Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1924 — Page 4

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LESS SPYING IN GOVERNMENT |*t* ]HE committee investigating the charges of misconduct [ * 1 of office made against Senator B. K Wheeler of Montana by Department of Justice agents has made its report, completely exonerating Wheeler. The report is signed not only by two Democrats, but also by William E. Borah, chairman of the committee, and Senator Charles McNary of Oregon, two perfectly good Republicans: hence it cannot be branded a party affair. But. one member of the committee. Senator Sterling of South Dakota, an old guard “lame duck.” refused to sign it. The committee found that the case brought by Department of Justice agents against Wheeler had all the earmarks of a political frame-up, which Wheeler said it was. The investigation brought these facts: - That George Lockwood of Indiana, in charge of publicity for the Republican National Committee and publisher of the National Republican, a party organ, had instigated the action against Wheeler. That a man named Coan, in the employ of Lockwood, had gone to Montana with orders to “get something” on Wheeler, for use in counteracting Wheeler’s expose of the Daugherty regime in the Department of Justice. That men in Government employ taking instructions from William J. Burns, former chief of the bureau of investigation, had aided Coan in his search for “something on Wheeler.” Burns, in turn, acted on orders from former Attorney General Daugherty, who was out of office. That Department of Justice legal representatives had taken part in the plot to embarrass Wheleer by presenting the so-called evidence gathered by Coan to the federal grand jury in Montana. While it may have been temporarily embarrassing to Senator Wheeler, the whole episode has served to a useful and helpful end. It demonstrated graphically to the pubik how the Daugherty regime in the Department of Justice used strong-arm and underworld methods to accomplish their aims. It proved beyond doubt that these aims were often nothing more nor less than intimidating independent and honest officials. It exposed the methods of William J. Burns and forced his resignation. CHINA’S SUN GOES OUT It-v IR. SUN YAT-SEN, father of the Chinese Republic, life l*-* I and soul of the revolution of 1911 which freed the Flowery Kingdom from the decadent Manchu rule, is dead in Canton, his South China capital. With his going passes China’s most liberal and constructive leader and so far as we can observe there is none to take his place. * Elected first president of China after the revolution which he had prepared through a busy lifetime of perilous endeavor which took him all over the world, he resigned in favor of Yuan Shih-kai in the belief he would preserve peace. Dr. Sun supported Yuan with all his might until he saw Yuan preparing to turn traitor to the republic by proclaiming himself emporer, then he fought him tooth and nail. From Yuan down to Tsao Kun, present presidnet, the Celestial Republic has been in the hands of incapable and often dishonest leaders who, thanks to the support of foreign governments, were able to keep up a facade of authority. China’s constitution, which Sun had sweated blood to give her, has long since been flung to the winds by the petty puppets of Peking. Thus, with a following of his own. Sun established another# capital at Canton where, in 1921, he was elected president a second time. The Powers never recognized him, however, preferring to deal with the weaklings in the north. Sun aimed to disarm the 1,500,000 rapscallion, so-called soldiers of China now ravaging the country, and create a small, effective national army instead; he planned to build roads over the Republic’s trackless regions; construct railways and harbors and establish schools all over the land. So he was bitterly hated by powerful interests. The British were particularly hostile, for had his scheme succeeded to make Canton the great port of South China, Hongkong, belonging to Britain, would have dwindled to virtual insignificance just as Portuguese Macao nearby had dwindled when Hongkong sprang up. Accused of all sorts of dishonesty, no one, not even those who would have given millions to “get something on Sun,” was ever able to prove he had diverted a single penny to his own use. China’s chief trouble is that she seems to have had but one Sun. And now he’s gone. , WORD comes from China that female bandits over there are forcing their rich young captives to marry them. Wonder if they will send that kind of a game to us, too?

Who ’ll Be the Next President?

The votoers will decide that in November? Not so; they'll only choose between the candidates picked by the national conventions of the great parties in June. Do you know how a President is nominated? Do you know the origin of political party conventions? How are the delegates to these conventions chosen? How many are there? Who chooses the national party committees? How are contests settled? Which States choose by primary, which by conventions, which by other means? How do the delegations vote in the conventions? How is a party convention organized? Who chooses the temporary officers? How is a party convention organized? Who chooses

POLITICAL EDITOR, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin PARTY CC NVENTIONS AND PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, and enclose here with 5 cents in loose postage stamps for same: Nam ........j, St. and No. or R. R City 1 State

the temporary officers? How are the permanent officers chosen? How is the platform written? How are the candidates nominated? You’ll be reading thousands of words about the national party conventions between now and the time they adjourn in June; will you understand everything you are reading about? Our Washington bureau has prepared an eight-page printed bulletin on the national party conventions and the presidential campaign, which explains the whole machinery of the nomination of a President, the writing of a platform end the conduct of a campaign. If you want the inside stuff on how these things are done, fill out and the coupon below to our Washington bureau, as directed:

OKLAHOMAN BUILDS CITY FOR CHARITY Dream of Orphan Boy Comes True in Model Town, By SEA Service SAND SPRINGS, Okla., May 17. —As an orphaned boy almost sixty years ago, Charles Page, with his linger, traced in the sands of a cornfield near Stevens Point, Wis., the plans for a model city, dedicated to serve humanity. Today the boy, now grown to manhood and wealthy through millions of dollars amassed from oil, sees a realizatin of his immature dream in this utopian town he founded just seven miles from the outskirts of Tulsa. Sand Springs, the city as Page intended it to be, is built abqut what is probably the most unique and charitable organization in the United States . The nucleus of its life is the Sand Spring home, an institution established to shield orphaned boys and girls from some of the hard knocks which Page had experienced most his life. Sand Springs home owns outright more than 12,000 acres of fat farming land State’s Richest Enterprise It dominates and controls a standard gauge electric line running from its door to Tulsa, runs a water and gas company, owns innumerable spouting oil wells, operates a cotton mill costing $3,000,000, sells electric power to surrounding cities and has ifs corporate hand mixed up in numerous other enterprises and utilities. Altogether, Sand Springs home is perhaps the wealthiest institution and power in Oklahoma. Its holding and revenue run up into the millions every year. The hundred boys and girls shield-

A GROUP OF SAND SPRINGS ORPHANS AND THEIR “DADDY,” CHARLES PAGE.

ed by its broad expanse of modern buildings enjoy all the comforts and privileges of guests invited for a permanent visit to some palitial country estate. Family Atmosphere And Sand Springs home asks nothing in return save that they fashion themselves into good men and women. The institution operates more like a large family and does not smack In any wise of institutional air. There are parties, vacations and time so- recreation in model playyards equipped with every conceivable kind of apparatus from swimming pool to swings. Likewise there is no drudgery about the home, for all work is performed by electrical servants commanded by the institution’s own power plant. Any one who pleads the cause may carry away bacon, flour, cheese and other food products from the home’s well lardered refrigerator for the asking. In Sand Springs the home maintains a widows’ colony. Here widows and couples too old to work may bring up their children with all sustenance provided free by the home.

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This monument today marks the graves of Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln, father and stepmother of Abraham Lincoln, in the little Gordon cemetery, near Mattoon, 111. It was erected by the Lions Clubs of Illinois. There is a monument to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of the President, in Warrick County, Indiana.

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Tom Sims Says: A political platform must be very strong because the opposition usually jumps up and down on it. No woman with her hair done up in papers looks half as bad as she thinks she looks. This is the season of the year when one commandment might be changed to read, "Covet not thy neighbor’s garden." Painting a house would be more fun if all the neighbors didn’t wonder why you selected such an outlandish colorRussia is getting mad at Germany. It must make Russia feel good to be in a position to sever trade relations with someone. The real problem of this world court they are arguing about is, "Who will be the policeman?” Ford is building a plant in Denmark, but this isn’t what is rotten there. Family Fun Oh, That Way! Johnny (at poultry show) —“Ma, lei's stay until they let the animals out.” "They don’t let them out, deax.’’ “Yes, they *do, ma, 'cause last night I heard pa tell Uncle Bill that they would stick around after the show and pick up some chickens.’’ —Art Magazine. Low in the Neck “James, after this, please uncork all the bottles in my presence. I notice that when you draw the corks in the pantry the wine is extremely decollete.” "Extremely decollete, sir?” “Yes. James; very low in the neck.” —Pearson’s. On the Doctor “You are all right. Your pulse is as regular as clock-work." "Doctor, you have hold of my wrist-watch.”

Ask The Times You can got an answer to any question of fact or information by writ ins to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal ami marital advice cannot bo given, nor can extended research lx- undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AH letters arc coaflucntiai.—Editor. Under International law. what is a “tie jure" government? The rightful or lawful government of the State, which may or may not be in the enjoyment of the power of the sovereignty. What are naanes for boys and girls which begin with II and S? Boys: Harold, Henry, Herbert, Hiram, Hubert, Howard, Horace, Herman, Hilai-y, Homer, Hugh, Hannibal, Samuel. Saul, Seth, Simeon, Solomon, Stanley, Sewell, Stephen, Sidney and Sylvester. Girls: Hannah, Harriet, Helen, Henrietta, Hester. Honora, Hortensia, Hilda, Hulda. Hazel, Hildreth, Heloise, Hildegarde, Salome, Sarah, Stella. Susan, Sophia, Selma, Serena, Sylvia,' Sybil, Stephanie. How should the envelope of a letter for King George of England be addressed, and how should the letter begin? The envelope should be addressed to ‘‘His Most Gracious Majesty, King George." The formal, salutation is “Sir” or “May it please your majesty.” What bonus did Italy pay her soldiers in she World War? The avenge was 1,000 lire j 5157.23) and a complete outfit of civilian clothes. In cases where a man was suffering from nines, not wounds, contracted during service, the bonus was raised to a total of from 1,500 to 3.000 lire. Is Anita Stewart married? Yes, to Rudolph Cameron. What is a good recipe for popcorn cakes? Prepare syrup by boiling to a thread -about two and one-half pounds of sugar with three-quarters of a pound of glucose and one pint of water. Crush popcorn with a rolling pin. Stir the corn into the kettle when the syrup is at the hardsnap stage and pour into buttered tins. Lay over the top a piece of buttered or waxed paper, and let stand under pressure to harden. When cold and hard cut into cakes with a thin, sharp knife. How much water is used for all persons per person each day? Records of cities show that the average quantity of water used each (day per person ranges from seven to eight .gallons among the poor, where there is only one faucet in the house, to about sixty gallons in the homes of wealthy persons. The average of an ordinary family in cities is estimated to be about twenty daily for each member.

TAMMANY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE Political Organization Has Made Big Profits for Some Members. Edtior s Note—This is the last of five articles by Lowell Mellett of this paper s Washington staff, who has just finished a study of the Tammany machine and Its ways. By LOWELL, MELLETT Ar~~~" SERIES of stories could be told concerning Tawnnany’s ■ - political methods that would fill this column daily from now until the November election and each would be an interesting story. There would be stori*s of vote-buying—first systematized in 1828, by the waystories of baljpt box stuffing, of herding immigrants through the naturalization process at so much a head and voting them like cattle, of the development of plug-ugly gangs for use on election day—starting with the hickory-stick swingers in Jackson’s day and running through to the gunmen of Murphy’s time—of fraudulent vote counting, of grafting in office, of selling, public franchises, of contractors collecting for work never done, of embezzling public funds, of bribery and extortion, of blackmailing immoral women, of corrupting the police and alj the other symptoms of. American municipal politics. But such stories can be told of nearly any American city. They can be told of nearly every political group which at one time or another hes managed to wqgest the power from Tammany for a brief period in New York. Tammany bears the or}ium''because Tammany has been in control so much of the tim because the greatest municipal si ndal <if modern times, that of the Tweed ring, was a Tammany scandal and because of one other reason more important than all. It is this; Corruption has nearly always been an unfortunate incident of other city administrations in New

Yor.k It has been an integral part of Tammany administration. Without it, it is impossible to conceive of Tammany's long-continued existence. Business Organization For Tammany ill is and has been a business organization. Its business is politics and it is in business to make money, just as much as any other business concern. Glory and excitement, prestige and power, the joy of- being boss, of course, have played a part, but the real driving force always lias been the business instinct. Many things have been done by the Tammany organization in the name of democracy. These things present day leaders point to with pride. But Tammany has granted concessions to the people with just exactly the same readiness as have ruling oligarchies in all lands at all times. It has given the people just as much as the people have been able to wring out of it. Or considering it more properly as a business organization. It has taken as much from the people and given the people as little as possible. For Universal Suffrage It was Tammany that got behind the movement early in the nineteenth century that resulted in universal suffrage, the abolition of property qualifications. Tammany went about this reluctantly and only when convinced that it was inevitable. Tammany, composed of merchants and other men of property, had no desire to complicate its business by letting in additional hordes of voters to be dealt with. But once convinced that it had to be done, a virtue was made of it and the role of champion of the people continued unbroken. Exactly the same was true as to immigrants. Tammany needed the additional votes end so, in the name of greater democracy, ; it brought in the illiterate voters and used them. Tamany has been a business concern all its life and a concern paying enormous profits to its successive operators, the little interlocking boards of Tammany Society and Tammany Hall. It paid its biggest dividends, no doubt, in the days of Tweed Estimates, following Tweed’s conviction and imprisonment, of the amounts stolen from the city in the years between 1865 and 1871 ranged all the \vay from 850,000,000 %o $200,000,000, including issues of fraudulent bonds. City Controller Richard B. Connolly, one of the ring, got away safely to London with $6,000,000. A Thought Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.—Prov. 25:14. • * * The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of it. •—Bacon. Memory Gone Amnesia is what Europe has in regard to her debt to the U. S. A.— Clinton Clintonian.

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CLAIM WAY IS FOUND TO SA VE LA KE Engineer Says Flashboard Will Solve Chicago's Water Problem. By SEA SrrHre ■pnHICAGO, May 17.—When the spring rains flooded all the creeks back in the country, thrifty millers used to put “flash boards” along the tops of their dams to enlarge their millponds and save the water for summer. This homely practice pictures the solution of George M. Winner, consulting engineer for the sanitary district of Chicago, for the controversy over the city's intake of lake water to carry off its sewage. "Just vary the flushboards on the milldam into larger .egulating works above Niagara Falls and there’ll be no more complaint of low water,” declares Wisner. "Here is the situation today. Chicago is taking about 10,000 cubic feet of water per second. It has be-

Reft'.#-- /a* ‘ dL * a i 1 .ii '• • AIRPLANE VIEW OF SECTION WHERE WATER IS BEING DIVERTED. INSET SHOWS GEOR QE M. WEISNER, CHICAGO CON SULTING E NGINEER. \ FORT EWE,ONTARIO tested s*9’’-**.* 5 * 9 ’’-**.* >—s. 4y I / yW BUFFALO, N.Y.

MAP SHOWS WHERE GATES MAY BE PLACED.

come a necessity for the city's health. ' • “Sewage disposal plants are operating and being enlarged, but they cannot meet the need entirely for years. Unless Chicago takes this water, the river will carry its waste into the lake and pollute the drinking water suppjy. “This diversion at Chicago reduces by about# per cent the average flow over Niagara Falls. It has lowered the average level of Lakes Michigan and Huron, also, by about 5.5 inches. The principal protest has come from the Niagara power interests, Canadian and American, which would use this water to turn turbines. “The effect on navigation is that lake boats cannot load quite so heavily, each Inch subtracted from harbor depth meaning a loss of about 100 tone of cargo from a big freighter.” *

Straw Hats

Good Company By HAL COCHRAN Like a maze of color, such was she, or a rainbow in the sky: and she made me think of a sun-kissed day as she calmly sauntered by. Her hat, her gown, well, everything, it seemed, was just that quaint to make you think of the harmony that a painter’d like to paint. And who am I that I judge this miss? Well, she looked in my direction, and her smile that day, as she glanced my way, was the last word in i>erfection. How often I have seen that girl, the vision quickly told me, and I walked right up and spoke to her ‘cause I knew she wouldn’t scold me. Then we sauntered up the avenue to a small but good case, where we passed perhaps an hour or two (and & five-buck bill) away. And then she talked of a movie show, and, of course, that's w r here we went. And, my.-foh, my, how the time does fly, for another hour was spent. When the film was o’er and there was no more, and we had no place to roam; well, we took a car and we traveled far till we finally landed home. 'Twas a night well spent for a girl and gent, and I'm ready for another; 'cause I oft partake, and for her sake, the girl I takes my mother. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Other Editors Celebrating It’s easy to tell which European nations got licked in the World War; the nations whose people are down to work, lost; the others are still celebrating.—Lebanon Reporter. Revised Slightly Judged by his display of thrift and saving industry, Luis A. Firpo must have been reading that little Solomoronic wheeze, “Get onto the ant, thou slugger."—Lafayette Journal and Courier. Conservation Old bones are being sawed up to make Mah Johgg sets, but science is still baffled over a practical use for coffee grounds.—Newcastle Courier. • X.

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1924

ART WORK IS EMERGING FROM DUST Pictures in United States Capitol Show Events of Early History, jrtra ASHINGTON, May 16.—For j the first time in nearly a T 1 half century, Uncle Sam’s | most priceless art treasures —the j eight great historical paintings that | hang in the rotunda of the United States Capitol—are being cleaned and the colors restored their original freshness. Emerging from underneath years of accumulated dust and dirt, the full'sized figures of men, women and horses have taken on a brightness that makes them look almost life-like and actually startles the beholder. Although some of the pictures were painted more than 100 years ago, not a pigment seems to have faded. History Shows Four of the large canvases are the works of Maj. John Trumbull, j aide-de-camp to General Washington, who was commissioned by Congress in 1817 to paint them at a price of SB,OOO each. They depict some of the most momentous hours in American revolutionary history, and are familiar to most Americans, having been extensively copied. Trumbull’ works are “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence” at Philadelphia, July 4, 1776: "The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown” on Oct. 19, 1781, “The Surrender of Burgoyne” at Saratoga, N. Y., on Oct. 17. 1777, and “General Washington's Resignation froiv. the Army" at Annapolis, Dec. 23, 1783. Canvas Celebrated “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence” is the most celebrated of Trumbull’s canvases and has been copied thousands of times. The scene is in the hall of the Continental Congress. John Hancock, a kindly-faced old man In a black velvet suit, high-buckled slippers, stockings and powdered wig, is seated at the table. Before him stands “the Committee of Five”—Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert L. Livingston—while the rest of the signers are seated before the table. The other four canvases In the rotunda are “The Landing of Columbus,” by Vanderlyn; “The Discovery of the Mississippi River by De Soto,” by W. H. Powell; “The Baptism of Pocahontas,” by John G. Chapman, and “The Embarkation of the Pilgrims,” by Wler. These were all painted early in the last century and were bought by the Government at from SIO,OOO to $12,000 each. Science One of the greatest recent achievements of science has been in combining both simplicity and efficiency in instruments designed to magnify tne powers of man’s sense organs. For instance, the geophone, originated during the war and since perfected for mining use, is composed of a flat iron ring, two diaphragms, two brass cap pieces and a tube and stethoscope. With this Binaple instrument sledge pounding can be detected 3.000 feet through solid rock, 2,000 feet through coal and 300 feet through clay. It Is a matter of common experience that normal conversation can not be heard through the average house wall. With this instrument, talking can be heard through a fiftyfoot thickness of coal with about the clearness of the old-fashioned phonograph. This gives an idea of the extent to which a device so simple as to be almost crude magnifies the powers of the human senses The geophone can locate and help rescue entombed miners, locate fires, find water leaks and determine the drift of drill holes. Keeps ’Em Guessing There probably have been greater premiers than Ramsay MacDonald, but not many that have kept the Britons guessing so much of the time. —Muncie Press.