Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1922 — Page 4

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A FAT NE of thè most dirficult problems confrontine GIFT TO I | those who would regulate rates to be charged GAS CO. bv public Utilities not municipally owned has always been thè question of how to detergine a fair valuation of thè property of thè utility whose fates are to be fixed. - - Some have argued tliat thè valuation should be thè originai cost of thè property used and usable as a utility. Others have argued that thè valuation should be fixed on a basis average priees over thè years of thè existence of thè property. Stili others, notablv Utilities themselves, have argued thè valuation should be based on thè estiinated eost of reproduction new, less a sum representing depreeiation. A precedent in thè application of this last theory appears to have been set by thè tentative report of William P. Kappes, Master in chancery, recommending a gas rate of $1.25 for Indianapolis. Mr. Kappes arrives at a valuation of thè property on a basis of thè cost of reproduction new less a depreciatioh of 15, per cent. This he arrives at a valuation mueh higher than that of thè public Service commission. which urged thè application of thè originai cost price. The importanee of determining a fair valuation and of thè method by which this valuation is reached is readily understandable when it is explained that rate-fixing bodies attempt to establish rates that will prive a utility a return of 7 per cent on thè valuation of its property. If thè property is valued on an originai cost basis, thè rate would necessarily be much lower than if it were valued on a reproduction new basis in these times of inflated priees. In establishing thè reproduetion new theory as thè theory for thè valuation of Utilities. >tr. Kappes has established a precedent almost equal to thè precedent established when thè Federai Court gave thè Home Telephone Company of Ft. Wayne authoritv to increase its rates, thè first order of its kind ever i.-sued in Indiana. The blow to thè publie Service commission. and through it to thè consumer, is almost as great as thè blow dealt in that now famous case. If thè reproduction new price is to be taken as a proper basis for valuation. scores of Indiana Utilities ean go into Federai Court and plead that their rates are confiscatorv and therefore one of thè sacred_rights of thè United States C'onstitution has been grossly denied them. And thev probahly will. if such a recommendation as Kappes makes is allowed by public opinion to stand. VVHITE COLLAR I too many are unwilling to do thè grimy tasks and DAYS _A. hard work of hfe. So says Davis. Seoretary of Labor. once a steel mill workoj-, now a inember of thè “white collar” brierade. It 11 be interesting to watch and see if America ean get its unskilled day-labor work done aster a few more vears, without lifting thè immigratimi bau. It takes thè average immigrant from ten weeks to ten years to get out of bis overalls. Davis. Seerotary of Labor, observes a generai belief that work with thè hands is menial. something disgraceful and to he avoided. He blames ‘‘our pursuit of thè theoretical in education” and “thè exclusion of thè practical.” Laziness, an outeropping of human nature, has more to do with it than education. sou cannot educate any one to like hard work. That‘s something that has to be born in thè blood. V\H\ SO “V NE American in every 12.000 is murdered cadi MAN"Ì I I year. In Enjrland thè figure is only one in# KILLINGS? 412.000. This is pointed out by Sir Basii Thomson, former head of Seotland Yard detectives. Putting it another wav: Most murders are committod with pistols. In our country, any one ean get a pistol. In England thev cannot be sold without licenses and a licerne is never given to a private person. PATINO \X A DIA X bankers loaned thè British government lIAR fl 558 million dollars during thè war. All except DEBTS vy abont sixty million dollars of this has been paid back. The balanee is luping reduced si million a month. In thè last nine montlis of 1022, Britain paid l'nele Sani about 142 million dollars on thè debt acconnt. No record is available as to what she has paid back to our private bankers. To her, it must be like paying for a dead borse.

Months of Year Were Named in Horror ofPagan Gods of Rome

You fan pct an answpr to any qnmtlon of faet or informano] by ntirnr to thè Indianapolis T:n Washintton Bureau. 132*! New Y v Ave.. Wsghinerton. D C.. inolosin? '! <-nt.s in stamns. Medicai, leial and love and marnale ad vice cannot be ?iven T’nsianrd lettera cannot be anawered. bv.t alì lettera are oonfìd<*ntial and re.-eive iiersonal rer'fes. Althorrh thè bureau <ines not reuuire it it wil! assure promptcr replies lf readers will confi- • quesiìons to e siitele sub'e* t. writtn? nove than one lett'T if ansiver? on vari ; :b e<-t<= are desired. EIUTOR. Hotv were thè nonths named? January was ìamed in honor of Janus, thè Rom- n god of thè beginnfngs o f all thit gs: Janunry opcns thè gateway of thè year. February was named for Fehruus. in whose honor cererr.onial purifications were held during thi? period of thè year. March was in honor of thè Roman war God, Mar. Apri! from thè Latin aperio, or open. May was in honor of Maia, goddess of growth. June is from thè Koman name Junias. July was named in honor of Julius Raesar. August wa* named for thè Roman emperor Augustus Caesar. September. October, November and December, tvere named from thè Latin numerals meaning *. 8. 9, 19, in thè Roman ealendar. Wliat is thè appropriate dress for a widow to wear at her second wedding? A wedding in very best taste for a widow wouid be a gmail ehurrh or ohapei wedding. The bride should wear an aftemoon Street dress or suit and hat. If thè wedding is at horae she might wear a semi-evening dress or handsome afternoon dress. Who was King of England during thè Napoleoni- wars? George 111. How did thè expression **the bar" originate in referente to thè prartloe of law? The bar is a fferm originally apI_iied to thè rail which separuted thè court officiate from thè suitors, their advocates and friends. When an action was brought to trial, thè aultora presented themselves at thè

i bar, accompanied by their advocates, who addressed thè court, from that rosition. Hence thè secondary slgnifìcation of thè term, as denoting those whose profession it is to appear at thè bar on behalf of suitors. The term is also employed in a looser sense to designate all thè iawyers of a country, as “thè American bar," “thè English bar,” etc. What are tlie denoniinatinns of thè new Treaaury Savings Certiflcates just Issued? $25, SIOO, and 51.090. The certifica tes having a face value of $25 còst . $29.59 and pay $25 on date of maturity which is Ave years from date of purchase. What are thè strongest àstringenfs in order of tiieir strength? Alum, tapnic acid, extract of witch hazel bark. -llow should inoiting canaries be treated? Thev need no special care during molt. Disturb them as little as ! possibie. Rathing may be permitted i once or twice each week, but if thè ! I irds do not wish to bathe they should not be sprayed with water, as this may causo fainting. A great i change in temperature or a sudden i chili may* check thè progress of molting and oceasionally cause serious trouble. Tf a birrì shows signs of distre'ss. it should be placed at once in a warm, protected place. Twenty drops of brandy, ftve of sweet spirits of niter, and a few shreds of saffron added to thè drinking water are beneficiai. It is well to add egg fcod or inoistened bread to thè ordina rv fare once or twice each week during molt. Pop ailing birds, a very slight quantity of sulphur may be fdded to thè egg food, or a weak saffron tea given instead of pure drinking water. A few linseeds in thè seed supply give a gloss and sheen to thè new feathers not otherwise ob tainable.

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Psychology Is Taking Place ofDreaded Third Degree to Force Confessions

By BOY GIBBONS VFA Staff Corrrspowìcnt. CHICAGO, Dee. 29.—Chicago polire are substituting for thè cru3e brutalities of “thè third degree” thè new terrore of psychology. Through practical application of psychologieal principles. particularly through breaking down resistance of thè conscious mind and liberating thè unconscious mind. they are wringing confessions from criminals. The new system is having its most spectacular test in thè case of Albert Foster, arrested on a oharge of first degree murder in connection with thè mysterious disappearance of bis former fiancee, Mrs. Kate Mitchell Trostell. Quizzed 98 Hours For ninety-eight hours —without sleep or letup—Detective Chief Michael Hughes and his assistants put Foster through thè psychological third degree. Thèrc were no threats of physical ! violence, no shouting and denunciation. no shooting of flrearms. “We proceeded on thè theory,” Hughes explained, “that in every human being is a spark of decency, and if you can free that spark, thè flame of truth is bound to leap outward.” At thè end of ninety-eight hours of psychoiogical sweating, Hùghas ! had obtained from Foster a statement Mrs. Trostell and he had | quarreled, she was taken sick and she jumped into thè drainage canal. Had it not been for this statement, I thè polire would have had to free ! Foster, for thè bedy of Mrs. Trostell has not yet been sound. N'o thè inquisitimi is proceeding 1 with thè pttrpose of wringing from Poster thè truth about some stalns sound on his ooat and <m thè running board of his automobile. These stains were analyzed by an officiai ohemist. who saie! they wore human blood. Foster's inquisitore first tried to build up bifore his mind's eye thè imnge of thè ( rime of which he was suspected. They held before bini time aster tinte a picture of Mrs. j Ttostell. Often as many as thirty

Asi a tic Refugecs Teli Horrid Tales of Tark Brutality Bv W. H. PORTEREIELD WASHINGTON. Dee. 29 —A tale of ; horror long drawn out! A dozen '• young girls tied by thongs to thè saddle homs of haif wild horses and dragged through thè turgld waters of j a cold, muddy river, until all are ; dead? Old women putto thè torture to re veal supposed hidden stoiies of gold; young women sold into slavery ar.d ! hranded with their ownere’ private 1 mark! Young men shot down and left to ! die on thè tra il. older men beaten with whips and over all, thè roar of flames from burning Smyrna—these ■are hut a few of thè horrihle stories i told by refugees from Asia Minor, Arinnians who have heen admitted to ! this country under bond and who must return to Europe when their time has expired. like soulAcondemn • I to hell. given hriof respito on partii : before going back to serve a sentenc. of Eternity in torture. The stories are being related in •li! ii he colorful detail which comes so readily to thè Orientai, and thè solenni faced, rather unimaginatlve Middle . West membere of thè House Immigrution commlttee sit open mouthed at thè reckal.

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MRS. KATE MITCHELL TROSTELL, HER DAUGHTER (LEFT), AND ALBERT FOSTER.

men surroumled hlm and plie<l hiin with questions. ' “( an’t Stick to Lie" “All criminale He,” said Hughes. “But rare is thè man who can tiok to a lic. We fimi a ilar will teli a different verelQif of thè samo story to almost every one. So wo lead a suspect into telling fies. then we check him up, and finally in his montai oonfusion thè truth will ou* “This, in effect, is what has hap-pc-rio<l in Foster's case.” Foster's conf'-ssion carne in thè ninetv eighth imur when, by pur arrangement, Mrs Trostell's daugri ter entered thè rooni and pleadeil

Show in thè City Bv RERTOX BRAI.ET ftl HE beautiful now ! The beautiful now t 1 It fa!ls on thè roof ami tlie pavimenta belo-, In fiali? that come f.oa ll pg- down g"ntand low Th‘* beautiful sno : It not beautiful lon*. Wtien tramnteii hy fi>t of thè hurrying tlirun* It isti t ;i Kubjcct {or music or eoli* Kor even as down ani it airtly flutter. It murile up thè Street# and 11 eh oltre up thè rutterà. And "Darn all thl* ano !" thè peijeatrian multerà. The tempera of driver It oefully wrock, It shd off thè roof down thè passer by' neck, It ltivnii no dlsUnction of <i*e or of sei. It mette, and virar over thè (turbatone it waahee. It overfiow* rutiher ami oak through iratoshcs Ou tur and on ons of thè wornm it aploahea. The Beautiful uno• ! On thè elly it itMll, li ause thè kiddin* of automobile. And niake you *et out and put chalns on thè wher! It sv./Ttlv grò dirty ami aloppy to vie. It harbori bacilli of colila and thè fino. Tifi half of thè populace neeze*, •'A-cboo!” The beautiful now I In thè country it o. But hern in tho city wo grect lt with woo. The far. far from beautiful “Beautiful 9now!" (Copyright, 1922, NEA Servii)

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l hvhterioally with him to tcJl her 4 whero her mother was. The'spark of decency, accordtng to polivo psychologtsts. buret luto thè flame of truth. And then Fos tot- was Imi nway for a f*‘W hours' tv*t, aster which t.h* inquisilion was renewed. ‘MULE’ IN RADIATOR A qtiart bottle one third full of white inule whisky hidden in tho r.idiator in ; Joe Zunks poolroom. 28’)3 W. Tenth St.f caused lils arrest on a charge >f operating a blind tiger. Lieutenant Anderson and a squad searched thè i pqplroom.

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Habit Clinics to Treat Crime Is Scientific Pian Bv E. il. TIUERRY A E A Staff Corrisvondrnt. BOSTON, Dee. 29.—“Fight thfc crime wave exactly as we Jìght disease epidemics.” That is thè answer of Dr. L. Vernon Briggs, famous criminologist, to thè problem of increasing murder and lesser crime iri America. In an interview with NEI A Service, Dr. Briggs, author of “The Manner of Man That Ivills,” director of thè Massachusetts Society for Menta! Hygiene and member of thè American Instiute of Criminal Law and Criminology, triade these recommendations: Sentence criminals guilty of capitai crime to fife imprisonment—and let Science study their cases. Establish "habit clinics” in every city for sttbnormal and abnormal children between 2 and 7 to prevent possible future criminality. Dr. Briggs says punishment can not stop crime, because it ’oe.sn t temove thè causo. He cites thè “habit clinic" of Boston, established seven montlis ago under Dr. Thom. as thè only agency directed toward prevtnting crime by striking at th3 causo of it. “When we fight typhoid, tubeic ilosis, yellow fMter and sintilar dise.asa epidemicsC’ he says. "we don’t kill thè people afflicted and destroy thè germs and every hit of evideviee about them. Instead, we study thè cases, isolate them, exammo thè germs rnicroscopically, and find a serum that will cure. Science strives to kill thè disease, not thè patient. “Why not treat crime like timi? Why kill thè patient by hanging or electrocution. and kill thè evidence with him? Hanging was originally designed as a doto rutili —a horrihle example—because it was public.”

Good Manners In any place where a nuni ber of persons are awaiting attention in lurn, as at a box office, ticket window or hank teller’s cago, it :s thè height of bad forni to attenipt to crowd ahead of earlier corner. Tiie individuai whose proper tura has come should transact his or ber business with all possible dispatch and niake way for thè next in line with tlie leasr poAsh’-le crowding or inronvenience to others.

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TOM SIMS SAYS:

IN Humbolt County, Cai., a man killed a catamount with an arrow, mudi to thè surprise of both. * People who wear tight shóes may be glad to learn a tire destroyed a thoe factory in Newton. N. J. • * • When it comes to quail hunting most men are fine at shooting sparrows. • * * The dangerous thing about shoveling show is you are liable to fall down

on thè job. • • c Wojciehowski is Poland’s new president, even if he does sound like a typographical error. * * • The older you are thè quicker Christmas comes, and thè younger you are thè quicker it goes. • • • You may think a boy carries crazy things in his pocket, btsi talee a look in a woman’s handbag. * ♦ • The value of a kiss depends upon thè law of supply and demani!. • • • Philadelphia has bad its worst. dry speli in 103 years. 'Of course this refers to Philadelphia weather. • • • Los Angeles has a boy of 14 over six feet tali. He eertainly went, west and grew up with thè country.

Dean ofHobo College Says Weary Willies Go in for Higher Learning

Su JOSEEHISE I'A.V DE (j RI FT XEA sere ire Staff li riter NEW YORK. Dee. 29. hobo in for higher education! Schopenhauer and Spinoza will henceforth be thè subjects of Wearj’ Willie s specula tion and Edward Carpenter thè stibatance of his song. This is thè confident prediction of "Dean" Gus Schaefer. whose announcement that he was about to open a hobo college at thè classic hobo hall un thè Bowery rnet with a flatterìng responso front thè box car tourists intemed there for thè winter. “I see,” explains thè “Dean." “these fellows sittuig around thè stove ani t says to nivself, ‘there’s a lot of these birds that might be putting in their time learnin' something useful.’ So we organized thè college and now anybody that tliinks he knows anythìng gets up and spouts ahout it and thè rest of u sit and listen." Amnng thè “professore" and “s'udents” assemhled for thè opening of thè college might have b en noted thè following Prof. “Frisco” Brown. psychoanalyst. Being employed only during thè sunimer tnonths Professor Brown has considerabìe time to devote to his favorite study.

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Ike Schapp, soap box orator and i liumorist. Ike’s most popular lecture j is entitled “Wimmin.” Max Small, most-traveled hobo in i thè world. Max has traveled 300,000 miles. He lectures on thè wanderlust and sticks in a few figures on ; politicai economy. Other notables included Jack Clifford. speciaiist on Karl Marx; California Blondie, author; George Mintzer. poet; Harry Iving, hobo organizer; I Gene Wasmufcfa, seoretary of ths locai ! hobo union. and “Red” Gorhazn. Charlie Schaefer, brother of Gus. dehvered thè opening lecture. It dealt with pjeasure and pain and during thè couree.of it thè lecturer had ; occasion to referto Schopenhauer. ! Spinoza, Spencer, Carpenter and BergI seri. According to an unofficial college ! prospeetus other lectures will deal with subjects ranging from thè pecu harities of station yard “bulla” to communism and Karl Marx. For those desiring to perfect themselves in soap box oratorv there will be a special course in public speaklng. The “college” challenges a professor of any other college to a debate on politicai economy.