Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1924 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JAN. 29, 1924

LABOR MINISTRY SETTLES BRITISH RAILWAY STRIKE Premier Ramsay MacDonald Leaves for Scotland After Hearing Good News, Hu United Press LONDON. Jan 29. —The new labor government cleared its first hurdle through settlement of the national rail strike, reach today after an all-night conference of railway managers and union leaders. Premier Ramsay MacDonald learned the good news over the telephone before breakfast and left for Edinburgh shortly afterward. J. Bromley, leader of the striking engineers and firemen, 'aid after the conference broke up: “The terms reached were most satisfactory. The men will return to work immediately.” Another strike official said service would be back to normal by night. The strike lasted eight days. The strike was timed to coincide with wage reductions authorized by the national wage board, to which engineers and firemen objected. The walkout affected 70,090 men. traffic was tied up lines and ran disjointedly and spasmodically on others there was some violence in Scotland, but no casualties. lANUARY MONTH IN WHICH IST DEATHS OCCUR Vermont and Memphis Share Questionable Honor of High Rate, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. —Take care if yojrself this month! More people die in January than in any month of the year. And if you live in the State of Vermont, of the city of Memphis, take extra good care of yourself, for those are the most unhesalthful. places in the country. That is what mortality statistics for the year 1921, just issued by the United States Census Bureau, reveal. But on the whole, their story is a cheerful one. Your chances for life are improving each year, the statistics show. In 1921, 1,032.009 persons died in the thirty-four States reporting to the Federal Government, a decrease of 110,449 over the previous year. In 1920 the death rate per 100,000 population, over this entire area, was 1,306. In 1921 it was 1,163.9. While the number of deaths from sickness decreased, deaths by suicide, murder and automobile accidents ann increased, the first in alarming proportions. Gun Suicides Popular In 1921, 11,163 persons ended their own lives, as against 8,959 the year before. Os the suicides, 4,122 used firearms. Hanging was the next most popular method, with gas and corrotive substances following. Epidemic diseases caused 164,183 deaths, of which the largest single factor was tuberculosis, making up more than half of the total Heart disease ranked next in fatality, followed by cancer, apoplexy and chronic ccphritis. Only two persons in the entire area •lied of the plague. Alcoholism was fatal to 1,611 with wood alcohol poisoning adding 194 to its list. A total of 15,027 women died of diseases reated to child birth. Country dwellers are more healthful than urban inhabitants. The figures are 485,692 rural, and 523,981 city deaths. j During the year there were 7 ; 545 murders, an increase over the previous year's total of 1,340. Accidents caused 60,896 deaths. Your greatest danger of accidental death is from crushing in wrecks, or landslides. Falls are next most fatal, causing 10,102 deaths, only sixty-six under the total for all the fatal automobile accidents of the area. Drowning took a toll of 6,489; bums, 5,329; poison. 3.487, and acidental wounds from firearms. 2,346. Falling Down Stairs Nearly as many people died by falling down stairs as in all the street car accidents of the year, or all the mine disasters. Automobiles took just twice the toll of railroads and showed an increase, while railroad accidents were fewer. Seventeen persons met death by starvation. Excessive cold killed 111 and excessive heat 946. Lightning killed 461, while the total from airplane and balloon accidents was only 132.

Vermont has the highest death rate of any of the thirty-four States reporting, and Montana the lowest. According to statistics for the larger cities, life is most hazardous in Memphis and least in Akron, with the Bronx Borough, Xew York, and Seattle next for safety. More persons die before reaching 1 year of age than at any other period of life. Once- that time is passed, the second peak of danger does not come until the years between 70 and 74. In 1921, 13,059 persons over 90 years of age died and 910 who were over 100. Ranking next to January as the is March, while September has the record for the fewest deaths, most unhealthful month In the year Drs. Brown and Winders Speak Dr. C. H. Winders, executive secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, and Dr. Lewis Brown, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, were the principal speakers Monday at a meeting of Christian Ministers’ Association at the Y. M. C. A.

What They Knew of Cooking in 114 A. D. Fills a 381-Year-Old-Book at Library

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The delicate science of enticing the appetite as practiced in 114 A. D. would no doubt put the modern cook tc shame. The oldest cook book in the world is owned by the Indianapolis Public Library. It is the gift of the late Wright Marble, internationally known chef and authority on preparing food, whose entire collection of a hundred cook books was presented to the library. His widow still lives in Indianapolis, at 921 E. Fortieth St. Miss Charline Evans, 3046 Central Ave., of the library order department is shown scanning the yellowed pages. The manuscript of tills famous book was not set up in type until 1542. Beside this first edition, the library owns five others, all In Latin. The Cook’s Oracle "Apicius Redivivus” is the name of a famous guide to gastronomical delights included in the collection. Its English name is “The Cook's Oracle.” Among the otligr interesting ccok books are: Lo Scalo di Vettorio Lancellattl, (Italian) printed in Rome in 1627, bound in antique vellum. Cook Book by “Oscar” of the Waldorf, New York, 1896. “Oscar” is the famous Oscar Tschirvky who has served dishes to kings at the Waldorf-Astoria In New York. The Epicurean, by Charles Ranhofer, former chef at the once famous I>elmonico'B which has now been transformed into a Fifth Ave. soda parlor. The book was printed in 1894.

AVERAGE SAVINGS IN H. S. SET AT 1135 PER CAPITA Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.—The per capita savings of the United States mount to $135.40, according to the annual report of Comptroller of Currency Dawes. Thrifty Americans have pijed up in the banks of the Nation the huge total of $15,293,746,00 in savings de postis, records of Dawes’ office show. Spread around among the 112,950,000 residents of the United States, it equals $135.40 for each. This vast treasure is more than double the savings of all the other 795,305,000 people of the earth who have access to savings bank 9 put together. According to a table in Dawes’ report, the rest of the world's savings amount to the equivalent of only $6,669,688,170, a per capita savings deposit of only $8.39, about one-sixteenth the American per capita savings. Americans are not the thriftietst people on earth, this table shows. That honor goes to the New Zealanders, with Americans second. Australia ranks third. The respective per capita savings of the leading three are $168.62, $135.40 and $134.59. Switzerland follows Australia with $127.83, with Norway next with $124.02. The distribution of America’s vast savings among the banks of the Nation is as follows: Kind. No. Savs. fcjPS Mutual sav. bks. .. . 618 $0,282.1^^,600 National banks 8,241 3.507.51i>%j0 State banks 18.043 2,462,929.!'*| Loan & trust comp.. 1.64.3 1.66.3.090,0(W Stock savings bk. . 1.029 1.298.249,000 Postal saving* 134.458.000 Private banks 604 15.353,000 Total .30.178 515.293.746.000

THIS BRIGHT BABY GIRL Brought Joy to Home. Mrs. Price’s Health Restored by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege* table Compound “i never felt like working, and when I would try to do any work standing I, 11 1 jTi 1111111 11 on my feet, I ! would just drag j around all day ! would have ter I MBHHHD rible pains and Iwould be in bed three or four days. 1 was in -, % this condition • •*a*jr about a year |A when I saw LyVegetable Compound advertised in the papers. I had heard different women say It was good for women’s troubles, and my aunt thought it would help me as it had helped her. So I took the Vegetable Compound and it brought things right, and I was in good shape. I thank you a thousand times for the good your medicine has done me.”— Mrs. Robert Price, Scootac, via Lockhaven, Pa. In a recent country-wide canvass of purchasers of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, BS out of every 100 report they were benefited by its use.—Advertiseme-it.

Several beautifully printed Japanese and Chinese cook books. The full title of “Apicius Redivivus'’ printed for the famous Samuel Bagster, No. 15 Paternoster Row. London, 1817, is: “Apicius Redivivus, or, the cook’s oracle: wherein especially the art of composing soups, sauces and flavoring essences is made so clear ami easy, by the quantity of each article being accurately stated by weight and measure that every one may soon learn to dress a dinner as well as the most experienced cook; being six hundredl recipes, the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician, for the purpose of composing a culinary code for the rational epicure, and augmenting the alimentary enjoyments of private families; combining economy with elegance; and saving expense to housekeepers and trouble to servants.”

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The dedication; “To tasteful palates, keen appetites, and healthful and capacious stomachs: The following receipts, composed for thuir rational recreation, are respectfully inscribed.” The attitude of the author is expressed in this sentence of the preface: “The following receipts are not a mere marrowless collection of shreds, and patches, and cuttings, and pastings, from obsolete works, but a bona fide register of practical facts accumulated by a perseverance not to be subdued or evapor ated by the lgniferous terrors of a roasting fire in the dog-days, or a vote of censure from the Qook's Company, for thuß daring to promulgate the profound mysteries of the (till now, In the following pages, explained and elucidated to the humblest capacity) occult art of cookery.”

CORNER GROCERY IN HOOSIER LORE IS FROWNED UPON State Board of Health Sees Lack of Sanitation in Old Institution. The old-time grocery store of Higgins’ qorner is all right in memory and in fiction, but it doesn’t capture approval of the State health officials. The modern grocery store gets the blue ribbon, in the opinion of I. L. Miller, State food and drug commissioner, following results of inspections of the board of health in 1923. Neatly labeled, sanitary packages have replaced the old cracker barrel, where foodstuffs, other than crackers even, were sold in the bulk. When the wise ones of the community gathered to solve national problems, they gathered more than diplomatic lore. Mr. Bacteria thrived in the oldtime grocery store, despite its glorious romance in Hoosierdom. Anew problem, has been created by the itinerant meat peddler. In many instances he does not provide the proper equipment, it is said. Indiana meat markets were found 58 per cent "good,” running In second place with the modern grocery in the lead of all retail establishments. Flour mills were given the highest rating. More than 67 per cent of those inspected were “good” in health safeguards. Scotland’s Blind Organist EDINBURGH, Scotland, Jan. 29. Dr. Alfred Hollins, one of Scotland's most gifted organists, is totally blind. The degree of doctor of music recently was conferred upon him. He never makes the slightest slip on the keybeard. And all of his playing is timed perfectly.

The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) considers it a major part of its duty to help increase proauction in every line of activity. The factories, farms and workshops of the Middle West function more effectively and more regularly because of Standard Oil Company (Indiana) products and service. This means steady employment for labor —low production costs for manufacturers and farmers —more goods at lower prices for everybody. Petroleum products are basic essentials—they are at the root of industrial prosperity; for petroleum in some form enters into every civilized activity. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) inspired by the will to serve, organized its efforts in the oil business along certain well-defined lines, with the determination to extend production of petroleum products on a vast scale, in the expectation (since fulfilled) of reducing production costs. The first plank in the Company's platform is an independent directorate, composed of oil men experienced in every phase of the oil business. The second plank is to lower production costs by utilizing modem science and by emtrained experts to devise new efficiency methods. This practice has made the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) a leader in the industry. The third plank is the development of a coroprehensive system of distribution. Standard Oil Company (Indiana) petroleum products are delivered to the smallest as well as to the largest consumers with promptness and with dependable regularity. The fourth plank is to make every product manufactured and sold by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) measure up to the highest standards of quality and be absolutely uniform at all times. The fifth plank is to keep the price of its products as low as conditions will permit, depending upon a large volume of business to return a satisfactory profit. This highly specialized organization, committed to maximum service, lends to every other industry, from the manufacture of automobiles to the manufacture of shoes, bricks, buttons, or floor, the facilities to produce faster and cheaper. This is a direct contribution to national prosperity and constitutes a record of achievements of which the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is proud. Standard Oil Company ( Indiana ) 810 So. Michigan Ave* Chicago, CL

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No wonder members of the crew of the Dollar liner President Harrison were so light-hearted when they left San Francisco on the

first regular round-the-world passenger service. These four sallorettes ere shown descending the ladder after wishing bo r voyage to all aboard. ONEILEOII ANOTHER INJURED IN ENGINE BLAST Colored Workman Loses Life in Explosion at Big Four Shop. One man was burned to death and another seriously burned when an arch tube plug blew out In an engine on which they were working at the Big Four roundhouse, 300 Shelby St., efxly today. Reese Ward, 27, colored, 946 Hosbrook St., boilermaker helper, died almost instantly, from burns about the head. Everett R. Welshans, 2231 Spann Ave., an inspector, was taken home badly burned about the hips, arms and legs. Leroy Harrison, 1502 Laurel St., the only witness, told motorpolice Reid and Hylan, and Coroner Paul F. Robinson that, after the report, Ward backed out of the pit and Welshans followed. Ward’s body was taken to the city morgue. Two copies of every act of the British Parliament are printed on vellum. One. Indorsed with the royal assent, Is kept among the rolls. The other goes to the record office.

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AMUSEMENTS MuraT- —TOMORROW IJttle Theater Present* “WHY MARRY?” ONE PERFOMANCE ONLY Curtain 8:20 Now Selling. 25c to $i 00. No Tax FORDS AT $23.50 Wouldn’t Attract as Much Attention as Newton and Livingston's UNCLE TOM’S CABIN Company of 30 People. Now Playing—Twice Daily LINCOLN SQUARE Formerly the Rialto Theatre I Mat 2:15 Any Seat 25c. Nights, 50c. PKETtH’S A I.lnenp of Headliner* O’HANLON & ZAMBUNI A Cabarot in Cuba FLEURETTE NIXON JOEFFRIE & SANS LEMAIRE & PHILLIPS At the Dentist'* WILLIE MALIA ROLLS BART CO. Spei-ial for the Kiddle* JOCKO The *.OOoo Crow Added Attraction Harry and Emma Sharrock Behind the Grand Stand Patlie New*—Topic*—Fable* PALACE up'S. Robert Sherman's Comedy Playlet. “PINCHED” Miles a.od Miles of Smiles EMIL BOREO Europe's Celebrated hinging Comedian “MORGAN BILLY and BOUNCE’S SHELDON CIRCUS Bari mm's u A I)a*li of Bed" Favorite MR. BERRENS & RYAN SISTERS A Fellow and Two Girl* PHOTOPLAY DeMille’s “THE MARRIAGE MAKER” With dark Holt and Agnes Ayres Ii iii j ' i iiirunn Birr Where the Crowds Go! LYRIC Direct from the N. Y. Hippodrome LOOMAS TROUPE “From the Bottom to the Top” Max Teuber Present* “Shsdowland” A Fantastic Dance Spectacle DAVE LUELLA VINE & TEMPLE Making Monaenxe an Art ••• • * • Olga and Nickols, Dolores Lopez, Chuck Hass •• * • * BROWNLEE'S Hickville Follies A RIOTOFS RFBE REVUE ••• • * * Last Round. Second Series. “FIGHTING BLOOD” I Dancing In the Lyrie Ballroom Afternoon and Evening

STUDENT RECOVERS SIGHT AND HEARING Girl Attributes Her Good Fortune to Prayer, Bv United Press JANESVILLE, Wis., Jam. 2S Blind and deaf for three years, WII- - Huggins, 18, Chippewa Falls, Wis., girl student at the State School for the Blind, can again see and haax. Miss Huggins, the girl who two years ago startled the scientific world through her ability “to hear” with her fingers and “see” through her sense of smell, has been able to ee since Christmas. According to the physician Wllletta has about fifty per cent vision, practically normal hearing in the left ear and about forty per cent hearing In the right ear. Miss Huggins attributes the recovery of the senses to prayer.

AMUSEMENTS Capitol Theatre ALL THIS WEEK Twice Dally—2ils and 8:15 COLUMBIA BURLESQUE PRESENTS “NIFTIES OF 1924” P PI C FQ, Mat., 2Sc - 3©c, 55 °- LADIES AT THE MATINEE. 25c. BEN MEROFF AND HIS BAND

UUfaMiABM ALL THIS WEEK “DANCING FOOLS” Tonight “Perfect Form Contest” MOTION PICTURES ~ APOLLO=™ Wm. Fox Present* “HOODMAN BLIND” The Sensational Melodramatic Buoce* from the Play by Henry Arthur Jones and Wilson Barrett. Imperial Comedy, ‘Tp In the Air.” Chas. B. Lines—Singing New Songs VTRGIL MOORE’S APOLLO ORCHESTRA NOW SHOWING 6 CYLINDER LOVE Love, Youth, Excitement Stan Laura! Comedy “THE SOILERS” PATHE NEWS LESTER HUFF Playing Novelty Sole COMING BCNDAY MABEL NORMAND in “THE EXTRA GIRL”

runi ICU*O all next tNuLlon o week STARTING SUNDAY NIGHT Twice Daily Thereafter, 2:30-8:30 XX ✓ METRO MASTERPIECE g4K uus*UH V ;fn! Jama* natid 6 Lewis Staca 3nelV.il: i& Prices—Nites, 50c to $1 Mats., 50c and 75c Pin* 10 ”4 r. S. Tax SEATS NOW SELLING IPPPP mT A T ft **<Our Dick” at His Best RICHARD BARTHELMESS in a First National Picture “TWENTY O N E” WholTShe? “THE WOMAN IN WHITE” AT THE ORGAN Overture Ist Hungarian Rhapsody BY FRANZ LISZT A Mermaid Comedy “NECK AND NECK” C O M I N G SUNDAY ‘Her Temporary Husbdnd*

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