Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1924 — Page 4

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CLEANING POLITICAL MESS V> lOLITICS is rotten, says the average voter. He is right. * Right now politics is rottener than usual, both in Washington and in the State. But just because politics is putrid is no reason why voters should raise their hands in horror and refuse to have anything to _do with the mess. The only way politics can be improved is 'through activity on the part of the rank and file. ;.t: The time for filing petitions to have their names placed on primary ballots ends in Indiana today so far as candidates for President and Governor go. But today begins the period during trhich the hundreds of candidates for county offices. State Legislature and Congress may file. What kind of a Legislature will Indiana have in 1925? What kind of representation will Indiana have in Congress? Are we to have efficient county officers who will look after the interests of the people, or will we have the kind who are in the game primarily to make something for themselves? The answer is up to you, Mr. Voter. It is your duty now to behind good citizens for all of these offices and to persuade them to file their names for the primary. Sometimes the men and women who would make the best kind of public officials are a little slow in filing, because they dread a political fight. Your personal interests are at stake, perhaps to a much greater extent than you realize. Your pocketbook is tremendously involved, because you do not buy a single article without paying a tax to one or more departments of local, State or Federal Government. Your direct taxes are only a small part of the Itory. Parties matter little. Individuals matter a great deal. Your government is just as good as you make it. INDIANA DOG AND SENSE N* - O one has ever been able to explain how lost dogs and cats can travel hundreds of miles over strange territory and get back home. The force that guides them is a mystery. Consider the collie owned by G. F. Brazier of Silverton, Ore. Last summer Brazier visited in Wolcott, Ind., and took the dog along, then returned home without it. The other day the collie, thin and worn out, crept up to the porch of his home in .Oregon and barked feebly. What guided the dog to his destination? Do dogs have the ability to consult each other when they sniff noses, and inquire directions? Sounds ridiculous? Well, just try to figure out a more plausible explanation of how Brazier’s collie made the 2,000mile trip. The mysterious sixth sense is peculiar to nearly all forms of animal life. Years ago, when rifles were short-range and weak compared with modern firearms, the grizzly bear seemed to sense the situation —and it was easy to get within sight of him. As rifles became more powerful and of longer range, Mr. Grizzly began to keep increasingly farther away. m llow does the grizzly know except by a mysterious sixth Certainly it has been impossible for the shot-and-killed bear to spread the word to others. Similarly, fish in a lake get to “know” trolls and other lures, according to Indians, and have to be tempted with new bait. Scientists claim that nearly all young babies can swim instinctively. As the baby grows olde4 the fear emotion develops —and soon fear blots out the ability to swim. Then the child has to be taught swimming lessons. Fear has eliminated an instinct inherited from animal ancestors. The new-born baby will clutch a stick and hang by his fingers as easily and naturally as a monkey. Being close to the animal state, the baby—and later the child —has considerable animal instinct. That’s why children are such excellent and generally infallible judges of human nature. If babies instinctively like a man, place your bets on that man. ALIBIERS ARE LEGION DDRESSIXG itself to autoists, the Hoosier Motor Club /\j asks: “Are you an alibier? Are you qnick to find socalled excuses why such-and-such happened?” Alibi artists are found everywhere. City Hall has its quota. Some are in the police department. In fact every department of government is represented. Getting back to autoists, the Motor Club’s safety bureau says while it is true the chance taker is an accident maker, all accident makers are alibi makers in the twinkling of an eye; they have it all figured out and stick to their alibis. We might make the other alibiers do the same thing. JUDGING by the way he baited the oil hook for Senator Walsh, Dough-heeney must have taken Walsh for just another sucker. IF COOLIDGE is so hard up for a good Secretary of the Navy, he might call in/Josephus Daniels. UNITED STATES Senators are now resorting to poetry to express their sentiments on Teapot Dome. If they don’t use more than poetry, the voters are likely to resort to votes to ex.press their sentiments. IF CONGRESS begins to investigate Congress to find out who were the two Congressmen who took money for exerting influence with the Veterans’ Bureau, then watch the rest of the Government sit back and laugh at the doggie chasing his tail.

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WAR VETERANS HELD; FORMER SPY FREE German Sends Gift to Soldier Still in Prison at Leavenworth for Alleged Murder,

BY GEORGE BRITT A !EA Service Writer EEAVEN WORTH, Kas., March 7. —A box of cigars came in the mail to the United States penitentiary here. It was addressed to Adrian Taylor, chief prisoner clerk, and virtually private secretary to Warden Biddie. Taylor enlisted in the army when the war started and fought on half a dozen sectors of the front, and in the five years since he has been a prisoner there hasn’t been one scratch on his record. He has thirty years yet to serve. The sender of the cigars was Lothar Witzke, the only enemy spy In the United States who was sentenced to death during hostility in Mexico and was considered a potential dynamiter and a menace. He escaped once and was regarded as extremely dangerous. The death sentence was commuted to life in the penitentiary, however, and last November he was released. The alien spy free and, to his credit, remembering a prison acquaintance with a gift! The loyal soldier and obedient prisoner left behind the walls! Taylor's case probably looks the worst on r Tidal records and looks the most worthy of clemency to those personally acquainted with it of almost any in the list. Serious Cliarge The charge is criminal assault upon an aged woman In France. Taylor’s story Is he heard a commotion in a house one night. It was a house not of the best reputation and was frequented by soldiers. Taylor ran in and found two soldiers struggling with the proprietress. He fought with them, they fled and he lifted the old woman from where she had fallen on the floor. Then the French gendarmes came In. Upon their testimony he was found guilty and sentenced by court martial. The victim never identified him. Perhaps the version indicated by circumstances and accepted by the court Is correct. Perhaps Taylor’s good conduct before and since the Incident is a pose and a fraud. But in a civil court, with innocence presumed until guilt is proved, there is at least a chance the findings might have been different. 176 Locked Up Taylor is among 176 of war-time military prisoners who have been examined at close range by Major James H. Stansfleld and Major Frank K. Ross, sent from Washington for that purpose. Over at the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth there are 184 other military prisoners who face sentences of five years or longer. And there are other all but forgotten war time soldiers at Atlanta and McNeil Island. Wash., and Fort Jay, N. Y., who are- now being considered. While these remain in prison—patriotic men who got into trouble while in uniform —the highways .of the earth are open to the slackerk and the I. W. W. and enemy spies who are beneficiaries of sweeping clemency. Not one remains in Federal prison. There is a life-termer in the penitentiary here who saved the life of Warden Biddle twice when manJfellotosfjtp ot draper Daily Lenten Rible reading ami meditation prepared for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churcht* of Christ iu America. FRIDAY The Christian Life Read Mt. 22:34 46. Text: 22:37-39. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. “1. To become a Christian is to begin a certan, wonderful way of living that men will be glad to continue always, even into the far ages. “2. In this way of living there is a glad and growing awareness of working with the will of God to create a good world. ‘‘3. Such a good world ia one In which ell kinds of men work well to gether; with an invincible good-will In their hearts. “4. It Is a life which utilizes all the Incentives to such work that God has been pouring, and still is pouring, into the life of man through the personality of Jesu3 Christ.'* MEDITATION: In the simple words of these commandments Jesus gave the foundation of His gospel. To be a Christian we, too, must start here and build on this foundation. PERSONAL QUESTION: What is first in my life? PRAYER: Heavenly Father, in whose love we find our life, we pray Thee to enlarge our capacity for true living by teaching us to love Thee as we should, and to look upon all Thy children with Thy affection. Amen. (Copyright, 1924.—F. L. Fagley) A Thought They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.—Ps. 107:23. 24. * • • ■““I LL things in the natural world /V symbolize God, yet none of * them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words. —Henry Ward Beecher.

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<f| . | T was a good one, years I ago,” said an old doctor 1. A ,l among the smokers, "but maybe you never heard it. Anyhow, tha surgeons had removed Hennessey's appendix and, two days later, called at the hospital to tell him that they’d have to go into him again, as they’d left a sponge in*ide. They cut. got their sponge, sewed the man

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iacal convicts sought to strike him from behind. There is a boy convicted of murder who struck a comrade with a knife in the dark, apparently by accident, and the boy already had won a croix de guerre. Youthfulness is a striking characteristic of many prisoners. Many committed their crimes overseas, due largely to the easily obtained wine and cognac. In seme cases the severity of the sentences seems due to tha court’s desire to make an impression abroad with the sternness of American dis--cipline. And some of the prisoners are simply hard-boiled malefactors. There seems to be no probability of blanket amnesty for all. But there’s a feverish hope that the visit of the two War Department officers will mean some of the soldiers within will join the slackers outside. NO. 23 Third Degree Yourself! Are you resourceful In doing things? Hare is a test that will give you some idea of your ingenuity. Warning: Do not look at the answers until you have tried the problems. FIRST PROBLEM: Suppose you had only an eight and a five-quart pail and wanted to measure out exactly three quarts of water. Start by filling the eight-quart pall first. How would you do it? You must not guess at the quantity or estimate it. The pajls are not graduated, but can be poured from one to the other. There is not a “catch’’ to the problem and it can be solved easily. Work out the problem mentally without paper and pencil, then after you are through write out the steps that you took and compare with the answers below. SECOND PROBLEM: A doctor wishes to measure out exactly four ounces of liquid medicine, but he finds that he has only two plain unmarked bottles of seven and five-ounce capacities. How does he measure out the desired quantity, If he starts by filling the seven-ounce bottle? Answers —Problem 1. Part of the water in the filled eight-quart pall Is poured into the five-quart pall, which Is then emptied. The desired three quarts remain In the eight-quart pall. Problem 2. He pours part of the sever ounce bottle's contents Into the five-ounce bottle filling It exactly; then empties the five-ounce bottle. He then empties the seven-ounce bottle Into the five-ounce bottle. Then the sevenounce bottle is filled again and sufficient liquid poured from It to fill the rest of the flve-ouijoe bottle. Th fiveounce bottle Is then emptied. The desired four ounces of medicine will be contained in the seven-ounce bottle. (Copyright In' Science Service) Mill Fodder Bv BERTON BRALEY (More than a million children between 8 and 16 are employed In American Industry.) A million weary children who labor ail the day, A million weary children with scanty chance to play. In fields anti mines and factories throughout this wealthy land The labor of these little folks is ever In demand. Oh, we’re "enlightened people" and all of that —but still A million children labor In mine and field and mill. Long, long before the srhoolbell rings their tolling has begun. And when the “gang” is home from school and study hours are done And It is time for joyous sport In God’s good open air, A million weary children can take no pleasure there. They’re bent above their dally task “acquiring craaft and skill,” A million weary children in field and mine and mill. On backs too frail for burdens the load of toll is laid. And hands that should be light and free are fettered to a trade; Lips meant for careless w histling are set in weary lineß, And there’s an everlasting ache in tired childish spines. And all-too-tired eyes of youth are watching stamp and drill. A million weary children in shop and mine and mill! Our trade may grow and prosper, expanding on and on, But while a million children are stunted, pale and wan. While business waxes fatter on laborers like these, No decent human conscience can wholly be at ease. It is a monstrous evil, excuse it how we will— A million weary children in mine and field and mill! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Pa’s Better Half “Pa, what dees a man’s ‘better half mean” "Usually, my son, she means just W'hat she says.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger. f Sister at Her Worst Him (over the phone)—l want to see you in the worst way, dearest. "Well —I usually get up around 10 a. m.”—New York Medley.

up and left him cussing. Some later Hennessey was In great pain and sent for the surgeons. “It must be the point of the lance we, broke off and forgot to take out,” they told him, "and we’ll have to open you again.” " ‘ln and out! Cut and sew!’ feebly moaned Hennessey, ‘and for God’s sake this time sew onto me some hooks and eyes!’"

Tom sims - -/- Says If there are germs on paper money the germs in Germany have plenty of room to play around. • * * Every auto speeder should have his picture made so the paper can use it when he is injured in a crash. • * * Steam spouted a mile high from a Hawaiian volcano, outdoing our Congressmen by a few feet only. * • * Another poor New York working girl has been robbed of -all her jewels and $12,000 in clothes. •* • • The boy who promised not to smoke before 21 has a son who promises to be a veteran smoker at that age. • * * A Chicago violin maker announces he is running for President, maybe on the platform that our Government lacks harmony. * • * Germany will award 20,000 iron crosses which may help the poor people bear their crosses. • * • • Vegetation pjats on the moon are being mapped. Can they be corn for making moonshine? • • • Trouble looks bigger coming than going, but opportunity looks bigger going than coming. • • • An optimist is a politician before election. * • • The baseball fan will be with us soon and the electric fan is coming back also. QUEBT I O N S Ask— The Times ANSWERS ■ M You can get an answer to any question ot fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research tie undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned request* cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor.. According to the latest census what is the population of New York City, including Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx? Total population of New York City, including Richmond and Queens, besides boroughs mentioned above, is 5,927,617. What were the proportions of the French naval dirigible Dlxmude? What caused the destruction of this dirigible? This airship, formerly the German Zeppelin Bodensee, was 130 meters long with a beam of 18.7 meters, had a capacity of 22.000 cubic meters of hydrogen, making her the largest Zeppelin in the world. Deflated, her weight was 13.7 tons. Her lift was 23 tons, including 2.4 tons of fuel, 1.62 tons for the crew, one ton for water ballast and an available cargo weight of 4.8 tons The maximum speed was 130 knots at full power. 94 knots at half power. She normally operated from the air station at Guers It is supposed that carbon sparks from the motors ignited the hydrogen gas in the great envelope, and an explosion foljowed. The Dixmude held the world’s record for endurance flying of 120 hours. What can a girl do who attends a dance and has not had her program filled? If It ia a formal program dance she should hesitate to attend at all unless her program has been filled, or her escort has arranged to see that the dances are taken. Is It correct to abbreviate proper names? Sarn’l, for example? No, It Is best to write the name In full. Who was the Swamp Fox? Gen. Francis Marlon, one of the principal leaders of the Revolutionary forces In the southern States. What Is a cobweb exactly? The cobweb is a net of fine thread spun by the spider In which Us prey Is caught. The material Is a fine, silky substance secreted In the body of the spider: through certain papillae near the end of the abdomen the viscid material is spun out Into fine gossamer threads. Editor’s Mail The editor in willing to print vlevm ot Times readers on Interesting subjects Make your comment brief. Sim your name a* an evidence ol good faita. It will not be printed It you object. Reforming. To the Editor of The Time * Have been reading in various papers where a certain reform organization is going to try to stop the use of coffee, cigarettes .and, in fact, tobacco In all its forms. Don’t you think that to prohibit people from using either would be stepping on the rights of every American citizen? I believe if these socalled reform organizations would start reforming in their own circles, instead of trying to force their ideas on the people, they would accomplish more. In my opinion it is done more for notoriety than for good. CONSTANT READER.

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FISHES FIRST ANIMALS TO EVOLVE BACKBONE Come Into Existence With Swift-Flowing Streams —Fresh Water Marine Life Preceded Ocean,

By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times (Copyright by David Dietz) J he next great step in the evolution of life upon this earth was the development of the fish—the first backboned animal. Previous forms of life as we have seen, from the one-celled animals to the sponges and jellyfish and molluscs were ail extremely sluggish forms of life. The fish is the first form to show that characteristic activity which we commonly think of :is the chief attribute of animal life. The geolegist finds the first records of simple types of fish not In rocks formed from sediment laid down in the ocean, but in fresh water. There© re, it is evident that the fresh water fishes were evolved first and that ocean fishes descended from fresh-water fishes which were carried into the ocean by the streams and learned to live in salt water. This Important fact gives us a clew to how fish evolved. It was the result of one of those “revolutions’’ or upheavals of the land which brought great mountain ranges into existence. Asa result of this upheaval of the land, placid, sluggish streams were turned into swiftly flowing ones. The sluggish forms of marine life were swept Into the sea as a result. There were great disadvantages to this. Organisms accustomed to fresh water would find life disagreeable and for the most part Impossible In salt water. It now became necessary to combat the swift current in the streams or be evicted from them. There is a form of eel today, known as the stream-borne lamprey, which clings to the stream bottom by its mouth and lets Its body be whipped about by the stream In the same way that a flag is whipped about by the j breeze. Biologists believe that creatures of this sort were the first to learn to maintain their places In the swift ! streams.

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This eel, in swimming, merely reproduces the motions which are given to it by the stream when it passively clings to the stream bottom by its mouth. In this way. it is believed, the first fish learned to swim. Now the act of swimming requires a certain play of muscles. This action is such as to be facilitated by a stiffening along the axis of the body of the fish. Asa result of this, fish were first evolved with a pliant cellular membrane along their axis. In time this developed Into a supple rod of cartilage. Next this was supplanted by a bony axis. When this took place, the true sish —the first back-boned animal —had been evolved. Next article in series: Life Invades ’be Land.

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| Family Fun New Source Dr. Lubig had passed on and many of his patients were employing Dr. Pond. A little girl who had a good many brothers and sisters proudly announced to a neighbor: “We have anew baby at our house.” “Anew baby!” said the neighbor. “Where did you get it?” “Well, we used to take from Dr. Lubig; now' we take from Dr. Pond.” —Argonaut. Then Ma Fainted "I did one charitable act today.” “I’m glad to hear it, dear. Tell me about it.” “Oh. one of my clerks w'anted an increase in salary so he could get married, and I refused to give It to him.”—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Sign of Marriage “Well, I can tell you’re a married man, all right. No holes in your stockings any more." "No. One of the first things my wife taught me was how to darn ’em.” — American Legion Weekly. ■