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For though we walk In the flesh, we do not war
after the flesh. II Corinthians 10:3.
Lese Majeste af City Hall
rw-tHIS week the Indianapolis city hall is proving a
I bang-up source of news. Mayor Shank has been
giving folks a demonstration of being mayor of Indian
apolis. He has caused another member of the board of
public safety to resign—the second forced resignation
from that body within recent weeks.
Thd explanation of the ousting of Edward G. Sour
bier appears to be that Shank had begun to feel that
some of his official family members were forgetting
that Shank was mayor.
Bourbler, as a member ot the hoard of safety, made
demands upon the police that they investigate an al
alleged Improper dance that was staged by two unclad
women for the entertainment of a company of ban
queters. He made the demands so insistently that pub
licity was given to the story of the dance and the po
lice inactivity in the matter.
Then Mayor Shank went into action, demanded that
Sourbier resign, mentioned the kind of oil Sourbier
wanted the city to buy for municipal-owned motor ve
hicles and sai<f there must be no more gossip in city
departments.
Sourbier has indicated that he is glad to be off the
board of safety. Shank Is glad to have him out In
the warm autumn days the pigeons atop the city hall
have renewed their springtime love-making. And
Shank Is mayor of Indianapolis.
When Divorce Is Easy
MRS. ROBERT THOMAS, mother of nine children,
was this week granted a divorce from Robert In
the Marlon County Superior Court
The husband testified that his wife had alwayß made
a good wife and had worked hard.
Other testimony showed that Thomas had made a
pretty fair husband, as far as a laborer drawing $2O per
week could. He had paid $2,500 on their home in eight
years, and kept up his life insurance.
Evidence showed that the father objected to a
daughter "keeping company*’ until she was 16; that
the husband and wife had gone to church twice in their
twenty-two years of married life, and that Robert took
a drink now and then, the last occasion, he asserted,
being upoif the birth of the ninth child, whether in cele
bration or otherwise not stated.
Not having any other place to go, they have resided
together since the divorce suit was filed last summer.
They are no better off now. What a pity that people
should thus ruin their lives after so long.
Divorces are too easy to get in Indiana.
Education in Eugenics
THE Young Women’s Christian Association of In
dianapolis, by bringing here Dr. Thurman B. Rice,
an authority, to deliver a series of talks on "Eugenics,"
Is proving its desire to take a definite and practical
step in behalf of the betterment of society. An oppor
tunity is being given Indianapolis people to learn what
“Eugenics” means, what the plans of the eugeniclsts
are, what reforms they propose and like matters, which
for years to many people have been an “unknown
quantity."
Dr. Rice stands for the adoption of uniform mar
riage and divorce laws; for preventing the reproduction
of children by the feeble-minded, insane, enlleptic and
otherwise diseased persons. In the first of his series
of three lectures he pointed out that it is this class
which is largely upholding the birth rate in America,
and that the average number of children among the in
telligent, self-supporting families is far below that
which it la estimated is necessary to balance the death
rate.
Such a condition, if it goes on unchecked, portends
national disaster. This local organization deserves the
support of citizens of Indianapolis in its laudable un
dertaking in the interests of social betterment.
Our O. K. on Rubes
A Chicago wit recently said that the surrender of
a seat to a woman on a street car was the unmis
takable sign of a Rube. The poor Rube is guilty of a
great many offenses.
The age of chivalry has passed. Modernism has
given the “weaker sex’’ many privileges with which the
Rube is continually interfering. For example, the here
tofore exclusive right of strap hanging has been given
the women.
The Rube respects other people’s feelings and rights.
He remembers that the flapper Is, after all, feminine,
and that the business woman may have latent within
her the instinct of a mother. The Rube, remembering
these things, may show his lack of city breeding by
being of assistance to them in his inoffensive but rustic
manner. He may assist an old lady off or on the car.
It is even possible that he may overstep urban etiquette
by doing the same for an old man.
The unfortunate Rube Is the man who will not butt
into pedestrians on the sidewalk, and who takes his
turn at the lunch counter. It Is he who picks up a
fallen article for a woman. Poor Rube, it is horrifying
to think that he might shock polite society by remem
bering that smoke at first hand is a pleasure, but sec
ond hand an abomination. The Rube aigain shows his
lack of city training by his notable absence from street
corners where the real city beaux congregate to review
the "Passing Show."
Vive le Rub®.
Our Antiquated Government
AMERICAN citizens have voiced decisively their
disapproval of Harding policies at Washington
by voting independent progressives Into the balance of
power In both houses of Congress. Yet, thirteen months
may pass before the people’s will can become effective.
Under the most favorable circumstances the new Con
gress can not assemble for four months, and then only
by the arbitrary consent of the President, whose pol
icies have been repudiated at the polls.
Meanwhile, President Harding has summoned the
old Congress back again. It is a repudiated Legisla
ture against whom the people have cast a vote of lack
ing confidence. Nevertheless, this Congress may work
Its pleasure on the Nation. It will attempt to pass the
ship subsidy bill, one of the pet measures of the Hard
ing crowd. It can use its large reactionary majority
to defy the people, and the people have no redress.
Two years ago the voters of the country repudiated
a Democratic administration, and placed the Repub
licans in power. What happened? Why, the usual five
months’ delay before the newly chosen government
could »egin to function.
Such a method of government is a parody of
democracy. The plain truth is that the American Con
stitution no longer Is an adequate instrument of gov
ernment for a modern democracy, it should be re-
vised by a convention called for that purpose and then
submitted to the States for their approval.
Not the least Important revision ought to provide
for the expiration of Congress automatically upon the
election of its successor. The long time interval is
a relic of the distant past when there were no railways.
Letters to the Editor
LEW SHANK’S TALK.
To the Editor of the Times:
Our mayor, Lew Shank, was nominated and elected
by a landslide of the independent labor vote, but today
he could not be elected as keeper of a comfort sta
tion. If he is dreaming of becoming Governor he had
just as well wake up and realize that “them days are
gone forever.”
Do you wonder why? It is because “silence and ac
tion” are the best words a politician can look at. When
they speak they should have judgment to say something
in favor of the great masses of people and their acts
should always be favorable to the whole people, regard
less of "high brows” and wealth.
Forgetting his own great victory now after the great
Democratic victory Lew has spoken and he says:
“Maybe Beveridge’s stand on the labor question hurt
him a little, but not much, because 90 per cent of the
labor vote ordinarily goes to the Democrats."
I would like to ask Lew if this is true, why is it?
Why does only 10 per cent of labor Indorse Republican
principles? There must be something wrong with Re
publican principles when such a small per cent of honest
labor cannot indorse it, and why does Lew, after be
ing nominated and elected by this large labor vote,
now turn his back to them, and stand up for the "high
brows?”
Again Lew says something will have to be done to
bring the people to senses, to keep them from
leaving the Republican party. He says:
"It looks to me like we’re just going to have a
right good panic to bring the people to their senses.
Looks like they've elected a Democratic Congress.
They'll probably knock out this tariff law and then
they'll elect a Democratic President and then there'll
be a panic. We’ll just repeat what happened in the
Grover Cleveland administration, it looks to me.’’
But listen. Lew, there Is apt to be a panic with
“yellow jackets” In cleaning up a pile of rotten apples
to get out the good ones and make things normal again
and a panic Is apt to follow a rotten Republican afl
ministration.
You are always harping about the Cleveland panic,
but never say anything about the panic of 1873 and the
panic during the Roosevelt administration. Panics have
followed high protective tariff laws. You know that the
Democrats were in power eight years during the Wil
son administration ahd there wan no panic during all
that time, but it was a real period of good prosperity
which I believe the people would like to enjoy again
as it was before the war came on.
But Lew Is wrong about the cause of the last vic
tory. It was not caused by the friends of Mr. New.
The majority of the Republican party wanted Bever
idge when they nominated him. If you had nominated
New we would have given him the name licking we
gave to Beveridge.
You lost because you didn’t have the votes. The new
generation growing are independent voters. They
don't vote like us old stand-patters that "vote like pap
did." That day has passed forever.
J. WILSON WHITE.
Permit Us to Say
A loose screw on the door Is worth two In the head.
You can’t keep a good man down or a good for noth
ing man up.
0
A man is often misjudged by the company he keeps.
The longer skirts are making men round shouldered.
Ex marks a number of Congressmen who passed the
tariff.
Fashion note: Coal shovels will be worn very little
this winter.
“Cereals," says a doctor, "are brain food." That’s
food for thought
Most men tell their wives everything even if they
don’t know It.
Some of these modern flats are so small the children
have to stand out In the hall to grow.
Life and hash are what you make them.
\
Two robbers boarded an Ohio train, but the porter
brushed them off.
Since 1918 prices have dropped ten times and gone
up eleven.
London doctor urges women to smoke pipes, but you
can't talk with a pipe in your mouth.
In Boston, a man’s wine blew up. The drinks were
on the house.
So live that you think all people better than you
know they are.
In Santo Domingo, frogs bark like dogs. But that’s
all right A frog leads a dog’s life.
Many hands make light work and many make light
of work.
TOM SIMS.
By BERTON BRALBT
UP In the forest now the leave* are tailing-.
Matting- the earth with red and brown and gold
The birds, ere long, will hear the southland calling:
The autumn days are bright, the nights are cold.
Ana as I struggle at my dally labor
1 In my ears comes whispering a breeze
" sJfh says, “Come out, the forest calls you, neighbor 1
There are no lovelier dais and nights than these.
“•ITie brisk air sets your pulse beating Quicker
Life is atlngie In these gorgeous days,
*ab breath you take Is like a draft of Ichor;
The woods with many colors are ablaze;
Gone is the summer's languor, but the water, t
Clear cold and limpid, laps the pebbly shore*. -
Nature Is fairer than you ever thought her.
Now is the time to seek the Out-of-Doora.
"Come, slip away. Put on your old attire.
Tempt some good pal to come along as well,
Think of the nights beside a crackling Are,
Think of the frosty mornings and the smell
Os bacon in the pan, the fragrant savor
Os boiling coffee In the morning glow.
These are the days! You hesitate, ycu waver—
Back to the woods, old scout, come on—’let’s go!**
(Copyright. 1922. NEA Service) „
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
School Fight in .
Oregon Will Go
to Federal Courts
by United Hew*
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. IL— The
anti-parochial . school measure, after
being approved by a plurality of 15,-
000 voters at the polls Tuesday, will
be fought out in State and Federal
Courts in an attempt to have it de
clared unconstitutional.
Dudley G. Wooten, executive secre
tary' of the Catholic Civic Rights As
sociation of Oregon, declared Friday
that Catholics of the State relied upon
the courts to nullify the measure long
before it becomes effective in 1926.
“Os course the bill is unconstitu
tional under both State and Federal
laws, and a proper procedure In the
courts will so declare it.” Wooten said.
Blames Ku-Kltix
Wooten blamed the Ku-Klux Klan
for “stirring up a hotbed of religious
prejudice and bigotry which the saner
minded people of the State could not
check before the damage was done at
the polls.”
Wooten's statement was the first of
ficially forthcoming from either side
in the battle over the anti-parochial
school bill since the election. Walter
M.lPlerce, Governor-elect, championed
the bill during his campaign against
Governor Ben W. Olcott, who opposed
it, and won by 35.000, so the next ad
ministration’s attitude on the new law
is apparent. Opinions differ as to
whether Pierce won because of his
. support of the bill, or whether the bill
won by virtue of the Pierce landslide.
——
Picture Ilat
A large black velvet picture hat is
trimmed with a large swirl of royal
blue paradise feathers. The feathers
fall far over the brim, reaching the
i shoulders.
British Conservative Leader Tells His
Political Secrets as Election Nears
By MILTON BRONNER
NBA Staff Corretpondent
LONDON, Nov. 14.—“ I'll give you
exactly three minutes. Now shoot!”
Sir George Younger is speaking—Sir
George Younger, the millionaire
brewer, the chairman of the Conserv
ative party, most powerful political
organization in England, the man who
did more than any one else to bring
about the downfall of the Lloyd
George coalition government
Every eye In Britain is glued on
Younger as the general elec*'
the wako of Lloyd George’s i
The Name 'Protestant' Was First
Applied to Adherents of Luther
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Q. —When did the word "Protest
ant,” as applied to Christians outside
UNUSUAL FOLK
By NEA Service
MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.. Nov. 13.
Taking murder confessions has be
come an art for Anna Yoos of this
Anna is only 20.
(V yet she Is considered
Nf one ot the greatest
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_/ k It After Parker has
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And most
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•* Anna has token
ANNA YOOS the confessions of
thirteen men charged with murder
and of more than a hundred others in
the last two years.
She studies each of her cases. Often
she works until two or throe o’clock
In the morning on a case.
This rosy-cheeked girl has seen life
in Its barest truth*. Yet it has not
shattered her nerves, she says. In
fact, she expresses a liking for the
v ork. Her kind of work, she ex
plains, Is good for the morals.
“When people hoar about tho crimes
of life,” she declares, “they see that
the result Is always disastrous.”
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Do You Remember Away Back When —
The site of the Lemcke building, Market and Pennsylvania Sts., looked like this in 1875. Note the deer
hanging in the foreground and the man with the 'two quart" hat standing in the background. The picture was
taken before photography became an art and when trees grew in the downtown district. It was loaned the
Times by the W. H. Bass Photo Company.
I tion draws near. The election is set
j for Nov. 15.
i And here’s what Britain’s greatest
! political figure said In three minutes,
answering my questions without hesl-
I intion and with machine-gun pro
i cislon:
“No, I'm Jolly well r.o nemesis,
j I've no hostility toward any political
! parties or the leaders of any parties
"But I'm In intimate touch with
I members of Parliament and with our
narty machinery all over Britain —
i that's my bualness.
of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox
Greek churches, originate?
A.—Tho name Protestant was first
applied to the adherents of Luther
from their protesting against the de
cree passed by the Catholic States at
the second diet of Speyer, in 1529.
This docree forbada any further in
novations in religion.
q.—-What is the mileage of the P.,
C. C. A St. L. Railroad Company?
A. —Lines owned, 1.835.60 miles;
lines operated, 2,486.88 miles.
Q. —What parrots are the best talk
ers? What are their colors?
A —The Mexican double yellow
heads; they have yellow heada. green
bodies and red tipped wings.
Q —That are the duties and salaries
of United States deputy marshal*?
A.—lt is tho duty of a United States
deputy marshal to serve as officer of
the court, <to give bond for moneys
handled by him. and to keep an ac
count of all dlsbutsements, and to
arrest offenders against tho law The
salaries paid vary with the districts
and range from $3,000 to $lO,OOO per
annum.
q—What can one feed chickens to
make them fight?
A. —-There Is nothing one can feed
chickens to make them fight; the
gam* fowls are a distinct breed.
Q —What are the Latin countries
of Europe?
A. —Spain, Portugal. Italy and
France.
q.— What is the enrollment In the
four largest universities In the world?
A —Columbia University, New York
City. 25,734; University of Paris, 17,-
556; University of Berlin, 14,178; Now
York University, New York City,
12,943.
“And I know the voters were sick
and tired of the coalition government
formed by fusing our party and the
Liberals who followed Lloyd George.
"The people want a change. Wa
couldn’t afford to have our party split
as the Liberal party had been. It
would have constituted a menace to
I the country had there not been one
j great united party to present a front
| to subversive elements.
"If thlna-a had gone on our party
would Lave been split from the bot
tom. Sir George continued. “So we
resolved It was better to do away with
the coalition even though that might
mean a split from the top —among the
leaders.
"From my standpoint, it would be
far better for our party to go to sure
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defeat in the election and be kept in
tact than to continue to elide along as
at present.
“It la not true we wanted more jobs
for members of the Conservative par
ty. Nor is it true, as Lloyd George
said, that we were after profits, now
that the country is done with war.
“What profits? High taxes, big
debts, thousands of unemployed, tan
gled foreign affairs?
Third Minute
"We believe It was an imperative
duty to the nation to keep the Con
servative party together as a solid
bulwark against Socialism at home
and the danger of war abroad.
“To Socialism we oppose our pro
gram of sane progress and reform.
“To the danger of war, which -was
very near in the Turkish crisis, we
present our program of a determined
effort to keep the peace. Our people
"are sick to death of war.
“And, speaking of foreign relations,
I need hardly assure you that one of
NOV. 14, 1922
Drys Will Have
Margin of Votes
in Next Congress
By Timet Special
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—1n the
next Congress, the drys will have the
votes, but the wets will have a dis
tinct "psychological” advantage. *
The enormous number of
polled by wets in such Statens as New
York, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Ohio, Illinois and Missouri has en
couraged (hem to believe that if their
money doisn’t run out and they keep
fighting long enough they’ll eventual
ly be able to put something more than .
foam in a glass of beer.
They figure that fewer members of
the next Congress will stand in awe
of the power of the Anti Saloon
League of America. The wets, In
perfecting "The Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment” along
practically the same lines as the Anti-
Saloon League, are now able to offer
congressional candidates the same
kind of inducements to vote wet that
the Anti-Saloon League has offered
them to vote dry.
It has been common knowledge that
a very large number of dry votes in
Congress have been cast by men
whose convictions were wet. In their
home districts, after State and nation'
w*de prohibition became effective, the
old wet organizations became im
potent and the Arti-Saloon League
became all powerful as a political
factor.
Wets are already claiming they’ll
have enough votes in the next Con
gress to force a modification of the
Volstead act.
IF YOU ARE WELL BRED
You know that it is better to be
toe conservatively dressed than to
overdressed at any social function. I™
you are in doubt as to what to wear
it is safest to select the plainer dress.
That is. If you are in doubt as to
whether to wear evening or dinner
clothes, the dinner dress is the wiser
choice. On the street never wear
exaggerated clothes. Avoid too much
jewelry and bizarre effects that make
ycu conspicuous.
Os Gold Lace
A dance frock that is unusually
lovely is of sheer gold lace,, made
over a foundation of gold cloth, which
introduces gay colors with streamers
of chiffon hung from ruched rosettes
that mark the waistline. ,
the pillars of our faith Is closer and
better and friendlier relations w r ith
America.”
The three minutes were up. I rose
to go. Characteristically, Sir George
remarked to his secretary:
"Hereafter I am strong for news
paper men who keep their word and
stick to three minutes!”