Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1923 — Page 4
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‘SEEING’ a STARTLING ghost story is creating a sensa BLACK /\ tion in England. Lord St. Audries claims he GHOSTS XX saw the ghost. English scientists are taking his claim seriously, for he is a man of high standing, llis father was “chief whip” of the Conservative party, also vice chamberlain to Queen Victoria and King Edward. Lord St. Audries encountered his “black ghost” in the traditional theatrical atmosphere. He didn’t believe in ghosts. But he was curious. So, on a week-end visit, he and his hosts decided to investigate a near-by haunted house. This haunted house was a deserted dwelling, crumbling to decay, littered with fallen plaster and other rubbish. The ghost’s headquarters were supposed to be in a secondfloor bathroom where, some fifty years ago, an insane doctor had committed an atrocious murder and later committed suicide. Br-r-r-r! Lord St. Audries mounted guard in the upstairs hall in sight of the bathroom door. He had a candle for light. His friends remained outside. (Most of us would.) Here is Lord St. Audries’ report of what happened: "Out of the door, down the dark passage, something rushed like an immense bat towards me. It was black from head to foot and it seemed to be built in the form of a very powerful man. But two things made me know that it was no human being. First I could see no face, just a hideous blank. Secondly, though it came with huge leaps over the rough, rickety floor, it made absolutely no noise. “But when this thing dashed out I was struck backwards with an irresistible force. * * * j found myself fighting, struggling with I know not what, down the steep stairs.” Having escaped, Lord St. Audries Icarus that no dog can be coaxed into the garden around the haunted house. This is the most significant part of his story. Neurologists, specializing in psychic phenomena, would claim that what Lord Audries saw was a creation of his mind—an hallucination while in a highly-strung psycho-imaginative condition. Authorities like Hudson admit that so-called ghosts arc actually “seen.” But they do not admit that seing them necessarily I proves the existence and presence of departed spirits. Hallucina- i tions in dreams seem very real. Many others firmly believe in ghosts. You can get just so far with psychic phenomena, then reach a point where you have nothing to stand on except faith. EXPORTS ■y T may make you scowl to learn that merclianAND I dise exports from our country last year : PRICES X slumped to less than 3.832 million dollars, - compared with 8,228 millions in the record year, 1920. However, exports in 1913 totaled only 2,484 millions. So 1922, compared with 1913, showed an increase of 54 per cent. That just about matches the average increase of wholesale prices j since before the war. It again calls attention to the fact that fluctuations in out foreign trade have been chiefly due to price ; movements. It’s a money hoax. FACING trees are being cut down for every one TREELESS grown in New York State. This warning FUTURE .A. comes from Alexander Macdonald, who devotes his time working for conservation of forests. * In 1850 New York ranked first in lumber production. Now it is twenty-third in line. Western lumber States will have much the same story to report, not many years from now, unless more trees are planted. A treeless America is quite as possible as the extinction of •the buffalo and passenger pigeon. Kill off the bulk of the forests and insects soon will destroy the few trees left for ornament and shade. FOOLING 'T'OW, as a * wa^S) here's talk of revising the WITH calendar. Many plans are suggested. The CALENDAR X. i favorite is for a year of thirteen months. A bill is before Congress for an international conference on calendar revision. fan you imagine the confusion we’d have for at least ten years if anew calendar were installed? Some folks still are writ lug 1922 instead of “1923.’ Our present calendar has become a habit, a brain rut, that would he next to impossible to forget. One reason our big problems remain unsolved is because wc arc forever wasting time snooping around petty things—like the calendar, which, while not altogether satisfactory, is the most perfect thing we have, next to mathematics.
Slaves Were Brought to U. S. From Every Part of Africa
QI ESTIONS ANSWERED Tou can set an answer to any question of fact or inforraaten by writmsr to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1 322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 rents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot be riven. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters arc 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 letter if answers on various subjects are desired. EDITOR. From what part of Africa were the slaves brought to the United States? They appear to have been brought from almost every part of the continent of Africa. A study of the languages of these slaves proves this. They came from the West Coast, the Upper Niger, the Sahara Desert, Senegal, the Lake Chad Region, Southwest Africa, the Zambezi Delta, and the Southwestern Coast; thus they were from nearly all the African tribes. How is glass colored? Glass is colored by adding certain substances during the process of
Good Manners
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In the city, formal calls are made between 4 and 6 in the aft ’moon; in the country, between 10:30 a. m. and 1 p. m., as well. Men may make formal calls, either in the city or country, between Sand 9:30 p. m. Women rarely call in the evening, except informally upon close acquaintances, unless they are in business during the day.
. manufacture which will produce the ! I desired color effect; for instance, am- j j her tints may be produced by adding j sulphur, blue by adding cobalt, purple :by adding manganese dioxide, and ; green by adding iron. | What are the “coast to coast’’ automobile records in the United States? | Coast to coast automobile records were made in 1918. In order of their occurrence they were: Robert Hammond in an Empire car drove from San Francisco to New York, 3.384 miles, in 6 days, 10 hours, 59 minutes. May 16-23, 19i6. W. F. [ Sturm, driving a Hudson Super-Six, ! | made the distance in 5 days, 3 hours, ! j 31 minutes and the return trip in 5 : days, 17 hours, 32 minutes, making | the round trip in 10 days, 21 hours, 3 | minutes. The distance traveled was j 6.592 miles. What nourishing foods grow underground? | Potatoes, carrots, beets and turj nips, for example. For what is the pomegranate used? Where is it cultivated in the United States, and how is it propagated? 1 The pulp is often used for_the prepI aration of cooling drinks. The finest Morocco leather is said to be tanned with the rind of the fruit. In the United States the cultivation of the pomegranate is confined to the south- j ern part of Florida and the warmer j j parts of California and Texas, since the tree is tender, being injured by. a i temperature of 8 degrees to 10 degrees . j below freezing. In some portions of ! 1 the South the plant is used for hedges, ■in which form it grows through' a much wider latitude. It is propagated jby cuttings of both green and ripewood, by layers, and by grafting. Who first introduced chloroform as an anesthetic? Sir James Young Simpson, in 1847. 1 1 ITe was professor of midwifery in j the University of Edinburgh.
The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in Chief. F. R. PETERS. Editor. ROY W. HOWARD, President. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Manager.
Coue Says Times Comics Will Make You Get Better and Better
EMILE COUE AND THE TIMES FUNNY FAMILY
By HAL COCHRAN NEA Staff Writer CLEVELAND, Jan. 24.—" Every day and in every way you will get better and better’’—if you read the Indianapolis Times comics! You’re right! This comes from Emile Coue himself—Coue, the little French pharmacist from Nancy, who gained fame over night through his selfhelp doctrine. This champion Os autosuggestion nr.d the brighter side of life was PUBLIC HEARING PLANNED Two Amendments to City Zoning Ordinance Proposed. A joint public hearing on proposed j amendments to the city zoning ordi nance will be held by the city council and city plan commission at a date to be set later. The amendments are for changing the district at the southwest, comer of Belmont Ave. and Washington Sr from light industrial to residential and for changing the classification of Central Ave. btween Thirty-Eighth to Forty First Sts. to permit the construction of double houses. v
New Books
Technical and scientific books out number fiction fourteen to two in this week's list of hooks at the Central Library. The titles cover everything | from airplanes and radio to cakebaking and dog keeping, so almost any j one will be able to find one to suit his 1 taste. They are as follows: "Elements of Radio-Telephony." by W. C. Ballard; "The Airplane,” by Frederick Bedell; “Radio-Telephony for Everyone." by L. M. Cickaday. Modern Building Superintendence ; and the Writing of Specifications." by D. B. Emerson; "Primer of Cooking." by D. M. Hamilton; “F’ractical Dog Keeping," by A. F. Hochwalt; ‘The New Dietetics," by J. H. Kellogg; "Tur key Raising,” by H M. Larnon; "The Everyday Cake Book,” by Mrs. Ger : t.rude Paul: "Tuberculosis and How to Combat It.” by F. M. Pottenger: “Shade and Ornamental Trees of California,” by XL B. Pratt; “Ozone.” by E. K. Rldeal; “Railroad Shop Practice,” by F. A, Stanley; “The Book of i Radio,” by C. TV. Taussig. New books of fiction include: ‘Tom- : mand,” by William McFee: “Tales of C’hir.atown,” by A. S. Ward; “The ! Judge,” by Rebecca West. Ts you are interested In what paid 1 the. church may play in the new problems of today you may find value in the group on religion and sociology: “New Tasks for Old Churches.” by R. TV. Babson; “Use of Art in Religious Education,” by A. E. Bailey, “The Coming of Coal,” by R. W. Bruere; “Foreigners or Friends,” by Thomas Burgess; "Christianity and of Today,” “What Prohibition Has Done for America,” by Fabian Franklih; “Man and the Cosmos,” by J. A. Leighton; “The Unfoldment,” by TV. W. Walter. New books of art and music include: “How* to Make Paper Costumes,” Dennison Manufacturing Company: “How to Make Crepe Paper Flowers,” by Dennison Manufacturing Compariy; “Sealing Wax Art, 1 ' Dennison Manufacturing Company; “Weaving With Rope.” Dennison Manufacturing Company: “Spanish Folk Songs,” composed by Salvador de Madariaga. Books of history, biography and travel are “Party Rattles of the Jackson Period,” by C. G. Bowers; “From Printer to President,” by S. A. Guneo; “James TV. Bashford, Pastor, Educator, Bishop.” by O. R. Grose; “What I Saw in America,” by G. K. Chesterton; "Tramping on Life,” by 11. H. Kemp: "The Story of a Varied Life,” by VV. S. Rainsford. On essay and literature arc: “Frightful Plays.” by C. S. Brooks; “The Critical Game,” by J. A. Macy. At the business branch are: "How to Sell Quality,” by J. C. Aspley: "The Economics of Petroleum,” by J. E. Pogue; “Railway Accounting Procedure,” Railway Accounting Officers’ Association. New' books at the Teacher Special Library include: “Suggestions for the Teaching of Science in Texas High Schools,” by Gordon Damon; “Teach ers’ Manual, Story Hour Reading," by E. C. Hartwell; “The Reading Process,” by W. A. Smith.
shown a copy of the NEA Service sheet of comics during his recent visit in Cleveland. These comics arc #sed in the Indianapolis Times. "Is there anything in ‘comicsuggestion’ in connection with the spirit of smiling?” he was asked. “Ah! The comic pictures! I like them very much!” And Coue spread his own gift of a smile a hit broader, and continued: "It is much better to smile than to cry! Smiling makes you happy. Frowning makes you sad “Whatever there is that makes people happy—that makes them smile—is a good thing And comics come under that head! “Smiling is akin to the bright side of life, and it’s the bright side and the right side that make you feel better and better.’’
Bring Me His Ears Pr BERTON RR.VLEY ■ Title taken from a envoi of the vi It Corcn-e Mull rTVfOCGH t *in very <-alm aid ewret ruul kind. J_ And very much inclined to peace There are some guys t have tu mind Whom I would will a yulck decease; The bird who drives a motor car And at all regulation* jeers— Is one I’d like to maim and mar. “Bring me hla cars” The iceotent "box-office clerk. The room clerk at a an art hotel. Will someone kindly take a dirk And slice his cars and nose a* well’ Th ticket speculator, too. Please catch him when he next appeals. And when your butchery is through. “Bring me hi* cars.” The dancing man with varnished hair. The traffic cop who's always gruff, The masher with hie smirking stare. The snob who pulls his upstage stuff. The parlor “red.” the critic bland. Who greet* America with leers, (in get him. kid. stay not your hand, ' Bring me his ears " •Copyright. 1P23, NEA Service I
rp np The First Union Depot HISTORICAL HERtTBS Mo. q ' Union Depot The first Union Depot built in the United Stales was erected In Indianapolis In 1853. It was a building 420 feet long and 120 feet wide and stood on one corner of the site -of the present Union Station. In those days there were but about ten trains leaving here daily compared to the 180 trains which now depart \very twenty-four hours. Comparable to the growth of this city as a railroad center is the growth of Fletcher’s Bank. Founded in 1 839 with a capital of $3,000 it has grown into one of the strongest, most respected banking instltu- $ tions in the country—The Fletcher American National Bank. . ; Fletcher American National Bank j Capita! and Parplua, 91t.flOP.OOP
35 PUPILS HONORED AT VONNEGUT SCHOOL Charles E. Rush Presents Diplomas to 8A Class. Thirty-five pupils in the 8A grade of the Clemens Vonnegut school were to be graduated at 1:30 p. m. today with exorcises at the school building. Charles E. Rush, city librarian, was to make the principal address and present the diplomas. The graduates, are: Irene Arbuckle, Harriett Brossart. Mary Belle Blake, Maude Burrill, Marcella. Dee, Esther Greenberg, Gertrude Hutton, Sylvia Huckriede, Opal Lane, Marion Lunsford, Charlibelle Magee, Audeline Marlow, Dorothy Nesbit. Margaret Phillips, Mattie. Russell, Cleora Turner, Mary L. Owens, Lawrence Altom, George Akard, Paul Barr, Artie Bishop, Nelson Bishop, John Black, Gerald Burns, George i Cook, Russell Collier, Ralph Garey, Robert Helenburg, Manuel Levin, Harold Peters, David Smock, George Stiles, (’buries Hider, Meredith Arbuckle and Theodore Bronston.
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By T. A LAN GOLDSBOROUGH U. S. Representative From Maryland. First District"*
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F the many good stories one hears, perhaps my favote is this: The archbishop had preached a fine sermon on the beauties of married life. Two old Irish wdtnen were heard commenting on the address after church. “ Tis a fine
GOLDSBOROUGH sermon his .river enee would be afther givin’ us op marriage, ■ said Bridget. “It is Indade.” replied Maggie, “and 1 wisht r knew as little about the sub ject as he does." *
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"^yTelliver •f V Made Study yf Conservation Problems
JUDSON C. WELLIVER Bu NEA Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. —Persons interested in the conservation of our natural resources have asked President Harding to appoint Judson C. Welliver, former newspaperman, now chief clerk of the White House, to succeed Albert B. Fall as Secretary of Interior. Welliver’s conservationist views hark hack to the days of Theodore Roosevelt, when he made an exhaustive study of conservation needs. lie was horn at Aledo, 111.. Aug. 13, 187 c, and made his early rise to fame as a resporter and editor on Sioux City and Des Moines, la., newspapers. He soon took to politics and between 1900 and 1905 was active in the movement to reorganize the Republican party in lowa. I* 1905 Welliver became political editor of a Washington newspaper and represented a string of other newspapers. Roosevelt chose him in 1907 to study conservation resources and poli- < -‘es in the United States and Europe. With this information and background. he has been of great help to the Harding Administration. It was Welliver who “sold” Harding to the- American people, through publicity, during tiie 1920 campaign. He continued doing so after election, until lie became chief clerk. LIQUOR IS CONFISCATED Harry Clemmons, 27, of 833 N. Emerson Ave., was under arrest today on a charge of operating a blind ilger. The police say they found a fifty-gallon whisky still in operation at tiie Emerson Ave. address. Eight trillions of whisky. 400 gallon of mash, 100 pounds of sugar and several empty jugs and bottles were brought to police headquarters as evidence.
QUALITY GOES CLEAR THROUGH 1 I iPij E JU|F From every quarter comes praise for the new Dort Six. People say they have never seen so many real advantages combined in a car so low in price. In many respects its forty* five horsepower motor is years ahead of or* dinary design—every working part bathed in oil Under all conditions. Come in and see this demonstrated. The Dort Four, its desirable companion, now represents greater value than before, due to conspicuous improvements and reduction in price* / ItFIE it "ii* jj. (Spare Tire Extra) Dort Four-Cylinder Cars, $865 to $ 1370; at Flint Dort Six-Cylinder Cars, $990 to $1495? at Flint t —— * — > Dealers and Penn. St. <1489)
TOM SIMS SAYS:
DO your income tax worrying early and avoid the rush. There are no farmers around a country club and no cattle at a stock exchange. * * * When a girl straightens a bachelor's tie it makes him feel as if his married friends may have had a little sense. • * * If you are worried, just think of the money you save this season by strawberries being out of season.
* ♦ # Health hint : Never jump off a tall building without a parachute, or drive a car without a 1923 license. j . The man who wears noisy clothes usually looks just like the man who would wear noisy clothes. * • * It would help this country some if as many checker games are sold in 1923 as dice were sold in 1922. ft + • Newspapers have their bad sides. Many a man hides behind one on a street ear to keep from giving his seat to a lady. • * • A German coin was called the heller, wasting a perfectly good “er.” and Speaking of optimists, a great many girls know it is less than™ a year until leap year. • * • In Kansas City, a flivver was made into a flying machine, but this frequently happens on rough roads. The hard thing about amounting to something is there are so many ways not to do it and so few ways to do it, ♦ • n No matter how small the home town station, it is a better place to get off a train than to catch a train.
League or Government Ownership Is Question With Democrats
BY FRANK J. TAYLOR WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Govern-1 ment ownership of railroads or League of Nations —-which is uppermost in the public mind? A lot. of good Democrats hereabouts would like to know. They are f; ced with the problems of deciding whether or not either or both of the foregoing propositions would make campaign capital for 1924. Democratic leaders in Congress have been avoiding comment upon campaign issues, preferring to “wait ! for the Republicans to make more ; mistakes.” Now two prominent Democrats have come out of the backwoods and are threatening to take leadership of the party away from the Democratic chiefs of the Senate and the House. William G. McAdoo. former secre-
tary of the treasury and director general of railroads, has just passed through Washington, sounding out sentiment of influential Democrats on I üblic ownership of railroads. Tiie other outsider —to the Congressional Democrats, at least —is James M. Cox. former governor of Ohio, and Democratic nominee in the tace against President Harding. Cox’s declarations for the League of Nations have almost committed ij the minority party on that question. They have an eye on the “swing i toward Wilson ideals.” which Democrats herald from all over the country, and think" that the League as an issue would line up most of the voters who believe in participation in Euro i pean rehabilitation, leaving only the® i ut and out isolationists for the Republicans.