Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1921 — Page 4

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Jtttota flails U\ tries INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MA in 3500; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. i Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices } j,- ew fort, Boston, Tayne, Burns & Smith, Inc. THE BEST THING any Legislature does is adjourn. AS WE SEE IT, the ratio is not so important as the actual reduction in armaments. IT IS SURPRISING how many persons have decided Article 10 was not so bad, after all. KING GEORGE Is not having as much success with his special session as had Governor McCray. THE GRAND JURY sounds as if it had been taking lessons from the State board of accounts. SWITZERLAND has anew president. He at least will not have to worry about limitation of naval armament NO ONE should be better qualified to Judge whether the public service commission follows the law than an ex-commissioner. THE MEMBERS of the Indiana House can now “point with pride to the fact that they were for the soldiers’ bonus without having to justify a tax levy for that purpose. The Fire Department That the boasted efficiency of the Indianapolis fire department under the Jewett administration is more or less of a dream, as has long been suspected, is the charge of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, made public in the Times yesterday. Summed up, the report simply means that while there has been a great deal of money spent by the Jewett administration in the purchase of new equipment, there has been little effort made to educate the firemen lu ud Intelligent use of the equipment provided and the money spent for new equipment has not been spent in the w'sest manner. The public might very easily overlook the expenditure of thousands of dollars for equipment that was not absolutely necessary on the theory that the city got full value for its money and the extra equipment will eventually become essential to the working of the department. But this community cannot very well excuse the obvious failure to make the best possible use of the equipment provided. It cannot overlook the tact, as pointed out by the underwriters that the distribution of equipment has not been intelligently done. It cannot overlook the fact that the men employed to handle this equipment have not been properly trained in Its use and that as a result of this lack of training the full efficiency of the apparatus provided at great cost has not been developed. Os course, he Jewett administration will plead that It was compelled by the State Legislature to adopt the two-platoon system and that the adoption of this system forced It to employ "green” men. But the plea falls before the fact that the city administration supported the two-platoon bill, that it had ample time in which to train men for the second platoon and that it failed in the Interval between the conception of the two-platoon system and its inauguration to make any preparations to meet the emergency that it could not help foreseeing. Even today, with the two-platoon system in effect, as the underwriters point out, there is a woeful lack of proper training facilities and methods Fire-fighting Is a profession for which men must be carefully trained if they are to be proficient. There appears to be two ways of training them, one through proper schools and the other through experience gained at the expense of property owners whose properties are burned in the schooling. The indictment of the Jewett administration, as made by the National Board of Underwriters is that it has failed intelligently to distribute its fire apparatus; that it has failed properly to train men in its use and that It has not recognized ability and merit as the guide for promotion. It is Indeed hard to reconcile these charges with the boasts of the Jewett regime that it has “taken the fire department out of politics." If the boast is conceded the conclusion is that the administration has allowed the department to drift until it Is proficient neither in politics nor in fire fighting. Mayor-elect Shank has no bigger problem before him than the promotion of efficiency in the fire department The record of fire losses sustained under the Jewett administration is one that speaks in no uncertain term* of the necessity of improvement

The Reformatory Now that the Legislature has made adequate provision for anew reformatory In Indiana the McCray administration Is confronted with an ad talnistratlve problem concerning which there Is much difference of oplnlot and two directly conflicting viewpoints. There Is, of course, a very laudable disposition on the part of the Officials to establish anew reformatory without saddling on the taxpayer a single dollar more than is necessary. There are undoubtedly methods by which a reformatory can be built at very low costs. One of these methods was the proposed utilization of the penal farm site and the erection on adjacent land of a reformatory by penal farm and reformatory labor. From the standpoint of financial conservation this plan had much to commend It. But there Is grave danger that In the effort for economy the real purposes and functions of the reformatory might be seriously affected. Criminologists are generally opposed to the consolidation of such Institutions as the penal farm and the reformatory. The theory of operation of the two Institutions does not permit their unification. Economy might dictate the combination, but after all the welfare of the unfortunates for whom these Institutions are maintained is and should be paramount. No efforts at economy should prevail unless it Is clear that the economy Is not to be obtained at the expense of the efficiency of the institutions themselves. A few thousand dollars saved in the erection of a reformatory will never compensate for the toleration of disadvantages in the operation uof the Institution. I In the erection of the new reformatory, the administration should not [deviate for economy or any other reason, from the fundamental that the ■reformatory Is to be built for the purpose of exerting the greatest possible Influence for reform. I Indiana cannot afford to adopt any niggardly course in the care of Its l unfortunate wards. iA Grand Jury Worth W hile I The Marion Cointy grand jury Is to be commended for its action in [reporting conditions at the county poor farm. It is a part of the duties of ■he grand jury to Investigate county Institutions and make reports on their Iwpnditions, but most grand Juries In the past have carefully passed over Pahy conditions that might reflect on the administration and have made reports that gave the public little Information. The present Jury has disregarded all the influences which would deter it from telling the truth and seems to have stepped out boldly with its statements of facts. The conditions reported at the poor farm are something of a revelation. It Is a pitiable state of affairs indeed when unfortunate old people are forced to live in such surroundings and under such management as the grand Jury Indicates exist at the poor farm while a prosperous community is spending its money on other things that are not half so necessary as a well managed and equipped institution of this kind. The grand Jury reports that conditions at the Institution are "the re[buH of years of carelessness and neglect." This would indicate that the Ibresent administration may not be entirely responsible, but it certainly Las the power to improve conditions and should take steps to that end mediately. B The present grand jury has been of great service in revealing to the the truth about conditions at the poor *rm. It is to be hoped that Bmd Jtties in the future will do their duty in the same fearless manner.

Keeping House With the Hoopers

[The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living in a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell the readers of the Dally Times how the many present-day problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally in an Interesting review of their home life ‘and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.] FRIDAY. There was a full atendance of the members of the domestic economy section ol the Woman's Club when Mrs. Hooper called them to order. In fact not one woman had been absent since the of the section had begun and the discussion of household budgets had been taken up. , ••When we adjourned last week, airs. Hooper began, "we were considering the question of ‘saving.’ You have had all this time to thiuk over my suggestion that the best way to really save the s■> a week which the $-">0 a week income provides for is to Invest in a life i, ‘ BUl J*ce policy. I don't think there Is the least doubt in the world that It is °“® practical way of providing for a. fa “‘ ly if anything should happen to the husbfl°But what 1 should like to ask,” put in the woman who was always skept cal, “Is what good one's savings would do in any case except death? Suppose at th* end of the year one needed slo'-’*° pay a bill or for any emergency the money would be tied up In an “‘ Bur l | luC ® policy instead of being in the bank where von could get at in nee ?:. “Having it tied UP so you can get at it for every emergency Is one or advantages of putting it by every week to pav an Insurance premium. So often when it is in the hank it is drawn out to pay hills that could be met in some if tho head of the house should die. there Is neither Insuranoe nor money in the bank,” observed the Bride. •That is what seems to be always happening to people.” • ••I think most of us are agreed that vour plan which is really that we Insist that our husbands take oat a life insurance policy and then pay the premium from the five dollars saved every week is the best solution of the P rol,1 ®“ saving on a small Income like sot> a W -I think we might go back now and

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 18*1. by Btar CompMJ. By K. C. B, THEY’VE NAMED a commission • • * TO SIT in Judgment. • ON THE income tax law. • • • AND TO simplify It. • • • 80 A simple person. • • • WI7H A pen and ink. • • * MAY FILL, in the blank. • • • AND SWEAR It’s right • • • WITHOUT ANY danger. • • • OF BEING arrested. • • • FOR PERJURY. • • • AND I hope the commission • • • DOES ITS work. • 0 • IN A proper way. • • • BUT I’M Tory much worried. • • • ABOUT ITS members. • • • FOR AXL of them. • • • ARE MATHEMATICAL hound*. • • • IF I may be excused. • • • FOR SUCn an expression. * m • AND A little thing. • • • THAT TO any of them. . • • WOULD BE Just as simple. • • • AS TWICE two’s four. • • • OR mix times thix. • • • IS THIRTY-TIIIX. • • • MIGHT BE to mo. • • • THE BEGINNING and end. • • • OF A terrible day. • • • AND NOTHING done. • • • AND I’D like to suggest. • * • THAT EVERY time. • • • THE COMMISSION agree*. • • • UPON SOME change. • • • AND READS it over. • • • AND KNOW'S what It mean*. • • • THAT IT then send out. 0 0 0 FOR A vaudeville actor. • • • OR A newspaper man. • • • OR MAYBE the Janitor. • • • AND SUBMIT It to him. • • • AND IF he can’t tell. * • • WHAT THEY’RE gating at. • • • THEY SHOULD try It again. 0 0 0 UNTIL HE can. 0 0 0 AND ANYWAY. ♦ • • I WISH they’d fix It. • • • SO IT) qnlt getting letters. • • * THAT I’VE made mistakes. * • * AND OWE more money. * • • TnEY MAKE me so nervous. • • • I COULD almost yell. • • * I THANK you.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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take up the subject of shelter which you discussed while I was away,’’ continued Mrs. Hooper. “To my way of thinking this is really the most difficult problem in the whole budget for those who do not own their own homes, now many are there of you who pay rent?" Half a dozen of the women present indicated that they did. “Do you mind telling me how you manage, Mrs. Jones?” inquired Mrs. Hooper of one of the women sitting in a seat directly in front of her. "I don't manage at all,” answered the woman dispondently, “I pay fifty dollars a month rent and then make it up the best I can by cutting down on the other items of food, clothes and operating expenses and I 3on’t see what else I am to do." “But if you continue to do that,” Mrs. Hooper pointed out, “your budget is thrown all out of balance, and you might as well continue to work without one as to delude ytVurself into thinking you are living according to one when you really are not.” “I'm perfectly willing to mend my way# if someone will tell me exactly what to do to readjust so I can manage with six dollars a week to shelter my family in Mayfield,” replied the woman. “It positively cannot be done,” said another woman, who was also one of those who paid rent because she did not own her own home. “If there is a place in Mayfield fit to live in, which will house a family of five that can be rented for twenty-five dollars a month, I’d like to be“shown where it Is." “There Is Just one that I know of,’ answered Mrs. Hooper, ‘‘and that is the old Greene place at the edge of the town. I Inquired about that, the rent Is only twenty-five dollars. It has eight rooms and a large piece of ground around it.” “But that's an awful place 1” exclaimed another woman. “It’s all run-down and ouf of repair.” “It has great possibilities if yon examine it,” insisted Mrs. Hooper, ”nnd I understand that the owners will put it all in order for any one who rents It.” “But it is way out where no one I know lives,” objected the first woman, “and there would always be the trolley fare in town.” ’Of course that would amount up if you traveled in and out much," agreed Mrs. Hoper, ‘but your children are too young for school so their carfare would not ( have to be paid.” “Well I'd rather go on managing the way I do than rather move out in that wilderness to save |23,” insisted Mrs. Jones stubbornly. “Os course those of you who feel that way about it might Just as well give up any further consideration of a budget,” remarked Mrs. Hooper quietly, “and as Mrs. Jones says go right on the way you've been doing.” Thero was silence for a few minutes and then one of the women spoke up.

‘‘l thiuk I’ll go out and look at that Greene place. I'm not going to continue paying SSO a month rent one minute longer if I can help It.” “And I've talked the matter over with my husband and wo find that we can buy the house we are living In on an Installment of $25 a month on the balance after we have paid down what we have in the hank. We had never thought of doing it before.” The menus for the three meals on Saturday are: BREAKFAST. Baked Apples Cereal Fish Cakes Muffins Coffee LUNCHEON. Baked Beans Brown Bread and Butter Fruit Cookies Cocoa DINNER. Bean Soup Hamburg Steak Fried Onions Mashed Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes Lettuce Salad Italsln Rice Pudding (Copyright, 1921.) CREAM OF SAGO BOl'P. Soak half a cup of sago for three hour# in enough tepid water to cover it. Pour a cupful of boiling water upon it, and simmer in an tnner boiler until very soft. Now add three cups of hot milk. Into which two table-spoons of butter rolled in flour have been stirred. Beat tip well, put in celery wilt, pepper and a little onion Juice; stir up and beat from the bottom for two minutes; pour gradually upon two beaten eggs; set In boiling water for two minutes and pour out. STEWED RUMP STEAK. Trim the fat from the edge of a thick rump *tenk and put the ateak over the fire in a large pot. Pour over It a cupfu. of cold water, cover closely and Ret over a slow fire and simmer for three quarters of an hour after it reaches the boil. Remove the meat from the pot and transfer io a baking pan; season the gravy and pour it over the top and cook for fifteen minutes longer, basting three times during the process. Remove the steak to a hot platter and set in the open over while you add to the gravy a cup of soup stock and thicken it with a little browned four rubbed to a paste with a spoonful of butter. Season with kitchen bouquet, celery, salt and a half tenspoonful of good sauce. Add a dozen canned mushrooms cut in hnlf. Cook one minute and pour over the steak. BANANA SALAD. Choose the heart from a nice head of lettuce, putting the sterna together to form a cup. Put sliced bananas In the center and cover with powdered sugar and on© teaspoonful of mayonnaise. CHEESE CUTLETS. To the well beaten yolks of 3 eggs add 1 tnblespoonful of cream and 1 ounce of grated Parmesan cheese and season with mace and cayenne. Bent until very light and add 1 tablespoonful of Bechamel sauce. Pour into a buttered pan and steam over hot water until firm. When cold cut in shapes with a fancy cutter, dredge with grated cheese and fry in boiling fat to a delicate brown. Serve at -mice on fried bread. PEACH FRITTERS. Stir a dozen sliced peaches into a batter made by beating together three whipped eggs, a cupful of rich milk, a pinch of salt and a cupful of prepared flour. Drop this mixture by the spoonful Into deep boiling fat. When the fritters are of a golden brown color, drain in a colander and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve very hot.

Daily Fashion Hints

By AGNES AYRES. Star iu Paramount Pictures. The romance of old Spain is still with us—will be until her star or ours fades out. We rustle in her bouffant skirts, coquette with her fans and her roses, dance on her clattering scarlet heels and wrap ourselves luxuriously in her exquisitely embroidered shawls. This time it is not really one of her shawls but a model inspired by her and surely os a red rose behind the ear. A made shawl, one of those light, rather small ones, that ere not meant for out-of-door wear, hut as a useful and charming addition to one's evening costume, to be worn between dances, in a cool hall, between the acts, when the ushers ruthlessly throw open outer doors. The material is a heavy quality of black crepe and is embroidered in colored silk* that are utartlingly pure and gay, in a primitive design. A V-shaped yoke, which falls to the waist line In back, is bordered and heavily embroidered with silk. Below the waist it Is continued In a lattice of black ell!;, ending lu a long fringe of all the brilliant colors In the embroidery. There are pointed panels on either side, shirred into the yoke, like bishop sleeves, embroidered and fringed on their outer edges. Helpful Household Hints —Drawers that Stick — If dresser or bnffet drawers stick, rub the offending parts with soap, which will cause the drawers to run smoothly. —To Prevent Kng Slipping — To prevent rugs from slipping on polished floors, sew a piece of rubber on the under side of each end. FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. The dressmakers here were highly elnted over the statement by Dr. S. Copeland, health commissioner of greater New York, to tho effect that the presentstyle corset Is beneficial to the health of women. Tim commissioner's Ideas were cabled her,, ml were printed in all the newspapers. They brought forth this reply from Dr. Paul Be Clair, an eminent health authority of I’arls “Dr. Copeland Is right. The corset makes the wotn-m well-dressed and at ease in her mind. I have expressed practically the same ideas, but 1 have gone farther. I hav e said that tbt> absence of

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the corset, tends to make a woman nnhealthy, as she needs the bracing value it lends. The women of Paris, now that they are wearing corsets, have ceased looking like walking barrels." Fashion has ordered black strap sanals for use day in and day out. They are the order of the day over here. French or Spanish heels add to their beauty. The chic foot now wears the scandal. It Is made of velvet, patent leather, satin or suede. All of them have straps.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR.

By David Cory

Well, as soon as the Robber Dog disappeared, the Robber Kitten said to Puss Junior, “You have done me a good turn; you have returned good for evil, for I stole your money.” “Well, I can’t stand by and see a dog hurt a cat,” replied Puss Junior; “at the same time I won't have a cat rob me,”

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By GEORGE McMANUS.

and, quick as a flash, Puss Junior seized the Robber Kitten's pistol aDd pointed It at him. “Paws up!” he commanded, and up went the Robber Kitten's paws, even quicker than a wink. “Hold them up till Tom Thumb goes through your pockets and gets the money you stole from us.” But, oh, dear me! Tom Thumb had a lot of trouble, getting the money out of that Robber Kitten’s pocket, for he was still lying on the ground, and Puss Junior wouldn't let him get up. But after a while Tom Thumb pulled out the last penny. And then he came over to where Puss Junior stood and said. “Let the Robber Kitten up! I have ail the money safe in my pocket!” So Puss Junior commanded the Robber Kitten to stand up. “Then up he rose, and scratched his nose, And went home very sad. “Oh, mother, dear, behold me here, I’ll never more be bad, Bad, bad, bad; I’ll neTer more be bad!”

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when Puss and Tom Thumb heard the Robber Kitten say this to his mother, for they had followed him to his home, they looked at each other and smiled. And then the Robber Kitten's mother cried, for, of course, she was ashamed to think that her small son had turned into a Robber and had stolen money from Puss Junior and Tom Thumb. “Don’t cry, madam,” said Tom Thumb. “I think your son will be a good kitten after this. He should always remember how Puss Junior saved him from the Robber Dog, for there are not many cats in this world who are as kind as Puss Junior.” "No. indeed," replied the mother of tho Robber Kitten. “Sir Cat,” she said, bowing to Puss Junior. “I say ‘Sir,’ for I see you have a sword and spurs. Therefore, you must be a Royal Cat.” “I am the son of the famous Puss in Boots,” replied Puss Junior, “and am seeking adventure,” and then with a low bow he turned away, followed by his faithful friend, Tom Thumb.—Copyright, 1921. (To Be Continued.)

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