Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1923 — Page 4

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"'flr T’ITH the new hope for peace in Ireland, the DAY IN \j\/ benediction of Saint Patrick must be beamIRELAM) y y in" down on his people today. The work he so gloriously started may again be renewed and who will say that the Celtic race will not gain the goal? Peace in Ireland? That would be happiness for a people that has fought and suffered throughout the years to attain the fundamental peace, freedom. Whether there is freedom for Ireland in the existing status is not for others to say. The decision rests with the Irish people. The Irish have been a people with one predominant characteristic. the M ill to go on and on and never give up until tho last ounce of strength has been given. What that characteristic, that trait of the Irish immigrant, has meant for the United States is well known. Perhaps that* has been part of the mission of the Irish in life, to lead the fight for freedom. Is it possible for a race with, the traditions and the blood of the Celts to develop into anything other than fighters under such oppression as the Irish have suffered? Freedom was denied them. Happy they could not be without freedom. Peace for Ireland? With Saint Patrick we hope and pray for peace for the Irish people—but peace based on that measure of freedom which the Irish people themselves elect. stop: TT T’FTAT is to he done to prevent such accidents LOOK! \/\J as that which resulted in the death of WilLISTEN! 7 7 liam F. Denuer in Fall Creek Tuesday night? The city might build walls along the banks Aiiich would prevent automobiles from running into the creek. But nothing could be done to make it certain that carelessly driven autos would nor crash into the walls. The limit has almost been reached in providing mechanical devices which will make automobile driving safer. The city has placed warning lights at the end of every street funning to Fall Creek. The number of warning signals at dangerous street intersections has been greatly increased even since 1922, during which year over sixty deaths resulted from auto accidents in Indianapolis. Traffic rules have been revamped and revised in an effort to stop increase in the number of fatal accidents as the number of automobile users leaps upward. It is appalling to consider that there were sixty deaths in this city last year from accidents, many of which could have been avoided with exercise of greater care. It is still more dreadful to contemplate that at the rate these accidents occur there will likely be more than sixtv deaths this year and that most of them will be attributable to carelessness.

Since it is impossible to manufacture a motor driven cai that is absolutely fool proof, what is the answer? Tacking up “BE CAREFUL” cards may help, but it is not the answer. Printing accounts of what happens to those who drive recklessly and summarizing fatalities, unpleasant reading as the facts may be, are : not the answer. And yet both of these methods are along tho • right line, because they deal with the human factor in automobile; driving.

Even if every possible device is provided to prevent accidents, it is the human factor which must be relied upon as the most important in making autoing safer. There are thousands of careless automobile drivers in Indianapolis and if their consciousness can not be reached with the slogan of “Safety First” some other methods must be resorted to in the interests of public welfare. All of us are inclined to shrink from unpleasant facts or an unpleasant picture. Newspapers avoid printing them whenever possible, but sometimes it becomes necessary for a newspaper to print disagreeable things as a matter of duty to the public. It was the publication of disagreeable things about the world war which aroused throughout the civilized world a demand that all wars be done away with. But as much as anything, it was the pictures of war scenes, pictures such as were never obtainable in any previous war. which brought to the folks at home a realization of the horrors of war that never before had been possible. Several days ago The Times printed a picture which to some may have appeared strangely out of keeping with the policy of this newspaper to print chiefly things that are instructive and informative and entertaining. Tt was the picture of the recovery of a human body from an auto which had apparently been wrecked through the carelessness of someone. The picture was printed in the most prominent place that The Times could find for it. It waa printed for the purpose of bringing home to every automobile driver a silent warning which might influence him or her throughout the season just beginning. That picture will have served its purpose if it reaches the consciousness of auto drivers with sufficient force to save any of the sixty and more lives which past experience indicates will be sacrificed this year in Indianapolis to the demon of carelessness.

JAPAN’S in Japan costs a fifth more than in RAPII) H America, says W. B. Hall, Tokio merchant CHANGE -A- visiting New York. The Japs have cheaper - clothing, but rents are high. Salaries over there are five to ten times as big as they were six-years ago. Japan has 1,400 movie theaters, Lon Chaney their favorite star—which will interest psychologists. We call attention to these facts because few Americans realize the gigantic changes that aro taking place in the Orient. Our big foreign trade market of the future is across the Pacific.

In 1922 a Total of 2,736 Ships Passed Through Panama Canal

How many ships p.u?s annually through the Panama and Suez Canals? In 1922. 2,736 vessels passed through the Panama Canal. The last available figures for the Suez Canal are for 1920 when 4,009 paid toll. What is the di(Terence in the prefixes “un,” “in” a:i:i “an,” all meaning "no!."? “Un.” used as a prefix to adjectives and*adverbs, is an Anglo-Saxon form; “In,’* of Latin origin, is usually confined to words from the Latin; “an" Is the Greek form of “un." What is the difference between a fox terrier and a rat terrier? The fox terrier has a white body with black and tan markings on th© ears, tail and under the chin, and is usually much larger than the rat terrier, which has a black body with tan markings under the chin, in.-ide ♦he ears and on tie • aof th •..:!. How many English sovereigns since Henry' VIII I rave been Catholics? Mary, daughter of Henry VIII, was an ardent Catholic; James II favored the Catholics to such an extent that

j this was one of the causes of his de- ■ position. He was not a Catholio on j coming to the throne, but on the death ; of his wife he declared himself a con- ! vert to her faith. When, on June 10, 1688, the son of James and his j second wife, Mary Beatrice, was born, and as it was certain that the young heir to the throne would be trained a Cuthoiic, the country determined on the deposition of the King. Then oci cured the bloodless revolution. What is obtaining motley by false pretenses? s Obtaining money by false representations and statements, made with fraudulent design and with Intent to cheat. Are there any archaeological excavations going on in any other part of the world besides Egyptthat are likely to result in as valuable a find as that of the tonih of Pharaoh Tutankhamen? In the Yucatan. Mexico, a Carnegie Institute expedition is engaged In ex cavation work whose results promise to be quite as interesting as those of Lo.jji Carnavon’s workers.

The Indianapolis Times CARLE E. MARTIN. Edltor-in-Chief. FRED HOMER PETERS. Editor. ROY W. HOWARD. President. O. F. JOHNSON. Business Manager

V lgraMM the the Editor of The Indianapolis ' * - ' * and openly rejected the Castle Times: \ ) reaucracy and all its authority, •eland has come through a revo- The strain, tho sacrifices, the on. For some centuries this coun- • <;W•• % thusiasm and exaltation of t was ruled from Dublin Castle. L struggle sot up an abnormal st n the independence claimed for fr"V' % ' Hr l! of ,n * ,u ‘ a <olta!l1 oropor. ■atan s Parliement'' (1782-1801) Yh Vmf'B! especially of the younger folk, wh illusory js/ experience of life meant little to tl robably no country in the world " l sjf before tho war era of 1 'l4 b.-g-ui. r made in such a brief space so Yilt Sfy There is a 'sO ag>uv < . .’f>- i 'b material progress as Ireland tLlll the new Irish situation than any r. lo during those few years of legls A■: . Y AjJjl tfestations. however distressing t vo freedom. Bui tho control off jßjjj may appear, of political paranoia cutive. Judiciary and military j The British policy of the past rer remained all the time with tA ***%!>*£’ established a separate government jlin Castle, and Dublin Castle did Belfast, subordinate to the Bri await but contrived the oppor- % government and Parliament, and tty to destroy Ireland’s legislative ing over an arbitrarily. defined aie. ‘dom and concomitant prosperity. six counties. rorn the time when the discovery 'M sEsf.,TA To the Irish people this orrai America gave Ireland a place of \ Hk\ Y ment stands for continuous irrlm final importance in tho midst of and Instability, and thoj l f "'k on ' ~ , . , PCEoUJfcNT uOSuUAVE . ■ . , v hf-n with full and cor world until about a year ago. (re- to trie wnon. won in

To the Editor of The Indianapolis * Times: Ireland has come through a revolution. For some centuries this country was ruled from Dublin Castle. Even the independence claimed for “Gratan's Parliement" (1782 1801) was illusory. Probably no country in the world ever made in such a brief space so much material progress as Ireland made during those few years of legislative freedom. But the control of executive, judiciary and military power remained all the time with Dublin Castle, and Dublin Castle did not await but contrived the opportunity to destroy Ireland’s legislative freedom and concomitant prosperity. From tho time when the discovery of America gave Ireland a place of cardinal importance in tho midst of the world until about a year ago. Ire-

land was dominated by Dublin Castle, and this domination developed in time to such a degree tiiat, in the words of a recent English* chief secretary, the whole people of Ireland lived under the Dublin ca.stle microscope. Dublin castle was an organised bureaucracy, responsible only to the absentee British government, contemptuous of the Irish people and their representatives, over whom it appointed its own judges and magistral' -. its own tas gatherers and police, its own secret service agents. 'lt was supported by the British army and navy and had Its own trm of power and intelligence, the Royal Irish Constabulary, organized on a mini ary foot) g and equipped with military arms, the most centralized and ■fTlcient police that the world has known. Its power can ompare with that of any despotism tn history. Within less than three generations, it was able with out challenge to exterminate half of the p> p i.ition of Ireland and to stifle most of the people's Indus’ries, draining from them in the meantime a tribute that mounted up, in Lord Mac Donnell's words, to “an empire's ransom.” The Irish revolution, !od by Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, has ended that. Dublin Gristle is no more. Its en'ire organization has disappeared. The survivors of its great police organization are retired pensioners. In its stead rules a government elected by the people of Ireland, under a constitution of which the fund. -.on tal principle is that “AH powers of government and ail authority, legislative, executive and Judicial it Jrcler.d are derived from the people of Ireland.” So great a revolution was not to be achieved without heavy cost. Among all the wrongs and evils inflicted on Ireland by Dublin Castle, not the least was this, that the peojde were forced, generation after generation to resist the only law and government that existed, until resistance and negation became their chief political tradition Then came the grat war, with its disturbing effects on the public mind throughout the world. upon its trac. s came th final and terribly Intense .■ of the Irish revolutionary struggle, which became definitely knit when the representatives of the people, t .. loginning of l!*l!h established a government of rh o own

JrUoUJSijip of / Dally Lcnt-n P.lble rendinic and meditation prepared f• >r Comminglon on Kvant'cllgm of Federal Council of Churches. Fellowship Through Faith "Have faith in God.” Mark 11:22. Ren,] Mark 11:20-33. "Faith is the stone upon which ail other stones aro to rest " MEDITATION: Our praver of 'faith will be answered if wo are in right relations with God and with other*. The current of Good Will which flow* from Ood to His children will be blocked If w© have unfonrlv ing hearts one for another. Do I have “ought against any one?** HYMN: My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine! Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away. O let me from this day Bo wholly Thine! PRAVER: Ixird Jesus Christ, who hast commanded us not to return evil for evil, but to pray for those who

j U. S. Reclamation Engineers PHOENIX, ARIZ. Here, where once a desert lay, desolate and bare. Now a glad green country smiles, opulent and fair; Floods that thundered madly down, raging through the land. Now or© held and leashed by Man, Serving his command. So a miracle appears. Where th© cactus ruled for half-a-mllllon years. Over dusty trails forlorn. Now there’s cotton, wheat and corn, thanks to U. S. Reclamation Engineers' Here where lean coyotes howled, where rnesquite had spread Over league or barren league, thirsty, bleak and dead, There are farms and villages, churches, homes and schools. All because th© engineers learned to use their tools. So a miracle —a miracle appears. And the driest land upon the hemisphere* Comes to blossom as the rose. Growing everything that grows. Thanks to U. S. Reclamation Engineers! Manna in the wilderness, water on the plain. That's what engineers have brought to this broad domain. Dam and ditch and deep canal where the waters run. They have wrought their magic under Arizona's sun. So a miracle —a miracle appears. And the desert wind that withers up and sears, Has become a gentle breeze. Sighing gently through the trees, Thanks to U. S. Reclamation Engineers! —BERTON BRA LEY. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Ina)

agreement, Ireland will have a political unity answering j to her geographic and economic unit.'. Notwithstanding th- febrile effects of the two fanatirisnin the Irish revolution is an accomplished fact. Ina new constitution Is o , native and the changes that follow it are being stea>' .y and permanently effected. Anew electoral lav. in accordance with the constitution will secure that future elections will be held under :: e 'conjoint principles ,f universal adult suffrage and the proportional representation of minorities. The Judicial system Is undergoing a complete reform, (adjusting it to the requirements of the Irish people. Anew and purely civil police organization has replaced the Royal Irish ConstabularyA r(w revenue department will collect the tax *s of tho I'Yoe State. Anew army organization will be the instrument of tho national will, express'd through tho elected representatives of tho nation, for tho defense of tho nation and Its j institutions. Tho far-reaching power of education. the molding of •he natic al mind. Is now completely in tho people's hands. In Great Britain there still remains an element, difficult to measure, finding voice in certain sections of the ! press, hostile to the freedom which Ireland won. and eager to undo it. B :t tho main fact of the situation is that the el.-.-ted repreaontfttivea of the nation In both houses of th Oirei htas. tho Irish Parliament, are practically as on* in their determination to maintain that freedom and develop it for every advantage of Ireland, political, economic and cultural We have no mind to boost or to prophesy. It is enough to say that wo face the future with confidence in the firm purpose of carrying forward to Its consummation •ho policy bequeathed to ns by tin* wisdom, courage and patriotism of Arthur Griffith and Michael Hollins W. T. CO.SGRAVE. President of the Irish Free State Dublin March 17. If"3 (Copyright, 1723, NEA Service, Inc.)

hate Us: enable us by Thy blessed ex- j ample to offer a true prayer f<>r those who have wrought us h arm. If in 1 anything we have given offense, teach us to copf-- i our fault, that a way of reco.icillation may be found. Deliver \ then and us from hatred; and may the j peace of Ood rule In all our hearts for j evermore. Amen! BRAIN SPECIALIST CALLED FOR LENIN ■Swedish Expert Will Attend Russian Dictator. By l/ntted I'rrtn COPENHAGEN. March 17.—Professor Hanchcr. famous Swedish brain specialist, has been summoned to Moscow by telegraph to examine and ?>O9- I sibly attend Premier Nikola! j The summons came from Dr*. Foer- j ster and Mlkovekl. onlyTfire was needed Complete Apparatus Answers Alarm j When Safety Valve Stick*. Complete tiro fighting apparatus. In- j eluding an aerial truck, engine, and ; hose wagons, responded to a call from the homo of Charles Hickson, 529 Fletcher Avo. The firemen found an | excited family end n stuck safety vnlvo on a boiler blowing off steam. 1

and openly rejected the Castle bu- i reaucracy and all its authority. The strain, the sacrifices, the en- j thusiasm and exaltation of that struggle set. up an abnormal state ; of mind among a certain proportion ; especially of the younger folk, whose experience of life meant little to them before tho war era of 1M 4 began. There is also a graver defect in the new Irish situation than any manifestations, however distressing they ; may appear, of political paranoia. The British policy of the past has j established a separate government in Belfast, subordinate to the British government and Parliament, and ruling over an arbitrarily.defined area of six counties. To the Irish people this arrangement stands for continuous irritation and Instability, and they look forward to the day when, with full and cordial

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RAIN MAKING IS PROBLEMATICAL, QUICK DECLARES ‘ Don't Buy Land in Dry Belt on Strength of It, By HERBERT QUICK RAIN-MAKING is up again. A few years ago an Army officer. General Dyrenforth, tried hard to make good on the theory that min could he produced by violent explosions It has Jong been popularly believed that bombardments caused a condensation of water-vapor in the air and made it rain. Rain had followed ! many great battles. Was it caused 'by the explosions? Or the smoke of i combat? Or both? General Dyrenforth thought there 1 might be something in the popular notion, and he bombarded the skies | industriously from balloons. No re- ; suits. Savages Had Rain-makers Savages have had professional rain makers. So have civilized people. : Once, two congregations of good Chris tinns living near each other irled the old plan of getting the weather regulated through prayer. The members of one church lived our in the dry land and prayed earnestly for rain for their crops and pastures. In the other congregation they prayed with equal : earnestness for fair weather so they , cobld make hay oti their irrigated meadows. Finally a committee of irrlgationists waited upon the pastor of the dry farmers. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” thev said, "for ruixin' up in this weather business, i We don't want rain, an’ you could j gif along all right till we git our hay made. And, besides, this here crosscut prayin' is liable to git the so bothered lie won’t know what 1 to do!” Electrified Yand And now comes another Army officer, Genera! Mitchell, who Is quoted a.s saying that by sowing the air with positively-electrified sand from airplanes the clouds which refuse to drop ttwlr moisture, will bo < ondensed and fall as rain But don’t buy land In th>* dry belt on the strength of it. It can't get water out of s he air unless it is there Will the new method make rain enough? Will it make enough to amount to anything? If it acts as priming to the heavnely pump, so 'hat it will go on and deliver water after the artldelal aid is removed, it will be an epochally important thing It is a wonderful thing, even as tt now stands. To Tell of New Plant S. B Mott of Noblesville will addies* the Seifmtech Club at the Cl,amber of Commerce Monday on the automatic hydro electric plant recently put into operation near Noblesville

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TOM SIMS SAYS: "TT F the plume company ever runs out | ol wrong numbers it can get plenty 1 off the income tax returns. /us gggMk A firm in Rock port, 111., will ship I horse meat to Europe, and this will be a I wPjpll iy- '^ljH 'Two marine aviators are planning to fly around the world. Join the ntarines and see the world. A policeman’s auto was stolen in Chicago while he wasn’t in it. so they didn't get him. • * * About 100.000,000 stockings are made monthly from imitation silk. Now let the March winds blow. Several Senators were talking so last when Congress adjourned they haven't been able to stop yet. In Rome, two men got prison terms for making another drink castor oil. Small boys will wish we did as the Romans do. * • * Returns from the latest Mexican election show one dead and six hurt. • * • Dr. Sun, former Chinese president, is trying to rise again. • + * Too many cooks are still spoiling the Irish stew. ** * Q Bryan says wealth is a disease. We say if is hard to catch. • • • A boxer who was sandbagged by Detroit highwaymen was given no chance to defend his crown. • • 11m song. “Home, Sweet Home." will be 100 years old May 'b. es. it was written by a married man. • • * ■Still waters may run deep, but troubled waters run the mill.

How Would You Like Job on Booze Jury?

DEAR GEORGE: 1 just iropped in at. th" Federal building and tried to get a look at the Gary booze trial, but 1 didn't have any luck. There was a cop at'■ever? entrance and some more of them walking around the eorridors. The nearest anybody sot was a peep at the proceedings through a class door There i.vre a iot of people in the corridors as disappointed a I was. “How would you like to be a Juryman in this ease, Jake?” l heard one feilow ?r~k another, “The names of most of the defendants pound like the alphabet had been put In a cocktail shaker, jolted a few times, and then poured out I "Now, what gets me is how twelve ordinary American eitzens are going to remember whether a witness said he bought booze from Mike Zbcxoknff’ or Tony Trytsjdsky, or whether tt was Jack Wrsdfaski or Bill Ljgdwop who was mixed up ir. a :on.sp!ra y to allow a defendant to go free " N "Tiiat is my idea of some job.” said

i his companion, “but even that isn't | the worst of it. “•Tust think of having to be one of those twelve good men and true who have to sit a!! day in a court room listening to stories of handling and I drinking quarts and gallons and : barrels and cases of perfectly good I.’quoi and never even seeing it, let , a'ong being allowed to sample it to | determine whether the stuff the wit- ! nesses talk about really is ini toxicating or merely invigorating. "Why, those birds must dream | about the stuff at night” Come to think of it. George, some I of those jurymen dihave a far away. ;on til (he usual : :el expression of thW usual juryman. But then, inaybo they were wondering how a man named Bill .Tones ever got mixed up as a witness in a ease where the defendants names looked a word spelled out by a 3 v.c old kid with his letter block: Yours Truly, BILL.