Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1923 — Page 4

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TRAFFIC COPS AND COATS INDIANAPOLIS traffic policemen who boil in the sun because they are compelled to wear coats in summer time are to be given the choice of selecting lighter garb. When was this decision made? In the winter or spring or even before Old Sol began beaming down for a continued stay? Guess again. Action was decided upon only after the city had gone through a terrific torrid spell. Policemen have to pay sor # their own uniforms and it may not he fair to expect them to go to an extra outlay of money atr this time, even though their comfort is at stake. Policemen are like most other mortals. They pay their rent, the grocer and butcher, and try to save a little money for the inevitable rainy day. While Indianapolis is dilly-dallying with the “No Coats for Cops” proposition the following editorial comment from the Chicago Tribune is timely: “Chief of Police Collins and his advisory committee have decided that khaki blouse shirts and tropical helmets shall be regulation summer uniforms for traffic policemen in Chicago. The chief has made no more constructive decision for the improvement of the efficiency of the force since he assumed the superintendency. “The traffic policeman’s post is a place of torture in such weather as Chicago has had recently. The traffic cop is a mar tyr when further oppressed by a blue wool uniform buttoned tightly to the neck. He deserves relief. “But why stop with the traffic cop? There are several thousand other policemen in Chicago. Their posts are less onerous, but still difficult. There is no need for them to suffer unnecessarily. If kept in wool coats they will defy regulations when they dare by unbuttoning them. Better let, them discard the coats and wear khaki blouses. Their efficiency and morale would improve. “And, for that matter, why stop with policemen? The coat is an obsession in American male convention. In hot summer weather it is an absurdity. Regulations which insist upofa them are absurd. Let the authorities who dictate the uniforms of these public servants have a heart. Let the public which dictates to the authorities move that heart.”

CRY OF HELP FROM FARMS THE first two weeks of July wilL see a big demand for labor to handle the wheat harvest In northern and central Indiana, according to G. I. Christie, director of the agricultural extension station at Purdue University, in a report to Governor Warren T. McCray. Christie believes the situation can best be met through cooperation of farmers’ organizations, county agents, chambers of commerce and other business men’s organizations. Every Tom, Dick and Harry in the State couldn't go out and give the farmers a lift, but’ there are hundreds of men who by past training and knowledge could go back to the farm and do a pretty fair job for a few days, at least. If Governor McCray believes conditions warrant a call for volunteers from the ranks of business men and factory hands, many men in Indianapolis and neighboring cities probably will be glad to pitch in. though they realize it would mean work, not sport. SAFER AND SANER FOURTH YOUNG and old America’s day of celebration falls next week and we are hearing much of plans for a ‘‘Safer and Saner Fourth of July.” When the movement began several years ago it was for a safe and sane day. We have learned the lesson and now aim for greater results. Jacob E. Reidel. chief of the division of fire prevention, Indianapolis fire department, advises that the safest way to stage a display of pyrotechnics is to make the occasion a community affair under supervision of firemen equipped with fire extinguishing apparatus. Mr. Reidel is no joy killer; he is a life saver. Every year there are casualties somewhere in this country that could have been prevented. Fireworks in unskilled hands are a source of great danger both to life and property. WHAT’S IN A JOB? WOULDST like a position as ‘‘junior engineer” with the government at Washington, young Mr. Indianian? Then list to these requirements. You must have a degree from a college of recognized standing or must furnish proof of graduation within three months. You must pass a grueling “exam” in ceramic engineering, general physics, mathematics through calculus, education, training, experience, etc., electrical or chemical or civil engineering. Having passed with honors in all these branches you stand a peach of a chance of being appointed j-unior engineer in the bureau of standards at a salary of $1,200 the year, which might be enough to rent a three-room apartment in Washington, but we doubt it. Os course, if you place enough to eat above honor and opportunity for service to Uncle Sam. you can get a job as a bricklayer in Washington and earn $5,000 a year. BEGGING— Most sensible thinking is in the small towns. At Yellow Springs. Ohio, Antioch College plans to become self-sup-porting by establishing private industries in which students will work during spare time. This beats the begging system. And the graduates will go out into the world self-reliant instead of accustomed to having part of their burden carried by others. RENT —Smallest shoe store in the world, catering only to fat men and thin, is being opened in Chicago by Sam Levine. The store is 20 by 8 feet. Sam has taken a lease until 1929 and his yearly rent will be $37.50 for each square foot of floor space. Move the building out into a desert and the whole store wouldn’t be worth $37.50 a century. The rental value is individually owned, but it is community created—by the activities of the people who swarm in the neighborhood. The community some day will claim its fair share of this value which it creates. DUST —Wnat’s the biggest problem right now in the Housewives may answer, dust. In the structural maof the Lewis Institute, in Chicago, investigay’Mit takes 6,000,000 oits of dust to cover a glass plate one TjMk Tell ma. /

MINING CURSE IS STUDIED Overproduction Looms as Basic Fault of Industry Today, DATA IS BEING DUG OUT First Report of Investigators Is to Cover Anthracite Situation, By HARRY B. HUNT SEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, June 27.—Finding the facts about the coal Industry takes harder digging than mining the coal itself. That is the experience of the United States Coal Commission, appointed by President Harding last October. After nearly nine months of digging, during which time it has piled up thousands of pages of hearings, the commission is assaying its findings and will present them about July 1 in a “preliminary” report covering the problem in the anthracite fields. Following the submission of this report, the commission will dig in again on the bituminous situation in the hope of being able to give Congress, when it convenes in December, recommendations that will assist in shaping legislation to insure peace, prosperity and plenty of coal. Public Sessions Fail

Early In its experience, the coal investigators found they could get nowhere in public meetings where operators and miners faced each other across the table. At these meetings. the speakers produced oratory, not facts. Each side tried to capture headlines. Asa result, .public meetings and composite group meetings were virtually dispensed with. By long and patient checking of fiction against fact, of opinion against demonstrated experience, it is believed the few conclusions reached will stand as milestones to mark the path to an ultimate national policy toward the coal industry. The present unprecedented prosperity in the anthracite industry will play little part in shaping the tone of the reportr For present conditions- are on no permanent footing. By the time the commission’s report is issued, indeed, a meeting of miner delegates will have convened at Scranton, Pa., to consider "demands” to be made when the present agreement with the operators expires this September. The prospect is not for entire harmony. Meanwhile, however, the position of the public is considerably improved over one year ago. For anthracite production today is outstripping all previous records, with a 100,000,000-ton year in sfglit if production is maintained at the average for tire first five months of the year. To June 9, 45,192.000 tons had been mined this year, with the weekly output hanging close to 2,000.000 tons. The greatest output of any previous year was in 1917. when, under the stress of war necessity, a total of 99,611.811 tons was produced. The commission's investigations have covered three major factors of the coal problem—mining, transportation and marketing. Analysis Is Difficult In the anthracite field, these three have been found to be so tangled as to make analysis most difficult. For the eight largest anthracitp producing companies, mining 75 per cent of all the nard coal, are directly owned or controlled by railroads. This railroad ownership naturally complicates the problem. Each bituminous coal district, and in some districts almost each mine, has its own customs and problems, determined by the quality of the coal, thickness of seam, attitude of the bed. conditions of mining, available markets, freight rates, labor policy, etc. Still more Involved are the wage rates. Overdevelopment of the bituminous industry and recurrent labor troifbles are regarded as two of the prime factors supporting present high coal prices. How to end the first and stop the second are the two big problems the commission must answer. Even in times of maximum demand, it is found the bituminous mines as a whole do not work full time. The capacity of present bituminous mines i" in excess of 800,000,000 tons a year. I lit the country even in its periods of greatest prosperity and activity never has been able to absorb more than 5"9,000,000 tons. This condition of overdevelopment, commission members state, means unemployment or intermittent employment and a direct loss of earning power. It explains the miner's need and demand for a higher daily wage than for most other Industries.

Heard in Smoking Room

A W AITER from the dining car ahead had paused in the enA ‘ trance to the smoker to hear the last of the stories going around, and, after the last laugh, asked if anybody had ever heard of the trial of Corporal Sam Washington for breach of promise. Nobody had. “Well, one day,” said the waiter, “when about a million of us colored boys were learning World War at Ft. Dodge, a buxom looking colored girl comes to officers’ quarters and complains that one Corporal Sam Washington aint been hung for breach of promise. So, the officers, in fun. gets up a trial of Sam for not marrying Miss Jones accordin’ to promise and scares Sam most white by saying the penalty is immejut marriage or death. But, after plenty of testimony was tooken, the judye tells Sam to tell how it ail coma abotit

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Uncle Sam’s Coal Facts Bu XEA Service WASHINGTON, June 27. Here are a few facts the coal commission has unearthed while delv-ing for a solution to the coal ‘problem.” The coal industry outranks any single manufacturing industry and stands next to transportation and agriculture in number of men employed and value of product. About 750,000 men are employed. of whom 90 per cent work underground. Total invested capital approximates $2,330,000,000. of which $430,000,000 is invested in the anthracite field. Os 174 producers of anthracite. 8 control about 75 per cent of , the output. There are 6,000 producers of bituminous coal, operating 9,000 commercial mines. Bituminous coal is consumed as follows: By railroads, 28 per cent: industries, 25 per cent; coking. 15 per cent; domestic fuel, 10 per cent; iron and steel, 7 per cent: public utilities, 7 per cent; export, 4 per cent; mines. 2 per cent; bunkers. 2 per cent.Domestic coal is distributed by 38,000 retail dealers, handling a total of 130,000,000 tons yearly, t Combined charges of the railroads, wholesalers and retailers, in most localities, exceed the price of the coal at the mine.

TOM SIMS SAYS: WHEN you see a man looking at the thermometer and laughing he is some soft drink dealer. * * • Since most, banks already had presidents, many of the June college? graduates are still loafing. • • More girls are swimming this year. Every bathing place looks like a flock of magazine covers. • * • About 2,000 years ago Ovid sang of strawberries, even before the ’ * shortcake was invented. * * * The stiff collar is doomed. You can’t watch an airplane Is one. • • • Crowds on street corners are not talking politics. They are trying to get across.— * • • One trouble with July Fourth is so many i*eople ask w r hat day of the month it falls on. • * * Kissing Is dangerous. Too much of it will make a man cross-eyed. • • • Oklahoma woman stayed married sevehty-three years, but it took a long 'time. • * • Canada is nearly thirty times ae large as Great Britain and Ireland and forty times as quiet. * * * Mr. Pays is held in Madrid on a swindling charge. Honesty, Pays! * * * Airplane licenses cost S2O in Kansas, this, no doubt, paying for wear and tear on roofs. • • • New German radio Invention stops autos. Maybe some day it will stop phonographs. • • * All circuses advertise as the biggest in the world, but our guess would be Bryan is, • • • This 2,000,000-volt lightning made at Pittsfield, Mass., would be nice to hand collectors. • • Brokers who took $6,000,000 must serve a year. About $500,000 a month Is fairly good pay, • * * Prince of Wales got in at 2 o'clock and smashed a skylight over where prohibition is unknown. * • * An optimist is an Atlanta (Ga.) man trying to recover a missing umbrella by advertising. • * * Vienna singers are getting $lO a month. Small pay, but the work is lighter than cow calling. • * * Los Angeles man who is taking pictures of thoughts mußt use asbestos plates for taxpayers’ minds. • • Biddeford (Me.) court rules a burning auto is not dangerous, but never take one home with you. • • * Ruffled skirts of bouffant silks are popular for evenings. Ruffled tern pers are worn mornings.

as there mought he mittigation cir-cumstances-and he didn’t like to hang a man without, but, tell the truf and nothing hut truf warns the judge or married you is ter onct." "Well, judge,” says Sam. “it was at one of these sociable parties and me and Miss Jones was sociating polite when she sez: “Soldier boy, ain’t you got bout two dozen kisses on your lips as tokens of ‘ffectlon?” "And course, I gives Miss Jones two dozens of kisses.” "Pretty soon Miss Jones sez. "Soldier boy, can’t you commodate a lady with two dozen mo of dem love tokens?” “And corse de lady." “Pretty soon she sear Soldier boy, dis lady sure craves all the kisses you got!” "And, Judge, from den on I Just pours de toklns on Miss Jones!"

MARRIED LIFE NOT SO BAD Figures Indicate 87 Per Cent of Wives Are Happy > at Home, QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS Anonymous Replies Give Writers Opportunity to Tell Everything, One type of fortune which treasuryexperts have as yet found no means of taxing is happiness. If statistics compiled under the direction of the American Social Hygiene Association are to be regarded as fairly representative of the happiness of American housewives, an important source of revenue is being overlooked. The association’s figures indicate that 87 per cent of the married women of America are happy. Only 12 per cent are unhappy. One per cent of who returned questionnaires failed to specify as to happiness. This information was obtained by Washington officials from 1,000 women, a quota of them being from Indiana. While the number is, of course, too small to be taken as an absolute standard for the entire country, the results are highly Indicative. Ten thousand questionnnaires were sent to women in all walks of life and in all parts of the United 'States. Compilaiions were made after 1,000 replies had been received. The replies naturally were sent in anonymously. Despite the fact that the women thus had an opportunity, without fear of exposure, to paint sorry pictures of their lot in life and to give unbiased opinions of their husbands, only one woman charged her husband with cruelty. Os the 116 women who replied that | they were unhappy, sixty-three assigned the cause to incompatibility of temperament or interests. Fourteen said economic hardships were to blame for their unhappiness. Only two ascribed “too much motherin law.” The others gave varying reasons such as the fact that the husband was a drug addict, a drunkard or was unfaithful. Though the questions were sent to women of little education and to college graduates alike, nearly onehalf of the replies came from those who had at least attended college. One of the reasons given for this is that the questionnaire was so long and involved that the women of little education were frightened by its complexities. The average age of those who answered was thirty T-seven. Many advised against employment outside the home after marriage.

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Fred Murphy and Orville Wilson, Muncie boys with a knowledge of practical psychology, place a fat purse In a road near the city. When a motorist stops the purse mysteriously disappears, With the joke on them the drivers invariably make some excuse for stopping. Frequently the boys harvest tips for hunting mythological hub caps anu accessories. On June 30, Boonville will be lighted by electricity for the first time. Police Chief Bolte, Wabash, in a desperate attempt to check the growing number of automobile thefts, has started to raise a mustache. It makes him look hard boiled, at distinct advantage to a cop, he said. Keturah Skelly, Walcott, tended to all the, business of securing a marriage license, when she married Earle (' Barnard, a plumber. Bernard was too busy to attend to such small matters. The license properly filled, Keturah sought her busy bridegroom. Prosecutor cross-examining David Casselman De Long, aged and ardent .Democratic worker: “You'd vote for anybody who ran on the Democratic ticket, wouldn’t you?” “You bet I would. I vote 'er straight." “You’d vote for the devil if ran on the Democratic ticket wouldn't you?” “Yes sir,” the aged politician shouted before attorneys could object to the question. An airplane passing over Bloomington dropped a letter to Floyd Southern, in charge of recruiting for the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Camp Knox. Southern boasts of being the first Monroe county man to receive mail by airplane. George Reeves, 14, Columbus High School boy, has a set of drawings showing how train tracks in the city can be arranged to prevent crossing main streets and yet serve the manufacturers. The Chamber of Commerce is looking them over.

Harding to See McKinley Park Hu Timm Special WASHINGTON, June 27.—One of the chief attractions for President Harding when he arrives in Alaska will be Mt. McKinley National Park. The National Park Service has been eager to develop this great natural wonder for some time and hopes the Interest stimulated by the President's visit, will lead folks to visit this public playground. Within this wonderful region rises Mt. McKinley, towering 20,700 feet above sea level, the highest mountain peak of North America, which is 3,000 feet higher above its base than any other mountain of the world! Vast herds of caribou and mountain sheep roam, protected, through the park, aa all hunting is prohibited.

Around The World in Five Minutes

Impolite Fish Prince Kuni, the other day, went fishing in the famous Ritsurin Pond at Takamatsu as the guest of Governor Sasaki. Twice the fish broke the Prince’s line and got away. Much mortified, the Governor apologized profusely, saying the poor, ignorant, badly-behaved provincial fish did not know any better and the Prince would be most generous if he excused them. The fish were promptly forgiven and the Governor was greatly relieved. • • * Lo, the Poor Chinese We pride ourselves on our superior system of justice. The cruel Chinese and the Turk, not knowing the ways of civilization, are forced to allow us western peoples our own courts so the real thing can be meted out. The other day in Shanghai, for ex ample, a Chinese coolie named Loh was suspected of having stolen something from a coat pocket hanging on a peg in the house where he Worked for 10 cents a day. British police arrested him and put him through the third degree to make him confess. He was so nearly killed by beatings, having "cigars”—as lighted paper tapers held under a prisoner's nose are called —applied, and so on, that he was laid up in a hospital for weeks. Then he was acquitted, after all. • * • Farmer Cooperation There are now 37,430 cooperative socities in Germany with a membership of 4,652,125 farmers. There are thirteen major associations. The turnover lri 1921 when German money was worth something was 181,000,000,000 marks- •* * x Jobless The total number of registered unemployed in the British Isles at the end of May was 1.207,000. an increase of 38,000 over the first of the month. Same old story. Unsettled conditions In Europe.

LAUGHS

Family Fireside Fun A hunter and a golfer were at it, hammer and tongs. “To thunder with hunting.” said the golfer, “I can buy all the meat I want in a butcher shop, and it’s better than you can shoot.” “Is that so?” said the hunter. “Can you buy jack-snipe in a butcher shop? Can you buy venison? Can you buy canvas-back?" “Sometimes,” said the golfer, “and sometimes not. But can you go hunting and shoot a pound of pork sausage?”—Argonaut. Father’s Prize Garden Did your garden win any prizes last summer? Indirectly. yes. My neighbor’s chickens took first prize at the poultry show. —Topics of the Day Films. The Family Steak This steak is like leather and this knife is dull. Strop the knife on the steak.—Michigan Gargoyle. Why Sister Quit. "Why did Mabel quit going with that young farmer?” "Just before he proposed to her he opened her mouth to look at her teeth.”—West Virginia Moonshine. Sister’s Feller Pops Sam—“O! let’s elope!” Sue—" Cantaloupe.” Sam—“O, honepflew!”— Gold and Brown. Pointer for Dad Bobbie—“My dad’s working at Wheeling. West Virginia.” Sammie—“ Why don’t he hire a truck?” Pa Replies t-o Ms “Do look at the way baby is working his mouth,” exclaimed young Mrs. Scrappington. “See! Now he proposes to put his foot in it.” “Hm!" said her husband grumpily. "Heredity! That’s what I did when I proposed.”—Boston Transcript.

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QUICK SAYS MUSSOLINI IS TYRANT ' By HERBERT QUICK. “I see be the pa-a-pers,” as Mr. Dooley was wont to say, that our great money magnates—or some of them at least—have a great admiration for a certain Signor Mussolini, now dictator of Italy. It is a good test of what money admires. The New York Evening Post says the Mussolini spell “has settled down hardest over the minds of sober American business men,” and they are almost ready to credit him not only with creating order and discipline in Italy, but with having created the Apennines, the blue Italian skies and the beauty of the bay of Naples. “Well, what has Mussolini done? He has established in Italy an order based on tyranny. He has done about the same that would happen In this country if General Wood should come home, organize a national association of gunmen, force his place Into the President’s chair, sending Harding to the quietude of Marion, Ohio, and make Congress support him at the point of the knife. The men who are quoted as having this great admiration for Mussolini are Mr. Pierson, president of the Merchants’ Association of New York; Mr. Booth, president of the International Chamber of Commerce of Rome; Mr Paul D. Crayath, who commends Mussolini’s fiscal policies, and Mr. Julius Barnes, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. It is only fair to say one may have a sort of admiration for Mussolini without believing in all he has done. But he has destroyed democracy in Italy, so far as one man can do such a thing.

What Editors Are Saying

Gravel (Muncie Evening Press.) From now on every newspaper should keep / ' standing the headline, “Car Skids in Gravel.” Several persons will be killed and many will be injured in this form of accident between now and winter. Os course, so long as gravel roads are built, they must have gravel placed upon them, but most of the danger now occasioned by the presence of gravel is due to faulty distribution of it and failure to pack and roll it before opening the road to general tra'.c . A road containing a heavy coating of new gravel should be barred to the use of automobiles until the material has been properly distributed and rolled. It may be cheaper financially to have the automobiles do the packing, but it is expensive in life and limb. Wichita (Kas.) cops claim a man named Drumm took $1,500,000 and tried to beat'lt.. • * On Harding’s trip thrrugh the West he will get 15,057 miles out of about eighteen speeches.

One of Them Now By BERTON BRALEY When motorists would gather ’round. Their talk was dull and bleak to me, And most of what they said, I found Was nothing else but Greek to me: They spoke of “clutches, pistons, gears,” I listened quite unheedingly. They bored me almost unto tears, In other words—exceedingly. They talked of "taking hills on high,’* Os roads that, they’d been traveling, Os various oils and gas they’d buy— They’d spend long hours unraveling A lot of yarns about their cars, And things that they could do with them} I said, “What awful bores, my stars! These motorists —I’m through with them.” By .talk of motors T was bored, Aud loudly I made mock of it, But now I’ve got a little Ford, And all I do is talk of it; And now, where motorists are seen, I promptly seek a nest of them, Arid talk about my own machine— I’m wone than all the rest of them! (Copyright, 1923, NBA Service, Incu)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1923.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information t>y writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y. Avenue. Washington. D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, 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 personal replies.—Editor. What is the name of the comet that caused such a big sensation about forty odd years ago? You probably refer to Swift's comet of 1880, discovered by Lewis Swift at Rochester. Oct. 10, 1880. Is the long or the short ton used in weighing coal? In some localities the long ton, of 2.240 pounds, and in others the short ton, of 2,000 pounds, Is used. In some communities the short ton is used in weighing anthracite and a long ton in weighing bituminous coal. How can I remove oil stains from the concrete floor of a* garage? Scrub with a ten per cent solution of muriatic acid. If this does not remove. try a stronger solution. Be sure to rinse off with clean water. Is the rabhitt punch barred by the New York boxing commission? Y r es. How many miles of railway are there in the United States, and how many in Sweden? 264.233 and 9,385, respectively. Are ferns and mosses found in Antarctic regions? \ Science Service reports that ferns are not found in the Antarctic regions. Mosses, however, are very numerous and over fifty species have been discovered there. ' Which is the best way to clean gold and silver lace? With burnt alum, pulverized to & fine powder, and sifted through cheese cloth. Apply with a fine brush. Or sponge with alcohol, and afterwards polish with a piece of velvet. What and where was the Allen tragedy? This occurred at the courthouse at Hillsville, Va„ March 14, 1912, during ( the trial of Floyd Allen. His son, Claude Allen, and a party of relatives and sympathizers opened fire on the judge, prosecuting attorney and court officials. Judge Massie was killed, as was the prosecuting attorney. Several persons were badly wounded. Floyd Allen and his son Claude were both tried for murder as a result of this tragedy, and both were condemned and executed. Which are the fastest growing trees to plant around a liome? Poplar, wallow and aspen. YVho is responsible for the care of the tomb of Washington and the upkeep of the building and grounds of Mount Vernon? The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. The admission charged goes toward defraying the expenses.