Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1923 — Page 4

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STRIKING |\o the people of Indiana wish to name their AT THE I | own publie officials, or do they prefer to PRIMARY’ 1 J have them named by a group of machine politicians sitting in Indianapolis? This question must be settled before the Legislature adjourns sixty days hence. Another effort is being made to repeal the primary law. The movement has behind it the powerful influence of a number of politicians thinking more of personal gain than of public good. A bill already has been prepared providing that State officials and United States Senators be named in convention, and making the convention or the primary optional as applied to local officials. The public should not be deceived by this proposal. It is a ; direct'attempt to destroy the primary system—to deprive the voters of the right to name and control their public officials. Governor McCray is opposed to the primary. He has been one of the prime movers in seeking its destruction. His argument is that it should not be necessary for a candidate to make a canvass of the State seeking nomination. The Governor is wrong. It should be necessary for the candidate to make the voters acquainted with him. It is not necessary for him to spend enormous sums of money in order to do this. Many successful primary campaigns have been conducted for nominal sums. The expenditures of candidates should be rigidly limited. For a number of years up until last year a Republican nom- ; ination for a State office in Indiana has been equivalent to election. * This means that if the Governor or a United States Senator, for instance, had been nominated in a convention, the convention and not the people would have chosen these officials. One of tbe best arguments for the primary was the last Republican nominating election. Senator Harry S. New and Albert J. Beveridge were opposing candidates. The Republican voters wanted Beveridge and they nominated him. What would have happened if the candidate for United States Senator had been chosen in a convention meeting in Tomlinson ; Hall? Senator New would have had a walk-away. The organization was for him. Republican office holders knew he was responsible for their jobs. The vote in the convention would have been nearh unanimous for New. Beveridge would hardly have had a look-in if any one had displayed sufficient nerve to present his name. The rank and file of the Republican voters would have been given no : more consideration than if they did not exist. Any one who has attended political conventions and has been to any extent at all on the inside knows how much the choice o! the public is considered. The nomination of a candidate is broughi , about largely through trading. Let us cite a hypothetical situation. Suppose the Sixth Dist trict has a candidate for Auditor and the Tenth District has a * candidate for Secretary of State. The boss of the Tenth District * will go to the boss of the Sixth District and propose to him that if the Sixth District will vote for the candidate for Secretary of . State the Tenth District will vote for the candidate for Auditor. | An agreement is reached and the votes are casrt accordingly. The ; Sixth District delegation does not give a whoop who is Secretary of State so long as its candidate for Auditor is nominated. The Tenth District delegation does not give a whoop who is Auditor so long as its candidate for Secretary of State is named. Obviously, under the circumstances, neither gives a whoop for the public. This sort of thing happens in every State convention. It would happen if candidates for Governor and Senator were to be * named. / The voters have absolutely not a chance in the world to express a choice. They must in the ultimate election choose between candidates who are the choice of two groups of party bosses. Indiana does not want to go back to such a system. It wishes * to continue as a self-governing commonwealth. The voters should awaken to the danger that such a system will be forced on them. But it wiD not be forced on them if they will right now make it t plain to their representatives that they will tolerate no such move. Admittedly, the primary has been abused to some extent, but “ these abuses can be and are being prevented. The convention sys--1 tern is rotten clear through and it always will be from its very - nature. * * —-■ j YELLOM S 'v NCE more the old adage about truth being * BACK ■ I stranger than fiction has been vindicated. STUFF Reports that $3,000,000 worth of Russian crown jewels, once the pride of the Roman- * offs, lie hidden in a sailor’s grave in the National Cemetery at 2 Brooklyn, N. Y., have been nnder investigation for several weeks * bv government agents. According to the story tbe gems were placed in charge of *■ a messenger to be brought from Russia to this country and sold. : The messenger decided to keep them for himself and placed them in the coffin of the dead sailor, intending to recover them after they had reached the United States. He was unable to do this : and the gems were buried with the body. Here is sufficient material for a dozen ten-cent thrillers of : the old yellow back type or melodramatic movie serial. However, were a story of this kind to be printed as fiction the average reader would yawn and toss it aside with the remark that “things ; like this never happen in real life.”

Saccharine, Coal Tar Product, 300 Times Sweeter Than Sugar

QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can set an answer to any question of fart or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington ' Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washinp- , ton. D. C.. enclosing 2 eents in stamps. Medical. Ipe.il and love and marriage - advice cannot be given Unsigned let- - tera cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. Although the bureau does not a require it. it will assure prompter re- * plies if readers will confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various subjects s are desired. EDITOR. Is there any substance sweeter than sugar? * Saccharine, a coal tar product is 300 times sweeter than sugar. Who was the first woman, according to Greek legend? Pandora. When did Jack London die? Nov. 22. 191 L How many British battleships were raptured by the Germans during the World War? No warships. British warships were torpedoed, sunk and lost in other ways, but none captured. What is an eclipse? The obscuration of a heavenly body * bv Its entering the shadow of another - body, as when the moon enters the shadow ot the earth, or a satellite of

Jupiter that of the planet. The partial or total disappearance of the sun by the passage of the moon between it and an observer. Is it true that cats have nine lives? No. Where is Lake Titicaca and how far above sea level is it? It is on the boundry between Bolivia ar.d Peru and is 14,000 feet above the level of the sea. What is meant by “wildcat” banking? Wild or reckless, unreliable or unsafe. by reason of reckless financing. The original use of the word in this sense is said to have been derived from a bank of this character whose notes bore the figure of a wildcat In the poem "John Gilpin” these words occur; “A trainband captain eke was he, of famous I-iondon town.” What do they mean? A “trainband” is a militia organization, especially one in London which was organized in the Stuart period, abolished and later reorganized. Evidently John Gilpin held the rank of captain in this organization.

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Is Mrs. Lillian Knox, Texas Lumber Queen, Woman Counterpart of ‘Jekyll and Hyde'Story of Fiction?

Spent Thousands for Betterment of Community and of Her Employes.

By XEA Service HEMFHILL, Texas, Jan. B.—ls Mrs. Lillian Knox, widow of Hiram Knox, millionaire lumberman, a feminine counterpart of the famous Ur. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of fiction? Did one of two personalities draw her up toward humanitarian work, spending of thousands in the betterment of her community, generous gifts to charity, which gained her the title of “Lady Bountiful” — While the other —the evil —personality drew her downward to conspiring against her husband's life and finally to firing the shot from an automatic pistol that caused his death as he lay sleeping? That question is on every lip in this little Texas lumbering town while Mrs. Knox, to the astonishment of those she has benefited by her lavish gifts, is behind the bars of the Hemphill jail charged with the murder of her husband, shot to death Nov. 26. Her Strange Care*T Here is the story of Mrs. Knox's remarkable career as it will bo told in court if Mrs. Knox Is brought to trial on a murder charge: Mrs. Knox, known before her marriage as Lillian Marshall, was the eldest of live. Shortly after her birth, her mother died. Her father moved to Houston while she was still a young girl. There the girl met Knox, head of i vast lumbering concern and heir ; o a fortune estimated at between T. 000,000 and |10,000,000. They oved and were wed. That was ten ears ago. The young wife immediately after ier marriage was initiated into the secrets of her husband’s widespread business Interests. She began to

I Public Opinion

Why the In rest? ' n the Editor of The Timrs The OonstltuUon of the United States guarantees to every American sfe, liberty and the pursuit of hap■inesa, which all want, but which f.-vr at present are finding; hence the present unrest. Knowledge has been increased as foretold (Dan. 12:4). Education Is almost universal. This only brings unrest because it discloses conditions as well a3 creates desire. Jesus prophesied of this in Luke 21:24:28. when Ho told the Jews they .voull go into captivity to all nations “until the Gentiles’ time be fulfilled," *h<*n would Immediately follow unrest upon the earth, distress of nations, with perplexity, men’s hearts falling them for fear of looking after those things coining on the earth, for the powers will be shaken (now failing); then shall you see the Son of Man com lug in a cloud (unseen or mysteriously hidden), with power and great glory (Matthew 25:31:32: Rev. 2:26:27). When these things begin to come to pass then look up, lift up your heads; your redemption draweth nigh.” Jesus also taught but one prayer, “Thy Kingdom come. They will be done in earth .is in Heaven." I will shake all nations. The desire of all nations shall come, saith Jehovah (liaggai 2.7). WARREN 7.. AYRES. 880 Roache St Wliat America Nomls 7 o the Editor of The Tlmi-s What America needs is Christ’s kingdom on earth, and to know that the day of God's vengeance against Satan’s empire, visible and Invisible, Is here and that the re-establishment of the old world b an impossibility and that the establishment of the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus is here, and that all powers and or-gani7-alions that do not willingly aubmit to the righetous reign of the Lord will be destroyed. What America needs is for big business to cease exploiting the people, the politician to faithfully represent the people and the clergy to tell the poo pie the truth concerning God's plan and arrangements, and by obeying God's law of love, we could have his will done on earth as it is in Heaven, and Messiah's kingdom would he es tablished by him without further trouble or distress; but failing thus to do, greater trouble must shortly follow. What America needs is men with clean hands and a pure heart, which can only come through Christ’s kingdom when He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. C. E. KELLY. 964 Stillwell St.

Sad Lives By BERTON BRALEY THE people who live in an underwear ad Must have an embarrassed career. They’re forced to go ’round pretty nearly unclad Except for some underwear sheer. Or woolens, of course, when the weather is bad Along at this time of the year. And dressed In such fashion —it’s quite negligee, They have to go forth to their work or their play And then there’s the case of the hosiery maid. Who's seldom permitted to dress, But has to be more or less lightly arrayed (It couldn't be very much less) In order that hosiery may be displayed In all its luxuriousness. (Poor girl, though she’s pretty and dainty no doubt. She's kept tn her boudior and never let out.) But saddest of all is the life of the woman Who lives' in the bath night and day. In order that pictures of her may illumine The ads which the plumbers display, Kor all that she wears—it is rather inhuman. Is simply a mantle of spray. Observing these unlucky people I’m glad That I do not live tn a magazine adl (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service)

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dominate them through him and was known throughout, the southwest as the “Texas lumber queen.” But Mrs. Knox soon tried dominating her husband’s affairs, vast though they were. She became interested in charity and civio betterment. She set out to make beautiful and better the rough region which in those days surrounded the site of the Knox mills here. She started building a fairyland in a number camp.

Indians Home Brew Is Taken Away

By ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 —And now they’re going to take the Indian’s home brow away from him. ’’Povoto,” a home brew which redskins throughout the West use to throw them into a stupor during which they say they communicate with spirits of their dead warriors and see visions of the happy hunting grounds. Is to bo outlawed. A clause in the Indian appropriation bill that

NOBEL PRIZE CROWNS TSansen ms double career

Famed Explorer and Scientist Turns to Politics and Wins Fame.

By XEA. Service CHRISTIANA, Jan. B—Fridtjof Nansen, who lias just received tho Nobel peace prize, presents one of the most peculiar careers of modern

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public men in that, ho dovoted his while effort to science until ho was 56 years old, then suddenly veered to politics and humanitarian work and achieved as great distinction in the latter field as in his earlier life. Nansen, famed as an Arctic ex-

Her first work was to plan the little town that was to grow around the mills her husband owned. Then she turned her efforts toward improving the railroad connecting Hemphill with E*onson, ten miles away. As the result of her endeavors the road was changed from a narrow gauge to a standard gauge line. She brought, :tt htr own expense, theatrical troupes from distant places to offer their artistry free

passed the House the other day puts It In the class with “intoxicating liquors and deleterious drugs.’’ A number of feathered chiefs from Oklahoma, paying their own expenses, are coming to Washington soon to make a protest. "Throughout the Indian country,’’ explained Representative Charles Carter of Oklahoma, “the Indians who do not worship the white man’s God have their round peyote temples—or

plorer, zoologist, author, relief worker and diplomat, was born at Froen, near here, in 1861. He attended tho University of Christiania, specializing in zoology. At 21, having been graduated, he un dertook his first polar expedition in oast Greenland. In ISSB ho crossed the Ice cap ot Greenland for tho first time, undergoing great peril and suffering. He described his experiences in two volumes. In 1897 ho became professor of zoology at the university here. He had long cherished the Idea of drifting across the north pole on a moving ice pack. He understood such a venture in 1593 and was forced to spend a winter In an ice hut in tho Arctic. Word came back to civilization that Nansen had discovered the North Polo. On his return he denied this, but admitted he had penetrated the ice packs to within 272 miles of the pole. In 1905 a crisis arose between Norway and Sweden over their political separation. Nansen thon went into politics and campaigned with his pen for separation: The cause won. Nansen then become Norwegian minister to Great BritainHo became an eager supporter of the League of Nations and has been active at every meeting. The league selected him to repatriate prisoners of war in Russia, a work he carried out with the greatest success. Nansen’s pleas for famine-stricken Russia more than any other thing were responsible for large amounts of foodstuffs and clothing being sent there by the United States and other countries. In the recent Greco-Turkish crisis, the league asked Nansen to undertake caring for tho safety of Christian minorities in Anatolia. “Surely we have received proof that war brings no good even to those who win,” Nansen says. ‘What humanity needs today is selfsacrificing active altruism which is able not only to give but also to give up."

MURDER OF ROADHOUSE PROPRIETOR IS MYSTERY

Woman Held in Jail Charged With Slaying of Man. liy United Press FREEPORT, N. Y., Jan. 8. —James S. Petit, 32, proprietor of the Ma.ssapequa Inn, a famous roadhouse, was mysteriously shot and kilted in his home here today. Miss Billie Well, was locked up in the Mineola jail, and according to District Attorney Elvin Richards, will be charged with the slaying. GOODRICH SPEAKS Ex-Governor James P. Goodrich was to speak today at the Service Club on the Russian Soviet government and conditions in Russia. Goodrich was President Harding’s representative In a study of the conditions in that country. He made two extended visits last year. He was also to give an out line of the plan of the Indiana War Memorial Commission, of which he is a member.

State Charges She Murdered Millionaire Husband Wnile He Lay in Bed.

of charge to lumber camp employes and their families. She built a mansion in which the entertainments she gave made her famous -throughout the Southwest. She purchased old masters and further embellished her art collection by importations from Europe. Each Christmas saw the expenditure of thousands that the people of the community might not want for gifts. The labor policy of the Knox mills was directed largely by Mrs. Knox. High wages were paid and a costly housing program, providing homes for employes on easy installments, was started. Knox Found Slain Then came the sudden death of Hiram Knox. The multi-millionaire was found in his bed early in the morning by Mrs. Knox and her sister, who said they were a weakened by a pistol shot. A bullet had penetrated the lumberman’s head. Testimony was introduced at the inquest to show that Knox several times had threatened to commit suicide. Nevertheless, the coroner pronounced the death a murder. Then canto a lull, ending with the sensation that shook Texas and the Southwest—the arrest of Mrs. Knox. The State, according to the prosecution, will introduce letters said to have been written to Mrs. Knox by a Texan with whom it will attempt to prove Mrs. Knox was friendly. But Mrs. Knox laughs at the acusations. “Malice and envy arc behind this prosecution," she says. “I am innocent. This is a conspiracy against me—and some of those I have befriended are involved. I will prove the charge ridiculous.”

just mere tepees, if they can’t afford a temple. "Amid the hollow beating of tomtoms, the weirl chant of the medicine men and the wails of the worshippers, they gather in these temples at intervals for their queer tribal rites. In the center of the circle is the poy. ote. which the high priest passes around and of which everybody present partakes.

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PURPOSES of PAIN

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DEFINITION The practice of Chiropractic consists of tho adjustment, with the hands, of tho movable segments of the spinal column to normal position for the purpose of removing tho cause of the disease.

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for the conditions, whatever they are. that cause the pain. When the pain is no longer present ho is In danger of forgetting that something is wrong. The danger signal was set and he has run by it. He may he able to take his train a little farther, hut the track has not been repaired: if nobody keeps watch, there will be a “smash up.” A headache powder does not hit the cause of the headache any more, than a laxative hits the cause of constipation or a spoonful of pepsin the cause of indigestion. You have cut out the symptoms, but the root of the trouble is still untouched. It Is a root that will keep on sprouting, too. Tho above editorial so clearly states several Important facts that every reader should give it careful study. It is in such perfect, accord with Chiropractic philosophy that we. as Chiropractors, would merely add thereto this common-sense suggestion: When pain develops, instead of ignoring the “danger signal” or trying to suppress it with strong drugs, consult a real Chiropractor and have the CAUSE removed. Chiropractic does NOT stifle pain, but REMOVES THE CAUSE: when the CAUSE is removed the pain disappears. Taking Chiropractic Adjustments to get rid of danger signals is simply putting plain common sense into practical use. (RIGHTS RESERVED.) “Practitioners of Straight Chiropractic.”

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TOM SIMS SAYS: •

HAVING a beautiful complexion doesn’t leave much time for washing dishes. • • • Some people seem to expect summer every winter and winter every summer. 0 0 0 It is a wise drinking man who marries a trained nurse. • • * A tiekless clock has been invented, but a farmer tells us there never will be any tickless cows.

People who have been to high-priced cabarets will be glad to learn a big one burned in Atlantic City. Relics found in Egypt are said to be worth $15,000,000. It must be a whole case. I • Emile Belot is an astronomer who claims stars marry, so Emile must be thinking of movie stars. • t There are entirely too many self-made widows.

Hanihara Slated as Ambassador to Washington

TOKIO, Jan. 8. —A man known only two years ago as the “Peck’s had boy’ s of Japanese diplomacy will represent Japan at Washington if present plans to name Masanao Hanihara to succeed Ambassador V Kijuro Shidehara |j are carried out. when negotiaTZJM tions to bring about amity be--1 tween Japan and the United States over the f’alifornia land question were in progress, v Hanihara caused the Japanese govV emment deep - -j'C em b a rrassment b y making HANIHARA speeches on the question when the gdvernment wanted it veiled in the deepest secrecy. Hanihara is 46. He is a graduate of Waseda Unicersity. He has served as attache of the legation at Seoul, Korea, secretary of the embassy at Washington, consul general at San Francisco, and vice foreign minister and director of political affairs. He was one of the senior delegates at the Washington arms conference ! in 1921.

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Suppose railroads tried to operate without danger signals. Or suppose the engineers disregarded them. There would be so many wrecks that people would walk. Nature has provided a. danger signal for all animal life. It is the consciousness of pain. Lots of people think they can disregard pain or cover it up with drugs. When a man tries to rid himself of a pain he ought to ask himself if he is striking simply at the pain itself or getting at the underlying cause. There are times when it is perfectly right to aim at the pain. It may be intense —the kind that drives everything else out of your mind. And the cause may be too deep to get at quickly. Perhaps some important work must be carried through; it may be essential for a man to stick to his job a little longer. In a case like that, no one could blame him for giving the knockout to his pain sense. But he does so at his peril. He ought to realize this fact. From that moment he has assumed responsibility

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Mine Feud in West Virginia Will Be Aired

BY C. C. LYON BERKLEY SPRINGS, W. Va., Jan. B.—After a lapse of several months, the legal end of the long-time feud between the United Mine Workers ofAmerica and the non-union coal operators of West Virginia is to be resumed in this little county seat of Morgan County. On Feb. 20, Frank E. Keeney, the young president of the organized miners of West Virginia, will go on trial before Judge J. M. Woods on indictments charging murder and treason, growing out of the armed march of union miners into Logan County, in August, 1921. Keeney was put on trial at Charles Town, Jefferson County, in October hut prevented the case from being heard by filing affidavits that charged that the non-union coal operators of Logan County had spent large sums of money in paying agents to prejudice the minds of prospective jurors against him and his organization. Keeney also showed the court that the coal operators had paid all the expenses of the trials of other union miners on charges similar to his own. This included pay of juror sand fees and expenses of witnesses. Coal operators’ attorneys had conducted the prosecutions. The Supreme Court sustained Keeney’s contention. After Keeney, there are some 200 other miners to be tried.

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