Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1922 — Page 4

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GERMAN A T least a third of thè toys that Santa Cfbus will TOYS /\ bring to American kiddies this Christmas will AND OURS 1 V havc thè “Made in Germany” label. This is thè estimate among toy importers. German toys have definitely returned to our markets. But not on as big a scale as before thè war. In 1914 America bought $7,718,000 worth of German toys. Last year thè figure was around $3,6*30,000, and this will not show much increase when final check-up of 1922 imports is announced. Toy-making in Germany is in small factories, rarely employing as many as twenty-five workers. For thè most part, thè toys are produced in homes, where thè trade lias been handed down from generation to generation. Most of thè German toys are of thè inexpensive sort, though making them requires highlv skilled hand labor and a sense of thè artistic. These toys are coming again, in a flood. But they are not seriously interfering with thè reai function of American toy makers, who are following thè national trait and turning out toys that can be machincmade on a big scale. Germany sends miniature doli furniture, lead soldiers, Noak’s arks and Christmas tree decorations. American makers supply most of thè doli carriages, wagons., magic lanterns, electric trains and cast-iron animals. Before thè war, nine-tenths of our toys were imported. We have built up a big toy industry. It is suffering from competition, but it is going to survive—doing thè big things and not bothering much with thè “small junk” lines. In 1920 toy imports totaled nearlv $11,000.000, thè highest ever. This year it will be about two-thirds less. How much will America pay Santa Claus for all its toys? A very conservative estimate would be $50.000.000. ItV*a tremendous cost. Since we pay it, let’s get our money’s worth—enjoy Christmas to thè utmost. Monev should be —and in most cases is—thè last eonsideration at Christmas dime. Ilappiness is cheap at any price. MOTORMEN TREET car cperators do not seem to think TOO HAVE it is necessary, in thè new order of things, SPEED BUG KJ to stop their cars within thè safety zones during thè rush hours. When thè amber ligbt in thè tower at Meridian and Washington appears some of thè motormen make a grand rush to go as far as possible atone run. Consequently. thè oan who relies on thè Street cars to take him home during thè rush hours either must “jay-walk” or find himself standing for lialf an hour in thè safety zone, while thè unethical city dweller who dares walk half a block down thè mid-1 die of thè Street and, by a cateh-as-eatch-can method. securc hinv ■ self standing room on a car, is carried homeward. We must either “jay-walk" or wait indefinitely until some 1 rootorman is forced by accident to stop within thè safety zone. • What is thè panacea? GOING Y 'IROM expressions heard in both politicai campa,! AFTER W thè coming Indiana Legislature has a wallop in TRUCKS X store for automobile trucks, both freight and | passenger. The claim that thè truck is being given a “railroad track”. without taxation seems to have taken deep root, and, with pres-' sure brought to bear .from several sources. legislators will no doubt tight thè question out on thè floor of both house^. First there were thè navigarle rivers which thè railroads paralieled with their lines ; then thè interurban paralleled thè railroads and now both thè railroads and thè interurbans are objecting to competition from thè trucks. Steam and traction Utilities take thè position that thè trucks : are operating in competition without taxation or lieense, exeept thè nominai State lieense, while thè Farmers’ Federation, at its recent meeting here, demanded that thè truck be heavily taxed to help pay its share of thè road building throughout thè State. CARUSO’ A GIANT candle, which will burn-in honor 1.800 YEARS /\ of Caruso everv AH Souls’ Day for 1.800 FROM NOW X X years, is shippcd to Ttaly hy thè New York finn that ma de it. It issi ve feet in diameter. sixteen feet high, weighs a ton. cost. $3,700. When this candle flickers out for thè last time, in thè year 3722, will any one on earth he able to teli anything about Caruso and what he was famous for? Probably not, despite his litanie genius. For that matter, all of us will he forgotten then, exeept a few war leaders, who will he reniembered faintly in fables. And our World War will gef about ten lines in sohool histories—provided they stili have histories 1.800 years from now.

Many Superstitions of Chinese People Hamper Progress ofNation

qi'ESTIOVS ANSWERFt) Tou can get an answer to any questinn of faot or Information by vrritinsr t thc Indianapolis Times" Washington Bureau. 132"! New Tork Are., Washington. D. C.. incloeing *2 oent* in etarnps Meditai, legai and love and marriage ad vice oannot be given. Unsigned lettera < annoi be answered. bui all lettera are confidenti*!, and receire personal replica Although thè bureau doee not requlre it. it as•ures prrmpter replica if readers will confine questiona to a single subjeet. writlng more than one letter if answers on various sub jects are desired.—EDlTOß. What are some Chiame Superati tlons whicli hamper (he progress of thè nation? The Chinese believe that a dragon sleep under thè hllls and therefore they are opposed to miningr for fear thè dragon will be dlsturbed. The great Siberian road was defleeted some mlles from ita course In order not to Interfere with a grave yard. In thè cities thè houses are never built in straight rows, but some farther r farther forward than others In order to ward off eril spirits. for thè spirita are not supposed to be able to ttim a corner and so when they come down a house they go off into space and are lost. On thè ridge of all thè houses there aro little clay dogs which stand on thè rof with their mouths open to '’atoh thè evil spirita as they fly past. Who were some of thè early •uffrage leaders amnng thè women of America and what did they acromplish? Mlstress Margaret Brent brought thè spirtt of women s rights with her from England when she demanded "place and voyce” in thè assembly of Maryland. Thls was depled. but in both Massachusetts and Virginia women property holders voted as late as 1780. Mrs. John Adams, Mrs. Mercy Otis Warren, Mrs. Hannah Lee Ctvibln and others asserì ed thè rights

of women. Mrs. Adams say in a letter to her hissband: “If particular care and attentions are not paid to thè la òfes (in rcference to thè vote), we are determined to forment a rebellion and wili not hold ourselves bound to obey any laws In which we have no voice, nor representation.” However. thè States did not grant thè women this tight. What is thè best time to vfsit Alaska? The best time to vìsit Alaska ls mound July. Nome, Alaska, ls six days’ boat trip from Seattle or a distance of about 2,000 mlles. The rallroad fare is SBS a round trip. Llving condltions in Alaska are about thè same as in thè United States. One can live there for about S 6 a day, American pian. Wherc are thè Gallus-Baukivus jungle fowls raised in (his country? The Department of Agriculture, poultry di Vision. Informs us that thè Oallus Bankivus jungle fowls are raised in thig country onlv at experi ment station s. Wherc ls Rlackwell’s Islanri? Blackwell’s Island is a narrow, rocky island in thè East River, fo-ni-ing a part of New York City, between Manhattan Island and Long Island, about one and one-half mlles long by one-elghth of a mlle wide. It ls used excluslvely for thè penai instltutions and hospitals under charge of New York City. What iterarne of thè two sons of Alexander thè Great? The two sons of Alexander thè Great. Alexander and Hercules, weie murdered as ,was also Alexander' half brother, Aridaeus.

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How Johan Schmidt and Wife Are Getting By On Priees in Berlin

By MILTON BRONNER NEA Staff Correnpondcnt fortably well off. BRONNER But take as an example thè wages of coal miners, because in many aspeets they ave thè most importànt workrnen in Germany. If thè miner falls down on his job, Germany is "kaput”—done. In January, 1921, thè mineni in thè Ruhr Valley got 63.90 marks per shift of aeven hours. By February of 1922 they were getti ng 123.34, by May, 187.12 and by July, 258.38. . When I was in Essen, thè metropolis of thè Ruhr. thè other day, they tolti me thè latest flgures for minerà were 1,255.80 per shift, in addition to forty marks per day if thè miner had a wife and another forty marks pea day for each child. Ile also got his coal for a very low figure. Priees Snar But listen how priees jumped from their pre-war standard: Beans which cost 22 pfennings a pottnd—there are 100 pfennings in a mark—cost 60 marks in October, much more notv. Peas which cost 22 pfennigs, cost 68 marks in October. Lard, formerly 75 pfennigs per pound, in October. cost 380 marks. Eggs which used to be 7 pfennigs each, cost 26 marks—when you could get them. Let us peep behind thè seens in thè four-room fiat of Johan Schmidt and wife of Berlin. Johan may be a mechanic drawlng 8,500 marks per week, or a carpenter, 8.350: woodworker. 9.000; hrewer, 9.000: shoemaker. 9,400: plumber. 9.165; bullder, 240 per l.our: or drav driver, 7,000. Schmidt has finished his breakfast of two clices of dark bread with dripidng, and cup of coffee without a reai. coffee ljean in it. He has wrapped his lunch of two slioes of btack farad with a piece of sausage and a gnarled appiè and started' away early, so he can walk to work. The shortest car rides now cost 30 marks. Mrs. Schmidt Shop Mrs. Schmidt. market basket on her arm. walks downtown to one of th big department Stores. There is ever-present in Mrs. Schmldt’s mini thè fact. that ber hus band is earning between 100 and 1,500 marks per day. Judge her frati* of mimi when she beholds these priees for thè day: v

Marks Lean Bacon (lb.) 1160 Fat Bacon db.) 1820 # Sausage db.) 976 Wienerwurst db.) 600 Soft C'heese (lb.). 160 to 458 Butter db.) 1660 Margarine db.) 900 Aprieot Jam (lb.) 266 Prunes (lb.) 350 Dried peas 200 to 350. Coffee (poor quality) . ..J....2600 Canned fruit 200 to 400 Dried Herring, each 62 Potatoes (lb.) 8 Carrots (Ih.) 18 Cabbage (lb.) 20 Onlons (lb.) 28 Chickeu (lb.) 600 Veal (lb.) 400 Bec-f (poor quallty) (lb.) 400 to 700 Pork db.) 600 to 700 Sugar db.) 115 and soon to be rattoned at three pounds per head ' per month at 180 Eggs (each) 68 Bread (Ih.) 165 Mrs Schmldt doesn’t buy any meat. She ean’t afford if: nor eggs. She buys )>read, potatoes. dried Hsh, a little sausage. and some dried peas. Bui she thinks she will “shop” for, wearing apparel. The show Windows often do not display nrices. owing to thè fluctuation in thè mark. So you go In and say that in window No. 1-4 you say suit No. 10 that you llked. And then you get thè price for that day. Mrs. Schmidt notes thè foilowing prices: Men's overcoats-r... 40.000 marks Men’s suits 60,000 marks Men's gloves fr0m...6,500 'o 9,600 Men’s Shirts 2.250 marks Soeks ._. 700 to 1,000 marks In thè women’s department ano can get a biouse for 1,750 an artiflcial s!lk

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dress for 19,500; a woolen dreaa for 23,500 shoes at anywhere from 6.500 to 7,900; stockings from 37j> to 1.050, and handkerchiefs from 525 to 326. Mrs. Schmidt sees several things she would like, but—thè coal Din it ompty

Equal Legai Rights Is Plea of Woman Juvenile Judge

Though woman today has equal rights with man at thè polis, she is not yet his equal at law. Such was thè contention advanced at a. recent conference of American woman lawyers In Washington. It is a conditlon which thè convention was called to correct. The meeting took place simultaneously with a gathering of Woman's Party leaders to launch a new legislative campaign for equal rights. Will Draft Bill The special task asslgned to thè women lawyers was thè giving of advice concernlng thè drafting of equal rights bllls. Judge Kathryn Sellerò, who called thè lawyers together and preslded at their meeting, occupies thè District of Columbia juvenile court bench. She was thè flrst woman to rec&ive a Federai judiclal appointnient. It is not now as a voter. but in thè court, that woman flnds herself at a dls&dvantage with man, Judge Sellerà points out. *‘The trouWle is.** she explaln*, "that our legai System, at Its very beginning. was thè work of men. "That is why. for so many centurie. we have had a doublé legai standard—a standard for man, and a difforent standard for woman. "The old Engllsh common law gave woman an Inferior position in nearly every respect. One Standard Soughf "It 1 particularly appropriate, now that we are trying to secure a single legai standard for men and women. for ellmination of thè law’n dißoritninations against women. that women members of thè bar should he called lnto consubation and that their advice should be sought. ‘‘lt is a great task, and thè most

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and briquettes, made out of coal dust, now cost 987 marks for 200 poumls, and she must ’buy coal,. More problems raiaed by ths fading mark will be thè subject of lironner’s next story.

K L ; > -.d 'a JUDGE KATHRYN SEU.IT.s importànt, I think, ever undertaken by women.” / Handkerchiefs The modem woman's supply of handkerchiefs includee not only thè all whlte line:) ones. but novelty silks and organdiea. which nr* intended to glve a decorative touch to thè costume. as well as colorful bandannas.

Experiments to Save Gas Bills Are Being Made By Times Special WASHINGTON, Dee. 18.—One dime out of every dollar that thè American autoist now spends for gasoline will be saved, if experiments being conducted by thè 'United States Bureau of Standards succeed. A complete study of automobile engfhe perfonnance, both in thè laboratory and in cars an thè road, is being made with thè object of increasing thè efficiency of intemal-combustion engines. It is estimated that a 10 per cent saving, which now appears prom ising, would clip thè Nation’s gasoline bill something like $100,000,000 a year. Einstein Theory May Be Proven Fallacy by Test B\j XFA Servire CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dee. 18—The same scientifle experlrnent which Dr Albert Einstein cited to prove his “Theory of Relatlvity” is threatening to disprove Einstein! Upon thè outeome of experlmenta tion now being made at Cote Schoo. of Applied Science here depends thè question of proof or disproof. Prof Dayton O. Miller, head of th* physica department, is conducting thè experlrnent. It is a continuation of thè Michelson-Morie y experlrnent. started in ISB7 and conttnued unti! 1906. The experimenters set up an ap parutus, called thè interferometer, to regiater and trace thè drift of thè ether current—if such a thing exlsts. They falled to reglster any evldence of ether moving. From this, Einstein drew thè con clusion that there was no ether drift —nor any ether for that matter. From this basis he worked on to his other conclusione. He cited thè ex periment as "decisive proof of thè theory Cjf "relativity as opposed to ’the abAolute.’ " It was latei- suggested that a. thè experlrnent wa.s carried on in a room dose to thè earth's surface, thè ether inside wo t’d be carried along with thè room. Professor Miller, who worked in thè originai reaearch, again perfortned thè ixperiment In 1920 and 1921. this tìme on thè top of Mt. Wilson. Cai., i at a height of 6,000 feet. The result wa opposìte to t.he firn flndlngs, and seemed to dlsprove Einstein’ conten tlon. Other new and unexplamable | resolts were obtained.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: THE best Christmas gift is thè gift of knowing what others Frank Chance will manage thè Bos- / -sgg* ton Red Sox next year. giving this team I RgSP-'r Reader asks if a'coiiple married near Christmas are yuletide. Yes. General Pershing is worried about our Army, and it might be better if thè General’s views were generai. •• • / Mexican fans beat up a plat’er for liitting an umpire, showing Mexicans know nothing about baseball. t t • When thè modera girl has no complexion she will make up for it. * • • If you are just looking out for Number One this Christmas, remember it is thè smallest number. / * • • The only hunter who traila race tracks is a fortune hunter. • * • Boston’s mayor wants coal gougers jailed. Docking them up in thè ice plant would be better. • • • It is estimated that ten million barefooted men stumble over tovs h>-the dark every Christmas. 1

What Does Labor Want?

BY HERBERT QUICK A short time ago, a friend of mine made a friendly attack upon me for my statement in print that our law for thè control of atrikes are and must be failures. He believed that tho Australian, New Zealand, and Kansas laws for making people work in spite of their desire to strike were working pretty well. Anyhow, aaid he. we've gotto do something. Sureiy we can’t go on letting labor tie up thè Industry of thè country in doublé bow knot as it does now, We must have a law for it! I answered hlm as we!! as I could. I suggested that there aren't jalls enough to hold labor when it feels that it must quit work. A Wilkerson Ir.junction I called a tyrannical enoroachment upon liberty, and a blow at trial by jury and every safeguard which time has built up for thè proteotion of freedom. If I had read a book I have just finished, I could have answered more fuily. Jt is a cairn, unsensatlonal book. by Mr. Ha yes Robbins. secretary of thè (71 vie Federation of New Engiand, an economist and author. This httle

book is called “The Labor Movement and thè Farmer” and is published by Harcourt, Brace & Co. I expected that this book would deal concretely with thè reasóns why ths farmers should either oppose thè labor unions, or work with them. It does nothing of thè sort. It is exactlv what every person who would like to know thè history and thè ideala of tha ' labor movement should read, in ordar that he may understand thè economia and human elements in this great problem. It shows thè failure of thè Ausitralian. New Zealand, and Canadian “labor compulsion” laws, and of ih Kansas law, too, though it was wrlt- ; ten before thè people of Kansas had repudiated it. It adinits and points out thè evila of thè labor movement. It tells of thè %-arlous remediai schemes at work. And as usuai in such cases. it fails 1 to point out thè fact that denial of access to naturai opportunities for self employment is thè underlying evil. But it shows labor as human beings Trying to save their souls and bodies ! from thè grinding of thè machine.