Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1924 — Page 4

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UP TO THE PRESIDENT a l t | HAVE never approached E. L. Doheny or any one con- | I I nected with him or any of his corporations, or Mr. H. F. Sinclair, or any one connected with him or his corporations, nor have I received from either of said parties one cent on account of any oil lease or upon any other account whatsoever/’ wrote Albert B. Fall to the Senate Teapot Dome committee on Dec. 27, 1923. “On the 30th day of November, 1921, I loaned Albert B. Fall SIOO,OOO on his promissory note to enable him to purchase a ranch in New Mexico,” testified E. L. Doheny on Jan. 24, 1924, before the same committee. One day later Col. J. W. Zevely, attorney for Sinclair, who is in Europe, testified before the Senate committee he personally had taken $25,000 from Sinclair to Fall. It was a loan, he said. Thus the Senate Teapot Dome committee and the public learned from sworn testimony Fall had received money from both the oil magnates to whom he turned over enormously valuable naval oil reserves. This completes, the chain of evidence showing these leases were turned over to exploiters in such a manner as should cause the breaking of the leases without delay. Doheny’s admission proved the charges of misconduct in the California oil leases. Zevely’s admissions prove them in the case of Teapot Dome. It is now time for some action on the part of the President. “HELPING THE FARMERS” mT seems hard to believe that so serious a student of affairs as the President could set out to find a way to help the farmers and yet so completely overlook the real reasons for the farmers’ troubles. The Coolidge idea of helping the farmers out of their deplorable economic plight, as revealed in that special message of the President to Congress, is to make it easier for them to borrow more money, and with Yankee ingenuity he suggests several ways to do that. Getting deeper into debt is precisely what the farmers don’t want to do. The Times recently published a series of articles by Herbert Quick, who is a practical farmer himself as well as a recognized authority on farm questions, which brought this point out clearly. The farmers, said Quick, are already in debt to the extent that interest is eating them up. They are paying interest on inflated land values, and are paying taxes as well. The returns £h.ey receive for their products leave little or no profit after their overhead has been met. How, then, will it benefit them to get deeper into debt? VThat the farmers need, as Quick demonstrated, are lower freight which will enable them to ship their produce to market at a profit. They need foreign markets, cut off from them by the Fordney-McCumber tariff and the policy of isolation. And they need cooperatives to eliminate the profiteering middleman, both in buying and selling. Some may call it help to make it easier for the farmers to slip deeper into debt, but the farmers won’t.

TAX BOARD'S FIGURES -iYH HERE does your dollar of taxes go? If anything is to be W accomplished in the general demand to slash taxes, then consideration of how the tax dollar is spent seems most essential and logical. Urging a reduction is one thing; pointing out a definite and specific place where the ax is to fall is another. Thirty-six cents of the Indiana tax dollar goes to the common schools. Roads take 21 cents, based on the 1922 schedule. City and town government requires 20; county government, 11; township government, 3; and State government, 2. * State colleges take 2, while benevolent and correctional institutions, 4. • These facts, prepared by William C. Harrison, secretary of the State board of tax commissioners, deserve intelligent study. HARNESSING INDIANA RIVERS "T"| DREAM of yesterday, a realization of today. Such is the A story of the streams in Indiana which are being harnessed by hydro-electric plants to supply electricity for lighting farm homes and performing rural tasks, as well as for turning the wheels of industry in town and city. Three large plants were started in 1923, while two other companies have been organized this year to make the water-power dream come true. Hydro-electric power is of pertinent interest today. Conservation of natural fuel resources become an urgent matter when supplies are rapidly, going. That time is not near by hundreds of years, but it is nevertheless a geologic fact. Putting rivers into harness is another forward step in the march of progress. PNEUMONIA, THE KILLER Yy/|E are in the season of year when pneumonia, which annually W kills 120.000 persons in the United States, reaps its greatest harvest. To guard against this scourge you should be careful to check a cold, no matter how slight it may be. The brand of weather we are having makes many of us susceptible. One day we bundle up and the next the daring ones step out of office or factory minus an overcoat. Figures of the United States public health service announce 3,107 Indiana residents died of pneumonia in 1922. New York ranked first with 14.212 fatalities. Then came Pennsylvania, Hlinois, Ohio, Missoyri and New Jersey. California, Indiana and Michigan were in the 3,000 deaths class. Indiana State authorities are pushing a crusade to curb the 1924 rate. It i9 up to you to help. Don’t be foolish. SENATOR ELKINS of West Virginia, another member of the millionaire club, comes to the front to support Mellon’s tax bill. West Virginia must be thankful for even this little evidence that Elkins is still in the Senate. NOW that Secretary Mellon has discussed the taxes paid by Senator Couzens of Michigan, we inquire: First, if the income ax laws demand secrecy, where did Mr. Mellon get his informaion about Couzens’ tax and what law permits him to make public any such facts, and, second, why does not Mr. MaUon now discuss bis own tax payments!

STARS DWARF OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM Diameter of Some Is 400,000,000 Miles, While Sun Is Only 866,000 —Stellar Universe Shaped Like Grindstone,

EDMUND HALLEY WAS BORN IN 1656 AND DIED IN 1742. HE’S BEST KNOWN FOR HIS DISCOVERY OF THE COMET KNOWN AS HALLEY’S COMET. BUT HE MADE OTHER IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASTRONOMY". HE WAS THE FIRST TO DISCOVER THAT THE STARS WERE NOT “ FIXED,” BUT -POSSESSED MOTIONS OF THEIR OWN.

BY DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times (Copyright by David Dietz.)

EET us leave the solar system now—Hhe tun and his little family of planets —and step out into the great realm of the stars, the stellar universe. The step is quite a large one, for the stellar universe dwarfs our little solar system. The distance from the earth to the sun. It will be recalled, was 93.000,000 miles. The distance from the earth to the nearest star Is 275,000 times as far as that. The diameter of the sun is 866,000 miles. The diameter of some of the larger stars is 400,000 miles. The stars visible to the naked eye seem countless, as the poet likes to put it. The astronomer knows though they run Into the thousands

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TROUSERS FAMpUS EDITOR SOLVES HARD PROBLEM EATELY our trousers have been bagging so at the knees we found taking them off at night becoming very difficult. Three weeks ago we could remove them by imagining they were boots, and tugging accordingly. Two weeks ago we were forced to start using a bootjack. One week ago the bootjack broke. Then, by nothing less than Inspiration, we remembered a “home help” we wrote last summer. We put the trousers on backward. . After wearing the trousers backward three days the bag at the knees was gone. Now we plan to alternate, one day the trousers will be on right and the next day on backward. If your trousers suffer from kneebagging try this plan. HOME HELPS Letters from an old flame are fine for starting a fire. EDITORIAL A scientist is planning to send a rocket to the moon. This Is aiming pretty high. Even if he fails, as seems likely, he will enjoy the fun of trying. So the moral is: Don't look at the ground unless you want to go that direction. ADVERTISING The pipe named Gum*|u>e Is still missing. After robbing a tobacco store late last night it escaped by tripping up three cops and suffocating all the firemen when they answered a general riot call. Liberal reward for the pipe, dead or alive. SPORTS There are good sports and bad sports. A good sport Is a man who can whistle “My Country Tlseof Thee” while paying his taxes. A bad sport is a man who spends so much time cussing Congress he has no time to vote. BRO. TOM’S KITCHEN When too lazy to wash the dishes say you mUst let them soak. BEAUTY SECRETS Is Borne other girl taking your sheik? Smear a little glue on your lipstick. ETIQUETTE Never say, “I am glad to meet you” to a bill collector. This is needless lying. BEDTIME STORY ‘.‘Daughter, tell that saphead to go home.” HEALTH HINT Throwing the clock at the cat may be fun, but it is considered unhealthy by the cat.

Heard in the Smoking Room

|7m) HERE was one man In the I smoking room of the Pullman . 1 land the porter came In with something on his mind beside his cap. "Yes, sah, boss, I was In the war. Thw put me In the lockup onct fur stayin’ ovu leve in Paris, France. There was two other nlggahs in the lockup and you would have been interested in the This wise:

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they are not countless. He has catalogues listing the position In the heavens of not only the stars visible to the naked eye but of thousands visible only with the telescope. ' Number Grows Greater As larger ahd larger telescopes are used, the number of stars visible in them grows greater and greater. One might suppose the number of stars were infinite. But the astronomer can demonstrate by mathematics this is not so. If the stars were infinite In number, the light of one would be added to the light of the next and the result would be a sky of one great blazing sheet of light. It is now •erfmatod there are about 3,000 million stars in our universe. These are believed to range in size from gigantic stars whose diameter may be 400,000 miles or more to stars with one-half or one-third the diameter of our sun. Astronomers believe the universe to be shaped very much like a large grindstone with the sun and Its attendant planets somewhere near the center of the grindstone. When you look up at the Milky Way you are looking up along the ’diameter of the grindstone. When you look at right angles to the Milky Way you are looking out through the fare of the grindstone. Astronomers reach this conclusion from the fact that in the Milky Way the stars are so thick they appear to the eye more like luminous clouds than stars and as you recede from the Milky Way, the stars gradually grow' fewer in number. No Fixed Stars The ancients spoke of the fixed stars. But we know now this Idea Is also untrue. Careful observation with delicate apparatus reveals the fact al! the stars seem to be moving in two great drifts or streams. In addition to these two streams, there are also groups or clusters of stars which appear to he moving in parallel lines toward some common destination. And now you may nsk, how large is this grindstone which constitutes the stellar universe? In answering this question, the astronomer takes os his unit the distance which light, traveling 186,000 miles a second, would traverse In a year. He believes that the ''grindstone” is about 15,000 light years In diameter and about 3,000 light years In thickness. Next article in series: The Kind of Stars.

Animal Facts

Roast silkworm may soon be out of order. You know, the silk worm of commerce winds his gossamer web in a sealed cocoon, and, to get at the goods Inside properly, it is put in an oven and the bug is heated to death. Now a silkworm 1 as been discovered in Assam which leaves its little workshop open at one end except for a film of silk. Thus, the silk and the worm can both bo saved, the Latter to go on living and produce more of Its kind. "Pekoe” tea, which we drink, isn’t a brand but a variety grow-n in China. First, two leaves from the bud at the end of each twig are tlie finest quality of the plant. These leaves grow hairs and !n them is the flavor. Pick a handful of this out of your tea caddy and you’ll see some silvery bits among the dark leaves. These are the hairs and the two leaves ground up. Name pekoe comes from the Chinese word “pak-hoa,” meaning ‘Vhite hairs.” In southern Europe they pick their almonds when green, eating them with salt.

“ Two months.’ “ ’Whut fer?’ " ‘Robbin* the major’s house. Whut yer in*fer?’ ” ‘Two weeks.’ ” ‘Whut cher do?’ “ ‘Me? I killed a surgent!’ “ ‘Humph! me In fer two months fer robb}n’ the major’s house and you gits two weeks fer killin’ a surgent. How come?’ " ‘Yes, but they'a gwlnna hang me, '■

UNDERWOOD MAY LOSE OWN STATE Musgrove Candidate Against Senator From Alabama in Primary, By LOWELL MELLETT YY/I ASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—' The yy most exciting bit of political news that has reached the capital In some weeks comes from Alabama The effect of It is that Oscar Underwood is in serious danger of not receiving his own State's vote in the coming convention. It happens this way: The Alabama Legislature enacted a law practically barring all but native sons from the Alabama primaries. The Alabaman receiving the majority of votes in the primary is given the right to name the delegates to the national convention. The act was aimed primarily at McAdoo and Ford/and it seemed to have sewed up the State for Under wood. But the Legislature had for gotten a man named Musgrove. Was Narrow Squeak Two years ago L. B. Musgrove contested in the Democratic primaries with Underwood for the Senatorshlp Another Democrat did likewise. The result was a plurality of only 800 for Underwood, the narrowest squeak of his life. His majority over Musgrove alone was only 11,000. If the opposition to Underwood had not been divided, many Alabamans think, Musgrove would be sitting in the Senate. Now Musgrove, quite within Alabama’s new law, has filed against Underw r ood in the presidential primary. The interests, friendly to Underwood have shrieked to the heavens, but Musgrove has continued energetically perfecting his organization. The prestige given him by his excellent showing two years ago has drawn many practical politicians into his camp, but it is not upon them that he relies chiefly. Indorsed by Bryan In his race for the Senate he had the outspoken indorsement of W. J. Bryan. It is known he conferred with Bryan before filing this time and Bryan’s influence is certain to bo with him. The State W. C. T. U. has indorsed him, os has the State headquarters committee of the Anti Saloon League. He always has had the support of organized labor, notwithstanding he is a retired coal operator. He has financed various fights for labor In Alabama. So 4 with plenty of funds for the purpose, he Is out as "a dry - progresslve to beat Underwood, as a wet reactionary. A lot of folks suspect he may do it. This article f* onr of a srrte* deptctlns political condition* throughout the country.

The Week in Washington Teapot Dome Foreign AfTairs Tax Question Oil Scandal Develops Into Cam palgn Issue and Promises to Be Vital Factor.

by United /’rest WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The unfolding of the sordid tale of the Tea- ! pot Dome scandal before the Senate I committee overshadowed all other national developments this week. The naval oil lease question de- ! velepode Into an issue as important aa the Ballinger case, which wrecked the Taft Cabinet. Outstanding developments were there: E. L. Doheny, multi-millionaire oil man, test! lied he loaned Albert B. Fall the mysterious SIOO,OOO which enabled Fall to purchase a ranch shortly .after the Teapot Dome deal with Sinclair. Doheny received a $100,000,000 lease to a California naval oil reservo later frcm Fall. Col. J. W. Zevely, personal attor* ney for Harry Sinclair, oil magnate, testified he loaned Fall at least $25,000, receiving the sum for the purpose from Sinclair. This was after Sinclair got Teapot Dome from Fall. Archie Roosevelt, vice president of a Sinclair company, said he resigned because he suspected Sinclair’s practice with relation to the Government. Fomer Secretary Fall arrived In Washington, after being subpoenaed, but remained In seclusion, saying he was sick. He is to testify Monday. Political-minded folk declare the "scandal’’ will be a vital factor In the coming campaign. Foreign Affairs Secretary Hughes issued new warnings to the Huerta group in Mexico, but withdrew warships sent to Tampico to protect shipping. In the meantime he prevailed upon the Governor of Texas to permit Obregon troops to Move across the State, and two trains of them are en route to the Tampico region. Hughes also sold 6,000 more rifles to Obregon. Tax Question G. O. P. leaders of tho House, satisfied the Mellon plan could not pass without revision, offered to compromise with the Democrats to put the measure through. They did this in spite of the President’s statement taxes would be reduced as Mellon says and in no other way. The Democrats refuse to compromise, and tho tax question* Is still at a deadlock. Answer Call A certain rector just before the service began was called to the vestibule to meet a couple who wanted to be married. He explained there was not time for the ceremony then. ‘‘But,’’ he said, “if you will be seated, I will give an opportunity at the end of the service for you to come forward and I will then perform tpe ceremony.” The couple agreed, and at the proper moment, the clergyman said. “Will those who wdsh to be united in the holy bonds of matrimony, please come forward?” Whereupon thirteen wom- ' en and one man proceeded to the altar.

It Won’t Go Through That Way

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writinsr to tho Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cent* in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor i-an extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are conlldeuUal.— Editor. Is there any provision under the copyright ,aw for the protection of trade names? No; entry cannot be made In the copyright office for names, but trade can be registered at the trade mark dlvison of the United Stales Patent Office. What Is the egg-laying record? The record Is claimed for a white leghorn pullet owned by H. M. Leathers of Woodland, Washington, which laid 365 eggs In 364 days. When Is the proper time to cut soy beans for hay? At any time from the setting of the seed until the leaves begin to turn yellow, but the best time Is when the seeds are well formed. Did England buy United States bonds after the Civil War, and has she bought our Liberty i>onds? England as a nation dla not buy United States bonds after the Civil War. Individuals, however, did invest at the same rates at which bonds were sold to the American public. Six per cent bonds were Issued In 1861, 1862, 1864 and 1865. Five per cent bonds were issued in 186-}. For the last two years England has been a large purchaser of blocks of Liberty bonds. How many Indians were there In the United States at the time Columbus landed at San Salvador? It Is believed about 848,000. If all the tribes from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the Gulf to the Great 1-o.kes, had assembled at one great powwow they would have made up a community a few thousand larger than Cleveland or Boston. Has petroleum an organic or inorganic origin? Petroleum Is considered by most geologists to be of organic origin, as shown by Its persistent occurrence In sedimentary rocks, but wliether It has been derived from animals or plants, and If the latter, whether marine or land forms, la open to debate. Moreover, the exact details of the process by which organic matter* has been converted into oil and gas are somewhat obscure. As opposed to the organic theory, is the inorganic theory, which assumes that the oil and gas may be hydrocarbons, formed at great depths by the action of steam on metallic carbides, a process that can bo demonstrated experimentally, hue which is not borne out by field evidence. Can the President be arrested? Theoretically the President of the United States is absolutely immune from arrest for any cause whatsoever, unless, and until after, he is im peached and deposed. * How many stenographers and how many typists are there in the United States? The census bureau classes these in one groqp. In 1920 there were 615,154 persons in the United States employed as stenographers and typists. Is the anaconda a poisonous snake? No; it kills its victims by crushing them to death. Why is it not possible to make sugar from corn? It is possible. Anew process for making crystalline sugar from corn starch or from corn hominy or other starch materials )ys been developed expermientally In A laboratory of the bureau of chemistry. United States Department of Agriculture, by JI. C. Gore, a chemist working on methods for the more economical utilization of farm crops. The process is simple, but will not be pacticable for the farmer, as the method requires technical control similar to that necessary in making sugar from beets or cane. The investigational work has mt yet been completed. What are loganberries? A cross between |he Red Antwerp

Credulity By BERTON BRALEY I used to be a doubter when I was young and wise. I used to look upon the world with unbelieving eves. I said, ‘‘This cannot happen”; I said. "That cannot be”; I muttered, ‘‘That's Impossible, as anyone can see.’’ And then, “This” went and happened, and “That” was gospel truth. And what I called “Impossible” was simple fact, in sooth. But still I didn’t realize what should be plain to view, Most anything can happen, most everything is true! I scoffed at talk of miracles, and , even while I’d scoff Before my much bewildered eyes the miracles came off; I quoted laws and precedents to prove things were absurd. And ever as I gabbled on those very things occurred. Somebody always went and did the deeds that “no one can,” Somebody always put across the "wholly hopeless plan,” Until it dawned upon me, as It may dawn on you, Most anything can happen, most everything is true! I’m open to convction now, I’ll hear the maddest pleas To prove the sun is made of gold, the moon of Cheddar cheese; And even if I’m not convinced I hardly dare to doubt, Fof things I swear would never work are always working out. The world is full of ■wonderment, It’s silly to deny; The heresy we stone today Is gospel, by and by. My fond beliefs grow numerous, my doubts are getting few. Most anything can happen and most everything is true! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) What Editors Are Saying Good (Dally Clintonian) It’s an 111 wind that blows nobody good. Perhaps these below-zero days have had quite a Jlttle to do with quickening the general demand for coal that has started things up In coal centers like Clinton. T -I- -IWages (Goshen Dally News-Times) Leaders of the United Mine Workers of America now’ are seeking a long term contract with the operators, which would indicate a belief that the question of high wages has been sufficiently attended to. -I- -I- -IEnd (Waterloo Press) When Earnest Haynes of Ft. Wayne, was given his sentence last week before a Federal Judge at Toledo, he got a rather hard dose. Two years In Federal prison and a fine of $lO,000 is enough to make Haynes feel that his road house was not profitable, even if he did make a mint of money while he was selling liquor. It is the Enforcement of the law and the heavy fines and severe sentences that will put an end to liquor violations. -I- -I- -!- Conference (Muncie Evening Press) The miners are having a coal conference. Father has several in the cellar every day. -I- -I- ’!* Precedent (Bluffton Evening Banner) Governor McCray has pardoned a Kokomo bootlegger who was laying out a fine with the excuse that he does not believe In imprisonment for debt. Possibly the Goverpor is attempting to establish a precedent in this State.

A Thought

Lying lips are abomination to ttie Lord; but they that deal truly are his delight.—Prov. 12:22. • • should never take upon him j t.-vA* ~f It-1

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Car Fare View To the Editor of The Times After reading Corporation Counsel Groninger’s plea for relief for the street car company It struck me he had a lapse of memory. He says the street car company ha3 had no Increases during the peak of high prices. I would like to ask him If it is not a fact that about three years ago we could buy twenty-five tickets for $1 and now we get twenty, which means a 20 per cent inc ease; then they added 2 cents additional for each transfer. Then, If I am corfeet, our city administration relieved the street car company of paving between its tracks, which means a substantial increase. Also, the city council ruled all competition off the streets In favor of the franchise for which they formerly paid a good round sum into our city treasury, which they do not pay any more. All of this means more" revenue for the street car company. It seems as though the street car company has been treated very well. If they are not getting along they are at l.iult. JOHN J. RAY’. Gospel Chorus To the Editor of The Times Please publish this for the benefit of the Indianapolis Gospel Chorus. I believe if the choir would only hold Sunday afternoon services, we, as a church, would cooperate In Its effort, which is splendid. We need more young men In our city to stand up for Jesus as Mr. Joe Overmeyer does. A CHURCH MEMBER. About “Perfume” To the Editor of The Times In regard to Roy Carpenter—it always takes a starter to start things. Someone started a protest against higher auto license fees. I •read the paper. The Times mostly, and I am also a good listener. Yes, we pay high for everything. In regard’ to auto licenses here—lt isn’t that we care to pay the high price, but we wonder if they will put that money into the roads. I drive a car and I know that our roads could be better, but like the taxes and everything else, we have to take the bitter with the sweet. I think it is right that everybody pay taxes. Os course, there are some who slide by. Yes, Indiana Is beautiful, with Indianapolis in the center and Mr. Carpenter living on Birch Ave., surrounded by packing houses. Are you going to praise the sweet smelling perfume over there like you hold up for this high cost of everything here? A HOOSIER LADY.

Family Fun

Tickles ’Em "I notice your clerks are all In a fine humor; have you been raising their wages or something?” “Not so you could notice It,” answered the business man. “To be frank, it’s just because my wife has been in, and it tickles them to death to see someone boss me around.”— Argonaut. When Wives Talk Furs "I’m getting my husband to let me have my Kolinsky made over; is May doing anything with her squirrel?” “She’s making him buy her anew coat.’’—Judge. Even Baby Gets It “You kept baby out in his carriage longer than I told you to, Norah.” "But he wanted a long ride, ma’am. Every time I came to a corner he had his arm out signaling for a turn.” — Boston Transcript. Why Sister Sat Out “I can’t understand w hy you stayed outside so long with such a wonderful dancer as Charlie." “But he showed me some new steps —and we sat on them.”—Williams Purple Cow. i 7ur ' ■" 111 i > NEW FORDS FOR RENT Drive Yourself—All Models No Bed lane. New Central Station WALTER T. BOYER CO. 38 Kentucky Ave. LL ItM