Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1923 — Page 4

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LAUGH -|r -yERE’S what the bootleggers are talking AT LEGAL t—l about: Ontario. Canadian province, has ‘LOOPS’ JL jL prohibition nearly as severe as on our side of the border. But it’s legal to manufacture liquor for export in Ontario. The logical export market, of course, is our country. If the Canadian hooch is exported by railroad or legitimate steamship, it’s easy for American prohibition sleuths to seize it at the port of railroad terminal where it enters the United States. The ideal arrangement for our bootleggers is to have the liquor exported out of Canada by motor truck, which can be met after midnight on a lonesome road and rushed across the line. Following a few shootings in connection with this method, the government in Ontario made it illegal to transport liquor over the public highways, except to nearest railroad station or ship dock. American bootleggers recently were overjoyed when a brewery in Ontario won an Appellate Court victory which could be construed as giving it the right to transport liquor over the highways by motor truck, for export. However, the executive branch of the Ontario government promptly telegraphed its prohibition enforcement officers on the Detroit River border to ignore the judgment and enforce the law as previously. The Ontario government’s stand is that the court, judgment was rendered not upon the merits of the case, but upon a technicality. The average American lawyer, who thrives on technicalities, would be out of luck in Ontario or any other Canadian province. Their courts are primarily concerned with the evident meaning and intent of the law, not with jokers slipped i nby blundering or crooked legislators—such as ommissions of punctuation or words whose absence creates what we Americans call “loopholes. ” There are cases on record in American court history where' the unintentional omission even of a comma in a contract, has cost the defendants thousands of dollars. BUMPER ‘TTTT'E h ftTe now arrived at the month of brides CROP OF %/%/ and baccalaureate sermons and graduation GRADS ▼ f orations. Before lovely June has passed in history, the 578 universities and colleges of this country wij have issued beautifully engraved sheepskins to no less than 45,000 voting men and women of the country, sheepskins which in the form of scholastic degrees will express to their own minds at least that they now belong to the int.elligentia of the U. 8. A. The other day. Prof. Charles Mills Gayley. retiring dean of the department of English of the University of California, speaking before a gathering of the alumni of that great institution, said: “Our mass system of education is a menace to the educational life of the nation. This university spent over $200,000 last year teaching college students many of the rudiments they should have learned in high school. One-third of the present student body here are misfits for college degrees and one-half the remaining two-thirds should be eliminated!” That s pretty severe talk, isn’t it? Ts a newspaper editor were to get off anything like that he’d be regarded as “sensational,” would he not? But President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, one of the most heavily endowed institutions in the world, pars Gayley is right! Both Gayley and Wilbur place the blame on the doting parent, who, not content with putting his child throngh high school, seems determined to force him through college for no other purpose than to get a degree which can be pinned on him like the badge of a small town reception committee. What are we going to do with these 45,000 young college grads? Few of them will care to become bricklayers or stone masons or plumbers or electrical workers or even carpenters! Fewer stll will care to take positions as cooks or steel mill workers or locomotive firemen. Fact is. most of them couldn’t qualify for any of these jobs. Yet the world is grpatly more in need of good men for these jobs than for doctors, lawyers, or writers, and the pay is better—at least it’s surer. How about it?

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A reader of this column asks for information on the banking system of the United States. Any other interested reader may obtain a bulletin on this subject by writing l to our Washington Bureau, enclosing a two-cent postage stamp.

What Is zinc dust, the “blue powder” of the smelters, and what is it used for? It is metallic zinc in a very finely divided form, used chiefly as a reducing agent in the manufacture of dyestuffs, or other organic compounds, and as a substitute for the zinc shavings In the precipitation of gold. What should one say in acknowledge of an introduction? When one is presented to a lady, all that is necessary is to say, "How do you do? or simply begin the conversation. The one who is presented KtmpVy bows and says nothing. Other

i remarks may be, "I am delighted to j meet you,” or “I am very glad to ; meet you." Do not use the expresi sion. ‘ Pleased to raet vou." i Do plants grow in the Arctic regions? Yes: about 1,700 species have been found. How many automobiles and > trucks were manufactured In the United State* last year? 21,059,064. How much I torse power from waterpower is there available in the United States? About 30.000,000. What are the proper occasions for a man to wear full dress and when he may wear a tuxedo? : Full dress is worn at the opera, at |an evening wedding, at a dinner j which Is known to be strictly formal, ! at a formal ball and at certain State | functions. The tuxedo is worn at the I theater, at informal parties, dining j at home, dining in a restaurant and iat informal dinners, and Informal ; dances.

Which is the largest union coal mine in the United States? What Is its output? The Orient Mine, Illinois, owned and operated by the Chicago. Wilmington and Franklin Coal Company. Output, 7.000 tons a day. Give me a formula for a lotion to be used on oily skin. The following is said to be good: One ounce tincture of benzoin, two drams tincture of musk, four drams tlnture of ambergris, five ounces rectified alcohol and one and one-half pints orange flower water. What is the present government of Mexico? Mexico is under anew constitution promulgated Feb. 5, 1917. replacing the constitution of 1857. By It Mexico is declared to be a federated republic of twenty-eight States, each with a large measure of home rule, and with Governor, Legislature and elected by popular vote.

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Drastic Action Necessary to Save China and Peace of Pacific

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Staff Correspondent t RESIDENT HARDING virr* tually holds the fate of China and her 400,000,000 people in the hollow of his hand. "China has reached the forks of the road. One way turns back definitely into the 'middle ages. The other leads forward to anew and prosperous China. i'he peace of the world depends upon which road she takes, yet she will be left to drift into the one, or led into taking the other, by the action of thsee powers—Great Brit-

Electric Shock Restores Sight

GLADYS SHAFFER By SEA Service CORTLAND. Ohio., June 4. Pink and white blossoms of the peach and apple trees are more beautiful than ever to 13-year-old Gladys Shaffer here. For a modem miracle has reopened her sightless eyes A marvelous panorama is slowly unfolding before her os she wanders through the orchard back of her home. The flowers and the shrubs, the robins and the blue bird, the fish in the brook—all have taken on anew meaning for Gladys. A year ago a bolt of lightning left her totally blind. Specialists declared her sight probably never would be restored. But a prosaic vacuum cleaner did the unusual. Gladys, unscrewing the plug from a light socket, touched the contacts with her right hand. A shock went through her whole body. "Oh, mother!" she called, "I can see again l ." * "It was Just as If my eyeball had turned over,” she explained later. Her recovery is a mystery to physicians, who predicted total blindness for the girl whose blue eyes behind their heavy dark glasses now sparkle with the Joy of complete happiness

POLITICAL PEPPER! Pennsylvania Delegation Is to Season Convention Well

By HARRY B. HUNT NEA Sevlce Writer TTTT J ASHINGTON. June 4. Rock-ribbed Pennsylvania, the good old Gibraltar of the G. O. P., is the first State off the reservation In the movement for renomlnatinn and re-election of Warren G. Harding as President! At a conference of the Pennsylvania members of Congress, held In Atlantic City, decision was reached to support the selection of an unlnstructed delegation to the 1924 Republican convention. This, in the face of diplomatic suggestions from Harding henchmen that it would be timely and significant—also helpful Keystone State senators and representatives should sponsor a delegation pledged to support Harding for a second term. Back of the decision reached lies a double motive. The first and moot moving one is of revenge. They Are Peeved Harding has disregarded many of the pot recommendations of the Pennsylvania boys in placing patronage. Their slice at the pie counter has bpen neither luscious nor large. And considering the fact, that Pennsylvania felt it nominated Harding, and therefore should have had fat pickings, they feel they have been “done dirt.” Next to the dee ire to register a dig at Harding, the Pennsylvanians' action was due to their desire to

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ain. Japan and Ajnerica. Os the three. America will wield the greatest influence. "Educated Chinese admit conditions are rotten in China, but they blame it on the system. They would welcome another International Conference to examine the situation and advise what should be done. “President Harding, they believe, could bring some such thing to pass. If he does not do so, they fear, nobody else will, and the case of China seems well night hopeless.” These lines are from a dispatch sent from Shanghai, China, by the

CRIME CURB NECESSARY FOR NATION By JOHN CARSON, Times Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, June 4.—Sure and swift justice for the criminal is the great need in the United States in dealing with the crime problem, in the opinion of Sir Basil Thompson , the famous English criminologist •who recently visited this country. Thompson has the reputation of being the world’s greatest authority on crime and was director for many years of the criminal investigation de- ; partment of Scotland Yard. His *ugI gestlons regarding the United States I have evoked considerable comment | from crime authorities In the country. • among them William J. Burns, chief I of the Department of Justice Bureau ; of investigation. Thompson made these suggestions ! for curbing crime in this country: I. Increase police forces in various | dtles 30 per cent, and establish day police forces in those cities which do ; not have them. 2 Make the office of chief of police non-political and allow a man to hold If as long as he gives good service. 9. Appoint all police judges, instead of electing them. 4 Estahlesh uniform legislation In , ail cities, and if possible. In conjune- ! tlon with Canada and Mexico, forbld- ! ding the sale of fire arms and regulating the possession of them 5 Limit appeals in criminal case* to one. that one to be heard within thirty days of the day of conviction. 9 Standardize the penitenriai-y system with proper safeguards against Inhumanity on the one hand and against sentimental Liberality on the other. j SPORTS LEADER TO SPEAK ; Gyro Club Will Hear of Athletics In Indiana. A. L. Trester, permanent secretary of the Indiana High School Athletic ! Association, will speak on "Growth of ; Athletics in the State of Indiana" at the weekly luncheon of the Gyro Club jat the Lincoln Tuesday. Members of the Indianapolis good 1 will delegation, now on their wn> ; horn® from France, have been invited.

boost early and late for a favorite son candidate of their own—Senator George Wharton Pepper. In view of this situation. Pepper played, to all appearances, a passive part in the Atlantic City conclave. Senator Reed, who is particularly sore at Harding over patronage refusals, led the hymn of hate. May Bo Serious This Pennsylvania situation bids fair to be a really serious obstacleIn the way of a harmonious renomlnatlon for Harding, If the Congressional delegation, non trolling as they do in most cases the local organization machinery, can put across their ticket of uninstructed delegates, that sets over into the debit column—either for purposes of trading or of active opposition—a block of eighty-six votes. Which la no small handicap. SAHARA GROTTO COUNCIL Local Members Plan Caravan to Cleveland Saturday. Preliminary to the thirty-fourth Supreme Council session of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of Enchanted Realm at. Cleveland. June 11-13, members of Sahara Grotto will attend "Tiger Rose" at English’s Tuesday night. The Indianapolis convention caravan will be composed of more tiian 600 blue devil zouaves and the. pirate band. The caravan will leave Indianapolis In two sections Saturday night.

writer two years ago in May. Months later the suggested "International Conference," was called to order in Washington, on the Initiative of President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes. And China’s case was discussed. Today China is in as bad a fix as ever. The Washington Conference acted but passively on the Chinese menace, and active help waa, and is, imperative. The League of Nations took over Austria when Austria was about to crumble, appointing a Dutchman as a sort of receiver to boss the

Worst Henpecked Husbands Are Carefree Gypsy Men

LOUISE RICE, WHO STUDIED GVPSY LIFE BY GOING THROUGH THE WEIRD CEREMONY THAT MADE HER A MEMBER OF THE TRIBE.

By XRA Sen-ice NEW YORK, June 4 The worst henpecked husband in the world—is the carefree gypsy' f? 0 says Tvoulse Rice, authoress, who is known as the 'koske gorgio" —the good stranger—of the many gypsy tribes that restlessly roam the country. Studying the Romany race has been a hobby of Miss Rice. After many years she learned to talk the gypsy tongue. "Finally,” she says,. 1 gamed their confidence. But it was a long time before I went through the strange ceremony which permitted me to be a ’skirt and knife' member of the tribe. Then I was able to gat behind the scenes and see the real life of the gypsy tribe. "The gypsy woman Is the real boss in tribal life. The man has no

Do You Know How to Take a Vacation? Change Is Necessary

Bv ROBERT TALLEY. Time* Stnff Corr-spendf-nt WASHINGTON, June 4.—Do you know how to take a vacation? The chances are you'll go seeking rest when what you really need is work, if you are the average city dweller with stiff muscles, according to Dr. Hugh 8. Gumming, surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service. What people need most of all is a change. “A vacation should mean very different things to different classes of workers.” said Dr. Gumming. "A clerk, for instance, should do something that would make him use his muscles (though not to excess), whereas an Iron mill worker should do something that would enable him to rest his muscles. Wife Should Lose Hubby. “A girl who has beeq typewriting or working in a factory should use her vacation in outdoor sports, such as playing tennis. A tired wife and mother should rest by getting away from her husband and children, sooth-

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country until it could get back on its feet. The pill was sugar-coated so Austrians could swallow it without much trouble. China will ultimately have to be treated similarly, though the United States must decla.re itself in because of vital American Interests in that part of the world. The Pacific Powers might act irstead of the league. China's entire governmental machinery must be overhauled and her score of provincial armies, totaling some 1,500,000 disgruntled ragamuffins and potential brigands,

money except that which his wife allows him. He has no authority over the children iU is a pauper. "But he is a whopping liar. He loves a good lie and will tell it with the greatest Conviction. It is his pastime, his hobby, and no one who knows anything about the real Romany will ever believe what a man of the race tells him. ‘Most gypsies In America are part Hungarian. Romanian, Russian, or Spanish. Yet all of them adhere to the same ideas, superstitions and secret religion. They worship Isis, goddess of Egyptian mythology. "The gypsies of today cover the same routes their ancestors have driven over for the past 200 years, hut so secretive Rre they, unless they want to make some money fortunetelling or selling horses, the inhabitants of towns and villages seldom realize gypsies are in the vicinity.”

lng her nerves by chatting with other women and baring a few moments of genuine privacy. "Anybody who has been spending his or her winter evening in stuffy rooms studying, playing cards, dancing or even hist nodding, should bv all means get out In the open air in the summer. A truck driver, on the other hand, might well spend his vacation indoors,” Open-air exercise is valuable, but. exercise looks chiefly to physical health and Ignores mental health which is now considered to be about as important as physical health. Dr. Cummin explained. That's why he says millions of people need a “change" rather than a “rest.” Not So Fool i sit "Asa matter of fact,” he continued, "nearly everyone feels this impulse and unconsciously strives to act upon it. The ‘tired business man’ of whom the papers say so much is not so foolish as some persons think when ho goes to the theater to listen to a farrago of nonsense; for this is the very’ opposite of his daily work. Unfortunately’. going to the theater is like his business —indoors.” “The point of it, all is." said Dr Cumming. “is to get new ideas for the brain to mull over. All persons after being tied to one set of ideas for months will find themselves a whole lot healthier and happier if they can pick out an entirely different set for their vacation.” WOMAN ACCUSES HUBBY Three Arrested When Police Are Called to 19 N. Oriental St. Declaring that her husband was paying too much attention to the woman they were visiting and that when she objected she was beat and her clothes torn nearly off. Mrs. Susie Ross. 122 N. Delaware St., called police to the home of Maude Moore, alias Osborn. 19 N. Oriental St., where they were visiting and had her husband, Albert, arrested on a charge of assault and battery and Miss Moore for vagrancy. Ross's father, John Ross i who was there also, was charged with drunkenness.

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disbanded and set to work before there can be any improvement. "I can’t see how China is going to work out this problem alone,” writes J. B. Powell, American newspaper man held captive by the Shantung bandits. And every foreigner in China agrees with him. ”1 favor armed intervention," advises Maj. Roland W. Pinger, American Army officer cautured by the same band. "Civilize ’em with Krags is my motto.” Bad advice, an excusable only as coming from one so wrought up that he allows' his anger, rather than his brain, to speak for him.

MARRIAGE announcements for June show the crop of peaches is not a failure. • • • Asa cheap vacation, we suggest putting on a bathing suit and being photographed at home. • • • Boys leave the farm because they hate to plow through life. The man who figured a fly lays about a million eggs will be able to prove it next month.

One who found the ant a model of industry was a wife tryingg to keep ants out of the sugar. w * t Our guess is the girls are shocking because the men are so anxious to act as shock absorbers. • • • Some men are so stingy they refuse to laugh at their own expense. ••* - , Ignorance is no bliss in the eyes of the law. • • ft Trying to show what you know often shows what you don’t know. t t * The children run everything around the house except the errands. • • • Many a woman goes visiting hoping they are not at home. • • • People who live in autos should not throw glass. • • • A shark is a big fish. So are who who think they are sharks. • • • M hen a couple of lying golfers meet, the recording angel ha3 to start writing shorthand. • • • Out of 1,000 reasons why couples fight the main one is “because.” • • • Choosing picnic weather is simple. Pick the day you want, then postpone it until the next day.

Man Who Talks in Billions Is - ( Stranger in Own Home Town

By DON P. DROHAN NEA Service Writer SILVER GREEK. N. T.. June 4 John W. Slack started out as a $4 a week office boy— Now he talks in billions. His bid of $1,051,000,000 for all the Shipping Board's vessels startled the whole country. But it created more excitement than a cyclone right in his home town. For Silver Greek, with its 3.300 souls, doesn’t know Slack. True, most folk recognize him and pass the time of day when the; meet him on the streeet. Others an scarcely tell you where he lives. "Oh, yes: he's a substantial citizen. ' some of the older business men inform you. “Nice fellow, but rather quiet. "He's been here eight years now, but we don't know any more about him than we did the first week. He's president of the Columbia Postal Supply Company, and makes some sort of stamp cancelling machines for the Government.. "See that little one-story yellow brick building down the street. Well, that's his office.” And they’ point to a tiny factory, just half a block from the park, or square. A clerk in asdrug store directed mo to Slack's home. It’s a modest, *iO-gh substantial, frame dwelling, : house before you come to the railroad tracks.” Slack’s daughter, Ethel. 20, came to the door. “Dad's out riding,” she announced. "But he'll be coming in soon.” An hour later the writer returned and found Slack just climb ing into one of his Packards. (He has two.) "Going down to rhe office for a little bit." he explained. “Jump in." "Pretty nice town you have here, Mr. Slack." "Yep, fine little place. Away from the noise and city. “Looks like we’ve put it on the map. You know, I'm on the Cham-

RCTtoueche Chairman Safe Drivers Club Pedestrian crossing a street. 1: At the curb. LOOK LEFT, 2: At the center of the street, LOOK RIGHT. LESSON NO. 2 Motorist entering a street from a driveway. 1. At the sidewalk, drive as slow as a walk. 2. At the curb line, LOOK LEFT. Then RIGHT. 3. Give right of way to vehicles on street). 4. Make right turn near curb. Make left turn near center of street. PLAYFAIR ON THE HIGHWAY

China must be cleaned out. Intervention must be constructive, not destructive, and the only hope of this lies in America. European powers are up against it at home and can’t take the initiative. Japan wants a weak china, and won’t. So today, more than ever, "President Harding virtually holds the fate of China and her 400,000,000 people in the hollow of his hand." And more than ever i? international action of some positive, even drastic, nature imperative to prevent a break-up of Chins and a rupture of the peace of th? Pacific.

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JOHN W, SLAOK ber of Commerce publicity committed-” , "Now, Me. Slack, a billion dollar* is a lot of money. Where you going to get that much?” "Well, son, I can’t tell you now. ■When Lasker says the word go. I’ll be only too glad to let the country In on the secret.” “And what are you going to do with all those boats?” "Well, we’ll keep them running. W'e can't mess things up any mor than the Government has done. That's about all I can say about our plans just. now. "Lasker is reported as saying that the ships aren't worth what we’ra bidding. But. y’ou see, wo don’t want to sting them.”