Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1923 — Page 4
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RESERVE BANK, PLEASE! mNDIANAPOLIS should be given the Federal Reserve branch bank here being sougkt by the Chamber of Commerce and banking institutions of central Indiana. This city is the center of a thriving agricultural territory—one of enormous wealth. It is sufficientlf distant from any other large city, so that no other city attracts business from surrounding territory. At present, central Indiana Federal reserve business must be done through Chicago. There is no logical reason for this. Towns surrounding Indianapolis should do business here, not in a city nearly 200 miles away. A KEY TO THE RIDDLE SHE public is quite excusable if it goes daffy trying to un derstand the news from Europe. “Allied Rupture Inevitable!” screams a headline one day. The next morning it is likely to be: “Allies Avoid Break.” But really it is not so complex as it looks. The truth is that this is all surface stuff. There is only one deep-down thing that counts in this whole muddle and that one thing is reparations. On that issue England and Italy on one side, and France and Belgium on the other, have been hopelessly split for a year And still are. France intends to collect those 132,000,000,000 gold marks Erom Germany one way or another. that’s that. England is not only opposed to this high figure, but also to uiy drastic measures being taken to collect it. Which likewise Is that. But * * • Because London does not wish to repudiate the Treaty of Versailles in toto * * * Because London knows nothing is to be gained at present by naking the rupture official • * * Because London hopes for the ultimate downfall of Premier Poincare and a possible change of front on the part of France. * * Because London does not wish to burn the bridges between iier and Paris until the last vestige of hope is gone * * * Because France knows the result of final and official rupture would be a blow not only to her German, but to her whole European policy. Because of these and a few more quite obvious reasons, both sountries prefer to let things drift along as they are now doing, just agreeing to disagree. They are like some married couple, each with ample grounds for absolute divorce but, for reasons of their own, preferring to keep up appearances until a more propitious time to act. Meanwhile they take it out heatedly disagreeing over such harrowing questions as whose job it is to feed the goldfish. The quarrels may be resounding but mean little. Only—and that’s what makes them big news —they are symptomatic of differences that do mean much.
EYE ON FRAUD IN INDIANA ONVICTIOX of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic explorer and oil operator, and thirteen others at Ft. Worth, Texas, on charges of using the mails to defraud, serves as a timely warning to the people of Indiana. Thousands of Iloosiers have been defrauded of millions of dollars by similar schemes, both local in Indiana and firms represented by agencies during the past few years. Good business is placed under a handicap by the failure of concerns organized merely for promoters’ profits. How certain companies, believed by the local Better Business Bureau to be fraudulent, were kept from selling their stock in Indianapolis and in adjacent territory should be a timely reminder to the public that financial manipulations, similar to the one directed by Dr. Cook, are a local problem constituting a grave menace to investors and to industry. - A certain casket company is a notable example of how $500,000 was saved in Indianapolis through investigation. The promoters established an office to sell $500,000 worth of stock in the city. Movies were shown of the “wonderful process”; miniature glass caskets were displayed; lurid literature was printed. Local newspapers, upon recommendation of the Better Business Bureau, refused their advertisements. It was charged the company had not even manufactured a life-size casket. -1- -1- + How an oil company was prevented from selling $1,250,000 stock in Indianapolis; how a bogus quick silver'mining company was kept from getting $250,000; how a tire company, which went defunct with $1,000,000 loss was unable to establish a factory here, are a few instances of speculative schemes that were PREVENTED from reaping a rich harvest. State authorization had been obtained by all these companies to sell stock. When a “blue sky” law is weak, even a special State commission is unable to cope with skilled crooks. Before you invest, INVESTIGATE. That is the warning. WHILE Coolidge was laying a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier, Mellon was digging a grave for the bonus of the live ones. PLANS for the observance of Thrift Week, Jan. 17 tc 23, are nearing completion. Placing it right after the Christmas bills have been settled appears to be intelligent strategy. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE hasn’t made up his mind what to think of Secretary Mellon’s tax cut program. He is waiting for the weekly farm papers to come in. That’s hard on the New York papers, but it ought to please Peoria and Waterloo. LUXOR (Egypt) dispatches say King Tut’s mystery is soon to be solved. Looks like they’re trying to solve Tut’s mystery before our own foreign affairs policy mystery, almost as archaic, is solved. SCIENTISTS insist that “Mr. and Mrs. Barberinsus,” the couple whose skeletons were recently unearthed at Santa Barbara. Cal., lived and died natural deaths some 25,000 years ago. W)| can understand that. There vire no automobiles in those A—
U. S. TENANT SYSTEM IS TYRANNICAL Renter Has No Chance in Courts Against Landlord —Likened to Russia. This is the sixth of a scries of articles on the agricu’tura lprob'em. written for The Indianapolis Times by Herbert Quick, noted economist and former editor of Farm and Fireside. This artte’e is on tenaiftry. Rv HERRERT QUICK M 1 " - " OST of the advise given the farmers by the experts and ■ others is based on the erroneous assumption the people in the deepest trouble own their own farms. That is not the case. One of the most serious aspects of the farm question is the increase in tenantry. In almost every raural section of the country tenantry is spreading. Rising land values operate to spread the blight of farm tenantry. When a man who has been a working farmer finds he can rent his farm and move to town, he is naturally inclined to do so. He has done so by the million in the United States. This swells the population of the villages, towns and cities, and such regions as Florida and the Pacific coast with "retired farmers” who, in the main, having ceased to be farmers, ape not fitted for city life. They are Idle and not. fit for Idleness. They have small incomes, and cf all landlords, they must In the nature of things be the most grasping and rack-renting. Rental System Bad Our rental system Is as bad as any in the world. I think there are some which are as bad, but none worse. Our system Is far, far worse than that of Ireland in the days when we wept for the Irish tenants. It is beyond comparison worse than that of Germany, or England, or Scotland, or Italy. In order to find a rental system as bad as ours, one wotild have to go to the Poland or Russia of the years before the war. Since the war T do not believe there Is a country in Europe which has not reformed Its tenant system so as to give ■ the tenant some rights In law as a tenant, beyond those conceded to him by the land-owner. Rack-renting is a word which means oppression and poverty to the farm tenant. Rack-renting Is a system in which the landlord has the legal right to get as much rent for his land as he can. We have learned to bate the idea because our literature in English is full of condemnation of rack-renting as the ultimate of oppression. Denends on Contract And yet the only system of farm tenantry we have In America Is based on the severest rack-renting principles. The rent, as to amount and manner of payment, and time of tenure depends on th contract made between the landlord and the tenant. When land becomes scarce and high, rack renting crushes the underlying population of the farming regions. It is destroying ours. This leaves or tends to leave In our best regions only the shiftless, the crushed, the ones who accept a mere living as the reward of tbetr labor, and all the time compete with each other *n make this mere living lower In scale. Compare our tenants with those In Germany before the war The Em pnror once wanted a certain farm, which be owned for his private use | He notified the tenant to move. There w->s no lease which the tenant could cite to give him the right to stav: hut there was the law. He fought the Emperor In the courts and won. Tn rack-renting America the tenants have no rights to save what the landlord vouebafee them. Politics Enter Field The land in the rural districts Is posslng rapidly into the hands of landlords. In many States there are more rented farms than others. The idea is abroad that the laboring people of the riios and towns and "mines most of them landless, very few of li'em landlords —can unite with the farmers and carry the ejections. The results in some States recently sort of Indicates that they can. Now these people represented in the Farmer l.chor party will some time carry the couhtry. under some name or other. When they do It will he when the tenant-farmers begin to feel class-consciousness and vote against the landlords.
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Dr. Marion D. Burton, president University of Michigan: "The modern university has como to ?ee that the physical welfare of Its hurtents lies at the basis of its educational effectiveness. Moreover, the spirit of true and manly sportsmanship has n place in actual life which rone will deny.” Bishop Charles p. Slattery. Boston: "Our youth, with lack of charity and patience, long to get away from what they call the blundering sham of their elders, and do something concrete in the making of a happy and righteous vision of the night. It may not be articulate, but he who listens hears the cry.” Charlie Chaplin, telling why few women succeed In screen comedy: “Let’s look the matter in the face and call a spade a spade. A woman, by all the laws of biology, has one thing to sell. That thing is her sex. It is in accordance with biological law that she should set that forth to the best advantage. Fundamentally, It is necessary for her to do so. And, in order to do so, she must present as lovely a figure to the world as it is in her power to do. Now. can she do this, and, at the same time, humiliate herself by presenting a grotesque figure? No. It is impossible.” Chief Justice Rugg, Massachusetts Supreme Court: "Statutes may not always be wise. Decisions may not al ways be right. But every such error can be corrected by orderly means. Experience has shown that there is no occasion for violence or disorder. Respect for the law and obedience to the law is the shortest road by which to remedy defects.” Sister’s Activity "When Paul kissed me good-night he kissed me on the ear.” "Gee, you sure can dodge.’’—fe.au sat;
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
UNUSUAL PEOPLE Made Rich by Unknown Dad
By NEA Service , *j LKHORN, Wis., Nov. 24.—Mrs. b, William Baker, mother of -AIU three children and wife of a j struggling farmer, has just learned she is heir to $175,000, left her by a man she has just MRS. BAKER as Howard Young, and told her she was his sistr. Her father, he explained, was the late George Young, prominent Chicago manufacturer, who had leffj her a third of his estate. “I’m through walking,” is her comment now. 7 ( Tom sims i-/- -/- Says ELL, it’s settled that ChrisYY/ mas is coming. And everybody ** seems about as surprised as usual. The older you are the quicker Christmas comes. The younger you are the slower Christmas comes. Christmas is better than Thanksgiving. We celebrate more. And we have more time to recover. Christmas is better than New Year. We don’t have to make good resolutions and see the good die young. Thanksgiving is fine, but seems to and a few pounds to all the fat folks, figuratively speaking. Christmas doesn't make fat people fatter. The noise the kids, make even worries off a few pounds. Thanksgiving is quieter than the regular days in a small town because the mail doesn’t come in. Company is nice. No home is complete without it. Company postpones the regular family fights. , Women are line people. They look swell. And all you need to about them is what you don’t know. Keep your eye on women who let you talk too much They have rea sons for not calling you a liar. Women always brag about their poor appetites, hut men are different Men brag about what they eat. Some cops are too reckless. In Los Angeles, one was so brave he married a widow with five children. Who remembers back a few months ago when we had only one thousand presidential possibilities? Chicago is lively this winter. Dry officer fainted down in the Loop. Maybe he was offered a drink Just about the hottest football game recently whs In St. Louis when the grandstand caught fire.
What Editors Are Saying
Destined (Goshen Daily News Times) There appears to lie a growing feeling that the fellow destined to win the presidential election next year will, or should be, the one who does the least talking. IV' ! c *r t Obliging (Washington Democrat) The Indiana board of agriculture appears to have been conducting the most obliging loan office iu the State. -I- -|- -I- ---✓ Sound (Alexandria Times Tribune) And how about Ralston? The Democrats could do no better than nominate Senator Ralston. He believes in the Constitution and its inviolability. He believes that the Constitution is more than a mere scrap of paper. He Is an American citizen, not a Knownothing. He Is a moderate nationalist in that he believes that we owe a duty to all other countries in the matter of preserving peace throughout the world as far as we can by moral suasion and precept. Ralston is sound throughout, a good man, and possessed of a lot of horse sense, if you know what we mean. -I- -I- -|- Desired (Newcastle Courier) The organization of a Henry County branch of the Indiana Taxpayers' Association can do a great deal toward accomplishing a thing greatly desired by all—a reduction In taxes. With an organization of interested taxpayers the reckless expenditure of public funds can be discouraged, ever bearing In mind that the source of high taxes is not in township, town, city, county and State Governments, but In the demand of the people themselves for things and services that we all could get along very well without.
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it —i T WAS just at the time that j I the papers were first tilled i I * I with filming advertisements for a well-known proprietary medicine that “works while you sleep" said Bill Colver an old reporter, who was enjoying a pipe, “and Officer Coiner brought a man into the central police station in Cleveland. The fellow was a burglar and Corner had caught him red-handed, while he was breaking into ia store. The follow r< fused to givfc Ais name, when the olficers desired register him. Lieut.
FRED STONE SEES STAGE CLEAN-UP Fun Maker Has Given Fort) Years of Life to Uplifting Vaudeville, p. rx Special rr*7l EW YORK, Nov. 24.—What I I greater faith could any man —J have? Fred Stone has given forty years of his life to the stage. Now he gives more than his life, his daughter Dorothy, and he exacts only one promise—that the stage be cleaned up by the stage people. Fred is back in the old home town now in vaudeville. It’s hla old love and now his greatest love because Fre4 sincerely believes in the cleanliness of the vaudeville stage. And Fred has turned most of his thoughts to the life of cleanliness. He has become one of the stage evangelists, rather he always has been an apostle of the art of clean laughter. Still A Vaudevlllian "Thank God, I’m from vaudeville and that I’m still a vaudevilian,” said Fred. "I thank God for it because it’s the best part of the whole show business. We’ve had a great triumph, Dorothy and her mother and I, be cause I gave people what my years in vaudeville showed me people really want —clean fun.” Stone turned his eves upward as if to carry back over the forty years of stage life that he has known. "Some people hake a holler about playing Sunday night shows. They better look at the show's that are playing all the week on Broadway. There are a lot of shows on Broadway that have got to be cleaned up, not on Sunday nights, but on every night of the week. You can’t be good on Sunday and bad on Monday, Tuesday twice on Wednesday and Saturday and every other day of the w'eek. Lovos His Profession "I’m dead serious about this. I ! love my profession. I've gi% r en forty [ years of my life to it Now', I’ve I given the greatest treasure a man ; possesses, my little daughter. Do j you wonder I want to see this profeai lor clean?” As Fred talked on. tears glistened in his eyes. Forty years of his life I to the stage and forty years of th | cleanest of fun! What a record for the stage! "I remember the old beer halls and i some others do also. I remember , them very well. But they are gone. And today, when my babies tell me ! they are going to vandeville. I never bother to ask them what show. I know it's all right,” said Rtone.
Measured Speech
Since the great Creator Gave us the breath of life. Tongues have been a wagging In a sordid world of strife. The fathers of our country Wrote a solemn decree: Freedom of the speech, they said, To you we guarantee. But other noted masters. Who labored in the past, Counseled us to spare our words — An unrequited task. "Bend me your ears,” said Shakespeare, "G’ve thy thoughts no tongue,” Thundered clown the annala To guide a great, nation. Instead, the people answered With “words, words, words,” The telephone's invented, And talk flew like the birds. Then came the measured service To curb the calls of some, "Speak the speech. I pray you. Trippingly on the tongue.” Then up went mighty protest, Especially from the home: How dare they measure service With woman on the ’phone. Reply came back insistent, "Talk Is cheap,” they any "Not so.” retorts the public, “See the bills we pay.” Then came this suggestion, To calm the angry row: "If you have ‘telephones,’ Prepare to shed them now.” WALTER*!). LEWIS. 912 Peoples Bank Building. A Thought A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.—Prov. 19:5. A" ”1 \’D hast thou sworn on every slight pretense,, _nu perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book’s outside, who ne’er look within? —Cowper. Wiley’s Make "What’s the matter with Smith? Got lumbago or spinal curvature or something?” “No, he has to walk that way to At some shirts his wife made for him.” Sister’s Catty Chum “What foolish things a young man will do when he’s in love.” "Oh, Alice, I'll bet Jack’s proposed.” —Boston Transcript
McHannan. a witty Irishman, was in charge of the station on the night shift, and* whatever he saw in newspapers, advertisements and all, impressed him deeply. Threateningly he bellowed at the ourglar: “ ‘What’s your name?’ "No answer. " ‘Give us your name,” shouted McHannan again. “Still no answer. “ ‘Down you go a, Mr. Cascaret,’ said McHannan with a final scratch of the pen.” . ■' ft'> - i ,
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His Reward for Valor
The Proper Season By BERTON BRALEY Summer time was made for lovers; When the moonlight gently hovers O'er a world sublime, Full of places meant for kisses Which the blind world wholly misses. Summer's lover time. Autumn time is sweetheart season. Brisk air gives an ample reason When hearts beat in rhyme For a ride or stroll together In the golden sunny weather; Autumn’s lover time. Winter time was made for lovers, When the snow about us hovers Then the weather’s prime For a two some in the ingle, (Where’s the fun in being single?) Winter’s lover time. \ Spring! Ah, Spring is time for mating, When the air is palpitating With a tender thrall; Study of the facts discovers All the year was made for lovers And —they use it all! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Indiana Sunshine Judging from all the strange yarns ifloat it seems that all the “bear stories'' do not come from football camps this year. A black panther, larger than a dog. is said to be running wild near Decker, killing house cats, terrorizing dogs and frightening residents of the community. Efforts to kill the beast has proved futile and plans are being made to capture the animal. When Marion police found William Berry In an intoxicated condition they also found in his possesssion several skunk hides. Odor of the said hides was so potent that considerable damage was done the feeling the officers until they found a far-away hiding place for the pelts and had locked Berry securely in jail. While fishing in the west fork of White River near P’lainville. Wlfliam Milelr noticed a strange animal near his boat. When captured, after a struggle, it proved to be an alligator iwo and a half feet long. Miller believes the animal was captured in the South, brought to this part cf the country and then made its escape, or that it may have followed the river from warmer waters.
Science
Recent scientific publications and newspapers have carried accounts of the discovery of strange and prehistoric animals in the Gobi desert, Mongolia, China. It is probable that this is even a more important discovery than was thought at first, for It may prove that the mammals of Europe originated in this little known section, instead of in places now accepted as their original homes. The expedition expected to find a few fossilized bones, because some had been found in 1922. But an immense deposit of bones was uncovered. These included the remains of great vegetarian dinosaurs, thirty feet long: immense tapirs, enormous flesh-eat-ing animals and many others. These animals lived in this section, row a desert, up to five million years ago. The discovery' of the fossil bones is ♦he greatest since that of the La Brea nits of Southern California, where the remains of monsters millions of yea it. old were preserved in asphalt beds.
& Co* 77 te Most Cherished Gift of All A Diamond From Mullally’s While it is true that Mullally does show wonderful gems priced up to many hundreds of dollars, it is also true that the usual characteristic smartness is ataiiable here in very much lower priced diamonds as well. J. P. Mullally, Diamond Merchant STREET FLOOR
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Minister Criticised To the Editor of The Time* Your estimable paper carried an item Monday reporting thaX a minister at the Cadle Tabernacle Sunday advocated the shooting of all drinkers as traitors. This is fine. A wonderful method by which to Christianize the world! By following this policy to the letter and with dispatch, ultimately there will be left only our saintly reformers, and lo! —the world is saved! Here, I might perhaps as well confess that at times I have been Inclined toward embracing the theories and practices of Christianity, but unfortunately when at the point of so doing, some holy man unburdens his soul, proving that there is a possibility of Christianity not’ being such a Christian thing after all. H. B. THOMAS. 1162 King St Ford and Shank . To the Editor of The Times jfl The editor of the Columbus (Ind* Ledger seems to be much wrought up over the dire calamities which he assumes would follow as a result of the election next year should Henry Ford be elected President and Lew Shank Governor of Indiana. In the light of present events tt would seem that the editor of the Ledger might well refrain his v-qre from weeping, and find consolation *n the thought that Henry may well be depended upon to at least venture an opinion occasionally on something, while Lew, not being an adept in the use of the King's English, probably would not write many notes. JOE SAUNDERS, 1022 "N. Alabama St. Family Fun No Wonder Several little boys and girls were discussing their ancestors, and a snub-nose little fellow began to tell of his family tree. "I’m American, French, Swedish and Lutheran,” he stated. There was silence for a moment when one of his companions spoke up. "I, golly! No wonder you’re so freckled.” —Judge. Father A-Fsldng "How many fish was it you on Saturday?” ' "Six, darling—all beauties.” "I thought so. That fish market made a mistake again. They’ve charged us for eight.”—Good Hardware. Father A-Fishing "Just think, according to Darwin’s theory, your grandfather might have been an ape.” "That doesn’t worry me.” "No. but I’ll bet it would have worried your grandmother.”—Carnegie Puppet. In Last Act One of John Drew’s reminiscences of stage folk concerns Nat Goodwin and Charles Hoyt. On the first night that Goodwin was going to appear in Clyde Fitch's "Nathan Hale," Hoyt had some tickets and at the eleventh hour a friend from New Hampshire dropped in on him, so Hoyt invited him to the show. "What is it?” demanded the visitor. “The opening of anew play, ‘Nathan Hale,’ with Nat Goodwin.” "I don’t care to see it,” said the man from New Hampshire., “I don’t like Goodwin as a man and I don’t like him as an actor.” "But,” protested Hovt, "you’ll like him in this play: they hang him in the last act.” —Argonaut.