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HIS MAJESTY OR THE PRESIDENT o ENATOR LODGE’S contention that there ought to be a Senate rule protecting the President from attack by Senators won’t get very far with the American people. Whether the attacks which stirred up the sedate and solemn Senator from Massachusetts were wise or foolish, just or unjust, or even outrageous, has nothing to do with the case. Nor does it make any difference what President is attacked or by what Senator. Every President is entitled to proper respect “by virtue of the office he holds,” as Senator Lodge puts it. That is, the office is entitled to respect. If the President is not treated with respect by a Senator, the burden of proof is upon the Senator that his criticism is justified by the facts; for the people will assume that any President is entitled to respect until convinced that he isn’t. But there is no such nonsense as lese majeste or the divine right of kings or president, in this republic. When the American colonies cut loose from Great Britain and set up a democracy of their own, they also cut loose from such superstitions as that the king can do no wrong. No President needs any rule protecting him from vicious or even scandalous attacks by Senators. Ilis own conduct is all the protection any President needs; and there is enough general respect for the office to make an unjust attack much more dangerous to the Senator who makes the attack than to the President who is attacked. But while there is no danger to the President without such a rule there would be real danger to popular government with such a rule. The rfeht to criticise'public servants is a wholesome right, even though at times it be abused. When a democracy begins to sanctify presidents, congressmen and judges, we will be headed in the wrong direction—back toward autocracy. For all of these are public servants, not masters. Senator Lodge himself was within his rights when he bitterly hated and viciously attacked the late President Wilson, but Wilson’s conduct and character were all the protection he needed in public esteem from all the virulence of Lodge’s assaults. If President Coolidge is as high-minded and noble-purposed as Wilson was, he has nothing to fear, even though the Senate were full of Democratic Lodges.
GATEWAY TO GRAVEYARD j p I VERY love quarrel, every spat between husband and wife IE { begins in the stew pot or the oven, says a celebrated English surgeon. Most of us have noticed a tendency to become irritable when our digestion is out of order. The London surgeon even believes that character is considerably regulated by what goes into the stomach. He’s reasoning along the same lines as feeding raw meat to a prize-fighter to make him ferocious or candy to a girl to make her amiable. Sir William Osier once said: “For some reason the brain and the stomach have never been friends, and the cleverest men T know treat their stomach like dogs.” Charles E. Hecht, English food expert, says he studied great men of history and decided Osier was right. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, always ate a heavy dinner an hour before going to bed—and never was able to figure out why he had insomnia and indigestion. Hecht thinks Spencer’s gloom and cynicism were caused by his ignorance of the simplest rules of diet. Napoleon, another dyspeptic, ate at irregular hours. He bolted his meals. He gorged. He was forever munching candy. Here was a brilliant man, intellectual enough to conquer nation after nation. Yet he couldn’t master his appetite. Shakespeare’s marvelous plays could never have been written by a dyspeptic. He ate carefully, sensibly and had excellent, digestion. A big insurance company claims that nearly half of the illnesses of its policyholders originate in indigestion. You recall the old saying, that most people dig their graves with their teeth. Good cooks cause more indigestion than bad cooks, for tasty victuals entice people to overeat. Most folks, when the stomach is upset, blame it on some particular thing they have eaten. As a rule, though, indigestion is caused by eating too much—or too fast, as is the tendency in this madhouse age when everyone imagines he’s in a hurry. An old country doctor says it’s a good rule alwaj*s to go away from the table a bit hungry. The stomach can easily be the gateway to the cemetery. Even the apricots, peaches and pears fail to impart a fruity aroma to that oil mess. AND JUST think of it—every owner of an auto is working for either Rockefeller, Doheny or Sinclair. LAWYERS as well as Cabinet members should be well shaken before taken. IF YOU wire vour wife at Palm Beach, don’t wind up with “Love and kisses.” It might be turned over to investigators as a message to McLean or Fall. SINCE those White House telegrams came out, the “Keep Cool With Coolidge” movement seems to have contracted a severe case of cold feet.
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A BABY BOY WEIGHING NINETEEN POUNDS WAS DELIVERED BY THE STORK AT THE HOME OF MRS. WILLIAM HENION, WIFE OF A FARMER AT OGDENSBURG, N. J. SHE IS SHOWN HERE WITH THE PRIZE BABY.
MILLIONAIRE WAITER IS PROBED BY U. S. Sore Feet Make Restaurant Employe a Broker, but Money Brings Trouble,
By HAROLD MATSON. NEA Service Staff Writer. OS TON. March 11.—He walked and walked and walked, from i__J table to kitchen, from kitchen to table, until his feet went back on him. A man with sore feet can't be a waiter. So he quit. Denied the $lO earned In a cheap lunch room, he had to look around for somethin}? else He couldn't use his feet, so he used his head. And he became a millionaire. But that’s not all. Today George F. Redmond, broker. Is attracting a lot of attention, particularly the attention of the United States Government. His business, the G. F. Redmond Company, has been closed by a Federal Court order, pending investigation. Creditors filed bankruptcy pet! tion when they failed to collect some $2,600 which they say the company owed them. Then came the Federal injunction. “It’s an attempt to ruin my business, ” charges Redmond. “I have been too to suit certain interests. When a man puts new ideas into commerce he is sure to be the target cf competitors.” Went East for Fortune But investigators claim that his business is the ordinary garden variety of bucket shopping. His secret, they say, is the mail order partial payment plan for investors—with many investors going on the margin and frozen out after a few payments. But all this is not the story of George Redmond, ex-waiter. To start with, he violated Horace Greeley's advice; instead of going west for success he went east—from California. But in Boston, when his feet were too sore for the life of a waiter, Redmond found himself jobless, alone, living in a furnished room. His rent was $2 a week, but he couldn’t pay
JAIL TERM FOR ANYBODY IN OIL SCANDAL UNLIKELY
By CHARLES P STEWART NEA Service Writer (Charl' , P Stewart, member o! the NEA Service Washington bureau, will write each week a story which summarizes and ex plains the Washington oil situation. This will make it easier for you to follow the day-by-clay wire stories with greater understanding, Here is his first story.) ASHINOTON. March 11.—Is W anybody apt to go to prison on account of the oil scandal? Doheny, for instance? Or Sinclair? Nobtdy*in Washington thinks so Fail? It's just possible he may be prosecuted. F.ut not probable. Still less so that he’ll do time. There’ll be civil suits. The Government will try to get back Kik Hills, Teapot Dome and land the Standard Oil Company of California holds. Denby has lost his job. Daugherty doubtless will lose his. Other jobs may be lost There’ll be a political effect, maybe a third party, maybe a cl ance for the House of Representatives to elect the next President. But jail for anybody! Not a bit likely. Deceit Leaks Out The oil investigators have taken most of a week going through the Washington telegrams sent to E. B. McDear.. millionaire newspaper man, at Palm Beach last winter. Why so much interest in McLean’s telegrams? Well, when the oil inquiry started, ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall naturally objecting to have it known that he’d borrowed SIOO,OOO from Doheny just before handing him Elk Hills, got McLean to pretend he’d made the lean, which had to be aeounted for somehow, because Fail had used the money to buy a ranch and questions were being asked. When the deceit leaked otP McLean
Heard in the Smoking Room
SHE smoker had just about heard all of the ‘ pipe” stories about everything except the reigning game, which we all have played AT. “I went to the laundry the other clay,” said the man with the Chinese cigarette holder, “to have a quarrel with LI, my Chinese laundiyman. But I have never seen a dishonest Chinaman yet. Every one knows that the Japanese banks employ them as clerks, because they are so honest. I
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it. During the hours of grace his landlady gave him, Redmond lay In bed, resting his feet and working ills head. Inspired, he plead with the landlady for a little more credit, and went out, on hla sore feet, to borrow money for his partial payment investor's idea. Raise* S4O He scraped up S4O and found a clerk who would gamble his labor for an interest In the business. The two set up offices in a side street, in a back room. Investors came slowly. The S4O went rapidly. But the clerk’s wife happened along, wearing diamonds. Redmond whispered to the clerk. The clerk, James Lamont, now president of the company, whispered ,to his wife. The diamonds went into the business. They were a charm. From their dingy quarters in the alley the company moved to more pretentious offices. From these offices, with clerks walking on each other's toes and customers lining up in the hallway, the Redmond Company was evicted. Tenants had complained about (he jams. . So Redmond went to 19 Congress St., seekinfe to rent a whole floor. The building trustees looked into his busi ness and decided he was an undesirable. But Redmond didn't stop at that. He bought the building, making it headquarters for his entire business, with branches throughout New England, in New York, Chicago, Cleveland. Baltimore and elsewhere. Busl ness was so good that he financed others, associates and friends, to help take in the money. About this time the ex-waiter decided to own his own home. Hr bought a fifteen-acre estate at Newton. exclusive to say the least, which cost $1,000,000.
was afraid it would be made very unpleasant for him on the witness stand before the investigators. So he did his best not, to be called. Rafts of messages were sent to him, telling him what the prospects were. The Investigators reckon that a man who was willing to tty to help Fail out, as McLean tried must know' a lot about the whole case. They’re trying to learn from his telegrams just what he did know. They want to know-, too. Senator Hetiin got an idea two of McLean's telegrams were from President Coolidge. Investigation proved he was right. The President explained. however, one of them was about the appointment of a commissioner of the District of Columbia; the other thanked McLean for complimenting a speech he hod made. A big splurge has been made because they were from the President, but they don’t appear to have much to do with oil. Some Disappointment Some of the oil investigators don’t get along very well together. Senators Lenroot and Smoot are accused of trying to hush that Inquiry up. Then somebody started the story Senator Walsh had been corresponding with Doheny. Walsh promptly read the correspondence. It seems he called Doheny’s attention to a letter from a man who wanted to interest some capitalist in Montana oil. Doheny said he would be interested if Waish would go in, too. Walsh said he couldn’t; he was a Senator and it wouldn’t be right—wouldn’t look well, anyway. It all happened before Doheny’s and Fall s names were linked.
told Li that he was charging too much on his last bill. “ ‘That so?’ said Li. ‘I ner charge too muchee. Mr. Brown he have three collars. Mr. Brown he have three shirts. Mr. Brown he have three sockiss. Mr. Brown have three hanchefs. Mr. Brown he have three unwear. Me charge Mr. Brown two dollars.’ “ ‘Mah Jongg,’ I said, and walked out,” t
MAMMALS WERE FIRST TINY BODIES Despite Size, They Gained Ascendancy Over Giant Reptile Rulers. By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz) HILE the gigantic reptiles, the dinosaurs, ruled the earth, the t first mammals made their appearance. There was a small reptile In those days which is now extinct. Scientists ca’l it the dog-toothed reptile or Cynodont. He was the ancestor of the mammals. The first mammals were insigiflcant. They were no lorger than rats or mice. It Is interesting to compare the jaw of a fossil mammal of the Age of Reptiles with the tooth of one of the big dinosaurs. The reptile tooth Is about twenty times larger than the mammal's whole jaw. But the reptiles have disappeared, except for the crocodile, the turtle, the snake and tiny forms like the little lizards. Mammals Take Place Mammals have taken their place of ascendancy upon the earth. The mammal differs from the reptile in many respects. First of all, the mammal is warm-blooded. The reptile is cold-blooded, or to state the case more accurately, the temperature of his blood varies with the temperature of his surroundings. The temperature of the mammal’s blood is constant and as a rule higher than his surroundings. A temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit is about the average. The mammal also has other important differences from the reptile. It has a covering of hair. This represents a long process of evolution, the hair having evolved from the reptile's scales. The mammal does not lay eggs, but the young are bom fully formed. The female feeds It young from its breasts or mammary glands. The transition from reptile to mammal was a gradual one and just as we find lung-fishes today which give us a hint as to the evolution from fish to amphibian, we find three mammals today which are midway between reptiles and the true mammals. Found in Australia They are the duckmole, the spiny ant-eater and a second type of anteater. All three are found In Australia. Ail three lay eggs, as do the reptiles. from which the young are hatched. The duckmole Is a small fur-cov-ered animal about a foot and a half long. It has jaws flattened like the hill of a duck and webbed fore feet. The ant-eaters have long narrow tube-like snouts and long sticky tongues with which they catch and pick up ants. A gmd,. higher than these queer animals are the so-called marsupials —such as the kangaroo. In these cases the young are bom exceptionally weak and helpless and carried about after birth by the mother in a sort of pouch in her skin. Next article In series; Modern Mammals.
Jfellotosfjip o! •prayer Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation preparec for Commission on Evangelism of federal Council of the Churches of Ch ist in America. TUESDAY God ijonic* to Respond to Prayer
Read ML 7:1-12. Text 7:11. If v then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? “It is of utmost importance therefore to present praying to men in such a way as to make it seem an immediately feasible way to produce valuable results In the day’s work. In this way a growing awareness of God in the work and friendships of dally life will be developed. God can be counted on to respond. Man does not do all the seeking.” MEDITATION: In God’s great being there are treasures w'hich he longs to give to his children when they are prepared to receive them and use them to advantage. One evidence that we can use his gifts is that we see the need and we ask for them. As a wise father God gives to each child an important place In the kingdom and plans that the personality of each one shall have an opportunity for development. PERSONAL QUESTION: Does God answer my prayer? PRAYER: Eternal God, whose mercies are over all thy children and whose love seeketh us in all our days, turn, we pray thee, our faces toward the light of thy countenance. May we live in thy spirit this day, O Lord. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley) Family Fun Dont* Struggle “That big, good-looking lifeguard is going to call on me tonight.” "Well, if he tries to kiss you, for heaven’s sake don’t struggle—he might punch you in the jaw from force of habit.”—Judge. Wife House Hunting. “Well, if we can’t get a house we’ll live in our sedan.” “Don’t be foolish, George. We could not receive our guests in our sedan.” “You won’t miss the social atmosphere. Plenty of cops will leave cards.’’—Louisville Courier. Dad’s New Dog “Yes, this is my new German police dog.” “Well, he certaihly doesn’t look like one.” “Bh-h-h-h! He’s In the detective department and he’s disguised as an Airedale.”—American Legion Weekly.
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Is it possible to do oval turning on an ordinary wood lathe; If so, how? No, It requires a lathe specially built for this kind of work, with a cam attachment. What is the State religion in Sweden? The Lutheran Protestant Church. Has Niagara Falls or Rapids ever been crossed on a tightrope? Yes, there have been several such teats, but probably the best known performer was Blondin, who accomplished the feat ft>r the first time, Thursday, May 80, 1869. On August 4, the same year, he repeated the feat, carrying Harry M. Colcord on his back. How many farmers belong to the American Farm Bureau Federation? Nearly one million. Is there any difference between the words “continual” and “continuous?” “Continual" means renewed In regular succession, "continuous” means prolonged without interrupt!
To Revolutionist By BERTON BRALEY You hate all "trivial conventions,” You want to be a Soul That’s Free? I don't object to your Intentions, Your freedom's quite all right with me. For Revolution you may holler, And shriek against all kinds of laws, But sporting such a dirty collar Do 38 not, that I see, aid your cause. Whatever be your pet obsession, Free love, free food, free life, free beers; You’d make a pleasanter impression If you would wash behind the ears. Cast off each economic fetter; Don’t be to Capital a slave! But—that stuff would get over better If now and then you had a shave. For cleanliness remains a virtue Which your opinions cannot jar. And soap and water will not hurt you, No matter how advanced you are. And free or slave, this little ditty Would plant this thought within your bean; A dirty collar isn’t pretty And finger-nails are better clean. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) NO. 26 Third Degree . Yourself! “**■“ Alertness of Mind READ THE TEXT BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO DO THE TEST. How quick are you in catching an idea? This test requires a brain that knows at once what a thing means. Follow the directions and see if you cannot complete the test successfully in less than two minutes. The rows pf rectangles have in them a certain arrangement of x’s or of x’s and o’s. In each row find what the order of x’s or x’s and o’s is and carry out the same order in putting the x’s and o’s in the rectangles that remain. LXXXXXXX 2-I*l l x l I X I I X I I*l I1 M 1 3.[x o x ofx OXOXO 4-(x|x| |x[x| |x|x| |x|x| g-jxloj jx|o| [x|o| |x|o|~ How many did you do correctly? Answers: 1. x x x xx; 2. blank x blank x blank xl 3. xox o; 4. blank x x blank; 5. blank x o blank. (Copyright, by Science Service.)
T' OM SIMS | -A -A Says Chewing gum costs America $50,000,000 annually, which is a lot of money to stick under tables and chairs. Leap year makes many leap to conclusions. Every barber thinks every man’s head needs washing. Mayor of an Arkansas town had his pay cut to $25 a year, but his wife still gets to boast he is mayor. Germany has developed anew poison gas. Every nation is seeking new poison gas. But the most poisonous gas is propaganda. France and England are beginning to agree that they shouldn’t disagree. A Senator leads a hard life these days. He never knows If a detective la protecting him or shadowing him. You can hardly tell whether a friendly stranger is selling something or running for office. Working too much will get you the same as loafing too much. Germs don’t care about how important you are. A scientist has a formula for synthetic gasoline. His may work, but those being used by Ailing stations don’t.
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Next? To the Editor of The Timet What is this talk of the Teapot Dome? You hear it at work and hear it at home; From the Canadian border to Mexico; From the shores of the Atlantic to far ’Frisco; On the hills and the plains, all over the land; It has even gone out to the deserts of sand. In the city or country, wherever we go We can always find some who think they know. Now what’s it about? I ask you again; It sounds like a puzzle from beginning to end. The papers have tried to explain it to us. But there's too many characters, arid all in a muss. As we read the accounts from day to day, And hear what each one has to say, It keeps us busy trying to guess Who will be next to have his name in the press. LEONARD PIEPER. Car Company’s Friend To the Editor of The Times There are many and Various angles from which to consider the proposal of the Indianapolis Street Railway to increase the street car fare in order that it may be reimbursed for losses sustained by bus competition. To fair thinkers this competition seems most unjust since the street car company is required to extend lines to outlying districts. Also to maintain frequent and regular intervals on all lines, even though some are operated at a considerable loss. On the other hand the busses are unregulated, maintaining desultory and erratic schedules, especially during inclement weather when the traffic is the heaviest. They operate chiefly during the peak travel periods, taklna the short hauls to conserve time ana reaping the profits gained thereby. Their routes are constantly changing in order to facilitate shorter ways and easier profits. The busses do not go into new additions where transportation facilities are required to provide for the normal growth cf the city. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company deserves the support of th* people of this city. It has served them faithfully efficiently and most reasonably. In making a comparison with cities of similar size the service here is found far superior and the fare considerably less. Numerous bus experiments in various cities have conclusively proved that electric rapid transit ls the most satisfactory and economical method so far devised for mass transportation. It must also be recalled that during the World War while other public utilities received substantial increases, the Indianapolis Street Railway did not profit accordingly; therefore It stands In dire need of further assistance and should be accorded the loyal support of every citizen of this city. OBSERVER.
A Thought Only by pride cometh contention! but with the well advised is wisdom. —Prov. 13.10. -I- -I- + HE wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.—Boileau. Animal Facts Movement for pure bred live stock on United States farms grows mightily. In Collins County, Texas, a granite column has been erected on which is inscribed: "Here lies the body of an old scrub boar; “Praise God ho’s not gonna scrub any more.” United States Bureau of Fisheries, after several years of experimental tests, announces the fish propogatlon In the ordinary fiarm pend can be made to pay.