Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1923 — Page 4

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HERE 'f n ON’T “kid” the youngsters who, graduating COMES I I this year from high school or college, start HELP 1 J out into the world wi,th sure confidence that they are going to take charge of things and and save the situation on short notice. All of us have to go through that period of youthful enthusiasm. And it’s a good thing. Looking back, the older generation realizes that their exuberant start gave them momentum without which they might have weakened and fallen by the wayside. Go ahead, you graduates! You’re the hope of the world. And the enthused, confident newcomer in the battle of life can take wallops that would make an old-timer go down for the count. Maybe, after all. the 1923 graduates are right in their conviction that they are going to save the world. The world vertainly can stand a lot of saving. And the reinforcements pouring from the schools this year are badly needed. The “regulars” are in mud up to their necks and wavering. Looking the world over, most of us realize that the present generation has made pretty much of a failure of things. We’ve almost destroyed a civilization built up painfully and laboriously through thousands of years. The rising generation will not have to do much of a job to beat our pitiful record. All set. youngsters! Bets on you! Over the top! FORESTS center of the world’s lumber supply has AND 01 R I definitely shifted to the Pacific coast of the HOMES United States. For thirteeu years lumber production in the Eastern and Great Lakes States has been steadily decreasing while the Pacific slope shows a consistent increase. Moreover, a comprehensive survey of the world forests shows that there are none from which we may draw when our own are exhausted. The average rate of decrease now is about 2 per cent the year. The high point of production was reached in 1907 when American forests turned out. 47,000.000.000 feet. Present production is about 27 per cent less than these figures. The high peak is passed forever. What of the future? The most encouraging feature of the situation is the universal interest which is being aroused in reforestation and preservation problems. * Probably America will always be a land of parks and forests preserves. But a century hence the lumber industry as we know it now will be something very different and homes will be built of brick, tile and concrete.

MEDICINE TT" X Alberta, Canadian province, they have proFOR Rl M I hibition. Also bootleggers, chiefly from wet RUNNERS a. British Columbia. The police have been unable to check rum runners at the border. Do Ithey sit back and say prohibition is a failure? Not much. They themselves with motorcycles carrying machine uuns and tear bombs. One gunner in a test makes sixty-two hits out o! a possible seventy while going sixty miles an hour. He will not have to do much shooting on his heat. The cream of the criminal world is in the bootlegging game, surrounded by murderers, counterfeiters, forgers and burglars. There is only one language they understand and obey. Alberta has found it. GOTHAM "TEW YORK City will have over 100.000.00f) 100 YEARS inhabitants in the year 2033, if it maintains HENCE JL 3I its present rate of growth. This is announced by Professor Ogburn of Columbia, risinjr from a great mass of paper on which he has been doing statistics. However, “if is a very big word. In the year 2033 New York City will not have more than 25.000 inhabitants at night, and they'll be police and watchmen. Airplanes, destined to destroy our great cities, will enable people to live far out in the country and quickly fly hundreds of miles to and from work.

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. You can an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to the Indianapolis bureau. 1U22 New York Are.. Washington D C , enclosing 2 cents in stamps Medical, legal, and love and marriaee advice cannot be riven, nor can extena-ti r* -- arch be undertaken. or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters annot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—EDlTOß. Who discovered the South Magnetic Pole? What is its latitude and longitude? Its location was first marked by the English Antarctic Expedition in the “Discovery,” 1903: again by the Shackleton expedition in 1909. From the combined results it is placed at about 72Va degrees South, 155V2 degrees East. Docs it take more force to press an inverted vessel into water the dee per you go? If the container is rigid so that it does not change its size as it is pushed farther below the surface of the water, and if the water cannot enter it so as to change the volume of enclosed air, then there is no greater force required to hold it a foot below the surface than is required to hold it an jinch below the surface. A reader of this column asks for a list of recipes for making salads and salad dressings. Any other interested reader may obtain a bulletin giving such recipes by writing to our Washington Bureau, enclosing two cents in stamps. How many National Forests arc owned by the Government and where are they located? How are they managed? One hundred and forty-eight, comprising 156.000,000 acres. One is in New England, one in Michigan, ten in the Southern States, one in Porto feico, two in Alaska, and the rest in States west of the Mississippi, V>",hci pally in Arkansas. Colorado, Mexico, Arizona, Utah. Nevada, Wyoming. Montana, Washingegon, and California. Ail are supervision and control of the cßro States Forest Service.

When were rubber tires first invented? Science Service says the first pneumatic rubber tire was patented by Robert W . Thomson, an Englishman, in 1845. It was not a commercial success. What is metonymy? The substitution for the thing itself of something closely associated with it, as the sign or the symbol for the thing symbolized, the cause for the effect, the instrument for the user of it, the container for the thing contained. the material for the thing made of It, etc. Examples: “Strike for your altars and your fires." “The pen is mightier than the sword. Did the Egyptians use linen or cotton for the wrappings of their mummies? Microscopic examination of the wrappings of a large number of mummies has shown that they were made of linen. Cotton was never used. Which is the oldest city in the United States? St. Augustine, Florida. Who invented the flexible photographic film? The Rev. Hannibal Goodwin. Newark. N. J., in 1887. It was not until March 4. 1914. however, that after prolonged litigation, the patent was upheld by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. When were the first buildings erected in New York? In 1613, when Adrian Block built four trading houses on the site now j 41 Broadway. Is it permissible to wear a hunting knife outside of the belt when going to and from the woods? Yes. Is the egg shampoo good for tlie hair? The whites of two eggs and the juice of two lemons applied by rubblngjjfthoroughly into the scalp with the ®ps of the fingers is said to be ver>#good.

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Millionaire Grape Grower Goes to Jail THEODORE GIER By XFA Rm icr OAKLAND. Cal.. May 25.—An oft-expressed belief that '‘millionaires do not go to jail,” is i shattered by Theodore Gier of this | city. Gier, 50, millionaire vineyardist. is ; serving ninety days in Alameda j County prison for violation of proI hibition laws. | But Gier is unrepentant. “For years.” he says, “the Government encouraged me in my business and then, overnight, they tried 1 to take it away from me. In a case like that, what would a man do?" The wealthy grape grower has entertained two Presidents of the I’nited States and owns a decoration bestowed by the former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. “How am 1 a lawbreaker?" he asks. “The prohibition law is really not a law at all; it is Just something that the minority slipped over on the majority.” ELIMINATE ‘HATE’ FROM TEXT BOOKS Bn T mrt Sirrinl WASHINGTON*. May 25 —"Remov'hate' from the school text books an ! popular literature of the world!” This Is the slogan which will acru ate the great conference of world educators called to meet In San Fran cisco June 28. under the auspices of the National Education Association. Already 500 leading educators from fifty nations have s (> nt in acceptances arid there is every reason to tieliev i that the conference will he a notable gathering of thinking men and women. Particular attention is drawn to text books in France and Germany ' preaching hate in pictures and words | of syllable, to recent writings by Gen i eral Pershing in the Saturday Post, pleading for a big increase in the Army, to the campaign for miitariz !ng the thinking of the youth of our high schools, to the pictures of march ing soldiers in the movie news week i lies, to the articles by Secretary of V. ar Weeks in the Nation’s Business, where he declares that "we must h~ ready for a war that, will tax us to the utmost in man power and resources.”

NEW YORK OUT AFTER CONVENTION Bv Times Hperiat NEW YORK. May 25.—New York | City is out for the Democratic national convention in 1924. The meI tropolis feels that it has been slighted |in this matter. Only once in the hia- ! tory of the major political parties have the presidential selections been made in Gotham. That was in 1868, when the Democrats forgathered there. It was formerly believed that the State in which a convention was held | could be counted upon to vote for '• the party so honoring it. The legend j has long since been disproved. I In presenting its case this year ; New York makes no political promises, j but liases its claims on transportation I and hotel facilities. Should the con- | vention he held in New York, the | meetings would be held in Madison j Square Garden. Incurable By ItERTON BRALEY THERE S a guy across the alley has a flute 1 Toot! Toot!) i that instrument, it seems, is never mute, • There is nothing any cuter I Than a truly clever tooter I Who's been tutored how to toot upon the flute: I But this bird is far from skillful. : And his piercing notes are shrillful, 1 with a maddening effect upon the ear; j And we shudder and we shiver, ! And our nerves are all aquiver | At the devastating discords that we hear. THERE S a sruy across the alley has a flute • Toot! Toot!) | If he plays upon it longer we shall shoot! Not a single note's a true one. 1 Every warble is a blue one ! Like a screeeh-owl with a cold who tries to ) hoot j Oh the sounds that he’s emitting j Keep our teeth forever gritting, jHe s a pestilential nuisance, that galoot; And each day he toots it longer, j As his lungs are growing stronger j With the exercise lie gives 'em on that flute. OH the g-uy across the alley HAD a flute. But w e calmly went and massacred the brute: In the grave we sought to hide him With his instrument beside him. But I've heard it said by people of repute. That a sound to chill the tissue Nightly from the graveyard issues, It’s a ghostly shriek that makes the timid scoot: And it’s said by those who hear it It's the young mans stubborn spirit Which is playing ghastly discords on the flute (Toot! Toot!) Ma' ‘ c—restless with his flute! (Copvright 102.'! XEA Service. Inc.) •

PETTICOAT COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS TOWN CHOOSES MERE MALE AS MARSHAL

Police Force Is Happy Man as Women Boss Him, By XEA Servici, THEBES. 111., May 25. —The polio# force of this little town is a happy man just now. Oscar Garrett is his nama Didn't a “bunch of women,” as he puts it. choose him? Yep: And won’t things hum during the present petticoat regime? You said it, brother! Thebes recently underwent a political eruption. In the last election the Citizens' ticket, composed of women with one exception, was pitted against the Peoples ticket, composed of men. The women won and. from mayor down, went into office. Mrs. Nora H.. Gammon, mayor, called a meeting and the important subject of a police force arose. Three holdover men trustees still were in office. One of them quit cold, saying he wouldn’t have anything to do wltn petticoat goverrunent. Another fallod to show up, and so with the women sticking together. Garret was chosen 3 to 1. as town marshal. Proud of Honor “I’m proud to be chosen by women,” he spake gracefully, “and I’m glad to be bossed by them l doubt if there is another bunch of women in the country that have the ability these women here in Thebes have. Os course, there is quite a task ahead of us in cleaning up the town. But I am sure that they will establish a precedent for the rest of the country " One cherished theory that women placed in political control would lose their sense of humor has already been blasted higher than Pike's Peak. With nary a chuckle they tilled the fire department committee with men.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: OVER in London. Bonar Law has resigned, which reminds J®!? • us “ Who remembers the bonus / law we planned to pass?” / Here’s news from China. General I igflf Ho is losing control of his troops. May \ jrajly lie ‘ 1 Westward, Ho,” for Ho. \ Hsr Bryan, Win. J.. asks public official* to quit drinking. We ask them to quit *)' acting as if drunk. • • • A couple of quacks got chased out of Buffalo, N. Y., because they were not smart ducks. • * • Here’s news from Italy. When in Rome, a slight earthquake did as the Romans did. Both shook. • • • Professor MoDougall of dear old Harvard wants society divided into classes. We nominate the middle class for first class. ** ' A ' Bad news from Paris. Fat women may come hack in stylo. It costs more to feed the fat ones. • • • Representative Sweet of lowa hugs his secretary. Os course he docs. They arc on their honeymoon. • • • People picking presidential possibilities are working on the old saying every boy has a chance to become president. • • • Kansas needs farm hands. We are always lending Kansas an ear, and now she wants our hands. • * • One American soldier is still on the Rhine. That's too many. • • * Tom Edison wants to use movies in schools. Maybe the bathing girls would teach figures.

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AND HERE WE HAVE THE PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT OF THEBES GROUPED ABOUT THE NEW MARSHAL, OSCAR GARRETT.

Now this in itself doesn’t show a sense of the ridiculous until it Is known that the Ttjebaa Fire Department simply “ain't." It's just a case of everybody grabbing a bucket and throwing all the water he can. Oscar's main concern, he has been impressed by his feminine bosses, is in cleaning the town, morally and physically. “I took this job with a view of cleaning out the moonshine element here,' he says. And when he gets

through, he adds, Thebes is going to be as dry as the grapefruit you buy In an arm-chair lunch room. Like the women in control, the marshal rejoices at the result of the election if only because of its publicity value to the town. Tt works Just like a prize fight, it was explained. Look at Shelby, Mont., where the Dempsey-Gibbons championship match is to be held. Who ever heard of Shelby before? And who ever heard of Thebes before now? WORK URGES VACATION IN U. S. PARKS By DR HUBERT WORK Secretary of the Interior With a lavish hand nature has molded throughout our land the most magnificent and awe-inspiring scenery surpassing In lwauty and grandeur that offered by any foreign country These spots—our national parks—have been set aside by the American Government to be maintni-.e 1 untouched by the inroads of modem civilization ‘■■o that you and your children inay enjoy th> in Roads hav,* been built through deep • u' canyons. • <•.- lowering mountain ranges, bet- !■ rippling streams filled with fighting 'ip uni into primal forests. Hotels .mips have been • reeled to pro'.i,:, it, 'able accommodations in th< most distant and inaccessible places. Free camp grounds have been provided for those who wish to bring their own equipment and ■ .nip out. These unspoiled hits ~f native America are for you Th art the playgrounds and red ,lion parks of the people. To visit ;hem and st-e them Is to insplr, pride and make more real vour love for America. MUST BE OPIUM DREAM! Chinese Believe American St reels Are Raved Witli Gold—Reason? Movies. Uncensored motion pictures have been sent to China and from these the Chinese believe that our chief occupation Is kissing and hugging, Josef W. Hall, journalist and lecturer, told the Indianapolis Teachers' Federation Thursday night at the Chain ber of Commerce. They also beliovo that— When our mines are empty the United States will fall. Our streets are paved with gold.

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TOWNER TO CURB PORTO RIGAN RUM New Governor of Island Expected to Succeed as Ruler, Horace mann towner. of lowa, who was inaugurated gov- • emor of Porto Rico recently j amid the acclaim of 25,000 enthusiastic citizens, is the 13th governor in direct line from that well known Spaniard Ponce de Leon. Governor Towner, as chairman of *he House foreign relations commit j .ee, made many trips to Porto Rico j and knows the people well. He may | be expected to succeed where Ponce : do Leon and Mont Reilly failed. Although a Protestant, Towner ! won’t attempt to convert the Catho- • lie Porto Ricans. Although an lowan, he won’t atempt to give these picturesque dark skinned sons of the : tropics the viewpoint of the Middle i W-st. But he can he depended upon say his friends to do a few things Ha wii! insist on enforcing the pronmmon law an 1 upon curbing the actions of the Indepen,'i-ta party, which caused Reilly so much trouble. He may also jbe depended upon to encourage a ; higher standard of sex morality on the Island, something greatly needed at present in a land where a .large m;t- ---; jority of the children are born out of wedlock. One of the troublesome leaders of the Independista movement Is Antoni Barcelo. a big. gray haired, generously built and very crafty politician. He is president of the Senate. It is said that Barcelo is backed by Spanish gold. In a spe'X’h on the day of Towner's inauguration. Barcelo made an impassioned plea for statehood Hospital Mystery Miss Anna Blackwell today reported to the police a S4O wrist watch vanished from a room at the Methodist. Hospital. Rings Disappear Two rings are missing from the home of Mrs. W. A. Conner, 2909 N. Pennsylvania St. She told police they were valued at slls.

GANDHI IS BELOVED BY { ALL INDIA Name Is on Millions of Lips Throughout the Nation, By MILTON BRONXER NEA Service Writer London. May 25. —“Mohanda* . Karamchand Gandhi, the greatest man on earth, is 53. with graying hair, unflinchingly truthful eyes and slim figure.” It is in these words that a little green pamphlet, printed at Karachi. India, starts the story of the man whose name is still on millions of In dian lips. Gandhi is a Hindu, though not of the highest caste. His father was a minor official and the son was given all the educational advantages India could offer. Gandhi then came to London, completed his studies and was admitted to the bar. Chance Starts Fight Tt was mere chance that threw him against British rule. Called by legal busines to South Africa, he saw how h!s fellow countrymen treated there and entered the fight to™ grant them citizenship in the British empire. He suspended his agitation when the Boer war broke out, doing all he could to aid the British, thinking a grateful government would reward his countrymen. But it didn’t—and Gandhi returned to South Africa to renew the fight. Gandhi led strikes and he agitated, landing in jail. When the great war broke out he once more helped Britain by securing recruits for the big Indian army. Once more he was disappointed when the government failed to do more for the Indian people. But the climax came when the government passed the Rowlatt acts. These continued in peace times re pressive measures designed for wartime defense of the realm. During his studious years Gandhi had been much Influenced by the Sermon on the Mount and by the teachings of Tolstoi. Therefore, though opposed to government measures., he preached the dectrine of non-violence. The masses were passively to resist the laws and the rules. Battle Cries Through him certain words became battle cries for all Tndia: Swaraj—home rule for India. Ratyagraha— passive resistance to oppressive laws, while carefully re frainine from violence to life or property. Swadshi —native boycott of foi and particularly British goods fl Hartal—demonstrative closing o™ shops and suspension of all business. Unfortunately, the ignorant masses of Hindus were not inspired by the same Christian senriments. Also. | Gandhi had achieved the seemingly Impossible. He had bridged the gulf between Hindu and Moslem. Editor’s Mail To the Editor of The Times Would you have space in your columns for this? Dear Mr. Shank: 1 read in The Times where you had thought of a scheme to make “bump ing” a little easier on the people who bump the concrete posts by using dis carded auto tires. I wonder if you could think of any thing that would make it a little easier on R. Warman Ave? One ride in your car from Washing ton St. to Morris St. would surely help vou to think up a schemf for us. A CITIZEN.