Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1921 — Page 4

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3tttiraua Satis SFirora INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-361 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising offire. (Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices ; New \- or k, Boston. Payne, Bums & Smith. Inc. NOR WILL the reversal of the conviction of Charley Pease tend to strengthen the confidence of the public in our law enforcement agencies. NO GREATER BLOW at the bonding evil has ever been delivered than Judge Pritchard's order that a bondsman may be accepted on only one .bond at a time. Whenever it becomes generally understood that the court means it the pressure for exceptions will cease. PROBABLY NO ONE THING would do more to complete the destruction of public confidence in the State government than the pardon or paro.e of Dennis J. Bu6h. But even then there are uany who expect such action as a fitting climax to Governor Goodrich’B well-known disregard of propriety. THERE ARE NO DEFECTS in the prohibition laws which cannot be cured by persistent efforts on the part of the enforcement agents. An illustration of this is the eventual imprisonment of the Haags notwithstanding the inefficiency and lack of purpose of Claris Adams, who was then prosecutor. WHEN FRANK CARROLL of the Indianapolis News was lauding himself as the exclusive local advocate of truth in advertising it was noticeable that he neglected to tell which member of his staff censored the notorious statement of the ownership, management and circulation of the News that was disproved in Federal Court. A Remedy for Hysteria It comes with considerable of a surprise in this peaceful city of Indianapolis, where this is little of the lawlessness incident to a seafaring town that the placing of riot guns in stores adjoining banks should be advocated. It is true that burglars have very successfully pulled off many jobs and that hold-ups have occurred, but there is no necessity to prepare for the quelling of riots. Advocacy of the idea that fortifications may be erected around the banks displays a hysteria that calls for a diagnosis. It appears that there is a crime wave over the United States brought about by two elements. The first is unemployment, for men must live even if they rob to get something to eat. The second is the notorious ability to “get by” with the authorities. Years, even centuries, of experience have shown that the prevention of crime is not accomplished through the severity of the punishment, but through the certainty of it. The authority for this may be found in every treatise of repute that deals on the subject. If the police are hand in glove with the criminals, nothing in* the world will stop the crime. If the courts make a farce of enforcing penalties, they simply multiply violence.' If there is no certainty of the punishment, and it has been demonstrated again and again that there is no certainty in Indianapolis, It may be expected that staid professional people of the community will be obliged to do something. Where courts fall down completely, history has always shown that the citizens must take up the burden. The advocation of fortification is logical, but it is not the proper step. Organized demand for the proper enforcement of law would awaken the courts and discommode criminaas now secure from the law. Let the Grand Jury Investigate! • Announcement is now made that the Marion County grand jury will investigate the affidavit made by Carl Bernauer in which he admits giving false testimony for the purpose of convicting John L. Partlow of receiving stolen autos. It is about time that some authority went to the bottom of this affair, stories of which have done much toward destroying the confidence that every community should have in Its courts. Bernauer and Sterrett, his partner, have been recipients of the kind of judicial “clemency” that has made the Marion Criminal Court notorious. No investigation should end before it has revealed the number of times these men have been favored by Judge Collins and the reasons for that favor. * * The court has heretofore reposed unusual confidence in these two men and the confidence has been abused without causing it to be destroyed. It should not be forgotten that in dealing with Bernauer the question is not whether he has perjured himself, nor in which statement he has committed the perjury, but whether he has done anything else than perjure himself in his conflicting statements.

No Market in Russia It is difficult to see why any one should endorse the words of Timothy Healy, chairman of the American Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with Russia, when he Baid concerning the deportation and recall at the same time of Martens, the soviet representative to America: “This order from Moscow has brought the Russian question to a point where American labor must take immediate actioc. We have reasoned long enough with this administration. We shall now take the arguments of labor to Congress and call upon those Representatives and Senators not allied with the administration’s policy to act for the relief of American workers. We shall call mass meetings of working people all over the country, so that every Congressman will know the sentiment of labor in hia own State on this matter.” There is, however, a short-sighted, or otherwise influenced endorsement by some unions. For another generation all that is unholy will be termed Bolshevism and an odium will attach to the word soviet, simply because of association with the terrible situation in Russia. Mothers will scare little children with it just as they did with goblins and green glass eyes. Too, . when any gang of thieves, anarchists or mobs arise, they will do so in i the name of the soviet form of government. Why labor should desire to take up trade with Russia is difficult to understand. True, there is now, temporary unemployment, for the first time since the war, but how long would trade with Russia employ any one? It does not keep the Russians busy, although they have or should have, an abundance of raw material. Russia does not recognize private property—America does; like water and oil, this does not mix. The advantages of possession of private wealth, of stimulating individual growth is permanent in America and was demonstrated in Indiana years ago. The history of New Harmony stands side by side with Abraham Lincoln’s early youth, one was socialistic, the other intensely individualistic and the world almost worships Lincoln while New Harmony colony is but a memory. Lincoln lived a few miles from the greatest communist experiment, aside from Russia, ever tried. The Russian soviet has cancelled its contracts in America made by Martens, and any money spent on them by Americans is lost, so far as the soviet cares. It would confiscate manufactured American goods in a Russian port just as quickly as it stole the wealth of its own citizens. It might refuse to accept goods without conscience or reason after they were made. No factory would be sure of its pay, no working man could feel secure and, indeed, a risk of bankruptcy is certain with every Russian contract —all is subject to the whim of traitors to the cause of the allies in the war and exploiters of their own country and its wealth in a picture never before drawn, so deep in misery, starvation and death. To anything that will justly benefit labor every loyal American gives his steadfast approval, but to tie its industie3 with the worst, rather than the best, government on earth is not an ideal towards which any nation can look and live. One is known by the company one keeps. Russia is slowly eating itself up. When it awakens from its terrible hypnosis it will be poverty stricken, exploited and, let it be hoped, wiser It will arise some day, after the suffering is sufficiently acute to restore it to sanity and will then recognize the eacredness of a promise, the sanctity of the Golden Rule and the necessity for an international as well as private decency. Until that time comes all friends of that stricken country can best serve it by leaving it alone, by permitting it to work out its own problems. Any other course will lead to disister in America, to bankruptcy and to chaos—for Russia is today economically ruined and can only live a while longer on the property of other nations. That nation should adopt some ideal. At least it should get commonly honest and pay for what it takes. The platform permitting the robbery of the other fellow of his goods is not a safe constitution for any aatloa, ere*, if backed by a strong hand for a season.

Maoris Supply Legendary History of New Zealand

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—Copvright, 1921, Press Illustrating Service. A tatooed design, such as covers the face of this old warrior, was the signature of each member of the Maori tribe.

DIE WEST 180 degrees from Indianapolis, or half-way round the world, then due south nearly 100 degrees, rewrites to the south end of New Zealand, or it distance of nearly one-tlilrd the circumference of the earth. This Is where IV. D. Boyce, owner of the Daily Times, is taking an expedition In search of new material for travel articles and stories of fiction. The title of his articles, soon to appear In the Times, is “West by Southwest." While awaiting the arrival of these articles, the first*of which is on the way, information la being published on this page concerning the places to be visited by the expedition.

THIS is (he story of hot Now Zealand was discovered and settled -—tho story was told in a legend banded down among the Maoris, Its orig Inal settlers, for hundreds of years. It begins with the dream of a medicine man who, weary of the unending war between the tribes of the island* of the South Seas, hid himself in the forest with a view to thinking out some way of stopping the rapid decline of his people in numbers. When he emerged several days later and called for a gathering of the entire tribe, anew light was shining in bts eyes. He had passed through a won derful dream, he said. Maru, the god <>f the Maoris, had shown him far to the south anew land, as yet uninhabited, and bad bade him lead his tribe to it. There, he had been old. food lay in abundance: peace would descend upon the Maoris and they would be free to live their lives as they wished, without the need of betng continually on guard against enemies. Hut, be warned them, this paradise was not to be attained without hardships. There would be times when they would he discouraged, when their spirit would falter, when they would curse the man who had started them on their Jour ney, when even their faith in Manx might waver. But, said the medleine man. if they* persisted, eventually they would reach the promised land. Thus it happened that one day. a long time after, a tinge fleet of canoe* put off from the Island upon which the Maoris lived and in the canoe was every member of the tribe and everything that they possessed. By day they look their position from the sun. by night the prows of thrir canoes were pointed at the star which marks the lower point of the Southern Cross, which they called “Maturika.” DARK DAYS ENCOUNTERED. If the mpdieine man had foreseen that the way would not be without its perils, his description of them was beggared by the realty. Food got low, strength waned, ambition was lost nnd the ranees drifted, their occupants no longer able to wield the rude oars. But their faith was not lost and ever the steersmen kept the prows pointed to the south. Days followed nights and nights followed days, and all around them they saw nothing but the broad expanse of the ocean. Days in which the sun poured down its anguishing rays upon their naked bodies were followed by days when fog surrounded them ami shut them in. They grew emaciated and hollow-eyed, and many of them died. But ever they kept headed toward the south. Came at last a day whem the fog lifted suddenly and before them isy land. But It had not the aspect of the land they sought. Huge, sullen walls of stone frowned flown grimly upon them. But it was land, and their hopes revived. Tho fleet sailed around the huge barrier and into the harbor which now Is Waitemata, and on the shores of which stands Auckland, the largest city of New Zealand. The Maoris had come into their own at last and the dream of the medicine man had been fulfilled. SAILORS MASSACRED. , So far as can be determined the Maoris eaino to New Zealand during the latter part of the eleventh century. It was about five hundred years after that, In 1642, to be exact, that they first saw a

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white mail. Papt Abel Janson Tasman and his adventurers appeared about then and they gave the islands their present name of New Zealand. All of those In the first party of sailors to be landed were ambushed and that night were the principal dish of a great Maori feast. In 17fi9 <’apt. James Cook came oloug and landed among the Maoris. He managed to keep his men from being eaten because ho succeeded in arousing the curiosity of the savage cannibals. Among other things, he gave them several pigs, from which descended the wild hog* which later on thronged the island. Cook got the Maoris to promise to let the original animals live for several years, so that they could populate tue land with other pigs and thus lay the foundations for a supply of food that was entirely new to the ravages. Cook got away safely with his party and thus was taken the step which in the run was to bring civilization to New Zealand. The Maoris are still la New Zealand, but their original hundred* which grew into thousands has dwindled now tb about 40,000. They arc as picturesque as were their forefathers and a interesting a people us ever lived. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing the Indiana Daily Times Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskln Director, Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly ard briefly. Give full name and address and enclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer.) EVER READ THE CONSTITUTION? Q. Why don't we vote directly for the President of the United States? D. G. B. . The Constitution of the United States expressly provides the method In use. ALLIGATOR PEAK DESCRIBED. Q. Define and describe an alligator pear, which you mentioned some time ngo. C. S. A. The alligator pear was originally brought from Cuba, nnd It Is now largely cultivated In many of the southern states. It is not a true peer, but is a pear-shaped vegetable or fruit, with a hard, shiny, dark green rind, mid contains a seed cavity something like that of a melon, which is filled with one large seed. The pulp of the pear is largely used for salads. PHILIPPINE COAST LINE. Q. How does the coast line of the Philippine Islands compare In with that of the United States? G. T. O. A. This archipelago consist of 5,141 islands, 1,473 of which are not listed by name. Almost 3,000 of them contain less than one square mile of land each. The coast line is so Intricate that with one twenty-fifth the area of the United States this group of islands has more than double the coast line. STANDARDS OF HARDNESS. Q. What are hardest substances known to man today? D. U. V. A. The United States Geologienl Survey states that no exact standards of hardness have yet been formulated and < >nsequently It is impossible to say exactly what substances are hardest. Among mineral substances, diamonds, corundum, and topaz are some of the hardest. JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. Q. What was tho occupation of John Howard Payne who wrote “Home Sweet Home”? When was the song written? T. A. F. A. John Howard Bayne was an actor, manager and playwright. “Home Sweet Home,” occurs in his opera “Clari, or the Mnld of Milan,” which was produced in 1823. The music was adapted by Henry It. Bishop, from an old melody tbal Payne had heard in Italy. The publishers of this song made quite a sum of money from its sale, but its authors profited very slightly.

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life t —By Ann Lisle

CHAPTER CXXI. “Jim, where did you get those—ideas about our conspiring to get you Into your position with Anthouy Norreys?” I fenced uneasily, facing my angry hJsband. "Are you denying it?” asked Jim—his eyes (lashing dark and sombre as he spots in a curt, cutting voice, utterly unlike tJint of tho lover ho bad been ouly the night before. “No-only you have the spirit that actuated us—so, so wrong. It seems as if some malicious person hud twisted the story to suit—to suit his own purpose.” “Well, who could have told me?” Jim demanded, with almost a cat-and-mouse air. "Norreys wouldn't. Os that you may be sure. That leaves Terry and Betty and you—nnd Neal. Which of your fellow-conspirators do you suspect?” "Not Neal!” I flashed out at him, in on agony of denial. And yet- who else was there? Not Terry—for Jim had wanted to speak to him Just now—no doubt. In order to verify some part of his information. Not Betty—certainly not poor Betty. And that left—Just Neal. “It wasn’t Neal.” \ declared again to still my own doubt*. After all could It be Neal? Virginia - Jim's beloved sister—had flung back at Neal the circlet of diamonds the boy had given Phoebe as token of hia love before he weut off to the last of the training camps. He had gone with every high thought of service abroad; he had given our mothers ring to Phoebe ns a sign of his love —a betrothal—and Virginia had flung it back at him. She had hurt him, bruised him, taken from him Phoebe's pledge. . . , Jim was Virginia's only and beloved brother, even as Neal was mine, it was Virginia who had cullsted Terry’s aid nl the time Jim so sorely needed work so it was Virginia who had really brought about the whole Norreys situation. Thus my mind retsoned. but my heart rejected it. “It wasn't Neal.” 1 declared again, firmly this time. “He wouldn't do such a thing out of a revengeful spirit—and he wouldn't Just let it slip accidentally. It wasn't Neal. I'd sooner suspect—Virginia.” Before I could add what was on the tip of my tongue. “And I don’t suspect Virginia!” Jim whirled on me. “Joanie again!" he cried, ’’can’t you leave her alone? After all, she’s the one person who understands me- the one ha-

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man being whose love doesn’t seem to bring me misery.”'— Copyright, 1921. (To be continued) HOROSCOPE “The stars incline, but do not compel !’* j SATURDAY, JAN. 8. Mercury dominates today in planetary rule, according to astrology. The planet is in a strongly benefit aspect. 1 The sway is read ns presaging tremendous business for publishers, whether they produce books, periodicals or newspapers. siew minds will contribute to a year of supreme prosperity. Contracts entered into during this direction of the stars should be fortunate to ail concerned, if they are completed today. Bersons whose birthdate It is should avoid all business ventures. Attention to business will pay well. Children born on this day may be clever and resourceful. These subjects of Capricorn usually make success with great rapidity, and are popular with the opposite sex, although not necessarily successful in marriage. SUNDAY, JAN. 8. During this day many planetary influences contend, according to astrology. Willie Jupiter and Saturn are In benefic aspect, Venus, Mars, Uranus and the. Sun are all mildly adverse. The new moon of this date falls when the sign Sagittarius is rising and the luminaries are coujoined with Mercury on the cusp of tho second house in trine to Jupiter in the ninth. The aged should benefit from this direction of the stars, but there will be many deaths before the spring. Bersons whose birthdate it is tuive (he augury of a successful year. These who are employed probably will be promoted. t.'hiidren born on this day probably will have great prosperity all through life. Girls may marry men whom they can control.—Copyright, 1921. “MAN O’ WAR” HOLDS RECORD. Q. Which is the faster horse, a runner or a pacer? And what horse holds the record? IS. H. A. A runner is the fastest race horse. “Man o' War” holding the record.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR. By David Cory

One day as Puss was traveling througn a forest he came to a poor woodcutter’s hut, so he knocked upon the door, and pretty soon the woodcutter, who was sick in bed, called out: “Who is knocking?” “Fuss in Boots, Junior,” replied our little traveller. ‘‘Well, then, Sir Cat, open the door." So Puss did as he was bid and went over to the poor sick man and said: ’’What can I do for you? Have you food enough?” “1 have tasted nothing for two days,” replied the poor man, and then he closed his eyes, for he was very weak. “Goodness, me,” said Puss, “it is lucky I have some bread and milk In my knapsack,” and he at once spread a little table and set It near the bed, and after the woodcutter had eaten and drank a glass of milk, he said: “Sir Cat, you have saved my life. Do you see that horn hanging over the fireplace? Take it down, for it is yours for the asking. It is a magic horn, 30 i have been told, but what use have I, a poor wood-cutter for a magic horn?” So Puss climbed upon a chair and took down the old horn, which was tarnished with age, and put it In his pocket, and then, bidding the woodcutter good-by, he set oot once more upon his Journey of adventure. Cut, gracious me. He had gone but a short distance when a band of robbers Jumped out from behind a thick bush and said: “Give us your purse. Sir Cat, or we will cut off your head and the tip of your tail,” and then they laughed, for they thought of course that Puss would be frightened to death. *‘My purse is for the poor and needy and not for robber men,” replied Puss fiercely, and he drew his sword. “Ho. ho!” cried the largest of all the robbers. “Brave words, but, my good Sir Cat, you are one against many. Hand over your purse or your life will not be worth a pewter ha'penny!” Well, this so angered our little Fuss, Junior, that he raised his sword to strike the robber, but in less than I can tell It one of the robbers struck it with his big club and Puss was left to fight with nls bare paws. But don’t get worried. for suddenly be thought of the magic born, and taking it from his pocket, he blew upon It. And, would you believe it, the bluet that came from that magic horn tore the leaves from the trees until the forest wag as bare as if It were the middle cf January.

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“Hold on 1” shouted the robbers. “Don't blow again!” But Puss only grinned an<j blew another blast, and off came the hats from the heads of those bad robber men and rolled along the ground like hoops. “If I should take a good breath aud blow,” said Puss fiercely, “you robber men would find yourselves at the other end of the earth, and maybe farther, for all I know.” “Here, take this bag of gold,” said tha biggest robber man. “and we will go away, for your hurricane born is too much for us.” And he dropped the bag of gold and ran away, and so did his comrades. —Copyright, 1921. (To Be Contnued.) CITIES BOOST RELIEF FUND Checks From Over State Reach Headquarters. Checks totaling nearly 82,500 were received yesterday by Caleb S. Denny, chairman for Indiana of the Hoover Relief Fund, at local headquarters, 147 North Pennsylvania street. Three of the checks came from other cities In the State, and are taken as evidence of the deep interest of the people of Indiana in the work of saving from starvation the millions of children whom Herbert Hoover is trying to feed until the June harvest. Asa result of the four checks 200 orphans will be given their chance for life. One o? the SSOO donations came from the Rush County chapter of the Red Cross. The second was the gift of the citizens of Spencer, and another for $450 was the result of donations given by members of the Seymour Rotary (Tub. Delavan Smith sent his check for $506 and Herman Hnlman of Evansville, SIOO. Mrs. Meyer Eroymson, chairman and Mrs. Wolf Sussraan, vice chairman, announce that they will have a large force of workers to begin collections In the downtown district next week. NAUTICAL AND STATUTE MILES. Q. How much does a nautical mile differ from a statute mile? E. C. D. A. The Bureau of Standards says that the United States nautical mile is 6.080110 feet. Since the statute mile is 5.250 feet, a nautical mile is 1.151553 statute miles. The British Admiralty mile Is 6,080 feet.

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