Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1924 — Page 4

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WING AT COURTHOUSE VvTjILLIAM A. PICKENS, an Indianapoiis attorney, has made ” some suggestions regarding the erection of a fireproof wing to the Courthouse in place of erecting anew Courthouse. There may be some argument in favor of his ideas, but there is some reason to believe they will not hold water. '‘lf you were engaged in a great business enterprise which handled several millions of dollars during a period equal to your term of office, and if your business were operated in a large stone building which had cost you more than $2,000,000 and which held valuable books and records, the preservation of which was vital to your interest, and if the fire chief should come and make an inspection of your premises and tell you that you were in danger of great loss by fire, what would you do?” he asks. “■Would you at once decide to sell your plant and get anew location and erect anew building? I doubt it. You would most likely try to find the plans of your building, employ an architect and try to ascertain what part of the building might be combustible and if the architect reported you in danger, you would probably ask his advice as to what could be done to make you safe and supply your needs for the next fifty years. “He would examine your building and maybe he would recommend the rearrangement of the entire interior, but probably he would tell you to make some inexpensive interior alterations and build a fireproof wing that would take care of offices whose records you could not afford to lose and in that way save you $1,000,000 or more.” ■< A business concern situated exactly as is the county might follow such a suggestion, but we doubt it. Suppose that in addition to being a firetrap the building was insanitary, poorly arranged and ancient. Suppose it was on a valuable site which could easily be sold. Suppose the firm owned an empty plot of land in a good location. Suppose the old building could be sold for enough or almost enough to erect anew one. Suppose the present building is so old anew one would have to be erected soon anyway and when it is erected the new wing probably would be a total loss. That is the situation with Marion County. We believe the business concern would erect anew building. THE HIGH COST OF DIGNITY SECRETAE V MELLON, in one of his recent self-starting in- ____ terviews on taxes, insists that it would lessen the dignity of being a world war veteran to offer the ex-soldier a bonus. That ends all discussion of the bonus! No one would think of advocating the bonus, if Mellon thinks it would deprive the veterans of their hard-earned dignity. Os course, there can be no question about Mr. Mellon as an authority on dignity.' Poor Mr. Mellon! The war came and went and he never got a bit of dignity out of it. There was his pet corporation, the Aluminum Company of America, generally known as the Aluminum Trust. It boosted the price of aluminum from 20 to 60 cents a pound, and Mellon got many millions of dollars out of the war. But that’s all! And the good old “doughs,” they got the dignity—in addition to their thirty per month. Mellon’s argument falls in the class with that of the editor of the New York financial paper which! says that Mellon’s tax plan must be enacted as is because the other tax plans would mean too much reduction in the the poor man, who would be done an injustice because it would tend to decrease his interest in the Government. Ain’t it awful how the poor man has to be looked after by the rich man! And ain’t it wonderful the interest rich men show in the Government, particularly when they want rich men's taxes reduced! It is! It is! - ; y "j V.V - It is!

WELCOME TO LEGION WEEKLY (“j NDIANAPOLIS welcomes the announcement -that the pub- | * 1 lication office of the American Legion Weekly is being moved to this city. The city is the national headquarters of the American Legion and the center of most of the veterans’ activities of the country. As such it is the logical place for the publication of a magazine for veterans. Its central location makes it an ideal distribution point for such a magazine. Not only will the weekly be benefited by coming to the city, but the city will benefit as well. It adds anew industry to the many already established here. i LATEST suggestion for Democratic campaign button: Small teapot, worn on coat lapel, bearing mystic words, “Don’t let it Fall.” COOLIDGE backers lament Cal’s being dragged deeper and deeper into this oil mess, in the making of which he had no part. Well, a Boston police strike, which he didn’t make, put Cal on the map, so he seems to be breaking even. SECRETARY DENBY says he doesn’t know what he has done to deserve the disgrace heaped on his head. lie might ask that eminent authority on public opinion from his old home town, Mr. Truman Newberry. WOULDN’T it be just our luck if some of those French Senators would rise to remark that Ilell-an’-Maria Dawes and his friends ought to put our own house in order before they consent for us to play reparations tiddle-ae-winks with them. THE “late” William J. Bryan is a grateful cuss. He is so keenly appreciative of the three nominations the Democratic party gave him that he is always cheerfully willing to hang around Washington between lectures and tell the party just what to do. \ PRESIDENT COOLIDGE engages two high-priced special lawyers to look after Uncle Sam’s interests in the Teapot Dome matter, Daugherty probably being too busy at mercilessly prosecuting war profiteers. Any time anything is on at Washington that doesn’t make big fees for more lawyers, somebody pleisc wire us. * j *• . . i . . .

NATURE IS CHEMIST IN ROCK DECAY \ Rivers Carry Tons of Sedimen t Into Sea —Ocean Filled With Billions of Minute Animal Organisms,

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GRAHAM ISLAND IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH SOMETIMES CHANGES WITH RAPIDITY. ON JULY 10, 1831, A COLUMN OF WATER 60 FEET HIGH ROSE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AT A POINT BETWEEN THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF SICILY AND THE COAST OF AFRICA. THEN FOLLOWED CLOUDS OF STEAM. A SUBMARINE VOLCANO HAD BROKEN INTO ACTION. SOON THE CONE OF THE VOLCANO ROSE ABOVE THE SEA, FORMING AN ISLAND. BY AUG. 4 THE ISLAND WAS 200 FEET HIGH AND THREE MILES IN CIRCUMFERENCE. THEN IT BEGAN TO GROW SMALLER. BY THE YEAR 1832 IT HAD AGAIN RECEDED BELOW' THE SURFACE OF THE SEA. THE SKETCH SHOWS HOW IT APPEARED IN 1831.

BY DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz.) EIIE atmosphere, as we have seen, causes the rocks to crack and decay. Much of the resulting debris is washed by the rain into the rivers. The rivers themselves are continually wearing away the rocks. The material which they wear loose and and the material which the rain washes into them. Is carried along by the rivers as sediment. Most of this sediment is carried the length of the river and deposited In the oceans. The oceans Indiana Sunshine Slick-haired, sideburned cake-eat-ers found loafing around billiard halls or on the streets are going to land in Jail, declares Police Chief William Moeller of Ft. Wayne. "Check up on all of them,” Moeller told policewomen. “If you And they have rtu jobs, lock 'em up on loitering charges and then we ll 'high-ball' them out of town.” Mueller says the smart dressed loafers and the drug store cowboys with a ready smile for each passing girl will have to find better use for their time. An “agreement of apprenticeship,” ! a contract now rarely heard of in Indiana, was recently tiled In Delaware | County. The agreement was made between IJ. W. Palmer and Bertha Schldeler, I in which the custody of a baby four months old was given Mrs. Schldeler until the lad is 16. Mrs. Schideler, the child's grandmother, is to have sole control. The father agrees not to molest or interfere. She is to care for the ch id and agrees to cause the child “to learn to read and write, and the rules of arithmetic, to the double rule of three.’’ Although reports coming in from over the State hint that school attendance is being cut down on account of Or.fl roads, Monroe County officials my this isn't true there. They state that it has the opposite \ < ffect. Where the roads are bad. kids will resort to all ■-orts of means to attend, but where the roads make it easy for then, they are prone to stay away officials say. Thieves that looted the office of a Portland Lumber Company probably f elt like 30 cents when they left The total amount of the robbery was 30 pennies. They even took the hinges off the safe and didn’t bother to open ihe door, behind which was a sum of I money.

NO. 5 THIRD DEGREE YOURSELF ' 25 More to Come Can you tell the TRUE from the FALSE? If you can, you should be able to complete this Intelligence test In about a minute without making: a mistake. Read these directions: Make sentences of the following words. Do it in your mind; do not wiite them down. Then Just underscore tho word “false,” if the sentence you make Is false, or the word “true,” If It is true. GET OUT YOUR WATCH. Ready! One, two, three, GO! 1. wood guns of made are true false 2. war in are useful airplanes the true false 3. property floods life destroy and true false 4. days there In are week eight a true false 5. are and apples long thin true false 6. health necessary camp ais to clean true felse 7. work like men all true false 8. Iron paper made of Its filings true false 9. fish hunt and like boys to never true false 10. bushes trees roots have and their air the in true false What is the verdict? Answers: 1, false; 2, true; 3, true; 4, false; 5, false; 6, true; 7, false; 8, false; 9, false; 10, false. (Copyright Science Service.)

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|’ '| UR company, once,” began 1 Cj| a smoker, “Insured a small IVG clothier in Clark Bt., Chicago I closed the matter at 10 a. m., one Tuesday, and at 1 p. m. that day the home office got a wire from the Insured clothier announcing that his store had burned out, total loss. Naturally, we sought for grounds for

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tion are wearing away the land, eating continuously into the continents and islands. Asa result of these processes great beds of sediment are being continuously deposited in the ocean. When rocks are broken into rather coarse pieces, the resulting debris is known as gravel. When the debris consists of fine grains it is known as sand. Still finer particles are known aa dust when dry and mud when wet. The coarser sediment is dropped near shore, while the finer particles are carried further out into the ocean. This can be seen along many coasts where the shore-line is gravel, gradually changing to sand and then mud as the distance from the shore increases. In addition to separating the sediment according to its size, the water also causes chemical changes in certain types of sediment. Thus a sediment of feldspar is broken down into simpler product*, turning in time into clay. But In time the water also has another very' Important effect upon these layers of sediment. It makes new rocks out of them. Just as men mix sand and lime to make mortar, the water in time cements the loose codlment into solid rock. It will be remembered that the water contains many minerals in solution. Some of these minerals are precipitated or deposited out of the water, sinking into the layers of sediment and cementing them together into solid rock. These rocks are called sedimentary rocks. When gravel is cemented into solid rock, the resulting rock is known as conglomerate or breccia. Sand becomes sandstone by this process and mud incomes Ehalo. There is also a class of sedimentary rocks which consists entirely of mineral matter preclpated out of the water. A third class of rocks results from the fact that the ocean is full of billions of minute organisms—animals and plants—which have hard shells. These shells are composed of calcium carbonate. When they die, their shells sink to the bottom, forming in time a layer of limestone. One form of limestone la known as chalk. Next article in series: Uplifting the Land. A Thought | Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.—Jas. 3:4. • • * vy fj E have more power than will; W and it is often by way of ex- ■ cuae to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible.—Rochefoucauld.

refusing payment, but there wasn’t a thing doing. But, oxir manager believed that we had been done, and so, with his check, sent a note reading- “ ‘Dear Sir: Enclosed loss in full. We insured at 10 a. m. You burn out at 1 p. m. Policy perfect, but why postpone a good thing three long hours?’ ” i

STUDENT IS CHIEF AID TO WALSH Young Man Reading Law Invaluable to Senator in Oil Lease Probe, Times IT ashing lon Bureau, iStt New York Are. \xr/ ASHINGTON, Feb. 15. —A 24W year-old law student is playing one of the chief roles in the unfolding of the Teapot Dome oil scandal. His name is John G. Holland, Jr. In Government records he appears merely aa “clerk,” assigned to the office of Senator Walsh of Montana. The part he has taken in exposing the rotten state of affairs in the Interior Department is second only to that of his chief. Long before the public paid even passing attention to what has now become the sensation of a century, young Holland was studying documents, scanning official correspondence and digging through literally tons of Government records. He knows the oil lease cases better, perhaps, than any member of the Public Lands Committee, excepting only Senator Walsh. At every hearing of the committee It is to young Holland Senator Walsh turns when he wants to make sure of some fine point. When Walsh addresses the Senate on matters related to tho oil leases, Holland is always present, working hand-in-glove with his able chief. llo.land Discovers Letters It was Holland who discovered among the interior Department files the letters which have proved so embarrassing to many of the witnesses summoned before the committee. These letters tended to discredit one of the geologists hired by the committee, exposed a conspiracy among Government officials and private citizens to split proceeds fraudulently acquired and otherwise tended to place in the hands of the committee much valuable evidence. Like Senator Walsh. Holland hails from Montana. He came to Washington “on his own’’ nearly four years ago in order to study law. He obtained employment in the Indian Bureau as a stenographer and typist and attended night school at Georgetown University. In January’. 1921, he learned of an open.ng in Senator \\ alsh s office and obtained employnent there an a Senate clerk. Is Research Worker It was not long before the Senator d.scovered he had got hold of a nat-ural-born research worker. When important legal points were to be looked up tire Senator confidently entrusted the work to his youthful assistant. Because of the extensive research Senator Walsh's activities in the Senate during the past three years have involved, Holland lias gained a reputation as one of the best research men ever employed in the Senate. He is now waiting an opportunity to take his bar examinations. He graduated from Georgetown Law School last June, but has ever since been so busily engaged on the oil lease cases he had to pass up the bar examination last autumn. He now hopes to be able to enter the examinations to be held in June. Labored in Mine* Some years ago Holland had set his heart on being a mining engineer and attended tho Montana State School of Mines for several years and also spent some time as a laborer in the mines near his home in Butte. Being below draft age he did not get into the Army, but was a member of the student training corps at the Montana Mines School. The biggest thing Holland is getting out of his present highly important public service is the experience. The Government does not appreciate his services as much as it well might, for it pays him only |l,440 a year.

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Fancy That “You know, Bridget, I require the fire lighted every morning by 7 o’clock, but I cannot get you to do it. so I've bought you this alarm clock.'' “Thank ye. mum: it's very pretty. But fancy a thing like that being able to light a fire.” —Boston Transcript. Brother’s College Boom “It must be awfully cold ir. brother's room at college.” “Why so?" “He writes that hts roommate jus* slipped in with a skate on.” —Dart mouth Jack o' lantern. Ma Confers Title “I say, pa, what is an empty title?" “An empty title, my son, Is your mother’s way of referring to me as the head of the house when there are visitors present.”—Glasgow Times. Says I’a to Ma “I hope my costume is the nicest at the ball. All women are rivals, you know when It comes to clothes.” “Yes, one certainly tries to outstrip the other.”- —Sydney Bulletin, Dad’s War Plan “Your sons are really terrible. Don’t you ever inflict a little' corporal punishment on them?” “No. I have never hit my boys except in self-defense.”— London Opinion.

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must be kept under water, aa it catches fire in tho air. It is poisonous, and the constant inhaling of even small quantities of its vapor causes rotting of the bones, and eventually death. How many peach and apple trees of bearing age are there in the United States? So far as can bo ascertained from the farms reporting, there are 65,646,101 peach trees and 115,309,165 apple trees. What is the annual immigration quota of Jugo-Slavia? 6,426. Will apricot and pear trees thrive in sandy soil? Yes, if the sandy soil has a clay subsoil, and the drainage is good, but if the soil is coarse sand, they will not thrive. , Is it proper for the lady to give her order direct to the waiter when dining with a gentleman in a restaurant? No. She should never give her order to the waiter direct, but through the gentleman whose guest she is. Where is the largest cemetery in the United States? The largest is said to be Pine Lawn, on Long Island, which has an area of some 2,000 acres.

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What Editors Are Saying

Reform (Muncie Evening Press) The cost of that reformatory now has mounted so high that many will believe it to be cheaper not even to try to reform ’em. •!■ •!• -1Substitute (Daily Clintonian) Let the fellows who find fault with the churches suggest a substitute. They've been trying that for a good many centuries. -I- -!- Oil (Marion Leader Tribune) More and more it is becoming apparent that the sh.p of state is an oil burner. -!- -I- -!• Lazy (Logansport Pharos Tribune) We will venture the guess that the fellow on the Newcastle Courier who wrote the following has a wife whoi stokes the furnace: "The longer winter lasts, the longer before the grass has to be mowed.”