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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
WATSON STIRS Up
PROGRESSIVELY
1924 PREDICTION
Statement That Harding viii
Seek Reelection RouSeS
Primary Advocates,

By United NciCs
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-Progres.
sives have been stirred to action by
the recent prediction of Senator James
E. Watson of Indiana, an Administra.
ton leader, that President Harding
would be renominated in 1924.
Anticipating an effort by the Hard
ing forces TO control the next Repub-
lican convention. Progressives are en-
ieavoring to make that conclave a
more directly representative body by
seeking additional presidential prefer
ence primary laws in States where
Legislatures are in session.
Letters indorsing extension OF the
direct primary method have been writ
ten by Senator Hiram Johnson Of Cal
iforn.a and Senator Arthur Capper of
Kansas. Although both Johnson and
Capper have been mentioned as pos
sibIe candidates for the presidential
nomination next year, both asserted
Friday that they had no such purpose
in mind.
Harding is an avowed friend Of the
convention system. Just a year ago,
as he was concluding his first year In
the White House, he made a speech
at a Republican gathering here. laud.
ing tho convention method of select.
ing delegates and candidates as supe-
riOr to the primary system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
Public Opinion
Tha. "ITotep' at PerdIeton

To the Editor Of The Times
We have several criminals in Nor
gan County who wish to make reserva-
tons for rooms when completed in the
Governor McCray Hotel Superior at
PendletOn.
However, we feel that to make the
environment more complete and also
that the money of the people shall De
spent for a noble class of thorough
bred citizens of this glorious State.
there should also be a private bath,
toilet and washstand in each room.
There should be porter service and
we should also be assured that our
morning and evening papers would
be delivered at our rooms promptly
each morning.
Of course the imbeciles, insane,
maniac, idiot and other afflicted peo-
pie who are dependent on the State
should have full consideration in due
time, but not until at least the favored
criminal class has been taken care Of
and amply provided for. The question
now is just what felony that one can
commit will insure the longest stay
and the choice of rooms and accom-
mediation while repining at the NC
Cray Hotel Superior We are strong
for the Hotel Superior down in old
Morgan.
II. L. M.
Martinsville, Ind.
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BIZ NEA Seruice

BIZ NEA Seruice
I'd ATH, Maine, Feb. 10.-'T ex-
~ pect to die on Feb. 20!' says
DR.. William M. Rouse.
Calmly he waits for death. He
has made arrangements for his own
funeral. He has bought farewell
gifts for hts grandchildren.
The fatal day has been fixed. DR..
Rouse says, by mathematical
calculation. This Is the basis: His
mother, Elvira WinsIow Rouse, and
his grandfather, William Winslow.
died exactly forty-three days before
their seventy-seventh birthdays
His own seventy-seventh birthday
anniversary will be April 4-forty-
three days after Feb. 20.
No terror chills DR.. Rouse's heart
though he believes he will be
seized with mysterious malady, as
his mother and grandfather were,
literally starving to death as they
did.
Ponder this" he said. 1.-THE curl
GUS coincidence that my mothers
birthday and my grandfather were
on the same date, Dec. 26-that both
died on the Nov. IS preceding their
seventy-seventh birthdays! That
both died of the same mysterious
diseasesi
Both were in apparent good
health until two days before they
died. Suddenly came stomach in
lection. in EACH case. Physicians
could find no organic trouble-yet
neither could digest food, and they
starved TO death"
The aged. white-bearded doctor
keeps the vigil Of his own death in
three furnished rooms on the second
floor Of shabby wooden business
block in Front st.
Although l am we'll today" he
said "the same trouble may develop
within the few weeks lef... II Il
does I shall be expecting It. II
death comes shall be reaCy."
Only the slenderest kind Of a pos
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
CHEMIST TO RISK
LIFE TO TEST ILL
EFFECTS OF GAS
Doctor viii Enter Sealed
Chamber to InhaIe Poison
Fumes,

By NEA Service
" ALTIMORE, Feb. 1O.-Riskng
his life for the sake Of science, a
man here will soon enter
sealed chamber, which will then be
filled with Illuminating gas.
With him will go a dog.
Observers watching through glass
panels, will take him out when he
shows signs Of acute distress. The
dog will be taken out-dead.
It will be the first of a series of
experiments conducted by the city
authorities to discover what makes
Baltimore gas so deadly. In the past
year forty-seven persons died from
its effects and scores We're over
come.
Volunteered job
When the health officials, in an
attempt to discover the cause, de-
cided on these tests DIR. J. II. Shra-
der, city chemist was the first TO
volunteer at the human subject.
There is little danger" he said.
Besides. we may find out things
about this gas which may be of value
to the health Of the entire nation"
He added that it was possible that
thousands Of cases of illness at
tributable TO other causes may be due
TO lowered vitality caused by the in
haling Of Illuminating gas.
Case Explained
French medical experts" he ex-
planned, report a case in Paris where
thirty-six out OF forty persons Hv-
ing in one house suffered from chronic
carbon monoxide poisoning. The re-
sultant lowered vitality was favorable
to the development in them of ten
denotes to diseases THEY may have
inherited from their parents or OF con
tagions TO which they may have Leen
exposed.
There Is carbon monoxlde in the
gas served here. If it leaks. result
such as that found in Paris may de
velop."
In his experiments Or. Snrader will
be assisted by Walter NJ. Berry. en-
Eineer of the United States Bureau
Of Standards; DR.. c. w. Mitchell Of
the United State Public Health Serv-
ice, ana other Government experts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
PARTIES DIVIDE: IN
VOTING ON MEASURE:

Lacking one vote of a Constitutional
majority to pass, the bill providing
for repeal of the absent voters law
failed in the Senate late Friday by a
vote of 25 to 81.
According to rules, Senator, Barker.
author of the measure, may call the
bill up again for passage any time.
Party lines were spit in the debate
on the measure. Both sides made
efforts to line up absentees, but four
Senators We're out because of sickness.
Senator Barker Rep) and Cravens
Dem) led the fight for the bill, charx-
ing wholesale corruptionsa q result #
abuse of the law. Senators Cam
Rep9 and Chambers (Dem0 oppose I
repeal, asserting it would disfranchise
voters whose occupation kept them
from home election day.
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ShelbyUiHe VIII Dedicate
School to Charles MQjO7

SHELBYVILI4E, Ind, Feb. 10
Tribute to this city's most dlstin-
guished citizen and writer is the Inn
mediate plan Of the Shelbyville
school board, under the direction Of
which the new Charles Major school
was completed last week. The new
building, erected in commemorative
Of one whose name has brought sig
nal honor to the city and commu.
nifty" is TO be dedicated within the
next few weeks, according to plans.
The Charles Major Memorial Tab
let, which will be placed in the
building later. is now being cast in
bronze. 1t is artistically modelled
with a profile of Mr. Major in me
dallion at the top and a quotation
from When KnIghthOod Was in
Flower" with names and dates in
scribed. Although the date for I'M
yelling the tablet has not been set,
it probably viii be before spring.
The Majors, although childless,
were especially fond of children and
were frequent hosts to scores Of the
younger blood of the city. Largely
through the influence Of these for
mer youngsters, ready listeners to
the compelling tales of a master
story teller, the new memorial school
saw its inception. To one Of these
early friends Of the romanticist, d.
Wray De PREF, present head of the
city school board is due a large
share of the credit for the memorial
school. De PREF. a Shelbyville mer-
chant, is a colonel in the Indiana
National Guard and did responsible
work as an officer during the World
War.
Major too. held colonelcy at one
time during his life, winning a com
mission in an unusual way His
father, Judge Major, was a close
friend Of Governor Oliver P. Morton.
Young Majors chief delight was to
annoy, although pleasantly, the con.
genial Governor. with innumerable
questions about the Army. One
morning the mail carrier brought
Charles an envelope containing a
commission for him as colonel Of the
250th Regiment.
That Majors fame was both I'M
dying and destined to strike a popu-
lar keynote later is shown in the
following extract from the pen Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
The Past
By RERTON RRAIE,

By BERTON BRALEY
k6E iris amt the same as the girls I knew "
- The dOwager says. and signs
Those old-time maidens would never do
thing that would cause surprise
But she failed to recall. in a large degree
Some things which she saw occur
Girls amt the same as they used to be
And they never were r.
fEASEN amt the came as the men of old. -
~ The old man said. with a scowI.
But he DIDN'T know that the cave man bold
Had put up a similar howl
And they both were right IN their sad decree
To which we can still dernur.
With, Men amt at all what they used TO be
And they never werel"
THE past IS ever a golden time
When it's many year away.
And the folks who're pretty well past their
prime
Are always aghsst at Today
And they're right, of course. as you plainly
see.
In the judgments that they aver.
But. Times amt at all what they used
to be-
And they never werel
Copyright, 1928. NEA servicel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10

Leone Kenton Lowden, his biog-
rapher.
when Knighthood Was in
Flower was his first book and made
him very famous; some day you
may see this in motion pictures, as
perhaps, you will also see Dorothy
Vernon, another remarkable sue
cess"
To the children and the grownup
youngsters, however, Major Will be
much better remembered for his
book, 1.-THE Bears Of Blue River"
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3O-HOau Mail Service Across Nation Is Air Plan

already I'm operation" says Carl r.
Egge, general superintendent Of the
air mail division of the Postonice
Department THAT is from New
York to Cleveland, Chicago. Omaha.
North Platte, Cheyenne, Rock
Springs, Salt Lake City, Elko.
Reno. San Francisco.
1.-THE lighted airway and emer-
gency landing fields for night nv
ing will be along that part Of the
route between Chicago and Chey-
enuc.
Leaving New York at noon. the
through air mail will reach Chicago
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
TOM SIMS SAYS:

TN HOSE girls will take anything
:: !: /. !. :. ). :.
you house
- We have schools. Why I -
not pedestrian schoos9 "a
The faxseed crop was short last sea- 80
Be very careful about getting saY
things in your eyes. ~ -
An American will try to win the @1c>
whatever that IS %V"\
Bandits holding up in Indianapolis but that
ism what makes them late here.
Congressman wants to protect OYSTERS which always have
been reticent about speaking for Themselves
The trouble with the young people of today they are
the young people of tonight.
Welformed girls the public eye much more often
than the wellinfo11ned girls.
gets by the booegger and gets soaked on the
booze and still the judge soaks him
The sad thing about having wife she always wants her
husband to quit being so foolish.
The influenza has been discovered be Isolated
1t brought it all on itself.
Just to show how ignorant japanese girls are 5000 Japa
nese men in Korea can't find wives.
Women jurors in Pittsburgh want smoking room We
thought all rooms in Pittsburgh smoking rooms.
There has been earthquake Alaska which undoubtedly
caused by seal hunters lies
They do funny things with radio Some people even make
money.
dog in Washington smokes cigarettes Better watch him
or he will learn to shoot pool.
Oldest national the u s. burned but being in nrac
ce they saved all the money.
King Tutankhamen has been gone 300 years so it can't
make much difference how you pronounce his name.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10

Ey evening. The 500 miles between
Chicago and Cheyenne will then De
covered by night flying Out OF
Cheyenne at daylight the following
morning. the mail would be deIiv.
cred in Frisco that evening-thirry
hours after leaving New York.
Surveying parties are now en-.
gagged in locating the emergency
landing fields that Will be required
for the stretch to be covered by
night flying
All the planes used in this stretch
Of the route viii he equipped with
landing lights to assist in making
forced landings at night. These
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
John Jay of New York Was
First Secretary of State

was imprisoned there in one of its
Underground dungeons from 1880 tc
1896.
Where is the Strand Magazine
published?
S-II southampton St, London, Eng.
land The international News Com
pany. 1886 Duane St, New York CITY.
n. Y, is the American agent.
Are long gloves tucked in at the
wrists when dining?
No. The majority Of authorities
agree that the gloves should be en-.
tirely removed when dining.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10

Mrs. George c. McElroy. 1887 Sheldon st.
Mother dear My Yalentinel How slow we
are to prove
The height and depth and deathlessness of
perfect Mother love.
We take her tender daily care Just as the
thoughtless flowers
Look, up 70 God for daily light because We
know It's ours
But when we miss. from heart and life, the
comfort of her care
Ihen We must learn TO live without her
presence and her prayer:
lis then the name of Mother is OF us a
holy thing.
And lowering low We seem to feel the shell
Ter of a wing
+ + J.
Mrs. Frank Gcyer 243 Caven St
Birds among the branches differing
Always seem to sins of you
Flowers on my pathway stretching
Moo and smile about you too
Cupid's day of love and gladness
Whispers of JOY that's mine
And thousand glad things tell me
You're my lifetime Valentine
Il
f. V. Seager. 1888 Holloway Ave
Thy hairs like rays OF golden sunshine,
Thy eyes like spots Of Heavens blue
Thy cheeks like clouds of filmsy softness
Thy heart so tender kind and true.
So from thy shining crown Of glory.
To thy dear feet | love thee go.
That to know thee, IS like having
bit of Heaven here below.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
REMEDY FOR DIABETES
DISCOVERED BY MEDICS

'CHIcGGo, Feb. 1O.-The discovery
of insulin as a remedy for diabetes
was announced today by Chicago
physicians. Or. r c. Banting. and
Prof. J. J. R Mcleod of the Univer-
sity of Toronto are credited with the
discovery. Insulin is a pancreatic ex-
tract.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10

emergency fields must be about
forty acres each with clear APP
proaChes
Every three miles along this
Chicago-Cheyenne route there viii
be a guide light that will alternately
flash on and off. so it may noc be
mistaken for other lights.
With emergency landing fields
lighted and ready at intervals Of
every twenty-five miles and with a
lighted airway along the whole Of
the route covered by night flying.
the difficulties and dangers Of night
flying will be minimIzed TO- the ut
most"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
WILHELM|NA HAS
|. LONGEST REIGN OF
|. LIVING SOVEREIGNS
Hollands Queen May Rival
Record of Queen
Victoria,
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service stair Correspondents
r ONDON, Feb 10-Late next
summer the citizens of the little
- kingdom of Holland will cele-
brate their Queen Wilhelminas forty
third birthday and the silver ami
versary of her-reign. She is the only
woman in Europe who rules a coun-
try in her own right and who did not
attain the title by marrying a king.
King Alfonso of Spain is the only
ruler in Europe who acceded to the
throne before she did. He became
king the day he was born. But since
he did not really rule until later, Viii
helmina has had a longer continuous
reign than any living sovereign
twenty-five years.
Is 43 Years Old
As she is only AZ and healthy, she
bids fair to rival the long reign of
Queen Victoria Of Britain who mount
ed the throne in 1888 and held scepter
until her death sixty-three years later.
The sturdy, Independent, semi-repub-
lican Dutch say that the best thing
about their queen is that so little is
heard about her. She is content to
let her ministers and Parliament run
the country.
Though she leads a simple life IN
the plain little palace in The Hague,
she has an enormous income from her
crown lands and possessions in the
East Indies. 1t is estimated she
draws down about five million dollars
annually.
WOmanly Woman
When p years ago, she married the
German Prince Henry Of Mecklenburg.
there was a feeling in Holland that
she would be very much under Ger
man influence. But Wilhelmina is
still boss and friend husband is even
more in the background than was
Queen Victoria's German husband. 1t
is Wilhelmina who has personally
supervised the education and training
Of their only child, the Princess Ju.
llama, who Is heir 10 the throne.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
Flower RTilrpS
II. L. M.
AIartinsville, Ind.

Small flowers are used effectively
on the new spring hats. Small brims
composed entirely of flowers, are used
with crowns Of coarse straw. Usual
ly they are in one color. but shade
from light to dark tones.
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to Mother, Dearest
Being, Deluge Contest Editor

At II o'clock tonight The Times
contest for Valentine verses ITO
Mother" closes. Entries postmar<ed
after midnight viii not be considered.
Although the heap Of poems re-
ceived by the Valentine Editor num-
bers many more than a thousand,
postmen today brought in hundreds
moro. Scores of contributions also
were brought In person.
The best verse will win a SIS prize:
the five next So prizes. Winners will
be announced Valentine day.
Contestants are limited to one verse
Of not more than eight lines. The
verse must be original
John c. Mellett, short story writer,
Miss Mary Dyer Lemon of the Indi-
annapolis Public Library, and John S.
Harrison, head of the Butler College
English department, are the judges.
Here are q few of the poems en-
tered:
+ + +
Mrs James Davidson, indianapolis
In years as distant as the far horizon,
When death stretched forth q scorching,
feverish hand
From out the dismal tarn which lay before
And struggling life grasped vainly at the
sand
Triekllng SO slowly down the bright beach
of existence.
Your herOisnl-Erard
As that of sentries Of Pomreit'G portals
Brought me, near lifeess, to the solid
+ /, +
Pearl Dutchess WestfalI. 22I e. Fourth ST.
Bloomington
Madonna
Beautiful as The Grecian urn,
Exquisite as a crystal
Her words 7 treasure
As the pieces of mosaic.
She made me pure
By her teachings.
o. hearts Valentine.
! j.
Miss Helena Deem. 1914 Charles st.
I made a package OF my heart,
With ribbon bus I bound it.
I wreathed the blue forget-me-not
filled it up with tender love
And sent 1t to Mother mine,
To say that no one else but you
Can be my VALENTINO.
:
Mary E. Brown, FL E. st. Joe st.
'Tis day of fond greeting. loves old
songs repeating,
That sweethearts exchange with each other.
But the. sweetest word like the voice of a
bird
Is my message of love for you, Mother.
Twas a day Of love plighting, old lovers
In troths they have pledged to another.
But the happiest ronsnce recorded in love
Is the one that I've had with you. Mother.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
BY HARRY HUNT
NEA STAFF Correspondent

UTASHINGTON. Feb. 10
w Thirty-hour transcontinenta
mail service from New York
to San Francisco is scheduled as
the next step in development Of
Uncle Sans air mail lines.
Present plans contemplate inaugu.
ration Of this thirty -hour transcon-
tinental service by late Spring or
early summer. although no definite
date has been set
1.-THE route to be followed is that
now covered by the air mail service
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10

SAVING TTHE Carolina Playmakers group of play
FOLK wrights and actors who yet had
LORE and may have their inning Broad
way. Yet their contribution American
drama will be the less.
These Carolina Paymakers students of Frederick w
Koch professor of drama at the University of North Carolina
he taught them drama of materials
at hand and to act the roles they originate.
they the folklore of the CaronaS
which has rich in dramatic possibilities 1t is drama of
everyday life full of human interest," hearthrobs and tense ad
venture, above all fairly record of living folks
Under the stately of the University campus they
their painters hands and That DONE
they acted their plays with the understanding of those who know
first hand the characters they portraying.
The interesting thing about this folk play that it
be used anywhere foster and the folklore of the diff
eren regions of the country Mr. KOCH when professor the
University of South Dakota inspired his students to the life
the plains into openar drama Out California the mission
plays depicted the of the early Spanish padres among the
Indians
Generally speaking, American folklore has been neglected
this the dramazaOn of American traditions spread
the land, America will be the richer for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
Doctor Figures Day He'll
Die and Plans Funeral
A Philosophy Of Death

OATH, Me- Feb 10This is the philosophy of Dr. William
- M. Rouse, who believes he will die Feb. 20:
81 didn't worry about being born why should worry
about dyngY haven't taken life very seriously why should
take death seriously? If it comes it comeshats all there
about it."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
Where is ChilIone

A castle and fortress of Switzerland.
It is situated in the canton of Vaud.
~ the eastern end of the Lake Ge-
aeva; celebrated in connection with
downward, the Genovan patriot. who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10

WHERE A MERICA imported 43646,948 tons of goods
FIGURES from other countries in the fiscal year end
FAIL L = ed last June 80. In the time shipped
abroad only 36585OO4 tons of exports We
ferret this out OF long and complicated Government report
On the surface looks losing out in foreign
trade But tons do not tell the story any more than money
value FOR instance we have to import many
equal one ton of costly chemicals exported Statistics tell more
truth than other form of knowledge-also more hes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-10
Verse

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The
Congressional Record is going IN
for verse. The editor won't say
how much he pays per line, but
here are samples Of the latest
contribution. This first one by
Senator Heilin Of Alabama:
LAS bees on flowers alight-
ing cease their hum,
Some Senators elected
soon grow dumb"
Representative Thomas OF
Kentucky resorts to verse to de
scribe colleague Blanton Of
Texas whom ne accuses of he
lieving:
Every day and every min
ute.
The Records wrong if I'm
rot in il"