Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1922 — Page 4

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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, which is in heaven, is perfect—Matthew 5:48. ‘T Can’t” School Boards CONFRONTED for several years with the need of more school buildings, the Indianapolis school board has done nothing—except to throw up its hands and say that nothing could be done beyond providing temporary wooden makeshifts. Demands for school housing adequate to the city’s growth and needs have been met with assertions that the powers which regulate taxation will not permit Indianapolis to spend money for school buildings. But most of us re'alize that where there is firm determination to do a thing, some way can usually be found. The financial difficulties confronting the Indianapolis schools are not far different from those which other cities have found ways of overcoming. In every community there are men who are eternally turning a dour face on improvements and progress and saying “impossible.” In 1827 the Boston Courier said editorially: “The project of a railroad from Boston to Albany is impracticable, as every one knows who knows the simplest rule of arithmetic, and the expense would be little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon.” Nevertheless, men of better vision went ahead and laid a network of railroads. Men of the sort of those early railroad builders are the forces which drive humanity steadily along the rj;;.d of progress. They prive that virtually nothing is impossible. "When the elevated railroad was first suggested, even old man Vanderbilt roared with laughter. “Impossible,” he declared. “Whoever heard of a railroad on stilts?” But the gentlemen who refused to admit that anything might be impossible went ahead and built the elevateds. Because there is a chain of mountains west of Denver, many said that city could never be on a great transcontinental railroad Now a way has been discovered, and the people of Colorado are setting about to build a twenty-six-mile tunnel through the mountains and place Denver on the shortest rail route from the Atlantic to the Pacific in this country. The hills which the Indianapolis school board have pointed to as an excuse for their inactivity are comparatively insignificant. And they can be surmounted if the members of the school board really wish to surmount them. As its first step the Indianapolis school board has yet to show the public that it is actively, intelligently and persistently endeavoring to keep the public’s schools on the highest plane of building equipment and efficiency. Open Taxes, Openly Arrived At THE income tax bureau has put out its annual puzzle for the entertainment of the public. No, not the blank which it asks you to fill out. but the blank which fills out itself. You know the one we mean, the one that tells us there were four persons in th : Lnited States last year who paid income tax on individual in comes of more than $5,000,000; that thirty-three persons paid on incomes in excess of $1,000,000 each, and all that sort of thing. The puzzle lies in guessing who these persons with such incomes are. Secretary Mellon may know, and a certain number of others may know, down to and including the adding-machine operator who totes up the total. But we can’t know. Secretary Mellon would lose his job and go to jail if he told us. So would the adding machine operator. This perennial puzzle had its inception in Congress when the income tax law was being framed We mustn’t let anybody else know what any man makes in a year, the law-makers reasoned; it would embarrass a man to have his neighbors know; it would embarrass his wife to have his neighbor’s wife know. This showed some knowledge of human nature. The law-makers were aware that most of us put on a bigger front than we are entitled to; wc like to have people think we are making more money than wc actually are. N And being human like that, we did not find any fault with the provision for secrecy; we rather welcomed it. But recently have begun to wonder concerning the wisdom of it. Secrecy allows so many things to happen. Secrecy begets scandal. So now it happens that Washington is full of whispers concerning the-administration of the income tax law. President Harding asks Congress for $42,000,000 to refund certain income tax payments. Who gets these refunds? Harding is not permitted to tell, even if he knows. Wouldn’t we have a more wholesome condition if income tax returns were as open as the day—as open as other tax returns?

Army Officers Credit Machine With More Brains Than Humans

Ru ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON. Oct. 6.—“A machine with more brains than most humans" is the way Army officers view a remarkable range-finding invention for big guns of the coast artillery which has been placed on display at the War Department here preparatory to shipment to the Panama Canal. Eventually the new system may be extended to other important coast defenses. The great guns, some of them seventy feet long and capable of shooting a six-foot projectile thirty, miles, give a feeling of security to j the layman when he pictures the ter-

WINS OWN CASE Woman Lawyer Pleads Divorce Suit for Herself. MIWAUKEEE, Oct. 6.—Mrs. Rore Pevar. a woman lawyer, had her first taste of court procedure when she was granted a divorce from Sam Pevar. Mrs. Pevar passed the Ohio State bar examination a little more than a year ago. Shortly after she decided a career in the home was better than a career as a Portia and was married. Shortly after she had arrived in Milwaukee from Cleveland she changed her mind. Sam. she alleges in her complaint, failed to supply her with money, appropriated a check for JSOO which had been given her as a wedding present, and even seized part •f her $5,000 trousseau, which he refused to release. The divorce was granted on grounds

rible destruction wrought by the huge shells when they strike the enemy's ships. But, he asks, how can the gunners tell where to aim? j The new invention, by’ means of | hand-controlled levers and dials, automatically makes the calculations i that gunners now figure out with paper and pencil. The machine, it is claimed, will automatically add, subtract, divide, multiply and integrate, give almost inI stantaneous computations, reduce the hazard of error and make fire much | more rapid. Two men, it is said, can j operate it. Eight men usually are required.

of non-suj.Jlprt. Mrs. Pevar declares she will retunj to Cleveland, there to take up her law\work. \ IF YOU ARE WELL BRED You do not pick up, when at a hotel, the fork or knife you may’ drop at the table. You ignore the incident and ask the waiter to bring y’ou another. When you h.’ ve finished a course you place your knife and so. k side by side, resting securely on the plate, not carelessly draped about the edge. Separate Blouses Very coarse, square meshed laces are mounted on chiffon, usually of a bight color, and used for separate They are usually worn over the outside of the skirt,Russian blouse fashion.

NEW YORK WILL PRESENT FAVORITE SON jSJHOICE Either Alfred Smith or Nathan L. Miller Being Groomed as Presidential Candidate. Ry LEO R. BACK WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—Alfred E. Smith or Nathan L. Miller? New York State is sure to present one or the other as it's choice for President in 1924. "Ad'' Smith, most popular executive at Albany in a decade, has just recently been re-nominated as the Democratic candidate for Governor. Miller also has been re-nominated for a second term, as the Republican choice. Each got his nomination by sheer personal domination of their respective conventions. Each went to bat with the bosses and each gave them a severe drubbing. So successful was each that far sighted- Washington politicians are linking them with 1924. If President Harding is not a candidate for re-election, os many folks believe, and Miller wins he Is sure to cause a lot of trouble for Borah. Beveridge, La Follette, Kenyon, and all other prospective G. O. P. candidates. Warns Democrats If Smith wins, James M. Cox, former Associate Justice Clark, Senator Atlee Pomerene—if he comes ! from Ohio —and all other Democratic possibilities are warned In advance. Smith defied Mayor Hylan, Boas Murphy of Tammany and all the other Tammany leaders and refused to do business with William Randolph Hearst. directly or indirectly. He teat the bosses and Mr. Hearst was r.ot nominated for anything. His name was not even presented. Governor Miller .succeeded in repealing New York’s primary law. LABOR WILLFIEHT COURT INJUNCTION TO LIST DITCR Unions Preparing to Take Daugherty Order to Highest Tribunal in Land. * Ru United Srtrs WASHINGTON, Oct. fi —The country apparently is to witness soon one of the greatest court litigations in I its history—that of organized labor j versus the Government. •The unions are preparing to appeal the Chicago injunction against th-m to a higher tribunal, probably the Supreme Court, and both sides are making ready for a finish fight. Following a series of conferences during the past two days between Donald Riehbert. chief counsel for the unions, and officials of the Department of Justice. Attorney General Daugherty has addressed a letter to the labor attorney outlining what cooperative steps the department will take in getting the Chicago writ be- ; fore a higher court. Daugherty Will Assist While Daugherty refused to make the letter public, he declared that in It he pointed out “the one practical way" In which the appealing of the , case could be expedited. He reiterated I that he would not stand In the way of an appeal—that it was not a “personal matter” with him and that he gladly would assist the unions "in a legitimate manner." Some months ago, just after the calling of the coal strike and immediately prior to the rail walk out, a prominent official of the Department of Justice predicted in the near future. "possibly within the year, possibly within the next five,” the country would stand witness to n, great ccurt litigation between organized labor and the Government. Such a litigation, in the public welfare, he intimated, was inevitable, as out of it would come a decision as to just how far. and in what direction, the unions would exercise their rapidly-increasing powers. THE REFEREE Bv ALRERT APPLE. Lord Dewar, distiller of the "mountain dew" that bears his name, says: "Scotch whisky is so scarce now, and so few In the business, that the majority are rationing out orders to ~ their odd customers who. f in many cases, only get J about 80 per cent of what they order.” \ ST4|? With genuine Scotch -*2r jrf whisky so scarce in the 1 Jb/L British Isles, bootleggers' ™ customers can understand Ap>p>T _ why counterfeit Scotch " ' labels are frequently found by the hundreds of thousands in raids by federal rum sleuths. FRANCE In France It now takes 382 francs to buy, on the average, the same commodities that sold for 100 francs before the war. With cost of living nearly four times as high as it used to he normally, as a penalty of war. it is hard to undertsand how any Frenchman can be militaristic. Another big war would double the burden. The road to lasting peace is to make al! people in all countries realize that war must be paid for to the last penny. Dodging is impossible. FEET Dr. Charles Cross of San Francisco tells a medical convention that a painfui ailment known as “automobile foot” is caused by motorists keeping the foot on the accelerator. This starts a diseased area, or lesion, at the second toe. A few more centuries of wearing shoes will eliminate toes, make people web-footed. Nature eliminates that which is not used because no longer needed. Even the brain must be exercised to ward off intellectual paralysis.

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U. S. GAMBLERS IN MARKS TO LOSE BILLIONS IN BUBBLE

By EDWARD M. THIERRY NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Gambling in German marks has cost Americans from a billion to two billion dollars. People are still buying marks and other foreign paper “money,” but the big flood of speculation suddenly stopped a few weeks ago. Bankers report that buying was going on in large amounts in spite of their warnings that purchase of German mark§. was a speculation and not an investment. It is believed that even the wildest speculators have now reached the conclusion that the bubble has burst, wiping out dreams of immense profits. "Estimates of the amount of American money spent for marks can be

Government Regards Brussels Conference as Important Move for European Peace

By CLAYTON WHITEHILL United, Set eg Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. o.—This Government is known to regard the conference at Brussels on or about Dec. 1 to consider inter-allied debts and German reparations, us the first important step in the direction of obtaining American co-operation in the solution of European economic problems. Upon the success of this conference may hinge the decision by President Harding as to whether the time is ripe for active cooperation. The President, in his message to the American Bankers' Association convention in New York, declared the increasing appeals of the world for American cooperation ■ in solving ttyi problem resulting from the war "cannot be denied.” But. this cooperation, the President believes, according to White House advices, should not be extended until the I European nations manifest a proper attitude, susceptible of cooperation. Reduction Proposed Financial experts in and out of the Government contend that anew j European psychology is the price of American participation In old world affairs. Premier Poincare's present plan is to propose a reduction of Ger- j man reparations to 40,000.000,000 or ' 50.000,000,000 gold marks in return for ! the concellation of France's debt to Great Britain and the surrendering by Great Britain of her share in the rep arations which totals 22 per cent. This plan, in the opinion of these experts, h;is fortunate possibilities. The reparation phase, if successfully carried out, would partially fulfill one of the prerequisites of American particlpa

WINNERS Ru BERTHS ERA LEY THE folks we call "Successes"; what's the secret they know? What sort of magic food s It that makes them flourish so? There isn't any secret which you cannot figure out. Nor any strange enchantment which is bringing them about; For when you come to study them the answer's quickly guessed, They worked a It tie harder and they planned a little better And they dream a little truer Than the rest. THEY weren't afraid of drudgery when drudgoj-y was wanted. They faced the little grimy jobs with spirit quite undaunted. They didn't like that sort of task, they didn’t find it fun. But they kept grinding at it till they knew that It was done; And thus their strength and courage grow to meet each larger test, They plugged a little harder, and they toiled a little longer. And they thought a little clearer Than the rest. A LITTLE more of effort and a little more of stress Would often alter failure Into glorious success. But tlie* failure blames misfortune for his lack of fame and pelf He blames the times, he blames his job—but never blames himself; Yet the secret of the folks who win Is easily expressed. They fight a little harder, and they act a little quicker. And they stick a little longer Than the rest! (Copyright. 1922, NEA Service.)

Letters to the Editor

INQUIRY IS MADE Taxpayer Asks Questions About pobhs. Merrill Rental Contract, To the Editor of The Times I have just read In your paper that the county commissioners have entered into a contract with the BobbaMerrlU publishing company, renting the E. Vermont St. property to the occupants at S4OO per month. This, the Times says, is the same property for the county paid the company $203,000. The lease, it is stated is to continue until the war memorial board demands the vacation of the premises. Pretty soft for the Bobbs-Merrlll company, isn’t it! The rental. S4OO per month, metwis $4,800 per year. This is getting rent

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made better in Germany than in this country,” said Dr. B. M. Anderson, Jr., economist of the Chase National Bank. “I have seen estimates ranging from $1,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000. Personally I wouldn’t know how to guess. "Speculation in German marks has been a big national loss, but It is so diffused that no credit problem has been created. I know of no institu tion or individual suffering a serious Nloss. "The most serious thing about it is the demoralization of Germany the crash in marks indicates. Demoralization in Germany is most serious of course for hex- closer neighbors— France, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries

tion that the German indemnity be reduced by 6 per cent. The other two prerequisites are, virtual demilitarization; and abandonment of grasping imperialistic aspirations which make for unsettlement and lead to war. France Conciliatory The conciliatory spirit of France as revealed in the Poincare tentative proposal is particularly welcome, it was said, because France holds the key to the reparations tangle. Experts agree that France must give up hope of col-

Automobile Operated at High Speed Consumes Less Gasoline

QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Daily Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Avo. Washington. D. C„ inclosing 2 cents in stamps Medical, legal and love and raarri.age advice will not be given. Unsigned letters dl not be answered, but all letters are confidential and receive personal replies. —Editor. Q. —Does an automobile consume more gasoline running over the same distance at a high or at a low rate of speed? A. —A car operating over a given distance at a low rate of speed as compared with a car running at high speed over the same distance will probably consume more gasoline at the low rate of speed, due to the small throttle opening at low speed. Carburetor adjustment and engine conditions would enter into the problem. No actual comparative tests of this

'or a figure far below that of the average business house or residence. It moans that the company Is saving more than one-half of the amount its sale price would earn in interest at 5 per cent. Five per cent would bring the company more than SIO,OOO per year, and interest rates are higher than five per cent at the banks. Tu other words the county is simply making the Bobbs Merrill company a present of more than $5,000 a year, after having paid far more than the taxable value of the property taken over for the War Memorial. I think taxpayers of the city have a right to an explanation of this remarkable gratuity. Could politics have anything to do with it! TAX PAYER.

—but it Is very serious for the United States also. Germany has been one of our best customers and a prosperous Germany Is needed to balance the world’s economic life.” Dr. Andei-son pointed out that while Germany as a whole has suffered very greatly in the financial demoralization, a good many individual German speculators have piled up immense pi-ofits. Foreseeing the decline in the mark, they borrowed marks on a great scale and used them to buy foreign cux-rencies—dollars, sterling, etc.—or to buy goods, common stock of corporations, and other things whose value would not decline with the mark. After the fall of the mark these speculators could sell a 3mall part of

lecting the 20,000,000,000 gold marks represented by the "C” reparations bonds, and" it is held doubtful whether Germany can pay all of the 12,000,000,000 gold marks represented by the A and B bonds. Until this reparations tangle can be adjusted satisfactorily, there can be no peace or economic stability in Europe, it was said. Should the Brussels conference succeed, there is still the problem of whether France Is going to pay the $3,000,000,000 debt she owes this country.

kind have been made by the United States Bureau of Standards. Q. —Can rubles be made artificially? A.—Yes, synthetic, or artificial rubies are made by fusing pure aluminum oxide with a small amount of oxide of chromium. These synthetic rubies, which are practically indistinguishable from the natural gems, are being put on the market gradually. their great beauty and relative inexpensiveness having caused a growing demand for them. Q. —Is the word “tote" good English? What does it mean? A.—" Tote" Is a colloquialism, that is; it Is used In spoken English in some sections of the country, especially In the South and the West of the i United States. The expression is not I correct English and is used largely by ! uneducated persons. It means "to ! bear." "to carry," but is never used by good writers and speakers. Q. —When was the air pump for compressing air Invented, and by whom? A.- —The air pump was invented by* Otto Von Guericke of Magdeburg, Germany, about 1654. In 1753 Holl used axi air engine for raising water l>y air pressure on its surface, and in 1788 Smeaton invented a pump for use with diving apparatus. In 1851 compressed air was used by William Bubitt for bridge work. Q. —What gifts are given on the j first wedding anniversary? A.—The first weding anniversary is the cotton wedding. Sheets, towels. | pillow cases, bungalow aprons, table covers, tea towels: In fact, any thing made of cotton or cotton thread are I suitable gifts. Q- —Gun you give me the Indian j words meaning noisy, gurgling, dash- j ing, lapping water? A. Following are the Indian I equivalents in the Osage language of I the English phrases indicated: Neagabthl" means "lapping water;" I "N'egabehon" means ‘Mashing water: ' "Nehoe" means “noisy water; "New- | non" means "singing water;” “Nega- j hu>he,” means "gurgling water.” ■

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their purchases for enough marks to pay pay back their debts, retaining the greater part of the real values they had purchased. Hugo Stinnes Is supposed to have built up much of his great fortune by this method. Other countries have plunged in German marks. Spain is said to have put 1,000,000,000 pesetas into maTks by the end of 1920. As recently as last week an Italian put $l4O into German marks at the rate of 7 cents a hundred, receiving 200,000 marks (which before the war wore worth $50,000). At the New York bank where he bought them he was warned that he might lose his $l4O. “Ah!” he exclaimed, grinning, "but I may make a million!" Owners of Millions A small New York hotel has a bellboy’, an elevator operator and a doorman who own several million Polish marks, a million German marks and several hundred thousand French j francs and Italian lire. Meanwhile reports from Germany say that women there are protecting their savings by putting doubtful paper money into silk stockings—something they can sell later. How widespread American speculation in German marks has become is indicated by a letter received by a New York "bank from a small banker in Texas asking whether marks were a "good investment.” He was told they’ were a "long shot gamble.” Bankers believe, granting the im- j possibility of a recovery in German marks, that they will either go so low that they will cease to be used as a means of barter, or else there will be official repudiation. In either case American speculators will have one or two billion dollars’ worth of "wall paper" on their hands.

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RELIGIOUS SECTS WRANGLE OVER PSIESIE REKD Atheist or Free Thinker May Be Chosen to Break Deadlock in League Council. By United Setcs GENEVA, Oct. 6. —The League of Nations council is searching for either an atheist or a free thinker to serve As president of the commission charged with custody and control over places in Palestine. Gx-eat Britain has been struggling I with this peculiar problem ever since it was accorded a mandate, in its effort to select a custodial commission. Settlement Remote I Still a settlement more remote than ever, for after discussing I the problem all day Tuesday, the league council was unable to reach a decision and was obliged to postpone the task until the next meeting, which probably will be held in December. On behalf of the Roman Church, Cardinal Gasparri, the papal secretary of state, endeavored to obtain a Catholic majority on the commission | through a proposal providing that the | governing body consist of a permanent ' resident head at Palestine and niemj bers representing each of the nations in the league council. Six Catholic nations Brazil, Uruguay, France, Spain. Italy’, and Belgium would thus have been represented as against China. Japan. Great Britain and Sweden.