Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1923 — Page 4

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A TALE OF MR. BR’ER FOX upon a time there lived a fox, known in the neighbor|Oj hood of the Simon De Witt farm, near Bethel and Emerson Aves., as Mr. Br’er Fox. He thought he was sly. For many years his ancestors had been termed in the animal kingdom as the most sagacious and wily of all beasts. His teeth were the strongest, his eyes the keenest, and his claws the sharpest. Having resided in burrows all his life, devoured birds, fruit, honey, as well as other animals, he found modern life tough. Looking toward Indianapolis, he could see the smoke from the city as it hovered over the homes, sooting and begriming the people as it settled over the land. Going through the brush one day he almost ran into a group of men working over a copper still. Strange, indeed. At night-time, too, automobiles raced by at terrific speed on the highway where he used to be practically safe after dark. A sly fox? “I give up,” he said when dogs chased him from some brush. “This age is too fast for me.” Robert Evans, who lives on an adjoining farm, shot him as he ran by. MORAL: There are many sly foxes in the brush, but they’re seldom chased out. LAWYERS AND THEIR CONSCIENCEfc SHE defendant was one Roland Duck and he had murdered Nellie Pearce —his plea, of course, was insanity. They tried Roland Duck in just six hours, including an hour's adjournment for lunch and a half hour off for tea, and found him guilty. That’s the case that the American Bar Association, meeting in Minneapolis recently, cited to show the swift and sure course of English justice as contrasted to the cumbersome legal machinery in America. The legal association, deploring the great record of crime in this country, is seeking a remedy. Roland Duck lived in London, England, where there were only seventeen murders last year, despite the fact that it is the largest city in the world. Had he lived in New York City, where there are 280 murders a year, or Chicago where there are 137, or Memphis where there are almost that many, he might have fared better. First of all, Roland could have got out on bond and have framed up his witnesses. Then there could have been delay after delay while his shrewd lawyers fought to stave off trial as long as possible so as to let public indignation cool off. After the case finally came up there could have been more delays while the highbrow alienists, hired by each side, testified pro and con on whether Roland Duck was crazy or not crazy. Various and sundry appeals, motions for new trials and a maze of legal technicalities injected by his cunning lawyers, could have forestalled the verdict. But Roland Duck was born in England, where there were only sixty-three murders in 1921. He should have been born in the United States where there are nearly 10,000 murders. The American Bar Association, seeking the remedy for our world-beating murder rate, might well begin within its own profession. What lawyer has not sat in a courtroom and watched a cunning colleague, representing a prisoner he knew to be guilty, deliberately trying to throw every possible obstacle into the path of justice. Before pointing the accusing finger elsewhere, the bar association might seek to rid the legal fraternity of these shady, but shrewd, attorneys who, for a fee, will not stop at honest defense, but will deliberately try to wreck the machinery of justice that has been set up for the protection of the people.

HENRY TAKES TO POLITICS URRAH! The fight for Muscle Shoals has been lifted* out of the realm of economic and engineering thought and transferred to the arena of practical politics. The Gorgas plant, recently sold by Secretary Weeks to the Alabama Power Company over the protest of Henry Ford, may not have been absolutely necessary to Henry’s successful operation of that gigantic undertaking—indeed, impartial experts have so declared. But Henry is no longer thinking in terms of cold science or economics. He knows now that this is not and never has been the way to win the fight. He sees in this act of the secretary of war a sinister and vicious attack upon the rights of the people of the country. Weeks is no longer the suave representative of the Coolidge Administration. In a trice he has become “the Boston bond broker in politics for a pastime.” Away with this talk of energy electrons! What is the Huxleyian process of extraction of nitrates from the circumnambient air? We know not. neither do we care two whoops. But “long ago Mr. Weeks matured the plan to break up and dispose of Muscle Shoals by piecemeal! ’ ’ Ah, you speak our language, and we 're with you, Henry, from the rock-ribbed coasts of Maine to the vine-clad slope of California! “The Boston Bond Broker” versus “The people led by their gallant flivver king of Detroit.” Does any one doubt the outcome? “WHAT is worth having is worth paying for,” says Henry Ford, which is an intimation that he never intends to give them away. WOMAN in Snohomish County, Washington, walked fiftyfour plus miles in her kitchen last year. Shouldn’t the kitchen apron be changed to a hiker’s outfit? FORESTS of the United States are estimated to be worth $11,000,000,000 at present lumber prices. Os all the standing timber in the country, 70 per cent of the virgin timber is owned privately and 30 per cent by the Government, while of the second growth, 85 per cent is publicly owned. Let’s save the second growth from the exploiters. AT LEAST Secretary Work is honest about this government land offered to ex-soldiers for homesteading. “What sort of land is it?” he says, “the question answers itself. It is what is left after a century of picking over by veterans of other wars and by hundreds of thousands of the early pioneers who went West to build future homes and future fortunes.” In other words, it’s mostly scenery, and nothing more—until Uncle Sam puts water on if> '

UNDERWOOD FRIENDS TIE UP ALABAMA A Henry Ford Is Target of Law Which Bags Delegates for Native Son, By Timm Special MONTGOMERY'. Ala., Oct. 20.—1f Henry Ford wants the Alabama delegation to the Democratic national committee he will have to move his residence down here posthaste. The Legislature, before its recent adjournment, slipped through a law providing that the resident of Alabama who secures the largest vote in the presidential primaries shall name the delegation. The law was passed by Underwood supporters. Though their hero is opposed to national protective tariffs, the Underwood forces decided, he needed State protective legislation against the invasion of presidential aspirants. Ford Is Target Though unnamed. Henry Ford was the chief target of the new law, which has caused widespread dissatisfaction. Ford or any other nonresident candidate, even should he get the largest vote in the primary, could not win the delegation, for that is guaranteed the Alabama resident who garners : the most votes. Underwood, it was thought, would i tjius have a strangle hold on the delegation. But an unexpected danger has arisen. One Breck MusgTove, wealthy retired buoness man who gave Underwood a close run in the last senatorial campaign, is contemplating entering the primary against the Senator. Strong Candidate Under ordinary circumstances Mus grove might not have a particularly good chance against Underwood. But the resentment against the sure-thing methods of the Underwood Legisla ture is counted on to make him a strong candidate. He gained his former support from the labor element and the drys. He was a pioneer in the organization of the Alabama Anti Kalot n League. The Musgrove candidacy, Bhould it materialize. would have but. one object —keeping the Alabama delegation away from UnJerwc od.

Family Fun

Willie as a Caddy 'YVhat do you mean, young man," asked the merchant of the boy. "by counting your change so carefully? Are you afraid that I would cheat you?” "I don’t know," replied the boy. “I’m just making sure that you won’t. I used to caddy for you at the golf links."—Detroit Fre Press. Pa and Doctor "Y'our wife needs a holiday at a Spa." "Indeed! I’d like you to know that I could get a brand-new wlfo for far less than she costs me for repairs." Johnny Corrects Mother "Johnny, you’ve been fighting again and lost all your teeth.” "Naw," I got ’em all In my pocket." -ySanta Fe New Mexican. Little Brother’s Trick “You say your sister will be down in a minute, Willie? That’s good news. I thought perhaps she wanted to be excused, as she did the other day.” "Not this time. I played a trick on her.” "What did you do?" “I said you wore another fellow. London TUVBits. Old Stuff for Daughter "Think of it, Dorothy! Artificial lightning at Jast! Without the slightest effort I can knock a man cold!” "You poor old dear, 1 was born knowing how to dc that." Judge.

Science

The study of fishes has become of immense importance, economically, because of their growing value as a source of food and, scientifically, because of the secrets they are revealing in the history of evolution. One of the most Interesting creatures to naturalists Is the seahorse of the Mediterranean sea. This strange fish has a head like the head of the knight in chess and a long tail that it colls around pieces of sea-weed, allowing Itself to drift idly with the current. Its strangest characteristic, however, is that its eyes can be moved indepently of each other. The sea-horse has a rival for queerness in the lumping-flsh, which Is able to move about on land and live for some time out of the water; in the climbing-perch that climbs low trees in search of insects by means of spines upon its gillcovers, and in the gurnards that are able to walk over the floor of the sea by means of fins in a manner that suggests the action of a huge insect. Hokum Lloyd George, dining at the Wel-dorf-Astorla, sent word to the chef that he wanted “a typical American dinner.” What the waiter brought included Sorrel Soup, Mousse of Sole, Pommes Parisien and Hombes Mercedes. Typical American dinner! However, in principle, it’s nbout as close to the truth as any distinguished visitor can get in a foreign country. Our star visitors get false Impressions of us. So do Americans when they “Investigate’’ abroad. Reception committees, composed of professional "prominent citizens,” are apt to mislead.

Heard in the Smoking Room

T J HE story about Mrs. Ford’s Interview with the barelegged l _ women up in northern Michigan caused a laugh In the smoker. The man from William Allen White’s Emporia paper said: “Mrs. Ford ought to meat the woman who recently visited ip my town. This woman, from all ippearanee, never had used or even , een a modern bath-tub

THE INDIAN A POLLS TIMES

&M SIMS | -/- -/- Says

—T"IOW that the world series is X over footballers come to i " pass. Football players are among the few who are cheered for kicking. Zuppke of Illinois is a football coach even if he does sound like a foreigner asking for soup. While Zuppke writes football plays he is not a playwright. He writes so they won’t play wrong. Best football players come from the broad open spaces where men are men and women are girls. While the football season ends on Thanksgiving this is not the original excuse for Thanksgiving. Learning football is no easy matter. Arguing with traffic cops and ice men is fine training. Excellent way to learn football is by kicking every lap-dog you see and then running. Football players must be tough. They must be tough as case steaks. Eating case steaks will help them. Never feed a football player on raw meat. It is dangerous. He may bite off his girl’s nose. Looking for needles in haystacks will train a football player’s eyes to see the point. Football is better than golf. Everybody knows where the ball is. Best way to train a footballer is make him fall in love. Then he will fight like a bedbug. What’s a little rouge between a girl and her football hero? Nothing, if it is on her lips.

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You can get an p.mrwor to any qnrstion of fact or Information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau, 1323 New York Aye. Wash lnr ton, D. C., enclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be riven, nor ran extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Is it true that hair and nails grow on human bodies after death? In answer to this we can only give the following extract from “Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine," by George Gould and Walter Pyle (published by W. B. Saunders. Philadelphia, Pa., -896: jWe occasionally see evidence of this In dissecting rooms Caldwell mentions a person burled four years; the hair protruded at the points where the Joints of the coffin had given way. The hair of the head measured eighteen Inches, that of the beard eight Inches, and on the breast four to six Inches. Rosse of Washington also cites a case In a Washington cemetery of a girl 12 to 13 years of age who, when exhumed, was found to have anew growth of hair all over her body. Nalls some times grow several Inches after death, and there Is an account of an Idiot who had an Idiosyncrasy for long naffs, and after death the nails were found to have grown to such an extent that they curled up under the palms and Boles." Who Is the present world's heavyweight wrestling champion? Ed (Strangler) Lewis. What States produce the most wheat? North Dakota and Kansas. llow many times does the word “sprinkle" appear In the Bible? "Sprinkle" appears to be mentioned eleven times, and "strinkling" four times. YVhat Is a vegetable peach* A type of muskmelon. used almost entirely for pickling purposes. It Is smaller than an ordinary muskmelon, nnd haa a smooth skin. Is the word “aborts” in this sentence correct: “Typhoid fever sometimes aborts?” Yes. the word "abort” can be used In this way. It means to fail to develop, hence to cease. Should a hostess take part In the games she provides for her guests? Yes, especially if cards are played, i That is, of course. If the guests are all provided for. When and why was Edith Cavell executed by the Germans? Edith Cavell, an English nurse, head of a nurse's training school In Brussels, was accused of utilizing her position to assist In the escape of Belgian, French and British soldiers from Belgium, and was shot by the Germans on Oct. 12, 1915. How Is honey ice cream made? One pint milk, yolks 6 eggs, 1 cup honey, 1 pint cream. Heat the milk in a double boiler. Beat together the honey and eggs, add the hot milk, return the mixture to the double boiler, and cook It until It thickens. Add the cream and when the mixture Is cool, freeze It. Did any Roman Catholics sign the Declaration of Independence? Y'es, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Md. Of-arSunday There’s no telling how she’ll run, On four cylinders or one, Thund’rlng rattle o’ rusty tin — "I can’t hear you fer th’ din"— Just a bundle of old nerves, Lordy how th’ dern thing swerves! Yet she gets you there—kerplunk! “Howdy! Aunty, Bud an’ Unk!”

before. Sho was shown into the bath room and she looked on in wonder as the various faucets, fixtures, etc., were shown to her. She looked at the shiny tub and, in an awed voice, asked. ‘Do you just get In the water?’ “ ‘Sure,’ was the answer. “The guest hesitated, rather em barrassed, and tfyen said: “ ‘Could you loan me a bathing suit? I forgot niina.' ”

U. S. SUPREME JUDGES ARE ONLY MEN Times Writer Delves Into History of Nation’s Highest Court of Law, Lowell Mellett of this paper's Washington staff, has made an extensive study of the movement to curtail the power of the Supreme Court. Mellett has written a series of articles giving the outstanding incidents in the court’s history This is the first article. By LOWELL MELLETT ii x-v YEA! O yea! O yea! All persons having business before the Honorable the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw near, and give their attendance, ; for the court ia now in session. God i save the United States, and this Hon- | orable Court!” Having business before the Honor able the Judges, you draw near as I admonished, as near as the court | attendant will permit you. This is I the back row of the U. S. Supreme | Court chamber, one of the two rows ! reserved for tourists and other sighti seers. However, the court room is very small, despite its impressive dignity, and you can see and hear fairly well. I jaws or Men Y’our business Is to discover for • yourself, if you can, whether these | United States have a goverment of | laws or a government of men. Some- | where you have read the ideal govI ernment is one of laws, not of men. Seeing in the flesh the men who interpret the law's may help you to de cide. Later, a certain amount of historical research may reveal whether these men and the long line of men who precided them, reaching back into the musty past, have given us the law as they have found it in the written word, or as they have found it in their own human conceptions. The judges behind the high bench present a pleasing appearance. All are dressed in black, though the dim ; light of the room does show the silken sheen of their gowns. Y'ou may wonder why they wear the bothersome gowns, since only their shoulders can be seen and gowns must be i warm in summer. Taft in ('enter In the middle sits Chief Justice Taft, rejected by the voters of all save two States the lost time he ran for President, now presiding over that branch of the Government whose powers are alleged to have become greater than the presidency. He looks com- I petent, though today seemingly a hit bored and restless. This is strange, for it was Taft who once declared in a public speech—”l love Judges and I love courts. They are my Ideals on earth of what we shall meet afterward In Heaven j under a Just God!" He is reading from a printed brief presenting one side of the case concerning which argument is now being t heard. Offering the argument is the lawyer for a corporation dealing in i gas and light. You gather it is a con- > troversy between some city out West t and this lawyer’s corporation. The * lawyer argues and Chief Jusiico Taft reads. However, he is listening at the same time, for he asks the lawyer a question. McKenna Holds Whiskers

On the right of Taft is Justice Me ! K>nna, a wisp of a man, holding his i white whlpkers tightly in one hand as ! he sits stiffly upright against the high ' back of his chair. McKenna Is 80 years old and has sat in one of those j nine chairs for twenty-six years. He Is paying earnest attention to the lawyer’s remarks and occasionally propounds a question in a thin, treble voice. On the le't of Taft Is Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a man older yet than McKenna, though reputed to have one of the youngest, keenest minds of i hem all. He is 83 years old and has sat behind that bench for twenty-one years. Long enough to be set In his ways, you vould think, but it was Holmes who raid not so long ago—"I do not think the United States would come to an end if we (the court) 'ost our power to declare an act of Congress void." Shifts In Seat Next to Holmes is Meßeynolda, longfaced and saturnine and quite a bit bald, balder than any of the others, lr. fact, though younger than most of them and yetng.er-looking. He isn't quite comfortable in his seat for some reason and shifts about a great deal, straining all the time to maintain attention. Then comes Sutherland, one of the new members. (He, like Sandford. sitting at his. left, was appointed by President Harding. With Butler, absent today, and Chief Justice Taft, there are four Harding appointees among the nine.) Sutherland Is giving very serious attention to the papers before him, presumably the same brief the other Judges are reading from time to time. His still newer colleague, Sandford, Is not. If you didn't know it to be impossible, you'd suspect that Sandford is wearied to death. Ho squirms about in his chair, rests his head sidewise against the back and, at times, nibbles the ends of his fingers. And he whispers to the serious Justice Sutherland. Much Whispering There is whispering likewise at the other end of the bench, where Van Devanter of Cheyenne, Wyo., sits next to Brandeis of Boston. Brandeis smiles, as if at what he himself is saying; Van Devanter. not amused — or so it seems at this distance. The Brandeis smile is notable; sad. not cynical; merely tinctured perhaps hy regret that the world is not intelligent. There they sit. As dignified and intelligent, as high-purposed and sin-' core a group of Jurists as are to he found in any country. They represent great power, the greatest in some ways among all American forces, greater certainly than similar courts In other lands, for they can and do set aside the will of the people, as expressed hy the people’s direct representatives. Vet, you can’t escape the conclusion that they, too, are just men. All Have Health As good a group of Judges, no doubt, as ever has graced this bench in one respect, at least, a better group 'han some that have preceded them 'or they still have their health an" mental alertness, whereaswell, lister to this: "During the hearing of some of the

most important cases Justice Gray, suffering from kidney trouble, fre quently fell asleep: Justice Shlras often nodded In slumber, blissfully oblivious to the learned arguments of learned counsel who often were put at their wits’ and to conce,al their confusion. As for Justice Field, he could be Reen, on occasion after occasion, staggering to his seat, all out of breath, his eyes bulging, and his frame lr. the shiver of extiema decrepitude; he required an assistant to hold him up.” This paragraph is from a description of the court under Chief Justice Fuller, in Myer’s History of the Supreme Court. There is ncthlng like that now.

A Thought

Woe unto tftum that are wise in their own eyes, an i prudent In their own sight.—lsa. 5:21. • • • H*””“ E who >ninks he can find in hirnseif the means of doing ■ J without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others - annot do without him is still more mistaken.—La Rochefoucauld ( holey “What kind of coal do you wish, madam?” "Dear me. I am so Inexperienced in such things. Are there several kinds?” “Oh, yes: we have egg coal, chestnut—" “I think I’U take the egg coal. We have eggs oftener than we have chestnut*).” —Boston Transcript.

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So Far, So Good

As the Traveler Sees It BY BERTON BRALEY I’m used to spending eight bucks a day For a little room with a shower hath, Three bones for breakfast I often pay. Without exhibiting rabid v rath. But 1 dissolve in a fiery vapor When soaked three cents for a twocent paper! The bolder grafts of a large hotel, I know them all and I bear them meekly. It’s very seldom I groan or yell. And if I holler, I holler weakly; But like an Indian brave I caper When charged three cents for a twocent paper! By big hotels l am often gafft and, I I’m used to it and I don’t complain. But the guy who started that newsstand graft Some day I’ll murder, and when he’s slain I’ll pay three cents for a funeral taper Which I shall make of a two-cent paper! j (Copyright, 1923, NBA Service, Inc.) What is the "check-ofT” in the mining industry" The system by which union dues, fires and assessments are deducted from the pay of the miners by the employers, and paid direct to the union treasurers.

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SATURDAY, OUT. 20, 1923

Indiana Sunshine

Cheer up, it’s getting warm again “down South.” Motorcycle Policeman Henry Boggess. Evansville, appeared recently with a violet pinned on the lapel of his coat. “Blue violets are blooming in my back yard.” he claimed. Answering a call to the home of Henry Glatzel, Martinsville fire trucks became stalled in the mud. The big truck was forsaken while a boy who saw the fire started put out the blaze Then the correspondents adds, “what damage there was wasn’t enough to be estimated.” Evidently It was one exciting night. It rained so hard in Alexandria recently that the owners of ducks, geesei and fowls of various kinds, provided them with rubber boots, raincoats and umbrellas. At least that Is what a resident claims. Why not save all the trouble and provide them with houseboats r Mayor Mullins of Boonville informed the city council that the water situation was getting serious and that he was going to issue a proclamation to water consumers to conserve the supply. In less than five hours after the mayor made his statement it started raining and thirty-six hour* later it was still pouring.