Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1923 — Page 4

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FOR A GREATER CITY (Written for The Times Labor Day Edition by L. A. Barth, Secretary of Central Labor Union.) (TTIO doubt if the subject were put to a vote some people in InlIN 1 dianapolis who are putting out the only advice as to how best to manage the city’s industries and municipal affairs would cry down anything I might offer as being radical and one-sided. Yet it is not so. Organized labor is not organized for nor does it function for self alone. It is for the good of all concerned. Organized labor! Ah me! What a name!/ What a thorn in the flesh of some of our citizens! Instead of offering some solution for the solving of the supposed differences between their policies and ours, which is supposed to be for the interest and betterment of the community as well as for our own betterment, they deride the proposition as selfish and dictatorial in all its elements. Let’s see: As I said: “What a name! Organized labor.” “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Union is no different than association, club, league or society (social or otherwise.. They are all formed for personal interests or for the betterment of the community—mostly personal, however, to those interested. Why not let us all get together and commune with one another? What for? Not just to unionize some particular job, but to get together and work for one another’s good and for the betterment of Indianapolis, and thus make for Indianapolis a city much desired to live in and to which to bring manufacturers or factories and be one grand big family. No! Don’t say, “Look for the millennium.” By the way, why can’t your paper agitate for another physician or two out at the city hospital to relieve or help those overburdened ones to take care of the unfortunate charity patients in that institution? There is a necessity. There are possibly many other propositions that might be taken up or improved on, such as better street car service, different parking conditions, cheaper gas, a few of the chuck holes fixed up, and other things too numerous to mention that might be beneficial to all concerned. What say you? Let’s all go. Get on the band wagon for a bigger and better Indianapolis. BELL’S RECORD LIVES NDURING monuments to the memory of Joseph E. Bell, who accidentally killed himself Saturday, exist in Indianapolis. Working against the greatest odds conceivable, he, during his term as mayor, accomplished results which always will make him remembered as a benefactor of his city. He became mayor at a most trying time. Less than a year before he took office a disastrous flood all but wiped out a large section of the city. Only a few weeks before he took the oath tincity had been almost in state of anarchy as a result of labor troubles. Riots had occurred in the heart of the downtown district. His predecessor had resigned in the midst of the trouble. Added to these troubles, Mr. Bell’s personal enemies were powerfully organized and bent on ruining him. The mayor’s first concern was a prgoram of flood prevention. Under his administration the flood walls were built and the city protected, at least to a large extent, against a repetition of the 1913 disaster. Track elevation already had been planned, but it was under the Bell administration that it was rushed forward to the point where the took it up and practically completed it. To the Bell administration must go the credit for most of this work. Track elevation opened up the south side and added to the prosperity of that section of the city as nothing else ever did. In connection with both track elevation and the flood .prevention work was built the enormous Pogue’s Run sewer, in which a stream that had always been a menace to the city was imprisoned and its menace removed. Mr. Bell will be remembered in Indianapolis, not in the light in which his enemies attempted to place him, but as an able mayor, a man who achieved great things for his city, and as a good citizen. His sudden passing has caused universal regret.

WHEN YOU HIE WHT SOME unknown date in the future, your heart, will stop A beating. What then? Death, of course. But what is death? Read the strange case of 8-year-old Jack Leaney of Stratford, Canada. He was ill, in agony. At 10 o’clock at night, his heart fluttered and ceased beating. Physicians applied every test known to science. “It’s all over,” they announced gravely. “The lad is dead.” But shortly after midnight, two hours later, his heart began beating again. He breathed. Life was miraculously restored, though only for three hours. At sin the morning, he died for the second time. This death was final. Jack Leaney is buried, gone into the hereafter. Medical journals soon will be discussing this. It is possible to bring a man “back to life” after the heart has stopped beating, by injecting adrenalin, most powerful of heart stimulants. But only under certain conditions, usually when the sick man expires from the anaesthetic during an operation. Even then, according to medical rule, adrenalin must be injected within a few minutes after the heart stops beating. The Jack Leaney case is one of the greatest mysteries in medical history. The doctors, of course, finally will decide that the lad’s first “death” was really a condition of suspended animation, form of trance But isn’t “suspended animation” a good description of his second death—of all deaths ? You see a man driving an auto. It runs along smoothly. Then it goes dead, stops. A little tinkering ... a broken-down part replaced with anew one . . . and the auto runs again. If the collapse of the mechanism is too emphatic, the owner buys anew car. What a pity shoes won’t stay shined, as noses do. Our bodies are the autos driven by our spirits. The auto wears out. The driver gets a new’ car. Place a few auto tags end to end. Read left to right. It is how many marks for a dollar. The California report that a movie star and her husband are iclose friends is probably untrue.

ANY ONE CAN MAKE TALK IN ENGLAND They Speak Out of Doors and All Orate at Same Time, ' By JOHN W. RAPER * —JNGLAND: If you have a desire to relieve your feelings by making a speech, and the police of America won't -let you, come over here, where the police will protect you vrhile you talk. Great Britain is the paradise of the gabby man and woman. You must not*expect to talk without interruption, for interruption Is part of the game. It is the price you pay for gabbing. But the interruption comes from the audience, not the police, and it is only an interruption, not an effort to put an end to you and your speech. If a crowd should become so unruly as that, the police will go to your rescue. f Every Sunday afternoon an army of gabbers gathers just inside one of the entrances to Hyde Park. Each speaker has either a box or a portable rostrum that lifts him a few feet over the heads of the audience. Most of them have upon their rostrum a printed or painted sign telling the name of the organizations they represent. Five Thousand Listen With their rostrums pitched in a I crescent-shaped line several hundred feet long, and not a great deal of distance between rostrums, the speakers thunder their argument* at. the crowds around them, crowds ‘composed of opponents, probably a few open-minded persons, and, I am pretty certain, a large number who are there for the same reason Mr. Hyde went to the ftmerAl—for the ride. The session was in full bloom when | I arrived at 4 o'clock one Sunday afternoon. There were probably 5,000 listeners—and interrupters—and a dozen speakers. Most of the orators were waving their | arms wildly and shrieking at the hops of their voices, for all the wcria like a lot of patent medicine salesmen or ballyhoo men at a circus sideshow. The effect of it was so ludicrous that it was almost impossible to keep in mind the serious part of it —that you are in a monarchy that guarantees free speech to its subjects Going down the line I found meetings conducted by the following organizations: Christian Evidence Society. the speaker being heckled by a Hindoo; Reconstruction Society, anti-Soclalist; Bishops and Joanna Southscotts, speaker, a woman; (it was impossible to make out what she was talking about, but sh® was apparently attacking the Church of England for not teaching the doctrines of Joanna, a crazy wontan or a fake who made some predictions a century ago or more, but what they were I can’t learn); the National Citizens Union, anti-Socialist; the Church Army, the speaker in a uniform somei thing like a Salvation Army officer; National Union Association, anti Socialist; the Salvation Army; Catholic Evidence Guild; Christ Church Mis sion: Divorce and Remarriage Opponents, the speaker in a sort of clerical garb, and the Bible Witness Union. Some Speakers Change I listened for more than an hour and left, but upon returning at 8 o'clock I found all the above organizations still at it, some with fresh speakers and some with the same speakers who had been talking four hours before. In addition there were meetings being conducted by the Protestant Alliance, the United Evangelical Society, two religious organizations unnamed, four Socialist meetings, one Communist meeting and four religious meetings conducted by groups. One of the last nalned had a boy evangelist about 12 years old. At one of the others a girl of 8 or 9 years was singing, "Oh, Appy Dye,” and frpm the air I was able to Identify it as ‘‘Oh, Happy Day."

Indiana Sunshine

If your flivver has trouble navigating the traffic take a hint from the Muncle owner who appeared -with this inscribed on his car, “Don’t rush this can.” While a rear hoof of a mule is regarded as the business end, Elbert McCullough, Clinton, says that a mule’s front leg also is full of dynamite. He received a cut on his head when a mule let loose with a front foot. Speaking of slow mail service, O. J. DeLon, Kokomo, recently received a letter that was mailed ten years ago by a girl friend of Findlay, Ohio. While a number of Washington tourists peacefully slept in camp on the East fork of White River, a thief slipped into the grounds and drained the gasoline from their automobiles. Arden Kincaide, Warsaw restaurant proprietor says girls can’t successfully wash dishes and smoke cigarettes at the same time. In his advestisement for help he said “cigarette smoking women and girls not wanted.” A street commissioner at Bloomington found a small steel hand shovel firmly imbedded in a limb in the top of a tree. Maybe the squirrels had been drinking Gary moonshine. While on a trip with His parents, “Buddy” Floyd, 6, Richmond, bounced off the rear seat of the car at Vandalia, Ohio, and wasn’t missed by the parents until they reached Richmond, Buddy was bruised but not seriously hurt.

Heard in Smoking Room

Respectively, they were from lowa, Missouri and Arkansas, and, quite naturally, they fell to discussing- crops the while they smoked. The lowa man boasted of excellent corn crops in his State, in its etfery section. The Missourian was less enthusiastic. He said corn was doing fine in the northern part of his State, but in the south it had been Illy affected by adverse weather conditions. "How are

THE INDIAN A POLIS TIMES

270 M SIMS | - - - Says

A Brooklyn laby who swallowed a toy auto will recover. Please tie your sliver outside. • * * The eclipse due Sept. 10 is not the Firpo-Dempsey fight * * Baby fell into a Wisconsin river and was saved; a real baby, not a bathing beauty. * ■ Fourteen men were unable to land a fish off New Jersey, where booze is thrown overboard. • • # Just as boys are rushing off to college an Oregon professor quits to become a plasterer. • • • A gentle, loving Los Angeles creature wants to drink iodine if they won’.t hang her husband. d~• • * Pennsylvania man has escaped from jail three times. If you think this is easy try it once. • • * Fat men hold a convention in: Portland, Me. The funny thing is all are landlords. • + Even though an Elkton (Md.) minister married 9,000 couples he has died a natural death. • • * Cops think a San Pedro (Cal.) oil tank fire incendiary. May have found oil-soaked waste. • • # Furs and fur coats will he about three arguments and one crying spell higher this fall.

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\ou can set an answer to any question of fact or information by wrltme to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 N Y Avenue. Washington. D C., inclosing- 2 .vents in stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage adyice cannot be gp-en. nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers speeches, etc . be prepired. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, aim recen.- p i sonal replies.—Editor. , What are the possible product® of 100 pounds of milk? In an experiment conducted by the Department of Agriculture it was found that by using 100 pounds of milk which test® 4 per cent there oar. be made about 4.8 pounds of butter, 11 pounds of Cheddar cheese, 45 15ounce cans of condensed milk, 12.5 pounds of whole milk powder, 8.5 pounds of Swiss cheese or 23 pounds of Camembert cheese. The exact amounts of these products that can be made varies with the richness of the milk in fat and other solids. Can all animals be trained for the circus? No; the animals which adapt themselves most readily for circus training are seals, elephants, lions, tigers, bears, monkeys, horses, dogs and cats. In the sorg, “Maryland, My Maryland,” a reference is made to "Carroll’s sacred trust” aqd “Howard's warlike thrust.” To whom do these refer? To Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from Maryland, and John Eager Howard, the hero of the battle of Guilford Courthouse, where he led the Maryland troops in a splendid bayonet charge. * What does “hors d’oeuvre” mean? * A French phrase meaning “out of course,” that is a special couroe, a relish. What was the origin of the phrase. “If the Mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the Mountain?” According to one of Bacon’s essays, Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of law. The people assembled, Mahomet called the hill to him again and again, and when the hill stood still he w f as not "confused but said: "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will come to the hill.” Obviously this story is the original of the old proverb. What does “Yankee dime" mean? Slang for a kiss. What are the . periods after billions? Trillions, quadrillions, quintlilions, sextillions, septilllons, octillions, nonillions, and decillions. What is the best way to rid kittens of fleas. Rub a good insect powder on their fur and leave it on for ten minutes; then brush it all out. What will prevent a canary from pulling out its feathers? A piece of raw bacon hung in the cage is helpful. How often and what should a water turtle In captivity bo fed? It should be fed once a day, and not overfed. Any kind of raw fish, chopped liver or chopped mushrooms makes a good diet. Did the ancient Egyptians have better teeth than the present generation? Did they ever wear false teeth? Specimens of dental work in the shape of natural teeth bound together with gold, or artificial teeth of ivory, bone, wood or stone, attached to the natual ones by means of cord, or gold or silver bands or ligatures, have been found in the jaws of mummies which were probably buried 600 or 800 years before the Christian era.

crops in your State?" they asked the Arkansas traveler. “Rotten!" promptly and bitterly replied that individual, as he flooded the cuspidor. "Rotten had. No rain, lots of hot weather and the crop is 'poor. Why, say, pardner, the crop is so i blankety blank poor in my seotion' that we are going to be compelled to import corn this year to make our whisky.”

PAST YEAR SUCCESSFUL FOR LABOR Some Setbacks, Many Gains, Is History of Twelve Months. By LOWELL MELLETT ICNICKING and parading in celebration of the day named in its honor, tabor doubtless is ! giving some thought to the year j which today brings to a close. It has I been a singularly interesting year j from the standpoint of labor, a year of ] successes and setbacks. Listed large among the successes are those in the political field. They bear the names of Brookhart, Wheeler, Dill, Magnus Johnson, Shipstead and Frazier, new United States Senators who were given the united support oi' labor organizations. Together with a great number of friends elected to the House, and friends already in the Senate, these men insure labor I against reactionary legislation by Congress for some time at least. Cooperate With Farmers As important, at least, is the manner in which labor obtained its success at the polis. It resulted, in almost every instance, from effective cooperation with the farmers. It may jl f the beginning of cooperation that will go a long way to cure economic ids bom winch both labor and agriculture have suffered. In the purely economic field labor \ has extended itself materially. Twenty | labor banks have been established

| during the year, notable among them j being the Federation Bank in New York, the Clothing Workers Bank In j Chicago and the Telegraphers Bank In St. Louis. In this same field must be included the growing movement toward cooperation with employers in many lines. The*most striking example is offered by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, whose union employes are Working hand in hand with Daniel Willard to promote efficiency and economy in operation and extension of tlie system’s business in every way. Win Over Open Shop In the reajm of warfare, labor Is able apparently to claim a pretty complete victory over the forces behind the open shop movement and the movement to force wages dbwn to the prebvar level. It is asserted that the roll call of organized labor is as long or longer than it was this day one year ago, while wages have not gone down. In fact| it may be said that, the country taken as i whole, the margin between wages and the cost of living has been slightly reduced. Plentiful employment, with labor in demand, has helped to bring this about. The iongest struggle since the war against a proposer wage cut was finally won in July, when, after eighteen months, the granite and quarry workers of the country went back to work. Rail Sfrike Biggest The outstanding strike of the year was that of the railroad shopmen, which brought on the Daugherty de mand for an injunction and Judge Wilkersonß granting of the demand. This injunction, so "weeping in its term® that labor leaders claimed with much Justification that It violated the bill of rights in the United States Constitution, proved of doubtful benefit to the railroads*. Indicating this is the fact that the majority of the road® proeg ed to settle the strike by dealing with the very labor loaders enjoined by the court from having any hand in the strike. A minority, however, refused to settle and this strike still proceeds, notwithstanding that the drastic court order was made permanent during the summer at the request of the attorney general. At the same time, the attorney general asked and obtained the quashing of proceedings in another Federal Court, whereby it had been sought to tie the hands of the coal miners' leaders in their efforts to direct and control a strike of bituml- i nous miners. Opinion Friendly In the field of public opinion, labor ; has gained materially and one of the ; forces contributing largely to this ! important fact has been that of the churches Federal Council of Churches has continued its investigations of the twelve-hour-day in the st#cl mills and has pressed its objections so insistently and convincingly \ that the long hoped-for reform seems 1 about to be effected. The mill owners have admitted that in moving toward ! better.hours they are bowing to pub lie opinion and the churches are given much of the credit for marshaling public opinion in behalf of the workers. ,

A Thought

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.Ps. 34:19. * * • HAT seem to us but dim funeral tapers, may be heaven’s l— distant lamps.—Longfellow.

Family Fun

\ Hint for Sister’s Feller "I r. v, why do you keep asking me if I was wounded in the great war?” “Wc l, you know, you seem to have lost the use of your arms!"—Film Fun. Read to Aunty Aunt Mary was trying to persuade little Bob to retire at sunset using the argument that all little chickens went to bed at that time. “Yes," said little Bob, "but the old hen always goes with them.”—Judge. It Tickles the Baby There had been a blowout, and the father of the family was perspiringly and profanely changing tires. “I J’jn’t see why you have to talk that way,” said his wife reproachfully. “You act as if it were a total loss. You never see the good in things.” "Well, what good is there in this?” "Why, it tickled the baby so. He laughed right out loud when it went hang.”—American Legion Weekly. Inertia, as I>ad Sees It “Pa, what is ’inertia?’ ” "Well, my son, if I have it It’s pure laziness; but if your mother has it. It is nervous prostration.”—Boston Transcript.

The New Float in the Parade

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Notions WILSON’S SNAP FASTENERS, All Sizes, black or white; card, 10<*. KOHINOR SNAP FASTENERS, All Sizes, black or white, card, lOC. HOOKS AND EVES, Black or White. All Sizes t card, 10<5. BASTING THREAD, 250 Yards, Spool, 50. CARPET or BUTTON THREAD, 75 Yards, Spool, 10<*. SCISSORS, a Good Assortment of Sizes, 49<) and 590TOILET PINS, 300 Count, Brass, Will Not Rust, B<L BELT PINS, Assorted Sizes, In Black and White, 60 Pins, Paper, s<*. GOLD-PLATED SAFETY PINS, Sizes 00 to 2/z, 10<* and a Paper. BIAS SEAM TAPE. All Desirable Colors and White. Splendid quality, 6 Yards. 150. (Street Floor)

Women's ‘ Kayser ’ UNION SUITS 75c Made of fine lisle finished cotton. sleeveless, with taped neck and arm and tight fitting knee. Sizes 38 to 44. I Children’s Knitted \ Sleeping Garments 79c to 98c Children’s knitted sleeping garments, heavy, grey, soft finished cotton, drop seat styles; ages 1 to 7 years. Excellent value at 79<i to 98<b (Street Floor)

McCall Patterns Many new and beautiful styles for October are now In. Priced 15<* to 45 b (Street Floor)

Fall Sport COATS Anew collection of strictly tailored mannish styles For Women Unusual and Misses Values A,<y) ' Made of Overplaids and Polaires The “tailored woman” who prefers, above all, the coat of mannish, swagger lines, will delight in these beautiful sports coats. Choice is offered of strictly tailored coats or side tie models. In the new shades of tan and brown. We regard those coats as altogether unmatchable values at this price. (Second Floor)

Bedding Materials

Outing Flannel, 25c , Yard vide, in dark colors, heavy quality, in stripes and plaids. Excellent for comfort linings; cut from full pieces. Quilt Batting, 39c Quilt batting of pure, white cotton, soft and fluffy, the roll, 390.

3 Pounds Quilted Comfort Batts 3-pound “Snowy Owl” quilt comfort batts, \ open in a sheet, size 72x90 inches. Made / & • sS of snowy white cotton, closely stitched; }<r ■ M W enough for a large size comfort, roll, 1 £ $1.25.

Quilt Batts, 59c “Princess” quilt batts, opening in a sheet, sugfleient filling for a good sized quilt, pure white cotton. each roll in a separate box. Silkoline, 19c Yard-wide silkoline, in light and dark floral patterns, cut from full pieces, the ideal fabric for comfort coverings.

Women’s Colored Umbrellas Fine, closely woven mercerized cotton covers, \ £ fitted with fancy polished and carved wooden I *p U handles, bakelite tips and stub ends. In navy, / S j purple, garnet and green. ) “ • v/ KJ (Street Floor)

Women's Washable Suede Finish Gauntlet Gloves $1.65 Washable suede finish gauntlet gloves, with fancy embroidered cuffs, strap wrist style, in beaver, mode or gray.' (Street Floor)

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Comfort Batts, SI.OO 3-Pound comfort batts, size 72x90 inches, open in a sheet. Enough for a large-size comfort. Challis, 19c Coihfort challis. yard wide, in a large assortment of light and dark patterns, yard, 19<. t

Comfort Batts, $1.39 4-pound comfort Jjatts, open in a sheet, size 7?x 90 inches. For those who desire a good, heavy comfort. Outing Flannel, 17 l /zc Light or dark outing flannel, in stripes and pla.’ds, long nap, heavy quail l .y, useful mill legths; 27 inches wide.

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32-Inch Madras Shirting, 49c Madras shirtings, in white, with fancy woven silk stripes, attractive patterns for men’s shirts. Pajama Cloth, 39c Soft finish pajama cloth, with stripes in pink, tan and lavender, for undergarments; 32 inches wide. (Street Floor)