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INVESTIGATE AT ONCE rrjlO graver charges ever were made against a public official I than those made directly and by implication against* Attorney General Daugherty by Senator Wheeler on the floor of the Senate Tuesday. On his authority and responsibility as a Senator of the United States, Wheeler charged intimate friends of the Attorney General, naming them, bad accepted money in exchange for their influence with him in matters involving his official acts and added that “if the Attorney General has not actually got the money he is a bigger fool than the people of the United States give him credit for being.” Senator Wheeler also charged “the Attorney General of the United States, instead of prosecuting crime, has been protecting crime and criminals.” The WTieeler charges must either be proved or disapproved at a public hearing before a Senate committee, every member of which is a man in whose honesty and disinterestedness the country has confidence. No business before the Senate, not excepting the oil inquiry, is comparable in importance with this. Every consideration of justice, both to Attorney General Daugherty and Senator Wheeler and every consideration of public policy demands such aD investigation without the delay of a single day. v . Either Attorney General Daugherty is the kind of man that Senator Wheeler accuses him of being and should be driven from public office and prosecuted criminally, or he is an innocent, maligned official and man. and is entitled to vindication and exoneration. * i / Any Senator who. for political or personal reasons, whether his name is Lodge or any other, who interferes with or attempts to delay such an investigation by such a committee is doing a distinct disservice both to his party and to the Attorney-General and he cannot complain if his motives are questioned by the public. FILLING UP GRAVES r*~T| OUR persons have been killed in automobile accidents in Ijrj Marion County this year. This is a decided falling off from the records of last year when sixty-three persons met death. Some were pedestrians; the others, auto drivers or passengers. Now to all citizens let us make this suggestion: Imagine sixty-three graves in a row, many being the graves of children. Others of these graves are six feet long. They await persons who will be killed this year, if last year’s ratio of killings is maintained. If these graves are filled, carelessness, neglect, drunkenness thoughtlessness and indifference will be responsible. In this connection a report by the traffic hazards committee of the National Safety Council is worth studying. It says: 1. All users‘of the highway have equal rights thereon. 2. No one has a prior right to the use of our streets and highways. i*. Reasonable care in the exercise of his right is due from every user to every other user of a street or highway. 4. The amount of reasonable care due from any person on a highway increases in proportion to his ability to damage others. Public sympathy has quite naturally gone out to the pedes* trian and, as a result, a generally erroneous impression, without any foundation at law, allotting him rights superior to all others, has developed, according to the committee, which adds: “The fact that a pedestrian needs protection so badly has brought this sympathetic feeling to the point that now the doctrine ‘the pedestrian owns the road’ is preached on almost every hand, not as a program of lav*, but as law actually in being and enforced.’ , “It is only natural, with a recurring condition raised as often as a pedestrian is injured by a vehicle on a highway, that the question of relative rights should come up again and again for court decision. So there are numberless court determinations covering applications of law to different sets of facts. But what are the underlying and fundamental principles of law which govern the applications'? “The general common sense theory of the use of a highway or roa<3 in its simplest form, is that when there is only one person or vehicle using it. that person or vehicle ‘owns the road’ and may use the whole of it, but as soon as any other person or vehicle uses it with him then his use becomes divided with the use of the other person, and so on into all the complications of traffic.”

FIXING A SENATE COMMITTEE mHE old guard dies but never surrenders. The old guard is dying hard. Battling for the old. suave, pussyfooting method of secret manipulation in the Senate, Mr. Lodge and the other veterans, together with their younger recruits and mercenaries. are trying to clamp back the tilted lid. The struggle to substitute open methods for secret ones that is going on in the Senate, means much to the people of the coun-try-—and to the politicians—and to campaign contribution. The two methods are illustrated by the handling of Senator Wheeler's resolution to investigate Daugherty. Wheeler, in his resolution, names a committee of five to conduct the investigation. This so that the Senate could know who the investigators would be and to vote for or against them. Also so the public should know. At once he was jumped on as violating the traditions of the Senate and .“offering insult to the Senate's presidihg officer,” Senator Cummins, by taking from him the power to name the committee. Wheeler's was the method of open procedure openly arrived at and the batteries of the old guard were loosed upon him, but in retaliation he quickly showed how the other side was proceeding. He forced Senator Willis. Daugherty’s champion and spokesman in the Senate, to admit that since the introduction of Wheeler's resolution to investigate, he, Willis, had had a conference with Daugherty and had then gone to Senator Cummins and suggested, privately, what Senators should sit on the Daugherty investigation. Outside the Senate that would be called something like packing a jury. In the Senate it is custom, but a custom that is passing. Incidentally the public has a right to know the names of the Senators suggested by Willis to Cummins, after conference with Daugherty, as being the ones he wanted on the Daugherty investigating committee.

Atlee Pomerene Does Not Grandstand, Smile or Play

ATLEE POMERENE By SEA. SentejwTIASHINGTON, Feb. 21. —Atlee Pomerene, named Teapot 1 ** I Dome prosecutor by President Coflidge, has never found time for anything but work. He looks out on life through serious spectacles. His entire public career has been characterized/by ceaseless labor and application to the task at hand. He is a total stranger to recreation in any form.

During his twelve years as United States Senator. Pomerene was seldom in the public ey*. yet few Democratic Senators were more influential in shaping legislation than the. man from Canton, O. Never Politician The spotlight passed Potnerene by, because he lacked th ability to capitalize his accomplishments. He was never a politician. Others more versed in the ways of publicity frequently ran away with the credit that was rightfully his. Pomerene ife tall, lean and darkskinned: his forehead is high and his fringe of hair black. He usually wears a black coat, black troupers, a ’'boiled" white shirt and "choker" collar and a narrow black bow tie. His dress suggests the stage makeup of An undertaker. Serious-minded, unusually sensitive, he rarely smiles or jokes. Criticism hurts him deeply. Atlee Pomerene's seriousness and high sense of duty undoubtedly are heritages of his boyhood. Reared on Farm lie was reared on a farm in Berlin. Holmes County. Ohio. Atlee and his ten brothers and sisters each had a certain set of chores and each was held strictly accountable by a stern parent. Dr. Peter Pomerene wanted his boys to become physicians and named most of them for famous Third Degree Yourselfl NUMBER SENSE Are you quick a seeing what numbers mean? Do you see their relationships? To have that ability is a mark of intelligence, the ability to think in symbols rather than thingsIt ip a form of what is known as abstract thought, the highest power of the mind. If you are good at that sort of thing you should be able to complete the following test in three minutes without error. First read these directions carefully. In these lines of numbers, the first six are arranged in a definite order in each case. The underscored numbers are a continuation of the same order. 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 Ifi 98765432 1727 3 74 7 The test is to fill in the missing two numbers at the end of each of the ten incomplete series below'. 10 18 20 25 30 35 5 9 13 17 21 25 1 2 4 8 16 32 876 5 43 27 27 23 23 19 19 8 9 12 13 16 17 397755 11 13 12 14 13 15 8161 43 16 17 15 18 14 19 Answers: 40-45, 29-33. 64-128. 2-1, 15-15. 20-21, 3-3, 14-16. 2 1, 13-20. (Copyright. Science Service.)

Heard in the Smoking Room

SHE actor in the smoker was telling of an author whom he knew in New York, who had liye'l off a very few cents a day. He was a brilliant chap but would not give in to werk that, did not’ interest. He was sure of his "stuff" and stCk to writing. He got to the place where he had to hunt up a mission where they handed out food to those who had no money to buy. lie did have passes to all of the theaters. And he was too poor t<j afford any gas or heat of any kind In hie room.

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doctors. But Atlee, after leaving Prjnceton, studied law in Cincinnati and then went to Canton to practice. He served two terms as city sopitor and one as county prosecutor. In 1910 he was elected Lieutenant Governor c.f £)hlo. The next year he "bucked" the machine, ran for the Senate against "Boss” Hanley and was elected. He was re-elected six years later, defeating Myron T. Herrick On Big Committee* In the Senate Pomerene was a member of important committees— Banking and Currency, Foreign Relations, Interstate Commerce and Privileges and Elections. As chairman of the latter committee he directed the Inquiry that ultimately resulted in discrediting Senator Newberry of Michigan and forcing him from the Senate. Pomerene turned up the facta of the Ford-Newberry case, other Senators made speeches about them. He did the work, they got the credit. He was one of the leaders in the fight that resulted in enactment of the last child labor law, later declared unconstitutional. He led the Senate fight for the Adamson eight-hour day law. He worked for the bill creating the Department of Labor and the children's bureau. He supported practically every bill organized labor indorsed but he voted for the Esch-Cummlns transportation act and was defeated for a third term by the labor vote. ■ —■ ■ - Bachelor and Benedict By BERTON BRALEY Poor Bill, he leads a humdrum life, He hardly gets a bit of freedom. He has four children and a wife, It makes him hump to clothe and feed ’em. His worries never seem to cease, At homß those noisy kids beset him; And if he seeks to nap In peace, They will not let him. It’s very seldom he gets out. Once In a month of Sunday*, maybe. And when he does he frets about The older children and the baby. He cannot call his soul his own, His slavery is something errant. His state of mind is clearly shown And that’s —a parent. Yet I recall when he, like me. Could go and come as struck his fancy, When he was burdenless and free For any game—however chancy. But now he cannot plav around, He cannot join our merry revel; To home and family he’s bound — The lucky devil! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) One ori the Baby "Don’t forget the pine-needle pillow for baby.” “Put won't that make It balsam at night?"—William's Purple Cow.

Ho suffered very much from the cold. One night it was very bitter indeed. The old wind was blowing a seventy-mile gal Q up and down Broadway. Making sure that he had his newspaper pass to all theatersIn his pocket and buttoning his coat closely around him. he made for the nearest theater. It was snowing so that he could not see the electric sign. He entered, too cold to think of a program. the curtain was going up. He glanced at his neighbor's program. The play was "Icebound."

ATTACK ON SECURITIES IS FAILURE Complete and Well-Financed Propaganda Is Not Successful, By HERBERT QUICK Oa'GRESS will not submit to the people the amendment to the Constitution forbidding tax exempt securities —n6t yet. It is astonishing that they-refused. The at tack on tax-exempt securities has had back of it the most complete and wellfinanced propaganda of any idea for many years. Hardly any one answered the arguments. The President is against tax-exempt, securities. The Secretary of the Treasury is against them Tt seemed as though almost > every one has been against them. Yet ; the attack on them fatted, Now that it has failed W me tn you briefly the history of this attack on the power of States, cities, counties, school districts and Federal Land Banks to Issue tax exempt securities Loan Act Starts Fight Ten years ago all the big men who are back of this propaganda we.-e strong for tax-exempt securities. It was the Federal farm loan act. under which, farmers could, through the banks they own, borrow cheap money on tax-exempt securities, that started the fight against them The Farm Mortgage* Bankers Association, which a short time before had been lobbying for tax-exempt farm mortgages, began the fight against them. They wanted the bonds of the F®d-1 era! Land Banks taxed. Tax those! bond* and the advantage of the fanners in borrowing money would be gone. The power to tax is th power! to deatroy. and they wanted to get the! Federal Land Banks where they could destroy them through a subservient administration Big Money Interested Then t.h® men of Big Money—th* very men whom Mellon and Coolidgo | say are evading taxes by buying taxexempt bonds—saw a. chance to do something big for Big Money by forbidding tax-exempt bonds.’ 'The rail way interests were most active. They ■ wished to get under the thumb of Congress the States which were issuing bonds for building good roads j on which motor cars and trucks com- ; peted with railways. The public util- i ity companies all came In—they knew j that if they could do away with tax exempt bonds it would be the end of ! public ownership of these public util- j ! ittes—gas. electric railways, power plants and the like. The attack on tax-exempt bonds was. j ! In short, an attack on public owner-1 ! ship of anything which governments,; state and local, could not pay for ini cash. It was meant to be the end of ; low interest rates for any public move- j ment for the ownership of anything by the public. It was to be the end of low Interest for farmers. __ Destruction Sought The power to tax is the power to destroy. The war on tax-exempt securities was a war to put States. cities, counties, school districts and j farmers' organizations in a position in which Congress coutd destroy their financial operations by taxing their bonds. It was not only the most powerful attack on the rights of the States that has ever been made, but also on ! ♦ hose of local governments. It was so powerful that I wonder it failed. The whole propaganda was false and hypocritical. It was run by the very men who were accused of wanting tax-exempt bonds. It wgs argued that money went into tax-exempt bonds so that borrowers without the power to lsue them could not finance themselves; but at the very time when Con- ; gross voted on if, money on any good industrial loans had not been so plentiful for years. The arguments were false, as a matter of fact. The railways wre the only great Industry j which was having hard time* to get. money, and the reason fn r their lack of credit (which Is not so severe ss a year or so ago) was because of the underlying weakness of the railway position. Tax exempt bonds had nothing to do with tt.

A Thought

T will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to spesk reproachfullv.— 1 Tim. 5:14. * • • T r ~~~~ O beman 5 tender mate was ■woman bom. and in obeying —-I nature she best serves the purposes of Heaven.—Schiller. Animal Facts Although corn is selling so high this w-lntar. they say huge piles of the husked grain are lying in the fields of South Dakota. Minnesota and northern Tow-a. But pheasants, sage hens and grouse are harvesting it and are reported large and fat as butter, despite the hard winter. Clip your Impeyan pheasant’s wings, but lie'll hop a six-foot fence anyway, so strong are his legs and the energy In his little body. American breeders are establishing this most brillinaily colored of all pheasants in notthern United States, where the weather is nearest his native Himalayas. Ci. H. Corson, naturalist of Echo Valley, N. Y., is a nature lover who ha* made his farm bloom with the most gorgeous flowers shrubs and trees and further decorated it with wild birds which live with him and refuse to leave even at migration time. Among the birds he raises is the Mongolian pheasant, just about the wildest, shyest thing there Is. Watch Corson start, out with a spade and you'll see Mongolians perched all over him. When the digging begins, it's all he can do to turn the spade over for pheasants clinging to the handle and watching for the first worm What is there about some men w'hlch makes wild things such friends of them?

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EARTH REVEALS OWN HISTORY OF ITS LIFE Many Fossils Found in Rock—Layers Tell Interesting Story of Ancient Days,

By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. E have just been considering yU the forces which bring about ■i .1 the changes upon the face of the earth—the forces which wear away the land and the forces which uplift the land again. These forces, so geologists tells us, have been at work since the close of the formative period when the earth cooled into a body with oceans and protruding continents. Let vs go back to that point now and pick up again our account of the history' of the earth. The geologist reads the history of the earth in the layers of rock which compose its present surface. Fossils Are Used Other scientists, who call themselves paleontologists and specialize in the study of the ancient forms of life which once inhabited th© earth. Editor’s Mail The editor is willing to print views of Times readers on interesting subjects Make your comment brief. Sign your name a* an evidence of pood faith. It will not be printed if you object. „ Wages To the Editor of The Time* The letter headed “Car Men's Wages” appealed to me very' strongly, therefore I would like to ask O. C., the author, a few questions. Why criticise the street car company ifor wanting an increase in fares and at the same time pity himself for working for this company for a mere nothing? It doesn't seem strange that the company should want an increase when it says Indianapolis is the only city that has a 5-cent fare. But that isn't a legjd excuse, when the country has been struggling since 1918 to get back to normalcy. It doesn't appear to me that we are getting very far along the lines of normalcy. But as It will be decided for us as to whether or not we are to pay an increased fare, don't guess there is any kick coming, only to say that we hope we will get service in return. Now the most important part of O. C s latter is where he asks this question. "Why doesn't the company tel! the whole story, explaining to the. public that it has the poorest paid car service men in the country?" 1 wonder if O. C. has ever heard of any corporation in this country ex plaining to the public that it don't pay its employes a decent wage? I never have. As long as tjie men will submit to such condition, the company will go along trying to mislead the public. It is certainly the employes' fault if they are not getting a decent wage. They are the ones that are doing the work and It is up to them to sell their labor be the highest price. MRS. BIRDIE TYSON, 315 Bright St.. Bonus Plea To the Editor of The. Timet No doubt buddies will miss I joined some of the other buddies in playing quits with the American Legion- No bonus. No member. I quit and I quit cold and I don’t mean maybe. Here is a little story I would like to get off my mind about iwo well known ex-service men who were in the army and held high rank. Os course, they are opposed to the soldier bonus. Their job was waiting hev* for them and their pay was going on while they were doing their bit. Money they had a plenty before entering the service. That is the kind of buddies trying io cut our heads. Now one of these men has a fat Job in a bank and pulls down a nice salary while the other is a son of one of the largest manufacturers in Indianapolis and at one time was an officer in the National guards. PEDDLING SHOE STRINGS.

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j piece out the account of life on the earth from the fossils found In these I rocks. The history of the earth is truly a record in the rocks. Geologists now believe that the earth has gone through great cycles. First the forces which wear away the land planed the continents down to low, flat formations, depositing the debris in the oceans. At such periods, the water displaced by the debria flooded the continents, covering large portions of them with shallow warn* waters. North America, and more particularly the United States, were flooded sixteen times in this way. Then came the times when the land was uplifted, and the continents rcse high above sea-level, and were marked with great mountain chains. Climate Cools j This, however, would quicken the ! flow of the rivers and make the cli- ! mate colder, thus speeding up the action of the forces which wear away the land and beginning anew cycle. At such times, too. sedimentary rocks which had formed In the shalj low waters would be lifted high above sea-level and bent and buckled out of i their original level layers. The ancient life is known to u ! from the fossils found in these lay- ’ ers of rock. I For they are the remains of the i animals and plants which Inhabited ! the earth at the time when these ! layers of rock were formed. Rocks Are Record The fossils include retrains of shellfish and similar animals which live on the ocean bottom, fish which swarm about in the water and whose skeletons sank to the bottom when they died, and the skeletons' of land animals who e remains were carried down by streams into the ocean. There these fossils were covered *up by the accumulating layers of sediment and incorporated into the sedimentary rocks when the sedi ments jpecame cemented together. Reading the rock record is no easv task. It is not found complete in any place. A few layers are found in one place. Other layers are found in other places. Practically all of them have been bent and twisted cut of shape by the great earth movements. But with infinite patience and skill. and paleontologists have pieced them together into a complete story. Next article: The Geological TimeTable. (Copyright, 1924. by David Dietz) Family Fun What It Does to ’Em Honolulu Star-Bulletin publishes what is hailed as the first genuine n ah-jongg story. "There has just come to Honolulu the story of the maid who went to the lady of the house and said she feaxed she would have to find another place. But why? her alarmed employer aaked. “ ‘Because,’ the majd replied, ‘I fe*x your husband Is losing his mind. T found him on bis hands and knees In the living room, and when I asktd him what he was doing, he said he was looking for the East Wind.’ *’—• Argonaut. Daughter’s Voice "Do you think I can ever do anything with my voice?’’ "Well, it may come in handy In case of fire.”—Pearson’*. For the Flat Family "I think these French people must have small flats.” “Why so?” “I notice that dog wags his tall up t,nd down instead of sideways.”—Film fun.