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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
BY JACK JUNGAIEGER
va StaH CorrcspOnaent

z OS ANGELES. Jan. IA
good many people have a
million dollars but not
many arc accounted worth a mil
lion 70 au employer.
Juno Mathis is
When Gojdwvn Pictures made
her editorial director recently,
that's what they insured her life
for. as a sort Of replacement val
uation.
Although celebrated as a scenar-
iet Miss Mathis regards herself
as "A working woman. She isn't
tomperaruentai or Il she is. she
has her tom permanent under her
own contro'-porfectlv
She Doesn't Threaten
''Evsn tho directors. " she says.
became my friends when didn't
rave because sometimes they
thought best 10 alter my pot
scenes. fight for what 7 con
slider important, but 7 don't hun
and puff and threaten 70 blow the
house down"
Miss Mathis suporviscs the Sc
lection and progress Of pictures.
She sits with directors on the set
and in projection room. She titles
and she edits and she helps to
cut.
It's a jon many high salaried
mon have failed at
When / gave Up the stage ten
years ago TO enter this field" she
explains. II saw that adaptation
Of famous plays and books was
weak spot in tho industry. No
body wanted to DO such work
not romantic enough
Not Bad Interest
So it was a branch OF the bust
ness in which Miss Mathis special
led. The result is that she draws
now moro than S65, 900 a year
not a bad rate Of interest on ST.
600 0O0-for duties that others con
sidered beneath them.
She has wide cheeks, full gray
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Madden Hats
Erection of New
POStOfficeS
BY c. c. LYON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Here's
one for economists. When Is economy
not economy. but extravaganza?
The POstoffice Department wants to
build or enlarge postohices in some
$50 different cities.
THE country can't afford it" says
Chairman Madden Of the House Ap-
preparation Committee.
But" retorts Postmaster General
Work "the Postoffice Department is
paying $12 100000 a year in rentals for
postonice quarters Throughout the
country We can save $4,000 900 OF
this by the simple expedient.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Misstep May Cost Capper
His Job as Kansas Congressman

intention Of defeating Capper at the
polls next year when the Kansan
suns for reelection.
ChappelI says that he came TO
Washington with Endorsements from
governors. governors elect, Demo
Gratis. Republicans, and what not, and
q lot Of senators promised to so to
the White House TO urge his appoint
ment. if Capper would lead them.
Instead Capper wrote a letter,
thinking that was enough to win the
Job for ChappeH But it wasn't
So ChappeH has hurled his hat in
the ring and is going to get Capper's
job in the Senate. if he can.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
New Blossom Favored

Action favoring passage of bill in
troduced in the House of Represent
atives to make the flower of the tulip
tree Indiara's Official flower was an.
nounccd today by tho committe on
agriculture. n" tulip, officially known
as the "lirodendron tuupifera." is said
by the author OF the bill, Miss Eliza
Leth Rainey of Indiana, to he a more
representative flower than the present
State one, the carnation.
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POET SOLDIER TO SPEAK
y. NJ. c. 4. Big Meeting VIII Hear
of DardaneIIes Campaign.

Tom Steyhiu poet-soldier, will
speak at the Y. NJ. C. A. Big Meeting
in EngHsh's Theater Sunday after
noon ON Fighting the Turks at the
pardancllcs." Skeyhil joined the
Australian army at the age of Is
and served in the Dardanelles cam
paign. Since the war, he has been
travelling through Europe, The Short
ridge High School band of fifty pieces
will play Doors will open at .. N.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Coal Car Is
Worst LOafer
on Railroad
BY C. c. LYON

bO Z. &. LYON
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-In the
whole realm of rairoading, the worst
'loafer" on the Job is the common,
everyday coal car.
The car service division Of the in
terstate commerce commission is now
investigating the coal car service, to
find out why these cars are always
cluttering up railroad yards or are
so often stranded on sidings.
Already 1t has gathered figures to
show that while a passenger coach
works 250 days a year, IS does the
average locomotive or Pullman, a
coal car averages but 1875 days work
per year.
What does it do with its spare
timer the l. c. c. asks.
Statistics already compiled show
that the average coal car made but
nine trips to the mine in 1921,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Stormy Career of DR.: Grant Na1rS Crisis as
He Faces Trial for HereSy by Episcopal Church
Chapter V

Chapter V
n FRS. RITA II. de ALBA de
M ACosTA LYDIG, called
"America's most pictur-
esque woman" long friend of
DR.. Grant, announced her engage
ment to him in 1921. She was a.,
he was 81. She had been twice
married and twice divorced; first
w. e. D. Stokes, next Philip NJ.
Lydig.
Under Episcopal Church rules DR..
Grant could not marry Mrs. Lydig
without the bishops permission.
Bishop William r. Manning re
fused permission.
Incensed, Er. Grant attacked the
churchs attitude on divorce. Re
suit: Passage Of a more vigorous
amendment to the divorce canon.
Chapter VI
bathed DR. Grant in a new
way. A baby girl was found
on his doorstep, abandoned. He
took it into his bachelor household,
established a nursery hired a nurse,
and announced he would raise the
Walt. He baptized her Faith
Willard"
One Of her four godmothers was
Mrs. Lydig. Soon the baby be
came ILL., She cried at night. The
rector paced the floor with her in
vain. The fading infant was taken
TO the country to save her life
But She died in the Presbyterian
Hospital The body was buried in
the graveyard of DR.. Grants
church.
Chapter VII
CORROW stilled DR. Grants pull.
pit voice for a time. Soon
~ he renewed his fight against
the church's stand on marriage and
divorce.
lie said; IF marriage is founded
on the affection Of two persons for
each other. rs marriage in America
T., supposed u be, with the disap.
pearancc Of such sentiment disap-
pears the only ground for tho mar,
riaee"
lie had been advocating easy di-
vorcc since 1915.
Chapter VIII
MYTH 1928 camc the explo-
Dr. Grant said. in scr.
mon Jan. IA. that Jesus Christ did
not possess equal powers with Cod
that His miracles can he explained
today by science; that conservation
% churches IS a custom inherited
from the age Of witchcraft. magic
and taboo, that the clergy is a sup
pressed. chained profession. whose
members speak their minds outside
the pulpit. never In it.
Bishop Manning served an ulu-
Inatum that ne must recanl or re
sign. and limiting at trial for
hcresy
Dr. Grant has neither resigned
nor reCanted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
DUE CONGRESS
President Does Not Expect to Call
for Extra Session.

WASHINGTON. Jan. EFT looks
like Congress is due for nine months
vacation, for change.
Unless the Franco-German rumpus
in the Ruhv takes turn which might
call for American participation in the
controversy, President Harding does
not intend to call an extra session Of
Congress.
While the newly formed progressive
bloc would look with favor upon an
extra session, the Administration
leaders feel that they can work out
their party's political salvation much
better if Congress is away from the
Capital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

NALL boys rap the
nail on the head
with uncanny &C
curacy at times.
I remember q dia-
.oSuS which [ over
heard b g t W Q @ II a
rather n h a risaic?l
Gather and his :
.ear-old son in san
antonio.
Father, " h O n
YOU We're II boy
like me did you SO
to Sunday school
every sunday?"
why, yes son!
NgFL ran ~.,,,r-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Resolutions
By BERTON RRAI.EY

By BERTON BRALEY
nRN salary commences
~ To vanish. ere its earned.
1 cannot meet expenses
Though why. I've never learned
In spite OF how we plan. we
Remain IN debt and doubt
We can't explain, nor can we
Make It out.
wE really ought TO Tourist
~ My incomes pretty good
And Vet We scarcely uOurish
Our bodies as We should
Our prOoieH-whO snail iudEc 1T
There's Just one way. we sigh.
We've got to keep d budget
Bye and bye"
wHERE docs the money go to?
% Its quite too touch for words.
To think OF al we throw to
The little 0icky birds.
A bank account we're craving,
Alas the dollars fyl
And We. instead OF saving,
Buy and buy.
CONE day. when We get 10 it.
~ Wen keep ledger. planned
To show us, when we view il.
Exactly how We stand:
But nOw--v-e merely fudse It.
And watch our debts run high.
We sure must keep a budget
Sye and byel
tCepyrighI, 1898, AEA ssrTlce)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Maybe it
isn't easy to make a misstep, when
you're in politics?
Ask Arthur Capper, Senator from
Kansas.
Because Cappor wrote a letter, in
stead Of calling in person on the
President 10 boom W II. Chappell Of
Chanute Kan. for appointment as
the dirt farmer" member Of the Fed
eraI Reserve Board, Capper finds
himself in difficulties.
Chappeu didn't get the Presidents
appointment. so he's announced his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
was talk OF heresy trial Nothing

was talk OF a heresy trial. Nothing
came Of it,
Chapter III
CTORMS multiplied He com.
pared the deportation Of Rus
sian anarchists 10 the Pill
grims. their ship 70 the MayAower.
he attacked legislative plans to
curb radicals. Bishop Thomas F.
Gailor called him "a pampered pet
OF group II rich men and women
who poses as a friend Of the poor.
Grant shrugged his shoulders and
went on.
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eral national conventions as dele
gate in those years.
His reward for his services was
election to the United States Sen
ate in 1916 for the term ending
March 4, 1928.
New was married twice In 1850
Miss Kathleen V. Milligan became
his wife. His second wife was
Miss Catherine Mclean, who be
came his bride IN 1891
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Impression OF tremendous re
serves Of energy.
Her famous -Four TTorsemen."
Blood and Sand and her forth
coming heroic "Ben-Hur" suggest
an almost masculine holiness, but
Miss Mathis is thoroughly feni-
nine, even to concealing her age
which I guess in the late SOS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

age went 10 Sunday school every
Sunday. Was very eager to so to
Sunday school"
Well" observed the boy, its not
doing me much good, either"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Harry Ne70, One of Lame Ducks,
Is Slated for Cabinet Position

tional politics He became a mem
her of the national Republican
committee in 1900 and remained
there until 1912 He attended sew
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

Give the names of twelve great
men born in February.
The following are great men born
in February:
Feb. Z. 1S12-Charles Dickens, su-
thor
Feb. 10. 1744-David Allan, a Scotch
painter.
Feb. Is. 1564-Galileo. astronomer.
Feb. Il. 1SOs-Abraham Lincoln.
Feb. 70. 147S-Copernicus. astron-
omer.
Feb. 20. 1694-voltaire. writer and
statesman
Feb. 20. 171s-David Garrick, actor.
Feb. %. 1731-George Washington.
Feb. %. 16S5-HandeI. musician.
Feb. IS. lS02-Nictor Hugo. author,
famous book. Les Miserables."
Feb. y, 1S07-LonEfeIlow, poet
Feb. IS. 153S-Montaigne, French
author.
Who are senators from Ohio
and how many representatives
from that state?
The senators are Atlee Pomerene
and Frank s. Willis and there are
twenty-five representatives from that
State
Who is the president of France:
Alexandra Nillerand.
Would deep sea fish die when
exposed to the air?
Il is said that some deep sea fish
would literally explode when ex
posed to the air.
What is the meaning of the
word "infiltratiou" in disease?
The pathological meaning of the
word, '1nfiltration" is: "A diffusion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Some Deep Sea Fish Would
Explode If Exposed to Air
QTESTInNs ANsMEREn

You can get an answer to any question
OF fact or information by writing 10 the
Indianapolis Times Washington Buresu
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tine questions to a single subject. writing
more than one letter if answers on various
subjects are desired -FdItOr
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Blind pianist lost the churchs money playing poker which
is harder to play than piano
Our booegger tells when he seized with the grippe
kept him in longer than when he seized with the suitcase
ExKing Frederick of SaxOny claims the Diet keeps him
poor; Many of kept poor by diet.
Figures show Dartmouth boys spend only five minutes day
with girls would hate the Dartmouth girls figures
will try fly the world this spring
Spring always makes feel like that
Learning to skate causes many mans downfall
229887 policemen This is the
Ireland has trouble handling riots
After getting elected mayor of Ransom W. Va, woman
changed her mind and refused he mayor and prove it.
America Tree Association will plant million trees don't
worry about shade for 1943.
Pure white beaver was caught near Fort William Ontario
which may have turned pale from ovcrwork
London doctor Says Bolshcvsm is due bad teeth. We
knew there something loose in their heads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Woman Is Worth Million to
Los angeles Picture Concern

eyes and what she frankly calls
fat, to nourish the nerves" Her
poise is perfect. She gives the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Made Personal Fight to
Wed Divorce Against
Religious Dogma,
BY ALEXANDER HERMAN
NEA Service STAFF Writer

n YEW YORK, Jan. 27.-What is
M ahead N religion?
- a militant ministry PAL
termed after the spectacular and
revolutionary leadership of Or.
Percy Stickney Grant?
Or must this meteor among
preachers stand trial for hercsy-
for his declaration that Christ did
not have the power of God?
These questions grow enormously
in interest as the religious world
waits TO see whether DIR. Grant re
cants, resigns or s tried according
To his Episcopal bishops ultimatum.
DR. Grant has held the center of
the spotlight through a tempestuous
career-hghung church doctrines
and fighting a personal fight to
marry Mrs. Rita II. de Alba de Acos
IA Lydig, twice married and twice di-
vorced He is noted for radical ser
mons; and he is the author OF pc
ems and essays, Of such books as
Socialism and Christianity" and
Fair Play for the Worker"
His notable book Of poems, a
Fifth Ave Parade and Other
Poems, published last year 10y
Harper & Bros. had this dedicatiou:
ITO Rita H de t,ba deAcosta, am
ambitious and stimulating intclh
gence gifted with knowledge Of
the beautiful, a Tanacra figure come
to life, a captivating companion"
The sequel to these chapters Of
his life remain to be written:
Chapter
DE}CY STTCkNEY GRANT was
- IS years old when he grad
Il uated in 1856 from the Episco-
pal Theological School at Boston. his
home. Assigned 10 Fall River his
ideas about running the church
We're somewhat different from those
Of the vestry. But his social serv-
ice work attracted attention and he
earned a call TO the Church Of the
Ascension. New York. He came IN
1898. but only on condition that
pews be free and that the church
be omen every day-'wo revolution
airy ideas at that time.
Chapter III
~ New York Or. Grant became
known as friend Of the work
inc man. In 1907 he organized
a public forum in the church. ~
1919 he had had clashes with con
servatives i'm the vestrv. who or
gained a committee 70 investigate
his teaching doctrine contrary TO
the doctrines Of the church" There
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
Capital Jokes
BY HARRY NJ. WURZBACH

l. s. Representative From Texas,
Fourteenth District.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

'spreadincl Of morbid matter disease
matter throughout tissue from
sources outside"
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WHEN ~ YOU get scared when you have to speak be-
FEAR ! fore an audience? Martha Miller snent
GETS Us ~ eight months in African iungles, shot and
killed wild elephant and a lion that at
tackled her. and bitten four times by the dreaded
bearing tsetse fly She thought it all very thrilling enjoyed
immensely.
Then she returns lecture about her
stagetrlght and faints curing her first speech Newark
though there nothing to be afraid Of in the
Fear is state of mind that control if we 50 will
Rarely due to Peri When think timid
or problems generally merely
full of our ability the emergency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

What can he mixed with plaster
Of paris to prevent it from dry
ing ont so quickly; that is. so one
could work on it from FIVE to ten
hours before il sets?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

PROIECT FTTWO points made in the committee hearings
OUR on the nronosed child labor aroo,droor+ com
CHILDREN L to worth noting First such an amend
ment is only giving the country power
which we thought we had protect children it not inter
Iere with State rights because sufficient States will
have ray the before it becomes part Of the Con
stituon.
Second such control should Federal Govern
ment because State Legislatures apt be to manu-
featuring interests in their various States
As Mrs Florence Kelley of the National Consumers Leapc
pointed out is enough child labor laws
passed in non-ndustriaI States
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

Plaster Of paris can he retarded by
dissolviug carpenters glue in the
mixing water. To retsrd it so that
it will not set within five hours will
require about per cent of glue, the
percentage being based on the weight
Of the plaster.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

lou can get weather maps Tor your
state upon request 70 the United
States Weather Bureau branch at the
capital Of Eour State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27
TOM SIMS SAYS:

i N Reading, Pa, about 600 gallons Of
booze was seized in one raid. Read
ing maketh d full man.
Frances new slogan seems to be,
"They shall not pass-their payments. "
Germany is building America a
giant airship which she could fly over on
her PREPARATION arguments.
The Northwestern Stove Works
burned in Chicago. 1t seems that their
Ct OvoC hmm +OO yUnI1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

Where can obtain weather
maps?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

Who is the president of France:
Alexandra Nillerand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

Would deep sea fish die when
exposed to the air?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

What Is the meaning of the
word "infiltration" in disease?
The pathological meaning Of the
word, '7nfiltration" is: "a diffuxien
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

Who are senators from Ohio
and how many representatives
from that stafe9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

Il is said that some deep sea fish
would literally explode when ex-
posed to the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-27

The senators are Atlee Pomerene
and Frank s. Willis and there are
twenty-five representatives from that
State
The Washington times., 1923-08-09
DIVORCE
CASES TAKE
BIC JUMP
More Marriage Vows Violated.
Rum, Autos, and Fists
Blamed in Many.

Reno.esque, not in the facility
with which divorces are to be OBJ
tanned, but in the startlingly in.
creased number of conjugal smash.
UPS which end in its courts, staid
Washington promises to show a
bumper crop of such matrimonial
disasters for the current year.
During the whole Of 1922 there
were but 375 cases filed in the Dis
trict Supreme Court. To date, 1923
shows 800 suits. The cause is prob.
lematical. It is thought, however,
that the sudden cessation of divorce
mill activities in Alexandria, ex.
posed at "the Little Reno of the
East" by The Washington Times
has thrown a goodly number OF
cases into the local docket.
Vow Violations Increase.
Divorce suits have been increas
ing ever since 1917, when the Capt.
tails population took a sudden Jump
In that year there were 1853 cases
in 1918, 81; in 1919, 1872; in 1920
3SS, and in 1921, 800.
Suits charging conjugal infidelity
the only. ground upon which an alb
solute severance of the marital tic
can be secured in this jurisdiction
also have shown big accessions in
number. The figures for the past
six years, and the period of 1923
already passed, show thus: 1917
1856; 1918, 141; 1919, lat; 1920. 1856
1921, 161; 1922. 1877; 1928, 125.
demon" Rum Factor.
Cruelty, drunkenness and deser.
ton are more frequently cited as
grounds for a limited divorce than
numbered 152; in 1922, 159, and so
far this year, 1876.
The demon" rum is shown re-
sponsible for a number of COM
plants. Other factors which con.
tinue to figure largely in petitions
are automobiles, amusement parks,
hotels, weapons and fists.
The Washington times., 1923-08-09
MAN STRUCK BY
AUTO IS BADLY
INJURED
Baby Hit by Machine in Front
of Home Is Slightly
Hurt.

Joseph Soghononian, forty-five, OF
4S2 Pennsylvania avenue northwest
is at the Emergency Hospital in a
serious condition today as a result OF
being struck by an automobile in
front of his home last night. He is
suffering from a fractured skull and
possible internal injuries. physicians
at the hospital say. Ralph Pierce,
210-A Morgan street northwest, was
driving the automobile which hit
him, police say.
J. L. Grove, Of Braddock, Va,
was slightly injured when an auto
mobile Struck him last night at
Seventh and B streets northwest.
A twenty-one-months-ofd baby was
slightly hurt when an automobile
driven by Warren M. Prentice, 1929
c street southeast, struck ia in
front of 1928 Nailor road southeast.
The baby, Donald Tayman, whose
parents reside at the Nailor road ad-
dress, was taken to Casualty Hos
pital and treated for cuts on his
face. Later he was brought home
The Washington times., 1923-08-09
BODY Of SUICIDE
TAKEN HOME
BY BROTHER
A. S. Adams Makes No Com
plant Against Policeman
Who GrappIed With Kin.

Inc body of L. H. Adams, La
orange, Ga, banker and insurance
man, who committed suicide on the
monument Lot, Monday afternoon,
was taken back to La Grange by
MS brother last night, police said
To-Day. The brother, A. S. Adams,
arrived here yesterday morning.
word that had preceded Adams
arrival. stating that he would com
plain against Park Policeman w. J..
Davidson, who grappled with the
suicide in an attempt to prevent
MIN from killing himself. failed tn
materialize. Adams had a fifteen
minute talk with Lieut. Walter
Emerson, in charge Of the detective
bureau, but he did not intimate that
ne thought the officer was to bIarne
Tor actions that caused his hrnt bar
10 ACCIDENTALLY shoot himself
ADAMS said that he was rnvstiriad
by the suicide. He told the noIica
mat he had no reason for bis
brother to end his life, his financial
affairs being in excellent share
Adams is said to have told the m.
lice that La Grange would not r.
heVe that his brother had ended
his life. 0'Ue"