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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-03
In Ne70 York

NEW YORK. Sept 3.-Ocean Lin
er Row. Ten p. m. Great piers
where great boats arrive and depart
for strange lands. Aliens. clad in
colorful garb. edgnig away in the
darkness OF a New York night. Fish.
Ugh. a tipsy sailor from a foreign
port. Three cooks in kitchen white
out for a breath Of air.
The Olympic is sailing at 1 n. m.
Happy crowds arriving in limou-
sines and taxicahs. Get a flag and
wave good.by 70 your mother-in-law,"
banks an aged man with a large
stock Of flags of all lands. An elder
" matron In black stares at him in
derision. Must have married
daughte A Beau Brummel sailing
for Paris opens a handbag to ex-
tract his passport. What no. The
clink Of bottles. Taking a sandwich
to a surefire banquet. Bet Re al
ways has an extra collarbutton in
his vest pocket.
Many sightseeing visitors aboard
Visiting an ocean liner develops a de-
sire for travel that cannot be de
MED. Hello. there. Gloria Swanson,
the movie actress. She is wearing
brown sun-glasses, pink dress,
black cape and hat to match. Not
/ a soul recognizes her. Better take
off your disguise. Gloria. She came
/ to say good-by to Forrest Halsey, her
story adapter, going to France to
prepare the way for her new picture.
Deck stewards haggard and worn.
They've been on duty seventeen
hours. One o'clock in the morning
is an unusual sailing hour from this
uort. But it is popular. Except for
those who are seeking publicity. The
ship news photographers don't work
at night.
The meanest trick played tonight.
| Somebody sent that jolly fellow a
sample of every remedy for sea-sick-
ness on the market. He admits hen
probably need them.
A crowd on deck fighting to peer
/ through a stateroom window. Won
der who the popular person is?
Charles De Roche, the French movie
idol who has been here for twenty
months. Like a Gagged lion with side.
show spectators looking on. He'd
have made a good football player,
Shoulders like a full back.
Clang! The warning bell. All visi-
tors off A scramble. Kisses and
tears. Handshakes and heartaches.
| There goes the first gang plank.
They are taking in the second. Gee,
that fellow made the boat by a step.
A second later and it would have
taken two Jumps. He probably
catches trains while they are NOV
| ing out of the station.
There she goes! The tugs take
hold of her. Ships that go out to
sea at night.
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By HAL COCHRAN

Each year brings the time when
the straw lids passe, and father
turns back to his felt. The straw is
too frail-like when cold is the day,
though it's fine when the sun makes
you melt.
The longer you hang to lid that
you wear the more friend it will
grow. The trusty old straw that you
park on your hair is the kind that
the men folks all know.
But breezes seep in when the sum-
mer fades out and they seep through
the straw, so tits said. Experience
tells you there isn't a doubt that
this leads to a cold in the head.
Now, who wants to sneeze and have
watery eyes, and all for the sake Of
a hat? Why, no one, it seems. SO
the straw kelly dies as the mercury
starts to fall fat
There's one thing that's queer land
it's true every Year, about straw
hats you purchase in May. Folks
hang on to felts till they're worn out
of gear, but they always throw straw
lids away.
Copyright. 1924. NEA Service. Inc)
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Nature

Cow Parsnip or Woolly parsnip, to
be found growing on moist banks of
ponds and bitches, has large fan
shaped leaves and is named for Her
cules on account Of it's immense root
and stalk. This stalk will grow eight
feet tall with a base two inches
thick and wrapped in matted white
hair. Leaves are densely covered
underneath by this same woolly hair
The whole plant smells rak ad it's
juice upon ones skin quickly draws
blisters. In springtime cattle will
sometimes eat the new shoots when
it is allowed to grow about drinking
places, making the animals very i'll.
AS it grows older they leave it alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-03
The BObber SHOP

BY C. A. L.
A man in the end chair who likes
to MUNICH the end of his cigar, near
ly overlaffed himself when Pete the
porter looked at him intently and
said, Hey, mister. your chew is 60
in out"
Jerry ZANZIBAR, who went to New
York to make a mark for himself,
made one Of himself instead.
Blondy the manicure says a
woman acknowledges her age when
she begins to prefer comfort to
style.
"Old Man" Hemmenhaw refused
to look at Mars through telescope
in front of the shop last night be-
cause he believes in seeing America
first.
Pete the porter writes two hands
one he can't read himself and one
nobody can read.
NEXT!
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SHE WORKS
TO GET OUT
WOMAN VOTE
Mrs, A, 7, Hert Asks Fem
mime Voters to Get in
Politics,
BIZ NEA Serrics

BIZ NEA SerUics
CHICAGO, Sept. 3.-Thirty mil
lion women will be expected to cast
their ballots for President next No
vember. Four years ago only about
% per cent of the women, who were
eligible to vote, did so. The leader
of the Republican women in this
country has just sounded a call to
the whole 30,0O0,0 900 to expresses their
political opinions through the ballot
box.
Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky,
vice chairman Of the Republican ma
tional committee, and as such the
leader of Republican women Of the
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country. is asking women Of small
towns and rural communities 20
interest themselves in politics.
Mrs. Hert spent the early years Of
her married life on a small farm in
Kentucky. Later on they bought a
larger farm and in time her hus-
Land entered the American Creosot-
ing Company, later becoming it's
president. Mrs. Hert is now chair
man Of the board.
Interests Farm Women
Since Mr.. Hert's death. Mrs. Hert
has always retained her interest IN
the farm. She was brought up in a
small community in Indiana and be
fore her marriage taught school.
"One wish have before all
others" she says. is to get the
women on the farms to take an IN
terest in politics and TO bring home
to them the value Of their votes"
Education for children Of farms
and Of remote country districts has
been studied by Mrs. Hert. She has
been especially interested in provid-
ing educational advantages for the
children in the cabin schools Of the
Kentucky mountains.
Mrs. Hert has ushered in new
order Of things in politics. She com
bines a forceful, businesslike mind
with charming personality. She is
tall and graceful and simply gowned.
Works With Men
This new woman leader considers
that there Is no division between
men and women in politics. She
says. we want to work sympathe-
tically side by side with the men in
all that viii aid political success and
party welfare"
The same business methods which
she applies to her own business are
being used to organize the Republi-
can women Of this country. She be
lieves that women should contribute
to the party campaign fund just as
they contributed to war funds.
1t has been said Of women political
leaders and the same thing applies
10 me, that no woman can be a ma.
tional leader who is not an unques-
toned leader in her home State and
who has not the support Of her party
in her home State. Mrs. Hert has
both Of these things. She is national
committeewoman from Kentucky and
was vice chairman of the Republican
State committee. She recently opened
! headquarters for the Republican
women in the north Wrigley Bldg.
here, more recently built of the
"WrigIey Twins"
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LiN.le Sister There

'What were you and Mr.. Smith
talking about in the parlor?" de-
manded an irate mother.
''Oh. We were discussing our kith
and kim" replied the young lady.
"Yeth, you wath," interposed her
little sister. ''Mr. Thmith asked you
for a kith and you said You kin. -
Whiz Bang.
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A Thought

This people honoreth me with
their lips but their heart is far from
me.-Mark 10.
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at
hypOcrites; they are the greatest
dupes he has.-Colton.
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Ask The Times

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ton o. iact or information by writing
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-03

W sas is the "nouveau richie"
- among the farm States.
She profits TWO ways this year.
First, she has a corn crop slightly
above normal, and it's a bad corn
year generally in the United States.
The country is short 47o,000,00O
bushels Of corn. We may have 10
import it from The Argentine.
Kansas. however. has 123.Oo0000
bushels Of corn, where she had only
l22 100000 bushels last year For
that her corn growers can get SO
cents a bushel right now. They
could get only 50 cents this time last
year
II the crop in the Middle-NEest
should suner because Of early frost.
Kansas and southern farmers viii
be able tc get still higher prices be-
cause Of their neighbors' misfor-
tunes.
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TWO PARTY g.,
SYSTEM IS
SHATTERED
This Feeling Is Growing
Among Politicians in
Washington.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer

EVI ASHINGTON. Sept. 3.-The
wv theory that the old two-party
- system of government in this
country has broken down beyond
hope Of repair is gaining ground in
Washington every day.
If the La Follette-Wheeler ticket
makes a strong showing in Novem-
Der, it is agreed that progressive
ism undoubtedly can be regarded as
having come to stay.
But it is not so generally conceded
that a general realignment will en-
sue into TWO new groups, liberal and
conservative.
Old hands in Washington incline
to think. instead, that there still Will
be Republicans and Democrats-at
any rate, for a long time to come
with the progrossives as a third
party in the field
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Lots of Listeners

''How do you find marriage?"
During courtship I talked and
she listened. After marriage she
talked and 1 listened. Now we both
talk and the neighbors listen. Dos.
ton Transcript.
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A MODERN FAIRY PRINCE

@lHE PRINCE OF WALES at last with his thirty
trunks and sucases his polo ponies his fourteen rela
ves and and his four armed guards trailing along be-
hind.
For young who has such bright future before him
and be regular Of chap downright sorry
for the Prince We wouldn't tell him for fear of hurting his
feelings but sympathy goes right down gzzard
If the Prince succeeds in his chosen profeson-i
of being knights going be despite and because of
his friends Already, in their efforts fall themselves
they have tried to make him king of fairyand whether he
likes it '~+
For instance the ship coming demonstrated
the complete and utter satisfaction of those who gave the
glowing interviews to the newspapers that
The Prince, after of the engine ROOM found
know much about the engines the chief engineer
The Prince amid other contestants, the
prize in the fancy dress ball.
The Prince showed the navigation officers thing
when to taking observations with the sexant.
Princes lost a uofvar on deck but it could
have if it wanted to.
The Prince with pistonke blow cut the lip of Boxing
Instructor Mason whereupon the latter said Excuse me-
The Prince the best dancer o board.
The Prince showed the ships steward thing two.
And and on-but there's need for take up
your time and with all the glowing details of his prowess
in every form of human endeavor.
If the Prince proficient all the varied lines that his
friends boast Of then he has too much ability for
That being the case he ought to incorporate himself
BUT WHY shouldn't Mr.. Candidate Davis knock if he
wants to get in?
IT'S FINE point but a who has disturbed the
Plymouth rocks of Vermont be called dirt farmer truth?
WHEN THAT Michigan postmistress delivered the mail in
her bathing suit her patrons thought the Sunday roogravure
section arriving.
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Crop Is Assured

oklahoma has twice as much
corn this year as last. and Texas
has a fair crop. Like Kansas, the
southern States have their corn crop
assured. They don't have to worry
about the weather any more.
Kansas also profits by sharing in
bumper wheat crop. While the world
lis shor, 300o00.O00 bushels of wheat,
the Department of Agriculture esti-
mates the United States will have
S14, 100000 bushels. which is S,000,-
600 bushels more than we had last
year. For this the American farmer
IS now able to get about 25 cents
more per bushel than he could get
last year.
Kansas has $4,000, 600 bushels Of
wheat. Last year she had $4,000, 900
bushels.
Corn prospects for the more north
ern middle western States are
gloomy. Minnesota is expected to
have 130.000.00C bushels, compared
to 1876 000, 600 bushels last year Wis
consin 100000 bushels, compared
to S3.000,000 last year. Iowa, 361,-
O0O.0 bushels compared to 100000
600 bushels last year. Nebraska,
211 900, 600 bushels compared to 272,-
100000 bushels last year. Illinois,
283,O0o GOO bushels compared to 337,-
100000 last year. Indiana, 124000,-
600 bushels compared to 193,000,000
bushels last year Ohio. 101 900, 900
bushels compared to 100000 bush
els last year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-03

Why is It that the American In
dams do not have boards?
A very meager growth Of beard is
characteristic Of the American In
dian race, but it has been an Indian
custom to pluck the beard by means
Of crude tweezers made Of two
stones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-03

What determines the color Of
ones hair? Why does the hair Of
different people differ in color?
The color Of the hair depends
upon the amount Of color pigments
which il contains, the amount of air
in the intercellular spaces and the
character Of the external surface.
The color is more or less a racial
characteristic, and the variance in
the color of hair of one race is
usually accounted for by the inter
mingling of races.
How old is Richard Dix; what is
his height, weight and coloring?
He Is 80 years old; height, 6 feet
and weight. 1S5 pounds. He has
brown hair and brown eyes.
Where, when and by whom was
President Garfield shot?
In the old Pennsylvania Railroad
depot. Sixth St. below Pennsylva-
MIA Ave, Washington. D. c.. July
2, 1881, by Charles Jules Guiteau.
How many farmers cooperative
associations are there in the
United States?
It is estimated that the total is
approximately 10000.
What is the origin Of the name
Burke?
Burke is an Irish name, but Is de-
rived from the German. burg. !"
which means castle
What is trional?
A white crystalline compound used
no injurious after-effects and does
not lead to the formation of an or.
ganic habit. but is poisonous to
some extent.
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VIII eating salmon poison dogs?
Salmon is a common food for dogs
and should not poison them unless
it has been allowed to stand in the
can.
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Conditions Improved

Kansas is said to be in good con-
dition for the first time in five years.
Total sales of corn, wheat and other
crops, togethed with sales of live
stock and animal products, it is be-
lieved will bring cash receipts of
$3.50, 100000. compared to $293,O00..
600 last year.
However. the 1920 census gives
Kansas 1926 farmers. The in
creased cash receipts would be only
about $3.50 each, if divided equally.
OF course it doesn't work out that
way. Some farmers in Kansas are
making 25 to 100 per cent more
money this year than last year,
when complete failure was the lot
of many. However, extra money
taken in even by Kansas farmers
this year may have to go to pay
debts.
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How is corn roasted at an open.

How is corn roasted at an open
air corn roast?"
The ears Of corn, without being
shucked. are packed in the ashes of
the bonfire around the edges Of the
fire and left until the shucks are
black Then the ears are shucked
and served in the usual manner with
plenty of butter and salt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-03
BlOcs Predicted

The prediction is made further
that the next Congress will see a
more definite splitting blocs. none
Of which may ever develop into a
regular party, with candidates under
its own distinct emblem on election
days, but which practically Will
amount to that so far as congress
sional proceedings are concerned.
a situation of this sort is awk.
ward. 1t ties up legislation. It
makes governments uncertain and
weak. Nevertheless, these difficult
| ties can be overcome to some extent
by temporary combinations Of vari-
GUS groups on questions on which
they agree. 1t doesn't work salts
factorily. The combinations are I'M
stable. They are constantly break
ing up and being put together In
new ways. But they do make a Ger.
tain amount of legislation possible.
Such conditions exist in most Eu-
ropean countries now.
Election Difficult
But the election of presidents of
the United States under anything
ut a two-party system becomes very
difficult. indeed.
In most European countries the
real chief executive is the premier,
who simply is the recognized head
of the moninant parliamentary COM
bination and who hcanges autonAas
icaIly as the combinations change.
But here a presidential candidate,
to win, must have majority over
ALL in the electoral college. With
three or more candidates competing,
obviously it is easily possible for no
candidate to be able to get such a
majority.
In such a case the House Of Rep.
resentatives must choose, and If the
House deadlocks, too, then the Sen.
ate must make the choice. There's a
bare chance of a deadlock there, also,
and then presumably there must be
another election, with perhaps a
fresh deadlock.
Such a state Of affairs. possibly
every four years. clearly never
would do.
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KANSAS IS
ON TOP OF
THE WORLD
State Has Big Corn Crop
While Other Places
Suffer,
Times Washington Bure1u,
1922 AClC YORK. Ave.

U7 ASHINGTON, Sept kan
MI sas is tho "nouyeau richie"
| w $1,000 - - S4n4nr
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WHEN THAT Michigan postmistress delivered the mail in
her bathing suit her thought the Sunday roogravue
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Ut WHY shouldn't Mr.. Candidate Davis knock, if he
to get in
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IT'S FINE point, but who has disturbed
Plymouth rocks of Vermont be called dirt farmer in tr,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-01-19
AGED STOCKTON WOMAN
DIED SUNDAY MORNING
Mrs. Susan Frances Merritt, Widow
Of Late Thomas Merritt, Sue
cumbs AT Age OF 66.

Mrs. Susan Frances Merritt died
last Sunday morning at LIS o'clock.
Mrs. Merritt was the widow Of the
late Thomas Merritt, who died II
years ago. She was born Sept. A,
1858, and was sc years old.
Last July Mrs. Merritt was stricken
with paralysis OF her home here, since
that time, she has been an invalid and
spent her time with her daughters,
Mrs. Stewart Bromley and Miss Cliff
ton, at whose home she died.
She was faithful and conscien-
tious member of St. Mary's P. E.
Church, and always, when able, in her
pew at all services. She was also a
friend and helper of the other church.
es, especially the Methodist Protest
ant that she lived near for several
years. This church remembers her
help and kindness always when need
ed and many of the ex-pastors will re-
member her kind entertainment of
them
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-01-19
STRANGER DOLL

ssCHE is pretty, you cannot deny
~ that" said Teddy Bear, "but never
In my day have / seen doll just like
her and you all know that have seen
many come and 60"
"Her dress is not quite the latest
STYLE" remarked Paper Doll, though
1t is something like my new gown.
But then clothes are so expensive
these days."
"But her hair, just look at her hail"
said Rosetta, the French Doll. Little
tight curls all over her head that you
must admit are far from the very lat
est style Of dressing the hair nova
days. Why. you can see both of her
ears"
Poor little Stranger Doll felt very
uncomfortable for she knew what was
the matter. She had been taken from
a bureau drawer in an attic where
she had lived many years. Her dress
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-01-19
1{I NA2kZRAS SIT

"But I thought your cheeks were
painted and Paper Dolls as well"
ventured Teddy Bear" I thought all
dolls had"
sIt does not come off, Teddy" said
Paper Doll with fiirt Of her skirts
and toss of her head.
1--WE could sit beside the steam
pipes, Teddy Bear, all day and all
night" said Rosetta, "and we would
look just-just as we do now"
Poor Stranger Doll was not only un-
comfortable, but unhappy and miser-
able. She wished herself back in the
drawer in the attic and she wondered
what would become Of her now that
her face was spoiled.
For some days the playroom folk
did not see Stranger Doll and then
one night sitting in chair by the
wall they saw beautiful doll. At
least they thought she was now, but
It was Stranger Doll with new head
and a new gown.
II think we had better speak to
her." said Rosetta. "You can tell she
is worth knowing by the way she
dresses"
So all the toys said, "Good evening"
and began to talk to Stranger Doll in
the most friendly manner.
1--WE are SO glad to have you live
here" said Rosetta. You are so diff
ferent from a queer creature that was
here for a few days. No one worth
knowing, my dear, quite nobody, l
am certain"
But Teddy Bear thought he saw a
twinkle in the eyes of the new doll
and when he looked at her cunning
little kid hands he knew the secret.
II won't TELL" he whispered as he
said good night. II liked you the way
you were, just as well as I do now,
and that is a great DEAL"
"Oh, am so glad" replied the new
Doll, "and I will tell you something.
I am not filled with sawdust like
Rosetta and other dolls Of today.
am made of good strong kid and filled
with cotton.
LIE udH NJ TIE uOil HOSpitdi SdIu
was worth a dozen dolls such as are
made in these days and that I would
] last for years yet"
"You are worth all the dolls in the
world whispered Teddy, sitting down
close beside her, while Rosetta and
Paper Doll from the other side Of the
room looked on with envy.
(@ by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-01-19

had been smoothed out bit, her curls
pulled little to make them stand up
and then she was given to little girl
who had In her day known many dolls
She was old-fashioned. Stranger
Doll knew that. Her head was made
of wax and that was the reason she
looked 50 strange to the playroom
folk.
Then one night a terrible thing hap.
pened. Stranger Doll had been left
close to the steam pipes and her pref
ty face melted and ran down on her
ruffled silk dress.
II knew she was terribly painted
said Rosetta. "Poor thing, her race
is quite spoiled. ! should not be
bit surprised II her hair was false az
well, or at least that 1t Is Icolored."