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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1923
Page
5
The United States has funded large European loans and private loans to Europe to spur recovery, arguing that American support aids peaceful enterprise while critics push for more mili tary funding. Indiana tests centralized county school control with Rockefeller backing to prove efficiency.
A reader asks about Indiana auto licenses valid in Illinois sixty day rule and possible Chicago city licensing. The Times cites roof contractor ads, salt thirst, onyx jewelry coloring, flag meanings, Berkeley governors, hearsay evidence, Central Park land price, hotel plans, John D. Rockefeller birth, first American waterpower, and New England township governance with concise factual responses.
NEA Service reports police disrupted a Covington Kentucky materialization seance led by Mrs Mary Langley and the trumpet medium Mrs Charles Pressnall. Investigators claim to expose voices and spirits while Langley vows a legal fight and aims to prove genuine psychic ability.
Flora G. Orr reports on a proposed national response to the Supreme Court minimum wage ruling. A committee including Florence Kelley and Matthew Woll will study four options, from constitutional amendments to state power to enact wage laws, with a report due in November.
In 1918 the Federal Farm Loan Board sold $55 032 000 in securities at 5 percent to aid farmers with loans that never mature if principal payments stay at 1 percent yearly. The author warns Congress against a constitutional amendment to halt three securities noting tax free status boosts farmer benefits. A thief in Washington Flats steals $2 and a $150 diamond pin from Wilfred Porter.
In Columbia Heights Minnesota Judge H Z Meadow and Police Chief A C Elsenpeter issued a joint ultimatum to bootleggers to surrender their stills at the fire station by May 19. Five to six moonshine outfits were surrendered and no one went to jail as the village avoided trials. The plan portrayed a combined effort to curb bootlegging without widespread arrests.
A column quip lists Miss MacFarlane of Bessemer as a bridemaid 184 times without luck. It mocks New York beggars earnings, Hindenburg’s recovery timeline, a Baltimore swindle, auto warnings, and assorted witticisms on business, gardening, and misunderstandings in speech.
William Philip Simms reports that millions of Europeans, blocked by 1921 immigration limits, await signals from U S steel executives and big employers to ease entry. Unrest and high unemployment drive hopes of labor demand and high wages in the United States, with Greece, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, and Italy all linked to potential migration shifts.
Washington Congressman Albert Johnson proposes a 2 percent Japanese immigration limit to 40 per year. He argues the plan would mark Japanese as a non desirable class while allowing a controlled intake. The 1899 figure noted is 2,000 Japanese in the United States.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace states that under the Federal Road Act all American cities with 5,000 or more people will be linked by improved roads once the highway network is finished. He notes $540,000,000 has been appropriated or authorized from 1917 to 1925, with $75,000,000 for 1925 and $65,000,000 for 1924, leaving $400,000,000 available through the current year.
Observers in Washington note that a Hearst La Follette coalition could end third party prospects for 1924. They warn progressives may quit if La Follette or Hearst enter partisan politics, while Borah fears the bloc's rise.
Chinese companies form to produce native plays with Chinese plots and actors. Natives prefer local productions over the best foreign films. Thirty movies operate in China outside Peking and Manchuria. Shanghai leads with twelve, Tianjin six, Canton six, Hongkong five, Hankow one.
President Harding travels to Alaska a 10 000 mile journey driven by politics rather than fishing or sightseeing. The aim is to unite conservation and anti conservation factions under a single policy, easing past cabinet tensions and contentious forestry debates dating from Pinchot to Fall. Institution names include Gifford Pinchot, Secretary Wallace, and Former Secretary Fall.
A collection showcases William McFee style lines and Frank J. Wilstach selections. Notable quips include clubs of comparison such as a mind like a hotel open year round and voices like a sword swing.
A humorous poem about misfortunes by comparison and cheerful resilience. The speaker suggests bearing bunions, throat sakes, and other pains by imagining worse scenarios such as a centipede or a giraffe, ending with a light note on blithe philosophy. Copyright 1923. NEA Service.
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