Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EART.E E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRENER. Editor WM. A. MAYBOUN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the I nited 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. Marvland St., Indianapolis * • * Subscription Rates: Ind’ianapoiis —fen Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 2500.

LET'S OLE AH THE ATE EHREE YEARS AGO the important maritime nations of the ' world agreed upon a policy of naval reduction. Meeting in Washington, on call of President Harding, the 5-5-3 agreement as to Great Britain, the United States and Japan was reached. The people of all the world have benefited by that agreement and the world wishes to see it continued. Its successful operation, of eourse, depends on the good faith of the three principals and recently there have arisen in this country certain citizens to question the manner in which the governments of the other two countries are keeping the faith. Suit to en.ioin the United States Government from carrying out its part of the contract has resulted. Specifically, the suit is to prevent the destruction of a partly completed battleship, the Washington. The Government, naturally, proposes to keep its word and will go through with the program of destruction. But the action of the men who instituted the suit is ;ertain to increase the distrust of Great Britain and Japan that is inherent in some Americans and there are interests which will make it their business to fan this suspicion at every opportunity. So it seems time to clear the air. N The naval disarmament conference of 1922 was preceded by a public hearing before the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Chairman Butler brought about a great airing of the subject and prepared the American mind in advance of the conference. Now it looks as if Chairman Butler is confronted with another job. His committee can properly call in the witnesses who know and have them tell just how the 5-5-3 agreement has worked out. Our belief is that the evidence will prove that the three principal nations, having put themselves on honor before the world, have all kept their word and are living up to the spirit of the agreement. It will be well worth while to have this fact, if it is fact, published to the people. If it is not a fact, if the other nations are secretly building and arming against America, it is time, of course, that were known. It is not a situation to be helped by private citizens through public lawsuits. LET THE FACTS TALK *ti HE BIG FELLOWS have begun to howl and growl about * income tax publicity, and in interviews and statements and private conversations are predicting that when the new Congress gets on the job. it won’t take long to repeal the publicity clause of the tax law. Maybe it will take long. The Big Fellows would have you believe that when the country went Republican, it decided against income tax publicity. Well, it didn’t. The man who'did more than any other individual in the country to bring about income tax publicity was Senator Jim Couzens of Michigan, and Couzens was returned to Congress by a large majority. Couzens believes that income tax publicity makes for hon-, esty in the Treasury. He is a rich man and tax publicity may have embarrassed him as much as any other rich man, but lie thinks it is a good thing for the country. Right now, Couzens is busy in Washington studying the taxes paid by wealthy citizens and corporations, to figure out how to write tax laws that will make tax dodging still more difficult. About the time the new Congress gets on the job, Couzens will be there with perhaps the most comprehensive study of taxes and tax evasion that has ever been made in this country. The Big Fellows in their favorite organs may be able to make the most noise about income tax publicity now, but it will be worth while to wait and see what Couzens and his committee find out before swallowing any predigested opinions on the subject. Then let the facts talk. AX lOWA MAX of 75 is attending college and laying a firm foundation for a life career. THE ASSERTION that indigestion is the only affliction of the Eskimo must be a mistake. Being an Eskimo is another one. PERHAPS “poets are happy people,” as a magazine says, but the golden rule seems to have nothing to do with the matter. GLAD TIDINGS for apprehensive husbands: The New York police think they have found a bullet-proof vest. MRS. CHARITY THORNTON, Ft. Smith, Okla., shot up the woman who made eyes at her husband. Charity did not begin at home. CHARLIE DAWES cannot play his fiddle in the Senate, but there will be blocs with which to while away the heavy hours.

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WOMAN IS REFORMER OF PRISONS Mrs, J, l, King Known as 'Mother' of Texas Convicts, 81l JtEA Service SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 20. —This is the story of tho woman who cleaned up one of the worst prison systems in the country. It is due. in great measure, to the fact that thirty-four years ago a Texas ranch girl wanted to be a doctor and couldn’t. Her father did not think medicine a modest calling for ids daughter. So they compromised on pharmacy, and the girl, now Mrs. .1. E. King, went to study it at the Sam Houston Normal School in Huntsville. Huntsville is the seat of the Texas State Penitentiary “the walls,’’ they call it, to distinguish it from the twenty-four prison farms scattered over eastern and southern Texas. xVnd it was there that Mrs. King, who today is chairman of the Texas Prison supervisory hoard, got her | first glimpse if a prison and of , prison life. First Glimpse of Prison “The first thing I saw in Huntsville,'' she says, “was the walls. And they are the last thing I ever shall forget. “Then#l went to Galveston to finish my course. In 1595, Governor Tom Campbell appointed me State pharmacist. And iny life was full and busy. > “After a time I married. My husband's chief delight was in spoiling me with attention. “For eighteen years I led a life of ease. But always in tho back of my mind was that prison in Huntsville and those poor men. “Governor Pat Neff was a warm friend of ours. In September, 1921, alien he created the prison advisory board, he put me on it. “1 wanted to refuse but my husband said: ‘The Lord hasn't given us any children, so we ought to do some service ' " Needed a Housekeeper The other members named Mrs. ; King—she is “Mother" King to the convicts —the hoard's chairman. From then on her life of ease was over. “I cannot express my feelings on my first insj ection trip,” she recalls. "The men were sleeping in wooden hunks —there was not an iron bed in the whole prison system. And they j had only old dirty and torn matj tresses of straw, hay and corn shucks T believe there were nut fifty pillows in the system. “in each eellhovtse was an open barrel of water and a common drinking cup. The bunk houses w* re flllo !

“MOTHER” KING, WHO IS WORKING TO IMPROVE PRISON CONDITIONS.

with bedbugs. Flies and mosquitoes swarmed about, for there wasn't a screen or a mosquito bar in sight. "I saw right there what the prisons needed was a housekeeper. Men can't keep house.” And “Mother' King jumped right in. She bought iron beds from the Army surplus for 35 cents apiece and tore out every wooden bunk. She got new mattresses and pillows. Then she abolished the dark cell. | Locked in one, a man had no light I whatever, and no air except what > came in through a small pipe in the i floor. ' “But you can't find any dark cells in Texas prisons now,” she declares. | And next, came the passing of the I chains—great log chains that used jto hang from the beams in every prison house; those chains with I which men were strung up by the ! wrists until they fainted, j Now "Mother” King has tackled i the whipping problem. She has de--1 dared herself against the use of the j lash. "But as long as such a provision j remains in the statutes, the board i cannot, prevent its use.” she says, j “We can only recommend the law I be changed.” | Texas opened its first honor farm last September as the result of Mrs. | King’s report to Governor Neff. And since then one for negro prisoners also has been established. And "Mother” King hopes to have the honor system extended to every one of the twenty-four prison, farms.

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Col. Richard A. Sneed, Okla homa’s secretary of Stab , is nearly 80 years old, but he takes a daily three-mile walk b"!\v<en his home and office. By it h** expects to add twenty y. ars to his life. In New York By JAMES \V. DEAN NEW YORK, Nov. 29.- Fifth Ave., America's most famous M.dr. S'rc . Is ceiebiating its hundredth anmverea ry. Fifth Ave. is the street on which New York hold.-, its parade It > the c-treet on whb h u< men who “have nothing to wear" go shop pi rig. "it is the s':- ■ whlcM t’i tho G->rge F. Bab -itts "f Go- !ar hold forth ■ t corner st, n> lay:: g* and monument unveiling*. Tiu-i-- :s uvea w.n-.nv shopping done on Fifth Ave. than on a, ’w< ■greets in the world. TANARUS: e p. bless 'ern, get ,'de.is for dr- C--CS, clonk® nnd hats fr> rn Fifth Ave. windows for gm-monts made at home or bought in cheaper stores. F;f?h Av. ~ 'or. is t e r. ,*'• >rt‘s gs .test Peacock Alley. <V) 1 • -■•']' S ’ lay poor wor! ig so!-. who have saved, for months to In: v title feathers ;u • '<• with ?! ■ :el s’ fan,:!:- - in Am- r:eo I the . . .1 passerbr can't fell the -id-o-n- - bo. :w."-- n ;i • ip. 1 believe three are more Is f architecture on Fifth Av ■ Cm are to be seen o". my nth- r • : the country. Ev-ry aspirin r

ural student should spend several weeks, ,-it least, riding up ami down the avenue. Tho most significant thing about Fifth Ave., it seems to me. is that it. is alien to all the rest of Now York. While it is just an overgrown Main Street, it. still is the most, cosmopolitan of all New York throrougbfares. Vet it doesn’t rep resent. New York's mad rush as much as Broadway, nor as much as Wall Street. Nor does it represent the great human drama of old races achieving new life in anew country as (he Bowery and other East Side streets do. Fifth Ave. belongs to the country at large more than to New York. * * It. Is tho general belief that most of New York's suicides are girls. The majority of them are men, and quite a number of them are married men whose homes have been disrupted. In six months there were six suicides in \Y. Twenty-Ninth St. between Eighth and Ninth Aves. One was a woman and the others were men separated from their wives. Broadway isn’t the only falsealarm thoroughfare in New York. One on the Doctor “Here s the doctor, dear." “Gosh! And to think of all the money I've sjjpnt for apples trying to that guy away."—Boston Transcript.

ARMY, NA VY STRIVE FOR SKY HONORS | New Plane Metal Developed j —Flis’its to Australia, Hawaii Planned, By Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—DevelI opments are coming thick and fast ; in the race between tho Army and Navy for outstanding aeronautical : achievements. Experiments, now under way at McCook fluid, Dayton, Ohio, indicate | successful production of a metal lone-third lighter than duralumin for use in most metal parts of planes. Aeronautical men familiar with tho new metal, which is a magI neslum alloy, say its use will dej crease weight of all wood planes about one hundred pounds, and metal planes by even a greater amount. Strict Secrecy Strict secrecy is surrounding dev, i-ipment of the new metal, but It has been announced by the War Department that one propeller stood a test at 330 per cent of the power for which it is designed. The new metal is being tested by 1 the Navy to see if it withstands cor- ; rosive action of both salt water and rain, which has been one of the chief drawbacks In use of duralumin 'on Navy seaplanes. Preliminary tests indicate it will. just before the Army announced . this new metal, the Navy made It j public that a metal seaplane, ea j pnb’.-Vf making 2,300 miles in nonj stop flight, had been ordered from ’ tho Boeing Airplane Company of | Seattle. If this seaplane lives np to expect,',?! ms a flight to Hawaii and : possibly to Australia will be at* , tempted. / At the present time the record f r seaplanes is 994 miles, j,: , :<• 11 y Lieutenant* F. W. Wead and J,.hn D. Price at Anacostia field, u July PI nnd 12, when they stayed r Die ait fourteen hours and iif:yth -w minutes, after which n fog forced them down. i The plane under construction will ineorpoiwto several departure* in air- , eraf ’ construction, including the pk, dng of two engines In tandem, jo that, one motor can be shut off land repaired without forcing the plane to descend. 4.000 Pounds lighter The new plane will be 4.000 pounds I lighter than the famous NC I which i , ide tho firs! trans-Atlantic flight in l’;It will be able to carry a crew of five men ami 1.700 gallons ! At present. Vrrny planes hold records for non-stop flights which eclipse any of the navy efforts. Among rmy records is the famous !•'. ■> , -n; <1 flight trad- by jl.r p’s. Kelly and Mat-ready in May, pip when They flew from New York !ro 9m Diego, in 20 hours and ft ft I mirm?. c The -am* officers, :. year earlier, remained In the air above San Diego for 3(1 hours in the famous monoplane T 2. which la now ji the Smithsonian Institute at W.-mbcarton, because of this and oilier f'-a-t*. Storage By HAL COCHRAN When you’ve cot a garage and you j own a machine and you've also got : youngsters around, it isn't so easy to keep the place clean, for the kids ; also use it.. I've found, j The handy garage that will hold I just, one car is handy for other thin-.s, too. You never are sure i where your tools and things are | Now. haven't yon found fh.v, to ;t s | true? I cleaned out the place whore my I bus stands at night, and ? took me a ! full half a da> And then, to the | kills, the garage seemed just t ight j an a wonderful .spot for their play. I The day after cleaning I drove to the door. When 'twas opened I got I ft surprise. A whole flock of play ! things, spread 'round on the floor, waa the welcome that greeted my eyes. Yea. I cleaned the garage until | blue in the face. I'll agree that the j cleaning was hard. And then little j youngsters took charge of the place, ! so my auto stands out In the yard. Copyright, 192-1, NEA Service, Inc.) Science Scientific study of, the ocean con fttantly is showing much greater j depths than was believed possible ; a few years ago. So far, tho great ! ' st depths have been found In r-i,g florin subject to earthquakes. 'The deepest, place recently was | discovered by a Japanese worship j about fifty miles from the coast of I Japan. Tho sounding wire reached j 32,fi1l foot, or bout six and a quarter - miles, yet fell tyort of the bottom, j How much deeper the ocean may be | at this spot is still a problem. Previous to this discovery the ■ j greatest known depth was off Min- ' Idanao, Philippine Islands, where botI tom was reached at 32,112 feet. The | depest place in the Atlantic Ocean that has been found is near the. island of Haiti, where the depth is .922 feet. Family Fun Hubby’s Sole Chance “So you enjoy showing your wife , how to drive?” j “Yes: it’s the first time she ever : admitted that I could tell her any- ! thing." Poor Girl! "Pickle and ice cream taste alike to Brooklyn girl,” is a headline. | Imagine being obliged to feel the warts on a pickle in order to distinguish if from an ice cream cone. —Youngstown Telegram. NEW FORDS FOR RENT Drive Yon reels—AH Mode!* .Vo Red Tape. New Central Stat'on LINCOLN GARAGE 38 Kentucky Ave. Lincoln 7886

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Tongue Tips Fred High, welfare vw-rker, Kan sa.s City: ‘'Remember how we used to go to church and .--land for an hour after the service talking with our neighivc -? Now we li.-ush out as soon as we are awake, for fear we will have to shale hands w.t a the preacher.'’ * * * Dr Henry Van Dyke pt-her-wnter: "To f-r.-h id ;.:pr-.fl: nusily instgni:. ~:.t as>air i realions A. A Ellen! Lincoln. X-*b “Fail litre of the Middie W-<: iiccrovc Its river sv stem is for. iug th- v: i natural location . f ind■;-are-- on th** outskirts of the couth.rut. where cheap freight tales are jen vsilfl', ; instead of in the center of the continent where the distribution sites should logo ally he , . 'abb, ..-1 " Magnus Johnson. Minnesota: “I was licked for ev<w> <>:!'. •* I ever —an for, but teas th* i'rst time 1 ever was %-•>•• and out >•' *>fflce.” Nature The gorilla is the only ape which Walks erect without*,, bieng taught i w . ell sp**!. is le of ..S ~fe on the ground He is full grown . W hen la* is it years old. a-at has been known to \v*'igh 500 potin.i -. s-;,tiding fifi incites tall. Gorilkis <io ,m>t take to captivity .nd usually 1 e soon ~f t irviifliii, for th*>y rofu.-u to eat. (One of the oldest forms of wor ship was the sa.*’': <>f horses. : i rivers. The P.-rs ips Though: to win ‘h*Ts good grace by dumping - t ; f* -tlv good live h-'t-se n--t, a raging stream. The white horses were considered th- most *u, jcd. A Thought The rich ruleih *i\-er the poor, ml the borrower :s servant to the l*uid*u„ No remedy against this eonsutnp- | don of the purse; hornnving only : lingers .-nd lingers it out, but : D ■ disease is incurable Shake-pe, r<-. One for Father "Tlow is it. young man, that I [find you kissing my daughter'/ How |is it, 1 ask you?" j “Great! Great!”—Belle Hop.

D. W. GRIFFITH Presents AMERICA from the story by Robt . W. Chambers ROMANCE—THRILLS AND PLENTY OF ACTION Intenvoven in the history of our country runs a love J||| \ story that is beyond even \ our own imagination. From pit "HT the start of the first reel to VU T f the very end, we promise r j you that it will play havoc with all your emotions. Mi At the CIRCLE Starting Sunday

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Ask The Times You ran pet an answer to any qu**tion of tact or Information by wrugig to The beiianapolis Time* Washing mo Bureau, 1322 Nr* Y<-.r.: Ave.. Washington. I>. 0., tucios.ns: 2 cents in stamps fur rply. Med: V legal and marital advice cannot b> given nor can e.jai-r:d“d research be undertaken. A:) oilier questions wil: receive u personal rep.y. i’raiffned requests c-arnot b*- aaswered. All letters ara conluiential* —Editor. JYhat is >th altitude, humidity and rainfall of Indittnapcdis? Street level altitude is 720 feet; humidity, average. 7* degrees in the morning, 64 degrees about noon: rainfall, 41.4S inches annuaUy-Wer-e any of th* twelve apostles ma.-ried? The Bib’* mentions "Peter’s wife's mother,” therefore it is certain he was married. It, is likely that others were also. Why is the four-leafed clove? supposed to bring go—3 luck? T-.e tradition Is that Eve, upon being >\—ed from Paradise, took a four-leufe*l clover with her. Because flue <:!over was a bit of green from Para Use. its presence in —no's garden came to be looked upon as an omen of good luck. Os what art? human bones constituted? Os 69 per cent earthy matter am! 33 per cent animal matter, including calcium phosphate, cnlcnutn carbonate, calcium lluori !e. magr.esttnn phosphate, and eafla-Ten. What Is the valu* of a penny with ,:n Indian head and dated 1353? From 25 to 59 cents. When should apple and pear t ret** he pruned? In February or March. Is there a law against the use of real money on the stage? No. What is m.eayf by “French l.e it*-?” Informal leave taking. The phrase originated from the French custom of leaving a social gathering without adieux to the host and hostess. In i, .king fruit cake, how can or. k p the fruit from stickling to the fi* rers and from farming a rna-s ; n the rake? Melted butter on the fingers will keep the fruit from sticking arid flouring the fruit keeps it from forming a mass.

THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 1924

Tom Sims Says Well, statistics show soft drink drinking is declining, maybe because pe.- pie are learning to do without chasers. . Man was heating his wife in Chicago. She pushed him off the porch, three floors up. He fell hard for her.. Idle rumors cause a lot of trouble and so cio idle roomers. What we can’t see is “how a cmcarmed man gets married, unless h*> learns to steer an auto with hie , knees. Duffnoin (TTIJ couple got married- [ Court - 1 twenty-fire years. Imagine' -vir.g every day for twenty^Svp' yeans. Charles* Dickens’ old home has h*---n made into a girl’s school where ;hey may play the dickens. St. Demis man. elarmed because his wlfo coulfln t talk, called tho doctor. She was drunk. It's expensive., but you might try it. A woman in hand is worth two in : a tantrum. I Ha 3 a. 8500,000 fire in Scranton, P... h'-me of c-’vaspondenca schffiolft.l : - rte burned, .ua.;*n it. | South Africa's diamond output is aver two million karats yearly. But ; that isn't so much. We mine more coal than that. South Dakota man claims he has a razor that ha* been used sixty-five years; but we don’t know how often.. Even If it did talcs her a long time to do it. a St. Louis woman has i beer: going to Sunday echos! ninety j years. One overlooked blessing of those i who get out for Sunday school is the trip makes them hungry for j Sunday dinner. * At Atlantic City a sea gull dropped -i clam on a policeman’s head. It trsjtft a traffic cop, because it hurt : him. Bryan says the Democrat* wT.I win next time, but they are not leti -ins- even this discourage them. Says P:t t<* Ms "Women marry for money more, .often than men,"’ | "Well, men have money mori L>ften.”—American Legion Weekly,