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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351.
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Advertising Offices )y ew York, Boston, Payne. Burns & Smith, inc.
HAS THE NEW COAL COMMISSION yet supplied with a list
of the mines in which Goodrich and the members of his family own stock?
—
MAYOR JEWETT was expected to spend today in Indianapolis re
nothing his acquaintance with the large number of friends he possesses
about the city halt *
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IF THE COUNCIL passes that ordinance to require garage men to j
report all cars stored or repaired there are a lot of places that will have to
hire bookkeepers.
THE DIFFICULTY between the theaters and the musicians now ap
pears to be over the question of whether there is a strike or not and seme
time ago we were led to think it was over wages.
THE TAX BOARD doesn’t seem to know just what the latest bit of
cure-all legislation known as the Kiper-Tuthill bill means and for once in its
existence the tax board seems to be in agreement with the public.
STANLEY WYCKOFF settled the dispute over the authority of the
fair price commissioner at-Columbus to examine the books of the ice com
pany in his usual happy manner. He authorized an increase in the price
of ice.
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A Message to Harding
Never in his wildest moments was Charles W. Jewett, our versatile
young mayor, known to do anything, political or official, without the full
sanction of the Indianapolis News, the agency that first made him chair
man of the Marion county republicans and later elevated him to the dignity
of the mayor's office.
Mr. Jewett was taken up from the humble ranks of republican work
ers when the News wished to defeat the Kealing-Wallace-Davis combina
tion controlled Indianapolis republicans. He became county chairman
by reason of the News appeal for anew deal.
Later, at a conference between Richard Smith, managing editor of the j
News. Joe Roach and others, Jewett was suggested, discussed and finally |
adopted as the News candidate for mayor.
He was elected mayor over Samuel Lewis Shank through the valiant |
services of Denny Bush and a few other renegade democrats who have
not yet received the full extent of their pay for their services.
’ In season and out Mr. Jewett has been a loyal and faithful servant
of the institution that build up his public career.
In the republican state convention he was for Gen. Leonard Wood. At
the national convention he whooped for Wood with all the lusty develop
ment of the football player he used to be.
There has been nothing transpired in the brief period passed
since the republican state convention that indicates any breach between the
News and Mr. Jewett. On the contrary, the harmony that has heretofore
prevailed has been as thick as honey and about as sticky.
Meanwhile, for the evident purpose of causing as much harm as Is
possible in democratic organization affairs, the News is doing what it dares
to indicate its dissatisfaction with Senator Harding, the republican nominee
whom it fought so bitterly before the national convention.
Almost it has convinced some of the unsophisticated that it does not j
intend to support Mr. Harding for the presidency.
But a few days ago, while the legislature was wrestling with some i
Marion county problems and Gov. Goodrich was publicly expressing a de-;
sire to hear from Mr. Jewett, the versatile mayor hung out the usual
sign on his office in the city hall and hied himself over Into Ohio, where
rumor says he was welcomed by Senator Warren G. Harding Into the con
sultation chambers of the mighty.
It is folly to believe that Charlie Jewett went to see Harding without
the full knowledge and consent of the News managers.
It is folly to believe that while there exists a line of communication
between the managers of the News through the versatile Mr. Jewett there
is a very wide breach between the News and Senator Harding.
The principal question that arises in the mind of the man who Is polit
ically Inclined is merely whether the News sent Jewett to bear Mr. Hard
ing the terms under which he can obtain the News support or whether the
News sent Jewett to Mr. Harding to Inform the pominee that In accord- i
ance with its usual tactics It was merely wobbling oc the fence until It ,
has re-established Its standing as a Fairbanks-owned “independent" pa-j
per when, again as usual, it will find reasons why Mr. Harding sbculd
have its unqualified support.
In either capacity, Mr. Jewett is a safe messenger. The News man-1
agers do not need to lay awake nights fearing that he will overstep his j
instructions. For without specific directions from them past events l ave i
proved, Mr. Jewett will do or say nothing.
Bootlegging and Officials
v Light on the problem of why the administration iB having so much
trouble enforcing the federal prohibition law Is shed by the Philadelphia
North American which says: ' >
“It is common gossip among those who conduct this illicit Rale of
intoxicants in different communities, that nine-tenths of the prohibition
officers are corrupt and are making hay while the 6un shines, fearing that
their jobs will not last long.”
In a Washington dispatch the same paper offers the following:
“Blame for the universally recognized failure of the government
strictly and impartially to enforce the Volstead act Is laid by John F. i
Kramer, prohibition commissioner, to lack of funds. With only $4,500,000
at his disposal to administer tho national prohibition and antl-narcotlc drug
laws, Mr. Kramer says he finds it impossible to cope with the bootleggers,
rum-runners, illicit distilleries, home brewing establishments and other
means whereby intoxicants are being manufactured, imported, distributed
and absorbed in every section of the country and particularly in the large
cities.” \
Both explanations have merit and in addition there Is the condition
alluded to by Judge Anderson when he declared that the district court
was being transformed into a police court because of the failure of state
officials to do their duty.
Eternal vigilance is the price of prohibition in Indiana as elsewhere.
Analysis of the local situation fails to disclose specifically which of
the three causes for prohibition failure 'plays the major part in Indianap
blis.
But bootlegging was never stopped or prevented by any who
sits in his office surrounded by confiscated whisky and Bpends time writ
ing public letters congratulating himself and others on the absence of
bootlegging.
Some More Ifs
If we had a mayor who is not also charged with the duties of acting
as a messenger for the Indianapolis News we mighfhave an investiga
tion of the difficulties of the housewives’ league in purchasing produce
for Its market house stand. ,
If we had a board of safety that was not composed of gentlemen with
other lines of proclivities that interfered with service to the city wo might
have a method of making it uncomfortable for those market house para
sites who prefer to sell their wares to members of, the high cost of living
squad who are holding up the prices of foodstuffs in Indianapolis.
If we had a nrosecutor who could see crimirtal intent in something
else than an offense that permits of an easy and immediate cash fee for
prosecution, we might have a grand jury investigation of the circum
stances that compelled the housewives* league to close its market stand.
Thanks to Judge Alford, who, sitting as a special judge, impanelled a
grand jury that the regular judge failed to get in a month’s time, we now
have the machinery for such an investigation.
In any other community the circumstances surrounding the inability
of the housewives’ league to make purchases for its stand on the market
would be sufficient evidence of an illegal combinatipn to warrant a
thorough investigation. V
In Indianapolis the do nothing policies that permeate the city hall
and the courthouse seem to have stupefied the little sense of civic duty
that the administration possessed when it went into office.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which end of an airplane leaves the
ground first? How nearly is the gov
ernment forecast .of crops borne out by
the actual yield-? Is it injurious to trees
to empty ice cream tubs near them?
This department of The Times tells you.
If you have a question to ask, send it
with a 2-cent stamp to The Indiana Daily
Times Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. The
answer will be mailed direct to you. I
TAIL STICK FIRST.
Q. Which end of an airplane leaves
the ground first? L. M.
A. The tail stick lifts justs before the
wheels. The machine rights itself on a
level and the nose then starts upward.
CROP FORECASTS.
Q. How nearly is the government
forecast of crops borne out by the
actual yield? W. D. L.
A. Within the past twenty years the
estimates, of tie department of agri
culture have averaged within IV4 per
cent of the crop.
IMPEACHMENT CASES.
Q. How many impeachment cases
have been tried before the senate?
/ L. W. K.
A. The Vnited States senate has sat
as a court of Impeachment-nine times.
ICE AS REAL ESTATE.
Q. Is natural ice a part of real
A. C.
A. Ice after it is harvested is per
sonality and is subject to the law gov
erning personal property. Before harvest
ing It is deemed realty for most pur
poses, under the rule that ownership of
PUSS IN BOOTS JR.
By DAVID CORY.
Let me see, It was in the last story,
I think, I promised to tell you how the
magic ring saved Puss Junior from dan
ger.
Weil, this is the way it happened.
After he left' the hut of tho little old
woman he went deep Into the forest and
by and by it grew very dfirk, and the
trees were so close together and the
brambles so thick that Puss could go no
farther. So he looked about! him, but to
his dismay he found that the brambles
held him fast. And then, all of a sud
den, a great bat flew near and said:
“You are my prisoner!" And, oh, dear
me! Puss did not know what to do,
for the brambles held his paws close to
his side and he was unable to draw his
sword.
And then the bat whirred around and
around and flew so close to Puss Junior’s
face that he had to close h!s eyes. And
this was just what the dreadful bat
wanted him to do, and then be took Puss
Junior’s sword away from him. And
may >e he would have killed our little
traveler if, all of a sudden, that dear
little yellow bird that Is always singing
or saying something hadn't ' twittered
from a tree top:
“Turn your magic ruhy rln-.
Twice around your finger;
Touch the bat upon the wing;
Hasten! Do not Unger!"
And then, would you believe it? The
Stuart Walker has received an inter
esting letter from Dion Clayton ralthrop,
the English playwright, who 1* part
author of "The Storm Bird.” recently
seen at the Murat.
The letter, which was written in Ken
sington, London, Is as follows:
"Dear Mr. Walker.
"First let me give you very real thanks
for all your kindness and consideration.
The printed matter and flashlights ar
rived safely and one- can see wbat care
has been taken in everything.
“It may Interest you to know that the
Clayton part of my name was used al
ways by my father, John Clayton, for
whom Pinero wrote all his early farces;
and the Dion Is my grandfather Dion
Bonclcault’s gift.
“I hope, if we pull through this time,
we may have the great pleasure of being
produced by you again. Miss Irene Van-
WHEN A GIRL MARRIES
A New Serial of Young Married Life
By ANN LISLE.-
CHAPTER CYIII.
Rwy and I had taken very early tea
and U was only a lttttle after 5 when
I got home from my unhappy honr of
disillusionment.
T hurried info my bedropm and began
to take ofT my baL~tben I itood motion
less with one pin In my hand qnd re
flected upon the blunders that had
brought Barbnra Ann# Harrison to hoi
present pass of unhappiness.
Item: Jealousy of Betty Bryce and
a series of rebuffs to Betty’s offers of
friendship.
Item: Longing for a womvi rrleuo
In Jim’s own world —and the ac
ceptance of Evelyn Mason's companion
ship. .
Item: The climax that had given
Betty every right to think she was not
wanted or needed here and wag welcome
10 pursue her intimacy with \ irglnln
and to forget ma.
At this stago of Itemising with my
self and my loneliness I removed tho
other pin from my bat., put away the
outer trappings used for my afternoon
with Ewy and addressed myself sternly.
“Anne, yott’ve been taking what you
Insisted was ’something Just as good’
In place of real friendship. Yon wero
suspicious of Betty Jnst because she was
so kind. Now I guess Betty’s about
done with offering yon her friendship;
you’ve snubbed her for the last time.
II you want her, you'll have to go after
her. Well, do you want her? Lo you
want someone who will help you throw
light on Jim’s betting at the races and
shaking dice with Neal as If gambling
were 'the most gripping thing In life? Or
do you want to go half distracted won
dering whether that means he has the
gambling fever?"
In answer to my own questions, I went
BRINGING UP FATHER.
- ™^ CT 1 COLA vMW ALL PRETAX HEAVEH’b-' O—U* HAD
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1920.
real estate extends indefinitely upward
from the soil. However, a Contract for
the sale of all Ice on a certain pond Is
treated ns a contract for the sale of a
chattel, and not of an interest in the
real estate.
MERCERIZE/
Q. What does the word "mercerize”
mean? C. F. S.
A. Mercerizing is a treatment for cot
ton goods or fiber that gives it a silk
luster. It was named for John Mercer,
an English ijalico printer who introduced
the process.
"BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK."
Q. What Is the other half of the quo
tation, “Put a beggar on horseback”?
ti. I. T.
A. The phrase "Set a beggar on horse
back and he will ride a gallop” was first
used by Robert Burton. There Is a
translation from the German, "Set a
beggar on, horseback, he’ll outride the
devil.”
ABD.
Q. What does “Abd” mean In con
nection with proper names? F. N. B.
A. In the Arabic and Semetic lan
guages the word generally means
“slave’ 1 or “servant,” as Abd-Allah, serv
ant of Allah.
ROCK OF GIBRALTAR:
Q. The Rock of Gibraltar Is said to
resemble a lion couchant. Which way
does it face? G. L. N.
A. The Mediterranean sei lies on the
east and the Strait of Gibraltar at the
west. Tho rock stands north and south/
brambles parted so that Puss could raise
hls paws, and quicker than a wink be
turned the ruby ring around three times
and then touched the bat on the wing
with It.
And what do yon think happened then?
Why, that dreadful bat turned into a
toadstool and Puss took up bis sword,
which had fallen on the ground, and cut
that toadstool’s head right off. And It
was a good thing he did, for somebody
might have mistaken that toadstool for a
mushroom and eaten it, and toadstools
are poisonous, you know.
And then that little yellow bird flew
down from tho tree top and Puss gave
her some crumbs that he "had in his
pocket, and after that she perched her
self on hls shoulder and showed him the
way out of the forest.
And when they came to the broad high
way she flew away; but before she went
she whispered In his ear:
"Don’t forget your magic ring!”
And after that Puss came to a deep
river. And as there was no bridge he
didn't know how to cross over, so he
sat down on the bank. And while he sat
there a big fish swam up and said to
him: "Do you want to cross over? If
you do, get on my back and I will
take you over.” So Puss Jumped on bis
back and away they went, and Puss
didn’t get the least bit wet. for the fish
was very careful. And In the next story
yon shall hear what hapened after that.
—Copyright, 1920.
(To Be Continued!.
hriigh Is producing a play of mine In
the autumn; Arthur Bourchler one In
the spring, and I have one running In
London now. so I count myself fortu
nate.
“With many good wishes and thanks
to you in which Pertwee Joins me. 1 am
youf* sincerely,
“DION CLAYTON CALTHUOP.”
.. -|. -|.
The amusement schedule for today Is
as follows: Billie Burke In "Away Goes
Prudence,” at the Alhambra; "The Lad
der of Lies” at the lsls; "The Perfect
Woman” at the Circle; "The Prince
Chap” at English's; Texas Gttlnan in
“Tho White Nquaw” and A1 Jennings In
"A Highway Romance” at the Regent;
Zane Grey’s "Riders of the Dawn” at
the Colonial; ’’The Bottom of the World”
at the Ohio; popular vaudeville at the
Lyric, Broadway and Rialto.
to the phone and called Virginia’s apart
ment. Phoebe answered.
’’They’ve gone out," she replied, almost
petulantly, when I asked for Virginia
or Betty, ’’They’re going to have dinner
together. They left me here alone”
"Then you come straight over here,
dear. How can you be aldue when you
have us?" I asked with pity for an
other lonely creature,
“Oh, I’d love to, Anne— bnt I’m not
very tidy. Have I time to go home
first? I’ve been working here all after
noon—and I don’t look very nice."
So I gave Phoebe till 7:30 to make
herself pretty and sweet, and then
turned from the phone and her delight
to face m/ own trouble.
What was I to do about Jim? I muaj
solve my problem alone—without aid
from Betty. Evidently she and Virginia
were growing very Intimate now, and
If they didn’t want little Phoebe, surely
Betty would bare no time for me.
Never before had tho city seemed so
big, so cold, so unfriendly.' I had mado
a failure of my attempt to And my place,
for although I bad lived In It sou
years, "the great metropolis” didn’t hold
for me even one true friend.
I stood at tiie phono while this flashed
through my mind. Suddenly I realised
-1 was turning over the leaves of the
phone book.
“How—aimless,” I laughed to myself.
But there was a choke In the laugh,
and I dropped tho book against the wall
with n terrified thud when I found my
eyes resting on the name, Mason Thomas
J. I didn’t need someone to talk to
as much as that.
Then all In n flash the door opened,
Neal dashed In and caught mo in his
sturdy young nrms.
I wasn’t alone at all—l had Neal!
Copyright, 1920.
(To Be Continued.)
INDIANAPOLIS
Population center of the
United States
Its highest point of head being at the
south end.
PREVENTING RUST.
Q. I have a vertical steam boiler
which I use only in winter time. What
shall I do to keep it from rusting out in
the summer? I. M. C.
A. The United State? bureau of mines
says that the practice is to fill the
boiler entirely with water.
AUTOMOBILE SHIPMENTS.
Q. How many freight cars are used Jn
transporting automobiles from factories?
V. I. S.
A. In 1919, 284.717 freight cars were
with shipments (Torn automobile
factories. Enough automobiles were
driven overland to tbeir destinations to
have filled an additional 40,000 cars.
SALT INJURES TREES.
Q. Is It injurious to trees to empty ice
cream tubs near them? C. H.
A. Since salt in excess is very, in
jurious to‘trees, ice cream tubs should
not be emptied near them.
USE OF METALS. '
Q. Are most of the inetais In * the
world put to gome use? N. M. I.
A. Nearly half the known metals of
> the world have not yet been put to prac
tical use.
HOROSCOPE
“The stars Incline, but do not compel.”
FRIDAY. AUO. 6.
Menacing stars rule this day, accord
ing to astrology. The Sun, Jupiter and
Uranus are all In evil place.
It Is a sway under which to take ac
count of one’s affairs, weighing care
fully business and financial problems,
s The Bun Is especially menacing to
those who have high ambitions and pur
sue them. Political candidates should
avoid any Initiative at this time.
Railway problems again will confront
the nation, but they will embody new
phases of discontent.
Color will be unusually potent during
the remainder of the month, the eye be
V3 OFfJA
ON ALL FANCY
TROUSERS H|
Opportunity again calls you to save ■ W
at this store —for we begin, tomor- W
row, the annual August sale of fancy
trousers. But this year we have reduced
prices more sharply than ever—and this in
spite of the fact that prices for Fall are to
be higher. ' •
* For Friday and
Included arc thousands of tine worsted, cassimere An bring,
and wliite serge trousers, all bearing original jince back the "old days,” a
marks, from which you deduct exactly one-third. fincy“ties that P soid up a °o
All are high grade, all are worth the original prices $1.50 and which offers ex
—all go now in this rousing sale. IST
The wise will get out their last winter's*
suits and buy a pair of trousers to go
with them. It means economy and
longer service for you. -
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Outfitters for Men ani> Boys
STATE LIFE BUILDING
Indiana s Ft nest Open Saturday Hair Cutting 25c
Boys’ Store — 2nd Floor Until 9 P. M. Children’s Barber Shop
lng peculiarly responsive to It. This
should encourage Increased use pf flags
and banners In political campaigns.
Reactionary forces now will be strong
ly felt by all classes of men and women.
The radical viewpoint, may cause many
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men and women to be misjudged.
Owing to the sway of unfriendly stars
diseases of the nervous system may be
prevalent at this time.
Persons whose btrthdate it is should
not speculate or risk any money. They
MAGGIE’S PLAN WORKS FINE—FOR JIGGS.
avoid changes and should watch
busj, / ss affairs.
Ctfldreu born on this day probably
will have many good friends and should
beware of wasting time. Girls ha r e the
augury of happy marriage.