHELL, court-mar-
~ tailed and disciplined for his public re-
Dukes Of those in charge Of the national de-
Tense, has resigned from the Army air service.
Hence, it appears, he is to be plain Mister
Mitchell. And, the United Press tells us he is
soon to begin a coast-to-coast speaking tour
an oratorical fight, so to speak, during which,
doubtlessly, he plans to drop many a reverber-
ating bomb.
Now that's the stuff AS a military off
Ger, even to perform service, he had not the
right to do bigger disservice by prejudicing
order and discipline essential in any army.
Without the enforcement of this rule, Presi-
dent Coolidge said in reviewing the court-mar-
tial proceedings, the Army and the Navy
"would not only be without value as means
of defense, but would become actually mem
ace to Society. Discipline is the whole basis of
military training
That, of course, is true. But now Colonel
Mitchell becomes Mister Mitchell The Army
officer becomes the private citizen. As such he
is perfectly free publicly to lambast whomso-
ever or whatsoever he pleases, high officials or
systems; and there are certain constitutional
guarantees which will protect him in this right
Every ruler needs his critics. Every gov
eminent needs a strong opposition to keep it
from decay Army and Navy officials, without
something or somebody to keep them on their
toes, tend to grow soft and drop into nice,
comfortable ruts. The Billy MitchelIs are good
medicine for any country. We hope ours gives
ne large and CLEANSING doses
Now that you have put yourself in posi-
ton to do so, Billy, go to it Do your Mitching.
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A Woman's Viewpoint

, OF alimony the next day. Once mar
ried she was bound body and soul,
and her bread and butter, her repu-
tation, her very life, depended upon
her staying married.
Down in their hearts l doubt
whether the wives OF those Mosaic
husbands were any more montent or
placid than we are. Do you sup
pose they never cursed their fate and
prayed to die and sobbed out their
agony during the long watch Is Of
the night? DO you imagine that
those gentle grandmothers never
longed to throw something at the
home Hindenburg who ruled with an
iron fist? DO you think they lived
through their days without knowing
bitter heartaches and soul-stirriRg re-
bellions?
But they did not divorce their
husbands. No. because they couldn't.
I'll warrant you that many a one of
them would have gloried In doing it
had 1t been possible. RIO her. d.
volce was an unknown quantity and
an unrealizable condition, but you
can wager your last penny that a
good many OF those dear old grand
mothers would have grabbed at 1t
in their young days IL they had had
the opportunity.
When women found they did not
have to live with the sort Of men
so graphically described by Mr..
Hergesheimer, they refused to do so.
Can you altogether blame them?
Toda&Nve suffer from the reaction
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you can see that I have no ak to
grind"
When with the school-board,
was employed as pay roll clerlN
and in my work, was constantly
in touch with Mr.. Carl w. Eurton,
who was, at that time Huperin-
tendent OF buildings and grounds,
and / will say that everything that
transpired in the time that he was
superintendent, was done for sthe
good of the school city. I further
know whether you or any, one else
care to give him credit for 1t or not
that Carl w. Eurton is working
night and day to give the tax
payers OF the city OF Indianapolis
value received for every cent he re-
ceives in salary and more,l too.
Go and look at the records of the
school-board. Go and look at the
buildings. Compare the work which
was done and the condition Of the
buildings when Carl w. Eurton
was superintendent OF buildings and
grounds before, with the general
condition of the school city for tive
past four years, and / believe that
his record will speak for itself.
AS stated before, l have no ak
to grind other than / would like to
see "justice to whom Justice is due"
and certainly think that your
paper should be broad-minded
enough to see both sides OF this
school board proposition. Efficiency
counts for a lot and you can rest
assured that who ever Carl Eurton
employs IN his department win be
qualified for the job, or he will not
get the job.
Please let me repeat the fact that
I am not trying to get position
with the school board. I am mere
ly trying to defend men who 1 know
will make good on their job If people
will only give them a square deal.
DALLAS B. CASTLE.
512 N. Denny st.
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al Smith and the
Power Grabbers

FRI HE Wall Street power grabbers have
made the mistake Of grabbing too near
home.
horsepower on the ST. Lawrence and Niagara
Rivers, which the grabbers, in their rush to
seize the resources of the South and West, had
temporarily overlooked Recently, however,
they fixed things up with the New York
power commission.
Sure! Why not?" said the commission,
it being body expressly designed, like the
Federal Power Commission, to make gifts to
mend.cant millionaires.
At which point entered Governor AL Smith
Said the Governor II am unalterably op-
posed to giving permits to those big corpora
water power which, to conserve the rights Of
the people, should be developed under State
control. I"
Governor Smith, according to latest dis
patches from New York. will ask the State
Legislature to repeal the States water power
act and abolish the power commission
The proposals will sound less startling to
New York State than to the rest of the coun-
try. New York knows Wall Street as other
States never can and New York has been on
guard ever since the aluminium interests, under
Governor Hughes administration, obtained OBJ
ton on 100000 St. Lawrence horse power.
The State Legislature stopped that earlier grab
by revoking the permit.
1t is interesting to wonder what AL Smith
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SHORTRIDGE
the Editor Of NC mines:

To the Editor of The Times:
E7AvING read your article in
III The Times regarding-the con
III dition at Shortridge High
School am at loss to understand
what the school board means. I
have a daughter attending Short
ridge who has mentioned the condi-
tons there.
Certainly education IS a fine thing,
but not at the risk of loss of life.
wonder how many Of the school
board have children attending Short
ridge Surely there is some way to
make schoolhouses safe for the
hundreds attending while the build.
ing program is being settled.
Is there no way to awaken those
responsible for the safety of these
students before some terrible calam-
ity makes them realize the danger?
Teachers and students alike surely
deserve some consideration.
MRS. ]. w. JENKINS,
s44S N. Illinois St.
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RIGHT HERE
in INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

\ The tax rate, the cold wave, the
price of gasoline. or any OF the
important matters OF present'day
Indiana life will not be effected
by mound exploration. Such work
is merely in the interest OF sci
ence.
TO dig up the skeleton OF 2 nre-
historic Hoosier and determine by
study Of the remains that the
original proprietor OF that skele-
ton died OF the measles or domes-
tic complication is hailed as an
achievement. The excavator Is
praised. One who digs in Crown
Hill cemetery and excavates a.
more recent IIoosier is called a.
ghoul, a grave-robber.
Archaeology is a peculiar science.
The moral distinction between It
and grave-robbery seems to rest
or whether the deceased gentle
man to be excavated has any i'm
mediate relatives living or not.
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Senators Z and
Party Rule

TTl HE Indiana Senators Watson and Rob
! inson-at the Indiana Republican Edi-
\ torial Association banquet in Indianapolis
Thursday night defended their votes against
the World Court resolution favored by the Adj
ministration and three-fourths Of the Repub
lican Senator'S
Evidently they felt the need Of some ex-
PLANTATION. The Republican party for four
years has been committed to the world court
idea and has elected two Presidents on plat
forms promising adherence to the court.
The court is good Republican doctrine.
The Hoosier Senators assert they are believers
in the principles Of their party and in party
rule And they seek reelection as Republicans.
In explaining his vote against redemption
Of his party pledge, Senator Watson said he
construed the Republican national platform as
not being in sympathy with adhesion to the
particular world court before the Senate
Does the Hon. Jim Watson know of any
other world court than the favored by
seventy-six Senators and the Republican Adj
ministration?
The same day the Hoosier Senators were
explaining their votes to Indiana Republican
CulIOIS, IIlluu leOOU-clucI oIdJtSHldIl, ulquSS-
tionably Republican and straight party
man-who helped plan the world court organi-
cation, pleaded for return to the good, old
fashioned form of party rule in government.
Said he: eve have run into period of
government when individuals seem to ally
themselves to party for no other purpose
than to get elected They feel no obligation
to stand by the principles of the party in whose
name they are elected, or to back up their as
sociates in that party
Mr.. Root did better job Of explaining
the world court votes of Jim and Arthur than
those gentlemen themselves.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LEssON
Modern Thinking on Feeding of Five Thousand Men

miracles, and He spoke very plainly
TO those who sought Him because
OF the loaves and fishes and not
because OF the living bread that He
had to give.
This narrative might well SYM
bolize the marvellous way in which
Christianity has had its growth and
influence. From very small begin
nings it has brought the bread Of
life to innumerable thousands, and
the richness of the provision of
grace is symbolized by the abun-
dance. We are concerned here not
with great magician. but with a
great Savior who loved the masses
of the people and who looked upon
them with compassion.
We may not have power to per-
form miracles such as jesus did, but
If we had in our hearts the deep love
for our fellowmen that he had, II
compassion moved the souls of all
who professed the name OF Christ
as 1t moved our Master in his earth
ly life, could we imagine any one in
all the world going hungry? There
would be bread enough for all. and
all would eat and be filled
The Never-FiIled
1t is touching to think Of the vast
mass Of humanity who never know
what it is really to be filled. We are
told that there are hordes OF people
in India, even in the years when
there is no famine, who never know
what 1t means to have enough. and
one thinks of the children of the
Near East who. with all the pro-
vision that has come in recent years
from Christian America, have not
had during much of the time more
than one meal day. Here is where
the lesson strikes home to those OF
us who are well fed and who never
know what it means to miss a meal.
Instead OF much controversy over
whether the miracle happened or
not would 1t not be well II we found
in conservation to Christ the power
to work modern miracles through
the application OF Gods laws to
human problems?
At any rate the lesson and its
meaning are lost for US unless we
find In Jesus the bread Of life and
feed upon him In our hearts by
faith.
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BY VIM. f. GilrOy, ID. ID.
EDITOR Of The COngregationaIist

HIS lesson concerning the
IN feeding of the five thousand
brings us straight into the
heart of the whole question Of the
miraculous. There are many mir
acles of Jesus that might be explain
able upon the basis of higher laws,
the nature of which has been parti-
ally discovered. We are realizing as
never before the power Of mind
over matter.
Undoubtedly remarkable cures
have been effected in recent years
by those who have rather deliber-
ately followed psychological laws In
exercising such influence, Some
times under religious auspices, but
also in many instances without any
association or profession OF religion.
When one thinks of the person
atty. and spiritual power of Jesus
one is not amazed that the lame
should have walked, that the deaf
should have heard, and that many
who were sick should have found
new health and vigor in his pres
ence.
We do not mean that miraculous
circumstances are all to be explain
able upon this basis of psychological
influence though we should prob
ably find that all circumstances. no
matter how seemingly miraculous,
have been in accordance with laws
that we have not yet discovered.
But when we come to an incident
like this feeding of the five thou
sand we are in a realm where moth
ing that we have discovered of
psychological force can account for
so amazing a result.
Accepting Miracle
There can be no use Whatever ar
guing about this miracle. Some
will accept the narrative as literal
history and believe 1t without diff
Guilty. Others may believe that it
is OF the nature Of legend or tradi-
ton, a wonder story that has be-
come attached to the life OF Jesus
just as wonder stories have be-
come attached to the life of every
great leader and teacher of the past.
II the significance OF Jesus had
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When Every Home Had It's
Hindenburg
-1OSEPH HERGESHEIMER
says that this is a narrowing
] ] age for husbands.

IL age for husbands.
Once" says he, and not very
long ago. it was quite enough in
most walks Of life simply to be a
husband; it was a position of UNI
challenged authority; a husband was
like a domestic Moses in whom were
invested the tablets of law; he had.
merely, to be-"
Is this not true picture of the
married male some twenty-five or
fifty years ago? And if divorces. are
increasing in number, and if women
are behaving in a reprehensible
fashion, may not the above para
graph explain this. to a limited ex.
tent?
Divorces have increased, not alto
gether because we are worse as a
people, not altogether because wives
are more rebellious, but simply be-
cause 1t is possible to obtain them.
For during those days Of which
Mr.. Hergesheimer speaks, the hus-
band in the home was indeed law
unto himself and the woman had no
redress. Hers not to reason why,
hers but to do and die. 1t was not
possible for that dear, long gore,
home-loying woman, whom we are
went to praise so highly, to step
around the. corner and bring suit for
divorce ans get her frs tinstallment
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TO DIG UP
EARLY HOLSTERS

E7LANS to open and explore
next summer some of Indi-
ana's so-called Indian
mounds are being discussed by G.
E. Coleman, director of the State
historical bureau, and others In
.terested in archaeology. 1t is be-
lieved some OF these mounds will
yield trinkets. utensils and bones
of early Hoosiers of archaeological
Importance.
Quite likely Indiana has many
mounds. of the sort that excite the
curiosity OF Psychologists, that
have never been explored SYSTEM
atically and scientifically. Opening
them may thr,Iw much light on
the mound bull ders--of whom lit
tie is known except that they are
dead.
To the average person 1t makes
little difference who the mound
builder was, how he lived, or why.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-30

fri HE Indiana College OF Music
III and Fine Arts win present
1 the following students in a
recital on Saturday. Feb 6, 2:3O
p. m, in the college auditorium.
Eunice Benner,> Lenore Myers,
Marian f. Miller, Virginia Marcus,
Beatrice Urwitz, jeanette Solotkin,
Jean Knowlton, Jean Foley, Char
lotte Webb, Harold Phillips, Doro-
thy Caudell, Evelyn Draper, Melba
Weiss, Lemont Miley, Mildred wager,
Ruby Cook, Elizabeth Case, Ethel
Forsee, Alice Emerson, Maxine Fer
guson and Margaret Quatman. The
above are pupils OF Clarence Wees
ner, Helen Sommers. Irene Hoffman,
Pauline Roes, Gladys Loucks, Mad
am Theo Hewes, Flora Lyons, Fred
Jofry, Bomar Cramer and Frances
Johnson. The program is in charge
of Miss Hoffman and is open to the
public.
ri RANGES JOHNSON. of the
r voice department of the Indi'
ana College of Music and
Fine Arts will sing for the Rush
vile Matinee Musicale on Feb. l.
So
4 The regular monthly business
meeting of the faculty of the Indi-
ana College of Music and Fine Arts
will be held at the college on next
Tuesday, Feb. 2. Luncheon will be
served.
HE Indiana College of Music
Ill and Fine Arts will present
Lo the following pupils in re-
cital in the college auditorium on
Wednesday, Feb. 8, at SIS p. m:
Helen Hill, Mary Pauline Smith,
Virginia Marcus. Gertrude Whelan,
Marion Barr, Iona Lamb, Mary Vir-
ginia Wallace, Cole Watkins, Max
Inc Ferguson, Edward Wilson, Lii
Ian Duckwall, Marietta Coval. Mil
bred Marlowe. 1. M. Blackburn and
Dorothy Steeg.
The above are pupils Of Clarence
Weesner, Eleanora Beauchamp, Bo-
mar Cramer. Frances johnson, VIII
lam r. Wehrend, Una Clayson Tai
bott, Madam Theo Hewes and Glenn
Friermood. Mrs. Johnson is in
charge of the program which will
be open to the public.
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| NEW TESTAMENT
LANGUAGE

CIR. EDGAR, GOODSPEED
lid of Chicago University told
IL an Indianapolis audience
the other night that the New Tes-
lament was written in colloquial
Greek-in the style Of speech used
by common people in everyday
life, not in classical and literary
Greek.
Because OF that fact. he made,
not long ago. new translation of
the New Testament into the ordi-'
nary, modern American language.
instead OF the stilted style fanil-
lar to us in the King James YER
sion.
1t must be shocking to some who
believe the Bible to be perfect in
every detail to learn that Matthew,
Mark, Luke, John, Paul and other
New Testament authors wrote in
anything but pure biblical Ian.
guage. If they wrote by direct in
SEPARATION Of divine authority, why
didn't God have them use pure.
correct Greek, instead of the col.
loquial, slipshod language OF the
home, the market place and every
day life? M
The New Testament authors
wrote to be read and understood
by plain folks. They were con-
cerned only with the message they
had to deliver and its effect on
human hearts, not OF literary ex.
cellence. They were careless OF
style and grammar. 9f
But what they wrote is now con-
ceded to be great literature-it has
lived for two thousand gears, and
will live thousands of years hencel
\ 1t has touched the hearts Of count
less millions. Which proves that
it's what you have to say, not how
you say 1t, that really matters.
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WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

been simply that He fed 5000 people
with five barley loaves and two
fishes, we should have little occa'
sion for interest in him as a spir-
itual leader; that might mark His
wonder working power, but it could
not indicate His divinity or His
power Of saving people from their
sins. The significance of Jesus
was that He brought to men the
bread of life. He himself depre-
Gated the dependence upon signs and
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TOO MUCH
Red TAPE

RI. o. CLEVENGER, truck
TX man Of Alexandra, Ind,
L. has assigned title to the
truck he has been operating TO the
Estate OF Indiana, U. S. A." He,
sent the certificate of title and
properly executed assignment to
the public service commission. to-
gether with an explanatory letter,
He wrote: "Since / find 1t inn
possible for me to comply with
your rules and regulations for
trucks as a common carrier,
hereby assign my common carrier
truck to the State Of Indiana
In commenting on his action he
said he would like TO see the public
service commission run his truck
according to their own rules and
make a profit. His daughter, who
is a stenographer and boolIkeeper,
helped him to make out Tie numer-
Gus reports the commission de-
manded. Except for that he could
not have followed Instructions and
found time to run the truck.
The incident is Illuminating. It
sharply reveals the effect Of gov
ernmental control and regulation
on private initiative and business
enterprise.
The disgruntled truckman has
learned what every other business
man has learned, who must con-
duct his business under the minute
supervision Of a government
bureau or commission, that end
less, complicated reports consume
all his time and energy. He has
learned that government regula-
ton of business tends to become
strangulation OF business in a
maze OF red tape.
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SPEED
To the Editor of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
xvi u are suffering from a dan
I'M gerous and homicidal attack
lJ Of speed m, .dness. which has
overthrown our reason. and we are
killing, in the United States, more
than 10000 persons year, under
its insane influence
The present excessive and murder
GUS speed of automobiles serves no
practical pun pose whatever. II il
merely the inane amusement Of
empty minds. 1t is foolish. deadly
and absolutely useless. It produces
nothing but cripples and corpses. 1t
helps NIL our cemeteries.
BERTRAND sI1ADWELL.
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would do were he Governor of Tennessee. Wall
Street banks are trying to grab 100000
horsepower in Tennessee, and thus far Gov
ernor Peay has appeared provoked only at the
Federal Government S delay in making the do
nation.