Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1923 — Page 4

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IT WINS yN Toledo, Ohio, a bright woman manages a BY A I cafeteria. She caters not only to the physiPUSH JL cal palates of her patrons, but to their mental appetites as well. The mental food is purveyed, free of cost, in carefully prepared and displayed placards. She dished this up the other day: “Wheelbarrows have done more for mankind than automobiles.” Pretty good. And true. too. No man ever mortgaged his home and went broke otherwise in order that he might own a wheelbarrow. No woman ever bartered her reputation and her soul for a joy-ride in a wheelbarrow. The good, old one-wheel utensil has been a pusher from the beginning, but it never was the vehicle of affluence, amours, arrogance or asininity. Pretty generally it has delved in dirt, hut its reputation has remaiued unsoiled. But, getting down to the meat of the cafeteria lady’s assertion, we find that, in our early days—the days when we, as a country, were trying to develop, the wheelbarrow was on the job and making tracks that spelled progress. It was, outside its sidekick. the homely spade, the chief vehicle in the construction of the Erie Canal, which incidentally brought about the most active period of transportation, improvements and growth in population that Indiana had known. Through the agency of the Erie Canal the waters of the Great Lakes were made to flow into the Atlantic, and Chicago and the central west were put in commercial touch with Europe. Railways, then, were largely a dream, but later they came, and the wheelbarrow led the way for them clear across, and up and down the continent. It still is serving in all kinds of construction work, although most of its former employment has been shifted to more modern, more speedy and more powerful inventions. Yes, the wheelbarrow has known no word but service. Always it has been out to do business. Wherever civilization has marched, the wheelbarrow has been close to the head of the procession. Without a honk, without a backfire, unknown to speed kings, inviting no brainstorms, with no casualty list, modest of price and upkeep, it has largely built the pathways through which the automobile now whizzes. Thus the wheelbarrow wins because of its tise. while the automobile loses because of its abuse.

STEEL T\Y unanimous vote the American Iron and SLA\ ERYi Steel Institute has declared against the aboPROFITS J. y lition of the twelve-hour dav in the steel industry. This vote was an approval of a report of a special committee headed by E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. This committee had considered the question of an eight-hour day at the suggestion of President Harding. The dominating position which Gary holds in the steel industry is such that it is a reasonable assumption that whatever the views of the other members of the committee on this humane question. Gary’s views triumphed. This is the same Gary who only a few weeks ago made a plea for letting down the bars against immigration, so that the labor market would be diluted, thus giving to him and his fellow steel masters an absolute strangle hold on steel labor. The Gary attitude on both of these vital questions is unAmerican and it is to be doubted whether 10 per cent of the people of this country have the slightest sympathy with it. The argument which Gary advances in favor of the twelvehour day, that ’‘the same has not of itself been an injury to the employes physically, mentally or morally,” is so utterly absurd and ridiulous that it does not need an answer. Ts one were needed it can he found in the report of the steel strike of 1010 by the commission of inquiry of the interehureh world movement. This report says, “The only reasons for the twelve-hour day fur nished by the companies were found to be without adequate basis in fact. The twelve-hour day made any attempt at Americanization or other civic or individual development for one-half of all steel workers arithmetically impossible.” Hundreds of thousands of men held in such bonds of steel slavery that civic nr individual development is impossible! And this inhumane and un-American condition is defended by Garv and his associates on the ground of business necessity. Men must labor under slavery conditions to the end that steel masters pile up unconscionable profits. Witness the half-billion-dollar cash surplus of Gary’s Steel Corporation and its regular 5 per cent dividend on half a billion common stock, all water. While at the moment there doesn’t seem to he much that can he done, it is perfectly certain that Gary’s word is not the last word on this vital question. That will be spoken by the American people, sooner or later, and that word will put the welfare of the steel workers ahead of steel profits.

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Ton can g-et an answer to any queson of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis bureau, 1322 New Tor/? Are., Washington D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, ana loTe and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers speeches, etc., bo prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—EDlTOßHow many soldiers of the Allied and Associated Powers were transported by water during the Great War? 28.865,000. How long did it take Aleook and Brown to fly across the Atlantic? Sixteen hours, twelve minutes. Was laughing gas used in surgical operations during the Great War? Tee; It was found persons suffering from severe shock and loss of blood from wounds did not progress favorably following operation under chloroform or ether, but prospects of recovery were distinctly improved when performed under the continuous inhalation of nitrous oxide gas. The reasons for this cannot be stated precisely, but nitrous oxide is less depressing, and owing to its extremely rapid excretion, consciousness and normal bodily conditions are Quickly restored after completion of the operation. What position does aluminum hold as an industrial metal? Only Iron, copper, zinc and lead are now consumed In greater quantities than aluminum, of which the world’s output did not reach 1.000 tons a year until 1894. The chief country’ of production is the United States. The total American production !n the -whole nineteenth century- was less

than thirty million pounds; In the single decade 1911 21 the American output was more than a thousand million pounds. How many people died in the Great Plague of London in 1664-5? Seventy thousand out of a total population of 460,000, though 300.000 are supposed to have fled the city to escape contagion. How many golfers are there In the United States and Great Britain? 825.000 in the United States; 660,000 In Great Britain and her colonies. What does Oklahoma mean? This is a Choctaw Indian word meaning "red people ” What are the meanings of the name*; lA*>na. Ruby and Lorona? Leona, a lioness; Ruby, from the stone; Lorena, a learned lady. Is it correct to speak of "a party,” meaning a person? "Party” is correct for person in a legal description but never lr. a 11 terary way. Never speak of “that party I met at Brown’s house,” etc. Should candles ever be used on a luncheon table? No. only on the dinner table. Hid Confucius really first promulgate the Golden Rule? Confucious enunciated the Golden Rule, although in negative terms, as follows: “What ye would not that others should do unto you. do ye not unto them." Despite the negative form of this maxim, it is to all intents and purposes closely parallel to the Golden Rule as given by Jesus Confucious lived about 551-S7B B. C.

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HAS EVERY HERO A WEAK SPOT Os TERROR IN HIS HEART?

By XEA Service WHO is the bravest person in the world? What trivial thing is he —or she—afraid of? The greatest hero may he someone in Indianapolis, a soldier, a nurse, a worker, a mother, or even a child. Hera are three candidates picked at random. The soldier, despite his courage on the battlefield, confesses a private fear. A woman of heroic devotion is afraid —sometimes. A boy, whose bravery is In bis rise over physical handicaps, fears other things. What kind of hero are you? Here are two different types: THE MAN MAJ. GEN. ADRIAN CARTON DE WIART. a Belgian in the British army, considers himself one of the world’s luckiest men. His friends call him one of the bravest. Although he has faced death hundreds of times, he says he is a coward in this respect: He fears the camera. During his army experiences which extended from the Boer War in South Africa to every battlefront of the World War, De Wiart lost an arm, an eye, part of a thigh, and has been operated on fifteen times. He has won innumerable decorations. He won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of the Somme. When some

TOMB OF POCAHONTAS IS VACANT Americans Who Open Grave of Indian Princess Find It Empty, By X'niled Prc** LONDON, May 30.—Americans who Memorial day opened the grave which had been honored for years as the resting place of Princess Pocahontas found It empty. The party of Americans motored from London to Gravesend, the famous Indian princess was supposed to have been buried. Pocahontas, after saving the early Virginian settlers from attacks by Indians, met In the colonies an Eng llshman, John Rolfe, and married him. He took her to England, where she was received by royalty a* a princess of the new world. As she was about to return to the colonies with her husband, she was stricken with smallpox and. according to records. was buried under the chancel oi church at Gravesend three centuries ago. While fire partly destroyed the church, it was believed the body neither had been removed nor destroyed and recently a movement started In the United States to have the body exhumed and taken to Virginia, where honors arl to be paid to her as a savior of the early English colonists This included a movement to have her buried In Arlington national cemetery. Pocahontas was the daughter of the Indian king In the territory' included in the original English settlement in Virginia.

TRAPS FOR TRAVELERS IN POLANI Bv Vnit'd Pr'* WARSAW', May 31.—Occasionally the tourist loses his passport, that obliging blue booklet with Uncle Sam’s seal that gets him over all frontiers on the magic words “American citizen.’’ It Is tragedy Indeed. He feele himself abandoned and far from home. In point of fact all he has to do le to go to *.he American consulate, state his case, and get an emergency passport, good for six months. But if he does not know this he may meet the passport shark. Warsaw abounds In them. The tourist Is complaining of his loss when the shark appears, and says he will "fix him right up.” He knows a man who makes American passports- —just as good as Uncle Sams. They cost only SB. too. while Uncle Sam’s cost HO. Here's a real bargain. The sucker falls, and naturally gets a scrap of paper that, while looking like the real thing to the traveler, doesn’t look like the real thing to the experienced frontier guards, who may dump him into durance vile. There is an clement of real tragedy in this forger’s trade. Thousands of credulous Polish, Lettish, Russian and Lithuanian peasants dream of the day when they can go to America. They slave and hoard for the moment that a few hundred dollars will bring their family to New York. June Gladness By BERTON BRALEY IN June, when the moon s getting busy. All life is a drink that 1p fizzy. And whether you're fifty or only fifteen. The thoughts of romance do a dance through your bean. Oh you tee! bold and brave And yo,i’re sure to behave In a manner decidedly dizzy— In June, when the moon's getting busy. IN June, when the moon's getting busy, Rebecca crows fonder of lzzy. And Gwendolyn, mazed by the moonlight, discovers That Reginald's all she has dreamed of in lovers. And cautious men say things they never had planned And drivers irive slowly with on'y one hand f-TTiat's true of a Packard and true of a Lizzie In June, when the moon's getting busy!. IN June, when the moon s getting busy. I The stem woman-hater, where is he? He's out In the moonlight, bemused by its charm. With a feminine waist in the rook of his arm And one of the sex he is prone to disparage Will presently lead him a captive in marriage: For the Mood's sort of whirty -inti whizzy. ADd the head i exceedingly dizzy. And life is a wine that is tingling and fizzy; In June, when the moon's getting busy! (Copyright. 1923. NEA Service. Inn.)

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JOE SWEDOCK ' * British units had been cut off by the Germans, Genera! de Wiart organized a group of stragglers, inspired them with his own courage, and led them to the rescue of

TOM SIMS SAYS: It takes two to start a fight and too long to stop it. • • • An optimist is a man who gets tickled at what a hard time he has. * * • Staging a comeback is seldom a pleasant trip. • • • Doing nothing is hard to finish. * • • Cuss and the world cusses at you • • • Sugar's still up. Sugar lumps cost a lump sum. * • • It’s a few years early, but “Twinkle, twinkle, little light; look at the airplanes out tonight.” Many a man’s face is his fortune, so he feels cheap when he needs a shave. • * • You can't get blood out of turnips, hut a friend with turnips got a chicken out of them. • • • People who think too much of themselves do not think enough. • I • Trouble with knocking around the world is it knocks yon around. # • • Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. • • • All right for a girl to close her eyes while kissing, if she keeps her mouth shut afterward. • • • Trouble with feeling sorry for yourself is everybody else does. • • • Two heads are better than one. so maybe this is why they dance cheek to cheek. J 111 Trouble with laughing at all your troubles is continuous mirth makes others think you ignorant. Many people are afraid of autos. We need more like them. • • • The man who thinks he knows everything doesn’t know what he thinks.

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their hard pressed comrades. He succeeded. But during the withdrawal he was severely wounded. When he recovered in the hospital, the physicians decided that he had had enough. They wanted him to retire from active service. He refused. "Why should I retire?” he declared. "It is true that I am a limb or two short, but I am as good as ever.” And now he says: “A photographer makes me nervous.” THE WOMAN MART BUHNER, 20, is the only girl in America awarded both the Carnegie medal for bravery and the American Red Cross bravery trophy. Although unafraid of death, shre confesses fear of college ex aminations. Last year she went swimming in Tampa Bay, Fla., with Dorothy McClatchie, her' chum. Both were expert, swimmers, and went away out. Suddenly Miss McClatchie screamed, something was pulling her down. Miss Buhner grabbed her. A barracuda had attacked her friend.; It was a fight against death a halfmile from shore. Swimming in a pool of blood Miss Buhner started towing the dying girl to land. Around her were a schcV of sharks. But the girl kept on. undaunted, murmuring words of encouragement to her

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companion, and brought her to shore. For months after, Miss Buhner was a nervous wreck. Now she is attending college as a protege of St.

FIGHT RESULTS SERIOUS John McGinnis in Critical Condition at Hospital, John McGinnis, 40, living on West St. between Tenth and Eleventh Sts, j was today in a critical condition nt j city hospital after a fight at Ohio and!

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Petersburg, Fla, Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. She says: “I'm horribly afraid of examination day.” THE BOY Although he never did anything spectacular 16-year-old Joe Swedock of Meriden, Conn, is known in his home town as the "pluckiest boy in the world.” When he was four, he lost both legs in a train accident. Physicians said he couldn't live long. But Joe gritted his teeth, and said he wouldn’t die— and he didn't. His family wasn’t well off. Conditions became worse when his father died a few years later. There were six children to support, and Joe wanted to do his share. But he couldn’t help much. Then his mother died and crippled Joe was left to mother his five little brothers and sisters. People suggested an orphan asylum, but Joe indignantly refused to hear of it. He went to work, distributing papers, promoting boxing matches, selling sandwiches and soft drinks at baseball games. .Toe went to high school, too. hoping some day to become a lawyer. His pluck won the admiration of the town, and when he found he would have to abandon these plans, twenty men subscribed SI,OOO a year for three years to help send Joe and his brothers and sisters to school. Fraternal or-

Tllinois Sts. He has a skull fracture and bruises on his face. Motorcycle Policeman McCarty said McGinnis was talking with a man when an argument arose. The man struck McGinnis and ran. Smoke Stacks Fall Fire alarms were sent in late

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ganizations have staged benefits, and Joe is happy. But Joe is afraid of one thing. "It's rain.” he says, “for rain hurts business.”

Wednesday when two eighty-five-foot steel smoke stacks, being erected at the Chapman-Price Steel Company, Shelby St. and Troy Ave, fell. The falling stacks severed a large steam line. Escaping steam was mistaken for fire and smoke.