Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1923 — Page 4

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HENRY 'Y'HryHEN Henry Cabot Lodge. Senator, from Na AND HIS \l\j bant, Mass., passes to his final reward, and CLAUSES V V St. Peter at the Pearly Gates presents him with an entry blank to sign, he will wave it aside and call for a fountain pen. He will enter heaven itself only with proper reservations. The news from Washington has it that Henry now is busy writing reservations to America’s proposed entry into the Permanent Court of International Justice. Having “broken the heart of the world,” and staved off peace for goodness knows how long through his fight against the League of Nations, Lodge now is subtly planning to smother, under an avalanche of reservations. President Harding’s proposal that we should enter the world court. The President thinks we should not stand on the side lines forever and rag the other nations while they endeavor to keep the world out of war. He believes we ought to get into the game ourselves and help instead of criticise. And. of course, he is right. But Henry thinks differently. If we join the court we should, first, make sure that we shall boss the court, and. second, that nothing the court does will affect us—unless it is nice and pleasant and profitable and we want it to. It is a noble thought. President Harding. Secretary Hughes, Secretary Hoover, and many others among the President’s advisers, believe our joining the court would go a long way toward helping a stricken world to get on its feet. Will Henry help? Yes—with reservations. s THE WAR Tt ypANKIND in mortal warfare with the insect FOR THE \/| world for possession of the plan’et on which EARTH XYJL we live, is the grewsome picture portrayed by scientists in Washington in discussions with David Dietz, correspondent of this newspaper. Indeed, it is more than a picture—it is a fact, this life and death war. And it is by no means certain that man. having conquered the planet in his struggle through the ages, will be able to hold the earth against the eventual attacks of the armies of insects. In fact, man is able to hold on now only because the insects are fighting each other. The insect enemy is able to hold out igainst man only because men are at war with each other. If man. applying the ingenuity and the weapons and the chemicals he has invented for the purpose of destroying his fellow men, could unite his forces against his greatest common enemies, he could make himself secure in a short time. But he won’t, and for all his proud mastery of the earth, man is in many respects no smarter than his enemv, the insect.

HOWTO TT "T" ENRY~ FORD, in an interview, is quoted as MAKE A I I disapproving “the thrift method” for getMILLION! II ting rich. “The world is crying for service.” says Henry, and adds. “Give service and you cannot, fail.” Just so. There were Socrates. Aristotle. Columbus. John the Baptist. Abraham Lincoln. General Booth, .lohn Wesley, Savanarola, Mary Lyon. David Livingston, and even Jesus himself, who might with propriety be included in the category of the world's greatest “service givers.” Many of these met death in some form at the hands of the rich of'their time, and none of them so far as known qualified for the millionaire's blue book. Os course, the facts are that the vast majority of the useful, service giving men and women of history have passed out as poor in this world’s goods as they were when they earn? into the world. And even the experts on riches fail to agree: “Save the pennies—be methodical—give freely ,to charities,” says John D. Rockefeller. “Don’t think of anything but service.” advises Henry Ford. “Go into the rubber business in Africa,” advised the late James J. Hill. i “Work your credit to the last penultimate cent.” said the late E. H. Harriman Keep out of debt. I have never owed a cent in ray life.” said Marshall Field, one ot the world s greatest merchants Loan your money on the best sejpiritv—money g 1 wavs talks,”said Russell Sage. “Make your railroad and it will make you,” said Cornelius Vanderbilt. “Wreck your railroad and sell it to the boohs.” sgid Jav Gould. “The world loves to be humbugged,” said Phineas T. Barnum. “Make the Government build your railroad,” said Collis P. Huntington, or. “Have a millionaire fincle.” might he the advice of his nephew. Then again it may be that Henry’s idea of “service” is relative, to be taken only in a .strictly Pickwickian sense.

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i tnat for the iative born of natrvv i parentage. Th- 1 several races of forj oign born vary much in longevity, however, Russians leading, then Ital j ians, English, Scotch, Welch and Ger j mans, while the Irish are the shortest | lived of all. How did the different continenis get their names? Africa—from Afer. inhabitants -of j Africa. of uncertain derivation, | possibly of Phoenician origin. It j seems to have been originally the. ! designation of Carthage, as the colony , of Tyre, and later extended to the ' whole continent. Asia—see under Europe. Australia —from Neo-Latin, South- ! land, from I*atin. Australia, southern. The name was probably suggested by Matthew Flinders in his "Voyage to Terra Australis." America named for Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator. Europe—the name is ac- | cording to some scholars, from the old | Assyrian Irib of Ereb—sunset or west, i%hich was applied to Greece to disi tinguish it from Asia Minor, which was designated as: Assue —sunrise or east. These names, in their later forms, were finally extended, the one from Greece all over Europe, and the other from Asia Minor all over Asia. * Has a golf ball ever been driven over 40ft yards? Yes, a drive of 489 yards was made by W. S. Caldwell of St. Louis, Mo. What is the altitude record for balloons? Thirty five thousand feet.

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MEXICAN BORDER VISIONS PEACE AS UNITED STATES RECOGNITION NEARS

HARDING HAS TRUE STORY ABOUTSUGAR By JOHN CARSON AEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 21.—President Harding now has the complete story ot the sugar gouge. It is* the same story told weeks ago in this paper. It has now been brought to him by Government investigators. The facts obtained are as follows: Wall Street banks, aided slightly by a few other banks, control practically the entire Cuban sugar Crop. At least 75 per cent of the crop is at their disposition. The banks are intimately linked an<l interwoven with the came sugar trust composed of American refiners of Cuban sugar. They have provided the money to market this crop, to peddle it out in small quantities and thus keep up the impression of a shortage in order to boost prices. That’s the story in full and no one in the Government service will attempt to refute the facts or deny that this condition exists. But what is the President going to do about it? So far as can be learned, there is little hope In the Harding Administration that anything can be done just now. At least there is no suggestion now of any radical steps to be taken. It is intimated that the Pesident and hts entire official family are putting their hope in the boycott by consumers. The impression is left that the Daugherty legal steps are just a sideshow.

WOMAN EXPLORER WILL LANE TABLE LINEN TO AFRICA Divorcee, Tired of White Race, Will Live With Natives in Dark Continent. NBW YORK. May 21.—Mrs Bella J. Akeley will lake her afternoon and evening frocks and her table linen nad sliver when she goes to the in terior of Africa to hunt big bame. Mrs. Akeley. who has been commi-s sioned by the Brooklyn Museum to bring back rare specimens of animal life, told of her plans recently. Her trip to the jungle is partly for the purpose of seeking solace for the wreck of her married life by divorce from Carl E. Akeley, famous African explorer and big game hunter. Going Unaccompanied "I am going unaccompanied,’' she said. "I am setting out with the idea of earning my living and making a name for myself, as famous -as that of my husband." She made her firs? trip into Africa in 1905 when she bagged the largest elephant ever known to have bee.n shot. (•.. the next trip she will cross the continent, going into the wildest of jungles, where she and her husband hunted with Theodore Roosevelt. She will be gone one year. ‘*l shall not miss any one on my expedition,” she said. "The work is serious and is done better without interruptions. Many nights I know I shall work all night. I am taking all sorts of cameras, and will do my own developing. "Beside hunting big game I intend to make a study of young monkeys and antelopes. Will I>ive With Natives “I will live witn the native women and children, of whom I am very fond, because they have not been affected by the white races. "It is not necessary to be masculine in order to hunt big game. Os course, I have to wear suitable clothing in the field-®rid,ng breeches, a flannel skirt with pockets for cartridges, helmet, boots and putties. "I will carry my table linen and silver and have course dinners. I also am going to take an evening and afternoon frock or two. "T will take the only gun I have ever used, a light one, weighing seven and a half pounds. Ft shoots anything from birds to elephants." ALE IS SEEN AS LONGEVITY HELP English Doctor Proscribes It for 150 Years of Life, LONDON, May 21.—Life to the age of 152 years is within the grasp of any one, says Dr. Josiali Oldfield. He believes in a diet of coarse bread, porridge, buttermilk, vegetables, butter, efiees and home-brewed ale, and solaces Americans by saying that the last-mentioned beverage is not essential to long life, although a potent factor in attaining ii. Dr. Oldfield's argument has force, for he has an example to substantiate his claims in the person of "Old Parr,” who married for the first time at the age of 80 and the second time at 122, and who never partook of anything hut the diet Dr. Oldfield prescribes. Parr died at the age of 162 years from eating meat in the Duke of Arundel’s kitchen. Dr. Oldfield asserts that the vitamines in the barley of old homebrewed ale are responsible for the stamina of the English of the la§t five centuries.

ate:M -* r ifk a fi wu i.v. ,?'■ *'-.■■■'**. lßi*' ■jg k LOOKED ASTRIDE HIS HORSE WHEN LEADING HIS MEN. LOWWy,.'! KR LEFT IS A PHOTO OF PRSEIDENT OBREGON. WHOSE ADMIN- \ LSTR.VITON STANDS A GOOD CHANGE OF GAINING RECOGNI v TION BY, THE UNITED STATES.

Greece Pleads for Red Cross to Stay in Athens

Nation Overrun With Refugees Who Fled Homes Before Turks, i BY WILLIAM PH FLIP SIMMS NEA Service Writer \THENS, May 21.—Greece, with a population of less than 5,000, 000, can not possibly take care of her more rhan a million war refugees when ihe American Red Cross goes homo in June, Premier Gona’as told me in an exclusive Interview here today. The “revolution" premier made It plain during the conversation, that Greece today stands with her hack to the wall and without the aid of friendly powers she will have great difficulty pulling through. Through The Indianapolis Times he pleads for the Reel Cross to hang on a while longer—until six months after peace Is signed at Lausanne at least. Through The Times he also thanked the American public for saving the situation thus far Quartered in the old Royal Palace, in the dressing rooms of bathing pavilions along the beach, in the boxes of theaters and on the stages, in outhouses and stables, In goods boxes, freight cars, tents and out in the open, refugees swarm all over the nation. Greek Plight Grave The.ro Is one refugee for every Greek family. An,l when one stops to think that Greet? was up against It, even before the refugees suddenly began pouring in upon her out of Asia Minor, some idea of her plight can be gained. "Consider,” said Colonel Gohatas, I "Greece has been cruelly tried by ten I years of constant wary and now, In this tragic moment, she must make a place for more than a million refugees, mostly women and children. "Compelled to tier, from their homes by the Turks, who committed before their very eyes atrocities which shamed civilization, they arrived in Greece with only the clothes they fled in. Some of them, indeed, arrived barely covered. "T am persuaded that the American Red Cross, better informed would not. interrupt its work for humanity, and would realize that in spite of all our efforts we, unfortunately, will not be in a. position to replace their good work here for at least, six months after the signature of a treaty of peace.” Thanks America Asa matter of fact, the Cross considers the "emergency" over jn Greece and, being strictly an emergency organization, It. cannot con

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HOW VILLA, FORMER BANDIT, LOOKED ASTRIDE HIS HORSE WHEN LEADING HIS MEN. LOW KR LEFT IS A PHOTO OF PRSEIDFNT OBR EGON. WHOSE ADMINISTRATION STANDS A GOOD CHANCE OF GAINING RJ3COGNI TION BY f THE UNITED STATES.

tinue to function indefinitely as a purely charitable institution "I would like to express through the American press.’ Premier Sonata* told me. "the profound thanks of the,Greek nation and the government to the individuals and organizations of America and particularly the Red Cross, for the preciou . assistance they have given us in our heavy task. Will you please be the Interpreter before the noble American nation of the feeling of gratitude which overflows our hearts"” MORE ILLITERATES IN RURAL REGIONS Poor Schools Are Blamed for Condition, NEW YORK. May 21— Illiteracy is about tKvice as great in the rurai districts of the country' as in the cities "because of the inferiority of the rural schools an 1 of poor attendance,'' aeiording to a pamphlet Issued by the civic development department of the Fhamber of Commerce of the United States. The fact that school advantages < f the country have lagged behind those of the city Is a large clement In :he rural problem, it la said hv the department, Asa result, it Is said, tho-e who can afford It continue to desert the farms In order to give their chil dren proper educational advantages. Aooording to tb department "about one-half of elementary school children In the United States attend rural schools; the rural school term, however, averages only 184 days a year, as against 184 days for city children. "One-half of the rural teachers in the United States." the pamphlet goes on to say, "have net completed the four year high school course, and 10 per cent, have finished only seven or eight grades of the elementary schools In several States less than 8 per cent of the rural teachers teach more than one year in the same period." The pamphlet, which will he sent to hundreds of business men and farm ers It points ont that "city and country are dependei.it upon each other." and adds that those things which affect the welfare and pros yperity of the farmer are of vital in terest to the, business man. It points the way in which the situation may be bettered through standardized schools, consolidated schools and the proper system of county organization.

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Banditry Starts as Parley Convenes —Government Enemies Busy, By SEA Service. EL PASO, Texas. May 21.—Border ranchers are keeping a wary eye on Mexico. They hope at last permanent peace has come to | that narow strip of land along both I sides of the Rio Grande. But past history makes them uneasy. They half expect trouble. Tt was over thus on the eve of recognition by the United States of her insurrection torn southern neighbor. * Now such acknowledgment of the present government looms an apt roaching reality. A joint commission of two Americans and two Mexicans Is meeting in Mexico City for an exchange of views in an effort to negotiate a basis of concession. In the past, similar overtures, like the rumblings of a storm, have proven hut ominous signals for raids by flying squads of Mexican desperadoes, j who had been thoroughly discredited I by their own government. Just Like a Bny Hence folk hereabout are wont to j iken unofficial Mexico at such times tr. a small hoy out In company. And so this may l>e significant: Just as the joint commission meets, two officers near Laredo are charged with the murder of six Italians who had bribed them to be smuggled across the border. Circumstances show the wholesale slaughter was not to thwart President Obregon. but purely for robberyThe result, however, in a way, is the same. , Ever sice May 25. 1910, when Porfiro Diatz was driven out, trouble started brewing on just such occa • ions as now exist. Five administrations came and went before Alvaro Obregon assumed office Dec. 1, 1920.

Banditry Breaks l/oose And In each instance, just as the T nited States was about to recognize the powers in control, or immediately after such recognition was given, banditry broke loose Either they crossed the border and harassed Americans. or they started insurrections. Those who know say that Obregon is making the best president the revo-lution-ridden republic ever had. He has opened schojis. He lias stimulated industry. He has constantly thought of the people's interests. But now. when Charles R. Warren and John Barton Payne for the United States are conferring with Ramon Ross and Fernando Gonzales for Mexico, tension along the border has grown taut. And they've a reason. For consider some of the past: V, hen Francisco Madero was safely. ensconced in the presidency, Huerta and his followers murdered Mmiero and his brother. Huerta tame next. He became dictator much after the fashion of Diaz. He angered Washington by defiance that brought him nothing. Despite his official sarcasm. Huerta might have won out with the United States had it not been for the Tampico flag incident. Columbus Raid Carranza and Vijla were inarching upon Mexico <’ity when the Incident occurred. They were hundreds of miles away, however. • Americans landed at Vera <’ruz and a skirmish resulted. This was a signal for Faxranv.a and Villa to get busy and they attacked ftuertistas wherever they found theifi. They drove them southward, and killed any chance Uuerta ever hao of winning recognition. About th time former President Wilson recognized Carranza. Pancho Villa staged the laid at Columigis, -V M. He wanted to show the American executive he had made a mistake Carranza couldn't stop border raids. Villa said. Cost I . S. $150,000,000 And In that raid In 1918, seventeen American soldiers were killed, anu Pershing's pursuit of the vniistas cost our Government $150,000,000. But it did more. It shook faith 1n Carranza. All America wants to he assured la that Mexico will protect the Interests of Americans. Obregon is in favor of a fifty-mile prohibition zone south of the Rio Grande, following such recognition. Americans along the trouble stretch are hoping for the best. But they’re keeping their powder dry and an eye peeled toward the boundary line in watchful expectation.

RENT PRICES UP IN PHILADELPHIA City Faces Housing Shortage, Despite Building, PHILADELPHIA, May 21.—Notwithstanding the building program of 1922, said to have been the largest in the history of Philadelphia, the shortage of dwelling houses here is greater than two years ago, the Philadelphia Housing Association said recently in making public its annuai survey. “The situation steadily Is growing worse,” said the report*, “while, rental increases are continuing unabated.” Os 61,135 houses in fourteen industrial districts, the survey showed only fifty-six renting SSO a month or less, vacant, < as compared with eighty-three similar vacant homes found among 70,832 canvassed in 1921. Fewer than e dozen renting for more than SSO were found vacant. This would indicate, the report stated, that out of approximately 400,000 dwellings in the city fewer than 400 were vacant. The association failed to find an unoccupied house out of 10,656 covered in Kensington, Tacony. Brewerytown and Germantown sections, while of the in there was none either for sale or rent.

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Triangle Without a Sharp Corner

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THTR PICTURE FURNISHES A FLAT CONTRADICTION OF THE TIME-WORN SAW’ THAT "TWO’S COMPANY, THREE'S A CROTVD.” HERE ARE ROY CUMMINGS, VAUDEVILLE ACTOR: MRS. HELEN CUMMINGS. HIS DIVORCED WIFE. AND MRS. IRENE SHAW CUMMINGS. HIS PRESENE WIFE. HOLDING EDNA. DAUGHTER OF THE FIRST MRS. CUMMINGS. THIS. AT THEIR COTTAGE NEAR DEREI, CONNETICUT.

THERE is no place like home, if the place is home like. A telephone girl who can’t cuss has a poor memory. The weather never is as balmy as the poets. One thing you can do best on an empty stomach is eat. a * • Artichokes are among the things you hear about, but seldom see.

If we were Willard with his eighty-four-inch reach we would start telling fish stories for a living. A trained nurse shot two men in Chicago, showing trained nurses get wild sometimes. Germany takes a census evert* years, but not because the German people are harder to count on. **‘ . i Beets are tamed tar and wide as the only vegetables living up to seed catalogue coloring. • • • One billion dollars’ worth of women's clothes- were made in the United States last year. The woman pays. Storks sleep standing on one leg. and storks with corns probably stay awake at night. • • * Cost of living has risen almost 69 per cent in ten years, but it is still worth doing. There are 40.000 muscles in an elephant's trunk, and baggage men think vou have as manv in vours. * . . # • • • Turtles have no teeth, but then they have no toothache, so that fixes that, tip all right. A whale's skin is two feet thick in some places, so no whale should mind a spanking wind. • * * Marathon dancing may wreck the country in time, but we like it much better than marathon singing. • • • Some Sectors could be arrested for contempt of YVorld Court, • * • Susie Tletleck of Yovode, Pa., washed dishes thirty-one hours to get her name in our paper, and succeeded. • • • There is a big crop of fried chicken this spring. A Detroit heiress eloped with the gardener, and her dad is home now just raising oain. • * A Philadelphia preacher skirted out claiming there was no hell, so the people gave him some. • • * Sad things about Ford being our richest man is we can’t blame him for the high price of anything.

Editor’s Mail

To the Editor of The Timet Myself and four other taxpayers visited the Marion County Home on the 13th. We learned that the committee was arranging to tear down a part of the old building and build a new one. but this will be protested as It is not necessary. There is room In the old building for 300 inmates. All It needs Is to be repaired and made fireproof. The taxpayers should protest against this unnecessary expense. J. C.VOOK. * City. A Certainty By BERTON BRALEY FROM Washington to Harding, Our President? have sworn, “I long to be discarding The office robes Ive worn: The thing on which I dote is To hvo like common man.” But none the loss you'll notice They always, run again' lIT HE cares of state are heavy,'* Our Presidents complain. “A tribute harsh they levy Upon the nerve and brain. We're aJway9 in subjection To strains beyond your ken." But at the next election They Jways run again. THEY <ay they hate the clamor Pith which each day's throb. They loathe the pomp and glamor— That's bunk: they like the job! The heigh: which they've ascended They all rnjo.v. and when Their four-.vear term is ended,. They always run again. (Copyright, 1923, JtEA Service, Inc.)

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GERMANS CATCH ON TO‘FREE’SHOW BERLIN, May 21.—'Vnttnbrg Platz, Berlin's Columbus circle, ha.s been the scene every night recently of a free show staged by an imitator of Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin’s wide popularity among the Germans has made the antics of his imjllrsonator responsible for gathering such crowds that traffic was well nigh blocked. • Shuffling about in Chaplin's characteristic fashion, his Imitator would suddenly grab the nearest bystander to save himself from falling. The bystander would join in the general laugh, but nobody discovered until now why no hat was ever passed at the show. Last night a man who had home mysteriously minus his watch and chain after attending the entertainment. revisited the performance wearing a miniature clock so constructed as to sound an alarm upon its removal from his pocket. Just after the entertainer seined this man in a fake fall the clook's alarm sounded, and the performer was as a pickpocket. He made hi-Ascapc. however, into the Tlergarleßami'l a rain of blows from the eiged spectators.