Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1923 — Page 4

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FILMS AS TRAFFIC LESSONS EESSONS in driving are being given Indianapolis vehicle law violators by Judge Delbert 0. Wilmeth of the city court and police department. They are being shown through motion picture# and lectures the dangers of speeding, failing to stop at boulevards and other traffic violations. This practice should be effective. It takes something concrete, something that can be visualized, to cause some drivers to realize the dangers of violating traffic rules and the reasons for traffic rules. • In some cities traffic rule violators, particularly speeders, have been sentenced to visit persons maimed by reckless drivers. This practice goes the Indianapolis system one better. It certainly should be effective. U. S. REWARDS LOYALTY FI OR forty-one years Walter N. Leonard carried mail in Indianapolis. Now he has been rewarded by being made foreman of carriers. He will no longer have to walk from door to dpor with his heavy pouch of letters and magazines. In forty-one years Leonard must have carried millions of pieces of mail. It would be interesting to know how many lives have been affected and what changes have been brought about by messages delivered from Leonard’s pouch. ! There probably have been messages of happiness and of sorrow, messages that meant money and messages that meant loss of wealth. Quarrels and reconciliations probably have passed through that worn leather bag. The mail carrier is a public servant with whom the public is op the best of terms. Leonard in his forty-one years served the public well. Now he has been rewarded with a less strenuous and more profitable job. A “LIVING” WAGE AMUEL D. Warriner, head of the anthracite operators’ committee, is quoted as saying: “We believe the wages paid anthracite miners today is a fair and just living wage.” ; Whenever an employer of labor uses that word “living” in a, controversy about wages, we know precisely what his mental attitude is toward the whole so-called labor problem. And we ajso know that it is a mental attitude that is very largely responsible for most of the difficulties between capital and labor. * It is the attitude of the feudal over-lord who looks upon his employes as retainers to be paid just enough to keep them in health to produce profits for said over-lord. • A “just and fair wage” is one thing, a “just and fair LIVING wage” is quite something else. Every man or woman who works is entitled to a just and fair wage, based upon an equitable distribution between wages apd profits .of the wealth produced. • There is no more reason for limiting wages to the mere “living” point than there is for limiting profits in the same way. * The profits of the anthracite mine owners always have been and now are extraordinarily large. They are entirely out of line v£th profits in industry as a whole in this country. I All the anthracite miners have ever got out of it is enough tp live at a certain standard decided upon by the operators, t The operators fix their own profits, fix the price the consumer must pay and refuse to raise wages on the ground that their employes are living—or words to that effect.

“THE REAL ISSUE” AN the voters make their government free again? Can ; L thej’ break the combined power of private monopoly, \ihieh controls in every department? That is the issue,” says senator Robert La Follette, and he adds: I “Thece can be no emancipation from our slavery to private n&onopoly until a majority of the voters unite on the single purpose, and cast their ballots with the one object of destroying the ifclitieal control which insures the economic control of private Monopoly over their lives and homes.” * How about that necessary “single purpose” in the United States Senate? You know, as does everybody else, that the voters can yell and vote as one man in vain, so long as there is a United States Supreme Court packed in the interests of private monopoly and dictating, by 5 to 4, what the voters shall not have as national law. The blame lies not with the people, but with their congressional representatives who do not “unite on the single purpose,” but who let “the real issue” slide and busy themselves about the secondaries and inconsequential. There ’ll be no freedom from slavery to monopoly, so long as that judicial oligarchy runs the country. Sic ’em, Bob! - JUST THE PLACE FOR MAGNUS C* ARPING critics are after Magnus Johnson again, and from a different angle. They are accusing him of inefficiency and ifccompetenej', and assert that, as a dirt farmer, he is no particular pfood on earth. ; First, there are six adults working on the Johnson farm of MO acres—four men and two women. This number is two or three times too large, say the critics. And, still worse, they add that, if the published photos be true, Magnus does not know how to deport himself at milking time and that he sits on a mowing ijiachine as if he were an entire stranger to it. : But what has all this to do with statesmanship? Nothing, iagnus may employ too many hands in his glebe-breaking and he may lack acquaintance with all of the niceties of the cow-barn, liut what boots it ? If he is inefficient and incompetent, Minnesota *as wise in electing him to the United States Senate. There he should be perfectly at home and to the manner born. * • FORD will make a ton of coal do the work of five. Might as Yell- That’s what it is paid. **• * ~ COAL Trade Journal says coal will be gone in 6,033 years. It ifiay be gone this winter. * __ _ COUNTING the cost of raising wheat, about all a farmer gets iyr his crop is the use of it. fj _______________________ FLAWLESS, the attitude of the United States toward Europe since March 4, 1923, is described by a Republican stateaijpm returning from Europe. Our every move has redounded to qjir credit. Looks like another era of “dollar diplomacy l”

POINCARE IS LEADER OF ALL EUROPE French Premier Forces Governments to Reckon With Him, BY MILTON BRONNER PARIS, Aug. 24.—Who's the most important person in the world? , All Europe makes the same'answer —smilingly or frowningly, proudly or profanely, as the case may be: “Raymond Poincare!” Upon this little 63-year-old > bearded Frenchman whose 'beard seems queerly to droop and bristle at the same time! —world eyes are focused. Some say iio will .be Europe’s salvation; others say he will be Europe's damnation. But they all agree that he’s the man to be- -reckoned with, the man who sits In the world's greatest gambling game with a "pat” hand and a “poker face.” Man of Action Lawyer, writer and master politician, this prime minister of France by virtue of France’s strategical position, its army and its air fleet governs Europe. "If Poincare remains in office,” they tell you In Paris, “every government in Europe—and America, too! —will have to reckon with him. If he falls from power his fall will have the effect of a quiet revolution In France that will have echoes all over Europe. They hate him In Germany, and they hate him In England.” What next from Poincare? This Is the way an observer in London answers the question: “If Europe Is a powder barrel. ] Poincare Is the man who Is playing with a lighted match. If Germany is full of open wounds, it Is Poincare who is poking them to keep them J open. If England is really trying to bring peace on the continent, it is Poincare who bars the way. If France actually has the only practicable plan, It is Poincare who is expected to point the way.” Highly Explosive Poincare —whose policies are the despair of the rest of Europe and his whiskers the delight of caricaturi ists here and abroad—is highly explosive both as an orator and a writer. He proved it when he was trying to bring down the Briand cabinet. Then, called to power, he had to act or swallow his words. He acted. He took France into the Ruhr. And he has Just announced be won't get out. He Is the most nicknamed person in French politics. deroenceau is simply the “Tiger.” But the list for Poincare begins with the wall known "Poincare-la-Guerre” Poincare-the- | war. Meaning, of course, that he helped bring about the war which : began in 1914. Only the other day one of the publications bitterly op- j posed to him called him: “Poincare, Polncaroff. Poincaruhr, j Polncarit.” Many Names The "roff” refers tp his bringing' about the close political and military alliance between France and Russia of the Czars. “Ruhr,” of course, refers to his taking the French army Into the Ruhr. “Rit” refers to a ; charge that not long ago. when making one of his numerous speeches in a war graveyard, he laughed. Friends ] explained that It- wasn’t really- a laugh; that the sun got In his teyfes and caused him to grimace!' j Bom In 1860, son of a government official, educated for the bar, Poincare had a long and distinguished career in the Chamber of Deputies j and afterward in the French Senate. He was president of the republic dur ing the war and Is now premier. Supported in the main by the bulk of the Parisian press, ho Is nevertheless the object of sharp attacks.. He has been described as "made sos war, made by j war."

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The gang iq the smoker had been! joking a druggist about prohibition and its effect on his business. “You can’t get anywhere with me. boys,” he laughed. "I have been kid- j ded by experts. But speaking of the old days, did you ever hear the story of the millionaire and the tramp? “No? Well, the rich man aat on a river bank In attitude of deep despair. A hobo who happened by observed his dejection and Inquired what was the matter. “ ‘Oh, I am through,’ said the man

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SIMS I | Says C'" "1 HICAGO reports improvement. Actor sang “Yes, We Have I bananas.” Audience gave him some. * • • Gasoline men have hard luck. So much on hand they have to sell at a reasonable price. * • • “Through the Wheat" is a popular book of Action. “Through With Wheat” is a popular saying. • • + Don’t even go near Deauville. French bathing beauties there are getting sunburned all over. • • * Improvement in New' York reported. One playing “Yes, We Have No Bananas” all day arrested. * • • Stay sober. Booze is dangerous. Toronto man got drunk and told about stealing $20,000. * * • Los Angeles man skated continuously forty hours, proving he must be a pretty good skate. • • • Man in Paris whistled continuously ten hours. Men in Paris have something to whistle about. • • • Bull almost gored a Mexican fighter to death. It almost bores many Americans to death. • • • United States will build five radio stations in China, which may stop sale of receiving sets here. • • • Volstead visits Europe. Prince of Wales visits Canada. All the leading humorists travel.

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Dreaming that he w'as worth oodles of money and owned stock In a bank, Chauncey Wisner got married and wrote worthless checks amounting to $3,279 to pay on anew home, furniture and an automobile for his bride. Now he’s In the observation cell at the county Jail in Ft. Wayne. There Is a growing sentiment among Greenfield citizens, recently renewed by the Klw’anls Club, for the city to purchase the land along Brandywine Creek, which includes the original Riley “Ole Swimmin’ Hole,” for a park. A freak sweet potato, grown by W. A. Greenfield, Russlavllle, has a head, nose, neck, body, two legs and a tail. • One eye Is present, but the other was evidently put out when djrt got Into it. Some say It resembles a young robin, while others declare it looks like a kangaroo. A honey bee almost cost the life of a valuable dog owned by George McBride, city engineer of Shelbyvillel. The bee lodged In the dog's throat and the animal became very ill before It was removed by a local veterinarian. A corduroy road has beeii found by workmen excavating for a sewer main at Richmond. The logs are laid close together and are from five to six Inches' In diameter. The road is a relic of the first stages of road building in Indiana. No (ires at Portland since May 10— headline. Evidently this was written before every one began to shiver in the November August breezes of the last several days. A Thought He that glveth unto the poor shall hot lack: but he that hldeth his eyes shall have many a curse.—Prov. 28:27. • • * EET him who neglects to raise the fallen, fear leaf, when he falls, no one will stretch out hi? hand to lift him up.—Saadi.

of wealth. ‘I have been everywhere. 1 have seen everything and have had every thrill. My monsy has enabled me to do whatever I pleased. Now I find there Is nothing- left. The only thing I can do Is to end It all—that is the only experience that will be new — “ "Wait a minute’ interrupted the hobo. ‘Answer me this —have you ever had the D. T.s.’ “ "fto’ said the rich man. “ ‘Well, 80, I am here to tell you that you ain’t seen nothing.’ ”

ONE THIRD OF ENGLISH IN ONE CITY London Throngs Walk Over Ruins Thousands of Years Old. t By JOHN W. RAPER I r | ONDON: A book store proI , I prietor told me the other day l. ■ -I that he had handled within the past twenty-five years not less than 100 different books on London. He felt certain that twice as many had been published. How many in fifty years He would not venture a guess, but John Burns, the great labor leader, had made the collection of books on London a hobby and his library contained several thousands. London, of course, is not England. But Greater London, composed of various boroughs has a population of 7,500,000, while the population of the territory that It Is proposed to bring in under common health regulations Is 9,600,000. Almost one-third of the population of Englnd lives ■within half an hour's train ride of the geographical center of the great city. I/egal City .Small What is known to the Londoner as the city, and Is legally the City of London, is small in both area and population. Its greatest population was seventy or eighty years ago, when It had about 150,000 residents. In 1891 It had only 13.701 residents, and the number Is smaller today. The history of London begins In mystery. The Romans were here several centuries befor Christ, just exactly when Is unknown, for they left no documents telling. Many local historians and arehaelogists believe there was a city before the time of the Romans. Evidences of Roman occupation are found eighteen feet under the level of the presnt city. Thr are buildings whose foundations in part consist of a piece of the ancient Roman wall and In the cellars of business blocks are pieces of wall preserved by the owners. Roman Bath Remains There Is in the Strand a Roman bath In an almost perfect state of preservation, fed by the ancient spring that engineers of today have been unable to locate. The city had at leact thirty such baths as late as the day of Queen Elizabeth. The city is at present a cheap commercial section, filed with shops Os all kinds, light manufacturing, publishers of high and low class, the center of the British newspaper world and Important government buildings. Step through an archway. It was built 300 years ago by Christopher Wren, an architect who did more than any other man to make I*ondon picturesque Once through the arch you are out of the city. You are in the Middle Temple, an area entirely Independent of the city. The church at which you are looking was built by the ICnlghta Templars. 800 years ago. Part of It Is new, only four or five centuries old. Dance Floor Remains Walk a few steps and you see a grave. “Here lies Oliver Goldsmith.” A dozen more steps apd an impres idve looking building comes into view. Queen Elizabeth used to dance there and the floor Is the same one upon which she stepped. An actor named William Shakespeare once appeared there. To the left Is a bulldlrtg in which Charles Lamb lived. Another short walk: Those two windows are of the room occupied by Blackstone when writing the greater part of his commentaries. Upstairs lived Oliver Goldsmith. Blackstone did most of his writing at night and along aobut 10 o'clock Oliver and a bunch of friends, all soused, would climb the tsalrs and make merry till daylight, so that poor Blackstone had j little peace. Where Johnson Ate Back to the street of the city and you find a restaurant that was one of the loafing places of authors for three centuries. Tennyson, the last great writer to frequent It, wrote a poem about It. Drop Into another restaurant and occupy Dr. Johnson’s favorlet seat. The one next was where Dickens sat when he ate there, which w-as frequently. Step Into this court. There is Boswell’s house, A few feet away in Johnson’s old house, In which he compiled the first English dictionary. Within a few minutes' walk lie the bodies of England’s greatest war he roes, Nelson and Wellington. And within ten minutes' ride is Westminster Abbey, where lie kings and queens and heroes.

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What Editors Are Saying

Obregon (Lafayette Journal and Courier) If we are going to recognize Obreger and Mexico it may be said that Obregon’s word is as good as a Mexican treaty put on paper. An upset in government in Mexico notoriously means an upset of all existing agreements. If Obregon were overthrown at any time in the future his deals, both written and oral would be swept aside. In short when dickering with Mexico one dickers only with the man who at the moment has been shaken to the precarious top. Amateurs (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) That band of Detroit stickup men evidently were amateurs. If they had waited a oouple of hours they might have got all the money in the place by emptying the pockets of the waiters and by robbing the cash registers. but getting to the resort early they had to go to the trouble of robbing the guests, which the management and the waiters would speedily have done for them. Easy (Decatur Democrat) The West Virginia man who bought another man’s wife and seven children for SIOO Is now In jail and a lot of fellows looking for an easy mark are waiting for that guy to get out. At the Waiter’s W'edding “Do you take this woman for better or for w'orse ’’ "Pahson, dis am mah fust wife. Ah don’ prezackly know how to take her.” —American Legion Weekly.