Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1924 — Page 4
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HERE IS THE CURE u q JO long as political parties seeking power or control of the Government accept contributions from those who are interested in matters of legislation or administration, you will have sinister and corrupt or controlled Government.” Thus speaks Senator Borah, Republican. It does not require a statesman of Borah’s exceptional intelligence to see this. We all know it. The question is, what are we going to do about it ? Chairman Cordell Hull of the Democratic national committee seems to have found the answer. In two thousand towns and cities of the country he has caused to be organized what he calls Victory Clubs, with a minimum membership of twenty. Qualification for membership is a $5 contribution to the national campaign Already $200,000 has been raised. By the middle of summer it is anticipated that there will be four thousand such clubs. The Democratic national committee in the last campaign accepted $50,000 from Harry* F. Sinclair, who was at the same time contributing $75,000 to the Republican national committee. Edward L. Doheny gave the Democratic committee $34,500. Why should the Sinclairs and the Dohenys support the two major political parties? Answer: For what they can get out of it. Why should the rank and file of the Democratic party contribute $5 or $1 each to the national campaign fund? Answer: For what they can get out of it. Why should the rank and file of the Republican party insist on paying the expenses of their national campaign commit-, tee? The answer is the same. Chairman Hull has pointed the way for the plain people. They can take the control of both parties away from the private interests if they do what the private interests have done —pay the bills. The cost to the individual voter will be very small. If each citizen who voted for Harding had contributed 25 cents to the campaign fund, $4,000,000 would have been available. If each citizen who voted for-Cox had contributed a quarter. $2,500,000 would have been available. It ought to be worth a quarter of any man’s money to assure the end of private political control in America!
- WELCOME HOME, OWNIE LAY ball! Who cares about Teapot Dome, or the coming ___ election, or the Dawes report, or business? They are all minor considerations now that the crack of the bat and the thud of horsehide ball in horsehide glove again are heard in the land. Play ball! * The words are music in the ears of the fans. They may disagree with the umpire when the game is on, but at the start his command will be greeted by cheers. Mayor Shank is scheduled to heave the first wild pitch at Washington Park Tuesday and from then the baseball season will be on. There is a revival of baseball interest in Indianapolis. Ownie Bush, Indianapolis player, is heading the home team, and the fans are for him and for the team —every one of them. They are rooting for victory; they are confident Ownie can bring it to them and they are going to help. We believe we express the sentiment of the fans of Indianapolis when wt> say: Welcome home, Ownie! May the pennant fly from the flag pole in Washington park when the season is over!
EARLY NEWBERRY CROP EELE Newberry crop in the I'nited States Senate is early this year. It bids fair to be plentiful. Thus far three Senators who voted for Newberry and who are up for re-election have been eliminated. The latest is McCormick of Illinois, who was beaten in the primaries as Sterling of South Dakota was beaten two weeks before. The third casualty is Elkins of West Virginia, who will not even try for renomination. Other Senators who voted seat Newberry and who are up for re-election this year are: Ball of Delaware. Bursum of New Mexico, Colt of Rhode Island, Edge of New Jersey, Fernald of Maine, Keyes of New Hampshire, McNary of Oregon. Phipps of Colorado and Warren of Wyoming. The chances are-that the rate of political mortality among these will continue to be high. It should be. ALSO, the radio will give the political speakers opportunity to air their views. THE first hello girl has died in Connecticut, age 84 years the usual long wait for a number. SENATOR WALSH said the Democrats can win with a man who is right, and then left the subject right there. SHOWINC4 just how desperate the situation is, Vassar College will establish a school for housewives. IT MAY be the Standard Oil fellows are going to t - 'e down all the advertising billboards in order to make room for more filling stations. FRANCE does not propose to let the hotel men and the eobbies get all of the gilt, if she knows herself. She is talking <f taxing tourists. ONE brawny son of toil who places his job above his pay envelope has been found at last. The King of Belgium has refused an increase of salary. WE ARE waiting impatiently for a few crisp remarks from Charlie Dawes on that vice presidential nomination matter and are fearing Europe has exhausted his vocabulary. i • PRESIDENT CAL seems to be willing to take a chance. When he feeds the legislators ou breakfast flapjacks he doesn’t know r whether the result will be law-making or dyspepsia. THIEVES, too, grow careless and overlook real values. Those who robbed a butchershop safe passed n<jfht by two porterhouse steaks and a lamb chop with uubeeing eyes.
BORAH SA YS BIG CAMPAIGN GIFTS ARE INVESTMENTS
Rottenness Uncovered in Probes Result of U, S. Political System,, By WILLIAM E. BORAH United States Senator from Idaho xY/ has taken thousands of our youth, it has put a great bur- —— den upon us, it has left its fetid slime here tend there upon the public service, but it has not corrupted and shall not corrupt American honor. That is in the keeping of the American npople and they will safely guard it aifd preserve it. The revelations have uncovered rottenness, but they have also uncovered the high purpose and the incorruptible patriotism of 110.000,000 people. I do not underestimate, I trust, the potency of our great wealth as a nation. our vast areas, our undeveloped natural riches; I know the part they play in giving us prestige and power and permanency: but I know, as we all know, in the last analysis it is not these upon which we rely for the success and preservation of our Government and our institutions, but upon the character of the people, and that is untainted. Same Conditions Prevail But the demoralization consequent upon the war does not tell the whole story. I venture to believe so long as the present system and standards prevail in American politics, regard less of paxty, you will have conditions no less deplorable than those which now confront tis. The country was shocked to learn that a very' large sum of money was given to a high official by a party having business with the Government. Well, what have we to say about an individual having business, or expecting to have business, with the Government giving a very large sum of money to the political party which is in control, or is seeking control, of the entire machinery of the Government? And this is a practice which prevails in this country’, not as to one party but as to all political parties.
These stupendous sums contributed to a political party do not simply treasure the individual's patriotic interest in his party. Such large sums are asked for or given because of a desire to go beyond the ordinary interests of the individual in his party. You can buy Influence with a political party quite as effectively as you can an individual. In the latter instance it is still denounced, ip the former instance it has become an accepted practice. It appears, for instance, that one individual gave 550.000 to the Democratic party and another $75.00b to the Republican party, and both were expecting to do business with the Government. Now. these gentlemen do not stand alone. They did not initiate that kind of practice. They’ were doing what has becomoe an accepted practice and system in this country. So long as political parties seeking power or control of the Government accept vast contributions from those who are iptei'ested in matters of legislation or administration, you will have sinister and corrupt and controlled Government. Both Parties Guilty Both political parties have for years placed themselves in an indefensible position in these matters. It all leads to that sinister and subtle influence which does more to break down representative government than any specific instance or open bribe. Beeidee, the open bribe follows inevitably as a result o ft he former practice. I am not one of those who complain of the Democrats because of anything they have contributed to the revelations which have been brought about. It is one of the advantages of party government that one political party vigilantly watches and criticises the other. I hope that will always be so. The conditions would soon be intolerable in this country if it were not .so. The people are greatly interested, naturally. in any individual dereliction of public duty, but they are far more interested in having a government pit Washington, regardless of which party is in power, uncontrolled and uninfluenced by sinister and selfish Interests.
Animal Facts The feminine of the spider species prefers on the whole to be a widow when she's bringing up her family. This is evident because not long after the mating, and before the eggi are hatched, she often makes a hearty meal of Friend Husband. Thus refreshed she gets busy fixing up a home for the prospective family. Hating up the mate is also an interesting habit of Lady Scorpion. Pennsylvania game commission is transplanting 20,000 Kansas cottontails this winter to Governor T’lnchot's estate. Its agent, one Beck, pays Kansas farm boys 25 cents each for them. Bunnies are shipped by express, in crates. Bach animal has a compartment, starts his travels with one ear of corn, some alfalfa and a carrot. Kansas is glad to get rid of the rabbits, but it is a curious fact that they do not become the pest in the East that they are in the West, though they grow larger
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Mrs. Johanna Tell told police she killed Charles Blair, her employer, and burled his body in a pit on Blair’s farm. Police found the body. Mrs. Tey was Blair’s housekeeper on his Connecticut farm.
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What State produces the most copper? Arizona. Does ginseng grow wild in any part of the United States? Yes. in the wboded sections of Minnesota and Missouri, but it Is not very plentiful. Who is the present poet laureate of England? Robert Bridges, chosen in 1913, to succeed Alfred Austin. How long can the average person remain unc’or water? What is the record? The average person can stay under water about one and one-half minutes. One, M. Pauliquen of Paris, France, stayed under the water 0 minutes and 29 4 5 seconds. What States provide by law that there must be separate public schools for negroes and whites? Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Tn Arizona. Indiana, Kansas and Wyoming discretionary power is given the school boards to establish separate schools.
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SOLIDS ARE COMPOSED OF CRYSTAL Physicists Believe True Molecules Exist in Gases and Liquids Only, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The 'rimes (Copyright, by David Dietz) E' VERYONE is familiar with the fact that certain substances u. exist at times in the form of crystals, that is the substance seems to be built up of little geometric solids of a definite form. Some substances form cubic crystals Other crystals have a more complicated structure. One of the interesting facts is that certain substances can be grouped by pairs according to the sort of crystals from which they are formed. There are two sugars with exactly the same chemical constitution and forming the same sort of crystal with the exception that one is a righthanded crystal, as It were, and the other a left-handed one. That is, one crystal is the mirror-image of the other, as in the case of a person's right and left hand. When the crystals of certain substances are broken, they split up into smaller crystals. These in turn ean be split into smaller crystals until the crystals get so small that only a high-powered microscope will reveal them.
Structure of Mat tier From this, it seems reasonable to regard the crystal as the next stage in order in the structure of matter—electrons forming atoms, atoms forming molecules, and molecules forming crystals. In the past, physicists have been in the habit of distinguishing between two sorts of solids. The one which showed plainly that it was composed of crystals was designated as crystalline. The other which showed no apparent crystal structure but apparently was just a formless mass, was called amorphous. But a newer view is now taken by a majority of leading physicists. They believe that true individual j molecules exist in gases and liquids only. All solids, they believe, have a crystalline structure. So-called amorphous solids are thought to appear form lees only because the crystals of which they are formed are so very small and arrr.nged irregularly. They believe further that the unit of crystal structure is not the mole, cule but the atom.
Is Cube-Uke The compound, potassium chloride, is thought to have a cube like structure, the atoms occurring at the corners of the cubes, an atom of potassium alternating with an atom of chlorine. These atoms, it must be remembered. are not at rest, but in continual vibration. Their vibration, however, is thought to be confined to a limited area so that the essential cube-like structure of the crystals is maintained at all times. In potassium bromide the structure is more elaborate, an atom occurring not only at each corner of the im aginary cube but in the center of each face as well. Sodium chloride or ordinary table salt is thought to have a still more complicated structure. • When a solid is heated so that it turns liquid or gaseous, the physicist believes that the geometrical crystal design breaks down and that the atoms then regroup themselves into definite regular molecules. Next article in series: Radioactivity.
Science Recent experiments, at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, with an unusually sensitive balance scales, show the unsuspected rapidity with which man loses weight, largely through the lungs. This balance was so strong that a man could sit in the scale pan, and so sensitive that a pin would tip the beam. Constant addition of weights is necessary' to make up for the weight a man sitting in the scale loses through breathing. Experiments show that a man loses weight more rapidly clothed than when nude, and that the amount of water perspired through the pores of the skin is less than the amount lost from the lungs. Asleep, a' man loses an average of one and one-third ounces in weight per hour. One football player lost fourteen pounds in a game lasting an hour and ten minutes, a marathon runrter lost eight pounds in a threehour race, and an oarsman five pounds in a twenty-two-minute race. Stopping man's outgo in evaporated water would kill him quirked than stopping his income in food and drink.
Family Fnn Only a Merger *'l see in the paper that a widower with nine children out in Nebraska has married a widow with seven children.” “That was no marriage. That was a merger."—Washington Post. A Life-Saver “And why did old Steppout will that chorus girl half his fortune?" “She once saved his life.” “Indeed! How?” “She Ignored him one time when he was accompanied by hie wife. I ' American Legion Weekly. Baby a Bank "Quick, John, please phone for the doctor! „ Baby has swallowed a quarter." "Oh, be a sport and let him have it." —Brston Transcript. Dad’s Race-Track Day "How could you tell that your husband lost money at the races today when he said nothing about it?” “I know he did, because when he came home he began talkipg about the advantages of saving money.*'—* Tit-Bits. ,
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Church Laws To the Editor ot The Times This is the season of religibus conventions, conclaves and discussions. Might I say a word in defense of iation.nl Christianity? I see the Northern Conference of Methodists has gone on record as still opposing the move to lift the ban on dancing, card playing and theatre attendance. I call that rotten politics. Oh yes. we have politics in our churches. Had there been the question of repealing a State law, we would have given our constituency a chance so cast a secret ballot. Ninetyeight per cent of Methodist attend theaters, 90 per cent play some form es card games or allow them to be played, ar.d fully 90 per cent dance or tolerate dancing. Yet less than I per cent controls the vote to retain a
JfellolDgtjip of jpraper Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for Commission on KvanireMsm of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. MONDAY toy and Pain of Leadership
Read Mt. 21:33-16. Text: 21:42. The stone which the builders rejected. the same was made the head of the comer. "In the will of God there must be both toy apd pain—the joy of carrying life forward and the pain that a Father must feel when his unselfish life and desire press up against the brutal selfishness of his human children.”
MEDITATION: In many ways the life of Jesus must have been filled with joy, as when he saw a man even partially yielding himself to the will of God and start living an unselfish life of the spirit. Along with this joy there was also the continued sorrow that many set themselves resolutely against the persuasive power of the love of God. Through it all there was this caJm assurance that finally men in great multitudes would follow Him and learn the secret of true living. When this is come Christ will be in truth “the head of the corner.” PERSONAL QUESTION: With what kind of jife am I able to oppose the brutal selfishness of man? PRAYER: Our Father God, we pray that thou wilt fill our lives with the spirit of prayer; that holy aspiration may he rising within us day and night. May our lives he like well-watered gardens, that through and cultivation we may yield rich fruit of fellowship in due season. Give us thy spirit in large measure, through Christ. Amen. (Copyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley) A Thought Go to the ant, thou Sluggard: consider her ways, and be wise—Prov. 6:6. * • • mPITY the man overwhelmed with the weight of his own leisure.—Voltaire.
Heard in the Smoking Room
EMOVING his cigar from the center of his mouth to the cori-- ner, the newspaper man from the Los Angeles Record told of the movie actress who was considered quite versatile In Hollywood because she had brains. "She was actually able to think of a newspaper stunt, once In a while herself, without leaving all of the mental contprtions to the publicity man. One night, not long ago, she went to one of the “first night showings" of a picture at a downtown theater. The public clutters up the sidewalk in its most congested manner to watch the stars pass in. So Miss Stella Lloyd (whose original name was Effie Todd) checked her coat at the entrance because a good looking usher prevailed upon her. After the picture she presented her
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church law, which, if honestly enforced, would disbar 90 per cent of our church. Sunday I read a sermon delivered by Sam Jones twenty years ago—the young people were all going to “hell” then the same as now. I was young a few years ago and I distinctly remember the preacher saying “young people were not what they used to be." Girls used to be condemned for wearing starched skirts, corsets and powdering. But all through the years, my mother, my sister, my sweetheart, my wife (the same) my daughters, were serenely on the way from hoopskirts to knickibockers always dear, always good, always sweet and beautiful. If they go to destruction I could not be happy anywhere else.
Billy Boom By HAL COCHRAN ~l E’S a red-cheeked little fellow I—i and he’s kinda shy of hair. * *1 There’s a tiny little round spot for a nose. Sweetest voice, just sorta mellow and a disposition rare that you feel the real effect of when he crows. Saucer eyes that fairly glisten when you chuck him ’neath the chin; little paddies that will reach up for your face. It's a pleasure just to listen to the gurgle with his grin, as his peepers sorta trail you 'rour.d the place. Dimpled knee and shapely Shoulder, plumpish neck and manly chest. What a wonder little fellow Is this mite. Let (is hope, as he grows older, that he'll hold the youthful zest that has brought us cheer and gladness day and night. When his velvet arms are 'round you and his breath sweeps o'er your cheek and he sorta cuddles closely as he can. happiness Itself has found you and has conquered, so to speak. And he rules you, does this tiny little man. Billy Boom, you’re just the starting of a future grown-up man. and you’ve brought somebody everything but gloom. From your nickname we'll be parting when you’re older, understand. but today, with us, you’re simply Billy Boom! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Tongue Tips Prof. Ernest R. Groves, Boston University: “It is not sufficient for ministers to be friendly to science. They must learn how to make use of it.” Rev. John IV. Suter, Massachusetts: “No one who has ever tasted the bitter cup of remorse can say that knowledge is unimportant.” Dr -Henry H. Crane, Malden: “The walls of a real home are not of granite. but of truth and loyalty." John W. Davis, lawyer and presidential possibility: “What is life worth, after ail, if one has no philosophy of his own to live it by?” * Felix Isman, writer on statistics: “I believe that not more than 10 per cent of the families of the United States own their own homes.”
check to the coat room and the coat was gone. Os course there was a terrible fuss. The coat could not be found (how could It when she had arranged for it to disappear?) Several newspaper men rushed to the scene of the blissing coat and the next day there appeared in the papers: ‘Stella Lloyd loses fur coat at opening of ‘Passion's Punishment.’ Coat worth $25,000. Star had to go home in her SIO,OOO car coatless.' “The next day one of Steel’s friends gave her a ring on the telephone. “Oh. Stel! I am so sorry to hear about your terrible loss. Was it, a good piece of fur?’ “ ‘Thank you, darling,' said Stella, the movie star. ‘lt was mt a good piece of fur but a darn good piece of publicity.’ ”
MONDAY, APRIL 14,1924
One reformer has made a fortune bemoaning “bobbed-haired, short-skirt - td janes," os he calls them. Yet he has had trouble in his own circle. I see Bill Bryan says the old Bible writers were not educated. Hold on William, Moses obtained ail the lore of the Egyptians, spent forty years on the Island of Patinos, a retreat for wise men, and during the wildemes® wanderings retired for two or three years at a time, to study. At present Moses is regarded as the best educated man cf all times and hls writings, other than Biblical, are considered iDasterpie.ces. The trouble with Bryan Is that he only uses the Bible to prove his own ideas and not for the development of his ideals. aA. CARLISLE, ’ 26 S. Warnmn Ave.
Tom sims ! -/- -/- Says Long-haired cats are said to be the best, but a young lady tells us many an old cat has bobbed hair. The curse of the age Is “Darn those wrinkles.” A one-horse town now is where they have only one dance a week. These are ticklish times for the man who still wears his heavy underwear. You can always tell when spring is here to stay by the annual talk about women discarding their dresses for knickerbockers. Dodging an auto tax is getting to be about as hard as dodging an auto. Being frank is fine, but in Alabama a man was arrested for saying he was Frank when he really was John. “France," says a French scientist, “is having her day.” This Is all very well, if night doesn’t coma There are so many things wrong with the world you haven’t much time to worry over any certain one. It Is hard to borrow money because the people who have It have It because they refuse to lend It.
Third Degree! Those who can quickly scan the columns of advertised prices and pick the bargains should rate high on this test. The task is to pick out the highest and lowest numbers In each of the columns. Directions: Get your pencil ready. You are to underline two numbers in each of the columns of figures below, the highest and the lowest. One minute is the time allowed. Have a friend time you. (a) (b) (c) (fl) 32 435 233 2028 79 920 666 9994 88 799 425 6690 67 165 488 7799 26 657 159 1835 S3 649 929 1669 29 683 397 842 T 38 778 872 3084 18 913 151 6962 25 124 735 4632 Answers: (a) 88, 18; (b)) 926, 124; (c) 929, 151; (and) 9994, 1669. (Copyright by Science Service)
Name Misspelled (BlufTton Evening Banner) Mr. Bryan reiterates his faith in that man Murphree, of Florida, and says he will throw his whole strength to him in the Democratic convention. Well, it might be well to first introduce Mr. Murphree and have him explain where he got that way of spelling a good Irish name. Stumping the Doctor “Well, here you are, a pill for the kidneys, a tablet for the indigestion, and another pill for the nervea." “But look here, doctor. How will the little beggars know where to go when they're inside?” Pearson’■ Weekly.