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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-01
AUTOMOBILE CLUB
BOOSTS HOOSIERDOM
Official Predicts Separate H highways for SlowGong and
Through Traffc-65, 900 Tourist Cars Weekly -

to $1,000 cars every week in the
year. In speaking OF these high
ways we figure the country roads
and the traffic as through traffic,
not local Two years ago when
road construction programs by the
various States were announced, it
was public opinion that traffic con-
gestion would be eliminated and that
traffic on the few through routes
would be lowered. This has not
proved the case, due not only to
the ever-increasing number of auto
mobiles being purchased, but to
the fact that more people every year
are using the automobile as a means
Of long distance transportation.
Since the coming of the bus many
people Who previously had looked
upon travelling long distances by
motor car as a luxury, now realize
that four people can travel by au-
tomobile for far less money than by
rail, and to a greater degree of en-
joyment.
The enormous traffic has been a
gold mine to all those communi-
ties who have been farsighted
enough to take advantage Of the
opportunity. Like all good things.
there are features of this traffic
that are not good. The automobile
has made city street out of our
country roads and brought to the
farmer problems that are serious
ones. A few years ago the farmer
retired without locking his doors
and felt secure in the open; he well
coined any stranger and his nipple
ments and all that he had were at
the disposal of his guests. How
different today. The criminal is
using the automobile, and it has in
creased his efficiency and made it
more difficult for the capture OF the
law breaker. The automobile has
created a new kind of tramp, al
though it is a mistaken idea that
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nor the left, but pressed forward,
moved by a definite purpose. Neither
friend nor foe could delay him or
turn him from his course. All who
crossed his path did SO at their own
peril. What would you call such a
mann"
"A truck driver" shouted a voice
from the audience.
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BY A. ID. Stone
Touring and Travel
Bureau, Hoosier State Auto
ra0hsIo Aecocso flor,


The immediate response OF the
American public to the automobile
has created problems, the complete
solving of which is still in the
distance. A century ago the govern
ments in practically every state were
urging the construction of railroads
to solve the transportation problem.
Typical Of the American people they
we're favoring the railroad as it
Sreeded up travel over the stage
coach. Roads were secondary and
weak second. The automobile caused
a return to road construction and
even today road construction is not
on a parallel with automobile pro-
duction.
The traffic problem is a serious
one, both from the standpoint of the
nation, state, locality, ,ity and even
the smallest village. We have pur-
chased automobiles so fast that by
the time one regulation can be
Figured our and adopted 1t is passe
and inadequate. Many Of our fore
fathers wore wooden shoes and
many towns are handling their traf-
fic problems in O wooden shoe"
manner. The average community,
due to the rush of this traffic has
failed to recognize the value of cor
rect traffic laws as pertains both to
moving vehicles and stationary ones,
The traffic laws known in some
cases are an actual liability to COM
munities. Traffic on the open road
Is another problem and but few OF
as today will not see the time when
there will be separate highways for
blow-going and through traffic.
$4,000 Cars Week
In Indiana there are seven traf-
no highways that carry from 10000
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the motor tramp is the same as the
Tin can tourist"
CANINE Ara Constructed


Tin can tourist"
Camps Are Constructed q
The so-called tourist today is not
the motorist that the term applied
to number Of years back, as better
camps were constructed, and espe-
cially since free camps are fast be-
coming extinct; also due to many far
sighted hotels giving thought to spe-
cial service for the motor vacation
list, better class of people are liv-
ing in their automobiles from two
weeks to three months Of the year.
However. it is very doubtful If there
will ever be a time when there will
not be a certain amount of motor
"moochers" and tramps, who migrate
with the seasons and live off char
ity.
The motor traffic has a value to
the State Of Indiana realized by very
few people. More than so per cent
Of the east and west traffic of the
continent must go through some por-
ton of the State. Unfortunately, our
State is less than a days drive from
east to the west boundary, and thou
sands Of cars daily do not stop with
in our confines. Unfavorable pub
licity on certain Of our laws and
propaganda spread by some publica-
tions has caused a loss of millions Of
dollars, as it has tended to poison the
minds of those travelling through our
State to the extent that every effort
is made TO cross our boundary lines
as soon as possible.
Travel Bureau Formed
Some sixteen months ago the Hoo
sier State Auto Association launched
the first campaign to advertise In
diana and its many attractions. and
at the same time to diligently en-
deavor to induce the through traffic
to enjoy the hospitality OF all Hoo
sierdom. During this time, through
a special department to handle this
particular phase of the organiza-
tons activities hundreds Of actual
photographs OF the scenic spots,
parks, caves and miscellaneous at
fractions have been placed in the
leading information bureaus of the
Central West. Publicity men have
called on information bureaus, ho-
tells and other centers in seven
States of the Central West. and
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and get paid for it: that is happiness
The most fortunate man in the world is the one
who able living from following hobby he loves
These the Happy Men.
One lives in France He makes the famous Deaherche
pottery He is an old man with a long white beard who
lives at Armeneres near the of Beauva famous for
its tapestries
From his own garden digs the clay which he moulds
AS his fancy dictates he models objects during the and
only fires his kiln.
be- its heat This he says is the secret OF the
superior glaze which sets his work apart.
He loves do what he doing and his pottery is
sought after by collectors, and brings high price.
Another such lives in an old farmhouse in New
England
His hobby is phoographing snowakes He found that
snowfakes fallen earth which exactly
alike in all particulars. Each is specimen with an
individual design.
Every winter is source Of continual joy for he fas
mated by the designs he studies and photographs
And from this of amusement also his Hve
hood for his photographs have been used by laboratories
and text books throughout the country
Near New Orleans dwells another who is numbered
among the fortunate group.
His hobby is raising snails. His aquariums his
special source of fun in e He would rather work with
his snaiIs than anything he knows It is fun work
But because the snas he raises of value scavngs
in goldfish bowls he found ready market for them and
able to make living from his hobby
j. Henri Fabre another dweer of France, lived all his
life strange world which few nhabit is the
world Since childhood he followed the ways activities
of the little folk in that realm.
His wonder and pleasure discovering the habits and
mysteries of bees and spiders and ants abated As
old fascinated with his Investigations
he boy.
the in which he recorded the happy hours
spent in following his hobby furnished source of
income They have sold widely and have opened up new
world to thousands
Copyright Mcclure syndioateo
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The Sinister Word "Gangster"
and Washington Policemen

The u;nous word 'gangster'' is beginning appear in
Washington newspapers in connection with criminal
While there is gang life here well as in other cities
Il to be hoped most evil meaning OF the WORD Will
s onnv in this CITY and that we will have the
tvues of criminals nestng Chicago and New Yokhe gun
men gangsters who shoot from flying automobiles
Some of the recent criminal methods here and IN BAIL
are vergng toward those used in bloody Chicago and
the full significance of things should duly impress the police
department of Washington =.
We have recently been witnessing severe Official oap
proya Of police enforcement officers shooting
at flying criminals who first began shooting from their ma
chimes at representatives Of the law.
Il is perfectly proper that District Commissioners and
orr chief of police should strongly rown upon the promlscuou
unnecessary use pistols by police officers in the city Of
washington The policeman who resorts to pistol without
Just dangerous the criminal Inc Ves
Of innocent people should not be TINS manne
IN city police authorities should make clear to de-
tectives policemen just what the shooting nhibOns are
allow the impression that police officers are to be shot
ct like rabbits without replying in kind.
The bloody crime record Chicago partly the result of
too close the Chicago police and
nsr ackers and others engaged in defying the prohibition
The gangsters and felt that the Chicago
pJnC t hi; d If esd IN the familiar gtvle Of Ounmen
gunner became indifferent to the killing of police
and run down criminals Then the authorities became aroused
and instructed policemen to shoot to Kill and to shoot quickly
too.
It Is all right in the city Washington put
pedal on the excited policeman who pulls his pistol any
pretext endangers innocent lives It is different matter
though policemen being shot at by bootlegger hjac
other criminals who fleeing from otherwise
yisting arrest.
IF washington criminals get the idea that like soft
methods used in hunting them down. they going
TO have respect for law and those charged with
its enforcement.
Bootleggers with gas charged machines will get the i'm
preston city and police authorities eniently dis
posed them and will only hdglove methods against
them
Whatever may be the views Of the majority of Washington
people prohibition laws there is possible question as to
their views that this city must be allowed to get into
the Chicago New York class, field for criminal
gangsters and gunner.
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By Garrett .Serviss

movements. which as Subtle
sculptors. or ingenious painters.
model, chisel. shape the palm
and the fingers, raise the
mounts hollow out the depres-
sions. shade the veins. give the
skin it's satiny surface or Its
ruGosity. make the flesh warm or
cool. furrow the center with q
network Of lines and break 1t up
with crosses. stars. interlace-
ments and signs which reveal
either splendid or tragic des-
TIMES"
Laboratory Proof
This sounds ike the veriest
fortune-teller jargon. but it is
professedly based on "the most
minute laboratory observations. +"
It is also said to have been
proved that as soon as the
nerves connecting a part OF one
Of the cerebral hemispheres with
the prehensile organ cease to
function. either because Of
lesion. or in consequence Of
paralysis. the lines in the hand
which correspond to that hemis-
phere. little by little efface them
selves until they disappear. ''just
as they disappear "a hours after
death"
How accordant with fact the
last clause Of that statement may
DE do not know, but certainly
it should not in any case be
taken for proof that the lines in
the hand have a special psyche
logic significance. Physiological
changes and readjustmentS arising
after death are probably suffi-
cient to explain the fading out
Of lines on both the face and the
hands.
Monsieur Choisy particularly
insists that free will is per-
fectly reconcilable with chiro-
nancy" This may be hitched
up with the familiar doctrine of
the hand-readers concerning the
difference between the marks Of
the right and left hand, to which
have already referred. In that
way the right hand might be re-
garded as a living tablet on
which are inscribed by tolerant
nature the triumphs won by the
hopeful and the unbeatable who
refuse to bow to her initial
frowns. 1t is recorded that Sarah
Bernhardt's right hand marks
were so different from those of
the left that her signature was
required to establish the fact that
both belonged to her. But surely
- nh
son.
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Service, Inc.
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NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
The Monday Roast

The Monday Roast
THERE are two things which.
l. somehow, always seemb to
spoil an attractive man-getting
married. and staying single.
A girl doesn't seem to feel that
her life is complete, nowadays.
unless she has at least four de-
voted men to play around with
and a husband as sort OF
Spare"
Sometimes, a woman's vanity
suffers a blowout" during the
honeymoon: but usually 1t just
seeps ont gradually. where the
tiny point of her husbands criti-
cism is continually puncturing 1t.
y y r
If lovers should agree to leave
out of their conversation all the
nonsense. flattery and sweet lies,
The silerce between them would
be almost as deadly as that be-
tween husband and wife.
+ \
Somehow, where two or more
women are gathered together, the
meeting always ends in a clinic on
love. men and marriage.
It is possible, even in these
days. to bring up a boy with good
manners and a real chivalry for
women-if you can only manage
10 keep lin away from the girls.
X y n
or course. every man believes
that happiness in this world comes
from service to others; that Is
why he is so generously willing to
make a woman happy by letting
her do Kings for him.
Hints to the Summer Hostess:
You can always get something out
Of your weekend Visitors-even
if it is only material for an essay
on "Ingratitude."
Judging from most weekend
parties, the Tired Business Mans
hard work in the city lasts from
sunrise on Tuesday morning al.
most to sunset on. Thursday eve
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noEs the hand reveal fate
II and character? Do the lines
in the left palm show what you
were born to, and those in the
right what you are making OF
yourself in spite OF fate? Well,
I would sooner believe such things
than believe that the beautiful
planet Saturn is 'malefic." an
evil doer, in its high realm, to
us poor little mortais away down
here below.
But occultomania il apparently
ineradicable from many minds.
and the baldest superstition Is
sure of an extensive cult even
now, amidst the most scientific
age that mankind has known.
Alexander, starting out for the
conquest Of the world, marched
painfully through an African
desert to visit the shrine Of Am
mon and hear himself proclaimed
by servile. priests the son of
Jupiter. Many times during his
wonderful career Alexander con-
suited the soothsayers Though
Aristotle had been his tutor,
and believed what they told him,
yet he conquered the world.
Superstition may be harmless for
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By ELSIE ROBINSON


who have fine records and a
natural pride In their methods Of
work. You'd think that Mr.. Sim
mons would turn that pride to his
own advantage. But. no--like his
wife. he demands that everything
shall be done in HIS way.
mo fellow with an ounce Of
self-respect is going to stand for
that" say his men and out they
go.
This sort of stupid domineering
isn't confined to the Simmons
home. 1t is raging like an cpl
demic through our commonwealth.
There are a lot Of petty natures
with a ven for power who want
to run this nation according 20
their own particular plan. We
must all be Standardization in
one mold. regardless Of our in
dividual pride Of capacity.
Quite often it is a good 1lan
and an admirable mold ard the
various Simmonses who back 1t
cannot see why We won't all ac-
cept 1t with enthusiasm. They
overlook the vital fact that no
plan is good plan unless man
can put a part Of his own soul
into 1t.
A MAN MUST WORK FOR
HIMSELF AS WELL AS FOR
THE OTHER FELLOW, If HIS
WORK is TO AMOUNT TO
ANYTHING.
He must build for his own
pride, as well as for the other
fellows profit.
That's why Standardization and
conformity hit at the very root OF
good workmanship-at the very
root Of life itself.
For personal pride II the" sap
which makes US grow. Bleed Us
ct $saAG AsRl &hA AsDaxlk d4eSG
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SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

COMMAND and force may often
v create, but can never cure,
an aversion; and whatsoever any
one is brought to by compulsion,
he will leave as soon as he can.
Locke.
Poetry and oratory omit things
not essential and insert little
beautiful digressions, in order to
place everything In the most at.
fecting light. WAITS
Expression IL Of more conse-
Ouence than shape: 1t will light
up features otherwise heavy.
Bell.
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Courts to the Rescue

The legal machine sticks often dead center it is
refreshing to note the ceancu performance of the United
States District Court at Kansas City
Judge A. Reeves ruled that the Secretary Commerce
has the regulate radio broadcasing stations He
permanently restrained Missouri station taking
allotted to another the length.
dawding Congress quit without providing legislation
needed to hold the hands of Secretary Hoover in making
broadcasters behave The District Court action will set
precedent and far toward preventing the chaotic air
ditons that Have threatened for the last few
What this country needs is outstanding judges who see
straight and ct with dAoisiYAnass and epuxaoo. !
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went to her place and / had won
derful references. I'm not like
these girls who do just as little
as they can and leave the corners
dirty. I like homework and
I've got a system for doing 1t.
take an interest in my work lust
as If / was doing it in my own
home and / always got along
until l went to her. But from
the very first day saw we
weren't going to get along to.
gether. She never can leave you
you do a thing in your own way.
and she keeps nagging and fuss
ing until you do.
For instance. she likes sponge
an awful good recipe for hot
water sponge cake that I've used
for years. Everyone else was
crazy about 1t. But it wasn't
HER recipe so she wouldn't have
it. And cleaning floors-she
wanted them cleaned a certa'n
er. always have been PROUD Of
the way l kept nv floors and
she admired them too until she
found that they weren't done the
way she liked to have them zone.
Then she couldn't rest until / did
1t her way.
1T takes all the heart out OF
you to be bossed that way. GU
might just as we'll be machine.
So / quit. She was awful sore
when / told her why. She said
it was HER house and she guess
ed she had a right to have a
thing done in a certain way II
she wished. told her 1t might
be HER house but Il was MY
work, as long as. was doing 1t,
AAl MaaA EsaAAk have any bassauoss
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Our. Neighbors Prosper
We Rejoice

Our Canadian neghbors prosperous and thanks to
having built the Panama Canal they do business
exporting wheat from the Northwest to Europe
Last year Canada exported 24058 40 bushels worth 1884,
201 $685. All of this good We want neghbors
to succeed. .-.,..
Japan Canada biggest customer among all the nations
In the wheat market which shows that the sensible Japanese
understand perfectly well that their exclusion from Canada
and other countries not insult to their race but
tribute to their superior ability.
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YOUR HANDS

strong minds. though fatal to
weak ones.
Chiroman6y ~ divination from
the lines In the hand ~ though
recommended to Alexander, seems
to have been disregarded by him,
though Aristotle gave it some at
tention. But now, more than two
thousand years later. the hand
superstition has an accepted APP
peal for some scientists, par
ticularly on the biological side.
In France, Maryse Choisy pub
fishes in poDular ~ - "'r"
conclusions based upon his own
special studies.
He distinguishes between "chi-
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All Animals in One
Avoid the FOOLISH Hat

Some human beings tigers wolves hyenas, serpents
monkeys And ninety mine per cent sheep following
blndy Helen Wills kind of eyeshade, 100000
them sold each day In Massachusetts, chds eyes
and forehead severely burned when ceuod eyeade
caught fire from magnifyng glass in paymates hand
That the chief danger resides in the fact that
these senseess hats leave the of the head UNCOVERED
exposing the brain the suns hurtful actnic rays
Don't let your little boy topless hat in the sunshine
especially if he BLONDE hair Thick BLACK hair
the acnc That's why nature gives such hair human
beings in Africa.
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rology" Study Of the hand. and
"chiromancy" tdivination by the
hand). Under the first heading
he includes "chirognomyp which
he calls that first part OF chi.
rology which treats character as
shown by the conformation Of the
hand" This. he affirms. 10 sup
ported by positive proofs founded
on statistics, and on biological
and physiological phenomena gen.
orally admitted and in no case
negatived by proof"
From the biological viewpoint
the markings in the hand may be
the product Of "cerebro-spinal
impulsions' and other nervous
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LADY SHOULD
HOLD WRAPS
MRS. Cornelius Beeckman

Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Is it proper for the young
man to hold the young lady's hat
in a theater?
A READER.
1t is best form. in the theater.
for the lady to take care Of her
own hat and wrap. as the gentle
man, takes care of his own hat
The gentleman. of course. helps
the lady to take off her coat. but
after that she should take care
Of her own possessions.
And. as corollary. don't lou
dislike to see the girl holding the
mans haiti 1t Is one OF those
inevitable give-aways Of iu-breed.
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M r S. s I NJ
N1 MONS can't
keep a house
maid.
She pays them
good wages. pro-
vides a restful.
sunny bedroom
and gives them
a whole day off
each week. Yet
after a few
weeks they grab
their va nifty
cases and fit.
Why?
"I'Il tell you
w h y" 8 a y 8
M lily. W h o
worked for Mrs.
Simmons exactly
ten days. "She
treats you as If
you were an
idiot. I worked
out for t Q n
uoapo hoPoro T
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LISTEN, WORLD!

to interfere as
long as / did it
right. But she
couldn't see it.
You never can
teach w o m e n
like that any
thing. I bet
girls keep on
quitting her as
long as she
lives. +"
They Ike e p
quitting on Mr..
Simmons. too
both girls and
men. Mr.. Sim
mons is in the
wholesale cloth
ing business. He
has a big office
force. He. too.
is willing to pay
good wages. The
good wages at
tract e X p e r t
worknen. people
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No liberal man would impute a
charge Of unsteadiness to another
FOR having changed his opinion
Cicero.
He that procures his child o
good mind makes a better pur.
chase for him than IL he laid out
the money for an addition to his
former acres.-Locke.
Poverty is want Of much, but
avarice Of everything.-Syrus.
He who proposes to be an 40.
thor. should first be q student.
dryden.
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A Quarrel Unusual
1t Is Unusual, Fortunately

unusual the quarrel in the ranks phian
thropy Mr. Warburg and his associates raising great
help starving and children in Russia
their efforts discouraged and hampered by the Zon
who felt that the Jewish drive to help Russian sufferers
fered with plans for restoring Palestine
This the Zions through their chairman Louis Lpsky in
dgnany deny The incident is without precedent in
wisely and economically managed phanthrpes of the Jewish
people.