Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1922 — Page 4

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If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of the gates of thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand frgai Jfhy poor brother.—Deuteronomy 15:6. One Way to Lower Freight Rates Shippers in a considerable section of Indiana are in position to be deeply interested in a project on foot to create a river terminal at Evansville. Evansville is fortunately one of a few river cities having a municipally owned river frontage and popular opinion is now aroused over an apparent willingness of Mayor Elmendorf, backed by the Chamber of Commerce, to grant river front rights to certain private interests. River traffic is reviving and shippers are naturally anxious to take any possible advantage of it, but modern traffic by inland waterways is not practicable without wharves connected with railway terminals by tasechanical loading and unloading devices. Under the Federal Panama ftnal act, once a city has leased its land and permitted railroad companies Bo lay tracks upon it, control of the trackage passes to the Interstate Commerce Commission and with it passes the city’s rights ever to oust the fcilroad from the city property. jl Opponents of the proposal to turn the Evansville river front over to ■me or more railroads or other private interests are advocating that the mlty of Evansville construct and retain control of river terminals. AtItorney General Lesh and Chief Examiner Eschbach of the State board of ■accounts this week gave opinions based on Indiana laws that the city of [Evansville has the right to do this. Evansville is the focal point of a number of prospective trunk lines north and south, including the Exansville & Indianapolis railroad now being improved under the new ownership of the Big Four system. The construction of terminal facilities at Evansville, which will not be under railway control, offers many Indiana shippers the benefit of river freight competition, which is the big idea back of the Federal expenditure of millions of dollars on improvement of the Ohio River and other navigable inland waterways. Swarms of People You see houses spring up on vacant lots in the city—and you comment: “Property is building up solid. I wonder how far this congestion will go. Pretty soon, we’ll be packed in like sardines.” The popular notion about civilized congestion Is exaggerated. We are getting the houses closer together, but living quarters are not ajs congested now as they were seventy-two years ago. Striking an average, the Census Bureau finds five persons to each We moderns take a larger floor-space, partition it off into a greater Hmber of rooms. We observe the smallness of each room—and get the iption that we are headed toward an existence in piano boxes. ■ If you are in a philosophical frame of mind, you see that human peings have a swarming instinct —like bees, ants, schools of fish and herds rof caribou. Fear is back of this swarming instinct. Men first banded together in a community for mutual protection against wild beasts. Later it was for protection against other communities of men. The swarming Instinct, a form of fear, started civilization. Banded together, men discovered that each had a natural knack for someone task. Specialization followed, then barter —the primitive form of business. Misery loves company. So does joy. We talk a lot about being individuals, but ready at all times on neatly every tongue-tip is, “come on, join the crowd.” There is no great lesson to be learned from studying the human vwanning instinct. It is just one of the peculiar natural laws that cannot be altered by philosophy—part of the “destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may.”

So This Is Peace ! "Death toll rises to twenty-nine in Illinois strike war.” "Mine riots in Ohio and West Virginia; slayers not arrested.” “Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson assassinated; Premier Lloyd George marked for death.” "Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, shot to death." "Fighting in Ireland continues.” ‘•Ten thousand soldiers mutiny in China; wholesale massacres." “Uprising expected in India.” "Fear for Prince of Wales’ life as lands in Egypt; unrest is general.” Just a few headlines taken from our favorite daily. Killing got to b* such a habit during the great war that folks don’t seem able to stop. Even our Congress has caught the bug. “Liar is passed by Senators Glass and Heflin,” reads a headline. "Senator Tom Watson of Georgia threatens to thrash colleague.” Thus do we mark the mileposts as we madly pursue our “return to normalcy.” The world can’t stand this 6ort of thing much longer. It is getting on our nerves. The first thing we know we are going to find ourselves face to face with a popular demand for a return to the good old days when we had only one war to worry over. Let us not push peace too far. Up the Highways |dBJ9BHB> of the State highway commission are lived up to. motorists, UQgSjESiia next Sunday, will miss the billboards and advertising signs a relief to the eye, and. better still, it will give drivers a of dangerous turns and crossings. It, is a move that will travel less destructive of human life and nerves, an action commission should be commended.

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Comparatively few people realize how enviain re -ard to things the nummer. In my a number of people as exceedinelv this should be the hojne ijjft Walker Company and for me to understand To begin with, Mr. figure of prominence in Hal producing field and has rHars. His ideals are high give evidence of m- ful direction. The group has assembled would do New York production. Bo had the pleasure of atBy Lady’s Dress” last week H’hile Susan” this week will ■fully how fine a thing we midst. The effort dem undivided support of InB citizens and it is my hope Brill continue to reward Mr. Bnd his players In an inV satisfactory manner. V JOHN B. REYNOLDS. General secretary, BnjL .“.amber of Comm* rce. C v ula,es Pa P cr Sj® I note the change ar.ge in type and

change in style of the Times. I congratulate you. I know enough of the Scripps Mcßae interests in other citites to know they are fearless and foremost, and I know there will be a real newspaper in this city. Kindly have your subscription man send the Times to my address, 3949 Rookwood Ave. Very truly yours, M. L. CLAWSON. To the Editor: The survey committee of the Community Chest is to be commended for its stand for the consolidation of the Charity Organizations Society, the Mothers’ Aid Society and the Children’s Aid Association. Even if there has been no actual duplication in charity cases, there certainly must have been some duplication in overhead expenses. It stands to reason that one organization can be operated at less cost than three doing similar work. A R. KETCHAM. German Gambling Craze BERLIN, June 30.—German reformers protest that “women have gone crazy over gambling” and are calling upon the govenunent to close every |Junbling club,

Invitation By BERTON BRALEY. I KNOW a little lake where the wavelets seem to make A ripplinp sort of tune, soft and low; A lake of purest blue which the sunshine flickers through. As vou paddle your canoe to and fro. There's a shack upon the .shore —just a Shack and nothing more, But you'll always find the door open wide. It’s a sort- of haven where there is neither fret nor care, Come along with me up there and abide! THERE'S a fresh and piney breeze that comes rustling through the trees, There is rest and calm and ease, night and day; You can pwim in sheer delight through the waters clear and brfglit. And you'H gain SOME appetite from your playOr in some cool forest nook you can sit with pipe and book. Or with pole and line and hook, tempt the trout. ■ There Is neither strain nor stress, but a peace you can't express. With Dame Nature's loveliness all about. AND at nighttime we can sit by the fire, where shadows flit. And the owls proclaim “To-whit! and "To-whoo!” And we smoke and murmur of work ana sorrow, laughter, love. While the stars shine from above, clear and true. , ,• ~1. Then a long and dreamless sleep till the light begins to creep ■ Up the sky. and song birds cheep at the Come, regain your boyhood glee, drop your business cares and flee To that little lake with me. Aw. come on I (Copyright, 192. NEA Service) McCumberLoss Puts G. O. P. In Bad Condition B’J Un i id. Sews WASHINGTON, June 30.—The rapidly dwindling lead of Senator MeCumber in the Ncrth Dakota primal y election confronts the administration leaders in the Senate with a serious problem of organization. 1“ urthormore, according to non-partisan league spokesmen here, McCumber's apparent defeat by former Gov. Lynn Frazier, if confirmed by the final count of the ballots, constitutes a warning by the farmers themselves to the “farm bloc” in Congress. From the standpoint of Senate organization, McCumber's defeat would automatically result in Senator Smoot becoming chairman of the powerful Senate finance committee, with Senator La Follette next in line—a situation Republican leaders don't relish. In the second place. Senator Borah, usually opposed to the Administration’s foreign policies, would succeed McCumber as ranking member of the foreign relations committee, succeeding to the chairmanship If Senator Lodge, now chairman, were defeated for re-election this fall. The basic causes are variously given as the apathy of the city vote, the inaction of Congress, the fact he voted for seating Senator Newberry and the fact that farmers are disappointed at the failure of the farm bloc to enact laws that would help them in marketing their crops this year.

YOUR F.YESIGIIT BY DR. R. H. BISHOP. UTILIZATION has brought us many comforts arid advantages. It has brought, among other things, scientific knowledge of ways to get well and ways to keep Our mortality statistics show . i that disease 1 s losing its grip. But civilization, we find, is to blame for many ills that never existed before. One of these Is excessive and peculiar strain upon the eyes. We of civilized communities do not use our eyes as they are used by savages. The savage has to look at nearby and far-away, at things large and things small, equally. People ■with good eyesight among us have as good vision as the savage possesses. This has been demonstrated repeatedly. But the percer tage among us of sufferers from astigmatism, shortsightedness, and longsightedness is indefinably greater than among savages. The civilized man looks for long periods at things which are at close range. Even when not reading, he will not see anything farther removed than the wall of the room—but a few feet away. The savage living mostly out of doors, usually has a long focus; he uses the short focus only occasionally. In view of the fact that the most serious results of eye deformity and eye strain are not indicated by eye pains, how may one tell whether or not the eyes need treatment? There is only one way—whenever there are headaches or backaches, interferences with digestion, and nervous exhaustion, if these symptoms are not clearly traceable to and curable by other definite measures, the eyes should be examined. They are peculiarly vulnerable and they must be suspected when there exist symptoms of this kind. Henpecked Club Grows HALIFAX, England, June 30.—The Ancient and Honorable Order of Henpecked Husbands claims to have doubled Its membership in twelve months. Mustaches In Vogue NEW YORK, June 30.—Local tonsorial artists report that up-to-date men are returning to mustaches. They save time in shaving. Families of Twenty Children PARIS, June 30.—There are now seventy-eight French families having twenty children or more.

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The Referee BY ALBERT APPLE ESKIMOS § Canada’s mounted police count noses and find only about 2,700 Eskimos living in the Far North, not including Alaska. The low figure is surprising. Beginning with APPLE our first lessons in geography, we have heard so much about (he Eskimos that most of us imagined they existed in much greater numbers. In bidding for fame, the Eskimos have had the additional handicap of never producing a great man. Despite mediocrity and fewness, the Eskimos have become known in all parts of the earth. This shows the power of advertising. TRAINING A professor in co-educatkmal college boasts that his school “places great stress on training its young women to become good wives and mothers.” Mrs. Elizabeth Sears, president of the New York League of Business and Professional Women, Interrupts with this; “And what method do you use to train your young man to become good husbands and fathers?” No answer, of course. DIAMONDS Diamonds are being Imported at the rate of only $32,000,000 a month. Two years ago, the figure was three times as big. How many diamonds there are in the world is beyond even a rough guess. South Africa has produced about $500,000,000 worth since the two children of a Dutch farmer, playing in the gravel of a river, found the first Kimberley diamond, in 1887. Our country has corralled half of the world's diamonds, which reveals something about our national prosperity compared with that of other countries. FALSE Some of the reports brought back by modern Baron Munchausens would make It seem that the German workman Is toiling extremely 'Tong hours.” This is not true, according to an investigation by the Iron Age, trade journal. It finds German metal workers on an eight-hour-day basis, with German coal miners limited by law to a maximum of seven hours a day. The worker in German steel mills is getting about $3.20 a week in our money. That provides us with an interesting problem In canvassing for foreign trade. RUBLES Russia prints fifty-eight trillion rubles of banknotes in one month. It takes 1,000,000 of these rubles to buy as much as one gold ruble bought before the czar set out to eat his Christmas dinner in Berlin. When the Russians emerge from chaos, they should be a race of expert mathematicians. MEAT Man couldn’t get along without domesticated animals. The world now has one sheep and one head of cattle for each five people, and one head of swine for each twelve people. America, with only a sixteenth of the world’s population, has a sixth of the world’s cattle, a tenth of the sheep and three-sevenths of the swine. We are the greatest meat-eaters on earth. Yet wo are the mo3t peaceful people. Militant Japan's diet is based on rice. It is an uncomfortable contrast for the theorists who preach that meat-eating makes people ferocious or savagely emotional.

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By yUA Service MINNEAPOLIS, June 30.—One of the sweet girl graduates of the MinHigh School was (£'-• j_ rYrfhwßlftgM ’ that very same eVmiinf ’ 1:0 i IThe1 The Prospective /7 waiting outside the ' ' auditorium in his mencement exerMRS. ELVIS cisea were in progress. Upon their conclusion Yflss Youngquist, slipping away from her classmates, joined him. Straight to the minister’s house the car sped. The bride still held her high school diploma in her hand as the last words of the marriage ceremony were spoken. Fishing for Gaitors. By United Press BILOXI, Miss., June 30.—While fishing from the pier of his summer home, A. H. Postlewaite landed an eighteen-inch alligator. The young alligator, according to Postlewaite, sprang approximately a foot out of the water after the bait. The bait used was an ordinary wooden minnow, such as is used for trout. The Uninvited Guest CHICAGO, June 30.—Several North Shore society women have complained of the appearance of uninvited guests at their functions. One of them ordered out three such intruders in a single evening.

THEN AND NOW—IT NEVER LOOKS THE SAME

Expect U. S. To Fix Basis For Mine Solution By CLAYTON WIIITEHILL, United News Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, June 30.—Miners and operators expect the Government to lay down a basis for permanent settlement of the coal problem at Saturdlay’s White House conference This basis is said to originate in the fact that within four yearn the union mines producing bituminous coal will be nearly bankrupt as a result of the competition of the nonunion mines of Alabama, Kentucky and West Virginia. When this is presented to the conference the next step is expected to be a question from the Government something like this; “Faced with this fact, and the fur ther fact that the non-union mines are becoming more numerous and are already capable of producing nearly all the coal needed from a na tional point of view, are you gentlemen willing to tackle the fundamen tals of the problem? More 1 ion Wage Parity “This conference is more than a mere wage conference. It must es tablish some method of stabilizing this ruinous competition between the bt turninous mines of the North and those of the South. This is not a conference of the central competitive field but of all fields in the strike area. Are you willing to attack the problem from that angle and then resolve your differences upon such tangible program as may be developed at this conference?” This preliminary idea of the confer ence has been confirmed to a degree in high Ailministration circles. The anthracite operator contingent is completed, with S. D. Warriner, chief of the Anthracite Operators Association, at the head and supported by W. J. Richards and W. L. Connell. President A. M. Ogle of the National Coal Association has accepted and has Invited a group of bituminous operators expected to match as nearly as practicable the several U. M. W. A. district presidents. Ogle has informed President Harding that he is confident of a completely favorable 1 response. Hoover Non-Committal Secretary Hoover has not committed himself as to the agenda or probable development of the conference and doubts whether any man coming here can bind any one in the United States, nevertheless he expects that representatives of both sides “will be able to secure the adoption of any principles laid down." "I do not know whether the conference will choose a middle ground or anew ground,” he said, "but some ground must be found. I also do not lyiow whether either Secretary Davis or myself will attend.” Just how for the operators will go may be measured by their acknowledged concern regarding the permanent stabilization. The mine owners, according to spokesmen here, would stop just this side of a Federal coal commission. The miners will stop also just this side of Government supervision. Captured by Radio. By United Press LONDON, Juno 30. —Police patrol wagons are being fitted with radio appliances in the London district. By means of the radiophones the capture of thugs will be more easily effected, police officials think.

Do You Know What Countries Are Members of the League of Nations?

QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 \ N. Y. Ave., Washington. D. C., ' enclosing 2 cents in stamps. f cal, legal and love and marriage I advice wijll not be given Unsigned letters will not be answered, but all letters are confidential and receive personal replies.—Editor, k Q. —What nations are members of the League of Nations? A.—Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, British Empire. Brazil, Bulgaria. Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Greece, Guatemala. Haiti. Honduras, India, Italy, Japan, Latvia, I.iberia, Lithuania. Luxemburg, Netherlands. New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Rournania, Salvador! Serb, Croat-Slovene State, Siam, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezeula. Q. —Who were the great poets of China? A.—Li Po (or Li T’al-po), who lived 705-762, who was a great favorite at the Imperial Palace, where he performed prodigies of Impromptu versemaking when he was too drunk to stand. He died in a drunken attaempt to kies the moon’s reflection in a river. Tu Fu. also a court officer and favorite (712-770). He was banished from court for defending an officer who had Incurred the displeasure of the Emperor. Han Yu (768 824) stands pre-eminent for nobility of character as well as remarkable elevation of literary style. Q—ls white flour bleached so It will keep longer than whole wheat flour? —No. The grain division ot the United States Department of Agriculture states that the reason for bleaching flour is to produce a white flour.

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Mexico Plans ) Investigation ! Os Kidnapirigs -- BY ROBERT J. BENDER, United News Staff Correspondent, WASHINGTON, June 30.—ChargIng that the strange stories ofl "kidnaplngs” in Mexico have ! been “framed” by certain American and Mexican interests,” the Mexican government, through its embassy hero, announces the activities of the principals are being investigated. The Mexican government supports its charge by a formal report made to General Obregon by Gen. Guadalupe Sanchez, commander of the federal military zone of the oil region, where bandit activity was reported this week. No Complaint Received. “Up to this moment,” Sanchez wired Obregon Wednesday, "no manager of any petroleum company has complained of the kidnapings of Americans. Yesterday afternoon the 1 superintendent of the Cortez Oil Company visited the headquarters of Juan Casiano and in reply to my questions in regard to the situation in La Aguada, La Fluma and Rosilla camps, he stated bandits had been seen in the neighborhood of these places. Immediately afterward I called General Portas and instructed him to proceed to these camps, or to any place until the bandits be found. I regret, Mr. President, that persons living at a great distance from here are more able to obtain news about this region than I, tesiding at the place where these occurrences are said to have happened.” Obregon Sees Foes’ Plot. Obregon, in his message to Sanches, declared he was sure the reposed "kidnapings” constituted one ofjpffe*l deceitful means used by the enemies of Mexico to cause difficulties” between the United States and Mexico. Meantime, if the sudden outbreak of curious bandit “kidnapings" in Mexico was destined to block negotiations of the American government looking to recognition of the Obregon regime, it has failed. In fact, the developments in the strange situation have been such as to more and more convince authorities here that the whole business is “queer.” Additional reports from Mexico only add to the curious phases of the ‘kidnapings” previously pointed out. A. Bruce Bielaski has easily escaped his "captors” in a manner quite in violation of the well established rules of Mexican banditry. And, although his ransom money was available for the bandits for several days, no money was paid over.

TODAY’S WORD

Today’s word is ATROCITY, plural ATROCITIES. It Is pronounced a-troc-i-ty, with accent on the second syllable, the ”a” as in ask, and the “o” short. It means—outrageously cruel or wicked, a deed savagely brutal. It comes from the Latin trox, atrocia, meaning cruel, fierce. It’s used like this —“The atrocities of the recent mine massacre in lU)g nois were committed by men who probabjy never would think of committing murder while alone.” Laziest Lizards. By United Press LONDON, June 30. —London’s Zoological Park has two new additions. They’re known as Mutt and Jeff and they're a pair of lizards. Their keeper says they are the laziest rodents he has ever had. “Lounge lizards,” he calls them.

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