Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1923 — Page 4

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GAS CO.’S S~\ of the numerous things the public service PLUMBING I | commission should find out about the CitiPLUMS zens Gas Company in the course of its investigation of rates is whether the company is in the business of selling gas or in the plumbing business. The recent report of the company on money received for connecting gas mains with meters would indicate it has gone into the plumbing business on a fairly large scale and that the business has been remunerative. The report shows that during 1922 the company made a profit of $59,152.74 from fees paid by consumers for having connections made and that in 1921 a profit of, $39,194.66 was made from a similar source. During the six months ending with February of this year, according to the report, the cost of making such connections was $27,133.15 and the charge made to consumers totaled $59,430.24, indicating a profit of $32,299.09. Just why such profits should be made by the gas company is hard to understand. The company is supposed to be a public utility engaged in the sale of gas. The service of connecting a consumer’s house with a gas main is incidental to the service of providing gas for the consumer. Making such a connection is not the business of the company, but a part of the procedure gone through in obtaining business. The company should charge the consumer the cost of making connections, but the charge should not be in excess of the cost. This evidently was the intention of the public service commission when the fees’to be charged for connections were fixed. It appears that either the commission was woefully misled when it fixed the fees or the price of making the connections has dropped considerably since they were fixed. Whichever is true, they should be revised. A GOOD *r()RE and more people consider Indianapolis a CITY’S \/| good city in which to live. The census ImGROWTH 1V 1 reau estimate of 342,718 population is proof of this fact. This figure shows an increase of more than 28,000 in two years. At this rate the city should be in the half million class within the next ten or twelve years. The population of Indianapolis is peculiar for a city so htrge. An unusually large percentage of the people are native born Americans. The average financial standing of the citizens is higher than in most large cities. While not a great many citizens of the Hoosier capital are in the millionaire class, there arc few who can be classed as the very poor. There are no slums, as they are known in other big cities and there is no serious housing problem such as occurs elsewhere. There are more automobiles per capita than are found in most cities and there are more home owners. The growth of the city is demonstrated in no better way than through the building of homes. On almost every street, particularly on the outskirts of the city, home building is continuing at a rapid rate. The value of new construction is increasing steadily. At the same time, downtown construction is keeping pace with home building and the demands of a larger population. while industrial expansion continues. Indianapolis is justified in being proud of itself. BERNHARDTS TTT takes death to enable us to appraise people WILL at their real worth. Sarah Bernhardt has POWER JL passed into history. With the perspective of only a few days, the thought probably isf occurring to many of you, that Sarah Bernhardt the woman was a greater character and even more interesting than Sarah Bernhardt the actress. Years from now her name will he spoken as we of today refer to Lotta, Booth and other theatrical stars of the long ago. And at that future date, when young people ask you about the Divine Sarah, the indelible impression that will come to you first will be the way she battled to keep alive. Time after time, for mopths, the greatest medical specialists of Europe “gave her up.” But Bernhardt fought on. Her refusal to die, her tenacious clinging to life by sheer determination, was a rare example of the power of mind over matter. Death won the fight—finally. But Sarah Bernhardt heroically held death at bay for weeks. Any one who had followed the career of Sarah Bernhardt knew that she would “die hard.” Her will power, as much as her natural genius and her excellent training, made her career a great one. For, in her early years on the stage, she encountered disappointments, money difficulties and failures that would have discouraged most of us to quit. Early in the M orld War, Bernhardt had an accident, considered slight at the time. Given the choice of having her leg amputated or quitting the stage, she chose amputation. How many women, with one leg cut off at the knee, would have the courage to appear in public at all, let alone on the stage where thousands of eyes would he fastened on her as the star? Will power, thy other name is Bernhardt.

Quesf/ons ASK THE TIMES Answers

You can pet an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Ind'anapolis Times' Washington bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington D. C., enclosing' 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, love ard marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research bn undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—EDlTOß. How many automobile, manufacturers are there in the United States? About four hundred and fifty. Which are the most popular sizes in men’s collars and shoes? Fifteen for collars, eight for shoes. How many locks are there to the Suez Canal? None. How many foreign bom are there in the United States? The 1920 census shows 36,398,958. How many leap years have there been since 1884, and when will the next one be? Eight. The next will be 1924. Is a note dated on Sunday void? Yes. How big was the Ark? How big is the Leviathan? The cubit of the Bible, according to Str Isaac Newton, is 20.625 inches. Bishop Wilkins makes the cubit 20.88 Inches. According to Newton the dimensions of the ark were: Length between perpendiculars, 515.62 feet;

breadth, 84.94 feet; depth, 51.56 feet; keel, or length for tonnage, 464.08 feet. Tonnage, according to old law. 18,231. The measurements of the ark. according to Wilkins’ caloula tlons, were; Length 547 feet; breadth 91.16 feet; depth, 54.70 feet; keel, 492.31 feet. Tonnago, 21,761. The Leviathan is 907 feet long, 100 feet In depth, and 57 feet In breadth; tonnage 54,282. How long has coal gas been used . for street lighting? Where was it first used? More than a hundred years. Paris and London first used gas light for streets. How Is silver found In nature? Usually in combination with sulphur. either as the sulphide Ag 2 S or as a constituent of other sulphides, especially those of lead, copper, antimony and arsenic. It is also found alloyed with gold, and very occasionally In the uncomblned state. Wliat is the brief history of hydrogen? This element was first clearly recognized as a distinct substance by the English Investigator Cavendish, who in 1766 obtained it in a pure state and showed it to be different from the other inflammable airs or gases which had long .been known. Because it had been found to be a constituent of water, Lavoisier gave it ths name hydiwen, which means “water formSc”

The Indianapolis Times KARLE E. MARTI IS, Edltor-in-CWei. FRED ItOMER PETERS. Editor. ROY W. HOWARD. President. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Manager

Expose of Mitchell as Model’s ‘Angel’ Revives Question, What’s Dangerous Age for Husbands?

Analysis of ‘Dot’ King and Halls-Miil Murders Similar,

NEW YORK, March 28. What is the dangerous age for husbands? Psychologists who aualvze quirks of criminology, especially crimes of passion, find close parallels between famous cases. The unsolved mystery, now six months old, of the Hall-MUls murder is recalled as a parallel to the murder of Dorothy King, beautiful Broadway model, who was found dead of chloroform in her apartment March 15. These are the questions entering into the analysis: Was J. Kearsley Mitchell, wealthy son-in-law of E. T Stotesbury, Morgan partner, marked as a victim of a blackmail plot In which the girl model met her death because she cared too much to help the plotters? Was the Rev. Edward W. Hall. X \v Bru ns wick‘rector, slain with Mrs. Eleanor Mills, wife of the church caretaker, because a plot of somewhat similar nature failed? Mitchell is 52. His wife. Mrs Frances Stotesbury Mitchell, is 42. And Dorothy King was only 27. The Rev. Hall waas 41. His wife, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, was 55. And Mrs Mills was only Is there a dang' rou age. in which many men seek a younger love than that given by wives who are approaching—or have reached—middle age? "There Is—anywhere above 45," ays Mrs. Helen P. McCormick. Brook lyn lawyer who was assistant district ittorney of Kings County for five years. "With the success that comes after ho man has made good in his coin petitive tight in the business world comes the let-down, that so often leads to trouble. "He has time on his hands, and money—and seeks diversion. "The larger the bankroll, the more dangerous the age." "Ages of men have little to do with girl tragedies, I think," says Dr. 3. A. Tannenbaum. physician, psychoana lyst and author. "Men with tendencies to philander live in a dangerous ago all the time. It Is going on in all circles of life all the time. "Only the wealthy find it easier, sometimes, to hide their Inn* r lives But this very fact incites another sort of dangerous tig**—for it some times acts as a bomerang, their 1 wealth predisposing them to exposure, and even to hjnekmall.”

JfclloUiSljip of •Praper Daily Lenten liible reading and meditatn.'i prepared for Commission on Evaimflism of Federal Council of Churches. Deserted by His Own

"I know not this man of whom ye speak.” Mark 14:71. Read Mark 14:66-72. “But It is not until we come into the presence of Jesus of Nazareth, that, we are able to see sin in all its terrible magnitude hnd malignity." MEDITATION: remain stead fast to the dictates of love in the face of scorn and danger demands all wo have of courage and faith; but to fall here is to fail everywhere. We do not go alone to trial. HYMN: O for a closer walk with God. A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! PRAYER: Almighty God, unto whom nil hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of Thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love Thee, and worthily magnify Thy Holy name, through Christ our Lord. Amen!

Mere Prejudice Ry IJERTON UKAbEY THE guy who say, “Sro! 1 don't mind; Nor he who wavs, always. "Yuh know!" Hut there Is one typo of mankind Which causes my temper to zlow — Arid this Hi*) K.izabo. the bird or the bean. Who's constantly saying, “You know what I mean?” it! M wondering whether—you know what I I mean ? This uncertain weather will stay on the sceneV I feel like a winner all peppy and keen. I've jtist had m.v dinner—you know wliat I mean ?" WITH rising inflection he uses this phase And keeps on repealing it all of his days. Till, tbousrh I’m a person well poised and serene. I feel I must kill him—“ You know what I mean?" a T HAT girl is a pippin—you know what I • mean?" She se's my heart sklppln’. she sure Is a queen ' The grass keeps on growing—Its color Is green. The wind's always blowing—you know what I mean?" SO sentence by sentenco and time after time * And whether the subject be gay or sublime This phrase he repeats without reason or rhyme, This constant, "Yon know what I meant" THE {my who repeats “Understand?'' With every remark that he mnkes. is one that should pnmplly tie canned: But greatest of human mistakes fs that pesky boro or bimbo or bean Who ends every sentence, "You know,what I mean?" (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) gronTnger will speak Peoria Insurance Company Holds Convention at Claypool. Taylor E. Groninger, corporation counsel', will speak tonight at the an nmtl convention of (he Peoria Inaur anoe Company of Peoria, 111.. :it the Claypool. The convention will close a sixty days’ “Bringing Home the Bacon Contest” for sales records. Luncheon was held at the Claypool today.

MRS. MITCHELL, 42

MRS. FRANCES lIALL, 55

In the Editor's Mail

Those Golf Fees To th< K'titor of Tin- Ti'.tten What do you mean, the high cost of golf ? Os all that has been said about golf in Indianapolis in regard to the cost, it should be borne in mind that a spirit of fairness should be shown to the golfer, A fair charge is all that the golfer asks. The fee charge should he proportionate to the courses. The usual course (not referring to the upkeep but the simplicity and trappings! should he used by heglnners. Oolf fees should be low enough to encourage the game among all the people of Indianapolis. Advancement In the golf game Is not reckoned In months, hut in years of play. A few years of golf brings a better appreciation of a better course and will give an understanding how to use a good; course and how to preserve it. The present charge for golf at River-1 side and Coffin courses Is really too; high for h municipal course. The sls j charge at Riverside Inst year was f dr enough. Lot It stay there at this price. The Coffin course, on account of liav lng been used as a private course so long, has he*>n given the very best of care and fihould be worth 15 more (or S2O) on the year to the good golfer In Indianapolis. The combination price for the Riverside and Coffin course should be placed at $25 for the year. The daily fee should be placed very high for more than one reason. The daily player is usually one who is disinterested or a time-killer. The cause of most of the congestion and trouble on the courses today is from this type of players. They do not care enough about the game to take it seriously, especially to Invest in a season ticket. This type of player knows no rule and does not tare to learn the rules. He will shoot Into those ahead of him, 1 hold up those behind, and becomes, very sarcastic when told of these faults. The dally charge on the various courses should he. Coffin, $1; Riverside. 75 cents; Pleasant Run. 50 cents: South Drove, 25 cents. If the park board wants to please the golfers in Indianapolis let them make it possible

Sst think wliat , rouve been missing/ T\ /T ANY people deny themselves the comfort IV JL of a hot drink with meals, because they find coffee and tea detrimental to health. For many, the drug element in coffee and tea irritates the nerves, retards digestion and often prevents natural, restful sleep. If this fits your case, try Postum. This pure cereal beverage supplies all the pleasure and satisfaction that a hot mealtime drink can give—invigorating warmth, fine aroma and delicious flavor. And you can enjoy it in the full assurance that it cannot harm health. w rnsKipg Postum for health SKSllftlito “There's a Reason ” j PD “ u,n ~J o S JL*?®SbbsH Your grocer sells Postum in two forms: Instant 'Z-f.’-'i i |jj 5 Postum (in tins) prepared instantly in tho <up ! „._ A BEVERAGE ;£•* I [KSTAtUS Ey tho addition of boiling wator. Postum * c I 9 Cereal (in packages) for those who prefer to PfKTIIU make tho drink while the meal is being preI 3e f rua lUa pared; made by boiling fully 20 minutes. ■———>' 1 ‘""uy?'----it; ")* " ‘ ~ , , l—i: *ll Mado b y i !, _ Po.tun&SJfc- Postum Cereal Cos., Inc., Battle Creek, Mich. •■- o •- )

J. K. MITCHELL. 52

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Veteran Policewoman Believes Day of Masher Is Nearing End

By ROY GIBBONS SKA •Stuff I'urri'HiHjwlrnt C CHICAGO. March 28.—Thanks to the modern girl's ability to protect herself, the masher is rapidly disappearing and his day soon will he past. Take that from America’s first po licewornan, .Mrs. Alice Clement Faubel She's now celebrating her sis teenth year of continuous service on the Chicago force. In that time she's made 2.000 arrests —despite her comeliness and the kindly gleam In her eye. "The American girl, active in gymnastic work. Is teaching the masher a lesson," Mrs. Fauhel says. "The masher nowadays looks before he leaps. There are too many dainty arms concealing a knockout punch. Mrs. Fauhel herself has dealt numerous wallops with her now famous well-timed right. And, besides, you’d he surprised to pee with what facility she can hit a bullseye at fifty paces with the blue automatic site always carries In her purse. "I’d rather catch u crook than eat,” she confesses. "I started out twenty-five years ago. At first I was a sort of silent Investigator, doing whatever I could to aid Just for fun. After that I was put on regular with a beat to patrol

for all season ticket holders to play on any’ city’ course upon presentation of season ticket and payment In difference in the dully charge. If the player comes from a flfty-centa a-day course to the 76-cent course, let him pay the difference, or 25 cents. If he comes from a $1 -a-day course to a 50-cent course he should pay 50 per cent of the difference, or 25 cents. If the full dally charge is less than 50 cents, let the player pay the full amount. This plan, I believe, will relieve South Grove to a great extent. J. M. NTEHAUS. Given Life Term CLINTON, Ind.. March 28.—Steve Karanovlch pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to life Imprisonment. He killed Meli Obradovleh, Jan. 28.

DOROTHY KING, 27

ELEANOR MILLS, 33

Broadway Glossary HERE are striking examples of the weird vocabulary possessed by people of Broadway’s half-world, as disclosed in the investigation into the murder of Dorothy King, beautiful model: BUTTERFLY—GirI who lives the night life of cabarets. GOOD-TIME GlßLlE—Butterfly before she has found sugar. SUO A11 —M o n ey. ANGEL—A man with sugar: any age. HEAVY-SUGAR BABY Girl coated with sugar: one who has found out how to separate men from large quantities of money or things it will buy. HEAVY-SUGAR GUY The heavy sugar baby's victim. WHERE THE SUGAR BLOWS —Live wire resorts. PAPA —Elderly admirer with lots of sugar. DADDY Nto as old as papa, hut with just as much sugar. SWEETIE Man with no sugar, hut lots **t "love." BUDDIE Same as Sweetie, but more of a business associate than lover. HEAVY SUGAR SWEETIE——A rare and perfect combination; love plus sugar. GOLD D'GGER —Heavy sugar baby not afraid to admit It. SAP —Private term for one who gives up heavy sugar. COME-ON STUFF Business of vamping heavy sugar guy for sweetie's sake.

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MRS. ALICE CLEMENT FAUIEL

und everything else a cop has to do. "I have had some rather squeaky escapes But I’ve never had to shoot anybody.

MASSACHUSETTS AVE. TO HAVE NEW STORE ROOMS lYoperty Wit Ii ‘MO-Fool Frontage to Ise Improved—Cost $130,0011. Fifteen single floor storerooms will be built by the Massachusetts-Pratt Realty’ Company In the 800 block on Massachusetts Ave. Improvements Involving $150,000 will be made. The property has a 240-foot frontage. A large warehouse will bo erected In the rear. The property was bought for $50,010. Storerooms will cost between SBO,OOO to $85,000, C. Milton Kelly, secretary-treasurer, said. The project Is to be completed within four months.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: WE don’t want taxation without representation. We want representation without taxa- /W** f Our jails are not big enough for I When you come home and find the jjj kitchen stove in the parlor you know it is spring cleaning time. \ * Many a man’s Sunday suit is a suit jam of pajamas. • # • Old wine in new bottles doesn’t worry half as many people as old feet in new shoes. t t • The woman who goes through a man’s trousers is nicer than the one who sends bullets through them. No matter what you plant, in your garden you should be able to gel some chickens out of it. • • * Harding might improve his golf score by imagining the bail is some congressman’s head. • • • Baseball umpires, aviators and actors all get good play, but look at the risks they run. • • * Holland Gin Found" -headline. Ah. a Dutch treat. A Detroit man is asking divorce because his wife chews tobacco. Very few women can spit straight. • Prohibition has done some good. A Russian poet says he will never return on account of it. Perhaps a hear driven into a Maine town by heavy snows was as hungry as a bear. • * • Paris is being shocked by musical comedies, but the fare from here to Paris is pretty high. 0 • • Anything can happen now. In London, an Englishman laughed himself to death at an American movie. ’ * Mexican actress has had a five-year run, but the bandits have had a much longer run than that. • • • Wunder why it is grippe germs don’t catch the grippe? • • • Winter is about over. Long may it stay over.

‘Jim’ Watson to Lead Fight of Railroads for Private Control

BY JOHN CARSON RY Times Stuff Correspondent IVTASHINGTOX March 28 Senator "Jim'' Watson of Indiana has been elected to handle the battle for private ownership of railroads when Congress begins cnnsi F! ation of the transportation problem. This is the word coming from the railroad interests in Washington. Senator Cummins of lowa, chairman of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, will he titular leader In the fight if he recovers from lils illness. But Watson will direct the strategy, will handle the organization, anil in fact will make the tight. Roads to (live \ssistance While Watson is shouldering the burden in Congress, the railroads will give him all assistance. They have organized a "National Institute on Transportation," which is expected to carry through until another President is elected and to do most of the campaign work fqr the presidential candidate who is spirted to espouse ’he

The Steamboat Governor Morton HISTORICAL SERIES No. * IS Launched on July Ist. 1865, and licensed at the port of Cincinnati to carry on the coasting trade Indiana and points unnamed, the “Governor Morton” was another attempt to prove that the White River was navigable. She was a side-wheeler, 100 feet long and 21 feet wide with a capacity of 200 passengers. Little success rewarded this venture, and In August of the next year the "Governor Morton” sank at her moorings Just below the National Bridge. For more than a quarter of a century before this Fletcher’s Bank had been guiding the finances of its clients through the eddies of business depression and panics. Its successor, the Fletcher American National Bank, has behind, it 83 years of faithful and efficient service to Indianapolis and Indiana. Fletcher American National Bank 1839 1923 Capita) and Surplus. 03,000,000

j cause of private ownership of railroads. The job of the institute now is to get "facts" and publish them to the country. Watson's job will be to take these i "facts ' and with the support of “public sentiment" make the fight in the n*'xt Senate. And beyond the next Senate lies the presidential campaign, the real objective of the institute. Issue to F’eople The understanding now is that the old guard can avoid any prolonged discussion of transportation In the next Congress. The cry will be to take the issue to the people, to let them decide when they elect a President. and then to let the Congress which follows interpret their decision. It was to assist the old guard In all the preliminaries to a fight with the progressives that the institute was organized, according to the word here. Incidentally, Watson’s association with the transportation fight has linked him up with President Harding again. The President is counted on to be the champion of private ownership.