Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1923 — Page 4

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BEST OF TIMES, RAINBOW HEROES! WELCOME, Rainbow veterans! Five years ago this very .day the Rainbow Division stood on the front line in the Champagne sector waiting, grimly, impatiently, for the opening of the German barrage our boys knew would herald the launching of “the great drive for Paris.” On July 14th it came. The gray, waves of German infantry swept across No Man’s Land to death and destruction. The drive was shattered, the last German drive for victory in the great war. From that time on for the Kaiser’s hordes it was a losing, defensive battle that ended in surrender Nov. 11, 1918. Nowhere was the resistance or counter-offensive of the allied troops more determined or more effective than along the front held by the Rainbow boys. And in the victorious days that followed the Rainbow men always were in the thickest of the fighting until the Stars and Stripes flew from the heights above the Rhine. And now these veteran young men have come to Indianapolis to celebrate their fifth reunion. All Hoosierdom celebrates with them and wishes them the best of luck and happiest of times during their three-dav reunion. NIPPON AND J. B. SAY ADIEU ■ FRANCE has ratified both the naval limitations treaty and the four-power pact of the Pacific, the principal work of the Washington conference of eighteen months ago. Chief among the results of this ratification, which completes the list, will be the death of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, to occur automatically the day formal notice of ratification is deposited at Washington. This will be soon. Had the Washington conference done nothing else, the rupture of the mischief-making tie between Britain and Japan would have made it eminently worth while. True, the Washington treaties leave Japan cock of the walk in the Far East, and it may place grave temptations before Japan’s militaristic land-grabbers. But these can no longer bank on British neutrality as a minimum of support in case they start something in China or Siberia, as once they might have. And that counts for much. Furthermore, the United States and Japan, two years ago, were fast drifting toward war—not so much over any cureless friction of a concrete nature, as because of a “state of mind.” A feeling as to the “inevitability” of war ultimately between the two countries, which, incidentally, is the surest fire breeder of war of them all. Now that feeling is dissipated. At least for the time being. It may bob up again later on, but meantime let us fiope other and decisive steps will have been added to the stride toward world peace, which the" Washington conference undoubtedly was. NEED FOR CITY NORMAL SCHOOL ONE of the greatest necessities in Indianapolis at this time is school expansion. The city is growing, but the schools have not kept pace with the growth. A development program that will partially meet the situation is well under way, but many more facilities will be needed soon. The suggestion that the city buy the old Butler University property fits in well with such a program. It would not be necessary to convert and develop the property immediately, but its purchase would certainly be a good investment and would no doubt prove an eventual economy. One idea is that Butler be turned into a city normal school. Indianapolis operated a normal school until recently when the woik was abandoned due to legal complications. The laws could easily be amended to allow the city to resume this activity. There is a real need for a city normal school. It is difficult to find teachers with necessary training. Such a school would feed a constant supply into the public schools and would solve one of the city’s educational problems.

REGULATING ROBBERY SOMETIMES you have to feel sort of sorry for Congress and this is one of those times. A commission of careful gentlemen, very safe and very sane, has been investigating the coal industry with particular reference to the perennial robbery of the public. Headed by a distinguished and enormously wealthy mining engineer though it was, this cautious commission has come to the unqualified conclusion that this robbery isn’t right. Along with tons of facts and figures to prove the soundness of its conclusion, the commission has put it up to Congress to stop the thieves. Regulate robbery out of the coal industry, says the commission to Congress. Congress, of course, will try to do it. Congress may succeed —on paper. It succeeded, that far, in the matter of child labor. It took years to accomplish the job, but finally it was done and the little folks in the mills were granted their release—on paper. Some years may be required for the present job, but with one hard winter after another and a suffering public getting madder and madder, Congress won’t drop the matter until the coal industry has ceased to be public piracy. „On paper. For there is always the Supreme Court. Regulations enacted by Congress will not go into effect unless the last court battle is lost by the big coal operators. It is not certain, of course, that the Supreme Court will side with the operators against the public. Four of the judges, you remember, favored the little children in the mills. If five of the judges favor the public, it will be enough to make regulation of the coal industry a fact, j But it is going to take a long time at the best, several long, cold winters, probably. That is why men are beginning to rise in the Senate and in the House to suggest that, perhaps, before Congress tries to do much other regulating, it exercise its constitutional power to regulate the United States Supreme Court. Thousands of eggs are in cold storage these hot days, and none of them appreciate it. •,., • • • Funniest thing in Ajistria right now is it costs more to print money than the money is worth. It doesn’t matter, but Spaniards have lost forty-five men at Tizziazza, which sounds like a mosquito. City people have lots of fine things to wear. Country people have lots of fine things to eat. ,

SMUGGLED BOOZE HITS AT DOLLAR Exchange Value Affected by Amount Brought Into LI. S. ■ Across Borders. C. A. Randau, author of the following article, is a member of this paper's Washington staff. He was assigned several weeks ago to find out how prohibition is being enforced, and to report the liquor situation generally, without trying to prove anything, other than to present the facts. This is the third of a series of six articles. 0 By C. A. RANDAU HAS the smuggling of liquor into the United States reached such proportions it is having an effect on the exchange value of the dollar? Government statisticians in Washington are convinced such is the case. I Stopping the smuggling of intoxicating liquors across our international boundary lines would require a greater navy than the American Government now possesses, and a greater standing army than America has had in times of peace, so long as the countries on the other side of the border are not in sympathy with the American national prohibition policy. That there is little sympathy in other countries with America’s “prohibition policy” is self-evident. Liquor importations into practically every country near the United States or bordering on the States, increased sharply in 1922. Prices S3O Per Case and Up The north Atlantic coast is the scene of the most Important smuggling operations. The Long Island. New Jersey and Massachusetts coasts offer the best opportunities for rumrunners, both because of harbor and landing facilities and because of prox imlty to the most important consuming centers. Prices for whisky smuggled from "rum-row" ships range from S3O a case upward, at the ships. The risk is assumed by small, fast, rum-running boats which, under cover of darkness, pass the patrol maintained by the United States Coast Guard. Liquor from Canada is smuggled into the United States primarily at three places. The most Important is along the boundary between New York and Quebec. The American custom office is maintained at Rouses Point, in the extreme northeastern corner of New York. From Rouses Point west to Hogansburg, near the St. Lawrence River, trucks and passenger automobiles are constantly bringing liquor in the United States. High Cost Is Bar The most effective bar to smuggled importations from Canada is the high cost of liquor in Quebec. Furthermore, whisky, gin and rum may be obtained only one bottle at a time. To load a truck with whisky thus requires great patience Not all the liquor coming from Canada Is genuine. Bootleggers have resorted to counterfeit labels to such an extent the liquor commission has fallen back on water-marked wrapping paper as the most effective way of preventing the growth of this practice. Canadian liquors also cross into the United States at Detroit. Between Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair the Detroit River offers an ideal place for smuggling operations. At Detroit the river is about half a mile wide. From Windsor on the Canadian Bids to Detroit, across the river, fast motor boats bring in their liquor cargoes with but little interference. Before long Manitoba promises to be anew source for smuggled liquor. Several weeks ago this province voted for the establishment of a government liquor commission similar to those in Quebec and British Columbia. At the election the towns along the North Dakota and Minnesota border voted wet by larger majorities than any other communities outside of the city of Winnipeg. Southern California Damp Southern California is kept damp with liquor shipped in from Ensenada, Lower California, where an organized ring, which has ships running to a number of California ports, makes its headquarters. Texas, the gulf coast and the south Atlantic States have their smugglers and rum runners. It is an easil matter to transport liquor from Cuba to Florida, and other southern States, notably Georgia and Mississippi, have of late become "ports of entry,” for liquor destined for Tennessee, Kentucky, southern Ohio and Indiana. Child’s Poems WRITTEN BY PEGGY WILLIS, 2819 Central Ave. My Toe I stubbed by toe upon a rock To me It gave an awful shock. But ’nstead of crying I did smile For it is always worth while. • * • The Swing I have a swing that goes so high It goes as high as the birds fly. And when I swing it feejs so fine That I am glad that it is mine.

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BY A PURDUE GRADUATE PURDUE University was near as the Pullman smoker crawled through western Indiana, when a smoker, who said he was one of its old-time graduates, narrated: "There is a young professor in the agricultural branch who is an expert as well as enthusiast in the matter of corn-growing. Early and late, in season and out, he has urged the planting and growing of only good corn. Up and down the State he has preached his doctrine, followed it up with personal and circular letters and pamphlets, and otherwise spurred the farmers until he has made\>f Indiana the prize corn-raising State of the Union. And he is still talking corn on any and every occasion. “Some time ago, he and a friend were traveling by interurban car in the northwest section of the State. As is not infrequently the case, the car balked when-it was far from a town. The professor and his friend, b*lng forced to await repairs, decided t take a walk among the near-by farmsteads. Soon they spied a considerable crowd gathered at a house on the road ahead. Reaching there, and noting that excitement prevailed, they asked about it. A man explained: “ 'Parmer Soandso is to be buried

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In the Blood BY BERTON BRALEY I swear when I get home again I’ll never care to roam again, I’ll settle down and try it In some quiet Little spot. My friends shall not be censuring my roving and adventuring, I’ll be a plodding peasant In a pleasant Garden plot. For when of home I’rn pondering, I feel I’m sick of wandering, I weary of the places And the faces That are strange. I think I’ll be in readiness to lead a life-of steadiness, And stick around forever Where there’s never Any change. Anck yet I know, down deep in me, though wanderlust may sleep in me. It’s pretty sure to waken When I’ve taken My abode; And sure as flowers sprout again and grasses grow about again, And luring winds are blowing, I’ll be going On the road! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) TOM SIMS SAYS: Only trouble with the wideawake young fellow of today is he doesn’t get wide awake until midnight. • • • Former premier of France says the earth doesn’t turn. Guess Europe will blame thi3 on America. • * • So many broker firms are going broker and broker. • • • Prince of Wales, they say, will wear ready-made clothes. We would hate to wear any not already made. • • • Our shipping hoard wouldn’t take a billion dollars for its ships. This, also, is the value of a June bride. . . . “Fly Around the World”--a headline. Wish all the flies were. • • • Farmers are raising everything now and may be able to raise a little money next fall. I • • Summer, at times, is a blessing. Kentucky robbers got all the pants of some Pullman passengers.

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Depository A social worker with somewhat more enthusiasm than tact went to call upon Torrence Shea, night watch man, at his home. "I hope, Mr. Shea,” she said, “you do not squandor your money in liquor and riotous living. I am trying to Interest the people of this neighborhood in the new savings bank which has Just been started. May I ask where you deposit your wages?” "I’d Jst as soon tell ye as not,” replied Mr. Shea. " 'Tis $25 a week I make. When I’ve paid the rent, the provisions and the grocery bill, an’ the milkman and bought what’s needed for Maggie an’ me five children, I deposit the rest of tjie money in barrels. Mostly, ma'am, I use sugar barrels. They’re bigger an’ hold more. But when I can’t get them, I niftke shift with plain flour barrels.”—American Legion Weekly. The Wash Lady’s Reason "My good woman, why do you let your children go barefoot?" Mrs. Mulligan—For the very good raison, ma’am, that I have in me family more feet than shoo3 —Boston Transcript. Mother Advises Father "The doctor says I should go South for my health. The question is -where to go.” , "Go to another doctor. Sister’s Witty Young Man Jack, dear, do you love me still? Try It once, pet, and let me see what it’s like.—Boston Transcript. One for the Mail Man "I am sick of life and have Just about decided to end it all.” "Well, you might get a Job as postman and starve to death.”—Judge.

today, at this hour, and the minister who was to preach hasn't showed up. We don’t know what to do. If one of you gentlemen could say a few words, we might go on with the funeral.’ “ ‘But neither of us is a minister,’ the friend replied, ‘but this gentleman is a professor at Purdue. He might say a few words.’ “The professor at first demurred, but finally was prevailed upon to do his best to relieve a desperate situation. “ ‘My friends,’ he said, T did not know, in life, the one for whom you mourn. I have no doubt, however, since I see grief in your faces, that he was a good husband, a good father and a good neighbor. I can say little more than to urge upon you, with all the emphasis and enthusiasm at my command, the great benefits tq be derived from growing good corn. Be sure your soil is properly fertilized and well drained. Select only the most perfect seed and cultivate carefully. You will be surprised and pleased at the very admirable results you will attain. In .addition, you will find pride in the fact that you have helped to make of Indiana the leading cornraising State of the Union. Now, my friends, I think we may proceed to the cemetery and there bid fraewell to the dear departed.’”

TEN STATES BAR BIBLE IN SCHOOLS 'Good Book’ Is Outlawed Either by Law or Court Decisions, By Times Special WASHINGTON, July 13.—1n the public schools of ten States; the Holy Bible Is an outlaw, either statutes or court decisions prohibiting it from being read to the children. In six States the laws require a portion of the "Good Book” be read daily; in six others, they specifically permit it and in five, whose laws do not cover the subject, the courts have ruled in favor of Bible reading. In two States the issue is still In doubt. In nineteen States and the District of Columbia the law is silent, but Bible reading is construed as permissible. Nation-Wide Survey Such is the result of nation-wide survey on the Reading of the Bible in the public schools, just published by Dr. William R. Hood of the U. S. Bureau of Education. He set out merely to gather the facts, carefully guarding against any expression of opinion. The ten States that prohibit reading of the Bible in the public schools are Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Minnesota. Washington, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York and Louisiana. Is Bible Sectarian? It is around the word "sectarian,’’ Dr. Hood says, that the sharpest controversy has been waged by those who would exclude the Bible from the classrooms. The question of whether the Bible is sectarian seems to remain unsettled. Os three State Supreme Court decisions bearing directly upon the deft nltion of the word, one—lllinois —held the Bible a sectarian book and two —Texas and Kentucky—declared of the opposite opinion.

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Mettle Lafayette Journal-Courier Lafayette is deeply interested in the preparations being made for the entertainment at Indianapolis of the Rainbow Division. This city will be strongly represented in the big doings at the capital city July 13, 14 and 15, when the fifth annual convention of the 42d Division will draw exservice men from twenty-six States. France has not forgotten the “Rainbow” outfit. The command was sent over early to indicate to the assoc dated powers the type and temper, the mettle and the spirit of the other American divisions that iibon were to follow. The 42d was representative of America’s best. -I- -I- -IRainbow Boys (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) The fifth annual convention of the famous Rainbow Division will be held July 13, 14 and 15 at Indianapolis. Just five years ago the Rainbow boys, brave and courageous, advanced nearly thirty-five miles against the enemy and suffered 2,644 killed and 11,275 wounded in action. The Rainbow Division was perhaps America's most effective fighting division during the war. -I- *!-.:!* Harvest Hands (Kokomo Dispatch) The cost of thrashing grain is a se.-isonable issue up for discussion in Indiana just now. Over In Clinton County and in other counties not far distant, the farmers are protesting against a raise in fates made by thrashermen, but in Howard County the machine owners say that while costs of equipment, supplies and labor are higher, they recognize that farmers are not going to grow opulent from the receipts in the sale of grain and will continue to thrash wheat at 6 cents a bushel, oats at 3 cents, and -rye at 8 cento. Harvest “hands" from town may have to work in relays to stand the strain, but the big idea just now is to get the grain in the bins.

A Thought

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord; happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. —Ps. 127:3, 5. * * * A Man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; In himself ambition is dead, but It hath a resurrection in his son.—Tupper.

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Science Anew type of racing auto weighsj only one thousand pounds. It looks i i like a toy, but it is expected to break j ! all records. It carries only the drlv- ; er, and one noticeable feature is the sharpness of the radiator, reducing wind resistance to a minimum. In the early days of racing the cars weighed about three thousand pounds, but the tendency soon turned ! steadily in the direction of smaller, lighter cars, with smaller and more, powerful engines. The piston displace- { ment originally was a thousand cubic , inches. At present it is dnly 122 ' inches. This is smaller than the dis- j placement of engines in the smallest j cars on the market, but the enignes are as powerful as ever. Racing proved that power and speed did not go with the largest cars and largest engines. In fact, most improvements i that have been made in the auto have | been the results of racing Henry Ford raced Alexander Win- j ton twenty years ago. Ford won the. race, but, more important than that, ■ he learned certain principles about \ building a car, and the application oti these principles created the greatest ] automobile industry in the world: One for the Family Doctor > - . Joe, foi many years gardener, be- | came ill and took to his bed. "You seem all right,” said the j doctor, after making an examination. | "What ails you?” "Nothing,”' replied Joe. "The, missus owes mo SSO an’ I ain’t gonna j move out of this bed until she pays j me." "Move over,” said the physician, i removing his coaA She owes me a t hundred.”—American Legion Weekly. | Upland High School won first hon- j ors In the State Y. M. C. A. Bible j study contest. Every boy in the school was enrolled. Welcome Rainbow Take care of your needs at this store. Lowest prices in city National Army Store 467 West Washington Street 2 Doors East of West Street,

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