Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EART.E E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROT TV. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BUHRMAK, Editor WM. A. MAYBOBN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers Alliance • • * Client of the United Press, United News, t'uited Financial, NEA Service, and Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 25-29 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

WHO’S MARRIED, AND WHO ISN’T? SIIE United States has agreed that sale and consumption of liquor is a national problem and should be regulated under one law in all States. It has recognized that the enfranchising of women should be dealt with by Federal law. The next step, and in many respects most important of the three, is recognition of the principle that marriage and divorce are national problems and require uniform national legislation. The proposed uniform marriage and divorce law originated in Indiana. It was written by Mrs. Edward Franklin White, assistant Attorney General of Indiana, who, with other women, has taken it before Congress. Each citizen of the country is entitled to a guarantee from his Government that when he marries, that marriage is legal in every part of the country; that when he dissolves the marriage contract, the dissolution will be recognized everywhere. Bigamy is not a nice sounding word. Yet under existing conditions, any citizen, with the best intentions in the world, may find himself facing punishment for this crime, committed unknowingly. He may find his children legitimate in one State are nameless and without standing in another. States’ rights? Yes, but not when their consequences are apt to be so injurious to their citizens. EDITORIAL BY A CONVICT Y* 'OUNG men who loaf in Indianapolis poolrooms that have shady reputations and probably are taking their first lessons in wrongdoing, may be interested in reading what Bill La Trasse, train robber, outlaw and prison-breaker, has to say. lie has just been paroled from Missouri penitentiary. Bill remarks: “If God lets me live none will find me against the law again. I would not go through with my experiences of the past twelve years for all of Rockefeller’s money. “I would not voluntarily serve one year in prison for ITenry Ford’s motor car industry, but I would rather be in the peniten-, tiary than a hunted man outside. Knowing you are hunted in every civilized country is more than any human being can stand. “I had no peace after I escaped. At nights I dreamed of being captured. Whenever any one looked at me, the old lurking suspicion that they were after me returned. I reached the stage where I feared even the smile of an old lady or the laughter of a fchild. Each face I looked into seemed to say, ‘Bill La Trasse, they are going to get you!’ There is no getting away. The law will haunt you to the end of your rope. “If these reckless young fellows knew the other end of the lane, as I do, they would go home to their mothers, stay at home nights and stick to a job.’’

THE MAGIC EYE JADIO movies will be installed in thousands of homes a year t> __ j from now, predicts C. Francis Jenkins, who is credited with inventing the first moving picture machine. lie even pre diets people will sit at home and, on a small screen, see events as they actually occur at the same instant far away. For instance, the President being sworn into office, a championship prize fight, a dance of the seven veils in Port Said, or a battle in the yellow mountain passes of China. If Jenkins had lived 300 years ago and invented such a contraption, he’d have been burned (.live for witchcraft. Is all this a pipe dream! you wonder. Jenkins already has sent photographs by radio between Philadelphia and Washington, D. C. • Jenkins is busy on the next step—perfection of a means of sending movies by radio and, further than, that, an outright extension of the power of eyesight by radio. He describes his device in this simple way: “It is merely a long camera, with miles instead of inches between the lens and the photographic plate, and radio for the carrier instead of light.” Jenkins, for one thing, is using his new invention to send messages. He says he can transmit twenty-five complete messages a minute instead of the twenty-five words a minute customarily sent by the Morse telegraphic code. Probably he is too optimistic in predicting radio movies for use in the home in 1925. But it’s just a matter of time until we will have them. Even this might not be impossible later: A telescopic or other device that would penetrate space and show us what is happening on the surface of Mars. What would you give to come back to earth 200 years from now and take in the sights? OUR LITTLE SCHOOL HOUSES Marion County may be third in Indiana in eliminate* I tion of the old-fashioned schools, the State still is dotted with 4,511 of the little red schoolhouses. The little one-room school is a golden spot in memory for more than one grown-up Iloosier. It was the central theme of Eggleston’s book, “The Iloosier Schoolmaster.” And, thus in fiction, it has become in the minds of many a thing of the past which has been faded from the present by progress in education. That 4,511 little schoolhouses exist, however, is a warning to those who would blandly accept the present Indiana system as “good enough.” SPEAKING of the well-known progress of science, it is reported that the surgeon of Sonoma (Cal.) State Hospital operated on the wrong girl. HOW Wall Street does despise to learn that a lamb like ycung Wood gamboled on its sward and got away with good browse. HONDURAS giving symptoms of electing a president by armies, Secretary Hughes warns her president that he should promote an orderly election. An orderly election means much boodle but no bullets. A WOMAN jumped from a New York .hotel window, trying to commit suicide, and crashed into an automobile. So it goes. If you try to live, an automobile hits you. If you try to die. you hit an automobile.

EXACT NATURE OF SUN SPOTS UNKNOWN k Act Like Gigantic Cannon Bombarding Earth With Electrons, Causing Worst Electric Storms.

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THE AURORA BOREALIS, SEEN SOMETIMES IN THE UNITED STATES. IS SEEN IN ITS FULL BRILLIANCE AND BEAUTY IN THE LONG WINTER NIGHTS OF THE ARCTIC KEOIO.N. THERE IT FLARES IN THE SKY ABOVE THE SEA AND SNOW-COVERED LAND.

This is the fifth article of a series by Dietz on “Se-rets of Science." He discusses scientific facts and phenomena in every day terms. BY DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz.) JBSERVATION of the sunspots. it will be remembered, resulted in the discovery that the sun rotated on its at,is once in twenty-six days and that the surface of the sun is molten and not solid. The exact nature of the ppots, however, is still one pf the mysteries of astronomy. They appear to be gigantic hole in the sun. Some astronomers What Editors . Are Saying Simple (Lebanon Reporter) Reams and reams are being written about ‘‘best methods” for slmpli tying income tax returns. There is one absolutely effective method and it is the best of all; cut out the income tax entirely and substitute a sales tax. -I- -(- -I----i Roads (Lafayette Journal and Courier) Good roads enter into and hold v front-place in modern life. The wellbeing of the farmer depends very largely upon the ease and economy with which he may move his crops to market. The value of the farm In large part is based upon the roads that afford an outlet; upon the character of the highways that link het farm with nearby centers of trade. The fanner who Is enabled easily and quickly to reach the buyer with the things he has to sell, enjoys a big advantage over the “way-back producer. -I* -!- -IFarmers (Alexandria Times Tribune) From the number of farm sales neing held In the vicinity of Alexandria it would seem that all the farmers are selling out and moving to town. But such Is not the case, as One farmer informed us recently. He said there would always be farmers to carry on the work of feeding the nat.on. and we believe he was right, at least we surely hope he was.

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think they are great whirlpools in the surface of the sun. They change in size frequently. New ones appear and old ones disappear. There seems to be some sort of a cycle, so astronomers have observed, the greatest number appearing every eleven years. As we gaze at these sun-spots It Is impossible for us to conceive of their true magnitude. Many of them are more th'in 50,000 miles across. In 1858, or.e was observed which was 107,000 miles across. The matter in these sun-spots seems to be whirling about with a speed of more than 100 miles a second. When one of these spots disappears, the sides rush together with a speed twenty times &a great aa that. Rising sprays of fire leap thousands of miles from the surface of the sun and fall back upon it, rolling out in great waves. A ship as largo as the earth placed In such, a storm would be tossed about like a cork. A peculiar connection has been observed between sunspots and certain Aenomena upon the earth. When the sun-spots nre the most frequent, we have the most mng. netlo. storms: that is, periods when compasses fail to function properly, when telephone and telegraph lines are thrown out of order, and the aurora borealis or "northern lights’' are seen in the sky. These facts have led some astronomers to believe that sun-spots are like gigantic cannon, bombarding the earth and space with • a fusillade of electrons Electrons are the particles of negative electricity which physicists now believe compose the atoms of all matter. NEXT—WiII the sun ever give out? Choice (Gary Post Tribune) With at least four Republicans, and maybe more to announce later, and at least four Democrats, and maybe more to announce later, the voter should be able to find one in the number who would make a good Gov emor. Her Dad’s Foot “Oh, Jack, papa says he’s going to put his foot down and stop your vis Its.” “Are you sure he said down?”—Bos ton Transcript.

done, the policeman who was trying to get the facts asked her If she saw the license number of the car that ran her down and which speeded away. “ 'T didn’t have time to notice that,’ replied the injured woman, dubiously. ‘But,’ arid she brightened up perceptibly, ‘the lady who was driving the machine had a light green hat with black plume, large red earrings, itoidfllled teeth, black hair and fawn gloves.’ ’’

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Tom I roN I | GALORE □ Sims Daily Newspaper Tom Sims, Editor i r OL I—NO. I. JAN. 11. Indianapolis, Ind. POLITICAL POT ANCIENT ISSUES HASHED OVER AND MANY NEW ONES COOKED UP _ | OLITICS differ from the comP I mon or garden variety of ticks. seldom loses his itch for office. This itching often starts with an itching palm and brings on an epidemic of handshaking. But in a presidential race it affects the head first. Many heads are being scratched now. Even heads having nothing in them are being scratched. WEEKLY *BOOK REVIEW We have just finished The Cook Book. It is a book every woman should read. We recommend it most highly. However, there are many j brilliant paragraphs that even men i will enjoy. We were so thrilled by i its brilliant description of an English ! plum pudding that we went out and ate some ham and eggs. Cook is an art. It is the art of j interior decorating. HOME HELPS If you take a roach In and treat i him nice he will go home and get bis kinfolks. SPORTS The latest indoor sport is mah Jongg. We say latest because our neighbors play It all night. When we first heard of mah jongg we thought it either a mammy song or a Chinese food. You might make out an income tax from mah jongg directions, but you can’t play the game. Mah Jongg is only dominoes with delirium tremens. HEALTH HINTS Cough drops will not make the whooping cough drop. Get a doctor if you give a whoop. ADVERTISING We make a specialty of renting log cabins, where boys who want to become presidents may he born. No extra charge for a few rails to split. Plenty of Infinitives to split. Cherry trees everywhere for the young presidential timber Hatchets free. G. W. Lincoln, Tnc. Rubber rolling pins for women who love their husbands are sold at the Live and Let Live Btore. EDITORIAL This Is the age of speed. Just before you get up in the morning you are due at work. Once It took a man years to drink himself to death. Now he cun do It with one drink. Auto drivers go at breakneck speed and break their necks. We make love quicker, even though it doesn't last as long. But It still takes a woman 30 years to reach the age of 25. BAD MANNERS Pick the bones out of the fish. It is considered ill-bred to pick them out of your neck. SOCIETY Miss Gurgle broke a rib while sit tfng out with Mr. Goodgosh at the charming danco last evening. Although she looks delicate It was Mr. Goodgosh's rib she broke. The Orsters are tickled to an xmunce the engagement of their crazy-looking daughter. Pearl. • • • DRESS DON'TS Most men think a sensibly dressed woman looks foolish.

A Thought Who Is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?—Job 35:2. • • • A 1 S it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few t— J words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.—La Rochefoucaulr. Every Wife Knows ‘‘Does your husband confide his business troubles to you?” “Yes, indeed. Every time ,1 buy anything."—London Humorist. ’

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Tax Complaint To tho F’ditor of The Timet I have an auto —or otherwise a struggle buggy—worth about SSO as a trade in. But taxes —Oh my! First they appraise It at S3OO personal taxea. i burn live gallons of gas weekly going to and from work, which is another $6.10 yearly taxes. Then sl2 for two p.eces of tin with a number on it. I am a man who works for a living and am trying to pay for a home out where my children nre out of the i-muke and oft the streets. I s.ill have all honor and respect for the law, but very little or none for lawmakers. _ If I were a bootlegger or cared not whose name I signed to paper to raise money, I shouldn’t object to how much my expenses run. We must elect men that are clean and out of politics for our public offices, from dog catchers on up. Do not draw party lines. J. C. WHEELER. R R. P. Box 110 B, Indianapolis. “Silly Objections" To the Editor of The Timet I thoroughly agree with the letter of C. B. White, anent “Modernists.” How such people can be allowed to remain in a position of trust, where they can teach their nefarious doctrines to ignorant, weak-minded mortals, passes my comprehension. Most of their silly objections and supposed mistakes of the Bible have been explained, or refuted, long ago. Either Jesus Christ was what ne claimed to be, "the Son of the living God,” or the greatest impostor. As to the church "bright lights,” etc., tiiat dare to even hint at a shameful birth, let them ponder over the "unforgivable sin against the Holy Ghost.” The woman whom God honored more than any other woman cannot bo traduced with impunity. “Yea, let God be true and every man a liar." “Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God." “Flesh and

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