Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 203

Times Writer Takes Coue’s ‘Better’ Cure Noted Frenchman’s Auto-Suggestion Course Is Studied at Close Range by Patient

A staff correspondent of the Indianapolis Times has been a patient in the clinic of Emile Cone, famous Frenchman, who has won world renown, because of cures he is credited with effecting’ through auto suggestion. The Times man toot the Cone cours from - ‘A to Z." He studied Cone. Coue studied him. There are six articles in the series. Watch for them! —Editor's Note. By MILTON BRONNER NANCY, France, Jan. 3.—l’ve been Coued! "Which in every-day English means that, supposedly being _ ill with a nervous breakdown. I have come to the famous auto-

rsuggestion clinics held by Mgr. Emile Coue and have been taught that—EVERY DAY. IN EVERY WAY, I AM GETTING BETTER AND BETTER! Mgr. Coue presently will be holding clinics in the United States, so I became a patient at his clinic in Nancy in order that I could give fellow-Americans back home an intimate introduction to his methods. Clinics always suggest hospitals. You tell a frieud iu Paris you are running over to Nancy to put yourself in the hands of Mgr. Coue, and unless he has been Coued himself, he at once pictures you being questioned and examined, tucked in bed with a uniformed nurse telling you three times a day what the doc-

tor says you must take and must forego. And finally, there is, of course, the question of the tee for the doctor and the charges for the hospital.

That f 3 what makes it so nice about being Coued. ■ There Is no fee. There is no hard fast regimen. There are not even fussy preliminaries. . Cone Likes Informality Take my own case. I simp'y ■’barged In” on Monsieur Coue. Most people do. He is used to it. He likes it. He encourages it. I took a taxi at the railway station and told the chauffeur to drive me to Monsieur Coue. 186 Hue Jeanne d’Arc. The driver knew the place well. He is always taking Americans and Britons there. Arrived at Monsieur Coue’s residence, a simple two-storied cementfaced building, I simply followed the visitors ahead of me. There were, perhaps, forty or fifty of us in all when Coue came In. We sat around in chairs In his office and In the front parlor across the hall. The only bit of formality, I observed was that we all rose, as a token of respect and greeting to the little man.

How Coue Looks Coue himself is a bit over 60. with fresh pink complexion and silvery gray hair, mustache and beard. His dark eyes twinkle with good humor, with tolerance, with comprehension, and with physical, mental and moral well being. Tears ago he was a pharmacist. Then he evolved his theories of how to help us heal ourselves of many ills. He retired from his pharmacy and has been freely spending himself on the new work ever since. Here in Nancy—except when travelog—on Mondays and Fridays he has open house for all comers, natives and foreigners. , On these days he has two clinics in the morning and two In the afternoon. So that for six solid hours he is on his feet, talking, demonstrating, inculcating his principles, and preaching a doctrine of hope. There Is No Formality There is in his clinics neither the formality of anew religion, nor of the old practice of medicine. The little stockily built man, dressed in his simple dark gray suit and black tie, walks in, nods brightly to all about him and then lolls comfortably lip against the hali door. The first day I was there, over in one corner, narrowly watching him, (Continued on Page 2)

THE WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity Is cloudy and somewhat colder tonight. Lowest temperature about 25 degrees. Thursday fair with rising temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 32 10 a. m 31 7 a. . 3111 a. m 31 8 a. m 3112 (noon) 29 9 a. m......... 31 1 p. m 29

‘MARRIAGES OF TODAY ARE FAILURES,’ SAYS JUDGE BEN LINDSEY

By Alice Rohe Cop'jriqtit, 1922, by United Prefts NEW YORK, Jan. 3. “Marriage is a failure. Asa social institution it has failed miserably.” Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Denver’s famous juvenile court jurist, waved a sheaf of statistics which had just reached him as he made this startling statement today in an exclusive Interview. “In the year ending Dec. 15, there

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EMILE COUE

Prog ram Here is the program for the opening of the Legislature: Tonight Republican House caucus will name the speaker and other House officials. Meeting in House of Representatives. Republican Senate caucus will name president pro tern, and other Senate officials. Meeting in Senate chamber. Democratic House caucus will meet in palmroom at Claypool Hotel and form minority organization. Democratic Senate caucus will meet in room 200. Claypool Hotel, and form minority organization. Thursday Each house will convene at 10 a. m. and organize. Immediately after organization the Senate and House will go into joint session in the House <it Representatives to listen to the message of Governor Me-

fiDADBOfIRDWIIIY CUT CEMENT BILL Drop in Price May Mean $75,000 Saving. The possibility of saving approximately $75,000 in the purchase of cement for road building purposes was discussed at a meeting of the State highway commission today. The commission some time ago received bids on cement. Since that time the price has dropped 15 cents a barrel. It "was explained the commission has stipulated that if the price should drop It would have the benefit of a decline. The commission also took up the letting of contracts for grading a number of stretches of road. AGRICULTURAL BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE By United Brest WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. The House today passed the department of agriculture appropriation bill carying appropriations totalling, $68,981.553. An amendment by Representative Blanton. Texas. Democrat, to include an appropriation of $360,000 for free setd was defeated. The bill now goes to the Senate.

were 3,000 marriage licenses granted in Denver and 1,500 divorce suits filed. How many separations are never filed? I’d say as many as divorces. “In fact, from my investigations, I learn that non-support and separation cases add another 1,500 to the 1022 record. You can see that means one separation for every marriage. Actually there were fifty more divorces applied for in 1922 than in 1921 and 600 fewer marriages solemnized.

ANGLO-FRENCH BREACH WIDENS

STAGE IS SET FOR OPENING OF ASSEMBLY

Speakership Contest Still Holds Center of Attention Among Republicans.

With virtually every member of the State Legislature in Indianapolis today, the hotel lobbies were buzzing in preparation for the opening of the session Thursday. Speakership candidates but-ton-holed Republican members of the House in a last-minute effort to pledge votes. Members of both houses were jockeying for choice committee appointments. Lobbyists for every conceivable kind of legislation were renewing acquaintanceship with members. Although the Assembly Is not scheduled to open until 10 a. nt. Thursday, the fid will pop off tonight with the party caucuses for the purpose of forming the organizations of the two Houses. Compromise I’ossiblc Interest centers in the Republican House caucus, where a speak- r will be named. Leaders in the speakersh'.p fight today still appeared to I*' Hep resemative Lemuel A. Pittenger of Selma and Raymond Morgan of Knightstown General opinion is that Pittenger has the best chance. Repeated efforts are being made by legislators who either tire farmers or have agricultural interests at. heart in an effort to combine the divided factions favoring Morgan and Pittenger. There is strong possibility, however, that the caucus will deadlock and make necessary the selection of a compromise candidate. Among these possibilities are Representatives J. Glenn Harris and James I. Day of Lake County, Asa J. Smith of Indian apolis, and William R. Phillips of Glenwood. It appears almost certain Senator James J. Nejdl of Lake County will be named president pro tent, of tho Senate. This carries with it the majority floor leadership. Mayor Gives Program Numerous candidates for minor offices in both houses were busy liningup votes. Among the legislation being discussed was a program outlined by Mayor Shank in a letter to the Indianapolis delegations. The mayor asked that taxes be reduced and that the number of boards and employes of the State be reduced: that the Legislature deal with speeders, especially those under the influence of liquor: that it enact a law compelling the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to pave between the tracks, and that a separate fund lie created for widening and straightening city streets.

MERCHANT ATTEMPTS TO KILL WIFE AND SELF Man Runs Amuck With Hatchet in Jealous Rage. By United Brest CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa, Jan. 3.—Nels Abodeely, Cedar Rapids merchant, In a jealous rage, attacked his wife and Sam Kaecer ■with a hatchet last night and then attempted to kill himself. He claimed Kacere attempted to break up his home. Abodeely struck his wife on the head, inflicting injuries which may be fatal. He then struck Kacere several times before trying to commit suicide.

Amateur “Where is the lobby?” asked a man as he entered the Statehouse. “You are in it,” a bystander replied. “I mean the lobby of the Legislature,” he said. “That is on the next floor.” “I’ll tell you what I want," said the first man. “I have been appointed a lobbyist by my organization and I was hunting the lobby. I want to get a bill through." A prominent lobbyist who reported the story as the party of the second part insisted this conversation took place-

“Eliminating these latest figures concerning separation and dealing solely with divorce suits filed the number for Denver in 1922 is 1,542 as compared with 1,497 in 1921. The total of marriage licenses of 1922 is 3,008, as compared with 3,628 in 1921. In the case of the divorces filed the increase is 45, and marriages decreased 618. “In Chicago last year as reports show me, there were 39,000 marriage licenses granted, mostly to young people, and 13,000 divorce de-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3, 1923

POUND ORDINANCE FAILS; STRAY MONGRELS REJOICE

Despite Failure of City Council ] to Continue Her Salary, I Poundmaster Remains on Job w H - ’ ,

DR. ELIZABETH CONGER AND AIREDALE IN ROUND

For two weeks stray hounds won't have to worry about dodging the dogcatcher. They can roam the streets and feel perfectly safe, because the city council last night failed to pass the appropriation ordinance providing for a city dog pound. No money—r.o gasoline to operate tho dog wagon. Hut the forty dogs already Impounded are going to be cared for. It was decided it wasn't quite fair to keep them In the pound at E New York St. and the Monon Railroad and let them die of slow starvation, so William T. Bailey of the city tegal department, said that food would b<> bought for them out of Mayor Shank’s n relief fund. They will continue their residence at the city pound, too, until the next meeting of the city council, when it Is hoped by all the dogs that the ap—propriatlon ordinance will be passed. It is quite a serious matter for a dog to be turned loose right In the middle of winter without any place at all to go. and with competition so keen that It might also be pretty

WINDPIPE IS SEWED AND MAN WILL LIVE

Into the Valley of the Shadow —and out. Snatched from tho brink of death after he had cut his throat, Freeley Sims, 35, of 1625 S. Alabam St., lay in a ward at the city hospital today, swathed in bandages. An unusual operation performed by Dr. Revel F. Banister gave back to Sims the life he tried to take last Friday. How does it feel to bo within the Shadow and then to come back to earth? Does Not Remember “I don’t remember,” Sims said over and over today. He whispered hoarsely. His voice, almost gone, probably never will bo fully restored, according to I)r. Banister. Sims was found In a room at. the I*l. E. Gross undertaking establishment, where he was an embalmer, with his throat slashed from ear to ear. Despondency over ill health caused the act, he said. The wounded man was rushed to the city hospital. There it was found that he had severed the larynx (voice box) and the upper part of the esophagus (windpipe) from the pharynx (the throat). Head Almost Severed So deep was the gash tnat only the back part of the neck was uninjured. The cut was just below the jaw and missed the large blood vessels. Sims was put on the operating table, where Dr. Banister united the severed parts of the throat. Into the Valley of the Shadow, and

crees were signed. These signed decrees do not represent all that were applied for. “This doesn't mean that society is becoming decadent. But it means that society must be phyco-analyzed. .Just as we recognize the effect of suppressed desires and instincts in an individual, so we must apply the same analysis to social life. We must realize the fact that we are facing a terrible conflict between instincts. Social life today is a matter of artificial restraints. Instead

much of a problem to find something to eat. The ordinance appropriates $3,700 for pound upkeep. That is to pay the rent for tlie shelter home of the Indianapolis Humane Society on the Pendleton pike, northeast of the city, for anew pound. Bailey said, however, that if all this is done for the homeless dogs they must help pay for themselves, as the ordinance does not call for as much money as was used last year in maintaining the pound. He said ho Intends to prepare an ordinance permitting anybody to buy a dog from the pound, provided the owner does not claim it. by paying $1 in addition to the license foe of $1 and the dollar impounding fee. In the meantime, stray dogs may go on straying and impounded hounds will continue eating—thanks to Mayor Shank's relief fund. Although her sal ait was cut off through failure of the council to appropriate the money Dr. Elizabeth Conger, poundmaster is staying on the Job to care for the forty canines pendjing provision of money.*

back—back to his wife and his three young children. A scar will tell the story—and a broken voice. But Sims will bo spared the horror of constantly seeing himself on tho brink of the valley, so "I don’t remember,” he repeated. And his eyes added: “I want to forget.” TWO MEN FACE BOOZE CHARGES AFTER CRASH Taxi Driver and Passenger Figure iu Mishap. Two men were arrested Wednesday following an auto accident in front of 37 Kentucky Avo. Earl Hickey, 25, of 532 S. Missouri St., taxi driver, and Jack Shawler, 26, of 231 E. New York St., are being held. Charges of intoxication and operating an automobile while intoxicat 1 were placed against Hickey. SI awler, a passenger iri the car was cl arged with intoxication. Shawler was thrown through the glass window of the taxi In the accident and his head was cut. LA PORTE MAN HELD George Keliing of La Porte was ordered removed to Mobile, Ala., by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today. Keliing is wanted in Alabama on a charge of sending an obscene letter through the mails. He will be taken to Mobile by Demus Coe, deputy United States marshal.

it should be regulated by natural restraints. "We .are satiated with laws. They do not always bring a satisfactory remedy. I’ve placed fifty-two new laws on the Colorado statutes and I believe that the law of the heart is more important than the law of the statutes. “I think that seventy-five per cent of men are not true to their wives. I do not say these are chronic cases —mere laspses—frequently. They capitulate to instinct. And this adds

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CRTS THROAT AFTER GUSH WITH WIFE John F. Hinch Found in Fall Creek, North of City. Because his wife left him after a quarrel Monday night, John F. Hinch, 40, retired, 4046 Carrollton Ave., slashed liis throat at homo some time last night and was found in Fall ('reek at Orchard Ave. and the Millersville Rd. today. lie was taken to the city hospital where his condition was reported -serious, but not critical. Institute Search Police instituted a search for Mrs. Hinch after Hinch was taken from the creek. Hinch would not talk directly of ids act at first, police said. He told them he had fallen in the creek. Airs. Hinch was found at the Hotel English. She said she went there Monday evening about 11 o’clock j after there had been trouble at home. Hinch tried to attack her with an ice | pick, she said. She has feared lie was not right mentally for some time, | she said. Before Mrs. Hinch was found police thoroughly searched the Hinch home, finding the bathroom and bedroom ; spattered with blood. A small knife and a pair of scissors, blood stained, were found on a dresser and a blood smeared butcher knife in a dresser drawer, detectives said. Denies Attack Hinch said he had not tried to stab ljis wife with the Ice pick, but that they had merely quarrelled over it. He said he went upstairs and when he came down she had gone. He thought she had gone to St. Louis, lie said. Detectives found at the house a telegram, addressed to Mrs. Hinch from Ft. Montclair, N. J.. dated Jan. 2. reading: "Jack's telegram from the Hotel English received. Arthur gone to Washington. Eddie." Arthur is his brother, Hinch said.

PHILLIPS TRAIL LERDSTOCHINA Officials Believe Slayer Boarded Steamer at Vancouver, B. C. By United Brest LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 3 Clara Phillips, escaped hammer murderess, is believed to have boarded a liner at. Vancouver, B. C., bound for China, accordirg to reports received by the sheriff’s office today from the Canadian city. Reports were received from Vancouver that a woman closely resembling Clara was seen there for several days, after which she mysteriously disappeared and is supposed to have taken passage on an Oriential steamer. MRS. LEEPER IS BURIED AFTER DEATH BY BURNS Attempt to Start Fire With Kerosene Results Fatally. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p. m. for Mrs. Harriett who died at the city hospital following burns she received while attempting to start a fire in her kitchen stove with kerosene at 1657 S. Delaware St.., on Dec. 23. The funeral was conducted from the home of her mother, 1120 Knox St. Burial was at New Crown Cemetery.

Cup Winner A silver baby cup is waiting at the Times office for the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sanders, 2179 Fountain Avo. The baby, born 30 seconds after the new year arrived, wins tho cup offered to the first baby born in Marion county in 1923. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. West, 3606 Balsam Ave., ran Baby Sanders a close race. She was born at 12:01 a. ni. Monday.

to the recognition of the failure of artiflcally imposed conventions. "When an institution which is conventionally right created a thing that is absolutely wrong you can’t escape the reaction. “Divorce and separation are absolutely necessary until the conditions that cause them are corrected. In the whole problem facing us of changing conventions my main interest lies in the child. Recognition of the child of the unmar-

Divergence of Reparation Proposals Causes Split Between France and England at Premiers’ Conference. BRITAIN THREATENS TO WITHDRAW Poincare Declares He Will Cany Out French Program Alone If Other Nations Refuse His Indemnity Plan. By United Brest PARIS, Jan. 3.—The British delegation to the allied premiers* conference will withdraw tomorrow if Premier Poincare insists upon the French reparations plan as the sole basis for discus* sion, it was announced today. President Millerand of France summoned an extraordinary meeting ot the cabinet council for 11 o’clock this morning to consider the situation. The British declared the premier’s parley may end abruptly at any time now and that they see no j ——*

possibility of-conciliating the plans of France and England toward collecting German reparations. French official circles likewise admitted the plans submitted by the two countries were so divergent as to make agreement practically impossible. Premier Poincare, it was claimed, had no choice, but to insist emphatically upon his plan as the sole basis for discussion as he considered that of Britain "Simon pure” negation of reparations. The Cabinet voted that the British plan of reducing the German payments to fifty billion gold marks with a four-year moratorium and no coercion was "absolutely inaccep table.” It instructed Premier Poincare to request the conference to adopt the French plan. Beside the British and France, plans submitted at the opening of the conference without preliminary discussion “much after the manner of Secretary Hughes’ limitation of naval armaments proposal at Washington,” Belgium and Italy were heard from. Tiie two countries, the French claimed, were closely akin to France

in their reparations aspirations. Neither agreed with Poincare flatly regarding guarantees, however, and it was admitted continuance of the conference depended entirely upon British acceptance and use of the French plan as a basis for discussion. If Great Britain refuses, as is indicated by her delegation, France is ready to act alone, it was announced. Britain therefore will probably turn to the United States and cooperate according to Secretary Hughes’ suggestion voiced in a recent speech at New Haven. Conn. The entente will be at an end. Gentian Excluded Dr. Karl Bergmann, German financial expert, who came front Berlin with anew offer from the government of Chancellor Cuno, was excluded from the hearings of the first day and instructed to submit in writing any proposition he had to offer. It is understood that the German plan ! suggests that reparations be trimmed to 40,000,000,000 gold marks and that allied occupation of the Rhineland be withdrawn immediately. The outstanding features of the first day's conference follow: 1. Admission by French officialdom that the French and British reparations plans are so divergent that it is practically intposibles to effect a conciliation. 2. Insistence of Premier Poincare that his plan be made the basis of discussion. 3. Poincare’s flat declaration that France cannot in equity or fact pay debts or the interest on them as long as she is not reimbursed by Germany, at least to the extent of expenditures in the devastated areas. Overturns Versailles Pact It was stated authoritatively that Poincare considers the plan of Bonar Law as a “simon pure negation of reparations,” practically overturning the treaty of Versailles besides obliterating the 1921 schedule of German payments. The premier does not believe that any French government could accept the Bonar law plan without Parliament's preliminary approval. France’s main grievance at the British proposal is that the British would “grab” French gold deposits in London for the payment of Interallied debts. In case'Bonar Law refuses to accept the French plan as a basis for discussion, Poincare is understood to be ready to act alone. Poincare’s plan refuses to reduce Germany’s debt to France and refuses to trim the total obligation unless the allies increase France’s share. Insistence upon the reorganization of German’s finances is made and the stabilization of the mark demanded. A two-year moratorium Is favored only on the condition that Germany's financial reorganization is accomplished. France will take military measures against Germany only in event that

ried mother is the first thing of Importance.” “Then you do not admit the expressed fear that such recognition leads to promiscuity and conven-tion-branded immorality?” I asked. “But,” he exclaimed, ‘promiscuity and convention-branded immorality are no better than murder and is the result of lack of recognition of the child’s right to be born of unmarried mothers. “We can never raise the stwid-

Forecast CLOUDY and somewhat colder tonight. Lowest temperature about 25 degrees. Thursday fair and warmer.

TWO CENTS

Proposals GREAT BRlTAlN—Reduction. of Germany’s reparations payments to 50,000,000,000 gold marks; a two or four-year mnra. torium; no protective guarantees (i. e., coercive measures), except In case of default; creation of an international commission such as was proposed by Secretary Hughes to supervise German finances. FRANCE —No reduction of. Germany’s payments to France and a scaling down of 50,000,000,000 marks only in case France's debts to her allies are reduced and that France receives priority payments; tax and customs barrier control of the Rhineland Ruhr; a two-year moratorium conditional upon “protective guarantees.” ITALY —A two-year moratorium allied financial control of Germany; guarantees without military intervention.

the Government refuses to carry out the stipulations of the present program in addition to previous agreements for the payment in kind on which Germany has been declared in default. Moreover, Germany must raise internal loans for debt amortization. Control Coal Output An inter-allied commission at Essen is to control the coal output and the allies must be permitted to cut timber from national forests. The plan also embraces control of exports from the Rhineland, including the payment of export taxes In foreign coinage, control of customs of the Rhineland by an Interallied commission and seizure of a coal tax in the Ruhr on the reparations account. The project supposes that tha allies will receive one billion gold marks a year under its terms. In event Germany refuses t.o accept the French plan, the proposal is mada that military measures be taken automatically comprising occupation of Essen, Bochum and the Rnhf Basin.

GIRL IS ROBBED Mjnr dome Man Disappears Into Alley After Snatching Purse. ■While Lillian Ulrich and Mabel Mo Cormick, 1117 E. Pershing Ave., were on their way home from a telephone exchange, where they work, last night they were attacked by a man who seized Miss Ulrich’s pocketbooK, according to a report to police today. The two young women were just passing an alley near Minerva and Mlch;gan Sts., when the thief ran from behind them, seized the purse and disappeared into the ailey so quickly they were unable'to tell whether he was white or colored. The pocketbook, which contained a watch valued at S2O. a bank book, three Christmas saving cards and $1.50 in money, was found in the rear of 846 Agnes St. The watch andi money were gone. CANDY IS STOLEN E. H. K. McComb, principal of Manual Training High School reported tft the police today the theft of a box of candy, valued at $lO, which he said had been taken from the lunchroom at the high school building. He said the thief entered through a window.

ards of morality by checking divorce. The church has tried but has failed to save the married state by this method. It will never do it. “We’ve got to recognize the fact that we are face to face with one of the greatest social problems in modern times in this statistically proved failure of marriage. Understand, I believe in the marriage state, but as it is today we cannot deny that there is something wrong. We simply have to psycho-analyze our social life and our convention^’*