Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1924 — Page 4

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PAPER NAVY OR BATTLE FLEET? pp IHE report of Admiral Coontz, commander of the fleet, on I 1 j the results of the winter naval maneuvers should challenge the attention of every one. It would be difficult to imagine a more unsatisfactory state of affairs than the one reported. It is not a question of big Navy against small Navy. Nor of naval competition against naval limitation. It is a question of ordinary common sense and economy. Under the naval limitations agreement the United States agreed to keep within a ratio of 5-5-3 as regards the fighting tonnage of the United States, Great Britain and Japan. That means a fleet equal to Great Britain and two-thirds greater than Japan. And now what does Admiral Coontz find that we have? A fleet that is not a. fleet at all. A fleet upon which we are spending three-quarters of a million dollars per day and that is not a navy at all. True, there are the agreed number and tonnage of battleships. But that is all. The guns of the battleships have obsolete elevation and would be impotent if opposed to the same caliber guns of other nations because of lack of range. The boilers of the battleships cannot stand practice steam pressure—say nothing of battle pressure. The battleships are not adequately supported by cruisers; nor by submarines; nor by aircraft; nor by colliers; nor supply ships; nor repair ships. The airplanes have not adequate carrier ships. The submarines have not tenders. The destroyers, which, as units, perform well, could not support the fleet for lack of supply ships. The matter of dry docks, fueling stations and supply depots is even more discouraging. So as to mine layers and mine sweepers. So it goes. It would seem that the reduction in our Navy's size has been made by cutting out essential arms of service tending to leave the remainder helpless and useless. It seems certain that whether we are to have a big Navy or a little one we should have an efficient one. The smaller it is the more need that every ton and every gun should be of the most effective type and that every battleship should be backed up by the finest possible and best organized auxiliary services. Congress will be criminally negligent if it does not authorize a program and supply the money for a perfect naval machine— j whatever its size. And the Navy Department will be criminally negligent if that machine is not kept in absolute tip-top condition. It would be murder to send battleships to sea unsupported by all the units that make a modern fleet. What the country is paying for and what it has the right |jg!>cpect and demand is not a paper Navy but a battle fleet. vr A paper Navy is an invitation to war; a battle fleet is insurance against war. IT’S THE GRAND OLD jOK the good of the G. 0. P., railroad workers, farmers, i ____ child slaves and underpaid postal employes will kindly go back and sit down. Coolidge and the party bosses at Washington are hot for adjournment of Congress by the first week in June, so that nothing will interfere with the party’s national convention. The bill to oust the railroad labor board, the agriculture relief bill, the child labor amendment and the act to raise the pay of postal employes are to be held up. go over, put in the refrigerator. Railroad workers', farmers’, children’s, letter carriers’ and postal clerks’ relief be hanged! Relief from the “pork” barrel and relief for folks with $50,000 or more, incomes first and only! All else aside, until the appropriation bills and Mellon’s relief of millionaires are put through! These latter are the “constructive” measures to which, Coolidge refers when he scolds Congress for trying to hunt out the crooks of. invisible government. “Pork” for the party job holders, sugar for the millionaires, and moldy hay for the plain workers! Walk up to the polls and vote for it! It’s the Grand Old Politics. LET’S keep an eye on Uncle Sam and see what he does with his servant problem. MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY footballists will wear lubber suits, hoping thereby to gum the game Os their opponents. TIMES have changed. In Biblical days, being anointed with oil caused no inquisitive Senate to act. WERE it not for the glee clubs, there would be little excuse for holding that Cleveland convention, it seems. THE current construction of silk stockings strong enough to hold up a 200-pound motor shows that someone, somewhere, somehow, loves the fat ladies. FIVE young men in Drake University, lowa, claim the relay talk championship, having spieled 1,300 words in eight minutes. But why are they in lowa instead of Washington?

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CAL AND AL HOLD SPOT IN POLITICS Primaries Shoot New York Governor Ahead in Presidential Race, By LAWRENCE MARTIN (Copyright 1924, bp United Press) -y J ASHINGTON, May 2.—With YM most of the presidential primar——l ies and conventions out of the way, the pre-convention campaign has entered its final phase in both parties. In a little more than a month "the Republican convention meets and two weeks later the Democrats will assemble. Here is how the National political situation shapes up to observers here at this point in the campaign: REPUBLICAN: Mr. Coolidge s expectations of clinching his claim on the nomination at Cleveland were more than realized during April and he now has a total of delegates, variously estimated at from 825 to 860, depending on the estimator. The few odd ones don’t really matter: what is important is he will not only go into the convention with a strangle hold on the nomination, but will be able to dictate the vice presidential nominee and write the platform. Johnson Routed Senator Hiram Johnson, utterly routed in his efforts to capture delegates within his own party, can do nothing in the convention but try to voice his protest against conservative control, and that probably will be howled down. What Johnson's next move will he is not yet determined, though he has threatened to sever all connection with the party. DEMOCRATS: Governor Smith of New York, shot to the front towards the end of April as the outstanding Democratic candidate. while William G McAdoo suffered a serious blow in reverses in Massachusetts and Ohio. Smith now has around 160 delegates pledged to him and eventually will control many more: and from now >n his campaign will be carried on with characteristic vigor. Some observers see in James M. Gox’s sweeping victory in Ohio over McAdoo, an addition to the Smith strength on the theory that when the time comes to begin the “switches" that may determine the nominee, Cox will be likely to swing Ohio’s 52 votes to Smith. But some of Cox’s friends have a reverse id*-a—they say Smith eventually will swing to Cox. Ralston Is Quiet Smith is the only Democrat to show much progress during the p;ist month, for while McAdoo was suffering his double set-back. Underwood and R-us-ton were not doing anthing to attract great attention. THIRD PARTY: Rumors and reports continue to be the chief r> suit of efforts to find- out Just what the I,a Eollette third party movement will amount to. It i--pretty eeitain that La Eollette will no* be an active campaigner, but that a campaig.a will be carried on in >his name in a dozen states or more. \\ bother he and his progressive group will attempt seriously any part in the Cleveland convention is doubtful. To in Sims Says: The poorest people on earth are not the poorest financially. '1 he electric fan doesn’t get any more excited than the baseball fan. Be interested in yourself alone and you alone will be. Election time is coming and many a stump speak')- will bo up a tree. The hardest tiling about being a professional politician is keeping <-x cited. | Y'ou are not getting old until you start thinking the younger generation is going to the dogs. When a gossip meets a gossip that brings on a lot of talk. A philosopher is a man who knows there is no use in being a cynic Every man is entitled to life, liberty and a few hours of loafing.

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Literature By NEA Service WASHINGTON, May 2.—Some folks have freak ideas of light literature: Senator James Couzens of Michigan, for instance. Couzens was recently operated on at Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore. While preparing for the operation the doctors told him to take things easy for a while. The nurses might read some to him, he was told, if time got too heavy for him —light literature of some sort. Whereupon Jim sent for back numbers of the Congressional Record and kept the nurses reading Senate debates to him each evening until 10 o’clock. And now he wonders whether the doctors w-ere • kidding him when they said they were surprised it didn't make him worse. The Record does make some folks sick, you know!

A Suggestion By HAL COCHRAN A novel idea has surely been missed by the wall p>aper men of the land. And, just as a hunch, let me give them the gist of the thing so that they'll understand. A youngster, know, when it's crawling around and hugging the floor like a leech, creeps hither and yon with its knees oh the ground, trying to get things placed just out of reach. The paddies get soiled as they wipe up the floor and the kiddle creeps un der the table. It reaches something and then something more, for spillings of jam, when it’s able. And then to the wall littbj creeper will crawl just to sit there and merrily coo. The innocent being Is happily seeing what harm tiny paddles will do. Thus imprints are made and the wail paper men, If they’ll copy the tiny touch, can make a design of the hand marks and then all those marks won't be noticed so much. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

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TOP PICTURE SHOWS TYPICAL CALIFORNIA INDIAN HOME. BE LOW AT LEFT IS "TOPSY," A DIGGER INDIAN. "POOR TOM,” AGED INDIAN. WITH HIS GRANT) DAUGHTER AT RIGHT, SAYS HE REMEMBERS THE FIRST WHITE MAX THAT CAME INTO THE STATE.

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ONCE PROUD TRIBES NOW IN SQUALOR California Indians Victims of Poverty and White Man's Cupidity, By A. H. FREDERICK NEA Service Writer EDDING, Cal., May 2.—Pitli K (u] remnants of California’s : once mighty Indian tribes are making a last stand near here in hopeless battle against disease, squalor and the white man’s cupidity. Once lords of the entire State, they now eke out miserable existence on land so poor and barren that it is not worth the white man's while to take it from them. Their shacks, many of them mere lean-tos of wood or bark, and their tents, oftentimes inhabited throughout the bitterest winters, can be found scattered in the four not’neasternmost counties of California. Their food is of the poorest. When they have money, they buy what they call "white man’s food,” hut it is such food as only the poorest of whites would eat. When they have no money they live on acorns, squirrels and rabbits. Many Deaths They work when they can find work to do, on construe; ion gangs, sheep shearing, hay stacking, basket weaving, housework, and the like. When they can not find work they make pitiful pretense of cultivating their uncultivatable fields. The death wail comes frequently from their settlements. In seventy years they have dwindled from 100,000 to some 17,000. Ten. twelve, fourteen in a family carried off by disease — this is a story not infrequent among them. "He sick long time; he get thin; he cough much; he get weak; he die.

Doctor? No. Too far away, sixty, seventy miles. And wo have no money.** This is a typical story of many. They die. stretch' and on the heaps of dirty rags or rabbit skins which make their sole “furniture.” Ruin pours through chinks in their roofs, if it happens to be the rainy season. They are dependent for scant food on the charity of their neighbors. Miles of Inaccessible distance separate them from medical help. Broken in Spirit They appear broken in spirit and consider themselves betrayed. Lack of education has played nti Important part In this alleged betrayal of the Indian. Stories are galore of the Indian who places his mark —imprint of his thumb —upon a deed which he thought leased his property for ono year, but which in truth sold it forever; of the Indian who thought he was selling small part, but executed a deed which sold all; of the Indian who agreed to sell for a fair price, but discovered he had “signed” a contract for a much lesser price. The Indian is childlike. He is suspicious of the stranger. But once his confidence has been won, ho is guileless in his trustfulness. There are schools for the red men but of a random group,of 35fi Indians questioned. 187 had never been to school; only twelve had passed the seventh grade, and many who had obtained a smattering of education had forgotten all they learned. If these Indians are to be lifted from this existence, the move must come from Government. The Indian will not ask.

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Family Fun Sounds Serious Little Mary, aged 5, came running up to h* r moth-r, busily >ijg.ig'-d in the kitchen, crying, "Oh, mother! You’d better come quick and getdaddy!" "Why, dearie?” “Well, papa and Mr. Smith are down in the cellar and 1 heard Mr. Smith tell papa to give him another shot!” —California Cultivator. Her Charge Account "The decree is granted. Now, darling, we can be married at last, as soon as you have settled the divorce court fees.” "Oh. never mind the fees. I have a charge account there."—Toronto Goblin. Father's Golf Handicap "They're all afraid to play me. What do you think my handicap is?” "Oh. I don't know. It might be vour face or, perhaps, it's just your general appearance.”—Sydney Bulletin. / Wifely Economy "You don’t mean to tel! me you married Elsie Spender?" "But 1 and mean I did.” "Why, you poor boob, your salary won't even buy her breakfasts." "Ha! Hi' That's where I've got you. My Elsie won’t got up for breakfast.”—American Legion Weeklyj. Musicland Pietro Mascagni's life, though not as brilliant a career as others, is interesting inasmuch i.s it is similar to hundreds of other men’s who did not quite reach the heights. He was the son of a baker, whose opposition to the boy's musical inclinations, forced him to study his music secretly. His father reluctantly consented to his son's ambitions upon bearing some of his first compositions. 1 ietro's musical career did not amount to much until his opera "Cavalieria Rustic-ana," was published. This work commanded much praise Rnd was a great success. Like many ether artists, Mascagni wrote many operas, after the success of his first, which were not successes.

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