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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
ASKS REALTORS
Give CITY Land
FOR PLAY LOTS
Park Head Proposes Plots
Be Set Aside in New
Subdivisions.

A proposal by r. Walter Jarvis,
superintendent of parks and recrea-
ton, that developers of new subdi-
visions in Indianapolis set aside
grounds for recreational purposes,
and donate it to the city, was pre-
scented to the Indianapolis Real Es-
tate Board this week. A survey has
shown that such donations readily
have paid their cost in increased
value of the property sold.
Jarvis expressed the hope that the
plan will result in dotting the 1ndi-
annapolis of the future with hun
dreds of play centers and. parks,
without cost to the taxpayers, eX-
cept for maintenance and supervi
sion. Jarvis proposal included an
assurance that the park and recrea-
ton departments would provide
supervision. The city plan commits
sion will add n planning space al
lotments.
Tried in Other Cities
The present playground system
of the city, because of the lack of
city plan until recent years, has
been built up on ground purchased
at great cost in districts already
built up. The high cost of ground
in densely congested districts,
where play lots are most needed,
has prevented the city from secur-
ing them in many instances.
The plan has worked out with
marked success in other cities.
One of the most notable projects
Of the kind is a subdivision In
Memphis in which the cost Of 40
per cent of the whole tract, do
mated for a park and for recrea-
ton lots, plus a fair profit, has
been recovered in the sale of the re-
manning property. Similar results
in other cities in all parts Of the
country testify to the practicability
of the plan. Thousands of real
estate men, public officials, archi-
tects and civic leaders have in
dorsed it.
Realtors Interested
GAS chairman of the subdividers'
division of the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board, am very much inter
ested in Jarvis proposal, and I be-
lieve every realtor- subdivider in the
city will be glad to give it serious
consideration" G. B. Durham de-
clared.
"There is growing interest
throughout the country in setting
aside play and recreation areas IN
subdivisions. Undoubtedly it not
only is an aid to public welfare, but
is worth money to the subdivider.
Personally, I already have
planned to set aside such an area in
my next subdivision. I shall be
glad to receive any cooperation the
city may offer"
Albert j. Quigley, representative
of the National Realty Company
here and member of the sub
dividers' division, declared himself
interested in the Jarvis proposal. He
said the National Realty Company
has given large areas for play
grounds and parks in several CT its
divisions in other cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
YOUNG GOLFERS
TO CONTEST IN
FIRST TOURNEY
Hundreds Are Expected to
Enter National Event
for Fairgrounds.

The first annual national play
ground open golf tourney will be
held at the nine-hole Spades course
Aug. 6, z and 8. Medal score will
determine the winner; play will be
seventy-two holes, eighteen each on
Aug. 6 and 7, determining the final
thirty-two who will play thirty-six
holes on Aug. 8.
Only a mashie and putter may
be used in the tourney, and par for
the miniature course has been set
at twenty seven-even threes for
the eighteen. The winner will be
named national playground cham
pior. This is the first time within
the knowledge of local officials that
such a tourney has ever been con-
Quoted.
Hershey Collier, Is, of 1920 E. Six
tenth St., holds the present course
record with a thirty-one, made this
week. The record is expected to be
broken by several strokes during the
event.
No Entry Fee
Entries must be in the City Hall,
at the recreation department Office
on the third floor before Aug. l..
Out of town entries are requested
to forward entries at once. There
is no entry fee, and no cash prizes
will be awarded, preserving the am
ateur standing of young golfers who
ofF 81 Sc tour
ney, however, and caddies may enter
as well as amateur maShie wielders.
The course at the playground just
has been completed. 1t was con-
structed by the boys themselves,
with the help of the custodian, and
Leo Rose, boy instructor. Jesse P.
Mcclure, playground director; Rob-
ert Nipper and Lew Skinner, super
visors, also cooperated in the COM
pletion of the affair.
The local course is believed to be
the only one of its kind in the
country, and offers a very conclu-
sive test of golfing skill.
Hundreds to Enter
Several hundred entries are ex-
pected, and a number Of merchan-
disc prizes will be awarded to the
winner and runner-up. Many local
playground youngsters are golfing
enthusiasts, and practice fairwayS
have been completed at a number
Of the frolic lots.
officials of the city park and rec
reation departments will have
charge of the tourney, and the
standard rules of golf enforced on
all city courses will govern the
play. Special course rules will be
drawn up and published in next
Fridays Times.
Entries are limited to boys OF
playground age, under 16 on July l
The course is now open to all wish
ing to practice, and a good CROWD
is out every day.
Recreation Director Mcclure has
asked that all entries be sent in as
early as possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Doctor Praises tuberculosis
Association for Body
Building Work.
This is the first Of several articles on
child nutrition work which will appear
on The Times Playground Page weekly.
BY WALTER S. GREENOUGH

BY WALTER S. GREENOUGH
If Indianapolis parents generally
would study the organized system
of child culture now in effect at
the new child nutrition camp of
the Marion County tuberculosis
Association, much sickness of the
future among local children would
be prevented, in the opinion of Dr.
Hartman G. Morgan, secretary OF
the city board of health.
Twenty-Five girls between the
ages of 6 and IL now are housed
in the first unit Of the new nutri-
ton camp undergoing a systematic
schedule of proper feeding, regu-
lated recreation hours and uniform
rest periods in the effort to rebuild
their undernourished bodies to nor
NAL condition. The establishment
of the camp is an important step
in the community health program
being carried on by the tuberculosis
association constantly, in an effort
to prevent disease in Indianapolis
and Marion County.
The girls have been at the camp
during July and during August
twenty-five undernourished boys
will be cared for there.
DR.. Morgan today quoted a bull
letin on Sunlight and Health" is
sued by the children's bureau of the
United States Department of Labor
in emphasizing the care necessary
for young children during the sum-
mer.
The bulletin points out that the
treatment of disease with sunlight,
known today as autobiography, is
as old as the science Of medicine,
but the scientific use of sunlight for
certain forms of tuberculosis and
for ricketts, is as new as the twenti-
eth century.
''If we look into historical medi-
cal literature" the bulletin points
out, 1--WE find, now and then, refer
ence to sun baths for the sick, but
we find almost no mention Of pre-
vention Of disease with sunlight. On
the Island Of Cos in about the year
400 B. c., Hippocrates, the father
Of medicine, advised sun baths and
built a temple to Aseculapius, the
god of medicine, to serve as sola-
rum for his patients.
From the time of Hippocrates I'M
til the beginning Of the Dark Ages
Greek and Roman physicians con-
tinued to recommend sun baths fol-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
CABINET CHIEFS
TAKE VACATIONS
Under Secretaries, Clerks
Run Government.
BIZ Times SpeciaI

cPNNfN'
WASHINGTON, July 27.-While
Washington suffers under the hot
test summer it has known for years,
the Federal Government is being
run by under secretaries and clerks.
OF all the high officials in execu-
tive, legislative and judicial
branches of Government, only three
Cabinet members remain in the
city.
President Coolidge left weeks ago
for the summer, and the White
House is given over to langui&
sight-seers. Vice President Dawes
has been at his home in Evanston
ever since Congress adjourned.
Secretary of Treasury Andrew
Mellon is in Europe. So is Secre-
tary James J. Davis of the Labor
Department, who is studying inmi-
grafton problems at their sourse.
Secretary Dwight Davis Of the
War Department left this week for
Hawaii, where he will represent the
United States at the sesquicenten-
NAL Of the discovery of the Ha-
waiian Islands. Curtis D. Wilbur,
Secretary Of the Navy, also is on his
way to the Pacific, where he will
cruise with the Pacific fleet.
Attorney General John G. Sar-
gent has gone to his home in Yer
mont for the summer and Secretary
Jardine Of the Agriculture Depart
ment leaves today for a long, cool
tour of Alaska.
Only Secretary Of State Kellogg,
Postmaster General New and the
new Secretary of Interior, Roy o.
West, who took his oath of Office
this week. remain in Washington.
Kellogg will go to Europe son, it is
reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Greer is TIED
With RINGCOLD
Divide FirSt-PIace HonrS in
Girls Ball League.

Greer went into a tie with Ring
gold for first place in girls baseball
league No. 2 Tuesday when they
broke a 10 to 10 tie in the last half
OF the ninth inning by squeezing
in a run.
Greer lost one game early in the
season, while Ringgold had clean
record until Tuesday.
Brightwood dropped Oak Hill to
break the first place tie in League
No. 3, and keep its record clean.
Miekel-Wyoming solved the shoots
of Helen Apostol, tiny finger of the
School No. A team, to keep its rec
ord unmarried.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
GIRLS PLAN MEET

A playground track and field meet
will be held at Willard Park Aug. %,
with preliminaries scheduled for
Aug. 20. Junior events will be for
girls under fourteen July l, and
senior evens for he girls who were
under 16 years and six monhs
July 1.
Six events are scheduled in each
class: Maypole vault, 50-yard dash,
running high jump, running hop.
step and jump; baseball throw and
three-legged race. Instructors at all
the Fairgrounds have been working
hard with their track teams, and
strong competition is expected in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
DEPICTS U. S. PROGRESS
Garfield Park to Show Growth
From Pioneer Life.

A pageant symbolizing the prog
ress of America will be presented
in Garfield Park late in August. The
pageant, in which all the play
grounds in the vicinity will have
part, is one of a series being pre-
sented under the general supervi-
sion of Miss Hazel Albeit, super
visor of the recreation department.
The pageant opens with Indian
ceremonies, and it includes scenes
symbolic of American life in the
Pioneer period, and the present
America and Indianapolis today. In
the finale, characters symbolizing
all the nations Of the world, and
bearing their flags, enter and salute
America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
APARTMENT FOR PARIS
Modern Structures Rise on Site of
Old FOrtif1catiOns.

PARIS, July 27.-This city is pre-
pairing to turn landlord on large
scale. Construction Of modern
apartments, on the site of one-time
Notifications, is now under way.
officials estimate that 10000 Partisan
families will be housed in the new
buildings at cost of about $3.50
year, for four rooms and bath.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
HAND TENNIS ENJOYED

A new athletic activity at Kansas
Meridian playground is threatening
to eclipse the league-leading base
ball team in the interest Of the
youngsters. The younger children
especially are becoming adept at
"hand tennis" which is played on
the porch Of the shelterhouse.
Robert Coleman and Miss Hilda
Rabb, instructors, are originatrs Of
the game. They hope to line up
matches with other Fairgrounds
and are challenging all corners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
VoLLEY BALL LAUNCHED
First Games in Boys League Played
This Week.

The first volley ball games in the
Boys League we're played this week,
when Highland was hard pressed to
win from Fall Greek, three matches
to two, while RAIDER and Udell
blanked Spades, Brightwood shut
out Brookside, and Dearborn let
Willard down without the loss Of
a game.
The league will play twice a week
through the remainder of the sum-
mer. A girls league was also off,
cialiy started this week, but got
under way slowly, and only part Of
a round was played.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
HOLD OUTING ON FARM
Norwood Fun Lot Youngsters Hike
on ShelbyviIIe Rd.

Children at Norwood, Negro play
ground, under the supervision Of
Mrs. Beatrice Malone, matron, and
Miss Helen Butler and Paul Hill,
instructors, took hike to a farm
on the Shelbyville Rd. Tuesday.
The youngsters played games, ran
races and went wading and splash
ing in the brook which runs through
the place. After the party, the long
walk home was avoided when pass
ing motorists picked up the young
sters and drove them back to the
playground.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
SPRINGS HATCH CHICKS
Pipe Hot Waters to Incubators in
the HatcherieS,

THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., July 81
Hot springs in this vicinity are to
be put to new use. Arrangements
are under way to pipe the water to
specially constructed hatcheries,
where the temperature of the water
will be reduced to provide heat for
incubators. Experiments are also
under way to use the water to heat
greenhouses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
The cast of characters:

Virginia Sandell and Genevie Bradford
The pageant is the first of a Sc
ries which will be given at the play
lots this summer, under the general
supervision of Miss Hazel E. Alb
bett, recreation department super
visor. Miss Jeanette Riggin, in
structor, aided Miss Albeit in the
direction and gave a violin solo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
PAGEANT GIVEN
AT BROOKSIDE
Playground Children Join in
Production.

A beautiful pageant, "The Betroth-
al Feast" was given at Brookside
Park Playground before large au-
dience Wednesday evening. Children
from the grounds took the leading
parts and special dances and choral
scenes were presented by visitors
from Willard, Spades, Oak Hill,
Brightwood, Finch and Highland
Fairgrounds.
The pageant is based on the an
cient ceremonial betrothal of some
European nations. The dances given
during the course of the action are
national folk dances and interpre-
tative movements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
SULLIVAN NINE FIRST
Holds Lead in Negro Girls Base
ball League

The Negro playground girls base
ball league is well into the second
round, with the Camp Sullivan team
leading by game and half, and
the girls from Nickel and wyoming
play lot in second place. The Negro
girls play fast, hard baseball, and
are intensely interested in the game
The instructors are all enthusiast
tic about the progress the league is
making, and it is likely that it will
be expanded to include more of the
Negro centers next year.
, The standings:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
BATHING POPULAR
Hundreds Crowd FloOd-Lighted
Pools and Beaches.

Night bathing is becoming increas-
ingly popular at the f1ood-lighted
city pools and beaches.
The pools and beaches are care
fully guarded at night as we'll as
in the daytime. y
Two beaches-AIcClure, at Twen-
ty-Sixth St. and White River, and
Warf1eigh beach, at Central Ave. and
Warfleigh Dr.-are maintained and
supervised by the city, in addition
to pools at Rhodius, Ringgold Will
lard and Douglas Fairgrounds. All
are open until 8 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
SEEKS OUTLAW GAMES
RAIDER, UdelI Teams Challenge Other
Playground Mines.

The outlaw basketball and volley
ball teams from the RAIDER and Udell
playground, composed of boys over
the age limit for the league teams,
challenge any outlaw team in the
city to games at any time. The
boys want some competition to
make the sport more interesting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Originate vOlIey Ban-Tennis Game

Originate VoIIey BaII-Tennis Game
"Volley ball-tennis" is the new
game at Camp Sullivan white play
ground. The youngsters at the lot
have never played much volley ball.
but they lower the net and play ball
on the bounce, just as in tennis.
The court is kept busy all the time
with the new sport.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
DENY BIRDS DYING OFF
Sparrows on Increase in West
National Survey Shows.
BIZ Science SerUice
-

NaClOnaI survey SnOWS.
BIZ Science SerUice
WASHINGTON, July 27.-The
feeling that English sparrows arc
disappearing in this country is
without justification, according to
the United States Bureau of Bio
logical Survey. While there has
been a decrease Of these birds in
the last few years, so that they arc
no longer the pest they were forty
or fifty years ago, after their first
importation, nature seems to be
setting a balance in regard to them
In the West and Middlewest they
are still apparently on the increase.
American songbirds are in no
danger of extinction, like their
relatives among the game birds. For
the most part they are not in a
precarious position, officials of the
bureau report.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Real Baseball! Girls Shoe Hoe

Above, Helen Horning, 1850 N.
Chester Ave. smacking out a
timely hit for Brightwood dur
ing their game with Oak Hill,
which the former won, breaking
a tie for first place in Playground
League No. 2. Below, Martha
Caskey, 1855 Stewart ST., proved
that at least one girl on the
Brightwood team knew how to
slide, and wasn't afraid to try.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
CRACKER TILT HELD
Boys and Girls at Riley in Fun
Contest.

Contest.
A moved competition was staged
at the Riley Playground, when a
group of boys and girls, picked by
Mrs. Inez Bair, matron, had a
eating contest. Each was
given a certain number of crackers
and the first four to finish were
warded prizes by Mrs. Bair. Robert
Richie and Hazel Fisher won the
first prizes, and Ira Parnell and
Irene Edgell, second. The contest
was held in the sand pile, always a
busy and interesting spot during
the hot part of the day. The crack
er eating contest was followed by
sand house building competition,
a daily feature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-01

serve as fuel to keep the stars 60
ing, is the announcement just made
here by DR.. Harlow Shapley, 'di
rector of the Harvard College OBJ
servatory.
If this is correct, it would explain
how the stars may survive for far
longer time than the 100 trillion
years that astronomers have recently
supposed to be their maximum life.
BY means of the spectroscope,
which breaks their light up into a
rainbow-like spectrum, crossed by
numerous dark lines and bands
that indicate the constituent ele-
ments, DR.. Shapley has studied
large number of stars.
Though they are of varying
temperatures, and supposed to be
of different ages, they all know a
band which indicates the presence
of cyanogen. This is a gas COM
posed of carbon and nitrogen, and
which is used terrestrially for kill
ing insects.
Probably, he believes, this cyano-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-01

gen is not actually in the stars them
selves, but rather is it provided by
neteors anc comets that surround
them. Comets and meteorS that
have come within range of obser-
walton have been found to contain
carbon and nitrogen as separate ele-
nents. When these fall into a star,
the high temperature would cause
the elements to combine to form
cyanogen.
One important aspect of this by
pothesis concerns the life of the
stars. The generally accepted theory
now among astronomers is that the
energy OF the stars comes from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-01

brought the lion down was the last
in the Dukes rifle.
The Duke, momentariIy without
the services of the gun which usq-
ally covers him while lion hunting,
had started back to meet his native
gun carrier when lion appeared
about IS yards away and crouched
to spring.
The Duke fired his last cartridge
and the king of the jungle dropped
in his tracks. The skin and head
of the lion we're sent to London on
the Dukes order, and the model
was made here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-01
BRITON ORDERS JUNGLE
BEAST MODELLED ON CAR
Replica of Lions Represents Victim
of Hitting Trip.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
London, June 1.-The lion mascot
carried on the radiator of each of
the motorcars owned by the Duke
Of York has a special significance.
1t is an exact replica of a beast
killed by the Duke while hunting
near Nairobf, and the cartridge that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-01
METEORS Give
FUEL TO STARS,
SCIENCE FINDS
Discovery Explains Solar
System Survives on
Carbon Gas.
BIZ Science Serrice

By Science Service
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June l.
Evidence that many if not all, stars
are surrounded by meteors and
comets like those that we see in
the solar system, and that they NAV
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-01

actual disintegration of their mat
ter into energy. Matter and energy,
according to the ideas of modern
physics, are both the same, and so
one can be changed to the other. In
this way, the matter in the average
star will keep it running for about
O00,OOO,OOO years.
However, if more and more fuel
is constantly being Shoveled on the
stars, in the form Of meteoric ma
terial, the star might survive almost
indefinitely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-01

The monetary unit of Holland is
the guilder or gulden.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-23
DIVIDING LINE IN VARIOUS DRESSES
Afternoon and Sports Frocks
 Take Feminine Interest

With all this greater femininity trend there is a division of opinion as to what the American woman will accept. Some of the exclusive sports designers are Of the opinion that wo- men will still stick to the two types Of frocks. the sports and evening models Others are Of the opinion that the formal afternoon frock, with its 1880 and Victorian influence, wil, catch the fancy of the great ma jori,y. At the moment fashion interest seems to be divided between the en- semble and the formal afternoon frock.
 Meantime Paris is catering to both types, and the smartly dressed wo- man in America Is accepting them. The sports type frock is becoming more and more elaborate. both as 10 material and trim. and the. formal afternoon. frock takes unto itself greater elaboration or drape as the rivalry keeps up. There is no doubt whatever that the sports model will still be worn for formal afternoon, as