Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 165, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1923 — Page 4

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CHILDREN TODAY, CITIZENS TOMORROW 10 YOU know it is estimated there are 16,911 children in TODAY? Do yon know there are 52,034 persons in the State who have had no schooling whatever? Do you know that of the 74,356 men examined for military service in the World War 20,545 were physically disqualified? These are not complimentary facts. Progress in any society has never been made by ignoring truth nor by complacently accepting the present as “just good enough." Child labor is still a vital condition in Indiana. Despite the fact that the State has a “child labor law," a hidden serpent that iB spreading poison into our future citizenship, deadening the minds of boys and girls and creating a greater need for prison cells, reformatory confinement, insane hospitals and all these, is alive TODAY. Child labor and illiteracy go hand-in-hand. If little children *** denied an education, ill results can only follow. The problem is not limited to Indiana, however. By one decision, the United States Supreme Court held invalid the national child labor law passed after long effort in Congress. Many children are only industrial slaves, injuring their young bodies in daily labor, becoming illiterate, and growing up to be objects of control by politicians, often of unscrupulous motives, and to be physically unfit to assume duties of armed defense in times of war. Lax school law attendance is to blame in many parts of the country no less than inadequate enforcement of good laws in others. Facts of child labor in Indiana were obtained by the Federal povernment in the 1920 census. They should be studied sanely. WHAT WILL BE INDIANA’S ANSWER? Think it over. Somebody else’s child may be paying TOMORROW for your neglect TODAY. NATIONAL PISTOL LAW DIO YOU own a revolver? It’s amazing how many Americans do. For instance, gun-toting or owning is severely restricted in New York City. And yet New York has been issuing legal permits to 30,000 people a year to possess or carry pistols So far this year, the Indianapolis police department has issued 352 permits licensing citizens to acquire firearms. Last year the total for twelve months was 515. Pistol permits, of course, are not issued to known crooks. But legally owned pistols are frequently stolen by housebreakers. That’s how the underworld gets part of its firearms. Mail order purchase is the commoner method by which crooks arm themselves. This method requires no police registration. A criminal can not only get a pistol easily and stealthily, he can get as many as he wants and whenever he desires—by mail order. Authorities in Buffalo the other day revoked all pistol licenses in town and the surrounding country. Fifteen thousand permits to carry firearms are affected by the Buffalo action, which resulted from discovery that a murderer wanted by police was the holder of a county pistol permit. New York City is attacking the pistol menace in another way. Applicants for gun-toting permits are being finger-printed, the prints then checked up to make sure the applicants haven’t a criminal record. As long as crooks are able to get firearms, there’ll be shooting. Local restrictions cannot be other than puny until the national Government prohibits, in interstate commerce, the sale and shipment of revolvers except for officers of the law. Legislation to that end is before Congress.

HIGH W ASTE OF GENIUS jrr-i [HE inventive genius that is wrongly employed or going to 1 1 1 absolute waste in this country is appalling. Still more is it remarkable what a telling incentive and spur to mental processes is the moral and written “Thou shalt not.” There was the Michigan man who employed the inner tubes of his auto as carriers for bootleg liquor, and got away with it for months, until he had an inopportune blowout. And the Missouri man who made his household chandeliers the safety depository for his illicit drinks. And the Eastern narcotic dealer who invented a four-in-hand necktie that carried a thousand dollars’ worth of prohibited drugs. And the Oregon man who conceived a butt-section to a bamboo fish rod that would carry a full and highly stimulating quart. And the Wisconsin man who, for over a year, profited from the output of a still cunningly concealed in an old, abandoned fireplace in his main living room. And the Kansas man who made an imitation cigar, with gilt band and everything, that had a filler of some 336 half-grain morphine tablets. And that other Kansas man who bought car loads of discarded Kentucky whisky barrels, at $8 apiece, and steamed from each of them two gallons of good whisky which he sold at S3O a gallon. And more and more of the same kind and character. What might not happen of benefit to the world if Edison, or Ford, or other wizards could corral all this now wasted genius and set it on the right course! EXPLORER RASMUSSEN has discovered poets among the Eskimos. That’s what comes of a steady blubber diet. , IT IS the income tax blanks that are to be simpler and not. the payments. THE WHEAT farmers of Minnesota may not approve of Ambassador Frank Kellogg, but they cannot deny him the right of feeling his oats. SENATOR LA FOLLETTE came home from Europe with thirty-seven pieces of baggage. Evidently he gathered all the facts. k ARGENTINE petroleum department has just announced a K-ogram covering oil drilling activities for the next three years, end of which time one government field alone will be pro —it is relieved of this kind of work and worry by the kind Falls, Sinclairs and Dohenys.

_X)OKS LIKE RALSTON IS CHOICE BET Democrat Old Guard Cries Beat McAdoo as G. 0, P. Trimmed Wood in 1920, By ROBERT J. BENDER (Cpyright. 1923, by United News.) i T7l EW YORK, Ncv. 23.—William ■ Gibbs McAdoo will get the 1 South Dakota delegation to the lational convention when the Democrats gather at Pierre, Dec. 4, to vote heir preference. Thus McAdoo, this year, is getting he same jump on his opponents for the nomination as Gen. Leonard Wood got in his campaign four years ,go, when he won the South Dakota Republican State convention. The situation calls attention to the striking similarity between the political conditions confronting McAdoo and those in 1919 confronting Wood in the Republican party. McAdoo, like Wood, has the most active organization at work at this stage in the game of any of the candidates He is the best known candidate, as Wood was and, like Wood, os the greatest number of enthusiastic personal backers working for him all over the country. In Similar Danger But. just as Wood In 1919 was faced with a party situation which tugured ill for his ultimate success—the opposition and quiet wire-pullllng behind the scenes by astute Republican political leaders —so Is McAdoo In similar danger. Four years ago the slogan of the Republican Old Guard wai •'Beat Wopd First.” The same elogan is being applied by Democratic ’eaders like Charles Murphy, Brennan of Illinois, and Thomas Taggart of Indiana. Four years ago, the plan was carefully worked out by the Republican leaders to run down Wood with Governor Lowden of Illinois, and then, when a deadlock was reached, put through their own candidate. The plan was previously, though quietly, announced by their spokesmen and the pragram went through without a hitch. Strategy Is Similar Unless all signs fall, the strategy of the Democratic old guard Is similarly directed now. From the gathering of Murphy, Brennan and Taggart at Flench Lick, Ind., has emanated in succession, first the report they favored a wet plank In the Democratic platform, then that these party leaders seriously considered the advisability' of an antl-Klan plank, and, lastly, that the “Big Three” advocated at least a moist plank and a redeclaration of the principle of religious freedom as embraced In the Constitution and as recently uttered by Senator Ralston of Indiana as his stand on the Klan issue. These reports may prove prophetlo. Senator Underwood Is regarded as moist and Is outspoken against the Klan. He represents today the same position of availability In the Democratic party as Lowden did In the Republican party four years ago. The play looks this like: Steam up plenty of support for Underwood to sidetrack McAdoo. Run them to a deadlock in the early voting In the convention—and then put over the man the "Big three” wish. Looks like Ralston Os course, the outlook now is that the man would be Ralston, friend of Taggart, satisfactory to Brennan and Murphy and a good vote getter. The big trouble is Ralston Is 68 years old. For that reason It may be found advisable to get someone else —possibly Cox again—but probably not. In all events that is the program as it shapes up now. Maybe someone Underwood will finally be seeded to run own McAdoo, or Underwood himself will be found satisfactory as a nominee. Perhaps someone other than Ralston will be selected as the compromise candidate if the convention is deadlocked. The aim now is to "beat McAdoo." And McAdoo's fight ahead Is Just as . ough as that which faced Wood four rears ago as he emerged victorious from South Dakota

Science

The use of spectacles has grown enormously In the last ten years. Formerly only old persons whose ight was falling resorted to glasses. Mow It Is not uncommon to correct light defects In the eyesight of children ny the use of scientificallyadjusted spectacles. The discovery and use of spectacles was made possible by an Arabian istronomer named Alhazen. He was born at Bassor, Turkey, about 1000 A. D., but spent most of his life in Spain. Alhazen was the discoverer of the facta of animal vision. He was the first to learn that we see • hings because the ravs of light from objects around us strike upon our etinas and the impression is carried to the brain by a nerve. He explained why, with two eyes, we do not see two pictures and discovered the reason why a convex lens magnifies or makes objects seem larger. Many centuries before Alhazen it was customary for the very rich in Greece and Rome to use certain polished jewels to look through, partly as an affectation, as some use monocles and 'ye-glasses today, and partly because t aided eyesight by resting the eye. Large polished emeralds especially were in demand for this purpose.

Family Fun

The Modern IJeau "Our engagement is off forever! Shall I return your love letters?” "Never mind ’em, dear. I have •arbon copies.”—Judge. Time for Dad to Stop “Papa, are you still growing?” “No, my dear. Why?" “Because the top of your head is uming through your hair.” —Boston ,'ranscript. When Dad Hunts 'You went shooting with Smith?” "Yes.” “Shoot anything?” “Onlv Smith."—London Mail.

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UNUSUAL PEOPLE Home Strange to Boy

liv A’ VA Service LEVELAND, Nov. 23.—A1l the way from far-off Rumania, 10i. ■ year-old Frank Boros has come home again. But it is a home he doesn’t remember. For

when he was a wee baby his mother took him back to the old country on a visit. She died before that visit ended. Then came the war. And there was no chance of getting Frank started on the homeward trip. The other day, however, he arrived aboard the 1 m m i g ration

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special. He had come in accompanied. Now he Is busy getting acquainted with his father and his new mother, here in his new home.

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can aret an answer to any question of fact or information by writing 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, uor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned request* cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. On what day of the week did Christmas come In 1838? Sunday. What Is the output of steel In The United States, Great Britain and France? In 1921 the United States produced 20.250,000 long tons; the United Kingdom, 8,624.000 long tons, and France, 2,913,000 metric tons. How many miles of Federal aid road were built last year? For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, 8.520 miles were built. In what country did the navel orange originate and to what extent 1 It produced? The Department of Agriculture brought this fruit from Brazil. There were less than twenty trees in the original shipment and only a very few of them lived. Os the original shipment cne tree Is still growing in the greenhouses of the department in Washington, where great efforts have had to be made to keep it alive. Another one of the trees Is still growing In California. The nnvel orange now constitutes the larger part of the orange industry in California with the average annual production running over 8,000,000 boxes during the past five years.

Are there more children on the farms or in cltiee? There are appproxlmately 7,700,000 children under 10 years of ugo on the farms and 6.700,000 In cities having equivalent total population. What is the basis of the allotment of the Smith-Lever funds made to a State agricultural college* There Is directly approirriated the sum of $480,000 for each year, SIO,OOO of which is paid annually to each State. All other Federal Smith-Lever funds are allotted annually to the States by the Secretary of Agriculture In the proportion which the rural population of each State bears to the rural population of all the States, but, to be available to any State, an equal sum must have been appropriated for the work for the year by the Legis lature of the State, or provided by State, county, college, local authority or individual contributions within the State. How many potatoes were raised in the world last year? Over five billion bushels, exclusive of Russlo. What country produces the most potatoes? Germany, with Poland ranking second. Does tho United States export pork t Yes, the United States has led the nations of the world in this respect. For the five years ending In 1919 pork exports averaged 1,179,000,000 pounds. In 1921 exports of pork and pork products increased over 128 per cent over previous figures.

Heard in the Smoking Room

j'L j ] ALETS and butlers and menI servants generally were the T-J subjects in the smoking-room. The mart with the large stomach and the unmistakable air of affuence was telling about James, his head butler. James was of the old stock —an immaculate servant. He knew to a nicety how to treat guests according to their rank and everything, and when it came to serving a big dinner he was an artist and nothing e,se. But, a night or two ago, James blew up Courses were served in wrong order, wine was spilt and, finally and

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CHEAP LAND IS NEED OF COUNTRY Legislation Necessary to Take It Out of Hands of Sharks. Tlii9 is the fifth of a series ot articles written for the Indianapolis Times by Herbert Quick on agricultural problems. Quick is a former editor of Farm and Fireside and himself a West Virginia farmer. This article is on “Land Values.” By HERBERT QUICK SHE first necessary of life is land. It comes before even such things as food and shelter, for we cannot have either of these without access to land. The grossest error of mankind is the thought that high land values mean good to man. We shall go on from bad to worse if we cannot make land cheap once more. Our good cheap land is gone. Our problem is to get it back again, in city and counrty. We shall get it back if society is destroyed, but it will do nobody any good in that case. Mesopotamia once had high land values, but when the hordes of central Asia overwhelmed it they 'destroyed both the land values and the society which built them up. What the farmers need is cheap land, not on some receding frontier as in my youth, but right where they live now, in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, lowa and v erywhere where farming is carried >n. Cheap land and cheap land alone will save us from the disintegration of igriculture. Legislation Necessary If land Is to be made cheap, the high values in the hands of landowners, both those who occupy their lands and those who do not, must be taken away fiom them. The only way to take it from them Is by legislation. It can be taken from them in only two ways—by land nationalization and by the state thus becoming the universal landlord, or by taxation so levied as to relieve every form of property of taxation except land values.

This latter method would relieve from taxation the buildings of the farmer, his machinery, his money in bank, his fences, his crops, his orchards. his Income, his drainage, his fertilization, everything which he has except the value of his bare land. This would make land cheap: for under such conditions nobody would buy farm land—or any other for that matter —for speculation. No one would want land except for production use. No Increase in population or progress in the arts and sciences would make the land more valuable for sale, for the Increased value would always be absorbed by taxa tion. Plenty of Cheap I^and The town land-owner would sell out or move back to the farm and become a dirt farmer. The man who has to hire his work done would decrease his area of land to the amount he and his family could till. This would throw on the market plenty of cheap land for every one who wanted to farm. About three years ago I visited, after many years of absence, my native county in lowa. Two farmers were settling up a deal for 320 acres of farm land —a half section of land which was sold In my boyhood for five dollars an acre—and even that, sometimes, on grain payments. There had been a farm land boom. The buyer, a dirt f trmer, had made a preliminary payment of $30,000. The boom broke and he could not take the land. He was deeding it back and losing his $30,000. The vendor had moved to town and did not want to take it back. He thought the buyer ought to lose more than his $30,000. They were dickering to determine how much more ho should pay to get out of the deal. It was finally settled on the basis of his paying 87,u00 more. He tost the land and $37,500. SSOO an Acre The purchase price was *160.000. or SSOO an acre —a not uncommon price In the Mid-West then. So this land, on the value of which tho faiinei must earn interest if he prospers, had Increased in price a hundred times within my memory. This is the great factor which makes farming unprofitable in the United States. This passing of the land into the hands of people rich enough to own hit h priced land is causing the aver ago size of farms to increase. They are growing larger and larger. Statistics show this. A recent survey by the Depart ment of Agriculture shows that of 6,000 farms of "more than average size” the average value was $16,400. Machinery, equipment. livestock, money, etc., was worth on the average only $2,800 each.

horribly, salt was upset on a very su perstitious and Important old man. ”1 managed to w r hisper to James and ask him what was wrong, and he replied as he set his jaw, that there was noth ins—no, sir. nothing. Things kept going badly, however, and 1 felt, a great relief when the meal wm? finished and the ladles had retired. Then Jame.-' came to me and gave the whole thing away. In a respectful undertone, he murmured: ”“I beg your pardon, sir, bu' might I leave for a few moments now? My house is on fire.' ”

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£7oM SIMS -/- -/- Says 1 FOX can scent a man a quaroir or a mile away, but you ~ must get very close to a polecat. You can always spot a man who drinks coffee out of a saucer, because he spots himself. The nice thing about two autos crashing is you often find whisky in one for the injured. The hubby of Princess Mary is a collector of old glass. So are the autoists In this country. Dictionary' is what you use when you can’t think of what to use in place of a word you can t spelL Lots of lips just made to kiss are made over just afterward. If at first you don’t succeed, take her a box of candy. A college professor is a man who speaks volumes. Oldest town in the world is Damascus. Now guess where we bought some of our street cars. Things can be too good to he true. Books can be too true to be good. Everybody is digging up prehistoric stuff everywhere. All we have to offer is a few street cars. Los Angeles is where people go to find something to do until they can get into the movies. Reformers say the modern dance looks more like a race. We say it usually ends neck and neck. The proof of the pudding is in digestion. One Chicago man. probably a coai dealer or landlord or bootlegger, pam $400,000 income tax.

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Not So Worse By BERTON BRALEY “A dog’s life! ’’ Why should that express The depths of human wretchedness?! The troubles of a dog are few, He gets his board and lodging, too, For simply being on the spot No matter if he works or not. The cost of living doesn't fret him And human worries don’t beset him. He has no clothes—and needn’t patch 'em; If he has tieas, why he can scratch ’em. While woes with which OUR souls are tried We cannot scratch, for they’re inside. A dog’s content, he needn't mix In business, war of politics. And if he happens to grow ill, His master pays the doctor's bill. And if he ever thinks about Life s problems, which he does, no doubt. He probably would cogitate, “How lucky is my canine fate! No bills to pay, no rent to meet, L sleep, l romp, I drink and eat, A dog’s life suits me well enough, A man’s life must be pretty tough." (Copyright, 1923. NEA Service, Inc.)

A Thought

Whosoever shall offend one of these ! little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.—Mark 9:42. "~~IRUELTY. like every other vice, i C' requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.—George Eliot.

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Rough (Frankfort Evening News) Just wait until that bricklayers’ University organizes a football team and gets into action. There'll be some dodging then. -I- -!- -IBusiness (Plymouth Daily Pilot) The merchant who could make back his investment in his business within one year would be a wonder. We are told on good authority that a really good dairy cow that costs from SBO to SIOO and is worth it. will produce annually butterfat worth that amount over the cost of feed. The farmer with a dairy herd has what we might call a ’’factory” right on his own farm operating the year round In which he can convert the raw materials he raises on his farm into an easily marketable product. We would like to see a multiplication and expansion of these butterfat "factories” in Marshall County. -I- -i- -ICourts (Ft. Wayne News Sentinel) If something could be done to insure the lubrication of the wheels of justice throughout the would be a momentous event in the annals of Indiana justice. The delays which continue to characterize the proceedings of many courts are outrageous and utterly inexcusable.

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