Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1923 — Page 4
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A SPUR nr-'v EALIZATION of plans for relocating and enTO CIVIC larging Butler college has been brought apPRIDE V preciably nearer by the gift of $200,000 by William G. Irwin, a graduate of the college, and his sister, Mrs. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus. With the recent donation of $300,000 to Butler by Rockefeller Foundation the campaign to raise a million and a half for endowment and the erection of new buildings in Fairview Park, is one-third accomplished. Mr. Irwin and Mrs. Sweeney in making their gift have expressed their desire to further the education of patroitic, religious citizenship. Their father, Joseph I. Irwin, was formerly president of the directors of Butler College and a number of years ago gave SIOO,OOO to the institution. While the motives leading to this large donation demonstrate a strong and intimate connection with this increasingly valuable educational institution, Mr. Irwin and Mrs. Sweeney can not claim the direct interest in seeing Butler College extend its benefits that the residents of Indianapolis naturally should have. In the effort to make Indianapolis the center of a great institution which will add to the fame of the city and to provide thousands of the city’s girl and boys with a college education near at home, every business man and every parent could find a selfish interest for contributing financially to the enlarging of Butler. In building and equipping a college a million and a half of dollars is not as big and does not go as far as a few years ago. Such a gift as that of Mr. Irwin and Mrs. Sweeney coming from nonresidents of Indianapolis should, and in all probability will, have effect in spurring Indianapolis citizens to not only raise the balance of the $1,500,000 fund, but to exceed that goal. SOUND "’'T N proposing a plan by which the 52,000 postSENSE 1 masters of this country may be taken out of FOR P. O. JL politics, retiring Postmaster General Hubert Work has suggested an innovation distinctly constructive. Briefly, Dr. Work, who .now goes to take charge of the Interior Department, recommends to President Harding that all postmasters be taken out of the civil service classification, removed from control of members of Congress, and be made directly and personally responsible to the Postoffice Department. The “civil service” idea sounds fine and dandy, but actually, in so far as postmasters are concerned, it is a plan by which a lot of local job hunters can take a fool examination in which “previous business experience” is one of the chief factors, and from which three supposedly highest in markings are put upon “the preferred list.” From this group the Congressman recommends one to be appointed. Asa result, all sorts of disgraceful juggling follows, orders for “reclassification” being quite frequent, until the Representative in Congress secures the man he wants. The only wonder is that under such a system, the Postoffice Department has reached its present state of efficiency. Manifestly, the postmaster of Hogg Corners and the postmaster of New \ ork City alike, should be responsible solely and absolutelv to the Postmaster General and to no one else. WHEN ’▼"TT yHEN Prof. Frank Lockwood joined the staff WE \f\l oi the University of Arizona, he wandered DIFFER f Y into the cemetery and noticed that the’tombstones indicated most of the early settlers of Tucson had departed this life rather young. “Must have been a bad epidemic of something in these parts,” Lockwood commented to an old man near by. “What’d they die of ? ‘‘Most of them died of a difference of opinion,” the old man answered. Differences of opinion—stubborn refusal to compromise and meet the other side halfway—caused most of the trouble in history. In Europe today, also.
HOW FAR TnvRESIDENT HARDING, according to what TO a —* his friends tell "Washington newspapermen, DESERT? .A. thinks it will take twenty more years to make America bone-dry. Ten years would be a more logical guess. Fear of poison booze, ifot law, will make people stop drinking. Working against John Barleycorn is the strongest human emotion—fear.
Racial Origin of Turks Is Undetermined —Are From Asia
qiTWIOV ANSWERED iou can get an answer io any question of fact or information bv writhe- tq the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 13*11 New York Ave.. Washington. 1) C . Inclosing 2 cents in stamps. legal and love and mamarre advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers. speeches, etc., lie prpared. TTnslgnd letters <-annnt lie answered. but all letters ar. confidential and receive personal replies.—Editor. What is the racial ongin of the Turks? It is uncertain. Like the Tartars, they are of Asiatic descent, but in appearanace, at least, they have become thoroughly Europeanized. If they have Mongol blood they have lost all the typical Mongoloil features except a short and extremely broad head. They are rather tall and have stiff, straight hair; beard is full and the nose broad and straight. Their speech is a branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. Their nearest kinsmen are the Turkomans of centra! Asia. There is much Slavic, Greek and Albanian blood in the European Turks. Which is correct, “The moon shines brightly” or “the moon shines bright?” Both. In the first, the word “brightly" refers to the way the moon shines, and has an adverbial construction. In the second, the word "bright” has the construction of a predicate adjective and refers to the noun “moon.” On what day of the week did Nov. 22, 1901, fall? Friday. fan the jurors in a rase ask a witness questions? No. their duty is merely to hear the evidence permitted to be introduced by the judge and determine the facts in the case and render the verdict on the evidence as presented. What Is the average life of a horse? About thirty-five years. They have been known to live to sixty years ani over. What N s cyclone? A movement of air, spirally, iJs-.-eC ward toward a center of low presE*y The movement of air at everyjfi-dpJ within the circumference
part of the cyclonic system. The center of rotation moves forward in a general easterly direction at the rate of about thirty miles an hour. The air rises as it approaches the center and at the height of about a mile or more spreads out toward the circumference. \\ as l ncle Toni’s cabin a story of real life? No, although some of tna incidents in the book had been called to the attention of the writer and were, therefore drawn from real life. Asa Whole, however, he book gives the author’s views of slavery as she believed the system to exist.
No’th Ca’lina CHARLOTTE. N. C. As soon as you get to No th Ca'lina The roads and the towns get newah. flnah. The people walk with a brisker step And even your motor has more pep. The hookworm's banished. Uie country has A lot more cm tat. pep and jazz. The livest Northerner couldn't design a Livelier Stale than No th Ca'lina! The farms look fatter, the harplets ain't Quite ignorant of the eight of paint. They're building roads, and they're not content Wuh sand and clay, but they use cement. And the schools look good, and the mills are busy And each inhabitant owns a Lizzie Or a big twin six or something Uriah, As soon as you get to No'th Ca’lina! This State's not dreaming of days gone by. There's a modern glint in each mortal s eye, JiSpbWvillege belles and village beaux jrtTjSAy-/. irtly dressed as the crowd which k s streets. You must give ’em ifJt'lWsr ;lr( ' a wake. you aid it! the “boostah: ’ you .ose the juu get to Noth Ca'lina! —BERTON BRALEY.
The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Editor-in-Chlef. FRED ROMER PETERS, Editor. KOV W. HOWARD, President. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Manager.
American Scientist Seeks Ghost Test of Conan Doyle's Noted Spirit Photographer ; William IPope
BY MILTpN BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent LONDON. March s.—Can William Hope, famous ghost photographer, be induced to visit America to let science test his extraordinary power? “I’m sick of tests,” says the man whose remarkable spirit pictures form the backbone of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's lectures on spiritualism. Doyle is going to America in April. And now J. Malcolm Bird, secretary of the American committee of judges who will preside at official tests conducted by the Scientific American, is in England to go to New York and submit to the $5,000 test. Hope says the money award doesn’t interest him. He earns his living in the factory town of Crewe as a picture frame maker. When he takes photographs he charges a fee only large enough to pay for time and materials. "We cannot command the spirits,’’ Hope says. “Sometimes, when they ar& in the mood, they make use of me. lam a ‘sensitive.’ Then, strangely, a picture of a dead relative, or an utter stranger, appears on the plate. "But it does no good to make tests. I have had them time after time. Those who see the tests are convinced. Other people go right pn doubting.” Hope is a little, elderly man with blue eyes and gray hair and the accent of the Eancashire worker. All his ghost pictures are taken with an old-fashioned camera. He said he discovered his strange power thirty years ago when, with a gift camera, he took a picture of a fellow worker standing in the sunlight
SERGEANT YORK APPROVES TIES PLAN FOR PEACE War Hero Hopes U. S, Will T'ake Steps to Prevent Armed Conflict, By NATHAN D. WHITE Time* Staff Carrcxponitent ON THE BANKS OF WOLF RIVEIi, Tenn., March 6. — Sergt. Alvin York, greatest hero of the World War, hopes the United States will do all It honorably can to prevent another such calamity. He told me as much today as he gave his approval to the Indianapolis Times’ plan to bring about world peace and economic reconstruction. He would like to see the United States take the lead in calling an Interna Uonal conference to avert another war. Sergeant York talked with me in his home on the bank of Wolf Creek, ten miles from Jamestown and fortyeight miles from tho nearest railway, it takes three days and nights of hard tiding to get here. “We should make every possible es fort to prevent another war,” he told me in his earnest manner, “and a conference of the world powers would probably be tho best step In that direction." His fion, Alvin, Jr., 23 months old, sat on his knee. “I hope my hoy never has to go to war,” said the big Tennessee mountainer. Single-handed, this man fought a whole battalion of German machine gunners in the Argonne Forest and captured 132 of them. “But I want him to be ready to go if he is ever needed,” he added, putting his hand on the baby's head. “We are for peace, but we will never permit any other nation to Interfere with American rights. We will fight again, every one of us, if necessary, whenever another nation attempts that." Sergeant York carefully read the peace plan of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. “I believe a conference such as proposed wouid be tho best thing, although I don’t approve all the suggestions as to how the conference might proceed,” he said. York is kept busy looking after the crops, herds of cattle and droves of hogs on his 400-acre farm, bought for him by public subscription in recognition of his heroism. lie seemingly thinks little about iho recent war, talks about it only when questioned and modestly seeks to avoid discussion of his deed which General Foch called “the greatest act of individual heroism performed by a private soldier in any of tho armies of Europe.”
Capitol Jokes
By W. \V. CHALMERS United States Representative From Ohio, Ninth District **'ARLY risers al--4 'd ways are very Jsjjta proud of themselves. *Two farmers were boasting of a their achievements / in that particular, /. ,P* and one of them If ... \ resolved to show R \ up the other. So J/ he rose one mornL J ing alwut 2 o’clock \ / and went over to y his neig hb o r'a u '' c house and knocked CHALMERS on the door. The neighbor’s wife called out: “Who’s there?” “It’s Jim Place,” replied the visitor. "I’m looking for your husband. Where is he?” The wife scented mice. “Why, I don't know,” she answered. "I guess he's out around the farm somewhere. I haven’t seen him since early this morning.” ,
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A SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY WILLIAM HOPE AND ATTESTED BY SIR ART HUR CONAN DOYLE.
against a brick wall. When he developed the plate there was the outline of a woman standing beside his friend. The transparent figure showed the bricks of tho wall. He thought the plate had been exposed
Pioneer of Northwest to Bring Back Early Frontier Days
B'j \/.’ . .Service OSTON, March 5.—-For the “j third time, Ezra Meeker, 92, one of the oldest living pioneers of the Northwest, will traverse in a prairie sc sooner the 2,000 miles of the old Oregon trail. When Meeker first traveled that trail, the. rifles of savage Indians, enraged at the white man’s Incursion, almost continually were leveled upon him. This time the Indians' rifles will give way to the motion picture camera which will follow his progress and will record for future generations the trials of the hardy pioneers. Meeker was bom in Ohio in 1532. At an early age he married and set out for Towa with the determination to farm on his own land. Decides to Hit Trail Having settled In lowa, Mr. and Mrs. Meeker decided the opportunities were greater in tho Far West. So they resolved to take their baby. Just. bom. and join the tide 0 f immigration flocking over the Oregon trail through a trackless wilderness to Portland, Ore. It took the Meekers five months to make the journey In their prairie schooner behind two yokes of oxen. Their lives were almost continually in peril—from Indians and from Wild beasts. More than once herds of stampeding buirains ali but wiped out the little party. Scores of times only the unerring aim of the frontiersman's rifle stood between them and death. 5,000 Perish on Trail Meeker estimates 5,000 died in one year from the perils of the wilderness and the ravages of disease on the Oregon trail. But Meeker and hist family reached Oregon in safety, settled, tilled the soil and prospered for forty-one yon rs. Tii'ii in 1908 Meeker again drove his ox team across the country to
Owsley Tells of Legion Plans to Americanize All Aliens
By NORRIS QUINN .V E l Service St<iJ Writer llow the American Legion soon will embark on a sweeping Americanization program that will do away forever with seg.sgtrrwiw. regated foreign f'&f* settlements in American cities w/ was detailed for U# (I the first time by //' t Col. Alvin OwsV ~~ '\ yt nat i o nal i-s /V r jj commander of the vBRx, ~-r l ujr legion. ( Y x / The World War \ Veterans’ proV/fyMv gram. Owsley ty \ via said, will aim— V Vm,' TO RESTRICT immigration for \ at least five years ’ by congressional enactment. OWSLEY TO LIMIT immigration thereafter "to such aliens as we can assimilate.” TO REFORM conditions at Ellis Island ,to tho end that treatment of incoming aliens will not be such as to render them antagonistic to America. TO LAUNCH a Natlon-Wlde campaign of education in which every American will be asked to join in Americanizing unasslrnhated aliens. “Our present program is fourfold,” the legion commander said. “We are working for hospitalization of veterans, their rehabilitation, a. bonus and Americanization. “Before long the first three planks automatically will be carried out AVo then shall turn our undivided attention to Americanization. “First of all we shall strive to wipe out every ‘little Poland,’ 'little Greece’ ana every other kind of segregated foreign settlement. “This we shall carry out through education of aliens. Already hundreds of members of the American Legion in all parts of the country voluntarily are acting as teachers of English and civil government. “We shall establish free night schools for those who work by day and day schools tor those who work
before, but when he showed it to his friend the latter turned pale and said tho misty figure was that, of his sister who had been dead many years. “Later I took another picture of
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Washington. D. C., to blaze the old Oregon, trail again. In Washington he was greeted by President Roosevelt. The trail he had re-blaxed later w:ts marked by scores of monuments. New Meeker and his oxen aro going over tho trail again—this time for the “movies.” Meeker’s in Boston gathering material for his scenario.
by night. Wo shall call upon Ameri cans living in districts adjoining those where foreigners live to bring America to the aliens. V.'e shall use our influence for the establishment of community playgrounds and civic centers where the foreign-born will be asked to come and to bring their children. “Further, wo shall ask the Federal Government to set aside funds to be used In teaching prospective citizens the elements of citizenship. "Already we have initiated a legislative program in every State which forbids instruction in any foreign longue before a pupil has passed from the eighth grade and which makes a course in civil government. State and national, compulsory In elementary schools. “Then we should like to see the Government work out a system of limitation of immigration which would admit only those foreigners whom wo easily can make into Americans.” Owsley declared definitely that as “assiiiiillble immigrants” he meant those from tho north of Europe and added as an afterthought, “and such of those from southern and middle Europe as are willing to accomnjodate themselves to American institutions.” “Restriction," tho commander said, “should bo based not on sentiment but on common sense.” CYCLONE CAUSES $200,000 DAMAGE IN MISSOURI Eight Persons Injured When Wind Tossed Homes. By United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mo., March 6.—Property damage as a result of the cyclone which cut a swath through the business and residential districts here Saturday night was estimated at $200,<>oo today. Eight persons, injured when the wind tossed their homes about like chaff, wore not considered in a serious condition.
him," said Hope, “and this time the same woman appeared, but with her little dead baby in her arms.” Hope knew nothing of spiritualism then. But later he read books on the subject and began experiments in company with Mrs. Ada Buxton, a medium. “This,” he said, “is my method: You come for a sitting. Four or five of us, including Mrs. Buxton and me, sit around a table on which is placed a packet of photographic plates sealed in the original wrapper, just as! you brought it. We lay hands on the packet and sing a hymn. The packet is taken into a dark room, a plate is fitted into the camera, and after I have taken your picture, 1 remove the plate and develop it. You watch me all the time. "Sometimes a ghostly picture Is seen alongside yours. Sometimes not. I cannot guarantee the spirits. Time after time pictures appear of people, alive and dead, whose photographs it would have been impossible for me to obtain. I cannot explain my powers. Let science worry about that.”
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"I have compassion on the multitude." Mark 8:2. Read Mark 8:1-13. "Love when once kindled travels far, but It must first bo kindled.” MEDITATION: It is hard oPfollow Jesus in his love fur unlovely people: but God loves them and to be a true child of God, I too must love them, not in sentiment only, but actively, that they become worthy of his love. HYMN: O Lord and Master of us all Whate’er our name or sign. We own thy sway, wo hear thy call. Wo test our lives by thine. PLAYER: O God of Patience and Consolation, give us such good will, we beseech thee, that with free hearts we may love a- ! -ive thee and our brethren: and, having thus the mind cf Christ, may begin heaven on earth, and exercise ourselves therein till that day when heaven, where love abideth, shall seem no strange habitation to U3. For Jesus Christ’s sake Amen.
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TOM SIMS SAYS: FIRST sign of spring in Cincinnati was when a man was caught aV* marrying twice in eleven days. British rubber men trying to control / : , the market should be bounced. [ W& 'W -I Seeking to excel all other boxers, \ Jess Willard will start training at Ex- \ v; flay celsior Springs, Mo. * * * 'O'y A General Bliss says business men de- j ' cide war or peace, showing that ignorance is not Bliss. • • • Mr. Twine of Philadelphia was charged with being drunk and probably feels all unstrung over it. When an actor joined the church in Montana every New York paper wrote it up on the first page. • • • First sign of spring in the movies is th ereport that Valentino will marry Winifred Iludnut again. • • • Alaska radio fan heard a woman singing in Cuba, where people have something to sing about. • * • Missing Texas man wired friends he was in jail in Los Angeles, showing there was no use in worrying. • • • Italian who claims the world’s fencing championship may have learned to fence eating spaghetti. P * • Author says all women want is contentment. What else is there to want?
Congress, Stop That Sugar Thief, Should Be Cry of Buying Public
By HERBERT QUICK EVERY week the American people r are being robbed of millions through the crimes of a group of spectators operating in sugar. They began their raid by gambling a report of the Department of Commerce. They started by saying that the report showed a shortage in sugar, when as a matter of fact it shows a surplus only a little smaller than last year. And now, in spite of the f'ct that the trick is exposed, sugar keeps going up and up. It has gone up two cents a pound since the cheat they perpetrated on the official report was exposed. What does this mean? It means that someone or some group has the sugar supply cornered. It is the robbery of the people through a monopoly of a staple food. It Is -a command to stand ami deliver to all of us down to the very poorest, backed not by guns, but by hunger. It means that little children already' stunted by' poverty will be pushed down to an even lower plane of liv-
ing. It means that greed has the power in this country openly to fati ten on hunger. It means that some- ■ thing is rottener In the United States I than Hamlet found it in the state of j Denmark. It means that something is equally rotten in the Congress of the United ■ States if it adjourns without provid ing for an investigation of this sugar I situation. We want to know who is to blame. The sugar producers say it is a ring of speculators. The producers say they are opposed to this high-handed j price manipulation. The people who are robbed want to know. Especially the women want to know —and worm n vote. And if our , laws permit such crimes as the cutling down in this way of the people's food, the people, and especially the women, want to know whether the laws are to be allowed to remain in that helpless state. Remember. a pinched stomach 1 makes a critical voter!