Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1923 — Page 4
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AS "yATIONAL Commander Alvin Owsley of the OWSLEY \ American Legion, who has stated that the SEES IT X portion of the legion back of the Memorial day bill is aiming at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and not at other sporting events, should be commended for his frankness. That this attitude existed has been suspected for a long time, but Commander Owsley has been the first to admit its existence. He says there is no objeation to baseball games or other sports on Memorial day, but there is objection to the Speedway race because of its national importance. This line of reasoning is not quite clear. League baseball games, while they do not have an international significance, certainly are national in their scope. For that matter, what is the difference between international “desecration” of Memorial day and national or local “desecration” of the day? All of these things are beside the point, anyway. The only question involved is whether a Legislature has the power or the right to tell American citizens how they are to observe a holiday or any other day, so long as they keep the peace. If anything should have the effect of causing American citizens to lose a spirit of reverence for Memorial day~ it would be legislation designed to compel reverence. Americans object to being coerced. A GAME rn iIE French occupation of “Germany’s PittsOF TIT I burgh district” is giving Germans a dose of FOR TAT 1. their own medicine. The Ruhr district, occupied to collect indemnity, includes only about thirty-five square miles. Os course, the French have extended their lines beyond the Ruhr. After the Franco-Prussian war, the Germans occupied more than 3,500 square miles of French territory, held part of it two years and Alsace-Lorraine for nearly half a century. It’ll probably be the Germans’ turn again, about fifty years from now, mavbe sooner.
OLD TUT ’ll yr*RS. Asquith introduces King Tut fashions to SETS l\/■ London society. She attends a wedding STYLES JLtX wearing a dress of “closely-swathed terra cotta, caught at the waist with a large scarab (Egyptian beetle) clasp.” Clothing houses and jewelers are rushing their designers to King Tut’s tomb. By next fall our women will be draped tightly like mummies, fashion experts predict. An accidental discovery by scientific ditch diggers may revolutionize styles. Human nature is fickle, vanity always ready for anew craze —follow the leader. It’s part of the phenomenon called life. With most of us, life’s main purpose is a quest for thrills—anything new More 'T'vO you remember, when the war ended, a FEARS I I wave of fear sw.ept our countrv that GerBLASTED I / many would corner the world’s foreign trade? Reduced to value in American dollar, our exports last year totaled about four times as much as Germany’s. This illustrates again, that we live in an age of false alarms. Great crises threaten us, one after another. You have observed that they do not materialize. “Nerves” make us dread the chimeras. FASTER ADI LecointX French aviator, breaks the AND w orld’s speed record. lie flies 235 miles an FASTER hour. That is almost four miles a minute. Within mu* generation flyers probably will make 1,000 miles an hour. Or more.* 1 urning to more practical things. Uncle Sam’s air mail now covers a route of 2,680 miles. The round trip is made daily except Sundays and holidays. The airplane is beinsr developed faster than any invention in history. How long until it will be safer to fly than drive a car? Ten years may be a conservative guess.
Internal Revenue Bureau Trains Own Men in Income Tax Work
* QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can g-et an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washinsrton, D. C.. endopin? il cents in •tamps. Medical, and love and marriage advice cannot be given. Un-ilg-ned letters cannot be answered, but all Jitters are confidential, and receive personal replies. the bureau does not require it. it will assure prompter replies if readers will confine Questions to a single subject, wntinsr more than one letter if answers on various subjects are desired—EDlTdfc How ran I obtain training as an Internal revenue clerk? What is the pay of an internal revenue clerk? The Bureau of Internal Revenue trains Its own clerks in income tax work and the only way to receive this training is to be appointed to a position in that office by the United States Civil Service Commission. The pay is from $1,200 to SI,BOO a year. What races have the largest brains? The human brain is largest in the white races and smallest in some of the Central African races. Is there an English word with more than twenty letters? Tes, several, among ; them: trans■ttbstan tlationalls t. How much com was imported from Argentina into the United States in 1921? None. Can Government buildings be used for political purposes? No, years ago the Secretary of the A True Friend > Wy BERTOX BRAT.EY HE lets me buy him dinner. And nireer buys for pie, sty purse grows flatter, thinner. When in his companyMy money he annexes By various hooks and crook*. But. though my soul he vexes. He never borrows books! HIS humor makes me weary. His talk is most Inane. His tales are old and dreary. And trying to the brain: No matter how I view him, 1 do not like his looks. But still I cotton to him— He never borrows books! WHAT though he's far from moral. With faults I can't defend. I shall not ever quarrel With such a precious friend. And should he from a cell come. A criminal, gadzooks. I still should bid him welcome— He never borrows books! (Copyright, 1923. NBA Service. Inc.)
Treasury made a ruling which prohibited the use of any Government building for political purposes. Which are (he biggest cities in Italy and what are their population? Naples, 697,917; Milan, 663,059; Rome, 590,960; Turin, 451,994; Palermo, 345,891.
JfeUotosfjip of draper Daily .Lenten Bible reading: and meditation prepared for Commippion bn Evangelism of Federal Council of Churches. Service (he W r ay to True Richas
“With what measure you mete It ; shall be measured unto you; and more j shall be given unto you.” Mark 4:24. Read Mark 4:21-32. "Eight does not exist for itself, buc! for the eyes of those who sit In dar. ness.” MEDITATION: God'd gift of Ic.ve to His children is their most previous possession, and the more we uie the more we-have. The law of Divine economy is that to keep His ? ive, we must use it. and if we do no use it, we shall lose it. HYMN; Work is sweet, for God ha' blest Honest work with quiet rest. Rest below and rest abovo in the mansions of His love. When the work of life is done, When the battle’s fought and won. PRAYER: O Lord, my Heavenly Father, grant me grace to live this day as one of thy children. Keen me from all sin. in thought or word or | deed, and enable me to act like a Christian alwajrs and everywhere. If i I am or vexed, make me patient, and i 9>u dost send sorrow, let me be subi. *sive to thy holy will. Make it my chief joy to do something for thy cause in the earth. And if by reason of human infi-mity I should forget thee, do not thou forget me, but pardon my sins, and accept me In the name of the blessed Savior, to whoih with thee and the Holy Ghost be gjiry forever. Amen.
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What Will Diggers in Crown Hill 3,500 Years Hence Kind of Us? Very Little, Says Archaeologist
By ALEXANDER HERMAN NEA Service Staff Writer THIRTY-FIVE hundred years from now posterity, digging back into our enlightened civilization of today is going to he disappointed. For the people of 3,923 will leave a sad impression on the future generations. Archaeologists in 5423 A. D. who start prying into our affairs, as we are doing info those of King Tutankhamen, who lived some 3,500 years ago, will judge us not by our skyscrapers, radio, modern appliances, all signs of a progressive age, but —■ Only by what they find in Crown Hill Cemetery. This is the opinion of Ambrose Lansing, acting curator of the Egyption department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York, a man who has spent most of his life digging up the past of old Egypt. Buildings Will Decay "Our buildings, models of architecture, expressions of art. will loag have passed into the limbo,” he says. "Instead of the splendors of a Tutankhamen, Mehenkwetre, or a Perneb, we’ll be rated by our cemeteries." Imagine it! How we will suffer in comparison with our ancients, whose secrets, revealed by men like Lansing and Howard Carter, who spent thirty-three years excavating for one Pharaoh’s tomb, show that there was nothing slow about our Egyptian ancestors. They had breweries, where they made real beer, without the interference of a Volstead. They had boats, all kinds, for short spins, long tours, or special excursions. They had dancing girls and a lot of conveniences. No Chickens—No Flivvers Ducks and geese were plentiful. But there weren’t any chickens in those days. They didn't miss them so much, though, for there weren’t any motorists, either. In such times as these Perneb was horn down in Memphis (Egypt) 4*550 yearsr ago. He was one of the big men of his day, a politician who held high office under the king. As soon es he wau old enough to work, he started building his tomb. That was the chief aim in life those days—to have a showy burial place. Os course, he didn’t let it interfere with his social obligations. When It was finished It was a masterpiece. It was discovered in 1913 and resurrected by Lansing. Now it stands in the Metropolitan Museum in New York with even the
Pu VPA Service CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—“Plumonla” is anew word coined by the Chicago Health Department to describe th*j combinaion of influenza and pneumonia epidemic, in the city. The death toll from flumonia” so far this year has been nearly twice the normal death rate from the causes. By Dr. Herman Bundesen Chicago Commissioner of Health X S1 j, EI*ENZA of itself rarely kills. Its tenj fancy, however, Is to develop Into pneumonia 'Tjift.'A ay weakening lung resistance. The preva- \ lency of cases of this sort in Chicago has led to the coinage of the term "flumonia"—which Is not 9 a scientific w- rd at all. Those who would avoid influenza and pneumoTANARUS) J nia should observe the following "don’ts”: Y j Don't eat anywhere dishes and cooking uten•l j sils ar not disinfected by boiling. Don’t fail t o change shoes and stockings at %, once if your ff,f t become wet. Don’t stuff if you have a cold. Eat very light- ■ Don’t let yourself become constipated. “ ■ Don’t neglect to obtain sufficient sleep. Don’t get out of bed If you have a c*ld. DR. BUNDESEN Don't expose yourself by wearing thin, flimsy clothing. Don't put your hand In your mouth; that's how infection is spread. If you think you may have Influenza, don’t let It get a grip on you. Go to bed and call a doctor.
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Crowds of tourists photographing treasures being removed from the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Right: One of the ruins dug up in earlier excavations in the Valley of the Kings. Left: \ Mehenkwetre, who lived long before Tut, seated In the cabin of his pleasure boat with a blind harpist at his side.
paint on its walls intact. Nearby hang chunks of beef and other offerings which Perneb hadn't consumed. But Perneb didn't hold a candle to Mehenkwetre, who was bom some 650 years later. He, too, was a politician hut he served King Mentuhotep 111 ns chancellor and, steward of the royal palace. When he died he wanted to carry on Just as he lived. So he had little wooden models made of his house, farm, garden, boats, brewery, granary, favorite girls and servants and had them all buried with him. "But none of these discoveries," says Lansing, "approximate the vast
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treasure house now being dug up at Luxor. Tutankhamen’s is ihh first royal tomb to be found intact. Marauders got to moat of the others before aeh aeologists, for the craft of the ghoul seems to be an ancient as burial itself. "Digging there will soon have t* be stopped for the warm weather is set
Capitol Jokes By JOSEPH W FORDNEY U. S. Representative From Michigan, Eighth I*istriot. T was a summer hI Sunday evening a[ and the man and E3JH his wife wro attending church. v 'v’xawl church window llf |MB the crickets wore V --L-. l 5 making consideral>l* racket. InK*” s!d<* the choir—- \ Ejf-t, a very fine ono—i % waH finishing an i V * // anthem. As the beautiful final notes of FORDNEY the music died away, the wife turned to her husband and whispered: , "Oh, John, wasn't it wonderful! Wasn’t it marvelous!" "Yes." said John, "and tiie most ; wonderful paid 1b that they do it all with their hind legs."
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS SKILLED IN CRAFTS LONDON. Feb. 23 —In a lecture on “Ancient Egyptian Workmanship," at King's College, Professor Flinders Petrie said that the weaving of a piece of linen of 7,000 years ago presented no difference from that of the finest cambric handkerchief of to-
ting in. It cannot be taken up again until fall. "But when the discoveries in the Valley of the Kings is completed, a new wealth of riches and information will be revealed.” r • want the archaeologists of 3,500 years hence to say nice things .u.< we had better start trim- [ ining up our graveyards.
! day. The Egyptians gave to their furniture the maximum of slontlgl' ness and grace with the maximum of strength. The Egyptians took glass making 1,560 B. C. They were ! masters in modeling and glazing. They had instruments for measuring time and temperature, and were great i craftsmen in Jewelry and inlaid work.
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MANY a man who passes you with his auto is behind with his payments. • * • Los Angeles inventor has taken the hum out of movie machines. Now we need one to eliminate the “hohum” in movie audiences. • • • The causes of most things are unknown. It is the results that count. • * ♦ The average man doesn’t know any
more about what is going on in Washington than the Congressmen do. • * * King Tut was so rich lie must have been a bootlegger. • * * Every day big guns are made to shoot farther, and the farther they shoot the more they scare peace. * • * Keep away from Warsaw in Russia. All the movies are closed there. • ♦ ♦ Wholesale prices have advanced 13 per cent in one year and 13 is considered very unlucky. • * • Alderman Falconer of New York claims that city leads in cuss words and we ask you why wouldn’t it? s\• • • A man who slept forty-eight days in Chicago is recovering. It is not true that he awoke when someone said, “This isn’t Philadelphia.”
‘Navy Composed of Brave Men, Mostly Ivory From Neck Up’
By HERBERT QUICK WHEN Thomas A. Edison said that he had ■ offered the United States Navy forty-five inventions since he has been president of the Naval Consulting Board, many editors made the mistake of thinking that he meant that they were his own inventions. This is not true. These inventions, every one of which he says were turned down by the Navy, were inventions which the Naval Consulting Board has passed on and thought valuable. And what is the Naval Consulting Board? Organized Before War Away back before the United States entered the World War it was proposed that a board of advisers be established to examine new inventions and ideas, and to adopt them for the Navy if found good. When we finally entered the war, we had an organization with tens of thousands of expert technicians already enlisted that did a work the value of which has never been properly understood by the country'. It
TOM SIMS SAYS:
| was a scientific army mobilized before the war. It was this great body which has offered the Navy these forty-five Inventions. It is their verdict which the Navy has contemptuously ignored. Not Edison’s, but the Naval consulting board’s. Men Are Brave It is worth giving a moment's thought to this. The Navy is composed of brave men. ready to die for their country and most of them solid ivory from the neck up. The Navy refused to adopt steam for twenty or thirty years, though the task for warships was to pursue steamersIt refused to adopt the Monitor until John Ericsson’s little cheesebox on a raft saved the fleet at Hampton Roads. I could fill pages with the stories of the criminal refusals of the Nan' to accept new ideas. Congress could cure this. Naval men are brave. how to die. But any fool can die. Millions of fools have ' bravely died. What we need is a Navy of men who know how to live —especially from the neck up.
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