Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1922 — Page 4
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The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment on all that are oppressed.—Psalm 103:6. “Gone Bughouse” AROUND insane asylums there usually is a harmless lunatic who is mentally normal except that he has an obsession for dressing up in freakish clothes. The same individual would pass as sane at a masquerade, or even during epidemics of jazz styles. Another interesting eccentric around insane asylums is the gentleman who has the thrift instinct so highly developed that he hoards hits of glass or bright quartz pebbles, under the delusion that they are immensely valuable. He has a lot in common with some of the people ontside the asylum, who have the same eagerness to accumulate money, jewels or rare articles. The insane people are not all locked up. Science now is training its guns on nervous and mental disorders. One authority says that the biggest problem in America today is curbing our unconfined madmen—all the way from fanatics to what Ed Howe, wise country editor, calls “publicaffairs lunatics.” DR. A. BARREN STEARNS, neurologist at Tufts Medical School, points out that one of the chief signs of a normal brain is the tendency to conform to the customs and habits of the majority. Discussing eccentric individuals, he says this about “paranoid personalities.-” "These Individuals are peculiarly sensitive. Their ego is dominant and they care more for its promptings than for the commendation of the other members of their group. These individuals frequently head reform movements, but more often they live a thorn in the flesh of their associates, quibbling over the social transgressions of their neighbors, and attempting numerous social measures, the main motive for which is an unconscious and blind struggle against the dictates of the larger herd or group of people. Among these will be found sympathizers with the enemy in time of war, certain conscientious objectors, and those who habitually form themselves into ‘anti’ societies. Carried to the extreme degree, these individuals are called ‘paranoiacs’—those who are so far unbalanced as to have delusions of persecution and ideas of grandeur.” Dr. Stearns adds this word of caution in considering “paranoid personalities—that it is human instinct to regard any one who disagrees with us as of morbid or inferior mind, “and it must be remembered that every once in a while one of these individuals is right and the world is wrong.” But, on the whole, this wouldn’t be a bad time for the American people to take an inventory of some of the national “paranoid j personalities” and figure out their degree of sanity or mental un-j balance.
German Democracy THE reaction of the German people to the assassination of Walter Rathenau shows the instability of the republic. -Chancellor Wirth, a warm personal friend of Rathenau, responded to the ruthless deed of the monarchists by vigorous action to track down the assassins. The German workingmen declared a twenty-four-hour strike to warn the monarchists off. But, elsewhere, the German public has been apathetic. There have been no middle class mass meetings nor other public demonstrations of horror, such as a sincere love for the republic ought to have provoked. The truth is that Germany is hovering between the drab rule of the republic and a return to the glitter and trappings of the monarchy. .republic in Germany is being blamed for Germany’s present The people are forgetting their downfall was caused by who are now turning to assassination.
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THE REFEREE By ALBERT APPLE. STRANGERS A waitress In a railroad lunchroom at Council Bluffs, lowa, a few months ago was pleasant and courte- ; _________:>us to a y gruff, old,! roughly dressed Strang- j it. He learned that she! I jfll never accepted a tip. The gruff stranger i \ r mf turned out to be a rich ' l \ cattle man. The wait-1 ress is no longer a i p . „ waitress, for he sent | her a check for SIO,OOO and a deed to 1,000 acres of land in Nebraska. It pays to be decent and kindly to everyone. You never know to whom you are talking in meeting strangers. MARS The mysterious radio messages, which Marconi thought might be from Mars, are traced to their source. They were sent out by Dr. Irving 1 Langmuir, from the General Electric laboratories at Schnectady, N. Y. The wave length was 150,000 meters. I It is human nature to look for an I explanation far off, instead of close j at hand. We seldom see things j “right under our nose.” The Martian radio flivver, however, does not prove that people do not live on Mars. After talking to us awhile and getting a line on present conditions on earth, they’d probably “hang up the receiver” with a bang. SWAT! Are flies bothering you this summer? Bacteriologists check up and announce that the house-JUt is a carrier of the germs of 180 different dis- j eases. The -diseases range from typhoid and tuberculosis to hookworm and amoebic dysentery. Flies are the advance agents of sickness and death. They have been reduced by repeated swatting campaigns. But they multiply quiokly when swatting lags. Keep after them constantly, folks! Pay Telephone Taken George Schwab, proprietor of a drug store at Eleventh and Alabama Sts., reported to the police that a pay telephone, stamp machine and cigarette were stolen from his store last night.
SPENDTHRIFT BY BERTOV BRAI.EY THE money that I threw away On thing's that didn't count. Would, if I had it all today. Be quite a 6nug amount: I don't remember where it went. Or why or when or how. I only know that it was spent— I wish I had it now. THE cash I blew for things that lesvr Brave memories that last. I don t regret: nor do I grieve Because it vanished fast. But, what I did with all the rest I can't recall. I vow’. I spent it with a reckless zest—--1 wish I had it now. WHEN I wag young I had my fun From New year to December; I don't regret a single one Os follies I remember. But most of what I had. in truth. Was spent— don't know how, Cntil I found Id spent my youth— I wish I had it now. (Copyright. 1922. NEA Service.) EYE TROUBLE Bu DR. R. H. BISHOP. iUT of the 300,000 blind dependents in this country, more than onesixth are blind on account of the germ that gets into babies’ eyes at birth through lack of proper precautions. When the eyes —— are washed immediately after birth and a drop of silver nitrate put in, the danger of eye infection and blindness is eliminated. The majority of the 250,000 people in this country blind from other causes, would now have good sight if they had taken ordinary common sense precautions. Serious defects in vision, for instance, may start from apparently simple inflammations of the eyelids or the watery membranes of the eyes. Inflammation is generally a first symptom of eye trouble and should have the immediate attention of a competent oculist. Among the common forms of eye defects thav usually can be remedied by glasses are far-sightedness, nearsightedness and astigmatism. Work Will Begin Soon Preliminary work on the new home for the Columbia Club is expected to begin soon, T. A. Wynne, chairman of the building committee, said.
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60 MILLIONS IS SMALL MATTER IN SHIP SUBSIDY Experts Disagree on Sum American People Are to Be Taxed. By C. C. LYON. WASHINGTON, July 13.—What’s a little matter of 160,000,000 a year among friends anyhow? One outstanding fact in the ship subsidy proposition here is that alleged experts in the shipping board and alleged subsidy experts in Congress differ around $60,000,000 a year in their estimates as to what the passage of the ship subsidy bill will cost the American people. Here are a few conflicting ‘’official” statements: Chairman Lasker of the shipping board: “The Treasury cost in direct and indirect aids, the first year, if the bill passes, cannot possibly be more than $15,000,000.” Congressman Davis of Tennessee, member of the House Merchant Marine Committee, and vigorous opponent of the bill: "During our hearings on the bill, Chairman Lasker conceded that it included direct charges on the public treasury of $52,120,000, not taking into consideration the exemptions from Federal taxes allowed ship owners and other indirect aids, the amount of which Chairman Lasker declined to estimate. The pending bUI would cost the American people $75,000,000 a year.” STRIKES Advocate of Labor Urges Action Looking Toward Settlements. To the Editor of The Times Now that the Government has taken a definite stand on the coal question It remains for the operators and miners to get together. In one way it seems foolish for the labor organizations to create working restrictions and deliberately turn them down and give way. On the other hand it is the general understanding that a coal crisis is imminent and that a tie-up in transportation facilities will result soon. Why can’t the miners take a chance, go back to work at the old wage scales, and trust to luck that an agreement, between themselves and operators, is completed before the specified time has expired? The Government has made the specifications, which aren’t absolute, but which leave way for favorable agreement. LABOR. To the Editor of The Timet A perplexing situation confronts the National Administration —the question of cancellation of the allied war debts. Would it be better for Administration leaders simply to wipe these accounts off the slate, and readjust commercial relations among the nations concerned, or to do otherwise? It goes without saying that cancellation of the debts Is one solution to commercial difficulties, but it is doubtful whether the country ought to stoop to that level, from another standpoint. Decision on the question has been in process long enough. It is time for Administration leaders to come to an agreement and act. A. D. M.
To the Editor: In just about one case out of every hundred it is possible for a pedestrian to find a motorist who will change the course of his car to avoid running him. In the other ninety-nine cases it seems to be the driver's one purpose to run over the man on foot, and run over him good. Yes, the pedestrian does owe the motorist a lot —he owes him all of the street all of the time. There is little occasion for a man to walk nowadays, albeit. The time will come when there will be more automobiles than humans. Better begin now to elevate the sidewalks and street intersections. A. WALKER. NOT A NUT COLONY Camiel-By-the-Sea Protests It Is Wholly Virtuous. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.—Car-mel-By-The-Sea, the colony composed of artists and writers who make their homes amid the classic pines and sand dunes on the edge of Monteray Bay, has reached the point wdiere it is protesting that it is a “quiet homeloving place.” Carmel protests that it is not a “bob-haired” village. "Our men are bronzed from the wind and sun. There are no long hairs. We women don’t wear bobbed hair. We are far from being anything like Greenwich Village. If You Are • Well Bred You arrive at a dinner party exactly at the hour indicated on your invitation. To be early is as reprehensible as to be late. Should you arrive after the rest of the guests are at the table an apology should be offered to the hostess and the guests, and then the matter should be dropped. The late guest takes up the dinner from that point.
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QUESTION OF BUSINESS IN CHURCH LIGHT Great Britain Asked to Say What Community Needs Most. By MILTON BROWNER, NEA Staff Correspondent. LONDON, July 13. —Is modem bush ness Christian? Do people nowadays confine their religion to an hour or so on Sunday and forget it the rest of the week? These are questions, all Christian churches of Great Britain —Catholic and Protestant —will try to answer in a remarkable conference may be held in the United States. Questionnaires are being sent out and elaborate plans are being made by committees. The Rt. Rev. Edmund A. Knox, Bishop of Manchester, is president of the British conference. The honorary secretaries are a Quaker woman and an Anglican clergyman, and council members include Church of England clergymen, representatives of all evangelical churches and prominent Catholic priests. "Property and industry” is the questionnaire subject expected to command most serious attention. "The purpose of industry.” says the council, “is to supply the needs of the community. In present practice the choice of the consumer, backed by ability to purchase, is accepted as the arbiter of what these needs are, and causes the appropriate goods and service to be put on the market. This choice is considerably influenced by the producers who push their own goods.” Finally, the program is set forth which its supporters believe practicable and capable of Christianizing industry, and the council asks whether those who answer the questionnaire consider the program Christian in character and the first step toward a really Christian society.
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Appointment by President Hard'ng of Janies H. Wilkerson, to succeed K. M. Landis as Federal judge In the Chicago district, is considered a blow at the Thompson-Small machine In Illinois, as Wilkerson was the chief lawyer for the State in the recent trial of Governor Small. Wilkerson was born in Missouri in 186!) and was graduated from De Pauw University at Greencastle, Ind., in 1889. He has been practicing law In Chicago since 1906. TODAY’S WORD Today’s word is FACSIMILE. It’s pronounced fak sim-i le, with accent on the second syllable. The e is pronounced like the first e in event. All other vowels are short. It can be used as a noun, meaning "an exact likeness;" as a transitive verb, meaning "to copy precisely, or attributively;” as "facsimile documents.” It conies from the Latin facere, to make, and similis. like. It's used like this: “It was a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence.” UNUSUAL FOLK By XEA Service WASHINGTON, Juy 13.—Here he is, ladies—the best pie baker in the National Capital. And a bachelor! Testing out recipes Is his hobby, in which it is fried. W ■pmp 11 ■ yy*" •■"***-"2 Also, his huslness. For as chief W. Home Economics, I >•.#. worthy is sup \ ttS P° se< l to know all *the latest wrmkles l . in culinary callsA thenics. He can tell you how to Bn prevent the uriderM/k crust of custard H JS&SS&A and berry pies f‘'°m becoming Em soggy, or how to produce a doughnut that will take up the lowest perLANGWORTHY. centage of the fat Professionally, Langworthy is willing to help the ladies to the limit. He’ll tr yto work out any problem they present him. But personally—well, that's different! Anyway, he’s still unmarried. And when he wants a good pie he can bake one himself.
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Roald Amundsen (right), his two a! r pilots, Lieut. E. G. Fullerton (left) and Oscar Omdal (center), the monoplane in which they will fly over the pole, and a map of the course they will take.
By NEA i Service SEATTLE, Wash., July 13.—Over the North Pole in an a;rplane! This is the plan of Roald Amundsen, now on a seven-years’ cruise in the Arctic, announced here by his business manager, Sir Heakon S. Hammer. Amundsen and his party are now nearing Point Barrow, most northerly point of Alaska, in the schooner Maud. Here Amundsen and two pilots, Lieut. E. U. Fullerton and Lieut. Oscar Omdal, will hop off, with gasoline and food to last twenty-six hours. They will fly to the North Pole and will
ANSWERS Ton can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Iniianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Washington. D. C., enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice will not be given. Unsigned letters vriil not be answered, but all letters are confidential and receive personal replies.—Editor. Q. —What is the range of an eightpower and a ten-power binocular? A.—This is difficult to answer as the distance one could see with such glasses depends partly on one’s location, the lay of the land, the oond.tion of the atmosphere, eta The field of vision is about 30 degrees in both classes. An eight-power glass means that the object as observed through the glass will appear to he eight times nearer than as viewed with the naked eye, and the ten-power glass will make It appear ten times nearer. Q. —What was the principle of operation of the seventy-ftve-mile Big Bertha that the Germans used to shell Paris? Did the allies get this gun? Where is it now? A.—The seventy-five-mile gun used by the Germans for shelling Paris was completely destroyed by the Germans and the allies have no accurate Information regarding the principles of Its ! construction or the details of its mechanism, although they have made some surmises about it. Q. —What are direct and indirect taxes? A. —A direct tax is one which the person whom it is assessed must pay, such as a poll tax, or tax upon the house which a man owns and in which he lives. An indirect tax is one which the taxpayers can shift upon someone else, such as the duty which a merchant pays upon goods which he Imports from foreign countries, for he shifts the tax upon his customers by adding the amount of the duty to the price of his goods. Q. —Is there a passenger service between New Orleans or Galveston and Australia? A.—No, the only service between these points is a freighter service. Q. —How many people and who were they that have gone over Niagara Falls successfully in barrels? A. —Two persons, Mrs. Anne Edson Taylor, October, 1901, and “Bobby’’ Leach, July, 1911. Charles Stephens was killed In a similar attempt In July, 1920. Q. —What will kill the roots of blackberry bushes? A. —Kerosene. Grub out as many as possible and then pour on' the kerosene. Care should be exercised
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I land there for observations, if condi- ! tions are favorable, before continuing ; the flight. If conditions are unfa- ! will proceed directly to their destination, Spltzbergen, north | of the Scandinavian peninsula, or to i Grant Land—depending upon the gaiI ollne supply. The flight from Point Barrow to Spltzengen under favorable conditions ! will be 1,800 miles, and will take i twenty-three hours. In case of mis hap, the adventurers must depend i upon carrier pigeons to carry word to I rescuers and upon Inflated pig-blad
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in using this, as it will kill all vegetation. Q. —What causes steel plate to become magnetized along the edge of the longitudinal seam when rolled Into BftfcU for pipe or tank? Is there any way to demagnetize same so they can be electric welded without difficulty? A.—When a steel plate becomes magnetized it Is magnetized throughout and not merely at the edges. Any
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ders to keep the plane afloat until help arrives. Amundsen expects to get invaluable scientific data on the flight, and will take motion pictures. In addition, data collected will aid greatly in directing the Maud's crew to the best advantage as their little vessel drifts through these regions, it is expected. Amundsen, upon completing the Point Barrow-Spitzenbergen flight, will rejoin the scientists and sailors on the Maud, taking a plane from Seattle to the Ice-bound schooner.
discontinuity within the metal acts the same as the edges and coiner of the plate in that iron filings will collect there in greater quantities than elsewhere over the surface. The magnetization results from the action of the earth’s magnetic field, the mechanical jarring and disturbance of the rolled sheet being necessary for the magnetization to occur. This condition *of the materia] ought not to interfere with electric welding. Q. —What is a good way to clean! oil paintings? A.—Cut a potato in half and rub j gently with the fresh service, slic- j ing off the soiled portions, until the whole Is cleaned. Or wash with milk diluted with warm water and dry without rinsing.
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FRANCE MAY JOIN WORLD DRY AREA BY BOOZE LIMIT
Some Humor May Be Taken Out of Pussyfoot Johnson Via Legislation. By HUDSON HAWLEY United News Staff Correspondent. PARIS, July 13.—Tlthough most Frenchmen consider "Pussyfoot” Johnson’s threats of world-wide dryness as funnier than Charlie Chaplin, particularly as concerns their own country, the recent action of the French Chamber of Deputies in forbidding the sale of absinthe derivatives or substitutes may be taken as quite a husky straw to show how the wind is blowing. For the anti-alcohol forces in France are insurging today more than they ever were before. Even in his famous pro-wine speech at Montpellier, in the heart of the vineyard country. President Millerand took pains to point out that he had fought the scourge of alcoholism all his life, and made a very clear distinction between light wines and the “hard stuff ” And at the closing banquet of the national wine • week in Paris, when twenty choice vintages were offered to the diners, Premier Poincare, who made a magnificent bacchic address, was discovered to be in a flagrant state of treason —drink water! Absinthe Is Gone Absinthe went bj’ the boards almost simultaneously with the 1914 mobilization by Government decree. The bill, which has yet to be voted on by the Senate, provides that the Government, by decree, shall designate which are the substitute liquors to be forbidden. To this the Government added an assurance that the proprietors of distilleries should be compensated for their losses. DIDN’T PLAY FAIR London Woman Tells Magistrate Story of Her Encounter. By United Press LONDON, July 13. —Martha Banks, hauled before the magistrates in company with Eliza Baggott, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault on Liza. “She didn't play fair,” she told the "beak," “for, when I 'appened to bite ’er nose, she gimme a prick with ’er ’at pin.”
SPORTS FOR FRENCH GIRLS Question Is Agitating Leaders of Women’s Activities. By United Press PARIS, July 13. —Should women in France take up sports, and if so, to what extent? That is the question which French women are now debating in the press. It is a question that would have shocked the last generation and which this generation considers only with reserve. Some women have expressed the opinion that “sports spoil the fignre and that it destroys a woman’s grace and strips her of her feminine charms.” One woman asks: “What sports can .a woman take up if she has servant trouble and the education of her children to look after, besides flirting and gossiping?”