Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1924 — Page 4

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USE YOUR OWN JUDGMENT SHE election tomorrow will be perhaps the most important since the primary system was^started in Indiana. The voters of the State know from bitter exper:'ence the penalty of choosing men for public office who do not measure up to the standard which public officials should reach. With this in mind, more care probably will be exercised in making selections than ever before. Primaries are just as important as elections, perhaps more so. t In elections the choice has narrowed down to only a few candidates. In primaries there are a great number of candidates anil the danger of nominating men who do not measure up therefore is increased. Political dopestcrs are up in the air. so to speak. They arc facing conditions that never before existed. They cannot be sure what is going to happen. A candidate for Governor may not be 'chosen by either party. But don’t fail to go to the polls for this reason. Your vote may be the one that will give your candidate t he majority. ' And don’t overlook the lesser candidates. Remember, the members of the Legislature and of Congress are the men and women who make your laws. There are no more important jobs in the State or Nation. And remember, the other candidates are the men and women who will enforce the laws. If you fail to vote in the primary, you will have no right to complain if the government is not operated to suit you. And don’t be misled by campaign baliyhoos. Remember that those who use their energy and money and time in conducting great campaigns for candidates usually expect something in ;return. Use your own judgment. Vote for the candidate you think best. If he has not conducted a big campaign, if he has not had facilities for putting his name constantly before the public, *+hat is nothing against him. During the present campaign. The Times has tried to help the voters as much as possible in becoming acquainted with the candidates. It has not tried to nominate any one. That is not ithe function of a newspaper. It is the function of the voters. The duty of a newspaper ends with the task of making the public acquainted with the candidates—ALL of them, not just a few tfrom which the paper hopes to obtain favors. Go to the polls tomorrow and use your own judgment.

WHAT HENRY FORD OFFERS l (An Editorial by Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania) mHE first part of the Ford offer for Muscle Shoals is to lease the Wilson dam and dam No. 3 for 100 years, with indefinite renewals, provided the Government will complete them and install machinery to produce 830,000 horse power. Mr. Ford offers to pay 6 per cent on the $28,000,000 which he estimates will 4>e necessary to complete this work, or 3 4-10 per cent on $48,000,000, Mr. Ford’s own estimate of the whole Government investment in dams, locks and power houses. Even if we add all other annual payments (the so-called amortization payments, and payments for the repair, maintenance and operation of dams, gates and locks), the total would be equivalent to interest at the rate of only 3 6-10 per cent. Mr. ,Ford offers also to give the Government 300 horse power to operate the locks. For the water power itself. Mr. Ford would pay nothing. He would be free from all taxes on the property. Other lessees of water power rights from the Government not only bear the total yost of building their own dams and power houses and pay taxes bn them, but they also pay for the water power in addition. The Ford offer is like offering a man 3.6 per cent on the cost of his factory as rent, and then asking him to throw in a coal mine to supply fuel for the engines for nothing. The second part of the Ford offer is to buy Nitrate Plant No. 1, which cost the Government in round numbers $13,000,000; Nitrate Plant No. 2. which cost the Government in round numbers $70,000,000, and other property which brings the total cost to $85,000,000. and to pay $5,000,000 for it all. The property for which this offer is made includes steam machinery to produce 160,000 horse power, which alone is worth far more than Mr. Ford's offer for the whole. In addition, the Government is to buy from the Alabama Power Company the land upon which certain of the foregoing structures were built, and to turn hat over to Mr. Ford also. In return for the lease, for the purchased property, and for the water power without charge, Mr. Ford offers in addition to the payments mentioned above, to do three principal things: 1. Maintain Nitrate Plant No. 2to be operated * * * in time of war for the production of explosives, and in the event of war to turn it over to the Government for that purpose. 2. Operate Nitrate Plant No. 2 to approximate present capacity in the production of nitrogen and other fertilizer compounds, and in this business to limit his net profit from the man-' ufacture and sale of fertilizer products to 8 per cent. There is no penalty whatever for failure to produce the 40,000 tons of fertilizer a year, and therefore no enforcing clause. Ford’s representative before the committee said they would not do it unless it was profitable and that Mr. Ford has said the *ame thing to the Secretary of War. (From testimony before the JSenate Agriculture Committee.) L “SENATOR GLASS is a model statesman,’’ says a Virginia [paper. Used for years, we take it, and still neither cracked nor broken.

, Tom Sims Says: The difference between a bow tie ,and a regul~- hind of tie is about minutes. Cases of twins occur once in every sixty-nine births and never use good Judgment as to when or where. In the long run, it is best to walk. s Ignoring troubles makes them feel small. ♦ ■ , Farming is a great life, but a bad 'occupation. ) Collecting a crowd is easier than 'collecting from a crowd. Thousands of men 'today owe their lives to the fact that most women Lshooy > jrith both eyes shut. people talk it too much. A ■

Other Editors A Sore Need If none of the Republican candidates for Governor is nominated in the primary, and the indications are splendid that none will be, the greatest need of the State convention will be a peacemaker.—Muneie Press. • • * Whom Do You .Mean? The Carbonated Bottlers' Association, in fixing May 7 as “soft drink day,’’ must have thought that some of the candidates in Indiana and California would want to drown their sorrow the day after the election. —Decatur Democrat. * * • Terrible Shock An Indiana taxpayer dropped dead in the treasurer’s office the other day just after he had paid his spring installment of taxes Most people are severe shocks with-its.--Seymour Tribune.

PLAYS NOW TO BE HELP TO BUSINESS Producer Delivers Stage Message to Salesmen’s Conventions, i Ry GEORGE BRITT XEA Service Writer C r """""’* HICAGO, May s.—Modern business has gone to the drama for help in salesmanship. And the drama has responded, through the Chicago producer, Hamilton Coleman, with the idea of specially written, professionally acted plays to carry a business message to salesmen’s conventions. Such a play is intended s o inspire j its spectators to go out and get orders in the same vivid fashion an ancient morality play led men to avoid Satan’s wiles. Trial shows the idea works. For example, there is the play Coleman produced for a stove company in Detroit. The scene, merely by chance, was laid in Oskaloosa, lowa. The salesman who covered the Oskaloosa territory was impressed with the methods exemplified. He had been selling the town about a dozen stoves a year, but he went back and tore into the merchants with his new' enthusiasm. His order was for a carload—lso stoves. •‘They arc real plays, with a humaninterest plot and all the setting of first-class theater production,” Coleman. “The problem is to make the production primarily a dramatic entertainment. with the business sermon insinuated indirectly. And the business parts must be made to ring absolutely true, in both line and acting. We are playing before an audience of

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ABOVE—SCENE FROM A COLEMAN BUSINESS PLAT, SHOWING SALESMEN “GETTING IN SOLID” WITH STOREKEEPER BY SYMPATHIZING WITH LITTLE GIRL WHO BROKE HER DOLL. BELOW —ll AM I ETON COLEMAN. expert salesmen, to show them better salesmanship than they ever used. “It is logical to put the drama to this use. It is used for every other sort of propaganda. “Ibsen and Shakespeare used their plays for a social message, ‘it Pays j to Advertise' undoubtedly helped the advertising business, and 'The Old ! Soak’ was effective anti-prohibition j argument. Why not business, too?” The first business play Coleman j produced was witnessed b.\ only forty! men. the branch managers of theem-l ploying company. They were so im-1 pressed it was decided to repeat the performance for the 300 agents and field men.

Science Despite the spread of semi-direct and indirect systems of artificial lighting. and increasing caution in avoiding direct rays from the highly focussed incandescent lamp, many individuals still need eye shades for proper comfort and eye health. Specialists condemn many types of eye shades now in use. Some with an elastic hand cut off circulation, causing baldness as well as headache and eye strain. Others pinch the forehead and eye nerves in a constant pressure. Optical scientists have now devised a substitute for the old-fashioned eye shade, in the form of small blinders of green allulold which may be attached to eye-glass rims and project out above the lenses. They are designed especially for reading, or other close work. This eye shade is available only to the wearer of glasses, but eyes needing shades usually need glasses.

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In these days of precocious young women it isn’t surprising that Patsy O'Neil should have achieved success and fame at the mature age of 2. She has become one of the most popular child models for prominent sculptors and sculptresses. .

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Common SHE Senate investigations have been pressing so long that they are growing rather stale, but they continue nevertheless. The elevator operators in the Senate office building now call floors thus: “Main floor —Land fraud hearings!” “Second floor World Court and Wheeler indictment!" “Third Oil and Muscle Shoals!" "Fourth—Daugherty inquiry!”

Family Fun Busy Theodore Roosevelt had an unusual power of concentration which often caused him to answer questions when suddenly interrupted without having understood the question. On om- occasion, when he was deep in the preparation of a speech, the little Roosevelts all trouped into the study and cried in one voice: “We’ve come to say goodnight, daddy.” Without looking up from his work. Roosevelt replied: “Wait until tomorrow morning: I’m much too busy now.’ —Argonaut. Wife on Deck “Are you aware, my dear, that it takes three-fourths of my salary to meet your bills?” “Good gracious! What do you do with the rest of your money?”—Boston Transcript. One on the Hello Girl “Why do they keep lions at (lie con tral office, teacher?” “Why do you ask such a question?” “Well, when 1 call my papa, sometimes the central girl says, ’The lion’s busy.’ ”

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Ask The Times Tou ran Rrt an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1822 New York Are. Washington. I). C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medic*!. !e|.a! anil marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research bo undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal i?|ily. Unsigned requests cannot be answered Ail letters are confidential.—Editor. Did Franco give her soldiers of the World War a bonus? If so, what? France gave every French soldier who hod a minimum of three months war service and officer up to the rank of captain, a demobilization bonus of 250 francs, equivalent in November, 1918, to 346.46 as fixed sum due to all. In addition, each received a sum calculated at the rate of 15 francs for every month's service behind the lines, or 20 francs per month if in the fighting line. Whatsis the average life of the yellow crested parrot? The average life is about thirty years, although some birds of this species have been known to live more than sixty years. What is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile? True alligators differ from crocodiles in the following respects: The feet are less webbed: the head is shorter and flatter; the long first and fourth teeth of the under jaw fit into the pits in the upper jaw, and "not into the notches between the teetli. and this causes the whole head to he broader and Ihi snout more obtuse than in the crocodiles. How far In • advance may weather conditions be reliably foretold? Beyond a week the forecasting of Weather is attempted without n reliable and scientific basis. No national weather service in any country attempts to forecast for more than a week in advance. How many immigrants may come from France to the United States in a year? 5.729, the monthly quota being 1,146. How can one keep mattress springs from making rust marks on the mattress? Paint the springs white or some very light shade. When a man and woman enter the dining room together on which side should the gentleman walk? , The correct imsition for the genrleinan Is at the r* ht. If it is a formal dinner, he offers ger his left arm.

SAVE WATER POWER, PLEA TO AMERICA Warning Against Sale of Muscle Shoals to Ford Is Given, Editor's Note—This is the second of six articles on the public domain by William Kent., one of the nation’s foremost conservationists. He is a former congressman, refo mer, philanthropist and liberal Republican statesman, and belongs to the old RooseveltPineliot band of anti-privilege and anti-graft crusaders. By WILLIAM KENT Former U. S. Congressman From California.. E‘ NORMOUS fortunes have been made out of speculation and looting the public domain, in coal, in lumber, in oil and grazing areas, and waste beyond measure has been perpetrated along these lines. We face a somewhat different situation as concerns the nation’s water power. Here is an asset that is per petual and perennial—the energy of millions of horses that need not be fed—of millions of men that are released for better service than the mere wearing out of muscle. And at the same time here are opportunities of extortion beyond any that have gone before. Up to a few years ago there was no general procedure controlling the permanent tenure of power sites outside of the forest reserve. Wilson United Control Theie were three distinct sources of water supply on the public domain: (1) Under 'the Interior* Department, (2) in the forest reserves, under the secretary of agriculture: (3) navigable rivers, under the secretary of war. There never was a time when the three different jurisdictions were willing to agree on practically similar conditions. Finally, under the Wilson administration, it was suggested that in place of three bills there should be one properly collating those sources of potter under a system of Federal control. A bill was finally passed that seemed to meet the situation, as far as the Federal Government could meet It. This legislation has succeeded in encouraging great development by private corporations. It has also opened the wav for the taking over, with preference, by public corporations. It is up to the States and the municipalities to protect themselves by filing and development. Along Come* Ford About the time this was working satisfactorily, there came upon the \ scene the Muscle Shoals scheme, and j Henry Ford. Ford entered the field with a proposition that he be given practically all the work costing millions that the Government h.d put in under so-called “repayment terms,” that were less than Interest, lie also; proposed that the time limit-—so carefully set by Congress—should be expanded in his own holy cause to 100 years. , The ney-f great project concerns the Colorado River, involved the wel l fare of a nutnber of States. It is vital | that It should be undertaken and held by the Federal Government with proper regulation of distribution and water power through public State agencies exacting sufficient return from the use of power and water to pay all advances made, and be a solvent as well as beneficial public! concern. Public W elfare at Stake Here is a perfectly simple, well demonstrated situation, where the ! public, by pooling its assets, utilizing' known factors, can, through its Goveminent machinery, greatly benefit itself and be sure, that tne work done by falling water will perform its maximum service. There is also a chance for the establishment of the proper relationship between the domestic, use and irrigation use of water and the development of power; whereas, under grants to private individuals of power purposes, the water is simply regarded as a by-product to be wasted whenever the maximum production of pow'er is called for, regardless of the season or of subsequent use. Those who are opposing the public welfare, driven by the instinct and the motive of private grabbing, cannot answer the countless demonstrations of efficiency and benefit under public assumption of water, except that even the worst of them are now driven to agree that domestic use is inherently a public function.

Yankee Gift

Paul Bartlett, New Haven (Conn.) sculptor, is completing this statue of Sir William Blackstone, in his Paris studio. It wiii be a gift of the American Bar Association to the Ixmdon Bar. The unveiling in Temple Court will take place during the visit of the American lawyers to London this summer.

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G. 0. P. ONL Y . FACES TWO TASKS NOW Naming Vice President and Writing Platform Both to Be Easy, By LAWRENCE MARTIN (Copyright, 19ti, by United Press l rrra ASHINGTON.’ May s.—Two \jU tasks remain now by leaders .. ..■ J of the Administration ere they go into the convention at Cleveland in June. They have completed all arrangements except selection of the "Administration running mate" —the candidate for Vice President and the actual preparing of the party platform. Neither of these tasks, however, is given any great concern. Both will be attended (o in plenty of time. Presi- j deni Coolidge has given ample evidence of his intention personally to select the men who will conduct his campaign and he will likewise point out the man he prefers as his run-, nipg mate. One so selected will proba- I bly stand better than an even chance of being approved by the convention. The platforrp this year almost writes itself. As it shapes up now. the declaration on which Mr. Coolidge will ask re-election will be formulated about as follows: 1. It will first of all be considerably shorter than usual, if Mr. Coolidge's wishes have sway. Scandals to Be 2. It will begin with a profound tribute to the late President Harding. 3. It will reaffirm the pledge already made by President Coolidge to see that the Government is "kept clean:" to punish any found guilty of violating trust as public officials or of attempting to defraud the Government with the aid of public officials. At the same time it will deprecate scandalmongering and investigations for political purposes, and it will charge the Democrats with having used unfair tactics in some of the senatorial investigations. 4. The platform will seek then to sound its own campaign keynote by reciting the achievements of the administration in the direction of government economy and tax reduction. The tariff law will be praised and defended and the efforts to put farmers on their own feet without taxing the rest of the country for their benefit will be pointed out. Business will be j reminded that the administration has sought always to bring about* stability and confidence by resisting new and untriqd formula and expensive proposals. Reiterate League’s. Death 5. Swinging into the field of foreign relations, the platform will virtually | repeat what President Coqlidge said j in his recent New York speech—that the League of Nations is out of the! question for us: that this government j and people, however want to carry on j Ihe work for world peace begun in the Harding-Hughes disarmament con ference; that further steps in this direction will be taken as soon as they have a chance of success. It will be pointed out that the Dawes-Young commission of unofficial experts which worked out the European reparations settlement plan was operating under a plan evolved by Secretary of State Hughes. Aside from these high lights, the platform will cover a dumber of other points, including an appeal to women voters. A woman probably will have membership on the resolutions committee which will report the platform *o the convention.

Musicland Rugglere Leoncavallo’s life is to be j compared with that of Mascagni. He | was the son of a magistrate, and early j showed musical talent. His first opera j was composed when he .was 18 and' was a complete failure. He was forced j to play in case orchestras in order j to make his living. After the failure \ of his second opera, he wrote "Pagli- j acci,” which is still one of the most beloved operas. Like Mascagni, he j followed his success by writing many ' more operas, all of which \ largely I proved failures.

The Voice of the People

Barefoot By HAL COCHRAN The grass is all dewy, and gee, but it's cool. It’s smooth and it’s soft and it beckons. It makes a man wish he was back there in school to go barefoot for just a few seconds. The sandpile’ looks tempting when kids are at play. You've seen 'em and you'll understand. Oh, just to go barefoot for even a day and go milling around in the sand. Perhaps it has rained and your driveway is muck, and puddles of water are oozing. If you could just take off your stockings—what luck! You'd do it if you had your choosing. The carpet at home is a velvety thing like a spreading of lawn that’s uprooted. It makes a man fed that he’d just like a fling at paradin' upon it. barefooted. Say. man, when these things are a-calling to you, just park yourself down on the floor, and joyfully do what the little folks do: take stockings and shoes off once more. .Copyright, 1924. NEA Service, Inc. Remember By DR. DONALD A. LAIRD Yale Psychological Laboratory The talkativeness and general elation of one after imbibing alcohQl should not be confused with an increase ! n mental efficiency. Alcohol may make one forget his troubles and bis responsibilities, but it also helps him forget many other things. The person who feels more efficient after drinking is deceived. Dr. Emil Krapelin, the eminent German mental pathologist, found that alcohol depressed the higher mental processes, regardless of the amount of alcohol consumed. SmaU doses or drinks as well as large doses hampered the working of the mental processes. Small closes seem to improve muscular actions, but from the start they were found to have a bad effect on memory, judgment and thinking in general. Animals can tell us something about the effects of alcohol on memory and learning. Many experiments have shown that they learn slower when they have been given alcohol. Trained or trick rodents cannot remember their tricks as well as usual when they have been given doses of alcohol. They also forget almost as quickly as they learn under the influence of this intoxicant. It is well to remember that alcohol affects memory in these two ways: It is harder to recall the memories we already possess after taking even a small amount of alcohol. It is also difficult to learn new memories. When you wish to memorize readily. or to use your old memories, do not mix drinks. A Thought A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. —Prov. 15:13. Happiness is a rare cosme ic.—G. J. W. Melville.

How to Own Your Home

Every family looks forward to the time when they shall own their own home. The buying of a home, iyiade wisely, may be the stepping stone to advancement and happiness. A mistake may cause discouragement and loss of all one’s savings. How much can you afford to pay for a home? For the lot? For the house? . How, can the money needed to finance the transaction be borrowed? What is necessary to consider in house plans? Should you buy or build?

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MONDAY, MAY 5, 1924

GRAFTERS IN LEAGUE TO HIDE FACTS Testimony in Such Cases Must Come From Underworld of Crime. By HERBERT QUICK HEN a public officer becomes a i \Y grafter he does not tell decent ■■ J people about it. He has to have ; people in on it; but they must belong ! to the underworld of graft. They are I his fellow-criminals. I When such a grafting official is investigated the evidence must come largely from this underworld. So many of the witnesses must be shady people. Testimony of such people usually fits Ynto facts and records an.l . ) 4 makes a case which is clear. Detectives are often people with questionable attitudes toward graft. Not always, perhaps not usually, but often they are. When a detective appears in a big graft case with a huge mass of records. he at once becomes a person of great importance to the man under investigation. Records or Detectives If that man is guilty there are two things, one of which he feels he must ; do. First, he must get those recj ords if he can. Second, if he can't, ! he must get the detective who has the I records. If the grafting official has been cutting up money with rich and unscrup- ; ulous contractors or violators of the 1 law, he has on his side of the case j every one of these big thieves. They want to get those records or get the detective as badly as does the accused | grafter. If it is a local matter, every big local thief is with the accused. If it is on a National scale, every thief j in the National Government Is with the National grafter. The detective who Is a witness with the huge mass of records is assailed on two sides. He may be robbed of his records by the big thieves. He may be bribed by them to "lose" them. TaUe Your Choice When he comes before the investigators and says he has lost his records. one of two things has happened. He has lost them: or he has been corrupted by the big thieves and has I turned traitor. You may take your 1 choice as to which you believe. One i or the other you must believe. In either case, the verdict must ba ! that powerful influences have been at I work to get rid of him or his evidence. What influences? Who benefit by tha loss of the papers or the loss of the man ? You can answer the question without being a detective! Dad's Barber “Wow! That razor does pull!" . "Oh, that’s all right. I’ll get the whiskers off if the handle doesn t break. ’ ’—Pelican.

If your income is 11.800 a year, how much can you spend on a house and lot: how much can S'OU pay down: how much must you pay in interest and principal? Do you know how to obtain a first and second mortgage? All these points, with financing tables, showing just what you can and cannot do in financing the building or purchase of a home are covered in the comprehensive 16-page printed bulletin which our Washington Bureau has compiled for you, and which you may get by filling out and mailing, as directed, the coupon below: