Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1923 — Page 4

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WITCH "y X southern Rhodesia, Africa, where they have AND j summer while we have winter, the natives RAIN recently called in a witch doctor to make it rain. The whole country was parched and withered as the result of a long drought. The witch doctor, of course, announced that a human sacrifice must be made to the rain god, Mwari. No one was very ambitious to be the victim, so the primitive city council turned their eyes to a worthless neighbor named Mtegedi. He was notorious for his amours with his neighbors’ wives, and the tribesmen gladly seized on the Opportunity to get him out of the way. Well, they tied him to a stake, and burned him alive. .Millions have perished similarly in the black history of superstitious humanity. By coincidence, the victim had been dead only a few minutes when a terrific storm blew along. Rain fell for days, torrents of it. Coincidence, you know, is the ally of superstition. If you have been following the scientific news, you know that Americans have been experimenting to produce artificial rain. The most promising method is an airplane scattering electrified sand on a “roof of clouds.” The theory is that a particle of moisture, suspended in the air. tends to attract other particles—condense into raindrops—when electrified. The experimenters claim their first results are encouraging. Prof. Wilder D. Bancroft of Cornell University expects better results with sand charged to 30.000 volts or over. Marconi some months ago predicted that “rain will come and go at your own will in the future. Then we will become lords and masters of creation on this planet. We will then' be able to obtain any amount of power without effort.” The distance between the human sacrifice to the African rain god and the scientists seeking to make artificial rain in our country is a matter of millions of years of brain development. The contrast emphasizes how man in the primitive state seeks the solution of his problems outside himself, and how in the civilized state he realizes that the solution comes from within. In other words, we have to work for everything we get on earth, and progress either individually or socially is “up to us.” ourselves. Man’s fate is in his own hands, with a Divine Being ready to help us as we help ourselves. GOLD IS TTTE have around four billion dollars’ worth of LOCKED %/%/ gold in the United States—gold coin and inIN BANKS T f got bullion, not including our jewelry. Threefourths of it is locked up in the Federal Reserve banks. If we had the old-time system instead of the reserve banks, controlled by the Government, that three-fourths would be mostly in Wall Street’s vaults. The Federal reserve system is one thing that its father, Woodrow Wilson, did thoroughly. It’s cyclone proof—stood a panic worse than any of us will ever see again. Mav, 1020 to Julv 1922. Economists wag their heads approvingly, stroke their whiskers, and tell us that the United States now has about half of the lotal amount of gold in the world. What good is it doing ns? Keeping prices up, for one thing. If all the gold now held in America were divided evenly, there’d only be $36 for every man. woman and child. The national wealth is sixty times as much, according to latest estimates, or around $2,200 apiece. If everything in the nation were put on a cash basis and divided equally, there’d be about 100.000.000 Americans saying: “Shucks! Is that all I get?” THE SELF- "V l° n " a £N a very charming, cultured and MADE XI clever woman, who was a guest at a dinner W OMAN .X. 1 party, became very indignant at her husband who had inadvertently let slip the fact that in her early youth she had worked as apprentice in a millinery shop. While this man made the statement as a matter of course, and as if it were something of which to be proud, one could easily see that the wife considered the circumstance humiliating. She was ashamed of it. In this regard women seem to have a much more perverted vision than men; they are less democratic in their principles, more snobbish in their ideas. For, the modem man is proud of the fact that he has climbed from the bottom of the ladder of success; he loves to talk about his early struggles with circumstance, and laughs with joy af the remembrance of the day when he was broke. Our literature is full of stories of self-made men. The fact, that Lincoln was born and reared in a back wood’s log cabin and ended his life in the President’s chair enhances his worth in the eyes of America. Why dr. women not take this sensible attitude regarding themselves and their sex? Why is not a self-made woman as greatly admired and praised by her sex as the self-made man? If the rich society woman of today has started in life waiting tables at a restaurant; it the modern business woman began her career as cash girl in a department store, all the more reason why each should be lauded for this. However, instead of laudation they generally reap criticism; and instead of being proud of the fact themselves they strive to hide it. Oh, to meet the woman who. after she has attained success, will have the moral courage to stand up and talk about her barefoot and poverty-stricken days just like the men do! Me sadly need some women of strong character if. set this example to these sisters who seem to think if a mark of intelligence to he ashamed of honest effort.

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Who was O. Henry? The pen name of William Sydney Porter, whose short stories are considered masterpieces. Who wrote? “Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes: Not the light gossamer stirs with less; But newer a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast, And never an echo of speech or song That live* in the babbling air so long." L Oliver Wandell Holmes in "Dorothy b.~ -*

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How can me tell whether clothes are in ide of wool or colton. Unravel a fe]v threads of both the w&rp and wo'-f and test each separately by holding them in the flame of a match. Wool burns with an oily flame and with the odor of burning feathers, several threads burned at once will melt together in a charred mass. Cotton burns with the odor of burning wood (if with any odor at all). Each thread burns off separately, leaving the burned end rather frayed or spreadXout like a paint brush. Compare known mens'of each. V

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Grist O’Gotham Weekly Letter Written from Point of View of Man from Out of Town. By CASUAL STROLLER NEW YORK, May 15. —Old Coney Island is passing. Surf avenue, famous from coast to coast for its bizarre and blatant circus attractions and trappings, is overshadowed by anew $4,000,000 boardwalk. Brass bands and oratory by the Governor, the mayor, and lesser dignitaries, have just dedicated the boardwalk. New York dreams that .Coney, now clothed in respectability, will outshine Atlantic City. Maybe they'll have roller chairs later, but just no wyou’ve got to use the boardwalk to walk on. These signs are up: Prohibited on Boardwalk Spitting Bicycles Tricycles Dogs Roller skating Peddling Persons In bathing suits. Observed near one of these signs: A swarthy gentleman doing a landoffice business with a basket of pretzels. Near another: Boy selling So-and-so's milk chocolate. A cripple passed along on a tricycle. It was too ?'EOII3i"tED boardwalk Gr^r\\ i“i sms y>

I cold for bathing suits the day we walked the boardwalk. But spitting was quite as common as in subway stations, where it is also forbidden. A restaurant in West Third St., just off Washington Sq., serves gratis a plate of dill pickles with every meal. “What's them things?" said an innocent tourist from Harlem. “Cucumbers or pickles?” "Greenwich Village bananas.” said a converted native from Shelby, Ind. Even a native New Yorker knows that the Woolworth building is the tallest building in New York —fiftyfive stories, 792 feet Which is the largest office building? The Equitable, thirty-seven stories, covering an entire city block, bounded by Broadway and Nassau and Pine and Cedar Sts. And the smallest building'.' Bronx borough has a candidate —a structure at Melrose Ave. and One Hundred and Sixty-First S:.. four feet wide and ten feet long. It is occupied by a vetinary surgeon. Here's a question that is included ir. the test given candidates for jobs on tbe New York police force: “What five streets south of ('anal Bt.. have names comprising only three letters? It stumps nine out of every' ten New Yorkers. The answer is: Ann. Dey, New, Oak and Elm Sts. One of the best known buildings in New York is the Puller building. That’s its official name, and it is spelled out In large letters over the Fifth Ave. entrance. But ninety-nine out of every 100 persons, including cops, don’t know where it is. Even In official announcements the name is rarely used. Custom tails it the Flatiron building.

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Country and lity Diphtheria In New England, at least, the susceptibility to diphtheria is higher among persons living in sparsely settled or rural regions than it is among those living in cities; and is much higher among the well-to-do than among the poor, and among the native horn than :unonf; the foreign born.—Public Health Sendee Rad Nows for Elias' Heirs Existence of a $3,000,000 trust fund supposed to be held in the United States Treasury and alleged to belong to the heirs of Elias Saunders, a member of a tribe of Indians now extinct that inhabited the State cf Maryland over a century ago, has been declared a myth. For the Inert six months 100 descendants of Elias Saunders have been informed from some source that this va3t sum was being held and would be divided among them upon presentation of proof of their claims.—Department of the Interior. Why Women liook Uke a. Million The value of products of establishments engaged primarily in the manufacture of clothing for women, girl* and children amounted to $1,022,743,000 in 1921, as compared with $473.SBB,OOO in 1914. an increase of 110 per cnf. for the seven-year period.— Bureau of Census. Endurance Tesls Americans may be horror stricken about dancing marathons, but England is concerned about the recent London-Brighton habv carriage race. The winner was Mrs. Lily Groom, who covered the distance of fifty-four miles, pushing a perambulator, in twelve hours twenty minutes At the finish her 2 yea-old baby was covered with dust from head to foot and was bleeding at the nose There were no prizes. Disarmament in India Indian government expenses are to be reduced 19.3.000,000 rupees, if the recommendations of the Inchcape retrenchment committee are accepted. One of the largest cuts is 105,000,000 rupees for miltary expenditures. (A rupee is now worth about 32 cents. American money.) German Movies At last a real report on German moving picture concerns. There are 250 companies producing films and 3.750 theaters snowing them Berlin is the studio center. The largest concern in Berlin, knowr by its abbreviated title. “Ufa” (Universal Film Ak-Uen-GeseUschaft), produces five or six monumental flhns a^ear.

Photographic Study of Mrs. Hayes, Figure in ‘High Finance” Case

HERE YOU SEE MRS. MYRTLE B. HAYES. CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE LATEST "HIGH FINANCE" CASE. SHE WAS ONE OF THE BACKERS OF A PROPOSED FASHIONABLE HOTEL AT BROOKLINE. MASS SHE WAS INDICTED IN NEW YORK CITY IN A FORGERY CASE WHICH INVOLVED THE SIGNATURE OF CHARLES M. SCHWAB STEEL MAGNA! L. LA! Ell SHE 'A AS CHARGED WITH AN ALLEGED OIL SWINDLE IN WHICH SEVERAL BIG BUSINESS MEN WERE STUNG, AS A RESULT OF INVESTIGATIONS, POLICE HOPE TO EXPOSE AN ALLEGED GROUP OF FASCINATING WOMEN. WHO SPECIALIZE IN OIL STOCKS FOR BENEFIT OF WEALTHY MALE ACQUAINTANCES.

MUSSOLINI'S E YES SWEEP OVER ITALY

Times Man Writes impressions of Forceful Character, By W UaLI A M PHILIP SIMMS NEA Service Writer ROME, May 15.—“ Svengali” Mu.noiini—the world’s strangest I- dictator —the man who hypno- | tised a nation as Svengali hypnotized , Trilby. Here is a close-up of him as I got it at his extraordinary office last night at. the new ministry of foreign affairs. Picture first his an to-chamber- the waiting-room to his office. I,arKe and still rather bare—the building habeen occupied as ministry of foreign affairs, but a short while. More Pictures*! About the walls a number of pic tures -cherubs and woodland scenes mostly—but most conspicuous of all is one of Mussolini himself ro large that it covers half one wall—a heroic picture in oils of the premier as leader of the Fascist! soldiers the famous “Black Shirts”—he wearing the distinctive uniform himself and, in the shadowy background, a column of ills men swinging past. Nothing very Impressive about ail this save one thing: Mussolini’s hypnotic eyes staring down at you out of the picture. So Largo Is Mussolini’s office I instantly felt myself dwarfed the moment I crossed the threshold. It is like a grand ballroom, the ballroom of a royal palace, with enormously high ceilings anil a floor upon which any number of couples might daiwv with ease. Has a Star About, the walls, tapestries mostly, but my impressions flooded In upon me too swiftly to give them more than a glance. In the. corner nearest, me was an enormous globe, jet black, repscntlng the heavens, and upon it, all over, largo stars of gold. Among them somewhere, was Mussolini's star, in which ho believes with all his heart and soul In the comer opposite mo was an other huge globe, thLs one of the earth. And in the center of the room a large, marble “Winged Victory.” But these, like the tapest nil's, got only 1 glance from mo for, in tho corner diagonally across the room from tho door I bad entered, I saw as at a great distance .what appeared to me a very small flat top desk, or table, and moving from behind it u very small man. This was Mussolini. Os course, be Is not small. Only tho enormous office made him seem so. He grew Larger as I made my way across what seemed like acres of floor, and presently I found myself nearing a man in riding clothes—black coat, drab riding breeches, riding 1 mots, white standing collar with tho “ears" turned back, black tic. Again Those Eyes! 1 mention these things in this order, but T think the first thing I was con scious of as I approached Mussolini, was his eyes—largo, unnatural-look-ing black eyes, piercing, and where not black, very white. Pictures 1 had seen had not done those eyes justice. From under heavy brows they bored like gimlets. The man’s square jaw impressed, so did his high brow and the unusual expression of self confidence on his face. But his eyes almost instantly absorb his other features and more: They become tho center of even the huge rdoin. that about which even the furniture of the room had been adjusted. "Ilowdydo,” be said in English, taking a step forward and holding out his hand. Then he went back to his chair on the. other side of bis desk and sat. down. Putting his elbows on the table, he leaned forward until his face rested between his two hands, fingers flat on his temples. He closed his eyes

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I > NlT<) MUSSOLINI long enough for one to count up to twenty and I had the strange feeling, in this huge room, surrounded by charts of the heavens and the earth, that tlaly’s prime minister was consulting strange gods. VENT: What Mussolini of the Hypnoth Eye, said to Simms: Os Karaite's needs, of Russia, of Lloyd George, of the secret of Ills own power. BOOK “BAD FOR CAUSE” IS COMMENT Carrie Chapman Cntt's new book, "Woman Suffrage and Politics," threatens to open anew the scarcely healed breach between the old and new wings In the National League of Women Voters The n* wer blood in the organization, which for most, part has come in since votes for women were secured, wants tht organization to forgive and forgot old animosities stirred up during the | tight for suffrage. Their viewpoint is that now woman's right to vote is established all women should he interested In using the ballot intelligently, whether they originally believed in the desirability of equal suffrage or not. In her book, however. Mrs. F.ntt. reminiscing ov--r old campaign days, ays some rather caustic things about the anti suffragists. “Bail for the cause.” say the women <-f the new wing, wagging their heads ! ominously, and rekindling the tires under the organization’s internal political pot. The Dub By RKIITON HR ALKY HK uas dull ami tie \v;ts stotui Anil his head with Bonn was solid. Or at any rate thill s how he looked to u*. tie sieined shy of information Or of any con vernation Oil the topics w Mini chosen to discuss. ITa looked stupid, heavy-headed. Anil we thought tils brain imbedded In the ivory and granite of his knob: Yes, ho seemed a hopeless dud iu Kver.v way. till of a sudden Someone got thin bird to talking of hts job. THEN his face with glamor lighted. And fiis eyes grew keen, excited. As he spoke of things he understood so well; Wo, who thought we could ignore him. Sat nuite breathlessly before him White his conversation held us in a spell. Thus we learned this little lesson. Which we'd lay a lot of stress on. "Don't misjudge a guy who seems to be a gawk' Von may find, as quite a few have, lie has better brains than you have. When the* man who knows his job begins to talk !" tCopyright. 1P23, KKA Service. Inc.)

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TOM SIMS SAYS: THIS game, “Where’s the Ransom,” the Chinese bandits play, isn’t a Chinese game, ft is Mexican. # • Our luck at baseball games is to have our mouth full of peanuts when it comes time to yell. * • * The most ideal business combination is a life insurance agent caught bootlegging. • • • If you take a fly in and treat her nice she goes home and gets the rest of her family. • • * Oshkosh. Wis.. ships an enormous amount of frog legs, but it keeps them on the jump. Maybe soda jerkers smoke so much because nervous hands help them in shaking milk shakes. Sacramento t'al. man who rode a bicycle seventy-seven hours could save energy by getting a motorcycle. • • • Profiteering, a lady tolls us. is having thousands at a bail game and hiring only eighteen men to pluv. • • * Grand Rapids, Mich., had a $230,000 furniture fire, and we hope it got some folding tables. m m m Maybe the Greeks can’t overthrow the Turks. All the Greek throwers are over here wrestling.

Its ‘Teddy ’ or Nobody , Says Boonville Man —■ ■ - JAMES C. TWEEDY Ttu XVA Service Boonville. ind., May is.— For eLeven years, James C. Tweedy. 79, Civil War veteran, has remained away from the fail Is, And thereby hangs a tale— Teddy Roosevelt had no more en thus!a.stic follower than Tweedy. Through all the campaigns of the Big Stick w ielder. Tweedy was to be found loyally upholding Rooseveltian policies. Then came 1912 and the Roosevelt bolt from the G. O. P. and the format!cm of a Bull Moose party with Teddy as its leader. Tweedy has always been a strong party man. but his admiration of Roosevelt overwhelmed that for his party, and he "bolted” too. Both went down to defeat, repudiated hy the people. Roosevelt has passed away and Tweedy swore he rver would go to the polls again, disappointed that the voters should ignore his ideal. He has kept his promise. "Roosevelt was my idea of a real man and a real President,” Tweedy says, when asked why he has kept his promise and stayed away from the polls. “When the people de seated Roosevelt they made a mistake, and I shall never vote again “Perhaps I am wrong. But some times it seems that I can hear Teddy saying; " ‘Bully for you!* and I am reassured.” *

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VETERANS BUREAU GETS CLEAN SLATE

Scatters Ashes of Foster Father

Miss Anna Bolehi Benjamin is upon the high seas on the 8. S. Presider.te Wilson to scatter the ashes of the iute Park Benjamin, her foster father and New York millionaire. This, at his request.

BARE HEAD FIRST SIGN OF INSANITY By yKA Sfrrice SEATTLE, May 15.—When you visit Seattle he sure to bring along your hat. Otherwise a policeman Is liable to approach you cautiously and say with a smiD: “Come, king, the queen awaits you!” For in the ABC’s of Seattle police Instruction, according to words attributed to Chief Severvns. a hat leas man walking on a street is a likely candidate for an insane asylum. Students of University of Washington are having their troubles. Thev believe in conventions, all right, but can’t be convinced that going withcut a hat on a nice, sunshiny day exactly a crime. Yet they claim cops stop them and submit them to a line of questioning that has a suspicious ring to it. Naturally the students are indignant. But when pressed for an explanation the chief replied: “Well, the cops have good reason for stopping them. Bareheadedness is the first sign of insanity. We cap ture most, of our lunatics iu that manner.” So DO come to Seattle? You MUST come over! But bring alone your hat! POET RECOVERS VISION Delirium on Voyage Is Cure for Blindness. LONDON, May 15.—Hibbart Gilson, a London poet, boarded a liner at Durban, totally blind. He landed at Soutlgunpton. his i vision completely recovered. During the voyage Gilson became ill delir- i iously, and for a time was uncon- | scious. Then as he slowly recovered his j sight, which he lost when in the war, j gradually came buck. Faddy Jewelry One now sees matching sets of earrings, necklaces and bracelets, j done up in smart little leather cases, j

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Hines Develops Tendency to Let Bygones Be Bygones. 'This is the second of the series of nrt:. by C A. Raudau. of The Indianapolis Tinas' Washington bureau, on the United States Veterans’ Bureau. These articles were written after a careful inquiry mm tha activities of the bureau.) By C. A. RANDAU w w j ABKINGTON, May 15.—Word VV/ has leaked out that the vet * " erans’ bureau is due to receive a coat of whitewash at the hands of the Senate Investigating Committee. Though more than two months have passed since the Senate appointed the committee to investigate the charge* of graft, inefficiency and injustice, no public hearings of any kind have been held. Three on Committee The Senate committee is composed of Senators Reed of Pennsylvania, ■ Uatrman; Oddie of Nevada and Walsh of Massachusetts. Reed has recently been vacationing in Bermuda. Oddie is preparing for a trip to Alaska. Walsh has political "fences” to look after, for his term expires next year. The committee employed as counsel Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan. The general is a transit commissioner of New York City. Aside from one or two one-day visits to Washington and an appeal for “assistance” sent broadcast to lawyers throughout the country, he has given no evidence of activity in the case. The charges of maladministration of the bureau led to the resignation of Director Charles R. Forbes and a number of his assistants. Hines Is Inactire The new director is Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines. Since his entry into tho bureau’s affairs there has devel oped a tendency to let bygones be bygones. It is generally admitted that many things were not as they should be under the Forbes regime. Washington officaldorn, however, hits become so accustomed to easy methods in high places, that the alleged graft in tha Veteransh’ Bureau is dismissed as “piker stuff." ”Whitewash?” exclaimed an official of the American Legion. “If they start mixing paint, we’ll kick their bucket all over the place*”

In the Editor’s Mail

To the Editor of The Timm I read with much interest a recent editorial comment, and will say that I don't quite understand. Perhaps you see more of discontent, unrest and infidelity of married people which you speak of than the other kind, hut I believe there are many more happy, contented hornets in Indianapolis than the other kind, and I believe there are just as many loving, faithful wives and mothers as there ever were. And wh.it joy is greater than just being a wife and mother? How beautiful to watch little lives unfold and to teach them to live with themselves! If we always do the things that we love ourselves for doing, we will never be in bad company. Teach them from tiny tots the way of truth and right tend live it before them Teach them high and noble ambitions and to find happiness in service to others. We don’t mind if we have to count the pennies or make Jack’s old pants over for John. T don’t believe a woman has to stay at home and he old-fashioned to he a good wife and mother. I think they should take an interest in church work, parent-teacher clubs and many other organizations and still be a good, contented and happy wife and mother. A READER.