Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1923 — Page 4

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GERMAN "¥"T TrATCII out! Germany will beat you yet!” JIU \/\i This warning was sounded by the GerJITSU V V man author of “I Accuse l ” at the time of the German debacle. It sounded foolish then. It does not sound so foolish now. Once on board a Pacific liner, the Korea Mam, Professor Kano, a 140-pound Japanese, almost killed a 210-pound Japanese sailor, champion wrestler of the crew. And he did it with little visible effort. As the giant rushed him he suddenly seemed to yield before the impact. A second later the huge sailor had done a double somersault in the air and was lying breathless on the mat. Judo was what Professor Kano called it, or advanced jiu jitsu. “It is the art of overcoming an opponent by momentarily giving way before him.” Professor Kano explained. “By suddenly yielding, you throw your opponent off his balance and cause him aetually t to injure himself in direct proportion to his loss of self-command and the force exerted by him.” Ever since the Prussian army began to fall back before the allied hammering in 1918, German leaders have been practicing Judoism on the world. Never for a single moment has Germany intended lo pay for the war. She has appeared to yield when she had to. but this was only camoufiage. By propaganda, by manipulating troubles at home, by depreciating the value of the mark, by pleading poverty, and hunger, and ruin, and desperation and oppression, she has thrown the allies off their balance. Whatever the surface indications may be, Germany today holds a strong strategic position. France is at a corresponding disadvantage. Germany, on her side, will increase tljis disadvantage in every possible way—by strikes, by civil war and rev olutions. if needs be—all these being part and parcel of the international Judoism as practiced by her. Will France rally, or will she, like Professor Kano’s sailor, heedlessly plunge headlong at her opponent and injure herself in proportion to the force she uses? We can only wait and see. YOUR TX ID von read the remarkable storv about, Mrs WEAK l I Adele Robertson, the New York woman who LINK A J had the kidney of a sheep transplanted into her body? Ihe patient is dead. But the surgeons who performed the delicate operation claim that it was a success, death flue to other complications. Had it not been for these complications, she might be alive now and the most interesting medical specimen in existence. The sheep s kidney started to function much the same as a motor transferred from one flivver to another. Mrs. Robertson s blood circulated through :t and it began its normal work. Death intervened. This kidney operation probably is the forerunner of a lot of experimental surgery. Tt suggests that eventually, when oifr vital organs give out. they may he replaced by transplanting similar organs from animals. That already is being done with monkey and sheep glands. A famous theatrical magnate, now deceased, was reputed to have had a pig’s stomach transferred to his interior, his own stomach having been removed when it wore out. Thousands have heard this story and-believe it. Do-tors laugh and say. “Nothing to it.” What is the weakest link in your physical make-up—the internal organ that gives you the worst service and the most trouble ? How would you like to be able to climb on an operating table, inhale ether, and wake up with anew orsran transplanted from an animal? An enticing dream. It might, conceivably, come true within your lifetime. Our hodies are inferior machines, despite their marvels, when compared with a watch or motor. Will surgical mechanicians come to the rescue? AFRAID OME of the New York newspapers manifest OF FORD’S the first stages of hysteria over the rapid DREAMS growth of the Ford-for-President movement, . despite the fact that Ford denies he will ho a candidate. This movement has its headquarters at Dearborn, Mich., where Ford makes his pet products, tractors. Would you vote for Ford for President? You probably size him up this way: “He’d put the Government on a business basis, fire a lot of needless help and cut red tape. On other affairs, would he go off on a tangent, trying experiments without precedent?” Thing that often determines the fate of a presidential candidate is. not what he may be reasonably expected to do, hut fear of other things he might attempt. In Ford you have the rarest type of genius—a highly practical nature fused with desire to materialize dav dreams.

Ambassodar Fletcher Was First Lieutenant in Army During War

QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can cet an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, leva! and lore and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letetrs cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive persona! replies. Although the bureau doee not require it. it will assure prompter replies if readers will confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various subects are desired. EDITOR. Was H. P. Fletcher, ambassador from the United States to Belgium, ever an officer in the United States Army? Yes, he was battalion adjutant, a position carrying the rank of first lieutenant, of the 40th United States Volunteers. 1839 1901. Who were the men who came aver with Lafayette to help the United States, and what rank did they hold in the American Army? M. de Lafayette, major general: Baron de Kalb, major general; Delesser. colonel: De Valfort, colonel: De Fayoil. lieuisnant colonel: De Franval, lieutenant colonel: Dubois Martin. major; De Glmot, major: De Vrigny, captain: De Bedaulx (rank not stated); De la Colombe, lieutenant: Candon, lieutenant. Can smoke be consumed? Smoke cannot be consumed, but can be prevented by using proper means of combustion in the furnace. “Cc)nverting smoke Into steam" is only a figurojive expression. It means that -of wasting the coal by in-

efficient combustion methods and causing smoke, steam could be generated by the coal which is wasted. What is the address of the Rev. Billy Sunday? Winona Lake, Ind. Where was Irene Castle bom? In New Rochelle, N. Y. What is Bessie Barriscale’s address? Brunton Studios, 5341 Melrose-Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. What will keep light hair light? A pinch of soda in the last rinsing water. This is entirely harmless and can be used without any unpleasant results on light hair, but should never be used with dark hair. What is the height of the Venus de Milo? What is it made of? Who repaired some of the damages to the statue, and where is it now? The Venus de Milo is a trifle over 6 feet 3 inches in height. It is made of a very fine grained marble o f Pharos. The statue was restored to the state in which it is at present by M. Tenge, restorer of antiques .it thLouvre. where the statue now is. What breed of cattle is mostly raised by the western ranchers? Herefords. H|v many Ford automobiles sold? Approximately (1.900.000.

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Governors of Three States Turn Prosecutors to Solve Death Mysteries Which Are Stirring Nation

Is One Man Government Solution to Break Down in Law Machinery?

By EDWARD THIERRY V FA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Has the machinery of the law broken down In the struggle against crime? Is one-man government to be the solution? Questions like this are being asked as the result of this unprecedented situation: Three Governors within as many months in three different States have taken hand in the solution of murder mysteries that have baffled police and prosecutors. Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York is the latest State executive to turn criminologist by ordering nn investigation of th famous Ward case. In this case, as m two others preceding it, a woman made *he plea for executive interference. One was a mother of a slain victim, one a wife, and one a daughter. Mother Appeals to Governor Mrs. Mary Peters, mother of Clarcnce Peters, asked that Governor Smith investigate the killing of her son last May 15 near White Plains. Her plea came a few days after the court, had dismissed the lmli-t----meut for first degree murder "gainst Walter S Ward, wealthy young vice president of the Ward Baking Company, who gave himself up last May 22 with the confession that he had killed Peters as the result of a blackmail plot. The indictment was dismissed for lack of evidence. , Mrs. Thomas F Richards less than a month earlier made the plea to Governor John M. Parker of Lou isiana that resulted in the investigation of the killing of Richards and Watt Daniel at Mcr Rouge. La Their bodies were blown b> dynamite out of Lake La Foureht during the inquiry and th - Nation is watching efforts to place the b,lame for the killings, which occurred last August Miss Charlotte Mills, daughter of Mrs. Eleanor Mills was the first to call upon a State executive trt im ravel a mystery following the fall tire of county authorities to solve th>‘ murders of Mrs Mills and the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall at New Brunswick. N. J.. las’ Sqv 14 Letters written by Mi.-- Mills to Governor Edward !. Edwards re suited in the appointment of asp” eial State attorney general to prose cute the case It remains unsolved, thoucrh the inquiry has not been officially closed. In the meantime Edwards has become a United States Senator and has been succeeded by Governor G. S. Silzer. Poindexter Progressive Fighter May Take Place of Secretary F'all

MILES POINDEXTER It U XEA {Service SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 13. President Harding will add a progressive fighter to his Cabinet, if he appoints Senator -Miles Poindexter of Washington to succeed Secretary of Interior Fall. For fight has been the means by which Poindexter has risen through political ranks from a local county prosecutor in Walla Walla, Wash., to one of the leaders in the Unitea States Senate and candidate for presidential nomination in 1920. Southerner by birth and eduoa-

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: MRS. THOMAS F. RICHARDS AND GOVERNOR JOHN M. PARKER OF LOUISIANS; MUS. MARY PET-ERS AND GOVERNOR ALFRED E SMITH OF NEW YORK; CHARLOTTE MILLS AND FORMER GOVEEKNOR EDWARD I. EDWARDS OF NEW JERSEY.

Congressman Roy Thorpe Enjoys Many Aliases i

BY F. G. OUR WASHINGTON, Jan 13. —He doesn't call himself a paragon of modesty, hut says he is “Nebraska’s Catling Gun," “Man of Mystery,“ "Miracle Man," "Little Giant," and "Boy Tramp Orator of Ninety-Six,” alias Representative Roy Henry - Thorpe. having a wonderful time Ii epresenting his disroot in Congress ! for a few short months which began j the last of November and will end j March 4. “Oh. my. yes.” he says deprecating ! ly. “1 have lots of names, even if 1 have little money. But the name ! ' like best is the boy tramp orator.’ I want that put on my tombstone. "I stumped the State of Nebraska I against Billy Bryan in lSf*6. when I was just a hoy. The halls were ; crowded. People by the hundreds ! were turned away. In some instances I talked for four hours straight. I wi-h you could see some of the to-M tripe: accounts of wlmt I have lion- 1 have about a thousand scrap i *o!:s back home In Nebraska. Here is just one of them. If there is any- { thing there which you would like to use, you have my permission.” So there! ‘RED MAN’ WANING PONCO CITY. Okla., Jan 13—The ' picturesque ‘red man’ Is fast dlsap- ' pearing, •••ports at the local Indian 1 agency showed. The ”1 : Mikct." Indian is being reI laced by the nmdernly dressed tribes ! man, who is taking more and more interest in the business and affairs of | bis community and State, agency re j ports said. j Fewer "blanket" Indians attended | the Indian schools this year than ever before ait hougli an increase in at- ! tendance was recorded.

tion. he combines the tradition of the South with the expanding Ideas of the Northwest. On his gradu atlon from Washington and Lee University in 1891. at 23. he went to Walla Walla and a year hater became the city’s prosecuting attorney. He married Miss Elizabeth Gale of that city the same year, and in 1897 he moved to Spokane, where he has his home. From then he rose through prosecuting attorney to superior court judge, member of Congress, 1909 to 1911, and then to the Senate from 1911 to 1923. With the ending of the present Congress, Poindexter gives up his seat to the newly elected Senator Dill. Poindexter has been known to favor conservation of natural resources.

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New Boy Scout Troop Is Installed at Sutherland Presbyterian Ch urch

LEFT TO RIGHT. DONA LI BRETZMAN, GLENN HAEFIKLD. HER. ARTHUR KENDALL. CLAD rj-vROOI’ No 2V Bov Scouts of I America, recently organized, was formally installed at a meeting at the Sutherland Avenue Presbyterian Church last re rht. Thirteen boys form the charter group of members. Troops .\<>s.

LEGION TO ENTERTAIN MEMBERS OF OTHER POSTS

Robert Kcntiinginn (Tapicr Plans Series of Parties. A series of entertainments at which all .Marion County posts of the legion are to be guest's will be held by the Robert Kennington post, No. 34 American Legion. The first will be given Jan. 27 in the Chamber of Commerce building. The posts to be invited to the first entertainment have not yet been sel ected, Earl L. Ferguson, post commander, said. William T. Zen- is chairman of the post activities committee.

Public Opinion

To "Hind or Loose” I o the Editor of The Times It has become a question of more or less interest to locate or define responsibility for doctrinal processes of ligion. It is still a controlling in iuence In the social system. The .Scriptures are appealed to by all who have discovered some new avenue of revelation. Despite the word sheol, in the Hebrew meaning not a place for punishment but meaning the soul o' place for the soul—likewise the Hebrew word for hell (still not a place of punishment limited or unlimited) — despite this we persist in the old the- | ology of fear, planting Its seeds in ; infancy with as much truth as the mother exercises when she tells the child she'll put it in the dark room where the "bad man'll get it!” Foreseeing the limitations of all doctrinal government, which is the ecclesiastical law-creation of the church as the legislative law-creation ; Is that of the civil state, the Prophet Matthew has given us the words of Christ: “Whatsoever (or what things soever) you bind on earth shall be hound in heaven, and whatsoever (or ‘ what things soever) you loose on eartn I shall be loosed in heaven.” All form of government is but to “bind or loose.” JAMES PAXTON VOORHEES. Plainfield, Ind.

BARKSDALE EZRA STEWART, 1 •IDWIN I I-UIUR, FRANK ECKERT, ■-NCI-; SLICK AT DESK: SCOUT M 21 and 22 attended the installation. The Rev. John L. Prentice de- ■ Jivered an Introductory talk. Scout [ Master Frederick Dunlap talked on “Future Aims for Boys.” Scout George Griebe gave the history of the (lag and Scout Edwin

Congressman Herrick Is in Flying Game

By ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—They’re going to have to tie a red flag on the Washington monument by day and bang a red lantern there by night, for Congressman Manuel Herrick is back in town with his bargaincounter airplane. “Lonesome Manuel," as the folks here know the dare devil Oklahoman, has abandoned his quest for a bride and is ;n the (lying game to a finish —even if it should be his own. He plans to round out his temporary employment at the United States Capitol here which will terminate March 4 (the voters of the Eighth District Os Oklahoma concurring therein) and after that —well, the details haven't been announced yet. Great Old Ship ’’She’s a great obi ship and I know every bone in her body,” mused Congressman Herrick as he affectionately patted his aerial perambulator out at Boling Field today. "I put her together with my own hands.” He bought the plane at an army auction sale for $l5O. In the very' near future, Congressman Herrick plans to stage an exhibition flight, over Washington that will make Eddie Rickenbacker’s stunt feats look as tame as near-beer in comparison and probably cause his life insurance company to offer payment now if he will compromise at fifty per cent. The date has not been set nor have the pall bearers been named, but all other details are complete. Congressman Herrick’s return to the capital the oilier day was accomplished with great gusto. Slicing neatly through one of those cream-colored clouds in the Milky- Way, he fluttered over Washington in his aerial flivver about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Made Great Trips “Great trip—made the last lap, from Richmond here, in one hour!” exclaimed the Congressman as he scooped the mud out of his ears and kicked about nine pounds of oncrusted real estate off his shues. The mud, it developed, was accu-

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TOM SIMS SAYS:

THESE are ticklish times for the little boy with scratchy underwear. If these new talking movies are perfected the movie fans will have to study several foreign languages. * * * Former one-horse towns are one-fill-ing station towns now. * * * The curse of the age is “Darn those wrinkles.”

Only a few more months until the annual scare about, women | discarding dresses for knickerbockers. • * * The funniest thing is seeing an old bachelor petting a baby, ! especially if she is about 20 years old. * * * After buying a gold fish, the stingiest man always worries ; about its turning brass. • * • A salesman has plenty of wind. It is the trade wind. * * * Our street ear system isn’t so terrible except that most of the cars are going in the direction. Worry about your vacMion one hour every night and you can decide where to spend it by July. 9 * * * Two can live cheaper than someone. • • * Our idea of a tine thing not to do is pull a red-headed girl s hair. * * • Worst tiling about the movies is the audience. Most of our soldiers are returning from the Rhine married, showing Germany will get even.

LLSWORTH SUNMAN, NOBLE TAX LINDBERG. LLOYD G A LISTER FREDERICK DUNLAP. told of the significance of the badge. Tenderfoot knot tying was demonstrated by the entire troop. Scout Ellsworth Sunman gave the scout motto. Stunts were put on by Scouts Bishop, Bartlett and Kirgis.

mutated in rural Virginia: his engine stopped 1,(500 feet in the air and, finding it quite unhandy to get out and crank it, Mr. Herrick made a forced landing in a cotton field. The radiator was empty and he had to tramp three miles to a farm house for a bucket of water. Herrick is now planning his

By HERBERT QUICK You who read this probably think that there is no danger of our being embroiled in a European war. What have we to fight about? Nothing! If there is to he a fight, it is their fight, not ours, you say. We are sick of war. The verythought of it revolts you. On popular vote, a pro-war measure would lie almost unanimously voted down. We are now clothed and in outright minds. Not for us! Never again! But we don’t realize our capacity for making fools of ourselves. We don’t sense our capacity for going crazy. We don't realize the power of. suggestion through propaganda. Andi tell you that within a year the American people may suffer an Assault on their mentai integrity which may sweep us into war. We may go mad. And we may commit suicide. Suppose an attack is made on our soldiers before they leave Germany? And then suppose the roll were beaten on the war drums? Would you have the self-control to tell the truth and stand by it? But the assault on y-our sanity is far more likely to arise from a deeper cause. Suppose the Germans in their desperation at a French occupation. embrace communism? Suppose Russia comes to their aid? Suppose the cry goes up that we must fight against sovietism, and save the world—again? Will you stay sane or will you bagln to whoop for war?

Amendment to Esch-Cummins Law Is Sought

By LEO R. RACK WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—Amendments to the Esch-Cummins transportation law to discontinue the Railroad Labor Board and substitute a labor section of the Interstate Commerce Commission is one of the recommendations recently made by President Harding which Congress intends to ignore for this session. There is a considerable movement in Congress not only to destroy the Railroad Labor Board but also to amend other important sections of the transportation law. There is so much of this sentiment that members of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee are fearful to make an attempt during the remaining two months. Committee members say if they start amending the law in any particular it will immediately open the way for many and sweeping amendments. Regardless of whether the amendments are needed, c- aamittee members say there is not sufficient time at this session to conduct proper hearings and then enact the legislation. "Therefore,” a committeemr n explained, “we have decided to let the .'entire subject wait until the next , Congress." CAT ADOPTS MICE RAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 13. “Whisky.” a cat, used to roam the woods in Sutro forest. Very wild was Whisky.” One day Mrs. Cynthia Clark. 221 ! Grand View Ave., found the cat. She took her home. Cared for her. And now “Whisky,” once the wild j cat of Sutro forest, has adopted two | white mice pets of Mrs. Clark. But the cat refuses to get on friendly 1 eras with the fourth pet of the family—a canary bird.

death-defying stunt flight over Washington. It is said he expects to loop the loop over the White House, fan the Washington monument, tickle the bronze chin of the Goddess of Liberty atop the Capitol dome, and in general give the whole town something to write about to the folks back home.

Let s Have No War

Now is the time to decide. So far as I am concerned, Europe may go hell-bent into communism and I shall still vote and write against war—if I can get any one to print what I write; and nobody is more opposed to communism than I am. Would it be worse for the world than the game our archaic statesmen are playing? I think it would, perhaps, but not enough worse, nor so' - certainly bad, as the taking of our y-oung men to the trenches again, the degradation of our profiteering in war, the prostitution of all our faculties to the trade of murder. In a year from now, maybe, I shall lie sent to jail for saying this. Therefore. I say it now. No war, no matter what happens. No war "to save Europe” from communism, no matter how panicky our capitalists become. No war! ‘HUMAN TRI-COLOR’ NEW YORK. Jan. 13.—A “Human tri color," it is reported, has been found in North Alberta, Canada. His skin is black, brown and white. He is about thirty, six feet five inches tall, am! '.veil proportioned. He is a trapper near Mc.Murray. Three Chicagoans recently journeyed into the woods to verify the reports of the tri-colored man and did so. It is understood he will be exhibited In Ihe United States.