Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1923 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President. FRED ROMER PETERS, Editor. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Mgr. Member of the Scripps Howard Newspapers • * • Client of the United Press, L'nited News. United Financial and NEA Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 25-29 S. Meridian Street. Indianapolis. * * • Subscription Rates; Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500.
SIX OF ONE; HALF DOZEN TOTHER a INOTHER “economical city administration” is about to lose -tv its record for economy. Mayor Shank has been fighting for decreased water rates. That is commendable. While he was out making speeches department heads were busy making up budgets. It appears their requests will call for an increase of approximately $1,000,000 and a correspondingly large increase in taxes. Somebody is being inconsistent. If the Indianapolis Water Company can operate without an increase, and its own testimony before the public service commission indicates it can, why would it not be possible for the city to get along without an increase ? Each is a big business institution and each, presumably, is operated on a business basis. The people are just as tired of high taxes as they are of high utility rates. They will kick just as hard and vote just as consistently against high taxes as they will against high utility rates. If Mayor Shank thinks higher utility rates will mean the defeat of the Republican party next year, does it not follow that higher taxes will have the same effect 1 Perhaps they will be more effective in accomplishing that defeat, for present officials will be directly responsible for them. Undoubtedly some of the additions in the budget are necessary. Just as unquestionably, some of the expenditures now being made could be reduced. It may be that department heads are asking for more than they expect with the idea that the city council and the tax board will trim the budget. Whatever the situation, it is certain the public is reaching the end of its patience with increased government costs. WHAT ABOUT THIS, JUDGES? T r ”“ HE United States Constitution guarantees the right of trial by jury, but don’t let that bother you any longer. A court out in California has kicked the foundation from under that particular pillar of the people’s liberties. Judge Busick, sitting in Sacramento, grew impatient with legal processes against the I. W. W. in that State and evolved a scheme that will appeal to other impatient judges. It is what you might call direct action. He simply issued an order that nobody in California could be a member of the I. W. W. After he had spoken, anybody who was a member of the I. W. W. was in contempt of court. Well, when you’re in contempt of court you don’t get a jury trial. It is a wonderful idea. Think of its possibilities. The courts hereabouts sometimes become clogged because of the time it takes to give a man his right to a jury trial. Why not have Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court issue a restraining order against burglary, larceny, murder, kidnaping, barn-burning and the rest of the favorite felonies? Then when Sheriff Snider drags the burglars, barn-burners and other criminals in. try them for contempt of court. No jury necessary. It might be hard on a lot of folks, but think of the time it would save!
DOGS AND OURSELVES A 1 ""”” N Indiana farmer’s daughter taught school in the city some ten miles distant. Her custom was to return homo Friday afternoons, going back to her labors on Monday morning. One Friday night there was a school reception and the weather being stormy she decided to remain in town until Saturday morning. Returning to her boarding house at 10 p. m. she was astonished when a dark, muddy and sobby object bounded out to meet her. It was Ole Shop, her girlhood dog. • Who can tell what had passed through that dog's mind? He must have known that Friday night had arrived and with it no mistress. Anyway, through dark storm and rain he trotted ten miles into town and found where she lived, although he had never been there before. Some men are chivalrous. All dogs are chivalrous. We humans are taught chivalry. Chivalry is born in the dog. Some men are loyal to their friend, to the one they love. The dog is always loyal to his friend, to the one he loves. He never hesitates or counts the cost—he flies to his master's defense no matter what odds are against him. If it is death, he plunges into it at full speed. When his human friend is downcast, grief-stricken, he sorrows with him sincerely. When that friend is happy and gay, none can be friskier and merrier than Friend Dog. No man is so poor, no man is so down and out, no man is so low and abandoned that a dog not be his friend. We receive service 'from many animals. Only the dog gives us all he has in friendship, chivalry and flawless loyalty. IF*S THE '‘if’’ in the tariff that is worrying the farmer. • • • UNCLE SAM’S financial success with the Panama canal shcrtvs he knows how to make money on watered stock. • • • ALSO. Alaska was glad to see something and somebody not belonging to the Guggenheims. • • • THEY POURED a million dollars’ worth of beer into New York sewers the other day. So the hot wave there is accounted for. • • • NOW THAT there is a slump in lamb-shearing in Wall Street, the regular habitues have money to bet on the next presidential election. * • # FRANK A. VANDERLIP, ex-banker, says a third party is possible “if the right man appears to lead it.” But he wouldn’t name the “right man.” That’s genuine modesty. • * * PRESIDENT MILLERAND of France says we are “submerged in a wave of virtue.” Y"es, but we are keeping our eye on the rest of the world with the aid of a periscope. • • • A WITNESS in a Paris court said these United States are full of fake antiques. Probably true. Some of us have even been known to go to Paris to buy our Grand Rapids furniture. • • * SENATOR Magnus Johnson says he is going to fight hard to give the country boy equal rights with his city brother. That may mean a movie show on every farm. • • * IF YOU HAVE a little flapper in your home, call a doctor at once. It has been discovered that “flapperitia” is a disease of the serves. |
CONSUMERS JOIN HANDS IN ENGLAND British Householder Is Thus Distinguished From American Brother, BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Writer ~Z — ONDON, July 26.—The big I , thing in the life of the English householder that distinguishes him from the American is the fact that as a consumer of food and clothing he joins with other consumers to try to lighten the burden of the cost of living. In America we are familiar with workmen cooperating to get better wages, hours and working conditions. We also are familiar with employers banding together to present a common front to labor and to watch their interests in legislatures and Congress. But American consumers of goods have not yet learned to band together as the English. The English cooperative movement has passed the experimental stage. It is a huge success. It is a permanent feature of British life. In Nearly Every City Practically every city and big town in England has its cooperative retail society. And they flourish mightily in proportion to the population. with exception of London. London is so vast, shops are so many and the working class so scattered, It is only in the suburbs where the workers live the cooperatives make themselves felt. For up to now It must be underlined that the cooperative movement is still largely a working class movement. Once the retail cooperative society has been successfully launched, its next step is to apply to the Coopera tive Wholesale Society for membership- It Is essential for it to do this so that It can buy the goods it needs from the C. W, S. and thus avoid having to deal with the manufacturers or wholesalers who are more or less hostile to the cooperative movement. Must Buy Shares The retail society upon becoming a member In the C. W. S. must buy the $25 ehares of the latter upon the basis of one share for every two members It has on its rolls. The retail society can buy these on time if it wants to, just as its members buy their shares by weekly payments. The C. W. 8. shares also pay 5 per cent dividend. And the C. W. S after all expensee are paid, divides the unexpended profits by pro-rating them to the retail societies in proportion to their yearly purchases. In a retail society the direction of j the affairs of the concern is confined to a committee elected by the members, each having one vote. The retail societies In turn elect the directors of tfte Cooperative Wholesale Society, each retail society having one vote for every 600 members or fraction thereof. Employ 110,000 Persons The retail societies of England last year employed over persons In their shops. They had a share and loan capital of over 350 million dollars and their sales amounted to over 800 million dollars per annum. It Is claimed by the cooperatives the first thing that happens when they start a shop in anew town Is that all the old shops Immediately revise their prices downward, the consumers of the whole tow’n thus getting the benefit of the new opposition. But the cooperative shops do not seek to draw customers by making extensive cuts as compared with the old-line places. They try to give a satisfactory article for the price and to protect the customer from the tricks of the speculators In grea\ food commodities.
A Thought
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a brokefn spirit drieth the bones.—Prov, 17:22. • • • HEERFULNESS is like money well expended In charity; the i__l more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.—Victor Hugo.
Family Fun
Advice Consider thy apparel, for fine feathers make fine birds, and no maiden with the glad rags is as homely as the Lord made her. Yet be not extravagant in thy attire, lest some youth shall flee from thee, saying, "Wherewithal shall I get the scads to doll up this Jane In the similitude of the fashion plate to which she is accustomed?" —Miami Metropolis. Uttle Nellie’s Practice My little girl learned to play the piano In no time. Yes, I heard her playing It that way this morning. —Boston Trans. When Pa Comes Home "Jane, did I hear Mr. Jones come In?" "No, ma’am. I think tt was only the dog growling.” —Film Fun. Read to The Good Nurse "Poor boy," remarked the lady visitor to the wounded soldier in the hospital, “you must have been through some pretty tight squeezes.* 1 "Well, ma'am," he replied, blushing uncomfortably, “the nurses here have been pretty good to me.” —American Legion Weekly. Sister in Full Style “How did you happen to take up Dick all of a sudden?” "He goes so well with my new spring suit.”* .. —American Legion Weekly.
Heard in Smoking Room
HE smoking room was talking about business barometers. _, j One said the steel market was an unfailing Index; another was sure that the provision market in Chicago was a sure index; then a fellow In the corner told this one: "Bob Burdett, when he left lowa to run a funny column in New York,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
/QOM SIMS I-- - Says Loud ties make almost as much noise as squeaky shoes. * * * Very few of the autos left at home on Sunday afternoon are able to run at all. * * * Tall girls don’t marry as quickly because they have to stoop to make a man kiss them, * • * Winter is better than summer. You car always put on more clothes, but can t always take off more. • * • All of us would be patient if it didn’t take so much patience. * * • Pedestrians have the law on their side all right, but the autos hit them from behind. • • * Two dogs went mad downtown in Philadelphia, not, however, because they sow where they were. • • • Georgia man who wondered if the $5,000 he had in a coffee pot would be stolen found it would. • • • The future becomes the past before you realize it is the present. • • • Report that Geniiany pulls up old well holes to get zeros for paper money is not true. • • # Weeds, it seems, have about won their annual race against the vegetables. • * • There are about 110,000,000 people In the United States trying to get a little cooler. • • • Happiness Isn’t scarce. It just isn’t being used much.
Indiana Sunshine
Dogs are getting their feet paved In Bloomington. Streets have been heavily oiled and residents are reporting the dogs run In the streets collect a large sticky mass of the oil which Is almost Impossible to remove cfter it has dried. Because It Is alleged he tried to sell a low grade flour, unlabeled and fit only for hog feed. Jesse D. Kirkpatrick, manager of the Bartholomew County Shipping Association, was fined S6O for violating the State foodstuffs law The charge was brought by C. O. Baker, assistant to the State chemist of Purdue, but citizens believe Kirkpatrick did It unintention ally. A 115 year-old cabin In Franklin County, the birthplace of Gen. P. A. Kackleman, the only Indiana general killed during the civil war, Is to be removed to the city park at Ruehville. The cabin Is well preserved except the clapboard roof, only onelialf of which remains. Because there is so much spooning at night along the country roads around New Albany the better class of citizens are hesitating to use these roads after night. This is according to Sheriff Jacob Yenowine. Vandals with an appetite for ripe tomatoes and evidently the vines also, have begun work In Alexandria. Raids have been made on manv tomato patches In the vicinity, where the culprits have damaged much of the crop. July Is two thirds over and not a case of typhoid has developed In Greensburg Health Officer J. 1,. Allen says that he does not believe that typhoid would be as widespread as last year. Franklin seemed quiet today. More than one hundred college summer school students left for their homes after attending the sessloh which began April 30. However, there is 250 that will not leave until after the end of the summer term. Aug. 10. Livy Young. Franklin, Is In possession of a genuine old-fashioned horse hair chest. It. was the possession of his grandfather, and will be one of the exhibits at the Johnston County centennial celebration this fall. Young’s grandfather used it as a sea chest, when he worked his way down the Mississippi River on a small freighter while still a boy. As to the Tariff Naturally the Democrats will howl all they're worth about the low price of agricultural products—with wheat costing more to grow than the farmers can sell It for. The Republicans, when they went Into power, put the tariff away up. saying the farmers would benefit by plenty of protection. Prices of everything the farmers have to BUY have stayed high, but prices of things they have to SELL have slumped. The Republicans claim It would have been worse, yet, but for the tariff. This doesn’t satisfy the farmers, judging by the Minnesota senatorial election result. The farm bloc leaders dictated the tariff, in so far as agriculture was concerned, so they can’t arraign the Republicans with a very good grace, but the Democrats can. They said all along that the tariff increases were a had thing. As Between Girl “Cats" Edith: Dear Jack is so forgetful. Betty: Yes; it keeps me busy reminding hiim you are the girl he is engaged to. —Boston Trans.
twenty-five or thirty years ago. said his best girl lived over in Brooklyn and he used to take Sunday dinner with the family. The girl’s father was an undertaker. “Bob said he could always tell that business had been good during the ff week, if they had ice on the butter.”
HARVESTER TRUST BACK ONCE MORE Daugherty Waits Three Years to Break Monopoly on Implements. By JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent r~l ASHINGTON, July 26. The \X/ harvester trust is with us V again. Attorney General Daugherty has started out to have the; trust dissolved and to break the grip of the International Harvester Company Tn the farm implement business. The puzzling thing is why the Attorney General waited so long to bring suit. Three years ago, the Federal Trade Commission recommended the Attorney General bring suit to dissolve the trust. The commission made i most exhaustive report which established conclusively the trust had a monopoly on the farm implement business, that through Its subsidiary corporations and its manufacturing and sales organizations, it collected an excess profit from the farmers. Daugherty Takes Notice Three years later —or just the other day—Daugherty took notice. Some connect the filing of the suit with the recent political situation In Minnesota and the farmer political uprising. And what will the suit accomplish? Back in 1911, just after the old bureau of corporations had made a study of the harvester combine, suit was brought to dissolve the trust. That suit was intended to bring about a condition such as the Federal trade commission recommended In 1920. But what happened? The case Was brought in the lower courts. The Harvester Corporation Immediately made a proposal for a settlement. a proposal which would not have resulted In breaking the control of the trust- The proposal was rejected. The lower court upheld in most particulars the request of the Government Then the trust appealed to the Supreme Court. Argued and Reargued It was argued and reargued and finally in place for a decision in 1918. Then came an announcement the attorney general had reached an agreement with the trust. The agreement, another 'me of those "consent decrees.” such as developed in the meat, packer case, merely caused the trust, to let go of two minor subsidiary organizations which were then a very small factor in the trust operations and which were grow-lng less and leas each year.
What Editors Are Saying
McCray (Richmond Item) We wish that Warren T. McCray, as Governor of Indiana, had always shown aa much respect for considerations of the public welfare, as he Is showing in this proposed prize fight. The law of Indiana says that no prize fights shall be held in this State. And the Governor says that, so long as that Is the law, he will not allow the fight to be held. The public opinion of the whole State demanded the passage of a law forbidding that dangerpus and deadly Speedway race from being held on Memorial day. The Legislature passed the bill. But Governor McCray was not so tender of publio opinion, then. He vetoed the hill—to please a little gang at Indianapolis. -I- -J- -JHuh? (Alexandria Times Tribune) Indiana ought to elect a man to the United States Senate who will see to It that every man, woman and child In the State Is given fried chicken, sponge-cake and a ticket to the theater at least twice a week. Whf not try and persuade Brookhart of lowa to come here? • * • 'Jokes’ (Decatur Daily Democrat) The news comes from Indianapolis that Senator Watson, ex-Senators New and Beveridge, ex-Governor Goodrich, Governor McCray, Larry Lyons, Ed Jackson and various other leaders of factions In the Republican party are now just loving each other almost to death. It’s really one of the best jokes of the season. Go ahead, boys, some day we’ll tell one. •• • , Wheat (Lebanon Dally Reporter) The price of wheat Is now like the prloe of hogs, on the days when the supply taken to the market exceeds the demand, the price is low. Hold the wheat and watch the price go up. Whether this can be done this year, even with the help of Uncle Sam, In time to help the farmers Is a big question. But If the farmers get discouraged and quit rajsing such large quantities of food products, then the poor consumer will be the one who is crying out. Somebody always gets It. • • • Grief (Muncie Evening Press) An Indianapolis woman attempted to commit suicide because her husband would not take her to a ball game Sunday, which suggests the thought that nobody knows how small a thing in his own eyes may be very big in another's and that even deep grief is a comparative thing. The circumstances of the husband’s refusal are not known, but we may easily infer that the wife had thought and planned .to attend that ball game as a bright spot in a week of drabness. Perhaps her household duties had been tedious and exacting; maybe she had been engaged in other work equally monotonous. Os course sh/3 should not ha.ve taken this matter so seriously, for there were to l*e other days and other amusements —even other tall games, If that sport was her preference—but doubtless grief weighed upon her because of this disappointment to so great An extent that she could see little ahead of her that was cheering.
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You can ret an answer to any <jue* ’.ion of tact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington bureau. 1322 N Y. Avenue. Washington, D V,.. irc.oeinsr 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 bo answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. Can a porcupine shoot its quills? No. What, really happens is that the porcupine. In protecting Itself, swishes its tall around and sticks the quills In the animal attacking it. On getting ajway, the animal pulls the quills out. That is done so quickly that It appears as If the quills had been shot from the porcupine. I think there is radium in the soil on my farm. How can I get an analysis? Send one or two pounds to the bureau of mines, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., for a free examination. When and where was Sir Edward Carson born? In 1854, In Dublin, Ireland. What is the difference between Syrian and Assyrian? Assyria was the ancient name of the country’ between the Armenian mountains In the north and the alluvial plains of Babylonia in the south, the Tigris In the west and the mountains of Kurdistan In the east, as well as the empire ruled by the Assyrian kings, and including a varying extent of adjacent territory. Syria is traditionally the region lying between the Euphrates and the Srian desert. This region now forms a part of Asiatic Turkey. There is no connection whatever between the word Assyrian and Syrian. It Is an accidental similarity. What are the Bad Lands? Unconsolidated rocks that have been extensively eroded. In such regions rain falls only during short periods, and then the storm waters erode the Incoherent rock that is unprotected by vegetation, resulting in the formation of a series of valleys, most of which are dry’ during the greater part of the year. The best examples of Bad Lands are found in the upper portion of the Missouri drainage basin, in the vicinity of the Black Hills. They occur also to a lesser extent in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The name, "Bad Lands," Is a literal translation of "Mauvkises Terras," a term used by the FrenchCanadian trappers, who first visited the region. How much gold is kept in the United States treasury In proportion to the gold certificates In circulation? Always sufficient to redeem all gold certificates at their face value. In introducing a relative whose name is the same as your own Is it necessary te repeat the surname? No. this Is unnecessary. For example, you may say, "Miss Harper, do you know my sister, Mary?” But If the name Is different, particular pains should be taken to pronounce It, as for example, "Miss Harper, this is my sister, Mrs. Thomas.” What makes rain cool on a hot day? Moisture is always present In the atmosphere ir. very fine mist-like drops, and it requires a current of cold air to condense it into rainciouds. Cold being necessary to cause rain, the raindrops themselves are cold. Another reason !s that the air at the height from which the rain falls is much colder than that near the surface of the earth, which Is warmed by the gun’s heat radiated back, and not by the sun’s ray? direct. The farther the air is from the earth the colder It becomes. What is Sir Oliver Lodge’s address? Mariemont. Edgbaston. England. How are begonias cultivated? They thrive in ordinary garden soil with little cultivation. Water sufficient to keep them from wilting, but do not keep the ground too moist, as this wall cause the roots to rot. They thrive In moderate sunlight and ordinary living room temperature.
The Silly Season
Behind the Mask By BERTON BRALEY Vou can’t always tell by their faces How people are feeling within, For pain doesn't always leave traces, Nor joy always show in a grin. You find that each life has its leaven Os things that go ill or go well. We each have our own little heaven. We each have our own little hell. if every man told you his story, His innermost secrets and hopes. His moments of uttermost glory. The depths in which blindly he gropes. You’d find, were he seventy-seven Or still In youth’s glamorous spell, He lives In his own little heaven. He writhes in his own little hell. It may be that sometime hereafter We'll come to a final reward, A paradise thrilling with laughter, A hades of tortures abhorred; But anyhow, life has its leaven Os sorrows and blisses as well; We each have our own little heaven, We each have our own little hell. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
Science
It Is reported the remains of the Trinll man of Java are to be brought tc the Smithsonian Institute at Washington D. C. This announcement has arroused great Interest In the scientific world. The Trinll man, about which there Is much mystery. Is perhaps, a million years of age. It was not really a man but a specimen of an extinct species, called Pithecanthropus erectus, an erect ape, almost a man. The few bones composing this specimen are owned by Dr. Eugene Dubois, of Haarlem. Holland. They have been locked in a safe since 1891. Even scientists have not been allowed to see them. Dr. Dubois has said that he was keeping them to complete his studios of the subject. Many of the theories of evolution of man have been around these remains. Their liberation may settle many disputed questions.
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THURSDAY, JULY 26,1923
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To the Editor of the Times: I want to congratulate you on your "Hogs and Gentlemen' editorial denouncing autoists who do not dim their lights as another machine approaches.. The bright light hog is a menace to the community. We also have with us the parking hog, the non-stop hog and the child driver. An editorial on these evils would be beneficial to the public and "* the sane driver. Keep up the good work. J. W. FRIDAY. Lemcke Bldg.
Animal Facts
In naming our birds and animals we have made some awful "breaks.” A ground-hog is not a hog a tall, but a burrowing rodent or rat. Same for the prairie dog. This sociable little fellow doesn’t resemble a dog In any way. He is Just plain rat. The caribou Is the common American rein deer. Our elk is not an elk at all, but wapiti deer. The true elk Is a European animal, quite different from ours. The nlghthawk is not a hawk at all, but a member of the whip-poor-will family. The seaswallow Is the common tern and the black woodcock is none other than the pileated wood-pecker. And there are many other misnomers. The male wren does not work at nest-building. The female “carries the hod,” but she won’t do It unless her gentleman friend sings to her while she toils. As long/ aa he sings she will carry straw, and often she gathers enough material to build dozens of nests where only One is needed-
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