Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1923 — Page 4
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WEEPING tttE are a race of weepy super-sentimentalists. IDLE \ / When the cop in the movies beans the TEARS f V poor, hard-working safe-cracker—whose character, we know, must be sweet and pure because we saw him stop and pat a dog on the head—we wipe away a furtive tear and loudly snort into our handkerchief. And we are tickled to death when the crook comes to, butts the cop in the stomach, knocks him into the garbage can and makes a getaway. # The under dog gets our sympathy every time. We were intensely pro-Japanese during the Russo-Japanese war. Why? We had no idea who started the war, or why, but we hoped Japan would win. Japan, to us. was the little fellow —the under dog. When the Great War started our sympathies as a nation went at once to France. And just as long as Germany kept stepping in France's face; as long as French cities were being destroyed, churches shelled, women and children behind the lines blown to atoms, hospitals bombed, soldiers strangled in mustard gas. and what not, we were still for France. Once the war was over and Germany soundly trounced, sentiment changed. * The enormous mastiff which had been chewing up the little French poodle and spitting out the bones began rapidly to dwindle and pretty soon, his tail tucked between his legs, he lay cringing with the poodle towering above him, gigantic by comparison. So the fashion just now seems to be to pan France just because invaded, stepped on. broken, bleeding, financially ruined in the war, she can’t bob up again, smiling as quickly as we, or as readily hold out her hand to Germany and say: “Shake!” Now, We have a perfect right to be proud of our passion for the under dog. It's but another name for fair play. But that is just the point. Let us not let our sentimentality run away with us, for if we do, we run the serious risk of refusing this very fair play to the side really most deserving of it. We ought to see to it that the cop gets proper assistance and that the safe-cracker is given his just desserts—even if it breaks our hearts. ft SHOOTING FTIHE total cost of the World War was more AWAY I than 335 billion dollars. This is the latest esSAVINGS X timate by Carnegie Endowment* for International Peace. So the conflict cost about 80 billions a year. Not long since we thought it a stupendous achievement when the hero of “Brewster’s Millions” spent a million in a year. Every fifty years there’s a big war to wipe out most of what the people have saved since the last one. If we can stop these wars, the prosperity of the average person in a few centuries will be fabulous. International thrift and war bills just about cancel each other in the long run. TRADING BROKERAGE firm in Louisville fails. Queer DOLLARS story comes out. Last summer the firm orFOR CENTS I V dered $300,000 worth of an oil stock, sold it to a customer at 30 cents a share, then discovered later the cost was S3O a share. The firm's loss was $29.70 on each of the 10.000 shares. This should get a grin out of the millions of stock market “tapeworms” who are nursing memories of paying dollars for stocks worth cents. WOLVES A * GREAT pack of hungry timber wolves kills AS WERE* / \ and devours a white man and two Indians in AND ARE JL X Ontario. City people, secure and comfortable, read about it and it seems unreal, a page from the past. Yet it is not many generations since nearly every one in the Northern States and Canada had to be on guard against wolves and similar perils. Life is getting soft. We have conquered our natural enemies, except germs. This leaves us more time for stealing from and killing each other. Cooperation is difficult when common perils vanish. Might be a good thing for nature to turn loose a few million wolves on us.
Analysis Shows Stars Differ in Chemical Composition
You can get ail answer to any rniostton of fact or information bv writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Are.. Washington. D. C.. inrlosinir 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot be given. tTnaimed letters cannot be answered, but all letters ar<- confidential, and receive personal replies. Although the bureau does not require it. it will assure prompter replies if read'-rs will confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on vavious subjects arc desired EDITOR. Do stars differ in chemical composition? A spectroscopic analysis of star light shows the atmospheres of the cooler stars are full of the vapors of metals, while in the hotter stars the metals are largely replaced by gases such as hydrogen and helium, says Science Service. This has been taken as an indication that the stars do differ in chemical composition, but recent research indicates that the hotter and cooler stars are nearly the same In chemical composition. Oases like helium are so hard to set shining it is only In the hotter stars we can tell they are there. What is a gila monster? A large lizard of Arizona, New
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Mexico and the southwestern States having tubercular scales. The gila monster and the similar .Mexican H. horridum are the only poisonous lizards known. How much Honor is consumed in the British Isles? The latest figures (for 1919) are as follows: Spirits 21,721,000 gallons Wine 19,342,000 gallons Beer 21,752,000 gallons What and where are the Andamans? What kind of inhabitants have they? These are a chain of islands politically attached to British India, j situated toward the east side of the i Bay of Bengal, between 10 and 14 North Lattitude and about 93 East : Longitude, 680 ihiles south of the j mouth of the Ganges. The inhabitants ! represent a primitive or generalized j type, from which, on the one hand, i the African negroes, and on the other i Melanesians, njay have proceeded, j The population of the Andamans, i with the Nicobars, in 1911, was 26,459. j How can the shine from the in- j side of the intestines of sheep be removed? The method depends on the purpose for which they are to be used. Asa | rule, the only thing to do is to wash j them. Scrape them with a dull knife j and wash again thoroughly. Care j must be taken when scraping the intestines, as there is danger of cutting j a hole in them. What and where arc the greatest lengths and breadths of the Pacific Ocean? The greatest length from North to j South of the Pacific Ocean is about j 7,350 miles (9,300 miles to the Ant- ; arctic circle), and the greatest breath, j along the parallel of latitude 50 j North, 10,300 miles. What is the average yield of potatoes per acre in the United States? This varies from about sixty bushels | in Texas to more than 200 bushels in j Maine. The average for the entire j .country for . the past ten years is ; ninety-eight bushels per acre. ■ : '
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Woman Faces Death Trial but Is Happy Because She Holds Faith of Her Husband
By ALEXANDER HERMAN, NEA Service Staff Writer BROOKLYN. N. Y., Jan. 5. Death holds no terror for her, life no charm; yet Mrs. Lillian S. Raizen, who will soon go on trial for murder
in the first degree, is happy. HeV husband believes in her. “That’s all that matters,” she said in her cell at the Raymond St. jail. “His faith in me is all I care for. Through all this terrible tragedy he has stood by as only one man in millions would have done.” She closed her •eyes and sobbed. “If his confidence would waver,” she went on with effort, “even for an instant, I would give up
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all hope and lose interest in everything.” But there is little likelihood of this, for Charles S. Raizen seems to be a man of steel. On their honeymoon his bride told him of her past. Nine years before she had gone to the office of her family physician, Dr. Abraham L. Glickstein. While waiting for him she went to a piano and began playing an old melody. ‘‘The love of my heart,” she said, “must have been bursting forth into song when he came in. . “He coaxed me to keen on. He sat down beside me. There was a peculiar glitter in his eve. He drew closer. “That was the beginning. “The little French song started all the trouble." Instead of being resentful, Raizen told his bride to forget. He tried to calm her. He sent her South for a rest. But she could not forget. She came back, went to the physician's office and shot him. At the funeral his aged mother dropped across his coffin —dead. Some months later Mrs. Glickstein committed suicide. She was the third victim of the tragic French love song. But Mrs. Raizen is not going to be the fourth, if her husband can help it. He has engaged leading counsel and experts to defend his wife. He visits her at the jail almost every day and cheers her up.
Public Opinion
THE HAPPY MEAN To the Editor of The Time* Wage earners and their families constitute a majority of our population. No nation, no people can prosper as long as a majority do not prosper. An industrial review of any extensive period will show that prices invariably advance more rapidly than wages. This prevents wage earners from buying back their share of production. Hence it accumulates on shelves and in warehouses for the want of buyers and business is stagnant. The remedy is to determine by a scientific, economical Investigation just what share of production should go to labor and what per cent to capital. Then establish wages in the form of a constant ra'lon. as a certain per cent of gross profits. This will enable wage earners to buy back their share of production, buy up the products of the farms and make prosperity for all classes of business as well as for themselves. In normal times we
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Why Shouldn’t They? By BERTON HRALEY I DON'T know a thing about htghrr finance. But this much I’m ready to say: Since Germany troops made a waste Out ol France It e Germany s cash that should pay. Yet out of EIGHT billlbns expended so tar, Repairing the that was done. The Germans have paid for the havoc they mads Just ONE! “Can Germany pay?” Let economists ask— I’m sure that I cannot decide. * To pay is, of course, a most difficult task, lint—how hard has Germany tried? She whined and she s whimpered, she's wheedl-d and dodged, She’s raised a sail hullabaloo. But as to that debt, welt, she has at as yet. Come through. Her fields were not wasted, her homes are intact. So. though I don' t savvy finance. I'm free to confess I can't see for a fact. Why she should pay far less than France! Economists say that the Germans can't pay. And prove It with figures, but I Would like to see Fritz quit his cry-baby fils And try! (Copyright. 1923. NEA Service)
do not export over ten per cent of our total production. Hence homo •larkets are of greater value to us than foreign. Build up home markets by Increasing the purchasing power of the wage earners, not by mere wage increases, but by establishing an equilibrium between wages and prices. America needs to eliminate the present oil-worn fixed wage and establish the cooperative wage, as suggested above. \ RAY VERN MAPLE. 1301 Naomi St. What America Needs To the Editor ol The Timet Respect for old age by the young, cut out al! fakes of malicious kind, while wo draw closer in brotherly union with radical reform on the skirt line. Cut out jazzers, set them to work: stop bootleggers with a strong endeavor; knock out the gambling Board of Trade; stay with our Constitution now and forever. Trim down taxes from East to West; clean up Wall Street, and do it quick: pass a bonus bill for our soldier boys, with free medical atten-
t'on to the sick. Extend a hand in a generosu way for world wide peace. Let us always stand showing the world how man can be free under democracy with Uncle Sam. Follow tho flag, red, white and blue; always strive for tho very best: give a dollar’s worth for a hundred cents: be all-American and stand the test. Let Senators read about what we need, then get busy without delay. The above list would surely be good for all the people of the IT. S. A. DANIEL WEBSTER TREON. Fairland, lnd. Velvet and Sable A gown of white brocaded velvet has a band of sable about the hern and outlining the very short' sleeves. It has a full, bouffant skirt and a close-fitting bodice. Youthful Style Bows, large and small, are seen on the new gowns. Frequently a how <;n one shoulder is matched by a sash which ties over the other hip. A large butterfly bow of taffeta or satin is frequently the only trimming on a frock.
Low Foreheads Are No Index to Mans Intellect
By NEA Service CHICAGO. Jan. B.—Pa, cut this out and save it. And the next time Ma call you a lowbrow because you’re not over keen about her Monday Afternoon Intellectual Uplift Club, show it to her: The height of one's brow has noth ing to do with one’s intellectual ca pacity. That’s stated on the authority of Dr- Vv. J. Hickson, director ot Chicago’s municipal court psycho pathlc hospital. People with low brows are the best business men and organizers. That’s on the authority of Jessie Allen Fowler, phrenologist. Says Dr. Hickson: “Don't measure a man’s brow — measure his hatband. If the size of the hat is below six and one-half or much above seven and one-half chances are he’s an intellectual in ferior. “Foreheads are no reliable Index. High foreheads are misleading because their owners’ heads often are filled with other things than brains. “Low foreheads can hold as many brain cells as high ones. And it's the development of these cells that counts- Men with low brows have come to the front in history where those with high brows have failed." And say Jessie Allen Fowler. “One with a high brow is reflective, a theorist, a dreamer, a philosopher—like Woodrow Wilson. “One with a low brow Is scientific, observing, practical, governed by rule and accurate In statement —like Charles Darwin. "Avery stupid person may have a very high brow.”
Hays’ Plan for Civil Service Is Going on Rocks
BY LEO R. SACK WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—Will H. Hays' scheme for the appointment nf postmasters through competitive civil service examinations is on the rocks. When the Republican Administration came into power twenty-two months ago, Hays, then postmaster general, shocked big and small fry politicians by persuading President Harding to take postmaster appointments out of politics. Under the Hays plan the Civil Service Commission selects the three ! jgh candidates from the field. Their names ire certified to the postmaster general who in turn requests the Congressmen to nominate the postmaster. Usually the favored political appointee has managed to get included in the list of elipibles —but not always. •Recently forty candidates sought appointment as postmaster of Cleveland. Ohio. Included among them was Dr. E. A Powell, choice of the politicians. For five months the Civil Service Commission industriously investigated all candidates, and finally decided that but two of the candidates were suitable —and Dr. Powell was not included. Now, if the Civil Service recommendation is followed a rank outsider gets the job: if the recommendation Is disregarded a mockery has been made of the law.
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YOU have got to make the best of things to get them. • * • The older a man gets the younger he wishes he was. Most off the free things you enter are pay as you leave. * * • Lots of girls think the dishes wash , hemselves. • • * Why worry? Six months from now the furnace will be working fine and coal will be cheaper.
• • * Tomorrow is always one day late. ♦ • ♦ Two can live longer than one. • * • It is easy for a wrestler to get these new dance steps. • • Spring hats and customers are being trimmed. * • • Mother misses father when he is out hunting because she is afraid the other hunters will not. • * C A good mixer has lots of friends —especially a good drink mixer. • • • The money a man saves by not helping others never does him so very much good. • • • Some people seem to think they are doing wrong by living. • • • A hustler has no time for bad luck. • • 4 Human nature never changes, but it often short-changes. • • • Aviation has its ups and downs. • * • If cussing the weather made us fat there would be no skinny men. • • • The early bird catches cold. • • • Many a man looks run down because of the bills his wife runs up. • • • It looks like a hard winter for the ice man. V • • Some people don’t care what they do and neither does any one else. • • • The man who says nothing doesn’t always mean it.
Past and Future Conferences
BY HERBERT QUICK When the so-called disarmament conference met. It started off with a clean-cut proposition. "You do this,” said Mr. Hughes, “and“we will do that.” I am no enthusiast over the result, for I can't see that naval rivalry is ended by the treaty, even when it is ratified; hut in so far as we proposed anything, we succeeded. Because we started with a proposal as definite as a horse trade. Hughes drew the world’s limelight again the other day with his proposal for an economic conference. I hope it will succeed, but I am harassed by doubts. He can’t go into an economic conference with a definite proposition. The disease of which the world is dying Is too overcharged with complications for that. Perhaps it can be reduced to a definite proposition. Maybe a formula can lie found. That is, a formula for the economic confer-
ence, under which Hughes will say to dying Europe: “You do this and we will do that!” Would he dare say it? Could he agree to any formula, even to save the world? No! All he could say would be: “You do thus and so, and we will do as we please’” That would never solve anything. But it would be all he could say. For back of Harding and Hughes stands Congress—-the body that assassinated Wilson’s plan for saving the world. Harding helped in the doing to death of the Wilson plan, through Congress. The same stiletto lies handy for the next Congress, and will be used on Harding's plans, unless there is a great popular movement sufficient to Impose the popular will on Congress. Indeed, the congressional paralysis lies on the Administration now. in laws which limit what the executive might do were ht free. All we can do is to hope.