Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1926 — Page 6

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KNOW yOTIESSTATE INDIANA maintains a State militia and a State motor police force, but no system of State police such as operates in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Courts have held the State motor police authority to be restricted to enforcing the automobile laws and the militia is subject to the executive order for duty only in emergency.

■ A REAL SOLUTION The announcement of the street <Ar company thit the employes who formed a union and struck are now “former employes.” * " These men were, presumably, capable and effi-, cient men and rendering good service to the publio * Stripped of all nonessentials, the strike is for more wages. The reason they ceased work in a 'body was to obtain more money. They were paid from 37 to 42 cents an hour for their work and insist that the scale Is not only unjust but below a living standard. If they are right In their contention, then the company will be operated by dissatisfied men, no matter how many recruits it may at the present time. For if the wage be below a decent living standard, then ho man will or can be happy upon it. And dissatisfied men mean a continual recurrence of trouble. Strikes are costly and stupid methods of settling in public utilities which are under State control. They cost the owners of properties in profits. They cost the men in lost wages. That the company, by offering bonuses to those who remained upon the job, has been able to keep up service does not make for a permanent peace. The one question involved Is whether the wage "is fair and just. The people of this city can not afford to pay less. The cost to the city of this strike, which is wrongly being interpreted as a private war between the company and a portion of its men, is heavy. The unusual activity of the police in enforcing ordinances, the placing of officers on cars, the cautions against violence, costs money to the tagpayer. And all the time at the State House is a public service commission representing the public interest That body, with power to fix faces, fix schedules, order service where needed, should, It migllF seem, he interested in the wage paid to the men. The condition of the workers is quite as important as the condition of cars or the tracks. The people of any city, and especially of a city which is on its way to a million population, are ready J.o pay fair wages for a public service. It is inconceivable that they would be willing to pay less. Perhaps these *ien who say that 37 to 42 cents an hour is an unfair wage are wrong. The service rendered may not he wojth it. The wage may be luxurious and more than . ample. But there is a definite way to find out. The public service commission should be asked, if it does not care to act on its own initiative, to investigate the wage scale and determine its justice. The whole theory of control of public utilities i6 that the public is represented and protected in return for granting of monopolies.' If there were ever a time when the public needs more than' a policeman’s club to protect its rights, this case seems to furnish it. THE FLEET AND THE FARMER For Sale —George Washington, President Roolevelt, President Harding, Republic, Leviathan and other vessels of the United States lines. Owner compelled to sell because these ships are just on the jtednt of making money. Address United States Shipping Board, Washington, D. C. The United States shipping board this week ordered advertising prepared for the sale of the vessels named. The above want ad might serve as copy. It tells the sitnation precisely. Chairman O’Connor of the shipping board, yesterday, while refusing to discuss the revenues earned by these splendid transAtlantic liners, indicated in an interview that they were , pretty close, at least, to-making money. He that If they were bought cheaply enough, there -jyould be a profit An it for the buyer. Gradually the pressure on the Government—and within the Government —to get out of the shipping business before it is really profitable is becoming completely successful. Ships are being sold by the shipping hoard all the time. Only when names of great liners like the Leviathan and'George Washington are mentioned does any one pay attention to this fact. In the interview 1 , prepared by Chairman O’Connor’s publicity man, this statement: “He (O’Connor) also repeated what he has many times said publicly, that government ownership is only justified when private qperation is impossible.” Let’s consider 1 that statement in the, light of a dramatic incident which occurred in the fall of 1924, an incident that O’Connor loves to talk about. That fall a great wheat crop was piling up in Atlantic port warehouses aqd aboard freight cars, waiting for American ships tb carry It to Europe. There was also a considerable fikngestion of cotton and lumber in Atlantic ports, waiting likewise for ships. This freight, it wajt believed, would result in such a boost in freight rates, if turned over to foreign shipping lines, that the disappear. The United States Fleet Corporation 'was asked to put a lot of Its idle ships into service to handle the grain,' cotton and lumber and save the growers’ profits. The fleet corporation refused, saying it would mean a loss ofl every cargo. Appeal was then made to the shipping board and O’Connor himself went to the mat with the fleet corporation, forcing it to supply the needed ships. The crops were moved. As O’Connor proudly tells it, his action increased the profit to the American growers by ten billion dollars! All the talk today with regard to the farm situation centers around means; of helping the farmer dispose of his surplus crops abroad. / Yet here, right in hand, is one means that works.

It worked ten billion dollars’ worth In the fall of 1924, according to O’Connor. And the Government is trying desperately to throw that means away. It \s sitting up nights seeking ways to get rid of its ships. It is selling them to private owners on terms that amount to a ship subsidy. It has been hard heretofore to interest the farmer in shipping questions. Perhaps the fight for farm relief has paved the way ,at last, for some understanding on the subject. OH, NO, MR. WEtLS Marriage is all right for the peasantry, declares Mr. H. G. Wells, the noted British author, but under modern conditions it doesn’t work out so nicely. One of the reasons he advances is that women now have little housework to do, what with electrical appliances and all that, and he suggests thal they ought to find some work outside the home. Let a woman try one husband after another until, eventually she finds the proper mate and a task she can share with him, is his hypothesis. We fear Mr. Wells has struck a foul tip this time. What we need is not so much casting about with one husband and another, or one wife and another, but a little plain knowledge and common sense. Simply because both the wife and husband are employed outslds the home, is t that just cause for tripping from flower to flower until the sort of honey that just satisfies the taste Is found? * And, after it is found, then what? Aren't we right back where we started, with an old-fashioned marriage and all that on # our hands again? No matter what you call your mating, there is just one kind of mate to meet your need. I say, Mr. Wells, old top, just what are you getting at? HERE’S YOUR TRUE LOVER Charles Fox and Joe Gerock, of Fort Worth; Texas, were rivals for the hand of the same girl, one Ileta Leggett, and she was seiously ill in a. hospital in Chicago, /. Fox and Gerock, naturally, wanted to see her, and see her quickly. Together they went to a flying field, where it was found possible to obtain a single passage in the mail compartment of the Dallas to Chicago mail plane. After hourß of debate as to which should go, Gerock finally won' out, and as the propeller began to spin, Fox, shaking hands apd saying, “Tell her I love her,” fainted and was removed to a hospital in a state of collapse. Here is a tale worthy of the pen of a master short story writer. What a pity that both of them can't win the girl! ONE SCHOOL ALWAYS OPEN The children are out of school, their academic studies suspended for the summer. Yet it is in these vacation months that they have their greatest opportunity to gain a liberal and lively education in the art of life itself. We are in the season of fructification when the eternal metamorphosis of pollen to seed takes place, when sun and rain cause seed to sprout,' plant to bloom, blossom to bear suit and fruit to yield seed. This is the universal cycle, ever changing, never varying. The cycle of the growth of the earth and the growth of mankind. In it is hidden the secret of life. In,it is man’s closest approach to a revelation of the Master’s scheme. MARRIAGE A LA TAXI One sure way of getting your name in the paper Is to devise some new method of getting marriedWedding ceremonies have been performed in airplanes, on boats, by wireless and beside deathbeds. A couple in West Virginia recently married in a taxicab, the ceremony being performed to the merry tune of the clicking meter. It causes one to wonder whether the strain of listening to the costly clicking wasn’t a little too much to impose on a nervous, blushing groom. A marriage ceremony usually is a deliberate, impressive thing, but the chances are this young benedict breathed a sigh of relief when the thing, was well over. In London, Premier Baldwin has received 8,000 pipes as gifts, so we’ll bet his housekeeper is mad. A girl who won a Chicago beauty contest evidently has won another. She married a football star. A 100 PER CENT AMERICAN By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Seggt. Alvin C. York is acclaimed America’s greatest individual World War hero. His name is known from one end of the country to the other and, being a white man, no word of praise has been withheld isl his beh'alf. He well deserves all that he gets. But the other day down in Oklahoma, there went to his Happy Hunting Grounds an Indian by the name of Tommy Blind Woman who, during his obscure life since the ending of the great war until his equally obscure death, told with pride that he was the first Red Man to cross the Rhine. I Tirfs Indian boy, only 27 years old when he served his country so bravely, was a valuable scout to the Americans, and due to his primitive instincts was able to make his way through the enemy lines unnoticed. He served in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne and Vesle sectors until the signing of the armistice. Because ,of his ability and bravery, his valor in action and his stoicism under Are, he received the greatest honor the Nation can bestow, a Congressional Medal. / ’ His most notable deed w4s the capture of seveh of the enemy, intrenched in a shell hole with machine guns. Nine men were assigned to this duty, but all were killed or wounded on the wky, and this Indian obeyed his superior officer’s orders His rifle is in a Washington gallery, kept as a record of the patriotism and excellent service of one native 100 per cent American. , Th\s boy belonged to a’ vanishing race and/hls zeal and courage will never obtain the admiration that is accorded to white men. Imbued wiyi the blood of warriors who spent their lives fighting off the invading Caucasian, he served nobly the cause of a race that reduced his people to a mere fragment of humanity. This Indian brave goee to his lonesome T tomb with few citizens knowing aught of his great deeds. He sleeps now in-ftu old Indian cemetery hidden deep In the quiet woods among others of his tribe, and we who owe him so much will probably smile at his absurd name, Tom Blind Woman, slayer of seven of the enemy single-handed and brave fighter for a country no longer hie own.

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The S-51 Discloses Another Story of American Heroism,

By M. E. Tracy Died at their posts,* every man Jack of them, the radio operator at hiß key, the engineer with his hand upon a lever, the helmsman in his place. It w-as worth all it., cost and more' to make the sea yield proof of such herpism. The S-51 comes back to us, not as a coffin, but as the shrine of uncrushed spirit. The calm courage with which those lads met the brief agony of their fate is matched by the undaunted labor with which they and their ill-starred ship were Wrested from the clutches of Old Ocean. The divers who worked amid ooze and slime, twenty fatntTtns, (120 feet) down, burrowing like rats to carry slings under the sand-embed-ded hull: the commander who drove his campaign to success thbough weather fair, or foul, the pumpmen and mechanics whose work was more grinding than glorious and the sailors who stood by with tug, supply ship and crane—these, too, deserve a share in the kind of Idealism that the S-51 memorializes. . .(. -|. -|. An Absurd Argument If the debt pact is ratified, France will give us bonds, as other nations have. ' There would be about $11,000,000,000 worth all told. LVe could dump those bonds on the market if we wanted to at some future time, letting them go at any old price and upset the financial equilibrium of Europe. ' That Is what France pretends to fear. She is particularly afraid that Germany might buy her bond* cheap and the demand collection at par, offsetting the reparation account. But w'hy would thq United States do any such thing? When has this Government bartered securities, especially in such a way -as to disturb the general financiaUsitjiation? The idea seems too absurd to argue aßout. -I- -I- -I* Women'Wiil Be Women Since women have been pirates, why shouldn’t they become bootleggers? Ann Bonny and Mary Reed both sailed under the black, albeit with' lovesick captains who were glad to do their bidding, the one to be hanged and the other to be spared because of approaching motherhood. What Is there then so surprising in Major Walton A. Green’s statement that the illicit liquor trade Is developing a female contingent, -or that the desire for flr clothes It at the bottom of It? What Is there to wonder at In his assertion that women are cleverer at the game than men, Or ttait they find a congenial field in the peddling of cocktails at the Nation's capital? The major Is merely beating up old ground, merely pointing out that women are about the same as they always were—a certain type of them. •I- •!• -I* What’s the Cure? Senator Reed's committee has at last compiled figures with, negard to the Pennsylvania primary, proving that it cost in the neighborhood of $2,800,000, with Pepper benefiting to the -extent of J1.800,000, Vare to the extent of $1,000,000 less and Pinehot to the extent of SIBB,OOO. Avery interesting paradt-of facts, but now that we have staged it, what are we going to do with it? -I- -I- IThey Have Their Chance Can publicity and education solve the railroad labor problem? i If they can, the new mediation board will prove a gratifying experiment. It takes hold of the situation without any other tools. It has no authority and will make no decisions. Its greatest reliance is on public opinion, but especially as public opinion can be molded by Information from a supposedly Impartial source. It comes Into being as a distinct concession to the great brotherhoods. They have always contended that the method of operation it represents would 1 prove successful and they now have the privilege of demonstrating the fact. -I: -I- -IJohn D, an 'Upset’ John D. Rockefeller has spoiled about every fiction that surrounds the man of large affairs. He didn’t work himself to death, or refuse to retire. He didn't succumb to dyspepsia, as so mans predicted he would. He hasn’t let the millions go to his head and inspire him to run a rig of display'. Yesterday, which marked the beginning of l\ia 88th year, he said: “I am grateful every day for the contentment I enjoy in living a

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Ruth Roland Returns to the Screen After Making Fortune in Real Estate

Ruth Roland has returned to the* screen. The queen of all serial queens again has succumbed to the lure of the shadow drama. Such is the announcement com-, ing from the office of John McCormick, general West Coast production manager of First National. Miss Roland will be seen In the cast of the June Mathis production, “The Masked Woman,” directed bja Balboni, in the featured part of “Dolly,” an American chorus girl. Her appearance in this production will mark the first screen effort of the popular star for several years time of \late having been occupied by the management of large realty holdings, wisely amassed during the earlier years of her Screen successes. “A trouper never forgets entirely the smell of the gr&ase paint,” said Miss Rorand, “and always remains the desire to get back into the game. This particular chance—one of hundreds—was too good to deny’. A June Mathis prodilbtion in the new First National Studios', Just completed at Burbank, California— well, I simply couldtj t resist the combination!” First scenes of the production photographed depicted a Deauville gambling hall, with an even hundred comely extra girls, costumed by Cora McGeachy, former Ziegfeld Follies designer. -I- -I- -jLOOKIXG OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE PALACE Jaunita and her partner, Paco Cansino, with Rita, a toe 1 dancer, at, the Palace today and tomorrow,-lire double-crossing the heat wave in some manner or other if one Is to judge by the fast and snappy way in which they execute some of their dances. The act is entirely given up to

quiet, simple life and grateful for the messages of good.will I am constantly receiving every quarter." The old gentleman won’t even moralize, won’t proclaim how much worse youth is than it used t o he. won’t tell people what they .ought to be ((oing to save the race, or the country, or the world from destruction.

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Let Mr. FiXit present your case to city officials. He is The Times representative at the.city hall. Write him at The Times. Service of trained landscape architects to aid home owners in beautifying their premises is offered free by the city parks department, George Morgan, assistant superintendent, informed Mr. Fixit today. The service is extended to persons of moderate means who are unable to pay for services of a professional landscape architect. “The park department has expert landscape gardeners who will b® glad to consult in these problems and also to advise concerning the care of trees and plants and the control of Insects and plant diseases," Morgan said. wishing to take advantage of this generous proposal should present their case tb the hoard on the third floor of the city hall. ' 'DEAR MR. FIXIT: Woulfl .like to know if we people living near a Sundry can get some relief from the dttst and dirt caused by it. They dump all their dirt and trash out In the yard forty feet from the nearest houses. There it is picked up again and thrown in wagons and the dust is fierce. S. HOLMES AVE. RESIDENTS. The board of health hais promised art bnmedlate investigation. The boaHft also Is inquiring into the following A. J. Porter, Twenty-Second and Harding Sts.; Mrs. Allen TV. Lund. Ewing ant} E- Tenth Sts.; A Times Reader,'lngram St., and Mrs. J. C. , DeWitt, concerning the durpping near Kealing Ave. and Thirteenth St. ATTENDS SALES SCHOOL Indianapolis Man at' Oasii Rogistfr Company Plant. Bv Tints Snecinl DAYTON. Ohio, July 9.—A. J. A1 len Os the Indianapolis branch of the National Cash Register Company is attending a five-weeks’ sales school at the main plant of the company here, with about 200 other men from all parts of the United States and Canada. The salesmen are housed and Instructed In a large camp just south of the city limits of Dayton. The course of instruction will Include training In retailing and hintp in business management.

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Jyes La Rue Among the hew players that Charles Berkell has brought Into his company this season la Mias Jyes La Rue. She is seen this week in “The Broken Wing.” Photo by Dexheimer.

dance numbers, those of a spaniah color predominating. Jaunita and her partner have many' danctjp together and several solo numbers each. Rita the toe dancer figures in several charming numbers of her ow’n and the three unite in a very fast ending for the act. Hal Stephens, with the aid of a little grease gaint, a wig and a costume, Is one of those men who

AIMEE QUIZ ADJOURNS I Evangelist Confident She Convinced Grand Jury. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. July 9.—Aimee Semple McPherson, Californian Evangelist whose dramatic disappearance stirred the Pacific Coast, has told her story of being kidnaped and held for ransom to the county grand jury- investigating the case. And the grand jury has adjourned the inquiry until next Tuesday. ”t told the whole story,” she said after the six hours of questioning -Thursday. "I am sure that no one in the room had any reason to’ doubt It ” It was reported that she made an Impassioned appeal to the jury, filled with the religious fervor. * —— t WHISKY IN THE TOORHOISE BELF, A®T—The Omagh Board of Guardians Ms taken steps to reduce the quantity of whisky consumed by inmates of the local poorhouse>

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ONE DEAD IN CRASH Mishawaka Man Killed When Train Strikes Auto. Bu United Preat SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 9. Coroner Crumpacker today Investigated the death of Harry D. Baker, 27, Mishawaka, who was .killed at a grade crossing there late Thursday when he drove his a*nmobile into the path of a speeding Grand Trunk passenger train. WALK MORE; EAT LESS Bu Times Sote'.nl NEW YORK, July-9.—The feAt of Haaler Johnson 'who walked 600 miles while fasting, proves that Americans should “walk more and eat less," accbrding to Bernarr MeFadden, publisher of the Physical Culture Magazine, whd gave Johnson SI,OOO for making the walk. “The average individual actually eats himself to death," said.

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You can set an answer to any question of tao* or information by writing ip The Indljuiapolta Time* WefMnftoa bureau, 1828 New York *.. !ahlngton. D C.. imloeins ? rente In •tamo* for reply. Medical lenal and marital advice cannot be given nor can e*tended research he undertaken All otnee aunetlona will receive a i>rrjrml renlv nneiirncd requeue cannot ha anawerea All letters are confidential—Editor \VW la the price of carrier pigeons? The price varies according to pedigree and training A pair may he bought as low as $8 and there ha\w been Instances where fine pigeons sold as high as SI,OOO a pair. Do Chinese and Japanese bom In this country have the right to vote? Yes, except those whose parents are in the rtiplirnatic service. They are natural horn American eltlaena and if otherwise qualified under the election laws of the States where (hey reside they may vote. Is there a star called “Canelle?” li l the brightest star In me constellation of Auriga (the clihrloteer), and Is said to hove been named, for the nymph or goat who nourished the inifant Beus In Crete. The name is often given as Capra. t What arc the principal source* of the world's asbestos supply? Capada, the Alpine countries. Russia, Corsica and New South It Is also found in the United Statfl in Georgia. and Wyoming. What was the name of the dog (hat played the leading role In “The Call of the Wild?" Rurft, He is a magnificent Bt. Bernard dog. Is there an organliatlon tn Canana similar to the American 'Legion? The organization In Canada similar to the American Legion ta the “Great War Veterans' Association of Canada." * What were the dates of the Chicago World’s Fair? May 1 to Oct. )0, 1893. What is the meaning of the name ••Burhhett? ,, Laterally "glad-book.” (German) What Is the correct height and weight of an average 14-year old girl? The average weight is 98.4 pounds and the average height la 69.9 Inches. What colors should girls with brown hair and eyes wear? Becoming shades often depend more qn the complexion than enlth* color of hair and eyes. However, brunettes are fortunate In tha they can wear any color. Red. plpk, yellow, shades of brown, etc., are very becoming.. Whore Is Capo Eternity? A promontory on the left hank of the Saguenay River, thirty-nine mile from lta mouth and separated by Bay Eternity from Cape Trtnityv Quebec, Canada. ■

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