Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-CMef ROY W. HOWARD, President ALBERT W. BUHRMAX, Editor WM. A. MAYBORN’, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Seripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing • Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St.. Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. . • • • PHONE—MAIN 3500.

YOUR MOTHER AyM OTHERS give ail and ask nothing in return. To bring us I***l into tHe world they endure the agonies so the Valley of the Shadow. To them we turn in childhood for guidance and wisdom. Their self-sacrifice is continuous, their love more enduring than the hills. Small wonder, that men have exalted motherhood as a sacred state and mother love as symbolic of all that is finest in life. More than a decade ago, Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia originated Mother's day. The entire Nation will observe it Sunday. While every day should be Mother’s day, it is excellent that we have a special day set aside for remembrance, tenderness and gratitude to mother. Especially is it a red-letter day for ones whose mothers are living. Send her flowers. If far from home, write her a Mother’s day letter. She will treasure the remembrance beyond the understanding of men. These little finer touches mean so much to her, especially if she is close to the sunset of life. LET’S HAVE SOME ACTION SHE public service commission has had before it for some time a petition of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs asking that students who use street cars be granted a lower rate of fare than that going into effeet May 21. < The commission has taken no action on this petition. Its explanation was that rerouting should be taken up first. The student plan, as originally proposed by The Indianapolis Times, is exclusively a carfare plan and should become effective at the same time as the rate increase. It is true that only a few more weeks of the school term remain, but no better time could be found to test the plan. Tickets of a different kind, from those sold generally would be issued to students, thus making it possible to determine absolutely what student tickets would mean. Sale to students could be limited to sufficient tickets to last during the remainder of the present term. Increased fare will work a hardship to many pupils. Proposed system should be put into effect at once. There is no good reason for waiting until next fall. Let’s have some action now. FREEDOM FOR PHILIPPINES SHE Filipinos are at last within reach of independence. Within twenty-one years from today it is more than likely that the Philippine islands will become a republic. A bill to this effect, introduced by Representative Fairfield, Republican, of Indiana, has been favorably reported by the House Insular Affairs Committee at Washington, and every effort is being made to bring it to a vote in Congress before adjournment in June. If the measure does not pass at this session, the next Congress is almost certain to pass it or one very much like it. Both big parties now seem to realize that the United States, having officially promised/to 4|e ths Philippines as soon as they can govern themselves, must-meke- good-. The Fairfield bill provides for a “Commonwealth of the Philippines” under the American flag, but with a native Governor, Congress and Constitution of its own, this regime to last twenty years. Filipinos would owe allegiance to the United States during this period and an American commissioner—not an army or naval officer—instead of a Governor General, would represent the United States in the new commonwealth. Nor would Ihe have the power of veto. Only the President of the United States would have this right. Similarly, a Filipino commissioner would reside in Washington. At the end of tw r enty years from the date of inauguration of the commonwealth, the islands would automatically become a sovereign power, the United States reserving “such lands and rights and privileges appurtenant thereto” as may be required. \This would give us a far eastern naval base and such other con■veniences as found needful. ■ In short, the Filipinos would have twenty years in which to ■school themselves in the art of self-government, after which they ■would be set free under something approximating the Cuban form ■of government. That is, they would be free to do anything they ■pleased save enact confiscatory laws, barter away their independ■ence or involve the United States in war with a foreign power. S The bill may /develop defects, but these can be aired and ■cured on the floor of Congress. Anyhow r , it is a long step in a ■right honorable direction. - , * AFTER twenty-eight years of running, Mr. Bryan finds himself in good breath. NOW the diggers claim to have discovered the lost City of Troy, having probably identified it by the collar factories. SENTIMENT of a dead past and not the deadly present: “All whisky is good, but some brands are better than others.” WHAT the Republicans have to worry about now is the finding of a-keynoter who has the master key, if any.

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FAREWELL, OLD FAMILY PHYSICIAN Hospitals Will Take His Place, Prediction of Health Expert. . By GEORGE BRITT NEA Servcie Writer j 'pTJ HICAGO, May 10.—Farewell, beI | loved family doctor. 1 * That community benefactor who received most of the population into the world, watched over its childhood colics and measles, rescued its health from excesses and epidemics and will ease it sympathetically into its grave, is going to be institutionalized. This is the prediction of E. S. Gilmore, superintendent of the Wesley Memorial Hospital here and presidentelect of the American Hospital Association. “The day is surely coming,” he says, “when sick people will not call the doctor when they get sick, but will go to a hospital. More State Hospitals “There a man experienced in general diagnosis will examine them and assign to them a member of the staff who specializes in their ailments. The State will operate more hospitals than at present, but both public and private institutions will be managed on this plan. "Such a change will substitute efficiency for sentiment, but it will not de-humanize medical treatment. Hospitals, on the contrary, will be much more humanized than at present. “Fifty years ago or less hospitals were simply boarding houses for sick people. Today they are hotels. But

UPPER—A HOSPITAL WARD OK 1877. CENTER—E. S. GILMORE. PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION. BELOW —HOSPITAL ROOM OF TODAY.

in the future, the tendency will be to givf>n them the personal touch of homes." Modern hospitals have been developed almost entirely in the last fifty years. The New York Hospital, opened forty-seven years ago, excited admiring comment because it had bell wires and speaking tubes all over the building, elevators running from basement to roof and “non-absorb-ents" in walls and floors. It was thought ordinary walls would harbor poisons which spread diseases in hospitals. Tliej’ll Be Skyscrapers But the advance in the next half century will be far greater than during the one just past, according to Superintendent Gilmore. It will include greater laboratory facilities for diagnosis and research development of hydro-, electro- and physio- therapies; extension of medical study to bring it again on an equity with surgery, and improvement of nursing schools. “Hospitals of the future will be skyscraper buildings, whether in city or country,” predicts Superintendent Gilmore. “If ground is cheap and plentiful, it is better to use it for lawns and parks for patients than to cover it with wide, flat buildings. A Thought Hearken to thy father that begat thee, s and despise ntot thy mother when she is old. —Prov. 23:22. I TVTI to God, thy parents.—WilI J liam Penn. Other Editors Mellon Fails Mellon may be a great financier, but somehow or other he hasn't been able to put his plans for tax law over, and only a few of those who have largest incomes are worrying about it.—Decatur Democrat. More or Less Necessary The average voter, who looks them over, will And he didn’t come very close to landing 100 per cent of those he voted for, all down the line. But the American spirit of accepting the will of the majority prevails without any great struggles.—Clinton Clintonian. Don’t Have to Listen The proposal to broadcast Senators’ speeches has its advantages. Some of the present radio “bedtime” stories are only mildly soporific, whereas senatorial effusions frequently , are absolutely hypnotic.—Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, r. -•-. ■

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Spendthrifts t The leading governments are beginning to live within their incomes, according to a check-up by the League of Nations. It reports Uncle Sam and John Bull spending less than they take in. South Africa and Finland have decreased their deflcity niear the vanishing point. Italy is spending a fourth more than her revenue. France, at the bottom of the list, is spending 100 francs for every 45 francs collected in taxes and other forms.

. Wireless By HAL COCHRAN What’s tne use of real statistics on the static of the air? What’s the diff’rence what is floating through the space? Just as long as we are positive that somethin’s really there, let’s be satisfied to let it have its place. Since .the. tireless wireless doings have been part of daily life, all the world has turned to gently tuning in. And we listen, scared of missin’ things of gladness or of strife, and we share the tireless wireless with our kin. Mother, aunt, and Sister Mary stay at home most every night. They are harking to an opera far away. Father, uncle, Brother Harry get the progress of a fight, and the tireless wireless works both night and day. Music comes and fills the household and there’s cheerfulness galore and it makes you kinda glad that you were born. Goodness knows what’s in the future and what wonders are in store when, today, they take the air sounds front a horn. Lots of credit due the wireless that’s as tireless as can be, for it picks up sounds that far and wide are hurled. Reaching out and getting something, when there’s nothing we can see, it is just another wonder of the world. (Copyright, 192 4, NEA Service, Inc.)

Ask The Times You can gel an answer to any question of fact or information by writin* to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 132. T New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot bo given, nor can extended research bo undertaken. Ail other questions will receive a persona! i ply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. A!i letters are confidential.—Editor. Through what cities does the Lone Star automobile route pass on its way from Chicago to Texas? La Salle, Peoria, Springfield, 111.. St. Louis, Poplar Bluff, Mo.; Little Rock. Pine Bluff, Ark.; Alexandria, Lake Charles, La.; Beaumont Houston, Corpus Christ! and Brownsville, Texas. What are reconstructed precious stones? These are made of small particles of genuine stones melted together in| a crucible, and made somewhat as synthetic stones are made, except that j in making synthetic stones, the entire composition is manufactured. W r hat are pearls? A morbid product formed from the pearly nacre of the Interior of the pearl mussel and other bivalves. The formation of pearls is often £ue to the Irritation caused by the presence of a grain of sand or some other foreign body lodged between ( the mani the animal and the shell; an extra amount of pearly matter is thus secreted and forms roughnesses or projections on the inside of the shell. How is puffed wheat and rice made? The grains are first thoroughly cleaned and placed in a cylindrical container similar to a cannon, placed horizontally. This container is heated to a very high temperature, hot enough to "drive the moisture out of the grain, so that there is steam in the container. < It is held in this condition for some time, and then gradually cooled so that the steam escapes. It is heated again under highpressure steam and then the steam Is suddenly cut off and the vessel opened. This sudden opening causes the steam In the grains of wheat or corn to expand suddenly and puff. How many one-pound loaves can be baked from a 196-pound barrel of flour? From about 240 to 310. Is the Kiel Canal the same as the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal? Yes. Where are the Government navy yards? At Pbrtsmouth, N. H.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; League Island, Philadelphia; Norfolk, Va.; Charleston, S.-C.; Vallejo, Cal.; Puget Sound, Wash., and Washington, D. C.

DR. BUTLER STIMULATES WET ISSUE 'Good People’ Lining Up for Wines and Beer, Politicians Told, By LAWRENCE MARTIN. (Copyright, 192 b, by United Press) ASHINGTON, May 10.—The W popular reaction to Dr. NichoJ las Murray Butler’s views regarding the prohibition law has so stimulated the forces working for modification of the Volstead act that the two national conventions next month will be flooded with propaganda for beer and light wine. The politicians, who will have to deal with this question at the conventions, have been keeping close tab on the result of Butler’s utterances. Because of the position Butler occupies in the intellectual and social scale, his frankness in dealing with the question has set a great many other persons to expressing their own views who previously felt that to do so might line them up with the wets. * Worry Congressmen No matter what statistics show concerning widespread violations of the dry law, a good many million people in thi country consider it not respectable to be associated in any degree with persons who advocate anything wet. Now some of these folk, who have come to the same conclusions Butler has arrived at, are telling their Congressmen and Senators so. The percentage of such expressions from people, designated, for want of a more descriptive term, as “good people,” has surprised members of Congress and politicians. , The wets are preparing to broadcast Butler’s views through every possible channel and to keep alive throughout the coming campaign this question of modifying the law, on inoral grounds. That is, they will cite i Butler and others as evidence that the moral people, the “good people” of the country, ought to support the beer movement if they want to prevent lawlessness and crime. Wets Are Confident The newly organized “beer committee" in Congress, the American Federation of Labor and the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment will all lend their support actively to this campaign. So confident, are the wets that the popular feeling coincides pretty generally with Butler’s views that they are even talking of the possibility of getting a modification plank into the Republican platform. In this they are undoubtedly due for disappoint ment, as it is not likely either party will adopt such a plank, though the chances are far better in the Democratic ranks. Even there, where the wets are relatively much stronger it will take convincing evidence of a truly national swing toward modification before it will be sanctioned as a party issue. But in any event the beer and wine workers will not let the country lose sight of the issue between now and November. Family Fun One on Dad "Why does daddy go to town every day?" “To work, so that you and I can have good dinnners,” mother replied promptly. Next day, as Bobby sat down to dinner he looked disparagingly at the rare, then turned an accusing eje on father: ‘‘You didn't do much today, did you?’’—Argonaut. It Rattles' Bail “Say, 1 was held up by the coffie trap today." “The what?" “The trappic coff—the oaffie trop—the tropic caff—oh, hang it, you know what I mean.” —Boston Transcript. Cook Does Her Best “Nora, you were entertaining a man in the kitchen last night, were you not?" "That’s for him to say, ma'am. I did my best."

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Not What One Would Call a Perfect Fit

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NORTHEAST IS WORRYING PRESIDENT Industrial-Districts in Three States Cause Concern Among Managers, By HARRY B. HUNT. NEA Service Writer. ASHINGTON. May 10.—Rook\Y libbed New England, strong hold of Republican regularity for two generations, is giving Coolidge campaign leaders sleepless nights and days of worry. For, despite the fact that Cautious Cal is an embodiment of those staid virtues that should win tlje backing and the ballot of every loyal New Englanders. Republican headquarters privately concedes an element of uncertainty in the result in three of the six New England States. This is due to conditions in industrial New England—Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island —where the native New Englander has become submerged under the tide of immigration. In these States the foreign-born and the children of the foreign-born hold enough ballots to blast rock-ribbed Republicans to smithereens, if they make up their minds to do it. And reports from Republican scouts in the industrial centers of these States indicate that they may choose this year to touch off the dynamite. Hence the apprehension. “Heretofore." explains a Republican national committeeman, discussing til, chance that Coolidge and the Republican ticket may be knifed in ilie very section where it is gen erally thought their hold would be most secure, "we have managed to hold the bulk of this foreign vote on our side. But there is no question today but that it is slipping. “This defection is due to tw r o direct causes. Prohibition and restricted immigration. “Thai an unassimilated foreign population can thus overrule and endanger the voice and the ideals of

native America is, of course, the best proof that immigration should be restricted. “If these three New England States should swing Democratic this fall, it will be nothing for Democrats to boast about. It wi.ll simply be the result of the un-American votes of an unAmericanized electorate. They will not vote Democratic because they believe in Democracy. They will simply vote against the Republicans as the party enforcing prohibition and immigration.” Science The moon, the earth's satellite, was the chief object of telescopic exploration and of romantic tales until advancing science ruled it out as capable of habita.tion and offered more distant fields for speculation. Years ago, before science decided that the mqon .could not be inhabited, many ;>(.Cries were built upon the theme of a trip to the moon. Recently, Professor Godcfard of Clark University, Worcester. Mass., revived interest in tins idea by announcing that he had perfected a rocket which he hoped to send to the center of our lunar neighborhood. This announcement was followed by several offers from men who wished to volunteer for a trip in the rocket. Consequently the “trip” to the moon," engineered by Professor Goddard, came in for considerable publicity and some ridicule. Godaard’s idea, however, was not that a person could ride in his rocket. He believed that if he could propel the rocket to the moon its impact could be seen from the earth, because, in the head of the rocket, would be a heavy charge of flashlight powder with a contact fuse. The theory of proving such an impact is not in itself improbable because the moon is only 240.000 miles away and powerful telescopes could see such an occurrence. Professor Goddard announced that ho expects to try his rocket this summer. Red Maybe the real object of those Bolshevist North Pole explorers is to annex the aurora borealis and use'it for publicity purposes.—Kokomo Dispatch.

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924

Tom Sims Says: You never realize how high silk stockings are until you see them worn with a bathing suit. Half the fun of fishing is knowing you ought to be working instead. When a speeder arrives at his destination without an accident it is an accident. They do not shake hands at all in China, so wouldn’t China be a funny place to hold the political conventions? When some golf players put their mind on the ball it just fits. People without enough sense to come in out of a shower of rain are having a line chance to learn this spring. A highbrow is a man who thinks every one else is below the average. The lark is an early riser among birds, not proving, however, that rising early is a lark. Thinking they were having a free-for-all fight, six men in Seattle it cost them SSO each. Tongue Tips Joe Hergersheimer, novelist: “Nowadays, we have no charming women." Prime Minister Kiyoura, Japan: “The United States, being endowed with impregnable security and incomparable wealth, is free as no other country from anxiety both abroad and at home.” Dr. Josephine Baker: "Altogether New York’s bureau of chijd hygiene has saved the lives of about 90,000 bab.es." Bishop Herman Page, Episcopal, Detroit: “All the good things we have today someone suffered for In the ages gone by.” Pavlowa, Russian dancer: “No one in the world is as conscientious about keeping a youthful figure as the American woman, and she is well repaid.”