Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1924 — Page 4

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KEEP MUSCLE SHOALS HE Union Carbide Company is the latest bidder for Muscle Shoals. This company has submitted a proposal to 'Secretary of War Weeks which, on the face of it, is more advantageous to the Government in every way than the Ford proposal. The Union Carbide Company proposes to do everything that Ford proposes in the way of public service and more, and it proposes to pay the Government much more for the privilege. It asks for a fifty-year lease only, as against the Ford demand for a hundred years, and in addition guarantees to observe all the provisions of the Federal water power act, which Ford refuses to do. The Carbide company proposal is only one of several that have been made for MuscleyShoals in addition to the Ford proposal. Every one of them seems to be more advantageous to the Government than the Ford proposal. If the Government were in the position where it had to dispose of Muscle Shoals to some private interest there would be no possible justification for giving it to Henry Ford on less advantageous terms,* simply because he is Henry Ford. But fortunately the Government is in no such position. Muscle Shoals, with its nearly a million horse-power potentialities, is the keystone of the arch of the industrial development of the southeastern section of the country. It should not be leased to any one for private exploitation, but should be developed by the Government in the interest of the public.

THE GERMAN ELECTIONS | t UST as had been feared, the German war party came 1 J [ mighty near stag iiAr a come-back in Sunday's elections. According to press reports, the nationalists are now the second strongest single party in Germany. Indeed, with affiliations they may yet prove the strongest. Monarchists celebrated their success at the polls by marching through the streets, collecting outside the allied military mission in Berlin and singing “Die Wacht am Rhein” and “Deutschland Über Alles.” General Von Ludendorff, recently acquitted of a treason charge of trying to overthrow the republic and restore the monarchy, was elected to a seat in the Reichstag. So was former Admiral Von Tirpitz of U-boat fame. During the day a crowd of monarchists gathered in front of Ludendorff’s home. “We hope,” said a speaker addressing the former war lord, “that you will gain a complete victory and that we will live to participate when you lead us over the Rhine again.” Next Sunday the French will hold their elections. In view of what happened in Germany last Sunday, no one need be surprised if France goes nationalistic, too. The one bright spot in the German elections is the report that a sufficient number of Socialists, Centrists, Democrats and so forth, were returned to the Reichstag to carry out the Dawes reparations plan upon which Europe’s hope of peace now rests. Under the Dawes plan, rich German industrialists and junkers who thus far have escaped taxation, will have to pay something. The idea nearly kills them. It would be much cheaper for them to wipe out the debt with blood, not their blood, for they would not follow Ludendorff across the Rhine, but the blood of the long-suffering German masses. Given half a chance they would substitute their plan for the Dawes plan, theirs being to resist the allies, pay nothing and drill troops against the day when they can settle the score in a return date on the battlefield. German good sense and a coalition government can and must stop them. “The frightful growth of the communist vote,” spoken of by the German Foreign Office, does not frighten us. It is the direct result of German misery and this will gradually disappear with the return of German sanity.

NEW YORK actors may strike, but will they make a hit? AN ALIENIST is a man who believes that money talks rationally. THE PRESENT/pay of the hodcarrier shows what it really means to climb to the top. NO ONE has asked Charlie Dawes if he will accept the Vice Presidential nomination on account of the hazard. THAT truth-in-fabric bill down in Washington is probably an attempt to counteract the fabrication so prevalent thei'e. MR. DAUGHERTY says he resigned to save the country from the reds, probably meaning those who had read the testimony. IN THE East women insure their hats against rain, which is an idea for those fellows who still have derbies in the presidential ring.

Tom Sims Says: Cuba is shipping- us candy filled with booze, so taking candy away from the baby may become harder now. Seattle society woman has a lion for a pet and we Just wondered if hubby has to put the lion out every night. Many of us can't give our old clothes to the poor because then we would get sunburned all over. > Detroit woman driver hit a building, but she didn’t claim it was on the wrong side of the street. Honolulu has the world's most efficient phone system, which needn't be so darn efficient. A Kindly Wife Lifted from the Bloomsburg. Pa., Press: If the persons who so kindly warned me through the mail about my husband and another woman will call at my home, I will give them the names of ejven others—so why worry about one^biore?'’ —L- M. S.

Other Editors Poor Hank Pity Hank Ford. At the close of; the year 1923 he had in bank, in actual cash, a little less than two hundred seventy-three million dollars. Small as it is, Henry had more money to his* credit than Uncle Sam. his nearest rival Fact is, he could have bought out Uncle on that date and still had half of his bank balanace intact. Selling flivvers and tractors at a "little over csost” is about to ruin Henry.—Bluffton Banner. One or the Other It looks as though -we would have to have wider roads, fewer cars or be more careful in driving if we are to avoid many serious accidents.—Decatur Democrat. Sometliing Needed President Coolidge wishes to stand for the exclusion of the Japanese without offending them, which, from this distance, would seem to require all the diplomacy of the non-shirt-sleeye kind that our statesmen will Ue able to muster. —Muncie Press.

PRINCE NO SEEKER OF ROYAL POMP # Travels in Ordinary Cabin and Mingles With Passengers, By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer [ r I ONDON, May 7. —The Prince of I J Wales and I traveled together L——l the other afternoon from the French harbor of Boulogne to the British port of Folkstors. So did about fifteen hundred other Englishmen, Americans and Frenchmen. The Prince had a first-class ticket —just like mine. He had an ordinary capin on the ship—just like the kind I could have had next door to him, had I wanted to spend 30 shillings for it. He was on his way home from Le Touquet, where he had been having a little holiday. Had he been the President of the United States or the big man of any other country outside of England, he would either have traveled in a ship given him alone or he would have had the entire portion of the boat reserved, roped off and guarded, so that the rest of us could not tread the sacred boards in front of the royal cabin. .Mingled With Passengers But the prince, traveling as the Earl of Chester, chose to mingle with his fellow travelers. And I mean just exactly what I say. He strolled on deck when the brec-ze on the English Channel freshened up, just like the rest of us. In fact. I almost bumped into him when the ship gave a lurch. He was wearing a light tan overcoat that could be duplicated on Broadway for about $45. and pulled down tightly on his forehead was a cap of the same color. Like most of us. lie was vigorously puffing away ; at a cigarette. The only sign of protection I saw was a well-groomed, eagle-eyed man who scrutinized those :vho walked past

LEFT—THE PRINCE WATCHING THE HUNT. RIGHT—THE PRINCE OUT FOR A STROLL.

, the prince. But there was no barrier, •'because a young American girl tourist j rushed up to him with a piece of 'paper and begged for his autograph. When we arrived at Folkstone. the English train, entirely made up of I Pujiman chair cars, was waiting for us. The only difference between the prince and myself was that I found my car by myself, whereas a railway official escorted the prince to his. But he didn’t have a private car. He had bought'a compartment, just like the rest of us. There are lots of affairs where the prince has to dress up in gorgeous uniforms and speak and be spoken at. But when he has an eveing without anything on his official calendar, then is the time he really enpoys himself. He used to slip out of the palace without letting anybody know where he was going. But his royal mother worried over this and secured his promise to quit it. So now he usually goes out with Lord Louis xMountbatten or his confidential adviser. Sir Lionel Halsey. If he goes alone, a secret service man is notified by him and goes as his shadow. And the prince has the kind of adventures that tickle his sense of fun. Recently, at a big Piccadilly Circus theater, they were showing an American wild west film. The prince went in alone, asked for a ticket for the stalls, was told there were none left, and accordingly went out.

Twilight By HAL COCHRAN You get kinda tired by the end of the day and your bones are a needin’ seme rest. The spirit of youth's callirg softly for play as the sun’s sinkin' down In the West. The glow of the evening just follows you home and you dream In the lull of a song. Your system is fagged and your mind wants to roam while the rest of the world goes along. It’s nature that’s callin' you out in the air and you find that you can not resist. The greatness of freedom: the lack of all care is a thing that no person has missed. The trees seem some greener: the sky is more blue. And eveiywhere ’round there is peace. The air carries fragi-ance that’s fresher and new' when it’s time for the daytime to cease. The world stands at ease like the sky and the trees when slowly the night shades are falling. And humans are gropin’ for rest in the open; at night Mother Nature is calling! (Copyright, U)24, NEA Service, Inc.)

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One on West ASHINGTON, May 7.—Turning from politics to poetry—a far jump!—Edwin Markham, regarded by many as America’s greatest living poet, has just paid Washington one of his periodic visits. And while her*, perhaps just to make his eastern hosts feel good, he poked a bit of fun at that Golden West, where he has his home. One of a dinner party at which Markham was present remarked that it seemed to him—he was trying to “salve” Markham a bit —that the brightest men came from the West. “Yes,” Markham said, “and the brighter they are the quicker they come!”

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' V ashington Bureau. 132,7 New York Ave., Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered* All letters are confidential.—Editor. What solution could silverware be dipped in so that the surface would become oxidized and have the same appearance as it assumes when exposed to the air? The tarnish on silver ordinarily is not an oxide but a sulphide. A dilute solution of sodium or potassium sulphide slightly acidified with one of the strong mineral acids will produce this tarnish. What is the meaning of the name Towanda? A Delaware Indian word, meaning "Where we bury the dead.” Did the Indians eat dogs? Yes. How many policemen are there in New York. Chicago and London. respectively? In 1920 there were 11.754 uniformed policemen in New York City, and 2.037 detectives. There were at that time s.9tiS uniformed policemen in Chicago. In 1921 there were in the

City of London. 1,180 policemen, and in the Metropolitan Area 21,018 policemen. What should a lady say when a dance is over and her partner is leaving? It is not necessary for the lady to make any verbal acknowledgement of the dance. A smile, or a pleasant nod is all that is necessary. Which is the largest breed of chickens? The Jersey Black Giants, the standard weight for a cock being thirteen pounds and for a hen ten pounds. Is there any simple way to clean the works of a clock without taking it apart? It is said that the following method is effective. Take n bit of cotton the size of alien's egg; dip it in kerosene and place it on the tloor of the clock, in the corner; shut the door of the clock, and wait three nr four days. The fumes of the oil Iraisen the particles of dust and they fall to the floor, thus cleaning the clock. What causes snoring? Snoring Is caused by sleeping with the mouth slightly open and breathing through the nose and mouth with a rattling vibration of the palate which makes the noise of the snore.

How to Own Your Home

Every family looks forward to the time when they shall own their own home. The buying of a home, made 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 borrow'ed? What is necessary to consider in house plans? Should you buy or build?

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FORD OFFER NO INTEREST TO FARMER \ Writer Says Shoals Nitrogen Cannot Compete With Chilean Product, By HERBERT QUICK SHE farm organizations which have been backing the Ford offer for Muscle Shoals have I had only one thoughtin mind —cheap | fertilizers. J And the element in fertilizers which they want is cheap nitrogen. It is ' the most e'xpensive thing farmers have to buy in that line. The only way to make nitrates at Muscle Shoals is by what is called the cyanimid process. Whether this process will ever make nitrates at a price which will compete with Chilean nitrates has often been questioned. It has been claimed by the Fcrd offer boosters that he has an improved method; but nobody knows anything about that. Methods Cheaper Dr. Harrison E. Howe of the American Chefnical Society, in this week's issue of The Country Gentleman, i makes the positive statement that the j cyanimid process is not only unable i to make nitrates cheaper than the present price but that it is already supplanted by better and cheaper methods. ,It is out of date. The j cheaper methods do not need water power. They do not require any immense power. They can make nitrates much cheaper than Ford or any one ejse can make, them by electricity, in moderate-sized steam plants, anywhere where there is air. • They get the nitrogen from the air. So do the great hydro-electric plants. But they do it more cheaply. They do it by what is called the Haber process, which is a development, of the system used by Germany during the war. Our own nitrate plant No. 1 has spent some $13,000,000 in developing this process and other scientists have been working on it since the war. Plant Obsolete When the Haber process is used, the first step is to obtain cheap i hydrogen. This represents some 70 per cent of the cost of the process. Then this hydrogen is mixed in the proper way with the nitrogen of the air and the result is ammonia—nitrogen fertilizer. Says Dr. Howe: "Important as is the only plant now capable of operating at Muscle Shoals, it is designed for a process which science has rendered obsolete for the fixation of nitrogen as ammonia.” In other words, the farmers have no legitimate interest in the Ford offer. It has become a power proposition only, plus the biggest real estate boom now on the map in any country. But why should the farm organization* help a real csta.e boom? They have been ruined by one, j many of I them, already. Musicland Johann Bach is called “she father of modern music.” He was of mu- ; slcaJ descent. He was the father of l twenty-one children, eight by his first wife and thirteen by his second. Bach was an insistent worker bur received very little reward for his labors. His last cantata was written after he became blind and Just a short time before his death. He died when 67 years old and was buried like a pauper, | without even a stone to mark hie j final resting place. In spite of his i large number of children, his family had entirely died out 100 years after his death. His beautiful, inspiring music wiy live forever.

Tongue Tips W. F. Webster, superintendent of schools, Minneapolis: "We, citizens of this republic, are responsible for the things in our Government that make us blush. We have not cared. And the result of our indifference is our present disgrace." President Coolldge: “I think there will be enough,speeches at Cleveland to satisfy everybody." Jay E. House. New York: "The procedure of burning a fiery cross on a hillside has certain compensations. It contributes to the enjoyment of every individual who has a sense of humor. But I doubt that such compensation offsets murder.” Dr. \V. J. A. Bailey, New York: "Rejuvenation means more today than any other subject that can concern a man or woman. In and around the endocrine glands must center future efforts toward human rejuvenation, a goal for which the world has sought and which now seems to be truly realized.” Harvey O’Higgins, author: “It is the young, now free to read what they want to. that have made for the growing popularity of American realism in fiction."

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FIX FLIVVER, FIX STOMACH WRITES LO' Absolute Dependency of Indian on Guardians Demonstrated, By ROY J. GIBBONS, NEA Service Writer. P2RH Y, Okla., May 7.—Pathos entwines with humor in the guardianship of Oklahoma Indians. The following letter written by an Indian was copied from the original in possession of the Five Civilized Tribes Agency at Muskogee: Dear I*ee: I drink two bottles Lydia Pinkham medicine, take me two days get home. I want ypu flxcm car now come quick, on Eagletown Road about two miles hitem big pine stump yesterday night in stomach. One, spectacle he broke. Spectacle he broke can't see good. One eye he*just winkit and biinkit all time. Think one eyeball gone, too. Might hit tree. Wheel crooked can't goatall. Bell collar ho slip off lose 'em. Think stomach out of order. Come quick please lots trouble. (Signed) JOHN TONIHKA. White guardians throughout the State say this letter is typical evidence

TOP PICTURE SHOWS GROUP OF TYPICAL OSAGE INDIANS MADE RICH BY OIL, WHO STILL CLING TO PART OF THEIR ANCIENT DRESS THOUGH ADOPTING MOST OF THE WHITE MAN’S REGALIA, INCLUDING NECKTIES AND BELL-BOTTOM TROUSERS. BELOW, AT LEFT. IS A TYPICAL OKLAHOMA INDIAN E ABY. WHO IS EVIDENTLY STIRRED UP ABOUT SOMETHING AND NOT FAR FROM GOING ON THE WAR PATH. AT RIGHT IS AN INDIAN FAMILY SEEING AMERICA FIRST IN THE APROVED AND UP-TO-DATE STYLE.

of the epersonal attention their rich Indian wai-ds require of them. They maintain that their Indian wards are so dependent upon them for everything that. Indians with guardians have come to the guardian’s home during early houx-s of the morning wanting him to get out of bed and cure their toothache. Flivver Valets Even Other Indians, they say, have insisted that their guardians personally supervise repairs on the Indian automobile and accompany the Indian family as escort in its evening pilgiimage to the corner movie. "We’re a lot of valets," is the w'ay one guardian put it. The guardians deny abuse of any power in administering the estates of wealthy Indians as charged by offiicials of the Federal Indian Service. To the accusations of graft and mismanagement levied against them, the

A Thought Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—Matt. 12.34. Kind words are the music of the world—F. W. Faber. guardians have retaliated with indictments against the Federal Indian Service. They brand the latter an inefficient, impersonal and political organization. One federal officer, in charge of a most important Indian post in Oklahoma, told the writer that the Federal Indian Service in the State had degenerated to the level of a bookkeeping and collection office. Rich, They Starve “All we do and are permitted to do,” this official, wba>se name for obvious reasons can notf be divulged, said, “is bring in whatever money is due the Indian from oil royalties and other sources, and then hand it over to the guardian. “Even if we transferred to the guardian's control as much as SIOO,OOO a year, his Indian ward could starve to death under existing laws, because the guardian is absolutely in control of the Indian’s property. “He can give his ward $1 a week, or nothing, as he has a mind to and see fit. “This situation, made possible under the provision by Congress, back in 1908, taking control of the Indian's property away from the federal Indian department and placing it under the local probate courts, is nothing short of criminal.”

Family Fun That’s Right “Pop—” “Well. Junior—” "I was thinking a funny thing about Adam.” “Well—" "If Adam chucked Eve under the chin he would simply be tickling his own rib.”—Youngstown Telegram. Sister Surrounded "I trust you found yourself surrounded by good company at the party last evening?" “T sure did. I was surrounded by Jack Huggins and he’s awfully good company.”—Judge. Scientists predict that the dominion of man is on the wane, and that in time women will be the ruling sex.

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CARPENTERS NEEDED BY DEMOCRA TS Platform Will Mot Be Built Until Convention Meets at New York, By LAWRENCE MARTIN (Copyright, 1924, by United Press) fTy?] ASHING TON, May 7. The \V only safe prediction which can U be made at this time concernj in S th >e Democratic national platform of 1924 is that it will be as different as possible from the Republican platform. This difference will apply not only to its content, but to the method of making it. The Republican platform will be drafted along lines and perhaps in language suggested by or approved by President Coolidge—so much so that the platform will be In the main his work. Romance Is Lacking If the Democratic nominee were known now, the Democratic platform might be similarly drawn. But nobody knows v ith certainty who will carry Democracy’s banner and for that reason no one man or group can design the Democratic platform. It will be built to the sound of hammer and saw and a few groans and maybe a swear word or two, whdn a hammer hits a finger. Both the Republican and Democratic parties today are "group organizations.” Like Congress, the parties are made up of ’•blocs." In the Republican party the dominant group is that headed by Mr. Coolidge. It is so dominant that the other groups will be forced this year to accept its dominance or go elsewhere to assert their independence. Coalition Necessary In the Democratic party there has not jet occurred this emergency of one controlling group. Every bloo and faction is full of vigor, confidence and fight, and under Democratio party rules, it will be impossible for one main faction to control. A coalition will be necessary to name the presidential candidate. Hence a coalition will write the platform. That means that all the groups will demand j a share. 1 Leading Democrats who have been thinking deeply about it, want to see the platform sound a note of progressivism, to accentuate the conservatism of the Republican document. They want it to subordinate condemnation of the Republicans*to the outlining of a constructive program of legislation and policy. They favor passing over the scandals with a general condemnation, not attempting to use them as a primary issue, but concentrating on these points: Need of national leadership; revision of taxation and tariff; definite action to align America with the rest of the world for world peace: kid for agriculture. Such leaders would exclude—no matter who the candidate is—all nonpolitical subjects. Among these they regard the wet and dry question but on that their promises to be a battle.

Science Just -what were the earliest forms of life on our planet is one of the most interesting of scientific questions. The newest candidate for the honor is a group of sulphur bacteria bearing the formidable name thiobacillus thio-oxi-dans. This fascinating organism, found originally in soil and rock phosphate composts, has 4>een isolated in pure culture and grown in a simple inorganic medium. It derives its energy and growth chemically, by the oxida-i tion of sulphur to sulphuric acid, and® will grow in sulphuric acid. No other organism will so resist an acid. This group of bacteria fulfill the conditions for the earliest life-form iu these ways: It can derive its energy from sulphur. It can get its oarbon from carbon dioxide, without the invention of light. It obtains its nitrogen from ammonia. It has a small mineral requirement. Finally, It is so hardy and resistant that it wilf flourish in pure sulphtiric acid. It is assuredly a primitive life-form.