Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1923 — Page 4

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LIKE “OLD MOTHERS” Jl . STREAM of automobiles passes. We learn one is going to St. Peters, a village down in the southeastern part of the State. We read later that St. Peters held a formal home-coming. “There is always something tragic in the home-comings that villages hold,” writes Cincinnatus. philosopher of the Cincinnati Post. “These villages are like old mothers whose children have gone away from her and made successes and return to her at Christmas time. “The young men and women leave the villages for the cities until only the old remain. And gradually the old ones pass away and with them pass the villages that lives through them. “Thus many villages have died or are dying, their youth having been taken away from them by the nearby cities. * “The villager coming to the city may be obliged to live in a crowded tenement —but around the corner are the movie, refreshment parlor and the dance hall. And anew job may be had if the old one becomes stale.” The viewpoint, we might add, is altogether that of the citybred man. ’•INCREASE IN CHILD LABOR C HTLD labor, it is distressing to record, is increasing in the United States. The charge made at the Indiana State Federation of Labor convention that children are employed in canneries in this State during the busy season is something that furnishes food for thought. Though Legislatures in forty-four States have met since the national child labor tax law was declared unconstitutional, only eight States have taken steps to improve upon their child labor laws. In certain other States employers emboldened, by the action of the Supreme Court, have increased the numbers of their child laborers. In Manchester. N. H., five times as many children were employed in factories in the first half of 1923 as in 1922. It is thus obvious that legislation in the interests of children is a national problem. The United States children’s bureau finds that the nation is confronted with two alternatives—either the idea of a minimum standard must be abandoned or by constitutional amendment we must give to Congress power to regulate or prohibit employment of persons under 18 years of age. Whatever means may have to be employed, it is high time a nation which regards the shaping of immigrants in molds of its own designing as a beneficence, took steps to protect its own children.

CAVE MAN’S WIVES SOME men, even in Indiapapolis, can get by with anything with women, if they will but be kind to children and generous with money. Look at the fierce Pancho Villa of Mexico. Nothing in his looks for women to be excited about, but now after his death one after another of his widows with her children comes forth to tell of her love for Villa. These wives, in many cases beautiful, well-educated and charming, tell thrilling tales of their romances. Whomever Villa fancied, he seized, carried to a church and married. Superstitiously he insisted upon this formality, particularly if the girl was young. Dona Luz, the golden-haired, blue-eyed beauty, now about thirty-six, seems to have held him the longest. She lived on his ranch for years, and took care of some of his children by other wives. She would not allow him to bring another wife to the house. That resulted in sending away the sad little Esther Cardona as far as Chihuahua. But Esther claims Villa visited her frequently, and was very kind to their twin children, now 2 years old. Also she admits that her “husband” was very generous with money. All Villa’s wives recall his kindness and his love for the children. Even Dona Luz says Villa never found fault with her except to say that she was extravagant. This she admits was the truth. Is all this display of affection prompted because the widows think Villa left lots of money, and each wants her share ? If so, his widows deserve all they can get. “THE PATHWAY OF PEACE” [*-p I HIS was the alluring title of a speech delivered last night I * by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes before the Canadian Bar Association at Montreal. It was not so intended, but it was the biggest boost for a league or association of nations we have heard in a month of Sundays. Peace through outlawing war he characterized as a futile hope ; by force as impracticable ; by alliances between great powers as illusory, and by economic pressure as liable to fail when most needed. “The way to peace.” he said, “is through agreement.” There he said it, in one word. Agreement. There can never be world peace so long as we just drift along, each nation a law unto itself. But one nation cannot “agree.” And two or more nations i% agreement form a balance of power which gives rise to another balance of power, and two such balances have never yet failed to produce war. The agreement, obviously, must be world wide or not at all. Secretary Hughes said the century of peace between the United States and Canada points the way to world peace. And it does. Nevertheless he advocated the appointment of a “permanent body of our most distinguished citizens, with equal representation of both the United States and Canada, to act as a com mission” . . . “to remove sources of misunderstanding and possible irritation.” . This local “permanent body,” translated into world terms for the sake of world peace, at once becomes a world association. The codification of international law. or the rules governing conduct as between nations, urged by Secretary of State Hughes, should, by all means, be undertaken. And when completed they should be solemnly signed by every civilized power and have the force of an international agreement on which public opinion would have a chance to play. But there again you have an association of nations. Try as you will to find one, there is no other way to peace than through some world-wide agreement to that end. Love laughs at gunsmiths. The “back to the farm” movement would be all right if it did not break the back.

EAST MEETS WEST AMID TOKIO SHOPS Writer Cannot Conceive of Destruction of Japan’s Two Large Cities, Clare Ousley, wife of Clarence Dubose, United Press staff correspondent, was in New York on a visit when the Japanese catastrophe occurred. Having: just come from Japan, she was able to write a “closeup” description of Tokto as it was before earthquakes and fires destroyed it. Her article rives an intimate picture of the teeming: city as it must have looked a few minutes before the earth beg-an heaving: and buildings commenced tumbling: in ruin. By CLARE OUSLEY (Copyright, 1923, by United Press.) mHOUSANDS of casualties! No buildings left standing in Yokohama! Tokio swept by fire! Wildly uncertain and curtailed the reports are coming from stricken Japan as we wait in the New York office, peering over the ''flimsies” they come from the telegrapher’s typewriter. "Tidal wave follows earthuake.” "Many Americans probably killed.” "Yokohama Governor sends out plea for food and assistance.' So came the terrifying messages. And those of us whom Tokio and Yokohama are more than just strange Oriental words on the map, sit and stare at each other, aghast, trying to conceive a wrecked Yokohama, a Tokio in flames and then doing our best to stop conceiving It. East Meets West

Perhaps nowhere in the Orient could such a surprising combination of eastern and western civilization be found as in Tokio —the Tokio before the earthquake of 1923. On Ginza, that oddeet of all Main streets, the east met the west, sometimes decorously, sometimes fantastically, sometimes incongruously, always interestingly. A sparse bearded and very dignified old gentleman strolling down the walk be half eastern and half western —western from the waist up in morning coat and derby, easterp from waist down in hakama and wooden clogs. Boastfully European The Mitsukoshi department store, in which, according to one dispatch the first post earthquake fire broke cut and which is now totally destroyed, stood out proudly tall and clerk-towered, boastfully European in structure. And all along the street on either side of Mitsukoshi's crouched tiny, open front! paper wailed shops where the beautiful fabrics were displayed in good Japanese fashion on the immaculate Tatami covered floors. The Kaigo building, reported de stroyed with 1.000 casualties, stood not far from the city’s great fish market, where fishermen, clad in breech clouts and gay headbands, came early each morning up the canal in their old-fashioned sampans with huge loads of fish. Bridge Was Symbol Nihonbashi itself, the Nippon bridge, was the very symbol of this meeting of the east and the west, the old and the new. For the Nihonbashi has existed ever since the days when Tokio was not Tokio, but Yedo. Then it was an unimposing little foot bridge at which all the roads of the 'empire terrninatqd-. Yesterday it was still Nihonbashi. where all the commercial roads of the empire centered—no longr a wooden footbridge—but an impressive stone structure flanked with winged griffins and electric lights. Today it is a mass of wreckage. In the Maranouchi district one could easily forget he was in Japan. Some times in stepping from the now demolished imperial government railway station and looking over this section of the city where big brick and stone bank buildings, hotels and office buildings faced wiped paved streets. I have felt as though I were stepping out of the Kansas City or St. Louis station. It is here in JJaranouchi that these big stone buildings, representative of the new Japan and her industrialism that there has been a test note often required of brick and stone. Up to the last ten or twelve years the Japanese have kept what few stone or brick buildings they constructed within the limits of a few stories.

Family Fun Prexoudness Mother was much surprised when Jimmie came up to her and said: “Mother, didn't you say last week you wanted the carving knife and the chopper sharpened?” “Yes, I did,” admitted Mrs. Greene. “Bless your little heart! How thoughtful you are!” “Well, I’ll take them around to the cutler’s for you,” was the next unexpected offer. “How sweet of you to offer to do such a thing for your mother! I’ll wrap them up,” replied Mrs. Greene gratefully. “No, no!” answered Jimmie, quickly. "Don’t wrap them up. I want them to show. There’s a boy out there Waiting to fight me, but I fancy that when he sees me coming with them he’ll go home.”—London Answers. When Sister’s Feller Popped “When I urged him to go into the library and see papa, he hung back and broke into a profuse presplration.” "Little drops of water aryl not a grain of sand, eh?” “Finally I agreed to go with him and —poor Jack! You should have seen his knees tremble.” “A nervous reaction after advancing to par, as the brokers say.”—Boston Transcript.

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1, , , HE railway claim agent wa* riding on the train between stations. “Yes,” he said to the others in the smoking room, "we have many claims to adjust and some of them are not without a humorous tinge. I just read of one made by Austin Peterson, up near Blue Earth, Minn. The railway had killed Austin’s cow and he was anxious to settle his claim for S9O, with an addition of $lO ,o cover burial of the animal. He said he was a ‘poor feller” and needed the money. His letter was to Claim Agent Murphy, of the railway.” Then the claim agent took from his pocket a clipping which contained

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foOM SIMS I | - r - Says' School teachers are people who will get reported if they don't treat your kids better. * * • Bosses are people who don’t know as much as you and hold their jobs by handshaking. * * * Friends are people who will listen to your troubles if you will let them tell theirs. • • • Neighbors are people living near you who had better ’tend to their own business. * * • Rich kinfolks are prosperous relations who give you advice and lend you no money. • • Poor kinfolks are improvident relations who want to borrow money and refuse your advice. * * * A man’s wife's kinfolks are her relations to whom he is proving he is some account. • * • Uncles are yodr parents’ brothers who have promised to help you along some day. • • • Nephews are your brothers’ and sisters’ boys who won’t work. • • • Aunts are your parents’ sisters who come to your house and just stay on and on. • * • Nieces are your brothers' and sisters' girls who expect a gedding present when they marry. • • • A dog is an animal. with more sense than any other dog. • • • A cat is an animal that sticks its tail under your chair. * * * Vampire movies are staging a comeback. Same old plots are used. Just been revamped.

QITEST I O N S Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can ret an answer to any question of tact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 N Y Avenue. Washington. I). C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage ad vice cannot be given, nor can extended research be und rtaken. or papers, speeches, etc . be prep ired Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confident: al. and receive personal replies.—Editor. How big Is the Island of Sardinia? Length 160 miles, and about seventy miles wide. How and when did Lord Kitchener die? He was drowned June 5, 1916, while on his way to Russia when the cruiser New Hampshire was sunk off the Orkney Islands, What church does President Coolidge attend? The Congregational. What !s the meaning of the word “Catafalque” used so much during Harding's funeral? Also “cflttsson?” Catafalque, pronounced “kat-a-falk,” with the accent on first syllable, is a movable structure used to convey the remains to the burial place. A caisson Is a strong four wheeled vehicle consisting of two parts, the body and limber, and usually carrying ammunition chests or boxes in the artillery branch of the army. The word is pronounced "ka-son,” with the accent on the first syllable. A caisson is used as a hearse in a military funeral. What Is Esperanto? -A universal language, Invented in 1887 by Dr.\ Zamenhof, a Russian scholar, using the pen name "Esperanto.” Its vocabulary consists of words common to every important European language. Its dictionary contains 2,642 root words, and its grammar has forty-five correlative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs.

What Is the highest point in Pennsylvania? Negro Mountain, in Somerset County, with an elevation of 3,213 feet. What do actresses use to expand the pupils of their eyes? Belladonna, but Its use Is a very harmful habit. Is It Illegal to bore a hole in a coin? It Is not against the law to mutilate a coin, but there is a penalty for putting such mutilated coins into circulation. How many whites, negroes, Indians, Chinese and Japanese are there in the United States? Whites, 94.820,915; negroes, 10,463,131; Indians, 244,437; Chinese, 61,639; Japanese, 111,010, according to the 1920 census. When and where was the Cor-bett-Sullivan fight, and what was the outcome? Corbett knocked out Sullilvan Sept. 7, 1892, at New Orleans. What is the meaning of synthetic? In its ordinary usage the word means combining many particulars Into a whole. What Is patio? Patio, pronounced pa-ti-o, with the accent on the first syllable, and with a broad “a”, is the open inner court of a Spanish or Spanish-Amerlean home.

Austin’s plea for remuneration, and read it. Austin said: “Ay was sitting on my fence watching my kow eat the railroad grass and your big engine come down and kill my kow and hit my kow ride between the crossing and the telephone post, and he cut the two legs of my kow by the tail and his head he lay on the odder side of the fence. I holler at the man what was making the cars go, but he don’t stop—so I go back to my kow and he yust say boo hoo and he die ride in my arms. If I bury him in a hole, will it be all rite if you want him when you kome up I dig him up again, but he is dead yust the same.”

M’ADOO HITS GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Former .Rail Director Says Question Can Be Solved Otherwise, By WILLIAM G. M’ADOO. Director United States Railroad Administration During the War. HERE are two*kinds of markets which the farmers must always have if they are to secure prosperity. The first (and most important) is the home market; the second is the foreign market. In order to reach the home market they must have plenty of cheap transportation on land. In order to reach the foreign market they must have plenty of cheap transportation on land and sea. They must also have a rational foreign policy and a sensible tariff policy that will keep the foreign markets open to them. The primary factor, therefore, In the farmer’s prosperity is railroad transportation. Without It he can get nowhere; with it, at excessive cost, be can get somewhere, but his opportunities are greatly restricted. The higher the freight rates, for instance, the more limited is the home market area in which the farmers can sell their products, whereas, the lower the freight rates the larger the home market area and the wider the distribution of the farmers’ products. Not Alone Hales But is is not alone a question of j rates. It is a question also of car j supply and prompt movement of the I crops when they are ready to move. I Therefore, efficient and sufficient railI road transportation Is also vital to j fann prosperity. j This means that farmers must have, ! when they need it (not when they j don't) plenty of railroad transportation at reasonable rates and the the railroads must be operated efficiently so that fanners have their crops (especially perishaoles) moved and distributed quickly to the widest posihle markets. Intelligent Consideration There must be an intelligent recon sideration of this railroad question. Wall Street and organized selfishness must not be permitted to maintain a system of railroad transportation which Is inadequate, inefficient, uneconomic, wasteful and unjustifiably costly to the American people The railroad problem is one of the most vital of all domestic problems to the farmers. It is equally vital to shippers and to all the people. It can be solved by lntelligert, dispassionate and patriotic effort with Justice to the public, to tabor and to railroad Investors and without resorting to Government ownership. That should not come until every thing else has failed.

Editor’s Mail The editor is willing to print rlews 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 oblect. Jail Conditions To Iht Editor of Thr Timm I was in jail for thirty days and suffered fifteen days without relief. I couldn't buy medicine. Men suffer from toothache for days without getting relief. I have seen men put concentrated lye in their mouths to get relief from pain. Conditions should be thoroughly investigated. INDIANAPOLIS TAXPAYER. Minors and Operators To thr Editor of Thr Timm As long as coal operators and miners cannot cooperate and regulate to a reasonable understanding, inconveniencing the public and causing hardships to miners and their families, there should be Government Jurisdiction. No matter who the shoe pinches! Nationalize the coal mining industry. It may have a tendency to get the operators and miners into a peace move understanding and straighten out this year-after-year divided line. ALBERT HEATH, 26 S. Capitol Ave.

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What Editors Are Saying Neighbors (Washington Democrat.) It takes all kinds of people to make a community, but the immunity is not made unless there is a neighborly feeling existing between the people. Destroy this feeling and you destroy the community. Criminal (Munoie Evening Press) The international question of the hour is, Will the world allow Mussolini to ' get away” with the greatest crime since the German invasion of Belgium? Utterly vicious, utterly cowardly, utterly cruel, utterly In violation of the rules of warfare and of Italy’s pledged word, was the firing upon Corfu and the killing of fifteen innocent civilians. Art (Alexandria Times-Trihune) While it is a fine thing for the children to practice drawing, they need not feel that It is necessary to ornament the new wall paper with their charming designs. Law (South Bend News Times) No law ever changed the character of a man nor has one ever been written which made men moral. The way to make them “good” is to inspire a wish in their minds to be good. Fear of law is never quitd as strong as an evil passion. A Thought Suffer little children to come unto me. and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.—Luke 18:16. HERE is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the immortals.—Hazlitt.

Buccaneers By BERTON BRALEY Bold bad pirates on a bold bad craft (Three little kids on a makeshift raft!), And the captain says, with a cruel lip. “Men, get ready, an’ we’ll board that ship. She’s chuck full of a heap of gold, Tons of ducats are inside her hold. Rubies, di’monds! Oh, you better bet She’s got treasure that we're gonna get!” Where’s the ship? Well, to you and me There’s no ship for the eyes to see; But those bold pirates. THEY can see her plain, A tall, tall galleon built in Spain, W r ith her captain shaking in his Spanish shoes, As he thinks of riches he is doomed to lose To the bold bad pirates on a bold bad craft (Three little kids on a makeshift raft!). Oh. the pirate chief waves his sword In wrath (To you and me it’s a piece of lath. But we’re grown up and we’ve lost our sight; To the pirate chief it's a sword, all right!) He waves his blade and he cries out “Men! We’ll board that ship!” and then — just then. His mother calls and he wails “aw gee, All the time she’s a-callin’ me!” And the spell is gone, and the bold bad craft Is just three kids on a makeshift raft! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service. Inc.)

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Indiana State Fair 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.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1923

Indiana Sunshine Ben Benson of Robey purchased for $2,500 a "diamond” from two young men while on a visit to Chicago Two hours later a jeweler told him the stone was worth about 60 cents. With glass selling at that rate It would be hard to figure the cost of a window pane. A girl who couldn't tell the difference between a mail box and a fire ala.-m caused a Jot of excitement and confusion at Marion. The fire department answered a long and needleS3 call, all because the young woman attempted to mail a letter In the latter. Alleging that the defendant took his sweetie for joy rides In his airplane. Margaret J. Crump, Columbus, filed suit for divorce from her husband, Charles F. Crump. That’s one way of leaving the wife safely at home. A fifty per cent in the number of goats in Monroe county Is leported for 1922. Many farmers keep one or two among their sheep to keep the dogs away. Another raises a flock of goats and angora cats. At that it probably beats growing wheat. A loving cup for being the oldest resident of Whitley county was awarded Simeon Huffman, 95. at the old settlers' day at Columbia City. Mrs. Catherine Snyder, 87, won the the cup for living in the county the longest. 80 years.

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