Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1923 — Page 4

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NOT AN APPEAL, IT’S A DUTY | | ATTH, hope and charity, and the greatest of these is | a [ charity.” Modern interpretation of this Gospel passage ' would say that charity in this sense is meant for love. But after all, when the two words are considered, the similarity becomes evident. The ‘ "greatest ’ * thing needed in the •'world, statements agree, is “love.” Solicitors will soon be asking you for a subscription to the local community fund. The fund is the scientific plan of budgets applied to social service. Business men no longer are bothered by twenty-five to fifty different organizations asking for subscriptions to aid them in carrying on their work. One gift—that’B all Hundreds of business men, factory workers, professional leaders —all—will give their personal time for the annual canvass. It isn’t an appeal. It’s a duty. HELPING POPULAR EDUCATION Pp|ECREE Indianapolis alumni organizations of colleges sup- | I | ported by churches are seeking aid in campaigns to raise j endowment funds for their institutions. “Old De Pauw” rallies her loyal grads and others of the , idumnus to ship in for a $1,000,000 fund for new buildings and needed expansion. Butler University, on the eve of the greatest growth in its j history, is seeking $1,600,000. Its backers see an asset to Indianapolis that Cincinnati, with its municipal university, supported ‘by public taxes, has at a much greater cost. Northwestern University has opened a drive to raise $5,050,000 for endowment and new buildings. Education does not need advocates. This is the age of education. Church institutions, and there are many in Indiana, contribute an important part in providing ideals in education. “Every American citizen is entitled to a liberal education,” President Coolidge says in a proclamation for National Education Week, Nov. 18 to 24. “Without this, there is no guarantee for the permanence of free institutions, no hope of perpetuating self-government. Despotism finds its chief support in ignorance. Knowledge and freedom go hand in hand.” When Indianapolis alumni give their mites for expansion of education, they contribute far more to thq future welfare of the Nation than is realized.

, EARNING THE FIRST DOLLAR OOW did you earn your first dollar T Americans, proud of the fact that they are mostly “self-made" financially, are as • proud usually of their first earning. It meant an important event in a man's or a woman’s life. To earn one hundred cents through your very own effort and labor is the first financial step in life. The Marion County Bankers’ Association, in undertaking an educational campaign in the schools of Indianapolis, is performing aijf important function. Local bankers will give talks in schools on banking fundamentals, according to plans. Savings make industry possible. Savings make homes; prepare for education, assure comforts in old age. Blue sky laws protect the investor who puts his savings into productive use. But if it were not for savings, blue sky laws would not be heeded; investments would never be possible. The first dollar —that’s the lesson. The boy or girl who has never earned it should be pitied. WHAT WE EAT l|-v (O people acquire the characteristics of what they eatt 1 Yea, according to one scientific theory supported by many yegetarians. A lot bf us have the same notion lurking in the back pf our heads—as, for instance, the popular belief that feeding raw pteak to a prize fighter makes him ferociously aggressive. Possibly this theory will explain the sad, resigned facial expressions of so many of the patrons of the buttermilk bars. * On the other hand, last night in a restaurant on Illinois St. jwe observed a frail, timid-appearing little woman industriously Attacking a huge steak, French fries, salad, pie and the like. Over in the corner sat a big bruiser of a man, picture of health. jELe was eating craokers and milk. Considerable sensation has recently been caused among the World's anthropologists by F. P. Armitage’s book, which presents £he theory that raoial characteristics are determined by the diet consumed over many generations. * * Armitage claims that racial pigmentation or coloring is controlled by the amount of salt habitually consumed with fooa. pis theory is that the dark races could bleach themselves considerably by eating more salt for many generations. And so on, Armitage arguing that all the physical characteristics, peculiar to the various races and nationalities, are the result of ancestors’ diet. * If he is right, the eventual absence of alcohol from the American diet may work some startling changes in our descendants' appearances. ~ ■ ■■■■' ■ ■■■■ ■ "■ i ■■■ —— YOU see, the prize fighters have to be very careful or the taxers will get ’em. THOSE fighting lawyers who show their contempt of the New York divorce court are lucky in that they are not editors. THOSE Oklahoma combatants are together on one proposition, at least. They ail join in making the chaos that invites the doming of law. TWO DES MOINES bandits have been employing a horse and buggy in their holdr-up trips, and yet Senator Brookhart claims lowa is a progressive, up-to-the-minute State. j DURING the first .nine months of this year, 6,000 heads of families in the Los Angeles internal revenue district filed “intention" of sumption. Simply: The heads of the families “got religion" Hy reading that “A little wine is goocLfor the stomach’s sake."

FORD OFFER FOR SHOALS IS OUTLINED Formation of $10,000,000 Company Provided for in Lease, To answer the question that every otbefr person is asking:, “Just what is this Muscle Shoals proposition of Henry Ford's that they are talking- about again?" Robert Talley, of this paper's f Washington staff, has wditten three articles. giving the bare fact* about the power project. Here is the second article : By ROBERT TALLEY. |— ASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—“ My ofYyi fer * or Muscle Shoals still I 1 stands,” says Henry Ford, now debating with Secretary of War Weeks over the greatest man-made power project In the world. It 4s the only bid so far the Government has deemed worthy of consideration. Just what Is this Ford offer which has been dragging for two years? Ford’s bid, entered originally on July 8, 1921, and later placed in detailed form and signed by him at Dearborn, Mich., on May 31, 1922, is divided into two parts. The first contemplates a 100-year lease of the waterpower rights; the second, purchase of the existing plants and equipment. In brief, here are the terms: The Lease Ford will form a $10,000,000 company which shall begin immediately and complete for the Government—and at the Government's expense, but without profit to the company—the Wilson dam, locks, power houses, etc., capable of developing 600,000 horse power. The company shall lease Muscle Shoals fo*r 100 years from completion of this work and pay the Government, as annual rental, 4 per cent of the cost of the project. Upkeep of the dam shall be at the expense of the Government, but the Ford company will contribute $36,000 yearly to this purpose. Upkeep of the plants shall be at the expense of the company. The company shall construct, for the Government, dam No. 8, further up the Tennessee River, and Install a 260,000 horse power generating plant without profit to Itself. This shall be leased for a period equal to the term of the lease on the Wilson dam at ar annual rental of 4 per cent of the cost. The company shall pay $20,000 yearly toward upkeep of the dam, but will itself maintain the power plant, etc. To enable the Government to create a sinking fund to retire the cost of d&m No. 3, the company shall, after the fourth year, pay the Government $3,606 semi-annually for the lire of the lease; to retire the cost of Wilson dam, $19,868 semi-annually after the first seven years. The Purchase The company shall purchase nitrate plants No. 1 and 2, the Waco quarry, the Corgas steam plant on the Warrior River and its transmission line, together with all equipment, eto. For this tl company shall pay the Govemmeir. 5,000,000—0ne-fifth cash and the rest in ftur equal annual payments at 8 per oent deferred interest. The Agreement Continuously throughout the lease the company promises to manufacture nitrates for fertilizers at Nitrate Plant No. 2 at a profit not to exceed 8 per cent, said profit to be watched by a Government commission. In event of war, on five days’ notice, this plant will be turned over to the Government for manufacture of explosives. The company shall not be obligated to produce nitrates at Nitrate Plant No. 1. It may use this plant for any purpose it chooses. At expiration of the 100-year lease the company shall have preference over all others for renewal. "The above proposals," Ford’s offer says, "are submitted for acceptance a a whole and not In part." Since the offer was made the Qorgas steam plant has been sold to the Alabama Power Company and Congress has shown a disposition, without final action, hftwever, to cut the lease term to fifty years. Yet Ford now says his offer still stands, leaving the publio In doubt as to what effect these changes may hare had upon It.

Tongue Tips

Dr. William Hiram Foullcee, New York: “It is "Inspiring and challenging that the voices of the old world are calling to America. We cannot live to ourselves. We may well tremble leet we become the Pharisee of the nations. We are their banker and creditor; we need not become their despair." Rudyard Kipling, author: “The first use man made of the| power of speech, when he evolved from the monkey, was to tell a lie. Most unfortunately we have no record of the meeting of the world's first and second liars, but from what we know of their descendants today they were probably of opposite sex, and married at once and begat a . numerous progeny.” Ernest Harold Baynes, naturalist: “Since the discovery of anesthetics, there has been a continuous lessening of the amount of pain suffered by vivisected animals until today only about two per cent, suffer any serious discomfort. Within the past „ fifty ye-nrs and chiefly through experiments on living animals, medicine and surgery have made more progress than during all the preceding ages.” Corra Harris, authoress; ,r v( T e women seem to diminish the grept virtues by practicing them. A sublimely virtuous woman attracts nobody’s attention. Virtue is so much expected of her that it is commonplace. But I reckon a sublipiely tuous man wduld be a phenomenon In the mortal world.” Rev. Albert Pierce, Boston; “The Klan says this Is a white man’s country. It may be, but just because a man is not white he ought not to be denied the position to which his virtues entitle him. The Klan Is wrong as regards racial standards and It 'ls wrong going about In hoods and gowns.” Dad in Home Study “Dad, will you translate this pass age for me?” “I can’t my son. It wouldn’t be right.” “How do you know It be until you've tried?”—Judge.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

UNUSUAL PEOPLE _____ Makes College Popular

By NEA Service LPINE, Texas, Oct. 25. —Last May Horace W. Morelock bev came president of Sul Rbss State' Teachers’ College hlere. Today this institution counts almost twice the number of students it had

last sprmg. The credit goes to Morelock, say his admirers, for he brought pep and popularity to the institution. Morelock worked his way up to college leadership, from the lowly position of country school teacher. Evep<ljjrlng his student days he worked to meet expenses. Now he’s not only president of Sul Ross, but he’s

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identified with the higher educational work of all Texas, writes for educational and social magazines and has deep Interest In community social and educational welfare.

?7oM SIMS I-/- -/- Says

iHY do they make courthouses look so much like churches? “ A Juror was caught asleep in Detroit • • • A Frenchman has written 23,000 words on a post card. We don’t know why It wasn’t a Scotchman. • • • Thousands of timid travelers will enjoy learning a Pullman porter was shot In Illinois. • • • National woman’s champ says golf takes an iron nerve, when she really meant a midiron nerve. • • • Milwaukee auto salesman’s wife got a divorce. Now she will have a chance to talk some herself. • • • Boston Judge rules a man who sells booze is not idle. We rule very few of them are. • • • The nickel shine has returned in Boston. It reports seeing nothing of the nickel cigar. • • • Los Angeles man has invented a sanitary cigar when what we need is sanitary chewing tobacco. • • • Ford may accept prohibition nomination for President Bottles are a great evil to Fords. • • • Man in Knoxville, Tenn., was not his brother's keeper. Gave him to cope for a $25 reward • • • While raiding a bath house in Detroit a clean haul was made. • • • Evansville (Ind.) woman says unimportant things make girls leave home. May mean men. • • • American arrested in Rorru* When In Rome don’t as Romans don’t • • • Please pay attention. Eighty in a fishing contest caught only one pound and it was in the Seine. • • • Chicago Y. W. C- A- save wear blue to make men propose. And at times, we say, act blue. • • • A Los Angeles taxi barber shaves them en route to work, but taking poison would be painless. * • • Frenchman wanted to fight a duel over a tax dispute Let us hope It doesn't become stylish here. • • • While an eye for an eye may be all right, the dancing couples demand a neck for a neck. • • • A hnge cliff, on whiota we hope medicine ads were painted, has been blown away In Mexico.

Indiana Sunshine

Jamee Shaner of Shelby villa isn't so sure it always pays to advertise. He advertised for a wife and was married. Then ha asked for a divorce, but the Shelby Circuit Court Judge decided Shaner must stick to his contract. The woman of Upland have nominated a ticket for the town election, Nov. 6. It will be known as the Independents. They chose a four-leaf clover as their emblem. "Brothers, we’ll Just wait until they finish that fox-trot across the way,” said a Ft. Wayne minister as the synoopated strains of dance music from a neighboring hall fall, upon the ears of his members. When the Joss music subaided the minister continued his sermon. But officers later closed the hall and the management faces a charge of conducting dances on Sunday. L. D. Thomas of Ft. wiyne walked into a shoe-shining parlor and asked a colored bootblack to maka his shoes "shine like a nigger’s heel.” An argument followed. Both were arrested and Thomas was fined $2 and costs for disorderly conduct. A squash twenty Inches long and twelve Inches In diameter was raised by Frank Douglas, a farmer of near Brazil. It Is the largest ever grown In the epunty. School children playing along a road near Kokomo found two- bottles of booze in a ditch. Later other children reported watching a “portly gentleman” make a vain search. It was a lot of fun for the kids, but a sad story for the customer.

A Thought

Every way of a man la right in his own eyes: but the Lord wondereth the hearts.—Prov. 21:2. • * * T lr “"“I HE proof of a thing’s being right Is that it has power over t—thf heart;'that !.: excites us, wins us, or'->hjsipa us.—Luskin.

MARSHALL ARGUED ON BOTH SIDES ♦ Noted Chi&f Justice of U, S. Court Upheld Veto Power While 'on Bench, Dowell Mellett, of this paper s Wash-. ington staff, has written a series of articles giving the outstanding incidents on the Supreme Court's rise to power. This is the fifth article. BY LOWELL MELLETT SHE first assertion by the United States Supreme Court of a right to declare acts of Congress Unconstitutional was made In 1803. It was likewise the last :-:uch assertion for forty-eight years. Just at the close of John- Adams’ administration the retiring Congress rushed through an act creating a large number of additional judicial offices. Adams filled them by appointment. , Among the number were four justices of the peace for the District of Columbia, including one William Marbury. The commissions, however, making these appointments good had not yet been issued when Thomas Jefferson took office as President. He Instructed James Madison, his secretary of state, not to Issue the commissions. The preceding Congress had provided that the Supreme Court could Issue writs of mandamus to any person holding office under the authority of the United States. Decision Held Two Years William Marbury applied for a mandamus to compel the delivery of his commission by Madison. The 8u preme Court did not hand down Its decision for two years. The opinion, wrlttsi by John Marshall, was that Marbury's commission was not revokable and that to withhold his commission was violative of a vested right. This disposed of the Marbury case, but Marshall, newly become chief Justice, did not stop there. He proceeded to declare the Act of Congress under which Marbury had brought so tlon required the Supreme Court to do something which It had no authority under the Constitution to do. This act of Congress, hs held, was therefore unconstitutional and void. The John Marshall theory was expressed. In part, as follows: “The power* of the legislature are defined and limited: ajol that those powers may not be mistaken or forgotten the constitution is written. • • • The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers Is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are Imposed and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It Is a propoeitlon too plain to lie contested, that the constitution controls any leeIslaUve act repugnant to it; or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these sltemstives there is no middle ground. The constitution Is either a superior paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it • • • . Certainly all those who hare framed written constitutions contemplate thm as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation and consequently, tha theorr of every such government must be that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution. Is void. "This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution and is consequently to be considered by this court as one of the fundamental principles of our soci< ty. It is not therefore™ he lost sight of In the further consideration of this subject. "If an act of the legislature, repug nant to the constitution Is void, does It notwithstanding ite invalidity, bind the courts and oblige tbem to give it effect? Or in other words, though it be now lsw. does it constitute a rule as operative as If it was a law? This would be to Overthrow In fact what was established In theory, and would seem at first view an absurdity too gross to bs Insisted Upon.” see "So. If a law be In opposition to the constitution: if both the law and the 1 constitution apply to a partteluw case, so that the court must either decide that csc oonformahlv to the ’sw. disregarding the constitution, or conformably to the constitution, disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the csno. This is of the very essence of Judicial duty.” Shows Pleading Ability There Is the doctrine of Judicial supremacy stated as well, perhaps, as It ever has been stated. Whatever hi* opponents may have though of the tall, gaunt Chief Justice, with his, brilliant black eyes set In his re-’ niarkably small head and his stub- ; bom, tenacious expression, they never disputed his ability as a pleader. They might declare he sometimes based his decisions on very thin ground, but agreed once having set up his promises he pursued them to a logical finish and for this they admired both his courage and his cleverness. Listen to how logically the same John Marshall, before he was appointed to the Supreme Court, argued the other side of the question! "The legislative authority of any country can only be restrained by lta Own constitution. Thla la a prtnclpU that springs from the very nature of *odety ana the Judicial authority can have no right to question the validity of a -law unlese euch a jurisdiction is expressly given by the constitution. It is not necessary to Inquire how the Judicial authority should act if the legislature were evidently to violate any of the laws of On/l: but property it the creature of eirlr society and subject, in all respects, to the disposition and control of civil Institutions.”

Heard in the Smoking Room

mTiE furniture salesman took the floor. “I’ve been out planting the newly-wed stuff. You fellows think June is the matrimonial month. Well, it Isn't. “The marriage license column takes th< biggest Jump of the year in December, gradually increasing for the last two or three days before Christmas day until the number of licenses issued on Dep. .24 is greater than on

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. V You cm ret an annrtr to any question of tact or Information by writlnr to the Indlanapolla Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 Sw York Are.. Washington, D. 0., enclosing 8 cents In stamp* for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be riven, nor can extended research be undertaken. x All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What instrument attains the highest note? The violin, on which one can play eight full octaves. Ie a dirigible lighter than air? If so, how le It kept on the ground when not In uae? A dirigible when Inflated with helium gae le lighter than air and when not flying le anchored to the ground. 'When released It rises; to reach greater height* ballast le thrown overboard: to descend gas Is let out. Horisont&l rudders give the ZR-1 a limited range In ascending and descending. When was the office of commissioner of the general land office created? April 25, 1812, by an act of Congress. On May 7. 1812, the first commissioner was sworn Into office. It was first under the Jurisdiction' of the Treasury Department, but was transferred to the Department of the Interior after the establishment of the latter. In what States is the largest remaining supply of softwood timber? Washington, Oregon and California, which contain more than half of all the saw timber of the country and more than two-thirds of the nation's entire supply of coniferous woods. What is the annual destruction Sie to lightning fires In the United atea? It i estimated to be as much as 120,000,000. In one State alone, lowa, during the four years ending with 1822, the loaa as given by the State fin* marshal was $1,888,704, of which 61 par cent was due to fires In farm barna * Has artificial lightning been produced? * Charles P. StelrnnSta, in an experiment March 8, 1923, succeeded in generating artificial lightning; the bolt carried an energy of 1,000,000 horse power, about one flvs-hundredth of the energy of a natural lightning bolt, as estimated by Stelnmetz. The artificial bolt lasted for one hundred thousandth of a second. What are the salaries of the mayors of New York city and Chicago? New York, $15,000 per annum; Chicago, SIB,OOO. What are thp measurements of the ZR-1? Length, 860 feet; diameter of gas tag, 78 feet; height, 96 feet; gas ca- r parity, 2,150,000 cubic feet; speed, 60-' 70 miles per hour; engines, six 800 horse power; crew, 80 men; craning distance without stopping, 6,000 miles; total horse power,' 1,800.

any day in June, the so-called month of weddings. “I suppose Christmas brides are the result qf the best season of the year for courting—summer, with Its long evenings, front porches, pleasant drives, vacation acquaintances, mooiy light walks—and ail that. “The ‘June bride’ is the result of winter Indoor work, but I kn6w there are more weddings In October, November and December than at Easter or in May and June."

Said the Cat to the Canary

i' Loyalties

By BERTON BRALEY Asa man can love the ranges And the peaks that pierce the sky, With a love that never changes, That shall hold him till he die; Asa man can love the spaces Where the desert stretches bare, Or the cool dim forest places And the fragrant plney air. Asa man can love the ocean And the salt wind blowing free Over all the troubled motion Os the everlasting sea; Asa man can love the wonder Os the lazy tropic night, Or-the floes that crash and thunder Underneath the Northern Light Asa man can love the human Real devotion of a friend, Asa man can love a woman With a love that knbws no end; So a man can love the gritty, Grimy brick and steel and stone, And the crowds which fill a city That he's proud to call his own! (Copyright 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Family Fun What Fur? “I want to get a muff,” she •said. “Yes'm,” said the caleaman. "What fur?” The young lady looked surprised. “Why,” she said, “to keep my hands warm, of course!*’ —Pittsburgh Christian Advocate. Tommy’s Affection “Ah! What a beautiful sight—kissing his baby brother!” “He Isn’t kissing him. He's blowing him up. The little nuisance swallowed Tommy's new balloon!"—Judge. When Old Maids Moot “I’ll never marry,'' said Miss Passay, with emphasis. "Perhaps not,” replied Miss Snapp, "but fsyou certainly' have put up a gallant fight.”—Philadelphia Ledger. The Family Baby "What a cute little baby I What la he saying?” “I don’t know. His mother carries the code book.”—Passing Show.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 35,1928.

What Editors Are Saying

Lincoln (Lafayette Journal and Courteri David Lloyd George, former premier of England, speaking at Indianapolis, endeared himself to the people of the Middle Weet by voicing and adopting for world use the Lincoln Idea; by o&lllng for Lincoln leadership in the world crisis, and by asserting the need for what he called the "Llneoh. touch—conciliation, not vengeance*" in dealing with a prostrate foe. Relief (Frankfort Evening News) Maybe those candidates who are so anxious to relieve the fanner will be rightly understood. They have been relieving the fanner on the same principle of the shell game man. Pay Rolls (Michigan City Dispatch) . The Government has gathered statistics showing that one out of every twelve adults- in this big country of ours is on the public pay rolls. And yet every legislative body Is busy passing new laws and creating more offices to further milk the public. Where will it all end? Ended (Lebanon Reporter) When a Crawfordsville man suggests that women’s clothes are costing too much, his wife puts on the short skirt #fie wore last year and parades down to her husband's office. That ends the discussion of women's apparel in that home. Wilson (Newcastle Courier) It is reported that Democratic lead ers are “stunned" t>y the report that Woodrow Wilson Is in a receptive mood for the 1924 presidential nomination. No need to be surprised. The man who tried to dictate to the whole Nation in 1919 will not hesitate to try to dictate to a minor part in 1924.