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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
SHEARING THE INNOCENT

F ALL the money lost in Indiana by "blue sky" stock
| schemes and financial failures during the past year could
be heaped into one sum, the total would stagger the public.
Millions have been sunk into thin-air corporations.
Dividends on some company stocks have been paid out of adj
ditonal sale of stock. While many corporations, such as a glass
casket company, which started to sell stock in this city, have
been prevented by local interests from taking the pubic's saw
ings; others have succeeded in their plumber and then failed"
because of an alleged business depression or poor management.
What has been the cost to the Nation during the past year,
The total amount in one year has been estimated from one
to two billions of dollars. The Department of Justice at Wash
ington calculates the loss last year in spurious oil securities
alone to be 81, $50 100000. What a price!
The total sum, it has been figured by the National Surety
Company, would pay for a'paved highway 1900 miles across the
United States with 50-foot building lots on either side, a house
erected on every lot at a cost of $1,000, furniture provided for
each house at an expense of $4,000, and $4,000 provided for ex-
penses of each family during the first year.
Have you paid anything for this imaginary highway, the lots
the houses and the furniture7
Even the defraying of these expenses would leave a residue
of approximately ~$50O00OO0.
The paved highway with its double row of homes would ex
tend from the Atlantic coast westward across the States OF
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Ohio and through Indiana
IF that could have been accomplished by the Nations bill to
"blue sky" losses, WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN
INDIANA?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Pennsy's View

To the Editor Of The Times
Our attention has been called
through our general superintendent
in Indianapolis, Mr.. w. C. Downing,
to an editorial published IN your
paper Now It Can Be Shown" This
editorial discussed tbs settlement
made by the Pennsylvania Railroad
with the Government, and stated
among other things that our company
paid the Government $50, 900, 900,
because the Government had over
maintained the road during the
period Of Government service"
It is regrettable our company's
settlement with the Government has
at times been misunderstood. This
has probably been due in consider
able degree 70 the fact that the
matter is a technical one, involving
complicated features of accounting.
The figure of $50, GOO, 900 was in no
ems an allowance for over main
tenance by the United States Rail
ROAD Administration. It represents
the net settlement for the use of our
railroad and all transactions between
our system and the Government
during the entire period of Federal
control and includes full payment to
to the Government for over 5000, 000,-
600 of capital account expenditures
for permanent additions and extern
sions to the property and equipment
during the var period which were
made by the Government and tenn
pOrarily financed by it. Under the
Federal control contract our COM
pany vas obligated to reimburse the
Government for these capital ex-
penditures, or, to state the matter
less technically, to buy from the
Government the new property which
these expenditures represented. It Is
important to understand that these
expenditures were not for up-keep, or
maintenance, but for additional
facilities required to meet the war
traffic.
As a matter Of fact our company's
claims of under maintenance during
the period of Federal control were
specifically recognized and established.
and we were allowed under mainten-
nee by the director general to the
extent that, in his Judgment, he could
pay in accordance with the terrns of
the contract. the director generals
regulations, and the decisions of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
These claims. as thus established ana
allowed, were duly credited to the
company in the final settlement. We
believe that we were fairly entitled TO
a greater sum for under maintenance
than what We received.
I trust the foregoing VIII make
clear the nature of the $50, 900, 900
payment, namely, that it is a net
settlement for all items of every
character on either side between the
Government and the company. and
that far from representing payment
for over maintenance, it embraces
allowances for many established
items of under maintenance. 4
A. J. COUNTY, !
Vice President, Pennsylvania Rail-
road System. {
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
SIMS
= = Says

Ia Il EIGHBORS are people who
I'M live near you. You wish some
IL would move and some wish
you would move.
Neighbors are nice people who
bring you chicken when they cant
eat another bite Of it.
Neighbors are sarcastic people
who smile gently when you say you
never fight with your wife.
NeighbOrs are crazy people who
tend to your business and fine peo-
pie who tend to their business.
Neighbors are people who cook
cabbage with the windows open
when you are going to have com
pany.
Neighbors are funny people who
come over when you are sick and
tell you how sick they used to be.
Neighbor women are people with
their hair in papers who come over
to borrow a cup Of sugar.
Neighbor men are people in shirt
sleeves who explain why you should
have used a little more yeast.
We don't know why neighbors act
so foolish and neie lbors don't know
why you act so foolish.
Never judge neighbors by what
you e hanging on their clothes
tines.
Shake hands with a collector and
invite him in so the neighbors will
not know he is a collector.
Treat your neighbors nice. If you
didn't have any n~eighbors your
neighborhood would be deserted.
Never get too mad at your neigh
bors. Very often your enemies this
week are your friends next week.
Never tell the neighbors too much.
Quite often your friends this week
are your enemies next week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
ADVERTISING Is ALOCOMOTIVE

I'm A recent trip to the Pacific coast, William Wrigley, Jry
" chewing gum manufacturer, was urged by a friend to re-
duce his unusually heavy advertising appropriation and permit
his business to continue on the momentum gained by past ex-
penditures.
Wrigleys reply was that the train on which he and his
friend were travelling seemed to be going along pretty we'll
But, he added, chow far do you think we would go if they
took the locomotive away7"
Wrigley has never wavered in his belief in advertising; he
has always looked upon it as a locomotive that was pulling his
business onward. The story of his success may be summed up
in the fact that the Wrigley Company has announced a stock
melon of ~$5OyOOOOOO viii be divided among stockholders as a
Christmas gift.
The Times is glad to point out that the Wrigley Company is
one of it's advertisers. There's a lesson here for any wise mer-
chant or business man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Heard in the Smoking Room

to formula and in chorus, as he had
provided they should. Finally, he got
them where their reply to his fire
query would roll off their tongues
with asto nishing glibness. Well,
day DR.. Fan Dyke was to lecture at
the school. The teacher, by way of
introducing Van Dyke, said, Now.
children, what would you do if 1 told
you that DIR. Henry Van Dyke was
to lecture here today?' Instantly 800
childish voices answered in ~sing-song:
1--WE would rise promptly, put
away our books, and then quietly and
without disorder but as quickly as
possible. file out to the street."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
The Difference

BY BERTON BRALEY
Bill plays pool with a skill uncanny
Learned by practicing year on
year,
No break of the game can get his
nanny.
His hand is steady. his brain is
clear.
He plans and studies his mode Of
playing
With concentration on every shot,
Hes always figuring, doping, weigh
ing
Which chance is proper. and which
is not.
Yet pool is merely Bills recreation,
A game he plays when the work
hours end,
An Office JOB is his real vocation,
On THAT his room and his board
depend.
Since that is the task by which he's
living
You'd think he'd tend to it. as a
rule,
And give it at least the thought he's
giving
To educating himself in pool.
But no-Bil dawdles and shirks and
fuddles,
He views his Job with a listless
eye,
He loafs and stalls and he fakes and
muddles
And merely figures on getting
by;
Yet still he growls at his poor posi-
ton,
His rotten boss" and his "measley
pay"
Though all he needs is the same
ambition
Applied to work that he gives to
play!
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Colds

The common cold" is recognized
as a mena by Uncle Sans Public
Health Service. which starts study
ing colds" on a big scale. The goal,
of course. is to stamp out eventually
these annoying and dangerous cpl
denies.
It's a relief and pleasure to read
about such common-sense action, after
so much medical vaudeville about
monkey glands and so on. Situation
to date was approximately summed up
by the country doctor, who satiricaIly
said. at takes three weeks to cur
a cold with medicine and twenty-one
days without"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Tongue Tips

Israel ZangwiI, satirist, and poet
scoring our immigration laws: Even
Christ himself could not get into our
country because He would have to
admit He had once been in JAIL
Julius Kruttschnitt, Southern Pa
cifc Railway: 1.-THE public wants
adequate service. For such service
the railways must have a fair return.
This is the hope which the new public
attitude brings to railway manage
ment. But the restoration Of con
fdence in the railroads and stabiliza-
ton Of their credit must be Of slow
growth. This will be the result of a
long period Of experience and the con
sistent following of a fair, equitable
and definite policy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
What Editors
Are Saying
Cleanup
Richmond Item

We need a thorough reorganiza-
ton of republican leadership, here
in Indiana. We need new blood. II
the men who have betrayed the party
haven't common enough to soak
in that plain truth for themselves,
their friends should bring it home
to them.
A general resignation of the mem
bership Of the present State COM
mittee would be a very wise and a
very timely thing to happen, in the
near future. If ever a political party
in Indiana needed to clean house it
is the Republican party. just now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
TALK ABOUT GOING IT!
9 [EvENLEAGUE boots get nowhere in covering
u Scientific experiment beats them to a standstill.

G EVEN-LEAGUE boots get nowhere in covering ground.
u Scientific experiment beats them to a standstil.
Comes now Prof. Georges Louvel, distinguished French
writer and scientist, with demonstrations that the odor Of a billy
goat has high therapeutic value in treatment Of lung and throat
troubles, even tuberculosis.
Professor LOuvel points out that the goat is about the only
animal immune from tuberculosis and that the children of Israel
were free from lung troubles, being devoted to sleeping with
goats in their tents. DR.. Louvel will establish a sanitarium, with
a redOlent billy goat in bed with every patient, if he can secure
the goats. He will have no trouble in finding folks who are will
ing to try anything once, even unlimited goat.
1t is not possible that this goat odor cure will become a
"rage, - as many other "cures" do, but the slightest possibility
of it is to be dreaded. Just think of lying in bed with a billy goats
cold feet and waking up to cough in an odor that could be used as
an ironing board or as a dinfectant in a soap factory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
"'BLUE LAW" B

THIRST test of 'blue law enforcement at Frankfort, Ind, in
y volving more than twenty business men for keeping open
on Sunday, has dealt a deathblow to such enforcement.
That the law fails to have popular support is given as the
principal reason for its non-enforcement. Public opinion is the
link between the public and law enforcement. The fate of the
'blue law in Frankfort clearly proved this.
Need of an independent conscience in deciding affairs
of morality is emphasized by changing views of virtue and pro
prety.
Fifty years ago it was not uncommon to hear sermons
against the reading of Shakespeare. The actors profession was
regarded by many as a Mephistopheles cloak hiding the hoofs and
tail of the devil
Billiards and bowling were once to be found only as a lure
to the bar of taverns and saloons.
Cards were used only for gambling.
Sunday recreation was an open challenge Of infdelty to the
church.
What, then, is the answer to the "blue LAVISH
An ancient Chinese precept reads, ''There is no %invariable
model of virtue-a supreme regard to whatever is good gives the
only model of it."
The Man of Gallee did not crticise passing customs. A
child can readily memOrize all He said about conduct. All His
appeals were to common conscience which abides always.
He might have summoned all up in saying, 'Let God set
your judgment; then do what seems best"
1t is evident that a custom of morality, for today sets no
permanent standard. Every one must judge for himself in all
these matters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
RepentanCe
(Logansport Pharos Tribune)

tharOS tribune
Report is that someone broke into
the Poplar Grove Church near Ko-
komo aQd stole the pulpit Bible. The
report adds: There is no clew TO the
thief"
No effort should be made to find the
individual who took the book. If the
man who took the book had made
known his desire for a Bible the
church would have given him the
book with no necessity for taking 1t
by stealth. Let the individual alone,
and If he will just read the book he
secured he will in due time return it
and bring himself along with 1t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26

A reader Of this column asks
for a suggested list Of appropriate
Christmas gifts for men, wom-
en-, boys and girls. A bulletin Of
suggestions for such gifts will be
mailed to any other reader re-
questing 1t. Write to our Wash
ington Bureau, enclosing 2 cents
in postage stamps for reply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
UNUSUAL PEOPLE -
He Modern
Samson
By NEA Seruice

By NEA Seruice
IN ONCA CITY, Okla, Nov. 90
William H. McF'adden of this
- city doesn't profess to be an
other Samson, but he has just re-
turned from an adventure of which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
OVER
MAYFIELD IS
NJ
Texas Scion Denies Charge, of
INeWberryism' as Claimed
by Opponents,
By ROBERT TALLEY


XVII ASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-With
IW the opening of Congress only
- a few days away, Washington
is turning its eyes again to the o n
test to unseat Senator Earle B. May
field of Texas which promises to be
one of the most bitter battles in
Senate history.
Against Mayfield is the charge thai
he bought his seat by expanding
nearly $500, 900 in the Texas primary
last year, despite the legal limit OF
$4,000 fixed by State law. In Texas,
Democratic nomination is equivalent
to election.
Mayfeld is not accused Of violating
any Federal law. but the Senate is
the sole judge Of the qualifications of
its members, and it may GUST a man
because of the cut of his coat or the
color of his hair, If 1t desires. Further
more, the case has a political aspect
as an election year is approaching
and Republicans doubtless will not
pass up this opportunity to atone for
the sins of Newberry.
Kan Issue Enters
Into it. too, enters the Ku-Klux
Khan issue, for Senator Mayfeld is
said to be a Klansman, although he
claims he resigned from the Austin
klavern before election. It is con-
tended that. as a Klansman, he took
an oath superior to his oath as United
States Senator.
Forty-two years old, a Methodist.
and Of the sort who likes to tell every
body about it, Mayfeld was little
known outside Of Texas until he was
elected to the Senate in 1922. On
election night, throughout Texas the
Klan celebrated his victory with bon
fires.
At the regular election in November.
George Paddy, a young Houston at
torney. ran against him as the coali-
ton candidate Of the anti-Klan and
Republican forces. Paddy's name was
Rept off the ballot and he was badly
beaten. II was in his name the con.
test. charging "Newberryism," was
fled with the Senate.
The charge that Mayfeld expended
5000. 900 to win his seat is yet to be
proved. However. a Texas grand
jury. during one of the numerous eIec&
ton suits. found Mayfield guilty OF
violating the primary law by spending
$40. 600 when the legal limit was S10,-
coo.
Was Rail Commissioners
When he made the race. Mayfield
was a State railroad commissioner and
it is charged hat he used this Office
to intimidate corporations. particular
ly oil companies. to contribute TO his
campaign fund.
Senator Mayfield, elected but not
yet sworn IN. says the protest filed
against him els false from beginning
to end" and that "the charge that I
intimidated the oil industry Is ridicu
lous.''
The contest is" he explains,
merely a continuation OF the cam
paign Of misrepresentation and abuse
on the part OF my political opponents
to injure me personally and to lessen
the responsibility of my carrying out
my pledges TO the people and no spe-
clal interest during my term"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26

that Biblic a |
strong m a II
would have been
proud.
McFadden, be-
set by two bears
while on a hunt
ing trip, shot
m and choked
another to death.
AS q souvenir of
this experience
he shows a hand
wound from the
animals teeth,
during he tus-
sic.
A o priced
souvenir of the
adventure is q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Know Your CITY

Indianapolis is within sixty
miles of the center Of population
of the United States, as desig-
mated by the L. S. Census Bureau.
according to Activities" Cham
Der of Commerce, publication
which also says: Indianapolis
has a floating population of more
than 10000 daily"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Indiana
Sunshine

Samuel Cakes, a Bartholomew
County farmer, went to the home Of
a neigabor. Alfred McEwen, and jok-
ingly offered to buy some "nubbins"
from McEwen for cow feed, represent
ing that his own corn was too large
for the purpose. McEwen didn't think
il any joke. He filed a complaint.
Cakes was arrested and will have a
chance to explain his sense Of humor
in court.
A whisky spring is said to be the
discovery Of William Julian Of Boon
Vile. While wandering around in the
hills near the town he noticed a pecu-
liar smell. He tasted the water.
Thinking it had a kick, he sent the
water to a chemist, who said the
water had an alcoholic content. Julian
refuses to tell its location and no one
has bee able to quench their thirst
at the site of the mythical liquor law
violator.
Decatur has q chance to obtain a
real grizzly bear, but can't decide what
to do with it. e. Gulick of Malaga,
Washington, has written Mayor De
Voss. saying that he wanted a home
for his pet bear. The mayor doesn't
know just why Decatur was chosen,
and even though Gulick Is willing to
give the animal away, says he doesn't
know whether or not they have use
for a pet" bear running around the
town.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26

live bear, which McFadden and his
guide captured. The cries of this
bear brought the other two and re-
suited in the struggle III Of which
McFadden came victor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26

How can one tell cypress from
white pine lumber after they are
both sawed and planed?
In cypress, the markings OF rings
are closer and the wood shades from
a yellowish to a light tan. In pine
the rings are larger and not so close
and the wood shades from cream color
to pink. NJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Editors Mail

The editor is willing to print views
Of Times readers on interesting sub
jects. Make YOU comment brief.
Sign your name as an evidence of
good IIltA. 1t will not be printed
If you object.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
HEARD a good one on DR..
Henry Van Dyke, the preach

LII er-author~- diplomat" said the
dry smoker from New Jersey. Also,
it was a good joke on a teacher-one
of these machine teachers who is al
ways drilling his pupils-in a big pub
lie school. Fire drills were the pet
marched the children out In order,
time after time, and day after day,
but he was constantly e~ndeavoring to
fix in their minds just what they
should do in case Of fire. What would
o do IL 1 told you there was. a fire
in this building?' he would ask them,
and they would reply, sing-song. true
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Sighted
(Elwood Call Ieaderl

Governor McCray will appoint three
members of the Indiana World War
Memorial commission to succeed the
ones whose terms expires Dec. 10,
but Elwood gets any appoint
ments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Untrue
Muncie Evening Press)

lMuncie Evening Press
OF course that report about Jack
Dempsey being killed by an automo-
bile was untrue. If FIrpo couldn't
do it, what chance would an automo-
bile have?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26

What are the Greater Antilles?
The four largest islands in the West
Indies: Cuba, jamaica. Haiti and Porto
Rico. and a few smaller islands ne4r
their coasts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Who composed the grand opera,

Who composed the grand opera,
William Tell?
The music was composed by Clio
acchino Antonio Rossini; the ubretto
was by Etienne Jouy. The words,
however. were so unusual that RG5-
SIM had Armand Marrast rewrite the
e Of the meeting Of the conspira-
tors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Where is Dahomev2

This is a French colony Of West
Africa, between Togoland on the west
and the British possessions Of La
gos and Nigeria on the east, and
with the French military territories on
the north.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Her Father. Alas

Her Father, Alas
What did you say to father when
you asked him?"
81 told him that L considered my
self a self-made man. That I began
at the foot"
Yes, yes, and then what?"
HE began with his.'-Detroit
News.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
Is there a negro saint7

Is there a negro saint?
Saint Benedict, the Moor, is a negro
saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
He lived 1526-1589, was the son Of
slaves from Ethiopia, was canonized
in 1907. and his feast IS celebrated
April 3.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
AM
TAX LAW is
ANTICIPATED
Declares Change in Land
Naturalization Will Be of
Great Benefit to Farmer.

This is the seventh of a series of
eight articles on the agricultural prob
lem written by Herbert Quick for the
indianapolis Times. This article is on
taxation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26
How may flowers be colored rec

How may flowers be colored red
and blue?
One method Of coloring flowers is
to cut them with long stems and let
them stand for a while in water CON
tanning dye Of the desired color. There
are some species Of dry, strawlike
flowers, which are merely dipped in
dye.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-11-26

Who said, I'm this world moth
ing is certain but death and taxes?
Benjamin Franklin in a letter to
NJ. Leroy.