Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1924 — Page 4
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‘THE PARTY ORGAN MAN’ AH, Gentle Hoosier reader, do not be too hard on the “party _____ organ.” It has to play the part of monkey. It is its duty, and often its editor puts his tired head on his pillow and lies awake cursing his obligation to regularly applaud measures and candidates that he really longs to handle with a fire shovel. When honest and courageous investigators, over at Washington, besiege a nest of crooked party bosses, it is the organ’s business to decry investigation and publish big pictures to show that a Mellon plan, or something, isn’t being railroaded through Congress. Punishment of big Government crooks will cause the people to lose confidence in the Government, you know. When an independent or third party movement threatens, your party editor must announce that La Follette is too sick and too old and the irregular movement has evaporated. In his news columns the party organ slave has to print facts that all can read and, in his editorial column, proclaim that his facts are base lies. When any man of ordinary decency has to outrage his selfrespect by publicly posing as professional liar, apologist for crime and associate of dirty crooks, for no better reason than that it is for the advantage of the party, he is to be pitied. Indeed, gentle reader, be kind to the party organ man. Nobody loves him. Even the masters whom he serves despise him because of his servility in the uses they can put him to. Besides, he is the greatest living evidence in support of the theory of descent of all of us from the esteemed anthropoid simian.
DAYTIME PARKING rT“] REAL traffic problem in most large cities —Indianapolis among them—is curbstone parking—the use of streets, as garages. Go into our busy thoroughfares and you will find streets narrowed fifteen feet by machines parked along both sides. Some of this parking is ethically legitimate. Owners leave their cars outside while they shop or make business calls. But a large group of owners leave their cars at the curb all day, until ready to drive home, especially on side streets, which nevertheless are important traffic arteries. This isn’t uniformly a system of dodging garage fees at the expense of traffic congestion. The fact is that there aren’t enough garages in or near the downtown sections of most cities. Furthermore, there isn’t enough vacant land for sufficient garages. Cities are considering this growing problem. Underground municipal garages are suggested by some. Henry Ford, it’s reported, will build garages in Bostonthree to start with, housing 3,000 cars apiece. These garages, as planned, will be conducted on a cooperative or club plan. In connection with them will be cafeterias and gasoline stations. In view of Henry Ford's customary foresight, it’s logical to expect that he contemplates going into the garage business on a large scale. . Why logical! Because the sale of cars will shortly be curtailed unless downtown garage space is made sufficient. We venture to predict that, whether Ford goes into the garage business on a large scale or not, auto manufacturers as a class will. It would be a logical sales development. National manufacturers long since learned that their prosperity and growth require more than the mere sale of their products to their immediate customers. It doesn’t do any good to load a grocer up with a stock of breakfast foods unless he is able to sell them. This is the purpose of national advertising campaigns. v ' > Similarly, the sale of autos by factories is bound to suffer by any restriction on the use of cars —such as inadequate downtown parking space.
THEN LET’S END CHILD LABOR “ii J NEW need for Federal regulation of child labor has re- }/*■{ cently been emphasized by disclosures regarding the sweat-shop labor of young children in their homes on work sent in from other States. A recent investigation of home work by children in Jersey City disclosed the .fact that more than 1,000 children, the great majority of whom were under the age of 14, were doing sweatshop work in their homes under dangerously insanitary conditi'ons. Wages were very small, families of three and four working long hours earning as little as $3 and $5 a week. “It was brought out in the testimony, given in connection with these inquiries that a considerable amount of the tenement home work done by the New Jersey children was distributed from factories in neighboring States. Thus, New York manufacturers, who were sending their work to Jersey City to escape the New York regulations against tenement home work, were not subject to the penalties imposed by the New Jersey laws. In this way they succeeded in successfully dodging State laws. “Child workers themselves cross the State lines also and create special local problems. The importation of workers to one -State from another is a particular feature of the canning industry. ' “As the industry has shifted to the Southern States the difficulty. of securing an adequate labor supply has led to a system of importing help from Northern cities, principally Baltimore and New York, for the season and returning there when they are no lopger needed. When this is done there is a tendency to select family help,’ that is, the employers hire heads of families with the understanding that wives and children are to be brought also.” The above is from the report of the Judiciary Committee, just made to the House, recommending adoption of the resolution fa child labor amendment to the United States Constitution, i nobody ever has accused this committee of being unduly timental about children, or anything else. SAYING France starts off as if it were going to be a very profitable business, speaking as one franc person would to another. IT IS SAID the major league ball teams never contained so many college men as at present, showing that higher education has learned, at last, how to get in the big money. IN THE springtime, the young man's fancy lightly turns to 6ide of the road for parking space. will the party treasuries do if the Dohenys and SinBfi&get all disgusted?
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Py XEA. Serrice ALTIMORE. Mr!.. April 7. “The girl who wouldn’t tell,” has won her suit against the University of Maryland. Pajama parades, petting parties, kimonos,'* midnight oil —self-expression vs. university rules—freedom for men students vs. rigid discipline for girl co-eds— AJI these were aired in Baltimore city court when Judge Charles W. Heulsler, of the supreme bench, heard the suit of Miss Vivian V. Simpson of Washington, D. C., against the university. Miss Simpson, after finishing three years, was ordered not to return last fall for her senior year. So she sued for re instatement. She won. Judge Heulsler has just handed down a mandamus compelling the university to receive her as a student. The decision included a stinging rebuke for Dr. Albert Woods, president of the university. The court found, in effect, that the
JfeUotosfjip o! "Prayer Daily Lenten Bible reading- and meditation prepared for Commission 'in Evangelism of Fe4> ral Council of the Churches of Christ In America. MONDAY Die Son of the Living God
Read Mt. 16:5-20. Text: 16:16. Thou art the Christ, the Sorf of the living God. "The essence of the experience was the aotual presence of the personality of Jesus communicating to the disciples his own victorious sense of appointment by God to world leadership in the great movement to establish a race of honest, friendly, powerful men on the earth. Jesus was still with them with unabated poweV and purpose, and this transformed their doubt and bitter disappointment into permanent enthusiasm.” MEDITATION: The disciples realized his divinity. They accepted this as fundamental and they committed their lives to him. The glory of the Christian religion Is that through the years countless men and women, out of their own experience with Christ, have come to know him as the Son of the Living God and through him to have salvation. PERSONAL QUESTION: Just what in my life do I Interpret to be the presence of the living Christ? PRATER: Heavenly Father, we pray that we may see thy glory in Jesus Christ. Give us a keener consciousness of the presence of the spirit of Christ in our daily lives. May we have this joy in abundance, that we may share with our needy breathren, In the name of Christ. Amen. • (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley) A Thought • Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay dpwn his life for his friends —John 15:13. * • EOVE is the beginning, the middle and the end of everything. —Lacordaire.
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One authority says'disputes dver finances wreck more marriages than any other one thing. How do you manage your family income? Do you always find yourselves "short” after the bills are paid? Do y.ou put your pay in your pocket and spend It haphazard? Can you tell what you spent for food last year?' Do you know ■whether you can afford an automobile? How much do you require for clothing per year? You wouldn’t run your business without keeping books; why try to run
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real reason for Miss Simpson's dia missal was her refusal to Inform on her fellow students when Dr. Woods tried to force her to reveal who was responsible for an affidavit, printed in a Washington paper, criticising loose discipline at the university. The affidavit charged the university was a “pajama paradise." It revealed that the students had been officially warned “not to act like bums” by standing at the roadside and getting free auto rides Into Washington, eight miles away. The ostensible reason for Miss Simpson's dismissal was that she was “a disturbing influence” and a menace to discipline. Miss Simpson retorted: “It was men everywhere: in the halls, on the steps —it was disgusting. I wouldn’t dress up every time I left my room.” The suit of Miss Virginia Flanagan of McKeesport, Pa., who was barred wl4h Miss Simpson, will be heard next. The evidence is expected to be much the same.
Tom sims - -/- Says There are 40,000 muscles in an elephant's trunk, and when you are traveling the baggage men think you have that many in yours. More than a billion dollars' worth of women's clothing were made in the United States last year, but it isn’t the woman who p iys. We like spring much better than winter because in spring everybody else Is lazy, too. In Omaha, a lightning streak tore a man's shoes off without hurting him, which certainly was a streak of luck. You can increase the population of any town by having no bathing suit censor.
Science Important experiments have been made recently In Berlin testing the use of dogs in catching criminals. As a result, the German government has forbidden the use of dogs. The Berlin tests were performed under favorable conditions with the best prize-winning dogs of Germany. The tests showed that the dogs could not pick out a trail among many trails; that they could not follow an uncontamlnated trail several hours old; that they could not choose an object after being given the scent, of Its owner, and so on, through mariy of the things highly trained dogs are supposed to do. Bloodhounds have long been used In the United States in training fugitives and the findings of these dogs, under certain conditions, are accepted In many courts. In view of the Berlin tests, most of these Ideas will have to be revised. The tests are no reflection upon the Intelligence of the dogs. They show, In fact, that In many cases the dog Is almost a mindreader In learning what hls master wants him to do.
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ELECTRICITY COMPOSES ELECTRONS According to This View of Scientists, All Matter Is Electricity. By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietzf -a HE electron is the ultimate parI ' tide from which all matter is * constituted. All matter, as we saw, is constructed of molecules. There are as many different kinds of molecules as there are substances in the universe. Molecules, we saw, were only various combinations of smaller particles called atoms. There are only ninetytwo atoms, one kind of atom for each of the ninety-two chemical elements. The molecules of elements are made up of the same sort of atoms. For example, each molecule of oxygen consists of two atoms of oxygen. The molecules of all substances, which the chemist calls compounds, are mixtures of atoms Thus, as we saw, a molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Only Two Kinds Atoms in turn are composed of electrons. There are only two kinds of electrons. One is the positive and the other the negative. Therefore, in the final analysis, there are only two different substances in the universe—the positive electron and the negative electron. For scientists believe that all positive electrons are exact y alike and that all negative electrons are exactly alike. The word “proton" is sometimes used to signify the positive electron. And similarly the word electron is frequently used by itself to mean the negative electron. In most scientific literature, , whenever the word electron Is found alone, it Is the negative one which Is meant The molecule, we saw, had a diameter of about one one-hundred-and-twenty-flve-millionth of an inch. The diameter of the average atom is about one three-hundred millionth of an inch. How large, then, is an electron? If an atom were magniflePh to the size of a big office building, the elec trons composing it would be about the size of pin heads. The diameter of an electron is about one-hundred-thousandth of that of the average atom. Negative Is Larger As the result of many careful and complicated experiments, the physicist believes that the negative electron is larger than the positive electron, but that the positive electron is heavier, that is, possesses greater mass. In fact, it is believed that the mass of an atom Is due almost entirely to the positive electrons in it. the mass of the negative ones being practically negligible. One more question one naturally asks is: What are electrons composed of? The physicist believes that they are electricity. The positive electron Is the unit of positive electricity and the negative electron is the unit of negative electricity. Acording to this view, matter is electricity and all the phenomena in the universe are fundamentally electrical. Next article in series: “How Electrons Form Atoms ”
' DAILY POEM The Cellar Circle SODA Z we find the family in the cellar, hard at work. The brooms and mops are flyin' fast and hard. And neither dad nor mother, nor the kidlets stop to shirk, except to read a wrinkled postal card. A monster pile of papers grows, as things get spic and span; and Johnnyties them up as he is told. Then Mary, who is helping, stops, a comic sheet to scan—a Sunday funny sheet that’s four weeks old. Now, in a darkened corner where the rags have all been put, poor mother picks them over one by’ one. She shakes the finest pieces so they'll lose their coats of soot. She'll use them till her crazy quilt Is done. And father—well, he’s busy sorting bottles on a shelf, deciding which shall go and which shall stay. He keeps the ones with corks in—yes, he's thinking of himself. Os course, he'll give the other ones away. And so the family labors fill the oellar's spic and span. And then, when comes the finish of the day. there’ll be a healthy welcome for the rag collecting man. for he will truck the rubbish all away. (Copyright, 1924, NBA Service, Inc.)
Animal Facts Woodsmen steer clear of chestnut trees in a thunder storm because that tree Is supposed to attract lightning. Out of 2,000 observations of trees struck by sky bolts, 32 per cent were chestnuts. Deer's scent Is in his foot, where is located a pocket containing a paste that smells like rank cheese. This substance passes into the hoof and oozes to the outside. Thus every step he takes leaves a tell-tale odor for the keen noses of dog or wolf. Whenever he can the deer takes to water, because he knows it washes the accursed paste off his hoofs. That clever young writer on science, David Dietz, say’s truly that the scientists have failed to find what life is. But they have discovered,protoplasm, the elemental matter that is life itself. Protoplasm Is practically the same in" both animal and vegetable life, a semiliquid; semi-jelly substance. But the instant they start to analyze protoplasm chemically, even by the most delicate processes known, it dies. A dear* thing cannot give up the secret of life. The “death watch” beetle, which works inside of wood and makes a constant tapping noise, has eaten holes In the gigantic beams of Westminster Hall, London, big enough for a child to crawl into.
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Vision To the Edito' of The Times One in every four American school children has defective vision or eyestrain. This is announced after examining more than four million students. It also is known that defective eyesight is the cause of much mental backwardness among school children. The dunce used to be whipped and stood up in the corner with a paper cone on his head. Now the teacher sees’that he gets glasses and gives him special training, maybe a glandular extract to stimulate his brain through his thyroid. Some of the old-time teachers, in their treatment of "dull" pupils were as much dunces as'the one with a paper hat. OPTOMETRIST.
Traffic To the Editor of The 7m> Every one's talking about the rapid increase in traffic congestion, due to tremendous auto production. Any one with reasonably far vision can sec the time close at hand when traffic In cities will lye congested to snail’s pace unless double-decked streets axe built. The other solution would be for airplanes to be made cheap and foolproof. diverting traffic to the air. This seems the more logical development to expect. Whenever humanity needs anything badly enough, someone comes forward with it. That will be the way with flying flivvers. MOTORIST. Farmers’ Troubles To the Editor of The Time* "Relief for agriculture is one of the most pressing problems confronting us today.” Carleton B. McCulloch, gubernatorial candidate, is quoted as saying. The fact that farmers are throwing up their hands, leaving their farms vacant is not only true, but a condition that requires a research into the cause, as well as an effort by the intelligence of this age. to find the remedy’, and cure the disease. Farmers, especially the youth, are going to the city, hunting Jobs to get money to live on. Cities are boosting the propaganda to enlarge their domain, staking off town lots in all directions, selling them for one dollar down and five dollars a week, claiming this is the way to eventually own a home. The city merchants approve of this method. The city politician seconds the motion, and the city financier puts on the cup sheaf, loans this earnest seeker of a home money and secures a mortgage, turns the note into the bank, gets more money there; then finds another subject. What is the matter with the country? Nine hundred and ninety’-nine cases out of every thousand troubles that the country endures spring from the fact that there is no money obtainable to conduct the farm. Within gunshot of where this article is written, there are one thousand acres that wili lie idle this season. The farmers can not pool their interest, sell common and preferred stock to obtain money. Governor McCray tried this scheme and we know the result; so does he. It will work in the city and last for a time. It originated among the financiers there. All w’e have to and& is to await results from this mode of action. Eventually, the case of Governor McCray will demonstrate results. Stagnation in every line of business, I. O. U.s coming due, with no money to pay the bills. Everything that Europe lacks to settle all difficulties
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L v7 l iILE I was in Los Angeles |\X/| the other day on some buslL-. 1 nes3,” said the man in tha smoker from El Centro, who w’as a movie fan, “I went to see one of those dog pictures. We have a dog at home than can do everything but talk. He actually takes the hose and puts it in the grass and turns on the water and drinks out of the nozzle. Well, anyway, while I -was sitting there enjoying the beautiful mountains full of dogs and snow and wolves, two
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is money and the intelligence to use it. In the face of these facts, Pierpont Morgan in New York City is floating a loan for Japan of one hundred and fifty million dollars. Europe already owes the United States eleven billion. Every large city in the United
Third Degree! Here is a test to try on your friends, or have them try on you. It reveals ability to visualize things In the Imagination before they are actually seen. Directions: Take a piece of paper about five Inches square and ask your friend to watch carefully what you do. Fold the paper once over in the middle, then fold it again in the middle but at right angles to the first fold. Then tear out a small notch from the middle of the side which shows but one edge. Throw away this fragment. Keep the paper folded but pressed flat on the table where It can be seen. Give, your friend a pencil and another piece of paper and say: “Draw a picture showing how the folded piece of paper would look if unfolded. Make lines to show the creases, and the results of the tearing.” Warning! Do not suggest drawing the “holes,” as this would give a hint to your friend that more than one hole Is expected. When the. drawing Is finished, unfold the paper that you creased and tore and compare with your friend’s drawing. (Copyright by Science Service)
Tongue Tips Mohandas Ghandl, saint of India: "Politics and religion cannot be divorced." Russell Watson, professor of forestry, University of Michigan: “There never will be any need of substitutes for wood, if proper and wise use is made of the lands that now lie idle throughout our country.” Evangeline Booth, Salvation Army: “The bobbed-hair flapper is neither immodest nor immoral In following the styles. Her mother did it before her." Mrs. Zella A. Mcßerty, electrical expert: "There w’ere many times I doubted whether I could go ahead with my w’ork. Then I would say to myself, ’Quitteri’ and the sting of the epithet drove me on.” Family Fun Little Billy Safe Teacher caught Billy in mischief and called him to account. "Billy, what will you do if I call up your mother and tell her what you’ve done?" “You can't. My first mama's gone on her honeymoon with my new papa, and my did - papa has gone on his honeymoon with my new mama.” — Argonaut. mH > Tlie Signs “What makes you think they're engaged?” "She has a ring and he's broke.’’— Mount Union Dynamo.
ladles oame into see the picture. They arrived in ihe midst of a comedy. "One of rhe ladies turned to me while a tabhod version of ‘Faust’ was being sung. She had evidently come to see dogs, and nothing else but dogs. Marguerite was having her usual high note discussion w r ith Mephistopholes about the price of bologna. Quoth the lady: “ ‘Pardon, me, young man, but don’t they have dogs in this show?’ “ ‘Yes, ma’am, one hot dog, Mephlstophones ’ ”
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1924
States is bonding every dollar’s worth of property within Sts limits for money to meet current expenses. .Money, money—what is it? What makes It so essential, what gives it its power, and why can not we rob it of its terror? FRENCH HOLLINSHEAD.
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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washingtou Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and- - advice cannot be given, nor can extended reseaivh be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential .—Editor. Is electricity used for the generation of steam? Electricity is used where small quantities of steam are needed, and where it Is the most convenient source of heat. It is a very wasteful system, only 20 per cent of the original energy in the fuel being put into the steam, as against 50 to 90 per cent with a coal or oil boiler. When hydroelectric power is generated a byproduct of irrigation, electricity may be used in this manner. It Is also used to supply steam for operating pumps, radiators, etc., in idle reserve steam plants connected to hydroelec* trie plants.
How many Greeks and Italians (not naturalized) registered for Class 1 of the selective draft during the war? Greeks, 22,090; Italians, 104,358. Does morning begin at midnight or at daybreak? Ir. a strictly technical sense, morning is the first part of the day from midnight until noon. In a more limited sense, the word is used to denote that part of the day ab9Ut daylight until noon. Can the H'ay fox of the South climb trees? Yes. What is boiled linseed oil? Oil obtained by boiling raw linseed oil with litharge, sugar of lead or some other substance, the result being a dark oil that dries quickly. How is salt made? It is not “made.” To the chemists, it is sodium chloride. The chief ! sources of salt are sea water, rock salt deposits, and brines. Most of that produced in the United States is obtained from brines by evaporation. AVhich is the fastest running (log? The whippet. Where are penguins to be found? On Antarctic islands, south of South Africa and South America mostly. Where is Buffalo Bill buried? The body of W. E. Cody. (Buffalo Bill) is buried on Mt. Lookout, Just outside of Denver, Colo. What are some of the breed* of hens that lay white eggs and some of the breeds that lay brown eggs? White eggs are laid by Leghorns, White Minorcas, and Black Mlnorcas. Brown eggs axe laid by Partridge Cochins, Dark Brahmas, Black Langshans, Wyandottes and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Who was the oldest President and who was the youngest ever elected? W. H. Harrison was the oldest; Roosevelt was the youngest. When was the air pump for compressing air invented, and by whom? The air pump was invented by Otto von Guericke of Madgeburg, Germany, about 1654. In 1753 Holl used an air engine for raising water by air pressure on ifb surface,-and In 1788 Smeaton invented a pump for use with diving apparatus; in 1851 compressed air was used by 'William Bubltt for bridge work.