Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1923 — Page 4

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WHAT a GIRL who clerks In a 5-and-10-cent store YOU f\ sends this letter: “Why is it that some inLIKE / \ visible force seems to keep me Chained to my present job, when what I really want to do is act in the movies? lam getting well into the thirties. The bloom is leaving my cheeks. I try to be practical and sensible, but, by keeping ihv ears open and m3’ mind bus}' figuring things out, I learn that lam in much the same boat as every one else. No one seems able to do what the> r want to do. Why is- this?'’ T 0 this girl clerk, we answer: \ . The question 3'ou ask has been asked by every grown-up since humanit3* began to exercise its power of reasoning. And there seems to be no answer, except that fate or destiny has much to do with our careers. George Adc, who is such a geuius as a genial satirist that future generations will stud}* his fables in slang a& our generation studies 4 4 Rabelais, ’’ always wanted to write 4 4 heavy stuff. ’ ’ Maybe you remember the American Magazine’s interview with George, in which he expressed his bewilderment because he seemed forced to write humor instead of philosophy or tragedy. Another case is Eddie Fo3', comedian, whose foremost ambition always was to play HamletThe reader will appl>’ it to himself—to the thing he wants to be, the life he wants to live, but cannot. It is as*if invisible hands of destiny thrust 3'ou awa\~ from culmination of ardent desire. The trail, as always in philosophy, leads nowhere. Common sense brings most of us to a certain degree of contentment b}’ making us realize that we probably arc doing what we were intended to do. You see au able lawyer, proud of his ability to repair a clock. Ilesaj’s: “I was cut out to be a fine mechanic.” Deep in his heart he knows that he is “kidding” himself—that law is his natural field. ‘ This law, however, holds good onh’ when we are established in the rut, through which we are destined to spend most of our mature years. Often we are doing the wrong kind of work and \earn for something else. If fitted for the something else, ambition will make us find a way to get into the line we like. When it. comes, to day dreaming, to things we yearn for but arc unwilling or unable to attain with our powers, we generally are like vaudeville actors as booking agents describe them: “When they can sing, they want to dance. And when they can dance, they want to sing.” WORLD’S TTTOMEX talk more than men. says Dr. A. A. PRIZE Brill, the ps3'eJio-analyst. -John W. Hapcr, huTALKKRS y y moi st, suggests that Brill should attend a session of flic United States Senate, which might change his view. If women realh- do talk more than men, it’s because custom and courtesy* make it easier for them to get au audience. Only reason the average person ever listens to any one else’s talk is because he knows it’ll soon be his turn. The chief thing that keeps Europe from returning to normal is that most of its politicians are primarily interested in talking to the galleries. HOOTt H A BOOTLEGGERS’ protective association is TRADE /\ discovered in Chicago by United States DisPROGRESS XX triet Attorney Clyne. The association headquarters furnishes bail, lawyers and influence when its members get arrested. 1 heir customers might profitably form a similar organization, wjith fraternal features providing burial expenses for deceased members. How lar has the organization of bootleggers gone? How much bribery and lobbying are being carried on by the rum ring? The expose will come, red hot. some day. Possibly in a retired bootlegger’s memoirs. SAW AND A MERICANS this year will try to erect s7,s:il>,HAMMER 000,000 worth of new buildings, or about S7O PROSPERITYJL X for every man, woman and child. This is the estimate by the Copper and Brass Research Association. It fears that nearly a fourth of this gigantic building program will have to be delayed until 1924, because of shortage of labor, materials and money. Good news. When it comes to employment and prosperity, it’s impossible for America to bite off more than it can chew. A good 3'ear is starting. No news is more fundamental.

British'Guiana Has Tropical Climate and Is Fever Infested

Tou can ffct an answer to anj n\icstun of fact or information by writing *• tht* irU’nnaivtii* p r*ti , 's’ Washinctoi Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Waahisiffton, D. C., fedosinr 2 • puts hi stamp? Mtdicai. le-ral and iove ami niarriare advice cannot b*; given. I r *x signed letter? cannot bp answered, but all letters are confidential and receive personal replies. Although the bureau docs not rewire it. it whl assure prompter replies if readers will c onfine. Questions to a single subject, writing more than on 6 letter if answers on various subjects are desired. m)iTOf;. What is flic climate *f Briti-h Guiana? * It Is tropical. Owing to the intense heat and the coast, the northern portion is particularly unhealthy and fevers have interfered seriously with the development of this part of the country. The climate of the upland interior is naturally more moderate and inviting. The rainy period extends from April until the middle of August, during which time there is very heavy precipitation. Along the coast there is a second and lighter rainy season from November to February, in the short dry periods of the year east winds prevail. Guiana is free from hurricanes. llotv much liquor was consumed in the United States in 1917? Ballon*. IHmustic fruit brandy Pomeatic, all native liquors.. 101.01 2.OUS Foreign spirit* 3.059.589 Domestic wires 37.ti40.40.-> Foreign wires 5.085.881 romestic beer ....1.881,004,835 Foreign beer 2.300.543 Total for the year 2,094,729,078 Who was the most scientific of our Presidents? I Thomas Jefferson was probably the a lost interested in scientific things. je was an astronomer, physicist, enanatomist, geologist, zoologist, Htanist and palaeontologist. He disj£sered extinct animal ad nes, im CyA Jd new plants and nathistory and IlßHoose-

j ve’t, also, was interested in various ! scientific lines—among them natural ! history. What is the horse power developed at Niagara Falls on tlie American side? About .741.000 horse power. How many actors and actresses are there in the United States? According to the 1920 census, there i wore 15,124 actors and 13,227 actresses in the United States. What is the longest tunnel in the United States? That on the Boston & Maine rail : road in iloosac. Mass., about .'At miles ! long. What is the address of the Lotos Club? 110 W- Fifty-Seventh St., New York j City. When is the breeding season of eanarips? ; It begins properly In March, though i birds often show signs of its approach ; as early as January, it is better, be {cause of the effect of changing | weather conditions upon callow young. 'to postpone nesting activities until ! later, if possibleIs com grown in ever}- State of the Union? Yes. What should men wear at informal evening dinners, theater 1 parties, etc.? j A Tuxedo (dinner coat) with trousers of same material; waistcoat of same material or of black silk; gold ,or jeweled links and studs; white [shirt; fold or wing collar; black tie: I black hose; patent or dull leather shoes or purrps: any hat except a high silk one-

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Man May Soon Be Rebuilt With Organs From Animals, Famous Surgeon Says

By 808 DORMAN XEA Service Staff Writer PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 6. —Monkey glande, pigs’ eyes and other animal parts will soon be replacing worn-out organs of the human body, as a common practice, according to Dr. Edward B. Morgan, well-known physician here. In March he will attempt to restore a blind boy's sight by replacing his useless eye with one from a pig. Within ten years he expects such substitutions to become popular. "The medical fraternity,” says Dr. Morgan, "has just begun to open up the possibilities of the replacement of worn-out human organs by corresponding parts from animals. "I am convinced that there are thousands of people walking in darkness who ciAild be made to see tyy replacing their sightless eyes with pigs’ eyes, which, among tho animals, most closely resemble the human eye. If the optic nerve has not been damaged, I can see no reason why such an operation should not lx- a success. "Glands and kidneys, whose close counterparts can be readily found In animals, should also be capable of substitution. In fact, the substitution of monkey glands has already yieleded beneficial results. "The operation which I am going to perform on Alfred Lenanovvicz should restore his sight. One of hia eyes has been totally destroyed, but the other has merely become opaque in the cornea. Bapk of the cornea the eye is perfectly normal. “As shown in the diagram, the cornea will be removed, cutting into the white of the eye a little, so as to leave room for sewing on the j new cornea. Then the corresponding organ will be taken from a chloroformed pig, and attached to the hoy's eye by six stitches. If the transplanted part adheres—and I see

Burbank Answers Criticisms of Ohio l hiiversity Scientists on His Plant Work

r. u 11' *- r llurbanlt. the plant wizard. state I .’diversity profesosrs. replies to lih <rit4<-H in the following statement written especially for NEA Service. Burbank directs Ins reply t.< \V M. P i rw Assistant professor of rooloey at O S. I’.. who charged Burbank as a scientist is a faker. BY LUTHER BURBANK Tl'l thank >ou professor. I Vy have never claimed anything for myself, save the right to make the bc-st use of head, heart and hands, anything save the right to

create from nst u r e’s crucible those t h 1 n g a most necessary to tho lives of men. Yet tn any things have bee n claimed for me, most of them true, some of them quite ridiculous; especially this one, that I pilfer from others (by an alleged orthodox scientist.) This is not the first time my work has heen

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impeached. I haw heard such things before, mostly long ago, but have given no answer. My products have been fully able to do that. Tit© flea bitea because it is in this manner that the flea, must sustain

Wild-Catters' Laying for Investors; Banks of Nation M list Humanize Selves

By ROBERT TABLET WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—Some Ponzi 4s laying for you. Perhaps not the Boston Ponzi, who's still in jail, but another of his kind, looking for those who want to get rich quick, and who are gullible enough to swap savings for smooth promises. So says William Mather Lewis, former chief of the United States Treasury savings division, now with the United States Chamber of Commerce, and regarded as tho best posted man in the country on the subject of saving. Lewis says the “wildcatters” are out to clean up on the $625,000,000 which the Government has just refunded to holders of 1918 war savings stamps. Here’s what Lewis advises folks to do with their savings:

Heroes by BEBTON BHALEY ffjA.T Y father!—Well, T guess if he i,VI Should find some giants kidnapped me. He'd toiler ’em right to their cave — My father's awful strong an’ bravo! All’ when ho caught 'em ho'd yell ‘Hey. You let that boy go. right awayl’ An’ If they didn’t-—! tell ..you My father's break ran plumb in two! t guess be'd learn em to be good, Thate how bed ando —my father would.” 'Your father 1 Aw, ho in't so grand, My father's lick him with one hand. And if some giants was around Why just the minute that they found My father lived hero—tell you what, They'd run like fun until they got A million miles away! They’d bo Afraid to THINK of touchtn’ mel" And thus two ordinary men Os five foot six or eight or ten, A little soft and fat and gray. And commonplace in every way, lr~ by their children's holiest pride Heroic figures, magnified. A man must be a perfect zero If to his kids ho e not a hero. (Copyright, 1923. NEA Service)

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no reason why it shouldn’t —they boy will be able to see as well aa ever. “I performed a similar operation some years ago on a woman, but with only partial success She was able to see all right for two years, but at the end of that time the transplanted cornea dropped off. caused by a diseased condition of the interior eye. In the present case I look for an absolute cure, as the boy’s eye is perfectly healthy.." While talking Dr. Morgan was

its life, and I am not resentful; some of them are hard pressed. My life mission lias been to create j to produce, to improve. Rtid to do j what I can for the world while ye*. ' living. I do not propose to tang o my feet In pseudo scientific discussion and quarrel. There are many who are resentful that I do not stop on my course and

The Attack MY quarrel with Luther Burbank Is not as a horticulturist, but as a selfstyled scientist, he Is a complete faker. No man of scientific Integrity would permit hiinsolf to bo sensationalized in solum ns of the Sunday supplement as Burbank has done, ife conducts all his work In secret and refuses to be investigated by learned societies and organizations, which is contrary to all laws of science. Tho Carnegie Foundation appropriated SIO,OOO for a complete investiga tion of his work and sent a representative to California, but after a few months he declared the attempted Investigation was a waste of money, for Burbank kept no records of ins researches and experiments and had nothing to teach science aboul the laws of plant growth.—Prof. \V. M. Barrows, Ohio Slate I nivernity.

1. Invest it in a good Government security, or 2. Invest locally, with men you can trust, in a worthy home town enterprise, or 3. Give it to charity, outright, rather than turn it over to some “shark” promising fabulous returns. “Ponzi talked to tho investors in a language they could understand; he got t,-ight in with them and was one of them. His dazzling proposition had the lure of mystery and the prom iso of fabulous profits—and it is hit man to fall for this. But biggest of ail, he made the people feel Liko he was one of them. ? “Contrast this with the average bank; the man in overalls is frightened away by the imposing bank building, the ma.rble columns, tho uniformed porters, and all that sort of stuff, and

busily engaged in removing a tumor from a patient’s eyelid. The interview was in the dining room. The patient was resting a dining room chair. 'Hie usual white fittings of an operating room were absent Dr. Morgan was dressed in his business suit. He does not Imlieve in the modern trappings with which operations are now surrounded. "Expensive bunk” is hi3 characterization of them. For more than forty years he has been successful without them.

teach the science of my work in detail to otlierF. That problem confronted me many I years ago, and several of the great universities offered most tempting sal ! .tries for such service. | I decided 1 was a naturalist and horticulturist; not a university teach;r; that if I stopped to explain, a3 | a professor I would probably be less j useful than in my own chosen field jof effort and that l could boos greater j benefit in continuing my own special w*erk. e What I have striven to do, I may say, by my books and scientific work, is for the benefit of my feljow passengers uloug tho stream of life. The j most noted of contemporaneous scientists have been kind enough to erndit me with having (lone oven that, if nothing moro. The things I have created through more than a half century of thought and toil were born in my mind, and j developed with tho labor of my own i hands. | i have never imported a discovery from any one else. an has been .charged, and claimed it as my own. I do not need to ns they can now lie produced on tny grounds as fast as the whole world trado can absorb |and distribute them. This whole matter is for a laugh; let tho ball keep rolling. LUTHER BURBANK.

j the belief that he would get a frosty j reception If lie dared to speak to one of tlie banjf officers who sits at a ! mahogany desk. The banks of this j country have got to humanize themselves if legitimate enterprise is to get ! t hat public capital that falls ready prey to the slick wildcatter. They’ve ' got. to molt that icy frontier and make people feel like they were at home.” Uncle Saw Is Some Spender l Vhen Started By W. 11. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Heard about the Department of Labor’s windfall? Tho “second deficiency appropriation hill,’’ carrying a grand total of $70.872,315,26, has just passed tho House of Representatives. In this bill "generous” provision was made for the Department of Labor, as any ono can seo by reading the items. For example, there is $45.57 appropriated outright for ‘‘regulating immigration,” $18.78 for "salaries and 1 expenses of commissioners of conciliation,” $8.20 for "security and defense,” and forty cents for “investigation of child welfare.” Altogether a total of $81.20 is appropriated in this one bill for tho various activities,of the Labor Department. When Uncle Sam gets started, he's some spender. PERSHING INVITED Gen. John J. Pershing and other prominent army officers have been invited to address a two-day joint meeting at the Clay pool Hotel. Feb. 1 of the National Guard Association and the National Adjutant Generals’ Association, according to Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith.

Guaranty Clause in Rail Bill Was Added to It Later

By F. G. ORR WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—“lt wasn’t our fault that it got in, and we’re going to do everything w r e can to get it out.” This is what Burton E. Sweet, low*a Representative, and a member of the House Committee on Interstate Commerce, has to say about section 15-A of the Esch-Cummins transportation act. Section 15-A is that part of the bill which guarantees to the railroads s!£ to 6 per cent return on valuation. "This little clause was added after the hill had left our hands,” says Mr. Sweet. “It was a plan born in the Senate Committee room, and as a. matter of fact, it was S. Davies Warfield’s ' 1 idea Who was S. Davies Warfield? ( Ho was. and I guess ho still is, president of tho National Association of i Owners of Railroad Securities. "That little-fact speaks for itself." The Sweet bill, calling for the repeal of section 15-A of the transportation act will be reported out of the committee within a week.

Woman Pay? Achmed Says She Does Not

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Does the woman pay? "Certainly not!” answers Achmed Abdullah, the Afghan writer of colorful stories of oriental life. “If. occasionally, she does give the impression that she’s paying." he continues, "the man’s always indorsed the check and has to meet it wli n it comes back from the bank stamped 'No funds.’ "Personally \ believe In equal rights for men. I'm a militant be- ];. v.-r in jjiis creed. But 1 can't say I've, had much success. Centuries of prejndi* centuries of enslavement to Inc female of the species have made the odds hard to overcome. But I shall carry on. "And one of the Equal Rights for Men League's slogans is that, while woman’s never paid heretofore, she jolly well ought to pay. "Man ,s more sentimental than woman, more honorable, more soul fill, more unselfish, altogether a finer, i, n product. And woman, these many centuries, has taken advantage of him. "But ‘Dor Tag’ will come.”

Public Opinion

What America Needs To the r,i!itnr of Tho Times More than two years ago the all , important question. "What Docs I America Need?" was answered by posters on billboards throughout the . I nited States in six words. I will i* peat them: AMERICA NEEDS HARDING A CONSTRUCTIVE STATESMAN. America goi just Avhat the people derided on. although two years have passed without confidence having been restored and tlv reconstruction program is far iii tho background with ithe rest <>C legislation and financial I difficulties. I believe one of tho most important j things America needs today is another 1 decision with certain reservations and harmonious working forces at the j seat of Government in Washington, 1 >. I '.. whose interests are for a stable [and sound government, and who ho } lievo in America first and act accordingly. Do more for America in reconstruction: talk more for America's wel faro and less for Europe's; get tho American people interested more 1n home Government, ilien confidence will reign supreme. But so long as a force in Washington uses its office anti influence for self interest and plays politics at every opportunity In governmental affairs just so long will America be deprived of the things so essentia! to tlie success of the entire ' Nation. Therefore T. with thousands of other citizens, do not expect. America to have or enjoy real prosperity under the present policies which are being forced upon the American people today. WILLIAM T. WEATHERS. 2011 Mabel St. WOODMEN INITIATE Initiation of a class of 212 marked the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Modern Woodmen of America al Fountain Square hall last night. The initiates were given anew de- j gree, Ben Aclhem, which is to be the ! playground of Woodcraft, and will be organized in other States. Special scenery and stage settings were used in the initiation.

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TOM SIMS SAYS:

MOST of those who swore off are swearing on. Know tli3 T self—but don’t tell everybody’ about it. • * • lie who hesitates is old-fashioned. * * * Shooting dice for a living is a shaky business. • • Curiosity killed a eat and a eat has nine lives. * • * ■Some of these books being bound ought to he gagged.

To be a picture of health a girl must have a good frame. • * • Maii3’ a plan to get rich quick has a poor ending. Next month is the month in which 3-ou pay thirty days’ rent for twenty-eight days. The concert of nations is singing on American notes. • • When a woman gets her husband up a tree she makes a monkey out of him. • * • The most expensive thing on earth is the upkeep on a marriage license. * • • J W hat this eonntiy of ours needs is more spunk and less bunk. Wait for things to turn up and your nose is all that does it.

The White House, the official residence of the President of the United States, is a two-story freestone edifice, painted wjdte, 170 by SO feet, of dlgni tied appearance, with an loie portico. George Washington was present at th- laying of (he cornerstone in 1792, in what was then simply David Bums’ old fields stretching down to the Potomac. This was the first public building to be erected in the new national Capitol. John Adams was the first president to live there fl8(F) at a time when it was so new and damp that his wife was obliged to have a litoral house-warming to dry tho interior sufficiently for safety and health. The architect was James Hoban, who took his idea of the mansion from the hous- of the Irish Duke of Leinster, in Dublin, who had. in turn copied the Italian stylo. The house stands square north and south. The cost has exceeded $1,500.000. In is 14 tho British set lire to the mansion: on the completion of repairs the building was pointed white to conceal the ravages of the tire. It was reopened for the New Year's reception of President Monroe. In 1903 Executives offiops. connected with the main building, were added.

. IV-V. . *“*• - , -j, iP-gp. All Unnecessary P Inconvenience ' /"'IALL the laundry and dispptiso with Iho dry in? of your clothes in a dark, damp, slowing drying basement. The cold hlustry days of winter, the chilling rains and the, general inclement weather of Ihe season necessitates basement drying of clothes practically every wash day. It’s always a “bright Summer’s day” at any Indianapolis laundry. lie a pound you can have your clothes done Rough Dry; every piece being thor-' oughly washed, rinsed and dried. All the flat work is faultlessly Step to the phone, call the laundry and have them do this week’s washing. -t”' **<■**'pff' i ~ - c I St ** / Copyrighted, 1923.

The White House

The President's grounds are about eighty acres in extent, sloping down to the Potomac flats. The greater portion of the grounds are open freely to the public at all times, but with tho exception of the east room, the official apartments are visible only at special request, or when at intervals a custodian leads a party through. The famous east room is SO feet in 1* ngth. 40 feet wide and 22 feet high and has S beautiful marble mantels, surmounted by mirrors. Full length paintings of Martha Washington and of George Washington (the one that Dollie Madison saved during the war of 1S12) hang in this room, which is used as a State reception room. One of the features of the east room is lhe three magnificent crystal chandeliers which depend from each of the three great panels of the ceiling. Other famous rooms are the blue room, the green room and the red room, so called for the prevailing colors of the decorations. The State dining room will aeconimodate 54 persons, but the usual number of guests is from 30 to -10. Ample appropriations for the upkeep of the White House are made by Congress each year.

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