Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1924 — Page 4
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CONSERVATION OR FORD? FEW weeks ago Congressman Theodore E. Burton of CleveA land made a speech in the House against the bill to lease Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford, his heirs and assigns, for a hundred years. % It was a convincing speech by a man who has detoted about a third of a century to public affairs as Representative, then as Senator and again as Representative. • Burton was speaking as a student of and believer in conservation of the country's natural resources as a fixed national policy. He pointed out that the Ford offer for Muscle Shoals is altogether out of keeping with the policy of conservation for which those who are opposed to waste and to monopoly are fighting and will continue to fight. “I believe in looking forward to the future,” said Burton. “No one knows what will happen in 100 years nor in fifty years. Science, by its developments, thick and fast, is revolutionizing methods, oftentimes every year, and we cannot afford to tie up this water power.” In every vital respect the Ford Muscle Shoals offer is violative of the policy of the Government as expressed in the provisions of the Federal water power act, according to Burton. And any one who is not under the hypnotic influence of the great Ford illusion, and therefore is capable of considering Muscle °hoals with an open mind, will agree with him. There may be something but not much to be said in favor of leasing Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford for a reasonable length of time under the terms of the Federal water power act, which to some extent, at least, will protect the public interest now and in the future. There is nothing to be said for turning over to Henry Ford this great water power for 100 years without let or hindrance, relying upon the patriotism, honesty and intelligence of second, third and fourth generations of Ford, to develop it and exploit it in the public interest. In spite of Burton and other real conservationists the House accepted the Ford offer for Muscle Shoals, passed the bill and sent it to the Senate. In the Senate, Senator Norris of Nebraska, another real conservationist, is leading the fight against it. It is a good fight, in the public interest as opposed to private, celfish interest and Xorris should have the backing of every sincere conservationist. A REASONABLE REQUEST mDAHO farmers, speaking through their grange, make a rea- | sonable request. In brief, they ask the Senate to inquire just who got the money provided in 1921 from the United States Treasury to be dispensed through the War Finance Corporation. The grange pointedly says that “United States Senators, their relatives, friends and business associates” received large loans, “while actual farmers, dairymen and small livestock owners were unable to borrow a dollar.” The announced policy of the War Finance Corporation is secrecy. Requests for information as to loans from members of Congress are not granted. The farmers are being told that millions of dollars have been taken from the United States Treasury to be loaned to farmers for their relief. The Idaho farmers say that so far as they are concerned they are not getting any of this relief. They wonder if the actual farmers in other States are. That seems to be a fair question. They ask Congress to find out and tell them. That seems to’be a fair request. Congress provided the money. The public paid it in taxes. Both Congress and the public have a right to know what became of it.
THE OTHER SIDE mN an editorial recently, this paper stated that “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.” Now comes Judge Cordell Hull, chairman of the Democratic national committee, with this to say. “So far as the records of the Democratic national committee disclose, Mr. Sinclair made no contribution to the campaign of 1920. Therefore, it must be assumed that his contribution, if any, was surreptitiously made and concealed by the agent who tendered it for him.” Can it be that Harry contributes to both sides, secretly, and only tells the winner, after election? TAXING THE FOLKS EHE Senate Finance Committee swallows the Mellon plan, whole. Practically the only new features of the bill reported are 10 per cent tares on radio and mah jongg sets. The House overlooked taxation of these two things which the people have taken to and like. Leave it to the little old United Btates Senate not to miss anything that becomes generally popular. Bobbed hair and the cute little mustachettas get away from the Senate taxers only because Providence hasn’t given humanity courage enough to go to then generally, yet. POPULAR shades of spring hosiery are listed au “peach,” “nude,” and “blush.” Oh, well! PRESIDENTIAL primaries must be very depressing to the logicians who pick the logical candidates. EVANGELIST A1 Jennings didn’t convert the investigating committee, but he brought ’em to the anxious seat. OFTEN the last ditch fighters of politics find themselves there because of defective steering gears. Medical experts now say that cigarette smoking induces hay fever, and we think we can see the law of compensation working unerringly in that. WHAT’S the matter with our anglophobiacs? None of them has yet indicated a desire to possess himself of the horse that galloped all over the face of the Prince of Wales.
FORD SHOALS PLAN CHEATS THE NATION Manufacturer Takes SIOO,000,000 Property and Guarantees Nothing, By GEO. H. NORRIS, U. S. Senator from Nebraska. mHE wonderful propaganda that has been carried on over the country in favor of the Ford offer has led the people to have en entirely erroneous idea as to what —_ , the Ford offer difficult to .tar- • fidi monize our idea IT S■ >i"M <>f .Mr. Ford's fairj ■ * I' 1 ?: ■ VJn ness with his si- ■ fence oa this sub 8 a||| ject, wh>n his ■ > name is so often ■ ■feriHL used in oxaggera- ■ ti<>n and misrep B resent a lion as to just what he docs The country has been given to NORRIS understand Mr. Ford has guaranteed to reduce the cost of fertilizer by one-half. He has done nothing of the kind. He has made no guarantee of any kind in the way of reduction of the cost of fertilizer. The country has been given to understand he pays the Government 4 per cent interest on its investment in the two dams. He does nothing of the kind. He has not made any 3t'ch offer and no such proposition is in eluded in his bid. Profit Is Enormous Giving his corporation credit for every dollar it pays, he will be paying to the taxpayers lees than 3 per cent on the money which he uses out of the Treasury of the United States, and when we consider that this loan runs for 100 years it requires even the stretch of the imagination to understand the enormous profit his corporation secures in this one item alone. Assuming a fair interest rate in the commercial world is 6 per cent interest, this would give his corporation during a hundred-year i>eriod a total gift of cold cash of $236,250,000, and if this money were compounded, as Mr. Ford asks the Government to compound what he pays, the profit to the corporation at the end of the 100-year period would be $14,500,000.000. This is more than half our total cost of the World War. Never Pays Principal The country has been given to understand the Ford offer provides for the repayment to the Government within the 100-year period the entire investment that the Government has made. His offer does nothing of the kind. On the other hand, the total payments included in the offer of both interest and amortization, amount to less than 3 per cent on the Investment and he never pays one dollar of the principal. The people of the country have been led to believe the Ford offer means a reduced price for electricity to the consumer. It means nothing of the kind. He has not agreed to furnish a single kilowatt to any home or to any manufacturing concern except his own. The great city that is to spring up as if by magic will probably have its streets and its homes lighted by electricity generated from coal shipped in on the railroads. The mighty power at Muscle Shoals will be devoted entirely and exclusively to the use of the great corporation which Mr. Ford will organize. Gift Is Enormous
When we bring together the results that must follow from these two divisions of the Ford offer, the mind is dazed at the unreason sable ness of the proposition, at the enormity of the gift. With the expenditure of no money, there is turned aver to a corporation property of the value of more than $100,000,000, and the right and privilege to extort unjust profits from the citizens of this country without limit. Money is furnished by th unwilling taxpayers of the country to construct improvements of millions In value and to finance operations on the most gigantic scale In history, not for the benefit of the people, but entirely and exclusively for the benefit of one corporation. The inheritance of our children and our children's children is mortgaged, and the resources of our country are not only given away, but with the gift is tied up cheap money, obtained at the expense of the taxpayers, and the right to use it with but little recompense for 100 years time. Taxed for 100 Years There is nothing in the history of the world with which this can be compared. Civiliaqtlon Is without a precedent. If the Ford offer is accepted then the fight for conservation that has been waged by public-spirited and patriotic men and women all over the country is not only lost and given away, but those who are unwilling compelled to make the gift are to be taxed 100 years to make the gift more profitable. It is the greatest gift ever bestowed upon mortal man since salvation was made free to the human race. Tongue Tips Bishop Lawrence, Episcopal, Massachusetts; "May it not be well for us as citizens to take our eyes off Washington and turn them on ourselves, having before us tne main issue, that of upright, high-minded., lovers of liberty and observance of the law?” Rev. Samuel 8. Marquis, Detroit. “This country is a great country. The trouble with the country is the people." Lord Curzon, England: “Architecture is the most human —I might almost say the most humane —the most universal, the most cosmopolitan and the most civilizing of the arts.’’ Gen. von Francois, Germany: “Our misery is due to so-called democracy. But I feel that springtime is dawning for the German soul. We who knew war do not desire another, but we are ready, by word or deed, to fight for the fatherland. If necessary, with the sword.” i
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"Why 83 is just a fine ripe age for marriage," explains Benjamin E. Cook (lower photo) of Northampton, Mass., who at that age Is to wed his housekeeper, Mrs. Anna Pierson, 54 (top). After their wedding the blushing couple will go to Europe to spend their honeymoon. Cook was the first mayor of Northampton, and is a wealthy man. JfeUotosfiip of draper Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for the oomnniion on eranre l*m of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America TUESDAY The Challenge of the Christ Read Mt. 22:41-23 13. Text: 22.42. What think ye ~f the Christ? "Its challenging feature is Jesus Christ. This challenge ts insistent and unavoidable, a challenge that is Involved in the very nature of life. It stands out to be met In some way by every man.” MEDITATION: This is a question that every man has to settlo. His answer measures hia own life and fixe* his place In the eternal Kingdom of God. We cannot understand at once God's providence, but If we open our hearts to the Inspiring influence ftf His presence and are willing to receive the spirit we shall come into all truth and know Him as He is. A person is not lost until he has determined to close his heart, against Christ. .Salvation is posslole as long as we are willing to open our hearts to Him. PERSONAL QUESTION: What way have I found anywhere to compete with Christ's wonderful way of living? PRAYER: Almighty God. may our lives bo nyido beautiful by thy grace. May we lie Illuminated by the light of thy presence, that we may apprehend the truth of Christ and accept Him. Hlp us to manifest him to the world as the savior of mankind. Amen. (Copyright. 1324, F. L. Fagley) Is It Living? By HAL COCHRAN w j OU can rise up In the morning J ! and prepare yourself for work 1 You cai: bow unto the grindstone with no time for play or shirk. You may turn the wheels of business In a full successful flight till you feel you've done a day full when you close your desk at night. You may spend a day at pleasure, you may fish or sail or row. You may hop upon a street car, to the bathing beaches go. You may seek a shady hillside and, secluded, rost in peace. Y’ou may travel into dreamland, where your cares and worries cease. You may sit around the fireside in your home and with your wife. You may gather 'round the table and en joy your married life. You may visit movie houses; now and then attend a show. You may pick your afterwork hours to be tip and on the go. But, take all these things of living. Add them up as part of life; they're a full-fledged combination of real happiness and strife. Then, consider: IS It living? Reconsider —am I right, when I say no man has lived until he's kissed a child good-night? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
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RADIUM HAS THREE GIVEN LIGHT RA YS Chemical Action Depends on Atoms Gaining or Losing Electrons, By ,DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times (Copyright by David Dietz) CP "THEMICAL action, it will be remembered, depended upon the - fact that atoms could gain or lose one or more of the outer revolving electrons. No change ih the nuclei of the atoms is involved by chemical action. From this it would appear that the positive and negative electrons which form the nucleus of an atom are locked togethe? In such a way that it is impossible to get them apart.A study of radium and the radioactive substances however prove this is not the case. When radium was first studied it was found to give off three kinds of rays. To distinguish them, they were named at the time after the first three letters of the Greek alphabet—alpha rays, beta rays and gamma rays. Short Eight Rays The gamma rays were soon found to be extremely short light waves resembling X rays and having the same properties. The alpha and beta rays presented a more difficult problem. The alpha rays were identified by Sir Ernest Rutherford. He proved that they were composed of definite particles now known as alpha particles. Each alpha particle consisted of four positive electrons and two negative ones. And such a combination is the nucleus of a helium atom. In other words, an alpha particle is a nucleus of a helium atom. The beta rays wens found to consist of negative electrons. Further study reveajed the fact that all radio active substances undergo. transformations, changing from one element into another. Uranium, for example, in time turns into a substance of lighter atomic weight. This in turn becomes still lighter, eventually becoming radium, Radium goes through a similar process eventually turning into lead. Therefore it will be seen that in radio-active substances, a disintegration of the nucleus is going on. positive and negative electrons combined In alpha particles, and separate negative electrons being expelled from the nucleus. 38 Substances Known About thirty-eight radio-active substances have been discovered, but uranium and thorium are thought to be the 'fundamental radio-active substance*, the others representing products formed from the disintegration of these two. In the case of some radio-active elements the disintegration is remarkably fast. In others it is exceedingly slow. The reasons for this are not yet very well understoood and phys lcists have found it impossible to either speed up or slow down the process. There is a theory' held by some physicists that every element Is radio active to a certain degree, but more investigation is needed before this point can be stated positively. Next artice In series: Evalution of Matter. Family Fun Its So Sad
“I hope that's a nice book for you to read, darling." “Oh, yes, mummy. It's a Jovelv book, but I don’t think you would like It. It's so sad at the end " “How is It sad, darling?” “Well, she dies, and he has to go back to his wife ” —Tit Bits (London). Not With Ma on Deck “I’ve decided on a name for baby. I shall call her Euphrosyne.” “Splendid. The first girl I ever loved was called Euphrosyne, and the name will revive pleasant memories.” “We will call her Elizabeth, after my mother.”—Pearson's Weekly. Dad Helpless “This is the last straw —the end! I'm going to leave you. Now. Forever;” “Y’ou can’t dear. Your trousers haven't come back from the cleaners.” —American Legion Weekly. Jack Popped, but—- “ Papa, did Jack ask for my hand?" "Yes, and I guess that’s about all of you he could support. I found out that his salary would just about pay your manicure and glove bills.”— Boston Transcript. The Cook Puzzled “Mary, please explain to me how It is that I saw you kissing a young man in the kitchen last night.” “Sure, I dunno how it is, ma’am, unless you were lookin’ through the keyhole.”—Humorist (London.)
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A Business Tip To the Editor of Th, limes A glut ten for statistics has figured out that every other auto is a Ford. 1 Ten years ago there were only 405,000 Ford cars registered in the whole country. Now the figurft Is away j beyond 5,000,000. There is nothing mysterious about what made Ford fabulously rich. He simply took a device that most people couldn't afford and manufactured it to be within reach of their pocketbooks. Ingersoll did the same with watches. And look at the crowded 10-cent stores. The road to wealth Is as obvious as a $5 gold piece glittering in the sunlight. A. J. B. Foetal Pay To the Editor of The Timm I agree with “Conservative Reader's” views on the salary increase for the postal employes-. “There are two million married women in this country aho have to work away from their holies in support of their fami- : lies. Th >re are hundreds of destitute | persons right here in Indianapolis | who have to be helped in the winter to keep them from freezing and starving. You ought to be very thankful, | Mr. Postal Worker,, that you have a position and your family doesn't have to suffer for the necessities of life.” Postal employes do not pause to consider how many thousands of other taxpayers are struggling with Test Yourself Can you see through a statement or a condition so clearly that you can arrive at accurate conclusions? These problems will give an indication of your ability in this field, j Try them on yourself and then test ■ your friends. Allow a half minute for ! each problem. 1. A box has two smaller hoxos ini side It. and each of these smaller boxes | contains a little box. Counting the I big box. how many boxes are there 2. A box has two smaller boxes in- ! side It. and each of these smaller boxes contains two little boxes. How | many boxes are there altogether? 3. A box has three smaller boxes | ins de of it. and each of these three j smaller boxes contains three little ' boxes. How many boxes are there | altogether? 4. A box has four smaller boxes in- | side of It, and each of these four small ; boxes contains four little boxes. How | many boxes are there altogether? Answers: 1, Five; 2, seven; 3, thirteen; 4, twenty-one. All rights reserved by Science Service, 11.15 Conn. Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C. A Thought The tongue is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold, how groat a matter a little fire kindleth.— Has. 3:5. • • • rrrr HERE boasting ends, there digyy nity begins. I J —Young. Animal Facts United States Forestrv Snpervisor Agee has surveyed engineering work done by heavers In Silver Creek Valley, Col.,and reports their economic values as highly important. "Beavers' forty rix dams store water all summer and, when it is badly needed in August, farmers cut ‘he darns and obtain enough to Irrigate 30,000 acres. Twenty-four hours later the little engineers have repaired all the breaks and the ponds are being built up again. The forty-six dams, if built of concrete, would cost $200,000. Rancher in another part of Colorado, who had only enough water to Irrigate a small garden plot, Imported trapped beavers and now Irrigates forty acres. In Constantinople, to cure a horse of the colic they break an egg on Its forehead and then gallop It around a graveyard. Miss Anna Kyle, Youngstown. Ohio, has a five acre grass plot which is valued at $200,000 and is the home of Old Bill, a horse that has worked for her soy twenty-eight years. Bhe says nobody shall buy that land as long as Old Biil lives and can use it.
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MAKE YOUR COMMENT BRIEF : a much less wage of income than | they to keep soul and body together ! and to meet their payments on their j little homes Is required of them for the making of useful citizenship. MRS. O. J. D. ; QUESTIONS Ask The Times ANSWERS You can get an answer to any Question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Time* Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are., Washington. D C, inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. Ail letters are confidential.—Editor. What is a cubit? A measure employed by the ancients, equal to the length of the arm from tlie elbow to the tip of the midI die finger. The cubit of the Romans was about 17 2-5 inches, and that of the Hebrews 22 inches, but its length ts genrally given as 18 Engiish inches. YYhat are the Congressional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924? $3,706,779,083. How many Federal employes are there in the District of Columbia? 66,290. Why did Japan enter the World War? | Because her treaty with England j bound her to join with England when I the peace of the Far East was threatiened. What nation has jurisdiction over a crime committed outside the three-mile limit at sea? The country under whose flag the j ship on which the crime is committed I sails, except in regard to the violq- ! tions of the prohibition laws of the ! United States, in regard to which, by ! a special conventioh between the j United States and Great Britain, violations of the prohibition laws occuri ring outside the three-mile limit and | up to the twelve-mile limit now come : under the jurisdiction of the United States. How and when should peach trees be pruned? Usually in February or March. The peach bears on shoots of the previous year; the tree must, therefore, never be beaded back. Whole branches should be removed when pruning. Who wrote “Rock of Ages?” Augustus Toplady. Where was Helen Keller born? At Tuscumbia, Ala. What was the original virgin stand of timber in the L’nited States, and what is the present virgin stand? It is estimated that the original virgin stand of timber was about 882,000,0C0 acres, the volume estimated to have been abount 5,200,000,000 board feet. The present virgin stand of timber is about 138.000,000 acres with a volume of 1,600.000,000 l board feet. Is there platinum in the switch contacts of the desk stand of a telephone? Y’es, a very minute quantity. How many cigarettes are smoked in the United States annually? It is estimated in 1923 fifty billions were smoked. Who was the Spanish admiral in charge of the fleet which Dewey destroyed at Manila Bay? Admiral Montojo. Heard in the G| _ 1 HAD not time," said the | i I smoker from New York, as I I he knocked his pipe out against his shoe, "to get back to the i place I usually Lunch at, so I went into the first place I came to, which was a cheap little foreign restaurant. “The sole was dry and tasteless, and there was a billousnes about the fried potatoes. Suddenly I recognized thft waiter. It was a fellow called
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The Dog Tax To the Editor of The Times I am writing about the dog tax law. I think it is all right to pay dog j taxes of $i to $2 on a live dog, but when it comes to paying $5 on a dog that was killed a year ago, I think it is an outrage. If the $5 isn’t paid. It means a fine of $17.50, and I suppose if this j tine isn't paid it will have to be ; work l out. probably on a rock pile, and tne family left to suffer while it is being worked out. We are buying a home in the country. We need a good dog and are willing to pay a reasdnable tax. But we are not willing to pay taxes on a dog that was run over and killed by an automobile one year ago. The sheriff was notified of this dog being killed. Yet a warrant was sworn out because the tax on this dead dog was not paid. MRS. A. E. HENKE. Brookville Road. To the Editor of The Times The drug traffic has become a world menace. To stamp it out, it must be ( attacked at the source of production —international action to curb the making* of opium, morphine, heroin, etc. What isn’t made can’t be sold. We need international drug police. Present agreements along this line are feeble. E. A. A. Tom sims -!- -/- Says Do you use sheets in your house? j They are dangerous. In Boston a burglar used the sheets to tie a man. One real nice thing about phonographs and player pianos is you never have to- sit around and beg them to play. News from London. Wife really hit her husband with a rolling pin. Per- i haps it is a quaint old English custom. What could be worse than teaching, in a girls’ school where the answer 1 to all questions is “because”? Falling in love or making a pile of i money doesn't leave much time for doing anything else. Chicago couple eloped in an airplane. That's the way these days. They fly high at first, but they come down to earth safely. \ Lightning is so contrary. In Canada, it went to the trouble of striking twice in the same place. The auto race is not as dangerous as the human race. Science A scientific discovery of great Interest to students of literature has been made. It justifies Homer as an historian. Homer, the blind poet of Greece, and the greatst poet of ancient days, wrote about 800 B. C. His poems are about the Greek expedition that captured {lie city of Troy. The romance of story wis supplied by the beautiful . Helen, celebrated In song and story ever since. Until recently the entire Homerio story was classed as a myth. But Troy has been discovered and : cently the tomb of Protesllaus, the first Greek slain in the Trojan warn, has been unearthed. The tomb is at the tip of Gallipoli, the seotlon made famous in the Word War by the costly failure of the British campaign. Troy is on the mainland. Just opposite. The original city is so old that six others have been built over its sltft. It probably dates back to 8,000 B. C. Stone axes and pottery of that date have been found: also green Jade axes and articles of copper. Smoking Room Higgins, who had been at college with me. I remembered then that there had been some rumor about Higgins having gone busted. We talked of old times and I said. 'Gee, but I am sorry you have come to this.’. “ T have not descended to the bot-tom-most depths,’ replied Higgins, with a touch of his old superciliousness. 'I may wait hare, but I don’t eat here.’"