Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1921 — Page 16

125 KILLED BY ONE RAILROAD IN AUTO WRECKS Nearly All Met Death by Running in Front of Train —538 Injured. One railroad reported that in two year* and eight month*, ending Sept. 1, 1020, motorists performed the following feats: Number Killed Injured Ran on track in front of train 833 113 S3O Ran into side of train 430 S 143 Stalled or died on track 173 1 21 Skidded Into side of train 33 0 11 Ran into crossing gates 94 0 18 Ran into crossing flagman 10 1 6 Miscellaneous (ran into cattle guards, crossing s 1 g ns, etc.) 42 1 9 Why >'oes the chicken cross the road? Every motorist who drives in the country districts (and every motorist does) probably has pondered this mystery many a time. The chicken is perfectly safe until she decides the other side of the road is safer, or more enticing, or whatever It is that causes the chicken to cross. Just as the motor car comes dashing down upon her. Why does the motorist cross the track? How like the reckless chicken is the reckless motorist whose weird mental twist finds expression in an insane attempt to beat the train to the crossing. Even more strange is it that a motorist would crash into the middle of a train of forty cars, yet the above table shows 430 such cases on one railroad. Lowered crossing gates, surely an unmistakable sign of an approaching train, are splintered as reckless drivers smash through, and in cases the flagman, holding the warning sign, is run into and injured. Be, after all, there isn't so much mystery about the chicken crossing the road when human being take such chances at the grade crossings. Almost every day the newspapers carry dispatches. Each year more motor cars are driven, touring becomes more popular, and grade crossing fatalities increase. Just how the grade crossing accident and its loss of life are to be eliminated is stiU a problem among railroad men. are agreed that only the elimination or Wbe grade crossing will end this class pf-Accidents, but the abolishing of all grade crossings involves huge sum* of maney and cannot be considered in the near future. “Some measures can and should be taken immediately,’’ said the head of one railroad, “to reduce grade crossing accidents. The railroads are working now on better signaling, using a combination of the visible and audible signals at the more important crossings.

HAWAIIAN SUGAR CROP FIGURES 87 Per Cent of Raw Product Manufactured. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—A statistical report on the sugar-producing situation of the Hawaiian Islands rescuing San Francisco from Allen M. Nowell, secretary and manager of the Sugar Factors Company of Honolulu, shows that only about 67 per cent of the total raw sugar crop of the Islands this season had been manufactured by July 81. This total, on a comparative basis, was 24 per cent less than the production in 1018. Up to July 31 Nowell says the current sugar crop was about 331.300 tons. Os that total there had been shipped 348,100 tons, leaving 83,200 tons on hand. On July 31, 1920, the total of manufactures was 439.800 tons, or which 4M.800 tons had been shipped, leaving 58,000 tons on hand. In 1919 up to Jnly 31, which season was considered a normal year for sugar crops in the Hawaiian Islands, the total of manufactures was 522,700 tons. Os this 471,500 tons had been shipped on July 31. leaving on hand 51,200 tons. The percentage of the total crop manufactured on that date was 91 per cent. For the corresponding period of 1920 the total crop manufactured reached 34 per cent. Os the 348,100 tons of sugar that had been moved from the istands up to July 31, this year, 246.100 went to the Crockett and Western Sugar Refineries, snd 102,000 tons were shipped to the Atlantic coast and Gulf ports.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

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NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—They are back —the long, lean fellows with the “tnrfy look” in their eyes—back from Saratoga. Anybody who thinks racing is dead ought to have been in the vicinity of the car barns at Eighth avenue and Fiftieth street when the Morning Telegraph was Issued with the entries and “form book” for the Belmont Park meeting and heard the gossip about Saratoga. For Saratoga is the aunual rural outing for the turf crowd, twentyseven days of rusticating with "strong water” on the side. Heretofore the return of the “regulars” to tracks in and about the greater city has been a welcome event in their lives. But this year all the talk was of the “new regime” in np-State racing, and what it has done—Dick Wilson and Joe Widener, their lavish expenditure of money in making Saratoga like a beautiful French track, with an artificial fake, flowers, new trees and blue awnings, the increase in the size of the purses and encouragement to small owners and breeders. FINDS FASCINATION IN FIGURES Figures are sometimes facinntlng when carried into comparative terms. For instance, New York City has 11,300 passenger and 9.800 freight elevators. Last year they averaged carrying 8,600,000 passengers dally. The subway carries 1.600,000 a day. The up and down distance traveled annually by the Gotham elevators is estimated as the mileage equivalent of twice the circumference of the earth. Arthur K. Willyoung calculates that if the paved streets of Manhattan were stretched out one after the other, they would extend from New York to Washington and back again. I might add: Or put them in a straightaway and they would exten 1 from New York to Pittsburgh. LEARNS VALUE OF CONDENSATION Dr. George E. Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, has learned the value of condensation. Here is his epigrammatic review of work done by the Foundation last year: 1. Aided six medical schools in Canada.

AERIAL TRAVEL NOT DANGEROUS Only 15 Lives Were Lost in Flying 3,250,000 Miles in Six Months. NEW YORK, Sept. B—The Manufacturers’ Aircraft Association, on completing an aviation survey of the United States, announced that in the first six months of the year the 1.200 commercial planes in operation in this "ountry had flown approximately 3,250,000 miles. “The record.” says the survey, “shows that civilian flying, although embarrassed by the lack of an American air policy, has established itself as a remarkably safe and dependable means of transportation. In 3.250.000 miles of travel by air. ouly fifteen persons were killed snd forty three injured in a total of twenty-seven serious accidents. Most of these accidents occurred among that class of civilian aviators known as gypsy flyers. “Os the 1.2000 commercial aircraft, probably 1.000 are under the Indirect supervision of responsible plane manufacturer’s or transportation companies, and this is absolutely the only regulation over flying, as local ordinances or State laws cannot be enforced. Lacking a Federal organization controlling civilian aviation, these 200 or more gypsy flyers have been permitted to fly at will and many have met disaster. “Eight of the fatalities and thirty-two of the Injuries in the last six months hsve been traced to the lack of terminals, routes and storm warnings, or to reckless stunting—errors which would have been corrected or prevented had there been a national air policy. In all the l nited States there are only 214 adequate municipal or civilian air ports, yet terminals are as necessary to aerial transport as they are to shipping or the railways. Deducting these preventable casualties, it is found that there was only one death for each 404,285 miles flown and only one injury for each 295,454 miles flown. ONE TO JOO FOR OFFICIALS. In New York State motor vehicles license number from 1 to 100 are reserved for State and other officials, and the other number are given out in order in which the applicants appear.

2. Gave assistance to a medical training center in London. 3. Appropriated a million francs for the Queen Elizabeth foundation for medical research in Belgium. 4. Agreed to contribute toward the complete rebuilding of the medical school of the University of Brussels. 5. Provided American and English laboratory supplies for eleven medical schools and medical laboratories in five European countries. 6. Continued to construct and to maintain in Pekin, China, a modern medical school with a pre-medical department. 7. Aided thirty-one hospitals in China to increase their efficiency In the care of patients and in the further training of doctors and nurses. 8. Supported the school of hygiene and public health of Johns Hopkins University. 9. Contributed to the teaching of hygiene In the medical school at Sao Paulo, Brazil. 10. Provided fellowships in public health and medical education for ninety individuals who represented thirteen different countries. 11. Brought to the United States commissions of medical teachers and hygienists from England, Belgium and Czechoslovakia. 12. Continued to support a compaign against yellow fever in South and Central America and Africa. 13. Aided Government agencies In control of malaria in tea States of the South. 14. Prosecuted hookworm work in nine southern States and in eighteen foreign countries. 15. Helped to expand anti-hookworm campaigns into more general health organizations in countries, States and nations. 16. Brought a war-time anti-tuberculo-sis work in France to the point where it oculd soon be left entirely in French bands. 17. Assisted the government of Czechoslovakia to reorganize Its public health laboratory system. 18. Rendered various services in organizing committee to study the training of nurses and of hospital superintendents, loaned experts for conference and counsel, sent offers abroad to study conditions, etc. 19. Brought to a close its participation in war-time emergency relief by giving a million dollars to the fund for European children.

MORE ACTIVITY IN PIECE GOODS Market for Week Just Passed Held Encouraging. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. B—Men's wear piece goods for spring 1922 showed more activity In the week Just passed. There If a good demand here for worsteds and woolens and prices are well maintained. Dress goods continue dull, but a turn Is expected for the better after Labor dry. It is said in the industry that the American Woolen Company has sold up snd withdrawn its complete line of fancy worsteds. Clothing manufacturers are growing Insistent for prompt deliveries of men’s piece goods, as prompt shipments sre required on clothing, else retailers may cancel. The economic measure adopted during (he war of cutting down the size of samples Is being continued in the woolen market. Mill men express themselves as pleased with the result, snd one selling sgent says that 1n his line the earing totals about SI,OOO. The sample in reduced size appears to be satisfactory to jobbers and wholesalers. An exception Is made In very large plaids. It is expected the opening of spring lines In dress goods by independents will not take place until the middle of September. Garment manufacturers, who have been holding off with prtco vlew, are expected to come into the market with good orders. It is believed cooler weather will bring a definite turn for the better. Many piece goods men are preparing to attend the annual convention of the National Association of Retail Clothiers at Rochester, N. TANARUS., Sent. 19 to 23. There will be a exhibit of piece goods in connection with the convention.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos. MEXICO TO "MIC" CRIMINALS. MEXICO CITY, Kept. 3—The Bertillion and photographic systems of recording criminals now in vogue in other countries are t be surpassed In Mexico, if President obregon has his way. Under the President’s personal direction several experts have been working out a comprehensive plan for months, and it will goon be placed in operation. General Obregon believes tho plan will decrease crime in Mexico 50 p<*r cent.

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BELGIAN STEEL AND IRON MILLS SHUTTING DOWN Factories Can Not Compete With Low Production Cost in Germany. NEW YORE, Sept. S.--“ Germany is ireadlng upon Belgium s toes again, this j time in an Industrial sense,” declared John 8. Wright, president of the American Club of Antwerp, yesterday. Mr. Wright is managing director of the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company of Belgium, a subsidiary of the Interna-

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tlonal Western Electric Company, and came to this country a few days ago. “Where a year ago the Belgian iron and steel trade.” he said, “was enjoying unprecedented activity and distributing Its products throughout the world, today it is in a most lamentable condition. Mills and blast furnaces are being stopped. Os the fifty-four furnaces in Belgium, only thirteen are in operation. Belgium fir..| g itself unable to compete with Germany. “The cheap costs of labor in the steel centers of Germany and its maintenance of a ten-hour working day in the face of Belgium's eight-hour law piny no small part in its successful competition. “While Belgian factories must spend from 80 to 100 francs a ton for fuel the Teutons get Just as good a grade at 50 and 60 francs. Tho shutdown of the steel mills has added to the labor surplus of Belgium. “When I left the other side the government was issuing dally food allow-

ances to at least 100,000 idle workers. It was also seeking a cure for the slump in shipping. There were 125 steamem tied up at Antwerp waiting for cargoes. “Coal exports to Great Britain have shown no tendency to fall off even since the settlement of the English miners’ strike. An interesting condition prevails In the resumption of commercial dealings between Germany and Belgium. Many Belgian manufacturers go Into Germany and purchase when bargains present themselves, but they are unwilling to tolerate German sales agents within their borders. “Belgium is buying great quantities of manufactured goods, ebonite, brass and other metals from Its former foe.” Mr. Wright declares Belgium never has taken any steps to enforce the custom sanctions on German exports proposed by the allies some months ago, when the question of the war indemnities was most serious. Mr. Wright says of the Belgian work-

man: “He is ambitions, reasonable and, above all, an anti-Bolshevist. It is a fact that the Belgian workman Is turning out more work today In eight hours than he did before the war in ten.”— Copyright, 1921, Public Ledger Cos. Prices Advance on Rice Cent in Week NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 3.—The old crop carry-over of rice virtually is exhausted, and a number of traders who booked orders for overseas have been caught short. Prices advanced nearly 1 cent during the week. Fancy blue rose to 490 cents for ship-side delivery. It now seems certain producers will make good profit. Althoogh cotton has slipped into a rut, with a slight fall in price, there is no discouragement regarding the sittualon, traders say, because of the various pools being formed and the large ad-

vances by the War Finance Corporation, coupled with the policy announced by the Reserve Bank of this district of financing producers liberally. Sugar is dull, but there has been no recession in price, Louisiana raws being quoted at 5.20 cent* to 5.50 cents for plantation granulated and yellow clarified as high as 5 cents.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos. BIGGEST GOLD NUGGET STOLEN. PARIS, Sept. 3.—Official advices from Santndougon, in the French Soudan, report the theft of a gold nugget recently discovered by a native in one of the Ealeme mines. This nugget weighed two kilogrammes, or more than four pounds. It was the largest discovered since 1898. Two men are constantly on guard in the treasure room of tho Faleme mines, but the thief escaped without being seen or leaving any clew.