Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Edltor-in-Chlef ROY W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BUHRMAN, Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. * • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 25-20 S. Meridian Street Indianapolis • • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. * * * PHONE—MAIN 3500.

AIN’T IT GREAT! IIN’T it great to be a United States Senator! You can get up, _J as did Senator Reed of Missouri the other morning, with a bad taste in your mouth and the knowledge that you ought to help the farmers back home get lower freight rates, and take it all out on some poor stiff who’s been called before an investigating committee. ' F’r instance, you can go up to the Senate, as did Reed, and razz and ridicule some peace-loving gentleman, like Edward Bok of Philadelphia, because he spent some of his own money to boost the idea of peace. And the peace-loving gentleman cant do anything to you because he’s been subpoenaed and has to testify, and anyway, if he gets fresh, there are half a dozen other Senators all set to squelch him. could go to your day’s 6tint, as did Senator Moses of New Hampshire, your tongue all sharpened to pierce some awful iniquity, like the stealing of the naval oil reserves, for example, and then you can sidle up alongside the aforementioned Reed and help him pick on the peace-loving gentleman. And you can have a lot of chuckles out of seeing him squirm, and can acquire that superior feeling about being a United States Senator, and by noon time you can be in the happiest kind of a frame of mind to enjoy your lunch, knowing that while you’re murdering a fat, juicy steak, the peace-loving man is still squirming upstairs because you left him in the hands of some of the other boys in the Senate who hadn’t quite whetted their appetites for lunch. And the happiest feeling of all is that you get paid for this kind of fun, and get your name in the paper, and everything. Golly whiz, but it’s great to be a United States Senator! KEEPING POLITICS OUT EATH impresses a city with the importance of public service. Lieut. Fred Barlow, member of the city fire force, was stricken fighting a fire tha.t had menaced the lives of several persons. He did not die in a halo of spectacular heroism. Barlow merely was endeavoring to open the windows of the Easement which was flooded with water and smoke. He died, however, while on duty. Every fireman and policeman takes that chance. Barlow’s death brings home this\ timely reminder: Any branch of municipal service that requires willingness to sacrifice life must be protected from interference of politics. Keep the police and fire forces clean of petty differences. LIQUOR LAW VIOLATORS mHE majority of liquor law violators in Indiana are found among the ranks of foreign born residents, Federal prohibition officials declare. If such a contention could be reconciled with the census figures, Indiana certainly would be the most bone-dry Btate In the country. According to Federal statistics, Indiana has the highest percentage of American-born residents of any State. Putting the blame on the immigrant for disregarding the Constitution sounds well, but it may not jibe with facts.

HELPING DISABLED YANKS A.MUEL M. RALSTON, new member of the United States Senate from Indiana, has introduced a bill which should meet with general approval. It is a measure to take care of the interests of the disabled soldier. There presumably are many who oppose the soldier bonus, but there is none who opposes giving every assistance possible to the disabled soldier. It is America’s shame that the country has not more efficiently and more humanely given attention to the men who gave their health to their country in the great war. In some instances they made greater sacrifices even than death itself. Ralston contends that regulations now in force often result in marked injustice to disabled soldiers. A republic should not be ungrateful. “A BIRD IN THE HAND” r o'" ENATOR WALSH of Montana, chief crusader for the publie in this Teapot Dome investigation, has emphasized one important point which is sufficient in itself to influence the Government to break the leases by which the naval oil reserves were turned over to private expliUters. “The question is presented,” says Senator Walsh, “as to whether 22.000,000 barrels of oil in the ground is to be preferrfU to 1,666,000 barrels of oil stored in tanks.” The Senator’s investigation has developed the fact that drainage from the Teapot Dome lease was not serious.* Had all the oil subject to drainage been lost to the Government—which, by the way, it could, not have been—there would still have remained in the ground and owned outright by the Government, a total of 22,000,000 barrels. Under the terms of the lease given Harry F. Sinclair, the Government would acquire only about 1,666,000 barrels of oil. All the remainder, it was provided in the lease, should go to Sinclair’s Mammoth Oil Company. More than 80 per cent of the oil was to go direct to the Mammoth company, and two-thirds of the remaining 20 per cent was to be paid Sinclair for building storage tanks in which to store the Government’s meager supply of oil from its own property. Would you rather the Navy had 22,000,000 barrels of oil in nature’s own storage tanks, or 1,666,000 barrels in a Sinclair-built tanks Evidently everybody but Sinclair and Fall would rather have it safe in nature’s own storage. HI JOHNSON hasn’t much company in his up-hill fight to keep the G. O. P. from going hellbent to Wall Street. BY ALL means annex the north pole. It’ll be a nice cool spot for the summer White House. NATIONAL Real Estate Board wants to head off the avalanche of rent control bills in State Legislatures. We can tell ’em how. Have landlords reduce rents. MAGNUS JOHNSON, booed by some bankers because he told them the hard truth about taxes, now has a way to beat the hecklers. He’ll! boom hia views by radio. *

COMETS ARE PART OF SOLAR SYSTEM Phenomenons of Universe Make Regular Trip About Sun — Halley's Comet Once in 76 Years,

MOREHOUSE'S COMET AS IT APPEARED ON NOV. 16, 1908, IS SHOWN HERE. THE PHOTO WAS MADE BY THE YERKES OBSERVATORY. NOTICE HOW THE TAIL APPEARS TO BE MADE UP OF SHEET-LIKE MASSES.

By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright, by David Dietz) Jrr-> HE superstitious have always : [ j regarded comets with fear. " —■—• each comet has been regarded as the harbinger of war and famine Many people believe the comet of CPom Sims’ Newspaper NORTH POLE NAVY TO RETURN SHIMMY REGION'S VISIT KNBY plans to send the airship Shenandoah to the North Pole next spring. Can't go now. North Pole isn't at home. It is spending this winter in the United, States. Only last night the North Pole slept with us. It shook us awake early this morning. “Hadn’t you better go home and get ready for Mr. Denby?" we chattered. “No,” said the North Pole, snuggling closer, “the north pole cats are attending to things up there.” AIRPLANE NEWS Dayton, Ohio, gets the Pulitzer aerial classic for next fall. It wiU make many necks stronger. WEATHER Seven months until August. FASHIONS Men’s spring straw lid brims are so wide a few fill a street car and only nine make a dozen. AUTO PAGE Honey may be used in place of alcohol to keep the radiator from freezing. Also, a little honey In the front seat may keep you from freezing If she is a warm mamma. If you have alcohol In the radiator you may add honey to it. But adding alcohol to a little honey in thte front seat is very dangerous. GARDEN NOTES Maybe Burbank could cross the income tax with an adding machine and produce a correct answer. ADVERTISING One way to save coal is marry a fat woman and sit in her lap. Spending the winter in Africa will remove goose pimples. SPORTS French Boxing Federation has ruled fighters must not kiss at the end of a bout. Thus an old French ring custom ends. Rules are slowly taking all the danger out of the oruw great sport, pugilism. BANK NOTES President of a New Jersey bank !s only 28, so how can he look mad enough for the job? EDITORIAL A good rule works both ways. If you break a mirror it means seven years bad hick. So if you don’t break a mirror it must mean seven years good luck. Think of all the mirrors you haven’t broken. BRO. TOM’S KITCHEN Adding tabasco sauce to the coffee will keep it hot. COMICS Lady addressing legal authority on surtaxes, “I want to know why a lady pays Sir Taxes?’’ HOME HELPS Don’t let your husband or furnace go out on a chilly night. SOCIETY Upon learning French boxers have been ordered to stop kissing at the end of a fight, Mrs. Glublub said: “My husband and I are American citizens and will pay no attention to this rule.”

Heard in the Smoking Room

UT ” S I was coming to this train,” A said a smoker, “I saw a lady **l fall to the pavement. Sh 9 lay all huddled up. She was quite pale. Her lips were purple. She wore no jewelry except for a plain band on her left hand, no usual accompanying engagement ring. She was well but simply dressed in a street suit. Nothing extraordinary about her in any' way. There was not a policeman In sight, yet. A woman be#| over the still form. ‘‘‘Yes, she is breathing,’ the woman said. ‘I think she has only fainted.’ “Just then a policeman arrived. S.and back, stand back, give her a little air! How do you expect her to

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1111 foretold the war of 1812 and that Donati’s comet in 1858 heralded the Civil War. Aristotle, the Greek, philosopher, believed comets were objects within the atmosphere of the earth. That view was retained throughout the middle ages. But though that idea was discarded several hundred years ago. It is only within a comparatively | recent time wa have arrived at a true understanding of the nature of comets. The older idea was comets were visitors to our solar system, coming in from outer space and disappearing into it again. A few comets, due to the gravitational force of the sun and one of the larger planets, were ‘captured.” so to speak and thereafter revolved around the sun in an orbit one end of which was comparatively near the sun and the other in the no ghborhood of the orbit of the planet which helped to effect the ■ “capture.” ’ Majority Disappear The majority of comets, however. were thought to visit us only once and then to disappear forever. Astronomers within recent vears’ however, have come to the conclusion ccmets are part of the sun s family—the solar system. They think the gravitational power of the sun must extend out into space past all the planets to a d'stance of several billion miles. Way out there In the outer regions of the solar system, astronomers think there must he small bits of material. What was left over, so to speak, wh°n the sun and planets were evolved out of the original nebula. In time, so astronomers believe, smaller bits of materia! would collect around the larger ones. With Increase in size, the effect of the pull of th# 1 sun would bn felt more and the body would start moving toward the sun. This body would constitute a comet. A study of the nature of comets supports this view. Comets appear to have a nucleus TAN- center from a few miles to several thousand miles In diameter. This nucleus is surrounded by the head or "coma” of the comet which is of a hazy, nebulous kind and from 10,000 to 1,000,000 miles In diameter. Tails Form New Sun When comets are first discovered by the largest telescopes they have no tails. As they approach the sun, the tails develop, getting larger and larger as they approach closer to the sun. Astronomers believe the pressure of the sunlight on the comet causes the finer material In the comet's head to be pushed out and this forms the tall. This view Is supporteed by the fact the tail always Ijolnts away from the sun. The nucleus of the comet Is believed to shine by reflected sunlight. Just what makes the tall shine is not known. Some astronomers think it Is arj electrical phenomenon of some sort. About fifty comets have been captured by planets. Thirty-six are the so-called Jupiter planets. That Is, the outer edge of their orbits is near the orbit of Jupiter. A few have been captured by Saturn, a few by Uranus and six by Neptune. These six Include the famous Halley’s comet which revolves around the sun once in seventy six years. Next article In series Meteors and the Boriiaral-Ijght Materials. A Thought The hoary head Is a crown of glory, if It be found In the way of righteousness. —Prov. 16:31. • • O' - LD age the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.—Robert Collyer.

live with all this gang around her?’ he yelled. , ‘‘The crowd moved hack making a larger circle around the woman who now showed signs of regaining consciousness. She opened her eyes and asked the usual question: ‘‘Where am I?’ “ ‘At the corner of Sixth and Main St.,’ said the officer. ‘Whut happened, lady, to make yer faint?’ “ ‘Oh.’ said the. woman, ‘I was coming down the street and saw a nice young fellow standing here on the corner and I looked at him, not meaning to flirt, but he cast his eyes down and blushed. Then I passed away.’ “ ‘My heavens, is it possible?’ ” said the officer.

WALSH SAYS DOME LEASE IS ILLEGAL Montana Solon Declares Contract With Sinclair Company Must Be Voided, Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave. \yM ASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Each W day adds to the public suspl--1. J cion dishonesty and malpractice were involved n the leasing of the naval oil reserves to private exploiters, says Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat, of Montana, Fall’s nemesis on the Teapot Dome investigating committee. Walsh pointed to Fall’s evasions and misleading statements before the Senate committee and -his elusiveness when the committee members sought Information as to details of the leases. “It is difficult to place any other Interpretation upon Secretary Falla’ deliberate attempt to misinform the committee,” Senator Walsh declared. “If the money was honestly obtained, why did he give the committee a fictitious source?” Walsh was referring to Fall’s letter to the committee in which be said he had borrowed SIOO,OOO from Edward p. McLean. McLean subsequently swore no such loan had been made and Fall indorsed this statement. Breaking Lease Warranted “Wholly aside from Secretary Fall’s particular activities at this time, the committee, I believe, h.is already gathered sufficient evidence of illegality to warrant the breaking of the leases,” Senator Walsh continued. “For one thing, no competent legal authority claims President Harding was within his rights when he transferred the administration of the naval reserves from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. "Congress in June, 1920, was averse to extending to the Interior Department any authority over the naval oil reserves, other than the very limited power conveyed by the general leasing law of Feb. 25. 1920. On June 4, 1920, Congress specifically Instructed the Secretary of the Navy to administer the naval oil reserves. Pur-pose Is Ignored "Notwithstanding this purpose of Congress, President Harding on May 31, 1921, turned over to the Interior Department the entire administration of the naval reserves. "That is one ground on which the leases may be abrogated. Other reasons also exist. It is believed the entire contract with the Mammoth Oil Company is void because It was entered into without competitive bidding. “The leasing of the reserves was Justified mainly on the ground it was! being drained by the wells In the adjacent Salt Creek field. “The Investigation brought out the fact that of 26,000,000 barrels of oil In the Teapot Dome reserve. 16.000,000 barrels are subject to some drainage. Experts estimated the maximum possible drainage to be 25 per cent. Loss Is Calculated

‘‘lf the Government should lose the 25 per cent of the 16,000,000 barrels through drainage, there would still remain between 21,000,000 and 22.000,000 barrels of oil In the total reserve. The question Is presented whether 22,000,000 barrels in the ground is to be preferred to 1.666.666 barrels in tanks. “The present Investigation was brought about by leasing of naval reserve No, 3, known as Teapot Dome. During the hearings it was disclosed reserves Nos. 1 and 2, in California, had also been leased, in this case to the Par.-American Petroleum Company, controlled by the Doheny inter, ests. , “Indeed, it Is perfectly plain the act of June 4. 1920, was stretched until It cracked in order to give Sinclair and Doheny these leases. If Congress had ben appealed to fer appropriation for building tanks It would have become necessary to disclose the secret purpose of the Interior Department to make the leases, and Congress would never authorize such a dissipation of the property.” Family Fun Good Chance The ship had just struck a reef and the captain had bellowed the command: ‘‘To the boats! Woman and children first!” "Oh. captain,” quavered an anxious passenger, “is thero any chance that we may escape drowning?” ‘‘To be sure, my good sir,” reassured the captain, ‘‘the boilers are likely to explode at any moment.”—American Legion Weekly. Fattier Knew How “I hear you were judge at a baby show. If I have heard you Say once, I have heard you say fifty times all babies looked alike to you.” “They do.” “Then how could you tell which was the prettiest baby?” “I judged by the mothers.”—Argonaut. As Daughters Are The old-fashioned woman who used to get up early enough in the morning to bake biscuits for the family breakfast has a daughter who wonders why the delicatessen people don’t answer the telephone.—Detroit News. Pointer for Wives ‘‘How long do you generally keep your maids?” “Oh, until they begin to show how sorry they are for my husband.”— Boston Transcript. Daughter Up to Date “Does Tom ever tell you any questionable stories?” “No, mother. I understand them all right.”—American Legion Weekly. Jimmy’s Bines “What’s Jimmy so blue about this evening.” “He brought his teacher a bunch of beautiful leaves from the river.” “What’s the matter? Didn’t she appreciate them?” “She did; that’s why he’s so disappointed. The little dear thought they were poison ivy."—Am. Legion Weekly.

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can get an answer to any queatton of fact or information by wriunc to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau, 1323 New York Ave, Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In st.impg for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extendfd research be undertaken. All other Questions will recclvo a t>eraonal wply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are eonfidenUal. —Editor. The following corrects an answer to a question in this column of Monday. Jan. 14: Pallbearers never ride behind the hearse unless they are immediate members of the family, or unless they are riding in various cars and are taking other people with them. Then they drop into the procession as any car would: but if the pallbearers go in a pallbearers’ coach, their place is immediately in front of the hearse. This Is Invariable, whether it be a military funeral or for some dignitary or any ordinary individual. Please give me the statistics as to how many county farms and Jails have beene closed since prohibition started? How many policemen and detectives have gone Into some other business on account of duli business? It would be impossible to answer tills accurately. What is the smallest breed of dogs? The Chihuahua, a Mexican breed. What does “Bart," after the name of Sir Walter Scott, mean? This is the abbreviation for baronet? If a member of the House of Commons in Great Britain hero mesa peer must he resign from the House of Commons? Yes. How many horses and mules were used by the American and French artillery during the whole period of the war? How many were killed or died In the service? There were 243,135 horses and mules employed by the American expeditionary forces in France during the war, and of this number 6,682 were killed or died.

What was the history of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII? She lived 1496 1533, was Queen of France, having married Louis VII; after his death in 1515 she married Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Her only child was a daughter. Frances, who became the wife of Henry- Grey, Marquis of Dorset, and the mother of Lady Jane Grey. For what is belladonna used? It is useful In medicine chiefly by virtue of its active principle, atropine, which Is a local anaesthetic and anodyne, hence the use of belladonna in superficial inflammation and muscular rheumatism, gout and neuralgia for deadening of pain. Applied to the eye it dilates the pupil, and It is, therefore, used by oculists In the ex : aminatlon of the eye. What should be done If a hot water heating system becomes frozen? Warm up the house very slowly, and as uniformly as possible, throughout the house. Do not heat any part locally except the expansion tank and pipe leading to It. It would be well to thaw this out first, starting with the tank and working back along the pipe which connects It with the rest of the heating system. Has any surgeon ever attempted to sew up a wound in the heart? If so, with what success? The operation of sewing up the heart after It has been pierced by a knife or stabbed was performed twice by a Washington, p. C., physicians. In the first case the person did not recover from the operation but In the Becond case he did. How many Brazil nuts are there in one shell? Where do they grow? There are from eighteen to twenty four nuts in a shell. They grow wild in South America and the entire production comes from that continent. Does President Coolidge belong to the Rotary ClubT No.

‘Out, Damned Spot’

Pie By BERTON BRALEY The apple of every American eye Is pie. For raisin’ the spirits and keepin’ ’em high. Take pie. From Miami, Fla., to Mackinac, Mich., Good pie is the berries, a peach of a dish, A food to meet each epicurean's wish Is pie. The old people sigh and the little ones cry For pie. The kind that you make —not the kind that you buy. Some pie Is punk in its filling and punk in its crust. And custard by people who never have cussed, But good home-made pie you can eat till you bust. That’s pie! A lemon pie’s never a lemon to me, Oh, my! I scream with delight when a cream pie I see, That’s PIE; I won't give the raz to a raspberry tart, I'm not at all chary of cherry; my heart At cocoanut pie gives a leap and a start What man has the consummate crust to deny The lure of a rightly made. Lightly made Pie? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

What Editors Are Saying Prospered (Shelbyvllle Republican) When the county treasurer of Marlon County turned his office over to his .successor on the first day of the year he had a balance of $7,000,000 on hand. The city of Indianapolis and Marion County have been under Republican control for a number of years. Never has Indianapolis prospered as it has during the last seven years. Taxes are not high and the of the city and the county have been well administered. Presidents rPt. Wayne Journal-Gazette) Ed Bush wants to limit expenditures in the Republican primaries for Governor. What’s the argument! Mr. Goodrich didn’t. Mr. McCray didn’t. These are the precedents. Why overthrow them? Through (Decatur Daily Democrat) Albert Fall says he Is through with ! politics. We should think so if for no other reason than that the public Is dono with him. He has admitted enough concerning the Teapot Dome oil lease transaction to assure Mr. Fall he is through with politics without any further declaration on his part. Duty (Frankfort Evening News) So far as Indiana State politics is concerned, there seems to be no derth of candidates in either party. Indeed, the field is white with harvesters. Os course this does not mean the candidates are farmers; as a matter of fact, farmers are not shieing their hats into the political ring. Maybe they regard it as a primary duty to get a certain white collared farmer out of the ring who has sort of gotten things mussed up. Rush (Goshen Daily Democrat) Aerial experts are said to be convinced that the Shenandoah will have no trouble In reaching the north pole. So far as we are concerned there will be no rush to book passage. Plenty (Ft. Wayne News Sentinel) Gee, but wouldn’t Gen. Smedley D. Butler, as chief of the Ft. Wayne police department, find plenty to do

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Beech Grove Defense To the Editor of The Times Hello, folks of Beech Grove! We are proud of ’Jhird Ave. We want to say Sheriff Snider never has been called yet to our street. But if he should come, maybe It would be a very’ good thing if he would bring the board of health. Possibly the author of the article that appeared in The Times criticising Beech Grove will ! need a waste basket and a few dust I cloths as a reminder. Please, Mr. | Writer, whoever you are, think twice I before you speak, and be sure you | are getting the right ones. "Judge not i that ye be not judged” is a very good motto to keep In sight. There is some need for curbing in some directions. But as far as housewives neglecting their duties in their homes, I think it is a mistake. The shoe might pinch some feet, but not all. MRS. S. D. L. Julietta Conditions To the Editor of The Times Answering a statement on conditions at Julietta Hospital for the Insane, greater falsehood could not be spoken by any man. I know, because I have visited the hospital once or twice every week for more than a year. The mattresses are regular cotton mattresses and not straw ticks, as Dr. Potter states. The patients are clothed, not in rags, but in the best of material suite-', for the winter. Dr. Morgan showed visitors through the building at any time, and there was no corner he would hide from any one. Everyting was clean and in place. There always was plenty of food and extra clothing In the storerooms. When Dr. Morgan left the hospital at the end of his term the patients cried for him to stay. If it were left to the people Dr. Morgan would be there today. I wonder If Dr. Potter will leave with as good a record as Dr. Morgan? H. E. O. Durban's Stand To the Editor of The Times I wonder what the attitude of Indianapolis citizens is on the stand taken, by Mayor Durgan of Lafayette? I did not hear his address, but read it in your columns. We can but assume from his talk that the project of putting the Holy Bible In every public school would be hopeless indeed were he to be elected Governor. We need real God-fearing men to hold the reins of Government. I am neither a Democrat, Republican nor Socialist, but I am an American. It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Math. 4:4. G. D. H.

Animal Facts

Horned lark, so called because of two tufts of black feathers on each side of hie crown, Is paying his annual visit to the United States right now. His home is northern Canada and Alaska, so that our winter is summer enough *for him. This fellow Is the only true lark in America. Two varieties of the bold and tapacious shrike, or butcher bird, live in North America. The shrike Is noted in bird family as having one tooth. He lunches on insects, young birds, mice, frogs, rats and such, which, curiously, he impales on a thorn or splinter when his appetite isn’t working. German peasants believe he accumulates nine victims before his dinner bell rings and they call him “nine-killer.” It’s hard work carrying around his own averdupois, but the elephant gets along habitually on only four to five hours’ sleep at night, divided into two periods—from 10 to 12 and 1 to 3 or 4 a. in.

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