Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1924 — Page 2

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EAGLES MEET IN ANNUAL STALE CONCLAVE HERE More Than 500 Delegates From 68 Cities Are in / Attendance, More than 500 delegates of Fraternal Order of Eagles, from sixtyeight Indiana cities met in nineteenth annual convention today at Eagles Temple, 43 \V. Vermont St. It will continue through Thursday. The old age pension bill, sponsored by the organization in the last Legislature. will be one of the chief tonics discussed. W. J. Dillingham, State secretary, said. Deluse Gives Address Otto P. Deluse, past president, of Indianapolis, gave the welcome and Ernest E. Cloe, of Noblesville, State president, responded. Departmental organization and business management were to be discussed this afternoon. Tonight the Indianapolis champion team will give a drill, with amusements including dancing, in the hall. Need of old age pensions in Indiana will be discussed by Frank E. Herrington. South Bend, in the principal address Thursday morning with committee reports, election of officers and delegates to national convention in the afternoon. St ite Officers Present State officers: Ray C. Brock- Kokomo, past State president: Ernest C. Cloe, Xoblesville. State president: E. G. Sproa,t, Hammond, State vice president; Charles H. Bidaman, Terre Haute. State chaplain; W. J. Dillingham, Warsaw, State secretary: Dan A. Gutgsell, Michigan City. State treasurer; William Ratcliff, Anderson, State conductor: Charles Lowe, Peru, State inside guard; Louis Essenmacher, Richmond, State outside guard, and Walter E. Foley. Evansville; G. J. Goeglein, Ft. Wayne, and J. B. Faulkner, Michigan City, State trustees.

FARMERS LEARN TIT SHIFTING OF CROPS pats; Turn From Wheat Production to Dairying, Poultry, Swine, With Profit. WASHINGTON, Jane 11.—Shifts from wheat production into dairying, poultry, swine, corn, alfalfa and general leguminous crops have enabled scores of farmers in the Middle West and Northwestern States to cut their losses and get their farming operations on a profitable basis during the last few years, according to reports from county agents in these States to the United States Department of Agriculture. The reports cover 302 counties in lowa, lUino-.-, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington. How They Sliift They tell of cuts in wheat acreage, replacement of beef cattle herds by dairy herds, progress in poultry raising, development of definite crop rotations and expansion in the production of fiax, soy beans, sweet clover, sugar beets, garden truck and hay. One. typical instance is that of three brothers named Devosier, who were formerly arge grain growers on a three-quarter-section farm in Red Lake County, Minnesota. About four years ago they began to have doubts about the future of grain growing. Accordingly they laid a foundation for a good dairy herd, planted part of their farm in corn, alfalfa, clover and some sugar beets and erected two silos, going in debt for most of the expense. Four-Year Rotation Last year they sold $1,700 worth of breeding stock and s3,son worth of milk to a local cooperative cheese factory, which they helped to build They have adopted a four-year rotation on their farm and have restored their land so that it is again profitable for small grain production. The county agent says that these farmers are on “easy street.” Another Minnesota farmer in Mahnomen Count yhas redueed his wheat acreage from 400 to forty acres. He has increased his dairy herd from two scruh milk cows to a good-grade head of thirty with a pure bred sire. His monthly income averages 5270 to $275 from cream. He has forty acres of alfalfa, seventy-five of sweet corn and eighty of corn. * CANADA WHEAT SEEDED Will Harvest Greater Crop Than Last Year, Is Prediction. By Times Special CALGARY, Al v erta. June 11.—One hundred per cent of the wheat was j seeded in Alberta by the end of May and practically all the coarser grains with the exception of several limited areas the seed was put in under very favorable conditions, and in every section of the province subsequent rains provided excellent germination conditions. Given average weather, Alberta will harvest even more wheat than last year, when the 167,000.000 bushels yield beat all previous records by more than 802000,000 bushels. Fight War Over PERTH. Australia. June 11.—Bottles ana knives filled the air when an argument over the war between the crews of the Australian steamer Barunga and the German steamer Hanover resulted in a fierce fight recently. Two Australians and one German were sent to the hospital here severely inujred.

Organ in Equipment of New Methodist Church

Vlr/w or UL Ll’IT, CHOIR LOFT AND ORGAN OF NEWLY DEDICATED WEST WASHINGTON STREET METHODIST CHURCH.

YEAR BOOK Os IN ITS REPORTS Ranges From Ancient Mythology Quotations to Modern Quips, ** ( Tr EAR Book-. Indiana, 1923.” IJ j Five pounds of print i I—-—I paper, a couple of hundred miles of statistics, a hale or two of! State reports so dry a fish would die j of thirst after the first chapter! j Well, according to the best tra-1 ditior.s this should be true. Yet a general survey of Indiana's year book, recently published, reveals everything from citations of Aris-! totle's theories on human slavery. : reference to Abram’s covenant with \ Abimelech at Beersheba. and a quotation from the Psalms, to the saga of Yggdrasil, the tree of life, i taken "out of the grey, dim. past of Norse mythology.” The whole also shows Indiana as 1 a miniature United States, having as varied resources and industries within her borders as these in the nation at large. Queer bedfellows, some of these things for monotonous state statistical reports! But they 're oases in a desert of figures. The Department of Conservation report for the year contains said rases. Lieber's OjK-nlng Remarks High lights on Director Richard Lieber's opening remarks: “Natural resources are the basis of the world’s wealth. I mean wealth and not the documentary aggregate of evidence showing a basis for profit. The recent war has opened our eyes to the basis of that distinction. What was for- ; merly considered wealth disappeared like a fleeting shadow before the '■ thunder of destructive explosives. “Leaving aside hoary hatred, j prejudice and other historic and tra- j ditional shortcomings which inter- i sere with a true appraisement of the situation, one thing nevertheless ! stands clearly revealed from the I mess of debris—that there will be no recovery except as wealth and ! variety of natural resources make it possible. “Resource energy in the place of human energy is the way out of labor trouble. Ancient culture was made possible only *by use of hu- i man slavery. Culture and leisure ! are synonymous, as long as you ! predicate your own culture and leisure upon the ignorance and toil of others. “Culture and democracy, those hostile ideals of mankind, might fuse when we have learned to apply outvast power resources and have found j a flexible and diffused distribution. “It is anew world in which we! are living. The yesterday is irre vocably gone. From a Nation of independent farmers of fifty years ] ago. we have changed to one of industrial employes. “Politically, we are a unit.; economically, we have sown sectionalism and separation of interest through concentration of colossal enterprise in restricted areas. Asa result we are reaping all of the perplexing and almost insolvable issues of industrial strife, dissatisfaction and the burden of a high cost of living. And then we come to the report of the assistant to Lieber, Charles, G. Sauers, who writes on “Trees and Parks.” “A mind which seeks inspiration in the wonder of nature will never grow world-wearied; on the contrary, it has found the true source of life and of recreation.” “Such an open mind will he receptive of the eternal influences which physical nature exerts on his spiritual being and -which in turn hold sway over his conception and conduct of life.” “Proud as our position as masters of such a creation may be, it gently returns us to nature where we belong. and realigns us in humility with the universe.” Sauers describes a tree: “After the labors of the seasons it garbs itself in the colors of royal magnificence, and after that in the approach of winter's death it released leaf after leap, which fluttered down to the ground, soon to be covered by a pale blanket. In the midst of his brethren. the giant of the forest rests, biding his time. If that be death—so was the thought of man—life will recur in due season, as in a cycle our being moyes.” The “report” is too long to reproduce here. Sauers describes the presence of trees in ancient religious rites, shows how their significance and influence is yet inherent in every human breast, indulges in gentle

Orators i jrv I Is - MISS HELEN BROWN ■_ . *9% JV Muflwrir ~n natuttß&A LOWELL LOVE Miss Helen Bt'own. 1537 Broadway, is the first girl valedictorian of Shortridge High School. She will peak on “Civic Patriotism” at commencement at Cadle Tabernacle tonight. Lowell Love, 2338 E. Sixteenth St., valedictorian, will speak on “Public Spmt 'd Men.” satire concerning our “advanced civilization” and invoices parable to get us “back to nature.” And all this in “Year Book, Indiana, 1923.” RECORDS VERIFY Attorney for Fairbanks, Morse & Cos, Appears, Linton A. Cox. attorney for Fairbanks. Morse & Cos., which bought approximately eighteen acres of the old workhouse grounds at TwentyFirst St., and Northwestern Avo., today visited county commissioners and insisted the county only retained 1.56 acres in the deal. He produced county records from the auditors office that x’rifled his contention. Cassuis L. Hogle, president of the county council that authorized the sale, has insisted the county meant to retain 3.85 acres, including a switch track. He has laid the matter before County Prosecutor William H. Remy, charging records were changed. Prosecutor Remy said the matter would not be presented at least until the new grand jury Is sworn in July 1. ‘SWAT-THE-FLY’ RESULTS VISIBLE Germ Carriers Appear With First Warm Weather, Pity the poor little fly—he’s losing his happy home. Dr. William F. King, State health commissioner, declares resuUs of “Swat-the-Fly” campaigns are now visible. Unfavorable weather having slightly subsided, the fly "is beginning to appear, a little tardy, perhaps, but on the job for as much damage to public health as he can do, according to Dr. King. Dr. King points out a fly rarely strays more than 1,500 feet from his birthplace, and that a female fly has usually about five trillion descendants in one season. So, cut off the supply at the source and you stop distribution of a considerable cargo of mentis, Dr. King says.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

EDUCATION GREAT FORCE FOR OPEN AIR MOVEMENT Recreation Conference Committee Points Out Need of Campaign, B;i Times Special WASHINGTON, June 11.—Need cf rallying the educational forces of the country behind any outdoor program was cloiyrly shown at the sessions of the out Door Recreation conference called by President Coolidge. This was brought out by the resolutions submitted by th committees appointed by Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the Navy, who presided at the sessions. For example, the committee on formulation of an educational program for outdoor recreation pointed out need ,-f an educational campaign to make known and advertise to the American public those facilities ip. the nature of parks, forests, rivers, lakes and playgrounds available ’or which may be made avaiiutye in the future. Going further into the need of marshaling th>- educational forces of the country this committee’s report says: “This special educational committee believes appreciation and love of the outdoors should begin, with every other form of education, in the public and private schools of the land. New York State and California as examples at either end Qf Our nation have built up and fostered a greater appreciation of their outdoor facilities through the introduction of nature as a part of their regular school curricula. “This committee penally indors-s the splendid nature study courses offered by many public libraries, museums and camps and recommends that all institutions of this character should follow the excellent example already sot. It is urged that modern and up-to-date books and magazines on natural history subjects he used, as the advance of science has demonstrated the error of many previous so-called authorities.” STORK BUSY AT FARMER’S NOME Twin Boys, Twin Calves and Sextette of Kittens, Otto Hughes, Atlanta (Tnd ) farmer, has decided he needs a rest after what happened at his home Tuesday. Here’s the story as told by Sergt. Harlie Sylvester, Army recruiting station, a relative of Hughes: Mrs. Hughes gave birth to twin boys, Milton and Merrill. The proud father, after seing his offspring ushered safely into the world, went to the barn to feed the stock. There he found "Old .Terse” had had twin calves. Looking for straw for a bed for the cow and calves Hughes discovered that “Betty,” the family cat, had six new kittens. The babies, calves and kittens were born between 9 and 11 a. ni. Tuesday. FEGOB ITERS RECEDE RAPIDLY Red Lights Placed at Danger Points on River, Flood waters today were receding rapidly, according to the weather bureau. White River has fallen one and two-tenths feet since Tuesday, the stage at West Tenth St., showing 14.3 feet. The river was reported stationery downstream, the stage at Ellistown being 17.4. feet. Although local thunder storms are predicted, an arrest in the fall of flood waters is not ancticipated. Police placed several red lights at danger points where White River and Eagle Creek left banks. About two blocks north of Thirtieth St. bridge at Riverside Park the boulevard was impassable. The approach to the W. Raymond St. bridge at White River was flooded. Several motorists and citizens of thjjs section waded Into water ,and speared carp with pitchforks.

SMART DRESSES ADD SPARKLE TO G. 0. P. CONVENTION Women Delegates Attend Sessions in Silks and Twills, . By DOROTHY SHUMATE (United Press Convention Correspondent. MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM, CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11. —Some came in silks and some in frills, but all were the last word in gowns. While a symphony of purple, red and blue lights played through the convention hall at. the eighteenth national convention of the G. O. P. some there were to whom it was more than a mere political convention. 1 sat for a time on the platform talking with Mr. Slemp, who is secretary to Mr. Coolidge. We remarked on how wpU dressed many of the women were and how their coming into politics had lent a bright touch to the conventions. Parais models mingled with home gowns, but the effect was all that Paquin or Patou could hope for. In the front row on the platform was Mrs. Leonard Wood of Pittsburgh, charming in a champaigne georgette crepe creation which defies decryption. Her scarf of the same color was wound fetchingly about her neck and she wore slippers and hose of the same color. Her broad brimmed hYit was of dark brown maline with paradise feathers of the same shade, fiat on the brim. Then there was Mrs. Medill McCormick of Chicago. Her dark blue canton crepe suit had a white satin vest and she wore a vari colored scarf edged with fringe. Albright red straw hat turned up in the back completed her >s?ume. Mrs. Charles Sabin of New York, one of the most envied women at the convention, was charming in a black canton crepe. SIGNAL LIGHTS ARE ABANDONED Semaphore Ordered at Two Points on Washington St, Inspector of Traffic Michael Glenn today ordered abandonment of signal light regulations at Senate Ave., and Washington St . and at Alabama and Washington Sts., and installation of the semaphore system in their place. Glenn declared because there were no street car turns at these points, traffic was slowed when the red street car light was on and •street cars moving. Several weeks ago a letter from the citizens' Cbinmitte-e to the board of safety and Glenn, asked system at the two points be remedied. Glenn replied the signal towers were handling the traffic effectively. His orders today show a change of front. Because lines of autos block Pearl St., adjaient to police headquarters, white Hues is curb extension have been drawn on Alabama St., and motorists are asked to keep space between the lines free for outgoing police machines. , > Smallpox Continues Despite rigid quarantine measures. smallpox cases continue to be reported to the city board of health. Fifty-six have been reported this month, bringing the total to 523 for the year. Spread of the disease caused a compulsory vaccination order for school children to be issued in March. No smallpox deaths have been reported.

Pageant Features Art Exhibit

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IN FRAME: MARGARETTE STOWERS. LEFT, AND HARRIETT EAKINS, RIGHT. BOTH OF INDIANAPOLIS. BELOW: DONALDA SMITH, MUNCIE, LEFT, CORNETT WOOD OF INDIANAPOLIS, RIGHT, GUARDIANS OF THE FRAME, IN THE JAPANESE PRINT SCENE, “AGES OF BEAUTY.”

Presentation of “The Ages of Beauty,” devised and directed by Oakley E. Richey, instructor of Theatre Design, a culmination of study in the history of art classes, opened the annual spring exhibit of students work at John Herron Art Institute, Tuesday night. The five-part pageant in Sculpture court symbolized a Princess looking through a book, depicting the art periods of the world.

Swimming Champ Is Life Saver

Miss I'ma Telfcrt, 16, of 12 E. Schiller St., is the Y. W. C. A. swimming champion of Indiana. She swam fifty meters in fortynine seconds at Broad Ripple. She is a sophomore at Manual

FOREIGN TRAVEL RATES COT FOR TOURIST MASSES Trans-Atlantic Round Trip Costs SI 60 —Immigration Slump Cause, By Tim est Special NEW YORK. June 11.—Making a European tour of six weeks for $350, with all expenses paid, may seem an impossible feat in these days of high c>,.--t living, but many travelers with an <-yey to economy expect to aceomplhh It before the summer is over The secret of this cheap travel lies in the Transatlantic round trip sate of $l6O, which the leading steamship lines an now offering. Because of the great slump in immigration traffic, due to the new law. the third class section on some of the largest steamers h,s been much improved, and fin many reipect >s now superior to the secondlass of former times. On the Royal Mail liners Ordun.t. Orbita. Orca and >hio the third class quarters V>ave Peer, rearranged, and in addition to such attractions as a tastefully decoiated dining salon, a social hail tnd smoking room, ample space has been allotted for deck games. The sleeping accommodation comprises rooms for n\>>, three or four persons. a single berth room being obtainable on payment of an extra half fare. All these rooms, as well ns bath rooms and toilets, are kept in spotless condition. As to meals, the following dinner menu gives some idea of the generous scale on which they are provided: Vegetable soup, roast chicken with bacon, parsnips, baked potatoes. ioe cream with wafers, cheese, biscuits, bread, butter, tea and coffee. Not only is the food well prepared and appetizing, hut the table service and attendance are of the

Periods were described by characters posed, acting in pantomir.e, or with speaking parts and historically appropriate costumes, with descriptive background, all the work of students. Evans Woollen, president, presented diplomas, certificates of merit, and honorable mention awards. Students and alumni held annual picnic at the home of Burling Boaz, Jr., today.

MISS ALMA TEIFERT

Training High School. She has sufficient requirements for a Girl's Reserve ring and is a member of the junior life saving corps. Last year Miss Teifert saved a 12 yearold boy from drowning at Municipal Beach.

highest standard. Another attractive feature is music for conceits and dancing, supplied by the ship's orchestra. A point of much importance is the new plan of limiting third-class class passengers on these steamers almost exclusively to tourists, such as students, teachers, and artists, whose allowance for foreign travel is limited. Leaders Forty-three will be graduated at the fourth commencement exercises of the Cathedral High School at the K. of C. auditorium Thursday evening. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Edmund A. Pace, dean of philosophy at the Catholic UniHOFFMAN McNAMARA pmi gj versify, Washingp,y Joseph F. JOHN J. Namara. “Minuet” SHAUGHXESSY by the orchestra, bass solo by Albert Kramer, addresses by Bishop | Chartrand and Mgr. Pace, and award j of diplomas and medals. Those to receive medals: Thomas jF. Shaughnessv. 2216 N. Talbott i Ave., and Edward O. Miller. 1126 ! Congress Ave., the Knights of Cos! lumbus and Bishop Chartrand medals, respectively, for scholarship. William J. Rickey will receive the Owl Club medal for the best studentathlete. John A. Shaughnessy is class president, Joseph P. McNamara vice president and John J. Hoffman secretary treasurer. 'high explosives CHEAP PREDICTION Nitrate Fertilizer From Air Possibility, Experts Say, By United Press LAFAYETTE. Ind., June 11. — Cheap quantity production of nitrate fertilizers and high explosives from the oxygen and nitrogen of the ait is a possibility of the near future, according to a report of higher volt age experiments conducted by R. H. feeorge and K. A. Oolinger of Purdue University. Using the gases, nitrogen and oxygen ,of which the air is composed, a photographic record has been made of some unusual types of discharge in these gases. In addition to this an apparatus has been designed and voltage characteristics of gases may be studied, all of which is highly technical, but essential to a study of the practical application of the results. The investigation, of which the report referred to is preliminary, is being corducted by the engineering experiment station in the high voltage laboratory of Purdue University, where equipment is available to produce voltages as high as 600,000 volts. I Chamber’s Work Described George Mosser, managing director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce described the functioning of the chamber to Rotarians at the regular meeting at the Claypoo 1 Tuesday. Unification of industrial activities was shown as result of the I chamber’s work.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1924

STREET RAILWAY BOOSTS EARNINGS BY CUTTING COSTS Increase Over 1922 Due to Reduction in Operating Expense, Report Shows, Increased net earnings and improved financial conditions were shown in the annual report of the Indianapolis Street Railway for 1923, submitted by the board of directors at the annual stockholders’ meeting today. The stockholders meeting of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company was held at the same time. Following the meetings and election directors and officers for the coming fiscal yqar were selected. All directors and officers of both companies were re-elected. Net earnings for the street railway company for the year amounted to $1,072,903.24, an increase of $22,461.30 over those of the previous year. This increase was due wholly tb reduction in operating expenses, as the gross earnings of the company fell off more’ than SIB,OOO during the year. Four Dividends Paid Four back quarterly dividends of I*2 per cent were paid on the company’s preferred stock during 1923, the report showed, and two in 1924, March 1 and June 1. Dividends on this stock are cumulative and still are eighteen months in arrears. Passenger fai-e receipts for the year amounted to $4,602,549.41 and transfer receipts to $379,871.33. Considerable space in the report was devoted to a list of track and roadway improvements made during 1923. Bus Competition “Unfair” Reports of both companies complained of bus competition, terming it “unfair.” This competition, the report of the T. H., I. & E. Traction Company showed, resulted in an estimated loss in revenues of $382,000 for the year. Earnings of the T. H., I. & E. amounted to $1,456,225.48. according to. the report. There was decrease of $89,606.92 in net earnings, as compared with 1922. Bus and motor truck competition was blamed largely for this. During the year 26,234.371 passengers were carried on city arid interurban lines owned by the company. These officers and directeors were re-elected: Indianapolis Street Railway Company, Robert I. Todd, president; Henry C. Thomson and John J. Appel, \:ce presidents: Joseph A. McGowan. secretary arui. treasurer; \V. F. Milholland, assistant secretary and treasurer; L. J. E. Foley, auditor; J. P. Tretton, superintendent: Ferdinand Winter, general counsel. New Directors Named Directors: Robert I. Todd, Henry C. Thomson, Winfield T. Durbin, John J. Appel, Walter J. Ball, John W. Smith, Henry H. Hornbrook. Joseph A. McGown. John P. Frenzel was named director to fill vacancy caused by the recent death of Dr. Henry Jameson, formrelv chairman of directors. Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company. Robert I. Todd, president: John J. Appel, vice president: Joseph A. McGowan, secretary and treasurer; Leroy T. Hixson. auditor. Directors, Robert I. Todd, Randal Morgan. W. Kesley Schoepf, John J. Appel. Joseph A. McGowan, James W. Lilly and Leroy T. Hixson. PORTO RICAN IS BARREDBYG.O.P. i Former Governor General of Island Loses Seat. Bn United Press \ CLEVELAND. June 11.—E. Mont I Reilly of Missouri, former governor ! general of Porto Rico, was formally ! unseated as delegate from the island I territory today when the Republican convention approved action of the | credentials 'committee in accepting ! R. H. Todd. Ramon Valdez and Juan i Soto of San Juan as authorized I Porto Rican representatives. Valdez and Soto sought unseating of both Reilly and Todd, but the j latter was given a seat by the convention and two-thirds vote along [ with Valdez and Soto. In contesting Reilly’s seat. Soto ; and Valdez charged that Reilly’s Administration on the island was an open scandal. Governor Towner also cabled the convention declaring that Valdez and Soto were the regularly elected delegates. AUSTRALIANS GUESTS .John Bull's Subjects to Visit Dominion of Canada. By Times Special TORONTO, June 11.—A party of fifty Australian hoys will be the guests of the Canadian National Exhibition from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3 The youngsters are public school boys from all parts of Australia, and their visit to Toronto wall he made on their way home from the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Yale President 111 By United Press NEW HAVEN. Conn.. June 11.— President James Rowland Angell of Yale University has suffered a nervous breakdown and will be unable to take part in the school's commenc'ement exercises. Cows Emulate Goats OLYMPIA, Wash.. June 11— Seven cows, emulating goats, ate the paper wrappings of some dynamite and died. The owner believes his loss to be dud to the carelessness of highway workmen who left the wrappings on the ground, and he is asking the State to pay for his cows.