Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1923 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Editor-fn Chief ROY W. HOWARD. President. FRED ROMER PETERS, Editor. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspapers * United Press. United News. United Financial and NBA Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 25-29 S Meridian Street, Indianapolis. * * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * * PHONE—MAIN 3500.
HELPFUL -y XDIANAPOLIS citizens have some good ideas HINTS BY 8 for the betterment, of the city. Letters CITIZENS JL reaching The Times in answer to the suggestion that local citizens speak their mind on the things needed to improve Indianapolis show constructive thought. Among suggestions already, made are: The regulation of billboards. Checking of the smoke nuisance. Improvement of rush hour street ear service. Encouragement of industries to come to Indianapolis through the payment of some form of bonus. Establishment of community child gardens to assist mothers. Some of these suggestions may not be practical in the form in which they are presented, hut all contain constructive ideas and it should be possible to work toward a definite result in each case. Indianapolis residents, particularly those who live along and near boulevards, have long complained of unsightly sign boards. Taxing the boards was tried, but this seems to have had no effect. Maple Road boulevard, particularly, is lined with sign boards, marring what otherwise would be one of the most beautiful drives in the city. The smoke abatement suggestion is on the way toward being carried out. The street car problem is one we have always with us. One suggestion is that trailers he used during rush hours. This may or may not be practical. It is for a street railway engineer to say. The other method suggested is that “skip-stops” be revived. The public has shown its dislike for this system. Indianapolis undoubtedly has lost a number of industries because of the unwillingness of citizens to pay bonuses as is the practice in other cities. The great industrial growth of Indianapolis without this plan attests to the advantage of our city. The suggestion for community child gardens, or in pre-war phraseology, kindergartens, is a good one. There are now some free kindergartens, hut not nearly enough. What do you suggest for the improvement of the city. Have yon any ideas for the carrying out of suggestions already made! MORE T--T-IS scheme for subsidizing private American ABOUT I—l shipping from the public coffers having gone SUBSIDY 1X amiss, Chairman Albert T. Lasker, retiring head of the shipping hoard, discovers he did not need the subsidy, anyway, to keep the American flag on the high seas. Lasker, in his farewell letter to the President, outlines a plan for reorganizing the shipping hoard’s merchant fleet on new lines. He would form eighteen subsidiary companies, owned and controlled by the government through the shipping hoard, each company to be locally managed and to be operated over a chosen field.
One company—or more, perhaps—would have headquarters in San Francisco, for example. Its directors would be local citizens and shipping men. the latter representing the government. The local board would be in a position to meet competition as it found it and to settle Icma! problems as they aroso. without the delay of consulting Washington. Os the ol 1,650,5teel vessels owned by the government, Lasker would reduce the four hundred now in operation to a fleet of about 250 ships. After selecting a second line emergency fleet of some 200 additional ships. Lasker would break up a thousand ships of lesser value, and sell them as junk. Lasker makes it very plain this plan was worked up only as an alternative for the ship subsidy. Yet he thinks it will 'ead to ultimate sale of the ships to private operators. Lasker originally wanted to pay the private operators a subsidy to get tlwm to buy government ships. Now he wants to organize subsidiary companies. each to develop its field, out of San Francisco, New Yorh\ New Orleans and other ports, until private companies are ready to buy them. Now that is precisely what The Indianapolis Times has been saying all along, when it opposed the ship subsidy. Ts it were necessary to pay private operators to buy government ships, then far better keep them as government ships.
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You can sat 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 be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive persona! replies.—EDlTOß. Does the Bible state that the descendants of fain were negroes? No. How did the expression "gone west," meaning dead, originate? It originated during the World War. When a regiment was sdmt west it meant that they were going into heavy fighting and would probably never return. What is Chauve Souris? A novelty entertainment consisting of numbers of dancing, music and light skits, given by a group of Russian players under the direction of Balieff. It proved highly successful on account of the novelty and originality of the numbers and the ability of the players. When wdre the s.>o gold pieces, or Panama Exposition coins. coined? In 1315 only. There were 3.019 of these coins put in circulation Who was George Inness? A landscape painter, bom at Newburgh. N. Y., May 1. 1825: died in 1894. What is “chasidim?" A name employed at different periods to designate some class of especially pious persons among the Jews. Prom pashages in the Psalter, the books of Maccabees, and the Talmud, it seems evident that the term was used as a designation of those
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who distinguished themselves by loyalty to the law and the ancestral cus toms. They do not appear to have formed a sect or party. In modem times this name is applied to a sect which originated In Poland In the lat ter half of the Eighteenth Century, characterized by a belief in miracles, and in the approach of the coming of the Messiah. They opposed Tal mudic learning. Their religion became characterized by noisiness but also by intensity? of pious sentiment. B hat. are tle six swiftest wild animals of North America? Wolves, coyotes, elk. deer, antelope and jack rabbits. Who is the present Postmaster General? Harry S. New. Os what species is the famous white elephant? An infrequent albino type of Asiatic elephant, highly esteemed because rare. What, vegetables grew in North Amerira before the coming of the white man? Indian corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, squashes and garden beans. ' How many deaths are there from automobile accidents in the United States? In 1921. 10,168. Who is eligible to the Order of the Garter in England? It is limited to those of royal blood or to very distinguished members of the nobility. Who wrote the poem "The Female of the Specie*?" Kipling
Lawyer’s Dream for a Happier and Better World Brings Rotary Clubs Over Twenty-Six Nations
International Convention of Society Convenes at St, Louis June 18, By \FA Service ST. LOUIS, June 13.—A Chicago lawyer, with humanitarian impulses. called three of his friends into conference with him at his office one wintry night. Before them he unfolded a vision that haunted him night and day—a vision of a happier and better world. People, he told them, needed some doctrine of service making dynamic the static, ethical principle of the Golden Rule. Why not help him draft such a philosophy? Why not pledge themselves to abide by it in their different walks of life? Would they help hint? They did. One of the three was a coal dealer, another a mining operator, and the third, a merchant tailor. That was eighteen years ago—Feb. 23. J 905. The men went out and interested others in their creed. And that was the beginning of Ro tary. Idea Spreads They called It “Rotary" because In those early days members met in rotation in their offices and shops. Three years later the idea spread to "San FYancisen. Then the germ descended In other parts of the coun WATSON IN DIFFICULT POSITION Indiana Senator in Hot Water Over Attitude of White House, By JOHN CARSON Ttffli'i Staff Fnrrcupnn'irnt WASHINGTON. June 13.—Senator "Jim 1 ’ Watson of Indiana * ” has become *he most elusive of Republican leaders. Doors to the Senator's office at the capitol are locked Invariably. Pound on the doors and there is no answer, although lights within betray some one's presence there Catch the In diana Senator on the run and he is more nervous than usual and always In a hurry. When Watson went to the White House for his conference with Hard ing the “I Told You So stuff was written all over his visit. What was said behind the closed door of the President's office will not be known But when Watson came out his for mal expression was that the party would be united behind Harding; that there would be no split, anl so on. His Informal expression was that his warning to the President soni“ months ago bad been justified by events. Never before in his political history has Watson suffered such a difficult burden. He knows the White House Is cold to him. He knows there ift no possibility of a reconciliation with Postmaster General New. Ke knows New has President Harding’s ear and confidence. He knows the President has been advised that Watson aspires to leadership In the party He knows he Is held responsible to a great degree for the anti-Harding propaganda which has emanated from the Repub lican national committee. And yet he cannot, surrender and
A Bargain By BEKTON BRALEY A little bird sat on my winilow sill And trilled away as a bird will trill. And he cocked at me such a knowing eye That I said, "I'll talk to this little guy." So I asked "Oh bird, do you think it pays To give up a bachelor’s easy ways, For the sake of a girl? Is the price too steep?" "Cheep!” said the little bird, “Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" "But think what it means, oh bird,” I cried, “To take to my bosom a blushing bride. Though love is joyous and dear and sweet. The fondest lovers, at times, must eat. And the cost of renting a cozy nook Is hard on a poor man's pocketbook. Won’t the cost be high for the joys i reap?” “Cheep!" said th little bird, “Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" "So you think," I said, "that the toil and fret, The woes and worries that must be met. In having a home and a family, Won't prove too heavy a load for me? If I give up freedom with which I'm blest., For the sake of a mate and a little nest, You think it's worth it? I'll take your word You look to ine like a sapient bird! Is the price too great? Ere T get. in deep. Is it worth the cost, for ft costs a heap?" "Cheep!" said the little bird, ‘‘Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" (Copyright, 192,1, NEA Service, Inc.)
Editor’s Mail
To the Editor o) The Times The greatest thing l can think of is to get ail the young men in Indianapolis to quit using tobacco and strong drink and seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness with all their
WISDOM tyDfUCQomlv Chairman. 6afe Driwns Club Pedestrian crossing a street. 1: At the curb, UX)K LEFT. 2: At the center of the street, LOOK RIGHT. LESSON NO. 9 Pedestrian becoming a motorist. 1. Board vehicle only on right side of vehicle. ft. Avoid driving while your breath smells of liquor. THE HIGHMY
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HF.RK ARK SOME OF ROTARY'S WORLD LEADERS. THEY WILL ILL BE ON HAND AT THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT; CHESLEY K PERRY. CHK’AGO. SECRETARY ROTARY INTERNATIONAL; ANTON VERKADE, PRESIDENT. RO TARY ci.lT., AMSTERDAM. HOLLAND; PAUL P HARRIS. CHICAGO. FOUNDER OF ROTARY; FRANK EASTMAN, PERTH. SCOTLAND. PRESIDENT, ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FoR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, AND RAYMOND M. HAVENS. KANSAS CITY. MO., RETIRING INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT.
try’. The "National Association" was formed in 1910. And today it’s Rotary International. It’s the organization with which all Rotary clubs throughout the world are affiliated. It's an organization of
Body of V. W. C. A. Girl Found in Culvert Hrv tV* The body of Helen Drachman. pretty V W. C. A girl of Votings town, Ohio, was found under a culvert four outside that city. Chris Corinel. chauffeur, confessed "killed her because I loved her. She was stabbed five times with a i to. forget it all. Whether he Inspired it or not the facts are sentiment In the Republican national committee has crystallized rapidly against Harding’s; international policy If he abandons the place he has ' chosen for himself then he enrages | the committee members who have; stood with him and who have sup ported < 'hali-man Adams He is forced; to go on and to rontlnue to Justify! the part he has played.
hearts. All the women should do likewise. This will be the greatest uplift that T ran think of and all things rise will he added. MARTHA .1 HANNAH. Home Missionary Worker. To the Editor of The Time* This concerns our good county and State officials: Did you ever notice that the majority of interurhan road crossings over the highways are made from two to six feet narrower than the road, both gravel and improved' l Just think: The most dangerous place on the road is made the most Inconvenient to pass another vehicle. Railroads, as a rule, do not do this. Why should the electric roads do so? J. M. M. SOUTH BEND POLICE ARE BADLY IN THE DARK Modern Diogenes May t se Electric Light Globes. R’l Times Special Si XIT 11 BEND I mi. June 13. Muffled cuss words escaped from lips u. police mi they aneiiijned to put visitors to city “jug" in their proper places today. Someone of the malfactors locked up over the week end, probably intending to assume the role of a mode! n i.-mg a light took all the globes from the city jaiL Police believe they may have .been I.ikcii ,ii \ engvaiK'v.
1,420 subsidiary chibs, with approximately 90,000 members in twenty-six countries. Delegates from all these nations are gathering in Bt. Louis for their annual world meeting, June 18-22. From
FORD BEATS HARDING IN STRAW VOTE Collier’s Poll of Nation Gives Doubtful States to Auto King, The fourth week of Collier s straw vote of the nation on potential presidential candidates shows Henry Ford far ahead with a lead of 11 297 votes over Harding out of a total of 128,278 votes cast The total ballot on the eight leadings candidates Is; Ford, 38,467; Harding, 27.27 c. McAdoo. in. 526: Cox. 9.148, Johnson. 8 807, Hughes 7,606; Smith 6.726. Hoover, 6,039 Politicians will he interested to know most of the ’doubtful' State* Ford has swept ahead of the President. Harding ha-s had to yield his own State Ohio. r>y a plurality of MS, and Massachusetts by a slightly larger lead He lost New Jersey. In Michigan, Ford leads Harding almost two to one. tn Maryland by nearly that, and tn Kentucky by a little more. Indiana tells the same story Ford a’so leads In Missouri and California Ford's lead is not sectional, either, as them is no State In which he is not among the leaders. Harding car ties New York with 3,411; Smith gets 2.'*63; Ford, 2,094 Even In rock ribbed Pennsylvania, Ford polled 2,193 votes against 2,708 for Harding The solid South is fo'- Ford, with the exception of Mississippi. New York Pennsylvania. Connecticut and Rhode Island are the only States car rled. to date, by Mr. Harding. The most disturbing feature of the poll, from a political standjtolnt. is the relative weakness of any other possible candidate against the Pres! dent. The combined vote of McAdoo, Cox and Smith, the three Democratic leaders. Is but little greater than that for Johnson. Hughes and Hoover, sec nnd string Republicans
HARDING MUST FIND WHO IS BOSS OF GOVERNMENT
Senator Wails President Forgets What He Knew as Solon, By FRANK J. TAYIXIR WASHINGTON, June* 13.—‘This man Harding forgets, now that he is President, what he knew very well when ho woo a Senator." exclaimed a Republican Senator recently. There you have the key to motif of the Republican party’s troubles today'. Os course, the party' will ha\'e to re nominate Harding for the presidency’, l*ecause failure to do so would be an admission of the weakness of the ministrationRut it seem* —to take the Senate side of the story for simplicity's sake only—tha.t Herding, who was regarded as a happy choice because he fully understood the Senate's viewpoint, Isn’t so happy' a choice after all. Understood Senate Policy When he was Senator, Harding understood exactly that the Senate was to bo the final authority on matters of government policy. He was to be the great conciliator.” Then Harding went to the White House, where he found Hughes and Hoover and the other men in his Gate met waiting for him. He had appoint-
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all parts of the globe they’re coming. The lawyer founder of Rotary is Paul P. Harris, president emeritius of Rotary International. Born in Ver ; inont, he went West after leaving Princeton University. He was ad
Matron Says Spare Rod and Save Child
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MRS C M THOMPSON By V F.A Berrice KNOXVILLE. Tenn., June 13. Do you want a better community to live in. a better generation to follow ours? Then lay aside the rod is the advice <>f Mrs i’. M. Thompson, veteran isiiice matron of this city. "Whippings,” she declares, "are the reasons ‘why girls leave home,' and beatings have sent many a boy Into evil ways." Mrs. Thompson has had thirty years of contact with young people who were arrested after their first misstep From a study of these she concludes whipping a child spoils him
ed them to their jobß, and, theoretically'. they' were to take orders from him. But in a short time. Instead of merely tailing order*, they were making suggestions and influencing him, until today Mr. Harding no longer takes his tips from his Senate friends. Most of them come from the Cabinet. Now the President faces the alternative of admitting that the Senate is boss of the Government by backing down on the world court or he can say' that he i* chief and can Insist that the United States enter the world court. i Plenty of Precedent looking about for precedent, he can find the example of former President Toft, who backed down before Congress and who went down to political defeat. Or he can follow the method of Theodore Roosevelt, who chose to “beat Congress into line,” and who got away with it. Still more recently, there was Woodrow Wilson, who stood pat when opposed by Congress and who met h>s Waterloo still standing and fighting In the Wilson regime it was a case of a Democratic President and a Republican Senate. Political strategy furnished the motive for the opposition to the Wilson policies. In Hardings case, that is not true. It is a fight purely within the party, one to decide which is boss of the Government. the White House or the Senate?
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TOM SIMS SAYS: OUR guess at the Dempsey-Gib- I bons outcome is as good as any. We bet Christmas comes next / V''' lpk Next thing you know New York l f Jjjjfl will be exporting booze. \ Here's the news from Canada. Borers ruining the corn crop. This bug may be kin to Senator Borah. China is having trouble with the Japanese, but not as much as she is having with the Chinese. • • • Good news from London. Lawyer business over there is poor. French airplane maker says he sees us all flying in a few years. We say he had better look again. • * • West Indies fireflies are so bright you can read by their light, but, of course, they can’t. • • • Good news from Holland. Political graft being stamped out. Keeps the Dutch from getting in Dutch. Whooping cough is breaking out among Jhe royalty of England, but we don’t give a whoop. S I I Great baseball news from Washington today. Figures show about a million acres of peanuts planted. ... | Milk statistics show we are drinking so much more milk the cows may have ot, work some at night. • • • Chicago cops raided pight bucket shops because the buckets leaked. • * • Lightning struck a Sea.tie church. May have been alter a man who dropped buttons in the collection. • • e Doctor says men make the best cooks. We say men marry the best cooks. • • • Southern Trade Congress opening in Washington July 9 may trade the South for some arctic regions.
CROWN HILL CEMETERY HISTORICAL SERIES In 1863 it was decided that old City Cemetery, located at South street and White river, was insufficient for the needs of a growing city. In September of that year an association was formed with James Ray as president, T. P. Haughey, secretary 1 , and Stoughton A. Fletcher Jr, treasurer, to make arrangements for the purchase of a new cemetery. In 1864 Crown Hill cemetery was dedicated. Hon. Albert S. While, formerly United States senator, delivering the oration. There are 250 acres in the tract and lots were bought rapidly by the leading citizens. The money obtained from the sale of lots Is used to beautify the cemetery, which accounts to a large degree for the reputation Crown Hill has of being one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the country. As in this instance, Fletcher’s Bank, the predecessor of the Fletcher American National Bank, has always been interested in and instrumental in the promotion of any movement for the betterment of Indianapolis and Indiana. It is one of the reasons why it is one of the strongest and most highly respected banking institi* tions in the country. Fletcher American National Bank 1839 puSM 1923 Oajtoal u< flonrfu*, ffi.OM.OM
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Denver, and rode the range In the cow country. Then he picked oranges tn southern Louisiana, sold and granite, crossed the Atlantic! twice on cattle ships and made a third trip to Europe later. Tn 1896 he hung out his shingle In Chicago. He had neither relatives nor friends there. But he considered Chicago the city of destiny—the city wherein many social and Industrial problems could be solved. Many Speakers Harris will be the leading light at the convention. Other conspicuous figures will include Raymond M. Havens. Kansas City, Mo., retiring president. Rotary International: Frank Eastman. Perth, Scotland, president Rotary Internationa! Association for Great Britain and Ireland; Chesley R. Perry, Chicago. secretary of Rotary International; Anton Yerkade, president, Ro tary Club, Amsterdam. Holland: Rober: Patterson. Dayton, Ohio, vice president. Rotary International, and former Premier Arthur Meighen of Canada. Broadening the* scope of its hoys' work will be one of the most important questions Rotary will face at this year's sessions. The Rotarians, since entering this field, have erected gymnasiums and clubhouses foi the youths of many cities, sponsored Boy Scout troops, looked after the newsies’ Interests and labored among the luckless lads hailed before the juvenile courts.