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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
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ANSWERS

Is it true that the works at
tributed to Shakespeare were
really written by Sir Francis
Bacon?
There is a story, largely discred-
tied now. that Sir Francis Bacon was
the true author of the Shakespearean
dramas. This contention is based on
the a. unlikelihood that a moder-
ately educated boy from Stratford
would develop so much genius and
display so much knowledge as the
dramas show; (2) The feeling that the
knowledge we possess OF Shakes
peare's life is a strangely meager rec
ord to be left Of so great a man. and
is also insufficient to identify the
man from StratfOrd with the au-
thor of the dramas. These argu-
ments are answered, however. for first
Shakespeare was about as likely to
develop genius as any other boy born
in England in 1864: and the learning
shown in the dramas is neither more
extensive or more exact that wonId
be possible for any man with a fair
education who kept his eyes and ears
open and mingled with people, and
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BY HENRY c. WALLACE.
Secretary Of Agriculture.

TN HE agricultural credits act does
not in any way interfere with
the functioniug Of the War Fl
nance Corporation The life Of the
War Finance Corporation was ex-
tended for the very purpose of max
ing sure that there should be no re
strctIon Of credit facilities to the
farmer during the period required
to build up the machinery necessary
under the agricultural credits act, The
War Finance Go operation has ample
funds and nothing has been done TO
limit its work
The agricultural credits act provides
for the establishment Of q Federal In
termediate credit bank In each Of the
twelve Federal land bank districts
These new banks Will be managed by
the directors and officers Of the OK
listing land hanks. Each has a CAPT
tai of $5.0oo000 and therefore can
begin loau!nE as quickly as the or,
canization can be perfected These
intermediate credit banks are author
tied to discount and purchase notes
given to banks for agricultural and
livestock purposes. Also they can
make loans direct 10 cooperative as
soclatious on the basis Of warehouse
receipts or mortgages on livestock
A local bank which has loaned
money 10 It's farmer customers for
agricultural purposes and mas taken
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searched the house carefully, and
with his usual thorouGhness, sprinkIed
flour on the doors to catch footsteps
tied fine black thread across the stairs,
locked up communicating doors. and
then posted his two companions in
convenient places for observation. He
himself sat in Kitchen doorway and
looked out into the hall. About five
minutes after midnight the whole
house shook with a gigantic crash. Sir
Conan says it was as il some one had
dropped Il cement barrel from the roof
into the central hall. In an instant
the watchers daIted off to flnd--noth-
ing 1t remained an ineXpIicable
mystery.
During his present lecture tour Sir
Conan is discussing all the important
phases of spirit phenomena, and is pre-
senting a remarkable series of photo
graphs which show the results Of re-
cent Investigations. Among these are
pictures Of the much discussed eoto-
pasm, emitted by certain mediums,
which occasionally takes human
forms. Automatic writing, crystal
gazing, spirit photography and a mum
Der Of other topics serve to make these
lectures fascinating.
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The InterlOper
Bv BERTON BRALEY

By BERTOE BRALEY
YOU'VE got il ali planned. what you do
with your life,
How singly. you'll plunge in the heat of the
strife
without being hsmpered or bound by a
wife"
and wrest your success from the midst of
the throng.
And then-then girl comes slongi
A girl come along! And your heart sings .
song.
without her you feel that the world would
Youu Know how it is when a girl comes
alOngi
YOU'VE wanted to travel. to rove and TO
roam
By mountain and valley and over the foam
without any family waiting at home.
And marriage, you think, Is "a chain and a
thong"
And then-then a girl comes alougi
A girl come alongl Oh her magic is strong.
And you'll settle down with the home-keep-
For that's how It Is when 4 girl comes along,
voU'RE sore and discouraged. you're down
4 on your luck,
You've lost all your pep and your vim and
your pluck.
The crowd seems 10 trample you deep in the
muck
You cannot stand up at the clang Of the
And then-then a girl comes aIongi
A girl comes along Just girl from the
And courage comes back to you. vibrant and
You rise I'D again, man among men.
For that's how it is when a girl comes
tcon n1aS 1928. NEA Service. Incl
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SIR CONAN DOYLE
TO LECTURE HERE:
Noted Author to Give Spirit
Impressions,

Next Tuesday evening in the Mu-
rat Theater, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
will present his illustrated lecture.
Recent Psychic Evidence" under the
direction Of the Ona z Talbot Fine
Arts Enterprises
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. whose in
vestigations Of life after death have
aroused worldwide interest. is revisit.
ing this country for a lecture tour.
which viii take him from the At
Iantic to the Pacific coast. He has
arranged to speak in most Of the
larger cities, when he will discuss
Death and the Hereafter" and THE
New Revelation"
About thirty years ago Sir Conan,
who is now in his sixty-fourth year,
became interested in psychicaI re-
search. He studied the evidence and
personally experimental with spirit
ualism long before he proclaimed
himself convinced of it's truths.
One of Sir Conan's first lnvestiga-
tons in the early days was a. haunted
manor house in Lancashire. which he
visited with two members Of the
Psychic Research Society. The man
sion was inhabited by a widow, her
daughter and only son. Curious noises
were heard and on the second night
Doyle got to work.
After the household had retired. he
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rectors. at nearly 70 years of age, viii
tell you that you'll find the description
in the above rhymed lives absolutely
true when you have lived with animals
a long time and studied them with
thoroughness. And with sympathy,
without which there is never real
study
Animals are not vengeful; it is only
the way we look at them that makes
us think they are vengeful. We fancy
that many animals overeat, but that is
ignorance. What seems like overeat-
ing to us is only satisfaction of the de-
mands of bodies constructed differently
from our own bodies. Brother Four
Leggs eats only enough, when he can
get that much, to satisfy his own per
sonal works.
10 humans it appears that weasels
kill birds and rabbits for the sake of
killing Quite true. Nature built him
as he is for provtdential reason. Be
fore man. the destroyer. planted him
self far and wide many small animals
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
Three Michigan Counties Are
Stirred by Poison MyStery
BIZ NFA Serrjoc


JACKSON. Mich. April PA
poison mystery has aroused
~ public feeling to the highest
pitch I'm three otherwise quiet Michi-
gan counties.
Mrs Marjorie Kuhn, Al, Jackson,
is held in the EHlIsdaIe County jail
under n charge Of first degree muir
der In connection with the death. al
legedly by strychhine poisoning. Of
zelon Lake, 80. Jackson.
After Lakes burial. his brothers
became suspicious his death WAS not
the result Of natural causes. The
body was exhumed and State chem
lists declared analysis showed the
stomach to contain strychnine
The accused woman denies any
responsibility for Lakes death. But
she admits, according to the sheriff
she WAS in his company twenty four
hours before his death and that she
prepared food for him. of which
she insists she also partOok.
One Of the deepest mysteries in
the case is what the motive for the
alleged killing could have been. Lake
was not a wealthy man.
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Government Credit to Farmers
Is Provided Under Federal Acts

their notes for the loans can discount
these notes with the intermediate
credit banks it is not necessary that
the notes so discounted should have
back of them chattel mortgages or
warehouse receipts. The intermedi-
ate banks can give terms of credit
ranging from six months to as much
as three years,
The United States warehouse act
has an important relation to the new
credit system. 1t provides a permits
slve system Of licensing warehouse
men by the secretary Of Agriculture.
Al the present time there are $50
licensed cotton warehouses. 227 IL
censed grain warehouses. 20 licensed
wool warehouses; and So licensed to-
bacco warehouses The licensed ca
pacity for cotton is now sufficient
to store at one time about fourth
Of nominal cotton crop and for
wool about one.sixth of the annual
clip. Originally the law limited Ii,
censed warehouse commodities to
cotton. wool tobacco and grain. On
Feb. % the law was so amended as
to remove the limitations and under
the present law the secretary OF ag-
riculture can license a warehouse for
the storage of any products whicD he
considers would constitute sound col
lateral
To get the fun benefit of the pro
visions for marketing. credit farmers
should see 10 it that the warehouses
in which they expect 20 store their
products on the way to market are
licensed under the Federal law Ample
credit can be secured on all farm
products stored in Federal licensed
warehouses This makes 1t possible
to market farm products in more
orderly way and 10 avoid flooding the
market and depressing the price.
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.COUzENS DECLARES.
OUR NATIONAL ILLS
LIE IN CONGRESS
Michigan Senator Says SOL
onS DabbIe in Everybody'S
Business but Own,
BY JOHN CARSON.

wv 7 ASHINGTON, April 21.-Con-
w gress must begin reforming
by reforming Congress. &C
cording to Senator Jim" COuzens of
Michigan.
After weeks of study of conditions
in Congress and the duties of a Sena-
tor. Couzens is convinced that most
of the disease in our system of gov
eminent lies with Congress
Couzens began to study his job, He
wanted to know what his duties were.
He got the Congressional Library to
supply him with books on the sub
ject But the books and doctrines
enunciated did not apply to condi-
tions as he found them.
ITO my mind, the constant dabbling
of Senators and Representatives in
everybody's business besides their
own is one of the worst phases of
the situation down here" ne said
THE chief function Of a member Of
Congress- in actual practice. seems
TO be trying to influence the course
of the executive branches of the Gov
eminent and almost always against
the real public interest"
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read good books; and moreover, the
quality of his learning is not Of the
academic type. 1t may also be said
that meager as is our knowledge about
the life of Shakespeare, It is still
more extensive than about any other
Elizabethan dramatist, except Ben
Johnson. The Bacon theory was never
taken very seriously. except by a
small group of students.
What was the worlds raw silk
production in 1921-I922?
It is estimated at SO ,437. 900 pounds.
How far is the Hudson river
naVigable?
Up to Troy. six miles above Albany.
or for about $50 miles
How can one use a spool for
blowing bubbles?
Dip one end of the spool in the
liquid and blow through the other.
What is the record for throwing
baseball?
At Cincinnati. Ohio. Oct 10, 1910
Sheldon LeJeune of the Evansville
Qnd) Club of the Central League
threw a baseball 426 feet Ga inches.
How many radio stations are
there in Italy?
About sixty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
Bavaria Is Whirlpool of Plots
and Political Propaganda

If France realizes her aim-to an
mex the Rhineland and permanently
occupy and exploit the Ruhr-at viii
mean the establishment of French
dominance in Europe.
This policy, il carried ont, wall
weaken Germany economically TO
such an extent that the German PEG
pie will be doomed to political de-
struction and ruin"
The unanimous passive resistance
of the German people," he says. will
cause the collapse of the French In
tentions, provided the people IN the
unoccupied area remain as firm and
determined as their fellows in the oc-
cupied territory"
Former President Wilson's fourteen
points remain uppermOst in most Ger
man minds. Or. Won Knillpg says.
and he hopes eventually for some sort
of American help in solving the
Franco German problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
OUR
FREAKY
CLIMATE

F rTs2r w most parts Of the United States And
The weather bureau in Washington reports
year with temperatures
orally the Rocky Mountains Since
long keeps the average yearly temperature finely
balanced these abnormay
be abnormaly cold year.
Will it come in 1928 cold summer?
cold due but probably until about 1926, in
line with the climax of the 'fftyfve year cycle
Go back cycles (0 years. from 1926 and you have
1876 the year without Snow fell and ice formed
July many States seed 1916
sold high 81 bushel Herbert j. Browne writes in Henry
Fords Dearborn Independent.
Brown quotes from the diary Charles Perce of Phlade
pha august 1816Cheeress and cold Northeast rains Ice
onehalf inch thick Indian frozen
While 1916 extraordinarily cold, it merely of
the Summarizes years that periodically The Black Sea
the Dardanees frozen within his
tory And in the year 1884 even the Adriatic froze
thing helped make 1916 very cold Browne writes
explosion huge Indies
1915 Fine volcanic dust spread through the atmosphere all
the EARTH excluding sunlight the following year. 1916
There of such catastrophe 1922 and that
will help keep the of 1928 normally
Another thing favorable a this year is the
fact that the Arctic which has tremendous determining
influence weather exceptionally this
Freaksh conditions in the norhland reported by the
Bergen He cold fish
caps retreang
Greenland glaciers melting and exposing ground that had
by always within the memory the oldest
habitants
The scientific evidence coupled with precedent indicates
the probably will be a one
weather will itself up by sending cold about
1926-hough possibly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
Court Edict Forces Man to Woo Oz0n
Wife After Youthful Bride LeaUeS Him
Judge Orders Husband to
Pay Court and Win
Her Love,
BY ROY GIBBONS
NEA Stat Correspondent


NHICAGO, April 21.-Facing
John II. Dudley here is the
~ most unusual problem OF
counting that ever confronted a
lovelorn swain.
For it's up to Dudley to WOO and
to win his own legally welded
wife.
That sentence has been i'm
posed on him by q Chicago court.
IF Dudley's wooing wins-then
wife, home and happiness will be
his
And If it fails-Mrs Dudley will
be allowed unrestrained to live at
the home Of her parents while Dud-
ley in loneliness fries his own
breakfast bacon and longs for the
life that might have been.
How IT Started
A few days ago Dudley and Helen
Peterson rs. felt the lure Of spring.
went to Crown Point, Indiana's
Gretna Green, and were married
But within week married life
irked the youthful bride And bud.
ley found himself alone in his lit,
tie fat.
Straightway FASTENED Dudley into
court Helen's parents, he de
clared, were holding the bride in
communicate against her will And
the husband demanded a writ Of
habeas corpus.
Came into the court the bride and
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs David
Petersen. accompanied by the
sheriff
4 don't love John as wife
should" the bride testified Il
hadn't intended marrying him at all
But IL was a nice day and ] was
passing his house on my way -
work, so I thought I just stop in
and say hello
And he said. lets get married"
Il was such a nice day ] didn't
feel much Ike going 20 work. So
We went to Crown Point 7 left
him Of my own free will a week
later"
Then Helen's mother broke in:
The marriage was not the act Of
Cod" she interpolated. Helen will
get rid Of her husband as quietly
as possible and go away "A mis-
sionary.
Case dismissed" announced
Judge SABBATH. IT don't believe this
girl is being held against her will
So I am not going 30 issue any
writ. And then
John. II IS spring and love IS in
the air. Start counting your wife
all over. You may send her fiow-
ers and candy and take her to tho
theater
Re gentle. Try the romance Of
Shakespeare. Caveman tactics VIII
not do. Consider yourself n lover
and not q husband 7 give you one
month IN which to pay your court.
Then come back here. both Of
Won. Lot me know then how you
feel about the situation"
And now Dudley's playing Romeo.
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Doing Ones Duty as He Sees It

and birds would become so over popu-
lous that a balance was necessary or
they'd have covered the earth and
polluted it with their starved, diseased
corpses. If the weasel killed only to
satisfy his hunger, a rabbit or two. or
a bird or two at a time, would be suf-
ficient. Consequently, in its wondrous
foresight, nature invented in him an
instinct to slash right and left and
drink blood. That's why you'll go out
to your little old hencoop Of a morning
and find twenty or thirty chickens
lying around dead with teeth marks
only in their threats. The weasel and
such animals are merely doing their
duty as they seeit
Duty is the keystone of the lower
world Birds and beasts never fail to
do that.
In the upper animal world, on the
other hand, we creatures are too s,-
perior to do our duty even though we
see it, Isn't 1t because we are so Snob-
bish that we think we are above ma
ture?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
RalStOn Sends
Garden Seeds
to Fair Voters

By Times Special
WASHINGTON. April I'll.
Senator-elect Samuel Nj. Ralston
has accomplished one Of his
senatorial duties. He has looked
after his free garden seeds.
The Senator elect has d very
efficient steuogIapher handling
details of his office work in Wash
ington She was interested, of
course, in doing everything pos
sible for the Senator. She re
membered that he might have
some free garden seeds and she
wont after them and got them.
Ralston did not overlook the
bet when she insisted on sending
them to Indiana constituents
But Ralston knew trick about
the game. He did not send them
to men. He sent them to women.
Great is the woman suffrage law.
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NEA Service Camera Correspondent
u MUNICH. April 21.-Poltical
NJ propaganda is getting to be
AVE- one Of the leading industries
of Munich. Babaria is a crazy quilt
Of political plots and publicity; with
mystery man Hitler a disturbing fac
tor. with General Won Ludendorff
dominating another group with people
talking monarchy and Fascist and
with former Crown Prince Rupprecht
close by. this German state is a whirf-
pool.
Finding out what the people think
is difficult matter You hear curses
for France. and appeals to America
dismal prophecies of ruin and other
forecasts more cheerful
To get one viewpoint l talked with
DR.. Won Knilling. prime minister of
Bavaria | cannot vouch for the ac-
curacy of his Interpretation of public
opinion in South Germany, but this
is what he says:
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SECRET INVESTIGATOR
CALLED AS WITNESS
BIZ United Press

ST. JOSEPH, Mich, April I'll
Francis Morrow, government investi-
gator and under cover man" at the
Bridgeman communist convention last
August, will take the witness stand
Monday in the trial of Charles e.
Ruthenberg. accused of violation of
the Michigan syndicalist act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
Mayor Talks Taxes
CREDITORS GET rs PCT.
Gaylord Receiver Satisfies % Per
Cent of Claims-StOckhOlde Lose.

Creditors of the Gay Lord Clothing
Company of indianapolis were paid rs
per cent Of their claims today by G.
NJ. Ewing. receiver.
The lease on the building at &c r.
Washington St, formerly occupied by
the company. was sold Friday to Sid
ney Seidman of Cleveland, Ohio, for
run.
stockholders Of the defunct COM
pany will receive nothing. il was said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
Flying Ambulance

PARIS. April 21.-When an in
valid became i'll here and needed to
be transported to her physician in
England an airplane was quickly
rugged up az q flying ambulance and
rushed the patient across the chan.
mel She will recover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
Bv SAM T. HUGHES

MO DOUBT of it at all. The more
~ the professional zoologist and
the amateug investigator OBJ
serve the lives of the lower order, the
more respect they have for animals.
They learn every day that some of our
strongest impressions about this and
that creature of the field, the forest
folklore or superstition or ignorance.
Enos Mills found that the grizzly
was a great big, numbering gentleman
when he was not threatened or scared.
Yet science, in its pre-twentieth CEN
fury Ignorance pinned the latinized
name "horribids" onto this fine fellow
Hornaday, the greatest OF ZOO Oh
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
ROnch ON InXerS

Love letters are not safe in the Japa-
nese postofices. Recently in Kobe,
letters have been opened and when
found 10 be ardent communications. -
the writer's have been victims of black
mail
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21
Call 1t a SPADE

You can't sell a shovel in Argentine
unless you put the word Excelsior"
on the label Several dealers were not
able to dispose of their stock until
they had humored their customers in
this way. Then the shovels found a
ready sale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21

Mexican oil IS still going strong. In
1922, in the Tampico district, ESQ wells
Weer drilled. of which l45 We're pro
ducers. eighty-nine were dry and
forty-six salt water wells Total pro
ducton of oil in Mexico in 1922 was
$50. 712 900 barrels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-21

TIME TTAvE you nearly twice much money the
FOR WISE bank you had in 1914? The average
SAVING = = American has. Savings deposits in 1913
totaled 1000 million dollars Now the figure
is close to $4,000 millions.
Some of that boom money sailed away by plain
people How much Apparently least 1000 millions How
the buying power of the dollar has practically in
two in effect were better off than before the
except for the wise who will keep their savings until prices
again bring the dollar buying power par$ will equal
50 later, in buying power.
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TOM SIMS SAYS:

w- cleaning old straw hats if you 8sN1N@ -
W can't exchange them I NSA
good cafe. go
Spiders frogs and lizards are found -. M
in cargoes o bananas, indicating they \ 19ssH
slip in on the skins 800
It i considered quite to paint \SaAaa.lJ<>
up old furniture without painting up IL<Ntl
house. W''\
dogs date years ago. but
very small for their age.
1t is best to things steamng water because cold
does not boil
If you without country tell him there
one in South Africa without man
drop of gycerin rapidly Ntroglycern
does the same, but never use it.
Goldfish breeding is big industry in Italy, and they sell
dom be brass.
Weing driving keeps you cracking plaster
but not from cracking your thumb.
good removing dandru may be related
to our headscratchng Senator Borah.
Spring time lambs to gambol lamb who gam
bled in Chicago lost the banks money
We had walk with a with a walking
stick
Spoonng and spoofng not only sound alike.
a street seat
Tell gets looking every time you her and
she you O her often.
Be careful with toothbrush that quickly. Some
may be using it by mistake
The much scandal made because there
many eager carry it.
Weeds make splendid garden They grow quickly and
have O be watched
When YOU a mans all scratched up you
know if ii a earrings,