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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-15
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WELCOME TO LEGION WEEKLY

INDIANAPOLIS welcomes the announcement that the pub
LEGATION office of the American Legion Weekly being
moved to this city.
The city the national headquarters of the Legion
and the of most of the activities of the
AS such it the logical place for the publication of magazine
for Its central location makes ideal
point for such magazine.
Not only will the weekly benefited by coming to the city
but the city viii benefit we'll 1t adds industry to the
many already established here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-15

Thieves that looted the office OF a
Portland Lumber Company probably
felt like 30 cents whom they left. The
total amount of the robbery was 80
pennies. They even took the hinges
eff the safe and didn't bother to open
The door, behind which was a sum Of
money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-15

WOULDN'T it be luck if of those
ators would rise remark that Hean Maria Dawes
friends ought put house order before they
for US to play PREPARATIONS tddedewinks with them.
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Family Fun
Fancy That

You know, Bridget, I require the
fire lighted every morning by 7
o'clock. but I cannot get you to do it.
so I've bought you this alarm clock.
Thank ye, mum; It's very pretty.
But fancy a thing like that being able
to light q fire. Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-15

THE slate" William Bryan grateful He is so
keenly appeciatve of the three nominations the Democratic
party him that he always cheerfuy willing hang
around Washington between lectures and tell the party just
what to do.
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Uogansport Pharos Tribune)

Nogansport Pharos Tribune)
We will venture the guess that the
fellow on the Newcastle Courier who
wrote the following has wife whoI
stokes the furnace:
The longer winter lasts. the longer
before the grass has to be moved
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Brothers College Room

1T must be awfully cold il
brothers room at college,"
why so?"
''IIe writes that his roommate jus,
slipped in with a skate on, Dart
mouth Jack O. Lantern.
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SECRETARY DENLY S

SECRETARY DENLY says he doesn't know what he has
done deserve the disgrace heaped his head He might
that eminent authority public opinion from his old
Mr.. Truman Newberry
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COOLIDGE hackers lament Calls being dragged deeper and
deeper into this oil the making of which he had part
WE'LL Boston police strike, which he didn't make put Cal on
the map he to be breaking even.
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LATEST suggestion for Democratic campaign button
teapot coat lapel bearing mystic words Don't
Fall
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What Editors
Are Saying
Reform

CMuncie Evening Press
The cost of that reforncatory now
has mounted so high that many will
believe 1t TO be cheaper not even to
try to reform EN-.
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How many peach and apple
trees OF bearing age are there in
the United States?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-15
Substitute

Let the fellows who find fault with
the churches suggest a substitute.
They've been trying that for a good
many centuries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-15

So far as can be ascertained from
the farms reporting. there are $3.50
1O1 peach trees and lis 1909, 165 apple
trees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-15

Where did Twilight Sleep" or
iginate?
In Freiburg. Germany, W tn Kroenig
and Gauss. who developed an exact
technique on experiments of Won
Stelnbuchel.
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When is Constitution Day anC

When Is Constitution Day and
how should It be celebrated?
This day comes during American
Education Week-in 1923 it came on
Nov. 10. 1t should be celebrated by
any program that bears on the Con-
sdtution. not only its provisions, but
its history and meaning.
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Oil

marion Leader Tribune)
More and more it is becoming APP
parent that the ship Of state is an oil
burner.
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An agreement Of apprenticeship"
a contract now rarely heard of in In
diana, was recently flied in Delaware
County.
The agreement was made between
J. w. Palmer and Bertha Schideler.
in which the custody of baby four
months old was given Mrs. Schideler
until the lad is IS.
Mrs. Schideler, the child's grand
mother, is to have sole control. The
father agrees not to modest or inter
fere.
She is to care for the CHI id and
agrees to cause the child ito learn TO
read and write, and the rules Of arith-
metic, to the double rule of three"
Although reports coming in from
over the State hint that school at
tendance is being cut down on account
of Dad roads, Monroe County officials
say this isn't true thare.
They state that it has the opposite
effect. Where the roads are bad, kids
will resort to all "orts Of means to
attend. but where the roads make it
easy for them they are prone to stay
away officials say.
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Why do oil stoves explode?
Because Of infiammable vapor in or
about the stove and because this vapor
comes in contact with the fame of
the stove. The presence Of infiamma.
bic vapor may be due to the use OF an
Inferior oil tone with too low a fash
point. Many States prohibit the sale
Of oil with n flash point below a Ger.
tain fixed point. If the stove is of
improper design it may be that an
ordinary safe Chigh ash point oil
will be heated to the point where in.
flammable vapors are produced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-15

What States in the United States
are officially designated common.
- wealths?
Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky
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What Is the annual immigration
quota Of Jugo- Slavia?
6,426.
VIII apricot and pear trees
thrive in sandy soil?
Yes, II the sandy soil has a clay
subsoil. and the drainage is good, but
If the soil is coarse sand, they will
not thrive.
Is it proper for the lady to give
her order direct to the waiter
when dining with a gentleman In
a restaurant?
No. She should never give her or
der to the waiter direct. but through
the gentleman whose guest she IS.
Where is the largest cemetery
in the United States?
The largest is said to be Pine Lawn,
on Long Island. which has an area
Of some 1000 acres.
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What is phosphorus? Is It dan
gerous?
Phosphorus is pale yellow brittle
sol d. 1t melts at Ill degrees Fahren.
heit and is soluble in carbon disulph.
ide. 1t oxidizes so readily that II
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TO WALSH
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valuable to Senator in
Oil Lease Probe.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-11
]. Warren Kerrigan
And Girl Are Hurt
In Crash of Autos

DIXON, Ill, Dec. ST. Warren
kerrigan, moving picture actor
with a party of Chicago friends, fig
ured in an automobile accident near
here this morning. Kerrigan was
the only member of the party to be
injured and was taken to the Dixon
hospital. A young lady in a second
car is near death from injuries.
Kerrigan was returning to Chicago
from Sterling, where he appeared at
a theater. He was in sedan be-
longing to Herbert 7. Frankham,
president Of the National Booking
office, of Chicago, accompanied by
Frankham. Miss Hazel Hamel, Frank
Gehring, and James Vincent, the
stars secretary. Driving in a heavy
fog, five miles south of Dixon. their
car collided with a machine occupied
by Miss Alma lockwood, her brother,
Nathan, Harold Hicks and Edith
Wood, all of Amboy. kerrigan was
thrown through a window of the
sedan, receiving deep cash over
the left eye and numerous minor
cuts and bruises. He was taken to
a hotel from the hospital this morn
ing and later continued his trip to
Chicago by train.
Miss lockwood was badly cut
about the face, and it was feared she
was internally injured
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-11
GEORCIAN'S LIFETIME SAVINGS
WIPED OUT IN TRIAL OF SON

Fred, unperturbed, tried to COM
fort, his father. He said before he
left the courtroom:
IT still think it should have been
manSlaughter They tell me man.
slaughter means you killed a man
when you didn't know what you
were doing. That was the way it
was when [ stabbed Mr. Simms. |
was nearly crazy with fear with him
standing over me threatening me
with the chair and calling me vile
names"
In his plea to the jury, Thomas
l.. Dawson, attorney for Simnas,
said: Send this innocent lad back
to that mother down in Dixie. He
killed this man In seif-de1ense.
There was no generalization, no
malice. He is as quiet as a lamb
a gentleman, southern bred"
Mcclellan was employed on the
state road commission and was
working near Kensington when he
obtained board and room at the
Simms home. One afternoon Simms
came home drunk, according to 9TH
err boarders and began to abuse his
wife, accusing her of undue friend
ship with Mcclellan.
Simms followed Mcclellan into
the back yard after he had ordered
HIM to leave the house and in the
fight Mcclellan stabbed the deacon.
Five years was the minimum PEN
atty for manslaughter The court
could have imposed maximum
penalty of eighteen years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-11
Senate Committee
Reports Smith Bill
On Cotton Census

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The
senate agriculture committee at its
first session during this congress to-
day reported the bin of Senator
Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, to
amen the act authorizing the direc-
tor of the census to collect and pub
liSh statistics of cotton.
The amendment would require
that the statistics of the quantity
OF cotton stnned shall show:
The quantity ginned from each
crop prior 10 August l, August Is,
September !, September Ii, October
1. October IS November |, Novem-
Der IA. December /, December IS.
January s and March /, by states.
the name. post office address and
owner of each sinnery reporting 10
the bureau of the census, together
with the quantity ginned by each
cinnery; and the name of the specia,
agent or other employee Of the hu-
reau of the census reporting for
each district statistics of the Quanti-
" OF cotton ciuned
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-11
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

in your way all evening without
speaking?
Is man good husband who gets
to work without kissing his wife, or
even saying goodby, and if the wife
tells him about it, he says, IF you
want kiss, why don't you ask for
it,"
Is a man a good husband who
never gives his wife a birthday or
Christmas or anniversary present,
who never brings her any candy, or
gives her any little treat?
S man good husband who new
er goes out with his wife to any place
of amusement? Is a man a good
husband who never notices whether
his wife is sick or asks how she feels?
Is man a good husband who is
always shopping around the house to
see where he can find fault?
MRS. A. S.
Answer: No, sister, I'll tell the
world such a man isn't good husband
no matter if he does bring home his
pay envelope. A woman can be just
as hungry for love and apprecia ton
starve just as surely as her body can,
and no man does his duty by his wife
who doesn't give her tenderness just
as we'll as a roof to cover her.
[ think the most pitiful thing in
the world is that there are millions
of women who are miserable and dis.
couraged and disgruntled; who find
no pleasure or SAVIOR in life, and who
could be made perfectly happy by
few jollying words and a little
cheap attention from their husbands.
And the husbands refuse to make
them happy when it would cost them
so little in either money or effort!
A five-cent bunch of flowers, a ten
cent bag of candy, just any sort of
little paltry gift to show that he
thought of her makes a wife tri-
umphant. The simple momento to
mark sentimental anniversary
lights the love fires in her heart and
turns her into a girl again. A compli-
ment about the dinner takes away all
of the fatigue of cooking 1t. An eve
ming at the movies sends her singing
about her work again, contented and
happy, and sure that she has the
best husband in the world just be-
cause he has considered her a little
and thought of her pleasure.
A few kind words-a breath OF
wind-the cheapest thing on earth
the easiest thing to do, and it would
not only make the wife happy, but
bring the husband a million per cent
dividends in peace and comfort for
himself. Why don't men say them?
And yet men refuse to say them
They refuse to jolly their wives. why
this is so, only the arch-fiend who
alone understands why mules balk
and the wherefore of human con
trariness, knows.
Dear Miss Dix-From your exper
| fence, do young girls of the flappel
| type know of their faults? Is my
| procedure in attempting to induce
one to take a more serious view OF
life likely to be satisfactory?
SAMUEL.
Answer: My observation Of the
| flapper, Samuel, convinces me thai
| she considers herself utterly and en-
tirely perfect, the noblest work OF
God, and the dressmaker and the
| barber, and that she considers thai
every one who disagrees with her is
an antiquated cog, whose views are
matter of derision. | wish you JOY
in your effort to reform a pleasure
mad flapper, but | am not sanguine
of your success.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1924
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-11
M, B, Mcclellan, of Triton,
Becomes HySteriCaI When
Judge Sentences Boy for
Killing Maryland Man

ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. 8.-His
savings of a lifetime wiped out in
efforts to save his son from convic-
ton as a murderer, M. b. McClel-
Ian today is planning to return to
his home in Triton Ga, and "slave
away" again, so that his wife and
his eleven other children may not
meet the wolf coming in at the door.
Fred Arthur Mcclellan, the TWEEN
tWo-year- old SOM today entered upon
fiVe-year prison term, imposed
following his conviction for the muir
der of Thomas A. Simms church
deacon Of Kensington, Md, in a
fight over Mrs. Simms, forty-eight
years old, and the mother of two
married daughters, one of them the
wife of naval lieutenant attached
to the presidential yacht, the May
flower.
Father Hysterical
Young McClellan's plea for a new
trial was denied Saturday. His ia
Their became hysterical when SEN
tence was pronounced. The wien
ed little farmer cried out as if in
pain and burying his head on his
arms burst into tears.
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without giving it any really deep
thought"
"Well," Tex returned at last, with
a short laugh, sit seems to me as if
they were all turned out Of the same
mould, they don't seem to have any
enthusiasm; they're not really
young, as | know youth. They seem
to know too much, they're too
sophisticated'
You're right there" Harrington
said slowly; land Lyra is like the
rest; SO is Peter for that matter, and
yet he's a splendid boy; the best
of the lot. l think he and Lyra ought
to hit it off very well together"
Hit it off togetherr' The words
beat themselves into Tex's brain.
Was that all? Was that what love
would mean to Lyra Graham? But
even as he thought this, he knew It
was true. Love to Lyra would be a
restrained, Unconditional thing. She
would be terrified at a.. wild display
Of emotion; she would stand aghast
before any demonstration.
Il think they are very we'll suit
ed" Tex heard himself saving, and
yet even as he uttered the words,
he knew that he wanted to saw more.
He wanted to tell Harrington what
he really thought, he wanted to tell
him that he had made of Lyra a
woman of white flesh and ice per-
lection, but no more. But he must
not yield to the temptation of words.
Harrington might be offended, he
would not understands; but as he
was thinking these things Harring-
tons voice again broke the silence
All right, Tex, | won't press you.
III give you a chance to tell me
what you really think after few
days have passed. Shall we go in
now and see what they are doing?
1T may amuse you to watch their
antics. and [ want you and Lyra
to really know each other"
They rose to their feet and went
along the corridor to the living
room. The sound of a monograph
playing a syncopated fox trot came
through the half open door, and as
they hesitated on the threshold,
TeXs eyes swept around the room
and came to rest on a slight figure
in silver gown with a comb of
sparkling blue stones fastened in
her golden hair.
Saturday - Runaway Thoughts"
and "The Waltz
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CHAPTER V
The Toast
7 YRA was seated next to Peter
| at the table. He had arrived
late-after the others were seat

T YRA was seated next to Peter
at the table. He had arrived
late-after the others were seat
ed, and he had come striding into the
dining room like a young conqueror.
His dress suit fitted his splendid
young body as though he had been
nodded into it, His sleek head was
we'll set on his splendid shoulders,
those shoulders that had pushed
through the line to make a touch
down for old Eli And yet-thought
Tex, as he looked at Peter narrowly,
there was even something artificial
ual, too easy in his manner, and al
though he made Tex more than ever
aware of his own ill-fitting clothes,
he somehow did not feel at all en-
Vious.
Lyra'S manner toward Peter was
a mixture of coquetry and indiffer-
ence. When she looked at him, her
starry eyes did not change their eX
preston. she did not flush beneath
the full glare of Peters dark eyes 1t
seemed to Tex that these two were
merely playing a love, for certainly
it WASH the love he had always
dreamed of some day knowing.
Love to Tex had something to do
with starlight and open trails 1t
would absorb him completely. entire
~, he would have room in his heart
for just one woman, but he would
be ma ster. and she would be willing
and eager TO be mastered.
AS he glanced at Peter from time
to time, he saw that Peters manner
toward the girl on the other side of
him was very little different from his
manner toward LyTa. 1t was as
though all these young people had a
stereOtyped manner toward each 9TH
er. In fact it seemed to Tex that Pc
ter flirted quite openly with the girl
on his left, and as for Lyra when
she turned to the man on the other
side, she cast upon him the same
look Of half coquetry. and half fndif-
ference that moment before she
had given Peter
Tex was staring at Lyra quite
openly. for the moment forgetting
himself in the interest of the sttua-
ton. when she raised her face sud
denly to his. Those starry eyes
danced mockingly, and a red mist
rose before Tex's vision. Instantly
he dropped his glance, and fumbled
with the array of table silver before
him. He heard her laugh ring out,
clear like the tone Of A oliver bell.
but in his embarrassment. he did not
know whether she was laughing at
him or not. Then she spoke. and as
If from great distance, he heard
his name.
I propose a toast to the health Of
Mr.. Tex Hunter" she was saving
lightly. Through that red mist that
still obscured his vision, he could see
her face, the eyes still mocking him.
In her slender fingers she held the
fragile stem Of a wine glass.
He stumbled 10 his feet and
then conscious that ne had done the
wrong thing dropped back aglrin.
They We're all standing. they were
all waving their glasses 2 him. and
;rr f1mh and awkward. could only
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THE HUNDREDTH WOMAN
BY HAZEL DEYO RATCHELOR
(Copyright 1924, by Public Ledger Company

What has gone befOre-Lyra
Graham is to be married to Pc
ter Criswold in three weeks.
Thomas Hunter, better known IS
Tex. a friend of Mr.. Grahams $. is
invited to come on for the festiv-
tiles preceding the wedding. He
feels out of place and thinks
Lyra and her friends extremely
artificial.-Now go on with the
story,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-11
How Can He Break Away From the
Girl Whose Love He Does Not Re-
turn?-The Unappreciative Hus-
band Who Could Make His
Wife Happy With "a Few
WOrds--Is 1t Possible to
Reform Flapper?

II EAR MISS DIX-I am a young
man, twenty-three years of
age, and with personality
like William Jennings Bryan's.
[ have been keeping company
with a young lady for about three
years, and all this time she has been
proposing marriage to me. AS a mat
ter of fact l am not in love with her
as much as she thinks l am. Please
tell me how [ can break away from
such a friendship without causing
bitter enmity. HERBERT.
Answer: I do not understand how
a young man with the personality of
Williams Jennings Bryan can be so
waVering in his desires, for the out
standing characteristic of the silver
tongued orator is the faithfulness
with which he has stuck to a single
ambition and desire.
However, I presume that you mean
that you look as Mr.. Bryan looked
thirty years ago, that you are mag
netic, and have glib and persuasive
tongue.
But, alas, Herbert, these are all
chara cteristics that get you in bad
with women, instead of getting you
out easily, and it is no light task to
extricate yourself from the love tolls
in which you have involved your
self.
OF course. the quickest way and
the most effective way is to gather
your courage together and tell the
girl that you do not love her, and
that you are not for her. Very
likely it will let you in for a bad
quarter of an hour of tears and re-
proaches. But when you have bit
ter dose to take, the sooner you gulp
it down the sooner the agony is
over.
If you haven't the nerve to do this,
the next best thing is to go away
and let absence do its perfect work.
Just fade away to some place where
no telephone connects you with your
dungeon cell. Don't answer any let
ters, and sooner or later it will dawn
on the forsaken maiden that you are
gone for good.
In the old pre-Volstead days men
used to use the Demon Rum as an
ally in breaking off love affairs of
which they were weary. They would
appears disgustingly drunk before
the lady and thus try to disillusion
her. But this move was unreliable
because it so often convinced the
girl that she had sacred mission to
marry the poor sinner to reform
him.
Other men make poverty their eX-
cuse for their getaway, and nobly
refuse to marry a girl to whom the 7
cannot give limousines. Others hide
behind mothers skirts, and swear
they promised never to wed while
mother lived. Others just dilly-dally
along until they wear the girls ia
thence out, and still others fall back
upon the time honored custom of our
ancestors who simply kissed and
rode away.
You can take your choice of meth
DDS, and may God have mercy upon
your soul if the girl means business.
Dear Dorothy Dix-Is a man who
works every day, and brings home
his money, a good husband no matter
what else he does?
Is man good husband who
comes home without saying a word,
eats his well-cooked dinner and sits