Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1924 — Page 4

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STAY AWAY FROM FRANCHISES | i-pIHE motor bus line now operating in Indianapolis is asking I 1 1 for a twenty-five-year franchise allowing the use of the streets for that period. The city should not grant a franchise to this line or to any other line. It should allow the use of the streets to any bus line that o*perates under proper regulations. The day of the franchise is gone in Indiana. Indianapolis utilities and most of the others in the State have surrendered their franchises and are operating under indeterminate permits from the public service commission. What Indianapolis needs is real competition in the transportation field. If a half dozen bus lines wish to use the streets they should be permitted to do so, under city supervision. Franchises are not necessary for this. r Bus lines should not be granted special privileges any more than should the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Jitney busses should be excluded. They are a menace and a problem in handling traffic. They are fair weather carriers at best and seldom run on anything like fixed schedules. The regulations should be such that this type of bus would be excluded and at the same time the field should be left open to reliable operators of the large type of busses. Above all. the restrictions against busses taking on or unloading passengers on streets used by cars and the restrictions against the use of boulevards should be lifted. A BOILER MAKER FOR PRESIDENT EHIS job of being President so as to satisfy everybody is one hard one. Sometimes it takes an orator, sometimes a scholar, often a law-giver, an economist, a publicist, but every day between noon and 1 o’clock it has taken a boilermaker. That was the hour when the daily drove of tourists to Washington was herded like mad through the executive offices to shake hands with the President. When Mr. Coolidge moved into the White House, folks were prolific with advice to the net effect that “the President ought to cut out shaking hands with everybody. It’s too mudh. It killed Harding. How can he have time for his duties if he has to shake hands all day ?” Etcetera! Etcetera! For almost a year Mr. Coolidge stood it. Daily (Sundays out for church) he consented to having his right hand and arm charlie-horsed by 493 varieties of small and large town corn-fed, eager hand-shakers. Last week he decided to leave the field entirely to Jack Dempsey. Doug Fairbanks and others who make really good money at the game. It isn’t worth it for the mere $75,000 a year they pay Presidents. The day after the President came to this most sensible decision, up rose Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama in the Senate to lament and criticise as follows: “American citizens who come here, visiting the Capital, want the privilege of shaking hands with their President. This is to be denied them now. . . Boys could tell their children and their children’s children how it was to go into the White House and be ushered into the presence of a real, live, virile, robust President and shake his vigorous hand and have him say a word to them as they passed—those who constitute the strength and the glory of the Nation —but it will not be any more.” Isn’t it too bad. thought Hereafter, there’ll be just one sure bet for the poor, disappointed school-boy who used to come to Washington just so he could have things to tell his children’s children—no matter when he happens to visit the Capitol, he will always be able to tell folks back home how he heard Senator Heflin talking. TROTSKY, JAPS AND U. S. “fTi MPERIALISTIC AMERICA,’’ spouts Trotsky as he leaps | * 1 nimbly back into the limelight after a year’s mysterious sojourn in shadow, “is carefully preparing for war.” Right now, he goes on to tell a shuddering world, the United States is developing a diabolical war machine with which it intends to snuff out “enfeebled Japan.” After that, he indicates, we will proceed to annihilate Europe. All of which suggests that Trotsky must have spent most of his recent retirement in a padded cell. According to Rear Admiral Nomura, leading Japanese naval expert, we are not only already deficient in cruisers, but are daily getting farther behind. Unless the United States immediately lays down and rushes to completion, a whole flock of such ships, he says, by 1927 Britain will have four times and Japan-more than twice our tonnage. The 5-5-3 ratio for capital ships fixed by the Washington Arms Conference for America, Britain and Japan respectively, has been fairly maintained, it seems, but in naval air strength and man-power we again lag sadly behind. Where we have it over Japan, the Japanese expert points out, is in destroyers and submarines. We have our share of those. But such ships are home defense weapons and virtually useless for offensive purposes 5,000 to 8,000 miles from their base. Inasmuch as the only way to lick Japan—or Europe—is first to gain and keep control of the seas, this looks terribly like “preparing for war,” doesn’t it? We may be headed toward war, but if so it is strictly unintentional. Our Government is unaware of it and certainly is not making preparations for it. If. it comes it will hit us before we know it. WHEN IT comes to permanent waves, crime has one that stays put. ANOTHER hope dashed. Mellon says he did not mean that he thought of quitting. THE BIOLOGICAL survey may make the crow look good, but it can never make him taste that way. ALSO, MR. VANDERLIP has erased himself from a rubber concern, as one might say. MAN MAY BE able to converse with animals in a few years, as a French scientist says, but it is to be hoped that animals will never be able to tell man what they think of him. A TRAVELER tells us that, in Siam, it is often case that a groom does not know his bride until ffter the ceremony, which would be called fast work in these United States.

EXPOSURE STARTED BY C. C. MAGEE

New Mexico Editor Responsible for Revelation of Fall Activities, By C. A. RANDAU N p ~ — OW that Albert B. Fajl has been thoroughly discredited, it L__J is difficult for most people to remember that a short six months ago the former Cabinet member was still one of the Nation’s most powerful politicians. But out ih Falks home State, New Mexico, the people marvel at the fact that Fail's political empire has crashed. New Mexico citizens recall the long years of Fall’s domination. They find it difficult to get used to the fact that it is no longer lese majesty to express one’s opinion of “Alkali Al” and his gang. As they gradually grow accustomed to Fall, the fallen, they think back over the cause of the mighty tumble. In most parts of the United States, credit for Fall’s exposure is given to Senator Walsh and his Senate committee. Not so in New Mexico. There the credit is given to the editor of the State’s newest and most famous newspaper. The editor is Carl C. Magee. The paper is the New Mexico State Tribune, an afternoon daily published in Albuquerque. Gift Exposed It was Magee who first brought to public attention the fact that Fall, soon after making the naval oil leases, became possessed of great wealth, and that he used this new found money in making a country estate of what had been an ordinary ranch. The dramatic story of Magee's part in bustifig the crooked po id, al machine dominated by Fall is told in “World’s Work' for May, In an article by William* G. Shepherd. Shepherd recounts the many encounters Magee has had with the New Afexiean courts during the past three years, of his struggles against gangcontrolled bankers, of his reliance upon the public for financial support, and of his eventual success in establishing a really independent newspaper. Magee, formerly a Tulsa, Oklahoma, lawyer, moved to Albuquerque in 1919 because of his wife's health. There being no opportunity for a lawyer, he indulged his long suppressed desire to run a paper. He bought Fall's Albuquerque paper, which had been purchased by Falls g,ng to insure the 1918 senatorial election. Things Happen In financing the paper. Magee borrowed heavily. Fall told the new owner the inside story of New Mexico’s crooked politics. Magee, instea/i of playing along with the gang as he had been expected to do, began attacking the crooked officials. Then things began to happen. As Magee tells it: "The first signal I got of trouble, my first real thrill out of te'l ng the truth, came from Fall hlms< If , He stamped into my office one day and, slapping one of my editorials with hls cane, said to me: ’ ’You lay off this! You lay off tnisV " Magee didn't “lay off.” He went after the gang harder than eve*'. He Increased his circulation. But hls notes were hanging over hls head, and the bankers, at Fall’s dictation, called the loans. Twice Magee appealed to the public for support and twice the public responded by buying his bonds. Then came the hard times of 1922. Magee needed more money and he needed funds to pay interest on the bonds his supporters had purchased. Sell Taper He couldn’t make the grade. He sold his paper to the bankets. He paid off his debts. The “gang” thought they were through with the troublemaker. Magee surprised them. He started anew weekly paper with his small capital. He kept on telling the truth, and soon found enough readers to enable him to change his weekly Into a dally on which the banks had no loans. That paper Is one of the bright spots in American Journalism. It has cleaned up one of the most dishonest political nests In American States. It was accomplished simply by telling the truth and telling it hard and repeatedly. Musicland The piano proper is a comparatively new Instrument. It was first called the “pianoforte," meaning, literally, “loud soft.” It was invented by an Italian named Christoford, 1709. While this instrument was very much smaller than the modern piano, it possessed the Identical mechanical construction. From 1709 men of all nations strove to perfect the instrument. and a great many different kinds of pianos were produced. Today, America is acclaimed the most advanced nation in this production. The most recent step, in the advance of pianos, is the electric piano. Science Since the great Japanese earthquake many shocks of lesser intensity have been recorded. These have ranged from shocks that caused considerable damage to ones that hardly could be detected without scientific instruments. The shocks, occurring in widely separated parts of the world, seem to indicate a subsidence or dying down of the great initial disturbance. - At the time' of a great quake the entire earth Is affected. It continues to pulsate for four or five hours. It takes twenty-one minutes for a shock to reach an exactly opposite point on the globe. This is shown accurately by the seismograph, the instrument that records earthquakes. Scientists are working constantly on the seismograph. It has been considerably improved in recent years. It now has an attachment that warns the observer in advance of a possible big quake. At the first earth movement a platinum wire dips in a slobule of mercury, causing an electric current, which rings a bell. J. J. Shaw of the seismologies! committee of the British association was thus awakened by the first faint shocks of the Japanese earthquake.

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Doc Cowboy Cullens runs the last word In novel dentai parlors. His is just a tar-paper covered shack and it’s right out in the open plains of the Pecos Valley in Texas. Cullens takes care of cowboys’ molars. Ask The Times You can eet an answer to any question of fact or information by writing: to the IndinnaDOliH Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. L>. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be riven, nor can extended resear-h be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Is there any truth in the statement that airplanes have been used to tight mosquitoes? Yes; the region around Mound, I | is very swampy and badly infested : with maJarial mosquitoes. The Air I Service of the United States Army supplied specially equipped airplanes and the planes would fly over parts of the swamps wliich otherwise were Inaccessible and spread a poison consisting of paris grfeen heavily diluted with Tripoli earth. * How many bookkeepers are there in the United States? In the census report bookkeepers are classified with cashiers. There are 616.237 bookkeepers and cashiers. How many Immigrants are allowed to come to the United States from Portugal in a year? Yearly, 2,465; monthly quota, 493. How many wireless towers are there at Arlington, Va, and what ore the heights? Three: the tallest la 600 feet high and the other two 450 feet each. What is the reoord distance walked In one hour? Eight miles, 438 yards, made by G. E. Earner, London, England. What Is the recipe for Mock Angel Food? Three level teaspoons baking pow dor, 1 level cup flour, 1 level cup sugar, pinch of salt, 1 cup hot sweet milk, vanilla, 2 egg whites beaten stiff. Sift the first flour ingredients five times, add other Ingredients. Bake In a hot oven. What is the average weight of a violin? Fourteen ounces. How do polar explorers ascertain their geographical position? In the same way that the captain of a vessel ascertains hls position (longitude and latitude) at sea. Peary made observations by the use of hls sextant, an instrument for measuring the altitudes of heavenly bodies and for observing angles, determining his position each day of hls march toward the north pole. How many bridges and tunnels connect the United States and Canada? There are seventeen highway bridges, one suspension foot bridge, fourteen railrc and bridges ami two railroad tunnels c, meeting the two countries. How can grease spots be removed from carpets? One W'ny is to rub talcum powder into the spot. The powder will ab- j sorp the grease or oil. ’ Then run the electric vacuum cleaner over the powder, and the spot will disappear into the lungs of the cleaner. If the grease has become hard, run a hot electric iron over the spot after the powder has been applied. The iron will soften the grease, and the vacuum cleaner will do the rest. What is the origin of the name Peru? This is a corruption of Biru, a chief of the early sixteenth century, who | ruled a small territory of South America near the Isthmus of Darien. What Is the difference in the French and English alphabets? The French alphabet is the same as the English, except w and k. It has three orthographio marks, the acute, the grave and the circumflex. How should a fork be placed on the table, with the prongs up or down? The prongs of the fork should always be up. Was Hugo Stlnnes of Jewish parentage? Where was he born? No, though this story has been widely circulated. His father was of pure Teutonic stock and his mother (nee Coupienne) was a descendant of the French Huguenots. Stinncs was born at Mulheim in the Rhineland. Test Yourself Any one who can tie his own shoe laces should be able to complete this test successfully. Try it on your 6 or 7-year-old sen or daughter. Have the person to be tested leave the room. Then tie a string around a pencil in a douole bow knot, with two loops, each three inches long, and with the ends about four inches long. Call the test victim into the room. Give him another piece of string and ask him tc tie it on another pencil while you hold it for him. The problem is to duplicate exactly the same knot. Allow one minute for the completion of this test. (All right* reserved.by Science Service, 1115 Conn. Ave.. N. W., Washington, DC.)

PROBE HAS NOT SLOWED LEGISLATION

Members of Congress Tell of Work Done in Session, By LOWELL MELLETT Have the investigations into oil, justice, revenues and prohibition interfered with the legislative work of Congress? Every now and then a member of the Senate goes off to Maine or Chicago and tells the people the interference has beer serious. Cabinet members have complained. So has President Coolidge. But no member of the Senate has complained—in the Senate. The best answer to the eompk int, perhaps, is found in the Congressional Record of April 4. Senator Robinson of Arkansas speaking: “I make now the assertion that, whatever view Senators may take of the investigations which this body has ordered, and which its committees are conducting, those investigations have not retarded for an instant the disposition of any important measure before this body. If any Senator chooses to challenge that statement I invite him to do so now. No Senator answers.” Only One Important Senator Jones then declared, without contradiction, that. there was then only one important measure on the Senate calendar, the immigration bill, and that it was proceeding as rapidly as possible under any circumstances. Senator Pittman colled attention *o the tact that the finance committee, handling the revenue and tax bills, had not. been interfered with by the investigations. The same, he said, was true as to the Interstate Commerce Committee handling railroad legislation. Senator Overman called attention to the fact that the Appropriations Comj mittee had not been interfered with and was up with its work. Many Meetings Senator Lodge said that whilo four members of the Foreign Relations Committee had had to be absent because of the Investigations, the committee had nevertheless got through with twenty of the twenty-five treaties placed before it and had reported 1 I soil another one. . “The business of that committee has I been done.” he said. Later he said: ' “I have had the committee meet twice j a week, which is twice the usual nurn ! ber of meetings." Another statement by Lodge, ma- j : Jority floor leader, had even greater significance. Much fear has been expressed, by persons seeking to show that legislation has been paralyzed, that the annual appropriation bills may fall to pass. “I want to any further," said Idge, “that there has been certainly no de- ! lay on the appropriation bills. They have been passed as rapidly as they have come up.”

Family Fun Oh, That Way! “Yes, sir, your hired man came In here, hired a room and then fell asleep in a bathtub with the water running." “Dcf tell. And did the tub overflow?” “No.” responded the hotel clerk. "Luckily, he slept with his mouth open.”—Whiz Bang. One For Auntie "Ma, why don't liens have teeth?” “They don't need them, dear; they have hills for teeth.” “Aunt Kate lias a bill for teeth. Is that the reason she's called an old hen?"—Boston Transcript. Head to the Postman “And so you accepted that young mailing clerk?” “How could I help it! He addressed me rapidly, then envelopexl roe in his arms, stamped a kiss on my lips and settled it all with a hug!”—Judge. Mother-In-Law "Now, by mother's cooking ” “Oh, I hope not. I'm sure your mother lived a good religious life.”—Boston Transcript. Over the Fence By HAL. COCHRAN It's only a fence, but. the use is immense of the fence that stands out in the yard. For every housewife spends a share of her life swapping sugar and butter and lard. She’ll lean on the fence when there’s naught else to do and call to the neighbor next door. The air rings aloud with a merry yoo boo. and the borrowing's started once more. “Much to my sorrow, I find I must borrow a couple of eggs and seme lard. I’ve started tny making and. really, cake making without these two items is hard.” The neighbor compiles and she earnestly tries to indicate gladness to loan. But thoughts that are deep are "why doesn't she keep these things that she needs, of her own?” Like Old Mother Hubbard, mom goes to the cubboard and finds that it's bare of things; hence the things by the score that should come from the store are the things that come over the fenco. (Copyright, 1924. NEA Service.)

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NOW BILL BRYAN HAS NEW IDEA Commoner Would Give independence to Island Near Cuba, By KENNETH WATSON William Jennings Brayn of "grape Juice” fame, has anew hobby. It’s "Independence for the Isle of Pines." From his “Villa Serena.” at Miami, Fla., Bryan has just written a long letter to every United States Senator urging ratification of a treaty which would permanently cede the island to Cuba. The treaty has been hanging fire since March 2. 1904. Meanwhile, Cuba has exercised control over the island against bitter protests from American property owners there. “For twenty years ratification has been delayed because a considerable portion < f the Isle of Pines was boc' h*. by Americans, and the contention : a they bought it because they thought the United States was going to take the Island,” Bryan states in hls letter. No Good Reason “Facts show they had no sufficient reason for thinking so, therefore, they cannot demand the transfer of sovereignty merely to make good their investments." Bryan says there are but 700 Americans living on the island, und claims that unless the treaty is ratified the rights of 10.000 Americans In Cuba will be impaired. The “Great Commoner” concludes, by saying that Florida has an acute in- j tcrest in ratification of the treaty with Cuba and that this state would suffer most from any interruption of friendly relations with Cuba. Versions Differ Just what prompted Bryan to writs the letter is unknown. E<iward Yanlsh, former postmaster: of St. Paul, now representing the Isle of Pines Chamber of Commerce, says j that twice as many Americans as I Bryan claims actually live on the | island, and that 10,000 Americans own property there. “Ninety per cent of the island is owned by Americans who went there on Government representation that the island belonged to the United States," Yanlsh says. “Cuba should have no claim whatever to the island j as It was ceded by Spain to the United j States In 1898 and official Govern- | ment maps published in 1899 show lr as American pro/erty.” A Thought Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowesi. not what a day may bring forth. —Prov. 27:1. • * * Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? — Horace.

Around Town We wonder if most folks can appreciate the depreciation data in the water valuation case at Federal Court. * • • Shank in advocating home rule for local communities might start a little home rule at the City Hall, somebody has suggested. • • • It's about time to swat the fly! • • • Not only civic leaders, but the students are for The Indianapolis Times' plan for reduced car fare for school boys and girls. • • • Van and Schenck may have started as motorman and conductor as they say they did, but they have traveled a long way since. * * • That bjind-folded man who drives an automobile does a better job of It than some motorists who can see. • • * Tn Kansas a public school has only one pupil, and in Indianapolis most of the schools have so many pupils it is hard to take care of them. * • • Isn't it strange how economical some candidates are with public funds —before the election? • • About aU most of us can understand about these water hearings is that the rate usually goes up. Other Editors Chewing But Mr. Wrigley got the worth of his money invested in the Hi Johnson campaign. Setting jaws in motion is the business of Mr. Wrigley.—Frankfort News. Northern Lights Science now is able to manufacture an imitation aurora borealis on a small scale, but there seems to be a very limited market for it. It might be offered for use as candidates’ horizons.—Lafayette Journal and Courier. They Don’t Mean It Politicians, striving for nominations Rnd lambasting their opponents, must not forget that after the primary they will be expected to say they will strive to the utmost of their ability toward the election of the candidates, who have defeated them. —Marion Leader-Tribune. Foresight The forward looking infant of the future, who wants the best chance in the Indiana primaries, will pick out a father whose name begins with A or B. This will avail him much, unless four or more run for the same office, under the present system.— Clinton Clintonian. Tom Sims Says: The Jap problem looks real troublesome now. but may cool off after we blow over it a while. Soldier bonus is about setiled. We coudn’t think of having a war with Japan until that was all fixed up. Harry Thaw may not be crazy, but there is something wrong with any rich man who stays in jail so long. Germany has accepted Diwes’ report in principle. May mean something and may not. Germany is a great little accepter. More drunks found in Philadelphia, In spite of the clean-up. Maybe they were celebrating being "cleaned up. Republican convention is scheduled to last six days, but it Is just about over right now. Thurston, the magician, can get lots of things out of a hat, but it takes a woman to get a ton of satisfaction from anew bonnet. London dancing masters say the jazz craze is just about gone, the optimists. High Spot for Dad “A boy, eh? Congratulations, old man, on the happiest occasion of your life!” “Well, well! How did you hear I'd got that clinker out of the furnace?" —Judge.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1924

EINSTEIN SHOWN TO BE CORRECT Star Images Shifted in Eclipse as He Said They Would, By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times T r ~~~' HE Einstein theory is most easily understood by first get- | —J tir gin mind the older concepts ! of the universe and then noting how ! Einstein’s views differ from them. The older view was that time and i space were separate entities and each existed independently pf the other. Time and space were regarded as infinite. Another way of stating this would be to say that we regarded time and space as “absolute.” All space was regarded as being filled with the medium known as the ether. Time was always regarded as constant and independent of the motions of bodies. It was believed that a second to a man at rest and a second to a man in a speeding airplane were exactly the same interval of time. Rules Not Set The length of objects was regarded as constant and In no way dependent upon their motion. It was believed that the length of an arrow at res’ and the length of the same arrow when shot threw the air was exactly the same. The laws of geometry were believed to be constant throughout the universe. It was believed that the circumference of a circle would be 3.1416 times the diameter of the circle on Mars or Jupiter or anywhere else in the universe, just as it is here on earth. The speed of light was believed to be constant and light was believed to travel always In at straight line. The action of gravity was believed to be constant and independent of the motion of bodies. Einstein, however, pictured other conditions in the universe from those just outlined. For extmple, he proclaimed that light did not always travel in straight lines. It was this contention that first brought world-wide notice to Einstein. Images Shift For he predicted that when photographs were taken of an eclipse of the sun, the star images on the photographic plate would be found to have shifted out of their normal positions. Einstein said that this would he due to the fact that the rays of light coming from these stars would be bent out of straight lines as they passed by the sun due to the sun’s gravitational action. The bending of the rays toward the sun would make the star images appear to shift away from the sun. And eclipse photos proved Einstein was right. Dr. W. \V. Campbell, head of the Lick Observatory, who measured the 1922 eclipse plates said that there could be no doubt about the correctness of Einstein’s contention that the star images were displaced. Here was a real proof of one of Einstein's contentions. And many of the most eminent scientists, both of Europe and America, now accept the entire Einstein theory as a correct view of the universe. NEXT ARTICLE: The Einstein Theory. (Copyright, 1924. by David Dietz) Selecting Family -Music Miss —Have you “Kissed Me in the Twilight?” Music Clerk —It must have been the man at the next counter. I've been here only a week. —Detroit News. MEW FORDS FOR REN' j Drive Yourself — AH Models No Kfxl Tape. New Central Statioi LINCOLN GARAGE 38 Kentucky Are. Lincoln .686