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The Washington times., 1928-04-11

some of the Vanderbilt interests,
and Mr.. Lowery himself until 1899,
when the Department of Justice
leased it.
1t was originally two palatisl
residences. Next door to the one
which was torn down to make way
for a modern office building a few
years ago, Uncle Joe Cannon,
Gear of the House of Represent
atives." at one time lived.
The Washington times., 1928-04-11
LADIES' NIGHT

Plans for the ladies' night Of the
Civitan Club were made last night
at dinner at the Lafayette Hotel
The Washington times., 1928-04-11
FREED OF CHARGE

ErsiliO Bona, manager Of the
villa Roma Club, on the Rockville
Pike, was acquitted in Montgomery
county police court of the charge
of keeping open the night club
after 10 o'clock Saturday night.
He was represented by Walter
Da wson and George P. Lemm.
The Washington times., 1928-04-11
Three Held for$3, 900
Hospital Forgery

Three will be arragned in Police Court next Tuesday
result Of alleged forgery in which veterans at Walter
Reed Hospital said have been deprived of apparel
worth about 5000
The Washington times., 1928-04-11
House to Bar Hasty
Merger Approval

Members District Committee today issued
warning they will allow the street merger plan
be raroaded through that committee during the last days
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13
UTILITY VALUES Up
Indiana Phone Companies
Do Increased Business.

Indiana utilities showed an ap-
preciable increase in business dur
ing 1927, John J. Brown, chairman
of the State tax board, said Thurs
day during a hearing on the fix
ing of valuation for telephone COM
panies for taxation purposes.
1.-THE greater majority Of tele-
phone and other utility companies
which have so far appeared be-
fore this board have shown an in
creased business" he declared.
Taxation valuation of five tele-
phone companies was fixed today,
and but one decrease was made, and
this was result of loss of sub
sCribers through moving
Although the mile wire line charge
of the Home Telephone Company of
NobleSville was cut from $40 to $35,
the company showed an increase of
more than 400 subscribers and the
valuation was raised from $4,000 to
$71,085. Valutian of the Green
field Telephone Company remained
the same at $500; the Green
castle Telephone Company was in
creased in valuation from $4,000 to
$4,000; Fountain Telephone Com
pany Of Coyington was increased
from $31,5OO to $500, and the
Mellott Telephone Company was de-
creased from $6,556 to $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13

Mrs. Loretta La Pearl, said to be
the only woman clown in circuseS,
will be seen at the Indianapolis
Police and Firemens Emergency
fund three-ring circus April 1928,
at the Indiana Playground.
She and her husband Harry
La Pearl, veteran clown, will do the
feature clown act. Mrs. La Pearl
like other women, is interested in
her home at Five Points, southeast
of the city, but not after the advent
of spring.
At am interested in cooking and
sewing the same as other house
wives during the winter, but the
first sign of springtilne makes me
want to hit the circus trail,' said
Mrs. La Pearl.
"Women are entering every other
field of activity occupied by men,
so I Thought there was no reason
why I should not take up Glowing.
1 have been at the game eight years.
MY mother died when I was
fourteen and l took up the study
of music. At seventeen I met Harry
La Pearl at Cincinnati. After we
were married I became interested
in his work. Now housework holds
no attraction for me after the cir
Gus starts playing.
mo matter how old a circus actor
is, he always feels the call OF the
sawdust ring when spring comes.
So every year we strike out together
for the season and in the fall
return to indianapolis.
THE laughing thousands have
their fascination for anyone who
ever played in a circus" she said.
Il was born and raised in a circus.
My father, ]. II. La Pearl, owned a
circus which toured Indiana for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13
5000 TEACHERS
APPLY FOR 175
POSITIONS HERE
School Officials Burdened
by Great Flood of
Applications.

More than 5000 applications are
on file for the ITS vacancies on next
yer's teaching staff of the Indian
apoliS schools.
School officials face this burden as
they work at the task of assigning
Indianapolis teachers for the school
year beginning next September.
And it is some burden and grief,
school board members and officials
say.
Board members complain so many
men and women seeking Indianapo-
lis school jobs besiege them daily
begging the aid of their influence
that their private business suffers.
At present officials are classifying
and assigning teachers already
teaching here. When this is COM
pleted, vacancies will be filled from
applications on file. School board
members were to meet this after
noon to discuss assignments.
Nearly LOO teachers are en-
ployed in the Indianapolis schools,
but annually the vacancies amount
only to about ITS positions.
Murray A. Dalman, school re-
search director, estimated the board
has applications from 5000 to 10000
teachers. The number is so great
no attempt has been made to count
! them.
Most of the applications are from
teachers in other Indiana cities, but
several thousand are from other
States.
Dalman estimated that nearly 90
per cent of the applications were
fled by teachers who have posi-
tfons in other cities, not more than
10 per cent being beginners, or eX-
perienced teachers without jobs.
while there are more teachers
available than there are positions for
them" Dalman said, there is never
an oversupply of good teachers"
According to school officials, the
teacher tenure law, which became
effective last May. has not affected
the situation of teachers here
greatly. The law provided that
! teachers who have served five years
may not be dropped without cause
and a hearing before the board.
In many communities, school
boards and township trustees have
evaded intent of the law by refus-
ing to employ teachers for more
than four years. This is thought
to be partially responsible for the
unusually large number Of appli-
cations here this year.
Among the teaching problems
confronting the board is the pro-
posed automatic retirement rule.
The board is considering a rule au-
tomaticaily retiring teachers having
served forty years and reaching GO
years of age.
Teachers are eligible to the maxi
mum pension after teaching forty
years and reaching the age of 60
years. Forty-siX Indianapolis teach
ers have taught forty years or more.
sixteen of these having passed the
] age of 60 years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13
CIVIC GROUPS
NOMINATE LIST
TO take POSTS
Action Today Completes
Work of Revamping
City Group.
ONLY 2 OLD MEMBERS
SpringSteen and Raub, Who
Were Not Indicted, Keep
Their Seats.

Three remaining vacancies in the
city council created by designations
of bribery-involved members, were
to be filled this afternoon at a
special council meeting.
The council was expected to elect
a successor to o. Ray Albertson,
Third district; Austin H. Todd,
Fourth district, and Otis E. Barth-
olomew, former council president,
Fifth district, from the lists recon-
mended by the joint civic commit
tee.
Final recommendations of the
civic committee composed of Cham
Der of Commerce, City Manager
League and Board of Trade repre-
sentatives, were made late Friday
when list was drafted to sue
coed Albertson.
William Fortune, who headed the
group, complimented the work of
the committee and thanked those
who had aided in rendering the city
public service.
Two COuncilmen Remain
Filling of the vacancies today
completed reVamping of the coun-
Gil personnel. The only remaining
councilmen who were elected at the
1925 election are Robert E. Spring.
steen and Edward B. Raub, ST.,
Democrats. They were not in
dicted
The new council will be COM
posed of four Democrats and five
Republicans, the G.. o. P. still hold
ing a majority. Indications are
that the council will steer away from
party politics to a great extent and
take up the task of "redeeming the
city,"
Cooperation with the admins
tration of Mayor L. Ert Slack,
Democrat, who pledged himself to
an administration in preparation
for the adoption of the city man
ager form in 1880, is expected from
the revised council.
GerdtS Not to Serve
Those recommended to succeed AL
bertson, Third district:
Edward w Harris, secretary and
assistant treasurer of Hamilton
Harris Company, 1910 Washington
Blvd.
Guy A. Wainwright, vice presi-
dent and general manager of Dia-
mond Chain and Manufacturing
Company, 4139 N. Capitol Ave. ODE
clined to accept)
Mrs. Frank D. Hatfield, former
president of Indianapolis League of
Women Voters, and former presi-
dent of the American Association
of University Women of Indianapo-
lis, 1858 N. New Jersey st.
D. j. Angus of the Esterline-A
gus Company, residing at the Y. NJ.
c. A.
To succeed Todd, Fourth dis
trict:
Horace B. Hewitt, the Rev. Clar-
ence G. Baker and Earl Buchanan.
Refusal of Walter B. Gerdts, 694
Bradbury Ave. to accept his cleo
ton to fill the seat Of Otis E. Bar
tholomew, made necessary selection
Of a successor today.
H. H. Bishop, 968 Garfield Dr.,
and Paul E. Rathert, 1877 S. Meridian
ST., will be suggested to council by
the committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13
By Times Special

By Times Special
NASHVILLE, Ind, April 13.-
From the hills of Brown County
will be sent the champion speller
of the district to Indianapolis May
4 for the State Spelling Bee held
under the direction of The Indian
apoliS Times.
Miss Antonio Cesnik, rural route
No. 2, Morgantown, Ind, will be the
Brown County representative.
The Brown County contest was
sponsored by Grover G. Brown,
county superintendent of schools.
1.-THE Indianapolis Times is doing
a fine piece of work in making the
State Spelling Bee possible" says
Brown. 1--WE have held spelling bees
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13
Broom County Pupil Wins
District Spelling Contest

in this county for five years. with
the exception of last year, and I
believe they are eminently worth
while.
1--WE were unable to find a news
paper to take over the contest here
in the hills, so I am sponsoring the
contest" he says. I'VE are backing
the Brown County winner to win the
national contest in Washington,
D. c., May o."
The winner of the Indiana contest
will be sent to Washington by The
Times with all expenses paid. The
contestants from all parts Of the
United States will be entertained for
five days by The Times and the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13
LAST THREE COUNCIL VACANCIES TO BE FILLED TO-DAY
new Church ON
BROADWAY TO
Be DEDICATED
Bishop Spreng to Preach at
Special Ceremonies
on Sunday.

Dedicatory services will be held at
Broadway Evangelical, the new COM
munity church at Broadway and
Fifty-Si ST., Sunday morning,
afternoon and evening, Pastor Lloyd
E. Smith announced today. The
days program will be headed by
Bishop Samuel P. Spreng, D. D., who
will speak at all services.
The morning program will open
with Bible school at $50, in charge
of Superintendent Russell Hirsch-
man. Worship will start at 1890,
the pastor repeating prayers with
responses by the congregation.
Invocation will be given by the
Rev. G. P. Mas, P. E., OF Elkhart,
and prayer by the Rev. j. O..
Moisier, P. e., Van Vert, Ohio. A
quartet from the Second Evangelical
Church will sing and new members
will be received.
Afternoon services will commence
at 2:30. The Rev. Earnest N. Evans
will present greetings from the In
OldIldDOllo OllulCll CQCl dIlOlls
Bishop Spreng will preach, Arnold
Spencer will sing a solo, and the
boys and girls Bible School a
chorus.
At 7:3O the evening services will
start. Mrs. Frank j. Billeter will be
the soloist, the choir and a Quartet
from Beville Ave. Church will sing,
and Bishop Spreng will read the
dedication service, with responses
from the congregation. A special
souvenir program, containing the
dedicatory prayers, has been pre-
pared.
The new church has been erected
on a lot bordering 100 feet on
Broadway and 268 feet on Fifty
Sixth set. 1t is of brick, trimmed
in Bedford stone, and cost 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-13

twenty-five years." he said.
E. V. Richardson, who is booking
the three-ring show for the city, an
nounced between fifty and sixty acts
will be staged with twenty-five dis
plays. There will be two troops of
elephants, sixty horses and ponies,
dogs, monkeys and other trained
animals in the acts.
The Hobson family Of six skilled
horseback riders and Madam Bedini
will do stunts on horses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-06
ROMANCE
BY Dr. Frank Crane

ROMANCE feeds upon you preferred
annent There is always danger IN meeting
about whom you have romantic fancies whom
you have Maude Adams rarely allowed
herself interviewed off the stage She wished
her personality wrapped her settings minister who
the pulpit frequently loses his pedestal of worship
when meet him personally.
better avoid meeting the public
polishing
The microbe Of is sly little insect.
He knows the value of aloofness.
only intervals
down from their mountain to be
the gallery rails that most romantic of all objects the
Matinee IDOL I'D
He appeared electricity fcnating personality
turned and disappeared with the falling of the curtain That
he remained of cold storage the
hero off stage, doubted
the Matinee Idol but the Radio Man has
The land is full according publicity whose word
think doubling of papatng feminine breasts
MARBLES golden Good
Evening"
Romance has attached itself the radio
lasting attachment. For less
him that the Of the actor of old There
and than before The Announcer merely
q voice, the actor voice and body too
make body and character to fit
heard of engineer In China held within
It wisdom OF the romance functions
Each evening in his in the wlds he would play
battered monograph One rh golden conrao voice his
he made picture in his mind of the beautiful
who had 1t.
became ideal On trip city
scheduled that evening trip around
heard her she fat coarsefeaured
hanoated Back evening he started to throw
the record but didn't and evening ne got out again
thrilled through the darkness the
reality forgotten. Lives
would be pretty. bare without Illusions
Mcclure syndicate)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-06
Elimination Of Lame Ducks
in Congressional LegisIatiOns

BY vote Of 65 Senate has for the fourth time
passed and sent to the House the Norris constitutional
amendment which would eliminate lame ducks in congressional
legislation. H
Under this amendment ratified by the required number 6
States Congress would January q Of year without
regard to length Of sessions and the President and Vice
President would take office January Is instead Of Marcia
Members of Congress elected in November would begin their
duties in less than months after their election Fresh
from the people, and ready to obey their mandates these
national legislators would get to work with will and wh
good prospects that the peoples wishes would be obeyed
Defeated members of Congress would not legislation
What known the short session of Congress- from the
first Monday in December TO March will be eliminated
There need be unseemy haste get through at fixed
date Lame ducks could defeat important legislation
in the rush days of Congress Legislative trickey
would be reduced a minimum a@ aa
In November of this year the country will elect Presidents
Vice President and Congress The President and Vice.
President will into office the following March, but
Congress will not begin to function for thirteen months
or until December, 1929.
From December March defeated Congressman
of them overwhelmingly repudated by their constituents
part passage defeat of useful
legislation and appropriations.
The whole thing is undemocratc to deserve change
There is question that the States would ratfy Che
amendment
of the mysteries of Congress to why the House
has helved this amendment heretofore II the body
Congress that be closest to the people The
opportunity again to sanction the amendment and
to send it to the States for ratification.
The House will have many idle days at this session ~
consider the proposition and to vote upon it. Failure w
bring to will solely upon the House leaders,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-06
ALEXANDER ALEKHINE CHESS CHAMPION or THE
WORLD

This man. with the concentrated eye champion AZ
the longest record recently played
Buenos Aires against the Cuban champion Capabanca who
formerly held the championship.
FOR seventy nights in succession the two men STRUGGLED
the chess board until last Capabanca driven into
hopeless situation gave up the match and Aekhine became
chess champion Of the world.
The mental concentration necessary ii this ntenss
exhausting Alekhne that he will not be ready
another match until two years shall have passed.
Then he will be willing to play for prize Of $4,000
Garry news Dempsey and Tunney Think Of using
your brain nights win $1,000
when you can use your fists for thirty through en
rounds and make million dollars
There is nothing mysterious about this fist above brains
situation EVERYBODY has fists and III therefore mcre
or less interested III their use So many the brains
that could play great chess game.
The sad part Of this great chess players triumph ii hat
MEANS so LITTLE.
The problems Of chess complicated. great player
be able his far ahead and know what his
adversary will probably do There chess players thzk
without looking the board play twenty at once
knowing the location Of every piece every board and
remembering every
But what fearful waste Of mental power.
Had Aekhine. with his strong mind and power 81
concentration devoted his thought for seventyoW nights
Of the worlds important problems
might have achieved results important than any chess
problem
you play the greatest game Of chess that played
earth you have done nothing for others If invent
better lamp wick spark plug shock absorber have
done much
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-06

DEAL WE ARE GIVING OUR
+. CHILDREN!
Read the letter. I have copied
1t verbatim | shall point no
moral 1t speaks for itself.
Dear Elsie--I've tried to make
my parents understand and I've
failed, failed completely. Elsie.
I'm only is but sometimes | feel
as old as the hills. Sometimes /
wonder If other girls and boys
have parents like mine and feel
as haffled as / do.
I left high school when ! was
IA and have been working since.
| am making SIS week now
and am learning bookkeeping in
evening business school pay
nv mother S. each week. clothe
myself. pay my own expenses in.
GLIDING school fees. ! don't mind
this plan and have managed to
scrape through most of the time.
Since I have two older sisters
who make fairly good salaries
we have pretty comfortable
home. But, Elsie. what am
trying to tell you is that it isn't
really home in the real sense of
the word. NY parents don't make
il such.
The minute ] enter the front
door | become different person,
as mean and small and savage as
the rest of the family. We don't
have supper as a family should,
but we're served as we come in
amid nightly battles with every
one screaming at everyone else.
And my mother Just reads her
paper and thinks herself very in
telligent and clever. When my
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-06
By ELSIE ROBINSON

on intimate things and come IN
and meet our friends instead OF
Just walking by without wordE
Elsie, I've always had those
thoughts in me somewhere, but
something happened tonight and
| told my parents many things
never intended to tell them. Ana
every word ] said was true. And
they didn't understand me. Nom
lust cried and father said he had
been working since he was IL and
that / was rotten and good for
nothing and T should not be go
ing out with boys and girls but
should be sitting at home.
ELSIE. PLEADED With
THEM TO GIVE US A LITTLE
SYMPATHY. UNDERSTANDING
AND CONTROL. INSTEAD OF
READING LOVE PROBLEMS OF
OTHERS IN THE PAPERS, TO
Try AND UN DE r T A n D
THEIR OWN PROBLEMS AT
HOME. -.s
Elsie. have ] made myself clear
10 YOU? It's so hard to express
inst what l have been feeling and
am trying to say. / nope you
bava understood me a little.
Sincerely.
Renie.
have understood YOU. little
girl. because for 10 tragic years
have been listening TO your story
But | wonder if you have made
Yourself clear to the stupid. big
world which is so quick to con-
denim you and your generation.
wonder if the world knows
WHAT'S THE NATTER WITH
THIS PICTURE?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-06
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
&c nr. q a. p. Reed

by DR.. C. A. L. Reed
k<TTHAT fellow is a blood
pressure nut, said one Of
my professional colleagues TO me,
pointing to a man who was leav-
ing his consultation room just as
/ entered.
What's thatg inquired.
knowing fun well what he meant,
but wishing to hear him say it.
He's perfectly well, but has
heard OF blood pressure and
thinks it's something dreadful.
So he keeps running In here to
have his pressure tested. It's
always normal But soon he
comes trotting' back to see IL it
hasn't changed. He's literally OBJ
sessed with the fear Of blood.
pressure.
We, all of us in the profession,
know this type.
Blood pressure is a thing about
which too much fuss is made.
Some people do nothing but dis
cuss the variations in their blood
pressure, to the detriment of the
mental health. Doctors are al
ways seeing patients who look and
feel perfectly well, but say they
are suffering from blood ppes-
sure as though it were a disease.
Blood. pressure? whether high or
low. is not a disease. but a con-
stitutional popularity which makes
ii advisable to observe care in Ger.
tain directions in order to pre-
serve efficiency in mind and body.
People with abnormal blood-pres-
sure are apt to react in special
way to toxaemia and fatigue, for
instance.
The average blood-pressure be-
tween IL and 40 is 125 millimeters
of mercury in men and lis IN
women. After 40 there is slow
rise in the average, which Is 1876
for both sexes at so. or course.
considerable variations occur. As
a rough guide, 25 per cent above
the average, or below it, may be
considered as abnormal, but no
hard and fast line can be drawn.
That means that a nan under 10
with a pressure over $50, or a.
woman with one of 14O. Is near the
limit, and a person at so should
not have a blood. pressure much
over $50.
Ii is impossible to legislate for
low blood pressure, but the limit
is about los nm. for men and
100 for women, The tendency 10
high blood pressure is hereditary,
but the cause OF abnormality
either way Is unknown. and prob
ably lies in variations in the func-
tons of the endocrine or ductless
glands.
Hardening Of the arteries is
result, not a cause, and younger
people may have perfectly sound
blood vessels with high pres
sure. Although most high pres.
sure subjects are of the stout
and healthy. looking John Bull
type. many are lean and nervous.
In these the high blood pressure
is probably caused by the mental
state. Anxiety can raise the blood
pressure many points. The symp-
toms generally appear as a re.
suit of mental or physical over.
work, prolonged worry, excess of
food or drink or tobacco. or an
infection. acute or chronic.
In women hardened arteries
may appear at the change of
life. They are not due TO the
high pressure itself. but to its
effects first. IN the ductless
glands and. through them, on the
blood vessels or heart,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-06

TNHE professional highbrows
J. who make A practice Of wall.
ing about Americas lack OF
beauty are all wrong. according
to Harvey NJ. Watts, Philadelphia
appears in the January number
of the Forum magazine. There
is nothing new about this, he
says---it is simply "a develop.
ment of an old American love Of
, beauty. IT there were the crude
days of early frontier achieve
ments, even these efforts, have