Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1923 — Page 4

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HARDHVG F’TIAKING that group of editors assembled in RECALLS ' I 1 New York yesterday by surprise, President PROMISE X Harding hurled defiance at Senators Lodge, , Watson, McCormick, Johnson and the lesser lights who would prevent the United States from entering the world court. The President’s fight for his world eourt plan is developing into a two-fisted, hare-knuckle affair. Although, as a matter of fact, the court he proposes we join i* a League of Nations creation, the President declared emphatical- j ly that so far as the rest of the league is concerned, he “doesn’t: propose to enter now, by the side door, the back door <r the cellar! door.” Very frankly, the President told how he and his Administration associates cast about for a means of carrying out their 1920 campaign pledges for participation in an international judicial tribunal or association and how they finally decided upon the league world eourt because “the court was established, and is functioning.’ In fact, as Mr. Harding added, ‘'an American judge sits od the eourt. though we had no part in choosing him.” The great service which the President’s speech yesterday rendered to the American people was to confirm officially the reports to the effect that the Administration party is split wide open on international questions, with the Lodge-Watson-Johnson “irreconcilable faction of the Senate diametrically opposed to the Harding-Hughes-lloover leadership at the White House. Mr. Harding, in support of his world court plan, quotes from the Republican campaign platforms of 1912. I9lfi and 1920 to prove that he is consistent with party promises when he proposes participation in the world court. Furthermore, he shows by the same method that the Senate oligarchy, headed by Mr. Lodge, is faithless to party promises when it attempts to block our entrance into the court. It is gratifying to have this inter-party tight brought out into the light where the voters can see what is going on. Folks canmot but admire Mr. Harding’s courage in forcing the issue, and it is a fairly safe prediction that the vast majority of Republican voters will be with him. when he savs : “I have indulged in the dream, nay, a justified hope that out of the encouraged and sustained 1 court might come the fulfillment of larger aspirations. In the proofs of its utility and a spirit of concord among nations might come that voluntary conference of nations out of which could be expected a clarified codified international law to further assure peace under the law, and bring nations that understanding which is ever the first and best guarantor of peace." CAMPING jk LITTLE book. “The Camp Site Guide," iistWITH THE ing thousands of cities, towns anil villages in ELIVVER XJL various States where the motor tourist, will find places to camp free has just reached our desk. There are over fifty such camping grounds listed in Indiana and the number is rapidh growing. The largest in the j State is that offered at Lebanon, forty-three acres. Most of these camp grounds arc provided with ovens or stoves, drinking water and other conveniences. How would you like to quit your job. pack up and start out on a gypsy tour to see the country with your home on wheels built on a motor truck or traveling by flivver and sleeping in a - tent! Those who have tried it will tell the world that’s the life. Mother cooking in the open instead of cooped in a hot. small kitchen. Children climbing trees, chasing each other and exploring nature instead of playing on hot city pavements with their lives in danger. Father with nothing on his mind except his hair, at leisure to smoke his pipe in peaee and fish whenever there's a stream or lake near camp. on have noticed an increasing number of these camping j families. That is the greatest blessing brought by the auto— it i gets city people into the glorious fresh air of the country, and farm people quickly to cities or distant country friends. Sometimes we envy the rich man who can camp in style with servants to do the work. But we wonder if a better time isn’t had by the family touring the country in a rickety old flivver.

(FOOD |-yOW long will present prosperity last? Com I —" 1 mcroe and Finance magazine put this quesGUESSES JL tion to 3.000 leading business men all over the country. Until the last half of 1923 was the answer of 1,140. Some time in 1924, predicted 850. Two years or more, said 427. Tt san interesting straw vote. But tliev may all be wrong. Not one business man in 500 anticipated the 1920 crash far enough ahead to get into the cyclone cellar and the lid down before the storm burst. Os the 3.000. by the way. 2,2u0 predict a buyers’ strike if prices continue to advance. If business thinks it can recoup all losses, incurred in the last panic, it is riding for a fall.

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Ton can. get an answer to any queetaon of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington bureau. 1322 N. Y, Are.. Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Meoieu. legal and love and marriage adrice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken or papers, speeches, etc., be prapared. Cnstgnod letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. Where and when was Jesse W. Fell, the man who nominated Lincoln, bom? In New Gordon Township. Chester County. Pennsylvania. Nov. 10. 1808 How did the word “halcyon” oroginate and what does it mean? It Is Greek, meaning “peace, happiness." Where and when was Sarah Bernhardt bom? Paris. France, Oct. 23, 184'. Why are locust trees not used for making floor boards? Because the wood is entirely too knotty and defective. What are the salaries of secretaries to Senators and Representatives? Senators’ secretaries are allowed $2,500 a year and a bonus of $240 a year. Representatives are allowed $3,200 for clerk hire, which they can distribute as they please, paying aU to one, or dividing It among several. Is Longfellow buried in Westminster Abbey, England? No. lut a bust has been erected there tr his memory. Which are the oldest national flags? The Danish man-of-war and merare the oldest national eru-

! sterns now in use. Their history dates back to 1219, when Waldemar is supposed to have seen a cross in the sky while leading his troops against the Livonian pagans and to have at once adopted the cross as the design for his country’s flag. Are there more women than men In the United States? What are the figures? No, there are more men. Accordj Ing to the census of 1920. mules 21 and j over, numbered 31,403,370, while feI males numbered 29.483.150. Who was the author of the “Arabian Nights?” This is a collection of oriental tales ! compiled and made known to Europe j by Antoine Oalland. Who was Quasimodo? A character (the hunchback) in Vici tor Hugo's ‘'Hunchback of Notre j Dame.” How long is the Lincoln Highway? Where does it extend? | Three thousand two hundred an-1 eighty-four miles long (though it is constantly being shortened by improvements and the elimination of curves), and extends from New York to San Francisco. Where can one get a ropy of the , report of the President’s commission on the coal industry? From the superintendent of documents. Government Printing Office, i Washington. D. for 5 cents i (stamps not accepted). How often do the members of i tlie Cabinet and the President | dra\j4 their pay? > Twiije a month

The Indianapolis Times KARLE B. MARTIN. Editor-In-Chief. FRED ROMER PETERS, Editor. ROY W. HOWARD, President. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Manager.

CAN LABOR RUN BANKS AND MILLS? Union Worker and Employer Give Opinions on Subject

What Capital Thinks

By IRVING T. BUSH President, llmmbi r of Commerce of Now York State \j EXTURES of labor into the / field of capital are a good thing for our economic future. Anything is good that gives one group a viewpoint of the other fellow's business. Labor and capital have much to learn about each , other's business. and they can m, learn it best by experience. Gabor needs a headache an and capital a back- ' ache before each will understand the other. '<****& Capital has no * cause for alarm in the growing / tendency of labor to enter banking rand inrlustry. Labor ought to have a ji try at the game of running hanks an and factories. - going into manu S-* factoring and shipping : to sL some will till- • and o u b t eilly fail. N yf Labor will find that capitals BUSH game is not so easy as it looks Especially bank;ng. where sanity and cure and caution are necessary where difficulties multiply and pressure often is heart-breaking. My father had an axiom: People make money in their own business, and lose it in the other fellow’s busi ness. Labor max iose some money try ing to compete with capital, hut it will be healthy experience anil training. Ultimately the baptism will probably do everything some good. A now and an Intimate viewpoint of the other fellow’s trials and problems and methods and manner of thinking will destroy the envy and bitterness and jealousy that cause so much of the trouble between labor and capital. A better understanding will do both sides much good.

JUGOSLAVIA KING FIGHTS HARD 10 HOLD HIS REALM By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Special Cable to NLA Service and Indianapolis Times. BELGRADE. April 25 —Alexander I, king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, is going to have the battle of his life holding his kingdom together. In fact, the battle has begun. The Croats, Slovenes and Bosnians want autonomy. By autonomy I mean they want all the way from a republic to local self government as lndi vidual states in the United States have. Although the movement for au tonomy had independent beginnings : in Croatia. Slovenia. Bosnia and Herzegovina. it has now consolidated in a sort of bloc, dangerous to Serb ambi tions. Nobody in Jugoslavia thinks or talks anything else and the government or Premier Pachlteh is profoundly disturbed. For the whole trend of sentiment in the country today Is toward breaking up into small self governing states with but a nominal tie to Belgrade and King Alexander, and away from centralized power. Bookseller Is leader The leafier of the separatists, or those who clamor for autonomy, is a bookseller In Zagreb named Raditeh. Ton can remember it because it is pronounced almost exactly like the little ied vegetable you have on your table these spring days. And you should remember it. for it. i.-y going to figure in Balkan history if he remains on the scene. Raditeh is the leader of the Croats. And the Croats, who live in modern northwestern Serbia, like most people in this part of the world, are peasants and very close to the soil. So when not behind the counter of his bookshop fn Zagreb. Raditeh may be seen dressed in peasant costume—sandals, enbroidered stockings and ajl —making speeches to his Croat followers or talking to them in the fields and in their own dialect. Here in Belgrade. Raditeh is called a self-seeker: a. hag of wind: a charlatan: a. demagogue. They say he drives out of Zagreb in a high-powered motor car and changes into peasant costume just before reaching his destination. Priest in llghf in Zagreb they say he l a patriot and very much in earnest. And to prove they really think what they say the Raditeh. or Croat, party in the March elections made terrific gains, dealing a blow to the old Serb, or governing bloc. The Slovenes are led by a priest. Father Koroshetz. The Bosnians, who have made common cause with the Croa.ts and Slovenes for political purposes, have twenty-eight members. With the clericals twenty-two and the others who may be expected to join with them against the government, they form a dangerous bloc. Religion cntc-s largely into the I'.glit. The Serbs are Greek Orthodox. The Croats and Slovenes are Catholic. According to the latest figures there were 5,460.000 Orthodox and 4,475,000 Roman Catholics. 345,000 Bosnians and about 750,000 others in the country. The Orthodox have not a very great majority—none, if the others unite against them.

Trades Are Going Into Capitalistic Enterprises and Are Entering Field of Cooperative Industry.

By EDWARD THIERRY XEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, April 25.—The sharp line of division that always has been a boundary, and often a bulwark, between capital and labor, is vanishing fast. Is it eventually going to disappear completely? Trade unions are going into capitalistic enterprises. Labor banks are springing up all over the country. The field of cooperative Industry is being entered. Eighty-one different trades are represented in the unions that have bought half a million dollars' worth of stock in New York’s new Federation Bank. The Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers, outside the American Federation of Labor, have just started a bank in New York. In Cleveland the hank established by the Brotherhood of Lomotlve En gineors Is a two-year success; a skyscraper now is planned to house

Girl Helps Fiance Fight Murder Charge on Their Wedding Day

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?y XI'A Service Brooklyn, n y . April 2 . - On the day set for tier wed ding Miss Frames Buhl. 18 year old bride-to-be, walk-- • -lowly down ,1 long aisle, not. in i church but in a courtroom' Her fiance was being put on trial for murder. But her head wasn't bent low. her face wasn't tear streak -d She was smiling, trying to be happy ■’He'll be cleared of the charges against him,” she said, “and our wedding will be ail the happier.” She tried to catch the eye of the man tn the (lock She tried to con vey to him some (if her hope.

AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE MINUTES

Refugee Farms The Greek government will found agricultural colonies fn Macedonia, each consisting of 2,000 or 3,000 of th*> older of the orphan refugees. Broadcasting in Norway The Norwegian telegraph administration has made public a nvmoran j dum to the effect that the company |to which a license for broadcasting j is to he issued must ho a stock coni

Dog Keeps Vigil at ‘Rock of Mourning* After Master's Death

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Sll \7'4 Service NEWARK. N. J„ April 25. —Doggedly, stolidly, a Newark collie keeps a daily rendezvous with death. Each morning ho jumps on a rock in Weequahle Park, whines mournfully, and holds his vigil until nightfall. Then he slinks away, disappointed. For his little master will never come again. Rex. the faithful dog. and little Bob Johnson were inseparables, they played together for years. Then, last February little Boh tried to climb the big rock in the park. Rex was with him. but couldn’t help him much. The boy slipped, fell, fractured his skull

it; and the engineers have bought stock in a big New York bank. Trade unionists now operate banks in New York, Indiana, Ohio, Alabama, California, Minnesota, Illinois, District of Columbia, Missouri, Montana, Arizona. Pennsylvania and Washington. Many others are to be established. What labor thinks and what capital thinks about this growing trend are matters undoubtedly of widely diverse views. The Indianapolis Times, through NBA Service, sought the opinion of two leaders in the different fields as a gauge. Below are printed the views of Irting T.. Bush, financier, builder of rail road and shipping terminals and skyscrapers, and president of the Chamber of Commerce of New York State, and of William F. Kehoe, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council, which includes the A. F. of L. unions of New York < ’itv:

MISS FRANCES BUHL.

But his eyes were downcast. He felt sorr\ for the girl whom fate made him disappoint He was First Sergeant Claude Foster, attached to Mill'r Field. (Staten Island. Mis- Buhl s brother was his buddy Through him the young ipvers met and romance start t-d happy dreams of th<* future. Then one day last March Private Martin Miller was found killed at the camp Foster was arrested and charged yyith the murder. His counsel. John B Johnson, for trier congressman says it was a ease Os self defense

pany In which only Norwegian capl tal Is represented and In which Norwegian radio manufacturers. Norwegian press, and local amusement syndicates must have an interest Spaghetti's Oriental Cousin Chinamen of northern Manchuria eat vermicelli, but it is not like Ttal ian macaroni and spaghetti. It Is made of soya lyans

and died m the ity hospital soon after. The dog couldn't understand why his master stopped coming. Ho went out and looked but couldn’t find him. So he keeps on waiting at the place he lust saw him.. Sometimes he has to fight for his place. But the other dog always get licked. The last one, a terrier, was so badly worsted that he had to he taken to a vet I erinarian. Since then the other dogs of the park seem to respect Rex's rock of incurUjing. But they haven't been able to make the collie give up his watch. He's still waiting for little Bob.

What Labor Thinks

By WILLIAM F. KEIIOE Secretary, Central Trades and Labor Council, New York. LABOR is entering Into banking and into other fields of industrial enterprise because we are compelled to do so by those who are opposed to union labor organization. We are competing with capital not because we have an exaggerated ? . Idea of our abili- Sties, that we JPtwf can run finance / ; and industry hot ter than capi- | t.'il can. but be ’ cause we think we call do well ‘ enough to ,10. stroy the monop •> y oly that practically makes it Impossible for even | the fair - minded business man to $ : deal fairly with j labor. Most of our co- Mk lve move- Vk \lk tiie experimental stage. But we fee| certain that J they will develop ~4|V with rapid sue- I A cess, anil make I 4fp tts more jnde Xff jiff pendent in deal ing with the two * '"“■Kill! I schools of capital. those fair KEIIOE and those unfair toward us. A dozen or more hanks are already Iteing run by labor, and two dozen more are soon to l>e established. 1 he most notable success is the engineers’ bank in Cleveland. All the unions of the American Federation of Labor in New York are interested in the Federation Bank which will open in May We hope to make it the clearing house for all the labor banks of the country which must have a New York connection. Two reasons impelled labor to enter the hanking field The first In that th investigation of the open shop showed that some banks were financing the opposition, using our own money to ticht us We feel it * better to run our own banks. The second reason is that labor want- a bank that is run for service and not for profit that will share psurplus with its depositors. To illustrate our potential sir-r.gth. wo have 750 000 union men in New York aione upon whom we can depend for capital and deposits in the Federation Bank. DOLLAR IS SUPPING AND INFLATION’ IS IN FIRST STAGE

BY JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 25.—Die old dollar is slipping again, but, is not yet on the skids. H ick in May of 1920 the dollar was j worth only 40 cents when it bumped' up against the cost of living. tn January of last year it yvas worth 72V.cents. During last month it was; worth about 63 Vs cents. In all the talk of government experts now, suggestions are made about “inflation." In one way they moan! the dollar is getting a little sick again In May of 1920, when they talked about “inflation.” the dollar was about as sick as it could get and recover. Then "Inflation" meant silk shirts and limousines and the "don’t-care-what--it-cost” idea. It was a “wild night” —that, period in 1919 and 1920—and it had its “morning after” in dull times and unemployment. If you want to soe how the dollar! has fared and b 1 >\v it fares today when it tackles the high cost of living, look at the score card. Then you will know why the government is worried over present “inflation.” Here are the values on your dollar at wholesale prices: May.. ’:0. Jau.. 22. Feb., '23 Farm products. 41c 82e Foodstuffs . ... -10 c TttMic 710 Cloths and clothing ... 310 :>(5 V. < -,oc Fuel and lighting 4 2c .Me 47 C Metals and metal ptoductß 41V St), Building mauridls -He u:t i,.. Chemicals v; so,. House furnishings HI. -,4,, Miscellaneous I Sc s.y ; ~;i.. The “inflation now is more or less spotty. For instance, it is very I marked in the building industry, so much so that the Government has de-’ cided not to build much now. “Inflation is not going to boas bad as 1920 under any condition,” said the best of the Government authorities. "There is no doubt we are in the ■ flr.st stages of inflation. If yve don't! watch our steps, we'll be jtt deeper but we are watching. It is not alarming at all as vet.”

The Motorist’s Mother Goose By BERTOO BRALEY MARI Mary, quite <**ptrary. How does your motor go? It skips and hisses, it knocks and misees And stalls when It gets 1u low. JACK and Jill drove up the hill And Jack essayed to kis# her: Jack's folks are fighting o'er his will. And Mary s people miss her LITTLE .MISS MUEEETT sat on a tuffet Inside her littl coupe: The family chauffeur ta handsome young loafer i Quite carried Miss Muffet away. BA! BA! Black sheep, have you a machine? Yes. sir. yes. sir, father’s limousine: I can drive it faster than father ever will. And when I have an accident, vdiy father pays the bill I

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TOM SIMS SAYS: WITH little girls playing mar- I hies instead of dolls, posterity may find it hard to get / While not as good as a dollar, a l -> * j £ nickel does its best. Li goes to church \ dSsi¥ A baby's idea of heaven is a place where it is against the law for its father to sing. Jo"\ • • * The back seats of a movie are usually the coolest, but sometimes you iind Z row as hot as 11. No man is as had as he looks before breakfast. • * • Never worry about how lalo it is because it never is as late u it will be a little later. Beauty secret : Tell the barber how 3011 want your hair cut. • * • A grouch may be a man who married a woman to share his troubles and found out she caused them. Boat races are held to determine the champion ship. • • • A man is a person who is late for supper. 9 • • Californians held a stay awake contest. Some day we will start a sleeping contest and win it. No matter how great a range a linger may have. It never^ sounds as good as the one in the kitchen. * • Some gardeners have vegetables right along now. according to the empty cans in their gardens. • • • Nights are getting so short. -!usi before you jump out of bed it is time for breakfast. • • • Fashion experts say a man should have three straw lids. Most men have, every three years. Clevelander holds the dance record for men with a wooden leg The wooden-headed record is doubtful. • t • An anti-knock gasoline has been perfected which will get some knocks if it costs much. • • • Judge Williams of Oklahoma told twelve women to bake their bread, to the dismay of twelve husbands. •• * • Egyptian clothes are the style. They are digging up Hittites now. Hope the Hitlites didn’t go naked. • • • Turkey is getting mad at France. Just being a Turk is enough to make a Turk mad at anybody. Salem (Ore. 1 burglar stole 13 cents and dropped $.5 of his own, showing 13 is an unlucky number. Things could be worse. Suppose - ating was unlawful and you had to buy food from bootleggers? U. S. Mints Work Overtime to Coin 270 Million Silver Dollars

Rv Times Special WASHINGTON. April 25. Although United States mints are working over time t> complete coinage of 270.000,000 silver dollars, none of these dollars axe going into circulation. “The people don’t want to carry heavy car wheels.” says Ed Scobey, director of the mint. “Not even out West. I have just returned from the West and I saw very few silver dot lars. Everybody wants paper money. It is easier to handle and it is lighter to carry.’’ The Government. therefore. is

f 1 The First Telephone HISTORICAL SERIES Telephone In 1877 'he first telephone was installed mi Indiananolis. The Council gran it and per urn --ion to Cobb ft Branham to erect a wire from their office on Market and Delaware streets to their coai yards on Christian and South Delaware. The next year the first exchange was opened in the old Blackford block at Meridian and Washington, where the Merchants Bank Building now stands. Today there are 76.000 tele * ;>lv no S in the city, the largest s\* ochbeard in the world, and one oi ;he most capable and efficient organizations in the entire country. Fletcher'6 Bank was 38 years old at tW> time of the first tele phone. The FletcheT American National Bank of today has eightythree years of uninterrupted service and experience behind it, unequaled facilities for every bank ing need, and a reputation which extends from coast to coast. Fletcher American National Bank 1839 |gs2Ss]) 1923 Capital and Surplus. 53.000.000

building additional vaults at Denver. San Francisco and Philadelphia to store the silver coins. New dollars accumulate at the rate of 700,000 a day. Against the coins, silver certificates are being issued. Incidentally use of the paper money is a good business transactiont for the Government, as the Treasury collects 2 per cent interest from banks where the silver Is deposited. Folks who prefer real hard money can get stiver from the banks any time.