Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1923 — Page 4

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SWELL LD-TIMERS can recall when one’s social FUNERALS I I standing in the community never was deliAS WERE nitely settled until death. Then the deceased was classified according to the number of hacks in his funeral. For instance, back in the home town, we recall old Socrates Skagaway. He never cut much of a figure socially. But when he died his family gave him a ‘'3o-hack funeral” —thereby assuring his social standing, also the family’s, for years to come. For a time, village CAents tvere even referred to as so many years before or after “Socrates Skagaway’s 30-hack funeral.” Most people like big funerals. When all’s said and done, that’s probably why King Tut has caught the popular fancy. It wasn’t so much that Tut lhed a long time ago, or that the unearthing of his tomb had important scientific value but that Tut had the “sAvellest funeral” in history—costing at least fifteen million dollars. As people get more civilized, funerals become more simple and less expenshe. The other day it was revealed that William K. Vanderbilt. a\*lio died in Paris in 1920. left fifty-four million dollars, but $8,040.54 covered his funeral expenses, including bringing his remains back to America. Henry Clay Frick, who died in 1919, had nearly ninety-three millions. An accounting in court shoAvs that his funeral cost only $11,489. These two multimillionaires were buried at an expense of only $1 for each $7,150 of the estates they left. Hoav gorgeous their funerals Avould have been if they had died in King Tut’s time! A considerable'part "of King Tut’s treasure was buried Avith him. No Avay of knowing how much, for his tomb Avas looted by graA*e robbers a couple of thousand years ago. Today the rich man’s fortune, instead of being hidden away in his grave, goes on as an actne influence, representing him after his death. Tlis fortune carries on the industries he founded. Tt, builds libraries and museums and endows schools and research laboratories—the finest kind of monuments. Among families of smaller means, the tendency still is to spend more on a funeral than can be afforded. This is not so much to gratify \ranity as it once was, but as an expression of respect and loA*e for the departed. Then the years slip by—and it takes only a few of them to emphasize the folly and futility of costly funerals.

SOME A GIRL has been fined in the Indianapolis city JOB FOR /\ court because sh* wore nothing more than JUDGES JL JL a pair of bloomers ending aboAe the knees, half hose and slippers, and a corsair. “Aery low in the back.” , This girl appeared in this. costume on a stage. If she had appeared at RavensAVood in the'swimming season she Avould have been considered overdressed. In fact, we have a distinct recollection of seeing chorus girls on a number of stages wearing less. Some of the dappers on the streets wear little more. All of this brings up the questions of what is modest and what is immodest and what difference it makes where the person Avearing the epstume appears. The courts Imve taken upon themselves the job of settling these questions. They are welcome to it. • END OF Englishman who makes Haig *!c Haig PINCH 1 whisky (remember the pinch bottle?) avi 11 go BOTTLE JL out of business. They quit voluntarily, not in finnaeiat difficulties, their reason being that the market for really good bonze is nearing the vanishing point. London sends another interesting hooch story. Rev. James Barr, prominent Scotch minister, checks up and finds that shipments of liquor from Great Britain to United States are A-ery small compared with before the war, when. part of America was wet. Some liquor is exported to a phoney destination and, at sea. shifted toward our coasts. But we're drinking less and levs, and the Avets know they are kidding themselves when they argue otherwise. # BABIES ABIES are not afraid of lions or snakes. But AND |-< they haA r e an instinctive terror of eats. So CATS i 9 claims Raymond L. Ditmars, who has charge of the Bronx zoo in Ncav York. He has scientific standing. Most of us, who have seen babies fondling and mauling eats, will challenge him.. But he claims it has been absolutely proved that “the only animal really frightening to a baby is a cat.” Best to play safe and keep children aAvav from cats. They used to be safe. Not noAv. Too many disease germs for them to earrA\

Painting Walls May Make Room More Noisy, Science Says

QUESTIONS ANSWERED Vou can get a.’ an‘wr to any question or fart of information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington bureau, ISC*' New York Ave.. Washington. D. C. inclosing 2 cents in stamp-. Medical, legal, love and marriage a<lviee cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeehes. etc., be prepared. Unsigned . letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential and receive person- •' al replies.—EDlTOß. Can a room be made less noisy by painting the walls? No, but according to Science Service pointing might possibly make the room slightly more noisy. The absorption of sounds within a room by its walls is partly due to their porous surface. So far as the painting: of such porous surfaces makes them impervious, it renders them highly reflecting to the sounds produced in the room. This reverberation of cound piles up the noise in the rocm. Who was It said, “Pereidaris alivp or Raislui dead,” and under what conditions was it said? In 1904 Raislui, the “Moroccan Robin Hood,” kidnaped a wealthy American named lon Pereidaris. IVhen Raisuli paid no attention to the demand for the release of this man, together with an English correspondent, President Roosevelt promptly dispatched a fleet of American warships to Morocco, and sent the famous ultimatum: “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.” How can I secure a wordless lawn without spending so much time in digging lip dandelions and dock weed? The Agricultural KxpeAment Station of the Rhode Island State College has maintained a weedless lawn for fifteen years by making the

soil sour and then planting grasses which thrive in such soil. They claim that the weedier the lawn, the liklier the soil is to be alkaline. This can be made acid by treating it with equal parts of ammonium sulphate, acid phosphate and muriate of potash, applied at the rate of three ounces to the square foot, or about 750 pounds to the acre. Rhode Island bent, creeping bent, velvet bent red-top and Italian rye-grass are recommended for such lawns. Ordinary garden plants, however, will not grow well on such soil. Which Is the largest Spanishspeaking city in the world? Buenos Aires, Argentina. How many railroads enter Chicago, and is the largest railroad center in the world? Thirty-three lines enter Chicago, making it the world’s largest railroad center. Are the sun and moon eclipsed every year? There are at least two eclipses of the sun every year, and there may be as many as five. There are years, however, in which there is no eclipse of the moon. What causes the disease of trout known as “whirling sickness,” or “gill trouble,” in which the flsli turn over in the water repeatedly with u whirling or cork-screw motion? The behavior of trout raised in hatcheries to which you refer has recently been found to be one of ti.c symptoms of a disease produced by a minute parasite in the intestine of the fish.

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Do Powers Fear Ex-Kaisers Wife in Plot to Put Monarchists on Throne?

fiu A h'A Sen ice DOOKN, Holland, March 14. — Speculation is rife hereabouts over the reported refusal of the Greek government to allow llermine von Schoenaich - Caroiath, Princess zu Reuss, bride of the former German emperor, to go for a rest to the Greek island of Corfu. Wiseacres also are shaking their heads over the apparent unwillingness of Dutch officials to allow the ex-kaiser’s bride to leave Holland. Close surveillance continually is maintained ever Doom castle and Hermine leaves the grounds only when she goes to shop In the village or to visit acquaintances. Is the attitude of the Greek and Dutch governments the results of pressure on the part of the great powers? Royalist Plot Do the great powers feel that, if Hermine were allowed to leave Doom, she might become a powerful cog in a plot to restore the exkaiser to the German throne? Those questions are being asked —and asked seriously. In answer, it is pointed out, the ex-kaiser's marriage to Hermine was the greatest possible blow that could be de.ilt to the ex-monarch’s aspiration to rule Germany again. For the marriage not only aroused antagonism on the part of Wilhelm's family, but it wrecked his prestige all over Germany because of the high place the former empress had occupied in the hearts of all the German people. Despite all that, rumors that the powers fear Hermine as a royalist conspirator are persistent. Allowed to leave Doom, Hermine could assemble groups of royalist sympathizers without arousing suspicion, it. is pointed out. She could act -us the kaiser's personal agent iti.ong them. She could carry mes-s-ages from them back to Wilhelm. Meanwhile Hermine remains secluded at Doom castle. Humors

‘Bill’ Takes Wicked Jab at Smoke and Mayor Lew

DEAR GEORGE: This is the smokiest town I ever landed In. Everybody has a cough, and it seems any one who wants to wear a clean collar on all occasions must change at least three times a day. I saw a couple of fellows standing on the Circle looking up at Miss Indiana, all covered with soot, nnd wond* ring how the old girl stands it. AU around chimneys were puffing smoke, hooking down Market St I could see black clouds coming from the Statehouse. “They Tell Me” ‘‘They tell me they are going to insist on smoke consumers in this town,” said one fellow. ■'Yeh. I been hearing that all my life,” said the other. “They been talkin' about the smoke in this town ever since 1 was a boy. 1 won’t believe they are going to put lids on the smokestacks until l see ’em do it.”

St. Louis Priest Declares He Will Halt Feiul of Gunmen

Bu A I'A .--iv... <■, T. I.OriS. March 11.—A mild mannered priest here has un dertakni as one of his parish duties the breaking up of a des perate revolver war between two rival groups of gangsters which already has cost more than thirty lives. The priest is the Rev. Timothy Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick's f'hunh. The two gangs are the “Rat it" and "Jelly Rolls.” Father Dempsey once led them by peaceable persuasion to sign an armistice, and now, he says, he'll do It again. The original dispute started over a political argument and was gi\*en impetus by an altercation l>etwe.on a “Rat” and a “Jelly Roll” as to how many aces should be found in a deck of cards. latter bank robberies, train holdups and safe blowings, in which profits were unfairly divided, heightened the animosity. A climax was reached two ygars ago when William T. Kagan, “Rat” leader, was shot and killed. Then the pendulum swung back and forth until the gang annals of St. Doubt were nothing more than a double-entry ledger kept by death with the blood of the “Jelly Rolls” on one side and the "Rats” on the. other. Priest Calls Truce Then Father Dempsey arranged for a meeting between the gangsters. He was highly respected by all classes. Even the gunmen admired him. The priest pledged the gunmen to lay aside their “gats”' and forget 4 the feud. They agreed. They kept their promise until Abe Goldfeder, “Jelly Roll” adherent, was shot and wounded. Then came reprisals and the feud was on again, even more bitter than before. The latest outrage was the murder in broad daylight of Jacob Mackler, an attorney who had defended members of the “Jelly Rolls.” Apparently in retaliation, "Little Red” Powers, known as a friend of the “Rats,” was shot dead as ho lay sleeping. No Prosecutions In none of these killings has there been any prosecution. The police are unable to get witnesses and the gang code of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leads gangsters to avoid the law and settle their own disputes with their revolvers, out side of court. So Father Dempsey is starting all over again. He is making the rounds of the rendezvous of the ad-

f riiiinagfllU’ Wfr -J she and Wilhelm have quar- AjmJHpfr...'. q.*, 1 are peddled about ly and aI- / s are followed bv crop of / report that Hermine expects to } une a moth*, also Is current. It Jfl not boon ottie,.ally \ . --d In' • m in 1.0 vo much h'ttor I ..mis 7 • MB i many of the rumors ema \ f JGm ng from the shrubbery-guarded 1 jt le of mystery. 1

that she and Wilhelm have quarreled are peddled about .v and always are followed by a crop of denials. A report that Hermine expects to become a mother also is current. It has not been officially verified but it seems to have much better basis than many of the rumors ema Mating from the shrubbery-guarded castb- of mystery.

“I understand Mayor Shank is still out of town,” said his companion. "Couldn’t stand the smoke. Wish wo all had as soft a job as his.” "There is something funny about that job of mayor,” said the fti-st fellow, "Charlie Jewett neve-- stayed at his office much and l.ew Shank seems to take many va> ttn>ns AVon dor what a mayor s job eon.-d'ns of This Bi-ings Cough You can search me," tin second man said, coughing violently as he turned to go. T guess mayors are pretty much alike all over, from what I can hear, George. Anyway, George, spring >• coming nnd we won’t have to Igither with smoke much longer.’ Meanwhile, I we’ll hive to i r:h and h<-ar it. A'ours truly, HILL..

THE REV. TIMOTHY DEMPSEY horerils of both camps and attempting to got them again to lay down their weapons. "I Know all of the gang members, and I need only ask them to see me, and they will come,” says Father Dempsey. "They have faith in me and will do as I say." LIFE STORY IS TOLD Sheldon Rook Discusses Work of Thomas B. Kalane. How Thomas B. Kalane, son of an African tribal chief tan, became converted, returned to Africa from AmerL ea and converted 2,990 persons aim established thirty-nine churches and missions was told last night at a meeting of the Central Indiana Christian institute in the Hillside Christian Church by Sheldon Book of Columbus, Ind. Book’s father, the Rev. W. H. Book, of the Tabernacle Christian Church of Columbus, converted Kalane and ir.terest him in missionary work while he was completing his education in America. FINE ARTS WEEK PLANNED Chamber of Commerce Will Aid in Display. Tentative plans for a fine aids week during which attention of Indianapolis residents will be called to art have been made by Iho fine arts committee of the Chamber of Commerce. No definite time has been set. The committee also has under consideration a plan to cooperate with the city plan commission in the beautification of the city.

HERMINE VON SCHOEN’AH HCAROL AT 11, PRINCESS YAJ REISS (ABOVE) AND HER HI’SBAXD. EX-! KAISER WILHELM VON HOiIKNZOLI.EEN (BELOW).

jfrilotusljip ot Prayer Pally I.'nten lliblc rraiiliiß: and meditation prepar.yl for Commitution on Kvanfrelilsm of Federal Council of Churches Service—the Heart of Fellowship,

"For tin- Son of man also came not to be mini stored unto but to minister." Mark 10:1. A. . Read Mark 10:32-52. “The ability to put one's life into another life is one of the richest of all the gifts of heaven.” # MEDITATION: There is no fellowship if “great ones exercise authorltv but if the great ones become "bond servant to the ot hers, all nre bound together in a real fellow ship In the King-loro of Good Will, no on" live- for himself alone HYMN: Savior, who tin life didst give. That oiijj souls might ransomed be. Rest wo not till all the world Hears that love, and turns to thee. PRAYER: Lord God Almighty, defend our land, we beseech thee, from the secret power and the open shame of great, national sins. From all dls honesty and civic corruption: from all vainglory and selfish luxury; from all cruelty and the spirit of violence; from covetousness, Impurity, and in temperance, good laud, deliver and save us, and our children, and our children’s children; through Jesus Christ. Anion.

Capitol Jokes By WALTER F, LINE BERGER ' t'. S. Representative from California, Ninth District. NDEK the CaliIjpS—jfya fornia primary kuv a man can run for office on ;, - s many tickets Xu.. J as lie wishes, if L~_ \ 1 he gets the nom- : W Inations. L ,/ £/) For example, in |lt A.-*/" a former cam- [ n JjL paign the man > A I was opposing It Ei was on the SoM cial is t, DentoNjijkaW' cratic, Prohlbition, Social-Labor and Progressive LINEBKRGER tickets. So, in fighting him, I often used this story: An old darky had a pet chemeleon which he used to exhibit to his friends and boast about. But one day he appeared without it. "Yassah,” he explained, "he’s daid. "I was ahowin’ him to a man down in the general stoah, an’ he brung out a piece of blue cloth an’ the camellion tu’ns blue, an’ I puts him on a piece of yeller cloth an’ he tu’ns yeller, an’ on green cloth an’ he tu’ns green, an’ on red clot han’ he tu’ns red. “An’ then the stoah keepah he brung out a piece of Scotch plaid an’ dat camel-lion he just bust hisses to pieces a-tryin to match hisself to it.” Thief lo Paint Up? Twenty-four gallons of paint were stolen from 2201 E. Washington St., during the night. John Codds, 1636 Sutherland Ave., told police today.

DISTRIBUTORS ARE BEING GOBBLED B’s PRODUCERS Movies in Grip of Big Trusts, Who Throttle Independents, This is the fourth article in the series by Carl A. Randan on what goes on behind the screen in the movies. By CARL A. RANDAU NEW YORK. March 44. The movie middlemen are being gobbled up by the producers. Those Avho refuse to be gobbled up by others have, as a matter of self-defense, set out to gobble up themselves. That is to say, they have turned to the production of movies and consequently ceased to be strictly middlemen. There arc three important phases of the motion picture industry. The first is production. The second is distribution. The third is exhibition. Production is what happens out at Hollywood. Distribution concerns itself with the delivery of pictures front the time they leave the studio to the time they reach the movie theater. Exhibition Is what goes on in the theater—that is. on the screen. Distribnlor Is Middleman The distributing of pictures is the function of the middlemen, or distributors, as they are known in the picture business. If is the distributors who maintain the film “exchanges’’ in all the larger cities throughout the United States. Formerly the distributors played no part in the production ,f pictures. Rut that, is not the case today. De spite the fact that there are todayseveral dozen distributing organizations, and over SOO him ’'exchanges'' in the United States, the independent producer has practically no market. Why? Simply la-cause nearly all the distributing machinery has been grabbed by producers, who are reluctant to handle any; pictures other than thus-- of tlicir own manufacture. Not Entirely Crowded Out Independent distributors have not yet. txa-ri entirely crowded out of ex istence. In order to get films to distribute, however, they- have to a certain extent been forced to produce pictures, or at least to cooperate with producers for whom they distribute. W. W. Hodkinson Corporation and the American Releasing Company arttwo of the independent distributors. Hut so complete is the monopoly of the big combinations--the companies which do their own producing, their own distributing and to a certain < xfent their own exhibiting, that the independents have a very hard row to hoe. Hodkinson s connection with the business side of the movies is instructive. Before he wan crowded out of his former concern he built up the Paramount Company jus a distributor. Then when it had become well established, a group of producers decided tfiev would like to appropriate the Paramount Company’s distribution system. They used unfair means to get eon trol of if—at least so the Federal trade commission investigators believe.

US-- ftmbv *—■'■ 1 ■ '■ ' - -dK. -J Lone Star State D.\I.I.AS TEXAS. As soon as inn lay your eyes on Tills state with the wide horizon. There * sense of space On the roads yon trace Ear over the rolling plains: Ami the wind has a zest Hint s keener And tang that is sweeter, cleaner Where lhe limp-horns roam Neath tin- blue sky's dome O'er an empire of vast domains. Afar from the crowds which vex us. There’S room and enough in Texas For n man to range fn the search for change When's lies restless with "Things That Are;" A country of huge expanses. A land of a million chances. Where the stakes are steep And new cities leap To Ufo like a flaming star! A land of a primal vigor Where the lean, lank men bulk lugger. And the girls are lithe And their smiles are blithe With a health and a joy elate; Oh, your blood has a swifter tingle Where the west and the south commingle And the broad plain smiles For a thousand miles To the bounds of the Lone Star State! —BERTON BRALEY. (Copyright, 1923. NEA Sea-vice, Inc.)

Filed That Income Tax Return?

Late income taxpayers mobilized for the final drive today. All day long they passed in steady streams through the corridors lof th ethird floor of the Federal building. Government experts Were kept busy giving assistance lo the iato comers. In order to avoid penalty for deHnqunecy returns must be filed BEFORE MIDNIGHT THURSDAY. One more dayl

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A PHILOSOPHER is one who is surprised Avhen he catches any fish instead of disappointed when he doesn’t. s. • • r* If gasoline prices get unv higher the first thing a man will do after investing in a gallon is take out insurance on it. • • • First sign of spring in the arctic regions is Avhen an Eskimo’s Avit'e wants a pair of summer ear muffs.

Rings that fit your finger too tight are dangerous. A bandit is liable to cut the finger off. * * * Nice thing about being a man is you don't have to pull your socks on up over your knees. • * A woman can do just about anything with a hair pin except make it stay in her hair. * * It is not true that two monkeys which escaped in San Mateo, Cal., did it by poking as sheiks. In spite of a reported cotton shortage they still have enough of it to make woolen suits. * ♦ • The only cure for spring fever is Avinter and e\en that usually fails. British earl ’s neA\- son has been named Rhoderick Dhu and is too small to do anything about it. * * * Your lot could be worse. Tn Battle Creek, Mich., a teacher has taught geometry for fifty years. First all-woman jury in Kansas reached an agreement even if they did discuss the ease seven hours. • * * Belgium hoarders are out of luck. Belgium is placing large orders Avith America for prunes. • • * A girl of 17 avlio walked sixty-eight miles to hunt a job in Philadelphia should be signed up as a postman, * * * One job vorse Ihan being a Avife is being a central and ansAvering the blame phone all day long. • • • A reformer is a man avlio doesn’t knoAv what a good time is and doesn't Avant any one else to knoAv. * • * Most of us get Avrinkles Avorrying over things that never happen or that have happened already.

Prosperity Shines on Steel Mills of Busy Youngstown, Ohio

BY LEO It. SACK Ot'NGSTOAA’N, March 14 —As train nears the outskirts nf Youngstown, Ohio, even in the broad daylight, the porters go through the cars turning on the lights. Not fogs, but prosperity, makes this accessary. Youngstown has " 1 hit its stride again. For miles around, ’Vk every direction, lWfe. ■ jflfc'yjy's up and down the 4wf\L D Mahoning Valley, eastern Ohio's hWm mxmmm making a bright, dear sky look like S ACK t h • approaching evennig. Inside the steel plai ts eveiybody is at work again. Men no longer are sitting

The First Public Hall HISTORICAL SERIES Temple Realizing the need for a public hall large enough to accommodate the requirements of a growing city, the Grand Lodge of Free Masons erected the first Masonic Temple in 1850 on the southeast corner of Washington and Tennessee streets (now Capitol avenue). In its spacious halls many patriotic and political speeches were made by such famous Americans as Abraham Lincoln, George D. Prentice, H. S. Foote, formerly Governor of Mississippi, and many others. The Fletcher American National Bank today lives up to the traditions of absolute integrity, service and conservative banking which have been handed down through the generations since the beginning in 1839. In Indianapolis and Indiana this institution stands pre-eminent. Fletcher American National Bank 1839 Ilf 1923 Capital and Surplus, 53.000.000

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around smoking their pipes, wondering when they will find work. "Prosperity is not around the corner: it is here,” a high executive of the Youngstown Sln-ct and Tube Company, one of the foremost independent steel plants told me. This sentiment is reflected by other steel executives. "It looks as if there will be a long period of prosperity and good business. wholly independent of Europe. There are no obstacles in sigh: and we are not worried about Europe." ITALIANS TO PARTICIPATE Holy Rosary Parish Will Celebrate s >t. Patrick's Day. The parish of the Holy Rosary Church, composed of Italians, has decided to participate in the St. Patrick's day parade. Speakers representing the parish will have a part in the program. Final plans for the celebration in the day will tie made at Morrison Hall. 5- ’i- Monument Place, tonight.