Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1922 — Page 4

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WHOA, of thè Legislature, including some STATE |\/I Republicans as well a.s most Democrats, are EXPENSE! 1V 1 coming to Indianapolis next week with thè annoiuiced intention of curtailing thè expenses of thè State government. One member of thè Assembly has made thè statement that thè expenses could be cut as much as $10,000.000 annually without curtailing efficiency. During thè war thè State, like nearly everybody else, got thè habit of spending money. Money carne freelv and it was spent freely. Everybody got over thè habit from force of neeessitv soon aster thè war. but thè State, stili having a way to obtain money, went right on spending it. The result is that thè government of Indiana has a wartirae outgo while thè people who support thè government have peacetime pocketbooks. The expenses of thè State have more than doubled since before thè war. It is time thè Legislature forgets politics and thè feeling of a few persons who may lose politicai jobs and gets busy and puts thè State on a business basis. Everv other business has been forced to go to a peaeetime basis. Why not thè State? PROFITS EXATOR HIRAM JOHNSON proposes in a bill to VERSUS amend thè Esch-Cummins act so that railroads SERVICE will be forbidden from deciaring dividends until thè interstate commerce commission has certified that their railroad equipment is suffieient to meet thè roads’ needs —in other words, until thè railroads have rails, engines and cars sufficient to handle thè business coming to them. Senator Jolinson is a lawyer, and presumably he has no doubt. as to thè legality of his proposition. That being thè case, he ought to be commended from Washington to Florida and from New Ertgland to California, wherever shippers, whether orehardists. manufactnrers, stock raisers or farmers, are pleading for railroad relief. This pian of Senator Johnson’s is doublv worthv of a hearing because it emanates from thè representative of a State which for generations was thè principality of a great transcontinental railroad System. California has known what it is to be under a railroad lyrannv, and if her Senator has sound a way to prevent operators from "milking” railroad properties. when they should he building for better Service, let’s give it a trial. COULDNT A BOSTON man goes tr prismi for stealing SAY $300.000 at thè age o f .9. Previously, through ENOUGH jLjL-his long lise. he * vi been so honest and reliable that he had *■ .vn to a high business position of trust and a eomfortable st .of prosperity. In one stroke he p- .oes a lifetime of effort. You wonder wt. a man of 79 suddenly desired great riehes. Too old to eniey wealth. Only a few years left for him on eartli. The a’-svver is an old one: Most of us never know when we have enough. We keep on grasping. even though thè thing grasped at would be of no use to us if we got it. JESSE APRIL it will be forty-one years since thè shooting JAMES I of J, *sse James. This will make a good manv elderlv PJKER JL people hunt a mirror. Jesse was shot and killed by a member of his own bandit gang, while he was hanging a picture on thè wall. The shooting took place in his home at St. Joseph, Mo. The house is rapidly cavine in, collapsing to ruins. The locai historieal society refuses to preserve it, on thè grounds that thè quicker Jesse is forgotten, thè better. Alreadv he is dira in memory, almost mytliical. He stole in thousands. A modern profiteer. stealing in millions, must rank Jesse James with thè pikers. The difference was technical, merely a matter of methods.

GOOD news from thè railroads. The uumber of cars f freight thev loaded for shipment during thè SIGN week ended Dee. 9, compared with thè corresponding week of previous years like this : 1922—919,828 care. 1921—741.341 care. 1920—837,953 care. 1919—761.940 care. The figures prove that business raen are betting on good tiraes in 1923, by a large majority. Freight isn’t moved on a big scale unless a market awaits it. RISKS Ti ypYSTERIOUS chance kills William Brown in WE ALL \/| Cassopolis, Mich. Ile set his alarm clock tuo TAKE IV hours early, by mistake. and went to a corner store at 4 in thè morning instead of 6. The •watchman thought. he was a robber, and shot him. * When death mav hinge on setting an alarm clock, it makes one feel that there can not he too much caution and aocuracv in thè simplest and seemingly unimportant things of lise. Average Corn Yield Per Acre in thè United States Is 27.1 Bushels

You can get an answer to any tìon of faet or informatici! by writinar to thè Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C imlosine- 2 centi in stampa Medicai, legai and love and marriage u<l\ice cannot he given. frisiglieli letteri< cannot be anewered. but ali lettera are conkdential, and reeeive personal repiiea. Alrho .eh thè bureau does not re<u:ir<‘ it. it will arsure prompter replica if readers will confine Questiona to a single subjeet. writing more than one letter if answers on various Bubjecta are desired.—EDlTOß. What is thè average yield of corn per acre in thè United States? This varies from 14.8 bushels In Florida to 47 bushels in Connecticut. The average for thè entire country for thè past ten years is 27.1 bushels per acre. Who is thè Premier of Great Britain? Andrew Renar Law, who recently eucceeded I avid Lloyd George. What became of Ihe head of St. John thè Baptist aster Salome ave it to her mot ber? There is no record of what became of it. Who owns thè land on which thè Iniled States mint in Philadelphia is built? The United States Government. How does Robert Bums rank as a poet? In literature thè place of Robert Burns is among thè great ones of thè earth. llls poety is replete with sire, bumor and pathos, combined with perfect simplicity and naturainess. One main secret of his succcess was hia alinosi always writlng dlrectly

from nature. His intense admir ation of naturai scenery, in place of ventlng itself in cold description, was genera 11 y associateti with some engrossing human emotion. Hence it is that he rarely fails to find his way to thè hearts of his readers. and that he has sueeeeded in bequenthing to his country and thè World thè most adniirable body of lyrical eompos’tion. whether as regards force of expresslon or tenderness of sentiment to be sound In thè literature of any age or nation. Are any high ofticers of thè United States Navy of thè Japanese race? No. Where was Herbert Rawlinson born? In Brighton, England, in 1885. If Victory honds in thè series A to F are not cashed until May 20, 1923, will interest be paid on them up to that time? No, thè interest on these bonds stopped Dee. 15, 1922. What is thè highest speed made by tlie following: Man, airplane, motorboat, automobile? Man —100 yards in 9 8-5 second; one mlle, 4 minutes, 12.6 seconds. Airplane—243 miles per hour. Motorboat—Bo.s6 miles per hour. Automobile —Offlcially thè record is 156.04 miles per hour, made by Tommy Milton in a Duesenberg car. Unofflcially, according to a newspaper report, Sid Haugdahl made 180 miles an hour in a special built car callod thè “White Streak."

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Scientists Offer ss,ooofor Photograph of Ghost or Other Psychic Manifestations

liti E. IL THIERRY XEÀ Etaff Corrcspondent NEW YORK. Dee. 30.—Fivs tliousand dollars for a ghost! Ghosts are now quoted at that prlce—s2,soo for a epirit photograph. and $2.500 for a sample of ghostly ectopiasm. Psychic tests with these ipwards are. to hegin soon under thè direction of thè Scientific American J. Malcolm Bird, formerly of Columbia Itniversity, and seeretary of thè eommittee which will judge thè tests for proof. of spiritualistic phenomena, says nuniber of inediuins ivill he tested. Two of thè more famous American medium- — Miss Ali Resimi et of Toledo and Mrs. Elizabeth Alien Tomson of Chicago—will he among thè tii-st to give sean< es before thè committee. Sir Arthur Conati Dovle, thè British novelist and Champion of things psyehie. will he bere in Apri! and will he invite! to witness some of thè tests. It was a letter from Str Arthur. eomp!aitiiag of ertticlsm.s of psyehie subjfcts, that >ed to thè competi! ioti heing a,;-digerì Guardili?: Vttains! Cali' >x The protlucer of thè tirst psychic photograph—on* distìnctly showing thè human forni or far'e—will get ha!f of ine J'.rmfi. The other $2,500 wig go to thè tir-t pcron who produces “an objective psychic manifestatimi of psychieal iharacter" that can he made thè subjeci of “permanent instrumenta! record.” ! “Theso include.” > xplained c tarv Bird. “ectopiasm. rar" .. ehle lierhts and other maetf.-s!: .ons that can he record* oy thè ( antera, thè microphone <r other Instruments. “Fa'--- will not he admitted to ?p. tests. Nur will amateur.-', for only those inediuins who bave ac i omplished snmethine in thè past will be alile to qualify. This is an investigation primariiy of pia noniena. not of mediums." The $5,000 is to be availahle for a period of two years. If not rollected by that time it will be withdrawn—with a “no ghost" ventici. Judges include Wiiiiam McDoug all. professor of psycltology at Har vani and president of thè American Society for Psychieal Research; Daniel Frost Comstock. formerly of Massachusetts Tn.-titute of Technclogy; Walter Franklin Pierre and Congressmen Write Their Own Lise Histories By limes Special WASHINGTON. D<c. 30.—One of thè great indoor sporta of Congr ss is ••eading thè autohiogi tphies thè different mernbers write of themselves for thè Congressional Directory. Here'o this yeur’s p.\ze: “llis fratcrnal lise iias been extern tive," writcs James H. MacLalferty. new Congressman from California, of himself. “His ohief fraterna! activity has been iti Masonry, lie heing a Thirty-third Degree Mason; but he is also an Clk, a Moose. a Lion, Natil e Son of thè Golden West, United Coni mereiai Tiaveler, Travelers’ Brotective Associatoti and Four Minute Man!” One pauses involuntarily to wonder how Congressman Mac refrained from identifying himself with thè Owls, thè Red Men. thè Facies and various other worthy zoological and ornithologica! orders. or how it is possible for him to devote any time to public Service, but “Mac” explains how he does it.

State Executioner Gets $l5O for Every Man He Kills and Job Satisfies Him

ByALEXANDER HERMAN NE A Service Staff Write. AUBURN, N. V.. Dee. 30—A flickering liglu; a fiickering lise And another $l5O in thè pocket of John W. Tlulbert, State executioner. who probahly has exec.uted more men than any other living person. There were seventecn in 7922; twelve thè year heforc. But. In 1919 there was a Itili. Only two were sent to thè rhair. Hulbert is a man of silence. Srnall, short-sighted and snappy, he goes about his wm'k in thè death house at Sing Sing without a word. A test of thè current in thè aftarroon. a few preparations and he ls ready. When thè condemned man, head shaved. is strapped iti thè chair of death, and thè contacts made, thè executioner withdraws to a little side chamber, throws a switch and watches thè bulb in front of him. It gets dimtner and dirnmer as lise ebbs, and then flares up— When it. is all over. A Good Job, Says Wlt’e Hulbert then silentlv packs his little bag, boards a train and returns to his regular job here Ho ls electrician of Auburn Prison. At home he never discusses his job and his family is discreetly sllent. But Mrs. Hulbert finds no fault with his work. ‘Tt’s no worse than other Jobs,’’ she says. “If anything, it is betìer. It is thè execution of thè law. "Somebody has to do it. Why '.tot my husband? “He has been connected with prisons as an electrician for twentythree years. When thè cali carne for him to do thè added work he took it. “It wasn’t a matter of like or dlslike. It was just a matter of work. “Personally I believe in capitai punishment. It il painless. The men who go to thè chair are all guilty. There is plenty of time for appeal or reprieve if they merlt it before thè eleetrocution. "l don’t know how many men my Ina- 1 ;nd has execnted 110 keeus

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HeièW.urd Carriir-tton. well known invf-stigatorH and writers on psychical sub‘oc I Harry lloudinl, th- magiciari.

Nooody Home Bu RERTOX BRALET IN' n attrr‘i ir.tol'.r-, tual shFa aoitu-whftt inrffpcfual. SI e more or iosa a ilurab-ticll, as it v.rro Her latk 1 slifcr inanity, hor luiul ia futi ot ranity. And yot you Hke to run around itti hrr. tlrr i-oo ; ery'* deplorntitr, Init, oh, hor amili*' adorabili. And there'* a wondrou macie in her clance; Stio's Jacluni; in abdl.y or a: y trur utility. But stilla a floatln,; feather lu a dance! She doosn’t tot! or apin at all or ald her marrierl kln at oli, Sl.e doesn't In 'p her niother or her dad. It keep, thone parente burrylnc and ftcurintr and worrytnc To inni thè dainty i;,arb tn whidi elio olad. But w.in ttii-y sin fin* pop of her. thè (frac* in everv atep of hrr lirr lovolincss, hrr airy-fairy atyly, Tliev iMninit view t l *r frelfully; and nume iiow ijiinxrctfuUy ’J tu-y feci i arp nut they've spent i* worth thè while! The hutt.erfly la rlorimis. you don't beeomo cennorlou* Br.-auae it doesu't labor at a )a*dt; Periiapa it is unduUful, but If lt's cay and beautiful That s Just about as mudi as you can aak And when a pirl is kissatile, with prettiness unnil*Rnhle. Wby nioan because slie lsn't keen and wise - We *ho d ime an attitude of undilutcd cratitude That suri) a lovcly pi, lure creeta nur eyeai (Cojiyright, 1022. N ì;A Service)

FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE ELECTRIC CHAIR IN THE NEW DEATH HOUSE AT SING SINO AS THE CONDEMNED MAN SEES IT. TO THE RIO UT: THE

no list and has probably iost eount' of thè number. “He doesn’t mind thè work, or else he would give it up.” But his son won't follow in bis footstepS. He has gone luto thè automobile business. BEAUTY vJOBS OPEN COLUMBUS, Ohio. Dee. 30.—There

ELIZABETH ALLEN TOMSON (I.EFT) AND MISS ADA BESINNET.

Tho judnres are not takinp any chance —they are goinn to supply all apparatus and matorials used by mediums in thè $5,000 tests.

SWITCH AND FLICKERING LiGHT WHICH EXECUTIONER HULBERT WATCHES AS HE TURNS ON THE CURRENT.

parlors and in thè kitchens of Ohio, according to W. J. Biebesheimer, chief of thè division of labor statistics of thè department of Industriai relatlons. Biebesheimer on a recent tour of tho State sound that there are openings for at least 150 ali-around opera -

Gompers Declares Waron \Company U.nions’ of Roads Bn C. C. IjYOX WASHINGTON, Dee. 30.—Samuel Gompers. president of thè American Federation. of Labor, has declared war on thè so-ealled “company unions.’ which he-says employes are using as a subterfuge 'with which to und (trinine llje !iig railroad brotherhoods. Railroad managattj of lines aggrega ting more than (WOO miles are now formine “company unions” for their employes. Gompers has just sounded a warning urgin;, workers not to join. “These company unions,” he says, “aniount to an rft'oft tb dispiace reai trade unions having their foundati >n in thè needs of thè workers with counterfeit organizations having their foundution in thè needs of thè employers. “Labor organizations can bo effective in behalf of tiie workers only when they are under thè complete control of thè workers. The sole purpose of labor organizations is to serve thè workers. They must he answer.able to thè workers and thè moment they cease to he answecable, their effeetiveneps is diinini.-hed."

Public Opinion

Weeps None For Farmers To flit Editor of The Times This is to teli you how much I ap precinte thè worth of your paper of late. I have been watching its steady growtn. You certainly have some monopoly in giving us material from sudi men as Herbert Quick and Lloyd George. I think 1 should he aoting falsely were I to wlthhold ;t friendly criticism on your generai attitude as to thè famier s situation. A lui of bunk is beitig passed nround about thè poor farnier. It has been said that farming is thè oldest of thè arts and thè youngest of thè Sciences. It is also thè last of thè Industries to adopt “quantity” or factory methods of production and may he thè tirst of thè Industries to rcach thè goal of cooperative marketing. Fewcr minora with eleetric drills can mine thè coai needod. Fewer farmers with modern maehinery may produce more food Gian necessary. Tiie nations of thè worid are clearing their decks to engagé in their last great battle of competitive production. It is inevitable. Let it come Tariffa may prevent thè struggle for a while in some Industries, but tariffa are not for thè farmers. The /.merican farrner with his modern methods and machinery Is nìreadv in thè foro of thè battio. The weak concerns are crvlng out for more credit which a cjamagogue Congress may futllly give them. The sanar leaders are alreadv studying thè questlon of cooperative marketing, but no worid Moses has vet arrived. for thè question is one that concerns World rondiflons. Herbert Hoover carne thè nearest measuring up in size for leadership, but thè reactionaries in this country were helìbent on having a baekwoods tiddler for a leader and Hoover was placet! as third tiddler. Then too. thè farmers mistakenly regarded Hoover as their enemy. They said he set thè prive of wheat too low during . e war. Instead they took a man who said a dollar a bushel was a good enough prive for wheat. They made a great htillaballoo about thè daylight saving law, and jollified when they got Congress to repeal lt. Next they S'iid their souls for a mess of pottage—tln> Emergency Tariff. Now they .vant the Federai Farm Loan Banks to inercase thè limit of a loan from ten thousand to twenty-flve thousand dollars. This will only add fut i to thè everincreasing (ire of centralization of Industries which must pre-

Bids Will Be Opened on Traci of Virgin Pine in Oregon Foresi

•/ ir. If. PORTEREI ELI) WASHINGTON. Dee. 30.—0 n Feb. 15, Colone! Greeley, chicf forester of thè 1 nited States, will open bids for thè pureha.se of thè flrst unit of timber in thè great Malheur National Forest of eastern OregonThis, probahly tho Un est body of yellow pine in thè world, has been awaiting development for some time past. Much of thè tjmber. according to Colonol Greeley. is fully ripe and should be cut. There is no railroad within eighty miles of thè forest, and to interest corporatìons of sufflcient fìnancial strength to bid on thè proposition, it was nccessai-y to make unusuai stipulations. For exatnple. thè tract or first unit, which has been carefully surveyed, is estimated to contai a billion feet of ripe yellow pine, and an upset price of $3,000,000 has been tlxed on thè sanie. The period of pa.vment and tinte of cutting s extended over twenty-flve years. thus insuring a monopoly to

Water-Power and Congress

By HERBERT QUICK Why is Congress hostile to waterpower development? That it is hostile. thè present state of things seems to show very clearly. For years thè monopolistic Interests tried to get control of .our waterpowers. For years thè people who believed that monopoly ought not to be allowed to hog thè water-power fought thelr schemes. Clifford Pìnchot was thè leader of thè tight against monopoly. and for thè people. Finally a law was passed to whlch thè conservationists agreed, and many of thè less hoggish power people accepted as one under which they could invest money safely. That law is on thè statate boolts. But Congress has so fixed things that they cannot go on and develop their piante. Water-power takes thè place of We are suffering economie prostration and social distress for lack of coai. Yet Congress haa so arranged matters that thè water-power projeets cannot go on and give us water-power to liberate production and ease our

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TOM SIMS SAYStp THERE are a great many children -10 or 50 years old. *'■'" -. afe # Htatistics show that, much / ' w-fjP'. *^ to thè cow’s disgust. thè United States is / ... eating more beef. I c *** I G It must let awful to be a burglar V ftrul bave to stay out all night. \ Wall * * M A tool and his money soon pay a dirne l'or a nickel cigar. t, *V* . /;7g*l Jl ’ ’ R Yes, thè good die voung, espeeially ■ thè good resolutions. ’* v No matter how many autos are sold there doesn't seem to any more room in thè Street cars. m ■ Even aster a man gives you his phone number it is often har* to get. 1 • # • Congress may stop sending out free seeds. It seems they do not raise enough votes. • • * •‘Heaven. ” says a mi ni ster, “is a million miles away.” Then a Njreeder often goes a million miles on less than a gallon of gas. • * ♦ You can always learn xorneihing. A clock passes thè time by keeping it> liands busy. *'• * <• In Washington, a woman is suing a man for SIOO,OOO for a stolen kiss. but no doubt he would be glad to return it. • * t Nothing makes a man want to hunt in a place like a “No Hunting” sign. • • * The most popular reading matter in jail is thè calendar. • ■+ ♦ A man can be a self-starter and not get where he is going trnless Ho is a self-stopper. • • • A race between two fat men is funny, but thè funniest race we have e ver seen is thè human race. • • • l-'reneh tlressing for salads is expensive, but French dressing fnr girls is worse than expensive. •* • ' Last ycar was not as great as this year ean be. • • • “(ìermany Wants Peate ’’ —headline. If we knew where it was we certamiv would teli her.

cede thè cooperative commonwealth. THEO DO RE RÙMINE, Mooresville Imi. Old Folks Ma de Happy by Passale of Pension Bill TU' ROBERT TAI.LEV WASHINGTON, Dc-o. 30. —It’s going to he a Happy New Year .this time l'or some 330,000 old folks, seattered throughout thè land. The Bursum pension bill, whicli beconies effective thè first of thè year, carries iucreases in pensions of about S2O per month to all Civil War veterans and widows. The pensions of 152,000 veterans now on thè Government rolls will be inereased from SSO to $72. The pensions of 180,000 widows will be inereased from S3O to SSO. "These old folks are becoining more feeble every day and it is a debt we owe them,” said Senator Bursum, New Mexico, allthor of thè bill. “The (estimateli cost of thè increase will be about $70,000,000 for thè rirst year, but at thè end of three years this will bave vanished beeause thè old pensioners are dying ott so rapidly.

thè suroessful bidder so that he can build a logging railroad eighty miles long into tHo forest and construct thè necessary plant, milis, etc. Desplte what many folks believe, thè timber resources of thè L T nited States are not being entirely flepleted. Greeley told Congressmen thè other day that approxlnmtely 8,000,000 tree seciilings a year are being plant ed by thè Government on out-ever national forest landa. These seedlings are being planted from 800 to 1,200 thè acre. The Federai Government has planted to date about 100,000 acresCOMPANY EXPANDS The Meridian Sales Company, which tonduets three places of business in ♦he city, has acquired a ninety-nine-year lease on property at thè corner of Maryland St. and Virginia Ave., ut which an auto hardware store will be opened in thè spring.

Congress will not give thè Federai water-power commission a chance to work. The power plants cannot be built unless it has such chance. This great commission has no working force except it can borrow from thè departments. It has no field force, no personnel of its own save one executive secretary and one engineer officer. It had only SIOO,OOO in 1921, and thè same sum in 1922, and in 1923 it will have no money at all. It has more than 350 app.llcations for permission to build pianta, calling for thè development of more than 21,000,000 horse power. This amount of power is more than twice tho entire water-power now developed in thè United States, and mere than six times thè applications for thè past twenty years. If it were developed it would solve thè coal shortage. Who is tìack-capping thè waterpower businosfc? The coal trust? The railways? OJ is it just plain, bald, callotta stupi/ity? Or is It a mixture of railway, 3-oa.l and congressional

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