Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1924 — Page 4
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TRYING THE GOVERNOR S| IX months have passed since the public first became aware ___ of the fact that Governor McCray’s finances were hopelessly involved, that he had conducted personal financial transactions with the State and that his bank at Kentland was tottering. They have been an eventful six months, with charge following charge. The latest accusations are those brought by the Federal grand jury in which McCray is alleged to have used the mails to defraud and to have violated the national banking laws. Yet, despite all these things, Warren T. McCray still is Governor of Indiana. He has not faced a jury and the public does not know whether he is guilty or innocent. There is something more involved in the case of the Governor of Indiana than in the case of an ordinary citizen. More i.* at stake. McCray is at the head of the affairs of Indiana. He is directing the government, which really is a great corporation involving the investment of millions. If McCray is guilty he should resign or be put out of the Governor’s office as quickly as it can be accomplished. If he is not guilty, a great injustice is being done him and the State. There is only one way to determine. That is to place him on trial. There is no sensible reason for another day of delay. The question should be decided in the interest of the entire State. GOVERNOR M’CRAY SHOULD BE PLACED ON TRIAL IMMEDIATELY.
LA FOLLETTE AS A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE SESTERDAY The Times called attention to Josephus Daniels as the man whose nomination might fit the need of the hour for the Democratic party. Now what about the Republican? Practically every newspaper of this country, of every shade and kind of political opinion, reflects today the public disgust not only with the crooked Teapot Dome transactions, but with the kind of old-fashioned party politics that made these transactions possible. The feeling is deep. And the people remember. They 4 -e member a long chain of putrid scandals with rotten politics at the bottom of them extending back through more than one a' 1 ministration, to Hog Island and beyond. So that both parties, so far as their “regular” leaders are concerned, are involved. The demand now is for a general clean-up. The demand is for a leader to do the cleaning up job. The demand is for a man of character, action, a straight record, not of honeyed words, cheap campaign slogans or convention “pull.” If either or both of the old parties overlook this fact, they will do so to their sorrow, possibly to their extinction. Our idea is that with the situation of the United States what it is today—what it has been shown conclusively to be by the oil lease revelations —the one man in the Republican party wLc comes nearest to measuring up to what the people want and what the country needs is Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, the real father of the oil lease investigation. He has character. He has courage. He has ability. He is consistent. His sincerity has never been questioned. He has never been on the pay roll of any corporation that sought profit at the expense of the Americaj Government. He is “all there” and the people know it. In this dark day of its shame and humiliation. Bob La Follette has a better claim than any other man on the Republican party to be nominated by it for the presidency. It is La Ful lette more than any other man who has preached th his party the -wise doctrine, “if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.” But the powers that be at the Cleveland convention may want none of that. A few weeks ago they preferred to “keep Cool-idge.” A few days ago they were bragging about bavin • a majority of delegates all lined up for Coolidge, regardless of Teapot Dome, public indignation, or whatever. The American people are patient and long-suffering. So are the rank and file of Republicans. But there is a limit even to suffering. La Follette would be a bitter pill for the Republican party leaders—but unless the elephant takes some hitter med:cine, there won’t be any elephant. ANOTHER scientist says wc are lazy, but don’t heed him. He’s probably been hanging around Congress.
A CALIFORNIA hen has laid an 8-ounce egg. Now watch the scramble of the envious to beat it. WILL some philanthropist offer a prize for a peace plan thac will give the dove a permanent residence in Herrin, 111.? A NUMBER of the “baby” Congressmen are outspoken against the tax revision proposition, it is reported. Object to Mellon’s food, you see. MR. JIM HAM. LEWIS says China, Japan and Russia are in league to destroy the United States. Pink whiskers certainly do make a man talk funny. EX-VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL says Mexico has a good constitution. It must have or it would be unable to withstand so many revolutions.
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BRITISH LABORITES BOSS KING’S HOUSE
Trades Unionists Run Things in England's Social Revolution, BT MILTON BRONNER (NEA Service Staff Correspondent) EONDON. Feb. 26.—A tin plate worker, who started earning his daily bread when he was 11; a coal miner, who went into the pits when he was 10; and a bootmaker, who started sewing leather when he was 11, are running the household of the King of Great Britain. And there are serious people who will tell you solemnly that this is the greatest and most astonishing revolution in British life caused by King George summoning Ramsay MacDonald to form a ministry. Trades unionists in the King’s own palace, giving orders to Borne of the flunkies, supervising the bills, being consulted about social procedure—zowie! and then some! Thomas Griffiths, who represents the Welsh district of Pontypool in the House of Commons, is the new treasurer of the household. Was Welsh Workman The man who thus officially supervises the expenditures of the royal family .started life in the humble home of a Welsh workman. Griffiths Is a type of the British workman with a tremendous thirst for the knowledge that the poor pub- ! lie school system of his country re fused him. At the age of 33, with a j wife and family to support, he en j tered Ruskin College at Oxford. After he left college, Griffiths he- j came an organizer of the Steel Smelt- j ers’ Union and later became a dt visonal officer of the great. Iron and Steel Trades Confederation —the im mense union which has never had a strike. John Alien Parkison is the controller of the royal household. He will have a lot to do with regulating the big functions. Quarrels With Father And that is something he never dreamed of doing when, as a kid in Lancashire, he quarrelled with his father. The latter was a colliery under-manager. He dreamed that his boy should he a manager. But young John said he wanted to be a miner. He started as a halftimer at 10, became a full-time worker in the coal pits at 12, and at IT was a thoroughgoing trades unionist John Davison, who Is vice chamberlain of the household, started out is a bootmaker, but soon went into boiler making ar.d iron founding. For twenty-one years he was a sand artist :n a foundry.
QUE3T I O N S Ask— The Times ANSWERS You car. gn an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Washington. D. C., inclosing 2 cents in slant)* for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All otb<— questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Who wrote "One swallow does not make a summer”? "One sw-allow maketh not summer” Is the correct reading. It is found in "Proverbs.'’ Part 11, Chapter V, by John Heywood. In thanking a club for a social favor, Is it necessary to write to the individual members, or to the club as a whole and how should they be addressed? In acknowledging a gift from a club, address the club as a whole, and write only one note. The address may be “The Members of the Ladies’ Club,” or whatever the name happens to be. Has an associate Justice of the Supreme Court ever been Impeached? Yes. Samuel Chase was Impeached in 1804 for misconduct at trials of persons charged with breach of the sedition law; trial Nov. 30, 1804, to March 1, 1804. Verdict, acquittal.
What is the acreage of Ireland and how much of this Is unfit for agriculture? Os the 20.000,000 acres of land in Ireland, 6.000,000 are bog, marsh, barren, mountainous, etc. Where does the North Platte River rice and what is its course? The North Platte River rises in the mountains which surround North Park, in northern Colorado, flows northward into Wyoming, turns southeast to its junction with the South Platte. Is it true that there is likely to be an absolutely black baby born In families which are apparently perfectly white, but which have a slight, infusion of negro blood? A more or less plain “reminder” of the negro ancestry may appear in any generation up to and probably even beyond the tenth, but no complete or even a large grade reversion can be expected after the third or fourth generation.
Heard in the Smoking Room
*'l ~ | HE other night," said a smoker as the train pulled l 1 out of San Diego, “I heard Hon. Lyman Gage toll one of his quiet stories, like this, only better: “A rather obtuse citizen opened a fish store on one of the water front streets and \>ut over the door a really fine sign, which he had painted nimself, reading '“Fresh Fish for Sale Here.’ Along comes a friend and Mr. Dealer calls his attention to the fine sign. " ‘lt’s wejl enough,’ said th/e friend, Alt why the word “Here?” You're not selling fish anywhere else.’ “ "Jrug.’ said the dealer, and he climbed up and painted out the word. '{‘Pretty soon along comes another fribnd who remarks at once, ‘That's a fine sign you have up there, dealer, but why the words ‘For Sale'? You
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\ ■ Running the King's household (above! Thomas Griffiths, treasurer, (centei*) John Alien Parkinson, Comptroller. (below) John Davison, vice Chamberlin.
PARALAUGHS Plans for. cstalijishing an annual ! national deficit are under way. Africa is buying rail equipment i from Germany. It is not true that a German locomotive snorts at signt of a Frenchman. Women are entering all branches of business. In New York, one was arrested for crooked dealing in Wall Street. Three men claim they are presl- j dent in Honduras, but we have many more claiming they will be president. We will be belter off when the knows Instead of the noes have It. A Boston man of HO announces his engagement, this being the first sign of spring In Boston. The annual Investigation of gasoline prices Is being held, perhaps to see why it can't be boosted to a dollar a gallon. Financial conditions seem to be getting worse In Government swindling circles.
Family Fun
Prays Gladys had lost two front teeth and for her comfort she had been told God would give her new ones. She was to take rart in some Sunday school exercises and In spite of all her wishing, the new teeth refused to put in an appearance. One night after Gladys had retired her mother heard her talking and entering the room quietly site saw tho child kneeling beside her bed. “Oh, God," she was saying, "if you haven’t got my new teeth done, won't you phase Mrop my old ones down again unit! after next Sunday?" —Boston Transcript. Sister Expects Ohe “I had a nut sundae.” “I have one calling tonight."—| Judge.
are not loaning fish, are you?’ “ 'That’s so,' agreed Dealer, and he painted out those two words. “Soon another friend, and Dealer points out the beauty and brevity of his sign. " ‘That word, ‘Fresh’ hurts it,’ said the friend. ‘You’re not offering rotten fish, are you?' “ ‘Darned if It ain’t sort of a reflection!’ exclaimed Dealer, and his paint brush made his sign just ’Fish.’ ‘‘As he came down from be ladder, again a friend came along, who looked at the sign and said: “‘Dealer, what's the use of that word ‘Fish’ up there?’ “ ‘Why,’ exclaimed Dealer, to let people know there's a fish store here.’ “ ‘Paint it out,’ advised the friend, ‘they can tell that there is. two blocks away.' ” f
W. VIRGINIA UNMINDFUL OF SLAVERY Nobody Cares About Conditions Under Which Striking Miners Live. This is the (second article of a series on labor conditions In West Virginia. By R. H. JONES. Times Staff Correspondent. HARLESTON, W. Va„ Feb. 26. —The most pitiful and most i_ brutal phase of the suffering of union miners in West Virginia is nobody cares. Sivty-one years ago this State seceded from the Southern Confederacy because it would not stand for human slavery. But today It endures and encourages a more brutal form of bondage. It fought to free the black man. But it will not turn its hand to liberate the white. Under negro slavery the serfs were fed and clothed by their masters, but tinder the more brutal bondage today the slave is neither clothed nor fed. For two years 5,000 men, women and children—striking union miners and their families —have lived in tents in the Cabin Creek Valley within fifteen miles of Charleston, the State capital. Yet even the Governor of the State did not know of it until a few days ago. Governor Finds Out Governor Morgan was driving along a road when he saw the tents, with women sticking their heads out and children playing in the mud near by. He asked what the tents were for. The driver told him they contained striking miners, their wives and children. The Governor asked no more questions. He wasn't interested. I asked him why he had not done anything to relieve their unhappy condition. "Those men don't want to work,” he replied sharply. • That was really the way he looked at it. If the miners refuse to work for the pittance offered by the operators, then they “don't want to work" at all and should have no sympathy—neither they nor their families who suffer with them. The operators fix their own price on their coal, but Governor Morgan and the other big men of West Virginia will not concede the union miners the right to have anything to say about fixing a price on the only commodity they have to sell—their labor. K'ewspapers Uninterested These ten colonies—six of them in the Cabin Creek Valley—have been in existence two years, hut not a newspaper in Charleston, only fifteen miles away, has printed a line about them. They are not interested either I asked Governor Morgan what the altitude of public officials, politicians I and business men generally in AVest Virginia is toward union labor. "Very unfriendly," he answered. With reduced wages and slack work, there Is more hunger In West Virginia today than in any other State of the union. But West Virginia does not seem to rare.
— .NO. 14 Third Degree Yourself! " ■ Foresight Test
(Warning: Don't look at the dia grame until you find out what you are to do.) . H>w well can you meet anew situation Can you look ahead and quickly decide what is the best thing to do? If you can. you should be able to con plete successfully the test for foresight in less than two minutes.
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Science
Whenever a person reads of one of the great plague diseases In a newspaper, he always reads that It has attacked some country outside of the United States. These diseases never get, into this country, nowadays. The groat plagues are cholera, typhus, yellow fever and bubonic plague. The germs of these diseases are not allowed to enter any one of the ninetysix ports of entry to this country. In the last thirty years only one case of cholera eluded the watchfulness of quarantine officers and that one was caught before any damage was done. About fifteen years ago, a few cases of bubonic plague occured on the Pacific Coast, but the disease was soon stamped out. A single person afflicted with any one of these plagues might cause death to millions. Exclusion does not lie at the ports of entry alone. United States officers are in foreign ports to prevent persons with dangerous contagions from embarking for America.
Tongue Tips
Maria Thompson Daviess, author: “To weather a. grand passion gives woman her highest moments of efficiency.” Rev. John Howland Lathrop, Brook lyn: “For Americans, there is no nobler illustration of that chivalric charity for all than Abraham Lincoln, who -both condemns and inspires the spiritual chaos of today.” Airs. X. H. Reeves, president National Congress of Mothers and ParentTeacher Association, Philadelphia: “It doesn't do to sit at home and read about parenthood. You must become better parents by working with other parents and studying their problems.” : ...
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Men’s Fashions By BERTON BRALEY A suit that is fuzzy and shaggy I’ll wear, it #o fashion decree*, The kind that is bulgy and baggy (Especially down at the knees) Wear pleats at the waist? Why, I've got ’em For all my admirers to see. But—trousers that bell at the bottom? Not me! I’ll wear, as the fashion Is dawning, A sack suit that s cut like a tent, An overcoat made like an awning Without any sign of dissent. My ties and my sox, you can spot ’em Wherever I happen to be, But—trousers tha,t bell at the bottom! Not me! , I’m wholly a slave to my I'm fast in his terrible grip. But I won't he greeted with "Sailor. How's everything down on the ship?” Male flappers may wear era, dod rot ’em, As big as the trunk of a tree But trousers that bell at the bottom— Not me! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc )
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Indiana Sunshine
Muncie's city clerk Maynel Dalby has found anew way to prepare for the strenuous task of campaigning. He admltts to his friends that he swings a pair of Indian clubs each night and morning. “I'm going to need it,” he declares. ‘ Election comes next year and if I’m not, ready for it 1 will get tired out handshaking. It’s never too late to learn, is the firm belief of Samuel G. Hoff, 76, of Kokomo. He is enrolled in a cost accounting course in the free night school. When asked why he wanted to take the work, he said: “Just for my own satisfaction. I always thought I would like'it.” Hoff is an interior decorator and was one time principal of a grade school. .* Russel Heme, 13, of Columbus has found a novel use for a hat. Borrowing an old “pjug” from his father, Russel installed * radio set in it. He says he has been able to receive messages from a radius of fifteen miles. The whole works is in the hat, even the antenna, which consists of a wire coil. The head set pushes up inside when not in use.
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The Handwriting on the Wall
GIGANTIC REPTILES ONCE RULED EARTH
Huge Dinosaurs Dominated Land While Great Fish Lizards Roamed Seas —Ice Age Ends,
By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times Copyright by David Dietz SHE Age of Reptiles, or Mesozoic Era as the geologist call, it, began § 140,000.000 years ago. Geologists think it lasted about 100,000,000 years. The process of life, it will be noticed, is speeding up. Half of the earth’s history. 400,000,000 years, was spent in setting life started. The age of ancient life lasted 220, 000,000 years.
Editor’s Mail The editor l* willing to print views of Tunr readers on tnleresfin* subjects -tlako your comment brief. Sirn yr tr name • an evidence of good faith. It will not be printed it you object.
To the Kditor of The Timet In answer to an article by James Knox about the birth of Jesus, there are no discrepancies in the records of Matthew 1:20 and Luke 1:32. The second writer,* Luke, traces Jesus through Mary, his mother, to David through Matthew, David’s third son; while Matthew traces him through Joseph to David through Solomon. Jesus became related to the human family, as all may clearly see. through Mary, his mother. Both Joseph and Mary, as can be seen, were descendants of David, which is shown by the two accounts. “Jacob Begat Joseph” Matthew states* that Jacob begat Joseph which would make Jacob Joseph's father, while Luke states that Joseph was the son of Heli or Eli, which would be legal. He being Mary’s husband would make him a son in-law to her father and Joseph being the head of the household and it being the Jews’ custom to trace genealogy through the man, there would be nothing wrong or illegal in Luke's using Joseph’s name Instead of Mary’s in tracing our Lord's genealogy, though It be Marj 's (Jesus' mother) genealogy. Likewise Joseph being stepfather to Jesus would entitle Matthew to trace through him as our Lord had a legal claim to either genealogy. Thus seen, there is no discrepancy. “Relationship of Mother” Neither does our Lord's claim to the throne rest upon the relationship of His mother to Joseph. On the contrary, had he been Joseph's son. He would have been debarred from any ancestral right to David’s throne, although David's successor to the kingdom came through the line of His son Solomon and not through His son Nathan. Nevertheless, certain scriptures distinctly point out that the great heir of David's throne should not come through the royal family line of Solomon. H. C. COOPER., 606 VV. Tenth St.
A Thought
Neglect not the gift that is in thee. —1 Tim. 4.14. * * * mT is an uncontrolled truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a gcod one who mistook them.—Swift.
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TUESDAY, FEB. 26, 1924
Now we find much greater advances taking place in far less time. The Age of Reptiles begins with the end of the great ice age which closed the Era cf Ancient Life At the start of the Age of Reptiles. plants had made great advances in the art of living out of water. We find palm-like cyeads and lowgrown evergreen trees. Gradually as the age of Reptiles dragged, through its millions of years, flowering plants began to develop. Reptiles Grow in Size The reptiles began to glow both in number and in size. In the sea, great fish lizards paddled about. On land, veritable dragons, the dinosaurs, appeared. Many of the dinosaurs were more than 100 feet in length. The first dinosaurs were probably grazing or browsing creatures, living on plants. But meat-eating dinosaurs which preyed on other and smaller creatures. later developed. Some of these meat-e&ters were able to sit or stand upright, balancing their bodies on their strong hind legs and long heavy tails. Certain branches of the reptiles, the smaller ones, learned to climb trees. Probably it was a safety measure to keep the larger ones from eating them. These started the conquest of the air. They developed bat-like webs between the front limbs and the sides of their bodies. These great bat-lizards are known as pterodactyls. Some of them had a wing spread of twenty-four feet.
Birds Make Appearance Later true birds began to appear. The true birds, however, were not evolved from the pterodactyl but from another reptile, as we shall see later on surveying life-forme. At the close of the Age of Reptiles, tho mammals or warm-blooded animals began to appear. They were small and Insignificant at the time, no larger than presentday rats and mice. But suddenly a change came. The Age of Reptiles ended. Geologists aren’t cure just what caused the change. They know that there was a great “revolution” or upheaval of the land. It waa this upheaval that first hrough't the Rocky Mountains into existence in North America. The reptiles were over-specialized They couldn't meet the new conditions upon the earth. Asa result, the great reptiles died out and the mammals began to take their place. The geologist divides the Age of Reptiles into various periods. These are called the Triassic, Jurassic, Comanchian. and Cretaceous. Next article in series: The Age of Mammals. Tax Return Sought Suit for $1,284.84 has been filed in Federal Court by Mary C. Kimberlin of Indianapolis, widow of Dr. Albert C. Kimberbn, against M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue. The complaint charges that the amount was paid erroneously as income tax.