Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1923 — Page 4

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‘ON BANKS /-sjOME iiave said there is no sentiment in the OF THE make-up of Americans, that we are commerVVABASH* cial and matter of fact. This indictment may be true in many instances, hut every once in a while a touch of sentiment breaks out. making one wonder if the idea that most of us are pursuing wealth or fame to the exclusion of the gentler things of life is altogether correct. There once lived a man in Indiana who achieved fame, but he did it accidentally, through an expression of sentiment. We remember that man for just one thing—he wrote a song, and that song stirs the hearts of every Hoosier wherever he hears it. The man was,Paul Dresser and the song that typically Hoosier, yet beautifully poetic lyric, “On the Banks of the Wabash.” A brother of Dresser still lives. He calls himself Theodore Dreiser and he has achieved fame through his writings. Around the world he is acclaimed as a great writer, a greasr teller of stories. His books will always grace the shelves of libraries, but long after he and the things he did are forgotten Hoosiers and Americans generally will sing the words written by his modest but immortal brother. “Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming, on the banks of the Wabash far away.” Indiana is undertaking the erection of a memorial to Paul Dresser on a beautiful spot on the banks of the river he loved. This memorial reveals a bit of sentiment that should touch every Hoosier. The movement should have general support. •"tov. Warren T. McCray, writes: “Send one dollar, or whatever your heart, dictates, to the United States Trust Cos., Terre Haute. Ind PAGE TT'THEN the President first mentioned the subHANK 1/1/ ject a month ago he agreed \gith Secretary LODGE! Y Y of State Hughes that in joining the world court the only essential reservation would be: “That, the T nited States be permitted to participate—upon an equality with the other states, members respectively of the .council and assembly of the League of Nations do—in any and all proceedings” having to' do with the court. President Harding’s St. Louis announcement of brand-new conditions, therefore, was something of a bombshell. Among other things he stipulated that the court should be divorced from the league. The President’s new stand is all the harder to understand) by reason of his unstinted praise of the world court as it is today. l “It is a true judicial tribunal.” he said in his speech. “Its composition is of the highest order. None better, none freer from selfish partisan national or racial prejudices or in-: uences could he obtained.” Then why the divorce? A fellow says to a girl: “You arc the most beautiiul thing 1 ever laid eyes on. \ou arc the chastest, j the most accomplished, the best bred and most loyal damsel' that man ever beheld. Disown those who made you what you arei and I’ll marry you.” That’s what the President’s new proposition sounds like to! a man up a tree. Asa matter of fact, it would not make the slightest difference! in actual practice whether the court and the league nre divorced or not. The league is the world and the wrld is the league— I outside of the United States and two or three nations—like Rus- j sia and Mexico—which, for the present, are in had. So the same j influences must, of necessity, surround the world court whether! in or out of the league. We suspect somebody from up around Nahant, Mass: somebody with a long memory and a capacity for hate, has somethin!* i to do with this announcement. Boy, page Senator Lodge!

Dog days are here, all right, but that’s no reason why the sanitary department should permit the body of a dead dog to tie at Eappes and Morris Sts. for two days. • • • Manual training and instruction in industrial arts are as important as teaching of the three R’s, according to speakers at the Indiana Educators’ Conference at Muncie. Another jolt at the white collar army idea. • • • Some women think that all we are supposed to do is flirt vrith them. So they smile, disregard the signal and go ahead.” An Indianapolis traffic officer, who is giving lectures on safety, made this comment to speeders in Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth’s court. Draw your own conclusion, kind reader. • * * Ross Beaver, winner of The Indianapolis Times city marble contest, is on the way to Atlantic City to participate in the national marble shooting tournament with champions from other cities. Sure, Ross has been practicing like a beaver for this important event.

Questions ASK THE TIMES Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianipoiis Times' Washington Hureau. 13*22 N. Y. Avenue. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be given. sor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. How many kinds of bees are Shere in America? There are about 10.000 different species. What are the specifications of the regulation league baseball? The ball must weigh not less than five and not more than five and oneouarter ounces avoirdupois and measure not less than nine and not more than nine and one-quarter inches in circumference. What is the origin of the trousseau? We find the first trace of a trousseau in the book of Genesis (Genesis xxiv.SS) in the story of Rebecca's gifts before her marriage. The Eskimos have a custom by which the bridegroom must supply his bride with all clothes necessary for the honeymoon What is the meaning of P. P. C. on cards? The letters P. P. C., “pour prendre

conge." is a French expression which means to take leave.” The ordinary , visiting card with these words writ ten across means that the caller is paying a farewell call. Is it true that Easter Island has disappeared? • Reports from a half dozen sources said that the island had disappeared after disturbances in the Pacific last November, but word recently brought back by a fishing boat from this remote spot sets at rest the question on this point. The island still exists. What kind of memorial has been erected to Roosevelt on Lake Mattawamkcag, Maine? Jutting into that lake is Bible Point. On a tree at the top of the point is nailed a wooden box and inside the box is a Bible. Inscribed on a signboard above the box are these words: "This place, to which a groat man in his youth liked to come to commune With God and with the winder and beauty of the visible world, is dedicated to the happy memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Stranger, rest here and consider what one man having faith in the right and love for his was able to do for his countr,

Times Writer Declares Europe Is Farther From Peace 'Today Than When Armistice Was Shined

Use Sword to Reduce Weight By YEA Seri ice NEW YORK, Jun© 23. More advice on weight reduction: Do it with a sword. It’s bloodless, painless and very effective. So says Mrs. Bernadette Hodges, physical culture authority. who has eaten to grow thin, starved to grow thin, exercised by violent methods and exercised by gentle methods, hut never found the right combination until she took up fencing. And now she is as lithe as her young daughter Maxine. "To the woman at home or in business." says Mrs. Hodges, "the art of fencing opens the perfect way for physical development. One needn’t rush out of the city to the wide open spaces for her exercise. She may get it right in her own home with her shadow. “In just the same way that the fighter keeps fit with shadowboxing. so may the fencer keep In trim with shadow-fencing- " There are no age limitations for the fencer. One may tie young, middle aged or old It makes little difference. One of my beet pupils is a woman more than sixty years old! Through her fencing she has developed the agility of a woman of 40. “And for the stout women—fencing Is the. perfect steady systematic fat reducer. Fat sim ply melts away with the clash ing of swords."

U. S. HAS ALL HELIUM GAS By Time* Special WASHINGTON. June 23—Uncle Sam has practically all of the known I helium in the world in his control and is going to put it in gigantic airships as soon as he can build them. Already a hug“ ship' is uudei con -truction at I?akeburst. N J . while over in Germany a sister ship is. he ing built. The ship from Germany must he delivered C. O D. this time, the Government having lost two ships before they ware delivered This big ship will he sailed across the Atlantic. Indiana Sunshine Soil teasers they call ’em around Owenssille. Madge Belyoat. Imel Richeson, Elizabeth Zefiner and Mary Bates. Hoosier flappers, are cultivating freckles and farm crops. Oldtimers are watching these farmerettes with interest Exit the bumps on roads near Terre Haute. Vigo county is planning road improvements which will cost about $470,579. "You can lead a mule to water, but you can’t ge* him tanked," said P. O. Wilson, Evansville, county agricultural agent A young man came to h’’m asking for work. Wilson took him in a machine to a field where a farmer was in need of help. The young man watched the sweating workers a while, and decided he was too tired to work. Quilting Is the hobby of Mrs. Tirzah Ashcraft. Princeton, who just celebrated her ninetieth birthday. The “silent city" at Decatur won’t be silent much longer. Don O. Teeple, sexton, thinks. The other day William Lyle Teeple was born in the little cottage In the cemetery, and Don thinks when the lusty pair of lungs are tried out the character of the place will change.

What Editors Are Saying

Speeders 'Marion Leader Tribune) The war of the police and sheriff i on spec-deers is commendable and most tmely. Our attention has been called a number of times to the reckless manner in which many drivers were using their cars .Home of them have had absolutely no regard for human life, and have driven at a terrific rate of speed through the principal streets of the city. The authorities are doing the right thing. e hope they succeed in getting the correct names of all persons held for violating the speed laws, for publicity may he a more effective remedy than the fi nP itself. Fish (Rlufffon Evening Banner) Fish and game wardens make" the statement that during May they made 147 arrests, and out of that number they secured 128 convictions, with fines and costs amounting to $2,565.15. This is a great record and one to be commended, but how is it so much easier to convict a man for catching a fish outside the law' than It Is to convict a man for liquor violations. Is it -so much metre illegal to catch a fish than to moonshine moonshine, or is the fish and game department more efficient? •I- -I- -IBoys (ROshville Republican) Pull the home town out of the rut and the boys won’t want to rush out of the town. Loosen up on the purse strings and Introduce some spice and variety into our community life. Maka the country town and the farm so attractive to our young people the city will no longer appeal to them. Don't expect our hoys and girls with red blood In their veins to bo content with spending thalr lives in a cemetery.

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Wounds Laid Open by War Are Not Healing as Expected, NEED GREAT MORAL FORCE Legacy of Hate Is Great Obstacle to Amicable Relations, j By WM. PHILIP SIMMS -YE.4 Service Staff Writer WOUNDS laid open by the World War are not healj ing. They have only turned ! into sores, with nerves exposed i and in danger of becoming ; chronic. Europe and the world is farther j from peace today than they were a ! year ago and much farther from ■ peace than they were the day the i armistice was signed in November, ; i9i s. All the elements for bringing on a ; crash of terrifying proportions are i present in Europe. I have just landed back In Amer- ! ica after .visiting twelve different' European countries, where I talked j j with presidents and chancellors, prime , i ministers and dictators, peneraliss:-1 | nms, business men and just plain ; folks, and what I heard—not always for publication—from all these is! enough to make your flesh creep. ! There is scarcely a country in : j Europe where the people are not in j la ferment of unrest.

Before the war. Europe had a "Ba! 1 kans"—a troublesome little war-breed- | Ing section down in its southeastern | corner Now all Europe is a Balkans The , principal reason why hostilities do not ! ■■ommence at once is that most of the powers are afraid to make the first ; move, because of their size, or internal conditions, and the rest do not think ! the moment propitious All Want Peace The onp great yearn of Europe is for peace The people want to go hack to work with a feeling of se- | ourity—without the canker of fear of : war and invasions gnawing at their vitals by day and by night and keep, j ing them from earning their daily | bread. i The ore great, obstacle to peace is j the legacy of hate left to every man, woman and child in Ettrope hy the world war This and the natural sue I picion each rmtKnn has for any peace ! project put forward by tiny other Eu ; ropean nation The one great need of Europe Is for some great moral force to m/tk-' j its presence fe]t among the hate-ant! i suspicion-filled countries and point on: ! a road to settlement As things now. there is not a disinterested power ! among them. Each nation is out for j itself and itself alone, and all tne res: ; know it. * I/Ottk to U. S. The League of Nations has done I muc’li good in Europe despite unheard |of handicaps. But it is powerless in this instance tor the simple reason that that there is not one outstanding member of the league which is not. at the same time, up to its eye brows in the quarrel itself No impartial observer can Journey through Europe as I did. and talk with political leaders over there, nil the time retaining a perfectly open mind. ’ ‘without realizing the latent influence' the United States has for peace in Eu rope and the world? —in the league o>out of it. Most men with whom I talked still believe the United States could bring the nations together if it would take the initiative. But most, to lie perfectly honest, have about lost faith in this ever happening

NEW SAYS POSTOFFICE FUNDS ARE EXHAUSTED Patrons Will Experience Delay In Mail Sent to Europe. Bu F nltrri Prc*x WASHINGTON, June 23.—Parcel rost and some first class mall to Europe from the United States will be subject to delays until July 1, because of exhaustion of postoffice funds. Postmaster General New said today. The appropriation to the postoffice department of $6,500,000 for this purpose is now exhausted. New said. Kate Increase Considered Bu 7 linrii Special SHELBYVILLE. Ltd.. June 23.—1 An effort to increase rates is ex - ; pected to precipitate a fight at the' meeting of the Shelby County Thrash - ermen’s Association Thursday. President Hungorford said an increase | would be necessary if the thrashennep are to realize any profit on thoif in vestment and labor. Carpenter Shoots Self Bu Time* special GOSHEN, Ind., June 23.—Coroner Holde.man returned a verdict of suicide due to 111 health, after investigation of the death of Roy Hay, 38, carpenter, who shot himself.

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Labor Opens Second Bank By VBA Service ST. LOUIS, June 23.—Organized labor has opened its second ntltional bank west of the Mississippi River. It is owned by the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. Deposits totaling more than $1,500,000 were made on the opening day. recently. The new institution has a capital stock of $500,000 in addition to a surplus of SIOO,OOO. The Telegraphers’ Nationa 1 Bank had its inception in a resolution adopted at the national convention of telegraphers held in May. 1921, at Savannah, Gat It was provided that ’officers of the organization devise a plan for establishing a hank where by the union would own 51 per cent of the stock and sell the remaining 49 per cent to members —none being allowed to own more than ten shares. In January of this year plans had been completed and the specified amount of stock sold at $l2O a share —$100 par value and S2O on each share fop a surplus. The bank will be run on a cooperative -basis and earnings divided between depositors and stockholders. E. J. Manlon, president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, also will net in a similar capacity with the institution.

TOM SIMS SAYS: TIME happiest mosquitoes on earth live in the Belgian Congo, where people wear no clothes at all. You ean tell sehooi is out he cause more bottles of milk are being missed from front porches. The German marks being sold here went so low they eame out on this side of the earth. Oregon caterpillars attacked a college to get a taste of culture. Wild noises coming from a Florida swamp may be an orator dusting off his July Fourth spec 11. ft ft ft Wait until fall to buy your straw hat. It will b© cheap, r then. Chicago woman of 73 whipped a burglar, probably by just imaging he was h©r husband. Maybe Senator Borah con’d have this summer changed a little.

Kansas City plumber was .scut to the pen for twelve years Must, have a pipe that needs fixing. Philadelphia station may have caught fire from the remarks of a man getting into an upper. • • • Sunburn may be removed from face and arms by thirty days in jail. • • • These days are so sultry you can't tell if a man is stretching or telling a fish tale. One of the oldest,% bicycle plants went broke at Toledo, Ohio. Two can't spoon on a, bicycle. • * • A dinner dress of black taffeta with an oilcloth apron will do away with napkins entirely. Painted wicker is used for flower pot baskets. [t should be removed before throwing the pot. • • # Strong sunlight kills bugs, but of course that has uothing to do with people wearing hats

AUTO BUSSES HIT STREET CAR LINES i Opinions Differ, but Majority Believes Flivvers Are Only Supplemental, This i the fifth article by C A Randau of the Times' Washington bureau on "What, g the matter with the street cars?” By C. A. RANDAU (illTmnN ten years all the j VV street rar tracks in the downtown sections of large j American cities will ha ve been torn up. By that time the public will ! either be riding in privately owned - autos or in busses that nr© nothing j less than trackless trolleys.’* "The auto bus will never replace 1 the street car. It will merely supplement It. Auto traffic, either by busses or ordinary machines, is too ! cumbersome to offer a solution for j city transportation.” Take your choice. Both are stateI ments of men who have made a study of urban transportation problems. They represent two schools of thought. Numerically, the second group is the j larger. Good Permanent Business The proof of professional opinion on the subject is this: Very few car line officials and owners favor selling out their property to municipalities Th“y think they have a good perm t nent business, and while they are making a great to do about the absolute necessity for continued high fares, they are not hiring any supersalesmen to sell their lines to city councils. Figures on the use of trolleys bear out the soundness of this belief More people rode in street cars during 1922 than during any previous year The total number was 30.000.000 greater than in 1921 and reached 15.000,000.000 Yet it was during that year that the number of busses and private autos Increased more rapidly than ever be fore This doesn't mean that traction officials welcome bus lines paralleling the car tracks. That, they say. would he unfair competition They want the bus companies to be subject to the sanies taxes. franchise obligations and regulations as those applied to trolleys As feeders to rtreof car lines, the busses are distinctly welcome in traction Cirri©* In this rold the busses are frequently owned by the trolley \:ofnpan!es and used to handle traffic in thinly settlor) district* whore auto operation is more economical than maintenance of car routes Have Only Taken (Yearn To date, it is safe to say. bus and Jitneys have merely taken some of the cream away from street car eompa nies In some cases the amount was to great as to send the car lines into receivership. The best argument against the busses is their cumbersomeness They occupy more room in congested streets for the number of passengers carried than do street cars. “Consequently.” say car line official, "it isn't fair to let them fake our cream when they are not capable of really taking over our important puhlic function.”

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Crippled, but Gains Success By NEA Service Louisville, Ky., June 23. Handicapped by being crippled throughout his fiftytwo years of life, starting with but a seventh-grade education, C. Lee Cook of this city has made millions, invented devices that bring comfort to thousands and educated himself until now he is an authority on English. “Life’s jU3t what you make it.” he muses. “A man takes from it, exactly what he puts in ’ Recently he refused a $40,000-a-year job. That’s how good he is. He never has been able to walk. His hands he can lift no higher than his head. An invalid’s chair carries him about. But he did design and build a creosoting works at Brunswick, Ga. He 13 the intimate adviser of noted lawyers. And he is one of the very few private citizens ever given the privilege of the floor in the United States Senate. Cook likes to talk of success, which his friends say he personifies. "Success,” he says, “Is the measure of service to one’s fellow man." And in speaking of success. Cook flays modern standards of pronouncing a man a success or failure, according to the amount of money he has.

Ask Dad—He Knows By BERTON BRALEY Your mother can help you and give you a hand Through lota of your troublesome flurries. But there are some matters she can’t understand. Some boyishly masculine worries; And that's what your Dad’s for. young fellow. You’ll find He’s wise to the world, never doubt it; Whenever you've, got such a thing on your mind, Go talk to your father about it. You may have decided he’s “clear out of date! A quite mid-Victorian fogy,” Who can't understand what you have to relate. Whose mind with tradition is logy; But try him. young fellow; just seek him and spill Your trouble; be sure he won't flout it. For Dad was a boy once, he's been through the mill, . ' So —talk to your father about it! The Governor’s wiser to you than you know. Don’t think you can easily fool him. 1 He’s traveled the roads you are likely to go And life has been aiding to school him; Go talk to him, sonny, as man unto man. He’ll hark to your tale as you spout it, And lielp you as only another man can, • So —go and tell father about it! (Copyright. 1923. NEA Service, Inc.)

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LEVIATHAN’S TRIAL TRIP IS SUCCESS This Is Conclusion, Viewed From Any Angle Except the Taxpayer’s, Here is the last exclusive wireless dispatch from Congressman Wh&zzisname, on the Leviathan which is now homeward bound and expected to dock at New York Sunday. By CONGRESSMAN WHAZZISNAME Leader of the Junket Bloc AT SEA. ON THE LEVIATHAN. June 23 (Via Wireless). —The Leviathan trial trip has been a tremendous success. You cannot escape this conclusion, viewing it from any angle you choose except that of the taxpayer. Skipper A1 Lasker has proved that a trip to Cuba can be made for a half million dollars—a voyage many thirsty Americans say is cheap at any price. Heading for New York, our skipper this morning wirelessed greetings to his bosom friend. President Harding. “Hope you are not worying about your Alaska trip.” he concluded hla message. Back flashed the President's replyt I “Am not worying about my Alaska trip, but am worrying deeply about this A1 Lasker trip.” it said.