Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-ln-CMef ROT W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BUHRMAN, Editor WM. A. MAIBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers Alliance • • * Client of the T'nited Press, United News, United Financial, NLA Service, Scrlpps-Paine Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 25-29 S Meridian Street. Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Meek. • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

AN UN-AMERICAN PRECEDENT T r ~~ TIE policy of our Government is supposed to be one of nonintervention in the internal affairs of foreign countries. Comes along a revolution in Mexico. And State Department and other administration officials proceed to make-Tiash of that policy. First, the Mhtr Department sells rifles, ammunition and airplanes to President Obregon. The deal is even rushed through so that Congress is given no opportunity to make objection. Deeds, not words, put us on record here. Then State Secretary Hughes in a statement made public through another State Department, the Justice Department, says the State Department does not look upon the shipment of arms by private firms to Mexico for the insurgent De La Huerta with favor and they are against the Government’s policy. Obviously, it. isn’t simply the shipment of arms to Mexico that is against this Governments policy, because the Government is shipping arms there for Obregon. Plainly what Hughes means by “against this Government’s policy,” is helping De La Huerta instead of Obregon. And if that isn’t taking an active official interest in Mexico’s internal affairs, what would be? The precedent that Mr. Hughes and other agents of the Administration seek to establish is that American policy is to be on the side of the existing governments and against revolutions, at least so far as the American continent is concerned. The precedent is vicious and un-American. It is also foolish and short-sighted. The fact is that with regard to the present Mexican trouble this newspaper believes by and large Obregon and his associates stand for liberalism and the interests of the common people of Mexico, and that De La Iluerta stands for special interests and against progress. But that has nothing to do with the principle involved, which is that our Government has no business taking sides officially with either of the warring Mexican parties. ANOTHER FAT BILL SHEODORE ROOSEVELT was right when he said the public was slow to fight. But it does fight when harassed to the extreme. Hoosier motorists have been willing to contribute their share in the cost of maintaining State roads and of building new ones. But the present law more than doubling the former fees, 66 2-3 to 300 per cent, is regarded as the proverbial last straw. If the State highway commission had an Aladdin lamp to rub, it probably would wish: “Give us eight or nine millions a year and we’ll keep up, improve and build your roads.” Total revenue, as provided by the 1923 General Assembly, to the State highway commission, will provide this sum, according to official estimates: License fees, $7,500,000; gasoline tax collection, $4,000,000; and inheritance tax collection, $900,000. Hoosiers will pay $12,400,000 in taxes for one year and that despite the fact Indiana has more improved roads than any other State in the Union!

UTILITIES AND 1924 POLITICS YY/ HAT factor the status of the public service commission will W have upon party politics in 1924 is a problem that many a politician is speculating about. Recent agitation against the commission, aggravated by the order in increasing valuation of the Indianapolis Water Company and depriving the city of Indianapolis of “free water” at a cost of many thousands of dollars, has been offset somewhat by the fact the water company is asking Federal Court to boost the valuation still higher. If the commission’s order was a “victory,” then why the appeal to the Federal Court? In the State political campaign in 1920, the Democrats and Republicans considered a pledge in the party platform to abolish the public service commission. The movement was defeated. Whether an attempt will be made again is one for speculation when discussion of the commission is more widespread than ever. If the commission should be abolished, it is just as logical to abolish the Federal Court. THAT COLISEUM PROJECT OHOSE who braved the cold blasts Sunday to hear the concert of the city Police and Firemen’s Band at Tomlinson Hall have certain impressions, to-wit: The value of a city possessing a first-class musical organization. And the need of a coliseum in which such concerts as well as conventions and meetings could be held. It is not soft flattery to say Indianapolis should be proud of the city’s musical organization. Nor is it hokum to point out the need of a coliseum. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT announces Mexico “produces more of the bullet-like vegetable known as garbanzos than another country.” What could be more appropriate? NEW YORK landlord fainted when the judge commanded him to produce a record of his profits. That put an end to his feinting with the income tax collectors and the tenants. NOW they’ve heard radio waves down in the Jersey tube, under the Hudson River. There just isn’t any way to escape radio, is there ? IF STATES keep on putting the ban on films of movie stars involved in scandals, it will come to pass the movie stars will have to live like other folks if they want to stay in business. THE FURTHER away from him he gets, the more certain is Mr. Firpo that he packs the wallop that will lay Mr. Hemps .-/ low. Distance makes the jaw wag freer. • HAROLD G. BRETIIERTON, American vice consul at Aguas Calientes, Mexico, was shot in the leg by Mexican Federal troops. Guess they were just trying out some of the new ammunition the American Government just sold Mexico.

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THIS DIAGRAM HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND THE REAL IMPORTANCE OF THE EARTH IN THE UNIVERSE. IT SHOWS HOW THE SUN WITH THE EARTH REVOLVING AROUND IT COULD HE PUT INSIDE OF THE GIANT STAR BETELGEUSE. BUT BETELGEUSE ITSELF IS SMALLER THAN THE GIANT STAR AN TARES.

This is the second article of a series by Diet* on “Secrets of Science." He discusses scientific facts and phenomena In every day terms By DAVID DIETZ Science, Editor of The Times Copyright, by David Dietz SHE true size of the universe afid the relative size of the earth to It, can be grasped best by imagining the construction of a working model. A grain of mustard seed is the traditional object taken, by astronomers to represent the earth in this model, On the same scale, the sun would be represented by an orange. Let us imagine the mustard seed revolving around the orange in a sort #)OM SIMS i-/- Says Dr. Uoue is coming back. We will see if he gets better year by year as well as day by day. Pittsburgh apartment house burned, and this is one time tenants couldn't yell for more heat. About 300 barrels of beer were captured in New York, but it is too cold for beer anyway. “Germany at Rope's End”—headline. Many people contend the electric chair is more humane. A woman is robbing men in Toledo, Ohio, and they object because she is robbing them by force. Leap Year neVs from Boston. Man stole $15,000 from his wife to elope with another woman. Oklahoma coi are after a movie star’s father, but not because he is a movie star’s father. Debt experts will hold a big meeting in Paris. So soon after Christmas is an appropriate date. A Birmingham (Ala.) man ■who tried to stop an argument between two strangers will recover. Here’s the Leap Year news from St. luis: Two sisters managed to marry on the same day. A bank runner is missing In Los Argeles. That's what bank runners seem to do. They run. Many will be sorry to learn a man who tried to swindle a Greenwich (Conn.) dentist got caught. • News from Mexico. Big oil company going on the rocks. The oil business is a slippery game. People who naturally hate oil corporations will enjoy hearing of a big oil fire in Indiana. It seems natural for an oil stock salesman to be a slick article with an oily tongue. It takes so little to make some people happy. Spokane man says ho is glad he is in jail. About 200 people sang on a Chicago stage. This is enough singers to make 4,000 neighbors mad. Meat packers claim prices are down, but butchers say they are being raised by the wholesale. Animal Facts They found a closed Jar in King Tut’s tomb. In the jar was castor oil and in the oil w s a drowned flea that met with its misfortune 3,000 years ago. But it is now a highly distinguished flea and rests in a prominent place in the museum at Cairo. Moral: Take your castor oil pleasantly. Only force that furnishes flying flying fish impetus for airplaning sometimes hundreds of feet is the energy in his strong, screw-like tail. Sparrow’ hawk, commonest of American falcons, isn’t hard on birds. He takes out most of his daily nourishment on mice and insects.

Heard in the Smoking Room

SHE solemn-visaged person sat in the smoker for a long time without speaking. At last he turned to his near neighbor on tho long seat, and said, in a sepulchral voe: “My friend, there is much unrest in the world just now 7 , much unrest —much distress of mind and much illfeeling. The unreit is growing.” “Right you are,’’ replied the other. “I hope you are not unmindful,”

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of flattened circle at a distance of forty feet. That represents, then, the earth revolving around the sun at a distance of 93,000,000 miles. The moon would be represented by a seed one-fourth the size of the mustard seed revolving around the mustard seed at a distance of oneinch. Besides our earth, there are seven planets revolving around the sun. These would be represented in our model by objects ranging in size from one smaller than the mustard seed to one the size, of a pea and at distances from the orange ranging from ten feet to a quarter of a mile. Some of these planets have no moons. One has one moon. The others have various numbers ranging from two to nine. The Solar System The sun with its planets and their attendent moons represent what the astronomer calls the solar system. The rest of the universe with its millions of stars constitutes the socalled stellar system. If our model of the solar system was located In Cleveland, the nearest star would be represented by a small globe placed out in the Atlantic Ocean. * So far apart are the stars that if we kept our model to scale and used the whole surface of the earth for it, not more than three or four stars could bo represented on it. And astronomers now estimate the total number of stars as between 2,000 and 3,000 millions of stars. Today a large number of astronomers also believe that in addition to our stellar universe, there are other universes, smaller ones, which they have named "island universes.” More will be, said about these later. Here are a few figures for those who like them: From the earth to tht' moon is about 239.000 miles. From the earth to the sun is about 93,000,000 miles. Earth to Star From the earth to the nearest star is about 25,000 billions of miles. Light takes one second to travel 186,000 miles. Therefore It takes light eight, minutes to get from the sun to the earth. Go outdoors tonight and look up at the stars. The light that reaches your eyes from some stars left them when George Washington was crossing the Delaware. The Crusaders were just starting out for Jerusalem when the light from more distant stars started on its way toward you. And King Tut had not yet been born when the light from still others started on its journey. Next article: The Sun. Family Fun Just Landed “Dick’s awfully poetical. "When I accepted him he said he felt like an immigrant entering a strange country.” “Well, so he was.’” “An immigrant, why?” “Wasn’t he Just ‘landed?’ ”—London Mail. Little Jim a Diplomat “Pa Just gimme this dime fer throwin’ away my train whistle.” “What's the idea?” “It’s his day of rest. Gimme a bunch of firecrackers an a drum.”— American Legion Weekly. Dad’s Awful Error "So the maid has given notice? Why?” “She said you spoke to her on the phone yesterday." ‘Great Scott: I thought I was talking to you:’’—Judge. Sister’s Feller O. K. 'How is it, young man, that T find you kissing my daughter? How Is it, I ask you?” “Oh, great! Great.”—American Legion Weekly. For an Old Maid “Miss Oklun clings to the idea that marriages are made in Heaven.” “Well, It must be comforting to her. She hasn’t much chance down here.” —Boston Transcript.

said the solemn one, “that we each have a duty to perform. We must combat this Unrest.” ‘l’m doing my best,” said the other “Indeed,” said the solemn one, with interest. “How, may I ask. are you employing yourself in this great call to service?” “I manufacture mattresses,” replied the other, and tho solemn one sniffed as he went out.

THOUGHT ON RELIGION IS PROGRESSING Porterfield Thinks Present Squabble Will Not Hurt Two Churches. W. H. Porterfield. The Times Washington staff, has made It a lifelong hobby to study religion and people. He lea student of the Bible and has read widely on the growth of Christianity. He discusses the present controversy between the modernists and the fundamentalists from his own standpoint. This is the last of five articles by Porterfield on the subject. By W. H. PORTERFIELD << y-j RING me the Book, the Book K of Books!” said Sir Walter Scott, as he lay dying. What should be the attitude of the man or woman of today toward the Bible? That is a tremendous question which may not be solved in one discussion. but it may be said safely enough if one so perplexed will honestly seek the advice of his pastor or of any well-known, educated pastor in his town, he probably will discover the religious thought of today has tremendously progressed in the past generation. A few months ago I was in the press gallery of the Senate at Washington when a widely-known correspondent said to me: “I have just finished Wells’ ‘Outline of History.’ That book will certainly smash the churches!” Wells Flouts Story I expressed surprise, whereupon he told me Wells flouted the idea of God creating the world in six days or even at all. as related in the Bible, held strictly to evolutionary processes, et cetera. I replied I had not heard the “six day theory,” or anything like it, taught or preached in twenty-five years, that I didn’t believe there was one preacher in twenty who held to such beliefs or to the belief in the infallibility of the Scripture or its literal inspiration, or as to its scientific accuracy or that it ever purported to be such. Such investigation as I have been able to make has thus far disclosed one preacher who has held to such beliefs. yet there are thousands such is disclosed in the reports of threatened heresy trials now threatened in Texas and New York and elsewhere. Colleges Are Attacked Southern denominational colleges have been attacked, their Instructors been forced to resign because they have taught evolution or at least have not opposed it. An “anti-evolution" law has been passed in Oklahoma, largely through the efforts of W. J. Bryan, making it a crime to teach evolution in the public schools, and a similar law came very near passing in Kentucky. In North Carolina professors and instructors of all classifications are fighting for their very Jobs and the right to teach as they see it, and elsewhere throughout the country the attack is increasing in bitterness. And to show one how utterly at variance with modern thought are the ideas of many otherwise intelligent men, I have, only to cite the cae.s of one of the greatest newspaper editors and publishers in America who only a few months ago expressed great surprise when I told him Dr. Edwin S. Slosson. the eminent author of “Creative Chemistry,” was a church deacon! How Is It Possible? “How is it possible for a great scientist to boa Christian?’’ asked this editor. That the Episcopal or Presbyterian church will be riven in twain by these threatened “heresy” trials is unlikely. But, even If such a thing were to eventuate, probably the Joint membership of the riven parts would soon be much greater than the whole body at present.. This has been the story of the great movements which have rent churches throughout the ages past and which probably will continue in centuries to come.

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Dr. C. P. Childe. president British Medical Association: “The victory over cancer is no nearer than it was forty years ago. As civilization advances, cancer advances. As comfort and the application of sanitary science In every day life increases and the struggle for existence decreases, cancer increases. I don’t wish to strike an alarmist note, but w’e must come into the open and try to find the cause and a cure. Guy Gundaker, international president Rotary clubs: "Rotary most lasting contribution to the world's progress is found in the realms of business; in the making of a happier, more contented, more cooperative, more friendly and more honorable business world.” Dr. Ilornell Hart, lowa Child Welfare Research Society: “The average intelligence today is about that of a skilled workman. In nine or ten generations it will be that of an unskilled workman. In thirty or forty generations it will have been lowered to the level of feeble-mindedness. The fertility of the stupid and race suicide of the intellectual show plainly an approach level of imbecility.” Dr. Frederick W. Schultz, Minneapolis: “Parents must impress upon children that they are the subordinate feature of the home, and that the parents dominate. Children arooindulged, pampered and humored altogether too much for their own or their parents' good, end, until mothers and fathers learn to say ’No’ and ‘You will’ firmly, there will be conduct and training problems to meet.” Dr. George F. Shepherd, Watertown, N. Y.: “Marry in your own class if you would insure married happiness America can eradicate the di vorce evil by observing three things: First, do not fear poverty. Second, marry your own kind and on or about the same level w’here you are. Third, give what you expect. If you expect of your wife purity, do not bring to her a heart that is stained. You cannot bring home a box of candy or keep flowers on the stand and let that suffice. Your wife wants undivided affection.”

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 11322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C., inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and * marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will re<T-ive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot bo mew-rod All letters .ire confidential.—Editor What are migratory game bitds? As defined in the inigatory bird treaty and the treaty act regulations, ; they are: Waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans; cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whopping cranes; rails, including coot, gallinules, and sora and other rails; fihorebirds, Including avocets, curlews. dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnslones, wlllet, woodcock, and yellowiegs; pigeons, Including doves and wild pigeons. Also, the following’ are a few migratory birds which are not game birds and cannot be taken except under appropriate Federal permit, gu.ls, grebes (commonly called water witches), loons, herons, bitterns and terns. There is a continuous closed season on all shore birds excepting woodcock, Wilson snipe 01 Jacksnipe, greater and lesser yellow egs. and black-bellied and goloer. plovers on which birds appropriate opea seasons are prescribed. How are peanuts grown? The conditions best suited to tho culture of the plant are an early and warm spring, a hot summer free from drought, and a limy, sandy, friable loam. Lime in some form must be added to soils deficient in tills element. The soil Is finely pulverized from 4 to 5 inches deep and the seed planted about 1 inch deep in rows from 26 to 36 inches apart and from 12 to 16 inches in the row, when danger of late spring frosts has passed. About two bushels of nuts in the pods are required to plant an aero. After planting and during the growing period of the crop the soil is kept loose and open and free from weeds. The crop Is harvested before frost In the fall, the plants being loosened by means of a special plow, then taken up and put Into shocks. After drying, from 15 to 20 days, the pods nre picked. Fifty bushels of pods and from one to two tons of hay or straw per acre Is considered a good yield. How are perfumed beads made? Powdered red rose petals, 4 ounces; carmine, 20 grains; tincture of musk, 1 dram; gum tragacanth. Mix ingredients together and add enough gum tryigacanth to mold into shapes, pierce them before they are perfectly dry. They can be highly polished or tinted in various ways. What is hydrocyanic acid? A colorless liquid which solidifies at 5 degrees F to feathery crystals, and boils at 80 degrees. Its specific gravity Is about 07. It dissolves freely In water, forming a liquid which reddens litmus paper slightly. It Is one of the most prompt and vii-ulent poisons known. Very dilute hydrocyanic acid is frequently used medicinally as a powerful sedative and anti-irritant, especially to allay cough. What is French Coffee; how is it prepared? Also Turkish coffee? French coffee Is filtered or percolated coffee. The coffee Is placed In a strainer, strainer in coffee pot, and pot on the range. Add gradually boiling water and allow it to filter. Cover between additions of water. Turkish coffee is made of half pulverized coffee and half sugar. This is boiled together and served without cream. Allow the sediment to settle at the bottom of the cups before drinking. What are the average salaries of university professors? They vary widotjr, according to the size of the college. Asa rule, the salaries are around $3,000 in a fairly good-sized institution. Who was "Ramona?" The heroine of Helen Hunt Jackson’s novel of the same name. What, does the expression, “there was more Samson than Solomon in him” mean? That his physical ability was greater than his mental ability. Samson was noted for his great strength; and Solomon for his wisdom.

Innocence Abroad

Resolution By BERTON BRALEY Time was I said, “I firmly vow I will not throw my time away In playing auction bridge! I play. I fell at last for bridge, but I Vociferate with leather lung, “I never do intend to try Mah Jung!” Y’ou’ll not be draggin’ me around To play Mah Jung. My will Is strong. (You say this is the proper sound —“Mah Jbng?”) AH right, pronounce it as you may. You won’t bamboozle me along, I absolutely will not play Mah Jong. You waste your wind, your words 1 spurn, You tempt me not all all, I vow 1 swear 1 quite decline to learn Pung Chow. Cards cost me fifty cents a pack, Mah Jong costs fifty bucks a set, That’s altogether too much jack, You bet. Pool, bowling, billiards, poker—say I play them muchly, right along. They are enough—l will not play Mah Jong. At every game I’ve ever struck, I'm almost always badly stung, And so I very wisely duck Mah Jung! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) What Editors Are Saying Election (Decatur Daily Democrat) Republican papers have tried and found Governor McCray guilty and no>v for the sake of the party, htey want anew Governor. Wait until the election. Thaw (Lafayette Journal and Courier) Harry’ K. Thaw is to make another fight to prove his own sanity. In case lie gets loose Thaw might get a Job "riding herd" on that Hollywood bunch. Warm (Alexandria Times Tribune' There will be no reason why Alexandria citizens should not vote for a Madison County man for Governor in the coming primary election. With! Ed C. Toner as a candidate on the j Republican ticket and Dale J. Crit- j tenberger running on the Democratic j ticket, there is every indication that | the primary in Madison County will I be some “warm” to say the least, i The situation is rather unusual. Both j Toner and Crittenberger are residents of Anderson; both are newspaper men and real gentlemen. We wish them success. Licenses (Marion Leader Tribune) The open season for bachelors has opened, but the Grant County clctk | has made no report of girls taking out hunter’s licenses. Simple (Muncie Evening Press) The main trouble with the Mellon plan, from the standpoint of certain “practical politicians,” seems to be that it is so simple everybody can understand it. Epidemic (Goshen Daily News-Times) The Indianapolis Gas Company is voluntarily lowering some of its rates, but the habit is not likely to become epidemic.

A Thought

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.—Prov. 22:10. • * * mHAVE lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.—Fontenelle.

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“Foreigner’s” Views To the Editor of The Times Being an American citizen by naturalization, I wish to ask of the party signing himself “J. R. S." what he knows about Americanization. We all know what Klanism is. A can cannot help what color he is nor where he was born. He has the right, according to the Constitution of the United States, to worship as he pleases. If a man abides by the laws he surely cannot be anything but a 100 per cent American in its true meaning. If J. R. S. would spend more time at home reading wholesome literature, the Bible, newspapers, etc., instead of spreading hatred and discord, there, may be a chance for him being nized as human and eventually civilized. A FOREIGNER AND TAXPAYER. Mabel Normand To the Editor of The Times Why do some people knock when they have nothing at which to knock? Mabel N’ormand was at the home of Mr. Dines with her pal, Edna Purviance. Miss Normand’s chauffeur came in and shot Dines. Now some moving picture houses ail over the country are going to ban Miss Normands productions. What is their reason? Why not give her and the courts a chance? The law says a person is innocent unless proven guilty. Thank God, Indian* i apolis picture houses have sense | enough to wait to hear the final ver* i diet. A. L. Tax Saving To the Editor of The Times So much is said about high taxes. They are not so high if the taxpayer could get anything in return. Econ* omy is what we need. , , There are many wavs to reduce ex* penses. There are folks with jobs, drawing from three to five thousand dollars- a year. We have many who would be glad to get the job for half the money and give just the same service. But they have no political pull. We have thousands of children m feeble-minded institutions and other places that should be turned out and their parents compelled to take care | of them. We have old folks In poor farms that have children. They ought to be made to take care of them. There are plenty of folks in different prisons in the State that can pay money instead of serving time. Ijet them pay the State $1 per day for their unexpired time. Some will say only those who have money or fr'ends could then get out. Well, let those who have money stay out of trouble. The jail is full of men and the taxpayers have to pay their board. Look at the thousands of dollars that could be saved by making every man and woman take care of their own children. Use the law on the parent instead of the child. Many a child is in the home at Plymouth and ir the State school at Ft. Wayne that would be glad to come home to its mother, and the mother would be glad to get It, but for different reasons the court sends the unfortunate child to these places and they are punished as criminals. E. C. BROWN, 1425 W. Ohio St. Hasn’t Time A small boy went to a village shop and asked for a box of matches. Presently he returned and said. “Please, mother said these matches won’t strike.” “Won’t strike?" cried the shopman irritably. “Why look here.” and he struck one on his trousers to | prove their quality. The boy took the matches back, but soon returned. “Please, sir.” he said, "mother said she hasn’t time to come and strike a match on your trousers every time she wants a light.”—Argonaut.

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