Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 309, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1924 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Cfcief ROY W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BUHRMAX, Editor WM. A. MAYBOKN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, tbe XEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation!. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St.. Indianapolis * • * Subscription Rates: t&dianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500
WHY JOHNSON LOST CALIFORNIA STANDPATTERS hail President Coolidge’s defeat of Hiram Johnson in California as proof that the pendulum of public sentiment is swinging toward conservatism. It isn’t that at all. Johnson lost his home State, not because he was a progressive running against Coolidge, a conservative, for nomination, but for entirely different reasons. Reflect upon Johnson’s interesting career. He was promoted to governorship of his State by the people of California because he so successfully fought to protect the public against the graft ring in San Francisco. He was promoted to the United States Senate by the people of California because he had been one of the besi Governors his State or any other State had known. He deserved promotion, and he got it. As Senator from California, Johnson was the reverse of everything he had been as Governor of California. As Governor he worked day and night at his job. He fought and beat one of the strongest corrupt political machines in the country. He administered the laws with courage and never compromised. As Senator from California he was on the job less than onehalf of the time. He wanted to be President, and spent more time saying so than he- did in being Senator from California. Ikdodged the Newberry vote and compromised with the Old Guard when opportunity offered. He devoted good time and energy to lighting the League of Nations and the World Court plans, which his people in California favored. Johnson’s handicap in his present race for the nomination was that neither progressives nor conservatives could claim him as their own. He Yvas the standard bearer for nothing but him self. People do not nominate men for President merely because they want the job.
GOING TO HAVE A GARDEN? . •t-* VERY normal person hears the call of nature at this time > of year. Some answer by taking strolls in the woods, i others by long auto rides in the open country. But the greatest pleasure in springtime is planting home gardens, flowers and grass. Nature plainly intended every man and woman to till the and grow a part of their food supply. Working with our hands in the soil is the natural life. There's a thrill unlike any other joy, in watching the gradual growth of plant life from the seed in soil prepared by your 'own hands. First the delicate green sprout, on through the various stages Ito the harvest of vegetables, flowers or fruit. The home garden jis life on a small scale —a never-ending struggle for survival. constant battle with weeds and insects is as fascinating a game as the struggle for success and against failure in the battle to “make a good living.” Home gardening is a sport. No baseball fan gets more gen'uine pleasure from a game than the dyed-in-the-wool home gar idener watching his vegetable patch or flowers sprout and mature. That’s where health is—close to the soil. A pitch of land only six feet square is the best medicine in the world for pale . cheeks, fagged nerves, flabby muscles and sickly appetite. Plant a garden—if nothing more than a bed of lettuce, which is about the easiest thing to grow in creation. The garden brings health by fresh air, exposure to sunshine, moderate exercise, the relaxation of a hobby, and by a mysterious alchemy caused by contact with the soil. If you have children, help them start a garden. It is, in addition to its health benefits, excellent training to make them think straight. The man who tills the soil absorbs knowledge of the laws of nature —and these laws regulate all human activities. Nothing is more powerful than a garden to impress children with the fact that nature makes man pay the full price for every joy, every folly, every neglect, and that while effort occasionally is fruitless it brings sure returns by the law of averages. It' is like life—all seeds do not sprout in the garden, nor all efforts in the battle for success. The country is far away from the average city child. Bring ’ the country to him by having a home garden this year. ANOTHER result of the primaries is the large number of men who are lame enough to be ducks. DOUG FAIRBANKS is going to Madrid to learn bullfighting. Every married man—Mah Jongg! CHINA’S BOY emperor is violating all traditions by attending afternoon teas, but he won’t be the real stuff as boy royalty until a horse kicks his face in. POPULAR song writers say their profits have been reduced ; 50 per cent by radio distribution, which is within 50 per cent of Being sufficient to please the weariest listener-in.
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 borrowed? What is necessary to consider in house plans? Should you buy or build?
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If your income is SI,BOO a year, how imch can you spend on a house and lot; how much can you 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 Jn 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:
QUOTATIONS FLASH FROM TRADE PITS News of Trade Given Out Within Less Than Five Seconds, By XEA Service || HICAGO, May 9. —In less Than I five seconds after a transaction is completed at the Board of Trade here, farmers throughout the Middle West, and farther, are listening in on the results by radio: This exemplifies the outstanding advantage of wireless to the country folk. is a fixed institution here, so far as activities of the Board of Trade are concerned. It is keeping the farmers up to the minute, up to the second, informed as to prevailing prices at which they might sell their crops or stock. The pioneer in speeding up this information to those most closely concerned about it is the Chicago Board of Trade. Through its station, WDAP, atop the Drake Hotel, the Board of Trade is keeping the farmers in closest possible contact with all factors that might the prices of their products. Owns Own Station The Board of Trade started broadcasting - in the spring of 1922 through station KYW. Success was almost immediate. It encouraged the directors to buy WDAP for its private use. Results were so satisfactory that the station was remodeled so that it is now- one of the most complete broadcasting stations in America. This speed iiU letting the grower
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know what is being done to his produce is the result of cooperation between the telegraph ticker and the radio. Three and three-fifths second! after a broker flashes a transaction to an official recorder, the quotations are ticked off on the tape alongside the blackboard where they are recorded. Radio Reporter The price is immediately chalked down, while through a large window a radio reporter looks directly at the blackboard and telephones the latest quotations through WDAP to those listening in. Every hour, every day, except half day Saturday and all day Suncfey, this operation is repeated. It is followed with important market comment such_ as receipts and shipments, estimated car lots, Liverpool cables, estimated cattle, hogs and sheep; live stock receipts and prices. Weather forecast and other useful information. And in the evening, beginning at 7, the farmer may listen in on a rrfusieal program or lectures from the same station. According to Henry' A. Rumsey of the Board of Trade radio committee, plans are being made to send out from station WDAP complete educational courses, ten-minute talks, covering various subjects in agriculture.
Family Fun Pays to Know "Pop " “Well, Junior ” “What is an electron?” “An electron,/my son, is the smallest conceivable particle of matter.” ‘Then I’m gonna bust Herman Amley in the nose.” “Why?” “Because he said if my brains had roller skates they could use an electron for a rink.” —Youngstown Telegram. "Fore,” Says Dad Voice from upstairs: “Jane, does Mr. Stayer play golf?” “Why-er-yes, father.” “Well, ask him if he knows what ‘starting time’ means.”—Judge. The Brute “I just love flowers,” she sighed as they approached a corner on which she knew there was a florist’s. “But they are so hard to get,” she went on, glancing sideways at him. “Not at all,” he replied. “I’ll tell you how to get some easily.” "Oh, how?” ecstatically. “Try pulling a loaded gun after you through a barbeu-wire fence.”—American Legion Weekly.
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One of Em WASHINGTON. May 9.—The American Association of Museum Managers have an appointment for a call at the White House next week. That they are going, in their official capacities, to see President Coolidge, does not mean that they expect to find in him a distinct or rare species, even though he may be that. But. as President, Cpolidge is. ex-officio, chancellor of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution, under which the National Museum and National Gallery of Art are administered. So he’s one of 'em.
Movin ’ Day By HAL COCHRAN The big day has come and the house is ahum from the earliest hours of the morn. Excitement is brewing and something is doing as soon as the daybreak has come. The breakfast is served from the old kitchen sink, for no time can be w r asted today. Poor mother and dad barely have time to think, and the little folks get in the way. The drawers of .the dresser are packed good and tight and the tinware is put in some tubs. While father is making the house look a sight, the wash lady washes and scrubs. The rugs are rolled up and the furniture's moved, as much as can be, to the hall. Poor mother's disgusted, she’s dusted and dusted, and made no impression at all. All morning there's hustle and bustle and tear; by noon many muscles are sore. The things are all ready, with folks waiting there till the movers drive up to the door. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Musicland Franz Liszt was the son of a steward, who was versed in music sufficiently to give his son lessons successfully enough to place the boy on the concert stage at the age of 9. Franz became the greatest pianist of his time, but was terribly criticised because of his habit of playing the compositions of his less 'amous contemporaries. However, tie did this only out of the goodness of his heart. He always respected and appreciated the efforts of others, a quality which could not held but make him loved, hie enjoyed the favor of the pope, who honored, him by* making him an abbe. He was honored by monarchs. universities and cities. Greatest, to many music lovers, is his “Liebestraum.”
UNUSUAL PEOPLE From Business to Stage wfc Ipfe, ! M Ambrose Wyrick, a successful Chicago business man, has decided to jump from a commercial career to the stage. This because business friends told him he had an exceptional voice and advised the change. He will be one of the principal entertainers at the Republican convention in Cleveland and will follow that with, an entertainment for Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. when the President s wife holds, a reception for the clt3[b women of Illinois at the White House.
LABORA TOR Y BUILT SANS METAL TOUCH 1 N Wonderful Scientific Achievements Made in Queer Castle, By FRANK GETTY United Press Stats Correspondent (Copyright, 1924, by United Press rr~\ LPJNE, N. J., May B.—Where I the sheer Palisades rise 500 u feet above the blistening Hudson at Alpine, a strange, red, mush-room-like monstrosity of architecture struggles in a tangle of young trees and underbrush. The "mystery castle” is a non-mag-netic research laboratory. The builder is Dr. John Clawson Burnett, a youthful, sandy-haired, dynamic idealist. In the sloping walls of the laboratory the doctor and his assistant are completing and perfecting discoveries, inventions and adaption of delicate instruments for the treatment of human cells.
Treats Individual Cells The ultimate purpose of Dr. Burnett’s work, he says, is the benefit of humanity through treatment of individual cells, which he conceives to function in their own minute way exactly as the body itself absorbs nourishment and discards poisons. "Nothing in life is so constant as change,” he said, in explanation of his theory that all life is moving in cycles and that through his elaborate instruments for stimulation of that change he can prolong and make happier existence for every one. The non-magnetic laboratory is the only one of its kind in the world; there is a non magnetic laboratory at Washington, D. C., constructed upon somewhat different lines. There is not a scrap of magnetic metal within 200 feet of the ungainly red building. Huge beams of long leaf pine, covered with fire proof lathes and plaster are the foundation of construction. Where nails and screws were necessary, they are of copper and brass. The radiators are brass; even the tiny screws in electric light fixtures have been changed. The very paint on the walls Is non-metal. Show Heart Beats A sunken platform within the main room of the laboratory goes down to the bedrock of the Palisade cliffs, so that only an earthquake can shake it. In every way, the doctor has designed his plant by and for the most delicate instruments known to science. Dr. Burnett and Haliberg his assistant demonstrated an elaborate device that throws a motion picture of your heart beats on a screen while another machine measures tlie amount of air you breathe and what comes out of what goes in. They showed how a little pitt hall proved the earth a positive conductor; how a live twig, when crushed, gave off electrical energy, and how two lights counteract one another and produce darkness.
Ask The Times You can rat an answer to any quetlon of fact or information by writtnr to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. 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 nply. Cneigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are contidential.—Editor. What resorts In the United States are famous for their mud baths? Hot Springs. Ark., French Lick, Trid., Mt. Clements. Mich. On what day of the'week did June 18, 1904, come? Saturday. What is the Federal standard for cream that goes into interstate commerce? Eighteen per cent butterfat. Is it profitable to raise guineas? That, of course, depends on circumstances. There is an increased demand for them as fashionable hotels are substituting them for such game hirds as grouse, quail, and partridges.! Wholesale prices for guineas in New York markets usually range from $1 to $1.60 per pair for dressed spring guineas. Where was the first ParentTeacher Association organized? In Lynn, Mass.* some twenty-eight years ago. Who suggested a department of Agriculture for the Federal Government? George Washington, who. in 1793, wanted Congress to take steps to establish a department with the object of promoting agriculture. Where is there a workers' college that offers summer courses? | The Brookwood Workers' College is j at Katonah, N. Y. A “labor institute'' j of one week will be held June 23 to j 28 of this year especially for delegates ! to the annual convention of the Women's Trade Union League, although attendance will not be restricted to them. A two-week course | will be given July 7 to 20, which is designed for officers, organizers, business agents, and members of unions. Current labor problerris will be the basis of this course. How can one remove mildew spots from linen? One way is to rub soap, starch and salt on the spots and expose them to the sun for an hour or two. What proportion of the total gasoline production of the United States is produced from casing j head gas? About 8 per cent.
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Other Editors Plenty of Time Elsie Ferguson is married. This is the second time Elsie has been married, which is slow for a movie queen. But she's young yet.—Bluffton Banner. < Hubby Probably Goes Out Seattle society woman has a lion for a pet and we just wondered if hubby has to put the lion out every night.—South Bend News Times. Might Try It And now a heated discussion is on as to whether it is possible to play golf without swearing. YVe are of the opinion that it might be done. Why doesn't someone try out the idea? — Logansport Pharos-Tribune. Good Idea Asa method of making Music week successful, we suggest the elimination of jazz to give music a chance. —Muncie Press.
Tom Sims Says: A spendthrift is a man who keeps' a flashlight on without worrying. The flower outlook is very rosy. ! A bottle in the auto is worse than two in the road. Presidential possibilities are making all the noisp they can, but you can't see some of them. You can't keep a good man or a good weed down. While making pointed remarks, remember the porcupine. His only friends ara other porcupines. The Japanese question has quieted down a bit so sunburn may soon be our chief yellow peril. : A Thought A wise son heareth his father's in- j structions; hut a scorner heareth not j rebuke. —Prov. 13.1. • * * m ANY receive advice, only the j wise profit by it. —Publius j ———l Syrus.
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Science In some hospitals scores of babies are born daily. Sometimes they are hauled into the maternity ward in wagonloads, two rows to a wagoa, perhaps ten babies to a row. HjoiV are they told apart? How avoid mixing them up? How assure every mother her own offspring? The babies, of course, are tagged before they leave the nurse's arms after birth. But the New Y*ork Nursery and Child’s Hhospital’ has originated a better method, based on the old finger-print system. Soon after the baby is born his footprints and the mother’s finger-prints are recorded on the same card. Thes% footprints will be recognizable and distinguishable throughout life. The baby's foot is pressed on a sensitized card. The nurse dips a brush into a black compound and lightly rubs the spot v here the impression was made. YY’hen the black is rubbed in and the print of the infant’s foot appears. it is sprayed with a coating of shellac to preserve it. A bill demanding this card with a birth certificate is pending.
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Tongue Tips Mrs. Benton McMillin, National League of Women Voters: “Women looking for political chivalry seek a chivalry of frank friendship. We want to hqlp but, to do so, we must be helped.” Helen S. Wright, coal expert: “The subject of coal is no longer an economic problem alone. It is a problem of humanity.” W. L. Finley, naturalist: “The antelope cannot stand captivity. It does not thrive, even in wide-fenced areas, as do buffalo, deer and elk. It is delicate. high strung and easily upset. It is now reaching the point of final disappearance. Only a few scattered hundreds are left In regions where, fifty years ago, they were countless.”
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