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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1923
Page
7
A collage of quips and items touches on currency, labor, and politics. Notable mentions include Germany’s mark value versus a dollar, a wheat labor shortage, fines on Louisville wool dealers, and China’s president fleeing Pek ing. Also notes on Dempsey Gibbons, a Mexican sedition case, a Los Angeles poetess, and Ty Cobb quotes.
The President states the Eighteenth Amendment is the basic law and the Volstead Act enforces it, declaring it unlikely repeal will occur. He, the Republican spokesman, asserts the nation is largely dry, with Democratic leaders and Al Smith facing party bosses who urged restraint on reviving the liquor question.
State officials note a president of a major Indiana interurban warns 21.45 percent of the company taxes go to highways. Despite fare cuts and cheap tickets, interurbans still own and maintain their tracks while buses pay rental. A volatile decade may decide future interlocal transportation as buses push ahead.
A fragmented discussion argues against rote learning in colleges like Amherst where progressive President Meikeljohn was ousted for thinking differently. It notes casualties among scholars who challenged social conditions and praises renewed European church engagement after war. It also mentions a British helicopter prototype and tax collection, ending with a quip on insanity and tipping norms.
Washington reports the nation spends over a billion annually on public schools, up from 140 million in 1890. Per pupil costs rose to 9.89 in 1920, with teachers’ average pay climbing to 1020 but not keeping pace with inflation. City schools outspend rural districts. educators push for unified rural systems and state funding guarantees like California’s 30 per pupil elementary and 30 secondary with district matches. Dr John J Tiggett notes tenfold rise in high school pupils since 1890 and calls for consolidation to improve rural education.
The Ft Wayne News-Sentinel notes Indianapolis police quickly arrested three youths for a Mohawk Bank robbery and swiftly got them to prison, contrasting with Ft Wayne’s unsolved cases. The column urges improvement in local police efficiency and cites other Indiana concerns. It discusses religious education progress, Governor Smith’s French Lick visit, and Huntington quarry plans.
Washington June 26 Wall Street prepares for a vacation as old brokers enter receivership and prices drop. The piece surveys effects on wage earners and business, noting cautious markets, scarce exports, rising savings, and a need to refocus on domestic demand amid a global slowdown. It cites April wholesale trade dips and contrasts Canadian and American wheat exports along with weakened meat and fat exports.
A selection of reader questions and official answers covers topics from Oriental weights picul and pikul to the 1923 G A R Encampment, presidential command, animal dealer bulletins, automobile population comparisons, alfalfa origin, and etiquette on calling, gloves at dinner, accepting favors, and the word pants versus trousers.
A playful verse contrasts those who crave risk with the steady, calm person who never wanders from plans. The poem concludes that such unadventurous steadiness means you are really dead, urging readers to embrace change and exploration.
The piece argues France and Germany dominate Europe’s coal and iron output, threatening global peace. It contends Britain’s view that France controls key economic levers undermines the balance of power, warns of a life and death struggle for supremacy, and calls for neutral influence to avert conflict.
A Muncie judge recalls a rose moment that led to attention from auto salesmen while Richmond plans a booster trip for Fourth of July. Fort Wayne Bible School results total about 120 pupils. Kokomo hospital drive reaches 115000 in week one. Wayne County Calf Club tours the county with 60 youth. Health clinics boost Kokomo child care. Kokomo Presbyterians plan a 38000 church annex. Sheridan’s Pressler to receive a fourth bravery citation from the Indiana Historical Society for World War service. A Cuban egg shipment fuels 172800 egg nogs at Columbus.
Judge R M Wanamaker of the Ohio Supreme Court will spend the summer studying English courts and judicial practices aiming to devise a method to expedite business in American courts. He also advocates curtailing the power of the U S Supreme Court to strike down Congress laws by a simple majority.
Washington June 26 The Department of Commerce reports materials costs for a six room brick house have climbed 21 percent since May 1913. Based on 100 for May 1913 present material costs stand at 213 compared with 176 a year earlier.
A compact humor sketch recaps a New York stenographer move to Boston with a sharp retort about starting work now. It threads playful exchanges on cards versus horses, a pricey hat, a grand piano jab, and a quip about a church sermon donation, all in light, wry tone.
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