Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1922 — Page 2

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MOTHER WORKIIG HOT HARMFUL TO SCHOOLCHIIIffi Statistics of Bureau Show Satisfactory Results Under Difficult Condition. 742 UNDER OBSERVATION Regularity of Attendance Compares Favorably to General Record. By F. G. ORR .WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—“ Let a woman go out of her home to work, and the home goes flooey.” That’s the conclusion of A. S. M. Hutchinson in his latest lx>ok. “This Freedom.” If this is true, some statistics on the children of the mothers who work should reveal it. So I called on the children's bureau, Department of Labor, to see what they had on the subject. It appears they have been Investigating along that line. For instance they had the records of 742 cases which they had looked into, with particular reference to school attendance, personal appearance and general conduct of children. Os the 742 children, according to the report, “sixty had attended school the entire seven months without the loss of a single half-day; thirty-five had missed 100 or more half-days out of a possible 280; thirty-five missed ajs many as eighty but less than 100 half-days.” Compared with the record of other children without reference to .whether the mother worked or not, these absences do loom rather large. But • * • “While the regularity with which the child of the working mother goes to school is an important test of the mother's ability to perform her double duties of mother and wage earner, the condition in which he comes ajid his behavior while there also indicate the kind of home care the mother is able to give him,” says the Children's Bureau. Os 742 children under observation, 881 came to school in good condition —were neat and clean, well fed an clothed, while 165 were “clean but poorly clothed.” or "appeared undernourished.” “In some cases, these children of working mothers conducted themselves so well as to cause favorable comment by their teachers;” 103 seemed not to have adequate care at home. One cannot help drawing a conclusion that these wage-earning mothers are “carrying on” extraordinarily well, considering. “If it is agreed that the gainful employment of mothers of young children is usually undesirable from the point of view of .social welfare,” says the Children's Bureau, “it is the duty of society to find methods of obviating the nded for such employment.”

BLAMES HOOCH Thief Says One Drink Sen* Him Back to Prison. NpW YORK, Sept. 27.—A drink of “hooch” wap blamed by Ralph Acerne, a former prisoner of Sing Sing, for getting him into new trouble and landing him back in prison for four more years. When he got into the toils again in New York City, after being paroled from Sing Sing, he was given six months on Blackwell's Island For violatlnifcthe terms of his probation he was taken back to Sing Sing upon completing his sentence in the penitentiary. He will have to serve four more of his original sentence of from one to flvj years for alleged grand larceny in Manhattan. Parole Officer Daniel J. Ryan of Sing Sing took him from the island to the prison, and he will be transferred now to Clinton Prison at Danr.emora. RECEIVES ONE-LUNG FISH Zoological Park Has Queer Species In Acquarium. NEW YORK. Sept. 27.—New York will have the only lung fish In America. This rare species of flsh is part of an animal consignment from Australia for New York Zoological Park, which arrived at Boston, en route to New York. L- L. Mowbrey, general superintendent of the acquarium, explained to a reporter the peculiarities of this strange flsh. The stories of flsh coming out of the at night; the tales told by the native Australia about hearing flsh grunt, and seeing them "as long as a man's body,” the old saying “as scarce as fish teeth.” all these oddities are combined In this fairy tale wonder from Australia. BURN INITIALS Girls Let Sun Do the Work While They Bathe. NEW YORK. Sept. 27.—At beach resorts during the season Just ended the summer girl’s fad of letting the run print initial and fancy designs on her skin has been more prevalent than ever. Painstaking observers all along the coast line verify this report. Now the summer girl is back in town but she will retain her vacation souvenir so long as a vestige of tan remains. The operation is extremely simple. It consists of merely cutting the design or initials out of court plaster, sticking them on her skin whereever the imprint is desired and letting the rays of the sun and tlm ocean breezes do the rest. '■ PREDICTS 500-MILE PACE * \ Frenrh Air Expert Says Planes Will Race Big Shells. Bit United Yew* PARIS, Sept. 27.—Airplanes will be flying with the speed of big calibre shells In ten years, Louis Demblanc, aronautical technician, predicted in commenting on the new speed record set by Sadi Leoointe. Between such planes and big shells fired from field guns would then be possible he said. After Lecointe's feat of flying 213.75 miles an hour ai Versailles. Dem-’ fciano said that a speed of 250 miles wuld soon be reached and that within ten years this will be doubled.

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Ten inches from the ground—no longer, no ehorterl That's the slogan of the newly organized "No Longer Skirt Club” of Flint, Mich. Flint women are behind a movement to pooh, pooh the rules and regulations set down by Paris designers. And they intend to try and got other cities lined up in their battle to taboo the long skirt. Picture shows (left to right) Mrs. Eva Peck, president of the club; Miss Lulu Vernon, secretary, and Miss Delene Wheeler, treasurer.

ill VETERAN DIESJN PRISON Aged Cripple Cherishes Phantom Relief Bill and Mother's Letter to Last. AKRON, 0., Sept. 27. —Taps have | sounded for Paul .1. Spillane, 50, of j Soldiers’ Home, Sandusky, who died | in city prison. Spillane, a cripple, was arrested on a | vagrancy charge. Unkempt and clothed in a worn and torn blue army uniform, the man was found begging at N. Howard and Ridge Sts. In his pocket, when Jailer Art Mediated found the dead body was an i unpassed House Bill 3218 introduced ! in first session of 67th Congress, j The bill provided for the relief ot ! Private Paul J. Spillane. injured in action with Company C, 9th Regiment United States Infantry, discharged Oct. 5? 1900. His pockets also contained a long letter from his mother, Mrs. Ellen P. Spillane of Boston, written July 22. In it was the story of his father’s death and burial. j “Your father and I prayed together every night until his death that you should some day be cared for and that some day you would join the church for our sakes. "He died in poverty but a good man,” the letter continued. “I will send his clothes to you if you wish. They were given him by his doctor, as we couldn't afford anything better,” re wrote. Spillane’s body was removed to Sweeny’s morgue where Coroner Kent said he died from effects of a cancer. A sister, May, and his mother, 76, survive him. WOLVES ATTACK MEN I Two Lumbermen Drive Off Eight Savage Brutes. RHINELANDER, Wis., Sept. 27. While at work In the vicinity of Lake Mildred, near Rhinelander, Peter Kurtzwell and H. Munsell, timber cruisers of this city, encountered a pack of seven or eight timber wolves. Snapping and gnarling the ferocious beasts attacked the two men and were driven off only after Munsell had fired every shot in his revolver at them, Kurtzwell assisting in ; the fight with a heavy club. When the wolves finally retreated into the deep woods they left one of their number behind, his head punoi tured by a bullet. Kurtzwell and | Munsell came through the experience J without a scratch. On the carcass of the dead wolf Ith men collected a bounty of SSO. —; POLICE NAB QUEER CAR Ruin Runner Equipped to Carry Several Hundred Gallons. RICHMOND, Ky., Sept. 27.—What is believed to be a completely equipped ' rum-runner's motor car, with a capaoity estimated to be several hu . gallons, has been an object of interest to hundreds here today. The seven-passenger automobile has galvanized Iron compartments behind each 6eat, with the cushions camouflaged. Under the floor another longcompartment has been built to carry a large wjuantity of contraband goods, and there is a false bottom to each seat, welding to the capacity. Running at high speed in the darkness. the car turned over when about seven miles from Richmond. As May Meeks, farmer, arrived at the scene of the wreck the driver crawled from under the car, apparently unhurt. Then another big machine came up. going the same way. For the Slender A Lanvin gown of dull black silk with satin stripes has the stripes running around, and a belt of silver ieyves. It is recommended for a tall, slender blonde.

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Senator MeCumber (left) and Congressman Fordney take the tariff bill of which they are co-authors to the White House for the signature of Pres.dent Harding. The b.ll is now law.

STEALS FOR WOMAN x Postoffice Clerk Confesses Opening Registered Mall. MILWAUKEE. Sept. 27.—Breaking down under a grilling, Arthur Langlois. 24. clerk in the registry section of the Milwaukee postoffice, according to postal Inspectors, confessed that he

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GIRL RESCUES FIVE FROM CAR SUNJUN RIVER Sixteen-Year-Old Takes License Number of Auto Causing Wreck. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y„ Sept. 27. Sixteen-year-old Catherine Loty and five other persons, three of them children, wore passengers in a closed automobile that was crowded off the Wilmington road by another car over a thirty-foot embankment Into the Aueable River. When the car hit the river the top broke off and the glass sides held the rushing waters from the occupants. Catherine, an expert swimmer, seized Freda Vidavgr, an infant, and carried her to shore. Then she returned and took off Yetta Vidaver, a child. On her third trip through the waters she rescued Helen Doty, •her younger sister. When the children were saved she returned to the wreck and helped M. Vidaver, driver, and his wife, both Injured, to the shore. Vidaver told the police he was too excited to notice the driver of the car he claims pushed him off the bank into the river. "I have the license number,” said Catherine quietly, and from her wet dress she pulled a piece of birch bark upon which she had written the number from memory with a pencil borrowed from a motorist who rushed the party to Lake I’lacid. The police are communicating with Plattsburg, which is said to be the home of the driver they seek. Vidaver suffered a broken arm, while his wife was badly cut and bruised. The children with the exception of Freda Vidaver, who was cut about the head, were unharmed. Shoe Novelties Patent leather walking shoes, with oxford ties, have turnover cuffs of plain leather about two inches In width.

had stolen money from registered mail since last April so that ho might satisfy the whims and desires of a woman with whom ho was infatuated. The inspectors said Lnnglois confessed to stealing SIOO in all, but said they bolieved the amount to he much larger. The name of the woman in the case they refused to make public.

A $7,500,300 BLAZE / The picture above shows the damage done by the fire that swept the double-deck wharf in front of the hugej United States Army supply base at Now Orleans recently. Below is a | picture of the blaze at its height, taken at midnight. The loss was esti; lated at $7,500,000.

TAR Si FEATHER ILLINOIS LANDLORD Masked Men Take Him From Home and Warn Him to Oust Foreign Tenants. | WOOD RIVER, 111., Sept. 27.—F N. Craine, prominent building contractor here, reported to the police that he was taken from his home by | four masked men and tarred and feathered. After taking him from his home. Craine said, the men drove to a ; wooded grove about ten miles north ; of Wood River, where they coated his j chest, stomach, tack and heud with j tar. They .then warned him to get rid of foreign tenants in houses \ owned by Craine. Craine wandered about until he lo | cated a telephone to call the police. Craine said he was not beaten by the j men and suffered no serious effects from the mistreatment he received. MONSTERS ATTACK BOATS Sea Creature* (50 Feet I-ong Threaten Fishing Vessels. ST. JOHNS. N. F.. Sept. 27.—“ Sea ! monsters” which are reported to be from forty to sixty feet long, have at- i tacked boats engaged in fishing out j of British Harbor, Trinity Bay, and | fishermen are afraid to go on the j grounds. A Large school of these “monsters,” ! of which no detailed description has' been received, appeared off the coast j a few days ago and Is still thought to be in the bay. An organized expedition will bo sent from the settlements off which the school lies In an effort to capture or disperse it. Several boats which went out recently narrowly escaped being swamped by th| “monsters.” The appearance of the school was reported to the Department of Marine and Fisheries by the telegraph operator at British Harbor.

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be a great winter. If de of de elevated was to run f’r p’-esl-dent, he’d have all my votes —widout askin’ for dem—=nn dat s more 'n I ever said for anybody before.” VET TRIES SUICIDE Shell Shock Patient Hangs Self WhiJ Arrested. WAUKEGAN, 111., Sept. 27—JoH Proski, 29, a shell shock patient dergoing treatment at the Lakes hospital, tried to hang In the police station cell at gan with his t*?lt. He was uncon* sclous when Paul Warren cut him down, but revived. Proski was arrested on a charge of being disorderly. #1 They are 1 GOOD! - No more Rheumatism buffering hasgone from yourjace, motherJ 9 Fattier knew too well that rheumatism is the 1 most common cause of heart 1 disease. It was then too late ' to experiment! He gave i mother S. S. S,. and stopped her suffering. S. S. S. clears the body of ! rheumatic Impurities. Its resuits in thousands of rheumatic cases have been nothing short of amazing. What / i can be more wonderful, than i to see the ..hackles of pain j 1 released from your struggling 8 <, body? You can do it. Use ' kS. S. S., the great destroyer of rheumatic ft impurities. It is sold S5. ftt 411 drus stores, makes you feel like yourself ayain^~