Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1923 — Page 4

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GIVE TO COMMUNITY FUND! EEND a helping hand to your neighbor. He has not been as fortunate as you and must lean on the community a little while until he can walk alone again. Perhaps your neighbor is a little child, under-nurtured, crippled, parentless. Or perhaps your neighbor is a widow, trying to raise a family and to give it the things it must have. Or perhaps your neighbor is the only support of a family and is suffering from accident or illness and his family is in distress. Too many of us are prone to turn our backs on these conditions because they are not pleasant. Too many of us living in prosperity and comfort do not realize these things actually exist. But there is one agency in the city that knows about these things and knows how desperate they are, for it comes in contact with them every day. This is the Community Fund. Arrangements are being made now for the Community Fund campaign to start Oct. 26. When this campaign starts you will be expected to do your part. If one of these unfortunates lived next door to you, you would not hesitate to help. WELL, THEY ARE YOUR NEIGHBORS, FOR THEY LIVE IN THE SAME CITY WITH YOTJ. Scores of citizens are giving their time to the raising of money for the Community Fund. When one of them comes to you and asks for money, don’t just say, “What, another drive?” and turn your back. Reach down in your pocket and come through. SPEAKING OF SMOKING j p | YER since Governor Gifford Pinchot, Vho is at the Govi E-i | ernors’ powwow at West Baden, Ind., settled the anthracite coal mess which President Coolidge dodged, there have been uneasy feelings among the Old Guard. It has been amusing to watch efforts of the “regular” politicians and their newspapers to smokh Pinchot out. If the Governor should so much as hint that he might be a presidential candidate he would become fair game for all sorts of political attacks and strategy. One of the most obvious efforts to smoke him out came six weeks ago when Senators Pepper and Reed of Pennsylvania visited the White House and then whispered to the world that, until they knew whether Pinchot would be a candidate, they would not decide their own minds. That was Pinchot’s cue to shy his hat into the ring. But he didn’t. m Instead he waited a month and shied a law enforcement fcrick at the White House. To change the figure speech, Governor Pinchot did a bit of smoking himself. And the first of the Old Guard crowd to be smoked out is Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, who coughs twice and between gasps says: > “Pennsylvania will undoubtedly send an uninstructed delegation to the Republican national convention and will not waste its substance on the candidacy of any favorite son who has no hance of success.” Remembering the upset T. R. gave Pennsylvania, even in the •sld days when the big bosses were alive and in full vigor, one may be pardoned for wondering, audibly, whether Reed is competent in October to tell just exactly what Pennsylvania may or >trill do next April, when the Republican convention delegates are selected. There can be a lot of smoke and some fire in six months.

FACT FINDING A LA MODE c ECRETARY WORK hsa appointed a “fact-finding” commission to examine and report on Uncle Sam’s reclamation .and irrigation work. The inquiry is to go back to the days of T. R. and Pmchot—with soft pedal on Ballenger. In opening the meeting of his fact finders the secretary told them to go right ahead and find the real facts and to remember that Government projects haven’t done well, while privately grabbed water sites “have redeemed the West.” Aside from former Secretary of the Interior Garfield, there is nobody on the commission who is expert on irrigation and conservation. .There is no engineer. True, Dr. Work named an eminent engineer, but with the knowledge that the gentleman is in Egypt—and his seat is left vacant. This fact-finding expedition looks suspiciously like a smoke screen to hide the discharge of Arthur P. Davis and the substitution of David W. Davis at the head of government reclamation Vork. The civil service commission required that the “director” pf reclamation must have, among other gualifications, at least eight years practical experience in irrigation work and must be an engineer. Arthur P. Davis was all of that with forty years pf service with the Government. To get rid of him, not having charges of any sort against him. Work abolished the office. Then he renamed the job, calling the “director” a “commissioner.” There being no civil service qualifications for such “commissioner,” he then named David W. Davis, a politician, on the ground that he was a “business man.” As one of his achievements as a business man, he was the organizer of a bank that went broke: It was John Kendrick Bangs who laid down a principle for politicians when he said, “When in difficulty demand an investigation and name your own investigators.” Which is fact finding ala mode. NOW FOR NEW SCHOOLS EHE last preliminary step in obtaining more school buildings for Indianapolis has been fallen with the final approval by state tax board of the bond issue for eight new buildings. Contracts may |3e let now and the work started in time to provide the buildings for the next school term. The tax board Aome time ago gave its tentative approval of the bonds. It’s most recent action has removed alk* obstacles. The action of the tax board was by way of a compromise. Previous to approving the bond issue, it cut the school building fund levy, thus making impossible some improvements other than f>w grade schools. Nevertheless, if such a choice xvjka necessary, the tax board ••ertainly chose the proper course. L . ,

COUZENS IS SCORED BY OLD GUARD Orders Have Gone Out From High Sources to Discredit Michigan Senator. By JOHN CARSON, Times Staff Correspondent rrrjj ASHING TON, Oct. IS.—Orders \k/u have gone out from the high T w and mikhty to discredit Senator "Jim” Couzens of Michigan. The old guard wants to spike Couzens’ guns before Congress gets under way. Whether the campaign has a central head and a well defined plan is not yet revealed. But that It has one idea Is pretty well established. The plan is to picture Ccuzens as a "radical” who talks without preparation and without facts. Work Investigated “Couzens jumped into the railroad problem without knowing anything about it,” begins one of the stock declarations. “When he was shown up, he quit.” Couzens’ work on the municipal railroads of Detroit is being investigated constantly and the slightest flaw picked up to discount the effort. Behind all this effort is the fear of the Old Guard leaders Souzens will be a very difficult man to handle when Congress gets under way. The reason is summed up in the following casual discussion by the wisest of the Old Guard: "Couzens is the man we’ve got to fear. La Follette is carrying the handicap of an unpopular past record. Brookhart will kill himself by his wild talk. Magnus Johnson is no cause for worry. Norris is 111. Borah and Hiram Johnson want to be regular. But Couzens, you Just can't figure him out.” Naturally Courageous Here's a man independently wealthy. If he were not naturally courageous, it wouldn't be hard to be so with such A’ealth. Couzens doesn't owe anything, politically, to any one and probably It doesn’t make much difference to him if he is re-elected or defeated. And Couzens is going to get the facts and then talk about them. Hence, with the well learned strat- ! egy of practical politics. the Old Guard now has its campaign under way to discount Couzens.

What Editors Are Saying

Pray (Lebanon Dally Reporter) “Stop-Look-Listen'’ signs should be revised to read, ‘‘Stop-Look-Listen-Pray.” The man who will stop, look, listen and then pause for a moment's prayer Is never going to run in front of a traction car or a steam engine. Which assurance also Is a strong argument for the effiieacy of prayer. Advertisement (Marlon Leader-Tribune) ‘‘Two Gun" Settles Is a splendid advertisement for In one sense. He has been ordered out of town five times, but said he prefers jail to leaving. ‘‘Two Gun.” with all your faults, we love you still. Faith (Daily Clintonian) Clinton people have by no means lost faith In their city. Business in the coal fields will pick tip again. In the meantime, those show the right spirit who advocate getting busy and help liven things up. instead of glooming about what might have been. Sovietism (Plymouth Dally Pilot) With the exception of ignorant foreigners and a few others, American laborers ares too well educated and too well off to want to take a plunge into sovietism. Outlook (Ft. Wayne News-Sentlnej) Like Ft. Wayne. Indianapolis has an anti-smoke ordinance, but it isn’t enforced. With more soft coal being burned here this year than ever before the outlook Is a bit dirty. Etiquette (Kendalville News-Sun) The more an ordinary human being reads etiquette books, the more he wonders where the authors got their information. Family Fun Unselfish "You darling little boy! In dividing that apple you kept the half with the worm-hole in it for yourself and let sister have the other half.” “Yes; I s’pected that the worm had bored through to the other side.”— Boston Transcript. Little Willie In Style “You little imp!” “Say!” ‘‘You redheaded ” "Go ahead. I don’t care what you say about President Coolidge and me."—Judge. Dad Under the Car “Can I help you? I can tell you a bit about this make of car.” "Well, keep It to yourself: there are ladles present.”—Passing Show. Baby Not Complete "If I only knew what to do with baby.” “Didn’t you get a book of ’structions with It, mamma?”—Boston Transcript.. A Thought Yet the Lord will command His loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me. —Ps. 42:8. • • • _ UT can the noble mind forever brood, The willing victim of a weary mood, fe On heartless ca Mts that squander life away, And cloud young Genius brlght’ning into dev?—Campbell.

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IERE’S Minnesota news. Forest fires raging. So are the i ... farmers. These fires are not Magnus Johnson. * * * When a compressed air tank blew up at Columbia University students thought It was a professor. ♦ * 4 Dyke broke, flooding a Florida town, and all we can hope is that it got some burglars’ feet wet. • * * Stove exploded on an 'Alabama farm where all cooking i% not done on a can opener. • • • You know, sad thing about cooking with can openers is you can’t sit around them tp dry out. • • • McMillan is sending radio messages from the arctic, where weather is starting south for the winter. • * * Good radio news today. New generator eliminates hums. Some new programs would eliminate "Hohums.” * • • Prince of Wales danced in a Canadian hotel; but not, we’ll bet, because he saw his bill. • • • Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, may sound as foolish as it does from shivering with cold. • • • Widows can not marry in India so bachelors there are considered fairly* safe from harm. • • • Siamese boy may play quarter back for Boston University. Lucky for him he wasn’t twins. • • • American woman has stopped bull fighting in Cuba. Now she can worry about rat eating in China.

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You can vet an answer to any queatlon of fart or information by writing to the Indianapolis Tiinea' Washington Bureau. 1.322 New York Are. 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 r-ply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How much does an elephant weigh? From two to three tons. Which occupies the most space, a cord of four-foot wood or a cord of two-foot wood? The former. What are the chief derivatives of United States trees? Turpentine, resin, alcohol, maple sugar, paper pulp, tannin and charcoal. Does the United States Government have control of all navigable waters In the United States? Yes What oan I do for featherlesa chickens? Practically nothing. The condition Is probably due to low vitality, and the birds should be killed os soon as they are of edible size. At what rate does a baby's teeth grow? At birth the teeth of a child are burled In sacs In the gnims. In six or eight months the lower central Incisors come through and are followed at irregular Intervals by others until the temporary set of twenty Is completed in about two years or thirty months. How much coal does an average locomotive burn? About 243 pounds for every mile it run*. What are various classifications of musical Instruments? Percussion, rasping, reed, string and wind. Where was Columbus burled? First at Seville, Spain, from whence the body was removed to San Do mingo, Haiti. When that Island was ceded to the French the body was removed to Havana, and after Spain’s loss of Cuba, It was taken back to Seville and placed In the cathedral there. What. Is the argan tree and where does It grow? The argan Is a very remarkable tree abounds In Southern Morocco. ; but Is seldom seen elsewhere. It Is very leafy, but seldom exceeds twenty feet In height. The braryhes put out horizontally, and begin a yard above the ground. Sheep, cattle and camels feed on the leaves, and goats will stand on their hind legs to reach them, but horses and mules refuse to touch them. The wood, which is very hard, Is made Into charcoal by the natives. The fruit resembling a large olive, 1h used to feed cattle and to manufacture a valuable oil. How many ships were there In the Spanish Armpda? 132. How Is soft soap made? To one pound of potash add three gallons of water; boll the potash until It is dissolved; then add three pounds of any kind of soap grease, the cleaner the better, to the lye, and set It to boiling. Let it boll slowly so that It will not boll over. It usually becomes soap after boiling from one to five hours. If It boils down before It becomes soap, add sufficient water to keep the same quantity in the kettle until it Is soap; then add nine gallons of water and stir well together; when cool this will be a beautiful white soap if the grease was clean.

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ROMANTIC ADVENTURER PASSES ON Dr, Edward W, Ryan Saved Thousands of Lives During Career, By HARRY W. FRANTZ Times Staff Correspondent A ROMANTIC figure in International affairs passed on when u - Doctor Edward W. Ryan died in Teheran, Persia, a short time ago. In his palmiest days Richard Harding Davis never created a soldier of fortune more true to type than this American surgeon .officer and adventurer. Ryan’s home was In Scranton, Pa. He was trained as a surgeon and as a sanitary engineer. But early in life fortune led him into official and semi-official government activities which drew him into many countries and strange adventures. Barely thirty-six when he died, he wore decorations of many countries, and he was known by reputation or in person to every statesman in Europe. Began in Mexico Ryan’s great adventures began In Mexico during the Maderist revolution when he served as a medical volunteer. He was once imprisoned and sentenced to death, but was released at the eleventh hour through the personal intervention of the President. Shortly after the outbreak of the World War, Doctor Ryan took a medical unit to Serbia and established a hospital at Belgrade. Aided by an accomplished chief nurse, Miss Mary Gladwin of Akron, Ohio, Ryan did a wonderful work in combating the first outbreak of typhus.

Director of Safety j When the Austrians first took Beli grade, Ryan through his neutral position as an American, became direci tor of a council of safety which unj dertook to maintain order in the city, i Trough his powerful personal influence he averted the threatened dei structlon of the city by the Austrian j guns. After the Serbian debacle Ryan was j tfirector of an American Red Cross commission at Salonlca which gave ! ;iid to the Serbian refugees and army. In 1917 when the greater part of Salonlca burned he handled the emergency relief. After the armistice Ryan, now ranked as a Ueptenant colonel, returned to Paris. Subsequently he directed Red Cross activities in Germany, and he became the organizer and director of the Red Cross activities in the Baltic states. When Red Cross work in Europe drew to an end, Dr. Ryan returned to America. Goes to Persia Still athirst for adventure, he accepted the Invitation of the Persian government to reorganize the public utilities of Teheran. • This hasty sketch of Ryan mentions j barely the high spots of his remarkable career. He was high in the confidence of statesmen. Ho was at his best in a period of crisis, felt a sublime disrespect for red tape. On many occasions He rushed hospital ship ments at the expense of paper records and inventories, but in doing so he saved lives by the thousands. Read Big leister This The difference between faces and nails Is that It is considered vulgar to do your nails In public.—Baltimore i Sun. As to Mother’s New Hat "I wonder what will bo the popular styles In hats this season?” "My de.gr. women's ha*r will be divided Into two styles this season, ns usual—the style you don't like and, the style I can't afTord."—lllustrated Bits

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“She does nothing tut smoke a pipe and gossip.” This Is the allegation of Amos Creson, Kokc mo, who has filed a complaint for divorce against Mrs. Myrtle Creson. Taking a chance at finding "September Horn” at her Saturday night üblutlons, law officers enter a Logansport bathroom and located a still and condenser fitted neatly into the tub W. W. Rader was arrested for operating the outfit. James E. Taylor, 86. Kendallville, veteran of the Civil War, believes firmly In the bromide. "You’re never too old to love.” “Uncle Jimmy” went to Carrol ton, Mich., where he married Mrs. Maggie Miller, 68. The young couple received many congratulations. For the alleged “vamping” of the 89-year-old bride of six months of John Carl Sacks, Park County, Fuller Bradley, 81, a Civil \Va r veteran and resident of Marshall, has been made a defendant In a £30,000 damage suit filed by Sacks. Sacks also asks a divorce. Stephen Singleton. 74, Sheridan, was arrested and held in Jail at Noblesvllle for wifo desertion. He Is said to be the oldest man ever arrested In Hamilton County on such a charge and it is possible that he holds the State record. GUARANTEED PAINT For all purposes: all colors Per gallon SI.OO National Army Store 467 West Washington Street l Doors East of West Street Mall Orders Promptly Filled on AH Army Goods.

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Science defends jazz musia It explains It as a perfectly liatural development and does not consider it a weird musical fad that will die out. It is thought Jazz may be modified, but it la believed its principles will run through music that will be considered classical. During the middle ages the civilized world went crazy over dancing. The "dancing mania” la well known to students of medieval history. The craze followed the introduction of a slow, triple-rhythmed form of music introduced into Europe by

Heard in the Smoking Room

SHE man from Evansville was talking. "There are lots of unsophisticated women in this part of the world, but a good many of them are located In Gopher Prairie and Sauk Center. One of them that I kflew had a very nice little boy who never skidded until he was out of her sight. She found him out, though, when the village constable led him home one day and told her the lad had been shooting crapa. But she was

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the Moors and called the Saraband. Musicians, scholars and aristocrats denounced it But it grow and became permanent Today the Saraband is legitimate. Italian opera had an uphill fight before it was legitimate. Wagnerian music was denounced to the limit when it first appeared. The modern symphonies of Debussy and his school are Just being recognized. Jazz takes its polyphony from Wagner. its syncopation from the Saraband, Its drums from ths music of Africa and its undivided slur from the songs of Hawaii. L'ke all music, there is jazz that is tocognized as good and plenty of other that is bad.

determined to be severe with him. even though her heart was breaking as a resutl of his misdemeanors. A good, motherly, heart-to-heart talk was the corrective she decided on, and she said gently; " ‘Jimmie, my dear, I’m shocked and grieved. To think that a son of mine should be a criminal! It's terrible, Jimmie! Shooting craps! Why, don't you know those little. Innocent creatures have just as much right to live as you have? ’ ”