Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1924 — Page 4

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“LENIN, THE BUILDER” ESON or Lenin—which? Five years ago these words were |NV| on the lips of Europe. The Russian, German and AustroHungarian empires had crashed. Three hundred million people, living between the Baltic Sea and the Near East, faced economic and political chaos, hunger, and perhaps anarchy and starvation. But most of them hungered for new leadership. Out to the west was the rising star of Wilson of America, who hoped to salvage the old system of things by grafting into it his ideals of democracy and world peace through the League of Nations. * To the east arose the figure of Lenin of Russia, who said the old order was too rotten to save. It must be destroyed to make way for the idealistic communistic state, wherein the wealth of the world, for which wars had been fought and nations wrecked, would be the joint property of the workers who created it. To the people of Central Europe, it seemed as though the world must be saved by one or the other of these two new leaders. And so they asked each other, ‘“Wilson, or Lenin —which?” It is interesting to note in five short years, Wilson the American has been shorn of power, his dreams junked, temporarily at least, while on the other hand, Lenin of Russia has remained in power until his death and has built his dream state in spite of the ring of iron that surrounded him and his people most of the time. Lenin not only repelled the armies of the world, but maintained law and order within Russia, set up his communistic state, ran it and remodeled it at various times, until today it resembles Wilson’s democracy more nearly than it does the original Lenin idea. They speak of Lenin as the Russian tyrant and dictator. He was never that. He surrounded himself with the best brains in new Russia. He was constantly compromising with his subordinates and with practical working problems. When an idea would not work, he tried half of the idea, or another one. The true test of Lenin, the builder, is now to come. For his unselfishness, his idealism, and his personal simplicity and charm, he was idolized by the Russian people. He suffered with them, when they suffered, and they loved him for that. The question now is, did Lenin so build his dream state that other and younger Russians can run it as well as he did during his life ? > And only time can answer that. ABUSE OF PRIMARY LAW rfTIITH the coming of another campaign the question of expenW sive primary contests is being brought up again. This or that candidate, we are told, is spending a considerable amount of money, thus putting the impecunious candidate at a great disadvantage. The latest to call attention to affairs is Edgar D. Bush, who aspires to be the Republican nominee for Governor. Bush sought an agreement among the candidates to limit their expenditures, to close their headquarters and to make only such campaign as could be conducted with a limited expenditure of money. No one agreed. The primary law has been abused occasionally by money spenders. Every one in Indiana can point to instances of extremely expensive campaigns. This, in some quarters, is taken as an indictment of the primary law. The fault lies not with the law, but with its abuse. The people of the State believe in self-government, and holding such be lief, they wish to pick their own candidates for office. At ttie same time no right-thinking voter believes in an office being bought by the candidate with the most money. Campaign expenditures should be rigidly limited by law to the amount necessary only for a candidate to present his case to the people.

PASTE IN YOUR GARAGE! ■priNE of the valuable publications that comes to our desk is vy the Indianapolis Medical Journal and we have no hesitancy “cribbing” from it an article, “Warning to Motorists.” Here goes: “Warning to motorists that, with the coming of winter, it is imperative to guard against the deadly hazard which may be encountered when automobile engines are permitted to run in closed garages, is given by the Department of the Interior. Numerous articles have been published at various times by the bureau of mines and other agencies in which great stress was laid on the extremely poisonous properties of the gas, carbon monoxide, tvhieh is one of the products formed when gasoline is burned in an automobile engine. In spite of these repeated warnings, cases of asphyxiation continue to be reported in the daily press when the advent of cool weather causes the closing of garage doors and windows in order to retain heat. ■>our-tenths of one per cent of carbon monoxide, that :e. four parts per 1,000, will kill an ordinary man in one hour, and a higher concentration will prove fatal in a much shorter time “Automobile tests made at the Pittsburgh experiment siation of the bureau of mines show that the amount of carbon monoxide present in the exhaust gases varies from 2.4 to 9.5 per cent and, consequently, that the air in a closed garage will reach the danger point in a very few minutes. “It is a common practice among motorists on cold days to allow the engine to idle for five or ten minutes before leaving the garage, in order to warm up the oil and cooling water. This is an extremely dangerous practice and cases are reported frequently where the driver is found dead at the wheel. “If it is desired to warm up the engine, all windows and doors should be opened, or better still the car should be driven into the open air where the toxic exhaust gases are quickly dissipated.” IF HE GAINS his freedom, Harry Thaw will soon learn that by comparison, he is a mere piker. _____ A MAN in Michigan—the wettest State —says he has never tasted spirituous liquors. lie must be another fossil discovery. SOUSA has been made a doctor of music and there is a fine ehance for him to work up a very large practice.

ASTEROIDS BELIEVED MINIATURE PLANETS Small Bodies Thought to Have Been Prevented From Condensing Into One Orb,

JOHANN KEPLER WAS BORN IN 1571. THE SCIENCE OF ASTRONOMY AS WE KNOW IT REALLY BEGAN WITH HIS WORK, HENCE HE HAS BEEN CALLED THE “FATHER OF MODERN ASTRONOMY.” HE WAS THE FIRST TO POINT OUT THE LAWS GOVERNING THE MOTIONS OF THE PLANETS.

BY DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz.) mHE eight planets with their twenty-six attendant satellites are the most important members of the .sun’s family—the solar system. Bnt as already pointed out, they are not the only class of objects In the system. Another class Is the asteroids. About 800 of these have been discovered so far.

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SPAGHETTI!! MORE THAN TIES FRIEND WITH STRING FOOD K r ~~~ ANSAS CITY man won a spaghetti-eating content by a t— few yards, eating 10,581 feet, which is some feat. After using the holes in this amount of spagretti for making 1,422 doughnuts, you would have enough holes left over to feed two moths six months. FOREIGN NEWS "Keep cool," Is Geddes' advice to England. The price of coal makes this warning useless here. SPORTS Alekhine, the Russian chess champ, played chess and had a tooth pulied at the same time without taking an anesthetic for either, and without taking ether for an anesthetic, the pain of one probably counteracting the pain of the other. CUSSING NEWS This Is not about Congress. Prominent Portland (Ore.) woman called a Jury something awful. FARM NEWS Peru (Vt.) farmer offers six farms rent free, but an ex-farmer tells us this is not cheap enough. FISHING NEWS Scientists found a whale's rib in Tral uco Canyon. Cal. What an absent-minded whale! JAIL NEWS Got the peg in Winnipeg. Crook there had SI,OOO jewels in his peg leg. Cops pulled his leg. SCHOOL NEWS Study your spelling lesson or you are in for a bad spelL

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MUSIC NOTES Portland (Me.) man sued a singing' school because It annoyed him. Maybe ho can sue our landlord. EDITORIAL Irvin Cobb’s story about a dog chasing a rabbit and the weather so hot both were walking, isn’t so good for winter. We saw a turtle racing a snail and the weather so cold both got arrested for speeding. MARRIAGES Women are nice, but many are foolish. Traverse City, Mich., has no weddings this leap year. MARKETS Never count your chickens until you are their only sheik. SOCIETY “Rats.” says Mr. Shriek, “may foretell a shipwreck, but they also foretell other wrecks. When my wife sees a rat she acts as if she would kick the bucket, but she kicks the chandelier Instead.” DANCES The waltz is growing popular again, perhaps because the jumpy danceß are so hard on noses. BRO. TOM’S KITCHEN Stomping steak with! hob-nailed shoes makes it very tender.

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a . ”* INY of you gentlemen ever A been up to Mackinac?” asked I **'l the smoker from Detroit. “Great place for auctions, especially of oriental rugs and such. Those fellows catch the tourists and hay-fever-itM with what the latter think are rare bargains and the auction game creates exciting interest —sort o’ gambling interest, y’understand. I w'as up there last summer and dropped In on one auction. In the inidst of the going-going’ a fellow walked up to

THE UN D1 AIN AEOLUS TIMES

The asteroids are sometimes called planetoids. That Is because they seem to be composed of much the same materials as the planets but are much smaller. The largest known asteroid Is 485 miles In diameter. They range in size to a diameter of only ten or twenty miles. Theory Is Discarded According to an older theory, the planetoids are the remnants of what was onco a planet and whk h In some unaccountable way met with a catastrophe and burst into pieces. But this view haa been almndonod by modern astronomers who now believe that the asteroids are material which would have formed Into a planet at the time the solar system evolved but which was prevented from doing so. The story of the discovery of the asteroids is one of the most interesting bits of astronomical history. Keppler, sometimes called the “father of modern astronomy,” first pointed out there was an unusually large gap between Mars and Jupiter. The distance between planets Increased in an orderly progression except In the case of Mars and Jupiter. The distance here was much greater. In 1781, Johann Bode worked out a mathematical law which showed a relationship between the itistance of the planets from the sun. But according to this law there ought to have been another planet between Mars and Jupiter. In 1800. twenty-four astronomers formed themselves Into a society, divided up the sky between them, and started a telescopic hunt for the missing planet. Discovers First Planetoid On Jan. 1, 1801, a Sicilian ostronmer, Father Plnzzi, discovered a tiny planet or paretoid where the missing planet ought to have been. A few years later, a second planetoid w'as discovered revolving In this same orbit around the sun. Up to date, more than 800 of these have been discovered. Since the application of photography to astronomy, it is not uncommon for ten or fifteen to be discovered in the course of a year. As pointed out. astronomers first thought the asteroids are the remains of a planet which once existed. It is now thought, however, that the great gravitational pull of gigantic Jupiter was so great that these asteroids were prevented from condensing Into planet at the time when the other planets took shape. Next article in series: The comets

A Thought

The heart of the wise is In the house of mourning; but the heart, of feola is In the house of mirth.—Eccl. 7:4. iyi E are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sym- • ■ J pathy is determined by that of •our sensibility.—Hazlitt. Water’s Bad Cold “Would you scream If I should kiss you?” “Why, Jack, I have such a cold I can hardly whisper.”—Portland News. Dad Gives Up Hope "Dear Pop,” wrote the boy from the art school, “don’t send me any more money—l have saved half of that which you sent me last month. ’ “Come home,” wired the old man. “You’ll never make an artist.” —New York Tribune. Overlooked (Goshen Daily News Times) In figuring his weather predictions for the week the weather man apparently overlooked the fact that Senator Hi Johnson is to open his presidential campaign In Indiana next Saturday night.

the auctioneer and whispered to him vigorously for t. moment. Then the auctioneer rapped on the table and said; “‘A pocketbook containing two thousand dollars in hills has been lost. If It is returned to me, the owner will pay fifty dollars reward and no questions asked.’ “There was Intense silence for a moment, and then a voice in tho back of the room boomed out: “ 'I bid fifty-one!’ ’*

PITTSBURGH STRONG FOR MR. MELLON Smoky City Branded With ' Initials 'A, W, M.', Correspondent Finds, Lowell Mellett, Times’ political correspondent, is making’ a turn around the country sizing up public sentiment on candidates. This is the first of several stories he will write from strategic centers en route to and In the Middle West. By LOWELL MELLETT r— —1 ITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 23. | P The Mellon tax plan—they I don’t call it the Coolidge plan In Pittsburgh, nor even the CoolidgeMellon plan—may be slippping elsewhere, but It Is still going strong In Andrew W.’s home town. For anything that wears the Mellon label la considered, here, pretty good of IJ.S kind. You have to speak gently of the Secretary of the Treasury to be safe. Even the boy shining your shoes may be financed by Mellon. It is almost certain the proprietor of your hotel Is. Never was there an American city so completely branded by a single citizen as Pittsburgh has been branded with the Initials “A. W. M.” Bank Towers Above Tall skyscrapers, trying vainly to stick their roofs above the smoke level, are many and handsome. It is a city of fine office buildings, but a little three-story, old-fashioned gray structure bearing the name "Mellon National Bank," towers above all the others In the popular imagination. The popular Imagination, incidentally. Is very sensitive to finance. Mellon Is working in Washington for $12,000 a year, says the awe-struck citizen, when he might be making as many millilons by staying In Pittsburgh. That Is the final proof offered any person who hesitates to accept Mellon as the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton. And Hamilton, one Pittsburgher reminded me, didn’t sacrifice any millions when he took the Job. It doesn't appear to be a matter of affection. Once in a while you hear someone call him, "Andy." but It Is In a tone that Indicates the speaker would call him Mr. Mellon, if ho were addressing the secretary face to face. It Is respect and .admiration. Dictates Ijocal Politics Mellon dictates Pittsburgh politics and all politics In this corner of Pennsylvania. He doesn't know a thing about politics, his friends say, but he has the means to retain the best political advisers just as he retains the best legal advisers and while this continues nobody expects to see any change. “So western Pennsylvania Is entirely safe for Coolidge," I suggested to one of the most Important members of the Republican organization. “It's entirely safe for Mellon,” he corrected.

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You can eet an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Time- Washington Bureau, 132" New York Ave. WashIngton. Ii C.. intoning 2 cents in ■tamps for reply M-dical. leg it and marital advice cannot be given, nor can evtcnuid research be undertaken. Ail other questions will receive a personal -epty Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. 1. How long may wo use 1923 auto license? 2. What are the seven wonders of the world? A READER OF THE TIMES. 1. Until Feb. 15, 1924. 2. The pyramids of Egypt, the wtUl and hanging gardens of Babylon, the temple o' Diana at Ephesus, the statue of the Olympian Jupiter at Athens, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the cojlosus of Rhodes and the pharos or iighthouse of Alexandria. Has the United States ever paid tribute money to any nation or group? During the administration of Thomas Jefferson, the Barbary States gave much trouble, not only to the United States, but to the European powers, because of the pirates that infested the waters of this part of the const of North Africa. The European powers had been accustomed to pay them tribute in order that their vessels might rot W> molested. The American Government had entered upon the same practice. Cargoes of presents were sent now and again to appease the greed of these pirates. The demands became so exorbitant our Government at last sent a small fleet to the Mediterranean, which taught the pirates that blackmailing must cease. This Is the only instance in which the United States haa paid tribute to any country.

Wrong Address

Mall to following persons has been returned to The Times. If a bettor address Is furnished us, mall will be forwarded: Indianapolis—Hazel H. Daniel, 2150 Central Ave.; Mrs. C. R. White, 831 Parks Ave.; Mrs. Frank F. Kasbohn, 1524 Eichel Ave., Evansville, Ind. Barbara Estella Llue, Main Hornar St., 704, Greencastle, Ind.

What Is the annual salary and other allowances of the U. S. Marshal in Alaska? There are four United States Marshals In Alaska. They receive an annual salary of $4,000 each, and their traveling expenses are paid. What kind of wood is used in making musical instruments and sounding hoards In phonographs. Spruce la the wood used for this purpose. It must *be of the very finest quality of even grain, and growth. The Wost Virginia red spruce is the best, as the tree Is of even growth varying little In size at the base and the top. How can I keep tools during the winter JTrom rusting? Oatoutchouc oil Is said to prevent rusting. It only requires to be spread on with a piece of flannel, in a very thin layer, over the metallic surface and allowed to dry up.

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Gasoline Prices To the Editor o! The Times A short time ago they raised the price cf gasoline 2 cents per gallon. A few days later they raised It another 2 cents. Looks as though it is getting to be a week end occurrence. So far the public has stood for this unsteady price of gasoline. The question is: “How long will it pay whatever price is asked and say nothing." As gasoline has become a necessity it is Untie a law be passed that would fix a tmr price on said product and govern it accordingly, Instead of allowing a few men to do as they please. The way gasoline prices have been Jumping around It Is nothing more nor less than highway robbery. JOHN MORAN. Indianapolis. Our Roads To the Editor of The'Times In answer to "A Hoosier" I would say Indiana surely does have high taxes from dogs up, and nobody likes them, but these good roads of ours which the westerner and southerner praise so highly have to be kept up. The wear and tear on them from the thousands of cars going over them daily Is terriftef and especially when we remember the light usage of them by the old horse and buggy of a few years ago. Then fewer poor people had horses and buggies than have automobiles now. and they didn’t think anything about it if they couldn’t afford one. But now every Tom. Dick nd Harry owns a car. whether he can afford it or not and expects property owners—and lots of them who don't own cars —to pay for the roads he tears up. Nothing fair about that, is there? ANOTHER HOOSIER. “Hoots lcr” Jibed To the Editor of The Times Kindly allow me to reply to "A Hoosier.” who quotes me as coming from Wisconsin. I have never beon in that State. In my recent letter about "Indiana being lucky” even with the auto license law as it Is, I referred to New Hampshire, where they stick you $19.75 for a “ttivver." "Hoosier" says wages are higher there. I ran a hydro-electric plant twelve hours a day, seven days a week and received the grand total of $16.50 per week. Compare this with our State. We paid $17.50 per ton (not per cart for soft coal there last winter —just another small Item. Our car was in the garage from Dec. 29 until April of last year. You had twelve months’ service In Indiana. Wo paid our poll tax (wife and I) a five spot each. Did you pay yours, Mr. Hoosier? I bet you slid by. In New Hampshire the people are supporting the largest legislative body not only of any State In the Union, hut the largest of any nation on the globe. I would advise him who signs him seif “A Hoosier” to get away from home and travel in other States a while and he will come back and say old Indiana Is the best he traveled and will boost instead of knock. ROY E. CARPENTER. 837 Birch Ave.

Tongue Tips

Senator Paul Dupuy, French publisher, on his return home: “America | Is the most complete, richest and happiest nation In the world. It knows better than we do how to 'love Its neighbor.’ ” A. D. Hitz, Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association, Indianapolis: “We have more than 100,000 refrigerator cars available for use fn this country. This car Is a distinctly American development. No other country has more than 3,000. We should eat more fruit and vegetables.” Firl Wilson, Kansas City automobile thief: “So far my profits on my thefts have amounted to SOOO. To balance this I have spent $3,400 in lawyer’s fees keeping out of jail. No sooner did one of these ‘mouthpieces’ get me out of trouble than I had to go out and steal to raise the cash for his fee. I am going to get a Job where I won’t need lawyers.”

In New Hands

Superiority By BERTON BRALEY There’s no one is so humbell That he can’t, now and then, Call someone else a “dumbeU’’ Among his fellow men. The highbrow waxes sore on The brow of low degree, The moron scorns the moron Who’s stupider than he. No bonehead is so stolid That he can’t, somewhere, find Somebody’s head more solid, Some bird more dull of mind. In country and in city, We all are looking for Somebody we can pity As our inferior. The gink at whom we chortle, "He’s such an ivory dome,” Can find some other mortal To call “nobody home!” There’s no one is so humbell That he has never met Somewhere another dumbell Who’s even dumber yet (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Family Fun Didn’t Come One evening after Willie had been put to bed there came sounds of wailing In the upper region, and Mary, the maid, was requested to soothe him. -After a short lull the crying broke out again with renewed vigor, and papa was Instructed to investigate the trouble: "W hat’s all this noise about, you young rascal?” "Well. Mary said if I kept on crying a great big mouse with big green eyes would come and sit on the end of my bed, and I’ve kept on. but It hasn’t come yet.— Argonaut. Why Jimmy Kicks “Why do you dislike me so, Jimmy?" asked the girl’s suitor of her kid brother. “What have I done to deserve it?" "Well, when you call on sis. you put the clock back an hour and that makes me late for school and I get licked for it.”—American Legion Weekly.

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What Editors Are Saying

Fluman (Lafayette Journal and Courier) Indiana women are getting Into action in the field of human hearted reform. Insane persons In jails and other unfortunates in public institutions are to be looked after by the women citizens in a way not before attempted. Here is a real field where the human heart and anew degree of efficiency are sadly needed. Hash (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) They have awarded the prize for the new word that would best stab the conscience of the illegal drinker to the chap who thought up “scoffiaw.” Sounds like some kind of warmed over hash. • * • Expensive (Columbia City Post) Recently published statistics show that the average tax per acre for farm land in Indiana Is $2.72. This is the highest of any State in the Union, except New Jersey. But what do you expect when you have a McCray piloted administration, with his associates joining In his expensive plan of finance? • • • Censuring (Wabash Times Star) Hiram Johnson is censuring thin Government for the sale of arms and ammunition to the Government of Mexico. If sale had been refused ha would have censured the refusal. • • • 'Apple — 1 (Rushville Telegram) Mayor Lew Shank has stated his belief in the Bible, as a first warming up for his gubernatorial campaign. Mayor Lew has already expressed his desire for a square deal for the voters, and lower taxes. There is certain to be an announcement on the way for the benefit of the farmers. They cannot be, overlooked In this election year “apple sauce.”