Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1924 — Page 4

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THE GLADYS ELLIS CASE -p HERE is something wrong with a law that permits a jury * of laymen to declare a slayer insane and then provides for a sanity inquest by experts who may find the defendant sane. That is exactly what happened in the case of Gladys Ellis. Several months ago the girl, who had a bad criminal record, escaped from a cell at the Indiana Woman’s Prison, killed an elderly matron and escaped. She was apprehended and tried. The defense pleaded that she was insane at the time she committed the crime. It produced evidence to indicate such insanity may have been of hereditary nature. After deliberating all night the jury found the girl was insane when she killed the matron and escaped from the prison. The girl was taken to jail to await examination by physicians. She was examined and the two doctors assigned to the case reported that she was not insane when they examined her. At the same time they indicated that she had criminal tendencies and was dangerous to the community. Their definition of insanity, obviously, is a technical one and does not coincide with the idea of the average layman. To most people, a person whom it is not safe to have at large is insane. This, however, is beside the point. Gladys Ellis is expected to go back to the woman’s prison to serve the remaining three years of her term. Her situation is exactly what it would have been had she not killed a fellow human being! If the prison sentence had not already been hanging over her she would be free today. Such is the law of Indiana. BUNDLE DAY EOU can’t share the warmth of the fireside with them, but you can spare them some of your warm clothes. This appeal is made by the Near East Relief in behalf of the children of Armenia and the Holy Lands. As an aftermath of war conditions, thousands of children in these lands still are in want. They have been kept* safely through another‘Winter, but now preparations must be made for another season of snow and ice. Wednesday is bundle day. On this day the citizens of Indianapolis are asked to gather together old clothing and old shoes. Fire stations and churches are bundle headquarters. The Near East Relief is asking only for discarded garmentsthings you no longer need and that are in the way. By getting them out of the way you may save a life. BRAVO, MR. PRESIDENT! RIGHT sound dusting, we’d say, is what President C’oolidge, in his Memorial Day address at Arlington, administered those political katzenjammers, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, George Wharton Pepper and other League of Nations bitter-enders.' The President made it perfectly plain that while he himself is not ready to adhere to .the covenant of the League, he stands four square for joining the world court on the conditions laid down by President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes. iA.nd he made it just as plain that he is against the pussyfooting and stalling methods of Lodge and Pepper and the other irreconcilables who, while ostensibly favoring entry into the world court, deliberately plot to make such entry impossible by setting up conditions which the other nations in question can not decently accept. ‘Me may as well face the question candidly,” he says. “If we are willing to join,” he insists, “let us say that. If we are not willing, let us say that. We cau accomplish nothing by taking a doubtful or ambiguous position.” Such castigation of his own party leaders by a President is almost unprecedented. But just as unusual also is the attitude of these leaders toward the President. Bo entirely warranted, therefore, was the implied presidential rebuke, and so courageous, that it will not fail to find a. reverberating echo {* the form of a thunderous “Bravo!” from every State in the Union—and, indeed, from plain people everywhere. THE real fun in the Cleveland convention should come when they attempt to view with alarm and point with pride, if any. IP IS said 25,000,000 voters failed to vote at the presidential primaries. They are probably the ones who are sure the Government is rotten. REC L RRING again to the well-known double cross, we are reminded that every seventieth birth in this country is twins. IT is evident that all women are not fitted for matrimony, for here is a Georgia sister who shot at her husband four times and missed him. THE fact that an inventor has discovered a means of getting cooking heat from the sun’s rays suggests that it would be well to secure at once the fervid orb against private ownership. We can’t be too careful.

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GRAND DUKE ABIDES TIME IN VILLAGE Nicholas Lives in Simple French Town, but Still He Hopes, t By MILTON BROXNER SEA Sariirc Writer ANTENY-SERVON, France, June 3. —Back in the early U—l years of the World War, Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch commanded the czar’s great armies. He owned palaces and estates all over Russia. Before he took the field with his troops, he lived the life of a royal prince and wealthy nobleman. But today he is a simple country gentleman in the little Chateau of Choinv, on the outskirts ot this humble hamlet where for centuries time has stood still. His command; once numbering millions, is reduced now to twenty faithful Cossacks. His household does not exceed eight or ten persons. And his table is the plainest. Popular in Village It sounds like a tragic tale—and in part it is. But the man who, due to the machinations of the last of the czarinas, was deprived or his title of generalissimo of the Russian armies and sent into practical exile

n tile Caucasus: the man wno ijr:t <- ■ "T-Ti & L ft* 3 fScfl .- ally was .t prisoner of th< ! isle a*s to He and his friends are confident Rupßife vaF j* i half away. Here you find some- I ! ■/ :00 souls, raott of whom are on, | I iHro!

in the Caucasus; the man who practically was a prisoner of the Bolsheviks before he managed to escape to Italy, is abiding his hour. Although 6S. he still is vigorous, straight as the Russian pine, well over six feet tall, and but a little grayer than in his campaigns of 1914-16. He and his friends are confident that soon the rail for service will come Meanwhile, he lives in an isolation one would think impossible in a place only an hour by train from Paris. Two or three trains a day stop at the station called Santeny-Ser-von. The village itself is a mile and a half away. Here you find some 200 souls, most of whom are employed as farm hands in the surrounding wheat country of Brie. Although this country voted hoav ily for the parties of the Rest Wing in the recent elections, the grand duke is popular with the peasantry. They call 'Nicholas’ rented estate the Chateau of Choiny—hut it isn't castle. It is more like a French country residence—a low rambling two-story white structure, with geranium beds around it and bowered in horse chestnuts, locusts and other trees flowering at tills time of the year. Cossacks Guard Him The grounds are closed by tall fences. The big barred iron gates are kept locked. France has many communists and Bolsheviks who might harm the greatest of the living Romanoffs. That is why at night the twenty Cossacks are on guard. That is why a half dozen police dogs are let loose on the grounds. That is why by day the Prench government has sent down there to do duty at the porter’s lodge a special guest of the French surete generale. In spite of the fact that many of the surviving Romanoffs not long ago chose Brand Duke Cyril—now living at Nice—as protector of the rights to the old throne, thousands of loyal Russians the world over look upon Nicholas as the man who ultimately will deliver Russia from the soviets. Nicholas wanders about his grounds in the ordinary clothes worn by Frenchmen of the leisure class. He nevej- goes to Paris. Considerable part of his time is spent in writing a history of the first part of tlie great war. Long years ago he wrote a history of Russia under one of the great czars. So by writing now. he simply is returning to one of his early loves. Most of his guests are Russians who escaped the Soviet Cheka and who have information to place at his disposal. It is significant that most of the able Russians come to Santeny to report to him, instead of going to Nice to report to Cyril. Family Fun Fighters “Do you think young people should be trained for marriage?” asked Jones. “Certainly! I always have been opposed to sending raw troops into battle,” snapped Mr. Grouch.—Cin- | cinnati Enquirer. Bobbie Advises Teacher "Who was it that prompted you then? I heard someone whisper that date to you.” “Please, teacher, I expect it was history repeating itself again.”— Answers (London). Sister Is a Winner “My roommate and I are having a race to see which one of us can go out with the most fellows this year.” “Is that so? Who is in the lead?” “Well, I’m about ten laps ahead.” —Michigan Gargolye.

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Dark Horse By SEA Service WASHINGTON, June 3. The latest tip from the Democratic dark horse stables is that Carter Glass, ex-Secretary of Treasury and Senator from Virginia, promises to be the “Black Gold” of the Democratic Derby. Glass, his backers say, is rounding into the home stretch in good forqi and will forge to the front when the MeAdooSmif h-Underwood deadlock gets them winded.

Science Plants that catch Insects are one of the more interesting growths in the vegetable world, but plants that build nests are even stranger. These are to be found only in the tropics. One variety is the stag-horn fern. The plant has two kinds of leaves. One is like an ordinary fern leaf, upon which are borne the spores which produce the next generation of plants. The other leaves turn upward and form a nest into which decaying leaves and other debris fall and thereby furnish the plant with nourishment. These strange ferns grow upon the trunks and branches of trees and have a curious partnership with ants. The ants furnish nourishing materials for the plants and the plants are a safe place for the ants to build homes.

GRAND lil’KE NICHOLAS (LEFT) .\.\!> HIS WIFE Ask The Times You can set an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington huriani. ill'.’: 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 bo undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be anew -red. All letters arc confidential.—Editor. What is Leatrice Joy’s address? Lasky Studio, Vine St., Hollywood, California. • How many students are there in universities and colleges in the United States. How does the number of men compare to the number of women? The last complete figures available are for 1919-20, when there were 222,242 men and 134,462 women. What is a dowager empress? The widow of an emperor. For instance, the mother of the ex-Kaiser was dowager empress of Germany, and was known as the Empress Frederick. What is the height of Mt. Everest? 29,141 feet. What aro thunder and lightning? Lightning is merely an enormous discharge of electricity from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth. Thunder is explained by the fact that the electric discharge, in forcing its way through the atmosphere, heats the air and the vapor lying in its path to a very high temperature, causing a very violent expansion along the whole length of the flash. The result is a very steep compression wave, or, what is the same thing, a noise. What are the rings of Saturn? The so-called rings of Saturn are a mighty swarm of meteorites—pieces of iron and stone of all sorts and sizes, which reflect the light of the sun to us. This ocean of matter is some miles deep, and stretches from a few thousand miles from the surface of the planet to 172,000 miles out In space. Some astronomers think that this is volcanic material which has been shot out by the planet. Others regard It as stuff which would have combined to form an eleventh moon (Saturn has ten moons n addition to its system of rings) but was prevented by the nearness of Saturn itself. What causes the earth to rotate? It Is generally supposed that the nebular or planetesimal matter from which the solar system has developed possessed an original motion of rotation around an axis nearly at right angles to the plane of the ecliptic. Tho earth and the planets, •pa general, are supposed still to revolve and to rotate in the same direction as that of the rotatation of the original mass.

DUTCH ARE “IN DUTCH” NO LONGER They Say it With Flowers to France and Everybody Is Happy, By SEA Service I ONDON, June 3—Say it with . • I flowers. *-*"** I It’s an old American gag, invented by some enterprising florist. And now the Dutch have used it, with good effect. Ever since the wdr the Dutch have not been exactly the fair-haired boys with the French. The latter remembered that Holland remained neutral during the war. Furthermore, many French thought her neutrality was of the “benevolent” kind —to Germany. But the French dearly love a gesture, and last winter the Dutch florists bethought themselves of a grand one. So they banded together and sent to the city of Paris, as a present, 100,000 choice Dutch tulip bulbs. Moreover, they sent expert gardeners over to plant them in some of the great squares, and to look after them properly. And the other day these squares broke out into a glory of color. And all Paris was tickled and said nice things about the Dutch. And what Paris says today, all France says tomorrow. So the Dutch are in Dutch no more. They Use Bikes Some day some American humorist is going to ask the question: “What has become of the bikes we used to ride?” And the American who rarely sees any in his home country and who has knocked about the Old World a bit, will promptly reply: “They must all have been sent to Europe." Asa matter of fact, more bike riders are seen in one hour In England, France, Holland or Belgium than are seen in a couple of weeks in America. The average British boy, going home from His work on his bike, is far bnore dangerous to the pedestrian than motor-propelled vehicles. You can see the big, lumbering busses and the autos, but a boy on a bike will come suddenly shooting around a corner and thinks it’s up to you to look out for yourself. An indignant Yank in a London hotel the other day relieved his feelings, thusly: “I have successfully dodged autos in New York. Cleveland. Chicago and lAm Angeles, but I had the supreme humiliation of being run over by a Dutchman on a bike in Rotterdam. And at :.he time, if you please, I was talking to a traffic cop, asking my way to the hotel!” Children Helped Little, crippled, poverty-stricken Bulgaria has just given a striking example to big Germany. For that matter, it has also given a lesson in financial manners to all the allied countries which owe qs huge sums and haven't paid a cent. Under various treaties. Bulgaria undertook to pay. by way of reparation. 300,000 Bulgarian leva for d;unages caused by her three-year occupation of eastern Siberia. The payments were to be made partly in cash and partly in kind. Recently she handed to the Jugoslavs a first payment in gold, as well as 600 freight cars full of corn. No wonder Belgrade feels pleased with Sofia. Our Washington treasury officials would doubtless feel tickled If France, Italy, etc., rose up and did likewise for us.

I Call Her Mom By HAL COCHRAN HERE'S a silvery whiteness I that runs through her hair . arid a softness you'd like to caress. The white is the growth from the purity there and the soft from her heartbeats, I gueSs. I often have thoughtfully gazed in her eyes and I’ve known of the message that's toll. Sincerity realty makes a man realize that it’s love and affection they hold. I’ve had her advice since the day I was born and she’s taught me what’s wrong and what’s right. She cheers mo whenever I'm feeling forlorn and she makes all my dark days seem bright. More wondrous, by far. than the fortunes of gold that some time may cross o'er my palm. It’s been my good fortune to have and to hold the sweetheart I've always called Mom. So, I’ll tell the world that I’m proud as can be of this best friend I ever have had. If she oar just feel half that proudness for me, I'll have reason enough to feel glad. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Nature Clothes moths have been in existence for thousands of years, and are referred to in the book of Job. Romans were posted on them and gave the name tinea to all clothes moth caterpillars. are said to be three species in the United States—the 'case-making, webbing clothes moth and gallery-making sort —all of European origin. So far there are no native species known in this country. These moths do not live long after depositing their eggs, and usually shun daylight and stay hidden away in dark corners. The larvae of clothes moths Is sought out by certain small but persistent parasites and killed. A Thought Where no counsel is, the people fall; but 1r the multitude of counsellors there is safety.—Prov. 11:14. * * * The best receipt— to work and best to take —is the admonition of a friend.—Bacon.

REASON FOR WEATHER IS EXPLAINED Spot That Makes it Cold Slips—Low Temperature Results, By LARRY BOAR DMA N. NEA Service Writer. A SUING TON, June 3.—Off the coast of Greenland, In a spot ___J that isn’t good for much else anyhow, the weather for most of the United States is made. When this spot remains off the tip of that country in the springtime, wc have normal weather. But it has slipped south and west That's what has caused rain on the Atlantic seaboard, floods and tornadoes in the central States and snow as far away as the Dakotas, .ays Maj. Edward 11. Bowie, supervising forecaster of the United States Weather Bureau. This slipping spot Is known as the normal low pressure area. How does a low pressure area govern the weather? When the air in a given region is warmed it becomes lighter, forming a low pressure area. Heavier, colder air rushes in. The warm air with

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its quantity of moisture is forced higher. There it is cooled and condensed, its capacity for holding moisture is less and the moisture forced out in the form of rain and snow. But thq cold air rushing toward a low pressure area does not go in a straight line. Due to the rotation of the earth it veres to the right. So the colder currents headed toward the Greenland low pressure area, instead of sweeping by the Uniter] States, as they usually do, are sweeping over the country on their way from the pole to the low pressure area. These eurcents have chilled the country and forced the moisture out of the air, giving us our present weather. West of the Rockies the condition has been the reverse. The Pacific low pressure area has moved from the tip of Alaska toward the Japanes coast. The colder air currents In their race to this place have missed the Pacific coast. The air there remains warm, holding its moisture and causing the drought. “It is impossible to predict weather conditions months ahead,” Bowie says, “but I will say it Is almost’ certain that the weather will return to normal. W'eather conditions are like a pendulum—swinging to abnormal, then back to normal again —and just in the course of natural events this pendulum is due to reach the norms,l point in its swing.” When Dad Is Happy “Aren’t you miserable when we are separated, dearest?” “Do, darling; it makes)me happy to think how miserable you are because I am not with you.”—Boston Transcript. v v. V • ,

Spring Daze!

Tom Sims Says: Woman’s place seems to he on the front porch. National Medical Association reports a doctor shortage, but what w& need to cure this is a patient shortage. There’s no fool like an old fool except a young one. Sometimes a man won’t buy a washing machine because he thinks he married one. In London, aatrom'mers report seeing foliage on the moon, but it may only be the man tip there needing a shave. When a girl's eyes get dreamy they need looking into. That key to success, about which you hear *o much, opens a bank account and will be found in the schoolhouse door. The woods, the beautiful woods. No wonder they are beautiful. Posses are always scouring them. Do not eat a heavy lunch these warm days unless you are the boss and can loaf when you get back to work. A baby and an auto cost about, the same, but age increases the value of one and decreases the value of the other Dancers are showing more form, step by step.

Tongue Tips Dr. Henry Y'an Dyke, writer: “To be inarticulate is not always a sin even in a man.” Henry Ford: “There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing ta'fail.” Arthur S. Kirk, Melrose, Mass.: “I am a veteran of the World Was. I hate war. I want no son of mine to go to war. But he will be taught that it is his duty to go, and if he does not go, or does not want to, he will be no longer a son of mine. If this be treason to Christianity then make the most of it.” James H. Carney, Insurance Federation of Massachusetts: “Insurance jsates are the only item *in the cost of living that has shown a decline in the past ten years.”’ Ed Cash, actor: “The actor is a very useful person in the scheme of things and not a fool or a parasite.”

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FOURTH TO BE BIG DA Y IN POLITICS May Be Remembered for Additional Independence Move. By HARRY B. HUNT SKA Service Writer ASHINGTON, June 3. —July 4 V/U may take on anew signifi- _ . T _J cance i our national life affer this year. To date, our histories record July 4 as chiefly notable because it marks the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence back in ’76. Future historians, however, may feel impelled to add to this that it is also the anniversary of the birth of Calvin Coolidge, twenty-ninth President of the United States, should Coolidge run true to his lucky stars and he returned to the White House fer another historic four years. Failing this. July 4 may find still another claim to commemoration in the meeting at Cleveland, Ohio; on that date, this year, of the “Conference for Progressive Political Action.” It is at this conference that any really aggressive program for independent or third party activify will be developed. Here, after Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidates and written their platforms, Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin and his followers will determine on the course thajr are to pursue. May Be Milestone Will July 4. 1924, take place alongside July 4, 1776, as a milestone in American history as a result of the Cleveland conference? Should a La Follette candidacy bo decided on at that time, and should such candidacy catch public favor even to the extent of deadlocking the election of both old party candidates, the train of events which,,could conceivably follow might do mope to shape the future of this Government than anything which has happened since the original July 4th Declaration. That La Follette will lead an independent ticket, in an attempt to elect a prog essive group which will hold the bala ice of power in the next Congress und put the choice for President in the balance, is now accepted here'.qs certain. His letter of May 27, washing his hands of the Farmer-Labor convention June 17, in which communistic elements have gained a footing, and his challenge to both old parties that “a long-suffering and righteously indignant people will find in the coming campaign effective means, independent of both these old parties, to take back control of their Government,” is taken as indicating his willingnesa to lead the fight. Hopeful Protest Offsetti ag July 4 as a date for the Coolidge and La Follette followers to conjure with, Democrats present that of June 24. when the New York gat he: mg convenes, as one of favorable and hopeful portent. For the eve of June 24 brings Midsummer Night, when fairies and elves stir abroad with their witcheries and enchantment. By the aid of the fairies, it is suggested, convention difficulties may b harmoniously solved and a Prince Charming chosen to lead the party to victory.