Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 155, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times KARI.E F.. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROT W. JIOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER. Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Mpmhor of the noward Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Press, the XEA Service and the Scripps-Palne Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos, 214 “•_*)) \V Maryland St.. Indianapolis • • * Subscription Rates: -a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a AVeet. • • * PIIONE—MA In 3300.

ALL TOGETHER. BOYS “I OBODY can dispite the ballot box and nobody wants to. The decision that was arrived at by some thirty millions of voters on Tuesday is a final decision. It is a {rood tliin<r that the control of Congress is given to • the Republican party as well as the control of the presidency Thus the party has the power to do. as well as the responsibility for whatever is done or not done. It is to be hoped that the minority parties will not attempt deals or coalitions nor that blocs will he used to accomplish !anv impeding of the program of the majority party. The Democrats have enough plastic surgery to do in their iown house to keep them busy. They are hardly in form to offer any advice or warnings to the Republicans. The Progressives have enough to do to struggle through 'infancy, cut teeth, avoid colic and otherwise organize for a vigorous career. They, too. should be too busy with their own .affairs to mix into the Republican program. • All of which is fortunate. The people have handed the great responsibility of government over to the Republican party. Nobody who loves his country will hesitate to hope that the • new administration will be wise and successful. The election results even yet are seen only in the mass. As the details come more plainly into view, many interesting things will be seen. Complete reorganization of the legislation machinery, by control of the all-powerful committees of the Senate and House. ! lies within the power of the Republicans. Even expected resignations in the Supreme Court will open the way for increased power and responsibility there. It is a tremendous burden that has been laid upon the party’s should°rs. It is fortunate for the country and for the ' future that the burden is not divided. It is fortunate that the , verdict of the people was a sweeping one. It is up to us all now to get behind this Government of ours and all work together for the common good. IT IS EVERYBODY’S JOB ■=TJ he COMMTE’sITY Fund campaign opens today. The an--1 nual drive for the combined charities and welfare organizations is on. Little need ho said about the worthiness of this enteprise. ft is too well known to need discussion. This year it is asking for $614,150. Only $49,841 goes *n overhead expense. The remainder will be divided among thir- , tv-eiuht organizations doing charitable and welfare work The organization points out that $.50 will provide $1 2" for each organization or will give a week’s summer outing to twelve tired mothers and babies, supply food and shelter to a poor family while the sick father undergoes an operation. ft points out that a gift of even $3 is 1.9 cents for each ,r- ---: ganization for the whole year, or will provide a homeless ch id with a foster home for one week or supply special diet to an ’ invalid for two weeks. It is everybody's job. OUR IDEA OF UTOPIA LREADY there is considerable speculation as to what the _ newly elected Legislature is likely to do. The best thing it could do for the good of the State is to enact just as few laws as possible and to repeal as many useless ■ ones as possible. If it wore not for the necessity of appropriating money 15. r i the next two years, Indiana would be better off without a ses- ; sion of the Legislature at this time. Onr idea of Utopia would be a State in which the Legislature sessions come not of tenor than every two years and thru are limited to about one week. But we have no hope of achieving Utopia. HEY, KIDS, WANT A TRIP ? ANT a trip to "Washington. D. C., all expenses paid? VV The highway education board is ready to foot the bills for some boy or girl, in some grammar school, not over 14 years of age. And the board will throw in a gold watch, to hoot. The way to win this trip is to write the best essay in 300 words or les* on “How I Cross th£ Streets and Highways Safely.” Besides this first prize, there will be three prizes for the 1 best essays from each State, and a second and third prize in the ■ Nation-wide contest. The way to tackle this contest is to sit down and think 1 about what is the best way to cross streets and highways with- , out getting bumped by automobiles or other traffic. That done sharpen a pencil and write out what you’ve thought, in the ‘ fewest and simplest words possible. Good writing is short and simple. For every youngster who doesn’t win one of the education board’s prizes, there is a big consolation prize, well worth while. It’s this: Sixteen thousand folks lost their lives on highways of the • United States last year. The thinking you do, in order to write your essay, may make you more careful when you’re playing in ; or crossing streets and highways, and may save your life, not . only once, but several times. That’s prize enough for .some folks. But try for the trip to Washington and the gold watch, and send in your essay to the Highway Education Board, Washing- ; ton, D. C. And do it now. Whatever the outcome, you win something. IF WE GET Nazimova correctly, she holds to the obsolete idea that real beauty is mental rather than chemical. THERE’S AN epidemic of hiccoughs in New York and the old town is thankful that that much has been left to it. A NEW YORK lareenist was going along fine until it was •discovered that he was also a saxophonist. The law couldn’t, stand for that. — ■ - CORRUPTION HAS been discovered in a student election at the University of Michigan, which may presage a Newberry degree, eventually.

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Baroness ile Styroea. international beauty, is about to,become the Duchess of Westminster, according to reports from Vienna. The baroness, a daughter of a Lutheran minister, is a former actress. Like the duke, she also has been married before. In New York By JAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK, Nov. T. —The loneliness of New York is indicated by the great number of dogs to be seen here. Community life is almost entirely lacking in the vast city. You may live for years in one house and not know ten people in the entire block. Thus lonely New Yorkers turn to dogs fur companionship. In nny park you will see scores cf them on leash. Short-legged ones and long--1 egged ones. Short-haired ones and long haired ones. Short eared ones !nd long eared ones. Short-tailed ones and long talb-d ones. I always pity these dogs which never have the chance to run free. I think it is nothing short of criminal to keep a collie or a police dog cooped up in an apartment. However. I wonder if it isn't down•atht cr'minal to keep a child in a N• w Y rk apartment. * • • Some very fine people live In New York. Over on the Bowery, for in-

mii )i 1 '** J ~ <^**^' THIS POINTED STREET CORNER IN THE NEW YORK OF 1900 SOON WAS TO BECOME THE SITU OK THE KAMOVS SKYSCRAP INC, FLATIRON BUILDING. TALL BUILDINGS AND SPEEDING TRAFFIC HADN'T COME INTO STYLE AT THAT DAY.

stance, is a. young man who nwnafci's a h'-uso of 11! rt-pufo. Anil he pays hi father and mother to manaKii another one for hkn. • • Three theaters In the Times Square district are displaying in their lobbies photographs of nude • and semi nude chorus girls. It la the general belief that this sort of .advertising attracts the men. It has been my personal observation ithat the * .rn<-n who gather about the photographs outnumber the men two to one. ♦ ft : I never have, een a man trying to fill a sieve with water, but the !other night I saw a man trying to sweep a Broadway sidewalk while ] the throngs w r ere trooping to theI aters. I Know Indiana When was the corner stone of the ; Soldiers and Sailors Monument laid? ; Aug. 22, ISS9. President Benjamin Harrison was present. j Where is Wyandotte Cave? j In Crawford County. Next to Mammoth Cave, Ky , it Is the largjest in the United States. ! Who have been the speakers of the National House of Representatives from Indiana? John W. Davis, twenty-ninth Coni gross; Schuyler Colfax, thirty-ninth |to fortieth Congress and Mickael ; Kerr, forty-fourth Congress. Nature This fall's poor corn crop, If loadi ed in wagons, fifty bushels to the | load, -would make a train reaching j eight times around tho world at the ; equator. Nevertheless, thi3 is on I average yield of only one nubbin j ear to the hill in the hundred mllj lion acres planted each year, or thlr- \ tv-two bushels per acre. If seed and I cultivation were improved so that ; every hill yielded two medium sized ears, the average per acre -would be j eighty-two bushels and America’s j com crop would be more than two j and a half times greater than it Is I with hardly any extra work. Same ; with wheat, oats Rnd grain foods. A Thought A righteous man regardeth the life lof his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.—Prov. 12:10. Animals are such agreeable friends: they ask no questions, no criticisms.—George Blue 1

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RAILROADS OPPOSED TO WA TER WA YS Public Ownership Only Solution, Herbert Quick Says, By HERBERT QUICK This In tho slogan of the Intra- | coastal Canal Association of Louisiana an 1 Tex;LS. It had a wonderful ; meeting Last month at New Orleans. I it is slowly putting over its dc~ 1 mands for u great system of waterways which will reckon up li.GiiT | miles. This means tho Mississippi from Minneapolis to the Gjulf, the Missouri from Kansas City to tho Mississippi, the Ohio from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi, all their connecting streams and the passages land bayous inside the harrier reefs { >,f the Louisiana and Texas coasts. | All these waterways are now accepted in the Government projects. And wo may add to them all the I “inside passages’’ of the Gulf and ! Atlantic coasts to the New Brunswick ltne. A government really acting for tho | intertsts of all of us would have had j all of them built long since. But we i have been defeated in tho use of | even the waterways we have. I desire to suggest to the aide men in the i waterways associations, and espe- ! daily the Intracoastal Canal A.sso- ' ciatlon, that unless the waterways j are used they may as well not he i built. Railways Opposed What keeps them from being used? Just one agency—tho nilways. A railway which is opposed to the use of a waterway can kill It, under American conditions. About the only ones which can keep active are streams like tho Louisiana bayous. Railways ears kill them by freight adjustments. They have dt- ; stroyed the best, system of Inland waterways any country had s'venty- | five years ago. I,**! me suggest a.min to these gentlemen that wa’erway transportation cannot prosper until railways are run for service rnth-r than for profit. Railways should stop freight wherever ft ran ln> ; i over to boats at a sa• ;t:g. T 1 • y si mid have great water terminals on all our waterway-, where tho b -st

-freight-handling machinery would transfer It. at the -Vi - 1 p u pnsslblo : cost. They should put Into use a j system of containers in winch ship ' meats could he transferer : at. one sweep (,f a crane or derrick, in eighth, quarter, third and hnif carj load lots. They should study to ( see not how little, hut. how much of the freight they cntiM send by j water. Then our railway shortage ! would disappear and our freight rates would b lower. We should all he more prosperous. Public Must Own These All waterway advocates will agree with this; hut I should also like to : ask them how we rah ever have any such system as this as long as the railways are privately owned as money-making properties. And they will not he able to answer. Waterways depend upon our having a publicly-owned national transport tlon system, both rail and water. Instead of blindly protesting j against public ownership of railways, these water-way advocates should make up their minds that public ownership must, come and begin devising the least objoctinn- ! able method of running them under Government, ownership. For it inheres In their demand for waterways. On the Gridiron By lIAD COCHRAN What Is It produces that tvonder- | ful thrill that you get watching foot- | ball teams play? There’s nothing I j know of that’s apt to instill the | spirit that grasps you that way. Prom start until finish there's tense in the air. It never lets up i for a minute. You shiver Inside at j the do and the dare and the punch | that tho players put In It. The quarter back’s Injured; there’s ! quiet a while. Then the spectators ring out his name. They’ve helped | him recover and then, with a smile, | he rushes back Into the game. There’s rush and there’s fight a.s j the game goes along and there’s | cheer when a play Is complete. The 1 mob’s sympathetic when something goes -wrong and they cheer e’en the . team In defeat. What is it produces that wondcrj ful thrill? There's only one answer :in truth. It’s something that spirit |is bound to Instill—the manliness of youth. shU 1924> Servl co. IncJ

Right Here In INDIANA

'By Gaylord Nelson

SHE First National Bank of Plainfield, Ind., was robbed late Wednesday afternoon by three young men. They escaped with nearly $4,000. A few weeks ago an Indianapolis bank was robbed in a similar manner. Those bandits also escaped. The money lost through robbery during the past year by bands of the country reaches an enormous total. However, a visit fY bandits is only an exciting episode to a bank. Neither depositors nor stockholders suffer more than fleeting embarrassment because of the affair. Some insurance company feels the anguish? For robbery Is a hazard against which banks carry insurance. To the average person insurance is just one of the incidental inconveniences- Nevertheless it safeguards the future for business and individuals. People rely on It to re move tho bumps of unexpected calamities —which otherwise might ruin them—from their roads. It is one of the greatest shock absorbers invented. Every one does not possess insurable property. Even the lives of some people may not have a cash value to any one. But there is sutnetiling that every person wants to insure. And that is happiness. For which a premium must he paid in daily acts. Bank robbery doesn't jay that premium. So. while hank robbery in the vi cinitv of this city seems to ho an attractive occupation, few bank robbers leave massive estates in personal property or happiness.

Arson PROWI,KR s*t Are to tho home of a colored woman on t..... IN. Senate Ave. Wednesday night. The Maze was extinguished by the fire department after considerable damage. Last month the high school and grade school buildings in the little town of Bridgeton, lnd . were do-str->y< and at different times by lire, with a loss of approximately $! >,- I Incendiarism Is suspected. j The firebug is a rapacious insert. \ ■ ’ shah of the 3M5 fires investlg it, I last year by tho nr~< >n division 30 per rent were believed to have been started for revenge. Vindictiveness Is a pow* rful Inept dive to tlie arsonist — and to i o: her.), i There's no logic most rrms of vengeance If a teacher whips an <.':..*•! -pernus ynur.n.-Uer he plans :<■ r•! >'.: ’>■ by failing dead a - her f*;er—and thus spoil her entire day —,,r by burning down the schoolhouse. For which his father—not 'he Tea. -he>- pI \ • 'axes. | Most adult id--ns of retaliation nre as sens,-less. Revenge s a sweet hussy, hut | only half-witt-d Still men seek 1 her os enthusiastically as if she was real bright. No subatantlnl benefit ever ac--1 ernes to one g--" n.; reprisal There's ' ; nothing to it but a burst of mental | fame, and a little bitterness going up in smoke. Just an act of spirl.ual arson. Punishment nrrjENNKTII F'WI.ER. 237 j Rybc.’t St., In city court yes j 1 J ter,‘.ay drew a fine of $33 and j thirty days In jail for spe. ling. It was his fourth conviction. According to the clerk hia speeding I record Is: April UR. 1923, fined sl3: ! June 2;!, 1 'pi::! fined $1 and thirty days In Jail: Aug. 23. 1924, tln-d S2O land thirty days In jail. There was a time when the old; Mosaic law was the basis for human : jurisprudence. Penalties indicted on ; law breakers were stern. But now penology is diluted with 1 humanitarlanlsrn. Crime Is a disease The criminal should not ha rigorously punished, hut coddled, cured and freed. Turn a hardened law breaker | into a simpering Pollyanna. The : ‘harsh infliction of stern retribution Is out of date. That's the theory. So leniency Is practiced—and the low frequently wears its teeth only i for beauty’s sake. Leniency is splendid—if it works. ' ! But It doesn’t always work. Not with some speed violators, perhaps the savage Mosaic stuff would 1 ; lame them where honeyed words ;fo,i. The maximum penalty for speeding is S3OO line and six months in jail. And along about the third conviction Is a good cue for that maximum to prance on the stage and do Its stuff. AY a r has been declared On speeders I —upon which conviction does it 1 beg! n ?

Greatness J~~l DWARD O. SNETIIKN, prestIl- I dent of the Federation of I I Community Civic Clubs, was the principal speaker at a fatherand son dinner at Prespect M. K. Church Wednesday night. That great men of history w-ere not accidents, but had destined themselves for immortal fame by planning their objective and steady industry, was the thought developed In his talk. Accidents do happen, of courseBut very few men achieved greatness oy accident. If they had waited for accidents, they would have been traffic casualties. Instead of dominating events, they would have been run over by them. There is no short-cut to great ness. It is reached by the well- | marked but rugged road of sound j preparation and application. The old tortoise and hare system. The hare hat. all the fun, but tho tortoise wins the race. Short cuts to greatness usually end In swamps. It’s a common belief a genulus may dally along the way-side in comfortable obscurity. Then, because he can’t help it, blaze suddenly Into a star of the first magnitude among tho immortals. Thus avoiding a lot of drudgery. Only a genius doesn’t burst into view from sudden spontaneous combustion. For the spark of genius is generally nothing but the phosphorescent glow of sweat.

Ask The Times V'M I . C! ;,i!j,-.e rto any QU" V t<> '!'.* • li.-i; , I !:m>s Wa.Uungt m it .ii- ii. la. 1, .n. Vi.-.'k. Ave . w.iv)p. I lm-losapr '1 cents In t -n-i s reply Med: >. and . atin • e-innot t* ;vnor • ■ ex i e lenakou. a ■ a perreply. Uavuctxd re.ui-a .annul if an-c.v. ml. All letters are confidential,— Edits, r Hop is fruit grown from seeds? Tho seda re sti itlf ■ i in moist soil over the w.nter and transplanted a. the spring. Th- practice is not recommended, but tiny information one desires may,ho obtain.- ! by writing to tho Division of Horti. iituro. Bureau of Plant industry. Department of A: :culttire. Washington, I>. \ What ; economics? The science that treats of the dovel. ■; It of material t mres or of 1 1■ production, prest rvati-ui and distribution of w, Uih, and of the means and methods ,f living well, for the State the family and the individual. What unassisted triple plays have been made In professional baseball ? In the m.-i or leagues Paul Hines, Providence. M.,v s. La R. Padgett. Boston, second game. ti. 11*23: Neat I .<ll. '!■■■■■■• D ♦ first game, July 19, 19* *: AM A. Wambsganss. Cleveland world reties game. Oct. 10, 392 ; (1. 11. Burns. Poston. Sept. 14, 1923. How may one waterproof matches? Melt parnflne over the matches while in the box. AVhen using the matches ’ the pnraflne from the ’c ad cf match and strike in the usual way. AVho wrote “Hello Central, Give Me Heaven?" AA'hen? Charles K Harris, the song being copyrighted, Feb. IR, 1901. AYhere Is Yucatan? A n,-nir ula comprising the Mexican states if Yucatan. Campeche, and the military territory of Quin;ana Ron. What causes *he falling of piano keys in damp weather? The swelling of bushings in the piano that does not permit the keys to come back to their natural position. What Is the difference between win le wheat and Graham Hour. Whole wheat flour of entire wheat flour boa only- the outer husk removed, tlie remainder of the wheat kernel being finely ground. Graham flour is very often tut inferior flour, mixed with coarse bran. Can an alien girl coming to the United States to marry an American citizen proceed to the interior of the country for the marriage ceremony?

No, the marriage cerecony must he performed at tho Immigration Station of her port of landing or border port of entry. What is the value of a half dollar, dated 1553, with arrows? From 50 to 55 cents. The half dollar of 1553, without arrows or rays, Is worth from SSO to SIOO. How are flashlights made? Can they he colored by using cerium? The light produced by- an ordinary flash-light powder is principally radiated by the hot solid magnesium oxide and other solids in the flame. The color of this light is independent of the nitrates used. If nitrates or elements such as barium or lithium, the vapors of which give strongly colored spectra, w-ere used, tho color of the flash would probably be distinctly modified, but we doubt whether it would not still be considered a white light by an observer. Neither cerium nor rubidium could be expected to color the flame appreciably. How is a forced draft made on a locomotive? It is created by the exhaust steam from the cylinders, which, conveyed through the smoke stack, creates a vacuum which draws a drift through the grates and fire box into the smoke stack. What Is the origin of the habit of kissing? It Is said to have originated in the maternal caresses. It is said that Caucasians only kiss. Orientals being strangers to tho habit.

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OLD SPRING IS FIGURE IN BUSINESS Selling Water Is Becoming a Huge National Industry, Tim** TFn.iMnyfon Burma, 13t£*X<ie York Ar*. fyrrjl ASH INGTON, Nov. 7.—The i\)U| forward rush of civilization t J D bringing tho “oi l spring" on grandfather's farm Into its own. Instead of going the way of the ■ld swimming hole and the good •:.-h'tig places, which have gradually ;• *.ssed a. ■ ities spread, these springs now support a recognized and growing industry. The very pollution that transformed many clear rivers into dis- • olored and odiferous stretches of water is making gold mines of the springs. This is revealed In a Nation-wide survey of mineral waters just completed hv the United States Geological Survey. Rack !n 1 ss3, when the• Govern* n:“nt made its first study of mineral waters, 1 there were less than 200 springs being tapped for bottled water. And the, annual sale only slightly over $1,000,000. At the end of 1923 there were more than 900 large springs whose waters were being bottled and sold throughout the world. The survey shows that the busi- ' ess has grown to nearly $7,000,000 a year with almost forty million gallons of water sold last year. In >92<i the value of spring water sold was only ?4,560,000. In 1921 the figure jumped to $4.576,000 and In 1922 to $5,498,000. AA'hen the survey made Its first study of mineral waters of the United States In 1883 the waters were sold and used almost entirely as medicinal agents. Lost year the sale of medicinal waters represented only about 13 per cent of the total value and a much smaller proportion of the total quantity of spring water sold. The rest was consumed in offices, clubs and private homes for drinking purposes. Reversed "That little Unison kid is entirely too fresh." "AVhat's he been doing?” “I scolded him for fastening his pup to my flivver— ’’ “Uh. huh—” “And he said: 'Aw. gwnn: I was tying the can to my dog's tail."— A'oungstnwn Telegram.

. MARION DAVIES -“YOLANDA” Is a Magnificent Thriller pj ERE is a film entertainment that not only holds yonr interest by its gripping- drama, but it will leave you breathless with amazement at the succesion of beautiful setting’s that bring to real life one of history’s most famous periods. SEE: The attack at the Fair; the rescue by the handsome Prince; the battle with the bandits; Yolanda’s marriage sacrifice; the duel on horseback; the death leap of the pursuing horsemen and hundreds of other great moments. New York and Chicago Paid Advanced Prices to See It Shown Here at Our Regular Prices w° e n e e k circle ™ ONLY SUNDAY

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Tom Sims Says Nobody feels more like a jackass than a man getting ills first real store-bought manicure. There is sn end to all things., ex | eept s circle of friends. | Always pretend to be surprised 1 when a man says he Is married and whan a woman says she Isn’t, The seven wonders of the world during autumn are: Monday, Tuesday. AN’etnesday, Thursday, Friday. Saturday and Sunday, Bobbed hair, which was at first considered a passing fad, seems : really to be a contagious disease. Love Is blind, so help the blind. A woman Is a person wbo wili buy u pocketbook on credit. Our street car system could be improved by granting stopovers and iselling round-trip tickets. The hobby-horse most people ride drinks gasoline. i AVhy doesn’t somebody organize a wife insura.no* company? ! It is better to begin at the bottom land work up than to begin In the J middle and stay there. Our idea of being rich is having your umbrellas made to measure. Pull your trousers off over your shoes and it will keep them shined. , The demand for a man who Is !r, f tereste<r*!n someone besides himself always exceeds the supply. The nights are getting cold enough for fat people to dance. Conversation Is a great tiling. If it were not for talking so much some people would have to think. One fool bigger than a big fool Is tho one who arfkios with him. The only thing on earth funnier than women is men. You can’t leave many footprints on the sands of time by leaving heel j prints on your.desk. Thinking about whore you have ! been won’t get you anywhere. i The hard thing about being tlie j oldest man in town is you have to j start first. Every office has somebody who is sorry the boss Is so Ignorant. Looking like a coilnr advertisement is hard on the disposition. The only way to stop dancing cheek to cheek Is to marry the girl. (Copyright. 1924, XEA Service, Inc.)