Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1924 — Page 4
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THE BIPARTISAN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY mN the course of a speech in the Senate the other day, in which he was seeking to get the husher on the Denby end of the oil mess, Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania said: “It must be obvious to all men that the people of the country are at this moment suffering from acute shock. The credit of public men has received a staggering blow. In the eyes of multitudes of people, public men here in Washington, quite irrespective of party, are looked upon as badly bespattered. Something like an explosion has occurred very near the foundations of the Capitol.” In the language of the straphanger, Senator Pepper said a mouthful. It is fair to presume that his statement means that even in rock-ribbed Pennsylvania the political seismograph is wiggling. Senator Pepper has a mind wonderfully skilled and trained. In him the Pennsylvania political machine has at once an able and skillful champion and a decorative figure-head. He is as a gem set in the head of a serpent. „ • • • • • • * Recognizing that official Washington is scared, Senator Pepper cleverly and truthfully uses that feeling of panic that is growing in the minds of the politicians of both parties to persuasively point the way to a course of conduct that is the natural one for professional politicians. The program is to switch the oil scandal into the silent precincts of the courts. Sterilize and undramatize it. Employ reels of the red tape of the law to tie down the awakening giant of public opinion, even as the gossamer threads of the Lilliputians made Gulliver fast. Then our assorted statesmen will be able to recover breath, redrape the disarranged toga and turn again to the public their unctious countenances of political hypocrisy, while from practiced lips the flow of familiar bunkum is resumed. But it is a great question whether the suggested disguise will be sufficient to deceive the public. * If the case of the people against exploiters and grafters, together with their parasites and panderers, is turned over for prosecution to an outfit palpably unfit by temperament and environment and experience, the public tongue is likely to become lodged permanently in the public cheek. * • • * • • The sort of a prosecutor for a case like this is the keen trial lawyer whose mental equipment includes shrewdness and skill ii\ investigation and the ability to trace guilt through the deviouv mazes that are constructed to conceal the hiding place of the predacious. In Strawn and Pomerene there have not been selected counsel -and investigators to conduct this case, but a sort of bipartisan employment agency to hire lawyers and detectives to conduct the case. Mr. Pomerene brings down a trio of young lawyers to do the trial work and Mr. Strawn’s contribution thus far has been no more inspiring a person than Hinton G. Claybaugh of Chicago to take charge of the investigating side of the case. The public memory is short lived else Claybaugh would be remembered from the fact that when he was last in the public eye it was as he was making his exit from the Department of Justice, where he was a secret service operative, to take employment with the Peabody Coal Company, while his assistant# Barry, got his job with Swift & Cos. There is no need to go into detail. It is sufficient to say That as the picture begins to take form and as the characters are cast on the people’s side of this oil prosecution, it becomes more and mote apparent that the lid is to be put back on the Teapot.
IS COLLEGE WORTH THE PRICE t •*! * | F you are the cream of the earth, then heaven help the | * I skimmed milk,” says Percy Marks, author of “The Plastic Age,” a novel picturing college life today, published by the Century Company. Marks was talking to college students, and his snapshots of the good and had in college life again raise that old question so popular ‘in Indiana: “Is college worth the price?” The years between 18 and 25 constitute what Marks calls the plastic age of life. Bill is being seasoned then. He is experiencing growing pains of mind and spirit. Mentally he is in that transition stage between creeping and walking. He isn’t quite sure whether there is a personal God, a heaven and a hell, whether it is more manly to have his fling with naughtiness, and just how much drinking he must get away with to be classed as a sport, but not as a souse. This is more important to him than learning “math” and literature. Is Bill better off at college at this stage of life, or is college a mere waste of time and money? Suppose he does emerge from college more sophisticated than educated. At least those four years of college life will have hastened his self-development. He is surrounded by hundreds of duplicates of himself, on the average no better nor no worse, all of whom are going through the same experiment. The whole history of evolution resolves itself into a matter of the dominance of man over his environment. So the college boy who can take the good of college and leave the evil is just that much better off than the boy who was never exposed to the good. For the evil in the college is the same evil he will find outside of it, and the good cannot be duplicated outside. But. the greatest justification for colleges is that the four years of college life are, as a rule, vividly happy ones. A happy person is a normal and a sound one, and four years’ association with normal, happy companions, during that period of plasticity, is certain to have lasting effect in the molding of young Bill’s character and philosophy. NOTHING strange about Fall having got $135,000 from two oil companies. Didn’t William H. Anderson, superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, receive $25,000 from an “utter stranger?” ANTI-LEAGUE of Nations Senators protest because Washington’s 50,000 school children had sent to them 5,000 copies ot the Bok plan. We agree. We think frhey should fc*ve received 50,00<* copies. * ”
ROCK STRUCTURE IS COMPLICATED AFFAIR Air, Wind and Water Act as Chemical Combinations to Change Formations.
JAMES HUTSON. A DOCTOR BT PROFESSION. LAID THE CORNER STONE OF MODERN GEOLOGICAL. THOUGHT WHEN HE DECLARED THAT ALE CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S SURFACE MUST BE EXPLAINED IN TERMS OF SUCH FORCES AS CAN NOW BE OBSERVED AT WORK. HE WAS BORN IN 1726 AND DIED IN 1797.
By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times Copyright by David Dietz mHE first agent which attacks the rocks is the atmosphere. Its action is both chemical and mechanical. The structure of a rock is a very complicated affair. The elements which compose the rock are first united into a number of minerals. These minerals in turn unite to form the rock. Granite, for example, is a
No. 1 Third Degree Yourself! DON’T MISS THIS
What is in your store of inform* tlon? What have you learned from mingling with other people, from reading newspapers and boofet, and, from going about in your usual busl- j ness? Try this test and find out. You, have ONE MINUTE In which to do it. i Read these directions carefully that j you may bo sure you understand what to do. In each sentence below you; have four choices for the last word, j Only one is correct. Draw a line under the one of th© four words which makes the truee( sentence. HAVE YOUR WATCH READYI BEGIN. 1. The lungs are for seeing, breathing, digestion, hearing. 2. The Panama Canal was built by Russia, England. Mexico, United States. 3. The terrier Is a goat, cat, dog, rabbit. 4. Robert E. Lee was famous in literature, war, religion, science. 5. Rain water is fresh, salt, acid, sour. 6. The forward pass is used in tennis, handball, chess, football. 7. General T*ee surrendered at Appomattox in 1912, 1886, 1866, 1832. 8. To set fire to a house is railed larceny, incest, mayhem, arson. 9. Lincoln was President just after Buchanan. Hayes, Madison, Polk. 10. John Sargent Is a wellknown author, scientist, politician, painter. Here are the answers: 1, breathing; 2. United States; 3. dog; 4, war; B, fresh; 6, football; 7, 1865; 3. arson; 9, Buchanan; 10, painter. (Copyright Science Service.) What Editors Are Saying Modern (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) A modern municipality, concludes a Grand Rapids paragrapher, is “a body of citizens entirely surrounded by filling stations." He must have been In South Bend. *-l- -I- -IContagious (Frankford Evening News) We are surprised that our State board of health doesn't cpme out with some recommendations for oil sickness. It’s time to issue a bulletin and ask for an appropriation to prevent the spread of the disease. It seems to be very contagious. I- -I' -IRadio (Logansport Pharos Tribune) Hoary old winter thought to Isolate the people of some of the Western, Middle and Eastern States by tearing dc.wn the telephone and telephone wires and blockading the railroad tracks so that transportation was stopped, but radio, that all-pervading influence could not. be chained by winter, and the whole world was informed of the stunt that Winter tried to do. This is a strange old world, and its wonders are being but dimly revealed to the favored age in which we now live.
Heard in the Smoking Room
Hr- "I T was one of those Sunday ex- | j I cursions,” said a smoker, I * 1 "and the old steamer l'earl was rolling and up-ending on Lake Erie, with all her rails crowded with happy excursionists looking down, down at the rolling waves and cursing excursions, steamers, lakM, Sundays and everything else. Desiring to com-
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mixture of three minerals known as quarts, feldspar and mica The oxygen, the carbon dioxide and the water vapor In the atmosphere enter into chemical combination with various minerals found in the different rocks. This action Increases the volume of mineral matter in the rock. Asa result strains are set up in the rock and it cracks and crumbles. Just as Iron crumbles when it rusts. Weather Hastens Changes Temperature changes also hasten the decay of the rocks. When the sun shines upon a rock, the outer portion is heated and expanded. This sets up strains in the rock which result in large cracks. Temperature changes between day and night cause expansion and contraction of rocks and consequent cracking. Certain products formed In rocks as a result of the chemical action of the atmosphere are soluble in water. Consequently, when it rains, they are dissolved by the water leaving the rock in a prorous condition. The mechanical work of the atmosphere is performed by the winds. The wind blows the particles resulting from the decay of the rocks against the rocks themselves, thus wearing them away still further. The falling rain also does a certain amount of mechanical wowing down of the rocks. The wind also serves as a transportation agent, moving the products of rock decay from one place to another. The transportation of the finest particles—dust—la nearly universal. Much dust Is carried far out to sea. where it falls upon the water and settles down upon the sea floor. In the great eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in the East Indies in 1883. volcanic dust was carried all around the world by the winds in 15 days. Sand Is Rock Decay The wind also moves the larger particles of rock decay known as Rand. Except in the case of severe windstorms, It does not lift the sand into fib' atmosphere, but merely moves It along the earth’s surface. Asa result of this, great sand hills known as dunes are often formed. These are found alor-g the eastern coast of the United States, today, and along certain parts of the coast of England and continental Europe. Also in the arid regions of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona and in the Sahara and the vast plains of Central Asia. Dunes range from 10 to 800 feet in height. Due to the fact that the wind blows the sand up one slope of the dune and down the other, the dunes gradually shift their positions where there are strong prevailing winds. Frequently they bury fertile lands and forests beneath them as they shift their positions. Next article In series: The Work of Streams.
Family Fun
Makes Her Mad A little girl was telling what she had learned in Sunday school. "And so." she'said. "Eve was made out of Adam's rib and ” “My ma says,” interrupted a neighbor's boy, “that she wouldn't mind being a man's rib; it’s having to be his backbone that makes her mad.”— Boston Transcript. Honeymoon Horror “I had a horrid dream. I dreamt that you were about to desert me.” “Holy smoke! I’ve married a mind reader.”—Reel. One on Ihe Doctor When the doctor arrived he found the patient In tears. “Cheer up, my good man,” he said, “you'll pull through all right.” " 'Tisn't that, Doe," groaned the patient. “but just think of the money I’ve spent buying apples to keep you away.”—Lampoon. Daughter in a Fix “That young man that you are engaged to Is a bad egg." “I know he is, mother, that's the reason that I’m afraid to drop him.” —Mink.
fort his wretched passengers, the captain passed along the rail and said: ” ‘lt will not be long, folks. I will heave to at Put-in-Bay Island.’ “ ‘Make a place on de rail for captain!’ cried an Irishman, with a sickening gulp in hlsathroat. “He’s getting it, too!’ ”
INTERESTS HAMPERING DAM BILL Lobby in Washington by Power Companies Seeks to Block California Project, Time,s Washington Bureau, IX2S New York Arc. L CENTRO, Cal., Feb. 11.—While the whole Southwest, facing i_ alternate dangers of flood and drought, is aroused over the need of quick action in controlling the Colorado River, big power interests are at work in Washington to block the passage of the Swing-Johnson bill after Congress adjourns. The Swing-Johnson bill calls for a 600-foot dam at or near Boulder Canyon in Nevada and an All-American canal from the Arizona line this side of the Mexican border. Although some twenty years and $600,000 have been spent in surveys and the Harding Administration was pledged to the project, Dr. Hubert Work, the new Secretary of Interior, has held the bill on his desk for thirty days and has proposed referring it to a committee of his own naming instead of returning it to the House Committee on Arid Lands. Blame Power Interests In this great valley, called rightly “the hollow of God’s hand,” farmers do not hesitate to blame the power Interests for the Government’s policy of procrastination. Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado, is an active opponent of the bill. And Phipps, by his own admission, is interested in ttie private power company that serves this territory to I which Boulder Dam would furnish 1 cheap power. In a hearing before the j House Committee on Irrigation of I Arid Lands, Phipps was asked by j Congressman Ci Hayden of Arizona! if he were not personally Interested In j a California power copany. Personally Interested "I am Interested, and have been for years, in one of the smaller companies out there,” he replied. "It is the Nevada and California Electrical Corporation. I think they furnish the Imperial Valley with current through one of their subsidiaries, either the Holton Power Company or the Southern Sierras Power Company." It is interesting to note In this valley the farmers pay the Southern Slernts Power Company 15 cents per, kilowatt hour for electricity for do-1 mestic use. while Los Angeles consum-1 ers pay for electricity generated by their publicly-owned plant loss than j 6 cents. Southern California and vicinity care more for the tariff on lemons and the Swing-Johnson bill than for any other sentiment, and Hiram is papa to them both. Rally to Johnson At a southern California rally which named the delegates to go on the May 6 primaries ballot, from this end of the State, farmers from the citrus belt. Imperial Valley and San Diego docked in to swear allegiance to Johpson for the first time. The great Imperial Valley, threat- j ened with Rood If the Swing-Johnson j bill is killed Congress, will give ! Johnson a fivefto-one majority. This can be said of the whole southwestern ! region affected by the Colorado River's I vagaries. The opposition to the bill! appears to lie negligible numerically, i though powerful financially. Not only j the farmers, but the inhabitants of j this metropolis, realize in harnessing! the Colorado many serious problems, | such as a water famine and pow T er j shortage, will be solved for all time.
Offers Blood to Sick
B" \EA Eeri'ice ** --TI EW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 11.— I Haven hospital here. teer to furnish blood in a transfusion operation. The authorities Just call for George George has * < '■> - given ton gallons ,'jJsF i < . of his blood to MOMppMi ', those who needed it. in the last t*-n years. That's since he came to this country from i Austria, in 1914. Ifeak v Ho is 23. and is fit enough to YUSKO sacrifice from 500 to 850 ouV>ic centimeter.* of Wood at a single blood transfusion without feeling weakened. A Thought A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. —Prow 25:11. • * • EACT teaches you when to bo silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything.—Earl of Beaconsfteld. Animal Facts Horticulturists deny that anything ever came of seed found in the Pharaoh tombs, claiming that the germ dries up and dies in a very few years. Yet in Manchuria, which today is a lotusless land, seed of lotus have been dug up from peat beds below the Gobi desert that were ponds ages ago, and Professor Ohga, Jap scientist, has sprouted them at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. There are fifteen so?oies of rattlesnakes in the United States, and it can he said that they are our only dangerous serpent because, of the other three poisonous snakes, copperhead can only strike eight to ten inches; moccasins keep away from humans in waterways and swamps, the beautiful coral snake burrows and rarely appears.
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‘Busted Busts’ —Number Six
Why Not? (With apologies to William Knox) By BERTON BRALEY Why shouldn’t the soul of a mortal be proud? Life goes, It is true, like a "swiftflying cloud," But while it is going, and ere he has died, A man may do many things worthy of pride. The high and the humble, the meek and the brave, Are all of them destined, in time, to the grave. But while they are living and drawing their breath They may create something that lives after death. The builder may build and the singer may sing, The painter may paint while time’s on his wing; And when they are buried deep down in the grime, The things they have made will remain for all time. Man conquers the mountains, the seas and the air. And deserts turn garden while tinder his care, He does wondrous deeds in the scant space allowed; Why shouldn't the soul of a mortal be proud? Up out of the darkness we reach to the light Afid slowly through ages we toil to the height; The sole of a njortal is more than his clay, The spirit of man can defy all decay! So lift up your eyes to the Truth that is God's, In spite of disaster, in face of all odds, The spirit of man Is not wrapped in the shroud; Why shouldn't the soul of a mortal be proud? (Copyright, 1924. NEA Service, Inc.) PARALAUGHS] There isn't any payday for laboring under a delusion. We have prosperity, but not enough of It to go around. If you don't know where they get bootleg—they get It in the neck. A woman can't make a fool out of a man without his help. They had a soldier bonus rally in Boston; 5.0Q0 cheered. The soldier bonus needs cheering up. Politics makes strange bedfellows, and strange bred fellows. Very few good cooks can use a typewriter or write shorthand. Only way to end divorce is by marrying your second wife first. Lloyd George wants them to let George do it again. It is estimated the energy wasted in useless criticism would fill about 999 giant balloons. Tongue Tips Mabel Btrasberg. 15-year-old bride, writing to her mother in Detroit: “Puppy love may be foolish, as you have said, but it is wonderful.” J. N. Baird, county attorney, Wyandotte County, Mo.. "I’ll venture to say that nine out of ten jurors commit perjury. They say they are in full sympathy with law enforcement. They say they will be guided solly by the law ancKevidenee. But nine-out of ten times they disregard their oaths and permit themselves to be swayed by sympathy.” Governor Jonathan Davis, Kansas; "I think deflation was designed and carried out by men who knew what it would do to the farm interests. The farmer has carried a burden three times as great as those in other industries who were organized.” John R Jones, banished imperial ambassador of KKK in Kansas City: “In its present state, the KKK is organized on definite military lines, and within the Inner circle of the hierarchy is the body of arch terrorists known as the klavaliers, whose function it is to perform the intimidation and incitement of race Mid religious hatreds.”
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From Heart To the Hilt or of The Timet This Is a poem that came from my heart: A. MAN. WOODROW WILSON, O Man, that meant so much to us, O Man, whom we gave all our trust. O Mhn of the hour, we shall ne'er reject, O Man, thy noble name in history shall reflect. O Man, wtih mind and thoughts so keen, O Man, thy name of love in God's book shall be seen, O Man, that led us when our nation was sad. O Man, that led us to victory and made us glad. O Man, thy words and thoughts are oo more, O Man. God knew the burden that you bore, V O Man. we know that God spoke to thee, O Man, he said. "Well done, come home to me.” VERL KERMIT ZEfULER, 2625 N. Gale St. __ Car Trailers To the Editor of The Times Mr. L. A. Barth "tells the whole j world” he favors busses, but I am like E. P. McCaslin, I favor street ! cars. As Mr. McCaslin says it -would take too many busses to haul as many j people as the street cars do. I am an experienced motorman and have motored in this city, in Dayton, Ohio, Evansville, Ind., and Cincinnati, j Ohio, although I am not doing so now. j I know from my seven and a half years experience on street cars that busses would be a failure in this city. Why doesn't the street car company here do as they do in other large cities? At busy hours when there are extra trippers, other companies put on trailers and haul from 240 to 280 passengers with one crew and an extra conductor, instead of 140 to 160 I with one crew. More persona could have seats. I am for the street cars always. RILEY WILSON. 234 Spring St. Ex-Motorman, Favors Busses To the Editor of The Times If Mr. E. P. McCaslin had to stand out in the rain as I did for at least one-half hour waiting for ,a West Washington St. car. I think he would be in favor of busses. I stood at Pennsylvania and Washington Bts. The conductor on the first W Washingtn car that came along quid they were only going as far as Bloomington St.; the next one said the same: the third one said only to West St.; the fourth had to go back east; the fifth one "barn only:” the sixth one went to West St. and the seventh was going straight through, but by that time such a crowd had collected that I could hardly get on. CONSTANT READER. Indiana Sunshine “Where did you get it. Kelly?' Judge Douglas of Ft. Wayne city court asked Peter Kelly of Hammond. "All over.” replied the Irishman. “You don’t mean you can get the stuff almost anyplace here?" Doug las remarked. Kelly said that was sure his mean mg and that Ft. Wayne was as wet as ever. A pair of would-be bandits held up Jfa.rmen Alexander, Portland lmple ment dealer, ordering him from his truck. Alexander drew a pair of plier* from his hip pocket and the robbers fled thinking he was going to shoot. The pair stopped some distance up the road as preparing to again halt the driver. As he approached them, a tire on his machine biew out and the robbers again beat a hasty retreat. He gladly fixed the tire. Imagine going down to the furnace of a morning to stir the fire and have a cat jump out. of the door. That's what J. G. Copple of Logan sport says happened. He believe = kitty got cold during the night and crawled in the furnace to warm, th thermostat later automatic closing the door, trapping the animal. He says the cat was unharmed because ashes had accumulated over Unfire during the night.