Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1923 — Page 4

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FLYING UR old friend Shop runs out and barks at OFF THE I 1 every auto that passes. Jlis father and HANDLE ygrandfather rushed to the dusty road to bark at the old-time horse-drawn buggies and wagons. And in a few generations, when most traffic will be in the air. Shop’s descendants will scamper along underneath, barking at the huge steel birds overhead. No efficiency expert ever lias been mean enough to figure out how much energy Shep wastes by running out tc bark at every passing auto. Os course, he has to let off steam in some way. But what a futile and purposeless habit it is. We do our greatest rushing and barking about trivial, inconsequential matters. The things that excite us most, cause explosions of anger, make life miserable for ourselves and others "don’t, amount to a hill of beans." Friends quarrel, lovers part, enemies are created—usually "over nothing. ’ The really big issues of life, we meet calmly. The petty things are what cause the trouble, misunderstanding and misery. You see this proved when someone flies off the handle." PRICE -TRICKING up an economist’s report by mistake HOAX I—for a fiction magazine, a reader notices that ANGLE JL Ameriean exports of foodstuffs and partly finished manufacturing materials gained twenty-five million dollars in February, compared with February a year ago. The reader says this elated him so much, he read on. Then he learned that while the value was up (dollars'!, the physical quantity of exports (tonnaee'J dropped 6 per cent. The reader wants to know whether exports rose or fell. It depends on the viewpoint. They gained if viewed from the angle of the price hoax. Fluctuations in our foreign irade are chiefly due to changes in prices. The total tonnage rarely moves far above or below normal.

CRYING CCASIOXALLY a critic with a lazy liver ; O\ER II moans about America not heir." able to proDRAMA duce any art—our best plays coming from abroad, and so on. It rather bewilders us to pick up the London Daily Mail and find its critic. (Jordon Street, lamenting that London theaters are playing twenty-two home-made plays, against seventeen imported ones. lL* is alarmed because “The 1 nited States is an easy first where dramatic importations to this country are concerned." Distance lends enchantment. lid on rrv lE police commission in Victoria. I. C. CRIME I Canada , wants crime films suppressed, FILMS claiming that gunplay in the movies is largely responsible for crime wave among boys. One thing about the writers of the old-time melodramas and Nick Carters, they always have the villain come to grief and pictured him so that the audiences hissed. It was against professional ethics to idealize any form of crookedness or even give it. an element of alluring romance. The writer or producer who crime “cute" or heroic is a valuable allv of the underr d , ' INCREASE mediums" are quite common among IN LSE OF I the rising generation, according to spiritualCIGARETS ists. In England 13,340 children from the ages of 10 to 18 are training to be mediums, in the Lyceum i'nion Spiritualist Sunday schools. They will make a formidable missionary force. Tl not interested in the psychic, here’s something decidedly material: More than five billion cigarets are manufactured in the United States in one month. That’s nearly a third more than the output a year ago. Manufacturers are divided, whether the increase is due to women smokers or to prohibition—nervous nation seeking in tobacco the thrill it, formerly got in alcohol.

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You pan pot an answer to any question of fact or information by writing- to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau New- York Arp , Washington, D, c ’ win closing 2 cents in stamps. Medical. c<-iegai and love ami marriage advice car be given nor can extended research undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc . ;pp prepared. Unsigned, letters can not be .answered, but all letters are confidential rfnd receive personal replies —Editor In what play of Shakespeare's do the following lines occur: , “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! in form and having express and admirable! in ac- , lion how like an angel! ill apprehension how like a god?" Hamlet, Act 11. scene 2. When was King Humbert of Italy assassinated? Sunday, July 2D, 1900. By whom and when was the laccolitliic theory presented? By G. K. Gilbert, about 18?? < What do the initials K. F. V. mean? first Families of Virginia. Which signer of the Declaration of Independence was a Homan Catholic? * Charles Carroll. What will be the enlisted strength of the United States Army under the latest- appropriation art? 125.000 enlisted men. exclusive of 2.1,48 Philippine Scouts If a man had a compass in bis hand and stood on the top of a Mountain containing iron where would the needle of the compass ..point? •* It would continue to point to the magnetic North. What salaries do firemen receive in the Indianapolis fire department' 1 ... Captains. $2,200; lieutenants. $2,000; •fire? grade firemen. $1,733.75: second grade. $1,551; chauffeurs, SI,BOO. Under the War Risk Insurance law may a widow’s eompensaiion - he attached for the payment of •the debts of her husband? Xo, the law prohibits this, the section reading as follows: “The allotment and family allowances, compensation and Insurance payable under Articles two. three and four respecshall not be assignable; shall

not be subject to the claim of creditors or any person to whom an award is made under articles two. three and four and shall be exempt from taxation." (Section 28 War Risk Insurance Act.* What States produce the most maple sugar? Vermont first. New York, second. W hat is the fastest thing that runs on legs? The whippet, a racing dog. which averages 200 yards in a trifle more than ten seconds. TTp to 100 yards the greyhound is his superior, but up to 200 yards the whippet can outrun anything on legs. MAYBE THEY’LL GET THIN Dilapidated Elevator at Courthouse Or dered Stop|>ed. Fat lawyers and disgruntled judges trudged up and down stairs at the courthouse today, following two stops of the ancient elevator between floors, passengers being rescued with a step ladder. “Someone will be killed on that old contraption, and we Just gave orders to stop it until' completely overhauled,” said John Kltley. member of the commissioners board. The elevaior has fallen twice in recent years and stops between floors have delayed divorces and taxpayers too many times to count, commissioners said. Hopes By BERTON BRALEY WHEN I leave home to wander About the world a space To see what's "over yonder' tn some far distant place, I hope, when I have started. Wherever I mav flit, Friends won t be heavy hearted— Not a bitI TRUST they will not worry I When we are out of toueh. Nor get in any flurry If I don't write them much I hope they’ll do without me And shed no tears at home. Nor greatly fret about me— As I roam. (SHALL not feel resentful If comrade** still are stay Amid their lives eventful. While I am gone away; But still, I cannot stifle The hoi**, friends, countrymen. You’ll miss me—just a trifle— Now. and then. (Copyright. 1923. NBA Service, Ine)

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BANKS SHOW HAND WHEN PRICE HIKES Calendar of Sugar Gouge Indicates Wall Street Has Finger in Pie By JOHN ('ARSON. Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 4.—Here's the sugar gouge calendar to date, showing Wall Street's fine financial hand in the sugar “price hiking:” Feb. 2—Loan of $50,009,000 made to Cuba by New York financial interests, including the National City Bank. Feb. 3 —Cuban report says sugar industry strongly organized through sales organization which Includes National City Bank Feb. 3 —Cuba reports sugar growers get “better banking accommodations” to assist them to withhold their sugar crops from market. Short Time Later —Charles E. Mitchell, president National City Bank, denies a $2,000,000 sugar monopoly is being formed but admits the sugar industry is being “integrated” o) the “small units are being tied together " and that the “integration" reaches both producers and distributers of sugar. Feb. 10—Sensational reports in New York about a ‘ sugar shortage.” Prices go up. April 3 —Willett & Gray, sugar authorities, report total world production this year ia 521.626 tons greater than last year. Cuban production, at this time, is 400.73S tons greater than last year. Aptl! 10 —Total stocks of sugar in Cuba. 1,079.344 tons, or one-fifth of the yearly demand of the l'nited States. April 10 —Sugei gamblers cry that Cuban sugar fa tories are closing be cause of short crop. Willett <s■ Gray declare conditions not unusual. April 10.—Prices look like they will go down. Mysterious buying starts in New York Willett & Gray declare condition "peculiar “ Prices go back up to 7.76 cents a pound April 20 —Cuban sugar producers say they got an iverage of 4.20 cents a pound for their sugar At that rate, sugar to tin* consumer at cents should be the rule Today—Consumers pay 11 cents for sugar.

SAVSCHRISIIANITY AND SPIRITUALISM FAIL TO CONFLICT English Scientist Here Explains Three-Eold Nature of Man, “Spiritualism does not conllict with the basic teachings of Christ,' said H. J. Osborn. English psychic lecturer and journalist, when he arrived here today. He will lecture at 9 tonight, at the Masonic Temple. North and Illi nois Sts., under auspices of the Indianapolis Central Psychic Phenomena Society, on “Science, Philosophy and Religion.” “There is no reason why people should not stay in the churches to which they belong and adopt spirit ualism in addition," he continued. “Spiritualism holds the continuity of life after death. Tt teaches at the same time the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man Osborn says that man's make-up is three fold. There is Ms physical body, which every one sops: the ethereal body, which is seldom seen, and the spiritual body which no man can see. Osborn compared the ethereal body to double.exposure scenes which aro so common in moving pictures. “Moving pictures have brought ppirtualism to a high perfection by mechanical means.” he said. Osborn is a member of the Society for the Study of Super-Normal Pictures, London. Sir Conan Doyle is vice president r.f the society. Osborn hat studied spiritualism for the past fifty years. REALTY FIRM BIDS FOR SWAMP LANDS Auditor Objects to Sale at Sum Offered, The East Chicago Company, a realty firm, today offered the State a certified check for .4119,765.25 as the (inly bid on approximately 320 acres of submerged land in Lake County, part of a huge tract sought by the Jones & Laughlin steel interests for development as an industrial center. The offer bettered the State appraisal of $350 an acre by $25. Robert Bracken, Stale Auditor, in whose office the transaction was to be made, objected to the sale, contending the land was worth $350,444. Governor McCray and Ora Davies, State Treasurer, members of the sales committee to which Bracken was appointed. favored the sale. Action was expected late today. FOLK HARDENED TO SIN "Sin does not alarm people today,” so said the Rev. Joseph E Smith of Redlands, Cal., at the National Holt ness convention at the Merritt Place M. E. Church. "People look lightly upon sin,” he said. “A Christian experience that does not keep people from sin in this world would not keep them out of hell in the world to come ” The convention will oiese Sunday night.

Princess Declares Old-Fashioned Love Is All That Counts; Title Means Nothing

Bank Book Ends Mother’s Objections *.- ‘ THELMA SPURIA NO. GIRL WIFE. AND HENRY SPURRING, HER BOY-HUSBAND. By SKA Seri ice MACON, Mo., May 4—-When a bride of 12 and a husband of 19. who can earn S2OO a month together, can save half of it to buy a home, there Is no good reason for parting them merely because for their youth. Judge Walker of the Macon County Circuit Court believes so, and so Mrs. Thelma Spurling's par ents are prevented from inter', ring with the couple's married HR One of the ways Mrs Sp “ing. formerly' Thelma Ess, proved to b - court site ought to be permitted to remain with her hubby, Henry Rpurling, was to exhibit a bank hook showing a saving on the part of the two of $lt)0 a month since their marriage. The girl-wife works in a Des Moines store. Hubby' tolls for a saddlery company in that city. A few months after their marriage the bride's mother sought to annul the tie on the ground that he Missouri laws had been violated In the issuance of a license. But Thelma returned to the scene of the conflict and In addition to discoursing on tlie love that exists between the two, got down to more material things and showed the bank book. That settled it. CHICAGO 10 GET G. 0. P. CONVENTION Treasurer Upham Assures 1924 Meet for Windy City, By I nilrd I’rcn* CHICAGO. May 4 --The 1924 Republican national virtually assured to laheld In Chicago, Fred W Upborn, treasurer of the National < oirmlttee said today. Athough the national committee does not meet to pick the convention duty until next December, twenty nine of the fifty three members are til ready reported to have signed pledges to east their votes sot Chicago* “I have no doubt but what Chicago will get the convention," Upham said The meeting has been eagerly sought by cities throughout the country, es peeially on tile Pacific coast. Representatives of Republicans in California were recently in conference, with Upham urging that San Francisco be chcsen for the meeting. Teeli Seniors Hold Class Party June seniors of Technical High School held their class party Thursday afternoon in the girls’ gymna sium lancing was the chief enter tninment,. Vivian Stevenson, chair man; Robert Webb, Carlos Jefry, Virginia Foxworthy and Catherine Roberts Were in charge. Pool Selling Alleged Ora Dooley, 50. proprietor of a soft drink establishment at 6 W. Louisiana St., was arrested today by Lieutenant Richter and Sergeant Tooley on a charge of baseball pool selling.

GIVE! To the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: Please record my pledge of $ for the building fund for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children I understand In making this pledge that it is to be paid in four annual installments of $ each, the first Installment lining payable Sept. 30, 1923, and the three Installments thereafter on Sept. 30 of the next succeeding years. I also understand that I am to be notified of the amounts due as they are payable. Signature Addresß Credit this pledge to or (Name of organization) in memory of Date 1923. Solicitor Fill out the above blank and mail it to the campaign headquarters, 1503 National City Bank Building. All pledges are payable over a four-year period, one-fourth of the total pledged being payable on each Sept. 30.

Wants to Be Plain American Citizen and Look After Mother, By JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT SEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK. May 4. —“Snobs'” exclaims the beautiful Princess Dimitri Galitzine, “there's nobody in the universe perfect enough to be one.” And thereby does the princess, who was the wealthy and much sought after Miss Frances Stevens pass the final word upon international marriages and explain why, after four years as a Russian noblewoman, she is trying to regain her status aa plain American citizen. “I wanted to have an ideal dignity,” explains the princess. "I thohght how wonderful it would ire to have a title to my name, to be set apart and looked up to. “Now 1 know that a simple, good woman has an honor that all the false pride in the world can never give. “You oak what it has brought me? j This is what It lias brought—l ar rive in America, practically penniless and find my mother living on crackers and milk in order that she j might have money to send me. “My husband, scion of one of the j noblest liouses in Russia, is learning to lie a carpenter at a school for shell-shocked soldiers in France. His father, Prince Nicholas Dlmitrovich and one-time prime minister of Rus- | sia, is cobbling tho shoes of peas- j ante in Petrograd. "I—l have nothing but an empty title and an empty pocketbook. But j I've gained an education. “When we were married four ; years ago we went to Siberia on our honeymoon. ! lost $35,000 just through the Lulling money rates. In

LARGE DONATIONS REWARD WORKERS IN HOSPITAL DRIVE Additional $35,000 Reported Today—Factories and Stores Canvassed, Encour aging reports continued to be received at the headquarters today in tin* Marion County campaign for the James M hitcotnb Riley Hospital for Children, campaign leaders said. An additional $35,000 lias been subscribed. Noonday meetings will be held at the Chamber of Commerce next Tuesday and Thursday to tabulate pledges received. Sunday will be “Subscriber's day" at the building stte of the hospital where the first $500,000 building of the institution is under construction. There will bo no ceremor but men familiar with the plans for the development of the institution will be on the ground to answer questions and to point out where the hospital buildings will be placed. Meetings Held Today Meetings of employes were held today at El! Lilly & Cos., where Almus G. Rudd ell, county chairman, spoke. The Rev. N. S. Siehterman spoke to employes of I W. Jackson & Sons; Glenn Diddel spoke to employes of William P. Jungdaiis Company; Robert E. Neff at Western Furniture Company; Ernest Provo at the Indianapolis Drop Forge Company; Roy 11. Kenady, Climax Machinery Company. Homer W. Borst. Kramer Manufacturing Company. Meetings also were held at the Yuneker Bottling Works. Indianapolis Reed Company and the bans Baking Company. Miss Natalie Brush, president of the Junior League which is in charge of hospital booths in banks and hotels, reported that $3,116.06 in cash and pledges lias already been given through t lie booths These included the following: Mo ('harlottc s M oxley. $1,090; Emily Tag art Sinclair. SSOO E L Cothrqjl. $200; Donah! Jameson, Louise E. Dowden, Dr. M. .) Ram Mr. and Mrs T. A. Moynahan S. (’ Wnd'lpv Jolm C Wright SIOO each: Mr. ui-t Mr- Hrnrv 1! Doty. W. J. Holliday, George W Dtllar, Smiley N. Chambers. SSO ea.-h- George M. Oahu nan. Sol F.lumber, Efiralielh If Greer and Mr and Mrs. \Y A. Rowland, S4O each Mrs K. F. Chandler. 11. E Cook. .1 C. Si'hat Jr . Lucy H. Michel. s'l3 each. Other Subscriptions Among other subscriptions which have been reported are the following; Charles R. Ammermnn. SSO cm, Joyce lv Manufacturing Company. .$;>H. Mr. and Mrs.' Charles St. Clair. -50: Victor C. Kcnna.ll. $100: employes Rabbins Body Corporatoln. $170; R S. Foster I,umber Company hr R. S Foster, SSO: Albert W Brown, U

4 \ Mi r PRINCESS OALITZINE order to get out of Siberia I had to ship as stewardess on a cargo boat. “1 tried to set my husband up in business and lost $70,000 on the ven tore I trusted an agent with $13,000 and have seen nothing of him stnee. In other words, T paid high for my education. I've graduated from the Siberian kindergarten of crime and the French finishing school of crooks. “I landed in America the other day with SSO in my pocketbook. “I've learned my lesson. A title is Just a nice little old antique. I'm going to give up mine and l>ecome a plain American citizen so I can look after my mother. “International marriages? “Unless one has a fortune to build up a fairy tale existence love under the apple tree is better ” C. Huff-tetter, George M. Cornelius, W. W. Thornton and Irene B Thornton. $.50 em h. Pledges totaling $042.50 wen- received from memb'-r- of the Kiwanl- Club es l.a Porte to be iol to tin- SI.MMiOo -pecial memorial fund being raised by ihe Klwaniahs of the State. Mr and Mrs K Clifford Barrett. $4014; Mr- !> n Sullivan. $100: Henry A Robbins *SO DELTA TAU MAKES 250 BANQUET RESERVATIONS Division President Coming for Fraternity Meet, May 12. Reservations for 250 guests have been hutde for the eighteenth annual State banquet of the Indiana Alumni Chapter of Delta Hau Delta May 12 at the Columbia Club. Dr. John Oliver of Indianapolis, will be toastmaster Frank L Mulholland of Toledo. Ohio P< rl Miller of Columbus. Ohio, president of the fraternity, and Clarence Humphrey of Cincinnati, Ohio, will speak. Prizes will bo awarded for the best “stunt" to be put on by the five active chapters from Wabash. Indiana. Butler, Purdue and De Piimv. Music will be furnished by the Butler chapter. George Kadel of Indianapolis and Frank Ball of Toledo. Ohio. Money and ( hecks Mi-sing Burglars entered the home of Mrs. Gus Goldberg, 2226 E. Washington St., detectives were notified today. Mrs. Goldberg said $159 in money and S2OO in checks were missing. Tech Seniors Entertain June seniors of Technical High School in room 31 gave a return entertainment to the post graduates, late Thursday. Vivian Stevenson sang two solos. Louise Spillman gave two piano solos, one of them the class song which she composed. The boys quartette. George Newton. Adrian Pierce. George Cottrell, and Bruce Savage, sang four numbers. Thelma Rubush played a violin solo.

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IF they prove Conan Doyle’s spirit pictures a fake, Conan's spirits will be in low spirits. .Judge Landis kissed an opera star in Cleveland, proving an opera star can shut her mouth. • * • Thinking they were having a free-for-all fight, four Seattle men found it cost thirty days. Starch factory explodes in Argo,

111., and a great many people felt stiff in the joint. • • • Hollywood girl with the most perfect feet has married, showing they got her somewhere. • * • New York will have daylight saving this year, just as if New Yorkers ever used much daylight. • t • Mexican woman of 102 smokes cigarettes. Anti-tobacco hugs will say she wouldn't be near that old if she didn!t smoke. Perhaps a Michigan man claiming the moon is flat also thinks it is made out of cheese. • • • Little Spokane girl who forgot to wear a dress may have thought she was going to a dance. . . . Detroit woman driver hit a building, and may plead it was on the wrong side of the street. 1 O * • ■*■* Ambassador Harvey threatens to sail for America May 3.

Harding Would Rather Publish Star Than Be President of U. S.

By Timm Special T ASHINGTON. May 4. The Marion Star is not for sale. President Harding, its chief owner, says so. In the days before he went to the White House, the Star, a prosperous and sizeable “country daily,” furnished Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Harding a comfortable living and some of the luxuries of life. “I am hanging on it,” the President confessed recently to group of newspaper editors, “because I would rather be a newspaper publisher than anything else in the world. I like it and I hope I am going to be the chief owner of the Marlon Star when they settle up my estate in a legal manner." The President has not been active as editor of the Star for at least eight years. When he went to the Senate, the active editorial direction of the paper was transferred to one of his assistants, but during all of that time, and In the White House now. Mr. Harding as publisher of the Star, has kept In intimate contact with its ca reer. its earnings, its rise In circula-

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tion, its editorial achievements and Its public service. Hundreds of newspapers come to the White House daily, but of them all. the Star is the President's favorite A copy is always on his desk, and. as in the old days, he takes it “home” in the evening so that Friend Wife can read it. When ho resumes active charge of the Star, Mr. Harding says ho will eliminate news pertaining to th<* failings of people. “I think the most unfortunate contribution to the disturbing tendencies of today is the excessive publication of sensational vice.” the President told a group of editors recently. “I believe if I were to write the code, and could write it for all of the newspapers of America. I would bar. everything of a vicious character except that which is necessary as a public warning. If I ran a newspaper to suit my own ideals there would not be a police ourt reporter on tlie paper—never a police court column in the paper.”