Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1923 — Page 4

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FOR and simplification of the law i SIMPLER I as undertaken by the American Law Insti-' LAWS VJ tute should be of almost immeasurable benefit to the legal profession and the public alike. The Carnegie corporation has just announced a gift of $1,073,000 to the institute to pay for this work. Almost daily eases arise in the courts in which the law on the particular subject under discussion is so muddled the court must rule arbitrarily on the point at issue and as often as not a new precedent is thereby established, making the next case all the harder. An immeasurable amount of time is wasted and millions are spent annually in straightening out tangles resulting from unnecessary complications in the law. In Indiana the Legislature meets every two years and enacts several hundred new laws. More than half of these art* amendments and in many cases the laws amended already have been amended from once to a score of times. Inevitably a tangle results and the courts are given more work. A case in point is the recent decision of the Supreme Court on the prohibition law as it concerns possession of booze. The legislative intent was clear, but because an error was made in writing an amended title to an amended law. a section of the act was held invalid. This sort of thing is going on in all the States and in the Federal practice as well. In Indiana particularly a codification of the laws is needed. This has been accomplished in some other States. In the aggregate, it is estimated that during 1922 nearly 200.000 pages of reports of the decisions of the courts were added to the already huge mass of American legal precedent. The consequent uncertainty of the law is a principal cause of the law's delays and of the miscarriage of justice. crippling EE thousand letters were sent to sport sBIRDS I men from one side of the United .States to NO SPORT X the other asking them what they thought of the five-shell automatic shotgun, the weapon that fills the landscape with lead until the last bird is out of sight. Twenty-seven hundred answered and all hut 125 declared against it—advocated that the cruel and indecent contraption be abolished by law. if necessary. Men who know say that the automatic shotgun makes ten cripples to one bird that it brings to bag. The cripples hide away irom humans but soon fall easy prey to the vermin of the air and the field. No real sportsman will carry anything more deadly than a double-barreled shotgun when he goes afield for birds. The fairminded sportsman finds pleasure in giving game some slight chance. And the bird that manages to escape man, dog and two barrels of hurtling death has earned itself another respite of life —a respite until a surer shot draws a head on it. SAVE A ‘T"jrT’OULD you * ies ' tate to save a human life if HUMAN %/%/ such an act were in your power? Your LlfE! ff answer, of course, is that you would not. You have an opportunity to prove the sin cerity of your answer, to save not only one human life, but many. the Bible lands, that territory of which all of us have read so much, but about which most of us know so little, are thousands of children and thousands of grown-ups who actuallv will die il you do not act to save them. They are far awav and you do not know them personally, but they are human beings, nevertheless. They are .suffering from lack of clothing, and winters are as bitter there as they are here. They are looking to you to help them. llow would you feel if your child were dving from exposure and there lived in the world people who had plentv but who through negligence did not move to help him? Persons in Indianapolis who have interested themselves in these people have arranged a bundle day May 1 when you can contribute your east-off clothing, shoes, underwear, suits, coats, blankets, to save human lives. Arrangements have been made for you to take your bundles to the nearest church or fire station. They will be gathered up and shipped by the Near East Relief to those who need them. There is not a person in Indianapolis who could not make a contribution. Last year the Near East Relief shipped three carloads from Indianapolis. Let s make it twice as many' this year. Remember: The date is May 1 and the place is the nearest fire station or church. WHERE ERMANY is enforcing its law that compels DAD'S I husbands to give a third of their incomes to PAY GOES VJ their wives to maintain the family table. Lent and other household expenses do not come out of the third. How much of father's pay is spent for food in vour household? Forty-three cents out of each $1 spent by the average American wage earner s family of five goes for food, according to the National Industrial Conference Board, leading expert In such matters. The humble stomach is nearly half of our problem of existence.

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You can get an answer to any question or fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis _ Times. Washington Bureau, New Yotv Ave., Washington, D C inclosing 2 cents in stamps Medical, legal and love and marriage advice cannot he given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or paper, speeches etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be an - swereii, but all letters are confidential and receive personal replies—Editor. What is the composition of cow’s milk? Eighty-seven and two-tenths per cent water and 12.8 per cent solids. The principal ingredients of the solids are fat. 3.7 per cent; casein. 3 per cent: albumin. .5 per cent: milk sugar, 4.9 per cent and ash or salts, .7 per cent. What were three important decisions of the Supreme Court? The Dred Scott decision, which declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional; the decision in the Mar bury vs. Madison case, which arrogated to the Supreme Court the right to void a law of Congress, and the decision which declared the child labor law unconstitutional. What was the quickest trip ever mazle around the world? So far as there is a record, that of John Henry Mears in 1913/in which

the time consumed was thirty-five days, twenty-one hours. thirty-six minutes. This, by far, eclipses Nellie Biy’s famous trip in 1889, in which the time was seventy-two days, six hours, eleven minutes. What countries of the world have the most Jews? Boland and Ukrainia, each with 3,300,000. The United States Is a close second with an estimated Jewish population of 3,100,000. Where did the x-arimis nations bury their “unknown soldiers?” France, at the Arche de Triomphe; Britain, in Westminster Abbey; Italy, in Victor Emmanuel monument on the Piazza Venezia: Portugal. Batalha monastery: United States, In Arlington Cemetery. How many persons between the ages of and 20 years attend school In the United States? According to the census of 1920. 21 - 373.976. Which Is the largest W hat is its area and what is its population? Asia, area 17,052,000 sqqare miies; population. 890,000,000. /

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SHEIK OR BUSINESS MAN:

By NORRIS QUINN A EA Service Staff Writer CLEVELAND, April 27.—What type of men do American women love—not with the love that impels them merely to marry, but with the deep devotion that leads them to risk all, to defy convention, to court public censure? Do they turn to the '•sheik” — youthful, slender, faultessly tailored in jazz attire, oiled of hair, short on romance? Or do hey give their affection to the middle-aged man of affairs, whom good living has made a little stout about the waistband, whose features time has denuded of hand someness, whose youthful sense of romance one or two ‘‘misunderstanding wives” have dimmed —but whose purse and checkbook stand up under the most rigorous demands? Os these two typos, which would the average American girl choose? Which would you ehcose? Writing from Dos Angeles. Jack Jungemeyer. motion picture observer for The Indianapolis Times, says American women are turning their love from the prosaic American type and bestowing it on the sylph-like Batin type—as witness Rodolph Valentino's vogue among the flappers. “Sheik a Challenge" Still another motion-picture writer snys that Valentino is a standing challenge to every American busi-ness-man husband —that American husbands, to hold their wives' affer tions, must emulate Valentino and his ilk. must forget the stock market occasionally for a few poetic words of love or a kiss on the finger tips. But facts don't seem to bear this out. Four men have recently been In the public eyes as figures in spectacular love cares—and not a one of them can in the wildest imaginings he ch: acterized as a "sheik” nor does one of them approach the BatIn type The first of these is the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall. New Brunswick (N. J.) rector, found shot to death in a park beside the murdered body of Mrs. Eleanor Mills, his orgarist. a woman of romantic bend, who in fervid letters to the rector had told him of her love for him The Rev. Hall was fat —he was INDUSTRIES FLOURISHING in Balkans New Republic of Czechoslovakia Becoming Peat Manufacturing Nation, By WI LEI AM PHI 818 SIMMS SFA Service Staff U'rifrr PILSEN. April ,27.—Remember "The Prince of Pilsen?" Or Pi! sener beer? Well, I'm writing this at the place nopoly In the rod SIMMS fez trade in Turkey, Asia Minor and that part of the world. It may be that that fuzzy hat you’re wearing came from this same kind. They make them hero in vast quantities. ' Bohemian glassware and porcelain is world famous. Bohemia is the western end of Czecho-Blovakla. Only Great Britain, America, Germany, France and Russia exceed Czechoslovakia in exports. She produced In a year 1,470,000 tors of sugar, I.3oo,ooo'tons of beer. 500,000 tons of malt, 200,000 tons of alcohol, 11,500 tons of hops, 430,000 tons of cured meats, 782.000 tons of porcelain, pottery, etc,: 700,000 dozen pairs of gloves, 25,000,000 pairs of shoes, 185,000 tons of metal goods, machines and metals: 000,000 tons of steel and iron products, 45,000 tons of enamel ware, 194,000 tons of cotton. wool, linen and jute: 14! .000 ' tons of textiles, and so on Makes Autos, Too f have just finished a long motor ride through a New England-like country in ji “Praga” automobile. It was a bully machine —made In this country The locomotive which pulled thei train 1 rode in from Tetschen, on the Czechoslovak frontier to Prague, tiie capital, was built in the Bohemian Moravian works at Prague. It was a real mogul, too. Harvesters, tractors, all sorts of “heavy” machinery, railroad rails, j bridge works, great cast mirrors and mirror-cutting—these are some of the ' things Czecho slovaks do well and in j quantity. Did you know there are forty-eight furniture factories In Czechoslovakia r,nd that the United States, next to Italy, is the largest importer of the furniture? That the ICrizik electrical works at Bodenbach is one of the biggest In Europe? That the Ringhofer works. Smlchov, Prague, makes trains de luxe for Egypt? That both Prague and Pilsen have airplane far tories? Jazz Instruments That probably those jazzing wind instruments you shimmy to or shiver over were made in Kraslice or Hradec Kralove in the Ore Mountains? This new republic, born at Versailles, Is hoping hard that nothing happens to start something in nervous, jumpy Europe. She has nothing to gain by war and everything to lose NEXT: The fate that menaces! Europe’s “flsli.” Frogs that bark like dogs were discovered in the wilds of Santo Do mingo by an exploration party

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pudgy. He dressed always in Bomber attire. He wore spectacles. His love notes showed his literary' background was a theological one not one of love poems. He was just an ordinary, middle-aged, well-to-do, colorless man. Mitchell’s Case No one ever regarded J. Kearslej Mitchell, the Philadelphia millionaire, was the sort of a man to whom the romantic would appeal, until the murder of Dorothy King, the New York model. To his friends and associates, Mitchell had seemed Just a kindly disposed. middle-aged man, a little thick in the waistline, with the good fortune to be blessed with plenty of money, a fine family and an enviable social position. Then there's James A. Stillman. Testimony at his wife’s divorce proceedings -which were successful — alleged that for years Stillman, a bank president had held the love of a stage beauty, whose charms would easily have permitted her to make a creditable marriage. Stillman was bald-headed, wore eye-glasses and was an ordinary American business type. He could tell you the closing price of any bond on the New York market but he was not as fluent at quoting love verses. Jake Hnmnn was another Clara Smith lavishe I her love on him and finally shot him because she feared phe'd lose him. ITamon bad the most attractive features of the men

TOM SIMS SAYS: WHO remembers the good old days recently when 10(1 Ik. hours waa the non-stop / W wBHk dancing record? / t • • • I -||p% ■*£'*** > 771|| Man claims the queen of Spain It, fMj doesn't dress properly. We claim he \ %.. shouldn’t watch her dress. \ Movie actors hold the non stop marrying record. Pittsburgh will build a church twenty stories high, which will not get them any closer to heaven. Collectors hold the non-stop coming back record. Lassen Peak, our only active volcano, is breaking out, hut it may be just a spring rash. • • • Street cars hold the non-stop at your corner record. “Where are we gninc?" asks a reformer. We don’t know, unless it is to a ball game. • • • Sugar holds the non-stop at a reasonable price record. I • In Washington $500,000 worth of wood burned, but none of the Congressmen lost their heads. Rockefeller holds Ihe non-stop making money record. • • * Coolidge holds the non-stop being pretty quiet record • • * Plumbers hold the non-stop a leak record. • • • Many parents are not on spanking terms with the children.

America Getting Out of Mud by Building New Paved Roads

KY HERBERT QUICK THERE Is such a thing ns having too many good roads; but who can point out any State which has too many now? Ten years ago the traveler returning from Europe always exclaimed, "O, Europe’s really civilized! Their roads show that. America is still barbarous —as shown by the same teat! We ought, to he ashamed of our roads!” That little item which appeared the other day telling the world that the State of Missouri has over $25,000,000 in road-building already contracted for, and will be spending in five years Sure He Will! By BERTON BRAI.EY I MET a little caddy as 1 wandered past the links, I said to him, "This golfing game Is foolish ness, rnethinks. To take a silly little ball and hit It with a stick For grown-up men. It seems to me. Is such a childish trick 1" The little caddy grinned at me, *Tve heard that stuff before: But once you've whacked that little ball. you'll whack at It some more: And by and by you'll find that golf Is all you think about, For Colonel Bogle'll git yuh If yuh don't watch out. lIT HE old and young and middle aged. I've I seen 'era as they fall. For once you go and take a swat at that there little ball. You're gonna have the fever If you hit It far and high. You'll seek to beat your record and you'll moke another try. And it your first shot ain't no good—to show the world that you Could do a whole lot better If you really wanted to. You’ll take another wallop After that there ain't no doubt That Colonel Bogioil git yuh If yuh don't watch out.” I SCORNED that little caddy's words. I took a club from him, I swatted at that little ball with vigor and with vim; It sailed away into the blue, I proudly saw it flit. Ar.d ever since that fata! swat I've failed to equal It! Around the links I plod and plod, forever hopeful-hearted That some day I may make a drive like that with which I started: Beware, beware, on mortals all, of that Initial clout. Or Colonel Bogle'll hit yuh if yuh don't watch out! (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.)

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Four challenges to the “sheik,” who'd win American women’s love. Left to right, James A. Stillman, Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and J. Kearsioy Mitchell. Below, Jake 1 lamon. under discussion, but he was a busi ness man. hotter verse.l in ol! and folitlcs than in the arts of amour. What's the answer? Have girls tiirm-d their i.llegietiee from the American businessman type? And if a young man wants to gain devoted love should he buy Jazz clothes or save his money till he gets a million?

in her roads tho sum of $60,000,000 to do in tiulf a decade what at her habitual rate it would have taken her seventy six years to accomplish—-that Item of news is what evokes this little preachment. Missouri Is getting out of the mud! But Missouri is not the only State West Virginia, with the worst roads In (he United States, is astonishing herself by tho roads she is building Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Y’ork. New England, New Jersey—they are getting out of tho mud. And if you want to see really wonderful roads, go to the Pacific Coast —or you might, try Colorado. In fact, I don't "now of 1 any State that is not gt this moment getting out of the mud through that I essential badge of high civilization—- | good roads. Ami these roads /ire doing wonders to help out the communities when the railways break down under their load of traffic as tiiey do whenever business gets good. Now the roads by which we are getting out of tho mud in Missouri and everywhere tiro ajl built on tax

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SENATE NO PLACE FOR POOR MAN | One-Fourth of Members Are Bona Fide Delegates for Millionaires' Club, By JOHN CARSON Time* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 27. —You’ve heard of the ''Millionaire Cabinet" with which the President surrounds himself—now meet the Millionaire Senate which the people of the United States elected to rule them. One fourth of the members of the Senate tire bona fide members of the "Millionaires’ Club." nut her onefourth of the Senators are in a position to make a running Jump Into the club. They're rich men. Another nn>--fount!. ar*- comfortably well off. while only a few Senators arc poor men. This Isn't any criticism r,f the ' nlted Stales Senate It just isn't my place for a poor man, any Sen cor there will toll you. The rich "ten need their millions when their , wives hit their social strides. "It takes an income of $25,000 a v. ar to play just the fringes of so e-ty," a Senator said. "To do It tight you need SIOO,OOO a year.” There are twenty-six milionaires. itwemy two of them Republicans and l hut f uir of them Democrats, j Glassed as wealthy, or worth from if 300,000 to *1,000,000. : here r,re twentyt two rich Senators, fifteen of them Re- ! publicans and seven of them Demoi crats. Comfortably fixed, or worth, say, from JlOO.otio to $300,000, are a dozen Senators, of whom seven are Repub l'rans and five are Democrats. Want '*> know how your Senator rates in ihe Senate? Well, these lists may not be the final word, hut this is j where their colleagues place the in I dividual Senators, financially speak I ing: Twenty-Six Millionaires Millionaires— Br an and age e. Calder, i Capper, Colt, Oouzens, Edge, Elkins. ! France. F: i-linghnysen, Gerry. Hitch cock, Kendrick, Keyes. Bodge, McCormick. M Kinley McLean, Nicholson, Pepper, Phipps, Ree l of Pennsylvania. Smoot, Underwood, Wadsworth and Warren. Wealthy, or worth from $300,000 to $1.000,000 Uursum, Culbertson, Cum m ns. Glass. Gooding, Harreld, Me N iry, Moses, Nelson, Odille. Gwen, Page, Pitman, Simmons, Smith. Stanfield, Weller, Dial, Curtis, Jones of Now Mexico, Ernst. Comfor'aldy fixed, or worth SIOO,OOO to s3oo,oii0 —Kellogg, Myers, Norbeck, Reed of Missouri, Shortridge, Spencer, Sutherland, Ball, Bayard, Overman, Walsh of Montana, Swanson. Poor, or worth SIOO,OOO or lees— Ashurst. Borah. Caraway, Harrison, Johnson of California, Jones of Wash lngton. King. Ba Follette, Lenroot, Mi i umber. McKellar, Norris, Poin dexter, Pomerene, Robinson. Sheppard, Shields, Stanley, Sterling, Townsend, Trammell, Walsh of Massachusetts, Watson, Williams, Willis, ILar ris, Brookhart. Heflin. To be u rth less than a million and to make much of a ripple In official Washington is a difficult task. Men like Borah and Ut Follette do It only because of powerful personalities. They don't, play official society and official society is all powerful when favors are desired. The threads of official society run through all official life and they are capable of being pulled only by those In official society. But official society costs money. free bonds—so far as they are built on borrowed money. We couldn t build them if we couldn’t issue tax j free bonds. The constitutional amend j merit, which is demanded by every ' Interest that can't issue tax-free bonds —the amendment which will make , State, town, county, irrigation, drainage. school and Federal farm loan | bonds all taxable—will end the era of low interest for public improvements It will stop our getting out of the ; mud, for one thing. It. will do a lot i of other things. And before that amendment is passed 1 feel sure that I a lot of citizens, including the Ameri j can Farm Bureau Federation—will do j some head scratching and some heavy j thinking. Ho who thinks it will pass j by acclamation has another think coming.

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BORAH DUBS COURT IDEA ‘COWARDICE’ Idaho Solon Says We Cannot Gather Fruits of League and Still Fight It, 11 v United Ncw WASHINGTON, April 27—While Administration Senators, privately opposed to the International Court of Justice, wore seeking some escape from their dilemma. Senator Borah came forward Thursday with a carefully prepared statement disputing President Harding's major contention that the United States can join the tribunal and yet stay out of the League of Nations. If Ihe league fails, the court fails, Borah argues. "What kind of a position of stultification would a man be in who, under such circumstances, would stand up and argue that this court is a great thing, that we ought to preserve It, but we must destroy the founda tion upon which it rests?" Borah asks. Political Cowardice If the league of Nations has <■ routed a court, which is worthy of our adherence, I say that it is downright political cowardice to undertake t gather the fruits of the league and still continue to fight the league." Borah is convinced that membership in the court will inevitably lead to membership in the league, despite Harding's assurance at New York that America would not enter the world body by the back door, the side door or the cellar. Other irrecon- j cilahles take the same position. Administration Senators, however, : are now less concerned about the merits of the issue than they are j about reconciling their personal con- ■ victions and the demand of the Presi- ! dent for party loyalty. Watson for Harmony Although Senator Watson said that the court was t ot mentioned In his i',.mforence with the President, he predicted that "everything would come ut ;tll right," and declared ho was for "party harmony." He declined to ' < i mment on the New York speech on fbe court project. Watson has re- | vised the manuscript of a, speech ha is tr make at Pittsburgh Friday night | Borah said he could not understand those who insist that we must join everything the league creates, and yet stay out of the league. “I think it is an impossible proposition," lie continued. "It would never have been suggested if political exigency did not seem to require it." To keep London's great royal gardens in order 1.000 gardeners and la borers tire employed.

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Marguerite Abbott Barker (above! and Ruth Helen Davis, who have come to the fore as successful playwrights in Nexv York. Marguerite Barker owns the Greenwich Village Theater. AIR BOOTLEGGERS SOUGHT Texas Sheriff Appoints Aviator for Deputy. TEMPLE, Texas, April 27.—Herbert Kindred has been appointed flying deputy sherig of this county by Sheriff Albert Bonds. It will be the duty of Kindred to patrol the rural districts by airplane to prex'ent the landing of runt runners in airplanes. It is stated that these aerial bootleggers and smugglers have been mak tng a practice of landing !n this county to take on gasoline on theicvovages north with cargoes of oon-l traband.