Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 134, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1923 — Page 4

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CONGRATULATIONS, MR. COUNCILMEN rpT"| ITT council, in passing the smoke abatement ordinance, de--1 1 serves the heartiest thanks of the public. The ordinance suits the desires of civic leaders, while protecting the householder against hardships through unreasonable enforcement. The old plan of SI,BOO a year for a smoke inspector was dropped. A $3,000 annual pay should obtain a competent man. A technical committee, to act as civil service board for examining the candidates, was created. The committee will be appointed by the mayor. If the smoke inspector is inefficient, his removal can be made by the board of safety. It should be goodby to smoke. And here’s The Times’ congratulations. SAFEGUARDING EYESIGHT G*”"” "| O VERNMENTS have long since recognized the necessity _____ of eye tests for railroad employes, and add to that valuable precaution, signal equipment, crossing signals, inspected tracks, etc., that the public may be safeguarded. Yet in Indiana more than 500,000 motor licenses have been issued to individuals, and more than 70,000 truck licenses have been issued this year and as ye% no driver has been required to pass any kind of an eye test. Indianapolis police records show that to date there have been 3,700 auto accidents with 1,276 people injured and many killed. Leading optometrists believe 50 per cent of all accidents are caused by impaired vision. Statistics show only 12 per cent of the American people have perfect vision. Isn’t it high time for us to wake up, take notice, get busy and do something in the way of safeguarding ourselves? Further statistics show that of the 42,000,000 persons engaged in gainful occupations in this country, more than 25,000,000 labor under the disadvantage of defective ey~atrain. Tests of thousands of school children in large cities show that 66 per cent have defective vision. Out of 100,000 pupils in the New York public schools who failed to be promoted each year, 50,000 have defective eyesight; 25,000 are suffering the humiliation of being “left-backs” simply because they are desperately in need of glasses. Every child who evidently does not see well and every child who is cross-eyed, should be examined at three or four years of age. Every child is entitled to an examination of the eyes before beginning school work, no matter wl it the age. The vision should be tested every year, whethei glasses are worn or not, in order to discover any defects that may be developing or any increase in defects known to exist. Indiana has enrolled this year 800,000 school children between the ages of six and sixteen years. How many are doing their best work? How many are handicapped by defective vision? These are the questions that the optometrists are bringing before the State. H. E. Woodard, secretary of the Uptometric Association of Indiana, announcing the Indiana Association of Optometrists will launch a publicity campaign throughout the State, says this movement, guided by prominent educators, is for the purpose of arousing public interest in eye hygiene, and care of the eye in so far as they relate to defective vision.

MAYBE KING TUT HAD A CIVIC PLAZA ENDIANA, which will boast in a few years of having in Indianapolis one of the greatest war memorials in the on, is not inaugurating anything new. Civilization is old, as present historians know it. Even the glories of King Tutankhamen in ancient Egypt have been found to be worthy of present architectural beauty. Rulers in every age have taken pride in the adornment of their cities with palaces, cathedrals and public monuments. Paris was the first great city to be planned in the modern sense of the idea. Louis XTV, ambitiou for his capital, intrusted its planning to the Academy of Architects, which prepared designs upon which the Madeleine, Place de Concorde, Invalides and wide avenues about the Tuileries were later created. Napoleon HE continued this work on even a more ambitious scale. He employed the noted Baron Haussman, who reconstructed the city by cutting new streets through the congested quarters and opened a series of great boulevards which encircle the older sections. In America it has been only recently that civic plans have been made on such a comprehensive scale. Cleveland, a city of 700,000 people, has entered upon a civiccenter project with estimated cost of more than $24,000,000. Buildings will be razed on entire blocks from the retail business center to the lake front. Public and semi-public buildings will flank the mall, 600 feet wide, which will be adorned with gardens, fountains and statuary. Denver has approved designs for a similar civic center. Seattle, Rochester, St. Louis, Hartford, Springfield, Mass., as well as others, are preparing for similar groups to be centers of civic life. American cities are waking up to the need of civic beauty and conveniences. The period of rapid commercial growth, real estate expansion, hordes of immigrants and “booms” is practically over. King Tut, Louis XIV 7- nad Napoleon 111 weren’t so old-fash-ioned as we often judge them to be. SUGAR CANE prices in South Africa have recently advanced 1 cent per five pounds. Let’s see, that ought to provide an excuse for a boost of 5 cents per pound to the consumer. UNCLE SAM, in one fell swoop the otlier day, added 6,700 men and women to his pay roll —3,200 clerks, 3,000 carriers and 600 laborers in the Postoflice Department. Any business which can increase its working staff by more than 6,000 people in one day is some concern, we’ll tell the world. THOSE WHO were surprised to learn that Holland was important enough to be invited to the Washington naval disarmament conference are due for a bigger surprise still. Holland now outranks the United States as a ship-building nation. We’re •ixth —which doesn’t beat the Dutch. They’re fifth. THE HOMELESS Mille Lac Indians of Minnesota, of whom 870 survive, are to be placed upon the land by the Department of the Interior with a home for every Lidian. It may be that said Indians will stay on the land—some of them.

WAR GASES HAVE PEACE TIME USES Poison and Tear Gases May Be Used as Burglar Protection in Banks, By ROBERT TALLEY Times Staff Correspondent (TyTl ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—1f you j\Y try to hold up a bank and the 1 .. .-I teller quietly steps on a lever that spurts some poison gas into your Ace from a little jet just over the tarred window, Or if you try to snatch a money Lag out of a paymaster’s hand and the Jerk automatically breaks a little tomb of tear gas that envelops you hi a Jiffy, don’t be suprlsed. These are only two of the newest developments in the peace-time uses of war gasses which, according to Lieut. Col. C. E. Brigham, acting chief of the Army’s chemical welfare service, are rapidly finding a bigger ftc-ld in peace than in war. “Tear gas bombs are being purchased by police departments and penlteniaries for quelling riots and ousting barricaded criminals,” Col. Brigham said. “The gas is humane as it produces no permanent injury, but it invariably causes a man to drop what he has and run for fresh air.” There are other peace-time uses for gas. For instance, gas is used for treating tuberculosis. The perfection of cyanogen-chloride has given a gas tor fumigating ships. It has just enough tear gas in it to give warning to those who might re-enter too soon. Other gases are useful for slaying crop and warehouse pests. One of the most deadly gases that science knows, says Col. Brigham is the carbon monoxid that comes from the exhaust of autos. Odorless, colbrless and tasteless, it steals upon its victim without warning and kills by coaguating his blood. It was not used in war because it is lighter than air and cannot be controlled or directed.

Indiana Sunshine

“What’re you going to do with me judge?” the muddled voice of Melvin Lord, arrested for drunkenness broke the serenity of South Bend city court. ‘‘Take you back to your cell to keep you sober.” "Aw, shame on ya. judge.” burst out Mel as he shuffled from the court room escorted by an officer to his best known residence, the jail. A penny for every inch of each individual’s waist measure was the usual price of admission to a social program given by the Christian Endeavor Society of the Union City Presbyterian Church for the benefit of missionary work. A lonesome field and a newly made grave with a cross over it proved too much of a mystery for a Frankfort policeman. Suspecting a crime he investigated. A dog belonging to a member of a troop of Boy Scouts had been killed by a motorist and the boys faithful to their friend had given the dog a decent burial. Feeding prisoners isn't very profitable fpr Tipton County’s sheriff. The law allows 20 cents a meal for each prisoner and Sheriff Innls has the contract. But the jail is empty now for the first time in several weeks and the sheriff says its a lot more profitable.

Animal Facts

D. W. Huntington, editor of Game Breeder, says that around half a mil, hon pheasants are bred every year In United States. Huntington raised a flock of a hundred or so In the garden of his farm on Long Island this stimmer. They fairly respected his vegetablee but utterly defrauded him of the crop of bugs he had a right to expect on his plants. They're after Jim Crow down Hast. Dr. B. H. Warren, Pennsylvania naturalist, visited Vlrgina’s coast and found him so numerous as to be dangerous to all Atlantic coast bird life. He counted 2,500 sucked-out eggs of other birds Under five crow nests lo cated in the space of a city lot; not to speak of heaps of bones of baby birds lying around. English naturalists, explaining why Americans can’t buy ajl the game birds they want to eat at butcher shops In regular season, as In Britain and Europe, say that It is not the gunner who is killing off bird life over here, but the vermin. Rats, snakes, weasels, foxes, house cats, hawks, owls and such, are so numerous In North America as to be amazing, they tell us. Oregon hunters protest because they can’t take deer they kill In California home with them to eat (or sell.) Too bad California does not know what she’s about! Company Will start black fox ranch in Cajon pass, near San Bernardino, Cal., and give master Fox high living. They’re going to keep goats for his milk food and chicken for his dessert. Montana has successfully transplanted white fish from Lake Erie to her lakes and Utah has Just planted 15,000,000 eastern trout eggs in her streams. ’Tls claimed that there’s so many bull elk In Washington that they're a nuisance. Death We are here today and gone tomorrow. A Boston real estate operator, Loren D. Towle, became fabulous rich at 49. To realize his life's dream he built a two-million dollar palace-home. It was finished, ready to move into, when the owner suddenly died. IJfe seems to be nine-ten th“ preparation for a realization that never comes. It’s all very well to provide for tomorrow, hut there r such a thing as living too much for for today.

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UNUSUAL PEOPLE Sets Mountain Climb Record

Bv NEA Service LACIER PARK. Mont., Oct. I 16. —If you think you can do Climb twenty-seven mountains to their peaks in as many days— After which you have have broken the record just esg small town schoolClyde climbed, one each consecutive thirty-six mounCLYDE tains he traversed. Clyde failed to find evidence of any one else having scaled them. That's another record, say professional mountain climbers here. Clyde’s higher climb was Mt. Wilbur, whose peak rises 9,283 feet above the sea level. At Its summit he left his cairn, a monument to the late Dr. Wynn, mountain climber of national fame, who had made many unsuccessful attempts to scale this height. It took him three hours to build it, a pyramid of rocks which will withstand the flerciest elements, he says. SOM SIMS | -/- -/- Says . v 1 HY don’t you people write let\)y ters as you should? Now a TT big writing paper company Is broke. * • • News from Wasnington. Glenn wars on bureaus. Wish he would war on a dresser of ours. • • • 3oston man rushed out In pajamas yelling lions were after him. How big are Boston bedbugs? • * • Thief robbed a thief in New York. We refuse to say he couldn’t find any one that wasn’t • • • Wealthy widow stayed lost in New Hampshire woods, perhaps because men were afraid to find her. • • • Princess Olga of Greece will marry. Ought to make a good cook. • • • Chicago speeders face brain tests. Didn’t know Bpeedcrs had any. • • • Cleveland bridegroom was Jailed. Will be good training. • * * More cow < news today. Twenty Warren (O.) cows saved from fire. Not their time to be steaks. • • • Robbers will take anything. One in Cincinnati took a bath tub May take a bath next. Guess he wanted to lead a clean life. • • • A cloak 3,000 years old has been found in Sweden. Clothes as they once did. • • • Due partly to the fact that people had rather have autos, Chicago reports a baby shortage. • • • Limon (Colo.) girl was shot slightly while stealing melons. Girls will be boys.

Science

An expedition from South America has brought back pictures showing dwellers in the mangrove swamps, where they build houses in trees whose branches dip into the water. Man is able to live under peculiar conditions. Stranger than the swamp villages and perhapi the strangest in the world Is the settlement of Bahrin, on the Persian Gulf. This is one of the hotteet places in the world, with practically no rainfall. The population maintains life by diving into the sea for its drinking water. At the bottom of the ocean, near the shore, there are strong fountains of pure, fresh water, emptied Into the ocean, underground, after coming hundreds of miles from the mountains of Osman. Getting fresh water is: a regular trade. The water man carries a large stone and a goatskin bag. He dives to the bottom, holds the bag over the fountain, closes the bag, lets go the stone and rises to the surface.

Heard in the Smoking Room

M - ~~J ORE! cigars were lighted and more stories were being told ■J In the smoking room. The topic of conversation was man’s colossal conceit, not that women haven't got It too, J>ut today the attack was centered upon man. One quiet little fellow, who had said little and smoked much, took the center of the stage. “A friend of mine, a politician from Ohio, had always claimed that no such animal existed as a man devoid of conceit. I claimed It did, and to

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FORD’S ROW WITH WEEKS IS WEAPON issue Has Failed to Clear Up Future of Muscle Shoals,However, BY ROBERT TALLEY Times Staff Correspondent ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Henry W Ford’s new row with Secretary J Weeks, while it has become a powerful political weapon in his hands, he failed utterly 'to clear up the future of Muscle Shoals. Pressing the isue, Ford has placed on the Coolidge Administration the burden of explaining to the public what he terms the threatened piecemeal sale of the great power project to the big interests. Weeks’ reply is regarded as rather lame. In the earthquake that has shaken official Washington as the result of Ford's sensational charges, these two conjectures stand out: Either— Ford, with his new statement, is paving the way toward a presidential candidacy by attacking the present Administration and making a personal appeal to the people, Or— t Ford is trying to increase and crystallize the strong public sentiment in his favor in an effort -t break down the Administration’s opposition to his acquisition of Muscle Shoals. Opinion here seems to lean toward the first of these conjectures. This belief is strengthened by the fact that Ford offered no objection to placing his name on the Nebraska primary ballot as a candidate for the presidency. The row so far has done nothing to clear up the future of Muscle Shoals, where Ford promises to make cheap fertilizer for the farmers. Ford simply says his offer, which has been before Congress for over a year, still stands. And yet, this offer has been emasculated by the recent sale of the i Gorgas steam plant, which Ford said was vital to his plan, to the Alabama Power Company. Meanwhile, the future of Muscle Shoals remains in doubt. Family Fun Fooled ’Em “I fooled ’em, by gosh, I fooled ’em,” said the stranger who had patronized for- the first time a self-serv-ice restaurant. "Yes eirree, I fooled ’em. I went into the restaurant, took the tmy myself, took the fork and knife myself, selected the food myself, carried it myself to the table, but I fooled ’em, by gtmh, I slipped out without washing the dishes.”—Judge. little Sister's Prayer "You heard me say my prayers last night, didn’t you. nurse?" “Yee, dear.” "And you heard me ask God to make me a good girl?” “Ye* ” “Well, He ain’t done it.”—Snark’s Annual. By Sister’s Girl Chum . "I’m never going to speak to Jack again. He sent me twenty-eight roses for my birthday', the horrid thing.” "Don’t be angry with him for that, dear. Perhaps he couldn’t afford any more.”—American Legion Weekly. And Dad Paid the Toils "Mary, didn’t you get my telegram telling you not to bring your mother home with you?" "Yes. John; and a* soon as she gets l her wraps off she wants to talk -with you. She saw the telegram.”—Richmond Tlmes-IMspatch.

Observations

New York's annual baseball show seems to be drawing better than usual. Columbus Day? Huh! What's the discovery of America oom pared to what the Giants do to the Yankees? Anyhow, Lloyd George seems able to convince the Canadians that what he helped to Vdo at Versailles, that time, was blooming silly. The divorce court Is the telescope that is discovering to us a lot of "movie stars” that never were visible to the naked eye. An Eastern voman horsewhipped her husband the other day, thus showing that she is not a 1923 model.

back up my assertion I Introduced my friends from Ohio to a man whom I claimed was totally lacking In this characteristic. After my Ohio politician had talked with him for an hour ho was so impressed with the truth of what I had said that he tojd the man of the wonderful compliment I had paid him, adding that he was glad to find the exception that proved the rule. The man grinned from ear to ear, and my politician turned to me, telling me that I was a liar.”

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QUESTIONS Ask-^ The Times ANSWERS

You can ?et an answer to any quetlon of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolia Tim:#' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C . enclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor , can extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned reuuests cannot be answered. All letters axe confidential.—Editor. What la the description of Eugene O'Brien? He is six feet tall, weighs 160 pounds and has light brown hair and blue eyes. w What Is meant by "hard” and “soft” water ? Hard water is water having more than eight to ten grains of mineral salts to the gallon. Such water is thus distinguished from soft water, and is not well adapted for washing and cooking. It is frequently more pleasant to the taste than soft water, and is perfectly healthful for drinking' purpose*. How much can a person get for an ounce of pure gold bullion at the United States mints? He will receive cas;h at the rate of $20.67 per ounce. Ts the intellectual' capacity of women equal to that of men? Anthropologists and psychologists seem to be rather geqjprally agreed that all recent studies of the question of the relative mental capacity of men and women show that the intellectual capacity of women is quite equal to that of-men. Intelligence tests among students and other classes seem to prove this. The average size of the brain of women is somewhat below that of men, hut size of brains seems to have no direct relation to intelligence. AVas a monument to John Wilkes Booth ever erected in any Southern city? Pink Carter, a policeman who lived in Troy. Ala., erected a monument to John Wilkes Booth and attempted to put this monument on the publio square of the town. He was prevented by the eltizene of the town and so he erected it In his own yard. The inscription of the monument read: "To the Memory of John Wilkes Booth for the Killing of Old IJncoln.” The monument stood In this yard for years, but was finally removed by persons whose Identity has never been established How can one stiffen a crocheted basket? Starch it with raw srtaroh very stiff. This will keep Its shape unless It is allowed to get wet. Where was President Harding born 7 At Blooming Grove, near Corsica. Morrow County, Ohio. When did the Charleston, S. C., earthquake occur? Aug. 31, 1886. Name three tragedies by European writers other than Shakespeare? "Ghosts,” Ibsen; "Francesca diRlminl,” D’Annunzio: "Iphlgenie,” Racine. Who was the tallest anij who was the shortest President? Lincoln was the tallest, he was 6 feet 4 inches in height; Madison was tlio shortest, being 6 feet 4 Inches tall.

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The Cold Shoulder

The Day’s Work By BERTON BRALEY I haven’t set the world ablaze, Nor stirred the people to applause, Nor led through many troubled ways A noble or a splendid cause. No headlines shriek my name aloud, I go my simple humdrum way, A worker in the working crowd, But I have done my Job today. It wasn’t very much perhaps Considered in the sum of things, I am not of those brilliant chaps Whose glory through the planet rings, But to my task I gave my best, The task for which I get my pay, My shift Is over and I rest, For I have done by job today. To each his work, or great or small, According to his strength or skill, Fame cannot glorify us all Nor fortune answer to our will, But when the quitting whistle blows The humblest of us all can say, As homeward from his toil he goes, "At least I’ve done my Job today.’' (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Tongue Tips Dorothy McKaill, English actress: “I don’t want to go back to England :<nd, what is more, I’ll never marry an Englishman. I want an American.” William Lyon Phelps, professor of English: "My advice to the fresh-air crank is to stay outdoors, where he belongs, for he has never been civilized. If he must enter the or the hall, and must have fresh air, let him open the window at his own back and here’s hoping that he catches a terrific cold.” Sir Nells Bukh, Darffsh physical expert: "Your American girls, they sit around the house too much. They should get outdoors, get the fresh air, take vigorous exercise. They don’t develop their bodies. Your women seek Hthenees from the present style trend I see here, but It Isn’t lltheness they get at all. It’s simply frailty. Litheness means sinew and sinew is what American women haven’t.” Homer Folks, secretary New York State Charities Aid Association: "We know now that fine hospitals, reformatories and organizations for the care of dependents are wholly uncertain, are always expensive and seldom effective. Sickness is not often entirely cured. Reformatories do not reform. But prevention of disease, and of many of the evils which must disturb the social order, is relatively simple and certain and comparatively Inexpensive.” L. H. D. Weld, manager commercial department of Swift & Cos.: "Approximately 70 per cent of the prices paid by the New York consumer for a pound of butter finds it way back to the Minnesota or lowa farmer who produces the cream from which the butter is made. The efficiency with which butter is marketed is a monument to the middleman system of marketing and to the enterprise and initiative of individual business men and corporations.” Gas (Kokomo Dispatch) Most people nowadays don’t seem to care much whether they have ahy coal in the bln as long as they have plenty of gas in the tank.

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What Editors Are Saying

Halloween (Brazil Daily Times) Halloween, with all its mystery, is. approaching rapidly. All bail to Halloween! But not to the hoodlums. It was never Intended thqt this great day, handed down with the centuries, should be celebrated with destructive tendencies. Whenever young America jrste away from the harmless, Innocent pastimes, he is getting far away from the true spirit of Halloween. Wonder (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Records show 25,000 cases in the Indianapolis city court the first nine months this year. Wonder what the other two inhabitants of the Capital City were doing? Standing (Bloomington Star) It is announced that Mayor Shank of Indianapolis may become a candidate for Governor. He says that "many friends” are bringing him out, and that he will stand as a supporter of the costitutlon and low taxes. A is very likely that after the primary next year Lew will be found still standing. Constructive (Columbus Ledger) Efforts on- the part of the local ministers and laymen to Institute a series of men’s meetings in this city during the coming winter season is a step forward. It marks a time when all combine in a constructive effort to make available to men of all denominations, creeds and beliefs, an opportunity to hear the views of big men and learn. Charity (Vincennes Sun) Secretary Hoover has asked pledges from American )umber firms to refrain from profiteering when selling lumber to Japanese concerns for the use of rehabilitation. Eager and patient is the American home builder who would live to have similar pledges exacted for his own benefit. Let Washington go one further and continue this charity at home, where it ought to have its inception. Accidents (Tipton Daily Time*) The impatient man or woman, who has little self-control and acts On 111 considered Impulses, has no place on the motor roads or streets of today. The right kind of driver has a oaim and philosophical temperament. If drivers were all of that type there would not be many accidents. A Thought Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.—Psalm 122:7. * • e e I 1 AM a man o # peace. God knows how I love peace; but I hope I 1 shall neve such a ooward as to mistake op* ' salon for peaoe.— Kossuth.

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