Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1923 — Page 4

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PEACE yOW and then somebody rises to say internaOR WAR tional conferences don’t get us anywhere. p FOR US? ± M Simon pure mossbacks! With a simple “pooh-pooh!” they wave aside the efforts of several previous administrations, both Republican and Democratic, to have world powers agree to arbitration rather than go to war over their disputes. The “ pooh-pooh-ers ” point to the conferences of Europe, an endless series of which having accomplished little. The answer is the United States has not attended any of them officially. Had the United States done otherwise, there is little room to doubt the result would have been very' different. England is suspicious of France. France is even more suspicious of England. Belgium doesn’t know which, if either, to rely on. Italy eyes them ail with distrust. Germany is awaiting the day when she can “come back.” Russia, jealous and desperate, is ready to join any combination which promises recognition. And so onNot one nation of Europe trusts any other nation of Europe. And with reason. On the other hand, these nations are asking the United States to help. They know they can trust this oountry. We have nothing to gain but world peace, and they know it. So our word means something. That is why a conference with the United States taking a leading part would get somewhere. But supposing it didnlt. Suppose not a single agreement were reached by the great powers attending the conference. What would be the result? ' This: 1. The world must at least credit the United States with, having done everything it could to put civilization back on its feet. (Just now the world hates us because people are saying we can help them and won’t.) 2. The world would know just which nation, or group of nations, is blocking peace, and why. 3. World opinion, thus brought to bear on such a nation or group of nations, would ultimately bring it to its senses. In short, a conference would clarify the international atmosphere. Uncertainty, the greatest foe known either to business or to peace, would be swept away, whatever happened. We would know where we are headed, and could act accordingly. There’s everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying to avert the war now being cooked up in Europe. • • * If war comes, no power on earth can keep this country out. Make no mistake about that. The way to keep out of the next war is to prevent such a war. That is a job that Uncle .Sam can do and that nobody else can. I• < “I am only stating quite frankly my view that unless America takes a hand * * a real settlement will be postponed until the horn: of irreparable mischief strikes.”—David Lloyd George, former premier of Britain. ) ” TESTING hundred babies ar*- given so-called inHUMAN 8 telligence tests, at a meeting of American BRAINS A Psychological Association. Just what is intelligence? It certainly is not merely the possession of tacts, for the average schoolboy of 1923 knows more concrete facts than did Soerates in the days when science and most of the world were unexplored. We can have a lot of fact-knowledge without being intelligent. Any bottle can be filled with milk. Real intelligence is in reasoning power, the ability to distinguish right from wrong and the logically true from the obviously spurious. HOW T"'v ID JOU not * ee that Ribot is dead? You don’t FAME I I quite place the name* He was prime minisFADES A J ter of France from March to September, 1917, during one of the most critical periods the war. N Less than six years to make him dim in our memories. Even the World War is beginning to seem distantly remote. Nothing is indelible in the memory of man. One of our most blessed possessions is the power to forget, quite as indispensable and soothing as memory, the power to keep fresh in the mind. We would be terribly unhappy if we did not have this ability to forget.

45.6 Per Cent of Homes in U. S. Are Owned; 17.5 Per Cent Unincumbered

Qt'ESTIOXS AXSWEUKI) You <-an get an answer to any question of fact or inforroaton by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. l.'{*l2 New York -Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing " cents in stamps. Medical, legal and lore and marriage advieg cannot be given. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. Although the bureau dees 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. KDITOR. Wliat percentage of homes in the United States are owned free of incumberance and how many are owned, though incumbered? According to the census of 1920, here were 45.6 per cent of the homes n the United States owned; 28.2 per :-ent being owned free and 17.5 per •ent owned incumbered. What railroad crosses the United States from coast to coast? There is no single railroad that

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On leaving home lor an extended stay, it frequently happens that one owes calls it is impossible to make. ' In such a case one should leave a* each home where an indebtedness exists one's visiting card, with the Initials "P. P. C.” written in one corner. Tne letters mean “pour prond'-e conge/’ a French expression signifying ‘ to take leave.” It is quite proper to drive from house to house, leaving the cards with whatever servant opens the door. Or, if there is not time for this, the cards may be mailed.

crosses from coast to coast. The prinj cipal lines that cross the country i from the Mississippi to the Pacific Const are: Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Southern Pacific, Northern ! Pacific, Grent Northern and Santa Fe. Connections may be made from | the Atlantic Coast for any of these. i According to the treaty with Great ItHfain and Canada, how much water may he diverted for power purposes from Niagara Falls? P.y the treaty ratified in 1910, the amount of water that may be divertde on the American side for power purposes is 20.00<\ secohd feet j and on the Canadian side. 56,000 secj end feet. About 500,000 horse power | Is generated at present. What will remove the odor of paint from rooms? The following remedies have been | suggested: Sprinkle a handful of hay on the I Seor and place a little chloride of ; lime on the hay. This is said to absorb the .offensive smell In a couple of hours. Ueave In the room overnight, a pall of water with three or four sliced raw onions in it. Shut the door, and in the morning the paint smell will have gone, the onions and water absorbing ft. How many bounds are there in a bushel of the following articles? j Rice. 45 pounds. Pears. 45 to 58 potinds. Peaches. 48 to 50 pounds. Plums, 40 to 64 pounds. % These different weights of fruit are Caused by some fruits being more solid than others. How do the deposits in postal savings banks compare with those in mutual stock and savings hanks? On June 30, 1921. the total deposits In the postal savings system were $152,389,903; in mutual and stock savings banks, the total deposits on the s4i)i date were 86.018,258.000. 1

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U. S. W ill Have Reached Population Limit About Year 2100, Declares Statistician

By AEA Service BALTIMORE, Md.. Jan. 22.—About the year 2100 the United States will have reached a point at which it will be unable to support any more inhabitants. t

This is one of the startling assertions of Dr. \ Raymond Pearl, professor of vital statistics at Johns Hopkins Oni--versity., ‘‘lf no way has been found to beat po p u lation’s progress,” he says,” the United States will find itself then in the same position as China today. We

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DR. PEARL will have some 200,000,000 people and thenceforward the number will oscillate back and forth, as a few years of famine and then cf plenty affect it.” v Pearl is well known in economic circles for his studies in population growth. He is one of the country’s leading: biologists and statisticians and has specialized on heredity and biometry, or statistical study in human life’s variations. “The world is on the high road to population saturation,” is his ooneliß sion. ‘‘From my experiments I have formed two mathematical laws ;u----cording to which populations seem to grow. How Law Works ‘‘One is that a population, starting at a beginning as near as possible to zero, grows at an increasing rate until it reaches Its optimum relation between Its means of subsistence and the number of people. Then it keeps on growing, but at an ever-decreasing rate until the saturation point is reached. "The, ’optimum relation’ in the Fnited States was passed in 1914. Now our poulation is growing, but at a decreasing rate. Hoboken. N. J., is already close to,its own saturation point. If its poulation in creases, the ojty will have to expand or its people will have to move out

The Super-Snobs ByBERTON BRALEY. THEY sneer at the obvious always. With noses up high in the air. When their shin-bones are cracked on an obvious tact They will not admit it ia there: They scorn all conventional thinking. As “pabulum meant for the throng,' And they simply ignore any commonplace lore Which proves them extensively wrong. They ware pacifists during the conflict. And now that the battles are won, They sit back and carp in a manner that s sharp At all that's accomplished and done: Thqy're proved undependable prophets On what they have said all along. Vet with umlismayed hope they prepare some new dope Which U just as confoundedly wrong. Their thrones carrv them nowhere. Their formulas function askew. Yet it irks them indeed that the world will not heed The thlnirs that they tell It to do; With proud supercilious haujeur. Their paths* philosophic they iread. And if by strange sooth th"y encounter the truth They cut the poor Jyu\y quite dead! (Copyright, 1923. NEA Service)

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‘‘When the saturation point is reached, what happens to the United States will be about the same as what is happening in China today, if nothing is done meanwhile to correct this law That is. famine, pestilence, war, will cut down the population for a few years. Then there will be a few more good years, and famine will step in again. War, Pestilence, Famine. “China is reacting to the second law of population growth—the law of selfregulatidn. That, in simple terms, is that war, pestilence and other calamities make only a little jiggle in the population curve, which then corrects Uncle Sam Runs Rivet' Ferry and Making Profit By W. H. PORTERFIELD. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Tally one moru for Uncle Sam. Before the war, a three-angled ferry system across the James River, connecting Norfolk, Portsmouth and Berkely, Va.. was run by a private corporation which leased it from the city of Portsmouth and county of Norfolk. The franchise and charter covering same dated back to Colonial days. The ferry system was Inadequate, somewhat antiquated and rather unprofitable. Came the war, with it the fortification of Fortress Monroe, the establishment of a great camp at Portsmouth, the development of vast war industries all through the Norfolk region. -The terry system broke down and the Government took it over, arid, through the United States Housing Corporation, expended $1,250,000 in perfecting it. The war closet! and Uncle Sam con tinued to run the ferry line. It scored a loss the first year. Then economies in operation were effected by President Watson of tht ho in.r : enmoration. Last year the -'-‘in profit of $116,000.

itself as though no disaster. “War and pestilence, therefore, ara no solution. The only other one suggested thus far is birth control. On that subject I am still doubtful. It's good remains to be felt. “The only alternative is this law of self-regulation by which overcrowding results misery and suffering. “I have come to believe that the fundamental cause of the last war was population pressure, just as it has been in the past and undoubtedly will be in the future. But that does not solve the problem.”

Public Opinion

A Plea For Jitneys To the Editor of The Times This is what the people of Indianapolis. especially those living on the W. Tenth St. car Upes, have to put up with. * Catch your car at 7:10 a. m., allowing plenty of time—that is forty minutes —to get tip town and ten minutes to get into the office. Well here we are on the W. Michigan St. car at 7:10 a. m. bound for town slowly but moving. We have got as far as the Belt Railroad when th slow jerky car comes to a stand still. After a ten-minute wait a great big interurban comes up in hack of us and gives us a lift over the railroad track and there we stop, naturally tying up about four W. Tenth and three W. Michigan cars. The only thing for us working people to do is walk across to the W. Washington St. car line, that Is if we want to get to work some time during the day. About three hundred people or marcome plugging across the boulevar about as fast as their legs can carry them. Eventually we are on a W. Washington car with hopes In ou hearts that we will get to town not more than fifteen minutes late. As the car approaches West and Wash ington St. we see "that the dead W, Michigan car has geeri pushed to this intersection and no cars can get by this place. Now for another stand still. After a good ten minute wait we are about to move on. and at. 8:25 a. in. we are at the corner of Illinois and Washington Sts. This isn't all. Last. Monday night a car jumped the t-aok at the Long Hospital at 4:30 p. m. and all working people who got home before 7 p. m. had to walk. Now Mias Indianapolis, why should we people have to pul up with this? Why not let the jttnevs run where the Street Oar Oomi>any can't give service? Why do we people have *to lose bonus, be docked or lose the confidence of our employers* just hecause we can’t give a man a nickel to bring us to town in his Ford? E. M. F7VANS, 2200 W. Michigan. Will water from an old mine containing sulphur and iron be liarmfiil to hogs? No; one the contrary it should prove beneficial, and while the amount of Iron would not be sufficient to prevent worms it would be helpful in this connection. ,

Congress Will Be Asked to Define ‘Child’ WASHINGTON,-Jan. 22.—What is a child? % At least two members of the Senate —Shortridge and Colt, of the Judiciary sub-committee—want to know. The Senators have been listening to Miss Grace Abbot, chief of* the Children’s Bureau, Mrs. Florence Kelley, general secretary of the National Consumers league, Owen R. Lovejoy, secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, and others who the sub-committee, have decided to offer an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting child labor. Discussion always came around to the question of what is a child. Colt and Shortridge, being a majority of the sub committee, has decided to offer an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting child labor. Then Congress will be asked to enact a law defining what is a child, just as, following the addition of the Eighteenth Amendment t-:- the Constitution, it had to pass the ’Volstead Act defining the term “intoxicating liquor.”

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By R. WALTON MOORE, U. S. Representative From Virginia, Fifth District.

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KT out the English as the only people who don't get American jokes! Once on a time, as most people will recall. Williaim J. Brj'an ran for President and his running niate was Henry Gamway Davis. At a dinner one of the guests remarked that if Bryan were elected the presidency and the

MOORE vice pres idency Miulii he all In the family, since Ur van was related to Davis through the la> er’s middle name. “H ow interesting!” said a lady who was distantly related to Mr. Bryan. '1 never knew before that there wa.4 any relation." On si subsequent occasion the same guest told the story with evident relish to Mr. Davis himself. Mr. Davis looked puzzled, then remarked: “Well. I never looked up my family tree; hut that's the first inift I've heard 1 was related to Bryan.”

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or possible four or five —and not go back any more. Then they go around to their friends and neighbors with this postscript to their pitiful story: “I went to one of them keer-o-prack-ticks, and when I got through I felt worse than when I began." So they go baclr to their old doctor or some other, or try anew kind of “patent medicine,” and go on complaining—because they “enjoy poor health.” Sensible folk with REAL sufferings who finally go to a Chiropractor STICK TO the Chiropractor until he REMOVES THE CAUSE, when they GET WELL.; then, with happiness and gratitude in their hearts they spread the good news among their friends and neighbors, with this message: “Go to the Chiropractor and GET WELL.” v, Afterward, if something gets wrong with them they go to the Chiropractor FIRST, instead of last, and in that way KEEP WELL. (RIGHTS RESERVED.) “Practitioners of Straight Chiropractic.” A New Message Here Every Monday.

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AVOID accidents. Edison invented the phonograph by accident. \ 9 * + Most of us are sorry we cussed last summer now. • • • If prices are not too high then we certainly are too low. * * ♦ The danger about following in father’s footsteps is you are liable to wind up in the cellar.

• • • One tiling fine about a crowded street car is it is warmer. • • Our favorite uplifter is the elevator boy. • • • The monkey gland business is so good what a pity we can’t put some in other businesses. • • • We would hate to live on the moon and have to stay out all night. • 9 • Evening dresses don’t go far because they haven’t much backing. •• • / More Overcoats and fewer watches are being worn this winter. 0 9 9 9 Girl basket-ball players make much better speed in stockings because stockings have the runs in them. • • • Corkscrew has not lost its pull. 9 9 9 Wealth is a burden—easily dropped. • • • Silence isn’t golden—it is platinum. 9 9 9 Uneasy lies the head that lies. 9 9 9 The price of eggs may come down. Those keepirig eggs in cold storage are getting cold feet.

World Must Stop Getting Better or Reform Bureau Will Expire

Rtt 'limes Special WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—The world may have to stop getting better and better so far as the international reform bureau is concerned. Trustees of this far-from-th-world's most-popular organization have j given it three months to demonstrate whether it can survive its founder. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts. It has. valuable property here, at the site where John Marshall held Su- j preme Court when the Capitol was destroyed by fire more than one hundred years ago. It has more than half of a S2OO,- j 000 fund for a building Dr. Crafts had planned to erect on this site. It has practically a world-wide organization.

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DEFINITION The practice of Chiropractlo Consists of the adjustment, with the hands, of the movable scgpieuts of the spinal - column to normal position for the purpose of removing l the cause of the disease.

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Some folks “enjoy poor health.” That’s a fact, they actually do ENJOY being iick. They like to boast about it. They insist on telling it to anybody and everybody who will listen to their lamentations. They enjoy telling how many doctors they have consulted, what they said to every doctor, what every doctor said to them, and how every doctor they ever talked with said “he never saw a case like mine!” They are sure to say, “none of the doctor’s medicines ever did me one bit of good.” They will also name over the "patent medicines” they’ve tried and add with grave solemnity that “not one' of them ever helped me a little bit.” Some of these “chronic complainers” go to, a Chiropractor, who patiently listens to them and honestly tries t@ help them —for hypochondria is a real disease, and it can be “cured” if the CAUSE is removed. But “chronic complainera” of this type usually find a way to beat the Chiropractor, too. They may take an adjustment or two, or perhaps three.

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It has a record of 1,500 reforms in twenty-seven years, including eighteen bills which have stood the test of the courts. One, by the way, was war prohibition. But with all this, trustees wonder, can it survive Dr. Crafts?

. A Correction An error was made in last week’s chiropractic ad. The name of one of the chiropractors wasTomitted— Carl Johnson. 630 N. Meridian St. Correction has been made in ad of today.

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