Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1923 — Page 4

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TEACH THE WHOLE TRUTH LONG comes another section of society to tell the schools what they should teach the children. Alarmed, it says, by • the efforts of certain clubs to dictate courses of instruction, the American Federation of Labor has conducted a survey of the "public schools and has found out some amazing things. It has learned, for example, that many textbooks used relate nothing more recent concerning the labor movement than the now ancient Knights of Labor. They do not even mention Samuel Gom'pers, who took up the flag the Knights laid down some forty years ago. If that isn’t reporting the Napoleonic wars without mentioning Napoleon l If that isn’t playing “Hamlet” with Hamlet himself left out. Seriously, labor leaders are justified in insisting the study of our domestic, affairs shall include proper instruction in the part played by the labor movement, politically, socially, industrially. No maturing student can be in the least prepared to understand the Nation in which he must perform his part if he has not been given a fair foundation in this knowledge. There are honest textbooks on this subject. They should be in general use. Just now many communities are awakening to the fact that their children are being taught from out-of-date textbooks that still represent Kaiser Wilhelm as the overlord of Germany and Czar Nicholas as the Little Father of the Russian peoples. The awakening should extend to all texts in general use which fall far behind the events that have made the world what it is today. Incidentally, we are informed Indiana textbooks are up-to-date. WIDENING OF MERIDIAN ST. EATEST proposal for taking care of increased traffic is that Meridian St. be widened by adding fifteen feet to each side. This, it is estimated, will allow six lines of traffic. Obviously, this would be an extremely expensive undertaking. It would be necessary for the city to purchase abutting property, and Meridian St. property is among the most valuable in Indianapolis. Many apartment and business houses stand flush with the sidewalk. The expense of remodeling such build- , ings would be enormous. Meanwhile, the perfectly obvious solution, at least for the time being, is before officials. That is the plan to make Meridian St. and Capitol Ave. one-way thoroughfares. Heaviest traffic during the morning moves southward. In the evening it moves northward. Until 9 a. m. there is comparatively little north-bound traffic. From 4:30 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. there is little south bound. Why not make both Capitol Ave. and Meridian St. from Fall ’Creek to the downtown district one-way streets during these periods? Traffic in the direction opposite the main streams : could use Delaware St. and other north and south thoroughfares. Such regulations would for a time, possibly, add to the confusion of an already confused traffic system, but motorists soon would learn, as they have learned other traffic rules.

JUGGLING AT STATE HOUSE “Tl LTHOUGH a “robbing Peter to pay Paul'’ system of fund A juggling seems to be in vogue at the State House, State Auditor Robert Bracken no doubt feels he has been in office too short a time to become proficient at this modern art. Mr. Bracken probably feels he may have to account for some of the gasoline tax money paid into the State coffers under protest and under a law which is to be tested by several suits pending. Mr. Bracken is attempting to recall about $400,000 of the gasoline tax money paid into the State highway fund and says he has stopped payment on all vouchers issued by the highway department. The highway fund is bankrupt, due to loans made to the general fund, and road work over the State is curtailed as a result. And the department now faces an overdraft of $139,000 because of Mr. Bracken’s action. Governor McCray borrowed a mere million from the highway fund to bolster up his depleted general fund and now hasn’t the money to pay back the loan. Mr. Bracken says this million should be returned to the highway fund before hia little nest egg is drawn upon, but since this is gone glimmering, and no other money is forthcoming, the highway department faces poverty until December, when the next tax settlement becomes due. That is, unless further fund juggling relieves the situation. CIVIC MISERY ELSEWHERE mNDIANAPOLIS has its problems in street car traffic, auto jams, increasing water rates, police department ructions, the smoke nuisance, and such, but turn your pity on San Diego, Cal., where the civic atmosphere is usually clear and pure as crystal even when there’s a fog. It is a tragic story. One Thompson, having gold and indiscretion enough to attempt a vacation, left his small flock of goats in care of a friend. The nannies broke loose and a city official, not desiring that civic pride be abashed by too many goats in the main streets, impounded the Thompson flock. What does Mr. Thompson find upon return from his vacation? His goats stronger than ever, by reason of close confinement, but also that, by reason of a 50-cent per day pound charge, it doesn’t pay him to take his goats. And the city of San Diego has the goats. The mayor scorns goat milk. The council has its fill of goat consumed as lamb chops. The firemen and policemen won’t volunteer, and, while the Legislature has put most everything on the taxpayers, it has not the constitutional authority to put goats on Thompson. Talk about Lasker shipping board troubles! San Diego’s destiny seems to be the running of a boarding house for goats. SECRETARY WORK’S fact finding commission on arid and semi-arid lands is coming to Washington Oct. 15 from Ohio, Utah, Arizona, etc. Some day the writer hopes to be appointed to the fact-finding committee on what to do with old pins and razor blades, so as to have a long-wdshed-for trip to the Grand Cajyon. ■*-

SUSPICION OF FARMER IS FACTOR Writer Declares Mistrust Is Reason for Failure of Cooperative Concerns, This Is the third of a series of six articles by Harold C. Place, editor of Des Moines News: on "What's the Matter with the Farmers." By HAROLD C. PLACE I—-, jWO of the foremost remedies which have been proposed as l. J a cure for the disease afflicting agriculture are price fixing of grain and the curtailment of production. The farmer, in large measure, is opposed to the one and he will not do the other. Two-thirds of the farmers with whom I talked in my tour of the corn belt were personally opposed to price-fixing and declared most of their neighbors held a similar opinion. They feel price-fixing would only complicate their problem and make it worse. The sentiment is general that pricefixing is economically unsound, that it would bring about a tremendous overproduction and result at once in a situation impossible and disastrous. Plans Not Practical An effort has been made, for months, to educate the farmer to cut his production. But I did not find a farmer is sympathy with the plan. Farmers unanimously declared it is not practical or possible because a little money is more to be desired than none at all. There la a peculiar psychology tied up in this attitude. The farmer has always produced as much as he could from the land. For the larger crop, the more money he realized therefrom. He was greatly encouraged In this ambition during the war and it is not in his nature to reverse habit and tradition easily or quickly. It costs him but little to plant 100 acres in corn instead of 40 acres and the returns are correspondingly larger. Then, there remains the fact the farmer is characteristically a suspicious individual. The farmer is loathe

to enter into any organization plan to cut production because he fears that his neighbor will take advantage of the situation, increase production and reap the resultant benefits. The same disposition to be suspicious. distrustful and rather envious offers the chief hindrance to the principle of cooperation which has been advanced as the ultimate solution of the agricultural problem. The experience of these cooperative concerns has not been at all complimentary to the farmer. His disloyalty, when the acid test came, has been a marked characteristic of them. Not Pretty Picture That isn’t a pretty picture painted of the farmer, but it isn't my handiwork. It is painted by the farmers themselves, by those who belong to co-ops and those who do not Then, there is the other viewpoint, expreseed by many fanners, that the fanning lndstry is too big and too widespread to operate on a commodity cooperative basis. All of them agree that it would be a fine thing if they could sell through a central co-operative concern. They admit readily enough that. In this fashion, they could largely control the market and the prices. But they shake their heads sadly and assert emphatically that it can't be done. The Repeater By BERTON BRALEY We like to hear humorous stories, We don't so much mind if they’re oid. For some yarns retain all their glories No matter how often they’re told; But Angela in Heaven defend us And keep us away from the bloke Who trumpets a horse-laugh tremendous. And keeps on repeating repeating repeating Forever repeating the Joke.

He starts with a and a chuckle, Proceeds with a snigger or two, And breaks both his belt and his buckle Before he’s a quarter-way through. Deliver us all from that fellow, Avaunt from us, beat it, aroint! That bird with a roar and a bellow, Who keeps on repeating repeating repeating Forever repeating this point. We get so we wince at his laughter Which irritates all of our nerves, We wish him a torrid hereafter Where he will get what he deserves; Red devils with pitchforks to prick him In very old fiber and Joint, To harry and jab him and stick him Ami se*' that he’s getting, Be sure that he’s getting Eternally getting—the Point! Copyright, 1!*23, NEA Service, Inc. Science One of the most recent arguments advanced by those opposed to the theory of evolution was that there was not time enough In the history of this earth to account for all the species ar.d varieties of living things, if they o lt evolved a single living cell. This argument was based on the scientific theory of some years ago that the world was perhaps several million years old. Recently, through better knowledge of metals, especially radium, science has learned that the earth Is vastly older than was supposed in the time of Darwin, Spencer and Haeckel. A recent estimate accepted by science was that the earth is perhaps five billion years old; that is, since It started forming. Lord Rayleigh, one of the most noted physicsts in the world, now says it Is probable the earth Is three trillion years old. He makes this estimate by comparing the rates of decay of the different radio active substances in the earth’s crust. Wife’s Friend ••Then you have met my wife before?” •'Yes, Indeed. I knew her quite well before you married her." “The deuce you say. You certainly had the advantage over me.’'-—Ameri-can Legion W*kly.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

&M SIMS | -/- -/- Says LAIM the Garden of Eden has been found in Mongolia. If go, that is everybody’s home town. * * • Fourteen countries are asking America for loans. Think Uncle Sam Is their rich uncle. • * * Clock weighing ‘IOO pounds stolen from U. S. embassy in Spain. Burglars took their time. * • • Mexico is having bull fights again. American pedestrians know how a matador feels. • * * Train robber fought a Wyoming prison fire five hours. Luckily, he was in when it started. * * Chicago girl tried to get a job as a detective, perhaps because she was a good looker. • • • Girl drew a pistol and robbed a Spokane man. Since when did they have to use pistols? * • Your luck could be worse. Cincinnati man got home and found his wife missing, again. * * #• Cleveland man who thought he could fight like Dempsey found he could only fight like Firpo. • • • Never worry about how late it is because it never Is as late as it will be a little later. * * * A grouch may be a man who married a woman to share his troubles only to learn she caused them. • • • No matter how great a range a singer may have It never sounds as sweet as the kitchen range. • • • A man often tells a girl he would ! die for her, but that is because he never has tried it.

QUEBT I O N 8_ Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can get an answer to any question of fact or Inform-.'ton by writing to the Indianapolis Timed' Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y. Avenue, Washington. p. C.. lnclodinx 2 cent* In stamps. Medical, leiral, love and marriaee advice cannot be (riven, nor can extended research bo undertaken, or paper*, •peeche*. etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, ind receive personal replies.—Editor. In what states can a boy study medicine, If he Is able to take only one year of college work before entering medical school? California. Connecticut. Maine, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Should the groom always ask the brother of the bride to be his best man If he has no brother of his own? No. It Is not necessary for him to risk the brother to he his best man. In fact, he should ask his best personal friend, but he must ask the brother to be one of the ushers. When did Noah Webster compose the dictionary? This volume, of course. Involved long years of preparation. The first edition was published In 1828, the second in 1840. What causes the pipe filled with water to burst In freezing weather? Does It burst while the water Is freezing or when the Ice start* to thaw? The passage of water from the liquid to the solid state Is accompanied by an expansion equal to about oneeleventh of Its volume: hence water freezing In pipes might easily cause them to burst during the process of freezing. Over what railroads did Harding’s funeral train travel from San Francisco to Washington? From San FraneHco to Ogden, Utah, the train traveled over the Southern Pacific road: from Ogden to Council Bluffs. lowa, over the Union Pacific: from Counlel Bluffs to Chicago, over the Chicago and Northwestern: and from Chicago to Washington over the Baltimore and Ohio. Hnw did the expression "Coon's age” originate? The raccoon (popularly known ns “coon”) Is supposed to live for a long time, hence the expression "coon's age” arose as denoting a considerable period of time. What others besides General Pershing have held the rank of full General In the U. S. Army? George Washington was the flrat full general. Others were U. S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and (for the nerlod of the World War only) Peyton C March and Tasker H. Bliss.

A Thought Did not I w'eep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?—Job 30.25. J UR souls sit close and silently W Within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense Is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. —Dryden. GUARANTEED PAINT For all purposes; all Qp colors. Per gallon pI.OJ National Army Store 461 West Washington Street 2 Doors East of West Street

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PINCHOT’S DRY DRIVE IMPORTANT Drastic Campaign Against Keystone State Liquor Law Violators National Event. BY LAWRENCE MARTIN Ofinvri'iht . ?.'•’> hi/ T’ni f ed }’res*) “Y7l ASIIINGTON, Oct. 6. Govyy ernor Gifford Pinchot’s drastic ....J campaign against liquor law violators is an event of national importance in its bearing on Volstead law enforcement. It constitutes one of the most resounding slaps recently administered to those in charge of Federal enforcement of the prohibition law. It has incensed drya all over the country more than ever against Internal Revenue Commissioner Blaire, who they blame for 99 per cent of Commissioner Haynes’ troubles. Step Toward Climax It has injected the Department of Justice into the prohibition department enforcement. It Is another step toward the climax which may occur this winter in Congress when an airing will be demanded of bickerings, the pulling at cross purposes, the 1 intrigues and quarrels which have marked prohibition enforcement within recent months. Some time ago Attorney General ! Daugherty wrote all State attorney 1 generals asking cooperation in Feder!al prohibition enforcement. Pinchot, I noting failure of Federal agents to dry up five Pennsylvania counties, | known in Washington among the wettest in the country, called upon j Daugherty for help. Department of | Justice agents went In and with State troops staged a clean up. Help is Granted Plnchot’s latest smash at the Pennsylvania wets followed another request for help from the Department of Justice. This help was granted. This all makes It look as though Commissioner Haynes’ force In Pennsylvania were falling down on Its Job. But it isn’t Haynes’ fault, his friends say. They blame It all on Blaire, who they say, forced Haynes against his protest to reorganize the Pennsylvania unit. The reorganization, drys say, has not worked out well for prohibition. Now Pinchot calls in the Department of Justice. There is a closing of saloons and blind pigs, some of which flourished. Federal agents, not far from the Federal prohibition enforcement office. The result is to bring Haynes men into disrepute. The Family Lemon "Did that watermelon do for the whole family?" "Very nearly. The doctor is calling yet."—Boston Tranu-ript.

Heard in the Smoking Room

] MONO other subjects, the smokers fell to talking of big families and the articles in the papers%fbout them at the present time. “I never read one of these big family articles.” said the man with the stogie, "that I don’t recall the story about the side show ballyhooer up in Canada. He had a moose in captivity and he was offering admission to the clamoring multitude at 10 cents each for singles and a quarter for families.

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Indiana Sunshine

An old pump in the rear of Fred Brand's blacksmith shop at Kokomo became so popular that it became involved in court. When testifying on a charge of maintaining a nusiance at his shop. Brandt said that many he suspected of having liquor, when ordered from his shop would mix their fifty-seven varieties at the pump. Sheriff Bums of Petersburg found much valuable evidence missing when he investigated unseemly hilarity emanating from a cell. The prisoner had been sipping moonshine through a copper pipe through the bars from Jugs of evidence near the cell.

A French-Canadian with his wife and seventeen children appeared on the scene with a desire on the captive moose. ‘How much for me and the familee?’ asked the proud parent, as he lined up hi3 wife and progeny. " ‘You go in free.' answered the ballyhooer. 'I don’t care a dam whether your family sees my moose or not. but I do think my moose ; should see your family.’ "

Family Fun

The Maid’s Husband The Swedish maid was sobbing as if her heart would break, and the mistress, coming upon her In tears, asked what was the matter, “My husband bane get put in yall,” wailed Hilda. ‘‘ln Jail? Oh, isn’t that too bad! But there’s a cheerful side to everything. I understand they give prisoners splendid educations there nowadays.” "He bane got all the eddlcation he needs," asserted Hilda through her tears, ‘He bane there ten years before."—Am. Legion Weekly. When Dad Is Troubled "Do you mean to say you don’t have any trouble in keeping your wife dressed in the height of fashion?” "That’s whot I said. My trouble cornea when I don’t keep her dressed that way.”—Philadelphia Press.

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What Editors Are Saying

Lunches (Tipton Daily Times) If every rural school had a canning and cooking club, or the two combined in one, the hot lunch problem would be solved for them. The preparation of a soup or a vegetable stew would be a simple matter. In some cities school children consider themselves badly treated If they canont have hot lunch every day. Under weather conditions in most rural communities the hot lunch at school Is more Important than In the cities. The delicious lunches that can be prepaied in these country schools would make the city children envious. Gary (Goshen Dally News-Times) Maybe, after all. it is not so surprising that so many children in Gary should be undernourished when so many stills are found In operation there.