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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
WORLD LEAGUE
OF DIVORCES
is ORGANIZED
Group to Uphold, Champion
Cause of Wives Who Part
With Husbands.

BIZ United Press
PARIS, March 27.-The Interna-
tional League Of Divorces, an or
ganization Of women who avow they
will uphold and champion the cause
Of divorced wives throughout the
world, came into being today.
Contrary to expectations, the
inaugural congress did not develop
into a series of TRADES against the
male sex, the speakers explaining
that the objects of the associations
are not anti-masculine.
They wish solely to come to the
support of divorced women who
consider they have a grievance.
The zIague also announces it will
pursue campaigns in various coun-
tries for revision of laws partial to
one sex. For the moment, the
league will be occupied mainly with
activities In France, where women
are still deprived Of privileges which
IN the United States and England
are accepted as rights.
A kind of magma charta" of d.
vorced wives has been drawn up
with the following principal points
Divorce should be made more diff
cult for men than for women.
There is more need for codif1ca-
ton OF international divorce laws
than for codification Of commercial
or political laws.
Speakers at the first session
pointed out that husband can di-
vorce his wife in some countries
without the woman being aware OF
the action.
The league holds that there is q
duty incumbent on all once-mar-
RED women, whether divorced OF
widows, to secure greater respect
for the marriage state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
ENGLISHMAN GATHERS
WHISTLES AS HOBBY
ALI Parts of World, Many Strange
Designs Shown in Collection.

Bv NEA Serrice
LONDON, March 81. In ten
years of collecting, A. j. Willins,
Brighton confectioner, has gathered
more than 300 different whistles
from all parts of the world.
He has whistles shaped like SOL
diers, birds, engines, teapots, horses,
COWS and all sorts of animals. There
are tiny and huge ones. He has
four from Palermo, Sicily, which
date back to 1890. One of these
represents a soldier in armor.
Several of his whistles are shaped
to reproduce faithfully the calls of
birds. These were used by game
keepers and bird fanciers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

yielding objects from different peri
DDS Of ancient history, the report
states. More than three hundred
laborers are working under the d.
rection 70 the staff psychologists.
Work Of opening and exploring
Sumerian royal tornbs more than
$500 years old has begun. Remains
Of several chariots, oxen and har-
ness have been found near the
toInbS.
A palace Of the SasSanian period,
226 to 637 A. D., has been uncov-
cred, and various rooms explored.
Objects found in the palace ruins
include carved stone heads of wom-
en-, figures Of flying angels, friezes
Of giants and animals. and plaques
Of lotus and pomegranate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
2,6OO-YEAR- old
CITY EXPLORED
Court of King NebuChad.
nezZar Is ExCavated.

BIZ Schemes Service
CHICAGO, March 27.-Solid gold
ornaments and other articles of
jewelry worn by men and women
at the court of King Nebuchadnez-
Ear, in the sixth century, B. c., have
been discovered at Kish by the
Field museum-Oxford university
joint expedition to Mesopotania, it
is stated in reports just received
here
Various levels Of the ruins Of
Kish are being explored and are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

slightest concern over corruption in
government, but now he sees an
overwhelming issue in the iniquities
Of a political organization which is
confined to the borough Of Man
haitian"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

Professional yeggs who blew the
safe in the Monument Bottle Works,
910 North Davidson street, Thursday
night, we're disappointed. There
was nothing in the box.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

Montana Democrat LaSheS
Wesley Jones' Statement
on Corruption.
By United Press

FFN'IN
WASHINGTON, March 81
Senator Burton K. Wheeler Dem,
MONTE has struck back vigorously
at Republicans for their effort to
make the New York City scandals
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
CAvERNS TO HAVE LIFT

bIeVat0F VII Dc Useu 70 AFOIu f0U-
Foot Climb to Surface.
BIZ NEA SerCics
CARLSBAD, N. M, March 81
Tourists visiting the Carlsbad cav
ems near here viii find the trip
into the lower regions of the huge
caves less difficult. if plans for a
lift elevator go through. The ele-
vator is to be built in a shaft $50
feet deep and will be used only for
transporting visitors back to the
surface. If installed, this elevator
will rival many of those installed
in skyscrapers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
PAGE IL


~ Outfe0 Press
PAOLI, Ind, March q. The
Paoh State bank had reopened to-
day under a new charter and reor-
gained directorate. It was closed
last November. Carl NJ. Boyd is
president and a. r. Paynton cashier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

A phosphorescent material is in
cluded in new fly paper to make
it luminous in the dark, attracting
more insects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

makes noise similar to a purr. The
following members Of the cat family do
not purr: Leopard, lion, lioness, ocelot,
seryal and caracal
@. Where Is there a remote group of
Islands, some OF which are uninhabited?
w. B. T.
A. Tristan da Cunha, in the South
Atlantic. is one of a group of three
small islands, two of which are unin-
habited. This group is believed to be
the most isolated uninhabited group on
earth. The two uninhabited islands are
named Nightingale and Inaccessible.
The Cocos, or Keeling, in the Indian
Ocean, includes 20 islands, some Of
which have no inhabitants.
@. How are the mysterious pools
known as dew ponds" filled and fed?-
w. r. D.
A. There Is nothing very mysterious
about their construction, as they are
now known to be fed by fog from the
ocean, caught by the shrubs and grasses
around their borders. Although there
Is some difference Of opinion in the
matter, it seems necessary for a new
dew pond to be filled artificially first
as 1t will not function by natural &C
emulation of water in the impervious
basin. These dew ponds are mostly
found on the upper levels of the chalk
downs in the south Of England as a
water supply for cattle.
@. Please give short biography O..
Edwin Booth. w.
A. Edwin Booth was one of our most
distinguished American actors. He was
born at Belair, Md, November 10, 1888,
and brought up to have a dramatic
career by his father. He made his debut
in Boston in l849. and in 1881 took his
fathers place as Richard III at the
Chatham Square Theater. New York
City. His productions of Hamlet" and
other ShakeSpearean plays were sue.
cessful, and he is generally regarded az
the leading American tragedian. He
died June 7, 1893.
@. Please explain how the rocket car
driven by Fritz Opel in Germany func-
tions.-A. j. w.
A. The rear projects large tubes, from
which exploding gases emerge. Tbs
principle depends upon Newton's third
law, which states that TO every action
there is an equal and opposite reaction.
AS each rocket explodes 1t propels the
car forward, the faster the escape OF
the gas from the rocket the more reae-
ton, or kick, 1t gets.
~ "liCiI Wdc al AIUSIlCAH uHS nav
ing 20 stars in the field made?-A. T. II.
A. 1t must have been made at some
time between 1887, the date Of admission
into the Union of Michigan, the twenty
sixth State. and 1845, when Florida, the
twenty-seYenth State, was admitted.
Q. What did the land cost upon
which the Empire State Building stands
in New York City?-A. C. A.
A: The price Of the land was sle,-
000,o 900.
Q. How did the dollar become the
unit Of American coinage?-C H.
A. The dollar was introduced into
America by the West India trade before
the Revolution. The coinage act Of
April 2, 1892, legalized it and estab-
lished 1t as unit Of American currency
The inconvenience of the English sys-
tenn OF money led Congress in 1871 to
instruct Robert Morris to devise a sys-
tenn OF national coinage. His sugges-
tons were not adopted, but those pro-
posed by Jefferson were approved. He
proposed the dollar as a unit to be
equivalent to 100 cents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
Merited Honor.
rom the Rockford Morning Star.

From the Rockford Morning Star.
The degree of doctor Of letters has
been conferred by Oglethorpe Univer-
sity. down in Georgia, on Mrs. Eliza
beth Meriwether Gilmer, otherwise
Dorothy Dix, for distinguished service
to American literature.
Here is recognition for the bows and
girls down in the trenches Of Journal
ism-a belated recognition, true enough,
Tor Dorothy Dix began work on the old
New Orleans Picayune back in 1896, but
1t Is recognition, and ordinarily the boys
and girls In the trenches have to climb
out and retreat to the general staff
headquarters Of editorships and the
IKE before such honors are made avail
able.
Dorothy Dix is still plugging away
at her typewriter, woman of 81, re-
fusing to abandon the ardcrs and the
rigorS OF putting out column O day.
Shes been guide, philosopher and friend
to succeeding generations of American
women. She probably has done more
to mold American opinion and shape
American consciousness than all the
famous woman novelists and poets put
together, with a few more or less male
novelists and poets thrown in for good
measure.
She is, in very truth. q journalist,
one of the boys and girls in the daily
firing line, and Il was high time that
an institution of higher learning recog-
nized the people In the trenches as well
as those who have graduated from the
trenches and hold their posts III gen.
efal sta6s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
Forced Reductions
In Land Prices Urged
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Great estates ate out the heart of
Rome!" said the conservative historian
Gibbon. History has repeated itself,
and great estates have eaten out the
heart OF modern civilization. The
economic failure of Germany. England,
1taiy-every great modern state, and
particularly the United States-is due
basically to the fact that landlordism
and land spectators have taken from
capital and labor toe large q part of
the produce, and thus reduced the pur-
chasing power of all and checked pro-
auction, by means Of extortionate rent
ana extortionate price Of land. There
should be no war between labor and
capital, but there should be war by
labor and capital against the holding
OF land out OF uSe-unceaSing war until
the practice is stopped, as that is their
only hope. The easy way to restore
peace and proSperity-and the only
WAYS to make 1t impossible for land
lordS and land spectators to take more
than normal rent and normal land
price, and thus increase the purchasing
power Of all and revive production. The
simplest way to do that would be to
impose an adequate penalty on land
held out OF use. That will never be
done until enough of the people demand
II. And enough will never demand It
until through public discussion they are
taught the facts and realize the neces-
sity. II there are never enough who
are not too ignorant or too stupid to
demand 1t, the existing revolt resulting
from unemployment that manifests
itself in increase of crime will grow
worse and worse until civilization falls.
Therefore 1t is up to the leaders-the
business men, the manufacturers, the
labor heads, the organized farmers, the
political economists, the statesmen, the
editors-as we'll as all tenants, all
would-be homeowners, all who have
suffered from depression, and all intel
ligent people, to cease the silly and in
effectual chatter they have been making
and unite in the demand for such a
law, and see that the demand is given
the widest publicity possible.
We have been on the brink Of
cataclysm for over a year and a half
and nothing feasible has yet been done
and nothing but economic quackery
proposed by our Wiseacres. Shall we
allow inaction to destroy us? Any city,
any county, any State, any country. can
put stop to unemployment Immediate
ly and bring about such prosperity as
was never known before by simply max
ing possible access TO idle land, esre-
cially in cities. to idle capital and idle
men and women by bringing about q
sufficient reduction of rent land price
Of land) by imposing an adequate
penalty on land held out Of use by high
rent or high price.
Many billions of dollars of capital
are now ready for investment in any
thing that will pay; but the owners will
not put the money into any enterprise
so long as it is certain that high rent
will take so much of the p.oduce that
little or no net profit will be left
c. B. HEMINGWAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
Fruit Grower Opposes
Higher Freight Rates

To the Editor OF The Star:
It's the proverbial last straw that
breaks the camels back Bugs, blightS,
billiards and bankrupt banks have al
ready SO exhausted the farmers stock
of patience and perseverance that his
utmost efforts at self-help seem futile.
Now comes the proposal to raise rail-
road freight rates on his products 10 or
IS per cent. How will that work?
Take an example! A well known
local orchardist last year shipped IA
600 boxes of Winter pears of the best
known varieties and brand. After pay
ing all costs Of cultivation, blowing,
pruning. picking, packing. rent, etc.
and adding thereto commission, cold
storage and freight charges, barely
enough balance was left to cover the
cost of the chemicals used in spraying
the trees half a dozen times to destroy
mildews, blights and bugs.
Add 10 or Is per cent to the railroad
freight rates and shipments will neces-
sarily stop, with further loss instead of
more gain. to the railroads.
If these companies must increase
dividends let them cut some Of the $50
600 salaries of the higher-upS, presi-
dents and such.
Moreover, the raising of freight rates
might tend to further decrease their
receipts by driving shippers to employ
carriers on State highways: while lower
rates might induce more shipments of
such produce as does not now pay to
ship because of rates already pro-
hibitive. EDWARD BERWICK.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
Frontier Hangovers.
ST. Paul Pioneer Press

From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
There are at least two conspicuous
places in the United States today which
repeat the conditions of earlier from.
tiers and call for two differing types OF
pioneer.
Secretary Wilbur has recently as
sumed the role of Horace Greeley, but
with Alaska and not the West the OBJ
iective, go North, young man, and
grow UP with the country" The kind
of pioneer the Interior chief advises
for this northern possession is the
settler type with sufficient capital and
supplies to tide him over until the
country begins to pay. 1t is largely a
virgin territory with few pay rolls to
rely on. He who enters there will be
entirely on his own. OF such stuff are
made.
In contrast is the desert town which
has sprung up near the Hoover Dam
and the type it attracts. The mush-
room buildings, swarms of job hunters
and fortune seekers, and general boz
nanza atmosphere Is reminiscent Of an
other aspect Of the American frontier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

Jersey City, and o great bridge Is just
approaching completion to add to the
flow Of trafnc across the Hudson
Recently q proposal was made for a
second bridge over the North River, at
57th street, at the expenditure of an
enormous sum Of money. Two years
ago the War Department, which has
Jurisdiction, rejected the plan on the
score Of interference with river traffic.
The case was reopened and modified
plans were prepared, but again the
Army Engineers have rendered an
adverse ruling, setting up requirements
for river clearance that would add ct
least $2o,0oo,000 to the cost Of con-
struction, chiefly in approaches. So it
Is not likely that for ten years to come,
when, 1t Is estimated, the traf1lc will
reach the point imperatively to demand
an additional span over the Hudson,
this project will be revived.
Just as the bridge plan was being
rejected for the second time a project
was being laid before city officials for
the development of Second avenue as
q two-level boulevard highway from
Manhattan Bridge to the Harlem River.
In point Of fact, the plan for q con-
siderable portion would be for three
level street with rapid transit lines on
the lowest and the center levels, truck
driveways on the center and light traftic
on the surface. The plan also involves
setting back the sidewalks beneath an
arcade within the building line so as to
afford more street room. This plan,
which would involve an eventual ex-
penditure Of several hundred million
dollars, is being seriously pressed and
may be adopted for fairly early execu-
ton.
The solution of transit problems In
New York Is particularly difficult be-
cause of the fact that with each new
facility Of travel the congestion in
creases. The configuration of Manhat-
tan Island, which Is the center Of all
business activities, is such as to create
q dilemma which would have appalled,
those early settlers who pitched their
shelters on the tip Of the island sew
eral centuries ago had they been gifted
with provision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
Toronto Star Assails
Treatment of Aliens
From the Toronto Daily Star.

From the Toronto Daily Star.
There must be a multitude of people
who share with us the feeling that, in
one respect at least. Canada has al
lowed herself to become altogether too
initiative of the United States We
refer to the stupid, fantastic and often
neediessly cruel way in which extreme
immigration regulations are enforced
along the border and at ports of entry,
deporting some persons and denying
admittance to others.
1t is only of recent years that Canada
has won an evil eminence in this re-
spect The United States has long had
it. Even before the war a titled Rus
sian lady, after visiting the United
States, wrote bitingly of her expert
enceS on entering that country within
sight of the Statue of Liberty. She de-
scribed all that had happened and
challenged anybody to show that I'M
Ger the so-called tyranny of the Car
anything as notifying would have to
be endured on entering Russia or
travelling across Siberia. Since the
Great War Canada has become relent-
less in the enforcement of regulations.
The officials on the job evidently are
allowed no discretion whatever-the
rules must be observed to the letter, re-
CARELESS of circumstances.
James Squires went to the United
States from Newfoundland to enlist in
the War with Spain. He has lived in
Massachusetts since. He enlisted again
in the Great War. Recently he went
on a visit to his old home in Newfound-
land and on coming beck was denied
admittance to the country in which he
had lived 81 years and for which he
had carried arms in two wars.
A Montreal woman went to New
loci AtVftt xrrn
birth to a child. On her return to
Canada she was admitted, but our au-
thorities at the border refused to ad-
NIT the baby. The United States au-
thorities had the child on their hands,
but refused to allow the mother to re-
turn and remain with 1t. So two great
nations enforced strict regulations, with
the result that the mother is in
Montreal and the baby is in an or
phanage in New York State.
One feels compelled to say OF this
and similar cases that Canada seems
determined to show that she can be
just as autocratic and unreasonable as
the United States. 1t may be that Of
ficials on our side of the border like to
show that they can be as powerful as
those on the other side of it. They may
wish to show that they can be just as
extreme and foolish as any other off,
Gals. If the country next door Is go
ing to deport people, this country will
deport them, too. If that country will
not let people in, this country will not
let them in. This sort of rivalry in ar
rogance and this efficiency In stupid
enforcement of red tape Is surely o
kind of competition that will not have
the approval of Canadian public opin-
ion. Even if the ordinary immigration
officer cannot be empowered to use dis
elimination in his enforcement Of the
regulations, there surely should be
within easy reach some superior OIL
cial to whom the case could be referred
and who would possess authority to ex-
ercise little common sense and prac-
tice little common humanity in the
enforcement of regulations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
The Upward Climb.

The climb out Of the abyss of bust
ness depression can be materially aided
by manufacturers If they will put trade
and production practices C the best
Of order, DR.. Julius Klein, Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce, told the Radio
Trade Show In Chicago last night. 1t
Is sound advice from an ofdcial who
has given years of study to the busi-
ness structure of this country. The
Assistant Secretary of Commerce spoke
not only hopefully but with great posi-
tiveness that the decline in business In
this country has reached an end and
that the upward trend Is on the way
and may be in full swing by Mid
summer.
Such prediction falls kindly on the
ear, particularly when it Is backed up
with facts based on O close study Of
the conditions which have prevailed.
In the opinion Of DR.. Klein, the bottom
Of the depression was reached last
January and the country has been drag
ging along the valley for several months
in the so-called 'leveling-out" process.
IF history repeats ITSELF" DR.. Klein
asserted, this means that in July UP
we CO."
This prophet Of good omen takes
the position, too, that since the decline
of business In this country has been
long and gradual, the ascent will prob
ably be sharply accelerated. There has
been no industrial disorder; the bust
ness structure has held together and
Is now on o solid foundation. Under
such circumstances, the recovery Of
business may be much more quickly ac-
complished than If conditions had been
chaotic.
The fact Of the matter appears to
be that the country has been catching
up with itself in the matter of con-
sumption, both of production and Of
credit. Overproduced and oversold
was the situation Of American business
generally when the slump began in 1922
The production has been curtailed,
stocks in the hands of the producers,
the merchants and the consuming pub
lie itself have been more and more
depleted. The time has come for an
advance again. Prices are low for many
commodities, it is true. But the buy
ing capacity Of the people is low, gen.
orally speaking. The volume of buy
ing is increasing rapidly, however, and
1t IS that volume which calls for in
creased production, and with increased
production and greater business come
more employment, more wages and
finally the capacity to buy not only in
greater quantity, but at higher prices.
DR.. Klein has done well to advise
against unwise expansions and over
production in this period of readjust-
ment, and to urge producers first of all
to know their markets. 1t was q total
disregard Of market capacity and an
overproduction which knew no limits
that aided if 1t did not cause In large
part the present depression. The time
has arrived, it appears, to start build
ing, but the building must be soundly
done.