Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1923 — Page 4

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VHAT Y -v ERBON T IS who persist in attempting to set next for new endurance records for dancing should I NOTORIETY? have themselves psychoanalyzed according to the latest methods- of diagnosis. Their uiment probably would be pronounced a notoriety complex. The craze —and that is a good, if, perhaps, not sufficiently •trong, word for it—has been spreading so rapidly recently that ‘long distance” dancing seems to be going on somewhere con- j inuouslv. The performers like to see their names in print and ;he public likes to read about them and marvel about how foolish j some people can become. It would seem that every one should therefore be satisfied, out now comes Chief of Police Kikhotf' and says he will have none j of it in Indianapolis. Thereby he takes away another of our per-! sonal liberties. The sheiks and flappers will have to tind some ■ other way in which to call the attention of the public to their , existence. What will it be next? SHE WILL /|-ISS PEARL PUGSLEY'S nose has not been HAVE j%/| vindicated. But Arkansas returns to a state \ WAY iVI of peace, temporarily. Arkansas school girls simply astonished folks by taking to painting and powdering tlieir faces and using lipsticks. School boards issued a prohibitory edict, and Arkansas, educationally j and socially, was split from collar button to shoe strings. On one side stood a solid phalanx of gents, old and young, who de-! manded that girls appear in the raw only, facially speaking; on the other side were arrayed all women holding that a female could and would wear her face as she blamed pleased. Finally, Miss Pearl Pugsley of Knobel defiantly adorned her, nose and flubbed it, metaphorically speaking only, under the noses j of her high school directors. The latter scorned her nose and ex- j polled her. Fierceness broke out and raged everywhere. A case j was brought against that high school board. The last deathbed request of Miss Pearl’s father was that the rebuke to the scorn j of the Pugsley nose be pushed in the courts. And now the Arkansas Supreme Court decides for the school board, and there’s peace in Arkansas. Temporary peace, gents, temporary! The quiet that falls upon the mob just before it cuts loose. That old poet knew his business when he wrote, “Like a woman scorned.” “Hell hath no fury And there are women a-plenty in Arkansas. t PROMPT TpXDIANAPOLIS has only one umbulance and CARE FOR I the board of health making any move] INJURED to buy any more because money is scarce. Meanwhile, there is always the possibility of an accident injuring many persons nr of a number of accidents occurring simultaneously. In either ease injured persons would be compelled to await their turn, unless the services of a private ambulance could be obtained in time. It is almost unbelievable that such a condition could exist in a modern progressive community. • If the city is so poor it can’t maintain sufficient ambulances to meet emergencies, perhaps some public-spirited citizen would make it a gift of an ambulance Perhaps some way could be found to divert a few thousand dollars from less needed projects. The situation would be ridiculous if it were not tragic. ETIQt FT "T'Tr THAT is wrong in this picture*” ask the adALL THE %/\ / vertisements. Then they go on to say how WHILE ff they will guarantee to make of 1 you a “perfect "entleman” (or lady . if yAu will only sign the coupon below We have examined many etiquette books in our time and many ot them have been good ones, but we have chucked every one of them aside, with the feeling that after all they were of no help to us in our particular problems. For example, no mnual of behavior tells you what to say when the hostess says the pie is no good—and you agree with her What book gives you any advice about your conduct when an introduction is imminent and you can’t for the life of you remember your intimate friend’s last name? Mhere is there any help on treatment for the man who calls the waiter, “George,” or for a determinedly generous party of women insisting to be allowed to pay the street ear fares? Is an argument absolutely “good form?” M*hat is the correct and most effective retort to make to a taxicab driver who has just missed killing you? Similarly, what is the accepted form to use when yemr telephone bell rings, you answer, and central says, “Number please?” Nobody has ever written up any hits for subtle forms of revenge on the auto load of guests which descends upon you just at dinner time, and then overwhelms you with cries of “Oh. can’t f help you—ya-ya-va va-ya !” It would seem, that after all. etiquette may he at times a mat ter of pure genius and inspiration.

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| fired the third time. The heat china | is usually tired three times. What is a moron? A feeble-minded person, with more j Intelligence than an imbecile. The | word has lately come Into use as j applying to persons of low mental development. 'Vital is meant by the term •‘Aid-slacking of lime? Rime, when exposed to the air, attracts moisture and falls into powder with greater or less rapidity according to humidity of the atmosphere and the quality of the lime. Domestically Speaking By BERTON BRAT.EY NO doubt the centipede at home la gentle, generous and kind, < But centipedes abroad will roam And when they do. I'm not inclined To pat one gently on the head 1 And if I did it. I'd be dead. THE cobra in hi dominie. Away from worriment and strife, May greet his children with a smile And show affection to his wife. But in h. public life [ m prone To leave the cobra unit,- atone FOR 'erla.ii mm .e and buccaneers Apologisis will n this plea— He s not as bad as he appeai-s He Jso good to his family! The • ®>ra and the centipede 31 cjyiead the aame. but who would tCoprriffht 1 N’E.V Service. Ine.)

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LABOR SHORTAGE IS NEARING CRISIS IN ALL INDUSTRIES Skilled and Unskilled Workers Wanted Throughout Nation, , 7?j/ l imes Special T ASHINOTON. April IT.—On \\f the heels of the nationwide ™ business revival the United States is confronted with a shortage of labor which may retard industrial expansion. Telegraphic reports to the United States Department of I,abor on employment conditions during March show that In most industrial centers there is a shortage of skilled and unskilled labor, while from the "West and the Middle West comes reports of scarcity of farm labor just as farmers are getting well underway with spring planting. Present indications, the Government forecasts, are that the farm labor scarcity "will reach serious proportions in the larger agricultural sections in ft short time.” New England cotton mills are working overtime “with a shortage of skilled workers noted." , In New York there is a shortage of workers and sources of labor supply are becoming exhausted. In Pennsylvania "further extension in operations Is being impeded by the j growing scarcity of labor. Locomotive plants are working to capacity.” The shortage exists In Illinois and Indiana. The northwest joins in the labor shortage chorps. Tn the South, unemployment is decreasing rapidly, while in Rocky Mountain and Pacific i ’oast districts industries are rapidly absorbing all surplus labor. PUBLIC DEBT IN INDIANAPOLIS IS HELD TO MINIUM City Paying as She Goes on Public Improvements! Census indicates, By JOHN ARSON Tlmoß Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 17.—'The | story of high taxes in Indianapolis as i compared with other cities tnay be ! found In the public debt Indiana noils mav lie payee as she i goes to a greater extent than com parative el ties. The net debt in Indianapolis at the close of 1921. according to the Census ! Bureau, was loss than In comparative j cities. The Interest burden in Indianapolis was less in 1921 than in any of the comparative cities. True it is that Indianapolis has gone in less for municipal utilities than other cities for instance. Indianapolis ,is about the only city that does noi own its water company Investments j in such utilities may have increased ! debts in other cities The net debt in Indianapolis for J 1921 is given as $14,833,029. making a j per capita debt of $46.82. Tho Cln ! cinnatJ debt is 176,400.141; New Orleans. $42,680,738; Minneapolis. $28,- ! 608,662: Seattle. $57,605,537.

PRISONER ENJOYS WOE SENTENCE | Shopman Home After 'Serving Time’ in Easy Chair, James L. Snyder of Logansport was back home today after serving one of the most enjoyable sentences over imposed in Federal Court here. He was sentence 1 to remain four hours in custody of the United States marshal Monday by Judge Francis E. i Baker of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Baker held Snyder had violated an injunction issued last August forbidding interference with the operation of the I’., 0., C. & St. R. Railroad shops at Rogansport. The injunction was issued during the shopmens' strike. Snyder spent, the four hours snoozing yea> ofully in a comfortable chair in the marshal’s office. Cases against six other defendants were dlmsissed or continued. They were Vincent Cotton and Flmer R. Spaulding, dismissed; Michael Harrington. I.loyd W. Carson, Hiram J. M;>ng-r ai; l Audi- w A. Clements, continued. Parole Violafinn ( harged Paul Strieker, 21, of 467 N. State Ave., was arrested today on a warrant charging him with influencing a ward of the Indiana Girls’ School to violate her parole. Minerva Spurlock, an officer of th<> Indiana Girls’ School, swore out the warrant. Prowler Calls Tw ice \ prowler who made two visits to the Home of Mrs. Minnie .lines. 49 S. Addison Ave., during the night, attempted to open the door. Mrs. Jines telephoned for police. The emergency squad failed t<\ find the prowler. V

CHICAGO WORKERS BOW TO ‘LABOR QUEEN’ WHO ‘CARRIES ON’ FOR SPOUSE Mrs, Tim Murphy Rules Headquarters While Husband Is Serving Term in Federal Prison at Leavenworth,

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Tty ROY RIBBONS \ t.'A Staff Correspondent HICAGO, April 17. -A queen in her own tight is Mrs. Florence V. Murphy here. Monarch of al! she surveys, 'tin with match ins* smile and an iron hand she rules her 5.000 subjects. They re all men—members of the gas workers', the bootblacks' and the street sweepers' unions. Down to the very lust each member obeys h“r commands In snappy double time precision.

Five Minute Trip Round World

Only 136 Japs have died as the result of automobile accidents In the last three years. Total number of accidents, 2.000. Total number of cars. 11,759. French Incomes Small But 676 Frenchmen have annual In comes of more than 600,000 francs ($38,0001. 49.972 have more than 40,000 francs ($3,000); 72,100 have between 20,000 francs <51,300) and 40.000 francs Over" four hundred thousand take in between 6.000 francs is4oo) and 20,000 francs. Judy O’firadjr Bettei living condition? are being enjoyed by the peasants of southeastern Europe They arc ••,ting bread for the first time in years, and meat, a former Hunday luxury The peasant’s wife Is demanding t<> be better clothed, even buying satins that she calls "the cloth that goes swish swish. Modernized City Walls Twenty eight mile? of automobile highway are now where the city wall of Canton. China, used to be Where There Is No Money Banks In Albania are like water in the desert —there are none. Furthermore, there Is no currency The 1m port merchants have to journey to foreign centers of supply, carrying with them gold for tho payment of the goods. Where American Has Is < heap American and Mexican oil undercuts the domestic product In Japan. Operators In Japan complain of high wages and other expenses. The drilling of one well costs them at least $50,000. lAvigtie of Nations Goff Anew golf club will shortly be opened in Geneva. Sporting goods dealers will be interested. There are twelve golf clubs in Kwltzrland. SAY TO PRESENT ANTI-MASK DILL

Measure Will Come Before Council Second Time. A second proposed ordinance to prohibit the wearing of masks in publiff places at any time except on Halloween, ia prepared and will be introduced before the city council at a special session tonight. Councilman Otto Ray said today. The measure was expected to bo introduced at the regular meeting Monday night, but no action was taken, as the meeting was called to order and adjourned immediately. Ray's bill proposes a line of SSOO and thirty days' imprisonment, ogboth A similar measure was introduced some time ago hy Ray, but no action was taken by council. Two measures affecting the manufacture and sale of concrete blocks aro expected to be introduced tonight. One proposes a license fee of $lO a year for the sale of blocks. The other sets out manufacturing specifications. (sir!, 14, Takes Poison Despondent because her mother and father were separated Miss Ida Marcum, 14, of 14£ Detroit St., drank a mild poison MDnday, police said today. Her condition i not serious.

"Queen Murph." as she Is Jokingly called, came into the ’throne” by right of lawful succession a month ago. This was when her husband, the famous "Rig Tim" Murphy, was sen fenced to four years at Leavenworth, after having been found guilty of participation in the $500,000 Dearborn Street Statioi m til robbery. Murphy was known a.s Chicago's labor czar He held allegiance by the might of his lists and a well stocked “back o' the yards” vocabulary of Investlves. When the Federal chaperons ap peared and announced tho jig was up. "Big Tim" kissed Mrs. Murphy goodby and laughingly charged her to “carry on, Flo " And that's what she's been doing since, meeting with success that proclaims itself All her subjects swear by iin and there's not a man among the lot who wouldn’t risk his neck and the nocks of all his friends, too. should "Queer. Murphy" demand such a sacrifice. By a mere tilt of her eyebrows she could make Chicago trudge with un shined boots. And here Is tho powor also to in t erf ere with sh- city's gastronmic f fairs for the cts workers are !he chaps who make the fuel which causes the range to burn the steak, and without them no steaks could be cooked.

Strike of British Farm-Hands Imperils London Food Supply

B.\ MIRTON BROWNER NEA Service Staff *'<• respondent. iOXIK X. April 17.- With their backs against the wall, agri cultural laborers of England are lighting strenuously a reduction of six cents per week in their wages and an increase of four hours in their working week. Ten thousand men either have struck or have been locked out in the premier Englbdi farming county of Morfoik 1 . out m Suffolk ami the -roiibi< threatens t<- spread throughout tiie country. From the standpoint of wages and hours the English farm hand has been at the bottom of the economic, scale, although upon his work often depended the very bread and meat and milk that Englishmen use. Only during the war was their lot irn proved when government wage boards were organized and their wages doubled. But these boards were done away with after the war and matters of wages and hours were left to agreements between the farmers and their men. The’ result is there are agree rnents in only thirteen out of Bixtyfive farming districts. In Norfolk the men had been getting six pence an hour and have been working a fifty hour week, making about $6.26 per week. When the farmers offered them 6*4 pence an hour for a fifty four-hour week thousands struck. Other thousands Were locked out. Farmers and their town kinfolk have been frying to feed tho cattle and perform the other imperious farm chores during the dispute. It Is not believed the fight can last long because the men have no resources to fall back upon. A deputation of members of tho farmers’ unions and the workers' unions sought government assistance from Prime Minister Bonar Raw R. B. Walker, secretary of the Agricultural Laborers Union, point eil out that the status of the work ors, compared with cost of things, was lower than before tho war There were counties where the men got ten cents an hour.

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GERMANY READY TB FIGHT FRANCE, BUT NOT WORLD Teutons Deterred by Fear of Intervention by U, S. and Britain, By WTLLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Special Cable to NEA Service and Indianapolis Times C-X OLOCNE, April 17.—“ Germany would fight France right now •'* if she could obtain assurances from t.he United States and Great Britain that they would not intervene." An American of high standing in Germany, a man closely acquainted with leading Germans al! over the country, who knows the people and the language au well or better than he knows his own, made this statement to me while on his way through this city. "Before the Ruhr occupation,” he said, “Germany was split up into all sorts of factions fighting among themselves. The Ruhr has brought them together to a man. "Junkers and Syndicalists, imperialists. pan-Germans, Socialists and Republicans—all hate the French today with a personal bitterness not apparent even during the crucial days of the war.

Hatred Rolls Cp

"As the French stay on: as incident follows Incident in the Ruhr, and as tnies of riding whips used by the French on German civilians go the rounds--true or false makes not the slightest difference —this hatred goes on rolling up. "Experts say the Germans could not possibly make war against the French The latter have all the machinery and the Germans none. "Rut experts also said prior to 1914 that a genera’ European war could not happen because the principal na tions were already hard pressed for money. Experts’ Opinions "When the war broke out regard less, these same experts said it couid not last a year because all concerned would go bankrupt Yet the war lasted over four years “I am not expecting war between France and Germany. But let us not forget in tint* connection the human equation—superheated anger and desperation, the feeling that anything would be better than the way things are. "And then there is the rest of Europe Germany might find allies among other desperate nations. In any event Germany might start something she could not finish, but v hi, 1, might nevertheless kindle this half of the world.”

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R. B. WALKER. SECRETARY OF THE AGRICULTURAL LABORERS UNION.

SEARCH FOR WIDOW Friends Rook for Mrs. I ,ena Roberts in Indianapolis. Efforts made locally to find Mrs. Leiin Roberts, wife of Hiram J. Rob erts. who was Killed in a fight March 12 at Danville, lit,, have proved unavailing according to Mrs. Irene Mitchell, a friend of tho Roberts family and a witness of the fight. Danville papers, at the time of Roberts' death, said his wife lived in Indianapolis. Mrs. Mitchell, who has been in In dianapolis several days, said police cannot find Mrs. Roberts. Mrs. Mitchell said Roberts' brother was killed In Indianapolis several years ago. Junk Ordinance Questioned An Injunction suit to test Ihe validity of a city ordinance requiring the licensing of city junk dealers was filed in Superior Court, room 5, by 1 ouis .1 Borinstein, 4137 N. Meridian St His attorney maintains it is invalid b -cause all wholesale dealers are not included.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: ABRIL has thirty April Fool days, for the weather man. A cynic thinks people /V W yak should be abolished. / Where ignorance is bliss it is folly. I ißjPp ’yl* §§ The almighty dollars are all mighty What is so rare as a dav in swim- ' tm*** Lie down with flogs anti you will get up without much sleep. Every night is too long to stay out all of it. One uplift movement everybody favors is uplifting chins. * * * A golden wedding is when a couple has gone fifty-fifty. People breathe from fourteen to seventeen times a minute, but not the minute after finding a quarter. •• * f Insomnia seems to be what alley eats have. • • • It is all right to call a girl a chicken, but it doesn’t help. • * • A hypocrite is a man who uses gasoline for perfume to make people think he has an auto. • • • A woman is a person who knows what her postscript will be before she starts writing a letter. • • * A pleasant surprise is when you get a telephone number. * It is unlawful to mistreat all dumb brutes except husbands. t • * A man has a right to get mad if he is dunned for a bill, because he may have to pay the thing. They are asking us to send our old clothes to Europe, but many of us would get sunburned. • • * Some of these Egyptian dresses look good enough to eat, just like a big stick of candy. • • • Suppose you were an enemy of the Ohio lady who talked ten whole days without stopping? • • • “Beauty Hints” —headline. It certainly does.

Obregon Says Mexico Will Live Without Recognition

BY HERBERT QUICK I PRESIDENT OBREGON has published in this country a signed article to refute the falsehoods ■which have been officially spread abroad through the United States about Mexico. Our Vice President had spoken of Mexico as "a benighted second Russia.” Obregon says "there is no Bolshevism in Mexico." The American press, he says, has said that the Mexican administration "promises too much for the masses.” "This is a lie." says he And. he urges, it does not lie in the mouths of a nation, like the United States. Great Britain. France, and the rest of the victors in the World War, who said they were fighting a war to end v ,r; who were making the world safe for democracy: who were to safeguard the interests of the returning soldiers- who were going to establish the principle of self-determination of nations —and then gave the world the Versailles Treaty—to say much about broken

After Every Meal 9 * m What we have 0* jrgi eaten and how it is “agreeing with us* ma^es the ditierence in the In work or play, WRIGLEY*S yP gives the poise and steadiness Hi that mean success. ip It not only helps n J but allays thirst, keeping the Wf mouth cool and moist, the 8 throat muscles relaxed and S pliant and the nerves at ease* J|f WRIGLEY’S Is the best that \ | can be made and comes to you Mj wax-wrapped - m and sealed to

promises. He thinks he has us there! His administration in Mexico, he says, promises nothing 1 but fulfilling for the masses the promises of the constitution of Mexico. All the Spanish American countries have fine, democratic, advanced constitutions; but Mexico under Diaz Is an instance of the manner in which those demo <-r ■ 11 i<- institutions have everywhere, Been perverted in agencies for the en \ slavemem of the masses. Obregon proposes to make good on democracy. Americans who are not looking for special Interests in Mexico say that the country is now not only prospering. but is stable politically. Obregon says that they "can live and prosper" without recognition, though they would like to have it. Our failure to itive them re,-ignition is a source, not onl> >, r discredit, but of loss to us. Thev can stand it better than we can. Far better for them to go without it than to have it at the 1 hands of Diaz.