Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1924 — Page 4

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PAYING FOP DEAD HORSE | p | ATTVRO AD men estimate that it would cost ten billion dol--1 fy I lars to abolish all highway grade crossings in the United States. This, comments Barron’s Weekly, about half the entire original cost of building the railroads. When the roads were built, construction costs were very low oompared with now. Grade crossings could have been eliminated in thousands of cases, by bridging streets and roads above the steel tracks or tunneling them under, at no great increase in cost. But the builders were not sufficiently prophetic in imagination to look into the future and realize that grade crossings would later become a grave traffic problem. Now, at enormous expense, the railroads are gradually eliminating grade crossings—repairing their original blunder. It’s like paying for a dead horse. The big traffic problem in many cities today is that streets are too narrow. When the streets were laid out originally no one dreamed that the day would come when they’d not be wide enough. The general measure seems to have been to make roads jtust wide enough for two wagon loads of hay to pass each other without going into the ditch. Despite this precedent, many old cities continue laying out narrow streets, and even new mushroom towns fail to build wide enough highways for steadily increasing congestion of traffic, bound to come. A large portion of human effort is devoted to undoing the mistakes of the past. This is especially true of individuals. For instance, the majority of people seeking health in middle age. when they should be sturdy, are the victims of improper living ir. youth. 11l health as a rule is the payment of a bill that has been piling up for years. In some ways it’s a good thing we can’t rend the veil and have our futures revealed to us. But, if we could see ahead ten years or more, most of us would change our habits, methods, goals and purposes—abruptly and decidedly. Most people drift with the current. .Only'a few inquire carefully of veterans who have made tne voyage before, and then steer a charted course to a definite destination.

EAGLE PLAYS DOVE SHE American eagle is not generally regarded as a dove of peace. But it is—and one of the most dependable—providing it is on a gold piece. J. Pierpont Morgan’s banking group has just announced a $100,000,000 loan to France, to mature, according to reports, in one year. This can mean by one thing and that is that Wall Street —always pretty good at finding out which way the cat is going to jump—is convinced reparations and kindred troubles which France and Europe are now up against, will shortly be sat isfactorily settled. This but coincides with what The Times has been saying ever since the committee of experts, headed by the Americans, “Hell-an’-Maria Dawes, Young and Robinson, was named to examine into Germany’s capacity to pay, and suggest a way for her to do it. A hundred million-dollar loan to France, sans such a set le ment, would help neither France nor prove profitable to those who furnished the money. France can not stabilize her budget by borrowing. It only increases her national debt and swells the amount which she must raise to meet interest payments. Such a loan can only afford a very temporary relief and save the franc pending a definite settlement. Wall Street knows that. And when it makes this short-time loan it does so secure in the belief which virtually amounts to a certainty that a general and satisfactory European settlement is imminent. Let us hope the eagle, in its role of peace harbinger, is right; not so much for the sake of Wall Street’s $100,000,000, but for the sake of the plain people of Europe and the world. They need the peace which the eagle now definitely promises for the fir it time since Armistice. Our own prosperity is very largely tied up with world prosperity. Our farm and other surplus products are growing muih faster than we, ourselves, can consume them, and there must be an outlet for them. If the eagle is right, as we hope he is, it only goes to show that America should have done its bit long ago to help settle the problems which, it seems, are now nearing a solution. MARCH, the month when the lion and the lamb lie. IT IS oily talk to say that a poor memory covers a multitude of sins. ONE remarkable development of the oil jamboree is that, apparently, there were no innocent bystanders. GOVERNOR DAVIS of Kansas says he would rather be a farmer than President. Now there, messmates, is an optimist. ‘ f - “ j MR. M’ADOO resigned from the Cabinet in order to keep the wolves from his door, and he did a good job of it. He made them feed him.

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Contentment Found After 80 Years, in Boiler Along Road

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JOHN MLTELLER, WHO LIVED IN A BOILER. ARROW INDICATES WHERE HIS BUNK, WAS BUILT.

By KEA Service Fla.. March 18. I(I —"The Old Man Who Lived ‘ in a Boiler” is dead. Unlike "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,” John Mueller lived in solitude. Several years ago he shuffled his palsied way down the road to Gainsville, burdened with more than fourscore years. His joints ached with rheumatism and his heart with a longing for peace and contentment. There, along the road, was a rusty, discarded boiler. He crept into it to find a moment's surcease from the strife of the passing world. Within, It seemed there was a little world all his own. And so John Mueller fixed a hunk for himself. He obtained an oil stove. He found that his rheumatic pains left him. The peace he had

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Carrying On To the Editor of The Time* I served overseas. lam neither for nor against the bonus. All I ask is a square deal so I can make a fair living for my family. When I enlisted I gave up the chance to learn a trade. When I came back my place was filled and my trade gone. Since then I have married and have a family, but nothing c-lse. I cannot support them, for my trade is truck driving, which I did while in service. Whenever I apply for a Job as driver they ask me for recommendations and my honor able discharge papers, but I refuse to give it any more. I was out of work for weeks. Recently I applied for a job with the State highway commission on W. Market St. The boss asked me if I ever drove an Army truck, and when I replied I had pushed one for three years, he replied: "Oh, we do not hire any ex-Army drivers for they tear cur trucks all to pieces.” They were glad to get us during the war. Nothing was too good for the boys, then, but now nothing is too bad for an ex soldier. Give them a bonus and no one will raise a yell but the war profiteers. I will not sign my name as I don't want any one to help me, for I will get a job if God will let me. He took care of me for three years. EX-SOLDIER. 17th of March To the Editor of The Time* Whilst poor Pat appreciates his adopted home, the States, Is cognizant of the comforts that they bring. Please excuse him once a year, if to you he does appear To transfer his affections in the spring. On the seventeenth of March, he’ll remove his gloss and starch, The veneer unto his manner will not cling, Who can blame him, once they’ve seen. The "Old Dart” in mantle green? It’s a sight exhilarating In the spring. Memories which God assigns to ease tumultuous minds Convey to Paddy’s musing*—taken wing. That if God but spares his health to secure a little wealth. He’ll visit friends and country next spring. —Dan Riley. What can I do for dry skin? Do not use soap on the face. Give the skin plenty of a good cold cream. When was the French Legion of Honor instituted and by whom? By Napoleon while consul, May 19, 1892, and inaugurated July 14. 1804. Is it correct to use foreign expressions such as “au revoir” and others? Never sprinkle foreign phrases in your conversation. It as rare that a case will arise when the English word is not preferable.

Heard in the Smoking Room

I HE man who lived in a small i I town came into the smoker, ~ .—I just In time to save, the conversation with the following story: “The town I live In has only one moving picture show and they change the picture every night. It Is a good thing; for, after you see them once, you cannot think of going the second time and the population will not support a picture for more than one day. There is no orchestra in this theater, only an organ that at times sounds Ilka It had the bronchitis. The organ man is totally blind but, like a great many blind musicians, he has a wonierful memory and a great repertoire. How does he know what to play that will be appropriate? He hires a small boy to sit near the organ and tell him

THE J_N DIAJN APOLISS TIMES

sought all his life was his at last. Forty-six years ago he left Germany, after serving in two wars. He said that he was a true cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm, but cousin or no cousin, he wanted no more of fighting.' In America he found no wars. But he found that here as everywhere men live in combat of wits, that all of hia life is a battle. And so as a crusader seeking peace for himself he set out on a long journey —that ended when he found that old boiler alongside the road. When he died it was found that he had saved $55 in small coins against burial in a pauper’s grave. And when he was laid away there were tears in the eyes of those who had understood the love of peace that had been in the heart of "The Old Man Who Lived in a Boiler."

Jfellotosfjip of draper Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for cotomieMon on evangeiiani of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in AmtricA. TUESDAY Cod’s Lore Seeking Men

Read Mt. 18:7-14. Text: 18:12. How think ye? If any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not lenve the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray? “What could a man do to God which would In any sense hurt God and for which a man ought to apologize to God? The wrong done springs out of the character of God and the nearness of God to the life of man. God is close to the life of a man, always saying, "I want you. I want you." MEDITATION: The wooing power of the love of God has lifted men from lower stages of selflsheness and self indulgence to higher planes wherein some apprehend, though dimly perhaps, the working of His will In the lives of His children. God's love yet seeks to win our lives more fully and through us to win the millions who know Him not. PERSONAL QUESTION: Am I grieved when another goes astray? PRAYER: We pray Thee, Almighty God, that Thy grace may rest upon our spirits. May we feel the impress of Thy love upon our lives. Thy love enlighten our path as stars In the night. Abide Thou with us, in Christ's name. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley)

OM SIMS - -/- Says

They do things differently In Cuba, where sport writer recently shot a baseball player. ' They think someone poisoned a Chicago Insurance man, so should examine his prospect list for clews. In Pompton Lakes, N. J., an airplane dropped into a house, but Itsoon wore out Its welcome. Several old English churches may be torn down and shipped to this country, but no offer has been made for her labor troubles. Spaniards killed 300 Moors near Tizzlazza, which sounds more like a mosquito than a town. We thought the alphabet had been jailed In Russia, but it was only a man named Krasnotchokhoff, or something like that. Two Atlanta (Ga.) men who robbed a chair factory have nothing to do but sit around In Jail. Several big league ball players who merely beat about the hush last year will beat about the bush leagues this year.

what is on the screen. One night the lad did not show up, but the organist was doing pretty well. The man's wife entered the cabin (on the screen). He had suspected her. He had a girl locked In the next room. The wife suspected him. The wife accused the husband and he accused her. She ran to the door of the room and threw it open. The girl rushed out. The husband shot his wife and she shot him. The girl ran out of the house and down the bank of the river In the rain and jumped into a boat, her lover waiting for her. The picture was at an end. Somehow or other, the organist seemed to feel all this. He played “The End of a Perfect Day."

DOLLAR MAY BRING PEACE TO EUROPE After Efforts of Diplomats Fail, Money Forces Settlement, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor mHE almighty dollar has scored again. For four years the world’s ablest diplomats have been trying to patch up peace in Europe, only to fail miserably. The British Cabinets have been overthrown in the attempt. At least three French Premiers have taken the count. Belgium has just gone through a serious Cabinet crisis and Germany had had a kaleidoscopie succession of governments, as one after another failed to make good. Now the dollar is about to do it—the dollar, and its European cousins, the pound sterling and the guilder. If there is to be a European settlement soon, as it begins to look as if there would be, money is the thing that will bring it about. Until recently every country in Europe has been trying to have its own way in the matter of a settlement. The result was that the business of Europe has stood still. Francs Begin (o Slip Then something began to happen. Despite a favorable trade balance, France’s money began to slip. Generally regarded ns the key to reparations. France had not shown any Inclination to compromise, but rather to break with her former allies, if necessary, and go it alone. The proposal to narrfe an international committee of experts to determine Germany’s capacity to pay was eagerly grabbed at by Germany, but France at first turned it down. And the franc went down some more. Foreseeing trouble, France now agreed to the committee being named. But reluctantly. Premier Poincare said It might probe but he would see whether their findings wouid be acceptable. The franc went lower still. France, from regarding the committee of experts somewhat in the light of intruders, now began to look upon it as her salvation. Then Germany began to show signs of kicking over the traces. The franc, now not far from thirty to the dollar Instead of the normal five, caused Germany to think France.was about to collapse. And Germany wanted France to collapse. Germany Feels Oats 'Germany felt she could afford to collapse the rest of the way If France could be dragged down with her, for. young and vigorous, and with a tremendous birth rate, she could "come back” quickly, while old Franco, with birth and death rates which scarcely balance, would likely stay dowm forever, or come back only after a long, long time. Instantly several things happened. Wall Street announced a $100,000,000 loan to France and the franc bounded hack to nearly 20 instead of nearly 30 to the dollar. Germany’s own hectic finances began to tremble anew, while France’s position Improved. This was the dollar’s grim notice that It wanted a settlement and woe to tho country that tried to block It All Europe now* knows who—or rather what-—ls boss. And the chances are that hitherto bull heeded politicians will scon b© tamely signingon the dotted line.

CBie CALL OF, II THE TAME vHy

y |"|E’S just a scroot that wandered up and parked right at our door. This li happened, say, about three months ago. Perhaps a tramp for many days but not one any more. He’s found a home —a fact hi seems to know. Dad calls him Pete; I don't know why, but rete’s the name he’s picked, while mother always calls him Flip, for short. The baby Just says “bla bla” when her tiny hand is licked and brother Bill refers to him as Sport. Tho kids around our neighborhood, who feed him scraps and such, will summon him with names of any kind. The milkman calls him Fuzzy and the mailman calls him Dutch. He takes them all and doesn’t seem to mind. It’s “Pete, come here,” and “Flip, lie down.” This tramp dog does as told. There’s nothing in a name to him, it seems. Whenever people call him with a title, new or old, he answers as he wags his tail and beams. Which makes a person wonder —is this canine really dumb, or is he rather human after all? He gets his bits of pleasure when the looks of kindness come and he answers when there's friendship in the calL . (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Tongue Tips

Nazirnova: "My experience has been that what does not call for really strenuous endeavor Is not worth doing.” The Rev. Samuel L. Hamilton, New York Anti-Saloon League: “The final goal is not law enforcement but law observance.” R. E. Simpson, engineer Travelers’ Insurance Company: "Sight is the most valuabh our endowed or natural senses protection against bodily injury nd any impairment of vision or reduction in our ability to see decreases our natural protection by just that much.” Abraham Flexner, secretary general education board: “Greated progress in medical education has taken place lri America than in other countries during the past fifteen years. Weak schools in all sections of the country have l>een almost wholly eliminated.” The Rev. Oscar Edward Maurer, Congregalionajist, New Haven: “As one religious teacher I say, let the religious controversy come. Only let us make spirit dominate us.” Prof. Carroll Pratt, Harvard University psychology department: "Faith fills in the gaps with which scientists cannot deal."

An Animal for the Third Party Emblem

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SCIENTISTS SAY BLOOD TESTS PROVE EVOLUTION Man’s Relation to Apes Shown in Various Ways, According to Biologists,

By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times (Copyright by David Dietz) TANARUS" HE biologist classes Man among the primates. He believes that i__J the man like apes are mans nearest relatives upon earth. Neither Darwin nor any other biologist ever said man was descended from a monkey. But the I biologist insists that just as various/ types of mammals can be traced to common ancestors so can man and the man-like apes. Some where thousands of years ago a division took place in the development of a certain type of primate. One branch developed into the man-like apes. The other developed into man. In closing our survey of geology we noted some of the fossil remains of man which have been found. Trinil man, Heidelberg man, Piltdows man, and so on. These go to prove that man had ancestors who resembled the anthropoid apes much more closely than does present-day man. No Doubt of Relation But there is no doubt in the minds of biologists as to the relation of man to the man like apes. The first proof of the relationship lies in a study of anatomy. Man and

Animal Facts

Reptile Study Club of America had its annual dinner in New York recently, and every nut brought his pet snake to the table. Hungary’s bustard, a partridge big as a turkey, and fond of marshes, is to be transplanted to the wet Mississippi River country. Lost tariff act protects American game bird breeders against t :e pauper foreign birds and then the game constables and wardens throw the American game bird breeders into jail, under laws made by bureau clerks In Washington against having game birds in their possession. D. F. Chabot, near Seaside, Ore., gathered broken shells and unhatched eggs from his Rhode Island Reds’ maternity nests and dumped them on a brush fire heap. Next morning he found a tiny chick trying desperately to get out of the warm ashes. Today that chick is the finest Rhode Island Red on his farm. V r>ad t ailed ’Em "While you were being relieved of your valuables did ycu call the police?" “Yes, everything I could think of.” —Judge. ,

the man like apes agree in a most remarkable fashion. There are differences in size and shapes. But there are the same bones arranged in the same fashion in each. There are the same blood vessels and the same nerves. Man and apes are attacked by the same bacteria and suffer many of the same diseases—tuberculosis for example. The blood of a man when transfused into a dog behaves in a hostile way. causing the destruction of the red corpuscles. Human blood mingles freely with that of the man-like apes. There are more complicated examples which prove the same thing. The blood-fluid or serum of a rabbit which has human blood injected into it forms a cloudy precipitate when mixed with human blood. It will form almost as heavy a precipitate with the blood of the manlike apes. In the case of other apes there Is only a slight reaction. In the case of the lomur it is weakest of all. Thus the experiment not only shows man’s relation to the ape but his degree of relationship to various types. Another proof of man’s relationship to the animal world is the presence of so-called vestigial organs in his anatomy. These are relics, so to speak, of organs which once were important but which lost their importance as man evolved from the primate stock. The best known of these rudimentary organs is the veniform appendix. In certain grazing animals it Is a highly Important organ. Muscles In Same Class Certain muscles which now perform no function but which originally twitched the ears and the skin of the face are in this same class. Many mammals possess a membrane In the eye known as the third eyelid. There are vestiges of this in man. Another proof of the relationship to the ape is the hair upon the arms and legs. The direction in which it grows corresponds to the direction of the hairy growth on the man-like apes. Embryology furnishes other proofs of man's relation to the other forms of life. The human embryo in its early Stages resembles the embryo of the fish In Its early stages. Later It resembles that of the reptile and still later that of other mammals. Next article in series: The Ascent of Man.

Family Fun

Keep Right On “Stop!” cried the voice in the taxi. The driver stopped. “I didn’t mean you. Keep right on driving,” said the voice.—Carnegie Puppet. Wife Runs, Too “Pardon mo, but I ought to tell you that Jones has run away with your wife." "But why run?” —Punch. Dad Makes a Slip “She claims that every husband in this village has tried to make love to her, but one.” “And who in the world can that be?” —Film Fun. Says Ma to Pa “Have you seen my belt around the house?" “No, dear: did you put it around the bouse?”—Film Fun. Sister's Reason "Do you know why I refused you?” "I can’t think.” "You guessed it.” A Thought It is more blessed to give than to receive.—Acts 20:35. • • • T r ~~*' HE heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.— J Luther.

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Science

Quinine is obtained from the bark of a Peruvian tree and since its discovery has saved the lives of millions of people. It not only saves lives; it makes tropical countries habitable, because it cures malarial fever. The value of quinine was recognized so rapidly all over the world that the supply was inadequate. It is obtained from wild cinchona trees and it was soon learned that enough could not be procured in that way alone. Therefore, experimental plantings of these trees were made in various parts of the tropical world. These plantings now furnish a large part of the world’s supply of the drug. Two years ago, an effort was made to establish a plantation of these trees in Burma. The project was given up because of the heavy rainfall, which threatened to destroy the young plants. Recently the plantation again was visited. Some of the trees surv ved and these produce bark containing cs much quinine as trees four t< seven years old ordinarily bear. !‘'nvs n.e betas madq to rerplaat this station. m