Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1923 — Page 4

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WHEN "Y" "T"IS 110th birthday will be celebrated April YOU’RE I — l 12 by Joseph Allen Russell, at his home in OLD JL Lampasas, Tex. It must bewilder him as he thinks back and contemplates the changes he has lived through. In 1813, the year of Russell’s birth, America was rather a dull place to live, excepting for exciting war news. The war with Great Britain continued, though rather sporadically. Perry won his naval victory on Lake Erie. Meantime, the British blockade was drawn tighter. No transportation of goods for export was permitted, except by special presidential permit. Creek Indians were on the warpath in the South. The national government’s expenses during the year totaled $39,190,520. This figure, considered terrific in those days, created much opposition to continuance of the war with Britain. It was a big event for the people of 1913 when they got, sandwiched between their war news, the announcement that the first ferry boat had begun making trips between Brooklyn and New York. The public in 1913 objected strenuously to a special war tax of $2 to S2O apiece on carriages, which reminds you of modern auto taxes. Maybe, after all, there were lots of interesting events in 1813 that weren’t recorded because there were so few newspapers. Even Boston had no daily paper until 1813. Yes, Joe Rnssell has lived through tremendous changes. He saw a backwoods America develop into the richest and most powerful nation in all history. It makes you wonder whether you also will not see equally great changes if you should live to 110. Life seems startling, magical, today. And yet our marvels of 1923 will be antiquated before the century is up, and will be laughed at as old-fashioned by the people of the year 2,000. WEARING ¥ Y R OPOSAL to require by law that all SAFETY \ Pedestrians Indiana’s country roads carry rTrtrpo -X. lanteriu after dark, strikes some folks a LUitl Is ... . . , ridiculous. One man was heard to rernai 1 that he had lived sixty years without making a lightening hug oni of himself and he’d “he doggoned if he ever did for the benefit of any automobile drivers.” Such objections as do arise to the proposed enactment an largely due to the fact that never in the past have rural been obliged to light themselves up to keep from being run down. It is equally true that only w thin recent years have the highways been filled with glaringly lighted vehicles moving at train speed. No one could intelligently object to this safety measure who ever lias ridden in a i*ar after night and noticed how difficult or impossible it is for a driver to see persons walking along the side of the road. The proposed law would undoubtedly save hundreds from injury or death on the highways of the State each year. WHY NOT T~V ANT a tree and get free honorary memberP! S'*"'- ship in American Tree Association, ft hopes A TREE? to induce a million of us to set out at least ..v .a* this year. Let’s make it two millions, or more. You appreciate the forestry problem if you recently have had to buy any lumber. Lumber is vanishing, along with the forests. Our national lumber production now is less than 27 billion board-feet a year, compared with 46 billion in 1906, though our woodsmen are attacking the forests more vigorously than then. Like liquor—the cask is getting emptier. WORK A MERIT ANS increased their bank savings deFOR /\ posits 1,500 million dollars in 1922. It’s a AGENTS jL JL big figure, but it doesn't mean much, since it represents only sl4 for each of us. Not much io r a rainy day. Still, we’re showing increasing concern for our families. Americans last year took out 6.363 million dollars of now life insurance, compared with 5,687 millions the year before. The newlife insurance written in 1922, however, was only $260 for the average family. This should interest insurance salesmen who fear that their field is worked to death. ‘Playing Dead’ May Be Instinct With Opossums, An Inherited Trait

QUESTIONS ANSWERED Ton can ?et an answer to any craestlon of fact or information by writing' to the Indlanapo!i Times' Washington Bureau. 13-2 New York Ave_ Wasbington, D. C, enc’ositic 2 cert3 in sfJimps Medical, legal and 'ore and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, bet all letters art confidential, and receive personal replies. Although the bureau does not tequire 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 desirtd. Why do opossums “play dead” —that is, of what service is the ruse? Would any animal that likes opossum flesh care whether the creature is dead or pretending to be dead? No one knows exactly. One suggestion Is that "playing ‘possum’’ Is an Instinct that arose in the geological middle ages in relation to the dullwitted big reptiles—as a rule land reptiles do not feed on carrion—and that is persists nowadays as an anachronism In circumstances where It is oftener fatal than protective.

Who was Harriet Hosmer? An American sculptor, born in Watertown, Mass., 1830, died 1908. Among her works were "Beatrice Cenci,” in the public library of St. Louis; "Puck," of which a copy was ordered by the then Prince of Wales; a bronze statue of Thomas IL Benton, in Lafayette Park, St. Louis. A fountain which she designed is in Central Park, New York City. Her heroic statue of Queen Isabella of Castile was unveiled In San Francisco in 1894. Who wrote: "Were half the power that tills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Liven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenal* and fort9.’* Longfellow In “The Arsenal of Springfield.” Who was Gregor Mendel? He was the son of a well-to-do peasant In Silesia, became a priest in 1847, studied physics and natural science at Vienna from 1851 to 1853. and eventually became Abbot of Brun. In the garden of the monastery he made experiments with peas, hawkweeds and

bees, and published in 1565 what must be regarded as one of the greatest of biological discoveries, the Mendelian laws of heredity. It was practically lost sight of until 1900. He may he called one of the founders of the scientific study of heredity. Information on "Mendel's law” may be found in any standard encyclopedia. What are Monotremes? Egg-laying mammals, such as the Duckmole, or Duck-billed Platypus. How many cubic fee* are there tn a ton of egg coal? In a (on of chestnut coai? There are 53.5 cubic feet to 78 cubic feet In a ton of egg coal and from 53 cubic feet to 56.5 cubic feet tn a ton of chestnut coal. UNDERWORLD CHIEFS TELL OF ‘PROTECTION’ Vice Investigators Asked “Graft Money,” Resort Keepers Testify. Bv United Pregg CHICAGO. Jan. 25.—Underworld chiefs gathered their forces today to prove that investigators for the "committee of fifteen,” anti-vice organization, accepted graft from keepers of disorderly resorts. Edith Ivey, alleged manager of a resort, named George Saddock as one of the investigators. “He told me he must have $75 a month or he would get the committee of fifteen after me," the Ivey woman charged. "I told him I already paid the police and couldn't give him anything.

MEN’S CLUB REORGANIZES East Tenth Street Association to Widen Sphere. The East Tenth Street Commercial Association, composed of business men of the area lying west of Emerson Ave.. north of Michigan St., south of Brookside Park and east of the Belt Railroad, will meet Monday night at engine house No. 28 for reorganization. Anew name will be considered. The territory of the organization will be widened. William F. Woerner is chairman of the nominating committee.

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England Has Solved Rail Problem By Amalgamation of Its Larger Systems

By MILTON BRONNER XEA Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 25.—Railroads of England, Wales and Scotland have Just been amalgamated under the new- railroad law into four great systems. Eighteen large and many small railroads are included The transfer and amalgamation took place Jan. 1. The entire work will be completed by July. All Britain is lauding the new law, claimed to be the most enlightened, progressive and fair railroad bill ever passed by a modern state. Unlike the Esch-Gummins bill In the States, the British bill has drawn commendation from railroad owners, employes and users alike. The bill was the direct outcome of Englind's experience during the war when the government took over the roads. It also aimed to compromise between owners who wanted complete control of their property and radicals who wanted the roads nationalized. Eliminates Wasteful Competition As passed by Parliament the bill was designed to eliminate wnsteful competition—cost of which had to be paid by the consumer —and to give control so as to provide for economy, good service and cheapness. High spot provisions of the bill: RATES —To regulate both passenger and freight rates there is a rates tribunal composed of a lawyer chairman, an expert representing the railways, and an expert representing the business men. The main function is from time to time to fix the standard charges. The standard revenue for each railway group is to be taken as the sum of its actual net evenues for 1913. The standard charges are to be ixed so as to enable each group railvay to earn this standard revenue, plus five per cent on capital that tnay have been expended since 1913. But receipt of this net revenue depends upon the efficiency and sendee given. If earnings exceed the standard revenue, one-fifth of the excess is to go to the companies and fourfifths back to the public, either in ’•educed charges or improved facilities. LABOR RELATION'S —Each rail way is to have one or'more councils consisting of company and employe representatives. Under this arrange meiit one railway council and not more than five pectional rsilway counclls, with local departmental committees for the dlscusston of local matters have been set up for each railway group. They consider matters of rates of pay, hours of duty and conditions of service and kindred subjects. WAGES—Two tribunals are set up. First the Central Wages Board with appeai available to the National Wagee Board. The Central Wages Board Is made up of eight representatives of the companies and eight

Transmutations By BURTON BRAT.KY Till', threnodies are thre. the monads, four: While ri'-rn aoross the spaces comes the tone Os soundless harmonies tbst sob and moan. Beating: acainst our hearts with “Keren—ore l" Pallid and black the froten breaker* roar Upon the yielding surface of the stone. While far across the daerrt wastes unknown Loom* the dim horror of a mewless ah ore. Hold hard my hands: lean dose and far away. Bleak are your eves as gardens of the slain. Wherein the dust of BaHylun has lain, Waitlnt the dawninr of a byrone day. Even as these we sundr-ed spirits may Sweep down upon the mountains from the plain. Heedless of all we seek or can attain Th crush mythic veils that droop In sodden jray Ah. blind, grim sods of mystery and doubt. upon us with dull eyes aslant. Can you explain what this is all about ? Go to It, then for foodnesa knows I can't! ( Copyright. 1 923. NEA Service)

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F. J. C. POLE (ABOVE) MAN ACER OF THE NEW GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY OF THE BRITISH SYSTEM AND R. L. WEDGE WOOD, GENERAL MAN AGER OF THE NEW LONDON AND N< >RTI IEA STERN RAII WAY. employes, four being named by the National Union of Railwayman, two by the Society of Engineers and Firemen and two by the Railway Clerks Association. The National Wages Board is made up of six representatives of the railway companies; six representatives of th employes (two from each of the unions above mentioned) and four from the users of the railways. Ono each of these la named by the Barllamenary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, by the Cooperative Union, by the Association

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How British Railroads Have Been Amalgamated Under the new railroad law British railroads have been amalgamated into these four companies: SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Serving southern and western England. Have practical monopoly on channel resorts and continental boat trains. Mileage, 2.200: equipment. 2,270 locomotives. 10, 604 passenger coaches and 38.43” freight cars. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Serves west and middle England. Including such cities as Birmingham. Plymouth. Liverpool. etc. LONDON, MIDLAND & SCOTTISH RAILWAY. Serves thirty two of the forty counties of Eng land. Artery from coal fields Owns thirty-four hotels and ship lines to northern Europe. LONDON A NORTHEAST KRN RAILWAY. Serves east ern England and Scotland. Monopoly on textile cities and on great port cities of Tyne, Wear and T'-es. Mileage. 7.00(1; equipment. 7.500 locomotives. 21,000 coaches and 300,000 freight cars.

Senator Jim Watson Has Most Persuasive Way A bon tHi m

By HARRY HUNT NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. SENA TOR JIM- WATSON of Indi ana has a most persuasive wa\ about him and. as one of the Senate ‘'leaders,” usually may be counted on to bring home the bacon when In goes after information from depart

menls under the present Admtnts ira; lon. During the re. rent period of speculation ns to whet America was or was not. doing (n Europe, however. Jim had hard luck. An interview v.-ith a high diplo tnatic official which Jim and his col leagues had counted on to enlighten

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them as to just what was what produced nothing of tangible value. Jim himself had been forced to do all the talking. The dip lomat, being a real diplomat, had simply listened. “What luck? IVhat'd you find out?" Senators "In the know" Inquired of Watson after he returned from thState Department. > "Nothing!" Jim answered in disgust. "It was Just like talking down a rain barrel. All I got back was the sound of my own voice.” GAME WARDEN IS BUSY Conservation Department Wins 1.600 Convictions In War. More than- 1,700 arrests for viola tlons of game laws. 1.600 of which re suitnd In convictions, were made last year through the game warden service of the department of conservation, a report, issued today, shows. In four fish butcheries, the report shown, 1,123,G19 black bass and a grand total of 2,837,233 fry and fingerllng fish were propagated for the streams of the State.

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BY EDWARD T. TAYLOR U. S. Representative From Colorado, Fourth District.

HERE isn't anything essentially funny in spending seven months in any Army hospital with death from heart disease just around the corner every minute. Such was my experience. But there Is a grim sort of humor among the patients and attendants in such a hospital.

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When I first was brought in I overheard one of the other new patients ask the orderly: “What’s this ‘M. D. U. S. A.’ that’s printed or painted on all the supplies around here mean?” “Oh, that means, ‘Many die. you shall also,' " the orderly laughed. New Sleeves. Paris is malting sleeves with two openings for the hand to slip through one opening makes a long sleeve, the other an elbow length. It is arranged by means of slits, which are surprisingly decorative.

C COLONEL GEORGE HARVEY, Jon r n a list politician-diplomat, who has been a house-guest at the White House during his stay In Washington, Is a stickler for the proprieties. Not once during his Washington

sojourn did the colonel forget that, as United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, he most move sedately, speak sonorously and observe always the duties and dignities of his high position. W h e r e f o re. whenever Har vey wished to

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confer with Secretary of State Hughes, he did not simply put on his hat and stroll across the narrowstreet that separates the White House from the State Department. Instead, the White House PierceArrow was summoned. Into it stepped the dignified diplomat, tophatted. frock-coated, horn-spectacled, ■aw t ILLI AM GIT IBS Me ADOO saved hotel bills on his recent ” visit to Washington by par taking of board and bed at the home of Ins father-in-law. Woodrow Wilson.

the former l'residenL This in the face of Herman Kohleaat's story in the previous week’s Saturday Evening Post that McAdoo had quit Wilson’s cabinet back in D? ceniber. 1918. after a bl*ter, irreconcilable quarrel. Democrats, with an eye on the pos slbilitlos of 1924. would give a pretty penny to have bad a dictaphone

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in the Wilson home during the McAdoo stay.

Hurry folks! This "Hurricane Finish” Is going like wildfire. Come In now while there are still some of these wonderful values to select from. They will be found all over the house, and it means actual dollars and cents to you. IT’S EASY TO PAY THE PF.OPLE'S WAY—VALUES WILL GET YOU!

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THOSE who want to see another war will not demand front seats. I r Writers once lived in attics. j Now they live in cellars. • ♦ * Hunt the bright side. Longer winter lasts the longer it will be before j spring cleaning. * * * They plan to build a $20,000,000 hotel in New York, but we can’t say if this is the cost or rate.

of us read the spring styles to see how much out of style we will be next spring. * * * There is so much war news in the paper we dreamed we were sleeping in a French box car. St. Louis woman shot her husband because he wouldn’t work. Don’t let your wife see this. When a young member of the super-sex says she likes your close shave give up or go home. * ♦ • If some people only scratched their heads while thinking their heads would never get scratched.

A Farmer’s Personal Credit Feeler

By HERBERT QUICK The United States Senate has passed the Capper hill for giving a different system of persona! credit to farmers from that which our ordinary hanks give them. This matter of a better rural personal credit system has been under discussion for many years. It was handled long before we had the Federal farm loan act by a commission which studied the matter here and In Europe, It was even then admitted by all competent people who knew the facts that we needed two new systems of rural credit; first, a better land-mort-gage system; second, a better personal credit system. The first was supplied by the Federal farm loan system which, since its establishment, has scored what 1 pronounce the greatest financial success ever attained in the same length of time. The second Is still to be realized. The Capper bill. If It passes the House. Hill be a gesture in the direction of a solution, and still pending in Senate and House is the Lenroot-Anderson bill, which proposes to do the same thing in a different manner. At a time when great issues are before the world, to this country in which agri culture Is suffering beyond description, there are no more important matters before Congress than these two bills. But, first, it must be admitted that th n re are many who wonder why any special law for personal credit to agri-

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PLENTY of MONEY “Ks L E N D ON HIGH-CLASS DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS REAL ESTATE. LONG TIME AND LIBERAL RATES. COME IN AND TALK IT OVER. FARMERS TRUST GO. 150 East Mai*ket) St.

Dining Chairs $1.89 Each Hera is a wonderful value In a solid oak dining chair, finished In golden, strong, well braced and graceful. Just like illustration. If yon decide that you want a set of 6 they will cost you Friday only $11.19 the set

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culture should be passed. Those know do not ask this. Those wtß don’t know sometimes ask why in the name of Heaven the banking system, which is good enough for the cities and towns, isn’t good enough for the farmers. For the same reason that your shoes are not good enough for your neighbor, though they may fit perfectly. Our banking system has been built to fit the needs of merchant, manufacturer, and other dwellers in city and country. It does not fit the farmer. City transactions calling for personal credit run from thirty to ninety days, and the whole banking system is founded on thirty, sixty and ninety-day aredits. Such short-time credits do not. serve the farmers' needs. His transactions run few of them less than six months and many of them two and three years. If a farmer’s note matures while he is half way through one of these periods, thb loan may be, and especially in hard times often is, called, and he lose=. He cannot go out and plan his future without longer time personal credit. Every county with a well-planned scheme of credits for agriculture has been forced to recognize this. We are late in coming to it, and both in city and country, we suffer by our tardiness. In the Capper and the Lenroot hills we are promised a remedy. In my next article I shall compare these bills.