Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1923 — Page 4

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STAGING A NOTHER play by an Indiana writer is schedHOOSIER /\ tiled for production this month by the Little TALENT 1 \ Theatre Society—“Treason”—by Maurice €. Tull of Indianapolis. This follows the highly artistic success which was scored by the Little Theatre in February when “Sycamore Shadders” was presented. Too much cannot be said in furtherance of this society’s well planned efforts to bring to light drama writing talent hidden away in the odd corners of Indiana and particularly of its desire to present Indiana characters and Indiana scenes as they were of old and are now. Those who have witnessed the productions of the Little Theatre have almost invariably come away with keen interest aroused in its work and a realization of hours most entertainingly passed. A few weeks ago attention was called in these columns to the spread of interest in the work of Little Theatre societies into other States rich in dramatic material. But none of them has a more liberal inheritance of such material than the Hoosier State. Endeavors of the Little Theatre during the past year has clearly indicated also that Indiana has an abundance of talent to provide attractive and satisfying stage presentations. If you like surprises and are not already familiar with what the Little Theatre is doing take our advice and see “Treason” March 23. WORK epidemic of grippe this winter reminds FOR you that the common cold is the worst disDOCTORS X ease pest inflicted on civilization. By undermining general health, it indirectly is one of the leading life destroyers. The common cold, coming several times a year and year after year, would wear us out eventually, ev< n if we had no other diseases. All very fine for scientists to search for a way to make us live 200 years or to rejuvenate old acre by monkey glands. But the world is in greater need of something that will annihilate colds—from the common type to grippe and flu. Medical science has no greater field. There’s an old spying about “starving a fever and feeding a cold.” Modern laboratory research proves that the quickest way to get rid of a cold is to starve it. When you have a cold, ?at lightly. And go to bed. A few days in bed is more effective, for almost any illness, than pills or other kinds of drugs. When you’re on your back, the heart has an easier job than when you’re on your feet and moving about. By going to bed when feeling out of sorts, we relieve the heart of part of its customary burden, enabling it to rally our energy for an attack on disease germs. pyOBIH A. native chief of Swaziland in Africa, NER\ E m visits London. The sights that impress him JARS / most are the rushing crowds and the snakes in the zoo. He says, the hustle and bustle and mad rush and the roaring of traffic sapped his energy and left him very tired. Civilization is doing that to all of us, constantly. In cities our nerves have to withstand a frightful number of shocks. The wise man goes to the country to recuperate in peace and quiet, as often as possible. Civilization at its best is more of a monster than a benefit. Airplanes to the rescue/ They will break up the cities by enabling people to scatter and live in the country. ( OSTIA' A X appropriation to pay for folding 20 million RAG /\ copies of speeches and pamphlets, is one of (HEWING JIA. the interesting items of the national govern- > ment’s budget estimate for the next fiscal year. Ten million copies will be issued by the Senate, rest by the House. ' Everything seems subject to change in our civilization except rag-ehewing by Congress. People who talk a lot never have time for much actual doing. To speed things up in Washington, it might he a good idea to elect dumb men to Congress. What? Oh, not that kind of dumb. ERINS "T’RELAXD is on the eve of a rapid revival of G -° or ! I trade > rc P°rts Williams-Deaeon’s Bank of NEWS -A. London. Trade during the past year has been lairly good, farming has experienced no great price changes, the Irish linen industry is on the upgrade, and particularly in shipbuilding the outlook is bright. This means that, basically, Ireland is getting on its feet. Ail is not war over there. Same as other countries—the bulk of the population is building, up while the public affairs lunatics fight. Potato Was Brought From >£. England to America in 1585

VMESTIONS ANSWERED cct an answer to any nnest.on ! or information hv writing to anapoits Times’ Was* t, n New York Avenue. Washington N# c.. enclosing C -ents m stamps. Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot bo given, nor ian extended research be undertaken or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, not all tettc-s are confidential and receive persona! replies.—EDlTOß. Ilotv did tlu potato originally set from America to England? Sir Francis Drake took it over in 1585. Is it a crime to mutilate or destroy I'nited States coins and currency? Nor. so long as no attempt to circulate them is made. Does a marine engine on a steamer travel faster with the tide and does it run slower going against the tide? The speed of a marine engine, relative to the water, does not change (other conditions being the same), whether the steamer is with or against rhe tide or current. Relative to a fixed point on land, the engine makes more revolutions In covering a given distance when going against the tide. Wiiat are the chief physical characteristics of the River Nile? The Nile runs through cliffs, which, with the exception of a stretch of granite in the neighborhood of Aswan, are chiefly of sandstone from tV°dJ Haifa to near Esna, while far flK*r north from Luxor to Cairo limestone predominates. The valley varies in width from less than half a mile in th" southern granite regior to over ten miles in the northern limestone region, and the cliffs in some places rise to heights of over a thousand feet above the river. The

fertile lands, on which the prosperity of Egypt depends, occupy the floor of tlio valley between the river and the bounding cliffs, while to the north of Cairo they spread out into the regular fan-shaped formation of the Delta, which comprises the six provinces of lower Egypt, with the richest soil in the country. The Nile has a total length of 5.470 miles, from the Victoria Nyanza to its mouth. Is there a Communist party in Great Britain? If so, how big is it? The actual size of the Communist party in England is not known, but , it includes most of the advanced So- : eialists in Great Britain and Ireland. : who are followers of Lenin. At a conference In London last year 200 delegates attended. \A ho was the best pitcher in the National League last year and in the American league? Ryan of the New York Nationals nnd Faber of the Chicago Americans. Who is the strongest man in she world? Tt all depends what is meant by the “strongest.” George Tambrias holds the record for lifting a dumb- , hell (101 pounds) from the floor above ! his head twenty-three times. Jack 1 Dempspy is no doubt the strongest , man in the ring. Lev is is the strong ! est among the wrest.ers. Who built the Leviathan? Blohm and Voss of Hamburg, Germany. l)o animals dream? No one knows definitely whether animals dream or not, hut from the appearance. at any rate, of dogs and cats when they sleep, nnd especially of the expression on their faces, many naturalists believe that they do dream.

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War Bride’s Homesickness Overwhelmed Her Love for Shell-Shocked Husband

By' JACK JUNGMEYER SEA Staff Correspondent IGS ANGELES, March 3. Homesickness, sly fomenter misery, has proven its tragic power in the case of Yvonne Wilmot, Belgian war blrde. It overwhelmed her love of husband, provoked spurious affection for a bachelor neighbor, drove her to the verge of suicide and then shattered an extraordinary triangle of unhappiness with a pistol shot. The aftermath will come in the trial here March 8 of Scott Wilmot. her husband, charged with wounding Paul Peters, Greek chef, whom he accuses of taking advantage of Yvonne's acute longing for homeland to “alienate her affections.” Looming behind the leg'll predicament of YYilmot, Canadian war hero, is the pathos of a myriad alien brides forsaking familiar faces, scenes and language with the betrothal pledge. “Whither thou goest, I will go: and they people shall be my people.” Girl Weds at 16 Yvonne, 21, vivacious, romantic, made the ancient submission when as a Belgian refugee of 16 in London she married a shell shattered youth of the recuperation camps. She had been a belle of Aix l.u Cliapelle, sheltered and well-to do before the war. Coming to Los Angeles she lived among strangers in a little, meagerly furnished house while her husband, subject to spells of invalidism, worked for hare necessities as a clerk. Next door, in a big house, lived Paul Peters, 30, whose Hashing black eyes and comforting assurance invited neighborliness. He listened sympathetically to her prattle and yearning for the homeland. Assuredly there were ways of getting back to Europe, he suggested. Mrs. Wilmot saw In Peters the means of gratifying that poignant yearnnig. transcending now even love of mate. She gave him her jewels, linen, tea set —and linally deserted her homo for him. All this she set forth in the lurid confession, subsequently legally at-

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SENATE This hill was introduced Friday: No 422 (Van Orman I —lVrmiUinft vrt- < ran of any foreign warn to servo as superintendent oti Soldiers and Sailors orphans' Home. Present law requires Civil War veterans. Companion hill to House bill 214. postponed in the Senate. Military affairs. This concurrent resolution was introduced and adopted: No :t ' I.lndi'-y)—Directing the attention of Federal trade .unmmsiou. Congress and the President to the :n:astute of the "Plttsh irgh p is" plan to Indiana and tiie Middle West Adopt. : These Senate bills passed: No 110 t LlndUy i—Providing teachers shall be pant for attending conventions In their own county only. Intended to prevent teachers from drawing salaries while s.-rvin," in other positions. (31-5 ) No lln (Holmes) —Amending the "blue sky" laws to make them more workable. (29-8.) These House bills passed: No. 143 (Core) —Amending 1903 art coneerntng construction of bridges ,'eroaa hire ,ns w hen (dreams are county lines. (37-0.) No 251 (Pulge)—Exempting p-..perty of American Legion front taxation. ,1-1. i No. 294 Harris! —Amending laws concerning vacation of land ft, permit vacation of plat of iand in Gary. (27-8 I No. 310 (Trent)—Giving Sup or Courts o! Howard. Tipton. Grant and Delaware Counties jury commissioners separate from those of Circuit Courts 32-0 ) No 320 (Wysong)—An.eiuling National Guard law so that it complies with the national defense act. (37-3.) Incorporation of Decker No 341 ' Leverton)—Legalizing incorporation of the town of lic'-ker. (32-0.) No. 300 (Schwartz)—Fixing mileage rates for sheriffs and deput sheriffs in rcturning prisoners under extradition law. 120-O.j No 307 (Cpdlke)—Giving Indianapolis authority to appropirate Jit).ooo lor national encampment of Veterans of Foreign Wars. (33 O.) No. 441 (Pittcrigcr)—-I’ermtttlnz State auditor to sell State lands in Delaware Comity. If trustees of Muncte Normal sign petition. (37-0.) No. 75 (Isenbarger)—Permitting cityplan commissions to levy taxes, receive donations and contract debts. (31-4.) No. 205 (Harris) —Authorizing county commissioners to appoint justices of the peace In incorporated towns. (35-1.) No. 460 ( Pulse-Hierly i—lit partisan absent voters' bill. Permits teachers, students, rail employes. Federal employes, members of the armed service and commercial travelers to vote by absent voters’ ballot. Creates special commission to carry out provisions of law In each county. (42-0.) Measures Postponed These House bills were indefinitely postponed: No. 324 (Day)—Giving city court of East Chicago concurrent jurisdiction with Circuit Court in civil cas.-s up to SIO,OOO. No. 214 1 Harrison)—Permitting vetrrans of or..v foreign wer to serve as superintendent of Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’ Home Present law requires Civil War veterans. No 303 (Jackson I —Preventing inmates of county poor forma to vote except in townships where they were legal residents prior In (heir admission to thp institution.

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Tbrton Rraley, Times staff poet, has started on a flivver trip from New York to San Francisco. He is traveling down the Atlantic coast across the Oulf States into Texas Art zona and New Mexico and thence up the Pacific to H.o tJoldon Cute He is wntimThia trip m poety. Bores the first, written at the send-off Ono wilt appear daily. New York. THE GETAWAY There were bags and trunks and cases .stowed about in many places, There were packages alj wound around with string, But the sturdy little flivver carried all that wo could give her Though the load was tensely straining every spring. So we started on our bumming with the motor smoothly humming And the chill of northern winter in the air; We had heard the southland calling with a wizardry enthralling And we hit the trail that leads the rover there. It was raining, snowing, sleeting, and the elements kept beating On the windshield and the curtains and the top; But it only helped remind ns that we soon would leave behind us All this ice and snow and dreariness end slop. So we skidded and we spattered on our way and nothing mattered Save the fact that we were going far away, From the land of ljreezcs frigid where your hands and feet grow rigid To the sunny land of everlasting May. Every fiber of the flivver seemed delightfully to quiver With the gypsy joy of roving on the road; And the motor of our Lizzie kept continuously busy We had started her to going—and she goed! SHE knew somehow what the trip meant; and although our camp equipment Caused the lookers-on to cachtnate and scoff, Lizzie plugged along quite happy at a speed exceeding snappy— We were started, we were going, we were off: —BERTON BRALEY. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Ino.)

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YVONNE WTI.MOT (ABOVE AND HEIi. HUSBAND, SCOTT WILMOT (BELOW). tested, which sent Wilmot to Peters’ home with a gun after ho had lain four hours in a faint. With his brother, ho confronted Peters and shot him in the arm

This Senate bill was withdrawn: No. 401 (Brown) —Legalizing bond issues for roads where materials used in Improvement* were later changed by public remonstratesThis House Mil failed to reedvo ft constitutional majority to p.uss: No If.F (Fpdikei—Gulag at. sssoei-tte judge ft, .tie CVimlna! Court In Indianapolis, and providing a salary of $3,000. 110-19 ) HOUSE This concurrent resolution waa Introduced and approved Friday: Nii 15 (Halms'- Directs iltei.iUm of President. Congress and F- and. ral trade commission to plan of e 'ling rolled steel known as "Pittsburgh plus ami pointing out it justice M p.an to Indiana producers and buyers of steel. These House bills wore withdrawn by their authors: No. 373 (Thiel)—Prohibited parents of delinquent girls from appealing through courts for ri versal of sentences No. 418 (Lowe> —Provided undistributed balances of War Chest funds might be turned ov< r to American Legion, War Mothers, hospitals or orphans’ homes This bill failed on two roll calks for want of a constitutional majority: No. 158 (Dueomb) Fixed pay of General Assembly memb ra at JlO a day Monument Superintendent Those .Senate bills passed: No 91 (E- -lishi -Ineri a 1 salary of superintendent of Soldiers and Sailors' Mmument from $1 ‘.’on to $1 .00. No. 129 (Daily) Provides a motion may bo filed to take case away from court when judge falls to act within ninety days upon taking a .-age under advisement. No. 159 i Mill, r) Maternal organizations to build hospitals. No. 238 IHartzelli—Legalizes refund of $117.0(10 in taxes ertoneo !y collected In Wayne Township. Alien County No. 277 (Harlan I —Authorizes councils in third-class cities to establish and maintain art museums. No. 281 (Hodges)—Prohibits common councils irotii adopting daylight savings plan. No. 301 (Baxter) —Permits State board of finance to make temporary loans from rptg • la! funds to general fuud to tako earo of deficit in latter fund. No 313 (Adams) Authorizes county commissioners to contract for river gravel and pay for sams before It actually Is placed on the roads. No. 321 (Shirley)—Authorizes Allen County commissioners to acquire land for park purposes. No. 843 (Merry)—Quiets title to forty acres of land In Jay County belonging to Thomas Bowler. Abolishing Assosorship Theso House bills passed: No. 2RO (Blerly)—Abolishes offlee of as sessor In counties of 25.000 population or less, transferring duties to county auditor. No. 287 (Ahlgren)-—Administration tax bill with amendments No. 380 (Murray!— KegnlatPs speed of automobiles and motorcycles in towns ami cities and on highways. No. 442 (Johnson of Hamilton) —Requires devices on self-measuring gasoline pumps shall Indicate whether stand pipes are fined No 476 (Shull)—Authorizes boards <>f county commissioners to construct bridges In certain cases.

throug-h the door of tho bathroom where the alleged Interloper had taken refuge. Then with blood streaming, Peters added his name to Mrs. Wllmot's confession, says the irate husband, who holds th paper. “I went to the house to compel the Greek to take care of Yvonne, after what he had done,” said YVi) mot, whose defense will be he was suffering a shell shock relapse at the time under tho blow of revelation. Couldn’t Console Her “My wife was lonesome, pining for her country and kin, Peters had time to amuse her. I didn't—l had to work.” • Said the wife: “Paul promised me everything—a trip to Europe—and I, fool that I was, listened. When I asked him to return my things his attitude changed. I have ruined my husband’ life and I'm heartbroken. 1 wanted to drown myself.”

JftUotesijip of Daily Lenten Bible reaumg and meditation prepares] for ( .munission on Evangelism of Federal Council of Churches Truth Rather Than Tradition

"Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders?" Mark 7:5. Read Mark 7:1 23 "Tho passage from a faith that is traditional to a faith that is vital is always more or less painful as well as hazardous.” MEDITATION: Jesus recognized th>> value of the past and continually quoted from the fathers, but he was none the less ready to pioneer in the realm of the spirit. HYMN: Praise to God, immortal praise For the love that crowns our days; Bounteous source of every joy. Let thy praise our tongues employ: All to Thee, our God, wo owe. Source whence all our blessings How. PRAYER: O Thou who are love and who seest till the sufferings, in justice and misery which reigns in this world: have pity, we implore Thee, on the work of Thy hands. lok mercifully upon the poor, the oppressed. and all who are heavy laden with error, labor anil sorrow. Fill our hearts with deep compassion for those who suffer, and hasten the coming of Thy kingdom of justice and truth; through Jesus Christ our Ir.l. A men: Taffeta and Race Blark lace makes an effective trim tiling for a frock of green taffeta. It Is cut on very’ old-fashioned lines with a full, long bouffant kirt, and has a shoulder drapery of the lace which fastens In the front with a corsage bouquet.

L: Why not break the last bond W/' i t\ between you and the drudgery WclSiV \J<yy your grandmother had? / /K\l The laundry provides a wide variety \\ of services which gives freedom to any >?\\ \V\ woman at a price she can afford to pay— //A \\ \\\> Ar A At, j — 1 ...i.n

LEGISLATIVE JAM SMOTHERS ACTION TO REVISE LAWS Measure Is Contained in Great Volume of 1,262 Pages. Bv HARRY HUNT SEA Staff Correspondent -| rASILINGTON, March 2. I Vfy' Lost in the legislative jam of ” T a filibustering Congress is the j bill which would have revised, consolidated. recodified and re-enacted all the j . permanent laws of j I 'AS the United States i - j This measure! compiled under ill- i | pi&F: rectlon of Con- | 'M&k\ . gressman Edward j C Little. Kansas, i v chairman of the 1 UM House Committee | j on Revision of tho ; j Laws, lirou gh t faj|||jjjpig*- *' j Into one volume of . statutes now scat--1 t'.red through forf4| ty-one volumes of ■ *'" nk conflicting Federal LITTLE law. "To he sure of the law.” Little | says, "one must hunt through every ■one us these volumes of statutes, enacted since codification of the old revised statutes in 1874. Worked 22 Months “In preparing this new code, ten of us worked twenty-two months, fourteen to eighteen hours a day. The j House adopted the hill May 16. 1921. The Mil went to tho Senate and was referred to a committee <>f which Ernst of Kentucky was chairman. For more than twenty months never a mooting of tho committee was called to consider It. "Ernst saysit isn’t correct. "Os course there are mistakes, YVe would have been more than human If ; there weren’t. The codification of! 1-74 developed more than a thousand. - Tliex v re cured by adoption of an app< i 1 1 ix The same could and would be done with the new code. Two Charges Made "Two specific chargee are made. In one. Congress undertakes to say how 1 ninny ministers shall be. appointed to Cent' il America which the State Department holds Is an executive mat- ; ter The other kick Is from officers ; of the Navy, who want rear admirals i p. .••••!■• brigadier generals in going In to dinner. 'I': j..-.’ judgment the Navy crowd, having made th-' general charge that the code Is full of errors, the Senate c m:, it’ e. lacking energy to take up ti e bill and find out for Itself the falsity of tho claim, has permitted it to slumber. “The nmy code bill, of course, will he reintroduced In the next Con- ; gross.”

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TOM SLMS SAYS: IF the Chicago man who paid $20,000 for a kiss asks us, we know \;/-vV where they cost one ice cream soda. /mT U The first sign of spring in Lebanon, / Ore., was when people started worrying j One difference between us and Congress is Congress has passed the income tax and we haven't. y The first sign of spring in Seattle was when a man remarried his divorced wife. Trying to pronounce Tut-Ankh-Amen has increased the number of stutterers in this country. • • * Gecorge Washington was tLie father of liis country and Johnny Rockefeller is its rich uncle. • * • Higher education does pay. Harvard’s famous half back has left college to open a tea room. Those settling our European policy seem to think necessity is the mother of intervention. • • The first, sign of spring in San Francisco was when a boy of eleven eloped with a girl of 10. • • • Two robbers who held up a New York actor wasted their time. * # • More would live to the safe and sane age if it weren’t for the unsafe and insane age first. • • • The sad thing about having a wife is when you look for something it has been hung up somewhere. • • • People who long for the good old days would hate to read this stuff by a candle. • • • A tall girl is handicapped because she has to stoop over before a mail can make her kiss him. • • • Bobbed hair may come and bobbed hair may go, but making hair pins uses up 25,000 tons of steel yearly. # • • Boston man wants a divorce because when he asked her how long before supper she said it with flour. tit Washington man has invented an anto with four legs like a horse. Isn’t it a shame the way booze is sold in our capital? • • • Pickle association says pickles make people beautiful. Just the same, getting into one doesn't. • • • A young lady tells us after her husband has worn a suit twice it looks as old as King Tilt’s suit. t t • No home is complete without a few highbrow lrooks around to make people think you read them. • • • Bet tlie man who invented kissing was surprised at the results. ♦ • • Another couple that should be given a divorce is liver and onions. • • • Come on spring fever.