Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1921 — Page 4
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Jttifcma Sails (Times ' INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. j Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. j MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. ... 1 Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices | Kew ork Boston, Payne. Burns & Smith, luc. IF OMAHA Is doing better than boosters say what is the matter with Omaha’s boosters? __ .... ; DOES the street car company carry burglary insurance for the benefit, of its conductors? Wake Up, Taxpayers! Indicative of the crying necessity of greater attention to public affairs from those individuals in this community who are both honest jjpd capable is the current news of yesterday. 1 xhe State board of accounts discloses that Auditor Fesler and the board of county commissioners illegally diverted $14,660 of the gravel road funds to the building of a road in response to the persistent pleas of certain selfish interests. This diversion of public money had long been known to those who have watched the unlawful conduct of county affairs and the report of the State board was merely a verification of facts that have been repeatedly set forth in the columns of The Daily Times. | 2. The city board of health reveals that its secretary, Dr. H. G. Morgan, has been absent from the city for a week and that in his absence , the $15,000 Inspection department is without an executive head and is in fact amassing reports on current affairs that should be receiving immediate attention. This revelation comes about through the discovery that the inefficiency of this inspection service permitted a public nuisance to be created at the State fairground. It discloses that the health department of the city of Indianapolis is so loosely organized that law enforcement fails completely with the absence from his desk of one official who appears to be at liberty to come and go as he pleases without any regard to emergencies that might require his immediate attention. . 3. The police department discloses that not only is It unable to cope with the crowds of petty thieves who enter homes and garages and steal property of minor value, but it is, indeed, unable to assure the protection of citizens on the street from hold-ups and unable to prevent the stopping of street cars and the hold-up of the car conductors. This condition in the police department has been gradually growing worse for such a long period that the daily reports of burglaries, assaults on white women by lawless negroes, hold-ups and thefts long ago ceased to be a matter of interest to any except those who were personally involved. 4. The school board discloses that because of the failure of the tax board to support a proper building program for Indianapolis it has been compelled to contract with a firm which mysteriously began to sell “portable” buildings at about the time the tax boprd ceased to authorize permanent buildings for the erection of a lot of sheds to house school children. This condition of affairs has received much attention recently, but this is the first disclosure of just who has been able to reap a pecuniary profit out of the deprivation of school children of proper accommodations. 5. The citizens of the west side cause thirteen affidavits charging violation of the sanitary laws to be filled against men who have been polluting the west side under the direction and license of the board of • sanitary commissioners. This action serves to call attention to the growing inclination of city officials to assume that because they are city officials they can set aside the statutes of Indiana whenever and wherever it suits their convenience* It also points out literally that the nuisances of which the people of Indianapolis complain are possible of abatement under the existing laws of Indiana if only those who are vitally affected will exercise the rights conferred on them by the statutes already provided. There is not one of these five complaints of, undesirable failures in government that would not have been prevented had the citizens of this community displayed ordinary keenness in insisting that their interests as a whole be not made subservient to the interests of a few. Auditor Fesler and the county commisisoners would not have dared expend $14,660 of county money illegally if they had not known that under the present system of machine government their transgressions would be Overlooked and forgiven by indulgent law enforcement officials. The city board of health would not permit an adjournment of sanitary restrictions in the absence of it3 secretary if its members knew that the public would hold them individually responsible for the menace to health and life resulting from their neglect. The police department would not have become so inefficient as to fail to cope with hold-ups and thievery if its members did not know that they were safe from any disciplinary measures during the rest of the present administration. v The school board would not now be compelled to build sheds for school children if the populace would view the selfish interests of a few persons who have blocked. the building of real school buildings in the pernicious light in which they really stand. The citizens of the west side wpuld not now be compelled to hale irresponsible employes into court to punish them for doing what the board of sanitary commissioners invites them to do if only the people of this community would realize the hypocrisy and waste that has resulted from the mismanagement of the sanitary affairs of this district and hold those responsible in the proper disregard. Indianapolis is able to cope with each and every one of these evils and to cope with them instantly. The law is available for use as a club over the heads of those officials who will not conduct their offices in the interest of the general public. Social ostracism is a sufficient weapon to humble those few who, for selfish reasons, stand in the way of a better Indianapolis. A few minutes each day, devoted to facts as they are daily presented in the newspapers, are sufficient to show every loyal citizen of Indianapolis the way to a better city. A little more backbone, a little more personal interest, and a little less apathy on the part of the citizens of this city will do more toward doubling the population and property of this community than anything else. Isn’t it worth while? The Mules Remain At last the women of the south side who have fought so valiantly and so long for the removal of the city mule barns from Shelby street have been officially notified that there will be no removal by this administration. Even the most casual observer of things political, knew, long ago, that this condition obtained, but it is nevertheless to the credit of the south side women that they pursued elusive public officials and finally forced Mark H. Miller to admit that the administration had no intention of acceding to their requests. Before the last primary, it was different, of course. Then, the administration was greatly interested in the support of these women for its favorite candidates and promises were cheap. Now, however, the administration has no more fervent wish than merely to be permitted to serve its few remaining months undisturbed and in peace. Consequently, the mules remain where they were, regardless of the fact that the administration went into office with a promise to abolish them entirely, stopped long enough to promise to transfer them to the west side and eventually concluded that, too, was impracticable. Political mules we have always with us. Political promises are usually broken. And these two facts are convincing to the women of the south sjde as they continue their efforts to improve Indianapolis. Dr. McCulloch 1 s Impressions Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch returns from a visit to Europe with a deeprooted conviction that what has been termed militarism on the part of the French is in reality an exhibit of fear of rehabilitated Germany and a concession to the law of self-preservation. The doctor's impressions are of more than ordinary interest for the reason that he has both the ability and the experience to be a good judge of that issue. France, he sYs. sees a loosening of the ties that bound England to her In opposition to the common enemy and is looking longingly toward the United States for the support she believes she must have at that future time when Germany will again menace her. All of this sentiment, which makes for armaments and preparation for war could easily have been eliminated had the United States joined the League of Nations. It also makes it doubtful whether the United States has, in any way, avoided participation in future European difficulties by its refusal to join the league. The league contemplated no more than the carrying out of the obligations due the world by its members. Whether the United States is a league member or not it cannot escape obligations.
Ike STORY of NINETTE By RUBY M. AYRES
Who's Who in the Story , NINETTE, a tiny waif who first saw the i light of day in cheap lodgings in a dull | •*, road in the worst part of Xialham, is j adopted by .' i "JOSH” WHEELER, who shared his meager earnings as a scribe on a Lou- i don paper, with the friendless babe. Ninette meets j PETEK NOTHABD, an editor, who rescues her frutu sickness and poverty and takes her to his sister, MARGARET DELAY, who has a home -3 the country. Ninette is introduced to ARTHUR DELAY, Margaret s husband. DOROTHY MAXVERS, an old sweetheart of Nothards, is a guest at Margaret s house Ninette meets. RANDALL CAVANAGH, a wealthy man of I,ondon, who confesses that he is her father. I Cavanagh contemplates a business trip to America and places Ninette under tn,. chaperonage of MRS. CRANFORD, a friend. Muette is surprised to learn that Mrs. Crauioru Is Peter Nothard’s aunt. , . . 1 Margaret tells Ninette that her husband has left her. Ninette overhears someone telling Teter Nothard that Catanagb has i paid Mrs. Crawford to keep her. hears 1 them ridicule her extravagant dress anu 1 hint that her father bad done something disgraceful and would leave England tor a while. Much tit Nothard s < listr ® 9 ’ ! Ninette angrily tells hint that she o\ciI heard his | Upon learning that Petpp .7 >ot ,“ ar( i,,i S Ito marry Dorothy Mauvers, N nP . ® denly realizes her own love for hmi ine awakening startles her and she wishes her father would take her to America with him. In vain she waits for him and finally hears that he is dead. Nothard proposed to pay his aunt to keep Ninette with her and insists that ! Ninette remain ignorant of the fact that he is supplyin the money. Mrs. bran ford suspects Ninette's fondness lor Nothard, but he still thinks sue dlslikMnette’now knows that Nothard loves her, and in her eyes he discerns her ar section for him. Dorothy is severely burned and it is thought her beauty is permanently destroyed. .. .., Because of Dorothy's misfortune. ard realizes that tlieir engagement l an not be broken unless It is her desire. Ninette and Nothard quarrel when ne obevs Dorothy’s request that he see her While out for a walk, to quiet her Doubled thoughts. Ninette meets Arthur Nothard reluctantly tells Dorothy that he Intends to marry her in spite o. h r disfigurement. Dorothy spitefully tells Nothard admitted he was P-'J'UR 1 arnit for keeping Ninette at her home. CHAPTER XLVIi. Have Given Up My Lodgings. She went back to her room and began to gather up the few little things which really belonged to her. The HI tie book of poems which had been found when her mother died, one of the chrysanthemums. which she had been carrying one ! day when she met Teter. some keepsakes i which she bad had since the days when ! She lived with .Tosh Wheeler; they were pitifully few. yet to Ninette they meant { far more than the gorgeous d.amonds ! which her father had given her. i The jewels she laid in their leather j case, which she placed in the drawer of her dressing table. | “Perhaps Mrs Cranford will aell them I and take the money for this last month ! that I have been here. Instead of letting i Peter pnv for it.” she reflected, a little I Mtterlv as she closed the drawer and 1 dropped the key Into a cloisonne vase on 1 the dresser She stood for a long time ! staring at herself In the mirror With unseeing eyes. j No money In the world—nothing And i the daughter of a man who had taken his own life in order to escape from the ; dishonorable actions he had done. W hat ia record! She began to laugh helplessly. ! but its hoarse sound in the silent room frightened her, and she put her hands over the lips with a quick little gesture of repression. Whaf do now? Where could she go? Looking back on the past years. It seemed that she had always been searching for a hetne, for someone who wanted her. and never finding them. For a wild moment her thoughts turned to Arthur Delay. He cared for her even If his love was a dishonor Why not go Ito him? For an Instant sh was tempt- ! cd, then she put the thought from her. jHe was nothing to her. Such a step | would not have the sanetlty of love. At j the thought of Peter the hot tears started into her eyes, but she blinked them i away resolutely. It was not safe to | think of Peter now. j She picked up her traveling bag and : turned toward th door, then paused a I moment for one last glanee at the room i where she had communed with happiness a little while I The chrflse lounge, with Its delicate silk I cushions; the low, wide bed, gay with j garlands of painted flowers; the Ult’e i desk—her throat choked with sobs as i she bade them all good-by. She had I dreamed of such a room In the days when j she and Josh Wheeler had lived In their I plain, unattractive lodgings Now, paving had such a room, she was leaving it i forever. I She closed the door aoftly behind her ! and stole downstairs. From the dinlng- ! room came the sound of clinking silver |and the murmur of low voiced conversa--1 tion. Quite evidently dinner was In | progress; she would be safe In slipping I away now, | Nobody was about; nobody- saw her i open the side door which led Into the garden, and close It: softly behind her. It was raining a liitle, and an east wind was blowing, lashing the cold drops Into her face as she hurried across the garden and out into the road. Automobiles flew past her through the twilight : she caught glimpses of more fortunate girls, wrapped in evening cloaks of gold cloth and fur and satin. Xlnette'sighed a little, as she stood there in the rain wondering which may to turn. It was not for the luxury of their lives that she had asked of late—the hum blest home would have done—a eottage in a little garden, with love glorifying the simple rooms—that would have been
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morn than enough. Yet she had been refused. It was very eold out in the rain. But Ninette hardly felt the unkindness of the weather; her heart was like stone, her mind numbed and incapable of though!. Her clothing was soon drenched by the rain, but she welcomed the discomfort. Alone, almost penniless, home less—it seemed fitting to be wretched in every day. It was hard to know which way to go; afte” all it mattered little where she went, she told herself; there was no one, anywhtre who cared whether she came j to them or not. | And yet her whole future depended ' on which way the whim of the moment forced her to turn! I It was not until two hours after Ninette had left the house that Mrs. Cranford went upstairs and tapped timidly at Ninette's door. Receiving no response, she knocked softly again, thinking that the girl might be asVeep ; then, after Knocking more loudly, she opened the door and looked in ; Everything was in order. There was | no sign of the hurry of departure, save ; that, pinned to the lace cover of th* | dressing table, was a little penciled note, which read : i ”1 have, given up my lodgings.” ! Peter, hurrying to his aunt's that evening, felt happier than he bad for several I days. Dark us things seemed, he at least ; was sure that Nlno f te still cared for ! him. The way she looked when he told 1 her that he and, Dorothy were to ne | married as soon as possible assured him !of that. Almost any thing might have i happened if Mrs. Cron'ord had not come in just when she did, he reflected, with a rueful little smile. He ran up the steps an< a fitted his key to the lock, but the door was thrown open before ho could tur.i It. “Peter:” Mrs. Cranford stood before him, her eyas red with weeping. ”i>h, j l thought that you would never come. Read this!” It was Ninette's scribbled note that she held out to him. I “I have given up my lodgings.” As he rend it a wave of blind rage surged over Veter Nothard. ! “You sent he.- away!” he cried sternly, his face so gaunt and stern that her heart ached for him In his misery. ”Ob, Peter, no—l said nothing to her,” | she protested. ’ "But you mutt have—some one must | have told her that I was paying her expenses here and, of course, she has - ' . .—: Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright. 1821. by Star Company, By K. C. B. Dear Mr. K. C. B.: Because you had so much trouble in your efforts to help the little boy on the night of the opening of "The Three Musketeers,’ 1 I want to be sure that you have no such trouble at the opening of “Little Lord at the Apollo theater Thursday night Please come and be my guest and bring with you four or five littlo girls. A box hat- 4| 'en put aside in your name and 1* you Won't feci quite equal to the task of chaperoning n group o* little girls per haps Mrs. K. t\ B. might be Induced t> help. In at event, Mr. Fairbanks and i will be there In another box and will bo glad to share wlih you the responslbilliy of looking after them. Please say that ! you will come. Slncerelv yours. MARY PICKFORD. MY DEAR Mary. ... OF COURSE I'll come. AND JUST a block FROM WHERE I live IS AN orphans' home. AND MANY times. ON SUMMER rights. WHEN I pass by. . • . THERE'S BEEN a group. . • • OF LITTLE glris. • • * OFT ON the step*. * • AND ONE there is. * • • WHO ALWAYS sits. . . • WITH ELBOWS. PI.ANTEIFON her knees AND IN her hand*. . • • HER LITTLE chin. AND TWf l black eves . . . JTST GAZE ahead. . • • AND WHAT she sees. • • • I'LL NEVER know. • • • AND SHE’LL be one. THAT I will take. • • • AND MAYBE. • • • WE WILL light her eyes. * a . 80 AFTERWARDS. WHEN SHE sits there. AND GAZES out. a a a AND I pass by. a a a I’LL SEE a smile. AND ANYWAY'. a a a WE WILL be there. a a a TO VISIT. WITH I.ORD Faunt’.eroy. AND YOU. * • • AND DOFG. > * • * • I THANK you.
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left the*house where she felt that she was an unwelcome burden. Are you sure —” ; "Uh refer, I haven't told her,” re- I peuted .Mrs. riranford dlstrnught. "She went to her room when you were here and later went to talk to Dorothy." She had not meant to tell him that; as 1 comprehension flashed through his mind i she felt guilty. And yet he would havtfl fouad it out sooner or later; it was as well to straighten out the wretched situ-1 atlon now, perhaps. “To Dorothy,” Peter turned toward the stairs as he repeated the words. “Then why, Dorothy must have—” He glanced at bis aunt for confirmation, but she avoided his eyes. "Dorothy did it, then l” And he dashed off up the stairs, two at a time. Dorothy's room was exquisite in the j light of the amber-shaded lamps. And at first glance its occupant was equally | beautiful. She lay on a couch near the open fire, playing with the great yellow rose at bat leaned toward her from a vase on the table near by. Her silken negd- 1 gee, weighted with great heavy flowers, embroidered in gold thread, dug to her slim body caressingly. And all the soft light In the room seemed to be focused on her wonderful red hair, which lay in soft, deep waves about hes face. And yet, despite Its gorgeous it called attention not to itself, but to the bandages which marred Dorothy's beauty. And similarly, the girl's loveliness was lost on Peter, to whom she was the person nho had taken from him the girl he loved. “Dorothy," he began as he crossed the room to her sifle, his rotor gentle despite the turmoil that was seething within him. "Ninette has disappeared. Do you know how this happens—did you tell her that I was paying her expenses here, be cause there was nothing l4Tt of her fa tlier's estate when he died?” The sight of her bandage* had made him lenient with her and he hoped that she would make a clean breast, of her share in the affair, without his actually accusing her. "I —oh, how absurd! 'Why should 1 tell Ninette the truth?” she laughed softly, slipping one delicate little hand into his. "Did yon bring ine that book we tnlk"d about, Peter dear? And —- "Dorothy!” Peter s voice was stern enough now. "Don't lie to me. 1 know that you told Ninette what the situation is here and that It was this rcj-elation that has driven her from the house out Into the streets at night." “Well, what if I did?” She lifted her self on her cushions, tense, defiant. "Why shouldn’t she know, I'd like to ask. Why. anybody but a silly little fool like Ninette would have known long ago that yon were supporting her. I'm not sure that she didn't know all the time, but Just thought it looked better to appear lnno cent.” "Y'ou shall not say such things of her i —you know that they aren't true, that that little girl never had a thought of such a thing:” t Peter was tramping up and down the room, his hinds clenched In his pockets, his face pale with im potent anger “You mqan that she never let yon know that she had." retorted Dorothy, watching him with narrowed eyes. | "That will do; Never let me hear you mention h-r name again.” h cried at that, so threatening that the smoulder ing blaze of Dorothy's hatred flared Into flame "It seems to me that you act rather odd for a man who is engaged to me.” she tobl him deliberately. "Why are you so upset about Ninette? What does she mean to you ?" For a moment there was silence in the beautiful room, a silence so significant that after all the world seemed listening to It. Peter straightened his- shoulders and a glimpse of his face was dispelled at the thought of Ninette. For a moment ! he forgot Dorothy, and the hopeless tan- | gle Into which hla life had been twisted. And he answered softly; j "She means everything in the world | to me!” (Another Installment of this fascinating story will appear Monday.) Reports Another Giant Sunflower Indiana has another giant sunflower, according to William Gray. R. R. No. 3, Spencer. On Mr. Grey's farm, three , miles south of Spencer, there Is a sunflower that measures sixteen and onehalf Inches In diameter and the stalk is ten and a half feet high. The stalk 1* eleven and one-half inches in diameter at the base.
SURVEY MADE OF COAL AREA Northern Counties Inspected by State Geologists This Year. ——. Dr. W. N. Logan, geologist under the j State conservation department, and a | field party consisting of several scientists on the faculty of Indiana University, have : completed a systematic survey of the coal bearing rock* of the northern portion of the coal area of Indiana, accord ing to announcement today by Richard Lieber. conservation director. The area studied include* the whole or portions of Clay. Vigo. Vermillion. Parke. Fountaine, Warren and Benton Counties, and adjoins on the north the area surveyed last year. According to Dr. Logan, a study wpji made of the stratigraphy of the area, the coal beds, character of the rocks In the interval between the coal beds, the dis trihutlon of the coal beds and other field conditions. Samples of coal, clays, oil shales, and other economic materials were collected for analysis, testing and study In the laboratory thin lull and winter. Some interesting problems connected with the distribution of some of the coal beds will ne solved by these studies in both Held and laboratory. Dr. Logan says The party, which was headed by Dr. Logan, consisted of J. R Reeves, 11. E. Esarey, G. G. Bartle. M. A. Harrell, E. L. Lucas. J, I Moore. W p Kawles and K W. Ray. While the Indiana survey was In prog ress, Dr. R. R. Cummings and P. B. j Moore, who assisted on previous surveys for the conservation department, made a study of some of the older divisions of rocks of this State and the neighboring State* of Ohio and Kentucky. Dr. C. A. , Malott and Dr. Charles Butts of the United States Geological Surrey, are continuing their studies of the subdivisions of the Chester division of the Mississlpplar. rocks of Indiana and the adjoining portions of Kentucky. These studies are undertaken with a view to correlating ; the subdivisions in the two States, and the conservation department is assisting 1 the D. S. survey. HOMES EXHIBIT PLANS COMPLETE Furniture Dealers Make Display at Exposition. Detail plans for the better homes exj hlbit to be made in the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition by members of the Indianapolis Furniture Manufacturers' Association were completed at a meetI ing at the Chamber of Commerce today • by the exposition committee. This committee, composed of George H Oilar, president of the Indiana I{-r.-xil Furniture Dealers' Association: Carlos Rei-ker and Miss Eldena Lauter, has secured the services of Miss Estell Teel Izor, head of the art and home-furnish j ing department of Manual Training High , School The exhibit, according to the plans o t I the committee, will he of rooms com--1 pletely furnished with the products of ! Indianapolis furniture factories. ILLINOIS PAYS BIG INCOME TAX Figures Show Personal Return One-Twelfth in U. S. I CHICAGO, Sept. 17—Illinois paid ! nearly one twelfth of the personal Income j tax collected by the United States dur--1 ing the year 15)19, it was announced to- ; day by John C. Cannon, collector of j internal revenue. Total payments for the , year amounted to $Pt),.108.31(1. Tax re turns were filed by 422.220 persons listing net income of 51,6fi2,07(>.441. Figures revealed in connection with the payment of the third installment of income tax for 1020 show that four citl zens of Illinois have incomes in excess of $1,000,000 per year. One has an In- | come of more than $4,000,000, another of $3,000,000 and . the other two between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000.
Highways and By-Ways of LiF OF Mew York Copyright, 1921, by Puh'lo Ledger Cos. By RAYMOND .V.RROLL
NSW' YORK, Sept. 17.—The thrill of the unexpected is the chief charm of Now j York City. Think of meeting In an otfloe j on the fourteenth floor of a skyscrapper a man with 'a family tree that goes back 6.000 years before the death of Plato, and Plato died In 347 B. C. The owner of that astounding pedigree Is Phirozsbaw D. Saklatvala, president of the Middle States Oil Corporation and a naturalized American citizen. It was quite by accident the genealogical torrent surged around the quiet little business man of light olive complexion, bright black eyes and heavily arched eyebrows I had called in person to express re gret for inability to attend a garder party next Sunday at Mr. Saklatvala's country home in Plainfield. N. J, We talked of Hindustan, w-bere Mr. Saklatvala was boru when he casually remarked he was a Parsee and that his brother Beramji, was In business In Pittsburgh and they were the only Parades permanently domiciled in the United States. “My father Dorabjl Saklatvala was a Parsee priest, and when a boy I was sent >to another priest for Instruction in the tenets of that faith," said Mr. Saklatvala, “and In that connection a most courious coincidence 'recently came about. AIDS SON OF HIS OLD INSTRUCTOR. “A son of my instructor named Jalpavri had arrived in New York city to study at Columbia University where I have placed him in charge of Dr. A. V. W r . Jackson, professor of Indo-lranian languages. Thus I open the future to a yomy? man whose father revealed the past of my race to me. He is being educated lines that will equip him for the task of assisting Dr. M N. Phalla. our great reformer, who is endeavoring in India to effect reforms among the Parsecs. "A beggar among the Tarsees is unknown in India and would be. a scandal to the sect. The sagacity, activity and commercial enterprise of the Parsees are proverbial in the East and their credit as merchants is almost unlimited. Be-
Washington , Briefs Special to Indiana Dally Time* and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—There is a branch of activity in conne tlon with America’s preparations for the armaments conference second iu importance to hardly any other. It Is concerned with personal psychology. Great generals are accustomed to model their plans of battle on the nurely individual records, predilections and characteristics of prospective opponents as much as on purely physical and military conditions. So it is In diplomacy. To know men in statesmanship often is to know how they can most effectively be dealt with. So a number of keen young Americans here and abroad are at the moment engaged in placing the past, present and probable future of various foreign politicians. admirals, generals and diplomatists under the microscope. Those who actually will represent their countries at Washington are being cardindexed with special care and hardly le-s carefully those who may not attend the conference, but who—ln I>ondon. Paris, Rome, Tokio and Pekin—may pull the strings. In precisely the same fashion we may be sure other conference powers are X-raying the pedigrees of Messrs. Hughes, Lodge, Rout and Underwood. ■ . • * • Klihu Root is president of the Carnegie endowment for International peace—has been ever since its foundation in 15*10. The endowment under the energetic direction of its secretary. I*r. James Brown Scott, has arranged to make a contribution to armaments eonfergn'-e by issulng periodh-ally a series of pamphlets dealing with practical phases of questions with which It will deal. • • * J. Warren T. Mason, an American newspaperman, who has just visited Washington after a two months tour of Europe, had the distinction of occupying "the Stinnes suite” in Berlin's most aristocratic hotel It embraced a drawing room, a dining room, three bed room*, two baths, and twelve windows facing Enter den Linden. The cost was 100.000 marks a dav. At the time Mr. Mason Indulged Inahat luxury the sum represented $12.50 In rpfll money. This week he might have had the suite for $5) SO a day. * . • Observed in the new" Who's Who in the Nation's Capital": Senator Penros* Is an author; wrote “History of the City Government of Philadelphia." • Herbert Hoover is a “citizen of Finland." Edwin M. Hood, dean of Washington correspondent*, began as an office boy of the Associated Press in 1874 and has been with the game organization ever sines. Secretary Mellon founded the town of Donora. Pa., establishing great steel mil’s there. Wilt H. Hays was an organization Republican politician before he was 21. Oswald F. Schuette. Washington newspaperman, Invented the political phrase. “Steam Roller.” Senator Capper of Kansas began life as a typesetter on the Topeka dally newspaper he now owns. Charles E. Hughes received his education at three universities—Colgate. Brown and Columbia Copyright. 1921, by Public Ledger Company.
cauti of intermarriage the race has dwindled down to 75,000 and for some tjme there has been a serious difference among the Parsees on the question of Proselytism. A Parsee married a French woman who took the necessary steps to adopt the religion of her husband But it was decreed by the High Court of India that though the creed of Zoreaster theoretically admitted Proselytes, their admission was npt consistent with toe practice of the Parsees in India. "This narrow view is what has to be broken down. The Parsees still hold that one must be born Into that faith and say that those who seek admission are people who wish to participate in the great wealth of the nation. The priestly office is hereditary and no one can become a priest who was not born such, but the sou of a priest may become a layman, as in my case. I studied for the priesthood eo as to get my name in the lineage register of the nation. However, I have married a wonderful American lady, but live by the teachings of Zoreaster. which religion may be summarized in a sentence, 'Good thought*, words and deeds.’ ” , CAME TO C. S. EIGHT YEARS AGO. That distinguished Parsee is a member of the famous Tata family and came to the United States eight years ago as their 1 business representative. The head of the family,'Sir J. X. Tata, founded the In- ; titute of Scientific Research at Banga- ! lore and up to the time of his death In 1904 was a tremendous power In India, establishing g;ee! mills, electric plants, building hotels and cotton factories and starting banks, insurance companies and even taxicab companies. -be Saklatvala estate In New Jersey c .id well be placarded "Rural Annex of ne Metropolitan Museum of Art,” for it is the home of some rare treasures. \ marble statue of Buddha in his house and another of black stODe in his Japa uese garden are among the prizes of his collection There is a fish pond In the garden with a bronze crane standing there, also a little shrine which really is a tea house. His embroideries are really wonderful, „o I have been fold by persons familiar with such knirknacks. The Parsees in India are mueb mors .iberal in their treatment of women than any other Asiatic race, thev allow them j aPP p ar freely In public and leave to them the entire management of their household affairs.
COURTESY TRIP SET FOR SEPT. 23 Visit Will Be Paid Terre Haute, Greencastle and Brazii. A delegatio nos more than 150 will go from Indianarolis on the fifth courtesy trip to he made under tne auspices of the tndianapolis Chamber of Commerce to Terre Haute. Brazil and Greencastle on I rlday. Sept. 23. Headed by Charles A. Bookwalter. as leading orator, and escorted by the Indianapolis News Newboys’ Band, a special interurban train of at least five cars will carry the 'courtesy trippers out with tbeir Indianapolis message. Noon luncheon will be given the Indianapolis wholesalers by the Terre Haute retailers at the Hotel Peming in Terre Haute. Mr. Bookwalter will make an addfes* there. Iht courtesy trippers will return to Greencastle for an evening dinner, which will be tendered to them by the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs. The courtesy trips are but a part of • general program instituted by John B. Reynolds, general secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, to build up the wholesale trade territory of Indianapolis. "The Chamber of Commerce, as the leading business organization of this city, has endeavored to take a most active part tn thl* trade extension work," says Mr. Reynolds. “In our wholesale business we are In keen competition with Sr Louis, Louisville, Cleveland. Cincinnati and Chicago. The wholesalers in these cities are reaching out through special trade week!, railroa* fare refunds and with other means to draw in the wholesale business. In addition to thesp courtesy trips, which will eventually cover every part of the State, the Chamber of Commerce Is sending each month to 5,000 retailers 1n Indiana Heart o' Trade, a merchandising magazine. This magazine is not an Indianapolis boosting proposition at all. Indianapolis and the Chamber of Commerce are very seldom mentioned in an issue. Editorial contents are devoted almost entirely to suggestions and article* of better storekeeping methods.” Arrest Three Youths Who Try to Sell Car Three men were arrested last night on the change of vehicle taking when it U said they tried tb sell an automobile at a garage at Washington and Rural streets. They gave their names as Le* Simmers. 17. 2154 Ashland avenue: Jerry Dule. 18. 2413 East Washington strep*, a nr’ Fred Ross, 20. 1633 South Meridian street. Lieutenant McMurtry of the automobib detective squad received information that the three men were trying to sell an automobile and in company with Detectives Rngenstein and Hines arrested the men. The automobile was the property rs Pete Thomas. 150 West Washington I street, whose car was stolen from CaplItol avenue and Washington street.
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