Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1923 — Page 4

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BLESSING’S FEDERAL PLUM IDGAR M. BLESSING has wisely resigned from the public service commission. However innocent he may be of any wrong intentions, his usefulness as a commissioner was ended when Mayor Shank started his tirade against him and told the story of Blessing’s visit to Clarence H. Geist, president of the Indianapolis Water Company, while a water rate increase petition was pending. Mr. Blessing will go to Washington, where he will work under Postmaster General Harry S. New. Thus he will stay on the public pay roll as Senator New remained on the pay roll after the people of Indiana decided they no longer wanted him to represent them. Doubtless Mr. Blessing’s duties in Washington will be much more pleasant than those of a member of the public service commission. OVERCROWDING AT MANUAL ry|HILE the need for improvement in the Manual Training W High School buildings is not so urgent as the need for decent housing facilities for grade school children, something should be done as soon as practical to remedy the situation there. The school board is proposing to obtain funds for this purpose through taxation. Some time ago anew building was constructed at the Manual plant. This building contains a large auditorium, lunchrooms and a gymnasium. These were to replace similar features in the old building and the rooms in the old building were to be remodeled into class rooms. The latter part of the plan has not been carried out. So the school now has two auditoriums, two gymnasiums and two sets of lunchrooms. Meanwhile, classrooms are crowded to overflowing. The need for improvement is urgent. A CHANCE FOR GIFFORD PINCHOT A1 NTHRACITE coal miners have demanded an increase in wages. Their employers have refused it. Negotiations have been broken off. The stage is set for a strike on Sept. 1. Hardship and suffering seem imminent. . Federal officials tried to head off the strike. A coal commission appointed by the President, sought tc bridge the gap between the miners and the operators, and failed. The President and his Cabinet sought means of forcing the miners and operators into agreement. They hate considered an injunction, but injunctions will neither end strifes nor mine coal. They sought to exert the pressure of public opinion, but both sides in this industrial war seem determined to fight it out regardless of public opinion. Now, the most they can do, the Federal authorities say, is aid and encourage the transportation of soft coal, a poor substitute, into the centers of population dependent upon the anthracite mines. But so far as stopping the strike is concerned, they are helpless. That admission is something. The reason the Federal Government cannot handle the anthracite crisis is that all of the anthracite deposits in the country are tucked away under less than 500 square miles entirely in the State of Pennsylvania. The anthracite industry is not interstate commerce, and interstate commerce is all that Washington can regulate, under the Constitution. That being the case, the Federal authorities might well retire at once from the anthracite trouble, and leave the solution to the State of Pennsylvania. After all, Pennsylvania is more concerned than is any other district if her mines are idle, her industries tied up, her people unemployed, much of her business at a standstill. The people of Pennsylvania, realizing this long ago, gave their Governor powers greater than those of the executive of any other commonwealth, to meet just such emergencies as this. If, then, the Federal Government should take its hands off it would give Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania a chanee to exercise his specific, lawful power to end the anthracite deadlock.

MENTAL TESTS FOR SPEEDERS RIEMEMBER when Mayor Lew Shank proposed during the days when his war on speeders was at fever heat that arrested drivers be mental tests / Well, they’re going to try out the idea, or something so near like it that it amounts to the same thing, in Pennsylvania next year. The idea may not be bad and it might help to curb, but will not cure, the speeding disease. On a floor facing the inquisitors the driver will have no trouble passing all tests. The real test would be to ride with him. The reckless ones would be entirely different. But who wants the job on such “road” tests? Who is so reckless of his own bones and life that he will accept a commission to sit in with a man gone plumb crazy over speed ? TWO can live longer than one. AS a man thinks so he is. Asa woman dresses so is she. SOME blushing June brides are still blushing over a hot stove. IT’S a wonder they don’t catch cold changing from a summer dress into a hot bathing suit. FINE feathers make fine birds. And fine feathers make sad birds when the bills come in. MISERY doesn’t always love company when it comes for dinner. . , CORN crop is good. Wheat crop is good. So is the crop of wild oats. Much cain is being raised. FORD will leave footprints on the sands of time, footprints and auto tracks, also. SILENCE is silver. Many a small brother gets a dime for keeping mouth shut. FAIRLY good nickel cigars are back. They say they have seen nothing of absent nickel bread. LONG skirts are dangerous for woaien. Short are dangerous for nten. V

LEGISLATIVE PLAN GIVEN BY OWSLEY American Legion Program for Next Congress Covers Wide Field, By ALVIN OWSLEY, National Commander American Legion mHE American Legion will present to the next Congress a program of legislation formulated to obtain justice for those who fought in the World War and to stimulate a spirit of patriotism and higher citizenship in this country. The Legion's first interest is the welfare of disabled veterans of the great war. We shall ask for legislation amending the war risk insurance act to extend the scope of hospitalization and rehabilitation to thousands of sick and wounded comrades who are unable to obtain relief under the provisions of the Sweet bill, and that Congress consider thoroughly the report of the senatorial committee named to investigate the Veterans Bureau. Farm Aid The legion wiU urge that aid be extended only to those veterans who deserve assistance. Adjusted compensation for all war fighters will be pushed by the legion and there is very little doubt that It will be granted in the next session of Congress. It is our plan to minimize the cash option of compensation and to place special emphasis upon the land settlement and farm aid features. If thousands of virile and energetic veterans could be induced to go back to the land, America would prosper from an increase in production, whereas today there are vast areas c-f land uncultivated because of an actual shortage of man power. Asa definite means of furthering world peace, and Justice to all, we shall ask Congress to adopt legislation providing for a universal draft of capital, labor and industry in all future wars, so that the man in the trenches will not bear the brunt of the conflict while those who stay at home prosper. “Select Immigrants” Believing that the safety of our institutions and democratic principles are threatened by unrestricted immigration, the Legion will ask Congress to declare an immigration holiday of five years, during which time there shall be an opportunity for those aliens who are already in our midst to embrace the Ideals of Americanism and become good citizens. Intelligent selection of Immigrants In their native lands and assistance to them in establishing themselves in America, will be recommended as future polioies following the end of the period of exclusion. The Legion feels that the unAmericanized colonies of foreigners serve as centers for the activities of ! Communists and Bolshevists, and that the interests of the country will be best conserved by restricting the flood of alien hordes from Europe. Vets’ Committee A most Important measure which we .desire Congress to enact is a resolvttion to create a special veterans’ committee in the House of Representatives, which will analyze and frame all legislation affecting veterans of the World War. This will centralize responsibility j for consideration of veterans’ meas- I ures. Under this arrangement .legis- ! lation affecting the disabled will be ! thoroughly examined by only seven- j teen congressmen, whereas now, more than 200 congressmen, serving on . eight committees, must consider this ; legislation. Congress will be aaked to extend the | same retirement privileges to the dis j abled emergency and National Guard officers which have already been ex- i tended to the regular officers of the j Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Other proposals will be authorization of an archives building in Washington in which to preserve records of the war and the distribution over the United States of the more than 3,000,000 captured and surrendered weapons of the war.

Indiana Sunshine

The Alexandria Checker Club has announced plans for a larger tournament and more games than ever during- the coming winter season. The club was organized three years ago. The early variety of Indiana pawraws are now ripe. They are found only in some parts of State and auto parties go many miles in the country in search of them. A company is preparing to film “Miss P. R. O. Gressive, of Rose City,” a movie of Newcastle. The role of Miss Newcastle will be played by Genevieve Lawless James McGee, of, lowa University, hailed at one time as one of the great tackles in the Big Ten conference is working as a hod carrier in Columbus. McGee wgs well on the way to feme when, with the death of his father, he quit school on acount of financial difficulties. Now he is keeping fit and earning money to re-enter school. Observations Nothing would frighten Prance more than to have Germany step up to the counter and pay the bill in full. The bakers say it isn’t the price of wheat that fixes the price of bread. So, it must be the yeast and water. No sooner do we approach agreement on how young a grandma can afford to be than Kansas demands to know whether a pie should be cut into six or eight pieces. And yet a scientist says we do not use our brains to more than half their capacity. No matter what the proposal, France possesses the disposition and ourage to say “No.” There would be peace in Europe were it not for the broken pieces. However, the French ofcnnot prevent the Germans in the Ruhr from being indignant.

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SIMS | Says Never stick your head out a train window’ or an auto. Another one is liable to knock it off. • * * Stylish winter dancing pumps have bells on them. This should keep other belles off of them. * * * Added to her other horrors Germany, poor Germany, is suffering with a hoopskirt revival. * • • They say the waltz will return this fall. This is the third fall they have said it. • • * The country bedbugs have enjoyed their vacations on city people very much this summer. • • • New York cop arrested a bootlegger. Sounds like a case of mistaken Identity to us. * • • Save your Palm Beach and Seersucker suits. You can wear them for underwear this winter. • • • Don’t pack up your mosquito netting. Your wife can make her a winter dress. • • • The long sVirt Is on the wane in Paris. It is chiefly on the bowlegged In America. • • • Worcester (Mass.) man bought a hill in France as a war souvenir. Bet it is counterfeit.

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can get an answer to any ques- | tton of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y. Avenue. Washington, D C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered.' bat all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. Who was “Black Patti"? Mme. Slsseretta Jones, a colored woman, who first became prominent as a singer about 1890. She sang in all the principal cities of Europe, and toured with her own oompany for nineteen years, appearing in the principal cities of the United, States, the West Indies and Central America. What are the swiftest birds? Probably the large swifts of Central America. When was the White House built and which president first occupied it? The corner stone was laid in 1792. It was ocupled in 1800 by Pres. John Adams. Who was the Cinclnnatus of the west? Byron gave this name to George Washington. It has also been applied to William Henry Harrison. What does the word “verb” mean and from what was it derived? Derived from the Latin word, "verbum" meaning “word.’’ Hence it follows that the verb is that part of speech which is the most important word, preemlnately the WORD In the sentence. The verb gives action, life, movement to the sentence. By the verb, the sentence bcomea alive. How is “valet” pronounced? The word “valet” is no longer given the French pronunciation of Val-lay, tut Is pronounced as it Is spelled in English, va-let. What is the significance of giving a tea set as an engagement present? There is an old tradition of a lover who gave his sweetheart a teacup as an engagement present before ho went on a long Journey and told her, “If I am unfaithful the cup will fill tc the brim, and the tea overflowing crack the thin china. Then you will know I have broken faith.” The custom has been brought down to us. and the gift signifies faithfulness. How many ounces of brain has a person? The average male has about fifty ounces of brain; the average female forty-four ounces. How can one get rid of green lice at the roots of asters? The best method is to use a mixture of alr-sjaked lime and tobacco dust. The dirt should be removed, with care not to injure the roots, and the mixture applied directly to them. The dirt should then be replaced with equal precaution.

Heard in Smoking Room

The train was delayed at a station end having nothing to do, the fellows ir the smoker watch a man who is evening off a newly built railroad platform. “That reminds me," said one fellow, “of a time when I was down in Beau- 1 rnont, Texas. There was a Dutchman

Saturday Night Banking Step into our nearest office any Saturday night, between 6 and 8 o’clock, and put away a few dollars in a Savings Account or a Checking Account. This Saturday night service is not restricted to receiving deposits—Withdrawals also may be made then as in the daytime. , . Jfletcljer failings anti Crust Company Northwest Comer Market and Pennsylvania Branches and Affiliated Banks 1233 Oliver Avenue 2122 East Tenth Street 1833 Roosevelt Avenue 474 West Washington Street 1641 North Illinois Street 458 East Washington Street 2069 North Illinois Street 2812 East Washington Street

PAST HELD AS SACRED IN ENGLAND Even Factories Are Antiques —Porter Still Toots _ Horn, By JOHN W. RAPER EONDON —Nothing so wrings the heart of an Englishman as giving up a thing, no matter what it may be, a building, a business, a machine, a tool, a custom, a legend, a tradition—or a colony or a mandate. You find cities that have been wedded to certain industries for centuijes. Sheffield, for instance, was a cutlery center before Chaucer’s day. He refers to the fact in none of his poems. It is still a cutlery center. You find all over Great Britain factories that are of value only as an-, trques and you wonder why the British museum has pot grabbed them. They are so inefficient that the best workmen in the world, working on the most modern machines constructed, could not keep pace with the American and German manufacturer. Factories Out of Date But instead of finding modern machinery, you find much mote that has been out of in America for fifty years. I doubt if there are a dozen razor factories which combined could possibly turn out half as many razors in a day as Henry Ford 'does autos. If a man is in business, he expects his son. grandson, and great grandsons of several generations to succeed him. Why not? His father, his grandfather and several great grandfathers were at the head of it before him. You find businesses so old that you are speechless. For example; A bell foundry in London has the same shop front it had in 1873. The firm was established in 1570. The firm that imported to Boston j the greater part of the tea that was thrown into the harbor in 1773 was 123 years old at that time. It is still in business and still has In Its vaults the .account hooks used In the early days. The London Hospital bought j tea from this firm In 1754 and Is still! a steady customer. The Englishmen clings with even i firmer grip to his customs, legends ! and traditions.

Same Old Toot Centuries ago the porter at Temple j Inn, In the heart of London now, j blew a horn at 6 p. m. to call to sup- { per the law students who might be • wandering through the woods or roaming the fields across the Thames. ! Every evening at 6, arrayed in a ; long black coat and a two-quart hat. he takes up the horn with proper solemnity and toots a couple of notes which, In the city din, can’t be heard a foot away. In about 1550. Edward VI gave j some money to a sehodl for clothes ! for the students and directed that (they wear a long blue coat, yellow Stockings, tan shoes, a certain Ptyle of short breeches and a white neckpiece of peculiar cut. They were to j wear no hat. You meet the students; j occasionally in the streets, wearing j j this costume. There Is a church that received an : | endowment several hundred years > i ago, the income to be used in buying j I bread for the poor. There is a ] bread line at the church every Sun- . day morning.

Science

Mme. Curie, co-dlscoverr with her husband of radium, is a member of a committee appointed by the ministry of hygiene of France to investigate a peculiar law suit. ’ A doctor Installed one of the latest and most powerful X-ray machines. A man living across the street from the doctor sued him. He claimed the X-rays crossed the street and penetrated his dwelling and that he was injured by constant exposure to the rays. The committee is endeavoring to discover the amount of damage that could be_ caused by ray a traveling that distance. The new X-ray machines, used in treatments, operate on a voltage of 250,000 and give off highly peentratlng rays, capable of passing through copper. These machines, unlike those used in making X-ray pictures, are run continuously, and It is possible that they could Inflict damage on the human body at the distance claimed in‘the stilt. They are used mostly In treatments for cancer.

working on a platform. He sawed the wood and fitted it a few times and soon rose, threw away the lumbei and sat down, disgusted. Going over o him I said: ‘What’s the matter, Fritz?’ “The apswer was: ‘I sawed that tarn board off tree times already and it’s too short yeti’"

Editor’s Mail The editor Is willing to print view* of Times readers on interesting subjects. Make your comment brief. Sign your name as an evidence of good faith. It will not be printed if you object. To the Editor of The Timee I appeal to the sympathy of city eouncilmen and ask them to limit in some way the use of the “siren whistle" that is used by almost all motorists. I feel the use of them should be limited to fire trucks and ambulances. NICHOLAS FIELD. To (he Ilight To the Editor of The Timee Would it not be a good idea for women'B clubs, and men's too, to taka up the question of every one keeping to the right on sidewalks? Street crossings are so marked, but few persons pay attention thereto. It would be a good thing, especially in busy hours. _ C. L. DAVENPORT, Women; Votes; .lobs To the Editor of Thr Timee In answer to a letter appearing in the Times August 22; I can’t see how women voting and women taking men's places can mean the same. It seems to me that all American citizens should have the right to vote. Is not our Government a Government for the people, by the people, and not for the men, by the men? Our writer in saying the war was fought and won by the men seems to have forgotten the Red Cross work ers and their wonderful relief, -the Salvation Lassies with their words of cheer and brave help, and the dear mothers’, the wives', sisters’ and sweethearts’ constant work, making clothing and bandages, and even working in the fields and factories to provide for the men who were fight-

INDIANA STATE FAIR Day and Night — Starting, Sept. 3 Seventieth Annual Exhibition Every Department Filled to Overflowing*—Rich Educational and Entertainment Programs Every Day Concerts by Royal Scotch Highlanders* Band Four Trotting and Pacing Races Daily Arena Shows of Pure Bred Live Stock Open Air Vaudeville at Races

Features for Women (At Woman’s Building) Stylo Shows of Clothing and Shoes, Fine Arts, Needlework, Craftsmanship, Culinary Displays, Daily Lectures by “ Noted Indiana Women, Better Babies Contest, Concerts by Claypool Hotel Trio.

Auto and Mercantile Exposition The Manufacturers’ Building will be filled to capacity with Motor Cars of newest models and accessories. Extensive displays of mercantile products by Indiana manufacturers and retailers.

Blue Ribbon Candidates Thousands of contestants for the Fair’s highest awards on Draft ana Show Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Goats. Two large arenas in the new $165,000 Swine Pavilion, with the largest show of pure-breds ever held In Indiana. Special shows by Calf, Pig and Lamb Clubs. Immense show of Poultry and Rabbits.

ADMISSIONS REDUCED TO PRE-WAR BASIS General Gate Admission, 50c- General Admission After 6 p. m., 25c; Children, 7 to 12 years, 25c (free Tuesday); Vehicles with parking, 50c; Grandstand, General Admission day and Night, 50c; Reserved Seat, 75c; Box Seats, sl. Coliseum Night Show, General Admission with Reserved Seat, 50c; Box Seat, 75c. Advance seat reservations at Huder’s Drug Store, Washington and Pennsylvania Sts. HARRY M. MOBERLY, President 1. NEWT BROWN, Secretary

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ing and their children while they were away. Who would not give them credit for having at least helped In winning the war? Were times really better when men j were the head of everything? What j times? Isn't it true that since the beginning of our Nation we have ha/I , war and peace, panics and prosperity, ! very much the same as we are hav- , ing at the present? In regard to men stepping out and letting women make the living, I am sure that many men aa well as women realize that home duties which last from daylight until dark—oooklng, washing dishes, sweeping, mopping, laundry and the care of children—count fully as much toward making a living as the eight hours a day in an office. Home work is much more strenuous, and there is no-won-der that some men wish to keep the women there, and retain the office work for themselves. I venture to say the writer of the letter I am answering does not like to wash dishes. BELIEVER IN EQUAL RIGHTS. A Thought Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.—Gal. 6:1. • • • S 1 ” "I AID General Oglethorpe to Wesley, “I never forgive.” L___J “Then I hope, sir," said Wesley, “you never sin.” What Sister’s Feller Got “Oh, mother is very generous—•” “Yes. she gave me the last dirty look she had!"—Film Fun.

SATURDAY, AUG. 25, 1923

Family Fun One Way Out “You make me so angry!” stormed Mrs. Biggs after the company had left. . “Why do you Insist on sitting on the piano stool all evening? Everybody knows you can’t play a note.” "Neither can anybody else while | I’m sitting there,” explained Biggs.— American Legion Weekly. When Big Sister Sings ‘‘That sounds like the devil —” "Sir! That Is my daughter singing.” "As I was about to say—the developed and matured vocalization of Melba.”—Boston Transcript. Hubby’s Great Temptation “Here’s a story of a man who sold his wife for a horse. You wouldn’t sell me for a horse, would you, darling?” "Os course not, dear! But I'd hate to have any one tempt me with a good motor car!” —Film Fun. Big Brother Sure Slow ; “Heard that you were engaged.” “Yeah —two weeks.” j “Kissed her yet?” “No. but I think I could.” —Chicago I Phoenix. Dad and the Solicitor ”1 am soliciting for the poor. "What do you do with your cast-off cloth- ! ing?” “I hang them up carefully and put on my pajamas. Then I resume them | in the morning.”—Boston Globa When Wifey Gets Credit “Jobson willingly gives his wife full credit for what he is.” "What is he?” "Bankrupt.”—Boston Transcript.

Garden and Orchard Products (Agricultural Building) The most gorgeously arrayed building at the Fair, glowing with Corn, Grasses, Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers. See the Butter Sculptress making flowers of butter in her big glass studio.

Three Big Night Shows COLISEUM —Livestock Parade, Light Harness and Saddle Horse Contests, Twelve Hippodrome and Circus Acts, Concerts by Royal Scotch Band. RACE TRACK INFIELD—Lavish display of Fireworks. CARNIVAL MlDWAY—Twenty tent shows and riding devices will brim over with fun.