Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1924 — Page 4

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THROWING AWAY CRUTCHES mF our Indiana doughboys could spend their vacations in France this year, they certainly wouldn’t know the place. The devastated regions in the war zone have been rebuilt to an amazing extent. The trenches that stretched from Switzerland to the North Sea have been nine-tenths filled in. Four-fifths of the barbed wire has been coiled and removed. More than 740,000 French dwellings and agricultural buildings were completely destroyed or severely damaged during the war. More than 600.000 have been rebuilt. When the German invasion started, the farms in the war zone of northern France had nearly two and a half million cattle, horses, mules, denkeys, sheep, goats and pigs. The same region today has over one and one-half millions. And more than nine-tenths of destroyed factories have been rebuilt. Railroad mileage is virtually restored to normal. This reconstruction work has taken more than five years. France is also making rapid strides at regaining her industrial strength as it existed before the war. Last year she mined almost as much coal as in 1913, from mines in the northern section. This is a remarkable comeback, for systematic devastation of mines reduced her coal productive capacity by half. Some experts figured it would take twentyyears to pump the water out and otherwise repair. France in 1923 mined more iron ore, produced about as much pig iron and turned out more steel than in 1913. Her freight traffic in 1923 was a bit larger than in 1913. Similarly, her auto exports gained a half in volume. Her general export trade jumped about 22,000.000 metric tons in 1913 to nearly 25,000.000 in 1923, though imports correspondingly increased from about 44.000.000 tons to 54,000.000. This information about France’s recovery as an “economic machine” is furnished by the foreign information division of the Bankers Trust Company. The showing is so good that it will astonish most of us. It gives the lie to the propaganda that the French people have not been buckling down to work. But France still is in the swamp up to her neck—financially. Recovery in this direction depends chiefly on the problem of reparations and terms of settlement of France’s debts to her wartime allies.

UP TO GERMANY IfTF. Dawes report is now puplic property. As unbiased as a professional receiver for a shaky business concern, the three American members of the expert committee—Dawes, Young and Robinson —along with their fellow workers, have carefully taken stock of liabilities and assets to see how much Germany can pay and how. And as dispassionately as any adding machine they have (arrived at their conclusions, k Now it’s up to Germany. France has already accepted the report. So has England. Germany will have to follow suit or prove she has. no intention of paying and thus lose the sympathy of the world. Acceptance means that after nearly six years of stagnation Europe and the world will begin to get somewhere. It means the dawn of anew prosperity, even over here in America. Rejection means anew war is close at hand. And where that would end. God only knows. The report may not be perfect. It probably is not. But it appears to be an honest effort to end a quarrel which for years has constantly threatened civilization with anew bath in blood. The French have saying that even a disadvantage in settlement beats a long law suit. The Dawes report may not be to the absolute liking of France, England or Germany. But it does offer a settlement—and that the world demands. NEW wheat tariff, it is believed, will benefit all kinds of Calling stations. A MAN is going over Niagara Falls in a rubber hall, hoping, of course, to be caught on the second bound, at least. WHILE the fact was well concealed, it may be said that Mr. Daugherty was “fired with enthusiasm.” KALAMAZOO COLLEGE (Michigan) is going to establish a forum that will be conducted just like Congress, the idea being to bring higher education to a lower level, probably. OF COURSE, as Sir Esme Howard says, we will not leave Europe to “stew in her own juice,” that is, if she continues to land it on the Jersey shore under cover of dark. THE cable says Persia has refused to become a republic and has placed a baby shah on the throne. News from Washington probably reache d’em just in the nick of time.

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 bills are paid? Do you put your pay in your pocket and spend It haphazard? Can you tell what you spert for food last year? Do you know whether you can afford an automoblle? 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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Young Scenario Writer Films Own Six-Reel Drama at SSOO Cost

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HERBERT HANG (INSET) DIRECTED A HOMEMADE MOVIE WHICH COST SSOO. ORA CURRIE DAVIS (ABOVE) WAS HIS LEADING WOMAN. BELOW, A SCENE IN A BOSTON STREET WHILE THK COMPANY WAS AT WORK.

Bu \’BA Service \ "ZTTOSTON. April 10.—While |*i Hollywood dreams about — "* cutting its movie costs, there is a young fellow in Boston who has produced a six-reel movie drama for SSOO. The young fellow, Herbert Lang, started out with a scenario and an idea. However, producers refused to he convinced of the scenario's merits. Everybody wants to get into movies. he observed. So with nerve that may be likened to that of the candy company which boasts there is a hole In its product, he advertised for a movie cast! Ills last dollar paid for the ad. In response came an editor, a retired actress, an architect, the head of an automobile company, a child prodigy, a grandmother, an art student, the winner of a beautiful girl

U. S. ENTERS LEAGUE OF NATIONS VIA KNOTHOLE

Times Writer Scores Pepper as Rip Van Winkle Senator. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor cjsc=-a ASHINOTON, April 10.—SimulIYvJ taneously with the publication | lof the Dawes report on German reparations, one of our senatorial Rip Van Winlkes woke up long enough to opine the time has now come for the United States to take a hand in international affairs. This tirpe it was Senator Old Guard Rip Van Winkle Pepper of Pennsylvania, who Introduced a resolution inviting President Coolidge in effect to request all the nations to resign from the League of Nations and the World Court and meet with us In Brussels to discuss some new world peace plan which will not conflict with G. O. P. stump speeches in 1920. Apparently Senator Pepper’s sleep began hack in 1899, about the time the Hague Peace Conference, for he refers to that fiasco as a good idea for the world to rally to now. Present One Won’t Do Senator Pepper agrees we ought to have a world court. But the present one won’t do. It is under the League of Nations, he says, apparently unaware the League of Nations happens, at the same time, to be the whole world, excepting Afghanistan, Russia, Germany, Mexico and the United States. Any new world court would necessarily have to be under precisely the same nations, since there are no others.

Pepper thinks President Coolidge should call the nations together to discuss reduction of armaments with us. What’s the matter with us Joining the fifty-four nations now sitting at Geneva discussing that very thing? There is even a high official of our State Department there, especially delegated by this Government to sit in as “observer.” Why not give him the power to do something besides "observe”? Pepper doesn’t want anything to do with the World Court as at present constituted. Yet Elihu Root, former G. O. P. Secretary of State, helped set it up, and John Bassett Moore of New York is today ono of its most distinguished judges. Take Leading Part Pepper doesn’t want us to have anything to do with the League of Nations, yet we are right now taking a leading part in nearly all Its activities. That is, all except helping to pay its expenses. On .he Health Commission have served Surgeon General Hugh S. Cum mings. Dr. Josephine Baker and Dr. Alice Hamilton, all good Americans. The United States Public Health Service, the United States Sanitation Bureau, the Rockefeller Foundation and Dr. Otto R. Reichel have cooperated with the league's Epidemics Commission. Public health officers of the league met in the United States in 1923 by invitation of the United States'Public Health Service. Dr. Rupert Blue was appointed by the American Government in 1922 to work with the opium and drug traffic commission of the league, and Con-

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contest and high school girls galore. “I can't pay you anything,” Lang boldly apologized to his cast. "And J haven't got a movie camera.’* He told them of his great idea to organize a little movie company, comparable to the Theater Guild movement. “Somebody’ll come along with a camera,” he assured them, and he hoped right. A man did come with a movie camera. And now after months of tolling before the Kleig lights, evenings and weekends being given over to their cause, their first film ts com pleted. It is a love story of New England, entitled “It.” Now the entire troupe is looking forward to making a second picture. They have organized as The Little Screen Players of Boston, and will share alike in any returns than result from their productions.

gressman Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania. and Bishop Brent later headed an American delegation to a meeting of this same commission. W. P. G. Harding, formerly Governor of the Federal reserve board, has been appointed to supervise the league’s financial rescue of Austria. Dispute Is Settled Norman B. Davis, formerly Undersecretary of State, acting for the league, has just settled the dangerous Memel dispute between Poland and Lithuania. Dozens of others, Americans, some officially, others semi officially, have participated, or are participating, in the -work of the league, of the world court and the reprarationa commission. What we have done is to enter the league through a knothole instead of by the front door, conclusively proving our eagerness to be there, but at the same time clearly demonstrating cur political cowardice in not admitting It. jJfellcitosfjtp o! ipraper Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for commission on evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. THURSDAY The Price of Immortality i Read Mt. 10:24-42. Text: 10:39. He that loseth his life for My sake shall find It. “Belief in immortality gives the steadiness and poise essential to fine work and friendship, because it relieves from the nervous strairy of envy. Much of the irritation incident to living comes from the sullen discomfort we feel at seeing others have possesstons of opportunities superior to our own.” MEDITATION: Jesus was under no illusion as to the probable cost of the allegiance of His followers to Him. He oft times reminded them of *the burden and the pain of disciplesihip. At the same time He held before them that no good could come Into a person’s life without a price, apd that in the divine plan of God he who was willing to invest his best, even his mortal life, In the Kingdom, should receive the gift of life eternal.

PERSONAL QUESTION: What does it mean for me to lose my life or gain It? PRAYER: Our Father in heaven, we pray that we may remember always the price of Immortality. Let us never hold it cheap or trifle with Thy 'redeeeming grace. May we become conscious of the eternal riches of Thy love in Christ. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley) Sister’s Limit "Im telling you for the last time that you can’t kiss me.” ”Ah, I knew you’d weaken eventually.”—Wisconsin Octopus. Keep This From Her "Who was that lady I seen you with this morning?” “That was no lady. That was my wife.”—Judge t

ELECTRONS REVOLVE IN ATOM ORBIT Death of Scientist Moseley During War Loss to Research World, By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. (Copyright by David Dietz) A r ~“' S scientists began to study the arrangement of electrons in ■ - atoms, it soon became apparent that there must be some connection between this arrangement and the remarkable similarity of various elements which made it possible for Mendeleeff to group them by families Into the periodic table. The problem was taken tip by the most brilliant scientists of the present day, but was finally solved by an English youth named Henry Moseley. Mcselev was killed during the World War in the campaign a.t Gal lipo’i. He was only £8 years old! English scientists agree that the death of Moseley from the viewpoint of science, was the greatest loss of the World War. Moseley rearranged the periodic table on the basis of the structure of the atoms, assigning each atom a number known as the atomic number. This number corresponds to the number of negative electrons revolving around the nucleus.

Resemble Each Other Asa result of Moseley’s work we know now that the properties of atoms depend upon the number and arrangement of these outer electrons. Atoms resemble each other when they have a similar arrangement or configuration of these outer electrons. Since the number of positive and negative electrons in an atom are always equal, the atomic number also tells the excess of positive electrons in the nucleus. S Thus for hydrogen the atomic number is one. This means that there is one negative electron revolving around the nucleus. And, as we have seen, the nucleus of a hydrogen atom consists of one positive electron. The atomic number of helium is two. This means that there aro two electrons revolving; around the nucleus. It also means that there is an excess of two positive electrons In the nucleus. Four Positive Electrons And iis wo saw. the nucleus of the helium atom consists of four positive electrons arid two negative ones. There are three electrons revolving around the nucleus of the lithium atom, four in the beryllium atom, five in boron, six in carbon and so on. The “picture " of the atom generally accepted by scientists today is the one evolved by Dr. Neils Bohr of Copenhagen. According to this theory, the electrons are arranged In zones. Some electrons have circular orbits. Others have flattened or elliptical orbits. The motions of the electrons are very complicated and not very well understood yet. In the first zone there seems to be room only for two electrons. When we find three revolving electrons as in the case of lithium, the third electron is in the second zone. That is. it has an orbit which Is very much larger than the orbits of the other two electrons. This second zone is able to hold only eight electrons—four with circular orbits and four with elliptical orbits. As soon as a ninth electron is added, It revolves in an orbit at a still greater distance from the nucleus. That is. In a third zone. Grouping of Elements This accounts for the grouping of elements by families into the periodic table. Lithium has the first zone complete and one electron In the second zone. Sodium, which resembles it, has the first and second zones complete, and an electron in the third zone. In other words, they have a similar arrangement or configuration of electrons. Physicists now name electrons in an atom after the zone In which they occur. Electrons In the first zone are called K electrons, in the second zone I, electrons, In the third M electrons, and so on. Next article in series: Chemical Combination.

Discretion By HAL COCHRAN OO ICING odors often tell us what our neighbor’s going to eat. Fumes that come sometimes compel us to admit she’s got a treat. Baked potatoes, corn au gratin, frying eggs and kidney stew. Kitchen smells that aren t forgotten; ones that sure appeal to you. When you’re hungry as the dickens, after working all day long, floating wafts of broiling chickens make the tummy feel all wrong. Appetites are nesky critters, calling on a man to eat, buckwheat dakes or sweet com fritters; Boston beans or tender meat. Funny how you speed your walking when a kitchen window's passed. And you hope, there’s no use talking, that your supper long will last. Thank your nostrils for the pleasure that the smell of cooking gives. Thank your neighbor, in a metasure, if the smell s from where he lives. Yea, these odors from the kitchen, floating on the evening air, keep a fellow fairly itchin’ for his supper table share. Cook away and folks won't mind it; gladly will the fumes be nosed. BUT, when you are cooking garlic, keep your kitchen window closed. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Bervice, Inc) Family Fun Sarcasm by Her Dad “Sir, Jane and I have decided that our happiness is the biggest thing in the world.” “You change your minds so often —just yesterday you wanted to marry her!” —Malteaser. IVIa and Pa One “John, you’re a perfect fool.” “I knew something like that would happen when marriage made you and me one.”—Boston Transcript.

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THE EDITOR WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU Readers Discuss Views in Times' Forum

He Disagrees To the editor of The Timi* One contributor to your columns states there are 374,000 postal employes in the United States. If each of them got only SIOO per year raise It, would take $37,400,000 to pay the increase. He sa.d Congress could Increase the rate of postage so it would not he much for each person to pay. Yes, but a little here and a little QUESTIONS Ask The Times ANSW E R S You can set an answer to any quetion of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington, I*. C . motoring 2 cents In stamp* for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot he given, nor can fxtended research be undertaken. Ad other questions will receive a per sonal reply Unturned requests cannot be answered. Aii letters aro confidential—E<Utor. What Is silicate? A salt of silicic acid. Silicates formed by the union of silicic acid with bases alumina, lime, magnesit, potassa, soda. etc., constitute by far the greater number of the minerals which compose the crust of the globe. Glass Is a mixture of artificial silicates Os alkalis and alkaline earths or metallic oxides.

Was Napoleon a Frenchman or an Italian? Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica in I?f>9. This island had been ceded to France by Genoa in 176S The name Bonaparte js of Tuscan ori gin. while Napoleon’s mother was of Florentine descent. Racially, therefore, he was of Italian descent, though born in a French possession. How many Presidents were In the Senate before they were elected President? Monroe, Johnson, Garfield, John Quincy Adams, Pierce, Buchanan, Van Buren, Tyler and Harding. Andrew Johnson was elected Senator from Tennessee after his term as President ended. Can rubles be made artificially? Yes. synthetic, or artificial rubies are made by fusing pure aluminum exide with a small amount of oxide of chromium. These synthetic rubies, which are practically indistinguishable from the natural gems, are being put on the market gradually, their great beauty and relative inexpensiveness have caused a growing demand for them. What language is spoken in Luxemburg? The educated speak French: the peasantry a German dialect, plentifully interlarded with French words. What animals kill trees by eating off the bark? The mammals which kill trees by girdling them are the meadow mouse and the cottontail rabbit. The beaver gnaws around and around until the tree falls. What are Hudson seal furs really made from: also electric seal and French coney? Hudson seal is made from dyed muskrat; the domesticated rabbit skins when clipped and dyed are sold as electric seal, and in their natural form or undipped and dyed they are sold as French coney. What is the Lake of the Woods? This is an irregular shaped body of water in the western part of Ontario on the boundary of Minnesota and adjoining the southeast part of Manitoba. It is about seventy miles In length and 10 to fifty miles broad, with beautifully wooded shores.

Heard in the Smoking Room

inf NY stick Is good enough to A beat a dog with,” said the man in the smoker sitting next to the window', “and everybody is always having a dig at us lawyers. So we have to protect ourselves and I can tell you it is none too easy at times. We are considered fair game for everybody. The other day a darky came to me and wanted me $d defend

’ MAKE YOUR COMMENT BRIEF ' there added together would make the burden of living expenses heavier. One writer said postal employes had to know so much. How many could pass a teacher's examination? Another said the cost of living in Indianapolis was so high. It is no higher for the postal employes than for thousands of others who live in big cities on less pay. Look around at your poor neighbors and see if they are all getting from $1,400 to SI,BOO per year. “Other Fellow's Condition” Another writer said people generally did not know about the mailmen's condition. Neither does he know about the other fellow's condition. Another writer spoke of the heavy loads a mailman carries. In most towns of any size vehicles are furnished by the Government for the distribution of the heavier articles. Plenty of other men have heavy loads to lift and carry', too. I know a man 56 years old with a crooked stiff knee joint who has to wheel Iron and steel in an Iron \Vheelbarrhw—full, too—day in and day out. then up-end the wheelbarrow to dump It. Another writer said some “high-up" men in prominent positions and some lodges were in favor of an increase for the mailmen. I wonder if they would be In favor of It if they had to pay the Increase? I think not! If the wage earners of this country were allowed to vote on that increase, I think It would never pass.

Another writer stated that a $2,000 a year man was selfish, only looking out for himself. Are the mailmen asking more pay for the other fellow. “Fight to Ten Hours" A rural mailman works on his route three or four hours per day; then he is home. Other men work eight to ten hours. At a, certain factory in Newcastle, ft number of men, some with families to keep, are working for 35 cents per hour and cnly eight hours per day at that—sls.7s per week. Mr. Mailman, get a job there. Congressmen and Senators do not pay postage on mail sent by them. Os course, they may be in favor of increased postage, for the other fellow would have to pay. There are two million married women in this country who have to work away from home to help support their families. There are hundreds of destitute persons in the cities that have to be helped In the winter to keep them from freezing and starving. You ought to be very rhankful, Mr. Postal Worker, that you have a position and yopr family doesn’t have to suffer for the necessities. CONSERVATIVE READER. Likes Cravens To the Editor of The Time* Joseph M. Cravens of Madison. Ind.. is the physician our sick State needs at this critical time. This is a day when a man must be trained for his job. When we are ill we call in the best doctor available. When our business affairs are in a tangle, we consult a lawyer. If our goods must be sacrificed, we hire an auctioneer, or perhaps a vaudeville stunt performer to sell to the highest bidder. Our State is ill! Tt cries out for a specialist in State-craft to save 't from a complete breakdown and collapse. Joseph M. Cravens not only is skilled for the task, but Ire is honest. It's a rare combination these days. Let us elect for our State’s doctor honest Joe Cravens. N. MONROE. Careless Pedestrians To the Editor of The Time* When an automobile driver is found guilty of speeding or carelessness he

him against a charge of theft. We talked it over and T said. ‘Well, Rastus. have you got any money?’ “ ‘No. suh, but I've got a mule, a calf and a hog or two,’ said Rastus. “ ‘Well, that will do,' I said. ‘Nov.let me see. What was it you were accused of stealing?’ “ ‘A mule, a calf and a hog or two,’ he replied.”

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should be punished—placed on a rockpile, If possible—and when a pedestrian is found guilty of carelessness he should be given like treatment. It certainly is a problem to drive as well as to walk and as many accidents are caused by the party on foot, it is time our police and judges made them obey the laws as to crossings and traffic policemen's signals. AUTO DRIVER. OM SIMS t -A -/- Says The difference between a dance and a bootleggers' convention isn’t as much as it should be. I They say snakes will not bite in water, and a disgusted fisherman tells us fish will not either. Make your garden all vegetables and a yard wide. It must he nice to be Rockefeller and get your gasoline at cost. Being stung by a bee is considered good for rheumatism. Being stung by a quack doctor is considered bad. The hard thing about making money last is making money first. Never join the Chinese army. The Chinese do not build monuments to their war heroes. San Francisco husband claims he didn't know his wife got a divorce. You just can't keep track of these women. The school board will soon give way to the spring hoard. Third Degree! If you can see Into a problem quickly and accurately you will do this test correctly. It is a problem that tests insight. Cover up the answer and explanation before reading further. PROBLEM: There Is a set of six books standing very tightly together on a shelf. The one at the extreme ’eft is volume one, the one next to It is volume two. and so on, with volume six on the right hand end of the row. Each book has 500 pages and 100 pages equal one inch in thickness. The cover boards are 1-8 inch thick. What is the distance In inches from pages 1 to 3,000? ANSWER: Page 1 of volume 1 Is next to volume 2; page 3,000 of volume 6 is next to volume 5; these facts

eliminate from the distance desired the 500 pages of both volumes 1 and fi, leaving 2,000 pages to be measured. As 100 pages equal 1 inch, 2,000 pages equal 20 inches. As each cover board is 1-8 inch thick, the ten cover boards between pages 1 and 3,000 equal 11/*l 1 /* inches. The sum of 20 Inches and 1 Inches is 2\\i inches. This then is the distance between pages 1 And 3,000 and the answer to the problem. (Copyright by Science Service.) A Thought | Woe unto them that art- wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!—lsa. 5:21. • • * - MAN’S praises have very muslA cal and charming accents in 1 v another's mouth, but very 'fiat and untunable in his own.—Xenophon. Hubby Is Interested “You n-never seem to t-take any interest in anything I do.’\ “You are quite mistaken, my dear. I remained awake all night wondering whe’.her it was lead or concrete you put in that last cake you made.” —Boston Transcript.

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