Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1923 — Page 4

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STATE DEBT TO TEACHERS T r "“ _ ""j HE low rank of Indiana in education is not due to the caliber of the State’s 20.000 teachers, Lee E. Swails, Marion County superintendent, declared at the county teachers’ institute. Hoosier parents and even most of the children themselves will agree. Os course. Indiana does not rank so low at that. Some theorists, who made up the ranking, placed the State seventeenth There are forty-eight States. Many Indiana educators believe Indiana ranks much higher. One of the reasons for the comparatively low ranking of a State that prides itself on its literature and its high percentage of literacy is the fact that in many places buildings are inadequate. But this condition is being remedied, both in Indianapolis and out-State. School will open before long and thousands of children will be intrusted to the care of the teachers. They are entirely worthy of this trust. To them the State owes a debt bigger than can be paid in salaries. BETTER HOOSIERS COME HOME H l- " — UNDREDS of Indiana men, including a goodly quota from Marion County, are home from Camp Knox, Kentucky, where they took military training under direction of army officers. They did not learn to be killers. They learned not how to be soldiers, but how to be soldiers in case of need. Above all else, they learned how to make of their manhood a mental, physical and moral success. They learned the meaning of good citizenship, of patriotism, of discipline. The cry of militarism often is raised in this country. It is largely bunk. Never have we had even a touch of militarism as it is known in Europe and as it was exemplified in Germany before the war. Militarism, as we know it, emphasizes little more than the value of good health, good heads and good organization. Ail of these elements have as much to do with business as they have with war. They are employed every day, in every way, in every branch of industry and trade where efficiency and discipline are necessary to success. The Indiana youths who were at Camp Knox and participated in training in the right spirit, become assets to their country, business and families.

GIVE YOURSELF SQUARE DEAL SHE average American now lives to the age of 56, compared with 41 back in 1870. But, by 1950, people will have a life span of 70 years, predicts Dr. George Martin Kober of Georgetown University Medical School. His prediction, of course, is based on a supposition that people will increasingly live more sensibly and correctly. We hope so. But Doc certainly is an optimist. Four hundred years ago the average length of human life was somewhere between 18 and 20 years. And it was only 25 years, as late as 1800. A gain of about five years in two centuries. There has been a gain of thirty-one years in the average life span since 1800. People live longest in New Zealand, averaging 60 years at death. In India the average age of death is before 25. These “average” figures, however, are arrived at by adding up and striking an average of all deaths, including babies. The gain has been mostly in cutting down the death rate among children, especially babies. This has raised the average. It is doubtful whether there are any more people living to “a ripe old age” than formerly. Or even as many, for that matter. The gain has been made largely in cradle years. As regards individuals who reach maturity, they seem to die at about the same average age as in former generations. As far back as 1908, experts estimated that 3,000.000 Americans were constantly on the sick list, and that forty-two out of every 100 of these illnesses were preventable cases. Similar situation today. When people succumb to preventable diseases, they generally are victims of their own carelessness. This carelessness in many cases results from underestimating their personal value in cold dollars and cents. For instance, take a man with an income of $3,000 a year. Now, $3,000 is 6 per cent interest on an investment of $50,000. If the $3,000-a-year man had an auto or any other machine worth $50,000 he would insure it against every possibility of disaster, and he would care for it as if it were a priceless possession. You can imagine a radio bug neglecting a $50,000 receiving station if he owned it. On the other hand, the $3,000-a-year man often neglects his $50,000 body as if it were an old bit of junk. Give your body a square deal. Treat it with the consideration and care that its high value deserves. LLOYD GEORGE’S VISIT TO INDIANA r JLOYD GEORGE, former war premier of Great Britain and I U | special contributor to The Indianapolis Times, will be in Indiana this fall. He’s coming through this city on his American trip. See and hear Lloyd George if you can. He has been called the greatest democrat that Europe has produced since Cromwell “and history will say so,” says Arthur Brisbane, “whatever Tories may say now. Without him to manage England and her allies in the big war. putting England’s armies under Foch, supplying the allies with money and ammunition, William of Hohenzollern probably still would be Kaiser on a bigger scale with a newly captured throne for each of his sons.” Hoosierdom will give a cordial greeting to Lloyd George. JUST wait until frost. Then go out in the garden and laugh your head off at the weeds. FALL fashions say germs must jump higher than ever to grab the hem of a skirt. SOON be time to take down the screens and let the flies out of the house for winter. MANY of the light summer suits have shrunk until they are almost a vest and knee trousers. IT is feared now that it was alcohol that magnified the dinosaur that infests Alkali Lake in Nebraska. Running true to grain, it will do that sort of thing on occasion.

ICE IS NOT USED MUCH IN LONDON Only Butcher Shops Are Kept Cool in Summer Time. By JOHN W. RAPER mN LONDON: Men who know London will say most of the cooking- is done on gas stoves Countless thousands of houses are supplied with meters operated by coins and when the housewife wishes to cook she drops a penny or a shilling in the slot and get a flow of gas up to that value. The new houses built by the London County Council for folk of moderate means are also equipped with electricity for cooking. For heating, the poor use coal, but a great deal of gas Is used by people who can afford It. The housewife who wants ice must go to the nearest meat or fish market. “I have understood that in America ice is delivered daily at your door, just as milk is,” said a well-to-do business man to me. “I wish we had something like that here.” Not Profitable I suggested that if he could show it would be a profitable undertaking it might not be a difficult thing to find an American who would deliver the ice. “Alas, it can’t be done,” he said. “We have only a few extremely hot days in the year and they are the only one on which an Englishman could be induced to use ice.” The London County council houses at least half a million workingmen’s families. The houses are built in a group that is called an “estate,” with a court either of concrete or grasscovered. They average about 250 fAm lies to a block and the apartments are of two to five rooms as a rule. The rent runs from $3.50 to $5.75 a week. Storage Scarce Those built in recent years have bathtubs and storage room for 100 ponds of coal. Storage room is scarce in the ordinary quarters of the poor and they buy their coal in small quantities. 12 cents worth at a time. All the County Council houses have a section for laundry work. The older ones have washhouses with hollers and kettles under which the person using them must makea fire, but the new ones have central boilers and each tenant contributes to the upkeep. Ts there any window screens or screen doors in Great Britain, I haven’t seen them. There is no need of them. I have senn not mope than a dozen flies. As to Smoking “For years.” explained a Londoner, many women in the two extremes of society, the very high and the very low. were smokers, but one did not see It practiced In public a great deal by the respectable women. "Gradually many girls of quite good character began to think it was the ‘swank’ thing to do and they Imitated our entirely worthless idle rich. Then came the war and everything went to smash. "Now that the war is over we are straightening up and realizing that while it may not be immoral for a glr! to smoke. It is not the proper thing. Still better, its going out of style and whn It becomes no longer stylish It will be at an end.” They Still Drink But there is'Vio sign of decrease fn drinking among women of the poor circles. The saloons are filled with women In the evening and a line of perambulators outside is a common sight. Mother is inside with a baby In one hand and a glass of beer or wine in the other. I have seen as many as 100 women inside a saloon, and several dozens outside it. leaning against the wall or street lamp, drinking beer and wine. The woman patron is of all ages, from youth to old age. many go with husbands and two or three children, some In parties and some alone, and of %U degrees of respectability or lack of It. Science One of the most terrible, devastating explosions known is that which Is caused by dust In grain elevators. Some two years ago the great $3.00%. 00c Chicago & Northwestern elevator at Chicago was totally wrecked by such an explosion and the concussion was felt fifty miles distant. The company has now completed anew structure and equipped It with a dust remover which Is the housewife’s vacuum cleaner on a large scale. It keeps walls and floors clean all the time and the suction is so powerful that It removes dust even from cracks and floor corners. Nobody realized that such enormous quantities of dust collected in an elevator, but under the operation of this system the huge “collector” Is filled In thirty minutes and Is dumped Into a special carrier which takes the refuse to a distance. A Thought If thine enemy hunger, feed him: if he thirsteth, give him drink; for in so doing thou sha.lt heap coal of fire on his head.—Rom. 12:20. I . BRAVE man thinks no one his I/\ superior who does him an inI jury: for he has It then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiging it.^ypope.

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The limited had just passed TwoDot siding-, on the uphill climb to Summit. Somebody mentioned parrots. “That reminds me,” said a stem looking man, “of a friend who bought a parrot guaranteed to talk within thr*e weeks. “Every evening for a whole hour this man would sit next to the parrot's cage and keep on repeating the word “Uncle.” But after" two months of this the parrot remained dumb. “One night after trying in vain to

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|)OM SIMS | Says HE too smallest shoe on earth is any shoe on a foot that has been shoeless all summer. • * * Better start, carrying last winter,s ashes out. * * <• When school starts, ten million necks get washed. * * * Won’t is be fine when we get the screens down so we. can throw things out the window? • • * Boy’s school trousers should have a hip pocket big enough to hold a geography or cushion. * * * Thoughtful mothers pad the seats of school pants. + * * Grown sister’s bathing suit will make a fine basket-ball outfit for little Henry this fall. * * * Trim the fringe off father’s trousers and use them for making Johnny a cowboy suit. ♦ * * Run your old straw hat through the meat grinder. Makes as good a. breakfast food as any. * * * Bedbugs may he killed by inviting in relatives so skinny they starve the hugs to death. * * * An old bird cage placed over an electric light protects it during a family fight. * * * Moths may be kept out of blankets. That’s the trouble. They may be, or may not. * * * A June husband has borrowed one of our shirts to show his wife what buttons are. • * * Jelly, preserves and home-made pickles will keep until cold weather if well hidden.

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For several weeks Polly Parrot, belonging to Mrs. Frank Nichols of Petersburg, lived close by a Free Methodist Revival meeting. Polly listened j and although the revival has closed ; she continues to hold meetings every J afternoon. Po'ly sits in deep meditation as if in prayer and then trys to outdo the preacher in her shrill cries of “Amen." The oldest man in Monroe County, R W. Carr, celebrated his 98th birth day recently. He is in good health, and in spite of reading the newspapers dally he enjoys living. The Muncie park board recently opened two camps for the accomodation of tourists. Electric lights, ovens, parking space, water and camping sites have been arranged. A fresh air camp for twenty-five children of Lafayette la being conducted at Rotary park. Citizens almost dally send out good things for the kiddles to eat. A total of ninetyfive pounds has been gained by the twenty-five youngsters, all of whom were underweight at the beginning of the camp. If James De Prez, the only prisoner in the Decatjr County jail, doesn’t get fat Its own fault. For he is cooking his own meals while the sheriff, Harry Braden, is enjoying a vacation at Geneva. Family Fun That Kind! “When I arose to speak," said the political editor, "someone hurled a base, cowardly egg at me that struck me in the chest.” "'What sort of an egg might that be?” asked one of his hearers. “A base, cowardly egg is one that hits you and then runs.’’-—American Printer. This One For The Minister "What w r as the text of tho sermon today?” “He giveth Ills beloved sleep.” “Who was there?” “All the beloved, apparently.”—Epworth Herald. Sister’s New Feller’s Pep "Every morning my first thought is of you, dear.” “Your cousin says that, too.” “But I get up an hour earlier than he does.” When a Woman Gardens "So Kate is trying her hand at truck raising. Isn’t she rather green at it?” “Green? Why, when someone told her that celery should he bleached she bought a big bottle OT peroxide.”—Boston Transcript. One of Dad’s Worries “You n-never seem to t-take any Interest in anything I ever do.” “Don’t be unreasonable, my dear, I laid awake all night last night and wondered what you put In that last cake you made.”—American Legion Weekly. Big Sister’s Delight “Do you know there are germs in kisses?” “Oh! The lovely little darlings!”— Judge. Sister and Her Chum “The surgeon had to take four stitches In my face.” "That’s what might be called plain sewing.”—Boston Transcript.

make the parrot talk, he seized him by the neck and giving him a good shaking, said, ‘Say uncle you son-of-a-gun.’ But only a deep gargle was his answer. “This ends it,” said the man. “It’s the hencoop from now on for you.” "About midnight he was aroused by noise Issuing from the hencoop. Running out to see what was the trouble, he found three dead hens on the floor and the parrot with his claws on the neck of a fourth, shaking it and crying, ’Say uncle, you son-of-a-gun.’ ”

FUTURE'OF ALASKA IS PROMISING Cabinet Member Defends System of Control for Territory, BY HENRY C. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture. F |— " OR the last fifteen years Alaska has been a stormy petrel at Washington. Public attention'was focused upon It as the battle-ground of the last great fight for the conservation of our natural resources, and particularly of the forests and coal resources. In that particular fight the conservation forces won, but those Interests which were not pleased with the conservation policies adopted were not disposed to regard the matter settled and carried on a systematic campaign to break them down. Alaska was far away. Statements very difficult to check carefully could be made concerning conditions in Alaska. One allegation after another was directed against the handling of public affairs and the administration of public properties in the territory. Red Tape Discussed It was reiterated incessantly that the natural resourced of the territory were locked up by Impractical theories of conservation; that bureaucratic red tape had the young empire of the North lashed hand and foot; that its resources could not and would not be developed without sweeping changes in the direction of home rule or through turning over their control to some form of concentrated local administration, with the various executive departments in Washington keeping their hands off. The public and Congress were told of the thirty-five different Federal bureaus having to do with Alaskan affairs, and were assured that there were thirty-four too many, and that the only way to do justice to Alaska was for Congress to turn it over to one department, with full authoritv to exercise control. System Efficient President Harding did not find any justification for the charges of muddling or mismanagement of public business by the Federal agencies in Alaska, He found the various departments of the Government doing exactly the same kinds of work in Alaska that they are doing in the forty-eig States, He found that the representatives of these departments, or at least most of them, are performing their work with a clear understanding of conditions and needs in the territory, and with an evident spirit of cooperation and helpfulness. Industries Looted The fact is that those Industries in Alaka which had the benefit of conservation policies are the industries which are developing and upon which the Alaska of the future will be built, while those Industries which have been thrown open to exploitation are the vanishing industries, the looting of which has enriched not the pdbple of Alaska hut outside exploiters who took their money away with them. The conclusions reached by President Harding are the conclusions reached by every man who studies Alaska with an open mind. Alaska Is destined to become one of the bright stars In the unton of States. The tepidity of her development will be govemer by economic conditions. She is now growing, slowly but surely, in those directions which make for a sound, intelligent and enduring population.

Observations j Secretary Mellon indicates that, i while he discussed debt-paying with the French, there really was no franc : talk about It. i By way of facing the music bravely, Georgia has decided to tax opera heavily. Can’t we have a straw vote of those who are eating more wheat? Well, pretty soon Volstead will be coming through the rye out about three miles. Another sea monster has been discovered at Miami, Fla., thus proving that the Bermudas are still doing the same kind of business. Under that treaty the Turks will drive the Allies out of part of Europe. Sort of “reverse English,” as It were. Five musical comedy queens are related to the failure of Fuller & McGee, New York bucket shoppers, and that seems to explain how the whole thing was staged. The anthracite miners say they are going to start something, but what the ultimate consumer wants to see Is the finish. Animal Facts One of the great wonders of nature D the number of birds and beasts that apparently thrive on poison. Our good, < !d friend, the stork, lunches on addn-s and goes his way happily, despite the fact that he has swallowed enough poison to kill a man. The South American ant-eater takes thousands of the most poisonous ants to be found into his stomach and Is sure he has dined wisely and well. Ducks love bees and wasps and so do the bee-bird and death's head moth. The badger Is immune to poisonous stings and he has no hesitancy about digging into wasps’ nests for the honey. He eats the sweet contentedly while the outraged and angry insects are doing their level best to sting him to death. Where modern elephants go when they die is one of tho gre-at mysteries of the natural world. It is claimed that the body of an elephant that has died of natural causes never has been discovered either In India or Africa. Where these big beasts come lrom also is a mystery. Little or nothing is known of their ancestry. T're forms through which they must have pnssed before they became highly specialized animajs practically as we know them have never been discovered. / ,

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TASTES BY BERTON BRALEY I am a peaceful kind of chap Who jumps a bit at a thunder-clap; I’ve never mixed in a bar-room brawl, I’ve never been in a scrap at all; And yet I weary of tales and books Describing life in the country- nooks; Or business stories of lads who rise By sheer good conduct and enterprise. The sort of yam that is sweet ana quiet Is well enough as a steady diet, But now and then I prefer to read A yam of terror and craft and greed, With lots of murders and sudden death To make me shudder and hold my breath; And scoundrels steeped to the eyes In crime, Who sure do give me a bully time! j Bring on the story where teeth are gnashed. Where pistols crackle and knives are flashed. Where villains chortle with evil rage, And bloodshed trickles down every page. Where virtue triumphs, but not until I’ve drunk much slaughter and had my fill Os plot and counterplot, brawl and fight With gun and poison and dynamite! | (Copyright. 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Trojn the J Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE Late Up north in Canada, where a lot of our weather is manufactured, the Indians last spring noticed that nature was three weeks behind the Job. They say that the same tendency is continuing ail through this summer. For instance, the mosquito season lasted three weeks longer than usual. So, the Indians predict, fall and winter will be three weeks late In arriving, on the North American continent. Something unquestionably lts gone wrong with the world’s weather this year, and a lot of freakish weather can be expected before nature restores the balance. For one thing, a hot summer usually is followed by a cold winter. Bob This year Is the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. The older generation will recall him with interest, but to t*e rising generation his name means nothing except a vague notion that maybe he Invented the Ingersoll watch, which he didn’t. Old Bob’s attacks on Biblical religion worried the devout churchgoers of his day, and with good reason. He shook Blind Faith to its foundations In many quarters. Now he is nearly forgotten, but he ushered in a spirit of challenging doubt that still Is epidemic. Light The Wall Street Journal discovers that five elctric signs on Broadway, New York City, use nearly 36,000 lamps—which is morei than •‘were used in the entire United States in 1881, two years after Edison brought out the first incandescent lamp. One of the greatest achievements of civilization has been the artificial turning of darkness into daylight.

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Debt (Evansville Courier) A farmer writes to Washington: i “There is too much credit already, and what the farmers want is a I chance to get out of debt.”/ A good many members of the consumers' bloc feel that way, too. Propaganda (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Perhaps the price of coal could be greatly reduced if the operators did not spend so much in the spreading of : propaganda. Every mail brings to I this office letter after letter giving the operators’ side of the present conj troversy, alj cf which costs money, j and the dear public pays as usual. Speed (Alexandria Times-Tribune) It takes old Neptune just 165 years : to make one revolution around the sun. Our earth is speedier—lt makes I the trip in one year. Perhaps that I is why inhabitants of this sphere are I mostly speed fiends. We come by it ■ honestly. Editor’s Mail The editor is willing to print views 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. Posies for the Times To the Editor of The Times The fight for more and better school buildings In Indianapolis has been won and citizens are exultant over the fact that The Times has been the chief factor in the fight from start o finish. The most powerful organisations In the city had given up the fight. The citizens gave up hopes. The Times kept up an incessant fire. Parents with renewed vigor reentered the fight. The result was that the opposition capitulated. W. D. BUTLER. 3602 East Vermont St. Turkish Romantic illusions are vanishing rapidly in our matter-of-fact age. Uncle Sam’s trade experts report that at least half of the better homes In Constantinople use linoleum as floor covering. Reluctantly we abandon the idea that the homes of rich Turks are strewn with soft and velvety Oriental rugs, to tread which is like walking in a cream pie. It shows what advertising can accomplish, inducing the Turks to use linoleum —and us to use Turkish rugs. Can’t American farmers, between now and 1933, must save and put back Into their business about ten billion dollars, to keep farms In good running condition . The Department of Agriculture makes the estimate. As one Item of many, it points out that half of the present mileage of fences will have to be replaced in the next ten years. Obviously true, the same as a factory must allow for depreciation—lay aside so much each year to buy new machinery when the old eqxdpment is worn out. The farmer will answer; “How can I do it, unless I get higher prices for my crops?” Farming, our largest industry and the most important one. is being driven toward bankruptcy.