Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1927 — Page 4

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The Finest Exhibit Very soon the annual exhibit of the products of the State will be held at the State i'air Grounds. There will be gathered the producst of field and factory. New achievements will be paraded and admired. There will be new standards made for domesticated animals. Perhaps there will be new records for speed upon the tracks. All these things will testify to the material growth of the State and the initiative, purpose and intelligence of the citizenship of the State. Will that week come and go and still leave the citizens with one question upon their lips and in their minds which their chief citizen has not answered! For about one month The Times has asked Governor Jackson on each and every day he has been in the city one simple question. It has asked him what he had to say concerning the statement it printed in its columns that he, when Secretary of State and ttyen aspiring to the governorship, left a political conference in his own office and went to the office of Warren T. McCray, who was then Governor and under indictment in this county. The Times stated that Jackson offered to McCray SIO,OOO to be used as attorney fees and immunity from conviction if he would, in return name a selection of George V. Coffin as prosecutor of this county. The people well understand how a prosecutor can be very helpful to a political boss, especially a political boss who thrives on manipulated elections and protection for those who violate the laws. * •The Times has asked Governor Jackson what he had to say to this statement which was made without qualification and which quoted McCray as saying that he expected to lose his office as he had lost his money and might even lose his liberty, as he later did, but that he would carry a sense of self-respect to his cell that he could not have if he made this bargain. That was the estimate that McCray then put upon that offer. If the statement of The Times were not true, the Governor has had an opportunity each and every day to say that The Times lied and lied maliciously and libelously. • The Times has given him every opportunity to demand each day that The Times produce its proof. But thus far the Governor has refused to make any comment whatever. He lias not even denied the statements, every newspaper in the State, including those of his own party, has declared that he should either vindicate himself or resign. What would be the finest exhibit for Indiana at its annual exhibition? Should it erect a booth decorated with pictures of the Governor and dedicate it to silence and make this the most outstanding achievement of the year? Or should it erect another to Civic Righteousness and call upon all citizens to demand that the Legislature unlock those silent lips at th 5 State House and force at least a plea of guilty or not guilty before the great bar of public opinion? Restricted Drinking One of life’s little absurdities, as applied to prohibition enforcement, was brought out yesterday by Assistant Treasury Secretary Lowman, in charge of prohibition enforcement. He said the prohibition high command is endeavoring to get rid of all agents who appear in public in an intoxicated condition. Not, he hastened to add, that it would be prima facie evidence of law-breaking. It would be perfectly possible for a prohibition agent to take a perfectly legal drink of liquor he owned before prohibition and is now in legal possession of. But, Lowman said, it doesn’t appear well for a dry agent to be drunk. It is on that ground, and not on any legal or moral ground, that those who may have taken a drop too much are being eliminated. Os course, the possibility of a prohibition agent being legally drunk on legal liquor is remote. Only the wealthy and foresighted, as a general rule, are still able to do that. And prohibition agents, gei. • erally speaking, haven’t been recruited from that class. Industrial Accidents Measured in accidents to workers, the high cost of industry appears to be climbing. Ninety-nine thousand workers seriously injured in one State in one year is something to think about. But this includes only those who were injured seriously enough to be disabled for over a week. Hundreds of thousands of men and women, In addition to the first 99,000, weft disabled for less than a week. The figures come from the New York State Department of Labor, and we are informed that 1,042 workers were killed at their work during the year or died from their injuries. One trouble with reports like this is that we learn of these injuries and deaths in figures, and figures are cold. If we could go into the hospitals and homes and see broken heads, stubs of arms and legs, sightless eyes, saddened wives, widows and orphans, and the hopelessness of humanity In stricken homes, we could understand better what the figures mean. Try to connect with American homes

when you read the following statement of facts and figures in the report: “One of the most impressive facts is that over 18,500 of these 99,000 workers were left with an injury that permanently, if only partly, handicapped them for future work. Amputations of fingers, hands, arms and feet and loss of use of these members or of eyesight, in whole or in part, make up the bulk of the permanent partial disabilities.” Oh, yes, there was compensation. The State looks after that. There was awarded in all the cases together $28,186,000. But this doesn’t cover the loss to employers and employes. There is a maximum compensation of S2O a week and many workers earn over S3O; and employers pay, also, medical expenses of industrial accidents. It is interesting—and may be instructive—to note that about half of the $28,000,000 went ih payment of awards for amputation or loss of use of fingers, eyes and other permanent partial disabilities. The report says: “This is the group which causes the severest handicap to the workers and the heaviest drain on the employer.” .What is surprising, however, is the fact that the number of accidents has risen. The number of accidents in all industries has Increased 70 per cent, although the Increase in manufacturing was only 51 per cent. Some years ago the Anti-Saloon League prepared elaborate statistics of industrial accidents, indicating that there were more accidents on Monday than on any other day of the week, and the argument, presented with much eloquence, was that the workers got drunk on Saturday night or Sunday, hence were nervous when they came to work the first of the week—and accidents followed. A good sales talk sold this idea to the manufacturers and the campaign for prohibition changed from moral crusade to a campaign for industrial efficiency, with big financial" backing. So a disturbing feature of these accident statistics is that they seem to indicate that prohibition hasn’t either prevented or reduced accidents. Anyhow—leaving prohibition out of it—this State report shows that by reason of these accidents in one State the loss of time through accidents amounted in one year to 1,215,492 weeks. This does not include the first week of illness, for which no compensation is paid, or deaths or permanent incapacity. Time lost amounts ot full time of almost 25,000 men for one year. Those of us who have two arms, two legs, two eyes and a full complement of fingers and thumbs might well pause a moment to think something of this part of the high cost of comfort. General Wood’s Successor When it comes to selecting a successor to Gen. Leonard Wood to represent this Government in the Philippines it is to be hoped for all concerned that something better than an Ohio politician will be offered. While General Wood had his differences with such leaders as Quezon and Osmena, the main difference was that Wood was trying to administer existing laws and these leaders would not be satisfied with anything less than absolute Independence. So there was always some clash between General Wood and the Filipino legislature. At the sane time there was a feeling that Wood was really a friend who was doing the best he could under the circumstances. He enjoyed the confidence of Aguinaldo, former fighting general of th? native army when it was fighting for liberty, and the hostility of Quezon was more against our policy of delayed independence than against Wood personally. One of the dangers now is a governor who will be more Interested in commercial exploitation than anything else. While it is all right for our representatives In official life *o work harmoniously and co-opera-tively with legitimate American business interests in the islands, still, the Interests of the Filipinos themselves is of paramount importance. And we should remember that they have our promise of independence. The key to the attitude of the faction of which Quezon is the leader is that its leaders want independence at any price, even if our withdrawal in the event of independence means leaving the Filipinos to their own resources. General Wood had no soft job, and he was an exceptionally able administrator. His successor should be chosen with great care and with a view to maintaining relations as friendly as possible during our occupation of the islands. Henry Judd Gray denies the reports that he has been spending his time in the death cell knitting. Which amounts to the height of defending one’s reputation. The .police commissioner of Detroit prescribes music as a cure for crime. Certainly, commissioner, if you can only get them to face It. The war In China has interfered with production of frozen eggs aid dried eggs. It seems that even out of this war some good is coming. The old-fashioned winter went away when the ladies began to ignore it. A conclave of osteopaths discovers that golf scrambles the spine. Not to mention the vocabulary.

Law and Justice Juy Dexter M. Keeser

A man and his wife were divorced. She was awarded custody of two sons, 7 and 8 years old, and SSO a month alimony. The man married again and this new union resulted in the birth of four more children. Nine years after the divorce was obtained the man sought a court order reducing the alimony to be paid to his first wife on the ground that a larger share of his limited income was needed for the support of his new family. The first wife opposed any reduction in alimony' on the ground that the man had no right to remarry when he had the obligation of providing alimony to support his first wife and the two sons. The man’s argument was that he couldn’t continue to pay SSO a month alimony without causing suffering to his new family. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of the State of Washington approved an order cutting the alimony from SSO to S2O a month. It said that “1! may be that he should not have remarried, but he did,” and that consequently his income should be divided with consideration for the needs of both families. • .. v........ . .

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

- M. E. TRACY SAYS: Very Little Wild Rubber Finds Its Way Into the Market Now.

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 24.—0n Tuesday afternoon I visited the place where Colonel Brady Jumped the Cuyahoga River. You would not believe a man could do it. The river is twenty-two feet wide and flows between sheer walls of rock that are about the same height. The colonel was in a great hurry, of course, and that helped some. He had come into these parts to chase Indians, had fallen into an ambush, lost most of his followers, become separated from the rest, and taken to his heels for safety. You cannot escape the impression that the Indians were close at hand when he reached the Cuyahoga, otherwise he would never have undertaken that jump, much less made it. How About It? We hear much about the superiority of modem athletes. Here is a chance to prove it. There are running broad jumpers who have exceeded the colonel’s record, but not over a chasm twenty feet deep. The question is, could they do it? To make the proposition fair, they should be chased by wild Indians, who mean business. Historical Places Most American cities that have passed the century mark are full of historical landmarks, but Akron seems peculiarly blessed in this respect. You can hardly turn a comer without running into some reminder of those heroic days when English fought French, Americans fought English, and everybody fought the Indians. There is the hill where Colonel Bouquet signed treaties with the defeated red men, having blasted his way through 300 miles of wilderness; there is the old Portage trail that marked the boundary line of their reservation for many years; theye is the house where Juhn Brown lived for more than a decade, and there is Ft. Island, where the Erie’s made their last stand. Peculiar Island Ft. Island Is In Copley swamp, which lies some three miles west of town. It is shaped like a hat. the rim being about ten feet above the level of the swamp, and the crown fifteen feet higher. Around the crown and next to the’ rim there is a water-filled ditch. The soil composing the island is different from that of the swamp, which warrants the inference that it was ouilt. New 'Aero Board’ The latest novelty in rubber is "aero board,” produced by the Goodrich company. It was first designed as a substitute for wood in the construction of airplane bodies, but has been perfected and improved until it seems available for many other purposes. It is light, strong, can be finished in any color and takes a high pol_ ish. When made for airplane bodies it is strengthened with thin sheets of aluminum on each surface. John Gammeter, who invented it, has more patents to his credit than Edison. Uses Increase It is surprising how many uses have been found for rubber. More than 30,000 distinct products are now being manufactured with rubber as a base. They range from penholders to balloon fabrics, from hairbrush handles to boats, and from babies’ rattles to fire hose. Science is l responsible, of course, but science is making itself felt in the growing as well as the manufacture of rubber. Very little wild rubber finds Its way into the market now. The world’s supply is practically all grown on plantations that were planted and are being taken care of by experts. Wise Statesmen Most of the rubber plantations are in British and Dutch territory. Both governments began to encourage their development more than half a century ago. This represents an example of farsighted statesmanship, and the world could stand a lot more like it. It now requires between three million and four million acres to produce the rubber that is needed. Company Plantations Two of the leading rubber companies in Akron operate planations of their own. The Goodyear company has one of 20,000 acres in the Dutch East Indies, and Harvey Firestone is undertaking to develop one along stupendous lines in Liberia. Other concerns prefer to depend on the open market, believing that the supply is now growing /aster than the demand, and that plantations represent more of a risk than safeguardAutos and Rubber ’ Automobiles have made the rubber industry what it is. More than 80 per cent of the rubber consumed in this country goes into tires. Chemists an Inventors, however, are finding other uses for it. One does not strain the imagination by suspecting that we may see furniture made of rubber some day. It has already begun to compete with linoleum and tile as a floor covering, with amber and bone as pipe stems. Fifty yedrs ago rubber was regarded as desirable chiefly because it would stretch and bounce. Today its hard and enduring qualities, when combined with other substances, are looked upon as of equal importance. T '

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A Shawl, a Few Pins and a Dashing Headdress Makes Bernice Marsolais a Flatting Vamp This Week by WALTER D. HICKMAN

The problem was to make a movie vampire’s dress for Bernice Marsolais. It must be made at once and it was the dress is the talk of the town in “The Whole Town’s Talking.” Miss Marsolais, in private life the wife of William V. Hull, has a passion for beautiful shawls. She has one from Italy and a Spanish affair. “Since my husband used the Spanish one several times for a piano cover on the stjge,” Mis Marsolais told me the other e.ening in her room at the Lincoln, “I decided to use my Italian one.” By draping the shawl in an artistic way, Miss Marsolais has created a one-piece vampire dress which is stunning. Then she had a have a headdress because all movie vamps are supposed to wear ’em. Then it was that Robert St. Clair, who dabbles in art for recreation between shows, decided that he would make just the right sort of a head ornament for Miss Marsolais. So St. Clair got busy and turned out a wow of a headgear. And so that is the story of how the dress and the headgear was manufactured for Miss Marsolais at English’s this week in a short time and without the aid of a dressmaker. But she will not be so fortunate when she plays the Mary Boland role in “Meet the Wife,” which Berkell is planning to present this fall as seven elaborate gowns are needed. While Miss Marsolais was planning her vampire costume, her husband who is director of the Berkell Players, Bill Hull had his worries because he had to find a chandelier large and strong enough to hold the form and person of one Milton Byron. And Byron, you know, is no featherweight, and one couldn’t use an elevator to get Milton on top of the chandelier. Just the Thing Suddenly Hull remembered that at some time in the last few years before the Ford was invented at least, that buggywheels were made. So Hull digs up an old buggywheel and his stage crew and decorators soon had the buggywheel converted into a nifty chandelier. And up to the present writing, the chandelier has been able to safely hold the body of Milton Byron. And it would be a terrible thing to spill Byron this week because he is wearing a brand new suit and even new shoes. Os course when I get telling you things, I generally spill all the beans. But to get back to Miss Marsolais. Up to a few weeks ago the Hulls were maintaining an apartment in the north part of the city but they recently moved to the Lincoln. In the apartment, Miss Marsolais found time to prepare the breakfasts and often, when not invited out, she

(Rushville Republican) No one ever thinks of Indiana as an oil-producing State, yet production is on the increase, due to new wells being constantly added. It is not uncommon to have a miniature oil boom in an Indiana community these days, a id in many places the hope persists .hat some day oil will be found. OH Only recently a Cincinnati clothing . manufacturer became interested in an in Indiana oil well drilling venture and Indiana expects to invest a good sum in a search for oil in Delaware County. It is frequently the case that oil follows gas, and the prediction is often made that oil could be located in Rush County if the effort were persistent enough. According to a survey compiled by the geology division of the State conservation department developments in Indiana oil industry during the first six months of 1927, surpassed the activities for at least the last few years. Likewise there was an unusual increase in petroleum production for the entire United States. During the first six months of 1927, reads the report, Indiana completed 127 wells with an initial pro. duction of 1,704 barrels, as compared with 67 wells with, an initial production of 830 barrels for 1926. Os wells drilled in the first six months of 1927, 57 were oil, 15 were gas, and 55 were dry. The State produced 409,000 barrels of oil during the first six months of 1927 as compared with 285,000 barrels for the same period during 1926. This was an average daily production of 2.265 barrels. It is estimated there are 2,650 producing oil wells in Indiana today, although some of them ere not being pumped regularly.

prepared the dinner. She believes in home life and loves to prepare good things in the kitchen. Being domestic has not damaged the artistry in Miss Marsolais. Neither has jTiarried life interferred with her stage work. She seems to be one person who successfully can combine professional life with married life. Happiness I have found roust exist in the home if it is going to be car - ried upon the stage. And Miss Mar

Wins Favor Cosma Vullo Noted as a concert artist and Victor recording star, Cosma Vullo, soprano, is enjoying her first experience in vaudeville with Amedio Passeri’s Romantic Revue th<[ headline attraction of this week’s bill at the Lyric. Miss Vullo is a New York girl. Her solo number, “Where Is the Dawn?” is one of the vocal treats of a revue.

Do You Know —

That in the last six months the nurses of the Public Health Nursing Association, an agency of the Community Fund have administered to 2,824 cases of expectant mothers giving them medical aid and advice on how to care for themselves so there may always be Better Babies.

What Other Editors Think

solais knows the truth of that statement. As far as I know, Miss Marsolais besides collecting shawls has one other “weakness”—it is motoring. Husband Bill goes his great weakness in baseball. He hasn’t missed a game this season unless it happened upon matinee day. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Charm,” at Keith’s; “The Whole Town’s Talking,” at English’s; Passeri’s Revue at the Lyric; “We’re All Gamblers,” at the Apollo; “Lost at the Front,” at the Ohio; “The Poor Nut,” at the Indiana; “The Big Farade,” at the Circle and movies at the Isis.

Questions and AnSwe:s

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. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. Hi-w many Chinese women are there in the United States and what proportion of them are in the State of New York? According to the latest census figures the total number of female Chinese in the United States Is 7,748 of whom 553 are In New York State. What was the origin of the old English proverb “The exception proves the rule”? It was taken from an old latin proverb, “Exceptio probat regulam” which In turn was founded upon a precept in Latin law. The same thought Is expressed in similar proverbs in other languages? Did Jack Dempsey score any knockdowns in his fight with Gene Tunney at Philadelphia last September? NO. Is the mercury used in thermometers pure mercury? Yes. What was the year in which Charlies Ross was kidnaped? 1875. Does the Eastern Baseball League rank next to the two major leagues? The Eastern League is a Class A league and does not rank next to the major leagues, but ranks next to Class AA which is composed of the Pacific Coast league, the American Association and the Internation-

(Wabash Plain Dealer) The Indianapolis Post, after being operated for about two months as a political organ at Indianapolis, today ceased publication, going the way that practically all political papers eventually go. A notice was placed on the door of the paper’s plant, located in the Century building there, announcing The Way of that the publication would be resumed p .... . with a reorganization, but persons who Political are acquainted with the situation there Papers say that the paper apparently is through and that it will not be published again. Politicians in Indianapolis, unable to control the three old papers there—all of them good ones because they are not entirely controlled by a bunch of politicians—started the Post to defend Mayor Duvall and his administration. The paper devoted page after page to praise for the mayor and his adminstration, but with only a limited circulation and no advertising the politicians tired of pouring money into it, with the result that it suspended publication today. The days of purely political papers have ended. A ■paper njust stand for something more than a political or gang mouthpiece if it wants to get circulation and succeed. (Ft. W*rne News Sentinel) Dr. Shumaker boasts that prohibition has put 236 stills out of business, neglecting to report General Andrews’ well authenticated announcement that it has also created nearly two million new stills which never would have operated but foe the impractical policies attaching to radical Volsteadism.

AUG. 24, 1927

By Charles Fltzhugh Tal:nan Authority on Meteorology

Why the Weather?

THE MOST FAMOUS CLOUD IN THE WORLD The “tablecloth” that occasionally caps the flat top of Table Mountain in South Africa has been described in numerous books of travel ever since the latter part of the seventeenth century. It consists of a sheet of dense cloud, formed when warm, moisture-bearing winds are forced up the steep slope of the mountain, especially in summer. The cloud often pours over the brow of the mountain, like a mighty cataract, and is dissolved as the wind is warmed by compression in descending to a lower lavel. The effects produced by this rolling mass of vapor are sometimes indescribably grand. The phenomenon is all the more striking because a perfectly clear sky generally prevails over the surrounding country -while tha tablecloih overspreads the mountain. The cloud forms very rapidly and persons climbing the mountain often find themselves suddenly enveloped in it and are obliged either to remain stationary for hours or taka serious risk in attempting to find their way through the thick mist. Thanks to the moisture deposited by the tablecloth, the summit of Table Mountain is clothed with luxuriant vegetation throughout the almost rainless summers that prevail in this region. (All rights reserved by Science Service, Inc*

Mr. Fixit Thuds Caused by Pavement Holes to Cease.

Resounding thuds as cars hit the three holes in the pavement of Sixteenth St„ near Central Ave. soon will cease, the street inspector says. The holes will be fixed at once if possible. Mr. Fixit: After an entire summer of almost sleepless nights, because of three holes in the pavement just outside our home which cars and trucks can not seem to miss, I am asking you to intercede with the powers that be to remedy this as soon as possible. I have a father and mother, both over 80 years of age, who need the rest they cannot get. The holes are on Sixteenth St., between Centerbury Apts, and McCan Arms, about a hundred feet east of Central ■ Ave. A READER. The complaint was filed. The street will be fixed in a few days. Mr. Fixit: The alley going north from E. Nineteenth St. between Sheldon and Hovey Sts., has several bad holes in it. A few loads of cinders in the holes will be appreciated very much by the users of this alley. V. L. F. A foreman from the street commissioner’s office will be sent to Investigate. They promise i.o do what they can.

al League. Class AA rates next to the major leagues. Who is the kin;.' of Prussia? Prussia is now t. part of the German Republic. Fie'd Marshal Paul von Hindenburg is the president of the Goman Republic. The former king of Prussia and emperor of Germany now li\es at Doom Castle, Netherlands. Is it possible to melt a diamond? It is scientifically possible but not possible to do so with ordinary equipment and conditions. What is the record time for circling the bases on a baseball diamond? Time, 13 4-5 seconds, made by Maurice Archdeacon. Rochester International League Club, at Rochester, N. Y., in 1921. When were buffalo nickels first coined? 1913. What is the meaning of the name Gladys? / Brilliant. In what kind of soil should Boston ferns be planted? Plant in any good soil, preferably a mixture of leaf mold. Give them plenty of drainage. They thrive best when placed in an east window, , f where the atmosphere is not toML warm. What is the ancient belief concerning the origin of the peony? One tradition is that the flower sprung from a moonbeam and another gives its origin as a blushing shepherdess, Paeonis, whose charms had stirrred the love of Apoilo.

Brain Teasers

What do you know about stocks and bonds? Test your knowledge of business terms on the first ten questions of this quiz. Answers are on page 10. 1. During the war. everybody bought Liberty bonds, but—what is a bond? 2. When the folks talk about a mortgage on the old home, what do they mean by “mortgage?” 3 When you go to a bank to borrow money, they ask for collateral. What does “collateral” mean? 4. On the financial pages, you see debentures a ivertised for sale by big corporations. What are “debentures?” 5. On Wall Street, they trade in stocks. What is the “stock” of a corporation? 6. They also speak of the par value of stocks. What do they mean by “par value?” 7. Does preferred stock entitle the holder to vote at stockholders’ meetings? 8. Does common stock bear fixedand guaranteed dividends? mfM 9. What are dividends? *"** 10. What are the “assets” of a company? 11. Who is prohibition director for this district? 12. How many high schools has Indianapolis?