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And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; j and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. Isaiah 65:24. Rough Riding DO you rptnercber, back in childhood when you played with a hoop, how the hoop bent into an egg-shape when you leaned your weight on it? The same thing happens to wheels-—including those on autos —despite the air cushion in the tires. Common or garden variety of wheels are not round, as is generally supposed, according to engineers’ recent discoveries. 'Wheels may start out round, but they increasingly develop slightly elliptical shape, faintly resembling an egg viewed lengthwise. You have noticed this on street cars cursed with flat wheels in their old age. More vividly you have noticed it when riding in an old auto that humps-bumps in defiance of tires and shock absorbers. As the anto wheel carries you along, slightly flattened by the weight it supports, it naturally strikes “hammer blows” on the pavement as it revolves. But it is tougher on the pavement. The effect is about the same as if an army of men werepounding the roadbed constantly with sledgehammers. This, along with heavy trucks, is usually why our pavements go to pieces so rapidly. The obvious solution, or at least mediation, is getting pavement with sufficient elasticity. Sand under tbe concrete bed works that, way. So does asphalt on top. British engineers are experimenting with a rubber pavement. That, however, probably would be too expensive. And there is not enough rubber. The greatest American waste is in road making. Tbe waste used to be mostly in the form of graft. Now it’s largely in paving unscientifically. Taxpayers put up fabulous fortunes for pavements that often begin going to pieces as soon as they are laid. The problem of good roads is-not so much mileage of pavement as quality of pavement. Tt’s a tremendous field for engineers and inventors. Young mar, this may be your big oppor-. tumity. Pop, Goes the Foreign Trade! AMERICAN imports fell off $1,046,841,236 for the year ending July 1. 1922. as compared to the year preceding. Exports fell off 82,736.259,062, according to official Department of Commerce figures. And still they talk tariff in the Senate. The Finance C-orn-mittee is forcing through the highest tariff wall in American history, just one more handicap to American foreign trade. io what depth, will foreign commerce fall in another twelve i months? Ncbodv Home A BETTTAL crime frequently attracts your attention in the 2a. newspapers. It is an atrocious murder or a fiendish assault. This sort- of crime, you find it hard to understand, for it is the work of a fiend. Aou conclude that a madman did it. Later the criminal is arrested. Aou read that he is a moron. A moron is a person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age, and then stops and never exceeds that of a child of about 12 years. Check back over the past and you realize that you have met many morons grown-ups with a child’s mentality—who - have been going along placidly through life without committing crimes. AVilham -T. Robinson, celebrated iconoclast-doctor, writes in his Medical Critic and Guide: /■ A man may be a great painter, sculptor, actor or even a great poet, and in all other domains of human thought boa moron, having the mentality of a twelve-year-old child.” This rather striking thought probably has occurred to you as you have sat back in the shadows of night, analyzed your fel-low-men and tried to figure out what it is all about. There is an old saying that every man is a fool outside his own business. Tou meet a great success. He is a genius, a super-intellect., to his line. Talk to him about important outside matters which are not connected with his vocation, and you find that he is an ignoramus. In other words, he is a genius on one thing, a moron on others. This is natn al, for we live in an age of specialization. ! A man has tame to master only one thing. To become successful, a man usually has to become a monomaniac on one subject .J™ the reverse of this m the case of the man who is a jaek-of-all-trades and master of none. He is not, a moron in any partacnlar branch of mentality. He knows a smattering of every- j g. But neither is he conspicuously intelligent in any one line i Frequently we become so hypnotized by a man’s success in vIZ r magHle he Trould be a rai ™cle man in anything he turned his hand to. * Occasionally, that might be true. Bat. as a federal rule, the, individual has only one strarand ran play i* only on one instrument Maybe this is tvhv business men of prononneed ability have not gone extensively into Maybe realizing their limitations, they are afraid they ought be like the carpenter who tried to tune a harp with a

ANSWERS Y*> can ret an answer to any question *1 fact or Information by writing to Th* Indianapolis Times Washington Bnresu. 1322 New York Are.. Washington. D. C„ eno’csi as 2 cents in stamps. Medical. legal and ’ore and marriae-e advice will not be given. Unsigned letters will not be answered, hot a3 letters are confidential and reoeive persona] replies. —Editor. Q- —How far back has the history of Nippur, Babylonia, been traced as a result of explorations and excavations. A.—According to Prof. H. V. Hilprecht, who was connected with the explorations of the University of Pennsylvania, the history has been traced to a date as early as 4.500 B. C. .jl Q —How did the word “Bachelor" '■riglnate in connection with Bachelor degrees? A. —The word waj, in medieval days, applied to knights who were in the probationary stage of knighthood, and to monks who had not taken the full vows of monasticism. In the medieval colleges this name bachelor was given

to students who completed the first grade of their university career: In : this sense the word was changed to read baccalaureus. Thus In earlier days it was not the conferring of a i degree but the recognition of tbe stuI dent 4 ability to a higher course of j j study. I Q- What is "rufit." as used with reference to wheat, etc? j A Rust is a parasitic fungi, eaj pecially injurious to wheat, oats, and other cereals, usually appearing as yellow, brown, or black lines and spots on the leaves and stems. Nearly all cereals are subject to an attack of rust and from an economic standpoint this is one of the most serious peats ' of the grain crops. Q. —Did any of the ancients wear trousers instead of flowing gar ments? A.—Trousers were worn in ancient China, also by the ancient Gauls. Bel gians, Franks, Britons, Germans, Sy thians, Medes. Persians. Parthians. Armenians and Pfeyrigians,

RETAIL DEALERS I OBJECTTORULES LIMPROFIT i German Merchants Contend They Are at Mercy of Police Officials. PLAN ’SELLING BOYCOTT Storekeepers in Bavaria and Saxony Rise to Defense of Selves. BERLTN, July 24,—A decided stand is now being taken by retailers' 'organizations throughout Germany against the “usury regulations’’ recently devised by various German states, the Bavarian, the Saxon, and the Wuerttam berg governments. These regulations prohibit merchants from selling any merchandise at a higher profit than 30 per cent. The gist of these regulations is that police officers are allowed to enter retail shops, sample the merchandise put up for sale, demafid original In- > voices, and see that regulations are. rigidly observed. While the rules were origlna’dy ! meant to stop profiteering In foodstuffs. they have been extended to other merchandise. Trade Is Smothered The unprecedented rise in the prices | of all me,rchandise, so the. retailers say. will /not allow them to purchase the Quantity they could have obtained t three months -■xgo for their present sales price, plus a 20 per cent addition, and they claim they can not recognize the, justification of these “profiteering regulations." A number of La.w courts have rej cently decided In, opposition to the | government regulations, and have acquitted retaiiertvof the charge of profiteering made fey the police courts in various cities*A meeting has rece itly been called of retailers of Bavaria and Saxony, and it wa/s moved that the incorporated retailers enter Into a ‘ selling which it ,is considered may be a likely weapon against the police rules, and may make the population side with them. UNUSUAL FOLK NEA Service MILWAUKEE, Wis.. July 24. 1 'Ballad King.” with hundreds of 'songs to his credit, and yet he cannot I read or write a Bline of music. That is Charles K. Har- | ris. composer of “After the Ball.'' “Break the News to Mother,” 'AI ways in the Way,” “I'm Wearing My Heart Away for You.” “Hello, Central, Give Mo Heaven,’’ anil many other ballads which have swept the Nation. Though he knows nothing of the HARRIS technical side of i music, many tunes float through 'Harris' mind. Harris hums them aloud to a musician, who transfers th(*m to paper. When Harris first, started writing songs, he had a hard time disposing of them. Thm he ooncoived “After the Ball" and his name and fame i were made. | He believes the pathetic, true-to llfe songs are the ones that will endure. Jazz, which he describes as "nothing 1 more than the manifestation of wild, turbulent spirits that were pent up during the late World War,” cannot I last long, he says. SUNBURN By DR. R. ff. mSTfOP vjy '*"?ATELY I have been receiving a numB ser of letters askfng how sunburn, 'I Van and freckles Os may be removed ; easily and inexM j ' pensively. I j V j Pei sonally, I like Ij iS’V tan. for they are signs of outdoor activity and con- . - sequel.tly good health But if you must try to remove) them, do not use knnown brands ; | of skin creams and loti ms. Some of I i thoso cosmetcs contain substances: harmful to the skin. Cosmetics, as ordinarily used, tend | to clog the pores or irritate the skin ' | and thus are likely to interfere with | the normal, healthy action of that organ. Instead of hiding blemishes of the skin, it Is much better to remove j these blemishes by improving the j texture of the skin. A simple remedy is bathing the face in a lotion of lime water. Each application not only improves the skin, but aids greatly in bringing about a permanent change. For cleansing the skin of the face or forehead and removing dried, dead skin particles, a simple cold cream, made of the following materials, Is recomm ended: One ounce of spermaceti, one ounce of white wax, five ounces of oil of sweet almonds, one and a half ounces of rosewater apd thirty grains of chlorate of potash. As the old skin is gradually carried away by this method, unsightly blemishes such as red blotches, tan places, “liverspots.” and sunburn will disappear gradually-and harmlessly. Marriage ala Mode There is nothing more complete than the marriage ceremony of certain Indian tribes. After the wedding festivities are over the men cut down trees and clear a space of ground on which they plant Indian corn for the support of the couple. This is followed by a feast. \ Cobler Heads Troop Ti Troop B Reunion Association held its annual picnic Sunday at Brookside Park, ejecting Cortez j Cobler president, and John Arnold,<secretary and treasury.

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Eye- Witness Eel Is Story of Mine Zone Battles hi West Virginia Mountains

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THUS PICTURE BY DORMAN SHOWS CONSTABLES EXAMINING MINERS ROUNDED UP IN MOUNTAIN RAIDS TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY SHALL BE HELD. INSET, SHERIFF THOMAS DUVAL. TAKING THE PLACE OF HIS FATHER, SHERIFF HARDING DUVAL, SLAIN IN THE CLIFTONVILLE BATTLE.

By 808 DORMAN (Copyright, 1923, by NEA Service) AVELLA, Pa., July 24. —They’re ! mopping up in the war zone of the | West Virginia panhandle I have just come back from a night ; raid made by Pennsylvania State po- | lice against the warring coal miners I They are cooperating with West j Virginia officials. ; “The fear of law” is being put into ! the hills hereabouts. Tears of women and the blood of men arc spilled in the dramatic aftermath of the imttle at Cliftonville, VV. Va, where five insurgent miners were killed, three more ' probably burned to death, and Sheriff | Harding Duval of Brooks County | slain. Day and night the bills are combed by the constabularies nf two States j and by roving bands of deputy sheriffs. Os the latter the most relentless is voting Thomas Duval. 24-year old son of the slain sheriff, who has succeeded him in office. He is out to avenge his father. First in War Zona. I was the first newspaperman permitted to penetrate tho war rone. I was let into the secret of a forth coming night raid Discarding their horses, twenty Pennsylvania troopers j—relentless men who look hard and haggard from a week of sleepiest, nights gathered in tho dark undecommand of Sergt. ,T. A. Gosleln. Motor cars ‘Arricd them. Ail wars armed. They kept off the main roads, rac--1 ing recklessly over rutty mountain (trails in the darkness, close to the j West Virginia line. I The police were out —aa they are nightly—to “mop up,” to seize the ringleaders of the raiding party of 500 strikers who marhed over the line

Women of Ma ny Nations Will Protest Against War in Coming Celebrations -iion r\t

The bnnner to b raised over the headquarters of the National Council for Reduction of Armament at Washington July 29. Officers of seven women's organizations vhicn have adopted resolutions Against war, stand by the banner. They ire. left to right. Mrs. Maud Wood l ark. League of Women Voters; Mrs. Raymond Morgan, American Association r, t University Women: Mrs. Ellis Yost, W ( . T T Miss Gertrude McArthur. Y. W. r. A.: Mrs. George T. Odell. Women's International League; Miss Ethel Smith. Women’s Trade Union League; Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins, Congress of Parent Teachers’ Associations.

By NEA Service WASHINGTON. —“No More YCar.” In ten different languages, on hundreds of thousands of posters, by ! radio, wire arad mail in millions of i petitions, from mqyio screens, these words will be flashed around the world July 29 and 30. Behind the demonstration in this country is the National Council for the Reduction of Armament, which includes the League of Women Voters, the Y. W. <2. A., the W. C. T. U., Association of University Women, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Women’s Trade Union League and, the National Congress of Parent-Teachers’ Associations,

Suckers Still Plentiful, but Public Bond Buying Education Improves

BY C. E. CLARK. "There are still lots of suckers and always will be." a local bond broker declared in discussing efforts throughout the country to educate inexperienced stock buyers. "We still have the cheaters and the cheated," he continued. “If we could give everybody a college education, probably the suckers would be eliminated. fin long as some people don't know the fundamentals of business, .they will fail for the fake stuff.” ’ Bocal brokers were of the opinion that there are not so many swindlers as formerly because of the Indiana law. Still Much Wild Catling However, there is still much wildcat Stock being sold in Indiana, according to J. iF. Wild, president of

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WOMAN WEEPS AS HER HUSBAND IS TAKEN AWAY BY DON I STABLES. CHARGED WITH COM ! PLKTTV IN' THE MINE WAR. PICTURE BY DORMAN.

July 17 and staged the bloody battle! ' of Cliftonville. .Miners Forced (o Fight. A trocar said to me: “Throe fourths of them didn't want to go. Extremists with guns drove ; them to it. Many sneaked away in the -lark."

[ representing more than live million women members. Tho council expects to make this the greatest drive for enduring peace ever staged in this country. Anti war messages will be sent the President and Congressmen/ An attempt will be made to put tho war-peace issue into politics by demanding of the legislators: “What are you and your party going to do about it?” The drive will be opened officially by the hoisting of a "No More War” banners over the headquarters of the | council here. Surrounding tbe words; will be an unbroken circle of flags of all nations, symbolizing an unbroken world friendship. The present campaign is an out-

the J. F. Wild State Bank. Some people are still making bad investments in oil and mining stock, he said. "We can see the results of the Liberty bond drives during the war," said Mr. Wild. “Many people are now buying the letter securities. Bond house representatives traveling over the Stale are educating tlieso people to buy these securities, and campaigns have been held to educate school children to make safe Investments. 1 believe the number of those buying fake stock has been reduced considerably.” Agrees Willi Opinion An official of Breed, Elliott & Har- 1 rison also said much good had been accomplished by the State commission/in eliminating fakers. He stated, however, the law should be strengthened.

Some miles from a mining camp the raiders left the machines. A skirmish line was formed, circling and j spreading as it advanced. At the | "zero hour” the troopers moved for- ! wa.rd. White-faced prisoner*, caught in the net, are brought forth singly. “Your name?” barks a trooper. | A quick glance at the paper as it ! Is given. “Get over to one side.” the trooper orders if the name is not. on the list. if it is there — “Into that machine,” the man is | ordered Cats? have been brought up. | ready to take the prisoners to Wells- ' burg Jail. And from there—because Wellsbtirg is violently non-union and | threats of lynching have been heard —on to Wheeling. T saw the people of the poor little town gathering about—women and children routed from their beds. Push Way Into Homes Troopers ruthlessly push their way into houses Search warrants are | superfluous. If demanded—and this • rarely—any scrap of paper will do, ; for many cannot read or write. So I the search goes no. I watched one group Barefooted women., some with anger marking their faces more with dumb questioning looks, stood there, and wide eyed children, many crying noisily because they saw their mothers' tears, clung to tho skirts of the woman. Bul-les in arms, some ragged and nil red eyed, wailed while women , pleaded with troopers Guns were but rarely used T saw three men flee over a hill, but a shot above their heads stopped them. Mostly it was the growing fear of ♦ he Horsemen"—modemly equipped with motor cars now—that checked resistance.

j growth of anti-war celebrations in | two European cities two years ago on I the anniversary of the outbreak of l the World War. Last year 200 cities followed their example. The world-wide drive this year is directed by a central committee in London. From there plans are sent to countries staging celebrations, the United States, England. France, Ger-1 many, Holland, Sweden, Austria. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Portugal. Switzerland. Spain and Japan. “We have come to realize that we do not have to change human nature to do away with war,” says Frederick J. Libby, secretary of the national council. “What we need to do is to set up a Systran of International law to settle international disputes, and to abolish war as an accepted in- ! stitution for their settlement.” Fabric Flowers Flowers of fabric are a fashionable j trimming. One sees very delicate i ones of organdie pastel shades, and j very gay ones of silk, flannel, leather ■ and velvet. Gowns drip with them. Colored Lace For the dinner gown, colored iacj is very popular. Usually it is made with a plain - sleeveless bodice with tble low waist line, and a full skirt Hawaiian influence. I

TWINKLE, TWINKLE !~~ PARIS.—The conference' at/ the Academy of Medicine pointed out. that moving picture actors a fre in dined tp sniff cocaine, because the drug is supposed to rendejl- their eves more brilliant and phmtogenic

FATHERHOOD My B F RTOy FRALEY. * K*d. tea very wee and red. a nere is no hair upon his head. And save when he is being fed—He cries. At least Be cries a lot. I’d say. xiut that s a new-born baby s way (I asked the doctors, that s what they Advise). Minn 1 *! 1 ? e ’ 8 , Buch a tu, y ‘yke be looks j fist exactly like Ail others who have chanced to strike My gaze. But gee. the way bis fingers cling V S or .} of makes my pulses sing And Ive been happy as a king For days. MY kid: an ordinary tot No doubt, but oh. to me he's not! lie gives ms pride that I cannot keep hid. My heart is singing rhapsodies. 1 m dreaming dreams and phantasies. And gosh I m proud of him. for he's •MV kid! (Copyright, 1923. NEA Service.) RESIDENT Believes Courtesy Should Be Habitual in Indianapolis. To the Editor of The Times Every city has its slogan and each inserts the word “courtesy” in one place or another. In fact, 1 think In-1 dianapolis has a word of that charao-1 ter in one of its many movements, j campaigns or drives. Courtesy is, in some ways, purely; superficial, but in other ways it digs clear under the skin. Nothing is more: compelling than downright politeness' the kind that flows naturally. Why don’t some of our street carl conductors practice a little of it? If; you want to know a city, just ride j about a little in its street cars. If you want to hate a city, get a bad im | pression in a street car. If every Individual of a city just; took tho time to think, he would learn | ■ himself to he a part of the city and j civic pride would capture him. The trouble is, too many of the in- j habitants, especially conductors, have j not been captured yet. NEW RESIDENT. ■ To the Editor o 1 Th Times T saw an old farmer walking down! the street the other day and every-1 body laughed at him because he looked! “rube-lsh.” He was an odd sight, but surely those people could have suppressed their mirth if they had only tried. Indianapolis is the center of the richest farming community in all the world. It depends on the farms, to a great extent, for its prosperity and on the farmers living in the vicinity for its food and export. The funniest part of it all was the farmer was the one who laughed loudest, but least visibly. Even if a farmer is a robe, it’s no excuse for laughing at his face. Meet him and laugh with him. A FARMER. THE REFEREE By AESERT APPLE. EDISON* Edison gives to a museum the origi- \ ral models nf two of his important.in- j ventions —the first phonograph and the j first Incandescent electric light. Most of us, in his shoes, would have kept these treasures to tickle our vanity and sentiment. \ But Edison says he is \ dSfiJf not interested in old mod- j ’" f vHe looks ahead, ! j r w never hack, concentrates I APPLE OTI t * lP future, 1s ' not chained to the dust and | petrification of the past. That's a sure sign of an alert mind, j Nearly all of us have a lot of tradi- j ( tions and cast-iron prejudices that ' should be thrown In the ash barrel, along with junk that litters up the j attic. LOSS Exports in the last twelve months ! totaled $3,770,000,000. This was $2,74fi,000.000 less than the previous twelve months. Imports dropped sl,046.000.000. Back of this is a national tendency to buy more from other countries and sell them less. We still, however, are over a billion a year to the good. That Is piroftt. EARS Feminine ears come from hiding. The craze, which started in Paris, is sweeping eastern cities. With the hair doors removed from the channels leading to the ear-drums, many women will notice that men unconsciously have become accustomed to address the ladies more loudly and in a higher key. Exceptions, of course, being invitations to movies, dances, moonlight mo- j toring and other messages that women j hear by telepathy. ' Boy Escapes From Officer Floyd Adams. IS. of Knightstcrwn. i en route to the boys’ school, escaped i from IV. R. Mason of Plainfield, an j officer, while they were in the Tr£c- I tion Terminal Station yesteray. Adams | wore a pair of handcuffs.

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U URGES EXTENSION OF FIRM CREDIT? Agricultural Head Says Farmers Demand Aid of Political Candidates. OPPOSE SHIP SUBSIDY Ninety-Five Per Cent of Thinking Group Will Outlaw It, He Declares. WASHINGTON, July 24.—Senators and Congressmen looking to re election .as well as their coming opponj ents, who have hopes of deposing (them, will do well to give the farm i credits matter some consideration, ia | the opinion of John Tromble. presl- | dent of the Kansas Farmers’ Union. ; The trouble with the country, Tronv j ble asserts, is the intense restriction iof farm credits. Its only remedy lies j in free extension, on the part, of the j Government, of credits to farmers. . The record of each man seeking public I office in the coming campaign. Tromi ble said, would be searched for his poi sition on farm credits before support ; will be tendered or withheld. , Tromble also contended the Hardj ing-Lasker ship subsidy plan would j be opposed "to the end” by Western farmers and farm organize" | tions because it “favored a few” to the | cost of many. | "If the Administration actually 1 wants a ship subsidy, why doesn’t It ! run the ships itself?” Tromble said. | “I would not be as much opposed t.O I such a. plan as to turn the money over jto private shipping interests. Ninety i per cent of the thinking fanners will never vote for "a ship subsidy. They will look upon it as the handicraft of Wall Street. They will feel the farmer has enough burdens now without adding the payment of a. ship subsidy to his shoulders.” Tromble, turning to the farmers' financial problems, declared “deflation of the currency” was the principal cause of all their ailments. Need Actual System “There should be a real Government system for the care of farm financial troubles,” he continued. “Fed I oral Reserve banks have failed _td solve the farmers’ difficulties. “Government credits should be extended through direct channels snd not through private enterprise. Under this latter system the farmer does not get the benefits. Private individuals use it to trreir own advantage. The Government actually has little to say ; about its distribution once the paper ! reaches individual banks, j “The Federal Reserve banks have I not solved the difficulty, and it will not be solved until the law is amended or anew act passed by Congress which will take Government farrm credits out of private hands and tun® them over to public institutions ' W disburse to the farmer.” IF YOU ARE WELL BRED You see that the finger bowl is passed with the fruit course of your : dinner. When the fruit is finished each hand in turn is dipped into the water, not both together as if one were approaching a wash basin. A flower or leaf floating on the surface of the water i9 a decorative Touch. LEARN A WORD TODAY Today’s word is CULL. It’s pronounced kul. with a short u. It means—to separate, select or pick out. It is traceable from the Latin ”colligere" to the French “cuelller.’* meaning to gather, pluck or pick, and to the middle English “cullen.” It's used lilke this: “His mind was filled with thoughts culled from memory’s garden.” Auto Owner Arrested Oscar Williams, 411 E. North St., was under arrest today on a charge of disposing of a mortgaged automrvbile. George Levinson, proprietor of the Mercantile Garage, swore that Williams bought an automobile from him on a payment plan, took it to Ohio and sold it. We Will Help You | to Save Safely Jfletcfjfr anb vTrust Cos.