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The work3 of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. Psalms 111 :2. How to Get Fair Rents ' v MsEGLAXD during the war passed what they called a Rent Restriction Act to keep owners of houses from profiteering at the expense of tenants. • So did some American cities. The aits have been kept in force after the war. In England, as in America, there is a great scarcity of houses. A leading builder in England, after saying that he had built more than 12.000 houses in his time, said: “In 1914 I closed down, and have not since out one brick on another, and never mean to unless the rent restrictions are removed/’ Nobody can blame him. People build houses for profit. They will not build unless it pays; and legislative bodies can not tell what rents will pay the builders and what rents will not. Rent is calculated on two things—the cost of the land and the cost of the house. Tenants must pay rents which will return interest, taxes, depreciation, and a profit, or builders will not build. This is mere common sense. Legislative bodies can however, affect these factors in the interests of both builders and tenants. Many cities are experimenting with the matter. They exempt houses from taxation for a few years after building, but this is only a temporary adjustment. Laws can be so made as to make lands permanently lower in price, so that the tenant will not be forced to pay so much interest on ground rents, and builders can be given permanent immunity from taxation on their improvements. This by exempting all improvements from taxation. This should apply to all improvements, old and new. By this means activities would be given a permanent impulse against holding lands out of use and unimproved. The profit in vacant land would be a thing of the past, since it would pay exactly the same taxes as if improved. On the other hand, the profit in land ownership would lie exclusively in the direction of improving the land. Result: As many houses as could be profitably built; profits for builders at lower rents to tenants; a larger supply of houses. And the only thing which will make lower rents is more houses. That is the law of supply and demand. “Censored” WILL HAYS, official dry cleaner for the motion picture industry, says the producers are going to attaek censorship j by eliminating the necessity for it. This sounds sensible. Seeing will be believing. Observe that he admits the “necessity.’’ The theatrical profession has been fighting censorship so long that the earliest records are lost. Modern boards of censors date from 1642 when the Long Parliament in England suppressed the theater entirely. Chief reason for this, according to the elder Disraeli, was that the members of Parliament had smarted so much under'thejsatirieal whips of the dramatists. This censorship was political, as all forms of censorship tend to become unless they are curbed by the will of the people. Theatricals eventually had to be permitted again in England because the politicians could not stand up under the brilliant sarcasm of songs and petitions circulated by stage writers. Most famous of these was the “Rump Song.” Here’s part of it: Now while you reign, our low petition craves That we. the king’s true subjects and your slaves. May in our comic mirth and tragic rage Set up the theater and show the stage— This shop of truth and fancy, where we vow Not to act anything you disallow. We will not dare at< your strange votes to jeer ur personate King Pym with his state-fleer. Vour tragedies more real are express'd; You murder men in earnest, we in jest. Actors at that time had the legal status of vagabonds. But the battle between the stage and politicians kept up until the stage won. J Censorship in 1922. Censorship in 1642. The critics are stewling about it now, as they were nearly three centuries ago. People seem to have the same basic troubles and problems, in varying degrees, in one generation as in the next. “Holier than thou” attitude in human nature is asbestos in the fires of time. Lese Majeste THE downfall of the Hohenzollerns has not destroyed the theory of divine right. In Japan, the faith still persists. Dr. Tetsuji Aoki, formerly a member of the faculty of Keio University, Tokio, has begun serving a sentence of four months’ imprisonment for writing an article protesting against the theory of the divinity of the Japanese royal family. Many Japanese lawyers petitioned the government to quash the sentence. Japanese newspapers say public sympathy is with Dr. Aoki. Nevertheless, the bureaucrats in Tokio give no heed to | the voice of the people. • / Dr. Aoki has been made a martyr for free speech. There must be other martyrs before Japan is saved for democracy.

ANSWERS Ton can ret an answer to any question of fact or information by writinr to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washmrton. D. C.. enclosinr 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and mam ago advice will not be given. Unsigned letters will not be answered, but all letters are confidential and receive personal replies.—Editor. Q. —How soon do orange trees bear? A. —Usually within three or four years from the time of planting. Q. —Is it not customary for the Government to give a bounty for triplets? A. —No. Q. —Is there a unit of measurement called the Canadian ton? What acceptance is made of a 2,000-pound ton, as compared to a ton of 2.240 pounds, and what are they called to distinguish them apart? A.—The “Canadian ton” is a ton of 2,000 pounds, avoirdupois. The ton of 2,240 pounds is sometimes called the “long ton” or “gross ton,” while the ton of 2,000 pounds is frequently designated as the “short ton” or ‘net ton.” The former is men tioned in the laws of only a few States, among which may be noted Snr Jarsay, Maryland. FaaaaylwaaU.

Rhode Island a'nd Washington, and the District of Columbia, while the latter Is generally recognized in ths State laws. Q. —Was Sir Walter Raleigh a poet? A. —Yes. he wrote a number of poems with merit enough to survive. Among them: “Now What Is Love?” “Wrong Not, Sweet Empress of My Heart,” “The Lie” and “His Pilgrimage.” Q. —What two chapters of the Bible are alike? A. —The nineteenth chapter of the Second Book of Kings and the thirtyseventh chapter of Isaiah are alike. Q. —Why is the first day of Lent called Ash Wednesday? A.—From the ancient custom of sprinkling ashes upon the heads of those who were condemned to do penance on that day. Q. —How may indelible ink stains be removed? A.—Stains made from nitrate of silver may be removed by moistening them with a brush dipped in a strong aqueous solution of eynanide of potas slum (a deadly poison) and then well washing the fabric in water. Great care should be exercised in trying

BRITAIN subbed BT NEAR EAST'S JUMBLED STATE Lloyd George and Poincare May Extend Monday’s Parley to Present Issue. GREEKS LAND TROOPS Despite Promise to Allies Have Brought 25,000 to Robosto —England Alert. By RALPH H. TURNER United Netcs Staff Correspondent. LONDON, Aug. 2. Confusion throughout Europe has served to upset efforts of the one stable government. Great Britain, to avert a crash. Attention of Premier Lloyd George is being focussed on Central Europe and the Near East. A troublesome situation has arisen In the Near East as the result of the threat of Greeks to occupy Constantinople. In Italy there is a serious cabinet upheaval. The French are becoming increasingly restive at the attitude of Germany on reparations. The foreign office has prepared a reply to the note of Premier Poincare on reparations, announcing that Lloyd George will meet Poincare in London Monday, and expressing a desire that discussions be confined to reparations. The Near Eastern question, the note suggests, be held temporarily In abeyance. Italy and Belgium have both been invited to send representatives to the meeting, giving the conference an as pect of greater importance. The note was to be sent to Paris Monday night. Britain Warns Greece Lloyd George announced that the British representatives in Athens, complying with instructions from the home government, had warned Greece that attempts to occupy Constantinople would not be tolerated. The serious consequences that would follow have served momentarily to ease the situation, and the Greek government has given definite as< surances that Greek troop3 will not enter the neutral zones without the consent of the allies. However, Greek troops continue to ! land at Robosto, 25,000 thus far having arrived. A British light cruiser squadron is proceeding from Malta to Constantinople as a precautionary measure, and the Mediterranean fleet is being brought up to full strength.

UNUSUAL FOLK By NEA Service SACRAMENTO. Cal., Aug. 2. George F. Maddock is general manager of the $20,000,000 Sutter Basin reclamation proja as® his Job was LriWjPJp. Jgrayj that of a ineMADDOCK higher, lie had a wife and several children and was getting on toward middle age. If these were handicaps, they didn’t prevent him from starting on a course of study under the principal of the Sacramento High School. Presently he was able to enter Stanford University. At night he worked as a printer, in the classroom by day. Presently Maddock won the assistant professorship of electrical engineering at Stanford. Then he was hired as engineering adviser to an organization of California hemp growers. Finally the reclamation project claimed him. Maddock doesn’t speak of his achievement as extraordinary, but It’s unusual nevertheless. THE REFEREE By ALBERT APPLE. GOLD There must be a lot of cursing around the Green I Tree saloon in Dawson. \ ' this >' ear l n British Co- \ lumbia than the Yukon yielded In the banner * year of its gold rush. APPLE No fuss Is made about it, however, probably because B. C. Is not far enough away. If it were as hard to get to as the Yukon was in 1898, when the Soapy Smith gang was levying tribute north of Skagway, amateur prospectors would be stampeding into British Columbia from all corners of the globe. Most of us think that fortune exists only at great distances, far off on the other side of the hills. RED HEADS

Redheads are more efficient than blondes or brunettes, says jn official of a big insurance company. Historians sometimes wonder why there are so few red-headed geniuses. The answer is, because there are so few redheaded people to draw from. Red hair is usually a sure sign of keen wit, rapid thought, ingenuity and deep thinking. You never knew a red-head that was a dumb-bell. The sale of henna proves that outsiders are envious. ABILITY Leopold Auer, trainer of master violinists. tell in Success magazine how he instantly recognized a volin genius when he heard Jascha Heifetz play at the age of 9, also Mischa Elman at the age of 10. Auer helped grubstake the two lads to a musical education. Ability usually rises or fails to its own level. Plenty of helping hands in the world. If yours hasn’t come yet, it will show up later. The helping hand Is one of the finest things in life. Make it contagious, all along Um lisa, for a batter smrUL

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

UNION CITY CLINIC ADOPTS GROUP DOCTORING

In the up-to-date X ray room of the Union City Clinic (above), and a view of the Clinic building (below),

By BLYTHE HENDRICKS. Times Staff Correspondent UNION CITY. Ind.. Aug. 2.—“ Group Medical Attention” started in the army. The Union City Clinic has in- j troduced it into, civil practice. The average patient doesn’t know what really aiis him. He knows only that he’s troubled by certain uncomfortable symptoms. From his de-: scription of these symptoms the doctor determines his disease. Then, if the ca.se is unusual, he directs the patient to a specialist—or maybe. If doubt exists, to an X-ray expert. All this costs the patient time and money. In the service, during the war, wore five Union City, Ind., physicians to whom the value of “group medical at- j tention’’ made so strong an appeal j that they resolved to keep it up when they returned heme.

Shubert Vaudeville to Open at Park Week of Labor Day By WALTER D. HICKMAN. The invasion of Shubert vaudeville into Indianapolis will begin at the Shubert Park Theater during Labor Day week, at the remodeled and redecorated Park Theater on \V. Washington St. The Shuberts this season will offer what is known as "unit vaudeville.” From one to two headliners will be featured in each unit. Indianapolis had a sample of the unit idea for a week last winter at the Murat Theater. The opening bill at the Shubert-Park will be "Laughs and Ladies,” one of the four Friodlander Weber units. The second bill will be "Mulligin’s Follies.’’ and the third bill will be "A Feast of Fun.” The Gertrude Hoffman show probably will be the offering for the fourth week. Matinees will be given daily when the season opens.

Shuberts Name Houses. The current issue of the New York Clipper gives the list of Shubert vaudeville houses as follows: Brooklyn, Crescent Chicago, Garrick and Englewood; New York City, Central and Harlem Opera House;* Detroit, Detroit Opera House, Philadelphia. Chestnut Street Opera House; Syracuse, Wieting; Washington, Shu-

NANOOK LIKES CANNED MUSIC

"Machine man—talk —good.” That was the verdict of Nanook, the mighty Eskimo hunter hero of “Nanook of the North,” on hearing a phonograph for the first time in his life. Thinking the "canned human vo ice” might be good eating, Nanook took a bite of the record. He found the voice pleasant, but the taste not so good. “Nanook of the North” will bo the offerings at the Circle netx week.

Scrapping Primary Is Disastrous to National Freedom, Says Capper BY ARTHUR CAPPER, United States Senator from Kansas. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Some thing like a piarnor for repeal of the direct primary is arising this year from “Old Guard” members of both political parties. They don't like the way the people are using their political freedom, particularly in this year's contests. We have under the controlled caucus and convention a government of all the people by professional politicians financed by special interests which they necessarily serve. There must be financing somewhere in the machine system and the, donors of campaign funds and particularly lobby funds are necessarily first served. I They are the true dictators of government under such a system. Under the old convention system large sums changed hands and privileges costly to the people were bartered away: conventions were packed and nominations bought. In primary contests most of the money is spent for postage and printing, for conveying information about candidates and issues. Those who oppose the primary system virtually say the American people are not qualified for self-rule. If that is true, the only remedy is monarchism, the same monarchism that wrecked Europe, which Europe js discarding. The primary system is capable of improvement. It will be Improved and extended. But the Improving and the extending ehould be done by its friend*—the “loiter*. " must be kept out.

I Accordingly, with a sixth doctor who [ joined forces with them, they opened | offices in the same building in Union | City, obtained the cooperation of a I dentist with quarters less than two 1 squares away, and launched their exi periment. There has been no sacrifice of inj dividuality. Each physician mainj tains his practice independently. But ! whenever any one of the seven wants ! advice or assistance from another, it I is his for the asking, and unless the | case is complicated, requiring much I work and study, without extra cost i to the patient. This means almost countless informal consultations, in addition to | which, every Wednesday evening, the | members of the group meet to discuss 1 all unusual cases under treatment by i any of their number.

bert-Belasco; Omaha, Brandels St. Paul. Palace; Minneapolis. Garrick; Newark. Keeney's; Buffalo, Criterion; Louisville, Shubert Masonic, Cincinnati, Sam S. Shubert Cleveland. Ohio; Hartford. Grand, Indianapolis. Park; St. Louis. Empress; Altoona, Mishler; Wheeling, Cort; Providence, Providence Opera House; Pittsburgh, Pitt and Nixon. Kansas City, Shubert;

The plan further insures a prompt ! response to all emergency calls. If, when one is received, the physician I summoned happens to be unavailable, 1 the services of the" member of the i group best qualified to take his place ! is offered, and in Several urgent cases this economy of time has resulted in the saving of life/ The first effect of the plan's adop- ! tlon was to give Union City and vijcinity.a medicial service in most re- > spects equal to the best obtainable in the largest cities. In the eighteen ! months since the Union City Clinic ; was established, f.o much progress has been made that in April the doctors bought the Union City hospital, and j eventually it is their plan to erect anew hospital adjoining their office I building.

Boston, Majestic and St. James; Toronto. Princess; Springfield. Court Square; New Haven. Hyperion; Zanesville. Weller Opera House*(3 days); Lies Moines, Burchel; Utica. Park; Albany, New Shubert, Baltimore, Academy; Montreal, His Majesty's; Jamaica, Rialto (3 days); Astoria, Astoria (3 days), and three one-night stands in Pennsylvania. It is understood the official opening date for the Shubert circuit is Sept. 17, but the Indianapolis season will begin two weeks earlier. Mr Glenn E. Black will be manager of the Shubert Park. -I- -I- -IOn View Today. The following attractions are on view today: “The Silver Fox.” with George Gaul, a, the Murat; vaudeville and movies at the Lyric; musical comedy and movies at the Rialto; "Domestic Relations,” at the Circle: “Foi the Defense,” at the Apollo. “The Lure of the Jade,” at Mister Smith's; “The Wall Flower,” at the Ohio; “Our Leading Citizen.” at the Isis; "Shadows of the West,” at the Regent, and “The Bigamist.” at the Colonial.

RESURFACING STREET Roaring Oil Burners Make Deafening Noise Removing Asphalt. A couple of fire-breathing monsters, technically know as surface heaters, have invaded the downtown district as the first step in the re-surfacing of E. Washington St. from Illlno.s to Alabama Sts. Interested crowds watch the oilburning noise-makers heat the pavement. Spectators discussed the operation with signs because they could not hear for the roar. IF YOU ARE WELL BRED You personally acknowledge any gifts as soon as they arrive. This obligation should never be delegated to another unless the recipient is prevented by Illness. Only a thoughtless and Inconsiderate person ever fails to attend to such matters, no matter how trifling in value the gift may be, or how unimportant the giver. Fix Rental Basis The board of county commissioners Thursday will decide the basis of rentals on which the county’s property bought for the plaza project will be sublet to original owners.

MENINGITIS By DR. R. H. BISHOP.

ME of the most popular maladies that book heroes are heir to la brain fever. What the authors probably did not know is that brain fever, or meningitis, as it is commonly called, is contagious. People catch it when weak from fa-

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tigue, with vitality lowered. Many people are “carriers" —that is. have the germs in the mouth and nose —but do not develop the symptoms. The number of people susceptible to the disease is small, only about one in ten, but every one should be cautious lest he convey the disease to others while himself showing no signs of it. The meningoccus dies after leaving, the body and only leaves it in the secretions of the mouth and nose. There fore, in order to spread the disease, the fresh secretions from the mouth or nose of a case or a carrier must enter the body of another person. In order to control the disease one must exert the utmost personal care. Nothing unnecessary must be put into the mouth and the mouth and nose should be carefully covered when sneezing or coughing, or the head should be turned well downward, so as to prevent the secretions flying into the air in a fine spray. These rules are for the control of all “catching'* dlaaaaag.

THE OLD GRIND By BERTON BRA.LEY. (Unemployment Decreasing—News headline) PRAISE be, I am working again: It ain't such a much of a job. But take it from me. it's a pleasure to be A part of the laborin' mob. When I have been loafin' so long (I know just how long it has been). Now the kids can have shoes, and I’ll say it’s good news To tell you I'm workin’ again. IT may be a picnic to loaf. When you have a wad that is swell. But when you go broke and your clothes are in soak. It ain't any picnic—it's hell! And when all you know is your job. And nobody wants any men — You'll see why I say. with a Hip-Hip Hooray “I'm workin’, I’m workin' again!” THE wife's worn one dress for a year, And how we were fed I don’t know; There's litterachoor on the Ways of the Poor, But there's lots of things it don’t show. Now I've got a pay check once more! Os all the glad words tongue or pen Have said or have wrote, these are gettin’ my vote. “Oh.\ boy. I am workin’ again!” (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service.) HINDRANCES Contributor Laments Attitude Toward President Efforts. To the Editor of The Times It was with pained surprise that I read your first page editorial entitled "Mr. Harding’s Hindrances.” It struck me, from a careful reading of the Times since the recent change in ownership, that Indianapolis finally had come into a clean, dignified, highminded newspaper. Knowing the Scripps-Mcßae policies. I felt that here, at length, this unfortunate community would realize a long-felt need, in a free, untrammeled and magnanimous newspaper. It was because the editorial in question seemed something of a departure from the usual spirit and seemed to have for its object nothing more than a destructive criticism, that I want to register my humble protest. My objection is not so much to the truth or pertinence of the editorial, both of which are debatable. but to its seeming lack of helpful purpose. Certainly the public realizes the short-comings of the Harding Cabinet. It recognizes the limited sources of influence and information at Washington. It also ha3 learned to be charitable with its President until convinced that such feeling is not appreciated or deserved. But this seemed like a gratuitous slap. If the Times really believes Harding will ultimately do justice to the grave problems now before him, why embarrass his efforts by pointing out the weak tools with which he must work? Don’t such editorial utterances simply serve to add the Times to the "hindrances of Harding?” P. B. PUBLIC.

To the Editor of The Times "Bows to wishes of negro voters” reads a head-line in the Tinjes. Well, why not? What objection can there be to this belated recognition of the 28,000 voters who for so many years have guaranteed Republican victories, and who, because of mistreatment, have accounted for Republican defeats by failure or refusal on the part of many of them to vote as they were trained to do during the generations following the war of the rebellion? Certainly Marion County Republicans can do no less than thus undertake to correct the grave injustice done in the primary of 1922, and duplicated scores of times in the years before, making it impossible for the negro to get a square deal or an honest count of the votes cast for a representative of his race. I think this action by Chairman Freeman is one of the squarest and most courageous recorded by a Republican organization man in this community in many years. More power to him! J. G. GREEN. LEARN A WORD TODAY Today’s word Is —PLAUSIBLE. It's pronounced—plawzi-b’l, with accent on the first syllable. It means—worthy of being applauded; apparently right, fair or trustworthy; reasonable. It comes from —Latin, "plausibilis,” praiseworthy, or originally from "plaudere,” to applaud. It’s used like this—“ The complaint is made that the primary election system, permitting anybody to run for any office he fancies, now repiysents a plausible theory running wild.”

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AUG. 2, 1922

NEGROES OPPOSE SURVEY DOHA, ICKTOAFRICA' ‘lnsurgents’ Circulate Pamphlets on Eve of International Convention. ASSERT HE IS A MENACE Statements Allude to Mythical Vessels on Black Star Ocean Line. By United News NEW YORK, Aug. 2. —Marcus Garvey’s dream of an Africa. where all negroes will unite in one huge black empire is being rudely d;s turbed by members of his own race. On the eve of the “third interna tional convention of the negro peoples of the world,” opposing negro leaders have started a convention of their own. While Garvey preaches his famous doctrine of "Africa for the Negroes,” such men as A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Own, publishers of the Mes senger, and William P.ckens and Robert W. Bagnall, field secretaries of the National Association for the Advancement o fthe Colored People, will be holding forth in Harlem and asking this question: "How can you take the colored people back to Africa when they’ve never been there?” The faction hostile to Garvey opened the fight Monday by distributing thousands of pamphlets among the convening delegates.

"Garvey is a menace to negro freedom. Can afford to tolerate a supporter of the Ku-Klux Klan? Will negroes follow a leader who urges them to surrender all manhood rights in America? Should Garvey, who is not a citizen, advise negroes in the United States to surrender their citizenship rights?” the leaflet asked. "The biggest obstacle to Garvey’s scheme of transferring the 11.000,000 American colored people to Africa is that these people object,” the pamphlet continued. "Garvey does not seem to have taken this into account.” The statement alleged that the negro dreamer has not yet accounted for $600,000 which was given him by other negroes all over the world to invest in the Black Star line, a steamship company intended to carry negroes "back to Africa.” Garvey is _ now under Federal indictment charged with using the mails to defraud in ■ that he advertised and booked passage on mythical vessels of the Black Star ; line. MEMBERSHIP GROWS Knights of Columbus Supreme Secretary Presents Report to Convention. By United Press ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 2.—During what he described as one of the most arduous twelve-month periods in American fraternal history. Supreme Secretary’ William J. McGinley in his annual report to the Supreme international convention at Atlantic City, showed that the K. of C. from June 30, 1921, to June 30, 1922, had added 83,904 to its membership rolls and $2,196,559.75 to its assets. The total assets of the organization the report stated approximate $15,000.000. These States lead in total membership: New York, 118,636; Illinois, 76,826; Massachusetts, 73,419; Pennsylvania. 51,867; Ohio, 41,233; Michigan, 30,130, and New Jersey, 28.306. Quebec leads the Canadian jurisdiction with 22,147 members. Asks $2,500 Judgment. Judgment of $2,500 is asked by Paul T. Kaiser against the B. Griffey Real Estate Company, in a suit filed in Superior Court, Room 5. Kaiser alleges that the money was paid the company to purchase him a lot at 2702 Paris Ave., which it has failed to do.