Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1922 — Page 4
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But thou has saved us from our enemies, and has put them to shame that hated us.—Psalms 44:7. Welcome to the Tiger X-PREMIER CLEMENCEAU is coming to America to interP j pret France’s point of view. No visitor from Europe would *be more welcome. America knows the courage and sincerity of the statesman-journalist who led France to victory. It will do America good to have a heart to heart talk with Clemenceau. fThere are many things about French policy that America doesn’t Understand. It will also do Clemenceau good to have a heart to heart tali With America. For, if America is ignorant about the inner working of the French political mind, France is woefully wrong in her Estimate of the American mind. ■V For instance, America would like to say to Clemenceau that Jthis country is willing to help Europe when it becomes apparent that Europe desires to help itself. If Clemenceau can give America evidence that France is not seeking her own prosperity at the expense of other nations, but wishes prosperity for all, his mission will be a success. ' America believes the paramount European problem concerns Franco-German relations. Let Clemenceau bring with him proof that France is not bent on the impossible task of permanently crushing Germany. Let Clemenceau demonstrate that France wants American help not against Germany, but for a reasonable settlement of post-war issues based on international amity, without hatreds or jealousies. Let Clemenceau assure America that if he returns to the premiership he will cut down France’s standing army of 700,000 men and will use the money to rehabilitate his country. Then America will offer a helping hand. r Protecting the Kiddies UNCLE HENRY heard the talk about stationing police at various Indianapolis schools and began complaining of the demands of the present-day parents. “We never had to have cops to protect us when I was a boy and I lived in a big city, too,” said Uncle Henry. But Uncle Henry does not realize that the industrial world has been very busy creating new dangers for the child of today, including the speeding pleasure car, the motor truck and the motorcycle. In Uncle Henry’s day it was only when Old Dobbin was frightened by the circus elephants that there was any real danger from vehicles in the streets. Uncle Henry is concerned about the cost of providing police protection at the schools. It does cost money. But having surrounded the children of today with new death-dealing devices that the world needs and enjoys, it is up to the world to pay the price of adequate protection to child life—whatever the cost. No city, no city official can afford to sav it can not be done.
An Expensive Critter TOO early yet to fix the value of the great wheat and cotton crops, but you won’t be far off if you estimate wheat at 800 millions and cotton at 1,000 millions of dollars. The billion dollar cotton is of less acreage than the 800 million dollar wheat. The cause of cotton’s value is the destruction of nearly half a billion dollars worth of the crop by boll weevil. Every year this insect plague becomes worse and 1922 was the worst of all. S. A. Crane, a wealthy man of Athens, Ga., had a fine patch ’of soil of about fifty acres. He prepared the land well, fertilized it with expensive fertilizer and planted good and early, hoping to ’get a long start on the enemy. Even before the critter was expected Crane’s men began dusting with calcium arsenate, but before they finished Mr. Weevil was there on top of the plants waiting for his little dose. Everything possible was done during the season and as a result of all his pains Crane had a right to expect thirty bales of cotton. He won’t get six. Cotton will be high this winter, but the probability is the •farmer will come out the little end of the horn because of the greatly increased cost of production and the destruction by the boll weevil of a large part of his crop. If big industrials—shipbuilders and ship operators, for instance —faced any such losses in their business, the Government would be turning heaven and earth to get a subsidy or something for them, a subsidy big enough to turn their losses into profits. Will the Government do anything—save suggest putting on more powder or something—for the farmer? Nope. He’ll just have to take his loss and, up to his neck in debt, start out afresh hoping against hope the next year will bring him better luck.
Warrant Not Necessary to Stop Auto for Booze, Officials Rule
QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can pet an answer to any aueslion of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times. Washington Bureau. 1322 New Y'ork Ave.. Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps Medical, legal and love and marriage advice will not be given. Unsigned letters will not be answered, but all letters are confidential and receive personal replies.—EDlTOß. q. —is it necessary for a prohibition officer to have a search warrant to search an automobile suspected of transporting liquor? A.—The prohibition enforcement division says it is not. Q. —YVhat are the duties of a guardian? A.—He has in general the custody oi the ward’s person, the right to change hiß domicile, or bind him out as an apprentice, the direction of his education, secular and religious, and the power to deal generally with his personal property, and to sell and dispose of the same. But he cannot sell * the real estate of the ward, though it Is his duty to manage and lease it and to receive the rents and profits * for the ward's benefit. The duties of a guardian are summarized in the statement that, since he is in effect a trustee, he must act exclusively in ™the ward’s Interest, and must take no profit to himself by virtue of hts posi- * tlon. He must keep the property productive, and invest in such securities only as are directly authorized by law or by the court. He is not obliged to support the -ward, except out of the ward's property. His acts are closely scrutinized by the courts and he may be required, from time to time, to give an account of his dealing with the ward’s property. The guardian's compensation is usually statutory and by way of commissions on the sums disbursed by him on his ward’s account.
Q. —Is it true that in a family Bible which belonged to George Washington's parents there is a statement that he was bom on Feb. II? A.—ln Everett’s “Life of Washington” there is a statement that a Bible belonging to Washington’s mother the entry reads in part as follows: "George Washington, son of Augustine and Mary his wife, born ye 11th day of February." Washington was bom on Feb. 11 of the Old Style calendar, but when the Gregorian calendar was adopted It was necessary to drop eleven days, which would make his birthday under the calendar now used Feb. 22. Q. —What was the popular vote for Hughes and Wilson In 1916? A—Wilson. 9,129,606; Hughes, 8,538,221. . 2 Q. —How did the expression “Mind your P’s and Q's" originate? What does it mean? A. —There are two different origins assigned to this expression. One is that it arose from the custom of chalking up behind alehouse doors the debts due from customers. In which the number of pints or quarts they owed for were made by strokes opposite the letters “P” and “Q.” Another is that: fice. Tie PVg and q’s In small Roman type are* lo alike that they are always pu zzi7!?.t to a printer's apprentice. “Mind your p’s and q's” means do not be deceived by apparent resemblances: learn to discriminate between things essentially distinct, but which look the same; be observant; be cautions. In modern slang: “Watch your step.”
JAPAN DESTROYS 14 BIG WARSHIPS BYTREATYTEHMS Fighting Parts Removed From Giant Seacraft Doomed for Junk Pile. rj/ United Press TOICIO. Sept. 15. —Japan has already taken the punch out of the battleships which she will scrap under the terms of the Washington naval limitation agreement. The turrets have been taken away—that Is, the fangs, the fighting-part, removed—from the giant warcraft doomed to the junk pile by the Washington pact. This was done by Japan in advance of final ratification of the treaties by all the signatory' powers. However, although for practical purposes Japan has already commenced compliance with the agreement, she will not complete the junking process, nor tear up the hulls, until the last of this year or the first part of next year—not until France ratifies the treaty' or until Japan, America and Great Britain agree, regardless of France, to carry out the naval agreement. It has been learned from official sources that Japan expects France to ratify—but that if France does not, Japan is ready and willing to fulfill it with America and England. Japan will spend more than ten million yen ($5,000,000) to scrap ten fighting ships worth from 460,000,000 to 500,000,000 yen, ($225,000,000 or $250,000,000), according to estimates here. Stop Work on Ships Four other ships, under construction when the Washington conference met, have already been “scrapped" by the simple expedient of stopping work upon them. They will never be completed. Two other ships will be converted from fighting craft to airplane carriers. Thus sixteen battleships and cruisers are withdrawn from Japan’s seal-war strength. Ten of these, in existence, are to be scrapped; four, which were under construction, will not bo completed: two will be changed from battleships to airplane carriers. More than 12,000 sailors and officers will be discharged from service, with the junking of this 35,000 tons of Japanese figmting craft. Os this tonnage, roughly, 165,000 tons represents the cruisers and battleship to be scrapped and roughly 165,000 tons the ships which were under construction, but upon which work has ceased. “What will be done with the junk?" Commander Sakano of the imperial Japanese navy was asked. Sakano is aide to Admiral Baron Kaot, minister of the navy and premier of Japan. “It’s for sale.” said Sakano with a grim laugh. "Nobody has bid. I wish I knew what will become of it.” For Target Practice Two of the battleships, the “Aki” or.U “Satsuma,” will be used for target practice and thus destroyed, the navy department has decided. The others, according to present plans, will be stripped of all equipment. and then the hulls will be torn t.) pieces and the Junk metal sold if any one will buy, and if not the metal will tie piled up in naval yards. The Japanese battle cruisers to be scrapped are the "Ikoma," the'Tbuki” and the “Kurama.” The battleships to be scrapped are the "Aki," "Settsu,” “Hlzen.” "Mikasa," “Katori,” Kashima" and "SatEuma." The battleships "Amagi” and "Akagl" will be reconstructed as aeroplane carriers.
Socialists Thoroughly Aroused by Demands of Hohenzollerns
By VnUrd Preei BERLIN, Sept. 15. —The Hohenzollern attempt to retain their German properties, their pensions and warbenefits and their requests for additional concessions from the Republican government have thoroughly aroused the German Socialist press. The radical press points out that tho ex-kaiser, while demanding his properties and pensions practically in their entirety, has to date paid not one cent of taxes to the German Republican government, which is already well In its fourth year. And, it is charged, the kaiser and his colleagues are paid pensions and gratuities which tun into the hundreds of millions of marks. “Where is there another nation who would permit such a condition?” asked one paper which listed fifty-three distinct pieces of German property de-
Great National Danger Remains in Mine Situation, Avers Hoover
By United .Votes NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—The existing relation between operators and miners in the coal industry constitutes a periodical national danger. Secretary of Commerce Hoover declared in an address before the salesman's association of the American chemical Industry here. Creation of a national coal commission proposed in legislation now pending in Congress will be the first step In the solution of one of the Nation’s most vital problems, Hoover said. Welfare Hampered "The present relationship of employer and employee in the industry comprises a periodical national danger, because with national organization and national disagreement, it means national stoppage," said Hoover. “In the end the issues of the struggle are consciously or unconsciously imposed by pinching the welfare of ninety-nine per cent of the community who are not parties to the quarrel. And through subsequent prices the public pays the bill. The public therefore has a right to a voice In this whole business.” Favors Investigation Secretary Hoover said he thought a thorough Investigation of the coal Industry would disclose that collective bargaining, conciliation, and arbitration have all broken down. * Periodical tie-ups have resulted In an overdevelopment of the coal mining
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R USS-TURK ALLIANCE IN NEAR EAST IS OPENL Y THREA TENED
By RALPH H, TURNER United News Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 15.—The danger of a combination of soviet Russia and Turkey in the Near East, of which Henry Morgenthau, former American ambassador to Turkey, warned In an interview with the United News last Monday, Is now openly threatened. Russia’s note to Great Britain reaffirming the Intention of the soviets to supply Turkey In her attempt to recover the empire lost In the World War, injects the Bolsheviki prominently into the complicated Near East situation. The soviets strongly express sympathy with the Turks and praise their "heroic struggle” to regain their lost territory, and warn that any settlement in the Near East made without the participation of Russia will not be considered valid.
‘Uncle Pat’McLaughlin, 101, Is Afraid Prohibition Law Will Shorten His Days
By NEA Service NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 15.—1f you want to live to a ripe old age and be so spry that you can dance a hornpipe when you are 100 years old, here’s a simple recipe: ONE: Never marry. TWO fuse all the tobacco you want. THREE:: Drink plenty of good corn whisky. The recipe is furnished by "Uncle Pat” McLaughlin, Confederate veteran of Beauvoir, Miss. He ought to know for he has tried the scheme, is 101 years old and says he can dance a hornpipe as skittish aa he could when he was 18. Os course in these arid days it may be somewhat difficult to find "plenty of that good com whisky,” but there are some rumors to the effect that It may be obtained. Andy Volstead to the contrary notwithstanding. But even Uncle Pat believes Andy Is going to be responsible for his untimely demise. Listen to what he says: Qualify Is Foor "I've used liquor all my life and I'm afraid this prohibition amendment is going to cut my life short. The quality of the whisky I am able to get is getting worse and worse. “I would advise any one against marrying if he wants to live long. When you have a wife on your hands you are go.ng to have to worry a lot. Worry Is what makes you sick. And again some wives object to your smoking and chewing. I couldn’t live without my tobacco. Os course every one is going to havo an affair of the heart sooner or later. But you ctin survive even the worst attacks if you are strong minded. Doubts Matrimony "I sparked a lady for about five years. I guess maybe in those young days I would have succumbed, but I was always a little bit timid about speaking my own mind and anyhow something kept telling me I’d always be better off single. “I can read almost as well as I could when I was a boy and L’vo
Letters to the Editor
INSTINCTS Students Show Tendency to Cheat in Classroom, Writer Says. To thr Editor of The Times Thero is little surprise at tho prevalence of crime and criminal Instincts in the young people of our city. Ethical laxity and even countenancing of dishonesty is taking place in our educational institutions in at least one
manded by the kaiser and from which he asks the complete income.' Three former princes have Just recently filed applications with the pension bureau for gratuities from the government. They are the former Herzog Georg von Prince Oskar of Prussia and Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. These applications brought forth the information that many Hohenzollcrns, their relatives and hangers-on have for year-* received handsome sums from the government as pensions. Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, who created a scene after the war in the Hotel Adlon when French guests refused to stand and salute the German song, “Deutohland Über Alios,” is named as one of those receiving big gratuities from the government. Albrecht, the radical press charges, was never injured In war.
Industry, in Hoover's opinion. He said there are 2,500 too many bituminous mines and 200,000 too many peoplo in the business. Operators vibrate between bankruptcy and high profits and the public ordinarily pays more for its coal than would be necessary if the Industry were stabilized, in Hoover’s opinion. LONG AGO By BERTON BRALEY WHEN you were a prehistoric woman And I was a prehistoric man. Both two-thirds ape and one-third human— Maybe that’s when our love began. Possibly over the head I cracked you And dragged you off to my tree nr cave, If those were the ways that would attract you Doubtless that 1 * how I would behave. DID I love you then? I can’t recollect it. For It was Ever So Long Ago. But If You were You—well, I would suspect it Probably happened exactly so. And If I were I, and I ever met you. As you swung by your tail with an airy grace, I probably did my best to get you. Y’ou probably gave me an awful chase I I DON'T remember those past occasions (Which maybe never occurred at all). What style of wooing, just what persuasions I may have offered, I can't recall. If they were helpful, I sure have missed ’em. For just at present, the way things are. Though I've tried each promising kind of system, They're none of them getting me very far I (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service)
Also, the Bolsheviki government demands that the Dardanelles be closed to allied warships. Great Britain is strengthening her military forces at Constantinople with new consignments of troops from Malta The dispatch of these reinforcements came simultaneously with reports that the Turks are about to make an attempt to cross the Straits and carry their tvar against the Greeks into Thrace. This would, without doubt, involve the allies directly in the conflict. Premier Lloyd George is to preside at the cabinet meeting Friday when the Near East situation will be thoroughly discussed. The government hopes that by then It will have been advised by France whether that country prefers to act separately or
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never worn glasses. I can run 100 yards without getting tired and' I’ve never used a cane. “You know when I was a boy the women used to wear dresses that
case which has been brought to my attention. In a conversation with a student at one of the so-called higher Institutes of learning I criticised the practice of using “pontes’’ and hidden notes in talcing examinations as one of the worst forms of cheating. This young person told me that the teachers expected it. To my horrified protests, the Instructor was quoted as having told one of the students that ho not only wasn't surprised at the use of help but knew that it was going on under his nose. Tho student went on to tell me that the common attitude of the other pupils was that if, in their own minds, the professor was giving an “unfair” examination the practice of cheating was considered fair. No amount of reasoning on my part could dissuade him from this viewpoint. To the young mind, which sets up its teacher as a mental and moral preceptor, no outsider can hope to tell anything detrimental. From the first step, taken thus in the schoolroom, is only a very short distance to the commiting of other and more serious crimes. If we can not trust our teachers for the proper training of minds at the impressionable stage, there is surely little hope for the standards of the coming generation to be higher. L. G. H. To the Editor of The Timet It is not at all surprising that a pedestrian has been struck by a vehicle at a street intersection. The wonder is that more people on foot are not maimed or killed at our street crossings, as the signal men seem to pay no attention to them. Having to cross Ohio St. at Pennsylvania St. every evening I never feel reasonably sure of getting home alive until I negotiate that deathtrap, and that is what it is going to prove to someone soon unless the traffic inen slow up on their antics. At present, their motto seems to be “Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!” They practically force drivers to violate the speed law at this intersection during the rush hours of noon and evening. Wheel traffic turned loose from in front of the Denison Hotel splits three ways frequently—some going north on Pennsylvania, some down the avenue route and a few make abrupt turns into Ohio St., east. No one can Judge this traffic movement, and if you are caught south of the tracks on Massachusetts Ave. you are in danger of your life. Good safe men were removed from these posts and younger men substituted because somebody had an idea they could wave their arms faster than tho older men. Well, I'll say they can: but why not go farther and substitute automatic dummies, if speed is all that is wanted? THOMAS E. ASH. Open Saturday Nig-ht 6:00 to 8:00 Jfletcfter &abtn&£ anb Crust Cos.
as a member of the entente in dealing with the crisis in the Near East. Recent Turk victories are having a far-reaching effect everywhere In the Moslem world. Mohammedan celebrations are being held throughout India. Members of the colonial legislature havo cabled Premier I.loyd George urging strict neutrality in the Graeco-Turk trouble and appealing for a restoration of Anglo-Turkish friendship. Resolution Forwarded In the name of 70,000,000 Indian Mohammedans a resolution has been forwarded to Lord Reading, the viceroy, asking that the Turke have control of Asia Minor, and Thrace, Including Adrianople, and that Constantinople be removed from the present International control. The Mohammedans are holding thanks-
covered a large part of them. They were pretty attractive and tempting in those days when they didn’t have to carry their blushes around in a vanity bag. Mighty hard to keep from geting tied up then—but now. Look at the short skirts, the lip sticks, the plucked eyebrows and the bobbed hair. I can’t see how any one would want to get married nowadays to one of those kind of girls. Do they ever catch a husband, young man?” Uncle Pat fought all through the war and has seldom been 111. THE REFEREE By ALBERT APPLE DEATH A man dies on an operating table in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital In London. Surgeons conr ™ tlnue their cutting. They reach and begin JB to massage the perif cardium, membrane enjT i& closing the heart. A W In half an hour the heart begins beating L I normally. The patient does not regain conAPPLE. sciousness. But his heart continues beating twenty-four hours, when it stops forever. This is not pulling a man back from the grave. But it is mighty close to it. BIRD-MEN The Booth-racer (navy BR airplane), which is entered for the Detroit aviation meet in October, “draws up its feet like a bird.” That is the landing gear wheels and all. during flight, are pulled up into the body of the machine to lessen air resistance. In this instance, and in the gliding contests, you see flying swing back to imitation of birds. Logical, for the most perfect flier is the bird MONEY Bankers check up and find that 26,637.531 Americans have savings accounts, better than one for each family. The savings total around $17,000,000,000, which suggests that the proverbial thrift of the French may lag behind ours. American savings accounts are as much as the total amount of money in circulation, plus all our gold. And more billions are hanked in commercial or checking accounts. Apparently each dollar shows up several times as a bank deposit. Frequently we deal with credit when we think we’re handling the actual cash. House Dresses Smart house dresses are made of importod cretonnes In gay colors. Japanese crepes, unbleached muslin, ginghum, chambray and sateens. They make It possible for a woman to be attractively and smartly costumed, even at the most humble tasks.
Trade in Your Old Watch
WINDSOR JEWELRY CO. SURIS NEW “TRADE-IN” PLAN IN SELLING WATCHES Indianapolis Jeweler Not to Be Out Done by Auto Dealers Anew plan has been adopted by the Windsor Jewelry Cos., 135 N- Illinois street, whereby a man or woman desiring to purchase anew watch may trade in their old one and receive a liberal allowance. . , Mr Asher, manager of the store, in explaining their plan, reasoned that “When a man buys anew auto to replace an old ear, or to get a more improved one, he does not care to keep his old car but trades it in. \v hy not the same in watches? Why keep an old worn out watch and throw it away at a total loss?” , . The plan thus far has worked admirably and already the store has taken in many peculiar relics of bygone days. Many of them from all appearances haven't run for many months. From day to day Mr. Asher plans to display these "Trade in" relies in their windows, and he feels they will no doubt be quite an amusing sight to see.
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giving services In the mosques and praying for the further success of Turkish arms. Meanwhile, dispatches from the Near East indicate an Increasingly serious situation. The 11th Greek Division, according to word from Constantinople, is in a desperate plight. It is retreating northward from Brusa, and is in peril of elimination at the hands of the Kemalist troops. An appeal in behalf of Near East refugees has been sent out by the Greek Patriarch Moieties. He has asked the League of Nations to come to the rescue of 500,000 Christian refugees who fled to the islands adjacent to Thrace, after the disastrous collapse of the Greek army, where they are now shelterless and suffering from famine.
EPIDEMICS
By DR. it. H. BISHOP i~~~~ j ITH the reopen--11 f ning of schools H~m • / came the danger fHSSjjX, / of contagious dis- / eases turning into mBT i/ epidemics. JBf Al Pare nts and yf teachers snould / be par tieularly / watchful to iso- * late cases of soargjteg T 1 let fever, diphtheVl/ ria and ether W childhood diseases. Scarlet fever may occur in so mild a form that there may not even be rash, yet u can still be contagious for two months or more. Diphtheria can be carried by a healthy school child to his classmates if someone in the family has had it recently. Many epidemics in the schools can be traced directly to a family where a child had maybe a mild attack of some disease during the vacation months. The child may, to all appearances, have recovered completely, yet be still a carrier of disease. If you have any suspicion that there has been a childhood disease In your family during the summer, consult your physician or local health ofHcer immediately. Schools are the healthiest possible places for children, provided proper precautions are taken to quarantine cases of contagious disease. In any place where a large group of people are together the chances of contagion are doubly great. Children are especially susceptible to ehickenpox, diphtheria, German measles, mumps, scarlet fever and whooping cough. The child who shows symptoms of any of these should be kept from school, not only to insure his own proper care, but to avoid danger to others.
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DINING SCHEME TO EXPLODE UNO OF mono British Adventurer Expects to Traverse Regions Now Unknown to Man. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 15.—A daring scheme to explore British New Guinea is shortly to be undertaken by the British expedition. The interior of the island has never been traversed by a white man. Gold and diamonds are known to exist, but nothing is known of its fauna. Fierce tribes of cannibals and head-hunters roam the interior. Lucius Connolly, one of the organizers of the expedition, described the inhabitants along the seaboard as men of splendid physique although a large number of pigmy communities are known to exist inland. Tree Climbing Kangaroos Tree-climbing kangaroos really exist and there are stories of wild pigs resembling miniature elephants and ferocious tree-climbing iguanas. Although Connolly's description sounds like a cross between Treasure Island and the Cruise of the Kawa, except that there is a far more serious side to the expedition. The courageous group of explorers plan to determine the economic value of New Guinea and add to the sum of scientific knowledge. It Is believed the country is capable of tremendous development. Gold Along Rivers Along the banks and at the mouths of its rivers, alluvial gold has been found in quantities which lead experts to believe vast deposits exist in the interior. There are well-authenticated stories of adventurous traders in recent years having received from natives magnificent diamonds. The island abounds in volcanoes which -invariably indicate diamond producing capacity. Most of them are believed extinct but one remains in almost constant eruption. The natives from time immemorial have worshiped this flre-belching monster. IF YOU ARE WELL BRED Tou know that conversation Is a social art and must be cultivated. Hence you do not constantly repress the speech of your children, but you teach them the value of conversation instead of prattle. You converse with them as you would with other persons, drawing out their ideas and encouraging them to express themselves. Their ability to converse well will rob them of the self-consciousness that marks so many social failures.
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