Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1923 — Page 4

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SCHOOL -w—'w ENDING before the Legislature is a bill so BOOK I J dangerous in its character that it threatens GREED JL 1° strike at the vitals of the greatest asset of the State, the common schools. It is a bill which threatens to tear down the educational system of the State. It is of such a nature that no person interested in the future of the commonwealth .should fail to register a protest against it. This bill. House hill No. 203, provides that city school boards and county school officials shall adopt textbooks for use in the common schools. It provides for no uniformity in textbooks as between school corporations. The city of Indianapolis would be permitted to use one set of books and the county outside of Indianapolis could use another. Neither probably would be the same set used in other counties. Such a practice-would demoralize the entire school system of the State. Children in one county would be learning from one set of books, while children in the adjoining county’ would learn from another. When they reached college or high school age there would be no uniformity’ of their knowledge and the schools would necessarily be completely demoralized. Under such a system public education would be almost impossible. There could be only one purpose in introducing such a measuse, that of permitting the schoolbook interests to profit at the expense of the education .of the children of the State. Such a purpose is nothing short of criminal. Contracts for schoolbooks are now made by the State board of education. The schoolbook trust would much prefer to deal with local school authorities, regardless of the fact that the people of Indiana will have to pay- many thousands of dollars more each year for schoolbooks than under the present system. The methods attempted to bring about adoption, even under the present system of State schoolbook adoption, have frequently resulted in scandals. llow many hundred times worse the situation would be if there were scores of textbook adoptions! The bill opens the way to corrupt practices micqualed in the history of the State. And all of it would be done to the detriment of the future citizens of Indiana. Strangely enough, this hill is meeting with some favor in the House. There are powerful influences at work. Do you want your children to suffer in order that a few greedy publishers may profit! Do you want your children to study their geography, their history, their reading from books selected by persons utterly’ unqualified to make such selections? If you do not want these things brought about, let your Senators and Representatives know in unmistakable terms what you think about it. Do it now. Tomorrow the damage may have been done. WHEN T\b you get scared when you have to speak belEAR I I fore an audience? Martha Miller spent GETSLS -1- eight months in African jungles, shot and killed a wild elephant and a lion that attacked her, and was bitten four times by the dreaded diseasebearing tsetse fly. She thought it all very thrilling, enjoyed it immensely. Then she returns to lecture about her experience—and gets stage-fright and faints during her first speech in Newark. N. •!., though there s nothing to be afraid of in the audience. Fear is a state of mind that we can control if we so will. Rarely due to perils. When we think we are timid of obstacles or problems, we generally are merely scared of ourselves—feariul of our ability to master the emergency. PROTECT ■ points made in the committee hearing> OLR I on the proposed child labor amendment seem CHILDREN to us worth noting: First. su<-h an amend ment is only giving to the country power which we thought we had to protect children. Jt does not inter!**re with State rights, because a sufficient number of States will have to ratify the measure before it becomes a part of the Constitution. Second, such control should comp from the Federal Govern • ment because State Legislatures are apt to be too close to manufacturing interests in their various States. As Mrs. Florence Kelley of the National Consumers* League pointed out, it is easy enough to get excellent child labor lawpassed in non-industrial States.

Some Deep Sea Explode If qt'ESTIONS ANSWERED Tnu can ccf an mute- to anj- question o' fact nr Information br nrilin.- to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 13*?C New York Are, Washington. P C . inclosirp C cents in stamps Medical, legal and lore and marriage advice cannot be given I'nstgred letter cannot be answered, but ail 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 letter if answers on various subjects are desired.—Editor Give Ihe name* of twelve great men born In February. The following are great men hem in February: Feb. T. 1812—Charles Dickens, author. Feb. 13, 1744—David Allan, a Scofch imintcr. Feb. 15, 1564—Galileo astronomer. Feb. 12. ISo9—Abraham Dincoln. Feb. 13, 1473—Copernicus, astronomer. Feb. 20, 1694—Voltaire, writer and statesman. Feb. 20. 1716—David Garrick, actor. Feb. 22, 1731—George Washington. Feb. 23, 1683—Handel, musician. Feb. 26. 1802 —Victor Hugo, author, famous book. “la?s Miserabies.” Feb. 27, 1807 —Longfellow, poet. Feb. 28, 1533 —Montaigne, French author. Who are senators from Ohio and how many representatives from that state? The senators are Atlee Pomerene and Frank B. Willis and there are iwenty-two representatives from that •State. Who Is the president of France? Alexandre Millerand. Would deep sea fish die when exposed to the air? It is said that some deep sea fish would literally explode when exposed to the air. What is the meaning of the word “infiltration” in disease? The pathological meaning of the word, "Infiltration" is: “A diffusion

Fish Would Exposed to Air (spreading! of morbid matter (disease matter) throughout a tissue from sources outside.” Where ran I obtain weather maps? Ton can get weather maps for your State upon request to the United •States Weather Bureau branch sit the ; capital of your State. What can h“ mixed with plaster of paris to prevent it from drying out so quickly; that is, so one | could work on it from five to ten Honrs before it sets? Plaster of paii* can be retarded by dissolving carpenter's glue in the mixing water. To retard it so that 1 it will not set within five hours will i require about 2 per cent of glue, the | percentage being based on the weight of the plaster. Resolutions by BKRTON BRAI.EY UV salary commences In To vanish, ere it s earned. | I cannot meet expemes. Though why. 1v never learned. In spite of how we plan, we Remain in debt and doubt. We can’t explain, nor can we Make it out. WE ready ought to ftouneV My incomes pretty good. And yet we scarcely nourish Our bodies ae \> e should. Our problem—who nal! judge u There's just one way, we sigh. “We ve got to keep a budget— Bye and bye.” WHERE docs the money go to? U s quite too touch for words. To think of all we throw to The little dicky birds A bank account were craying. Alas the dollars fly! And we. instead of saying, / Buy and buy. QOMK day. when we get to it, w Well keep a ledger, planned To show ns, when -ve view it Exactly how we stand: But now— ve merely fudge it. And watch our debts run high. We sure must keep a budget Bye and bye! (Copyright, 1023, >J£A HmrMX)

Stormy Career of Dr Grant Nears Crisis as He Faces Trial for Heresy by Episcopal Ch urch

Made Personal Fight to Wed Divorcee Against Religious Dogma,

By ALEXANDER HERMAN NBA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK. .Jan. -7.. —What is ahead in religion? A militant ministry patterned after the spectacular and revolutionary leadership of Dr. Percy Stiekney Grant? Or must this meteor among preachers stand trial for heresy—for his declaration that Christ did not have the power of God? These questions grow enormously in interest as the religious world waits to see whether Dr. Grant recants. resigns or : s tried according to his Episcopal bishop’s ultimatum. Dr. Grant has held the center of the spotlight through a tempestuous career—fighting church doctrines, and lighting a personal fight to marry Mrs. Rita H. de Alba de Acos ta Lydlg, twice married and twice divorced. He is noted for radical salmons; and he is the author of po ems and essays, of such books as “Socialism and Christianity,” and “Fair Play for the Worker.” His notable hook of poems, “A Fifth Ave. Parade and Other Poems,” published last jear by Harper & Bros., had this dedication: "To Rita H. de .Mba deAcosta, an ambitious and stimulating Intel li gence gifted with a knowledge of the beautiful, a Tanagra figure come to life, a captivating companion.” The sequel to these chapters of his life remain to he written: < hapter I PEVtOY STICKNEY GRANT was 28 years old when he grad uated in I SSK front the Epis'-o pal Theological School at Boston, his home. Assigned to Fall River hi ideas about running the church were somewhat different from those of the vestry. Rut his social serv ice work attracted attention and he earned a call to the Church of the Ascension. New York. He came in 1593, but only on condition that pews be free and that the church be open every day—-wo revolution ary ideas at that time. < liapler 11 I’.V New York Dr Grant became known as a friend of the workin et man. In 1907 he organized a public forum :n the church. By 3919 he had had clashes with con servatives in the vestry, who organized a committee to Investigate hLs “teaching doctrine contrary to the doctrines of the church.” There

Woman Is Worth Million to Los Angeles Picture Concern

BY J.M’K JUNG MEYER \ FA /'oerrapoq'i'n* Ins ANGELES. Jan. 27.—A good many people have a million dollars. but not many art accounted worth a million to it: employer. •Tunc Mathis is. When Goldwyn Pictures made !i<-r editorial director recently, that’s what they insured her life for. as a sort of replacement val nation. Altho lgh celebrated as a scenarist. Miss Mathis regards herself as- a working woman. She isn’t temperamental t n if she is. .she has her temperament under her own control- perfectly She Doesn’t Threaten "Evst! the directors.” she says, "became my friends when T didn’t rave because e.metiiii's they thought best to alter my pet Scenes. r fight for what I eon siiier important, but r don’t huff and puff and threaten to blow the house down.” Miss Mathis supervises the selection and progress of pictures. She sits with directors on the set : and in projection room. She titles and she edits and she helps to rut. It’s a job many high salaried men have failed at. “When 1 gave up the stage ten y< its ago to enter this field," she • •;plains, "I saw that adaptation of famous plays and books was a weak spot In the industry. Nobody wanted to do sueh work — not romantic enough.” Not Bad Interest So it was a branch of the business in which Miss .Mathis specialized. The result is that sb“ draws now more than $65,000 a vcai—not a bad rate of interest on sl,000,000 —for duties that others considered beneath them. She has wide cheeks, full gray i

Capital Jokes BY HARRY M. WURZBACH S. Representative From Texas. Fourteenth District.

MALI, boys rap the nail on the head with uncanny accuracy at times. I remember a dialogue which l overheard between a rather ph a risaiecl father and his 7- j car-old son In .San Antonio. “Father, when you were a boy j like me did you go to Sunday school every Sunday?” “Why, yes son!

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When I was your j age 1 went to Sunday school every i Sunday. 1 was very eager to go to Sunday school." "Wall,” observed the boy, “it’s not i doing mo much good, either.”

THE REV. PERCY STICKNEY GRANT AND MRS. RITA H. DE AI.BA DE ACOSTA LYDIG.

was talk of a heresy trial. Nothing came of it. ( liapler I!I STORMS multiplied He compared the deportation of Russian anarchists to the Pilgrims. their ship to the Mayflower. He attacked legislative plans to curh radicals. Bishop Thomas F. Gailor calie.l him “a pampered ret of a groui of rich men and women who poses as a friend of the poor.” Grant shrugged his shoulders and went on.

eyes and v, hat she frankly calls “fat, to nourish the nerves.” Her roise is perfect. She gives the JgjLJ -t jjyy ■> ■ jfflwy'wW :fe” \.i* | i- Ay''' - -cv J JUNE MATHIS Impression of tremendous reserves nf energy. Her famous "i-Viur Horsemen.” “Blood and Sand” and her forth coming heroic “Ben-Hur" suggest an almost masculine boldness, but Miss Mathis is thoroughly ferni nine, even to concealing her age, which I guess in the late 30’s.

Coal Car Is Worst Loafer on Railroad BY C. C. LYON WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—1n the whole realm of railroading, the worst “loafer" on the job is the common, every-day coal ear. The car service division of the interstate commerce commission is now investigating the coal car service, to find out why these cars are always cluttering up railroad yards or are so often stranded on sidings. Already it. has gathered figures to show that while a passenger coach works 250 clays a year, as does the average locomotive or Pullman, a coal ear averages hut 125 days’ work per year. “What does it do with Its spare time?” the I. C. C. asks. Statistics already compiled show that the average coal car made but nine trip3 to the mine in 1921.

Chapter IV AI.K came of putting him on trial in an - ■elrsiusticaJ court for c'riehruting com mvnion improperly, for permitting laymen to speak at religious services, and for performing the marriage of n guilty divorcee. But the case was dropped— with a re uke and warning for Dr. Grant. Now came the time when he was to fight a personal fight—and lose.

INSURGENTS WIN VICTORY I HOUSE Bonus to Private Contractors Eliminative by Vote, By W. H. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—A distinct victory for insurgents as against the Administration was scored in the House of Representatives, when, by an overwhelming viva voce vote, it was decided to eliminate the “twentyfive per cent bonus to private contrac tors for Government work ' This proposition originated and whs fos'ered by Secretary of War IVc-kv As written into the Army appropria tlon bill. It provided that the War Department was authorized and permitted to pay a bonus up to twenty, five per cent on any work dope or rna terial purchased outside Government yards by private contractors or manufacturers over the cost if done by the Government. Secretary Weeks' advocacy of this measure whs made upon the ground that it is the duty of Government, to encourage private manufacturing corporations, by subsidizing them, so that in case of war they may be equipped to do work for the Government. It was this attitude of Secretary Weeks a year ago which virtually threw 1.400 men out of the Washington Navy Yards and which has given a \ast amount in contracts to private corporations often employing nonunion labor while Government plants lav Idle and deteriorating in value.

‘We Have No Sen. Watson,’ Reporter Told By JOHN CARSON Times Washington Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. —How relative fame is after all. On the one hand, some columns of guff arc now being printed about Senator ".Tim" Watson of Indiana and his presidential chances. Then there is other talk about “Jim" going to the White House for conferences with President Harding. And on the other hand is a Senate page who carries messages from newspaper men to the Senators in the Senate chamber. “Tell Senator Watson 1 want to sec him,” said the newspaper man. “We have no Senator Watson,” replied the page. "Senator Watson,” suggested the newspaper man again. The page turned to the doorkeeper with an amused smile upon his lips. There was contempt there also, contempt for the ignorance of a newspaper man. “There ain’t no Senator Watson,” he insisted, his argumentative mood overcoming Tits English. "Senator Watson is dead and buried and they had services for him here last Sunday.” “Jim" Watson of Indiana, living and j active, had his name and fame hidden beneath the memory of the late Senator “Tom” Watson of Georgia.

Chapter V MRS. RITA H. de ALBA de ACOSTA LYDIG, called “America’s most picturesque woman.” long a friend of Dr. Grant, announced her engagement to him in 1921. She was 42, ho was 61. She had been twice married and twice divorced: first W. E. D. Stokes, next Philip M. Lydig. Under Episcopal Church rules Dr. Grant could not marry Mrs. Lydig without the bishop's permission. Bishop William T. Manning refused permission. Incensed, Br. Grant attacked the church's attitude on divorce. Result: Passage of a more vigorous amendment to the divorce canon. Chapter VI PUBLICITY spotlights now bathed Dr. Grant in a newway. A baby girl was found on his doorstep, abandoned. He took it into his bachelor household, established a nursery, hired a nurse, and announced he would raise the waif. He baptized her “Faith Willard.” One of her four godmothers was Mrs. Lydig. Soon the baby he came ill. She cried at night. The rector paced the floor with her in vain. The fading infant was taken to the country to save her life. Bui she died in the Presbyterian Hospital. The body was buried in the graveyard of Dr. Grant's church. C hapter All SORROW stilled Dr. Grant's pulpit voice for a time. Soon he renewed his fight against the church’s stand on marriage and divorce. He said: “Ts marriage j? founded on th<- affection of two persons for each other, as marriage in America i- supposed to be, with the disappearance of such sentiment d!sap pfars the only ground for the marriage.” He bad been advocating easy divorce since 1915. ( hapter VIII -* w rlTfl 1923 came the cxplo W sion - Hr Grant said, in a ser mon Jan 14. that Jesus Christ did not possess equal powers with God: that His miracles can be explained today by science: that consecration of churches Is a custom inherited from the age of witchcraft, magic and taboo; that the clergy is a suppressed, chained profession, whose members speak their minds outside the pulpit, never In it. Bishop Manning served an ultimatum that he must recant or resign. and hinting at a trial for heresy. Dr Grant has neither resigned nor recanted.

Harry New, Otic Is Slated for fly \FA Frn icc 7 ASHINGTON. Jan 27. — Senator Harry S. New of " ” Indiana, according to rumors here, is being considered for appointment to an Important Cabi net position. * • The Indiana primary elections of May. 1922. predicted the pass lng of one of the pest story-tellers and convivial spirits in the cloak room of the Cnlted States Senate. For Senator Ilarf-rv Stewart New saw his defeat in these elections and the end of his only term in the upper house. Senator New developed his narrative abilities in the newspaper office He was 20 when he started reporting for the Indianapolis Journal and by the time he fin ished his newspaper career in 1903 hi- had gon<' through the various official positions there until ho be came part owner—and publisher. New has been a resident of Indianapolis ever since his birth in 1858. His education, even through college, did not take him out of his alma mater. Friend of Riley At the start of h!s newspaper days in 1878, New became ac quainted with James Whitcomb Riley, the children's poet, who worked on the same paper They were close friends until the poet's death in 1916. From him New heard many weird ghost stories with which he later loved to awe his colleagues in Congress. New’s first political office was gained in 1896. when ho went to the Indiana State Senate for four years. While State Senator, however, he enlisted for service in the war with Spain, returning at its conclusion to finish his term of office. Enters National Game After that New delved into na

MEMBERS OF COLUMBIA CLUB PROTEST PLANS Five Stockholders Favor Remodeling Present Structure. Opposition to the proposed new Columbia Club to replace the present building on the Circle has been voiced by five stockholders In a letter to the directors denouncing the move as “hasty,” and asking that no building operations be considered unle.ss recommended by a committee of fifteen elected by the stockholders. Many members pf the club would prefer to remodel the present building, and not attempt to compete with other elaborate clubs of the city, the letter states. It is also charged that the directors announced the proposed $1,000,000 building through the newspapers without the consent of the stockholders. The letter is signed bv Dr. Edmund D. Clark. Frank L. Jones, Marshall T. Levey, Horao® F. Wood and Charles O. lioemlar.

TOM SIMS SAYS:

IN Reading, Fa., about 600 gallons of booze was seized in one raid. Reading maketh a full man. • * + France’s new slogan seems to be, “They shall not pass—tlieir payments.” • * * Germany is building America a giant airship which she could fly over on her reparation arguments. * • * The Northwestern Stove Works burned in Chicago. It seems that their stoves burn too well.

Blind pianist lost the church's money playing poker, which is harder to play than a piano. Our bootlegger tells us when he was seized with the grippe, it kepi him in longer than when he was seized with the suitcase. Ex-King Frederick of Saxony claims the Diet keeps him poor. Many of us are kept poor by our diet. 0 0 0 Figures show Dartmouth hoys spend only five minutes a day with girls, so we would hate to see the Dartmouth girls’ figures. Seven aviators will try to fly around the world this spring. Spring always makes one feel like that. * * * Learning to skate causes many a man's downfall. ’ * * The United States has 229,881 policemen. This is the reason Ireland has trouble handling riots. * ♦ * After getting elected mayor of Ransom, W. Va., a woman changed her mind and refused to he mayor and we can prove it. 0 0 0 America Tree Association will plant a million trees, so don t worry about shade for 1943. I’ure white beaver was caught near Fort William, Ontario, which may have turned judo from overwork. • * * London doctor 4a vs Bolshevism is due to bad teeth. We knew there was something loose in iheir heads.

Misstep May Cost . Capper His Job as Kansas Congressman

BY F. G. ORR WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Maybe it isn't easy to make a misstep, when you’re in polities? Ask Arthur Capper, Senator from Kansas. • Because Capper wrote a letter, instead of calling In person on the President, to boom W H. Chappell of Chanute. Kan., for appointment as the “dirt farmer” member of the Federal Reserve Board. Capper finds himself in difficulties. Chappell didn't get the President's appointment, so he's announced his

of ‘Lame Ducks ; ’ Ca hi net Position tional politics He became a member of the national Republican committee sn IpoO and remained there until 1912. He attended sev-

v ; g HARRY is. NEW eral national conventions as delegate in those yeuis. liis reward for his services was election to the United States Senate in 1916 for the term ending March 4, 1923. New was married I wice. In ISSO Miss Kathleen V Milligan became his wife. Ilia second wifi was Miss Catherine McLean, who became his bride in 1891.

VACATION DUE CONGRESS I President Does Not ICxfleet to C all for Extra Session. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. —It looks like Congress is due for a nine months' vacation, for a change. Unless the Franco-German rumpus in the Ruhr takes a turn which might call for American participation in the controversy. President Harding does not intend to cal! an extra session of Congress. While the newly formed progressive bloc would look with favor upon an extra session. the Administration leaders feel that they can work out their party's political salvation much better if Congress is away front the Capital. New Blossom Favored Action favoring passage of a bill introduced in the House of Represent atlves to make the flower of the tulip tree Indiana's official flower was announced today by the committ.e on ! agriculture The tulip. officiailv known , as the ' iiriod -nilron tulipifeia." is said | by the author of the bill, Miss Eliza ! l.eth Rainey of Indiana, to be a more ; representative flower than the present 1 State one, the carnation.

intention of defeating Capper at the polls next year when the Kansan suns for re-election. Chappell says that he came to Washington with indorsements from governors. governors-elect, Democrats. Republicans, and what not. and a lot of senators promised to go to the White House to urge his appointment. if Capper would lead them. Instead. Capper wrote a letter, thinking that was enough to win the job for Chappell. But it wasn't. So Chappell has hurled his hat in the ring and is going to get Capper's job in the Senate, if he can.

WIDOW OF LATE SOLON !S ELECTED First Woman From Pacific Coast Sent to Congress, Hu L nited yews *4AN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Jan. 27. Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, the first woman elected to Congress from the Pacific Coast, will go to the Capital with the sole purpose of carrying on the work of her late husband. John I. Nolan. “Sentiment elected nip. ' declared Mrs. Nolan Wednesday in an interview. “Faith iii my promise that I would continue the work of my late husband has placed me in office. "1 did not speak to the people yet they believed in trie. I did not leave my house during the pre-election period to work on behalf of my campaign, yet the people gave me thenvote. I cannot break faith, either with them or nty husband.” Mrs. Nolan is a Republican. She will center her work in Washington on bettering the condition of labor. She was elected from a San Francisco labor district. “1 shall fight for an amendment to the Constitution,” said Mrs. Nolan, “that will do awav with child labor. “1 consider tin immigration of I Asiatics a menace to American la- ’ bor. I shall do all 1 can to stop thp entry of these classes that will pull down the standard of our living. “Cheap European labor is also a menace and 1 shall tight its entry into the Ended States." Mrs. Nolan is a strong advocate for the modification of the Volstead Act.

Madden Halts Erection of New Postoffices By C. C. LYON WASHINGTON, Jan. £7.— Here’s one for economists. When fs economy not economy, but extravagance? The Postoffice Department wants to build or enlarge postoffices in some 150 different cities. “The country can't afford it," says Chairman Madden of the House Appropriation Committee. “But.” retorts Postmaster General Work, “the Postoffice Department is paying $12,000,000 a year in rentals for postoffice quarters thoughout the country. We can save $6,000,000 of this by the simple expedient. POET-SOLDIER TO SPEAK Y. M. ('. V Rig Meeting Will Hear of Dardanelles Campaign. . Tom Steyhilb poet-soldier, will ' speak at the Y. M. C. A. Big Meeting in English's Theater Sunday after nopn on “Fighting the Turks at the Dardanelles." Skevliiil joined the Australi.Ylf army at the age of 18 :ini served in the Dardanelles campaign. Bincc the war. he has been traveling through Europe. The Shortridge High School band of fifty pieces will play. Doors will open at Z p. m.