Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1924 — Page 4

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THE MINE WORKERS of the labor movement in America lies in sanity. iJ There is in the present convention here of the United Mine Workers of America, ,as in every labor convention, a fringe of “Reds,” advocates of the so-called Third Internationale, and nearly every other variety of agitator against lawful and orderly procedure. Too often for the good of labor this element succeeds in getting itself before the public—because it is the element that makes the most organization. -■ ) Leaders of the United Mine Workers are making it plain that this element will not be countenanced and that the miners must proceed as good citizens. Fortunately, John L. Lewis and his friends are in the majority and they are succeeding, against com siderablc opposition, in keeping the affairs of the union on a rational basis. “Revolution is our middle name,” Philip Murray, vice president of the union, told the miners. But he hastened to explain the Russian type of revolution is not to be countenanced. Revolution in itself is not to be condemned. The world progresses through revolution. But to gain results in America, revolution must be conducted along peaceful, sane and economic lines. \ There is no room in the labor movement for Howats, Myers - coughs and their kind. The sooner the movement gets rid of them and convinces the public it does not approve of them, the faster it will progress, as it deserves to progress. ‘WHAT'S SIOO,OOO BETWEEN FRIENDS?’ fpnNE sensation treads upon another’s heels, so fast do they follow in the Senate Teapot Dome investigation. Multi-mil-lionaire Oil Operator Doheny told the Senate committee Thursday he was the man who loaned Fall the mysterious hundred thousand dollars, which Fall had previously told the committee he got from Edward B. McLean, Washington newspaper publisher. The loan was made in November, 1921, according to Doheny. Fall was then Secretary of the Interior in the Harding cabinet. A few months after Doheny handed him the SIOO,OOO in cash, in a handbag, Fall handed Doheny leases to naval oil reserve lands in California worth a hundred million dollars, according to Doheny’s sworn testimony. In his testimony Doheny emphasized there was no connection between the hundred thousand dollar loan and the hundred million dollar naval oil reserve leases. According to Doheny, Fall, an old friend came to him in November, 1921, and with tears in his eyes told him of his financial difficulties. What’s a hundred thousand dollars between old friends, especially when one old friiend can give the other old friend a hundred million dollars worth of oil, owned by the public. There is just one word that comes to mind in thinking of this transaction. That word is bribery. If a man whose family was hungry stole a ham he would be sent to the penitentiary on evidence less conclusive and damning. Before the last chapter is written in this story of knavery, twelve good men and true must pass upon the guilt or innocence of Doheny, Fall and even- body else against whom there is a reasonable implication of guilt. There must be an answer to the question: “Is there one law in the United States for the rich and powerful, and another for the poor and powerless t”

ROCKING THE BOAT mHE man who rocks the boat is considered, by every sane man. to be a fool. Yet we have men, in every walk of life, who are willing and eager to rock the boat that is carrying them safely to the haven of success. There are men who try to rock the financial boat of the world, in order possibly to spill out some rival of the business world. There are those that would rock the religious hoat, if they could gain a little notoriety or possibly drown some theological rival. In the teaching world, there is always a boat-rocking fiend. In the medical ocean, there are lots of boat-rockers and some that would even scuttle the ship, if they could. In the political field, there are hosts of boat rockers and the good old ship of state dips an awful lot of water. The passengers get mighty sick at times, but the boat-rocking will go on until the passengers rise in their might and throw a few boat-rockers overboard. Poincare is rocking the German boat, just now, and he thinks he has the German passengers about ready to go down with the boat, but he had better keep an eye overhead, for storms sometimes catch boat-rockers. Mussolini is leaning rather far out over the side of the Italian Bhip of state and he may take a spill into cold waters. Such things have happened. Os course, there are boats that need to be rocked, because the crews and passengers need something to keep them awake. ANOTHER JUDGE UNNECESSARY mNDIANA lawyers and Indiana members of Congress who are opposing the bill now ready for action in the United States Senate dividing Indiana into two judicial districts are taking the proper attitude. There is no need for a second Federal Court in Indiana. The dockets of the present court in Indianapolis never are filled and it would be possible for the court to handle many more cases. The bill has all the earmarks of a political move for the purpose of replenishing the pie counter and taking care of “deserving politicians.” Establishment of another court would necessitate appointment of another judge, of another marshal with his deputies, of another prosecutor with his deputies and of another clerk with his staff. New jobs where new jobs are not necessary hardly fulfills the pledges of Congressmen who have been insisting they are for ftecreaeed expenses and lower taxes. IT IS not Improbable that the Government’s advice to young Ltratonant Wood to stop speculating in Wall Street reached him the psychological moment and saved his golden fleece.

‘SHOOTING STAR’ IS METEOR JN REALITY Composed of Bits of Rock and Metallic Substances Left Over From Evolution of Original Nebula. ~•.*•* * * * S’*. - • *•' i.; . Earth VV:.A'" '<l V:- \ Tplf ®sun j! s b'ARM QF METE-O RS Cause of metoric showers THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS THE CAUSE OF SHOWERS OF “SHOOTING STARS” OR METEORS. THE EARTH, REVOLVING AROUND THE SUN, CROSSES THE HATH OF A SWARM OF METEORS, WHICH IS ALSO REVOLVING ABOUT THE SUN. THESE SWARMS ARE THOUGHT TO BE DEBRIS OF COMETS WHICH DISINTEGRATED.

BY DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz) E r ~~~“ VERYONE has seen a “shooting star.” Children say If L__, you make a wish when you see one, the wish will come true. Os course, a "shooting star” Isn't really a star at all. The stars, as we shall see later, are gTeat bodies, many of them a million times the 6ize of our sun and billions of inllea away. The "shooting stars” are little chunks of rock. One astronomer has called them bits of cosmic rubbish. It does seem as though they are bits of materials which was left over when the sun and planets were *TY>m Sims’ A Newspaper ANTI-SOBER NO TONGUES STEPPED ON AT THIRSTY MEETING M* -- ORE than 1,000 delegates at tended the anti dry meeting In >- Washington. The thirsty gathered to make faces at prohibition. Sober facts were presented. The law, they say. is making good drinks as plentiful as feathers on a gold flsh, but It is making bad drinks aa scarce as whiskers on Santa Claus. GOOD NEWS London Is going dance craxy. This Is fine. A dance craze will produce a great race of wrestlers. BAD NEWS Prisoners in the Carllnville (Til) Jail got drunk. We need a better class of people In our Jails. WORSE NEWS Brockton (Mass.) grandma bobbed her hair. Says she Is only S5. A woman Is as old as she bobs, CUSSING NEWS “Mah Jongg Is a menace,” says a Techny (lU.) preacher. It Is Increasing our cuss words. SPORTS Stanford (Ky.) teacher’s wife was his pupil. He spanked his pupil. Now she doesn’t love her teacher. Imagine a woman tryirtgto learn from her husband, or a husband teaching his wife anything. AVIATION NEWS Texas plane went nearly three miles in a minute, which Is faster than a dollar buying coal. ADVERTISING The editor’s pipe Is missing. The • pipe was chasing a cat yMterday and accidentally tore down a neighbor’s Answers to the name of Gumshoe. Liberal reward dead or alive. SCHOOL NEWS Henry Ford has bought his boyhood school, and now he can cut his initials on every desk. University of Washington offers a course in canning, but boys at many colleges get pickled. FASHIONS Berlin girls wear ankle-warmers. American girls stl)i dress to catch either a man or pneumonia. EDITORIAL The world is full of troubles. Fighting In Mexico. Talking in Europe. | Scandal In Washington. Jack Dempsey got wrecked In a seaplane. People who enjoy worrying should be very happy. FINANCIAL New York will have an $18,000,* 000 hotel. The news doesn't say If this is the cost or rate. A Thought The earth brlngeth forth fruit of herself; first the eblade, then the ear. after that the full com In the ear.— Mark 4:28. • • # T r ~~~~ HE feast is such as earth, the general mother. Pours from her fairest bosom, when she smiles, In the embrace of autumn. -—Shelley.

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evolved from the original nebula. The name which the astronomer gives the “shooting star” Is meteor. The meteors range In size from pieces of stone weighing a few ounces to ones weighing a ton or more. They revolve In space around the sun until they collide with the earth's atmosphere. The friction heats them white hot Rnd we See what we call a shooting star. Usually they are burned to fine ashes because of the friction. But occasionally an extra large one Isn’t entirely burned and falls to the earth. Examinations of these show them to be composed mainly of stond and Iron with traces of other metals. Group of Meteors The nucleus of a comet is nothing but a group of meteors In 1826, William Von Blela. a Bohemian astronomer, discovered the comet known as Blola’s Comet The comet was one which had been “captured” by Jupiter and so revolved around the sun only In every six or seven years. When it appeared In 1846. astronomers were amazed to see that It had divided Into two comets. In 1852, the two sections were still farther apart and growing filnter. In 1866 the comet failed to appear. In 1872 the comet like wise failed to appear, hot when the earth crossed tho comet's former orbit there was a brilliant shower of shooting stars or meteors. A German astronomer named KUnkerfues Interpreted the phenomenon correctly. The meteors were the remnants of the comet. There are many streams of meteors revolving around the sun In regular orbits. Whenever the earth crosses their orbit, there 1a a brilliant shower of shooting sta--s. Each of these meteor strearr s Is believed to have been a former comet. Numhor la Unestimatod The number of meteors In the solar system cannot be estimated. Astronomers estimate that there must be tens of millions of little meteors entering the earth's atmosphere ever twenty-four hours. Accumulated meteoric dust is found In the perpetual snows atop high mountains and has been Identified In the ooze dredged up from the ocean bottom. Our survey of the solar system Is now complete except for the zodiacal-light materials. When the sun is a few degrees below the horizon, a faint Illumination is still visible In the sky like a streak above the point where the sun disappears. It Is believed that the sun is surrounded by finely divided dust grains or very small bodies revolving around the sun In a shape much like that of a double convex lens. The light Is thought to be caused hy the reflection of sunlight from these particles. Hence they are called the zodiacal-light materials. Next article in series; The stars.. What Editors Are Saying Morals (Lebanon Daily Reporter) Two Lebanon men were discussing “moral atmosphere.” Sold one: “It makes me sick to hear a speaker bemoan the community’s cankering morals and decaying conscience. W e re not living in a perfect age and Lebanon is not Utopia yet, but things are getting better, not Worse. When I came to Ijebanon twenty years ago, rough dheks rode horseback into saloons. There were fights on the Streets every day. A woman wasn’t safe alone after night. Almost every buslnes man In town was a daily drinker. Think of the improved conditions we have today. It’s all right to urge us on to better things, but my stomach rebels when I am asked to swallow bunk about the communi ty’9 waning morality.” A poll of citizens probably would show that the large majority of folk are subject to the same nausea.

“ ‘lf you want something to eat,’ I said, ‘go around to the back door.’ ” “ ‘Thanh God,’ said the old negro, ‘I has at las’ found my own folks from [ the South. ”

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can get an answer to any question of fa- t or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Am. Washington. D C., inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply Medical, ieg*l and j marital advice cannot be given, nor can extendid research be undertaken. I All other questions will receive a personal -eply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. 1- What is Martha Lee's address? 2. Who was the Inventor of the Victor talking machine? 3. About how many people are there in the United States? V. V. 1. Address Martha Lee, care Indianapolis Times. 2. Address Victor Talking Machine ; Company, 28 W. Forty-Fourth St., New York City. . 3. Population of United States, 105,- ; 710,620. What was the population of the United States in 1860 and 1870? In 1860, 31,443,321; 1870, 38,558.371. What are the five principal causes of deaths in the United •FJtates? f Organic heart disease, pneumonia, tuberculosis, kidney trouble, cancer or malignant tumor. i What do the cities of Chicago and New York spend yearly for water? Chicago, $4,775,824; New York, $5,116*69. How many boys and girls who enter high school leave before graduating? Five hundred and sixty-one of every thousand boys and girls entering high school leave before the end of the fourth year. On what days of the week did the following days coine: Jan. 31, 1880; May 23, 1884; Dec. 4, | 1903? Saturday. Friday and Friday, respectively. What Is rosemary and for what I Is It used? A genus of plants of the family labiatae. It Is an erect evergreen j shrub four to eight feet high. with. ; linear leaves am! pale bluish flowers, I growing in sunny places, on rocks, j old walls, etc.. In the Mediterranean region. It Is generally cultivated as ! an ornamental or aromatic shrub. An : essential oil. oil of rosemary, obtained | from the haves, is frequently used as ; a perfume and as a principal inj gradient in Hungary water. Spirit ■ of rosemary, made by distilling rosemary with rectified spirit, Is used to j perfume lotions and liniments. Wild rosemary, bog rosemary and marsh rosemary occur from Labrador southward. What la the annual appropriation for the upkeep of tho White House? About $124,000 a year. How long does ptii>er money in general circulation hist? The .average length of life la two years. Who was it said it took a surgical operation to make a Scotchman see a joke? 1 Sidney Smith, in “Lady Holland's Memoir,” says; “It requires a surgical operation to get Joke well into . a Scotch understanding.” How many brooms arg used In the United States each year? ! Approximately 50,000,000.

A Matter of Etiquette BY BERTON BRA LEY When first they met each other he was four and she was three, And they hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette; He was very, very friendly, but no friendlier than she. And they hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette. So without an introduction they made frtjrds, as children will, And they went to school together through their childhood days, until They both started off to college—they were quite grown up, but still They hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette. He took her out to dances and he took her out to pl **s. And *bev hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette; They wore married to each other in their graduation days, And th v hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette. She was quite a dainty housewife and a mighty clever cook, And they had six lovely children In their snug suburban nook; Then one day she got a copy of a justly famous book, J Twas a. copy of the Book of Etiquette. Now the wife Is out in Reno, she has left her little roost. For at '•’* ■’he’s read the Book of Etiquette; She’d been living with a husband w*ho was never Introduced, Which was frowned on by the Book of Etiquette. When the tie that hinds Is severed, she’ll undoubtedly essay To re-meet her former husband In a mete and proper w r ar. And they’ll then proceed to courtship and a second wedding day, All according to the Book of Etiquette. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

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Editor’s Mail The editor I* willing to print view* of Times readers on interesting subjects. Make your comment brief. Blgn your name its an evidence of good faith. It wtll not be printed if you ob|ect. Whacks G. O. P. To the Editor oj The Times Mr. Coclldge tells the farmer he must work out his own salvation, but says to Congress: “Y'ou must not tamper with the tariff.” This is the very thing that is helping to rob the farmer. The President also advocated about a dozen more bureaus and committees and our substance now Is being eaten out with a multiplicity of committees and bureaus at large salaries and still increasing salaries all along the line and in most every vocation of life except the farmer and his help. Taxes are so high that the farmer and those who have visible property can hardly pay them and live, while tax free bonds and millions of other property goes free of tax. When we consider Fall being buried under Teapot Dome and our own McCray, we wonder If the Bloomington Htar man was right in saying it Is a hard thing to be a Christian and a Republican. * Edgar D. Bush will have no show for Governor as he has honest convictions and wants to “get there” on his merits. 6. W. SMELCER. Mission In Debt To the Editor of The Times Having read your warning against fake organizations. I thank you very much. Let me sound another one—beware of false teachers going around as wolves In sheep clothing, Imposing on the small missions and charities. As for me, I am ready for any investigation of my small books and can give addresses of some good worthy persons we helped from St. Louis to Chicago and thence to Indiana. I am alone in a sma'l mission hall nt 320 Shelby St. I have no solicitors out and must have help to carry on my humble work. Our home la lu rear of the mission hall. My rent Is slft. Have no money for gac. After falling from the Roman Catholic church when mother died, for

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eight years I had no church. Suddenly by a miracle of God the inspiration of gosp-1 work came to me. My priest taught charity first. I don’t, claim Romanism any more, just a pure faith In Jesus’ name, an evangelist to teach and preach Christ, no creed but Christ. Neither do I protest against any man’s religion nor will I permit any preacher to ridicule or single out any certain one. Faith, hope and charity go hand In hand. I’m In debt to an undertaker and a dairy. Let some unseen hand pay these bills. I’ll say It was God. COL. WM. J. SWEENEY. Good (Columbia City Post) The congregation of the First Church of Oak Park, Chicago, Is in a grand turmoil over the fact that their pastor has been named as “the man,” In a sensational divorce suit which has been brought by the husband of one of the active women workers In the church. The “Doctor” explains It on the ground that everything he did was to further the cause of the church.

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Family Fun Bobbie’s Trouble “Can’t I change my name today, ma?” “What in the world do you want tc change your name for?” “ ’Cause, pa said he will whip me when he gets home sure as my name a Robert."—London Answers. Dad in a Scrape " ’Smatter, old top, you seem to be worried. Trouble with the wife?” “Yes. This Is the latest I ever was out. I called her up about an hour ago and told her where I was, and—” "Well, you're all right, then.” “No. I’m not all right. I’ve forgotten where I told her I was.”—Detroit News.

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