Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1922 — Page 4

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Jutera Sails fflwrn Published at 25-29 Sooth Meridian street. Indianapolis, Ind., by'The Indiana Daily Times Coippany. W. D. Boyce, President. Harold Hall, Treasurer and General Manager. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . ... _ New York. Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Adrertls.ng orrices. Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Subscription Rates: Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c per week Entered m Second Class. Matter, July 25. 1014, at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind. Under act March 3, 1879. THE NEW gas rate is another, incentive to accept dinner invitations. WHAT HAS become of all the suffering that was to follow the coal mine strike? POLICEMEN are not to be allowed to “bum” Ice cream, but nothing has been said about cigars. ALL GOOD men are not dead. From the suits tiled, motorists are running across some good ones. The U. S. and Europe Secretary of State Hughes’ hasty declination to permit the United States to participate lu the next European conference at The Hague at least was consistent with the Administration policy determined when the original invitation to sit at Genoa was rejected. The latest note was scarcely less candid than was the allied invitation, which made no pretense of disguising the fact that the Genoa conference had failed because Russia demanded credits and the European nations had none to extend, therefore, Uncle Sam, hoarding the gold reserves of the universe, must be asked in. According to news dispatches from Europe, the allies —minus France, which has joined us in our refusal—desperate at seeing the Russian tangle still unsolved after weeks of parleying, are preparing another and more urgent request for the United States to join them at the council table in Holland and, presumably, unless more cogent reasons are set forth than heretofore, the Administration will remain adamant in its refusal to complicate its foreign relations by purely “European entanglements.” Thoughtful observers are wondering what the effect of the persistent refusal of the United States to participate in old world politics will have on the four-powe. treaties, the “monumental achievement of the Harding Administration." None of the nations signatory to the Washington pacts, save the United States #nd China, has ratified the treaties. Manifestly, they will not be binding until sanctioned by the governing bodies of the nations represented at Washington. Should the European and Asiatic diplomats who have been seeking to establish anew era in the old world; come to the conclusion that the fruits of their eatleavors have been dissipated by the aloofness of the United States, there is a possibility that the Washington treaties may never be ratified. Such a procedure would be in the nature of reprisals for the failure of the Harding Administration to recognize the desperate' plight Europe sees itself In with a militant Russia in its midst. With the Genoa conference wrecked, j.he Washington treaties beached, the world would revert to a status quo,i with the League Nations, of which the United States is not a member, as the single harrier against the prewar ententes, alliances and secret pacts that tweed wars and disorders. It is not a pleasant outlook to contemplate.

After the War Grafters Those who stinted and saved and those who served during the war are hopeful that Congressman Madden's bombastic boast that some men “who think they have power in the Nation today will %id themselves behind the bars,” uttered when the House, appropriated $500,000 to prosecute war fraud cases, will come true. Whether the attorney general's department has the ability to pursue “an unrelenting prosecution of war grafters” years after the emergency has passed, and he:her it dare proceed impartially, remains to be seen, but there is t>ne thing almost certain, and that Is that the special fund will all be spent if it passes the Senate. Attorney General Daugherty has not covered himself with any special glory in the moves leading up to the voting of this fund. Although he has been in office more than a year, it required a resolution and denunciation of his dilatoriness hv Congressmen Johnson and Woodruff, Republicans, to move him to action. Asa result of the spirited condemnation of the attorney general’s office in the House, Mr. Daugherty, only a few days ago, asked for speedy action on the appropriation measure. “Mr. Daugherty,” said Congressman Moore, “seems to hold Congress accountable for his inaction in some, at least, of the war fraud cases. The material question now is why was not congress advised in April of the situation set forth in the letter of the attorney general which so quickly followed the introduction of the Woodruffjjohnson resolution?’ The apparent reluctance of Mr. Daugherty to proceed with an investigation, which, if properly pursued, may’ lead into many important places, has not acted to inspire public confidence! in him. In truth, Mr. Daugherty's motives will he viewed with considerable suspicion until he demonstrates a determination to actually go to tihe bottom of the ugly charges that have been bruited about ever since war was declared that influential individuals so far forgot their birthright as to insist upon growing rich out of the war.

A Two-Fisted Skipper That the hard, two-fisted seafaring life of the times of Sir Francis Drake and the Jolly Rovers of the Spanish Main has not entirely disappeared from the routes of commerce was shown recently when a Yankee skipper brought his ship into New York after a voyage as picturesque and fraught with difficulties as any ever portrayed by Robert Louis Stevenson or Jack London. The captain, John Bergsten, was of the old school in which marlin spikes and capstan bars and pistole were frequently resorted to in order to insure discipline among the crews. Sailing with a ruffian crew recruited from the Philadelphia water front gangs the sk'pper had no more .than cleared on his way to the Black Sea when fights broke out among the men and frequently the captain was forced to enter the ring and conquer the combatants before peace could bq restored. In the Black controversies to the point of mutiny and Captain Bergsten and his officers used revolvers to queil the disorders. Even the sailors fr,jm a United States destroyer had to board the steamer to subdue the mutineers. The captain, by main physical force, brought his ship home, fighting battles with the elements that would have disheartened the most hardened salt. Colliding with a derelict in mid-ocean the crew tried to abandon ship, but again the pistol in the hands of the skipper put all hands to work and saved the ship. In these days when palatial greyhounds flit across the ocean and every (modern convenience is supplied for the benefit of the sailors, it is like tearing a page out of history to read of an account like that entered in Captain Bergsten's log.

Amuck on Wheels j An intoxicated man driving an automobile is about as dangerous as an armed maniac. As for that brain-befuddlejd creature who loaded up his motor car with dynamite and drove through the business section of the city, his wanton recklessness beggars description. He deserves nothing less than a term in prison, for his conduct places him in the category of crimin&l irresponsibles who are never safe at large. * When the native of Borneo or Sumatra runs amuck he slashes and cuts with his keen-bladed knife all who are so unfortunate as to get in his frenzied and hurried way. As speedily as possible he is captured and confined in a cage, where he can do no further harm to the community. No civilized community would permit its 1 citizens to run amuck with gun or knife, maiming and slaying all who crossed their path, but what difference is there between the maddened Malay and the drunken automobile driver, partfeularly one who goes so far as to load up his vehicle with a high explosive? The motor car driven recklessly at a high rate of spec ii is an even more destructive weapon in the unsteady hands of an intoxicated man than is the knife of the Malay. Prison is the only cure for drivers who life by their recklessness. —Lafayette Journal-Courier.

GRIFFITH MOVIE TO FINISH Lengthy Engagement Saturday Night at Ohio

Lillian and Dorothy Gish In one of those sweet sad scenes In D. W. Griffith's “Orphans of the Storm.” which will conclude a three week's engagement at the Ohio Saturday night. Lillian is on the left and Dorothy Is the little blind girl on the right.

ALICE TERRY* LIKES PLAYING PRINCESS ROLE. Impersonating the l’rincess Flavia. the hading role in “The Prisoner of Zendn," is to Alice Terry the most interesting work she has ever done. “While I have played a number of interesting types of women during ray motion picture career, none of them lias appealed to my Imagination so much ns the Princess Flavia in 'The Prisoner of Zench .’” said Alice Terry when asked what was her favorite role. Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1923, by Star Company. ! By K. C. B YEARS AGO. • • • WHEN HE was a boy. he HAD his home. IN A tenement. AND HIS played his games. • • • ON THE city streets WITH OTHER boys. AND HE grew up there IN HIS school days age. * • AND FINALLY. THERE CAME a day. AND HE went away. AND KOI ND the Wist. AND THERE he worked AND LITTLE by little. ON EVERY venr. • * • HIS WEALTH lucre sod I'N'TIL AT last. THEY CALLED hint rich. AND OLD age AND MEMORIES. OK BOYHOOD days. THEN LIKED him East. TO Ills city streets. AND THE tenement. WHERE HE had Pived. HAD LONG since gone. • AND HE search* 1 !! about. FOR HOYIIOOD friends. AND OF all he'd known UK rot NT but one, • r • A GRAY haired will HOIS POVERTY. IN A couple of rooms. o*o IN THE very same street. WHERE SHE had played. * * • AKD HE had played. AND FOR a month. HE CALLED each day. o*o IS THE afternoon. ... AND VISITED. • * * AND IN that month. OLD THINGS were moved. AND NEW things bought. 0 0 0 AND AT Its end. ... HE WENT away. * * BACK TO his West. ... AND LEFT her there. * * * IN COMFORT. AND WITH ample means. AND SO it is. * * • THAT TWO old folks IN THEIR twilight days. FOOD HAPPINESS. I TILYNK you.

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"Os course,” Miss Terry continued, “I loved the part of Marguerite Laurier In ■The l- otir Horsemen.’ She was a woman with whom any one could sympathize, giving up, as she did, her hopes of happiness to cling to bee ideals of devotion and patriotism. “Flavia in 'The Prisoner of Zen (la’ is faced by the same problem and ' with" unselfish nobility of character she makes the same decision —and though h<-r heart is breaking she gives up her lover and remains true to her country and th-s king whom she had promised to marry. “Having played these two unhappy women I can appreciate the more my own personal happiness," concluded Miss Terry, referring to her recent marriage to Rex Ingram, who directed Miss Terry in bojh “The Four Horsemen” and “Tha Prisoner of Zenda." -I- -I- -I----OV VIEW TODAY. The following attractions are on view today: “The Acquittal," at the Murat; vaudeville and movies, at B. F. Keith's mid the Lyric; musical' comedy and movies at the Rialto, “Orphans of the Storm." at the Ohio: “The Man From Home.” a! Loews State; “The Fighting Streak, at the Alhambra; “The Prodigal Judge,' at Mister Smith's; “Pardon My Nerve.” at the Isis and “Sonny," at the Circle. Five Good Books Structural Engineers Indianapolis Public Library, Technical Department, St. Clair Square. - free hook service. “Handbook of Building Construction," by H i. “Concrete Engineers handbook," by 1100 l & J. Johast n. '■Structural Engineer's Handbook,” by Ketch um. ' Arehitcts' and Builders' Handbook," by Kider. “Concrete. Plain aed Reinforced," by Taylor & Thompson. Unusual Folk i NEW YORK, May 17.—Though his professional success depends upon the stead-Ine-s of iiis hands, I>r. Ignacio Bnrraquer ',.~T ' of Barcelona, Spain, y -• smokes and drinks x co freer —and occaufc slonally wine. H Barraquer is one ! 1 of the world's •w' greatest eye sur- '? georts. lie has come y ' &!&£"■ ,n the Cnlted States on the invitation of American surgeons BARRAQUER cataract from the eye. In this operation the slightest tremor of ,hls wrist, the smallest wavering would mean blindness for his patient. But his hand never trembles I Airline Between India and London Proposed LONDON, May 17. —London within fifty hours of India will be a reality if a proposed now venttir \ to bo called the “Aerial Orient Express,” Is brought Into being. ' The “Express.” ascending from London,and traveling, by stages, at 100 miles an hour to the eastern boundary of Eu rope, will follow a route via Paris, Stras6 burg, Prague, Vienna and Bucharest to Constantinople, which will be the jumping off point for a direct, flight to India. Intending travelers will be charged 9 cenls a mile, and the Journey by airplane will quicken the Journey by two days ten hours to Constantinople and by more than fifteen days to India. HIM AN WATER CHAIN. GOOLE, England, May 17.—Five hundred women formed a bucket passing chain here and saved the North-Eastern Railway bridge from destruction by fire.

Titanic Disaster Proved Value of Wireless Process , By DAVID SARNOFF. General Manager, Radio Corporation of America. One of the most dramatic parts played by radio telegraphy came with the sinking of the steamship Titanic, ten years ago. It so happened that I was then a wlrelbss operator assigned to the Wanamaker station In New York. On the roof of the building a large plant had been Installed for the purpose of sending messages between Philadelphia and New York, and also between other, points. It will be recalled that for a long time It was Impossible to get definite Information of what had happened on the 111-fated Titanic. In those days we had no “loud speakers" or any of the refinement of apparatus of the present day. Radio operatoi4 were required to wear headpieces with telephones clamped over the ears. In which the faint buzz ot 1 the dots and dashes were heard. For three days and three nights, on a continuous stretch of seventy-two hours. I sat with the headpiece clamped on my head, straining to hear a word or a detail that might come through rhe air Finally I was rewarded. I bgan to receive the first details of the disaster—the feet that the Titanic had sunk: that the Olympic had taken off a number of pasaengers. I immediately gave the news to the press. Then bedlam broke loose. Reporters and relatives and friends of passengers on the doomed liner hung breathlessly over my shoulder while t copied tbp names of those who had been saved, scanning every letter as 1 placed It on paper and hoping that the next word would spell the name of a loved one. But the very tragedy of the Titanic disaster crystallised in the minds of every one the value of radio, and the art was given anew status. One almost immediate result was the passing of laws of national and international character to safeguard life at sen by making it compulsory for every ship carrying fifty or more persons to be equipped with radio telegraph apparatus, with provision for two operators to he constantly on watch so distress signals might be received or aent out In time of need. For some little time therafter the development of radio followed the aetlvltlea of the sea; Installations aboard ship multiplied and th coastal station system expanded. Message traffic from ship to shore wag the principal function of a radio telegraph company, and __ the manufacture, operation and maintenance of apparatus to give this service was prnctieally Its sole activity. A system of handling messages was developed, following the general practice of telegraphy, a procedure which remains vlr tually unchanged to this day. An outline of the process may be of interest, for the question i often asked: “Just h"w is a message filed for transmission to or from a ship at sea:" It la not a complicated process. The sender files the message for a vessel at sea at any telegraph offi.-s, glvtng tha name of the passenger and the ship and marking the radiogram "Via RCA,” If he desires the Radio Corporation of America to handle his message The handling of the message then is as follows; It Is telegraphed bv l.tn lliue to the nearest coastal radio station, which. In turn, calls the ship through the air. using the call letters which the Government assigns to each vessel as an Identification. Operators on ships are required to listen for these messages. They acknowledge the call for their particular * 1 1 —T—- ( 1 SadTo Just In —A New Shipment of Westinghouse R. C. SETS Sensitive distant station tube detector and two-stage amplifier sets. Their price, $132.50 See, Also, the new Westinghouse eighttube cabinet loud speaking Bet, the Aeriola Grand $325.00 Sixth Floor.

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RADIO PRIMER counterpoise—One or more wires stretched beneath the aerials and Insulated from the earth. It Is used in radio transmission and reception when a ground connection Is not available. Aircraft use a counterpoise because of their inability to ground their radio sets. vessel and accept the message transmitted from the shore. llf an answer Is requtred, the ship calls by radio the three letter designation of' the coastal station wanted, trammlts the reply which in. turn, is put on the telegraph wires directed to the person addressed, anywhere in the Unite! States, or, for that mutter, in any par: of the world. Another article on the radio of today and tomorrow by David Sarnoff will appear In a forthcoming issue of the Time*. WOH Will Broadcast Speedway Race Results. Radio fans who delight in sports! ' Get ready to tune in. Memorial day, on station WOII, broadcasting on the 3CO- - wave length. If you do. you will enjoy the tenth animal 500-rnlle motor racing classic at the Spited way almost as well asithe racing fans in the grandstand. You will hear all they hear—even the pop pop of the motor exhausts as tjiey speed around the track. x ARRANGEMENTS MADE. T. F. Myoy, secretary and general manager of the Speedway, has made all arrangements for the radio service with the Hatfield Electric Company of this city. The central location of station WOII makes It possible, If the day. .s clear, for radio enthusiasts the country over to /hear its program. Get your receiving set in tune with WOH ea'rly. for promptly at 9:30 the gram will start. It will begin with a band concert by perhaps the largest aggregation of players heard by radiophone. It will consist of forty bands massed into one organization of 1.000 pieces. For a half hour before the race, this band will play before the grandstand and Its music will be broadcast to all the radio fans listening in. From 10 o'clock on, when the race begins WOH will broadcast the progress of the contestants at half-hour Intervals. Important Incidents will be related. BOMBS BY RADIO. Bombs signaling progress In preparations to start the batt’e between thirtytwo drivers for ihe fIOO.OOO prize money will also bo heard by radio. The start of the race, even the cheering of the crowds as the cars get tinder way will be heard hundreds of miles from the track. Throughout the day the bulletin rahlo service will continue until about 4 jjVlock. when the finish of the event is expected Following the race, a complete review of the classic and names of the ten priz. ewlnners will be broadcast.

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How to Get Best Results From Your Radio Set

By if. L. DUNCAN, , Director, Radio Institute of America. j If you want to get the most out of your receiving set, take this tip or two: Never try to share your aerial with another fellow. It won’t work. He will be detuning your set and you will be detuning his. This applies to both outdoor and indoor antenna. If you have to share the aerial, divide i the time of operation. Disconnect one TONIGHT’S PROGRAM INDIANAPOLIS STATION WLK (News-) Ayres-Hamilton)— 9:30 p. m., time and weather reports' (485 meters). INDIANAPOLIS STATION WOH (Star-! Hatfield) — ' 8:30 p. tn„ musical program. ANDERSON STATION WMA—7:3fi p. in., reading of third act of “Much Ado About Nothing,” August Toelle; Victrola music. CHICAGO STATION KYW (central day ] light savings time) — 8:00 to 9:00 p. m., popular program, 1 Will Rossiter. 9:00 p. in., news and sports. SCHENECTADY <N. Y.) STATION WGY : (eastern time) 7.00 p. m., market quotations supplied 1 by New York State department of j farms and markets, and weather re- ’ pori n. PITTSBURGH STATION KDKA (eastern time) — | 6:00 p. m., “Anthracite Coal Mining, ”j Dover C. Ashmead. 7:00 p. in., “Pittsburgh, a Cultural Center." I*. W. .T. Holland; “Engineering.” F. L. Bishop. 8:0i) p. m., entertainment by Elmer Stoltz. barltmie, assisted by violin, cello and piano. 9:00 p m., news and sports (United Press). 9:55 p m.. Arlington signals. NEWARK (N J.t STATION WJZ (eastern time)— 6:00 p. m., “The View of the Iron Industries and Their Relation to General Business Conditions," by the Iron Ago; 7:00 p. in.. Animal stories by Florence J Smith Vincent. ”7:30 p. m., “Chaplain’ Work in the A. E. F.,” by Major Chaplain John J. Allen. 8:00 p. m.. “The Work of the Red] Cross Society," by Mrs. August mont. i 8:15 p. m., concert by the Russell Kingman Striig Quartette of East Orange.' 9:15 p. m., “Value of Good Manners,” by Margaret Daley. 9:30 to 10:15 p. m.. concert by the Melrose Quintette of New York, negro spiritual program, George Jones. Jr., director. 10:52 p. m.. Arlington time signals. DETROIT i MICH.) STATION WWJ—ieastern time) — 7:00 p m.. musical program ATLANTA (GA.) STATION WSB (eastern time) — 8:00 p. in , musical program. SPRINGFIELD (MASS.) STATION WBZ (eastern time) 8:00 p. m.. baseball scores, musical program by Mrs. William Cramer, soprano, and Howard Nichols, violin.

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I set while the other’s in use. | Don t expect too much of your IndooT loop or frame aerial. As previously explained, this is only for use in case you have a good radio frequency amplifier or have a set near a broadcasting station. Don't think, because the aerial la Inside the house, that you can shut out reception by closing the doors and windows. Ether, upon which the electromagnetic waves travel, permeats all substances, excepting possibly iron and steel, just as easily as it does air. If you want to shut out reception, throw your switch and disconnect yous set from the antenna circuit. SOURCE OF ANNOYANCE. [ We speak of the detector tube as oscillating when it Is so regulated to receive signals at a maximum audibility. | In this oscillating it throws off a small amount of energy which leaks through the receiving set into the aerial. These signals, thrown off by the aerial, wlil be heard by those near-by who may be tunning in to the same wave length. This is great so’urce of annoyance and requires skill in tunning to avoid it. TUNING IN. The problem of tuning in to the best advantage is one that each fan will have to work out for himself —by simply varying his dials until he discovers the selective spots. You may see a set receiving very satisfactorily at a friend's home or In a store and note the position of its dials. But if you try to make exactly the same arrangement on your own set it may not work at all. It all depends on the location of the receiving station, the height and length of thp aerial, the length of the lead-in and the size of the wire used. No rules can be laid down for specific tunings. It is mostly up to the operator himself. TICKLER. The plate variometer or “tickler” is the one part of the set that requires the most attention and skill in handling on account of its regenerative principal. ; But with a little practice one can soon learn Just where each variation is needed, and a maximum of efficiency in reception ils enjoyed. - l - I A THOUGHT FOR TODAY I The Lord will take pleasure In Hl* people: He will beautify the meek with halvatlon.—PsaJm 119:4. * | There is no beautlfier of complexion or form or behavior, like the wish to scatter Joy and not pain around us.—Ralph .Waldo Emerson. GETS NEW MEMBERS. Thirty-nine new members have been taken into the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce during the last thirty days, according to announcement made today by Mr. H. R. Packard.

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