Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1924 — Page 4
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WORDS. WORDS, WORDS* ■priIIOCEEDIXGS in the Senate this week have been rather I painful. On one side of the chamber has been every disposition to whittle down and minimize action of the vigor and promptness the gravity of the naval oil lease situation warrants. This comes from the old guard Republicans with Lenroot, Smoot, Lodge, Curtis, Willis and such at the laboring car. Words, words, words. On the other side of the chamber action has been delayed and the issue beclouded tjy interminable speeches and political and personal harangues by Democratic Senators who preferred to talk for the Congressional Record rather than act in the public service. Words, words, words. On both sides of the chamber were Senators who sat with more or less patience awaiting the moment when quibble and bombast would let up enough to permit business to be transacted. Last Monday Senator Walsh laid the whole oil lease and contract matter before the Senate. Since Mr. Walsh took his seat not a single essential statement of fact or of law was added to the Record. The case was clear. , It was demonstrated by Walsh the executive order which sought to transfer the naval oil reserves from the Navy Department to the Interior Department was illegal and therefore invalid. . Senator L’enroot, chairman of the Naval Lands Committee, admitted this and not a single Senator denied it. If that order was invalid then every lease and contract based on that order was invalid and the Senate should say so. If Lenroot knows thee now, he, as a lawyer, should have known it on Oct. 22, 1923, when the naval oil reserve leases and contracts, which had been sent by the President on June 7. 1922, to the Senate in response to Senator La Follette’s resolution of April 29, 1922, were read into the records of the Public Lands Committee. • There were only a few assential facts: 1. President Harding's original order was admitted by all parties to have been unlawful. 2. The leases, let without bidding, were unlawful. 3. The contracts for construction of tanks and purchase of supplies up to about $100,000,000 made without bidding, were unlawful. 4. Secretary Fall received money, by way of loan, perhaps from at least two interested parties. 5. Secretary Denby signed leases about which, he repeatedly testified, he knew little or nothing and didn’t understand 6. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, who was go-between for Fall and Denby, was a former business associate of Sinclair aud in 1919 had got a job for his brother Archie with Sinclair “to learn the oil business.” Fall got the loans, Roosevelt got the job. To enable Sinclair to take full possession of Teapot Dome, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt sent marines to drive other oil operators off the field. This was July 30, 1922. Now, if Doheny and Sinclair are driven off the field by this declaration of Congress that the whole business —executive order, leases and contracts —is void, Doheny and Sinclair can start their suits and the courts can decide. That would put the burden upon the oil friends and associates of Fall and Roosevelt instead of upon the Government After three days of quibble and bombast the torrent or words was checked and it only took five minutes to do the jor—and not a single Senator voted no. MIXERS’ WAGE STAND SHE United Mine Workers of America, in session in Indianapolis, have informed the operators of their wage demands. They call for a continuance of the present scale for four years and any other concessions that can be obtained from the operators. These demands are not unreasonable. Mining is a,hazardous occupation and, with the industry in its present state, miners, even with the present scale, which is high as compared with previous years, do not make unreasonable wages when a year’s earnings is considered. Men in building trades receive much higher wages. Their pay is high partly on the theory that because of weather conditions their work cannot be steady. For a different cause, the miner’s work probably is not as steady as that of men in building trades. This is because of an unsteady market and overdevelopment of the industry. The next move is up to the operators. If they reject the demands of the miners there will in all probability be another strike. The economic loss from a strike would be greater than anything that could be gained by either side. It is to be hoped that an amicable settlement can be reached. A MAN—AND A POLTROON RIELEASE of Corliss Hooven Griffis, former American Army officer, from a German prison, where he was serving sentence for attempting to kidnap Grover Bergdoll, slacker and outcast American, is a tribute to the power of the press. Several newspapers in this country, including the Indianapolis Times, spread widely the sentiment of the people with reference to Griffis and his daring exploit. More than 4,000 readers of The Times, including veterans of the Civil, Spanish-American and World War, signed petitions urging the Government at Washington to use its good offices in Inducing the German authorities to release the Yank. Griffis stands as a type of soldierly manhood. The poltroon he tried to bring back to America will continue to drag out his miserable existence in Germany, whence he fled to escape army service. He’s a member of a millionaire family, but his humiliation and cowardice cannot be wiped away by gold. GOLLY, BOY! Wouldn’t you like to be the “red cap” at the depot who carries Albert Bacon Fall’s suitcase? GEN’RAL DAUGHERTY reports from Florida that he “is not worried.” Os course not. The Gen’ral’s leaving the wording to the American people. THE WAY this fellow Lenroot is ruining his chances of reelection defending the naval oil leases in the Senate makes folks think he’s trying for lame-duck ambassador appointment.
APPEARANCE OF NEW STAR IS STARTLING Astronomer Calls It ‘Nova’ —Great Brightness Lasts Only Few Days, Then Wanes to Original Condition,
THE APPEARANCE OF NOVA AND COMETS HAVE ALWAYS CAUSED PANIC AMONG THE SUPERSTITIOUS. IN CHINA TODAY. BONFIRES ARE LIT, FIREWORKS %ET OFF AND REVOLVERS FIRED. TO DRIVE COMETS AWAY*. THE ARTIST PICTURES SUCH A SCENE HERE.
By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. Copyright by David Dietz. JNE of the moat startling facta revealed by astronomy is the t___ occasional appearance of a new star. The astronomer calls it a nova, after the Latin word for •'new.*' A star suddenly blazes forth in the sky where previously none was visible. Or else a star that has always shown with a very faint light suddenly becomes one of the brightest stars in the heavens. But the great brightness lasts only a few days, sometimes only a few hours. Then the star slowly begins to wane until at last it drops back to its original condition. It is small wonder that in the earl£ days of history the appearance of a nova, like the appearance of a comet, was the source of superstitious fear and panic. The first mention of a nova is found in the year 143 B. C in the Chinese Chronicles, Other anention of new stars follows through history but it is not certain but The Daily Smile POLITICAL POT SHE political pot right now Is a teapot. The kind of tea made In this teapot is T. N. T. Instead of serving this T. N. T. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon they are serving It at all hours. As could be expected, many officials are being blown up in the T. N. T. trouble. They claim somebody’s palm was greased with oil. Now they want to use this same oil to put skids under the greased. We have a slick bunch In Washington. SOCIETY A doctor wants to take an X-ray of Bryan to prove his ancestors were monkeys. The doctor says this will give us some inside information. HOME HELPS 'TT. S. Loses Fight on Sugar Pricea"—Headline. That isn't very sweet for the housewife.
ADVERTISING New York girl got on her ear because a man stepped on her toes. Girls, we are putting out ladles’ brass knucks to be used On men who have too much brass. Buy now and avoid the mush. EDITORIAL Figures show very few congressmen gain weight during a session. This may be because they had rather talk than eat. While very few gain weight, many gain weighty arguments. But Just as ln gaining weight, a weighty argument makes one short of breath. Every congressman should trike a course under Jack Dempsey before going to work. MARKETS The spring building boom plans are under way. A building boom sounds like prosperity. POKERS POKED The first poker game was played when a woman chased her husband with a poker. But in Cleveland three cops arrested eleven detectives for shuffling the pasteboards. That made a full house. Instead of seven come eleven it was Just "come eleven,” and the eleven came. Set a thief to catch a thief is an old suggestion. It should be changed to set a cop to catch a cop. SCHOOL NOTES Teacher married the superintendent of schools in BarnesviUe, Ohio. Only eleven more months of leap year. FOREIGN NEWS t They claim a Mexican plot is being hatched in the United States. That’s the trouble with plots, they will hatch. MEDICAL NOTES Many quack doctors are ducking for cover.
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that some of these records apply to comets and not actually to new stars. A true nova was seen in 1572 by the great astronomer Tycho Brahe and named Tycho's nova in his honor. In 1604 a nova appeared which was named Keppler’s nova in honor of the astronomer Keppler, who took great interest in it. Many Unobserved Between the years 1572 and 1917 there were thirty-two novae observed. Os these twenty-two have been observed since 1886. From this it Is fair to assume that In earlier days before astronomy reaheed its present state of organization, many novae went unobserved. Three theories have been advanced to explain the formation of novae. The first is the collision theory. This assumes that a star that has grown so faint as to be no longer visible, or a very faint star, collides with another star. The result of such a collision would be the generation of tremendous heat and would cause the great Increase in brilliance of the nova. This theory, however, is not widely held today. The two more popular theories are the nebular and the tidal theories. The nebular theory assumes that in the heavens there are many dark nebula great masses of gaseous material differing from the visible nebulae in that they lack luminosity. The friction developed by a star plowing through such a nebula would be sufficient to increase its heat until it blazed forth as a nova. The tidal theory assumes that a second star passes near the first one. If the second star was massive, its gravitational pull upon the first would be such as to pull molten material at the center of the star out through the surface. Feeble in Comparison The human mind cannot grasp such a cataclysm. An eruption of Vesuvius would be as feeble as a candle light beside It. Oreat masses of heated n -rial would bo pulled out and sent blazing into space for hundreds of millions of miles. This would of course cause a great temporary Increase In the brilliance of the star. An Interesting fact Is that since July, 1917, seventeen novae have been observed and that fifteen of these have been observed within a class of luminous nebulae known as spiral nebulae. This has an important hearing upon our understanding of nebulae, as we shall see in dealing with that subject. Next article In series: The Nebulae
Family Fun In Suspense "I want you to decide which one of these kittens we are going to keep.” "Can’t it wait for a day or so?” “What—and keep the poor little dears in suspense?”—Judge. Sonny on Division "Can you tell me, little Eric, how many apples each your sister and you would have if you had eight apples to divide between you?” "Who would divide them; my sister or me?" Sister Postpones Him “I realize I’ve nothing to speak of now, Peggy. But the boss says I'm a rising young man." "Good. When he says you’re a raised young man. come around.”— Judge. Out of Style "Darling, my love is like a surging wave. I’ll never leave you.” "You’re in the wrong place, then. I don’t like permanent waves.”— West Virginia Moonshine. Sister’s Hoarseness "What do you do when you’re kissed?" "I yell.” "Well, will you yell if I kiss you?” "Hu-uh! I’m still hoarse from last night."—Sun Dial.
who is crazy on the subject of Shakespeare and there is such a thing as carrying it too far. Not long ago he wont in the bank to pay a, note, saying ‘Oteller, Cashio, Desdemona, Iago!"
QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1323 New York Are., Washington, D. C., inclosing 3 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered AU letters are confidential.—Editor. How did the “Bible” get its name? It is said this comes from the word biblus, the name of a reed which grows in the marshes of Egypt. It was from the leaves of this reed that paper was manufactured for use ln the making of books, and the word "Bible,” meannig literally "book," gets its name from this reed. Who was th 9 first English sovereign to use a fork? Queen Elizabeth. It Is said a clergyman of her day preached a sermon against the use of forks, declaring their use was an Insult to Ood, who had given mankind fingers with which to convey their food to their mouths. Where is the largest salt shaft in the world? A salt shaft, said to be the largest in the world, has been sunk at Retsof, N. Y. The shafv is 9x28 feet and contains three elevators by which the vein is reached, 1,000 feet below the surface. When working at full capacity the mine will produce about 3,000 tons of rock salt a day. In what State is a Governor not eligible for re-election for any two successive terms? He is not eligible ln r lorida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Misslsslpi, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. What is the average number of cars turned out by the Ford Company ln one working day? The average turnout per working day is 4,000. On June 23, 1921, they turned out 4.454 cars. How many farms are there under irrigation on United States reclamation projects, and how many people do they support? About 40,000 farms, supporting ap proxlmately 150,000 persons. What Is the ruling on a ball hitting the bat when the batter is trying to get out of the way? A ball hitting the bat of the batter in called a strike, whether he swings at the ball or not What is an omnibus bill? A sweeping measure that covers & number of lesser bills introducing, for example, the omnibus pension bill, has Incorporated in it a large number of private pension bills presented by members of Congress. How long has Brookjyn been a part of New York City? Since Jan. 1, 1898. Is it necessary to leave any tnee sage with the servant when you call and do not find the lady at home? You can aay. If you wish. *1 am sorry not to have found Mrs. Blank at home.” You must leave your card, of course. Water makee my complexion rough. What can I use to prevent this? Bee that you use soft water, and after washing your face carefully for the night in order to remove the dust of the day, use a delicate cold cream, rubbing It gently over the face. I,eave this on over night. In the morning the face may be washed, but less thoroughly, and again apply a little cream before putting on rouge and powder. Dwelling Places By BERTON BRALEY The Palaces of Ilium, of Nineven and Tyre Were doubtless very wonders ul and gorgeous to behold. Upholstered in magnificence to please a king's desire With heavy silken trappings and with Jewels and with gold. The Palaces of Sybaris, the Palace* of Rome, The Castles of King Arthur or of Russian Katherine And other famous palaces where monarchs made their home Were mighty, rich and sumptuous, but not clean. The Oriental potentates or barons of the west Who dwelt In edifices of imperial design, With many slaves and servitors to answer their behest, Did not possess a palace with the luxury of mine. I dwell ln lofty eminence above a city street, I speak across the distances upon a throbbing wire, For light, I push a button, and the radiator’s heat Has got it over anything King Arthur could acquire. There wasn’t any plumbing ln those palaces of old, And when it comes to comfort, I am pretty certain that Those emperors and potentates would marvel to behold The clean and cozy snugness of my little city flat. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
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Vet’s Thanks To the Editor ol The Time* I am more than pleased with the untiring efforts of The Times in helping put over the soldier bonus. I enlisted from Greene County, Ind., near Linton, and went to Jefferson Barru'-ks, Mo., May 7, 1918. Served in the Medical department and was assigned to various railway divisions and first fifty-three Railway Engineers at Ft. Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind. Then I served in France. FRANK D. NEAL. Colfax, lowa. Slam at Police To the Editor of The Timee I was standing at Illinois and Washington Sts. Wednesday at 4 p. m. waiting for a friend. There were some young fellows about my own age standing in front of me, when along came a police sergeant, who spoke broken English. He told these young fellows to clear away; that they were the type of lads that has been committing hold-ups and burglaries. They seemed to me to be clean cut. Then he turned to me and told me to clear away, too. I told him where I was working and that I was waiting for a friend. I have time off between 2 and 5 p. m. He told me he didn't care where in b I was working in front of a group of people who had gathered, and said the next time he saw me there he would “ride me in the patrol.” Why don’t the police catch real crooks Instead of fourflushlng? A PAGE AT COLUMBIA CLUB. Oonvee Right Hack To the Editor of The Timee Just a word to “Greenfield, Indiana," reader on his comment on my letter: I stated the population of the entire State of New Hampshire will compare well with the city of Indianapolis. They have hlfls there similar to the hills of Brqwn County, but they have good roads, much beter than those between Indianapolis and Evansville via Spencer. New Hampshire has 46,000 autos, whereas Indiana has more than a half million. New Hampshire's pop-
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ulation is 443,083 and Indiana’s 2,930,390 for 1920. . Now the secret, tor the "Widow from Kentucky” who asked how I lived on $16.50 per week and paid $17.50 for coal per ton. $5 poll tax and ran my car, etc., is—in the hills of New Hampshire your health costs you nothing and the different villages pay a certain amount per year (same as salary to have a doctor remain in their community. So there are no doctor or drug bills. My house rent for a Bevenroom house was $7 per month, with coal shed, garage, woodshed, all under one connecting roof, same as all New England homes are built. That is one thing in favor of New Hampshire. They build a barn better and more comfortable than most Indianapolis rental houses. Floors are all double with paper ln between. Sides of houses are sheeted, then building paper, then siding. Windows and doors are reinforced ln winter with extra storm doors and windows, and snow from three to five feet deep all winter also helps to keep the place warm. When we had temperature 30 degrees below zero last winter it, did not feel as cold as freezing weather does here. There we bought a whole hog for meat, flour by the barrel, canned goods by the case, sugar by the hundredweight. We had a large garden and raised and canned beans, corn.
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A Thought Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.—Prov. 17:28. ILENCE is one of the hardest kinds of arguments to refute. u There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.—H. W. Shaw. etc., same as they all do. We paid cash and bought enough to last a month or more. How's that? ROY E. CARPENTER, 837 Birch Ave. or “Sweet Aroma” Ave. Teddy (Logansport Pharos-Tribune) And again the fatal triangle—Fall at Washington, Anderson ln New York and McCray ln Indiana. If Theodore Roosevelt were still living, there are other notable names throughout the country that might be added to his famous "Ananias Club.” • • • Teapot (Wabash Times Star) If, when retiring from public life, Albert S. Fail is to receive a loving cup, let it be in the form of a teapot.