Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1923 — Page 4

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KICKING -w->w OUBTLESS Indiana motorists will object to AT THE I I paying the tax of 2 cents a gallon levied on GAS TAX 1 J gasoline by the State. A tax is always objectionable to those who must pay it. Nevertheless, it appears a gasoline tax is perhaps the fairest way of obtaining money to build and maintain roads/ The users of the roads pay for them just as the users of the highways paid for the toll roads of former days. On the other hand, it may be argued with some justice that some motorists pay more than others. For instance, Marion County probably will pay atibut 20 per cent of the tax collected in the entire State and still have only a relatively small proportion of the State roads. In this way the tax is of greater benefit to motorists in rural communities than to those in the cities. There are arguments on both sides of the question, but until some more equitable form of taxation is devised it is worth a trial. UP THE A MERICA has joined the League of Nations, GOLDEN f\ the United States Senate nevertheless and STAIR 1 \ notwithstanding. J. P. Morgan and associated American bankers—who get their money frofn the American people—are joining the league powers— Britain, France, Italy. Belgium, Czerho-Slovakia, Holland. Denmark, Nonray, Sweden. Spain and Switzerland—in the task of saving Austria. “This is the first step in the rehabilitation of Central Europe,” says Morgan, as he prepares to chip in $25,000,000 of a $130,000,000 loan to the stricken nation. , Now there’s no kick against America helping rehabilitate Central Europe. The collapse of Austria would precipitate another dangerous crisis in a Europe which already menaces the world with another war. Anything which lessens the danger of war and promotes world peace we are 'f or. But if we can work with the league to save Austria, why can’t we work with the league to save the world, including ourselves? Why the holler when President Harding suggests our joining the world court? Does Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator, from Nahant, Mass., raise his voice against this manner of joining the league? Loud silence from Nahant. Not a Cabotian whisker stirs. Not a protesting gurgle. Not even a reservation. Joining the league to make money and joining the league to make the world safe from war are obviously dwo different things. In the one case the profit is in dollars and cents and goes to Wall Street. In the other the profit -is in tranquil hearthstones, peace and security, and goes to plain folks everywhere. Anyway we’re joining the league— not by the back door, and not by the side door, and not through the cellar—but up the golden stair.

IT PAYS TTOW much is your time worth a minute? TO l—l Judge Hatch, referee in the accounting of KNOW X X the Jay Gould estate, will be paid $65 an hour—more than $1 a minute. The one case, lawyers estimate, will bring Judge Hatch SIOO,OOO. It demonstrates that knowledge sometimes can be turned into cash. Like the old locksmith who rendered this bill: “To opening safe. $5. To knowing how to open it. $95.” Trouble is, most of us know so much that has no money value. NATIONS list of “twelve greatest living American GREATEST I women.” as selected by the National League WOMEN „X omen 'Voters, still starts an occasional argument. The high school and college commencement orators will step forward before long and settle the matter. ** Such lists are rather futile. You cannot select the twelve greatest women with finality, because the qualities that make wotrfep truly great keep them too busy to get into the limelight. Our list would be the twelve best mothers, if such a list could be compiled, which it couldn’t. *l% /T AXS rif our infectious diseases are of relaAND 1/■ tively recent origin and due to the artificial, STRENGTH 1V I unnatural life of civilization, declares W R Scott. Princeton professor. As man’s history goes, typhoid is a youngster among 'diseases, Scott says. Typhoid never-bothered faesar’s armies. It was 123 before tvphoid was differentiated from typhus. Panama, hotbed of yellow fever until a matter of months ago, had no germs of this disease as late as 1674. We’ll find a flu cure and preventive one of these davs. Then nature will send along anew disease. She does, as fast as we conquer the old ones—competition, to keep us battling for existence. That battle breeds strength. *

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You can gpt an answer to any question of fact or information b.v writing to the Indianapolis bureau. 1322 New York Are., Washington D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, and lore and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—EDlTOß. What are the lines front Bret Harte’s about "the tramp of thousands of armed men?” His poem. "The Reveille." contains the following: “Hark. - I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum; Lo a nation’s hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, 'Como. Freemen, come! / Ere your heritage he wasted.’ said the quick alarming drum.” Was Trieste ever in French possession? Yes. from 1809 to 1813. 4i What docs the name "Kraus” mean? From a German meaning curly. What is the amount of blood in the average human hotly in proportion to its weight? The United States Public Health Service says between one-thirteenth and one-fourteenth of its weight. What is wood alcohol? Does one have to have a permit to make It? A product made when wood is heated in retorts out of contact with the air. It is contained in the aqueous portion of the distillate mixed with pyroligenous acid, ammonia, acetone, tc. To separate the acid, the mixture Is neutralized with slaked lime and distilled, the acid then remaining fixed as calcium acetate. Ammonia may be eliminated in a similar manner, by adding sulphuric acid # and distilling. Taken into the stomach it acts as a violent poison, and ape-

culiar feature of its toxic action is that a dose that is insufficient to cause death will cause complete blindness. One wishing to manufacture wood alcohol must have a permit from the internal revenue branch, of the Treasury Department. * What is good fresh wafer pearl fishing territory? The Mississippi Valley from I>ouisiana to Minnesota. Is it possible to teach canaries to sing different tunes? If so, how? It is said to he possible, the method used being to play the tune over and over on a “bird organ.” The canary learns to imitate the sounds. What is the most densely populated State in the Union? Rhode Island, population 566.4 to the square mile. The District of Columbia, however, has a population of 7,292.9 to the square mile. What has been the world's production of gold since records were kept? From 1492 to 1920, inclusive. $18,100,847,536. How old was .lack Johnson when he fought Jess Willard and how old is he now? Thirty-two at the time of the fight, and 40 now. Where did the Hungarians come • front? The Hungarians, or Magyars, came from the Ural region about 650 A. D. What is the official language of Switzerland? There is no one official language. Offifcial 'documents are issued in French, German and Italiagn.

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American Women Who Will Curtsy Before British Royalty

TWENTY-TWO AMERICAN WOMEN WILI. BE PRESENTED A 4 !' THE ROYAL COURT OF ENGLAND WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. FIVE OF.THEM SHOWN HERE ARE (LEFT TO RIGHT) MISS HELENA CAPERTON OF RICHMOND, YA.; MRS. POST WHEELER, WIFE OF THE COUNSELLOR OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON: MRS FREDERICK MANNING OF BRYN MAWR. PA.. DAUGHTER OF CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM H. TAFT; MISS HELEN RICE OF NEW YORK CITY; MRS. IRA G. COPLEY, WIFE OF A FORMER ILLINOIS CONGRESS- ' MAN. i I

Convicts Chant Cone Doctrine to Lessen Time of Sentence

By -\ F.A Service AUBURN, N. Y., May 29.—Convicts in Auburn Prison are Coueizing themselves. It is the newest pastime of the cells. A woman serving a sentence for murder started the Coue method of healing herself' of a long illness by conscious auto-suggestion. And Immediately some hard-boiled prisoners seized upon the idea—hoping that its reputed magic might dissolve the bars! "Poor fellows, they have the wrong idea," says Mrs. Mary Murphy, chief discipline of Coue in Auburn Prison. "Somebody heard me say I thought Coueism would show ‘nm a ‘way out' —and they thought I meant a way out of Jail. “I had been sick for a long time. At my trii#l I collapsed several times, and my illness continued in prison. But I've been working hard to apply Coue's principles and I feel I have had a lot of benefit." Meanwhile the cell block over In the men's section vibrates with a nightly whisper: "Every day in every way I’m getting closer and closer! " "To what?” asks a doubting pessimist. "To freedom, you poor boob!" says the optimist, blissfully Ignorant of a twisted Idea of Emile Coue's health doctrine.

Normalcy. Gone; Capital Set for Shrine Conclave

By HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, May 29.—Washington is an American city no longer. From the dignified and sedate capital of the world's greatest democracy. it has been transformed into a giddily dizzy oriental Babel, outdoing in gaudy trappings and rioting colors the brilliance and splendors of ancient Mecca, Medina and Bagdad. For the week of June 3 the White House ceases to be the executive mansior;, residence of President Warren Gamaliel Harding. It becomes, instead, the royal seraglio, palace of Noble Gamaliel Harding, high potentate of Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Pennsylvania® avenue, historic thoroughfare down which our presidents ride to their inaugurals, Is Pennsylvania avenue no longer. It has become "The Road to Mecca.” along which will trudge some hundreds of thousands of Shrine pilgrims. Lafayette Park, fronting the White House, becomes the “Garden of Allah." outdoing Maxfleld Parrish’s wildest Imagination In Its medley of colors and with its quiet atmosphere shredded by the weird syncopations of pulsing desert music. The whole city and all its normal life has been turned topsy turvy to make a gala week for the national Shriners’ convention, w-hich is expected to bring at leastt 500,000 visitors to town. • • . Maybe there is something more than mere Shriner loyalty in thus decking out Washington as the modern Mecca this year. Possibly they’re trying to make up to Fellow Noble Warren the pomp and pageantry that was withheld at the time he was inaugurated President hack in 1921. May-

Hoosier G. O. P. Delegation in Capital at Odds With President

By JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Mjyr 29.—The Indelegation in Republican national - politics is doing iittle to gain favor from President Harding. The Republican national committee is pretty well dominated by Hoosiers. George Lockwood Is there swinging a nasty pen. J. Bennett Gordon is there doing such mean strokes of publicity ns Lockwood cannot reach. *And Frank P. former secretary to Governor Goodrich, is contributing his bit. Such publicity as blew from the committee a short, time ago was enough to gain attention from the President. It was very much antiinternational court. It was hailed by the friends of Senator “Jim” Watson of Indiana. Now. without that situation had time to heal, along comes another upset which gets official recognition. The effort of the committee to chastise Europe and paint her as a financial sinner without thought or repentance was too much. Secretary Hughes wielded the birch rod, the committee submitted in groat humility and our international relations are not disturbed. But—if there is anything thought

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be you remember how Congress, feeling that the country would not approve large expenditures at that time for an Inaugural pagpant, voted down the appropriations for display and ceremonials. But whatever was withheld that time is to be made up now, with interest. Never'-was the city so “lit up" for any inaugural as it Is for the Shriners’ conclave. Never were such elaborate stands erected in front of the White House, never such brilliant and oostly effects staged. The whole picture Is costing somebody well up to $500,000. • • • Thousands of multi-colored electric lights. Elect ric-jeweled scimitars, crescents and stars everywhere. Red, green, yellow and blue banners 'and bunting by the mile. Music blaring from amplifier horns on high posts every hundred feet from the Capital to Washington Circle, two miles away. Gilded towers and minarets concerning the Garden of Allah. Turkish trousers and Arabian fezzes. Oriental? Well, that’s what Washington ain’t nothing else but! • • • Speaking of fezzes naturally makes one think of fizzes. Roy Haynes, prohibition commissioner. who is not a Shriner, has volunteered to save visitors during Shrine week from annoyance by bootleggers. He Is bringing In a bunch of his best agents to help make the Capital safe for Shriners. However, it is whispered that the best brains of the fizz-slippers’ federation also are on the job and that a number of oases are being established for droughtparched desert pnlgrims. After Shriners' week Washington will return to normalcy. Praise be, to Allah!

that President Harding is going to call in the Hooslers and praise them and their work highly, that thought is all wrong. The zone of frigidity is well established. Don’t write your Hoosier friends in the committee and ask them for special passes to visit ana talk with the President.

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CALIFORNIA OIL ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE Daily Production 600,000 Barrels Fields Are Shut Down, By fmifs Special L)S ANGELES, May 29.-—Southern California Is being literally over whelmed wtth a flood of oil. daily productoin sometimes exceeding the in credible amount of 600,000 barrels. Asa consequence the entire gigantic Industry valued at more than $200,000,000 within the confines of the State is on the verge of collapse. At present there are 68,000,000 barrels of oil stored in Southern California and storage capacity for 30,000,000 barrels more Is now- being built, while the peak of production is not expected before Aug 1, when a daily production in excess of 1.000,000 gallons Is predicted. The oil men claim they cannot get tankers or oil cars enough to handle half the output and In consequence It Is believed that the bottom is due to drop out of prices and collapse of the Industry is due to follow Signal Hill, Huntington Beach, Santa Fe Springs, Fullerton and other districts are producing more than twice as much oil as can be readily marketed. Asa result of a conference 300 operators have entered Into an agreement to prorate production and endeavor to keep up the price S,,m of the biggest oil companies have shut down entire fields to relieve pipe lines and tanks.

METER BAR IS GUARDED CAREFULLY By Times Imperial WASHINGTON. May 29—The most carefully guarded piece of Government property Is not the gi-eat seal of the United States nor the Constitution, but a simple stick of metal. Out In the steel vault of the Bu reau of Standards Is a heavy bar of metal of special alloy, from which all yardsticks and rulers spring. It Is known as the meter bar. By an act of Congress, the meter Is defined ns exactly 39.37 Inches in length. Congress did not invent that figure but copied it from the international meter bar, kept in the vault at the International Bureau of Standards in Paris. Every ten they send the American meter bar to Paris to be checked with the international meter bar. There is a possibility that even the slight use the American inet&r bar receives might cause some infinitlslmal change in its length.

Have Patience By BERTON BRALEY Moonshine i plenty, no doubt: Yes you <*an get it. that’s true. Just peek a out. He'll seil hi* poison to you. Still, booze Is passing av/sy. Though there is many a leak; Rum wasn’t built in a day. Rum can’t bo smashed in a week. HOOCH has held man in it* thrall, Ace after age. it appears; We can't get rul of It all Just in a couple of years! The.-e's bound to be some delay Getting the dryness we seek. Rum wasn't built in a day. Rum can’t be smashed in a week. TAKING their drinks from the mob Isn't a cinch you can bet; It is a wearisome job. Drying a land that, was wet; Still, we are winning the fray, Beating the bootlegging allquo; Ruin wasn't built in a day, Rum can't be smashed in a week. (Copyright. 1923, NEA Service, Inn)

Controller General Is Only Man in U. S. Employ Without Boss

By SEA Sen ire WASHINGTON, May 29.—Probably the only man In the United States—at least in Government circles—who is absolutely his own boss is J. R. McCarl, a Nebraskan. McCarl is controller general of the United States. His business is to had the general accounting office which holds a restraining finger over the spending of Uncle Sant s money. McCarl holds office fifteen years and he's accountable to nobody—not even the President If he proves negligent or inefficient, however. Congress can remove hint. Already the wide authority given to McCarl has brought him into conflict with Cabinet officers who resent any outside interference with rfhelr departments. Secretary of the Navy Denby, for one. got hot under the collar when McCarl directed a Navy disbursing officer to get hack the money involved in an ovei-payment of compensation to an enlisted man. McCarl also had a clash with Fall while the latter still was in the Cabinet. But McCarl goes serenely .-along saving money for the taxpayers. Others can hoot and howl all they want to but McCarl's his own hns=!

TOM, SIMS SAYS:

TANARUS& /T AY flowers bring June wedJV/I dmgß '' •• • A fine way to ruin an old hat is to buy anew hat. • • • Statistics show very little unemployment. This is great news for June eoliege graduates. • • • Texas wind whieh earried a country store to town may have been one of these trade winds.

Some neighbors will take anything except a hint. * * • Artificial bait may not catch fish, but il catches fishermen. Burn spring cleaning rubbish. I>o not sell it to cigar makers. • • * They call it strawberry shortcake because it doesn't last long. Time for propheteers to predict a small cantaloup crop. • • • What’s worse than a one-armed man trying to tell about how big a fish got away? • • • . About the most popular person on earth is a sleepy chaperon. Many an amateur gardener grows nothing but disgusted. Take your voice out to the ball game and let it exereise in the open. • * * Things could he worse. .Just suppose now that you had to lather your lawn before cutting the grass. * * • Nice thing about spring is it keeps the home fires from burning. * • • Every day is Decorati<|p Day for people who wear fancy clothes. • • ♦ And. by the way, campers leave ton much trash by the way. Here’s a job for college graduates. They can work as clothing advertisements.

Shipping Board Plans to Spend 25 Million on Luxurious Boats

Bu Times Special \\T ASHINGTON. May 29.—Gov- \\ eminent merchant ships lack ” class and speed, and that is why they cannot operate at a profit, the Shipping Board's experts have decided. There is just one thing to do, the board has concluded. Buy or build new classy ships. The board will ask Congress for funds to build two new ships of the Leviathan class, although It has "hundreds of ships”—most of them now obsolete—-tied up, idle. “The traveling public demands luxuries,” declares A. B. Gargasi Shipping Board official. In theory, the Shipping Board is preparing to auction off all its ships,or at least such portions of its fleet as it can sell. In practice, it is preparing to spend $25,000,000 in constructing two luxurious transatlantic liners The board will have to whit for Congress to ap propriate the funds for this little venture, and it may prove to be a long, long wait. Coincident with the Shipping Board's annfuncement it can't make a go of

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Return on Unearned Increment Approved With Justices Brandeis and Holmes* Dissenting—Decision Applies to All Public Utilities, By JOHN CARSON '* Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 29.—You must pay telephone rates whieh will give the telephone company a fair return—not on the money invested by the corporation—but on the estimated cost of reconstructing the company’s plant. The Supreme Court of the United States has just said so in another “unimportant decision” which may, nevertheless, become of the utmost importance. You must pay street car rates, gas rates, electric rates on the same basis. , ♦

If the government decides to purchase the railroads, the court probably has established a precedent whereby the Government will have tc pay—not what the railroad corporations prudently and honestly invested —but what it would cost to reconstruct the entire railroad systems. Decision 7 to 2 This decision was 7 to 2. Justice. Brandeis and Holmes dissented on the

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things without operating better ships, comes the word from New York that the most profitable vessels now running between New- York and European ports are the smaller ones popularly known as “one-class'' ships. These have no distinction between first and second-class, but do have steerage or third-class accommodations.

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ground a utility is entitled to a fair return only on what it “prudently and honestly invested.” The case was that of the State of -Missouri against the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. The State demanded lower telephone rates. The telephone company contended for a ‘fair rturn” on the cost of "reconstructing” the telephone plant- The telephone company said the lower rates were "confiscatory" and violated the constitutional provision against taking property "without due process of law.” The State courts approved the lower rates. The Supreme Court now reverses the lower court. v Twenty-five years ago, the Supreme Court held in the case of Smyth vs. Ames that a utility was entitled to "the cost of reconstructing its plant.” That was a precedent. Conditions have changed since, but the Supreme Couil restates the old precedent. Brandeis Opposes Ruling In opposing this decision of the court Justice Brandeis said: a "The thing devoted by the investor to public use is not specific property, tanglible and intanglible, but capital embarked in the enterprise. * * * The constitution does not guarantee io the utility the opportunity to earn a return on the value of all Items of property used by the utility, or any of them * * * Justice Brandeis showed that the court s decision establishing "recon struction costs" involves estimates and opinions and makes them prevail over facts. By insisting that "capital invested" should be the basis for rate making:, certainty would exist, he said, Return on Obsolete Property “If the aim were to ascertain the value (in its ordinary sense) of the utility property, the inquiry would be. not what it would cost to reproduce the property, but what it would cost to establish a plant which would render the service, or in other words, at what cost an equally efficient substitute could be then produced • * * The utilities sem to claim that the constitutioral protection against confiscation guarantees them a return both upon unearned increment and upon the cost of property rendered valueless by obsolescence."

POLES RAZE TEMPLE OF CZAR RULE 1 By XFA Service WARSAW, May 29. All Poland is | celebrating the beginning of the destruction of Warsaw's most beautiful building. For the razing of the magnificent Cathedral of Alexander Nevski marks the disappearance of the last symbol of Russian domination. The beauty of Warsaw will suffer, for the edifice stood in the exact center of‘ the city facing the Saxon Gardens. To the foreigner's eye It was the most noteworthy structure In Warsaw. But to the Poles it was the most distasteful. M.i lions were expended in its erection in 1894. Its founders intended it to become the great center of Russian civic and religious culture. But it stood in a land where 76 per cent of the population were Roman Catholic Poles and Mazurs, 15 per cent Jews, 6 per cent Protestant Germans and only 3 per cent adherents of Holy Russia. Its gilded copper domes hare overshadowed the nearby palace of the Saxon Polish kings, and the Catholic Cathedral of St. John. Bt# they never oweratyed the Poles, who finally succeeded 'in breaking away from Czaristic domination. MRS. RUGENSTEIN DIES Funeral Services Set for Thursday— Four Children Survive. Funeral services of Mrs. Fredericka Rugenstein, 75. who diad Monday at her home. 60S Lincoln St., will be held Thursday at 2 p m. at H. C. Yehling's chapel. 702 Virginia Ave., and at 2:30 p. m. at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Burial will be in the Lutheran Cemetery. Surviving Mrs. Rugenstein are her husband, William Rugenstein; one son. Charles H. Rugenstein, and three daughters, Mrs. August P. Wacher and Mrs. Benjamin Frantzreb ol Indianapolis, and Mrs. Percy H. Poor of Los Angeles, Cal.