Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35 —NUMBER 120

‘IDEALS ARE GONE’—MEREDITH NICHOLSON

Hoosier Novelist Declares Americans Are Slaves to Materialism and Are Living for Stomachs Alone

Hu JOHX O’DOXXELL N'EW YORK, Sept. 28.—Meredith Nicholson, novelist and essayist, says: “America reached its spiritual peak at the time of the Civil

MEREDITH NICHOLSON.

Mill PUPILS 90 CLASS WORK IN CLOAKROOMS Overcrowded Conditions at High School Handicap 1,937 Students. Manual Training High School Is greatly overcrowded. There are, speaking In terms of percentage, 1.25 pup’la to every seat In the building. Classes :ire being held In rooms formerly u.ied as cloakrooms, the students sitting and studying on folding chairs. On Jan. 27, 1920, the Indianapolis board of school comm leal oner* approved plans for Improvements to Manual, which Included, along with the erection of an addition containing anew auditorium, cafeteria and gymnasium, plans lor the tearing out of the old auditorium and the construction of a wing containing eighteen classrooms. Today, two year* and er.ght months later, the children continue to receive their education under great handicaps, but are equipped With two auditoriums "The present school board Is not bearing In mind the fact that it Is a continuing body, not a separate unit from the old board which adopted the plans." one school official said. The present school board ha* not constructed one permanent building. Enrollment Grows More pupils are enrolled In Manual et this time than last June, when the.e were I,SSS. Trere are now 1,937. According to E. H. Kemper McComb, principal, a larger number of first year students will enter in February than did this fall. This condition. he said, probably will cause all of the twelve ltmraa added by rearrangement some of which were used as cloakrooms to be turned into classrooms. Even this will not accommodate the Increase, he said. Direct taxation would be the best way in which to provide for the filling of the building program, unless bonds were sold, some officers say. An added direct tax of 1 cent on each SIOO would bring in over $597,000, or enough to erect three eight-classroom buildings a year. School officials admit Indianapolis is far behind in her school buijding program.

DEJECTED WOMAN TAKES BICHLORIDE Mrs. Elizabeth Burnham. 22, Separated From Husband, Is Victim. Physicians today were fighting to save the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Burnham, 22, of 1254 W. Twenty-Sixth St., who took bichloride of mercury tablets in an attempt to commit suicide. Te police were told Mrs. Burnham, who had separated from her husband. became despondent yesterday and while downtown bought the tablets, totaling seven and. a half grains, and took them. Then she went home and told her mother, Mrs. Ada Swan, what she had done. Mrs. Burnham refused to go to the hospital. Physicians said it would be ten days before they could tell whether the poison would prove fatal.

THE WEATHER

Fair weather has continued In practically all parts of the country since Wednesday morning, c-xcept in the iNorth Pacific States and the Florida 'Peninsula. Colder weather prevails in the northern Rocky Mountain region. Jacksonville, New Orleans and Tampa reporled maximum temperatures of 72 degrees, while the minimum was reported at Helena, Mont., 40 degrees. HOURLY' TEMPERATURE. o a. in 56 10 a. m 71 7 a. m 5711 a. m 74 S a. m . 63 12 (noon) 78 ! * a~ m 69 1 p. in. 101

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War. For the past fifty years, America’s spiritual qualities and idealism have steadily degenerated. “Now, in a world grown gray with materialism, the younger people have cracked the barriers of yesteryear, have given sex virtue an indifferent status iu their scheme of things and have forced every intelligent observer of American life to the sober conclusion that the old concept of marriage, the home, religion, sex standard afe gone definitely and absolutely gone.” Nicholson’s summary wan given sadly. The enthusiastic gusto with which an intellectual

TOM SIMS SAYS:

The honeymoon ends when the coal bill begins. One would be mistaken in calUng Demp sey's diary a scrapbook.

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Cider la working hard. “Coal Men Agree on Price” —head line. Consumer* don't. The man who merely blaze* away seldom blaze* the way. Expecting nothing Is an excellent way to get nothing. The man who claim* he took cold bath* all last winter may have to do It this winter. The wire* may be down. Lenin hasn't died for several weeks. " Beside* walking easy, rubber heels protect desk and table tops. Some people are so exclusive they hate to ride on the street cax with strangers. Silence is golden. Many a small brothor get* a nickel for keeping hi* mouth shut. Leon Trotzky has written a play. Naturally It Is of the thud and blunder type. Spens is U. S. fuel distributor. Spens, not "Spend*,” even though It would be appropriate.

cojemient is RUNNING BEHIND BY 10 BILLIONS United States Treasury Has Immediate Need of Large Sum of Money. By I nited Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Uncle Sam must solve a difficult financial problem in the near future. By the end of this fiscal year he must raise more than 12.225.000,000 to meetadef icit In running expenses and maturing obligations, according to estimates prepared today by the budget bureau. This sum must be raised In addition to ordinary governmental receipts. More than $1,500,000,000 of the total must be secured by the end of the calendar year. WILL ISSUE BONDS .Merchants Heat and Uglit Company Will Make Improvements. The Merchants Heat and Light Company has filed a petition with the public service commission asking for authority to Issue SIIB,BOO in common stock and $356,500 in bonds for improvement and extension of its plant. ATTEND CONVENTION T/ocal KUvanis Club Members at Anderson. Kiwanians of Indianapolis, with their families, left in three special cars today for Anderson to attend the State Kiwanis convention. Business delegates were Walter T. White, president and Paul Donald Brown, secretary. The club has pledged support to the drive for Janies Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for Children. WILL HONOR WINNERS West Indianapolis Library (o Give Party for Readers. A party will be given by the staff of the West Indianapolis library for the forty-four winners of diplomas in the summer reading contest, Saturday afternoon. These children won the second largest number of diplomas among the city's branch libraries. Prince Denies Report Bp I nited Xetcs TOKIO, Sept. 28. —Recent reports that Prince Regent Hirohlto would visit the United States soon were off; cully denied here Wednesday.

revolte applauds the passing of mid-Victorian laws was lacking in his statement. Passing of Victorian Days “I am not at one with those who cheer the passing of Victorian times,” says Nicholson. “I think the happiest and most enlightened period in American life was the Victorian era. “True there might have been some hypocrisy and a reticence which today would cause a smile, hut the great hulk of the people led happier lives and—this is important—intellectually it was oue of the greatest periods of American existence. “In those days respect for the Christian Church and for moral standards accompanied a spiritual attitude which came to a beautiful flowering in the Civil War. “America’s participation in tlie World War awakened no such spiritual qualities in this nation as the Civil War awakened. Out of our experience in the great war there has come but one great and splendid idea—the League of Nations. This was a wonderful and beautiful thing. It was immediately dragged down and made the football of partisan politics. “Today Americans are the slaves of materialism. We are living for the stomach alone while the nation’s heart and soul is stand ng.” “Do you think this lot-down of moral standards by the so-

U. S. GRIND JURY TD PROBE CASE OF If OFFICIAL R. H. Abel. Former Group Chief of Indiana Agents. Held. Federal grand jury Investigation of charges against R. H. Abel, former group chief of prohibition agents In Indiana, will bs made, according to Homer Elliott, United States district attorney. The grand jury will meet in November. Abel was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging him with having sold nine quarts of whickj to Horace Lyle, colored, formerly an Invest gator In the Feder| Prohibition Depart ment, May 27. 1921. According to Lyle, he sold about S9OO worth of liquor for Abel. Bert C Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana, said that the case against Abel is an Isolated one end hia Investigations have failed to that be was connect** I with any other transactions in this State other than the one on which he was arrested. Goes to Philadelphia However, Abel was assigned to the Philadelphia prohibition office after leaving Indianapolis and there are stories In circulation to the effect that bis conduct in that city Is under investigation. Abe! Insists that he can prove that he poured the whisky he Is charged with selling to Lyle into a sewer. His case was set for preliminary bearing before Charles W. Moores, T’nited Slates commissioner, this afternoon. Pending the hearing h.* Is held In jail under bond of si!,sod. Lyle at present Is employed as special Investigator for the Attorney General of Indiana.

INSANE YETS T 8 BE GIVEN RELIEF 3,000 Will Be Removed F>om Contract Hospitals Legion Wins Fight. Three thousand critically Insane war veterans will be released from jails and State insane asylums and given proper care ,n Government hospitals, was the statement <>f Claude .1 Harris. director of the national service division of the American Region follov/ing a formal statement issued by Brigadier General Sawyer, following a conference with President Harding in Washington last night. Officers at/ American Legion head quarters here were pleased by the receipt of a message from. Washington announcing thar Hardilig had expressed his desire to General Sawyer that closest coopera'ion be bstabliahed with the American Legioto for the best possible cave of disabled ex-serv-ice men. and General Sawior’a statement that veterans suffering mental diseases will be removed from contract Institutions.

REACTION Back to Normalcy Bp I nitcd Note BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 28.-—. Street ca.r strikebreakers are threatening to strike. This follows notice that‘pay will be cut from $7.50 daily to '5 cents on hour, and that free meals, lodging and entertainment are to be abolished. The strikebreakers are from Philadelphia. Baltimore and other eastern cities. They were brought here to take the places of street car employes who walked out .1 fiy 1. NEW MAKES DENIAL Senator Says lie Will Not Become Director General of Philippines. Bn t nit i'll Brin WASHINGTON. Sept. 28.—Senator New, Indiana, today defied reports that he would become director general of the Philippines.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1922

GOL-LUF Near His Heart "Tax if you must this old gray head, “But spare my gol-luf clubs,” he said. Defeated but game, a male Barbara ■’ritchie called M. Bert Thurman, collector of Internal revenue, on the telei bone today and hurled at him the following dfl: "I just got your notice that I owe '"n more taxes. I suppose I will have to pay them, but It will take about everything I own. But If you ce,t my golf clubs it be over my dead body.”

GIRL. DRAGGED B3 FEET Bf STREET CAR. NEAR DEATH p- i Sabina Stein, 7, Has Legs Crushed Motorman Under Arrest. Sabina Stein, 7, daughter of Louis Stein, a tailor, at 1515 N. Illinois Bt., was struck by a N. llinols street car today, dragged sixty-three feet and both her legs were crushed. William Baker, 1529 N. Illinois St., in front of whose home the accident occurred took the child to the Methodist Hospital. Physicians said her condition was critical. Hergt. Burk arrested Motorman Ed Burkinan on a charge of assault and battery.

EVANSVILLE NEW COAL DISPENSING POINT FOR STATE Fuel Director Spens Designates Indiana as District 13, With McWhirter Advisor. Up Times Pperial WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—Fuel Distributor C. E. Spens today designated the State of Indiana as District No. 13 in the fuel "distribution programi Headquarters of the fuel distributor of that district will bo at Evansville. The selection of Evansville instead of Indianapolis as the headquarters occasioned considerable surprise. It was explained officials will be appointed soon to establish the office there. Felix M. McWhirter of Indianapolis, who was named to represent Spens in Indiana, will serve only in an advisory capacity, it was explained. CITY IS FIRE SWEPT Three Firemen Overcome and Fifteen Families Are Homeless. Up United Netvs NEWPORT, R. 1.. Sept. 28.—Newport was swept late Wednesday by a fire that destroyed twenty buildings and damaged several others before it was brought under control. Three firemen were overcome and fifteen families were driven from their homes. PASTOR TO RETIRE Rev. W. 11. Brighttnlre Will Make Home in Evansville. The Rev. W. 11. Brightmire, former pastor of the Fletcher Ave. M. E. Church and the Maple Road M. E. Church, lias announced he will retire from the ministry and will make his home in Evansville. DRINKS lODINE Ed Hedges Tells Police He Thought It Was Castorla. Ed Hedges. 82, of 1417 Silver Ave. was taken to the city hospital today after he drank iodine. He told the police that he thought, he was taking castoria.

called younger generation is a passing phase or a definite change in our civilization?” he was asked. America Deteriorated. “The collapse of old social laws controlling sex relations is the greatest social phenomenon in America since the landing of the Pilgrims,” the novelist replied. “Wo must make up our mind that the old morality is gone; that the young people of both sexes are indifferent to rules of any kind and that in matters of sex they are rapidly swinging toward a single standard.” “And will that single standard be the high one formerly demanded of women or the lower one of men?” “I had hoped you wouldn’t ask that question,” Nicholson smiled. “Certainly the young women of today hold virtue more cheaply than did their mothers and grandmothers. Perhaps we may hold out this hope—it’s an idealistic hope, jirrhaps—but the only one I see. The realization that man’s example is having a bad effect on women may force men to change. “But the spiritual collapse, the deterioration of America, is seen in other ways than sex. It is shown in education, polities, the church. “In Indiana, the quality of spoken English is poorer today than at any time since the first settlers. Our schools everywhere

Woman Crushed Here

Hare Is a view of the building at Michigan and Blake Sts. which waa partially wrecked when a street car crashed into it last night. Inset — Mrs. Stella Bryan, who was killed in the accident.

BOARDTOPROBE CHI CAS SMASH KILLING HAN For Second Time This Month Car Jumps Track and Plows Into Same Store. The board of public works will investigate to determine the cause of the accidmt last night in which a street car jumped the tracks at Michigan and Blake Sts., resulting m the death of Mrs. Stella Bryan, 49, of 432 Patterson St., Charles E. Coffin, president of the board, announced today. Mr. Coffin said if it was found the construction of the trucks Is responsible a change probably will be ordered. James P. Tretfon. superintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, said the condition of the tracks was not responsible. Ho said the motorman was inexperience'! and failed to slow down at the corner. The accident was the second of its kind on the same corner within a few weeks. Last night tho car crashed through the front of a store owned oy Edward M. Guss and Frank Samend. On Sept. 1 a street car crashed into the front of tho same store. In the accident last night the car ran twelve feet into the interior of the building. Mrs. Bryan was standing on the corner when tho accident occurred. She was crushed between the car and the building. The injured wore: Mr. and Mrs. William Teare, 2906 Station St.; Emma Knepper, 429 Prospect St.; Mrs. Harold Sprouse, daughter of Mrs. Bryan; Emmett Kempler, 429 Prospect St., and Mrs. Anna Hahn, 940 E. Morris St. The car crew was arrested. David C. Wilson, 38, of 734 N. Capitol Ave., motorman. was held on the oharge of manslaughter. Freeman Kirkpatrick of Greenfield, conductor, was charged with . vagrancy. The arrests were made on order of the coroner. ADMIT TWO CHURCHES Baptist; Association Re-elects Old Officers at; Closing Session. Two now churches were admitted to membership into the Central Baptist Association at the closing sessions of a two-day convention at the Tabernacle Baptist Church. The Lindhurst Baptist Church, west of Indianapolis, and the Temple Baptist Church, near Riverside Park, were admitted. Last year’s officers were re-elected at the final business session yesterday.

GREEKS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO DEFEND DISPUTED TRUE New Government Established Under George II by Revolutionaries. Bp United Pres * ATHENS, Sept. 28.—With the former crown prince crowned George Second. Greek revolutionaries today developed plans for the defense of Thrace against the threatened invasion by Turk nationalists, under Mustupha Kemal. Former King Constantine, ex-Queen Sophta and their sons have been asked to leave Greece and are expected to tako refuge once more in Switzerland, whence they fled after the dethronement of 1917. Troops Are Assigned The revolutionaries have assigned troops to the maintenance of order at Athens and Salonikl. Former Premier Venizelos, a refugee In Paris, is said to have been asked by General Papoulas, who appears In charge of the revolutionary program, to take charge of Greek foreign relations. Immunity has been guaranteed leaders of the repudiated government, It is understood. CONSTANTINE IN PRISON? LONDON, Sept. 28.—Constantine, the dethroned King of Greece, has been imprisoned, according to an un confirmed report reaching here from Athens.

BABY MINE

Unripe Little Lottie, age 4, went to see a new baby. When asked what she thought of it she replied, “He hasn’t any hair, or teeth, can’t talk or walk. Better send him back, he’s not finished yet."—G. B. L Observation Two-year-old Odette was shopping with her mother. At the blanket counter mother asked to see some extra heavy covers.\ The baby looked up at the clerk and announced "Daddy’s always cold." —Mrs. E. I. Fents. Experiment "Mother I thought I had knocked my bruins out,” said Ma.rt.ha. Jean, describing a fall against a cement step. "Then I thought, how much is S times 2, and when 16 oame, I knew 1 still had my brains." —E. F. W.

Entered Second ciasu Matter at PostoUlcs. Indianapolis Published Dally Except Sunday.

are littered with nonsense. People who think that we are reaching a higher level of cultivation are plain fools. “Polities presents the same situation from another angle. Loca pride does not express itself in a desire to see the native town or city well governed. Men would rather of the largest factory than the best municipal government. Asa result many cities are run by crooks. Intelligent People Too Careless. “So with the churches. The Christian churches are putting up a fight to hold the marriage custom and the Christian tradition. But what is the situation? The Protestant churchmen are frankly bewildered by the whirl of new ideas and the crashing of old customs. More important, the preachers are of poorer quality than in former days. “There was a time when a host would greet his Sunday guest with an invitation to hear some fine preacher. Now you are asked to go to the golf links. The first-rate men of our colleges are not in the theological schools. They are taking engineering and law.” “Can you suggest a way out?” “We haven’t enough facts to make new rules. The realistic novelists are gathering data on contemporary life, but we must wait until more facts are presented. We must stop the careless attitude of intelligent people toward politics and society.”

DEFIANT TURKS MARCH INTO NEUTRAL TERRITORY, IGNORING ALLIES’ ORDERS Mustapha Kemal Notifies British Commander in Chief He Does Not Recognize Foreign Rights in Dardanelles Straits By United Press CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 23. —Mustapha Kemal poured his legions into the neutral 4onc today in defiance of the ultimatum of the allies. Kemal, leader of the Turks, notified Sir Charles Harington, British commander-in-chief, that he did not recognize the neutrai zone of the Straits of the Dardanelles. Constantinople is menaced by the latest move of the Turks. The Kexnalists. already entrenched not far from the British position in the Chanak area, are concentrating forces at Ismid, the key to Constantinople. The latest concentration is viewed here with the greatest alarm. Population Is Panicky. The population is more panicky tnan ever as the reports of the advance of the Turks poured in. It was believed tlfat the allies may be forced to abandon Constantinople if the Kemalists advance on the city. Authorities here are doing their utmost to prevent an uprising of the Moslem population. “Every Turk is a soldier,” and it is feared that thev would all spring to arms here if a Kemalist advance over the straits wer** started.

Odds By United Press LONDON, Sept. 28.—The British cabinet, faced with the almost open defiance of Mustapha Kemal. to the allied ultimatum that the Turks evacuate the neutral zone, met today with Lloyd George at 10 Downing St. “The odds are only 7 to 6 against war,” one official declared to the United Press as the session started.

WOMAN IS KILLED Mrs. John Hiba of Ft. Wayne Dies in Automobile Accident. Bp United Press lOWA CITY”, lowa, Sept. 2S.—Mrs. John Hiba, Ft. Wayne, Jnd., was instantly killed and her husband injured when the automobile in which they were riding overturned eight miles east of here last night as the machine negotiated a sharp turn in tho road. They were on their way to San Francisco. Natives Cheer News Hp United Xetcs AME NDHABAR, India, Sept. 28. Thousands of natives cheered the news of the Turkish victories in Asia Minor and declared they would volunteer to fight for the Moslem cause in event of a war between the allies and Turkey, at a largo mass meeting here Wednesday night.

INTERESTING SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF CHILDREN Contributed by Times Readers.

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Forecast Fair tonight and Friday. Moderate temperature.

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not:: is ‘impertinent British Cabinet Meets to Consider Kemal Reply to Ultimatum. #j/ United Press LONDON, Sept. 28—The British cabinet, after a discussion of the Kenmlist note, adjourned until 4 p. m. It was evident, judging Trom interviews with high officials after the meeting, that close examination of tho note demonstrated to the British gravity of the situation. One official described the note as “impertinent.” POPE MAKES APPEAL Puis Asks Kemal to Prevent Further Blood Shed. Bp United Xrtrs ROME, Sept. 28.—Pope Pius has personally commuicated with Mustapha Kemal asking him to prevent further bloodshed in the Near East. The Pope also directed the apostolic delegate at Constantinople to extend all possible assistance to refugees of all nationalities, and wired funds for this relief work. BULGARIA IS ALOOF Bp United Xetcs LONDON, Sept. 28.—Bulgaria will remain aloof from military activity in the Near East, Dimitri Standoff, Bulgarian minister to Great Britain, told the United News. Standoff anticipated serious conse quences from the abdication of King Constantine. Bulgaria favors autonomy for Thrace or possibly neutralization, he said. .

He Won Three-year-old John dislikes to be outdone by his elder playmates, even in point of describing experience. Playing “fire department” an elder boy insisted he knew “most about the fire wagons cause I seed ’em at headquarters." “Huh," retorted John, somewhat non-plusaed, I seed ’em at featquarters.”—E. F. W. Association Three-year-old Lee was quite amused when he first saw grasshoppers and inquired what they were. The next time he saw one, remembering that their name was indicative of some limb action, he called, “Daddy get one of those toe dancers for me.” — A. J. V. Did roar bet) ur or do anythin* on usual today? Write It on a pootmrd and uni It to tho Baby Min* Editor at Xho Tima*.