Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1924 — Page 4

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FAIR PROFITS PLUS EHE Indiana Bell Telephone Company has been granted an injunction against the public service commission, prohibiting the State from interfering with the present high rates. The matter has been returned to the commission, which can do nothing but agree with the court, whether it likes it or not. The Indiana Bell Telephone Company is a part of one of the greatest monopolies in the history of the country, it is owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which controls the bulk of the telephone business in this country. The company has the telephone users of Indiana and most of the country under its thumb. They can use telephones and pay the price charged by this great monopoly, or they can do without telephone service. The court has ruled that the Indiana company has a right to earn a proper return on its investment. This is justice. But it is only a part of the story. The other part of the story is the fact that the Indiana Bell Telephone Company is required to pay 4V> per cent of every dollar it takes in for the use of instruments the patents of which are held by the American company and for services rendered by the American company. Get it straight: The American company owns the Indiana company. The owners of the Indiana company are guaranteed a fair return on their investment. Tn addition, the American company is guaranteed 4 1 4 cents out of every dollar Indiana telephone users pay for service. In other words, the American company receives a fair return on its investment and IN ADDITION receives -ID. per cent on the GROSS income of the Indiana company. The Bell Telephone Securities Company has just issued a booklet on the Bell (American's telephone securities. Here is what it says about the Indiana company: “There are no important security issues outstanding in the hands of the public.” In other words, every cent of the profit of the Indiana company goes to the parent company. IN ADDITION TO THE 0/2 PER CENT ON T T CROSS BUSINESS. The public pays and-eoming. Let’s take a look a. Hie income account of the Bell telephone system of the United States as published in this booklet. In 1923, the statement shows, the total dividends were $72,428,617. In 1922 they were $60,305,204. The dividends have been growing steadily. These dividends are paid largely from the profits of subsidiary companies such as the Indiana Bell Telephone Company and FROM THE 4U> PER CENT OF GROSS INCOME WHICH SUBSCRIBERS ARE PAYING EVERY MONTH. The public service commission has upheld this practice The Federal court has permitted it. The subscriber can pay or have his telephone removed. It is a great system.

WHAT IS A PRIZE FIGIIT? [T-s NE of the crying needs of Indiana at this time is an LAZ ! answer to the question: What is a prize fight ? The law forbids prize fights, but makes boxing exhibitions legal. Now the question is: When is a boxing exhibition a prize fight and when is a prize fight a boxing exhibition? Something of the kind is planned for Michigan City May 31. This boxing exhibition, or prize fight, or whatever it is, is to be held between one Gibbons, American, and one Carpentier, Frenchman. Governor Branch has been asked to stop the aifair. whatever it is. lie has refused to do it thus far. He says he is not convinced it is a prize fight. We are not voicing an opinion. We are going to wait and ask the spectators when it is over. They undoubtedly will have decided opinions one way or the other. A MOTORISTS’ bible is being prepared and it is hoped it will stress hell considerably. NEW YORK’S police force promises a clean convention, but neglects to name those to be cleaned. A BIGAMIST has just been adjudged insane, since there could have been no other rational conclusion. THE DISCOVERY of vegetables on Mars will surprise those who supposed only the prices were up there. THE DEEPEST oil well is 7,579 feet deep and there isn’t a bit of doubt that there was dirty work down there, too. A MAINE paper says residents of that State “have much to be proud of and much to enjoy.” Home brew or Canadian? PREMIER M'DONALD has been attacked for failing to keep campaign pledges, show ng how crude those Britishers are when it comes to politics.

Here’s something you want to keep the kiddies healthy, happy and humping: A bulletin telling you exactly how to make and set up in your back yard or playplace for your children some simple apparatus for health and happiness. The materials needed, diagrams and measurements, and the approximate cost of each are all included. The bulletin tells how to make a sand box. horizontal bars, flying rings, horizontal ladders, a

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baby swing, slide, teeters, playhouse, and others. A back yard plan, including these and many other features, as well as a list of toys and playthings, is included. Any boy handy with carpenter’s tools can make the apparatus described from the descriptions given and have as good an outdoor gymnasium as money can buy. If you want a copy of this bulletin All out the coupon below and mail aas directed:

STILL HE HUNTS FOR HIS ‘FLOWER’ Kain O’Dare Tells Pathetic Story of Girl Who Is Gone, This is the. first of the stories of Kain O'Dare, ex convict. He is hailed as a new O. Henry. By KAIN O'DARE The “Night Flower" is the name I gave to a girl I met in Wichita, Kan. She was a girl with a mistake, and I was a man with more than she. At the time of our meeting I was an escape from the Federal authorities in Texas, where i had been imprisoned for the theft of $20,000 in United States money orders. The girl was just a little waif drifting along in life and happened to drift into me. The night of our meeting the gjrl told me her story and I told her mine. That kind of spanned the stranger space between us and we became as kindred. Somehow or other, I treated the girl decent, and she responded like any crushed thing does that is handled tenderly. Afterward we met in Kansas City. ft was a beautiful spring day, and the Night Flower wanted to take a ride into the country. We took the car over to Leavenworth, where is located the Federal penitentiary. From Outside “I wanta see how it feels,” I told the little girl by my side "to be on the outside of the walls looking in.” With my desire to “look in" satisfied, we returned. "Thi3 is where the chaplain of the prison lives," I told the Night

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Flower. “He’s done many a fine trick for me. Let's go in and call on his wife and the kids." The chaplain's wife was glad to see me. While we were conversing the chaplain came in from his office in the prison up the street. Before long the chaplain knew how I had met the Night Flower, and what we thought of each other. ‘ It’s a good time to get married," he said. “Both of you start together, this very day,, on to anew road.” I watched the Night Flower's lips tremble, and then 1 saw the chaplain's wife's arms go about her shoulders. “We’d do it in a minute," I told the chaplain, “but the Federal authorities in Texas want me bad.” “Does the girl know it?” he asked. “Everything,” I replied. I think it was about an hour afterwards when the Night Flower arose from her knees in the chaplain’s study and went to the window and looked across the prairies into the golden west. Makes Promise I went to her side and took hold of her hand. She turned to me with tears streaming down her face. “I shall always stay clean.” she said. That night she returned to Kansas City. I took my train for Chicago. “We shall meet again," I told her. Months after I was apprehended and sent to the Federal prison in Leavenworth. For years I looked through my cell window to' Metropolitan Avo. and pretended that the Night Flower and I were out there walking under spring skies. After I was released I searched every principal city in the country for her. I have searched up and down San Francisco’s Chinatown, Denver's Curtis St., back again to the corner of Tenth and Main in Kansas City, every nook and cranny of Chicago and all of the places in New York where folks are apt to find hidden stories and broken lives. But to no avail. Some day I shall find my Night Flower. Maybe here. Maybe there —over there where I’m always hearing her far cry. Says Dad to Ma "Are all men fools?” ‘‘No; some are bachelors.”—Ore gon Orange OwL

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Classes WASHINGTON, May 20. Teddy * Roosevelt, son of the former President and assistant secretary of Navy, has been drafted by the college bureau of the Republican national committee to plead the cause of Republicanism with the first voters graduating this year from colleges and universities. Roosevelt makes his first appeal as a class plea, as follow's: “There are* two classes the world over—the. governing and the governed. If you want to be of the governing class, join the college Republican clubs and back the Republican party.”

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question 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, lega! and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot bp answered. All letters arc confidential. —Editor. How should a widow wear her wedding ring? The same way as before her husband’s death. What is the value of the broorn corn produced in the United States? in 1022, the figures were SS,IS6,000; in 1923, $11,130,000. JL When was cnorla Swanson born? How tall is she? Born. March 27. 1897; five feet three inches tall. Which American troopship made the fastest trip during the World War? Tiie Leviathan made the round trip between New York and Brest, France, in twenty-one days, eighteen hours and five minutes, which in

eluded a fifty-two hours, fifty-two minutes stay in France^ How many physicians, healers and osteopaths are there in the United States? According to the occupational census statistics, there are 14.774 healers (excepting osteopaths and physicians and surgeons). There are 144,977 physicians and surgeons, and 5,030 osteopaths. llow much money did the United States send to the Japanese earthquake sufferers and through what organization? More than $5,000,0ut), sent through the American Red Cross. What is the recipe for MapleWalnut Minute Tapioca. One pint hot milk, one-half cup salt,, one-third cup minute tapioca, one egg. two-thirds cup maple sugar, two-thirds cup English walnuts. Cook in double boiler fifteen minutes, stirring frequently. Add the well-beaten egg yolk. Stir for three minutes, cool, and add part, of the walnut meats, chopped fine. Fold in beaten white of egg, decorate with unehopped nuts, and serve cold with plain or whipped cream. * Day by Day By HAL COCHRAN | — 1 N Saturday a man will rise IfJ and eat; then rush away. I He's really glad to hie himself to work. No wonder, when you realize that coming is his pay upon the day he’s never known to shirk. On .Sunday morni a man will wake; with Father Time he'll jest—the day when work and office are no worry. In rising, lots of time he’ll take for ’tis his day of rest; there isn't any rush or run or hurry. On Monday mom, alas, alack, ’tis hard to rise from bed. A man must force himself to make the grade. It’s just a case of have to, though, when all is done and said, ’cause showing .up for work is why he’s paid. The other days the w r eek brings ’round are mentioned all in one, ’cause every one is patterned after Monday. It’s work away, with littls pay, until the work is done. But, best of all, they’re leading up to Sunday. With life. It seems, we always will the same old story sing. For man considers every day by what that day will bring. (Copyright, 1924. NEA Service. Inc.)

HOMICIDES INCREASING STEADILY Murder Committed in United States Every 55 Minutes, Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave. ASHINGT6N, May 20.—1f all \X/ the persons murdered in the United States last year were buried in a single line, ivith ten feet to a grave, their bodies .would fill a trench twenty miles long; in ten years the victims of murder would fill a trench nearly 200 miles long. Thus, in this graphic manner, does Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, consulting statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, call attention to the Nation’s rapidly increasing number of homicides. Twenty-eight leading cities, according to Dr. Hoffman's tables, showed an average rate of 10.2 murders per 100,000 population in 1923. as contrasted with a rate of 9.0 in 1922, 8.1 in 1910 and 5.1 in 1900. The number of slayings in these twenty-eight cities grew from 009 in 1900 to 1,365 in 1910, 1,877 in 1922 and 2,176 in 1923. Total Is 10,000 Dr. Hoffman estimates the total number of murders in the United States last year at 10.000 —which means that, on the average, a human life is taken every fifty-five minutes by the clock. "At the hend of the murder list stands the appalling record of Memphis, Tenn.,“ says Dr. Hoffman in the current Issue of The Spectator, an insurance journal, “There were 113 murder deaths in Memphis in In 1923 there were twentynine murders in I iidlnn ipn!is. as compared with twentythree In 1922. The Indianapolis rate is lower than in many other cities. 1923, equivalent to a rate of 65 per 100,000 population. In other Bvords. Memphis is more than seven times more murderous than the country at large." Another evidence of ti e growing rate of murder iu this country is given in tiie records of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In 1923 tiiis company paid out for deaths caused by homicide #723.788. as tempered with $662,341 in 1922, fMM.KOO in 1921 and $431,691 in 1920. i Situation Serious < ’ommentlng on another table covering seventy nine epics—which shows 2.70 1 murders rind a rate of 9 R for 1923- I)r. Hoffman says: “This is the highest rate which lias thus far been lied by Vnierican repi esenrative cities collectively considered. it is a most appalling indication of the growth of lawlerriie-M and crime and without parallel in the ho, ml ) dory of other nations. Tile seriousness of the situation >• mnet possibly bn ex uggeratrd. Primes against tiie person are tint only increasing, hut the sail -hi - ion may t>e applied to criminals wdiu cm ap-- drastic punishment. In Stat'v, wht;re the death penalty Is enforced It Is seldom car rleil into effect. Murderers are frequently dealth with entirely P>o leniently, while tlm - pectaoular nspiotH ~f atrocious crlmuM are featured to tiie point of a disgraceful exhibition of callousness and apathy ” Fire arms are the instruments of a great majority of the crimes, says Dr. Hoffman, who urges stricter regulatlon <>f tie :r h . Family Fun Tommy Understands “If I lend your father .800 lire and ho promises to pay me hack 290 a montii how much will ho owe me in throe months'" "Eight hundred lire.” “You don’t understand arithmetic:" "You don’t understand my father."—Pasquino <Turin). By tl io Doctor "Ts there no hope for my husband—” “Go on madame." “Is there no hope, doctor’’ Is there no hope?" “That depends, madame, on what you are hoping for." said tiie doctor reaching for his hat.—Ric hmond Times. Ibid Missed the Gold “Do you think that silence is golden?" “No think about it; I know it is. Ts I'd kept my mouth shut I’d still he a bachelor.” —Boston Transcript. Turf Veteran One never would guess T. Goodyear of Rickmansworth, England, is 75 years old when he saw him clearing the hurdles In the big steeplechases. Here he Is going over a barrier in the meet of the Old Berkely Hounds at Elmcoat, Croxley Green, on his “Royal Star.”

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THE Y DON’T HAVE ANY TAX TO PA Y However, There Are Disadvantages in Living in Midlake, Hi/ ,V FA Service | IDLAKE, Utah, May 20. ]y£| This is ■ town that needs no -—J street department, no traffic cops, no tax collectors. - It has only one thoroughfare— Main St. And that is a railroad. No itomooiie ever has passed through MM lake under its own power. An 1 as for taxes —well, there simply are none to pay. Midlake probably is America’s most unique town. It is exactly leu yards long and sixty feet wide. f>ut in tiie middle of the Great Sait

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I.,ake it stands, perched atop of pile-!, ten miles from the nearest visible land. It is a station on the Lucin cutoff of the Southern Pacific in the center of the trestle section as it crosses the salten sea, L. E Stroud, railroad station agent and telegraph operator, is, in effect, mayor, police force, health inspector, postmaster, superintendent of education and almost anything else occasion demands. In addition to Stroud and his family, the population of Midlake includes telegraph operators, their wives and children and two section foremen and their crews. The railroad does everything in its power to make life comfortable for these islanders. It has, for instance, strung a telephone line from the nearest radio at Lakeside, so the folk in Midlake can listen In on the concerts. Then In summer, whenever anybody wants to take a swim, all he has to do is climb down a ladder and plunge Into the lake. But if anybody wants to see a movie, he has to get on a train and go to Ogden, forty miles away. Postponed at Los Angeles “I see that the ,De wedding has been postponed." "Yes, you see, Rosie had raging bunions and Harold cold sores and neither would staud both foot and mouth disease together," When Wife Backs Up "Goodness! Have you had a landscape gardener working on ' your back yayd?” “No; that's where my wife tried to back out of the drive."—Youngstown Telegram.

Science Anew mercury boiler, generating metallic vapor instead of steam, and making one ton of coal do the work ’ trie Light Company, Hartford, Conn., has developed 50 per cent more electric power than a steam generating piant using the sam-j amount of fuel. Mercury in a specially made boiler is vaporized by the heat from coal. The vapor is carried through a pipe to drive a turbine which runs an electric generator. The exhaust mercury vapor then passes to a condenser. into which water is fed. The heat from the vapor causes the water to boil, and the resultant steam drives a steam turbine. The mercury* now condensed again to a liquid, returns to the mercury boiler, completing its cycle. It is used over and over again, with na appreciable loss. The Hartford Light Company announces it expects to cut its annual $1,500,000 fuel bill in half by the new system.

Tongue Tips • Rev. Edmund A. Walsh. Catholic: "Christianity is so strongly implanted in the Russian masses that people, dying of hunger and famine and cold, dragged themselves to the crosses in the graveyards." Governor Proctor, Vermont: "The Legislature repealed a lot of laws, abolished a number of bureaus and took away from me about forty appointments, but I see that our State government Is running along about as well as usual." Langdon Warner, traveler and explorer: "The best sight to me of the Chinese bandits were those I saw lying on the ground beheaded. It gave me a greater feeling of assurance.” Nature The bedbug belongs to the onier of insects called hemiptera, an, is akin to squash bugs. The bedbug has a piercing and sucking mouth almost like a beak. For his food, he naturally chooses human blood. Some writers declare that these bugs have been kept alive and active in boxes or vials, without food, from six months to a year. This indicates their being able to exist in unoccupied houses for months at a time. Experiments have shown that these insects will attack mice, cats, dogs, rabbits and other animals. Another similar pest is to be found in pigeon houses and still another sort in English martin nests. The common bedbug does attack poultry and breed in their houses.

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PET PARADE IS CALLED DANGEROUS Reader Believes Children Might Be Injured in Gathering, To the Editor of The Time mWISH to enter a strong protest, through the cohimns of your paper, against the proi posed parade of pets by Indianapolis children on May 24. I consider 'it the most senseless and dangerous affair of its kind ever proposed in this city. Dogs are the natural enemies of cats, especially strange ones, and are certain to attack them in such an affair. The larger dogs will attack the smaller ones and will probably maim r kill many of • hem. And what chance would such a helpless creature as a lamb have with absolutely .no means of defense? The danger would he doubled by the intense excitement that will be caused oy the strange and unusual surroundings. The first instinct of a child is to protect its pet when danger threatens, and it is almost certain that many of the city's children wiD be injured, sight destroyed, or perhaps even killed if a melee should start. Those familiar with the wayr of animals, know that they are uncontrollable when excited and it Is certain that the children will not be able to handle their pets under such circumstances, for it would be an impossible task for grown-ups. The children will be in as much danger as their pets, and many of the animals will be lost in the con fusion. It Is astonishing that the Humane Society with their Supposed knowledge of the ways of animals would give their approval to such a reckless and dangerous proceeding, and it is the duty of Mayor Shank to forbid it, and the duty of the parents and pet owners to withdraw all entries. Our domestic animals are pets to us. hut they are not to each other, and it is beyond our power to direct or control their natures. JOHN G. ODELL.

Tom Sims Says: When they sign a treaty in the Balkans it is usually just for the week-end. Refusals to testify in recent Government investigations does not prove there is honor among thieves. Mail robber escaped in Chicago. Since they catch so few of them they should watch them more closely. William J. Burns, the world-fam-ous detective, has resigned. Being a good detective, of course he is baffled. These are the days the commencement dress is given more careful thought than the commencement address. You can tell spring by the increase in medicine advertisements. It is a wise man who looks things over instead .of overlooking things. The center of flower culture for perfume is in the Maritime Alps, so that may be why the stuff is so high. Worry is a great tiling. Many people would be idle half the .time if they had nothing to worry about. Rouge is supposed to be going out of style, which is the only way its use can be stopped. Fat men don’t stand the heat better than lean men, but they seem to sit it out better. About the worst job on earth is selling cheap cigars and having to smoke the samples. A Thought By thy words thou shalt be justj. fled, and by thy words thou ahalt bsi condemned.—-Matt. 13:33. * * * No legacy is so nob 4 hcm&s£y>-* Shakespeare. iim'iimmuitflfi