Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1922 — Page 13

FLOWER VENDER HAWKS POSIES I FOR FUN OF IT | St. Louis Peddler Doesn’t Need Money, But He Loves Work. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. IS.—A prosper- I ous property owner and author hawks flowers on a b.isy streeet corner in down- : town St. Louis. | Shopgirls sup for a nosegay to bright- j *en up their workrooms; bankers and | business men buy bunches of roses from him. Most of them —those who don't realty know the old man—are sorry for him. Their sorrow is wasted, for he sells j flowers for the fun of it. This strange vendor of posies is Charles William Wors. He owns property in ! town and contributes articles to leading floral journals. He started business at j the corner of Olive street and Braadway, j twqlve years ago, selling lavender. Mow j he sells all the flow r ers in season. Dur- j ing the Christmas season he did a big j business. SAYS COURTESY IS BUSINESS ASSET. It is his theory that you can make j good in a business way anywhere if you j are only courteous and try to please 1 as much as possible. He takes any amount of time with customers, whether they want a trifling order of sweet violets or several dozens of rare roses. During the noon and evening rush hour business men, shopgirls and messenget boys elbow each other in their desire to be waited upon, for it is upon such people that Ms trade depends. Wors was born with his love of flowv ers. He drifted to New York City as a : young man and sold peacock feathers for j a while there. Later he was seized by the western fever and came to St. Louis where he has resided ever since. TWO SONS ARE INJURED IN W AR. During the war Wors’s three sons enlisted, and two were wounded. One of Fthetn now helps him about his daily work as best he can. He also receives a small Government pension. “I love all sorts of flowers and am never so happy os when handling them,” he explains. “Flowers are like friends to me. Some are jaunty and bold, others are timid and sensitive. I like to find out the sort of flowers that people want and always have them ready for my customers. It Is just as much to me to sell a flower to a child as to fill a large order. If they appreciate the flowers that is all I ask.”

VOLSTEAD ACT ENFORCED OVER MOST OF NATION Methodist Leader Asserts Prohibition Far Fjrom Being Failure. CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—Prohibition is far from the failure anti-Volstead act enthusiasts would have you believe. In nine-tenths of the area of the country prohibition is very stringently enforced, and in the remaining one-tenth the work is progressing at a gratifying rate and demon rum will soon become a thing of memory only. . Take this from the research secretary 'of the board of prohibition, temperance and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. An investigation of conditions the country over, in which reports were made ty 20,000 heads of churches aud numerous leaders of the 10,000,000 laymen, is the basis for the claims of the Methodist Church. ENORMOUS DECREASE IN DRINK. “There has been an enormous decrease in the consumption of liquor, a decrease of not less than eighty-five per cent and ,v nn ninety per cent, it lias been shown by the investigation," u Picket, research secretary. “In San Francisco prohibition decreased arrests for drunkenness in its first year from 17,354. to 1,814; in Los Angeles from 15,830 to 2,589; in Boston from 52,082 to 16,187. We have similar reports from Washington, St. Paul, Lincoln, Galveston and other cities. “There has also been a decrease in more serious crimes in many cities. I have it on the authority of the police-commis-sioner of New York that In 191S there were 11,611 burglaries; In 1920 there were only 6,830. This official also makes similar statements as to the arrests on other charges. POVERTY HAS BEEN LESSENED. "There has been a startling decrease in poverty and financial distress. The hospitals have been relieved. In Philadelphia during the last ‘wet’ six months there were 1,184 cases of alcoholism in .general hospitals and in the same months rthe next year 276. Similar reports have been received from other cities. “Private distillation and brewing, while they worry prohibition officers, are insignificant. In America only a few families of German extraction can make palatable beer. Whisky, illicitly produced, is so nearly nonpalatable that only habitual alcoholics can consume-.it. “Prohibition is a relative success now and is on the road to complete success.”

DINGY STREET IS RICH MARKET Hatton Garden Trades in Precious Stones Like Street Peddlers. LONDON, Jan. 18.—There is a dingy, smoke-ridden street in London, passed unnoticed by thousands of Londoners, vet it is the richest open <rir market in London. In Hatton Garden precious gems are bought and sold with the free and easy air of a coster monger selling bananas, who, by the way, sells his fruit in the same street with far more ostentation than does the jewel broker when lie disposes of his priceless atoms. There is no stall in this market. In cases, doorways or in the streets are the bargains struck. One man will produce a tiny morsel wrapped in tissue paper. Its contents may be worth thou of dollars. The prospective buyer "adjusts bis optical glasses and tips the precious bundle info the palm of his hand end minutely examines the contents. Then the bargaining begins, and the gems, carelessly wrapped again, either change hands or are thrust back again Into a spare waistcoat pocket. Although the deals made incur several thousands of dollars, the profits as a rule are very small. The dealers know the game from A to Z. But it is not a market where the ordinary public can pick bargains. Let the enthusiastic amateur attempt to buy in this very ordinary looking street and he is asking for trouble and will get it. There are many crooks awaiting him. The established dealer knows the crook and the crook knows the dealer and lets him severely alone. They are a very small but a very select society in Hatton Garden. Although diamonds and other precious stones are handled in the broad daylight St Is seldom that any of the stones are

OXFORD SCIENTISTS TO EXPLORE ISLAND

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Under the leadership of F. C. R. Jourdan ,a party of OYford University biologists, ornithologists, geologists and other men of science are exploring the Utile island of Spitsbergen for the British government. The Isle lies 400 miles north of Norway, and until two years ago so little was known of it that no nation claimed ownership. But this condition was changed when, in partitioning off the Islands after the world war, the question of ownership came up and Spitzbergen was made a British possession. This photograph shows a group of explorers at Cape Schomen on their way to Spitzbergen. Left to right (front row)—Hurley, Jourdan, leader of the expedition; Paget, Wilkes and Seguit.

lost. A few years ago, however, two dealers were arguing over some diamonds outside a public house and the stones slipped from their hands aud fell through the grating into the coal cellar of the saloon keeper. The diamond owner promptly bought from the saloon keeper the whole of his stock of coal at an inflated price and then had it carefully sifted and the diamonds were recovered. That is the only occasion on which there is record of any diamonds having been lost and this has been the center of the diamond market of Great Britain for the last 200 years. EXEMPTIONS IN INCOME TAX ARE EXPLAINED Late Changes in Law Raise Limit to Higher Figures. WASHINGTON. Jan. lb.—More liberal income tax exemptions for married persons and the requirement that a return shall be made in 1922 of gross Income of $5,000 or more during 1921 is explained in-a statement by an official of the Internal Revenue Service. “The act provides that a married person living with husband or wife net income for 1921 was $5,000 or loss shall be allowed a personal exemption of $2,500. If the net Income for such person was over $5,000 the exemption is $2,000." the statement says. "Under the Revenue Act of 1918 the personal exemption allowed a married person was $2,000, regardless of the- amount of net ini-om’e. The normal tax rate remains unchanged, 4 per cent on the first $4,000 of net Income above the exemptions and 8 per cent on the remaining net income. REDUCTION NOT TO INCREASE NET. “In order that an income slightly in excess of $5,000 shall not be subjected to an inordinately disproportionate tax because of the reduction of the exemption to $2,000 thereon, the law provides that such reduction shall not operate to increase the amount of the net income m excess of $.>,000. “For example, on a net income of $5.10(1 the tax without this saving clause would be $120.40, which is 4 per cent on *3.100. the amount of jj“t income less an exemption of $2,000. The actual tax is .$110.40, computed as follows: from the not income of $5,010 is deducted $2,500, leaving $2,510, the 4 per cent tax on which amounts to slook4o. To this is added $lO, ‘the amount of net Income in excess of $5,000.’ “The personal exemptions allowed married persons apply also to the head of a family, a person who supports in the household one of more relatives by blood, marriage or adoption. NEW RULE ON $5,000 GROSS. "Heretofore a person whose net income was lcs- than his exemption (SI,OOO if single or $2,000 if married) was not required to file a return. Under the revenue act of 1921 if the gross income of an individual equalled or exceeded $5,000 or if the combined gross income of a married couple and that of dependent minor children equalled or exceeded $5,000, or if the combined gross income of a married couple and that of dependent minor children equalled or exceeded $5,000, a return must be filled regardless of the imomit of net income. “ ‘Net iircome’ is a gross income less certain deductions. The fact that allowably deductions from gross income for business expenses, losses and bad debts may reduce the net income to an amount below the personal exemptions of SI,OOO or $2,000 does not alter the requirement to file a return, if such a gross income equalled or exceeded $5,000.”

Grandfather 3 Times in Half an Hour POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Jan. 16. Eugene Oaks of West Plains claims to be the champion grand-dad in the country, and he bars none of them. Just a few days ago he was sitting by his fireside reading when his phone rang. When he took the receiver down a roiee at the other end of the wire Informed him that his daughter, Mrs. Orphs Robinson, had given birth to a baby girl. , Oaks ordered a box of cigars from the corner drug store He had barely gotten" seated when there was a confusion at his front door. He went to spe what the trouble was and it was the Western Union messenger boy with a v.rc reading "Congratulations. You're a grandfather. Your daughter, Mrs. Boy E. Crone, of Warrensburg. Mo., just gave birth to a son..’’ He ordered another box of cigars 'for the celebration, all the time the smile on his face becoming broader. Thirty minutes later he was aronted from his stupor by the phone again. It wfls a long-distance call from Grimmatt, Mo. "Hello, dad.” said a voice. "This is your son. Oscar. You’re a grandfather now. My wife just gave birth to a daughter.” Oaks phoned the store ter send all the cigars they had and before he returned to his study he barred the doors and cut the telephone wire.

HIGHWAYS IN FRANCE MARK DEEDS OF VALOR ! Senator Sponsors Resolution to Commemorate U. S. Service in France. WASHINGTON, Jan. IS.—A great system of highways In France, similar to the Lincoln Highway in the United States, ; would be established to commemorate the deeds of the American soldiers abroad, according to the terms of a resolution sponsored by Senator Willis. Republican of Ohio, and now la the hands of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Suitable tablets and other memorials would be placed along these highways. These tablets would give the names of divisions engaged In the lighting at various places, would record victories and ! deeds of heroism and give other historical data for the information of future generations. ( A memorial highway commission would be established by the bill, and this commission would administer the operation and maintenance of the memorial highways The principle object of the creation of the commission is to establish a memorial highway to facilitate access to the fields of operations of the world war in France and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, which had suggested the following three routes:

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Faris to Coblenz. Verdun to St. Mlhiel, Todl and Metz. Chateau-Thlerry to Brussels. I These suggested routes lead through I or near the scenes of most of the major ■ra ions it: which the American troops fynl the Allies took part and also near several principle American cemeteries in France and Belgium. It has been suggested that at Coblenz there be erected two bronze tablets, one containing the roster of troops of the American operation and the other the roster of present forces in Germany, after the style of the braze tablets erected to commemorate the campaign of Santiago do Cuba and the China Relief Expedition. The committee also has before it the suggestion that the memorial committee proposed Include Myron T. Herrick, Ambassador to France; Brand Whitlock, Major General Henry T. Alien, who commanded the first expeditionary forces in France; President Lowell of Harvard University and President Butler of Columbia University. U. S. Relief Agent Dies in Russia RIGA, Jan 18.—Word was received ! here from Moscow today that an American agent of the American Relief administration named Palmer had died of i typhus contraction while working In the i Russian famine zone. ! NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Officials of the American Relief administration here today said that their records fail to show any one by the name of Palmer work--1 ing in Russia.

‘POOR RICHARD,’ SCIENTIST, ALSO LOVER OF MUSIC Franklin Built Quaint Old i Instrument, Harmonica, as Contribution. NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—National Thrift Week, beginning Jan. 17, will recdll not only the familiar pictures of Benjamin Franklin as philosopher, patriot, scientist and man of letters, but also the less familiar but equally fascinating one of Franklin as a musician. In addition to knowing the best European music of his day, a somewhat unusual thing in a Colonial, the author of “Poor Richard” himself enriched the field of music by his invention, in 1762, of the harmonica, oi musical glasses, which attained a high degree of popularity in the early days of American national history. Franklin became so proficient in playing this instrument that he inspired a poem of praise by one of the earlier American poets, Nathaniel Evans. To commemorate this side of Franklin's gifted personality and to make better known his contribution to the development of the orchestra, the National Thrift Week Committee hns authorized as one of its posters a picture showing the “Father of Thrift” as also lover of music, seated in playing position before his harmonica. The principle underlying Franklin’s device 4s. that musical sounds can be produced by rubbing a wet finger over th edge of a tumbler of water, the pitch varying w r ith the amount of water in the glass. Rather clumsy experiment* had been made previously by an Irishman named Puckeridge and a few’ others, with numerous tumblers of assorted lengths partly filled with liquid, so that the invention was not absolutely Franklin's. As shown by the illustration, Franklin’s turmonica was made by assembling a number of glass dies so that they would revolve on a spindle, passing through water as they turned. They were played by touching the moist edges of the ifiasses with the fingers as they revolved. The first virtuoso on the musical glasses was Miss Marianne Davies, a relaI tive of Franklin, who created a sensation in England and, with her sister, Cecilia, a vocalist of some fame, took the Continental public by sterm. Other skilled players followed, and the harmonica appeared in concert In Now York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and in many private homes of wealth. Toward the ctfH of the eighteenth century improvements were made in the Instrument, extending Its range beyond the three octaves of Franklin’s model and facilitating performance by the use of a flddle-bow instead of the bare fingers. Thomas Jefferson h'ard the harmonica ; >n Paris ami expressed the opinion that Its Success would be "the greatest present which has been made to the musical world this century, not excepting the ; pianoforte.” The instrument became a ; part of some of the leading orchestras in I Europe. Johann Gottlieb Naumann, a 1 noted composer of the eighteenth century, played it ami wrote six sonatas foi It, and even Beethoven give it his attention in a short melodramatic selection. Yet, despite these marks of an extended Influence, the Instrument fell Into disuse before 1840. One reason assigned for its passing is that its sweetness tended to cloy. Another is that it failed to secure an easily manipulated keyboard liko the modern piano. However that may be. the harmonica stands as a symbol of Franklin's many-sided genius and the artistic bent of his scholarly mind. Even more. It exemplifies that characteristic of his nature which impelled him not only to seek knowledge with avidity but to put his knowledge in a form to help' others. His early hardships and life experiences he turned to the service of his folloivmon In his books. The delight and relaxation he derived from music fie repaid by hla musical invention.

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Boys’ and Girls’ Skuffer Shoes $ 1 .39 Brown lace, extension soles. Special ■ T!T7T!!^Z —Third Floor.

HANDKERCHIEFS For Men and Women MEN’S HANDKERCHIEFS, woven corded bordered cambric with hemstitched hem, extra full size; included in this line are broken lines of initia.l handkerchiefs; 25c quality 12t£* MEN’S LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, some have initial, mostly plain, extra large sizes, hemstitched hems.2s^ WOMEN’S LINEN INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS, with neat white initial, hemstitched hem;x 25c quality, each 19< —First Floor, Southeast. Thursday You Save on These House furnishings TOILEL PA****’£Z > -%k PER. finest -- crepe, 6 rolls, J 0c qual- | lty 69* MOP 8, self Im wringing, $1.69 'jjj quality ..980 * : —~ HOWARD C H E MICA ELY TREATED DUST MOPS, $1.25 quality 980 BUCKETS, heavy galvanized metal, 16-quarr ✓ size, 95c qual- fln. •f. ity 590 Ls TABLES, whit* enamel, mafiog- KkVy,; T(£J any finish top, drop leaf; fine fr apartments; mi' $12.00 qua! ity 89.95 CANISTER SETS, white enameled, four containers flour, sugar, coffee and tea; $1.25 quality „....79* FLAXOAP finest liquid aoapa for woodwork, floors, autos, etc-; 1-pound package. 35c quality 190 KITCHEN STOOLS, white enameled. $2.00 qualify 51.39 CURTAI N STUB T(HEK|, kiln dried size. $4.75 quality 82.98 SHOE SHINE STAND*), well made, of hardwood, $1.25 quality 980 FURNACE SHOVELS, steel blade; SIOO quality 590 —Fifth Floor.

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Sheets and Pillowcases BLEACHED SHEETS, double bed size (no phone orders), extra _ spocial OUC BLEACHED SHEETS, 81 x9O "Seamless,” Ai $1.50 quality SEAMLESS BLEACHED SHEETS, 81x90, hem. We reserve the right to limit quantities (no phone An orders) /OC + BLEACHED SHEETS, 81 x9O, “New-Era,” (fr-j | A extra special.... p i ■ 1U L PILLOWCASES, 42x36, made deep hem (no phone orders), extra Ift special PILLOWCASES. 42x36; 23c quality, each C PILLOWCASES. 42x36; tyo 30c quality, each LuC PILLOWCASES, hemstitched, 42x36, special, : 29c PILLOWCASES, “Mohawk," 42x36, each ,uOC PILLOWCASES, 42x36, ai 49c quality, each J4C

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Clocked Silk and Wool Sport Hose for Women Brown and green heather mixtures with purple, gold, green and blue clocks; extra special, pair OTHER HO3EERY SPECIALS SPORT WOOL HOSE FOR WOMEN, black, brown antLgreen heather mixtures; special (3 pairs, $2.50), Q pair 03C FULL FASHIONED PURE THREAD SILK HOSE FOR WOMEN, high spliced heels, double soles, silk lisle garter tops; excellent grade clear silk; black, cordovan, African brown, Russian calf, polo, gray and navy; *-| all sizes; $2.60 quality, pair tpl.jD —First Floor, Southwest.

In Our Model Grocery QUALITY^-SERYICE —MODERATE PRICES Exclusive distributors for Indianapolis and vicinity of Park & Tilford’s world’s best food products. — f*o*g-s| *4 On sale only from 8:30 a. m. to rggg KfVPOli 10:45 a. m. Sunlit bread, hot g from our oyens. All pan breads, AT ■ Including rye and graham. One- - loaves. While supply lasts, loaf BONED AND ROLLED SHOULDERS, fine for •on roasting; pound tUC BREAKFAST BA- ROYAL LUNCHEON COFFEE, CON, lean, sweet, sugar cured, machine sliced (3 onr ow ° blend of the fine9t coC * pounds $1.00), or lees; perfect aroma and QO pound JbC fiavor <-3 pouads, Ssc), lb jLC

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PUMPKIN, se - lect quality, No. 3 cans; 14c quality (dozen cans, $1.25), can 120 PINE APPLE, extra fsncy, sliced, Luxury brand. No. 2 can; 24c quality (dozen cans, $2 50), can ... 22* GREEN LIMA REA NS, No. 2 can; 29c quality (dozen cans, $2 90), can 25C OLD FASHIONED LYE HOMINY, No. 3 can; 12c quality (dozen cans, $1.00), can lO* LOGA N B E R - KIES, finest flavor, No. 2 cans; 27c quality dozen cans, $2.55), can ...25*

Thursday Is Apron Day in the Basement Store y For Women and Misses . Prices, are exceptionally attractive on practical and pretty styles. Now is a splendid time to lay in generous supplies. Prices like these are not likely to appear soon again. BREAKFAST APRONS, of percale and gingham, cut full size with string ties; 39c and 50c n qualities (3 for 50c), I / g% each JL 8 v* (Three hundred) GINbHAM AND PERCALE APRONS, of good quality gingham with m Wide sashes and belts, fancy i ockets, at- 5% /S / tractive styles. Choice UiV PERCALE APRONS. cut full size, of good percales, practical for morning wear-; regular SI.OO quality Ut/V

Women’s and Children’s Hosiery The Basement Store opens anew department. The savings on the following items are typical of what to expect in the future: PURE THREAD SILK HOSE FOR WOMEN, black, sizes B'/2 to 10, seamless foot, fashioned leg, lisle garter tops, snug fitting ankles; but for slight imperfections these hose would sell for SI.OO and $1.50; extra special

BUSTER BROWN HOSJS FOR WOMEN, out size, seamless foot, fashioned leg, fully reinforced, black and cordovan; extra special (3 pairs, $1.00), QC pair.. OO C GORDON HOSE FOR WOMEN, sizes, 8% to 10, seamless, fully reinforced, white and cordovan;) 25c quality (3 19c

WOOL SPORT HOSE FOR MEN, slightly imperfect, in all wanted heather mixtures such as green, brown, gray, etc.; ribbed elastic tops; medium weights; sizes 10 to 11%; seconds of 65c quality, extra .special *\a (3 pairs, 85c), paii &/C

PEAS, good quality, sifted; 17c quality (dozen cans, $1.70), can 15* 8 U C C OTASH, very fine. No. 2 cans; 25c quality (dozen cans, $2.50), can ... 23c KRAUT, finest flavor. No. 3 cans; 19c quality (dozen, $1.65), can 15* BABY BEETS, fancy No. 3 cans; 85 c quality (dozen cans, $3.00), can -29* FLORIDA SWEET ORANGES, dozen 30* G S A FEFBUIT fancy Flor id a s ’ priced according to size. 15c. 10c and 8* —Fifth Floor.

T O M A T OE., fancy solid paca, No. 2 h:ans: 14c quality (dozen cans, $1.30), can IX* SQUASH, best qua lit y. No. 3 cans; 30c quality (dozen cans, $3.00), can ... 27* A S P A K A GPS, TIPS, small, green, 23c quality (dozen cans, S2AS), can ...... 20* A S P A R A GUS, medium size, green, large e%ns; 59c quality (dofien cans $5.50), can 49* BA R T LETT PEARS, extra fancy, No. 3 canH: 45c quality (dozen cans, $4.50), can 39*

GORDON LISLE HOSE FOR WOMEN, sizes 8% to 10, seamless foot, fashioned leg, fully reinforced, cor- a £ dovan; 35c quality. LtOC STOCKINGS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, sizes 6 to 9%, medium ribbed, seamless, reinforced heels and toes, black; but for slight imperfections they would sell for 25c, extra •• £ special JLDC

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