Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1923 — Page 4

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SERVICE WINS OVER POLITICS lOVERNOR McCray has made a wise choice in the appointment of Frank Wampler as a member of the public service commission to succeed Glenn Van Auken. The choice is wiser, however, from the standpoint of the public service than it is from a political standpoint. Wampler is a utility man. He has made public utilities a life study. For years he was connected with the telephone company, resigning some time ago as vice president and general manager. But Wampler resigned because he did not desire to be a party to rate increases. At least, so it was reported. There is no reason to believe he will not have the interest of the public at heart. He is not a lawyer and probably will be interested more in common sense operation of utilities and common sense application of the law than he will be in technicalities and inconsequential details. But the Governor and Wampler have a hard job before them in convincing the public an ex-telephone man will not have leanings toward the interest of utilities rather than the public. Unjust critics of the publie service commission, of whom there are many, are certain to use that fact against him, regardless of his record as a public official. On the other hand, Wampler, because of his attitude toward the telephone increase, is not popular with the telephone company and probably not with other utilities, and utilities are a powerful political influence. Thus the appointment is poor politics, but one that is for the good of the service. Both the Governor and Wampler are to be congratulated. JOB FOR ACCOUNTS BOARD IS The Times pointed out several days ago, there appears to be a sad lack of efficiency in the office of the Marion County auditor. Two taxpayers have demanded, under the law, that the county commissioners sue Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, for $72,000, said to have been paid out illegally. The Times does not know whether this money actually was spent illegally. That is a matter for the courts to decide. But we do know that it has been necessary for a court to mandate the auditor to pay a bill resulting from repairs at the county hospital for the insane and that there have been other financial difficulties in the auditor’s office. It begins to appear that the State board of accounts should cease for a space to check up shortages at the State House and make a report on affairs at the courthouse.

THE PRESIDENT’S FIRST BIG JOB ALVIN COOLIDGE has faith in destiny. “What circumstance,” he asked in a speech July 4, •1916, “put the young George Washington under the military instruction of a former army officer and then gave him years of •training to lead the Continental forces? What lengthened out ;the days of Benjamin Franklin that he might negotiate the Jreaty of Paris? What influence sent the miraculous voice of •Daniel Webster from the outlying settlements of New Hampshire ;to rouse the land with his appeal for liberty and union? And 'finally, who raised up Lincoln, to lead, to inspire, and to die, that the opening assertion of the Declaration might stand at last ifulfilled?” So, in his own case, may he not inquire: “Why was I drawn from the narrowing duties and influences ;of a single self-contained State to spend a long period of preparation at the center of national events, if not, indeed, of world •events, before the greatest authority entrusted to a single man !was placed in my hand?” • Only time can answer this for the new chief executive, but it does seem as if the reason has been written clearly across the ■whole face of national events. It does seem that the whole sig;nificance of the history whose making we have been watching ■is that America can no longer live apart in selfish isolation from the rest of the world. To the claims of our better ideals, the pressure of one economic fact after another has been added to show that America must take her full-sized, man’s share in the work of the world. Europe, without the stabilizing influence of America verges nearer and nearer a catastrophe of greater dimensions than that of the recent World War. America must help avert it—or America must be dragged in. America, and America’s chief executive, must have a vision of her proper part in world affairs, if world tragedy is to be avoided. Perhaps, then, it is destiny that has put Calvin Coolidge where he could acquire this vision. Had he been called directly to the presidency from his own restricted realm of thought in Massachusetts, he might have been impelled to rely on the in-ward-turned vision of his State’s senior Senator, Mr. Lodge, for understanding in the field of foreign affairs. But almost three years in the midst of world problems, while yet free from participation in their details, has given the new President a chance to see America’s duty from a broader and mere enlightened point of view. That is the new President’s first big: job in office. SPARE US, CONGRESS, SPARE US N r ”“""]OT a few statesmen are just now urging President Cal to call Congress in special session. We can only hope for the best, as the President has given no intimation of his intentions. The country has ills a-plenty to bear as the matter stands. It is getting its second wind and time, the greatest healer of all kinds of afflictions, is employing the congressional vacation period to considerable advantage. Give time a chance to finish its job. Special sessions never have been prolific of benefit to the ’country in the past. Such a session now would be no different ifrom the others, unless it were worse. That is a proposition worthy of consideration.All the logic of the situation leads to the conclusion that the •best thing for the country is to insure it against the disturbing .influences that are part and parcel of untimely legislative ses•sions. A regular session of Congress is enough, God knows. •* FEELING in France is said to be tense. That constitutes •normalcy over there. • • MAYBE that German cabinet could not find enough trucks in which, to Raul home their salaries. *

INDUSTRY IN ENGLAND IS STAGNANT Silent Factories Tell of American and German Competition, By JOHN W. RAPER mN ENGLAND: When you are in Yorkshire (principal. cities Sheffield and Leeds), and in Lancashire (principal cities Liverpool and Manchester), you begin to get some idea of England’s economic problems. If Ohio were as densely populated as Yorkshire, it would have about 25,000.000 inhabitants. If it were densely populated as Lancashire, it would have 75,000.000. It can be seen easily that in such a country there are problems of which an American has never dreamed. The tourist either goes around England's great industrial section or he passes through in a hurry. Y’ou find many American buyers and salesmen, and occasionally an American who has been imported to introduce American investments in English factories. The workers in this section, spinners, weavers, miners, workers in iron and steel furnaces and mills and light metal factories, are not so badly off as the workingman in the Clyde district, but they have been in bad straits ever since the armistice was signed. Industry Stagnant Old men tell me that never within their memory has such stagnation been experienced. Factories that are running have only a fraction of prewar forces, and many of them are operated on part-time, even with the reduced force. Many have been closed down for a long time. The English government figures show Industrial workers to number 10.000.000 and of this number 1,300,000 to be unemployed. All authorities add to this not less than 300,000 workers, of whom the government has no record. The workers show*not the slightest interest in America except that bred by fear of America's mass production. One and all, they are deep in despondency. “Oh, we’ll never do business here again,” they said. “We can’t compete." Grandfather Built It

A factory building more than half a century old Is quite the usual thing, buildings a century old are common. Father or grandfather may have erected the building and installed the machinery. The Englishman is reluctant to scrap either. All over England and Scotland you find German goods underselling the home product. Let me glv® two or three typical lnsar.ces. The law prevents the Germans from selling in Great Britain fish caught in the North Sea. So the Germans make their catches off Iceland and sell into Aberdeen and undersell the Scotch fishermen. German mill owners went into Bradford and made heavy purchases of merino wool, shipped it to Germany, wove it into cloth and sent the cloth beck to Bradford and undersold the English mills there. German razor makers sell razors in Sheffield. And nearly everybody in Sheffield buys the German blade In preference to the one made at home. Next: Millions of British workers live on “dole,’’ or unemployment allowance.

Science

What Is a straight line? The answer used to be “the short est distance between two points.” At present science does not know whether this is the answer or not. If Einstein is right, there Is no such thing as a straight line, so far as we know. According to Einstein, what we know as straight lines really are curved lines. If a straight line is drawn on the earth and is continued ss a straight line it will go all round the world and come back to the point from which it started. It Is in reality a curved line, says Epstein. The earth on which we live is finite; it does not go on and on forever. Eir.stein says space is the same and that the ray of light from a star goes on until it goes around th® universe and comes back to its starting point.

Observations

Hiram said he went to Europe an American and came back an American. That’s a safe way to avoid Ellis island, anyhow. A third party may avail. If It isn't so at the finish. My! My! Congresswoman Winifred Huck. par pacifist, is going to raise her son to be a man-o-warsman. Mussolini’s plea to his Italian fellow citizens to produce more castor oil suggests that he. too. has a plan for curing the ills of Europe. Asa matter of fact, the ultimate consumer's tireless pursuit of happiness has all other non-stop records beaten to a bye-bye. How would it do to have England, France and Germany Invite the good offices of Turkey? Those ottomansitters get somewhere. “Next Congress Will Consider Taxpayers.” says a headline. New Idea, but good.

Heard in Smoking Room

mHE talk In the smoker had turned to peculiar verdicts rendered by juries, in the Arbuckle case, for instance, when a Memphis lawyer related: “One time, over in an Alabama backwoods county, one Jim Smith was put on trial for stealing a hog, pretty near a capital offense In those parts. There was no doubt about Jim’s guilt and the jury promptly announced a verdict in these words: “ ‘We find Jim Smith guilty of hogstealing in the first degree.' "The verdict riled old Judge Park’s

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SIMS ] I Says Fight between presidential candi dates will go the full fifteen rounds. • * * Make a list of cuss words you use on hot weather. Many can be used for cold weather soon. * * * The June bride tells us he showed much better judgment in marrying than she did. • • • Banks are .being guarded so closely a man has to work up to cashier before robbing one. * • * People who know an aviator always grab the paper to see if he was the one who fell. • • • The mad college graduate has learned the man who printed his diploma makes more than he does. ** * * Some write long letters home about the fun. Those having the fun have no time to write. • • • Our farmers are not even making enough money to buy gold bricks. • * Isn’t it funny who enters beauty contests? * • • What’s in a name? Flypaper was originated by Hugo Thum. We get our thumbs and fingers in it. • • Dr. Koo is China’s new minister of foreign affairs. It is liable to run Koo Kookoo. • • • Jim Jeffries, former heavyweight champ, is preaching. Jack Dempsey had better go to church. • * • Harvard professor tells how to keep from being hit by lightning. Best way is tell the truth. • • • Dayton (Ohio) man has invented a cycleplane. It carries only one to be killed or Injured. • • • Cincinnati judge complimented a woman on shooting her husband. She only did what others do. • • • Hunt the brighter things. Canta loupes would cost more if they were as big as watermelons. • • • Healthy girls getting tanned •will find it hard looking pale and interesting next winter. • • • Many will be -sorry to learn a reformer says he enjoys life.

What Editors Are Saying

Jobs (Decatur Democrat) Washington is filled with poliltlcians big and little now. The little fellows are Job hunting and the big fellows are too. but on a larger scale. They are trying to find out just which way the wind is going to blow for the presidency. They overlook the fact that the selection wiU not be mad® for nearly a year and that in the meantime the things which transpire and the methods used will have much to do with the question of selecting leaders for the campaign next year. TuT (Evansville Courier) Six Egyptian students are touring thj? Unied States on a journey of instruction. They should be able to learn a good deal about King Tutankhamen styles. Probably (Kokomo Dispatch) The Carnegie Foundation is going to spend $5,000,000 in exploring the ruins of Chichen-Itza in Yucatan. A lot of money—hut it may be worth that much to keep a vanished civilization from being a total loss. Will some philanthropic institution spend a fortune to rediscover ours a few thousand years hence? 'Life' (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Whitfield, the murderer, told the curious crowd gathered at the rail road station to see him off to the penitentiary, that he “will he back before long.” And the unfortunate part of it is that what he said may be the truth. Too many times life sentences mean only a few years. Law (Lebanon Reporter) Another man has fallen, this time at Anderson, in an effort to enforce the prohibition law. The circumstances are perhaps hardly sufficent to justify the killing of the law violator, but law violators must learn that they are not above the law. This man. now dead, had resolved that no officer should search his place and he would not be taken for his law violations. In the melee that followed when the officers came, he was shot down In proof of the fact that law is superior to man. Some will never learn that they cannot violate the law of a republic and live and prosper. The law is a hard master, when it gets into action, and men fall before it once it lifts its hand.

A Thought

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy- throne; mercy and truth shall go before thy face.—Ps. 89:14. I . GOOD man doubles the length I of his existence; to have lived L _J so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.—Martial.

dignity and he flayed that jury, verb ally. He told them that their verdict, unanimously arrived at, must assess the value of the stolen property, must be In correct legal form, and that there was r.o such thing as ‘degree’ to pig-stealing. “The jury blinked and retired again, taking pen, ink and paper. They hung for three hours over the meaning of ‘legal form,’ but finally agreed and the clerk of the court read this verdict: “ ‘We. the jeurey, pusilanimously find defendant stilty In the sum of 1 dollar and a 14 In favor of the hog.’ “

WATSON MAY .BE NAMED G. O. P. WHIP Hoosier Senator Aspires to Job and Appears Willing to Work, By JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent lycTT] ASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Senator “Jim” Watson’s most ardent wish may soon be granted. Senator" Jim” may rise to an official position In the United States Senate. He may become the whip on the Republican side —may, provided. Senator Cummins of lowa Will be president of the Senate, if he so desires. Cummins was president pro tern, while Vice President Coolidge was the official presiding officer. With Coolidge gone, Cummins is destined to sueeed him under the old rules of seniority, rules which rarely are set aside. But an effort is being quietly made by the Republican leaders to get Cummins to step aside and if Cummins acquiesces then Watson will have his opportunity. Cummins May Resign Cummins is chairman of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, probably the most important committee In the Senate in so far as the next session of Congress Is concerned. He is not physically strong: in fact it was rumored at one time he would resign from the Senate because of ill health. A similar nroposifion was discussed during the last Congress and Watson always was Inside the discussion. It got no support then because of a reluctance to put it before Cummins and because some of the Republican leaders were none too friendly with Watsoni" But now it is being discussed openly and within Cummins' hearing. Watson Aspires The plan then was to have Senator Curtis of Kansas become president pro tern, and at the same time relinquish his post as Republican whip. Watson aspired to the job of Repub lican whip. And the game proposition is now being made with some reservations. . Watson has been determined to go to the front as a recognized power. He likes it. He has assumed the rank of leader even over the opposition of other Republican Senators. He will not he denied this time without , causing some trouble And then he | has an advantage in that the old : guard in the Senate has few men who are so ambitious as to seek a job that calls for real work.

Trom the J Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE

Stage Fright Radio oratory talking V n t° the broadcasting frequently get stage-flight. It isn’t due to awe of their invisible audienee. Victims of rad'o stage fright say they lose their nerve because of a sudden sensation that they are alone in space, foolishly talking to themselves. with no friendly answer such as comes back over the telephone wires. Courage is a matter of confidence in self. That’s why. in regular life tb® cock sure man of average or even inferior ability frequently outdistances the super man semi-paralyzed by timidity. The first essential to any kind of accomplishment is a firm belief that you can do it in spite of any obstacles Glands Down in Argentina the white-coat-ed doctors attempted to rejuvenate Yrigoyen, famous race horse by transplanting glands into him. Yrigoyen came to life so decidedly that he hurst a blood vessel and died of Internal hemorrhage. Nature exacts pay-ment in full for everything she gives us. Gland tinkering benefits in one way and takes its toll in another. The endocrine fountain of youth is full of wormwood flavoring. A cure frequently- is worse than the disease. Cool Put your electric fan on the floor and open windows from top as well as bottom, to get best results, suggests Julius Wodiska, veteran manufacturer. His theory, and it's logical, Is that the fan usually is placed high enough above the floor to stir up and force downward the Impurities that have risen celliiigward with the warm ■ air. Even better: Put the fan at an open window so it works backward as a blower, sucking fresh air from outdoors. Leave a window open from the top to permit escape of hot air and poisons.

For Mother’s Little Boy. “What is your dear little boy going to be when he grows up?” ‘I don’t know. Judging from the wall paper and everything else he touches I think maybe he’s going to be a finger-print expert.”—Washington Star. Mother "Calls” Father. “What! Five dollars a lesson for your bridge teacher? You'll ruin me!” “Nonsense! You paid lots r ore than that learning to play poker among your friends.”—Judge. A Norwegian is said to posses a sixth sense of discovering hidden or lost objects. There are two bird monuments in the world, one in Salt Lake City and the other in Italy. Caterpillar can eat twice Its own weight in leaves in twenty-four hours. Wink occupies about one-sixth of a second. Natives of interior Africa hoard cattle as their wealth. New invention is a powerful electric light attached to lifeboats and automatically switched on as the boat touches the water. Two-pronged forks were introduced into England in 1608.

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Indiana Sunshine

Muncle fair-goers stared in astonishment when an elderly couple appeared in the crowd dressed In the garb of a quarter century ago and proceeded to take in the sights. Evidently they had driven in behind old Dobbin, for, grasped tightly in his hand, the man carried a buggy whip, a relic of the days when this was necessary to keep the “gad” from being stolen. Three out of five cars In Pike County are Fords, many from five to ten years old, a report of the county board of reviews shows. Probably more and larger family reunions have been held in Indiana this year than ever before. The popularity of the family gathering is said tc be due to the general use of the automobile. A spinning wheel in the Samuel Lawrence family of Columbus since 1802. handed down from generation to generation, went out of the family when it was sold to a neighbor for 40 cents at a public auction. A strange animal said to resemble a eat as large as a shepherd dog. having a long, curved tail and yellow stripes, and reported to emit screams of the blood-curdling variety, is en gaged in giving the people of Tipton a good scare. They hope it is only a tiger or panther.

Animal Facts

In China they- catch fish with birds instead of with nets, lines and hooks. The birds are cormorants and they are trained from nestlings to do the fishing. With a line fastened to a leather anklet they are taken out in the boat. Each boat has a 'crew” of 10 or 12 birds that plunge into the water and dive after fish which they store in their roomy gullets. After every capture the cormorants are drawn in and forced to disgorge. Usually a strap is fastened around the cormorant's neck so that the catch may not pass below the eleutlc gullet which Is capable of holding several fish at a time. W. C. Redfleld writes to the Outlook that, when the Mississippi river misbehaves, its yvaters spread out over adjacent territory and millions of fish go with them. When the waters subside. the fish are left stranded. The federal fisheries service send out seining parties, which follow down the diminishing river and rescue the fish from the pools and either restore them to the streams or distribute them to other waters. In 1919 more than 100.000,090 fish were thus saved. Twenty fish hatcheries could not produce fish equal In number and size to those rescued. Where Father Buys. "When are you going to Invest in anew suit of clothes?’ “Not. until the dogs stop barking at me.”—Buffalo Express.

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Family Fun

Making It Easy. In their crosscountry honeymoon trip in the fli\-ver. Jack and Betty were relieved to find that Hickville boasted a hotel. It wasn't such a much of a hotel, though and in the room asigned to them they found the screens rusty and full of holes. During the middle of the night Betty- awoke to hear her husband moving restlessly- about the place. “What In the world are you doing?” she demanded. “Taking out these screens so the bugs can fly in without making so blame much fuss trying to find the holes.’ replied Jack. —American Legion Weekly. Sister’s Fellow Qualifies. "So you think you could make my daughter happy?” "I’m sure of it, sir. Why, all I have to do la Just look at her, and she nearly dies laughing.”—Judge. Where Pa Tumbled. “Look here! I laid a ten-dollar bill on the table a few minutes ago and now it’s gone.” "My dear John, you forgot the parliamentary rule. You told me yourself that when a bill is laid on the table it Is seldom heard of again."—Boston Transcript. Little Son Posted. “What does repartee mean, dad?” “It usually means an insult in a dress suit.”—London By-stander. Saved By Ma’s Doctor. “Now Violet, can you give me any reason why I should not punish you for being naughty?” “Yes, Ma. Doctor said you weren’t to take any vi’lent exercise.” —Toronto Telegram.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington . Bureau. 1322 N Y. Avenue. Washington, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical. lagal. love and marriage advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. How is Peruvian bark, (or Cinchona) Imported into the U. S. and prepared? It is imuorted in large dry pieces. It is first run through a disintegrator which cuts it in small pieces. Next it is run through an attrition mill, and ground coarse or fine, as desired. It is the n screened through different size screenings and sold in its powdered form. What can one do to avoid the alkali streak forming around the edge or top of the water in an aquarium? There is no way to avoid it. The only thing to do is to wash off the streak every- few days with a little dry salt held in a small cloth. The little salt that gets in the --ater will not hurt the fish. If the aquarium i= a square one. the film can be scraped off with a small knife, or an ald safety razor blade. When did the custom of observing Friday as a fast day originate? Very early in the history of the Christian church. The exact date 1 a not known. When can a mail carrier be retired on pension? He must have a minimum service record of fifteen years: must be either 65 years of age. or must be disabled. The pension varies according to length of service, and the salary which he has received. Civil service employe;! who have SIOO per month for the last ten years of service are given a pension of S6O per month. How many states contain important areas of forest land? Thirty-nine states, but only twentyseven of them have organized state forest protection on a more or less adequate scale, according to the new booklet issued recently by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. Is the abbreviation “Miss” followed by a period? Miss is not an abbreviation, and therefore is not followed by a period. What is a filet mignon? This is a French expression for email pieces of beef tenderloin, served with sauce. .Give me some simple remedies for tired feet. First, wear comfortable shoes, and have several pairs on hand so that y-ou can change often. Soak the feet in warm salt water, or water with lemon juice in it. An easier way Is to rub the soles of the feet with lemon.

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