Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1920 — Page 8

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U. S. NUT CROP SEEN AS GREAT MONEY MAKER Waste of Nut Trees by Pioneer Deplored as Species Become Extinct. MORE PLANTING URGED BI FREDERIC J. HASKIX. WASHINGTON, Oct 2T.—At this time of the year there ia ripe for harvest one of the least used and appreciated of American food crops—that of the nuts, wild and tame. The nut has fallen into such sad disrepute in this country that the very word has come to be figuratively applied to humans who are slightly difficult ftr society to assimilate. Nearly every one regards nuts as indigestible. They are therefore given no regular place in the bill of fare, but are always tacked onto the end of it. lli.s is a place where they are admirably calculated to maintain their reputation for indigestibility. For nul* are a rich and heavy food, and are not in the least suited to be eaten on top of a lot of other nourishing food. They could much more appropriately take the place jf meat, for they are rich iu fat and contain a good deal of protein. ■- They are great energizers. To get the good out of them they need only to be chewed thoroughly and to be eaten with other lighter foods in order to form a balanced diet. No doubt an enormous food resource goes to waste in the wild nuts that are never gathered, but it is doubtful whether it would pay to do the work of gathering them in most places. Down in Texas the wild pecans are gathered regularly and a thousand carload of them, or more, are shipped out of the State every year, so they constitute a real source of wealth for the Texans.

experiment now WITH CHESTNUT. A few carloads of chestnuts used to be shipped out of western Maryland every year, but the rapid spread of the chestnut blight has about put an end to that industry. The Department of Agriculture is experimenting in crossing the native chestnut with a Japanese variety, which is somewhat more resistant to tbe blight, and there is a hope the chestnut may be saved as an orchard tree in this way, but the great wild groves of chestnuts are dead or doomed. There is not much need for mourning ever the chestnut, however, whpn there nr- ot u r fine native nuts which thrive perfectly and which are almost wholly neglected. The black walnut is a case In point. It is a fine rich nut of excellent flavor, and grows over a large part of the United States, from southern New England to Florida in the East and from Minnesota to Texas in the West, while the-e is a special variety on the Pacific coast. The black walnut tree will grow on waste lands which will support little other timber. It Is an admirable shade tree about the house and along roads and fences. It is also one of the most valuable timber trees native to tbe United States. It is this latter fact that doomed it. The pioneers cared little ‘about the nuts and much about the timber. Hence the trees were cut down ruthlessly. This has not only made it a relatively scarce tree, but has destroyed much of the stock from which au improved nut might have been derived. For wild nut trees, grawlng in the woods, seldom yield a valuable crop. The stock of the trees that bear the best nuts must be selected and propagated. In this way larger nuts with thinner shells and better flavor are slowly produced by selective breeding. While older and more thoughtful peopl-s were thus improving their native nut trees, Americans were destroying theirs. Asa natural result, we import many millions of pounds of nuts every year and pay high prices for them, when we might have had an abundant supply of •stive nuts. Also the nut culture industry is a amall one based largely on imported varieties, which grow only in limited sections climatically suited to them. In California there is considerable industry in the raising of Persian and English walnuts and almonds, but it does not nearly supply the local demand and it cannot be much extended because these species do not thrive elsewhere.

If the black walnut had been properly developed, every farmer might have n few good walnut trees In his yard, just *s be has n few apple trees, and loeai markets would have been abundantly supplied from local sources. PECAN INDUSTRY HAS GOOD FUTURE. The only native American nut which has been developed at all la the pecan. It Is native to almost all of the Southrn States as far sonth as Florida and is war west as Texas. In Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia the raising of pecans ta a considerable industry. Despite high prices for the nuts and i steady demand it is said that the lumber of persons who have made an tatabllsbed commercial success of the business is comparatively small. It is still it. many ways in an experimental stage, but it Is almost sure to grow and develop. The range of the nut is being extended northward, too. There are now bearing trees in PennJ'rlvania, Maryland and New Jersey. It seems probable the pecan will most likely become the common cultivated native nut tree which we so sadly lack. The pecan industry has been Injured by another common and typical American failing—that of unsound promotion. Every onje is familiar with the advertisement and prospectuses of pecan groves !n which you are Invited to invest your savings and from which you are promised enormous returns in a few years. No doubt these companies operate In all good faith, but experts here who have watched them say that only a very few have been successful, and that thousands of persons have lost their savings in such ventures. The land is often bought for as little as $lO or sls an acre, and after being planted with young trees is sold for SSOO to S7OO an acre, on a very large margin of profit. If you want to raise pecans you are advised to go and study the business on the ground, buy your own land and plant your own trees. You must then be prepared to wait seven to ten years for a good return, although you may get something out of the land in the meantime by planting cotton between the rows of young trees. POSSIBILITIES ALSO IN HICKORY NUT. The hickory nut is another native nut which has great possibilities of development, and these possibiUtlen are being tested in an experimental way. The butternut, a near relation of the black walnut, is also an excellent possibility and grows farther north than most of the other nuts. Experts in the Department of Agriculture urge persons who have yards or small country places to consider setting out nut trees as well as shade ana fruit trees. She department will tell them what

Ah — What’s a Name NEW TORK, Oct. *7.—“George Washington*' went to prison as a pick pocket; "William Waldorf Astor" was freed of a bookmaking charge, and “Miss Mary Anderson’’ was sent to the penitentiary, all in the same court.

varieties are suitable to a given locality, and where to get the stock. The nut trees are nearly all excellent shade trees, and nuts contain more real food value than fruit. LAYS BLAME ON SURPLUS GIRLS Britisher Says They Wish to Appeal to Men. LONDON, Oct. 27.—Because there are 1,000,000 more women in England than men, the women are deliberately lowering themselves in dress to make themselves sexually attractive to men, according to Dr. Leonard 11111, noted British physician and student of sociology. “Bizarre colors, low-cut dresses, transparent stockings and short skirts indicate the intensified struggle of women for making themselves sexually attractive,” he said. “The one and only reason for this is, because of war deaths, a million surplus women will never have an opportunity to marry. "This desire for sexual attraction and to a minor degree the display of wealth, fills miles of shop windows with every kind of garment designed, not for warmth, comfort or wear, but for decoration. “This same desire leads to the painting and powdering of faces and the artifices of hair dressing. "Life is made joyous by the beauties of women, but that beauty should depend less on artifice and paore on grace of body and beauty of complexion secured by outdoor exercise and on the kindly, sweet expression of a generous soul. Chamber to Receive Returnsof Election State and national election returns will be obtained for the members of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night, when a special wire service j will be had for them. The announce- j ments will be made in the chamber 1 case. I

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AUTO TRADE MEN PLAN CONVENTION Expect Large Attendance at State Meeting. A meeting preliminary to the first meeting of the Indiana Automotive Trade Association, which will be held in Indianapolis Nov.. 4 and 5, was held In the offices of the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association, by officials of eleven of tho fifteen local automobile trades associations In the State. The meeting Tuesday, which was presided over by N. 11. Cartlnhour of this city, State vice president of the National Automobile Dealers’ Association, was for the purpose of formulating plans for the State meeting when tho State organization will be perfected. At the meeting next month there will bo speakers of national reputation, and dealers have been instructed to Invite tho’.r bankers to attend. Among the most widely known of the speakers will be Harry G. Mock of St. Louis, secretary and general manager of the National Automobile Dealers’ Association; P. E. Chamberlain of Denver, who is to speak on "Selling Service Intelligently;” A. It. Kroh, who is to speak on “The Itelatiouship of the Banker and Farmer to the Automotive Industry," and Capt. Robert B. Lee of St. Louis, who will be the principal speaker at the banquet to be held at tbe Claypool Hotel on the evening of Nov. 4. The business session of the meeting will be held In the Representatives' chamber at the Statehouse. At least 800 dealers In all branches of the trade are expected to attend the convention. Those at Tuesday's meeting were narry O. Mock, St. Louis: P. F. Drury, St, Louis, assistant secretary of the National Automobile Dealers’ Association; N. If. Cartlnhour, It. V. Law, A. W. Hutchinson and John B. Orman, Indianapolis; L. Randall and W. Becker, FT. Wayne; C. A. Frey and C. Livingston, Logansport; William Nichols, South Bend; Clem McConaha, Richmond; S. M. Van Cleave, Marion: J. F. Frohllter anl H. F. Fennermsn, Evansville; George J. Brooker, Muncle; S. N. I.ee nud Mark O’Laughlln, Gary, and W. S. Crowo, Lafayette. Kills Self at Altar NEGAT7NEE, Mich., Oct. 27.—Called to come downstairs where friends were waiting to witness his wedding. Dr. B.J. Miller. 40, a dentist, blew the top of his head off with a shotgun. Miss Viola Connors, his fiancee, daughter of the postmaster, and ethers of the wedding party, were waiting.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1920.

KIJ KLUX KLAN OF ’6os STILL LIVE IN SOUTH -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -i- .i- -i- -i- -i- -i- -|. Great Organization Re vived With Same Fiery Emblem and Insignia

ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 27—The Kti Klux Klan, famous during the dark days of reconstruction In the South, has, with renerved vigor, rapidly spread throughout the South and other parte of the United States during the last year until It now has a membership of tens of thousands and organizations In almost every corner of the South. Col. William J. Simmons, professor of Southern history at Lanier University, in Atlanta, is the founder of the rejuvenated ICu Klux Klan, the construction of which he has been planning for many years. In 1915, with thirty-four of his friends among whom were three members of the original Ku Klux, the Klan received a State charter. Since the IClan had among its charter members three of the original members of the old Ku Klux Klan It was granted nil the legal rights and privileges enjoyed by the original organization, with rights to all Its paraphernalia, symbols. Insignia, etc., and each year celebrates its anniversary on May 6, the date on which the old Klan was founded. While it is designed to honor the mem ory of an organization whose operations were confined to the South and to perpetuate the principles upon which that organization was founded, the modern knights of tho Ku Klux Klan Is not a sectional institution for, according to its founders, it must t( least have the sanction, if not the active support, of nil white, native-born American citizens who love their country and their flag and believe in the preservation of its institutions and Ideals. “While conditions today are not the same as they were when the original klan was organized," Rays Colonel Simmons, “the need for an organization like the Ku Ivltix Klan is just as pressing now as it ever was, but along different lines. "Its purpose Is to inculcate the sacred principles and noble ideals of chivalry, the development of character, the protection of the home and the chastity of womanhood, the exemplification of a pure patriotism toward our glorious country,

k C\ DOUGLAS Rkjwjk MacLEAN JAILBIRD” The tale of an oil well fake, P a “Hick” town editor’s J \ woes and a jailbird's flight Alice Howell Farce TODAY Wm. S. Hart in “the Cradle of Courage”

JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD'S ||E§2|\ “NOMADS OF THE NORTH’ SStSHiifiA 1 Circle Comedy, “Duck Inn” Sam Moore, Soloist. “The Voice of the Saw"

MAURICE TOURNEUR'S SPECIAL PRODUCTION “DEEP WATERS” FROM F. HOPKINSON SMITH'S FAMOUS NOVEL, “CALEB WEST, MASTER DIVER" A sea coast romance that gave youth its way—till a fickle wife reached the gate that led —where? A story of love and wreck and daring. With the charm —and the chill—of village life. With the roar of the waves and the thrill of stout hearts braving death. UNIVERSAL COMEDY FOX NEWS WEEKLY DORSEY, PELTIER and SCHWARTZ CWiuaimba Sr TODAY—Douglas Mac Lean in “The Jailbird”

the preservation of American Ideals and the maintenance of white supremacy, and a vital, perpetual memorial to the men who served so valiantly In the ranks of the original klan. “No man is wanted In this order who hasn’t manhood enough to assume a real oath with serious purpose to keep the same Inviolate. “No man Is wanted in this order who will not, or who cannot, s;vear an unqualified allegiance to the Government of the United States of America, its flag and Its constitution. "Only native-born American citizens who believe in the tenets of the Christian religion and owe no allegiance of any degree or nature to any foreign government. political institution, sect, people or persons are eligible for membership.” In this connection Colonel Simmons took occasion to point out that the original Ku Klux Klan was not a band of bandits and cutthroats as foes of the South and enemies of the southern people so frequently have charged—a band of murderers who stopped nt nothing and who ■whipped and terrorized both white and black and vented Its spite on whoever Incurred Its displeasure. “On the contrary," says Colonel Simmons, “the members of the Ku Klux Klan were men of the highest type as a body and they were working to safeguard life and property, to ameliorate the terrible conditions growing out of the presence of the carpetbaggers and their baneful Influence over the negro. “After the Ku Klux Klan was disbanded by Gen. Nathan B. Eorrest, who was Us chief, bands of thugs and murderers began operating throughout the South under the name of the Ku Klux Klan. , “They had no organization and no legal standing, and it was the members of the original klan who did more thau any others to suppress the operations of these lawless characters.” An order has Just been Issued by the Superior Court against J. B. Frost and others of the Columbia Union declaring that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have the exclusive right to the symbol showing a masked and shrouded horse

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upon the representation of Colonel Simmons, who is “Imperial Wizard” of the Klan that he had originated the symbol. Frost und others have formed a separate organization somewhat along the same lines as the Ku Klux Klan. Shoots Woman, Fires House and Kills Self HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich., Oct. 27. John Haradn went to the farm of Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, a widow, Reven miles north of here, ordered her 6-year-old daughter out of the house, shot Mrs. Kennedy and burned the house. He then set fire to the barn, put a bullet Into his own body and cremated himself. liarada had been paying attention to Mrs. Kennedy for some time but she seemingly did not encourage him. ILLINOIS CENTRAL GETS LOAN.. WASHINGTON, Oct. .27—The Illinois Central Railway was granted authority today by the Interstate Commerce Commission to obligate itself to pay $8,107,000 principal amount of fifteen-year equipment gold trust certificates to bo known as “Illinois Central equipment trust certificates, scries X,” for the procurement of equipment. The company was authorized to sell the tr ist certificates at not less than 97.36 per cent of their face value and accrued interest. AMUSEMENTS.

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FARMERS STRIKE TO GET $3 WHEAT Action Has Effect on Chicago Board Receipts. CHICAGO. Oct. 27.—Faroera In Oklahoma, Kansas. Nebraska. lowa and the Northwestern States prepared today for n long siege against declining wheat prices. Failing in efforts to have the Government guarantee them $3 wheat the farmers have “struck." They plan, in accordance with instructions from farm organizations, to hold their wheat until the price has reached $3 a bushel. Wheat prices Jumped to $2.10 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday as a result of the beginning of the strike.

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FOOTBALL N or th western vs. Indiana Only Big Ten Game of Season Washington Park SATURDAY . on 2:30 P. M. vCI. OU SEATS SELLING AT CLAYPOOL DRUG STORE Boxes, $2.50 and $3. Stands, $1.50 and $2. General Admission, $1

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Receipts fell off more than 200,000 bushels. Kansas farmers appear almost unanl* mous in the “strike.” Empty box cars stand on every siding while 96,000,000 bushels of wheat lie untouched, according to reports. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 27.—N0 widespread curtailment of wheat offerings hag been noticed in the grain markets of the Southwest, grain men here said today. J. C. Mohler, secretary of agriculture at Topeka, declared there was no farmers’ strike in that State and that probably only a minority of the Kansas grain growers would back the movement to force wheat up to $3 r bushel. PASTOR, CREDIT MEN’S SPEAKER. “Credit and Character” will be the subject of a talk by th eßev. E. H. Klstler, pastor of th Fourth Presbyterian Church, at the weekly luncheon of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men, tomorrow noon at the Claypool Hotel.

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ENGLI S H ’S All Next Weeks GEO. M. COHAN'S COMEDIANS IN Tho Biggest Musical Comedy Hit on Earth. “MARY” (ISN’T IT A GRAND OLD NAME?) With the Best Singing and Dancing Chorus Ever Assembled Seats Ready Tomorrow Prices. Nights. 50c to S3; Wed. Mat. 50c to $2; Sat. Mat., 30c to $2.50.

S Murat SEE ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY I Prices, SI.OO, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00. 1 RICHARD WALTON TULLY i Presents | GUY BATES POST | “THE MASQUERADER” The Century’s Sensation. I Double Revolving Stages. J Triple Electrical Equipment. I Three Cars required to transport. No One Seated During Prologue. CURTAIN 2:15-8:15 SHARP.