Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1921 — Page 13

DISARMAMENT, PLEA OF WOMEN IN LATEST MOVE Will Abandon Sentiment and Base Fight on Expenditures. MASS MEETINGS CALLED WASHINGTON, D. C.—A women's world disarmament committee, which is bent on putting the disarmament question before the people in mass meetings ali over the United States, is the latest political aetelvity of women to get under way here. It will be watched with interest because, aside from the importance of the subject it has tackled, it will show what the women can do in the way of public sentiment. The women are in favor of disarmament. Further, they believe that the great mass of the people are also in fa vor of it. They believe that when the . people are shown how much armament ► costs and what might otherwise be done 'with the money, the people will be still ‘ more in favor of disarmament. In a - word, their object is to clarify the sentiment in favor of disarmament and make -it evident to Congress. ! Whether one favors disarmament or 1 not, it can scarcely be denied that this move to stimulate public discussion of it is a good one. If the argument in favor of competitive shipbuilding is the best one it will doubtless win. In the past, peace and disarmament ■ have been urged on the grounds of sentiment, with many allusions to widows, orphans and wounded. The new organisation talks statistics, with the Idea ot showing that neither this country nor env other is in shape to spend millions . of dollars on battleships that in a year or two may be obsolete. The committee is composed of women all over the country. It is entirely a women’s group because the fifty women who started it in Washington found that while plenty of men—big business men, politicians, financiers —■ were willing to endorse the project, they were not willing to be publicly lined np as adherents—not until the demand for world disarmament is well established. Senator Borah of Idaho, and Representative Frear of Wisconsin, however, agreed to •peak at a mats meeting to discuss disarmament. The great esper.se of maintaining a militaristic government is one of the main arguments set forth by the women’s committee. It holds that a large percentage of the people want this expense cut. that the people in general do not want a militaristic government, but that big army and navy programs continue to be planned because the peopi" do not make their sentiments known. What the committee expects to do is to hold mass meetings and conferences and interest people In letting their congressmen know what they thiDk about disarmament.

WILL FIGHT NAVY BILL. “We are concentrating on the naval appropriation bill,” says Miss Emma Wold, chairman for the District of Columbia. “because the naval bill will be one of the most important matters before Congress when it convenes this month. There are only time rations with formidable navies—England, Japan and the United States. Os the three, this country is the only one that can continue ■ big building program without bankruptcy. and we can afford it only by giving up ail ideas of progress in education, road building, sanitation and peace time science. lit e bear nothing but how the country must retrench in its expenditures. and the only place to retrench when an Army and Navy are being built up is to cut down a few thousand here and there on education and science instead of adding a few thousand to meet the demands of ordinary progress. That is what it means when we economize. “England has cut down on her naval building. Japan is building In a fe-verish-sort of attempt to keep the United States from entirely outdistancing her. Neither nation has the funds to put into battleships and the I nlted States can raise the funds only at the expense of progress and by heavy taxation that must grow heavier as we continue. “Right now there is proposed a tax on everything that is bought, not just on luxuries, but proportionate tax on pins kand needles, chairs. c< ffee, and everyBjditng else that stores carry. This is obnot necessary to pay the $481,for non-military Government projBut something of the sort will be necessary if In addition to this civil appropriation and over $2,000,000,060 to he pßid on past wars, we add $855,000,000 to be invested in the Army and Navy.” Besides working to have the naval appropriation limited, the women’s committee wants to have President Harding nnd Congress take steps to call a conference of the powers to discuss practical means of disarmament. This many statesmen would demand as tho step to be taken before we cut down the naval building program. The bearings on disarmament before the House Naval Committee in January strongly Indicated this attitude General Bliss, Secretary Daniels. General Pershing and others who testified spoke in favor of an international conference to consider some degree of disarmament, but pending sueh a conference, they favored a continuance of shipbuilding. JAPAN AM* ENGLAND WILLING. So far as naval programs are concerned, only England, Japan and th° United States would need to confer, fr they are the only naval powers now. Bm as other nations would feel slighted if left out of the deliberations, it is probable that a conference would include them also. Both Japan and England have suggested that they would welcome a chaneft to limit naval progress. Japanese statesmen have expressed a dpsire to see their navy reduced to a minimum that would still enable Japan to protect her coasts. As far back as 1913. England asked for an agreement to reduce naval expand** tures. but Germany, then a naval power, would not consider it. When Sir Philip Gibbs was asked his opinion as to England's present view on accepting an invitation to a disarmament conference he said that England is divided into factions regarding disarmament, but "there is no doubt that the great mass of the English people would bring pressure on the government to accept such a decision, and the entire strength of the labor and liberal parties in England would be brought in on that side.” The objection to a conference and agreement is that there is the danger of one conferee not playing fair. It is still remembered how Napoleon at Jena limited Prussia to an army of 42,000 men, and how the Prussians kept to the letter of the demand. The Jeker was that the Prussians enlisted 42.000 men at a time and trained them quickly and in fenslvely, and then discharged them to enlist another quota, so that when Napoleon next mer the Prussians in battle a huge, well-prepared army rose up to the attack*. That this sort of rhinc could occur again no one will deny, though it would perhaps be hard to build a navy in secret. The committee also counters by saying that nations, like individuals, must trust others sometimes. At present the pro-disarmament faction maintains, we are the nation which is attracting most attention by war preparations and therefore we can and ought to show that we have no aggressive Intentions by taking the lead in suggesting a conference. We are. mo-eover, the nation which can most safely start the vicious spiral curving downward, because, being set more or lees apart, we

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Crown Prince Hirohito, photographed just before his departure on his extensive trip that will take him to many countries in Europe. The United States is not on his official itinerary.

have less fear of invasion than the crowded Europeans. These are the two courses ahead of us: One. to go it alone, trusting no other country and building ships as fast as we can to keep any other nation from building fatser; the other, to get the powers together and see whether a practical scheme can be devised to safeguard the nations who are willing to lessen their armaments. The women's committee calls Itself a group of opportunists and insists that now Is the psychological time for a conference because the people who pay the ( bills want it, because militarism Is plunging them into national bankruptcy and because a conference Is a reasonable proceeding, such as any business would hold iu the event it was swamped byoverhead expenses. GAUGES CANDLE HEAT 16 MILES Celebrated Scientist Does Other Startling Feats. CLEVELAND. April 22.--Pld you know that there Is a device with which the heat radiated by a candle can be measured sixteen miles away? Neither did we until Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols was elected president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the largest sleenttflc university in the country. He will take his office July 1. At present Dr. Nichols, who is a former president of Dartmouth College, is director of pure science at Nela Park, where one of the largest laboratories in the world Is maintained by the illuminating Company, which furnishes light and power to Cleveland homes and industries. He designed this apparatus to measure the heat radiated by the stars. It consists of two delicate vanes hung in a glass bulb on a fine quartz fiber. One side of each vane is. painted Mack. Due to the fact that the blackened sides absorb more heat thßn the shiny sides, the slightest heat tends to make the vanes revolve and to twist the fiber on which they are hung. By measuring the amount the fiber Is twisted the amount of heat can be calculated. Astoronomers tel! us some stars are so far away that it takes light more than one hundred years to reach us. "So the heat I was measuring bad left

|Srßil| Spring find you tired M, e and achy? \ A KE you dragging along from day to day \ \Mj - : with a lame, achy back? Do the early V JdIL \I IMi **■ wecks of spring find you all tired out, nil - j weak and lacking ambition for the day’s work? Does every little task bring those stabbing pains *rW that keep you nervous and unstrung? Then lose 'V ** Tells a Story? no time finding out what’s wrong. Your back doesn’t ache without a cause and usually it is weak kidneys. A cold, strain or overwork may have slowed up your kidneys and left poisons In your blood that shouldn't be there. That, then, is why you have those all-day backaches and sudden pains, headaches, dizzy spells and annoying bladder irregularities. Don’t let the trouble get worse! Use Doan’s Kidney Pills. They have helped thousands and should help you. Ask your neighborl

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the stars long before I was born,” said Dr. Nichols. LIGHT EXERTS PRESSURE. Among other scientific discoveries cred ited to Dr. Nichols is that a beam of light exerts a pressure just as does any article the weight of which can be measured by physical means. Scientists for 300 years have been working to demonstrate this fact. “What is the value of it'/” the correspondent asked. Dr. Nichols answered: "A scientist discovered that an electric wire when heated thrv>ws off electrons. People said: 'Very Interesting, no doubt, but how does the matter concern us?' FOR INSTANCE: “When you talk by long distance telephone to San Francisco you're employing a practical application of that discovery. Without It tho wireless telephone would be impossible. "it is all very well to say that what we want is applied science, but you can t apply a thing until after it is discovered. “At Massachusetts Institute of Technology I hope to keep a proper balance between pure and applied science. “Pure science unearths a fact. Applied •deuce puts it to use. "Possibly a dozen people today understand the Einstein theory. It’s well with in the realm of possibility, however, innt some day all of us will be using devices growing out of it.” Dr. Nichols is 51 years of age. He has received degrees from Kansas Agricul {lira! College, Cornell, the University of Berlin and Cambridge University. He was president of Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N. H., from 1909 to 11)1(5. He has been a professor at Colgate, I artmouth, Columbia and Yale. CHARITABLE I’ASSERSBV. LONDON, April 22.—When a inan fell —or Jumped—from the window of his room o ntbe second story of his premises at East Ham the other day it looked as though he was about due to take a hurried trip to the morgue. Luckily for him but not for those he encountered he managed to alight on a couple of women who were passing. He walked to the ambulance which was summoned, but the two women were car ried to it and at the hospital it was stated that although he would be all right in a couple of days the two women were seriously Injured.

These are Indianapolis Cases:

POTOMAC PARK GARDEN FOLK HAVE PROBLEM Whether Vegetable Raising or Golf Is the Better Recreation. 800 GARDENERS PEEVED By FREDERICK J. MASKIN'. WASHINGTON. D. C—Whether cultivating a garden deserves to rank as a recreation, and whether It is as much deserving of a place on earth as golf, are questions now agitating a number of persons in the District of Columbia. Down in Potomac Park, this, city, is a tract of seventy-five acres, which has been for three years given over to the citizens of the District of Columbia to be used for gardening. An organization, cnHd the Potomac Garden Club, has been formed nnd placed under the genera! supervision of W. C. Hall of the Department of Agriculture. In this way a flourishing and productive community farm has been put into operation. Adjoining the farm Is a golf course, also on the government land, and open to ali the citizens of the district. Now Congress has passed an act appropriating all of this government ground in Potomac Park for “recreational purposes,” ami this is understood to menu that 800 vegetable gardens, upon which 1,300 people work, and which supply about 0.000 people with all the fresh vegetables they need, are to be plowed and sodded in order to add a few more boles to a golf course. Naturally, the 800 citizens who have garden plots in this tract are indignant, and so are many other parts of tho who have plots in other parts of the city. Through citizens' associations a number of protests have been made to Congress. It has been pointed out to the gentlemen on the hill that these seventy-five acres in garden furnish exercise to a great many more people than the same area can furnish in a golf course The Congressmen have also been reminded of their great desire to economize. It has been pointed out to them that the seventy five acres of garden produce s'lo,ooo worth of food a year and cost the Government practically nothing, while the golf course will cost the Government about $20,000 a year to keep up

GOI.F COURSE DEVOTEES HAVE ARGUMENT. Os course, the proponents of the golf course have their strong arguments, too. They claim that the proper use of Potomac Park Is that of a playground. It is already one of the best in the country in the variety of sports It affords, in the excellence of the fields for them and In Its adequacy to the city's population, Here tennis, baseball, football, polo, horseback riding, golf nnd swimming, are all provided for. And the facilities are not skimpy and overcrowded, ilka those of the New York and Chicago playgrounds. but compare favorably with those of country clubs. Whether gardening has a place in the organization is a matter which no doubt will admit of much debate, but It c e r talniy can not be denied that this Potomac Garden Club is one of the most successful and Interesting experiments In municipal gardening which has been made in the United States Mr. Hall has made a statistical study of the operations of this tract which is very revealing of the possibilities of the municipal garden*. Each gardener is here given a tract ot one tenth of an acre. Mr. Hail s reports show that nearly every gardener produces on this tract, not only enough fresh vegetables for his own family, but usually enough to supply several neighbor families, while most of the gardeners also produce their own r ipplles of potatoes nnd canned vegetables for the winter. There were 43,000 quarts of canned goods put up by members of the Potomac Club last year Th average value of what each farmer produced from his tenth of an acre was about SBS. The gardens required on an average about one hour of work a day. There were in all 1.300 persons employed on them, which means that members of a family took turns at the weeding and hoeing. Call it recreation or not, Just a.s you choose, but It Is good exercise, and tho garden workers earned on an average of 85 cents an hour for every hour they put In. That is probably more than a good many of them earned in their regular occupations. All of this is based upon the current market values of the

Shelby Street Mrs. J. Ward, 812 Shelby street, Rays: “Just sfter I recovered from malarial fever, my kidneys began to trouble me. My back ached and pained until i couldn't stand it any longer. My kidneys were weak and I had no control over their action. *1 had pain in the hack of my neck, nnd m.v health was generally run down. One of mv neighbors advised me to try Doan's Kidney Pills, and I got two boxes. They fixed me up in good shape and since then I have bad very little to complain of in the way of kidney trouble.”

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1921.

He Saved ‘Missouri’ 5 Robert E. Cox of Belmont., Pa„ a chief gunner in the Navy, photographed at the White House after President Harding bad personally decorated him with the highest award for valor—tho Congressional Medal of Honor. The ceremony took place in the east room of the White House on the seventeenth anniversary of the day on which Cox saved the battleship Missouri from destruction. After an explosion iu a turret had set fire to powder in the adjoining handling room. Cox flooded the after magazine of the Missouri at the risk of his own life. Thirty men were killed in '.he accident. Cox. as a warrant officer, was debarred from receiving the medal of honor by tin 4 law providing for its award only to en listed men. Not until last February was special legislation enacted permitting an exception to be made in Cox's case.

vegetables they produced. Mr Hnll es timntes that in all this garden plot was the means of converting 70,000 hours of leisure into food. POSSIBILITIES OF GARDENS. The most interesting thing about this farm, though, is the uniform success of : Its members, and the eagerness which people have shown to farm upon good ground and under expert supervision. The home gardening movement in the United States has had a remarkable development. Beginning ns a war mess ure, it bus survived ana grown. This i year the acreage planted In tho Nation ss a whole Is expected to be a little less, but tho product a little greater, because the people are learning how to farm and tho soil of vacant lots and back yards Is better after ©no or two years of culti I vatlon. j But this home gardening has be.cn for ] the most part a haphazard venture. Vni cant lots and back yards have been tn-sf j!y utilized. Sometimes they have had good soil and sometimes not. Much time ! nnd energy have been wasted by persons ! who were Ignorant and had no means of getting expert advice. Furthermore, many persons who most needed fresh J vegetables were unable to get the use of even n foot of soli. . Now Mr. Hall's calculations show that ! for a city of half a million people, like ! Washington, a 5.000 acre tract would furI niah a farm for each family, large enough j to produce all the fresh vegetables It I needed, including its winter supply of | canned vegetable* and of potatoes and [ other vegetables that keep without canI ntng To make a success of such a municipal farm would doubtless require a skilled agriculturist at its head, and a few assistants, who would give instrue tlons both in gardening and in canning vegetables. But tiie Potomac flub exI perirnent shows that such a farm would produce several million dollars worth ot food. It would be one of the best investments of tax money' that a city could make. The city would also reap an enormous indirect reward In the health nnd energy of its citizens, for this project would bring outdoor exercise and fresh food to the great numbers of people who. In every American city, are suffering for lack of both.

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FINE LIBRARY, BUT NO BOOKS Denver’s Lihrary Room Woefully Lacks Tomes. DENVER. April 2. —Although Denver has one of the melt beautifully appointed nnd richly-carved library rooms west of the Mississippi, it is “bookless,” and prospects for Its empty shelves being soon filled with tomes of knowledge are remote. Five years ago Denver's palatial postoffice building was completed. Thousands of pictures taken of the structure showed its elaborate interior, with its wonderful columns, corridors, courtrooms and offices. They showed, also.

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the ornate library—its fine grained finish, the hand-carved decorations, the Latin inscriptions over the doors, and the names of literary celebrities such as Bacon, Dickens and Macauley. But these photographs never showed a single book on the vast shelf space—there were none there. Shortly after completion of the postoffice building the war broke out and when the United States entered the conflict none of the Colorado Representatives in Congress was anxious to ask that body for an appropriation to purchase books for the elaborate library room in the building. And now the mooted wave.s of economy in Government appropriations continues to be a handicap to securing sufficient yellow-bound volumes to fill the gaping shelf space, and Denver's most beautiful library room remains starkly empty.

‘SPHYNX’ TAKES i RAP AT W. J. Bf Wets Fight Further ‘Tax’ bfl Proposed N. Y. Talk. I NEW YORK. April 22.—The “Natiom* Sphynx,” an organization to prohibition, protested today Sunday lectu * by William J. Bryan, in a New York school building, under the auspices >f the board of education. The “Sphynx" declared it was not right to tax citizens to pay Bryan's lecture fee when they already were burdened by taxes increased by prohibition. “His prohibition.” the protest said, “is un-American, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish and anti-everything, and in the final analysis an utter failure.”

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