Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1923 — Page 4

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SCHLOSS’ FORWARD STEP j q OL SCHLOSS, new president of the city board of health, is showing a business man’s keenness in judging eivie values as well as commercial values. In his advocacy of the psychopathic ward at the city hospital for care of insane patients, he has taken a stand that is progressive and in keeping with needs of the times. The practice of permitting insane patients to be kept in the county jail is an evil that should be remedied as soon as possible. Not all who go to jail are criminals. Visit the county jail some time. You probably will be struck with the plight of many persons who are suffering from mental diseases or defect. Last year there were 862 persons, men and women who had committed no offenses, confined in jails. No facilities are provided, as a rule, for these unfortunates. Medical attention, which they need sorely, is deprived. The State is attempting to ease the situation some by forming outdoor colonies at three of the hospitals, the Northern. Eastern and Southeastern ones. Yet the blight still exists. “A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SUBSIDY” mIIOSE ship subsidy beggars, having been refused alms from the American public treasury in the form of a direct cash subsidy, have turned up again in Washington in entirely new make-ups. , . Their spokesman in Congress is the same as of yore, Senator Wesley Jones of Washington, who tried to shove the infamous Lasker subsidy through the Senate. Now Jones has offered a new bill which he calls ‘‘a substitute for the subsidy.” The bill would add a 5 per cent tax on dutiable goods and a 2per cent tax on tax-free goods coming into the United States in foreign bottoms, but would not tax goods coming to the United States in American ships. It would tax foreign ships entering American ports 50 eents a ton and American ships but 6 cents a ton. * Asa “substitute for the subsidy,” this Jones scheme is a fine trouble maker. If enacted, it would result in immediate retaliatory measures by other nations which would at least cancel the monetary advantages to American ships. The main gain would be in international ill will over a proposition that on its face is unfair and discriminatory. If the Government’s shipping experts are really looking for an alternative for the ship subsidy, they might consider for a while one offered by this paper more than a year ago, one which would not be at the expense of the taxpayers or at the cost of the good will of our neighbors across the sea. ?. Here it is: “There are four handicaps on the operation of American ships. “First—Under our scale of measurement of ships an American ship has to pay 30 per cent more in fees and tolls (mostly to foreign governments) than foreign ships. This could be remedied at no cost in forty-eight hours. “Second —One-tenth of an American ship’s earning time is wasted by the delays in United States boiler and hull inspection. Secretary Hoover, as boss of the inspection services, could correct this in five minutes. “Third—Coal profiteering—which can be remedied as to ships at the same time it is remedied to all other coal users. “Fourth —Labor —An alternative subsidy bill could provide that American ship owners might pay only the lowest wages paid by any foreign competitors; that a sailor signing on for a voyage, sign on also with the United States collector of the port of departure, and upon his return be paid by the United States the difference between the wages paid by the shipowner and the Wages fixed by the seamen’s law.” More than a year ago this alternative for the subsidy was suggested by one pf the most successful ship operators this country has ever known. After thinking it over for a year, The Indianapolis Times still thinks it is better than any other idea yet advanced because it would apply to all American ships and not a favored few. And it would not result in retaliatory warfare by l'qreign nations with whom American shipping competes for business. PURPOSE AND LOYALTY | ik CCASIONALLY the o ’er-burdened soul simply floods out to [vA our bully fellows over in Washington who have to keep the Questions and Answers Bureau of the Scripps-lloward newspapers alive and growing. They have to say yes or no to every sort of query that gets into the human head. They dig and hunt for hours for a correct six-word answer. Daily, they earn decorations for patience, persistency and reliability as do very few other workers in this life, and yet the outside world imagines that they merely have to turn to a page of some book, or repord, to discover the whole philosophy of a Socrates, or when wooden shoe pegs were invented. Observe that this is the sacred Christmas season. “Peace on earth; good will toward men.” And yet those Eastern fellow workers of our have to deliver, so that none may suffer, this, in their Christmas day issue: Q. “llow can cats be prevented from congregating on a back fence?” A. “Sprinkle turpentine on top of it.” There is something more than a laugh to this. The reader who sees in it only a procession of male and female cats lickipg turpentine off their paws and retiring to their several homes in disgust misses something. Really, it is a fine demonstration of loyalty to a good purpose—relief from annoyance and discomfort. A little Siting in the matter of cats, perhaps, but isn’t it the little things that make up life? Isn’t it disloyalty to good purpose that ails the world today? Good purpose, steadfastness, loyalty to details will sweep misery off the fafe of the earth, just as turpentine clears a back fence of cats. MOVIES are going to film “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp” from “‘Arabian Nights.” Movies ought to get Harry Sinclair to play the part of Aladdin and Alkali A1 Fall to be the genie who answers Harry’s slightest wish when he rubs the lamp. WHO SAYS the power of the press is diminishing? Not >vhen a story in a Moscow paper can affect the entire course of America’s foiAign policy.

PANIC OVER ‘RED’ SCARE RIDICULED Senator Norris Makes Light of Deportation of Aliens as Revolutionists, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave. ASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The august United States Senate ——J does not take very seriously Secretary of State Hughes’ panic lest the Russian Bolshevikl run up a red flag over the .White House. Here’s how Senator George Norris,, Republican, of Nebraska, made merry with the Hughes “red” warning, as reported in the Congressional Record: Mr. Norris: “It was asserted by our own officials under the last Administration, under the palmy days of Palmer, there was an organization in this country composed of aliens who were going to overthrow' our Government, and he spent several million dollars of our money going out. to arrest a whole lot of foreigners and deporting them. "We sent a ship load across the water, and the official who passed on most of those cases has said over his own signature, in writing, that in all of the thousands of arrests made there were only a very few cases, as I remember it, at least a very small number, where there was anything in any w r ay that show'ed a criminal nature in any of the fellows, and there w'ere five or six thousand arrested. Out Ferreting Evidence "Yet, all at once, all over the country, a lot of sleuths, detectives,' some of them high-class men, some of them ex-convicts, some of them who had been themselves found guilty before juries, were out ferreting out the evidence, and at a signal from Washington they made a raid all over the country, from the Atlantic to the Pa eifle, upon clubs, residences, amusement halls, and restaurants, and arrested everybody in sight without warrant. They filled the Jails of the cities. They put these people in chains. They handcuffed them. “They put shackles on their feet, and thus shackled and thus hand cuffed, carried them hundreds of miles from their homes without permitting them to speak to anybody, without the knowledge of their wives or their children that they had been taken away. "Why. I have been told by a man who watched the raids that they ar-' rested in many of those places ever? man whe had any whiskers. If the Department of Justice, now under Daugherty, is going to make raids of that kind it ought at least to give the Secretary of State notice before it makes them. Hits Whiskered Solon.s "It wmuld be a real calamity if such a thing took place, if our most illustrious and able leader on this side of the aisle should be walking down Pennsylvania Ave.. arm in arm with the great Secretary of State, secure, supposedly, in the protection of the Constitution of the United States over their liberty and their persons, that a lot of these sleuths coming from all parts of the country should capture them and, without permitting them even to call their friends, their families, or their attorneys, rush them on board a ship and deport them to some foreign country like Russia just because they had whiskers.”

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Needs Her Ronald domineered over his little sister and made her fetch and carry for him quite a lot. When she was going away for the entire winter with her aunt Ronald started bawling. “Why are you crying, dear?” asked his mother. “You are always fighting with Muriel and don’t seem to love her.” “I-I-don’t love her,” sobbed Ronald, "but I need her.”—Bosto nTranscript. The Bachelor UneLe “A bachelor,” said the cynic, "is one who looks before he leaps, and then stays w’here he is.’’ —Pearson’s Weekly. The Old Maid’s Catch "Miss Oldun caught a burglar In her room and married him to reform him.” "And did it work?” "Well—at least it taught him to be more careful.” —American Legion Weekly. Hubby’s Head "Your husband has a clever-looking head. I suppose he knows practically everything?” "Sh-h —he doesn't even suspect anything!”—Parrakeet. One on Big Brother "How long will it take before I can get a shave?” asked the youth, rushing into the barber shop. “Well,” said the boss, regarding his face carefully, “you might be able to start In a year or so.”—American Legion Weekly. A Thought He that keepeth his mouth keepetlx his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.—Prov. 13:3. • • • T'— —“I HOUGH we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one u__J tongue. Draw your own moral. —Alphonse Karr.

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U| jOME of those La Jolla summer girls look demure, coy -■ ■ ■ and sort of unsophisticated," said a slick-looking chap evidently from N’ York, as the smoker move<J o\j| of San Diego: “but it's put on, it’* all put on. I've l>een teaching one of those coy beauts to swim for a month past, and she was so darned coy and cultured that she wouldn’t even let me hold up her chin as her teacher.

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UNUSUAL PEOPLE Woman Sports Editor By MBA Service ITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 28. I Y-* There’s nothing new about Li— women sporting editors, for there are cases of many throughout the country. she couldn’t evado & V-VJ the job of sport's i ing editor for the | p. / _ ■> J Pitt Weekly of I |l : ' * -ifZ the University of ishe was chosen “(Kfs because of the in crease of athletic activities among MISS ZIEGLER the girls of the college. Besides, eho happens to be a member of the varsity girls’ basketball team. Reporting the co-ed basketball games is her cherished work. QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS, You can get an answer to any ques- , tion of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C„ inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot bo given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All oth r questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot . bo answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the membership of the Sons of Confederate Veterans? According to the latest available ra port. 55,000. What is the population of the earth? It is estimated to be about 1,747,000,000. What does the phrase "waving the bloody shirt” mean? , Fince the Civil War. politicians have from time to time attempted to draw votes and gain partisan advantages by appeals to the passions raised by that struggle. The phrase "bloody shirt” is employed with ref- , trtnee to the now dead issues Involved in that struggle, and a poll ticLan reviving them for partisan purposes is said to "wave the bloody shirt.” Who was Elsie Dinsmore? The unnaturally pious and conscientious heroine of a long series of juvenile books known as “The Elsie Books,” by Martha Findley. How may smoked or blackened ceiling be cleaned? Rub with a cloth wrung out of a strong solution of baking soda and water Or use vinegar and water. If the stain is not all removed, dissolve gum sheilac in alcohol to 'the cote sistency of milk or cream, cover the sooty place, and paint of whitewash over the shellac. Is It true that the first letter written In America is a matter of record? Yes, this letter Is preserved in the Seville library in Spain. It was written by Dr. Diego Alvares Chanca. a physician who ;accompanied Columbus on his second voyage of discovery to America. Toward the end of January, 1494. he wrote a letter to the municipal council of Seville narrating all he had seen and heard up to date. This letter left the port of Isabella in the Island of Hispaniola or San Domingo, on Feb. 2. 1494, in care of Don Antonio de Torres, commander of tilt' twelve vessels sent back by Columbus to Spain with ’the news of the discoveries, and arrived there April 8, 1494.

Blue for Little Boy Blue By BERTON BRALEY The little toy soldier is merry and bright, And the little toy dog Is gay, But Little Boy Blue isn’t feeling just right And he frets In a childish way, For papa has taken from Little Boy Blue \ His soldier, still fresh from the shelf. And papa has taken the little dog, too, He wants to play with them himself. The little toy engine goes 'round on Its track. The little toy auto runs great, They give much amusement to Big Brother Jack Who plays with them early, and late. The little toy derrick, the toy building blocks, Well, Uncle is playing with these, And as for the cute little Jaek-in-the-bex, Aunt Emma has THAT, if you please. Yes all of the grown-ups are gay as can be, The house fairly rings with their noise. But Little Boy Blue isn’t happy, for he Can’t get within reach of his toys. For Dad, Aunt and Uncle and Brother are all Engaged with the toys that are new; It’s fun for them, doubtless, but oh, wliat a squawl Is coming from Little Boy Blue l (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

"Last evening as wo sat on the sand in our dripping bathing suits I remarked, ‘Alas! I leave tomorrow, and shan't be seeing so much of you hereafter.’ “The dear little innocent dove looked me in the eye and replied. “ 'Well, if you would stay over to the dance tomorrow evening you could see me in my new dress.’ ’’

DEATH BY LETHAL GAS NOW LEGAL i Nevada Criminals Sentenced to Die Joyful Over Ending of Suspense, ”• "' A Service CARSON CITY, Nev., Dec. 28. Grotesque joy rules the death house of the State penitentiary here. For at last, after almost a year of suspense, three men bounded by walls | of doom, know how they are to die. Sentenced as first execution experi- ' ments under Nevada’s newly legisla- ] ted lethal gas chamber enactment, fates of the trio have been repeatedly postponed by judicial interference. Now. constitutionality of the death decreed for them has just been upheld by the United States Supreme Court. Glad End Is Near So it will be only a little while before Thomas Russel, Hughie Sing and Gee Jon are led into the hermetically sealed chamber of concrete, with its big window standing so forbiddingly In the prison yard. Inside they will be trussed to a chair, while through a pipe, unseen, death will creep upon them. Six witnesses permitted by law will watch through the glass. Death will come silently. It will come quickly. And for that the condemned men j are glad. Hope of ©scape long since has left them. Months of terror waiting for the end has shot their hair with white. Soon the agony of suspense will be over. For they know definitely now how they are to die and when. With Oriental stoicism Hughie Sing and Gee Jon sigh relief. Russel, their Mexican compatriot j In death, is equally composed and as i strangely grateful. • Death by whatever means, all agree, is bad enough. "But to wait for It and know not the hour or by what means society* has planned to rid Itself of us is cause for stark terror.” Hughie, the high school lad, who mixed his education with tong vengeance, says. In death the trio greet the New i Year. Created Public Clamor During th interim the country was I clamoring against their doom, the three aged with horror wondering how Nevada would kill them should the gas chamber be denied its prey. Today In the prison preparations are being made to set the lethal machinery in motion. Three wires are lining affixed to the valve which will loose the deadly vapor into the little concrete chamber. At a given signal when the day of death comes the wires will be pulled simultaneously. But only one wjll open the controlling Jet. This will prevent anyone from knowing who turned on the gas. Nevada amended its law governing j capital punishment, adopting lethal execution Instead of hanging, at suggestions from State legislators who hail seeTt service in France and witnessed effects of poison gas on the battle front. £7oM SIMS - V -!- -I- Says

Our Leap Year advice to single men ia look before you leap. Wear your Christmas neckties all during Leap Year and they will help you stay single. Get a good haircut and tell her you think Valentino is a bum. Will keep you single this Leap Year. Asking her why she doesn't dress Instead of going so naked may keep you single this Leap Year. Chew tobacco and spit on her floor. Not rvuiitary, but helps you stay single during Leap Year. Grow a mustache and stick it full of chewing gum. This will keep you single during Leap Year. Quit shaving during Leap Year and you are safe. No girl will propose to a human hairbrush. Put rubber in your tobacco and smoke a strong pipe to remain single during this Leap Year. Tell her none of the other girls want to marry you. It will keep you single during Leap Year. Never having your shoes shined or trousers pressed will help you stay single this Leap Year. Telling all fat girls they ore fat and all skinny- girls they are skinny will keep you single. Bobbed hair' will catch a man’s tie pin quickly. If soft and fluffy It will catch a whole man. Put on short pants, eat stick candy and cry'. Foolish, but will keep you single during Leap Year. Punch your girl In the eye and laugh when she cries. It will keep you single during Leap Year. Look at your nose until you get cross-eyed. Difficult, but helps you stay single during Leap Year. Going about with holes in your socks and not washing your feet will keep you single during Leap Y'ear. Go to see your girl and take a book to read. This will help yam stay single during Leap Year. If you have two suits wear the coat of one and trousers of the other to stay single in Leap Year. . When she puckers up her lips ask her if she is trying to whistle. May help you stay single in Leap Year. r" ‘ " January Clearance All Winter Merchandise National Army Store ■ 467 W. Wash. St. 2 Doors East of West 3t.

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Editor’s Mail The editor is willing: to print views of Times readers on interesting subjects. Make your comment brtef. Sign your name a* an evidence ot rood faith. U will not be printed if you object.

“Name in Full” To the Editor oj The Timet Mr. G. D. II states in a letter that the so-called Klan doctrines find their best seed beds among people of a radical nature and that about 90 per cent of the membership has a tendency to be narrow/ in views and that he knows several Klansmen. Mr. G. I). H., not one statement you have made is true. Listen! “All liars shall have their part In the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” Rev. 21-8. Mr. G. D. H., you have been given a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries Bhall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Give your name in full so the people will know the Wise Man of the East. JAMES R. YOUNG, 532 Virginia Ave. I’oetul Worker’s Reply To the Editor of The Timet I am replying to a communication signed by Mr. J. S. Hotsenpiller, Newcastle, Ind., published in this column. is it a tvonder that the working man finds it so hard to get an increase in salary, when there is always some one of his fellow workers ready' to hand the one that is trying to get an increase a knock with a sledge hammer? In the i place, there are few factory workers, especially skilled workers. who work ten hours a day. Most factories work nine hours a day and five on Saturdays, which is the equivalent of eight hours per day of postal workers. So far as a factory man malting $3 or $4 per day is concerned, I wish to state that the uneducated day laborer makes that much money', but the skilled factory worker makes much more than that. I personally am an ex-factory worker and am niakifig less money as a postal worker than I ever made in the factory. I like my' Job, but seemingly y’ou should follow the advice you give to the postal workers and quit your factory job and get one as a postal worker. They are not hard to get and you probably would soon accumulate

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enough on our enormous salary to soon retire. So far as the dust which you have to breathe is concerned, I am sure you will find after you get in the postal service that we have plenty of it to breathe in a postoffice. You will also find that after you serve your eight-hour day, which will probably have to be put in after 3 p. m. in the afternoon, you can go home and put in a couple of hours studying a postal scheme. Hoping you will get your eyes open and put up your sledge hammer, I remain, HENRY E. ARNOLD, 631 Tecumseh St. Science John Franklin Adams, a) retired merchant of London, has finished photographing the entire heavens. He photographed the south heavens at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and the north hemisphere he photographed at Godaiming, England. The taking of these photographs took eight years. The plates were completed in 1911 and additional work has brought the completion of the enj tire enterprise down to the present. For years the counting of the stars ! in Adams’ photographs has been goj ing on. The count is not yet com- ! plete. but enougii has been done to I indicate the positions of over three thousand million of stars. The work, while intensely interesting to astronomers, and of value In indicating the positions of the stars, does not settle any such question as the shape of the universe or the number of the stars. How many there are beyond the range of scientific apparatus is. of course, unknown. So far, astronomy teaches only one thing where tho size of the universe is concerned —the insignificance of the earth in the scheme of universal immensity. Effects on Dad "T suppose, Henry,” said the old gentleman to his new son-in-law', "that you ere aware the chick for $50,000 I put among your wedding presents was merely for effect?” “Oh, yes, sir,” responded the cheer ful Henry. "And the effect was excellent. The bank cashed it this morning without a word.” —Vanity Fair.

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Winter Safety By National Safety Council If you own or operate an automobile you owe It to your family and to others using the streets to keep your brakes in proper condition. Test them every' day. "When you leave the garage make a sendee test by throw-, lug out the clutch and applying the brakes. If they are not working propci ly. do not endanger your life and tht lives of others by driving the car on the street. If you can not make the repairs yourself, take the car to the nearest service station. At least once a month, or after driving 1,090 miles, make this test. Jack up the rear wheels and apply the brake so you can just turn one wheel by hand. Then adjust the brake on the other wheel until the braking power on both wheels is equal. Unequal braking power ts likely to cause skidding. I Even if your brakes are 100 pei cent efficient, don’t abuse them. Don’t drive at an excessive x-ate of speed and expect the brakes to stop the car suddenly in an emergency. It imposes an unnecessary strain on the car and makes the brakes less efficient for a real emergency and on wet and slippery pavements there is always the danger of skidding. Locked wheels act as runners on Ice and the momentum of the car will carry it several feet.

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