Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1923 — Page 4

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IF the boys you meet Feb. 8 seem to be raising more of a rumpus than usually, it’ll be in celebration of an event very important to

BOY SCOUT WEEK

young America. The Boy Scouts movement was incorporated and officially launched in our country Feb. 8, 1910, two years after Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell started the organization in England. The general purpose of .the Boy Scouts is to train lads in good citizenship, manhood and self-reliance. Its founders, displaying considerable knowledge of psychology, assured its success by adopting uniforms for the members. Man or boy, let him wear a uniform and he’ll do almost anything. Some of our big national -movements that fail might be successful if an attractive uniform went with membership. Maybe that’s the way to enforce prohibition—officially permit abstainers to wear something like a red coat. Did it ever occur to you that the uniform is the first image that comes to your mind at mention of Boy Scouts? Few of us have an accurate idea of the values the young generation gets from the Boy Scouts. A scout starts as a tenderfoot. then works up, by merit and ability, to second-class scout, finally to first-class. To be a first-class scout, a boy has to be able to swim fifty yards. He must have at least $2 in a savings bank. He must iFnow how to wig-wag signals by flags. He has to be able to administer first-aid in case of accidents such as severed arteries and drowning. He must know how to read maps and make them, handle an ax, judge distances and be able to cook for campers. The Boy Scout pledges obedience to parents, kindness to animals, courtesy to all. He has instilled into him a high code of honor and practical applications of the Golden Rule and Good Samaritanism. The best thing done by the Boy Scouts is that it takes its members back to nature. The closer we keep to nature, the better for our nation. There is always hope for a civilization whose boys are prowling in the woods, hiking cross-country, studying birds and flowers and breathing fresh air. In our half-mad swarming in cities, we have given the boy a raw deal, stripped him of his rightful playgrounds, caged him up like an animal and handicapped him with unhealthful environment. For all this, the Boy Scouts movement is in the nature of an antidote. This would be a whole lot better country to live in if the grfwn-nps started a similar orgarization to develop the same ideals of brotherhood and get us out into the open country occasionally, away from filth, poisonous air, maddening racket and nervous tension. We need an organization of Men Scouts and Women Scouts.

yr OST of the noise in the world is unnecessary. |\/I No brains are required to make noise. No XYJL doubt thousands of people went mad hear-

SMOKE AND NOISE

ing the tick-tock of grandfather’s clock Every time I hear a street car with a flat wheel proceeding on its thumping way I feel my reason totter. To ride in a vehicle so equipped is to take years, perhaps centuries, from a life which I modestly believe to be of great value to mankind.” So says Meredith Nicholson, Indianapolis author, in 'a recently published dissertation on the great American twentieth century bugbear—noise. \ More hospital cases of nervous breakdown than any other disease, reports Dr. Charles R. Lambert of Columbia University. He says one person in every ten is treated for this trouble at some time or other during life. Often nervousness is mental or psychic. Mostly it is a penalty for the noise, rush, battling, worry, filth, congestion and smoke laden atmosphere of “civilization.” Once Indianapolis and other American cities have conquered the smoke nuisance no time should be lost in banishing noise. You long for a quiet city with rubber tired street ears. That is much nearer to realization than a horseless city appeared to most minds to be thirty years ago.

AN Indiana man has a letter written by his grandmother in 1830 telling about a friend who just had all her teeth pulled out to

PULLING OUT ALL TEETH

cure her of rheumatism. Aud here were we "hinting it was a fresh blown fad by the surgeons and dentists. The auto speedometer, in principle, is 266 years old. Rack in 1657 Evelyn wrote in h’s diary: “I went to see Colonel Blount, who showed me the application -of the ‘way-wiser’ to a coach, exactly measuring miles and showing them by an index as we went along. It had three circles, one pointing to the number of rods, another to the miles, by ten to 1.000, with all the subdivisions of quarters. Very pretty and useful.” A lot of things we consider new are “old as the hills.” Ideas, especially.

Long Distance Airplane Flight Is From San Diego to Indianapolis

QUESTION'S ANSWERED V o*u can an answer to any ques tlon of fact or Information by writtin* to the Indiananoli' Times' Waehmrton Bureau. 1322 New York Ave. Washington D. C. enc osinr 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot Ik- given. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal repl ea. Although the bureau does not reouire it. it wi'l assure prompter replies if readers win confine Questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various subjects are desired.—EDlTOß What i* the record long distance flight by airplane? The record lons distance flight Is 2.060 miles made by Limits' Mcßeady and Kelly from San Diego, Cal., to Ft. BenJ. Harrison, Indiana, The distance between these two points Is not 2,060 miles, but these aviators trav eled that distance In going Yver mountains, etc. t What Is the meaning of the name Troitt? , Truitt is probably a derivation f;nm the word “Trudje.” a term common In the Netherlands, which means "spear maid.” * What time of the day is the best physical work done? < Physical ability rises to a h?gh point at 11 a. m., dreps at noon, and then reaches another high point |>efween 3 and 6 p. m., psychological tests show. When ant! by whom were false teeth invented? 1 Prior to the disc wery of the method of making porcelain teeth, the dentist made use of human teetfi, anlnuj

teeth (those of cattle and sheep), hippopotamus tusks, elephant and other Ivory and bone. The human and an! mal teeth were fastened In the mouth by ligatures of gold or sliver wire, unbleached thread, sea grass, or silk worm gut. The hippopotamus tusks or elephant Ivory was carved into single teeth or blocks to replace lost teeth. The use of porcelain as a tna terlal for teeth was first proposed by Fauchard In 1723; but the manufacture of teeth was first actually accomplished by Dubois, a dentist of Paris and Duehateau, a French chem Ist. It Is believed, however, that Dr. Gardette of Philadelphia first used gold as a base for teeth in or before 1787. What is tho rhyme about the Purple Cow and who is the author? The author of the rhyme is Gelett Burgess and Is as follows: The Purple Cow (Reflection on a Mythic Beast Who’s quite Remarkable at least) I never saw a Purple Cow; I never Hope to see one; But T can tell you any how, I’d rather see than be one. he wrote: Cinq Ana A pres (Confessions; arid a portrait, too Upon a Background that I Rued Ah. yes I wrote the “Purple Cow’’— I’m sorry now. I wrote it! Rut I can tell you anyhow. I’ll f <lll You if you quote It.

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Justice Is Th warted in A merican Courts Declares Jurist and Dean of Law Schools

Greed and Love of Easy Living Has / Caused Moral Breakdown,

By XEA Srr-rice AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. s.—Greed, love of easy living and a breakdown of moral fiber have made perjury so dominant a factor In American courts that justtice Is entirely thwarted. That statement cornea from Judge John C. Townes, fifteen years dean of the law school of the University of Texas and a lawyer. jurist, writer and educator of Nation-wide reputation. And so deadly In earnest is Townes that, despite his 70 yeai-s, he has resigned his office as dean and will go hack to teaching so that he will be more Intimately in touch with law students—the lawyers and judges of the future. By this and by writing and lecturing he hopes to do his bit to combat the menace he is convinced is undermining American justice. “Justice Impossible" "It is almost impossible for courts to render justice today,” Townes says. "Time was when men preferred to have their necks broken, rather than to perjure themselves. Times j have changed. “It Is a well-known fact 'without ! testimony prosecution Is Impossible, j And when inen and women perjure ! themselves, coldly, ealculatingly and cleverly, truthful testimony is Impossible to get. “It takes moral courage to tell truth, and moral courage Is grlev ously lacking. “Love of easy living Is causing lawyers to abandon the ethics of

I Am My Brother’s Keeper A Sermonette for Ministers, Educators, All Americans Who Believe in God,

By R. F. PAINE TANARUS, AKE to your hearts tha parahlo of Matthew xxv. It runs like! this: “1-I—For the Kingdom of Heaven is! as a man traveling Into a far coun- ! try, who called his servants and de- : livered unto them his goods. “15—And unto one he gave five i talents ,to another two, an dto another one: to every man according to his i several ability." When he returned from his Journey, ; the man found that the first tw<\ servants had doubled their talents by ! judicious use of their original capital. • ; and he said: “Thou good and faithful j servants!’’ But the third servant had * j hid his talent in the earth, being! strictly for safety first, and the man j ordered the talent taken from liim, as; he had not made It serve any man, orj j thing, or purpose. To which, among His children, has j the Lord entrusted the most “tal- j j ents”? Not talents of silver, as In j the parable, but the talents of oppor- i ! tunlty. To America! Blessed With Material Tilings Behold her millions of acres of for ; tile soli, her rich mines, het vast for ests, her rivers of life giving water, j her beneficent climate, her multitude of opportunities for progress! Have any other children of God our i churches, our schools, our hospitals, our institutions for the needy and dependent? No. Has any other naY ! tlon our average of happinees? No. j j Hrs any other people our blessings of j : every or any description? No. To America the Ix>rd has entrusted I \ talents beyond number. They ere | S talents of opportunity, of duty to j i serve, of love tow'ard all His children, j Again hatred, greed, want, rage j among our fellow-children of God in

your If naturally | Vitamin and mineral elements are There’s a crispness and flavor part of the splendid nutriment that delight the taste—and there’s which Nature stores in the field natural health-building goodness grains for nourishing and vitalizing tl ia t ma ] ccs Grape-Nuts with cream the human body, or a complete food—and won* Grape-Nuts, made from wheat derfully delicious! and malted barley', has for over twenty' five years supplied vitamin Grape-Nuts is truly economical and other elements necessary for because a small quantity provides perfect nutrition. unusual nourishment. {JS 1 Grape=Nuts for health fkv “There’s a Reason ** Sold by grocers everywhere! Made by Postum Cereal Company, Inc. Battle Creek, Mich. ’ *

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their profession and the dictates of their own consciences. Even the public is ‘in on the secret that most testimony nowaday - Is framed in ad vanoe by attorneys, the witnesses inprely telling on the stand what tneir lawyers order them to say. Result of War “The ‘hangover’ from the war has left its disastrous effect.. For four years the world was removed front the sphere of moral domination and was ruled by physical strength, by

Europe. Again wholesale -turder begins. Again mothers iide their daughters from the raviaher, or clasp starving babes to their shrunken breasts. Again millions starve and freeze Again Might throttles Right Again bloody war threaten* Christian civilization. What of great, prosperous America and her talents? Shall she, too, dig a hole In the earth and hide them, as did tiiat selfish coward of the parable? What of her churches, her (schools, her believers In the Creator of all? Shall she, too. say to the Ix>rd: “I know thee a a hard man. reaping Where thou hast not sown, and I was afraid?” Plan Is Offered Friends, the Scripps family of American newspapers baa offered you a plan, in an effort to lead your brothers from chaos to order and peace, to rescue hope from despair. Ail the talents are not to be hidden In a hole In the earth. Pick flaws In that plan, as pleases you. That plan is the only sincere, courageous, visi hie effort to use your God given talents, and He does not demand success but that we of human frailty give the very best that’s in us. It says “I am my brother's keeper,” end the lord will not turn away His face. To him who hath the spirit to serve shall be given talents. To him who hath not shall be taken even that which he hiith. Will the Influence of American ! ministers, educators and believers be exerted for that plan, upon Washington? Shall their talents be hidden? Shall God’s own country, America, say, “We’re fat and safe, and the Devil take the.

brute might It is hard for people to recover their equilibrium. "Take the lawyer. If any man should uphold the sovereignty of the constitutional Government, that man is a lawyer. But, instead, many lawyers have allowed themselves to be hoodwinked into being the enemies of the courts and justice by allying themselves with hooded courts. Property Rights Sac red “There is growing in this country a feeling that the rights of property are more sacred than the rights of life and limb. In a recent decision one of the highest courts of the land virtually declared that all such was lawful and as it should be. It is this feeling, evil arid destructive, that I hate and I am going to fight against. . “We need in our courtrooms, in our public life and In our private life more of the rugged honesty which was the priceless treasure of the people thirty-five years ago.”

Are We Liars? Do we Americans tell untruths today more glibly than we did thirty-five years ago? Has our conception of honesty degenerated so far that th* machinery of justice has been ren <l, rod useless by the rust of per jury? Judge John C. Townes, Austin, Texas, one of America’s most learned jurists, thinks so. Ho says: “It is almost impossible for courts to render justice today. We need in our courtrooms more of the. rugged honesty which formerly was our priceless traaa ure.” That's an Indictment of the moral fabric of all American society Are we guilty or not guilty?

AUTHORITIES SAY LARGE DOPE RING IS REVEALED Conviction of Woman for Shoplifting le'atls to Assertion. An extensive ring of organized dope ! peddlers and shoplifters working m ! ■ >hio and Indiana was revealed in the Investigation in the case of Blanche Berger, 33, Toledo, Ohio, sentenced hero to a term in the Indiana woman's prison, authorities said today. Mrs. Berger was found guilty In Criminal Court of stealing an Imported dress from the S. B. Whitman Company. 21 N Illinois St. Operatives of the Quigley-l.lyland : Agency investigated for the Stores Mutual Protective .Association. Con Sessions were obtained, they said, that headquarters of the gang centered in Toledo In a man who transported narcotics from Canada in a special contrivance under the h<x>d of his automobile. Mrs. Berger admitted on the witness stand that she had served time In a Federal penitentiary for attempting to smuggle drugs to her sick husband. MRS. MARY HEARN DEAD Burial at Mattoon, lll.—Throe Children Survive. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Hearn. 86, who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Spencer, 20 N. Oriental St., were to be held at the home at 9:30 a. m. today. Burial was to be at Mattoon, 111., wh'-re she was born. Mrs. Hearn had lived here twelve years. Beside Mrs. Spencer, another daughter, Mrs, 1,. M. Price of Shelhyville, and a son, W. E. Hearn of Mat- . toon, survive. r , - - - - ■ Rite Plans Largo Claes A large class of Master Masons Is j assured as '■andtdates for the convocation and reunion of the Ancient Ac- : ceptod Scottish Bite of Free Masonry ] March 20-23. The time limit for pe- 1 titlons is Feb. 14. Hundreds of Masons of high degree will attend the j council of deliberation meeting on March 19,

WORTHY LIFE IS BEST MONUMENT, DECLARER PASTOR Subject of Sermon Is ‘Preparing for Your Funeral,’ Declaring that “a good life is man’s best monument” Rev. W,. E. Cissna, j pastor of the W. Washington St. M. E. Church, In a sermon Sunday on “Preparing For Your Funeral," urged all to live so that when people “view you In the casket they will think of your good deeds and not of your meanness.” "Many a man has died without making a will or making some dis posal of his property,” Rev. Cissna said. “Law suits follow and the good family spirit is broken and children often become enemies and separated i for life. All business affairs should | he ready like a cashier’s book for au j ditor at any moment. Also every man who believes in his church and wishes it to continue should make some provision for the same in the disposal of his property. It is the greatest sin of a man's life to be wealthy and die and leave nothing ! for th<- great benevolent causes of the church. “No sadder sight is to be seen than a widow and little children standing around a casket, left destitute. Every man and especially a Christian man should provide for his own in case of his death. If he is without means and property today there are many kinds of insurance and brotherhood help that may be secured whWi will not leave a family at the mercy of society. For a man to fail to do this is as the Word hath said, ‘Denied the faith and worse than an infidel.’ Also a man who has some property or business investment or a little home partially paid for should not leave it so incumbered as to cause his loved one to lose the same to his debtors. Every man should carry enough insurance to cover all his liabilities. Shows flow One May Escape the Fear of Death “Every man should try- to live a worthy life, -,q that he would not be ashamed to die, Jt is certainly a disgrace to society, to fannly and to God for some men to Jive and dio as they do Will the community say it is better off when you are gone? Will your friends give a sigh of re lief when you ar,- dead? Will neigh hors and lodge brothers send flowers because they think they must and not because they want too. knowing you arc not worthy of a green sprig?

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DEFINITION The praette* of Chiropractic consists of the adjustment, with the hands, of the movable segments of the spinal column to normal position for the purpose of removing the cause of the disease.

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•“It is a gift of nature.” you reply. Quite right! Health is a natural boon—the rich gift of Mother Nature herself. The true road to health, then, is through natural methods of health-building, a simple method that enables the system to right itself. All scientists agree nowadays that the real health-building power Is in the body itself and needs onlj to he brought Into proper action to renew health completely. That s why so many, many people who have tried other methods and received no benefit get. back their health by CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS The Old and New Who would wish to go back to the old days of the tallow candle, the horse street car. the farm plow drawn by a yoke of oxen, the days when the telephone and telegraph were unknown, the days when, instead of riding in a train, the only locomotion, espeelallv in the west, was a prairie schooner? We talk about “good old days,” but very few would wish to do without the modern conveniences of the Twentieth Century. Why not keep pace with the times and. instead of clinging to the “Indian Medicine Man” superstition, investigate the DRUGLESS HEALTH SCIENCE OF CHIROPRACTIC? An open-minded investigation will surprise you. TRY CHIROPRACTIC FIRST (RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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A young lady tells us Charlie Chaplin is engaged, so she intends asking her fellow if he can imitate Charlie Chaplin. * * * v -' This European trouble is caused by all the countries being entirely too close to each other. • • • Lew Dockstader, minstrel, slipped on the ice in New Jersey and rattled his bones considerably.

Japan has about 00.000 American frogs and a reader asks if she will make beer from the hops. No. • * ¥ Tennessee mountaineer has lived 220 years. What a lot of tobacco for any one man to chew! • • • Wives can never form a union because very few husbands can afford to put on three shifts. • • • Crowds you see arguing on street corners are not discussing Europe. They are deciding how to get across the street.

A good life is your best monument. It will live when your grave-stone is rotten and moldered to dust. God has put us here for a purpose: our friends and loved ones expect us to be worth while. Shall we be a disappointment? Have we made this world better or worse by having lived in it? We should leave it better than v/hen we found it. Shall we be mourned as a loss? “Everybody likes to know when we go if we left any testimony as to outhope of the future life. A man’s life is one comforting blessing. If men only knew the joy and blessedness it would give their mothers, wives, children and friends for them to make a confession of their Savior and live a Christian life, they would certainly do so. The way some men live is painful to many sad hearts who love them. “Every funeral is sad. but for a rnan to die and leave no life testimony and no word of hope, makes every funeral doubly sad. It is pathetic to hear the words of loved ones to ministers who are trying to put the best side to the departed s life by telling about his going to some church Sunday school ! when a boy or dig up some old facts about one tim* when he belonged to a church. Every man should leave a clear testimony behind him that he ! was prepared to die. i “Dive so that when men view you In your casket they will think of your good deeds and not of your meanness," he said. Thief Rides in Coupe A porch climber operated Sunday night. Saul Oppenheim. 3416 Broadway, reported the thief entered his home by dinting the front porch. A coupe was used by the burglar in escaping.

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Chiropractic Restores Health Health Is the greatest wealth. It is important, then, to see about ychir health first of all. Get back the strength, the ambition, the vitality, the brain power, the old snap and hustle of perfect health again, and then—what can hold you back? “But how shall I go about finding health?” you ask. Avery natural and prudent question. The answer is best reached by a little lgic and common sense. Where Does Health Come From?

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M’CRAY TO TELL OF REFORMATORY 1 Republican Legislators Meet Tonight, Governor McCray will explain to ; members of the House tonight “the necessity for an appropri- ! ation of $2,000,000 to be applied to tha ! cost of constructing the new Indiana Reformatory' at Pendleton.” - The meeting will be a reply to Democratic legislators who hava pledged themselves to vote against tha proposed appropriation. They dfrnand, cancellation of present contracts. Trustees of the reformatory, in a reply to statements of Senator Walter S. Chambers, Democratic Stata : chairman, fear the fight will undermine the present bi-partisan system |cf control of State institutions. They i insist many cost figures quoted by* ! Chambers were exaggerated and misj leading. Discuss Traffic I City councilmen who discussed tha proposed traffic ordinance at a meet- ! ing Saturday without making a decision will hold another meeting. Man Robbed Near Home Deteetiyes are searching for two (colored inen who robbed J. H. Fort’. 2331 Martlndale Ave.. of SB, Sundayi night. He was near his home. *

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