Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1923 — Page 4

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WORLD IX years ago this April 6, the United States RECOVERS W declared war on Germany. We won’t bore SLOWLY kJ you with a lot of cheap oratory about what our country did in the war—such things as statistics and the force we exerted in swinging the decision. These things you already know. Or, to be more precise, each of us has his individual opinion. On this April 6, your thoughts swing out and contemplate the world as the war left it—Europe, in particular. Things still are messed up badly. But they’re steadily getting. untangled. Europe is returning to hard work—increasing production. The people over there, dazed and psychically nervous, are nevertheless learning their lesson, that war doesn’t pay. Truth comes slowly. But it’ll come, in time. Compared with a year ago, Europe is emphatically in better condition. Her politicians still are eating fire. Time will remedy that also—restore sane leadership. We have been expecting too much of Europe. Any one who knows history, realizes that it takes years—generations—for people tc settle down after a big war. America hasn’t totally recovered yet from the Civil War. Any old-timer, particularly in the Southern States, will tell you that the suffering, confusion and bitterness that resulted from the Civil War lasted for years and years. On a smaller scale, we went through what Europe is going through today and will for years to come. So don’t become discouraged when Europe has a natural relapse periodically. Things are moving in the right direction over there—and a lot faster than public affairs lunatics tell us. It takes longer to rebuild a house than to tear it down. As for America today, you’d hardly know we entered the war. except when you go out to buy something or when the tax man calls. Several millions still feel the war keenly, but viewing the nation in a broad way we have practically ‘‘recovered.” Tins is demonstrated in the fact that the war is virtually eliminated from our minds. How many days out of a month does our part in the war pop up to your attention? And even then, how many minutes until you brush it aside? On April 6, 1917, our Congress took action that shaped the whole world's future for centuries to come. That day was a turning of the tide, one of the most gigantic dates in history. We are living too close to it to realize. The world came to a fork in the road. It turned to the right—and is going ahead steadily. Post-war troubles will diminish as the years roll on. HUSH! A MONTH ago statements ringing with promHUSH! /\ ises flooded the country telling how a Senate HUSH! XiL committee was going to dig to the depths of the Veterans’ Bureau muddle and assuring us that the new management was going to flood the works with daylight. Folks everywhere cheered and said, ‘‘lt’s about time.” Even the retiring director of the bureau joined in the chorus for an exhaustive investigation. The chairman of the Senate committee and the new director both issued statements saying that the fireworks would start as soon as Congress adjourned. They’d find out whether or not those accusations were true, and the public would know for the first time what became of its $500,000,000 per year, a sum far greater than that spent by the army or the navy ori’any other department. Just what has happened since the high talk died down? Well, the Senate committee hired an attorney, and he visited Washington one day, looked things over, and returned to his office in New York. The new Veterans’ Bureau chief slipped into office like a well-greased clutch and all is quiet. Today the word is being passed around quietly that there probably won’t be many hearings or much investigating This summer. As for this alleged mismanagement, misuse of funds, and general inefficiency and neglect of veterans—aw—hush. hush, hush, hush! * CUTTING y -|-° AV muc h meat do you eat? The average OUT I—-1 American ate 150 pounds last year, including MEAT JU JL babies, in striking the average. This seems a lot. And it is. Beef totaled sixty-one pounds for each of us. And yet here comes J. C. Mohler, of the Kansas State board of agriculture, with a warning that extinction of the beef industry is threatened by decline in meat consumption. He says we’re eating twenty-six pounds of beef a year less than we ate in 1901, apiece. There’s a reason, as usual. You used to be able to get a steak —yes. a whole meal—for a quarter. High prices become prohibitive —a boomerang.

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misunderstanding on the part of foreigners this expression became corrupted, and the term cigarral was supposed to refer to the tobacco, and In time was shortened to cigarro and finally to cigar. Who was Fatima? (1) The name of Mohammed's favorite daughter. (2) A character In the story of Aladdin in the Arabian Nights. (3) Bluebeard's last wife, the only one not murdered by him. What is the difference between a farce and a comedy? In farce the characters are what they are because the working of the plot requires them to be this and not something else, while In comedy the plot is subordinated to the characters. What was Falemian wine‘s One of the favorite wines of the Romans, so called from the Ager Falernus, the district In which it was grown. In the northern portion of Campania, between the Masslcan hills and the northern bank of the Vulturnus. It Is described by Horace as, in his time, surpassing all other wines In repute. Which five States have the most automobiles in use? New York 812,031 Ohio 720,632 Pennsylvania 689,589 California 678.830 Illinois 670,434 Why Is a Turk’s hat called a Fez? It.is named after the town of Fez, Motoeco. where such caps were first made.

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American Legion Asks SIOO,OOO for Care of Doughboys' Graves in Flanders THE SUKESNESS AMERICAN CEMETERY. NEAR PARIS. WHERE 1.497 AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE BURIED: THIS IS ONE OF THE CEMETERIES THE LEGION WILL DECORATE ANNUALLY FROM THE ENDOWMENT FI ND IT IS RAISING.

By SEA Sen toe TO make the 32.100 American soldier graves in Europe bloom with flowers every Memorial day as brightly as if they wore at home is the objective of a fund cam paign undertaken by the American Legion. The Ivegion, its headquarters here announces, Is seeking an endow ment fund of $109,000, which will provide sufficient income to dedi

It s Calvi or Nobody , Princess Yolanda Tells Royal Father

By MILTON BRUNNER By SEA Servtce ROME. April 6. —Princess Yo landa. eldest daughter of the king of Italy, who will marry Count Calvi di Bergoio tomorrow, told her royal dad not so long ago: "It’s Calvi or nobody!" And when her father started to s&y something to her about the pos sible need for a marriage for State reasons, she kissed him, hugged him and said: "You ought to be the hist one in the world to advance such a reason; you and mother who have been lov ers all your lives." Thp king was silenced. In 1596 the king, then Ttalian crown prince, was about to be betrothed to a German princess—for dynastic reasons. But young Victor Immanuel accidentally met the lovely Princess Elena, daughter of the king of the toy kingdom of Mon re negro, fell in love, braved his fattier and said it would be the mountain beauty or nobody. He had his way. The first child of the royal couple was the Princess Yolanda. * Nation Disappointed Italy gave voluble expression so grief and disappointment because the child was not a boy. Then came another sister. Mafalda, and finally the third child, a son. Umberto, the heir to the throne Since then two more girls have been horn to the royal family. It was only when Yolanda was eight that the public were allowed a glimpse into her existence Her father gave her the choice of three birthday gifts, a picnic m the country, or a holiday from all lessons. or a reception of poor chll dren in the royal gardens She chose the latter and 300 or

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eat' the grave of every American eoM!r abroad -very year. The fund will be obtained in the Cnitod States by personal and community subscription. Anyone can help ami no amount is too small. For the pa: t three years, decoration of tht> graves in France was in the hands of ill- Paris post of the American Legion. According to the most recent fig-

m . m mmm Mil V:,.; - PRINCESS YOLANDA | phans from the Messina and Gala i bria earthquake region were Invited , to be her guests Yolanda played games, picked flowers for tin- young- ! sters and gave wav all her toys I That night she told her parents ! she had a perfect day. As she grew up she became a i great pal of her father She shared

ures the graves of Americans are divided as follow.-,: 31,400 in France ami B'-lgiuim 4s R In England, 140 In Scotland, 40 in Ireland, and the body of one American sailor In Spain. Ooptnbutions already have come in. The first of the World War leaders to contribute was former President Woodrow Wilson. The lust legion pits' was Chief Paduke Post. Paducah Kv . closely followed by a post in Ivans is City, Kas.

MISSOURI PLANS PAID HIGHWAYS By Timea Special rA|T LOUIS. April 6.—Missouri is getting out of the mud. \ pve yc.tr $60,000,000 road building program just now getting well underway promises to do In that length of time what would have re fjifired seventy-six years under the old schedule of small expenditure and short mileage. Work of from $25,000,000 to $28.000,000 is already under contract. The State's effort to pull out of the mud is i heroic one In the past five years, it has averaged only ninetythree miles of hard surface roads com pleted each year At that rate, it would have taken until 1999 to do the work that will now be completed by Hu's under the new schedule. with him his Interest In coins; he has ore of the greatest numismatic collections In the world. As she loves outdoors sports, she often went out hunting and riding with him When the war broke out she insisted upon her right to ac company 1:1m on his visits to the front and once marly lost her life when an airplane bomb burst near her automobile. When the king turned most of Ids palaces into war hospitals Yolanda promptly took nursing les sons and then worked hard in car ing for the wounded Yolanda is fluent in English and French, a good musician and a painter She swings a skilled tennis racquet, pulls a strong oar. drives a motor cleverly and Is noted for her skill as ft horsewoman

DON’T KICK ABOUT ‘PBBII GRADE’ OF GASOUNEYOU GET Government Tests Show It Runs the Old Bus All • Right, TASHINGTON, April 6.—Don’t kick about the "poor grade" of gasoline that the filling stations are selling now: it will run your old bus just as well as the lighter gaso'lne they sold a few years hack, though it may he a little slower starting in cold weather. Exhaustive tests now being completed by the United States Bureau of Standards have failed to show that the changing quality of the gas sold during the past few years has materially affected motor efficiency. The reason for the heavier grade gasoline becomes apparent when one learns that modern refining squeezes 25 per cent more gasoline out of a barrel of crude oil than the method of a few years ago. Recently completed tests on brake lining efficiency the bureau says, will save the American motorist $lO,00(,,i)00 a year. Lined brake drums were geared to electric motors and tun under service conditions until they wore out, and the manufacturers v ere quietly notified of the lesults Tests of tires, in which a pebbled treadmill simulated road conditions and varying speeds and pressures were applied, revealed their weak points. It was found that poorly inflate,l tires require more power because they ' drag." and that cord tires require less power than fabric tires because their construction makes her. ing easier. Headlight tests revealed that "road courtesy" such as switching to dimmers when you approach another oar is dangerous because it darkens your path The best method is the use of non glare lenses and full lights. Possessions By BURTON BRA THY MUCH time and toil I've j?iven for The things that I have striven for Mr uar my Hot hen the iltt.f* - ash I own; I‘oMPHfttonH not imperial But solid and material. WTi-‘h *ivc to ;fu n certain duleet tone I like to have and them all And vet if f should lose them all. Still I could smile and watch rny wealth depart: Let worldly battel* stray from me. But. Fat**, don t take away from me Ti e little dreams deep hidden in my heart! OH poverty s no joke at all. I don’t lik* being broke at all. ! Urn very fond of comfort and of caa*-; I dread their : meat fearfully. Yet I i*on id bear it cheerfully And start juram to earn them by degree*; Life* pretty bleak and bare withal To one who laek* the wherewithal. I know, because Ive often made the test: But not a wail you'll oat* h from me If fortune doeen’t anateh from me The little dream* deep hidden in my breast ‘Copyright. 1923. NEA Service. Inc.)

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TOM SIMS SAYS: < ONLY a few weeks until all the baseball umpires should be Henry Ford plans a fishing trip. / f|y iflt :-. flitrrl jv Bet lie catches a million. I Nothing makes a woman madder \ than being married to a stingy man. \ When the Prince of Wales fell off . his horse he was the prince of wails. J^i King Tut garters are the latest. We don - t see where they put all of this Egyptian stuff. April comes in like a duck and goes out like a fish. This boost in sugar prices is taking candy from the baby. T hey say the ex-Ka;ser "s wife has left him. Another war he lost. • • • The school board will soon give way to the spring board. Bet the girl who danced twenty-seven hours without stopping felt like something she seldom sees—a dish rag. * * • Turks have decided to have only one wife. Americans haven’t. • • * A swallow flew from Wales to Africa, but rum runners bring us many swallows from Scotland. N • • * Jazz music is composed. People who hear it are not. • • This country needs alarm clocks you can set sixteen hours ahead of time. . . . Lieutenant Maitland flew 240 miles an hour. Darn near as fast as a dollar at a church social. • • • New 5 ork banker and $50,000 are both missing. Perhaps they went out to look at some spring suits.

French Poilu in Ruhr Kept Busy in Routine and Monotony

By SEA Service BOCHUM, Germany, April 6.—Although he has breakfast in bed every morning, the life of the French soldier in the Ruhr is not one of ease. Boycotted by the native population he is cut off from all the amenities of civil life. His time is entirely taken up by military duties with all Us routine and monotony. Yet the poilu does it smiling, making the best of it. To see just how he lives, I spent a day with Louis Derque, corporal of the First Gun Company of the 166th Regiment of Infantry. Awakened at 5 a. m. by the bugler, Louis had his breakfast—coffee, sardines and bread —in bed. A quick dressing, and he was ready for the day. He was on duty. In the French army that means twentyfour hours on and twenty-four off. His twenty-four hours of duty are divided Into periods of two hours' active

j duty and four hours in the guard i room. Dressed and fed. Louis acted as sentinel In front of headquarters for two hours. Back in the guard room, then he played cards with his companions. He ate his dinner, at the table, served by the soldiers in the kitchen. Back to active service, he was sent with a patrol through the streets. Free once more, he repaired a rent in his clothes. So it went. Night came. Two hours as sentinel; a few winks of sleep, snatched during his four off hours; morning again and Louis was free — I Free to sleep, to wash his clothes, I to walk about the streets. But not free to enter a shop to spend his few hard-earned francs. no*j to see a picture show, nor to in a mild flirtation with a passing fraulein. For Louis is one of the i hated French, an .abomination in Gerl man eyes.