Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1924 — Page 4

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THERE’S A DIFFERENCE rrrj OTIHXG, ” says Thomas Riley Marshall of Indianapolis, IN former Vice President, “undermines representative Government as speedily and more Surely than corruption in high places. • • • Weakness grows as corruption increases. In the end, the Government’s power to resist assault from without or treason from within is destroyed.” . The little, .irresponsible fellow on the soap box raises his more or less weak voice against misuse of a feature or an element in the system of Government, and what happens? Nothing at all, except that this speaker finds himself headed for prison or deportation. He is either a home-grown traitor or an alien enemy—a low brow to be spurned and scourged. - - - ■ - - - - Thu high-up gentleman, a society prince, a trusted official, a representative citizen, can lie and steal and bribe and employ, prill to defeat the orderly, lawful processes of Government, and what happens? Nothing much, save a brief period of annoyance. There is never threat of deportation. Only incidentally is there suggestion that a brief and soft prison term would be appropriate, but it is employed infrequently. . j The high-up gentleman is a thousand times greater enemy, of representative government than the little soap box fellow and he is a thousand times more destructive and more to be feared ; Indeed, he is the greatest menace we know. But we are indiffer- I ent to his deviltry in private, although we bellow emptily against him in the open. Never do we do the thing that will make him and his kind know and feel the heavy penalty that his treachery and betrayal earn. When it comes to gnats, we strain mightily. Beyond that, j we are pitiably ineffective. It is wonderful that our Government lives in spite of us. WITH DAUGHERTY ON THE JOB SHE law, quite properly, throws many safeguards around the liberty and rights of an individual accused of crime, j Once he is accused, all the power of the Government, whether . national or State, is against him. The prosecutor is aided by the police and all other machinery of the law. Attorney General Daugherty is in no such position in the present investigation of him and his department by the Senate. He is the accused, but is in full control of all the machinery of the law, including not only his assistants and all United States district attorneys and marshals, but the secret service of the, - United States. ~ The Senate, through the Brookhart committee, has only its -own authority and power. It has had no help at all from the •executive branch of the Government. Quite naturally the com.jnittee could expect no help from the Attorney General's department. or from the secret service, under William J. Burns, who got _his job through Daugherty. - • So the committee was justified in refusing to permit Daughterly’s lawyers to handle the investigation as a criminal trial, in J-refusing bo let Daugherty’s lawyers know in advance \irtiat witnesses were to be subpoenaed at the risk of having all of the machinery of the Department of Justice being used, possibly, to athwart the purposes of the investigation. Even as it. is, some witnesses, knowing that Daugherty, is „'still Attorney General and Burns still in command of the secret are very reluctant to tell what they know for fear of reprisals at the hands of the powerful Department of Justice and ;its secret service. T Instead of helping the Senate get at the truth, President ”Coolidge has made it mighty difficult by leaving the accused in 'full control of the machinery of the law, even\,against the advice of the most reactionary leaders of the Senate. , WHATEVER oil may do to troubled waters, it certainly -makes hot water unpleasantly turbulent. -f * . MEXICANS continue to east their bullets for their favorite candidates. THEM that poison liquor doesn’t get, the prohibition agent gunners may. What chance has a man, anyway? SENATOR WATSON’S complaint that Congress has passed nothing after two months of session is a mistake. It has p >sscd the time. A DES MOINES bandit who risked his life only to find he had stolen $500,000 worth of canceled checks had wonderful selfcontrol. Otherwise, his language would have exposed him. CHARLIE DAWES certainly has lost prestige since he went to Europe. His language is as denatured as that of a diplomat and all the time we were depending on him to keep far away from that stuff. MUST amuse Ohioans to remember what Senators Willis and . Eess said about Brother Pomerene in the 1922 campaign, when they read the glowing compliments both paid Pomerene when he was confirmed by the Senate for oil counsel. When was the t ,tnith —in 1922 or in 1924?

Are you a mah Jongg fan? If not, you soon Will be. The disease Is as prevalent as radloitls, and this fascinating Chinese game has taken hold of the American public With a vengeance. But there are a lot of hard things in the rules of the jgame that are d.fficult to understand unless simply and clearly explained. Our Washington Bureau has a

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Romances Ended by Slayer

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Death has ended • the stormy marital career of Dr. Zoe Z. Wilkins. Kansas City (Mo.) woman physician. The body of the wealthy divorcee, who six times had figured in matrimonial .ventures, was found

M’NARY BILL 'IS ‘SOP’ TO FARMERS Quick Says Measure Will Not Provide Relief as Promised, By HERBERT QUICK SHE McNary-Haugtn. bill in both Houses of Congress Is a sop to the farmer vote, and. would never be suggested seriously except that an election is impending. It seeks to convince the farmers it will give them in prices the same returns for their crops in comparison with other prices they got from 19t)5 to 1914. . It establishes in Washington an Agricultural Export Commission And an Agricultural Exjtort Corporation to handle the crops which axe controlled In price by the fact we have a surplus which has to go on the foreign market, eo far as those crops are produced by a large voting population. Fundamentally, it proposes to dump on the foreign markets any surplus we have at any price which the authorities can get, and raise the price at home to the average . ratio with other price* which obtained from 11)1)5 to 1814. Products I>eft Out But it covers nothing which the farmer sells except wheat, corn, raw cotton, wool, cattle,, sheep and swine, and then only while the domestic price Is deteimined by the world. It leaves out every other product. It might as well leave raw cotton out, since the boll weevil vlll see to It cotton is never lower as to other commodities than . ratio of 19051914 It leaves out-all our fruit crops, probably because fruit producers have fewer vote* Yet. no producers are In worse condition .than the apple growers, or moro dependent on tho foreign market, or more plagued by a surplus. If It works, it will act. affirmatively in the direction. of forcing farmers to specialize in wheat, corn, cattle, sheep and hogs. It will offer a premium. If It works. In favor of just those things. It will be a powerful antldiversiflcntlon medicine. And yet diversification Is 1 what the farmer should practice. Advantage to Foreigners This law will' give foreign countries American food cheaper than Americans can buy th’em. This will be an advantage to all foreign countries in competition with us. 'While It tries to avoid killing off cooperation among American farmers, it takes away ail the advantage* of cooperation,, and thus will kill off the most hopeful movement \ve have. It Is, In my opinion, a thoroughly bogus pleasure. If it works, It will put the farmer helplessly in the hands of the Government and take his affairs out of his own hands.

Animal Facts

Molile, fine Duroc .sow.pf R. Groth, near Lincoln, Neb., was some proud when she presented the barnyard with a litter of fourteen jolly little piggies weighing about a pound and a. half apiece. Seven and a half months later the fourteen weighed 4,570 pounds. Whereupon they all went to market. Groth kept the feed trough welj filled and gave the ,pigs . every, chance to make good hogs of themselves. The “Tiger snake” qf Australia Is always spoiling for a fight. with man, but a mouse has killed -hltti. Brofea--„sor McCoy,' herpetlogisf-, put ; ia. Jive mouse in a cage with qnq of tike varmints. Before the taster could get into actiop the mouse darted up his body and bit him in tle IVftck of the heck fataljy. Then the midget, codlly proceeded'to eat some Os the flesh.

Ask Me A^ain Their boat- was drifting idjy, the sun shone iabove and the sea was serene: while she was sitting snugly. Then'he proposed. From the opposite end of the craft she- gazed at him'calmly. Then she said: “Asa matter of common sense, realizing that wo are In boat, on water more than fifty feet deep, and if you wejje going to act as you should act if I acc’epC yhu, we would he“gapsized. I will decline yOur proposal 1 at rhis mom George, row as fast aa you can to the store Mid ask me again. '*■*—Boston Globe.

DR. ZOE Z. WILKINS

in her home when the landlord dropped around to collect the rent. She had been murdered several days before. Police have been unable to ascribe a motive. Several, who had access to her home, are being questioned.’

Tom sims -!- -/- Says

In Lancaster, Ohio, a man left $16,040 to the United States because he liked the Government. The really strange part Is he was a farmer. I’resident of University of Maryland may have his pay cut, perhaps because he makes enough to live on. Man in Baltimore has been arrested six times by the same cop. Buch a habit mast be nerve wracking. Forgetting Is a virtue If you are wise In selecting what to forget. There are 544.671 United States employee, w r hlch Is a lot of people to be suspected In one oil deal. Miss Affleck of Winchester, Va., hasn’t missed Sunday School in thirty years, ho. of course, she doesn’t play golf. The only reliable substitute for good sense Is silence. Lizard skins will be used in men’s spring footwear, which, of oourae, 1 will be worn by lounge lizards w/ f X DAtLY POEM CURIOSITIES ■"'"IVY, what has become of the grind organ man who ground out hie tln-panny tune? And where is the monk who amused you when you were a kid? There once waa the day when you gleefully ran to greet this duet, every June. But you don't see them now as, so ! often, you formerly did. And where is the buggy and finely combed horse that mother and dad used to drive, the famed one-horse shay and the rickety, Blow moving hack? Just relics of old that have traveled their course and In mem’ry are barely alive They’ve been here and gone and we know they will never come back. Recall from the bygones the old hitching post that stood In the center of town, with crude little carvings and iron rings that hung on the side. And where are the slates of which kiddies would boast and the curfew that gained much renown? Through progress these relics of old days have gradually died. How true is the saying, the world moves along, hoe quickly the changes are Worn. We have—and give up—and there’s nothing that seems here to stay. What’s pticelesß today we will sell for a sonr and shortly | we hold it in scorn. Now what would j YOU guess will be missing ten years i from today? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ino.)

Test Yourself

If you have Inventive ability, you should be able to turn one letter of the alphabet into another. Try this simple tept and see whether you can. , Three small letters can be made out of each of the letters given below, with or without the addition of straight or very slightly curved lines or change of position. The letters given can be placed in any position and usted Any number of times. Ready I Go! 1. n J 2. v ’ 3. o Answers: 1, m u h; 2, x y w; 8, and b p.

Heard in the Smoking Room

“I—. | OLAN,” said a smoker, hadn’t I'll I been over from Cork long L- I before he, naturally, found himself one of New York's finest. He was a quiet, sincere sort of a patrolman, . and, one night, when he came in off his beat Captain Doyle asked him what was doing. " ‘Nothin’ at all, at all, for five days Ull today when a horse was killed over on Koshiusko Strata.’ ” ‘Not alarm ih*f,’ said the Captain,

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EVOLUTION IS SURVIVAL OF FITTEST Inheritance and Variation Theories Were Preached by Darwin. By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times Copyright by David Dietz HARLES DARWIN arrived at his theory of how evolution u.n i worked in 1858. He called It the theory of “natural selection.” It Is interesting to note that Alfred Ruascdl Wallace independently arrived at the same theory in the same year. Darwin published his “Origin of the Species” in 1859. According to this theory, there are a great many more creatures bora than there are room for on earth. Accordingly, there is a struggle for existence. Darwin noticed while there is inheritance at work, the force which tends to make offspring , resaqable their parents, there is also a second force at work This force tends to make for individuality. It makes offspring vary from their parents so no two creatures are ever exactly alike in every detail. This second force Is called variation. Weaker Died Off Asa result, Darwin believed that in the struggle for existence there was a "survival of the fittest.” That Is. for example, in cold climates the animals with the heaviest coats of hair tended to live while the others died off. Through inheritance the animal which survived passed on their characteristics to their offspring. In this way. Darwin believed, new tvpes of creatures were gradually evolved through the course of ages. The whole process, Darwin called natural selection.” The term "Darwinism” is fre- i quently heard today. But, unfortu- ! nately. it Is used in a conflicting j way. Sometimes it is used to mean | evolution. At other times It is used to mean the theory of natural selec- j tion. Darwinism, meaning evolution, is more strongly entrenched. Many biologists believe today the ! theory of natural selection Is not j sufficient to explain the whole process 1 of evolution, and that other factors deserve more attention than Darwin : gave them. Freaks Are Produced It has been pointed out. in addition j to ordinary variations In offspring, there are often great marked changes. Bocnlled freaks are produced. The scientific name given these large changes to distinguish them from ordinary variations is “mutations.” According to the school of thought founded by Prof Hugo De Vries, these mutations are responsible for the rise of new species. The world of science Is also beginning to know more about the way in whloh inheritance works Our knowledge of how heredity works began with the experiments of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian abbot, who carried on his experiments at a monastery, j publishing the results In 1865. But j the full significance of hiß work was not realized until the present century. Expansion of his work, notably by Prof. August Weisnmnn, a German biologist, who died in 1914, tends ‘.o show heredity is governed by minute structures called chromosomes In the germ-cells from which the oganism grows. Next article in series: A Close-up of Man.

Family Fun

\ Slip-up by Dad "Your cousin says you've been telling him about my affairs.” "That’s not true." "But he says you have.” “There you go again. It's just like you, always more ready to believe other people’s lies than mine."—Boston Transcript. In the Kitchen "What was that —er—scuffling in the kitchen a short while ago, Jane?” “Why, sir. that was the cop tryin' to kiss me.” "Aha! And you forcibly objected?” "I didn’t, sir, but the letter carrier did."—Judge. One for Mother “Bobby, you must not crack nuts with your teeth.” "No kinda nuts at all?” ‘‘No.” “Say, mother, how about a doughnut?” —Youngstown Telegram.

Science

Science has discovered many interesting facts about ants and is continually adding to its store of knowledge of this Intelligent insect. The c ueen ant, liqe the queen bee, has no duty to perform in the colony other than to lay eggs. She has a separate living apartment for herself and Is cleaned and fed by the workerants, who also act as nurses for the young. A3 soon as the eggs are laid the workers carry them off to the nursei'ies. There they are carefully watchod and kept at an even temperature until hatched. The nurses then carry them out into the air, it the weather is fine, bringing them in again, later, to be fed. Some authorities believe that, next to man, the ant is the most Intelligent of all living creatures. In many respects ants have solved social problems toward which man is working, but which he has not yet achieved. Ants work for the well-being of the community and individual selfishness apparently has no place in their lives.

‘but you’d better write out some sort of report on it, to show yer alive anpyhow.’ “In a few minutes Patrolman Dolan returned from a side room and handed his captain a report to read. “ ‘l’m reading here,’ said Captain Doyle, ’that a horse was killed on Adams St. . You told me Koshiusko.’ ‘Sure,’ said Dolan, ‘but I knows I couldn't apell Koshiusko and so I drags the horse over on Adams strata-

SULLIVAN FOLKS EXCITED OVER HAYS’ SUBPOENAE Maybe We’ll Find Out What Will’s Income Is, Think Home Town Neighbors of Movie Czar,

Bu Timet Special [ ULLIVAN, Ind., March 22. I j Folks In Sullivan, Will Hays’ 1. 1 home town, are excited because Will has been subpoenaed by the Teapot Dome committee In Washington ,to tell whether or not he bought and sold Sinclair Consolidated OH stocks. "Now maybe we’ll find out what Will’s income is!” his former neighbors say. That Will Hays’ salary has been a moot question in Sullivan, ever since Will left the Cabinet and joined the movies Some Sullivan folks, who knew Will when he wore knee pants, say Will gets a salary of a quarter a million a year from the movies, which is about

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Where’s Bonus? To the of The Timee I wonder how much longer the Government wants the soldiers to wait for their bonus? I notice if a bonus is passed to former presidents' widows or some of the millionaires they don’t have to wait twenty years to get it. or until they are grayheaded. We have two children and had counted on a bonus to help pay on our future home, but I am afraid our patience will wear through before we get. it now. I don’t blame our soldiers fir not wanting to beg alms. They didn’t have to beg when America called them. Let the Government pay them what they owe them. EX-SOLDIER’S WIFE. Dogs’ Friend To the Editor of The Timet Dogs are our faithful friends. I am a widow and must work every day, but if I could get one of the poor dogs at the dog pound without such expense as $2 at the pound, $3 assessor’s fee and $2 for city tag, I would be glad to have one for my two children. It seems the rich can have everything, but a poor woman’s’ children not even a pet dog. I work at a restaurant. The food would cost noth Ing. LILLIAN MAY PATTON. Teapot Dome To the Editor of The Timet The Teapot Dome is the latest fad. People are going Teapot mad. At first old King Tut had the stage. Then Mah Jongg was all the rage. Now Teapot Dome is all you hear, Here and there, yes, far and near, Teapot earrings are worn by our girls. The next thing to have are Teapot curls. i The Teapot haircuts are very fine. But give me the same old way for mine. Teapot chairs are yet to be made. Teapot rugs are yet to be laid. But sooner or later, they’ll have them all, Even to Teapot spring and Teapot fall. Who started the fad? We wish to ask. Whoever he was, he had a task. But we’d like to know just one thing more, How much tea does this Teapot pour? Your fancy Teapots may be sublime. But give me the same old kind for mine. i Is it a Government matter or what? We’ve heard, yes, quite a lot, About this Teapot Dome. At business, pleasure and at home. But never could we just find out What the whole thing really Is about. Please try to give an answer clear. Os the question we have asked you here. MARY ROBBINS, 1051 W. Thirtieth St

‘Helping’ Him Shoot Straight

ten times as much as any other son of Sullivan ever made in a year. Others say It’s only “a hundred thousand a year” as the papers had It, and some say it can’t be that much. Will, when he drops off between New York and Hollywood for a Sunday with the home folks, laughs and says reports are greatly exaggerated by the movie publicity agents. Will Only laughs Will Hays’ wife, who is an invalid, stays herb most of the time. Likewise, his brother, Hinkle, who is the other Hays in the law firm of Hays & Hays. Prosperity has smiled on Hinkle, too, lately, judging by the new $90,000 house he is building. It is almost finished, quite the finest place In Sullivan. Blinds alone cost $1,500, and the furnishings ordered for tho place are of the best. “Hinkle Hays’ hundred and fifty thousand dollar home” Is what folks call the new mansion. Os Modest Means The Hays brothers and their law partners, of whom there are six, Including Will and Hinkle, have been folks of very modest circumstances, at least, until quite recently. The father of the Hays boys died about five years ago, having accumulated during his lifetime an estate valued at SIOO,OOO. That was considered a r'.ght fine fortune in Sullivan, but folks here exclaim, “Will makes that much and more every year!” Before his spectacular plunge Into national affairs as director of the Republican campaign in 1920 Will Hays held a number of local and State offices. He entered politics when he was 21 as a precinct committeeman. He is an elder in Presbyterian Church and quite a figure in the Sunday school movement.

Jfellotostjip ot draper Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for commission on evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. SATURDAY The Wayward Heart

Read Mt. 18:23-35. Text: 18:35. So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts. “God and man are by their very natures meant for each other. A bad man is a man who works against, instead of with, a good God. He fails to fall in with God in the mighty, subtle push of God's will for an honest and friendly world.. Since the point of God’s impact is in the depths of the man’s being, in his heart, it is in his heart that resistance is made and the badness centers.” MEDITATION: God has not put upon us the responsibility of judging our brethren. Yet we realize that the things of men ofttlmea do grieve the heart of God because thoy injure some of his other cnildren. A wrong done one person by another brings the deepest anguish to the human soul. Evil deeds done to others are the results of an evil heart—a heart set at cross purposes to the loving will of God. PERSONAL QUESTION: Am I indifferent at the waywardness of another? PRAYER. Almighty God, strengthen us that we may be used of thy spirit to turn many into thy ways. Let us feel the burdens and the soriow r s of thy children that we may be intercessors at the throne of grace. Give us power through calm confidence in thee, In Christ’s name. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley)

A Thought

Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.—Prov. 24-28. j— —i * * # IfT ALSEHOOD Is so easy, truth Li_J so difficult,—George Eliot.

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What Is a good foot bath for swollen feet? Half-pound of Epsom salts dissolved In hot water. What are lightest and heaviest woods? Balsa Is the lightest wood and quebracho the heaviest. What was the name of the American soldier who, during tho Spanish-Amerlcan War Inspired the famous book. “Message to Garcia?” ia. Androw S. Rowan, now lieutenant colonel of the United States Army. What 1b the description of the Saint Bernard dog? It is the largest domestic dog, often nearly three feet high at the shoulder, and 150 pounds ' a weight. The color may be black, if. or white In welldefined patches. What kind of acid do lemons contain? Citric acid. Has there ever been a negro woman lawyer in the United States? Yes, the first was Charlotte Ray, who graduated from Howard University, Washington, D. C-, in 18.72, What were some of the features of the Golden House of Nero? A bronze statue of Nero 120 feet in height, a portico 300 feet long, a banquet hall with a revolving celling of carved Ivory representing the firmaments; In other halls the ceilings dropped perfumes and flowers on the guests. The walls were encrusted with rare marbles, mosaics, mothor-of-pearl, precious stones and paintings. What Is a trade wind? A trade wind is a wind blowing more or less steadily toward the thermal equator and deflected westwardly by the eastward rotation of the earth. Such finds are primarily produced by the upward current of heated air at the equator, and vary considerably in .heir position and in their direction, ■according to th eseason of the year and the influence of the surface of the land in different regions. They are steadfast In the southern hemisphere. Are watermelons classed as a fruit or as a vegetable? The United States Department of Agriculture olasses them as a vegetable. Os what church was the poet Longfellow a member? The Unitarian. Who was Kate Barlass? This sobriquet was given to Catherine Douglass. When King James I of Scotland was pursued by conspirators he sought refuge in the Block Friars’ monastery at Perth. To keep out the murderers, Catherine thrust her arm through the door staples. The door was forced, Catherine fell back with a shattered arm, and the Kin* was murdered In the sanctuary where he had taken refuge. Who wrote the poem with a line in it “A rag and a bone and a hank of hair?” Rudyard Kipling; the name of the poem is “The Vampire.”

Wrong Address Mail to following persons has been returned to The Times. If a better address is furnished us, mail wifi be forwarded: Indianapolis—Mr. O. D. Maurer, 601 Kyan; Henry F. Summers, R. 2; Thelma A. Vawter, 805 Fletcher: Keo. J. Conbeer, Park Ave.; L. J. Van De Benken, 909 N. East St.; C. L. Cleveland. 1319 Blain Ave.; Mack W. Plemmons, 249 St. Helena Ave., St. Helena, Ind. ■ - -