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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20

hood IN SAFETY and ease. DR. PieTces high standing a a ctfzen and Ions,
experience as a specialist. guarantees the absolute Durftv of the Fayorite
Prescription. This is what one woman says about it:
Indianapolis, Ind-"At one time 1 declined in health for four years.
The local doctors did m but little good. became awful thin and weak
and had chils also pains in my limbs. A friend told my husband of the
benefit his wife had derived from the Use of DR.. Perces Favorite Pre-
scrpuon, so | began taking it. and after the first two bottles I commenced
to improve rapidly, and by the time had taken eight bottles l was we'll
and back to my normal weight@Mrs. Martha Taylor, 433 N. Pine st.
Favorfte Prescription is sold by all druggists in liquid or tablet form,
or send Ice for trial sample to DR.. Pierces nvaIids Hotel, 665 Main St.
Buffalo, N. Y, and write for free medical advice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20

x. NJ: Juvenile court authorities
will be able to give you the informa-
ton you wish. Their office is in the
basement of the courthouse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20

Stay Young Awhile

Dear Miss Lee: I am -. I have been
keeping steady company with a boy OF 81.
He tells me he loves me and ne does not like
Tor me TO have dates with any one but lin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
POSTOFFICE GETS HOLIDAY
Uncle Sam Gives Employees Vacation
on Washinotnn's birthday.

"" ~ U-I"-l5VvEv 90
All departments of the postoffice
will be closed Thursday, Washington's
birthday, Robert II. Bryson, postmas-
ter. announced today, Only special de-
livery letters and perishable parcel
post merchandise will be delivered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
UnhaDDY Interference

Dear Miss Lee: l nm 90 and. have been
married four years. My husband and / got
along nicely between ourselves. But ms
mother makes trouble between us.
Two months ago she gave him money TO
get a divorce. When / said stories about
me were not true no dropped the suit. He
said il ] would forgive him we would start
again. He was back three weeks and tilCn
left the city. A week later he returned. lie
wanted another chance. He lost his Job
and went TO his mothers to live. She VIII
not Jet me see him or talk TO nun.
She told ms TO get "a divorce. / do not
believe IN divorce. but Ned suit. As soon
as I filed. he and his mother gc 20 counter.
file. I love my husband. but cannot stand
his mothers Islander. Please help me.
BY withdrawing your divorce suit.
you would show your husband you
still care for him. He might then
withdraw his c%ounter-suit. II he did
not, you would know definitely that
he does not want another chance. In
such a case. your attorney could tell
you the best way to contest his suit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20

A Big Top" pink lemonade,
n bareback riders, acrObats, the
L "-bearded-lady" fancy dancers.
arc lights and side shows were in
cluded in the most complete of cir
cuses which was the unique party
given by the Dramatic Club at the
Athenaeum Monday evening. The hall
room was transformed into a mann
moth tent, lighted with the usual cir
Gus lights. The balconies We're made
into side shows and booths. The mem
bers came dressed as circus perform
ers.
Society folks took part with plenty
Of enthusiasm. a few of the costumes
and their wearers were Miss Natalie
Brush and Mrs. Russell Ryan, wild
women; Mrs. Herbert Walker, a glass
IF lemonade, Edward Osie, Charles
Schaff, Jack Holiday and Ralph Lock-
wood, bicycle %acrObats; Mrs. Mathew
Fletcher, tight-rope walker; Mrs. Rob
ert Adams. Chinese juggler and Alex
Holiday, East Indian.
The Indiana Nature Club will meet
Saturday evening at the John Heron
Art Institute where there viii be an
exhibit Of the Photographic work Of
The members. Frank N. H~ohenberger
of Martinsville, VIII speak and criti-
cisms Of the work viii be made. A
trip to Nartinsviile viii be made in the
afternoon which viii include a nike
10 Blue Bluffs. Members viii leave on
the 1870 car.
Miss Margaret Williams has re
turned to her home in Irvington after
visiting for a year with relatives in
England and on the continent.
s*&
The annual meeting Of the Parent
Teachers Federation viii be held
Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Feb. %, with a dinner at 6 o'clock at
the Z. ". c. \. Mrs. Charles II.
Smith. Mrs. Brandt G. Downey and
Mrs. Wayne Reddick Will have charge
Of the dinner. Garland Powell, ma
tionaI director of education and Amer
icanization for the American Legion,
Will be the principal speaker.
The annual social gathering Of the
indianapolis Community Chorus vas
held Monday evening at the Central
Christian Church. Miss Norma
France, z. G.. Hesser and Frederick
KruH sang and Mrs. Dorothy Knight
Green gave piano selections. DR.. +. S. c
Wicks, Wilbur Johnson and r. B. Viii
son spoke Of the future work of the
club. Mrs. z. c. Rumpler, president,
gave a welcoming address.
Mrs. John A. Brown was hostess
for a meeting of the Expression Club
this afternoon at which George Wash
inston and Abraham LincOln's birth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20

Germs breed by millions in film. They,
with tartar, are the chief cause of pyorrhea,
now so alarmingly common.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
Now they curdle film

Old brushing methods did not effectively
combat film. AS a result, nearly all people
suffered from it.
Now dental science knows two film COM
batants. One acts to curdle film, one to re-
move it, and without any harmful securing.
Able authorities proved these methods by
many careful tests. Then a new-type tooth
paste was created, based on modern research.
Those film combatants were embodied in it
for daily application.
That tooth paste is called Pepsodent. To
millions Of homes it has brought a new dem
tai era
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
Avoid Harmful Grit

Pepsodent curdIes the film and
rem owes it without harmful
securing. Its polishing agent is
far softer than enamel. Never
use a Hlm cOmbatant which con-
tains harsh grit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20

Mrs. John A. Brown was hostess
for a meeting of the Expression Club
this afternoon at which George Wash
inston and Abraham LincOIn's birth
days were celebrated. Mrs. Lloyd c.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
Corrects old mistakes

Research also proved that old methods
brought undesired effects. They decreased
the alkalinity of the saliva. That is there to
neutralize mouth acids, the cause of tooth
decay.
They reduced the starch digestant in the
saliva. That is there to digest starch deposits
which may otherwise fernent and form acids.
.Pepsodent brings just opposite effects. Il
rnultiplies that alkalinity, multiplies that
starch digestant. Thus it gives manifold
power to these great natural toOth-protecting
agents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
CHEW 4 FEW Il!
END INDIGESTION.
EASE STOMACH
Ate Too Much! Stomach Upset.!
Here's Instant Relief

So pleasant and so harmlessi The
moment "Pape's Diapepsin" reaches
the stoamch all distress goes. Jumps
of indigestion, gases, heartburn. sour
ness. bloating, fiatulence. p~alpitation,
vanish.
Ease your stoamch now. Correct
digestion and acidity for a few cents.
Druggists sell millions of packages
Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
This test will show

The results of this test will amaze and de-
light you Make it-watch the changes that
occur.
Note how clean the teeth feel after using.
Mark the absence of the viscous film. See
how teeth whiten as the flm-coats disappear.
Compare the results with old methods
by what you clearly see and feel. You will
gain a new conception of clean teeth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
Household Suggestions
Cleans the Glass

If you want your windows to shine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
This Gift
VIII show you how folks get those
whittier, cleaner teeth

Go ask for a test of this new way of teeth
cleaning. 1t means too much to miss.
You see prettier teeth everywhere today.
Learn how people get them.
Do this now. Millions of people OF some
so nations enjoy these benefits. Get them for
yourself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-20
Film makes teeth dingy

That viscous film you feel on teeth is their
chief enemy. 1t clouds them. 1t clings to
teeth, enters c~revices and stays.
Film absorbs stains, then forms a dingy
coat. Tartar is based on film. That's why
teeth lose luster.
Film holds food substance which ferments
and forms acids. 1t holds the acids in con-
tact with the teeth to cause decay. That's
why few escaped tooth troubles.
Evening star., 1923-12-17

have said that they would not "eome
up" Others have said that even tho
chickens would not eat them. Some
have said that II seed packet was
labeled caulif1ower the seeds. if they
sprouted at all. produced turnips. hut
constituents like to receive these NJ.
tie packets Of seed from their repre-.
sentauves at Washington. II shswa
that Congressman Jim or Jack, even
amid the splendors and temptations
Of Washington, is thinking of the
folk back home. Even though 1t ba
a packet of sunfiower or morning
glory seed II is gift. and people
like to receive gifts, especially when
there is no obligation to reciprocate
with another gift.
For Congressman Billy Doe, "our
congressman" to send a package OF
giant dahlia OF monster sweet-william
seed to Mrs. Molly and the Misses
Claudia, Cynthia and Parthenia. wife
and daughters of Farmer Hiram at
Six Corners, has psychological effect.
1t shows that the heart of "our con-
gressman" is in the right place and
beats for home. The custom Is not an
evil one. Perhaps if the good II does
could be weighed against its cost 1t
would be found to be an excellent
custom. At any rate the matter is
coming again before Congress. Free
seeds, like one of the ghosts in
Shakespeare, will not down.
Evening star., 1923-12-17

i passage of the days. Each day ts suf-
ficient unto itself. The progression Of
|, the seasons brings its changing condi.
tions. 1t is not until there is born a
concept of time in terms of the de.
velopment of the human existence
that true advance Is made. With the
keeping of record starts the thought
present.
In these discoveries in Yucatan
there are evidences Of scientific rea-
Soning on the part of a supposedly
primitive people whose accomplish
ments, however, now appear to have
been remarkable. They devised means
of calculation and Of recording the
results. That they had the mathemati-
cal sense is indicated plainly. For q
long time the rock carvings found in
ruins have mystified researchers. and
it is not until now that the key to
them has been discovered. A volume
of history will doubtless now be un-
folded to view.
Archeologists and ethnologists have
found in the American continents a
rich store Of materials for study. In
deed Central and South America Of
fer today perhaps the most attractive
field of research. There are no bar
riers save those of climate and politi-
cal conditions. That is to say, the
frontiers of fact have not been
reached. Successive explorations en-.
counter new strata of materials point
ing steadily to earlier and still earlier
civilization. The fact that more than
$500 years ago there existed in this
hemisphere a race competent to
reckon time opens even further fields
of study for those who would trace
the beginnings of cultural life in what
is broadly termed the new world.
Evening star., 1923-12-17
Tax Reduction or Bonus ?

Secretary Mellon states his tax
reform proposals in specific form in a
letter sent to the House ways and
means committee, which is about to
begin work on measure designed to
reduce the tax burden imposed as a
war measure. He puts the case, as in
his preceding letter to prospective
Chairman Green, in terms that can be
readily understood. He notes in his
communication that the reduction pro-
gram appears to have met with a
most favorable public reception" :"
This statement is quite justified. The
public reaction to the tax-reform plan
even when it runs counter to the
bonus plan tax reduction has been
eEnphatically indorsed.
In its consideration of the tax-reduc-
ton bill the House committee will
perhaps be somewhat Influenced by
the bonus consideration. There is un-
questionabiy a conflict. AS Secretary
Mellon and President Coolidge have
pointed out, 1t is impossible stimuli
taneously both to reduce the taxes
materially and undertake the pay
TTlent of large and probably increas-
ing bonus to the veterans of the great
war unless the bonus is paid out of
the proceeds of loan, in which case
the interest on the loan and sinking
fund reserves must be reckoned as an
addition to the expenditures of the
government and a drain upon the
revenues.
In this latest communication with
Congress Secretary Mellon does not
discuss the bonus. He has heretofore
proposed tax reduction. He now points
out precisely what he Iecommends to
that end. 1t is for Congress to choose
which course to pursue.
Evening star., 1923-12-17
Twenty Years of Aviation.

A buZzing hum sounds in the air far
overhead. People iii the street glance
casually toward the sound, and per-
ing past. Then the eyes fall back to
surface things, and the mind returns
to the question of how to get through
the traffic safely. Possibly the pedes-
! trian envies the man who is so free to
take his own course 1000, 1000 or
5000 feet UP. But otherwise the sight
is a commonplace and creates no COM
ment among the earthwalkers. 1t is
only when many planes appear in
squadron formation that interest is
really aroused.
Yet it was only twenty years ago
today that Wilbur and Orville Wright
made their first successful fight in a
heavier-than-air machine on the sand
dunes of Kitty Hawk on the coast of
North Carolina. Only twenty years!
These have been two wonderful
decades of advance in aviation. Most
of the progress, indeed, was made
within five of those twenty years. 1t
was not until some time later than
1903 that the heavier-than-air machine
was proved practical beyond the
skepticism. of both the scientific and
the lay mind. Langley had been un-
fortunate in his demonstrations.
though his principle was correct.
When finally the Wrights came to
Fort Myer and flew there in public it
was acknowledged that the problem
had been solved. Many Washingto-
mans well remember the great thrill
they experienced when they saw the
Wright brothers flying over the drill
field across the river. That was in
1909. Even then the plane was rated
as a scientific toy. Only few people
regarded it as factor of commercial
life. No man dreamed of IFS possible.
ties in war. Had any spectator at the
Wright flight at Fort Myer fourteen
years ago ventured to predict that
five years later the air over France
would be darkened with flying ma
chimes carrying death to thousands
he would have been rated as unbal-
anced.
Today at all the aviation stations in
this country the twentieth ,anniver-
sary of the Kitty Hawk flight is being
celebrated. Squadron flights, and per-
haps stunt flights, mark the day.
Many hundreds of machines viii be
in the air. If the United States were
further advanced in aviation, as it
should be, there would be thousands
instead of hundreds.
Evening star., 1923-12-17
Compulsory School Attendance.

The Capper- Focht compulsory school
attendance bill for the District, which
was passed by the Senate and lost IN
the closing jam of the House In the
Sixty-seventh Congress, will probably
be introduced in this Congress, and
there Is prospect that it will become
law. No opposition to the measure
has developed and it has the support
of all persons who take a proper in
terest in schools and children. There
is no particular delinquency on the
part of parents and children in the
District in regard to schooling. The
fact is that nearly all children are
eager for their school work, and par
ents are generally 80 insistent that
children shall have the benefit of in
straction in school that the public
school plant is taxed to capacity or
beyond it, and parochial and private
schools are full But there are defects
III the school-attendanee law as it
stands, and there is need for correc-
ton of these defects. The Superin-
tendent of schools and the board of
education have pointed out that un-
der present regulations children can
be out of school three days out of
four in the week before the school au-
thorities may intervene, and that no
proper census and statistics of school
age children are required under exist
ing law. The desired adjustments are
made by the Capper-Focht bill, and it
also provides for a larger number of
truant officers and better pay for
them. Any measure Of compulsory
school attendance should be regarded
as but one item in the program of
legislation and appropriation that will
furnish school facilities for all chill
dren who may attend.
Evening star., 1923-12-17
: The Maya Calendar.

A scientific expedition sent to Yuca.
tan by Harvard has, it is just an.
nounced. determined that the first re.
corded date in southern American his
tory, which. means the western hemi.
sphere, is August 6, 613 Be-, or ap
proximately 1856 years ago. It was
not, however, until December 10, $50
BIC, that the Mayas, whose marvel.
GUS civilization is now the subject OF
intensive Study by jarcheologists. be.
gan the formal day-by.day reckoning
Of time and the establishment Of a
calendar.
This discovery in itself does not par.
ticularly thrill the unscientific world
but 1t is Of great Importance to
science. 1t means the reaching Of an
other of the inner chambers of the
past. Incidentally, 1t proves the prev.
a1ence among the Mayas of turn for
science. 1t is even declared as re.
suit Of these observations and deduc-
tions that one at least of that race
must have beea a most advanced
rntnd, compsrable with the Einsteint OF
today n the reckenans Of the inhni-
ties, st
! The counting Of time Is regarded as
Que Of the Hrst steps Of pEinitive man
toward civilization. The individuaf' of
srch Va race cares nothing for TIE
Evening star., 1923-12-17
Details of Shipwreck
so Years Ago Recalled
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The clipping in last Sundays Star
under the heading Fifty Years Ago
in The Star" was an interesting item
in itself, noting the wreck of the
Vile du Havre In midocean; but to
some there was a wider Significance
in it, recalling the well known hymn.
1T Is Well With My Soul" This
steamboat was carrying back to their
homes in Europe a large number of
delegates to a convention Of the Evan
Egelical Alliance, which had just closed
its sessions in this country. On the
boat, also, was the wife of Horatio G..
Spafford. lawyer of Chicago. and
their four daughters. The four chill
dren were lost from the wreck, Mrs.
rescued Upon reaching the continent
she cabled her husband that she was
I"saved alone" He Immediately cross
ed the ocean to bring her home. Mr..
Spafford was Of a deeply religious ma
ture and was interested in a noon
prayer meeting held in Chicago. AS
result of the events following the
disaster he wrote the hymn begin
ming
When peace like a river .ttendeth my way.
When sOrrows ike sea DillOws roll,
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
.It is well. it is we'll, with my SOUL"
Later Mr. Spafford and his wife
Bwent to Palestine, where they found
he'd a social and religious community.
(which later was known as the Amer
Lican Colony. situated just outside the
walls of the Holy city. Here he lived
till his death and his wife continued
to be the head Of the colony
~, - FRANK J. METCALr.
Evening star., 1923-12-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

out Jim" Preston. The tndefatiga-
BILE "Jim." who has bossed the press
galleries of Congress for a quarter OF
century. has come to be indispen-
sable on every national or interna-
tiohai occasion pivoting on Washing
ton. Presidents, prime ministers and
world conferences. not to mention
routine affairs like national conven-
tions, turn first to Preston before
embarking on any publicity arrange
mentioned by Calvin Coolidge when
the latter arrived In Washington to
become President on August 4.
Newspaper men auizzed Mr.: Coolidge
Mr.. Preston" was the response.
Preston controlled the press of the
universe at the Washington arma-
ment conference. Clemenceau, Lord
Robert Cecil and Lloyd George de-
rightly credentialed scribes gained
their presence. Seating schemes at
both national conventions. as far as
the press gallery Is concerned, are
virtually In "Jims" hands, once the
conventions are at work. He has a
noble aide-de- camp. Lieut.. "Bill''
Donaldson, who looks after the House
while Preston watches over the SEN
ate.
DR.. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, head of
the Rodman Wanamaker North Amer
lean Indian Foundation. placed an
other Harding policy on the door
step of the White House" last week.
Using that idiom at Secretary Work s
Indian conference, Dixon recalled
Warren G. Harding's prediction
promise to an Indian delegation at
Marion on August Is, 1920. Il think
you and l will agree about one basic
principle" Senator Harding said. "and
that is that the American Indian is
just as much entitled to a square
deal as any one else in the repub-
sibility, he will get It," Dixon says
the Indian gets anything but a square
deal. The tens of thousands of In
dians who are citizens are such. Dix
on contends, In name only. because
they are still subjected to reservation
'superintendency" and other federal
supervision.
Closing up blind pigs and nab
bing bootleggers, chasing speed
fiends and shadowing second story
men may give Smedley Butler plenty
of fun In Philadelphia, but the ma
rines will remain his only true love.
Butler watched the marines play the
Sd Army to a standstill and to de-
feat in Washington ON December /.
Leave the Marines?" some body ask ed
him. Hell. no. he replied in the off,
cial vocabulary of the corps. Not
after watching EN- play foot ball like
that
Copyrjght f9o3
Evening star., 1923-12-17
Free Seeds.

Our Old friend Free Seeds is with
us again. AS far back as memory
goes congressman. have sent to voters
and others of the old folks at home
packets of seed bought by the gov
ernment from commercial jseedmef1.
Many congressman from city districts
who had little use to make Of such
gifts would turn over their seed al.
lotment to members from country dis.
tricts, and happy results sometimes
tom" was established, and such Gus.
toms are enduring.
At each session Of Congress for
many years an image-breaking mem
ber or group of congressional icono-
clasts. intent on making a gesture Of
economy, have introduced and sup
ported measures which would do away
with free seeds. Successfully such
measures have been voted down. But
last year the anti-free seeds advocates
won.
At the opening Of this present Con-
gress Representative Langley Of Ken.
lucky introduced his bill On which tie
vote was taken by the committee on
agriculture last year to make the free.
seed appropriation permanent law.
He will put up a strong argument for
free seeds. He viii say that s1s2 900, :
089 In food value was produced a year
sago. from free vegetable seeds. and
that thousands of, home gardens were
made bright and beautiful BIZ flee
flower seeds.
There have been many jokes on gov.
ernment free seeds. Some farmers