Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1923 — Page 4

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HELP -tt-UST a line or two to reply to some of those FOU I remarks from Europeans who criticise the EUROPE American people as profiteers on Europe's prostration— American bankers have undertaken to float $25,000,000 of the $130,000,000 Austrian loan sponsored by the League of Nations, because “it is the first step toward economic rehabilitation of central Europe taken by all countries working together, and we believe that the American market should take its part when such a concerted effort is being made to better general business conditions in the world.” American citizens have already loaned European Federal and city governments $763,000,000. This sum does not take into consideration private loans to private European concerns. Nor does it include United States Government loans to European governments, nor vet funds for relief. The point is that Americans have been willing to aid Europe financially in peaceful enterprises and the cry of the profiteer comes mainly from European politicians who want more money, directly or indirectly, for military purposes. That type of borrower has a hard time finding funds in the United States —and rightly so. TESTING rrsETROUGH the generosity of the Rockefeller COUNTY Foundation. Indiana is getting at the prob. CONTROL lem of centralized school control from the right angle. It is undertaking to prove to the public that such control is efficient. Centralized school governments, assisted by the Rockefeller foundation, will be set up and operated in two counties. The last Legislature defeated a bill which would have put the schools in each county under the management of a central board headed by a superintendent, similar to the boards and superintendents in the cities. The Legislature and many citizens were hesitant about changing the form of school government, looking upon the change as an experiment. There is no good reason why the county should not be a unit in school administration. Townships as units of government are obsolete. They are additional and unnecessary burdens on the taxpayers. It is hoped the Rockefeller Foundation will succeed in proving this to the satisfaction of rural voters and of members of coming Legislatures. MAY’OR "jl /pAY’OR SHANK acted rather hastily in breakVERSUS \/| ing with the management of the Indianapolis SPEEDWAY' JLt JL Motor Speedway and in withdrawing the cooperation of the city in handling the races According to Mayor Shank, a gateman at the Speedway refused admission to guests of the mayor and in doing so made insulting remarks. The guests included Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio. It is hard to believe Speedway officials would knowingly countenance anything of that kind from an employe. The Speedway company has sent Mayor Shank and Senator Fess an apology. The mayor should accept and forget the incident.

THOSE A SPANISH boy, son of Marquis Santa Casa, UNCANNY’ / \ demonstrates to scientists his alleged psychic FOLK Jl Jl. power of seeing through metals. He is said to be able to read large newspaper type inclosed in a cigaret case. You have noticed that these remarkable things always happen a great many miles distant or years ago, never near by. If he isn't faking, the Spanish lad has something like what science calls confusion of the senses. A case is on record of a boy who could see with his fingertips—great advantage for a knothole at a ball game. CUT OUT T VERY’ motorist knows that blinding lights arn THE a menace and it is hard to understand why GLARE JL J so many persist in using them when it is possible to use properly regulator! lights and at the same time have plenty of light for driving. The police department is starting anew crusade against bright headlights and it is to be hoped the drive persists until all motorists are compelled to abide by the law. Hardly a day passes that some accident caused by brilliant lights is not reported. Such accidents are needless and should be prevented.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, and love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot bo answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. —EDlTOßIs an Indiana 1923 auto license good for the year in Illinois Licenses issued in Indiana are good for sixty days in Illinois. It is possible some city license is required in Chicago should a motorist remain there longer than sixty days. Where ran T locate roof contractors in Indianapolis? In The Times you will find advertisements of roofers. Also in the back of the Telephone Directory. Why does the eating of salt cause thirst? The blood contains a certain percentage of water which is necessary to its proper consistency and circulation. Salt has the effect, owing to its chemical composition, of taking out of the blood a certain amount of water. Thirst is simply an effort on the part of the body to resupply the blood with the water taken out by the salt. Is the onyx used in place of jet as mourning jewelry naturally black? No, this stone is artificallv colored black by allowing the mineral chalcedony, which is somewhat porous. to absorb a solution of an organic substance like sugar, which is then carbonized by immersion in sulphuric acid. This treatment produces a jet black color in the mineral, which on account of its superior hardness. wearing ability, and polish retaining qualities, has been largely substituted for mineral jet. Where in the United States does the national flag fly officially day and night? Ovj?r the East and West fronts of the National Capitol and over the ad-

jacent House of Representatives and Senate office buildings. What are the meanings of the colors In the United States flag? Red for courage, zeal, fervency; white for purity, cleanness of life, and rectitude of conduct; blue for loyalty, devotion, friendship, justice and truth. Was the Berkeley who was governor of Virginia the same one who aided in the settlement of New Jersey? No, Sir William Berkeley was Governor of Virginia, and John, Lord Berkeley, the New Jersey setler. Wliat is the soul? One definition Is that It is the essence of individual psychic life. What is hearsay evidence? Evidence not of what the witness knows himself, but of what he has heard from others. It is the general rule that hearsay evidence is inadmissahle. What did the City of New York pay for the land occupied by Central Park? ?6.348.959.90. What is the difference between American and European plan hotels? By the American plan a person pays for a room and three meals a day. By the European, one pays for the room and eats where he wishes. Where was John D. Rockefeller bom? At Richmond. New York. When was the first American waterpower development? It is generally credited to Pawtucket, R. 1., begun in 1790, with Paterson. N. J„ a close second Wliat was the New England township plan of government? A community governed by selection. Elected and instructed by all citize" gathered in an annual town meeting.

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COP GRABS GRANDMAS ‘SPOOK ’ IN WAR ON FAKE MEDIUMS

By MBA Senates CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 26. —This vicinity either is on the verge of a spiritist revelation, or about to be entertained to some rich humor. And all because police and other investigators are determined to rid the community of so-called fake mediums, who prey upon the gullible. Recently a seance in Covington, Ky., a city across the Ohio River, was rudely broken up when a policeman in the “circle” gathered in his arms the supposed spirit of his grandmother. And upon the heels of this episode, came another alleged expose in which a “trumpet seance” came to grief when a doubter flashed a light. Now believers in the occult are determined to produce psychic phenomenon to offset unfavorable publicity. The Covington case has aroused considerable attention. Police Present Twenty-nine persons including police and newspaper men attended the materialization seance held by Mrs. Mary Langley, who was unaware that any law save that of the other world was present. The usual songs were sung, and then through the dimness of a very dark room, a curtain of a cabinet opened. Squeak! A white form began to flit about. Horrors! “It's Rosebud,” whispered one of the old-timers. Rosebud, it was ex-

WOMEN HIT AT COURT’S WAGE EDICT Four Proposals Made for Combating Decision of High Tribunal. By FLORA O. ORR, Times Staff Correspondent. WASH INC,TON, May 26 —What is to be done about the mini-mum-wage decision of the Su- j preme Court? According to Miss Ethel Smith of the National Women’s Trade Union League, a committee consisting of Mrs. Florence Kelley. National Consumers’ League; Matthew Well, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, and Miss Smith, herself, will study four proposals and report by November to organizations Interested These are: 1. A restriction of the power of the United States Supreme Court 2. An amendment to the Federal Constitution for the purpose of insuring protection of social legislation and the rights of labor 3. An amendment to the Federal Constitution to give States and Congress power to enact minimum wage legislation. 4. Minimum wage statutes to come within the limits of the Supreme Court decision. Dean C. Acheson. Washington attorney. and formerly secretary to Justice Brandeis, believes the pres ent Supreme Court would hold invalid the minimum wage laws of all States now haring pueh laws, with the possible exception of Massachusetts. Miss Elizabeth Harris, representing the view of the woman attorney, ■ cannot see any logical reason for ob- ' jecting to the Supreme Court's deI cision. “Her view,” says Miss Smith, “is | that of manv professional women, who forget that 'career' la a word without meaning to most of the worn en in industry who are at the bottom 1 and must stay at the bottom."

TAX FREE SECURITIES DEFENDED By HERBERT QUICK In 1918 the writer was with his fellow members of the Federal Farm Loan Board seeking a market for Federal farm loan bonds. We had to sell these bonds in order to get money to loan farmers, some of whom were paying as hig has 12 per cent, and none of whom were able to borrow money for more than a few years. We were lending them money on a plan under which their loans would never come due so long as they paid 1 per cent per year on the principal in addition to the Interest. This seemed too good to be true to thousands of debt-ridden farmers. We did not dare offer our bonds on the market at a rate lower than 5 per cent. So bonds to the amount of $55,032,000 were sold at that rate. They do not mature until 1938; but on April 2 of this year the Federal Farm Board issued a call for redemp tion. They will be paid off fifteen years before they are due. To one who has lived in the new West through the era of usury and extortion from which this system is gradually freeing our farmers, this sounds like realization of a dream And yet some men in Congress are out to spoil it all. by demanding a constitutional amendment to stop the issue of three securities. That will destroy the low-interest rates of the Federal farm loan system. The reason why the farmers are more and more of them enjoying the benefits of this system lies in the fact that these Federal farm loan bonds are tax-free both ae to principal and interest Purse and Ring Taken A thief took a purse from the homo of Wildred Porter, Martha Washing ton Flats, 14C1 N. Pennsylvania St. Tt contained *2 and a $l5O diamond pin.

Political ‘Old-Timers’ Chortle Gleefully Over Prospect of La Follette-Hearst Party Alliance

(Copyright, 1923. by United Press) WASHINGTON. May 26.—80th Republican and Democratic parties have “observers" keeping a sharp eye on the La Follette railroad conference in Chicago. Forewarned the conference was likely to be genesis of a third party movement, the two old parties sent competent .scouts to report: 1. Who went to the conference. 2. Who stayed away from it. Early arrival of Mayor Hylan of New York, and the prospect of a Hearst-La Follette coalition in 1924 in an insurgent movement directed at both Republican and

Bootleggers Surrender Stills When Chief Sends Out Novel Ultimatum Warning Them of Arrest

Officers in Minnesota Town Solve Troublesome Rum Runner Problem.

By yBA Service COLUMBIA HEIGHTS. Minn, May 26.—Judge H. Z. Mendow and Chief of Police A. C. Elsenpeter must be the combined reincarnation of old King Solomon. Otherwise how could they have teased flve honest-to-goodness bootleggers into giving up their stills? Columbia Heights is Just outside of Minneapolis, and in time may be a suburb of that thriving city. Judge Mendow dispenses Justice to those Chief Elsenpeter thinks need It. Together they sort of regulate the morals of the village, “Now, chief.'’ said Mendow one day. “there’s getting to he too much of this here bootlegging business around." The chief squinted, so witnesses say. and said that well, mobbe—mebbe — Chief Suggests “Let’s clean ’em out.” the Judge suggest ed. “Now, Judge.” came back the chief, “there’s a lot of the.se fellows who might be working in a legiti mate trade too. Take So-and-So and What’s-Hls Name. I suspect them of totin’ liquor on the side, but if w pinch 'em. what’ll the kids and the wives do?” But the Judge didn’t waver. "Why.” exclaimed the chief, as a happy thought struck him. ’’couldn't | we ask 'em to bring in their outfits and allow 'em to go scot free if they did. but if they didn’t soak 'pm good and hard? Get. me?” The judge got him, thus showing his wisdom in accepting a good sug gestion. The two then plastered big signs reading like this: “Dear Mr. Bootlegger. “We are going out to get you and jour firewater. But first we are going to give you a fighting chance. Bring your stills and moonshine to the Cnhimbia Heights fire station before Satnr-

TOM SIMS SAYS: Miss Mao.Farlanc of Bessemer, Mich., has been a briilemaid 184 times, without any luek of her own. • • • New York beggars make sls to S2OO a day. Their hardest work is to keep looking bad. Hindenburg says it will take Germany 100 years to get haek where she was before the war. We say she shouldn't go bark. /• • • Since women are entering all lines of business, a Baltimore woman swindled another woman of $25,000. Os course spring is time for the old warning ‘‘Get an auto, or an auto will get you.” • • • Anything can happen now. Massaehusets landlord left all of his houses to his tenants. • • • Some people save for a rainy day as if they lived in a desert. An ounce of holding is worth a block of straw lid chasing. Putting up a good front, helps many a man get the narking. Fine thing about, having a garden is you can pick what you want. • • ♦ You can’t get ahead of the game unless you play. Tt seems as if we have trusted the sugar trust*too long. The secret of success often consists of keeping it a secret. • • Men who have time to get haircuts every week have too much time. * • • Some men move so slow in the spring you could take a time exposure of them running. If business men talked as they spell nobody would understand what, they said.

Democratic organizations, confirmed political observers in the belief they have held all along—that La. Foilette's conference is primarily a third party preliminary. La Foilette’s railroad program has never been a secret. The present conference, in so far as it relates to railroad business, will develop nothing which La Follette had not already repeatedly advocated and discussed. But politically, it my prove the beginning of a vendetta through which Hearst will wreak his revenge upon the Democratic

plained, was the supposed daughter of “Uncle Jim" Alton, who has assisted Mrs. Langley for a year and a half. “Evening, Rosie,” called a regular. “How’s everybody?” asked the spook cheerily. Rosie then asked a series of questions to a man wearing a lodge pin. She also told an elderly man from Louisville to play a horse named Pumps at Churchill Downs. “We know what horse will win,” piped Rosebud, “cause we go to the jockey shed.” (Pumps ran five days later, finished second and paid $4.) She then scolded Uncle Jim because he hadn’t brought candy, but accepted a piece of chewing gum as a substitute. Then she grew playful, and sang “I'm Forever Washing Dirty Dishes,” a parody on a well known song. Patrolman Herman Ricken’s turn came next, and who should appear but the spirit of his grandmother! “Howdy, Grandma!” “Well, grandmother,” Ricken said, and being of an affectionate bent of mind, he embraced her. At the word “Well,” a reporter flashed a light, and oh, boy! The spook wriggled away and dived unceremoniously under a table, and when the smoke blew over, Mrs. Langley and Alton were under arrest for disorderly conduct. Alton later said he had been fooled, and that

rr are going out to get too m> too* n*s **teb. bot nasr w* ypfL ark going to give too a fighting chanc*. bum took stills aito jS MOONSHINE TO THE COLOMBIA HEIGHTB FIB* STATION BEFORE SATURDAI, BAX I*< 9 AND RUB RENDER THEM AND TOO •GO*T BE TOUCHED- BZNIABS, THOUGH, IF TOO ♦ viv< -->>.- •

JUDGE H. Z. MENDOW (I,EFT) AND CHIEF A. C. ELSENPETER (R IGHT) SHOWN INSPECTING THE FIRST STILL VOLUNTARILY SURRENDERED BECAUSE OF THE ULTIMATUM TO BOOTLEGGERS. THE ULTIMATUM IS REPRODUCED ABOVE THE STILL.'

day. May 1!*, and surrender them and you won’t he touched. Beware, though, if you don’t do tliis! i Signed) “\. C. ELSENPETER. "Chief of Police. H. MENDOW, “Village Judge.” And *h day after the proclamation, or rather ultimatum, went up. two moonshiners called the chief to come to their places and tnt away their beverage-producing outfits With the campaign five days under way, six stills had gone into the limbo of his tcry. Nobody went to jail. No tears were shed. And the village was saved the expense of many trials.

party and La Follette will get his at the expense of the Republicans. The moment such a coalition is formed, the La Follette movement will lose support of a host of progressives who, in joining the “bloc,” gave notice the moment it entered partisan politics, or threatened to become a third party, they would quit. It is significant that some of these are absent from the Ghicago meeting. Many progressives already have resented La Foilette’s assumption of leadership. They charge for personal ambition he has split the

EUROPE’S FLOTSAM WAITS WORD TO FLOOD AMERICA Millions of Foreigners on Tiptoe Expecting U. S, Immigration Bars to Be Lowered for Them,

Solon Would Admit Forty Japs Yearly fin Timed Special WASHINGTON. May 26. Congressman Albert Johnson of ■Washington, chairman of the House Committee on Immigration. thinks he has found a way to settle the Japanese problem. “You see,” says Johnson, “the chief complaint of the Japanese is they are regarded by our Government as an undesirable class. They are a very proud people and they ch.ife at this classification. “But if we pass my 2 per cent hill next winter it will solve the problem. “In 1890 there were only 2,000 Japanese in the whole United States, and 2 per cent of this number would allow Just forty of the ‘little brown brothers' to embark upon our shores in any one year.”

PAVED ROAD TO CONNECT ALL TOWNS By Timm Special WASHINGTON. May 26.—Every American city of 5.000 or more inhabitants will be connected with every other such city by an improved road when the network of highways now being built under the provisions of the Federal Road Act is completed. So says Secretary of Agriculture Wallace under whose direction the Federal aid is being given the States. “Since the Federal Road Act was approved in 1916,” says Secretary Wallace, "a total of $540,000,000 has been appropriated or authorized for the fiscal years 1917 to 1925 inclusive. Os this sum $75,000,000 is authorized for the fiscal year 1925 and $65,000,000 for 1924, leaving $400,000,000 authorIzed for expenditure up to the current fiscal year.

progressive movement instead of uniting it. To many progressives I/a Foilette’s leatjjrship is as dis tasteful as would be that of Big Billl Haywood. La, Follette is an extremist, not a progressive, they say. Political “old timers" chortled gleefully over the prospect of a La Follette-Hearst alliance. That, they said, would "settle the hash” of any third party movement. It would alienate Borah, they pointed out, and would also make it impossible for him to head another “thirrit party.” And Boarh is more feared by the politicians either La Follette or Hearst.

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he believed he had been talking with departed dead. Mrs. Charles B. Pressnall, trumpet medium, was taken into custody in this city after an investigator claimed to have exposed the voice com ing from the trumpet as belonging to Mrs. Pressnall Through her attorney she has said she will not consent to a trumpet test in court. But Mrs. Langley will contest her case to a finish, she told NEA Service. “Ever since a child I have been psychic. The spirits would come to me and talk to me. This is all a frame up. “Gown Was Planted” “The gown they say was found, was planted. I never had anything like It. (Officers say the “spirit” was wrapped in a white cloth, which they found.) I was in a trance when the interruption took place, so I do not know what happened. More than one medium has been paralyzed by such interruptions. I am ill now. “But I have retained a lawyer and will prove i am sincere. I will give a test seance to prove to the satisfaction of the court 1 can materialize the spirits. They little knew that I am a widely known medium and have worked in Cleveland. Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City. Kan.; St. Louis, Indianapolis, Kankakee, 111 , and other cities.”

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Written for Indianapolis Times MILLIONS of foreigners are on tiptoe in Europe waiting for Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, and other kings of big business, to wrangle them it no America. Held hack now by the Immigration Restrictions Act of 1921, this mass of human flotsam is hoping the widespread demand for labor, and the accompanying high wages, will react in their favor. Already word has spread like wildfire over Europe that big employers of labor in the United States are now busy' pulling strings to have the immigration bars let down Unrest Reigns in Europe Conditions in Europe are so bad: there is such chaos, unrest and uncertainty as to the future: so much unemployment accompanied by high cost of living and low wages—when there are any wages at all—that half Europe hankers to wrap its rags in the family quilt and make a rush for American shores. All they need is the chance. Passage money Is never hard to get. Wholesale employers of unskilled labor in America see to that. Greece has more than 1,000,000 refugees from Asia Minor she would like to pass ort to the United States. Scores of thousands of Russians, scattered nil over Europe and Asia, would enter America if they could. So would untold numbers of Hungarians, Bulgarians, Austrians, Italians, and others. Source of Revenue The Italian government is officially interested in the matter of fi-eer emigration. Not that Italy wants to get rid of Italians —far from it. She wants Italians to remain Italians, for Italians abroad are a source of enormous revenue. It is estimated that Italy's “invisible assets”—as she calls Italians living abroad and foreign tourists—net Italy 5,000.000,000 lira (at present rate of exchange, about $250,000,000) a year. The larger part of this comes from America. Puzzling Kisses The Chinese don't like those kissy, huggy American movies. Even with Chinese lines to explain what the goo-goo stuff is all about, they just | can't follow the plot. So Chinese companies are forming to produce Chinese plays with Chinese plots and Chinese Dougs and Ma.rys. The na lives prefer the poorest Chinese product to the best foreign dims procurable. There are thirty movies in China, outside Peking and Manchuria. Shanghai heads the list with twelve. Tientsin has six, Canton six Hongkong five and Hankow one.

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POLITICS IS MOTIVE FOR ALASKA TRIP Harding Hopes to Wipe Conservation Issue Off Republican Slate, By FTtANK J. TATI AIR, 4 Times Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON. May 26-Poll-tics, and not the prospect of good fishing and cool summer sightseeing, persuaded President Harding to be the first chief executive to make the 10,000-mile trip to Alaska. The President hopes to wipe the troublesome issue of conservation frr m the Republican political slate. That question, it will be recalled, bobbed up seriously first in the Roosevelt era. It kept political leaders in hot water. It wrecked the Taft administration, when the Pinchot-Bal-llnger controversy over a rational forestry policy brought the conservation issue to a climax. It had the Wilson regime on edge, and might have proved embarrassing had not the war come along, overshadowing all internal political issues. Conservation caused the first real break in President Harding's Cabinet, when Secretary Fall retired in protest against the influence of the conservation forces with the present gov r eminent. The Issue is a very simple one. The conservationists from Gifford Pinchot, foremost of the flock, down to the humblest member of the school, want the remaining unexploited public domain kept public. They would permit exploitation only under Government direction. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is their champion in the Cabinet. When the New-Curry bill, fostered by Former Secretary Fall, threatened last year to remove the forests from Mr.g Wallace and place them in the hands! of Mr. Fall, the conservationists, clared war on Fall. Equally bitter and almost as strong Is the faction of anti-conservationists, who believe in the private exploitation of natural resources, even as in the days when the western plains were settled. Both factions have made life merry for President Harding, who has no particular leanings either pro or con on conservation. His whole dream is that of bringing the two groups together on one policy.

WRITING OF SIMILES IS GREAT ART “A yacht like a great moth with folded wings ” This is evidence from the pen of William Me Fee that the art of picture writing is not dead. It is but one exhibit of the "beet similes of the year” as chosen by Frank J. Wilstach, author of "A Dictionary of Similes,” published by Little, Brown & Cos. A few of his selections are: The human mind should be like a good hotel—open the year round.— William Lyon Phelps. Dull as duty.—Don Marquis. Gnaws like a silent poison.** George Santayana. Sprawling like a wet mosquito.—' Will Irwin. His voice was like a sword swinging.—Ben Hecht. His eyes were impersonal as stars —Sherwood Anderson. Secret as the fading of the breath. — Ellen Glasgow. Chattering like a Morse sounder.— Irvin S. Cobb. Compensations By BERTON BRALEY WHEN you have bunions on your feet. Bear them with resignation sweet. For you are fortunate indeed: Suppose you were a centipede! BE patient when your throat is sore, .You haven't any cause to roar; At tils like these you well may laugh* Bo thankful you are no giraffe! IF rheumatism in your limbs Your happiness at times bedim*, \ou haven't any right to cuss. * Supoose you were an oetupusl AND if the toothache bothers you. Consider that your teeth are few Compared to those which you remark Upon the jawbone of a shark. AND if this blithe philosophy. For which T do not charge s fee. Does not appear to do you good— Ah. well. I didn't think it would! (Copyright. 1923. NEA Services InbJ