Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1923 — Page 4

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TESTING "it /r*ARTHA LEE’S proposition that the bride-to-OUT THE \/■ be have her young man stay a week in her FLAWS I V 1 family circle, so that her folks can discover the flaws in him, is not new and it will not work hymenially in all cases, by a long shot. To illustrate, and the illustration will apply to the majority of engaged couples; and don't you forget it. girls: Tears ago, the writer, after much ice cream, dime museum tickets, gum and the use of father’s old mare and one-seated buggy, became the accepted young man of a Miss Polly Beck of Way-Back-East. The pre-nuptial success was accomplished without Miss Polly’s family knowing any more about it than could be avoided and the $2 gold ring on Polly’s finger prompted her parents to invite her young man to a week-end's sojourn in the family midst, for better acquaintance’s sake. He sojourned, flaws and all. The girl was all right. Domestically, she was a dream. She could make a pie to cause you to forget your mother. She was tidy. She could set forth fried salt pork, baked potatoes and milk gravy to make you wish for breakfast three times a day. She could make a three-foot thick feather bed look like the clouds the immortal gods roost on. She could wash an egg-cup with one hand while you held the other. She certainly superinduced a fierce yearning for immediate matrimony in that young man. Doubtless her family discovered the flaws in him, but the flaws her folks set before his eyes were just deadly crevasses and not to be endured. How did it come out? Oh. well, Polly married a horseshoer who licked old man Beck twice during the honeymoon, and maybe among her mementoes you’ll find this poetic gem, written by a young man in sorrow over wasted effort and despair over getting-close-acquainted tests: O Polly Beck! 0 Polly Beck 1 I’ve sparked you in every shape, by heck! • I’ve sparked you sittin’, standin', kneelin’ down. I’ve seen your folks, and jumped the town. CLICK ! ladies who type for a living will be inCLICK! Y forested to learn that the typewriter was CLICK! JL invented fifty years ago this month. The inventor was Christopher Latham Sholes, and he perfected his device in Ilion, N. Y. Like all other important inventions, the idea of a typewriting machine had been buzzing in inventors’ heads for untold generations. Probably even centuries. For laziness is back of most inventions, and the idea of a typewriter must have occurred thousands of years ago when the making of records was a slow and laborious task. As far back as 1714, Henry Miller patented a crude typewriter in England. The typewriter has brought many advantages, but with it have come disadvantages worth thinking about. The typewriter has certainly aided in the facility of expression and communication (ease and speed), hut it has also contributed to the multiplicity of unnecessary work by making expression and communication too easy. It has been a boon to the eyesight of those who otherwise would have had to scan penned letters. But it has destroyed the human and admirable art of letter writing, and frayed the nerves of multitudes. It helps promote business through direct advertising, but at the same time it aids the flow of worthless literature without end. All around, the typewriter forged one more link in the great chain of mechanical devices that enslave us. However, you can have the pen and ink, we’ll take the typewriter. WHEN A LETTER in feminine handwriting is delivered YOL’RE /\ to a New York merchant in his clothing £ jL. store. His wife, peeking over his shoulder, reads the start: ‘‘ My darling Julius. ” Trouble starts. When police stop the argument, father has been knocked down by the cash register hurled by his son. And pa. in rage, has rushed about his Eldridge street store with a big pair of tailor s scissors, ruining several hundred suits of eiothes by snipping holes in them. How do you act. by comparison, when you get mad? A person in rage reverts to childhood. Trouble usually is unnecessary and due to petty, inconsequential things. The wise man’s attitude is that no one is worth getting angry at.

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You caii an anfrer to any question of feet or information by writ mg’ U> the Indianapolis Times’ Washington bureau. 1322 New York Ave. t Wash ington. D. C.. pnciofinr 2 cents in stamps. Medical, and love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers. speeches, etc . be prepared. TTnslgned letters cannot be answered, but ail letters are confidential, and receive personal replies—KDlTOß. When did the second match between Dempsey and Brennan take place and how many rounds were fought? December, 1920. scheduled for 20 rounds, but Dempsey scored & knockout In the twelfth round. Does the noise coming from an internal combustion engine proceed from the exhaust, or what causes it? Does the muffler impair efficiency? Noise emnating from an internal combustion engine is of several klndß, and does not issue wholly from the exhaust. Some noise penetrates the walls of the clyinders, the valves may be heaj-d independently of the exhaust, the crankshaft produces a certain amount of friction and consequently noise. The muffler does not entirely eliminate noise from the exhaust: It does so only partially. The muffler impairs efficiency of engine operation because a certain amount of energy is consumed in muffling the explosion: any energy consumed in other ways than in direct effect upon the driving mechanism impairs speed. Only a comparatively small amount of total energy produced is actually transmitted into propulsion, the rest being absorbed In friction and in various ways. What is good food for baby chicks? For the first six weeks there is nothing better than good fresh milk. The following mixture is excellent: BqtlaJ p- -s of bran, meal; middlings, rolled oats and best qualify meat, waps, well mixed. Mix milk with his and feed it to the chicks four or five times a day until they are two weeks old. After that feed twice a lay. Aither food they need is good dek feed, such as cut com. e*UM

&ats, wheat or any of the commercial feed, if it is fresh. How can one tell whether or not an egg is fertile before putting it into the inrubatnr? There is no way. After an egg has been in the incubator from five to seven days, however, it is possible to distinguish the fertile from the infertile eggs. At that time, when held up to the light, the infertile eggs will be clear and more or less transparent, while the fertile eggs will have a small spot in the center, surrounded by a spidery web of blood vessels, showing the germ of the chick in the center. What city has the highest paid high school teachers? Newark, N. J. Salaries range from $2,100 to $3,800 a year. What is done with the com cobs at com canning factories? They are run through water, cut up. stored in silos, and later used for stock feed. What is the longest State in the Union? Texas; length, 800 miles. On what day of the week did June 6, 1880, come? Sunday. Wlen did the House of Representatives elect a Pnesident of the United States? Thomas Jefferson, 1801; and John Quincy Adams, 1826. In 1837 the Senate of the United States elected Richard M. Johnson Vice President. What is the forest area of the United States at present? Approximately 450.000,000 acres. What does “camahan" mean? Cornish for “valley ; rocks." Winch is the most beautiful harbor ill the world? The of opinion is Rio de JanferojpV

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SOUTH’S GREATEST MYSTERY IS BEFORE SUPREME COURT OF UNITED STATES

Laughs After Her Spouse Is Kidnaped r ' ' & Jd; % 1| . f7 2d Mrs. Olive Bright, of Macon. Ga., photographed after her husband, Lynnwood L. Bright, had been kidnaped and beaten. TURKS, RUHR AND RUSSIA KEEP IN PUBLIC SPOTLIGHT

Situation in Land of Moslems Badly Scrambled, Declares Writer, By CHARLES P. STEWART THE Turkes always have been clever at keeping others whom they fear divided anions them selves. They didn't succeed as well as usual at the last Near Eastern conference at Lausanne. However, they got the conference postponed, to gain time. Now It's about to reopen, they’ve got things scrambled thoroughly. Americans have been fixed with an oil land concession in Asiatio Turkey, to rival England's. The Bagdad Railroad questions been reopened. Germany, beaten in the war. Is out of it. but the 1 nited States has been brought in. Trade with Persia's at stake There’s talk of connecting Turkey and western China by rail. Besides her oil rights. England's been set to worrying over the safety of her back door Into India, from the north. France. with a Near Eastern foothold in Syria, doesn’t want to see the United States get a better foothold yet. Japan, close to China, on the east side, sees her trade endangered if another power builds a railroad in from the west. Russia s Interest in the whole disputed area Is enormous. So the next meeting's liable to be. not so much a conference between Turkey and the “powers.'’ as a squabble among the “powers” themselves. with the Turks bargaining, here and there, wherever the trading looks best, and maybe getting pretty much anything they want. • • • Hi-: iron, steel and coal magnat s | continue to discuss settlemenr of the Ruhr question. E. H. Gary's talk with Hugo Stinnes makes it look as if America were taking part—as between magnates, not as a governmental matter. Sir Allan Smith, the English captain of industry, wants an economic alliance Inoludlng his country, America, Germany and Russia. Other Britons who favor his plan say a combination like this would be too strong for France. They declare England wants to rehabilitate all Europe. They think America wants the some thing. They believe Germany wants it too, as a means of rehabilitating herself. In Sir Allan’s opinion, even the soviet rulers can see that general Improvement would be for Russia's good. But Sir Allan complains that France cares about rehabilitating nobody but herself. That’s why he leaves her out of his scheme.

RUSSIA, however, seems likely to get less recognition than some people favored according so her, because of the execution of Msgr. Butchkavitch. Roman Catholic vicar general there, on a charge of opposing the soviet government. The understanding was that Msgr. Butchkavitch. though condemned, would not actually be executed, but the Moscow- rulers appear to have lost their tempers over the storm of protest they received from other governments, and to have put him to death against their original intention, to show- they could do as they pleased, regardless of the rest of the world’s wishes. The result is that, many people In ether lands who had been in favor previously of giving them at least commercial recognition, have switched ever to the side of those who oppose any relations whatever with such, a regime. FATAL SHOT INVESTIGATED Harry La llue, 21, flies at City Hospital. Coroner Paul F. Robinson today began an investigation to determine whether Harry Da Rue. 21, of Bloomington. who roomed at 919 E. Nineteenth St., and who died at the city hospital Wednesday night, accidentally shot bimseif. Mr\ Charles Shelburn. at whose home iVg Ru<- roomed, told police she heard a xjiot April 4. and found La Rue in hi.k room with a bullet from : small iWllber revolver in his abdomen. \

Attorney, Freed Twice and Convicted Once, Charged With Heinous Crime. Atlanta, Ga., April 12. . Winding its way through the weirdest legal labyrinth on record in American courts, the mystery of the strange disappearance of the Nelms girls. Atlanta heiresses, has been appealed to the United States Supreme Court. That, is the status today of the South’s most puzzling mystery which for ten years has baffled the most astute of detectives and which has brought Vietor E. Innes three times before the bar of justice, twice to be convicted and once acquitted. The learned justices at Washington, far more accustomed to deal with dry-as dust cases with great corporations as litigants, soon will be asked to consider— WHETHER Innes slew Mrs. Kloise Nelms Dennis and her sister Beatrice Nelms, ground their bodies to bits in a meat-chopper, boiled the mass in a potash-tilled caldron and then disposed of the residue. WHETHER the Federal Court at Atlanta did right in admitting evidence of this alleged murder in an effort to convict Innes of a Federal charge of using the mails to defraud Mrs. Dennis. WHETHER the conviction of Innes on that charge in the Atlanta court and his sentence of five years in the penitentiary, just reached after a spectacular trial, shall stand or be annulled. Atlanta Excited Meanwhile Atlanta 1s settling down after the excitement attending the revelations at the trial of Innes, former United States distriot attorney in Nevada. More than 100 witnesses were summoned —from D toit. Portland, Ore.. Los Angeles and San Antonio. Texas. Here is the. strange story the prosecution brought forth: Mrs. Dennis, in 1912, went to Nevada to secure a divorce from her husband. There she met Tnnes, a brilliant lawyer. handsome. of charming personality. He took charge of her case. And when Mrs. Dennis, freed from marital bonds, returned to Atlanta, it was only natural she entered into a correspondence with her attorney friend.

Innes Visits Her Innes then came to Atlanta. The prosecution Introduced evidence tending to show Innes visited the palatial Nelms home at Smyrna, seven milee from here, and stole several documents, including letters he had written to Mrs. Dennis. When Innes left Atlanta, Mrs. Dennis Is said to have accompanied him. At Memphis Miss Beatrice Nelms, sister of Mrs. Dennis, Joined them. AH went to San Antonio. There Innes and his wife rented a house. Mrs. Dennis and her sister Her Ten Children Reared, Woman, 83, Takes Up Farming MRS. ANN ELIZABETH RODGERS By NEA Service Roles ville, n. c.. April, 12. —After you’ve reared ten children. you’ve just started on ; your career. Don’t lose your interest in life at. the age of 83 and sit down in the ! corner by the fireplace to doze and knit. Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Rodgers didn't. And she’s a mother of ten. and S3 years old. She’s gone in for firming. And last season on her land near here, unaided, she raisedA bale of cotton, fifty bushels of potatoes, six barrels of com, more than 800 pounds of meat and land know-s how- many eggs or how much butter and milk. She did all the work herself, save the plow’dAg. ’"Why. I ctfjildn't sit. still and hold my hands,® she says.

TOP TO BOTTOM: BEATRICE NELMS, VICTOR E. INNES AND MRS. ELOISE NELMS DENNIS.

several times were seen about the premises. Meanwhile, evidence shows Innes bought a meat-chopper, caldron and caustics. Suddenly the Nelms girls disap pea red. They never since have been seen. Irate* Seized A few weeks later Innes and Mrs. Innes went to Portland, Ore. There Innes was seized, brought back to San Antonio and tried for murder. He was acquitted. But Innes was brought back to Georgia, tried on a charge of larceny and convicted. It was shown he misappropriated funds entrusted to him by Mrs. Dennis. He was sentenced to seven years' hard labor. The prosecution at that trial tried to introduce evidence bearing on the alleged murder, but it was ruled out

as Irrelevant. Barely had Innes completed his prison term than he was again brought here for the trial —this time on a Federal charge of having used the mails to defraud. “Murder” Evidence Up Again the prosecution sought to introduce the “murder” evidence—and this time It was successful. The caldron and meat-chopper bought by Innes were actually brought into the courtroom. A jury in the Atlanta court found him guilty of fraud, through the mafia, after having heard the “murder” theory. What will be the action of the Supreme Court? CLOGGED PIPES KILL FISH Millions Die When Cutter Is Forced to Discontinue Water Supply. WASHINGTON, April 12.—Unnurohered millions of fish were lost through the forced withdrawals recently of the coast guard cutter Aoushnet from Woods Hole. Mass. Cold weather having clogged the supply pities of the Government fish hatohery with ice. the cutter agreed to furnish water from the ship’s pumps to keep the multitude of eggs and small “fry” alive. While the rescue work was under way, with every evidence of success, a call came from a vessel in distress, and Acushnet was forced to cut loose its pipes and leave the harbor. The mortality among the finny orphans was practically unanimous.

Gompers Prepares for Fight With Capital on ‘Open Shop’

By Timet Special WASHINGTON, Samuel Hampers, ' veteran president of Jhe American Federation of Labor, is preparing for fight with capitalists and politicians. Gompers will make the “open shop” Issue his main line of defense, he says. He has already dared the “master j minds” of the Harding Administration to attempt to make the "open shop" | a political issue. In a vigorous chal j lenge to Republican politicians, he j threatens the full influence of organ ized labor against G. O. P. candidates if they espouse the "open shop" clause. Chambers of Commerce and business men organizations advocating the “open shop” and especially the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, whose labor committee advocates a boycott on building as a last resort to break down the so-called “closed shop” in trade unionism, are being watched i closely by Gompers. “The union shop which prevails.” he says, “it. not the closed union shop. Enemies of organized labor arc using the worst possible construction upon what they call the union shop, as if it were a closed union shop, when, as a matter of fact, any competent and intelligent worker is entitled to become a member.

LAW BRAGS MAN FROM DEATHBED OF BABY TO CELL Father Love Brings Accused Slayer to Shadow of Gallows. By ROY GIBBONS XHA Staff CerrrgponAent C"N HICAGO, April 12. —Father love proved too strong. Ralph Gallucci couldn't overcome it. That’s why he’s in jail here facing possible death on the scaffold. A baby’s cry, the fast fading light in the dying eyes of his first-born —a 2-year-old son whom he hod never seen before —surrendered him to the law which for more than five years had unsuccessfully hunted him all ovor the world. An Irresistible desire to see the child and press its limp hands to his breast just once before the baby died, brought Gallucci out of his hiding place in Canada to his son's bedside in a hospital here. As the man knelt by the sick cot and begged forgiveness from his wife, whom he had deserted in Canada, a squad of detectives closed In on the death chamber and Gallucci was taken to a cell. Ho must stand trial for shooting down his cousin, Genoro Ariano, Mrs. Gallucci’s suitor before her marriage. Gallucci came back to Chicago in response to a telegram sent by his wife, who in some manner had obtained his secret address in Canada. He stoutly protests his innocence. “The jury will acquit me," he says. “I am not a murderer. That will be shown at the trial." The five years he spent playing a tragic garrm of Mdeand-seek with international police dragnets constitute a memory of constant terror, he relates. “I ran from town to town." he says. “At every shadow T started in fear. Glad It’s Over “Just one step behind me, I imagined were police. Now I'm glad it’s over. “And. com" what may. nothing matters. I have seen my baby. Oh. my poor little bambino. What a fool I have been! "Tell me. is he dead? Please don’t say yes. "Ah! He is getting a little better. It is good. I pray he won’t die. God. have mercy' Bpare my poor little bambino!" But the bambino probably will die. doctors say. Double pnuemonia has set in. The father returned just in time, they think. If Gallucci is guilty the tiny tot will have proved its father's nemesis.

‘Atmosphere of Geneva’ Is New Phrase Heard About Europe

By HERBERT QUICK TRAVELERS In Europe who talk with public men are hearing all the time anew phrase. The new phrase is “the atmosphere of Geneva." The Geneva meant is the city in Switzerland, where the League i>f Nations meets. The atmosphere referred to is noi the mountain air of Switzerland, but the moral atmosphere with which the league goes about Its work. Lot me Illustrate. The A&land Islands are twenty-five miles from Sweden and fifteen from Finland. Most of the population are Swedes. The islands have always belonged to Finland, and have been contented. But when the new deal came with the Independence of Finland, the Islanders, many of them, wanted to join Sweden. Finland refused, arrested two islanders, and sent In troops to put down the revolt. Sweden boiled. War loomed as h certainty between Sweden and Kin land. The quarrel went to the League of Nations. Both parties found the atmosphere of Geneva one of calmness and justice. Finally the matter was settled by awarding the islands to Finland, but getting Finland to agree to give them certain changes in the laws which they desired. The wnr was averted. Sweden and Finland are friends. Tsn’t this a wonderful thing? Poland and Germany were at each

"We hold it as a principle of law and morals that those who participate in the advantages of an enterprise are morally bound to bear a part of the expenses and responsibility of such a movement. This is the union shop, and not the closed union shop as Chambers of Commerce contend.” In Memoriam By BERTON BRAT.EY JfJENK S dead, I, shall uot stt with him U beside the glowing: fire. And argue over all the things wo used to fight about: The Bolshevists in Russia, or the foreign trade of Tyro. The causeof socialism, or the simplest cure for gout; We disagreed so joyously, we battled with such vim On every subject In the world, each topic that arose: He never changed my Slews a bit, nor could I alter him. And who was right and who was wrong —well, now perhaps, he kuowst JfJENB’S dead, the stubborn, whtmstoal, 11 undlslllustornd soul Whose hair was grizzled with the years, but who. at heart, in truth Kept all a youngster's gaiety. The seasons took no toll Os that perennial eagerness which, is the tost, us youth. T il miss the glint of humor and of battle in his eyes But maybe I shall see him when I leave this “vale ot tears. And I shall find him arguing up there in paradise | With Plato and with Socrates anr others of his peers! \ tCoprrfvht. 1023. NEA Service. Inc.)

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TOM SIMS SAYS: APRIL has five days on which to he late at Sunday school. Seattle wife who shot hub- /sr by claims she didn’t aim to do it. / Since a legislator wants cheek to I S||pjp •tkJA • Jl® cheek dancing stopped, they should serve \ onions for refreshments. \ Perhaps time.really is money. Anyway, it is all some men spend. L ji/td. Even if women tu> have more sense than men you never see a man button his shirt up the back. Two miles of wire can be drawn from an ounce of gold, narrowing things down to a fine point. • * * A pianist’s fingers move about 2.000 time a minute, while his neighbors move about once a week. Handkerchiefs were first manufactured in Scotland in 1743, much to the relief of sleeves. ** • I The sturgeon lays about 7,000,000 eggs. Go out in the yard and read it to the hens. • * Opals are soft when taken from the ground by men. but hard when taken from the men by women. • * • If you want to know how hot it is going to be this summer go out in the kitchen and sit on the stove. • * * First cannon was made in Scotland in 1554, and it is about time the last cannon was made. • * • Tenpins were invented in the fourteenth century, but the safety pin was not among the first ten. • • • A golf hall leaves the club head at about 135 miles an hour, which is about as fast as a golfer leaves the office. • • • Some Yellowstone geysers spout 300 feet and this is very nice of the old geysers. •> 0 • The word “boss” eomes from Anglo-Saxon. The boss, however. comes from nowhere when you loaf. • * • Scientist spent fifty-two years collecting fourteen butterflies. Wish we had him collecting our rent. Actress says most beautifu 1 things on earth are legs. She should not believe what all men tell her.

South America in Sympathy With Harding’s World Court Idea

Thw author of tht* lolloum; article is Latln-Anierioan noun editor of the United Press, and a close student of South American affairs BY HARRY W. FRANTZ IF not the League of Nations, then at least let's have the World Court, say many of our friends in South America. No step at Washington since the World War has been more in accord with the sympathies and policies of the majority of South American republics than the initiative taken by President Harding in favor of L T nited States entrance into the International Court of Justice.

others throats about Upper Silesia. An election there to decide where Upper Silesia was to go resulted in such a mix-up result that t seemed no decision at all. The League of Nations was given the task of settling ii. The matter was turned over —to whom do you suppose ?—representatives of Spain. Belgium, China and Brazil! Today Upper Silesia ts busy, peaceful and prosperous. The league also pacified the Saar basin, where French and German interests clashed because the status of the basin is not settled; and Vilna. over which both the Poles and the Lithuanians were ready to fight. The “atmosphere of Geneva” is the atmosphere of the League of Nations in wbich Internationa! problems lead ing toward war are treated by experts in Die interests of peace and justice.

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Directly and indirectly the Southern republics shared with the United Staten the burdens of the war. and ti >y shared also the idealism which a tost found its expression in the establishment of effective instruments for international cooperation . Following the apparent intention of the United States the Southern republics entered the League of Nations. The drift of affairs during and after the treaty tight in the Senate caused a period of disillusionment in which the policies and aims of the United States have been subject to the closest scrutiny of Latin students and publicists. Will the Big Stick of Uncle Sam hang forever over our heads? Is the word of the White House to be the law of a hemisphere? There and similar questions were covertly asked. One distinguished writer of Argentine has even advocated a balance of power against the United States in the southern continent- . Entrance into the International Four! of Justice would immediately counteract the suspicion of United States imperialism, and thereby restore confidence and sympathy with the Monroe doctrine. Moreover, it would accord with the traditional sympathy and support of the greater Latin republics for world law. It is significant that in reporting to Pan-American conference at Santiago on a proposed code of International law for the American republics, th© distinguished Chilean jurist, Alejandro Alvarez, suggested * that the entire world should be invited to accept the code. He opposed juridical isolation of the American States.