Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1923 — Page 4

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AS MOVIE Indiana Legislature is again faced with CENSORS I ' the question of whether the State shall eenDO IT X sor motion pictures. A bill, identical with one tiiat was defeated two years ago, has been prepared. It would create a censorship board with almost unlimited powers. The question of whether censorship works in States which have tried it is being argued in this connection. A fight on censorship is being made by Collier’s Weekly, which convincingly contends that the remedy for poor motion pictures is not through censorship but through bringing producers to a realization that the public does not appreciate stupid motion pictures. In a recent issue of Collier’s an anonymous writer tells of instances of the operation of censorship in various States. “In Pennsylvania.” the article says, “a board decided against a scene in which a young couple buy a baby carriage. Baby carriage scenes suggest pre-natal conditions, and such scenes are injurious, to Pennsylvania, morally.” In speaking of the Kansas law the writer says: “Probably the Kansas censorship board has the best record! oi conscientious endeavor. But a single glance at its elimination list shows how impossible is the task. For example.- “ ‘Eliminate scene where dog picks up dice in his teeth and! throws them.’ “Here are some more: “‘From film “Up and at ’em” eliminate title, “Sweet, Mama!” Eliminate title, “Look me over, honey, I am hard to get.” Eliminate title. “You said. Valine, that any one with I brains enough to be a crook and keep out of jail ought to be able i to make an honest living—and here we are!” From “Kindred of the Dust” eliminate title, “Lead Kindly Light.” ’ —used in connection with three gossips who are singing sanctimoniously while the object of their criticism is suffering alone. “Conscientiously, the censors try to work out their problems.” the writer in Collier’s says, “but Avhat can they do? What is sensible in one plot may be objectionable in the next, and the very rule that seemingly is reasonable in most instances becomes ludicrous in different application.” The writer gives some of the orders of the Ohio board: “Eliminate title. ‘A household run on the European plan—always fighting.’ Cut out title for minister: ‘Two weddings and a funeral. Business is picking up.’ ” “It is perhaps no wonder,” the author says, “th/if a member | of the Ohio board went on record thus—‘Any statement which reflects on film censorship should be stricken from the news reels.” The writer in Collier’s contends that no two boards would eliminate the same things from the same picture and that most of the changes are petty, if not ridiculous. The writer also contends that in some States, particularly Obi# the motion picture people maintain a lobby to use its influence on the censorship board in order that pictures may not be changed. NORTH TEFAXSSON retires as an explorer. He POLE v will devote the rest of his life to trving to HOKUM kj explode the popular notion that the north polar region is a solid iceberg incapable of sustaining life. He claims great riches await people who will settle in certain parts of the arctic circle, destined to be great producers of meat and minerals. Stefansson says that explorers, seeking to pose as daring heroes, have given us a false notion about the far North. It’s a notion he’ll find next to impossible to explode, for it’s what people like to believe. And most people believe what they want to believe, in preference to logieal and indisputable truth. Stefansson has a wonderful career of adventure to look back to. He spent more years in the polar regions than any other explorer. He added more than 100.000 square miles, of previouslv unknown country, to the maps. Greatest of all. he was able to explode polar misinformation that had been accumulating since the ancient Greeks. He predicts that airplane lines will open the arctic circle commercially, as the steam railroads opened our West. Hear him when you have the chance. No lecturer is more interesting.

TURMOIL /^\ VER the tele ?r a Ph wires to the citizens of NEARER I 1 Indianapolis came yesterday the news that HOME three terrible mob scenes were centers of interest in other less fortunate States of the Union. A race war slandered the name of justice in Florida. The farcical trial of half a county at Marion. 111., was startled into momentary activity by anonymous death threats sent State witnesses At Mer Rouge the. Federal government was probing activities of local officials and citizens that caused the State government to call for aid. A dispatch states that only Christ’s teaching trill save Europe. Will it do the same for our “Sweet Land of Liberty?”

At Least 100,000 Strangers Visit New York City Each Day of Year

QVESTIOXS ANMYERF.I) You can set an answer to an} -s----tion of fact or information b*. \ ns? *o the Indianapolis Time** Wtshii ton bureau. New York Are. Washington. D. C.. enclosing: 2 cents in stamp*. Medical. legdl and lore and marriage •advice cannot Tie riven Unsigned !* ti*rs cannot be anssrerrd. but ..11 letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. Although the bureau does not require it. it will assure prompter rer lies if readers will confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various subjects are desired. T TDITOR How many visitors are there each day in New York City? It is estimated there are at least .00.000 strangers every day in Kcw York City. In what States is flaxseed produced? Chiefly In the North Central States, the most Important being North and South Dakota. Minnesota, and Montana. What was the highest price ever paid for a painting? So far as we are informed, the highest price ever paid for a single oil painting was the $640,000 paid for Gainsborough's "Blue Boy” bought by Henry E. Huntington. What was the Holy .Alliance? A name given to the compact formed between the sovereigns of Russia. Austria and Prussia in 1815, ostensibly for the humane and liberal administration of their respective governments, but really to preserve the power and influenc; of the leting dynasties. Most of the ntijjp European rulers acceded

the treaty was formally made public ir. the "Frankfort Journal,” Feb. 2, 1816. It was in virtue of this league that Austria, in IS2I crushed the revolution in Naples and Piedmont, and that France, in 1923. restored absolutism in Spain. Subsequently both France and England seceded, -fter which It became a mere nomin- : is urn lira.

Ships By BERTON BRAI.EY THE Stately Spanish Galleons were splendidly romantic. Bearing golden treasure far across the surging main. But a mighty modern liner, smashing through the broad Atlantic For me has greater wonder than the Galleons of Spain: Neither storm nor tide can bind her as she throws the miles behind her. M ith the thrust of purring turbines and the kick of spinning screws: C-li. the might of steam that urges as she bucks ttie ocean surges. M hile the breath of all her boilers goes a-roaring up her flues! The Stately Spanish Galleons—a flock of them beside her Mould look like pleasure barges for a picnic down the bay. And looking from the upper deck the passengers who ride her Would wonder that such cockleshells would tempt the ocean spray: Those little ships have glory which is told in song and story. Bid the liner, too. is epic as she swings from out the dock. On a steady passage over from the Ambrose Light to Dover. On a schedule adjusted to the minute by the clock The Stalely Spanish Galleons were playings of the oceans. They tossed, close-reefed and battened, wlien the tempest showed its force Eut the liner is disdainful of the salt sea s gusty notions. And slams along regardless on hi— predetermined course: She s the child of skill and science, sh 's the the human mind's defiance Os the whirlwind and the tempest and the fog and driving snow: ■lean, serene, superb, gigantic—oh, to me sl.c s more romantic Than the Stately that went sailing long ago’ !)23. N'EA Service)

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Nation-Wide Wrath Hits ‘Machine Morons' As Slaughter by Automobiles Continues

Bu HE A Service „ CHICAGO. Jan. 12.—Public opinion is compelling action throughout the United States to forestall the slaughter of 15,000 persons by automobiles in 1923. At least 500,000 more are doomed to injury. These figures mean the chances you will be killed or injured by an automobile in the course of the year are 1 in 215. Taking the family of five as a basis, 1 out of every 43 families in the country will be saddened this year by an automobile accident. The death toll last year in 14 States that keep records was S.000; the toll in the 34 additional States, based on partial reports, is conservatively estimated at 6,000. Total injuries are calculated as numbering 450,000. A Nation-wide telegraphic survey

Success Obtained by Sacrifice Says Retiring Millionaire

Bu XEA Service MIAMI, Fla.. .Tan. 12.—A penniless failure who rose to the head of a system of 371 chain stores, doing more than $50,000,000 business a year in twenty-nine States, is America's most retiring millionaire. He is James C. Penney, 47. of White Plains, N. Y., whose name would still lie unknown to the general public if his broker hadn’t announced the issuance of a $1,500,000 life insurance policy, making his total $3,000,000. Only three other persons in this country carry a greater insurance. They are Adolph Zukor, who heads the list with $5,000,000: Rodman Wanamaker and Pierre du Pont. How has this wealthy man succeeded in keeping out of the public eye? By minding his own business. It is the secret of his success. He learned it as a youngster. When he was 9 he first felt the urge of making money. But there wasn't much doing in Hamilton, Mo., whore ho was born, and there wasn't much time after school. Young Penney found a way, however. ■# He started raising hogs. He let no one help him During his free hours he went out collecting slops for his pig. The business grew so large that he finally had to give It up. After he finished school, he got his first job in the largest general store in town. His pay was $2.27 a month. The next year he was raised to $16.66. but his health failed him and he had to go to Den-

I ver. There he went into the butchI er business—and failed. | Penniless, he got a Job In a dry ! poods store. When he saved $-,00 he bought part Interest in a branch store in Kenimerer. VVyo. Jt was •he beginning of the ,1. C. Penney chain store system. “My wife and I.” says the millionaire, "honeymooned cheerfully Womens Clubs Back Indian Welfare Measure By W. 11. PORTERFIELD. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—When the score of Indian chieftains, repre senting the twenty Pueblos of New Mexico, arrive in Washington to pre sent the Pueblo claims before the Senate public lands committee next -Monday, they will find everybody here aspiring to befriend them, for i various motives. The Bursum bill, by which Con- | gress would have recognized claims of squaters encroaching upon the Pueblo’s lands, is conceded to be a : dead letter, even by Secretary' Fall, Indian Commissioner Charles H. Burke and others who sponsored it. In Its place will be offered an Ini dian welfare bill, backed by the Fedi eration of Women’s Clubs, authoriz j ing immediate eviction of the New ; Mexico squatters and several compromise measures. Among the latter Is a measui-e pro posed by Senator Andreas Jones of New Mexico which would create a special commission of three judges to adjudicate land disputes between squatters and Indians, providing for compensation to evicted squatters for I improvements made, and appropriatj ing $905,000 for reclamation of arid I lands in the Pueblo reservation.

made by NEA Service shows the public loudly is demanding protection from what Judge Asa Adams of Chicago calls “machine morons.’’ The result in many communities is more arrests, substitution of jail sentences for fines and new measures to put fear into the reckless. What Survey Shows Philadelphia, Baltimore and St. Louis are the only cities covered by the survey which fail to report greatly increased severity in dealing with traffic law violators. In Philadelphia two motorists who ran down and killed persons a year ago were not tried until three weeks ago and then were acquitted. Meanwhile more than 200 persons were killed by automobiles in the city in 1922, as compared with 190 In the previous year. Judge Francis Barrelli of Chicago.

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j who jailed twenty-six speeders during the Christmas shopping season, wants every automobile equipped with an automatic device which would make speeding impossible. Los Angeles, which has had the highest traffic death toll of any large I city, had 400 fewer accidents in December than in November as the result of a jail-the-speeder crusade. Workhouse Terms Judge George Page of Milwaukee, is meting out workhouse sentences “with hard labor.” Col. Philip H. Brokman, head of the St. Louis police force, is asking the Legislature for 100 more policemen for traffic duty, but St. Louis judges have failed to substitute jail penalties for fines, though 137 persons were killed in 1922, an increase of thirty-two over the preceding year. There is talk of making every automobilist carry SIO,OOO accident insurance before getting a license. Pittsburgh has established a special traffic court which put considerable reliance In the efficacy of revoking licenses. California laws would be drastically revised under a bill to be introduced by Assemblyman Walter J. Schmidt, whose brother was killed recently by an automobile. Schmidt’s measure will include provisions: That death caused by drunken or careless drivers be punishable by life imprisonment. That every applicant for an automobile license be examined as to his ability to drive.

Public Opinion

O, for Honest Men’. To the editor of The Times America needs more religion of the ; olii fashioned variety. Having that, we would have more honest men to : conduct our government. Capitalists have gone money mad. They have slushed wages until laborers cannot support their families decently, let alone educate them, which the law compels tnom to do. In the last year we have seen our; flag disgraced by being raised as a protection to criminals, where honest ' workers had I ■ n driven out of mines, j with no interefrence by our government. Will the present imp at always be orderly? We need a man nominated for President, by the people, not by ja few capitalists as Harding was We , need laws which can be enforced on j rich and poor alike, and the right j kind of officers who are not afraid to; enforce them. When prohibition was being dis cussed in the United States Senate i a few months ago, one Senator a; ked j any one there who did not have intoxicating liquor lri Hist homo to stand, and not one stood. But a respectable old lady was arrested. for having three gallons of j wine in her home for her own use in I Indianapolis. I Will people be satisfied while con 1 i ditions are thus? No, never! MRS. E. K. EVERETT. 1107 N. Pershing Ave. Repeal of Primary Law j To the editor of The Times So our crafty planning politicians are going to repeal the primary law. " 'Tls well: lay on MoDtifT ' 1 believe If these “professional” politicians will look back to the recent election they

MONDELL Mule Skinner to a Leader in Politics

frank w. mondell Bu XrA Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—'“From Orphan to Political Leader” may he the title to a romance of struggle and adventure in the life of Frank W. Mondell, Republican floor leader in Congress, who may succeed Secretary of Interior Fall on his resignation March 4. Mondell's adventures began in 1866 at the early age of 6. when left parentless, he found himself drifting from liis birthplace in St. Louis into northern lowa where a Congregational minister sheltered him. Under his care the boy lived until at la he began trapping animals to make a meager living. He went to Chicago for a while, hut the West called him and he returned to railroading in Colorado. There he rose from mule skinner to manager of a construction camp, developing a sturdy mind and body in tiie rough-anil ready life of the encampment. It give him a love for horseback riding which he still cherishes and also instilled In him a desire for hunting big game. This he took with him in his political career. Ho started ;ts mayor of Newcastle, Wyo which is his home today, and rose through the State Legislature to some fifteen years in the Lower House of Congress. '•■'ill see the handwriting on the wall. Whether they repeal the primary law or not. the party that nominates a teal honest, capable man will be successful, regardless of all the crooked precinct work they can do. During the voting !n this last olecfion Lew Shank was overheard to ‘ O’: “My goodness, they're scratching worse than chickens.” You bet your life we dii) and we’re getting mir scratehers all sharpened up for the next election and cur watchword is “silence nnd eternal vigilance." AUDLKY S DUNHAM.

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Forty-Two States Join With U. S., to Save Mothers and Babies

Despite the Krothimrh.mi and Massachusetts suits attacking tiie constitutionality of the Sheppard-Touner maternitv and infancy act. much is in nig accomplished under its provts o- to •ave tin- Uvea of mothers and babies, brace Abbott, in charge of the i-.dcral operation of the act, tells what is being done in the followin' article written especially for NEA Service. By GRACE ABBOTT, j Chief of Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor. WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—The act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, which became a law Nov. 23, 1921, authorized an annual .... ap prop nation of not for a cooperative ungjm the reduction of our * high maternal and -MU' infant mortality the t*rms of the act. not to excee,i *’>•'>.o ui to be expended by the • Children's Bureau for administrative GRACE purposes. To any ABBOTT State accepting the act $5,000 is immediately available: an additional $5,000 jls paid if matched by the State ap- ’ propriation; and the balance of the I Federal appropriation is allotted

|of population and is available if among the several States on the basis matched by the State. Up to date, forty-two States have accepted the terms of the act—all excepting Maine, Masachusetts, Rhode I -land. New York, Louisiana and Washington. Os the acceptances, twelve are by the State Legislatures (New Hampshire. Delaware. New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia. South Carolina. Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi. Mini nesota, Oregon and New Mexico), j The others are by governors pending the next regular sessions of the Legislatures. The question of acceptances will, therefore, probably be considered In some thirty-five State Legislatures that will be in session this year. Many States are starting out with virgin soil as any public health work in maternal care is concerned, and they are, of course, planning quite differently from the Stales which are small in area, industrial in character, possessing easy communication beI tween different parts of the State j and many local resources. One State whose counties are fairj !y well organized for public health | work will place nurses in the organ- ; Ized counties to devote themselves to j maternity and infancy care. This i State will also conduct prenatal and : child-hygiene centers and will supervise midwives and maternity hospiI tals.

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