Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1923 — Page 4

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INDIANA’S -y EGISLATION to limit the hours that women WORKING may work in certain forms of industry, such WOMEN 1 A as that introduced in the State Senate by Senator Oliver Holmes of Gary, should be advocated or opposed on the strength of facts and not mere guesses or by generalizations hatched of emotional prejudices. Senator Holmes’ bill—S. B. 324—would limit the work of women in mechanical industries, laundries, restaurants anti public telephone exchanges to fifty hours a week, would except women employed in an executive capacity or as clerical or stenographic help, and would provide a ninety-day each year for seasonal industries, such as canneries and bakeries, that have peak load periods. The bill is markedly different from one supported by organized labor, defeated in the general assembly this session, which provided for an eight-hour day, six-day week, with no exceptions. / " Opposition to legislation protecting women in industry has come in Indiana chiefly from an organization of business and professional women, who would not be affected by the Holmes bill. They argue against all such legislation, however phrased, saying that it discriminates against women in favor of men, that it would reduce women’s wages and ultimately drive women out of industry, that working women do not want it and that conditions in Indiana do not justify legislative action. What are the facts? The United States Supreme Court has ruled that protective legislation for women in industry, already in force in forty-three States of the Union, is constitutional and not discriminatory, because of the physiological differences between men and women which justify the protection of the mothers or potential mothers of the race in the interest of social welfare. In twenty-five years before the World War, in the States where such legislation had been passed, the number of women in industry increased in greater proportion than the increase of the total female population. The average number of women in industry in States having this legislation is at present 25 to the 100 of the industrial population, as compared with 16 to the 100 in Indiana. The minimum wage for women in industry in California, which also has a minimum hour law. is sl6 a week, as compared with an average wage of $12.88 a week for working women in Indiana in 1922. Figures reported by the Department of Labor from other States with protective legislation for women sustain the comparison. Official representatives of*\vomen’s national organizations in twenty-six occupations indorsed such legislation at an industrial conference held by the Department of Labor in January, this year. Is legislation needed in Indiana? The annual report of the State industrial board will answer. Whereas 75 per cent of all women working in Indiana offices in a clerical, exeeutive"or professional capacity had an eight-hour day in 1922. only 15 per cent of women in other forms of work had such a working day. More than 80 per cent of 18,574 women working in 570 plants in Indiana last year were on duty more than ten hours a day. Why not moral suasion instead of compulsion? Because the facts show that there are persons and organizations to whom a governmental “Thou shalt not” is the only corrective of social injustice. Indiana has many employers with generous feelings who voluntarily have shown their recognition of the demands of social welfare on their industries. Many of these have spontaneously offered indorsement of the Holmes bill. Indiana is one of onlvtwo States north of the Mason and Dixon I line and one of only five States in the Union without protection of womanhood in industry. &tate pride and public welfare demand such protection. BETTER r g stopped printing paper money in TIMES FOR I Austria! Fact! True, Austria has some seven AUSTRIA hundred trillion crowns in circulation and it takes a washtub full to buy a pig, but what of that? They’ve stopped printing anyhow and that means, if it means anything, a sign of returning sanity and ultimate stabilization of poor Austria’s currency. In fact the Austrian crown, stink to the vanishing point, is already stabilized. It can’t and won’t go any lower. That’s something, isn’t it? More, the savings deposits of Austrian people have been increased in the past three months from eleven billion to eighty-six billion paper crowns. Building suburban homes and planting small tracts of land promises to break all records. What does it all mean? Simply that the much despised League of Nations has taken charge of the affairs of 'Austria under the direct supervision of Dr. Zimmerman of Rotterdam and every letter and cablegram brings new hope of better things to come in this darkest corner of Central Europe. What could not have been done, had America gone in?

‘Flapper’ Originates as Applied to Young Bird Trying Wings

Ml KSTIONS ANSWERED You can set en answer to any question of fact or information by writing ro the Indianapolis Times’ Washington bureau. 13C*l New York Ave.. Washington D. C . enclosing ‘! cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot be given. Unsigned lt---'•'rs cannot be answered, but all Ictt- r* are confidential and receive in-rsonal replies. Although the bureau do- not require it. it will assure prompter replies if readers will confine questions to a simple subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various subjects are desired.—EDlTOß. What does the word “flapper” mean? A young girl of pre-debutante age. originating from the term “flapper” as applied to a young bird when it first tries its wings. Has Sam Langford been defeated in the past three years, and if so, by whom? In 1920 he lost tx> Harry Wills and Anderson; in 1921 he lost to Bill Tate and Lee Anderson: in 1922 he lost to Harry Wills and Tut Jackson How old is Billie Burke? r She was born in ISS6. When was the declaration of war by France in the Fmiuft-I’ru*-,sian war? The French government formally declared war against Prussia on Jifly 19, 1870. What is a ruby? What colors are they? Can they be made artificially? The ruby is a red. transparent variety of corondum. The most valuable shade is the deep, clear, carmine red, commonly termed pigeon’s blood red. They are found in many localities, but most are of little value.

I They have-been made ar tf '' ’tally by | fusing pure aluminum o with j small amount of oxide oi romlum, are of great beauty and pr;, ically indistinguishable from the natural gem. What is the difference between the White House and the Executive Mansion? They are one and the same. When was coal first used bj man? j The value of coal does not seem to have been known to the ancients, nor is it well known at what time it began to be used for fuel. Some reports say that it was used by the ancient Britons; in any case, it was an article of household consumption to some extent during the Anglo-Saxon period as early as 552 A. D. There seems to be reason for thinking that England i was th • first European country in which coal was used in any considerable quantities. Who was Sherlock Holmes, and where did lie live? •He was simply a character in j Conan Doyle’s fiction stori.es. Why is it that tin containers arc thrown on the scrap heap instead of being remelted? “Tin” cans are mostly steel, the i outside and Inside surface only being I tin. It would be very expensive to I remove the tin ftom these cans and , remold the cans and there would no*' jbe enough obtained from this j process to make it profitable. What is John Drew’s address? j Irast Hampton, Lo"ng Island, New York.

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Witness Tells Real Story of “ Bat LTn, tZZtZZIZ s,raight ’ Shooting of Dan McGrew ’ “ Tha L7L ZZZZ of HM ~ and that

BY ALEXANDER HERMAN NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 20?—' "Doc" Sugden's back in civilization. He has brought with him, after twenty-five years, the real story of “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.” Sugden, physician and explorer, was among those who “ducked their heads when the lights went out and two guns blazed in the dark" in the Alaskan saloon where the murder occurred that Robert W. Service has immortalized in hi# poem. It was Sugden who, a few years later, told the story in Service’s presence, which inspired the poem. “Dan McGrew’s real name was ‘Wyoming Bill' and he wasn’t a westerner, at all, but came of a refined family in Boston,” says Sugden. "He was brought up to be a social light—and he couldn’t be anything else. “He fell madly in love wth a married women in Boston named Lou. They ran away, West. The husband, a musical genius, followed. "Forced to support himself and his love, Bill turned to the only thing he knew—cards. Soon he 'became a common gambler. Lou stood by him. Became Hardened “It was hard on her—poor woman. Reared carefully by New England parents, she w:tsn't fitted for the rough life In Wyoming where they bad buried -themselves In an effort to escape detection. But she became hardened. “Bill, gained the reputation of being a bad man. Lou was known as his woman. “They soon moved on north. “\J. was the beginning of the Klondike rush. Money changed hands easily. They settled in Juneau and Bill ran a gambling table in one of the barrooms there. “It wasn't in the Malamute saloon, that the shooting took place, but in a place called ‘Nuggets.’ “Bill was playing solo at his table \Lou was standing by him, luring the suckers on. I was sitting In a chair in the far corner of the room. “Suddenly the door swung open and in came a stranger ‘with a face WIN WHO STOLE NEW’S WATCH ASKS AID OF SENATOR Memory s os Cold Night and Missing Timepiece Re-, vived, BY JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The . memory of a cold night, of Senator Harry S. New napping at his home here, of William Smith, colored, hastily relieving New of his watch and money all came back today. The prodigal William Smith returned to New’s office with a letter | requesting New not oni\ to forgive him, but to assist him in getting oilt of the Atlanta penitentiary. New said he would “take the case under advisement.” Was Minus Watch Two years ago. New turned up at the Indiana State convention minus his watch. Republican leaders tried to discuss politics with him. but they got nowhere as New wanted to talk about that watch. It had been a gift from his father and his wife’s picture had been wrought into the case. “You might, wonder why of all per sons should I, William Smith, the one man in this world, who should not even think about doing sftph things,” wrote Smith. “But yet I am writing, not only writing but I am askUjg ykm to do me n f;g. or. If you judge pie by what I lviv'- lone you might tear this letter up without even reading its contents.” Paid Penally \yfS Smith said he had suffV-rod*Sjfri|H’>3id the penalty and that when heWarned that the watch he had taken from New was an "heir lone” he had told the police where it might be recovered. “Os course," he continued, “you might say you know this old story but sir, you never can tell. I could get them nine months sir, I am sure 1 would surprise you by giving you by hard work i that money I took from your pants 'one cold night. If you remember it was a cold night of corse sir, and I am not trying to He to you. I hope you look at. it that way.”

Meetings Here Wednesday ; People’s State Bank —Dinner, Lincoln. Employes Washington Bank and Trust Co.—Dinner, Sevsrin. Associated Employes of Beech Grove —Meeting, Denison. Lion’s Glut)—Luncheon, Lincoln. Kiwanis Club —Luncghon, Clay pool. Officers of American LegionLuncheon. Spink-Arms. Second Presbyterian Church — Luncheon. Board of Trade. Sigma Nu—Luncheon, Board of Trade. Real Estate Board—Luncheon, Chamber of Commerce. * Wednesday Club —First Pres-2 byterian Church Luncheon, Chamber of Commerce. Purdue Alumni Association — Luru-heon, Severin. ,

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most hair and the dreary stai'e of a dog whose day is gone.’ “He ordered drinks for the house.

‘Kill the Gimmes' Motto of Newly Formed League

tt\j NEA Service Minneapolis. Minn.. Feb. 20. —If you have the “gimmes,” keep away from Minneapolis or the ’’Anti-Gimme League” will get you.

Tlte “gimmes” Is the name of a widespread national disease, signs of which crop out tn various fronts of petty grafting and in chronic brorrowing of small at--11 c lee. The “Anti ■ Gimme League” has been organized to cure the dlesaso In this

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has obtained a certificate of Incorporation, has established headquarters arid enrolled more than 100 members. More are coming In

U: S. Shipping Fleet Will Be Enhanced by Giant Leviathan

[•- TASUINGTON. Fob. 20.—With ; the addition of the Leviathan to its fleet, the Government I owned and operated United States i Lines will be on the way to becoming j one of the area! American shipping corporations. The Leviathan is to be allocated to this organization ns soon as she is ready for the Sea. The United States Lines has been in operation since September of 11. At that time the shipping board took over the ships which had been allocated to the United States Mall Steamship Company. The Emergency Fleet Corporation began operation of ■ the ships under the management of ! the United States Lines, a strictly j Government institution. I Under this plan of operation, whatever losses are incurred by the operation of the Leviathan will fall directly upon the Government. Any A Preference By BERTON BUALEY I’D rather be an Easy Mara Than be a Hard Boiled Erg", j I’d rather be a Sucker Than the guy who pulls his,leg. 1 For the Easy Mark has peace of mind And the Hard Roiled Egg lias none. And the Easy Mark has the bettor part. When ail is said and done. I'D rather be an Easy Mark Than be a Hard Shelled Crab. ; Who always has his fishy eye On things that he may grab; His friends may stick the Easy Mark, With schemes for which he’ll fall, j But Hard Boiled Eggs and Hard Shelled Crabs 1 Possess no friends at all. I’VE hung this motto on my wall Upon a handy peg, ! "I’d rather be an Easy Mark j Than be/a Hard Boiled Egg!” I'd rather think that goodness reigns •. Amid the human throng. Thus copying the Easy Mark—--1 Yes. even it he s wrong! (.Copyright, 1023, NEA Service) o’ ,

taking dripped absinthe fojGfiimself. ! It was a bad sign. “After drinking slowly, he spied

daily. No dues. No special requirements, except a vow to fight the "gimme” evilT “This has becoine an age of ‘gimme,* ” says Root. “It is ‘gimme this’ or ’gimme that,’ front a cigarette to cold cash, and the purpose of the league is to put a I stop to the habit.” ; If you try to borrow from a member of the league lie Is

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pledged to flash hts “Anti Gimme” button at. you—which is your cue to sneak. Borrowers of books, tools and such like included in th-' league’s anathema, end it is ex peoted that ardent volunteers will be found among housewives whose "upstairs family,” “downstairs family” or "folks next door” have the habit of “I wonder if you’ll lend me * * • etc. * • * you know when I was at the grocery store T forgot all about • * * ” etc. Silent, scornful * opposition Is forming among bellhops, check girls, waiters and others who ex peot gratitude as a matter of right. Also fi-om those concessionaires who get a linn’s share cut-in on such donations.

profits which be made also will go to the Government. Capitol Jokes By EDWARD E. BROWNE , U. S. Representative From Wisconsin, Eighth District.

Section hand on a railroad had to make a report to the claims department on a cow that had been killed by a train. He filled out the form provided in such cases with no difficulty until he came to the last line, which read: "Disposition of carcass.” He puzzled over

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BROWNE 'this for a moment. Then his face lighted up, and he wrote: “Kind and gentle.” DOG WAGON DAYS ECHOED Man Asks 82,000 Damages From City for Injured Leg. Echoes of the day3 when the city “dog wagon” dashed through the streets carting canines to the pound were heard today when Abner Payne filed si tit in Superior Court against the city for $2,000. Abner charges that nine stitches were required to sew up a wound in the calf of his right leg after the dog wagon ran over him Oct. 21. 1921, at Koehne and Eighteenth Sts. as lie got off a street car.

the piano and went over. The ‘Rag time Kid’ was taking a drink at the bar. But he almost dropped it when be heard the stranger’s playing. “It went through all of us like an electric current. How that man could play! First it was an aria from the operlt ‘Samson and DelilaJh.’ Then it was the ‘Maiden’s Prayer." “Finally a crash of chords that made us all jump. Then he rose and faced us, and as ServieV writes: “ ‘Boys,’ says he, ‘you don’t know me, and none of you care a damn; “ ‘But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I’ll bet my poke they’re true, N “ ‘That one of you is a hound of hell * * * and that one is Dan McGrew.’ "Bill who hadn’t looked up from his game, wheeled around. Out went the lights. -Then came two pistol cracks—and a woman’s scream. “Then a woman’s sobbing. The barkeep turned on the lights again. Both .Shot Dead “There on the floor lay Bill, shot through the heart, and the stranger, hit square between the eyes. Kneeling at the stranger’s side was Lou—kissing him. “He was her husband. “After that Lou went down to Dawson and married a prosperous miner. She lived happily. I know. I was her physician. But only a few years ago her end came, as it had begun—tragically. "A river steamer she was on was wrecked —and everybody lost. “Her family still lives in Boston. But they don’t know that their daughter was the Lou of Service’s poem.” Dr. Sugden is 62 and has been an the go all his life. He has sailed the seven seas, lived in the interior of Alaska for seventeen years, worked with the Canadian mounted police. ’ fought with the Chinese army against .the Japanese, was surgeon of the Port iof Shanghai, led an expedition into ! Swaziland and explored hi Brazil.

RUSSIA GETTING WAR FEVER WITH TROTSK!AS LEADER ♦ Red Chief is Cheered at Every Meeting of Soviets. BV WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Foreign Editor Indianapolis Times Y\ J ALDINGTON, Feb. 20. A w’V sinister change has come over Russia. She is getting the war fever. And there is no tolling where it may lead. Latest word received here from Moscow is that whereever representatives of the federated Soviet republics meet, loud applause greets every mention of the red army and tumultuous cheers the appearance of Trotski. the red army’s chief. Another disquieting hit of information is that with worthless paper rubles flooding the country to the tune of I.SOO trillion, and the internal situation in a very bad way. public attention is now being directed away front home to foreign affairs. Every mention of the “enmity” of the allies is the signal for an outburst. From a frenzy of enthusiasm for themselves and their new experiment in Bolshevism, the Moscow government appears to be systematically working up a wave of national patriotism against outsiders. One of the danger points is lite Dardanelles. Russia forced the Crimean war in 1853 largely to gain control of the Dardanelles, and it required the best efforts of Britain, France and Turkey, not to mention Sardinia, to defeat her aims. The Dardanelles is the neck of the Russian bottle—the only waterway to Russia free from ice the year round—and she will never allow herself uF be bottled up by any foreign power or powers as long as she is able to fight. EXPERIENCE! EXPENSIVE Don Hugh Loses S2O During Visit With Woman. Wiser but poorer by S3O was Don Hugh, 532 N. Pennsylvania St., today. He met a colored woman on Ohio St., near Roanoke St. at 10:30 p. m., according to police, and accepted her company to a house in the 200 block on Roanoke St. His overcoat was lying on a table. He saw a man’s hand reach through the half-open doorway, seize his purse from an overcoat pocket and disappear. When Sergeant O’Connor and a \ squad reached the house no' -pne was j there. AUTOMOBILE RUNS WILD Driver Ijoses Control — Car Crashes | Into E. Washington St. Store. , An automobile crashed into the front doors of the Marvel Carburetor Company’s store, 926 E. Washington St., at 1:30 a. m. today when the driver lost control. The driver backed his car into the street and drove away. Patrolman Harry Mueller learned C. H. Powell. 53 N. Hamilton Ave„ official of the company told police nothing had been taken from the store. A tire and rim beiieved to have been lost front the automobile was found on the sidewalk.

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IN censoring Dickens the movie censors are raising the dickens without raising the Dickens. * * * Los Angeles will build a $50,000 dog hotel. Hot dog! . * * * Things are about equal. The tall men can see better, while the short men dance cheek to cheek better. • * * A Federal divorce law has been framed because too many couples had the State divorce laws framed.

A man’s wife hunts his things for him. while a bachelor knows .where to find his on the floor. * * * The tree of knowledge has thorns on it. * * • hat people are happy because they have the bulge on,slender people. • 4 • If all of us got everything we wanted, where on earth would we put it? • • * The leading figure is usually the leading figurer. Trouble with saying it with flowers is you have to keep repeating. ** V I Perhaps the greatest blessing oi radio is the headpiece makes your ears stay back. • ♦ * • Profiteers were making money so fast during the war they haven’t been able to stop yet. A fool laughs when his wife’s corns hurt, while a wise man goes to a movie. • • • Tt is estimated that alarm clocks have added 600 cuss words [to our language. Some of the coal dealers should mend their weighs. • • • The poor we have with us always—the rich are often against us. • ♦ * An old flame makes things hot for many a man. All the world is a stage and it is a fine show if you play fair. * * • Shortage of magnifying glasses is reported, so perhaps they are being used by artists who design seed catalogs.

Jfcilo&sfjip of draper Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for Cnnimiesion on Evangelism of Federal Council of Churches TUESDAY The Disciples Called to Service

“And he appointed twelve that he might send them forth.” Mark 3:14. Read Mark 3:13-19. “The master called men to him, only to send them out.” MEDITATION: Great multitude's followed Jesus. .Just twelve were called to the special privilege of l.is constant companionship, but this was “that he might send them forth” to ministry like his. Christian privileges spell obligation for Christian service. HYMN: Help me rlie slow of heart to move By some clour, winning word'of love. Teach me 'he wayward feet to stay. And guide them in the homeward way. PRAYER: O God. our Heavenly Father, wo thank thee for the gift of thy dear Son. Grant that we who have received him in our hearts may i Joyfully go forth with him on many errands. Bless those who toil fop thee In far off places: comfort them in their loneliness; and unite our xvork to theirs Accept our gifts; re ceive our prayers: and use us fov the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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REPORT OPPOSES HARBOR PROJECT Huge Uliana Port Proposal Meets With Disapproval, Because the proposed Uliana harbor , on Lake Michigan in Indiana and Illinois would cost between $300,000,000 and $400,000,000, the interstate harbor commission h.-is reported to Governors McCray of Indiana and Small of Illinois recommending the project not be i started now. The report shows Chicago and Illinois have a greater interest in harbor development than has Indiana. Ic urges prior development by Chicago of the proposed Calumet industrial harbor, but recommends that the interstate project. await completion of the lakes to the gulf waterway. The Indiana and Illinois Legislatures appropriated $50,000 for the inv -stigation. Less than SI,OOO was spent. The commission: Walter J. Riley. East Chicago: A. R. Erskine. South Bend; William L. Sackett, Illinois State superintendent of waterways; C. R. Miller. Illinois director of the department of public works and buildings, and Col. Charles D. Townsend, representing the secretary of war. Grover Curry Missing Grover Curry, 35, of 513 W. McCarty St., was reported missing today. He is five feet seven inches in height and weighs 145 pounds. He wore a light cap and dark overcoat. -