Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1923 — Page 4

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JIM RILEY’S ANNIVERSARY YY/j HEN the calendar is crowded with special observations of W one kind or another, Uncle Sam, designating his share for national heroes, custom establishing others and propagandists setting aside “Days” and “Weeks” for attention, it is refreshing to have one day that Hoosiers can call their own. To be typically Hoosier is a pride of politicians, and literati as well as thousands of “just folks” who have not attracted distinction. Riley day will be observed Sunday. The first frost of the fall has preceded his birthday anniversary. What could be more fitting, to honor the memory of our “Jim,” as Indianapolis and Hoosiers know him, than to dream again the home-spun sentiment of “When the frost is on the pumpkin, And the fodder’s in the shock.” OUR DAYS ARE PRIVILEGED SHIP 600 feet long sailed over the southern part of Indiana in the night. The lieutenant commander and designer, Ralph Weyerbacher, one of the passengers on the ZR-1, dropped a bouquet and note to his parents. Some future edition of The Indianapolis Times may oontain advertisements like this: SAILINGS TODAY —Airship Indianapolis leaves at noon from airdome at Speedway for Denver, San Francisco and way points. Due today—Airship Hoosier from New York, bearing passengers and mail from Europe. Romance! Yesterday the 600-foot airship was a thing of romance. Today it is a reality. We live in a privileged time. We Hoosiers are proud of Weyerbacher. LIFE SECRETS REVEALED FT! MOVIE showing how a chicken comes to life and develops [,-<A in the egg, is thrown on a screen by Dr. Charles F. Herm. It reveals changes that take place from the beginning of incubation until the chicken’s heart starts beating. ’ This super-scientific movie was made by carefully removing a small piece of the eggshell and covering the opening with a glass window. Then a movie camera, operated by a time clock, every ten minutes flashed a light through the window and Snapped a picture. £ After thirty-three hours, the chick’s heart was beating—and the camera had taken about 200 separate pictures, ten minutes apart. Then the slowly taken film is flashed on the screen and shows Ahe whole process in a matter of seconds. It’s a reverse of the jaltra-rapid-camera movies you’ve seen, showing a slow-down of & golf stroke or a pole vanlter in action. The egg movie is in a glass with similar films of a bud turning into a flower. I Dr. Herm also exhibits movies of oysters developing from ghe life cell, and so on. Changes that cannot be observed by the Siuman eye even with a microscope, due to the element of time, are in this way presented so they can be studied by scientists. 5 The ultra-rapid and ultra-slow movie cameras eliminate the Element of time. They apparently bring man considerably nearer understanding of the twin mysteries—life and death. Z Such ultimately may be the greatest function of the movie, ’s No telling what the scientific movie will lead to. Dr. Herm Srill make movies showing cancer cells attacking and destroying Jealthy cells. When doctors understand how these cells work, they’ll be nearer a cure. So, too, with disease germs. - The movie, a toy, in the future may be even more useful than Entertaining.

Z WITCHCRAFT RETURNS TO SALEM EECENTLY, twenty-eight teachers resigned from the public schools of Salem, Mass. Two left to teach in other States, Jhree. entered religious orders and it was twenty-three for marriage. Z Salem is worried. Plaintively, it complains that, “after superintendents have chased all over the section to find competent young women for teachers, it is rather disappointing to have them get married after just a few years of service.” Disappointing? It is more than that. It is history repeating itself After all these long, long years, witchcraft has returned to Salem. We dread to think it is so, but look at the conJtdncing facts. ~ It would not be unusual for two, three, or even five, teachers ;to suddenly embark on the white waters, but when twenty-three •are off in a bunch from pedagogy to parson, truth compels the admission that witchery not only prevails, but is little short of unanimous. And what alluring, winning, compelling witches they must be I Its rigid stakes and funeral pyres of old were the biers that made Salem famous, history tells us, but they are out of date nowadays, except in some sections far removed. No doubt Salem would not care to revive their corrective influence, for they would cause unnecessary outlay for fagots and oil and the result would be ashes only. Plainly it is impossible to have teachers and burn them, too. In addition, love witchery is insinuating, in tolerant and tyrannical. It laughs at restraint, sneers at signs and snaps a flippant finger in the face of reason. You can’t beat it. You can’t bunker it or head it off. All that can be done is to hang a hope or a cuss word on it, and let it go. YES, SIR, Henry reduces Ford prices again and considers manufacturing gasoline tq sell to Ford owners only at 16 cents a gallon. Asa business man, Henry Is a political genius. THEY’RE planting more bananas now in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. By so doing they expect to add 300,000 tons a year to the crop, nearly all of which is shipped to the United States. That awful national wail has borne fruit. PRESIDENT VAN NORMAN of the World’s Dairy Congress, speaking in Washington, said: “This country is indebted to Europe for ad breeds of dairy cattle, for scientific data, for the centrifugal separator, for standardized products, for early cooperative organization I Isolation, what? UNITED STATES imported $41,435,375 worth of cotton cloth during the last fiscal year, an increase of more than $1,000,000. Cotton, raised on the Mississippi, shipped to New York, thence across the Atlantic, is there manufactured into cloth, then shipped back to New York and from gb ere to the Mississippi, where it started. Yes, we have no interest in Europe today!

PROBLEM OF FARMERS IS INDIVIDUAL Each Must Study Own Particurar Situation With Common Sense, (This Is the fourth of a series of six articles by Harold C. Place, editor of the Des Moines News, on “What's the Matter With the Farmers?” By HAROLD C. PLACE mHAT the solution of the agricultural problem la largely Individual Is a sentiment growing among the farmers in the Middle West. The farmer must help himself by studying his own particular situation and by Ahe application of good common sense and business principles. One of the wayß In which the farmer Is doing this Is by turning more and more to dairying and poultry raising. My observations convinced me the farmer who is milking cows and raising chickens is In fairly satisfactory circumstances. Dairying has been and is today in better shape than any other branch of agriculture. The men who have milked cows have had cash Incomes. The cow, the hog and the hen have furnished money to pay current bills where other crops have been marketed at a loss. The demand for dairy products is steady and there Is no immediate prospect of It being exceeded by the supply. Typical Example. Bremer County, lowa, is a good example of what dairying can do for the farmer. Brewer County is a typical middle Western farming community. Its soil is fertile and adapted to any of the crops raised in the corn belt. It is populated by thrifty farmers, who were not Inveigled by high land prices, and conserved their resources during the years of prosperity. With low grain prices prevailing, they have gone Into dairying heavily. There are twenty-two creameries in the county, four cheese factories and a large plant operated by a condensed *i;lk concern of national reputation. Nowhere in lowa is the financial situation of the farmer so good as it is in Bremer County. Herds Cost Money. It costs money to purchase a dairy herd. And the farmer dislikes t{ie task of milking cows. Further, he finds it almost imposs.ble to hire anyone else to do it because farm hands invariably refuse to take employment on a farm where the work includes the milking of cows. Many progressive fanners are feeding grain to livestock and marketing corn, oats, etc., on the hoof Instead of direct from the bin. With livestock prices increasingly better they find this a means of turning a loss into a profit. Sons as Partners There is a growing tendency of farmers to take their sons into partnership with them. This solves the labor problem, both with respect to the shortage that exists and the wages farm hands demand, and, at the same time, solves the problem of keeping the boys on the farm. Many farmers are realizing they are engaged in a business, rather than an occupation, and they must utilize business principles and methods in operat- j lng it. Five years ago few farmers could have given you figures as to their cost of production, or their cost I of labor, or their net profit, for a crop. Disaster, however, drove the farm ers to the use of pencil, paper and [ arithmetic. Tocjay, In increasing num-! bers, fanners are keeping books and records on the farm like their business cousins In the city. They know what it costs to produce an acre of corn, fatten a steer or operate a tractor. They can tell you, without a moment’s hesitation, what they lost last year and what they stand to make or lose this year.

Animal Facts

You have seen a bug- In the cellar scurrying with many legs to hide away from you. About nine out of ten people reach out a foot and squash him Into the floor. Mistake. This so-called "Thousand Legs” 1b entirely harmless —wouldn’t hurt a baby —but the way he eats up house flies, skeetere, ants, and even cockroaches is & caution. The "glass" snake ltVes In many parts of the United States. Got hls name from the fact that hls tall Is so brittle that it breaks In several pieces when he falls from any height at aJL Dr. Shufeldt, of New York Zoo, captured a handsome garter snake In the palisades of the Hudson one evening and took it to the Zoo. Next morning he found that Mrs. Serpent had given birth during the night to a regular orphan asylum of snake babies, seventeen. What’s a toad worth to Mrs. Backyard Gardener? United States biological survey estimates that a toad will eat nearly 10,000 Injurious insects In three months, of that number 2,000 cutworms. If each cutworm does 1cent damage—and he does that much to Mr. G's peace of mind—that toad la worth at least S2O. Big Sister Deceived "She was deceived in him, poor girl.” "Deceived in Jack?” "Dreadfully! She thought it was love that was making him so pale and thin, and it was only going without food so as to buy her presents.” —Boston Transcript. , At Wife’s Summer Cottage. "I suppose your wife is enjoying irwweJf at your summer cottage." "Not very much She has three women vls.ting her, each on a different diet.” —Boston Transcript.

Heard in the Smoking Room

| I HARLIE Leedy of the YoungsIf I town Telegram, was one of the smokers, and was telling at a talk he had with vice president Parsons of the Erie: “The existence of a railroad executive is just one blamed report after another. Even the section foreman fills out an elaborate form, in case of accidents, no matter how inconse-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

UNUSUAL PEOPLE ‘Piece of Glass’ Big Diamond

By NEA Service ONDON, Oct. 6.—" Maybe It’s } j I only a piece of glass and may*J ‘ 1 be It’s her diamond, but anyway I won’t show It to any one but your mistress, so you’d better tell her I am here.” 8 In this deter- | mined fashion J Thomas Whelan, Galway to come downstairs. She Lieut. Col. Sir Henry Galway, a distinguished soldier and diplomat, who has been governor of various British colonies, the last WHELAN being South Australia. It didn’t take her long to determine that the “piece of glass,’’ wrapped up In a coarse piece of brown paper, was really her famous Napoleon diamond, worth over $5,000. And Whelan left richer by $250, the reward which was offered for Its return. "Luck was with me,” said Whelan. “The other evening when I was walking along near Lady Galway’s house my foot struck what I thought was a chunk of glass. The stone was too big to be real, I thought. So I supposed it was only one of those pieces of glass they put in cheap rings. "So I put it on a shelf and thought no more about It until I read In the papers that Lady Galway had lost her Napoleon diamond.”

(tJom SIMS | -/- -/- Says

Os course huge dinosaur eggs were found by egg-sperts. • * • Ancient picnics were bad. Think of forgetting the salt for a boiled egg six Inches long. • • • These huge eggs they found are millions of years !. they found them in a case. • • • Perhaps these ancient eggs art so big It only takes about ten of them to make a dozen. • • • Mongolia, with six-inch eggs a million years old* must be a bad place for actors. • • • Fossils a million years old have good teeth. Wonder what kind of tooth paste they used? * • Dinosaurs walked on four feet. Hope their discovery doesn't start a dinosaur dance. • • • Advice not to carry all your eggs in one basket originated when eggs were six inches long. •• • 0 Los Angeles man of 106 hae never seen a ball game so may never live another hundred. • • • Glrlß once closed their eyes while kissing. Now they don't even keep their mouths shut afterward. • • • A bachelor is a man who wears two pairs of socks at the same time to hide the holes. • • • Count to a hundred before fighting or you are liable to count to a hundred stars after fighting.

Family Fun

Retort. A meddlesome woman, riding In a trolley car began sneering at a young mother’s awkwardness In holding a fretting baby. “I declare," she snorted, “a woman ought never to have a baby until she knows how to hold it.” "Nor a tongue, either,” calmly replied the worried young mother.— Fruit Dispt.tch. Sister's Feller Ducks. "No, dear, we don't tell anybody, not a living soul. Hadn’t you better go In and talk to Dad?*’ "But—er—precious, we Just promised not to mention it to any one, didn’t we?”—Virginia Reel. Father’s Reminder. "You think so much of your old golf you don’t even remember when we were married.’’ "Bure I do. It was the day after I sank the 82-foot putt.”—Judge.

Science

No branch of science Is making greater advancement than that related to dentistry. One of the things it has learned recently !s that of filling teeth with metallic substances or amalgams is not the success It was onco supposed to be. The reason for it la that the simplest form of electric battery may be made in the human mouth. A copper coin placed on the tongue and a silver coin put against the teeth Inside the upper Up produces an electric current when the outer edges of these two coins are brought in contact. There is a definite shock that can be felt and sometimes there is the Impression of a flash of light. "When dentistry learned of this experiment It learned why It would have to be more careful what metals it used In the filling of teeth. Certain metals caused continual electrolysis. This, in time, ruined all dental work In a patient's mouth and caused other troubles affecting his health.

quentlal. When a train hits a cow or a horse, this must be done at once. One important form reads: “ ‘Disposition of the carcass." “Anew section employe, who was called on to make out an accident report looked at the prostrate carcass of an old horsf| and then wrote for the answer: ” 'Mild and Gentle,’ ”

BIRTH RATE IN ENGLAND DECREASING Cry for More Babies Goes Up in Nation Already Overpopulated. By HERBERT QUICK NGLANDS Empty Cradles” Is on the Ups of a great many people who are anxious for the future of the Uttle old island from which we derive our language and a large proportion of our ancestors. Their anxiety is for the future of England In view of the falling oft of the birth-rate. Take the city of Leeds as an example. Not very long ago the. Leeds birth-rate was about twenty-two babies per thousand of population per year. Now It is only about nineteen per thousand. Writers and speakers are pleading with the people to have more children. Few of these are women who have to bear the children; and none of them are babies asking to be bom into a nation with a million and a half of people out of work and many of them in want. Population Depleted They say the babies should be born because the population of Europe has been depleted by war, revolution, famine and disease; but the babies in Anteland might say that none of this Europe belongs to them and that in a Europe In which millions and millions of grown people are starving and milfions and milUona of babies already born are stunted, diseased and afflicted with rickets from semistarvation, there seems to be a mighty small opportunity to make good. Insufficient Employment England is greatly over-populated. That is, with her land system on Its present basis, there is not employment for those already there. It would seem nineteen to the thousand of population per year is <iuite enough for England. Probably the real defect in tho system lies in the fact the people who are intelligent and well-to-do have less than their share of the nineteen and that the births are preponderantly from the povertystricken, out-of-work, desperate, ignorant classes who would do the country a great service if they had no families at all. No Use "Hollering” Anyhow, there is on. use "hollering” nofcut It. The practice of limiting the bliths to a number vastly smaller than the families of ten to fifteen of our great-grandparents has established itself in all European countries and in America in most families which hcV© foresight and intelligence. We can do nothing about it; but we might remove aty the regu'ationß which pre vent the ignorant and benighted from adopting the same policy. This would at least give the intelligent classes much nearer an even break In the next generation. As it is, we are in America confining the practice of family limitation to tho intelligentsia. It is only in the slums j nature has her way with population ; Statesmanship has vsry little to do with the matter, but insofar as it j operates it gives the unfit the major- i ity of the stock.

What Editors Are Saying

Roads (Daily Clintonian) Clinton and vicinity are In line with progress when working to bring about a condition of more good roods. When these are neglected other progressive communities will be found forging ahead. Candidates (P*t. Wayne News-Sentinel) Indiana farmers must be very careful In cutting the tall grass this fall not to run Into a covey of office seekers reported to be In hiding waiting for the opportune time to come out. Spanking (Martinsville Dally Tribune) When students of the city high school buy and drink white mule liquor It’s time they were taken out Into the woodshed and heartily spanked. Don't they know that It Is a sign of childhood to be "given & bottle”? T ragedy (Tiafayette Journal and Courier) Two children were killed by motor vehicles at Indianapolis In the midst of "Safety Week.” The tragedies serve to give special force and meaning to the rules of common safety and to the teachings sought to be Imparted by the safety movement. More than ever It must be realized that home and school may save many lives by drilling the boys and girls dally In the simple demands of safe conduot at street crossings.

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QUEST I O N S_ Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can g?t an answer to any Question of fact or Information by writing to the Indianapolis Time* Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y. Avenue Waahtnston, D. C.. lncloains 2 cent* In atampa. M dloal. legal, love and idarriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended reaeareh be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, ind receive personal replies.—Editor. What hours during the day is one permitted to burn leaves and tash in Indianapolis? What form of container must they be placed in? V. F. W. You may burn trash any time during the day If a wire trash burner Is used. Does the Indiana Jaw require a bulldog which Is chained and kept in a yard fenced In, be muzzled? V. F. W. No. Does dynamite explode downwards? An explosion always takes the line of lotust resistance? What Is a bench mark? Mark in stone, metal or other durable material firmly fixed In the ground from which differences of level are measured, as in land surveying or In taking tidal observations. What Is the population of Alaska? According to the 1920 census, 54,$99. What are the relative standings of the United States, Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy In aviation? Number of planes, France, 1,250; England, 600; United Btates, 800; Japan. 250; Italy, 250. Personnel of air service, France, 33,000; England, 30,000; United States, 13,000; Japan, 8.000; Italy, 6.000. Where Is Rubens’ famous painting "Descent from the Cross?” In Notre Dame Cathedral at Antwerp. How can oil be removed from a concrete floor? Try scrubbing It with a 10 per cent solution of muriatic acid, and If this does not remove, try a little stronger solution. Be sure to rinse off with clean water after an application of this acid. What does "Piedmont" mean? This comes from the French “pied" (foot) and "inont,”, (mountain), hence foot of the mountain. What Is Charlie Chaplin’s full r.iime? Charles Spencer Chaplin. What Is the population of the earth? The estimated population of the earth In 1920 was 1,747,000,000. Who sold; “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute?” Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

George Crusoe’s Discovery

Enemies By BERTON BRALEY A man should plan to live his life Without unnecessary strife, ! And diplomatically tryI To poke nobody In the eye. But though he seeks not to offend, He can’t be everybody’s friend; However carefully he goes He’s bound to step on someone’s toes. However Just, however fair His alms and ends, he'll find, somewhere | Somebody who will block his track And try to stop or drive him back. | And If he goes ahead, then he Has left behind an enemy. , Though one may hate acquiring foes, He’s bound to step on someone’s toes. However gentle be his smile, A man can’t do a thing worth while, Either for others or himself ; For love or charity or plf, Without achieving by degrees j A group of first-class enemies. ! Experience distinctly shows He’s bound to step on someone’s toes. Wherefore no single test on earth More clearly shows a man’s true worth. No better gauge can be desired Than are the foes he has acquired."" We Judge his virtues or mistakes I Best by the enemies he makes. And rest our good opinion on The kind of toes he steps upon. [Copyright, 1923. NEA Service, Inc.)

A Thought

The mouth of the righteous man is a well of life; but violence ccvereth the mouth of the wicked. —Prov. 10:11. • • • SHE mea.sure of any man's vir- | tue is what he would do if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices to control him.—Hazlltt. Pleasing Hubby "Yes, dear, you look nice In that dress, but It cost me a heap of money.” "Freddie, dear, what do I care for money when It is a question of pleasing you.”—Film Fun.

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SATURDAY, OCT, 6, 1923

Indiana Sunshine

At last a beauty contest of worth has been discovered. Murray Turner, one of Lake County’s wealthiest men, has extended an offer of marriage to the winner of the Hammond industrial exposition queen contest. Turner has been a widower for many years, and according to friends, is the best matrimonial "catch” In town. Linwood School at Lafayette may pride Itself on being a shrine of knowledge. An owl flew in the window and proceeded to take up permanent residence in the building. The pupils adopted the owl as a maAcot and It now occupies a special cage. "My, how times have changed,” comments the Rev. James B. Lathrop, Greensburg, who is 98, and the oldest living graduate of Indiana University. “BulJ in the pen.” Dr. Lathrop says, “and not football was the major sport when I was a student. Football was an unknown game on the sport calendar.” ,•*- . A Bible printed in/ 1792 waa an interesting display at the Hartford City Fall Festival. The book was printed when subscriptions were taken prior to a book’s publication. One of the subscribers whose name was entered was George Washington, first president. t There were four marriages to every divorce In Allen County during September. The records have usually shown three marriages to each divorce. This should encourage the fall romances. Although its hands were a little wabbly and would often show different times on different sides, every one missed the old town clock In the Martinsville courthouse tower when it was broken for several weeks. But It has been repaired and school children who depended on the old tlmepeice have no excuse for being late at schooL Seeing the Circus. "Didja see de dancin’ elephants to de circus?" "Naw.” “Gee! You musta picked & bum hole#” —American Legion Weekly.