Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1924 — Page 4

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“PANNING THE BOSS” SHE greatest international sport is not basketball, despite its popularity hereabouts, but the pastime of “panning the boss.” You find it in all occupations—trades, professions, politics, the army—wherever people carry on any sort of activity involving leadership and its accompanying authority. “Panning the boss” begins with the toddling child, pouting its resentment at do this I” and “Must not do that!” It continues all through life, right up to the door of the graveyard, with the old man grumbling at the passing of old-time forms of authority and their replacement by the changed boss system of the new generation. Go where you will, you cannot escape hearing people pan their bosses. Forever there is grumbling at existing authority—on the farm, in factory, in office, in the home, all the way from the complicated organization of metropolitan life to the Eskimo mumbling about the Hudson Bay agent who buys his furs, or the tropical jungle native grumbling because he doesn’t get more glass beads from his boss, the trading post buyer. People have such an instinctive hatred of authority, it’s a wonder they are able to co-operate in any form of government, even democracy. Man at heart is a philosophical anarchist, hating leaders. Occasionally men are hypnotized by a leader like Napoleon into flinging their personal freedom to the winds and rallying in emotional ecstacy to the leader. That’s as rare as it’s brief. The only reason people stand for a boss at all is because they are jealous of the boss—have a secret hope that, if they support the boss system, they have a chance of becoming boss themselves. The grumbling and the panning continue, nevertheless. Forever there is a boss. The foreman has his boss, the shop superintendent. He, in turn, answers to the general manager, whose boss is the board of directors. The board has its boss, the bankers and stockholders and tax collectors. So on and on, an endless chain, always a Higher Power. CAPACITY TO LEARN DIURING the next ten years teachers will devote much of their time to choosing for higher education only those students with a capacity to learn, in the opinion of H. O. Pritchard, general secretary of the board of education of the Disciples of Christ. In expressing his views before the Indianapolis Christian Ministers’ Association, he said the growing cost of education will make this selection necessary. The question arises as to how this capacity is to be determined. The case of the infant prodigy who was graduated from Harvard at 16 and who is now working as a clerk at $25 a week is in point. Certainly that boy had a capacity to learn, but evidently he did not have the capacity to put that learning to good use. / . It is not always the brilliant student who makes a success of life. The plodders frequently get ahead in the long run. The chances are many of the latter would not be included in the list of those who have a capacity to learn. Something better than the present intelligence tests must T>e devised before it will be possible to determine in advance what any one can do. GOING BACK 50 YEARS xyTjE WERE talking to an old-time drummer in the Clay pool lobby and he said: “During the recent cold wave when the mercury went to 13 degrees below zero in Indianapolis, I dropped into some near-by towns and everybody told me they had experienced the coldest weather since 1870. “I’ve heard the same thing about summer —hottest spell since 1870. Everywhere I go, it’s the same old story. People seem to date from 1870, same as the Irish date from the Night of the Big Wind or the Year of the Potato Rot. I’ll say that 1870 must have been a bearcat of a year. I’m glad I was too young to realize it at the time.” This drummer is on an interesting trail. And there are two answers for him. First, when people say 1870 they really mean 1873. That was the year of the worst hard times this country of ours ever had. You could buy anything for a dollar. But almost nobody had the dollar. Naturally, the year 1873 stuck indelibly in the Nation’s memory as the arch-demon of all things evil. Every year was compared with 1873. As time passed, folks compared with the early seventies. Now it’s 1870 for short. Another thing: It’s almost exactly half a century since that disastrous year, 1873. And a great many things seem to run in fifty-year cycles, repeating every fifty years with that rhythmic regularity which Herbert Spencer, the English philosopher, discovered is characteristic of all history. Every alternate generation gets caught in the cogs when the wheels complete the fifty-year turn. Panic in 1873. Hard times approximately a half century later. Big war previous to the panic of 1873; Big war previous to our recent depression. Maybe the way to dope the future is to turn back fifty years in the newspaper files. BATTLES between bandits and sheriff’s posses in Florida! Some of those Philadelphia underworld stars driven out by General Butler must have moved to winter quarters. DEMOCRATIC national committee leaders are casting about for other sources of money with which to pay the party’s debts, now that Henry Ford has definitely aligned himself with th>.* G. O. P. “PUSSYFOOT” JOHNSON, dry crusader, back from AFRICA, says that in Zanzibar “Christians can drink but. the heathen is prohibited.” Live-wire churches might get behind such a dry law for this country. It might work. DAUGHERTY says the Department of Justice has ample evidence of Russian red plots in the United States. Former Assistant Attorney General Crim says it has not. Let’s get the gentlemen before the Senate committee, and find out what the D. of J. really has. NOW that labor is in power in England, the rest of the country is amazed at the labor leaders’ moderation. Makes a big difference whether you’re inside with‘A job or outside without one, how your credit stands. 1 t

PLANET VENUS MOST BRILLIANT OF STARS Ancient Greeks Believed Solar Body Was Two Stars, Morning and Evening—D iscovered by Galileo.

THE ANCIENT GREEKS THOUGHT THAT THE PLANET VENUS WAS TWO DIFFERENT STARS—HESPERUS. THE F'''-\TNQ STAR, AND PHOSPHORUS, THE MORNING biAR.

This is the ninth article ot a seriea by Dietz on “Secrets ot Science.” He discusses scientific tacts and phenomena in every-day terms. By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Tlmea (Copyright, by David Dietz) ml IE most brilliant starlike object in the skies is the planet Venus. This is the second In order of the eight globes called planets which revolve around the sun and shine by the reflected light of the sun. At certain times of the year. Venus can be seen glowing brightly in the east in the hours before sunrise. It is then that we speak of it as the morning star. At other times of the year, due to its revolution around the sun, it can be seen in the west, glowing faintly Just before sunset and Increasing in brilliance as the sun’s rays die out Editor’s Mail The editor le willing to print view* of Times readers oi\ interesting subject*. Make your comment brief. S!r i your name as an evident* of rood faith. It will not be printed l£ you obfect. Science Revision To the Editor of The Timet I have been at the small end of a telescope, night after night and day after day, and the beauties and glories revealed by it have been a pleasure and a blessing in my life. I think it is about time for a revision of our text books on science and astronomy so the children will be able to see the beauties of the handiwork of God: so they can see that “All things work together for good to those who love and fear Him." There has been no evolution in religion as some of our brethern are claiming. JAMES M. STAFFORD, Washington, Ind. Income Taxes To the Editor of The Timet In all press reports a very Important point in reference to Federal Income Taxes does not seem to he mentioned, namely: The high cost of living and depressions doubtless brought about by excess profit rates. Every Individual, firm and corporation realizes after they have sold a certain amount of their goods and made a certain profit, say along In the summer, they know they must stop selling in a large way and wait until after Jan. 1, or they will hove to pay prohibitive excess profits taxes. When business houses start restricting their sales to Just taking care of their best customers the consumers themselves bid up prices to cover their reouirements and this means inflation. This hoarding is not to profiteer as some people try to make out, but to escape prohibitive taxes. Hoard ing of merchandise results In big in ventorles and big inventories In due course bring on depression. Any law that is so framed It stifles competition and ability and encourages hoarding works a hardship on both rich and poor and should be changed and would be if both rich and poor would write their representatives in Washington. J. S. OTIS. Ouch! Ouch! To the Editor ot The Timet I have read a good deal about the new auto license law. I Just came home from New Hampshire, where I had been for three years for my health. I drove my flivver hack. That cost me $65. On this bus In that State It cost me $19.75 per year for my two tin plates. The town permit cost $2.75 and for sls more you get the two number plates. That Is not all—before you can drive the car you must pass examination in driving and your first license costs a “five spot” and $2 per year for a renewal (to drive your own car.) They also pay a gas tax there, $5 poll tax, and others too .numerous to mention. Personally, I think Indiana folks are lucky. ROY E. CARPENTER, 837 Birch Ave.

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Hr —“ E told the other smokers that he had to do with the General i___J Electric Company and narrated: "There was a fellow back in a New York town who had a beautiful mansion and a fad for electrical devices. So lie put Into his fine house every apparatus my company could set up for him, and one day he was proudly showing a party of friends his bedroom. ‘You see,’ he said, ‘I can lie right here in bed and by merely pressing a button get anything I want. This button I press brings me my

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In the sky. It is then called the evening star. The ancient Greeks spoke of the morning and evening star, but they did not know it was one and the same object. They called the evening star Hesperus and the morning star Phosphorus. Acts lake Moon When viewed througlTa telescope Venus goes through phases like the moon. That is, It sometimes presents the shape of a crescent, sometimes a half-circle, and sometimes a full disk, depending upon how the light of the sun strikes it. This fact was first discovered by Galileo, who m9.de the first telescope. But scientific discovery wasn’t accepted kindly In Galileo’s day and he hid his discovery In an anagram or word puzzle. Venus is slightly smaller than the earth. It has a diameter of 7,700 miles. It Is approximately 67,000,000 miles from the sun and rervolves around it In seven and a half of our months. Not much la known about the planet Venus. It has a very dense atmosphere, but the majority of astronomers feel that Venus is lifeless. Moisture In Form of Steam Because of its nearness to the sun and the density of its atmosphere, they think that any moisture upon It must exist In the form of steam. Some astronomers also think that Venus always presents the some face to the sun. rotating on Its axis fn the same time it revolves around ■the sun. As previously pointed out, they hold this same opinion of Mercury. This of course would mean that one hemisphere would be too hot for life as we know It, and the other hemisphere far too cold. Like Mercury, Venus sometimes gets in the direct line between the ( sun and the earth, and then we have a transit of Venus, the planet appearing as a dark spot on the surface of the sun. Transits of Venus are much more rare than transits of Mercury. Some of the younger readers may see the, next one. Astronomers calculate It will occur on June 8, 2004. Next: The Planet Mars. One Way Only By BERTON BRALEY Say kid, assuming you have ambish And you hope to arrive—ln time. It isn’t enough to dream and wish, Vou’ve got to start In and climb. You’ve got to climb and you cannot stop In the quest for a wide renown; You cannot slide to the ladder's top But you certainly can slide down. It’s step by step and It's round by round (Old stuff, but It’s on the square), For gravity anchors you to the ground, And If you would rise from there You’ve got to clamber, and- then you’ll drop If your grip on the rounds Is slack, For you cannot slide to the ladder’s top But you certainly can slide hack! You can put It down In your notebook, kid, This fact which I now aver; There’s nobody ever simply slid To the summit of things—no sir! The victor CLIMBED if he hoped to cop And gather the laurel crown; You cannot slide to the ladder’s top But you certainly CAN slide down! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Separated (Princeton, Daily Democrat) The news stories say that Senator James Watson will not be a candidate for President. There is nothing strange about this. Senator Watson never takes chances with his meal ticket and the only time he has ever been separated from the public pay roll Is when the Democrats of the State get a fair chance at him.

dinner. He pressed, and up came a tray of food on a dumb awiter. ‘These buttons,’ he continued, ‘deliver the newspapers, cigars, etc.,’ and he made them perform. ’There’s an electric shoe-shiner over there and these rows of buttons mean servants, lights, etc. Why,’ he proudly went on, ‘I can lie here on my bed like this and my bath comes to me, on pressure on this big blue button in the wall, as I’ll show you.’ He pressed, a section of the wainscoting raised and a nice porcelain bath tub came gliding in—with his wife in it.”

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can get an answer to any question of fact o- information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Avo., VVash- , ington. 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 receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is sulphite pulp and what is it used for? It Is tirade from wood, esparto, and other vegetable products, by the%ction of a solution of a sulphite of an alkaline earth, as lime or of an alkali, as soda, that contains an excess of sulphurous acid, and Is used in paper manufacture. Are coal ashes of any Value as a fertilizer? No, but they lighten the soil a good deal. What are the five leading coal producing States? Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Iliinpis. What percentage of men in the United States are employed in agricultural pursuits? Twenty-nine percent. How many men of the United States are engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries? Thirty-two per cent. What is the hardest musical instrument to master? Name some famous players? The violin Is said to be the hardest. The following are among the famous living violinists: Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, and Eugene Ysaye. How many depositors in savings hanks are there In the United States. In 1922, there deposits amounting to $7,181,248,000. Who wrote: “The beautiful seem right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness." Elizabeth Barret Browning in "Aurora Leigh.” How long does It take for almond trees to bear? Usually from four to five years; six to eight to bear profitably, although much depends upon the variety. When were the nickels with the design of the figure 5, surrounded by thirteen stars coined? From 1867 to 1883. Who first thought out the scheme of writing in the sky with an aeroplane? Skywriting is the invention $f MaJ. J. C. Savage of London, England, who first began experimenting as far hack as 1910. The first successful display was made May 30, 1922, in London. Wrong Address Indianapolis—H. A. Burleson, 250 8. Sherman Dr.; Mrs. H. E. Harris, 1220 Eugene St.; E. Milner 637 8. New Jersey 81.; Emma Amslop, 329 E. South St.; R. Decker, 1238 Delxss St.; D. Bow man, 650 Chase St.; Gwendolyn Reeves. 1162 Sixth St.; Miss Thelma Jackson. 1306 Fremont Ave. Mrs. V. Brown, care .Alta Osborne, Solsberry, Ind. .. . . '' M . .

Where are tapirs to be found? How big are they? Are they good to eat? The tapir which lives In the Malay Peninsula grows to be about 8M feet high at the shoulder and 8 feet long, but the Central American and South American tapirs are smaller. The meat Is very fine to eat. being similar to beef. Is it true that the body of President McKinley has never been buried? Yes; it was placed in the receiving vault of the cemetery at Canton, Ohio, Sept. 18, 1901. It has never been buried, but rests in the McKinley Memorial there.

What Mountain Valley Water Has Done in BRIGHT’S DISEASE THE experience of these benefited users is typical of that of hundreds of otlfers who have suffered from Bright’s Disease. Read the | following excerpts from letters on file in our office and come in to see others. On the 20th day of last April T suffered a severe illness which compelled me to go to bed and although 1 had no pains the Doctor diagnosed my case as Bright's Disease. T was extremely weak and helpless. Two doctors told my family I had forty-eight hours to live. Upon the physician's advice I began to drink Mountain Valley Water and am glad to state that I got out of bed In time, am on my feet and working every day. lain feeling • better again. (Signed) CHARLES SPENNY. Chief Engineer, Indiana I’ythiau Bldg. Three years ago I was afflicted with kidney and bladder trouble. The doctor diagnosed the kidney trouble as Bright’s Disease. After suffering untold annoyance and pain I began drinking Mountain Valley Water and can testify to the fact that I have no pains at present ami feel perfectly well. 1 am now drinking the water ns a preventive of future trouble and recommend it to others. (Signed) MRS. JACOB MULLEN. College Ave. and 12th St. Mountain Valley Water from Hot Spring?, Ark., 1 /Si has been prescribed by physicians for more than Jf JtlJk fifty Y e ars in the treatment of Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Hardening of the Arteries, Excessive Uric Acid, Rheumatism, NeuriJjr tis, stomach, liver, kidney and bladder diseases. For further information call Circle 1299, or come in and sample it FREE. Mountain Valley Water Cos., Indianapolis. qll Maßsac husetts Ave. Phone Circle 1299. Prescribed bq Phqaickms in Stomach. Kiri ran). Liver and Bladder Diseases'.. MountainValleuWatei

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npom Sims’ I Newspaper BUTTONS! OSTON, man wears a collar button twenty one years old. That ■- Is older than a stenographer’s gum. A button Old enough to vote should find its way home from the laundry without asking. If aged buttons talked* this one would say "I never sinoke, drink, or sleep under dressers.” Markets Leap year is influencing the bond market, matrimony preferred causing quite a flurry. EDITORIAL Naples has shipped to the United States a cheese weighing 180 pounds. This, however, is not the biggest cheesj in the world. Biggest cheese in the world is the man who thinks he is the whole cheese. Weather When she fills a hot water bag every night to keep her feet warm the honeymoon is over. Comics Coolidge: My hat’s in the ring. Hi Johnson: I’ll step on it. SPORTS We wish to deny a rumor that the 180-pound cheese recently imported from Naples wants to fight Jack Dempsey. The cheese may be strong, but being a Provolone cheese it Is too good to fight. Bedtime Story “Use your toothbrush or mother wIU use the hairbrush.” Beauty Secrets New York broker's wife Is being sued for SBBB laundry bill. ADVERTISING Reducing exercises. By exercising Judgment a man can reduce his fat head. Reduce expenses by exercising caution. Anything can be reduced, except maybe taxes.

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Family Fun Wanted to Know She was bidding her lover a fond farewell, for he was going on a prolonged business trip round the world. Tearfully she clung to him and asked: "My and lar Adolf, will you be true to me when you are far away? Promise me that you will write to me from every town you visit.” , And as he gathered her in his arms, he cried: “Oh, Ada, Is it love that prompts you to say this? Ada, swear to me, do you really love me—or are you merely collecting foreign postage stamps?”—Calgary Herald. Her Dad’s Action He had gone into the library to put the thing up to her father and she was anxiously waiting on the piazza for his return. “Well?” she breathed as he came out. "Well,” said her suitor, "he asked me how I was fixed and whether I had any money in the bank, and I told him $3,000." "And what did he say?” “Nothing much,” he replied gloomily. “hut he borrowed it.”—American Legion Weekly. One for the Cook Willie (who got a microscope for Christmas)—"Say, cook, iend me a flea, will you?”—Boston Transcript. Back Seat for Wife “Why don’t they Invent a device for driving from the back seat?” “Huh! Have you ever met my wife?”—Judge.

oJnother Reason Why —. The Buick valve-in-head engine has been recognized for more than Buick Fundamentals twenty years as the most economsation that has built a uni ical and efficient power pdant. lormiy good car of economical . . ... price and operation. With its reduced waterjacketing 2 a chassis so designed and space, more heat is retained in coordinated that it performs * 7 ££dirion^ cientl, imder aII the cylinders and more power is 3 a wide variety of body there tore generated. type* that meet all individual requirements and establish a standard of quality and style. , A When better automobiles are mnlt Buick* will build them jnmt BUICK NtOTOR COMPANY, Indianapolis Branch WHOLESALE AND RETAIL , Meridian at Thirteenth Huff-Buick Sales Company, Central Buick Company, Illinois at Verpiont Street 2917-19 Central Ave. Thomas-Waddell Buick Company, 3839 East Washington Street When better automobiles are .built?, Buick will build them

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Indiana Sunshine Alfred Nuhring, Evansvillo fireman, bought a “rooster” to add to his flock, to the astonishment of both Nuhring and the flock the fowl began laying eggs in a business-like manner. And the hens in his flock are pretty sore because when it lays an egg, it announces it to the world by crowing while all the hens can do is cackle. If you want to keep your radiator from freezing use “honey,” advises Herbert Link, La Porte bee man. “Take one part of water two parts of honey and a handful of caustic soda and stir.” Link says he has tried It and found it to be a non-freezing solution. ' The next time Ora Beckner of Rush County drives to Rushville he Is going to be careful where he parks his car. Recently he drove to town and after making some purchases failed to find his car. After reporting to the police, the hunt began. Finally the car was found In he spot where he parked it. A Thought He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.—Prov. 13:3. *• * * Hone well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.—Lavater.