Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1923 — Page 4

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OUR -tl ■yOW that the Sixty-Seventh Congress has ONE-HOSS closed shop, to give us a few months of rest SHAY X 1 from its agonies, the best we can say of it is that it was not much worse than its immediate predecessors, and the worst we can say is that it was not much better than recent Congresses. Like Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “Wonderful One-lloss Sliay,” which ran and ran. the Sixty-Seventh Congress “ran,” but it did little else. It was antiquated, wasteful, helpless and inefficient. The same could be said of preceding Congresses. So this criti•ism is neither for Republicans nor Democrats exclusively. Only one Congress in ter., or thereabouts, functions successfully. The Sixty-Seventh Congress should have been the one in ten, for in it the party of the Executive had an overwhelming majority. It was chosen by the people to put “more business in government,” meaning more efficiency. If it had functioned Mnoothly, the retiring Congress might have been a record breaker for work. Instead,'it enacted but a badly patched and tattered legislative program, while vital questions such as transportation, government reorganization, foreign affairs, constitutional amendments, and other important matters, were caught in the jam provoked by the talkfest at the end of the session. Much of its valuable time Congress wasted in quarrels with the executive and with the judiciary as to which branch of gov•wjtmcnt was supreme, duplicating the pathetic spectacle of the Wilson administration. , The truth of the matter is, Congress, and the Federal government. too. for that matter, is not equal to its task. It-is antiquated anl impotent, and dominated —if not run—by demagogues and bureaucrats who are more interested in their own afairs than in sensing public will and in carrying it out. One of two courses is inevitable; either the government at Washington must function—which it seems unatle to and else it must be remodeled along newer lines, either through the medium of amendments to the Constitution or at a Constitution convention, so that it will work; PERIL coal miners near Litchfield, 111., got so IX I held a convention in a cave and THIRST X ate “canned heat.” solidified and adulterated alcohol which comes in tin cans for camp-fire use. One of the miners had his thirst appeased. He is dead—poisoned. The extent to which some people are resorting to get intoxicants makes us wonder if an epidemic of'temporary insanity isn’t following in prohibition's wake. A shrewd psychologist recognized this when he started the story: First Mail: "Do yon drink anything?” •Second Red Nose: “Yes—anything. MARKS A NEW YORKER wants to peddle German AS ! \ marks from a push-cart. The man who waits JUNK XX on him at the license bureau, is a joker, sends him to police .headquarters for a junkman’s permit .More truth than jest Germany recently has been printing as high as 450 billion ■narks a week. By the first of April she wfll have about five trillion marks in circulation, or nearly 50,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Even Confederate money is worth more than marks. ON TO cutting and polishing of diamonds are MACHINE { now L imr done by machinery, says B. K AGE X Price in Abrasive Industry magazine. Not altogether, of gourse, but. in the diamond indnstry, machinery is rapidly crowding out skilled hand labor. This indicates a world trend. We have barely entered the age of machinery. The “skilled hand labor” of the future will be in making machinery and operating and repairing it. Which answers-one angle of the old question, “Whither are we drifting"’’ WHERE A MERICAX banks lent 870 million dollars last MONEY /\ year to foreign countries and foreign corGOES 1 H porations, announces the Guaranty Trust Cos. More than a third of this went to Canada and the Dutch East Indies. Europe got a nibble here and there, but on a relatively small scale. Brazil and Cuba got large sums. The figures are interesting because they show where the international bankers are placing their bets. As for Europe, the bankers apparent ly think she has a long way Xp go before she becomes a “safe risk.” Easter Is Always First Sunday Following Paschal Full Moon

til KSTItINS ANStVERKD Ton can jet a_’< ansv. r to ary question or fa< t of iqforraati-a by writ •!„' to the Inoianaook- Tnies' Wa 'on btirean. 18iS V v Y r’. Ax- . ITite: : ijtoTi. D. C.. euciosin? cents ir s. Medical, lejal and lore arid marria:e advice cannot be piven. nor.can extended research be endertakan. or papers, speeches, etc- bo prepar'd. TTnsisised letters cannot bo answered. but all letter* ore confidential, and receive personal replies—EDlTOß. What is the determining the date of Easter Sunday? Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, that Is, the first Sunday after the full moon on or next after March 21, and therefore, cannot be earlier than March 22, or later than April 25. If the full moon falls on Sunday, then Easter day la the next Sunday. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which comes forty day's previous to Easter Sunday, not counting Sundays. What color pigments or dye are use# in the makng of United Slates pvstage stamps? This is a secret closely guarded by the United States bureau of tngraving and prii ting Hid the Indians use salt on their food be foie the white men came to ihis country? Why. did the Indians dry tire r meat? They did use sad. They dried their meat to keep It from spoilingWhen did Terry McGovern die? Feh. 23. 1918. What is a sect? Can the term !ve applied to a religion? A sect is a party or body of persons who unit" in holding certain special doctrines or opinions concerning re, •<; i.,,, whigh distinguish t'neni from others holdqg the same general re-1 ligioua belief; a distinct part of the ‘

general body of persons claiming the same religious name or origin; a party or faction in a religious body; a separate ecclesiastical organization. Who wrote "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." and is there an English song like it? It was written and composed by David T. Shaw, and published in Bal- , timore in 1852, as “Columbia, the i Land of the Brave.’’ It was set to tho tune of “The Red, White and Blue." The British song goes; ’Britannia, the pride of th 1 * ocean. The home of the'brave and the free, : The shrine of each sailor’s devotion. What land can compare unto thee?’’ It is quite clear that one is taken from the other, but it is not known which came firstI>id any foreign army ever invade France from the time Caesar overran Gaul till the FrancoPrussian War? Wolf, the Northman, invaded France in 912 A. D. In 1346 the Eng- : lish were in France for the Battle of Cressy. and in 1415 for the Battle of A gin court What is the automobile record? Officially the record is 156.04 nules per hour, made by' Tommy Milton in a Duesenberg car. Unofficially, the record is 180 miles an hour, made in a special built car called the “Whits Streak,” by Sid Haugdahl. What are the Seven Wonders of the World? They' are generally enumerate*d as follows: The Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Tombs of Mausalus, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue o< J upiter by' Phidias, and the j Phtyros of Alexa.nciiia.

The Indianapolis' - Times EARLE K. MARTIN. Editor-In-Chief. FRED HOMER PETERS, Editor. HOY W. HOWARD, President. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Manager.

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LEFT TO RIGHT—ROBERT METER. 316 N. OXFORD ST.; HAROLD FKENKB. 401 N OXFORD ST.; CHARLES BAKER, 409 N. OXl’ORI) ST.. AND JOHN MURPHY, 323 N. OXFORD ST.

Voung Indianapolis Is wearing j calluses on ii.s shoutin' fingers and I thumbs. Practice la under way at every school ground and many other open spaces for The Times tournament to pick the city’s entrant In the national marble contest. The Times photo*, ipher snapped four N. onfnvi St lads “working out’’ for the loc i' lne-t, the date of which >o >n will be announced. t’.irls also are eligible to enter, and it is exp-v• and that some of the fair con: ml‘:rs will give the boys a race for honors. Anior_ r tliOM* who already have entered their names: Richard Thrall, 14, of 114 W. Fifteenth St ; Art cur Rosenberg, 13. I*. (i Broadway. R.dtcrt Lindauer, 194:’ N Olnoy S Harold .lanneck* 1716 N. Rural St.: V'.vron Todd. 1702 N. Rural St ; Cart Herman, 15n2 N Rural St.; Bat Spaulding, 11, of 121 Berry St.; Joseph Stubbs, 8, ana Max. 12, of 26 Johnson St.; Client} Mason, 11, of Fifteenth Avo. and I.'. wrenee Delong, Beech Grove Going to enter? Send your name to tlie Marble Editor Stop} (/ i w - BrSkP C MONTGOMERY. ALA. Don't driv* through Alabama, when it rain*! For t 5 • -vd. :s: *1 the hlllockii. and thr Am *..!. •* of t.' v ••’’vy >Vi.‘ *■ • . stav ; i e-i iv und stay. C*nti: ? !- > cv- -y moment for your pam Don t drive {';r ci”h A inbumaMn the rain Wait for sunoy day-4, or travel on thi? tram Thom.'h f do not earn to alam a Friendly ritatff, at.; I Alabama Has the amt <X ruatLs no vcr**e can explain. Don’t drive* thro iTh Alabama In th rain! for they t**ll me tho a. .vim: for inaano Ran .sum- poolo Htroillpy thronfh it Who ir. wtned they <-mild do it I3ut are now entirely batty in the brain. Don’t driven ?hrcni*rh A’ahama when it rains! For the thin us th y build tr.r roads are only drains. And the sturdleat of fflrver* Wasn’t made for swimming rirers Or cAplorin? wholly bottomless terrains Don’t drive through Alabama when it Though you pot on double seta of heavy eh runs You wi:l sink into a bog Whero a tat b;ili-throat <1 frog Croaks funereally over your remains. Wait until the downpour finishes and wanes. And thr v from further deluges refrains, Ottmrwise you’ll linger hero' F<.r ttie re~t of y*< >■ career. Don’t d-ivo tin- h Alabama when it rains! fi? ALTON 1 RALLY, (Copyright. 1 NJ A Service, inr.)

Capitol Jokes BY JAMES A. FREAR U. S.. Representative From Wisconsin, Tenth District. ’ UK bargain-hunt-y'‘i- 'x ins instinct Is t Xi‘> * supposed to be less a Sf f fernine posses- [ / \ slon, but the most Incorrigible 1 i bargain - hunter i 'fv I ever heard of i !’j \• ( was n newspaper j j correspondent. \ j lu ‘ wus Rp,,t ! V jf fj to Berlin some Jr time after the LJi. t war, when the ■JwL. mark was falling rapidly,, and FREAJJ . he figured that there ought to be a lot of stuff he could pick up eh eaply. Bo he went out in search of bargains and returned to the bar of the Adlon Hotel, where the other correspondents* were grouped, late one afternoon. “Fellows,” he cried, excitedly, “I’ve just run across the most remarkable bargain you ever heard of. .What do you think of tills?— I know where you can get a barrel of tatooing ink'for $12.” Dolled I p For Easter A thief entered the room of Loren Bryant. 109 N. East St., while he was at work Wednesday and took anew &uit oi clothes, police were told today.

Cl;p These Rules, Boys and Girls

Entrants Ir Tho Indianapolis Times’ marble contest shout.i study carefully the following rules, which will govern ti e ly.■ u contest, tho sectional tourney and the flatlonul match at Atlantic City. Six contenders or less will p'.ay In each game. The or tier of their turns to shoot will be determined by a 10 foot lag, to see who get* nearest to a given line. Games for the title will be played with object marbles or ducks three inches apart op a cross mark. The mark will be In the center of a ring 10 T—t 'n diameter. The game will be played with each contestant knuckling down on the edge of the Mg ring. The shooters must I'ft lying when they stop Ins' !e the ring. If the shooter goes beyond the ring,

JfcUolnSijip ot Brapcr ii <- P.nly I>ntrn Ttrbl nd n;-rfi!l:on prevarn! for C.,mn.i--lon on Ei . rimm oi t-e.i -ra) C il Church'**. Beloved of the Father “This is My beloved Bon; heat ye Him."—Mark 9:7. Read Mark 9:2-t3. “The reasons for thinking Him di vino are solid and colossal facts, which even a wayfaring man ran see.” MEDITATION: The spirit of Chris’ is; not a matter of crt*dal statement but of fact. His power to ren-u lives is of th" very natur* of ;-■>>t Others may introduce us to Tiin but It is His power that strength*! us HYMN: Lord of all being, throned afar, Thy glory flames from sun and star: Center and soul of ev-ry sphere. Yet to each loving heart how near! PRAYER: The day returns and brings u tho petty round of Irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man! Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. Let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary, and content, and undishonored. And grant us In tho end tho gift of sloop. Am* n. Seek Missing Boys Hero T?ii Ice are searching for Evans Cogar, 17, and Guy Buyard, 15, said to have run away from Contiersvllle, Ind., Saturday. Blanche Stoops of ConnersviUo asked police here to search for the boys.

HPT! Dr. Cofield’s Vz OFF Sale j|| v|l I • Is Still Going On t- P( ople are coming from all directions to tako advantage or Dr. Cofleld’s ';Big Dental Sale. Think of it, my regular low prices on guaranteed v Denistry have been cut in half. Guess you cannot afford to overlook this i big offer if you need dental work, but you must hurry, as l may withdraw 'his offer at any time " GOLD CROWNS I 22-KARAT 1 C ft t p COFIELD BRIDGEWORK LUTI hL U - Li A 1 Ki you will be the most surprised 1/ person, in the city when you 1/ *?'■ iCT* ’I.J y 2 li learn hoV low my prices are. /2 % Dr. J. W. COFIELD—DENTIST ROOMS 203 TO 208 MARION BUILDING Corner of Ohio and Mar dian Streets Entrance 10 Vdesi Ohio Street. /~V TT* TB- w TT-I W /\ ¥ T (T* . Holiday. WeilnneUt.v, Saturday. it. in. <-> S in. Of* r 5 8 HOU '“’’’’day. Thursday, I ri.l.t, . KgiJ a, ,„. * * 1 a. A W s*-' a*, iw • Sunday. ! a. in. lo 1 p. iu.

the owner picks it up and waits lu.-> next turn. A player gets as tnanv ducks as he knocks out "f the circle. Each duck h.ttiog y hot entitles him to another shot. If he lilts an opponent’s shooter, ho gets a duck? If tho opponent's shooter is knocked out of the ring, the owner of the shooter is '‘killed,” and must turn his lucks over to the one making the “killing.” Ducks not knocked out remain In the circle. If all ducks are knocked out, the one having the up-sr wins. Accurate scores must be kept. The referee is !>■_ of tho game. Ills decisions are Hr - it In all cases. Watch The Times for further de tails of tlie big national marble shooting contest-

T / r ARIEJY in foods is. essential, of course, v but in providing variety do not overlook the importance of nourishment. Crisp,dcliciousGrape-N T uts is a highly nourishing cereal food in unusually compact form. It supplies the rich nutrition of wheat and malted barley, including the mineral elements of these splendid grains, without which health andstrength cannot be maintained. f Grape-Nuts,with good milk, is a complete food. Economical, too, because a moderate amount provides unusual nourishment. Sold by Grocers Everywhere! GrapeKuts THE BODY BUILDER “There’s a Reason" Made- by Postutn Cereal Company, Inc. Buttle Creek, Michigan

PINCHOT SELECTS SCHOOL CHILDREN FOR GIFFORD, JR. Private Institution Opened in Charge of Governess, Harrisburg, Ra., March B. Two schools of democracy exist here. One is in tlje Capitol, where Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania’s new Governor, works at a desk in an unguarded reception room with this sign Reside the open door: “Gov- - ernor’s OfTtee. Walk In. Hours, 10 to 12 Dally.’’ The other is a real school, where 7-year-old Gifford Pinchot. Jr., and young Steve Stnhlneeker, son of the Governor's secretary, are being j.educated in democracy and other sub- , iects along with selected from all walks of life in Harrisburg. The school was Mrs. Pinchot’s idea, She leased a twelve-room house and turned it Into a private school. There is no tuition she pays all the nx : ! fn-!is<-s. including salaries of Miss Lli-abotli L.ivelle. Glffy’s governess. wh<> . ,ni<; the school, and Harrison Trowbridge, Columbia graduate, who join, and tlie 3’inehot entourage last summer as a tutor. Then children were selected as schoolmates of Giffy from a list of thirty-seven picked from public school lists. -All are between the ages of six and nine: there are five boys and five girls. Including children of two machinists, a lawyer, a detective, a plumber, a grocer, a shoemaJter, a merchant, a druggist, and a State employe. ’’Children were selected by mental ••nd other tests.” said Miss LavelTe. “an t on consideration of each child’s individual characteristics and energy.” SENIOR SLATE SELECTED Arsenal Tech Class to Elect Officers Next Week. Secondary officers of tho June seniors at Arsenal Technical High School will be elected next week. They were nominated at a meeting Wednesday. Cleo Peterson presided. Committee chairmen reported and arrangements for pictures, rings and pins were completed. Purple and silver have been chosen class colors.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: jr ALENTINO is supposed 'o get TV/ $30,000 a week for dancing, a|||K ▼ which is enoug'hHo make any- WjjmKk body dauce. / London cop is singing in grand l *-j M 8 opera. The“ British give their cops more \ "mSm Almost successful Detroit husbandshooter says it seems like a dream, but *7 tve’ll bet hubby thought it was a night- JOn\ mare. • * • the report that Germany is tearing up doughnuts to get zei’os for her money is not true. + ¥ * Foreigner admits he paid SI,OOO to get smuggled into America, and we say he got a good bargain. * * * A sign oi spring in San Francisco was when a man had a sunstroke. • • • Chicago woman who lost her jewels in Los Angeles could have stayed at home and had that happen. Most of these Russian names sound like a couple of radio stations. Should Society Allow Morons to Multiply at Peril of Race?

By HERBERT QUICK IN tbe mount;iins of southeastern New York the other day two policemen found two men, a woman and s.x children living in a hov< 1 worse than the ordinary hog-houst, ami eating raw carrots. The woman was the mother of four of the children, and said that one of the men who was the father of the other two was also th- father of hers. Th,-y were not married. Her children could not talk but "chattered like monkeys." The statement that she appeared weak-minded is superfluous. All of them were morons. Tie ir conduct and mode of life proves this. The fj,-t that they were found living like beasts in a mountain hu: and living on roo*s makes the story dramatic. That is why it has been so widely published, But there are to be found individual morons and families of morons in almost every community, who. because they have not fallen into such a state of repulsively picturesque squalor, attract no such notice.

Sp .'uMiliionaDay For Live Stock If you put a million dollars cash into your pocket every morning, and it was all spent by noon, you’d feel that you had been doing something people would be interested in hearing about wouldn’t you? We spend on an average of a million dollars every morning of the year— Sundays and holidays excepted. This money comes from the retail dealer and the consumer in exchange for products. With it we buy live stock. In our hands this live stock becomes meat and by-products, which through our widespread service of refrigerator cars and branch houses, becomes available to every consumer. Our 1923 Year Bpok, just published, gives you our financial standing; it tells you that our profit from all sources for 1922 averaged only a fraction of a cent per pound and only 2 cents on each dollar of sales, and a great deal of other information about our business and the service which we render. We shall be glad to mail you a copy if you will send us your address. \ Swif t&Companyl923Yearßook Address: Swift & Company, Public Relations Dept. U. S. Yards, - Chicago " Swift & Company, u. s. A. A nation-wide organization owned by more than 45,U0i) shareholders

Morons are feeble-minded. They have small power of .'-•elf-control. The inep among them cannot win wives among normal women, and so morons tend to mate among themselves. They mate either with or without marriage. They nearly always have large families. And the children of two morons are always morons. If only one person is a moron, a certain percentage of the children are sure to be morons, and the children who seem normal will always have a certain per cent of moron offspring. Oucht not society to do something to i e-p itself from being poisoned by the spawning of these subnormal minded people? No force but society can meet the danger. We must allow the ur fit to live; but should we allow the mentally-diseased to multiply thus? It is a real peril to our future. We recognize their claim to life; but we should not leave to them the power to adulterate the, blood of the race with an increasing proportion of uoison.