Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1924 — Page 4

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WOODROW WILSON fTyTIILSON sleeps. |Wj Millions throughout the world bow their heads in sorrow today. The inevitable summons has taken from the stage of action a figure like that which comes to but few generations and enshrined him in memory’s treasure-house. Wilson sleeps—for it is wrong to say Wilson is dead. All men die the physical death that takes them back to the dust from whence they came, but genius cheats the grave. The light never dies! Is Plato dead, is Shakespeare dead, is Beethoven dead, is Lincoln dead? Their light spans the centuries and stretches on in the dim distance toward perpetuity. Their lives burn like a steady flame today as they will a thousand years from now and a thousand years from then. We deceive ourselves by false earthly measurements. We reckon all lives by the lengths of our own. We come to the full appreciation of worth only after time has crowned it with its glory. And so it will be with Woodrow Wilson. He has planted in the breast of mankind the seed of world democracy, taught that governments everywhere shall rule only by the just consent of the governed. To the peoples of many lands he has extended the thought of those fine principles of freedom and liberty in which our Government was conceived. He has imbedded in the souls of men the spirit of world peace. He has lighted the path that leads out of the hopeless wilderness of war. He has preached chat nations, as well as men, should live as brothers. That was his light for a shipwrecked world. As surely as time itself, it will burn in u steady flame, a torch of human liberty for the guidance of mankind. His ideals will prevail as the world progresses, just as surely as has civilization risen from the clubswinging cave man and the martyrdom of Christians in the Roman arena. The horizon of the future is bounded on all sides hv the triumph of the principles for which he stood. Generations yet unborn will honor his memory and treasure his lead. His dual creed of justice and peace in the conduct of the world can not fail; to predict against it would be to predict against the onward march of civilization and the steady progress of humanity, for this is but a logical step toward the ultimate goal. Wilson sleeps—but his light burns on.

THE LAW MUST BE VINDICATED t- ORMER Secretary of the Navy Daniels has issued a state- * ment the primary object of the naval oil reserve investigation should be to have these reserves restored to the Navy and that punishment of the guilty is secondary. It is pretty hard to disagree with Daniels about any phase of this naval oil reserve scandal, for while he was Secretary of the Navy he protected the public interest against the gray wolves who were constantly trying to get these oil reserves. But we must disagree with him when he says punishment of the guilty is of secondary importance. It is important the oil lands be recovered for the Navy, yes. It is equally important that the pumping of the Navy’s oil into the tanks of Doheny and Sinclair be stopped instantly, yes. But of even greater importance is it that every man touched with guilt be prosecuted criminally and punished to the full extent of the law. A great crime has been committed—a crime not only against the laws of the land, but a crime which goes to the very heart and spirit of our institutions. For a generation the confidence of the people in their Government has been growing less and less because of their recognition of the fact that all men are not equal before the law—that there is one law for the rich and powerful and another for the poor and powerless. Always when laws providing fine and imprisonment are invoked against the big fellows it has come to be taken as a matter of course —the worst that will happen is some or all of the loot will be recovered, possibly a fine imposed—but never does one of the big fellows go to jail. We hear much these days about lack or respect for the law—by the little fellow. If it is true, it is due in great measure to the fact the big fellows who commit crimes are not punished. The laws against conspiracy in restraint of trade have been broken by the big fellows time and again, but nobody has gone to jail, although the public has been gouged out of vast sums of money as the result of these crimes. The stealing of public utility franchises has been the favorite sport of the big fellows, time without end. This has cost the public so many millions it can’t be computed. The public has paid but nobody has gone to jail. Is it any wonder the big fellows have grown bolder and bolder? Is it any wonder they have not even stopped at stealing the oil of the Navy, set apart by the Government for the defense of the Nation in time of need? And now they have been caught red handed a bigger question than the return of the loot is presented, important as that is. It is a moral question of the most vital importance. It is a question of the vindication of the majesty and dignity of the law. No consideration of financial or political power or influence must be permitted to stand in the way of this vindication. LATEST RETURNS from Minnesota indicate Magnus Johnson hasn’t lost any votes yet because the Philadelphia bankers hissed his estatement that the Mellon plan would help the rich more than the poor. YOUNG T. ROOSEVELT and President Coolidge took a long walk the other afternoon. The substance of the conversation is reported to have been “shall both of us or just one of us sink ?’’ STAPLE GROCERIES are the only products still selling up to normal in MeSico. U. S. guns and munitions must be a close second, judging by the speed with which repeat orders are received by Secretary Hughes. SINCLAIR finds it more important to match his horse Ze\ kigainst Europe's racers than to answer Senator Walsh’s questions. ■knd probably easier! L w

SCIENTISTS ADVANCE EVOLUTION THEORY Believe Earth and Planets Gradually Formed From Nebula Through Action of Gravity About Densest Parts,

MARQUIS PIERRE SIMON DE LAPLACE. FRENCH ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN, WAS BORN IN 1749 AND DIED IN 1827. HE ORIGINATED A NEBULAR THEORY WHICH DOMINATED SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT FOR MANY YEARS.

BY DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz) EET us leave the subject of the whole universe now and center our attention upon that minute portion of it which concerns us most immediately—the earth upon which we live. 1 The first question which occurs, of course, is. How did the earth orlg inate? We have seen our earth is part of the sun’s family of planets. Accordingly, the answer to our question concerning the origin of the

The Daily Smile

GOLD There are children 12 years old who have never seen real gold except when their parents laughed. But statistics show fifteen million dollars In gold imported In one month. That is enough money to buy a quart of 40-year-old booze. The stuff you get without paying this price will not reach the age of forty before -.964. What do we do with so much gold? This Is leap year and the women are on the Jump for wedding rings. That may be the solution. EDITORIAL ’ A Cleveland girl robs drug store. It’s a wonder the clerk didn’t offer her something Just as good when she demanded money. BEAUTY SECRET Hunting a nickel on the floor will reduce your bay window. FASHIONS The height of fashion is always found In the price. LOST LOST Somewhere between Washington and Teapot Dome naval oil reserve, several reputations In fairly good shape. Finder please return at once. MOVIES Mabel Normand’s chauffeur Is too 111 to appear In court. Now maybe he will feel too bad to be tried at all. TEAPOT NEWS Washington la so quiet about the scandal you can hear a. fight two blocks away. EEDTIME STORY Chicago woman asks divorce because he made her get up every morning and build the fir*. We don't blame her. JAIL NEWS Detectives at work on the case suspect Senator Walsh of making away with A1 Fall's peace of mind. WEATHER They are going to hang two Eskimos. Maybe they can hang the man who fires our furnace. He must be an Eskimo. HONEST The Governor of Indiana is bankrupt, according to a report by federal master of chancery. This proves our lifelong contention that it Is possible for a Governor to be Jjonest. A dishonest Governor may cause the State to go bankrupt, but It is next to impossible for him to go broke in person. POLITICAL NEWS What's in a name? Caraway didn’t let them carray away. FOREIGN NEWS MacDonald says the British empire is all right. Os course it ia. Didn’t It choose MacDonald? SPORTS They had a big dog show in New York. No society woman tried to enter her husband. KITCHEN To clean the ceiling stand on youi head on a table and scrub as you would scrub the floor.

Heard in the Smoking Room

‘4f—FRIEND of my wife’s was I I looking at some apartments,” I said the man from San Diego. “ ’Now,’ said the landlady, ‘this apartment is a great bargain—dining room, sitting room and sleeping room all in one; kitchen and bath, unfurnished, for onljl $l5O a month.’

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earth fs bound up in the origin of the solar system. The first theory was advanced in 1764 by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Kant imagined the soiar system had Its origin In a great cold nebula, which in some way began to contract and gained a rotary motion. He assumed there would be denser spots here and there In the nebula and condensation would take place around these centers due to the action of gravity. Would Develop ITea.t This contraction would develop heat and the central portion would in time form our great flaming min. The parts of the nebula which condensed around the smaller nuclei would form the planets and their satellites. In 1798, the French astronomer Laplace, evidently unaware of the work of Kant, advanced another theory. Aooordlng to this theory the original nebula was hot and rotating with a uniform mpvement. In time It began to contract. laplace thought, forming the central sun. But Laplace Imagined this original sun would be unstable find would throw off a ring of nebulous material from Its equatorial regions. This nehulous material then went through the same process which the central sun had. condensing and in its turn throwing off a ring of nehulous matter. This process. IgvplAce thought, continued until all the planets and their satellites had been formed. Tennyson, the poet, summed up the theory of evolution as advanced by Tgiplaoe, when he wrote: "This world was once a fluid haze of light Till toward the center set the starry tides. And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets; then the monster, then tho man.” Theory Is Accepted The theory of Laplace was accepted without question during the first half of the nineteenth century and dominated tho thinking of moot scientists of that period. But since then, new facts brought to light by the scientists, of the world have necessitated modifications until today very little of Laplace’s theory Is left. In fact, the theory generally held by scientists today resembles that of Kant very much more than It does Laplace's. For example, scientists agree with Kant that the gTeat heat of the sun developed as a result of nebular contraction. The theory most generally held today Is known as the planetlsmal hypothesis. Next .article in series: The Planetessimal Theory. Cave Man Stuff By BERTON BRALEY The cave men, so we learn from science, Were not a race of splendid giants, But rather small and weak. And from a study of each fossil We gather they were shy and docile, With matures mild and meek. It was, we learn, the cave man’s habit To run away from any rabbit That showed a sign of fight. He lived on snails and little fishes, And various vegetarian dishes Sufficed his appetite. So any modern tea-room lizard, With varnished hair discreetly Bclssored, Could make him run away. And ladies who adore a brave man Would sniff if they should meet a cave man; He’d get the gate today. Yet, though the scientists discover The cave man was a timid lover, The women still agree On longing for a bold pursuer, The kind of chSp the cave man wooer Was once supposed to be! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ino.)

“ 'What is the name of this apartment house?’ asked the huntress. ** 'Formosa,’ said the Hollywood highway robber landlady. “ 'Can you tell me where the Forlessa apartments dare?’ inquired the lady with emaciated pocketbook.”

HI JOHNSON IS FAVORITE IN DAKOTA \ Although Convention Indorsed Coolidge, Delegates Are All Partial to Californian, This article is one of a scries by Lowell Mellett of the Times' Washington Bureau, who is making- a tour to ascertain political conditions in various parts of the country. By LOWELL MELLLETT HICAGO, Feb. 4.—" Everybody I has been heard from, except That is the official utterance of Hiram Johnson’s campaign headquarters. The politicians in the party have presented the nomination to President Coojldge, but they haven’t presented him with the votes to make it good and Johnson proposes to discover. in every State where there are primaries, whether the people or the politicians cast the votes. There, in a nutshell, is the Johnson attitude and it will be put to its first tests March 18 in North Dakota and March 26 in South Dakota. Os the two States, South Dakota presents the moßt interesting situation. It is interesting to the point of being weird, because of the peculiar election laws of 4 the State and the peculiar party politics being played. Convention Indorsed Coolidge Dec. 4 there was held a State proposal convention, with delegates ejected from all counties. This convention adopted a platform, named candidates for delegatee to the national convention and Indorsed Coolidge for President. Credit Is given United States Indian Commissioner Burke for bringing about the Coolidge indorsement, for there was no other suggestion of Coolidge sentiment in the proceedings. The platform came close to being a Johnson pjatform—soldiers' bonus. Isolation and condemnation of the EschCummins act. The men named os candidates for delegates are Governor McMasters, Senator Norbeck and Congressmen Christofferson and Royal Johnson. These are all Hiram Johnson men. although all except the last named supported Leonard Wood four years ago. The convention also endorsed the two Congressmen ' for renonilnation and endorsed McMasters Instead of Senator Sterling for the latter's Job. Sterling la a Coolidge man. This proceeding, under the State law, made Coolidge the ‘'majority" candidate, so listed on the primary ballot, along with the delegates who are opposed to him. The next place on the ballot goei to a ‘‘minority'’ ticket. This was expected to fall to Johnson, but one Howard Fuller, a candidate for Congress, filed a minority platform with a list of candidates for delegates and with Senator Sterling for United States Senator. The Johnson managers carried the matter up to the Secretary of State, but Fuller’s right to the "minority” place on the ballot was upheld. It then became necessary to file Johnson’s name as an “independent" candidate and this was done, with Norbeok and the rest as candidates for delegates. The law gives the tndepentent candidate first place on the ballot, the minority candidate second place and the majority candidate last. First place la tho best place. Johnson’s name is the first the voter will see. Situation Favoiv* Jolinson If you understand all this you are jfetty good. If the South Dakota voters get through primary day and retain their reason, they will be even better. But the situation, seems to favor Hiram Johnson. He plans to campaign the State and will have McMasters, Norbeck, Royal Johnson and Christofferson doing the same. The quartet named are powerful and should be able to win a majority for Hiram, despite the mystic maze that must be traced by the voters pern-, to bring this about.

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Opposes Russes To rile Editor of The Times Mr. L. A. Barth, "tells the whole world he favors bus lines." I "tall the whole world" he has not analyzed the sequence of events that will most certainly take place if we have bus lines instead of street cars. It would require at least six busses to carry the load of one street car. This would make six traffic hazards where but one existed before. Instead of a street car we would see six busses of twenty passengers each. The one In ’ead stops tb let off a passenger. The other five would have to detour around No. 1. But perhaps all six would have a passenger to unload. Then the whole caravan must stop, reaching back some 300 or 400 feet. Then No. 3 pulls up and stops to discharge its passengers, the remaining four must tarry, and so on, until a serious congestion of traffic may he caused. Bus cars are supposed to land passengers at the curb. Very often through the day time, the curb Is lined for miles outside the mile square with autos parked for long or short Intervals. Would the parked auto add to the confusion? Then think of the enormous number of bus cars necessary to do the work of the 600 or more street cars now in service. Congestion of traffic Is

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already making prematurely gray our traffic squad. What would It do the Influx of nearly 4,000 bus *cars Invading the mile square once every hour from 5 a. m. to 11 p. m.? Bus service might function In a small town, but in a city of 320,000 people and of area no more than eight miles square it could not be anything, but a dismal failure. The packing of too many passengers in a street car is the fault of the passengers themselves and not the management. Every fellow insists on riding the first car. Saving grace lies In our lending unprejudiced aid to the street car system we now have. Without it we will surely head backwards. E. P. McCASLIN 6901 Dewey Ave. Socialists Happy To the Editor of The Times The Socialist party of Marlon County has arranged for a Jolllflcaton over the victory of the English Socialists, in their recent elections In gaining control of the English nation. Everyone who wishes to attend will be welcomed. There will be speaking and free lunch for all. The labor party of England and the Socialist party of the United States are closely affiliated in the Socialist International, and have been for many years. The program of the two wings of the international are one and the same. Our aim is for socialization of all things that have become national in their development. The new premier of England took the same position during the World War as did 'Gene Debs and the So cialist party of this nation. WILLIAM H. HENRY.

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MONDAY, FEB. 4, 1924

Family Fun

Billy In Sunday School "Doesn't your father say anything before your meals?” "Sure! He says, ‘Sop up yer brea/I In the gravy, boys, for butter coats Uka the Sam Hill!' ” —Judge, Wife Gets It. Anyway ,r What's the matter with Jones 7^ "His wife Is spending the raise h didn’t get,”—Boston Transcript. Daughter’s Evening "Did that young man kiss yon last night ?” “Well, ma, none to speak of."American Legion Weekly. Dad Plays Safe "Why are you lugging home that expensive box of candy?” “Just playing safe —my wife kissed me this morning, so I think It must be her birthday or our wedding anniversary.”—Orange Owl. The Family Increase "Doctor, is it a ‘him’ or a ’her'?** "It’s a ‘them.’ ” —Humorist. A Thought Am I therefore bec<£ >3 your enemy because I tell you tne truth?—GaL 4:16. • • • T 1 E that 'openly tells his friends all that he thinks of them. IJ must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much tha# they do not think of him. —Colton.