Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1924 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor -\ s n-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President ALSEBT W. BCHBMAN, Editor W3t. A, MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Serlpps-Hoseard New*ipaper Alliance * • * Client of the United Press, the NEA Serrtte find the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214 220 W. Maryland St., Indiana?* Us * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cent* a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • * PHONE—MAIN 3500.
IT LISTENS GOOD, BUT—M““"]AYOR SHANK has made some good suggestions concerning operation of the police department. Now, let’s see him get busy and put some of them into effect. “I would remove the appointment of policemen as far as possible from the hands of politicians,” he says. It is agreed that this, more than anything else, would work toward efficiency in the department. Evidently, the mayor has experienced a change of heart. No one would ever seriously comtend that appointment of police officers and policemen during the present administration has not been connected with politics. It will be interesting to see what happens when the administration next decides to shake up the department. It is presumed that if promotions are made, r to inquiry will be made as to the recipients’ attitude toward the. candidacy of the mayor for Governor, or toward the candidacy of any individual for city or county chairman. As Shank says, however, civil service is needed and needed badly in the department. But we can see no particular reason for his proposal that the Starte control the police department. The city is capable of taking care of its.own employes if it does it in the proper way. The mayor’s statements that law violations among policemen are due to low pay is not a very good excuse in the minds of many citizens. In the first place, pay is not particularly low, as compared with other jobs, and in the second place the right kind of a man, sworn to uphold the law, will not break it, regardless of pay. Thotanswer to the city’s problem is simple. It is the merit system, with experience, ability and character as the only qualifications. Such a system probably would disappoint some politicians. but jit would work to the benefit of the department. ‘ WHEN HEARTS ARE PIERCED f V|T is a hard-hearted, workaday world'—until something ocI 1 I curs, to arouse the latent sympathies of folk. And then we learn it is a mighty generous world after all. Indianapolis has just had an example of the human side of human beings. Rid McOallister, father of two children, had hunted work for a month. Then he obtained a job and was killed while doing his -first day’s work. The circumj;tances struck a chord of sympathy in Indianapolis folk. They hastened to the aid of the widow and the two children. The Palace Theater gave a benefit performance. Collections were takhn and contributions were liberal. More than SI,OOO was given to the family. It’s not si.bsh a bad world to live in.
MOTHS ARE CONQUERED Ems is the* glorious season when mother discovers moths have gotten into the upholstered furniture and eaten holes in clothes stored away last fall. In fjairness to the moths, it must be admitted that they have a sense of humor —always select, for their eating, placed that show most prominently. Dr. Titschak of Leverkusen hats finally discovered how to checkmate the moths —possibly exterminate them eventually. The story is told in the Scientific American Magazine. Titschak experimented with 2,000 chemicals before he found what he wanted. Finally he got, the right chemical. For instance, he takes raw wool and applies the chemical to it. No odor, no destructive effect on the wool. No trace that the chemical has been used. But, forever after, moths will not eat this wool. They crawl around on it, in the worm stage, and die of starvation. Later, we presume, this chemical or something similar will b placed on the market. So far the experiment seems to be in the laboratory stage. Everything has, in nature, its destroyer. That is the principle that researchers like Titschak" base their work on. Destruction by moths must run into hundreds of millions of dollars every year, the world over. A discovery like a permanent moth destroyer might, in the long run, save as much money as was wasted in the World War. • Moths do not eat cotton or other fabric materials taken from plant life, excepting paper and cork. One kin 4of moth specializes at attacking wool and hair. Another goes after furs. Still others concentrate, in turn, on cork and paper. The Scientific American article says that the moths so often seen flying around a house are males. To kill them does not help for there are several hundred males to each female. And the feonale moth, though it has wings, rarely flies out where it can be seen. It hides in dark corners and lays thousands of eggs. These eggs hatch into worms. By the time the worms are large enough to be seen crawling about, they have already done most of their damage. Why does mture send thfega pests to annoy us? Answer this and you’ll have the answer why nature sends all our other troubles. The purpose seems to be to keep us busy fighting for existence. MR. SINCLAIR says he is sin clear, too. SENATOR WALSH is an oil burner, too. WELL, it looks as though the political machines are all oiled up and ready to go. ‘‘HONEST JACK” WALTON of Oklahoma wants to be United States Senator. We guess that fellow is hopeless. SAD thing about it is that the nuisance taxes are not taxes on nuisances. Otherwise, Uncle Sam would be rolling in riches. PARIS fashions now decree that woman shall not only be a hairless wonder, but a hipless one as welL The idea, no doubt, is to eliminate waist. MAYBE if that horse kicked the Prince of Wales in the face hard enough, some of our society belles will feel like withdrawing their applications for marriage with him. CONGRESS’ Committee on Rivers and Harbors is trying to end the oil pollution menace along our coasts. Meanwhile, the Senate’s Teapot Dome committee is trying to end oil pollution in 1 Washington. i
LAFOLLETTE LIKELY WILL MAKE RACE Badger State Solon, However, Will Not Be Nominated in Convention, Time* Washington Bureau, f.iSJt New York Are. ASHINGTON, April B.—While W it is generally believed that 1 Senator La Follette will be nominated for President either at a convention in St. Paul June 17 or at a; convention in Cleveland July 4, or at both conventions, it is quite likely he will be nominated at neither. And yet it is almost certain he will be a candidate. The reason for this paradoxical prospect lies in the nature of the two conventions. First, the St. Paul pow wow, I£ is being called as a Farmer Labor party national convention, using the machinery of the Minnesota State Far-mer-Labor party to some extent as a nucleus. The Farmer-Labor party is a real party in Minnesota. It was under this label Senator Magnus Johnson and Henrik Shipstead were elected. Efforts four years ago. however. to organize nationally under that name resulted in disrupting the move ment of farmers and union labor to get together. Radicals In Control It has been a leged since that time a small radical group representative of the workers party outmaneuvered the politicians of organized labor and seized control of the organization, including the label. So organized labor and those progressive elements which desire to work with organized labor are looking coldly upon the St. Pauj convention. “Labor,” the organ of the railroad brotherhoods, has issued a warning against participation in the meeting, saying it will be controlled by communists. Senators Magnus Johnson and Shipstead are preserving a wary attitude and have not yet lent their indorsement to the coming convention. For their part? the men who have called the convention propose to write their own platform. La Follette will suit them as a candidate if he accepts their platform. It la doubtful If he will. As for the Cleveland convention. It has been called by the conference for progressive political action, an organization formed prior to the elections of 1922. largely through the efforts of several national labor unions. McAdoo Support Fade* It has not nominated candidates, but has given its support to those candidates that nearest approach its views There was reason to expect at one stage of the present campaign that the Cleveland conference would result in indorsing W. G. McAdoo and planning methods of aiding his candidacy. That stage is past, however, and now La Follette is the one candidal® seriously considered. \jg Follette Is going into the Republican convention with the Wisconsin delegation and Wonie members of other Northwest delegations behind him. If this convention Is a* bon* servatives as anticipated. It Is fair to expect La Follette will refuse to support the candidate. Will Run as Independent In that case he will run as an independent. Whether the managers of the St. Paul convention wili take him as an independent on his own platform remains to he seen. The Cleveland conference unquestionably will Indorse him in that role. It would prefer, it is believed, U Follette running alone and gathering to himself all the elements that share his beliefs, to a situation in which he would be encumbered by efforts to organize and perfect a oomplete new political party.
Tongue Tips
Ethel M. Smith, legislative secretary. Women's Trade Union League: “The flapper in industry needs the help of women. She is a transient to her employer and she gets the blind alley job." Tito Sehlpa, tenor, Chicago Opera Company: "Tho movies—they are so good, sc- natural so full of punch. Oh—opera. It Is a pose, It Is stilted, It is artificial.” W. J. Bryan: “There is one International question on which we ail can agree, and that is international charity." Kerensky, ex-Russian revolutionary leader. “I am convinced the bolshevist regime will be overthrown. I shall not venture to predict exactly when, but the collapse is nearer than ever. The death of Lenin was a very cheering and significant event.” President Allan Hoben, Kalamazoo College: "The average college student knows less about politics than the average person of the same age outside that group "
The Household Budget
One authority says disputes over finances wreck more marriages than any other one thing. How do you manage your family income? Do you always find yourselves “short” after the bil' are paid? Do you 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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JOSEPH B. HEALING Joseph B. Healing of Indianapolis, Republican national committeeman. already is at the "front" in Cleveland. He's a member of the committee on arrangements for the Republican national convention. This picture was taken outside I*ublic Hall, Cleveland.
Jfellotosfjip of draper Duly lenten Bible rradin* and meditation prepared for Uunimtiaion on Et-angplism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ tn America Tt’BKDAY The Eternal Spirit
Read Mt. 18:31-44. Text: 13:83. The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid lr, three measures of meai, till It was all leavened. “The significant thing ts that the religious experience of Jesus was being continued within the precincts of ,hls human relationships. Tills was being accomplished not simply through the remembrance of His career in Galileo, a little later perpetuated in historical Gospel recorrls, but through His continued personal contact with human life." MEDITATION: As Jesus was able to communicate to His disciples the nature of His divine life so that they too became partakers of God's grace and joint heirs with Him of God's promisee of immortality, so has His Spirit during the years led countless thousands Into life eternal. This spirit ever silures the souls of men to enter the daily practice of immortality. PERSONAL QUESTION: Does the restlessness and dissatisfaction of the present help me to a better future? PRAYER: Almighty God, may we be like-minded with Christ, that we may with confidence seek to do Thy will. Let us take our daily duties in the spirit of love, that we may learn of Thee. May our eye* he turned toward Thee and our quest be for the eternal, in Christ's name. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagloy) Hospitality By HAL COCHRAN |f- I LITTLE brown purp, just a 1 1 A I soraggly scroot, wns wen.Mng | * his weary way. He’d scamper here gnd then back he'd scoot, for he longed for a bit of play. Ah! There Is a home with a warm bright light, says this purp as his tail wags fast. I’ll park myself on that porch tonight—a real place to sleep at last. The place he picked was b mansion great: Just the finest place to stay. But the dog was wrong for, at any rate, he was shortly chased away. 8o on he went with his tail hung low till he came to a lowly shack. An old oil lamp gave a dlmlsh glow with a welcome at Its hack. The lowly purp dragged his shiv'ring frame to this house that was tumbling down. The sound of children's voices came and the mongrel turned around. A youngster’s face at the window pressed, and a smile was spreading wide. And then, of course, as you might have guessed—the purp was let Inside. (Copyright, 1924, NBA Service, Inc.)
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MORE SPACE THAN SOLID IN AN ATOM Small Particles Are Made on Same Principle as Solar System, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times (Copyright by David Dietz) NE of the great discoveries of twentieth century science is the way in which electrons are combined into atoms. For although atoms and electrons are far too small to he seen with the most powerful microscope, scientists have a fairly clear idea of how the electrons are arranged in the atom. The “picture” of the atom, accepted by most scientists, is due mainly to the work of Dr Noils Bohr of Copenhagen, and is usually referred to as the Bohr theory of the atom. According to this theory, the electrons are arranged in an atom in much the same fashion that the sun and planets are arranged in the solar cystem. Atom Has Center Just as the sup is at the center of the solar system, there is a nucleus at the center of the atom. This nucleus in the hydrogen atom is composed of one positive electron. In other atoms, the nucleus ts more complicated, consisting of both positive and negative electrons. There is no general agreement yet as to how the electrons composing the nucleus are arranged, except that they are packed very closely together and that the positive electrons are always greater in number than the negative ones. Then just as the planets revolve around the sun. there are negative electrons in the atom revolving around the nucleus. There are always just enough negative electrons to make the total number of negative .electrons in the whole atom equal to 1 the total number of positive electrons. For example, the nucleus of an atom of helium consists of four positive electrons and two negative electrons. Therefore, there are two, mgji.tf v electrons revolving around the nu cleus. % One Positive Electron The hydrogen atom, the simplest In existence, has a nucleus consisting of only one positive electron. Therefore, there is only one negative electron revolving around the nucleus. Probably the most amazing contention thal the physicist makes about the atom Is that It is mainly empty space. We think of our earth as a mighty object. The sun we know is still greater. But if we stop and think a moment we must realize that our solar system is mainly empty space. The planets are situated millions of miles from the sun. Considering the solar system as a whole. It consists of a great ocean of space with a few comparatively small bodies floating about in it. Dr. R. A. Millikan, the foremost American authority on atomic structure, says that the amount of space In an atom compared to the amount of matter In It. is 10,000 times os great its the amount of space in the solar system compared to the amount iof matter in it. Next article In series: The Atomic, ! Series.
Science
The thermometer Is so important and necessary for a variety of uses th 't it la strange Its Inventor is unknown. The use of a water thermometer is ascribed to Galileo. It is known that Cornelius Van Drebbel made an alcohol thermometer in 1620. This, fn 1709, waa divided Into degrees by Gabriel I>aniel Farenhelt and has borne his name ever since. In 1742, Anders Celsius improved the thermometer by making the melting point of ice his zero and the boiling point of water 100. This is called the Cenlegrade system and is used everywhere, except in England and the United States. Here the Farenhelt system is used, except in scientific work. Without the thermometer science could not have progressed as it has and medicine would have remained in a very backward state. There also are instruments that are variations of the thermometer. Ftor measuring very small differences In temperature the electric thermopile is used, while for high temperatures, such as in where the ordinary thermometer woud he destroyed, the pyrometer Is employed. Third Degree! If you can visualize a clock and imagine what time it. would be with the hands in a certain position, you will be able to do this test successfully. You must rely on your memory for the picture of the clock or watch. Do not even draw a sketch of the face of the clock to aid you. Directions: Himply do what you are told. Problem 1. us suppose it Is 8:18 o’clock, that Is eighteen minutes past 8. Picture to yourself, without the aid of a watch or clock where the large hand would be and where the small hand would be. Now suppose that the hands traded places, that is, the large hand takes the place of the small hand and the small takes the place of the large hand. What time would It he ? Problem 2. Now’ let us suppose that it is 11:09, that is nine minutes past 11. Determine where the hands would be. Then let us suppose that the hands again trade places, the large hand taking the place of the small hand and the small hand taking the place of the large hand. What time world it be? Problem 3. Next let us suppose that ft is 3:36, that is thirty-six minutes past 3. Locate the position of the hands. If the hands were again to trade places, the large hand taking the place of the small hand and the small hand taking the pice of the large hand. What time would it then be? Answers: 1. 18 minutes to 4, or 3:42; 2. Four minutes to 2, or 1:56; 3. 18 minutes past 7, or 7:18. (Copyright by Science Serviced
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Voter Sore To the Editor of The Times I always vote, but not always the same ticket. However, I have about reached the place where l feel there Is no use. What good has it done? Consider the prohibition question. I never drink and I woud not care if others drank if only the drinker had to suffer. But the women and children and friends of the drinker must suffer. I know places where ‘‘white mule” has been sold ever since we had prohibition. It has been reported to police. but nothing h;is been done. I think the officer who arrests one man for selling "white mule" and lets another man sell It is worse than the "mule" seller. Take the big oil scandal down in Washington—high officials roc used of graft. When a man sums it all up. what’s the use voting? Hdw long will it take to get shorter hours for the worker and more pay? My answer is that It can't be done. BEN WHITECar Patrons To the Editor of The Time s Officers are individuals appointed or elected and in authority. It occur* to me concerning the street ear fare increase that the patrons should he consulted, for they are the people who collectively constitute the patron body and not the representatives of the street car company or any In the minority who have automobiles of their own and ride the electric cars only in case of emergency. The patrons are the upkeep of the street car company and from them comes the money to equip, contsruct and improve the system. For such short hauls and under present conditions the fare now charged should be sufficient. ALBERT HEATH. Life’s Other Side To the Editor of The Times What we want is a law for our great nation to close the gates to foreign Immigration. For thousands niter thousands come to our shore, and are hired l*y Americans Just to graft a little more. Not caring for the American’s family that la in need. If you only knew the people who are Just existing, you rich men and politicians would not he so persistent. The men who make our laws are men of wealth. Not caring for the poor man, but just to suit themselves. Wealth is the mest dangerous disease in the air, for Governors, Senators, and Congressmen will try to roam and wander from their narrow path. On to the Teapot Dome. ' A SUBSCRIBER. I Clan Attack * To the Editor of The Times Is it not a fact that this new Muncie (Ind.) K. K. K. move is just one more bluff made by the regular K. K. K. in order to throw dirt in the public's eyes, since they evidently must see the trend of public feeling? L. A. R. fft Taxpayers To the E<ti ***r of The 'Times It looks like our friend Taylor Groninger, corporation counsel, is working hand in hauid with the street car company. The city paved the street in front of my, house. I had no comeback on any one so I just had to dig down and pay the bill just as others had to do. If I understand correctly the car company returned Its charter to the city a long time ago. Then why doesn't the city take over the street car company and run It? The jitney busses were taken off the streets and yet that did not suit the street car company. Did any one ever think of the ’’ad” cards In all street cars which bring to
Heard in the Smoking Room
Hr 1 RECEIVED a hurry-up call I I I to go and see a dying man,” | 1 [ said the lawyer, as he puffed his cigarette. “The sufferer said he had sent for me because he wanted to settle up and square a lot of things before the dark angel claimed him. He had cheated and swindled a lot of people, he Admitted, aud he handed me a list of his swindles, a formidable looking list, too, and said be repented
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the company a lot of money every year without any expense to it? Os coprse, the move Is made and there is no use to object now, but it shows what a good man Taylor Groninger is for the office he holds. The city is going to spend $5,000 now to settle a little dispute in the thousands of dollars to try Governor Warren T. McCray. Our friend, Lew
Tom sims -/- -/- Says
Blessed are the oil men for they have inherited the earth. Wasn't it spring when Rip Van Winkle went to sleep and slept twenty years? Bad news from Canada today. Ontario cow attacked a train, so now her owner has steak daily. It is getting so about the only drivers who will give pedestrians a lift are street car motormen. The differences which cause most divorces are indifferences. Some of the new spring hats look almost good enough to put a little creauu and sugar on and eat. Spring is house cleaning time. In Los Angeles, one woman cleaned out an entire theater by yelling "Fire." They are having a hard time in Washington. No politician can make a good race if the tfind Is against him. The Germans are exporting syn thetie camphor now, but should save n little to smell when they receive French demands. Family Fun One Way One day. not long since, a preacher of otr State was out hunting. During the day a rain Btorm came up. In order to keep dry he crawled into a hollow log. When the rain began to fall the log began to swell until he could jget neither way. He thought his end had come. He thought of all the wrongs he -had done and when he recalled that he had not sent a subscription to this paper this year, he felt so small he crawled right out of the log without difficulty. Does this story fit you?—Western Baptist, Winnipeg, Man. What Brother Found "I looked through the keyhole last night when Mary and Mr. Staylate were in the parlor." "What did you find out?" "The light."—California Cultivator. Son Identifies Pa "Hey. son. where's your father?” "Paw is down in the pig pen. You’ll know him. ’cause he’s got a hat on." —Whiz Bang. Gerty Powders "Gerty nearly broke up the show last night.” “How was that?" “She powdered her nose and used the shiny bald head of the man In front of her for a mirror.” —Youngstown Telegram. A Thought_ Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. —Eph. 4:25. * * * Lies can destroy, but not create. —Tupper.
his crooked conduct and wanted to square ’em all. “‘That’s the righ spirit.’ I told him. ‘Get them all off your conscience’’ “ ‘Yeah,' replied the dying man, ‘and the best way to do it—’ ** ‘Just send for them,’ I broke in, ‘and pay—' "‘Not on your life!’ screamed the dying man. ‘Not on your life! Put it my will. I might get well.’ ”
TUESDAY,,APRIL S f 1924
Shank, is traveling over the State telling what he will do if he becomes Governor. When he ran for mayor, he said in a speech at Fountain Square that if he became mayor he would be in his office every day. How many days has he been in his office since January Ist? Wake up, taxpayers, wake up! A READER OF THE TIMES.
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