Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1924 — Page 4
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THE BALKING DONKEY JVER watch a crowd of people try to make a donkey “get _____ a move on?” Some pull at the bridle, trying to lead him. Some get behind and shove. Others prod him in the sides and click and cluck and coax and cuss. But the only visible effect on the donkeyis to make him all the more determined to stand still. He sets his four little legs a little wider apart and there he sticks. Such is the attitude today of Senators Lodge, Pepper and other anti-world court politicos. ' If there is anything in this country upon which nine out of every ten people agree, it’s joining the world court. In the last few days “a perfect avalanche of indorsements” —to quote the pro-isolation Washington Post —has poured in on Lodge’s Foreign Relations Committee. At the hearings conducted by Senator, Pepper’s subcommittee —after nation-wide pressure had forced the*committee’s hand—it was made perfectly obvious that churches of all denominations, business men's clubs, chambers of commerce, the American Federation of Labor, woman’s organizations, college presidents, farm organizations—in fact, everybody in the land except a handful of politicians, favor joining the court. The truth is the people are way ahead of their so-called leaders. The people are now prodding them to “get a move on,” and unless they do they’ll get run over. Even a donkey can’t hold up an entire procession forever. If it can’t be coaxed or prodded into moving with the rest, it can at least be shoved off the road if there are people enough. And in this case there are, and to spare. INCOME TAX PUBLICITY mHE United States Senate, by a vote of 48 to 27, has declared for full publicity of income tax returns. It is not too much to say that this is the most important action that the present Senate has taken or will take. Whether the Norris amendment to the revenue bill providing for full publicity will survive the attack that will be made against it when the bill goes to conference remains to be seen. That evhry sinister interest in the country will be lined up against it goes without saying. If there is one thing that the Big Money crowd and the Old Guard who represent them politically in both parties do not want written into law it is income tax publicity. And by the same token if there is one thing in connection with income tax legislation which is of the most vital importance to the great mass of small taxpayers and to the country generally, it is publicity. That nearly if not all of the injustice and skullduggery that have gone hand in hand with the administration of the income tax law from the beginning have been due to the secrecy enjoined by the law itself, is well known to every' student of the Bubject. When billions of dollars a year are involved, secrecy is not only an invitation to but puts a premium upon dishonesty. The question of rates in the income tax law is important, but not so important as this question of publicity. The latter is fundamental and until we have it there can be no assurance that the big fellows are making honest returns and honest payment of their taxes.
THE leaders are stressing the keynote almost to the importance of a bank note. THE Prince of Wales is planning another trip. All patched up and somewhere to go. GERMANY seems pleased with the Dawes plan. Wonder what loophole it has found. ONE Polish zloty is worth 800.000 Polish marks, which gives us an idea of how the lo got in the zloty. 1 THE SPAN of life has been extended about fifteen years, we are told, and, at the present gait, it should be easy to live about thirty years in that time. BY DROPPING a word here and there, Mr. Bryan intimates that the election of A1 Smith to the presidency will somewhat shatter his belief that evolution is an impossible theory. MR. DAUGHERTY has provided the Republicans with his official record for use as campaign powder, but fear is aroused that the Democrats also have it and for the same purpose. IT IS reported that there are 10,000 skulls and skeletons in the National Museum at Washington, and, we may add without fear of contradiction, there are many others elsewhere in the same vicinity. THEO. M. BURTON of Ohio is to be temporary chairman of the Cleveland convention and the G. 0. P. will get a keynote from an old bachelor lawyer who has been in political office or running to get in for over a decade. From his experiences as bachelor, lawyer and job holder, Theodore knows just what the country should have.
Tom Sims Says: Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, who believes in faith healing, has a husband who believes in faith electing. Practically all Budapest newspapers have suspended publication, so what will picnic parties use for wrapping lunches? Hartwood Golf Club of Hartwood, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, so maybe four members sleeping there went around the course in nothing. Almost a hundred million dollars’ worth of tobacco will go up in the United States this year, s Statistics show our rural population Is -falling off because down on the farm they are down on'the farm. When they want a divorce in Cochin China they break two chop-sticks, but in America they break furniture and heads. s The annual honey crop of the United IStatae is about 250,000,000 pounds, Iwhion certainly is sweet of the bees.
Other Editors It Would Be Terrible A1 Smith says that in his contest for the Democratic presidential nomination he does not intend to trample upon the bodies of “favorite sons.” 'Tis a noble thought, but supposing some of the “favorite sons” begin trampling upon Al? —Muncie Press. No, Hiram Johnson would not want to be nominated for Vice President. And the voters would not be displeased to have him left off, either, so that should end the discussion.— Clinton Clintonian. Good Idea There is a movement afoot to establish a "chair of jazz” in the American Academy in Rome. Allow us to suggest that it be an electric chair.— Kokomo Dispatch. Animal Stuff The "Elephant” and the “Donkey" may not be “sparking,” precisely, but they do know that a "Bull Moose” mak*4 "a crowd.” —Lafayette Journal and Courier.
NEW POWER MEDIUM TO CIJT COSTS Mercury Engine to Replace Steam ,for Generation of Electricity, Claim, By HAROLD WATSON SEA Service Writer ARTFORD, Conn., May 6. One of # *the most important adt__J vances in the history of science and industry is being accomplished here in Hartford. Anew power medium, mercury vapor, is replacing steam to generate electricity. A success that meets all expectation the mercury engine cuts the cost of electricity by one-fourth. It conserves fuel. It cuts transportation costs. It gives new access to almost inexhaustible electric power, .and, affecting all industry, it promises to put manufacturing on a higher plane of economic efficiency. The first mercury engine in the world, it has been generating electricity for the Hartford Electric Light Company for more than a year, supplementary to the company’s steam engines. Highly Technical A highly technical and intricate invention, the mercury engine is most simply described as it compares with the ordinary steam engine. Instead of boiling water to create steam pressure, mercury is boiled to areate vapor pressure. Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, mercury at 677. , Water condenses at 100 degrees, mercury at 455. The mercury vapor, exhausted in the mercury turbine, where it has
THE NEW MERCURY VAPOR ENGINE AT HARTFORD, CONN
accomplished its pressure to generate 1 8)>0 kilowatts, is caried to a condenser. being “cooled” by water. Condensing at 455 degrees it is still of far greater heat than boiling water. Thus 'he “cooling water” becomes steam and then it is sent through a turbine, creating a pressure to drive a second generator. Two-Fold Saving The result is simply twofold production or generation from one pressure development. Retold plainly, the mercury is boiled. Its vapor creates power, then is used as fuel to heat water, the steam of which produces more powder. , The great economy is due to saving | in coai fuel, two pounds of pressure j being produced where but one was produced before. The mercury vapor engine is the invention of \V. L. R. Emmet of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. V. He hits worked several years on the engine, first experimenting with smaller units. Perhaps his chief task, after the principle of the thing was, proved, was to construct larger plants fcfr quantity production. Musicland Jules Massenet is one of the most popular of living French composers. He w r as once so poor he had to eal-n the money for his music lessons by playing the kettle-drums in a case. He defied his instructors, when they said i that he had no musical ability, by finally capturing the Prix de Rome. He fought in the Franco-Prussian war. Students of music are interested to know just how long Massenet’s music will last, as the critics differ greatly on his works.
How to Own Your Home
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A round Corner Light, supposed to travel always in lines almost exactly straight, can be made to turn corners and even travel in a circle. This queer thing is done by scientists of General Electric Company. Does the discovery seem useless? Not so. It enables doctors to send the ultraviolet rays of sunlight down the throat, possibly into the lungs. And this ultra-violet ray is the best agency so far discovered for battling tuberculosis. You will read more of this later, when the discovery is put to pracdtal use.
Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended researih be undertaken. All other questions wall receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Who was known as “The People’s President?” Andrew Jackson. What are the areas of Chicago, and Philadelphia, respectively? Chicago about’ 193 square miles, and Philadelphia about 128 square miles. Why do hens sometimes lay solft-shelled eggs? Because of a deficiency of lime in the diet. How many eggs should a hen lay in a year? A good average is ISO. Who was Francis Villon? The first and one of the greatest of the French lyric poets of the modern school. His real name was Fran-
cois de Montcorbier, and the name Villon he adopted out of gratitude to one Maitre Gilllaume de Villon, who was to hiip a sort of second father. He was born in 1431: the date of his death is uncertain. Who was Mausolus? King of ('aria, to whom ins wife, Artemisia erected a sepulchre which was one of the Seven Wonders of the world. B, C. 353). What were three of Tolstoy's leading books? Anna Karenina, The Kreutzer lion ata. Resurrection. When did Prof. Ijouis J. R. Agassiz die? Dec. 14, 1873. Is there a cure for hookworm? According to Science Service, thymol, ehenopodium and carbon tetrachloride have proved effective in getting rid of hookworms in human beings, dogs, foxes, and other animals. Hookworm disease is, however, essentially a sanitary problem. Reinfestation may follow any treatment, If the insanitary conditions in which the hookworm nourishes are not removed. Who was the Father of the' American Navy? Commodore John Barry has been called the Father of the American Navy. v Is it proper for a young lady to receive a gentleman caller at the front door or should her mother do this? When the home is informal, it is proper for the young lady to meet her caller at the door. However, it is always ’ proper for the mother to greet the caller at some time during the evening. %
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OIL SCANDAL PROVES U. S. POOR BOOB* Terrible Waste of Petroleum Result of Short-Sight-ed Government, Editor’s Note—This ia the third of six articles on the public domain by William Kent, one of the nation’s foremost conservationists. Ho is a former congressman, reformer, philanthropist and liberal Republican statesman, and belongs to the old RooseveltPinehot band of anti-privilege and anti-graft crusaders. By WILLIAM KENT Former Congressman from California The story of American petroleum is varied and interesting. From the standpoint of conservation, the ideal of use without waste and a spreading of benefit to the people—the primary owners—the tale has been a nightmare. It may be that we are now awakening with a snort. It is more probable that we are merely rolling over and grumbling in our sleep. The first petroleum was discovered in Pennsylvania, where there were no Fedei-al lands and, therefore, no Federal responsibility. There were no mineral laws to curtail the unlimited title of landowners to the center of the earth. With the discovery of the value of oil there came an era of gambling and speculation. This was quietly squashed by the growing weight of the Standard Oil trust, which resulted in elimination of waste, in steady improvement of product, but did not result in properly sharing with the public the profits. Terrible Waste of Oil As the discoveries moved west, they were made largely in territory belonging to the Federal government, and were prosecuted in many cases under the pretense of mining lew. Oil, unlike coal, will not stay put, and owners or claimants were forced to spread production, trying to get ahead of someone else who otherwise would drain the land which they occupied. Thus vast quantities of crude petroleum were wasted. In 1908, President Taft withdrew from entry for exploitation, certain large oil tracts for our Navy. These withdrawals incited piracy and served to encourage poaochers. There were continuing invasions and drillings in these areas, and insolent claims of lights evolved from active wrongs. After years of controversy, after acquisition by private interests of the greater part of the oil fields, a leasing law was passed, providing for competitive bidding, and a pe.centage of the effluent oil. Tlr.s was fax better than the previous system, though not at all adequate. If is of interest to recall that during tlie reign of Attorney General Mitchell Palmer the policy 'f Gregory, his predecessor, was at id in place of following through a bona fide attempt to establish Federal ownership of oil on the immense land grant given the Southern Pacific Railway, Palmer refused to carry’ the case to the Supreme Court and thereby cleared the railway company's title to oil probably worth $500,000,000. The controversy now blistering the public life of the country arose from an extremely modest attempt to segregate and to hold certain public property for public purposes. The Story Today
The old gang looters found in Secretary Fall and instrument to their • drawing attention to the situation, a secretary of the navy was induced to turn these matters over to Fall. Fall also endeavored to obtain the cession of control of the forest reservations from the secretary of agriculture, hut in this case he ran into a man who knew his duty and proposed to see it through. The rest of the story is becoming common knowledge. Basically and legally the whole ineffable scandal, the terribly serious waste of oil, the extravagance of its production, and practically the entire sum looted from the public by fraudulent oii promoters, fird their foundations in the fact th .t a shortsighted government overlooked from ignorance, self-interest and wickedness the essential fact that such public assets slyiuld be held and leased under terms beneficial to the public, only to those who were capable of sanely and responsibly producing, manufacturing and distributing.* A Thought AVhoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.—Prov. 17:5. >• • • Each one Wishes for his own advantage rather than that of others. —Terrence.
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Aaron Sapiro of San Francisco, nationally known economist and lawyer, has been named chairman of the commission that is going to Europe In the interests of three of America’s largest cooperative tobacco marketing associations.
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MIND MILLS GIVEN JOBS OF GYPSIES Students Have Fortunes Told Mechanically at Missouri University, By SEA Service C*"~ OLUMBIA, Mo., May 6. —S L u - dents at the University of Misi——.J souri here are sure of taking up the profession that suits.them best. They are advised by mechanical fortune tellers. Instead of having their palms read by gypsies, the students have their brains tested by a series of machines devised by Dr. Max Meyer, head of the psychology department. By summing up the results of the tests, Dr.
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'ff’OP, DR. MAX IIRYER GIVING A STUDENT THE HECTOMETER TEST LOWER PHOTO, MISS GLADYS JOHNSON GIVING ONE THE OBEI METER TEST.
Meyer is able to tell his subjects just what yfe work fits them best. After an oral examination regarding the student’s plans and preparations for the profession he wants to undertake, the machines are set up to read his mind. First comes the lectometer, revealing how quickly the student can learn or follow, instructions. Next is the concertometer, which determines the subject’s ability to play in concert wSth others. The test is co sound notes in unison with those sounded by the machine. The obeimeter then reveals how well one appreciates music regardless of his musical ability. The Urometer shows how speedily the student can locate a moving object and reveals accuracy of aiming at it. Then come the exactonieter, showing the subject’s exactness; the hyrnnometer, telling how well one can locate the direction of sound; the terpometer, measuring one's ability to discover the “tonality” or melodiousness in sound combinations, and other instruments. The results of these tests tell students what career to follow. Geese Trim Lawns By United Press IjONDON. May 6. —The lawns of the London Zoo are kept in trim by scores of gee3e, who give the weeds a close shave with their bills. South American llamas- have been turned loose on some of the more grassy lawns for the same purpose. yFew Deaths in Utah By United Press NEW YORK, May 6.—Utah has the lowest death rate of any State in the Union, figures compiled by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company show. The mortality among the company’s white industrial policy holders was 4.8 to 1,000.
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Jes’ Peekin' By HAL COCHRAN There really is pleasure in very full measure in watching cute things kiddies do. A tot has much fun, keeping dad on the run, in the home game, “Just peekin’ at you.” A. youngster will stand in the window at night ’cause he knows he will soon have a treat. He's peckin’, his face on the pane is pressed tight. ’Till daddykins comes down the street. And then daddy comes and he opens the door and a little voice sharply says “boo.” Os course he is certain that out from a curtain a tot's playin’ “peekin' at you.” Then, all evening long there’s a patter of feet as sonnvboy runs here and there. He gently goes sneakin’, while playin’ at peekin’; he hides to give daddy a scare. This “peekin' at you” is a wonderful game and it lasts till the evening is through. Then sonny’s in bed, covered just to his head, so he still can play “peekin’ at you.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Family Fun. Useful “Guess daughter in college has changed her “mind about basketball. She is evidently going in for something more useful.” “How so?” “Now she writes that she has made the scrub team.”—Louisville Courier. One by the Butcher "Can’t you wait on me now? I’m in a hurry and I want two pounds of liver.” “Sorry, madam, but there are two ahead of ycu. You surely won’t w r ant your liver out o forder, will you?’’— Washington Cougar’s Paw. Mother’s Tramp "Here’s a penny, my poor man. How did you become so destitute?” ”1 was like you, mum—a-giving away vast sums to the poor and needy.”—Pearson's. Bobby an Expert “Now, Robert, what is a niche in a church?” “Why, it’s just the same as ar. itch anywhere else, only you can’t scratch it as well.”—Boston Transcript. Tongue Tips Mrs. Mable Willbrandt, assistant attorney general: “Prosecution is only a negative form of restraint: observance of law Is a positive restraint on lawlessness.” Edith McClure Patterson, Dayton, Ohio: “Home-making is the largest single Industry in the world.” Fletcher Harper Swift, University of Minnesota: "Some 5,000,000 children in the United States are not now in school, and hundreds of thousands of those who are might better be chasing rabbits than spending their time under the tutelage of underpaid and inefficient teachers,”
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PRESIDENT HAS MIND OF HIS OWN Coolidge Upsets Plans of Politicians in Naming Convention Officials, By LOWELL MELLETT rrrrj ASHINGTON, May 6.—PresiYU dent Coolidge seems bound to „.-J upset the calculations of the • politicians in his party in every way possible, so far as the coming Clevedand convention is concerned. The agreement on Senator James W. Wadsworth of New' York for permanent chairman, intimated by national chairman-designate Butler, is the latest upset. For months the politicians have been discussing names of possible persons for permanent chairman, temporary chairman and nominating speaker, They have tried all sorts of combinations, geographical ar.d spiritiual. If this honor went to the East, then that honor must go to the West. If a conservative should be selected to do this, then a progresive must be selected to do that. Above everything else, the progressives must be kept in the pic* ture. It was only a question of what progressives to select and which honors to bestow upon them—in the minds of the politicians. Safe and Sane But President Coolidge seems to have been unaware of all their planning and mental maneuvering. For temporary chairman, that tried and true regular, that safe and sane exSenator, Congressman Theodore Burton of Ohio. For permanent chairman, that ditto present Senator, Wadsworth of New Y’ork. For , national chairman, William M. Butler of Massachusetts. It only requires the naming of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge or Senator Jim Watson as the nominating speaker to make the picture complete, disgruntled party strategists are now saying. They’ve stopped trying to fit Senator Borah into the puzzle. They scarcely hope to see him selected to make the speech presenting Coolidge's name to the convention.
Aggressive Conservative Wadsworth is rated an active and able member of the Senate, which body he entered ten years ago at the age of 37. He is an aggressive conservative, partly, no doubt, due to his environment. Inheritance made him one of the wealthiest members of the upper house and he has been called the biggest landlord of them all, owing to his enormous estates in the Genesee valley of New York. , Based on past performances in tne Senate, the speech of the permanent chairman at Cleveland will be a vigorous, uncompromising defense of conservatism. It is unlikely to offer much comfort to those progressives still endeavoring to hold a place in the councils of the party. Science How can science hold, as it does, that looking at the size and shape of a man’s skull gives little or no hint of his brain-power, and in the next breath find an accurate index to such power in the size and shape of his legs? Why should long legs mean brains? However, this is exactly the hurdle science must leap if further tests bear out the result of an examination of more than 300 Columbia students by Dr. Sante Naccarati, well known New York nerve specialist. These tests Showed that 76 per cent of the smallbodied, long-legged men, 40 per cent of the normal medium type, and 15 per cent of the large bodied, shortlegged men showed high intelligence. Checking over well-known men curiously confirms this. The moat tenable explanation is not that the long legs cause the higher intelligence, but that both result from the same cause, marked activity of the thyroid glands. An Italian scientist, Viola, holds, however, that the longlegged, short-bodied type has adcanced further in the scale of evolution. Daughter's Music O. K. “And has your daughter developed along musical lines while at college?’’ “I should say so! Just name any record you want and she can tell you what’s on the other side.”'—Washington Cougar’s Paw.