Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1923 — Page 4
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WHO’S TO BLAME, HOME OR GIRL? ~T"| READER of The Times, in a letter to the editor, revives the A age-old question of “Why girls go wrong.” Divorces increase in number, murders become more frequent, delinquency among young people is greater, “One Who Sees” notes. '' Parents who are lax in their discipline over sons and daughters are taking dangerous chances. An investigation in Los Angeles, Cal., of fifty cases of delinquent girls has revealed the fact that in EVERY CASE home conditions and lack of proper home training were responsible. Society is a normal activity for woman. Kindred interests of the sex are centered in social affairs. Theaters are excellent for furnishing wholesome recreation. Automobiles are a utility in business and pleasure. Business must occupy the large part of the father’s attention. But the neglect of the home in favor of these interests can only result in unhappiness to youth as sanctity of love, marriage and motherhood becomes an empty phrase. RALSTON IN NORTHWEST “FfTiaE Gentleman from Indiana,” is the caption of an editorial in the Minneapolis Tribune, in which it says “Politics is looking up in Indiana.” So Hoosiers may know what the Northwest is thinking we reprint the Tribune’s thoughts, as follows: “Senator Watson, Republican, declares tentatively for Coolidge as the party standard-bearer next summer, but he is very curious to know what is going to happen to the name and the fame of the President in the next six months. “Senator Ralston, Democrat, says he is not in public life today by any choice of his own, and that he hasn’t his eye or mind on any political job other than the one he began last March, but some of his friends are not so passively complacent. They are thinking diligently of him as a residuary legatee of an impasse at convention time next year between the McAdoo and Underwood forces. Conspicqous in this school of thought is Thomas Taggart, one of the veteran wheel horses of Indiana Democracy. “With due regard for the record of Ohio as a source of presidential timber, it is not long since practical politicians did their quadrennial political thinking largely in terms of New York and Indiana. Both States were doubtful terrain, and New York in particular was a center of interest because its convention delegation is always big. There is likely to be considerable of that kind of thinking again next year. Unless a miracle intervenes between now and November, 1924, any presidential candidate, Republican or Democratic, would have a hard time of it if he didn’t carry New York or Indiana, or both. That is one of the reasons why Senator Ralston, although he has had no office experience in Washington, is looming forth as a Democratic possibility. “There are several things about Senator Ralston which may or may not make him bulk larger on the political skies as the months go on. He is a lawyer of forty years’ standing, and yet he lives on a farm and calls himself a farmer and says he knows by experience what the farmer is up against. lie is a ‘dry, and he is for the League of Nations. As Governor of Indiana he proved to be a good fiscal agent, reducing taxes and introducing reforms. A bright feather was added to his cap when he gave Albert J. Beveridge the dust in the senatorial election last fall. “Ralston is not likely to stand high with the ‘personal liberty’ advocates, alias the ‘wets,’ nor with the anti-Wilson Democrats like Reed, but by the same token he ought to stand well with the Anti-Saloon League and with whatever active remnant there may be of the old Woodrow forces. He might ‘look good’ to the farmers on his record, and it is a safe forecast there will be some lively political catering next year to the farmer vote. “If Senator Ralston himself cherishes any hopes about the Democratic' nomination, there is nothing in the political skies that need discourage him. No other man in the party looks to be a generator of whirlwinds or political prairie fires.”
THE WHEAT FARMERS mHERE are indications that the wheat farmers are game, but their wisdom will be doubted by many. Minnesota reports that there is little indication of a greatly reduced wheat acreage this fall, in some sections of Kansas it is said the decrease “will be slightly less than last year, but greater than in 1922,” and now comes word from Ponca City district of Oklahoma, a great wheat section, that there will be no cut in the acreage whatever. The Oklahoma ranchers, a few weeks ago, “crossed their hearts and hoped to die” if they put in as much wheat this fall as they did last year. At the moment the earth was dry and hard and plowing was a discouraging proposition. Now heavy rains have come and the growers have been tempted. They are putting in their normal acreage at this very moment. It may be these farmers are foolish. Also, it may be they are wise. Only time will tell. A year from now, markets may be better and the demand greater. There is some promise of that happy condition. Wheat farming is largely a gamble at best, and those who follow it wot not of experience. Always they are willing to take a chance. If they win, they smale and buy flivvers. If they lose, they howl loudly and—gamble again. IT APPEARS from the figures that our improved highways are also our buyways. A DENVER WOMAN has just divorced her husband because he had not spoken to her for twenty years. Such reticence as that is highly considered elsewhere. TWO WELL-KNOWN transcontinental lines suffer disastrous train wrecks in one week. Can’t charge it to Government operation this time. REAL INSIDE tip on this Oklahoma rough-stuff government—Governor Walton’s trying to attract the movie industry away from Hollywood by furnishing free scenes for thrillers. THEY have renamed the ZR-1 the “Shenandoah,” Indian for “Daughter of the Stars.” Our other dirigibles were “Sons of Guns,” judging by the way they blew up. SCIENTIST says California mountains are moving north at the rate of a foot every five years. The statistics editor figures said CeL Mts. will reach the north pole just as tho #ost of living i comes down.
DIRECT TAX WOULD CUT LIVING COST j Tariff Schedule Boosts Prices Along With Government Expenses, By HERBERT QUICK SHE cost of government, according to the Census Bureau, has now reached the point where It costs us for our local. State and national taxes, some $10,000,000,000 a year. This is the direct cost. Indirectly, owing to the fact that most of our taxes are shifted from those who pay to someone along the line, the cost of government must be much more than ten billions a year—probably many times more. If this showing of nearly a hundred dollars for each person in the United States told the whole story of the cost of government—as it would If we had direct taxation Instead of Indirect, it would be bad enough, but it does not tell the whole story by any means. Tariff Costa High Take wool, for instance. If I remember correctly, the price of wool In clothing la Increased more than twice the amount of the tariff duties collected. The showing of the Census Bureau or taxes would be more than twice as had If all that the tariff costs us were figured in. But the balance above the duties goes into the pockets of the manufacturers. There is nothing in the report of the Census Bureau to surprise any one. How can government be prevented from Increasing in cost when everything else increases? The expenses of government, when the costs of the war are eliminated, are mainly salaries, fuel, buildings and the like. I With the cost of these things Increased, the cost of government must Increase accordingly. Not Bad Showing I confess while the cost Is great and burdensome, it seems to me not at all a bad showing. And the burden Is one that arises, in so far as j it arises from the war, from a cause i which can not now be remedied. It Ij : nortaln until we make a basic change In our ways of living, this • will increase rather than diminish. It should be diminished in so far as the government Is wasteful I or does things which are unnecessary; ! but the hope for easing up the buri den lies not 90 much In making the | expenses of government less as In adjusting them so as to be more easily | carried. Let us have direct taxation, so that !we shall pay only ,/hat our tax receipts show. We are farming out too mnnv of our taxes to beneficiaries of taxation—like the wool barons.
A Thought
Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? ' She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more. —John 8:10,11. • • • mT is necessary to repent for years in order to efface a fault u——i in the eyes of men; a single tear suffices with God.—Chateaubriand.
Science
Just two hundred years ago, the entire civilized world was wildly excited about mesmerism. So great was the Interest in this subject that its followers persisted in believing In It down to recent times, when "mesmerising” a person finally grave way to "hypnotizing” him. Mesmer, the Inventor, was offered 20,000 llvres by the king of FYance for his secret. Mesmer refused to sell. The king then appointed a commission of the leading scientists of the world to Investigate. Benjamin Franklin and the great astronomer Ballley, were members of this commission. The mesmeric condition originally was produced by having the subjects sit around a peculiar object, made of iron filings and brass rods, to which they were connected with cords. The operator walked around, touching them and stroking them and they went into convulsions or trance states something like the subjects of the modem professional hypnotist. Mesmer refused to sell his secret because he had none. It was all fraud or self-deception.
Tongue Tips
Rabbi I. L. Bril, Flint. Mich.: "That false system of Americanization which tells the Immigrant he must break with bis past to be a true American is what makes immigration a problem. The social worker who tries to get the Jewish Immigrant to stop cooking geflldeflsch or the Italian to give us spaghetti is on the wrong track. The public school teacher who tells the Jewish immigrant child he will be punished if he observes the Jewish holidays by staying away from school, is going to moke that child a bad American. It Is a great mistake'to try to take away the religion the immigrant brought with him to this country.” Ex-Senator Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia: “It is really my sincere conviction and observation that, for tranquility, contentment, lntejlectual power and integrity of soul and conscience, we are worse oft in the South today—ln Georgia, for instance —than we were in the dark days after the war between the States. And that condition reflects the men and their condition. In those days our loss was mainly physical. Now It seems our loss Is mental and moral.” Lieut. Col. R. D. Garrett, Kansas City: “During all civilization men have set aside burial places. But I naver realized the tremendous Influence of great cemeteries until I visited historic tombs after the war. Many persons have solved great problems In grief and tears. Men were steeled to noble deeds In war beoause they contemplated their fallen comrades.” ' V -
THE TNHIANAHOLIS TIMES
UNUSUAL PEOPLE Woman Banker Bosses Hubby
By XEA Servioe LAY, Ky., Oct. . I.—Mrs. C. E. C Hearin is vice president of the Farmer’s National Bank of this city. Her husband takes orders from her —at the bank.
He’s secretary of that institution. Strange to relate, Mrs. Hearin started as her husband's assistant. And she jumped over his head. Not only that, only recently she turned , down a wonderful opportunity—that of becoming the fir..t woman State treasurer In the country.
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MRS. HEARIN And more, she has just been elected vice president of the American Bankers’ Association, in convention at Atlantic City.
&M SIMS I -!- -/- Says
EWS from Washington. Sena- \ tor raps Senator. This proves " our Senators do give a rap. • • • Adding two new stories to Boston Chamber of Commerce. Maybe some speaker is raising the roof. • • • They say there Is an Increase in child labor We say It Isn’t noticeable around the home. * • • Seattle man’s secretary was named Rose. His wife met her. She is the last Rose of summer. • • • Charlie Chaplin visited in New York. Bet the waiters ducked after handing him his pie. i* • • Utah doctor says cow milk Is net so good as goat milk. Trying to make goats out of our cows. • • • Boston woman divorced. Hubby refused to bathe. Couldn't she stick It out until winter? • • • Hail, rain and wind storm hit Woodward, Okla. At first they thought it was the Governor. • • • Hunter got shot in Tennessee. It wasn’t an unloaded gun case. It was a loaded dice case. • • * Oyster prices are going up even though they go down so easily. • • • Indications are lambs and chickens will be cheaper. This does not include the human ones.
Indiana Sunshine
An enraged bull pawed and trampled Sylvester Gephart of Warren until he was unconscious. The family dog leaped upon his master’s body and bit the bt.:i’s nose each time he charged until aid arrived. Gephart will recover from serious Injury. Randolph Coumy steps forward to claim the biggest corn story of the 7/ear. Farmers are using cornstalks twelve feet long for fishing poles. The practice was started by a farmer and hie son who started fishing and were unable to locate their long cane poles usually used. There's nothing hard about the first hundred years. Clark Millikan of Sheridan says. He will be 100 years old next April. Last spring Mr. Millikan set out 500 sweet potato plants alone and has harvested his fall crop without assisti nca. Probably the largest hoot owl shot in north central Indiana In years was killed by Edward Heacock on the Wallace farm, north of Warsaw. The bird weighed twenty-five pounds and had a wing spread of five feet. Mother on Auto Terms "Mother, who does ‘detour* mean?" "It’s what brother does to his ears when he washes.” Youngstown Telegram.
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COMPLEXION OF CONGRESS IS CHANGED Drift in 1923 Shows Democratic Gain in Both Houses. By W. H. PORTERFIELD, Tin ir* Staff Correspondent 7373 ASHINGTON, Oct. 11 —The per\)y sonal complexion of the slxtyJLU eighth Congress, when It goes into session Dec. 3 next, will be very different from what this same Congress would have been, did the Constitution permit it to assemble on the day after election to office. For in the lees than eleven months from election day last November down to Oct. 1, three United States Senators and fourteen members of the Hoube have died, and three members of the House have resigned and many of their successors have been elected or appointed. The Senators who have passed away are Nicholson, Republican of Colorado, successor, Alva Adams, Democrat; Nelson, Republican of Minnesota, successor. Magnus Johnson, FarmerLabor; Dillingham, Republican of Vermont. no successor. Three Democrat Successors Representatives who have died are Nolan of California, successor, Mae Nolan, both Republicans; Max of New York, Republican, successor, 90l Bloom, Democrat; Mann of Illinois, successor, Morton D. Hull, both Republicans: Osborne of California, successor, John D. Fredericks, both Republicans; Cochran of Naw York, Democrat, no successor; Tyson of Alabama, successor, Lister Hill, ' both Democrats; Smith of Michigan, successor, Arthur B. Williams, both Republicans; Riordan of New York, Democrat, no successor; Rainey of Illinois, Republican, no successor; Sawyer of Arkansas, Democrat, no successor; Kltchln of North Carolina, Democrat, no successor; Mott of New Y'ork, Republican, no successor; Cantrill of Kentucky, Democrat, no successor; Ganley of New York, Democrat, no successor. Those who have resigned are Towne of lowa, Republican, to be Governor of Porto Rico, succeeded by Hiram K. Evans, Republican; Webster, Republican, of Washington, resigned to accept Federal judgeship, May 8, successor, James Hill, Democrat; Dale, Vermont, Republican, no successor. , 1923 Political Drift It will be seen that whereas no Democrat has been succeeded by a Republican, two Republican Senators and three members of Congress have had their seats filled by opposition candidates, Indicating very clearly the 1923 political drift. On Oct. 1, the political complexion of the Senate of the Sixty-Eighth Congress stood as follows; Republicans, 50; Democrats, 43; Third Party, 2; vacant, 1 (Dillingham of Vermont); while the House stood Republicans, 222; Democrats, 200; Third Party, 3; vacant, 10. This would Indicate a majority of nineteen Republicans, but of these a fcirge number can be counted to vote against the party organization.
Family Fun
Willie's I hilly Trouble* "Aw, why must I go to bed If everybody else stays up?” "Gee, ma, would you wear a patched drees?” "Where's the good of castor oil— It makes me sick." "What do I know about takln’ care of babies?” "Me —beg his pard’n when I want a sock ’lml" “Gee, why must I take a bath, It doesn't last.” "Gee, If I got to run errands all the time, why don't you get me a bicycle?” "He ain't no painless dentistl He's a liar!’’—Judge. One of Sister’s Many “I tell you, I simply can’t Uve without you." ‘*Oh, I don’t know, old thing; all the others are pretty healthy.”—The Magpie. Just Like Mother Margaret, aged 7. Is sometimes very naughty. On one of those occasions her mother, said: “Don’t you know that If you keep on doing naughty things your children will be naughty too?” Margaret cried triumphantly, "Oh, Mother, you gave yourself away!"— Lafayette Lyre.
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The Frost Is on the Pumpkin
The Illogical Sex By BERTON BRALEY Men used to critlse my ways And say my figure was unsightly. Because I laced myself in stays Which bound me tightly. They once condemned In bitter terms My lengthy skirts, and spoke with passion Os how they swept up dirt and germs In wholesale fashion. ■With linen stiff I used to deck My throat; whereat both fools and scholars Said I would spoil my swam-like neck With stand-up collars. I tossed my armor-plate aside , And happily I do without it; Instead of being satisfied, Men kick about it. My skirts are short my limbs are free, No more I'm tightly choked and bodlced. And promptly all the men agree That I’m Immodest ’'lllogical” they cr.ll üb? Oh, Their Inconsistencies refute 'em, No matter what we do, we know We cannot suit ’em. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Informal "Hubert,” quoth the bride. "I thought ours was to be a formal garden.” "That was the original Idea, my love. What has occured to mar It?” ”A great many Insects have taken up their abode here without any invitation."—Louisville Courier.
Heard in the Smoking Room
SHE smokers were discussing marriage. "It’s a more serious matter In some ways than It used to be,” said the one In the chair. "Too often it drifts toward sanguinary results. It may be necessary to change the form and wording of the ceremony to meet all sorts of situations and people. I am thinking of the man down In Richmond, Va. He gave expression to my idea and made a little change on his own hook. You see, he had courted a girl assiduously
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What Editors Are Saying
Coeducation (Marion Leader-Tribune) Miss America Is going to college these days. The enrollment at Butler College, where 635 girls and 557 men are registered, la testimony. Remember the time when girls—few of them as well —went exclusively to girls’ private schools? Growth of coeducational institutions is an encouraging sign for future citizenship. More girls demand careers. And in preparing for them more girls are learning knowledge for the ballot box Instead of the bat box. • • * Sate (Alexandria Times-Tribune) The next time an oily-tongued stock salesman offers you shares in a com pany that will pay big dividends, ask him to put up an Ironclad guarantee If you have any good money to Invest, go to your locaj banker and ask advice. That’s a good way to avoid being buncoed like so many that bought the R. L. Dollings stock. • • • Improvement (Kokomo Dispatch) Marion has sold a $5,000 Issue of bonds to raise money with which to put In a public swimming pool. More and more the truth spreads and cities learn that parks, recreation places, playgrounds and swimming-pools are real factors In community betterment. The plan Includes girls, and this is Important. "The OJd Swlmmin’ Hole,” down around the river, was a place of danger and outlawry. The modern Idea Is a vast improvement over the days of which Riley sang.
and then suddenly he grew cold. An irate father and a big brother of the girl soon brought him to taw, as the marble champion would say, and the wedding moment arrived. The preacher said: ‘John Randolph Meggs. will you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?’ "John Randolph hesitated in thought for a moment. Then he partly turned toward the wedding guests and answered In a loud voice: ” ‘I do, year honor; and I hope this will be a warning to others,’ ”
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