Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Editor-in-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BUHRMAXI Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Srripps-Howard Newspapers • • • Client of the United Press. United News, United Financial, NEA Service, Pacific Coast Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 25-29 S, Meridian Street, Indianapolis. • * • Subscription Rates; Ind’ianapolis— Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • * • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

HOLLYWOOD A YD HAPPINESS f lyl NEWS item telling how the happiness of one home in In- |/\| dianapolis was shattered by the desire of a wife to enter the movies in Hollywood is more than an nnusual event of the day. Last year 18,000 girls went to Hollywood, attracted by the lure of the movies. That is the problem before the Y. W. C. A. officials there. The figures are issued by the organization and verified by a Hoosier, Will Hays, who is supporting an appeal to raise funds to cope with the situation. Why is Hollywood the mecca for thousands of the feminine kind who seek fame on the screen? Jack Pickford, who was in Indianapolis last week with his wife, Marilyn Miller of “Sally,” blames the desire for money as the primary cause for Hollywood’s lure. The latest trend is an influx of mothers with prospective “Jackie Coogans” and “Baby Peggies,” according to Pickford. • Social position also attracts many girls. Perhaps one reason exists in the fact that emotional qualities are dominant in woman. Expression of the desire to be a heroine of romance, to perform glorious sacrifices, to give the fullest extent of love, and to triumph in beauty and personality have prompted others to seek vainly for the rainbow. Happiness cannot be found in merely going to Hollywood. The quest of happiness ends in the heart, in the home and in commonplace things. “BIG MEETING” HITS BULLS-EYE I N 1904 there was started in Indianapolis an institution | 1 known as the “Big Meeting” of Indianapolis. That institution is about to open its doors for its twentieth year. The “Big Meeting,” as every one in Indianapolis probably *knows, is under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. During the winter months a meeting is held every Sunday afternoon in English’s Theater. These meetings are addressed almost invariably by men of national prominence in religious and other lines. The meetings are educational and instill into those attending a doctrine of right living. “Big Meetings” in Indianapolis always are well attended. More often than not every seat in the theater is filled. An actual count,, announced by the Y. M. C. A., shows a total of 512,050 men have attended these meetings. At the “Big Meeting” men of all walks of life get together. They sit together, they sing together and they learn together. It is truly a democratic institution and an institution worthy of support. OF INTEREST TO STRAPHANGERS prYOUBLE-deck motor busses such as are used in New York |LJ | an( i Chicago, may soon help solve transportation problems in Indianapolis, if present plans are carried out. Such busses would do much to relieve the street car jam during the morning and evening rush hours. They would provide rapid and comfortable transportation. Present plans call for a 10-cent fare —twice that charged by the street railway company —but there are man}' in Indianapolis who would pay the extra nickel for the extra convenience afforded. At the same time it is well to say a word for the street car company. While during the rush hours the crowding is exasperating, to say the least, it must be remembered that Indianapolis is one of the few cities in the country where fare has remained at 5 cents. There should be room in Indianapolis both for street railway and regulated motor bus transportation.

CLEARING THIS M ’CRAY TANGLE ■TT|OTHIXG should be put in the wav of the grand jury invesIN tigation of the financial affairs of Governor McCray. An appropriation of $5,000 should not be begrudged if it is necessary to bring about speedy justice. Serious statements have been made concerning the activities of the Governor of Indiana. These statements have reached the point where officials wojild be derelict in their duty if they did not investigate them. This investigation should be as speedy as possible, but it should be as thorough as facilities permit. It would be Unfair to the people of Indiana and to the Governor himself for officials to fail to bring the affair to some definite conclusion. The sooner the atmosphere is cleared the better it will be for all concerned. UPLIFT THE BURDEN m HERE’S got to be a Society for Getting Arizona Indians Closer tcf Civilized America’s. Domestic Procedure. We don’t insist on all of these capital letters in the society’s title, but there should be plenty, to make it stylish and imposing in print. Over in Arizona, recently, Chief Zookie Earns observed that .one of his braves, Mokahque by name, coveted Mrs. Earns. Now, the New York, the recherche, the civilized way, to act when one observes that wife is being coveted with vim and vigor, is to bring a divorce suit, deny fatherhood of the children and put enough mud on the wife of your bosom to keep her character buried as deep and long as old King Tut was. Lawyers may get your fortune and you may expose yourself as a long-enduring, able-bodied fool, but it is the civilized way. But Chief Zookie wasn’t civilized sufficiently, and so he conferred with Mr. Mokahque and contracted, for the consideration af 1 horse, 1 saddle and 1 shotgun, to quitclaim Squaw Earns to said Party of the Second Part, be the same more or less but subject to all legal highways. The transaction seems to have observed some of the legal proprieties, but the Party of the Second Part, after transfer of the Lady of the Third Part, defaulted payment of the shotgun, and instead of hiring three shifts of lawyers, as civilization would dictate, the said Parties engaged in a vulgar pitched battle, in which Earns shot Mohakque. Os course, it was * tuing that no civilized gentleman would do. Old Zookie was Mcivilized and didn’t hand the gun over to Mesdame EamsMokahque to do the shooting. The Arizona Indian is an integral part of civilized white man’s burden, and this affair clearly a Society for Get ting Arizona Indians Closer to Domestic Procedure, or something equally as goojL

TO WAR ON FILIPINOS IS MURDEROUS Coolidge Backs Up Wood in Suppressing Self-Govern-ment in Islands, By HERBERT QUICK mHE people of the Philippine Islands want to govern themselves. Just as our ancestors did. General Wood, our Governor General of the islands, is taking away from them the self-government formerly given them, and is suppressing as far as he can. and more and more all the time, the movement for independence. President Coolidge has lined up with Wood. It looks as though we are going to have war on our hands with the Filipino people one of these days—next year, perhaps, or if not then. In a few years anyhow. This brings it up to you. Mr. or Mrs. Citizen. Are You for War? Are you for this war? Do you favor sending American boys to the Philippines to shoot down Filipino boys? If so, why? Do you think the Filipinos unfit for self-govern-ment? Well, suppose they are: are we fit to govern them? Hadn’t we better learn to govern ourselves successfully before we undertake to govern others against their will at a distance of 8,000 miles? How are they to learn how to govern themselves unless given the chance? Suppose they do fall down in trying self-government. Aren’t most of the nations of the world falling down In the same way? Can Subdue Them How much better off will they be when crushed by our troops than when they govern themselves badly? But If we put them down by force, your son. perhaps, anyhow many American boys, will die or suffer from wounds and sickness in their subjugation. Os course we can subdue them. Any fool knows that. But as for me. I am for freedom as against the shabby pride which would be gratified by conquering the Filipino again. It Is a shabby, stinking sort of pride. To fight the * Filipinos In their -druggie for independence does not call for heroes. It calls for fools and tyrants and murderers. Let that be the answer of America to the movements which are going on which, unless halted, will surely end In war.

SToM SIMS | -/- -/- Says

'TpiHE trouble in Europe is crises II get >so early every morn'l 1 in: tre is no one to meet l them. • • • News from Germany. Big hotel ' has been dynamited. Rumor says ' several steaks were badly bent. . . . The report that there is a movement to take “peace” out of European dictionaries is untrue. • • • Mediums have been delivering spirit messages In New York. A funny thing is they came collect. • • • While Leap Year Is almost two months away the candidates for of- | flee are dodging Issues already. • • • i The hog crop is good. They say it is much better than expected. That I is bringing home the bacon. • * • What this country needs Is an , alarm clock that warms the room 1 when it rings for you to get up. • • • A woman in New York tried to ’ shoot herself, perhaps because she ; was a woman In New York. • • • Thanksgiving Is coming. Be thankJful for something. Be thankful you i don’t live In Europe. • • • Christmas Is getting so near It Is almost time for little boys to want to go to Sunday school. • • • Here’s great news for the hard cider drinker. It Is pronounced illegal, so there will be plenty. • • * Do your Thanksgiving home-brew-ing early and avoid the rush.

Science

The favorite hunting grounds today of scientists who Btudy the evolution of man are the forests of Madagascar, Western and Eastern Africa and several of the Asiatic islands. These forests are the homes of several kinds of animals similar to the monkeys In many respects, but different from them In some of their habits and to a certain extent in their anatomy. They hide during the day and move about at night, with a gilding and noiseless motion, through the dense tropical foliage. When first discovered by travelers they were thought to resemble spectres or hobgoblins and were therefore given the name of lemons, from the Latin term meaning ghosts. There are many kinds of lemurs. In scientific language all the lemur? like animals are grouped under the term lemuroida. They are of intense interest to scientists because they are the next lower order to the monkey and occupy an important place In the study of the evolution of man.

A Thought

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but th*re was none; and for comforters, :-Ut I found none. —Ps. 69:20. * • * ___j E are accustomed to see men Y W deride what they do not underY T stand and snarl at the good and beautiful because It Bes beyond their sympathies.—Goethe.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

UNUSUAL PEOPLE Movie Critic for French

By NEA Service C 1 HICAGO, Oct. 26.—Genevieve Harris, Chicago movie critic, has left her home town for Paris to become movie critic extraordinary. In fact, she might have been considered such while Bshe was still here. For she's about the only American woman who wrote her criticisms of American films In French, for publication in the Parisian m o vie mag azine, L e Courier. Now she Intends to go further and presentation. She will study at the MISS HARRIS Sarbonne to sup plement the education she gained at Wisconsin University. Besides reviewing films. Miss Harris has written short stories and is the author of a course on scenario writing.

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You can ret an answer to any question of fart or Information by writinr to the Indianapolis Times’ 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 wtll receive a personal reply. Unsigned reoueats cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is Cy Young’s record? He won 608 games and lost 311 since playing baseball. He has been picked by one authority as the greatest pitcher in baseball history. Is it possible to make sugar on a small scale from sugar beets with ordinary kitchen equipment? No, the making of sugar is far too technical a process to be attempted it home. Which are the five longest national highways? The Lincoln, the National OJd Trails road, the Roosevelt National Highway, the Dixie Overland Highway and the Pike’s Peak Ocean to Ocean High way. Is there such a thing as an " fflcial golf ball?” The Federal Trade Commission saj-s that neither the United States Golf Association nor the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrew's, Scotland. has officially adopted any special make of hall for use in all tournaments or contests conducted by or under the auspices of these clubs. Does millionaire mean that a man possesses one million dollars, or what? In the United States a man must have a million dollars, in England one trillion pounds, In France one million francs. In his own country a man must possess a million in the currency of his country to be termed a millionaire. What is a "Mummer’s Parade?” Mummer is another word for actor. A Mummer’s Parade is any parade in which the participants are dressed in fancy costumes, and thus are acting parts. The Mummer's Parade in Philadelphia is a local custom like the New Orleans Carnival. Such celebrations on New Year’s day are very old. How long have men divided time into days? From the earliest times man seems to have counted time by the day, or at least by the periods of darkness and light. The Babylonians, Greeks. and Jews divided day and night re speotlvely Into twelve, "unequal” or j planetary hours, equal hours being termed “equinoctial,’’ because at the equinoxes the two syotems coincided. “Double hours" of 120 minutes were employed by the Chinese and Japanese. Standard time for all countries was first established in 1882.

Editor’s Mail

To the Editor o} The Timet A few papers read by the average person give space to articles concerning organized labor that do not have an undercurrent of malice or contempt. We feel your paper ought to know that some of us appreciate your fairness. Perhaps In time the general puhllo will come to understand that our organizations are made up of "just folks” and will treat us as such. And only through the medium of a press that Is not afraid to be fair, regardless of pressure of opposing Interests, will we be able to convince people that organized labor is here' to stay, and means to be recognized, not as a trouble-seeking, domineering, grasping horde—as some would have you believe —but as a fraternal order to prove and demonstrate the truth of the declaration that all men are created equal. M. P. S.

Heard in the Smoking Room

SHE smoking room story again turned to wives. One man chuckled as he began: "My wife Is always raising the roof about my swearing until the other day when I called a window, that bad nearly gotten the end of my linger,

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SUCKERS IN U. S. BORN BY MILLION Flim-Flam Schemes Take Billion Dollars From Gullible Each Year, By ROBERT TALLEY Times Staff Correspondent 7TTTI ASHINGTON, Nov. 6. —"A sucker is born every minute,” P. T. Barnum once said, but H J. Donnelly, senior assistant solicitor of the Postoffice Department, thinks that estimate is rather low. By means of slim-slam schemes, crooks are taking a billion dollars I'rcm a million gullible Americans every year, says Donnelly, who has Issued more fraud orders in a shorter length of time than any other official in the history of the Postofflce Department. As fast as the evidence of crookedness is obtained they are barred from use of the malls. Fake oil stock schemes represent 111 of the 168 fraud orders Donnelly has issued recently, but some of the others make interesting reading. Canadian Rye “There’s the case,” said Donnejly, "of the alleged Canadian liquor firm which advertised ‘a special introductory price of $lB for twelve full quarts of genuine Canadian rye, delivered safely to your door in a plain, sealed package.’ The bottles contained rye, all right, but It was merely rye grain, not liquor.” Pink, green and red Angola cats — In fact, cats of any color of the rainbow in all its pristine beauty—were offered in the alluring advertisements of a veterinary surgeon up In Maine. Upon receipt of orders, he would dye ordinary long-tailed Maine coon cats to correspond with the desired color. Trouble deejoped however, when dis satisfied customers camplalned that the offspring of these kaleidoscopic felines were Just common, ordinary kittens. Beautiful Silk From an eastern city, a busy faker circularized women in the rural States with an offer of “ten yards of beautiful silk for making shirt-waists and other fancy things at the low price of 10 cents." When he got the dime, he filled this order with thirty feet of silk thread. In the list, one finds frequently the quack medicine man with hie absolute cure for every human ailment. His terrifying advertisements are so cunningly worded that one begins to feel the creeping symptoms of a dozen awful diseases merely upon reading them. “In one case." Donnelly went on, “an Illiterate quack claimed that his new discovery would cure cancer, tuberculosis, curvature of the spine, leprosy, and in fact every disea*-. to which humanity Is heir, in addition to growing new eyes and restoring sight to the blind. His concoction was found to consist of olive oil, alcohol and water, mixed with flavoring extracts, each flavor making a different remedy. This Imposter was getting $300,000 a year when a fraud order put a stop to him.” At the hearing, the white-haired old quack solemnly testified that the Lord had Instructed him how to compound his medicines. “I don’t think.” Donnelly mused, "that many lives have been lost by us putting him out of business.”

Family Fun

Slater Posts Her Feller "I suppose you have no respect for men who ask for kisses?" "No: I like the bold, masterful type of men." —Judge. Father Out of Style "The neighbors are talking altout j how stylish you’re dressing." "Tain’t style. Every time my boy | buys anew suit of clothes I have to j wear his old ones.” —New York Sun. j WlUle's Pants Pinch "Say, mom, these pants are so tight’ j They're tighter than my skin." "Don’t be so foolish, Harold. There Isn't anything tighter than your skin.” j "Well, these pants Is, 'cause I can sit down In my skin, but I’m darned If T can sit down In these pants.”— Judge. Mother and tlie Tramp "I ain’t never ’ad the chance. No j matter where I go or wot I works at, j my unlucky number bobs up and does j me In, some’ow." "What do you mean? What’s your unlucky number?" "Thirteen, lady; twelve Jurymen an’ a Judge." Be Satisfied A landlord in a certain town found it no easy matter to collect his rent with unfailing regularity. One woman was particularly trying in this re spect, and he thought himself lucky If he only received from her part of the rent due. One morning when he called at her house she offered him a half-dollar. "Is that all you've got for me?” he Inquired with a scowl. "You’re so much in arrears.” "Go on, now, and be satisfied.” was the reply. “You wouldn’t have that if my old man hadn’t sold the back door.”

everything I could think if. My wife turned to me, not In gentleness and love, and snapped back, forgetting the quotation about the beam and the mote: “I’ll bed , Jack, if I'll stand your swearing the way you do!”

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Trying to Teach “Old Dogs” New Tricks

Indiana Sunshine

From appearances it would seem that June has rolled around again when the thoughts of “boys” and "girls” naturally turn toward love. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Smith, 78 and 86, were ’’athome” on the bride’s farm near Mentone today after a brief honeymoon In Warsaw. The bride blushlngly admits three previous marriages, while Andrew could gainsay only one. New age records for marriage in Hamilton County when Jacob Kraus. 86, Nobiesville, took to wife Mrs. Lucy Fitzgerald. 63. It was the second marriage for each. They were among the oldest couples ever married in the county. Its never too late to love or to be foolish according to the viewpoint. A groom of 79 and a bride of 72 have Just figured in a marriage ceremony In English. They say they will spend their honeymoon in Mitchell. But Its really November. And the beginning of the chilly season seems to bring with It marital troubles. The divorce case of 80-year-old Richard Denny, Cicero, against his wife Mary was postponed because of illness of the defendant. Richard says this was the eleventh marital adventure. Judge Sidney S. Miller, Indianapolis, claims the divorce speed and endurance record for the world. In one day he granted a divorce every thirteen minutes he was on the bench. And it was a long day, too. Mjrs. Jessie Fischer, FT. Wayne, has brought suit for divorce from her husband. “You are too good to me John,” Jessie is said to have declared. “If you’d misuse me more, you’d be better off and mayhe I’d love you more.” But John refused to be a cave-man. Norma Kees, 20, Woodburn, has filed suit for SIO,OOO damages against i Ambrose Miser for non-appearance at I

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The Mystery BY BERTON BRALEY He married her because she dressed In dainty fashion. And thus aroused within his breast ’The gentle passion; She was so fresh, so trig and smart That looking at her Was quite enough to make his heart Go pitter patter. She married him because he seemed As neat as could be. His clothes were smart, his linen gleamed. And, as It should be, His face was shaved with skill adept. He charmed her greatly, A stylish chap whose garb was kept Immaculately. But when the honeymoon was o’er She grew' a slattern, I The dowdy negligee she were Was bad in pattern; While he, who won her heart with his Sartorial splendors, I Wore sloven shirts, unshaven phiz, ! And soiled suspenders. I To lawyers now the pair apply To be unmated. And everybody wonders why They separated: (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) a church wedding in which Norma and he were to take the leading roles. Ambrose is said to have taken to the woods. He returned later without explanation. Ernest C. Watson. Marion, doesn't care so much whether his wife returns or not, but he would like his automobile back, according to a divorce complaint. Ernest says she went "west” with his new car. Pauline Hardesty, 19, Sturgis, Mich., was scheduled to marry John Ashbury in that city. On the date set for the wedding, she left John waiting at the altar and appeared in Ft. Wayne and married Virgil Wormcastle, 19. “I loved Virgil more than John,” was her explanation.

TUESDAY, NOV. 6,1923

What Editors Are Saying

Subterfuge (Bluffton Evening Banner) The W. C. T. U. of Frankfort asked the mayor to close the movies on Sunday The mayor resorted to that well known subterfuge of closing all places of business on the Sabbath day—blue laws, you know—so, stay away from Frankfort for a couple of Sundays, at least, while the mayor makes an ass of himself. * Beef (Attica Ledger-Tribun The farmers hove confidence in Indiana and in the future. If such was not the case they would not have been purchasing double the number of feeding steers in the last two months They know that as soon as people stop joy-riding because of the weather they are going to put in some extra licks on good old roast beef. Prepared (Columbus Ledger) The Boy Scout’s motto is “Be Prepared.” Let us all show we, too, are pared” by responding to their for discarded Christmas toys they wili give to the needy children of this city on Christmas night. The scouts are to be commended for this tvork. which they have taken on themselves, and they deserve all the support that Bartholomew County can give them. Talkers (Marlon Leader-Tribune) The average fellow who never does anything for his community la the first guy to talk of "the fellow ■who Is trying to run the town.” In any event, he Is not trying to run the town, or anything else. When a hard task is done, and not before it is done, the band wagon is crowded with guys trying to find a seat. But in the first of the parade it w r as difficult to get enough players to make a tune.