Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1923 — Page 4

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THE CITY -m jj-AYOR Shank, with his characteristic abruptLAKE \/■ ness, has taken up again plans for forming PROJECT IVI a large municipal lake west of Fairview Park, soon to become the campus of Butler University. It is the mayor’s plan to construct a dam across White River below the park, thus backing the water up into the lowlands between the river and the canal. He has asked the city engineering department to investigate. Whether the mayor’s plan is practical remains to be seen. At first glance it would appear to the layman that it would be a comparatively simple matter to create a lake on the proposed site at small expense It has been done successfully in other cities. Projects of this kind, however, have a tendency to become enormously expensive and complicated. That Indianapolis should have something of this kind goes without saying. It is the largest city in the country not on some large body of water or large stream. A body of water that could be used for boating, swimming, fishing and other water attractions is one thing Indianapolis still lacks. The want of such a feature is frequently commented on by visitors from other cities. A careful investigation of the project should be made by the city. If the construction of a lake is found to be practical and the expense to be within reason, Indianapolis should get back of it and make it a success. Such a feature woidd be a valuable asset to the city. WHAT IS “TT THY does youth go to college? Ludwig LewRIGHT IN % / isohn. literary' critic and author, asks the COLLEGE V V question and then attempts to answer it with this: „ “To the average intelligent American, education, for which he is willing to deny himself and pay taxes, means skill and information and, at most, accomplishment—skill and knowledge with which to conquer the world of matter. Our students come to the university not to find the truth but to learn to be engineers or fanners, doctors or teachers.” Mr. Lewisohn apparently laments this tendency, and bewails the fact that college to the average American youth “does not mean to him an inner change, the putting on of anew man. a new criterion of truth, new* tastes and new values.” There you have to contrast between the average American college and the general run of foreign higher educational institutions. Abroad the university is run to turn out more cultured individuals, over here to give them “finer and more flexible tools for the economic war for liberty,” to quote Mr. Lewisohn again. Which is better and more worth while, training in culture and classics, or training in the fundamentals of production and service? It is a big problem .and probably raises not only the main fault, but also the main virtue of American colleges today, depending upon how great the extreme to which educational hobbies are carried. A judicious mixture of the old and the new would make a mighty useful piece of educational equipment, for any individual to have with him when he faces the battle of life.

FILLING X"~>dOAL has been so scarce in Quincy, Mass., that COAL BIN b it could be obtained only on a doctor's preEARIA scription. Meantime, enough unmined coal underground in our country to supply us for over a thousand years. arious suggestions have been made for putting a stop to our periodic fuel shortages. The most sensible one is for consumers to fill their bins in summer when coal is begging for buyers. This particularly applies to big industrial users, for homes consume only a tenth of, America’s total production of soft coal and a half of its hard coal. HEARTS r I YVEXTY thousand school children in New WEAK IN I \ ork City have heart disease, doctors find. YOUTH JL One in every fifty pupils. A small percenLage. yes, but a very big percentage to have this serious physical defect develop so early in life. Organic heart disease competes with pneumonia ,and tuberculosis for first place among the causes of death. It usually doesn’t kill until maturity. But generally it starts in youth. Diseased teeth and throats are the portals of entry for rheumatism and other diseases that affect the heart. That’s what to watch, to protect your children. Also, don’t, let them overstrain, especially by trying to lift beyond their strength.

Britain Has Oldest Form of Government, Dating From 1689

Qi KSTIOXS ANSWERED 'ou ran pet an answer to any qup*tion ol fact or information by writing to the Irdianapolii. Times WashirTton bureau. l.T.*: NV.v Vok Avp wasl.lnIjfn. I> C enclosing 2 ornts in stamps. *• ?ai. lovt* and marriaz** adTice cannot be jriven. nor can extend-*! research be unflert.V <n. or paix-rs ape* he?, etc . be spared. Unpinned letters cannot ne answered, but aii letters are eonfident ia! and receive personal replies—EDlTOß. Which am the oldest form of government—the English, French or Italian? If you mean government in its general aspects, the English is the oldest. This da; is from the famous bill of rights of 1689, which put an end to the dispensing power of the king and established the supremaev of the law over the king’s proclamation The king’s ministers were made answerable to parliament, and the cabinet government began. The present constitution of Italy dates from 1848. France from 1875. What is flie origin o? the saying. “Consistency, thou art a jewel?” It is from the poem. "Jolly Robin Roughhead.” the author of which Is unknown. When I send stamps by mail should I attach the corners of the stamps to the enclosed paper? By no means. That removes some of the mucilage from the stamps and makes their future use difficult Merely lay the stamps flat, unattached, loose, inside of the envelope. There isn’t one chance in a million of them dropping out. And never fear that the party at the other end will fail to find the stamps—any business institution or bureau has people whose ■ duty it is to find them. What is the diffe-ence between the Puritan and Pilgrim? Puritan was the name given to a dissenter from the Church of England in the time of Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts. The name was applied fn 1565. The Pilgrim Fathers were the earliest settlers in Massachusetts. The Puritans sought to reform the Church of England; the Pilgrims were acp&ratista who left England and the

church and formed independent con gregations abroad. What are the estimates of the lengths of time it will take to exhaust the nation's coal and oil supplies? At the present rate of consumption it is estimated that the supply of an tliracite coal wljl last perhaps ion years, and the bituminous coal 100 generations. The oil will probably run out in seventy-five years. What are meanings of the natii“s Susan. John and Dorothy? Susan means "a lily”; John, "the gtacious gift of God”; Dorothy, "the gift of God." Do snakes ever swallow their young? Snakes have been known to swallow their young when in danger or frightened, and then when in danger is over to have opened thenmouths and lot the young snakes como out again. \\ hat are the speed records of Hie airplane and AtlanMr liners? 'nd what was tlie fastest trip around the world ever maxi?? The aviation record is 243 miles an hour. The best run from New York to Queenstown was 4 days. 10 hours and 41 minutes, made by the Mauretania The fastest trip around the world was made by John Mears iu 35 days. 21 hours. 36 minutes How can I stiffen crocheted baskets? Gum arable, dissolved in warm xva ter until the consistency of thick glue, is a good stiffener Dip the basket in the solution while It is hot. Repeat the operation until the required stiffness is attained. What do artisls and architects consider the most magnificent structure ever erected by man? The Temple of Karnak, in Egypt, which occupies an area of nine acres, or twice that of St. Peter’s at Rome The temple place is a poet’s dream of gigantic columns, beautiful courts and .wonderful avenues of sphinxes.

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Americans Are Worst Mannered Persons in World, Says Gertrude Atherton, Noted Woman Novelist

BY JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT XEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, March 23.—-Ameri-cans have the worst manners in the world. They cough in your face, they chew gum in public, they push, they jostle, they fight for the only vacant seat in a street car. they shove .you away from the ticket office, they nearly knock you down and never raise their hats. So says Gertrude Atherton, noted woman novelist. “I have traveled all over Europe and America,” she explains, “and. take my word for it, Americans have the worst manners in the world. They have arrogance but no pride. They personify the Declaration of Independence gone wild. <‘Men come to dinner in their shirt sleeves and women cut each other in public. College students ignore the faculty and young men refuse to dance with their hostesses. The steel magnate outrages the feeling of the office boy and the office boy passes on the insult. “The man who has spanned acontinent with railroads grasps his fork down by the prongs and the young poetess with a volume of free verse on the press embarrassedly counters, ‘Aw. where d'ya get that line' when someone hands her a compliment. “Commonness is the national vice. It causes more heartaches than drunkenness, dope and bigamy combined. It is the cause frequently overlooked, which leads in the merry race to the divorce court. “A woman who would look up with tolerance upon occasional lapses from morality can be driven to desperation because her husband habitually leaves his spoon in his coffee cup. “A man may be a good provider and a pillar in the church, but what woman is going to regard him with tolerance when he talks to her with his hat on and blows smoke in her face?

France Intends to Make Secure Clauses of Versailles Treaty by Holding Ruhr

M tieraud. political editor of the Echo de Paris, who writ' s under the pen name of "Pcrtinaux. his prepared for the United New* an article netting forth, from b' ginning to end. the French viewpoint and intention* on reparation* and the occupation of the Ruhr. Pertinaui i* probably th • liest informed newspaper writer in France His important and intimate political connection* have led Ills writuigb to be aocepted a* absolutely authoritative. By PERTINAUX Political Editor of the Echo de Paris (Copyright, VJ2S, by l i it'd .Vein! ) APIS. March ' Why did you go into the Ruhr?” “We went into the Ruhr in order to compel Germany to pay our reparations hill. Now that we nr In the Ruhr we intend to use the hold we possess on Germany to security clause of the Versaill*; treaty effective. "Surely there were other methods by which France could have obtained her share of the reparations hill Mr. Uoyd George referred the other day to the recommendation of the Internationa! banker* last spring.'’ “I do not admit the correctness of Mr. IJovd George's reference. The great mistake made by the bankers and before them by writers and politicians like Mr. J M Keynes was to ignore the fact that lirst of all the reparations problem is a political one.” “We Americans deny that We believe in a business solution of the problem.” Is National Feeling “No problem can be solved as a tuslness question when one of Its factors is a vehement national feeling. In our opinion the fundamental fact to be faced is that Germany does not want to pay a sum commensurate with the destruction she caused during the war. All reparations arrange-

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JERTRUDE ATHERTON AND SOM E OP THE REASONS SHE BE LI EVES AMERICANS ARE WORST- MANNERED PEOPLE.

‘(Many a man of refinement has thought longingly of oblivion when he perceived his wife taking soup from the end of the spoon and many a good woman's love has bean killed because her husband could;, 't learn to stand u> ahen his mother-in-law came into the room.

nients that do not take that fundamental fact into account are bound to fall, as had been proved by the experience of the last three years. “While we sat quietly by. waiting for Germany to keep her promises, the Germans quietly invested German wealth abroad, out of our reach, or invested it at home in various kinds of Industrial improvements and extern

Government Ownership Looked to Solve Big Railway Problem

By HERBERT QUICK PROBABLY few readers of this paper read "Commerce and Finance,” published In New York, but a great many of them know that it stands very high as an org;tn of business. What it says is worth considering in the ■ —* field of business. It ■sf is not 'red,” nor mi , ■ Yi "Bolshevik!,” nor flf is it a "half-baked tgm a radical” paper. It j* Is sane and sound. itl Its issue of Feb. 28, it carries Price, on the pres HERBERT ent railway situa QUICK tlon. This article shows: 1. That Price’s study of the situa (ion and his observations In ills tours of the United States impress upon him that the whole Nation Is suffering per

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“The cure? I’d make training in manners compulsory for every school child. I'd have little boys taught when to remove their hats and little girls how to say thank you. And I'd have both girls and boys taught to respect their elders ”

sions of permanent value. Os course, •is a result of that policy, the German middle class, all Germans living on u fixed income, were crushed. “But the German industrial leaders retained possession of their wealth. Gorman capital, as wll a* the economic values created by German la bor were not alienated to the foreigners. who won the war. but con

j manent hard times because of high | freight rate-t and the helplessness of it lie railways to move the tonnage. 2. That the minds of both the public and railway officials toward Gov eminent ownership and operation of | railways as the only politically prac j ticable way out. 3. That President Harding's urgency that the people stand a loss to subsi ; dlze ships has given a push to this sentiment by causing people to ask themselves why If would not be bet ! ter to stand a loss on railways rather j than on ships. ■t. That the MoAdoo operation of the railways was in the hands of the same men who ran them before, and was as good as would have been the case if the Government had not taken them over, and probably better. (1. That "Plato said that somewhere in heaven the gods might have a plan of government better than democracy, i but that it had not been revealed to humanity as yet. There may be some solution for the railroad problem that is better than government operation or ownership, but if so. It is still a I secrot.”

‘Austrians Have Best Manners’ Americans have the worst manners in the world. What people have the best? • “The Austrians,” answers Mrs. Atherton promptly., “Austrians have the most perfect breeding in the world. “The French have only a veneer of manners. "The English have good manners except when they are traveling. When they travel they’re always expecting something to happen to them. "The Germans have no manners. The Prussians are merely arrogant.”

tinued to form part of the nation’s assets. To counteract this policy, what did the international bankers’ conference of May, 1922, do? Nothing. “I could show you not only a summary of their official proceedings, which were not interesting, but of the private conversations they held. You would see that there was no real approach to a concrete proposal. The French delegate said to J. Pierpont | Morgan, the American banker, and to } Sir Robert Kinderley, the British rep- j resentative: 'I concede that the Ger- j man indebtedness should be reduced j to 50,000.000,000 gold marks. What do you offer?' Mr. Morgan spoke in vague terms of a system of annuities to be paid without any previous fixation of a capital sum so as to avoid the accumulation of unpaid interest, and so forth.

Morgan Plan Inadequate lie added that the bankers would endeavor to float the new German bonds corresponding to these ~nnuities. In twenty years the reparations commission would meet, review the whole situation and decide as to the further payments to be made by G“r many. "All here have the highest regard for Mr. Morgan, but we could not but consider his suggestions as very inadequate. They deliberately overlooked the cardinal points—Germany a unwillingness to pay. More than that, his suggestions gave Germany's unwillingness a chance to assert itself greater than It ever had.” (Tomorrow* neotion. continuing the imsglnarv conversation with an American in qulrer, will <t forth what Fra:"*- is • ut> against economically.' in rxriatnimr her present action.) Pheasants Hungry CHAGRIN FALLS, March 23. Wild pheasants have become so bold In this section that they have entered this village in search of food. The pheasants are propagated by the State and are protected by game laws.

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ENSUS figures 111,111 is the number of Japs in America, but it sounds more like a craps game. • • • Russian tribe thinks Americans live in the dark. We do, about Russia. • • • Los Angeles will build a $50,000 dog hotel where every dog will have his day every day. • • Curious red streak in the sky puz-

zling astronomers could be the dove of peace leaving Europe. • • • Brockton (Mass.) woman claims her husband has been drunk two years, showing some men get their wishes. • • • Anything can happen in New York. Tenants gave a janitor a watch. • * • Burbank is helping in the South’s boll weevil fight. Again we suggest he make weevils lazy by crossing them with hookworms. • • • Skipper says off a Pacific island lobsters bite pieces out of anchors. It is a sign of spring. * * * This country’s annual chewing gum bill is $50,000,000. but it saves a great deal of rag chewing. It was nice of a German police dog to locate booze in Washington, but we claim he should be at home biting Frenchmen. • • • An optimist plants a garden and throws away his can opener. • • • Difference between President and Vice President is who knows where or when Coolidge takes a vacation? • * * One nice thing about movie and baseball scandals is we soon have new ones to talk about. " • • • Some spring poetry is so sad it looks as if it was written on the back of an income tax blank.

Now That Mayor Lew Is Back, What’s to Be Next?

DEAR GEORGE: Well George, Inj dianapolis has a mayor again. Lew | Shank is back in hie office after a long vacation and. as usual when he ; is here, the fur has started flying. The cigar store man was talking j to me about it today. "Everything was peaceful.” he said, j "when all of a sudden Lew shows up on the scene and starts tilings going. ! “First lie gets started again on his lake Idea. We should have swimming j and boating, he tells us. It's a good j idea, but the thing never seems to ; get any further than being an idea. "The mayor says he isn't deeply | interested in smoke. That sounds j kind of funny. Wonder who pays his I laundry bills? But he is Interested,

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he says, in track elevation and flood prevention. He has been interested since he started being mayor, but that seems to be as far as it gets. “Lew is a good scout and all that, but he doesn't seem to get anywhere. He has got a lot of Ideas for doing things but he never gets them under way.” i “I guess you're right about that,” spoke up a fellow leaning on the counter. "But I don't know whether it is a fault or not. Strikes me mayors are like legislatures. Sometimes the less they do the better off the taxpayers are.” There seems to me to be something in that argument. What do you think about it, George? Yours truly, BILL.