Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1923 — Page 4

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I GERMANY SAYS “CALF ROPE” ■L-iIHE other day we watched a couple of school kids disputing 1 1 I over which should be “it” in a game they were playing. | Pretty soon they clashed and began to “wrassle” all over Ith9 lot, until one tripped the other and threw him on his back. Sitting astride the fallen boy the victor demanded, “Say 'calf jfrope.’ Darn ya, say ‘calf rope.’ ” The vanquished lad thrashed about violently for a while, wailing. Then he lay quiet for a spell, apparently hoping the top boy would get tired, the teacher would appear on the scene, or something would happen to his advantage. And nothing did. Finally, from underneath, there came a tired mumble. “Say it louder. Dog gone ya, say it louder," yelled the boy on top. “ ‘Calf rope,’ ” bellowed the boy on the ground. Then he got up, brushed off his clothes and said, chipperly: “Come on, Red, le’s play. I’ll be ‘it.’ ” Finally Germany has said “‘calf rope” to France. Ever since the armistice German politicians have been trying to get out of paying, or doing what they honestly could to pay for the damage done in war Germany started. Their policy has been based entirely on the belief if they held out long enough the allies would split up, or France would crumble, or something would happen so they would not have to pay. But nothing has occurred. So Chancellor Stresemann announces Germany’s second—and this time, unconditional—surrender in the Ruhr. Anything may happen in Germany now as the result of a sorely disillusioned people. There may be monarchy revolution, a red uprising, dismemberment, a mixture of all these, or nothing at all save a lot of noise and smoke, tinged with a minimum of bloodshed. Our guess is the last named. It is also our sincere hope. Premier Poincare was not sitting astride Germany’s prostrate form for nothing. He wanted to get her in the frame of mind where she would play ball instead of trying to crab the game at every turn. Indications are he has succeeded. If Germany will only get up now, brush off her clothes, so to speak, and cheerfully go about being “it” for a while—long enough to set herself right with the world—nothing and nobody can hold her back. Waiting for her there is still that “place in the sun.” TRAGEDIES EN T SAFETY CAMPAIGN SWO children killed by automobiles in Indianapolis within twenty-four hours I The accidents occurred in the midst of the children’s safety campaign. These two tragedies serve to bring home as nothing else could the necessity for careful driving. Children will run in front of automobiles. Even constant alertness on the part of drivers cannot always prevent such accidents. But be careful. You may save a life.

SQUARE DEAL FOR THE INSANE RADUALLY the deplorable situation surrounding the lack of care for insane persons in Indiana is reaching the public conscience. Paul J. Benjamin, general secretary of the Family Welfare Society, reviews the situation in the current issue of “Survey.” “During the past ten years 9,495 insano people have been placed in jail in Indiana. Some were held in jail for months and years,” the article says. It quotes a recent article by Miss Laurel Thayer, chief probation officer of the city court, published in The Indianapolis Times, in which she asserted eightyfive men and women were held in the Marion County jail for periods varying from twenty-four hours to two months. Benjamin’s article sets out the situation in this language: “If you are found insane in Indianapolis you may be committed to jail by the city court. “It is nobody’s official duty to follow up your case after you are sent there. It is the duty of the county clerk to see that you are committed to some institution, but he is short of clerical help and it may be a long time before he gets around to you. “It is nobody’s business to make a home investigation of your case. “It takes time and bother to look up records. A physician must sign your recommitment papers if you have ever been in a State institution. But no physician is paid a fee to do this. You must await his convenience and generosity. “If you are committed to the Central Hospital for the Insane, but the quota for your county is full, nobody sees to it that you are promptly sent elsewhere. “If your home is outside Indiana there are no facilities for furnishing transportation to your home when and if it is found.” This is a bitter indictment. The saddest part of the situation is that it is true. Tax rates in Indiana are mounting—but little of the money is going to the care of the insane. Movements are under way to reform nearly everything—except the inhumane lack of system in handling the insane. How long will the community permit this situation to exist? HE SAID SOMETHING SHE Kansas City Star has been interviewing the wheat farmers of Kansas relative to their condition, needs, etc. They have admitted their distress and loss, but, almost to a man, they have positively stated that they neither expected nor wanted any special legislation by Congress. They realize, they stated, that the situation cannot be ameliorated by law. Then the interviewing reporter reached Rodney Elward, in Rusk County. His views should interest Hoosier farmers. “We are not asking any favors from the Government,” said Rodney, “but, if the special interests of the country, the manufacturers or the railways, were in the same condition that the farmers are today, they would be battering down the doors of Congress to ask for class legislation in the way of a special tariff bill or higher transportation rates.” Rodney said something. It should sink in where the truth is needed. But it won’t. No one can set an example for the special interests to follow. They have their own way, and it has come to be a prerogative. When adverse conditions meet them, they yelp for the law’s help. By looting the pockets of the people they save themselves. If this were not true, they wouldn’t

STICK TO YOUR JOB, IS ADVICE F, Edson White and James Simpson Declare 'Sticktuitiveness’ Wins, By ROT J. GIBBONS NEA Service Writer H3CAGO, Sept. 26.—Stick to your bush! J If you contemplate changing that job of yours for a seemingly better one Just around the corner, hearken first to the advice proffered by two men here who have just risen from the ranks, to combined control of an estimated billion dollars’ worth of separate industries. Both F. Edson White and his contemporary. James Simpson, began life sharing menial duties. Simpson was $5-a-week office boy. White, a handy lad with cattle around the slaughter houses. • • • *1 ODAY both are independently wealthy, have thousands of —■ -1 people—including many of their former bosses —working for them, and have decidedly reached that fairyland goal toward which all of us are striving—-the land of the “go-getters"—easy street. Simpson has just been elected president of Marshall Field & Company, probably the largest wholesale and retail department store on earth. And climbing simultaneously with him. White, who chose the packing Industry for his particular realm, on the same day, almost the very hour, that Simpson came Into his N own, was named president of Armour & Company, largest of the world’s “Big Five” meat distribution concerns, with ramifications extending to every corner of the globe. Their rise, purely on merit, has furnished the biggest business romance of the past decade. White’s elevation to his high place means the triumph of a one-time cattle herder and meat inspector, and likewise marks the first day, since Armour & Cos. was founded in 1862, that the firm has been operated without an Armour descendant in the president’s chair. • • • \xr'j MILE Simpson, who once apyy proached Marshal! Field Sr. _.-.-J for a raise and told the morohant prince that perhaps he wasn’t worth any more, when Field countered that when he was a boy he worked for muoh lees than what Simpson was then getting, represents a self-made product who got where he is simply because he "stuck.” Both men are about the same age. each bordering close to the half century mark. And each disclaims any “chartered road” to success, though insistently giving the prevalent rumor popular with a great many young men the lie, that the age of opportunity is parsed and “that you have to have a relative in the firm to gat anywhere.” • • • SN Simpson's case, achievement, so those who know him say, •ama not from any spectacular brilliancy, but from a combination of contributing circumstances which he brought about through his glue-like “sticktuitlveness" and the never veering custom of doing “everything well.” Today this former office boy runs a score of mills, has a large-adzed city of workers under him in Chicago. .and in addition is at the head of an army of salesmen, who require fifty-five salcsmanagers to direct thoir canvass of every town and hamlet In the land. "Character is the first essential In any man’s progress, 1 ' Simpson related. “Those who get to the top in any line of endeavor are invariably the type of men who haw calculated their rise by sound principle, right living, and a combination of doing things under correct and experienced rules.”

The Hero By BERTON BRALEY They gave him twenty minutes hut he finished up in ten; Oh, there’s a prince of speakers and a servant unto men! His diction wa.sn’t such a much, he hemmed and hawed a bit But still he spoke a lot of sense, and after that —he quit. At first we sat plumb paralyzed, then cheered and cheered again; They gave him TWENTY minutes, and he finished up In TEN. In all post-prandial history no finer deed is known. Among the dinner orators his figure stands alone! A gratitude unlimited from all of us he’s won, We’ll vote for him for president if he should care to run, He pulled a stunt that hitherto was quite beyond our ken; They gave him twenty minutes—and he finished up in ten! A deed without a precedent—we can’t express our thanks, But should he turn to piracy, or busting open banks, We’ll treat these things as trivial and let him go his way; And, when he’s dead, a monument we’ll rear above his clay. And this shall be the epitaph we'll carve in marble then “They gave him TWENTY ’ minutes, but he finished up in TEN.'' (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

Science

Storage batteries that discharge all their current in ono flash are the latest thing In electricity. This battery was developed from the Idea found in the papers written by Plante, inventor of the storage battery. The method has perfected by a young Russian refugee to such an extent that an X-ray picture can be taken without a dynamo. Pure lead Is used for the plates of the battery; these are separated by canvas and no forming or preparation or chemio*is other than lead and acid are used. They are charged in the usual manner, but all the current is discharged on one seven-hundredth of a second. This makes the charge very powerful. The French government iu experimenting with this process in connec-

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A Boys Point of View Why axe the people so ungrateful? Os what the world shares, The people are growing more hateful. And trying to be millionaires. The time Is coming at hand When famines shall be in the land, Then what shall wo people do, When famines shall lead and rule? Man shall s!p,y his brother, And son shall turn from mother. O! what a cruel world this will be, If we don’t find the sacred key. RAYMOND CLINE. Ago 15. A Thought Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deah, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; they rod and thy staff they comfort me.—Ps. 23:4. • • • GOD himself takes part with rightful courage—Menander.

Heard in the Smoking Room

j-v ACK yonder in the horseq thief days,” said the man from Missouri between puffs on his corncob, “we used to have an Anti-Horse-Thief-Association for our protection. Farmers and ranchers generally were members, and, since it was a mutual organization, the cost of hunting down the thieves was very much reduced, and we found, also, we were, through the association’s agency, more likely to recover our lost animals than by any other process. Os course, when our cases came to court. It wvus to the Interest of the thief on trial to prevent any member of the horse-thief association from gaining a jjlace on the Jury. It was not permissible for the defendant’s attorney to ask a prospective Juryman point-blank If he was a mem-

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QUICK HITS AT BIGOTRY . IN SCHOOLS Cites Tennessee U, as Example of Narrow-Minded-ness of Officials. By HERBERT QUICK fri-i HE people of Tennessee, as well as her university are going L under the microscope of publio examination. The trouble seemed to start when an instructor in psychology ordered his classes to read an evolutionary book, “Mind in the Making.” The book was ordered sent hack to ihe publishers by the president of the institution. He said it was dangerous. And then the fat was in the fire. Professors Fired Professors and instructors have been fired or have r< signed, most of them getting better places elsewhere. The president, it is said, in trying to fill their places is having difficulty. Men whose natures are as big as is required for teaching in any higher institution of learning scarcely like to go where their thoughts are censored. Presidents of other schools are said to have intimated to the president of the Tennessee University they are not willing to help transplant good brains Into such an atmosphere. It Is now a matter into which the alumni have entered. They seem to feel a great institution is about to be ruined by narrowness and intolerance. University Tests State There is no better test of a State than tho character of its university. If the State is quite dead Intellectually, it may have a good university if it happens to fall Into good hands; for there will be no public opinion at all to offend. When the State has made certain progress, it enters into what may be called the state of barbarism in education. It is afraid of ideas. It has not reached the stage of seeing all a university is good for is to stimulate thought and investigation, and to offer the world new things all the time. Opinion Is Narrow It begins to have a public opinion on education —and that public opinion is narrow, bigoted, afraid of shadow's. If the spirit of barbarism wins, the university dies. It still ex lsts as a corpse which is galvanized Into something like life when the poor, robbed boys and girls come to suckle dry breasts nfto r the long vacations. But it is not worth a tinker’s dam. All the money expended on it, no matter how many high-sounding degrees it confers, is lost. There is a third stage into which States sometimes happily emerge, in which tho university stands for freedom of Investigation and thought. Tho people do not believe everything taught there is true. But they have learned if nothing Is taught as to which there is disagreement, a boy can learn more at a baseball game than in school. Such a State has a groat university, no matter how small it is; hut it has something more—lt has a great people. We shall know when this fight is over in which class Tennessee belongs.

Indiana Sunshine

Thoughts of Thanksgiving and a table laden with good things to eat. especially pumpkin pies, comes with the report that T. M. Johnson has raised two pumpkins weighing eighty and seventy-six pounds each. Johnson claims the Mongomery County championship and la trying to figure the number of pies each will make. Is it legal to place a Bible In a Jury room with the Jury in session? Sunday came and found a Delaware County Jury in session. The Jurymen looked around for a Bible, and, finding none, they addressed a letter expressing regret of the fact to the judge. Much talk is heard regarding the foolishness of young women. But to several Muncle High School youths all credit must he given. These toys have sworn off wearing hose supporters and their socks can be scan dangling over their shoe tops. Whon William Grabill, South Bend, celebrated his forty-ninth birthday anniversary a\l guests present were members of a Canadian camping party last summer. All wore camping togs and knickers. To carry out the manners of campers the living room of the homo was filled with a tent and Canadian flowers.

ber of the association, but the matter could be approached Indirectly. It was the cue of the members of the association, you see, to gain places on the Jury, if possible, by giving evasive answers to the quizzing lawyers- I remember one qase wherein Col. R. C. Friend, the well-known Joplin politician, was called on the venire. “ ‘Colonel Friend,’ said the defendant’s attorney, ’I will ask you If you are a member of any society or organization for the suppression of crimes?' “ ‘Yes sir, I am,’ replied the colonel. “ ‘What is the name of that society?’ “ ‘The Campbelllte Church and the Democratic party,’ promptly replied the doughty and crafty colonel.”

Observations

It is believed HI Johnson will win the delegates from Minnesota and the middle Northwest to the Republican national convention. They probably call him Hi Yonson up there, and that’s a winner^ Magnus says “the Senate needs less culture." We guess that’s telling Henry Cabot Lodge something. An eastern paper speaks of “the comparative virtues of bathing suits.” Just a mere mention, as the matter warrants. A psychologist says "the slow thinkers live the longest,” but he can’t prove it by tho railway crossings. Word comes from New York women are to wear glass hair. Some of it already looks as if it had been broken off. Sociologists say poverty Is a disease. Mebbe. Anyway, it is an aching void. All paper money up to SIOO is to be standardized. That is, all of it that hasn’t already been Standard oiled. There seems to have been a misunderstanding. When that farmer-ora-tor advised his Michigan friends to raise hogs, he did not mean “blind pigs-”

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The big apple crop we reported recently is a big cider crop now. * • • Idle rumors travel fast. So do idle roomers. • • • If you find something and don’t know what it is take it to a jeweler. It may be a lump of coaL • * • Winter will be hard on men who are broke. Keeping their hands in their pockets keeps it on their minds. • • • Did you know a rope was 10 per cent stronger when wet? And the cigar variety 100 per cent? • * * While most men are helpless in the kitchen some of them will help less than others. • • • One advantage in buying a loud overcoat is nobody wants to steal it. 11l Look out for trains while hunting coal along the railroad tracks. • * • Autos are thick. So axe some auto drivers.

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Family Fun

Would Marry Early “I wish.” said the little Invalid who was being washed in bed. "that X need never, never have to be washed again.” “I’m afraid,” said mamma gently, “that as long as you have me to take care of you, you’ll have to reconcile yourself to be washed thoroughly every day.” The invalid pondered for a moment. “Then,” she said, "I shall marry very early.”—Los Angeles Times. 50-50 Marriage "If I marry you. will I have to take in any washings?” “No. Just wash and hang out. I’ll take ’em in!" —Judge. When Sister Landed Him "Did you say ‘This is do sudden,' when Dave proposed to you the other day?” “No, I intended, but I was so flustered I forgot and cried ‘At last!’ Instead.”—Yoo Doo. The check-off was left, out of the coal strike settlement, but the ultimate consumer will be compelled to use it on his furnace.