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officially prohibiting cheek-tocheek posi-
tons
II the expert drafting the bill can over.
come constitutional obstacles there will be
a provision against "jazsy music" Canon
Chase promises.
Canon Chase is in harmony with Mr..
Cammack, Of Kansas City, who, thinks
that there should be a law forbidding jazs
music.
The nation has been fighting booze a
long time" Mr.. Cammack said. "I am just
wondering whether jazz isn't going to have
to be legislated against as WELL 1t seems
to me that when It gets into the blood of
some OF our young folks, and / might add
older folks. too, It serves them Just about
as good as a stiff drink of booze would
do"N =.
III Canon Chase, OF Brooklyn, gets his
dance hall censorship safely engrafted on
to the statue books 1t ought 10 be easy to
carry the thing o step further and make
the same rules apply to dances In the
homes.
II the present Legislature passes the
dance law as applied to public bathrooms,
next years Legislature, It is hoped. will
amend the law to make It apply to private
houses and apartments. This will enable
the politicians to appoint hundreds OF
dance inspectors to roam the streets. and
when they hear a piano or photograph
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out for an afternoon stroll or shopping will,
under the new law, be compelled to stop
for two or three minutes every few steps
and thus escape the danger OF. too much
hurrying or undue heart strain.
Dogs are now not allowed loose on the
New York streets without a muzzie and
leash And Health Board regulations al
ready forbid ono to expectorate, on the
street. So with the Health Board ordinance.
already in force and the new traffic cop
law soon to come, the pedestrians will be
In very much the same situation as their
dogs with muzzle and leash.
And while the traffic cop will regulate
with his whistle the starting and stopping
Of pedestrians on the sidewalk, another bill
Is being prepared by Canon Chase. of
Brooklyn. to regulate the conduct of in
dividuals In public places. Among other
things this proposed new law will regulate
is the manner OF dancing, and II will define:
Exactly in what manner the young gen.
tleman shall approach his prospective part,
ner when proposing whirl around the
dance hall.
Exactly how he shall encircle her WI st
with his arm and where the palm of his
hand shall rest upon her back.
Bxactly how her arm shall drape itself
about his shoulder while the two are en-
braced during the dance
Exactly how far apart she and he shall
remain while the dancing progresses. spe-
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Fined not less than $50 nor more than
$4,000, or be confined in the county Jail not
less than ten days nor more than twelve
months"
But the people of intelligence in Ken.
lucky woke DIP and made such a fuss that
the members Of the Legislature did not
dare pass the law.
The Rev. Mr.. voliva, who presides over
the Zionist community in Illinois, teaches
his 1000 school children that the earth is
fat. If he had influence enough with the
Legislature he would like to put a law
through that would land anybody in Jail
who didn't agree with him
Once in while a sense of Lumor dawns
on the solemn brains of the great states.
men who make the laws. The eternal pes,
of the reformers who pursue the legislat.
ors with demands for freak laws inspired
member of the Virginia Legislature in
Richmond to introduce this resolution:
Resolved, That the Clerk of the House
be and is hereby authorized to take the
measurement Of and furnish to each mem.
Der of the House luxurious set of srtiA.
cial whiskers, appropriately and bscono-
ingly designed, for the purpose of disguise.
TO facilitate inEress and egress from the
House without recognition by the various
Hobbies.
Resolved further. that the COST Of such
paraphernalia be paid by such Hobbies"
This brought forth q suggestion that
members of legislatures who introduce or
vote for fool laws should wear In. public
a placard listing the laws they had helpsd
enact.
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posed new law, as suggested by Senator
Dunnigan, makes It a crime for anybody to
buy even cartridges OF other ammunition
without a license and q coupon, etc.
The theory Of the New York pistol law
is good. II nobody but policeman could
get hold Of pistol 1t would be an ideal
situation. But the practical working of
the law is that the criminal who always
carries one knows the NV has stripped his
City Magistrate Joseph e. Corrigan, who
has watched the working Of the law. has
urged that 1t be repealed as it stands in
its present form, saying that experience
has shown that the law only emboldens
the criminal by assuring him that
his victim will be unarmed. Killings by
revolver shooting are far more prevalent
to-day than before this law was passed,
while burglary and robbery flourish, the
Magistrate said, because criminals lack
the deterrent Of fear that they will be
shot II surprised at their work.
Other Legislatures are Just as wide
awake In freak legislation as the New York
Legislature In some ways. perhaps. the
prize for the freak legislation season Of
1922
II was in Kentucky that two different
bills were recently proposed forbidding the
State University or the public schools to
teach Darwin's theory Of evolution. Any
college president or professor or teacher
In any school that taught the pupils
the great scientific discoveries Of Professor
Darwin should b.:
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record playing music that sounds suspi-
ciously like dance music they can stage
raid.
II the dancers within their homes and
apartments try TO muffle the photograph.
then any suspicious gliding shadows on the
window shade might betray the dancers,
but even II the music is stilled and the
lights are turned out and the dancers feel
reasonably safe, they may be betrayed
by spoilers or servants in the house. All
this Canon Chase will be able to skillfully
straighten out in due time as the loopholes
in the law are discovered and remedied
from time to time
And II the terrified dancers turn to a
little game of cards-then Senator Duke
of Albany, has got them with his proposed
new law to forbid the sale OF playing
cards!
And IL Billy quits the house in disgust
and asks Betty to come out for romantic
moonlight ride in his roadster-then
with his bill to put in jail any motorist
who does any spooning and fails to keep
both hands on the steering wheel
In the eagerness OF Legislators to write
new laws and correct all possible errors OF
conduct, we have such things rs the New
York law which makes It a crime for man
to have a pistol in his house. and, there
fore, makes the highwayman and burglar
feel perfectly safe in going into the bed
room, knowing well that he has his pistol ~
a necessary part Of his tools Of trade. but
that the householder has been stripped OF
any means OF defending himself by the law.
In fact, the way some of these laws work
out was illustrated the other day when
bandits attacked a truckload Of valuable
silks in Brooklyn, and August Koepp, the
driver, defended his truck and his valuable
load by shooting at the bandits Koepp
drove of the highwsymen, saved his EN-.
ployers' silks and was wounded in the arm
in the battle,A
But under THE law August Koepp, the
brave driver, was q criminal. He had no
right to have that pistol. He had done
a brave thing, but the police arrested him
in st. vincent's Hospital. and he faces q
term In State prison for his conduct. The
bandits, Of course, have gone free.
They had their pistols, as all professional
criminals do. They counted on the driver of
the truck not having a weapon, because
the law says he must not have one SO the
net result Of that brave chauffeur's faithful
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and they can le-
gally continue In
safety.
Whether the
proposed new law
to put pedestrians
under command OF
the traffic cops
will be amended
to allow people
within two steps
OF a store en-.
trance to continue
into the store has
not yet been de-
cided.
1t is pointed out
that one result of
the new law to
safely regulate
people on the side.
walk will be to
reduce the death
rate from heart
,disease which re.
suits from hurry
ing and hustle.
People who ar,
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c-~-S<xH sr~~s

CTEADILY the able statesmen in the
various Legislatures are shutting the
door on the good old customs which
father, mother and grandma saw no harm
in, but which would make jailbirds of most
OF our ancestors II they were living to-day
and did the things which. were customary
and considered harmless q generation ago.
The latest piece Of personal censorship
legislation is the bill offered by Assembly.
man steinberg in the New York Legisla-
. ture. which forbids anybody to get married
until three days have elapsed after the
issuance Of the marriage license.
II your true love has been cut to pieces
by an automobile speeder and has only
few hours to live, and he begs you for SEN
tmental reasons for q death-bed marriage
you must either refuse to comfort him in
his dying request or 60 to Jail for making
his last hours happy.
or course, there are things to be said in
favor Of forbidding hasty marriages, be-
cause they often turn out badly. Many
things could be said in favor of forbidding
all marriages for the same reasons. The
idea is, however. to build up on the statute
books such q splendid interlocking system
Of "you-mustn'tdoit" laws that we can't
60 wrong
Viewing the human race as a bunch OF
grown-up infants, how desirable Il would
be II the law could only make sure that
every possible contingency of anybody
making . mistake. indoors or outdoors,
would be foreseen and threatened with
summary penalties.
From this point Of view q bill has also
been introduced in the New York Legisla.
ture putting pedestrians ON the sidewalks
under the authority of the traffic cops
whistle. just like the automobiles, trucks
and buses In the street
This is a notable step forward IN the sort
OF legislation which aims to safeguard us
every moment, inside our homes and out
side our homes II this new traffic Law
passes every pedestrian on the Sidewalk
will come to halt whsn the whistle blows.
The eager eye OF the uniformed man with
the whistle will scan the sidewalks, and Il
a thoughtless stroller takes one step for
ward after the authoritative loot OF the
whistle he will be fixed with q warning eye
By the policeman. II two friends are ap
preaching with offended arms. about to
shake hands when the whistle blows. II
would be we'll for them to stop still and
no, risk their greeting of welcome until
the next whistle blows from the traffic cop
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act is that he has .
pistol bullet in mis- arm
and the prospect Of a
term in State prison
as his reward.
Just at present there
is another bill in the
Albany Legislature
which goes even fur
Their than the pistol
law which is at pres.
ent on the statute
ks. This pro-
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l.--Lisut. Hisginbotton,
Who Must Sail Ter he
Trshchss the Nsxt Dsy
Accidentally SeAs HI Old
Swssthsart on ths StaOs.
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( 10 See Her to Her Home.

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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-29
Wash Goods Materials Reduced

40-inch dark colored printed wolfe. Former price 39c
tons. Former price 39c 29c
44nch ply chiffon wolfe in large range of plain coors
Former price Soc now Observation-Disclosures. 36c
Remnant price Observation-Disclosures. 29c
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-29
HandkerchiefS Reduced

Women handkerchiefs, hemstitched with
colored or white embroidered corner
Former price 25c Remnant price Zoe
Womens handkerchiefs corded border
and embroidered corner. Former price
l0c and &c. now .......95c dozen
Children's white handkerchiefs, SOC dozen
Mems initial handkerchiefs Original
price SOC each, now .......3 for Sl00
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-29
Pure Irish Linen Pattern Cloth
Remnant Sale price $295 Former price $3.50
Lace trimmed Table Covers
Bath ToWeLS

so dozen 1896 Turkish
bath towels. Former price
Csc, Remnant price l9c ca.
so dozen 22x4Z ribbed
Turkish towe 5. Former
price 46c. Remnant price
39c.
so dozen buck barber
towels. Former price Zoe
each, Remnant price 6oc a
dozen.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
Short News Of City

Initiates Candidates - Fifteen can
didates were initiated into st. Joseph's
Benevolent association at its month
ly meeting Monday night. Anton
Stole, Sr., was presented with a
box of cigars for having the great
est number of applicants to his credit
Since last June, s. new members have
been initiated Monday nights at
tendance was the largest since the
organization was founded. The next
meeting will be surprise for all the
members, planned by the social COM
mittee. The society has planned TO
stage fair the latter part of Oc-
tober.
Missionary Society Meeting - The
Missionary society of the Second Pres
byterian church will meet Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. W. D. Arlington, 312 North
Twentieth street. All members are
asked to be present.
Postpone School Meeting - Post
ponement of the regular meeting OF
| the Parent-Teachers' association OF
! Sevastopol school to Oct instead OF
/ Sept %, was announced Tuesday. A
! Riley program will be given at the DC
/ tober meeting All parents are asked
to be present as this will be the first
meeting of the new school year.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
FIVE WORKERS HURT
AS AIR COMPRESSOR
EXPLODES IN CHICAGO
1Rv Associated Press)

CHICAGO. Sept. 26.-Five workmen
were injured, one perhaps fatally
lives of 40 others were imperiled, and
windows in neighboring skyscrapers
were shattered by an explosion OF an
air compressor in the partly finished
Illinois Merchants Trust bank build
ing early today
The noise of the explosion sounded
through the loop and was followed by
fire in the debris. For On hour after
the explosion police and firemen
fought blindly in the smoke and dirt
in belief that bodies of workmen
would be found in the debris.
Dlspels Bomb Theory
Belief at first that the explosion
was caused by bomb was dispelled
when Robert Covert, engineer in
charge of the compressor, regained
consciousness long enough to tell
physicians that the huge airtank burst
Covert was blinded and badly burned,
and doctors said he probably would
die.
The explosion occurred while work
men were changing shifts and most OF
them were in a sub-basement boiler
room below the compressor. The Doll
er room men fed for safety as the
| floor caved. So terrific was the eX
/ plosion that pieces of a boiler a fooI
4 below were blown hundreds of feet.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
Kiwanians To Turn Out
Big For State Contention

More than 100 members of the Rich
mond Kiwanis club are expected to go
to the state convention of Kiwanis
clubs at Anderson, Thursday. There
are one hundred and five or six mem
bers on the club roster, and it was
thought at first that the club would
have a hundred per cent representa-
ton at the convention, but some have
found that it is impossible to make
the trip. The party will meet at the
K of P temple Thursday morning al
g o'clock and depart as soon as pos
sible for Anderson. Appropriate XII
wants colors will adorn the automo
biIes in order to make a fine showing
in the parade of all the Kiwanis clubs
at the convention.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
PRESIDENT FAVORS
NOVEMBER SESSION
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-Although
President Harding had not definitely
committed himself to the calling of a
special session of congress in Novem-
Der, he is of the opinion that congress
should assemble prior to the Deem
Der session to consider the ship sub
sidy bill and legislations which must
be enacted before March f.
An administration spokesman, out
lining the views of the executive, said
today that as it was regarded a GER
tainty that congress would have to be
in session either prior to or after the
December session, which expires auto
matically March 4, the president be.
lieved it would be preferable to meet
in November
A special session in November would
permit congress to get started in its
routine work in time to insure its com
pletion by March, according to the
view of the president
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
TURKS ARE WARNED
TO WITHDRAW ARMY
WITHIN 4S HOURS
1Rv Associated Pressl

LONDON, Sept. 26-The allied adj
mirals at Smyrna served an ultima
tum on MuStapha Renal that the
Turkish forces must be Withdrawn
from the neutral zone of the straits,
it was officially announced. 1t is un-
derstood that the leader Of the Turk
ish Nationalists have As hours to or
der retreat of machine gunners and
cavalry smen who have invaded the
zone and taken up position at
ErenkeJi. ten miles south of the
British stronghold at Chanak on the
Dardanelles.
In case the withdrawal Is not com
plete within As hours, it is understood
the British will move on the KEN
alists.
Second Invasion.
The invasion at Erenkeui which
threatens to upset the allied peace
plans in the near east is the second
by the Kemalists. The Kemallsts AZ
hours ago entered the neutral zone
but after their commanders stated
they did. so because they were under
the impression that the British had
left, the Turks withdrew.
The seriousness of the situation is
aggravated, according to allied off
Gals by the fact that it is impossible
to explain this invasion by claiming
another mistake" had been made.
1t was understood that Sir Charles
Harrington, British commander II
chief in the Chanak area has beer
notified of the allied ultimatium, ant
has been ordered to act in case the
terms of the demand are not carried
out.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
Lindenberg To Be Taken
To Hospital For Insane

Bernhard Lindenberg, arrested
about three weeks ago and lodged in
the city jail, was taken to the county
Jail. Tuesday, prepatory to his trans
fer to the Eastern Indiana hospital for
the insane.
Lndenberg has been insane for
about 81 years, according to informa-
ton received from his relatives in a
letter written the chief of police re-
Gently He was brought into the
police station Sept 6, and had been
held since that time. He attracted
attention by his claim that he was
related to Won Hindenberg, the Ger
man military chief.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
INDIANA DICTIONARIES
Warned OF PACIFISTS;
REVIEWED BY MORAY

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 20
The morning session of the second
day of the annual convention of Indi-
ana departments of the American LIE
gion was devoted mainly to hearing
committee reports and other routine
business. Brigadier General Lewis,
U. S. A., was the principal speaker
today and in his talk to the ex-ser-
vice men, warned them that the men
who voice the belief that war would
be no more, were dangerous men to
follow, an depressed the opinion that
the United States had not received
its final baptism of blood.
Governor McCray arrived in the
city at noon and will review the pa
rade this afternoon. More than 5000
visitors are registered for the con-
vention. A parade this afternoon and
a boxing contest tonight will conclude
the days program.
Election of officers and selection
of the place of the next meeting place
will come before the convention Wed
nesday morning.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
Three BALLOTS USED
At COMING ELECTION

There will be three ballots to be
voted by the electors of Wayne
county at the election Nov: 7. The
state ballot will comprise the lists of
candidates for United States senator
and all state officers. The county
ticket will be COMPRISED of the candi-
dates for representative in congress;
members of both branches of the gen
eral assembly and AL county officers.
The township ballot will bear the
names of candidates for township
trustee, assessor, advisory board and
justices of the peace. AS provided by
statute the state ballot will be printed
on pink paper; the county on white
paper and the township on yellow
paper. Approximately 26200 ballots
of each of the three kinds will be re,
CURED for the election in Wayne
county.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
Total Of 798 Register
At Booth At NuSbaur S

A total of 1913 persons had register
ed at the booth provided for that pur-
pose in the Nusbaum store, late Tues
day. Judging from this number, a
total of about 1000 persons will have
registered at this booth in the period
Between the first and second registra-
ton days. Advantages of registering
at this booth are mentioned by offic-
ials as one reason for its continued
operation. Registration at this booth
is a saving of time for citizens, and
viii relieve their home registration
workers of that much trouble on Oct
9, the second registration day. Indi
cations at present are that the regis
tration on that date will be heavy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
.INDELIDLE INK valid
ON Beer PETITIONS
(By United Press)

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept 26-Ruling
of Secretary of State Smith that indel-
ible pencil is solidified ink will be
contested by drys in their latest at
tack on the proposed beer and light
wine" amendment.
Check of the petitions has developed
that probably not more than one
fourth of the signatures were writer
in ink Smiths ruling was that the
signatures in indelible pencil were
valid, basing his ruling, he said, on pre-
vious court rulings.
Drys, in the injunction proceedings
in common pleas court, will contend
these signatures are invalid. If the
courts should sustain them, it will be
impossible for sufficient additional sig
natures to be obtained to get the pro
posal on the November ballot.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
MORAY TO PROBE
PENAL FARM REPORTS
(Rv Associated Pressl

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 26.-Governor
McCray and members of the board of
state charities and correction together
with trustees of the state penal farm
will visit that institution Oct and
will make an investigation of conditions
existing there. The governor will in
quire into allegations that prisoners
have been allowed to leave the farm
for short periods.
Charles Virgins, an Indianapolis
pugilist, recently convicted with two
companions for attempting to escape
from the farm presented the defense
that he had been granted permission
by certain guard to leave the farm
for Sunday chicken dinner with his
wife. This story will be investigated
the governor indicated.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-26
Negro Sentenced To Prison
Has Mentality Of Child
- Tnited Pressl

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Sept. %. =
Nose Strickland, So years old, colored,
who was sentenced to the state prison
for a term of 10 to q years, for as
sault and battery with intent to com
nit robbery of the James Dawkins
family near New Haven, is only seven
years old mentally, according to Dr.
Charles C. Beall. who tested his san
ity. The tests put to Strickland
proved that the negro is a moron, DR.
Beoll said and that his intelligence
was no higher than normal child OF
seven years. He was not found to be
: insane however, and the court order
cd. him committed to the prison.