Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1923 — Page 4

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OUR •yOTHING but sympathy can be extended to GREATEST I the National League of Women Voters, WOMEN which has just released anew list of “twelve greatest living American women.” It is obviously impossible to make a choice of this kind which will not arouse criticism. That is probably the reason why the league has taken a year to answer the innocent question of Senorita Mandujano, who merely wanted to write about our greatest women for her South American compatriots. The league, apparently needing a starting point of some kind, chose twelve fields of activity of women, selected a woman from each field and called it a day. The twelve greatest were Jane Addams for philanthropy. Cecelia Beaux for painting. Ann Jump Cannon for astronomy, Carrie Chapman Catt, for politics, Anna Botsford Comstock for natural history. Minnie Maddern Fiske for the stage. Louise Homer for music, Julia Lathrop for child welfare. Florence Rena Sabin for anatomy. M. Carey Thomas for education, Martha Van Rensselaer for home economics and Edith Wharton for literature. Their selection of occupations made them neglect the nursing profession, law, play writing, evangelism, poetry and sports. One might hold briefs for Miss Annie Goodrich, Mary Pickford, some of the prominent women judges. Zona Gale. Evangeline Booth. Edna St. Vincent Milay. Willa Gather. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory—but what’s the use ? After all. the greatest American women are probably those who work behind the limelight, one of whom Mrs. Park referred to when she said: “The greatest woman I've ever known is a wonderful mother who has dragged a fatherless family out of a cellar to a prosperous home and her greatness is not suspected outside the very few persons who knew her in her direst poverty.” POLICE y y EEPIXG the police department out of politics AND L 4 is a worthy policy and any administration POLITICS XX. that practices this policy is to be commended. This does not refer to keeping the department out of. the polities of a certain faction, but to keeping it out of all kinds of politics. Claude E. Worley has been reduced from captain to sergeant because he was accused of participating in a political squabble. The action probably was justified. It so happened, however, that Worley was in politics opposing a county chairman who i> a friend of the administration. One cannot help wondering what, if anything, would have happened if Worley had been fighting an enemy of the administration. PROF. /TARRIACtE.” announces Chancellor ( . W. FLINT’S \/l Flint of Syracuse Universitv. “will autoERROR XVX matically cancel a student's enrollment and all of his or her connection with this university.” Chancellor vs. Cupid! And we just rage to put down outlast dollar of bank account or credit with the. pawnbroker—like this: SSOO on Cupid to s.l on Flint. Anybody taking it" Not anybody having the slightest acquaintance with that cute little record-breaker, young Cupid. Why, there’ll now be enough sneakinpr out of that university for marriage purposes to turn that Chancellor’s hair white. There is nothing surer to plunge young folks into matrimony than a declaration that they shall not plunge, as a good many parents have learned and Flint of Syracuse will learn. ZONING "W’"'V EPEAL of the city zoning ordinance would WORTH he a step backward. It has been the experiWHILE X .V cnee of nearly all cities the size of Indianapolis or bigger that some regulation is necessary in order to protect property and to keep living conditions up to a high standard. Regulations to prevent the erection of factories or other objectionable institutions in residence sections are necessary. The appearance of a factory or a public garage in a valuable residence section means enormous losses to property owners. The owners are entitled to protection from things of this sort if thev want it. The Indianapolis zoning ordinance is not perfect, but it is worthy cf a thorough try-out. A perfect system of regulation can be ' rougbt about only through years of experience and grad ual change. Junking the ordinance at this time would be a mistake, the damage resulting from which would be regretted for many years to come.

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You can get an*anwpr to any question c.f fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times. Washington Bureau. 1322 X Y. Ave.. Washington, D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps Medical, legal, and love, and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches. < etc., be* prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive i r sonal replies.—EDlTOß. Docs a water pipe hurst while the water is freezing or when the ice begins to melt? When the water is freezing, although the leak is not discovered until the ice begins to melt. How many words are there in use in the English language? Four hundred and fifty thousand. Which is the largest pyramid? Cheops. What is the largest library in the world? The Bibliotheque Nationals, Paris, France. How many members were there in the United States House of Represent at ives from 190 Ito 1911? Three hundred and ninety-four. What is the best and most simple test for cottonseed oil? Halphen test: Mix carbon disulphide, containing about 1 per cent of sulphur in solution, with an equal volume of amyl alcohol. Mix equal volumes of this reagent and the oil under examination and heat In a bath of boiling, saturated brine for one to two hours. In the presence of as little as 1 per cent of cottonseed oil. a characteristic red or orange-red color is produced. Lard and laid oil from animals fed on ‘cottonseed meal will give a faint reaction, their fatty acids also give this reaction. The depth of color Is proportional, to a certain extent, to the amount of oil present, and by

making comparative tests with cottonseed oil, idea as to the amount present can be obtained. Different oils re act with different intensities, and oils which have been heated to 200 to 210 degrees centigrade, react with greatly diminished intensity. Heating for ten minutes at 200 degrees centigrade renders cottonseed oil incapable of giving the reaction. How did the tliree hails on a pawnbroker’s sign originate? From the arms of the Medici family, the earliest and most Important of the money lenders of Lombardy. The representatives of this family in London used the three balls and their example was followed by other money lenders. Who were William the Conqueror’s father and mother? He was the illegitimate son of Robert 11, Duke of Normandy, by Herleva or Arlette, a tanner’s daughter, and was known in early life as William, the Bastard. Who invented rubber shoes? According to Science Service. South American Indians were the first rubber shoe makers in the world. They made clay forms of the shape and size of their feet and poured over them the latex or milk of the rubber tree. This was dried in the smoke of a palmnut fire to become an unvulcanized waterproof rubber shoe. The first vulcanized rubber shoe was made in this country in 1840 by Charles Goodyear. Who has control of llie Caroline Islands? Japan by mandate. Who discovered the South Pole and when? Roald Amundsen, December 14 th, 1911.

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ARE INDIANAPOLIS CHILDREN BETTER OR WORSE THAN WHEN YOU WERE A KID?

, Experts Cannot- Decide —One Says Yes While Another Declares No —Parents and Conditions Play Part, BETTER or worse? Are Indianapolis children as good—or as bad!—as in the days when you were a kid? Even experts disagree on what’s happening to young America. What do you think about it? And what do your youngsters think? Children of today are much better, says John C. Collins, founder of the first boys’ club and a juvenile worker for half a I century. Wrong, they’re worse —says Miss Martha Byrne, only I woman secretary to a city department of correction.

j By JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT .V LA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, May 9.—" Boys ami girls of today are much worse than they have ever been be- | fore,” declares Martha Byrne, secre- | tary to the New York Department of Correction and the only woman in the | country holding such a position. "I am living in the same neighborhood.- ’ says Miss Byrne, "where I lived as a child. ; “But twenty years ago you never j saw a child on the streets after seven i o'clock. Today you see youngsters of ! 11 and 12 out on the streets until midj night. “Twenty years ago the parents ruled the children. Today the children rule the parents "Twenty years ago if a parent said I 'No' the child obeyed Today the child laughs at him. “Twenty years ago a child knew definitely what things he could do and what things h could not do. Today , he gets in ail kinds of mischief, with I no one to say him 'Nay.' and his mischief frequently lands him before the police judge.” But it is not the child that Miss Byrne blames, nor even his parent. "If is the struggle for existence that ;is responsible." she declares. “This struggle houses people together in 'crowded tenements and throws the children in the streets to play. "It takes not onlj the father but the mother out of the home and leaves the child without a protector. "The child of today is better eduI rated than he has ever been before. But he stands very terribly in need of wholesome discipline.”

Vienna Looks Somewhat Run Down at Heel Today

League of Nations Still Sits at Bedside of Sick Republic, , B> W 11,1,1 Ad PRIMP SIMMS. NEA Service Writer. \ VIENNA May 9. Perhaps a he?. ! ter way to begin this would In "(>!• ;ne Beautifully Blooie Danube. - For old Austria is still trudging mighty dismal days and Vl-enna-fhe Onco-Srintiilant is looking somewhat run down at the heel. The League of Nations, watch in band. linger on pulse, still sits by the bedside of the republic And though a terrific battle lies ahead if life of the patient is to be saved, and result is still in doubt, 1 believe the signs are favorable and the league \yill win. Six months ago. reduced by the war front a eoqniry of f,0.000.000 to one of fi.500.000; her money worth : less; her credit gone;’ her printing I presses unable to grind nut paper fast enough to anything like keep track of her deficits. Austria was plainly dying. Doctor on Job Today, after heroic first aid by the; league, Austria is able to open her I eyes. A foreign doctor, or manager, i or commissioner general, is in charge ! and she has promised to try- to get; well, follow fh l ' doctor’s orders instl tute a lot of reforms and show a | dean tongue in the shape of a nicely | balanced budget by 1924. Then the league and its commissioner general it Vienna will retire. There are signs, however, that Austria may not take her medicine sometimes as she should. Politics threaten Ito interfere. The high commissioner. | Dr. A It. Zimmerman, former burgo- ! master of Rotterdam. Holland, has i felt obliged to call this to the atten- ! lion of the league, rather emphatically. Opposition Busy “The opposition," he said, “has already made use of obstructive tactics and has not even shrunk from acts of violence against the temporary head of the government when he was presiding at a meeting.” One of the main difficulties now besetting the Austrian government—and there is where the violence came | in—lies in firing the tens of thousands i excess government officials anil em- ! picves. With her reduced population— I about equal to that of New York City j —Austria still has about as many cm ] ployes as she had when she was a i great empire with ten times the popuj latlon.

Many Face Layoff Between now and Dec. 31. this year, some 75,000 people must he laid off I Something like 30.001) have already j got the sack—with an indemnity for summary dismissal or a bonus foi “voluntary” resignation.” Dr. Zimmerman insists the government must take its courage in both hands "if It really hopes to put into effect the essential economies.” A deficit of $150,000 Is expected during the next two years. This will have to be met with foreign loans. After that the Hague expects Austria t i balance ber budget without bosrowing or even show a surplus. -Skirt Company Damaged Fire in rooms occupied by the Standard Skirt Company. 603 Murphy Building, caused small loss Tuesday evening.

By ALEXANDER HERMAN NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK. May 9. —“Even the worst boys and girls of today are as angels compared to the best of a generation or two ago.” This is the opinion of John C. Col lias, who probably has done more work among juveniles than any other social worker. He has beep doing organized and personal work with boy - for forty-nine years. “But to make them even le-tter." h< says, “there should be an s o’clock curfew all over the country. They i have it in New Haven, Conn., where I organized the first rn-tss hoys' club In the world. It works wonders. “Children, unaccompanied by their elders, are kept out of movie theaters after 6 o'clock. “Since the enforcement of ihi.s measure in New Haven, a city of 177. COO. the number of juvenile arrests has leen cut 00 to 70 per rent. All this in less than *ight years. “Boys all need direction but it should lie gentle and not forced i “Gangsters are made by the police and others using force methods. ! “All boys and girls are good to he gin with and can be kept good if the right effort is made for them. “Conditions aren't as bad as the\ used to be More children are getting a square deal at home in the schools on the streets. But even so there are still too many delinquents “In Ansonia, Conn.” says Collins, "a factory town <-f 17.900 win- h had be, n overrun with so-called bad l>oys, we cut out nine-tenths of the juvenile de linqueney hi less than thr,-. years. "As much can done in almost | any community.”

Vassar Girl Is Daisy Leader

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Eleanor Davies, leader of this j year's daisy chain at Vassar Col- | lege’s commencement, is the daughter of Joseph Davies of Washington and popular in capital society. SEC. HOOVER WARNS OF DEPRESSION Hu t nited Aries NEW YORK. May 'J -Secretary of Commerce Hoover, watching the country as it rises into high prosperity, stresses the need of caution and recommends four safeguards for preventing a resulting depression such as occurred, in 1921. In an address Tuesday night before the United States Chamber of Commerce. Hoover warned: I 1. Saving of enlarged earnings and j resisting of waste and extravagance ! by the people. 2. Prevention of over-expansion and ■speculation by business men. 3. Caution by bankers and credit men against advancing speculative credits. 4. General comprehension of the situation and unity of action In meeting it carefully.

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FRENCHMAN IS WOUNDED 247 TIMES 'Five Men Collectively Bear 91 Scars of Battle During War, Bp Timet Special S * WASHINGTON, May 'This [ yy story Is about five men who. collectively. heat the scars of 291 wounds. Discovery of “the worst wounded Yank in the World War" by the United States Army surgeon general's office the other day, has turned up counterparts at foreign embassies here, other men may have Buffered more wounds, but these are the out standing eases The distinction of having the most wounded veteran of all the allied armies is believed to be held by the French. T don't recall his name just now." said Capt. E Lombard, assistant military attache at the French etn bassy, “but. counting barbed-wire scratches and everything else, lie hits 247 sears on his body." Then thorn's Sergeant Perrae who was wounded ninety times, Captain Lombard continued, and Lieut Andre Ahuiller. The latter, who visited this country with the French high commission. was literally a human frame that had been wired together, as seventeen bullets and shell fragments had shattered bones in various parts of his body. “Our most outstanding* wounded man is n major-general who lost an (irrti. nn eye. and part of a thigh and is still in the army.” said MaJ. Gen. IT. K. Rethell, military attache at ■ the British embassy. This veteran is Maj. Gen. A. Carton D'Wtnrt, of English Belgian ancestry/ who Was seriously Wounded eight times in the World War and twice in the T’.oer war of 1901 He bears eleven decorations. Voices Hy BERTON BRALEY THE Spring Wind whispered. “Play with me. Come on and run away with me, T know where all the merry plnnoe are; Where fdlrer lakes are grlimmerinK’ Or waterfalls are ahimmenng:. Away from all the city h clash and jar.” THE Spring; Sun Mays, “Then' balm in me. A quiet, healthy ?nlm in me To Hoothe your nerves of all their hurt and fret . I'll put a lovely tan on you Come on ;otd play—l plan on you. There's lots of Kay adventures to bo met.” BUT Duty paid. “No wandering. You should be grimly pondering; The problems of the sprinpr and rummor trade Life's earnest in its quality. You ought to whim frivolity.” Which voice do you isupposo that I obeyed ? (Copyright, 1023. NEA Service, fne.)

Woman Is Veteran in P. O. Service VI rVSHINGTON. May 9. Vy Women in the Postofflce ’ * Department, salute your trail blazer. Miss Mary H. Livingston She was the first woman to take a Job in the Postoffice Department and is still at her typewriter after forty-five years. "Six months after I came in. they hire,] another woman.” she said "They lold me then,” and she laughed “that if I had not gotten along, they would not have had another woman.” in two more years, when she reaches 70. Miss Livingston is going to retire. "When I came here from Wisconsin it seems to me It took much longer tlmti a week,” she said. "Now they put a letter In art ai-t opl.-tne and it is out there in less than a day. Those were the days of stage coaches and star routes." Miss Livingston began her work under the administration of 1 "resident Hayes. She has seen twenty two Postmaster Generals come and go.

THEORY IS SIMPLE AS EINSTEIN’S Hu XT.A Here tee WASHINGTON, May 9.—A1l who understood the Einstein theory may now get busy with tho quantum theory. One’s as simple as tho other. Besides, it pays to understand the quantum theory Dr. William Duane, learned scientist of Harvard University, has been awarded $1,500. for his investigations into the theory, by the National Academy of Sciences. The money represents the Comstock prize, awarded once every five years for scientific discovery. The quantum theory deals with atomic structure and the radiation of light. Heretofore it had been accepted that a light wave and a radio wave radiated similarly. But Dr. Duane says his investigations prove tho contrary. Energy released from atoms in the form of light always ooze out in definite “driblets" or “quanta,” Dr. Duane says. "Radio waves resemble the waves created on a quiet pool of water when a pebble is tossed therein.” Simple, isn’t It? But although Dr, Duane has won mrfy to his way of thinking, other noted scientists disagree. which leaves the matter slightly confused to ordinary mortals. AGED CITY EMPLOYE GETS PLUM By United News NEW YORK, May 9.—Joseph Haag, 70, who has been on New York City’s I pay roll continuously for fifty-three 1 years, since the regime of the Tweed ring, has been appointed by Mayor Hylan to the newly created job of assistant to the mayor at $9,000 a year, j The recent Legislature refused to create the post of assistant mayor, so Hylan, under the budget laws, created the Job.

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A POUND of phosphorus will tip a million matches, which is enough to smoke a nickel cigar. • • • Frogs eat nothing unless it is alive, and this is a sure way of getting fresh meat. * ♦ * Doctor is a man who tells us not. to worry about anything—and then sends a bill that worries us.

Some of our girls are born pretty, while other:-, gets that way by being pretty wise. mm* Devil is always pictured in red clothes. Bet a bad bull has a devil of a time when he dies. m m m The height of something is a sick man optimistic, while the depth is a well man pessimistic. Good steaks are rare. • * • Kentucky mountaineer who was a dead shot is dead, shot. I he man who misses his reguiar street car on the way t© work is liable to catch it. • • • You can always find plenty of worry, so don’t worry if rou forget a little oiMt. t • • • We have two new British lecturers. But it could be worse. Suppose they stuttered" • • * In Texas, twenty-five homes were Mown down. Some claim it was a tornado, others a presidential boom. • • • Galesburg (111.) woman defeated her husband in an election and now he can sue for non-support.

Foreign Observers See Gloom in Franco-German Situation

By CHARLES P. STEWART. NEA Sti vice Writer. GERMANY has offered France thirty billions of gold marks. This is on condition that France quits the Ruhr. Thirty billions in marks is about seven and a half billions iu dollars. It’s a bit less than one-third the allies’ original claim. Certain payments in goods are offered too. but the money's the main | thing. To pay the thirty billions Germany j proposes to take eight years. She aim* to raise the money by i issuing bonds, for sale abroad If France wants more. Germany suggests a board, consisting of financiers from the leading countries, to decide how much she can pay. This was Secretary of State Hughes plan. Germany recalls that France wants security against future attack. She offers it. by agreeing to arbitmte disputes. What France Wants France turns down the German offer. Site says it isn't enough. She demands what she calls an “appropri- ■ ite sum.” She Intends to decide for herself what's “appropriate,'' not leave it to an international hoard. Before she'll talk at all she insists on abandonment of Germany's “passive resistance” in the Ruhr. But the German proposal may yet serve as basis for negotiations. Thousands of Years Foreign observers of the Franco- ! German situation continue gloomy. Major General Allen, who commandled the American troops at Coblenz. ; says there's been trouble in the Ruhr

The First Water Company HISTORICAL, SERIES Yearly attempts were made, be* ginning at the close of the civil war, to establish and maintain a water company. Success was not. attained until 1871. when the Water Works Company of Indianapolis began furnishing water to the city. The first steam pump was installed in their station at Washington street and White river in the early part of 1876. It had a capacity of six million gallons daily, and was regarded as one of the finest Installations In the country. It was said at the time that the city probably would never need more water than this pump could deliver. Today the Indianapolis Water Company has a capacity of 125 million gallons daily, with miles and miles of water mains throughout the city. Fletcher's Bank, which was established in 1889, has grown equally as much In point of service as the Water Company. Today its successor, the Fletcher American National Bank has j a capital and surplus of $3,000,000 and " a banking service which stands preeminent in the financial world. Fletcher American National Bank Capital aad Sur <’ lu> . fd.OOO.MP

TOM SIMS SAYS:

| for 2,000 years; probably will be for j 2,000 more. * He thinks maybe France has lost i as much by the Ruhr occupation already as the total amount of her original claim against Germany. He adds that nobody can tell how | long the occupation will last, regardI less of settlemetn talk. Ready to Fight Negotiations at Lousanne between Turkey and the powers threaten to break up in a row. The dispute’s over foreigners' rights in Turkish courts. France especially fears trouble with the Turks. She’s sending reinforcements to her troops in Syria. This particular difficulty relates in part to concessions the Turkish government aims to take away from French inter- | ests to give them to the America.n, Admiral C'hest4^ heads. New British Premier? Premier Bonar Law of England, pretty sick, has gone on an ocean I cruise. Many politicians think he'll return | only to resign. Rut this won't mean the Conservai tives' retirement in favor of a Labor I cabinet. It would, if Bonar Law had to resign on account of a majority against him in Parliament: resignation on account of bad health is different. Bonar Law' simply will turn over his Job to another Conservative. Probably it will be Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the exchequer, or secretary of the treasury, as he'd be ! called in the United States. Baldwin : is very popular because, as chancellor, I he has reduced taxes.