Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD. President ALBERT W. BUHRMAN, Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers • • • Client of the United Press, United News, United Financial and NEA Service and S ember of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. • • • Member of the Audit nreau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 25-29 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. • • Subscription Rates: fnalanapolla—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • * • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

1924 CAMPAIGN ISSUES AND INDIANA TWO big issues of the 1924 presidential campaign center in two outstanding matters of public interest in Indiana today. One issue, that of farm produce price and real estate value of farm lands, both of which have decreased in recent years, is blamed by Governor McCray as the cause of his present financial embarrassment. It has been remarked by others that the agricultural plight reflects upon the national Administration. Washington will not enjoy this any more than the State Republican leaders welcome the landslide of legal actions upon McCray. The Governors of various States in meeting at West Baden, Ind., to discuss enforcement of the prohibition laws, have focused in Indiana popular attention of the Nation today upon the second big issue—the wet and dry question. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, opened the way for dismission at the Indiana conference by his charge to the Federated Council of Churches in Washington that present chaos in the prohibition enforcement in Washington is due to lack of leadership. - Farm relief and prohibition—these are the big questions for voters in 1924. Voters will be called to give their opinions at the polls. What will be YOUR answer. THINKING is far better than SENTIMENT, and now is not too early to start. POT AND KETTLE? HE defense of the White House to Governor Pinchot *s 1 charge that Federal prohibition enforcement is not and never has been efficient, and his demand that the President himself enforce the enforcement is that, by Pinchot’s plan, the States ere “passing the buck.” The phrase, “The kettle calling the pot black,” is being played to a dozen tunes by politicians and party newspapers. By **kettle” is meant the States and cities, by “pot” is meant the Federal Government. But there are three answers: First. Pinchot said, truly, the Federal Government alone can give permits to near-beer breweries from which, forthwith, pours a flood of “real stuff”; that the Federal Government controls licenses to distilleries to manufacture liquor or alcohol; that the Federal Government alone controls release of liquor from bonded warehouses and that the Federal Government, alone is charged with enforcing laws against smuggling, including running ;n of bootleg liquor from foreign countries. “Stopping the flood of bootleg at its source is your job,” Bays Pinchot. “The States will then be responsible for their share and the cities and towns will be responsible for home brew and such.” Second. Whatever can be said of other Governors, Pinchot has cooperated with Federal agencies—except in the collection ©f graft from bootleggers. Third. The District of Columbia is wholly under Federal rule. There it is all “pot” and no “kettle,” and Washington is the bootleggers’ paradise. Os course, the States and cities cannot effectively “cooperate” in preventing the sale of liquor until the Federal Government shuts off the supply. The plea of the Department of Justice that the law is not harsh enough against bootleggers is no answer to the fact that bootleggers must buy the stuff before they can sell it and that the Federal Government alone has sole power over the major part of the supply.

TWO MORE CROSSING TRAGEDIES SEN persons are returning home from Sunday worship. A railroad crossing at Brookfield, Ind., obstructs view of the driver. A crash. The engine of a passenger train strikes the machine, which has stalled. Nine mangled bodies. The accident occurred only a few days after eight children tnet death in Ohio when a school bus was struck by a train. In human lives the price is costless. More than one-third of crossings on all railroads rebuilt by Federal aid are being eliminated, according to a Washington dispatch to The Times. Tragedies like the one at Brookfield and in Ohio will become rare whenever the public will insists that death crossings be outlawed for the sake of humanity. "While no one denies a grade crossing is a constant menace to life it must be borne in mind the bus driver did not exercise ordinary caution. In the Brookfield tragedy it is charged the driver’s hearing was defective. Railroad tracks across a highway mean a train is liable to come along at any moment. STOP I LOOK! LISTEN! LLOYD GEORGE, “GRANDEST DAD” I"-“1 DON’T think he’s so great as a statesman, but he is simply the grandest dad any girl ever had,” says Miss Megarf Lloyd George. A fellow may go in for a literary career, and see his products circulating in the ragman’s bag only. Another may go into business, lose all, and be snubbed. Another may go into politics, rise to a governorship or presidency, and become an “ex.” Man’s success that lasts, that lives even after him, is in the job of being “the greatest dad.” If the great Welshman, who is to be Indianapolis’ guest next Monday, has won that the Lord has denied him little. GREAT LUCK! Those 10,000-year-old dinosaur eggs are all too large to get into the market without detection. AN ANN ARBOR paper is giving away Bibles to new subscribers, being determined to get the Book into circulation in Michigan in one way or another. 4 "IT IS THE LAND which survives and which will save '"spun,” writes a great agricultural authority of the island empire*. "‘The land has not been destroyed and next year mother earth will yield her increase as before—more than $2,000,000,000 in rice, silk, barley, whe%t and otherAfood crops.” “The good ship 'earth, ’ ’ as Herbert Quick puts itjstill sails serenely on.

CONTROL OF TANGIER IS CONTESTED Paris Conference Significant as Four Nations Vie for Rule of City, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Staff Correspondent ASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Full of I significance is the row be--1 tween France, and England, over who shall control Tangier, Moroccan port at the Atlantic entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar . A conference will be held In Paris beginning Monday, Oct. 22 to decide the future of this ancient city of Barbary. Spain will be there to present her claims, and Italy will attempt to have a say. But England and France will decide. London claims Tangier is a pistol leveled at the heart of Gibraltar. Far sighted British statesmen fear France wants to make of the Moorish city a great air and submarine base from which to dispute control of the Straits. Sultan Is French Tool So while Britain wishes to make Tangier an "International port," France Is working to put the city under the rule of the Sultan of Morocco, the Sultan being a tool of France. Spain, holding a protectorate over northern Morocco opposite Gllbraltar, lays claim to Tangier and the immediate “international” zone thereabouts. But as Spain has not yet been able to subdue the natives In her own protectorate, she has little chance of seeing that protectorate enlarged to Include Tangier. At least not unless Britain and France agree on Spain as a compromise. The United States will watch the conference closely and oppose any solution in violation of its policy of the open door. j City of 40,000 Tangier is a city of 40,000 inhabitants, built on a height. Fez is the caiptal of Morocco, but foreign diplomats are not allowed to live there because It 's a “holy city;" so they live in Tangi w. Tangier will probably become to west Africa what Constantinople is to the Near East. It has a magnificent natural harbor and will undoubtedly be the terminus of the great west African railway sooner or later ’ to be constructed. It Is the nearest African port to Europe and on the fast overland route from Paris to Dakar, via Spain and Algericas.

Indiana Sunshine

Six Seymour boys started to see the world via box car. They lodged for the first night in an “empty" at North Vernon. A railroad detective found them and gave them better beds at the Jail. The next morning the boys wont home and cancelled their world tour. , Armistice day will be children’s day in Vincennes. The American Legion there will observe the day by asking the public to give consideration to appeals for Near East Relief. To provide for the widows and orphans of their Armenian comrades of the World War Is their Idea of a fitting celebration. Fifteen years ago John B. James and wife of New Albany, when on a bridal trip to Indianapolis, mailed a card to Mrs. James' father, Amadee Soudry, now dead. A few days ago, James, who lives at the Soudry home place at New Albany, received the card. It having been in the mails since 1908. Charjes G. Schoeneman. Ft. Wayne, lost two front teeth In ft fistic argument with Frank Fall, former date for the Democratic nomination for county auditor. Schoeneman sued for |I,OOO damages. The Judge is now trying to decide Just how much ttfo teeth are worth. The editorial sciaaors of a Brazil newspaper we|pe stolen during the world series when the offico was thrown open to baseball fans hearing returns on a game. The editor declares he is getting out the paper with the aid of his razor, but in the meantime la going without a shave.

Science

"Warning: This stream Is polluted. Do not use the water for drinking or bathing.” This sign is seen occasionally In the woods of the Pacific northwest, one of the most picturesque sections of the United States. Efforts are being made to overcome the conditions that necessitate such signs. Keeping water clean has engaged the attention of scientists for many years. Thsse attempts are not confined to keeping drinking water free from germs, but are also made for the purpose of protecting the fish. A. M. Fairfield, expert on the subject, says that over two million dollars has been spent in the last few years by Pacific coast corporations to prevent pollution of water by their products. A few years ago it was common for large manufacturers to spoil rivers and streams. Waste material was run Into them aa a natural way of getting rid of It. Today much of this waste Is used In by-pro-ducts.

Heard in the Smoking Room

mHE conversation in the smoker had turned on the pros and cons of America entering the World Court or the League of Nations. The farmer socialist had urged the necessity of the United States sowing the seeds of friendship and helpfulness that would bring up a harvest of material, moral and social benefit. He said the situation reminded him of the story his father used to tell to illustrate of sowing abundantly. N “In a certain community there lived two farmers that were the very opposite of each otlier. On* was a very pious man, an krdent attendant at church and very vociferous in prayer.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

UNUSUAL PEOPLE Brain Tests Pick ’Em

By NEA Servioe C HICAGO, Oct. 18.—When it comes to picking apprentices l for his firm, James J. Garvey of the Western electric Company here, lets no pull or politics influence him. In fact, he has no control of this kind over his own sysmeans of iotelllRenee tests that e x om,n a tlon, even one of the o o m p a ny's vice ilk ' cepted as apprenJL jglplj failed to pass the tests. Os course, this happened to GAJRVEY be only a test of Garvey’s tests. After passing a series of Garvey’s tests, the new apprentice goes through a four-year course before taking up actual work In the Western Electric shops. Only one boy out of five who pass the tests, says Garvey, drops out of the course before completing it. &M SIMS '| -/- -/- Says Milwaukee man has driven one ear 1255,000 miles. Parking space must be scarce there. • • • Ward trial held in New York cost $30,000, but wasn’t worth it. • • • Style makers say the silk hat Is returning. Wish we were young enough to throw rocks again. • • • Big picture hats may come back. Probably an effort to make us quit riding street cars. • • Doctors have a drug that makes a man a savage. Girls should not look good enough to eat. • • • Various cities are holding fire prevention weeks. The price of coal Is a greßt aid. • • • Many people’s idea of raising kida is teaching them to close safety pins before swallowing. • • • The world needs an automatic phonograph atop that will not stop in the middle of a record. • • • Much time and worry would be saved around the home by having cigarette ash designs on rugs • • • Some people are so timid they don't put an elbow on either arm of their theater seat. • • • The saddest words of tongue or typewriter—“ Been out late so now must fight her." • • + Cougar seen near Ferndale, Wash., got away. He was is wild as a world’s series pitcher. • • • Statistics show the United States eats 15,000,000 bananas daily, In spite of that song. • • • Earthquakes are caused by ocean bottom convulsions which may be caused by bootleg overboard. • • • Stop, look and listen Is merely a railroad warning, but should be our natfonal slogan. • • • "France Fears Trouble."—Headline. Well, who doesn’t?

Observations

Despite its many shortcomings, Germany has taught the world conclusively a money Issue cannot be baaed on fetid air. A farmer in Mason City, lowa, was heard to say, the other day, he "had nothing to complain of,” and now they are watching him closely for other serious cymptoms. A scientist says a century from now the average length of human life will he 300 years. Quite a change. We of today have been living that long about once a month. The only thing the automobile has done for the church Is to Increase the number of funeral sermons. "Bpatn Is Changing," says a headline. Remarkable. It never did that before. A sporting writer says Flrpo is a poor sport. Hardly comprehensive enough. Mr. Flrpo is a. poor rich sport. If it be true "experience is the best teacher," we are led to wonder If Governor Walton Is learning anything, these days. Down East, this fall and winter, people of Rffluence will be known by their chimneys. Ex-Empress Zita Is teaching her little son Otto "how to be a kind," her hope being the throne of Hungary will some day be his. It’s a gamble. Teaching him to be a bricklayer would be safer.

The other was a rough and ready man, noted for his cussing ability yet withal the very essence of kindness and generosity. The pious man usually had poor crops, the rough and ready was noted for his good crops. "One day the pious farmer called on the other and asked If he would tell him the secret of his fine crops. The pious farmer said: ‘Now, I always say, with every handful of grain that I scatter, God bless the grain! God bless the gTain!’ " ’Huh, snorted the old rough farmer, ‘I say with every handful of I scatter, Cuss the grain! There’s more In the grraiary.’ ” "God favors Me man who gives or sews abundari^M

BLAME FOR DISASTER IS NOT FIXED Naval Inquiry Shows Radio Reckonings Were Ignored by Ships' Commanders. By Times Special "TH AN DIEGO, Cal., Oct. 18.— While the naval court Inquiry ——l Into the Point Honda disaster on Sept. 8, In which twenty-three lives were lost when eleven destroyers were piled upon the rocks In a test run from San Francisco to San Diego, did not fix responsibility for the disaster, testimony brought out some interesting high lights on methods in the Navy. Here are some: The speed of twenty knots a mile, at which sounding la Impossible, was officially ordered to thoroughly test the turbines. Radio compass bearings were sent out from Point Arguello radio station to check ships’ positions. They ■were ignored after dark and dead reckonings based on propeller revolutions were substituted. Dead reckonings showed the vessels In Santa Barbara channel when they were ■wrecked. Radio bearings had them Just north of where they crashed. Boots Cost $13,000,000 Seven destroyers, costing $13,000,000, were hopelessly wrecked. Four can be salvaged. Veteran Pacific Coast commanders of commercial vessels testified as to an unusual current near Point Arguello following the disaster. They also testified they themselves never pass Point Arguello without reducing speed and taking constant soundings Soundings were not taken by the destroyers, owing to the speed with which they were ordered to travel. The destroyer squadron was racing along In "follow the leader" formation. They were eo close together eleven ships crashed on top of each other" and on the rocks before they ooujd stop. To Small for Leaders Officers said these destroyers are too small for division leaders, because the squadron commander is pressed for room. This force* him to abandon some navigation facilities. Capt. E. H. Watson, squadron commander, assumed responsibility for the disaster. However, officers at the court seemed of the opinion responsibility rests also upon the division commanders and other officers who planned and ordered the cruise.

Family Fun

No Gentleman An Irish fireman, rescuing a woman at a blaze, lost his hold near the bottom of the ladder and landed heavily with the woman on top of him. A doctor hastily summoned pronounced Pat sound, though badly bruised "You are a brave gentleman." said the doctor. s "Brave, maybe, but no glntleman," replied Pat? rubbing his Injuries, "or I’d a-let the lady go first."—Boston Transcript. Just like Yonr Boy At a children’s birthday party there was a younger child of three. They had reached .the candle blowing time and each child blew out a candle and made a wish for their little host. The little fellow of 3 looked wistfully at his host, and when called upon to make a wish, he hlew out a candle and said: "I wish the cake, please." One for the Nurse A nurse girl was shaking a child in the pork. An observer, a dapper young man of uncertain age, approached. "Pardon me for butting in,” he said in a suave manner, "but I wpuld advise you not to be so rough with the little fellow.” The nurse raised two pale cold eyes to the Intruder. "You have given your advice. Now It Is my turn. Now that you have butted In, butt out!” Hit Between Dad's Eyes "Tom, go fetch the old horse.** "Why the old one, father?" "Wear out the old ones first is my motto." "Well, then, you fetch the horse.” —Everybody's,

Tongue Tips

Jesse Bunker, hl-Jacker and hold-up man, wounded in Detroit Jail: "Does It pay? God. no. Go get & Job. I say $6 any one thinking of entering tils business—go get a Job, any kind at a Job. But let this stuff alone*. Don't misunderstand me. I am not sorry for myself. If I were let out next week, I probably would be at the same work again. I know I would. If, when I was Just beginning to go bad, years ago, before I was out of my teens, society had taken hold of me and made a real attempt to fix me up, perhaps f might have been a real, honest-to-God citizen todajr. But you know how it is—associations, old habits, old cronies, the old way of living. I would he a hypocrite to say I could or would change now. It Is too late.” Charles B. Griffith, attorney general of Kansas: “Unless people respect constituted authority as they find it upon the statute books; unless they quit taking the law into their own hands, in twenty-five years from now you will not toe enjoying the kind of Government you have now." Leon Trotsky, Russia’s war head: "America emerged from the war strengthened, not weakened. The inner soundness of the American hourgeolse Is still almost Intact. The country's dependence upon European markets has been reduced to a minimum. A revolution in America, If we leave Europe out of account, may >tlll lie decadts In the distance." A Thought What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer. Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.—Zech. 13:6. • * • A 1- NIMALS are such agreeable friends-'-they ask no questions. They pass no criticisms.— George Eliot.

Prodigal Son and the Fatted Calf

QUESTIONS Ask-f The Times ANSWERS

You e*n ret so answer to any aue*tlon of fact or Information by writing to tha Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Are.. Washington. D. C., enclosing 2 cents la •tamps for reply. Medical, legal and marlui adrice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other queelicne will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Can you tell me where to send or go to learn to be & nurse? I have tried to find out and cannot. —M. D. The Protestant Deaconess Hospital and Methodist Hospital at Indianapolis have training school for nurses. What Is the origin of the term “penny nail?” The word "penny," used to denote the size of nails, orignated in the Fifteenth Century in England when the price of nails was fixed, according to the size of the nails—penny, two-pen-ny, three-penny, etc. What Is the origin of the name "Three Sisters," given to the islands In the Potomac Just above Washington? The story is: Three sisters of the Indian tribe of Potomac had crossed from the southern to the northern shore to visit a friendly tribe, the Analostans, and when returning a sudden storm overturned their light canoe. Unable to swim against the heavy current, all three drowned, and according to Indian legends, these three rocks rose above the surface at the place whore they were last seen. Who was the German Chlef-of-Staff during the first part of the great war? Helmuth '* T on Moltke. Is the President allowed traveling expeue? Yes. *25,000 a year. However, if he does not do any traveling, the money remains In the Treasury. How manv Armenians are there in the United States? At the time of the 1920 census there were 36,626. Is It oorrect to say "He dove Into the canal?” "Dove" la a colloquial form of "dive." It may be used, but “dived" is preferable. What were the principal clauses in the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain? Spain was to withdraw from Cuba and cede Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the United States, which In turn agreed to pay Spain $20,000,000, and to yield temporary oommerdal privileges in the Philippines. Should one drink bouillon from a spoon or from the cup? This depends on the cup. If It is the two handled bouillon oup, It may be drunk from tho cup, otherwise a spoon is used. What is uncorrect about the expression "very pleased to see you.” "Very” Is not used before a verb as an Intensive unless “much” or some such expression follows It. Hence the correct form would be "I am very much pleased to see you" Os what is salt composed? Salt Is the chloride of sodium, known rnlneralogically as halite containing 60.41 per cent of chlorine and 39.50 per cent of sodium. Why Is a public burial ground often called Potter’s field? This name arose In England. Both In that country and op the Continent, the clay used for pottery was dug out by whole colonies of men. women and children. The long trenches were left standing Just as they had been dug. Gradually It became a common practice to cast into the n the bodies of the dead among the workers, covering them over with Just sufficient earth to hide th<s*g from gaze of the i sun. What is the formula for mixing gypsum, sand sawdust and water to make durable blocks for building purposes? Gypsum blocks are made of approx- : lmately one part of calcined gypsum to one part of sawdust. Enough water is added so that the mixture can be poured Into the mold. No sand Is uesd, because- It would detract from the lightness, the strength, and the fire resistance of the block. v*dch are the chief properties desired. *

Enough BY BERTON BRALEY I wanted to wander "Way out over yonder,” Beyond the far rim of the sea; The breezes were calling With voices enthralling. The wide world waa summoning me. So all by my lonely. Just me—and me only— I traveled, and traveled some more; But after a season, I found, for some reason. The wanderer’s trail was a bora. Btrange oceans and peoples, Lands, temples and steeples, I viewed them with lack-luster eyes; Not one of them thrilled me, And home sickness filled me, A sickness I couldn’t disguise. No more wander-trailing, Thank heaven I’m sailing Again to my own native loam; My roaming is over, I’ve failed as a rover. Thank heaven I’m on my way home! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Rust Rust destroys 30,000,000 tons of iron and steal & year, investigation by steel makers shows. Golden opportunity here for Inventors to develop rustproofing processes. Incidentally, 30,000,000 tons is more than all the pig Iron made in our country last year. Everything wears cut In time and requires replacing That helps bring prosperity by keeping producers busy. • • • Bootleggers Bootleggers have found insurance companies that give them policies to pay their court fines when arrested. So claims W. M. Forgrave, Anti-Sa-loon League agent in Massachusetts. As yet. no company has come forward with a special policy to protect the thirsty people who take a chance on drinking the bootleggers' hooch. Maybe the risk Is too great. Puzzling (Goshen Dally News) While all the politicians are puzzling s.bout what to do for the farmer, a glance out of the oar window* show* that the farmer Is doing quite a little for himself.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 18,1923

What Editors Are Saying

Prepared (Richmond Palladium) The fact that the print shop, operated as part of the vocational education offered by the Richmond schools, saves the school board $4,000 annually by printing forms and other material used by the school system, is not half so impressive aa is the knowledge that the boys who sure taking this course are being prepared vocationally for life. A survey of the vocational department of the high school probably will shew that the earnest and conscientious boys who began their training there have marched forward faster than boys of the same age who lacked this training. • • • Ralston (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Senator Ralston need lose no sgeep over the regret he expresses in having to give up his Indiana home for Washington. Six years will soon roll around. Senator. • • • Helpful (Lebanon Dally Reported Tha~ substantial, effective support for the Boy Scout movement in Lebanon wijl be forthcoming was indicated by the warm-hearted Indorsement given by twenty leading business and professional men who met to organize an executive council for the Boy Scouts. The boys of Lebanon need Scout work and the men of Lebanon need the inspiration which close-up contact with wholesome youth always affords. • • e Conservative Gary Post-Tribune) The American Federation of Labor has taken a conservative position on economic problems and repudiated the L W. W.s and radicals like Foster. It would be foolleh for tho workingman to be dissatisfied with such times as these wien some workingmen ore getting from $lO to S3O per day and there la very full employment.

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