Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1923 — Page 4

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SALARIES "X* yITH the passing of 1922 the fee system of REPLACE \ \ , paying Marion County officials slipped into FEES Y Y the limbo of forgotten things. The prosecutor took in $45,000 last year-'&nd paid all expenses, but in 1923 he will draw $7,500 and the county will pay all his expenses. The clerk, recorder, auditor and sheriff are now on straight salaries, with the county footing the bills. Proponents of the law intended that the county should save the fee money that formerly went into private hands. The treasurer at present receives a salary of $7,500 a year and a few fees. A bill will be introduced in the Legislature giving him a straight salary of SIO,OOO. The theory of the old fee system was that private hands would administer the office as economically as possible and that all that was left over belonged to the official as a reward for his thrift. The prosecutor was counted on to prosecute more vigorously because he got $5 on each conviction. The fee system was a relic of the days when kings and tribe chiefs sold government offices to high bidders for lump sums, the purchaser to make what he could out of his privilege. The fee system from its very nature could not be expected to provide the best public service and it did not as a rule. The new system for Marion County gives to the county council control of the number of deputies and assistants in various county offices. Allowances for feeding county prisoners, a big source of the incolne of the sheriffs in the past, are to be expended under the direction of the county council. The working of the new system will be watched with some interest by the public to see that the number of employes is not increased merely to provide jobs for party workers. WHITHER ~W"S it perdition we are headed for or paradise? ARE WE I Whatever way our course, it may be consolBOUND? ing to realize that we have already a Sne head start, having set out a long time back. For example, take this- “Marvelous it is to see and consider how some kinds of wickedness did grow and break forth in a land where the same is so much witnessed against and so severely punished—especially drunkenness and uncleanness and other sins too fearful to mention.” That was written in 1642, in good old Plymouth, and William Bradford was the author! Some boys, those old Pilgrims! And here’s a line scribed in 1724: “Gin-drinking infects the mass of our population with the violence of an epidemic. It is said that every sixth house in London is a gin palace. The public houses are open all night.. Public opinion does not hold the character of any man to suffer through drunkenness!” Dr. Johnson said to Boswell: “I remember, sir, when every decent person in Lichfield got drunk every night and nobody thought the worse of them.” George Washington wrote to his friend, Benjamin Harrison, in 1782: “I should say in one word that idleness, dissipation and extravagance seem to have laid hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have gotten the better of every other consideration and almost every order of men. I need not reppat to you that I am alarmed and wish to see my country aroused.” Only one century ago, the Methodist Church of Delaware engaged the services of a special officer to keep order during divine worship. In 1816, New York City was “a hell hole of gin mills, abandoned women, dives and dance halls, and the Sabbath a day of almost universal drunkenness and debauchery,” according to the report of City Missionary Samuel J. Mills. Os course, the facts are that human nature hasn’t changed one iota during recorded time and that while we may not. be growing worse, it is necessary to have some one save us, at every dewy morn and rustling eve, if we are to grow better. Go to it, Mr. Coue I __ AN simultaneous introduction in the State ABUSED I Senate of three bills, each calling for the reLAW X peal of the absent voters’ law. indicate'which way the wind is blowing. The absent voters’ law has been sadly abused and the politicians are faced with reaping harvest of their abuse. Tn some parts of the State the ballot boxes have been brazenly and flagrantly stuffed by the manipulation of this law. As it stands it is weak. The question arises as to whether the proper method of procedure is to repeal the measure. If it is repealed it will deprive of a vote a number of voters, whose attendance at the polls circumstances make impossible. If it is retained as it is at present abuse is bound to continne. Can not someone make a study of the subject and draft a politician-proof absent voters’ law? This should not be impossible.

Peace Dollar Is Not Pattern Coin; More Than 800,000 in Circulation

QUESTIONS ANSWERED Ton can get an answer to any conation of fact or information by wrung to The Daily Time*. Washington Bureau. 132 New York Ave.. Washington, T>. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and lore and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letters can not be answered, but all letters are confidential and receive personal replies. Although the bureau does notcrecuire it, it will assure prompter replies if readers will confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various subjects are desired. —Editor. What would cause a glass goldfish bowl to crack when not being handled by any one? A change of temperature In the room from a draft from a window or door might have this effect Os what is vanillin made? Vanillin Is the odoriferous principle of vanilla (produced from the vanilla bean), but It Is also produced synthetically by the oxidation of conifer! n. What is the headquarters of the Knights of the Golden Eagle? 814 X. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa., J. B. Treiber, secretary. Where can one get information on turkey raising? Is it profitable? One can get a bulletin on this subject from the superintendent of documents, Government printing office, Washington, D. C„ for 6 cents. Remittance must be made by money order. Turkeys are very delicate and hard to raise, but the demand is great nd prices good. „Can artificial rublier be made? I'es, in 1912 there were exhibited in < New Tork two automobile tires of j artificial rubber which had run a thou- :

r sand miles. But while the problem of producing artificial rubber has been solved scientifically. It has not been solved industrially, as it does not pay as yet to manufacture this product— It is more profitable to go to the rubber tree. When Rubber Is heated in a retort it splits up into a benzhlHlike liauld called “isoprene," and the synthetic chemist's problem was first to make this lsoprene artificially and second to change it into caoutchouc. Tsoprene can be made artificially in various ways; that is, from fusel oil yielded by fermenting potato starch; and that lsoprene can tee changed into caoutchouc in various ways, such as drying It over metallic sodium. , j Is the 1921 issue of the peace dollar a pattern coin? Who designed it? It is not a pattern coin; there are over 800,000 in circulation. Anthony Francisci was the designer. Who is the author of the following lines: “A few can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing. And die with all their music in them." These lines occur In a poem entitled “The Voiceless,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes. I Do wild sheep have wool? Wild shpep appear to be as hairy • as the goat, but Underneath this superficially hairy coat is an “underfur.” This under-fur Is developed into the ws>l of our domesticated breeds.

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Cone Paints Vision of Perfect Race of People *■ in 1973 by Literally Following His Teachings

By EDWARD THIERRY, NEA Service Staff Witter. (Copyright, 1923, by NEA Service) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Here Is told Emile Coe's vision of the future. thfe premise of the world’s millions reciting indefinitely, “Every day in every way I am getting better and better”—and really meaning It. This Is what M. Coe sees ahead: “A race of people near human perfection as possible. All who want to do It and will do it, can do it—get better and better. Tn every way means literally In every way—mentally, morally, physically. "Specifically, then: The bright vision of the future Is in taking out of insane asylums and prisons immense numbers of people who do not belong there.” M. Coue does not talk much of this ambitious dream. But those close to him tell you lit is the subject nearest his heart. Since his arrival in America he has not spoken of it publicly, even under the barrage of unending squadrons of newspaper reporters. Publicly he gave this advice: "Never pronounce these words: Difficult. Impossible. Stronger than I. Cannot.” Explaining, he says that imagination (which says “I cannot”) always wins against will power (which says "I will”). And. he adds, what really counts is the unconscious being that works all the time, 'either under one’s own mas tery or outside of it. “What, then, will people be, like fifty or 100 years from now?” M. Coue’s tongue twists under his newly acquired English and in this strange language the little French pharmacist does not express himself well, except In his prepared and carefullly rehearsed speeches. So, at this question, his interpreter came to the rescue. “Ah, fifty or 100 years from now >ou will be what you train your unconscious being to be by conscious auto-suggestion. Ne o*l pas? Superlatively good in every way—even to being better editors, better artisans —if, Indeed, you grow better and better every day. But . you must really mean to be. And —by your own mastery of yourself ” M. Coue was being dragged away by somebody who was trying to dig out of him a good recipe to euro blushing! “Speaking of what may be fifty or one hundred years from now,” said the Interpreter, “it is to be regretted that Monsieur Coue has not said more concerning his Ideas about opening the doors of asylums and jails to those who really are neither insane nor criminal. “Such a wonderful field for him in - those places! He has done some work on it. There is much more.” M. Coue —a stocky, rotund figure, a smile hidden under his white ' whisker*, and his tufted chin Jutting out and bobbing up and down as he chews gently with invisible lips—sums it all up, his present work, and his vision of the future, too. In his twisted English: “I have none of the magic—mat*, non! Only—and you must know this! —I show you how you yourself can dol”

Public Opinion

Champions Arbuckle To the Editor of The Time* , I want to say a few words in regard to the Ministers' Association. They expect people to come to church to hear them preach Fatty Arbuckle and bootleggers and hammer and knock people who have made a mistake In life. The people do not care to hear knocker*. Let them look into their own souls and answer the question that Jesus asked theaccusers of the i alien woman: "He that is without sin mong you. let him first cast a stone.” Let them get their eouls clean seven day* a week and go to their place of worship and teach how Jesus extended a helping hand and rebuked knockers. "Judge not lest ye be judged.” The court said Arbuckle tvaa not guilty. Why not abide by this decision, even though you think him guilty? R. A. BYARD.

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Volstead Is Not Ambitions to Re Named Proh i bit ion Com missioner After Ma rch 4

BY HARRY HUNT XEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Seeking moral support to sustain # New Year resolutions, X dropped in on Andrew Volstead. The day outside was dripping wet, but inside Volstead’s office all was dry, if not cozy. “How about it, Congressman.” I asked. “Is there -anything to this story you are to be appointed prohibition commissioner after March 4?” “That’s plain moonshine," Volstead] answered, propping his feet up of? a half-opened drawer of his desk. “Meaning?” 1 queried, seeking fur-, ther explanation. "Poor dope.” came the ready answer. Which. I submit, disproves any and all allegations to the effect that the father of the prohibition law has no humor in his system. Incidentally, Volstead, as chairman of the Judiciary committee which conducted the /ecent "impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Daugherty, says the door is open for further submission of evidence if ther* is any anyone wants to submit. “I haven't dared attempt to transact any business with the Department of Justice since the impeachment action was started,” ho said. “1 knew if I # called at the department, no mat ter on what errand, it would be said I was there to help mix the whitewash. So I’ve carefully stayed away.” "Reverting to the prohibition enforcement job,” I said, “wouldn’t such an appointment be rather gratifying?” "I haven’t the slightest ambition 1

Adventures inr BERTON BHALEY DALY thev go forth tin their work. Unheralded. unlsureled and unsung! They penetrate the coal nine'll dusty mark. They climb the gsunt steel girder* they have flung Against the iky: beneath the river mud They drill the. tunnels whole the trains shall r.in. They cut down mountains and they dam tho liood. Doing the Job that must be bravely done. The hot blast furnace, belching ran and flame, Is theirs to feed, they forge the giowliur steel. They w-teld ths locomotive’s massive frame. Their hammers beat upon the vessel's keel. They string the wires that bring a city lights Down to the M-a |n shins they take their way. Steady and calm by day and through the night They do their work and ttm their mood of pay. Death lurks beeide them, but they do their Job. Forever daring, ever unafraid. Keeping the world's machinery athrob. Plain humdrum men of every craft and trade: No pioneer, no soldier of romance Has greater need of courage or of nerve Than these who ever hattio circumstance— Adventurers who labor and who serve! ♦■Copyright, 10Ml, NEA Service)

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that way.” declared prohibitions daddy. Senator Borah wouldn’t be surprised if he had to jog the Administration's elbow again to keep it from forgetting that It 1b popularity supposed to be putting a finger irr the European economic pie. I found Borah, a week after he had

Government by City Manager Plan Is Growing p.Y ROBERT TABLET WASHINGTON Jan. 9. —Down in Sumpter. S. C., in the summer of 1912, somebody suggested that if the city administration were taken out of politics and turned over to a real business man to be run as he would lun his business concern, a lot of the taxpayers’ money could be saved and a lot more efficiency attarlned. So they hired a "city manager." Ten years later now finds 281 cities in the United tSates and several more in Canada operating under this system, according to statistics com piled by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Furthermore, the movement is still growing. Other cities are striving to put in the “city manager” form of Government right now. The larges' city in the list is Cleveland, Ohio, whore the scheme has already been adopted, hut will not become effective until 1921.

| withdrawn his resolution asking that the President call a conference to deal with the European situation, still swamped with congratulatory messages over his fight. "Any more ammunition up your sleeve?’* I asked, "Or is the conference war all settled?” Borah grinned and there was a twinkle in his eyes as ne answered: “I guess that’s all over," he saitf. ! Then, as an afterthought, “For the I present anyway.” ”1 see it’s suggested that now the ; pressure’s removed Administration i activity appears to be waning." “Well,” he spoke slowly, almost with a drawl, “that wouldn’t be surprising. It wouldn't be wholly unexpected. But —well-1-1, anyway, we ' must give them a\ little time—give I them a little time to show what they ; propose.” But after that "little time” is up? Well, Borah, isn’t saying, but don’t be surprised and say you weren’t 1 warned when he sets off another batch of fireworks.

Our Barbarous Minds

Ry HERBERT QUICK It. looks as if the war were going to break out again. That is one terrible thing. The world cannot feed itself. That is another. The peoples do not know enough to trade freely with each other and thus keep off starvation and nakedness: or to lay down their arms and l;,i to work; or to stop maintaining hordes of parasites in 'the form of ;■ ilers who must be supported by those] w ho work. Human society, in an age when science astounds us with its achievements. fails to solve the first of all human problems, that of men living together so as to have just food ami! shelter and raiment. Why? Any one who will read anew ok. "Mind in the Making.” by James Harvey Robinson, will lay the book] tiown with some Sana Ideas on the, subject. Why have men made such progress in science and invention -In the past century or so? Because- mind has been free In the fields of science and I invention. That is all. Just free domi That ha.s given tis everything which makes this city different from Tifabuotoo. Freedom—the greatest thing in the world—mental freedom. But when It comes to governmental and international relations, Mr. Robinson points out, our minds are unfThey are obsesssed by the things wo have experienced as a race. Barbarism has flowed down through the '

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TOM SIMS SAYS:.

IF better times don’t come this year let’s sue them for breach of promise. * * • The trouble with a man who knows everything is he only thinks he does. * * • Nothing makes a hen madder than seeing an ostrich egg. * • •' When you see a man chewing tobacco he is either single or has been married a long time.

• • • The trouble with this country is nine pairs of pants out of ten wear out in the seat first. Only a few more months until bathing girls will be back on magazine covers. | ♦* i " It is easy to figure what you should have said after it is too late to it. Taxes have been cut in Ohio. This is contrary to the definition of taxes, which is “Things that go up.” m • * The greater building activity is a sure way of building greater activity. • • • Some tpwns are so lucky. In Nashville, Tenn., an amateur music teacher moved away. • • If all the books sold were red there would be twice as many books read as are read. • • • Five pay days hath September, April, July and December. * t • Ilenrv Ford says work alone will cure the world’s ills, but others think the situation is not quite so sertous. ♦• • * The greatest difference between a success and a failure is the success, knew what kind of habits to pick out. • • • Beauty hint: Ritirjg the finger nails leaves a bad impression on your fingers and on your friends.

British Sportswomen Dare Danger and Hardships for Thrills

By XEA Service VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. Bearing marks Os hardships Buffered in the wilds of northern Canada, where’ no other white women had ever dared to venture, two British sportswomen are back in civilization after a trip of nearly 7.000 miles. After many years of riding to the

channel of history in govemmen, down to us. Down to the United States! When a man has new and j revolutionary chemical ideas, we welcome him. We hear him. We give j him a chance. When he has new and revolutionary governmental ideas, we avoid him. j Wo put him in jail. TV® put the Secret Service on his trail, and there is a tile in Washington devoted to him. j And we crush him. Instead of crush- 1 ing him, we should hear him. How can we tell whether or not he has the j truth unless wef do? And see where chemistry stands as compare:! wflh government! The nations die through our barbarous ] minds acting on governmental matters: and in their deaths they may destroy science, too. Let us try free minds all along the line. Ve can’t do worse than we are doing now.

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hounds at home and fishing In Scotland. Lady Yule and her daughter of Herts. England, decided that such sports were rather tame. They wanted to go after big game. A friend told them about the bull moose, grizzly bears, caribou, mountain sheep and goats of northern British Columbia. Mother and daughter looked at each other and made up their minds. They soon were In western Canada making arrangements for a hunting trip Into the' famous Casslar near the extreme northern boundary of British Columbia. With a guide, a wrangler to care for their horses and a long pack train, the two women went forth. Nothing was too difficult for them. Once a swarm of wasps stampeded their horses: another time they had to cut their way through miles of fallen trees. But the women kept on. They were bent on coming home with trophies of their hunt. Rigors of a northern winter didn’t chill their enthusiasm. And now they are hack with Innumerable bull moose, mountain goats and caribou speemens. They just missed getting a grizzly bear — Rut they expect to go hack after him soon.

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