Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1924 — Page 9
SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1924
WARNING ISSUED UPON SMALLPOX; ‘RATTLE’ HEARD Vaccination Urged as Preventative by State Board of Health. B zx-z-z-z-z-z! Rattlesnake! And then you jump about three times your length* to dodge the deadly sane?. The rattlesnake is a comparative gentleman. Ho warns before he strikes. So says Dr. William F. King, State health commissioner. Hut— Dally we are ignoring the “rattle” of a much more deadly foe, says Dr. King. Smallpox! Most Dreaded Disease “Smallpox.” says Dr. King in the State health board's monthly bulletin, "is perhaps the most loathsome and most feared of our dangerous communicable diseases, and like the rattlesnake, smallpox never strikes without first haring giren warning anil an opportunity to escape the menace and the terror of the disease. Small pox has been giving warning in the United States for the last three years. Dr. King points out. In Kansas City in 192:* after a preliminary warning of about 100 cases of so-called “mild smallpox." the disease finally struck, taking a toll of more than 100 lives. Southern Michigan lost more than 130 lives after the warning of “mild smallpox” had been given. Minneapolis is paying the penalty just now. Warning Heard Here ‘The warning rattle has been heard in Indiana for the past two years," Dr. King says. “Instead of decreasing, it is growing more audible. It is not unreasonable to assume that following these -repeated warnings, ‘black smallpox.’ the disease in a more fatal and virulent form, will strike somewhere in the State and it will then be our turn to pay the penalty for ignoring its warning." Twenty-five counties in the State, including Marion County, have reported “mild smallpox" in the past month. With cold weather the disease will spread. When the strike comes it will find the people unprepared and unprotected. "Vaccination will prevent smallpox and will protect against the disease. The board of health urges universal vaccination with ail the emphasis demanded by the present situation in the State."
STATE ABANDONS PSEPARATE ROOM SCHOOLS Consolidated Buildings Are Fast Taking Their Place. During the past twenty-five veers 4,869 one-room schools have been abandoned in Indiana and the pupils placed in consolidated school buildings, recent reports of the State department of public instruction show. This number represents 58.51 per cent of the total schools of Indiana for the twenty-fH e-year pe riod. The report on the growth In consolidation as prepared by the State department shows that during the past year 357 one-room schools were abandoned and eight re-openea. making a total decrease of 348 foi the year. In 1900 there were 8,321 schools in Indiana of the one-room type. In 11*24 there were 3.452 buildings of such type. Randolph County ranks first In the per cent of consolidation, with 99.11 per cent of abandoned schools in 1924. Out of & total of 113 schools, Randolph County now has only one single-room school, having consolidated three during the past year. Wabash County ranks second, with 97.36 per cent. This county has three out of 116 schools that are still of the one-room variety. Wayne county is third In the list, having three single-room schools out of a possible sixty-eight, making a percent of 95.39. Other counties which hank high are: Marion, 96.24; Montgomery, 94.92; Tippecanoe, 92.80; Miami, 92.80; Hancock, 89.55; Benton, 89.19 and Carroll. 88.30. Wayne county led the state in 1923, but the reopening of one of the abandoned schools caused this county to drop from first to third rank. I>ubof- county has the largest percent of one-room schools, being only 8.11 percent consolidated. Martin, Perry and Orange counties also have a very large percentage of oneroom schools. Lawrence county led the state in the number of one-room schools consolidated during the echoed year, 1923-24. In this county, twenty oneroom schools were abandoned. Allen county ranked second with thirteen abandonments and Harrison third with twelve. Drug Store Is Robbed Burglars took $33.33 from the Thomas Mullin drug store. Twentyeighth and Illinois Sts., during the I night. Police were called by James Baker. 2843 Boulevard PI, a passeiby, who saw the rear door open Well Licked 'Please, could you change this here stamp. 'Tain’t no manner o’ use to no one. Father’s licked it, mother’s licked it, aunt’s licked it, we’ve all licked It, and 't won’t stay on nowhow."—Columbia Jester.
‘There's No Thrill in Piling Up Millions/ Says Man Who Made Fortune Putting People's Mouths to Work
Wrigley Jr.'s millions have iw Then he decided to begin making
By ROY J. GIBBONS V US Service Writer “| Hit’AGO, Dec. 20. —William I* Wrigley Jr.'s millions have not made him any happier. “Merely piling up a bank account has not given me a thrill," declare-! the chewing gum who last year paid an income t *x of more than $1,000,000. “1 was just as happy before 1 made my first million as 1 was after l had it. I never have worked for money. I always have worked for the doing of tin- thing. ‘‘Just plugging along for dimes and dollars does not mean much. Accomplishment is what counts. “Life is a battle. When you quit fighting the kick is gone.” Ran Away Born in Philadelphia, the eldest of nine children. Wrigley grew up as the average boy, hut with more than the average hoy's energy. CHRISTMAS FILMS FEATURE STARS (Continued From Page 8) Men Bashful?” the Fox news weekly. musical divertisement by Km;. Seidel and his orch stra and organ selections by Karl Gordon. .J. SWANSON TO lit: SEKN AT l UK OHIO “The Wages of Virtue.” featuring Gloria Swanson, will be the attraction at the Ohio Christmas week. The bill also includes a Hal Roach comedy ’Hut Heels,’’ a Pathe News weekly and music by lister Huff at the organ, and by the Charlie Davis orchestra with Cy Milders, soloist. Swanson’s chief support is from Ben Lyon, who was released by Associated First National Pictures Inc., for this production. Others in tin- cast are: Norman Trevor. Ivan Linow. Armand Cortez, Adrienne d'Ambricourt, Paul Panzer and Joe Moore. The story of “The Wage* of Virtue,” has to do with Carm lita. a young Italian girl, who falls in love with Luigi, a strong man In a travelling side-show, who has saved her life. When Luigi kill3 a man in a jealous fit he enlists In the Foreign Legion to escape Justice. Believing that Luigi murdered to save her, Carmellta follows him to Algiers,
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MR. SMITH’S THEATRE SUNDAY Ain* ALB WEKS Harold Lloyd “HOT WATER” OUR GANG COMEDY “FAST COMPANY” 20c —All Seats — 20c
WILLIAM WRIGLEY, JR, "ROUGHING IT.” He was expelled from school so often tiat by the time he was II his folks finally quit trying to mollify his teachers. That year he ran away to New York. Tilt re he sold papers. Then he went out on the road as salesman for his father. In 1891 he came to Chicago. Business was dull, so to stimulate his soap sales, lie began offering premiums with each order. While giving away chewing where she becomes the proprietress of . i afe in a garrison town. Carmellta refuses to believe that Luigi is untrue to hep until site meets Marvin a young American re- • <-ruit. He falls in love with her and ! incurs the hatred < f Luigi, who has ; him jailed. Carmellta bribes the ! jailer and Marvin is released. Luigi decides to tight the boy, hut ! Roulo a veteran of the regiment, ' prevents it. Oartnelita fees Luigi's i treachery and realizes that she loves M irvin. When Luigi hears of it he appro.idles Marvin and they engage in a scuffle in which Luigi is stabbed ■n tin buck. Marvin and Carmellta j tlee into the desert. -I- -IHOT W \TKH’ ON Ml AY AT SMITH’S Harold Lloyd. the bespectacled comedian of tile serei n, will las. en the coming week at Mister Smith's i in “Hot Water.” his latest comedy release Besides tills major comedy
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gum with his soap, he hit upon the idea of selling gum alone. Then he decided to begin making his own. From the stait, he W'as a firm believer in advertising. In 1902 he dumped his accumulated profits of SIOO,OOO into an advertising campaign in New York —and lost every cent. Next time he called on Gotham he threw out $250,000. Profits commenced rolling in right away. Since then lie has spent close to $50,000,000 advertising his gum in a score of languages. Ha owns a baseball team —the Chicago Cubs. He owns Catalina Island, an amusement resort, off southern California. He is a dlrector of banks, corporations and railroads galore. He always keeps a box of gum on his desk. He chew* it bontinually. attraction there will he a short length comedy featuring “Our Gang.” entitled "Fast Company.” Music will be provided by the Grand Cremona. The usual unvs weekly will also l>e shown. HOME TO Ci IVK THRILLS XT ISIS “The Western Wallop.” to he shown at the Isis tin* first half of next week, is anothe’ J ;.jc Iloxie melodrama containing everything in tiie line of action and thrills that Doxies name implies. In the cast are Margaret Landis, Gordon Russell. Charles Brlnley, Duke Lee, Josi jili Girard and others. Subsidiary films will lie a Grant!.md Kico Sportlight. “Grid Iron.” and a Universal comedy i n’ol>-I “Horse Play.” Edmund Lowe is elevated to stardom in "Honor Among Men.” which will be the offering Thursday and the rest of the week. The picture is based on the late Richard Harding Davis story, "The King’s Jackal.’’
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INDIANA FARMERS REALIZE PROFITS ON SMALL GRAINS Three Million Bushel increase in Wheat Crop Reported, Indiana farmers realized more on small grains this year than In 1923, according to Sears-Roebuck agricultural foundation, which reports that the national increase in grain values amount to $550,000,000. Oats alone were responsible for a gain of $13,000,000, while wheat brought farmers of this State an added $12,000,000 last year, the report states. This compensates in a measure for the $33,500,000 corn loss suffered by Indiana farmers this year. The 3,000,000-bushel increase in Indiana wheat crop this year brought the value up to $44,000,000 as compared with $32,000,000 of 1923. The oat crop of this State tills year is up to 65,500.000 bushels as compared to 48,500,000 the year before with the result that farmers will have taken in $30,000,000 on this crop as compared with $17,000,000 the year before. The yield per acre on corn in Indiana, tlie report states, dropped to twenty-three ushels per acre as a result of unfavorable weather. The wet days on tho other hand, were a great help to the wheat and oats production, the former rising to 17.9 bushels i>er acre as compared with 16.5 tho year lefore, and the latter to 37.9 from 28 in 1923. The profit per bushel of wheat this year was eight cents where a loss of twentyfive cents a bushel was taken last year and a two cent profit in outs for the twenty-four-cent loss of the preceding year. The increased yield per acre of small grain and the increased price per bushel on all grains had aided materially in restoring tho farmer to a better financial basis, nqiort concludes. Tho higher grain prices have resulted In higher live stock prices and this has brought anew vitality to agriculture. LEGION POST ELECTS Raymond Grider Chosen Commander for 1925. Raymond Grider will head Indianapolis Rost, American Legion, during th*' <'omlng year. He was elected at a meeting at the Severln Thursday night. Other officers; Eugene Barnhill, senior vice commands! Malcolm Lucas, junior vice commander; Clarence It. Martin, adjutant: John A Itoyse, finance officer; ihe C-v. Charles Gibbons, chaplain: Mabel West, historian; George Gill, service officer; John George, ser-geant-at-arms: John Murray and N. 15. Swain, executive comniitteeben.
New M. E. Community Building
The picture shows an architect’s drawing of the new community building at Roosevelt Ave. and Fountain St., built by Fountain Street M. E. Church, to be dedi-
EXTRA CAR SERVICE Street Railway Accomodates Christmas Shoppers. Extra street car service for Christmas shoppers was provided today by tho Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Rush hour schedules were in effect all day. Same service will be provided Wednesday from 11 a. m. to *5:30 p ,m. E. H. I’flumm, assistant superintendent, reported that cold weather caused many persons to leave their automobiles home, adding to the problem of handling the street car load. PHONES REALLY ‘SHOT’ Company Blames Air Gun of DeadEye Dick, Jr. Dead-Eye Dick, 10, or thereabouts, trains his trusty air rifle on a sparrow enjoying summer sunshine on a telephone cable. The BB shot embeds itself in the cable Just below the sparrow. Along comes winter and your telephone goes out of commission. Air gunnery by youngsters is responsible for a lot of the telephone trouble of the past two days, Indiana Bell Telephone Company offioi.ih, said today. The shots make small holes in the cables, then heavy rains and freezing weather come along and out go the telephones. Salesman Dies In Crash By United Prts PALMYRA. X. Y., Dec. 20—John Fabian, representative in this section of a Minneapolis implement factory, was almost instantly killed j Friday night when the automobile j he was driving was struck by an j castbound repair car of the j Rochester & Syracuse Railroad.
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cated early in January. The new structure, which cost approximately $40,000, will be used for services until a church is erected, the Rev. P. S. May, pastor, said.
Oils Blood! By Time * Special MARION, Ind., Dec. 20. Patrolman Charles Truax shot the hero, heroine and a villain here. His revolver was accidently discharged while he was adjusting it. The bullet plowed through 300 pages of a book of popular fiction.
MOTHER SEEKS ESTATE Fights for Children's Share of $82,000,000 Gould Fortune. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Mrs. Viverna Sinclair Gould wept on the witness stand Friday as she declared George J. Gould was father of her three children, horn before her marriago to the late financier. Tearfully,, she admitted that two of the children, George and Guinerva, were born in 1915 and 1916, before the death of Mrs. Edith Kingdon Gould, George Gould's first wife. The three children were named beneficiaries In George Gould's will and their rights in connection with an accounting of the $82,000,000 estate of Jay Gould, their grandfather, are in question. REVIVAL IS CONTINUED Ciulle Tabernacle Evangelists to Stay to Dec. 29. Evangelistic services at Cadle tabernacle held by F. F. and B. B. Bosworth, will l>e continued until Dec. 29, according to announcement today. The Bosworth brothers will open services at St. Petersburg, Fla. Jan. 11.
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FOOD PRICES IN CITY UNCHANGED Federal Bureau Gives Annual Report, By United Press WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19Retail food prices In Indianapolis remained unchanged during the month of Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, bureau of lalwr statistics reported today. Forty-seven cities showed increases from 1 to 3 per cent Two cities, Cleveland, Ohio and Ixts Angeles, Cal., showed small decreases, and Portland, Ore., like Indianapolis registered no change. Indianapolis was one of fifty-one cities which showed decreases in food costs for the year ending Nov 15 Though the Indianapolis decrease was less than five tenths of 1 per cent, number of cities including Cincinnati, Pittsbugh, Boston and Seattle showed decreases of 3 per cent and over. In twenty-two cities the Nov. 15 prices were higher than one year ago, the increase of 5 per cent for Houston, Tex., topping the list. Most of the other cities showing increases are in the South as compared with costs in 1923. The Nov. 15 prices !n Indianapolis showed an increase of 44 per cent. In other cities the scale of this eleven-year period ran from 59 per cent for Washington to 34 per cent for Salt Lake City. Average for the whole country was approximately 43 per cent, just under the Indianapolis figure. ANNUAL BOYS’ DINNER Street Newsies and Messengers to Be Feted Tuesday Evening. Annua! dinner for street newsboys and telegraph messengers will be given by J. J, Appel, vice president of Gregory and Appel, realtors, Tuesday at 7 p. m., at the Y. M. C. A. Governor-Elect Ed Jackson, Mayor Shank. James M. Ogden, president of the “Y,” circulation managers of the three Indianapolis papers, and the managers of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies will be guests. Many entertaining features are planned. Y. M. C. A. officials estimate the total attendance of these boys at the ”Y” this year has exceeded 10,000.
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