Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in Chief ROT W HOWARD. President ALBERT W. BUHRMAN. Editor WM! A. MATBOKN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * * Client of the United Tress, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Burean of Circulations. Published dailv except Snndav by Indianapolis Times Publishing: Cos 214-220 W. Marvland St.. Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

OPEN THE DOORS! SHE city council is petting off to a bad start in its investigation of alleged irregularities in the city ball. Its decision to hold hearings behind closed doors and to give out oul} r such information as council members believe should be made public is a mistake. City hall business is the public’s business. If there have been irregularities in the administration the public is entitled to know ALL the facts—not just the ones councilmen believe the public should know. Mayor Shank is entirely within his rights when he declares his opposition to private hearings of public matters. There is nothing the city council could do sitting as a city council or as a board of investigation which should not be known to every citizen. Serious charges have been made against the administration by councilmen. If the charges are true and are borne out in the investigation there is no justifiable reason why every one should not know all the circumstances. If they are not true, the administration and Mayor Shank should be vindicated publicly. What has city council to hide? Why does it hesitate to take the public into its confidence? Why pick out a part of the facts and make them public and suppress others? Why should there he an effort to make a ease one way or another? OPEN THE DOORS TO THE PUBLIC. THE INVESTIGATION BLUES SjCARED professional politicians of all parties, whose threadbare hokum is being exposed to view, and trembling campaign contributors to all parties who collect in contracts, gifts, graft and tax favors, are encouraging a cry against further investigations by Congress. Local politicians throughout the country, trembling, add their squawks. Professional “leading citizens’’ are protesting until the veins swell on their foreheads. There are two chords in this tune of protest which is entitled “The Investigation Blues.” First —That “the confidence of the people in their Government is being destroyed;” Second—That “Congress is spending all its time in ‘grand jury’ work and isn't passing any laws.” As to the first:’ The investigations are not undermining faith in Government, . but rather in some of the men who are running the Government. It isn’t the fault of Government that millions and hundreds * of millions of public property is being wasted; hundreds of millions of tax money being secretly slipped back to big taxpayers; tens of millions wasted in the veterans’ bureau; private citizens being given desks and private offices in public buildings; grafters, bootleggers and swindlers dividing with Government officers and ex-officials; “lame duck” politicians given fat jobs on public pay rolls or fatter ones as lobbyists; ships being remodeled and reconditioned and then sold for less than the repair bills; auctioneers being paid from two thousand to forty thousand dollars a day for selling Government property, millions of dollars being paid to favored newspapers under the guise of advertising— No, these things are not the fault of Government, but the fault of faithless public officials—and the men who pay their campaign expenses. When a man spends ten times the salary of a Senator to be elected to the Senate, he or whoever put up the money for him is going to get that money back. Somehow. Out of the pockets of the people. As to the second: Congress isn’t being delayed in its work by investigations. The investigating committees with very rare exceptions sit only two hours a day. From ten o’clock to noon. Congress does not open until noon. Not more than a dozen out of the ninety-six Senators are on the oil and Daugherty committees. No committee hearing yet has broken a quorum of the Senate or the House. Don’t let them fool you, folks. The business of legislation isn’t being delayed. In years past haven’t the same people and the same newspapers chanted another endless song to the effect that “the trouble with this country is that it has too many laws” and “the country would be all right if Congress would just shut up its law mill and go home?” Yon remember that, don’t you? No, the trouble is that the people are “getting an earfuL” They are getting too wise. Pretty soon they won’t believe in a political Santa Claus and they will laugh at campaign bunk. That will make it equally tough for politicians and their proprietors, the campaign contributors. THERE were 303 homicides in New York last year, and, making it worse, the right persons jvere not killed at all. THE income tax scheme was originated, no doubt, by seme fellow who desired to prove that anew pang could be added to ► March. WAGES of Pullman porters have been increased 8 per cent, - leaving only 92 per cent for the travelers to pay them. The • world is getting better. UNCLE SAM may not recognize Russia, but other govern- ; merits appear to be able to find her on the map in the same old l place. I HAYING heard from the voters of his State, Senator Reed 'of Missouri has withdrawn from the race for the presidency. Nothing like a bunch of sore voters to make a man get into his barrel. NINETY-NINE per cent of all “good old pre-war stuff” is faked svnthetio booze, but everybody we know swears that his is of that remaining 1 per cent that’s genuine. Pretty big 1 per cent, eh wot? IT MIGHT help a whole lot if Congrses were to investigate Hhe late Attorney General Palmer’s hysterical “Red” raids. It Mould begin by reading former Assistant Labor Saoietary Post’s Bcoki&bont them. V

Ralston Joins in Fun

IT’S THi: TURN OF PAT HARRISON. MISSISSIPPI SENATOR, TO GRAB AND IF SENATOR PEPPER OF PENNSYLVANIA DOESN'T YELL "FINGERS!’' PAT WILL WIN IN “CHOOSING UP SIDES" FOR THE FIRST BASEBALL GAME OF THE WASHINGTON SEASON. WATCHING THEM ARE SENATOR COPELAND OF NEW YORK AND SENATOR RALSTON OK INDIANA.

U.S. POSTAL SYSTEM IS NECESSITY Should Activities Cease for Instant Nation Would Be in Panic, By HON. CLARENCE MacORKGOR. United States Congressman from New Y ork. mN the early days of the postal system of the country the people were very willing to pay almost any price to have their mall transmitted from one point to another. Our grandfathers, paid 25 cents an ounce to have their letters .-nt to points 500 miles distant. Two cents now carries them thousands of miles. Irt 1837 the 16,000,000 people In the United States each spent 26 cents for postage. In 1923 the 111,000.000 people each spent $4.78. The total expenditure for postal service In 1837 was $3.285,319; In 1923 It had arisen to the great sum of $556,850,960. In the growth of the postal service other features have been added as conveniences to the people rhut are not in fact an essential part Os the system. Has, Grown Rapidly One of thes" lg the money-order service. This was first established In 1864 and has grown to Immense proportions. In 1865 there were 419 money-order offices; 74,277 money orders were issued, of the value of sl,360,000. In 1923 there were 54.181 money-order offices the total amount of money transmitted by domestic money orders was $1,388,090,680, and the number of separate orders was 173.083,817. In addition, in 1923 there were 1,201,312 orders issued to transmit $22,488,617 to foreign lands. A few figures with reference to the Rural Mall Service nro interesting. This branch of the service was established in about 1897. The number of routes in that year was 62. They have Increased until now there are 44,439 routes, oovering 1.190,534 miles and costing $86,172,350. There are 3.066 counties in the United States and 2,730 of them have rural delivery service. The rural routes furnish service to approximately 29,845,232 individuals. The rural carriers covered during the fiscal year 1923 a total of 360,256,364 miles. Seventy Perpect of Volume Since the establishment of the parcel post in 1913 it has grown to Immense proportions. It now constitutes 70 per cent of the volume of mail. In 1917, 693,553,176 packages were carried. In 1923, 11.766,943,942. There are 61,613 postofTices under the jurisdiction of the Post office Department, 893 first class, 2,931 second class, 10,437 third class, the postmasters of which are appointed by the President, and 37,352 fourth class. There were Issued to postmasters during the fiscal year 1923: .Much Foreign Mail Thoro were 88,741,153 pieces of mail registered, insured or sent O. O. D. during the fiscal year. Some idea of the magnitude of the foreign mall handled by the department Is indicated by the fact that 415,282,537 pieces, exclusive of parcel post, were dispatched from the United States and 362,267,335 pieces received. I have referred to the many anil varied activities of the Postoffioe Department to bring to your mind the close relation that it bears to the life of almost every individual in the country. It works so smoothly that many, many people do not give u though: to what it means to them. It hits become an absolute essential to living and business. If its activities should cease foj an Instant the whole country would be In a panic.

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E VOL UTION UNITES MAN AND NEBULA Whole Universe Composed of Same Kind of Matter in Different Forms, By DAVID DIETZ Silence Editor of The Times (Copyright, by David iDetz rrrtlE began with a survey of the \Y/ universe, the millions of star's . and tho thousands of nebulae scattered through space. We paid particular attention to one star which we know better than the others because it is closest to us—our sun. Then we narrowed our field to one particular planet circling around that sun—the earth on which we live. Then we narrowed our field a second time. This time to a study of one particular phenomenon upon our ea.rth —the origin and development of life. The theory' of evolution, as we saw unites al! these tilings into one connected story. The great nebulae are the starting point. In time, many astronomers believe, they condense into the giant red stars. These go through a proc ess of evolution, reaching the top of the scale when they become giant white stars. Then in time they begin to lose heat and finally become dwarf red stars.

Material From Sun Our earth and the other planets, so geologists believe, were formed from material from tho sun. Our earth, at the close of its formation. had a molten surface. In time its surface cooled, the oceans gathered Into the great ocean beds and continents emerged above the waters. ' Then in the course of time, life came into existence upon cur earth. First, there were only microscopic globules of living matter. Then life differentiated Into plants and animals. From simple animals in the sea—sponges and jellyfish and molluscs—• life progressed to true fish. Th-n life lnv ido,i the land there developed the nmohiblans. then the reptiles and lastly the mammals which culminated In man. But lnsofat as the physical side of all life. Including man. Is concerned, it-Is only t new arrangement of old mawltals vh’ch had already exist' and upon the earth. And ties material before the earth was forme 1. txisted In the fiery sun. And before that, it existed in the par ent nebula from which our sun developed. Same Kind of Matter Tho whole universe, then, is composed of the fame kind of matter. It exists In ono form in the distant stars. It exists in another form In our bodies. Matter is one of the foundations of the universe. Another Is a mysterious something called energy'. It may he that matter and energy are different manifestations of tho same thing. The scientist Isn’t real sure about that question today. The physicist and the chemist devote tneir time to a study of matter and energy I<et us proceed now to a survey of what they have to say about foundations of the universe. Next article In scries: Tho Chemical Elements.

jfEUotoSfjiii o! draper i>.ul.v Lenten Iliblr readinn .uni meditation prepared for lomralaslon on tn-.-uifctisni of Federal Council of Church of Christ In America MONDAY Workers ro*ether With Him

Real Mt. 12:46-13:9. Text: 12:50. For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, he is my brother, anti sister, and mother. “He said of nil who would Join him in doing tho will of God, in working for a friendly and honest world, that they would he mother, sister and brother to him. He would gather men about him in such close personal reltu tionship is to share his own religious experience with them. They would feel God ns he did ” MEDITATION: In doing the world’s work we nre not to fell that we work alone In the Father’s field, but that the upward life of the will of Ood Is with every unselfish workman; also the good impulses of men may be called into active cooperation by effective invitation. When men unite to make the best In life prevail they will be conscious of the approving love of their Heavenly Father and come to a new' realization of the brotherhood of men, PERSONAL QUESTION: Am I strong enough to work happily with unattractive people? PRAYER: Almighty God, may our hearts be strengthened by the memory of thy 'promises. Let everything that would separate us from Christ be far removed and tender our lives to the leadings of thy spirit, in Clirlst’s name. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley)

A Thought ' Judge not, and ye shall not be Judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Luke 6:37. • • • AKE not thyself the judge of any man. , J —liongfellow.

Heard in the Smoking Room

p NOW! I guess wo have had some snow this winter,” said ■ the farmer from North Dakota. as he opened the window of the smoker to let in the pleasant warm air of California. "And it. causes a lot of trouble, too." “A few weeks back I was driving into town with my team and wagon, along a narrow road, through the deep snow. The track was only broken ;n the center of the ror.d, so that turning out was a difficulty. Os course, as luck would have it, I met on other wagon coining in the opposite.

‘Saved, but It Certainly Woke Us Up!’

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Readers Discuss Views in Times’ Forum

Dance Hall Defender To the Editor of the Tlmts 1 am a girl IS years old and go to dances about once a week. I flunk it is unjust to try to keep the younger generation cut of dance halls because they are under 21. Where can a young person go nowadays? Many of us are tired of shows, and some shows are worse than dance halls. You can’t expec-t a fellow to sit home with you every night when he calls. And all fellows do not own a car; and, besides, there are many girls like myself wlio do not go riding after dark. At the dance I go to all the fellows treat me like a lady. After the dance they go their way and I go home with my sister or brother. I havo a certain time to be home. I think the younger generation in safer at a dance than to be sitting in a park or out In a car. Some of our leading citizens, especially some of our police woman, who enjoyed themselves at dances twenty or twenty-five years ago now tty to spoil our good times. If th<*y would stop to think that evejry one is young only once they would mind their own business and think of their daughters and granddaughters who may lx> kept from dances and will seek pleasure else where. At dances years ago they didn't think of even stopping at midnight.

Animal Facts Almost 13,000 known species of fish in the world. Copperhead, dreaded venom snake of eastern United States, lives in moist places ;tnd shallow creeks. David Starr Jordan caught one near 'Bloomington, Ind., that had four fishhooks in him, left by folks who went from there when they discovered what was on the end of the line. Japanese seismologists are trying to find out if pheasants give warning of earthquakes, as widely reputed. New fishing hank 200 by 90 miles discovered off coast of Labrador. “Cutthroat” trout is no more butcher than any other trout. Got his forename because of deep rod blotch under his throat. This cutthroat mark is tho sign manual of Sioux Indian tribes. Tho mole is perfectly built for his Job, tunneling. His pointed nose, short neck, strong, circular body, ribs so placed as to withstand pressure. shovel-like hands and digging claws, are all peculiarly adapted for making cylindrical passages through loam or clay. And being an undergrounds worker, with no need of sight, he has eyes that don’t see. Eastern mole has a funny fifinge all around his nose, formed of two fleshy tentacles.

Tongue Tips President Richmond. Union College: “The undergraduate is a bettor man than his father.” Amy Lowell, poet: “All you have to do Is to do something and you will be known, whether you have a name or not.” Dr. W. M. Jardlne. Kansas Agricultural College: “Knowledge, industry and vision will make farming successful today as it has been in the past."

direction. The* other fellow said he’d be & if ho would turn out for me or anybody else, and came towards me threateningly. He was a great big husky fellow, too, and said, what was more, that if I did not turn out. of the road for him, he would do what he did to the last guy who refused. So, thinking discretion the better part of valor. I turned out for him. As he passed'me I said, “Say stranger, what did you do to that guy who would not turn out for you?” "Why, I turned out for him,” ha replied/*

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They always had a midnight lunch and then danced till 4 or 5 o'clock. I think it is all right to try to prevent improper dancing, such as shimmying, quivering or the “Trance Step,” but as far as the other popular dances I think it is unjust. I think the matrons should watch the dance halls and let the police women watch the parks, streets and other places which really need watching. DOROTHY P. RUSSEL. From Spanish “Vet” To the Editor o] The Times In regard to the bonus for World War soldiers, why not treat all soldiers like Civil War and Spanish War veterans? In Oregon the Klamath Hake project opened lands to entry exclusively for veterans of the World War. The veterans of any other war are denied all rights under that law. It Is not likely that any veterans of the Civil War or the Spanish War desire to file claims, yet If only one soldier desired to take advantage of it he should have the right to do so. We are not opposing these benefits to World War veterans, but are opposing the principle of discrimination. It is wrong. Although we have many Government hospitals and nine more in pr >- cess of construction, and although there are more than 10,000 beds vacant at the present time, the Spanish War veterans cannot be admitted to these hospitals. They are discriminated against even on their death beds

y DAILY PO£M A Plea for Recognition mF every dog can have his day, at least I ought to have my say; so listen to my story. Perhaps I don’t amount to much, but, even so, I’ve got a clutch on quite a share of glory. I’m sold quite cheap, that may be true, but, cheap or not. I’m sold to YOU and every one you know. I hold my own and }ive along while other things go right and wrong and right’s the way to go. I should not brag but. If you please, I’m one of life’s necessities; I’m needed everywhere. Perhaps I dangle on the street. If people do not keep me neat, but, anyhow. I’m there. I must admit that I may cause a lot of cussing; some applause. That’s as the case may be. For my existence reeks of strife; I often have the breaks of life, for much depends on me. I live in loneliness, although It seems I ajways have a bow; good service Is my claim. So I would much appreciate what’s due me on this day and date. A. Shoestring! That's my name. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ino.)

Science

Will the speeding up and driving qualities which have pushed the American business man to the top of the heap also put a period to his supremacy by ending him and his line? The possibility is hiyted in a volume just issued by two famous Johns Hopkins professors on blood pressure. The organism's adaptability to new conditions would seem to be the only compensating factor warding off this outcome. High blood pressure is becoming the typical American ailment, and It is attributed by these physicians in no small part to constant "pep,” continuous striving at top tension and speed without intermission or relaxation. The disease terminates the usefulness of some of the most efficient men, in their prime. Tenseness, anxiety and fear are bad mental habits which impair the physical structure through the simple process of keeping the body keyed up in unconscious preparation for either fight or flight, with a corresponding rise in blood pressure which strains the system as much as if the violent muscular effort were gone through. Bad Idea 1 “Ever see these now cigars? They’re perfectly flat to fit into the breast pocket of the vest.” "It’s a bad idea. If 1 ever took any of those cigars home my wife would declare I had been squeezing some tfther woman.” —Youngstown Tele- _ 1. ■■ ■ ■

MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1924

as to providing the pine box, the flag, and transportation of the body. The Spanish War veteran cannot understand this. He served the same flag and for a cause equally meritorious. His loyalty cannot be questioned. Every one of the 460,000 men who fought in that war was a volunteer. They acquired the volunteer habit for 60,000 of them volunteered in the World War. Eighty-five per cent of commissioned officers in the World War were Spanish War veterans. H. F. W. Spanish War Veteran. Murder Case To the Editor of The. Times In regard to The Thomas Shaw murder case: Regardless of the statement he made when apprehended, as to where he was that night the motor of his car was warm, which evidently was the result of use. He connected his host. John, with the case, but John proved by his brother that he was home in bed all the time. "When questioned by the police next day he w’as exonerated. At the formal trial and conviction of Shaw, ho succeeded in establishing an alibi when he proved by reputable white women that he had passed that and the succeeding night at their house in the 900 block of S. Delaware St., more than one mije away from 402 W. Maryland St., where he lived. How does the jury reconcile the two stories and arrive at the solution of the case? L. A. REMHEMER.

TOM SIMS -!- -!- Says

"When a man is shot he is shot, and the fact that his wife didn’t aim to do it doesn't matter. A golf ball leaves the club head at about 135 miles an hour, which is about os fast as the golfer leaves the office. Even if women do have more sense than men, you never see a man wearing & shirt he can't button himself. The word “boss” comes from Anglo-Saxon. The boss, however, seems to cone from nowhere when you are loafing. The first cannon was made In Scotland in 1554, and It is about time the last one was being made. A pianist’s fingers move about 2,000 times a minute, while his neighbors move about once a week.

Test Yourself

If you can think straight and perceive relationships properly, you will be able to solve the following tests correct iy. Directions: Select and underline the .rord in the group of five at tho end of each question that completes it ■with sense. 1. Brother is to sister aa aunt is to; grandchild, mother, cousin, uncle, eon. 2. Hand Is to arm as foot is to: toe, ankle, leg. knee, Instep. 3. Ink Is to pen as paint is to: house, picture, varnish, brush, box 4. Picture is to frame as book Is to; paper, binding, wood, glass, print. 6. Man is to boy as sheep Is to: wool, lamb, goat, shepherd, dog. Answers: 1, uncle; 2, leg; 3, brush; 4, binding; B, lamb. H (Copyright by Science Bervioe.)

Family Fun

Dad's Old Boat ' "Watch yei car for a nickel, mister.” "Beat it, kid. This car of mine won’t run away.” “Nah, but I kin call yer when ft starts to fail apart.”—American Legion Weeklv. The Patient Cook "T mußt sav, Jane, that I’m not altogether pleased with your cooking.” "It isn’t expected you should be at first, mum: but you'll get educated up to it in time.”—Boston Transcript. A Secret for Uncle “Uncle, can you keep a secret?" "Yes.” “Well, Auntie has eloped with the chauffeur and they borrowed pour r ii hiiiOjmi j