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COOLIDGE’S INDIANA EXPENSES EABGE expenditures, such as played an important part in the last presidential primary campaign in Indiana, threatens to figure in the present campaign. The organization back of the Calvin Coolidge campaign has found it necessary to rent eight rooms in a hotel to house its elaborate organization. It has a publicity bureau, a woman’s bureau, a labor bureau and a colored voters’ bureau, in addition to the regular campaign organization. v Such an organization and such a headquarters cost money —lots of it. In many primary campaigns too much money has proved disastrous. Voters are beginning to ask where all the money comes from and what the contributors expect to receive in return. \ T THE WALSH-DOHEXY LETTERS EWO classes of people may be deriving some joy from the publication of the Walsh-Doheny letters, written last December, wherein Senator Walsh declined an invitation to join Dohenv in a Montana oil project. The first class will be the friends of Dohenv, Sinclair, Fall and McLean, the raiders of the public domain. The second class will be the purely politically minded people who hope to sec Senator Walsh’s expose of the naval oil scandal hampered merely because he is a Democrat. Fair-minded and honest citizens will look at the dates of the Walsh-Dohenv letters before they listen to careless remarks of Walsh’s enemies, who now accuse hinr of being “smeared with oil, too.” They will find the Walsh-Dohenjr letters were written in December, 1923, more Aan a month before the revelation that E. L. Doheny had given former Secretary Fall SIOO,OOO after Fall had given Doheny the California naval oil reserve. In December, 1923, before he confessed this deal with Fall, Doheny was regarded as an honest and above-board independent oil operator. At that time there was no reason why Walsh should have regarded him in any other light. Hence Walsh’s letter to Doheny, even though phrased in congenial terms, is entirely all right. 4 Walsh told Doheny he could not join in the enterprise because “in the expansion of tlie business of a -corporation such aa you would organize it would almost of necessity require leases of the Government, and while l am in the official position I hold, it seems to me unwise for me to engage in any business‘depending in an appreciable degree on Government favor. “This may be squeamishness on my part, but I prefer rather T&156 thought oversensitive than to be under suspicion of having utilized the position to which my people have elevated me for my own profit,” Walsh added. If all our public officials had taken the Walsh position on this question there would have been no disgusting and revolting naval oil, Department of Justice or statistician’s bureau scandals today. WHEN BODY BURNS OUT yyfjHEN will you diet Unexpected accident or illness may Wj hasten the date, snuff you out prematurely. But, on the law of averages, your number of years on earth depends to large extent on your speed of living—how fast you burn yourself out This is not speculative philosophy. It is exact science. Max Rubner* who is a scientific sacred cow among physiologists, advanced this startling theory: Man is a furnace, born with a limited amount of suel —potential energy. At birth nature gives us a amount" of undeveloped units of energy. We can develop and use them normally, and die at the normal age. Or we can use them up fast, and die young. Many people develop only a fraction of their natural energy—the fire goes out for lack of fuel. This is the Rubner theory: “For every pound weight of his body at maturity, the averagfe man produces and consumes 36?.900 calories of energy before he dies. Death comes when he has consumed that amount. Nothing that he can possibly do will make his body produce during adult life more energy than the 362,900 calories. And nothing can possibly prevent his death when this amount of energy is produced.” Lazy men are universally ridiculed. But lazy men usuallv are healthy and outlive the sprinters who burn themselves r. prematurely. It’s like a forest of thousands of acres which can be burned down overnight. The same forest, used up tree by tree, will keep a normal fireplace going for years. You can walk across the continent, 3,000 miles, taking you:* time at it, and finish .“fresh.” If you try to run the same distance, you’ll die not far from where you start —only a trained athlete can run twenty-five miles. Similarly, we can live quiet, normal lives, and live long. Or we can live fast, and die prematurely. Fast living is not strictly a matter of dissipation. Its usual form is overwork and nervous rush. .Life, of course, is relative. We people of 1924 cram into one year as many experiences, thrills and sensations as our ancestors had in years. A century ago, a man would have had to live at least ten years to enjoy as “much” as we of today do in on .

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Lent in the Holy Land

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SITE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM. THIS ANCIENT WELL IS STLLL USED TO QUENCH TIIE THIRST OF HOLY CITY RESIDENTS. WATER VENDORS ARE SHOWN FILLING GOATSKIN WATER BAGS AS THEIR FOREFATHERS DID IN THE DAYS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT EVENTS.

DAUGHERTY BEST POKER PLAYER IN PUBLIC LIFE

BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer rr-a ASHINGTON, March s.—The \)y best poker player in public life. JLU That is the simple explanation behind Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty’s ability to keep Washington and the guessing on his play in the Great Oil Gamble uncovered by the Senate investigation of navy oi! land leases. No man ever maintained a more inscrutable “poker face” .n a game for high stakes than Daugherty has worn throughout the Teapot Dome session in connection with which it is demanded he quit the cabinet. Whether he’s bluffing, or whether he’s really got the cards * up his sticking in the game, himself knows. Perhaps Secretary of the Navy Derby never played poker. He threw down his hand and lost his stake early in the game. Many believe his cards were as good as Daugherty's, but that b" lacked the nerve and skill to play them. Owes No Debt Just why Daugherty sticks in the game, however, to the admitted emh;amassment of President Coolidge and tl e administration, is another matter. Daugherty does not feel he owes either Coolidge or the G. O. P. organization heads who have been trying to force him out any such debt as his resignatibn under fire would imply. To save Coolidge's position in the next campaign he is asked virtually to ad mit inefficiency. Incompetency or worse in himself. The present, administration IS the present administration chiefly BECAUSE Harry M. Daugherty made it. His efforts alone put Harding over for fbe Republican nomination in 1920. TTis advice was a determining factor In the selection of the Harding cabjr>r- e-h:, h was continued intact by Coolidge. Had Daugherty not put Hardlnr across for the nomination, another combination doubtless would have been made for the Vice Presidency that woujd have left Coolidge out In the cold. To tell Daugherty now that he "owes ' Coolidge and the Administration anything is to give him a laugh. As he sees It, all the debt is on the other side. Without him, they would never have existed! Question of Ethics The remaining question la one of ethics—personal and political Pay ing by the general ethical question of a public official clinging to power after conditions have greatly weakened his usefulness in office, two questions remain, from the viewpoint of Attorney General Daugherty. They sre: 1. Is it altogether fair and honorable for the Administration to seek to discredit, by forcing his resignation, the very man to whose efforts the Administration, as such, primarily owes its being? 2. Is It the duty of the father, meekly and without his day in court, to accept nlame and dishonor In or der to advance the future prospects of the child? To "save the family name”? Plays Ills Cards Daugherty thinks not. He believes the cards hold success only for the man -who plays them out to the end; to the man who will not bp bluffed. Until he is “cabled,” he will raise the ante, will stick in the game. If. when he lays down his hand, he reveals only a pair of deuces, then the world will know that he was just a bluffer. If he tubns up a winning flush he will feel justified in any uneasiness he may have caused even Coolidge and the "Administration.”

Heard in the Smoking Room

<*(" I AST summer I spent my I , I vacation In New York,” said >■ - * the man from San Diego, whose cigar had ceased to draw. “I was returning from Coney Island, one uiflht, and hoard the following conversation between two girls who evidently worked in some shop in New York. Teresa was saying: “ ‘Say. Mame, you know I neva shud hev cum down here tonight. Here it is 2 o’clock and I must git up In the

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Jfcllotosfjip of •prayer Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for Commission on Evangelism ot Federal Council of the Churches ol Christ In America. ASH WEDNESDAY The Temptation and Decision of Jesus Read Mt. 4:1-11. Text: 4:10. Then saith Jesus unto him. Get thee hence. Satan: for it Is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. "Jesus’ religious experience with the will of God was a growth, as is ours, and as all real human experience must be. lie faced uncertainties that called for moral adventure, for experiment as a means of attaining experience and character. Character for Him. as for us, came by thinking and living his way through difficult problems, by going forward when he could not see far ahead? by feeling the tremendous pull of temptation and resisting it." MEDITATION: When Jesus realized that he possessed great power the question which forced itself upon bis attention was: How shall this great possession be used? He was so o t.od and God had revealed his will to Him bo clearly that he decided once for all time to use his powers for the eternal good of men. PERSONAL QUESTION: How am I tempted today? PRAYER: O Thou strong Son of God, who was tempted to the utter most and did not sin, be thou our help and stay. Wo look to the< for strength and guidance. Thou know est how much we need thee. O, abide with us. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley) OM SIMS -/- -/- Says Won’t be long before time to organize a Sons of World War Vets to fight for their father’s bonus. Austria’s bank clerks struck, perhaps for more holidays. A Chicago girl who Inherited $700,000 is engaged to a plumber who couldn’t make that much in a month. Muncie (Ind.) bootlegger ha* been arrested three times In three weeks, bn* it doesn’t seem to be often enough. Ireland is asking the United States to trade with her, perhaps intending paying us in policemen. The leap year girl doesn’t believe in "Love one another” as much as in “Love one or another.” What is worse than your -wife cooking the same thing for dinner you had downtown Tor lunch? 'Picnickers should be saving up old papers and trash to scatter around the picnic grounds. Pitiless publicity usually turns out to be pitiful publicity. There is so much weather it all can’t be good. Perhaps a Washington doctor, robbed of twelve ounces of valuable perfume, was going to attend an oil scandal.

mawnlng at 5 to git to the store by 8 o'clock. Ma was sick when I left and Gawge is thretnln to leave me. I ain't washed a dish far two days. I gotta dam a pair er stockins befo I no to wurk in the mawnin’. Oh, Mame I do feet" bad and if Gawd will fergiv me, I won go out no more fer two days. An— ’ " ‘Fer Gawd’s sake.” said Mame, ‘Lift yer veil and give yer conscience a rest.’ ”

LIFE WAS ONE-CELLED AT START Division Into Plant and Animal Groups Soon Took Place. By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times (Copyright by David Dietz) T r— " — ] HE first life upon earth was probably the simplest sort im*—aginable. Scientists agree upon this though (hey do not know how life did originate. Probably the first forms of life were merely microscopic globules of living matter. In time, simple one-celled organisms evolved. Today we find such simple one-celled organisms or animalcules, as they are sometimes called, which probably resemble these first organisms. Scientists call these animalcules “protists.” They aren’t definitely animals or plants. Some time later, probably millions of years later, the first great step in evolution came about. Parting of the Ways Some of these organisms began to assume the characteristics of Others, those of plants. This was the great parting of the ways, the dividing of life into the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom. Prom this point on the evolution of life can be compared to a letter "V,” the evolution of plants going along one branch and the evolution of animals along the other. We find today upon the earth microscopic one-celled plants and animals. We imagine that these first plants and animals resemble them. It is easy for us to see the difference between the animals and plants around us. * But it is not so easy to get down ito the fundamental difference which would differentiate microscopic creatures into plants and animals. Modem science, however, has succeeded in doing that. Plants are organisms which feed at a low chemical level. That Is, they feed on air, water and chemical salts. They absorb these salts directly out of water or soil. They possess a green pigment known as chiorophyl. Asa result of this pigment, they are able In sunlight to absorb carbon dioxide out of the air and turn It directly into carbon compounds. Animals lack these powers. They feed at a higli chemical level. That is. they feed on marches, sugars, fats and proteins, getting them by devouring plants or other animals. Possess Little Activity There is a second great difference between plants and animals. Plants possess little activity. Their cells are boxed in waits of a sulistance known as cellulose. Animals are active. Their cells do not have walls of cellulose, and in most cases not much of a wail of any sort. The first plants upon the earth probably were microscopic one-celled green plants floating In the open sea. §lml!ar plants existing today are known as flagellae. The first animal was also in the sea. He resembled the present-day ameba. The ameba, found today in ditch water and muddy ponds, is a tiny irregular shaped speck of grayish matter Hko jelly. But it moves about and takes food by distending itself or flowing around the food speck and thus absorbing it. Next article In series: Steps In Evolution. Animal Facts In some country districts of Europe folk make the frog their barom eter. They keep him in a pan of water and lean a little step-ladder against the inside. If he comes out and rests on a stop, it’s going to rain, by heck Nature raises its child crop alongside this nation’s food crop. Farms have 7,700,000 children under 10. to 5,700,000 in towns and cities, although the farm population is only about 40 per cent of the whole. Game bird breeders are planning to establish the capercailleries, Norway and Sweden’s ten to twelve-pound grouse. In northern United States. Bird has gray back, brown wings, lustrous green chest, abdomen black spots on white. Editor’s Mail The editor is willing to print Dews of Times readers on interesting subjects Make your comment brief. Sign your name a an evidence of good faith. It will not be printed ts you obiect. Bonus Bill To the Editor of The Times There’s a bonus bill In Congress now; which seems to be causing quite a row; a way to pay it, so they say; is what is holding it away. Now take for instance England’s debt' which seems to bo the best way yet; of solving this most simple thing; that seems to he in a political ring. Oh, “Bonus Bill" are you a joke? You’ve made them act like they were broke, and when they think that you are dead; you rally forth and raise your head. You’ve cried for passage time and again; but get it? No! You’ve tried In vain; and now you get another chance; jt st see how\far you can advance. Through the lower House you’ll probably go; and jump through Seni like a doe; then to the President, you go next; look out old “Bonus.” don come out vexed. We know you've had it pretty hard, but we did too, and then some, pard; so play your hand as If you knew; that you were sure of going through. Now If you fall, which you probably will, we won't forget that bitter pill they handed us. then we’ll do more, In "Nineteen Hundred and TwentyFour.” GEORGE FARRELL, Greenfield, Ind. Why Daughter Popped “What excuse have you for doing such an unmaldenly thing as proposing to Jack? Leap year, I suppose.” “Not at all—the Golden Rule.”—Boston Transcript.

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Important Happenings in the World Events Briefly Told for Student and Reader

By CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer “1 HE key to the whole oil scan- | dal." . So politicians describe the deal by which the Standard Oil Company got certain naval reserve lands In California from which it's reported the company already has taken $30,000.000 worth of oil. The case hasn’t been much touched on yet. Details remain to be brought out, hut they're going to be, for President Cooljdge says he'll name lawyers to get the land back for the Government if they can. McLean’s Telegram* The oil investigators’ latest discovery is a batch of telegrams which friends and agents sent to E. B. McLean, the newspaper owner, at Palm Bfach, keeping him posted on oil developments in Washington. McLean’s name has figured much in the oil cases, gcemlngly he wanted to know if he'd be called as a witness. The queer thing Is that the telegrams were written in a Justice Department cipher. Also they indicate that William ,T. Burns, the department’s secret service chief, was one of McLean's informants. Burns denies this; says, too, the cipher was old —but still in use. And it's asserted McLean, as a "dollar a year man,” was a Justice Department agent himself. All the same, the whole thing hints

Q UESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You < an get an answer to any question of tact or information by writing: to the Q lesiion Editor, Indianapolis Times'* Washington bureau. 1322 New York Avi-.. Washington. P. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and martial advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questiona will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AU letters are confidential. EDITOR. In what latitude is the most northern point of Greenland? Latitude 83 degrees 39 minutes. When did Booker T. Washington die and how old was he? He died in 1916 and was 57 years old. What does ‘‘liebslled” mean? “Love-song.” Where was Cecil Rhodes buried? On his estate in Matoppo Hills, about fifty miles, roughly speaking, northeast of Bulwayo, in Matabeleland, South Africa. What does amortization mean? The extinction or reduction of a debt through a sinking fund. Should the knife and fork be allowed to remain on the plate In passing the plate for a second helping? Yes. The fork and knife should never be placed on the table again after they have been used, nor should they he held In the hand when passing the plate. How did the crescent on the Turkish flag originate as an emblem of the Ottoman Empire? The crescent was made the emblem of Byzantium after the siege of that city by Philip, father of Alexander the Great. A night attempt by the followers of Philip to undermine the walls of the city was revealed by the light of the crescent moon. In gratitude for this delivery Diana’s symbol became the badge of Ottoman Empire. How can lacquer be removed from silverware? By rubbing with a piece of soft flannel or .old linen and a paste made of wheat flour and olive oil. Wipe off and polish with an old silk handkerchief. When and where was the cable system for street cars first used in this country? In San Francisco in August, 1878. When was the first combine harvester brought out? The first was patented in 1828, but it was not successful. Others were patented in 1831, 1833 and in 1838 a factory was established for the manufacture of the one which was patented In 183:1.

All From the Same Keg

that somebody close to the department was helping those the Investigators were investigating. And a lot of McLean's messages were sent to him, over his private leased wire, by E. W. Smithers, who’s also a telegrapher at the White House. However, It's common for one telegraph operator to hold down two or more jobs. “Some Splash” Angered at Senators' demands for his resignation. Attorney General Daugherty says certain Senators had better resign, too, or he’ll cause “some splash.” Inasmuch as the things Daugherty could tell probably would crowd the present oil investigation right off the newspapers' front pages, there may be startling revelations coming. Anyway, the Senate has “called.” Daugherty, by voting for a full investigation of the Justice Department not only In connection with oil, but lots of other things. Needed the Money William G. McAdoo admits he got a $150,000 fee for his law firm by appearing In a big tax case, in the very treasury he used to be secretary of. and before officials, some of whom perhaps owed their jobs to him. Washington, adding up all the big fees he's received since he left the Cabinet, recalls that When he resigned he said he was “quitting to

Averaging Them Up By BERTON BRALEY It’s true the histories are filled With prophets, laughed at in their day, Who. after they were dead —or killed, Were proven right in every way. Yet for one true prophetic wight Ten cranks were jeered at by the throng: The crowd is generally right. The prophet, generally wrong. If every dreamer’s dreams came true, If every prophet’s words were fact, The “mob” would take another view 7 Os what they say and how they act. But bolshevik and blatherskite Have proved through many years and long, > The public’s generally right, The prophet, generally wrong. So go ahead and prophesy, Expound your theory or scheme; If you’re correct, why by and by It will be better than a dream. For only time can settle quite With just which outfit you belong, With those few prophets who were right Or that vast number who were wrong. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Family Fun Recognized It The young man took the hand of his fiancee and gazed proudly at the engagement ring he had put on her Anger only three days before. “Did your friends admire it?” he asked tenderly. “They did more than that,” replied the girl coldly. “Two of them recognized it.”—Argonaut. Too Much for Dad "I am never going up to Hemmandhaw’s house again.” “Why not?” X “Up there last evening they demonstrated a machine for telling how much people are lying.” ' “Well—” “And Just before they tried it on me they poured a quart of oil on the wheels.” —Youngstown Telegnam. One for the Cook "Nora, don’t tell me you've wasted that little bag of plaster I brought home yesterday.” “Well, ’twas not wasted, f’r I used it in the gravy this very evenin’.”— American Legion Weekly. In The Neck, for Dad “Mother, here’s a science item what i says a worm thinks with its stom- j ach. Ain’t that queer, now?” “Does it say worm or husband, Willie?”

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make a little money for his family." According to one capital newspaper, "he spoke a mouthful." Other Events A wet “bloc" has been formed in the House of Representatives, fifty members combining to demand 3,75 per cent drinks. Though in a mi nority, a "bloc” is strong out of proportion to its numbers, through ability to trade and "deliver the goods," as individuals, scattered, can’t do. • • • Ex-Director Forbes of the Veterans* Bureau finally has been Indicted in Chicago on charges of waste and graft In hospital building. "It's a heil - engendered conspiracy,” says Forbes. • • • A revolution’s on in Honduras and American marines have been landed. The fighting Is hot, but won’t be on a large scale. • • • /■ General Von Ludendo.-ff and Adolf Hitler, who tried to stage a revolution in Bavaria and failed, are on trial for It, but are likely to get off easily on the ground that they "meant well.” ; • • • Europe reports a communist revolution in Bulgaria, a Bulgarian war threat against Jugoslavia and Jugoslavian troop movements to meet the Bulgarians. It’s most rumor, but such rumors in the Balkans are always alarming.

NO. 21 Third Degree Yourself! Logical Thought'" Are you a logical thinker? Try this test and see if you can make the correct selection of words. You have three minutes in which to work. Directions: Below are words in big letters. Each one is followed by a list of other words in small letters. Look at the example. The first word" in big letters Is “dog.” What two things in the list following is a dog never without? Those two words are underlined. In each of the ten groups of words put lines under the two words which the word in large letters | at the head of the group is never without. Do not underscore more than two words in any one group. It EXAMPLE: DOG: EARS, collar, NOSE. 1. CAT: Fur, house, milk, claws. 2. TREE: Apples, branches, acorns, roots, flowers. 3. SCHOOL: Blackboard, teacher, window, pen, bell, schoolhouse, pupils. 4. STORE: Counter, clerk, casn register, advertisements, goods, boxes, stoves. 5. SPELLING: Book, writing, pencil, word3, margin, letters. 6. BUILDING: Windows, wood, chimney, wall, shingle, roof, stairs, shed. 7. DEBT: Mortgage, creditor, money, lawyer, collector, debtor, bankruptcy. 8. SICKNESS: Lameness, death, weakness, hospital, nurse, discomfort, doctor. 9. GOVERNMENT: Capital, consul, Navy, freedom, king, Senate, cannon, tax. 10. FRIENDSHIP: Adoration, liking, lover, obedience, imitation, helpfulness, worship, girl. Answers: 1, fur, claws; 2. branches, roots; 3, teachers, pupils; 4, clerk, goods; 5, words, letters; 6, walls, roof; 7. creditor, debtor; 8, weakness, discomfort; 9, capital, tax; 10, liking, helpfulness. (Copyright, by Science Service) A Thought Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.—Prov. 27.2. • • MAN’S praises have very musical and charming accents in the mouth of another, but soUnd very flat and untunable In bla own.—Xenophon.