Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1923 — Page 4

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SCHOOL BOND VICTORY mHE fight for decent school buildings in Indianapolis has been won. Unless something unforeseen happens, work can be started on those buildings very soon. The Times is proud to say it had a leading part in that fight. The fight has been a long and bitter one. The Times was the only newspaper that continuously and consistently kept up the battle. More than two years ago the proposal was made that bonds be issued for school buildings. Immediately opposition started. The opposition was largely from agencies which sought to control the school board and had failed to do so. They sought to discredit the board at the expense of innocent children, A remonstrance was filed. A “taxpayers’ league” was formed and an organized effort against the building program was conducted. Charges of extravagance were made. One of the petty objections that was given great publicity was the fact that a few rivets in the iron work of a school building had been painted with gilt paint when they would have served the same purpose without the paint! So the bond issue was turned down and the children suffered! But the battle was not over. The Times took up the fight again last fall. It insisted on decent school buildings. The school board, discouraged by previous defeat, hesitated, but finally agreed to try again. Again the opposition started, "but opposition was more difficult by this time. Public sentiment was being aroused and parents were objecting to their children being housed in miserable shacks. A committee of the Chamber of Commerce was appointed to look into the program. A report derogatory to the school board was made, but nothing ever was done about it. The Chamber of Commerce quickly abandoned its part in the controversy and apparently forgot it. Things progressed smoothly. Then, when the board was about ready to go ahead and issue the bonds, fourteen persons, only one of whom has children of school age and one of whom does not live in the city, signed a remonstrance. But by this time public sentiment was fully aroused. It quickly became apparent the remonstrance would not be successful. A hearing was held before the tax board Wednesday. Not one of the remonstrators appeared, where on the previous occasion they had been present in great force with lawyers who spoke for them. This time they did not face public opinion. The hearing lasted less than an hour. The new school buildings will not solve entirely the problem of providing for Indianapolis children. Building has been hi a standstill too long for one project to remedy the situation. But the present program will solve the problem in the eight com munities where it is the most pressing. It means hundreds o? pupils will have well heated, well lighted and well ventilated buildings. The Times feels Indianapolis is making a constructive movement forward.

PASTE THIS IN YOUR HAT A r ”""‘l S this coal strike talk gets more and more confusing, here is one thing, at least, that can be remembered as a sort of land mark—Samuel Warringer, spokesman for the anthracite mine owners, says that to grant the wage demands of the miners would add $90,000,000 per year to the labor cost of mining. Warringer also says that if this wage increase is granted it will be necessary to pass the expense on to the public by adding $2 a ton to the consumer’s price. The United States coal commission finds that the annual output of anthracite is between eighty and ninety million tons per year. Adding $2 a ton would add between $160,000,000 and SIBO- - to the public’s bill. Os tiiis the miners would get $90,000,000 and Mr. Warriner and others in the coal business would keep the remaining $70,000,000 or $90,000,000. Mr. Warriner’s warning that “the public must pay the high wages” is intended to incline public opinion against the miners, but when it appears that an advance in wages of $1 is to be used to club the public for an additional dollar— Well, that is passing on labor cost with a vengeance. CRIME IS RUNNING RAMPANT mHE rapidly growing disregard for human life throughout the United States, and especially apparent in Indiana at this time, is one of the gravest problems that society has to deal with. In one edition of The Times this week were accounts of suicides, murders, wholesale accidents and several persons seriously wounded because of the activity of some of the all too prevalent bandit. The murder of William Van Camp, Franklin County sheriff, who was killed by bandits while performing his duty, is fresh in the minds of Indianians. Shall this also be entered in the records as another “unsolved mystery?” Detroit bandits fired recklessly into a crowd, seemingly caring as little if the bullets hit and killed their victims as they would if they missed. Result, three wounded. The same gang killed a policeman a few hours later. A Chicago girl admits she joined a band of outlaws because she had a “craving for thrills.” Such thrills lead to dangerous results. So long as murderers remain unpunished we can look forward to recklessness growing to limitless dimensions. If our departments of justice are too small to carry on their work they should be augmented with more agents. Every citizen should make it his duty to aid these departments by reporting even the slightest clews that would help in solving many of our “unsolved mysteries.” WHAT the farmers need is a weed-eating insect. A WATCH has 160,144,000 ticks a year. This is more than a cow. NEVER hide bootleg booze under the bed. Imagine what a buneh of drunk bedbugs could do? ✓ GIRAFFES see behind without turning their heads. Boys think teacher looks like a giraffe.

REASON FOR MINE BODY DISCUSSED William Green, Secretary, Defends Organization of Coal Diggers. By WILLIAM GREEN, Secretary, United Mine Workers of America. 1 SIDE from the purely comI mercial aspect of the matter, there is the humane phase of it which cannot be overlooked. The only capital which the miner has to invest is his labor and the only protection he possesses is his economic power. He can only successfully exercise his economic strength through organization. Through organization he has raised his living standards, secured protective legislation and promoted his moral and material welfare. Without organization the condition of the mine workers would be deplorable Indeed. While most employers wish to treat their employes fairly and establish decent living standards among them, there are some who still believe in the master and servant rule, who regard labor as a commodity to be purchased at the lowest possible price and to be exploited at will. As in every industry, therefore, there are in the mining industry good and bad employers, none of which should have the authority arbitrarily to fix the wages and working conditions which their employes must accept. Each Has Rights Those who work and serve in industry are as essential to success as those who operate and manage the industry. Each has rights which the other should respect. Neither should become a dictator, because that would be autocracy In industry, something which Is repugnant to the American sense of fair play. The success of the coal industry and. In fact, that of every industrial enterprise must rest securely upon the fundamental principle of coopera tlon and good will. The relationship of employer and employe ought to be harmonious and reciprocal In all that pertains to their common welfare. There should be perfect understanding ar.d thorough cooperation. This can be brought about in the coal Industry through complete organization and collective bargaining based upon union recognition. Union Means Stability Summing it all up. union recognition means collective bargaining, wage contracts for fixed periods of time, efficiency, the substitution of reason and business methods for force and subjection, and the establishment of stability In Industry resulting in guaranteed production, while nonunionism means inefficiency. uncertainty, industrial guerrilla warfare, strikes (beacuse men long held in subjection will ultimately fight for the right to belong to a union and for union recognition), and the lowering of the American standard of citizenship. Human experience shows that responsibility sobers men so that they seriously consider their obligations and duties to themselves and their fellow men. They hesitate under the weight of such responsibilities to incur public displeasure and to fly In the face of public opinion. Then hack of it aJI Is the powerful Irresistible force of public sentiment. It is the court which, after all. compels recognition. No organization or group of men can successfully carry out a movement which Is opposed to public sentiment, and vice versa, organizations and groups of men are compelled to respond to* the demand of crystallized public opinion in an affirmative way.

Animal Facts

Niagara Falls power people are badly fussed because squirrels, playing with the wires, ground the electrical current to distant Rochester. They aren't half as fussed up as the squirrels. Arctic owl, with a spread of six feet, sometimes visits as far south as Puget Soundq. This giant bird Is known to attack men. Gray fox likes fruit and often visits California orchards to eat the windfalls. He can climb a tree, too, but doesn’t if the eating's on the ground. The fisher which is still found in many parts of the United States is not a marten, but, with that swift animal, is a member of the weasel family. In fact, the flisher uses the marten for dinner purposes. He makes his home in trees and is ffo incredibly speedy that he eaul/y catches the agile squirrel. Eight thousand of him go into the fur trade every year. Howard Middleton, wild life photographer, caught snapshot of an Airedale and a skunk at the moment when they were preparing for battle. Skunk won easily, with Towser putting all he had into his legs. Dr. Hornaday, veteran zoologist and animal lover, rises to Indignant pitch because 200 little squirrels, enjoying life, must meet death to furnisti one lady’s hack with the well known squirrel coat. Three to five millions of newly hatched trout planted yearly In Yellowstone Park lakes and streams. Let’s go! Every well regulated farm should have an owl tennant. He averaged two noxious rodents a day as food. If a field mouse Inflicts only one cent’s worth of damage to crops, your owl will consume $7 worth of mice per year.

Heard in Smoking Room

They were talking about Ireland. “The trouble over there,” said the hardest smoker, “is the large number of Irish there." “That reminds rne of the two society* women and one Irish woman I saw on a train out of Albany recently,” said smoker No. 2. The society women had met on the train by accident and they occupied the same seat in order that they might visit and gossip. In the seat immediately back of them was a corpulent Irish wojjyac with a lot of baskets. “ 'Where did you spend your

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(90M SIMS | Says ty 7j EEKS says we may have a yy new war. Hope nob But if we do, we want anew sergeant, also. • • • J. P. Morgan has gone to Europe. He knows where our money is. • • • Movies are great educators. Washington grocer chased a robber away with pickles and pies • • • A tunnel 178 miles long will be built in the Rockies. How nice for honeymooners. • * * Washington statistics show divorces increasing. Marriage ties, it seems, are beau knots. • • * Minneapolis man claims he has worn a straw hat fifty years. May be the one he bought this spring. • • • A Brooklyn man left a will of only thirty-three words, the strange part being he was a lawyer. • • • Detroit woman was arrested with five kegs of beer. But fall will be here soon now. • • • Beauty makers in convention say women will quit wearing hats. No such good luck is possible. • • • Ruby Miller, English actress, says Americans are poor love makers. But we are practicing. • • • The Gideons report many Bibles being stolen, by people ignorant of what they are taking. • • • "Wife Fails to Appear”—headline. It seldom happens. • • • In New York, a girl got five years for stealing a nickel; a man four years for taking $2,000,000. Men are better paid. * • • Washington rum runners use mustard gas against cops. That’s better than selling it. • • • China has shipped us sixty-one tons of mah jong. Could have been worse. It wasn’t chop suey. • • • Two houses were dynamited in Cleveland. At first they thought it a presidential boom.

Indiana Sunshine

Any one raise any that’s taller? Fred C. Bieber, a farmer of Tippecanoe, says that he has grown a stalk of com rpeasuring thirteen feet and five Inches In height. The stronger sex broke Into the bathing beauty class at Washington Park beach at Michigan City. The "Sheik of the Beach" was the title contested for by male bathers when they recehtly paraded before a large crowd. No longer will Vincennes streets be used as private garages. Anew ordinance which prohibits the parking of machines on the street all night long Is being enforced. Bermon Hailfy of Ft. Wayne was to be tried for speeding. He asked for a continuant of the case In order to get mart \ 1 So the judge gave him a wedding present and continued the case Indefinitely. The Tipton Countv Historical Association, which Is making an effort to mark spots of early history in Tipton County, have pjaced a huge bowlder on the site of the log cabin in which pioneer residents met and organized the county In 1844. Observations Jim Jeffries, ex-prize fighter, thinks he still has a punch, and so he is going to preach. Dr. Koo has been made foreign minister In China. A man with a name like that would be of great aid to Germany, it seems. Harvard College will have four new lizards, but not of the usual lounge species. That newly Invented cycleplane is an improvement. It can’t kill more than one at a time. President Coolldge Is both an early riser and a self-riser. Senator Cummins says opinion on the coal situation has not yet crystallized. Give it about three months more and then you will be able to see It on the window panes. “What is a home?” asks a writer. Well, it Is a cigarette atmosphere Into which a man goes with his golf sticks. With the papers full of pictures of Coolldge milking cows and pitching hay, how is it possible for Magnus to feel otherwise than that he has milked and lived In vain? Some twenty of our Senators are now In Europe and there is fear they will be able to get home before the war stalls them. Europe holds the non-Jtop record. It has been going It since 1914 and Is just getting Its second wind. Whole a.rmles put to slep and taken prisoner by means of anew gas Is now promised. Why wait for armies? Why not try it on nations disposed to make war?

vacation this year?' asked one society woman of the other. “ 'Oh, I went to Boston, hut I don’t like it there. There are too many Irish to suit me. Where did you spend your summer?’ " ‘Well, I went to New York, but I didn’t like it a bit. Too many Irish there, too.’ “At that moment the train slowed up for a station. The Irish woman arose, gathered up her baskets, and, as jhe turned into the aisle, she leaned over the society women and said, 'The two of yez can go to hall. Ye’ll find no Irish there.’"

WOMEN DO HARD WORK IN ENGLAND \ Girls Labor at Fourteen and Have Right to Vote at Thirty. BY JOHN W. RAPER mN ENGLAND: When a woman in England is 30 she may vote. She may go out to work when she Is 14, and if she is one of the poor she does. The school lavfs of Great Britain provide that boysl and girls shall remain in school until they are 16. unless their aid is needed by the family. Among the folk in the trades and all manual lines, with few exceptions in the Industrial centers, it is nearly always needed. / In Scotland, women and girls in the retail sale forces have almost driven the men out of the field. Women are everywhere, from clerk in the hotel to cleaner of the locomotive. They are numerous on the Glasgow street cars, both as motor-women and as conductors. Glasgow street cars were operated exclusively by women during the war and those who lost the male relative on whom they had been dependent were allowed to remain. Women Wash Windows In England, woman has not driven the man from the retail field, but she outnumbers him greatly. I have not seen any on street cars, but she Is to be found everywhere else. I have not seen a male window-washer In England excepting In London Girls of 18 or 20 wash the windows In the retail districts. They wear uniforms of coarse brown or blue cloth, short skirt, spiral loggms and caps, and carry* ladder and pall through the retail district. They generally travol in twos and threes, sometimes with a pushcart to carry the cleaning paraphernalia. The factories, woolen and cotton mills are, of course, filled with women especially the factories manufao turing light articles. You find them driving taxis ocaslon ally and running delivery cars. Girls Tend Bar ’ Meat markets with women haudUng the carcass and doing the cutting are common. More than half the bartenders are women, and women do rfearly all the serving in saloons, hotels and tearooms.

There may be dentists who carry the title of "Dr.” but I have not seen them. On all the dentists’ signs I have seen he is ‘'Mr.” Until a few years ago anybody could open a dental office and prae tice without examination or license. Then legislation provided for proper regulation and dentistry Is now recognized as a profession. Teeth Are Rad One of the results of the strange inattention to dentistry Is that the Scotch and English have the worst teeth In the world. This Is one of the first things an American notices. A number of scientists are investigating to learn why the Englishman's teeth are so poor. I>nck of attention Is one reason, but the fact is pointed out that there are many other conn tries in which the teeth are generally neglected, but none in which the percentage of bad ones is so high. A Thought God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.—Rev. 21:4. • • * j i-pi HOU canst not tell how rich a [ dowry Rorrow gives the soul, I——J how firm a faith and eagle sight of god.—Alford. Family Fun Cole Black had fallen afoul of the law and was having a preliminary conference with his attorney. "Can you prove an alibi?” asked the latter. "Al—says which, boss?’’ "Alibi. Can you prove where you were at the time the offense was committed?” “Lawdy, boss; dat's Jes' what Ah’s skeered dey’s gwlne to do'”—American Legion Weekly. Little Barbara, aged 4, was getting undressed for bed vyhen her father entered the room. It was the first time she had seen him in evening clothes, immaculate from crown to shoe-tips, and the child was strongly impressed by his appearance. “Daddy, you are the very prettiest man I ever saw,” she confided, snugfillng in his arms for a goodnight kiss. “I think you are the prettiest man there is.” “Babs, you’re a flatterer,” he laughed, by no means displeased by her appraisal. “Surely not the handsomest man In the world!" “Well, daddy,” she replied, who desires to be just above all else,” “Os course I haven’t seen God yet.”— Boston Transcript. lead to the Minister “Has our brother a pasturage yet?" asked the well-meaning but uneducated Oman. “My >rother Is a clergyman, not a cow,” i esented his college-bred sister. . —Boston Transcript. Tough On Ihuightor “I can’t decide where to hang our daughter’s diploma—the one she received for excellency in cooking.” “Well, if the meal she cooked today is a sample of what she is going to do, you had better hang that diploma in the dining room where the guests can see it and make allowances accordingly.—Judge. Dad’s Contrariness “There you are, eating that breakfast food you always said you hated.” “Yes, but this Is a free sample.”— Judge. Sister’s Fellow O. K. “My daughter is by no means poor.” “That’s all right. I’m poor enough for two.” —Judge. Father at Church “I have nothing but praise for the new minister.” "So I noticed when the plate went round.” —Film. Fun.

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You can set an answer to any question oi fact or information by writ insto the Iniiianapoiis Times' Washington Bureau. 1U22 N Y Avenue. Washington. I). C_. inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legai, 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. Where was Alla NazimoVa, Olga Petrova and Anna Pavlowa born? Alla Nazimova at Talta, Crimea, Russia; Olga Petrova at Warsaw, Poland; Anna Pavlowa at Petrograd. Russia. Is lime that has been exposed to the air for any length of time good for whitewash or fertilizer? No; after long exposure it loses its value for both purposes. What Is the description of poke weed? A large plant, branching widely, and bearing large glossy leaves and stiff bunches of white saucer-like flow-! ers, succeeded by dark purple berries which are occasionally used for ink. in autumn tin- stems assume rich shades of red and purple. These stems are violently poisonous. What is the area and general description of Tahiti? What are the living conditions there? The island comprises about 600 square miles, consisting of two unequal and nearly circular portions connected by a narrow strip i>f land. The chief town is Papeete with 4,601 inhabitants. of whom 2.126 are French. The island is mountainous and picturesque, with a fertile coast line bearing bananas, oranges, cocoanut, sugar-cane, vanilla, and other tropical fruits. The chief industries are the preparation of copra, sugar, and rum. The New Zealand Company has a monthly service connecting San Francisco, New Zealand and Australia with Papeete. Hotel accommodations are hard to get; in fact there are few places to stop. A furnished house may be rented. Living amounts to about $3 a day with a servant. This is not' the climate for an invalid, as the drainage is poor, and the nights cool and damp. Otherwise, It is found delightful. What is the rate of increase in the buffalo herds maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture? One hundred and eighteen calves have been born this season: ninetytwo on the Montana Bison Range; sixteen at Wind Cave Game Preserve, South Dakota; eight at Niobra Reservation, Neb., and two at Bully's Hill Game Preserve. North Dakota. How many persons are engaged in raising blue foxes in Alaska? There are 146 farmers, of whom ninety are in southern Alaska, twentynine in the Prince William Sound region, eight in the lower Cook Inlet region, thirteen in the KodiakAfognak region, and ten on Islands off the Alaska Peninsula.. H, C, L. It looks as If the cost of living is going to begin to dropping within the next six months. Avery definite decline In -wholesale prices has been taking place In the leading commodity markets. The down movement started in March. Since then, wholesale prices have dropped about a tenth, averaging them. It’s Just a matter of months until consumers get the advantage of such wholesale price slumps. But consumers will be out of luck If wholesale prices suddenly recover—that Is, rise to where they were in February, or higher. Many a retailer is losing slepj these nights. Substitute for Silage The Royal Agricultural Society at Cambridge recognnizes the value of silage as a cattle food, but admits that many farmers cannot afford to build silos. They have, therefore, been experimenting with clump pits dug in the ground in which the fodder is compressed and covered with earth. They think the method is going to be successful, and that preserving silage in this manner will become an economical process tor the average farmer.

Wham ! !

The Lesson BY BERTON BRALEY He seemed to be a sissy-boy, A prissy boy, A silly boy; His hands were white. His figure slight, His voice a trifle shrill; He seemed a good example of, A sample of A "Willie-boy” In every way That one could say, He seemed to fill me bill! The boys began to joke with him, They spoke with him <tuite airily; He blushed bright pink And seemed to shrink Within his girlish skin; Till someone used a blighting word, A fighting word. Then, verily, All in a jiff It seemed as if A cyclone started in! The gang that had been chiding him And riding him All lay about; And much amaze Was in the gaze Os every battered lamp; “My words,” the kid said, “prize or not— It's wiser not To play about With any gee Who is, like me, At present—lightweight champ!” (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service. Inc.) t rom the J Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE Annie. Do you want to buy the home of Annie Laurie, the bonnie lassie about whom -we all have sung so often? It's offered for sale, over in Scotland. The English fear that some American millionaire will buy it. He’d probably Install a radio and enough other contraptions to ruin its natural charm. Americans have the money. And the way they’re buying art treasures and historical relics is the nightmare of Europeans. The hand of destiny wears an iron glove. Barnum So-called “super movie films” are to he exhibited on Broadway at $2 a ticket. Any one with his eyes open could see this coming, though the movie should be dirt-cheap entertainment because it has the advantage of quantity production. However, - movies at $2 admission fee will probably play to packed houses. Americans are extremists In everything. , W’fe buy because the prica is too chert p or too high. Mex Mexico offers, to all its adult citizens, land. Property owned by the government is thrown open, for this purpose, barring reservations. In a general way. If a Mexican doesn’t soon own a patch of land It’ll be his own fault. The Obregon government Is wise. Its land action is insurance against the most dangerous form of discontent. The man who owns the land on which he lives with his family Is rarely a revolutionist. Corsets Women should wear corsets, urges Dr. John Oberwager of the New York City Health Commission. He claims corsets have “both a curative and preventive value In relation to women’s health. Few women have adequate support for the liver, which has one-thirteenth the weight of the entire body, and the stomach. I think the best support is the corset." All of which Is confusing to women who were told—when the corset was in fashion—that is was extremely injurious to the health. The corset is an artificial unnatural instrument of torture, and generations of wearing it have weakened the fair sex so that some sort of support may be necessary for most of them. Real danger Is In extremes. The wasp mUst, for Instance.

THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 1923

What Editors Are Saying

Miles (Kokomo- Dispatch) Somebody says what the world needs today is more miles to the gallon. Respectfully referred to a prom- ; inent candidate for president, who is in position to do something about the matter. hTc, l. (Alexander Times-Tribune) Living costs in the United States in the month of July this year were ; 61.9 per cent, higher than in 1914. Between June 15 and July 15, of this year, there was an increase of 1.8 per cent. We have noticed tha: | neither ham. pork chops nor liver sausage declined in price with the decline in live hog prices. We also noticed that watermelons are priced only for the plutocrat, plasterer? plumber and hod-carrier. Farmers (Franfort News The cotton farmers down south are glad wheat is low, and the wheat farmers up north are glad cotton is lew. So Doth have something to be happy oevr. Fights (Decatur Democrat) [ Prize fighting does not seem to trt very profitable In Indianapolis. Firpo received only half the amount promised him and most of the others who had bills got less in proportion. Tlie fans did not respond in great numbers, the fake part being made too plain ahead of time, but at that the participants probably received forty times more than the show was worth. Science A giant tortoise, weighing 400 pounds, has been captured In the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, by William Beebe of the New York Zoological Society. This tortoise represents a former geological era. It lives to a great age, and feeds on a cactus peculiar to the islands. Darwin, founder of evolution, visited the islands and tells of these strange tortoises In the “Voyage of the Beagle.” Tortoises are among the most per- : fectly arm Dred animals. They are nearly Invulnerable; very slow in growth and movement and perhaps the most enduring of all animals. They are famous for their tenacity of life. A turtle's heart will beat for several days after he has been killed. The head will live for hours after being severed from the body. This is due to the great hold on life that is shown locally by the tissues. The tortoise attains a larger size than a turtle. It Is a vegetarian. Yankee Yankee genius, by inventing newfangled Improvements, is counteracting the cheap products threatening us from Europe. So chuckles Dow Sendee, business experts. Yankee ingenuity became famous long before the fabled Connecticut gentleman sold wooden nutmegs. It can be counted on to save us from almost any sort of international industrial peril. Inventiveness is the most outstanding of all American traits. We create. Others imitate. Often they improve. That’s not always so, but it’s average true. Joy * A Chicago man puts himself in voluntary bankruptcy. He owes his creditors more than four million dollars, and claims his entire personal wealth amounts to only $1.70. Most of us will consider the Einstein theory a simple matter compared with the system by which any man can actually spend over four million dollars more than he actually has. In this particular case the man concerned got Into the hole by signing other people’s notes. Not a bad thing to remember indelibly when you are asked to "go good" for another party, a common way of getting stung.