Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 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 Seripps-Howard Newspapers • • • Client of the United Press, United News, United Financial and NEA Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. * • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 25-20 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • • • THONE—MAIN SSOO.

SURE CURE FOR SPEEDING HTTI ETHOD of handling speeders enforced in the little town of lp_*J River Ronge, Mich., may well be adopted in Indianapolis and other Hoosier communities. It is guaranteed to work. River Rouge lies between Detroit and Ecorse, where smuggled liquor is run across the Detroit River from Canada. Its streets were turned into speedways by wild drivers, most ot them bootleggers. Arrests and fines did not stop the speeding. There was enough profit in the booze to stand a fine once in a while. Then the municipal judge and police chief decided to cut loose with all they had. They put the speeders to work on the streets, just like the ball and chain gang of the old days. Arrayed in overall uniforms with the words “City Prisone 1 *” and a serial number painted in big white letters on the back, the wild men were compelled to clean streets, lay brick, “make little ones out of big ones” or do any other odd jobs that the city required. A guard stood over them as they worked, where all who passed could see. This system would work well in any community. It has practically ended speeding in River Rouge. Some men don’t worry over the fact that they are criminals, but even they don’t enjoy having other men know it. STREET CLEANING HINT OST cities of the United States are far behind in street cleaning methods, according to the International Association of Street Sanitation, which met in Chicago last week. Indianapolis is on a par with other cities in this department of municipal government, but if opinion of experts is to be taken, our streets could be kept much cleaner and at the same time in an easier and more economical way. Just the principle of the vacuum cleaner extended to the pavement. Our street cleaners are paid to sweep the dirt into gutters. What isn’t hauled away in wagons is washed into sewers with street flushers. The dirt clogs the sewers and they in turn must be cleaned. The vacuum cleaner system does the job with one handling of the dirt. Several larger cities are adopting the plan. APPLES AND SCHOOLS mNDIANA’S commercial apple crop this year will be about 226,000 bushels, compared with 277,000 last year, according to George C. Bryant of the Indiana Cooperative Crop Reporting Service. His forecast is based on the condition of the crop Eept. 1. Here’s a disheartener. It is reported in some sections of the State apples are so plentiful farmers are letting -them lie on the ground to rot. Oh, those firm, glistening red-cheeked pippins. Visions of pie, dumplings, eider I And apples going, to waste! If the farmer does not receive what he regards as fair compensation, it is his business what he does. The prices the farmer receives for what he produces and the prices he pays for what he must buy involve several problems. Which brings us to another subject—the cheapest thing -the farmer uses, which is the rural school, according to the United States Bureau of Education. Reports this year from about half the counties in the United States show there are 98,000 one-teacher schools in these counties and the average salary paid the teacher is $729. The pity is that thousands of teachers regard even that low average as princely. In twenty States 3,100 teachers of oneteacher schools receive less than S3OO a year. In thirty-two States 4,580 teachers receive between S3OO and $400; in thirtyfour States 5,589 receive between S4OO and $500; in forty States 8,367 receive between SSOO and $600; in forty-two States 16,525 receive between S6OO and $700; in forty-five States 16,432 teachers receive between S7OO and SBOO a year, or something near the average of $729. More than half the teachers are thus accounted for, but it is little consolation to them to know that the other half receive more than $729.

SEVENTY YEARS IN BUSINESS AN Indianapolis institution—the Pettis Dry Goods Company ___| —is celebrating its seventieth anniversary. It is one of a number of business houses which have grown with the city and which have helped the city to grow. In the rush and confusion of daily life many of us are prone to forget the steady work and the sound judgment of those persons who have created the business enterprises that form the backbone of the community. After all, it is not the politicians, nor the office holders, nor the agitators who are making the city of Indianapolis prosper and helping make the world go round- The men and women who work in offices and direct the affairs of business and the thou-sand-0 of men and women who make and sell goods have greater parts. These people, and not those who spend their time making a loud noise, are the folk who make a community great. The Pettis Company and dozens of such old and stable concerns, together with the new and energetic businesses that are rapidly gaining a foothold, yearly are adding to the happiness and prosperity of all of us. “IT IS not easy to teach an old politician new tricks,” says an editor. Also, why try! THE MOVIES are educational. Every fairly good-looking girl thinks she knows how to act now. WHEN OLD Mother Hubbard goes to the cupboard now it is to get her poor self some rouge. CONFIRMED rumors and confirmed bachelors are not as interesting as the unconfirmed ones. A DIPLOMAT is a man who can do a juggling act with an idea in one hand and a dictionary in the other. IN CHICAGO one marriage out of six results in divorce. That shows a comfortable majority for those willing to take a chance. ENGLAND refuses to consent to the Hughes proposition for liquor-searching twelve miles out. a It probably theorizes that th§ addition of nine miles of thirst .Is too much.

MURDER OF CHILDREN IS ON INCREASE Detective Declares Parents, Lax Marriage Laws and Failure of Justice Cause, By 808 DORMAN NEA Service Staff Writer T. HOLLY, N. J„ Oot. L—“Childhood bogies, the scaring spectres once a device of parents, have changed Into a modern terror of reality—crime that menaces Innocence and mg/gumrnmmmQmmm costs young lives.” kyajUteW cinct and homely language, given by Detective Ellis Barker, whose W* fame as the “Sherlock Holmes A 8 of New Jersey I from Burlington Jt “Child murdei has l ncrea߀,<,t three-fold In ten A JKfiSsp years, ” says the famous, detective. "Crime and death PiWwsi ■ i iK. have replaced the childhood bogles ELLIS PARKER of mere fright. Young girls are ■victims; they are not safe even In their homes or on public highways." Is the death of Emma Dickson, 115-year-old high school girl, such a crime? 1 The question remains unanswered, but the possibility of it gave Detective Parker a theme not heretofore put Into significant words. Compares Cases Asa death mystery he compared the case of Emma Dickson, found dead by the roadside near Port Elisabeth, N. J., Sept. 22, with these famous child murders which remain unaoiv-.*d mysteries: Janet Lawrence. 11. killed Oct. 8, 1921, by thirty knife wounds and a handkerchief twisted around her neck. In woods near her home In Madison, N. J.; two suspects acquitted. Ream Constance Hoxie, 17, beaten to death Feb. 2, 1920, In a bedroom of her father’s apartment In New York City; murderer never caught. Causes of the Increase In child murder, says Detective Parker, are these, “Lack of parental care and watchfulness. Lax marriage laws that Ignore physical and mental unfitness. Growing sentimentality In murder cases. “Degeneracy has Increased enormously. Unless something la done to check unfit population. It will eventually destroy ua.” Parker points silently to a family blight where four cousins in New Jersey all committed murder. t Justice Is Failure "What makes the menace to childhood even worse," he says, “Is the failure of Justice, which Is to be condemned as much as the neglect In correcting the cause. We have murder mysteries for three reasons: Tardiness of authorities In reaching crime scenes: lack of thoroughness In examing the scenes; absence of cooperation between Investigating officials." Detective Parker believes remedy of the evil of Increasing murder, particularly crimes against childhood, lies in checking marriage among the unfit. Next he would make investigating efficient. And he would remove political control from the police. And Parker speaks as a man of experience in the business of crime. In thirty years as chief detective of Burlington County he has failed to solve only one case In 100! Out of ninetynine In which he made arrests, there were ninety-three convictions.

A Thought

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of euo hie the kingdom of heaven.— Matt. 19:14. • • * [ r l HERE is a feeling of eternity I I In youth which makes ue L——l amends for everything. To be young Is to be aa one of the Immortals.—Hazlltt. Family Fun Ineffective Aunt Sally, the old negress who had been with the family ever since the now grown daughters had been "chlU’un,’’ eyed with mistrust the new fad for long dresses that had at last reached the village. “Do you think this dress Is too long, 1 unt Sally?"- asked the youngest daughter, who always adopted the latest Inodes. "Naw sum. It haln’t too long,” answered Aunt Sally, “but It won't do no good—all de genlemens round heah seed you before an’ dey all knows de size an’ de shape.’’—Judge. When He Is No. 2 “Is your poor husband deßd?’’ asked the vicar of an aged member of his flock. “Oh, no,” she replied. “But you are In mourning,” the vicar continued. “Well, you see,” was the reply, “my old mat annoyed me so this afternoon that T went Into mourning for my first husband.”—London Telegraph. During Sister’s Vacation “I don’t know whether I ought to recognize him In the city or not. Our acquaintance at the seashore was very slight.” “You promised to marry him, didn’t you?” “Yes, but that was all."—Boston Transcript. Pa Informs M& “I do declare, I see so many jokes about that Mr. P. T. Bamum, but It never says anything about Mrs. Barnum. I wonder if he was a married man.” “No, my dear. He didn’t have reference to himself when he said there was a sucker bom every minute.”— American Legion Weekly.

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Only Occasionally BY BERTON BRAL.EY Every so often I say to myself, “What Is the use of this struggle for pelf? Why not be leisurely, why not be calm, Sail to some island where under a palm I can doze happily day after day, Letting the busy world roll as It may; Why should I work myself Into a coffin?” That Is the sort of a thing that I say Every so often. Every so often I contemplate going Where there are roses eternally growing, Some place where food almost drops In your lap. Only’—to go there takes money, and I Haven’t enough of the Needful laid by. So life stays hard and refuses to soften. Still, I can dream of a kindlier Bky Every so often. Every so often, and once in a while, i long for life on a tropical isle, v7here there Is nothing whatever to do, Only to loaf under skies that are blue. Yet, when the first subtle spell has declined, I would be bored by a life of that kind. Weary of breezes that constantly soften. Ijoaflng Is pleasant, hut only, I find, Every so often. (Copyright 1923. NEA Service, Inc.)

/QOM SIMS | -/- -/- Says

ERE’S hair raising news from HNew York. Hairdressers say let the hair grow out • • • Hairdressers are suggesting bought hair be worn, showing they are not asleep at the switch. • • • Columbus Day Is coming soon. If Columbus hadn’t discovered America we would be foreigners. • • • Found booze shipped by mall In North Carolina. Now everybody Is meeting the postman. • • • These aviators are always hitting upon something new. One hit on a cow in Los Angeles. • • • Can’t have much fun any me Man In Texas was fined Just for hitting a baseball umpire. • • • New York leads In the baseball leagues, but not in the Anti-Saloon and Bpworth Leagues. • • • The German marks you can get for a dollar now look more like a baseball score by Innings. • • • If Jack Dempsey is all rested up now maybe he will try to tackle a football team. • • • Doctors say an Alabama man who started over a fence with a loaded gun will recover. • • • Only three were bagged in one Michigan hunt—three hunters.

Heard in the Smoking Room

<< |GR pastoral calls are not withIJ out Interest, and sometimes, humor," the preacher said as he sat down with the smokers. “There was Mrs. Shelby. She had a parrot that had accumulated in some unknown way, a supply of fetid language that rather got on the nerves of the good lady. “She managed to stand the bird’s outbursts six days out of a week, but the seventh "day, she was determined, should be quiet and peaceful In her home. Sto she resorted to throwing a heavjc blanket over the bird’s cage every Sunday morning and confining It to darkness. “One Sunday she placed the blanket.

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NORTH POLE HERO FACES FRAUD JURY Erstwhile Explorer Charged by Government With Oil Stock Swindles, Sv Thera Special IT. WORTH, Oct. I.—When he reached Copenhagen, Denmark, u—J just fourteen years ago and announced ho had discovered the North Pole, royalty wined and dined him; they garlanded him with pink roses; haberdashers fitted him out gratis with new clothes, and he became a hero over night. Now the United States Government Is getting ready to place this “hero," Dr. Frederick A. Cook, on trial in the biggest mall fraud case In the history of the Federal courts. Under “Blue Sky” Law Cook and twenty-one of his associates go to trial Oct. 5 on the charge It was “blue sky” oil stock which his Petroleum Producers' Association sold to many thousands of Investors throughout the country. Cook will plead not guilty, his attorneys say, and is expected to charge that his prosecution is a "frame-up” by the country’s oil trust Interests. In a statement he issued recently. Cook declared the indictment not only of himself but of many other Ft. Worth oil promoters was the work of Wall Street. Ex-Senator Is Attorney His principal attorney will be Joseph Weldon Bailey, former United States Senator from Texas, himself of more or less oil fame. Bailey lost his toga years ago when he was charged with accepting fees from Standard Oil while representing the people of Texas in the "tipper house. Cook came to Ft. Worth as an oil promoter In 1919. Previously he had operated In Wyoming. The erstwhile explorer Is a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., where In the days before hla synthetic North Pole discovery he was a physician, spelling his name Koch. The United States postoffice put a stop to Cook's oil stock selling lasi summer by Issuing a “fraud order" against him, barring him from use of the malls.

Indiana Sunshine

In tearing up a sidewalk at Petersburg workmen unearthed a tombstone dedicated to "Tom," a remarkable cat born in 1860, and which lived to be 21 years old. An Inscription on the stone reads: “Tom was a cat, that was death to a rat; he lived to an age; remarkable at that." A gasoline thief Is worrying automobile owners at Vinoennes. He uses a black rubber hose to syphon gasoline out of roar tanka Into a black wooden bucket while cars are parked at night. A tasty home-cooked dinner will be served at the weekly meetings of the KendallvlHe Rotary to stimulate the attendance. Members believe the home cooking will bring the laggards to whom luncheons did not appeal.

and silence reigned. Monday came, and, looking out the window, the good Mrs. Welby saw her pastor coming for & pastoral call. Quickly she threw the blanket over the parrot again and otherwise preparod to give tli reverend gentleman a proper reception. “The parrot. It seems, knew there was something wrong and that the time between blankets was too short. He kept quiet, however, until the pastor was about to leave and the missus was congratulating herself on the ruse she had employed. Then the bird shocked both pastor and pewholder by shrieking: " lb has been a damn short week.' “

And Henry Was Waiting at the Church

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can t an answer to any question ol fact or Information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y. Avenue, Washington, D C.. inclosing 2 cants In stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extanded reeearch bo undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, ind receive pergonal replies.—Editor. Does lime lose its value both as fertilizer and for whitewash after long exposure to the air? It Is satisfactory for fertilizer, but not the most satisfactory for whitewash. What combination of food does a man engaged In fairly hard muscular work need each day? The following would prove satisfactory In most cases: Two pounds (fresh weight) of vegetables and fruits, of which part may be used In canned or dried form. Twelve ounces of food from a class which may be called “meat and meat substitutes,," that is, moderately fat meats, poultry, fish, eggs and cheese, or eight ounces of theee foods and half-pint of milk. If very fat meats like bacon and salt pork are Included In either of these allowances there will not be enough

Illinois Central System Third Largest Railroad in Freight Traffic The productivity of the territory served by the Illinois Central System is striking o ly reflected in the Increased traffic handled by the road. Although the Illinois Central System (independently of the Central of Georgia, which is operated separately) ranks fourteenth among the railway systems of the country in mileage, last year it ranked third in volume of freight traffio handled. The freight trafflo record of the Illinois Central System in 1922 was surpassed by the freight traffio records of only the Pennsylvania and New York Central, the railway system ranking respectively first and second in mileage. The Illinois Central System showed increases in both freight and passenger business for 1922. Passenger traffic (measured by the number of passengers carried one mile) actually decreased nearly 6 per cent for all of the Class I railroads in 1922 as oompared with 1921, but the Illinois Central System registered an inorease of twotenths of 1 per cent. Freight trafflo (measured by the number of tons of freight carried one mile) increased only 9% per cent for all of the Class I railroads in 1922 as compared with 1921, but the Illinois Central System registered an increase of 21 4-5 per cent. These increases in both passenger and freight business made possible the Illinois Central System’s unusually favorable showing in total operating revenues for 1922 in the face of the fact that on the average both passenger and freight rates were lower than in 192 L Since the first - of this year the traffic of the Illinois Central System, both passenger and freight, has increased substantially over that handled in the corresponding period of last year. The number of passengers carried one mile by the Illinois Central System in the seven months ended July 31, 1923, was greater by 12 2-3 per cent than the passenger traffio handled in the first seven months of 1922. The number of tons of freight carried one mile by the Illinois Central System in the seven months ended July 31, 1923, was greater by 32 per cent than the freight traffio handled in the first seven months of 1922. Despite the growth of passenger and freight traffic in its territory, the Illinois Central System has kept abreast of the situation so well, through additions and improvements to its plant and through the splendid co-operation of its employes and patrons, that this year’s unprecedented business has been handled with marked efficiency. Moreover, the Illinois Central System enters the fall and winter better prepared than ever before to discharge its obligations to the publio. This exceptional showing speaks for itself. It should be a source of gratification to the patrons as well as to the employes of the Illinois Central System. It represents joint effort and joint success. It is not alone a gain for our railroad} it is a splendid record for the territory our railroad serves. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. • 0. H. MARKHAM, President* Illinois Central System.

protein. For this reason these meats are considered interchangeable with the fats. Ten to twelve ounces of bread, having about the same food value aa eight to nine ounces of such cereal products as flour, oatmeal, commeal and rloe. Three ounces, or about one-third cup of butter, oil, meat drippings or other fat. Three ounces, or about one-third cup of sugar or one-half cup honey or sirup, or an equivalent amount of some other sweet, A man who works hard out of doors all day probably would need more food than this, and one who sits all day at a desk would need less. The amounts given are suitable for a man who, like a salesman In a store, walks about more or less and does more or less lifting or other work re qulrlng about the same expenditure of energy. Can a man bring suit for breach of promise? Yes. However, even when a man Is given the verdict he Is seldom awarded any damages, aa the courts are Inclined to regard It as frivolous when a man brings such a suit. What was "nullification"? The right claimed In behalf of a State to nullify, or make void, by its sovereign aot or decree, an enactment of the general government which it deems unconstitutional, South Carolina, objecting to the tariff bill of July 14, 1832, called a convention Nov. 19, 1832, and on Nov. 24 passed an

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ordinance of nullification declaring; the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 void. On proclamation by President Andrew Jackson nullification was crushed by Government forces, and the State repealed the act in convention March Id, 1333. Why are so many men, especially lawyers. In the South called "Colonels?" - r Such titles are bestowed rather liberally on elderly men who have achieved some measure of promlnenoe and everybody understands that they are mere courtesy titles. Kentuaky Is one of the leading States In the production of honorary colonels, majors, etc. What is the Pennsylvania Old Age Pension Law? This was passed last spring. It provides for a straight old age peasion, to be eligible for whloh one muL be over 60 years of age, a citizen otfl the United States for 15 years, and afl resident of Pennsylvania for at lms that length of time. There are otheM minor requirements. The maximum® rate Is fixed at one dollar a day. appropriation to carry the law* lntn effect was cut to $25,000, so It nfll hardly probable that It will be poe® slble to do anything at this time e® cept the necessary preliminary wort* towards getting the law Into working® order. 1