Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1923 — Page 4

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J DISAGREEABLE ODORS m 0 THOSE of yon who hare had the interesting experience of visiting Chicago, immortalized by its own poet as “hog butcher to the wotld,” there is cause most plentiful for frequent reminiscences. The olefactory organs are said to be the most closely connected with the memory. When, from the southwest portion of our o\yn city in the twilight of evening, and sometimes earlier in the day, comes wave after wave of questionable fragrance, undulating in currents that not only stimulate the memory but almost paralyze it, one wonders that with all its beauty Indianapolis has not taken more determined steps toward stopping the disagreeable odors emanating from the reducing and stock yard by-products plants 6outh of the city— Breathes there a Hoosier with sense so dead Who never to himself hath said: “Good Lord, what a smelll" WELCOME LITTLE SISTER! SHE Scripps-Howard newspaper family welcomes the latest arrival in its midst. Announcement that the State Tribune of Albuquerque, N. M., has joined as the twenty-seventh member of this organization, is an interesting corollary of a similar announcement a few weeks ago that the Pittsburgh Press had become the twenty-sixth member. The Pittsburgh Press is one of the biggest newspaper properties in the East. Its influence has been exerted for many years in carrying forward the progressive cause in Pennsylvania, and in this respect, as well as others, it came into congenial company |n the Scripps-Howard concern. That the Pittsburgh Press should now in turn welcome as its newest sister in this newspaper family the small and struggling Albuquerque State Tribune is not bdd. This newspaper organization, of which the Indianapolis Times is a member, is interested in advancing the cause, of honfest, progressive and fearless journalism in America. It acquired the Pittsburgh Press because that paper had achieved a marked success by adherence to these principles. It welcomes into the family the Albuquerque State Tribune because that paper has made a valiant struggle for these same principles. THE GRANDMOTHERS’ STRIKE fr-pJHE flapper isn’t the only one who has rebelled. Grandma { * I is kicking over the traces, too, and says she doesn’t see why she should stay home knitting and taking care of her children’s children. This comes on good authority—from Mrs. Elliott Cheatham, Southern director of the League of Women Voters. “Being a grandmother used to be just a post-graduate course in motherhood,” she says. “Now it’s an incident, not an occupation. Grandma is finding that there is a lot of life left for her to enjoy. She’s getting out and mixing in politics, and it’s a |good thing." !’! Good for grandma: If she has done her duty by one family, she’s entitled to all the fun she can get. Yet—think of the bread and jam the youngsters of today and tomorrow will miss, if this grandmothers’ strike is serious.

• ALL ABOUT A GERM i| t IUST as President Coolidge has settled himself to peaceful 'I J 1 pursuit of politics and things incidental, up bobs an issue that may irritate a nation and upset domestic peace and tranquility. The mothers-in-law of the country, emulating the lowly "garden hackle, have turned. ", Some time ago, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue dropped the apparently innocent remark, in Boston, that she would “like to see national mother-in-law day instituted.” It develops now that it was more than a mere remark. It was a pregnant thought—a germ. Now we have a full-fledged mother-in-law society with officers and funds, and tongues, and everything maternal and militant. Its aim is to pull the teeth of the pert paragraphers, the cartoonists and the vaudevillains who have hurtled ribald jests at that necessary but often mistaken institution, the mother-in-law. At the moment, the society, through the medium of Mrs. C. A. Griswold, from the home of the germ, is making battle in New York. As soon as she convinces that benighted village that the ;mothers-in-law will stand for no more nonsense, she will move on to Washington. There she will mount the ramparts of Government and compel the capitulation to the proposition that the 'jmother-in-law is the bulwark of society and national life; that, without her, there wouldn’t be much of anything doing in directions that are vital. Even will she and they demand a mother-in-law day and recognition of the right of that once-derided individual to visit in the home-nest of her married daughter or son at least a week in every year. Startling, you’ll have to admit. How is President Coolidge interested and why may this movement cause Government to totter and the White House itself to tremble in the surge of domestic upheaval? We answer that Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, inventor of the germ aforementioned, is President Cell’s mother-in-law. If she wins, she may exercise her right to visit the White House for a week. ; A GOOD-LOOKING wife is worth more if she is a good-cook-ing wife. i* ' MARRY a manicurist if you get any fun out of playing hands. A GOOD shimmy dancer has the advantage of being able to rock the baby to sleep standing up. INDIAN summer is that little last warm spell which makes you spend the coal money for light underwear. “SEVEN destroyers sunk off California coast.” “‘Destroyer rammed by battleship Arkansas off Virginia coast.” One way and another it does seem as if the Navy is dead set on carrying out the naval limitation pact. THIRTY years hence, American farmers will have a more hopeful economic prospect, according to Secretary Wallace. should forget his present poverty, smila happily, and rez&rk. that the first hundred years t&e always the hardest.

CAVERN IS HARNESSED AS FURNACE Air From Mammoth Cave Will Be Forced Into Hotel 300 Feet Above, By Timea Special mERRE HAUTE, Sopt. 27.—The coal gouge is not worrying George T>. Morrison, Mammoth Cave Development Company, president of the New Entrance Hotel at the cave. Morrison is harnessing the cave’s “breathing” caverns. When winter comes, Instead of the janitor firing the furnace, he merely will open a vent Into the caves’ lungs and a breath of pure, warm air will flood the guests’ rooms. And In sultry summer days when the mercury Is climbing to 90 and 100 outside, the rooms will be kept cool by the same process. For the cave's breath remains at 52 degrees all the year. This is cool In summer and warm In winter. The hotel is situated 180 feet directly over the caverns. It Is 300 feet above any known entrances. Shaft Is Sunk A shaft is being sunk from the hotel lobby to the caverns, and when it is completed the air will rush out with cyclonic velocity, Morrison says. Visitors at Mammoth Cave have observed the stiff wind blowing out the cave's mouth. It Is strong enough to move limbs of trees thirty yards distant. This exhalation of air Is during the summer and early fall. The air Is inhaled during winter, they say. Breathes Semi-Annually It Is this phenomena that causes old Inhabitants of the country to speak of the many caverns as "breathing caves/’ “The caves breathe twice h. year,” they tell you, "out in the summer and in, in the winter." Morrison's explanation of his plan to heat the hotel is the same as applied to a hot-air furnace. The air enters the caverns at the lower openings and Is warmed to the 52-degree temperature of the earth. At this temperature, It Is lighter tbar. air outßlde and will naturally seok an outlet through the shaf*. irto the hotel as the warm air from a f jrnace moves upward Into the rooms of a house. The surr'y of air to draw from will be inexhaustible. Geologists have estimated there are 1,000 miles of underground passageways in the immediate vicinity.

The Tourist BY BERTON BRALEY The much-traveled lady was talking about The various parts of her tour; "The Rockies?” she said, "I am rather In doubt! We crossed through some mountains, I'm sure. But what was the name of the mountainous ridge We saw, I can't seem to recall. Some people I met played such marvelous bridge I scarce looked at mountains at all! “Tosemlte valley? Oh goregouß, indeed, So wide and so splendid and bare! Not bare? Well, I didn’t pay very much heed, For when I was touring up there We got to discussing the right suits to bid, And how one should play every' hand; I learned a whole lot about bridge; yes, I did. The scenery? Er—lt was grand!” Yosemlte, Royal George, Grand Canyon, too, The desert, the mountains —we find She glanced at them all, but there isn’t a view That she can recall to her mind. She really knew Just as much right at the start As when from her trip she returned, Bhe has no impressions that she can Impart— But think of the bridge that she learned! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought Train up a child In the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. —Prov. 22:6. E r ~~~~ DUCATION Is only like good oulture; it changes the size, but not the sort.—H. W. Beecher.

Science

There are great similarities between man and his most dangerous enemy—the Insect. Law and order reign everywhere In the Insect world. There are systems of what might be called government that oorreapond to nearly every branch of human rulership, Including the sociaUstio state. The mp,ny similarities between man and the ant are weU known. The ant has a definite government which corresponds to a constitutional monarchy. There aro many other varieties of Insects, however, not so well known, that imitate man and his work very closely. One kind of wasp is a very efficient stone mason. He builds his dwelling of earth mixed with water. He makes a solid foundation, round In shape, which becomes very hard, like cement, when it dries. He then selects stones and plaoes them at regular intervals around the circle. After thestones are selected and placed with great care he oements them together. He builds his house down, instead of up. It gen*f*liy hangs from the eaves of a roof. Engagement Off “So the engagement is off?” “Yes. She was so indignant when she heard about what he'd done that she tore off her engagement ring and flung it onto her right hand.”— Sydney Bulletin.

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Ar~— GROUP of Kansas legislators were on a train out from Topoka the other day, and they filled the smoking room with smoke and yams. Senator John McCoy of Nemaha, a regular dirt farmer, was among them. “The former Just now,” said McCoy, “reminds me of a story about a hunter. He purchased three dogs at the beginning of the hunting season. One dog ho bought from a banker, another from a merchant and a third from a farmer. When he

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OKLAHOMA IS LAND OF POLITICIANS Restless, Gambling Spirit Responsible for Fickleness of Voters in State. By ROBERT TALLEY, Timea Staff Correspondent KLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. 0 27. —"Anything may happen In Oklahoma politics,” the oldtimers say. Oklahoma eats sleeps, dreams and lives politics. Most any man you encounter prefers talking politics to eating. Political idols rise, bask at the summit of their for a brief while and then go crashing to earth, for Oklahoma is as changeable as the w r eather and fickle as a woman’s whim. The same voters who gave President Harding the State by 30,000 majority In 1920 turned around in 1922 and elected Governor Walton, a Democrat, by 85,000 majority. Now they are after Walton’s scalp There’s a reason. Oklahoma, populated almost wholly by adventurous men, is possessed of a restless, roaming, gambling spirit. In Oklahoma City, residents estimate, 499 out of every 500 men over 21 years of age have drifted in from other States. If you want to find the native-born Oklahoma population, you must go to the schools and the cradles. Oklahoma has been a State only since 1907, when Oklahoma territory and Indian territory, the western and eastern halves, respectively, were consolidated and admitted to the Union. Less than twenty years before Oklahoma territory was opened to white men, tho first homesteaders. At the crack of a pistol one morning In 1889, they came rushing across *he line. Discovery of oil, which has made thousands wealthy overnight, has intensified Oklahoma’s gambling fever. Fortunes have been made, lost as quickly, and then regained. Cotton and wheat are the staple crops but nearly every farmer has dreams of striking oil under his furrows some day. When that day comes, he'll sell his mules and cows, move to the city and buy three or four big automobiles. Oklahoma City, now a bristling city with scores of tall skyscrapers, has much of the old gambling spirit left. But to get a real picture of Oklahoma you must visit one of the mushroom oil-drilling towns that spring up overnight and grow to perhaps 10,000 population in three months, only to die again when the oil wells are developed and work of drilling stops. Three Sands. Just a little to the north of here, is such a place. There are the Jong rows of one-story shacks, hurriedly constructed with not a brick house in sight. Oil drillers, tool dressera, general rousters all drawing fat wages—ore its inhabitants, together with bewildered farmers won dering what to do with their new riches, painted women, card sharps and other sharpers trying to take nwny the fat wages and the new riches. It’B a fast game, one that lives for today and looks to something else for tomorrow. And that’s the spirit of Oklahoma politics, too.

wont hunting, the banker's dog was tho first to score up a rabbit. The dog chased the rabbit Just as hard as he could, but he wasn't quite able to catch up with it. “They went on a little further and the merchant’s dog raised a rabbit. That dog ran for nil he was worth, but he didn’t catch the rabbit. “A little further down the road the dog purchased from the fanner stirred up a rabbit. Instead of chasing bunny. the dog just sat down and howled.”

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Being poor 13 no disgrace but very inconvenient. • • • "Get together” is the advice given politicians. They cant get very much by themselves. • • • If everybody had beautiful hands, who would wash the dishes? • • • Fall suits are with us. It has been years since you could put trousers on over your shoes. Lots of Her ”1 certainly envy Mrs. Fatleigh when she laughs." "Why?" "There seems to be so much of her that Is having a good time.” —Boston Transcript.

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Never Miss Cora was taking her first trip on the train. The conductor came through and called for the tloketa. Cora readily gave up her ticketA few minutes later the butcherboy coming through called, “chewing gum." f “Never!” cried Cora bravely. "You can take my ticket, but not my chewing gum.”—Bison. Ma and Pa Compromise "He wanted several children and she wanted a limousine.” "Yes —they finally compromised on one baby and a flivver!"—Judge.

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