Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Editor-In-Chief ROT \Y. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BCHRMAN, Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * ‘ Client of the United Press, the NEA Sendee and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos 214-220 W. Maryland St.. Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

TIME FOR SPEED cannot help wondering just how far the Indianapolis city W council intends to go with its investigation of the city id sninist ration. Councilman Otto Ray has made a number of charges against the administration, which have resulted in a' movement for a council inquiry. How much basis there is for the charges remains to be seen. This is campaign year. Mayor Shank is a candidate for Governor. and citizens generally are inclined to .be a bit skeptical They are seeking to learn whether the charges are being made in good faith. Few will contend, however, that the city administration is all that it should be. If the council intends to go through with its inquiry, it should act speedily, as demanded by Mayor Shank Everybody concerned should be called in and allowed to say his say. Nothing should he placed in the way of getting at the bv + tom of things. BACK TN T 1832 who yearn for the old-fashioned day when laws Cx were few and freedom given unrestraint should have lived in Indianapolis in 1832. As government tends to assume more complex functions, varying from the nursing of babies to the growing of shade trees for your lawn, the “just as grandfather did” worshipers set up a lusty howl. But the regulatin' laws have always been wirh us. Witness these restrictions made by our pioneer city fathers after the city became incorporated in 1532: You couldn’t leave a cellar door open to the street without paying asl fine. And cellars didn’t mean so much in that day. Run or gallop a horse down Washington St. and it meant $3. Hence our first speed ordinance to regulate traffic! Fire a pistol or fly a kite? Horrors, no! An ordinance provided a $3 fine for these offenses. And hogs—well; the first ordinance ever adopted provided a tax of 50 cents a head upon all swine running at large. And who would trade 1832 for 1924 with the modern improvements and conveniences for health and happiness?

POLITICIAN PIE RING the sensational process of yanking the lid' off TeaJJ pot Dome there emerged from the nasty mess the interesting figure of Ned McLean, owner and editor of the Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer, intimate friend of Presidents and boon companions of Cabinet members. Senators and other high Government officials. It was Ned McLean who kindly but boldly lied for Fall about that SIOO,OOO. It was Ned McLean who turned over to Daugherty and Jesse Smith one of his numerous houses in Washington. It was Ned McLean to whom President Coolidge wired at Palm Beach asking advice about political appointments. It was Ned McLean who entertained Fall and Presidential Secretary Bascom Slemp at his winter home at Palm Beach. Now comes Editor-Publisher McLean in the role of leader of the Republican party, scolding all Republican Congressmen, accusing them of being either scoundrels or cowards and ordering them to get busy and save the G. O. P. from the rocks. Referring editorially to the charges m&de in Congress against the Administration, Editor McLean says: The leaders are not only defied but insulted, and they take their punishment as if they deserved It * * * It (the Administration) is vilified and the entire Republican organisation brought into contempt. and worse than contempt. It is even charged with protecting criminals and with being itself a participant in enme. , Then follows this savage arraignment of the party leaders in both houses of Congress: What is the matter with the Republican leaders? Can ft be true that they are trembling for fear that further revelations will confirm the truth of what now seem to be infamous calumnies? Or are they craven weaklings who are afraid to stand up for truth and right, because of a selfish desire to keep their own individual names out af the current scandals? One or the other supposition seems to be the truth. Scoundrels or moral cowards—lt is a hard alternate, and the people shrink from Imposing judgment. But the people will not wait forever. Republicans by the millions, whose pride in their party Is a part of their life, are not disposed to tolerate the cowardice of their leaders in Congress when abominable allegations are made attacking the integrity of their party. There is beginning to be widespread belief that there is corruption back of the silence which the leaders fear to face. * * * A presidential campaign is approaching. Through the lack of stalwart and vigilant leadership the Republican party goes into the campaign as if it were a criminal on the wav to execution. Senators who should have defended the Republican party against villainous insinuations are now silent and apologetic, afraid to confess that they are Republicans. Not one of them has done his duty by his party, and all of them know they aro recreant to their party trust. It is not the Republican party that is on trial. It is the leaders who are on trial, but if this venality is established the party crashes to ruin. Let them make good while there is time. As Editor McLean is an intimate frieDd of Attorney General Daugherty, so intimate that McLean loaned one of his homes in Washington rent-free to Daugherty and Jesse Smith, there is reason to assume that his editorial attack on the Republicans in Congress is a threatening message from Daugherty, serving notice that if his old pals in the G. O. P. organization don’t rush to the rescue p. and. q. there will be some bean-spilling from the man the Senators have been trying to get Coolidge to fire. Isn’t that a pretty dish to set before the King, or rather, the President ?

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BLOOD DROP GOES MILE OVER BODY Heart Pumps Life Fluid That Distance Daily Through Arteries, By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz) SHE heart is a thick, muscular pouch of crimson throbbing fibers^ It is about the size of a man’s fist and weighs about half a petnd. It is pear-shaped and situated obliquely, point downward, in the chest cavity, between the lungs. The heart is the pumping station of the body. It beats or throbs regularly at a rate of seventy-two times a minute in a resting man. Increased action upon the part of a man automatically causes the heart to speed up its beat. The heart pumps the, blood around the body. Its function in a certain sense is two fold. First, it pumps the blood into the lungs from where the blood returns to the heart. Then it is pumped out of the heart through the body, returning again as impure blood to be sent through the lungs once more. Divided in Four Chambers The heart is divided into four chambers. The two at the base are called the left and right ventricles. The two at the top, the left and right auricles. The left ventricle pump* the blood through the body. That is. it pumps it into a big artery known as the aorta. From there the blood branches out into smjjller arteries which in turn it enters the very minute blood vessels known as capillaries. From the capillaries it flows into the small veins, then into the big veins, entering the heart by the right auricle. From there it is pumped into the third chamber of the heart, the right ventricle. From here It is pumped into the lungs, returning by the left auricle. It is now read}* to start the whole journey over again. It Ls estimated that each drop of blood travels more than a mile a day through the body. The lungs are elastic masses partially divided by fissures itito divisions known as lobes. The right 1 ng is divided Into three lobes. The left lung into two. Each lung consists of about 3,000,000 little air chambers or sacs bound together by fine connective tissues and honeycombed with nerves and arteries and veins. Enters by Windpipe Air enters the human machine by the nostrils, passing from there through, the windpipe and the bronchial tubes into the lung. The muscles of the chest expand and contract about sixteen times a minute under normal conditions. This causes the air to be Inhaled Into the lungs and expelled again six- 1 teen times a minute. The arteries which enter the lung end In mesh-work of exceptionally fine thin-walled tubes or capillaries. These surround the little air Kaos. The oxygen in the air drawn into the air cells makes its way through the walls of these cells and through the thin walls of these capillaries into the blood. In the same way, the waste product, carbon dioxide, makes its way out of the blood into the air cells and is expelled with each exhalation. Next article in series: The Blood Stream. Animal Facts Lillian E. Evers, North Dakota farm woman, breed a Wild turkeys in addition to growing the eternal wheat. One hen hatched eight birds last June, but being dissatisfied with such a small family, she took them away to an old cornfield and laid seventeen more eggs, meanwhile nursing the first young ones and secreting them from coyote and wolf. Her nest plainly showed that she she sat on the seventeen eggs, she also snuggled up the eight fledgelings alongside them. Finally, she appeared at the hotme doorstep with her twenty-five young turks and she raised them all. Miss Byers made |376 out of that one family. t In the grass under a beautiful tree in the West Indies you will find, in season, bright, luscious looking greon apples, most tempting after a warm walk in the torrid sun. But don't etn touch them with the tip of a finger! They are the “manchlneel apples,” the juice of which the Carib Indians, whom Columbus met on his arrival, used to grease the business ends of their arrows to produce sure death.

Tongue Tips

William Lyon Phelps, educator and uuthor: "There is no rational man. - ' W. H. Barr, National Founders Association: We have begun the 1024 campaign In a way that would indicate It to be in all probability the dirtiest of all campaigns ever waged in the United States.” The Rev. Percy G. Kammerer, Pittsburgh: "Most of the good we do Is probably done unconsciously ” The Rev. C. N. Arbuekle, Newton. Mass: "Man discovers, but never makes any laws; he only obeys them.” Dean Edith Tufts, Wellesley College: “Chief among the faults of the college girls of today are a rather exaggerated individualism and a difficulty in recognizing the duties that dev'-fve upon them as members of a community.” President H. S Pritchett, Carnegie Four dation: “The high school should no longer be the refuge of' mediocrity that we have made it.” Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, New York: “The majority of thinking women got their political opinion# from their husbands."

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Grand Old Man of Methodism Succumbs REV. SETH REED mN youth, his pals ull called him “Death on Stilts.'’ For, as a boy. Rev. Seth Reed was tall and frail. But the "grand old man of Methodism" outlived them all. He wits more than 100 years old when he died in Flint, Mich. And he had been in the best of health until a fall in which he suffered a broken hip a few days before his death. Dr. Reed was one of the founders of the Anti-Saloon League. He never smoked nor drank. He never wore spectacles, either. He was a circuit rider seventy years ago.

DOOM OF G. O. P. SEEN BY RALSTON Picture on Wall of Indiana Solon's Office Portrays Conflict. By HARRT B. HT7NT, NEIA Service Writer. A SHI NOTON, March yjy the wail of Senator Samuel _! Moffett Ralston's office, hung where he faces it as he sits at his big desk, is a freak picture. It shows & great hairy mastodon of prehistoric times, being beset by a host of unclad ahorignes, armed with spears. It is a battle of many against might, with casualties on both sides, for although the beast is frenzied from the spears thrust through his hide, he has whirled one of the natives aloft In his trunk and ls about to dash him to the ground. The picture stir* Ralston’s Imagination. "It represents to mo,” he tells his friends, “the eternal conflict between and Republican*.” In Ralston's Interpretation, the great beast ls the Republican party. Its human antagonists are the I>emocrate. And just as surely os the aborigines brought about the final extinction of the mastodon, Ralston helievpss, I*mocrats will work the ultimate final overthrow of the G. O. P. Anyway, It is on this picture that Ralston gnxee as he meditates whether to enter the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination this year. He already has substantial backing. Family Fun Nothing to Pin To Take, for Instance, the woman who just was haled Into court for picking up the first weapon sho got her hands on, which happened to be a rooster, and striking one of our fellow citizens over the head with it. We never heard of anything Ilk* that in the old days of the hatpin, but now, of course, there Is nothing to pin it to. —Detroit News. Musical Sonny A boy with an unusually large mouth walked into a music shop to buy a mouth organ. He was shown every make of mouth organ In the shop, but still was not satisfied. "Look hero," said the clerk. “Just try your mouth along this piano.”— Laughs, Sound. ■ Ukc Dad The speeding motorist had run down an unfortunate pedestrian. “Hey!" he yelled to hts "While you are under there, look at my new four-wheel brakes. They didn’t work."—American Legion Weekly. A Thought, Tlse hospitality one to another without grudging.—l Pet. 4:9. • • • mT Is not the quantity of meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests that makes the feast.— Clarendon. Did George Washington build Mt. Vernon? No, he Inherited It upon the death of the builder, his half-brother, Lawrence Washington, and his only daughter.

Heard in the Smoking Room

T*' HE engineer, who was having a hard time making his pipe _ draw, offered the next story In the smoker. "When I was building a railroad in Florida, we had a great many foreigners employed. The line of the railroad we were building ran through a swamp and all of the employes were warned about the poisonous snakes, particularly rattlesnakes. They were told how rattlesnakes would coil up, with their rattles uppermost, and alarm & person before

TAKE GAS FOR YOUR BAD COLD Chemical Warfare Service Perfects Cure for Irritating Malady. By HERBERT QUICK mN THE old Steele’s Physiology which I studied away back in the Dark Ages in our country school, there was a quotation Which ha t always clung to my memory. It is this: “For every man who has been killed in battle, thousands have died of ctlds.” I suppose this was true then and, in spite of the butchery in battle since, I suppose H is just as true now. Leprosy, bubonic plague, yellow fever, typhoid—all the diseases we can name, are of less importance than colds. For colds not only kill people, hut they break down powers of resistance and make us helpless victims to the inroads of other diseases. Our Chemical Welfare Service is an outgrowth of the World War and the poison gas warfare. Sprays for Crops Surprisingly, this service has proven Its value for purposes of peace. It has done good work in the way of lev sing sprays for crops and methods of applying them. Now it seems to have done the greatest thing ever done in one process for the health of the world. It has found out how to cure colds by the use of poison gas. Colonel Vedder of the Chemical Warfare Service hits been working on this cold cure for a year or more. By the use of his method 74 per cent of fill cases of cold in the head have been cured, a large percentage of the r-rot were greatly benefited and only one patient in 63 failed to Is?, helped. This looks like a real remedy. In Hollow Balls Tt takes a special machine to administer the gas: but the Chemical Warfare Service is working on the scheme of putting the gas in hollow glass balls which may be broken in the patient’s room—so many balls to so many cubic feet of air. When tills is perfected, everyone may treat his own cold with the remedy of the Chemical Warfare Sendee. Out of destruction cornet h forth healing! The most formidable ailment of humanity is in process of defeat by that military* service which humane people have con deni ned as cruel and murderous! Can you beat that? Or even tie It?

jfello&sfnp ot draper Daily Lenten Bible readins and meditation prepared ter cvmnusnaon on evangelism ot Federal Council of the "Churches of Christ in Auer lev W KPNUSDAT * Wlnnlns ForgtreneM

Read Mt. 6:115. Text: 6:14. For if ye forgive men their tresspasses, your heavenly Father will also foryou. “God’s foregivenes.- involves three things: (1) a wrong done to God by a man: (2) the man's pepentatnee, that ls, the wrong regretted, stopped, end, if possible, made right; (3) a change on the part of God from disapproving to approving love.” MEDITATION: .Teens was continually emphasizing the truth that wv limit our own lives by the attitude vre take toward others. That the quality which we possess, both of forgiveness and hive for others, determines in what measure we shall have the forgiveness and affection of the Father. In many ways we control our own destiny. PERSONAL QUESTION: Is there Rny one who has wronged me and repented whom I do not forgive? PRAYER: Help us to remember, O God, that we are members of a great family. Let us so live In love with all men that thy gracq may enrich the lives of all. Let no life be hindered hy anything we may say or do. Show us thy will and let us do It with joy, through Christ. Amen. (Copright. 1324—F. L. Fagley) Test Yourself Can you sense fine distinctions in relationships between objects and words? If you have the power of discrimination you should be able to do the following test successfully. Directions: Read each question carefully, then go liack and underline the word In the first group of five that is similar to throe words at the end of the question. 1. Which of these five things—tree, skin, apple, seed, ripe—is most like these three: cherry, peach, orange. 2. Which of these five things—bark, air, bite, horse, kennel —is most like these three: dog, sparrow, mosquito. 3. Which of these five things—paddle, train, wheels, fast, drive —is most like these three: airplane, canoe, automobile. 4. Wlfich of these five things—color, weight, apple, strong, eat —ls most like these three: green, bad, small. 5. Which of these five things—cut, wire, copper, black, blade —Is most like these three: stove, knife, penny. ■ Answers: 1. apple; 2. horse; 3. train; 4. strong; 5. wire. (Copyright by Science Service)

they would strike. A rattlesnake might be a shake, but he was that square, at any rate. So, one day, an Italian was eating his lunch on the end of a dead log. A snake crawled out. of the end of the log, coiled up and looked at the Italian. The Italian continued to eat, waiting for the snake to rattle his rattle. The snake struck at the Italian’s leg, just missing him. The Italian jumped, grabbed a stick and killed the snake. " ‘Dare,’ said the Italian, ’you sunna of a gunna, you ?o ringa and belli* ” A

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Smallpox To Ihr Editor of The Timet I would like to say a few wordß in regard to the motion brought up before city council by Mr. Morgan, health commlssionar, concerning smallpox. Four or five years ago when the flu was raging throughout the city and entire country. Mr. Morgan thought of but one thing, and that was to put masks on people so they could breathe the same breath over and over thousands of times a day. People who were well could go In aiui see their neigh Lora who hail had the flu and go back homo and give it to their family, and so on down the Line until most everybody had it. Still the merchants had too much cheesecloth on hands, so in order that they could dispose of it. the people were made to wear masks like bulldogs. Now practically the seme thing exists in the case of smallpox, only there isn't so much cheesecloth on hand right now. so the parents of children are forced to have their children vaccinated or else they are refused an education by being compelled to stay out of school The other morning as I was going to work I saw a man come out of a house. A smallpox sign was on it. This man went to the car line and got on a street car. tt just goes to show how careless people are. Some people may say that man had to make a living for h!s family. What is the matter with the charitable organizations'.' That ls what they are for. I think the quickest way to stamp out this disease is for the doctors to see that when a smallpox sign goes on a house the able persons stay in as well os the sick. Now Mr. Morgan don’t bike the spite out on the children and deprive them of an education In the public schools. If this ls done, take all the echoes and not just the public schools. I would Hke to ask a few of the men who voted In favor of that motion—who pays taxes to keep up the public schools, just those who voted for that motion or the public as a whole? CHARLES TOLER. Old Papers To the Editor of Tne Timet Tt seems at the present time when there is small pox and other diseases and compulsory vaccination has been ordered by the health board in the public schools and some of our factories require employes to be vaccinated that our public school principals are jeopardizing the health of ■the children by requiring them to gather old papers and haul them to school or other designated place. Do the parents realize the dangers to which these teachers are subjecting their children—not the diseases alone, but the danger of being hit by machines, street cars and trains in crossing the tracks with bundles of papers under their arms. Would it not be better to prohibit this than to investigate it after an accident has occurred? All the old papers in the State could not pay a mbther for the loss of a c&ld. W. K. A Young Man’s Unfit “Now that we are engaged, I want you to kiss mother when she comes in.” “Let's break the engagement."— Boston Transcript.

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wX ' / DAILY POIM CASTAWAYS I 1 ””""" N business a necessity: at home they’re needed, too. Just handy L- ■ ..J things that work both night and day at catching useless odds and ends that, very often, you and every other parson cart away. Their secrets? No one knows them, yet a weird and mixed-up tale Their song would b* a love and business lilt. A mixture of discarded things from scribbled notes to mail that, spread, would make a. paper crazy-quilt. “I love you.” and "Sincerely yours,” “Me re mailing you today.’ Such writings are reduced to shredded scraps. They've borne their little messages, are torn and thrown away and only left a memory, perhaps. The bank checks of a month ago and many bills, marked paid; the ads that some one’s peddled at your door, are crumpled rather recklessly and then, at rest aro laid—just castaways, not needed any more. And thus a necessary part waste paper baskets play as home and work life travels to and fro. The secrets buried In the scraps that people throw away are secrets only paper baskets know (Copyright. 1924. NEA Service, Inc.) OM SIMS - -/- Says One real sign of spring Is when you see a firmer trying to get credit at the seed store. New York union elevator operators have been given a raise, which will help In their ups and downs. Do the Teapot Dome fighters expect to get a bonus? There may be real trouble In the air soon. A radio broadcasting station Is being established in Japan. The farmer raises the wheat but the baker gets the dough. To err is human, but to keep it up is foolish. Bergdoll, the draft evader, is willing to return and pay the penalty if they will promise not to make him pay it. Even if your life is an open book there are times when you should turn over anew leaf.

Science

One of the greatest adventures in the history of science will take place next summer, when an attempt will be made to find the supposed island or continent that lies near the North Pole. The proposed trip of the Navy Department dirigible, Shenandoah across the top of the world has aroused great Interest and much discussion. Considerable opposition has developed against this trip. There appears to be no opposition, however, to the plans of Amundsen, who will send three airplanes from Spitzbergen, across the unexplored area. There are a million square miles of unknown Polar sea, directly north of Alaska. It is reasonable to believe that part of this area is land. Such land would be very rich in mineral resources, Contrary to general belief, people would be able to live there.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20,1924

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You can gret an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. 0., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended resesrch be undertaken. AU other quaetions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is meant by still life paintings? This ls a branch of painting devoted to the representation of lifeless objects, such as dead game, fish, household utensils, vases, plate glasses and the like, taken to Include also fruits and flowers. Still life painting I is concerned purely with pictoral ef- | sects like the charm of color and treatment of light and shadow. What was the date of the Lisbon earthquake and how many i lives were lost? In what earthquake were the most lives lost? One thousand seven hundred and j fifty-five. Some 40,000 lives were lost. In the Messina earthquake in 1908 the loss of life from the disaster was officially reported as 77,283, far ex- ! ceeding the number of deaths from any other earthquake of which there is authentic knowledge. What are the chemical contents of orange peel? The skin of the orange contains citronel, citral, turpen-01l and unnamed esters and in addition to these j 6 per cent of pectin, dextrose, xylose ? and galactose. Where was Jackie Coogan bora and in what year? Ifi Newe York, 1916. What is the fortieth wedding anniversary? * This is known as the “Ruby Wedding.” Are the names of any of George Washington’s homes and dogs recorded in his household books? Yes. Some of his horses were: Ajax. Blueskin. Valiant, Magnolia. His dogs ware named: Vulcan, Singer, Ringwood, Sweet • lips, Forest**, Music, Rockvvood and True love. Is the ocean level? If the ocean were calm it would be level, as level ls defined in speaking of points on the earth’s sphere: this means that any point on the surface of the ocean would be equi-distant with every point from center of the earth. What j does “genre” mean In art? A style of painting or other art illustrative of common life as distinguished from the historical, romantic or idealized style. What ls the height es the Venus de Medici? Five feet, three inches. In what language was the Bible originally written? The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the New Testament in Hellenistic: Greek. Do any camphor trees grew in the United States? TANARUS" Yes, some are found In California although the center of their growth is in Florida and adjacent Southern, States, where they have been used aa ornamental and shade treee. In California they are utilized as windbreaks to protect orange groves.