Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROT W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRENER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAVBORX, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St, Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

SCHOOL FIGHT ON AGAIN again the light against adequate school facilities for U Indianapolis is under way. The Indiana Taxpayers’ Association is proposing to appeal the school levy to the State board of tax commissioners for review and, if possible, revision downward. The proposal seems to be that money should be spent only when the association thinks there is an emergency and apparently it does not consider the present overcrowding of schools, especially the high schools, an emergency. In addition, it proposes that the cost of new. buildings shall be spread over a period of years, presumably through issuance of bonds. This may be all very well, but we have no reason to believe that if the school board does propose a bond issue it will not be fought by these same taxpayers and that pressure will not be brought to bear on the State board—which should have nothing to do with.regulating the affairs of a city—to prevent the issue. We base this opinion on past experience. When the school board proposed to issue bonds some time ago for eight new buildings to prevent the necessity of children going to school in miserable shacks and abandoned houses these same taxpayers opposed the bond issue. Let’s give the children of Indianapolis adequate school facilities first and save money afterward. A PROBLEM SOLVED mHE news trickles out from New York that clubs of deaf and dumb persons are being formed in support of President Coolidge. It is said this is being done because persons so afflicted are particularly strong for Mrs. Coolidge. who before her marriage taught in a school for the deaf. It is particularly appropriate that persons without the power of speech should support Silent Cal. Also the fact that Mrs. Coolidge is accustomed to association with persons who can not speak probably explains the happy home life of the President. Some enterprising reporter should determine whether the sign language is spoken across the White House breakfast table. Hrein may lie the solution of many problems.

CCMTZEXS’ VICTORY SHE renomination of Senator James Couzens at the Michigan Republican primaries is a hopeful indication of the growing independence of Republican voters—independence of partisan machine domination. The fearlessly independent attitude of Couzens in the Senate, where even as anew Senator he persisted in doing his own thinking and voting his convictions whether his party bosses liked it or not, didn't please party leaders a little bit. They prefer Senators who will take orders from the leaders. And-hidebound reactionaries, when they have a President who stands without hPching, like a Senator who looks to the White House for inspiration and instruction. But Couzens isn't that kind of Senator. He likes to open up the works of things himself and see what makes the wheels go round. He is an investigator. His interest in a governmental policy doesn’t appear to be influenced by whether it k a Republican or a Democratic policy, but more by whether ™ is right. There can be no doubt that the reactionary Republican influences in Michigan wanted to defeat him. The candidacy against him in the primaries of a federal judge meant just that, even though the sinister opposition kept under cover as well as it could. But Couzens was too strong with the rank and file to make it pogsible for the political machinists to work their will against him. So he won; and there is good reason to expect that much of the vote that was cast for him at the primary election will be equally independent in November and go to La Follette. Michigan isn’t Maine. lAI ° f US remember the school bov who strutted about i 1 the pLyground showing the muscles in his arms to everyone who would look. That boy usually wound up by getting in a fight. And he usually found out that the boy whom he had to lick was a quiet sort of chap who never sought a fight unless it was in defense of a good cause but who when he did fight gave a good account of himself. We wonder if this does not apply as well to nations.

Ham and— By HAL COCHRAN An appetite’s really a right funny thing; It affects everybody the sam?. For various dishes a longing 'twill bring; then again it will likely go lame. You re wishing for this and you’re wishing for 'cause your palate Just tells you to do it. You order queer dishes just based on your wishes and they you will gladly go to it. A man will at pork chops for many a day ’cause his pork choppy appetite’s fired. And then all desire for them passes away when of pork chops he finally gets tired. It seems It’s this way with the food that’s in range on the restaurant menus each noon. You eat of one thing; then you suddenly change as the one thing seems way out of tune. There’s just one exception that comes to my mind and it’s ham, for In every day rations, the ham on the menus, you always will find, carries with it such good combinations. There Is a Limit The hobo has asked the hard-faced woman for a bite to eat. “Yes,” she replied, “I’ll fix you some supper if you’ll saw and split some wood, sweep off the walk, fix that hole in the fanee, tidy up the barnyard and burn that rubbish piled up at the celjar door." "Lady,” said the hobo as he started away, “I'm only a hobo; I ain’t your husband!”-~New York Medley.

Tom Sims Says Counting your chickens before they hatch isn’t as disastrous as hatching your chickens before they count. The quickest way to reduce is to have to pay the grocery bills. The Swiss party planning to climb Mt. Everest this fall isn't preparing half as carefully as social climbers. Denmark has nearly trebled its consumption of sugar in thirty years, which certainly was sv eet of her. Hammond (Ind.) boy whipped his, teacher at a Sunday school picnic, so may have had a fine time. Chicago man broke a rib driving a golf ball and probably blamed it on the caddy. 4 Evanston (HI.) man got six months for peeping into bedroom windows, so even when he gets out he will never look the same. Statistics show the world used almost five billion matches last year,' but some politicians may demand a recount. St. Louis woman broke her husband's nose with a billiard cue, so maybe he will keep it out of her business now. • Man in Los Angeles tried to sell his wife instead of paying somebody to take her off his hands. Now the Chicago murder case is over, supper won’t be so late. ((Copyright, 1924, ?TEA Service, Inc.)

Helps Gerard Mrs. N. B. Harris, formerly of Washington, D. C., is assistant treasurer of the Democratic National campaign committee in New York. She is aiding former Ambassador James W. Gerard in raising funds to conduct the DavisBryan campaign. Mrs. Harris is the first woman ever to hold this office. Science When hospitals can be equipped with sun parlors made from transparent fused quartz there will be a great increase in the number of cures. Ultra violet light is a remedy in many forms of disease. Ordinaryglass does not permit the passage of the ultra violet light rays. Sun baths are of great value, but sun baths, with the sun coming through glass, are of little use. Transparent quartz, however, permits the passage of the necessary rays. The Thermal Syndicate of England has succeeded in making cylinders of transparent quartz twenty-seven inches long and eight inches in diameter. Sir Richard Paget lias shown specimens of this material weighing as much as forty pounds. The General Electric Company, in this country, without giving details, claims to have gone further than this, in fact, to be able soon to put out clear fused quartz in large quantities. Hospital use would be only one of its valuable functions. Among other things, it will make better lenses than glass.

AMERICAN SAILORS AGAIN ARE MARCHING DOWN THE STREETS OF SHANGHAI- THEY ARE THERE TO PROTECT UNCLE SAM'S INTERESTS. HERE IS A SKETCH SHOWING THE COLUMNS OF GOBS WINDING THROUGH THE NARROW STREETS. IT WAS MADE BY NEA SERVICE ARTISTS FROM AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. IN THE CIRCLE AT THE UPPER RIGHT MAY BE SEEN THE CHINESE FOR THE CITY’S NAME. THE TWO DOTS SHOW IT IS A CITY BCILT ALONG THE WATER. THEY REPRESENT THE SPLASHING OF THE WAVES.

The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. At the masquerade party the other evening, Blondy, the manicure, concealed her identity by wearing a long skirt. Old Man Sousely, who came in for a shave this morning, says a circus menagerie holds little of interest to one who has frequently had the jim-jams. When Peter, the porter, swatted a fly with his program at the theater the other night, a jazz singer came back and took three bows. As soon as she learns to kick the chandelier, Blondy, the manicure, is going to take up voice culture. Next! Tongue Tips CONNIE MACK, manager Philadelphia “Athletics”: “Today the game of baseball is changed from what is was ten years ago. There is not the need for smart baseball brains that there was then. It is pitch and hit more or less now, with an emphasis on the latter.” # * REV. ARTHUR WATKINS, Isle of Shoals Conference: “War can bo prevented, but ther is no single panacea for it.” DR. W. El BARTON, Massachusetts: “No matter what happens to one’s institutions, one always has human nature left for which to work.” * * * REV. EDWARD SMITH, Tng Hok, China: “Christianity is the only solution of China’s troubles." * * * GEN. HARRY A. SMITH, U. S. A., talking of training camps: “Hard, intelligent outdoor work never hurt any American boy. These camps are not for molly-coddles and softies, but for American boys with grit and gumption,”

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SHANGHAI IS REALLY TWO CITIES Foreign Settlement Separate From Part Occupied by Natives, By CHARLES P. STEWART yEA Servi-ce Writer “Shanghai” means “Near the Sea.” This is just what Shanghai is. It is on the Whangpu River bank, three or four hours’ steaming above the small Chinese town of Woosung. It Is at Woosung that the waters of the Whangpu and the mightier Yangtse mix and empty, together, into the Yellow Sea. Woosung is situated on the flatiron of land at the point where the two rivers meet. Originally Shanghai was a place of little importance. The Chinese word “fu” means, among other things, a “seat of government” of some sort. So this word “fu” is to be found added to the names of most Chinese cities of much consequence—for instance, Chi-fu. Shanghai, as they say, was “not even a fu city” at first. That is, it was “not even a county seat.” Then it became a “treaty port.”' The Chinese “treaty ports” are those places at which foreigners are permitted to trade end settle. Each Has Own Court Each important nationality was given a "concession” fronting on the Whangpu, about half a mile wide and extending Inland some three miles. They were alongside and adjoining, and just above them, up the Whangpu, was the walled native city. The respective nationalities administered their various "concessions” to suit themselves. They enjoyed extraterritoriality. The American concession, for instance, was considered American soil. Such a condition naturally is 'humiliating to the Chinese. They never have liked it. Nevertheless it was the making of Shanghai commercially. It grew rapidly and prospered until tojlay its population, native and foreign, exceeds 1,500,000 During the Taipung rebellion in the 1850's and early 60's, Shanghai's foreign “settlements,” with the exception of the French, were consolidated. for purposes of more effective defense. The French preferred to “go it alone.” To this day the consolidated “concessions” remain the “international settlement.” Their frontage on the Whangpu is three or four miles and they extend about three miles inland. The "settlement” is run by a council of the foreign consuls. Each nationality, however, has a large measure of autonomy. An Ameri-

can, for instance, accused of any offense, is tried in his own court —a regularly constituted United Slates court, with Its jail attached. Besides the foreigners, a good many Chinese live inside the settlement limits, but they are subject to the settlement’s regulations and to trial, if they violate them, in whit axe known as the “mixed courts." In times of disturbance, like the present, there always is an influx of Chinese refugees into the settlement where they are as safe as they would be on foreign soil anywhere in the world. The foreign city’s population Is around 20,000, of every nationality on earth. The Chinese city, however, is quite distinct and surrounded by a now much dilapidated wall. Cruisers Always There Sandwiched between the international settlement and the Chinese city is the French concession, still run independently. Steamships of considerable draft can ascend the Whangpu as far as Shanghai and some craft do, including light cruisers, a number of which always lie off the settlement, for its protection. However, crossing Woosung bar is ticklish business for large boats, so most of the big liners discharge passengers and cargo into tenders, outside, and leave without crossing. Nature After the coql, moist spell of this spring ard early summer, the sycamore trees all over the East had measles—or what corresponds to that affliction in trees, according to Forester McCubin of Pennsylvania. Leaves and new twigs turned brown and died, and people feared the trees were doomed. But measles aren’t often fata). Neither is this disease fatal to the sycamores. They always have it when the spring is like last one was. When summer’s hot sun and dryness came the trees threw out new leaves and twigs and now look healthy enough.

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In New York . By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK Sept. 13.—Willard Huntington Wright, an author who writes of the latest happenings in New York hasn’t been out of his quarters in an uptown hotel for more than a year. He is ill. Yot, each day he keeps In complete touch with the world that swirls about him. It would seem he would be depended on numerous friends to supply him with the latest foibles of a fickle New York public. But ho isn't. His only human contacts are bellboys. waiters, chambermaids and an assistant manager of the hotel in which lie lives. He refuses to see all others and is. consistently emphatic in his refusals to make new friends. He is married but ills wife and child live in California. Wright reads every newspaper and

practically every important and recognized publication. In this fashion he freshens his mind with the world’s doings. Although he has not attended a theater or concert In many months, ho is familiar with all current music through a talking machine. He buys and plays all the phonograph records. Systematically efficient in everything he does. Wright works many hours a day Just now ho Is in the midst of three novels, I am told, ifwo of them deal with highly technical subjects and the third, a mystery storp, is being sandwiched between them. Wright was born in California, and is described as having a most pleasing personality and enthusiastic outlook, despite his year's imprisonment because of his health. • • • The many little soft drink places —perfectly legitimate shops—tha t have followed In the wake of prohibition, have stolen a trick from the old corner saloon. Milk is forced into a glass with air, when you call for a thirstquenching goblet of the cow's famous product, and it bubbles and foams, like the 4 per cent beer of yesteryear. If you let It settle a moment the air buobles out and have an inch less milk to drink. * * * It took two doctors two hours to get a quarter of a dollar away from William Mead. 10. He swallowed the quarter. They conducted the operation. A Thought The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing Frov. 20:4 That destructive syren sloth is ever to be avoided.—Horace.

FARMERS OF CHINA IN REBELLION Many Massacred Because They Refused to Grow Opium, By HERBERT QUICK . „ J ITIIIN the past few months the farmers in portions of ~J China have rebelled against j their Governors by refusing to grow ! a certain crop. They were joined jby students and merchants. Many j foreigners grave them moral support. The jails were tilled with farmers ! who were fined and in some cases , had their heads cut off. In one disi t rit-t 3,000 were massacred. Junius ; Wood, an American correspondent, j saw the bodies of students whose ; heads had been blown off because | they had joined in this rebellion against growing this crop. United States Tartly to Blame I You think this incredible? Well, your country is partly to blame for \ it. The crop which the farmers re- | fused to grow was opium. They rebelled against tyrants’ orders to commit a crime. Here in brief is how it came about: When opium was introduced Into China many years ago, it became a national curse. But the opium trade was forced on China by Great Brij tain. China fought two wars against the white man’s curse, and lost. Then the conscience of the world seemed to veer over to China's side. In the years following 1907 China : did miracles in ridding herself of opium. The poppy fields were dug up. Half a million opium dens were ; closed. Amid wild demonstrations I of Joy, with music, banners and processions, China wrenched loose from the opium curse as old smokers piled their pipes in the street and burned them with tears running down their faces. White Men Greedy And then, because China had no strong government, the greed of white men, chiefly the Americans, dashed the cup of hope from China’s lips. We began sending morphine to tempt her opium addicts. So the military governors, under the excuse that morphine is worse than opium, ordered the farmers to resume the planting of the poppy. They rebelled, as I have said. The White Cross Society, with headquarters at Seattle, is devoted to the task of getting all the poppy plants and coca plants dug up, save just enough for the medical profession. It is helping the embattled farmers who were too conscientious to grow opium. Family Fun Obedient Child "Aren’t you ashamed, daughter, to be seen in such a low dress?” “Why, papa, you said yourself that you wanted me to cut down in my clothes while the times were so hard.”—Judge. Not His Wife Due to an accident, Mrs. Spreaditt was spending a few days In the hospital. “Yes,” the nurse told her husband, "your wife can see you, but she can’t talk much.” Mr. Spreaditt winked knowingly. “Don’t try to ltid me, sister,” he said.—American Legion Weekly. Daughter’s Progress “Wey, Florence, and what progress are you making in the matrimonial race?” “I’m on my third lap.”—Detroit News. Wife’s Shave “What’s’ the matter? Ain’t the razor taking holt?” “Yeh, it's taking holt, all right, but it isn’t letting go again.”—Toronto Goblin. .Johnny Knows The teacher whfc> was giving the primai-y class a nature talk inquired: "Johnny, how does the bee sting?” Johnny replied, with emphasis, “Awful!”—Boston Transcript.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ail other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. Ai! letters are confidential. —Editor. What is the relative food value of olive oil and .sod liver oil; is one as good as the other to take to help build up the system? Olive oil, like all fats, has a high fuel value <4,OSu calories per pound), i and on its high value as a food de- ! pends. Like all fats, it produces i heat for the body and promotes the growth of flesh and tissue. It is also a laxative. Cod liver oil is a better food, and is more readily absorbed than any other oil. Its value as a food being due mainly to its being much more readily oxidized than i other oils. It also has high therapeutic value in flesh building. ! especially in diseases where loss of flesh is acute. It also contains some j active principles that are acid in content and make it particularly of value in flesh building and system renovating qualities. Olive oil, however, Is much more pleasant to the taste, and perhaps, as a regular part of the diet, is just as beneficial. Did President Lincoln issue his call for 75,000 volunteers before or after the tiring on Ft. Sumpter? j After: Ft. Sumpter was evacuated ! April 14. and on the folowing day. j April 15, 1861, Lincoln issued his | call for 75,000 volunteers for three months. How many persons have succeeded in swimming the English Channel; who were fhey; when did they accomplish the feat; what ! was the time of each? ! Four persons have succeeded in j swimming the English Channel: j Capt. Matthew Webb, Aug. 25, 1875; William T. Burgess, in 1911; Henry Sullivan, Aug. 6, 1923, and Entique Tlrabocchi, Aug. 12, 1923. Webb and Burgess were Englishmen: Sullivan an American and Tirabocchi an Argentinian. Webb made it in 21 hours 45 minutes; Burgess, 22 hours 35 minutes: Sullivan, 27 hours 45 minutes, and Tirabocchi. 16 hours 33 minutes. Have any people held as a religious belief that a snake was the originator of the human race? Primitive Mexican Indian races held that the husband of the first woman was a great male snake. What is the coldest day on record in the United States? It was in January, 1884, at Miles City, Mont., when the thermometer registered 65 degrees below zero. What was the Treaty to which the former Kaiser referred as a “scrap of paper?” The treaty between Great Britain, Autsria, France, Prussia and Russia, on the one part, and Belgium on the other, which was signed at London, England, on the 19th of April, 1839. This treaty guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium. However, it was Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg who referred to this as a scrap of paper and not the Kaiser. Where is jade found? In China, Burma and many other parts of Southern Asia. To whom is Antonio Moreno married? To Daisy Canfield Danziger, a society woman and philanthropist. When should strawberries be planted? In September. When arc the best months to prune grape vines? January, February and March. What causes the musky odor of the muskrat? Do only males have it? It is caused by the secretion of a large gland in the inguinal region, which is present in both sexes. When was “Silver Threads Among the Gold” published? In 1873. What is used in the Library of Congress to paste over valuable papers to preserve them? Avery sheer material known as crepeline. What is Corinne Griffith’s married name? Mrs. Walter Morosco.

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Under Miss Indiana’s Torch By GAYLORD NELSON CLEAN THE HEM T c ~~~~] HE Chamber of Commerce and the Indianapolis Real Estale Board have started something that should go farther than mere talk. They propose prosecuting of an intensive campaign to clean up railroad and motor highway approaches into the city. The project calls for removal of unsightly signs, elimination of scrap and dump heaps and similar eye-sores, so as to pr-esent a pleasing appearance to tourist entering the city. Very few cities make good impressions on tourists coming in by the most used arteries of travel. No matter how clean and ornate the heart of the city may be, usually its approaches are lined with junk piles and highly flavored trash heaps, Indianapolis is no exception. It’s a large job but a good one if the Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Board can dry clean the hem of our civic skirt. GOOD INTENTIONS WO news Item3 have been making the rounds. i One is the story of Mrs, i Jane Williams of Harrisonville, Ohio, who celebrated her 102d birthday by having her hair bobbed. The other tolls of Burl Booth, 91* year-oi l Logansport man, who en* rolled for the National Defense day test. He chose aviation for his branch of service. Viewed dispassionately these two acts were nothing more than futile gestures. Mrs. Williams, despite her bobbed hair, is unable to turn back life’s clock one hour. Possibly she is not ! one whit more attractive than before the shearing. Mr. Booth's act, from the standpoint of logic, is even more absurd. War is distinctly the trade of youth. ; The aviation service is not for doddering age. But the action of these two old people contains a moral worthy of passing notice. Neither sighs for the good old days, the good old customs. Which is mostly the good old bunk. Though they belong to a past generation in age, they are with this generation in spir.t. Mentally they are still up and coming. They look forward, not backward. Their minds, hearts and prejudices have not fossilized. They must be given credit for good intentions. CONSTABLES TyTj ILLIAM H. P.EMY, prosecutvy ing attorney, scored a Marion ___J County constable and his | deputies for the “hard-boiled" tactics | pursued by them when arresting i farmers of neighboring counties for j infractions of the State workmen’s compensation law. Why is a constable anyway? At best he is only a vermiform appendix on the law enforcing body of our Government. Only an atrophied survival of a once useful organ. He : is in no sense a real peace officer; | he is a mere process-server for a j justice of the peace. His most dan- ; gerous ar.d arduous duty is to go i out a\d get the diamond ring from i Tillie the Toiler when the 10-cent weekly payments grow intermittent. At worst, the constable is a busy- ! body, who punctuates his conversation with a gun. For a constable thinks he must be an arsenal and. wear artillery just like the bold sheriffs if the old days out where the West began. The constable was not always a comic strip. In medieval France the constable was the highest officer of state, next to the king. He was professional fighting man. Clad in boiler-plate, his post in battle was always where the fighting was thickest. He led the king's armies to victory, or led them hastily back home, as circumstances demanded. How have the mighty fallen! From the proud constable of ancient France, the leader of armies, to the constable of Marion County, with his tin star, who arrests farmers for a violation of the workmen's compensation law, is quite a stretch. But that’s what has happened to the constable business. It has descended from Du Quesclin to Otey Walker.

JUSTICE IS DONE | . | COUPLE of Chicago youths I I committed a crime. They l* J were arrested and confessed Arraigned, they promptly entered pk as of guilty. That did away with the necessity for a jury trial. It was up to the judge. He could sentence them immediately if he wished. Four months pass. Thousands of pages of testimony are taken to help the judge determine what penalty he should justly impose. Finally the hearing is concluded. The youths are sentenced and taken to prison. Justice is done. Thomas Simonds, a West Tenth St. negro, snatched a woman’s purse in the Indianapolis Union Station. His attempted get-away was halted by a policeman. A couple of hours later he faced the judge In city court. The hearing was short and snappy. Thirty-five dollars and ninety days at the Indiana State Farm.” Justice is done. There’s a lot of the garden variety of flap-doodle about some long-drawn-out judicial hearings and expert testimony. Called His Bluff “Jack proposed to Emily and they are going to be married.” “Emily! I thought she was one of those modern girls who don’t believe in marriage?” “So did Jack.”—Film Fun. Ma’s New Maid “I am a woman of few words. If I beckon with my hand that means ‘come.’ ” “That suits me, mum. Tm ajso a woman of few words. If my head it means ‘l'm not coming.’ ”