Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1924 — Page 4

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IS THE FARMER GIVING UP? EIERBERT QUICK, who is well known to the readers of tins I paper through his special articles, has published anew work, “The Real Trouble With the Farmers” (Bobbs-Merrill Company), which will interest Indianapolis folks as well as Hoosier farmers. Quick’s book doesn’t stop with a discussion of the farre.’s plight today. It goes deeper than that, to study the very foundation of our democratic civilization, which Quick says is built on agriculture. If the farmers give up, and go to the cities, he points out. our civilization must come down or be rebuilt on other lines. “The farm is not merely a home—a place to live,” Qui i: says. “It is the very source of life. When it is lost, the family sinks to the lowest place in our national economy.” The yoimger generation, which refuses to go on with farm life of unrequited toil, is going “into the world of city life, taking from the rural population the best minds it owns, and leaving the remainder to that extent intellectually and spiritually impoverished,” he warns, and adds: “We need not think that this is anything new in history. It is as old as ancient Egypt and the cities of the Mesopotamian plain. “Where the people who dwell on the land are condemned to unrequited toil it is merely a matter of years when the whole state will find its foundations sapped, and will fall in ruin. “In a centralized state like ours, this destruction comes from the rushing of the dispossessed and unrequited to the cities. The farmers suffer first, then the small towns go down, then the larger cities decay, and the over-swollen centers of population deprived of nourishment and with lost markets, fall into the hands of a mobocracy of impoverished and idle people,*and the state passes into something else.” Quick has been studying this farmer question for a lifetime. He is a practical, working farmer himself. He has given much thought to the question of population and government. Hence, when he warns that our democratic civilization is in danger of being engulfed in the great ditch of oblivion, it is time that city folks gave more thought to this problem of saving the farmers

POINCARE, THE FOX mHE resignation of Premier Poincare of France had no bearing whatsoever on French politics. It was merely an adroit political maneuver, well known in European countries, to strengthen his position. By resigning Poincare was able to get rid of any one he had in his cabinet, now over two years old, and recast it to conform to present requirements. Poincare is certainly one of the ablest, if not 6 the ablest, statesman in France today. His resignation, the result of a little dirty work at the crossroads while he was absent from the Chamber of Deputies, scared about two-thirds of the politicians stiff. With nobody to replace him, the very last thing in the world they wanted him to do was to go. So by resigning he scared off a lot of critics who, without anything constructive of their own to offer, had hindered him immensely by yipping at his heels. Another thing, after he had forced drastic tax and other national economy measures through Senate and Chamber, and flogged Parliament into granting the cabinet power to institute further reforms by edict instead of law, his opponents called him “dictator.” “It’s not for me that I ask this power,” he had flung back at them, “but that France in her hour of crisis, might act instead of talk. If you want to put this power in the hands of another, why do it, and welcome.” His resignation took the wind out of the “dictator” charge. Lastly, his going gave little old human nature a chance to get in her work. The moment the fighting Frenchman put on his hat to go, everybody wanted him to stay, more than ever before, from President Millerand down. Thus his influence will be stronger than ever. Foxy Poincare. SOME editors go to jail for contempt for saying too much, but Harry Sinclair stands a chance of landing in jail for contempt for not saying enough. REPUBLICAN chiefs justify Denby’s oil leases now by pointing out that Daniels, a Democrat, leased oil lands. But Daniels didn’t call in an “Alkali Al” to do the deal in secret. UNITED STATES public health service experts are testing the air in the halls of Congress for gas. Might be more appropriate to test the gas for air. FRANK VANDERLIP says he is going to devote his life to being a watchdog over the Government in Washington. Fine, if Frank isn’t one of these barking dogs that won’t bite. WASN’T it too bad that the Democrats didn't think to nail down to the floor in the office of the Secretary of the Interior that Jacobean furniture and the rare Turkish rug which “Alkali Al” sold himself for his ranch in New Mexico!

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MARSHALL’S VIE WPOINT SOUND ONE Former Vice President Says Attorney General's Office Don't Belong in Cabinet. By HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer rrrri ASHINGTON. March 28. Thomas Riley Marshall of In_L_J dikna, who is still hoping for the return of good 5-cent cigars, is one of the few individuals in Washington who view the current governmental scandals constructively. Tom always has been pretty much of a philosopher. The fact that he maintained his sense of humor through two terms as vice president should be sufficient proof of that. The office of attorney general, Marshall suggests, should be attached to the judicial branch of the Government, not the executive. Asa Cabinet job, it is too close to partisan politics, he thinks. Whereas it should be purely legal in character, unaffected by political changes, it has been made a cog in the partisan ma chinery of the Administration in power. “Today,” Marshall says, "public opinion holds that the Attorney General's’ office is a political annex to the Administration. That was the view not only under the present Administration but under Wilson and Harding. ‘ln my opinion, the office ought to be taken out of the Cabinet and made a part of the legal machinery of the Government, with tenure of office having no relation to party rule.”

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Read Mt. 7:7-21. Text: 7:12. All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also u/?to them. “God seems to have ordained that help shall often pass from himself to a man in need through another man, in order that in this way brotherhood may be built up in the world and men be bound together in a world unity. Being saved through 'believing on Jesus Christ' involves also the vital righting of all solcal relationships, because in Jeaus Christ is expressed God’s great passion for a truly social life.'' MEDITATION: Building the broth erhood is building the Kingdom of God. This is where life counts most. To be worthy of being built into the brotherhood we must be unselfish. This is the teat of our value. Not what a man is worth to himself, but to others, determines whether or not he is worth saying. PERSONAL QUESTION. How far is my life governed by the Golden Rule? PRAYER: Our Heavenly Father, we pray that our lives may he more fruitful in good-will ard charity. May we not go as pilgrims of a lonely way, hut as a glad company of children of the light. .May thy kingdom not seem unreal and far away, but may we together with all thy children, be partakers of thy spirit and sharers of thy grace, through Christ. Amen. • (Copyright, 1924, F. L. Fagley) sS r X DAILY POEA\ A Nation’s Tonic S HERE’S much too much of soberness within this world of ours. There’s much too much of dreariness and sad. With every rain of solemn come the melancholy showers. And why, when folks can just as well be glad? The man who wears a grouchy look will have a bad effect on every one whom he may chance to see. You’d rather dodge than greet him, e’er your spirit, too, is wrecked, for sourness is as catching as can be. Let’s look upon a dready day; the sky is overcast as spooky clouds go drifting slowly by. You'd rather have the sunshine and you’re glad when clouds have passed. Bright things are much more pleasing to the eye. Well, you yourself are Just a cloud that hides away the cheer, whene'er you travel hand in hand with gloom. 'Tls better, far, whoe’er you are, to shun the scowl and sneer. Send crabblness and sourness to their doom. Just let your optics sparkle and be cheerful; 'at a boy. Your friends will mock and show appreciation. A smile, so Mister Webster says, suggests good-will and joy. What better tonic is there for a nation? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

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Danger of Death "Why do you fear your father will never give his consent to our marriage?” "I was thinking, dearest, that if you approach him with as much deliberation as you exhibited in declaring yourself to me, he will be in danger of dying of old age before you come to the point.”—Boston Transcript. One for the Doctor “Dear me! You have had three glasses of beer daily? I only allowed you one!” “It’s all right, doctor. You’re the third medical man I've consulted, and they each allow me one glass, so that makes it right, you see.”—London Humorist. From the Family Bible “Lemme see, it was Lot’s wife that turned to salt, wasn’t it?” ‘‘Yes, but she first turned to rubber.” —Youngstown Telegram. Little Willie’s Tears ‘‘Why are you crying, my boy?” ‘‘l was out by the lake fishing.” “And didn’t' you get anything?” “Yes, when I got home.”—Detroit News.

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MISS FLORENCE M. FOLEY Mi ISS FLORENCE M, POLEY of Cleveland, Ohio, the first woman to be elected a member of the American Association of Engineers, is civil engineer with the Nickel Plate railroad. “It's a job where you’ve got to be able to solve stiff trigonometry problems ami be familiar with carpentry, plumbing, heating and masonry,” says she. And she is very able. QUESTIONS Ask The Times answers You can ifrt an answer to any question ol fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis limes' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamp* for reply. Medical, kgs: and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended reserrch be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letter* are confidential.—Editor. What race of people were the Carthaginians? They are believed to have been a mixture of the Phoenicians (who were a Semitic people) and the Libyans. When does a body cease to feel the pull of the earth's gravity? At a distance of about 215,000 miles from the earth's surface. What Is the increase of the temperature of the earth aa one digs down? About one degree Fahrenheit for every 60 to 80 feet of descent. When and where was George Washington inaugurated? For the first time In New York Oty, April 30. 1789; for the second time, in Philadelphia, Pa.. March 4, 1793. From whom did Jefferson get his ideas for the Declaration of Independence? The American Encyclopedia is authority for the statement that he got them from Locke. What Is a light year? A term to express the amount of space traversed by a ray of light in one year which travels at the rate of about 18-1,600 miles per second. It 's employed as the unit in stating the distances of the stars For example, the Pole Star is 45 light years distant. How did the expression “Dago" originate? This meant, originally, a person speaking Spanish or Portuguese by extension —an individual of the Latin or Greek race. The expression probably originated in this way: In Spanish America “Santiago,” “San Diego,” “Iago” and “Doigo” are such frequently recurring vocables that the "Yankee sailors" began to call the natives of these countries Dago men—or Diegos. What are clouds? They are composed of minute particles of liquid water ’or ice, a sort of water dust.. Unless Itorn up by a rising current. they settle slowly through the air. but on reaching a stratum of unsaturated air again evaporate. Clouds, generally speaking, are the condensation of water vapor in the air, when near the earth It is called fog, at higher altitudes, clouds. What is Agar-agar? Dried seaweed of several species, much used for soups and Chinese dishes. What causes crickets to chirp? The chirping of crickets is produced by rubbing a file-like ridge of one wing over a scraping surface of the other. Who was .Tec.nie Deans? A character in Scott's “The Heart of Midlothian.” Her half-sister Effle has been sentenced to death for the murder of her illegitimate child (though she Is really innocent) and Jeanle walks from Edinburgh to Lon don to save her life by pleading with Queen Caroline, in which mission she Is successful.

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HUMAN BODY NEEDS FUEL AS MACHINE Digestive System Is Apparatus Through Which It Is Supplied, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times Copyright by David Dietz trrT] HE human machine must be I supplied with fuel if it is to J be kept running. Plants, it will be remembered, are able to absorb chemical salts directly out of the soil or water. Animals, including man, can take their food only in the form of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. This means that they must eat plants or other animals. The digestive system deals with the food. It takes the highly complex foods which are eaten and breaks them down into simple products which can be absorbed by the blood-stream and carried through the body by it. It is interesting to note that each organ or kind of tissue absorbs from the blood-stream only the particular nourishment it needs. The digestive apparatus is essentially an irregular tube several yards long. It begins with the mouth, where the food is taken in. Begin Chemical Action The teeth grind up the food. A set of six glands, three on each side of the mouth, pour a secretion known as the saliva into the food. The saliva begins the chemical action of breaking up the food. The food then passes down a narrow tube about a foot long, known as the gullet. The gullet ends in the stomach, a qort of muscular pouch lined with a membrane.

The stomach has three sets of muscles so that the food is churned about In all directions by contractions of these muscles. The membrane is also dotted with the openings of the gastric glands, from which the gastric Juices are poured in on the food. This continues the chemical action of breaking up the food. Contrary to popular opinion, very little nourishment is absorbed by the body from the food while it is in the stomach. The mixture of food and gastric i.iices. kn.iwn to the physiologist by the name of chyme, now peases into the small intestine. The small intestine, which is arranged in colls or loops has a length of about twenty feet. Additional secretions are poured into the small intestine from the liver and pancreas. These see re'ions continue the work of breaking up the food. Fats Into Acids The net result of all these secretions is that the proteins are now turned into simple products known as amino-adds. the carbohydrates are turned into sugars, and the fats into fatty acids and glycerine. The food Is now in a form where the body can make use of it. The small intestine is lined with thousands of microscopic projections reemebling smoewhat the pile on fine velvet. These are called villi. These dip into the chyme and absorb the nourishing matter from It. The villi pass the nourishing matter into the bloodstream, which then carries it through the body. After the villi have performed their work, the chyme passes on into the large Intestine. The vermiform appendix, that relic cf a once useful organ, is located at the Juncture of the small and large Intestine. Next article in series: “The Nervous System "

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Our Government prints a booklet on keeping worms out of the garden. If we could turn loose some flying fish they would help. A Detroit man was poisoned by eating some hot dogs, perhaps because the hot dogs went mad. Sing Sing reports a good ball team this year, maybe with the idea of knocking the ball over the fence and chasing it. The boy's’ kites are making some people look up for the first time since last fall. More people would be sensible of it didn’t take so much practice. Wouldn’t it be nice if we always were as nice as we sometimes are? The trouble with guessing at the height of spring dresses is you never can tell what designers will be up to next. Things are getting so a dog can’t bury a bone without worrying over some probing committee digging it up.

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Loop Urged To the Editor of The Timet I agree with the suggestion .street cars be looped downtown to keep at least most of the lines off Washington St. I hope the rerouting commission does not bury the idea. I drive an automobile and stay off of Washington St. because of the heavy street car traffic. When I do ride on a street car there are so many halts between Delaware St. and iiuSt. that I know I could make better time by walking. WASHINGTON ST. I ires ponsi hies To the Editor of The Times The National Chamber of Commerce is right in its attitude that the cars of reckless drivers should be im pounded. An irresponsible man w'ith a pistol would be quickly disarmed. But irresponsibles who drive cars while drunk generally are only sent to .tail. AUTOIST. Wicked Hammer? To the Editor oj The Time* I wish to say a few words in reply to the blacksmith who said in your paper of March 25, “If my boss doesn't pay me enough I go where they will." He further says "I think the mailmen should do the same and stop howling.” Such statements really need no reply, but for the benefit of this blacksmith, and thank goodness there are not many like him, I will say that to qualify for an appointment in the mail service would be a real education for him. He seem* to think all a mailman has to do when his wages don't suit him, is to quit and go to 6ome other postoffice ■where higher wages are paid and go to work. No. "Blacky,” Uncle Sam doesn't pay' any higher wages anywhere in the mail business than he pays in Indianapolis, and when the mailman quits here he Is out of the service everywhere because Uncle Sam is the one big boss. When the mailman quits he must start all over

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