Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1924 — Page 4

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MORE PLAYGROUNDS mT'S PATHETIC how city people struggle to beautify their yards with grass, shrubbery and trees even where the soil is hopeless. All this expresses their inner revolt against the hideous combinations of briek, asphalt, concrete and lumber which are used in various forms and combinations in the building of the penitentiaries known as cities, and in expressing that savage system known as “property rights." We were born into this system. Many hate it. Some tolerate it resignedly. A few like it. But there’s a definite reaction these recent years. The growing craze for backyard gardens, for instance. Also the treeplanting campaigns. And now the tremendous national interest in extending the parks that serve as public playgrounds. Twenty-six States, including Indiana, have their own State park systems, and others are falling in line. “A State park every 100 miles” is the slogan of the organizations backing the movement. We haven't a hundredth as many outdoor playgrounds and recreational camping sites as we should have. They’re needed by grown-ups as well as children, to help us relax from the nerve strain of modern speed in industry and living. Give us more parks—national, State and local. And get them fast, before the land hogs and corporate exploiters finish the gobbling and defacing of nature that already have progressed dangerously far. The country is building up fast. If we don’t take out our public playgrounds fast, and fight doggedly against invasion by private profit, we’ll waken to find the jail-like system of the city in effect in the country, with admission charged to see the sights. The national swing back to nature began with the invention of the auto, which brings the open country to our doors. This return to nature is steadily attracting more and more recruits. i It’s high time. Industry and city congestion increasingly takes us farther from nature. Living in a labyrinth of steel and briclAand lumber and concrete, we lose contact with natural laws. The obvious result is that we are bewildered about the complicated problems of civilization—all of which result from violations of natural laws. *he people back to nature and they’ll think straight and clearly.

VICTOR FOR SENATOR MORRIS m T BEGINS to look as though Senator Norris is making LU h eadway in his effort to prveent the gift of Muscle Shoals to Il*>nry Ford. In the first of strength before the Senate Agricultural Committee, Wednesday, the vote was 10 to 0 against reporting the Ford bid to the Senate without amendment. The best that the backers of the Ford proposal can now hope for. so far as the committee is concerned, is that it will he reported to th<* Senate without recommendation. It is quite within the possibilities that the committee even will go so far in the public interest as to make an adverse report. The 10-to-6 vote against Ford is indicative of a very great change in Senate sentiment. There is good reason to believe that tin- change permeates the whole body of the Senate. When the House accepted the Ford proposal, a number of wee ago. and sent the bill to the Senate, the prospects for saving Muscle Shoals from private exploitation seemed rather poor. It looked like a good bet that the Ford propaganda had done its deadly work and that Ford was about to gain his great prize. Too much credit can not be given to Senator Norris for the intelligent and courageous light which he has made and is making to prevent the crime of giving Muscle Shoals to Ilenrv Ford or any other private interest. It is almost the finest public service that any man in public life is doing at this time. It would be a mistake to assume that the sincere conservationists, under Norris’ leadership, have finally won their battle. But they seem to be winning it anil their position, that the ownership and development of this great water power should remain in the hands of the Government, is so fundamentally sound that the prospects for final victory are good. WHAT SAM GOMPERS objects to is near beer that is far from it. “COURAGE WITH COOLIDGE” is the latest slogan, illustrating that necessity is the mother of invention. A DETROIT BANDIT carries a mandolin and sings tenor, thus giving his brutal instincts full play. THE DAILY ROWS in the British parliament may be another indication that the Americanization movement is attaining results. W E DO NOT KNOW what the new bootleggers’ union has in mind but it is probable there will be no demand for shorter hours. PREMIER RAMSAY M’DONALD says England will spend less money henceforth, thus proving himself a true Scotchman.

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CRESSYSAYS TROY GIRL IS CHAMP VAMP If They Don’t Get You Laundries Will, Observes Humorist, By WILL CRESSY (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Troy, N. Y., is situated just across the river from Green Island, and about six miles below Cohoos. I have not been able to discover whether Troy Was named for a laundry or the laundry was named for Troy. But Troy has never had to depend on any one thing for fame. A Troy foreman invented the extension ladder. Half the bartenders in America came from Troy. Baseball and

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pugilism drew on Troy for many of their bright stars. And when it came to turning out vamps—wbw! Look at wha’ Helen of Troy did. My hook of reference says she was 'he daughter of a Mister Jupiter and -a Miss Leda. (It sounds suspicious, but give them the benefit of the doubt.) Rut if the parents were lax in that line Helen made up for it, for she married the whole of Paris. Good-by for Men! I tell you, when a Troy girl goes after a man—he is GONE. (I might mention in<-identally that my wife came from Troy.i But probably when we come right to facts, Troy's fame is and will be more firmly established through its collars, shirts and laundries than anything else. There is hardly a city, town or village in the land that has not got Its “Troy Laundry." And a laundry is a wonderful animal. It is herbivorous, living entirely on cotton, wool and silk. It Is a follower of the Fletcherizing cult, thoroughly masticating Its food. It also believes in starchy foods. A laundry is the greatest bookkeeper on earth—for the laundry. Everything igi "so-much and UP,” with the accent on the up. Julius Tannen says they do not wash collars any more—they sharpen them. There are two styles of laundry work —-wet and dry. The wet, being the heavier, they charge by the pound. Dry laundry is figured by the piece, and the more pieces they can make out of it the more profit. Home Wreckers Asa home wrecker a laundry ranks right next to a She Vamp and a He Sheik. Those cussid little black wooden buttons they send back in the buttonholes of shirts, falling upon the bedroom floor, have broken up more homes than liquor ever did. And do you suppose any man ever succeeded in convincing his wife that a piece of feminine lingerie coming back in his laundry was a mistake on the part of the laundry? Although 1 would not go as far as John McCormick does and sing, “Troy must be heaven, because my wide came from there,” still I naturally have a soft spot in my heart for the old town, and if I could only forget that awful day when my wife got me to take her mother’s two pug dogs out for a walk, and the loose one ran up River St., and l was chasing it, out In the middle of the street, hanging on to the leash of the other one, silk hat. eyeglasses, fawn-colored overcoat with large pearl buttons—and the noonday whistle blew —and ten thousand collar shop girls poured out—'ris too sad; I cannot go on. Next week Will Cressy writes from Boston. A Thought Go to the ant. thou sluggard; consider her ways and he wise.—Prov. 6:6. * * EOPLE that have nothing to do are quickly tired of '.heir J own company.—Jereirn' Collier. Little Brother Hears ' Eunice, can you see in the dark?” “No: why?” “Well, I heard you tell HaJley last night he hadn’t shaved.—Denver Clarion.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Who’s Who By HAL COCHRANE Maybe you're not in the “Who’s Who” book, and it’s likely you never will be. That fact is so sure that it’s useless to look ’cause your name is not one you will see. And why should you care if you’ve been overlooked? Why crave with the noted to sit? It means very little what people are booked ’cause “Who’s AVho" cannot change them a bit. If you can just treat all your fellow men right and play every game on the square, you're just as well otY, by a heck of a sight, so, honestly, why should you care? The smile you keep forward will build up your friends and make you amount to a heap. The Who that' you are really greatly depends on the sort of a spirit you keep. We all feel right proud of the fellow with pep, and the man who is open and true, who plugs right along till he gathers a rep, though he never appears In "Who's Who.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Tom Sims Says: The only time you can get a picture of a smiling Congressman these days is just after he lias been declared not guilty. The quickest way to reduce is to get behind with your grocery hill. A policeman in Hollywood, Cal., has inherited a fortune, so at lasi a cop may see some of Hollywood's night iife. About the only safe bet on any election is that one side will be mad about (he results. It must be awful to be a candidate and have to travel about the eoun try telling everybody "I have just begun to fight." A small town is a place where they can remember how many husbands every woman has burled. Boston University has a course in “use of the telephone.“ hut why go to college to ler.rn to cuss? Posterity must get awfully impatient waiting for its parents to settle down. The bathing girl doesn't care a wrap. An optimist is a man who, when he comes to a detour, thinks it is a very good road to he a detour. Is there a towe! shortage in your house? Stick wet hands in pockets, and leave two minutes. Movie starring isn't so good. Between pictures you have to run out and get a divorce. “American girls should dance as well as the Russians,” says Pavlowa, They do, and better. Russians dance sitting down. * In Parliament

Lady Terrington, M. P., who is running a close second to Lady Aator in keeping the Lritish Par li&ment stirred up over public policies.

DAWES PLAN MEANS PEACE OR NEW WAR If Report Is Not Accepted Coalition Will Smash, Say Experts, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue, ry rj ASHINGTON, May 26.--Grim and apprehensive, the allied powers of the old world are today preparing to make their last, desp ’•ate, organized effort to comprorm a their own differences and settle heir quarrel with Germany. “If they fail,” says the Spectator, one of London’s most conservatively edited periodicals, “few can suppose they can any longer be kept together. ‘The great coalition will break up.” “If the Dawes report is r ot accepted and put into operation by both parties." the English critic continues, “it will be a final proof that a European settlement on the present basis without anew war is impossible. No new scheme is likely to succeed where the Dawes report lias failed. It is the hammered-out basis of agreement, and if repudiated we shall know that there iH no longer any will to agree and that the Versailles settlement of Europe is doomed to early extinction.” Britain Will Withdraw If the allied powers can not agree now, British will withdraw to her tight little isle and prepare for a new allignment of powers, probably enter anew coalition. Franco will rally about her the powers of the Little Entente, and "then, indeed,” j the spectator says, "there will be ‘a settlement of Europe’—but it will be at the price of anew war, a war of the revolt of the conquered pen- i pies" of the Centra! powers against j the victors, the-now disrupted allies. And in the midst of it all, the British journal predicts, Russia would stage a come-back overshadowing everything with her return and her dream of a world revolution. A nightmarish outlook if the in ter-allied pourparler's scheduled to ] commence in June fail. Yet no one who has followed European events since the Armistice considers the picture overdrawn.

The Next .Moves Here are the next moves on the European checkerboard; 1. The resignation of Premier ' Poincare of France, early in June. 2. The formation of ti new French government or radical socialists probably with Deputy Edouard Harriot, of Lyon, as premier. 3. A meeting between the new French premier and Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, and an exchange of views between these and other allied leaders. 4 A general conference to reach a tinal decision on German reparations on a basis of the Dawes report. If the Dawes plan is put into oper- | atlon, Germany almost unquestionable will become a member of the Ijeague of Nations this summer or ; autumn. Europe will then at last be on ithe road to recovery. Failure to agree spells stark disaster. Germany today is poised, I evenly balanced, between republic j and monarchy, between a dispost--1 tion to settle with the allies and I open revolt against her conquerors. Allied unity, whiefi means agreement on the Dawes plan, will tilt the balance in favor of German moderation land acquiescence. Discord will give German moilarachlsts and other nationalists their long-sought chance, and as soon as they can prepare, they will strike. Stupendous stakes are thus in play. Science In engineering details, though less notioeabpp in basic essentials, great progress in street paving has been made in the past quarter-century. The old, uneven and noisy cobblestone pavement is practically non existent. Different paving materials —asphalt, brick. cement, stone blocfts —are chosen according to the needs of the case. I However, in the class of paving materials combining noiselessness with durability, wood blocks have been practically without competition. and have given varying de grees of satisfaction. Thc> are claimed to be far surpassed by anew type of paving now being used in the Holborn district, London. This new pavement, consists of rubber bricks, similar to the wooden blocks, and manufactured at the same cost. On a. firm, even base the bricks are laid small face upward and tightly joined together. The pavement is noiseless There is no slipping in wet weather. The surface is expected to stand up in good shape fifteen years, under normally heavy traffic. Musicland George Fredrick Handel, like many other musicians, had a life of strife and disappointments. Born at Halle, in 1686, his first musical endeavors were expressed, with strong opposition from his father, on tho clavicord. Handel was urged by his father to be a lawyer. A period of about seven years, up to the time he was 18. Handel spentin intensive study. Later he went to England where he became naturalized and spent the rest of his life It was then that he began to grow famous, receiving a pension of $lO.000 front Queen Anne. Later, what one might term Ills decline set in, as the jealousy that his indisputable art incurred led to financial failures and disappointments. Mis health gave way which apparently led him to realize the spiritual significance of music. It was during this period that he wrote his beautiful oratorios, the most well-known of which is the “Messiah.” In 1761, he became blind, and died in 1759, soon after he had conducted the first performance of his masterpiece, the “Messiah.”

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PRISON IS PLACE FO R EDUCATION Kain 0':. H iv inmates Receive Their Schooling, By ICAIN O'DARE jOME folks out of prison think that folks in prison don't j know anything or they wouldn’t be there. Absurd! To steal anything these days worth stealing requires a surplus of brains because everybody thinks everybody else is a crook and is stretching his mental capacity to date-;. them. It is in this stretch where the crook has to, stretch farther or he can't get by. On tlie other hand, if a man falls into prison through ignorance, as I did on the start, lie has a wonderful opportunity for improvement. I found that out the first time I was sent away. (in entering the reformatory, in Elmira. I was forced to teach school. Tiiis kept me busy nights learning Y? TtSF tJJI jpa_ lUT2 TEACHING/ CHEMISTRY IN PRISON SCHOOL enough to teach my pupils in the daytime. When I left the reformatory I was one lesson ahead of my pupils. I carried this education with me back to my home town, and in a few months decided to take a post-gradu-ate course in Auburn Prison. In tiiis durance I met most of the fellows I had known and taught in the reformatory. Again the compulsory penal education came into play, but this time I was made to go to school, and was taught, by one of my scholars from Elmira. After my graduation from Auburn I soon found myself in the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. The deputy warden of the institution asked me what my profession* had been on the outside. I told him teaching school. Without comment he assigned me a, teacher to the class in chemistry ,in the night school. That night I found out that my scholars comprised bankers, bandits and yeggs. To the bankers the school hour was a meeting place. To the bandits and yeggs our first laboratory test was the extraction of nitro glycerin from a stick of dynamite. Os course, this was carried out on paper. Later I found out that our process was practical. Whet, one has a calling for higher education it is hard to resist. I found this out after I was released from Leavenworth. I went back again. This time I was appointed confidential clerk to tho record clerk of the Institution. At. last my dreams had become a reality. I was at the top of the ladder of penal education. For two years I made out reports submitted to the Attorney General himself, the superintendent of prisons, and compiled several reports to be submitted to Congress.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any ques- | tion ot fact or information by writing j to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave , Washington. D. C , inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What are some of the birds mentioned in the Bible? Bittern, cock, cormorant, crane, crow. Cuckoo, dove, eagle, gier. glede, hawk, hen, heron, kite, hoopoe, lapwing. owl, great owl. little owl, owl of the desert, screech owl, osprey, ossifrage, ostrich, partridge, peacock, pelican, pigeon, qua:’, raven, sparrow. stork, swallow, swan, swift, turtledove and vulture. Why are bodies usually buried with the feet to the east? Asa symbol of the resurrection, : the sunrise being a symbol of new birth. How many residential building permits were issued in the United States during 1923? A total of 232.402. These figures are based on permits issued in 262 cities, and. roughly estimated, cover about 90 per cent of the population of the United States. How far north was the wild turkey native in North America? As far ns latitude 43. Southern Canada, west to the Mississippi River. How many banks are there in the United States? The report of the Comptroller of the Currency of June 30, 1923. shows a total of 30,607. How many times was John L. Sullivan knocked out in championship fights and when? The only time he ever was knocked out in a chamionship fight was , September 7, 1892. at San Francisco. California, when he lost to James J. Corbett in twenty-one rounds. What is Corrine Griffith's address? United Studios, 5341 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, Cal. Do rat destruction campaigns pay? In New Jersey (Monmouth County) a rat destruction campaign was conducted and 40,000 rats were destroyed. The most was $275. or about seven-tenths of a cent per rat. It is estimated that the average rat costs $2 a year because of its destructiveness. therefore, theoretically, Monmouth County saved SBO,OOO by this campaign. j How old is Glenn Hunter? Twenty-seven. What is the greatest railroad center in the United States? Chicago. What was the “gentlemen’s agreement” between the United States and Japan? That Japan would issue passports to continental United States only to non-laborers, such as travelers, business men, students, financiers, etc.; to Japanese, whether laborers or non-laborers, who had already become domiciled in continental United States, and to Japanese who had acquired farming interests In continental United States and who wished to return there to take active control of these interests. These were the main features of the agreement of 1908. Family Fun Misplaced A motorist killed a hen. He stopped and pressed a dollar bill into the hand of little Edna, who was on her way to Neighbor Reed’s. Edna | ran and told her mamma of her good I fortune. | “Well.” said her mother, “put the i money In your bank and T will cut i the hen’s head off so we can eat her." “Perhaps, mamma, as long as we have the money we had better let the Reeds eat the hen. It was their hen."—Boston Transcript. Cut in Family Bills “We've simply got to cut down expenses, wife.” “I might learn to roll my cigarettes.” “That’s the spirit! And couldn’t you make a permanent wave last a week or two longer?” — Judge.

MONDAY, MAY 26, 1924

SO THIS IS AMERICA’S CONGRESS! ‘Boys’ Razz One Another and Sing Songs as Business of Nation Drags, By ROBERT TALLEY Times Staff Correspondent CT7T3 ASHIXGTON, May 26.—The |\*/| thick, creamy smoke of good .7.. J cigars, mingled with the soulful strains of “My Old Kentucky Home" and frequent outbursts of hearty laughter, issues from behind the swinging doors that lead to the Republican cloakroom. There are, too, a few dozen men scattered around the big chamber, some of them reading the afternoon newspapers, some of them telling jokes and none of them apparently paying much attention to what was going on. The "House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Cong, ess assembled.” as the official report s put it, is in session. Three hours before it had recessed until 8 p. m. under an agreement to tt ke up the McNary-Haugen farm cred.ts bill at a night meeting, and now 'he old clock over Speaker Gillet:'> desk denotes the hour of 8:15. -end till there aren’t enough members present to make a quorum. Absentee* Stroll In In “he midst of a hot parliamentary argument by three members over a motion to adjourn, some of the absentees begin strolling In. Representative Nick Longworth, Ohio, the Republican floor leader, is ragged with a lot of good-natured applause when he appears. “ ‘Ray for Tincher! “Ray for Tincher!” Is the shout that greets Representative J. Napoleon Tincher, Kansas, as he puts his 250-pound form through the doorway. “Keynote, keynote!” yells the crowd at Representative Burton (Ohio*, who is to deliver the keynote address at the Republican nar tional convention. Each newcomer gets a big mock ovation —and a lot of razzing. The boys in the cloakroom, who have now tuned up on “Old Black 4 Joe,” are interrupted in their singing again and dragged out for another roll call. Thirty minutes more for this, but. still no quorum. “Mr. Speaker,” says Representative Longworth, “I move that the sergeant-at-arms be directed to send for and arrest the absent members wherever they may be found m sA bring them in here.” The motion carries, amid loud applause and shouts of “’Rav for Nick; you bring ’em in. Nick!” Declared Unconstitutional “Mr. Speaker," yells Representative Lowrey, Mississippi, above the din, “a point of order, please! The Constitution of the United States forbids the infliction of ’cruel and unusual punishments.’ I think it is unconstitutional to require these gentlemen to come here under arrest and listen to that singing in the hall.” One by one, and in twos and threes, they begin streaming Into the chamber. Representative Rathhone, Illinois, captured at the City Club, where he was delivering an address, appears. Representative John Phillip HilJ. Maryland, fresh from a dinner party, arrives In a swallow-tailed coat and hard-boiled shirt, “Mr. Speaker,” shouts Representative. Hill. “I wasn’t arrested; I came here voluntarily!’ Song Birds Assemble (I Again are the cloakroom songbirds. now singing “There's a Long, Long Trail.” dragged forth to answer a roll call. Thirty minutes more for this one and—well, by gosh, there's a quorum present at last! Exactly 219 members are here, so the counters say. And so the business of the “House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled," Is resumed.