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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-12
SUMMER GOOD
time TO Save
ON FURNITURE
Complete Stock to Be
Found al Peoples
Company.

When summer is here and the out
of-doors beckons invitingly, one does
not give thought TO the coming
winter months, but, like the gay
grasshopper, allows the winter needs
to wait. A summer cottage, a flivver
or a tent will serve as a home In
August, but when November comes
the grasshopper freezes and the
householder finds that home, after
all, is a very desirable place.
1t is especially attractive when
time and thought have been given to
it's furnishing, and if one uses the
time in selecting extra pieces or an
entire home-furnishing outfit from
the Peoples Quitting Company
1875 w. Washington ST., it will
be discovered that the cost in money
is extremely reasonable.
Cheaper Now
The Associated Peoples August
sale is now in full swing. This event
is the combined effort of all affiliated
Peoples stores throughout the
country.
Radical reductions have been made
at the Peoples Quitting Company
on everything for the home, and one
may purchase an entire outfit on
payments so reasonable that going
to housekeeping will involve no
exnenSe whatever.
And how delightful. when cold
days come, to look forward to COM
ing home in the evenings to a house
Of your very own, furnished just
the way you have always wanted
your home furnished.
Attractive Articles
A visit to this store will reveal
hundreds of attractive articles of
home-furnishing equipment, ranging
from luxurious overstuffed sofas to
the most complete and labor-saving
kitchen cabinets.
The store is only a few steps west
of Illinois St. on Washington St, in
the heart of the shopping district,
and it's Kentucky Ave. entrance
makes it especially convenient for out
of-town choppers who come to Indi-
anapolis on buses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-12

The little house pictured is one
of a dozen being built at Dawson
st. and the continuation of Kelly
ST., east of Garfield Park. The floor
plans of each of the houses will
be similar, but the treatment of
the roof lines and the front porches
will give them a wide variety The
lots are 43x140 feet and have sewer
connections.
Delightful Rooms
There are four delightfully."- ar
ranged rooms in the house shown
above. The porch, latticed on one
end, opens into the good sized liv-
ing room, 12X14 feet. One of the
front windows, however, is the bed
room window. The bedroom, 912 x12
feet, has another window on the
other exposure and next to it is the
bathroom ready for plumbing equip
ment. Adjoining the bathroom Is a
we'll arranged kitchen with a sink
and one-piece sink board The din
ing room, with two nice windows,
is 12X12 feet. A latticed-in back
porch is one the rear Of the house
and a 12x14 feet garage is built
on the back Of the lot.
Everything about the house is of
good quality and it is well built. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-12

the amateur can do work that looks
like that of a professional
Ready mixed paints for other pur-
poses than covering and protecting
exterior walls may he bought at the
store at 104 South Meridian St,
fcwever. There are varnishes that
give new life to the floor and make
it easy to keep clean. There are
enamels that give to the kitchen and
bathroom walls the clean beauty Of
a porcelain dish. There are bright
enamels to decorate the breakfast
room suite so that it looks like new,
ard fiat wall paints to give a
beautiful and economical surface
living room. dining room or bed
room. A call at the Hatfield Paint
Company will result in many ex-
cellent ideas in paint economy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-12
'DISSOLVING' C0FFINS
Babies Would Disappear Shortly
After Burial.

LONDON, Aug. 12.-New styles
in collins is a subject to which Eng
lish coffin makers are giving much
consideration.
The new idea, the manufacturers
declare, is to do away ae far as pos
sible with the old-fashoned spare
rectangular shapes and devise cot
fin that will appeal to all tastes. ="
One of the new types proposed is
a "dissolving coffin" for babies,
which will dissolve and disappear
within a short time of burial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-12
TREATY is RATIFIED
Reichstag Approves United States
Commercial Pact.

BIZ Lntted 7PreSS
BERLIN, Aug. 12.-The Reichstag
today, without discussion, ratified
the United States-German com
mercial treaty which is based on the
most favored nation principle.
1t also passed the tariff bill over
which there had been il bitter fight
for many weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-12
BANK HEROINE DEAD
Woman Who Defies Bandits Sue
cumbs to Cancer.

Bu United Press
LAKEWOOD, Ind, Aug. 12.-
Emma Leitzman, 40, heroine Of the
Lakewood bank robbery last spring.
was buried here Tuesday.
Miss Leitzman refused to obey the
bandits orders to hold up her hands
and ducked behind a counter. One
Of the bandits fired at her and then
the outlaws fled.
She died from cancer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
PUZZLES AND. BRAINS.

The Teachers College of Columbia univers-
ity, in New York, is conducting a series of
cross-wa1d puzzle tests for grammar schools,
high schools, colleges and professional schools
The purpose is to find out whether working on
crossword puzzles is really educational-
whether it develops and equips the brain for
general usefulness or is waste of time and
brain power and whether the puzzles should
be introduced into all the school courses.
The world may await patiently the result
of this undertaking. But from general obser-
walton of the way human brains function, any
observer may hazard guess at the forthcom-
ing, conclusions of the highbrow experimenters
They will probably discover again the
familiar fact that we learn to do anything by
doing it, increasing by experience our mental
power and facility--for doing the same thing
Also that there may be some slight by-product
of power and skill which can be turned to the
doing of other mental tasks.
In other words the chief benefit from doing
crossword puzzles will be added ability to do
crossword puzzles. So if that is ones chosen
life work very well-go ahead, and keep every
lastingly at it.
If it is more important to gain power and
facility in mathematics, language work, his
tory, geography, physics, chemistry, ETC., then
perhaps the schools had better concentrate on
them. For besides being useful III themselves,
they are more likely to develop the learners
mental powers generally, because they repre-
sent organized system Of human knowledge
which fit naturally into each other in the devel-
opment of all-round education.
Crossword work merely gives a glimpse
here and there, as the puzzle fan chases words
and synonyms through the dictionary and en-
cyclopedia and the result is not organized
knowledge, but sort of verbal chaos tending
to scatter brainedness. The one thing devel-
oped is the will to keep at a thing not worth
keeping at, except for time-killing purposes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
DELINQUENT MOTHERS.

A woman supervisor of physical education
who has been handling girls for 16 years
finds that dancing, moving pictures, jazz, joy
rides and other emotional forms of present
day life are "robbing girls of their childhood
and producing prematurely adult women who
are over-stimulated and under-nourished.
Moreover, she insists it is mostly the fault
of the mothers.
She sent out recently more than 400 letters
to parents Of high school girls, asking them
to cooperate in seeing that their children had
proper sleep, exercise and food. At the bot
tom of every letter she wrote, eve are very
much interested in your daughter and welcome
conference at any time.
How many mothers accepted that invitation
and came in for conference? "Not one!' says
the supervisor. There was not single tele-
phone call or a single letter of acknowledge
ment."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
Up To the House To Do It.

Now let the House of Representa-
tives exemplify its one virtue, and
railroad through" the postal salaries
bill, just passed by the Senate.
The lower house of Congress long
ago gave up all pretense of being a
"deliberative body" Instead, it has
developed what the Senate never had
the capacity for action.
It's committee on rules can report
a special rule, setting aside a definite
number of hours for debate on this
bill, and bringing it to a vote at the
end of that time.
Members know how they are going
to vote They have heard the Senate
debates, and have nothing to add to
them.
If they want to make explanations
for home consumption, the "leave to
print custom takes care of that, and
requires no time.
This way of doing things may be
all wrong. So is the whole institu-
ton of the 'flame duck" session.
But, having these conditions, the
thing is to use them.
It can be done, even in the brief
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
BOOMING WITHOUT BUILDING.

To boom anything is not necessarily to
build it. That is a fact too often overlooked /;
perhaps too much overlook at the present
time, with the price of wheat setting new
record above two dollars and the prices of
corn and therefore Of hogs also soaring. These
are booms. They produce temporary pros
perity But they are no foundations nor
superstructures of permanent. prosperity That
is to be said not in the spirit of klllJoy or OF
a Calamity bowler" but in that of one who
decries the mischief of fools paradise.
The high price Of wheat is VIGOROUSLY due
to the scantiness Of the crop in other coun-
tries. But there is not-there cannot be-the
slightest assurance that this year will not see
a bumper crop abroad, SO that countries which
are now buying our wheat will be selling sur
plus wheat of their own in competition with
ours, and will thus be forcing the price of our
wheat down just as surely as they are now
forcing it up.
The high prices of corn and hogs arise from
an exactly opposite cause, namely, short
crop of corn in this country. Now that is a
condition that no rational man would wish to
see perpetuated True prosperity can never
be based upon a curtailment of ones own
products. Short crops, even at high prices,
would in the long run be less profitable than
full crops even at lower prices-because OF
their relation to and effect upon the general
economics of the nation. So this year there
may be a bumper crop Of corn, with lower
prices for it and therefore for hogs.
The lesson of it all is, Of course, that the
agricultural interests of the country must,
like other great interests, be placed upon
substantial basis where they will not be thus
affected by mere seasonal changes. 1t would
be an impeachment of our practical business
capacity and shrewdness to say that we must
90 on forever in a hand-to-mouth existence,
with one year marked with flush times and the
next one with distress. There must be some
attainabe method of sterilization through
which the surplus of one year can be made to
cover the deficit of the next and thus gener-
al average of substantial prosperity be as
sured.
A temporary period of prosperity, then,
such as the present, dut to adventurous and
transitory causes, is not to be regarded as a
finality, nor are hopes to be placed upon it's
recurrence. 1t is best to be utilized as a
breathing-space and opportunity for devising
and adopting ways and means for avoiding
the effects of seasonal fluctuations. sax.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
DECOROUS PROSPERITY.

Business conditions continue to improve
steadily, though slowly
This is normally dull time of the year in
many lines. Yet there is persistent increase
of industrial output, with a strengthening of
prices, and car-loadings are at high level.
Evidently goods are being made, moved and
sold in greater volume than for many months.
The improvement is not uniform, yet it
spreads pretty well through the industries and
through the country.
Agriculture, naturally, is more cheerful
than it has been for years.
A banker speaks Of the improvement as
"decorous." It is an odd but felicitous term.
"Decorous' means fitting" or appropriate"
That is what the country needs and wants.
Experience in these latter hectic years shows
that decorous prosperity, which knows what
it is doing and stays within reasonable bounds,
is far better than rough-house boom.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
WORKING THEM TO DEATH.


There is such thing as being wickedly
good. Rodger Dolan, back from a trip up in
the North Country to inspect what he thought
were gold mines when he bought the stock,
brings this story:
I'm backwoods district where there is con-
siderable tourist traffic-mostly fishing parties
we found family running hand laundry.
The wife was famed for 80 miles as a good
woman, an angel of mercy. Fully half of her
time was devoted to going to distant settlers
cabins to nurse the sick. Seldom did she get
paw. Her reputation for goodness and charity
seemed well grounded-until looked under the
surface.
81 found that when she went away on her
erfands of mercy, she turned the laundry work
over to her two daughters. They were about
10 and II years DID, and actually hunchbacked
from overwork
my own laundry was late, and one of the
wan little girls said: Mothers been gone a
week She left us with 80 washings to do
Angel of mercy? My own idea is that this
system of being nice at the expense of others
is wicked"
Rodger, you have discovered nothing new.
Many celebrated philanthropist makes his
gifts at the expense of underpaid employees.
We know one employer of child slaves who is
always nrSC on the JOp TO tcOntflDuJe Tor the
relief of needy children in far-off countries.
1t is easy to be nice at the expense of others.
But real charity and good deeds involve per-
sonal sacrifice. They are not the stolen work
of others, hogged and masquerade under an
exploiter's name to satisfy his vanity
This backwoods woman running a laundry
and working her children into early graves to
enable her to nurse the unfortunate she
would have to stay at home and give up her
charitable work if it were not for the slavery
she imposes on her children. She gets the
credit But the unheralded child slaves are
making the errands of mercy possible
So easy to be nice at the expense of others
Some Wall Street bankers are eager for Uncle
80 to cancel the debts incurred by European
wers from our national treasury. But
yer hear the same bankers suggesting
cancel the private loans they made
e Europeans.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
Daily Health Hint
GET COMPETENT ADVICE.

Do not take the advice of a neigh
Dor on how to care for the baby, Mrs.
Mann was told. For what has been
good for one baby may not be good for
another.
1t is hoped that the baby will be
breast-fed, but if by any chance this
is impossible, a doctor, or baby
health clinic is the only safe place
for advice.
Sometimes it is hard to teach a child
to like some of the foods recommend
ed for him, after he has grown old
enough to take food other than milk,
but the child should not be permitted
to grow finicky about his food.
To teach him requires patience, and
it may take years to establish habits
that may save trouble later on.
Mother love is far reaching. It
should be forseeing, and be willing
to insist on some unpleasantness now
for the sake of the future happiness
of the child. u
New foods should be introduced in
to the diet slowly. The child's stom-
ach is no more prepared to digest
heavy foods than his muscles are pre-
pafAd to do the heavy work of a
man.
Therefore be careful of such heavy
foods as fried potatoes, doughnuts,
sausage, pork, spiced pickles, rich
pastry and cake, even after the child
is old enough to attend school.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
time remaining, and it is up to- the
House to do it.
TRADE.

+
Our export trade is now about 1e
per cent above pre-war figures, that of
our leading rivals about Is per cent
below, according to DR.. Julius Klein,
of our commerce department.
We have learned a lot in recent
years about export trade. Until the
war our -,sales abroad were limited
mostly to raw materials and to few
manufactured articles protected by our
patents. IN
But during the war our production
increased so much that we had to get
foreign markets to take care of the
surplus left by the armistice.
And although we have to charge more
for our goods, because of high produc-
tion cost, we market them just the
same, because they're worth more.
Another factor in our big export
trade, says DR.. Klein, is that we have
scrapped many of the old methods TO
which our rivals still cling.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
And the Human Mind Did It.

"Man is the measure Of things"
said Protagoras of Abdera, half a thou-
sand years before Christ.
What would he have thought if he
could have foreseen the extent to
which that measuring" was to go?
Consider the newest items of scien-
tifc news. The earth is at least 16
hundred million years old, according
to the latest calculations from the
Oldest rocks whose transformations can
be measured.
The earth, the sun and the stars are
all composed of atoms, and these of
electrohs and protons.
The proton has just been measured
1t would take 72 thousand trillions Of
them to make one inch.
The most distant heavenly bodies re-
Gently measured are certain spiral ne
bulae,. whose light has taken a mil
lion years to reach US, travelling 1885,
900 miles a second.
Yet all of these-the nebula, the
solar system of which the earth is
an electron, and the atom-have iden-
tically the same structure.
They are all particles revolving in
orbits around a nucleus. These are
remarkable items of recent news.
But the most remarkable thing about
them is that they are all measure
ments, and that it is the human mind
that has measured their quadrillionths
of an inch and their quintillions of
miles, and reduced them all to one
generalization.
Man is, indeed, "the measure of
things"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
NAVY.

When the navy gets good man it
likes to keep him. Until he grows too
old, the longer he stays the more he's
worth.
So naval officers are gratifed at in
cIeasing number of establishments.
For while after the war large
proportion served only one short term
and then dropped out. Now, one term
finished, they're enlisting again. And
a great many who left the service
are coming back
Thsi is merely history repeating it
This is merely history repeating it
organization in the service following
every war, and then gradual building
up toward maximum efficiency
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
SPREADING.

Interest in athletics is spreading
through the peoples of the orient, says
C. j. North of the Department. of
Commerce. Baseball is popular in the
Philippines, baseball and tennis in
Japan. Football, tennis, hockey, horse
racing, cricket-all have their devotees
in the Far East.
North tells you that golf is both
popular and Inexpensive in the Dutch
East Indies. In fact, our American
golf bug would think it heavenly to
hire a caddy for 16 cents round of 18
holes. as they do in the East Indies.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
FINEST RARY.

East Sussex, Eng.-A girl baby,
born in a hospital here, weighs only
three and half pounds and is IL in
ches long. She is fed with foun-
tain-pen filler and her meal is two
teaspoonfuls of milk. Despite her small
size at birth, the baby made rapid pro-
gress and gives every indication of be-
coming a normal child, doctors say.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
FIRST GABLE RAuwAY.

oberwiesenthal. Saxony.-The first
cable railway in Germany to carry
passengers has been inaugurated. 1t
starts in this city and runs two miles
to the top of Fichtel mountain, which
has an altitude of 1915 feet above the
city, The cars suspended from the
cable carry 20 persons.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
TOM SIMS
Says.

it. smelled like a thousand brides cook
ing.
Australopithecus Africanus is the
name London scientist gives to what
he calls the missing link. Remember
it, please.
The Italian government has refused
to- let an American have its oil wells.
Doesn't such treatment demand war?
In Belgium, the people want bread
probe. AS usual in bread probes,
we say the staff of life is crooked,
In Oklahoma, a woman shot a young
man for marrying her daughter. We
believe such action little drastic.
New California well gives natural
steam. If 1t isn't watched, it is liable
to run for Office
If the world does come to an end,
as is being predicted, it will be the
first time recently.
I Another great evil of bobbed hair
is you can't cuss in barber shop.
The boyish figure for girls and the
girlish figure for boys continue their
popularity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

Members of the board Of education to be
elected at the April election will spend a million
dollars of the money paid by the taxpayers
of Kenosha This should be sufficient to make
the people take little interest in who are to
be selected for these positions. The time to act
is now and not the night before the closing of
the primary lists.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

These February thunder and rain storms
may be unusual and novel, but just the same
they are doing excellent service in cleaning off
some of the dirty streets of Kenosha. The
spring bath will not be completed until we have
a considerable more of them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
JAPAN TO REDUCE ARMY.

Tokio-Four divisions comprising
10000 men Of the Japanese army will
be dismissed by May 1, in accordance
with the general retrenchment plan
of the government. The divisions
abolished have been selected largely
with a view to the economic results
in the regions where they are station
cd
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
. BIBLE THOUGHT A
DAY WILL DRIVE
CARES AWAY

HE THAT BY USURY and unjust
gain increaseth his substance, he shall
gather it for him that will pity the
poor. A faithful man shah abound in
blessings, but he that maketh haste to
be rich shall not be innocent prov.
2S:s, 20. -A
QUESTI0N-What are we. to do to
have God with us p Cor. 1871.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

The trouble with the city of Chicago is that
it wants the other cities on the lake to give
water to pay it's sanitation costs. Chicago
is big enough to pay it's own bills without ask
ing the assistance of other places
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

When police officers get to be personal
friends of bootleggers their value as police
officers ceases The real police officer is the
fellow who has no friendships with the man
who sneers at or violates the law
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

Cheer up. The baseball players are on their
way to the spring training camps. This is the
surest annual indication that the grip of winter
is being broken.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12

New alliance against America. Three big
merged.