Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1924 — Page 4

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THE POLICE SHAKEUP “Uyrj E "WANT efficiency in the police department,” declare W Mayor Shank and Chief Rikhoff on the average of once a week. And then they get busy and do something that can result in little less than demoralization of the department. Inspector of Detectives John Mullin was reduced by the board of safety Friday without having been given an opportunity to appear and defend himself. No good reason for the action was given to the public and none at all was given to Mullin. The policemen who answered the call to the Ayres robbery permitted three of the four robbers to escape. Surely Mullin should not be held personally responsible for this. Mullin is said to have given an attorney permission to see the robber who was captured. Surely prisoners, even safe blowers, have the right to confer with their attorneys. It is hard to believe that the reduction of Mullin resulted from these things. It is much more likely that Bill Arnvitage or someone else in the Shank administration did not care to see him at the head of the detective department any longer. We might add in passing that the board of safety did have the good judgment to pick a good man in Mullin’s place. Jerry Kinney has been a policeman and detective for many years and knows as much as any man in Indianapolis about the deration of the department. THE NEW TELEPHONE RATES SHE Indiana Bell Telephone Company, having obtained the privilege of fixing its own rates, naturally is putting an increase into effect. The public, out of whose hands the right to regulate public utilities has been taken, can do nothing but grin and bear it —or do without telephones. Here is a case of a monopoly, dealing in what has become a necessity of life, operating without check or hinder, fixing its own rates and tellnig the users to go to the nether realms. As we said Friday, it is to be hoped that the attorney general and the prosecuting attorney push their receivership suit against the company in Superior Court to the limit.

BOOTING THE BALL IN NEW YORK the American people see the Republican campaign W already organized and under way on a straight-out conservative basis dictated by Calvin Coolidge, the Democratic convention at New York fritters away its time and foregoes its opportunities squabbling about religion and beer, to the exclusion of everything else. No issue of progressivism. Nothing but words about clean government. At least not to effect the selection of a candidate. For the leading candidates are Smith of Tammany Hall and McAdoo, former Doheny lawyer And the only dark horses, who are generally conceded to have a chance, after McAdoo and Smith have killed each other off, are conservative machine-made products of Davis and Underwood type. The big idea at New York seems to be that with Coolidge running au ultra-conservative race and La Follette taking the liberal side, as he undoubtedly will if the #Democrats continue to drift the way they are doing, the Democratic party can afford to takfe a “middle-of-the-road ” course. So doing, the leaders hope to “draw strength from both sides.” More likely, they 'will lose strength to both sides. c The fact is that through the nomination of Coolidge and the adoption of the Cleveland platform, the Republicans have forced the issue in this campaign. They have thrown down the -guage, and if the Democrats fail to pick it up, La Follette will 33ick it up. Progressive and liberal sentiment in this country, -which had looked to the Democratic gathering at New York for to fight for, is not going to be satisfied with a Mc;Adoo or an A1 Smith or a Davis or an Underwood, however inuch it may dislike Coolidge and his cool disdain. * If the Democratic convention is to be allowed to continue iilong the even tenor of its present way, with no real disturb;ance in the direction of liberalism, of idealism, or against the machine method in politics, here is what will happen. The Democrats, just as much as the Republicans, will lose respect and the confidence of liberal and progressive and recently disgusted newspapers and public men. They, as well as the Republicans, who at all events are working in the open, will see An exodus to the new La Follette party, the formation of which *now seems practically assured. * With all of this plan before them, and with many of the •delegates in all-dressed-up-and-no-place-to-go frame of mind, there are at least four men in attendance at Madison Square •Garden today whose names would mean something to the voters this fall, whose personalities and whose principles could not help but count in the fight. They are Newton Baker, Josephus Daniels, Senator Wheeler and Senator Walsh of Montana Why not ;pick one of these ? ; This newspaper doessnot seek to espouse aij Democratic :party cause. Asa matter of fact, this newspaper knows that ■whatever the Democrats do, many of its readers will find what they want to vote in the La Follette non-partisan candidacy anyway. Only this newspaper hates to see a safety-first political machine in control of any party put that party in the position of losing an election in advance by default. The Democratic party need not ahd should not ape the Republican by pussy-footing on the Klan and liquor questions. •But they are getting nowhere today by confining their deliberations solely to these issues of sentiment and appetite. After all, ;the important thing is not the color of the party banner, but the •courage and the character of the man who is to carry it.

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THIS WOMAN IS CALLED A SUCCESS She Is Mother of Five Children at 21 and Happy on S2O Weekly, By HAROLD MATSON NEA Service Writer ANSFIELD, Mass., June 28. This vilage lays claim to tha most successful girl in the world. It sounds an extravagant boast until you hear why: She is 21 and the mother of five healthy babies. She spreads and stretches her husband's S2O-a-week income in such a manner as to keep the family arder filled, to pay all bills, to save enough that they have been able to buy a flivver. She sings while she washes clothes (a daily task). She loves her children and they love her. She loves her husband and he loves her. She plans to have one or two more children. - In the little shingled house at 126

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MRS. WILLIAM NYE OF MANSFIELD. MASS., WHO AT 21 IS THE MOTHER OF FIVE HEALTHY CHILDREN PICTURED HERE.

S. Main St., you may find the girl, Mrs. William Nye, busy with her endless tasks. She looks as young as her age. Her clear blue eyes, her cheerful smile, and her flaxen hair bobbed in the latest cut, make her a pretty girl. Perhaps she will be in the backyard hanging up clothes. Or she might be gathering eggs from the chickens. Or feeding the four pigs. Or picking vegetables from her gaxtien for the evening meal. Or scrubbing floors. Or preparing food for her children— Any of these and an almost countless n imber of daily chores that are hers. She won't admit the 'praise that has been given her, but she won't hesitate to tel you that she is as proud as she can be, that she is contented and that she wouldn’t trade places with anybody. Her children, Earl, 6; Florence, 4; Robert, 3; Kenneth, 2, and Gordon, 11 months, are fat and red-cheeked. They smile shyly at visitors, but soon are friendly and telling about how their dog. Sport, fell down the stairs and cut his leg, or about the twentyfour new baby chicks. When their mother calls them or corrects them they obey willingly. “Remarkable? Yes, if you look at it that way." Mrs. Nye laughs. "City folks may be amazed at my family, but they are more Heightened at the idea than at the experience. It is not so hard if you have to do it, and if you can be happy with it all.” The girl-mother was *l4 when she married. Her first baby came in a year. “I loved children and wanted them. Why should I complain? I have what I want,” she says. “People ask me if I realize what a remarkable thing I am doing and I tell them I usually realize it about 10 o'clock every night.” She laughs at that and quickly adds, “but I am not complaining. Things are getting better all the time. “But you mustn't forget my husband.” she urges. “He gets up at 5 o’clock every morning, too, works around here and then sets out to walk nearly four miles to the saw mill —you see, the car is being repaired nwo. And then he walks home at night and works until 10. “How do I make the S2O enough? Well, it takes care of itself. No, nothing like a budget. We buy what we need and don’t buy what I can get along without. The house and land is clear so we have no rent. That makes it easier. “We aren’t saving anything right now,” she explains, “because the car is costing something, but soon we can put a little aside each week.” “I look forward to it all with great pleasure,” the mother declares. “Just think! When I am 35 I will have a 20-vear-old son, an 18-year-old ;girl, a 17-year-old son, a IG-year-old son, a 15-year-old son—and who knows, maybe some more. They’ll all be like

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Help Yourself By HAL, COCHRAN When noontime arrives and you step out to lunch it will turn out this way: What food you would dine on you haven’t a hunch so you’re shortly escorting a tray. You travel along by a counter that’s filled witli the choicest of things; you're a slave to the call of your eye and your apietite’s thrilled, though you can’t just iecide what you crave. There are four kinds of meat and they all seem a treat, and there's radishes, onions and lettuce. The potatoes are mashed and au gratin or hashed. Gee, it’s funny how food dishes get us. Y'ou hang up your hat and you take this and that till your tray is filled up to the brim. You stop to look twice at the things that are nice; oh, you're appetite's surely in trim. And then, when you’re able, you hie to a table and feel that you're sitting in clover. You eat all you can, but say, where is the man who hasn’t some foodstuffs left over? It’s always this way. at the noontime of day and it's true that you know you’re a rummy. It just goes to show, as we prob'ly all know, that your eye can stand more than your tummy. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK. June 28.—The Democratic national convention, with the thousands of visitors it brought, isn't making a dent in New York. On the str'eets, in the subways, on surface and elevated cars there is no noticeable jam—no more than the everyday rush-hour maelstrom. True, in the hotels, there is an added rush and the 1> >b.es are unusually well packed with human sardines —but a convention of shoestring salesmen always does as much. Flirtatious old Fifth Ave., which was the Avenue of States for the convention parade, is often as gaily bedecked for the frequent gigantic parades in which New York takes little interest, unless halted in a traffic melee caused by the parade. Were it not for the screaming newspaper headlines the Democrats would come and go as noiselessly as a buyer for a mid-west department store. During all conventions in New York there is noticeable increase In attendance at points of alleged public interest —art galleries, museums, Coney Island, the Statue of Liberty, the Woolworth Bldg., the Aquarium and other places. > New Yorkers seldom visit these places which are of so much interest to visitors. They follow the beaten path—much as you follow a routine in your city. There are few adventurers here. The theaters, always crowded, are packed. That’s one recreation New York takes up seriously. * When I first came to New York, a few years ago, one of its ardent champions piloted me about. “You can’t see anything like this in Indianapolis,” he would say. On a Saturday afternoon the streets were thronged. He was reveling in it as he guided me along. "Some crowd, eh?” he suggested enthusiastically. “Yes,” I answered casually, “reminds me of Indianapolis on circus day. Is there a show in town?” He never had been West, He took my word for it. Never again did he compare New York to any place—at least to me. * * * Whether because fashion has decreed it or because there was a sale some place, a lai%e number of New York girls are appearing in high neck shirt waists —as accessories to the stylish tailored suits being worn. All winter their necks were bared, despite modish furs. Now that summer is here they imprison their necks in silken stocks. They appear as uncomfortable as a high school boy in his first full dress suit. Cheering Dad l'p “Lord, but'l’m tired!” “Well, cheer up, dear. Perhaps the radio won’t work, and you can get a good evening’s rest —Film Fun. 1 IVifey on Strike “Both jjiirs of my socks have holes in them, sweetheart.” “Put <m both pairs. Ti e holes are

PARLEY IN LONDON IS MOMENTOUS Meeting to Be Most Significent Since Versailles Conference, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ASHINGTON, June 28.—Not since the (Versailles conference has there been an international parley more pregnant with possibilities for good or ill to the world than the meeting of allied and American diplomats scheduled to begin in London July 16. AVorld peace or world war depends upon the outcome. Whether France and England part company or reach an agreement upon a common policy in Europe; the future of Germany; the success or failure of the Dawes-Young plan of reparations, and kindred, highly explosive topics will be threshed cut. Asa side issue the London conference will determine in a large measure what' er the United States will ever be abb- to collect some $6,000,000,000 in war debts owed by France and other European countries. Secretary of Suite Charles Evans Hughes him3tlf will be in London k at the time of tne momentous canfab. And while he will not participate officially in the actual conference—he is going to'*’London ostensibly to be present at the meeting of the Bar Association—as America's premier and minister of foreign affairs. he can n.ot escape contact with the premiers of Britain, France. Belgium and Italy who will be there for the parley. Officially Represented The United States, however, will be officially represented at the green table. Frank B. Kellogg, ambassador to Great Britain, has been designated by the President to sit in. Col James A. Logan. Jr., who has been acting as unofficial observer on the reparations commission, has been ordered to London to aid him. Obviously, both will receive their In splratioa direct from Secretary Hughes, right there on the spot. American participation In the London conference is one of the most

significant events of the entire Harding Coolidge Administration. Starting off in 1921 with a strictly “hands off" policy, or complete isolation from the rest of the world, it has slowly but surely been forced, by pressure of events and public opinion, i ffioially to take a hand in world affairs. Out of ( lear Sky Thp day before announcement was made from the White House that th • United States' would be represented at the London gathering of premiers, the White House gave it to be understood that, this country would not be represented. Then, out of a clear sky, following a visit of Secretary Hughes to the White House, came the announcement that "Instructions have been given to Ambassador Kellogg to attend the conference In London on July 16 for the purpose of dealing with such matters as affect the interests of the United States, and otherwise for purposes of information. Colonel Logan will go to London to assist the ambassador.” * Which means this country* will not only he represented, but officially represented, at this momentous meeting. The primary object of the London conference is to liquidate the dangerous European embrogllo of four years’ standing and of which the reparations problem Is the key. The Dawes-Young plan is the already accepted basis of settlement. French security against unprovoked attack on the part of Germany, occupation of the Ruhr and the Rhineland, inter allied war debts, the part the League of Nations is to play in the settlement, and similar topics, will be among the agenda, while the question of armaments will be discussed at least as a corelated problem. Tom Sims Says French airplane maker says he sees us all flying In a few years. We say he had better look again. Good news from London. They say the lawyer business over there is poor. Political graft is being stamped out in Holland and it may keep many of the Dutch from getting in Dutch. Next thing you know New York will start exporting booze. Our guess at the election results is that Christinas comes next winter. The Japs are having trouble with the Chinese but not as much trouble as they are having with the Japs. We don’t care so much who wins the pennant just so peanuts last until the end of the season. In Chicago, a learned doctor finds the men make the best cooks, but we find men marry the best cooks. Hunt the brighter things of life. Cantaloupes would cost too much if they were as big as watermelons. Healthy girls, getting all tanned, will find it hard looking pale and interesting next winter. Family Fun Habit "I tuppose your friend with the purple spats is an actor.” "Yes. But who told you?” "He was a guest at the Umson home the other evening and every time their baby went patticake he got up and bowed.”—Youngstown Telegram. • * * Sistering Him “I will be a sister to you; that Is the best I can do.” “All right. My sister introduced me to you. I suppose you wouldn’t mind introducing me to some other girl.”-—Boston Transcript. * * * One on Grandma “Johnny, didn't I tell you to come right home from the ba/ber shop? “Yes, ma.” / "Then why didn’t you obey?” “I had to wait while grandma got

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BILL CRESS Y MA Y SEEK ELECTION He Thinks of Running for Congress—Gives Some Qualifications, By WILL M. CRESRY, Illustrated by George Storm j. EW YORK. June 2S.—-I have \ been "approached.” I have been asked to consider running for Congress from Florida, With me on the Republican ticket and William Bryan on the Democratic ticket, if the voters did not laugh themselves to death I guess one of us would win. To be sure the approaehers were not voters in Florida, but if they can raise 5280, besides what they touched me for. they are going to buy a Ford car and drive down there next winter and take out naturalization papers, and place me in nomination. Os course being just a plain congressman does not amount to much. All you need i s votes enough; and votes are very reasonable in Florida. I know the best offer I could get last election was two dollars. Then, having got elected, you borrow enough to get to Washington. Then

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you are sworn in. You swear always to love, honor and protect your job. Always vote the straight party ticket, unless for financial or other remunerative reasons. Y’ou promise always to edneeal and never reveal the sources of your income. Never to print, stamp, write or inscribe your name on any compromising paper. Always to use a code in telegraphing. To have all oil or otherstocks in your wife’s name. Never to live in a house with green blinds. And then you get put cm some committee, Coming from Florida that way I should probably be put on the Alaskan Sdrdine Fisheries committe. If you are a Nebraska farmer they put you on the committee of deep sea soundings with a view to raising sea horses for our submarine cavalry. If you are a State of Maine fish dealer you will be assigned to the committee for the preservation of our redwood forests as a shelter for red snapper, red-headed woodpeckers and he-reditary tuberculosis. A New Hampshire College professor is assigned to the committee for dredging a deep water channel around the barbary coast in San Francisco. Once a year a congressman must send out, under a franking privilege, thereby assisting in building up a bigger and better deficit for the postal service, a package of seeds to each of his rural constituents. It makes no particular difference what kind of seeds he sends because they never come up anyway. Every once in a while he must make a speech. But as no one ever listens to cnem he can buy a secondhand one in any Washington book store for two dollars that will last him all through his term. He can avoid all dange(J in voting by “pairing off” with some other “Safety First” Patriot of the op-

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may be due to borer injuries or any other kind of injury which causes the bark to break, or from a disease known as “gumosis.” If it is due to borers, the remedy is to dig out all of the borers. There is practically nothing to do if it is caused by “gumosis.” Is Pola Negri the real name of the movie actress? She may have assumed it by process of law, but her real name is Appollonia Chalupez. Pola is a con traction of her own first name and Negri she took from Ada Negri, an Italian poetess, whose works she read. Is there a word that means neither optimist or pessimist, but midway between the two? Such a word —“pejorist”—was manufactured by De Morgan. As yet it has no place in dictionaries. A Thought Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy,— • * • How wise must be one to be always kind. —Marie Ebner-Eschen-bach.

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CHANCE TO GET AWAY IS SMALL Postoffice Inspectors Succeed in Catching One Robber in Ten, Times 1 Vnshinnton Bureau, ! .Veto York A r c. TyTl ASHINGTON, June 27.—What YV ! cl ' nce have the uncaught 1 bandits in the $3,000,000 train I robbery near Chicago got in escaping arrest? About one in ten, if work of postoffice inspectors in solving mail robberies of the past three years can be taken as a precedent. According to figures prepared by Rush D. Simmons, chief inspector, who has taken personal charge of the big Chicago hold-up, there were sixteen mail hold-ups in 1921; eighteen in 1922, and six in 1923. So far bandits have been apprehended in 86 per cent of the oldups and $7,300,000 of the $11,217,000' loot recovered. , Os the sixteen hold-ups staged in 1921 only two remain without arrests. A similar record holds for 1922, while all but one of the 1923 hold-ups have been solved. Gets Its Man And that’s only a starter, Simmons explains. For, according to records, the department is even more inexorable than the famous Canadian Northwest Mounted, whose “get your man” has become a by-word in police—and movie—circles. “The postoffice inspector never quits a trail until the crook is dead or behind the bars,’’ Simmons stated. “The criminal world has a wholesome fear of the department because of the reputation of the inspectors for ‘keeping at it’ long after most, officers of the law are willing to quit and forget.” To illustrate, Simmons cited the case of James Johnson, alias Portland Ned. one. of the most famous safe crackers in the business. Sixteen years after Johnson blew the safe of the postoffice at Plymouth, N. C., he was arrested and convicted. Raking Graveyard “I didn’t think you fellows were going to rake the graveyard,” he exclaimed when an inspector clamped a pair of handcuffs on him. “The department contains some of the cleverest detectives in the world today,” Simmons proudly stated. Riflings of registered letters in the Southwest had baffled the department for months. By process of elimination the thefts were finally narrowed down to one of six postoffices, but the question as to which one of the six it was was not easy to determine. One feature of all the thefts was that the letters were resealed after being opened. This gave one of tha inspectors at work on the case an idea. A few weeks later when this inspector was handed another letter that had begn opened, rifled and resealed, he moistened the mucilage on the flan and held the envelope to his 'nose. He gave a whoop. “Violet!” he exclaimed. “I’ll have the thief within a week!” \Yhat he had done was to prepare six lots of mucilage, each with a different perfume—lilac, violet, lily of the valley, mignonette, rose and heliotrope—and distribute it among the six offices under suspicion. It was now only a matter of watching the one office arid the thief was soon caught red-handed and convicted.