Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. ROY W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BL'HRMAN, Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of tho Soripps-Howard Newspapers • * • Client of the United >.'!ess, United News. United Financial and NEA Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance • • • Member <>f the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 25 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • * • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

COAL CAN BE MINED! SHIS newspaper feels constrained to remind Governor Pinchot on whom the public’s hope of an anthracite fuel supply this winter rests, of a suggestion made earlier this week. Coal can be mined without operators; it cannot be mined Without miners. This reminder is offered as a result of the jam that apparently has occurred in Harrisburg, Pa., where the Governor has miners and operators in conference. Based on their public statements, the positions of the two contending factors, stripped down t 6 esentials are as follows: Miner’s willingness to accept in principal the Governor’s proposed ten per cent wage increase with the reservation that in the case of the day wage men the increase be a definite number of cents per day. This is to prevent the present inequities in the wage scale being widened any further, as would be the case with a percentage increase. The amount paid by the operators would be no greater than under a percentage increase. Operators—Willingness to accept the ten per cent increase with the reservation that an agreement be made for several years, this agreement being subject to revision annually with power lodged in arbitration board to fix the wages when miners and operators cannot agree. The difference in the two reservations can be readily seen. The operators can accept the miners reservation. It would cost them nothing. If the miners accept the operators’ reservation their organization is practically wrecked. It would mean that all future wages in the. anthracite industry would be fixed by an arbitrator. Hong experience has taught the miners to refuse any such plan. - “We feel,” said the miners in their statement to the Governor, ‘‘that your action has paved the way to re-opening of joint negotptions. The. miners will hold themselves in readiness to enter snch joint conference at any time such a meeting can be arranged. In those words the miners opened the door wide but the operators appear to have dumped a load of dust upon the doorstep. Governor Pinchot’s chance for success seems to depend upon his ability to clear away this dust. And that ought not be impossible. It certainly ought not to be impossible when he knows now that he will have the miners with him in any fair settlement, and as v?e now say, for the third time, so long as he has the miners with him he can mine coal.

HELPING TOURING MOTORISTS “*f1 X these da - vs of universal motor travel, cities are frequently -AJ largely judged by traffic and street conditions as the traveler encounters them. Not infrequently the stranger’s most listing impression of a city through which he or she passes is formed by opinions of these two outstanding features, regardless of other .attractions or defects and too much attention to these details cannot be given by any municipality that wishes to create favorable sentiment with the visitor within its gates. Plain and understandable markers are most welcome sights to the wayfarer entering strange cities. If a street is well paved and, above all. well marked so that traffic rules of an unusual order are explained and principal highways clearly marked, the stranger is immediately impressed with the desire of tjie city to make pleasant the short stay of the traveler. • Indiaanpolis has some traffic rules, such as the tower system that are wholly unfamiliar to strangers from cities as large or even larger, not to mention those of lesser size. Why couldn’t some large, yet sightly markers be suspended from the trolley wires at intersections explaining the signals and indicating which corners have no left or right turns or designating the hours such turns can he made ? Tra\elers with out-of-State licenses have frequently been observed to disrupt traffic at downtown intersections because they could have had no way to know what various traffic signals stood for. These were not wanton law violators—any one might do exactly the same thing in some strange city—and were therefore not strictly accountable for their error. Even the most courteously conveyed information in such times is embarrassing,* as no one likes to be made the center of attraction at a crowded intersection, when busx motorists are honking their horns and clammering for rjght-of-way. Some small, almost illegible signs have recently been suspended from trolleys at downtown intersections here, but the information which they bear could scarcely be said to be adequate. Wouldn’t a small investment in something a trifle more elaborate pay dividends in the higher regard the passer-by'might have for the city? EMOTIONS AS TOLD IN NEWS ftT] N Indianapolis couple tells of the happiness life has shown 14*' them in fifty years of marriage. A bookkeeper is charged with embezzling his company's funds. " Preparations are made for the State fair, showing activities throughout Indiana. : Rumbles of war come from Europe. j Announcement is made that Indianapolis donated generously tp children at Fairview summer camp. I Love, greed, progress, war, charity. It is life. Day bv day, in greater or lesser degrees, humans rim the same gamut of emotions. f i ; • • * 1 he cider a little girl gets the more her candy costs. * An eclipse and ten million predictions of the end of the world ire due Sept. 10. Magnus Johnson says he believes in books. We believe in link books, but not in cook books. 4 Flax crop is large. Go ahead and get cinders in your eyes. Help use surplus flax seeds. our lot could be worse. A whale’s bones weigh twenty-five tons. Suppose you were a rheumatic whale? l One of the books we would like to see written is “Confessions of a Coal Dealer.” lOWA man who weighs 300 pounds divorced a wife who weighed 287, because she was fat, we’ll bet. % LOUISVILLE (Ky.) doctor is 105. Been doctoring eightythree years. A long time to owe him jnoney. ▲

IN ENGLAND FOUR DAYS MAKE WEEK Britishers Take to Country After Finishing Their Work, By JOHN RAPER. E 1 NGLAND,: If you want to see the “merrie England" you have read about, you mutt go to the country town. You won> find it in the city. Nobody knows better than the Englishman himself that the villages and small towns, the rural districts, are tho best part of England. Tne Englishman whose salaried position or business permits him to da so. closes his desk at noon on Friday or early in the afternoon and hurries to his country home, or to a country inn, or to the seashore. He returns to business some time Monday. The commercial traveler in England knows nobody will talk business with him on Saturday, so he goes home on Friday. If he is a long distance from home, say 150 or 200 miles, and he has a high-class job, he starts for home FTiday morning and sets out again for his territory Monday morning, reaching his field too late for work that day, so that he really works only Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. titles Are Deserted On Friday afternoons the trains leaving the cities are crowded. Saturdays they are packed with outwardbound passengers. the Monday trains are jammed to suffocation with tho returning hordes. The boats are packed even worse than the trains. The workers who cannot afford a railroad or boat trip go to the country and the shore in automobiles, starting out Sunday morning with baskets of food, returning in the eve- 1 nlng. An English city is a cemetery on Sunday. Even London, excepting in a few spots, is a deserted village. The resorts, the villages, the country ! roads and lanes, are filled with city | strollers, drinking in the pure air and enjoying the trees and flowers. ; Towns Are Clean The small towns of England are i nearly always picturesque. They are as clean as new pins and the ! yards are always filled with flowers If there is one without some historic j interest, the scene of a battle, the . birthplace of some famous English men. the burial place of some king, j you will have to hunt long to find j such a_town. You always find In the villages ' some wonderful little tea rooms, de- 1 llghtfully clean and serving homecooked food. The restaurants in these places are nearly always clean I and serve food so much better than you can buy In the cities that you J feel like remaining a month. It Is In the small towns that you ! find the old-fashioned English tav- j ern with the quaint name and the i sign with the picture illustrating it. ; Two of the most popular tavern j names I found were: "The Red j Lion” and "The Nag’s Head." In ; one place the lion was o( stone, j painted red. hut the others had fir rob | lion on a wooden sign attached to j the front of the suspend ed from a post. € The nag’s head was tho picture of the head of a fiery white horse that looked as though It was having its I first view of a railway train.

A Thought

For the wind passeth over it. and it Is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.—Ps. 103:ie • • • H' ISTORY fades Into fable: fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy: the Inscrfp tion moulders from the tablet: the statue fails from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, vhat are they but heaps of sand, ard their epitaphs but characters written In the dust.— Washington Irving. Observations Dr. Stelnmetz, the electrical wizard, says the day is not far distant wljen men will work but four hours a day. We’ll bet that will worry Judge Gary almost to death. A Rhode Island man has Invented a that will tejl a woman’s age, but no one ever Invented a woman that would do it. In Indiana they are wondering whether the Ku-Klux Ivlan, by buying that college, will be able to make their Kse any stronger. Man wants to start a butterfly "farm” in the Angeles forest, but Hollywood would be a better place, perhaps. In other words, France will pay us if she has anything left after Germany pays her and she pays Great Britain. Lafayette, do you hear? The coast-to-coast aerial mall service is a great achievement, but whyshould .any one desire to hear from New York In twenty-eight hours?

Heard in Smoking Room

The man next the wfhdow gazed gloomily out as the train sped along. Ho was glum—anybody could see that. Finally, in conversation with the other smokers, he revealed the burden of his soul. He had gone against Wfill Street and lost. "It is the first experience I ever had of that kind,” he said, "and it is the last." “You remind me of old Bill Jones,, a colored man down our way," said the smoker sitting next , "ie gloomy loser. "Old Bill did some work for a friend of mine and received a check in payment. Bill didn’t want the check, but my friend assured nim it was Just as good as money—that he cauld go to the bank and get it cashed whenever he pleased Bill hiked for the hank with speed. A long line of men and women stretched •out •from-the -paying- teller’s window, and Bill got a place after some difficulty. The line moved along slowly.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

fcOM‘ SIMS | Says SNOWED five minutes in Nebraska. What’s the price of I coal? \ • • * Argentina wants a big loan She can get it from Firpo. • * * Every nation has its pleasures. China recently shot 750 bandits. ■-* • A man who landed in Chicago without a cent owes $4,000,000 now, * * It was a shoe salesman who swam the English Channel, not a book agent after a customer. • • • Miss Robinson, world’s champion woman walker, did not learn it returning from auto rides. * * • Kansas City pair, divorced twentylive years, will rewed. This is the longest vacation on record. Mexico will elect a President. If she needs any candidates we can let her have a few. • • • Ten movie actors really drifted two days on the Pacific, showing fans’ wishes come true. • • • Delaware has such a big apple crop there may not be enough Jugs —and bottles to hold it. • • • Never hit a train with an auto. Illinois railroad sued a man who did and won the case. * • • School days threaten to return. No joy is permanent

Indiana Sunshine

Cheer up, boys and girls who are i wishing that school days were not so near. On account of Injuries to his | legs Everett Raines. 18, I-Cokomo, was | never able to attend high school. But he worked at home under private tutors and will be graduated this year with an average grade of between 90 and 95 per cent. The proposition of organizing a girl’s band in Tipton has been suggested and has found favor among a number of girls and the their parents. They wish to - h >\v : boy's band already there what a girl s organization can do. Nearjy twelve bushels of beans, cooked In twenty-four big lror kettles and seasoned with rienty ol Hoosler pork sides fed several thousand persons at the annual bean dinner held recently at Fountanet. There are at least two Bibles In i the world that don’t agree. Alleging cruel treatment, Amos E. Bible of Tipton asks a divorce from his wife, Nellie Bible. A thief at Richmond robbed the collection box of SIOO at the Grace Presbyterian Church. Lucky man, he wouldn't have got away with anything like that from a lot of churches. Five brothers and Bisters, the youngest 78 and the oldest 96 years old, attended the reunion of the Arnold family at Hartford City. Family Fun Short of Help It seems that when Rastus and Sam died they took dlfferen. routes, so when the latter got to Heaven he called Rastus on the phone. “Rastus," he said, “how yo' like It down thar?” "Oh. boy! Dls hero is gome place, ’’ . replied Rastus. “All we have to do I is to wear a red suit wid home, an’ ebory now an’ den shovel some coal on de fire. We don’t work no more c'an two hours out ob de twenty-four di.wn here. But. tell me. Sam, how is It wdth you up yonder?" "Mah goodness! We has to git up :it fo’ o'clock In de mawnln’ an gat hah , in de stahs; den we has to haul In , de moon and hang out de sun. Den we has ter roll da clouds aroun’ all I day Jong.” “But, Sam, how comes It yo' has ter work so hard?” “Well, to tell do truf, Rastus. we's kin' o’ short of help up hers."—Phila delphla Public 1/edger. Honor A close friend of Llnooln called j upon him at the White House in 1862 and found him In low spirits. The old friend opined that being President | probably wasn’t all It was cracked up to be. Lincoln agreed. “No,” he said, with a slight Indication of brightening up, "sometimes I feel like the Irish man, who, after being ridden on a rail .said. If it wasn’t for the honor of the thing, I'd rather walk.’ ”—Argonaut. v One by the Minister An inquisitive old lady was always asking her minister questions. One! day the persistent lady asked: “Mr. ference between cherubim and seraphim?" The minister thought, deeply for a minute or two and then quietly replied, "Well, they had a difference, madam, but they have made It up."— Christian Advocate.

but finally Bill stood In front of the window. Just at that moment the teller slammed the closing window down with a smash. Bill was at first at a loss what to do. Finally, he knocked on the window vigorously. The teller opened a little bit and sharply told Bill the bank was closed. Down went the window again. Bill thought a moment and then knocked again. Again the teller opened the lift a trifle. Bill thrust his check forward and asked for his money. “ ‘This bank is closed,’ said the teller. "But I wants my money,” said Bill. " ’Well, you can’t get it,’ said the teller, angrily. ’This bank Is closed —broke—busted. Don’t you know what I mean when I tell you this bank is busted?’ “ ‘Yas,’ said Bill thoughfully. ‘I IcnO\vs whut yah means, but dls Is the fust time I’se had one bust right In mah face.’”

FINANCE IS BIG FACTOR ON ISLAND k : I Cuba in Turmoil as Result of i Private Control of Affairs. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. ' "I OW revolution is bx-ewing in Cuba. Disorder may break out at any time, according to information received here. Underlying it, and at least partly responsible for the unrest, is the almighty dollar. And sugar. A large faction of Cubans resent what they term American Interference in Cuban affairs and the dollar domination of their country. Cuban business is largely in the hands of Americans or is dollar controlled. American sugar investments in the island amount to $1,000,000,- ; 000. Sugar mills and sugar estates l owned outright by Americans alone I arc valued at something over $600,- ! 000,000, while another $125,000,000 | are financed with Yankee { money. Interests Have Influence Then there are railroads which haul sugar, factories which make mill ! supplies, steamships and what not, | which are similarly controlled. These Interests naturally have an | overwhelming Influence In Cuban af- | fairs. Note, for example, the hullaj baloo today over the Tarafa bill. This, |in effect, would consolidate Cuba’s principal railways into one system and close about fifty private "sugar ports,” almost exclusively American. Cuba Is like a shoestring. It Is 730 miles long, with an averaxge width of i only fifty miles. So sugar mills and | sugar estates. Instead of shipping their j product by rail to regular ports, which may fairly distants simply build a j private railroad to the nearest coast, 1 never more than a few miles away, j construct a jetty and load ship right j there.

Ixisses Necessary Thero are forty-seven of these "pri vate poi-ts" sapping Cuba's economic vitality. Obviously if every “sugar central" fa to have its private railway and its private port, the necessary national, or trunk-line, roads and the necessary national ports—like Havana—win have to operate at a loss. And the government treasury stands to lose enormously on Imports and exports, difficult to control when Jetties abound ail around the Island. Cuba, therefore, wishes to classify twenty-five Cuban ports as "national ports" and eneburage shipment exclusively via these by granting a 20 per cent freight reduction on stuff carried ninety-four miles (150 kilometers) or over. Sugar imported via private ports would pay the Government, a tax of 15 cents a hundred pounds. Business Wishes Control American sugar interests say this tax would be confiscatory. They will have to close their ports, they charge, if the Tarafa bill—named for Col. Jose M. Tarafa. its sponsor—is passed The truth of the business Is. American business men have gobbled up most everything In Cuba and now wish to run the country' to suit, while Cuba Is desperately trying to pre serve her own Independence against the dictation of the dollar. Protest against the Tarafa bin has been lodged with the American State Department and President Zelaya of Cuba has been asked to delay passage until it could be studied hero. Meantime Cuba is In ferment over this and similar Incidents. Boiled down, the issue In Cuba is this: Is Cuba Independent, or does she have to Jump when Washington cracks the whip? There will be bloodshed over this issue yet—ls not now, at some other time. But surely.

Science

Short, sharp earth tremors are not uncommon in California, Arizona and New Mexico, and people think they are more liable to occur during hot weather. This 13 not the case, earthquakes may occur during any kind of weather. The shock that destroyed the water mains of San Francisco, and caused a fire that wiped out a large section of the city, occurred on a cool, foggy morning, In April, 1906. '■ Rigidity Increases toward the center of the earth. In earthquakes, tremors start from the focus of the quake and pass through the body of tho globe as elastic waves. Geologically the Pacific Coast Is one of the new countries. It is reasonable to presume that It Is more disturbed by earthquakes than other sections of the United States because It Is In process of settling and adjusting.

Pay Us a Visit —During State Fair Week EVERY courtesy will be shown you. Guides will be furnished to show you around point out and explain the many things of interest. COME and see where the well-known "Reliable” hams, bacon, lard, etc., are made and the care with which they are prepared. YOUR visit will prove Interesting, entertaining and educational and you will be glad you came. OUR plant Is le than a mile from the Monument. To reach it, go out West Washington Street to Blackford, then a square and a half south. Kingan&Co. PORK AND BEEF PACKERS Indianapolis

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QUESTIONS Ask— The Times A N S W E R S

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington hureau, 1823 N. Y. Avenue. Washington. D. C., inclosing 3 cents in stamps Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be gwen. nor can extended research be undertaken or papers speeches, etc . be preptred. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive p, rsonal replies.—Editor. What is the meaning of the name Ruth? This name, from the Hebrew, means beauty. How is the name Yvohns pronounced arid what does it mean? It is pronounced although spelled ' E-von,” is of French origin and means eternal youth. Is it colder at the south pole than at the north pole, and If so, / why? It is colder at the south pole (though there is little information) than at the north pole because the north pole Is at sea level and the south polar continent Is high. When was Sir Roger Casement hanged and what were hts last words? Hanged Aug. 3, 1916, at Uentonvllle prison, London. His last words were: "I die for my country.” What vegetables will thrive In shady places? Lettuce, dandelion, cress (both bitter and water), romaitie, endive, Chinese cabbage and Swiss chard. Was the corner stone of the Capitol at Washington laid with Masonic rites? Yes. Who invented the cream separator? Carl Gustaf Batrik De Laval, a Swede. What Is a picayune? Formerly In Florida, Louisiana and adjacent ,regions, the Spanish halfreal, equal to 1-16 of a dollar, or 614 cents: now tho 5-cent piece or any similar small coin. "Not worth a picayune” Is an expression used to denote very small value. Is the sun really a hot body of matter or Is It electricity which causes atmospheric heat? The sun Is a mass of flaming matter, having a dlaimeter of 868,000 miles. It Is composed of an incandescent fluid, the surface visible to us consisting of clouds if incandescent metallic vapor. At what lies below we can only guess. So hot Is the sun's atmosphere that iron, nickel, copper and tin aro present In It in a gaseous state. Are the Hawaiian Islands sometimes called the Sandwich Islands? If so, why? They were named Sandwich Islands by their discoverer. Captain James Cook, after his patron, the Earl of Sandwich. However, the name has fallen into disuse, and Hawaii, the name of one of the largest Islands of the group, has spread to the whole group.

Yellow Backs Germans, having lost faith in their own currency, are "salting away” so much American money, especially “yellow-backs,” that some of our leading bankers are beginning to' fear we will have a shortage of this branch of our paper money. Most of us have beei noticing such a shortage as far tack as we can remember. Thumbs The legal value ‘of a thumb, lost by accident, is $225 in Wyoming and S6OO in Oregon. Similar variations In legal value exist in regard to loss of an eye, foot, hand, etc., reports the National Industrial Conference Board. It urges more uniformity of values in administering workmen's compensation laws. Here’s a matter that'll have to be adjusted in time. An eye is an eye and it’s as great a misfortune to lose it In one part of America as another? though courts seem to think otherwise.' Lack of uniformity in State laws is a weak link in our union or States. The penalty for murder, for instance, should be the same everywhere. Devout Do you attend church? Sixty million Americans—six out of every eleven —are not church-goers, according to investigations by a New York clergyman. The religion of sixty millions seems to be golf, movies and the auto.

Wages and Cost of Living Statisticians claim that wage earners are more prosperous now than during the “peak period” of 1920. Wages have been approaching peak levels while the cost of living remains considerably below the peak. Save now against the time of low wages and unemployment. If you earnestly desire success, and most of us do, then you postively must cultivate the habit of systematic saving. Irregular, hit-or-miss saving is about as bad as not saving at all. Decide to deposit at least one-tenth of your wages every pay-day in a strong bank to earn interest. If you have no savings account then start one at the nearest of our nine banking offices. JpUtefitr attb 'Crust Company Evans Woollen, President Northwest Corner Market and Pennsylvania BRANCHES AND AFFILIATED BANKS 1233 Oliver Ave. 2122 E. Tenth Street 1533 Roosevelt Ave. 474 W. Washington Street 1541 N. Illinois Street 468 E. Washington Street 2969 N. Illinois Street 2812 EL Washington Street

* Indiana State Fair i September 3rd to 9th, 1923 Leave your troubles at home; avoid all blowouts, dirt and care of your automobile. Travel via Union Traction, the good, clean, comfortable way; plenty of train service and very low rates. For further information see Local Agent or write Traffic Department, Anderson, Ind.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 1,1923

What Editors Are Saying

Increase (Alexander Times-Tribune) An indication that the silver lining to the traditional black cloud is returning to gDdden the heart of the Hoosler farmer is the advance in farm land values In this good old State of Indiana. Taxes (Muncie Evening Press) The people who complain of high taxes have it within their power to lower them. Most of the taxes are of local origin, c And if we insist on paved roads, better courthouses, palatial school buildings, cement alleys and the rest of these things, we must expect to pay for them and we should place responsibility where it belongs—upon ourselves. Speeders (Lafayette Journal and Courier) The Indianapolis city court has increased the fine for speeding and will send second offenders to the State penal farm to try their speed on wheelbarrows and daily toil. Public safety is the prime end. Whatever Is necessary to restore obedience to law and to make the public safe once more, ought to be done by the agencies of law enforcement everywhere.