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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

portant loan exhibitions have
already been engaged for six months
ahead and arrangements OF
museum material made.
Dates have been arranged for the
circuiting of the exhibition of work
of Indiana artists that was shown
in six towns and cities to the north
Of Indianapolis in the spring, for
the exhibition of students work
circulated by the art school, and
arrangements are being made for
exhibiting pictures from the
museum collection and work of the
art students at the State Fair.
The art school will open for
registration on Sept. 7, and class
work begins on Sept. IS. A staff
of fifteen instructors is engaged
and all are returning from their
vacations with enthusiasm for the
enlargement Of the school interests.
The stats of both museum and
school are looking forward to yet
closer cooperation.
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
Revue Dart" at the Lyric; 1.-THE
Wolf" at Keith's; "Pollyanna" at
English'sa 1.-THE Covered Wagon
at the Ohio; Twelve Miles Out
at the Apollo; 1.-THE Galatians and
Murphys" at the Indiana; paid
to Love" at the Circle and Birds
Of Prey" at the Isis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Lac and Justice

man, claiming that he had been addressed il,
abusive terms, hit another man with lead pipe and
fractured his skull He convicted Of assault and
battery and ordered to jail. He appealed the case
on the ground that the assault was justified because
the other man had called him vile names and abused
him generally The prosecuting attorney argued that
the conviction of the man should stand because the
use of abusive language not valid ground for
assault and battery.
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision The Supreme Court of Indiana
held that the man convicted properly of assault
and battery The court said, abusive language will
not of ITSELF in the absence of statute justify assault
and battery" The reason for this ruling, according
to the cour is that peace and good order forbid that
people right their own wrongs in their own way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Brain TeaSerS

With several mergers of the coun-
try's largest corporations rumored,
test your knowledge or big business
by the first five of today's questions.
Answers are on page 8:
1. What three manufacturing cor
porations are reported to be con-
sidering q merger of interests
through Pierre S. Du Pont?
Q. What products were originally
the chief interests of the Du Pont
de Nemours company?
3. Who was the late head Of the
United States Steel Corporation?
4. What mid-western city was
built as production center for
United States steel?
5. In the forming Of what big
corporation did the Durant interests
play a prominent part2
6. What is the shortest distance
across the United States, from At
lantic to Pacific oceans?
z. What is ethnology?
8. What are the two common
names for the game bird known as
the ruffed grouse?
8. How many stars are there in
the insignia of a major general9
10. In which Of the American
colonies did the French Huguenots
chiefly settler
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

The Art Association owns over
500 textiles. Although some OF
them are very small in size COM
pared with the pieces of the largest
museums of the country, the ex-
amples give the visitor an idea Of
the design, weaving or embroidery
of many countries and different
periods.
About forty of the smaller mount
ed textiles have been installed in
Gallery I. To many people the
Coptic fragments are the most nov
ell. Eight new fragments have been
added to this group, seven Of them
purchased from the Julius F. Pratt
| fund, and one, third century strip,
is the gift of Mrs. Cornelius Sui
Ivan.
The Copts were famous weavers
in the first centuries of the Chris
tan era, and although these early
Christians in Egypt were con-
quered by the Mohammedans in
the seventh century, their con-
querors copied their methods of
working and many Of their patterns.
Much early ornament in Europe
was influenced by them as their
own patterns had been influenced
by the ancient Egyptians, the
Greeks and the Romans. The three
bands IN which animal and bird
motives are woven show the Roman
influence. Some of the pieces are
liner thread and some of them are
WOOL.
They are, If course, products OF
the hand loon and in tapestry
weave. That is, the weft thread
passes the warp only as Ear as its
color is to show on the right side
of the material, and the wefts are
pressed so closely together as to
completely cover the warp; thus the
cloth is exactly alike on both sides.
The Gobelin, Beauvais and AubiSson
tapestries were woven on the same
principle, and 1t is interesting to
compare the four fragments of an
cient Peruvian weaving to be seen
in another frame.
The fragments Of Peruvian tap
estry were loaned. us long ago by
william B. Poland. They are Of
Vicuna and Alpaca wool One Of
them is a border with yellow raw
eled fringe and tassel and conven-
tionalized human figures woven in
shades of tan on red ground.
1t is a part of a girdle supposed
to have been worn by a prominent
citizen OF the Negka Valley in pre-
Inca days, which would antedate
the Coptic productions by several
hundreds of years. and the other is
part of a robe in tan, red and black
geometrical patterns much earlier
than the other, taken from num-
my's robe at Lima.
The Persians also were a people
whose patterns have passed down
the ages and followed civilization by
paths in many directions. We have
large pieces in our textile cases, but
the smaller samples exhibited show
the wealth of fancy OF that gifted
people. Some of their ideas were,
of course, inherited from their an
Gent ancestors, but they literally
"1owered out" in the middle ages.
One of those shown is a charming
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
The Pacific Flight
Of Mildred Doran?" (

"Any news Of Mildred Doran?"
hundred times the telephone had rung and a
nundredth time voice had asked the question
For while Honolulu w1S lavishing well-earned
honors upon the two winning teams in the nonstop
flights from California to the Hawaiian Islands, the
worlds real interest centered the fate of the fly
ing school teacher passenger in one of the two lost
panes--her and her partners in this amazing adj
venture.
Here was something For the first time in his
tory woman had attempted to cross the ocean in
an airplane -Four planes had started. Only two had
arrived. The other two it seemed were lost some
where out in the boundess Pacific wastes Here was
story with every element of best seller or movie
scenario thrilling to thrill-ja world.
beautiful girl. trans-Pacf1c air race. Lost
at sea- How where or when nobody could say
Perhaps on a tiny rattan nfinitessimal speck on
a mighty ocean, rising and falling upon the lazy
swells of tropical, shark-infested sea. Mystery
Drama. Maybe tragedy.
1t was a real life story as compelling as anything
you can buy at book store the silver screen
Meantime people are asking themselves whether
the game is worth the candle. Three people killed in
this one race before the getaway aid for time 1t
seems that five more lives would have tt be added
to the toll Elves lives lost to make race for prizes
totalng $350OO0. Is that not too much to payP
It would be had that been all there was to It, But
that was not ALL 1t is said that 100000 was spent
by the contestants getting ready for the race or an
average OK $4,000 by each And the first prize was
only $4,000, the second $4,000. Little chance for
easy money there.
No, those who set out from the Oakland airport
10 make Hawaii by plane were spurred on by finer
urge than that. They had the that has spurred
men and women on to do great things since the be-
ginning OF all time to adventure grandly at whatever
cost to life at any price to carry civilizations mark
little further along.
When this human urge is dead, when the neces-
sary valor to dare anything the impossible no
longer in us progress will stop and mankind will begin
to backtrack We are what we are because this
urge is in us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Witch Burners

OF none of her sons has New England been prouder
than of Nathaniel Hawthorne Yet here is Haw-
thorne's view of the state of mind in which New
England seems to be proceeding in the sacco- Van
zetti case
He was one Of the martyrs to that terrible de-
fusion, which should teach u.s. among its other morals
that the influential classes. and those who take it
upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully
liable to all the passionate that has ever char
acterized the maddest mob. Clergymen judges
statesmen-wisest calmest holiest persons of their
day-stood in the inner circle round about the GAL
lows loudest to applaud the work of blood latest to
confess themselves miserably deceived"
The martyr" about whom Hawthorne was writ
ing, Of course. was not sacco nor vanzett He was
describing the state of mind in which one Matthew
Maule was executed earlier in New Englands history
on the charge Of witchcraft.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Big Boys Game

So far as stunts are concerned,
aviation is all right for small fry
that have the courage and can get
the cash.
AS a factor Of commerce, it is a
game for big boys, requiring organ
ization, equipment and accessories
on a big scale.
Only those who can risk millions
and wait long while for returns
without suffering are in a position
to play it. If, and when, the smooth
salesman approaches you with stock
at $40 a share, which Is sure to
double before you have paid the
second installment," and (which
will do for you what Bell Telephone
stock did for So and-so two genera
tons ago." just tell him to see Ford
Rockefeller or Du Pont.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Times Readers
Voice Vices

To the Editor:
This proposed tax increase has
me worried. I cannot understand
why it is that somerfew people set
rate and all the rest have to
abide by it. Evidently the citizen
group as whole have nothing
whatever to say about 1t.
1t is queer that it takes higher
taxes in this State than in large
quantity Of others.
1t certainly is a discouraging stu
alton to a young fellow who is try
ing to buy home in this town,
and to get start in life, to be
eaten up with such unreasonable
taxes to pay. In a few years, if
they keep up the present pace, it
will be 81 tax for every 81 a person
possesses.
I think a move should be on foot
to install competent men at the
head of our affairs and to reduce
taxes every possible penny, and to
encourage young people to buy
property and own taxable things
without being robbed twice a year
in paying unjust taxes.
am willing to do anything WITHIN
in my power to bring about better
living conditions and lower taxes In
indianapolis.
If were not buying property here
now I certainly would never buy
in this city of graft. Let's get to-
gether and get something started
that will reduce our taxes to where
they should be.
The papers were full Of bunk
about lower taxes, but, If remem-
year for the past four or FIVE years,
Der right, they have increased every
and now the talk of almost doubling
them. Let's do something.
Yours truly,
L. K.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Our New AriStocracy

Ford, Rockefeller and Du Pont,
together with dozen or so others
Of their kind, remind us that a new
force has come to shape society.
In former ages, birth, war and
religion produced aristocracy.
Today industry Is producing 1t,
though against a republican back
ground.
In the mid-victorian period, when
there was no trust company and no
firm Of lawyers with forty clerks
to husband fortunes of children
and grandchildren, we could depend
on the theory that 1t was only three
generations from shirt sleeves to
shirt sleeves.
A sound financial system, how
ever, aided and abetted by modified
legal talent, is causing our indus
trial wealth to pool, coagulate and
crystalline in a social, If not an eco
nomic reign Of first families"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Like Race Tracks

Trans-oceanic flights are doing
for the airplane what race tracks
once did for the automobile. They
are acquainting the public with its
powers and possibilities.
It's value, however, consists OF the
service it can be made to render in
a eady-going routine way.
The next thing to look out for
is the fy-by-night corporation and
the fake stock salesman.
Whether through the wilderness or
in the field of science the specula-
tor and bunk artist follow the pio-
neer as naturally as night follows
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
Thousands of Young Men
Are Burning With the
Desire to Fly and Thou
sands of Older Ones Are
IN q Mood to Gamble.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 19-James
Dole of Honolulu, whose offer of
$4,000 in prizes was responsible for
the recent Hawaiian flight, and who
now offers a reward of $4,000 for
the rescue of the four missing men
and one woman, is himself an exam
pie of pluck and perseverance.
On graduating from Harvard
twenty years ago, he left a de-
lightful home, good social position
and what would seem alluring pros
poets to the average young man, to
start a pineapple plantation in Ha-
wall.
1t was big gamble, and the fact
that he has made good shows the
kind of stuff that was in him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Aviation in Spotlight

Aviation certainly has held the
spotlight this summer, with its
achievements and disasters.
One day it has lifted us to I'M
heard-of heights and admiration
with its exploits, while the next 1t
has sunk us in the depths of de-
preston with its failures.
The triumph of some and the I'M
known fate of others have kept the
public on needles and pins, and
much of the equally constructive If
less spectacular work has gone I'M
noticed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
FLY and Gamble

Lindbergh, Chamberlin and the
rest have done nothing so distinctly
as to pursuade the public that avia-
ton offers good opportunities for
venture and investment.
Thousands of young men are
burning with the desire to fly, and
thousands of older ones are in a
mood to gamble.
If the stage has been set for hon
est promotion, it also has been set
for crooks.
Unless all signs fail, many Of
those who allow their imagination
to run away with their intelligence
are due to be trimmed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
HNA. 4Lo BY CharIsa
w NV LHE Fitzhugh
Talman
N/14+L on1 Auth ority On
w EL[LUkTS Meteorology
MEASURING HOT WEATHER

MEASURING HOT WEATHER
A standing grievance that the
average citizen has against the
weather man is that the latter in
sists on measuring temperature in
the shade when everybody wants to
know how hot the weather is in the
sunshine.
Two misunderstanding are in
yolved here. In, the first place when
layman talks about the heat of
the weather" he generally has in
mind the sensation of temperature
experienced by human beings. So
far as controlled by meteorological
conditions, this depends upon three
or four different things: the tenn
perature of the air, the humidity of
the air, the amount of air move
ment, and, if the sun is shining,
the intensity of the sunshine. The
meteorologist does not attempt to
measure this combination of things
with his thermometer, but only one
of them-the temperature Of the
air.
This is measured with ther-
mometer exposed freely to the air
but carefully sheltered from the
rays Of the sun and from reflected
heat. It's reading shows the tenn
perature of the shaded air adjacent
to it, and this differs little, if at
all, from the temperature of the air
in full sunshine. A Thermometer
exposed to sunshine, unless strongly
ventilated, by whirling or other
wise, shows nothing but the tens
perature acquired by the instrument
itself, which gets much hotter
under the suns rays than the air
does 1t may read as much as so
degrees Fahrenheit above the true
fennnaratIIrn 0f the air
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
New York to Frisco

Last November the American Rail
way Express Com. ,any inaugurated
airplane service between New York
and Chicago, and Chicago and Dali
las.
Some time in September it plans
to inaugurate similar service be-
tween New York and San Fran
cisco.
The flying time between the two
latter points will be thirty-one
hours.
From seventy-five to 100 planes
will be employed in the service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Searching Pacific

A minor monotone Of defeat and
disappointment soften the raucods
music Of triumph.
The Pacific is a big, big. sea and
five human beings make but little
show in 1t.
Besides, hunger and wind are rid
ing the waves. The ships and planes
that are securing the endless waste
of water have more of a problem
than merely to find something. Their
race is with death. who only needs a
few days to complete his work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

four farms out of every hundred
equipped with telephone service.
The census of 1920 shows 2,498, 493
farms reporting telephones or a
ratio of 1877 out of every 100 farms
in the United States. Between 1920
and 1925 the number of farms in
the United States has actually de-
creased approximately $4,000 while
from 1920 to 1925 the number of
telephones on farms increased about
100000.
How many men were in the active
service of Canada overseas during
the World War?
About 418.O0O officers and men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
GoebeI'S Example

Arthur Goebel, who won first
prize. is even a more striking ex-
ample.
He not only risked his life, but
sold about everything he had and
borrowed all he could beforehand.
He had faith not only in the ma
chine he was to fly, but in himself.
Such men often lose, but the other
kind never win.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Do You KNoW-

That the Boy Scouts, q
Community Fund agency,
believes that the ounce of
prevention is we'll worth the
pound Of cure and is bend
ing its energies toward de-
veloping it's 1905 boy mem
bers into dependable, con-
scientious and resourceful
young men who will never
need charity?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

Here's one kind Of competition that ought to be
safe from feminine intrusion: Connecticut student
says he's the worlds champion at holding his breath
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

The old-fashioned tomrboy who used to do every
thing the boys did is now replaced by the f1apper
who does things no boy would think of doing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

The greatest diversifcation noted on most farms
is in the makes Of automobiles
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

New York safety campaigners jubilant. In the
first six months Of 1927 only 514 persons were killed
by motor cars. Just the same it was bumper crop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

Another actress reports the theft Of valuable pearls
They were worth half column in all the New York
papers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

Nine young Americans have proposed to Princess
Heana OF Rumania and been turned down, but Prin-
cess Alexandra Kropotkin declares 1t has been her
LIES ambition to marry American. Royalty
doesn't seem to be very consistent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

The biggest trout ever caught in Connecticut had
waist measure Of only twenty-nine inches. Heavy
weights seeking to reduce may wonder just what these
trout eat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

married man remembers when he used to envy
married men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

Have the number of telephones
on farms of the United States in
creased to any great extent during
the last five years?
At the beginning of the present
year there were approximately
100000 telephones on farms in
the United States, or about forty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

In the life OF the usual bandit IT Is short stretch
from the pay roll 70 the parole
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

Liquo. cannot be abolished, says King Georges
physician. And here we hadn't even heard he was
in Americal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19

In what season of the year are
the exports of the United States
heaviest?
During the fall and early winter
months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
Questions and AnSzge1.S

Who is the author of the book,
'Nigger Heaven"
Carl Van Vetchen.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1927-12-01
Will Erect Memorial to
"Father of Good Roads

Joseph III. Weeks, "the real father OF
good roads in Pennsylvania" who es-
tablished the first comprehensive sys-
tenn of highways and who was the
first president Of the Keystone Auto
mobile club, is to be honored by the
erection OF a $4,000 memorial In
Swarthmore.
Funds for the memorial are being
raised through the efforts of the Key
stone Automobile club and by popular
subscription. The club has purchased
a plot Of ground triangular in shape al
Baltimore avenue and Chester road
In the center of which it will erect a
memorial monument, the center fea-
ture of which will be a bronze plaque
containing relief map of the state
highway system established by the
Sproul act of 1911, which act Mr..
Weeks was instrumental In having
written upon the statute books.
The memorial will be in the nature
Of a small park, in the center of which
there Is to be sunken terrace c1rcu-
lar in form and at the bottom of which
the plaque will rest. 1t then can be
viewed from every angle. Mr.. Weeks
died in 1919, and plans for the memo
rial have been considered ever since
that time.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1927-12-01
Australia Is Big Buyer
of Heavy-Duty Trucks

Australia is the largest purchaser
of American made heavy-duty trucks,
contrary to the public belief that Can
ada imports more Of that type of We
hicles than any other country. This
Is due, perhaps, to its nearness but
the facts, do not bear it out.
Last year, according to the govern
ment figures, CAT trucks of more than
two and half tons capacity were i'm
ported from the United States by Aus
tralia. The agricultural development
of the Antipodes is given as reason,
together with a lack of rail facilities.
AS matter of fact, truck experts be-
lieve, there never will be any extern
sive rail development in Australia,
modern highways being built between
the important cities which will afford
ample transportation routes for the
heavy trucks that also serve the rich
farming districts that lie between.
Canada imported a little more than
a third of the number of heavy-duty
trucks that Australia did, the total
for the neighborins country being oil.