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WHERE’S THAT FAIR DEAL? EEKS ago The Indianapolis Times printed a series of arti- ” cles showing the pay of mailmen and other postal employe*: is insufficient. Glancing over other newspapers we learn postal workers in other cities are pushing the movement for an increase in their own towns. Here goes another plea by us: The mailman has first claim to the title, Old Reliable. Rain or shine, recognizing no obstacles, he comes plodding in. Few of us appreciate his services and their importance in our lives. Every second of day and night, nearly 400 letters are delivered by the carriers—about 115 a year for every man, woman and child The total is more than twelve billion pieces of mail a year. The mailman’s service is too personal and human to be told fully in statitstics. But some of the figures announced at the last letter carriers’ convention should make the public and the national Government realize that postmen are not getting a fair deal. The average carrier, who plods patiently from house to house and office to office with a burden as heavy as fifty pounds in the leather pouch over his left shoulder—this man walks an average of thirteen miles a day. Each week he wears out three pairs of socks beyond repair. Every three weeks he has to have his shoes half-soled and heeled. Daily he delivers from 1,000 to 3,000 letters. Put yourself in his place, mentally, and you realize shat his is a difficult, laborious job. The carrier’s task is typical of the general postal service Their income lags far behind the increased cost of living At present the highest salary that can be reached by a mail carrier is SI,BOO a year, ranging down to $1,400. And other branches >f the postoffice service pay correspondingly low. The mailman is not getting a fair deal. It is the duty of Congress, which appropriates money for public expenditures, to grant to postal employes salary increases long since overdue

GOVERNMENT BY STEALTH BIOOTLEGGERS may bootleg, forgers may forge, defrauders may defraud, and other crooks may ply their trades, with or without being caught, depending upon their luck, but United States Senators may not unearth crookedness without being trailed. This pretty come-to-pass has been brought to light by the Senate committee investigating Daugherty and his Department of Justice. Gaston Means, former Daugherty agent, testified that he personally, acting on orders, rifled the office of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, to “get” something on La Follette, when the latter exposed the Teapot Dome deal in the Senate. Means also told how he sent agents to Arkansas to “get” stuff on Senator Caraway, who was criticising both Fall and Daugherty in the Senate. Senator Wheeler told how friends had advised him the Department of Justice had at least five agents in his home State, Montana, trying to “get” stuff on Wheeler. Senator Brookhart, chairman of the committee, had similar reports from his friends of Department of Justice agents snooping in lowa trying to “get” stuff on him. Means added his efforts to “get” something on La Follette had failed. As yet the other “getting parties” seem to have failed. But that is beside the point. The charge, as it stands, is that Daugherty and Burns are using the secret agents of the Department of Justice to embarrass Senators who seek to expose crookedness in Government. All of which illustrates graphically the handicap under which the Senate investigation works with Daugherty and Burns on the job. / Daugherty is entitled to a fair hearing. So is Burns. But their hearings will be just as fair if they are suspended pending the investigation. And the public’s interest will be far more easily served. Speaking of “putting the red flag on the White House,” if there is any one thing that has been the unfailing symptom of despotism—whether autocratic, bureaucratic or oligarchic—it has been a body of active secret police agents. It is the opposite of liberty, democracy and decency. NED M’LEAN was just playing a little joke on the Senate when he put that fib about the SIOO,OOO loan into the Teapot Dome record, and he didn’t know he was playing with dynamite. OFFERING Judge Kenyon of lowa a job in the Cabinet was one way for Cautious Cal to try to eliminate a very speedy dark horse from the presidential race. FALL named in plot to annex slice of Mexico, Washington report says. Annex it to what? To the United States? Or to Doheny? Or to the Fall estate? WASHINGTON dispatches say that Bob La Follette’s investigation shows no other reason for the 2-cent boost in gasoline prices than the opportunity to collect it. Say, Bob, are you trying to find some other reason?

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KATIIE WERMKE, THE 17-YEAR-OLD STRONG GIRL, OF BERLIN, DOES THE ABOVE LITTLE STUNT EVERY DAY BEFORE BREAKFAST, IT ,IS SAID, WORKS UP HER APPETITE, SO TO SPEAK.

PLIGHT OF GERMAN PEOPLE DESPERATE Thousands Starve in Land of Plenty With Shops Bursting With Food —Causes Are Numerous,

Here is an article on conditions in Germany by William Philip Strnins, foreign editor editor of the Indianapolis Ttmee, who Iww just returned from a several weeks’ survey of development* in Europe. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS j SHE plight of the laboring and professional classes in Germany today is desperate. In a land of plenty, where crops are better than they have been In years, and where even the city shops are fairly bursting with food, at least one-fourth the population Is seriously under-nourished and thousands are 1 on the verge of starvation. I called on Chancellor Marx one; afternoon In Berlin, In the house where the great Bismarck used to live. I told him I had heard people were starving In Germany, but that I had also seen lavish display on the part of Germar.s about the city. I asked him what about it. Some Are Spending “Don't be misled by the handful of Germans you see eating rich foods in expensive resturants," he told me. “Germans are no better and no worse than the people of other countries. Some liave money. Some are spending it as you say. But these are only a few. Go to the schools, or even in- | to the streets of the poorer quarters, Into working communities, and hospitals. Then judge for yourself.” I did as he said. I looked for myself. There Is much sickness in the country due to undernourishment. Tuberculosis Is on the increase. Some 14 per cent more died of It in 1923 I than in 1922, while other diseases due to insufficient food—rickets, scurvy, anemia, pellagra, spinal curvature and even blindness —are undoubtedly more common than formerly. Infant mortality has Increased 21 per cent above pre-war records. And still there is plenty of food. Causes Are Numerous The causes underlying all this are numerous. The paper mark Is one. While Its depreciation made multimillionaires of a comparative few, it made beggars of many. Then, after It had hit nearly the absolute zero of worthlessness, anew money was sprung on the public at the rate of 4.1 to the dollar, the precise value of the gold mark. While before this new money, called the rentenmark, made its appearance people went hungry because farmers and dealers in foodstuffs would not part with what they had for worthless paper marks, the rentenmark was at once so dear ordinary - people could not get enaugh of it together to buy anything. Besides, with the coming of the new currency, prices soared. Ham cost $6 and $7 a pound last December. Other things were in proportion. Labor put up a fight to be paid on a gold basis, and won. But the victory did not get them very far. They are paid two-thirds pre-war wages and living is from two to three tlmse as dear. Unemployment. Increases Unemployment is on the increase. It was 50 times greater at the end of last year than at the beginning. A year ago there were only 40,000 people out of work. Foreign Minister Stresemann estimated the number when I was in Germany three weeks ago at 2,200,000. Strikes are few. Workers fear to lose their jobs. Yet nearly all the labor legislation resulting from the revolution of 1918 has been scrapped within the last three months. Men

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mHE man in the smoker who was the father of one little child, a girl, and of course thought she was the smartest child in the world, as all right thinking fathers do think, said that when he was at home one day from one of his trips, which had t_>eD a very good one, the laundress can* to deliver the clothes and brought her little girl with her. "Yes, sir, it has been a hard year and lots of complaints. My man ain’t had no work fer months and it is a hard job mak ng one end meat and the other bread. But ain’t it funny, how we

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have been fired wholesale, despite agreements to the contrary. The eight-hour day Is a thing of the past. Enough food is In the country, but the difficulty is getting, it properly distributed. An American government official in Germany told me 20,000,000 people today are receiving less than health rations. Imports of food won't help unless distributed gratis. The real trouble lies in the diminished purchasing power of the workman and only a complete reorganization of Germany's economic life will do the slightest good. A Thought Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him. —Lev. 19:13. SHE first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.—Bailey.

t/bmN /Advice v"7, SAID an ordinary father, to an ordinary son, there are lota of tips I want to give you. Just plain advice, but helpful, and you'll know, when I am done, the dally things you should, and shouldn’t do. You've heard it sal dthat smoking, In your youth, will stunt your growth, so shun the corncob pipe and cigarette. There comes a time, when you are gTOwn, when you can use them both, but, son, that time, remember. Isn’t yet. Be sure and get the hours of sleep that mind and body need; and with cheap novels burn no midnight oil. In youth you travel, all day long, at rather break-neck speed; so sleep at night or else your health will spoil Don't squander pocket money that your dad has given you. Don’t figure “easy come and easy go.” From every dollar that you get Just nave a dime or two. The benefit, In later years, you’ll know. Just sum up all these little tips and act accordingly. I know the worth of what I’m telling you. For, listen son, the hardships that have made It hard for me, are Just these tips—-the things I didn’t do.

Science A revised translation of the works of Fa-hsien has just been published by Cambridge University, England. Fa-hslen is not known in this country, but in India and parts of China he is an authority on various matters. About 2,500 years ago, Guatama Buddha rode forth on his pilgrimage, having given up his wife and one-day-old child to devote himself to the doctrine of non-attachment. His teachings were developed by his followers into the Buddhist religion. Ever since his day, members of the Buddhist faith have gone on pilgrim-

keep on a strugglin'? God just seems to put somethin’ in us like a clock that he winds up every mornin’ and we ‘go’ all day.” The man relating the story said he gave the woman an extra dollar and she said: "Thank you. An’ how it ■will help to feed the eight children." "It was too much for the father of the one chick and turning to the laundress’s little girl, he asked: "What would you do, dearie, if Ii gave you five dollars?" "I’d bribe the other kids to let m i sleep alone, one night.”

HALF-APE PROOF OF EVOLUTION Scientist Says Lemur Shows How Monkey Sprang From Other Animals, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times Copyright by David Dietz. EET us return again to our survey of mammals and single out for consideration a epeclal group which biologists have named the primates. For whatever our prejudices may be, biologists unite in calling the primates the nearest relatives to our human race. The primates include monkeys, apes, baboons, gorillas and so on. In the early days of the Age of Mammals, there were the grazing mammals and the Insect-eating mammals. We still have the insect-eating mammals with us in such types as the shrew and the mole. Gradually two new branches evolved from the insect-eating mammals. One line became the flesh-eaters who hunt on the ground—the mamals of prey. The other branch took to living in trees and eating fruit. This branch became the primates. Half Way Development Here again we find a half-way development which helps us to understand what has taken place. The animal who helps us understand the situation is the lemur. Lemurs are found chiefly in Madagascar, although they are also found in the tropical forests of Africa and Asia. The lemur is the most ancient type of primate in existence. He most nearly represents the ancestral primate from which in the course of the ages the others have grown. He is sometimes called the half ape because of his apparent midway position between the primates and the other mammals. The lemur has nails on all his digits except the second digit of the foot, which bears a claw. The other primates have developed along two main tracks due to geological conditions during the ages. The one branch became isolated in South America. Their descendants today are known as the new world apes, and include the marmosets, capuchins, howler monkeys, spider monkeys, and so on. Descendant* Are Monkeys The other branch developed in the o\d world and Its descendants are known today as the old world apes and monkeys. These include the monkeys, baboons, macaques, and the man like or anthropoid apes. The monkeys and baboons are characterized by having 32 teeth ns man does, and by having non-prehensile tails. That Is, they have lost the power to grasp tree branches and the like by means of their tails. The baboons have given up living in trees and live on the ground Instead. However, they do not have an ereet posture n.s man does. The macaque is a specie of heavilybuilt monkey. By far the most Interesting, however, are the man-like or anthropoid apes. Next article In series: The Manlike Ape.

ages. Later religions, perhaps following the Buddhist faith, have gone on pilgrimages. The pilgrim in oriental countries is as common as the tourist in Switzerland Or California. Fa-hslen lived in central China about 600 A. D. He decided that the Buddhist doctrine, in China, had degenerated and was impure. He went to India to obtain the sacred books of the ritual. He walked all the way, Obtained the books, and returned to China. His journey took fifteen years. He not only exerted a great influence over the Buddhist religion as the result of this trip, but he wrote very interesting books of his travels. Animal Facts Iceland, little island up toward the north pole which has 100 volcanoes, most famous of which is Mt. Hecla, finds shipped-in coal too much like gold. So they are piping water from the volcanic hot springs to Reykjavik, capital city, to heat all buildings, including homes. A single American breeding farm raised 20,000 young pheasants last year; in 1924 it will raise 60,000. If fool game laws and fool game wardens wdl leave this food-producing industry alone, some day game birds will be as plentiful as poultry, in certain season*.

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QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can set ap answer to any question of iact 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 be undertaken. All other question* will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot lie answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What does the Indian name "Tonowanda" mean? "Swift water." How long did It take Walter Johnson to win his three straight games from the New York Americans? When was this? It took him three days. This was done about July. 1908. pitching Friday, Saturday and Monday. Why did the United States buy the Danish West Indies? Because of the strategic position of the Islands in relation to the Panama Canal defenses. Which are narrower. Double A - or single A shoes? Double A shoes are narrower. Who were Taft's secretaries while President? Fry# \V. Carpenter, Charlts D. Norton. Charles D. Hilles. Waa there ever a famous person who had red hair? Christopher Columbus. Thomas Jefferson, and Queen Elizabeth of England are all said to have had red or reddish hair. Did any Vice President ever serve under two Presidents? Yes, Clinton served under Jefferson and Madison: Calhoun under Quincy Adams and Jackson. What State has the largest acreage of sugar cone? Louisiana.

What does "Rio Grande” mean? Spanish, meaning "great river." Who was the founder of modern astronomy? Copernicus usually receives thl3 ■ redlt. Are there any volcanos in Alaska? Yes, between the northern and southern range of mountains In Alaska lies o. group of volcano peaks called the Wrangell Mountains, of which Mt. Sanford is the highest. Whan was the first railroad in the United States constructed? The first was a short tramyway on Beacon St.. Boston, built in 1807, with wooden rails. A tramway was also built In 1809 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, commenced in 1828, is the oldest railroad in the United States tow in existence. How did the Suwanae River get its name? This appears to he derived from the Indian word Sawani, meaning "echo.” What is an electric transformer? A device for producing by means of an electric current, a current of different strength and potential; especially a form of Induction coil used In alternating current systems of electrical distribution, by which a current of high potential Is transformed to one of lower potential, or vice-versa; classed accordingly either as stepdown or step-up transformers. The Mexicans call people from the United States “Gringoes”; what does this mean? The word means "gibberish” In Spanish. Is It dangerous to allow food to stand In aluminum vessels? There Is no more danger in allowing food to stand in aluminum than there is in lettting It stand in utensils made of other materials. Many people suppose that cooking acid vegetables or fruit in aluminum is dangerous. The fact that aluminum becomes discolored does not Indicate the presence of poison. What indemnity did Germanyexact from France after the Franco-Prussian war and when was it paid? Indemnity of 5,000,000,000 francs was exacted. This was paid between March 1, 1871, and September, 1873.

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Final Test Third Degree Yourself! Arithmetical Ability Are you good at figures? Can you quickly do the simple practical problems in aritmetic that you meet in everyday life? See if you can work out the answers to the following problems quickly and correctly. Use margin of this newspaper as scratch paper if you need to. You should be able to complete them in about two minutes. Ready? GO! a How many hours will it take a truck to go 66 miles at the rate of 6 miles an hour? b. If you buy two packages of tobacco at 7 cents each and a Dipe for 65 cents, how much c'.iange should you get from h two dollar bill? c. If it takes 6 men 3 days to dig a ISO-foot drain, how many men are needed to dig it in half a day? and. A dealer bought some mules for SBOO. He sold them for SI,OOO, making S4O on each mule. How many mules were there? e. If a man runs a hundred yards in 10 seconds, how many feet does he run in a fifth of a second? f. A certain factory employs 3,000 laborers. 15.000 machinists and 1,000 clerks. If each kind of labor is expanded proportionately until there are In all 20,900 men, how many laborers will be added. Answers: a, 11; b, $1.21; c, 36: and. 5; e, 6; f, 300. (Copyright by Science Service.)

jTeUotDSfjip of s3raper Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. SATURDAY Prayer and Will of God

Mead Mat. 26:36 46. Text: 26:42. Again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying . . . thy will be done. “The whole subject of prayer clears up somewhat when we recognize that prayer is not an effort to bend God's will, to persuade God to do something that He would rather not do, but that it is the reverent opening of the heart and mind to such incoming of the feeling and thought of God as may be appropriate to the situation in which we find ourselves. There is need to take account, too, of human frailty and shortsightedness.” MEDITATION: How much we might be helped if we but knew the rest of this prayer of Jesus! If we had all His words would they not but express in other ways this same deep consecration and longing of His inner ltfo—"Try will be done"? May our hearts be brought into such happy accord with our Father God that we shall be able to say, “Thy will be done" in our lives also, and may we have peace in following the leadings of His spirit. PERSONAL QUESTION: Can I say. "Thy will be done'^,? PRAYER: O. our Father, we pray that thou wilt lift our souls into fellowship with Thee. May W'e labor with Thee. In the consciousness of Thy approval may we find blessed rest and peace, through Christ. Amen. (Copyright, 1924 —F. L. Fagley)

Family Fun Dad Out at Sea "Did you ring, sir?” "Yes, steward, I —l rang.” “Anything I can bring you, sir?” "Y —y —yes, steward. B—b—b—bring me a continent, if you have one, or an island —anything, steward, so I—lul —long as it's solid. If you can’t, sus—sink the ship.”—Tit Bits. Wife’s New Suit “I should think you’d be ashamed to show your face in such a flapper suit.” “Don’t worry, darling; people won’t look at my face.” —Film Fun. Sister’s Feller’s 0. K. “Reginald, darling, will you promise to love me always?” "Well, my dear, I’ll givo you my word—but I won’t sign anything.”— Whiz Bang.

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Editor’s Mail The editor l* willing to print views of Times readers on interesting subjects. Make your comment brief. Sirn your name as an evidence of > good faith. It will not be printed if you object. Why the Fuss? To the Editor of The Times By the way the city council and some of our high salaried city officials have interested themselves in the welfare of the street car company one would think the city had taken over the car company. I cannot understand why there is all this fuss. The car company has no franchise, pays nothing into our city treasury and Is under the jurisd.ction of the public service commission, w'hose members draw big salaries for doing this work. Is the company afraid the commission will turn it down? It looks as though the object is to pave the way for the commissioners whose jobs are in the balance. If our officials would interest themselves as much in the citys' welfare as they are in the street car company’s perhaps our taxes would be lower in- , stead of climbing steadily. J. J. RAY. Soldier Plea To the Editor of The Times I noticed an article written by the wife of a Spanish-American War veteran. In thinking along that line, I am in sympathy with crippled, disabled soldiers who faced the real hardships of any war. Postal employes are clamoring for more pay on top of a good salary with very small hardships compared with those the soldiers had to endure. I can’t understand what the lawmakers at Washington mean by not helping the soldier boys, especially those who are crippled badly for life, or who are not able to earn their own living now and probably never will be. Why don't the lawmakers give the crippled, disabled soldiers the money wanted by the postal employes? As to numbers, those who were in the World War were from two to five millions. The postal people number only from 300,000 to not more than 500,000.

Postal employes have received enough to live well and put by $40.000,000 for pensions for themselves after while. How much did the soldier have to lay by for future pensions? Postal employes l ave their job until they are 65 years old, then they draw from the pension fund. A soldier has nothing of the kind to look forward to for his old age. Every soldier ought to write a personal letter to each of the United States Senators from his State as well as to the Congressman from his district. * SOLDIER SYMPATHIZER.

Tom sims , -/- -/- Says Escaping from a fire, In zero weather, thinly clad, is almost as exciting as emerging unscathed from an oil tangle. In Reading, Pa., a street car ran into a house, so now the company must pay as it leaves. An all-woman jury In Pottsville, Pa . reached a decision, perhaps Just to be contrary, or else just because, A wise mar. never slaps his wife or selects the new wall paper. Shoe dealers, in convention, say men will wear high heels and women low heels some day. But the shoes are on the other feet now. The first thing to take out of the house when starting spring cleaning is all the men. If riches brought happiness bootleggers and many other such people would laugh themselves to death. Among new inventions is a collapsible grip. It acts like a man asking the railroad fare. The Minister’s Slip Most of the gathering at Wednesday night's prayer meeting went but shaking with terror or something, when Rev. Brown announced: "Mies Susanne Nelson will now sing ’Lay Me Down to Sleep,’ accompanied by our new organ-player.”—Arko CS. M.) Bugle.