Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1922 — Page 4
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JnDiaua Sailii (Times INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCI LATIONS. . . .. . _ New York. Boston, Payne. Burns & Smith. Inc. Advertising offices Chicago. Detroit. St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. Subscription Bates: Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c per week. Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879. A Step Backward President Harding’s order of May 10, 1921, giving the President the power to select postmasters from among the highest three qualified eligibles is characterized as “a step backward from the order of President Wilson, whereby the first name on the list was selected” by a statement just Issued by the National Civil Service Reform League of which William Dudley Fouike of Richmond is chairman. ‘‘President Harding,” the report continues, “inevitably injected political consideration into the appointment of these postmasters (a fact that can be attested by the many claimants for the Indianapolis postoffice) * • • So long as arbitrary discretion exists it is quite sure to be exercised for the supposed political benefit of those belonging to the party in power. In this case, the discretion was 1 mited to the choice of one out of three, but if one happened to be a Republican and the other two Democrats, the Republican would be pretty sure of appointment under a Republican administration and if there were more than one, that Republican woulu be generally chosen who was most valuable to the party, the most effective party worker, either boss, committeeman, campaigner or otherwise.’’ In commenting upon the Wilson rule the report shows that “such appointments were distributed quite indiscriminately” and quotes former Postmaster General Burleson to the effect that on Feb. 12, 1921, that out of 2,103 postmasters 1,012 were Democrats, 907 Republicans, 32 Independents, 10 Prohibitionists, 3 Socialists, 120 had no affiliations and 10 failed to report their politics. The committee recommends the immediate restoration by executive order of the rule requiring that the highest man on the list shall be appointed until action may be obtained in Congress to bring these positions within the competitive civil service, and the issuance of a subsequent executive order requiring that in every case the man at the head of the list should be appointed, but with ample security, by means of a probationary period, against the retention in office of any who should be incompetent or inefficient. It is extremely doubtful, however, that an administration that is succeeding so well in defying the civil service system as the present one did in cleaning out the Bureau of Printing and Engraving will pay any considerable attention to a plea, which if adopted, would seriously hamper political organization work throughout the country.
Is It Barbarous? What’s in a name? What effect will it have when all married women keep their maiden names? Just a minute! There is no positive indication that this is going to happen universally, but already a few women have taken the liberty of retaining their maiden names after marriage. Girl students at the College for Women. Western Reserve University of Cleveland, believe girls should not be known after marriag: by their husband’s family name. They say “it is barbarous to make a woman change her name. It's like branding cattle.” However, it seems to be the suffragette type of girl or the one who has attained fame in the world prior to her marriage who insists on retaining her maiden name. Why should she give up the name by which she is known as a successful artist, a brilliant writer or a skilled musician? is her argument. Her name seems a part of herself—a part of her ability and personality. This is a far cry from the time when every girl thought it nothing less than a tragedy if she did not sooner or later prefix Mrs. to her name. Perhaps this was because women were not ambitious along lines of vocational attainment then as they are now. Perhaps the public would welcome the retention of maideu names by women w-ho are popular in various activities. They would not have to* learn anew the name of the most popular musician in their city or be inconvenienced when wanting to engage a certain soloist to find that she had married and her name was not known. Will husbands approve of this independence on the part of their wives? It is known that there are a few in the world who have consented. Prof. Albert Leavitt of the University of North Dakota, husband of Elaie Hill, suffrage speaker, asserts that in his opinion it Is not necessary for a woman to give up her maiden name when she marries. Doris Stevens, suffrage speaker, and the wife of Dudley Field Malone, is still known by her maiden name, as was also the earlier suffragette. Lucy Stone. However, common practice of this custom would be, in the social world, like trying to solve a picture puzzle. ‘Quick, Watson, the Needle ’ Senator James E. Watson of Indiana walked over to the White House the other day and as a result got his name in the papers and incidentally broke a long and somewhat mystifying silence. Mystifying because his colleague, Senator Harry New-, is fighting for his life back here in Indiana agairst Albert J. Beveridge for the senatorial nomination. Senator Watson is characterized as the “Administration spokesman” when he comes forth with the idea of tying tbe much debated bonus bill onto the much more debated tariff bill. Perhaps the Senator’s multitudinous duties which "spokesman for the Administration” would entail have kept him in Washington, but nevertheless a lot of pro-New Republicans here have noticed the absence of the flowery Jim from the oratorial platforms in the present tilt. Maybe Senator Watson's vivid memory of the merry race Senator New gave him in 1916 has served to intensify his delight in fighting the peoples’ battles in Washington; maybe he is conserving his oratorial powers for a race he will face in the not far distant future, but there is no concealing the fact the hard-pressed New would welcome a Watson reinforcement to his oratorical “shock troops.” No Money for Mutiny When three such organizations as the Clan-na-Gael, the Friends ot Irish Freedom and the Cumann na Ban, meeting to celebrate the Blaster rebellion of 1916, stamp with disapproval the missionary efforts of the Irish mutineers in this country, the mutiny may be regarded as having got. its deathblow. That is what happened in New York Sunday night, when the three combined organizations adopted a resolution saying that they “condemn the collection of money in America to enable one set of Irishmen to fight other Irishmen or to finance an election campaign.” The resolution went so far as to “deny and repudiate the claim” that the Irish mutineers were “standing by the republic,” since the De Valera formula recognized the King of England as much as did the Free State formula. Whatever the grounds on which Irishmen in America are warned not to contribute to “enable erne set of Irishmen to fight other Irishmen, or to finance an election campaign,” the fact that they are so warned is sufficient. America *has always been the financial backbone of every Irish revolutionary or anti-English movement. This time she will not be, though' beggars for American dollars have been coming in a steady stream. It is significant that this resolution was moved by John Devoy, editor of the Gaelic American; that Col. Alexander E. Anderson of the Sixty-Ninth, New York, presided, and that Justice Daniel F. Cohalan was present and did not express any disapproval. These men have all been famous as die-hards and firebrands, and it is needless to say that they do not take the side of the Free State But they have no use for De Valera, and have always been frank to say so. Devoy, m moving this resolution, denounced him. Perhaps there were some who did not agree with them on that point, but did agree on the impolicy of giving American dollars to Irishmen to kill other Irishmen—or be killed by them, which is generally the rule when a mutineering company runs into a Free State company. The Free Staters always seem to be better shots. Os course the reason is that they are seasoned soldier*.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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THINK FRANCE AND ENGLAND WILL COMPETE Believe Two Countries oti Verge of U-Boat Building Contest. WASHINGTON, April 20. Despite the limitations of the naval treaty, England and France are on the very of a navy building competition more intense than any existing before the Washington conference, naval authorities now studying the post-conference situation stated today. With battleships prohibited both countries are expected to direct their naval efforts to outbuilding each other in submarines and kigbt auxiliary ships. The situation as viewed by authorities here is this: England failed in her efforts to abolish the submarine. France, smarting'under the occurrences at the conference, nil leaset her feelings against England by building every submarine she can lay down, nava'l officials here believe. England. In defense, and as a countre move, will not only build a submarine, but also a light cruiser or other anti-submarine vessel for every craft France builds. This will continue until something happens to divert the course of events. What will divert it is not yet known in naval circles here. Both countries, It Is pointed out, are acting in what they conceive to be their best interests. France, as tbe weaker nation, must rely on the weak nation's weapon the submarine. England, I elng vulnerable to attack from this weapon, will protect herself. Students of the situation see possibilities of another limitation conference eventually. They polr.t out that Japan Is likewise free to engage In competition with the b'nited States with considerable effect, a- with submarines and nircraft that country <an trol tier mandated areas, and the Far East is already open to her by reason of the treaty. Should this develop, It is stated, the Americans would bo compelled to build submarines for our Inlands, or not accept the challenge. It Is conceded, however, that the United States can outbuild any rival should ue
NIGHT LIFE OF FAMED DANCER MAY BE AIRED Coroner Believes Frieda Kempton Died From Poisoning. LONDON, April 20.—Sensational disclosures regarding the drug habits of London’s night life habitues were expected when the corouer’s inquest Into the death of Frieda Kempton was resumed. , Frieda Kempton, a dancing instructress In one of the gay night clubs of London, died early In March, supposedly as the result of an overdose of cocaine. At the first meeting of the coroner’s jury it was disclosed that on one occasion the girl had suspected that she had been drugged by n person well known in the fashionable resorts of latudon s gayer west end. There were whispers that , the name of a man well known In public life might bo disclosed during the inquiry, and London sat on edge to- 'veral days awaiting the disclosures, but \ey failed to materialize. Whether prominent names will yet figure in the case remains to be seen. Miss Kempton was one of the most popular girls In late dancing circles in London. She was well known to many young and wealthy clubmen who spend tbe wee hours of the mornings dancing around. Though of humble origin she had arisen to a “butterfly" sort of life and spent most of her nights making the rounds of tbe night clubs, where she danced until dawn and then returned to her home. Renewed impetus to the demands that tie life of London be cleaned of night clubs is expected to come from the inquest. For weeks the press has been engaged in publishing exposes, tending to show that men and women high in society are in league with bands of drug dispensers. Tbe Kempton case may prove a climax In these exposes.
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Radio Tuning Is Important, Duncan Says
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BY B. L. DUNCAN, Director, Radio Institute of America. Tunning a radio receiving set is an art in itself. Few amateurs take the pains to learti it. They are in too much of a hurry to start listening in. In a loose coupler, the operator who wants to get everything, pushes his secondary completely Inside the primary, making a tight coupling. For selectiveness in tuning, it is imperative that loose coupling be employed. This weeds out Interference. Os course, there is some loss in energy. But since it is useless to try to tune in with tight coupling when there are several stations transmitting on the same wave length, loose eoupling will have to be resorted to. In this there is no direct connection between the primary and secondary. The current received in the primary in the form of electro-magnetic waves is induced in the secondary. The further away the secondary, the harder It is for the Inductive relation to come about. Go over all contacts in your set frequently. Those connections which are not soldered should be kept free from all dust and toreign substances. Ail currents received are very feeble and the slightest resistance offered them by a poor connection decreases the efficiency of the set considerably. A poor ground on the receiver is the most frequent cause of loss of energy.
RADIO PRIMER ' R\l>lO FREQUENCY—Currents alter natins at the rate of more than 10,000 ctHcs ft second are termed currents of radio frequency. That Is. they produce vibrations of such fast frequency that they are practically inaudible to the human ear. Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, I®s*. by Star Company. By K. G. B. I FOUND him. • • • STANDING IN' a doorway. ALL BY himself. • • • AM) I was purpriaed. • • • FOR r IHE dav before • • • I IIAD seen him. AND *IIE was strong. • • • AND WEALTHY. • • • AND NOVT. • • • lIF WAS verv pale. • • • AND FKARFI’t. • • • AND NERVOUS. • • • AND THEN I noticed. • • • THAT BEHIND h'm r\RTLY HIDDEN. WAS A suitcase • • • AND WHEN he saw •• • / THAT I had seen it. he sun • • • •■IT’S THE suite***. I• • • “IT’S DRIVING me crazy. • • • -THEBE’S 8007/C in It “SIX QUARTS of Scotch ... •I’M TAKING it home “AND I’VE carried If • • • “A BLOCK and a half. “AND EVERYBODY. ... “KNOWS WHAT’S In It. • • • "AND TIFF.T look at me.” • • • AND ANYWAY. • • • HE HAD bis car. • • • .rrST HALE a block. • • • FROM WHERE I found him • • . ANT* I was going • • • IN HIS direction. • • * AND I walked with him AND WE hurried along. • • • LIKE A conple of thieves. • • • AND I was sorry. • • • I'D EVER found him. • • • AND AT the corner. • • • V ERT FOOLISHLY. • • • WE LEFT the crossing. ... AND CUT across. * * * AND THERE was a policeman. • • • AND HE motioned to us. • • HE WANTED to see US. • • • AND WE waited. ANO HE came to us. • • AND SAID. • • • “DON’T YOU know. ... “YOU’RE BOTH Jav walking?” • ♦ • and WE were so glad. * . • WE LAUGH FID hysterically. * * * AND WENT back. • * • AND GOT on the crossing. I THANK you.
The best ground la the cold water pipe in the house, or a large Iron plate or I pipe driven into the ground. Be sure to j scrape the connection surface and solder ! the grounding. Keep these pointers in mind and you will find that tuning in will be made much easier. TONIGHT’S PROGRAM INDIANAPOLIS STATION WLK—- *> 00 p. m. f baseball results, 8:30 p. m., musical program. 8:30 p. m., Miss Glenethel Stelhorn, soloist; Miss Margaret Munier, pianist; Mrs. Frank 11. Burns, reader. INDIANAPOLIS STATION WOH—--4:00-5:00 p. ni., stock reports and special entertainment. CHICAGO STATION KYW — 6:30 p. m., news, final markets and financial report. 7:30 p. m., children’s bedtime story. 8:00-9:00 p. m., musical program by Ethel Murray, cellist; Lucille Palmer, soprano; Louis R. De Mert, barytone; Katherine Gorin, accompanist: readings, hy Orace Heikox. 0:00 p. m., news and reports. SCHENECTADY (N. Y.) STATION WGY (eastern time) 7:00 p. m., market quotations supplied by New York State department of farms and markets and weather reports. 7:45 p. m., Earl Hermance, pianist; Harry Bannister, tenor; Guido C. Bolls, violin; Fred Hermance, barytone; Helen Beeler, soprano. SPRINGFIELD (MASS.) STATION WBZ (eastern time)— 730 p. m., bedtime story. 7:45 p. in , special business review. 8 00 p. tn., musical program. PITTSBURGH STATION KI)KA (eastern time) — 7:30 p. m., bedtime stories for kiddies. 7:45 p. in., speelal news, Government market reports, summary of New York Stock Exchange, weather reports. 8:00 p. ni., “Better Citizenship Through Organized Play and Recreation,” by Sidney A. Telle--, resident director, * Irene Kaufmanu Settlement, Pittsburgh 8:00 p. m., ‘The Shady Side Academy Country School—A New Educational Development in Pittsburgh." 8:30 p. in., A novel entertainment by the Marseco Brass Quartet, assisted by Bessie B Walz, reader. 9:O0 p. in., by United Press. 9:55 p. m., Arlington time signals NEWARK (N. J.) STATION WJZ (eastern time)— 7:00 p. m., Jack Rabbit stories by David Corey. 8:00 p. in., concert by the Orange Symphony Orchestra. 7 45 p. m., fiaily marketing by Max R. Vanarsdale. Household Ei-onomies 7:30 jp. m.. Building Loans, by B. and L. Waranty. DETROIT (MICH.) STATION WWJ (eastern time) 7 :00 p. m.. Musical program. GOVERNORS ISLAND STATION WVP (signal corps, U. S. Army), eastern time)— 8:50 p. m„ lecture 9 00 p. m., concert. ATLANTA (GA.) STATION WSB (eastern time) 0 00 p. in., Sports and late news. B'oo p in. Musical program. CHICAGO STATION WBU (City Hall)Programs from time to time, 12:15, Weather report (485 meters). 7:00 p. m., Musical program. Unusual Folk WASHINGTON, April 20. -Most of the romance and drama of the oil prospector’s existence is imaginary, to t.e encountered in fiction, says Robert Anderson, just back I explorations In India, He is now on his { way to Trinidad. • fjgl where h" will dire, t •'•TN hew search*** for oil v' W for the Whitehall I'e M troleum Corporation * | of London. V-rf'c* “The Western Hem jHH lsphere, rather than ' JOl Europe, Asia or Af ■ J 8 I’ a. seems certs In t> gHHk. . lead the pr- l-:c tien of ell :..r a a TfPlI ih'i-r.-i ' Wlm demon says. “South .JAmerica now appears Anderson. ns the likely source of the next great volume of supply. There are great fields there in which production has scarcely begun.” A THOUGHT FOR TOPAY But let patience have her perfect work, that je ma.v be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.—Janies 1:2. Had It pleased Heaven to try me with affliction. I should have found in some of my soul A drop of patience. —Shakespeare. DRIED APPLES. If fresh apples are not available the applesauce cake will be quite as good if dried apples are used. MENDING GLOVES. Cotton is the best thread with which to mend kid gloves. Silk cuts the kid. AWNINGS Indianapolis Tent & Awning Cos. 447-449 E. Wash. St. 8 f Miss M. E. HOAGLAND, * Democrat Candidate for Marion CountyState Representative. Subject to Primary Election, May 2, 1922. C Advertisement
TIME TO TAKE OUT POLITICS Correspondent Says Police Are Treated Unfairly. To the Editor: “He who lives by the sword, shall perish by tl.e sword.” When men are elected to office they become public servants, to the extent that they are pledged to the best of their ability to do all In their power for the common interests of the people. It Is indeed deplorable and demoralizing to see a man given the Lest office in a “no mean city,” and then to place politics even abovo honor, and threaten extermination to those who do not desert their posts and go out and talk his politics. Team work naturally will be absent from our city ns long as the demoralizing dread of the suspended ax is tolerated. Tbe commune in Russia is run something on the same order, with this difference: over there they are taken out and shot; here they are discharged, and in both instances without a hearing. In Tetrograd a man from civil life, a chef, if you please, rules the police force; the simile is here in this city, we have a tailor. Lenin, the ruler of Russia, brooks no opposition and requires no counsel; neither does our most high here in the city. “He who lives by the sword, shall perish by the swogd,” this saying has always been true. fan this city expect an efficient and honorable po’ice force under the ax and gag rule In our police at the present time we have as brave and reliable a bunch of men aa you can find in any city in our glorious country. But what is happening? “All those that ain’t for Beveridge is against me,” and all that is necessary for a man to lose- his job is for the political finger of suspicion to be pointed at him. Then what happens? ’fhe tailor prefers charges and our honorable safety board docs the rest. I am not, never was, or will be a policeman; God forbid; but what have they !n the way of a Job? Twelve hour shifts, In ail kinds of weather (our humble public servant), must not shoot, until they are shot; must not strike any one until they are struck; must not arrest any political favorite, especially if they have a Beveridge button on: then again, about every three months, they must buy and pay to/ anew season suit at about .*BO per. How a man cor. support bis family Is a mystery. He must at every roll call, which is frequent, permit the official smeller to smell his breath That is one thing they don’t do in Russia. But the police is not, the only rotten spot in Denmark. Every day tomes some woeful tale of some henchman being let out for the good of the party, in the various city departments But, however that may be. any one know* that constant threatening of employes with dismissal will never be productive of good results For heaven’s sake take politic* out of it. Treat the police as well as we do
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CIRCUS CHILDREN HAVE A MATRON
>ur city mules (of course, there is a ’ J luinane society to protect them); give ' y hem eight-hour turns, that i* long ' £• , / Hough to work men in this heaven- \ -a j orsuken, thankless job at a time. \ f / Just one thing more, as long as our ... .;|§ , / tend axmen are receiving their pay from \ - • 'A: M he taxpayers, just that long we should
our city mules (of course, there Is a humane society to protect them); give them eight-hour turns, that i* long enough to work men in tbis heavenforsaken, thaukless job at a time. Just one thing more, as long as our head axmen are receiving their pay from the taxpayers, just that long we should insist that their time belongs to the taxpayers, and should not be employed making political spoechi-3 or pussyfooting after the poor underdog of a city employe, all this In the people’s name, Beveridge or New notwithstanding. GERALD MAGRUDER, 1240 North Illinois street. KITCHEN CAKI’ET. Some housekeepers find that they can lessen the physical strain of ironing by having a carpet on which they stand while working at the board.
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Upper—Madallne Williams, matron of Sells-Floto Circus, and two of the little tots In a dressing room under the big top. Lower—Earl snipley, famous circus clown, who will frolic for the children of the city on Tuesday, April 20, when Sell S-Floto Circus gives two performances here. NEW JELLY. Prunes Jellied with gelatin are quite an agreeable change from the usual thing.
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