Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1923 — Page 4

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ADDING “'f’TT you. die? The avcra 2 c length of life TO OUR \/\ / in our country now is 56. This is three and a LIVES V V half years more than in 1910 and fifteen years more than in 1870. The figures are supplied by Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cornell University. He says the average life could be prolonged twenty years if all people could learn and profit by what health experts know. Health education has a lot to do with it. In ignorant India the average man is destined to die at 24. Longest lived people in the world are the progressive New Zealanders. They live sixty years on the average. In twenty years the death rate among infants has been cut over a third, tuberculosis death rate has been reduced a half, typhoid deaths lowered four-fifths, smallpox practically eliminated and diphtheria, measles and scarlet fever deaths cut materially. Another twenty years may see most of our modern dread diseases under control. Then nature will send new ones. She keeps us busy fighting to survive. That generates greater endurance. Danger of sickness is a gymnasium for general health. EAST // w East is East and West is West, and never MEETS Li the twain shall meet,” says Kipling. WEST JL Over in China, girls still don’t count for much. In the old days they counted for even less. They used to have 4 ‘girl towers,” so it’s said, a tall tower with a solitary window near the top. Into this tower they dropped excess girl babies. And when it came to getting married, papa arranged the whole thing. The girl had no more say about it than a lamb in a breeder’s drove has to say as to how it is to be disposed of. The other day, in Washington, pretty 18-year-old Mildred Wen, heiress belle of the capital’s Chinatown, disappeared. It seems her father had arranged a marriage for her with George Num Lee, wealthy celestial of New York’s Chinatown. Everything was all ready for the wedding—then the bride-to-be dropped out of sight. After three days Mildred was located by a policewoman. Told her mother was prostrated over her disappearance, she returned home. The father telegraphed George Num Lee to hasten to Washington and the wedding hom- was set afresh. Then Mildred disappeared a second time. The police tlaim she said she would rather die than marry Lee. Not that Lee isn’t all right—but Lee isn’t her choice. Mildred wears her hair bobbed and has made the acquaintance of the powder puff, little handbags with mirrors in the top, and all that sort of thing. She has become Americanized. East has met West. And West has won. This stands, no matter whether Mildred ultimately marries George Num Lee or not. American fashion, she has made her protest. Kipling may have been right about the Old East, but the younger generation takes to jazzy western ways like a duck takes to water. So, too, will China herself wake up some day, as more and more she comes into contact with the West. - FEAR I y y ALTON, coroner for East Cumberland, EngOF THE I—l land, says jurymen in his district put their UNKNOWN JL JL hands to the dead man’s chin. They believe the superstition that if the body feels warm or moist the toucher is doomed to die within a year. Morbid superstition is instilled deeply into all of us, though some are clever at keeping it concealed. Just walk between two girls on the street and hear them say, ‘‘Bread and butter.” Easily understood. Superstition is fear of the unknown. And we live mostly in the unknown, actually understanding very little. REWARDING y EU GIM GONG is reported living in poverty WORLD’S I in Deland. Fla. He has a world reputation BENEFACTOR X A as a horticulturist. Among his wonderful creations are an apple that ripens in July, a giant tomato plant, the cross between the grapefruit and orange, also the Leu Gim Gong orange. Not much wonder that most people work selfishly for themselves instead of for the good of all, considering how humanity “rewards” its benefactors. Men like Leu Gim Gong should be rewarded by the Government, representing all the people.

Suez Canal Is 100 Miles Long and Cost Nearly $80,000,000

QUESTIONS ANSWERED Ton can get an answer to any question of tact or information by writin? to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 132" New ' ork Are., Washington. P C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. Although the bureau does not require it. it will assure prompter replies if reader v. ill confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various subjects are desired.—EDlTOß. How lons Is the Suez Canal, when was it ting and when opened and how much did it cost? fcThe Suez is approximately 100 miles Operations were begun on the jgSk I April 25, 1858, and on Nov. 17, ithe canal was opened; the total construction was nearly SSO,KfCnow many births are there each Yg* - in the United Slates? \y\T' 1921 there were approximately births. Are acorns eatable? Acorns from the white oak trees are edible, and Indians eat them from practically all of the wild oaks, but the black and red acorns are usually bitter. This bitterness may be removed by peeling and grinding the acorns and then pouring water through them several times "until all the bitterness is gone. llow long does it lake a letter to come from the Philippine Islands? The length of time required depends largely upon the ship sailings end the mailing dates of the letter in the Philippines in relation to sailings. It requires mail ships about thirty days to cross from Manila to San Francisco. What does the expression, "Mur* will out.” mean? It means that one cannot hide sin; that sooner or later it will come to light. This phase is used by Cervantes in Don Quixote, as follows: 'Mordre wol out, that we see day by

day.” Shakespeare embodies the sani" thought In these words from "Hamlet,” act two, scene two: "Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ.” The idea is almost as ancient as the race. The Greeks had the same proverb, and It is not a misapplication of th" Scriptures to read the same in the verse: "The voice of thy brother’s blood calleth unto me from the ground." What Is Copra? Copra Is cocoanut meat dried by exposing it to the sun or In a kiln. The copra is pressed In a hydraulic press in order to get the oil. How much water flows over Niagara Falls? The normal flow pouring over Niagara is about 500,000 tons a minute. Which travels with the greater force, a bullet fired from a rifle or one fired from a revolver? A bullet of the same calibre will travel with greater force and have a greater penetrating power when fired from a rifle than from a revolver. The longer the barrel the greater the force. How much crude oil was shipped from Russia in 1920 and 1921? In 1920 no crude oil was shipped from Russia and In 1921 the amount was so small that no definite figures have been kept by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Their reports merely show that the amount was negligible and the bulk of the export was sent to England. How can one kill a tree? Cut a complete circle, about an inch deep, around the tree. If this does not prove successful, apply copper sulphate to the roots of the tree.

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Woman Pays by Work and Sacrifice for Her Modern Day Independence

Bn MARIAN HALE “Work.” said Cecil Arden, prominent in the younger group of the Metropolitan Opera Company, “is the coin a professional woman pays for her independence. “Work —and,” she amended, 'sacrifice. “It means giving up strings of amusing people for others she really can’t do without —giving up the ones she loves in order to be with those she must be known among. “Oh, yes, in our independence we’ve had to give up that old world-famed bloom. Men Paying, Too “Why?” “Because bloom was a screen. Now that the screen has been pulled away and we find the troops on the other side. Wo go ahead with our eyes o]?Fn. “Men realize that they have to adopt new tactics. So men are paying. too. “The professional woman keeps young, well and happy. ::She lias her own poeketbook. She can waste. She can buy. She doesn’t have to ask or explain to a soul. "Above all, she can give money or herself, without asking—and is not this life itself? "This makes the pay worth while. “As to men, work doesn't affect the independent woman's attitude — although sometimes her job may. It All Depends “If she works in a nunnery, she may ache for men. If she sees men all the time, she may not. It depends on the girl. “Since time began man have wanted women and women havo wanted men. “But today, T find, that women only take the men they want and not just the men who want them. They take men they want and love, not merely men who can support them well. "Potentially, this is a tremendous factor, because it is going to end loveless unions. Men may continue to support their wives, hut it will build decenter men and firmer marriages. “These days men not only have to HAVE something to get wives—they have to BE something. "I think this condition will in crease in ‘worth-whileness.’ ”\Vhat if woman does pay! “What if she does pay more for her escapades, more for her clothes, more for her mate, than man pays! "It makes her deeper to pay, for the character stuff you get by nay ing is the only kind that characterizes you. “Morality? Frankly, now. is it not a case of how one Is tempted? Morality Is individual, not relative. “But as for the professional, the Independent woman, she has more chance to know whether she has the right, fiber or not. And for the do-naught, she doesn't have half the' chance for self-testing!" (This is the third of a scrip* of interviews in which brilliant men and women of the day answer the question: “Does the woman pay?”) President Has Power to Revise Tariff Sched u le BY W. H. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.—When the Fordney-McCurnber tariff bill passed Congress last September and became effective, big and little "interests'' from Maine to California heaved sighs of relief and said, “we can rest safe until the next Congress anj how.” But, not so, for lnbedded in tiie act is a provision, unheard of before In the history of American tariff making, giving the President the power to revise schedules up or down BO per cent by and with the advice and assistance of the U. 8. Tariff Commission. Already more than a hundred applications for revisions have been filed with the commission, which is preparing to make its investigations and recommendations.

Public Opinion

Amerlca’s'Needs To the Editor of The Time * You want to know what America needs? The people need to use their brains. The system is wrong that compels one man to ask another for a chance to live. Don’t you know that with the lm proved machinery we have the workers can produce more in two months than the Nation can consume in a year. We have too much corn, too much wheat, too many shoes, too many clothes, yet we have people hungry and naked, and we have skyscrapers full of men and women making $l5O to SSOO per month, living off the labor of the producer. We have firms declaring stock dividends of from 100 to 1,300 per cent to evade Income tax. How long do you think the people will remain ignorant of these things, and why should any one he in want when there Is plenty? Don’t you think it would be better for all if the Government owned all things that we have to have and handled everything on a cost basis? Too many people living off the pro ducor, too many parasites, is all the trouble. JOHN A. THOMAS. -117 S. New Jersey St. Good Wages the Thing To the Editor of The Tima Americans need good living wages and good working conditions, so a man will have a heart to work. Above all keep the immigration gates closed. There will be less crime and .more, happy homes. You know with good wages a man has a heart to work, but with poor wages he does not. We need no help from foreign countries if this is done. F. E. DURLAND., 1501 Kelly SL

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Taft Is ‘Regular Fellow’

BY LEO R. SACK WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Official Washington, always punctiliously formal, just c;m't figure nut Chief Justice Taft, who can’t seem to help being a "regular fellow,” despite his exalted post. A few days ago, lie startled a newspaperman here by calling on tiie telephone, and saying: “Hullo, this Is Bill Taft talking. What do you know about—?” T.'ift wanted a little more information about a certain news Item. Those wanting to see .Mr. Taft havo no difficulty in reaching him. His cffice is open at certain times of day Taft walks three miles to work

The Humorists By REETON ft RALEV rrV'kV have no aue of anything. J_ Their barb* *at!rtos] they fling At fake and solemn-faced pretense And with a blltho irreverence. And laughing antics of a clown. They topple pompous idols down. Vn ugly evil rear* its bead. A thit:g of mystery and dread; A'lie humorists make about it. With b ;>a and gibe and quip they llout I And prusentty away it wrlirglca, Pursued by universal giggles. The dragons, menacing and foul. That most majestically prowl About our land: whose fiery breath S'-area serious-minded folks to death, Sneak to their eaves, devoid of vigor. When humorists begin to snigger. How shall we estimate their worth Who smash chimeras rith their mirth. Who vanquish ills to which we truckle. With no mure weapon than a chuckle? Here's to them, may they never wane, They make us laugh—and keep us Sana I (Copyright, 1033, NEA Service)

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very morning, unless It rains. Recently, neighbors of the Tafts were treated to the spectacle of the stout chief justice running a foot race down the street with a companion to catch a street car. Marriage ala Mode In certain parts of latly it is considered unlucky to publish the banns In the last quarter of the moon or for the future bridegroom to be in the church at the time. Should these superstitions be disregarded, it is believed that the first child will lyj deaf and dumb.

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Drug Addicts Are Not Increasing, Says Authority BY LEO R. SACK WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Drug addicts are not increasing in the United States and the traffic in narcotic drugs is decreasing instead of increasing. This is on the authority of Col. L. G. Nutt, chief of the narcotic enforcement division of the Treasury Department since March 1, 1915, when the Harrison anti-narcotic act . became effective. The country is not free of “dope” users and “dope” peddlers, but the number of users and the number of distributors are annually being cut down. Widespread alarm throughout the country Nutt terms "a hysterical outgrowth” of the Wallace Reid case. Nutt says that during the fiscal year ending June 30th'last, there was a 65 per cent increase in the number of arrests for violating of the antinarcotic law and a 100 per cent in the number of convictions. There were 3,104 actual convictions with penal imposed totaling 2,814 years. “Good Old Summer Time” While Edward Kurtz, colored, 2311 Northwestern Ave., was in the swimming pool at the colored Y. M. C. A. last night a thief stole hi3 overcoat, the coat of his suit, his gray hat and gloves. The missing clothing was valued at SSO.

Anti-Kluxers Will Demand Senator-Elect Mayfield Be Barred From Seat in Congress

Texan Is Charged With Being Member of Klan and Supported by Them.

11 y NEA Srrclce CHICAGO, Jan 4.—Whether the Ku Klux Klan shall be permitted to continue as an institution in America and a hundred other issues connected with thf hooded fraternity will be thrashed out in the United States Senate when an attempt is made to deny a seat to Senator-elect Earle B. Mayfield of Texas on the charge that he was a member of and was actively supported by the Klan. A movement aimed to keep Mayfield out of the Senate is definitely under way. says Gray Keyes Rutledge, editor of the publication. Tolerance here, and secretary of the American Unity League, an organization devoted to combating religious and racial intolerance. This means that Mayfield, who already has run the gamut of legal opposition to ills election in Tex;is courts on the ground that his campaign expenditures exceeded the legal SIO,OOO, a charge he denies, wil! face further obstacles when he reaches Washington in March. Seven Senators Enlisted Seven western Senators who cannot now be named have pledged themselves to demand that Mayfield be barred, say Rutledge and Patrick O'Donnell, lawyer and executive chairman of the American Unity league. “If. D. Lindsey, former commander of the American Legion, now is in Texas gathering information regarding the Texas election which will be presented in the Senate as the basis of charges for Mayfield's ouster,” says Rutledge. The method of procedure. Rutledge hints, may be along the line of a charge under the corrupt practices act. Thus, since Mayfield is a Demo erat. the Democrats will have on their hands a parallel to the case of Senator Newberry. Republican, of Michigan. “We claim that becauso of Mayfield’s alleged membership In the Ku-

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TOM SIMS SAYS:

IT IS easy to go to sleep when it is time to get up. * • * Only tiling worse than being bothered is being ignored. * • Germany is so hungry she could eat restaurant hash. “Check Booze Output”—headline. Too many cheeks on the booze output are cashed at the bank. • • • A plumber’s pipe dream is a dream of a broken pipe.

♦ * • Hunters say smokeless powder is stronger, so are smokeless cigars. ♦ • • Among the wild movements on foot are the 1920 dances. • * • Generally speaking, too many people are generally speaking. • • * A great many men sorry they live here ought to be glad they live anywhere. • • • The nice thing about being a man is you don’t have to kiss somebody that needs a shave. • * -4 It isn’t what a man stands for as much as what he helps with. < • ♦ Very few people worry when a kicker kicks the bucket. • * • You hear about people laughing at their own expense, but it is hard to do if you are broke.

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Klux Klan and because of the klan's indorsement of his election, die cannot take the oath of a Rutledge says. "We believe this is so because every klansman is sworn not to reveal anything concerning the actions of a brother klansman and because the socalled klan kraft tenets make every Ku-Kluxer an enemy to the religious

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end other freedom of American citizens guaranteed under the Constitution.” Protest Meet * Before the Mayfield case is heard, a giant protest meeting of anti-klan delegates representing hundreds of hostile organizations throughout the country will be held at Chicago, O'Donnell says. “The Mayfield case is only the start of our fight on the klan,” he says. “We shall push our fight to the end through pitiless publicity and political battle.” When Mayfield ran for the Senate there came whisperings that he was & klansman. that the klan had pledged him its support and that he had addressed klan gatherings in the robe and hood of the order. “Klan No Issue” But when Mayfield was asked to come out flat footedly on the KuKlux issue he said that it had no place in bis campaign, declaring his issue was the repeal of the EschCummins railway legislation. He repeatedly refused to state his position on the klan. Later Mayfield asserted he had been a member of the Austin klan, but that he had resigned in January, 1921. James E. Ferguson, Mayfield's anti-klan opponent, declared during the Texas campaign that high officials of the klan had written letters indorsing Mayfield and declaring he was a klansman in good standing long after that date.

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