Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1923 — Page 4

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DANGEROUS LEO HIAVE you a little “Red” in your home? The National Security League of New York is trembling lest you have. It has discovered that “all over the country bright young children, boys and girls, are the prey of the Reds.” “How long,” it asks, “are the Reds to be left free to warp the lives of our little children? To exploit the souls of the little innocents?” The fears of the Security League were aroused when 11-year-old Leo Granoff of New York was arrested because he was alone on the streets late at night. In his pockets literature of “marked anarchistic tendencies” was found. The league’s fears were not one whit allayed by the discovery that Leo was out in the street at that time of night for the simple reason that his mother had gone to the theater and he was afraid to stay home all alone. But for a boy who’s afraid of shadows, Leo is exceedingly precocious. “This child’s mind,” the league reports, “like others of his type, is unduly excited with ideas of free love and free thinking. He derides the Constitution of the United States and extols communism.” What does your 11-year-old know about the Constitution? Does he know the difference between communism and habeas corpus ? Leo must be a bright lad. TO CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS SHIS is written on behalf of the thousands of store employes in Indianapolis, the street car crews and the toiler who is entitled to his gamble that he will get a seat on street cars after his day’s work is finished. In doing your Christmas buying visit the stores in the morning if you possibly can. You not only save your own nerves ard time, but you get a better selection of goods. And you give the clerks and other working people a better chance to get home easily at night because you will cut down the traffic jam. SAY IT WITH FLOWERS! \Y/jHY do fairly intelligent men write fool letters? While he W -was in Congress two years ago. C. Bascom Slemp indulged in a mild orgy of correspondence with political friends, and this is a sample: “Dear Ben—l have letters in regard to the collection of money for postoffiees. One must he very careful about this. It will bring the party into disrepute, which would he bad for everyone. We must preserve our standing with the people and the Administration. C. Bascom Slemp.” You see. Bascom was n charge of Federal patronage in Virginia and his chief commodity was a job lot of rural postoffiees paying from S3OO the year up and not so very far up at that. Now this correspondence, most of which has been extended in the Congressional Record, is being circulated throughout the country by the Young Men’s Democratic League, for Bascom Slemp is now President Coolidge’s secretary. Yes. Baseoin should have said it with flowers.

GOVERNMENT BY MINORITY S T lOSE unbossed Congressmen who are standing against G. O. P. organization of Congress in the same old way are pictured by standpatters as a wilful band of grand-standers. obstructing the activities of Congress and holding out for minority rule. The insurgents had good ground for the position they took in the House. A Representative has little voice in affairs, except as he finds berths on important committees. For years the insurgents. although elected by the voters as perfectly good Republicans, have been submerged on dinky committees that dealt with insignificant details. Their protests fell on de'af G. O. P. ears. Especially they rebelled against turning over, body and britches, the power of the House and of its 435 members to a steering committee of seven members. Being a minority, these men rebel against the rule of an even smaller minority. This time things are different. A lot of Republican regulars fell by the wayside, and the G. O. P. needs the insurgents’ votes if they are to organize. Are not these dissenters justified in taking advantage of their balance of power to insist on a square deal in committee appointments? Answer: They are. DR. CRIPPEN AND RADIO -- ’rjUNTLY JENKINS is dead —the London lawyer w r ho deHi fended the notorious Ur. Crippen. That was in 1910. You probably remember the case. Dr. Crippen was physically timid, small and shrinking. Born in Michigan, he became a wandering medical practitioner. For his second wife he selected Kunigunde Mackamotzki, alias Cora Turner, who promptly became a household bully. Crippen fell in love with his secretary. They fled to America. Mrs. Crippen had disappeared. The gossiping neighbors weren’t satisfied. They called Scotland Yard. Inspector Drew tripped over a loose brick in the cellar. Digging, he found a murdered body. Crippen was identified aboard ship at sea, by wireless, and arrested. He went to the gallows. The girl? She went free. The Dr. Crippen case was the first time radio had ever been used to detect a fugitive criminal. Naturally, it appealed to popular fancy in addition to being historically important. Crippen maintained his innocence to the last, and there’s still considerable argument in England as to w r hether he was guilty. Psychologists who watched him at the trial marveled that such a meek individual could muster sufficient courage to turn on and destroy his tormentor. After the lapse of thirteen years, we read of the death of the lawyer who defended him, and the wireless end of the Crippen case no longer eclipses the criminal angle. We can’t help pondering how times have changed. Today a fugitive wouldn’t “get much of a rise” out of the public from merely being caught by radio. Thirteen years ago, radio was magic. Today it’s becoming commonplace, lads in knee pants sending messages as far as the one that brought Crippen to the gallows. “WORLD threatened with starvation.” says Professor East in his new’ book, “Mankind at the Cross Roads.” Eat more wheat bread and wheat stuffs,” pleads Dep^g|MgHk^^n’icul-

WHY LABOR AND CAPITAL GO TO WAR Difference on Toward Fundamental Principles Should Create Code of Rights, By W. JETT LAUCK SHE consumer finds it hard to understand why both the trade unionist and the employer are, as a rule, opposed to the arbitration of labor disputes. He cannot see why there should be any reasonable opposition to the judicial consideration and settlement of such controversies. The reluctance of wage earners and employers to resort to arbitration, can probably be clearly grasped if we shbuld compare it with an analogous but suppositious situation in ordinary life Let us shppose we had one existing system of courts for the adjustment of infraction of our civil and criminal laws, but no bills of rights or other safeguards to civil or personal liberty in our Constitution such ;is the right to a trial by aijury of our peers, the prohibition of J the taking of property without due| process of law, the right to freedom of speech, movement, and assembly, the writ of habeas corpus, and similar guarantees. Citizens Appear Reluctantly Under such conditions, the average citizen would be exceedingly reluctant to appear before a court or to submit any controversy to the courts for settlement. This suppositious situation is exactly comparable with the arbitration of labor disputes at the present time. It explains the failure of all attempts to create a satisfactory system for the judicial determination of such controversies. The cause of the conflict between labor and capital Is a difference in attitude towar,is certain fundamental principles. Shall wage-earners have the right to organize and bargain collectively through, representatives of their own choosing? Shall unorganized workers be coerced into joining unions? What should be a proper workday? Are wages dependent merely upon the laws of supply and demand, or. Is labor a human factor in industry, to be paid for accordirg to enlightened standards cf human needs and aspirations? ('ode of Principles Necessary These and other questions constitute the fundamentals upon which arbitration must be based, just as the constitution and the laws afford the conditions under which the courts proceed in civil life. There must be a constitution, so to speak, a coue of principles, or a hill of industrial rights and guarantees to labor and capital before there can be hope for the judicial settlement of labor disputes. Enlightened public opinion has already reached a conclusion ns to what should be included In a code of fundamental rights and guarantees. This is clearly' shown by the declarations of students, the churches without regard to denomination, and the best political and Industrial statesmanship of the day'. These conclusions should be crystallized into legislation and made mandatory upon the adjustment of labor disputes. When this is accomplished all opposition to arbitration or to the Judicial settlement of such disputes will disappear.

What Editors Are Saying

Mortgages (Frankfort Evening News) The news story published a few days ago concerning the mortgage records of Clinton County portrays an American tendency. The tendency to use one’s credit to the breaking point. Clinton County is not in an isolated class in this mortgage aspect. It is but typical. In fact It is not as heavily mortgaged as some other counties. Grown people are no less mimics than children when they cannot exercise a judgment against creating an unnecessary debt. That much of the indebtedness of this and other counties is due to bad judgment and the foolish tendency to keep up with the procession cannot be denied. It Is a dangerous tendency. Men must give more thought to liquidation and less to borrowing. Expansion by increasing one’s indebtedness to the breaking point is dangerous. Business men must discourage it. Wasted (Lafayette Journel-Courier) The politician who gives his time to pulmotoring “John Barleycorn” is wasting precious hours which he had much better employ In solving the problems of agriculture, of taxation, of veterans’ relief, of stabilization In rates and commodity prices and in helping the readjustment of peace as a substitute for war’s aftermath of unrest.

A Thought

A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.—Prov. 15:6. mT is always safe to learn even from our enemies, seldom safe to instruct even our friends. — Colton.

Heard in Smoking Room

”1 s the train pulled out of A Denver, the smoker next the _____ window remarked that It was a beautiful city, and beautifully ntuated. “Yes.” said his companion, "it is a town Worth bragging about and they sure do brag. A Denverite oftr in London cheerfully devoted a v/|l®le hour boasting to an Englishman of the beauties and magnificence cf the Rocky Mountains and his city. Nothing in the world to be compared with them, he insisted, over and over again. ■••ru tm -nma ot —L

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GIFFORD PINCHOT Forester. Born Simsbury, Conn., Aug. 11, 1865. Member National Forest Commission 1896. Forester and chief of division, afterward Bureau of Forestry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1898-1910. President National Conservation Association since 1910. Appointed commissioner of forestry of Pennsylvania, 1920. Elected governor of Pennsylvania (independent Republican) 1922. Home, Milford, Pa. #hOM SIMS j -/- -/- Says a T~~jEAR SANTA —Please bring JY me a few political issues. It My old ones are all worn out. Any Party." Lower sugar prices are being predicted by several leading optimists. Drink wood alcohol this Christmas and you will never see another. The United States spends $40.000,000 a year for prohibition enforcement, but gets little of it. “Dear Santa— Please send us some prohibition Christmas. We want to see what it looks like. Any Town.’’ Eggs are being bootlegged in Berlin. Bootleggers in America sell.rotten booze. Pity poor Berlin. Christmas story: “Mama, I wish I had'some skates so I could skate." Eggs bootlegged in Berlin are not golden eggs laid by the goose-step. Taxas aviator was arrested for flying while intoxicated. A few drinks and he yvent up In the air. California University has built a $1,000,000 stadium. They say it looks like a million dollars. “Dear Santa —Please send us a new cellar. We had a cellar but papa left the corks In the homebrew.” Spokane football player will recover from a broken neck, but will miss necking parties six months. Stiff collars are going out of style. Men are wearing soft collars not to protect the girls' necks. Now' they say there are about 1,000 fake dentists at large. This number will seem very small. News from London: Women will s®ek forty seats in Parliament. Must be members of the tea party. Sailors wrecked off the Alaskan coast lived a month on porcupines, so were stuck up when rescued. Joe Hull of New Jersey thought he could keep $9,184 at his home, but learned he couldn’t, Mr. Coates, winner of a male beauty contest in the Yukon, is liable to get shot in the pants.

Science

A secret conference of several eminent scientists was held recently In California for the announced purpose of exploding all or most of the Einstein theories. It was stated that the results of certain work done by these scientists, disproving Einstein, would be made public some time in the near future, and that these would be so disastrous to the new theories that they would never be seriously considered again. Scientists. are divided into three classses in the Einstein matter —those who consider him a mathematical faker; those who advocate neither side, but study both, and those who believe in Einstein, the latter being In the minority. These supportc-rs of Einstein claim it is only natural that there should be intense opposition because Einstein tears down or changes many of the accepted beliefs on which science has founded some of its cherished theories. They point out that perhaps the most severe blow was when Einstein doubted the existence of the ether. Science, as the result of years of work, had just perfected and accepted the theoretical ether when Einstein, aided by the famous Michel-son-Morley experiments, destroyed it, or at least destroyed the scientific conception of it. 60-60 With Pa "Young man, you couldn’t even buy my daughter’s clothes!” “I could help.”—The Passing Show (London).

ains,’ said the Englishman. “ ‘You bet I am,’ replied the Denverite, ‘and I ought to be, since my ancestors built them.’ “This rather overwhelmed the Englishman and he was buried in thought for a moment. Then he said to the Denver man, ’Did you ever hear of the Dead Sea?’ “ ‘Yes, indeed,’ replied Denver, who really had traveled. ‘I know all about the Dead Sea.’ “ Well,’ said the Englishman, ‘did you happen to know that my greatgrajidfathar kilieri the hallv thing?’

P. O. CLERKS PLEAD FOR MORE PAY Better Working Conditions Also Asked in Petition to Congress, By EUGENE ALLEMAN ri| ITII a watchful eye on Washyy ington, 1,158 postal employes .J in Indianapolis are now arming themselves in a preliminary move to present their wage and working condition plea before Congress. Despite declarations of the Administration that the budget must be wielded upon all departments, postal men are confident the justice of their cause will triumph. Ten Indiana Congressmen have already indorsed the proposed wage reclassification bill, although considerable political influence, it is understood, has been formed to defeat or delay the measure. Christmas rush of mail means something, too, for 1,158 inen in the city. To 288 letter carriers who deliver the messages of business or personal note to Indianapolis citizens it means something far more than the average citizen realizes. Receives Small Annual Wage Have you ever noticed your lettercarrier on his run, his mail pouch heavily filled to the brim, but generally cheerful in performing duties that link the Government and the home? The same man who is often a human packhorae carrying magazines, letters and newspapers, is receiving $1,400 to SI,BOO a year. He must clothe his family, educate his children, buy necessities of life, and then only hope that some of it may be left over for comforts and recreation. After a life of labor at only bare living wage, the letter carrier, according to present regulations, must be retired at 65. A life of service should have Its rewards. His is a $720 annual retirement pension. $40.000 000 Now in Fund And the 1,153 employes in Indianapolis feel they are entitled, along with others from postal branches who are retired, to a reasonable living wage during this old age. They are asking for a $1,200 pension, proposed In the new hill. Forty millions of dollars have been accumulated for this purpose by the compulsory assessment of 2'i per cent of all wages. The $1,200 would not be paid by the public; it would be paid by the employes’ own money. Other postal employes, supporting the legislation, are: Railway postal, 430: postofflee clerks, 440: city letter carriers, 288, and rural route carriers, 19. “A saving wage, not merely a living wage.” is their cry. In a second article The Times will tell about loss of vacations on the ground of efficiency.

UNUSUAL PEOPLE Civilization? Too Wild! I! i/ VEA Service OANCOUVER, B. C., Doc. Robert Douglas Henderson is going back. He came out the other day from the peaceful wilderness and had his first look in twenty-nine J years at so-called too swift for him. Better the Yukon Territory, than the mad whirl of Vancouver. British Columbia, where he came to see HENDERSON what the pres ent- day world is like. Back in the wilds a man can protect himself. He can shoot hears or wolves if they menace him, but he can’t shoot automobiles when they endanger his life. Henderson is a real old-timer of the gold trail. He went to the Klondyke in 1894 after mining in Colorado. The fortune he acquired isn’t all gone yet.

Family Fun

Home to Mama “It’s a shame,” cried the young wife, “not a thing in the house fit to eat. I'm going straight home to mama." "If you don’t mind, dear,” said the husband, reaching for his hat, “111 go with you.”—Pathfinder. Horne Called Up They tell of a young married artist in Washington Square who has"a predilection for talking in his sleep. Several times recently he mentioned the name “Irene,” and his spouse questioned him about it. “Oh that,” said he, thinking fast, “is the name of a horse.” Several days later when he came home he asked his wife the news of the day. “Nothing exciting happened,” she said, "except your horse called up twice.”—Shoe Works Journal.

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QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave. Washin*.lt. 0., enclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice ,annot be ' given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ail other questions will receive a persona. rep.) Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are coufldenUnl.—Editor Have you ever heard of a case where the Government refunded income tax in case of over-pay-ment by mistake? I overpaid five years ago. My letters are not answered. —J. Wilbert. The Internal Revenue Director. Federal Building, Indianapolis, will advise you whether or not you are entitled to a reimbursement, if you will explain In detail. If so, the money will be refunded. For how long a time is the President of the Chinese Republic elected and what Is his salary? The term Is five years; he is eligible for a second term: his allowance is $50,000 a month (equivalent In United States money), which includes entertaining and other expenses. What is the champion milk cow of the world? Segls lfletertjo Prospect Is the world s champion cow in giving ndlk. May Ecko Silvia, owned by Senator A. C. Hardy, has the world's record for one-day production, which was 152 pound of milk. Prospect’s record for the l rhest day was 126 pounds, but her daily average is far higher than that of Silvia, and the championship is considered on the basis of the record for a year. What is the expectation of life in the United States? White males- -at the age of 00—53.98 White males—at the age of 32—34.93 White males—at the age of 62—13.38 White females—at the age of 00—56.33 White females—at the age of 32—36.12 White females—at the ago of 62—14.01 When was bom? About 1870. The exact date can not lx* ascertained. Is it true that men who were in officers' training camps during the World War have been allowed more pay recently? Yes, by a recent ruling of the controller of the treasury, enlisted men who took the regular training for officers at the officers’ training camps during the years 1917 and 1918 will be allowed SIOO per month for the timt they were In training, also receiving enlisted men’s pay. Claims for the additional money due them on this account should be filed with the General Accounting Office, Military Division, Treasury Department. Washington, D. C. Full information and blanks for filing such claims will be given by that office. What is a symphony? A harmonious, agreeable mingling of sounds, whether vocal, instrumental or both: used figuratively of concord. Was Dr. Charles P. Bteinmetz a Jew? He was partly of Jewish ancestry. His mother was Jewish, and possibly his grandfather. He was not, however by religion a Jew; he was a member of All Souls Unitarian Church. Who first ascended Mt. McKinley? Dr. Hudson Stuck reached the summit June 7, 1918. What is meant by asking waivers on a baseball player? For the manager of a team to give up all claim on a player so that he may go with another team.

Will His Heart Stand It?

Dance and Succeed (Regards to Arthur Murray) BY BERTON BRALEY Henry M. Hollins was not a success. He just made a living, no more and no less. But one day he happily happened to read An article headed with “Dance and Succeed.” He vowed, ‘‘l will try it,” and night after night He practiced the fox-trot with all of his might; He worked on the waltz and the tango with vim Until Arthur Murray had nothing on him. Henry M. Hollins had been a bit stiff, But dancing soon made In him—oh, what a diff! His limbs grew more supple, his manners in truth Mere those of a confident, selfassured youth. He said to his boss. “Say, you’re getting too fat, m show you some steps that'll cure you of that.” And such was his vigorous nonchalant way. His boss took the lessons and boosted his pay! Has Henry succeeded? I’ll say that he has, His dancing has filled him with pep and with jazz, And, fired by example, the whole office bunch Comes dancing to work and goes dancing to lunch; They waltz through their jobs, never gloomy or glum. And as for the business—it’s sure stepping some! And through all the office one motto you’ll read Wherever you’re looking; it’s “Dance and Succeed!” (Copyright. 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

Indiana Sunshine

Adams County claims the State's youngest nimrod in- the person of John Andrews, 5. His family thought he was too young to tote a gun, so he went out and killed a rabbit with a club. Earl Perkins, Kokomo restaurant proprietor, advertised a big ’possum dinner, with ail the good things that go with it. But when he went to a shed in the rear of the restaurant to kill the fatted animal, he found a thief had been there before him. The menu was changed. The Rev. C. C. Ford of Terre Haute can peel spuds as well as exhort erring members of his congregation. He peeled all the potatoes to feed 200 guests at a church dinner and scorned the assistance of church workers who wanted to aid him.

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As to Fanners To the Editor of The Times The article by Herbert Quick <rn “Cheap Land Being the Hope of the Country.” iz, I think, far from statlng the true facts regarding the saving of the country. Keep hands off the farmers’ economic troubles and they will solve the problems themselves. When the la.id buying craze swept the country three or four years ago not one out of twenty bought it with the intention of holding it and making it pay for its “board and keep" by farming. They obtained it for the sole purpose of making sucker bait of it. Not till they found there.. were no buyers to take It off their hands did they realize a sucker had been hooked —and that they themselves were the sucker. Level headed men at that time. In all the popular periodicals, including the various farm papers, warned them repeatedly that they were taking a “leap In the dark.” But to no purpose. Injudicious Investments These spasms of Injudicious investments have swept the world for thousands of years, time and again, and will do so for tens of thousands of years to come. Each generation sim- * ply treads the path Its fathers trod. / They refuse counsel and boldly wad* in to learn by experience. Farmers are the most clamorous people in all the world for the build ing of good roads. They petition for them in every taxing unit In the United States and put up a most undignified “holler” when asked to pay for them. We city and suburban dwefiei-3 help pay for these roads, no matter when built, and regard .'hem usually as a good investment, because there is no tax so onerous and bothersome as bad roads. Commendable Way The farmers who are going on tn their commendable plodding way, avoiding the maelstrom of specular tion. far outnumber those who * are clamoring for governmental regulation and congressional help, and they are making and saving money. The country banks show this to be true and the automobile that was once a luxury is now an almost universal vehicle In the farming community. ... Too much of this propaganda, "Do Something for the Farmer," is but the demagogic appeal of scheming politicians who seek to exploit the farms for the sake of their votes. E. P. M’CASLTN, 5901 Dewey Ave Uncle’s Doctor Was Fine “I have just called in to say how much I appreciate your treatment. Doctor.” “But I am not your doctor, young man!” “No. But you were my old uncle’s, and I am his heir!”—Kariwaturen (Christiana).

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