Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1923 — Page 4

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J. P.S AND rpHE second case of the kind within a month, ai INSANITY I man was released from the Central Hospital RULINGS for the Insane by Superior Judge Sidney S. Miller on the grounds that he was perfectly! sane. Proceedings brought under a writ of habeas corpus hearing brought out the fact that both men had never been examined as to sanity by doctors appointed by a justice of peace, who alone can j hold insanity proceedings. One doctor said he stood across the street and watched his patient. He walked up and down and acted nervous. There is no appeal from the J. F. J s decision, except by applying for a writ of habeas corpus. The court is all powerful. It is too easy to railroad a man into the insane asylum. Spite, desire for his wealth, and what not, have caused many a sane person to lose his liberty and pursuit of happiness. Fortunately there is the habeas corpus, if the condemned man can reach an attorney. It has long been known that the justice of peace courts are obsolete in Indiana, although a constitutional court. They should either be abolished or dignified. DOING ¥' -vIFFICULTIES over the fact that the police COUNTY'S I 1 department has been maintaining investigaWORK i J tors in the Criminal Court seem to be coming to a head. They are difficulties of old standing and should have been ironed out long ago. There never was any good reason why the police department should furnish investigators to work under the county prosecutor, except the fact the county wished the city to pay the expenses and the city was willing. A criminal court investigator should work directly under the court and prosecutor and should be responsible to the court and prosecutor and not to the police department. The county council took a step in the right direction when it made an appropriation for investigation work.

SEAMY | other half." fortunately, is not bv anv SIDE means half the population, but it is large STORIES 1 enough to cause the more fortunate “half’* to stop and consider its duty to the community. A pamphlet that probably will be a revelation to many has just been issued by the Community Chest. It is entitled “Stories You Have a Right to Read.” It should have been entitled “Stories It Is Your Duty to Read." Tn this little book are six very brief stories of human life as it exists right here in Indianapolis, stories of tiie unfortunate family, the baby in the poverty stricken home, the ignorant and undernourished sick, the wayward boys and girls and the colored family ignorant of sanitation and the simplest rules of health. The stories are a cross section of the seamy side. Each has a pathetic appeal that brings a throb of sympathy. The little publication is not an appeal for funds. (t is just a medium of enlightenment. When it comes to you. read it. V SAVING -Tl *-ITH has been said in these columns from HUNDREDS \\l I time to time about the good work being done' YEARLY JLtX in Marion county and elsewhere in the prevention and cure of tuberculosis. This is to work meriting the support and encouragement of everyone. There is nothing more terrible in the modern, enlightened community than tuberculosis. The annual report of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association shows this dread disease can be and is being checked. A great factor in this wonderful work is the Sunnyside Sanitorium. where new buildings will be dedicated Sunday; The report of the association shows that since 1014 the annual deaths from tuberculosis in Marion county have been reduced from 637 to 411. M itb added facilities this figure probably could be cut much more. POLICE board of public safety took the proper] POWER 1 course when it refused to grant police powGRANTS X ers io members fit' the West Indianapolis League for tin Enforcement of Law With all due respect to the good intentions of the league and with a full realization that the league can accomplish a srreaf deal in the direction of law enforcement, it must be said that actual police powers should be restricted to duly authorized peace officers If the police department is not accomplishing results, it should be made to accomplish results. It has and can be done But to the police department alone should have police powers The granting of police powers to the good citizens of West fndi anapolis who are striving to make this a better city would mean requests for similar powers from other groups, perhaps not quite so sincere in their intentions. It would be necessary eventually to draw a line somewhere., for indiscriminate granting of police powers inevitably would prove dangerous to the peace and welfare qf the community.

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: 'iagcs and Deaths. In the Probate Legistry are the wills of Shakespeare, Milton. Newton. Van Dyck, PiU, Dr. Johnson. Nelson. Wellington. and Burke. "lial nation in Europe, firs! used coal as fuel? There seems to be reason for thinking that England wa first irt Europe to use coal in any considerable quan titles. Is the starling protected by bird laws? -No. Have potatoes and tomatoes been grafted together? Yes. but there is nr. benefit or value in it. The fruit is the same, hut the plant hears both tomatoes and potatoes. The potatoes grow under the ground and th<> tomatoes above the ground perPv’Jv naturally They have to bo grown in a hothouse What countries in Europe and America remained neutral during the World War? European countries. Spain. Holland, Sweden. Norway, Denmark and Switzerland. American countries: Argentine. Chili. Columbia, Dominican Republic, Paraguay. Salvador and Venezuela Mexico. Tire Is Stolen Bert Cole. 2502 Station St., reported to police today a thief stole a tire worth sl6 from his car while it was parked in front of the Station St. address. '“i't

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If Your Daughter Runs Away From Home — YOU CAN PLACE BLAME ON YOURSELVES, PARENTS! —Says Confidante of “W andering Girls,” Defending Them

Girls Named Convention Delegates Despite Youth .Y s- fit. f-‘f LEFT TO RIGHT: HELEN BUCK AND CAROLYN CAWTHO.N

1 Pti Xl'A .Venter J ACKSON. Tenn.. May 12.—1f there have ever been delegates to any State convention young- : er than than Carolyn Cawthon and | Helen Buck of this city—let them ! come forward. The older of the two. Carolyn >s but 11 tender years, knd as ■preslOIL USED IN U. S. OUTRUNS PRODUCTION United States Produces More Petroleum Than Rest of World, iPy Timet Special WASHINGTON. May 12 The j United States produces more petrol leum than all the rest of the world put together. The United States consumes an even greater amount than it produces With domestic production already being pushed to its maximum, the possible exhaustion or fields must he contemplated Estimates as to sh - duration of domestic fields are speculative—some experts have said twerdy years, others allow a far longer period. This situation has led to great, ao tivlty of American oil interests in all parts of the world. In the face oi similar activity by British. Dutch. French and other national Interests. American oilmen now nr<‘ pressing for and securing the support of the United .States Government in a degree greater than at any tune. In th past. The extraorUnary ce of petroleum to the United States Is in riicateri b the statistical reports of the geological survey Preliminary estimates have placed the workl s total production for 11*22 at xr.fi.OCO, Oao barrels. Figures show that 551, 19,‘.(1C0 barrels were transported from producing properties of the United States in the same year. Indicated consumption of domestic and imported crude petroleum amounted to 586,(100.000 barrels in 1022. or ,15.000.000 more than the do mestsic production. The difference was made up by imports, which amounted to 124.000 barrels WOMAN HELD IN SHOOTING Police Say C olored Woman Fired at Man. After, police say, she fired one shot at John Taylor. 26, colored, 705 N. Senate Ave., apartment No. 7. Margaret Dynecourt, 10, colored. 416 VV. Pratt St., was arrested earls today on charges of drunkenness and shooting. She fired at Taylor while he was in .bed, police say. The bullet hit four feet above his head.

Not So Ordinary By BKRTON spRALEY THEY are ordinary people with quite dnlinirv way* And there - nothin? very thrilling m (heir uneventful d.-iye. They are neither -mart nor -nappy In their iimlistiiurulshed .it-rs And their eomer-ation probabiy would bore von. morn or leas; ftut theii domicile is roomy, with a subtle atmosphere That make von sirii -ili'-erelv, “Oh. Id like to linger here' Hern is rest and cheer and <-omfort good to savor as you,roam They are ordinary people, tint they’ve made their houW* a Home' fiUERE is love and here is laughter, here an- kindneso and eontem n Here are loyalty and honor, faith and honest sentiment Here are children, happy hearted, who bo romping through the place Here Is perfe-t understanding tinged with humor's saving , ; :ra r Here is freedom warmly tempered with a thoughtfulness- complete, ‘■Here is jo.v for every triumph, here Ls balm for each defeat Here a sense of Joyous living frmu the *ooitree (o the loam: They are ordinary people—hut they've made their house a Home!’’ tCopyright, 1 ll'.'.'i Service, Inc.)

Intervention, Armed or Benevolent, Appears Inevitable in China

The following article was written by an authority on Chinese affairs, personally known to the editor, but whose identity at this time it is not advisable to reveal. International intervention in China is inevitable. The United States and the other great powers sooner or later will have to cooperate with China and help iter clean house or they will have *to clean her up militarily. Which will they choose? The hold-dtp.of China's crack train —the ShalTghai Peking Express—and the kidnaping of a number of prominent Americans ai\d others to hold them for ransom, shows which way the wind is blowing.

dent, of the Juvenile MacDowell Club recently attended the Tennessee Federation of Music Clubs in Chattanooga. Helen, 9, went along as I delegate The two youngsters gleaned mlj liable experience in the rudiments of | parliamentary law, and friends ;*re h'i‘fu! it will stand them stead In future years should :hey j decide to enter the political arena. Those attending the convention j pay it waa a decided and refresh : ing innovation to see the young j president swinging down the aisle | with her 9 year o! 1 delegate each I clad In dolled stockings. Their club has forty-nine nvnn be,# and plans to t- * p .war )n i State musical circles At bast the I convention showed they w a iffy alive j to the importance of pr per repra 1 serjtation. FEDERATION NOT .BEHIND I RAIL. STRIKE By t'nitrd Vet m CHICAGO. May 12. —ls any strike* result from the general demand of railroad shopmen for wage Increases — and there is no immediate indication that any will—they will he localized walkouts called by union heads <>n individual roads They will not arise from any order or blanket demand of the railway employes' department of the American Federation of labor. This was the assertion Thursday of officials of the department, which Is still immersed In the handling of a technical shopmen's strike on 75,000 miles of trackage, following dispatches from the East which told of demands hv shppcrafts workers on several roads for an increase of :o cents an hour The national union organization however, will assist its individual branches, insofar nw is possible with out taking any general notion affect ing employes of other roads.

America Thanked for Help Given to Stricken Austria

BY DR. MICHAEL, HAINISCTT President of Austria VIENNA. May 12. -The League of Nations has paved the way for an adequate credit relief for 'Austria by the most important States of Europe Along with this international credit relief, an extremely difficult home work is going on which aims at a complete sanitation of the State budget and a rearrangement of the civil service which is t(io Mg fin our small country. We are making headway I Should like to underline the fact that owing to incredible efforts we have at last succeeded, by means of tip- establishment of a bank of issue or note bank, stabilizing our rate of

China is powerless. She is drifting. Peking no more governs China than Columbus, Ohio, governs the United States. Each of China’s twenty-one provinces has its military governor, its little tin king, its independent despot who feoffs at the edicts of Peking. Each one of these feudal iwar lords does as he pleases—which is to exploit the poor ignorant Chinese, squeeze the well-to-do and wring tribute from the foreigners striving to do business in his territory. Bandits roam, the country cleaning up what the military governors

Let Her Have Ridiculous Long Earrings if She Is Happy, ENCOURAGEMENT NEEDED Many Mothers Go to Movies While Girl Tends Youngsters, BV MARIAN HALE NEW YORK, May 12. “Love of finery and jazz | are the cheese that little country mice into tlie city trap, " says Miss Virginia Young. As head deaconess of the famous 17 Beckman PI. Shelter-house here, i Miss Young has listened to the coni sessions of thousand: of runaway i girls who haw found their way to ! her ever-open ionr and shared the ! hospitality thr.t the always extends to girls in need, irrespective of race or : creed. “The love of finery is as old as Eve herself." she explained. “W- all go through it and most of us never quite over it# It s just natu- . ral for Sixte.-n to want fin* feathers

' and a good time as it is for Seventy to want an o verst tiffed chair and a ! footstool. Fads See it l Foolish “Many of the fads of flappers today j ser-m silly to their mothers aid ih>>s ; who have passed dm flapper stag*, j Rut let them ~llst remember* the 1 things that were dear to their hearts at th.-iF ago They were just ns ah- ! surd. "Tim wise mother kdows that if you give a girl enough rope she won't hang herself Let her have the rfdtI culous red sandals or the Jong ear rings, if they will make her happy. "ft isn’t the girl with the pretty clothes and the normal good times * who becomes a wandering daughter, i It's the little lonesome girl. who has been denied small luxuries until ; they have attained an exaggerated j importance in her mind, who wants to snatch pleasure where she thinks ; 1' thrives in the big city." Meet Young Men Miss Young believes every mother j should make it her business to see j that her daughter has opportunities to meet decent young men. and that she has the advantage of such whole* some pleasures as the Girl Scout organization and girls', clubs offer. "Many a mother.” she continues, "goes to the movies, leaving her daughter at home alone In the eve ring to care for the younger children '■ without realizing Just what rebellion j goes on Inside the daughter's mind, i "And probably father is so busy getting bread and pots 1 nee for his family he doesn't sympathize with bis daughter's appetite for cake. Ywaiting Opportunity “Frequently the girls don’t coni 1 plain, they nurse secret bitterness 1 .rid keen back part of their wages. ; bid theft time and strike for what j seems to bn freedom as soon as they can. “Not that 1 do not believe every girl should have home responsibilities and should be taught to relieve her ! rr,other —certainly not But my point L that a little luxury and some aslonal flnnrv and a little genuine understanding will keep her doing BO."

exchange. We have now managed for months to keep It at the same International level. Finally, our agriculture, hard hit by the war. is on the upgrade. Having hardly any plains. Austria will never be. much of a grain country. The lack of wheat and other cereals Is the reason why we are in want for foodstuffs. Without coni, pig breeding can not go on on a large scale and fat production can not tulle place. Poultry farming and egg production also suffer from this slimtconting. On the other hand conditions for cattle-breeding me excellent and this is one of om resources which promises great de\ eloptnent. However, even with maximum progress wo can never produce more than throe fourths of our food supply. Being mostly Alpine and v. ith two million of our 6,500,000 in sibilants living in Vienna, a quaror of our needs must he imported at '"’St. i Among our resources 'for export are our forests, iron and magnesite deposits, and the salt mines. That is why T am glad to use this opportunity to give my thanks to the American nation which by innumerable shapes of relief and charity in Austria have literally saved the lives of many thousands of unfortunates, especially tho children.

have overlooked. These bandits defy the Peking government and the provincial government alike. Or they work in cahoots with the provincial authorities. <i Just where the so-called Chinese army leaves off and the bandit gangs begin is hard to determine. Not infrequently the two are one. That is, all too-often this or that military unit becomes disgruntled, because unpaid and unprovisioned, and leaders and all, become bandits. Or maybe it is the other way round. Some Chinese, more ambitious than the rest, determines to

Broadway Now Bowing to Five- Year-Old Stage Star

** EDWIN MILLS

RV TOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT -VGA Service Writer Nf KW YORK, May 12—Broad wiv has temporarily a ban dotted its contemplation of j the American girl in order to devote its attention to the exploits of a I five year-old boy. , Ho is Edwin Mills, who overnight I has practically achieved stardom | and who one day may challenge , the popularity of Jackie Coogan, As Zander, the rule which he plays hi the comedy “Zander the Great," Edwin has mastered over 100 cues, the majority of thorn "business" cues, which actors maintain are the hardest to learn. He has memorized fifteen "sides" or pages of script and all this In spite of the fact he can neither read, nor write. His mother taught him the role in two days. What goes on in the mind of the child actor? Has he an ego. a temperament or a complex? Is he gratified by the applause SUGAR TAX WILL RAISE $176,000,000 1:v JOHN < ARSON limit Staff i'ut r< MpiiH'lrnt WASHINGTON. May 12- Sugar fixes fho year will bring at least 5176.000,000 to the government. That is, every person In the country will pay about ?1.50 tax on sugar. The sugar tax is paid in tariff duties by the Importer of sugar. Then it is passed on down until the retail dealer collects it from the consumer. Revenue from the tariff this year will be about $540,000,000. ft is now estimated by the Treasury Department. Almost one third of this huge total will be collected on sugar, a condition rather astounding to even the tariff experts. Treasury officials estimate that ten billion pounds of sugar will bo imported this year. Most of this sugar will be tariff taxed at a rate of $1.76 a hundred pounds.

VET DETAINED AT JAIL Joseph Kaz zone Escaped From Marion Hospital. Ry Timm Special MUNUIE, Inch. Maj 12. —Following an attempted holdup of the c. o. railway station at Gaston, 'hear here, Joseph Bazzono. Utica. N. Y., patient at the government hospital for World ! War veterans, Marion, tfcis detained today in the county jail. He escaped from tho hospital Thursday night. Jordan Heads Society. Harry K. Jordan, department superintendent ofJ the Indianapolis Water Company was re-elected chairman of the American Chemical Society. Indiana section. Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce. C. E. Edwards of the Republic Creosoting Company, was elected vice chairman and 11. A. Shonte of the Ell Lilly Company was elected secretary.

make a name for himself. He becomes a bandit rtfelef, and a good one. He becomes so good Peking takes notice of him. He is sent for and made a major general and Ills gang are sworn in as soldiers. Chang Tso-lin, war lord of Manchuria and the most powerful figure in China today, got his start that way. * China is drifting. ami down stream, toward the falls. Peking no longer speaks with authority, even within the oity walls. The war lords are becoming more arro-

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j which wells up nightly over the f >ot lights? Apparently Edwin is unaware of any of these. "Did I do It all right?" he says, running to his mother at the end of the performance. Apparently he is doing it all • right, for the critics vote him the star, of t hperformance. IJke nil stars, Edwin has an understudy. The understudy is just twice ns old as Edwin. ALASKA TO WELCOME PRESIDENT Harding's Trip to Northern! Land First of Any Chief Executive, Bv Tttnr* Special WASHINGTON. May 12.—Alaska enthusiasts arc looking forward to. President Harling’s visit. Accompanied by Secretary of the j Ulterior Work and Secretary of Agri culture Wallace, the President will leave ii,'il month on the first inspec j lion trip ever made of this vast terrl tory by a President of the' United j States Alaska was acquired by the United States from Russia in March. 1667. for $7,200,0aa In geld At the close of 1921. Alaska had produced mineral wealth totaling J 475.479.000 The area of Alaska is about 590,854 square miles, one-fifth that of continental United States. Despite this tremendous area, the population of Alaska in 1920 was hut 65.016. or les than one person for every ten square miles. Alaskan population actually showed a decrease of 9.320 persons between 1910 and 1920. Gold. oil. copper, coal, wood pulp, forestry resources, fish, furs and farm products afford money making opportunities in this land of the midnight sun.

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ga.nt and the outlaw gangs more numerous and bold. Sooner or later something will happen that will horrify the world. There will be a demand for action against China. The great powers will have to fling their armies and navies at the Flowery Republic. Then what? The international expedition against Peking as the result of the Boxer uprising will sink insignificance before such an operation as the next would have to be. And there is no telling what might not happen to China once greedy powers are turned loose on her again.

TOM SIMS SAYS: NO wonder Europe has such a hard time. A tourist tells us they are all foreigners over there. * * * Hope the weather man gets wet when he says fair and its rains. * * * Chinese are much better at fleeing than at fighting, even dressing with shirt tails already out. * • • Wish all people practicing on cornets would move next door to all people practicing on trombones. • • • Dr. Copeland says eat less sugar and live longer. Sugar price boosters will pose as benefactors. * • • Hope the laundryman’s own i shirts get torn up in the wash. • ♦ • Florida man who said he stole ] o travel has gone on a long trip | to the penitentiary. • • * The first of every month we ; always hope our postman has a I million bills addressed to him. • • • In Washington 195 quarts of booze evidence are gone. Nobody knows if it went before Con- : gress. • • • Aviators may soon get so they jean go some place about as quick as they can stav where thev are. <hir idea of fun is a telephone girl calling up a friend and being given the wrong number'. * * • Spring’s evil is finding a way to carry all the tiuek you had I in vest packets last winter. Mother Is in College With Her Children P l/ Vr ,4 Servi^f CORVALLIS. Ore.. £lay 12. “Keep youriß with your children and you will stay young-." Mrs. Jessie E. Bump of Corvallis repeats this ancient proverb, be lieves in it and—what’s more to the point—is fulfilling its terms. She is now attending the Oregon Agricultural College here, with her two sons, after she had been twen ty five years out of school. She left college at the close of her sophomore year, to be married. But it wasn't the end of college life for her. “I’ve figured for 20 years on coming back to get niy diplomas." she explained. "I think T am getting more out of college than I did twen-ty-five years ago. Things have mors associations and greater value to me.” , Hit By Auto Miss Marie Winner, 1646 8. Meridian St., stepped directly In front of a machine driven by William Piers, 38. E. Washington St. She I was knocked down and received slight injuries. Officer Morarity, who investigated, exonereted Piers.

And the petty jealousies and bickerings and near-flghts which marred the march on Peking to punish China for the Boxer murders would be duplicated on a greatly intensified scale. The alternative to this is to cooperate with China now, or as soon as possible, to put her on her feet, to helti her clean her own house. The world would profit by such action in dollars and in international security and peace. China’s 490,000,000 would have a chance, too. Now they have not.