Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1924 — Page 4

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THE SPOKESMAN, AND WHAT HE SPOKE IM WATSON, Senator from Indiana, made a statememnt the L J | other day which is significant as well as important. Not because he made it, but because he made it as he emerged from the White House. It is fair to assume that he was speaking for the Administration. * , This is a paraphrase of what he said: “Now that Daugherty has resigned it is the duty of Democrats to join with the Republicans to bring the Senate back to its legislative function. It is regrettable that four months of this session, with the most constructive legislative program before it of the reconstruction period, have been devoted to alleged misdoings in public office. “I hope the Senate w r ill begin without delay the legislative program laid before Congress by President Coolidge last December, and give the tax payers what they are entitled to, a reduction in taxes and legislation to relieve the farm situation and improve domestic conditions as provided in other pending bills,” and more to the sime effect. There can be no doubt the purpose of this statement was tominimize the importance of the Senate investigations up to now, and create public sentiment against continuing them on the ground that more important public business has been and will continue to be neglected because of them. Note “the alleged” misdoings in public office and the “constructive program of legislation, suggested by President Coolidge” which is being neglected. There is just this to be said of the Administration—inspired statement of Watson: It is untrue both as to its facts and its implications. The investigations have not interfered with the “constructive legislative program laid before Congress last December by President Coolidge,” because there was no such program laid before < ongress in December or any other time. A careful re-reading of the President’s December message discloses just one specific suggestion for legislation—a new revenue bill. He also said he was against the bonus. The revenue bill, known as the Mellon bill, was introduced in the House and rejected by a great majority, including both Republicans and Democrats. Another bill, substituted for it, was passed and only recently went to the Senate, where it is now being considered by the Finance Committee. The Senate investigations have not caused one second’s delay in the working out of new revenue legislation, which is the sum total of President Coolidge’s “constructive program of legislation” so touchingly referred to by Watson, speaking for the Administration. As to “legislation to relieve the farm situation,” which gives Watson, as Administration spokesman, so much concern, we quote as follows from President Coolidge’s December message to Congress: “No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for Government fixing of prices, no report to the public treasury will be of any permanent relief value in establishing agriculture. Simple and direct methods put into operation by the farmer himself ure the only real source for restoration.” It may be that the four months which two Senate committees have devoted to exposing the rottenness in the oil leases, proving a former Cabint member a bribe taker; laying the foundation for the return to the Navy of stolen oil worth billions of dollars; driving two unworthy Cabinet members out of office and making visible to the public the hitherto invisible Government which has looted them, have interfered with the farmer putting into operation those “simple and direct methods for his own restoration.” If so, it is too bad and we are sorry, for the farmer. But we are even more for the people of the country generally, including the farmers, that their intelligence is rated so low by the Administration that it would attempt to put over on them such “bunk” as this. DUBLIN bartenders celebrated St. Patrick's day by taking a holiday. Perhaps the way to make a country dry is to give her many saints. NEVER MIND the robins and the bluebirds. If the la \j of the house is seen to cast a restless eye over the various rooms, it’s springtime, that’s all. THERE is no doubt now that the revolution in Mexico was .general, since there are none, apparently, except of that rank to surrender. WORD comes that Hollywood ‘'will screen Moses, the law giver.” Somebody in that burg must have bought or borrowed a Bible recently. AN OIL company tries to scare us with the announcement that there is only a sixty-day supply of gasoline in the oointry, nut many a railway crossing may be reached in that time. MR. DOHENY says he gave Obregon $5,000,000 with which io put down the Mexican rebellion, showing that it makes little difference to him what it is—put down or put up—he’s Johnny on the spot.

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NATION’S CAPITAL IS SLEUTH-BOUND CITY WALLED ABOUT WITH SUSPICION

SMALLEST PARTICLE IS MOLECULE Physicists Show Substance Can Also Be Divided Into Electrons and Atoms. By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz) q HE old Greek philosophers first r I ’ speculated upon the nature or . * inner structure of matter. They speculated upon the divisibility of matter. A bit of stone could be crushed into exceedingly tine powder. A drop of water could be divided up Into minute droplets. They asked whether there was any end to the divisibility of matter and decided there was. They called the smallest particle into which matter could be divided an “atom.” They imagined, however, that there were as many different kinds of atoms as there were forms of matter or substances. They attempted next to explain why substances existed in the forms of gases, liquids and solids. Consist of Atoms They said that gases and liquids consisted of round smooth atoms which would not cling together. Solids they imagined, consisted of atoms with hooked surfaces so that they clung together as a result of these little hooks. The Greek idea was too simple and superficial and so was discarded with the process of time. But basically it was sound and so today we are back in a certain senae to the old Greek idea. John lAalton, a famous British chemist. first led the world of science back to the theory of atoms. That *was at the beginning of the nineteenth century. We now believe that the smallest particle of any substance which can exist alone and retain the properties of the substance ;s a molecule. There are therefore as many molecules as there are different substances in the universe. But. as we have already seen, the chemist has demonstrated that all substances represent different combinations of the chemical elements. The scientist, then, believes that molecules are not the smallest particles in existence. 9? Different Kinds The molecule is in turn composed of particles called atoms. There are 92 different kinds of atoms, each sort comprising one of the chemical elements. A molecule of water is composed of one atom of oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen. A molecule of table salt consists of one atom of sodium and one atom of chlorine. For a long time scientists thought that the atoms were the smallest particles in existence. But the discovery of X-rays and radium upset that Idea and necessitated revision of our ideas of the nature of matter. The scientist now knows that atoms are composed of electrons. There are two kinds of electrons, the positive and the negative. All positive electrons are alike. All negative electrons are alike. Atoms differ from each other only because they contain different numbers of positive and negative eleo trons. Next article in series: The Molecule.

Tongue Tips

Robert M. Washburn, Boston: "People are being so generally educated that they refuse to work with their hands.'* John W. Prentiss, president Investment Bankers’ Association of America: "I think we all devoutly pray that It will become the fashion In this country to stop passing laws and begin enforcing the laws already passed." Rev. Robert Johnston. Washington, D. C.: "The real prodigal of the prodigal son story was the elder son. He was spiritually bankrupt." Judge George V. Welmer. Michigan: ‘The present day tendency in this country is away from a republic. There Is no mistaking the trend toward mob rule." Rev Dr. F. E. Taylor. Indianapolis: "The modern commandment seems to read: Parents be careful not to cross ycur children or they will make it very uncomfortable for vou.” Miss Edith M. Rhetts, musician. Detroit: "Jazz is only a symptom of our feverish, crowded city life.”

Science

This is an age when many of the accepted theories of science are being questioned. One of the most radical queries was raised by Sir Ernest Rutherford, in a recent address at Liverpool, England, when he doubted the theory of atomic energy. This theory, one of great importance, has been accepted as a fact, for many years, by science. Even before there was knowledge of the electrons that compose the atom, it was accepted that the atoms, for example, in a cube of sugar contained sufficient energy to drive a battleship around the world. It was generally l>elieved that when science unlocked the store of energy In the atom, the world's problem of heat, light, power, ©to., would be solved. Sir Rutherford said: “With increase of our knowledge of atomic structure there has been a change in bur point of view on this important question and there is not the same certainty today as a decade ago that the atom of an element contains hidden stores of energy.

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INI'S' AD PEOPLE Carries On for Dad

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MISS MARGARET CHENEY jISS MARGARET CHENEY. 28, is acting as manager of i___ the Tippecanoe Loan and Trust Company, a million-dollar financial institution at Lafayette, Ind. Early last fall her father, active head of the bank, became ill and since that time she has managed every phase of the bank’s burden. And she is making a success of it. Her official title is assistant secretary-treasurer.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or Uiformation by writing to The (Juestlon Eolitory. Dally limes Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave . Washington, D. C , inclosing 2 rente in stamps for reply. Moll cal. legal anti marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions wil! receive a personal reply Unsigned requests can not be answered All letters are eontldenttaJ.—EDlTOß What is watered stock? Stock issued by way of increase or addition to the nomlnaa! capital stock of the corporation, and passing into the hands of stockholders either by purchase or In the form of a stock dividend, but which does not represent or correspond to any increase in the actual capital or actual value of the assets of the corporation. Was the late Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Inventor of the 801 l telephone, a naturalized American citizen? Yes, he declared hls Intention of becoming a citizen in 1872, took out his first papers in 1874, and hls full papers In 1882. What astronomer first discovered the mountains of the moon? Galileo. Why or horses shod? For the same reason that humans are: to protect the feet. It was early discovered that the usefulness of the horse was limited by the condition of hls feet, so that the history of horseshoeing is an account of various devices that have led up to the modem shoe. Which States joined the South ern Confederacy* Alabama. Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana. Mississippi. North Carolina, South Carolina. Tennessee. Texas and Virginia. How much larger is the sun than the earth? The bulk of the stm la a million and a quarter times the bulk of the earth, the sun having a diameter of 868.000 miles. Who wrote the story "Rip Van WlnkleT' Washington Irving. Who were the father and mother of Hercules? The god Zeus was Che father and the mother wa* a human named Alcmene. What Is the largest river in Japan? The Tshikarl. Jn Yezzo, which flows into the Sea of Japan, after a course of 275 miles. 1 Who commanded the Confederate forces at the second hattle of Bull Run* Gen. Robert. E. Lee. Does Rnuto Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, belong to the Scottish Rite Masons? Yes. Do all fish have ears: if so. wher j" Yes, fish have ears under the skin, inside the head.

A Thought

To do justice and Judgment 1* more aooeptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Prov. 21:3. • • • mUSTTCE satisfies everybody, and justice alone. —Emerson.

Heard in the Smoking Room

1 HERE Is always a risk In orI riving at a strange town 1 * when there Is some local festivity on; one is never sure of good accommodation,” said a smoker. "I and two other fellows, one of whom had to catch an early train the next morning, arrived at a small town under these conditions late one evening. The Inn we went to was full and there was no accommodation elsewhere; so, we reluctantly consented to share with a negro a room whore there were two small beds. One of my fellow traveler* and I took one bed

Mails Opened and Resealed — Cabinet Members Are Shadowed. By JULIAN STREET Author and Magazine Writer (Copyright, (92 i, by United Press) WASHINGTON, April 2.—Like Jericho of old, Washington is a walled city, but the hosts of Israel have only begun to march around it and the wall still stands. Through the city gates travelers pass freely, with the eyes of sleuths upon them, the mails come and go, though letters are in some cases mysteriously opened and resealed before delivery; the telegraph and telephone connect the city with the world outside though both are said to leak at times. Some truth, to be sure, does escape through the wall, but truth outside of Washington does not look the same as truth inside. The Washington eye is not constructed like the ordinary human eye, but sees as normal many things which to the eye of an outsider appear grotesquely improbable. Methods of Town Council I have been here two weeks and in that time have undergone a disillusionment profound and painful. I have been disillusioned about many things, but most of all I am staggered by the knowledge that every hotel l>ellboy and every taxi driver in Washington knew on March 4, 1921. what I have only lately learned, namely. ■ bat to the affairs of Federal government, the morals and methods of a corrupt town council have been applied. To what extent does the public outside the wall realize this? I am inside the wall and do not know. , I judge that confidence has been shaken by the Daugherty disclosures, but I gravely doubt that the public is prepared for the further disclosures that are inevitable. There have, of course, been partisan attacks upon tiie Republican party and some of these, as for instance those on Secretary Hoover, have not been justified: nevertheless, prominent Republicans of the more progressive type say the party needs purging as it never needed it before and feel It is incumbent upon the Republican party to take the bitter dose voluntarily rather than have the dose forced down its throat by a Democratic doctor who hopes the medicine will kill the patient. Incredible Sometimen True One lesson certain to be learned by I the Innocent outlander visiting Wash- | jngton, brought into the slightest coni tact with the official world. Is that in Washington the incredible is sometimes true. He will discover, for instance, ass did, that there is truth in the highly colorful tales one hear* of spying and counter spying by detectives. Senators, congressmen, newspaper men and secret service agents will assure you that "the hill," as the Capitol is called, has been thoroughly investigated. Offices of Senator I>a Follette and others are said to have been broken Into and rifled, that object of the game, being to "get something on” the men chiefly concerned in the investigations. Sleuths have also tsen sent to home towns of some of the more active foes of official principals, and it is freely reported In at least one Instance a woman was used for the purpose of compromising a gentleman of tendencies too critical.

Cabinet Member Shadowed One member of the Cabinet complained to the President some time ago that he was being shadowed and otherwise molested. Espionage in its more rough and Russian forms evolved during the war. doubtless because of urgent necessity, developed practices unheard of In the old time secret service. These pmet l eg have been continued and a notable feature of them is to be found In the fact that honest men seem to have lately received more attention than law-breakers. It Is. of course, comparatively easy to get something on a lawbreaker, hut not so easy to get something on honest men. If honest mn were as timid as ground hogs, few of them would be here, for many honest men In Washington see (heir shadow every day. Thus, for example, the Washington residence of Frank A. Vanderlip, who has hoen of such great assistance to the senatorial committee investigating Mr. Daugherty Is continually under surveillance and Mr Vanderlip is shadowed in all his goings and comings. He has even spoken to his shadow once or twice. To those contemplating a trip to Washington in the interest of clean government. I am able to give these helpful hints: Nullify Dictaphone Bring you*- talking machine with you and play it In your hotel room while holding a confidential conversation. rt nullifies the operation of the dictaphone. If you have three telephone instru ments on one line wb-e tappers cannot operate Have confldentiaal letters add-essed to someone other than yourself who will turn them over to you. Do not try to hide Important papers in your room when you go out. They look under the mattress, too. Do not be deceived because you thought your papers have not apparently been disturbed. They photostated them.

and the other fellow, as he had to get off early in the morning, was made to share the bed with the negro. “He was, however, soon sound asleep, and seeing this we skillfully blackened his face to match his bedfellow’s. Next morning, at dust, he was awakened, according to instructions, in time to catch his train. Groping his way to the dressing fiahle, preparatory to beginning to dress, he struck a match, caught sight, of his reflection In the mirror, and exclaimed: “ ‘That darned fool has called the wrong guy.’’ and went back to his bed and his sleep.”

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Wreaths To the Editor o( The Times I wonder whether our people give an earnest thought while wending their way to and fro on Mother Earth today to the wreaths to be seen on the doors showing that some among us have passed away? When wo see these wreaths that denote deatn it prompts many millions more tc live in unity while we are here —mere conscientiously and with better regulated minds focused on public economics, education, etc. If a thief steals and is found guilty he is punished, and so it is with each one of us —if we sin we must suffer. ALBERT HEATH. Koad Delays To the f ditor of The Times The statement made by Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch that people in sixty counties were bitterly disappointed in the conduct of the State’s affairs and the high cost of roads is well founded. Most of us recall how the Key-

Jfellotostfjip c! draper Daily Lenten Bible readlnc and meditation prep ired fqr commission on evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America. " WEDNESDAY Slnrlenoss of Porpese

Read Mt. 6:24 34. Text: 6:24. No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate thte one, and love the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. “ ‘Business’ is in the main honest and honorable. It Is the world's work. When Christian men, ready to apply the fundamental teachings of Jesus to all sides of life, go Into business they find that the main lines of business are meant to proceed on Christian principles. The flagrantly un-Christan phases of business life appear almost entirely In connection with the desire to become ‘rich.’ ” MEDITATION: Happy is the man whose understanding of the world’s work Is such that in doing his part his sense of duty and pleasure are both gratified. The selfish man Is always facing the alternative of gratifying himself or following the sense of duty. Ts one’s life Js actuated hy unselfish principles and the welfare of others becomes first in one's desire, then duty is a pleasure. This Is the lesson .Tesps sought to teach as the way In which human life might be lived in satisfyng harmony with the will of God. PERSONAL QUESTION: Do T realize that my satisfaction In honest work is God given? PRAYER: O God. our Father, teach us to be good workmen of Thine. Let Thy blessings rest upon the common toil of men. Quicken our apprehension that we may understand the eternal significance of our daily life. Inspire right choices and worthy companionship. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley)

Family Fun

Difference Slight. An lowa youth who became much interested In boxing while in service, took his father to a boxing show the other night, the son willingly paying the admission. “Now,” said the son when they were well seated, “you’re gonna see more action for $2 than you ever saw in all your life.” “I don’t know, son,” said the father. “Two dollars was all T paid for my marriage license.” —Laughs. Hubby's Singing “Doae your husband ever break Into song?” “Yes; he never seems to he able to find the key.’’— Boston Transcript. Gerty's Lineage “Gerty says she comes from a highstrung family.” “Yes; T understand her; uncle was a horsethief in Arizona." —Youngstown Telegram.

The Mother Bird

stone Ave. cement road buckled and crumpled to pieces in less than a year, and the length of time it took to complete the Sprlngmill road and the litigation over the quality of material. Consider also the extension of the concrete surface on Michigan road. After the first bids were in there was considerable debate about the cost, and bids on a cheaper material were asked, with the result that the final low bid was higher than the original low bid that would have given a road of better quality. It has been more than a year since this concrete extension was proposed and it Is still hanging fire. There is sufficient money In the State highway fund to improve the principal roads of Indiana, yet little progress is made along this line. Much of the money is spent in keeping dirt roads in repair, which is money wasted. Why can’t the highway commission accept bide only from reliable con-

y DAILY POLA\ PROGRESS M] Y little son once had a cart I built for him myself. ’Twas made of odds and ends that I had laid upon a shelf. I painted it and oiled it'up, and let him take a ride. And, to my satisfaction, he seemed very satisfied. And then the hoy next door to us came scootin' down the street, with one knee in a wagon that was really quite a treat. “My daddy bought me this,” said he, "and just see how she goes.” And very shortly my boy. too, was boasting one of those. For Just about a week he rode around in his express and then hls actions indicated signals of distress. I found him riding something else; a playmate’s brand new wheel. He constantly explained to me, "It’s all made out of steel." Os course I fell—a daddy’s pride—’cause fathers sort of like to have their sons be up to date—l bought my boy a bike. And he was tickled, sure enough. He rides it all day long. I know he’d sell his home-made cart and wagon for a song. He’s satisfied just now, I guess, but that’s all tommyrot. For shortly he will want what any other kid has got. And all this makes me wonder —when my hoy has reached 16. will he discard all hls presents and den and a limousine? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Third Degree

Here Is a test that will reveal how alert you are when the task is to discover how two words are related and then find two others that bear to each other the same sort of relationship. Simply do what each question tells you. Get out your pencil. Cover up the answers. Ready! Go! 1. Underline the two words that have the same relationship as black and white. Inside, yellow, paper, color outside. 2. Underline the two words that have the same relationship as eye and see. Face, cheek, nose, chin, smell. 3. Underline the two words that have the same relationship as sweet and sour. Pretty, taste, candy, homely, good. 4. Underline the two words that have the same relationship as soldier and army. Private, tree, uniform, fight, forest. 6. Underline the two words that have the same relationship as summer and winter. July, hot, snow. cQld, season. 6. Underline the two words that have the same relationship as Alpha and Omega Letters, beginnning. January, Greek, December. ANSWERS: 1. inside, outside; 2. nose, smell; 3, pretty, homely; 4, tree, forest; 6, hot, cold; 6, January, December. (Copyright by Science Service)

' WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1924

tractors who use good materials and push their work rapidly? A READER, 1 Mailman's Friend To the, Editor of The Times I read an article in your paper about; our mailmen. I think the mailman is right, and I am willing to pay 3 cents for first-class mail if they will get a salary raise. , Do the people ever think what the mailman or railway mall clerk is up against? I think any one who is aga-ist a raise for them must not have his right mind. Think of the kind of weather they have to go through to delives mail. I think they should get no less than $1,600 to sl,SOO a year. They earn every cent they get. I think that blacksmith, who has been writing to you woild wane more if he had to work out in all kinds of weather. He “swings a wicked hammer,” but doesn't hit anything. ANOTHER TIMES READER. OM SIMS , -/- -/- Says The Dutch have broken off negotiations with Russia, showing the Russians have gotten in Dutch. The auto market, the insurance market. and the bootleg market never seem to reach the saturation point. Fighting in Mexico has slacked up a little, but Americans didn't have time to worry over it. anyway. Too many investigations spoil the results. A censor for radio is suggested. TC he will eliminate the cat fights we approve heartily. One sign of spring Is motorists detouring marble games. Happiness isn’t scarce. It Jusfl isn't being used much. Another sure sign of spring Is when you wonder if you hear a saw mill or a mosquito. Honesty pays in the long run, while dishonesty usually pays in a short run and a swift one. A group of senators plan a trip] through our national forests, and youl can’t blame them for taking to thal tall and uncut. j It's a great life If you don't gf spring fever, or if you do. Too many bank cashiers are escaping after a spring cleaning. Lots of people go around hunting temptations to avoid. If pieces of modern art are dug up 3.000 years from now, posterity will think we wore no clothes.

Animal Facts

On Antarctic's frigid shores live millions of penguins, birds that can't fly, but swim like fish, walk like a man, and go about looking like alder* men with expansive white vests. But the commercial instinct now has pen* guin In its maw. It has been found that, boiled up, he will yield Ij. cent profit per alderman. So a company sends ships to his home, and the crews go into the flocks and swing clubs. Then they throw the dead and wounded alike Into boiling vats. “Gila Monster," of far southwest United States, regarded by Easterners l with various shuddering ideas, is not a terpent or viper, but a lizard—the only poisonous lizard known In the world. \ A sight for the gods is sheep around TAranto. Italy, wearing blankets. The owsiers insist that that’s why the wow. which Is world famous, has Its quality—because It is protected from sun, wind, rain and from friction with bushee. trees and other mutton of the flock.