Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1923 — Page 4

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GANGWAY! FEAT BRITAIN has accepted America’s offer LET’S HAVE I modifying the terms of Britain’s $5,000,PEACE VJ 000,000 debt to the United States. To make this offer binding, Congress must ratify it. That is, Congress must amend the refunding act to conform to the new terms. Congress must ratify the offer. Already there is talk of a terrific battle in Congress against ratification. There is talk of the present Congress packing up and leaving Washington on March 4 without having taken action. And it is known the Administration is strongly opposed to a special session this summer. Congress must ratify the offer before it quits the job. If it doesn’t, a special session will become imperative—as, indeed, it may anyhow. Ratification will be a big step in the direction of world peace and stabilization. The spectacle of the two greatest nations on the face of the globe, the two nations upon which civilization at this moment hangs all its hopes, haggling over their debts, certainly will not be conducive to a settlement, say, as between France and Germany. * * Particularly destructive will the spectacle be if the professional twisters of the lion’s tail fight the battle of Bunker Hill all over again and give the world the impression—altogether false —that Britain and America are about to fly at each other’s throats. Congress must cut out that sort of stuff*. In the first place, it s cheap. In the second place, the world can’t stand much more bickering. Congress has been standing in the way of world rehabilitation long enough. Gangway! HI RT FS j- | 'll IE vigor of youth is not to be compared HOPE I with that quality in the man of experience, BLASTED especially the aged. Neither does the enthusiasm of youth compare with that of the patriarch. I’he zeal of an elderly person is a thing uncanny. Man's ideals should reach fruition in his latter days. Dr. John N. Hurty. now a member of the Legislature, with every ideal centered on the realization of one purpose, saw that desire literally blasted when his colleagues defeated his all-time health officer bill. For twenty-six years Dr. Hurty bent himself to better Indiana’s health. The enactment of the health officer bill was to have been the crowning achievement of those years of service. It was too much of a tragedy to be treated in mere words. The mist on the man’s face; the clouded brow, and the patient gulp of something in the throat visibly indicated the disappointment that befell the venerable benefactor. One member of the Legislature said Dr. Hurty’s bill was TOO good. He probably was right. ‘‘Too much,” his colleagues agreed, “for one session to pass.” The trail of years, of evolution, someday will accomplish what Dr. Hurty attempted in one session of the Legislature. Ere that day comes many will have forgotten its incept ion. Then the name of Dr. John N. Hurty will he recalled. PASSING -r -jr TTTII the last rites today for Ernest Bross, for OF AN %j\ / eighteen years managing editor of the IndiEDITOR ? ? anapolis Star, there passed a man who added much to the high standard of journalism in Indianapolis. Mr. Bross had great ability as a newspaperman. Asa writer he was above the average. As an/editor, he looked on the bright side of things. He was not the type of newspaper editor who engages in personalities; he was not a man who could be termed a fighting editor, but he exerted a strong influence in the community through his kindly and patient observations and comment on events. Through his efforts he assisted materially in bringing about the really remarkable development of the paper, the editorial policies and activities of which he directed. His passing leaves a serious gap in the community which lie graced. It will not easily be filled. CLIMATE ’TN spite of popular supposition that climate CHANGES I in Indiana is changing, the fact is that it is LITTLE just about the same as formerly. J. 11. Armington, Government meteorologist in charge of the local station, has figures covering the past twenty years to prove his statement. Times ain t what they used to be,” is a frequent reminiscence of the old folks. Then they .spin a yarn about the hard winter of 52 or the time in <6 when fourteen calves froze to death in the barn. The open winter this year is pointed to in comparison. People forget easily. During the month of February, 1018, there was a Saturday morning when the thermometer touched 25 degrees below zero and a heavy snow drifted in the teeth of a nftv-mile gale. lour days of snow and skating weather when one was a boy is remembered in manhood as a whole winter.

Poultry in United States Is Valued at Total of $100,000,000

•iI’ESTIONS ANSWERED uu can set an answer to any queson of fact or information by writijr to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. P. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, leeral and love and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all 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. What is the total value of the •ton 1 try in the United States? The poultry in the United States is valued at more than $100,000,000, This includes all poultry and all poultry products. When was James Gerard elected Supreme Court judge of New York? James Watson Gerard was elected Supreme Court judge of the State of New York in 1907. He served as United States ambassador to Germany from 1913-1917. What orders were passed in the last three Administrations concerning; postmasters of the fourth class and their civil service status? Roosevelt placed the fourth class postmasters In certain districts un<er rfce civil service. Taft extended

1 lh e order and Wilson modified the order by an order that such postmasters should take examinations to qualify for their positions. On what day of the week was Jan. 16, 1879? Thursday. Rover’s Chant By BERTON BRALEY LET’S go roll, roll, rolling down the road. Tramp, tramp, tramping down the trail! Oh. we ll roam. roam. roam, till we come back home, Greeting every rover with a hail, hail, hail! Let's go blow, blow, blowing with the wind. Swing, swing, swinging on along. Oh. we may not know where to go go. go. But the beat beat, beat of our faring feet Is the drum for our marching song. UNDER the vault of the sky overarching. We shall go marching, marching, marching, j Over the hilltop and down in the hollow, Following paths that the wanderers tollow; : Who has he heart and the soul of a rover. Weary of doing things over and over? ! Let him be one of us. treading the loam. Round the wide world, round the wide world. Round the wide world and home! COME, come, come along, along with us. Hum. hum. hum a roving song with us! j Sun. wind and ram and the free road before 118. Hark to the beat of the chorus: Let s go roil. roll, rolling down the road. Tramp, tramp, tramping down the trail. For well roam, roam, roam, till we come hack home. Greeting every rover with a hail. hail, hail! (Uopyright. 1923. NEA Service!

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EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief. FRED ROMER PETERS, Editor. ROY W. HOWARD, President. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Manager.

Is Modern Sex Fiction Harmful? Woman Editor Says ‘No’ —Medical Expert Declares It Is Menace

By EDWARD THIERRY NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—ls a moral clean-up needed in the literature of today? Censorship? Or ostracization of snappy stories and novels? Friction grows as our fiction multiplies. Protests against sex stories are answered by defenders of them. Vice crusaders have dragged several books, and their authors and publishers, into court.

PROSECUTION: i4 T ITER ARY pretenders who I write sex novels and mag* ■*-"* azine stories of today are guilty of producing septic literature. “Such authors are as menacing to the public health, especially in this age of shifting moral standards, as a typhoid carrier. Our mental and physical health is endangered.” That is the burden of an editorial by Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, medical director of the Life Extension Institute, under the heading “The Putrid Pen.” in the forthcoming February issue of the institute’s magazine, “How to Live Journal.” Amplifying his opinions for NEA Service, Dr. Fisk said: "Books and magazines of this sep tic sex type appeal to an evil appetite. This appetite is not as widespread as some think: it is like the appetite for morphine: normal, healthy people do not crave it, but many become mentally infected and develop abnormal tendencies. Clinics and hospitals record the terrible effects. "This is an age of self indulgence, of luxury, of the new freedom—particularly for women—of precedents cast aside. Stories of love that are high minded, spiritualizing a human passion, create good. The other kind, haring a pathological trend, brutalize it and appeal only to the animal sense. “Magazines aping the miscalled genius of these cowardly attacks on our home circles add fuel to the fire. Young people get the yv’rong view of life from these extreme stories. Morbid Ideas are aroused and the high emotion of love Is dragged down into the mud of materiality. This is the wrong kind of sox education. "We possess a reserve of energy and emotion which must have an outlet. Some ge t it in adventure, mystery and defective stories. People used to condemn the dime novel

‘STOCK RIGHTS’ ME POT GUT TO FLEECE PUBLIC Subscription Scheme is Used to Sting Stockholders of Corporations, By EDWARD A. SCHWAB Chief Investigator National Vigilance Committee and Better Business Eu reau; for Eleven Years With Postoffice Inspection Service. NEW YORK. Feb. 3.—One of the recently conceived get rich-quick schemes which has been immensely suocessful is based on the. "subscrip tion rights” lure.

Suckers in this scheme have b>*en recruited from stockholders in well-known, legiti mate companies Among those re centjy victimized are stockholder.*: In some of America’s largest companies. The “rights” ruse Is new and it has a strong sales appeal because dividend-

E. A. SCHWAB paying? corporations with strong financial records sometimes allot valuable rights to their stockholders. Fake promoters of “subscription rights’’ start by organizing a promotion company under a name that looks like and sounds like the name of a well-known, established corporation. List of Stockholders By some devious means a list of the corporation’s stockholders is obtained. They are canvassed with a letter announcing that they have the right to subscribe to a certain allotment of stock before a given dare. A “rights” certificate Is sent, urg ing the stockholder to "return It promptly, properly indorsed, with remittance attached covering the number of shares subscribed to.” The sucker is confused by this hurry-up canvass. He buys under the false belief that, as a stockholder in an established corporation, he has an opportunity not open to the general public to buy additional stock in his cwn company, or shares probably Just as valuable, in what he thinks is a legitimate* subsidiary. Fake "subscription rights” stock usually is sold at $1 a share, with the promise that it will soon be on the curb market at $10 —which never happens. NEAT: Reloading. LOYAL LEGION BANQUET Indiana Cornmandery to Observe Lincoln’s Birthday. The Indiana Cornmandery Loyal Legion will observe Lincoln's birthday. Feb. 12, with a banquet at the Hotel Lincoln. Governor McCray, Senators Walter S. Chambers, Joseph M. Cravens and William E. English: Lieut. Gov. Emmett Branch, Raymond C. Morgan. Speaker of the House, and O. A. Ahlgren. Republican floor leader, will be guests.

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as spectacular, sensational. <-x ig gerated. Dime novels of the most, lurid type were harmless compared to tin* poison of today's sex stories “Two types of authors are guilty: the half-insane type, who think they are geniuses: and those who know what they are doing and de-

Woman Elected to Congress Is Friend to Working Girl

By GENE COHN SKA Staff Cnrreeaonitevt £VVN FRANCISCO, Keb. 3. Working girls of America have a “lady friend” in Congress now—an ex member of their sisterhood of toil. And politics has something entirely new in the election of Mrs. Mae Ella Nolan to the seat of her husband, tho late Congressman John I. Nolan. "They have not elected me, so much as they have declared in favor of the work my husband was carrying on when death took him,” Is Mrs. Nolan's attitude. "I was a working girl when I married John. I know what work is. That’s why my heart is with ihe working people—the girls, the child laborers, all the masses. ”1 favor light wines and beer. You see. I'm a liberal. Every one know John was.” President Harding may have originated the "front porch” cam paign, but Mrs. Nolan Introduced the “front parlor” campaign. She mado no speeches, ap peared at no meetings and met interested people only In her home.

W. P. G. Harding ‘Talked’ Into His Political Grave by Heflin

BY W. H. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON, Feß. 3. —You can talk a man to his political grave. Ask Tom Hefln if it is not so. Two years ago, Heflin strode into tho United States Senate and openly accused Gov. W. P. G. Harding of all the ills in the political and economic calendar, particularly witn driving the South to starvation and suicide through "criminal deflation of the money of the country,” as Heflin put it. At first .everybody laughed, par-

Capital Jokes BY BEN JOHNSON U. S. Representative From Kentucky, Fourth District.

NCE on a time I had recommended a young man for appointment under the civil service. The bureau chief 3aid at first that while the young man’s experience see mingly was good, h is knowledge was not great enough. Wh e n the young man passed the ex-

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amination at the head of the list, the bureau chief wrote to me that he thought the candidate's ability was adequate, but his experience was insufficient. I wrote to him that he reminded me of a judge I knew down South. The judge was not deeply learned and at one time he submitted a written opinion to a. lawyer and asked him what he thought of it. The lawyer replied: “Well, judge, I’d say that if your opinion is right, then your reasons are wrong, amißif your reasons are right, then yourpinion Is wrong.”

Some books have been suppressed; others have been acquitted. A famous physician lios now fired a broadside against what he calls “septic literature” and, in an interview with NEA Service, says sex literature menaces the public health. A woman editor of one of the many magazines that have built up big circulations during the last few years ou frank fiction of love says sex stories are not cheap and sordid and harmful. The prosecution and the defense are given here:

liberately prostitute art foi commercial reward. We can spare such writers: they breed unhnppiuesa and disease. They say their works depict -life? Go visit Bellevue Hospital or the nearest insane asylum and see such lif■■ in its disgusting phases: what good does it do you?"

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MRS. MAE ELLA NOLAN The campaign was conducted entirely by friends of her late husband.

ticularly the friends and admirers ot Governor I-larding. But Heflin kept going and won the reputation foi being tho Senate s most continuous talker. His forte was telling funny negro stories. He is the greatest negro story teller in Congress. Then, after each, he would roar like Cato, the Censor, “W. P. G. Harding must be destroyed.” Well, anyway. Governor Harding hasn't been reappointed head of the Federal reserve system, and Tom Heflin wears his broadest smile these days.

Public Opinion

Woiild Compel Reverence To thn Editor of The Timex The next lime the flag goes by and some man allows his hat to remain on, will the Legionnaires who now plead for each one to observe Memorial day in his own manner attempt to force that man to remove his hat? Why couldn’t he plead self-de-termination to reverence the flag in his own way? According to my observation, this country needs an honest-to-God cam paign for patriotism! of this is, I think, one of the outstanding evils of our time. More reverence for our forefathers and what they did (even if compulsory) should do our State and Nation good. I noticed the pitiful handful of people attending ihe exercises on the Monument steps on Memorial day. The comparison of men in trenches fighting for their lives and countries with men in autos competing for big prizes, newspaper space, etc., seems mighty thin to me. If auto racing interferes with our patriotism, then, in memory of our fathers, let’s cut the sport first. RAY ALLEN.

DEFENSE: iiOM’IN stories are not, as many people think, cheap and smutty. People will get over this idea in time. “In literature people today are demanding directness, frankness, truth. They are crying—at least the younger generation is—for life, more life, fife as it is.” ’That is the view of Miss Eleanor Kamos, editor of “Saucy Stories,” one of the breezy magazines published in the same office with "Smart Set,” made famous by 11. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Readers and contributors who imagine magazine editors to b% graybeards are mistaken in the editor of “Saucy Stories.” Miss Ramos is young, good looking, tall, willowy and has bobbed hair of copper-red. “The swinging of the literary pendulum toward sex stories is logical," she said, explaining her editorial viewpoint for NEA Service, “I presume that a. psychoanalyst would say all love stories are sex stories. I am sorry to find that some think them objectionable. "As the editor of a so-called sex magazine, I think of the sex story as one that treats of love from the realistic, rather than the romantic, angle. "Realism has vivified the arts and crafts of today. Gingerbread decorations have passed from our homes and furnishings: women have simplified their clothing—and discarded much of it. In literature the demand now is for frankness. Witness the popularity of ’Main Street,’ Moon Calf,' ’Cytherea.’ “This demand naturally enters the fiction magazine field. The more preteniious magazines do not dare jeopardize their circulation and advertising by dangerous experiments. They do not understand their public, and they take no sporting chances; they stick to the sturdy old themes. "It is in t'ne modern sex magazine that the writer with a novel and beautiful experiment will receive a warm welcome, and it is here only that he will get a public "

TAXIfiG SECURITIES WILL MAKE MONEY ‘SCARCE AND HIGH’ Farm Loan System Would Be Put Out of Business, Quick Says, By HERBERT QUICK I talked with it Congressman last night. “What’s your idea," ha asked, “on this movement to amend the United States Constitution so as to abolish tax-exempt securities?” “I’m in the minority,” said I, “us usual. I’m opposed to th© taxation of any securities. Taxing the securities which are now tax free is a movement fro ma correct principle, so far as we have gone, to an Incorrect one. Taxing securities will put an end to cheap money to the fanners through the Federal farm loan system. "Therefore, the Farm Mortgage Bankers’ Association, which sells mortgages mainly to insurance companies, trust companies and savings banks, in whose vaults they are very I lightly taxed, are in favor of the ] amendment, because under it they could put the farm loan system out of ! business.” “I see that,” said the Congressman. Wall Street Opposed “Then again,” said I, “here’s an I article by Leo Sack, which shows: that good roads construction reachedj its high point last year. All these j roads were built through tax free j bonds. The railroads bate the motor 1 truck and the flivver. So the roads ; are opposed to tax-free bonds, and so ! is Wall Street. Thq'aholition of tax ! free bonds Is demanded by the verj people who are held up in argument j as profiting by them.” “I see that.” said the Congressman. “but how about the farmers’ organizations? They seem to be for the amendment.” “They are either ignorant or misguided," said I, “or perfidiously led. But after you have voted for this rrnendment and it passes the States, and you go back to your fanners who will be paying 7 to 10 per cent on their loan, as against 5% now, I don’t envy you when you face the farmres.” /

People Demand It "I believe you're right,” said he, "but I’ve got to vote for the submission of the amendment. My people demand it. But I believe it’s wrong. The wrong kind of people are pushing the amendment.” "It’s false doctrine,” I went on. “When you tax evidences of indebtedness, the lender merely add3 the tax to his interest rates. You can’t stop him by usury laws or in any other way. He’ll find some place where he can lend his money at the economic rata jf he has to have the marines called out to make such countries as Haiti or Cuba borrow from him. So taxing securities will only make money saucer and higher in this country.” “I believe you’re right,” said the Congressman. <*■

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BOSTON woman shot two men, so now she can’t plead she mistook them both for her husband. • • *■ A real mad looking fellow tells us highway robbers sell gas. Lawyers are debating if a man has any right to drink in his home when the question is has he any left? • • • Pershing says airplanes are not so expensive. He should point out we already have the air.

Rumor that girls will wear knickers is three years old this spring. • • * Cincinnati woman of 57 is a fine swimmer except for finding it hard to get her picture in the paper. * * * Health hint: Get all run down and you may be wound up. A ben you think the kids are noisy just suppose you lived in Holland, where they wear wooden shoes. Krupp’s profits dropped five million in three years. Wouldn’t it be terrible if vours did that ? Some men are better than others, but that is easy. Our opinion of Europe is lhat we hope it is true about the Atlantic being 3,000 miles wide. Reliable statistics show every ball team will win the pennant. • • • Some men are lucky. Florida alligator bit off a man’s wooden leer • • • Can you borrow enough money to pay your income tax? • * • Mr. McNeelev of Seottsburg, Ind., shot, an eagle. This will teach eagles to leave Mr. McNeelev alone. • • • Pittsburgh woman who wondered if the new servant would run away with the silver found she would. • • • In Quantico, Ya.. a marine was selling uniforms. Maybe ho thought he was our merchant marine? One corner of an eternal ftriangle usually gets knocked off. • * * Os course we favor the French, but how would you like to have fifty thousand collectors camped in your front yard? • • * ' Entirely too many hired hands are wishing the boss would make them mad enonugh to quit. 5 eges not S6OO from the Gasoline Coal Company in Toledo. Perhaps the'coal was in a secret drawer.

Money Changers of America Profit by Chaos in Europe

By R. F. PAINE An American who prides himself on being a sort of super-economst got off this, recently: “You are wrong in your idea of the effect of European disorders upon America’s prosperity. If those European peoples go to fighting, they will produce little, certainly no surpluses, and they will all have to come to America to buy the life-necessaries.” Isn't that a glorious thought? Isn't it profound economics? All we have to do is to sit still, watchfully waiting and avoiding alliances, wise, justifiable. humane, or otherwise, and when our fellow-men get to cutting throats and starving and dying off like flies in a frost, raise our prices erd skin 'em alive! It looks very simple. It teems with prospects of American prosperity. Christian America can enjoy shat prosperity—but not until she wholly forgets God almighty! But, isn't that the exact attitude of America today? Selfish Nation What is America but a thoroughly selfish Nation standing on the ocean shore expecting the awful storm to cast up rich flotsam at her feet, regardless of the corpses of men, women and children that will be washed up with the riches? Shall her schools, her churches, her colleges, her newspapers, her Wasnington, make no move, while the Four

$15,000 Jobs Are Spurned by Americans, Says Ritz Chef

By E. R. HIGGINS SEA .v m ice tariff Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 3. American boy, ha not like to be chef.” said Chef Louis Diat in the glittering corridors of the RitzCarlton kitchen which he rules at a reputed salary of $16,000 a year. This is response to the question why the highly paid job of hotel chef is seldom filled in this country by nativeborn cooks. "Zee American boy ho like he engineer. builder. He like be outdoors in fresh air. I have no American boy in my kitchen. Nossing but French, Italian, Russian. The distinguished master of the kitchen who paints his masterpieces on the aristocratic palates of the diners at the Ritz, ushered me into his plain but serviceable office. He is tall, handsome, soft-spoken. We sat. “In zis country,” he sighed, “the chef is just cooli —In France he is an artist.” This is what he had to say about his art. The hours are long, the pay is small in the beginning, .and the air is stuffy in kitchens. To become a full-fledged chef in sixteen years would be to have rare luck. A chef must be a sort of doctor, knowing the effect of foods and sauces upon his patients in the dining room. He should have a delight in the discovery of new dishes from every country. He must be a good supervisor. Monsieur Diat commenced the study of the cooking art by paying 300 francs for the privilege of working fourteen hours a day for two years with no pay. in the pastry department of a famous French hotel. He thinks Americans know little of the art of cooking. They use too little

TOM SIMS SAYS:

Horsemen mount their steeds to ride down the rest of mankind? War, Death, Famine, Pestilence, with America's soul fixed on profits? The powder and gun makers, the meat packers, the militarists, the money-changers may see in it only a matter of economics, but how do the American people, as a people, feel? Americans are a people of generous heart, high principle, and noble aims. But they lack courageous leadership. Government “Crawfishes” Our Government at Washington accomplishes nothing save earning a reputation for avoiding doing anything positive. It seems to take a step forward today but crawfishes tomorrow, and heaven only knows where it will be next day. This newspaper presents a plan for an international conference, under America's leadership, for a possible change in the present horrible world status. Whatever that plan’s weaknesses. note this fact well—it is a radical change from the attitude of American thought and effort in doing nothing. Fellow Americans, let's drop our quibbles and pettifogging and try* to put this plan through. The Lord has blessed us as no other people on earth. While His other children kill, starve or rot with pestilence by the million, let's not say to Him, “I'm not my brother's keeper!”

! fresh vegetables— 100 much canned | food. "Prohibition? Ah. zat is jus fool- ! ishness? But zis country will always |be dry. It Is good business. Ze wine j grapes of California sell much better now." PACKER MERGER WILL BE ENDED BY MARCH 1 Formal Announcement Will Be Made Before That Time. ! It it Inited Press CHICAGO. Feb. 3.—Formal announcement of the purchase of Morris & Cos. by Armour &■ Cos. will be made before the end of this month, it was learned today. The Armour concern has until March 1 to complete the $30,000,000 deal. 90 DAYS FOR BLIND TIGER Wilmoth Sentences James Wilson; Fines Two Others. James Wilson, colored, 348 W. Tenth St., was sentenced to the Indiana State Farm for ninety days and fined S3OO and costs by Judge Wilmeth in city court for operating a blind tiger. John Yocum, colored, same address, was fined $lO on the same charge. Floyd Scott, 446 W. : Washingtonn St., was fined SIOO and j costs. Charged with operating a ‘’bootleggers’ club." James F. Fennel, proprietor of a soft-drink parlor a: I'>2 W. Washington St.. an<- seven of his alleged “club members ' were tried on blind tiger charges. The case was taken under advisement until Fee. 24.