Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1923 — Page 4

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DIM YOUR LIGHTS! SHE new headlight law is in effect in Indianapolis and is going to be enforced, according to the police. It should be. Here is what the ordinance says: “When two motor vehicles, or other vehicles, equipped with and using headlights or front lights, are approaching each other on the public highway, street or alley, within the city of Indianapolis, during the hours when lights are required by law to be lighted on such vehicles, and the driver of one of such vehicles turns off his bright lights or diffuses the same, the driver of the other of said vehicles shall turn off his bright lights or diffuse the same, and said bright lights on both of said vehicles shall remain so turned off or diffused until the said vehicles have passed each other.” The careful motorist, the fair driver, has been doing this for a long time. The hog has not. It is time to grab him by the scruff of the neck and fine him as provided by law. TRIMMING DOWN TAXES YY/J HEN times are hard and business is slack, concerns operated ** by men of experience and wisdom, curtail expenditure. They spend money for necessities, but they do not indulge in luxuries. This should be true of governmental units, for the heads of these units are conducting the business affairs of the people. Times are not hard now from a business standpoint, but prices in many lines are abnormally high. Why, then, should taxes be any higher than sufficient to cover bare necessities? The Indiana Taxpayers’ Association has declared before the State tax board that certain tax levies, particularly those of the school city and the city board of health are too high. The organization insists they are excessive because expenditures are being made for things not absolutely necessary at this time. School and health department officials, apparently, were not sufficiently familiar with their own business to defend their positions for high tax levies and they have been asked to supply more complete information. Making of a budget is difficult. It takes a good head to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary. For this very reason, every item of a budget should be given as much publicity as possible. Officials should take the public into their confidence and welcome any suggestion that may mean the reduction of taxes. Taxes now are too high. Every taxpayer knows that. Expenditures should be cut to the bone—cut to such an extent that they will take care only of necessities, such as the city hospital and new grade school buildings. Let’s get rid of frills. NORMA MAKES CLEO A PIKER SCORES of Indianapolis girls are wondering if they pos- ___ sess a resemblance to Norma Talmadge, one of America’s greatest screen actresses. The contest of The Times, interesting as it is to the feminine mind, offers possibilities that sociologists and psychologists would pronounce of greatest importance to the future American girl. Movies are watched by millions. One screen star, creating a type, is simulated by thousands. True, she draws from prevalent types. But her particular type is studied by girls from Kokomo to Hollywood and back again. How many girls, unconsciously receiving favorable impr sions and a mental image of Norma Talmadge, have become like the famous type of the star herself? Sociologists claim that concentrated selection of a certain type of girls by men will result in a more or less uniform American type of women in the future. Strange, but possible. Norma has more power than Cleopatra did in her glories of conquest. Winning the admiration of thousands of American girls is no trifling victory.

PAGE SHERLOCK! A SMOKE MYSTERY ITT! OW the spirit of Boies Penrose, super-boss of Philadelphia. Ili would rise to greet new tributes being paid to that seat of independence in the form of plaudits to its smoke nuisance ordinance ! Philadelphia, the city where a municipal gas works became so corrupt that management was forfeited to private ownership, the city where the revived machine of Penrose recently swept the election by overwhelming vote, is now the city of the “ideal” smoke ordinance, we are told. Charles Thomas, engineer of the Robert Fuller Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, a guest of the Scientech Club this week, was curious about statements made in Indianapolis that Philadelphia has a model ordinance reducing the smoke nuisance. “If the smoke ordinance is being enforced, the public doesn’t about it,” he said. \ “The smoke nuisance is as bad in Philadelphia as it is In Indianapolis. ’ ’ There’s a pipeful of thought for you. So if the Quaker City is to be a model for Indianapolis, deliver us! It looks like a smoky winter. “MEN WILL wear loud hats this fall and winter,” says a fashion note. Well, it isn’t a great step from vociferous to loud. A KANSAS MAN, accused of shooting his wife, insists he was in the garage oiling the old bus at the time, and it sounds entirely plausible and convincing. THE NEW president of a dental association writes poems, and that should please those patients who dislike to take laughing gas. A SAN DIEGO wife files a cross-complaint against her husband charging that he wears the title “champion drinker of alcohol.” Just think of a woman giving up a man with all that strength of character! SENATOR MAGNUS JOHNSON, first thing on arriving in Washington, demands a woodpile on which “to get exercise.” He’ll get exercise enough when the Senate gets going, but he’s a little peculiar in not demanding a key to the “cellar” right off. SINCE THE WAR, 2,649 doctors have applied for license to practice in California, a lot of them from Russia and the Balkans. And California’s the place where live longest in spite of everything.

ZR-3 BUILT TO CARRY PASSENGERS Giant Air Cruiser Will Be Used in U, S, to Develop Commercial Aviation, By ROBERT TALLEY. Times Staff Correspondent ASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—While yy the ZR-1, now called the "Shenandoah.” was being formally christened by Secretary Denby at Lakehurst, N. J., today, the Navy Department here was making plans for the arrival of her big sister ship, the ZR-3, from Germany next month. The latter, constructed for this Government by the German government at the Zeppelin works, will be flown to America by German officers and crew. Capt. George W. Steele, her future commander, will be on hoard but merely as an observer. Commercial Craft While the ZR-1 was built by this Government as a military airship for long-range scout duty with the Navy, the ZR-3 was designed as a commercial craft for carrying passengers and freight. Here Is the way they compare: The ZR-I The ZR-3 060 feet Lensth 656 feet 78 feet ...Diameter of Oa9 Bag . . 02 feet 06 feet Height 100 feet 2.150.000 eu. ft. Gas Cap’ty 2.500.000 eu. ft. 60-70 mi. per hr.. .Speed 65-75 mi. per hr. Six 300-hp. engines. . . .live -iOO-hp engines Total 1.800 hp.. .Power. Total. 2,000 hp. Cruising Distance Without Stopping 6.000 Miles 8 000 Miles 30 men .Crew 31 men With their great cruising range, either ship might fly from Washington to Europe and return without landing. The ZR-3 might fly to Africa and return without stopping, or make a trip around the world with but two landings en route. Carries Tliirty Passengers The German-made ship, capable of carrying thirty passengers ai.d having comfortable appointments, will be used by the Government to develop commercial aviation in this country' Navy experts say this big ship could make a circuit trip of New York, St. Louis, Los Angeles and back to New York in ninety-four hours, stopping long enough at each city to take on and discharge passengers and mall. There Is also talk of eventually using her In two-day transatlantic service and of making a trial flight to the north pole.

Indiana Sunshine

Storm cellars are in order in Bloomington. Several Indiana University coeds are learning to shoot and occupy the R. O. T. C. range on certain mornings of the week. At those hours it is said the town compares favorably with Goldsmith’s deserted village. Officers of the law are human after all, according to Howard Brown, 11, of Tipton. The sheriff took Roland in charge after the boy tried his skill at hitting window panes, using rocks as ammunition. Instead of confining the lad the official gave him a good meal and released him upon a promise of good behavior. What is claimed to he the largest cak tree in Indiana is on the Berkey farm, near Warsaw The tree measures twenty-three reet and two inches in circumference three sett above the ground. The first sign of the approaching presidential campaign was seen in Marion the other day. It was a Ford button and on it were these words, “For Ford. 1924." Maybe this man is expecting to find one of the lower priced cars in his Christmas stocking. E. C. Fisher. Clinton County farmer, treated more than 1,500 persons from several counties to a watermelon feast. Finding hundreds of melons left at the end of the season he extended a general invitation “to come and eat all.you want.”

Family Fun

Easy "Will you sign your name here?” said the young lawyer after Mrs. Callahan had asked to draw up a deed transferring a parcel of land to her daughter. "You sign it yourself, an’ I’ll make me mark," said the old woman quickly. "Since me eyes gave out* I’m not able to write a wurrd, young man.’’ "How do you spell it?” he asked, pen poised above the proper place. "Spell <lt wativer way you plaze,” said Mrs. Callahan, recklessly. “Since I lost me teeth, there’s not a wurrd in the wurrld I can spell.”—Judge. Bobby at His Spelling "Mama, how do you spell ’hell?’ ” “Why, darling, that is a naughty word. You should never use it. Why do you want to spell it?” "I want to spell Helen, and I thought I’d just write down one cylinder at a time.”—Boston Transcript. Dad at the Dance "Are you from the Far North?” "No, why do you ask?” "You dance as If you had snowshoes on.”—Dartmouth Jack o' Lantern. Big Brother’s Girl "That girl of yours looks like a Texas oil field.” “Ah, you mean like a million dollars?” “Naw, like a .wildcat speculation.”— Oregon Ag. Orange Owl.

Heard in the Smoking Room

E was from Ireland and had I—J the faculty of boasting about JL_r. his prowess as a horse-back rider. He had just struck the great West and was telling about his riding ability to the crowd in the smoker when the dark skinned fellow in the corner asked the Irishman if he had over ridden a bucking broncho and, without waiting for a reply, said that that was really the greatest §port out hercv The Irishman was eager to find in the horseback so

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UNUSUAL PEOPLE Air, Not Oil, Gusher

lip Vnitrd Press r"TI AMMOTH CAVE, Ky„ Oct. 10. ljy|| —George D. Morrison earned 1 I- 1 the name of “Dry Hole George” after his nineteenth successive drilling y i J|l gusher, he avers. '' Nn °M- either, * • ut aJr- < if He had drilled I an opening Into !|wp| anew passageIFfsl , , ' way connected ' 'f? with Mammoth Cave, he exP'ains. It had -otbJm revealed a cave S aid to he equal in size and gorMORRISON geousness to the world-famed beauty spot. Morrison abandoned his search for c>il, organized a company and built a hotel for tourists at the mouth of the opening he had drilled. And from that “well” gushes forth air which Morrison explains, he uses for heating and cooling the rooms! &M SIMS | -!- -!- Says 17-7I EALTH authorities say all J—l goats must leave Pittsburgh, it will cut the population in half. * • • Possibly hearing our plea not to make goats of cows, Pittsburgh has even banished goat milk. • • • Since goats are taboo In Pittsburgh who buys oil stock there? * • • Bad Los Angeles news today. Movie director robbed of $17,000. Whole week’s pay gone. * • • Imagine a movie director borrowing SIO,OOO until he gets his pay check Saturday nieht. • • • Philippine elections went against General Wood. Certainly are knock- 1 ing on Wood there. • • • Klrg of Denmark risked his own life to save a sailor. There is nothing rotten in Denmark. • • • A New York ,man who locked Ms son in a cellar two weeks will he locked In a Jail for ninety days. • • Earthquake hit Pyrenels mountains, which were named after toothpaste or fire extinguishers. • • • German cabinet has resigned. Things are so quiet over there now’ you can hear a bomb drop. • • • Eskimos’ long silent winter be gins this month. So quiet there you can hear a gumdrop. • • • Girls’ shd?*s have thicker pol*'b now. One pair will last back from T,OOO auto rides. • • • Ludendorf says he is Germany. It can’t be true. He Isn’t hunerv and broke and in debt. • • • It is getting so you have to look on the back page to see whom the Chinese bandits captured. • • • Morgantown (W. Va.) hen lavs twice daily. Trouble with this world Is we work too hard.

Animal Facts

Uncle Sam’s tiniest bird, the hummer, shivers and then files to Central America for a balmy winter. Next smallest, the golden-crowned kinglet with a body the size of the end of your thumb, winters in boisterously cold New England. To Frank Chapman, bird curator of American Museum, screech owl looks like a "feathered cat” as it crouches on a tree limb. But this chap is a perfectly moral owl, making an honest living off vermin and not birds. One O. C. Worthington has a fenced deer park in wild, beautiful, but nearly worthless land at Shawnee on-Hudson, Pa. But his white tail deer became so numerous that C. C. opened the gates and let 1,000 escape. When other birds have passed south there appears in our northern back yards a twittering bird with a white vest, all ready for church. It’s the “junco,” who abides most of the year near the Arctic circle and thinks the winter of upper United States summery enough for hijr. Northern Minnesota has a national Moose preserve of 900,0C0 acres in which are 10,000 head of T. R.’s favorite animal. Thirty years ago, Laysan Island, in North Pacific Ocean, wits a world wonder for Its stupendous numbers of albatross, tern and man-of-war birds. Then along came a devil from Honolulu with an old wind jammer and twenty-three Jap laborei-s and they slew 300,000 of the birds to sell their wings to Paris. Now Laysan is a deserted desert of sand. It's pleasant to know that a United States revenue cutter took Satan’s cargo iway from him before he could de- . liver.

had a bucking broncho that he could get to ride They had. He wanted him saddled at once and he vaulted into the saddle with all the confidence I of his race and former riding experience. The broncho at once began action and, in due time, the Irishman was on the ground. As the liveryman rushed to him to assist him, the Irish- j man said with a far away expression,; “What was he doing?" The liveryman said: ‘.‘Bucking.’’ Pat seemed to come too a little more, and soliloquized, t “By the llolv Saint! It was lucky her wasn’t bronchoing. or Old be kilt/ *•: *

BATTLE FOR EMPIRE IS BLOODLESS England, France and Spain Contend for Control of Moroccan City. By MILTON BRONNER, NEA Service Writer ONDON, Oct. 10. —Without a shot being fired or a blow fought here. It has been a battle for empire. And very few people have known about it. Although it involved so much, the contest was not staged on any grandiose scale. Just a few' men, armed with bundles of riianuscripts and maps gathered in an obscure and clut-tered-up office in the Foreign Office building, talked for a while and agreed to disagree. Up to now they have been deadlocked. The bone of contention Is the control of the city of Tangier in Morocco, That doesn't sound very important, but if you will get out a map you will see that a tip of Morocco juts out northward until only a narrow* strip of water separates it from Gibraltar. British Control - Now “Gib,” that rocky point at the south of Spain, has for a hundred years been in British hands. In the old days its cannon dominated the narrow waters. France never relished this. Spain didn’t like it. Back in the early nineteen hundreds Franco and Germany were both looking hungrily at Morocco with its vast resources. The French outgeneraled Germany and got the Ripper hand. Since the war, with Germany smashed, the French have become entirely dominant. Nominally, Morocco has a sultan and the French are his advisers. Really, Morocco is a French colony, to be more and more absorbed into the French system. \ But from early days the Spanish laid claim to a “sphere of influence” on the northern coast. Only Tangier was excluded. Up to now it has been a sort of internationally governed city. The Moors rule it under the guidance of French. British and Spanish officers. But Spain wants Tangier fer its own. ‘ It would then have a setoff for Gibraltar. On the other hand, the French say Tangier should be restored to its real master, the sultan of Morocco. Which, as the English say. is pure ■’eye-wash.’’ Restored to the sultan, Tangier would soon be a French Gibraltar. French Ambitions The French already have the world’s biggest army. They are already talking about building a big submarine fleet. They already have so predominant a place In the air that the alarmed British are increas ing their appropriations for military airplanes. Now, If the French camped In Tangier they would have a place where they could erect huge fortifications with high-power cannon. They %rould have a Jumping-off place for their airplanes. They would have a lair for their submarines. That is why England Insists that Tangier contlmie an international city.

Science

j Chemists are working today with more interest than ever on the hu I man blood. While a great deal is known about the blood Compared to a few years ago, it still has its mysteries. There are many similarities j between blood and sea water. This | is explained by th fact that man took ! the ncessary qualities of the ocean with him and wore them Inside when he evolved for a sea creature into a j land animal. Until three centuries ago there was not a man in the world who knew anything about the circulation of the blood. The most learned doctors had peculiar and contradictory Ideas about it. Three hundred years ago William Harvey discovered the important facts I relating to the circulation of the i blood. His experiments covered twenty-five years. King Charles I of j England called Harvey to explain It !to him. The king and his court | couldn't understand and Harvey was considered a crank for many years. . Today his name is held highest in j reverence by physicians the world | over.

A Thought

A virtuous woman Is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness In his bones. KProv. 12:4. SO be man’s tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purpose of heaven.—Schiller.

Tongue Tips

Senator Ferris of Michigan: I can succeed in persuading some of the Senators to keep quiet I will feel I have achieved something.” Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Cooiidger “How foolish that story about my daughter doing her own washing sounded to me. Although she washed a few small pieces occasionally, she never did a real washing of clothes in her life. T don’t mean to say she Is not domestically inclined, but don’t you believe ail the papers say about her and my son-in-law.” Henry Ford: "Most people catch cold because they overeat. Don’t clog your engine with w r aste matter. That’s how half the sickness comes. I take lots of exercise, eat lightly, and get all the fresh air I need I never catch cold.” Capt. Jddie Hlckerfbacker, aviator and autoist: "If Japan had had an aerial fire fighting department, using acid to extinguish flames, the catas trophe would not have growm to the proportions it did in Toklo and Yokohama. With 1-00 tons of acid, fire could easily be combated without endangering lives of firemen, as does present-day apparatus The day is no. far away when aerial fighting ap- ,*,:. .-at us vi ; > n

Big Game Hunting Is Good Sport, Too!

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QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can '<et an answer to any question of fact >r information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. I) C.. enclosing 2 rents in itainps lor reply. Medical, legal and uianul advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal r> p!y Unsigned request* cannot be ansv 1 red. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Where can I get a map of Roanoke Island and vicinity? From the United States coast and geodetic survey, Washnigton, D. C-, for 75 •ents, by. writing to them cUrect. When did the United States first begin to coin fractional currency? April 2, 1792. What Is the pay of an ensign in the Navy? With dependents, $2,199 a year; without dependents, 11,719. Who was Ezra Meeker? A famous pioneer in the old Oregon country. His adventures include a trip across the plains with an ox team in 1852. a cruise to Puget Sound and travels in the Yukon. He was horn in 1830. Meeker was the author of several books about his adventures, such as the following: “Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains.” “The Busy Life of Ezra Meeker,” "Ventures and Adventures," “The Story of the Last Trail,’’ “Seventy Years of Progress," "Pioneer Reminiseenses,” “The Ox Team,” “Ox Team Days on the Oregon Trail.” The motion picture, “The Covered Wagon,” deals with the times of Meeker. Who is the author of the lines: Where blind and native Ignorance Delivers brawling Judgments unashamed On all things all day long. Tennyson, in Idylls of the King.” How is the name Maughan pronounced? Mawn. What is the highest note ever reached by a soprano of any consequence? M:ne. Louisa Tetrazzini can reach E above high C, which is said to be the highest note ever reached by a soprano. Which is the least har-r-ful form of smoking—cigarette, cigar or pipe—and why? The pipe-smoker probably gets the least amount of nicotine into his lungs. Who was “Fatima?” The favorite daughter of the Prophet Mahomet.

Banking Made Easy for the Woman

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The Mechanic Speaks

By BERTON BRALEY Maybe I’m ‘gross, material and blind,” Maybe my soul s become “commercialized,” But I’ll admit, somehow, I can not find What evil lurks in being “standardized.” Stantardized tools make work a simpler thing. Standardized roads and railways give to man Broader horizons, greater scope and bring New wonders for his seeking eyes to scan. “Standardization’' gives a million men , What once a thousand, at the most, might own. It multiplies again and yet again Comforts that would he otherwise unknown. It adds new speed to thought, new breadth to dreams. ' Lightens the load of weariness and toil, Makes steel the beast of burden, and redeems The plowman from hi3 bondage to the soil. It does not tie men to material things, But makes them serve him in a better way; Gives toilers leisure for the thoughts of kings. For books and music, laughter, love and play. “Standardized thought?” Ah yes, I’ve heard the nhrase. It sounds like something ominous, in sooth; Yet sinco the first beginning of his days Man’s thought has struggled for a standard —Troth! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Fun * (Bluffton Evening Banner) Almost any fairly good Republican can get on the delegation to the national convention next year, but it will he lots of fun to be a delegate to the State show. Eds” (Washington Democrat' The three Eds —Toner, Bush and Jackson—are now in full tilt for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Casting up their separate merits, political and otherwise, one can understand why. if a pun be permissible, the Grand Old Party in Hoosierdom shows premonitory symptoms an’ ’eadache.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10,1923

What Editors Are Saying

Democracy (South Bend News-Times) The welcome given to Lloyd George on his arrival in this country comes from a recognition 'hat in him the world has one of the leaders for the preservation of democracy. There is another warning which he brings which is quite as significant as his plea for international unity of thought. That is his suggestion that democracy as a theory is falling before the forces of autocracy and that the big struggle of every country that has a democratic spirit is to resent the encroachment of arbitrary power. Listen to this man. He is a great man. You may not agree with it or with him. but he is by far the greatest Englishman, and as such what he says is important. Gossip (Waterloo Press) Our attention has betn called to the wilful and malicious idle gossip in a small town that breaks the hearts of those who have tried to live upright lives. Such talk seems to have been the cause of domestic infelicities that perhaps would never have occurred had it not been for the idle tongue. People should do more thinking than talking. If they would believe nothing that they hear and only a part of what they see, would make them nearer perfect. Every home should be protected from the outside gossip without more than Just the ordinary foundation on which such stories are circulated. Traffic (Lafayette Journal and Courier) The proposed ordinance for better regulation of traffic on Lafayette streets ought to be passed and enforced. The system offered in the proposed ordinance is in use at Indianapolis, and it is said to be successful in a large degree as it operates at the capital city. It is the business of the community to provide a law, to provide for adequate regulation of traffic, and to provide enforcement machinery. Human lives and public safety are involved. Temptation ( (Crawfordsviile Journal) The temptation to throw a little coal oil on the fire these days with cool morning and evenings is too much for many housewives and several accidents have already been reported. Better take other means and a little more time, it’s better than going to the hospital.

Ms. Larsr 1b chsrce of WomanSi Bank Department