Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1923 — Page 4

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WHEN ENATOR Capper, having done his best to YOU stabilize the farming business, has now set MARRY out to stabilize matrimony. Acting for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, he has introduced a bill, written by Mrs. Edward Franklin White, deputy Attorney General of Indiana, providing for a marriage and divorce law and a resolution proposing an enabling constitutional amendment, so that such a law, when passed, would meet the test of the courts. > News articles have said of this proposed law that it would make divorce more difficult. That is hardly true in most States, but it possibly is true in Indiana. Five reasons for divorce would be recognized, and these, while not quite as liberal as those of Nevada, for example, would impose little hardship on any couple to whom a “revoke of the yoke” was absolutely necessary. Nonsupport for one year could be managed by almost any ingenious man and wife. The bill does not contain a provision that incompatibility is a cause for divorce. This is the provision that makes divorce so easy in Indiana. Various States refuse to recognize each other’s marriage and divorce laws and this has led to undoubted injustices. Under this uniform law, those who are married in one State will be considered legally married in every other State. Children who are legitimate in one State, will be legitimate in all States. Mix-ups of property rights will be more easily adjusted. In order that sentiment for the Federal measure may be created and that marriage and divorce laws may be made more nearly uniform as soon as possible, it 'is the plan of Mrs. White and other friends of the bill to have it adopted in as many States as possible as State legislation. The bill is now pending in the Indiana Legislature. *The new law does make marriage more difficult than it is now in many States. No one will argue that this is not a good thing. At the present time seventeen States have no minority age limit for marriage, while in nine States the legal marriage age for girls is 12 years and for boys 15 years. There is no prohibition of marriage of the feeble-minded in nineteen States, and in thirty-five States there is no prohibition of intermarriage of the white, black, brown, yellow and red races. EMILE T 'i MILE COVE is a clever man in more ways COLE’S H than one' Not only has he hit upon a useful METHOD 1 J system of thought, hut he has had the good ; sense to keep it clear of culty significance and to avoid a terminology either mystical enough to frighten the religionists or scientific enough to conflict with the accepted schools of that branch of human enterprise. Thereby he has cleared the field for his benefits until there are practically no boundaries of opposition to be seen on any side of him. And yet the thing that he is offering today is probably identi- 1 cal with the thing for which the prophets of all time have been stoned. He has found that there is an inexhaustible reservoir of well being that can be tapped and converted to the uses of the individual, through the consciousness. As yet the formulas used by him for tapping that reservoir remain simple and intelligible Whether or not they will degenerate into useless incantations depends, of course, upon the good sense of the disciples, students hjkl patients who will continue to use 'them after the smiling-eyed. wise little teacher haa gone his wav. I’t is rather nice to read of Emile Cone, and to discover that he does not first tangle up his patients in endless complexes and dream significances and thought repercussions, and then set about untangling them again by what looks like a variation of the* very process that got them into their state of mind. It’s the sim- V plicity and directness of Coue’s method that touches dying hope into life, rt's the simple substitution of thoughts of health and power and sanity for thoughts of misery and weakness and insanity, that gives the system its reasonableness. read Dickens, you recall that Mr. Pick I 'rick had his boots polished with Day & SLIPPED X Martin blacking. Day & Martin was a real company, famous for generations. Now it is selling out—quitting business. Its managing director, with a troubled look in his eyes, explains: “We failed to keep up our advertising.” It was advertising that “made” Day & Martin. But. like many other concerns, it thought that, once established, it no longer needed publicity. The public dies off and anew public is forever coming on the stage. This new public naturallv has to be reached by advertising, else it will not know of the advertiser. Even when it knows, it forgets quickly unless constantly reminded. Advertisers should keep in mind the fate of Day & Martin.

Total Eclipse of Sun Will Be Visible in California This Year

QUESTIONS ANSWERER You can get an answer to any qnes tion of fact or information by writing to tne Indianapolis Titnpi Washington B ure u . 132*3 New York Are.. Washington, D. C., enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legai and love and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned leters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive persona! replies. Although the bureau does not reouire 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.—EDlTOß. Will there be a total eclipse of the sun in 1923? I es; the path of total obscuration will be 106 miles wide and the central line will pass among the islands off the southern coast of California. California Is the only State in which the total phase will be visible. What should a man wear for formal daytime dress? Cutaway coat, black or oxford: trousers of gray striped worsted; waistcoat of fancy fabric or to match coat; white linen fold or wing; collar; four-in-hand or bow tie: patent leather or calfskin shoes: black derby or high silk hat. What do the names Albertamae, aud La Rue mean? Albertamae, “A nobly bright pearl:** T-a Rue, probably from French “La Rue,” a street; a thoroughfare. What are the highest and lowest recorded temperatures in the State of New Mexico. Highest 97; lowest 13. Where is Murman? The Murman coast is on the Arctic Ocean, a part of Russia, just east of •he northern end of Norway. In spite

of its location it is on the open sea due to the influence of the Gulf Stream which curls around the northern end of Norway and presents the sea from freezing. When did the German "Bluebeard” Karl Grossmann commit suicide? ! July 5, 1922. What judge issued the injunction against the railroad shopmen in the strike last year? United States Judge Wilkerson at Chicago. What is the annual loss from fires in the United States? In 1921, the total loss was $332,654,950. An Ideal By BERTON BRALEY. THIS world would be a heaven. With hope and love its leaven. With beauty all about us and with laughter In the air. And not the least upheaval Oi sm or shame or evil, A world devoid of trouble or of battle or of care: FAITH never would crow dim in The hearts of men and women. Wed walk our paths In gladness sad charity and peace. With spirit true and tender * We'd fiH the world with splendor, And all the hate and jealousy and Quarreling would cease; LIFE would become a vision Os happiness elysian. The world a perfect paradise to hold us in its thrall. If 'mid our plots and plans and schemes. We’d realize one-half the dreams Our happy mothers dreamed for us when we were very small 1 (Copyright, 1923. NEA Service)

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Hurried Living Bringing on Mental Ills That Are Peril to Civilization, Declares Anthropologist

Menace Is Worse Than Plagues of Old, Processor Says, By ROY GIBBONS N'EA Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Jan. 31. —“Civilization today faces a peril, far more insidious than any wastage of the body by disease —we are becoming a world of crazy nerves.” Prof. Frederick Starr, head of the department of anthropology of the University of Chicago and the greatest living anthropologist, made this statement here today. This disease, too new to have a name, is far more insidious than any of the ancient plagues that once destroyed whole nations. And we are all suffering from It, according to Professor Starr. Ills Rlatod Empires Professor Starr, commenting upon a raised at. the recent Cambridge (Mass.) session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science—the theory that tile old Greeks. Aztecs and others lost their empires not because of human invasion or conquest but'because of disease, introduced in some cases by the victims they had conquered, said: “Plagues and pestilences of the old type no longer menace civilization. Science nas made it impossi hie for them today to destroy whole nations. ‘‘But we face an even greater peril today.” Then the srreat anthropologist gave me this description of the new malady he believes has the whole race: Its Causes “Every one is trying to do son,* thing different. We Are in a turmoil, Jumping, running, careening, not knowing where to go.

‘PUSSYFOOT BASK, DRYER THAN EVER Whole World Will Follow U. S. if Prohibition Is Success, - By C. C. ETON WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.—‘“Pussy foot” Johnson is back. Dryer than ever and surer than ever that the whole world is going dry, that’s "Pussyfoot.” “Yes,” says “Pussyfoot,” “I've been over in India and Australia teil tng them what prohibition Is doing for rhe United State*. “Why, in far off Tndia. I four ! people praying to their heathen gods that America will justify the con ft denec that humanity has in the United States. “Nobody knows better than the liquor overlords that if prohibition proves to be a success in theTmlb i states the whole world will he dry within a few > ears. That is why liquor dealers are lying about the United States In every corner of the world. “Wherever I travel over the world I tell my audiences that our prohi bition laws are better enforced after three years of experience than ottr licensing laws tven- after a hundred years of experience. A pint bottie of whisky creates more excitement these days than a whole train load would whr-n the traffic was licensed. “I saw more drunkenness In New Zealand every day than I saw in five months of continuous traveling in the United States last year." Public Opinion To the Editor of The Time* About Memorial day and the races, i am speaking for an old veteran of the Civil War, one who went through such battles as Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Bloody Angle, Anteltem, Chancelorsvlllo, Battle of the Wilderness and the seven days in front of Richmond (where he had only a piece of bacon and a few hard tack for the whole seven day’s’ rations). Yet he is not iff favor of this bill to abolish the races on Decoration day’. We, who do not wish to attend the races, are not compelled to, so why not let the people do as they wish. Haven’t we ary rights any more? I am with the man who said Czarism. It seems to me that every time we turn around we find ourselves robbed of another right that belongs to a free man in a free country. To my mind this bill has been bred arid fostered by some old person w’ho could neither be called a patriot nor a coward, but who thinks the whole world should do his w r ay. Let us have the way T of the majority, and if we must have this bill and abolish the races then why not finish the job and pass a bill making It a crime to fail to attend the ceremonies of Decoration day. It's a poor rule that wont worktwo ways. I might add that I am a Daughter of America and I have no time for this fool bill, which would turn thousands of dollars from our city, besides rob us of one of our best industries and again insult one of the most patriotic men who ever lived in our city and who left our city because we were not large enough to stand by him although he helped us to achieve even more things than the speedway. Let’s squelch that foolish bill. Long live our speedway, known the w-orld over. MARY E>. TROWBRIDGE, 619 N. Parker St. Purse Snatcher Escapes Mrs. Harry Stamp of Roachdale, Ind., today told police she felt some one snatch her purse while she was in a crowd at Illinois and Washington Sts. She failed to see the thief.

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PROF. FREDERICK STARR “We do everything fast. We tele .phone p'-edlessly. thus putting up a bar to effective friendships and frus tratlng the ordinary' civilities of human relationships

Future By \ I'.A Service (■CLEVELAND. Jan. 31.—Paa- , senger airplanes, jumping from San Francisco to New York in five hours, and New York to Europe in less than a day, are corning—but not for fifteen or twenty years. So declares Oienn L. Martin, world famous airplane Inventor. He is conducting a huge airplane factory here, and carrying on research work for the Government. “Such plane* easily will cost $1.000,000 each,” he says. “They must have engines of at least 6,000 horsepower. “I •neeengers. if they are to survive, must be given sea level proportions of ovgen and *ea level air pressure in the cabins. “At 40,000 feet—about seven miles up—flie temperature is about 60 to 60 degrees below zero Provision must be made to keep the passengers from freezing to death."

Entire Town Is Being Moved by Auto Trucks Bu A ! A (service JENNINGS, Mich., Jan. 31.—This town is being moved to Cadillac, twelve miles away, by auto truck. Its houses are being Jerked up “by the roots,” placed on trailers, hauled through the heavy snows and transplanted intact. Fifty-six homes have already been moved and there are still about twenty more to go. Little difficulty is experienced. The owners pack their furniture, lock their doors, go visiting for a few hours, and then find their homes on a' new street in Cadillac. They even find the family cat waiting for them on the front doorstep. One cat, somewhat disturbed at seeing her home picked up and carted away, ran off. “That night,” says Eric Swanson, ,/her owner, “when we came to Cadll lac we found old tabby perching on the window sill. She had run along and followed the truck. She sure did make the old place feel Hite home.” Jennings was founded about twen-ty-five years ago by a sawmill corn pany. When the timber In the vicinity was cut down it was decided to move the mills, families and houses to the new site. Capital Jokes BY EDWARD C. LITTLE U. S. Representative From Kansas, Second District.

N the spring of 1899 the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers under Colonel Funston were fighting their way into Malolos, the insurrecto capital In the Philippines. They had had hard fighting and epected more of it. Major Whitman and I were

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walking along by a shallow trench when w r e overheard some of the boys talking. They were in rather a solemn mood, expecting a bitter struggle. One of them, the son of a Civil War veteran, finally remarked: "Well, I don’t care so much for this kind of life. My dad was in the Civil War and he knows all about this business. I gfess it would have been better If be had come and I had stayed at home."

"We are all much too uselessly busy. “People run about in endless circles. There Is lack of stability. “Our minds have reached a stage bordering on almost complete neurosis. “We are in the midst of a horrible unrest, which, in the guise of religious zeal, commercial greed of lust for power and conquest, is tearing whole peoples away from the customs and traditions of their countries. * “Minds are running riot. Now ’schemes of government are being tested. * Its Effects “We aro nearing a racial nervous breakdown. "Effects of this neurotic psychological disturbance are seen in tho

New World Peril 18 the world going to keep on getting better and better? Will our civilization grow continually more perfect until the millennium at last arrives? Or is something somewhere in that great structure of civilization going to eraek and let the whole thing come sliding down ? Science knows disease germs causing vast epidemics tore down many of the great civilizations of the past—malaria weakened the Greeks power of resistance, smallpox that of the Aztecs. 1 odav those diseases are conquered. What can destrong our eivilizal ion ? A strange new malady, says Professor Frederick Starr, greatest living anthropologist - “a disease horn of rushing, hurrying, of janglirg telephones, of jazz living.” Do you show symptoms of this disorder? Rend Professor Starr's description of it and diagnose vourself.

LEGION POST IN TEXAS, ORIGINAL Provides Entertainment for Rural Communities, By GLENN PRICER TARIR, Texas, Jan. 31. —The soldier orchestra, mad* up of most everything from a ukulele to a trombone struck up “The Old Gray Mare.” and rhe big show was on. The legion quartet sang a half dozen songs, some of war. some of homo and some of Jazz A left handor) soldier tiddler was In rroduc**d, followed by another vet who imitated 1)1 rds and animals. Mnj. Rufus Scott, post commander, presided and gave short talks between numbers One of the town's preachers closed the entertainment by telling a few good stories, ala a popular lyceum lecture. That’* a picture of how the Paris post of the American Legion, diatln grulshed by its originality, invades the nearby- rural communities with a spirit of fellowship and good will It hnp pened the other night at Petty, a smalt town near here, but it is being duplicated in numbers of other places, as th legion’s entertainment crew is booked fifty weeks ahead. Mayer Residence Robbed Detectives today vfere searching for burglar* who forced their way Into the home of Walter It. Mayer, 2636 N. Delaware St., Tuesday night and took a wrist watch, leather traveling bag, blue serge suit and blue stripped suit, all valued at $lB5.

What Is Happiness? The desire for happiness is a propelling force in human life. It every one of us. Yet, what brings happiness to some has no appeal to others because individual desires and tastes differ. Busy men of affairs have been known to envy the carefree existence of the tramp, while the tramp, although he may scoff at work, begrudges the comforts industry and thrift provide. Five years from now the things that make you happy today may hold no interest for you. To gratify passing desires does not necessarily make us happy. Those who are saving money are enjoying life as much as—if not more than—those who are spending all. And they anticipate more happiness in the long run through their ability to obtain worth-while tilings that money can buy. The men and women who regularly call at this bank to add to their savings are happy folk. They are ambitious and enthusiastic; and they know the satisfaction of possessing growing bank accounts. Be One of Them Bankers Trust Company PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO STREETS Open All Day Saturday Until Eight o’Clock

symptoms of present-day disease. Ailments which fifty years ago were simple of diagnosis now bear no symptoms of their real character. "The diabetic once wasted away. Today he dies in a state of corpulency. "And so it goes down the calendar of ailments. The age is changing everything. This is the result of disturbed minds. "At the rate we’re going, it is only n matter of time before our present mode of civilization causes the race to degenerate in such a manner that we shall be without hair, fingernails or teeth. These are going now. “And if these effects of nervous breakdown are visible in the physical makeup of people, how must their minds be affected?”

Mutual Ry W. H. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. James Couzens, the new Senator from Michigan, looked over the Senate the other day and remarked to a friend that there was just one member who seemed to him to measure up to a front place in statesmanship. "And that man Is Borah of Idaho. ’ continued .Couzens. “I am for him for President In 1924;" - About five minutes later. Borah came, into the cloak room and paused to chat with a friend also. "Do you know.” said the Senator from Idaho, “I believe that man Douzens of Michigan would make an Ideal President of the United States!" And neither knew what the other had said. LAST RITES ARE HELD FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYE Miss Harriet Rose Dies After Illness of Three Days. Funeral servlcee for Miss Harriet Rose. 81. who died Monday at her home 2032 Koehne St., were arranged for 2 p. m. today at the home with burial in Crown Hill. Miss Rose had been ill three days. She had been a deputy collector In the income tax department of the Federal building. Stnce moving to Indianapolis from Jeffersonville she had been actively identified with the Third Christian Church. Her mother, Mrs. Catherine Rose, two sisters. Mrs. George E. Bishop of New Albany and Mrs. Ernest Albrecht. Indianapolis, and a brother, Walter D., of Indianapolis, survive.

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THE real reason we don’t want another war is so few people enjoyed the last one. • * fi* Hope the spring poets see their shadow and go back for six weeks. • • • France wanted to pay the German miners in marks. No wonder they quit. • * Tho man who thought of clocks for socks is still at large. • • •

Who says autoists are not considerate of pedestrians? Dealers say they are demanding lighter cars. • * * Sad part about not having a wife is you can’t blame things on her. • * • Ihe mints are making more nickels and dimes in spite of the greater demand for quarters and halves. • • • in Maine, fifty-three inches of snow fell in one month. This never happened when the Democrats were in office. -*+ + ' Most of our troops are withdrawn from everywhere, even America. * * Statistics show three-fourths of our accidents unnecessary. We can’t imagine a necessary accident. • * • The modern parent promises his son an auto if he doesn’t smoke or drink until he is 12 years old. • • • Willard, ex-pugilist, says all he wants is a chance to come back. He should become a collector. Tennessee educator proposes school last the year round. Other war news on our first page. • • • A war vet tells ns he has been gassed twice, once by Congress. • • • Hunt the brighter side. Aren’t you glad otfr shortest month comes in winter instead of spring? Arkansas Railroad in Limelight Financed by U. S. Government

WASHINGTON* Jan. 31.—Attention ; focused on the Missouri A North Arkansas Railroad by labor troubles and lynching of E. C. Gregor at Harrison. Ark., has brought to light some unusual financial arrangements between the Government and owners of the railroad. A year ago.' Festu* J. Wade. Ft. I.ouls banker, and Missouri Republican boss; J. C. Murray and Charles Gilbert, his associates, undertook to reorganize the railroad, then In the hands of the receiver In United States District Court in Arkasas. in April. 1922, they bought the road for $3.00.,000. Wade and bis colleagues cam*’ to t Washington and asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for a Government loan of $3,500,000. This was granted. Wade and his associates Issued five mllliofi dollars’ worth of bonds, which they deposited with the Government as security. The Interstate Commerce Commission pays the chief reason for the $3,500,006 loan'was that the road's operation was “a public necessity.” But Commissioner Eastman, who dissented to the loan, says: “The road has not been operated since July 81. 1921. Under the arrangement approved by the majority, the United States is in effect buying the road at a sum much in excess of its alleged market value, while at the same time control and management

op rp Indianapolis In 1854 HISTORICAL. SJOIt IE 8 N °. 10 i Al&ridien <n*d Xorth Stt. u 11854. Unpaved streets and no sidewalks. No street cars, xnatln.ee oiusicales or chocolate sodas. Men going to work at six in the morning and working until six at night. Wood fires and candle light In the home*. Politics and religion next in Importance *to making a living. A family of six living comfortably on SSOO a year. Sea shells and daguerreotypes and the Bible on the center of the table In the parlor, which was only opened on Sundays. Hunting in the woods out near Sixteenth and Meridian. Calico dresses, hoop skirts and leghorn hats gayly berlbboned. Men in tall silk hats and long hoots, carrying gold-head-ed cans.*. Fletcher’s Bank, then IS years old, heated by coal stoves, and . lighted by the flickering flume of the gas Jet —hestined to become a powerful, conservative banking institution, aggressive t ) for the advancement of all Indianapolis I Industries. JFletcher American National Bank 1839 1923 Capital 45,000,00#

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! a-re permitted to remain In the hands i of private parties.” Another phase of the matter la that j the sale of the road in the United ; States court, at receiver’s sale, wiped | off old first mortgage bonds of $5,340,000. and the original outstanding [stock of $8,340,000, a total of $16,650.000. Ohio Cannot Run Entire Government By LEO R. SACK WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.—“ Ohio ; can’t run the Government; there are forty-seven other States,” say the op ponents of Representative Nicholas | Long-worth of Cincinnati, foremost | candidate for majority leader of ?h | House In the next Congress. The contest between Long-worth | and Representative William Graham lof Illinois, head of the committee : which investigated alleged War Dr | partment Incompetencies during Th war, is developing Into a hot fight. Longworth’s opponents assert that he is a "silk stocking,” "a high-brow out of touch with the common people.” and also that h* is “wet.” Graham’s opponents characterize the Illinois Representative as “too new in Congress.” He is serving his third term. A leader should have far more congressional experience, they say.