Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1923 — Page 4

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LET’S NOT OMETIMES we boast of our “Christian civiliBOAST W zationu” Then comes, perhaps, a story like ABOUT IT that of Martin Tabert. Martin, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Tabert, had spent the twenty-two years of his life in the immediate vicinity of the home farm at Munich, N. D. He was untraveled and not learned. He knew, for example, that murder, theft, assault, embezzlement, arson and the like were felonies and that one guilty of any of these crimes was in danger of punishment. What he did not know was that in one .State, at least, “heating his way” on a passenger train without a ticket was the most heinous crime in all the calendar—a crime so awful that for it he could be arrested, thrown into jail, fined, and on the same d&y, in default of payment while the money was actually on the way from his parents in North Dakota, be “sold” for S2O into the most horrible slavery, to toil from dawn until dark, hip deep in the slime and cold water of a turpentine swamp. He did not know that the sheriff of Tallahassee, F?a.. could and would do these things to him. Martin found out all these things in a few short days. He fell by the wayside when he attempted to work, was sick in the swamp, when the foreman of the gang to which he had been “sold” called him out in sight of all the other “convicts” and there beat him with a great strap with an iron buckle, beat him so -that two days later, on Feb. 1 of this year, he died from his wounds. Martin probably didn't know these things, because alter the beating he never regained consciousness, and the first his family heard was when the Putnam Lumber Company wrote that Martin “had been given a Christian burial.” This tale is so terrible that it sounds untrue. Folks just can't believe it. Nevertheless, the Florida Legislature, on investigation, found that the reports were irue. even in their worst. ' Now, probably, that sheriff who returned to the family the envelope containing the money to pay Martin's fine will he punished. And, because of the noise which has been raised, the fiend Higginbotham, who beat Martin until he was unconscious, will get a year or two in a nice quiet penitentiary for the murder, and possibly the Florida system of leasing convicts into slavery will be modified, even abolished. Possibly, other States which have eonviet leasing systems almost as bad will be compelled by the tide of indignation to reform. Let’s hope so. But let’s not boast of “our Christian civilization” for a few da vs. at least.

MORE LST as soon as they get the championship CHAMPS. I for endurance dancing settled, we shall inMOREI sist upon decisions as to the endurance championships at gum chewing, cigarette smoking, salad eating, face painting, hair bobbing, stocking rolling, jazz horn blowing and other sciences supporting the scientific theory that our civilization is descendant from monkeys. All other human affairs may well he held in abeyance until these matters of vital importance are settled. i After they are settled, and our form of civilization gets upon a sound, progressive basis, some endurance championships of nrixlttr importance ought to he discovered. What girl can wash mother's dishes the greatest number of days ? What girl can do the most washing of the family clothes the quickest ? What girl can habitually get up the best meals? What girl can hake, sweep and scrub the longest" What girl can save mother the most steps? • We say that contests for such championship ought to he. No, we are not going to offer prizes and publicity for such contests. Simply, anybody else who wants to start something along this line, at the risk of not unearthing contestants enough to decide anything, will get our kindest words of approbation for courageously tackling enormous adverse odds. VOLSTEAD A NDREW VOLSTEAD, retired from Congress, ■AND / \ hangs out his shingle again as a lawyer in HIS FAME .A. Minnesota. Because his namp is on the Volstead act, he will he remembered long after all his contemporary associates in Congress will be forgotten. He may persist on as a legendary character. Volstead has been the target of a lot of ridicule and hatred from the wets. 1 hey seem to think that he personally screwed the lid on John Barleycorn’s coffin. Yet it is was only by chance, as chairman of a committee, that his name was attached to the Volstead act. He lent his name to a vast movement. The public, however, always singles out someone individual as the goat for a situation.

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symptoms, those affecting the muscular system are the most important. In all cases they begin with sensations of general lameness of the muscles. This is followed by swelling, firmness, and great tenderness of the invaded muscles. Mastication, deglutition and respiration are rendered difficult. Swelling of the eyelids and of the face, appearing usually on the seventh day. Is quite characteristic. The disease lasts from five weeks to four months. The mortality varies in different epidemics, and has been as high as 30 per cent. Meat infected with trichnine is made harmless by thorough crooking. Where does the snioke given off by an aeroplane while “writing” in the sky come from? A smoke pot made of tar. a certain amount of resin, and* solidified alcohol. What are good reflectors of light (visible rays)? According to the Bureau of Standards the following: Selenium (Amorphous), 20 to 25 per cent. Galena. PbS, 40 ( 0 45 p er oent. Molybdenite. MoS2, 45 to 50 per cent. Pyrites, FeS2. 60 to 60 per cent. W’hat causes “rluhroot” in vegetables, and how rim it be cured? An eelworm known as “radicocola heterodora.” which attacks the roots of the vegetable and induces the disease which causes the swellings. The only way to prevent it is by sterilizing the soil With the steam process which, of course, is only done on a large scale. There is no cure for it after the vegetables are once Infected.

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“BERTIE AND BETTY” IT WILL .BE : AFTER TWO “NOES”, ONE “YES”

marrying a very rich girl.

BY MILTON BRONNER SEA Service Staff Writer lONDON. April 23.—A1l Rritain, which was so pleased when Princess Mary became the wife of Lord Lasceiies, is tickled to death over the marriage set for Thursday of Berty and Betty. “Berty" is the Duke of York, the second son of the King of England. "Betty" is i,ady Elizabeth BowesLyon, youngest daughter of the Karl of Strathmore. The nicknames are what they call each other. The loyal Britisher is pleased not only because once more one of the king's children Is choosing a Briton as a life partner, but also because the 28-year-old duke had to pop the question three times before he landed his girl. They had met years ago at a kids’

RECLAMATION OF 5,503,(D0 ACRES NOW UNDER WAY Inland Empire Be Carved Out of Deserts and Waste Places, 8 1/ Timrx Bpccial WASHINGTON. April 23.—Reclamation projects now under consideration by the Department of Interior engineers total the stupendous area of 5,503.00 U acres, an inland empire to be carved out of deserts and waste land. Dr. Hubert Work, new Secretary of the Interior, has become so interested in the twenty-six huge projects now contemplated that he expects to make a personal inspection of the sites this summer, in advance of the trip to Alaska which he expects to make with tho President. Work has become a reclamation enthusiast since he took his new office. “If J can help make fruit, vegetables and cereals grow on acres where only cactus grew before 1 will liavo done something worth while," he remarked the other day. While it is not certain that the Government will develop these projects until Congress has authorized the work arul provided funds, the Federal reclamation engineers indorse development of the following projects: The Boulder project in the Colorado River which would make fertile 3,307,000 acres in six States, including 710,000 acres in California and Arizona. 47.000 acres in upper Arizona, 1.018.000 in Colorado. 50,000 acres In Nevada. 483,000 acres in New Mexico, 456,000 acres in Utah and 543,000 in Wyoming. The Columbia Basin project in Washington is second in importance, with a possible acreage of 1.753,000 acres. The third project in size is the Lower Rio Grande, in Texas, involving an area of 600,000 acres. Idaho has the fourth project in size, at Mountain Home, where it is estimated 400,000 acres can be made fer-

party when Lady Elizabeth was 6 and Prince Albert 12. Mary’s Bridesmaid They met. frequently after that because the girl was one of those chosen by Queen Mary as a companion and schoolmate of Prirtcess Mary. Naturally, she was one of Mary’s bridesmaids. At. the wedding the Duke of York paid marked attention to her. At an informal dance preceding the wedding festivities the duke ventured his first proposal. “No!" Not despairing, the duke tried his luck a second time last summer at a country house in not thorn Eng littul. where both were guests. Kaily Elizabeth and the duke were playing in a foursome at golf. “How about a twosome for life?" the duke asked. Again, “No:”

LABOR SHORTAGE IS EVIDENCE OF GOOD TIMES IN INDUSTRY

By HKRBERT QUICK IT was only the other day when we had several million people idle for lack of work. Now there is said to be a labor shortage. Well, there ought to be. There always ought to be more work to do than there are people to do It. Any other condition is distinctly bad for the people as a whole. The most distinct evidence of the failure of civiliza tion is to see the worker tramping the streets idle because “no man hath hired him." Forced unemployment demoralizes a people. We never had tramps and bums and hoboes In this country until in the 'seventies, -when for the first time in our history, owing to the taking up of all easily available lands, we had unemployment in a financial crisis. Before that we could tell the man who preferred to be idle from him who was willing to work. When through lack of work, men began to find out that they could live after a fashion without work, thousands of Ominous Words By BERTON BRALEY THERE’S a prospect most alluring In the thought of motor-touring And of gypsying tho highways far away from our abodes, Tiil amid our contemplation. We reeeive the information—- “ Heaven help us, they’ve been 'working on the roads'l" WE can navigate the washes Where the water whirls and sloshes. We can chug through dismal marshes full of snakes and frog’s and toads: But we raise a doleful chorus When this terror is before us. Heaven help us. they've been “working on the roads." FOR we know the perils lurking Where the highway gangs are working. How they dump the mud in mountains and the stone in mighty loads: When no other vision daunts us. Here's a fear that always hunts us— Heaven help us, they’ve been “working on the roads." PUNCTURE, blowouts, engine, trouble H’ret the owner of a bubble. And lies always getting tangled In the local laws and codes: But there's none of these that feazes Like that awfullest of phrases. Heaven help u, they've been “working on the roads."

But last winter, while a guest at the girl's home in Hertfordshire, he and she strolled through the woods on their way to church on a Sunday morning. He proposed for the third time and got “Yes." That's why the couple didn't reach church In time for the services. Not for Hold Princess Mary married a very rich man. Hut ihe Duke of York is not marrying a very rich girl. Her father, the Karl of Strathmore. Is the head of a very old house. He owns about 25,000 acres of land In Scotland and hr. land. However, a greater portion of this probably will go to Ills eldest son'and heir. As the ear! other sons and daughters, the' dowry he gives the duke* bride will probably not he in the same class with the millions of La scelles. The bridegroom has l>een drawing an allowance from the British people of about $50,000 a year Upon his marriage he will draw $1 ”5.000 a year. The social duties ..f a son of the king will make big holes in that income. After the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York is the next heir to th throne.

(hem yieled to the temptation and began to live by some form of beggary tvr trickery. It is mainly a matter of pride. When a man loses his pride in earning his living, if his standard of living is low enough, the life without work becomes preferable. And then the descent. to the Avemus of tiie outcast begins. When the President and others begin to suggest that we let down the bars to the emigrant on the plea of shortage of labor, try to figure out who is back of tho suggestion. Is it not the great employers who would like to see the queue of job-hunters waiting at the employment office for Jobs —why? So as to beat down the wages of the men now at work. So n to expand their business further — temporarily—and make more money. Let the government, if necessary, stop its own public building, and save up some work for the time of slump which is surely coming. Let us accept the so-called labor-shortage as a proper and normal thing—which it is—adjust ourselves to it, and save ourselves from the calamity of unemployment which will come with the next slump if we fill up to the tip of the demand In the bulge MRS. MARTHA SMITH DIES Old Resident Was One of Founders of Christ Church. Mrs. Martha Stella Smith, 69, wife of Benjamin Smith, 1114 Teeumseh* St., who died Friday morning at her home, helped to .establish Christ Church on the Circle, relatives said today. Mrs. Smith was born in Madison, lnd.. and came to Indianapolis at the age of S. She was a member of All Saints Kpiscopal Church, Central Ave. and Sixteenth St. The Rev. James Stanly of Christ Church will conduct the funeral at the home Tuesday at 2 p. m. Burial! will be in Crown Hill.

INDIAN SEEKING DICE NEARING FROM CONGRESS Woman Contends Bureau Is ♦ Anything but Friendly to Tribes, Bu Timm Special WASHINGTON. April 23—“ Indian affairs are like tangled yarn with which the cat has played." says Mrs. Leta Myers Smart, brilliant young Indian woman of Duluth. Minn. Mrs. Smart, with her black-eyed, red-skinned 5 months old baby, is hero to try to influence Secretary Work of the Interior Department to abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She contends that the Washington bureau, while it is supposed to be the Indians’ friend, is in reality anything but that. “When we go to Congress and ask fer a hearing on any proposition,” she says, “Congress refuses unless the case lias been given the O. K. of the Indian Bureau. We do not think that is right. When there is a suit In court to recover a note, a hearing is not refused pending the approval of the defendant." Mrs. Smart lias frequently visited Washington in behalf of the Indians. Before her mari-iage to Frank Smart. Chippewa representative, she was Miss Leta Myers, and under that name she wrote many articles for newspapers and magazines. She is now secretary of the Ojlb way Sales Agency in Duluth, where articles made by the Indians are sold. POLICE CHASE PEEPER Prowler Routed After Discovery in Rear f 11 oitie. When Lyman Stonecypher and his wife, 2854 Brookside Ave.. alighted from a street car Sunday night they noticed a strange looking man who got off at. the same, time. Later they heard a noise at the rear door and the. same man was looking in the kitchen window. Polit e wer* called an<f the man left. He wa.- traced on street cars to town, where the'trail was lost. White Mule Blamed “White mule doused Irene Karasch, 34. of ~.l*> W Court St., to be Hove a $2 bill was a five, according to police. In an argument with George W. Miles, 11 S West St., over the payment of a poultry purchase, police were called.

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DAVID BROWN of Pittsburgh walked 250,000 miles. Dave was not hunting a drink. He is a postman. Things are so noisy in Europe now people think two dogs fighting are sound asleep. 0 0 t Couple danced three days without stopping. Other famous wrestlers are Strangler Lewis and Zbyszko.

Russian leaders have 1,600,000 men under arms now, and millions of others under their thumbs. • • * Hollis Joy. 21, Boston student, says be hasn’t been kissed. We say he doesn't know his last name. • • • Irish government will have a deficit of $100,000,000, proving it is run on the American plan. • t • In a New York hotel fire forty jumped on mattresses, but sidewalk would have beeu softer. • • Our guess at the baseball pennant winner *is that we will have a dry spell if it doesn't rain. 0 0 0 Anniston, Ala., will be made a ratless city, hut girls in silk stockings will still see rats. Baltimore golfer left a will of six words, so maybe he couldn t find time to write more. 0 0 0 In St. Louis they fired a detective. But he is baffled. 0 0 0 Head of Atlantic City Bachelors' Club married, showing the louder they talk the quicker they fall. • ♦ • They say brains are replacing beauty in Kentucky, and we say such a ihing is impossible. • • • Blythe. Cal., a town of 1,600. has no .Inneses or Smiths, and ought to he ashamed of itself. • • • Texas leads the nation with twenty-six rifle clubs, so it is easy to get a posse to scour the woods.

School Children Get Too Much Candy, Late Hours and Dancing

Bu Times Special rASHINGTOX, April 23.—T00 many late hours. Too much * randy between meals. Too many movies and dances. These are the reasons offered by Dr. Joseph Murphy. chief medical inspector of schools here, for the below-weight schoolboys and schoolgirls of the capital city. Thirty per cent of school children in Washington are 7 per cent below standard, and Dr. Murphy says this is

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about the average in most other cities. “Improper food and irregular or missed meals is a chief cause for underweight." he says. “In many instances children are permitted to drink coffee and tea and hardly know the taste of milk. Also there are frequeent cases in which the children receive few if any green and fresh vegetables." Other causes for underweight. Dr. Murphy says, are infected teeth, tonsils and eye troubles

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