Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1923 — Page 4

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WHAT w VERY one admits that average intelligence is PEOPLE id very low. (Os course, no one admits belongREAD 1 J ing to the average.) But in panning our-' selves collectively, we seem to have been barking tip the wrong tree. For the intelligence of the average American is far higher than any of us have dreamed, according to sales of the “10-cent pocket classics’’ published by E. Halde-man-Julius, in Girard, Kas. You’ve seen his ads. Probably you’ve bought his books. For in less than three years he has sold 31,000,000 books. And his sales have mounted steadily until now they exceed 6,000,000 copies a month. This will surprise publishers who have believed that the public will not buy anything except mental junk, in big quantities. We wrote Haldeman-Julius and asked him which books have the biggest sales. We imagined the honor would go to his edition of De Maupassant. Or, surely, if not that, to his Balzac series. Or. maybe, his Oscar Wilde titles. A fourth bet was his Sherlock Holmes yarns. His list of books includes many other works of fiction of similar nature. Here’s his answer: “You ask which of our books has had the widest sale. ‘The Trial and Death of Socrates’ leads everything by far. We sold 175,000 copies of. this book during 1922. The second best seller is ‘Psycho-Analysis—the Key to Human Behavior.’ by Dr. 'William Fielding. The third best seller is Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet.’ Fourth, ‘Life of Abraham Lincoln.’ Fifth. ‘Collection of De Maupassant’s Stories.’ Sixth, ‘Lost Civilizations,’ by Charles J. Finger. Seventh, collection of ‘Balzac’s Stories.’ Eighth, Mark Twain’s ‘Jumping Frog.’ Ninth, ‘A Short History of Evolution.’ Tenth, ‘A Guide to Plato,’ by Dr. William Durant. We have now 350 titles and will soon have 500.” When a publisher can market 6,000,000 copies a month of “highbrow” stuff like these titles, it indicates that American intelligence is nothing to be ashamed of. GARAGE -ft /J-ORE passenger autos and trucks were manu1N YOLR l\/I factured in March than in any month of the ATTIC X.V.A. past. Total was 346.383 cars, or at a rate of over 4.000,000 a year. We’re on wheels, weakeaing our legs and getting round-shouldered. Good news for doctors. You wonder where the growth of the auto industry will stop. It all depends on how fast the inventors perfect a fool-proof airplane that can be sold cheaply. Important development in Dayton, where anew helicopter rises twenty feet in the air. Helicopters, rising straight up and descending straight down, do away with the need of a long landing field. They’re the coming “thing”: will be kept in garages with the door in the roof. SAY IT A LBERT D. LASKER, super-salesman of the WITH / \ Harding Administration, has now taken it LASKER jL X. upon himself to sell President Harding to the voters. Attorney General Daugherty reads the prologue—then Lasker takes charge. Immediately the stories waft out of Florida and we get this colorful staging: “President Harding walks so rapidly when he plays golf his partners cannot keep up. He talks little. He punishes the little golf ball with great vigor.” “President Harding drags out the big stick, he talks in fighting phrases, his jaw sticks out —and suddenly it becomes a big jaw.” “President Harding does his own thinking. lie is the President and the chief executive, master of his Administration.” “President Harding looks, fine, physically fit, hardened, bronzed, tanned.” The old pleasant, genial, amiable, rocking chair Harding is gone. The orchestra in great crescendo breathes the approach of the mighty hero soon to come thundering on the stage. Enter Mr. Harding! Exit Borah. Johnson, Couzens, Moses. Brandegee, Brookhart! Albert Lasker, master salesman, is on the job! True, he slipped a little when selling the ship subsidy. But he’ll soon have Harding as well known as Spearmint Gum. The question is, can Mr. Harding be sold in sealed, air-tight packages, and will the flavor last?

THAT Tk TOW they’ve organized “T T nele Sam's Voters,” LOST for the purpose of interesting citizens in the VOICE JL i affairs of government—local. State and national. They’re going to try to revive the old-time “town meeting,” where folks used to go to have their say and tell their rulers exactly what to do. It is a far cry from the “town meeting” of the forefathers to the political organization today, and somewhere in that distance, the average citizen’s voice is lost. If ‘‘Fncle Sam’s Voters” can bridge the gap, it will perform a Herculean feat. Probably it cannot do that much, biit its founders deserve a pat on the back and a boost for their courage in tackling their self-imposed task.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C . enclosir ? 2 cent* in stamps. Medical, legal, and love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research oe undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies—EDlTOß. Whaf village is described in Goldsmith’s poem, “The Deserted Village?” Though he calls it “Auburn” in the poem, he is really describing Llssoy, a boyhood home where his father was pastor. What and where was the lost land of Atlantis? Atlantis is supposed to have been a large island, which according to ancient tradition, was situated in the Atlantic Ocean. It Is first mentioned by Plato, who in the Timaeous represents an Egyptian priest as de scribing it to Solon. According to this account, Atlantis was an island larger than Libya and Asia Minor combined. Nine thousand years before the time of Solon It had been a powerful nation and had been successfully resisted by the Athenians alone. It had finally been engulfed by the -ea, which ever after remained unnavtarable by reason of of mud which had been ra.XL3C*\the

spot. In the Critias, Plato gives a glowing description of the Island, and adds its fabulous history. The account has been considered by some pure fiction, while others have looked upon it as real tradition. Various attempts have teen made to identify the island. The Canary' Islands, the Scandinavia Peninsula, and the American continent have all been thought to be the land in question. The remains of a very ancient civilization in Crete, brought to light by recent excavations, have led some to identify Atlantis with Crete In the Mlnoan period. What is meant by the term “Bohemian" as applied to persons of artistic temperament? “Bohemian” indicates a person, especially a literary person or artißt, devoted to intellectual pursuits, who secedes consciously or unconsciously from conventionality, in life-and art; one who strives for freedom, naturalness and originality and ignores artificial distinctions in human relations. Where was Gouveneur Morris educated? At Yale University, from which institution he received a B. A. degree in 1898.

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SANE AND SOUND ROAD BUILDING PROGRAM ADVISED Federal Bureau Will Not Say Indiaria Makes Mistake in Bond Issue, By JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 20.—Plunge not on road improvements now, but map out a sane and sound road building program. This is the advice of the Bureau I of Roads in the Department of Agri- ; culture. Officials of the bureau will not say j that Indiana is making a mistake in voting a huge bond issue for public road improvements at this time. The bureau has taken no position on road improvements such as Herbert Hoover took with relation to Government building. Yet it was admitted that materials used in building are those used In road construction and the high prices prevailing in each field. Former Is Burdened The Indiana farmer Is burdened with debt. True, say the enthusiastic road builders In the Government; true, every one would like to ae-oid any additional taxation. "But," said C. D. Curtiss, assistant chief of the road bureau, "it may be true also that failure to improve roads will cost the farmers more In transportation.” Curtiss pointed to investigations made In lowa, where he said it was established that transportation costs attributed to poor roads would have paid the entire charge for road improvement In a period of from ten to seventeen years. "The reports from State Legisla tures show there is a tendency to slow down In some States now,” said Curtiss. “The bureau has taken no ■ lositlon on that subject, however. The local situation must be studied •nd understood. What the bureau said was that a State should proceed with a sane and sound road improvement program, hut that does

Everybody His Own Traffic Cop, Detroiter’s Solution of Problem

fiv Times Special Detroit. Mich., April 20. Everybody his own traffic cop. That's the real solution for the automobile accident problem, thinks Inspector Harry H. Jackson, director of the police traffic bureau here. Alla city needs to keep its eitlzzens from dodging out into the roadway at inopportune times and in suicidal places is as many traffic officers as there are citizens, he says. Any lesser amount would be insufficient. Inspector Jackson is different from the usual hard-boiled traffic cop who tries to blame everything on the motor Ist. He sees the careless jay-walker as the biggest cause of danger. “Transportation In our streets is necessary,” ho said, “and even pedestrians admit that. We have traffic law for vehicles, but there Is nothing to control the pedestrian. Ho crosses when and where he wills. Most of the children killed In our streets were struck down in the middle of the block. Seldom does an accident occur at a crossing.” It is up to pedestrians, Inspector Jackson thinks, to be as careful as thov want the drivers to bo and to this end the police department has started traffic classes in the city

Editor’s Mail

Speed Permits

To the Editor of The Times Will you kindly state what right ! any other person ha3 to violate all the I speed laws in this and adjoining i States for the purpose of pulling off a speed test? Also whose business It Is to enforce the State laws In this respect? Have we any speed restriction? Who gives permission to make a speed of seventy-five miles per hour over the public highways? It is just such dern fools thai make it dangerous for a decent driver to use tlie paved roads although he helps pay for them. OWNER OF A FLIVVER. Savor of Salt By BERTON BRALEY OH. the breeze blows salt from the ocean readies Where the graybacks roil and the grxy mil screeches. And it's I would sail the salt seas over, A deep-sea salt and an ocean rover. IT S I would henr the taut stays singing I And wateh the stars, from the foretop swinging, With sail spray flying, the salt wind shriek ing. The white wake boiling, (he steel plates ereaking! WHERE shall we go for our honeymooning Not where the soft land-breeze is crooning. But out at sea, out at, sea together. Salt sea-lovers in the salt sea weather. FOR it s you that know how the great deep i calls you. And that have no fear of what fate befalls you. So we’ll walk the decks where the salt | spume hisses, With the smack of salt in our care free kisses. (Copyright. 1923. NEA Service. Inc.) Thirty Skeletons Found MONATAIRE. France. April 20. — j A steam plow unearthed an ancient dungeon on a farm near here in which skeletons of thirty men. women and children were found. They are thought ; to have been imprisoned and starved j to death in the course of the sixteenth j century wars. Wolf Pack Fafs Twenty RIGA, April 20.—Great packs of wolves, some numbering fifty, are ranging throughout the Simbirsk region of southeastern Russia and have devoured more than twenty human beings. Soviet authorities have sent machine guns, mounted on sleds, to fight them.

Baby Is Alive by Act of Providence

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Ruth Gasson, 3, was In her mother’s arms when an auto swept into n crowd waiting for a trolley at Pittsfield, Mass. The baby waa catapulted in the air, came down through the windshield of the car and landed on the seat beside the driver. Police found her the next day at the home of the driver, playing with his children. She suffered only a scratch on the nose. not mean plunging In road construction at this time. “Indiana has done good work In getting her gravel roads back into condition. But somo of those gravel roads will not meet the demand of Increasing transportation In the State. Where a gravel road will do It. then all right. But where the tion has outgrown the grav* road, then you’ve got to look to hard sur face roads. “Now in a State like Indiana, some system should be worked out so that the farmer and farm land would not bear all the burden of road improvements. Farm lands are not going to benefit to a tremendous extent through road Improvements In Indiana. Take the States which are sparsely settled and th< n you’ll get a good udvance In land costs ns the roads are Im proved, but that would not prevail in Indiana." Indiana has used the available Fed eraj money ns it has been approprl e.ted, so there Is no need for add! tional appropriations on that score. In fact, most of the States have taken available Federal funds

1 schools. An officer Is detailed to leoI ture to the children, i A school court has been formed In j one school with boys and girls as po- | lice officers. Recently, when a boy I was found guilty of jay walking, the "judge" sentenced him to be escorted ! home every night for a week by a boy I officer. Grown-ups, as well as children, i should realize that there is some truth I In the statement that "the Jay-walker Is taking a short cut to the hospital.”

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FROM NEW YORK TD PANAMA IN 1 DAYS, BY AIRSHIP This Is Schedule of U. S, Plan for Development of Blimp, By HARRY HUNT SEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 20. Thirty hours from New York to Havana —two days from New York to Panama. This is the time set by Navy aeronautic authorities as the probable schedule to be maintained by a future all-American airship line connecting North and South America. Demonstration of the practicability of such a Pan-American air service Is one of the jobs mapped out for the ZR-1 and ZR-3, conster dirigibles, now nearing completion, the first at Lakehurst, N. J., the second at the Zeppelin plant in Germany. But from New York to Panama would be only one end of the intercontinental service proposed. From Panama the route would ex tend to Guayaquil, Ecuador; to Lima, Peru, and on to Valparaiso, Chile, almost 6,000 miles from Broadway. Five Days vs. Fifteen But from Valparaiso to Broadway, for the rich Chilean or Argentinian seeking business or pleasure in the northern metropolis would be a trip of only five days by air cruiser instead of fifteen by steamship. Vice versa, thirsty gentlemen in New York would find the time necessary to reach the o;isis of Havana cut in half. A special Havana-New York service might be found advisable and profitable It is In such services as these, Rear Admiral William Moffett and officials of the naval bureau of aeronautics believe, that commercial transportation by airships will find Its greatest future. Between points otherwise accessi ble only by steameshlp of by a com blnatlon of steamship and railroad routes, the airship can greatly reduce the time required Navy’s Big Job To search out the routes where airship lines could best perform such service and to demonstrate the practicability of their operation commercially, will be the big peace time job of the Navy’s big dirigi ble*. Development of such a route us is proposed by the American Investigation Corporation, which is planning an airship service between New York and Chicago. Navy authorities believe, will prove more difficult than of routes between points where fast mall or other service Is not now provided.

Is Candidate for President of D . A . R.

/:>/ United Press WASHINGTON, April 20—Supporters of Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of Pennsylvania today claimed her election as president general of the I). A. R. as the official tellers prepared to announced results of yesterday’s voting. VETERANS RELIEF COSTSHUGE SUM Total of $2,190,079,060 Spent by Bureau, />/ Timr* Sjiccinl WASHINGTON. April 20. —It has cost the American people a total of 52,190.079,060 for vet erans' relief since the World War started. , The total number of Americans who entered Government service during the war and became eligible for this relief was 5.338,475. Thus it has cost so far an average of 5400 per person for war risk insurance. hospitalization, compensation, vocational training and for the upkeep of bureaus to dispense this relief. The Senate committee named to invorigatp the Veterans’ Bureau faces the task of tracing the expenditure of this stupendous sum of money, to determine whether or not there were "leaks” and whether or not It was wisely spent. The present Veterans' Bureau is a consolidation of three war relief agencies, the war risk insurance bureau, the vocational education bureau, and the hospitalization service.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: NEVER blow out the gas. Think Hotel bedbugs don’t /Jf mind sleeping with strangers at all. / §§•;.. . • Once they danced a minuet. Now I they dance a few days. \ Wouldn’t it be great if you could \ - Jffllr train hens to lay carpets? The lark is an early riser among birds; not proving, however, that rising early is a lark. A • * These strawberries grow so fast, even getting bigger while they are filling the box. • * • Picnics are with us. When spreading your coat for a lady to sit on, take it off first.

Hoosiers in Washington

By JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 20. —Miller Hamilton, remembered by every one who had anything ;to do with the Indiana Democratic | Club, has taken anew job in Washington. MiUer made his home in Indianapolis for a number of years, although he was a Huntington boy. He used to be with John Lapp in the : Statehouse. Just now MiUer breezed into the office with 10,000 statistics about lumJ ber and forests. The last time he was uround he was marketing potatoes and other vegetables for the Departj ment of Agriculture, where he was editor of the Market Reporter. Now he has Jumped over to the forest service and he Is enthusiastic about forests. If you want any statistics on trees ; and forests, look out for MiUer. He's trying to talk about the number of I houses which could have been built

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with the lumber destroyed in fires and he stretches out the rows from New York to Chicago and all that sort of stuff. • • • Last night I met J. Gordon Bennett on the street. J. Gordon used to be on the old Indianapolis Sun on E. Ohio St. In Indianapolis. He came in with the Leeds regime and ownership and almost every one interested in newspapers or newspaper topics soon got acquainted with red-haired Gordon. Gordon’s now publicity man with the RepubUcan national committee. Hard to imagine that fire-eater coating the old standpatters with sugar every week, but he’s doing it, somehow. although he denies It. One of these days, J. Gordon is going to get away from his present Job. Then the old typewriter will come out. J. Gordon will get out his rake and how the muck will fly again. Then he’ll be happy, happier than he Is now, regardless of what be says.