Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1922 — Page 11

TUNE 28, 1922

BALMY DAYS ARE PASSED, DECLARES FREE EDITOR Richard Grey, Paroled From Prison, Pays Himself Tribute. JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.. June 28. J. M. Bushline. 38 years old, serving four years for second-degree forgery from St. Joseph, has been named editor of the Weekly Clar.on, the penitentiary newspaper, succeeding Richard C. Grey, who was paroled by Governor Hyde. Grey, in his farewell editorial in the Clarion, takes all of the praise for editing and publishing the newspaper, declares he found he could not please everybody and admits that the "balmy days'* of the newspaper are gone with his departure. The editorial in which Grey threw bouquets at himself and claimed he W'as the "whole show,” follows: "Twenty-six weeks ago the Clarion made its initial bow and the success of the venture is well known. Today it has a circulation of 2,200 copies each week several hundred of these going to almost every State in the Union, the Provinces of Canada and to London, England. For twenty-six weeks I have worked hard for the cause, the inmates and the officials. Whether I have made a favorable or adverse impression, is known to them. To the best of my absent-minded and thought-straying ability, I have tried to uplease both sides, play both ends to the middle; and I think that, to a great degree, I have been successful. One of Two Weeklies. "The editing of a prison publication is a difficult undertaking, especially for any length of time, for the field is very limited and, aside from one ofcher, the Clarion is the only one able ce go to press weekly. “In every case I have been sincere —regardless of what I may have said or written. I have, in fact, lengthened my>sentence that I might dc a wee of good for those with whom 1 have come in contact during the years ISI7 to 1922, inclusive. Some of these 1 have found to be admirable men—men worthy of the name; and some I have found to be just the contrary. But toward none do I hold malice—nor do I feel an undying gratitude to any. They are just men—not greatly different from men in any other walk of life, with desires, loves, hopes, generosity, hate, greed and selfishness and all that go to make up the man. "I have found my task an ungrateful one, the running of the Clarion for I have an unpleasant habit of saying what I think —telling the truth. However, those days are past forever. I mean, of course, the running of the Clarion and taking the blame for its contents —I shall ever say what I think. Ego Held Essential "For several months I have tried to find a man competent to handle the position—whose ego is developed enough and whose shoulders are broad enough to carry the various and sundry animadversion. It will henceforth be edited by another. “What I shall do matters not—suf fice it to say that my nerves, my anatomy, my heart and all are shattered from the trying ordeal of hoping and striving to please everybody. It cannot be done. “The editor of the O. P. News, upon quitting the job, said that if |prse was due the News it belonged F to his associates. I say, if any praise is due, and lots of it is, the Clarion, it belongs to me. I am. or have beei the Clarion. I introduced it unassisted; I designed it; I have overseen each number's composition in the shop; I have built up the circulation; I taught my printers the trade, and from my pen came practically 90 pei cent of the accumulated contents. Praise or criticism, it belongs to me In the future, I wish the Clarion success. Will it have it? I am not related to Cassandra, but my umbiil cus is the center of the universe, and I believe, sincerely, that the balmy days of the Clarion will depart with this issue. “Good luck to you all. If it is due you.”

CORPSE’ !N PROTEST AT r FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Grieving Friends Flee When Leg Twitches and She Yells for Help. NEW YORK. June 28.—Mrs. Rebecca Senst, 70 years old. suddenly became rigid as she lay in her bed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Risk! Grossman. There -was no one with her at the time but an old man of the neighborhood, who had volunteered to be nurse while Mrs. Gross |ran went shopping. He used a pin T.nd other tests which experience had taught him would show whether people were alive or dead. He concluded that Mrs. Senst was .very dead Indeed. The presence of death affected the old man to such an extent that he ran into the street, where he stood and yelled in Yiddish. He drew a large and interested crowd of friends, relatives and neighbors of the Grossmans and the Sensts. and fifty or more of them followed him upstairs and crowded into the small room where Mrs. Senst lay motionless. They were making tests, each person having his or her particular test, and when Grossman and Mrs. Grossman got home they were told that beyond doubt Mrs. Senst was dead. | Grossman Calls Undertaker V So Grossman went to an undertaking establishment which sent Samuel Bonner and Harry Sherman with a hearse and two big tubs of ice to the Groasman apartment to put Mrs. Senst in a box. packed welj in ice, and let her stay there until after the Jewish Sabbath, when the burial would take place. They started to do this while the sorrowing friends and relatives watched. They put Mrs. Senst In the box and Donner and Sherman dumped In two or three big cakes of ice. As soon as the ice hit Mrs. Senst’s body her legs twitched, once. Two or three of the more timid ones in the crowd immediately went home, and the others drew back and patched. They watched for some time, put Mrs. Senst did not move again, 60 Donner and Sherman dumped In some more Ice. Again Mrs. Senst’s leg twitched. Crowd Thins Out Quickly Donner and Sherman became excited then and began throwing the Ice into the box as fast as they could They had Mrs. Senst almost covered with It, when she suddenly sat up. began throwing out the ice with her hands and yelling la Yiddish. In another minute she and Donner

AUTO VICTIM DIES

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MRS. PEARL WILDING.

Asa result of an accident in which an automobile in which she was riding was struck by an interurban car, Mrs. Pearl Wilding, 1138 N. Trevont Ave., died last night. The accident occurred at Seventeenth St. and Martindale Ave.

Woman Drug Addict Makes Startling Confession

MY CONFESSION. BY A WOMAN DRUG ADDICT. I am a nurse 43 years old, a widow with one son. I have been a morphine addict for more than twenty years. My son was bom an addict, but I cured him in babyhood—the only time, it seems to me, when addiction can be cured. When I was 20 I became ill with appendicitis and a complication of internal trouble. I was sick for three years, and had many treatments, and finally had to be operated on. The doctors gave me morphine, but never steadily enough to cause complete addiction until the last attack, which lasted seven months. The doctors stopped the morphine at the time of the operation. They lectured me about will power and warned me not to let the morphine get a hold on me. I never had any enjoyment out of it, except relief from suffering. But the damage was already done. I married before I fully realized I was addicted. "When I finally found

and Sherman were the only persons in the room. The others had run down stairs at top speed, shouting and praying. Donner and Sherman stayed because it was their ice and their box. necessary in their business, and when Mrs. Senst convinced them that she was not dead they lifted her out of the box and put her back on the bed. Then they got into theii hearse and drove away, their interest in the affair ended. When the Grossmans got back into their house they summoned Dr Ber nard Agjin, who said that Mrs. Senst had had a stroke of paralysis, but would be all right in a few days, MORMOM CLAN IS TARRED Four Arrested for Greasing Elders at Church Meeting. LONDON, England. June 28. Edinburgh University students raided a hall where a Mormon meeting was In progress. They caught the elders, covered them from head to foot with green paint, treacle, oil, and tire solution and then added a coat of feathers. Four students were arrested. ROAD CONTRACTS ARE LET Highway Commission Saves $l,lOO in Awarding Surface Work. Contracts for surface treatment with tar on seventeen State roads projects were awarded by the State highway commission today to the Hayes Construction Company. The company consented to do the work for 8120,610.26 a total of sll.410.01 under the commission’s estimate. The surfacing will cover 43.55 miles in Monroe, Lawrence, Wayne, Delaware, Grant, Allen, Elkhart, Laporte and Lake counties. Tracked by Film Play. MANCHESTER, England. June 28. —Mrs. Henrietta Bligh went to the movies and discovered in one of the actors the husband who had deserted her. She immediately sued for divorce and got it.

Motorists have to obey Ruth Weinstein, New York school girl. She rushes Into the street with this sign whenever the bell tar fire drill rings.

BODY IN SACK MYSTERY Couple Confess They Exhumed Corpse to Use in Insurance Swindle. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., June 28. —Mystery surrounding the discovery two years ago of the body of Mrs. C. E. Fairchild In a sack on the river bank near Drummond has been cleared up. Sheriff Swart announces he has the confession of a man and woman who had exhumed the body, intending to use it in an insurance swindle. The body of Mrs. Fairchild was to be used as that of the woman conspirator. It was to have been placed in a house in the Canadian Soo and after sufficient time had elapsed the bones were to be discovered and claims made upon the insurance company carrying heavy policies on the woman conspirator's life. She is said to have confessed she wanted to get the money for her two children. The woman is out of Michigan and the man conspirator is out of the county, but Sheriff Swart says he permitted the mto go and will order their arrest soon. Until they are arrested he is withholding their names. According to the alleged confession, said to have been signed by both the man and the woman, they robbed the grave of Mrs. Fairchild, but had to abandon the body on the river bank | as some tourists and children were approaching.

By EE A Service WASHINGTON, June 28.—The confession of a woman drug addict Starting in its tragic horror, Is ready to be laid before the proposed con gressional investigation of the entire narcotic drug situation. This confession has been dictated by the woman and sworn to. She is one of hundreds of thousands secretly in the grip of opiates. She is held up, by a prominent New York doctor who has been treating her within the restrictions of present drug laws, as a fair example of 90 per cent of America’s drug addicts —not criminal, but victims of a disease caused by medical accident. Congressman Lester D. Volk, a physician of Brooklyn, N. Y., Is pressing for the investigation.

out that I could not stop the morphine I was nearly wild with suffering. My husband and I talked it over and he finally insisted I must stop trying to do without it. Baby Bom With Addiction Then we began a search for some doctor who would save me. We tried and tried, without success—and then baby was born. He was a fat healthy looking baby. Then suddenly the nurses wouldn't let me see him. I knew something was wrong. It tore the heart out of me to see

Business Survey by Two Sources Very Optimistic

BY W. H. GRIMES. NEW YORK, June 28.—Recent statements that business Improvement Is slackening were met here today with highly optimistic surveys from two usually conservative sources, the National Association of Credit Men and the National Bank of Commerce. Figures for May, 1922, as compared with May, 1921. compiled by the Credit Men, show an increase in sales for eleven of the thirteen groups. In answer to the question "has the revival of business activity reached your line?” every group but jewelry reported in the affirmative. The trade groups allied to the build* ing and construction Industry re corded the greatest improvement. Implements, vehicles and allied lines made a rather surprisingly good showing. 100 per cent reporting the rerival of business activity. Clothing and hats, caps and allied lines report about the same percentage of attendants who believe the business revival has reached their lines. Dry goods, notions and allied lines report a somewhat lower percentage than the clothing and hats, caps and allied lines. The boots and shoes people are less optimistic than some of the other groups. The national bank of commerce bases Its belief as to business prosperity on a survey of the returns of national banks to the controller of the currency.

Attention! Water Consumers Don’t Waste Water The maximum pumpage rate of the Indianapolis Water Company during the past week was in excess of 86,000,000 gallons per day. This large pumpage is due to excessive sprinkling and wasting of water, which must be stopped if adequate service is to be furnished to all parts of the city. GOOD FIRE SERVICE IS ALSO BEING JEOPARDIZED Attention is called to the hours of sprinkling, which are from sa.m.tc Ba. m., and from 4p.m.t08 p. m. Sprinkling is prohibited during other hours and during time of fire. THE USE OF HOSE WITHOUT NOZZLE IS NOT PERMITTED Please see that your sprinkling if confined to the hours set for sprinkling and that all waste is eliminated. INDIANAPOLIS WATER COMPANY, C. L. Kirk, V. P. and G. M. I hereby join in the above request for the elimination of t water waste. John J. o*Brien, Chief of the Fire Force. June 28. 1922. 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The Verdict, but Not the End

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By EE A Service KANKAKEE, 111., June 28. —Mrs. Len Small, wife of the Illinois Governor, who died from sheer Joy when he was acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to defraud, was at her husband’s side throughout the nine weeks of his trial. All Illinois today bowed In sorrow at her last rites. All State offices were closed and flags on public buildings were lowered at halfmast. /

the way he suffered. He would draw up his little legs and shriek and moan and you’d think he would cry himself to death. I Insisted that he should not have any morphine except just when it would keep him from crying. He only got A few doses, but for eighteen or nineteen months he was awfully sick. We stuck it out and my baby lived and began to get stronger, and was completly cured. I am constantly sick and scarcely ever able to work, though I used to earn good money as a trained nurse.

The bank says: "The recent movement of loans and discounts would seem to Indicate improving business conditions in some communities prior to the call of last March. For instance, loans for reserve city banka in the Pacific region have fluctuated considerably since last September and slight Improvement in cities of New England, the middle West and the South can be read in the figures since the end of last year.”

NEW YORK. June 28.—The National Association of Credit Men addressed to thirteen trade groups this question: "Has the revival of business activity reached your line?" Following Is the way the answers averaged; Percent Percent answer- answerTrade. ing yes. ing no. Boot and shoes 65 35 Clothing 80 20 Drugs chemicals and allied lines 66 34 Furniture 72 28 Groceries, provision, confectionery and allied lines 88 12 Hardware, auto accessories, electrical supplies and allied lines 93 7 Hats, caps and allied lines 79 21

I wish I had died when I was born! Or that my son had died in those first awful days. Easier for Crooks. Recent Interpretations of laws placing narcotic administration in the hands of laymen who have no medical knowledge of addiction have made things worse for thousands of accidental addicts like myself who now must have opiates to live. But things are easier for the crooks and degen rates who buy their drugs from peddlers. Drugs Cost $1.30 a Day. Until two years ago I could buy a week's supply for 65 cents. Then It was 90 cents a week. That wasn't so bad. But now It costs me SI.BO a day! Everything Is playing into the hands of the peddlers. Out of the hysteria they are getting rich. The trouble is the public knows only about the underworld addict. They class the rest of us honest and law-abiding, with criminals.

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