Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1923 — Page 4

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TO KEEP - W ■’•VERY day conditions in Europe are growing THE U. S. H worse. Nations great and small are totterOUT OF WAR 1 J ing, unable to pay expenses. Suffering among the peoples is increasing. Famine threatens here and there. Unemployment is growing. A sort of guicidal desperation—a don’t-eare-what-happens mood —has settled down over half the world. Say “Boo!” and anew world war will start which by comparison will bleach the red horror of the last one. And if such a blaze is started, it will sweep everything before it—us along with the rest. Some of us honestly think we could “keep out.” Impossible! Yet we stand around and do nothing to stop it. They say the time to convert a hardened sinner is right after he turns the corner of a dangerous illness but while he is still in fear of a relapse. One of these days, if we are lucky, the present crisis in Europe may ease off a bit. Sobered over its narrow escape, the world may then be in the moment’s mood for salvation. Then will be the time for the United States to be ready with a plan to offer as a basis of world sanity—political, financial, economic. If it is not ready with such a plan then, it should forever after hold its peace. “Plan" Plan? Have you any thing constructive to offer?” That is the reply of our Government—Congress, the President, the State Department—when asked if we as a nation have any plan or policy. They confess they have no plan, no policy. Criticise? Oh my, yes! Say what ought NOT to be done? “Washington officialdom is chock full of those ideas. But of anything constructive—never a word. So one is offered by this newspaper. It is not pretended to be perfect. But it does contain the nucleus of an idea, perhaps a basis to work from. It is at least something instead of nothing. THE PLAN 1. The L T nited States must assume the leadership. 2. At the first possible opening. President Harding should call a conference of the leading World War powers. 3. The program at this conference should be in two sections: I. Economic problems; reparations; war debts, n. Limitation of armament: On land; on sea 4. Instantly the conference is called to order. America’s spokesman should lay before the assembly some specific plan of world rehabliitation. This might follow somewhat these lines .- SECTION I (A) A general moratorium on reparations and war debts so that no payments of prineipal or interest need be paid for from three to five years. (B) Full American participation in a reparations commission, which, treed ot politicians and soldiers and guided by economic experts, should fix the amount Germany CAN pay—not what she OUGHT to pay. (C) Germany should know that until this amount is paid in full, France, under allied supervision, will remain on the left bank of the Rhine. 1 1) 1 An international loan to Germany—part to go to France to help tide her over the next few years, the balance to he used to stabilize Germany’s finances. ‘L W illul default on the part of Germany to be met by sanctions as provided for under the treaty of Versailles. (h i The United States and Great Britain to agree to aid France in the event Germany attacked her without provocation. (Absolutely safe, since Germany would never attack France Vll ft< >1 1 PRO\ Os ATIOX as long as such an agreement stood.) A. i Allied debts to the United States to be got into understandable form pending the general moratorium, and then refunded or revised or adjusted satisfactorily as between the nations coneerneif. SECTION II (A) The question of armaments might now be tackled. Europe could, should and must demobilize most of her troops, and Italy and France must conform to the terms of the Washington naval agreements. (B) The great powers to agree on narrow limits for the number, tonnage and armament of submarines and other naval auxiliaries and tackle other problems not settled at the Washington conference. Then the world, solvent, with useful tools in hand instead of weapons, could set about earning its bread in the sweat of its brow and raise crops instead of hell. HELLO, It /T AN, O man ! what’s going to be the end of this GIVE US \/| radio thing? One night last spring, IT. B. MARS! JLYJL Thayer of the New York Telephone Company picked up the phone receiver in his home, twenty miles or so out from the big town, and calmly asked the operator to please “give him” a certain captain who had sailed out into the Atlantic with his ship twenty-four hours before. In about thirty seconds he was talking to the sailor. About nine months later, on the evening of Jan. 14, 1923. Thayer yawned a bit and, taking down his phone, desired the young lady to connect him with some parties at a station in New Southgate, London, England. Which she did. By wireless. The conversation was as distinct as a telephone talk by wire to the next block, reports Thayer. If yon have an acute imagination, don’t let it run riot over what science is likely to do with the great unknown before she gets through. It may alarm vou.

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QUESTIONS ANSWERED Ton can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapoas Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C., enclosing: 2 cents in •tamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letters car.not be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies Although the bureau does not require it. it will assure prompter replies if readers will confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one lettir if answers on various subjects aro desired. EDITOR. When was Chicago settled? Chicago was laid out as a town in 1830 and chartered three years later. The first house on this site, however, svas built In 1779. Is the Alien Enemy Law still in force? It is not. How large is an atom? An atom, according to Science Service, i> so small that the most

minute particle visible by the best microscope contains as many atoms as there are people on earth. If an ordinary electric light bulb were to be pierced with a hole just large enough to admit as many atoms per second as there are people In the United States, it would take 100,000,000 years for the vacuum bulb to fill with air. What are the specifications of the Majestic steamship? i.entgh, 956 feet; beam, 100 feet: depth of hull, 102 feet: size in tons, 56,000; draft of water, 35 feet: number of decks, nine: area of decks, seven and one-half acres: passenger capacity. 4.100; engine horsepower. 100,000; fuel, oil: speed, 23 sea miles per hour. Who was the first United States Postmaster General? Samuel Osgood, who served under George Washington. •*-

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Pueblo Indians Begin Fight in Senate to Save Tribal Lands in New Mexico

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The 121 councillors of tho Pueblo Indians In solemn conclave at which they decided to present their case to the Seriate. Below, Antonio I.ujan (loft), and Pablo Abelta, delegates to Washington. Indian Affairs under Secretary of the Interior Fail and Introduced by Senator Itursum of New Mexico, passed by th Senate without debate on the closing day of the last session, would have confirmed Mexican squatters in possession of a lurge part of the Pueblo land under dispute On motion by Senator Borah, however, tills bill has boon recalled from the House and sent back to tin* Senate public lands committee. Word of the passage of this bill by the Senate roused the chiefs of the Pueblos as nothing else'within the history of their tribes. A council of all the twenty pueblos was called. This council convened at the

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Santo Domingo pueblo, or village, north of Albuquerque, Nov. a. To It came 121 representatives of the different tribal councils. They framed an appeal to the people of the United States, which each delegate signed by his name or thumb print. Following tho thumb-printing of signatures to the appeal. It was de elded representative spokesmen for the pueblos should be sent to Washington to make one last direct and dramatic appeal to tho government. All have arrived hero in full ceremonial regalia, as befits their ap pearanee at the council of the Great White Fathers. Not for many years—and perhaps never again will so Imposing an array of tribal leaders appear seeking Justice from the white man.

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Woman Is Little ‘Light for My Work, ’Say Men By F. G. ORR WASHINGTON. Jan. J 9 atti-Uide toward woman is one of the difficulties about giving women equal opportunities in industry, without impairment of their health, according to Dr. Reynold A. Spaeth of Johns Hopkins University. Speaking before the Woman’s Industrial Conference here. Dr. Spaeth said: “Men are apt either to let women do all the work like the Indians used to do, or else ‘protect’ them, by passing laws which will keep them out of jobs where the wages are exceptionally high. “You remember the story of the farmer, who being condoled upon the death of his wife, replied, ‘Yes, she was a good woman, but a little light tor my work.” Dr. Spaeth, says that the problem grows more complicated due to the fact that women, at least those of today, are not the physical equals of men. “You have to admit that,” he says, “for women have a lower percentage of iron in their blood, and a smaller number of red blood corpuscles. Os course, with another generation or two of golf-club swinging woinen, there’s no telling.

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KLECZKA gasps. "H'lt's a great rag on old ‘Awks,” roared another. "Lars, I never iarfed so In me life! You see, we sees old Awks hup at the fourth lloor of the ’otel, yellin' like a good 'un for ’elp. So Bill says, ‘Jump, 'Awks! We’ve got a net!' An' ’Awks. 'e jumps! Lars. I thought we’d dte!” "I don't see the joke yet,” puzzled the bystander. Tho narrator paused after another paroxism of laugher. “AVe didn't ‘nve no net' ' la- gurgled.

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OUR objection to a war in Europe is we might get the same top sergeant next time. * * * Anything can happen now. Boston landlord gave a tenant a month’s rent. ♦ * Another former chorus girl is suing her millionaire husband for a divorce and reparations. * * * It took ten bandits to rob a hotel near Oakland, Cal., showing our great need of efficiency experts.

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By HERBERT QUICK Some very intelligent people have large families. But when they do bless the world with many babies, it Is usually because they have deliberately made up their minds to do so. Generally speaking, people who are highly intelligent, whether rich or poor, have few children. They marry late, they have many other things to do. and they consciously limit progeny. This is a fact of immense importance. The Anthony Comstock law, under w hich people who seek by voice or pen to teach people how to limit the size of their families are arrested, jailed or silenced, will be amended if r bill placed before Congress by Representative Kissell in the House and Senator Cummins in the Senate is passed. Brother I’orterfleld has told you what Congressman Kissell says about the way in which the anti-birth-control provisions got into this law fifty years ago He says it was unintentional. But even unintentionally a good thing may get into a law, and if a bad thing has been law for fifty years it doesn't seem as If it ought to remain in force even if it were passed intentionally, does it? So the best thing to do Is to examine the birthcontrol law and see how it works. It works to prevent the poor, the ignorant, and the downtrodden from cutting down the number of their children born to penury and want, and hereditary mental night. As I have said it does no.t give us more

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of the children of the educated and intelligent. They find out all about birth-con-trol In spite of the law. Therefore, it works to the end that society sliall be composed from generation i.o generation of the children who have the poorest chance in life. Is that a good thing or not? If it if, the Cummins-Kissell bill should be killed. If it is not, the bill should pass. I leave it to the reader. If the anti-birth control law is kept on the statute books, it seems to me it should be given the reverse English. It should be changed so as to keep from all our rich people all ou.r intelligent and educated people, all knowledge of how to limit the size of their families. I don't know how this can be done, but a way should be found to do it. Then we should have the families of six to a dozen babies in the big houses, and tlie Rolls-Royces and Packards ■will be crowded, while there will be more room in the flivvers, and more space in the streets of Shantytown for something besides children —that is, the latter will be tiue if we carry out my other provision of the law (in case it is retained in favor). This second provision would be to make all the ignorant, all the benighted, all the unintelligent. take a compulsory course ;n birth-control knowledge. The idea may not be good. I am not urging it. I am merely suggesting it as a remedy for the anti-social working of the present law.

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