Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1923 — Page 4

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A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE CIRCLE distinctive civic feature of Indianapolis—Monument !v/ ' Place—has been saved from what many citizens regard an undesirable improvement. The ruling that a proposed six-story garage on the site of the Bates Hotel is now impossible, as far as the city plan commission and the board of works is-concerned, has been greeted with general approval. With the present traffic jam within the mile square, created by the Union Station. Terminal Station. Bus Terminal, street car lines and the always present throng of automobiles, the garage plan probably would only aggravate the problem. It’s difficult enough to drive a car through the downtown district, or even to walk safely across the streets. Indianapolis residents are proud of the Monument Place which the State made possible years ago. It is a distinctive feature that few cities in the Nation can duplicate. Commercial interests should not be permitted to injure it. FIVE PER CENT FROM FORESTS—A FACT TjIEEDLESS neglect of reforestation of Indiana lands is one FI 1 of the follies for which the State is now paying through the idle waste of many thousands of acres of and in the southern part. Trees have been treated in Indiana as the “unlimited” gas supply was regarded several decades ago. Farmers then permitted gas jets, thrown high into the air, to light the country day and night. Fine hardwood forests which once covered southern Indiana were likewise devastated in interests of lumber companies. As gas supplies have failed, the fine forests have disappeared. Natural resources cannot be depleted without paying the cost. The virgin forests of America are five-sixths gone. The remaining sixth is being cut and burned away with careless thought of the future. Deforestation will be complete within twentyfive years, it is estimated. Indiana is suffering from the failure in the past to provide a scientific plan for forest growing And yet a vast area of land in southern Indiana is declared by agricultural authorities to be of little possible use except as forest land. Would it pay? That is the practical question, and one that should be rightly raised, since an expenditure of money would be required in a program of many years. A few national forests have been purchased by the Federal Government. They are being cut scientifically and the lumber sold to defray expenses. Yet, despite the investment and the operation cost, a profit of from 5 to 6 per cent has been realized for the public. Indiana’s opportunity should not be neglected.

WHERE ACCIDENTS OCCUR PUBLIC places are the scenes of the greatest number of accidents. Almost one-half per cent) of all fatal accidents listed last year by a big insurance company occurred on streets and highways, in automobiles and trains, in public buildings, or in places where people gathered for sport or recreation. The home is almost as dangerous a place as the factory. Fifteen per cent of all fatal accidents occurred in homes, while such industrial accidents totaled 16 per cent. It is safer to be in the machine than out of it when an automobile accident occurs. Passengers comprised only one-fourth of the victims of these mishaps, while pedestrians made up threefourths. Childhood and old age pay the heaviest toll of accidents on streets and in other public places, and also in the homes. With all these facts before you, suppose you write to The Times and suggest what you think ought to be done about it. HIRAM ALL FIXED mNTRODUCING Mr. Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Norristown, Pa. All “gents’* desiring to become chief mahout to the G. O. P. elephant in 1924 should know Mr. Strassburger. Mr. Strassburger is a millionaire and backs Hiram Johnson. In striving to become President of this free and glorious democracy it is always customary to be backed by a millionaire, or a party of millionaires. Remissness in this particular means disappointment. Note the cases of Mr. Bryan and Bob La Follette, the hated of millionaires. The putting of Mr. Strassburger’s money where it will do Hiram the most good will be in the hands of Mr. Lasker, late of the United States shipping board. Mr. Lasker’s record as a spender of other people’s money is beyond reproach. Mr. Strassburger—“angel.” Mr. Lasker—distributor of angel food. Mr. Randolph Ilearst —publicity. By the shades of Marcus Aurelius Hanna 1 It’s merely a matter of leading the elephant up to the trough and letting him drink, or take a plunge bath! COOPERATION BY FARMERS S r JOLUTION of problems of agriculture price by cooperative marketing will be undertaken soon by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. At a meeting in Indianapolis Dec. 6 and 7 the needs of the grower to pool his sales, regulate crops and acquire class interests for his own benefit will be discussed. Farmers for generations have been the most backward of workers. Isolation in the country has resulted in clannishness and hesitation to co-operate with one another in business and finances. Many modern farmers, however, are awakening to what they believe is the need of co-operation. Capital and labor does it by collective bargaining. Sane, intelligent and conservative leadership is the only requisite for success. Efforts of Indiana farmers will be watched with interest. THE AFFLICTION of the blind pig, it is discovered, is communicable. SOUTH CAROLINA reports a jiiorse that laughs, and no wonder. He undoubtedly sees the humor of the situation that crowded him aside. SINCE Mr. McAdoo has decided to launch his presidential boat, it is easy to understand why he selected a man named Rockwell to run it.

THREE HOLD DEMOCRATIC LIMELIGHT Ralston, Underwood and McAdoo Are Potential Minority Party Selections. BY ROBERT J. BENDER (Copyright, 1923, by United News.) Nr— JEW YORK. Nov. 16—There are three men actively or pasL__J sively in the race at the present time for the Democratic presidential nomination —William Gibbs MeAdoo, Senator Samuel Ralston of Indiana and Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama. There are others, such as Governor A1 Smith of New York, Senator Edwards of New Jersey, former Governor Cox of Ohio, Governor Davis, Kansas: Carter Glass of Virginia; John W. Davis, former ambassador to England, and lesser lights, who may have the yearnings for the honor, but none of whom will get anywhere. At this writing there are just three who have a chance —McAdoo, Ralston and Underwood—and this trio today are laying lines to prevent any outsiders from obstructing their traffic. Issues Are Important In order to intelligently survey the chances of these three leaders, it is necessary to lake into consideration the isues which are likely to play an important part in the next campaign. Putting aside a lot of local or socalled unimportant National points of issue, it is conceded by policital leaders the following debatable subjects will play an important part in forth coming primaries and the ensuant presidentall election: 1. Whether the ‘‘average man” shall be relieved of a tax burden which makes it almost ’mpossible for him to be a home-owning progressive citizen, and whether the capitalist shall he relieved of a tax burden which, he says, blocks initiative and the onward march of productivity. 2. Whether the Government shall lay down a bonus policy which will Into another annual pension system. 3. How the Government may best lend its aid to the farmers, particularly in the matter of moving their crops, and what should be the regulations imposed upon railroads, so that they may be of more service to the traveling and shipping public. 4. What shall be the definite foreign policy of the American Government. 5. The Ku-Klux Klan. Order of Importance We mention them in the order of importance as gained from conversations with those espousing the cause of each of the three leading Democratic candidates. The political fu ture of each is completely wrapped up in one or more of these issues, as will be shown in later stories. Senator Underwood Is out making speeches to establish a foundation for his cause. McAdoo has just announced his candidacy. Senator Ralston has become a candidate for the nomination “by proxy.” He hasn’t suggested It, hasn’t thought much about it, possibly has felt he didn’t want the worry of it —but is in the position of having political man agers in the party working to the end that he get it. There are many influences. contributing to the advantage or disadvantage of these three men.

Science

Newspaper Items stating that seismographs have recorded an earthquake are quite frequent. The seismograph Is a modern invention of science for the purpose of recording earthquakes and their intensity. Science can not yet foretell earthquakes, but this may bi possible in the future through the iirogress made in studying them. This study Is made of value largely through the seismograph. These instruments are based on the principle that a plumbbob or pendulum is relatively at rest when undisturbed by extraordinary movements of the earth. The seismograph pendulum Is similar to the chandelier in a room that begins to sway with the movements of an earthquake, except that the seismograph has a device for multiplying the smallest movements to an Immense degree. The instruments are so arranged as to multiply tremors coming from any point of the compass, up or down. The first instruments were crude. They have been perfected by Prof. Omori of Japan, Prof. Vinoentini of Italy and Lord Kelvin of England.

Observations

Ambassador Herrick's utterances remind us it is not so much in the way of pants that our diplomats need as it is hats that can’t be talked through. Isn’t it peculiar how things work In this life! White mule whisky will prevent radiators from freezing, hut it hats a directly opposite effect on drivers and others. President Coolidge has indorsed "Golden Rule Sunday,” which looks like a direct bid for the Magnus vote.

Heard in the Smoking Room

iJrr-i j HERB'S a story for every I mile of that desert out 1... J there,” said the conductor, after seating himself in the smoker and listening to the yarns spun, for a time. "An Englishman, an American and an Irishman got lost out there without water, but when their tongues were blistered stiff and the cracks in their lips turning black, they came across an old well. It meant possible salvation, but there was the precious drink some fifteen feet down below their reach, making them mad with ltp glisten and smoothness. They had no rope. So they resolved to make a human chain, Pat the first to go headfirst, with the cast-iron frying pan, the American holding him by the ankles and the Englishman the last Unk of the chain. The chain had

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/?7oM SIMS I-/- -/- Says IT. LOUIS burglar posing as a plumber was caught, perhaps i before he forgot to forget his tools. * * * Lightning is so contrary. In Canada, it went to the trouble of strik._ iug twice in the same place. • * * Cowboys'wrestled wild cows at a New York rodeo. We wrestled a wild steak in New York once. • • * Falling in love or making a pile of money doesn’t leave very much time for doing anything else. • * * We would hate to be a detective. They go down to the office every morning and get puzzled. ... Chicago couple eloped in an airplane. That’s the way these days. They fly high at first. * * • Nebraska scientists claim they have found another lost race. You can get plenty at a race track. • • • California professor claims college girls are cave women, but he may be judging by their clothes. i • # What could be worse than teaching in a girls' school where they answer questions with “Because”? • # * New York woman voted twice in one election. And they said women couldn’t learn politics. • * ♦ It has been a long time since Mexican bandits killed an American, except by selling booze. Some seem to think peace in Europe will take French leave. • • • There may be nothing wrong with the coal situation, but you won’t need i fan to keep cool. • • • News from London. Wife really hit her husband with a rolling pin. it's a nice old English custom. • • • Chicago man burned his home bv hrowing a lamp at his wife. How luaint and old fashioned!

QUESTION S <4x£-The Times ANBW E R S

Vou can (ret an answer to any question of Inti or information hy writing so Iho tniliannpollft rim-'*' WashinrtoD Bureau 1)122 New York Avr Wash injrion. D C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical. loxkl and nisrita' advice cannot be riven nor can extended roearch be undertaken A!! other questions will receive a per -onV reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential —Editor AV hat is the latest development in the matter of the Ku Klux Klan taking over Valparaiso University? Were any negotiations conducted, and what was the result? Milton Elrod, eldtor of the Fiery Cross, n Klan paper, appeared before the board of trustees of Valparaiso University. He represented the Klan organization in Indiana. He proposed to pay $500,000 to the university with In ninety days to pay off the indebtedness and finance the operation of the Institution. An additional $500,100 was to be paid within a year. He agreed to deposit $90,000 as nn earnest of good faith. A draft of a refinancing plan was drawn up in which Elrod. Elmer D. Brothers, ehairmnn of the board of trustees, and other members of the Valparaiso alumni conferred and finally agreed. This proposal was then submitted to attorneys for their final approval. After careful examination of the charter of the university. however. It was found the char ter provided that the institution could never come under the control of any association or elernosynary Institution. Other legal difficulties intervened and the proposal was dropped. The Klan paid no money to the university: the Institution Is operating under Its board of trustees, as formerly, as a non-sectarian, nonpolitical Institution, admitting all creeds arid races, except the negro, ‘here being no facilities for caring for negroes. The announcement that the Klan had taken, over the university was premature and unauthorized by any university official. How can T estimate the consumption of an electric lamp? The wattage of a lamp indicates the j amount of power it consumes, and the j total consumption of energy in kilo- ! watt hours can be found by multi- | plying the wattage by the time in hours and dividing the product by 1,000. A 10-watt lamp, for example, uses ten watt hours In an hour, which Is 0.01 kilowatt hours. Do bees and wasps die after they have stung a person, and if so, why? Honey bees die within a day or two and sometimes soon after stinging. This is due to the fact that the ‘stinger" remains in the body of the oerson stung, and is torn from the bee with such injuries that ‘he bees cannot live. Bumblebees, wasps and hornets do not die after stinging. When a soldier buys his way out of the Army does he get a dishonorable discharge? No: purchase out of the Army caries with It an honorable discharge. When was the first railroad built in France? In 1828.

hardly got. ten feet into the hole when Pat dropped the frying pan, which sank in the water. But those above didin’t sense this loss and kept on lowering Pat until soon he was in the water above his shoulders. Death by drowning seemed Pat’s end, but |he made a great fight. Once in a | while he would get his head up, only Sto splutter and go in again. Finally he managed to get a period of air long enough to yell: “ ‘Pull, yez dom forriners! Pull me up and empty me. Be gob Oi have the whole well!’ And they drew him forth from the hole.” “But how did they' get the water that saved them?” asked an English looking smoker among the listeners “Oh, dammk!" replied the conduc tor, “I’ve endfd it the way all desert stories end.” f

IMMIGRANT PROBLEM IS FOREMOST Coolidge Will Deal With Issue in His Message to Congress. By FRAZER EDWARDS, fritted Press Staff Correspondent. yuT ASHINGTON, Nov. 16. —Immigration, with its vital econo———J rriic, political and patriotic significance, today holds a keen Interest sci President Coolidge. That he will deal with the problem In his message to Congress is unquestioned by Administration officials. Would Enroll Alien The American Federation of Labor, the American Legion, the National Grange and the Native Sons of the G'oiden West are demanding immigration legislation that will provide for: 1. Fixing the census of 1390, in> stead of 1910, as the quota basis, to shut out undesirable aliens from the Balkans and the Mediterranean In reenacting the 3 per cent law. 2. Exclusion of all aliens, Ineligible to citizenship. 3. Selective Immigration by inspection abroad and enrollment of aliens after tffey land. 4. Amendment to the seamen’s law to .stop the bootlegging of aliens, particularly orientals. Secretary Davis has urged on President Coolidge the importance of Congress re-enacting an “alien code" dealing with the relations between this government and all aliens on our shores. While congressional leaders concede the opportunity of such a code to end the present conflicts of law, they say it can not be done at the present session of Congress. A conference of western Senators and Congressmen will soon meet here to draft legislation to bar all Japanese. Senator Shortridge of California, who is at the forefront of the movement, says there is no treaty to bar such an act. The labor department is in sym pathy with the movement. Davis to Make Fight Whether President Coolidge makes a recommendation for Secretary Davis' plan for “selective immigration” by inspection abroad, the secretary of labor is certain to make a personal fight for it, as well as the enrollment of aliens after they land. “Bootlegging'' of aliens is one of the evils the department of labor at least, will demand Congress take steps to end. One of the gaps that must be stopped is in the seamens law, according to officials. Under the guise of the law, which permits seamen to come ashore to reship, Chinese coolies are slipped In. •

Editor’s Mail Thfi editor is willing to print views of Time* reidrrs on Interr.tmr subjects. Make your comment brief. Slrn your name hs an evidence of good faith It will not be printed if you object.

What Say, Fathers? To the Kdltor of The Times On Tuesday you published an editorial, “Father Needs Some Sleep.” Os course, every wife will grant that her husband needs sleep, but the trouble with most married men is that the word sleep is the most popular word in their vocabulary. When Friend Husband arrives home from his office In the evening and his wife asks how he feels she becomes provoked when, evening after evening she hears, “Oh, I'm half dead. I’m going to bed early, for I need sleep.” If the husband would just say this on an average of twice a week, it wouldn't be so dreadful, but when it Is a daily tune. It becomes monoto nous. A man who works hard all day needs recreation as well as sleep and passing one or two nights a week at either a bridge party or the theater will not Injure his health. In fact, it will do him good, for the more sleep a man gets the more he wants. PROXY. That Bus Proposition To the Editor oj The limes Busses for Indianapolis, please! Personally, I am for "tripping” that Indianapolis Street Railway Company every opportunity presented. Not because of its superior service granted over that rendered in other eitie;— for, as citizens, they should have such personal pride—but because of its vested wrong in continuing to sidestep the granting of crosstown lines specifically stipulated in its own terms resoluted away back in l'ils. It is for this reason, if no other, that Indianapolis citizens, now living in the outlying districts, are going to welcome the service of bus lines. So, Mister City Council, pray grant us the "double deckers” and give Indianapolis that hurry-scurry, bustling atmosphere alikened to Chicago and ■dear old New York. There is plenty of room for all of the motor vehicles that will convey service to the public—though I would not favor “dlnkles” of every caste predominating. MRS. OTTO J DEEDS. 248 W. Maple Rd.

Family Fun

Mother IMdn’t Know Helen was at her first party. When refreshments were served she refused a second helping of ice cream with a polite “No, thank you,” although she looked wistful. “Do have some more, dear,” the hostess urged. “Mother told me to ay ’No, thank you.’ ” the little girl explained naively. “But I don’t believe she knew how small the dishes were going to be.”— Everybody's. Safety First “And now,” said the Sunday school teacher, winding up his discourse on foreign missions, “if somebody gave you a thousand dollars," Mary, what would you do with it?" “I’d give it to the heathen,” replied the young lady dutifully. “Excellent! And you, Henry?” “I’d count it."—American Region Weekly. Daughter Not Introduced “My dear girl, you can’t dance all night with neuritis.” “Why, father, how can you say that? I never even met him!"—Judge.

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What Editors Are Saying

Unselfishnses (Marion Leader-Tribune) One of the things which has developed in Marion in the last year, greatly to Its credit, is the element of un -elftshness. This is well, for no people nor no community can progress until the public assumes and ties a life of sacrifice for the general good. There must be less thought rs self, and, in the absence of it, more regard for the welfare of the whole people. The future of Marion, because of this turn in the tide, is filled with great possibilities. * • Unless (Washington Democrat) You doubtless will be able to feel duly grateful Nov. 29. if you don’t insist on mortgaging the home or selling the ear to pay for turkey. • * * False (Frankfort Evening News) Industry has concentrated populations around certain centers, but thousands of people are living in the heart of great cities who could, so far os their employment is concerned, live out In the open country with more convenience and greater real enjoyment. But the germ for excitement and the noise of the city holds many a person to a kennel where they might otherwise have a home. Country school houses are abandoned, and city school houses filled to overflow by the same false notions of life. A Thought The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going.—Prov. 14:15. • • * It " Tis a curious paradox that precisely In proportion to our own intellectual weakness, will be our credulity as to the mys serious powers assumed by others. — Colton.

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Pure Gold By BERTON BRALEY In absence of loquacity Some people find sagacity. They think the silent person is a bird With w isdom of immensity Because of his propensity To sit and think and never say a word. Behind that quiet front of him And in each nod and grunt of him They fancy there is knowledge erudite. And now and then you find it's true He has a clever mind, it's true, And those who think him wise have got it right! But silence oft has back of it Not thought—hut utter lack of it; That ponderous appearance is a stall. That Jovian impassivity Hides mental inactivity. There's nothing going back there at all! Still, if that individual Can dope it out to kid you all, To thinking there's a brain beneath his hat; If he can only stay with it And somehow get away with it, The silent lad is pretty wise at that! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Hard to Tell A youth seated himself in the dentist’s chair. He wore a wonderful striped silk shirt and an even more wonderful checked suit. And he had a vacant stare. “I am afraid to give him gas," said the dentist to his assistant. “Why?” “Look at him now. How will I know when he is unconscious?”—Argonaut.

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Columbus has a homeless flivver. Several times it was abandoned on the streets for a long period. Officials say the license is issued to a local address, but the city directory contains no corresponding name. Several times when police called for the abandoned car. it was spirited away. The elusive automobile was finally caught and Is being kept corraled at the "police station. Real live chickens cackled and crowed their way noisily into the court room during a trial at Richmond. They were evidence in the case of Carl and Edna Zook, charged with petit larceny. It is alleged the couple stole the fowls. Probably young Kenneth Lockhart, who is four feet eleven inches tall and weighs ninety-five pounds, intends tM | show some older hunters how done. He is said to be the smallest person to take out a hunting license in Decatur county.

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