Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1924 — Page 4

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THE PUBLIC’S TREASURY HARDLY under wav yet, that Senate committee investigatmg the internal revenue bureau has already brought to light much that goes on behind the closed shutters of the Treasury. It has heard how one former $5,000 a year clerk of the bureau now makes $75,000 a year representing taxpayers before the bureau. It has heard how another now makes $20,000 a year at the same game. It has heard that these are typical and not unusual cases. It has heard how one company, the Standard Oil of New Jereey, by employing a former bureau clerk, was able to have one tax assessment cut from $23,000,000 to $5,000,000. It has beard enough about other cuts in taxes to learn that this is a typical, and not unusual, case. It has heard how 149 employes of the bureau have been prosecuted for collusion with taxpayers to beat the Government out of taxes, and cases are pending against 597 others. It is hard to understand, in the light of these revelations, why Secretary Mellon and other high officials fought so bitterly against this investigation when it was urged by Senator Couzens. Honest officials and honest employes should have no fear of publicity. Their work would be far easier if they could do it out in the open. If the income tax were levied and collected in the open, there would have been no prosecution for those 149 employes, because publicity is the natural and standing enemy of graft. It is hard to understand why honest corporations and other big tapayers should oppose publicity of income tax returns. Either they owe the taxes levied against them, or they do not. Taxation is not a matter of bargaining between the taxpayers’ representatives and the Treasury officials. It is fixed by Congress. Why should a taxpayer have to pay a huge fee to a third person in order to secure a square deal from the Treasury f He should not. That is a graft. And the simplest, most direct way to wipe out that, and other grafts in the Treasury, is to throw the doors and windows open and let the public see what is going on. It is called the Public Treasury.

NATURAL RIGHTS FOR ARTIFICIAL PERSONS C lOME months ago President Coolidge asked the Federal trade commission to explore the gasoline situation. He wanted to know why, with visible supply abnormally Large and current consumption abnormally small, the price should go up instead of down. The well-known law of supply and demand seemed to be .hitting only on the demand cylinder. Could it be that competing gasoline refiners, if any, had an agreement by which the flow of gasoline to the market was kept down and the price was kept up? The Federal trade commission started out to do the chore for Mr. Coolidge—and then comes a bump from the Supreme Court. In a tobacco case the court held that the commission could not examine the books and papers of a corporation. It had to know exactly what paper It wanted and demand it with accurate description. Os course that is impossible. The net result is thisi v First, Congress, ten years ago, specifically authorized the commission to examine the books and records of corporations engaged in interstate commerce. Second, the President signed that law. Third, scores of times since both the House and Senate end the President have ordered the commission to do this thing and have supplied money for its doing. Fourth, the Supreme Court nullifies the law made by Congress and the President and substitutes one made by the court. Fifth, this is arrived at by investing corporations (the artificial persons created by the State) with the rights and privileges which are guaranteed by the Constitution to natural persons created by God. Sixth, with the law of the land nullified; the hand of the Federal trade commission palsied and the eyes of the executive branch of the Government blinded, anew joyful era opens up before fixers of prices, speculators in food, fuel and other human necessities, and all others who employ the methods of piracy and conspiracy in trade. ‘ SPEAKER GILLETTE went up to Boston to bawl out the Senate as “a school for scandal.” But that doesn’t make the Senate responsible for the scandal. The “readin’, ’ritin’ and ‘rithmetic” was supplied by some members of the Harding Cabinet and their get-rich-quick pals. EVEN Daugherty’s warmest admirers must admit that he had a perfect right to pick his roommate and other buddies, including Jesse Smith, Jap Muma, Ned McLean, et al. But he can have no kick if he is judged by them. Bin AN says the Democratic presidential nominee must > e progressive and dry. W. J. claims to be both.

Palmistry Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find; Occasion once past by, is* bald behind. , —COWLEY.

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‘Dream Child ’ to Be Witness for Wife Charged With Slaying Spouse

IRVING GROSS ANT> HIS WIFE PHOTOGRAPHED IN ONE OF THEIR FEW HAPPY MOMENTS.

By lIORTENSE SAUNDERS NEA Staff Writer EW YORK. March 24—A dream child is a witness In 1... J one of New York's most interesting- criminal cases. A child who never lived, except in the imagination of the woman who craved it. Is the real reason Irving Grose lost his life last December and that his wifs, Essie Gross, is appearing in court charged with having: murdered him. Five years ago the Grosses, both 19. were married. Their romance had its roots back in their childhood and their marriage was an event to which relatives and friends from all sides came to make merry. She Wanted a Family “I married to rear a family,” she told me. “I wanted a baby to IdVe. I expected to have children as all normat women should. Marriage to me without children is not sacred and to avoid them deliberately Is wicked and wrong.” Physically Mrs. Dr ies is essentially what we call the mother type. Short, a trifle heavy, large-featured, and healthy looking. But Irving Gross felt no urge of paternity. Particularly after he accepted a position which brought him Curtis Shares in Sinclair Bank at Tulsa, Okla. Bn Tim*** Special TU ESA, Okla.. March 24*-—-Exam-ination of tax reports of the Exchange National Bank here shows United States Senator Charles Curtis among the stockholders. The Exchange is known a the Sinclair bank. E W. Sinclair, brother of Harry F. Sinclair, head of the Sinclair Oil Company, for many years was president of it. Tax assessor's report for 1917 shows Charles Curtis of Topeka. Kas., as holder of 100 shares. For 1920 he was holder of 225 shares For 1921, 270 aharea; ftw 1922, 270 shares: for 1928, 270 shares. Reports for 1918 and 1919 were not available. The address of Curtis Is given as 226 Senate Office Bldg., Washington, D. G. The holdings of Harry F. Sinclair In 1923 were listed as 300 and of E. W Sinclair, his brother, as 600 shares.

Jfeltotogfjip of ipraper Daily Lenten Bible reading- and meditation prepared for Comnnaeiuu on Kvangeliam of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. MOJOJAY The Way to Boppine

Read Mt. 5:1-18. Text: 5:2-3. And lie taught them. 6aying, Blessed are the poor in spirit. “In beginning the Christian life a man commits himself to candid inquiry. in a spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion, regarding the proper expression of the ideals of Jesus in all phases of modern life. God has put the friendly instinct deep down in the soul of man. The desire to get and give help wells up In every little, child so ready to say, ‘let me help!' It is in every mother's heart." MEDITATION: The characteristics of the Christian which Jesus outlined in the beatitudes are alluring beacons to a higher life. The consciousness of an unsatisfied desire is one of the surest indications that somewhere in God’s universe that desire will be satisfied if we only persevere. Until the human soul enters Into the blessed ness of the Lord it is restless and 111 at ease, for in Him only are we at home. * PERSONAL QUESTION: What does it mean for me to be poor In spirit? PRATER: Our Father, God, we pray that thou mayest control our thoughts and our wills this day. Save us from taking the first enticing path unless it leads to fields of greater service. May we not look for ease, but let holy impulses guide us Into ways at righteousness, through Christ. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—*\ U FsgleyO

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Because the maternal instinct was so strong in Mrs. Gross, the most effective weapon to rouse her anger and resentment was his practice of making fun of all women who were mothers or expected to be, and against all children "1 used to dream of' holding a baby In my arms." Mrs. Gross told me, "and awakened to hear my husband using the most vile epithets against them. Our bitterest quarrels were always about children. Her Dreams Never On me True But things went from bad to worse. Irving Gross took another job so he could spend sixteen hour* a day away from home. Their quarrels became so violent her parents told her she must choose between him and them She chose to remain with him. Then Irving Gross didn’t even want a wife any more. He would Introduce his wife as his sister. More quarrels and unhappiness. All of this is the story of the wife. The other side of the story, told by the dead man’s relatives, is he had to work sixteen hours a day at two jobs to meet his wife's demands for the material things of this wortd. Then last December came the flnal tragedy. The husband was found dead and Mrs. Grose was babbling Incoherent things about the baby she never could have

Science

Elizabeth Mil bank Anderson left $9,000,000 for medical research into the question of how to make people Uve longer. From tills fund three communities, in New York State, were ©quipped with doctors, health experts and la!>oratorles. Everything In the wny of scientific health work is being given these communities. It is expected that the results will tell in the mortality records and the beneficial parts of the work may then be passed on to other places. If this experiment is suooessful, its conclusions probably will be applied by health officers all over the world. Scientists who or© doing research work that may affect the health and lives of millions are notoriously underpaid and are greatly hampered, in many inertanoea, for lock of smell sums to carry on Important experiments. One scientist recently has made important discoveries in vitamlnes. Among other things, it has been learned that there is a strong similarity between the calls of an animal whose food is lacking in a certain vitamlne and the cells of cancer. This work is liable to be stopped for lock of a small fund to pay the expenses.

Family Fun Pity Poor Husband “She thinks it very cruel to keep a live lobster in hot water.’’ "It’s a wonder she wouldn’t have a little pity for her poor husband.’’ — Judge By the Hired “Help" "Well, Katie, you may come to me next week and I’ll give you a trial.’’ “That you’ll not, ma’am. Sure, I had too many trials In my last place.” —Boston Transcript. Daughter’s Elopement "Thank the Lord! We got away safely after all, didn’t we, Jane?" "Yes, dear. And before I forget—here’s dad check for half what we’re saving him on wedding expenses.”— Judge. Mother at Bridge "You trumped my ace!” "T know, dear, but it was the only trump I had.”—Virginia Reel.

Heard in the Smoking Room

the olden days, when i < I horses were in style," said ' * Ia smoker from Cincinnati, "It was the dally custom of one of the belles of Louisville, Ky., to drive forth with her span in all her glory. She had had a certain hostler for years but he could not put up with her erratic disposition or uncertain temper any longer, so he procured another position. She got anew hostler, who was more used to horses than he was to this gorgeous lady) tor, one day, she same forth to go

MAN’S BODY IS COMPLEX MACHINERY It’s Self-Building, Self-Reg-ulating and Self-Repair-ing Engine. By DAVID DIETZ. Science Editor of The Times. Copyright by David Dietz! M'' "l AN. so biologists agree, represents a climax of millions of i___ years of evolution. Accordingly let us survey in detail this most advanced product of evolution. Mans body is the most perfect machine in existence today. It is a selfbuilding machine. It is likewise selfregulating and self repairing. Billions upon billions of cells comprise this complex machine. There are billions of muscle-cells making up the muscles. Billions of nerve ceils make up the nerves. Billions of nervecells build up the bones of the body. Ilullt About Skeleton Let us begin our ‘‘close-up’’ of man with a survey of the central framework or skeleton around which tho human machine is built. Over 200 bones comprise the framework. Twenty-six bones make up the so-called back-bone. There are twentytwo bones in the skull In the upper limbs there are sixty four, in the lower limbs nixty-two. There are twentyfour ribs. Some of the bones, as in the skull, are joined together immovably. But most of them are joined together by complex and clever movable joints. The ends of these bones are covered with th;n cushions of tissue known as gristle, and they are held together by cords of fibrous tissue known as ligaments. Bones are far from the simple structures one might at first imagine them. Their structure is most elaborate and complex. They are composed chiefly of phosphate of lime, carbonate of lime and small quantities of other mineral matter. Thirty per cent of the bone, however, is composed of a gellatin-like substance called cnllagen. The mineral matter gives the bones strength and rigidity. The collagen gives them elasticity and tenacity. Fifled With Tissue Most bonee have a central cylindrical cavity filled with a tissue of fatty cells known a marrow The exterior of the bone is compact in structure, but the interior has a spongy structure. The ends of the bones also have this spongy structure. The spongy structure takes up shock and is so arranged In each bone as to give the greatest ability to withstand strain. A cubic inch of spongy Nine will withstand a pressure of 800 pounds. The compact or dense part of each bone also has a very elaborate structure, being formed of thin parallel plates. This port of the bone is also honey-combed by long round canals. ! Between the parallel plates forming the bones are microscope spindleshaped spaces. These spaces are filled with cells known as the borfe- 1 building cells, for they seci-pt the | mineral matter which forms the bones. In addition to containing these hone-building cells, the hones are also honey-combed with areriee. wins, i nerves and f.bes known as lymphatic*. Next article in series: The Muscles.

T' OM SIMS ! -/- -/- Says

Synthetic cocaine Is the latest in Germany, but they cant make any aynthetlo reparation payments Cost of the bonne MU is set at more than two billions, and they may have to go without a few scandals to pay it. Four aviators ore trying to fly around the world, and spring will make many of us wish we were with them' While our new Secretory of Navy is writing a story for children he will find his Government Job is no child's play. Woman in Birmingham, Ala., fractured he.r hubsand's skull with a monkey wrench, indicating a pistol shortage in Birmingham. If Henry Ford ever gets Muscle Shoals we Intend to say his cheap fertilizer will make the South rich. In Hickman, Ky., workmen found an ancient quart while tearing down an old building, so now no old building there Is safe. Summer is coming and the smoke nuisance will be less, except for the cheap cigars. The annual race between weeds and vegetables is starting soon. Boston man wants divorce because when he asked her how long before supper she said it with flour. Let’s be real quiet about It and maybe this year will slip by without a non-stop dance craze. Sizing Up Baby “Now which of us do you think he is like?” "Well, of course, intelligence has not really dawned in his countenance yet. but he's wonderfully like both of you."—Punch.

riding in a hat with plumes of different colors, a lace scarf of another color, a silk drees of rainbow hues and a parasol of pink with black lace. And. to top it all, her face was enameled in the reddest of rouges. She gave one look at the horses and said: “ ‘These animals need currying, their hoofs are soiled, they have hay in their ears and their tails and manes are quite tangled.’ “ ‘Faith,’ said the new hostler, ‘and Just wait until they gits a gud look mt yorxf "

The Race Is Not Always to the Swift

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Six Tickets To the Editor of Tho Times Concerning increase*.! str.-et car fare— Does the conscience of the street car company ever move It to observe the conditions and circumstances surrounding it or does it ever give thought to business depression caused by weather conditions affecting the small businesses and the responsibilities those have to carry who have no employment and scarcely make ends meet? There are many reasons why an Increase at this time s lould not be allowed. The present stree v car fare is enough Six tickets for 25 cents for the wage earner would be better. ALBERT HEATH More Ford*? To the Editor of The Times Henry Ford will be" tickled to death" if the street car company changes the fare to 7 cents. Nearly' everybody will buy a Ford. S. C. C. iVom a Soldier To the Editor of The Times Twenty-five years ago I landed in the Philippine Islands. We were taken off the transport that same night, and marched directly to the trenches around Manila, where we were engaged in battle the next morning. We kept this up for three long years—three of the worst years of rainy seasons ever experienced in the Philippines. As years go by I can not help but reflect on the way we regulars wore treated by a Republican Congress. What caused me to write to the editor Is this: Congress is about to pass a bill to pension Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Wilson. With all honor and respect for our dead Presidents, It looks as if the Congress shows a big difference in treatment toward the men who serve the flag. Os course, I realise we fellows who fared bullets night and day, and tropical diseases for three years are not to be classed with the Presidents of the United States, but It doesn't look, fair to us for Presidents' widows to be given 86,000 a year to live on, when none of them was poor to begin with. Just to show what Congress did for we soldiers. Our regiment was recruited up In about two months’ time, and Congress knew we would all be discharged in about the same time, so it passed a bill called General Ordei' No. 40, not to pay discharged soldiers any water transportation from Manila to San Francisco. All we boys got that were discharged in Manila was a very small amount to bring us home, and If it had not been for Helen Gould we would not have had enough money to bring us back to where we enlisted. She had the railroad rate® cut for us. If ever a woman will have a star In her crown, she will, for she did for us when Congress would not. She also sent us cots to lay our weary heads on after we hiked through mud and water, otherwise we would have had to lie in the mud. I asked Congress for a pension, but they passed the buck on me, and said they could not give me a pension because I was not in the hospital all the time. I contracted tropical ulcers over there. I am now disabled and can not work hard. I still love my flag, and “long may she wave, o’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave." HARRY LUCAS, 1214 E. Washington St. Former scout and private of Company M, 168th Ind. Vol. Inf.„ Company M. 4th U. S. Inf.

A Thought A fool uttereth all his mind; but a Wise man keepeth It In till afterward. —Prov. 29:11. * • * rjT~Ti E must be a thorough fool who IfH | can learn nothing from his L 1 own folly.—Hare. Mot Ivor's New Fun* ‘Tour new furs are megnifleent. What did they cost you?" "Three fits of hysteria,"— Whi* Baa* J

T x DAUY POEM SMOKE RINGS YOU sit you down and take your pipe and fill it to the brim. You scratch a match to gain a lusty light. You puff away, a moment, say, and then your mind’s In trim to dream. In smoky rings, away the night. A ring will rise, of meager size and float out In the air. And with It goes the thought, “Fve got the stuff. I’ll do my work and never shirk.” The ring fades as you stare. So gently you will take another puff. The ring above—a dream of love — the time will hold Its shape and let you plan and think of future dayß. A dozen faces take their places—ones you can’t escape. And then the smoke ring floats Into a haze. A third ring sent! Accomplishment is running through your brain. The power of getting somewhere in this world. Yet, then it seems, it’s all just dreams, and very little, as in the air the smoke rings are unfurled. Go on and puff; success is rough, but comes, if you will stick to w hat you plan w T hen smoky rings are curled. Though smoke rings die; go on and try: mix good hard work with play, until you’ve woven rings around the world. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Enc.)

Animal Facts | Another strong effort is under way to transplant elk from the dangerously crowded 40,000 herd around Yellowstone to various national parks and forests. Sixty-one moved to Sitgreaves forest, in Arizona, only a few yeans ago, have increased to about 400 head. Your normal body temperature is 98.4 degrees and when the heat gets up to 105 you an© next door to death. But think of the guinea fowl with a normal temperature of 110 degrees! That the peacock Is unlucky Is an old Anglo-Saxon superstition that was handed on to America. The folk story Is that when God created the peacock the seven deadly sins were jealous of its gorgeously colored plumage and complained of Injustice. God was wroth at their nerve and said to them: “You are right; I have been unjust ir. that I bestowed too much on you; deadly sins should be as black as night, who covers them with its veil.” So he took from them the yellow eye of envy, the green eye of jealousy, the red eye of murder, and the rest, and placing them among the peacock’s feathers, let the bird free. Thus deprived of their eyes, the blind sins have been pursuing the peacock ever since, in a.n effort to get back their eyes. So if you have a peacock around the lot, all the seven sins are close at hand, a most unlucky presence.

Tongue Tips Rev. A. Z. Conrad, Boston: ‘‘Let there is no mental reservations in the pulpits. A giental reservation is a trick of the devil.” Dr. Frank P. Graves, commissioner of education. New York: “There are upward of 200,000 of one-room schoolhouses in the United States, illy ventilated, poorly heated and many with rickety windows, and a fair percentage of them were erected forty years ago," Prof. Carleton J. H. Hayes, Columbia University: “Not since the discovery of Columbus has there been a first-class war in Europe in which we were not actively involved.” Dr. Oscar Maurer, New Haven: ‘•More than ninety-nine hundredths of the forces that become vocal are the forces that are protesting against the law. We help along the drift.” Dr. George Macaulay Trevelyan. British historian: “The loss of the revolutionary war In America saved British liberties eg home,"

MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1924

QUESTIONS Ask—The Times ANSWERS Yon can got an answer to any guflv tlon of foot or information by -writing to the Indianapolia Times’ Washington Bureau, 1323 Mew York Aye.. Washington, D. C., inclosing S cent* in si amp for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended reaerroh be undertaken. All other question* will receive a rational reply. Unsigned request* cannot be amwered. AJI letters a re confidential. —Editor. Can scissors be ground at home? Scissors can bo ground on a regular grindstone or emery wheel, and if not too hard may be filed with a smooth flie and rubbed with a fine emery, or oil stone, to get a rezor edge. The angle should be approsLniaiely 70 d-gi-ees. What is a single action engine? One in which work Is done on the piston when it is traveling in one direction only. A double action engine is one in which work is done on the piston when traveling in both directions. Was Alexander Dumas, Pare, a negro? No, a quadroon, his maternal grandmother being a Haytian negress. Kbw can grease spots be removed from carpets and rugs? Rub talcum Into the spots. The powder will absorb the grease or oil. Then run the vacuum cleaner over the powder. What is a caucus? A political meeting held to determine the will of the majority at the party for the purpose of united action in the face of opponents. Is free iodine ever found in nature? No, but it occurs In combination with metals, especially sodium, potassium, or magnesium. It is widely distributed. though the quantity in any one place is small. Tobacco, water-ci-ess. cod liver oil, and sponges contain minute quantities of iodine compounds. Much of the iodine today is secured from deposits of saltpeter In Chill. It is also prepared from seaweed. Kow many postofftoes and postal routes are there In the United States? According to the 1922 statistics, there are 51,947 offices and 464,898 postal routes. What are palindromes? Words spelled the same backward ( or forward. What proportion of the pig iron of the world is produced by the United.Sta.tes? In 1922, the last year for which figures are available. It was 60 per cent. In direct current electricity there is a return wire. Does any current flow in this wire? If so, what becomes of It when it goes back to the generator? Yes. there is electricity In the return wire. The action of the generator is analogous to that of a pump. ft. causes the electricity to flow around the circuit, but doep not change its, quantity, only Its rate of flow, or amperage. „ What is a Leyden jar? A form of condenser for statical electricity, corsisting of a glass Jar or a cylinder, closed at one end and coated inside and out with tin foil nearly to the top. What was the first bird? The archaeopterxy (Jurassic any It was about the size of a crow; It had hard teeth on both Jaws, claws on the thumb and two fingers and it had a long, lizard-like tail. But It hod feathers, proving itself a true MM What were the ancestors of the dpg? There is reason to believe that the domestic dog has risen three times, from throe distinct lines of ancestry, the wolf the jackal and the coyote. Please suggest a few Indian* names suitable for a canoe, giving the English meaning? Kewanuee (wild duck), matawsu (magician), Negaunee (first), Nasheba t.gvay wolf), Onawa fwide Mmkik4Bfeoft hah (tattak