Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1924 — Page 4

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AT WOMAN'S PRISON EH K city is shocked by the brutal murder of a teacher at the Indiana Woman’s Prison and the subsequent confession of an escaped prisoner. Not the least startling aspect of the crime is the fact that such a thing could happen. T|je girl, who admits the murder, told the police she hadheen repeatedly out 6f her cell when prison employes were not around, despite the fact that she was considered dangerous. The excuse of authorities is that “ nothing like this ever happened before.” It is admitted no one in authority was awake in the prison proper during most of the night on which the murder occurred. Policemen of long experience will tell you that women prisoners are frequently little less desperate than men. At the Indiana Reformatory and at the State prison guards are constantly on duty. The institutions are inclosed by walls with watch towers constantly occupied. At the Woman’s Prison the idea is that of a reform school, a home for wayward women. This sounds well in theory, but the murder of Miss Louise Richards indicates how it sometimes fails in practice. DANIELS. WALSH AND ADAMS ripjHE attempt bv Chairman Adams of the Republican national | 1 ) committee to fix the blame upon former Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Senator Walsh for the legislation which made the oil leases possible was as abortive as it was dishonest. Even such a hard-boiled reactionary Republican machine politician as Senator Smoot couldn’t stand for such unmitigated perversion of the truth. And if it were too strong medicine for Smoot, nothing more need be said of it, for Smoot would probably go as far as any man in public life to shift the responsibility for the oil scandal to Walsh and Daniels or any other Democrats. Entirely apart from any political consideration, the two men who are entitled to the greatest credit and the greatest respect in this oil mess are Josephus Daniels and Senator Walsh. As Secretary of the Navy for eight years, Daniels protected every drop of the Navy’s oil and demonstrated his incorruptibility and ability. He stands before the people today as a giant compared with such as Adams. As for Senator Walsh, it is doubtful whether the oil investigation would not have-petered out months ago but for his honesty, courage, energy and intelligence. Josephus Daniels kept the oil thieves at bay for eight years and by so doing earned the gratitude of the Nation. It is not at all likely his regard will be the Democratic nomination for the presidency. If the rank and file of the party could express themselves there probably would be little doubt about it. Walsh’s reward, to which he is entitled beyond question, is renomination and re-election as Senator from Montana. That Adams as mouthpiece for the Republican old guard is trying to besmirch Daniels and Walsh is not to be wondered at. But it can’t be done.

THE UPLIFT OF THE KNIFE ly/IHEN it comes to standing by the time-honored customs, it W w iH be necessary to hand it to Kansas City. From time to time, carping critics have made several and sundry adverse com ments on the age-old habit of mankind to employ the table knife as the sole carrier of food from plate to palate. The Women’s Commercial Club of Kansas City refused to be moved by these attacks. In fact, at a social meeting, the other day, the club nut the challenge and made it a war to and for the knife. Members gathered around the festal board, discarding all table cutlery save knives. Three prizes, in order to make the occasion one of positive decision and point, were offered those who could show the cleanest plates when the atmosphere cleared and the meal was over. Then they were off in a bunch. Well, they got away with it all right, but the carnage was terrible. True, no knives were entirely swallowed and no lips bleeding, but faces were smeared, bodices were ruined and lang -ag*was reduced to a mere gasp. Meat had slipped into unwilkng laps, mashed potatoes had clogged sensitive nostrils and b?ans had rolledfrom unsteady knives and disappeared in the wide open spaces at alabaster throats. But there was victory—victory for society and the knife. That’s the point. The good Kansas City women proved that tbit piece of cutlery is no worse than it is bad. More than that, they were brave enough to make great sacrifices of apparel and appearance in order that the cherished customs of the fathers, and the fathers’ fathers, might not become a mere stab in the dark, the butt of ridicule and the object of derision’s keen blade. IT BEGINS gradually to work into the average citizen’s mind that putting up millions to elect a President is a business venture; and that the biggest contributors expect the biggest returns on the investment. - \ MAYBE Teapot Ted as Assistant Secretary of the Navy didn’t know what was going on, but he wrote a letter to Sinclair asking for a job for Brother Archie.

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FORMER OUTLAW LEADS QUIET LIFE Only Surviving Member of Jesse James Gang Does Odd Jobs on a Farm and Writes Book,

BILLY” STILES, EXBANDIT COMRADE OF JESSE JAMES

By JACK JUNGMEYER NEA Service Writer LENDALE, Cal., Feb. 27. The only surviving member i__ of Jesse James’ gang is here —REFORMED! William Stiles is a disturbing refutation of the proverb that you can’t straighten the \>ent bougn. Billy in boyhood and prime was as crooked a bough as was ever fashioned by the storms of out-

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Bonds To the Editor of The Time* An article by Herbert Quick in Tho Times on making taxable the bonds that are now tax exempt should be in the hands of every taxpayer in the lard. His statements are logical and true. If ail fture issues of bonds that are now tax free be made taxable no local financier would Invest in them, knowing as he would that at least 2Vi per cent of their earnings would be taken from him annually by the tax gatherers. A much higher rate of interest would have to be named in the Donds before they could be made to yield a reap sonable return, or in lieu of a higher Interest rate they would have to be sold at a ruinous discount, which amounts to the same thing. Higher Interests If a higher rate of interest be made they would become an attractive investment for outside capital and local financiers would not have a ghost of a show to secure any of such bonds, because outside capitalists could afford to bid at least the amount of the local tax rate higher for all such bonds, and of course would get them. This would remove the bonds from the jurisdiction of the local taxing officials and thus make them non-pro-ductive of any revenue to State and county, just as they are non-produo-tlve now. But the increased Interest rate would make an aching void in the pockets of those who were responsible for the payment of these bonds. Who is it that pays all bond Issues, whether taxable or tax exempt? It Is those who have constructed sewers, curbs, sidewalks, street Improvements, highways and public buildings. Reasoning Sequenrea We will not say that the taxpayers are a lot of ignoramuses by any means, but a very' large per cent of them do not reason out the sequence of events that would ensue, should such a proposition bo allowed to bear print. When the demagogic candidate proposes to “swat the rich” by making their bond holdings taxable in tho future, the mass of -voters usually •‘fall” for It and enthusiastically help to pull down the temple of prosperity on their own heads. They do not recognize the fact that in this country the so called rich are abundantly able to care for themselves. The buying of the tax free securities does not tie up money. No one buys a bond except someone else has a bond for sale. When the transaction Is completed, the seller has the money and the buyer has the bond The money'is just as free to circulate In the channels of trade as it was before the sale was made, Taxes may be so burdensome, however, as to deter our Napoleons of Industry from running their factories, and then it is that stagnation sets in, to the detriment of the wage earner. Tax free securities are a blessing to any growing community, and the wise voter will so cast Ills vote as to guarantee their continuance. • E. P. M'CASLIN, SSOI Dewey Ave.. Indianapolis.

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back ? n the 80’s,” said an yy old Cleve'and Press staff man, ——J among the smokers, ‘‘when Bob Paine was editor, composed and published a little tune that was really a fait tuneful and asked his readers to j suggest titles for it. He got the titles, j all right, among them: “ ‘Don’t use an ax on mother's face.’ “ ‘When father lost the baby’s safety j pins.’ “ ‘Lock the dog house, Fldo’s poisoned.’

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lawry. Today, at the age of 74. Is as straight a human tree as ever weathered the gale. He does odd jobs on a farm and writes a book between chores. “I was bad' from the time I can first remember,” explains Stiles. "I started stealing as soon as I could wajk.” But when he reached that age when most men consider their lives unalterably fixed, Stiles began to delve Into the gospel instead of bank vaults and mall pouches. His first crime was at 14. He robbed a drunken man. He ran away from home and# went to a New York "begging school,” where "he mastered pickpocketing. After he had stolen a horse in Kentucky—a gallows offense in those days—he decided to go the limit and Joined the James' gang. "My initiation was pretty rough.” he recalls. “They sent me out on an errand along the trail. ’’Soon I saw men—sheriff's deputies. I thought—surround me. I thought I was lost. When they asked me if I belonged to the James’ gang, I couldn’t say ‘yes’ because I thought they would hang me. And If I said ’no,* I figured the gang would kill me. So I. refused to answer. "They put a rope around my neck and hoisted me clear of the ground several times. Finally they released me and I returned to the camp. I found the James' gang around the, camp fire, laughing They had put me to the tost and I had not flinched. "I always think of that incident whenever I put on a stiff white collar and it chafes my throat.” - Finis By BERTON BRALEY I had some stocks From out of which I looked for rocks To make me rich; There was a crash, The boom went flat; I lost mv cash— And that was that! I dreamed of fame, I thought I'd make A wondrous name And no mistake! Within the ring I cast my hat Fate hit me —blng! And that was that. I loved a girl. My head and heart Were In a whirl Right from the start; She wed a guy Gray, old and fat. I heaved a sigh— And that was that. So. to rehearse What front amiss, I wrote a verse— And that was this! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service)

Family Fun

To Father’s I .iking . “Women made history. Ix>ok a.t Joan of Arc, look at Madam Du Barry, look at Eve.” “Yeah, I’d like to!”—Judge. Tho Doctor Stumped “Oh, doctor! do you think that your appendicitis operation will leave a scar that will show?” "Heavens, madam! how should I know? I’m no arbiter of coming styles.” Little Brother’s Pointer , “Can your sister—er-—cook?" “I thipk she’s going to. T heard her tell mamma that if that fish came here agpin tonight, she was going to make It hot for him.”—Am. Legion Weekly.

" 'Ma’B chopping hash for Daddy’s lunch.’ “ 'There’s grit behind our Willie’s ears.’ < ‘ ‘O hear! O hear! the cackling rooster thinks he’s laid an egg.’ ’’There were worse, and by gosh! we made oug, editor publish them, on the ground he had left his sphere as editor and, as composer, watf entitled to criticism as such, like any other.”

NO. 15 Third Degree Yourself! A Ready Mind—

Were you a bright child? You are just as bright as you eve; were. Here is a test that will help you tc find whether you have a good everyday mind or not. This is what you are to do. In the test the first two words of each line have a? certain re lation to each other. Draw a line under the word within the parenthe ses which has that particular relation to the third word. Here is a sample done for you. Sky-blue: grass—(grow green, cut, dead). Get your watch. The time allowed is two minutes. Go! 1. Go-come: sell—(leave, buy, money, papers. 2. January-Februaryl June—(July, May, month, year. 3. Hope-despair: happiness—(frolic, fun. Joy, sadness). 4. Above-below: top—(spin, bottom surface, side). 5. Peninsula-land, bay—(boats, pig, ocean, Massachusetts). 6. City-mayor: army-Hnavy, soldier, general, private. 7. Food-man: gasoline—(gas, oil, au tornoblle, spark). 8. Winter-summer: cold (freeze, warm, wet, January). 9. Tolerate-pain: welcome—(pleas ure, unwelcome, friends, give). 10. Cold-Ice: heat—(lightning, warm, steam, coat). Did you make a satisfactory record? Answers. 1, buy; 2. July; 3, sadness; 4, bottom: 5, ocean; 6, general; 7, au tomobile; 8, warm; 9, pelasure; 10, steam. (Copyright by Science Service.) AGREEMENT OF MINERS STABILIZING Conference Will Go Long Way Toward Solidifying Bituminous Industry, Hu Time* Speci/tl Jyfn* AS HINT,TON, Feb. 27. —The conference at Jacksonville, Li, ■*,J Fla., composed of representatives of the United Mine Workers of America and of operators from the unionized bituminous fields hits reached an agreement providing for the maintenance of the existing wage scale for a period of three years. As no doubt exists, this arrangement will be formally ratified by the various organizations represented, this action will mean the wages established for the unionized mine workers in 1920 will ’remain In force until April, 19#?. The .real significance of the agreement, however, docs not arise from continuance of the existing rates of pay, but in the stabilizing effect the work of the conference will have on the soft coal Industry Itself. The bituminous coal mining industry Is notoriously over-developed and Irregular In operation. These characteristics are the outgrowth of competitive forces during the last twentyfive years. The deposits of soft coal are widely extended, of great magnitude, and comparatively easy to develop. Competition for markets has always been Intense. llanna Brings Agreement About 1898, as a result of these conditions, when a majority of operators were on verge of Insolvency and earnings of the miners were below a level of bare subsistence, the late Senator Mark Hanna attempted to stabilize and preserve tho Industry by bringing about a definite working agreement "between the mine workers and operators of the central competitive field, embracing Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and western Pennsylvania. Operators In this predominant field, so far as labor costs were concerned, were thus placed on a uniform competitive basis Over Expansion Results The most serious tendency toward over expansion of recent years has appeared in the maintenance of distinctly non-union operations, representing about one-fourth of the total capacity of the country, in West Virginia, Ken tucky, Alabama and other sections. These developments left, bituminous coal mining operations at the close of the war In a deplorable state of over development. The three year agreement Just negotiated will brln’g about a better adjustment of supply to demand. Employment. wages, ami profits will be placed on a stable basis. This will be brought about by the elimination of high cost mines. The large mining companies will now know that labor conditions will be constant for three years. Long-Time Contracts They can, therefore, enter into long-time contracts, at full capacity, and, for this reason, together with their better facilities, can produce coal cheaper than their competitors. Asa consequence, a large number of mines will be forced to close down. This will be advantageous both to the consumer and to the Industy as a whole. The Jacksonville agreement Is. to that extent, a measure of real Industrial statesmanship.

Wrong Address Mall to the followdng persons has been returned to The Times. It a better address Is furnished us. mall will be forwarded. Indianapolis—Miss Marie Denny, 564 Jefferson Ave.; Ella M. Mayhearn. 10 S. Summit Ave.; Miss Mary Hood, St. L. & W. Bldg.; H. William Martin, 1212 E. Washington St.; M. Smith, 3321 Washington Blvd.; Marvin Roche, 721 Center St.; Martha Hershey,'"'6oo S. Ind.; Mrs. W. M. Hananed. Woodlawn Ave.; Normal Johnson, 2436 Narsnalace St.

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SMALL MAMMALS BECOME MASTERS Size of Dinosaurs and Monster Reptiles Did Not Help Them When Earth Conditions Changed.

By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of the Times Copyright by David Dietz HE reptiles, it will be remembered, were over-specialized. Hence when a vast upheaval of the land changed conditions they couldn’t hang onto their supremacy. The little mammals now came Into their own and began to grow and develop and take over the mastery of the world. This marks the beginning of the Age of Mammals or the Cenozoic Era, as the geologist calls it. That means the era of recent life. The Age of Mammals is believed to have started 40,000,000 years ago and lasted until about 25.000 years ago when man became the dominant creature upon the earth and the'so-called Age of Reason began. We present-day people would have felt more at home at the beginning of the Age of Mammals than at any previous time. For at this point, the world began to take on an appearance such as we are familiar with. As In the case of previous eras, the geologist divides this one into various periods. First Is Eocene yfThe first is the Eocene. In this period the ertrth was covered with great meadow lands such as we know today and the small archaic mammals which first appeared at the close of the Age of Reptiles were supplanted by more modernized grazing ones. The next period is called the Oligocene. Elevation of the land due to movements of the eiyth crust continued and the grazing herds were able to spread over the greater areas. The third period was the Miocene. Tn this the mammals really came into their own. For the first time now, we find the elephant with his trunk. There are

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also a great variety of camels in# eluding one which has been named the giraffe-camel. It was a sort of camel with a long neck like the giraffe. Mammals now began to conquer every corner of the earth. There were flying bats, burrowing moles, primitive dogs, some as big as bears, and the first cats. Life Becomes Hard But soon life began to get hard again. m There came the Pliocene Period, which Prof. Richard Swann Lull of Yale University has called the “period of great unrest." Weaker stocks were pushed to the wall in the struggle for existence. The “missing link,” the common ancestor of man and the present-day apes, i3 supposed to have lived at this time. Then came a great ice age. Geologists call it the Pleistocene Period. When this age ended, man was the dominant creature upon the earth. That period ended 25,000 years ago, and from that time on the most important creature upon the earth haa been man. Next article in series; Early Man. A Thought Let no man say when he Is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.—James 1:13. * • • HRISTIAN! thou knowest thou earliest gunpowder about thee. . Desire them that car o’ fire to keep at a distance. It is a dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips.—John FlaveL