Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1923 — Page 4

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KEEP OUT rriHE President’s friends, all wrought up over 1 OF THE I what Senator Jim Reed calls the “hellpolj HELLPOT X brewing in Europe,” have been frightened into offering conflicting advice. One group is urging him to beat a hasty retreat from the short step he recently took in t.hc direction of helping the <ld world out of her troubles. They are telling him ho was right in bis isolation policy all along. Another crowd insists that he immediately and officially protest against the proposed French invasion of the Ruhr. A third set, hitherto notoriously anti-league of nations, now has the gall to advise that the United States take the lead in a coalition of powers “to halt French aggression.” All these suggestions are silly. For three solid years Washington has been warned that trou- j ble was brewing in Europe,- and that the display.of a little, timely interest on the part of this country would stop it. Listening to the advice of a clique of smali-ealibre men in the United States Senate—led by Henry Cabot Lodge, whose in-, ternational vision just manages to reach to Boston—not a linger was lifted to head off the crisis. In other words, while.they were kindling the tire under the | liellpot, we stood by and did nothing. Now that it is furiously boiling, it would be the height of folly deliberately to stick our finger in it. After—and if—it cools off again, and the fire dies down, another opportunity may present itself. After this crisis is over—if it stops short of complete disaster —the chances are the great powers of Europe, particularly will be in a somewhat chastened mood and more amenable to reason. Theu would be the time for President Harding to act. Meantime Washington should sit tight and let. the hellpot brew. WORKING A HUNDRED million atoms, placed end to end : FOR US A in a straight line, measure only an inch. Yet. ON ATOMS XjL at a scientific convention in Boston, photographs and moving pieures of individual atoms are shown, colliding as they rush at n speed of 20.0P0 miles an hour. This demonstrates the amazing skill by.scientists. The rest of us are too busy, getting our ham and eggs, to investigate atoms. A fine feature of civilization is that the toilers are able to delegate the search for knowledge to a few and for the general good of all. It's instinctive in u- Even the savage has his witch doctor to commune with the unknown. A TOPIC HAVING with a razor does not make hair^ FOR THE grow more rapidly and coarsely. This is anVAIN Ky Pounced after long research by Prof. Mildred Trotter, anthropologist and hair expert at Washington University. St. Louis. She also claims that sunburn cannot make hair grow on a bald head. Millions of Americans will consider this the mod interesting hit in today’s news. It will start many arguments in that court of last resort —the barber shop. It’s one subject that few patrons object to a barber talking about, for our half-savage minus link hair with beauty. All is, vanty. CURIOUS A RAILROAD man figures out that it costs 24 BRAIN / \ cents to stop a freight train going five miles JOURNEYS an hour. Wear and tear and overhead increase with speed of the train when brakes are thrown, reaching $1.44 as the cost of stopping when running fiteen miles an hour. Far off, in Sweden, Dr. Svante Arrhenius, astronomer, estimates that our sun $6X00.000.000 years from now will be shining on our earth as brightly and warmly as now. The human body is chained to earth, but its brain is exploring i lie universe. Curiosity i> back of it all. with nothing too big or too little to be worth investigating. What is our brain most interested in now? KILLING "TEART diseases now head the list of death |~| causes among Americans. Next in line as KILLERS JL JL killer** come flu and pneumonia. Then, in order. tuberculosis, cancer and tumors, nnd the various kidney’inflammations known under the general name of nephritis. Cancer is gaining, but each recurring New Year day marks advance in the gradual conquering of tuberculosis by medical science. Smallpox, once a wholesale destroyer, now snuffs out only one for every FIT by Inherent nd-;. All of which varies in interest, depending on bow near you are to the end of all roads—death. World's Largest Pipe Organ Is in Wanamaker’s Philadelphia Store You n S ; *o av.r*. “ r ' s rvieclsd. There are no compare- 1 •fen of i:j< ! or inform;,Onn bv v rung five figuri s on the total drafted men • : and city; however, it is invton. D. C.. inelosinr 2 cents in believed that the rural men made the stamps. Medical, legal and love ar.J better nhvricallv marriage advice cm.not be given. 1n- 1 I’ujaicaiiy. signed letters cannot be answered, but . all letters are consul ntial. il receive . . pereon.il replies. Although bur- an "hat is pood for swollen and line* not require it. u will as.-ure tender feel* prompter replies if reader? -.viil coniine ._ uieslions to a single subject writing Ir V a footbath of hot water in ! * f 0 ™* ° f EPPOt " has been dissolved. Where is the largest pipe organ in the world? What was the story of Sabine The pipe organ at Wanamaker's Pass and Dick Dowling? store in Philadelphia is reputed to he Durlnfr the civJl War on Sept 8 the largest. The organ, as at present constituted, contains 232 stops and IT,-! 18 ”’ tho Confederates had a brilliant 954 pipes. success at Sabine Pass. Two eottonj covered vessels darted fearlessly out When and where was (lie Tns- from Sabine Lake and captured two eania torpedoed, and how many of the onsnivs blockading vessels the American soldiers were drowned? Velocity and the Morning Light and This vessel was torpedoed l* tween drove away four other- vessels. The Hathlin Islaipi anti the 51 ail of Ivan- Confederate-;. nnmhering only fortv- , tyre in the North Channel between two, were under the command of Ireland and Scotland, on the night of C api. D!ck ~ Dowling, a brave voting Peb. 5. 1918. There were about 116 irishman, whom his men loved and American soldiers drowned. The ex- trusted. This act of Captain Dowling act number is not known. was one of the finest pieces of personj a! work known during the four years Os the men in the draft in the jof the war. for it prevented the land lilted States during the World i ing of six thousand Federal troops, War, wire more country men reject- who-.' purpose was to invade Texas, ed than city men? Tim heroism of Dick Dowling and his 1 An .still,-';, a do by the provost- men prevented the Federal Govern marshal c* n> nil's office. War Depart- , mem from establishing control in inent. of 1.000 rural men and 1,000 Texas, 'the importance of this vi< drafted city men, showed 21.68 p-r tory was acknowledged bv President cent of the city men were rejected .Teffer-son Davis in a letter he wrote and 16.89 per cent of the rural men in 1384.

The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief. F. R. PETERS, Editor. ROY W. HOWARD. President O. F. JOHNSON, Business Manager.

American Speculators Were Fleeced of $400,000,000 in Fake Stocks Du ring 1922

By EDWARD THIERRY NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK .Tan, 10. —"America spent $400,000,000 for fake stocks last year!” That is the estimate of Charles M. Minton, the “shepherd of Wall St.” He is head of the Minton Brokers’ Investigating Bureau, and his job is to keep track of crooked brokers and stock salesmen for the big exchanges. “The average American with a little money laid by is the biggest sucker in the world.” says Minton. "Why? Easy—because they won’t heed warnings. They get skinnedthen they holler, and when it’s too bite they listen to advice." Stock swindles are being operated in every big city, and in many small ones, he says. He declares h< can name at least 150 crooked houses in New York. Men Most Gullible “Men are bigger suckers than women.” said Minton. “More of them fall. I mean. Women are more conservative —but when they fall they fall harder. I know one who just lost $30,000 In a fake stock deal. “Oil stocks used to be the favorite medium for gyp artists. Next came mining stocks. These are pretty well played out now. New schemes are being hatched all the time. Radio is now being used to trap suckers. “There seems to be as many clever crooks doing business as ever. It is hard to get the goods on bucket shops—the crooked brokers who accept orders and never execute them.

Jurist Declares Nation Has Right to Deprive Man or Woman of Parenthood

Federal Law Urged to Render Criminals Incapable of Begetting Their Kind.

BY ROY GIBBONS By YE4 Service CHICAGO. Jan 10.—America’* m ' t will be gathered In communtti* -, that ever will be childless If the proposal of Chief Justice Harry os mti of the Chicago Municipal Court is aflopto 1. for under a Federal law proposed by Olson the unfit—habitual crlmina 1 drug addicts, the hop’essly dta eased and other social inferiors — will be surgically rendered incapable of begetting their kind. Olson will seek to have Congress pass legislation which will make uniform the sterilization efforts (’! • <!y undertaken by eleven States. In hi ; drive for such legislation < >!.■ n will bo aided by Dr. W. J. I Lot; re;-., head of the Chicago Municipal i’sycoputhlc Laboratory and by the latter's wife, Marie K. Hickson, herself a psycopathlc expert. “Save Nation From Taint" “Such a law,” says Olson, “is necessary If w would save this country and the world from hereditary taint and social deterioration. “Rome and the. other great civilizations ~f ihe r elent world fell ber uso of contamination of the national lif.- stream by unfit progenitors America, too, is threatened with destruction when It lets criminals and other vicious social enemies pollute its f itnre geriera'lons. “We must w-ed out the potential parenthood of those who form our habitual criminals and other* *djudge,! able to transmit physical and mental handicaps to their offspring." The State has as much right to render a man or woman incapable of parenthood as to execute a criminal or deprive him of liberty, Olson maintains. “For years America has been the dumping ground for the unfit of many lands. Thes* 1 are reproducing their like,” lie adds. ■'•Tt will shortly become a survival fight and the fittest will win. Either the physically and mentally- sound will go down to defeat unless sterilization laws are invoked or the offspring of the misfits will undermine our social order and plunge the Nation into decadence.” Wants Segregation Judge Olson is first in favor of segregation communities for the type of people meriting sterilization and then gradually educating the public to the need of the more drastic penalty—application of the eugenics law. Ilis remarks follow close on the heels of a book by Harry Hamilton T.aughlln of the Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Institute, and eu genics associate of the Chicago

Nonproducers By BERTON BRALBY THE Socialist* srrt all lift up about the leisure elaes. Whtch doesn't do a lick of work yet rolls in unearned riches. That little band of idle rich supported by the mass Which has to toll for livelihood on S arms, in shops and ditches; But members of that leisure class are very few and far. It really doesn't matter much what aims they are pursuing. The aetuatly wasteful biineli of nonproducers are "he people workii.g hard at thtmrs that are not worth the doing! The washroom boys; the checkroom girls: the doormen in the stores; The hatters making derby hat? throughout this mirht.v Nation; The men who want to watch your car; the long, long-winded bores Who make an after-dinner speech a wearisome oration; The business men who fill their time with conferences vain. Or write dull books about their live?—-dull lives, though somewhat checkered; The overdriven printer-folk with livelihoods to gain. By printing congressmen’s remarks—“extended in the Record." These are a few of myriads who toll and scheme and sweat At doing wholly useless things that really do not matter. And yet they're working hard enough, they hustle and they fret. They use a lot, of energy and make a noisy clatter. The world would be a better place if all this busy mob Wire switched to labor worth the while, to delving and to hewing. (Slit! you and 1 might, suddenly be looking for a job. If no one worked at anything that wasn’t worth the doing.) (Copyright, 1923. NEA Sendee)

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They put your orders on their cuffs —and pocket lluj money. “Most suckers are fleeced by gyp houses selling handsome stock certificates that mnn nothing. They fit up rich looking offices and If they’re exposed they g*-t anew sign painted and move to another office or another city. “Another class of gyp artists work In what is called a ‘boiler room,’ or ‘high pressure room’ —with Just a

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STERILIZATION A DVOGATES, TOP TO BOTTOM: MRS. MARIE K. HICKSON, Til YCIIO LOG IST; HER HUSBAND, DR. W. J. HICKSON, CHICAGO MUNICIPAL PSYCH I \TUIST, AND CHIEF JUSTICE HARRY OLSON CHICAGO MUNICIPA L COT RT. Psychopathic Laboratory. In which a nation-wide survey is undo of <nigoniivil sterilization attempts and needs. The hooks shows that a number of States have already put tho idea into force one way or another in more or less modified degree. Among them are Indiana and California. Proposed Law. Both Judge Olson and his assistants. Dr. Hickson and Dr. Laugh-

telephone and a telephone directory. They have an uncanny skill at pick ing names out of the book, giving a swift, sugary canvass over the wire —and actually hooking cash out of at least one sucker out of every live they call. Such a crook is known as a ‘dynamiter.’ Ilis first cousin is called a Teloader’ —who loads another block of stock onto a sucker in the vsr.v face of the fact, that no dividends have been paid. Names Sell for Cent a Piece “Sucker lists are used by many crook salesmen. You can go to half a dozen places in Wall St. and buysucker lists for a cent or two cents a name, depending on the class of stock you want to unload. Every time a person answers a doubtful ad liis name gets into a sucker list — and the name is sold and resold indefinitely.” Minton lias been in Wall St. forty three years and he thinks the public is getting more gullible every day

DON’TS FOR SUCKERS Charles M. Minton, “shephert of Wall St.,“ offers this advfi < to people with money to invest Don’t expect to get rich over night. Don't listen to promises ol quick dividends. Don’t buy stock from a sales man without investigating Don’t speculate with a brokoi you aren't sure is reputable Don't think you know it all ask for advice before you jp ' skinned.

lin, flroposo a model Federal law which would permit a jury trial by the person judged needy of sterilization and would also allow him every due process of appeal and opportunity in confront his accusers with ror.tr. liclory c\ idem-e. Likewise, if refrains from antagonizing (o< stitutioual principle? which prohibit yaol and unuMial punishments. All persons corning under the “si>elally Inadequate classes.’’ as pau pers, ne’er-do-wells, cripples, the blind and “uff> rers from chronic and infectious diseases, together with confirmed criminals, feeble m!n led, inehrlat'-s and drug addicts, v.ould Included under ;ho bill. Equal Rights for Women Works. Federation Says T’.y !'. G ORR WASHINGTON. Jan 10. -Eutmli’y for woni'm work? The State Federation of Women's Clubs says so, after studying the first year's experirm at with an equal rights law passed more than a year ago by the Wlseonsln Legislature. Pointing out benefits from the equal rights law, the federation’s report calls attention to the following advantages to women who live In Wisconsin: “The law has enabled the wife to recover individual earnings even If the contract for h r services war made by the husband “Married women have won their fight for employment In the eivl! sendee in Milwaukee, on an opinion rendered under the equal right? law.''

Possibilities in Germany

By HKRBERT QT'TCK There is a limit to what France ran j accomplish by tho u.so of force against the German people The passions of th-> war In the rest of tho civilized world prevent us from knowing just what Germany's condition Is. The students of tho subject In J who a tho English-speaking world j have most conhdence are earnestly of! the opinion that it. Is traffic, and that I they are helpless to do more than ! they have done. If that he true, j France is attempting by her policy j of military pressure, actual or throat ened, to do tho Impossible. .Site is j making impossible demands of the j Germans. She is forcing them too far. j If this be true, the German people j will enter a stage of desperation. ; When that stage Is once reached, no j conceivable force, no policy of severity, will wring from any people anything in the way of obedience or efforts at compliance. A people will yield to threats up to j a certain point. But when they get j so they don’t care what happens, i nothing further can be done with them. And the German nature is the most desperate in the world when despondency seizes upon it. Perhaps you have never heard the expression, ‘‘Ho went the German way.” It means self-destruction. Germans themselves are tho ones who use it. France may crowd the German people to the point at which they will not care what happens to them, to the point where life itself will seem | of to little importance that a mania! like a. suicidal impulse will sweep over! them, so that they will seek like balky j horses to destroy themselves. In that ease, France will find that j all her military force will be as help- j less as a squad of policemen in a mob of insane people. If it happens so, the result will be the supreme tragedy of history. This is tli© danger of the situation today. Germany is 200,000,000 tons of food short. She is already partially famished, soon she will he starving. She j has been a source of nourishment to j the old world. She may become poison, j The poison may be a stubborn, passive resistance to France, or an an-1 arehy before which a French army

Reform Bureau Would Regulate Movie Industry BY ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Disgust over the action of Will Hays, movie industry czar, in lifting the ban on “Fatty” Arbuekle's films has caused tlie International Reform Bureau here to launch a movement for Federal i emulation of the film business in the same manner that the Government now regulates the meat packing industry. Representatives of various churches of the nation have been called to meet here Jan. IS and discuss proposed legislation. “The decision of Air. Hays to withdraw his ban on the Arbuckle pictures has convinced the public that i; must look to Congress for protection.” said Robert Watson, president of the reform bureau. “We cannot look to Mr. Hays, whose fabulous .-alary is paid largely by the six producers who control the monopoly of the business.” The proposed bill contemplates the appointment of a Federal movie commission of four men and two women, . ..,-eiving 89.600 a year each. THIEF TAKES DOLLS A thief broke into lookers, in the t ■isemeni ~f In- Trinity Apartment, on Boulevard PI , according to reports to joJiee today. G. W. Scott said a bun k leather traveling bag containing three Kewpie dolls was missing. F R. Richardson's locker had been ransacked, but nothing was missing.

Rail Accidents Increase Over 100 Per Cent

By F. G. LYON WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Railroad accidents l,avo increased more than ldO per cent since last July, due to defectiv • tipnient and rolling stock, >■> - il; ..filclal v port nf the Inter-.-bit' F"mmei' '- t 'ommission. < if the 4<•<*.•>mi workers who struck. -KO.ec" .it. till ii,it their railroad ex ceutives ref tse to accept the ■■Baltimore a:;i*i" m-‘!i! ' plan of settlement. Tim place of tin-a 200,000 striking union men u - now held largely by I I Ikbt-eakei s. \ G I’i, chief jnspei tor of the !■•><■' ••tin: itr r i■ t bureau nf the I-dei st i'omni' ;:-<■< Commission, '■'•apil-d i in* Peiii's on railroad acci- ■ onts. de.ui ,md injuries for t lie five month p- r "I

Good Manners

In buying sports clothes, either a man or a woman should ask. In order of import ance: (1) Arc they comfortable? (2) Are they practical? (3) Are they becoming? Sports garb of any kind that interferes with freedom of movement. an auto coat that can't stand dust, a bathing suit that can't stand water, a hiking outfit that iani stand hard wear all are ridiculous. What's ridiculous never i? good form.

will bo helpless—or It may bo communism. Tho greatest thing which AVaAbington could do today would bo to make some gesture which would show that there is hope for tho German people. Hope for what? For ono thing, hops of deliverance from famine. BILLS TO STRENGTHEN ‘BLUE SKY’ LAWS DRAFTED Amendments to certain provisions Os the Indiana “blue sky” laws are being prepared by the securities commission for introduction in the Legislature, Maurice Mendenhall, administrator of the department, said today. The main purpose of the proposed laws will be to clarify and combine provisions of the present law. Penal provisions will bo strengthened.

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IF conversation was reparations Germany would have some change coming. • * • About all the girls save for a rainy day now is silk stockings. * # • Greatest Greek offensive is garlic. • • * It takes a lot of nerve to be tickled at what a hard time 3'ou have. • * ** Living is high, but the real article is not so very scarce.

Mirrors are great things. They show you some one you can rrLst. It is a long spell of bad weather that has no turning. Forty people saw a man rob a Los Angeles bank, so they may have thought it was the landlord collecting the rent. * * * In spite of the fact that 102:} lias fifty-three of those blue Mondays the outlook is very bright. They sang songs at a meeting of Xew Jersey wets. Perhaps they sang “The thirst is yet to come.” The price of haircuts has gone up in Chicago, but it is too A , cold there to get a haircut anyway. The stingiest man in town has a button and wants some ore to give him an overcoat to sew on it. The trouble with all these people viewing things with alarm is they alarm things with their views.

COUE'S ‘GAME’ IS TO HELP PEOPLE

By MILTON BRONNER. • VL.-i Staff Correspondent 44 TT Ti i ATS this man (,'ou- s YY game?” T * That's a question I have been cold-bloodedly asking myself ever since I have been attending the far famed Emile Cone autosuggestion clinics here. And T have concluded there isn’t any game except the desire to help people. If h soaked people a big fee for bis services, Americans would wink the Other eye and sav. “That's it." But he doesn't charge any fees Every person win. cmnes to the din i<-. is welcome and every person gets the same treatment and gets it for nothing. If one wants to. be can buy a iitthFrench book in which Cone explains !iis system. But the hook isn't pushed on you and its cost is only twu francs. The 15 cents you pay for it just about pays for paper and printing. Like Religious Trader. Perhaps th*> better way to get at the secret of Roue is to compare him to the founder of anew rdicior.. The latter wants all the world to hav- the happiness lie is sure it will bring to them That is the way with Coue. He >s sure he has got hold of a great truth which other men hava appreciated only in part. He is sure he has invented a formula and a method by which suffering mankind can make the most of this truth and get the most out of it. Coue finds the doctors agreeing with him. Distinguished medical men of France, Switzerland, Belgiunf and Great Britain have recognized the value of the work he is doing.

The First State Fair HISTORICAL SERIFS T N°. 7

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FOIST FAIR GROUNDS. 'T'HE first State Fair was t.eld on Oetober 19th to 25th, 1852, on what, la now Military Park. It drew such crowds that other cities in the State made requests to have the Fair held in their city. P. T. Barnum was there with his museum and menagerie, and on the last night pandemonium reigned when the Democrats had a big torch-light parade. Fletcher’s Bank had been helping and guiding Indianapolis industries for thirteen years previous to this event. The spirit of service and progressiveness which was so characteristic of Fletcher’s Bank ip those days exists today in the Fletcher American National Bank—the direct successor of the business and the oldest bank in the city. Fletcher American National Bank Q j f * P it • l mn Surplus $5,000,000

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Coue himself thinks every physician can profitably use autosuggestion in his practice. Seeks Doctors' Friendship. One of the goals he has set for himself on his present visit to America is to interest the medical profession of the T’nited States in what he is doing and has done. He is confident, if they watch him work and observe the results he obtains, that they will be friendly and not hostile. From rny own observation and experiences here, I would say that Cone’s greatest value to people is that be brines a health gospel of hope and optimisin'! instead of despair and pessimism.

LIFE LEGION MEMBERSHIP TO BE TOPIC OF LEADERS National Committee Will Meet Here Jan. 14 and 15. Life membership in the American Legion is to be one of the matters to come before a meeting of the national executive committee in Indianapolis at national headquarters Jan. 14 and 15. Every State department of the Fidt'd suites and representatives from all foreign countries where there are legion posts will be in attendance. Among other matters to be discussed are establishment of an endowment fund to finance the decoration of graves of Americans who lost their lives abroad during the war. the advisability of conducting a legion tour of Europe next summer, action on a proposal to establish a department of the organization in Porto Rico and a national campaign for the exclusion nf immigrants over a period of five years. Alvin M Owsley. national commander, will preside.