Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1922 — Page 4

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JuMatia giuhi dimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephone—MA in 3500. members of audit bureau of circulations. i New York. Bouton. Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices \ Chicago. Detroit. St. Louis. Q. I.ogan Payne ro I Politics and the Bonus * The more the Administration bickers over the provisions of the readjusted compensation bill and the question of its ultimate passage the more the country gains the impression that Republican leaders are not so much actuated by a desire to repay the former service men as they are to save tlielr own hides in the coming elections. It is unfortunate that such a suspicion should arise In the consideration of what should be a willing recognition of the fact that the Nation owes something to vhe men who offered their lives, who gave their all, when the Government called. - I Unless further executive interference intervenes reports from Washington indicate that the House will pass the “bonus” bill, which has been given a favorable report by the Ways and Means Committee. ith a great number of the Representatives up for re-election this fall and doomed to face a critical electorate, snch action -would give them an excellent opportunity of going before their constituents with a “clean record ‘ on ‘bonus” legislation, no matter what becomes of the bill in the meantime. The Senate’s reception of the proposal will not be so generous or so enthusiastic—if it gets that far—for Secretary Mellen’s opposition will find more of a welcome there. The Senators themselves are not unaware of the heavy responsibility they must shoulder if they are called to act 'm the compensation bill and there is, no doubt, especially among those members who are asking re-election, an ardent hope that they will not bo forced to record a vote on the eve of a campaign that holds fateful portents for them. It is much easier for a Senator to tell his constituents that he is un- 1 qualifiedly for a mythical bonus measure than it is to explain why he voted for or against an actual bill. Over the openly expressed opposition of Secretary Mellen and the Controller of the Treasury there hangs the threat of a presidential \eto which many leaders believe will be forthcoming if the bill passes both the House and the Senate. There are those who feel that President Harding will assume the responsibility of killing the measure if it becomes necessary, thus giving the members of both Houses the opportunity to go forth into their campaigns saying, “We did all we could for you soldier boys,: now give us your vote because we are your friends.” Credence to this story Is lent by the hints dropped from the presi- j dential outing expedition in the South. In fact. President Harding’s silence relative to reports that he will not sanction a bill that does not carry a sales tax has aroused congressional leaders, especially Chairman Fordney, pilot of the bonus bill, to such an extent that he proposes to force an expression from the Executive at the earliest possible moment. Should the President reiterate his opposition to the measure as now framed its fate can be easily forecast. Should he maintain his official silence Congress, which is heartily sick of the whole affair, must face the music. In any event those former service men who are busy figuring on what they will do with the proceeds of their “bonus” v ill have ample time to revise fheir figures, or to devise new methods of investment. Ralston Issues Sound Doctrine Sound food for reflection on the delinquencies of the Republican national Administration were outlined by Samuel M. Ralston, candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, in his keynote speech last night at Muncie. Mr. Ralston’s remarks will not alone i appeal to those of Democratic belief who have long ago assured themselves that the Harding regime is a failure, but it will appeal strongly to thinking voters of the opposition party who are finding the leash of partisan regularity somewhat galling | and irksome. Mr. Ralston, who was a staunch advocate of the League of Nations, calls for the ratification of the four-power pact, “hoping that it will help keep the peace of the.world,” although he confesses that he is not blind to its faults and proves this by the declaration that “it was conceived to avoid entering the League of Nations to enforce peace.” He agrees with Mr. Beveridge that the crying need of America is a business revival and pertinently points out that if the Republicans had not been so busy discrediting Woodrow Wilson they would have found time to prepare legislation for restoring the Nation to its normal feet after the war. He hurls this damning indictment at the opposition: “• • * but the new Administr. ion was so lacking in its conception of world conditions and was so bitter in its hatred of the Administration immediately preceding It, that it has had no time to give to the serving of humanity.” That the surest way to revive prosperity is by helping Europe, “including Germany,” is another point made by Mr. Ralston; a theory to which many economists will agree. He believes that a market for American goods must be constructed before industrial conditions improve and foresees, if this is done, a rapid recovery from business stagnation. Mr. Ralston makes another telling point when, in avowing his support of a soldier “bonus,” he remarks that the Harding Administration found a wa- to pay the railroads five hundred million dollars, found a way ; “to pay the mine owners forty millions for getting ready to serve but not actually serving the Government in the production of chemicals, and approximately three millions has been paid to contractors on claims they filed against the Government.” •The candidate unhesitatingly takes his stand on the issues raised by Mr. Wilson and points out that if his doctrines had been followed the world would not be in the condition it is today, and makes it plain that if he is sent to the Senate he has some very distinct ideas as to how the restoration of confidence in America, of American confidence in itself, and, above all, how actual governmental functioning, should be brought j about. Does It Take Nerve to Marry? It requires nerve to marry these days, an Omaha minister said recently, and Isaiah Moore, who is in the Marion County jail accused of hfcvlng thirteen wives, would probably agree with him. The pastor confides that whenever he unites a couple in the holy bonds of matrimony j he looks at the groom and thinks to himself, “Sir, you are a sportsman, I tried and true.” Each generation in the past has had the same idea about their par-j ticuiar time. So will all future generations. Asa matter of fact, it requires less nerve to shoulder family respon-' sibilities than ever before. Civilization is a featherbed. Economic problems are easier to meet now that in the past. We only i imagine they are harder. .j Travel back, in imagination, to your ancestor, the caveman. To be- \ gin with, he had to win his bride by fighting a rival. The lover with the strongest muscles, sharpest teeth or longest-! handled war club emerged alive and claimed the bride. After marriage, father had to protect his family against raiding, mur-1 derous outlaws and monster beasts that modern man encounters only in nightmares and delirium tremens. Oh, yes, it took nerve to marry in those days! Go back even as 3hort a period as fifty years, to the terrible panic that followed the Civil Mar. It took real nerve to marry in those days with the country disorganized, infested with outlaws, and the average 1 person about $lO from the breadline. In fiction and in history, you can still read of the hardships endured bv the pioneers who settled the mountain districts and crossed the plains | in prairie schooners. A >oung couple in those days thought nothing of venturing into the uncharted wilderness with only an ax. a rifle, a bundle of bedding, copper cooking utensils, an iron kettle and maybe a luxury like a clock or horse or cow. They got along all right, too—conquered the barren wilderness and l anded it down to their children in the form of fertile fields and wooded clearings. Real folks, those. Get the old family album out of the attic and look at their tin-types. compared with past generations, even the poorest of modern brides and grooms have an easy time. The trouble is young folks today “want to start where the old folks left off.” Mhen they set up house for themselves, they want a house full of furniture and a 1922 model car. Civilization, the featherbed, has accustomed us to soft ways of living'. ihats why most of us imagine that it takes Spartan nerve to brave the economic problems of married life in modern times.

CRIME WAVE HITS GERMANY Eighty-Five Reputed Robbers on Trial at Hamburg. HAMBURG, Germany. March 17. —One of the biggest criminal trials In the history of Germany opened here today when a man named Feterson and elght.v-four accomplices were arraigned. charged with robbery, blackmail and other crimes. Peterson was leader of the band find Is alleged to have directed hundreds of robberies during the past two years. The gang worked on a gigantic scale About one thousand witnesses have been summoned to testify. Two lawyers were arrested by the police, charged with assisting the band In giving Information in cipher messages sent to the prison. Peterson not long ago attempted to escape by bribing the prison guards, but was unsuccessful. Texas Daredevil May Climb Eiffel Tower PARIS, March 17.—t'nless William Strother of Houston. Texas, succeeds in pulling various political and other ' strings he is likely to find his nttemp! of sealing the Eiffel Tower about 1.000 feet high, on Its outside framework nipped In the bud. Strother, who came to Parts recently from New York, with a record of hairraising stunts, believes he can get the necessary permits to scale the Eiffel Tower, providing he undertakes to do It in aid if a Freneh war fund. The authorities, however, will probably forbid such a stunt, considering it to be far too dangerous. Since a well-known parachutist was killed some years ago the tower guardians have refused to allow any stunts to be performed. ICE PAT KOI. SAVES I,IVES. DEFIANCE, Ohio, March 17.—1n an effort to prevent river tragedies, which have been frequent in recent years among youthful skaters, a supervisor has been employed by local Kotarlans to watch a section of the Auglaize River. Daily re. ports are sent. also, to all schools and to the press informing children’s parents as to the exact condition of the ice.

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP roovright. 1922. by Star Company. By K. C. B MTTING AT lunch. Wlfll WILLIE Wing. • • • AND REMINISCING. • * • ON THOSE rare old days. IN THE IKHl’s. WHEN WE both had jobs. THAT DIDN’T pay. WHEN PAY day came. WE RFCAJ-I.ED the time. THAT I was in need. OF A pair of pants. • • • AND MONEY was scarce. AND WE had to eat. • • • AM) HAVING eat^n. • • • Til EKE WAS nothing left. • • • AT ANY time. • • • FOR ANYTHING else. AND WE told the editor. FOR WHOM we worked. THAT I must have pants. AND HE gave me an order. • • * TO AN advertiser. AND I hurried down. * * * TO THE clothing store. AND SEARCHED my way. • • • THROUGH PILES of pants. • • • AND FOUND a pair. • • • AND HID mvself. • • • IN A little room. • • • WHERE A curtain hung. AND THEN came out. * * • ALL GARBED anew. • • FROM MY waistline down. AND THE worn out pair. I DEFT them there. • • • ALL CHCMBBI.ED up. • * • AND ON the floor. • • • AND I gave the clerk. ... THE WRITTEN order. THAT I had brought. • * • AND WAITED there. • • • TILL HE came back. • t • AND SAID to me. • • • IT WASN'T any good. • • • AND I couldn’t have the pant*. # • • AND RACK I \TC n*. • • TO THE little room. • • • AND CHANGED again. • • • AND Lett the store. • • • AS'I had come. t t • ALL TATTERED and torn. • • • AND THE editor. • • # WAS SO sore about it. • • • HE BOUGHT me a suit. • • • AT ANOTHER place. * • • I THANK you.

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Carlos Salzedo, noted harpist and conductor, who will appear with AduipLi Holm, Ruth Page and the Ballet Intime to be at the Murat next Wednesday night under the auspices of the Matinee Muslcale.

BOUI RECEIVED I TRAINING IN RUSSIA. | Something new In the ballet has been developed. Naturally, its source is Itus[stan, for Adouph Bolm, who is the moving spirit of the company. Is Russian, received his early training in the famous Muscovite schools and his experience with the Imperial Ballet at Petrograd, where Ihe rose to the position of the leading | male dancer. He came here as the pre- ■ tiller of the Diaghlleff forces and after that famous troupe went back to Eui rope he remained here to become event- ! Jaily one of the stars of the Metropoli--1 tan Opera Company, which he still Is, notwithstanding the fact that he has also been retained by the Chicago Opera Company to stage Its several big novelties of the coming season. Primarily, Holm’s company Is a Ballet Inilnip. It is a ballet of personalities, of individuals, not of choruses ami massed effects. It is consciously and deliberately small. There Is much solo and duo work and where larger ensembles are used they are not called upon to create the same impressions as those caused by force of numbers. With Holm and his highly trained company of artists the effects are never monotonous or meagre. Perfection within intentionally restricted lines Is the purpose and the achievement of this group of artists. Bolm and his ballet will b nt the Murat Wednesdav night. -I- -I- -I' ON VIEW TODAY. The following attractions are on view today. “Iloneydew," at the Murat; Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shenn at B. F. Keith's; | Kmart Sisters Revue, at the I.yric; Hope Hampton In person and In a movie, | ’’Stardust,” at the Circle; "Her Hus- ; band’s Trademark." at Loew’s State; t "The World's Champion,” at the Alhambra: "Anne of Little Smoky,” at Mister Smith's; “Fool’s Paradise," at the Ohio, and "Chasing the Moon,” at the Isis. -I* -I* -l SEAT SALE FOR FOLLIES NOW ON. Seats are selling today nt English's

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for the forthcoming engagement of "Ziegfeld Follies," which is to be at that house all of next week. The company this year Is very rich In name*, with the promise given that the present'crop of "Follies" beauties Is even more pulchritudinous than ever before. Raymond Hitchcock, Fanny Brice and Ray Dooley and William C. Fields are the principal funmakers. ... THE RI ILTO TO REOPEN. The Rialto, which has been closed for some weeks, will reopen Sunday with a revue called "Gambols of 1921,” and a feature movie, ".lane Eyre," a Ilodkinson release. The house Is now controlled by a 1 number of prominent Indianapolis men, Including 11. 11. Woodsman of the 11. II Woodsmall Insurance Company; Fred Van Nuys and Ed Gates, local attorneys; Elmer Ktout and Oscar Welborn of the Fletcher American Bank. Realtor to Be Speaker on ‘Own Your Home* Fred 11. Sillery, realtor, and a member of the Slllcry-Ryan Company. w!U be the speaker at the "Own Your Home” course nt the Y. M C. A. tonight. His subject Is “When to Build or Buy.” Following Mr. Slllery's address Harry Mott, hea l of the real estate department of the Union Strust Company, will lead a round table discussion. Tbo "Own Y’otir Home” conrse is being conducted by the Y. M. C. A. In cooperation with the Indianapolis real estate board and the s'. M. C. A. It Is designed to gtve the prospective home owner of moderate means a comprehensive understanding of the problems connected with securing a home. It Is open without cost to men and women alike. Mr. Slllery's address will desii with present business conditions and their relation to wise home buying.

Have You a Plesiosaurus? Order Before Price Rises Even Scientists Admit Possibility by Going in Quest of Old-Timer .

By BLYTHE Q. IENDRICKS. Have you a little plesiosaurus in your home? Os course you have not, but If the stories which have been coming out of the Patagonian wilds prove to have a basis of fact It may not be so very long until you receive funny-looking boxes with air holes punched in them, containing a couple of cute little plesiosauri, just as you get baby alligators from alleged friends in Florida nowadays. Cmli recently any one coming in with a tale of seeing a plesiosaurus flopping his eighteen feet of length around in a lake would have been given the merry razz by his friends and asked what kind of stuff his bootlegger was putting out, for, according to the best knowledge of up-to-date scientists, the last plesiosaurus took his last swltn somewhere between 40.0X1.000 and 4,000,000 years ago at the close of the reptilian age. Now the ground ape, or whatever It was that finally decided to stand up and be a man. came several million years later: so it seemed a safe bet any one reporting the presence of a sportive member of the plesiosaui tribe in the offing safely could be branded an exaggerator of facts. EVEN SCIENTISTS BECOME INTERESTED. \ But so persistent did the stories of j some great water animal in a lake in the Patagonian Highlands become that at ! last, even sceptical from-Missourl, cool headed scientists become convinced there was something more to it than high- ! powered Andean white-llama, or what- j ever name moonshine goes by in the ! southern end of South Africa, and began j to take the matter seriously. I Descriptions of the animal agreed in many details with that of the supposedly ex.inct plesiosaurus, and a scientific expedition Is now on Its way to the Patagonia Lake to Investigate. Professor nenry Lane Bruner of Butler College, an acknowledged authority on zoology, says if the plesiosaurus turns out still to be in existence it will \ bo the oldest member of tho reptile fam- , ily In the world. “Science never admits the Impossibility I of the survival of old forms of life,” Pro- j feseor Bruner said. "There always ie that possibility, • of course, although In this case I consider It only the barest possibility the pleslos&urlan family has been able to survive. It certainly Is not at all probable such Is the cass. However, If it turns out this Is true, then It will be oldest form of reptile survlIng In the world.” NEW ZEALAND LIZARD METHUSELAH OF BEASTS. At present, Professor Bruner says, this ' distinction belongs to the New Zealand lizard, which Is almost as old, geologl- j eally speaking, as the plesiosaurus. When asked if the plesiosaurus, if stir- | vlving would be the oldest form of animal life In the world. Professor Bruner ; answered In the negative and said that ! there are some still older, though mostly > in the lower form. With all his eighteen feet of length ' “Pleasy” (as he Undoubtedly was known ! to his buddies back in the far off 1 Mesozoic age), was no heavyweight among his reptilian brethren. Asa matter of fact, when compared to his cousin. Dippy Dlplodocus. and some of the slili greater reptiles thal attained over all length of more than one hundred feet, he was in featherweight class However, Ms history seems to be more j

WINDSOR JEWELRY CO. STARiS NEW “TRADE-IN” PLAN IN SELLING WATCHES Indianapolis Jeweler Not to Be OuLDone by Auto Dealers Anew plan ha* been adopted by the Windsor Jewelry Cos., 135 N. Illinois street, whereby a man or woman desiring to purchase anew watch may trace In their old one and receive a liberal allowance. Mr. Asher, manager of the store. In explaining their plan, reasoned that "When a man buys anew auto to replace un old car, or to got a more Improved one, he does not care to keep hls old car but trades It In. Why not the same in watches? Why keep an old worn out watch and throw It away at a total loss?” The plan thus far has worked admirably and already tho store has taken In many peculiar relics of bygone days. Many of them from nil appearances haven’t run for many months. From day to day Mr. Asher plans to display these "Trade In” relics in their windows, and he feels they will no doubt be quite an amusing sight to see.

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Interesting in many respects than that of the larger reptiles. Along with the other reptiles that I flourished In the world somewhere bei tween four million and forty million ' years ago, long before the saber-toothed tiger and the woolly rhinocerous, now 1 long extinct, roamed the land, or, in fact, j before there was any land to roam on, | old Pleasy evoluted in some manner or 1 other from the ooze and slime of the muggy water which covered the world, j He grew a long neck, and some flappers j that eventually might turn into wings or j legs, and it must have been an open I question for a long time whether he was i going to be a bird or an animal. ! However, he fooled all his reptilian : ! friends by going back to the water along ; j with the other poor fish, and using his | flappers for swimming purposes. He | seems to have been the standpatter of ! his time and It Is said nt a meeting of ! the boys’ reptilian organization he publicly announced flying never would be practical and walking around on legs was only a fad. So back to the water he went. SOMETIMES THEY DO COME BACK. Asa general rule animals leaving the ' water do not return, but there are exceptions to the rule and old was one of the earliest. In later animal life the hippopotamus did the same . i thing, and many scientists believe eventi ually he will become as much of a water , | animal as the whale. | However, some of the more progressive reptiles among them the dlplodocus persisted In the leg theory and finally get eo they could navigate on relatively dry land on all fours, dragging a tail along after them for steering purposes. Other reptiles, with more Imagination, got busy and developed Into birds. Hack in this unknown past of the rep-, ! tilian age animals reached enormous size and the whale Is the only living thing in the world that can equal them In this respect. They had the world all to them- | selves for millions of years, and It has ' been a moot question ns to the cause of | their almost complete disappearance from i the world. There has been a tendency among scientific men to discard the theory conditions became wholly unsulted ; to their existence, for such does not seem i ; to be the case. Many contend the reptiles disappeared because they wore egg-layers, and these j eggs were destroyed by preying mam- j nials when the latter became numerous in (he world. It even has been suggested : they were swept by some ravaging epidemic which killed them off by ; millions. At all events, they practically , : disappeared before the end of the Meso- | zoic period, which ended, at most con- ! servatlve estimates, 4,000,000 years ago. 1 INDIANA SLIGHTED IBY HAUGHTY THINGS. Indiana never was favored with any visits from the plesiosaurus or his gang; lof hard-boiled reptiles, according to state- ! meats of Professor Bruner. | ’“Their remains are round in the western part of the United States," he said, "all through the great plains regions and on to the coast, but none ever have been discovered in Indiana.” If It t irns out the plesiosaurus, or , some evolution of him, still survives In ; the Patagonian lake, and if a pair of them can be captured or a latch of their eggs discovered, then plesiosauri may be- j

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come relatively common in tho world again. In fact, it would not be surprising to pick up a newspaper a decade or two in the future and see a want ad something like this; FOR SALE—A good,, well-trained honse-broken plesiosaurus. Wheel base seventeen feet, eight inches. Very fond of children. May be seen anchored at Kavenswood bathing beach. Or will trade for F—rd in good condition. THREENAMEDTO PUT VALUATION ON GOLDEN HILL Plans to Purchase 35 Acres for City Park Purposes Advanced by Park Board. Edward Sprague, George N. Montgomery and M. H. Camden were named appraisers to value thirty-five acres in Golden Hill, a resolution for the purchase of which was confirmed by the board of park commissioners Thursday afternoon. The land Is heavily wooded and regarded by many as one of the most beautiful spots in the State. It lies north of Thirty-Fourth street between Northwestern avenue and the canal and its north border joins the Woodstock Country Club property, which the city now owns. ORGANIZATIONS FILE PETITIONS. Churches, civic organizations and residents of the northwestern section of the city presented petitions for the acquisition of the Golden Hill property. Walter L. YVhite, T. C. Steele and George N. Montgomery were appointed appraisers of the property which the park board intends to buy for an addition to Rhodius Park. Anew resolution for the acquisition of property for the playground at State and Spann avenues was adopted. The old resolution called for purchase of the entire block, but one property owner is understood to have blocked the proceedings, the new resolution includes only vacant property and leaves out that of the person who would not come to terms. TO PURCHASE BLOCK NORTH OF PALL CREEK. The board confirmed the resolution fee the purchase of the block north of Fall Creek boulevard between YYashington boulevard and Delaware street across which a diagonal connection of the two streets is to be made. Delegations asked for establishment of playgrounds "hear School No. 43, Capitol avenue and Fortieth street, at Warman avenue between St. Clair and Tenth street and near Eleventh street nad Traub avenue. The board adopted a resolution for the resurfacing with emulsified asphalt or Kentucky rock asphalt of Capitol avenue from Sixteenth street to Fall Creek boulevard. Oles Makes Good His Pledge to Donate Pay YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March 17. Mayor George L. Oles is preparing to rnbake good on hls pre-election pledge to devote hls SSOO per month salary to the poor, he has Informed the Emergency Relief Organization. When told by .the city auditor when his first pay check would be forthcoming,- Oles said: "It will provide $5 each for foodstuffs for 100 needy families for one week.”

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