Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1923 — Page 4

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WHAT IS yHAT constitutes rood citizenship? A GOOD \/\/ The ° f ber day in California. former CITIZEN? Y Y Governor Pardee, a widely respected citizen of that State, took the stand in the case of Col. Theo. Gier, millionaire wine merchant, on t rial for bool legging. and testified Gier was “a good citizen.'’ Gier, however, was found guilty and in sentencing him to three months in jail in addition to a heavy fine, Federal Judge Partridge, referring to Pardee, said: “I emphatically take exception to his statement. No man can be a good citizen and violate the law. I believe that an example should be made of Gier inasmuch as he is a prominent man, familiar with the law and even a former office holder in the county where be lived.” So much for Gier. Now. how about. Pardee and all the other “prominent and highly respected citizens” who rush to the aid of law violators when caught in the toils? DANGER w Reserve Bank officials ‘‘see danIN CREDIT M ger” in the rapidly ineroasins credit deDEMAND .X mand—by which they mean the steady advance in the total amount of money bor rowed by business organizations. When prices are rising and the buying power of the dollar accordingly shrinking, business has to have a larger volume of money to do even the former amount of business. Professor Fisher is right. We need a dollar stabilized by something like an elastic gold backing, to keep its buying power always at about the same level. Work out. a way and you HI have the bullet, that will kill or seriously wound Old Man Hard Times. WARREN XU" T TTH flying and cannon booming and the IN PLACE \I\J young skipper. Herbert Hartley on the OF BILL Y Y bridge, the biggest thing afloat will steam out of New York harbor on the Fourth of July. \ In the grand salon will hang Howard Chandler Christy’s masterpiece—President Harding, life size, in hand painted oils—just where old Kaiser Bill used to hang, for the Leviathan of A1 Lasker’s fleet Is the Yaterland of “Deutschland über Alles.” MOAN British spend 200 million doll ars a year on OVER I fox hunting, according to a hook published DEBTS JL. in London. The author. G. W. Clark, comments that this is more than the interest Britain has to pay on her debt to America. The English are doing a lot of moaning about that debt, but the cost of hunting foxes is a painless form of extraction. Human nature. We Americans foam at the mouth when the cost of necessities advance even a trifle. When it. comes to luxuries and amusement, we fling onr money away gladly. The high cost of living is ;.n outrage, but the cost of high living is usually satisfactory. CANT recent American Marathon race showed CHEAT I that long distance running does not affect. NATURE X the heart as much as the legs. So say the doctors who X-rayed the runners' hearts and kept close watch on them. Endnrance contests may not at the time materially injure a professional runner or an amateur who has “worked up to it” gradually by proper training. But for the untrained it is dangerous and harmful. And trained or untrained marathon run ners and endurance dancers will pay later in life. You can’t cheat nature. FORD ■ suddenly rising prices of materials are I unnecessary, says Henry Ford. “ManufacPRICES X t.urors are beginning to bid against one another and with every hid prices move np a not eh. In way they are playing the raw material interests’ game, and unless a wiser view is taken tlm ond of it all is going to be another stoppage of business Most ot us need a guardian when times are prosperous.

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You can get an answer to any question 2* or Information by writing to the Washington Bumiu, 1322 X. T Are.. Washington, D. C., enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Mecica:, legal, anti love anti marriage adcannot be given, nor can extended re•oarch be undertaken, or paper, speeches, etc. be prepared. Unsigned letter* cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. — EDITOR. Is there any truth in the statement that sleeping in moonlight has a harmful effect on the mind? No. not in the temperate zona. Sleeping exposed to the-full rays of a tropical moon might prove harmful to one's health. What is a heliograph? An instrument for taking photograph of the sun? What is a kaleidoscope? An Instrument which by means of mirrors causes objects viewed through it to be repeated in symmetrical patterns. When were the ordinary pearl buttons used on our shirts, and other buttons, first manufactured in this country. The making of fresh water pearl buttons from mussel shells, according to Science Service, dates only from 1891, Buttons of brass and wood have been made in this country since about 1750: metal buttons since 1800: horn buttons 3ince 1812; marine shell buttons since 1856, and buttons of composition since 1862. Does sunlight contain rays which can cure rickets? There are certain short wave lengths of those rays of sunlight which are too rapid for the eye to detect which are able to cure rickets. Recent experiments, however, indicate that there are also longer rays which can neutralize the effect of the beneficial rays. Light that has passed through ordinary window gla.*9 has no curative value. What were some important throve ries in the treatment of disease during the past thirty years? The discovert- of radium by M. and Mme. Curie In 1898, whereby some ad vanrement has been made in the treatment of cancer and cancerous growths; the discovery of the Rontgen or X-Ray by Rontgen in 1896, hy means of which photographic plates of the inside or of the human body can be made-

the progress made in the treatment of tuberculosis, and the recent development in the field of the preparation of vaccines to render higher animals and man Immune from the action of bacteria. Who wrote the following of tobacco: "Pernicious weed! Whose scent the fair annoys. Unfriendly to society’s chief joys; Thy worst effect Is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.” Cow per in "Conversation.'’ INDIANAPOLIS MAY BE 1924 CONVENTION CITY Spencer Is Recommended for Presidency of Teachers. By Times Sp'ecial BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 3.—lndianapolis was recommended by the nominating committee today as the convention city for 1924 of the Indiana Music Teachers' Association. Arnold Spencer, Indianapolis, was named president by the nominating committee of the Indiana Music Teachers Association in its forty-sixth an nual convention here today. Other nominations were: Mrs. Minnie Kim ball. Greencastle, vice president: Lee McCauley, Bloomington, secretary; Mrs. Myra Gerdart, Jxjgansport, treasurer. Memorial Building Dedicated By Timet Special BATESMLLE. Ind., May 3—Dedication of the Memorial building erected on the site of the old city hall began today. Rev. Adelbert gave the invocation. The dedication address was made by Perry N. Faulkner. commander of the American Legion. Activities will continue through Saturday. Pay Or Jail—Takes Jail Bti I nited Press MUNCIE. Ind.. May 3. —Harry C. Nesteroad of Marion is in the Muncle ja: toda\ The court declared he will remain there until he pays his divorced wife $551 due her for support. "That's like a life sentence, judge. ' dec*red Nesteroad when the eommittmi| was read.

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‘LEAGUE OR WAR’ SAYS ECONOMIST ; Yale Expert Declares U. S. Must Join Association of Nations. ! Ry SKA Service NEW YORK, May 3.—“ We have our simple choice, league or war.” j This Is the declaration of Irving I Fisher, the Yale economist, and au- ! thority on international affairs. In his new book. ‘‘League or War.’’ which will be put on sale by Harper & Brothers May 7. Fisher continues: “To be specific, the United States should enter the league for many reasons of self-interest, namely: ‘‘l. To keep a foreign market for our farmers and manufacturers. “2. To enable Europe to pay some of Its debts to the United States “3 To maintain our greatest International asset, international goodwill. “4. To avoid the need of a costly Navy and Army “5. To avoid wars which would injure and probably involve ourselves. The Alternatives ‘‘The last reason Is th btggeot one; although. In a distorted per spe.-tive, It scents so far o(T as to be the smallest. We need the league to escape world war. “If we choose the league w in America can have peace and pros perlty through the ages The other' alternative is too horrible to contemplate:'' Fisher recounts the tremendous toll of the World War—sl6B,ooo,ooo,ooo in money, uncounted billions of dollars worth of devastatlorvon land and sea, 10.000,000 solid* rs lulled 30,000. 000 civilians sacrificed, deterioration of morals and morale, of health and racial vlgoi—and. he asserts: “ The next war’ will probably cost more in every one of these ways In that war not soldiers only but helpless women and children will le asphyxiated by the newly invented gas bom be to he dropped from the sky. Whole cities, like New York, will have their Inhabitants put to death by this method and its buildings set on lire by other gas devices World Suicide ‘The next world war means the suicide of the.world. “This is not the kind of a nightmare that we have in our dreams. It Is a nightmare of broad daylight. “It simply represents the hard oold facts of modern warfare as thus far developed without a.ny guessing a a to the further developments which future miliary science has surely in store for a world so blind a.s to coun tenance war To destroy war has become a necessity. No other interest can be allowed to hold it hack 'Either clvl llzation must destroy war or war will destroy civilization.’ "One of these alternatives leads us ! through the League of Nations to a world of peace. Justice and prosperity. The other leads us through war to a world of death and destruction Which shall It be? League nr war?’’

RICH AND POOR GIVE LAST DOLLAR 10 AID SAUNDERS Memphis Citizens Rally to Save ‘Grocery Clerk’ From Bankruptcy, Tty X. mtcii Prnsti MEMPHIS. TVnn., May 3.—<Jia.rence Saunders, Ptggly Wiggly magnate, was just a plain grocery clerk again today to hundreds of the home-town folks who rallied to his aid in the greatest financial crisis of his sensa tional career. Five hundred men and women, worshippers of the millionaire grocer who i recently fought Wall Street to a.standsttll, but who admits now “the street" has him backed to the wall, rallied to Saunders aid and pledged their I moral and financial support to save him from bankruptcy. Memphis citizenship, rich and poor ! alike, pledged their last dollar to save Piggly Wiggly for Memphis and the j South. SURGICAL KIT IS FIRST CLEW IN MYSTERY CASE Son Says Father Held Instruments as Threat Against Relative. By United Press AURORA. Ills.. May 3. —Discovery of a kit of surgical instruments used In Illegal operations, in the home of Warren J. Lincoln, today gave police the first tangible clew in attempts to trace the attorney and kinsman of Abraham Lincoln, missing under mysterious circumstances. John Lincoln, a son, said his father was holding the instruments as threats of prosecution against one of nls relatives by marriage. Accessories Stolen Auto accessories valued at $66 were stolen from the Wilbur Johnson Company. automobile'distributors. 1739 N. Pennsylvania St. Fire Causes 8200 latss

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TOM SIMS SAYS: bads arc having a swell time. “A.s ye how so shall reap” isn’t always true when a niau reads the seed catalogues. / if ignorance was bliss all the I pri : grouches would lie happy. V I \ tgpwgwjjplt jmmf It in very easy to rise in your own A bird in the hand is worth two in "UJ** the garden. ** Our rising generation is going to the dogs iust exactly tike all rising generations have done. Tt is estimated that every last June groom knows how to hook up a dress h}* this time. Washington doctors are puzzled over a man who can’t sleep, because he is single and out of debt. I/ike sugar, those as sweet ns it are getting more expensive. < omplimcnts don't last long unless you return them One successful bathing suit censor is with us again it is the mosquito. • • * A little moonlight now and then often marries the best of men.

Meetings Here Friday American Railway Association < 'onvention—Severin. State History Teachers’ Asno ciatlon t 'onvention—Soverin Roy Scouts’ Executive Conference. Luncheon —Linooln. Indiana Child Welfare Assocta tion, Luncheon —Lincoln. American Institute of Eleotri oal Engineers. Dinner—Spink Arms. Exchange Club. Luncheon— Lincoln. Optimists’ Club. Luncheon Claypool. Woman’s City Club, Lunohaon —Seventh floor C. of C. Delta Tau Delta. Luncheon— Board of Trade. Knights of Columbus Lunch eon—Spink-Arms. Industrial Leaders. Luncheon —Seventh floor C of C. Laymen's League. Luncheon — Seventh floor C. of O.

WOMEN ID TEST PARTY STRENGTH Strength of the two major political parties among the League of Women Voters will b<* shown this evening when the State president of the organization will be elected. The Democratic faction is supporting Mrs. Christian Evy of Conners villa and Mrs. Isaac Born, while the Republicans are working for Mrs. Thomas Arthur Carlisle of Ft. Wayne. Resolutions were passed by the i convention today making the ''fiftyfifty” bill one of the main pieces of work of the league in the coming year and the promotion of world peace and 1 the war prevention campaign one of the chief themes of study. The living cos t committee was aßked to work immediately and report through the league on the threatened | raise in sugar, which was designated : as coming from "no natural economic causes.” A resolution deploring the number of crime stories and askingeditors to consider their effect also was passed. Relief Carps to Initiate The Joseph R. Gordon I‘ost of the Woman’s Relief Corps. No. 43. will i initiate five candidates Friday afternoon at the n A R Hall 222 E I Maryland 8t U

LOCAL DRUGGISTS PASS STATE EXAM Thirty-Five Successful Applicants Announced. Thirty-five Indianapolis men are in the list of successful aplicants 1 for registered and assistant pharmacists, the State hoard of pharmacy announced today. Indianapolis man. with registered rating: August D. Borley, William S Ankonbrock, Fred W. Kruger, Glenn L. Kennedy. Edward J. Meunler, Flavius E. Ulery and Henry S. Washburn. Those granted assistants’ certificates: Hibbard O Ball, Robert W, Hertz, George E. Barrett, Ernest D. Armen. Charles 11. Barclay, H. I>. B!r----kenruth, Alden Copeland. Merrill Q. Christie. Donald Denial****, Doliner Potts. Lawrence L. Jackson. Carl E. Kell. Clarence T. Kale, J. Wilbur Keitzer. Hurry C. Moore, Charles W. Magness, Harry H. Moore, Pierre S. Morgan, Hersoliel D. Nelson, Hugh D. O'Daniel, William S. Potter, John R. Parrish, Charles E. Stephenson. Richard G. Teeter, R. S West, David W. McGuire, Harold Wllkens and Dwight M. Whitcomb. WIFE AND BROTHER OF EX-GOVERNOR INJURED By Times Special WINCHESTER. Ind.. May 3.—Edward S. Goodrich, brother of ex Governor Goodrich, and the former's wife are suffering from Injuries received when their automobile left the road and struck an abutment, hit a telephone pole and turned over. The accident occurred seven miles south of here. Mr. Goodrich lias a broken rib which doctors fear is pushing against the heart. Mrs Goodrich received severe bruises. New Deputy Named Appointment of William Dale Cartwright as deputy in the income tax division of the Internal Revenue Department was announced by M. Bert Thurman, collector, today. He sue coeds Clyde C. La Itue. resigned. Shooting Fatality Hy Times Special RICHMOND, ind.. May 3. —William E. Hlnshaw. 51, accidentally shot himself fatally while cleaning a rifle. He !b survival! by his widow and sevaral •iatara.

Ohio Executive Places Three Prisoners in Household as Servants and Puts Implicit Trust in Them— Gails Men His Boys, By MAURICE HENLE XEA Service Staff Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio. May 3.—Governor A. Victor Donahey of Ohio had been talking earnestly for a half hour, telling the remarkable story of Jim, Hill and Ed. . 1-inally he leaned heavily on his desk, involuntarily extended an arm, and in a voice that trembled slightly with emotion said: And let me tell you, that 1 would rather trust those three bovg, and I do, than many men who come to me in this office,seeking this or that, speaking honeyed words, free men, who sit in that very chair in which you are seated.”

Tire remarkable story of the redemption by the governor of Jim, Bill and Ed! Ed. who tried to pass a worthless check! Jim and Bill who killed Soon after he wap inaugurated, Donahey slipped down to the Ohio periltentiaxy. “I want three servants for the executive mansion.” he told the warden. “1M me see some prisoners who have! good records.” Donahey the Governor talked long and confidentially to Jim and Bill and Ed—the convicts—(those names ■will do ar; well as any.) He knew he had found the three men to show the ! world the truth of his theories. He placed In them his complete trust—a man’s greatest gift—-and brought them away from the gray walls, to live again with free men, as free men. . . . ‘Those three would die for me,” I said Donahey. “T call them my hoys. ! Technically they still are serving I term*, .Tim and BUI for life. Ed for a i number of years. But 1 intend that some day they will he pardoned. And ; when they go again into society, they I will be different men. “We talk freely to each other. They t bring their little troubles to me . Nothing is held back. It is difficult j sometimes to make yourself under ! Mood: all I can tel! you is that I trust i then fully. Car. 1 say more? I am i not aft aid to leave Mrs. Donahey or I my laughter in the house with them. True, tlrere are civilian employes too. but that would make no difference ”1 mention this because in a small way—an experimental way, if you will —lt m exactly what would happen if society itself would do the same with all men who come hack who really I deserve i second chance . “I do not allow my three boys to de- ; lude themselves They know they are going hack some day Into society. ’’Some men in prison, of course, are j too far gone They are hopeless The 'only place for them is behind walls. But the one thing that Is deepest in my heart is a longing to help those poor fellows who slipped once “Separate them from the hopeless ones Don’t 1 pep them In dirty cells and behind walls all dav long Get them out on the firms Give them a place to breath-, the sunlight, to work with God's too ■< to prepare them selves to come hack. • • # “What leads to most of the crime among this class of so-called criminal? Passion Anger and Jealousy. Case after case may he seen over there behind those walls. Punish them, of course But not tn a way that It Is Impossible for them to he decent men i any* more “The • <.,<! i r 'he world today ■ old f shioned discipline in both public :i I private Ilf, We need offi i corn to administer the laws who under stand not only me letter of it but the i spirit as well. We need discipline in j the family Yon can remember when I almost ail families said gruoa' before j meals How many familtea do that I now? Those little things count tn youth,”

WORKERSSPEED HOSPITAL DRIVE Organization Continues as Goal Looms. Tlia campaign for the James Whitcomb RlleyHospital for Children was given Impetus today when additional pledges of .$30,000 were reported at a meeting of workers In the downtown anil factory districts at the Chamber of Commerce. Almus G. Riddell, Marion County chairman, presided. "With the whole-hearted help coming from ministers, groups of women, employers, labor organizations and individuals generally, the campaign now seems assured of success," Hugh McK. Landon, president of the Riley Memorial Association, said, i Organization of factories and busi ness houses is continuing throughout the city. Miss Natalie Brush, preal dent of the Junior League, and in charge of hospital booths In banks and hotels of the city, has reported on S2OO pledge and three 100 pledges, besides a number of smaller gifts. Charles A. Hunt of Jeffersonville, Third district chairman, says that the active canfpaign in the ten counties of that district will start Sunday. Court Procedure Is Topic. “Procedure in Justice of Peace Court." is the topio of Justice Edward L. Dietz, who will apeak for the Credit Education Committee at the weekly luncheon of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men, Thursday at the Claypool. Frank Slupsky, director of the education committee, has charge of the meeting Scribes Keep .Meeting Date Committees of the Republican State Editorial Association have decided not to change the date of the association’s meeting at South Bend. The meeting will be held June 7-fl. Herbert Hoover, secretary of comn',orve, will be the principal speaker.

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Missing Attorney Victim of Killer?

Attorney Warren J. Lincoln of Aurora. 111., believed to have been slain. A trail of blood-soaked papers and a blood bespattered Indian club are the only clews police have to work on. Ijncoln was a distant relation to President Abraham Lincoln. Officials Inspect Roads Several members of the State highv.iv commission left Indianapolis today on an inspection trip of roads through northern Indiana. Alvin V Burch, vice chairman of the commission: Earl Crawford and John D. Williams, director, made the trip.

Recognition of Mexico Now Lies * in Hands of President Obregon

BY W. H. PORTERFIELD Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 3.—Recog nition of Mexico, negotiations for which are to he renewed hy the two governments shortly, is r.ow wholly up to President Obregon s administration. The chief hone of contention ts the construction of Article twenty-seven of the Mexican constitution, adopted May, 1917. This constitution contains some very advanced ideas on labor, capital. Government ownership, suppression of the church. etc with all of which Becjetiu*> Hughes has repeatedly <le c'ared this Government has nothing to do, the Mexioan people being a sovereign people, have a perfect and inalienable right to organize and live tinder any form of government they choose. Our Government states categorically in its conversations with the Mexican government that it has no interest In protecting the claims of an American concession or property alleged to he owned by Americans where there is tl slightest question as to title. But. on the other hand, if Mexico is to be recognized as a member of the family of nations, It must not confiscate the property of private owners where such property titles had be>en recognized by the Government prior to the adoption of the constitution. The Carranza government was reoognlzed on its promise that such titles would be protected, hut immediatiely upon such recogntion. confiscation of properties was carried out. When Obregon came into power the State Department suggested a treaty between the two presidents to be ratified by the respective Congresses.

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FARMER AND HIGH WAGES IS PROBLEM Watered Capital and Labor Cost Figured in Freight Rates. By HERBERT QUICK. THE majority of the regular writer* who claim to he speaking for the farmers take the ground that high wages in our industries are bad for the agriculturist. They l pay that high wages in factories result in high prices for machinery, farm srup plies generally, and for clothing. They assert that high wages for railway men are the cause of the necessity for high freight rates. Water Not Cause One influential farm paper states that while there is the sum of seven billion dollars of water in the capitalization of the railways, that this wate® Is not the cause of high freight rates'.* Fifteen per cent of the high freight rates, it states, can be blamed on this watered capital, but the other 85 per cent must be charged to high wages. Its figures are mysterious. The interest on this water, if paid at the legal rate, would be over four hundred million dollars a year. If this is only 15 per cent of what high wages cost ns in increased freight rates, the labor cost would be over two and a half billions a year—which Is about the same sum labor gets. There is another side to this The main product of the farmer is food Os all foods, wheat is the one that is last subjected to the demands of economy. When people are poor, they give up meat, fruits, vegetables and dairy products before they scrimp themselves on bread. Wheat Consumption Drops Yet according to the joint commission of agricultural inquiry—Sidney Anderson’s commission—during the industrial depression it examined Into, our per capita consumption of wheat dropped from 6.9 bushels per capita to 4.6 bushels. This is a decrease in the demand for wheat of almost a third. This alone was enough to leave a surplus on hand—and it is the surplus that kills prices. Nothing more dramatically proves the dependence of the farmers on a public of working people who have ihe money with which to buy, than these figures.

covering this specifi- point. Obregon objected, but replied that an organic act of the Mexican congress con struing the article in question would be in ord- r This proposed act. when parsed, did not even touch on the point in question. It will be necessary for Mexico either to submit a satisfactory treaty covering the point at issue or for the Mexican congress to pass a satisfactory organic act. merely guaranteeing protection tp the property owr ed by Americans, on .vhich there was on question of title prior to May. 1917. Great Britain. France and fc-pain arv ready to follow suit if the United States recognizes the Obregon gov j emment. On the Heights By BEHTON BRALEV SOONER or later, they say, dear lass. The fervor and fever of love must pass And the maddest of lovers wilt settle down ; Out in the country or in the town, I To hum drum living- and routine bliss And maybe, some day. well come to this; Faithful, loyal through good or ill, : But sensing never a single thrill SUCH is our destiny, so they say. Such is ever the human way. | For the heart cant always maintain a beat As swift as the thought of you brings me. sweet: And Time of Youth is a subtle thief r.. And hit h romance ts a glamor brief , If that be true —and It's doubtless so— Let s seize our moments before they go. FOR now— you're a song on the air afi.oet, A flame !n ray heart and a catch in tny throat. | And all the magic of land or sea Ts your enchantment casr over me ; If we. must dee-end from the heights in time. Well now. at least there are heights tc. climb! ! Let the oid world wrinkle its cynical beow, j But oh it's great in the clouds just now) tCopyright. 1923. XF.A Service. Inc.)