Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1923 — Page 4

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SKEPTICS SAVILLE, famous trapper in the Hudson BRING I Bay district, writes: “All these so-called TRUTHS X wild beasts are scared stiff at the sight of a man. I met a pack of twenty wolves in a blinding snow-storm. The leader, a big grizzled long-legged old chap, looked me over from a distance of twenty feet. The rest of the pack ranged alongside him * * * and stiffened with fear. Then they broke. They just flattened out the ice and flew.” A flood of letters to Toronto newspapers, froid other trappers, backs Saville’s claim that wolves are afraid of men instead of ready to attack. This contradiction of an old established belief is typical of the times. W’e live in an iconoclastic age, resenting all authority, including authoritative knowledge. All for the best. A spirit of skepticism reproves old truths and leads to new ones. WHO IS ■"ylllCH is the better sweetheart—fat man or THE BEST \ j\l thin? A French newspaper puts the quesSUITOR? \ V tion to leading Parisian actresses. Madeleine j Charlier prefers thin men. Marcelle Yrven votes for the fatties. Louisa de Mornand gives the wisest answer: “It is the soul alone that matters—physique has nothing to do with affection.” Louisa is right. Love is psychic. That’s why, for the homeliest woman in existence, there’s some man who’ll think she’s the most beautiful. Same with lovers, fat or thin. Love is an electrical phenomenon, according to some scientists who have contemplated the attraction of opposites. HOME A HUNDRED home-brewers send samples of BREW /\ their cellar hooch, for analysis, to W. G. PERIL 1 \ Brown, prohibition commissioner in West Virginia. Brown reports that most of the samples are “absolutely dangerous for human consumption.” Many of them contained the deadly bacillus botulinus, which cause botulism poisoning, more deadly than ptomaine. For the stomach’s sake, remember that the keg in which home-made hooch ferments is really a garbage can. The con- j tents undergo the various stages of decomposition, decay and ] putrefaction.

BAB} j- a YEAR-OLD Merwyn Hodges gets lost COMES I near Cardiff, Wales. His father, a coal miner. MRS! JL sends for hslp. Eleven thousand miners drop their work and join the search for two days. They lose badly needed money. But that’s all right, the miners are satisfied and cheer as if they’d struck gold when Merwyn is found locked up in a freight car. f These two thoughts occur: First, a baby is the only thing on which everybody agrees. Second, there’s a lot of humanity in everybody, even if it takes a baby to bring the finer senses to the surface. C HINA AS HINA looms larger and larger as a big marBUSINESS I ket for American goods, says Julean Arnold, PROSPECT V./ for 20 years our Government trade representative in the land of the yellow men. If you are alive in 1940. you will probably find China our best customer, with Europe lagging far behind. When Europeans fully realize the frightful mess they are in, they’ll move out in multitudes. The urge to escape from European troubles is what built up America. THIS IS big epidemic of counterfeiting is due to BLAMED I prohibition, says William J. Flynn, former ON PROHI JL head of the Secret Service. Counterfeit bills originally are pur out to pay for smuggled liquor, then get into general circulation. **ue eril breeds ;t Laniify. some of the children larger than pa. The real shortcoming of prohibition is not so much in the bootleg liquor that is peddled on the quiet, but in the forgery, counterfeiting, burglary, murder and general disregard of law that have come as a byproduct of prohibition. It’s a temporary reaction. Magnetic Compass Used by Chinese Year 2000 B. C.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can set an answer to any question of fact or information tty writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 Now York Ave.. Waahington, D. C., enclosing 2 cents in stamps Medical, legal and Jove and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. Although the bureau docs not require It, it will assure prompter replies If readers will confine questions to a single aubiect. writing more than one letter if answers on various subjects are desired.—EDlTOß. Where slid the magnetic conina.vs originate? Its early history is involved in more or less obscurity. In a rough form It is said to have been known to the Chinese 2,000 years before the Christian era, though this is more than doubtful. The earliest reference to It is a work by Alexander Neck am. entitled "De Utensilibus’’ and written in the twelfth century. He refers to it as a needle on a pivot which, when allowed to come to rest, shows the navigator the direction In which to steer. As early as the thirteenth century it seems to have been known to the navigators of all European nations.

W hat is a limited or constitutional monarchy? One in which the sovereign is limited to the exercise of particular powers or functions by the laws or constitution of the realm. Where did the expression calling a man “a Miss Nancy” originate? The name is derived from a s|rs. Anna Oldfield, a celebrated actress, who died in 1Z39 and was buried in Welcome Home By BERTON BRAI.EY WHEN you drop in at my home town. You’ll find th“ maples drooping down Above the drowsy streets; and see A place that's as it used to be. A quiet spot, far from the hum And roar of avenue and slum. JYj*h peace upon it like a crown When you drop in at my home town. A HALF a dozen cars or more May group without the general store. About the stove Inside you’ll find The owners leisurely Inclined To elt and spit and try to fix The rights and wrongs of politics, And matters multifarious Which it may please them to discuss. THE churches and the village school. The village green, the swimming pool. You'll find them quite unaltered still. They haven't chanced and never will. So. having sensed the vil’age ways. And lingered for some quiet days. You'll see why I do not go down To visit at my own home town. (Copyright. 1923. NEA Service)

I Westminster Abbey. She was noted i Tot her extreme vanity and the nicety of her dress. She was even dressed for burial In the rarest of laces and silk. The name was afterward applied to a man who was over-fastidious | In hla dress. Are there nny Civil War veterans in the present Congress? General Osborne of California of the Union Army; Major Stedman of North Carolina of the Confederate Army. When was the junior high school established? In 1905 the department of secondary education of the National Educational Association appointed a committee to consider the matter thoroughly, but it was not until 1903 that an actual attempt was made. In Columbus, Ohio, and In Berkeley, Cal., in 1909 two junior high schools were started. The Berkeley school was given greater publicity than that of Columbus and therefore the plan became known as the "Berkeley plan.” What is the proper thing to say in congratulating a newly married couple? Congratulate the groom, and wish the bride happiness; never vice versa. To the groom you may say, "I congratulate you upon your good fortune.” To the bride, "I wish you all the happiness in the world.” From what languages are the following names: Conrad, McCabe, lirisbin, Duquette? Conrad. German: McCabe, Irish; Brisbin, Teutonic; Duquette, French. Wiiat will relieve frost bite? Snow and Ice rubbed vigorously upon the nose, ears, cheeks or finger when nipped by -the cold will usually start the circulation of the blood and prevent further trouble. Avoid suden heat. How large the United States Army in Roosevelt’s Administration? On Sept. 30, 1901, shortly after Mr. Roosevelt became President, there : were 57.343 officers and enlisted men In the Regular Army. On Feb. 2S. • 1909, just prior to the expiration of his term of office, this number had ; been induced to 82,536.

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“Twisting British Lions Tail” Ceasing to Be Popular as in Olden Days of Vote Baiting

By HON. JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS | LJhited States Senator from Mississippi THERE is one diversion of the American politician well known to the current history of the United States for the last forty years which used to be very popular, but which, thank God, is ceasing to be quite so popular now as it formerly was. I refer to the attempt to cultivate the voters -who happen to hate our British ancestors by “twisting the Britisii lion's tail/' A Senator has just said in his broad way that "the war cost the United States almost as much as it did Great Britain.” Why, it did not cost the United States as much as it cost Canada. It did not cost the United States as much as it cost Australia. It cost the United States only a little bit more than it cost New Zealand and South Africa, not in money alone but in men. We did not measure prices and expenses in money alone there. We left 50,000 upon the field of battle. Great Britain left something approaching 1,800,000, if I remember correctly. Little Canada alone left twice as many upon the field as we did, and Australia probably nearly twice as many. Not one word is said by him about human life; not one word about human sympathy; not. one word about saving civilization. He wants the United States to be regarded as a cool outsider who came to the aid of Great Britain, engaged in fighting against Germany and Turkey and Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary, as if We were cool outsiders, as if it were no matter of ours, no affair of ours.'

'CODESAYS DEATH i MAY DE INVOKED BY WILL POWER Auto-Suggestjon Can Imagine Passing of Life, Frenchman Declares. By EDWARD THIERRY NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK. Feb 15.—" Death may be invoked at will. A •hfulthy. person may set hideath date, and actually die then." That is the conclusion of Emile Cone, the apostle of auto-suggestion, as well as of eminent psychologists regarding the strange case of Dr. William Rouse of Bath. Maine, who says he is going to die Feb. 20 —forty-three days before his 77th birthday—-'be-cause his mother and grandfather died under similar circumstances. Death bv auto-suggestin Is the wny Coue diagnoses the Rouse case. Here are Coue’s opinions of the Rouse death prophecy: "It is impossible for me to predict with certainty that this man will die Feb. 20 Just because he thinks he will. But It is true that the auto suggestive thought of death whfeh h<> Is constant ly causing to occur in Ills mind nnv tend to shorten his !:f •; by ~> how many days or years I cannot -av. it is possible to cause one's own death by auto-suggestion. It is like the dog whose sore foot somebody bound in a cloth; the wound healed, but whenever his foot was again bound up he limped as when the sore was there. The mind controls the body; it is Just as easy to imagine oneself sick as well, and probably ns simple to iinag ine one Is going to die, and actunilv die because of that, thought, as to live."

Public Opinion Rooming House License To the Editor of The Time* What next to make the burden unbearable? Any one found keeping a j roomer must pay $25 for license fee. What on earth can the city expect, half of the people In the city of Indianapolis would have to move out of the houses they occupy and live in j tents if it 'were not posible to have a ! roomer or two. After awhile If a man gets a Job shoveling coal he will have to go to the city hall and pay a license fee. There should also be a license fee for any one that does family washing. Just look at the “iron men” the city i could get from this one source. ! Also the paper boys, there are several hundred, say at $25 per year license—wouldn’t that help a lot? In fact, everybody that does honest labor should pay a license fee. Why not? Isn’t it a glorious privilege, and ; should wo not appreciate It? Not I everybody does honest labor, i Besides regular or Irregular taxes or licenses there should be a license, say i of about $25 per year per head, man. vvwman and child. This would entitle one to live for one year. If the li cense were nrfi paid promptly on the first of January, the man, woman or child should be led out and summarily dispatched. J. S. MARLETT. 1126 N. Illinois St.'

FARM LEADER APPEALS FOR GRAIN DONATIONS Settle Asks County Presidents to Aid Near East IteMef. In an appeal to Indiana farmers to open their corn cribs and donate grain to “the starving and distressed Armenians,” W. H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, said. “If we can save a life by giving a few bushels of corn we have accomplished a good deal.” Sottle, a member of the Near East Relief Grain Committee, asks county farm bureau presidents to assist county agricultural agents in conducting the grain campaign. The grain committee, headed by G. I. Christie of Purdue University, is asking Indiana farmers for 100 car loads of corn, approximately 100,000 bushels.

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JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS Under the terms of this settlement, if we make the settlement, we will get back every dollar of principal i that Great Britain owes us and wej will get more in interest than prin- ! clpal during the extension of time, j A Senator said that Great Britain borrowed this money “of her own accord.” Belgium borrowed what she borrowed "of her own France—brave, virile, generous France—borrowed what she borrowed “of her own accord.” Oh, in a certain sense that Is true, of course. They had to try t.o borrow It, but they ; borrowed it under a world necessity j of maintaining civilization and de j mocracy against barbarism and autocracy. |

Gold Star Mothers Rally to Prevent Another War

R’i XrA Srrvlen Knoxville. T-nn., Feb. is.— Gold Star mothers of America, who lost their sons In the World War, are rallying behind a movement to prevent another world conflict. It is a plan for an international peace convention to be called by the United States. Mrs Ben S Boyd of this city, mother of five World War veterans, one of whom died In the Argonne. is the organizer of this movement In Tennessee She has already received indor ement of her plan from the gold st ir mothers of eastern Tenne-.-s.-o. and has begun to stir up Interest toward the same end in ail the other .States. "Enough hearts and homes have been broken,” says Mrs. Boyd in her Invitation to the country's gold star mothers "We felt it was a privilege to give our sons for a great cause, ilut if the peace they won Is not lasting then we feel that ! our sacrifice was in vain. "Our country should take the lead In removing the causes of war through a conference oft reparations, war debts and disarmament.” Mrs. Boyd has a distinguished service cross given her for the hero-

Meetings Here Friday Exchange Club —Dinner, Lincoln. Altruaa Club—Dinner, Lincoln. Delta Upallon Fraternity— Dance, Lincoln. Civitan Club —Luncheon, Sev erin. Shrine Directors of North America- —Convention, Severtn. Federation of Women's Clubs— Committee meeting, Seventh Dls triot, Heverin. Optimists Club —Luncheon, Claypool. Woman's City Club—Luncheon, C. of C. Phi Delta Theta, —Lunoheon, C. of C. Delta Tau Delta—Luncheon, Board of Trade. Knights of Columbus—Lunoheon, Spink-Arms. Industrial Benders —Luncheon, C. of C. Laymen's League—Luncheon. C. of C. Allied Motor Commerce Luncheon, Claypool.

Newcastle Lid Missing Mrs. William Upham, 1007 8. Seventeenth St., Newcastle, today asked Indianapolis police to search for her son, James Upham, 12- She said the boy may bo In company with Russell Shepperd, 15. Upham was described as having brown hair and blue eyes. He wore brown shoes, green mackinaw coat and a red knit cap. n,.

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j We had the money, and we ought to thank God that we did have it so we could help the world, instead of stepping in like a cheese-paring retail merchant and saying, “While we were engaged upon a common enterprise whicli resulted in my saving my wife and children and you saving your wife and children from the Indians who were attacking us, I lent you a pound of tobacco, and it lias been six months and I want interest at the rate of 10 per cent per annum on it.” Debt-Paying People Thank God, our ancestors in'Great Britain have always been a debt-pay-ing people, and 1 hope that their descendants in America will always be a debt-paying people. I am pretty near a hardshell Baptist about one thing. I think almost thero is an eleventh commandment; in the words of St. Paul: “Owe no man anything." Asa matter of fact, these great, rich United States will pay their public debt off in about onefourth the tune that Great Britain will pay hers, one-half of the time anyhow, and if we pay off our debt our interest stops, and we wifi make a clear profit in interest alone as against Great Britain when tiie final settlement day con.es between Great Britain and us. "A purely business proposition"’ France in the Ruhr; the German people sullen; Turkey on the alert on tho outside; Bulgaria waiting for the proper moment to help Turkey against her fellow Christians; the United States certain .to he drawn in again,

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MRS. BEN S. BOYD ism of her son, Richard, who died in the Argonne. Another son, Logan, holds tho same honor, besides a British military cross. A third son, Sam, contracted tu bercuiosls in service.

Capitol Jokes B\ WILLIAM J. BURKE U. S. Representative From l’ennsyl vania, at Large

WAS driving through the country, campaigning, one night, and stopped at a small hotel. My horse was an old stager, about as likely to run awny as the Washington monument. The negro hostler at the hotel came up and said: “Has you got a hltc-hln’ rope. Mr. Burke? I’ll tie up

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your horse for you.” "Never mind," I said. "That horse i will stand without being tied." “Yessah." said the darkey, “but won’t ho stand just as well tied?” FIRE STILL RAGES IN ARMOUR OMAHA PLANT Main Buildings Destroyed at SI,500,000 Ix>ss. By United Prc j OMAHA, Neb. Feb. 15.—Fire which destroyed the nuiln buildings of Arj mour & Co’s., packing plant, was j | still caging today. Damage caused by the flames is i now estimated at more than $1,500,000. Firemen who have struggled with ! the flames for twenty-four hours : fought today to save Paddingtown j from total destruction.

if it should become a world war; for T somebody would tread upon our neutral rights; the whole world in chaos; we alone rich and united; with European cabinet governments likely to he ; overthrown day after tomorrow by an adverse vote; > T et, gentlemen who are elected to the Senate of the United States—who, of course, deserve their , place in it —want us to consider past transactions with our copartners in the World War and the present state ; of the world as a pure “business ofi fair,” a pure matter of dollars and cents and pounds and shillings and pence! Man Has Dual Nature Thank God, man has a dual nature. He is a trading animal, of course, in*a certain sense, just as lie is a hating animal and a loving animal in a certain sense, and yet there is a sense in I which man was built in the image of God. He can go upon the wings of thought to the very footstool of God and scrutinize Deity itself. That part iof him always responds to the more generous emotions and the morp genI erous impulses of human nature and | will never consent to be bound by j mathematical calculations. ' So far as I am individually concerned, I had rather fall in love, eraoi tionally and accidentally; and when I I come to die I had rather die for a sen- ; timent or a love, and I am not going j to die for a. logical syllogism or for a mathematical calculation, especially not from the standpoint of the retail merchant, keeping a petty account with another peanut establishment and measuring interest not by mutual advantage in a common enterprise, but by daily offsets of expense account.

RELIEF WORKER MINIMIZES WAR THREAT IN EAST / Hopes Conflict Between Turks and England Can Be ' Averted, V EA Sorrier Staff Writer NEW YORK. Fob. 15.—Hope that hostilities will be averted between the Turks and the allies in the dangerous Smyrna crisis wns expressed by Charles V. Vickrey, general secretary of the Near East Re. lief, in an interview with NEA Service. “1 am inclined to minimize reports of anew war rising out of disputes and ultimatums passing between the Turks and European powers." he said. “Our relief workers are there }n a purely non-political capacity, and with a viewpoint that is entirely humane I cannot express opinions that are in any way political.” Twenty-five thousand orphans who are dependent upon the Near East Relief for their daily food are in the Caucasus, outside Turkish territory'. Vickrey was asked what the fate might b> of these children, caught on the f‘ inge of Russia, In < as war flared r,i of the Smyrna crisis and Russia p, ssibly entered into n military alh a ice with the Turks. t

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lOWA legislator wants to stop cooks from smoking when stopping them from burning would be better. * * * Harry Thaw is asking to leave the asylum for his health. Harry claims he doesn’t get out enough. * * * An American bandit was causrht in Mexico, showing it is safer to stay in your own country. Pennsylvania wrestling team met

the University o! \ irginia team in Philadelphia and came out on top. 1 iic\ have dug up a king T4OO years old in Egypt, so’some day they may get around to the soldier bonus. • C Cotton dresses are coming back. People living in cotton dresses should keep away from boll weevils?. • • * 1 om Edison s seventy-sixth birthday came on Sunday, so he probably rested ten or fifteen minutes. • • Roumanian has tound anew star. Seems to us we have enough without it. * • • Buildings cast longer shadows in London than in America, but then they have had buildings there longer. M f Supreme Court of Maine has made jay-walking legal, but no court can make jav-walking safe. • • • A doctor finds that cold makes the hair grow. Our bald readers might try sleeping in the ice box. • • • If you think your work is hard, how about the bank clerks who count other people’s money all day long? • • • In New York, a woman kicked in a shop window. She may have a seen a hat just like hers for less money. • • % Marriage is a lottery in which too,many want another chance. Small Town Is Blamed for Vice Conditions in Cities

By ROY GIBBONS XKA Staff Correspondent C CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—The small . town, according to Dr. Philip Yarrow here, stands indicted tor unwittingly driving hundreds of unsophisticated girls Into the growing

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"These girls come to tho big city with pure purposes and Intent, but fall prey to its snares because they are not adapted to the conditions and environment thrust upon them," he says.

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"Better that they did not come at all. "Make the small town attractive enough for them to stay there. There is no reason why this can’t be done. Civic farsightedness could bring that i about. “Seventy per cent of the vlotlms of 1 vice I have found are recruited from small towns. "They are not bad at heart, but merely poor, misguided creatures tossed up In the social upheaval of prevalent unrest. They want to get away from the taffy-pulling parties in the village and other mediocre amuse- j ments which seem to pall on them. I Education Is Solution “Solution of the whole problem lies ;in education. By reaching young people of high school age with xecrcational interests which are not sug gestive or risque, and directing their i surging ambitions into wholesome | channels, an effective cure to the i whole difficulty can be instituted. "At least it will keep girls down | on the farm where they belong until i the dangerous age of adolesence has i passed, and they have arrived at the period in life when sound horse sense : can steer them away from the bal lucinations and pitfalls waiting on j Broadway.”

street life hordes of the big cities. The cause, he says, is lack of proper recreational facilities in the country town. As State superintendent of the Illinois Vigilance Association Yarrow bases his charge upon startling r e veiations brought out in a grand jury Investigation of Chicago's allegedly protected red light district.