Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1923 — Page 4

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WETS AND "W —EVERYBODY in Indiana seems to he more or DRYS ARE |~4 less happy over prohibition. The drys are PLEASED I A insisting the State is becoming drier and drier and the wets say it is becoming wetter and wetter. They both ought to be satisfied under these conditions. More arrests were made in 1922 than in 1921, both sides agree. This indicates the State is becoming drier, according to the drys. The wets insist the same circumstance indicates the State is becoming wetter. How could anything be more satisfactory? MAKING yHAT is a history? “A systematic written acHISTORY \/\/ count of events, usually connected with a ‘SAFE’ f V philosophical explanation of their causes,” says Webster. Theoretically, it is a complete record of the past, a guide to both achievements and mistakes. from which we can profit in the future. Now comes Commissioner of Accounts David Jtiirschfield of New York City to take issue with a score of recognized American historians because of their interpretations of past events. Assigned by Mayor Hylan to make a study of school histories, Mr. Hirschfield has found after eighteen months of study exactly what he announced in December. 1921. that he would find. He set out to discover British propaganda and he accomplished his purpose. He would strike from American histories every favorable mention, of Britain. Every reference to the human weaknesses of the founding fathers would likewise he ruled out. In other words, the children and youth of the country should under no circumstances be permitted to learn that we have borrowed institutions and developed them to suit our purposes or that imperfections have been noted in our government establishment and occasionally corrected. Only a few days ago Dr. J. J. Tigert. commissioner of education of the United States, publicly deplored the tendency of American school histories to give the impression that we of the United States were never in the wrong in disputes with other lands. What Commissioner Hirschfield would do in New York, other overzealous patriots are attempting in other cities. They want to make history so dull and drab and so devoid of interesting color and explanatory information that it will cease to make young folks think. GREED 0 Florid?:'? -Legislature has definitely rrOPPOSES fused to co-operate with the Federal governRIGHTS ment by acceptance of the provisions of the Shepherd-Towner Federa.l aid maternity law. How typical of that State which, until very recently, permitted and indorsed the horrible convict leasing system, under which human beings—white human beings, please you—were whipped to death with straps that a turpentine-swamp-owning State Senator might he clothed in fine linen and fare sumptuously every day! "But the immortal principle of states' rights is threatened.” wails the Florida Legislature What happy camouflage is here provided! Indeed, do we not recognize the color of this shelter behind which crouch the enemies of little children—those rich, complacent ones whose dividends drawn from Southern factories are protected by the declared unconstitutionality of a Federal child labor law! • States rights’.' Ah. no— this is a contradiction in term*. The real issue is that age-long conflict of human rights versus human greed!

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! spring has two sources in the hill, ; one constant and one variable, the : latter intermittent, and fed from be- ! low. Do planets ever bum up? Astronomers have not any authentic accounts of planets ever having ! done so. But there are many in- : stances recorded of the appearance ! ot "novae.” or new stars, which suddenly appear j n the heavens, and I then gradually fade away into obscur- | itv in the course of a few weeks or ! months. Where are the Domesday Book and other English national records since the Norman Conquest kept? At the Public Records Office (of ! which the master of the rolls is keepI er), London. How are the time balls on offiriaJ and semi-official buildings operated? When the signal is received from i the United States Naval Observatory | (or received by relay* the ball is raised I by hand to the top of the mast, and ex- ; actly at 12 noon it is tipped off by i the opening of a switch connecte I with the observatory. Noon is indi- | cated at the second the ball leaves the i top of the mast. How many nickels were issued by the U. S. in 191.1? 73,659.237. In what year was Harold Bell Wright born? 1872. Which is correct “teaspoonsful.” or teaspoonfu!s?” “Teaspoonfuls" is correct because we are not thinking of twenty spoons. but of twenty times the quantity that would fill one. Are the linens of a bride initiated and should they have the initials of the bride's maiden name or the name she is to have? ' Linens are usually initiated, and they may have either the initials of the maiden name or the married name. Household and personal linens usually bear her maiden name. White linens are Invariably initiated in white.

ONE WAY TO CURB POWER OF COURTS Concurrence of All but One Member of High Tribunal Should Be Required, By SIMEON D. FESS U. S. Senator from Ohio THE proposal to require the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to pronounce a law unconstitutional, null and void, was fully discussed in the Ohio constitutional convention in 1912. It was proposed to substitute for the majority decision the unanimous decision, the convention finally deciding ujx>n the following language: “No law shall be held unconstitutional and void by the Supreme Court without the concurrence of at least all but one of the judges, except in the affirmance of a judgment of the Court of Appeals declaring a law un constitutional and void." Separate Function 1 supported the provision for the following reasons: The three departments. legislative, executive and .ill dicial, should be permitted to function ; independently of one another, and should be free to exercise that fune tiodn, even when it sets aside the act of the other. That is. the legislative should he permitted to act : ndepend ently. although the executive may veto its decision, and the judicial may declare its decision unconstitutional. So likewise The executive should he free to sign or refuse to sign a law without fear of impeachment, and the judicial act upon the constitutionality without reversal by public clamor. However, the legislative is one eo ordinate department of many members—in Y>n gross it is 43*> and 9*l. The executive is one co-ordinate department of one President. The ju dicial is one coordinate department of nine men. Whilp these are const! futed differently and unequally, they as departments are equal Nine Void Art of 531 Therefore, when the act of one eie partment involving the judgment of 531 members of the House and Senate is adjudged by another department composed of nine members, the a--: : should not be set aside as unconstitu 1 tionaJ bj a 5-to-4 vote. It might mean making a law void by so narrow a decision that one man is umpire. This close" division has several times in the past set aside a law. It is the procedure in the national judiciary. It was so in Ohio tint:! 1912, when wo changer! it I would favor making a similar change it' the national pmotiee requiring not than six of the nine to pronounce a taw unconstitutional ami void. That makes the judiciary just as independent as* before. It does not* it, the least iu’erfere with Its proper function and does not operate as any sort of attack upon the courtp. HUNGARIANS FEEL THEY HAVE PAID By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS, NEA Service Writer BUDAPEST. June 12.—50 delicately balanced is the situation in Hungary today that a heavy reparations demand would Topple her over and those making the claims would lose everything. This must be taken as it stands for in which direction she would topple I. nor any one else, could say with i any degree of certain^ Put this much is certain: Were a large reparations amount fixed upon, an!—upon Hungary's failure to meet it—an Hungarian 'Ruhr'' would he attempted, the occupying power, or powers, would reap only trouble as , their unique reward. Two facts are quite ample to hack I up these statements. Fact No. 1 is. the. people feel they have already more than paid for their share in the war and this feeling runs pretty deep in every Hungarian. Fact No. 2 is. Hungary can’t see her way out of the woods without any reparations to face. Her pou I ulation arc lacking in confidence I and at the first “boo!’’ in the shape of a large reparations demand. ! things would begin !o happen. I Hungarians as a people claim they j did not favor the war which Hermany ! brought on. In all discussions of i "Who was responsible” for the war. ' Hungarians insist they, at least were not. They do not say this in a spirit of begging off. To the contrary. They admit they came into the war and did their bit. once the war was on. But, they add. they have already paid the. limit for their share in what took place None Has Applied SWANSEA. Wales. June 12. “Wanted Boy. Age 14. for Lathering; Only Ex-Service Men Need Apply,” read a sign posted in a barber’s win dow here recently. To qualify, an applicant must have enlisted when he was 9 or younger, for the war has been over more than five years.

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COURT MUST DECIDE PARENTAGE AS TWO WOMEN CLAIM SAME BABY GIRL

Like Solomon, Chicago Jurist Must Pick Child's Mother, By GEORGt: BRITT NEA Service Writer CHICAGO. June 12.—What mental kink is responsible for two women here claiming not merely the custody but the natural maternity of a winsome 5-year-old girl? Both can't be right. Is one of them simply and consciously telling an untruth, impelled by covetounsness for the little chprub, or is she rather the victim of a novel “maternity complex?” The object of the controversy, Leona Felicia—last name unsettled, accepts the adoring attentions of each woman, and upon occasion she will call either one “Mama." Tells Her Story The story, told by Mrs. Julia Wasny, 40. is that Leona Felicia was born to her on May 6, 1913, at Stryj, Galicia. She shows a Polish birth and baptis mal certificate. The child's father is dead, she says, and she brought her to America three years ago. This spring, when she herself was ill, Mrs. Wasny says, she took the child to the home of Mrs. Nicholas Lenz to be boarded. When she recovered and went to claim Leona Felicia, Mrs. Lenz refused to surrender her. Now hear the story from Mrs. Lenz. who is about five years younger than the other claimant. My love could not be so strong had I not given birth to this babj myself.” she says. "I love her better than my life Os course, she was American born She was not at my home four months ago. She was ill. and a woman nuiw had her. She was awa> too long I could net bear to have' her away another day.” Roy, Page Solomon Mrs. Wasny, through her attorneys, sought a writ of habeas corpus to recover possession. The case wall go before Judge Joseph R. David to i*e decided. And the juris' now realizes

Alimony Civil or Moral Debt? Knotty Problem JUDGE GRAHAM Pv A W FREDERICK NEA Service Writer SAN FRAN* ’ISO), June 12. —Is alimony a moral or civil debt? The legal profession, mem hers of the Alimony Club and hun drods of divorcees are waiting eagerly for the answer. It will come soon from Judge Thomas F. Graham. Robert S. Andrews, cited for contempt of court for failure to pay alimony amounting to £ ISO tU> his divorced wife, Mrs. Henrietta M. Andrews, contends it's merely a civil debt. Should his contention be sustained by Judge Graham it would mean: That wives no longer could collect alimony under threat of jailing their husbands. That back alimony could be wiped out by bankruptcy proceedings, leaving the husband free of any obligation to meet his regular payments. That husbands could delay aLi monv payments, forcing their wives to sue for judgment as an outside creditor. The case pivots on the question of whether the State constitutional prohibition against: imprisonment for debt includes protection to husbands delinquent in alimony pay mentsAs all State constitutions have/ similar provisions under Federal guarantee, the case has a national aspect. It may bring joy to reluct nnt husbands and grief to dependent “divorce widows." Andrews maintains his inability to pay and stands upon his constitutional right to immunity from imprisonment.

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LEONA FELICIA. THE QUESTION MARK CHILD. IS SHOWN WITH MRS. NICHOLAS LENZ. THE LATTER SAYS SHE IS THE BAB1“S MOTHER. SO DOES ANOTHER WOMAN. WHICH IS RIGHT?

why old King Solomon's hair turned white. Another bit of evidence which the petitioners stress is the fact that Leona Felicia speaks Polish. Mrs.

SECRETARY OF PEACE IS NEEDED AS DREAD POWER FLIGHT GROWS IN SCOPE

Science Has Gone Ahead of Morality in Develop ment of Planes, By HERBERT QUICK FRANCK has adopted a "peace program of 1,009 war airplanes. England, now open to attack, is, under a calm exterior, panic-strick-en Great Zeppelins voyage thousands of miles over land and sea. Airplanes are sent long distances guided only by wireless, and brought back They may carry and drop goods—liquors, opium, plague germs, poison gas or dynamite. They can be made to carry these tilings and drop them accurately hundreds, per haps thousands of miles from the starting point, and no one can stop them. War Is in \ir War is in the air. It deprives England of the protection of the seas: but England is not alone in her new nakedness and defenseleeaness Every j nation is defenseless against any people tv ho ,nn secure a base anywhere land has the scientific knowledge to ; wage wars from it. | Switzerland might destroy the United i States. Nay. within fit, years. ;f tills dread power of (light goes on develop ing, Switzerland, or Holland, or Japan will surely have the power to destroy the United States, so far as health, safety and happiness are concerned.

TOM SIMS SAYS: Our stand on the marrying question is a man should stay single or else stay at. home. • • • As ve sow shall the neighbor’s chickens reap. • • • Dancing exercises just about everything except discretion. * • • About the worst wreck by an auto is when a limousine runs against a flivver hank account, • • • One of the hardest things to remember is to forget. • • * Hurry up with your worrying about Europe. It will soon be too hot for much of it. * * • The average man doesn’t know mueh more about running the business than his boss does. • 4 • The radio set doesn’t work as well in summer as in winter. Neither does the society set. Be hospitable, but don't let the flies eat with you. Isn’t it about time for the business men to stop shaking heads and start shaking hands? ♦ * * A compromise is when a man agrees to let his wife have what she wants if she will only shut up. • • • A man with a house full of kids can go to a show and sleep through a shooting act. Watch where you place your confidence or you will lose it,

His Final Argument — The Engagement Ring More than one tremulous young man, not quite sure of his ground in proposing, has permitted the alluring radiance of the engagement ring to speak the final word. With what care, then, must this Important little diamond-set band he chosen? Who would run the risk of its speaking in a manner unbefitting the occasion? Mullally’s engagement rings can be depended upon to exhibit just the touch of tastefulness appropriate to a hopeful pleader; t heir quality is unquestionable. Mullally Has Attractive Ones at S4O, $75, SIOO, $l5O and Upward —Ayres—Mullally’s diamonds, street floor.

Lenz does not. "hut then she plays with Polish children." she explains. There might he easily a mental cloud which could account for such conflicting claims, according to Dr.

And ow comes Georges Rarbct I from France with his Dewointine "motor-aviette" or "flying flivver,” In which be flew across the English I Channel and with which he can fly from New York to Chicago, he says. the equal of this in the past Also the little messengei p,.me of the American. LawI re, i Sperry which he claims is small, cheap triel faster and more powerful than the French machine and in which he pnes to and from his office every day The Ford car of aviation' Will Make Another World These things will make this another world. But one cannot think, in this accursed world of our. of th poor man master of spat e at last. Anyhow I can't. I can only think of our nation ; moving on another it, war. A great safety ftont established by Zeppelins and pianos and with explosives and gits guided by wireless —and then a vast army composed of the manhood of tlie aggressors, rising in the air like locusts, and invading the victim nation. W 1 at does it mean it means that science has get e ahead of morality. We arc not fit. as a race, to possess jtheso dreadful powers Unless we as ~ race turn our minds to peace instead of war. our future in civilization is worse than it ever was in savagery. We have a. secretary of war. W hat we need is, first, a secretary of peace.

Bayard Holmes, distinguished alienist and psychological expert. “Women between 30 tnd 40 are especially subject to mental aberrations,” he says. “Either one, not being the real mother, might feel a longing for the child. She could favor and encourage the delusion of maternity until she actually believed the child was hers." Meanwhile, people are turning again to the biblical episode of how Solomon of old decided the maternity of a child. They compare the two cases, and believe that Judge David may have to use. while not the same methods, at least an unusual way to unravel the knotty problem. Vital Matters By BERTON BRALEY “If you love me as I love you. No "knife can cut our love in two.” Oh yes it can, and cut it quick. For should you cultivate the trick of Eating with that self-same knife, I would be off of you for life. “The rose is red, the violet blue; Sugar is sweet, and so are you,” But not so sweet that should you stoop To making noises with your soup, I wouldn't find within an hour That you and love had both gone sour Trouble and pain and want and ill Would never make my passion chill. But if you spill things on your vest Or smack your lips with too much zest, Or from your saucer drink your tea. You’ll get, the well-know gate from me Sorrow ] could bear up beneath, But should I see you pick your teeth Or spear your bread; or if T viewed You in the act of gulping food. I’d hand you, thereupon, a lime; And thank my stars I’d learned in time! i Copyright. 1923, NEA Service. Inc.")

Wives Are Worth Twenty Wild Pigs in Hebrides Isles ' /

LEWIS KNOX SEATTLE. June 12.—Twenty wild pigs for a wife is the matrimonial rate of exchange in the New Hebrides Islands. It matters not whether the wife is wild or tame. But the pigs must be wild for the wild pig is a highly regarded possession iri the New Hebrides. And a wife? Well—she’s merely a wife. So informs Lewis Knox of Seattle, a former high school youth, who has returned to his comrades here a wind-tanned veteran of exotic adventures on the isles of the southern seas and elsewhere during a cruise of two and a half years. The lovelorn lad of the New Hebrides, says Knox, simply must hring home the haeon before he can hope to attain the dusky flapper of his dreams. Hence an unusual restlessness among the wild pig colony. Once he makes up his mind to start housekeeping, the gay young- blade speeds to the forest and the hunt is on. He stays until luck smiles and comes back proudly, herding his twenty wild pigs up to the front door of the "old man’s" grass hut. The blusning bride announces to dad that the pigs have arrived. The happy couple start their honeymoon and the stern parent chuckles over the addition to his drove of wild porkers.

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PROHIBITION LOCAL ISSUE CHIEFS SAY Republican Leaders in East Find Harding With Deaf Ears, By JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 12.—Prohibition, like the tariff, is a local question, Republican leaders in eastern States are dinning into the ears of President Harding. But the ears of the President are deaf. Biter feeling runs strong against the President in these eastern States. The dry policy, enunciated by the White House on every opportunity, is cause enough. But in addition, the charge is now made openly that the President is “playing Ohio politics" to protect himself and not worrying over the State problems of Senators. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Maryland have already rebelled, in so far as the Republican leaders can voice rebel lion. The sole aim of the Republicans in those States is to make it clear the party is not led by men who are dry or who are influenced by the Anti-Saloon League. Fear Wet Issue In Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin there is more than a little fear in Republican ranks over the wet issue. The Republican leaders in the Senate insist they would not be surprised to see Repub liean candidates suffer a year from nex; November because of the President’s “Ohio policy." In Indiana. lowa and Colorado, there is no fear expressed. But economic issues will cause the Repub licans worry. Senator Edge in Now Jersey has taken prohibition enforcement away from the Anti-Saloon League and has announced emphatically his opposition to the Volstead law. Senator Wadsworth and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt have performed similarly in New York to make the State organization wet. Although Governor Pinchot in Pennsylvania is dry. Senator Reed is wet and the Republican State organization is wet enough to openly fight Pinchot. New Jersey Republicans always have been recalcitrant on the law. Maryland Is Wet The Maryland Republican organization is wet and decidedly so, notwithstanding an effort on the part of some to make it dry. Senator Weller, the boss of the party there, is wet, votes wet and announces he will continue to vote wet. "The Democrats can nominate a dry candidate for President." sug gested one prominent Republican leader. “Suppose, for instance, they’d nominate Ralston in Indiana. He is dry enough in sentiment, in fact, in record, to suit arty one. The drys could not attack him. They might save some votes for Harding, but they’d not take any Democratic dry votes away from Ralston. “Well. Ralston could make his campaign in the Middle West and West, i on economic issues. He has a record foi economy, you know. He could swing through the East talking tariff, taxation, high cost of living. He would not have to mention prohibition and if he was forced, he could let it be known that he was strong for law enforcement and a dry. Would Hold New York “Well in New York, the State organization would keep all the liberal sentiment there for him. In New Jersey and the other wet States the same thing would happen." This is the argument made to President Harding and members of his Cabinet and some members of the Cabinet have agreed with it. But Attorney General Daugherty thought otherwise and the President agreed with Daugherty. So the President is committed to make his next campaign as a dry. He has courageously accepted that position. It took courage to do it because he had warning of a tebellion in the ranks at the very start.

TRAFFIC WISDOM tyßrUCQoueche Chairman 6afc Drivers Gub Pedestrian crossing a street. 1: At the curb, LOOK LEFT. 2: At the center of the street, LOOK RIGHT. LESSON NO, 8 Motorist making left turn into intersecting street. 1. Obtain clear view to LEFT and RIGST before entering intersecting street 2. Slow down for turn, 4. Make turn beyond center of intersection and keep near center line of intersecting street PLAY"'FAIR. ON THE HIGHWAY