Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1923 — Page 4
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CHARm' ■yT is irony of fate that the coal mine at DawBEGINS 8 son. N. M., in which the lives of 120 unforAT HOME X tunate men were snuffed out on Friday, is owned by the enormously rich PhelpsDodge Corporation. Irony? Why? Because one of the chief owners and directors of this tremendous mine is Cleveland Hoadley Dodge of New York City. And who. pray, is Cleveland lloadley Dodge? Why, he is listed in Who's Who as brother of the late Grace Hoadley Dodge, trustee and director of a long line of business, industrial, educational and philanthropic institutions, including Roberts College of Constantinople and Carnegie Institute of Washington, and is treasurer and chief moving spirit of the American committee on Near East relief! Every Protestant church of America knows the name of Cleveland Dodge, for it is he who has personally guaranteed the cost of administering the millions which have been raised for relief of the Armenian refugees. i To cars for suffering humanity in the Near East or anywhere is Christian and fine. But to have insisted on safer working conditions in his non-union New Mexico coal mine would have been even finer and it would have still been Christian. FORESTS A Tan averasre price of $4.45 the acre, the OR \ “national forest reservation commission has WARSHIPS JL JL authorized the purchase of 68,566 acres more land for Eastern national forests. *This increases the total acreage for this purpose to 2,200,000 acres of cut over lands in twelve national forests in eleven States from Maine to Arkansas. The total expenditure for this magnificent work of conservation of an infinitesimal part of our vast national resources amounts to a shade under $10,000,000. including interest, from the time the work was started a decade ago. This, it may be observed in passing, is just one-tenth the amount required to construct and launch a super-dreadnaught of the type known as capital ships in the navies of atiy of the three i principal powers of the world! A great man is reported to have said on one occasion: “You j can not fool all the people all of the time!” Nevertheless, militarism seems to have come mighty close to that accomplishment in the past. HORSE "F~T is now perfectly clear that no matter what SENSE sort of bill, if any, finally emerges from the NEEDED X. Senate Public Lands Committee, no possible relief for the New Mexican Pueblo Indians may be expected from this Congress. The Bursum bill pass, even in its present emasculated form. Publicity has thoroughly discredited it. The bill providing for a special court of claims, sponsored by tlie General Federation of Women’s Clubs of America, and known as the ‘ Jones bill.” cannot even get a favorable report in committee. Is government to confess its utter impotence to provide justice in so simple a-problem? All proponents and opponents of pending legislation agree the Indian is entitled to justice. What is the answer? Bimply this—a Secretary of the Interior with horse 6ense and a Rooseveltian passion for the square deal. It has been brought out in the hearings that of the 3,000 non-Indian claims on Pueblo grants, at least 90 per cent are tn>. n site lots or very ancient holdings, which the Indians do not question. These could and should he eliminated at onee from the discussion. No one wants to disturb these “titles.” There may possibly be 300 cases to adjudicate. There are only eighteen Pueblo communities left to worry about. An intelligent Secretary of the Interior could determine in a few weeks the status of every claim in every Pueblo. WHAT A BOCT six billion dollars’ worth of building \* ELL / \ will be completed by Americans this year. esBUILD jL_ timates < opper and Brass Research Association. Here's how it’ll be divided: For each $634 for industrial buildings, $960 will be spent for apartment houses, $406 for churches, $720 for dwellings (homes), $456 for hospitals, $652 for hotels, $616 for office buildings, $252 for public buildings, $124 for public garages and $l,lBO for schools. The largest expenditure is for schools—and should be.
Sam Gompers Has Only Been Ousted Once as Labor Leader
(JI ESTIOXS ANSWERER Tou can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C., enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal 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 tequire it. It will assure prompter replies it readers will confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter If answers on various subjects are desirc-d. How many presidents have there been of the American Federation of Labor? There have been only two. John Mcßride defeated Gompers in ISO 4 m Denver, Colo. But in 1895 Gompers was re-elected and has served as president ever since. How many years was Moset-leadt-r of the Israelites? Moses was In authority over the Israelites, it is estimated, for about forty years. Who wrote "Main Street" and of what value is It? "Main Street" Is a late novel by Sinclair Lewis. Since the publication of this book he has written another novel called Babbitt. The books are remarkable in their accurate description of the American small town and the insight into the small town character. What is the temjterature of the electric spark that is produced in the automobile spark plug? It is Impossible to assign any definite temperature to such a thing as an electric spark. The fundamental definition of temperature a presupposes a considerable volume of material in which the molecules are in a state of statistical equilibrium with one another, and the- temperature is ‘hen proportional to the average kinetic energy of the molecule. In a -park we have a temporary state of affairs in which such equilibrium is uot reached. The ultimate particles >-e a considerable extent not mole-
cules, but are electrically charged temperatures, consequently it is not possible to assign a numerical value of temperature under such conditions. The heat energy in an ignition spark varies from .01 watt .second, according to the type of ignition system used. What is the chemical formula for gelatin? The formula for gelatin Is about 18.3 per cent nitrogen; 0.6 per cent sulphur; 50 per cent of carbon; 7 per cent of hydrogen and 23 per cent of oxygen. Who Is the American Ambassador to G^many? The American Ambassador to Germany Is Alanson B. Houghton. Ilis address is American Embassy, Berlin, Germany. Surest Thing You Know By BEItTON BRALEY 1 LIKE originality. I I hate trite phraies. give me credit: That lingo makes no hit with me. You said it! S'Lr. tell the worth I hate these birds 8 Who steal their stuff and always show it By springing Bae s or Dorgan s words. You know itl THEIR line of talk gives mo a peeve. Their parrrt phrases sure do fret me. They win the fsaden razor v Steve. You set me?) NOBODY homi, their brains are dead. AU their i '-marks are dull and doubtful. Ain’t it the trith? Oh. Boy. you said A mouthful .J Tw. HEY’RE they’re solid bone. They and they'll always TSu-v thoukln t be Slone. I'll say so! Lt:*KN. why ran t they shoot a line it s tows they've used the cerebellum? 'or ndno— You te'l ’em! \ ' (Copyright, 1!|23. NEA Service)
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Ban Urged on ‘Suicide Books' After Girl Kills Self; Educator, However, Says ‘No’
Vice Expert Declares Such Volumes Should Be Suppressed,
BY ALEXANDER HERMAN XT A Service Staff Writer NEW YORK. Feb. 13— Should books treating of death and suicide be excluded from our schools and colleges because of their depressing effect on the students’ minds? John S. Sumner, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, says “Yes.” Dr. H. H. Horne, professor of the History of Education and Philosophy at New York University, says “No." Both are authorities on literature and its influences. Yet each takes an opposite view on the issue growing out of the suicide of a young college girl. Miss Marie Bloomfield, a pretty. 18-year-old girl of Columbus, Ohio, came to Columbia University here to continue her studies. She became greatly interested in the literature of death* She read Barhel’ion's Journal —the diary of a man dying from creeping paralysis. She memorized Keat's linos “I have been half in love with easeful Death.” She studied Hamlet's speech ending “The rest is silence.” She discussed Socrates. Greek philosopher who committed suicide by drinking poison. Then she .followed suit—also by drinking poison. Her farewell letter indicated that there was no motive for her act other than a desire to experience that “great adventure." She was an honor student at the university, had no affairs of the heart, financial difficulties or troubles of any kind. Yet she killed herself at a time of youth when life seems brightest. There are many such books on the market now. Many deal popularly with scientific subjects which
NORRIS BELIEVES 111 GOVERNMENT Ml, OWNERSHIP Nebraska Senator Tells of 'Case' Made by Road Executive, BY JOHN CARSON *1 rASHTNGTON. Feb. 13 Senator Norris of Nebraska, * * another Senator who believes that Government ownership of rail- ' roads is inevitable, sat on one side iof his desk. On the other side sat a prominent railroad executive, whose name is withheld from publication at Ncrris’ request. “I told him of a farmer I knew who had a hay crop he could not move to market. The railroad rates ate up all the profit and he could not even net the cost of his labor. The hay was rotting. I said I thought the railroads should reduce the rates, get that business and the revenue and build up that part of the country even though they did not make a profit off the shipment. “That Is your view of It,” the railroad executive replied. “But let me state the view of the railroad Investor. He puts his mojjey into railroads to make money. I don't know but that there Is much tn what you say, but look at his side. He knows that here Is a man with hay or automobiles for shipment. He knows that man i has to come to the railroad if he is going to get his product to market. He has to use the railroad and the railroad knows If It will only wait, he will have to come to It.” “If your argument Is good,” Norris continued to the railroad executive, “you’ve made the finest case In the world for Government ownership or operation.”
Conciliation Is Peace Secret in Molders Union Bii EE A Service Cincinnati, Fob. 13—conciliation is the secret of industrial I tranquillity, according to Joseph 11. Valentine, head of the Internation--lal Molders Union of NortH America
since 1903. Not in all branches of the molders’ trade, but among the stov< % molders, of whom there are 9,000 to 10,000 employed in the United States and Canada, indus trial_ peace has pr<vailed, so, far as matters of any importance are foncerned. Valentine sayp, for thirty-two years. “An nu a 1 meetings.” he explains, “are held at whi c h employers
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i and employes meet and thrash out all j differences. If displeased for the moment we withdraw for a fetv days. When we come hack we feel better. “And there would lie fewer strikes in other industries.” he comments, "if each side would tell the other the wbole truth, and not attempt tricks by holding something up its sleeve.”
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lead to the digging up of hidden motives for ordinary acts of life. "Such books. If they have any value, should be limited to the few who are nctually Interested In them scientifically. Sumner said. But Dr. J tome, who has taught
Famous Writings On Suicide \\ ILL! \M SHAKESI ‘FARE, In Hamlet’s soliloquy on suicide: “ 'Tis a consummation devoutly to he wish'd.” JOHN KEATS, In “Ode to a Nightingale:” “I have been half in love with easeful Death * * * Now more than ever seems it rich to die." W. N. I*. HARBELLION, In "The Journal of a Disappointed .Man:” “It is not death, but the dreadful possibilities of life which are s<> depressing." ROBERT Ci. TNGERSOIJL In lecture on Suicide: “Man has the right to kill himself.'* WILLI VM CULLEN BRYANT. lln “Thrtnafopsls:” “Eaeh shall take his chamber in the Silent Halls of Death.”
Public Opinion
Page Speaker Morgaft To the Editor of The Timea I have been watching with disgust this session of the Legislature. Being an ex-soldier and a logionairc, i feel 1 am entitled to a hearing whether Mr. Morgan says so or not. Does the holding of the Speedway iaco interfere with the Memorial day program? Do the officials of that institution of courage and manliness send out officers with warrants to arrest the populace of Indianapolis for non-at-tendance? No. If you go by the gates do they jerk you In whether you protest or not? No. Is there any law compelling us to ■ attend! No. i Is therq. a law* compelling any one ; to attend any other sort of gathering ; aside from a court summons? No. Why and how does the Speedway interfere? To do away with it will epell ruin for the city of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana to a certain extent. As for the races intefertng with ■ -Memorial day services, it is all a myth, and the authors of said bill are conscious of the fact. However, of Mr. Faulkner and Mr. Updyke and a few of their followers are so sanctified I’d like to know just when the change of heart came about. If they feel they should obsorve Decoration day so devoutly let them do so In an orderly fashion and not disturb the whdle populace. We * journeyed' some six or seven j thousand miles to put out of existence a despotic system or Rule and Ruin and now that same germ seems to have found a foothold In some of the so-called Americans. This blue law stuff will never work. A READER. Us Reason . 1 To the Editor of The Timex \ We all know that something is | radically wrong with Americans. No | matter how great we may be, or how . great we may think we are, we can be no greater than we build. We cannot isolate ourselves from tho rest of the world and grow stronger. When we refuse to counsel with
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thousands of young students, says. “Let youth see life steadily and see It whole. Let its reading be directed to both sides of any question. Youth demands to see all sides. Youth can be trusted with Ideas: youth cannot be trusted with one Idea —neither can age.
the rest of the world then we create the gernj, that breeds unrest and dis content among our people. This Nation should occupy the exalted station in the council chamber with representatives of all nations of the earth. The allied nations need our counsel. We need their business. Open the avenues of trade with tin i< t of the world. Create a market for ■tn fcurplu.t products. Tho laboring man mm’ l.iho*; the captains of in dustry tnust operate; the tiller of mother earth must produce, if we have happiness and contentment. Eliminate big political games at the expense of the people. Give us more sound and constructive business legislation. Why delay our chances to lead tfce world for big business? JOHN R. HENDERSON. 514 East Eighteenth St. Majority Dominalion To the Editor of The Timex Being unable to work because of a lrnno foot. I visited the House of Representatives Thursday. As I was undecided on the merits of the appro priatlon for the completion of the Reformatory. I ara ffl&d I was present, for upon leaving I had formed opinion. I could not blame the Democratic members for leaving the Chamber when Speaker Morgan would not give the floor to any one not a Republican while considering this bill. The Demo crats would be justified In going home ! and staying, for when a speaker will not permit the minority to speak on a bill up for consideration. It is time for a change In the personnel of the Legislature. The attitude of the Republicans in barring free speech on this bill indicates "something rotten in Denmark.” K. 8 BARBER. 1607 Park Ave. SPORTS BAN FAVORED Approval of the Memorial day bill, banning commercialized sports, pending In tho Legislature, Is voiced by tho Methodist Ministers’ Association in resolutions adopted at Roberts Park Church. There were two nega tivo votes. Prof. M. R. Eckhardt of Do Pauw University spoko on ‘‘The Reconstruction of Religion.”
PACKER LAWYERS OPENLY DEFY U. S. ON MERGER PLAN Declare Existing Federal Laws Can Not Stop Action —Probe Starts* By C. G. LYON. WASHINGTON; Feb. 13. —The Armour-Morris packer merger is going through whether the Government likes It or not, say packer representatives here, now openly defy- ■ ing the Department of Agriculture. I Packer lawyers have fortified them | with legal advice to the effect that I existing Federal laws cannot prevent i the proposed merger. They say that the Government's only recourse is to start proceedings later if it is found the enlarged Armour company is acting in restraint of trade. It is said here that announcement of the merger will be made very shortly. Meanwhile, both In the Senate and at the Department of Agriculture activities are under way to head off the : Armour-Morris merger, which the Government has said to be contrary to public interest. Senators are preparing to back Secretary Wallace, under whose direction the legal fight be waged to avert formation of a meat monopoly. Capitol Jokes By SAMUEL E. WINSLOW U. S. Representative From Massachusetts. Fourth District
V favorite story is an old one, but it illustrates the extent to which some men hold domination over the imaginations of their followers. When ’ Wilfred a u r 1 e r was premier of Canada. two FrenchCanadians were discussing him. “By gar.” said one. "dat Wilfred Laurier, he
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one great man." "Not so great like Napoleon,” said the other. "Wilfred Laurier greater dan Napoleon,” insisted the first one. “Wilfred Laurier greater dan George Washington.” "Well, Wilfred Laurier not so great like de Savior.” “Maybe not, but ” here the premier’s admirer brightened. “Wilfred Laurier a young man yet.” Tltlof Robs Cabinet A thief who entered the home of Mrs. Rayburn Kelso, 2011 Park Ave., today, took a S4O watch from a kitchen cabinet.
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A BABY in London is cutting a tooth six inches long, so of course it is a baby elephant. ♦ * * In Nyack, N. Y., a woman attacked a cop, but he escaped. * * • If you don’t believe the French are artists, the most beautiful woman in Paris is said to be 58 years old. * • * Ten per cent gain in the auto trade is noted. This means a certain per cent loss in pedestrians.
A Dallas (Texas) man has refused a sl,ooo-a-ycar gift, but : liasn ’t consented to see a doctor. ♦ * * It is found most college classes and college men are led by girls. • • • The weather man never reports a coal wave. * • • Some day they will make radio go around the world and then a man can enjoy talking to himself. n • • Most of this year’s June brides have decided to be June brides, but haven’t told the bridegrooms yet. • • • A Seattle man has escaped from jail the third time and if you think this is easy just try to do it. • • • Hell hath no fury like a woman when you knock ashes on j her floor. * * * When every man is sowing his wild oats he expects to grow sage. * * * Days are getting longer, bnt there aren’t as many this month. About the time you get over Christmas somebody has a birthday.
Modern E\ ils Can Be Cured by Knighthood Spirit, Woman Says
By ROY GIBBONS NEA Staff Correspondent C CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Modern evils can he cured— Only by getting back to the spirit of knighthood which reigned In medieval times! That’s the belief of a group of young men and women here and they’ve formed an organization called “The Knights of the Iloly Grail” to carry- out their ideals. Thei expressed purpose of the organization is to coax knighthood back into flower. Members are not required to wear cast-iron haberdashery, tilt a spear as big as a tree-trunk or ride about Chicago streets on the conventional milkwhite steed. But they are required to practice chivalry, develop a spirit of honor and substitute virtue for primitive impulses and passions. Double Standard Dragon The chief dragon the organization will seek to impale on its gdbd sword will be the double standard of morality. No more of that, say the “knight’s” and their ladies
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Mrs. Elizabeth C. Kratxer is director of the organization. - “The spirit of knighthood can save the world from much woe and misery,” she says. “Our organization is growing be i vend measure. “We plan to put manhood and worn- , anhood on the same high moral standard. "Women will assist in the movement by dropping their abandonment of precedent and cultivating moral restraint. Men must take the knighthood oath tn live pure lives and again to elevate woman to her former pedestal. Would Save World “Without virtuous womanhood re-1 : spooled by pure manhood there can , be no salvation from the moral perils now threatening to engulf the world.” The “Knights of the Holy Grail” are said to have been a powerful force behind the present Investigation of ■ commercialized vice in Chicago. The commissioner of health requested Mrs. Kratzner to sit in at round- : table discussions of the Chicago vice i problem.