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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
LIGHTNING

The most terrible force in nature
hghtning-destroys SO ,000,0 900 worth
of property a year, according to the
National Board Of Fire Underwriters.
This, however, is less than fifth
as much as the yearly fire loss in
dwellings, not to mention destruction
by fire outside our homes.
Lightning IS not preventable,
though lightning rods are Of great
value in protecting us against It Yet
we fear lightning. have deep respect
for it. On the other hand. we have
only surface fear of fires. most of
which are preventable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Crist O'Cothan
Written by Man Who Views
New York from the Outside.

NEW YORK, July SO.-East Side
kids may soon have a real Jail as a
playground!
George Gordon Battle, president of
the Parks and Playground Associa-
ton. has started a movement to
transfer all the prisoners from the
famous Ludlow street jail to the
House of Detention and turn the big
court yard of the historic building,
erected by Boss" Tweed in 1869, into
a neighborhood playground. This
will mean the end of the Alimony
Club. for the old Jail in Ludlow street,
between Grand and Broome SITS, has
been the abiding place for many years
of those husbands, coming and going,
who have defaplted in payment Of
alimony imposed by the courts
Several years ago a movement to
sell the old place met so much oppo-
sition that the plan was abandoned.
The Alimony Clubs protest was
based on the old Ballad of Ludlow
Jail:
"'Tis sweet to camp within these
walls
And dodge the irate frail,
To miss her squawk and sternlX balk
Her reaching for your kale.
Aye. this Is bliss that prisoners miss
In any other Jail"
Penny divers of the tropics-ebony
urchins whose boats cluster around
visiting ocean liners and who dive
into shark-infested harbors after coins
thrown from the rail-have some pro-
fessional brothers in New York. Penny
chasers amuse spendthrift passengers
on New York Central trains that halt
sometimes along the elevated struc-
ture in upper Park Ave. Down on
the sidewalk the youngsters perform
all kinds of antics to attract atten-
ton-and pennies. When the passen-
gers shell out there is a wild scram-
BILE for the flying coins.
Motorists have a new mark to shoot
at. They can't miss traffic cops now.
A new uniform has been tried out
white cuffs on trousers and coat
sleeves and white shoulder straps.
The first one was at Broadway and
Seventy-Second St. It's not a brand
new Gotham idea, though Boston
traffic cops wear white straps over the
shoulders and crossed forward and aft
to the waist, like the Minute Men
of rs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
BRITONS OWN
|BA N ks AND
IN SUR A G. E.
CoopeBative Societies Extend
Activities Outside Re-
tail Field.
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Writer


ONION, July 30.-Perhaps no
more significant development
IL in the cooperative movement in
England ever took place than when
it entered two branches of activity
which seemed very remote from the
job Of selling groceries and Clothes
the banking business and the insur-
ance business.
By the very nature of things the re-
tail cooperative societies were compel
ing with privately owned grocery and
clothing shops and the Cooperative
Wholesale Society was competing with
other big wholesalers and manufacture
ers.
The thought came to the leaders in
the movement that If they put their
money in ordinary banks and If their
members insured in ordinary insur-
ance companies. they would thereby be
giving financial ammunition perhaps
to the very people and business Con
Germs who were interested in their fail
ure.
In Principal Cities
The. Cooperative Wholesale Society
therefore created a banking depart
ment in it's business. Today it has
main banks in Manchester, London,
Newcastle and Cardiff and 700 retail
cooperative societies act as its agents
and depositaries. 1t does not do bust
hess with the outside world. The sac-
copied depositors are cooperative re-
tail societies and their individual men,
bers, trades unions and friendly So
cieties. and workmen's clubs and SINH
lar organizations.
Today the concern has $S7. 500, 000
in current deposits, subject to check
ing out, and a similar amount on der
posit accounts, subject to withdrawal
after from fourteen days to six months
notice. 1t has accounts of over 1000
retail cooperative societies. $500
trades unions, trades urion branches
and friendly societies. 3,1oO with
workmen's clubs and 400 individual
accounts. Accounts subject TO check
ing out on demand draw interest com
puted each half year after ascertaining
the profits.
Insures All Corners
Owing to the laws the Cooperative
Insurance Society was not formed
as a branch of the business of the
Cooperative Wholesale Society. but as
a separate company. Four-fifths of
It's stock is owned by the c. w. S. and
the other fifth by the Scotch Whole
sale Cooperative Society. These two
great organizations also elect all the
officers.
Unlike the cooperative bank. the in
surance company does business with
all corners. 1t writes all kinds Of life
insurance policies, as well as fire. ac-
cident and employers liability.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Heard in Smoking Room

Ia N a train going east from
IL J Cleveland to Pittsburgh and
N beyond, the men in the smok-
ing room drifted into a discussion Of
chivalry. One man asserted that the
women or today, with their uncanny
ability to shoot. deadly weapons and
to employ dextrous and forked
tongues, were doing much to destroy
the old-time chivalric attentions that
men, Of natural habit, were wont to
extend to the skirted sex. Chivalry,
he said. still lives, but it is strained
to the breaking point.
That reminds me- said the man
in the easy chair" of the brief story
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Danger
eleven

Lightning recently killed eleven
Americans in twenty-four hours. In
the same time the heat ended the lives
of twelve. Stills all of US are afraid
Of lightning. while few fear heat
Lightning has the better stage set
ting and most of US are easily swayed
by the theatrical
Danger and fear affect US in Pc
culiar ways. The mose dangerous
thing in the world is the slipping lad
der. More accidents result from IT
than from any other cause. Repeat
eddy we have campaigns for more care
in the matter Of autos and fires.
But did you ever heard Of a Safety
First campaign in the use of ladders?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
From the
Referees
Tower
BY ALBERT APPLE
Weather

Holland has been sweltering in the
hottest weather it has had since 1887.
The heat wave struck other European
countries at about the same time.
Only a few months ago many scien-
lists were predicting that 1923 would
be "a year without summer" It
certainly looked that way during the
cold, late spring.
But summer is on the job, as usual.
1t is typical of conditions and situa.
tons generally in our nervously ap-
prehensive world. We are constantly
fearing a calamity or crisis that never
arrives.
Most of our troubles are mag
inary-nightmares Of fear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
STATES PURE FOOD LAWS

" State of Indiana has charge of the enforcement of
pure food laws yet at the State farm 100 prisoners
ported be i'll and the illness reported plain words by
investigator of the food and drug department be due
sanitary conditions
Such condition State institution blot the fair
name The Governor has declared twill not
nsanary conditions minute The Governor
right The food and drug department should that the farm
cleaned up and kept clean.
The State duty to the inmates of that institution
f they prisoners
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30

l read in the Youngstown Telegram
the other day. 1t told of a woman
who was exasperating in many ways.
Her husband was born courtier.
They clashed recently and the woman
goaded the husband to desperation.
The latter. however. chung to his life
habit. and choked down. his wrath
and the feeling that gall and worm
wood and sulphuric acid were none toe
severe to adequately tinge his re-
marks. With a superhunian effort he
said to his aggravating wife:
{ Sweetheart, If you were not the
light OF. my life, surely would bust
you In the nose. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
ZoWieI'
Richmond Item)

Every now and then. some State
official comes around Wayne County
to preach respect for the law All
well and good.
But sometimes. when we hear these
lovely and beautiful talks, We feel like
talking back. We'd like TO ask: Why
talk to us? Why not go back to In
dianapolis?
The one place where, the work of
our courts should be most respected
and obeyed is in the office Of the chief
executive of Indiana, surely. if it's
anywhere In this whole State
If the work Of our courts, in follow
ing up these persistent violations Of
law, is to be made joke by that big
pardon mill up at Indianapolis, what s
the use Of trying to preach to us?
The law is enforced in this com
munity, right along. Go back to In
dianapolis and try to have it respected,
therei
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Cause and Effect

Announcement of increases in the
price of gasoline are being made in
various parts of the country.
That's what comes of the accept
ance, by several little children in the
East, of John DIS buffalo nickels. I'm
less we organize the babies against
that sort of thing, and instill in their
minds the great need of rejecting the
proffered benevolences of the old
gentleman. we must expect to pay.
That's fiat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Swimming
Lafayette Journal Courier

We are in the season Of careless
diving, swimming-hole step-offs, boat.
rocking tragedies and canoe.upsets.
Each day brings it's stories OF divers
injured by striking head first upon
hidden rocks; of beginners getting be.
yond their depths and OF boating par.
ties plunged into the waters OF haz.
ard and death. Everybody ought to
draw timely lesson from the news
reports of vacation time. Everybody
ought TO learn to swim and at the
same time become firmly grounded
in the idea OF safety sanity and
thoughtful care while in or on the
treacherous waters OF summerland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Indiana
Sunshine

Reaching into his pocket to get a
nickel to pay for a sandwich. Robert
Urbans. of Columbus, dIslocated his
arm. Two facts are learned-.it does
not pay to reach for money! and
sandwiches cost a nickel In Columbus.
radison county deserves a gold
medal. Estimates being prepared on
coming year show no increase oyer
1928.
Local horseshoe fans are practicing
for the big Hancock County Horse
shoe Pitching Tournament to be held
Aug. 81 at the county fair.
At one of the busiest corners in
Washington several large handfuls Of
nails were picked up. Whether or
not they were put Their Intentionally
for automobile tires is not known.
Although he was buried alive for
nearly an hour. Henry Lynch of FIT.
Wayne escaped serious injury A
sewer E oh caved in, completely sub
merginC him, but he was rot injured.
Love 8 lane near Franklin, a
famous retreat is now under the eye
of the marshal He says there's to be
no mcre petting parties under the
sturdy old oaks.
Miles of pennies are to help build
the Presbyterian Church at Brazil
Contributions Of a foot of pennies are
asked and a cardboard container to
hold sixteen pennies side by side op
exactly one foot Of coins, will be
given to contributors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
A Thought '

The eyes Of the Lord are in every
place. beholding the evil and the good.
Prov. 1873.
IT HE Divine mind is as visible in
its full energy of operation on
I- every lowly bank and nolder
ing stone as in the lifting Of the
pillars of heaven. and settling the
foundation of the earth.-Ruskin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Duplicated

Where is Cleveland? Twenty-Five
states each have a city bearing this
name There are % Buffalos, IA Den
vers, Detroits. Philadelphia and
2 Chicagos. Also II Berlins, IL Mos
COWS and Is towns named Paris.
In addressing mail. be sure to
write the state as well as city or
town.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Q o E s T I o N s
Ayk-The Times
A n S w E r s

You can get an answer to any ques-
ton of fact or information by writing
TO the Indianapolis Times Washington
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Medical. legal love and marriage ad-
vice cannot be given. nor can extended
research be undertaken or papers,
speeches. etc. be prepared. Unsigned
letters cannot be answered, hut all let
tiers are confidential. and receive per-
sonal replics.-Editor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Family Fun
Logic

A very green young woman decided
to start poultry farm. She bought
a hen and a setting of eggs. and dav-
ing no knowledge of poultry she wrote
to a farm journal asking how long the
eggs would take to hatch out. The
editor replied: Three weeks for
chickens and four weeks for ducks.
Some weeks later she wrote to the
paper. Many thanks for your infor-
nation However. at the end of three
weeks there were no chickens, and
as / did not want ducks l took the
hen of. Boston Trans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Keep TO Left

Signs over the sidewalk, suspended
from buildings to the lamp and other
posts at the curb say, Keen to the
Left" BUT nobody pays the slight
est attention TO these signs. Pedes-
TRANS keep to the right. leoding me
TO wonder 10 1t is not natural to keep
to the right instead Of the left. and
if the rule for left-handed driving is
not wrong
It's worth the price of admission to
see the girls hop on and of the street
cars. The cars have open platforms
and It makes no difference to the ma.
jority OF the girls whether the cars
are moving or standing. They are on
and off like boys at home Look at
their feet and you have the answer.
The sensible shoe Is the rule You
see some French heels but not many.
American Names
One thing that will startle you is
the number of American names you
viii see in street Advertisements and
in shop windows, A name on "a store
ecross the street is that Of "5.and.10.
cent" man In America. Over here It
Is I'D and Sd" store-three pence
and six pence. or in Scotch and Eng.
lish talk. a "thruppence and six
pence" extraordinarily about and
IL cents In our money.
NEXT: It's a Wild Sunday in
Scotland when the lads and lassies
go crazy about ice cream.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
What Editors
Are Saying
HeY. | EVIL

frankfort Crescent News)
That's old stuff that Mayor Lew
Shank pulled on the utility commits
sion; what does a petition signed by
10000 interested people amount to
before a utility commission that knows
how jobs are held and from whence
their bread and butter comes?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
JohnSoniSm'
Nluncie Evening Press,

Up TO date the names of about
twenty Republicans have been
suggested as possible candidates for
the nomination Of Governor Of In.
diana, which indicates that Repub.
leans have faith that there will be
little serious Magnus Johnsonisrh in
Indiana next year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Points Made by Poets

All, make the most Of what we yet
may spend,
Before we too into the dust descend:
Dust into dust, and under dust,
to lie,
Sans wine, sans song, sans singer.
and sans end
Fitzgerald.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Sister Won't Like This

Let me kiss those tears away.
sweetheart" he begged tenderly. =
She fell into his arms and he was
very busy for a few minutes. But
the tears flowed on.
Can nothing stop them" he asked
breathlessly.
no" she murrnured. TITS hay
fever."s
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Fathers Political View

"Johnl John! Wake up I'm sure
there are robbers in the house"
Robbers in the house?" he NUT
tered sleepily Absolutely prepos-
ferrous. There may be robbers in the
Senate, Mary, but not in the house.
Absurdr'-American Legion Weekly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Little Willie at Prayer

Have you said your prayers?"
asked Willie's mother.
"Of course" replied the child.
And did you ask to be made a
better little boy2"
Yes, and I put in word for you
and father, too. "-Ex.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Accommodation

Arizona desired to raise her tax on
gasoline 2 cents the gallon. "Oh, GER
tanlyp' said the Standard, Union,
Texas and Rio Grande companies, &C
commodating like, and the price of
gasoline to consumers is now cents
more.
Economic experts maintaining tax.
payers can't raise themselves by their
bootstraps have another guess.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Animal Facts

How would you like to fondle a
rattlesnake? Mrs. Grace WyIe, cura-
tor Of a Minneapolis museum, has
thirteen of them that literally eat
out of her hand. She says a rattler Is
acutely sensitive and possessed Of a
highly organized nervous system, and
that's why 1t is possible to make
friends with him. She has been ex-
perimenting and she has proved that
no tonly are the snakes susceptible to
kindness. but they can be formbly
fed while in captivity She feeds her
snakes hamburger steak once a week
and they like it. She puts a little
ball of the steak on the end Of a
stick, pushes 1t against the mouth OF
the snake. and, gulp, it's gone. At
first she had to pry the mouths Of the
snakes open. but now they take their
steak when it is offered. Frequently
she holds the snakes in her hands
and gently strokes them.
Reforesters have problem.
They don't know whether to kill all
squirrels, chipmunks and mice or not.
These animals are said to destroy tree
seeds as fast as they are planted On
the other hand, the little cusses do a
job of reforestation that is quite as
complete. if not more so, as the for
esters do. They gather tree seeds and
store them in one place. and bury
them in another. Result, the seeds
terminate and UP come tree spouts.
1t is known that there are instances
where 10000 stand of Douglass fir
seedlings to the acre have developed
on .burnt-over land. due to SEED
buried by the animals before the IRA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
HIS FIRST S

1.-THE elder Rockefeler
earthed in connection with his 84h birthday recently.
John D. born four miles from the village of Richmond
n Y. He reared farm, tramped six miles the little
red schoohouse and slept attic through whose roof
fed in winter That old house still is standing hewn
from logs and fastened together by wooden pins
mary the old days when iron nails expensive
John D. wild turkey hen in the woods By patient
stalking he finally found her He carried away her young
took them home and fatened them Late the year he
drove his flock to the village sold them ~
The money! He put it in the bank, of
One day aferward while digging potatoes young John D.
leaned his hoe and began thinking 1t occurred him that
he had till the soil several days get much money
turkey fund.- paying him interest and for which
interest he didn't have to work stroke
John D. withdrew his money bank invested it
in turkey hens.
After that it was just matter of multiplication.
From his turkey venture the elder Rockefeller learned
lesson that shaped his entire business During his lifetime
he probably has made profits than billion dollars He
could have made anything like this huge his
personal direct efforts
That he did accumulate billion principally due his
causing money and other work for him.
Too sensible be jealous of having able supporters
him. he early acquired reputation for hiring the
tent avalabeand paying them literally that other
employer could lure them in relatively few
If you work for money and it, money will work for
you If work for money and it, you will be able
hire other to work for you-able collect part
they create for your personal holdings
The Rockefeller fortune built up mainly two
simple principles
The first $1,000 in the bank the hardest-and apt
become discouraged while accommodating it. But
you save the easier money
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30

What is incorrect in the SEN
tence, HE came In last of all?"
The sentence is Aot dramatically
incorrect, but the proportional phrase
"of all'' is not necessary. If he is last,
he is necessarily last of all. Avoid
superfluous words.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Can you explain the nea ming of

Can you explain the mea ming of
tawing?
This is a leather manufacturing
term. 1t consists either in dressing
the skins in antiseptic materials, go
as to preserve them from decay, or
treating them with salts that fasten
upon the fiber and present them from
agglutinating and SO drying as a
horny mass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30

WHAT WOULD water hearing be like if all the figures
in marks instead of dollarsY
4 WHILE THE BAKERS meeting in indianapolis it
might be well determine whether the price of any
relation to the price of wheat
GOVERNOR TOWNER informs the Porto Ricans
happy thought that your children
zenthe desired and political status in
the world" Now, let's go out and tell that to the Fpnos
EASTERN says conne our kisses to the
napes of the womens neck the health of
undermined If he is right the bobbedhair bad
after ALL
MAGNUS JOHNSON says he misquoted He is learn
fast That is always the of politician when he
gets in bad.
FIGURES in the water hearing indicate the Indianapolis
Water Company overlooked valung its when it listed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
Where are hyenas found?

The most typical and at the same
time familiar forms Of the hyena,
known as the striped hyena. is found
ranging from ,Abyssinia and the Lib
yam Desert, eastward TO India. where
1t is common throughout the open
country. Two other species are ex-
clusively found in Africa; the spotted
hyena inhabits nearly all Africa
south Of the Sahara. and hunts in
packs. Is courageous and ravaging.
Its unearthy. coughing cry is one of
the most terrifying of animal utter
ances. The brown hyena is found on
both sides OF Southern Africa near
the coast and often on the mountains.
Remains OF hyenas have been found
in Europe as far north as England,
and are. Of course, found IN Asia, but
none has been discovered In America
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30

Which has the warmer summer,
the Arctic or the Antarctic re-
gions?
The summer is warmer and longer
In the Arctic regions, according to
Science Service. The Arctic summer
has a mean temperature we'll above
freezing point, whereas in the Ant
arctic the temperature is everywhere
below 80 degrees Fahrenheit during
the three summer months Of De-
cember, January and February.
Does a married woman sign her
own name or her married name to
a, letter?
A married woman signs herself
Mary Scott not Mrs Charles
Scott" in social correspondence. In
business she may use this form,
Yours truly,
Ellen Scott
Mrs. Charles Scott"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-30
The Family Doctor E1r.s

The Family Doctor ETrs
Did you ever make a serious mis-:
take In treating a patient?
Only once. Ilcured a millionaire in
three visits--Judge.