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BASKETBALL ON THRONE [V\iNCE again basketball reigns among the high school boys ILv I an d girls and a great many of their elders in Indiana. It has frequently been remarked that “Indiana is* basketball crazy.” As proof of this fact it may be noted that at least 5,000 boys are participating as actual players in games in fifty-five cities and towns of the State. A total of 665 teams is represented. Never has any sport so taken a State by storm. It is safe to say the Indiana high school basketball tournaments are unique in the history of sport. And here is another thing: Basketball players are NOT s “ cake-eaters. ” , Indiana’s players-nre real boys, boys ol: whom the State is proud. There are few games more strenuous —basketball requires strong muscles, good wind and quick thinking. A boy can’t be a “lounge lizard” and a basketball player at the same time. .... Who said the youth of the country is going to the bowwows? OWNIE BUSH’S CHANCE * * CpIIIE Indianapolis baseball team, guided by Ownie Bush, * 1 home-grown manager, departs for Florida to begin spring aining. When ball clubs go South, that is when spring comes for a "large part of the Nation’s citizenry. Renewed hopes, new pendant castles to build, new players to discuss, the opehing game, Jill are popular subjects eagerly snapped up for debate wherever men or boys gather. Baseball fans here have been talking Bush all winter. His •skillful playing with the Indianapolis pennant winners of 1908 Biways will be a happy recollection. Z Owner Smith is doing what he can to give Bush the proper Jalent for a first division contender and the new manager is keenly desirous of delivering the goods as a step toward estabtshing himself permanently with the Indianapolis baseball club. ash is of the “home boy” type and has tired of living away six juonths of the year. 2 Baseball interest in Indianapolis has lagged for some time. Various explanations for the slump have been advanced, but dis•P* . 7 jussion on that point has ended. The big thing now is 1924. £ Fans seem agreed that if Bush cannot revive the game it .towns. S; From early indications the opening game. April 15, will be record-breaker for local baseball attendance. Therefore, prediction is made Indianapolis is due for a baseball boom IF the Sndians perk up under Ownie Bush. REMOVE THIS HANDICAP * 111I 11 IT is doubtful if there is full realization of the handicap unI der which the fight against graft and corruption in Wash•ington is being carried on. I Politics impedes progress at every step. There are men of 4>oth parties who are earnestly trying to expose and punish the guilty and protect th 6 public., There are men of both parties—in and out of public office — 31'ho are trying to block the investigation. There are others who see in the whole oil scandal little more a matter of partisan gain or loss. S- The unfortunate relation of Attorney General Daugherty re- , moves the Government’s regular legal machinery from the field. This has been partially offset by the appropriation of SIOO,|oo to hire outside lawyers to try the cases. But before cases can be tried they mast be prepared as to before the Senate committee can get to the bottom of the fness it must be able to run down leads and clews. • At an enormous expense the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice is maintained for this purpose. This is Uncle Sam’s police force and detective bureau. It is supposedly a body of skilled operatives trained in the pursuit of crime and the sifting of facts. It is a powerful, secret Organization that extends over the whole country—and beyond. ■During all these months that bureau has done nothing to assist Ihe Government which supports it. So long as Daugherty is •Attorney General he, through Burns, will control the secret serv-ice-—and it will continue not to function in the public interest in •the oil cases. §r It is all right for Daugherty to remain in office until he has 4i hearing. It is indeed, quite proper, but it would seem to be a jailure in public service and a diversion of public funds to permit She bureau of investigation to be palsied during these critical Months. m President Coolidge could very well give an indication of the Relentless purpose which he has said he holds if he could go over £he head of the absent Attorney General and take such steps as would galvanize the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice into the utmost activity and most perfect co-ordination figrith the Senate and the special oil attorneys. ST The public is paying for this great agency and has a right jfc its utmost service at this moment. The President can, if he ! jfiß, remove this handicap. e COOLIDGE considering Borah for Daugherty’s job, says Washington dispatch. One wayMo silence a critic is to hire him. s■ s— : r

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Sir Esme Howard (above) is the new British ambassador to United States. He is show T n on arrival at New* York. DEMOCRATS LOOK OVER CANDIDATES Ralston and Copeland Appear to Be Best Bets Before Party. By HARRY t>. HUNT NEA Service Writer TyJ\ ARHINGTON, March I.—These W are the dopey days for the Democrats. Whereve. two or more Democrats ! foregather, the inevitable first ques- : tion is: “Well, what's the dope?" Meaning, always, the .deep, inside j political prognostication :is evolved by | the boys with their ears to the ground ■ and their eyes on the presidency. Here it is. Coolidge will be the Republican nominee. No Democrat disputes that. The G. O. P. must win or lose with the man now in the White House. To repudiate him would be to admit a mistake in 1920 and concede failure of the present Administration. With that settled, the Democratic dopesters then set about picking the man ,to unseat Coolidge. That's a more involved problem! Underwood? Too conservative. Lacks magnetism and popular appeal. Too southern to pull necessary northern vote. Small chance. Cox? Outdistanoed in 1920. A good campaigner, forceful, magnetic, but ! handicapped by his former defeat. ' Little chance. McAdoo Is I .anted MixAdoo? A favorite, irreparably lamed as a candidate because of his i oil connections. Personally and politl- ! cally the best fighter and most alert ! brain in the party, but now too vulnerable. Ilia candidacy would tie ! the hands of his party in using effec--1 lively the chief bludgeon by which i the Democrats may be able to boat down the G. O. P. —Oil! , Ralston? Well—a possibility. Not too well known. No enemies. Made a good Governor. Rather oid, rather conservative, but born in Ohio and residing in Indiana is geographically well placed. A possibility., A1 Smith of New York? Too bad. He has the sort of personality and popularity that would be invaluable. But a Tammany could garner few votes in the debatable middle west and west, where the battle must be won. Not available. Look at Copeland If none of these, then who? Well— Copeland of New York, progressive. Vigorous, magnetic. A doctor-presi-dent might restore the body politic to health. John W. Davis? Um-iu-m. Not likely. A chamilrig fellow personally, but a bit up-stage for ja. popular candidate. A silk-stocking air. Nope! Josephug Daniels? Well, perhaps. He headed the Navy Department when the sailors covered themselves with glory in the World War. He was the object of many jibes, but he defended the naval oil lands from many assaults of those who wanted to exploit them. Cordel Hull? Carter Glass? Homer Cummings? Wait a bit! Homer Cummings. There’s a good politician. Foxy. Think this over: Need McAdoo Votes If McAdoo can’t be nominated, tiie man who is nominated will need the votes of McAdoo supporters. The decision of McAdoo backers at Chicago to keep him in the fight insures his friends having the veto power in the New York convention. If they can’t put him across they can say who will or will not get across. And while all other potential Democratic candidates were sitting back smugly, smiling to themselves at M<JAdoo’s discomfiture, figuring how his seeming elimination had helped their chances, Homer Cummings was up at Chicago himself shout .ng for McAdoo, proclaiming him the hope of-progress-ive democracy—and incidentally making himself solid with the McAdoo forces as a potential dark horse when and if it is established McAdoo cannot pull down the nomination. Well, that’s the dope. Unsatisfactory stuff, always creating an appetite for more. But the supply in Washington is endless. For these are the dopey days! A Thought We have had fathers of oar flesh which corrected us. and we gave them : reverence; shall we not much rather ljj In subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?—Heb. 12:9. * * * H r— ““ fINCEFORTH the Majesty of God revere; Fear Him and you have nothelse to fear. t —Fqrdyce.

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NATURAL BARRIERS CAUSE OF RACES y . .. , Tendency Toward Differentiation and Assimilation Opposing Forces Throughout History of Mankind.

By DAVTD DIETZ Science Editor of The Times (Copyright, by David Dietz.) „ NE of the outstanding facts about man today is that he is divided up into races, each possessing distinguishing characteristics. As we have seen, even several types of true men existed in the Old Stone Age. ' Two great opposing forces have been at work throughout the story of mankind. One has been the tendency toward differentiation. The other has been assimilation, the intermingling of different types tending to bring about similarity. Different varieties of men migrating about the world and intermingling with the types they met, have tended, to make for assimilation. But certain great barriers, such as oceans and high mountain ranges have tended to preserve differentiations in certain great cases. Result of Climates These differentiations are thought to be the results of varying climates, foods, living conditions and the like. Therefore we find certain general characteristics prevailing throughout great areas. Thus in the north and western Europe great numbers of peoples are characterized by white skins, fair hair and blue eyes. About the Mediterranean we find peoples with white skins but dark hair and black eyes. In eastern Asia great numbers of peoples have yellowish skins, straight black hair and more or less high cheek bones. Most of the natives of southern Africa have black skins, flat noses, and thick lips. The scientist who studies races, the ethnologist, divides mankind up into races which he has assigned names. Thus the race which spread over Europe, the Mediterranean area and western Asia is known as Caucasian. It is divided into three m > groups. The first include the northern blondes UNUSUAL PEOPLE Fortune for Reform

CE. PUTNAM

\ V fjITH a fortune “salted away” yy from his enterprises as a -—--—i banker, lumberman, contrac- j tor jeweler, hardware merchant and ranchman, C. E. Putnam, 64, of Chicago, is on an evangelistic tour of the country at his own expense. Ho has been in this work five years.

NO. !8 Third Degree Yourself! Good Stenographer Tent

Do you know how efficient your stenographer is? Can you tel) a good one by one test? Or do you have to give her a trial at the job and see? A really good' stenographer or secretary should be aide to take 120 words per minute in dictation, and transcribe same on typepriter at forty words per minute. Read the directions first. Then try it on your next applicant. Directions: Explain to applicant you are going to dictate a letter and that you want hint to handle it in the same, way that he woujd if it were his first letter in anew position. Provide applicant with two well sharpened pencils, without etrosers, and a regulation stenographic note book. Make sure that applicant is at his ease and ready to start. Dictate very slowly through the “Dear Sir" of the salutation and have applicant read back to be sure he has it exactly right. Then dictate the body of the Setter, Including the complimentary ending, at the rate of ten seconds for each Interval within stars (120 words per minute.) Tell applicant of punctuation marks by merely • saying "comma,” "period” or “paragraph.” Then seat applicant comfortably before standard typewriter. Provide him with two sheets of 9x12 paper and one sheet of carbon paper. Wait until machine is adjusted and applicant is ready to start. Note the time involved (as “3!4 minutes”) in transcribing, not counting that spent in the salutation through "Dear Sir.”

Heard in the Smoking Room

ill 1 “l Good old Irish care-taker up I X\ j in the Yellowstone,” said a * ' smoker, “waa very proud of his job and boastful over everything in the park, and, when a party of us came to a little lake, last summer, he pointed to it and said: “ ‘There be the greatest lake on earth, so deep there’s no bottom at all.* “ ‘I guess,’ said I, ‘if you used long

or Nordics. The Scandinavians, Scots and northern Englishmen are Nordics. The second division is the Alpine. The third is the Mediterranean or Iberian. In eastern Asia there is a second race kn wri as the Mongolian. Find Primitive Race In Africa we find the negro race, and in Australian and New Guinea a black primitive race named the Australoids. But we must remember that there are many groups of peoples which do not seem to fit well into any one of these groups and others which are undoubtedly the results of mixtures. Three thousand years ago, as already pointed out, man learned to make implements of Iron. From that point on, we must leave the story of man to the historian. We started out with a general survey of the universe. Then we narrowed our survey .to the earth upon which we live. Let us no wnarrow our field to the specific phenomena of life. Next article in series: What Is Life? Indiana Sunshine I i G. F. Brazier of Silvertown, Ore., I visited relatives at Wolcott, Ind., last summer. They took with them their pet collie dog Bob. When they returned home they were forced to leave without the dog, being unable to find him. A few days ago the collie arrived in Silvertown. weary and sore-footed, but otherwise unhurt from his 1,600-mile Journey. Students at Wabash College have discarded garters. A vote was recently taken at chapel exercises which showed the students had discarded the conventional sock supports. The students that were still sitting wiien all the others stood up to vote i in favor of the new fad, were booed and derided by the garterless faction. An ancient volume has come into the possession of Hohn Bonham, Bartholomew County auditor, and all who have examined it are unable to determine what tongue it is written In. The book, handwritten and published in 1785. contains many maps and geognphiral sketches. Among the maps of the north continent. Alaska is not included. It that the writer did not know of the exist ence of this part of the continent. PARALAUGHS Only a great State would own up to its faults. Texas admits she leads in producing spinach. “I am through with men,” says a Kansas City woman as she gets a divorce. It sounds like it, but she is 56. Being too serious is a very serious mistake. A slight earthquake felt in Alaska was probably caused by some seal hunter's lies. The wall informed girl doesn't catch a husband as quickly as the well formed girl. In Tiro, Ohio, a man has received a letter mailed sixty-three years ago, but bills never act that way. Another cabinet member is resigned to his fate. Mexico will send an Olympic team to France. If the team has any soldiers they should be good runners.

Read the finished letter carefully, checking each mistake including spelling, position and punctuation. Multiply the number of errors by five and subtract this number from the total number of words, 150. Divide the resulting figure by the number of minutes, including the fraction, if any. This will give the score for the transcribing, or typing, part of the test. TEST LETTER Mr. A. C. Brown. 1200 Harrtson Ave., Denver, Colo. Dep.r Sir: Your letter of recent date has been received and we are sorry to note that the compressor that we shipped • you several months ago is not working properly. We assume that you have been .careful to follow our instructions in * Operating the machine. In most cases this will insure perfect operation for the firbt six months. As it happens, Mr. * Green, who represents us in the. West, will be In your city early next week and we are asking him * to call at your plant and go over the compressor for you. Mr. Green was in the manufacturing end before • he went on the road and is thoroughly competent to tear down and rebuild, if necessary We will be pleased • to replace any worn or damaged parts, and will do so free of charge if there is no evidence that * the machine has been subjected to abuse Very truly yours, (Copyright, by Science Serioe)

enough line and heavy enough sinker, you’d hit bottom, all right.’ ‘ "That’s phawt a eastern tourist felly like yez thinks, last summer,’ replied Pat, ‘and he strips and-dives in to brihg me up a bit of the bottom and I haven’t seen him since.’ “ ‘Drowned, of course,’ said I. " ‘Divil a bit!’ replied old Pat. ‘Three days later, I gits a cablegram from Australia to sind him his clothes.’ ”

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can ret an answer to any quetion of fact or information by writlnx to the Indianapolis Times Washington jßureau. 1322 New York Ave , Washington D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Mealea!, legal and marital advice cannot be riven, nor can extended r-search be undertaken. AU other questions will receive a persons! reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential—Editor. Does celery need sunshine? Yes. while It is growing, but it does not need it during the bleaching process. What is the German word for groundhog? The groundhog ia unknown in tiermany. How many acres in the Statehouse grounds, in Indianapolis, including the building? Eight and 96-100 acres. How <?ld Newport News come by its name? It was named after Capt. Christopher Newport and Sir William Newce. How did Nenia. Ohio, get its name? From the Greek word “xenia,” meaning friendly. How did the Indians get their chiefs? Asa rule, an Indian chief inherited his position, although there were cases of a chief being chosen for his ability. Hotv many glaciaj periods have ihere been in the history of the earth and when was the last one? Four. The last one ended about 50,000 B. C. What is the origin of the piano? It was evolved from instruments of like construction, the clavichord, the harpischord, etc. The history’ of the pianoforte proper begins in the year 1709, with the instrument built by Bartolomeo Crlstofori. Is it proper for the hostesa to eat with her guests when she is serving them? It is: If she does not, it gives an awkward feeling that she is missing her meal, and the guests are likely to feel embarrassed and wish to help. Are the words “somebody,’’ “anybody,” etc., compound words? ‘Somebody," anybody,” nobody” are properly written as one word. It is better, however, to say 'some one,” "any one,” “no one.” With a magnet less than three inches long, with the help of an electric needle, power enough to draw two pounds of / iron or steel a distance of six inches? Not with any practical amount of current. \ Who invented the parachute? It is credited to Sebastian Le Normand, and the device was first used by him in 1784 in making a descent from an upper window of a house in Lyons, France. The first descent from a balloon was made by Garnerin in Paris in 1797, in which a parachute, 23 feet in diameter, composed of a number of gores of canvas, was employed. What does the expression “coup d'etat” mean? “Coup d'etat” is a French expression which means an unexpected stroke of policy, generally unconstitutional and often accompanied by violence, as when, on Dec. 2, 1861, Louis Napoleon, with unnecessary bloodshed and the aid of the army, caused himself to be elected emperor. What is the difference between anthracite and bituminous coal? Anthracite coal contains Jess volatile matter than bituminous coal; always burns without smoke and Is used almost entirely as a domestic fuel (except the steam sizes which are really by-products of the anthracite industry.) It was all originally bituminous coal but when the surface of the earth contracted and formed the mountain ranges, the pressure compacted and heated the bituminous coal, driving off the gaseous parts (volatile matter) and formed what |e now known as anthracite.

The Situation Begins to Clarify

The Motorist’s Dilemma By BERTON BRALEY It was a weary Motorist Who stoppeth one of three; “I have a grisly tale to tell, I prithee, list to me;"Four flay.t ago I drove to town And on the street did stop. ‘Ye cannot park that wagon here, Drive on!’ so spake the Cop. "And then I sought another space Where there seemed room to spare: i Drive on, drive on!’ Ye Copper quoth, ‘Ye cannot park it there.’ ”1 needed shelter and a shave; Ye night was growing dark. But though to park my boat I*d crave. No one would let me park. “I tried ye narrow streets and wide, For many hours I’d ridden. But ever 1 would find a sign ‘HERE PARKING IS FORBIDDEN.’ “I even tried ye graveyard once, W’hen sudden did appear A ghost from out a vault who said, ‘Ye cannot park in here.’ “Four weary days I’ve driven 'round Within this benzine ark. My strength is getting very low. For everywhere in town I go They will not let me park.” A traffic cop approached the group, His aspect bleak and dread, 1 “Ye’re blockin’ traffic on the street, Ye can’t park here,” he said. Then off ye dock the Motorist Propelled his dusty Flivver. They fished him out, all blue and cold. With all his bones ashiver; And then the Cop arrested him For parking In the river! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Animal Facts Puritans brought Wiltshire sheep with them on the Mayflower and the blood of those ancients still flows on the great ranges of the West. If you can get Into the Carnegie institution’s observatory on Mt. WilsqiV. near Pasadena. Cal., and take a squint through the largest telescope | in the world, you will see the moon as an object apparently only 200 miles ; sway. Observers have distinguished a cliff 500 feet high on Lady Moon's surface. Germ scientists have found that the plague which carries off nearly all of Canada's rabbit population about every seven years is a blood-sucking parasite called “strongylus.” Thousands are found in bodies of affected rabbits, the latter dying of anemia and emaciation. Canadians think that “strongylus” save the country from rhe rabbit plaguy that devastates Australia. Science Mrs. William Wallace Remington, lecturer, Minnesota: "Under our constitution, the worst day for labor has been better than the best day for labor anywhere else in the world. The same is, true with the farmer.” Miss Helen Fraser, English woman political leader: “The way to end war is to attek the machinery of war.” Thomas A. Edison, inventor: "When coal and oil are gone, we will get power from the sun, wind, tides and vegetable growths.” Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State: “Justice in the minor courts —the only court that millions of our people know—administered without favoritism, by men conspicuous for wisdom and probity, Is the best assurance of respect for our institutions.” Seumas McManus, Irish author and poet: “All the Irish believe in fairies, and w’hy not? For, every, one has seen a person who haa aeon a person who has seen oft®.” "7 ~ v

SATURDAY, MARCH 1,1924

Editor’s Mail The editor is willing to print view* of Times readers on interesting subjects Make your comment brief. Sim your name a* an evidence of rood faith. It will not be printed If yon object. Stirred Up To the Editor o/ The Times As the preeident and founder of the White Supremacy League, my opinion has been sought by many persons regarding the odious senstsm made public recently of Mary Blair, a white actress, appearing with a negro in the drama, “All God’s Chillun Got Wings,” unfolded” by Eugene O’Neil. Pardon the intemperate outburst, but I would advise first a “death penalty” visioned for the author of such an odium, and socond, banishment to a pest colony of the actors as being oppressive parasites toward the advancement of today’s endeavor of raising the ethical standard of past degeneracy now inflamed by such men as O’Neil. We are already stealthily approach* lng the stair of mongplism without the assistance of such authors as O’Neil or his like who seek to impose obnoxious brand of imprudent amalgamism at the promontory of a universal effort to adopt an ethical standard of race purity. I trust this absurd drama wilt nave j as "sweet” a time in trying to pass | censorship in New York as it most ; certainly would have in an attempt to get by the Indiana board of photoplay censorship. MRS. O. J. DEEDS. My Wish I want the kind of trousers That bell at the bottom, you see, I’m only five feet with my shoes on. But they are the style that suits me. For style of boys of my own age I hold my own fairly welL But I can't wear trousers that bell at the bottom. But they are the style that suits me. I’d a boy flapper be as you call them If only the money I had I’d have trousers that bell at the bottom For they are the style that suits me. Not yet have I heard the greeting. "Sailor, how’s everything down on the ship?” But I hear. “Son, you are too young for bell bottoms”: “But,” I say, “they are the style that suits me.” EARL POWERS. Written by a 14-year-old school boy and intended to be an answer to “Men’s Fashions,” published In The Times. Feb. 26 HIS MOTHER. Family Fun Willie a Hero “Don’t be angry, mother, because I’ve Just saved three men and two wonien from drowning.” “Good gracious! How?" "Why, they were Just going on the ice when I fell through.”—Humorist. Head Fell Off A Scotch laird used to get very drunk every Saturday night. Then, with his servant, Saunders, also very drunk, he would mount his horse and set off for his castle. While fording the stream one night the laird fell into the water. He got to his feet and sputtered: "Saunders, mon, something fell off. Did ye noo hear the splash?” “Thot I did," admitted Saunders, and he climbed Into the water up to his w-aist. Os course he soon found his master. “Why, laird. It’s yourself,” he said. “No, no, Saunders,” insisted the laird stoutly, “it can’t be me, for here I am.” Saunders helped the laird to mount again, but in the darkness faced him the wrong way. “Thank ye, mon, now give me the reins.” Saunders fumbled around the horse’s rear and finally got hold pf its tall, and cried in a shocked voice: “Laird, laird!- It was the nag’s head that fell off. There’s nothing left but the mane.’' — Argonaut. "-™ r ~' 7i ~ ,r N NEW FORDS FOR RENT Drive Yourself—AU Models No Red Tape. New Central Station WALTER T. BOYER CO. 8 Kentucky Are. U. 1686 V-w J