Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1923 — Page 4

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DREAD p-pHE safest place in the world to hide your OF I 1 monej’ from thieves, outside a bank, is in a MAGIC J- coffin. Who says so? Christopher Beck. And who’s Beck? An expert on the psychology of underworld superstitions. Beck says he doubts if there’s a thief on earth who would pry i open a coffin encountered during a pillaging raid. And it’s a certainty that no professional burglar would go near it. Burglars also avoid houses where they know a death has re-! cently taken place. Like the rest of us, only more so, they recoil from death and all things connected with it. Ed Howe, the Kansas country philosopher, once said that I while all people talk too much he notices that every one grows strangely quiet as soon as the conversation drifts around to death. A check-up of police records in important cities shows that very few professional criminals “work” on the 13th day of the month. There is reason to believe that the “13” superstition started in the underworld. Crooks are the most superstitious people on earth. They are saturated with queer beliefs in luck, omens and the like. Few house-breakers have the'courage to rob a house where ! they find a black cat lurking around the" premises. Even more dreaded is a blind dog. Most crooks have an unlucky number which they fear. Usu- i ally it is the number of the policeman who arrested them the first time. Suppose a crook enters your home in the dead of night. If he finds a clock stopped, he scarcely notices it. But if the clock stops while the burglar is at work, hell break into a cold sweat and flee into the night. This peculiar superstition probably dates back to some tragedy that overtook a famous crook while on a “job.” Minor thieves—especially pickpockets—consider it the worst of luck to steal a knife or rob a one-armed man. And nearly all crooks carry a mascot, the luckiest, of which is supposed to be a ring made from a horseshoe nail. And so on, ..until a book could be written on the subject. Such a book should have a good £ale. Professional criminals are a separate breed of animal, as different from the law-abiding as day is from night. About the only thing they have in common with the rest of us is an uneasy fear of the mysterious unknown. Hence their susceptibility to superstition. AS TO "¥ ■'■OR sale: The Equitable Building in New TIPS York City, world’s largest (not tallest) ON OIL office building. If you want to buy it, the price is only 40 million dollars. To earn that much, you would have to work 40,000 years at a salary of i SI,OOO a year. A rumor has been floating that Doheny, the “Mexican Pete” oil magnate, contemplates buying the Equitable. His agents deny the rumor. The denial should have an effect on the stock market. Thousands of small stock gamblers are gullible enough to reason that purchase by Doheny would mean that he had discovered oil under the Equitable and was about to tear the building down and start drilling. At that, it would be as logical as the average “tip.” The safest way is to flip a coin. HOW AUTO picked teams, of eight men each, race to WINDS ARE I ’ see which can assemble a Dodge car the BLOWING X faster. The winner puts the car—motor, top and all—together in less than fifteen minutes. You don’t find that kind of speed in any country except America, even in contests. More important auto trade news is Ford’s decision to build a $10,000,000 plant in St. Paul, to employ 15,000 men. It will j save freight, bring his product closer to 'be big sales field of the northwest. This is :t straw showing the way the wind blows. In the next few years you'll see many other industries scatter, it will be compulsory readjustment to the growing problem, transportation. APRIL -w—'vEFORE the war, when the German mark FOOL lx' was worth about 24 cents, the HamburgMARKS 1 ) American and North German Lloyd steamship lines sold $32,500,000 worth of mark bonds. These bonds have been called for redemption, to be paid off April L Alas, they 11 be paid off according to shrunken value of the mark. Investors will get back about SIO,OOO for their investment* of $32,500,000. Some American promoters will wag their heads admiringly. Luckily, most of these bonds are held in Europe.

Forty Million Persons Die in World During One Year’s Time

QUESTION'S ANSWERED Ton can set an answer to any Question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Washington, D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. the bureau does 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 subjects are desired. EDITOR. What is chalk? Chalk is a soft, white, earthy rock, almost pure carbonate of lime, but mixed sometimes with S'arious mineral impurities. Jt is made up of the broken skeletons of molluscs, sea-lilies, sea-urchins and the like, but especially of the shells of some of the simplest of living creatures, belonging to the group of the one-celled animals or Protozoa, and Included in the class Foramlnifera. Chalk is. therefore, an organic rock: but it differs from coal in being made of compounds of lime, not of carbon, and in being derived from the remains of marine animals, r.ot plants. What are the three groups of mankind? Ethnologists, more for convenience than from conviction, are accustomed to recognize three primary groups of human races—the black, the yellow and the white. Each group has numerous subdivisions or races, each race may have its sub-race, each subrate its breeds, each breed its stock. What is the quickest and best way to wash windows? Use a piece of chamois skin about fifteen or eighteen inches square. Use warm water, wring out thechamois "'tightly, and wash over the window. wring the chamois out of water

until aa dry as possible and rub over , the window. This will take off ;<U \ moisture and there will be no lint left. How can flies be kept from col looting around the garbage pail? It will help to cut a piece of thin | cloth just large enough to cover the opening of the garbage can. Wet this cloth slightly with kerosene and spread over the top of the can with the cover on top of the cloth. Renew the kerosene about once every two weeks. Who is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives? Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts. On what day of the week did Aug. 1908, come? Saturday. How many persons die in the entire world during ono year? It Is estimated that the yearly death rate of the woekl is 40.000,000. Who is the author of the following: “He pursued a lonely road; His eyes on nature’s plan; Neither made man too much a God. Nor God too much a man.” These lines are by Matthew Arnold. What are Tribolites? Tribolites were a small crustacean, occurring in the Cambrian period many millons of years ago. and now extinct. They are the earliest recog nized animal forms in the earth's history. y Is lt. be Daniels married? No. ~

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Thrifty Irish Woman Starts Music Store and Makes $200,000, Out ofsloo Capital

Took Liberty Bonds on Talking Machines and Bought Staten Island Property.

Bv JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT, XEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK. Jan. 16.—Ellen O'P.yrnp loved an Irish tune. That love and a little bundle of clothes was all that she had when, an immigrant girl of 16. she landed in this country. Today Ellen O’Byme DeWitt owns property valued at $200,000. She has started four of her brothers and sisters brought over from the old country, on the way to material success, and has put her two sons through school and established them in business. New York’s thriftiest woman they call her down on Third Ave., where the handsome gray-haired woman presides over the destinies of what Is now a thriving music store. Twelve years ago Mr. DeWitt, after having weathered somewhat more than the usual number of Ufe’s storms, found herself stranded with SIOO In her pocket and a young and hungry son slinging to each hand. Then she remembered the tunes she had loved back home. She took her SIOO and started an Irish music store. All day long she kept the store. At night she would get her boys’ supper, help them with their lessons and put them to bed. Then she would mend their clothes, straighten her house and do the family washing. In the morning she would hang out the washing, cook the breakfast and get the boys off to school. At 9 o'clock she would be down to her storekeeping. The store continued to prosper. When the lease expired Mrs. De Witt bought the building. It seemed to he a good Investment, so she bought the property next to It, too. During the war she let it be known that customers might. If they wished, pay for talking ma chines with Liberty bonds. Some time later Mrs. DeWitt purchased a home oh Staten Island, putting tip $4,000 In Liberty bonds as collateral. Now she owns two other houses on Staten Island and five lots. Twelve years ago—sloo and an idea. Today—s2oo,ooo and comfort. ’ Anybody could do it." says Mrs DeWitt. My motto? Reing saving and doing something useful every minute.’’ Congress Will Discuss Birth Control Bill By W. H. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON, .Tan, 16. The problem of birth control, under the provisions of a bill now pending in both houses of Congress, will shortly be discussed in committees at both ends of the Capitol. ‘‘Just fifty years ago.” said Representative Klssell of New York, “the Anthony Comstock law was passed which unintentionally erected a barHer to the giving out of information relative to birth control. The purpose of this bill Introduced by Senator Cummins and myself Is to remove thn* hairier of fifty years' standing ” M : v !• ■ ding physicians and sociologists . ,e on the executive board of the Voluntary Parenthood League's national council which Is backing this measure vigorously.

SEYMOUR May Enter Cabinet If Daugherty Resigns

AUGUSTUS T. SEYMOUR Ifli KKA Service COLUMBUS. Ohio, Jan. 16.—A leader in legal affairs is mentioned as probable successor to Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, if the rumors of the latter’s resignation materialize. The man is Augustus T. Seymour of this city, an attorney of nearly thirty years’ experience. Seymour, at present, is special counsel to the United States Department of Jus tice. -- Seymour was born in Nebraska City, Neb., forty-nine years ago and came to Ohio in his youth. After his education at Mt. Vernon, Oberlin and the law college of Ohio State University, he started law practice in 1894. He established his reputation In 1905, when he successfully prosecuted Ohio insurance companies through to the United States Supreme Court, for certain taxes. Community welfare has taken up a great deal of Seymour’s time. He was president of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce for two years, and a member of the board of education, where he strove to improve thd” teaching staff, school facilities apd education methods.

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ELLEN O’BYRNE DeWTTT, NEW YORK 3 THRIFTIEST WOMAN.

No Escape By berton braley Day by day I'm retting better. I am hr'-aking ercry fetter Ol the maladies that b<>tltf red me of yore! I who onee was going blooey, read the book by Doctor Cmte Anrt 111 never be unhealthy any more! I m a faithful fond believer; I nave cured the scarlet (ever And the measles and the wnooping cm th and pip. And still others—(l won t list on,l —by the simple Coua system. Which has filled me full of vigor and of sip. But. although my many iltnwrr* bsve fled, 1 have got that Coue Jingle In my head! "Day by day. In every way. Every way and day by day* - (Oh. I know It’every syllable and letter), "Day by day, In every way. Every way. every way I am getting better, better, f ani'gettitig better, better!" t h, my bear lr n balmy. I shall need a guard to calm me If that Cove (t iff keeps r' ning tn my brain. When I'm working, plating, sleeping, to my cerebrum comes creeping that eternal itieju-apuble refrain. I am Doctor Coue s debtor that my health is better, better, X Hut my cocos going cuelu.o mighty eoon. All my oerchrAtlnna mtnr'e with that everlasting jingle Os the Couo stuff that cooingiy 1 croon: "Day by day. in every way. Every way and day by day" (Oh. I know It every syllable and letter). “Day by day. in every w*y, livery way. every w*r, I am getter better, better, I am getting better, better!" (Copyright. 19’JJ. NEA B-rrlcO)

S. 0. S. for Stage Door Johnnie; Bootleg H. C. L. Makes Him Poor

BY ALEXANDER HERMAN NBA Service BtaO Writer NEW YORK. Jan. lb,—With the high cost of bootleg whisky putting the Stage Door Johnnie out of business, Broadway’s back door la beginning to creak like a rusty gate. Where once a long line of beaming toppers stood, waiting for the ladieß of the chorus, now sits old Bill Riley—alone. And he doesn’t like It. Bill is Broadway’s oldest backstage watch dog. He is 71 and has been a figure on the alleys off the Great White Way for so many years that he has lost count of them. “Maybe a Stage Door Mary will be coming along soon,” he says hopefully. “But It Isn’t very likely. They're even scarcer than the Johns. “Prohibition and the high cost of lobsters is scarin’ them off. "Tn the old days when they used to drive up with a hack and a smile, it didn’t cost so much to have a good time. Times Sure Have Changed “But now a fellow had better buy his pack of cigarettes before he goes Into a. restaurant or cabaret. No matter how much money he may have, there probably won't he enough left to buy the smokes after. "Things have gotten so that I haven't seen a real honest-rfo-good-r.ess John aro.ur.d here for more than four years' “Maybe it’s the girls’ fault, too. They aren't going in much for Just a feed and drinks. They want ex pensive fineries—fur coats, Paris dresses and the like. “Did you notice the line of small shops in the hotels and side streets? That's what’s breaking the Johns. “Instead of taking him to a lobster palace, the girls lead him into one of these stores —and make him and his bankroll look sick. "No ordinary Johnnie can keep up the pace—Uptakes a John D.” Marriage ala Mode In Sussex, England, there is a superstition that twins never should be married in the same church. Also, it is the rule, at a first marriage, for the bride to appear ungloved, but gloves are worn by a widow, who weds a second husband. If there Is a, cat in the house the bride must feed the animal herself on her wedding day, or it is believed some disaster will befall her within a year.

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BILL RILEY. VETERAN STAGE DOOR WATCHMAN

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Women Take Jobs as Means to Matrimony By F. G. ORR WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—1s a woman’s job just a stop gap until the time when she shall marry? There’s been some justification for that belief among employers in the past, admits Miss Mary Gilson, employment manager of Joseph & Feiss Cos., Cleveland. “One of our girls,” she says, ‘‘on being reproved for some poor work, said to the foreman: ‘You needn’t act so smart. I can get,married any day. I gotta friend.’ ” But this idea must give way to figures which show that more than onetenth of the married women in the United States are gainfully employed. “Therefore,” says Miss Gilson, "I am In favor of giving women high enough wages so that they will take their jobs seriously, and will not marry Just to get out of the drudgery of working, and trying to make ends meet on a pitiful allowance. “Good wages stabilize the industries in which women are employed.”

Public Opinion

Our Expose*! Borders To the Editor of The Times America needs to know that she has more exposed border to protect from enemies that she may maike by her efforts to shirk her duty than any nation. She has fifteen or twenty thousand miles of border to defend In case of war. She needs to know that she has citizens of own in nearly every country of the world whose nationals she treats justly here and she should help to reconstruct the world so any citizen of America could be welcomed und treated with respect in any country he visits. Sending battleships to Constantinople and withdrawing help from our allies will not inspire confidence In our statement. If war were right and a gun-title good for territory conquered, if it is right to help in war by getting together and fighting, it is a thousand times more so to get together and enforce peace by any means we can use. Anything beats war a thousand per cent. I have been there. JOHN G. HOLT. Splceland, Tnd. Our City's Needs lo the Editor of The Times Our city needs a street car line connecting all terminals thus giving an optional transfer to destination. All Virginia Ave. cars should reroute to South St. as far as Illinois St., then up to Maryland St., ami over to Virginia. Ave. This will give better service and deeper satisfaction. GEORGE SCHULTZ, 2024 Laurel St. Surgeons Confess LONDON. Jan. 16.—Surgeons held a confession meeting at the rooms of the Royal Society of Medicine to confess the mistakes they'd made in operations Only surgeons, of course. v<t< admitted.

U. S. Far Better Prepared for War Than It Was in April, 1917

By LEO R. SACK WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Should developments in the Ruhr Valley seizure cause embarrassment to the United States to the extent that war clouds will again hang low. the United States will be far better prepared for evepfuallUes than it was in April, 1917, When war was declared against Gel-many. Emergency mobilization plans, on file In the War Department, provide for the assembling of fifty-four divisions, nine from the Regular Army, eighteen from the National Guard, and twenty-seven from the reserves. The Regular Army Nov. 30, consisted of 12,597 officers and 115,474 enlisted men. The Na||onaA Guard contemplate*! a membership of 500 for

Mobs and Bombs

By HERBERT QUICK The other day In Washington, an insane woman doffed the police who were trying to arrest her and have her taken care of. She stood threatening them and threatening herself with a sharp butcher-knife, and Anally gashed her own wrists and breast with the knife in an effort to commit sni cide. Instead of rushing in and sacrificing one or more-lives, the police did a thing which is marvelous — they used common sense mingled with the utilization of modern science. They set off in the room In which the crazy woman had taken refuge one of those tear-bombs developed in the war. The effect was wonderfully successful. The woman was not injured: but she was temporarily blinded and practically paralyzed. She thought no more of suicide or resistance. She was taken into custody and placet! in safety. The tear-bomb, devised to put soldiers out of action, worked as well in peace as in war. The tear-bomb and other bombs invented in the war ought to be in the hands of police force and sheriff. Lyncmngs are done by mobs of madmen. Mobs bent on lynching can be repelled by their use. The mow ing down of mobs with machine-guns is a perfectly justifiable thing when

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TOM SIMS SAYS:

u~U ""VRANGE, ” says a Frenchman, “is having her day.” How long before night l • * * New England man left millions in a will of fifty words, so he may have made it by being a man of few words. • • • Being frank is fine; but in Alabama a man was arrested for being Frank in one town and Henry in another. • • * Next month is the shortest month unless you are speaking of money. *♦ ♦ ♦

Over in Russia Prince Utomsky may be shot, but with a name like that he may be glad of it. • • Dodging an auto lax is about as hard as dodging an auto. v♦ • * . On hearing about the schooner lost off the Florida coast old soaks will ask “Schooner of what?” • * • Jack Dempsey bought an apartment house in Los Angeles. Jack could fill it with those who want to fight him. • • • The report of a tailor shortage win cause very little worry. Most of us bought our suit years ago. fit# The only thing wrong with any country is the people. • * • In St. Louis a luan walked into the jail arid asked to be shot. Probably some fellow who believed what his wife said about him. • * • I’pon reading the French soldiers are being kept in quarters an American soldier said, “They don’t even keep, us in dimes.” * • • Two Wichita (Kas.) boys robbed a bank. There should be a law against minors robbing banks. • • • People would be better if reading about golden weddings were as interesting as reading about divorces. * • • The small boy’s kick against the fairness of things in general is his teacher never gets sick. * * * are so many things wrong with the world you haven’t time to worrv much over anv certain one.

OU'U'TA C. Recall of Army on ul/l/L/O, Rhine Peeves Men

By HARRY HUNT NEA Staff Correspondent ■w-w r ASHINGTON, Jan, 16 —The efficacy of free seeds in " ’ growing votes for Congressmen often has been questioned. At last the question seems to have been answered. They don’t work. They're failures. The champion seed distributor of Congress, says Frank Clarke, who has the contract for putting up and mailing out seeds for solons, is Miss Alice Roberttson of Oklahoma "The largest eingJe order we ever received was from Miss Robertson,” hr. said. “It filled 850 mall bags—-

I each Congressman and Senator or api proximate!*- 265,500, but the guard is not now- recruited to its full strength. Commissions in the Reserve Corps have been given to approximately 70,000 officers, while there are approximately 104,000 students in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. For the coming fiscal year, beginning July 1, provision Is made In the Army appropriation bill for a Regular Army of 12,000 officers, 125,000 enlisted men and 7,000 Philippine scouts. For the training#of reserve officers. $3,250,000 Is authorized for the coming year. The National Guard Is allotted $28,939,140 for the next year or sufficient to justify a maximum strength of 215,000.

necessary, for lynchings are worse crimes than the ones which provoke them—always worse. But the officers have no machine guns and would not use them if they had them. The nonfatal bomb, however, is a weapon with which the law should provide itself everywhere. It is merciful. It is effective. Scieneo gave us many great discoveries during the war. If we could only convert all these discoveries to the uses of peace, we might make the war partially pay for Itself. The Chemical Warfare Service is a most useful organization. It can do much more for us in peace than to give us non-iethal bombs for the control of mobs, criminals and lunatics —and even these are great things.

Guises

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and of course It all went to Oklahoma.” These seeds went out In advance of Miss Alice's recent race for reelection. Their futility was shown 111 her defeat. Had each package of seeds sprouted a vote, her reelection would have been unanimous. • • • The decision of President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes to recall the American force on the Rhine has disappointeed scores of officers who had their applications on a waiting list for assignment to Coblenz. There has been an aver age of 100 applications for every officer's post available In General Alien’s command. Assignment to the Rhine forces, was attractive both from financial and social standpoints., American dollars, translated into marks, gave even enlisted men Incomes of 3,000,000 marks a year. Even with the predated value of the mark, our men found their pay fabulously increased. Many have taken their families to Germany and placed their children in continental schools, the cost of both living and education being infinitely below the cost in U. S. A. Also, recognized as an important factor, but not stressed as a controlling reason, is: The Volstead, law was inoperative outside the actual military zone. • • • When Maj. Gen. James E. Harboard was retired from active service with the army on retirerffent pay of $6,000 a year, he was promptly grabbed by the Radio Corporation of America and made president at a salary' well above the sura he continued to draw from Uncle Sam. The ease with which tliis plum fell Into Harboard's lap Is reported to have peeved certain other aspirants who had been trying In vain to shake the juicy job themselves. Asa result the attention of Congress has been called to the fact Congress has provided retired Navy

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officers may not draw retirement pay when they are drawing salaries from arivate connections involving business relations with Government departments.