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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
A PASSING MOnSter2

Most prophets in art and prose picture our fu-
ture as one of the supercity. They depict bigger and
better skyscrapers, which make the Empire State
building seem a squat structure by comparison.
Streets in several tiers, as well as series Of tun-
nels underground, are pictured as necessary to take
care Of the vast and massed population which will
take refuge in the receSses of these labyrinthian
hulks of stone, concrete and steel.
Mooring masts and landing fields are portrayed
many hundreds of feet above the ground. on great
platforms running from one skyscraper to another.
This may be the actual course of the fus1re eyo-
luton of our centers of population. But tE3 original
and adventurous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, made
it clear recently in his address at the New School of
Social Research that any such development would
defy both social logic and human weI-being.
AS he pointed out, feudal castles were good struc-
lures when there were feudal lords and feudal GUS
TOMS but, when feudalism passed, the castle became
an historic relic. Various aspects of contemporary
chronological and commercial progress have made
the congested modern city as unnecessary as the
medieval castle on a mountain crag.
Steam and electricity have made possible rapid
transportation. The radio and movies have placed
high-grade entertainment and public education in
homes in small towns. Television 10 Just around the
corner.
Automobiles make one independent of train con-
nections and rapid train service, which once were
linked closely with residence in a large urban center.
Wright seems correct in his attitude toward the
desirable evolution of our city life. Our modern
metropolitan centers are the g~rotesque and inhuman
product Of a notorious lack of social sense and COM
munity planning in the last century.
The massing of population was necessary when
laborerS worked from fourteen to sixteen hours each
day and when there was not so much as a horse
car to convey them to the factory.
Once the city was launched on this basis, as a
product of temporary necessity, metropolitan develop
ment has gone on piltng up like a snowfall, in utter
defiance of the elementary principles of logic and
human welfare.
Removal of the necessity of urban concentration
actually has been p~aralyzed by an unprecedented
puing up OF city structures and populations.
Therefore, the sound policy for the future is to
check as rapidly as possible the present insane ten
dency to make room for more Gagged human animals
in the maze of city habitations. Bigger and better
skyscrapers may be tolerated on the ground that their
construction will allow us to raze a vast number of
lower structures and create great open spaces in such
large cities as remain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
King Albert Acts

A KELLEY wrote to President Mer-
"A riam. outlining his hopes that
the Belgian government might be
persuaded to set aside a gorilla
sanctuary. DR.. Merriam at once
took up the plan with Baron Emile
De Cartier De Marchienne, then
Belgian ambassador to the United
States.
The baron, in turn, took the plan
up directly with King Albert of
Belgium.
The result was the establishment
OF the Pare National Albert.
only professional hunters of big
game were disappointed" says Mrs.
Akeley, since they no longer could
kill the big anthropoids for trophies.
Scientific bodies soon voiced ap-
proval. The National Academy OF
Sciences expressed in resolution its
qualification at the action of his
majesty, the king of Belgians. in
the establishment of the Albert Ma
tlonal park for the effective preser-
vation of the gorilla and other ami
mails, together with the protection
OF flora of the region and assured
his majesty of its deep interest and
disposition to cooperate in the re-
alization Of the benefits to science
and mankind arising from this wise
and generous action"
In October, 1929, King Albert an
pointed an international compoie-
sion OF scientists chosen from Eng
land, Sweden, the United States.
France, the Netherlands, and Bel
GUM, to administer the scientific
work in the park.
The American members are DR..
Merriam and DR.. Henry Fairfield
Osborn, president of the American
Museum of Natural History.
In 1920. the American committee
for scientific research in the Pare
National Albert was organized.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Arguments Pulling

THIRST we insist on the election
Il of judges to keep the courts
democratic, and then we insist that
the election of judges be kept out
of politics to protect the court from
partisan influence.
1t sounds like some of the ar
guments in favor Of short selling,
but let that pass.
The only way we can elect
judges, without getting the election
into politics, is to have one can
didate for each position, which
mean that the two major parties
must get together and agree on
candidates beforehand.
Any high school kid should have
been able to foresee what that
would lead to in such places as New
York, where both parties are ring
ridden and boSs-ruled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
The Next Revolution

TT has become fashionable in
i America to talk very casually
and enthusiastically of revolution
interms of armed conflict. 1t
seems convenient to many to sug-
gest that the oppressed should take
up rifles, fire o few rounds and then
take over the government.
But this short cut to the re-
f~ashioning of our world can hardly
be supported by the testimony OF
American history.
In spite of the experience Of
Russia, the rule with us has been
that warfare always leads toward
the right rather than the left. After
all, America has had two revolu-
tions, and both fell short Of their
detectives.
In a sense-far too tecnical-it is
true that the colonists did make
good a complete cleavage from
Great Britain. But there we're other
announced goals which we hardly
realized.
After all, our forefathers commit
ted themselves to an extremely
radical doctrine when they affixed
their signatures to a document pro-
claiming that all men r created
free and eq1al."
It seems to me that after York
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
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B117eH
fANNlVER$ARYl
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COUNT ZERNI SPEECH
October 3

ON Oct. 8, 1917, Count Czernin,
~ minister of foreign affairs Of
Austria-Hungary. delivered an adj
dress at Budapest which created
considerable stir among the belli-
gerent nations and was regarded
as evidence Of growing and acute
necessity of peace. In part, he said:
Before we conclude peace, we
must have the positive certainty
that III present opponents have
relinquished the idea of economic
war.
The question of indemnities
which the Entente (Allies) always
is advancing assumes remarkable
completion when one considers the
devastation their armies have
wrought. .
and compel us to continue this
murder, then we reserve the right
IF our enemies refuse to listen
to revise our terms"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Motives Lacking

TITO begin WITH there is no
Il known reason why two ap-
parent strangers should have board
ed the little yacht belonging to Ben
jamin Ceilings on the night OF
Sept. 9, hit him on the head with
a milk bottle, or an oar, tied him
hand and foot and thrown him
overheard.
Nothing has been brought out to
indicate that robbery, vengeance,
or a desire to prevent Ceilings
from telling something that he
knew was the motive.
Neither has anything been brought
out to show why, after killing Col
lings, the two men seized Mrs. Col
lings, put her in a canoe and car
ried her to another yacht, where
they left her, with a supply OF
blankets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Hunted as Tr0nhiaS

THE attention of scientists was
Il directed toward the gorilla for
est of the Belgian Congo by the
1922 expedition of the American
Museum of Natural History. This
expedition was under the direction
of Akeley.
There in the untouched wilds Of
the Congo Mrs. Akeley tells. "he
secured a group of gorillas for a
natural history exhibit for the Afri-
can hall of the American museum.
Unwilling to take any life need
lesSly, he collected only fve-one-
half the number of specimens per-
mitted him by the Belgian govern
ment-because he believed this
number sufficient to serve his scien-
tifc purpose.
While collecting these specimens.
he observed the gorillas at close
range and accordingly became i'm
pressed by the non-combative ma
ture of the gorilla when undisturbed
by man.
MI. Akeley was surprised greatly
by the small number of gorillas in
habiting the forested slopes of the
three extinct volcanoes, Mikeno,
KariSimbi, and Bishoke, in which
they had been reputed to be plenti-
full.
He knew that many mighty
hunters of big game were at that
time eager to hunt and kill gorillas
because they craved a new sport
new hunting trophies for their COL
lectionS.
Realizing that because of the ma
ture of the gorilla and the scarcity
Of the animal it would be an easy
matter to exterminate the whole
colony, he began to advocate the
protection of the gorilla as well as
of all other wild life, both plant
and animal"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ.

BIZ DAVID DIElL-i
Gorillas Were Doomed to Err
tinction Until the Great
Game SGnctuaries We're
Established in the Belgian
Congo.
THE late Carl Akeley, the worlds
l. greatest authority upon the
subject of the gorilla. was the first
to suggest the great game sanctuary
in the Belgian Congo, the Pare
National Albert"
This sanctuary, It Is hoped, will
keep alive gorillas and other ami
mails which scientists feared would
exist in a decade or so only as
stuffed specimens in museum.
DR.. John C. Merriam, famous
%geologiSt, and president of the Car
negie Institution of Washington,
played a leading role in the move
ment which led to the establish
ment of the park. The park is a
great area of SOC, 900 acres.
The Belgian government just re-
Gently has added two more park
areas to it, one of 1000, 900 acres and
the other of 0 1000 acres.
The story of the Pare National
Albert is told by Mary L. lobe Axe
ley, the widow of Carl Akeley. She
now is the secretary of the Amer
lean committee for scientific re-
search in the Pare National Albert.
The gorilla forest in the Pare Ma
tional Albert is near Lake Kivu in
the Belgian Congo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

AN8Ah
A LII sorts of lists have been pre-
N pared of the reading material
used by people for various pur-
poses.
There are books to be read on
vacation; books to be read on the
steamer; books to be read in the
hammock, and bedside books for
those suffering with insomnia.
The modern hospital provides a
library service for patients, because
it is found that properly selected
fiction is of great aid in procuring
mental comfort.
Recently DR.. Frank Lesley, medi-
cal officer in charge of one of the
veterans hospitals, has commented
on the type of reading material
selected by patients in an institu-
ton devoted to mental cases.
The hospital has approximately
1000 patients, Of whom 800 are able
to get about,
OF course, the patients look at
newspapers and magazines, but they
also read books.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Victim n, 2

A MONG other things, Mrs. Col
IA lings said that the two
strangers spoke of a wounded
man" whom they had left in their
own boat when they boarded the
Ceilings yacht.
A second body having washed
ashore some days after that Of Col
lings appeared, it was accepted by
most people as that of the wounded
man"
When this body was tentatively
identified as that of William Smith,
a clam digger of Norwalk, Conn,
and when it was discovered that he
and two other men had left shortly
after the Ceilings murder, the
authorities began putting two and
two together.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Spotlight on florida

TINE result was that a man
l. named Ritchie and his son were
arrested in Daytona Beach, Fla,
where they usually spend the Win
tiers, on suspicion that they had
something to do with the disap-
pearance of William Smith, which
would be of far greater Importance
had not said William Smith been
found alive and we'll.
At the same time Mrs. Ceilings
went to Florida on the slim chance
that, though Ritchie and his son
are obviously clear in the Smith
case, they still may be the men
who killed her husband. And then
she could not identify them as the
guilty ones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
The COIIingS Mystery

CPEAKING = of courts, the Ceilings
- inquest has been concluded, with
a verdict that could have been ar
rived at two hours after the body
was found, and nothing but a series
of most peculiar mishaps, or blum
ders, to show for the two weeks Of
prying and probing.
Even blaSe New York is ready to
admit that this is n of the
strangest murder cases in many
years, not only because of the I'M
explained mystery it involves, but
because of the jinx that seems to
dog every phase of its development.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

EVEN a New York columnist
L should spend a certain amount
of time in the. open air in the pur-
suit of vigorous athletic exercise.
And I am glad to report that 1 now
have finished my quota of personal
participation in sport for the year
1881.
Retirement comes easily because
I step back into private life as the
possessor of a championship title.
1t is the first which has come my
way since I won the tennis crown of
the North Entry of Thayer Hall,
Cambridge, Mass, in the year 1908.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Questions and
Answers

Jeanne dare.
Was the author Of Gods step
Children" white or Negro?
Mrs. Sarah Gertrude Millen. the
author, is a white woman.
Can rancid lard be made sweet
again?
No.
Why are candles put on birth
day cakes?
To signify light and life.
What happened to Leon Trotskv
after he was expelled from the
Communist party in Russia?
He was sent to Siberia and later
on account Of his health was per-
mitted to go to Turkey, where he
now maintains a residence.
What is the French name of Joan
of Arc?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Widow Disconnected

Ceilings body washed
w ashore one week after the
tragedy, DR.. Otto Schultz, expert
for the district attorney of New
York. was summoned to perform the
autopsy.
DR.. Schultz since has suffered a
nervous breakdown, which makes it
doubtful whether his evidence can
be used, while the body has been
cremated, which makes another au-
topsy impossible.
Mrs. Ceilings story, though IN
believably weird and fantastic, has
stood up not only through all the
cross-examining, but through some
very queer treatment which the
Suffolk county prosecutor admits
was designed to "disconcert" her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those of
one Of Americas most inter
estinK writer's and are pre-.
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-Tho Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

1t may be tactless for the radio people to tell
Gandhi to talk faster, but there's no harm letting
him listen in occasionally to Floyd Gibbons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

1t was just an irony of circumstances, of course,
that England should modify its gold standard as
Gandhi was preaching the Golden Rule.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

Things are so quiet in New York you can almost
hear the stocks fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

A husbands pay envelope may cramp a woman's
style, but if it doesn't, her style will cramp him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

fought for my country in 1917 and
1913, but, as sure as I am living.
THIS country will be as Russia is
unless there is a change of policies
Ior the masses. J.. P. MAYER.
1925 Hemlock avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

It's Okay to can the surplus, but not to bottle it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03
Daily Thought

By faith the walls of Jericho
fell down, after they were COM
passed about days.-He-
brews 1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-03

The highest order that ever was
instituted on earth is the order Of
faith.-Henry Ward Beecher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
AIR SCHEDULES
AT CITY PORT
TO Be CHANGED
New 7. and w. A. Schedule
viii Be Effective
April !.

Aiming at offering greater cons
venience to passengers. changes in
the mail, passenger and express
schedule Of the T. & ". A. planes
arriving at Municipal airport we're
announced today by Russell Bar
raft, district traffic agent.
The new schedule becomes efec-
tive April 1, according to orders
from T. B. Clemens, New York.
traffic manager for the lines.
Inauguration of twenty-four hour
plane service between New York
and Los Angeles, which has been
talked of for some time, is seen as
possible outcome of the changes
IN the near future. Barratt said.
Under the new schedule. the
westbound plane, now arriving at
2:30 p. m. will arrive at 4:36 D. m.
and depart at 4:46 D. m, and the
eaStbound plane arriving now an
1925 and leaving at 1896 a. m.
viii arrive at 1922 a. m. and leave
at 1870 a. m.
Time Of the other westbound
plane, arriving at 8:45 and leav-
ing at 8:55, and the other east
bound plane, arriving at 800 and
leaving at $50, will remain the
same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
EXPERT ON RUSSIA
TO SPEAK AT CLUB
United Press Correspondent
Will Talk Before
Universal Club.

Members OF Indianapolis luncheon
clubs today we're invited to hear
Eugene Lyons, United Press staff
correspondent at Moscow, who will
speak at the meeting of the Uni
versity Club Tuesday under auspices
Of The indianapolis Times.
Definite arrangements for the
meeting will be announced later.
Plans also are being made for Lyons
10 appear for lecture Tuesday
night, place to be announced later.
Lyons is visiting the United
States after being in Russia for
three years. The correspondent is
considered one of the foremost
authorities on Russia affairs. He
has made a number of trips
throughout Russia and the Turkestan
region.
One OF his outstanding journalistic
coupS was his exclusive interview
with Josef Stain, head of the Soviet
government and the Russian Com
munist party.
Lyons was born in New York CITY
and was educated at the College of
the City of New York and Columbia
university. He gained his early
newspaper experience in New York
and Pennsylvania.
Later he spent a year in Italy. and
contributed to magazines published
in the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
STUDY SOVIET TRADE
Officials Doubt Embargo to
Weaken U. S. Exports.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 25.-Fac-
ing weakened markets in western
Europe, South America and the far
east, government trade experts are
giving serious study to Soviet Rus
STA, with its 150,000,000 potential
consumers.
One official confidently predicted
that DESPITE Russia's resentment at
the treasury's embargo of Soviet
goods, the memorable demands -
the Soviet f1ve-year-plan for GER
tain types of machinery would main
tain our exports at the 1880 level,
perhaps higher
Russian leaders, irked by the
treasury's efforts to reduce their ex-
ports to the United States-only
one-fourth as much, in 1929, as their
imports from here-recently in
Dictated a large share of their pur-
chases would be transferred to
Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
SCORES ATTEND
RITE CEREMONY
Cincinnati Delegation viii
Attend Sessions.

Members of the order from Gin
cinnati, o., will witness exemplifca-
ton Of degrees today on the spring
convocation class at the Scottish
Rite cathedral.
Nearly hundred Masons re-
ceived the first division of higher
degrees at ceremonies Tuesday,
with John F. Engelke, thrice potent
master, presiding at the fourteenth
degree closing the days work.
Degrees today will be conferred
by Sarah council, Princes of
Jerusalem, and Indianapolis chapter
of Rose Croix, with Gail H. Moore
head and j. Ralph Fenstermaker,
presiding.
The delegation from Cincinnati,
O., is of special interest because the
Cincinnati Rite is regarded as the
mother of indianapolis bodies.
Scores of out-state members are
attending the three-day ceremonies
which will end with banquet and
degree work Thursday night. A
group from the Madison County
Scottish Rite Club will confer the
twenty-seventh degree Thursday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
TAMMANY TO FIGHT
Rallies Well Organized Sup
port to Defend Walker.

By United Press
NEW YORK, March 25.-Tam-
many hall, controlling the New
York City municipal government
almost continuously since the Revo-
lutionary war, rallied its well-or-
gained forces today against enc
mics which once more threaten its
political sway.
The neWly-ordered legislative in
vestigation of New York City will
surpass in its scope any of the nu-
merous inquiries of the past, en-
bracing, as it does, the power to
delve into every department of the
government.
Mayor James J. Walker, target
for the civic and religious leaders
at the head Of the anti-Tammany
forces, will start back from his va
cation at Palm Springs, Cal, Sun
Gay night to defend his administra-
ton.
While waiting, Tammany lawyers
seek to prevent Samuel Seabury,
probable chief inquisitor for the leg
islature, from holding secret pre-
liminary hearings to obtain evil
dence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
TOO SHELTERED LIVES
PICTURED AS MENACE

Over Guarding of AdOlescents Is
Scored by Mental Specialist.
By United Press
BALTIMORE, March 25.-Many
clever adolescent minds in American
high schools and universities are be-
ing impaired by modern and par
ticularly sheltered life, the
American college of physicians in
session here was told today by DR..
Harry S. Sullivan, New York spe-
cialist on adolescence.
DR.. Sullivan told a clinical group
they go out into the world without
any particular talent for living with
the people they find there.
He said the result CT this malady
is lonesomeness, followed by worry
over their own peculiarities and
morbidities. This process, he ex-
planned, could develop into mental
disease,