Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1921 — Page 11

Marie, ‘Little Street Girl,’ \ Reflects Big City "s TragedW

Army of Her Kind Cry Out for Sunshine In"

stead of Barreness.

By LAUREL C. THAYER.

City Court Probation Officer. Twe blue-coated officers were helping a yoiing girl to alight from the police patrol at the alley entrance of the police station during the war. They had beeo instructed to be on the look-ont for young girls on the street after dark. This one had been picked up at Market and Illinois street. She was talking to a bell-hop. “I will meet you at 9 o'clock at”—she was saying, and then she felt the strong Imperative grasp of a man’s hand on her arm. It was a sweet, girlish face that emerged strangely from the top of a man’s rain coat as the three stood a few minutes lateT In front of the desk in the matron's office at the police station where women offenders are received. y* ''Youth was there, but not buoyant, yjoyous youth. The eyes looked at one with a scared, suspicious look as though they expected to discover enmity in your .vetended friendship. The mouth too was a sad little mouth, but the cheeks were still rosy with the sunshine of the Kentucky hills of her hone. LITTLE PRISONER IS "FRISKED." And then began the search. A whitehaired middle-nger woman began In a gentle but busiuess-like way to Investigate the contents of purses and pockets of a rather shabby skirt —a wholly unnecessary proceeding for only a soiled handkerchief and 76 cents tumbled out. The rain co t belonged to the boy she was to meet that night at Indiana avenue and Vermont street she sai-1. "Where do you live,” the matron asked. No answer. The question was repeated. A helpless glance at the big officers, and then—“ Ann and I are at the hotel. Ann Is my chum. She has 25 cents. Marie was slated for “vag," short for “vagrancy.” SHE FACES THE JUDGE. As this slip of a girl faced Judge Pritchard the next morning In a courtroom filled with men and women, every H*y court attache recognized the problem. She was pretty and young. We faced a homeless girl. There was the jail across the street. It would be easy for the Judge to say “A dollar and costs.” and the sheriff would have another boarder for eleven days. But would that solve Marie's problem? Have you ever been la a strange city with 76 cents in your pocket? No? /Then you do not know "the tragedy of the 10 cent piece.” You do not know how a girl's heart can bleed. Marie wa? sent to the city hospital instead of the jail. You always had" to Start a conversation with Marie. And tßen she answered your questions in Hppeciaily reticent about her.own affairs; Suspicions even of teose who desired to nelp her. SHE REVEALS PART OF “HER STORY.” . Siting apart from the other girls one day, she was coined to reveal a part of her story. "I was born on a farm la Kentucky." She said to a visitor, who had a daughter of her own at home, “1 j don't remember my mother, because she i dfed when I was five. Seven months after, my father married a girl fifteen ' years old. He was thirty-nine. 1 had two , sisters and two brothers when he married. Then my stepmother bad five ! children.'* "Did you have nice times playing with • Tf:.* other children.” asked the Htt’e woman, smiling. “No,” was the hesi-1 titling reply. "There wasn't much time. After the housework was done, 1 had to plow. I only went to school in winter. Mother was tired and cross and * fussed with us children. She never | wanted us to play.” “R:;t how did you ever get to Indianapolis?” "My older brother ran away from home, and came here to work, and I ccme with him. and kept house for him. We lived in two rooms. He went back •rtd left me here. He told me to get a 4?0 FORMALITY ABO! T MARIE. Other girls were going to Ft. Harrison, why shouldn't she. .In some social circles. Introductions are an unnecessary formality. The lack of one !s no obstacle, when Marie Joined • group of strange girls at the Terminal Station, boarding a car for Ft. Harrison, one wnfm summer evening. It was a relief to get away from the hot hobed kitchen, where she toasted bread and received $7 a week and board. She paid $4 for a room each week, in the home of a woman too busy with her own affairs to bother about the lonely little country girl. Continuing, Marie said: "The regular cook came hack and I 'ladn/t any money.” If sms several night', after the tragedy of unemployment had become real before this child was picked up by the police. Seventy-sir cents. And lodgings and meals to pay for. The hotel would not keep her unless she paid. She aud Ann were hungry. They must have more money. Where were they to get it? That is why Marie was talking to the bell-hop. That Is why she and Ann went to the fort. “Oh, but—” you say. "There was the Y. TV. C. A. There was the Government employment bureau. Why did she not go to them?” AN UNSOPHISTICATED KENTUCKY GIRL. Marie was Just from the hills of K<yi. tucky. They don't have Y. W. C. A s and employment bureau* there. Marie was a child. To her, these agencies for helpfulness did not exist. She knew only the cheap hotel, and that she must have money. As for recreation, she lnred picture shows. But the doors opened only to those who have moneys She must find one to take her. There was Ann, her 2T> cents. But', girls are not given to treating each other to movie tickets. The day of Marie's release from the hospital arrived She knew most of the women meeting in the.hospital reception room. She knew they- were there to make plans for her and for the others ■emeless too. &HERE WILL YOU YE NOW? will you live now?" asked one of the women, as the nurses' superintendent brought her. "I haven't any P'a'.'e," was the embarrassed reply. There j wag a long silence Then someone ! thought of an upstairs room unoccupied ‘‘""by. I’ll take Marie borne wltb me.” I said a morheriy woman. "Suppose It : were my daughter left like this." And she did. The neighbors brought ! la clothing. Her hostess found employinert and Marie started to work the ; fallowing day. apparently happy. 'All went well until the week beforChristmas. Then the women who hsd f bcccme most interested left the city for tui holidays? and Marie was taken to a i semi charitable institution to remain un- | til the return of the family that had temporarily adopted her. DESERTS HOME EGR STREETS. they returned there was no MaA bundle of clothing in the room she had occupied at the institution was , ftM that told the story. After long search 1 Ann was found. She had met Marie on ' the street one day with two men. Marie j carried a suitcase, and had called out to | It was flva weeks before Marie was Io-

cated In another city. She was with those unworthy companions. She was brought back to Indianapolis by the police. By this time letters had come from her home stating that'Marie was 17 instead of 18, as she had stated. Truth also compels us to say that a false address given by the girl had prevented communication with the family in Kentucky. She was now classified as a delinquent in another court, and with some of her wayward pals, girls whom she had met at the hospital, was sent to the Girls’ School at Clermont. HER STORY IS COMMON. You who have not been privileged to look Into the eyes of the "Maries” of our city, do/you think her story unusual or unique? Ask the policeman on your "beat.” As yon go gayly from store to store on Washington street, shopping, you pass hundreds of girls who have come to Indianapolis innocently expecting to find work. Yes. they may have found work. But they have found also a world that existed only in cheap novels "back home." Here is the small-town girl. There are no factories where she lives. Work is plentiful In the city. She will go there. A few dollars will suffice. Follows the weary search for work. Her money gives out; she is living in a hall bedroom; nobody cares; no one at home will know; she accepts the Invitation of a strange man she meets at a cheap case; they go to a picture show; police court records tell the rest. BRED IN THE SODDEN HOME. You. mother who read this, you busy teacher, you club woman, before condemning Marie, will yo“ponder this: "Where the parents are drunken. Immoral, degraded, the home crowded and filthy, acd the child neglected and abused, there is little hope of the girl escaping delinquency.” By delinquency ls meant, failure of the child to adjust Itself to its home of social environment.. Such failure is Illustrated by the experience of the girl la a State Home for Girls in a nearby State. Among 168 girls at one time, thirty were daughters of drunken fathers, eight had drunken -mothers, twenty had fathers ! of vicious habits, sixteen were children jof vicious mothers. In the families of i twelve, there were others of criminal | of vicious habits. Twenty-four were j children of fathers who had deserted the i family. The parents of eleven had I neglected to get a marriage license. Ten I were victims of gross cruelty. ONLY ONE OK AN ARMY. Before taking leave of pretty Marie with he-r pink cheeks and girlish eyes, ! let us remember that she ls only one of an army of nch girls In every city. A woman riter, a lover of girls, says: "We see them walking up and down the streets on summer evenings, with never a chance to catch a sight of pleasure, even through a lighted window, save as ; the lurid places of commercialized arausej ments provide it. Apparently the modern i city sees In these girls oß’y two posi slbilltles, both of them coiAmerclcl; first, a chance to utilize by day thear new 1 and tender labor power, in Its factories end shops, and then, another chance in the evening, to extract from them their petty wages by pandering to the love of pleasure.”

IRISH TAKE WAR INTO SCOTLAND Ambush Patrol in Glasgow— Kill Police Inspector. j GLASGOW. Scotland, May 4—-The most [ spectacular attack yet attempted by the Sinn Fein outside ,of Ireland occurred . here today when a band of armed men j ambushed a patrol wagon In Cathedral j Square and killed Police Inspector John j Stone. ! The patyol wagon was carrying con- | vlcteij Sinn Fein prisoners to prison. : When the attack began the driver put on all speed and raced away preventing delivery of the prisoners. FORMER MAYOR IS GIVEN 1,000 TO 2,000 PLURALITY (Conttnned From Page One.) Mr. Howe got the pole position again ! when 100 precincts, unofficially reported, gave him 15.562 to Shark's 13,846. At one time thereafter Howe was 1,700 votes I ahead, but about 4 o'clock strong Shank I precincts began to report and the Howe hopes gradually were swept away. BELL MADE FROM CANNON. | The bell in the Cathedral of St. Stephen, i Vienna, weighing 39,096 pounds, is made from 180 pieces of cannon taken from the Turks.

Runs the Ship

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Mrs. R. C. Doll, wife of a naval lieutenant to demonstrate her ability to "run a ship” donned dungarees ftnd fired boilers aboard the transport Hancock between the Atlantic ifoust and San Diego, Cal. Mrs. Doll took ♦ a stoker's place, bossing the engineroom, manipulating the big levers that carry the belied orders from bridge to engineer, reversing engines. slowing them and shoveling coal into the yawning firepits. And she performed her tasks as well as any stoker. She declared, however, that she enjoys most playing about the big guns aboard the shij She is shown here In stoker's dungarees aad with her heavy shovel s board the Hancock.

Ancient Ship Models Recall Sea Romance

(tlllman was the only woman attending iroceedlnga today In tbo Baa- Assorts- f lon's rooms here. A large number or V’; jf Jame* A. f Mrs. Stillman nodded to a group

MRS. STILLMAN AT BEARING Husband Absent Proceedings Renewed. NEW YORK. May 4. —Mrs. Anne TJ. Stillman was the only woman attending | the renewal of her husband's divorce proceeding* today in tbo Bar Association's rooms here. A large number of lawyers who will take part In the f.glit of James A. Stillman, former head of the National City Bank to divorce ft! wife and disown her youngest son Gu\- Stillman. were in the room when Sirs. Stillman entered. Sirs. Stillman nodded to a group *■- newspaper men as she passed through the hall with a man whose name was not given. Stillman himself was not preseut at the opening of the hearing. Among the lawyers was Francois I.nJole. Quebec, who acted as interpreter for French-Canadian witnesses at a previous hearing. Among the attorneys was John B. Stanohflrtd. Hi* firm, is handling Sirs. Stillman's cns?. He was accompanied by Abel J. Smith of the same firm. John F. Brehnn and George Cowill were present also for Mrs. Stillman. Representing Stilhnun were ''Cornelius J. S. Sullivan and Outerbridge Horsey and. Col. William G. Rand, who served under former District Attorney Jerome. O’MALLEY TAKEN ON INDICTMENT Charged Under Dwyer Act With Transporting Stolen Car. Edwin O'Malley, giving his adrtrtss as ' Chicago, was today taken in cnstnfy by j Federal agents oa an Indictment clargi ing him with violating the Dwyer act, which prohibits transporting stolen ars from one State to another. O'Malley was arrested by Sergeant Johnson and the emergency squad In a ! private home at 313 West Ohio street, j He was charged with vehicle taking and held under $3,000 bond by Detectives I Rugenstelu and Hynes who ure handling | the case. , | The detectives say that O'Malley stole ! an automobile belonging to G-*otge Gaj front Gay’s garage and drove the machine to Detroit, where It was sold. The machine was recovered, however. O'Malley Is said to be connected with Carl Bernauer, Ansel Slipper, I.aird and Charles Nugent, I.ee Parker and Norman Price, who were indicted by the Federal grand Jury on charges of violating the Dwyer act. (

CONGRESS TODAY

HOUSE. BergdoTl committee cross-questions Samuel T. Ansell, one of Bergdoll's ati torneys. ; Banking and Currency Committee eon--1 elders bill to abolish office of Comptroller of the Currency. Hearings on packer control legislation continued before the Ways and Means Committee. Rules Committee considers resolution for Joint Senate and House Inquiry into agricultural situation. Interstate Commerce Subcommittee continues hearings on war risk Insurance legislation. Naval Affairs Committee considers legislative program of session. , Appropriation Committee hold conference on deficiency bill. SENATE. Senator MoCumber, Republican, and Simons, Democrat, to open debate ou emergency tariff blit. CR EATE ARABIAN STATE. LONDON, May 4. Fairal, dethroned King of Arvbla, looks with renewed hope toward London the announcement that Winston Spe'cer Churchill ls In the Near Fast undertaking anew orientation of British policy in Mesopotamia. Churchill is said to view with favor Faical's-aspiratlons for the creation of an, Arabian State to Include the provinces of Mosul. Bagdad and Basra with Falcal himrelf as King.

Bright, Cheerful Walls —Always Clean—

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4,1921.

The upper left picture shows the stern of a scale model of the Sovereign of the Seas of 1637, The upper right ls a Chinese river gunboat, while the lower is a scale model of a craft of 1637. Few public exhibitions possess the charm and inspiration that is aroused by a collection of ancient ship modrts. All of the romance and adventure of the seas, dating back to the tenth century, when the Vikings, in their colorful galleys, endoavoerd to establish dominion over the rest of the world, are recalled by the miniature vessels anchored in a room of the Fine Arts Building in New York City.

Near East Chief

3?ESK.*E*Y ZTTTJ

! Albert H. Putney, chief of the Near | East division of the State Department, ; who has taken charge of the Washington j office during the absence of tho regular | commissioner, now on a visit home. | BIBLE. SHAKESPEARE REQUIRED. ! CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 4.—Alen who concentrate in the ancient or modern j languages at Harvard must show ou acj quaiutnnee with the Bible aud with | twelve plays of Shakespeare w hen they come up for their general examination j for graduation at the end of their senior j year. According to the announcement of ' tho Divisions of Ancient and Modern j languages, setting forth tho require- | ments for the general examination, tho i Bible and the plays of Shakespeare 1 are "two works of literature without which an adequate appreciation of English letters ls impossitde.” CABARET LII-K TO CONTINUE. CHICAGO, May 4.—Chicago must continue to boa 1 o'clock town. A proposal to establish all night cabarets was severely frowned upon by tho city fathers, despite the fact that the cabaret owners offered to pay an additional SI,OOO per year in license fees for the privilege of remaining open all night. Cabarets will close at 1 a. m. hereafter, as formerly. \ three Famous men. Reginald Ileber (1783-1820), the author of “From Greenland's Icy Mountains,” died the same year ns did Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Once They’re Finished with Oolitic OOLITIC—the perfect flat wall finish—reflects brightness and cheer in the darkest, most dreary rooms. It gives a -touch of refinement to your home that you’ve always wanted. And best of all- -walls finished with 00LITI6 can be washed. Hence, they, are always clean and sanitary. Can be used on new or old walls. Whether you employ a decorator or do the work yourself, see that BURDSAL’S OOLITIC is used. Sold by all good dealtrs. RURDSAL'S hLb Paints for Every Purpose

The models are being shown by the Ship Model Society of America. The exhibition ls the first of its hind ever to be held In this country. Earliest vessels, such as the Norse discoverers sailed, are ihown in the exhibit. Many famed <te-, signs are included in the collection, among them being Nelson's pride aud the man o'-war that nipped Napoleon's naval ambitions. Os the vessels built by American*, a model Is shown of the Maine Coaster, dated 1791, and made by Cnpt. John Neal of Wiscasset. The old sqi ire rigger o<eupies a prominent place, though it exists only in memory.

Maybe 35,000 Pints a Day Will Suffice CHICAGO, May 4.— Chicagoan's will have to get along on 1,600,000 gallons of b'c.ze !""• y> ar, according lo rules draft 'd PYtlitph vV. Stone, new dry chief for SW I " central department. |qDruggists have been notified that they Aj.i be. permitted to drew only 100 gal•t of whisky and wine t avh p*-r quantA the standpoint of the individual thi'V. * that 35,000 plot# of whisky a day Ik to be divided between cjil mi - * 3,000(Nil i -opie. ON IN FRANCE. I'Al May 4 The movement toward the I- threatening to depopulate Ffße's fanning communities, the nation* Wok;i*, taken March 6, shows. ThouglY ■impleto results will not be known i months, figures from s-veral regions indicate tho exlent of movement. A number of rural dlstrieu show fewer Inhabitants than In mil, when the last census was take i.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

INVENTION OF PARACHUTE. Q. Who Invented the parachute? When was the first descent from a balloon made? D. D. G. A. The Invention of the parachute is accredited to Beba*tian Lenormand. aud the device was used by him iu 1784 in making a descent from an uppar window of nhouse In Lyons. The first descent from a balloon was mbde by Garnerln In j Paris in 1797. A parachute twenty-three foet in diameter, composed of several gores of canvas was used. LOCATION OF PEARY LAND. Q. Where ls Peary Laud? B. C. M. A. This name ls given to the northernmost coasts of Greenland, which were discovered by Lockwood and Brainerd in 1882, nnder the name of Ilazen Coast. Knowledge of them was greatly extended by the explorations of Peary in 1892. RATIO OF SNOW TO WATER. Q. How many inches of unmelted snow are required to make an inch of water? It. O. A. The custom of tho Weather Bnrenu, when conditions are not favorable for melting snowfall, Is to assume a ratio of one t.o ten between the melted and unmelted snow. That Is, one Inch or unmelted snow will make a tenth of an inch of water. This, of course, 1s not a constant ratio, as the density of the snow varies greatly at different periods of the year and for different snowstorms.

First Finding Shows Coffee Not Harmful BOSTON, May 4.—The first findings of the scientific coffee research, which has been in progress at Technology since June, 1920, was announced by Prof. Sam-

Tomorrow the Basement Store Starts a History Making Sale of Tine CORSETS 5,000 Corsets —Brand New Goods—Highly Desirable Models

Sale Price Sale price Sale price * ?? 98c'2.98 *3.98 Lk \ a $5.00, $6.00 and $7.50, $8.50 and ftp to $2.00 even $7.50 even higher Wto W/L—qualities. qualities. qualities. || It is a part of the agreement that we refrain from mentioning the il names—however it i3 no violation of confidence—when we say 11***! i ||; that the brands are nation renowned —more they have an intemaIfSvJll jiLi tional reputation. / The f amous Corset Company had a surplus. To dispose ff■ 'y I of it in a lump with the least disturbance of their markets—was ,\t| JL ) their problem. • The Basement Store Was Their Answer!

The corsets will be placed on tables according to the sizes. Seven extra double tab lea have been provided for this occasion.

At 98c are corsets which we would hesitate to sell up to $2.00. Front lace Back lace Coutil corsets Batiste corsets Jeans corsets Corsets with low, medium and high busts.

TVst-JgNcc Crw cotc There are just a few corsets In this group * vfJJICOo VrfUl dClo —hardly enough to last through the day. |l^ They are the wanted topless style with elastic top. We advise early selection in view of their greatly restricted numbers 'W

The Corsets Carry a Guarantee of Satisfaction. THE Wm. H. BLOCK CO.

c lhe HASKIN LETTER f / appearing regularly in The Daily Times is the work of Frederic J. Haskin, newspaper correspondent, whose special articles on current affairs, politics, social economy, travel and other subjects have been given wide publication throughout the United States in recent years.

Written for Thinking People, \these letters are brief, aocurate, inVtructiYe and entertaining. They with facts rather than opinions, ttiA leave the reader to his own Yonclusions. J Hie \uhjot* embrace every phase of A ier \? an nat^ona l Use, as well as foreigP a^%? irs United States 5 * They are timely and £ v ® W^ der information concerning to T)icß \^ an can be famished by ordinal ne \ 8 itches.

jrsV <X OOD habit, reading the RaSEJ n \ RT ICLES regularly in ‘The InJiajia Daw Times

uel C. Prescott, bend of the department of biology and public health and director of the coffee investigation. The report states that caffeln, the narcotic characteristic ingredient of coffee, is, in the moderate quantities consumed by the average coffee drinker a safe stimulant, without harmful after effects. The Investigators are now at work to

TOE BASEMENT STORE

They know that our Basement Store can handle a big merchandising event in a big waji. They know its prestige—its outlet—its resources. They sold us the corsets at a smash- ” ing reduction. In many cases they are BELOW prices on the lower market.

At $2.98 are values that we conservatively estimated at $5.00, $6.00 and some up to $7.50. Front lace Back lace Brocade corsets Broche corsets Coutil corsets Batiste corsets Double strength corsets with low, medium and high busts

isolate and Identify the other constituents of the coffee bean, especially those which determine the flavor and aroma, preliminary to studying the be3t methods of brewing beverage coffee. KNOW NOW. The Allegheny and Onio Rivers were regarded by the French as one stream.

At $3.98 are some of the best values we’ve ever seen. Corsets that should have been marked $7.50, $8.50 and even higher. Front lace Back lace Brocade corsets English satine corsets Broche corsets Coutil corsets Batiste corsets Medium, high and low busts

The Boy or Girl who reads these letters regularly and who retains even a small portion of the information they contain, will soon have a fund of knowledge of general affairs which will prove a valuable addition to a school education. The Man or Woman who keeps a scrapbook of these letters will soon have a most valuable addition to a reference library,

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Fifteen extra Saleswomen will be in attendance to insure service w'aleh so great B'. event will demand.