Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1923 — Page 4

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IF 21 HAD tVW'ENTY-ONE persous have been killed by auDIEDOF 8 tomobiles in Indianapolis this year. If that SMALLPOX 1 number had died of smallpox there would be great alarm in the city. We would all be very careful of the contacts we made. We would call for stricter quarantine regulations. If we did not we would be fools. But deaths by auto do not alarm the populace as a whole. Many autoists will continue to drive like blind or crazy men. Too many will approach railroad crossings without heeding the “Stop! Look! Listen!” warning. Too many pedestrians will continue to walk into streets behind stationary machines without thinking to look first up and down the street. Too many will try to beat machines across the street to save seconds. And so the news columns of the papers will continue to carry reports of deaths or injuries by automobiles. AH, OIL ¥ government geologists are pushHUNTLN U ing their way to the farthest points north in ALASKA! 1 A Alaska, where the Harding Administration has set aside 35.000 square miles of territory as a possible naval oil reserve. Nothing daunts the scientists, especially the political scientists. Sometime and somewhere way up north, a trace of oil may be discovered. It is barely possible some billions of tons of ice may have to be destroyed to reach that oil, once it is discovered, but that problem makes life interesting to the political scientists in the Harding Administration. Perhaps, after the oil is discovered. some method may be found to congeal it and then transport it to the warships. Who knows? Meanwhile. Teapot Dome gushes oil and profits for Sinclair and Standard Oil. Teapot Dome was our naval oil reserve until Sinclair visited the recent Secretary of Interior Fall. Then the benevolent Albert saw to it that Sinclair and Standard Oil got the oil and the profits. But give us something difficult. It was too easy to get that oil from Teapot Dome. The political scientists~in the Harding Administration are just like other scientists. They wanted something difficult. So they seek oil in Alaska, far up in Alaska. And beyond Alaska is the north pole. WALKER fTIHE Stuart Walker Companv is observing its PLAYERS one hundredth week in Indianapolis. This is AS ASSET JL. a record of which the Walker Company and Indianapolis should be proud Few stock companies ever have achieved such lasting popularity. While the Walker Company is a business enterprise much as other theatrical companies, it is something more to Indianapolis. It has become a civic institution, a part of the city. The Walker Company has helped put Indianapolis on the map theatrically and artistically. If is now one of two excellent local stock companies; and one of many local theatrical enterprises. but to date it has a record for prolonged success in its line that has not been approached in Indianapolis. Mr. Walker and his players deserve congratulations. FARMERS outlook in Indiana is good. Government GLOOMY I experts report. Big acreages of wheat and OUTLOOK corn are in prospect. In previous years this situation might have made the farmers happy, hut not so now. Labor to harvest is almost impossible to obtain. When it is obtained high wages must be paid. When the crops are harvested low prices are all that can he expected, according: to present expectations, much as this fact may surprise the ultimate consumer. W hen it is all over the average fanner may have made enough to pay his taxes.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y Avenue. Washington. D C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legai, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers.' speech?- etc . be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but ali letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. Who are the world’s ten richest men? According to the estimates of reliable bankers and statisticians they are: Henry Ford, $550,000,000: John D Rockefeller. $500,000,000; the Duke of Westminster. $150,000,000 to $200,000,000; the Gaekwar of Baroda, $125,000.000; Sir Basil Zaharoff, $100,000,000 to $125,000,000; Hugo Stinnes. SIOO,000,000; Percy Rockefeller. $100,000.000; Baron H. Mitsui. $100,000,000; Baron K. Twasaki, $100,000,000: J. B. Duke. $100,000,000; George F. Baker, $100,000,000: T. B Walker, perhaps less than $100,000,000, perhaps as high as $300,000,000. Will you give me a list of books of fiction about Egypt?* The following are books on Egypt: “Uarda ’ and “An Egyptian Princess," by George Ebers: "Moon of Israel” and “Wisdom’3 Daughter. ’ by H. Rider Haggard; “Hanit. the Enchantress.” by Garrett Chatfleld. How many horses are there in the United States? About 20.200.000 compared with 13,637,000 in 1900. When will the next total eclipse of the sun occur? Sept. 10, visible in the United States as a partial eclipse: visible generally in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. North America, the northern part of South America, the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean, and the extreme northeastern part of Asia. The path of total eclipse passes through the Carribean Sea. Mexico, the northern part of Lower California a*d the northeastern part of the Pacific Ocean. What and where were King Solomon’s Mines? What were known-as “King Solomon's Mines” were the mines of Ophir, the region to which the ships and Solomon went for gold eeious stones (Kings IX, 26-2S;

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X. 11-12: 2 Ohron. VIII, 18; IX. 10)* The region was chiefly remarkable for gold. The location of Ophir is a much vexed question. The opinion is that it was located in Arabia. Riider Hag gard wrote a book called “King Solomon's Mines'* locating them in Africa. hat is teak? Where is it found and for what is it used? Teak wood’ is of two kinds. Indian teak and African teak or African oak. Both are valuable for shipbuilding and furniture. What happens when a national bank fails? The depositors are paid off insofar as the assets of the bank will permit. The affairs of the banks are placed in tne hands of a receiver, and he may, or may not. assess the stockholders of the banks a certain amount, based on the amount of their holdings in the bank. however, does not always meet the losses or liabilities of the bank. There is no absolute protection ofTered depositors in case the bank fails. Has Nellie Bly’s famous trip around the world in 72 days fl hours and II minute* been equaled by any one without the use of airplanes? Yes. John Henry Mears. in 19X3, made the trip around the world in 35 days, 21 hours and 36 minutes. How much ooftee is consumed in the United States? How much <ea? In 1921, 1.352.312,725 pounds of coffee were imported and 2,196,053 pounds of tea. What is the annual fire loss in the United States? About $250,000,000; very' much higher than the fire losses in European countries. Os the timber that is yearly cut In our forests, how much of it reaches the ultimate consumer?” Only 30 per cent of the wood in a forest now gets into the form of seasoned, unplaned lumber. Os this, an additional 10 to 25 per cent is lost in the process of manufacture. In extreme cases as little as 3 per cent of the wood in the forest may reach the finished product.

Street Railways Declared ‘Big Business’ but in Poor Health

WHAT'S the matter with street car service in Indianapolis? The loud answering echo, ‘lt's all right’ is noticeable by its Indianapolis Street Railway system is, however, about on a par with that in other cities- of the same class and the consensus of opinion of the general public is street car service the Nation over is "nothing to be proud of.” The stockholders' report of the Indianapolis street railway, made public last week, showed an income deficit of $26,900.09. C. A. Randau of the Times Washington Bureau has gathered the following data showing conditions of

U. S. SENDS OPINION ON REPARATION Will Remain Aloof, but Attempt to Speed Up Settlement, By LAWRENCE MARTIN WASHINGTON. June 19.—The The United States will soon be officially engaged in another effort to speed up the settlement of the reparations problems and Europe's economic troubles. George Harvey, ambassador to Great Britain, is scheduled to take back to London with him next month a comprehensive statement of the views of this Government. Harvey will be able to give their statesmen valuable assistance in their efforts to keep the reparations problem moving to a settlement. it was learned today, though he will be acting in a personal and unofficial capacity when he does so. : Both President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes are determined that the United States shall not get mixed up In the reparations squabble. European statesmen understand by this time that American domestic politics will not permit this or any other Administration boldly to throw the influence of this Government into the scales over there. But the psychological effect of what Harvey will tell Premier Baldwin and other British officials, once it is known in other European capitals, would’ be tremendous. officiaJs believe. While Harvey's message cannot be disclosed, it win in effect put this country definitely on one side of the reparations question and will include the reasons why official opinion here leads rha r way. Nothing that Harvey will say will commit this Government officially to any policy, nor will it involve Arnercan participation in any reparations settlement.

Grist O’Gotham Written by a Man Who Views New York from the Outside.

NEW YORK. June 19.—Traffic is supposed to be better regulated in New York than anywhere else in the world. Any New Yorker will tell you so. pointing with pride particularly to the nice bronze tow ers. costing $20.('>09 apiece, that dot Fifth Ave. and cause traffic to halt at precisely the same moment all the way from Washington Square to Central Park. Everywhere in New York the traf sic policeman is the law for everything on wheels—with one exception. It isn’t a taxi, or a wagon, or a cairiage, or a pushcart, or a wheelbarrow. If hasn't been classified. It hasn't even a name. It is pushed at times, and as often it is pulled There are three little iron wheels, two firm ones and one which acts a? a rudder. The body, which is only a few- Inches off the ground. Is a box and there is a superstructure of rods which support a rack on which dresses and coats and suits are suspended on hangers. Young men and old men. chauffeurs of these conveyors, push and pull them with a thundering rumble through the streets. There are hunM !J|#| FT dreds of them to be seen anywhere between Fourteenth and Fortieth Sts. and Fourth and Seventh Aves., dodg ing in and out among taxis, colliding with pedestrians and ignoring the traffic rules generally. It is one leg of the journey milady's clothes must take between manufacturer and bargain counter. • * * Coney Island is incredibly modest. Cops are arresting people who appear in bathing suits on Coney Island's new board walk. Most of the offenders are from out of town, who don't know that Mayor Hylan doesn’t like to have persons in bathing suits show themselves off on the board walk. The penalty Is $25 fine or five days in prison More than one hundred were arrested one Sunday.

Sir Walter Scott Said: J “There were workers pulling down some of the old buildings and replacing them with others, altering, repairing, scrubbing, painting and WHITEWASHING.”—Heart of Mid-Lothian. If you want to know how to whitewash the old bam and outhouses, the cellar and the garage or how to use cold water paint on the inside walls of your home in the most approved fashion, fill up the coupon below: Washington Bureau Indianapolis Times, 1322 New' York Ave., Washington, D. C.: I want a copy of the bulletin WHITEWASH AND COLD WATER PAINT, and inclose 2 cents in stamps for same. NAME X i STREET AND NUMBER ........... CITY . STATE

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urban railways throughout the Nation: By C. A. RANDAU BEFORE attempting 10 discuss the local transportation problems of American communities, it may be well first to outline briefly the extent and importance of urban railways. Four out of every five people in the United States are accessible to electric car lines. Fifteen times as many passengers are carried on trolleys as on trains. Over 15.01)0,000.000 persons each year is the figure. Capital is $6,500,000,000 The capitalization of street car systems—in excess of $6,500,000,000 is three times the total value of all

Skipper of Pittsburgh's Toonerville Trolley Minds Babies, Does Marketing and Pulls Mean Pair of Lines

a SHOWING THE TWO-MULE POWER LINE AND ITS “SKIPPER.'' t~>!TTSBURGH, June 19.—They | The car traverses a South Side cal! him ‘'motorman.” | street ten hours a (lav. Campbell * But “Skipper” F. B. Camp has been its driver and conductor Nfc'V ' W®' bell, general factotum on Pitts for years. W§* $ burgh s ‘ Toonerville Trolley.” never H e knows everybody along the ■ Jk >.W handles a controller. Un e And everybody knows him. es ,hou h 0 PUJI 4 mMn Pair ° f Une6, peclally the worfien folks and kidA And be never has to worry about ; diP? ' . A. the trolley coming off. There isn't j he a called upon to do his any on his car. passengers marketing. And some p or nis power is furnished by times he minds the babies' too: ™ \ mul“s. It's the last of its line in He wouldn't trade his run for the

GRAVEYARD IS FITTING SETTING FOR DOPE PARTY

| Writer Sees Picture of Horrors Among Vaults That House Dead, j Thu 1* one of a eerie* of article* da!\nir | with the dope traffic, written by Fmi \ William* a Sail Francis- •> no, -paper writer who, for several month*, minpled with some of the West 9 most notorious drug users By FRED V WILLIAMS. \ / -1 Srrvicf Writer IN’ my investigations of dope I was thrown, for the most part, among the "old timers,” the real "fiends." There were no tragic YVallie Reids in this company. When one of these died no news * paper cleared a /inSlflr J* space on any /** J , page. They wore I 1 flrange, under V I world names: ‘ ■ E 1 uyf Walla Wall a rV 111 Sam. A,e of i Ra i|f . j | the Moor Pete | : fffFf the Rat—all p!< By 'vsg turesque moni ■Si ■;? ’I kers of the gut fg C; Jj ter ' ’*'**"Mk Weird and tor- .> rible were their lives, and weird •Wa. and terrible were — as though \ ' mnk drawn by some modern day Poe WII-LIAMS and given life. It was because of rny acquaintance with this drug-crazed crftw that I was able to sec a picture of horror.s such as few* may view: a "hop party" in a graveyard. Addicts Gather Beside the hollow vaults that housed the dead gathered the ragged brotherhood of dope FMr below the city roared late into the night. Above in the vaults of the dead, were whispers, chuckles, stealthy lighting of dim lamps. I visited this haunt of ragged addicts j on a. night the police had driven droves of them off the streets. The crevices of vaults showed streaks of light. On my approach these lights went out. A ghostly silence reigned over the place. I stepped to the largest tomb, stood In the door and struck a match. Tomb for “Party" I counted three death like faces, but it seemed as if the tomb w’ere peopled with many men Their bodies were dwarfed by the close hedged gloom. Silent, they squatted like ogres w’hile my light played mad tricks on them, then went out. Dope makes cow’a.rds of the men who use It. I knew the addicts in that tomb were more afraid of me than I was of them. I sat on a'shelf that had borne a coffin down through the years. A

American ships on the high seas and on inland waters plus the cost of all river and canal improvements. It is one-third as great as the capitalization of the steam railroads, and equals half the value of all the automobiles in the United States. Distinctly a “big business.” Big. but in poor health. Some doctors say the ailment is gout—a penalty for past excesses. Others say It is a case of malnutrition and prescribe higher fares and lower taxes. Some tw’o hundred car systems are now’ in the hands of receivers. Fares have been increased from 5 cents to from 6 to 10 cents in over 95 per cent of the cities and tow’ns of the country.

SHOWING THE TWO MULE POWER LINE AND ITS ‘'SKIPPER," F. B. CAMPBELL (AT LEFT).

PITTSBURGH. June 19.—They call him “motorman.” But “Skipper” F. B. Camp bell, general factotum on Pittsburgh s “Toonerville Trolley." never handles a controller. He does pujl a mean pair of lines, though And be never has to worry about the trolley coming off There isn't any on his car. For his power is furnished by mules. It's the last of its line in Pennsylvania.

thin, waste-1 arrn. pricked in a hun died places, was thrust under the light of the candle. It was covered with eruptions that come from too frequent use of the needle or too great trust, in a cheating peddler who has doctored and diluted his dope. A safety pin slashed its way in and out of the worn and wasted flesh. A face came into the light. The lips closed about the open wound and cleared the blood away. The-- came "the gun" with it? charge of cocaine and slowly trembling fingers pushed "the shot” home. "God. that's good!" exclaimed a boy.

Indiana Sunshine

Dr. A. YV. Tobian, Elwood, recalls that twenty-eight years ago he rode into the city on a Kentucky thorough bred, and decided .to make Elwood his home. Today he rides in a thoroughbred flivver. The Huntington “Y” fund drive has netted $11,004. Sniff! Yum! Kraut Is coming into its own at Milford. Practically every home garden has its quota of cabbage. All students of Franklin College and many Franklin residents took part in a community song fest. Charles Medley and Mrs. Etta Medley. Elwood. were married after three years' separation. Both are blind. Bloomington has started a drive for funds to erect a hospital for tubercular? in Monroe County. Splash! Six boys will pass a week at the Kokomo hoys' camp on Lake Maxinkuekee at the expense of Kiwanians.

The Fighter Speaks By BERTON BRALEY There's one thing gets my nanny in this game. And that’s the birds who always yell for blood. The guys who think a mill is something tame Unless each swing is landed with a thud. “Cut out the tango steps,” these bimboes bawl,. When you are boxln’ pretty, on the watch For openings. They think a sight's a stall Unless each fighter is a scarlet splotch. Who are these blokes that want the gore to flow? Just look 'em over. They're the kind of fish Who never give or took a decent blow; Say listen, if I only had my wish, I'd like to take a few of them some night And match ’em up—then let 'em breathe the smoke, With all the crowd a yellin’ “Make 'em fight-’' Why, say—two rounds and all them babes would croak! I’ve gave and took my share of punishment, I know a sight’s a fight and not a dance, But what’s the use of all the time I’ve spent Learnin’ to stall, and feint, and watch my chance. If boxin’ science only gets a jeer? Yes, that’s the thing that gets a fighter sore. When all the noise he eter seems to hear Is flabby, doughfaced bozos wantin’ gore! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

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All the lines do not respond to tne same treatment. Where some make a profit on a 5-cent fare, others manage to use up 10-cent fares without showing a profit—at least on the books. A review’ of the traction situation the country over indicates these general conditions: 1. Getting all the law allows is good business from the trolley magnates’ standpoint. Practically as many people will ride when the fare is 6 cents as when it is five. Boosting the price does not cut down the patronage sufficiently to offset the gain in monetary receipts. 2. Present financial difficulties are

The car traverses a South Side street ten hours a day. Campbell has been its driver and conductor for years. He knows everybody along the line And evervbody knows him. es pecially the women folks and kiddies. Often he s called upon to do his passengers' marketing And sometimes he minds the babies’ tool He wouldn't trade his run for the best in town, he says.

What Editors Are Saying

£ 4 w rHEN the. people got start’d they did a thorough job of it, ™ * and they did it with their own hands." says the Lafayette Jour- | nal and Courier, ip an editorial com | menting on the ’ community pride 1 show-n by folk of Greeritown, Howard : County The Greentown public park was in need of a "spring going-over." ' Citizens turned out and cleaned the place. The Journal and Courier comments: "The enjoyment the community gets out of the beautified and com plete-1 park will not be any the le?s by reason of the spirit and cooperative purpose that inspired the com munity o!ean-up." £4e"|“aHAT taxation will be a paraI mount issue in 1924 in the State of Indiana, is established beyond a reasonable doubt." says the Frankfort Crescent News. Taxpayers are demanding relief from the present system that keeps swelling expenditures and levying heavier toll each year Relief must come from a constructive program It will not be wise or helpful to enter upon a destructive 1 program " • • • IN an editorial on "The Crim° of Being Old." the Ft. Wayne News- ! Sentinel says that for sixteen months an 80-year-old man has been j "languishing in the county Jail" unable to furnish an SBOO peace bond. The News-Sentinel adds: "Sixteen months is a long time for an old man on the brink of the grave, against whom there is ( no more serious charge than his inability to furj nish a bond, to he confined in a stuffy, j dirty, ill-smelling old jail. It would bp bad enough, of all conscience, for a man many years younger. "But really, we cannot conceive of a man 80 years old being very vicious, certainly not so dangerous but what he could have been taken care of without keeping him behind prison bars for sixteen months."

to no small extent due to watered stock. So profitable were the car lines in the “good old days" that capitalizations were based on earning power and not on actual investments. Sane management in the days before the war would have prevented many of the war-time and post-war ailments. Matter of Men 3. Municipal ownership is not a matter of cars and tracks, nor yet of elaborate tables of statistics. It is s:mply a matter of men. In actual practice municipal ownership has succeeded in some cases and failed in others. 4. Bus line and jitney competition is serious, but not fatal. Street car

STEEL INDUSTRY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLE IN LAW TO USE MEXICANS

Negroes, Too, Imported From South for Long 12Hour Day, By HARRY B. HUNT. NEA Service Writer. GARY, IND., June 19. —Back of the plate mill and the tin mill of the mile-long reach of the Illinois Steel Company's plant here, between the smoking furnaces and the sloshing waves of Lake Michigan, is Judge Elbert H. Gary’s answer to the law restricting foreign immigration. Here, housed in box-cars and bunk shacks, exist hundreds of "workers” brought to Gary to meet the steel industry “labor shortage.” The Gary Chamber of Commerce estimates the number of Mexicans brought^here within the past four months at about 3.000. That is approximately the population of each of the largest two European groups— Austrians and Poles. Negroes, Too In addition to the Mexicans, the ! steel corporation has been importing ! southern negroes by the hundreds, un- | til now the colored population is more i than double any signle foreign group i here. , Unlike the foreign groups, however, which normally herd by themselves, ; forming districts which are essentialj ly Austrian or Polish or Czech, the j negroes have refused segregation and i have blanketed themselves indiscrimi nately over the whole town. This situation. and the growing strength of j the colored population, is causing no ' small concern to the authorities. There is in Gary today the makings of a t race disorder that might overshadow anything this country ever has known Already some dangerous sparks have been struck. However, the importation of negroes and Mexicans to Gary just i now is chiefly important in connecI tion with the coming fight, to be made when Congress reconvenes, for a lifting of the present restrictions on immigration. And the twelve-hour day against which the administration and the public generally are on record, is to be used as a lever in the attempt to force a loosening of the immigration barrier. Maybe. Maybe—- " There are not now." says Judge Gary, "under the two-shift ptactice I at the furnaces, enough men to meet the demand for iron and steel." Hints are given out that perhaps an S-hour day might be considered if it were possible to hire enough men, at low enough wages, to make the three-shift day practicable. And it is hinted that this might be found practicable if restraints were taken off immigration. But these are only hints. There are no promises On the subject of immigration, how ever. Gary - , the steel town, disagrees with Gary, the steel man. no less than on the 12-hour day. Gary, the town, would like to digest

JUNKETEER WIRELESSES JOY CRUISE At gosh-awful expense this paper has arranceii with Congressman Whazzisname. wellknown member of the jnuket bloc in Con gress for daily wireless dispatches from the Leviathan Representative Whazzisname is j going along with A1 Lasker to find out if A1 gets 100 cents worth of joy out of every taxpayer's dollar. VVatch for the daily ; Whazzisname dispatches By CONGRESSMAN WHAZZISNAME (Leader of the Junket Bio.') j AT SEA, ON S. S. LEVIATHAN, j June 19.—Via Wireless) —“We’re off!" j exclaimed ey-Ohairman Lasker, captain of the jolly junketeers, as the; great Leviathan sailed away from Boston harbor today. “Aw. . tell us something new,” shouted a vulgar person standing on the dock: “the taxpayers have long suspected as much.” Historic Boston, linked often with tales of Lexington, Concord and j Bunker Hill, faded from out* view. Amid our cool farewell, we thought of the Boston Tea Party. “Greatest event since the Boston Tea Party.” someone said, “but it seems awfully chilly.” “Ah,” put in Lasker, "but you must remember that folks are using iced tea this day in time.” Whereupon the Junketeers gave j three cheers for Al, acclaiming him as ! the man who swiped the “con" out of i Concord and put the "bunk’’ in j Bunker Hill. More tomorrow.

& Go* HER DIAMOND Should Be Worthy the Recipient * The jngagement solitaire represents a great and beautiful pledge and should be as nearly worthy the girl to whom it is given as a jeweled thing may be. Mullally’s gems have that authentic quality and his mountings have that touch of artistic beauty which achieves a close approach to that ideal. Diamonds in Smart Basket Mountings, $35.00 —Ayres—Mullally’s diamonds, street floor.

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lines are jjere to stay. The best opinion on the subject is to the effect that trackless trolleys can at best only supplement car lines. 5. Throwing both dignity and dls-j dain to the winds, hard-headed traction executives have decided now is a good time to work up new patronage. This is being done by offering weekly tickets good' for an unlimited number' of rides within one week; by painting cars attractively and keeping them clean, and by teaching car crews to add the word “please” to commands to “Step forward!” These phases of present street car tendencies will be discussed in somewhat greater detail in subsequent articles.

its present mixture of races, to assimilate it, before, attempting to swallow many more thousands of widely different types and races. Unmistakable signs of indigestion have been caused by the latest dose of Mexican chili superimposed on an already weird Hungarian goulash. Anew batch of raw spaghetti borsch or wienerschnitzel almost surely would bring ag up- ' heaval. Conditions Typical Conditions in Gary are typical of I these throughout the whole Calumet ; industrial district, comprising Gary. I Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting and Indiana Harbor. | All plants are working at greater capacity than ever before. More steel is going out than in the busiest days of the war boom. The one great unsatisfied demand is for more men—- ' meg? men. unskilled labor, willing to sweat twelve hours a day at from 30 to 40 cents an hour. "‘Americans won't do it,” the employment bosses say. “What we need is ‘Hunkies,' and lots of ’em!" “Well, the Mex doesn't come under | the quota law and he's willing to i work long and cheap, so we’O keep on importing him.” TOM SIMS SAYS: • FRANCE and, England couldn't argue much more if one had a garden | and the other kept chickens. • • Keep away from Chicago. Chi- ! cago has brass band contests. ' T ANARUS, , If all the .Tune brides put their nrst biscuits together we sure could build some fine roads. . Nothing tickles a real dog more than biting a pup. • • * China wants to buy some old f airplanes. Let's get even with China by lettmg her have them. ♦ * * It is almost cheaper to move than to cut the weeds. We suggest the winner of the Dempsey-Gibbons bout challenge the winners of the new Balkan war. • • • Boys are not getting sick near as often as they did before school turned out. Electricity producing costs are lower, but it is still shocking. Mr. A. Penny of Moline, 111., was attacked by a wild wolf and choked it. A Penny saved. * • • Baseball umpires talking of organizing should come out for less pop bottles and more cops. * • * What’s in a name? Jap count Goto tackles the Russian problem. Goto even sounds Eke cussing. * • * California woman asks divorce so she can live in Michigan. Now California can laugh that off. • • • A man tells us there is so much booze in New York now they have quit looking up to drunk people. • • • Pottstown (Pa.) man’s leg broke as he had a tooth pulled. Dentist claims he didn’t pull hi* leg. •* + y Every now and then somebody sees the dawn of anew era, but it seems to cloud up before noon.