Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1923 — Page 4

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MASKS A LL criminals lie, bnt rare is the man who can YVE ALL /\ stick to a lie, says Michael Hughes, Chicago’s WEAR / \ detective chief. “We find a liar will tell a different version of the same story to almost every one. So we lead a suspect into telling lies, then we check him up, and finally in his mental confusion the truth comes out.’’ This bit of criminal psychology is based on the principle of multiple personality. In other words, that we present a separate and distinct and entirely different personality to each person we meet. Take your own case. In the presence of your mother you act a certain way, display a certain attitude. This is your personality, as mother sees it. To another person, you are entirely different in actions and attitude. Naturally, no two people see us in exactly the same light. And, naturally, we often disagree and argue about the merits or defects of mutual acquaintances. You may consider an acquaintance o. k. Your friend may consider him n. g. Neither of yon can understand the other’s attitude. We all know people who are devils in public, but “mighty sweet to his mother, and that atones for a lot.” Another familiar expression: “Don’t mind him. He’s a good fellow when’s he’s sober.” Liquor brings out hidden personalities. Carry this analysis to its logical conclusion and every one has a distinct and 'different personality for every person with whom he ever comes in contact. It is humanly impossible to treat two people in exactly the same way—to exhibit the same personality to both. Some philosopher said something about ns entering this world alone and leaving it alone. To a large degree, we also go through life alone. No matter how intimate we may become with friend, mother, father, wife or husband, there is always something we keep to ourselves. This hidden personality, safely masked, is the Real Self. And none of us ever fully understands our real self. We think we do. Then comes a time when we think things over in a bewildered sort of way and are unable to understand certain of onr actions. The greatest mystery, the most interesting thing in the universe is human personality. Our real selves, under analysis, are nncanny almost to the point of being terrible. SIZE men > AND make the best salesmen. So cluims Prof. SALES JLJ Harry D. Kitson, psychologist at University of Indiana. He thinks the ideal size for a salesman is 5 feet 9 inches and well proportioned. An exception was the old-time Arm & Hammer giant drummer—over 7 feet tall, according to the fable. Size made salesmen aggressive and powerful in the days when salesmanship was largely a form of hypnotism. Today goods are sold more by appeal to reason. Successful selling depended on the buyer rather than the seller. WHO GETS AILOR friend of ours writes to give us some first-hand information on the Lasker ship SUBSIDE . subsidy, as it looks to him. from the vantage point of his bunk on the rolling seas. Says he: “Much of the argument for the Lasker bill is based on the b<> lief that the subsidy is necessary because of high wages paid to American seamen. The people have been told this with a straight face, and they believe it, since they are entirely ignorant of wha goes on at sea. The truth is that there are not enough Americans left on the sea for us to worry about one way or the other. Asa typical example, take my ship, running in passenger and freight service between two American ports. “The ship has a crew of approximately 150 men. The officers are white, with one exception. There are eight petty officers who are Amerieans and nine who are Mexicans and South Americans Out of the remaining number, all of them belong to the Asiatie or Mexican races, with three exceptions. Os these three white men in the crew proper, one is a citizen of Holland. The remaining two are American citizens, and draw a wage of S4O per month. “The American people are told that they must subsidize this ship in order to pay these two men S4O a month—and thev believe it!”

Crater Lake Is 6,177 Feet Above Sea Level and 2,001 Feet Deep OrTKTTfIVQ ivstm?vn **

QUESTIONS ASSWBSKD Yon can ret an answer to any question of ract or information by writing to the Indianapotls Times' Washington Bureau, 1323 New Tork Are.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot he given. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, hut all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. Although the bu-ean does not require it. it will assure prompter replies If reader w ill confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various subjects are desired-—EDITOB. How far Is Crater Lake above sea level and how deep is it? The surface is 8,177 feet above sea level. Soundings have been taken of the lake showing a depth of 2,001 feet. How can pulverized cork powder be mixed with cement to be put into molds and baked or steamed, in order to form one solid piece of molded article? a Tie United States Bureau of Stajidfcrd? says that powdered cork, when pis-v ' with cement for molding of arf* is usually not baked or

Good Manners

In the selection of stationery, as In everything else relating to social usage, what Is fantastic or over-conspicuous Is poor form. For Instance, such a combination as white Ink on deep purple paper, while It would attract attention by its eccentricity, would give also an impression of bad taste on the writer’s part. The complete text of a formal note should appear on the first page only.

steamed. However, the cork and the cement can be mixed dry by simply turning over on a board or the floor, moistening slightly, rammed into the molds, the molds removed, and the ar tjele placed in a steam closet. If not too much water has b*en used the article will keep its form after re movaj from the mold. Were there horses in America before the time of the Spanish importations early In the sixteenth century? Yes, fossils found in our western States show that the horse, practically as we know it, developed from primitive smaller three and four-toed forms on this continent thousands of years before the white man ever reacher here, and probably befora the Indians. These native American horses apparently became extinct long before the discovery of the New World bv. Columbus, for horses were evl dently unknown at that time by the Indians. What is cotton seed meal? The ripe cotton seed Is placed In a hydraulic press and all the oil pressed out. The ramainlng substance In the press is called cotton-seed cake. This cake is ground and what is known as cotton-seed meal is made. It is of a grayish-brown color. What are the addresses of H. G. Wells and Mme. Curie? H. G; Wells, Easton Glebe, Dunmow, Essex, England. Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, 108 Boulevard Kellermann, Paris. France. How many plants in the United Stales manufacture toilet brushes and what is the value of their product? In 1921 there were forty-four such plants and the total value of their products was $7,936,000,000.

Maryland Is Wettest State Under Dry Law and Seems to Be Proud of Fact

By LOUTS F. KEEMLE NEA Special Correspondent BALTIMORE, Jan. 3.—Maryland, wettest State in the Union and proud of it. begins the new year determined to fight any effort to force the Volstead law down its throat. Governor Albert C. Ritchie, who kicked over the traces at President Harding's recent conference on prohibition enforcement and told the country how little he thought of the Volstead law, believes that leglsla : tion Is an invasion of State rights and cannot be enforced. Can it be enforced —in Maryland? Not likely, with the people feeling the way they do. Personal Investigation The NEA Service correspondent took a walk through downtown Baltimore. He has been living In this city two months. He visited four saloons and thro* restaurants, and found it is not necessary to be “known.” In all of them liquor was being sold as openly as in 1914. The same pilgrimage could be continued successfully days on end without visiting the same I lace twice. Beer—4 per cent, creamy beer with a collar and a kick —Is on draught and on sale to all comers at 20 cents a large glass. Whisky, too. is sold over the bar Many places dispense good whisky—the Maryland rye for which this dis tilling State once was famous—in highballs or by the pony glass for 50 rents. Whisky is sold over the bar in halfpint tiasks. Beer can be ordered from the comer saloon by the case and will be delivered. Bootlegger’s Stock Bootleggers? The 'correspondent found one without difficulty in a pool room rear the city hall. He said he could supply any grade of whisky from pure bonded whisky at $lO a quart to “green whisky" at $2.50. Purchase of a bottle disclosed it to bo raw alcohol, rye extract, caramel coloring, glycerin and odds and ends Attempts at enforcement are prac tically futile. Maryland has no Htate enfo’cement law as provided in the Volstead law. Police do not make liquor raids. Under a ruling of the State attorney gereral, the only part police can take

Marriage Is Form of Slavery 'Today as Much as in Days of Old

Bv if A HI AS HAI.K "The only type of independent woman who does not have to pay," says Ttayra Sain ter Winslow, the popular short story writer, "Is the one who realizes her own value. "The Independent woman is Just as feminine as the cllnglng-vlne type, but because of the short period that she has been in vogue, she feels her oats. "She thinks she is so smart be cause she can make a little money that she Haunts her independence and scares away the finer typo of man. This is one of the big payments she makes —inability to attract the right manMost I’itiful Thing “Until woman can make herflelf man's equal by getting rid of her conceit, her wiles and her laziness, she will have to continue to pay. But the independent woman, until she has calmed herself a bit, will have to settle for even more than her share. “However, the most pitiful thing in life is a deiendent woman. Her husband’s proposal of marriage Is the triumph of her life. Why? Because it la the one thing that results from her initiative. Does she pay? Os course. It Is & deferred payment, but It comes. It comes with the children who are not wanted —children practically forced upon her. Long years of stupid, uninteresting payment! "Marriage is Just as much a form of slavery today as ever it has been. “I would like to see a law passed prohibiting the woman from marrying and having children who could not prove her ability to support them by her own efforts or by an independent income. “However. I do not believe woman should support the children- It is the man’s duty. Why Deny Yonr Age? "Another thing for which women pay—and for which they are respon-

The Milkman \ By BERTON BRALEY rye TIE milkman, no at lngst it’s said. J[ Is truly an important person. And therefore he’s a man I’m led To write this versa on. It frequently has been averred That he gets up ere dawn is pearly. And is beyond a doubt, a bird Exceeding early I In summer’s heat, in winter’s cold, In weather fair, or treasons hateful. Be brings my milk and cream. I’m told. Well. I am grateful. Tlicv say he does the best he can And that, no matter what the day bo. Ho brines the millt for woman, mao. And lor the baby. He doee his duty, it’s affirmed. With application almost fervent. And therefore should be termed A faithful serrvant. He loves his children and his wife (Or so I hear). I do not doubt it; Therefore, to help him on in life I'll write about it! The milkman’s character is finr (I'm told I. but dawn’s dim shadows screen him Since i arise at half-past nine, I've never seen him! (Copyright, 1922. NEA Service)

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THTRA SAMTER WINSLOW Bible—is the false valuation they place on youth. “Can you imagine a man of 28 announcing that he is only 21? “In iny opinion, the mala today L superior to the female. “Men are the dominantsselfx ls and should dominate In many things, because of the very fact of their sex. “But they want to dominate too much. “The advent of the independent woman has put a flea In man’s car, so to speak. “This realization, plus the fact that he has been caught for so many

ty officials from enforcement activities. Another difficulty hampering dry j agents Is the ruling of the United States commissioner for this district i that raids, even on trucks on high- ! ways, are not legal unless made un- j der a search warrant. Liquor seized without a warrant is ! returned to the owner. The commissioner will not issue a j warrant without actual proof that i the place to be raldsd has liquor con- j trary to law. An agent's sworn statement that he drank liquor there is not enough. He must show the liquor. Tho Federal dry force here trying to stem the flood consists of eight j men, aided by a "flying squad" of six j sent periodically from Washington. Public demonstrations, sometimes j reaching riot proportions, often mark

Premier Conference Foredoomed

By LEONARD P. AYRES Formerly Chief Statistical Officer, | American Peace Commission From reports and rumors that aie coming from Europe, it now seems probable that the premiers will reach a decision at their forthcoming conference, and that this decision will include at least three principal conditions The first will be that Germany must raise a forcen internal loan in gold through the sale of her foreign j investments The second is that ohe must submit to the direct supervision of her financial and economic policies by representatives of the allied nations, i The third condition will probably ;ho that she will he granted a niora j torium of |>erhaps wo rears with respect to money payments on her indebtedness, but she must continue her payments of coal, wood and other commodities. Prospects Hopeless As we enter 1923 the prospects of any such temporary settlement cannot be viewed with great hopefulness. One thing that seems all too -lear in that European conditions in 1923 will be worse than they have been In any other year since the armistice. More over, these had conditions are general and not restricted to any two or three nations. The fact Is that almost every nation in Europe Is spending more than if a

generations by stupid women, has made the intelligent man wary. "I? Yes, I can say honestly that j I never have hud to pay in my rein tlcinship with men. And It is be cause I have treated men in a man’s way, in a man’s world-” (This is the second of a series of articles in which soiup of the most brilliant literary people of the day give their answers to the old question: “Does the woman pay?") Senator Williams Voluntarily Quits Senate in Disgust By LEO R. SACK WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.—After twenty six years in Congress, a dozen of them spent in the United States Senate, John Sharp Williams of j Mississippi is quitting voluntarily and ! in disgust. In a farewell speech to the Senate a few days ago, the brilliant South j emor took occasion to tell the Senate some truths about itself. He said; “You may think you are awfully smart when you advise the American people to take care of their own interests nnd to lot their brethren In Europe go to hell." The venerable Mississippi Senator is recognized In Washington as a scholar without peer in Congress. When he rises to speak, Senators listen to his oratory, oftimss not on the topic under discussion, for shoer delight in Williams’ beauty of thought. “Let me speak an almost parting word to you, for It will not be long before I leave you, and God knows I never intend to bother you after I leave you or to be bothered by you. That almost parting word Is this: America is a part of this earth; hor tfaditions, her ideals, her magnlllcent unselfishness are a part of the present status of this earth: and i do not care what you say nor what you do nor how you vote, you cannot get rid of that fact. "Long after I have gone out of pub- ! lie life, perhaps after some of you have died an actual death, there will | ho the common sense and the com i mon conscience of the common peo- | pie of America behind the idea of ; preserving and enforcing-—mark you. j enforcing—the peace of the world, and i behind that, too, enforcing industrial peace and other forms of peace on this earth. "Christ was not bom for nothing, and did not live for nothing, and did not die for nothing, and did not ; preach for nothing. When He anI nounccd the doctrine of the' common fatherhood of God and the common brotherhood of man, He meant what He said, and that idea sank into our hearts. I do not care how weak we are nor how sinful we are—God knows T am one of the weakest and one of 1 he most sinful —the idea is there, and Jno politics, no finesse, no private I meeting of Senators or of Representaj lives can ever overwhelm it.” Marriage ala Mode No rice or slippers are thrown at a. wedding in Portugal. Instead, bonbons are showered upon bride and groom. During the ceremony the priest binds the pair together with his stole while reading the service and putting on the ring.

raids. Agents have been mobbed a dozen tiroes. Crime has increased. Police figures for 1922, now being compiled, show approximately 60,000 arrests. With the exception of 1918 this is the highest .‘n Baltimore's history. Totals for preceding years are: 1921, 54,602; 1920, 41,988; 1919, 50,027. Figures Just compiled by the Prudential Insurance Company on twentyeight American cities show murder Is increasing in Baltimore faster than any city. The yearly rate is 11.3 per 100,000 of population. The State's sentiment is best expressed in the attitude of the Mary land Society Opposed to the Prohibition Amendment. The members took the stand that Governor Ritchie's anti-Volstead statement following the President's conference was too mild!

Income, and is consuming more than it produces. The nations , that have so guided their financial conditions as to avoid great depreciation of the currency are experiencing severe economic difficulties. Among such nations are England, Switzerland and Czecho-Slo vakta. Among the nations which are e*. perlencing less difficulty In an Industrial way are those where financial problems are most pressing. Among such nations are Germeny, France and Ttaly. Each Nation Dependent The fact Is that no piecemeal solution will cure the rapidly growing economic, financial, and political problems of Europe. The problems are too Intimately related and the Industrial life of each nation Is too fundamentally dependent on the welfare of the neighboring nations to make possible at thfs late date any genuine betterment through a mere temporary set of concessions relating to Germany alone. Europe needs a general settlement participated In by all the important nations of the western portion of the continent, and embracing mutual agreements as to the stabilization of currencies, the remission of interna tionai indebtedness, the mitigation of ! customs barriers as well as the prob ; c-ms ( entering around Germany's I reparation obligations.

I Vcathcr Records of Government Used in Courts Pi/ RORF.RT TAT,I.FT V ASHTNGTON, Jan 3.—Don't ever try to lie about the weather; you can't do it it and get by with it. Examination of the annual records of the United States Weather Bureau here shows that this agency has boon instrumental in convicting murderers, deciding damage suits, punishing the guilty and freeing the Innocent. "We keep extensive records of the weather and nearly every day we ir called uopn from some part of •he United States to furnish a weather certificate to show Just what was happening at a given place at a given time,” explained Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the bureau. "There was one murder trial in which a witness testified to something ho had seen committed in the bright moonlight on a certain night; our record showed that this night had been dark and cloudy." Complete anil careful records of hourly temperatures, rainfall, wind velocity and sunshine are kept in the 220 weather bureau stations scattered across North America. They are links in the far-flung systom that begins on the Alaskan coast and extends to far out in the Atlantic Ocean, where mariners take daily observations that are sent to Washington and carefully recorded.

Lasker Greets Subsidy Proposals With Silence Bn c. r. lyon WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.—Members of Congress opposed to the ship subsidy bill are puzzled at the silence with which Albert D. Lasker, father of the subsidy scheme, and the President, too, have accepted amendments to the subsidy hill, which drastically change that Administration measuio. They expected a storm of opposition from Lasker and his pro-subsidy colleagues. But none came*. “Why?" they are asking. Close associates of the President and of Lasker say that both are willing to accept even a greatly devitalized subsidy bill as better than no subsidy hi!! at all. Lasker feels that such a bill would be a recognition of the subsidy principle, and a great step toward later enactment of the kind of subsidy measure the shipping Interests want. This strategy of Lasker has caused alarm among Senator opponents of the bill, led by Senators La Follette aim Brookhart, who are urging upon their followers the necessity for killing the subsidy hill entirely m the Senate, regardless of concessions I askoi is willing to make. M. E. CHURCH REPORTS GAIN OF 1,666 IN 1922 A net gain of 1,666 new members in Indianapolis is reported by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1922. The Indianapolis gains are divided into three groups. The white English conference gained 1,2116 members, the German conference, 200, and the colored conference, '230. Total gain of the church in this country in 1922 was 119,007. ,

TOM SIMS SAYS:

A TAXPAYER tells us he wishes New Year only came every Leap Year. • • ♦ Enough silk stockings were given this year to bring short skirts back. A great many of the New Year balls were highballs. • * • A farmer with grain on his hands tells us Wall Street gambling certainly goes again the grain. • • *

If Amundsen got lost in the Arctics he could show a bottle and all his friends would be right there. Only a few more months until we can have a good time cussing flies. • • • Not so many are rolling their stockings, as far as we can sec. ♦ • * It is hard to borrow money because the people who have it have it because they will not lend it. Seven queens visited London for Christmas, but we saw at least 700 queens here. Those $200,000 Denver mint robbers may be hunting the julep now. • ♦ # The only army that has been barred in Russia is the Salvation Army. i* . A profit is often without honor in its home town. • • • The way of the transgressor is anywar.

Wall Inscriptions Tell of Former Legislatures

The Statehouse was in the midst of preparations for the opening of the Legislature today. Offices were being moved to make room for offices to he occupied by those in charge of legislative affairs and the House and Senate chambers were being dusted and aired. Lettered roughly on large sheets of wrapping paper and pasted on the walls of the House, were two reminders of the 1021 session. One read: “Sacred to the memory

Owls, Eggs, Words and Thought

By HERBERT QUICK Arthur Brisbane says that “thought itself I* impossible without words.” “There is no thought without language." “No trace of thought without words, written or spoken." It sounds profound: but it would have sounded just as wise if he had said: "Words cannot exist without thotight; no trace of words without thought; thought must have been in existence before words, or words would not have been invented “ It would have sounded Just, ns wise, and It would have been Just as profound—but it would have stated the exact opposition of what ho wrote. It reminds me of a parable: Once the cat went on a pilgrimage in search of Happiness. She met in the forest a wise looking Owl. “O, Owl.” said the Cat, “what shall I do to be happy?" “Meditate, O. Cat. meditate!” said the Owl “It is by meditation that Owls find quiet of spirit." “Meditate!" exclaimed the Cat. “the

T ' CC The First Fire Apparatus HISTORICAL IBKIRI ’

A little frame house on the north side of the Circle; "Marion,” the small pumper that worked like a handcar, pulled at the end of a long rope by volunteer firemen who wore red shirts and tin hats; buckets, filled with water from a cisterm passed up the dumpy ladders amid shouts and cheering—such was the fire department in the days of 1889 when Fletcher’s Bank began business. Today the Indianapolis Fire Department, with its 609 men and 61 pieces of fire-fighting apparatus, is the finest, and best equipped organization in the country. Today the Fletcher American National Bank—the direct successors of “Fletcher’s Bank" —is one o? th strongest, most conservative and capable banking institutions in the Middle West —with a service for every banking need. Fletcher American National Bank r c •F *$ I *n 4 Surplus $8,000,000 _ _ La J w > CO

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of the seventy-second Legislature—one good woman and & lot of mere men. May a merciful hand blot out their mistakes." The other read: "Hlo Jacet dead bills. "Some were good, “And some were rotten. “Some remembered, “Some forgotten. "Some are safely laid away "But some will rise another day, “Os saintly and of vicious nature. “To plague another Legislature."

very thing! But what shall I meditate upon, O. Owl?" "Ten Owls,” said the wise bird, "have grown great, in wisdom by meditating on which was first, the Owl or the Egg." "Fine!" said the Cat, "but how long will it be before we find the answer?" “Answer!” hooted the Owl. "There is no answer! That’s the beauty of the problem!" And that’s the beauty of the problem of the question of which Is the elder brother, thought or speech. As a matter of fact, like eggs and owls, they are both the children of former things. Raising a family was in former ages a much simpler thing for Owls than laying eggs and incubating them. Owls and Eggs came into existence gradually, and together. So did thought and speech. But of the two, thought can exist better without words than words without thought. Did Helen Keller, deaf, dumb, and blind, have no thoughts before she had words? Os course she did.