Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROT W. HOWARD President ALBERT W. BI'HRMAN. Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. A Member of the Soripps-Howard Newspapers • • • Client of the Cnited Press. United News United Financial. NEA Service, Pacific Coast Service and member of the Scrinps Newspaper Alliance. • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sundav by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 20-2 t) S Meridian Street, Indianapolis. ♦ • • Subscription Rates; Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500. * *

THE WATER DECISION mllE TIMES has felt since the conclusion of the water hearing before the public service commission that the evidence presented did not justify a rate increase. This view, we believe, has been and is held by a majority of the citizens of Indianapolis. Nevertheless, three of the five members of the public service commission have issued an order giving the company a part of the increase for which it asked. This order should be appealed to the courts. That is the orderly and proper procedure. We feel that the public service commission has made an error in judgment and that another tribunal should be given an opportunity to pass on the case. There is no occasion for hysteria. There is no occasion to demand the resignation of the members of the commission who passed the order. There is no evidence that their motives were improper. If they tfere wrong, the courts can set the matter right. There is some evidence that the commission feared the case would be taken to the Federal Court. If this fear has influenced its decision, the decision should be set aside. There is too much taking it for granted the Federal Court always will grant increases in the future as it has in the past. Our public service commissioners and our courts alike are sworn to do their duty to the people. The members are only human beings and subject to the errors of judgment common to human beings. Our laws wisely provide for correcting these errors. Why get excited? MORE INQUIRY, LESS BLUE SKY LOSS TyT] ITII millions of dollars lost in recent years by blue sky W schemes in Indiana, the need for a revision of the State blue sky law and increased efficiency by the commission has become urgent. The State cannot afford to permit the law to continue to give an apparent stamp of indorsement upon many nefarious enterprises which have looted the public. The crying shame of the situation today is that sanction under the blue sky law has given many stocks the look of an investment, when in reality they are more or less wild speculation. In endeavoring to remedy conditions, critics are often wont to make vague blanket indictment instead of going to the root of the trouble. To many persons the Indiana blue sky law has been a tremendous disappointment. It has not eliminated the flagrant offenders as the public had hoped. Other States have adopted blue sky laws. And yet the birds of prey are anything but an extinct type. True, the worst swindles are no longer perpetrated. The old-fashioned tricks for deceiving the ignorant do not work so well. The blue sky law, in reality, has barred the less intelligent promoter, but has left the field OPEN to the MORE CAPABLE ONE. To deal with the crook of brains requires brains. But even conscientious men are HANDICAPPED by lack of investigators, loopholes in the law and other legislative weaknesses. If the public will repeatedly invest before making a thorough investigation, it hardly can be expected that any blue sky law, no matter how ideal it may be, will do away with speculative financial schemes altogether. Loss of millions in the past year, however, has brought home to Indiana forcibly the need of having the MAXIMUM protection that can be provided, whether the future loss can be reduced to a zero mark or not. Glance over a few outstanding facts of the law and of the commission TODAY. The commission has a certain revenue fiom fees paid to the State by issuers, dealers, agents and security salesmen. No one objects to that. Helping to make a commission SELF-PAVING is ideal. But has it been self-paying? During the past fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, a total of $38,563.67 was received by the commission. The money was designed by the State to pay for the cost of investigations, salaries, expenses and such. However, of this amount to be used for protection to the public against scheming speculators, the commission only used $19,210.88. The balance of this fund went to the STATE GENERAL FUND. And the humorous but deplorable fact is that the general fund is TODAY $3,640,000 in DEBT! Provide more investigators, eliminated the provision which gives immunity to any corporation organized BEFORE 1920 and the cause of one prominent State-wide theater failure can be traced, according to the local Better Business Bureau, to this one weakness, give the securities commission a FAIR CHANCE to make good, and by the saneness of the revision a beneficial result may be expected.

THE BUDGET AND POLITICS HTTp POLITICIAN would openly oppose the budget system in 11 the coming Congress. Xo statesmen worthy of consideration would attack the system at any time. The statesmen might demand amendments and the amendments might easily be made so long as they make budgetary rule more rigorous. Let us suggest just one. We might easily provide that when Congress increases the appropriations recommended by budget bureau, Congress should then and there be compelled to impose taxes to pay the increases recommended. That would help the budget system and restrain the apostles of the “pork barrel” in Congress. , >. Administration of the budget should also be removed from political influences, if that is possible. Only then will the general public get a sincere and honest report on the finances of the Government. Now, for example, the present budget administration deliberately and knowingly underestimated the revenues this year from internal revenue taxes. Ope reason for this was political. The revenue will be much greater than predicted and it will be possible to show a “surplus” at the close of the year. We will then have some political prating about “economy.” We will have no confession that the public was misinformed when the budget was first prepared. FEDERAL JUDGE orders New York City comptroller jailed for sixty days for contempt of court because the city official criticised the court. That’s government of the p*ople, by the judges, for the judges. *

U. S. PILOTS ENVY LUCK OF FLYER Lieut, Davison Is American Representative With Amundsen, By HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer ASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—"A lucky guy? Well, we’ll say he la!” Such is the comment among Navy aviators concerning .Lieut. Ralph E. Davison’s selection as America’s representative with Raoul Amundsen's

arctic airplane expedition next summer. More than! thirty-five fliers 1 vied with Davl- j son for the chance to com-1 mand and pilot one of the three I planes with which Amund-1 sen, with the North Pole as a base of operations. expects to explore the unknown area westward from the pole, where sclent ists believe a great arctic continent may exist.

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A combination of three necessary qualifications landed the appointment —recognized superiority In practical and theoretical navigation, skill and experience in piloting sea and land planes, expert knowledge of radio. Comp eliensive Plans Plans for the exploration of the arctic regions by planes, as detailed to off.ciais of the Navy Bureau of | Aeronautics, already have been carefully worked out. They are declared not merely feasible, but whohy practicable. Leaving Christiania early in May, j the party with three specially built Dornier D ,iphin flying boats, will proceed to Spltzbergen, 650 miles from the . pole. With a full load of supplies and gas they will force their way northward to pack Ice, which is piobab.y within i 400 or 450 miles of the pole. There will be no mad dash for the pole from that point. Instead, proceeding deliberately, test flights will ■ be made to accustom the flyers to arctic flying conditions. When men an 1 planes have been i proven thoroughly adjusted to arctic flying, flights will be made to the pole with full loads of supplies. There supplies of food and fuei will be cached. The capacity of the planes will be such as to enable each plane to carry considerable weight. Seek New Continent With a satisfactory stock of sup plies built up at the pole, the explorers will operate from this base They , will undertake exploration of that vast I unknown area of one million square L miles lying westward from the pole. I where scientists believe an unknown j arctic continent may exist.

A Domestic Plea BY BERTON BRALEY My dear, you know my heart is true. You know I love you fearfully, And were it necessary to, I’d die fer you right cheerfully; I know, too, that you'd gladly go To Timbuctu and back for me. But just the same I beg you. “Oh, I wish you wouldn’t pack for me!” 1 know the job I do is punk, And that I'm not meticulous. I know I chuck things in the trunk In fashion most ridiculous. [ know with what exceeding art My stuff you'd fold and stack for me. But, darling, kindly have a heart— I wish you wouldn’t a pack for me. The Job you do is fine, no doubt, But when I must begin a'aln To pvt back what I’ve taken out, t "o-i no* things in again. You put my duds so well in place, So neatly do you fold ’em all, I have to buy another case When I start back, to hold ’em all! I throw things in my trunk? Oh yes, T know your work is snappier. But just the same and none the less Mv own wav leaves me happier; Thrush much disorder I display. Don’t exercise YOUR knack for me. Just let me go my frowsy way— I WISH you wouldn’t pack for me! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

Science

Several recent exposures of “ectoplasm” in spirltualisiic seances have led to general ridicule of a substance that, a few years ago, convened many persons to belief in mediums. The use of “ectoplasm” by mediums even converted several scientists to belief in psychic phenomena. Many photographs were taken of this mysterious substance, which generally issued from the medium's mouth and assumed certain definite shapes, such as a hand or head or even the bust of some prsun supposed to be a departed friend or relative. Gradually rhe tricks were exposed. One of the leaders In this campaign has been Father C. M. de Heredia, a Catholic priest, who. for many years, has made a study of the tricks of mediums and who is able to duplicate most of them himself. “Ectoplasm,” as commonly used by mediums, is merely shreds of fine cloth, concealed and manipulated in various ways. A great part of the attention attracted by the device may have been due to cleverness in selecting this name for the new mediumistlc trick. It has a scientific sound, and. in fact, has a scientific meaning. Ectoplasm is the outer coating of the cells that make up all living things. Rx-Governor Walton now threatens to start a newspaper. Well, the more the sorrier. Have you a little bogus Rembrandt in your home? The Stokes divorce case will go to a ’ ' V ■ ••nurt. probably for fresh air.

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SIMS ,i-/- Says ONTREAL squirrel has sixtyeight golf balls stored for i—J nuts. 'The funny side is he had no golfers. ... Even American divorces are being made in Paris now, but don’t seem to last any longer. • * * Men are so funny. Chicago man who never kissed his wife whipped a piano mover who tried It.. • * * Washington zoo wants a kangaroo, f but not for teaching politicians to i hop from issue to issue. • * * Man in New York has sixty-five dogs. We had no idea anybody in New York could be so poor. I* • • Man found in Los Angeles with |hi rmnd a blank doesn’t even know which movie star he is. * * * Football is not the only college danger. A student in Tucson, Ariz., eloped with her teacher. • • • Florida drunk was sentenced to be sprayed with rum ten days, proving j wishes do come true. • ♦ • Women go everywhere these davs. A Topeka (Kas.) man found his missing bride in jail. * . . Robbers either got a big cheese In Brooklyn or it walked off. * • * Washington thief stole 200,000 j German marks, which is even more petty than stealing a look. • • • Youngstown (Ohio) robbers found only $7 on a taxi drive*, so all of them are not bootlegging. * * * Doctors in Paris have found anew microbe. Don’t worry. It can’t be one of our diplomats. • • • A colony of beavers has been located near Vermillion, N. D., but not working for Ford. • • • Milwaukee (Wis.) hair tonic broke i a piano, some chairs and one head, because a man drank It. • • • Chicago man’s rebuilt nose acts as a radio receiving station, so we guess his nose knows. • • • New York woman shot her land lord for a robber. The mistake seems one quite easily made.

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You can get an nnnw*r lo any auction of t. ' t or information by writing to thn I/ul:anapo in Times' Wtuihinrloß Bureau. 1322 New York Avo.. Wash* iiTion, D. C., eneloain" 3 rent* in rtanqis for reply. M< ileal, !e*al and m rital advire mnnot bo siven. nor can extended researeh be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Uuslgred request* cannot be answered. Ali letters are confidential.—Editor Wnat will keep the bearings and shaf sos a clock from rusting? Placing a sponge saturated with kerosene at the bottom of the clock case will help. No oil heavier than kerosene should be used, however. What iu the average life of a canary? Twelve years. Are bananas propagated by need? Yes, they have no seed. How is the name Yvonne pronounced? As though spelled E-von. Is It true that if you put a spoon in a drinking glass before pouring in hot water, tho glass will not crack? If so. why? It is true, because the metal, being a better conductor of heat than the glass, takes the strain off the glass. What, is the highest point between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River? Mount Mitchell. North Carolina. It Is 6,711 feet high. What Is the average life of a house fly? Some flies live only a few days, and some live all through the summer and through part of the fall, but the average length of life Is about fifteen days. What does It mean when a child is born with a caul over its face? A caul Is a thin membrane encompassing the heads of some children when born. It is merely the amniotic membrane which envelops every child before birth and which, on account of unusual strength or for other reasons, has escaped rupture during the act of delivery. Various superstitions have arison concerning it. Some of these are that, a child so born- will be very fortunate; another is that-such’ a child has the power to see ghosts; another that such a child can cure rash in other children by blowing on them gently. What is glycerin good for? It is used in medicine chiefly as a vehicle for applying externally many substances such as the alkalis, neutral salts, bromine, iodine, alkaloids, tannic acid, the glycerin solution of which is readily absorbed by the skin. In the industrial arts glycerin is employed mainly in the manufacture of nitroglycerin, from which many valuable modern explosives are made. It is used further as a preservative fluid for small, delicate anatomical prep arations, and has been applied to the preservation of meats and other foods; it has been added to the water in gas meters with the view pf preventing freezing in winter and from evaporating too rapidly In summer. It is also used in the manufacture of toilet soap, of parchment paper and of printers’ rollers in the textlls industry. What are bird spiders? The United States National Museum says that the large tarantulas of Brazil are popularly called .‘‘bird spiders,” because they sometimes catch small birds. They have a body two inches long, and a spread of legs of over seven inches. They belong to the genus Aglcularia, and are the largest spiders known

RELIGION IS A SECRET OF MORO WAR 5 Natives Are Mohammedans and This Is Open Season on Christians. r„ Special ASHINGTON. No. 30.—What is the secret behind the Moro ■—J “uprising” and “massacre” In the Philippines? Gen. Leonard Wood, governor of the islands, says Manuel Quezon, native lender and president of the Philippine Senate, is in a large measure to blame because he toured the Moro country telling the people they must prepare for Filipino rule. And the Moros, says Wood, don’t want to be ruled by Filipinos. The truth of the matter is : the Moro trouble is religious, not political. The Moros are Mohammedans and periodically run amuck, - killing all the Christians they can get at. This just happens to be the open season for Christians.

AH Had Troubles American governors have had their troubles with the Moros from the beginning. Long before the Jones taw promised the Filipinos their independence. Gen. John J Pershing fought a pitched battle with them at Bagsak Mountain, killing thousands. It could be said with equal verity the Moros do not want to be ruled by Christian America. The A, B C of the thing is simply this; The American Chamber of Commerce, representing the Americans who have made fortunes out there, will make a drive on Congress this winter to get It to repeal the Jones low ere niake the Islands an out-and-out territory of the United State*. ui effort to prove the Filipinos ->’p divided on the Independence question will go along with It will be urged that Quezon and his kind cannot rule the Moros. and that there will be bloodshed In 'h' archipelago the instant self-gov-ernment is granted. A-c Mot Backward Asa matter of cold turkey there are under IUu.oOO Moros In the whole in .ppin • as igainst more than'l Jo/'OO ooe cber FllipinoA In other ’• ’ • r r><v only among the most backward, but form less than 4 i .. >. lie to al population. There are at le;tst 9.000.000 Christians. To make it all the more interesting, the natives have virtually all gor.e on strike against General Wood. /-nno' -Ve wl h him. And a native commission, headed by the brilliant young Manuel Rog.i t Que zon brand of Filipino, is at this moment on its way to Washington to demand an end of "the militaristic government”, of General Wood and to try to have him recalled. Wifcy Not Worrying "Dearest, when I am gone, how will you ever pay the doctor s bills?” : “Oh, don’t worry about that. If the worst comes to worst. I'll marry the doctor.”—Boston Transcript.

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I’o the EtliUtr o' The Times I wonder if you will allow me a few remarks regarding the newspaper accounts of a recent poisoning case In which the young woman, disappointed on the eve of marriage, killed herself by taking poison. Much was said in the papers regarding the fact that a Christian Science practitioner was first called upon to give treatment, and a doctor was quoted by one paper as saying that had me heal treatment luain giveii early the young woman would most likely have recovered. I am not a Christian Scientist and If ever I take poison I hope someone will hasten to apply a stomach pump, tut T bop" 1 T can see two sides to a question and the reports relative to

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the young lady's probably recovery, aroused this question. Why grow indignant over what may have been a failure of Christian Science treatment when it is the most ordinary thing in the world to pick up a newspaper and read that someone has committed suicide by poisoning even though medical treatment was applied immediately? The practitioner in this poisoning case, it seems to me. deserves no censure, for called upon to give treatment what on earth could she do, but respond in the way that she was expected to and If she had refused the case and advised medical treatment she would have been renouncing all that she stood for. How do we know that Christian Science treatment, if allowed unfits puted sway in this case, would not have been successful? Outside influences from the first few minutes after the discovery of the girl's deed and the young man’s hasty flight to a doctor, were a factor. Christian Science treatment from then on was feared, maligned, and mentally Intel sered with. The principle involved

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is no different from what it would bo if doctors of different schools were working with the sane pa ient at the same time. I would not want to bo the pa dent. Let's try to be fair and somewhat charitable—as I am sure the Christian Scientists will be. Remember they could say that the young woman died under medical treatment. Oh yes. of course, we could soy that had medical treatment been applied sooner, etc. It’s so easy to say what might have been. FAIR PLAY.

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