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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-30
Old Folks Made
Happy by Passage
of Pension Bill

u AANficFAiA / a LII
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30-It's going
to tie a Happy New Year this time for
some $4,000 old folks. scattered
throughout the land.
The Bursum pension bill which be-
comes effective the first Of the year,
carries increases in pensions of about
500 per month TO all Civil War vet
Grams and widows.
The pensions Of $4,000 veterans
now on the government rolls will be
increased from $50 10 So
The pensions of $50, 000 widows will
be increased from $50 to $50.
These old folks are becoming more
feeble every day and it IS a debt We
owe them" said Senator Bursum,
New Mexico. author of the bill. The
estimated cost of the increase will be
about S70, 900 coo for the first year, but
at the emit Of three years this will
have vanished because the old pen
sioners are dying out so rapidly.
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COMPANY EXPANDS

The Meridian Sales Company. which
conducts three places of business in
+he city, has acquired a ninety-nine-
year lease on property at the corner
OF Maryland St. and Virginia Ave.
at which an auto hardware store will
he opened in the spring.
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NOBODY Home
BB BERTON BRALEY

7 n matters intellectual she's somewhat Intellectual.
/ She's less a dumb-bel. as il
Her talk 8 sheer uanlty. head is fuI
Ike run
Her cootery's deporable hut Oh, her smiles adorable
a IN her glance;
Shes ability a utiity,
But she's 8 floating feather a
She doesn't toll all aid her married all
She doesn't help her mother her
10 parents hrrying figuring worrying
"a e dainty arb n she
50 her.
her loneliness hcr styly.
They iretflly Inrarrettuly
feel each they've spent 8 worth yyblol
The butterfly ia glorious don't become
Because doesn't labor a
Perhaps unduutu, but
That's about Is as
And when a girl Iissable. with uumissable
Why kccna and
W should assume Of gratitude
That a lovely
Copyright 1922 NEA Servce)
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Parlors and in the kitchens Of Ohio,
according to w J. Biebesheimer, chief
of the division of labor statistics of
the department of Industrial relations.
Biebesheimer on a recent tour of
the State found that there are open
ings for at least $50 all-around opera
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Corn Yield Per Acre in
the United States Is 2ZI Bushels

from nature. His intense admiration
or natural scenery. in place of venting
user In cold description, was gen
orally associated with some engross-
ing human emotion. Hence it is
that he rarely fails to find his way
to the hearts of his readers. and that
he has succeeded in bequeathing to
his country and the world the most
admirable body Of lyrical composition.
whether as regards force of express
sion or tenderness of sentiment to be
found in the literature Of any age
or nation.
Are any high officers of the
United States Navy of the Japan
csc race?
No.
Where was Herbert RawlinsOn
born?
In Brighton. England, in 1885.
If Victory bonds in the series
n to + are not cashed until May
90, 1923, will interest be paid on
them up to that time?
No, the interest on these bonds
stopped Dec. 10, 1922.
What is the highest speed made
by the following. Man, airplane,
mOtOrbOat, automobile?
Man-100 yards in o 9-5 second; one
mile, minutes, 1876 seconds.
Airplane-243 miles per hour
Motorboat-S0.56 miles per hour.
Automobile Officially the record is
1864 miles per hour. made by Tommy
Milton in a Duesenberg car. I'm
officially, according to a newspaper
report, Sid Haugdahl made $50 miles
an hour in a special built car called
the white Streak"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-30
State Execntio1per Gets $50 for Eve1y
Man He Kills and Job Satisfies Him
BY ALEXANDER HERMAN
NEA Sar-ricn Sfaff Write

AUBURN. n. Y, Dec. 3o.-A
Pickering light; a pickering life
And another $50 in the pocket
of John w. Hubert, State axecu-
toner. who probably has executed
more mon than any other living
person.
There We're seventeen in 1922;
twelve the year before. But in 1919
there was a lull. Only two were
sent to the chair
Hubert is a man of silence. Small,
short-sighted and snappy, he goes
about his work in the death house
at Sing Sing without a word
A test Of the current in the after
noon a few preparations and he is
ready. When the condemned man,
head shaved. is strapped in the
chair of death, and the contacts
made. the exeCutioner withdraws
to little side chamber, throws a
switch and watches the bulb in
front of him. It gets DINNER and
DINNER as life Gibbs, and then flares
up
When it is all over
A Good Job, Says Wife
Hubert then silently packs his
little bag, boards a train and re-
turns to his regular job here. He
is electrician of Auburn Prison.
At home he never discusses his
job and his family is discreetly ST.
lent
But Mrs. Hubert finds no fault
with his work.
It's no worse than other Jobs"
she says. IF anything, it is better.
II is the execution of the law.
Somebody has to do it. Why not
my husband?
HE has been connected with pris-
Ons as an electrician for twenty
three years. When the call came
for him to do the added work he
took it.
1T wasn't 3 matter of like or dis
like. 1t was Just i matter of work.
Personally I believe in capital
punishment. 1t is painless. The
men who go to the chair are all
guilty. There is plenty Of time for
appeal or reprieve if they merit it
before the electrocution.
= don't know how many men my
=
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TOM SIMS SAYS;
.N HERE are a great many children
10 or so years old.
-24A~ C4o4,14,o- IL 4,

:: :: :: !" !. !. :: :: ::
Statistics show that, much sE sfs
to the cows disgust, the United States is | I 8xsll
eating beef 9SNs# NSsa 49,
1t be awful to be burglar ! 49,
and have stay out all night. ASS&
A fool and his money soon pay g ES
dime for a nickel cigar. VI X%t1AWx
Yes, the good die young, especially ~
the good resolutions 20
No how many sold there doesn't to
any in the
gives you his phone number it is often
to get.
Congress stop sending out free seeds 1t they do
not raise enough votes.
Heaven minister is million miles away" Then
pceder often million miles less than gallon of
always something. passes by
keeping its hands busy.
In Washington woman suing a man for 100000
stolen kiss but doubt he would be glad to return it.
Hunting sign
The most popular reading matter in jail is the calendar.
be selfstarer and get where he is going
less he is sefstopper.
funny, the funniest
have is the human
French dressing expensive French dressing
for girls is than expensive
Last year was as great this year be.
Germany Wants Peace Headline If we knew where it
certainly would tell her
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JESSE IN APRIL it will be fory-one years shooting
JAMES of Jesse James This will make good many elderly
PkER Z people hunt mirror and killed by
member of his bandit gang, while he was
hanging picture the wall The shooting place in his
home at st. Joseph, Mo
The house rapidly avng in, coapsng The local
historical society refuses the
quicker Jesse is forgotten the better Already in mem
ory almost mythical He thousands modern profteer
stealing in Millions must rank Jesse with the pers
difference technical merely matter of methods
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no list and has probably lost count
Of the number.
"He doesn't mind the work. or
else he would give it up"
But his son won't follow in his
footsteps He has gone into the
automobile business.
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COULDN'T A BOSTON goes prison for stealing
SAY | 100000 at the age o. 49, Previously through
ENOUGH 1 Ahis long life he been honest reliable
that he had L a high business position of
trust and a comfortable of prosperity
In stroke he a lifetime Of effort
You WI suddenly desired great riches
Too old enjoy wealth Only few years left
The answer is old Most of when we
have enough We keep graspng though the thing grape
at would be of use US we got it.
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Bureau, 1922 New York Ave Wash
ington. D. C.. inelosing . cents in
stamps. Medical. legal and love and
marriage advice cannot he given I'm
signed letters cannot be answered hut
all letters are confidential and receive
personal replies. Although the bureau
does not REQUIRE II. II viii assure
prOmDter replies if readers viii confine
questions to a single subject writing
more than one letter If answers on va
rlous subjects are desIred.-EDITOR.
What is the average yield of
corn per acre in the United
States?
This varies from 14.S bushels IN
Florida TO A bushels in Connecticut.
The average for the entire country
for the past ten years is 27.1 bushels
per acre.
Who is the Premier of Great
Britain?
Andrew Bonar Law, who recently
succeeded T avid Lloyd George.
What became of the head of st.
John the Baptist after SaIome
gave it to her mother?
There is no record Of what became
Of It
Who OWNS the land on which
the United States mint In PhiIa-
delpIlia is built?
The United States Government.
How does Robert Burns rank
SIS a poet?
IN literature the place of Robert
Burns is among the great ones OF the
earth His poety is replete with fire,
humor and pathOs, combined with
perfect simplicity and naturalness.
One main secret of his success was
bis almost always writing directly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-30

WHOA. "a REMBERS of the Legislature including some
STATE 1AIA Republicans well Democrats, are
EXPENSE 1VA coming to Indianapolis week with the
announced intention of curtaing the
penss of the State One member of the Assembly
has the statement that the expenses could be
100000 annually without curtailing efficiency.
During the the State like nearly everybody got
habit of spending Money freely and spent
freely Everybody the habit from force of necessity
war State still having way money
right spending it.
while the people who support the have peace
time pocketboo The expenses of the State have than
bed since before the
time the Legislature fOrgets politics and the feeling of
few persons who may lose political jobs and gets busy and puts
the State business basis Every
forced to peaeetime basis. Why not the Stae2
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cede the cooperative commonwealth.
THEODORE ROMINE,
MOoresville Ind.
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PROFITS ~ NATOR HIRAM JOHNSON proposes in bill to
VERSUS - amend the Esch Cummins that railroads
SERVICE ~ will be forbidden from declaring
the interstate commission has certified
that their railroad equipment sufficient the
in other words until the railroads have rails engines
sufficient to handle the business coming them
Senator Johnson lawyer and presumably he has
the legality of his proposition That being
be commended from Washington Florida Eng
land California wherever shippers whether orchardss
actuers stock aers farmers pleading for railroad relief
This plan douby worthy hearing
because it from the of State which
generations the princpaly of great
road system California has known what it be rail
road granny and if her way to prevent ope
from milking railroad properties when they should be
building for better service, let's give a trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-30

RISKS. Z MYSTERIOUS chance kills William Brown in
WE ALL MI CassOpolis Mich He his alarm clock two
TAKE AVA hours early by mistake, to corner
store at 4 in the morning instead of g. The
Waterman thought he rObber shot him.
When death may hinge setting an alarm clock if makes
feel that there be caution and accuracy in
the simplest seemingly unimportant things of life
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-30

GOOD ~ GOD from the railroads number Of cars
TIMES - Of freight they loaded shipment during the
SIGN ~ week ended Dec compared with correspond
ing week of previous years like this:
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Who is the Premier of Great
Britain?
Andrew BOnar Law, who recently
Tavid Lloyd George.
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What became of the head of st.
John the Baptist after SalOme
gave it to her mother?
There is no record Of what became
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-30

Who owns the land on which
the United States mint In PhiIa-
delplia is built?
The United States Government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-24

The Lincoln K L. A defeated the Indian
zpolis AlI-Stars at Riverside Sunday 10 TO B.
The Lincolns desire games with frst-class
state teams Address Fl. G. Johnson, AL
Harlan St The Lincoln Lodge team will
give a dance and card party IN the P. H. G.
Hall z. Michigan and y. East SITS. tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-24
OPPORTUNITY A BIT TARDY,
BUT COUCH GRABS CHANCE

A major league hero in his first
season and at the age of 30!
There you have the case of John
Daniel Couch of the Cincinnati Reds,
who completely upsets the theory that
youth must be served"
When the major leagues were buy
ing almost all available material
from the Pacific Coast League last
winter, the Reds decided to close their
eyes and dip a hand into the bag.
According to statistics the best
pitcher was Aldridge, who was pur-
chased by the Chicago Cubs.
Down the list Pat Morans eyes
blinked A number of major league
discards had good records.
There was Johnny Couch with San
Francisco. He had .625 percentage
with twenty-five victories and fifteen
defeats. Moran really was attracted
by COUGHS iron-man performance. as
he had appeared in 345 innings Thus
Patrick figured that Couch might do
The new pitcher arrived in the
spring, minus the blowing Of trum
pets. The Reds had not set imam.
cial record in arranging the purchase.
And this same Couch with a sec
ond-division team, won eleven or his
first fourteen games. Nehf, Barnes.
Toney. Douglas and Ryan, supported
by a world championship cast. nave
not pitched as effectively as Couch.
Couch is a reproduction Of JEFF
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Boston beat the Cards, to /, and
put the Giants back In first place.
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The Nidways defeated the Jones Trans
fers yesterday in a vel played game. TO 2
The NfIdways would like q game sunday
with any OF the TO owing teams. Beystones,
Spades. St Phillips. arsenal A. c.. River
side A A. or Y " IS Address T. N
Curran. e2I Parker Ave. or call Webster
1ATR
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-24
AF TER ONE DAY
Of GLORY CARDS
BACK IN SECOND
St. Louis Defeat by Boston
While Giants Win Gives
McGraW Lead.

m Cntteu " 6NS
After one brief day of glory, lead
ing the National League after mid
summer, the st. Louis CARDINAL have
resumed their accustomed place in
the parade. They fell back behind
the Giants when they lost Sundays
game to the Braves in St. Louis, 4
to /, owhile the Giants were winning
from the Reds in Cincinnati by the
same score.
The Dodgers lost the other National
League game to the Cubs in Chicago,
also 4 to l. Statistics don't play with
matters of this kind, out this is be
lieved to be the first time thar all
games in a big leagues days schedule
were settled by the same score.
In the American League, the
Browns lost to the Tigers in Detroit
after both clubs had made a long over
night jump from the East. The score
was II to s. The Yanks gained ground
on the Browns by winning from the
Red Sox in New York. II to Z.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-24
INDIANS DISPLAY
GOOD FORM IN
BREWER SERIES
Batting Eyes Improve and
Tribe Hits Ball Hard in
Milwaukee.


MILWAUKEE. Wis. July 24.-Ths
Indians say that they are going 70
step from here on in. Their batting
eyes are in mighty good shape it
NUT be admitted. There is no game
today Tie contest was showed up
for the Sunday bargain matinee.
The series ends tomorrow. In
the first fame Of Sundays double
bill the Hendricksmen clouted out II
lusty hits for u runs. On Saturday
the Tribe got only one lees blow.
gathering in to their batting averages
IS safe ones. They are hard to stop
when their eyes are on the pill. Eddie
Brown is hitting in the series like a
fend
In the first game Sunday the Indi-
ans had everything their own way
because of their smuggling and Hill
breezed along like a world beaten,
allowing only seven hits and one run.
Brown got two homers and Schneider
one. The second game was a mound
duel in spite of the fact that there
were five twirlers used by both teams.
All Of them did well. The Indians
could get only two runs in the last
contest and needed some of the coun-
ters that had been SO easy to get in
the previous tits. One of the tallies
was another home run by Hank
Schneider. Petty started and went
along in great shape until the sew
enth, when the Brewers knotted the
count at two apiece. The game was
won by Milwaukee in the ninth off
Young Seib, after two were out AZ the
result of Myatts single, Chultz'g
double and Schaak's single.
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SOUAMK LIKELY
# THEY FIGHT
EASY Or CLOUT
Public Will Kick Unless Battle
Is Slam Bang Affair, Re-
formers If 1t Is.
ALL ARE IN A oUANDARY
Promoter and Principals Have
So Many Problems They
Don't Know What to Do.
BIZ VESTBROOK PEGLER.
United NeFcs stat COrFgSUOHdeHf.

NEW YORK. July 24.-Prohibition
which has relieved the congestion in
some of the best American jails, has
thereby made available separate
apartments for Benny Leonard and
Leftie Lewie Tender. in case they
should get into a fight during their
twelve-round lightweight champion
ship boxing exhibition next Thursday
IN the cool of the Jersey night.
There's lots Of room for couple
Of young business men who fracture
the laws of New Jersey by giving
each other knock on the nose.
Up Against 1t
Benny and Lewie are in a guam
Diary. If they get in that ring and
don't fight the people who pay nearly
half a million dollars will raise a
squawk whose harnessed energy
would run the factories of the United
States for twelve months. Yet, if
they forget themselves and do fight
the same Squire ellison. who has been
pleading with the Jersey Supreme
Court TO avert the whole match, is
quite likely to flute few bars on his
ED44CC NAA4SItC uALAs Ei'Aiib-At69 ~ NAAC GAA
draped figures in the ring, demand:
Officer. do your duty"
On behalf of the combined Protes-
tant regionists Of New Jersey, Squire
Gibson asked Justice Swayzee Of the
Supreme Court for warrants against
Leonard, Tender and Promoter Tex
Richard, upon which they could have
been bound to keep the peace.
The Justices Opinion
The justice refused, saying the time
to arrest them was not before. but dur
ing the commission of this crime or
afterward. This was brash suppose
lion on the part of the judge.
So far the protests Of the reform
bodies have been a complete failure.
Cannon Chase of Brooklyn has ap
peared in court and done more leg
work from place tc place to prevent
this fight than the boxers themselves
have done on the road. e
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Race Driver Injured.

SOUTH BEND. Ind. July 24-Ray-
mond Humberger, %. local auto racer.
was severely and possibly fatally in
jured Sunday afternoon when he lost
control Of his Chevrolet Special car
and turned over during the first lap
Of the 25-mile feature race at the
Elkhare driving park, Elkhart, Ind.
The car turned over three times pin,
nng HumberEer beneath IT,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-24
BIG HOWL IN AMERICAN
AFTER WHOLESALE TRADE

going to sit around and Weep about
it. Quinn declared. Wen go out
and beat the Yankees even with
Dugan and Smith. And let them get
Walter Johnson. Eddie Collins. Harry
Heilmann and others 20 help them.
"Yanks Got Best of It," Iris.
CLEVELAND. July 24.-"The
Yankees got all the best Of it as
usual
So said Iris Speaker, manager Of
the Cleveland Indians, here today, dis
cussing the Yankees-Red Sox trade
which sent Joe Dugan and Elmer
Smith to New York for Miller, Few
ster. Mitchell and a pitcher
"Fewster is the best of the players
sent TO Boston" Speaker said. But
even he doesn't compare with Elmer
Smith and Dugan."
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The Arsenal Cubs took a three-game
series from the Central Juniors Sunday by
winning the final game IL 10 g. The Cubs
viii play the indianapolis Glove Company
BIoor1er Girls next Sunday. For games
With the Cubs call Circle 229S and ask for
Eddie.
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GRIMES BALKS AT TRADE
Toledo Second Stacker Refuses to Re
port to Columbus.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 24.-Roy
Grimes, second basenan with the To-
ledo American Association Club, who
was traded to Columbus Saturday, re-
fused to report to the Senators. In
fielder Pechous of Columbus, who was
to have come to Toledo for Grimes,
will remain with his old teammates
pending further developments. it was
said
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The Robins lost their thirteenth game on
the Western trip when The Cubs beat them,
TO /
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ED ROUSH IN UNIFORM
Appearance on Coaching Line Draws
Ovation From Fans.

CINCINNATI, July 24.-Ed Roush,
reinstated outfelder of the Cincinnati
Reds, came to an agreement 10 play
the rest of the season. The terms
were not announced. His appearance
Sunday afternoon in the coaching box
along first base line caused a sensa-
ton among the fans and a long dem
Onstration was staged.
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WITH THE LEAGUERS

The Saints pulled little farther
away from the Indians in the AssOCia-
tion by taking two from the lowiy Mud
Hens. Bruno Haas had ten putouts in
center field In the second game.
Columbus and Minneapolis broke even.
Phillips won q game for Joo Cantillon. but
SorthroD was too much for thu Millers in
the second and a tight duel went to the
Senators.
The K. c. Blues continued in their win
ming ways and took another from the Louis
Vile Colonies, who are hitting the bumps IN
the West.
Young drove in one run with a double
and triple and scored two, giving the
Giants 4-tO-1 victory over the Reds.
The Yankees got nfteen hits off four Red
SoX pitchers and won, ! TO :
George Sisler made three Of the Browns
seven errors and the Tigers Won, II to q.
sixteen hits OF three Athletic pitch
ers enabled Washington 10 win, II TO 2,
With two more double plays Washing
ton ran the seasons total up to l0i.
The Robins lost their thirteenth game on
10 l.
Boston beat the Cards, ! to /, and
put the Giants back In first place.
Leverette stopped the winning march Of
the Cleveland indians and the White SoN
won. 10 10 g.
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The Talbot Specials would like %
schedule a game for Sunday with some
local team holding a diemOnd permit Teams
IN the 15-11-yesr-oid class are desired Gail
Drexel S1S9 and asE for Harry.
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BIZ NE4 Serrice
NEW YORK. July 24.-After issu-
ing many promissory notes, Benny
Leonard. pride of Wall Street, and
Lew Tender. representing the mint
at Philadelphia. are all set for the
bell rounds will be rung off on a
cash register July q at BOyle's Thirty
Acres The meeting will determine
whether Leonard is enough OF a
business man TO continue as admins
traitor of the lightweight estate
Spectators are. as usual, display