Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROT W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BUHRMAN, Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers • • • Client of ibe United Press, United News, United Financial and NEA Service 3nd member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 25-29 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. * * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

THE SAD CASE OF MR. JONES SHE wail of Mr. Jim Jones, acting head of the United States Prohibition Bureau, sure stirs our heart. Mr. Jones bemoans the fact that many of his enforcement agents are quitting because they have to sample booze in order to catch bootleggers. It is, in deed, a sad, sad matter. Some of Mr. Jones’ agents who can’t catch bootleggers because afraid of booze quit, and some who can catch ’em quit because financially fixed for a good old age of comfort and leisure. You simply cannot blame Mr. Jones for feeling like a candle that’s being burnt at both ends. CITY SEEMS TO GET ALONG SNDIANAPOLIS, according tu legal advice given the city administration, may, as a result of the action of the city coun[>e compelled to exist next year not only with a budget no higher than the one used this year, but with a tax levy equally low. The administration —or parts of it —looks upon this situation as a calamity. Citizens, however, are not greatly perturbed. This year, thus far, has not been particularly bad for the city administration so far as available money is concerned. The chances are the administration can worry along next year without an increase. Too often increased expendituresare mistaken for progress. FEAR OF DROWNING "T“| BABY 100 days old, Marylin Jean Anderson, falls off a railA road bridge into the river at Chippewa Falls, Wis. Water is warm. She enjoys herself, evidently thinks she’s in a bathtub. She kicks happily. That keeps her afloat. Rescued. A grown-up, unable to swim, would have drowned. Why? Because fear would counteract the animal ability to swim that is born in all of us. Frightened, the grown-up would yell and empty his lungs of the air necessary to keep him afloat. Fear drowns more people than water. Blondin walked across a cable suspended above Niagra Falls. The rest of us would get frightened, lose our balance and drown. But we could walk the same cable stretched only a foot above safe ground. It isn't the difficulty of walking on a cable that makes people fall They topple off because they fear danger. In a canoe, wind is more dangerous than rough waves. But the average person doesn’t know this. So he feels safer when canoeing in a stiff wind. The feeling of safety helps him keep his treacherous craft balanced. Fear increases, by many times, the hazard of a dangerous situation. That’s because fear involves loss of confidence in our ability to conquer the dangerous situation. Confidence in self is what makes the man of average or even inferior ability rise to greater success than the timid individual with exceptional abilities, natural gifts or skilled training. Never frighten a child. Fear is contagious, feeds on itself. Fear makes failure in life almost inevitable. Self-confidence is the key to achievement, to success.

LAURELS FOR BOY SCOUTS SHE “good deed a day” for which the Boy Scout is noted becomes innumerable good deeds at the State Fair. Everywhere the work of the 700 Scouts on duty is evidenced. Perhaps the most notable work of the boys is in the Red Cross tent, where act as aides to the nurses and doctors. Nine of the Scouts stay on duty all night. Always smiling, never too tired to help out, the Scouts are winning new laurels as well as the grateful thanks of the many whom they have helped. VTE ADMIT WE’RE GOOD, BUT OLADIMIR DE PACHMANN, when asked who is the greatest pianist on earth, admitted it was himself. France, in the Ruhr, confesses she is their in self-defense. Secretary of State Hughes, ij> his speech before the American Bar Association, admitted there is no intention on our part “to superintend the affairs of our sister republics” in the Americas. . The trouble with such glowing admissions is that there are •till some folks left with mean dispositions. The Manchester Guardian, for instance, an English publication, refuses to make what Secretary Hughes says unanimous. “Cuba and Panama,” it observes, “have never had more than a partial independence. The Dominion Republic put its customs under United States control in 1907, Nicaragua in 1911; and American Marines have been in occupation in the former republic since 1916, and in the latter since 1912.” “But,” it continues, “the tendency toward a similar subjection of other republics is less generally known.” “Similar subjection.” The very idea. How’d the Guardian get that way ? Huh ? “The last years,” this feast-spoiler goes on to say, “have seen American capital flooding Latin America. he cites figures.) With these loans goes a greater or less degree of control. Now he names Haiti, Santo Domingo, Bolivia, and so on. Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador. Honduras, Nicaragua, “known as the Republic of Brown Bros.;” Costa Rica, “colony of the United Fruit Company;” Panama, “of course ‘made in the United States,’” and so on down the line through Colombia, Venezula, Peru and Bolivia. “Only Chili, Uruguay and Argentine,” concludes the ghost at our banquet, “are strong enough to receive United States capital on the kind of independent terms on which Canada receives it.” Food for thought in this mirror of ourselves as others see us. especially now, engaged as we are in trying to settle a row with Cuba, who has the temerity to say much the same thing. The bath-tub will not take its vacation until winter. Bathing beauties who have been tanning their hide will soon start hiding their tan. Magazine writers are working on their Christmas stories already. "When a girl speaks of her trunks next year you will wonder if she means baggage or bathing. Flies swatted this summer placed end to end reach the conclusion it isn’t enough. Detroit’s population seems to be about equally divided between those who manufacture automobiles and those who staal them.

BRITAIN NOT YET READY FOR REVOLT Raper Finds Folks Over There as Tame as Here in U, S, A, By JOHN W. RAPER OIEWED from America, Great Britain looks like a wildly radical country. But viewed from its own soil, it looks much tamer. You hear talk in the United States frequently of a "revolution in Great Britain.” You don’t hear any mention of it over there tmless you bring up the subject, excepting occasionally along the Clyde. So far as England is concerned, there appears to be as much danger of a revolution over there as there is here at home, under the nose of D. C. Wills’ pet cannon on the Superior St. side of the Federal Reserve Bank. Even in the Clyde industrial district, where the most radical of all the British population is to be found, nobody believes there is the slightest danger of a revolutionary uprising in which force plays a part. Four Prominent Parties Great Britain is divided politically into four prominent parties. They are the Unionists, National Liberal, Independent Liberal and Labor parties. The Labor party is second in number of members in Parliament, but I mention it because the first threS represent the same line of economic thought, and are as much alike as three peas. Labor is so different from t the other three parties, and is such anew thing in the political world that It needs to be considered in chapters quite apart from the other parties. The Unionist party is the one now in power. It has 344 of the 615 members of the House of Commons. It Is avowedly conservative and plainly reactionary. The National Liberals, the followers of Lloyd George, have 67 members. George’s party is represented in the House by a few “Sirs’’ and a few "the Rt. Hon. John Smiths, D. S. C.. O. B. E., P. E-, J. P.,” but the titles are not so high and the numbers of letters not so many as those of the Unionist members. Asquith Heads Independents The Independent Liberals, headed bq Asquith, have 6C members in the House. Wh#n it come to titles and letters after the names, the Asquith members in the House fall a little behind the Lloyd George members. The Asquith declaration of principles is Intensely anti-Lloyd George. NEXT.—The Labor party is the most interesting feature of British politics. It is an amalgamation of all the groups that believe the government has been operated for the benefit of special interests and not the masses.

Indiana Sunshine

Cale Shepherd, a butcher, Carlisle, tells this on|. A wealthy nM lady In the community, known for her frugality, called the shop and asked to have five cents worth of liver delivered to her home. In a few minutes she called again, "Say, Mr. Shepherd, you need not send that order, my cat has caught a canary.” Her head co\ered with newspapers, “to keep the bugs away,” Mary Whitmore, 8, of Richmond slept peacefully on a neighbors back porch while the frantic mother, search parties and the entire police force spent the night in frantic search. They passed and repassed within a few feet of where she slept, but little alary says her slumbers weren’t disturbed. Here's a Muncle family that thinks it cheaper to own a car than to pay rent. The machine is so arranged that all articles owned by the family can be placed on it at one time so when the landlady says “move" the flivver is run to the front door and in a few minutes the moving la under way. A bandit, accompanied by a young girl, held up a taxi driver at Terre Haute agd stole the car. At the point of a revolver the bandit asked the chauffeur to make sure there was plenty of gas,and oil in the car before he started to drive it. •Before any public work is started at Richmond a picture of the property is taken by the city. These are filed away tS show before and after contrasts when the present program of city planning and improvement has been carried out.

Science

H. Plackett of the Dominion observatory at Victoria, B. C., makes a specialty of the heat of suns that are thousands of millions of miles distant. By means of the wonderful spectrum, he separates the light rays from the heat rays,of a star and then analyzes the latter by difficult, complicated and highly mathemtaical methods. Dr. Plasket states that the hottest star yet found Is an unnamed sun in what is called “Class O.” He estimates its surface temperature as 22,000 degrees centigrade. They probably have no difficulty boiling eggs up there.

Heard in Smoking Room

The lawyer was spinning yarns over his pipe: “It would be a prosy proposition to practice law were It not for the humor that creeps in here and there. Examination of witnesses ie one of the most prolific sources of this sort of relief, for it very often results either in the discomfiture of the lawyer, the court or the witness, and is apt to develop situations and answers that really have nothing at •11 to do with the case at bar. I recall a case of only the other day. It was a burglary case. The man who was robbed was testifying and he said something that sounded very much like a lie to the court. The Judge took his feet off the bench with a bang and pointed his finger

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Advance Dope on Next War r~~] MERICA will fare worst IZk in the next great war! l/*l Here "Tare some Qf the things the “ghosts" say will happen, according to Flora Spore. America will lose the Philippines. England will join Japan for everlasting rule of the seas. Germany and Russia will enter a treacherous alliance. France will lose her power. Turkey will rise only to fall again. America will lose her pride and glory, though France and China will aid her. Miss Spore says she asked the "ghosts" particularly about Italy and Greece, and they told her “there was nothing to worry about.” The next great war, they ’ tell her, will start in the Philippines. \

(qom SIMS I | Says j '1 ANDIT talked politics as he J3 robbed a train in Oklahoma. 1 Probably a reformed politician. t • • • A shoplifter entered a St. Louis store and got a nice fur coat and four months. • • • Rockefeller is giving away nickels, but can get more. • • • Cuba can pay her war loan. A few bootleggers couid pay ours. • • • Bootleg booze costs S2O a quart in Savannah, Ga.—the crooks. • • • Makers say fewer cigars are being smoked. Wait until election. • • • Probably thinking it wasn't going to hurt a bit, a Pittsburgh dentist shot himself. * • • Two men, ages 63 and 65, fell out of a Brooklyn tree, perhaps an old maid was after them. • • • Man laughed himself to death in a Pettersburg (Ind.) movie, at a serious picture, we’ll bet. • • • Times change rapidly. Somebody horsewhipped a Ludington (Mich.) man who was not an editor. • • • Captured a barrel of real hard cider in Montgomery, Ala. Carried away a barrel of fun. • • • Fruit juices are so contrary. They had rather ferment than Jell.

Trom the J Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE

Clairvoyant Ffubber—77r> million pounds of It—will be imported Into our country this year. If you could have foreseen this back In 1911, when only 72 million pounds were imported, you could easily have made plans to bring you fabulous riches. In our highly specialized civilization exceptional success requires clairvoyance or blundering luck. Rubber consumption increased ten fold in the last dozen years. In {he coming dozen years the record will be duplicated by other articles. Guess them correctly and later name your price. Biters The male mosquito never bites. Ma mosquito does all the welt-raising, and she prefers to sink her hypo dermic into men rather women. The old belief is false, that the mosquito dies nfter taking one bite. She conies back for more. These facts are announced by Johns Hopkins medical scientists. They’re experimenting to rid tis of the mosquito pest. Success will come In this direction—in time. Pullmans Fifty thousand Americans sleep in Pullman cars tonight—every night. Information comes from James Keeley of the Pullman Company. He comments: “We really are in the hotel business.” You probably will live to see the porter making up your berth in an airplane. That is, provided porters can be induced to work on the Flying Express. Ask the next one you see. Vanity American women. and girls spend more on rouge, face powder and lipsticks than the entire country spends on bathroom equipment. So claims Col. \V. G. Archer, plumbing engineer. Nevertheless, it is money well spent. Cosmetics are used more as beautifies to attract than to gratify the vanity. Civilization is a theatrical performance—farce comedy disguised as tragedy—and no actor ever is at his best without makeup. Everything natural is good and it’s as natural for women to beautify as for mating birds to warble sweet songs and grow glorious plumage.

threateningly at the witness, angrily said: “ 'Do I understand you to say that, when you heard a noise you quickly got out of bed, turned on the light and went to the head of the stairs—that a burglar was at the foot of the stairs and you did not see him? Are you blind?’ “The tvitness was visibly scared and the perspiration poured down his face. Finally, in a tremulous voice, he asked the court, ‘Judge, must I tell the exact truth?’ “ 'Yes, sir,’ thundered the court, 'the whole truth and nothing but the truth.’ “ ‘Well,’ said the witness, as he hung his head and lowered his voice, ■my wife waAln front of me.’"

WOMAN says GHOSTS ARE HER FRIENDS Greenwich Village Artist De- ’ clares Spooks Like to Help Folks, By JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT, NEA Service Staff Writer "TT] EW YORK, Sept. 6.—Afraid of ghosts? Well, don’t be, says Flora Marian Spore, Greenwich Village artist. "Ghosts,” she adds, "are your best friends, and they get their greatest happiness of helping folks.” Lc-ok what ghosts did for Flora Marian. Took her out of Bay City, Mich., where she was following the somewhat prosaic calling of dentist, set her down in Greenwich Village and taught her how to paint. Told her they* would teach her how to play the piano and write stories. Warns of War Turned her into a prophet by whispering warnings of a world war and the fate of nations. Took her on an ocean voyage and told her wheJfe and how she would meet the man whom she would some day marry. Brought her back to New York and dictated a movie scenario to her. And now—a movie concern has taken* over the scenario. If her screen tests come out all right, Flora Marian is to star in her ghost-writ-ten photoplay. Under the control of her "people," which is what she calls her ghosts, she will paint the sets for it. And her "People" tell Flora'Marian that her name, will be known all over the world. Pretty good, don’t you think, for a girl who three and a half years ago was trying to keep people soothed, calm and cheerful in a dentist's chair back in Bay City, Mich? ”1 don’t believe in spiritualism,” she says, “and I think that most of these table rappings are silly. I’m not smart and when I try to write or paJnt through my own efforts I car ‘t do a thing. People Are Selfish "But my ‘People’ tea me that after they die they lose all jealousy and that their gl-eatest joy is in helping people back here on earth. The rea son they can’t get through to more people is because we are selfish and wrapped up in material things. "They tel! me how’ to keep well and what to cook. They've even given me recipes. “They warn me about world troubles, tQO. They tell me now that a well-known woman will die very suddenly and that the most terrible war the world has ever known la already under way.” But though she doesn't believe in rappings and such. Flora Marian does most of her writing on the back of a oulja board.

Family Fun

Indifferent “Lady,” implored the hobo tearfully, "unless I have food at once I will die In your dooryard." "Oh, that’s all right: go richt ahead We're moving away as soon as the furniture van comes."—American Legion Weekly. One for the Insurance Man An ingenious insurance salesman had secured a policy and a nice commission from a difficult client. He was about to congratulate htmself when back came the policy. "Not approved by home office." One Important question had not been angive cause of his death." After much questioning and suggestion the client said In a whisper: "My father was hung in the Civil War as a spy. We never mention 1 ” “Good Lord, man, that's easy enough." said the rajesman. Taking the application he wrote In this answer: “Fell from a scaffold. Death instantaneous.” —Judge. Then Father Wilted "I don’t see how you had this counterfeit bill passed on you.” “Well, you don’t let me S“e enough real money to enable me to tell the difference.”—Boston Transcript W fieri Son Gets Lively “Does your little boy hate to run errands?” > "It depends on whether I send him for laundry soap or Ice cream.”— Judge.

Animal Facts

The bluejay, a member of the crow family, always has borne a very bad reputation. He was credited with sucking eggs and eating nestlings, to say nothing of other disreputable conduct. Now, however, a biologist in the Department of Agriculture comes forward with the statement that the beautiful villain of the bird family is not as bad as he hns been colored. He examined ninety-two stomachs of bluejays and only in two did he find bird remains and egg shells in three. On the other hand, John Burroughs insisted that the bluejay is a cruel rascal and marauder, with the craft of a pickpocket. Except in nesting season, he is noisy and pugnacious. But in the spring he hardly makes a sound, keeps his fine feathers under leafy covers and skulks from tree to tree in search of tender fledglings that he may devour. The keeper at the Kansas State fish hatchery at Pratt has made a rliscovevry. It is anew way to feed fish at night. An electric light bulb had been placed near one of the ponds in which catfish were being brought up in the way they should go. The light attracted thousands of insects. These, in countless numbers, struck against the lighted globes and fell Into the water. The keeper watched and discovered that the catfish gathered in the water close to the light and feast’ed to satiety on the dropping bugs. This is the first time such a thing was ever known to happen and its discovery was entirely an accident. It Vjrill bs employed further. By the way, this hatchery Is the first one in the country to succeed in raising channel catfish in captivity. There are 25,000 of the flngerlings in the ponds now and they are developing lustily.

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You can get an answer to any question of tact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 Si Y. Avenue. Washingfut. D. C.. inclosing 3 cents In stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers speeches, etc . be prepired. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but ail letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. On what day of the week did April 13, 1894, fall? 1 Tuesday. What famous men had birthdays on Sept. 29? Among them wye Lord Clive, founder of the British Empire in India, and Admiral Lord Nelson. Where axe there leper colonies? Molokai. Hawaii; Cabras Island; Porto Rico; Sullon Leper Colony, Philippines; the States of Louisiana, California and Massachusetts have special hospitals for the treatment of this disease. How much concrete will one cubic foot of cement, two cubic feet of sand and three cubic feet of chat, or broken stone, make? Eleven and a half squares feet of concrete four inches thick. This may vary, depending slightly on how one mixes the material. When and in how many rounds did Marvin Hart knock out Jack Root? At Reno, Nev., July 3, 1905, in twelve rounds.

When was Queen Elizabeth of England born and why did she succeed to the throne instead Os a man? Born Sept. 7. 1533, and succeeded her half sister Mary on the throne of England. The laws of England did not. and do not, bar a woman from succession tQ the throne, and Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII, who was succeeded successively by his son, Edward VI, and his daughters Mary and Elizabeth, all of whom died childless. What are quit claim and warranty deeds? A quit claim is a deed of conveyance operating by way of release; that is, intended to pass any title, Interest or claim which the grantor may have in the premises, but not professing that such title is valid, not containing any warranty or covenants for title. A warranty, in real property law r , is a real covenant by the grantor of lands, for himself and his heirs, to warrant and defend the title and possessions of the estate granted, to the grantee and his heirs, whereby either upon voucher, or judgment in the writ of warrantia chartae, and the eviction of the grantee by paramount title, the grantor was bound to recompense him with other lands of equal value. A warranty deed Is one that contains a covenant of warranty. Are butter plates used any longer? Yes, individual butter plates may be used, but the bread and butter plate has taken the place of the individual butter chip to a great extent. On what day of the week did February 7, 1872, fall? On Wednesday. What is the Trans-Continental , motorcycle record? Six days, 17 hours, 16 minutes, from New York to Los Angeles, made by "Cannanball Baker, July 29, Aug. 4, 1920. Pigs overeat; why therefore do they not have indigestion? Pige do not overeat. They have been found by experiment to be singularly careful ab#||t overeating. Their digestive system, also, is very rich in digestive fluids, and they have a special affinity for digesting fats. They convert starchy foods into fats also. Why, before crossing a road, do cats always w-ait until someone approaches? They do not. Is it practicable for farmers to make gas for light, heat and power out of straw? The Department of Agriculture, after experiments along this line, has not found it practicable. *

If the Greeks and Italians Fight

Soap By BERTON BRALEY I sing of Soap; Though I might sing Os other matters broad in scope, In fact of almost anything, I sing of Soap! Soap, which removes the grit and grime That comes from sweat and toil and stress; Soap—it's a lather which we climb To cleanliness. The simple savage knows it not. But sits within his jungle patch. Forever finding some new spot That he must scratch. But slip some soap to him and show Its proper use; you'll be surprised How rapidiv he'll start to grow More civilized! Disease and dirt stalk hand in hand. And with them it is hard to cope. But in a real progressive land There's always Soap! And this thought bubbles in my bean. Like soda water *.n a cup, The nation rich in soap will clean The others up! Perhaps when tried out in the wash Mine may prove unveracious dope, But, till that moment comes, b'gosh I sing of Soap!. (Copyright. 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought Lo, children are an heritage of the Lcrd: happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.—Ps. 127: 3, 5. • • • HAT gift has Providence beIVv st °wed on man that Is so dear 1 v U-l to him as his children!— Cicero.

THE GROWTH OF The Canning Industry DURING THE LAST FIFTY ELETCHER-AMERICAN YEARS 50Yeaxr The canning of foods has been one of the greatest economic developments of the last fifty years, and Indianapolis has , played a very important part in this development. In the old days all of the canning and preserving was done by Mother over a hot wood-burner, but today practically every kind of vegetable and fruit, and many meats, are canned In the modern Industrial kitchens. \ Last year the retail value of the foods in Indianapolis amounted to more than (puSft’Supßß $27,500,000. Prominent among the Banking Institu- Ujpffgy tions which have helped to build up such an enormous industry is the Fletcher American National. Clean For 83 years this Bank has been in in- Strong timate touch with every industrial devel- Progressive opment and of invaluable assistance to all industry. Industry has banked at the Fletcher American National for more than half a century Fletcher American National Bank Capital and Surplus $3,300,000

THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1923

What Editors Are Saying

Cows (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Those cows which Senator Magnus Johnson has been milking are going ; to miss him a whole lot more when Congress convenes than Congress would miss him should he decide to stay at home. Fundamental (The. Daily Clintonian) As simple as it is. it is none the less fundamental —that, one of the greatest things in this world is that ; of simply being fair. Limited (Alexandria Times-Tribune) I Profane men, that is men addicted to the use of “cuss” words, gives j conclusive evidence that his acquaintance with his native language is limited. Impotent (Rushville Daily Republican) The League of Nations, in the face jof a crisis that threatens war, has proved impotent, just as its foes have always asserted. Italy, whicli, has been the aggressor in the GreekoItalian controversy, has chosen to interpret the wording of the agreement jto suit its own fancy. Sure (Marion Leader-Tribune) There Is no doubt a large numbe* | of farmers in Indiana who would we I come the assistance of Jim Goodrich j and Tom Taggart In paying debts.