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MORE HUMAN FUEL “THNOTIIER terrible coal mine disaster, this time in Utah. A Main St. of the little town of Castle Gate, lined with dozens of mothers and children wondering if their husband and father is the next whose lifeless body will be borne to the surface, more human fuel for somebody’s furnace. “Investigation carried on by the Bureau of Mines for more than ten years have demonstrated beyond question of doubt that such spreading of coal explosions can be prevented, says Director Bain of the United States Bureau of Mines. “Responsibility rests with the mine managements.” Scarcely a month ago, The Times published an editorial under the heading, “Human Fuel for Your Furnace,” in which it said: “Crosby, Minn. —forty-two lives. “Shanktown, Pa. —thirty-seven lives. “Johnson City, 111.—thirty-four lives. “Three weeks’ toll in the American mining industry. One hundred and thirteen miners killed irr three major accidents. How many were killed by ones or twos or threes in minor accidents has not been told; nor how many more have been maimp/l. “The average citizen is slowly beginning to awaken to the fact that the public has an interest in coal mining. This interest now is chiefly in prices charged for coal. Hasn’t the public also a responsibility ? “Or can the public say, ‘I am not my brother’s keeper. I owe nothing to the men who go down into the earth to dig the fuel that keeps me warm. And blood-stained coal lights the hearth with as warm a glow as any other kind.’ ’’ And profits still call for human fuel. j From where, next time?

UTILITY BOOST VACATION not.declare a vacation in utility rate increases? The In1W t dianapolis Gas Company is making money and is preparing to reduce its rate. Reports of nearly every other utility in the city indicate they are in better financial condition than they were a year ago. yet the Indianapolis Water Company, the Indiana Bell Telephone Company and the Inlianapolis Street Railway Company are pleading for more me ney. Look at the water company. Its gross income for 1923 was $56,000 higher than during the previous year. It paid $400,000 in common stock dividends. These profits were made on a basis of the old rates. Since they were made the public service commission has granted the company an increase, and the company has gone into Federal •Court asking permission to charge consumers still more. Is there jio end to the patience of the people of Indianapolis?

BRINGING MORE CONVENTIONS SXDIANAPOLIS should get behind the Chamber of Commerce convention bureau. The bureau is being organized for the purpose of putting the city more prominently “on the map.” It is raising a fund of $25,000 to pay expenses of this enterprise. • Indianapolis already is a great convention city, but there is no reason why even more meetings should not be held here. The city is centrally located, easily accessible by railroad from every direction, and has adequate facilities for taking care of conventions, large and small. Conventions are an asset to any city. One big convention will bring far more money to the city than the total being raised by the bureau. The annual speedway race brings to Indianapolis a sum running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Let’s make more convention committees want to bring their meetings to the city. BACK in January, Harry Daugherty advised Ned McLean that he (Daugherty) would soon be the center of the whole invisible government fight. What Harry lacks as Attorney General, he makes up for as a prophet. INVENTOR of a truth serum wants to sell a barrel of it Z) the Teapot Dome committee. Let’s not place the order until a few more flies have been caught ip the tanglefoot of lies. TEAPOT DOME scandal has reached a point where perfectly good G. O. P. men are refusing to be “goats” for one another. That’s probably the turning point downward for “invisible government.” IF the Treasury Department can rebate $124,000,000 a year, vhy bother Congress to reduce surtaxes? Let Mellon do it. , DOHENY holds the world’s record as an employer. He‘s the first man to hire almost an entire Government to work for him. IF a campaign contributor invests $30,000 in politics and gets Government oil lands that profit him $100,000,000, what’s his income tax? OF THE nine justices of the United States Supreme Court three were appointed on the recommendation of Attorney General Daugherty. And they are on the job for life.

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DEADLOCK MAY PUT IN TWO PARTIES Scrambled State of Affairs May Allow Congress to Choose Presidency. By. HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer March 12.—The scrambled state of affairs in 1 Washington, mental, governmental and political, could not be better illustrated than by the fact that it is actually suggested that the presidenial election this fall may result in the choice of a President of one political party and a Vice President of another; Perhaps you think that isn’t possiole. But it is. Not only possible, say some who have analyzed £he situation, but even not improbable, owing to the present line-up in the Senate and House of Representatives. Here’s the way they figure it: Independents Figure With both Republicans and Democrats Jn only fair favor with a great body of voters, the possibility that an independent presidential ticket, carrying half a dozen or more middle western States, will swing a sufficient block of electors to prevent either of the old parties from having a cleat majority, is admitted. This would throw the election into Congress. And the present Congress, not the one to be elected this fall, would decide. In a deadlock for the presidency and vice presideny, the House selects the President, the Senate the Vice President. In the House the vote must he by States, the majority of each State delegation determining how that State's one ballot shall be cast. In the Senate the vote Is cast individually, each member voting his own choice as on any Senate roll call. • • • I/ess Than MajorityIn the present Congress, the Republicans have a majority in twenty-three of the forty-eight State delegations in the House —two less than a clear majority, even including Wisconsin, North Dakota and Minnesota. The Democrats control nineteen State delegations, including New Y'ork, which they swing by the narrow majority of one. Six States are tied, as between Democrats and Republicans, in their House members. In this situation, an indefinite deadlock might he maintained. * • * Serious in Senate Senatorially, the problem is no less serious. On its face, the Senate is composed of 51 Republicans, 43 Democrats and 2 Farmer-Labor members. But among the fifty-one Republicans are counted Brookhart. Norris, Ladd, Frazier and La Follette, who are more independent than regular. It is conceivable that Couzens. Capper and perhaps Borah might jump the party reservation in case of a deadlock.

JfeUotoSfjip of draper Daily Lenten Bible read! nr and meditation prepared for commission on evangelism of Federal Council ol the Churches ot Christ tn America. WEDNESDAY Kingdom Builder* With God

Read Mt. 6:9-23. Text 6:10. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. “It (prayer) is not the surrender of individuality. On the contrary it would seem that true prayer develops at one and the same time a sense of God. of self, and of other men. Coming into the presence of God necessitates a clearer consciousness of men, for men are God’s great concern. It gives anew significance to all life.” MEDITATION. The true disciple seeks to live his life in harmony with the life of God. He desires above all else that his own will shall be so under the influence of the will of God that his life and work shall be to further God’s will among men. God does not command us, but permits us to be co-workers with him. Human personality is vitally enriched when the right choice is made. PERSONAL QUESTION: Am I as anxious that God should have his way with me as I am that he should control other men? PRAYER: Almighty God, let me real ze the leading of thy spirit this day, that I may do thy will. Let me move in the way of life with all thy children of good will. May the inspiration of thy grace make me strong and confident, in Christ’s name. Amen. (Copyright, 1924 —F. L. Fagley) A Thought Abstain from all appearances of evil.—l Thess. 5:22. • • • B r AD conduct soil the finest ornament more than filth.—Plautus. Son Decides “Father, I’ve decided to become an artist." “I’ve no objections, provided you don’t draw on me.”—Humorist.

Heard in the Smoking Room

| LIVE in Pasadena,” said a j smoker, “but my boctlegger l 1 lives in Glendale, and, besides having very good stuff, he has a miUlon-dollar sense of humor and he never delivers goods, but he has a story. His latest is about a certain moving picture actor who had gone to the hospital to have something done to his thirst that the booze he had been drinking had not been able t* 40. They should have sent him to Join the fire department. Be that as it may, when the actor left the hospital he went to a hotel near L. A., where one can get good service and a little something to eat. This light of the screen was slightly deaf, but

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MEXICAN INDIANS PREFER BULLETS TO BALLOTS, FORKED STICK TO PLOW Balkans of America Prefer War to Peace—Means Freedom From Work and Duties of Modern Civilization.

By 808 DORMAN, NEA Service Writer. [T"T] ERA CRUZ, Mexico, March 12. I —Why has Mexico so many I revolutions? At the present moment + he Balkans of America are finishing their presi-

Effie Cherry Changes Act to Politics

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EFFIE CHERRY Bv VEA Service 12.—Effie -Cherry. 25 years v__J ago one of America's best known vaudeville stars, has returned to the footlights. Her act then was considered so had it was a riot. It packed the house. But her act has changed. She’s quit the old sentimental songs and male irppersonations for a little political skit —all her own—entitled “Why I Should Be Mayor.” Here in Cedar Rapids, where she and her sisters. Addle and Jessie, started on the road to fame amid a shower of overripe vegetable and eggs some 30 years ago, she is making her second debut.

MAMMALS ARE DIVIDED INTO TWELVE CLASSES Each Type of Life Gains Ascendency and Has Attempted to Spread to Every Environment,

By DAVTD DIETZ, * Science Editor of The Times Copyright by David Dietz mT is interesting to note that each type of life. In the period of its ascendency has attempted to spread into every type of environment. Thus in the Age of Reptiles, we find reptiles which could swim and dive, reptiles which could climb trees, and even winged reptiles, the so-called pterodactyls. Man with the aid of the airplane and submarine is conquering all environments today. When mammals gained the ascendency, they too spread into every type of environment. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn calls this tendency “adaptive radiation.” Twelve Environments He distinguishes 12 different environments which have been conquered by the mammals. First there are the terrestial main mala like the elephant and the antelopes. Next are the animals which spend part of their time on land and part burrowing in the earth. The rabbit is the best known of these. The third type are true burrowers like the mole. Next we have a class of animals

he could always hear the director yell 'camera' well enough to clutter up everybody’s face and form on the screen but his own. The waiter at the hotel was French and it was hard for the actor to hear and understand him. One day at lunch the actor wished to be coayd by something good. ” 'What have you today good, Armajid?’ said Odolph Rubtlno. “The waiter mentioned several things, but especially, ‘I would recommend ze chicken' en casserole.’ “ ‘Chicken in castor oil, my Gawd, no, man! I had all of that in the hospital I wantecU ”

dential primary, with bullets cast instead of ballots. The returns are about all in—the government seems to have been the winner. But behind it all—this selecting presidents with bullets instead of with ballots —there is a reason. And that reason is—lndians. For the population of Mexico Is essentially Indian. Eighty-five percent are of Indian and mixed blood, with the Indian traits predominating. And the Indian has never with any great degree Os success accepted- the white man’s civilization. To cross the border into Mexico is to turn back the clock of time 200 years—in some ways. From modern Pullmans running on a modern railway one looks out upon a land cultivated as it was in centuries past. Oxen Draw Plows Oxen hitched to a forked stick plow the earth. Water is drawn by hand in buckets from wellS in order to irrigate the fields. Os course the big estates under the management of the foreigner use the most modern agricultural implements. But the natives do not like modern implements. Take the case of Santa Inez ranch, near Cuatla.

Two carloads of the most modern agricultural implements were installed under the urge of an American salesman. The wages of ihe workers were doubled. New hi uses of wood were constructed for them. A year later the American returned, thinking that with the showing this ranch must have made under progressive management, he would be able to make large sales to the neighboring ranches. Ho found the modern implements, broken and rusted, stored in a barn. The wages were back to normal and the workers were once more living in the brush shacks to which they were accustomed. They had deliberately wrecked the new Implements; the larger wages had caused them to lay off as soon as they had earned the amount to which they were accustomed; and the nice, new wooden houses were gratefully received, as it saved them the labor of obtaining firewood from the woods. Extreme, maybe-! but typical. The Indian is by heredity*Rverse to labor. He prefers to hunt and fish. The accumulation of wealth, the provision against old age, the ambition to rjse above his fellows, have no part in his make-up. With the country at peace under an imitation of civilized government, he must work in order to live. I.ife Is Ideal But In a state of war. with freedom to steal and loot, with his support coming from the country off which ho lives, his life is an ideal one. He takes his women to war with him, to do his cooking, to do the chores that must be done. He is again the warrior, with no duty except to fight and to amuse himself. Hence he is easily led to take the warpath. It means freedom from work —from civilized duties that Irk him. He follows some leader, it doesn’t matter whom. If raptured, he Joins the victor. He isn't fighting for a principle—just because he loves fighting, because It frees him from the necessity of work.

which frequent streams—beavers and the so-called “water-rats.” The fifth class is as much at home in the water as on land—the polar bear and the otter for example. The sixth class lives on the shore of the sea. This class Includes the seal, the sea-otter and the walrus. In the seventh class we find mammals who have deserted the land entirely and gone back to the sea where their fish ancestors originally came from. These include the whales and the porpoises. A type of whale called the deep diving fin back whale dives into the deeper abysses of the ocean where a specialized form of fish life is found. Accordingly this whale is classified as a mammal which has conquered an eighth type of environment. Conquer Air Too The remaining types of mammals have attempted or succeeded in conquering the air. Class nine includes the mammals which spend part of the time on land and part in trees. The gorilla is an animal of this type. The tenth class lives almost entirely in the trees —squirrels, treesloths. and lemurs, for example. Next we find in the eleventh class, the mammal which is beginning to~ conquer the a.ir. The “flying squirrel,” which volplanes or parachutes from one tree to another, is an example. Lastly we have the twelfth type, the hat, which has actually learned to fly and conquer the air. Next artiftle in series: The Birds. Animal Facts It is hard to distinguish the sex of geese. But drive them into a barn and let the dog in; the females will hold their heads high and retire to the rear, while the ganders will stand their ground, stretch their necks and hiss. Our little Panama Canal zone country has bees that don’t sting, but how the murthering villains bi;e! One of the species ejects a liquid tnat severely burns the human skin.

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What is the size of the biggest gun in the United States Army? The 16-inch. This has a range of 50,000 yards, and fires a projectible weighing 2.340 pounds. The cost of a service shell is roughly estimated at SI,OOO. Is it correct to say a “setting” hen? The purists would say that it should be a “sitting” hen, for the hen actually sits, hut popular usage has given sanction to “setting.” What is the origin of the saying “Cleanliness is next to Godliness?” This Is from John Wesley's sermon on “Dress.” When was the General Slocum disaster, and what was its extent? 1 The excursion boat General Slocum took fire while going through Hell Gate, East River, New Y'ork City, June 15, 1904. One thousand lives were lost. What is the plural of “cupful”” The plural is “cupfuls" not “cupsful.” ‘ , What are the best forms of formal greeting? It is enough to say, “How do you do?” or, “How are you?” or simply, “Good morning” or “Good evening." Who were some of the children mentioned prominently in the Bible? Moses, Samuel, Isaac and Joseph. When will Jupiter be occulted by the moon? Jupiter will not be occulted hy the moon in 1024, but will be occulted twice in 1925 and once in 1926. What Is Tom Mix’s address? Fox Studios, Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal. How can the tobacco taste be removed from a pipe? It can not, if the pipe has been smoked for any length of time. The following is the process for cleaning: Cut one-half inch from the end of an ordinary cork and fit it tightly into the bowl of the pipe. Then with V knife cut a hole through the cork wide enough to admit the nozzle of a water tap with a little pressure; turn on the water gently until the’ flow through the stem Is sufficiently strong, and let it run until the pipe is clean. -

And Father Said —

Overworked By BERTON BRALEY That much abused adjective, “hectic,” The Flapper has grabbed for her own, To use in a manner eclectic To qualify everything known; She seems to have almost a passion For making it fit any noun, Or characterize every fashion Os person or party or gown. “I'm feeling just hectic this morning! That party was hectic last night! And father, today, gave a warning That —well, it was hectic, all right! I’ve got anew gown—very arty,’ Though awfully hectic in.hue! That new man we met at the party Is hectic, I think, over you!” Now here is the humor sardonic; Consult.Mr. Webster, you’ll glean The knowledge that hectic means "chronic,’’ Not “brilliant” or “vivid” or "keen.” But who cares what books say about it? The Flapper does not, I aver. For hectic's her word, and she’ll spout it Because it is chronic with her! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) No. 27 Third Degree Yourself! ' Filing Ability Can you place correspondence in an alphabetical file correctly and quickly? The following test will give you an Idea of your ability in this line. Directions: Look at List A first. Write the figure 1 in the parenthesis ( ) before the name that would come first in an alphabetical list; the figure 2 before the name that would come first in an alphabetical list; the figure 2 before the name that would come next; 3 before the next; 4 before the next; 6 before the next, and 6 before the last. Then do List B. One minute is the time allowed. List A ( ) B. P. Royal. ( ) E. D. Patch. ( ) L. T. Ryon. ( ) J. C. Redmond. ( ) Phillips * Sons. ( ) Rodier & Cos. List B ( ) A. D. Drennan. ( ) E. W. Emory. ( ) F. H. Deland. ( ) Donald & Sons. ( ) Engle & Cos. < ) J. C. Dickson. Answers: List A: 5,1, 6. 3,2, 4. List B: 4,5, 1. 3, 6. 2. (Copyright, by Science Service.) Family Fun Ain't No Such Car The teacher was trying to bring out the word “perseverance,” and she asked: “What is it that carries a man along rough roads, up hills and down through jungles and swamps and raging torrents?” There was silence for a moment, then a motor dealer’s little boy spoke up: “Please, Miss, there ain’t no such car.” —Boston Transcript. Like Father Like Son “Oh! you wicked boy! This school never heard such awful language as you’ve used over that ninth example in your arithmetic, I declare.'' “Huh, teacher, it ought to git dad's langwidge over that ninth hole In his golf.” One By the Doctor Dr. Crabbe had almost succeeded in dismissing Mrs. Gassoway when she stopped in the doorway, exclaiming, “Why. dootor, you didn't look to s e If my tongue was coated.” “I know it isn’t,’/ said the doctor, wearily, "You never find grass on a race track.’’ —Everybody's. Sister's Hand Best “Let me hold your hand when I go to ask your father for his consent?” “Why?” > "Unless I hold a good hand he may try to bluff me out.”—Boston Transcript.

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Editor’s Mail The editor is willing to print views of Times readers on interesting: subjects. Make your comment brief. Sign your name as an evidence of good faith. It will not be printed if you pbject. , / Bible in Schools To the Editor of The Times All sound minds of the world must work together for one another and establish world-wide peace and international Justice; The great question is how can the nations of the world solve such a difficult problem? There Is only one way to settle this vital subject and that is by teaching our boys and girls that it is not the great men of a country that place us into wars, but it is great men that keep us out of war. If the coining generations are taught world-wide peace and international justice it will shine throughout their lives and their posterity. Causes of all the wars in by-gone days were brought on by the lack of real necessary education. What are we going to teach our boys and girls in order to form in their hearts this international or even national peace. The only thing that will bring this to a reality is teaching of the Holy Bible in our schools. If the example of the life of Jesus Christ is set before a boy or girl and taught by the teacher, what else is ha or she going to be but be a real supporter of international justice and world-wide peace. VERL HERMIT ZIEGLER, 2625 N. Gale St.

Tom sims I -/- Says A government is a system of checks and balances which tend to become check books and bank balances. Judging by reports, the oil In Washington must be about knee deep to A telephone pole. The ex-Kaiser Is planting a rose garden, which is one wa# to get your flowers while you are living. The interest on S7O will amount to $14,000,000 if you can afford to wait 300 years for it. In St. Louis a man of 76 married a woman of 74, this being the first sign of spring in St. Louis. Now Sir Oliver Lodge is worried about the world, indicating he is getting along in years. A big town is a place where a polite traffic cop may be charged with conduct unbecoming an officer. The most heavily insured woman carries $3,000,000 and lives in Chicago, where ever; one should be heavily insured. * Science It is probable that there is no such thing as a “natural death.” If this is true, all human beings die from injury or aiisease, and It should be possible to prolong life indefinitely, if complete protection against disease and accidents could be secured. There is scientific evidence that death is not inherent in the individual calls (that make up living beings. Certain organisms seem to be immortal. Dr. Carrel has isolated connective tissue from the heart of a chick embryo and cultures of these calls, living on the extracts from chick embryos, have been kept alive for ten years. Efforts to prolong human life have made wonderful progress in the last few yea-s. Science has practically eliminated smallpox and typhoid, yellow fever and malaria, and has conquered rabies, diphtheria, tetanus and other disease. If a person escapes accidents all disease finally is conquered, there is no reason why he should die. Little Sister’s Dolly "I have a little cab for my dolly to ride in." “Huh! When MT dolly needs a ride, I call a taxi.”—American Legion Weekly.