Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1924 — Page 4

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THE BLACK CURTAIN M| ORE people die in January than in any other month, the census bureau reports, basing its information on 1921. A large life insurance company claims March has the greatest death toll, according to its records for 1920, 1921 and 1922. At any rate, we Iloosiers and others are now in the most dangerous season, which begins around the first of the year and lasts until summer. March is especially favorable to the undertaker. In March comes the harvest of winter weather and winter habits. In climates that have cold winters, people get less fresh air and outdoor exercise than in summer. They get “run down” in the ability to fight invading disease germs. Defenses are weakened, especially lungs and blood. March comes. People pay for wintertime health negligence. March is a notorious friend of flu, pneumonia and organic heart trouble. Summer is the healthiest season, only one death in five taking place then. This, too, despite summertime hazards such as autoing, boating and strenuous outdoor physical activity. More auto deaths in August than any other month, the insurance people warn. That’s the time to run your own safety first campaign. January leads all other months in suicides. The man next door suggests this may be a result of Christmas bills. April ranks second for suicides. It’s spring fever month— lazy —the logical time for folks to try to escape effort and trouble. There are more inviting subjects than death, we admit. But death is the final goal, the ultimate outcome of every person and every endeavor. The world would be a better place to live if people gave more thought to the curtained destination at the end of the long, difficult road. OTHER WIPE’S HUSBAND mHERE may be a terrible suggestion in the remarks of Mrs. Walter Ferguson, given below, but it may be well to present it as conducive to good New Year resolutions by husbands. “Sometimes when life is at sixes and sevens, and we feel that we have more to put up with than anybody else in the world, and that our children are the naughtiest, and our husbands the most neglectful and selfish, what a fine thing it would be if we could take a little jaunt and peep into the secret lives of other women! Perhaps we would change our minds very quickly. “Sometimes you may feel that the husband of the woman across the street is more devoted to her than yours is to you; he may take her to dances when yours rebels, or he may load her with presents which yours forgets to buy, but how do you know how many and how great his faults may be ? “How can you guess that these gifts which he heaps upon his wife are the salve to a guilty conscience for unfaithfulness; how are you to know that his beautiful public manners are merely for the public eye, and that he is in a state of perpetual grouch at home; how are you to surmise hoy many real heartaches his wife carries about with her to offset your fancied ones? “The very best way to appreciate your husband is to go a-visiting and get a close-up of some other woman’s. “And then how nice and dependable and comfortable yours does seem. All his trifling faults vanish into thin air, when com-1 pared to the colossal ones of many other men. “Our State, our city, our homes are so wonderful, if we could only learn for the good things about them, rather than the bad.”

TREE PLANTING URGED 0 HANDICAP of yesterday, but a need of today. That gives you in a nutshell the history of a tree in Indiana —a history to whieh thoughtful men and women are more and more turning their attention. Hoosier pioneers who remember log cabin days can you a tree in those days often was considered an enemy. The cultivator of the soil was faced with need of cutting trees down ruthlessly, burning timber and limbs in order to obtain land for tilling his crops. Forestry officials now say America’s supply of lumber and lumber products will be exhausted in forty years. The United States uses fifty-seven billions of feet of lumber every year. The tree —what does it mean ? Take a glance about you now, and you will discover wood is used in more articles and m more ways than you had known. Fire losses last year were the greatest in the history of the Nation. It takes a hundred years to grow a tree; fire destroys it in that many minutes. PLANT TREES? That would be a worthy motto for Indiana on unused farm lands, highways and in cities. TESTIMONY of great men ofF reminds us how easily they forget important details of their business as soon as they are called before Government investigating committees. NOW that General Wood’s son has admitted making SBOO,000 playing Wall Street from the Philippines, the tax collectors are sharpening their pencils. IF Henry Ford wants Muscle Shoals to make aluminum in stead of fertilizer the farmers can get even by selling his flivver and going back to horses. SOMEBODY is always taking the joy out of joy. Now it’s the revenue bureau which says tax reductions wouldn’t affect this year’s taxes. ANOTHER passing shipping board chairman has turown up the sponge and quit. Keeping men on that job is about as hard as keeping hired girls in the kitchen. ’SMATTER with the U. S.? Here’s one thing: Too many people are so busy mending other people’s morals and minding other people’s business that they haven’t time to mend their own morals or mind their own business. IF BOTH groups of American exploiters of Mexico would only get together and invest in perfectly bona-fide industries the money they shoot into revolutions, everybody concerned would be tlu richer. Mexicans g ■ '

WHY NOT CHANGE IN COUNTIES Manager Plan Urged Extended Beyond Cities as Best Government, By HERBERT QUICK tTTTjI HEN Senator Smoot comes out for anything really merltori..J oust. It always gives me extraordinary pleasure to agree with him. He is quoted as standing for a change In the manner in which the city of Washington is run. He wants a general manager to combine the work of the superintendent of buildings, the general supply committee and other agencies We shall have to wait until he brings his plan out where we can study It; but it looks like the city manager plan—and as such It promises on the face of it to be a good thing. Washington has a commission form of government, of a sort—and rather a good one. But the old commission form of government which we welcomed so enthusiastically years ago is now as obsolete as was the preceding mayor-arid-city-council plan. Os course, many cities have one or the other of the old plans, but that is merely because they are mossback cities. The city manager is the thing now. Stealing Easiest Thing We used to think we had to have our authority divided so nobody could steal. We found this division of authority paralyzed our city governments so stealing was the easiest thing they found to do. Put all your authority In one basket and watch the basket! That's the new slogan. And why not have county managers, as well as city managers? Our local governments tax us and ought to serve us. They forget the last part of this In their zeal for the first. County governments, even where they are honest, are the most inefficient we have. They are almost a total loss almost everywhere. But we might have our county board—lt Is called by different names In different States —merely a board to pass resolutions, to authorize or forbid things to be done. It Is the county legislature. Legislatures are always mutts when it comes to carrying out their own laws—from Congress to the smallest village council. Manager Names Officers The county board would not meet often. It would cost little. Let It be authorized to choose a county manager. Let the county manager appoint bookkeepers and division men to take the place of the county treasurer, the county auditor, the clerk, the sheriff. Have no other county officers. Let the county manager run the county as a unit. Hold him to responsibility. Hire him to think for! the county. Go to the end of the country to get the best man you could pay for, and give him an adequate salary for working all the time for i the county. Wouldn't you see an improvement In roa Is, In the conduct of the bookkeeping and disbursing offices, all along ’he line? Toil would! You wouldn't know the old county In a few years, and the good work would cost far less than the poor work deos now. The cities have led the way. Let’s begin a reform of county government. The Lord knows it needs It.

Indiana Sunshine Charles Alexander, of Bloomington was lato for a “date" at his "Sheba’s" home at Columbus. lie stepped on the g.as until an officer stepped on him. The accommodating court set his appearance Jan. 11. when, Charlie ex plained to the court, he will return anyway, to attend a dance. • • Audrey and Delbert Beck. Burlington, Carroll county, have a unique record for Sunday school attendance. Delbert has missed only four Sunday school classes In the last twenty years and his sister only one In fourteen years. • • • For the first time in forty years the office of Grant county recorder is filled by a Democrat, Arthur Green, who succeeded Austin D. Hunt Jan. 1. Green was elected by one of the largest majorities, 2,912 votes,i ever received by a county official. * • • The first firebox pulled in Marion in 1924 was No. 13, which came In at 12:13 New Vear’s morning. The firemen are still discussing whether it is a bad or good omen for the coming year. They all agree, however, they got an early start. A Thought Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.—Prov. 4:7. | ICT to know I r\ I That which before us lies in I—J daily life, Is the prime wisdom.—Milton. Romance Margaret Birch, 30, London school teacher, Is on her way to a South Pacific island, traveling 8,500 miles to marry the man she loves. The Island is far out of the beaten track, so far from San Francisco she travels 3,000 miles by freighter, a twenty-eight-day trip. Here are romance, faith, hope, do votion, love. Margaret's long trip is symbolic of that most important venture in life—marriage. Thereafter, all other things are incidental.

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“fiTTI boy,” said the San FranVI ciscan, “has reached the -I smart period In his schooling and develops his mind by making me fall for gags, puzzles and such. ." ‘Dad/ says Tommy, the oi her evening, ‘what animal has eyes, but can’t see, and legs what can’t walk 'but can jump as high

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When were some of the oldest ! colleges and universities In the ! United States founded? Harvard was founded In 1636: Yale in 1718; Dartmouth was chartered in 1760; Ihe College of New Jersey was , organized in 1746 and removed to | Princeton eleven years later; William and Mary was founded In Virginia in I 1603; King's College, now Columbia I University, was chartered In 1754; Brown University was established in Rhode Island in 1764. Why did Grover Cleveland oppose the annexation of Hawaii? Because, liyhis opinion. "The revolution in the island kingdom had been accomplished by the improper use of the armed forces of the United States and that the wrong should be righted by a restoration of the queen to her throne." 1 ' How are Chinese primroses and geraniums grown in order to insure winter bloomirig? Chinese primroses require ordinary treatment, plenty of sunshine and frequent watering. Frequent spraying of the foliage with water is helpful in that It counteracts the dry atmosphere, prevents attacks of red spiders, and so prolongs the life of the leaves, which soon drop off if the air is too dry. Geraniums, in order to have them bloom In winter should be started I from cuttings in the late summer. The old plants will not bloom during the winter. They should be planted In small pots with ample drainage, watered regularly but not excessively, ' and given a moderate amount of sun- | light. What State has the greatest mileage or surfaced roads? Indiana, which has 80,857 miles of; surfaced roads. Ohio, with 26.067 j j miles of surfaced roads, stands sec-1 •tnd. The figures are for Jan. 1, 1922, however.

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Organizing (Noblesvilla Ledger) The farmers of Indiana are proposing to organize more sales organizations, and this Is well. Ft r example, the market reports of the last two or three days show that on She days when the stock market was crowded the prices fell and on the lays when there was a shortage the prices were high. One trouble with the farmer’s market Is that the farmers are too much in competition with each other, when there should be cooperation. • • • Retrospect (Alexandria Times Tribune) People should ask themselves what they accomplished in the previous twelve months. What did they do to improve their own equipment for life, to rise to better attainment, to achieve things for their community and their country? If New Year’s day cannot bring some sense of positive gain in the past year, there la something radically wrong about a per* son’s life. Family Fun Kougli Idea “Os ciftirse, dear, It’s only a rough Idea of mine. But do you think it Is possible that there’s such a th'ng as a printer’s error fn that cookery manual of yours?”—London Oplnior. Ma Informs Pa “The Bible says there will be no marrying in heaven. I wonder why?” “I don’t knovV, unless it’s because there won’t be enough men to go around.” —Detroit News. Dad’s Soup "Say, do you call this bean soup?” “The cook does.’* “Why, the bean in this soup isn’t big enough to flavor it.” “She isn't supposed to flavor it. She is just supposed to christen it.”— Nebraska Awgwan. No Trap for Tommy The teacher had been trying to inculcate the principles of the Golden Rule and turn-the-other Cheek. “Now, Tommy,” she asked, “what would you do supposing a boy struck you?” “How big a boy are you supposing?” demanded Tommy.—American Legion Weekly. Mother-In-Law There “Why don’t you run your domestic affairs on a business basis?” * r 'T tried that, but my wife called in her mother as budget director.” — Judge.

“I stuck to it for ten minutes, and gave it up. “ 'Hee, heel’ crows Tommy, ‘it’s a wooden cigar store Indian! Hee. hee!’ “ ‘See here, young smartie,’ says I. ‘O, K. as to eyes and legs but. how about Jumping as high as the Ferry building? I got.ye, son!’” “ ‘Ferry building can’t jumpl Ha, got nothl*,’ Dad!’“g

CHRISTIANS WITHSTAND FAITH WARS Nothing New in Present Storm Which Threatens to Disrupt Churches. W. H. Porterfield of The Times Washington staff has made it a lifelong hobby to study religion and people. He is a student of the Bible and has read wide y on the growth of Christianity. He is particularly well qualified to discuss the present controversy between the modernists and the fundamentalists in the church. This is the second of five articles by Porterfield on the subject. By W. H. PORTERFIELD. T r ~~ HE contest between the fundamentalists or conservatives and *—'■■■ ■ the modernists or liberals, as indicated in the last article, has been age long. There is nothing new whatever in the present storm which is threatening to disrupt three or four leading church denominations in the western world For thousands of years at least, the storms by theologians have riven the rocks of faith, yet so strange and wonderful is the faith of man in ; the eternal verities each cyclone has passed and cleared the way for the I progress of the race. Destroy Old Shibboleths Today Dr. Stiekney Grant of the j Episcopal Church of the Ascension in New York. Henry Emerson Fosdick of the First Presbyterian Church of the same city, Dr. Shailer Matthews of Chicago and a thousand other great preachers and lenders of thought are ! destroying old shibboleths, opening new windows and doors of discussion ! as to the Bible, the nature of God, j the nature of Christ, the theory of the Virgin birth, immaculate conception, literal inspiration of the Bible and a thousand lesser subjects, with the result men are today giving more thought to things of the soul, prqba bly, than ever before in the history of the world. And out of all this discussion ” come a world, not of Infidels and scoffers, but of men a.nd women who will know In whom and In what they be- j lieve. Not Ill'st Modernist Dr. Stiekney Grant is not the first! "modernist” and he will not be the j last. Fifty years ago Henry Ward I Beecher and Joslah Strong of Chi- j cago shocked the fundamentalists of! their time by demanding religious j faith should somehow be linked with I character. Before them came William Ellery j Channlng, founder of Unltarlanlsm.; who Insisted on the same thing as ; essential rathe' than some dogma concerning the nature of the Trinity. Many people, even such a wellinformed writer as Rollin Lynde Hart 1 In the World’s Work, still hold to the I Idea the Piu-itan was the fundamentalist pai excellence. Such, of course, j Is far from the truth. Many leading | Puritans, even of the seventeenth een- j tury. were advanced modernist*. John 1 Robinson, himself, the father of Con- \ gregationnlism, said: "For I believe ’ God has yet vastly more truth to reveal than Ho has revealed In His word!" Ancestors of Pacts

And the Puritan Fathers were the direct theological ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry W. Longfellow, Lowell and all the rest of that gallant body of New England tran scendallsts who joined with Jonathan Mayhew of Harvard In declaring, "Character and not adherence to a man-made dogma Is the true test of a Christian.” But these were by no means the first modernists. We go back to Jacobus Armlnius, who. in the sixteenth century, startled the theoloigcal world of his time by declaring John Calvin had made “God a tyrant and an executioner!” And behind Anninius came a mighty host of liberal souls away back to Mlcah who, in the eighth century before our era, said to the official church of his time: “I am nick of the blood of beasts and the fat of ram, salth the Ixird, and what doth God require of you but to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?" There was a body blow at the whole ritual of his church, at Its very foundation of sacrifices and alms giving, and yet the church persisted in its conservatism, for seven centuries later we see John the Baptist thundering against it on the shores of Jordan and ushering in the great est modernist of all time, Jesus Himself, who boldly overthrew the form and ceremony of the established church and declared oven against a holy place for worship by the 1m mortal statement to the woman of Samaria: “God is a spirit and they that worship Him nn st worship Him In spirit and in trut i!" Doctrine Wholly Subversive Such a doctrine was wholly sub verelve of the established principles of the official church of Israel and of course they had to get rid of him. which they did a few months later. But the church was the gainer, for new ideas came in and men’s faith was widened and their concept of God enlarged and broadened and purified Lot any one look at the concept of, God In the Book of Judges and then again at the concept of Jesus, and he will see how far mankind had traveled in less than a thousand years, years.

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/qOM SIMS I y -/- -/- Says j j OMATO canning Increased in 1923. Something should be * 1 done. This is cruelty to boarders. The 1923 prune crop was short, so j that helps boarders some. Railroads made money last year j This, however. Is not news to people ' who bought tickets. IMg iron broke all records In 1923. The Industry has grown so big It 1 should be called hog iron. The demand for locomotives is In- j creasing. Why don't auto drivers look j and listen at the crossings? Cigar smoking Increased only 4 per j cent in 1923. there being so few polltical campaigns. Cigarette consumption Increased last j year, the word “consumption” hav-! lng an excellent meaning. Chewing tobacco fell off in 1923, j maybe tiecause sidewalks are getting too wide to spit across. The manufacture of smoking toJmoco declined last yeajr. We knew that. Nobody seemed to have any. Crude oil production broke all records In 1923. The same Is true of crude movie production. Lost year 540 hank failures were reporttsl Beside* this many children’s banks failed Christmas. There was a tremendous fruit crop for 1923. We tell you because prices forgot to mention It. Shoe production increased last year, but emergency gasoline tanks may soon cut this gain. Building booms boosted the lumber trade last year, even presidential tlmtier being plentiful. F*ur business wiw good In 1923. All domestic pelts sold. They come from ; skinned husbands.

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In Moderation By BERTON BRALEY I'm fond of the winter, I like the brisk weather. It fills all my being with vim and with pep; j It makes my heart light as the usual feather, It gives a brave swagger and lilt to my step. The beautiful snow has my warm approbation, When falling it’s lovely indeed to behold; .... The w inter's a season deserving laudation. Except when it’s terribly c-c-c-cold! I’m fond of the winter, ray appetite’s bigger For chops and for steaks and for flapjacks and pie, Which give to my blood an unusual vigor, A glow to my cheek and a gleam to my eye; But, oh, when the mercury steadily lingers Way down below zero, I growl and 1 scold, When frozen my nose is, my toes and my fingers, I’d rather It wasn’t so c-c-c-cold. I’m fond of the winter, but when the ( blizzard Sifts snow through each crevice and crack—when the storm Brings chills to my heart and my lungs and my gizzard And nothing will keep any domicile warm. When I and my batteries freeze in the flivver, And when, though in seventeen blankets I’m rolled, I lie In my bed and do nothing but shiver; 1 find it gosh awfully c-c-c-cold! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Wrong Number A little boy called up his daddy, a well known broker, and to make sure It was conversing with the right person asked: "Who’s this?” "The smartest man In town," said the broker, ready for a little fun with We young hopefuL “Oh!” said the latter. “I must have the wrong number.”—Argonaut.

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Editor’s Mail The editor willing to print view* ot Times readers on interesting subjects. Make your comment brief. Sign your name as an evidence of good faith. It wifi not be printed if jou object. To the Editor of The Time* Being a 100 per cent American, I wish to have a few Unes In regard to remarks that G. D. H. made about the personnel of the Invisible Empire. He says he has observech that 90 per cent of the Klan are narrow in their views and very inconsistent. I wish to ask what does he know about the Klan? I speak as & Klansman, a brother of the good order of Red Men and Haymakers, of which both and all stand for the same true principles—the Constitution of this country and Christianity, all strictly law-abiding. Speaking of the radical element in the Klan, as for this Klansman and an untold number of others, the only time we were radical was in 1917-18 against the Hun, defending our America. I would like to show G. D. Ha hundred of such honorable Americans. personally, Including two of my brothers. Gol with us, we are ever Americans. J. R. S. Madison Rd., Indianapolis. Animal Facts No deer wearing the coat he grows In the fall can drown. Every hair contains an air cell, and, when they are an Inch long, he carries enough atmosphere into the water to float him. Winter being here the weasel with his coat of white is now ermine. Put under microscope, a chunk at soft coal that has been cut horisoa* tally so as to have a flat ride and magnify it ten times, and you can plainly see the twigs, bark and tree waste from which nature built up thi# fuel millions of years ago.

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