Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1924 — Page 4

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THE BONUS AND TAXES SHE soldiers’ adjusted compensation insurance law, called bonus for short, has been passed. No payments will be made until next March. Meantime Uncle Sam must find five and one quarter million young men and examine their records. Os these, 4,051,606 are eligible to pension. He doesn t want them to write him nor pester him with questions while he works out the plans. Probably about 200,000 eligibles have died since they were discharged. The President’s veto of the bill was based upon its effect on taxes. The tax bill is pending. In its present form it practically eliminates all the Mellon plan and substitutes different rates. The Mellon plan was boosted because it reduced taxes. The substitute plan is condemned on the ground that it doesn't collect enough taxes. That is, it reduces taxes more than the Mellon plan did. Fundamentally the difference between the two tax plans is that the Mellon plan reduces the taxes on very large incomes more than it does on smaller ones. The alternative plan reduces rates on smaller incomes more than it does on large ones. At that, the point of divergence is very high. It is an annual income of $62,000. Mellon reduced taxes on incomes above that point more than the progressive Republican and Democratic bill does and less than the new plan on incomes below $62,000. All hands are agreed that 25 per cent of the taxes already levied this year need not be collected, but if the President vetoes the substitute for the Mellon plan, a separate law must be passed or the 25 per cent of 1924 taxes will be collected. Advocates of the insurance compensation plan take treasury figures to prove that the enactment of the law does not mean higher taxes. Its opponents say it does. Neither is exactly correct. The fact is that the present tax law would raise a certain amount of money; reducing the collection horizontally as all parties agree would raise 25 per cent less than that; substituting the Mellon rates for 1925 would raise less, and the progressive Republican-Democratic rates would raise still less. Now whatever plan is in effect Uncle Sam will have a certain amount of revenue. If he pays the soldiers’ eompensa tion and doesn't trim his other expenses, he will have a deficit and will have to raise taxes. If he didn't pay the bonus and didn’t trim other expenses, he would have a deficit and would have to raise taxes. Tax rates depend on what Uncle !Saru spends rather than upon what he spends it for. Two things stand out: First: The bonus in and of itself need not raise taxes, and Second: The Mellon tax rates would not reduce taxes as much as the rates Congress is proposing. Mellon would have more greatly reduced the taxes of those whose income is over $62,000 per year. In the future taxes will be high or low, depending on how much the government spends. If it spends on bonus and doesn’t save on other expenses, taxes will be increased. If a man buys a radio and cuts out movies he breaks about even. If he keeps his radio and also his movies, his cost of living goes up —unless he substitutes oleo for butter or has Johnnie’s shoes half soled instead of buying anew pair.

CONGRESS NO JOKE A*~~ “*| YEAR ago it was the fashion to speak lightly of Congre.ss. We among others did it. We proposed saving the expense of heating the Capitol by utilizing the oratory, and made other pert remarks. We take all that back. Congress is the representative botly of the country. It is the fundamental thing in government. It should not, could not, be abolished. If Congress could not be made an effective body, worthy of respect, then there is no hope for a government in which the people rule, as we wish ours to be. To treat it as a joke is to invite the only alternative—dictatorship. But there has been a great change. The growth of the progressive movement, breaking down party lines, old prejudices, and self-interest has dignified Congress. In the session now closing we find Congress on the whole intelligently act ing to pass laws in the interest of the people, killing attempts to put through raw deals, and going even further to show the people just how the administrative officers have betrayed them. Congress today is greater and nobler than the executive. It is worthy of the American people. Let us never make the mistake again of treating Congress as a joke. As an institution let us give it the dignity it deserves. Let us establish the custom that the greatest honor that can come to any man is to sit in the law-making body of his country. Then we shall have all our great public men in Congress and we can safely give to Congress responsibility for the whole Government by making Cabinet officers report to it. OLD KING TUT was proud of his place and power, of course, but his fine conceit never led him to believe he could reach down to this time and start a modern lawsuit.

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RENEW TALK FOR TUNNEL IN CHANNEL Only Need Approval by British War Department to Launch Project, By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent EONDON, May 22.—Just so soon as the British premier, Parliament ang war department sanction it, work will be started on the greatest engineering enterprise since American genius connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at Panama —the construction of a thirty-six-mile tunnel under the sea, to connect England with the continent of Europe. It will be the gi'eatest tunnel in the world. It has been the dream of engineers, railway men and iinanciers for nearly a hundred years and the dream has always been blocked by British fears of military invasion. Sir William Bull, a veteran member of Parliament, a distinguished lawyer and chairman of the parliamentary commission on the channel tunnel, is urging upon Premier MacDonald that the present government smooth the way for the tunnel project. “It looks." said he. “as if nature had specially prepared things to make it easy for man to build the tunnel and to build it at the points where the distance between England and France is the least. Tt:at point is between Dover on our side, of the English Channel and Sangatte, near Calais, on the French side. The tunnel would be thirty six miles in

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HOW THE PROPOSED TUNNEL WILL LINK ENGLAND AND FRANCE. AT THE RIGHT SIR WILLIAM BULL. CHAIRMAN OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION ON THE TUNNEL.

length, of which twenty-four would be t nder the .sea. “From borings that have been taken at frequent intervals, we know exactly the geological composition of the strata in which the work would have to be done. We could do without steel or iron work, the tunnel being lined with reinforced concrete. "It is really proposed to build two tunnels, one for each line of railway. It is estimated that the entire project would cost £29,000,000 and that it would yield a profit of 5 per cent on the investment. There will be no trouble about finding the money. Once the government gave its consent to the project, the British tunnel company and the French tunnel company would supply the needed money within a week. It wilj take five years to build. But the possibilities of such a tunnel are simply immense. Through trains could be run from London to all the great capitals of Europe. British manufactured goods could be sent abroad without the present transhipment from train to boat. “General Koch estimated that had this tunnel been In existence, the war would have been brought to a conclusion ip our favor two years earlier, due to the facilities for unmolested transport of troops, munitions and supplies. This tunnel would he so constructed that in time of war, by pressing a button in Dover or in London, the tunnel could be flooded in a small section near the Kentish coast, forming an effective water lock. This dip in the tunnel would fill up with water in a few hours.”

Science Maj. Ronald Ross, in India, tired, overworked and discouraged at seeing promotions going to his brother officers who spent their time “in society,” was about to give up Iris study of the mosquito. On the verge of quitting, he decided to examine one last mosquito through his microscope. This one revealed sot the first time to the human eye the malarial parasite in its body. If Major Ross had stopped his researches, thousands of persons now enjoying health would be dead and whole areas now fit to live in would be pestholes. Ships would still be going around the Horn instead of through the Panama Canal, because the canal could not have been built and maintained in a malarial country. It was Ross w'ho discovered that malaria is causel by the bite of certain kinds of mosquitoes. The mosquito is a blood-sucking insect. Its salivary glands become infected with germs from a person sick with the disease and it passes on the germs to well persons. A Thought A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. —Prov. 18.7. * * * Tricks md treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest. —Benjamin Franklin.

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Fair England is having a World’s Fair this year, costing sixty million dollars. They call it the British Empire Exhibition, but products of other countries are represented. Steamship companies estimate that one out of every 400 Americans will attend. The former British Exhibition of 1851 featured Yankee devices such as chewing tobacco, parlor stoves, bathtubs and cornhusk mattresses. Quite a contrast, visitors will ponder, as they view airplanes, radio, etc., at-the 1924 fair in London.

Birds Eye View By HAL COCHRAN. How big yet how small is the world, after all, when you view it from up in the air. The vision you gain when you look from a plane makes a diff rence in things that are there. The shrub’ry and trees that the flying man sees wilj blend till they look at their best; a carpet of green that’s a picture serene and the essence of comfort and rest. Great acres are spreading, wherever you're heading, like checkerboards ready for play. It’s the view to the eye when you look from the sky ’cause it’s distance that makes it that way. The people, by chance, that you see are like ants as they hurry and scurry along. So small do they seem that it's all like a dream and you feel that your vision is wrong. How big yet how small is the world, after all, for sane judgment will bid us confess that we’re all not so much: every man's just a touch of the world as a. playhouse, I guess. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Tom Sims Says: While charity begins at home it shouldn’t be afraid to go out and see a little of the world. Life, according to a last June’s bridegroom, finally settles down to what your wife makes it. Village pride is what makes the citizens of a small town brag about what long freight trains pass their depot. A girl doesn't deserve much credit for catching herself a husband during the beautiful months of May and June. Only a few old-fashioned men and women are still standing around arguing about women’s rights. No matter how old you feel now you never arc as old as you are going to be. Some college boys will hunt vacation positions all summer while others will get jobs. If there isn't any hell, and a Philadelphia minister says there isn’t, a lot of people are being told to go to a place that isn't. Nothing makes a man want to go out and chew tobacco as much as seeing a male movie vamp all slicked up and acting real cute. The army Is using gas to cure horses and can secure a natural supply from Congress. Mary gardens are already far enough advanced tc be neglected.

UNUSUAL PEOPLE Oldest Woman Printer Eighty years old, a woman, and still a printer—it’s the record of Mrs. Tillie Ring Hodge of > Tiskilwa, 111., She is said to be the oldest active woman compositor in the world.

PRESIDENT LIKES HIS ‘HAM AND’ Here's What Happens at the Famous Breakfasts at White House, Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave. WASHINGTON, May 22.—What happens at one of those White House breakfasts with which President Coolidge is now entertaining his political friends? Well, the President likes his ham and eggs and his morning cup of coffee, r,o we learn from a Senator who attended one of these functions the other day. Most anything—and that usually means golf—is discussed during the meal, and there after they talk politics. “There Isn't much formality,” the Senator said. “Except for the fact that it is served at the White House it’s about the same as any other breakfast." Usually, the President invites a half-dozen Republican members of Congress for one Os these affairs. They are held on days when some big piece c>f legislation is to lie voted on by Congress.

Invitations Telephoned The invitaions are telephoned from the White House on the day before by one of the President’s secretaries, with directions to ar-} rive at 8 a. m. By that time the ( President, ha-s concluded his morn- j ing walk. Arriving at the executive mansion, I the guests are ushered into a ro<ep I tion room and in a few minutes President Coolidge comes downstairs to join them. After the usual handshakes and smiles, the President chooses the one who ranks higiiest in congressional seniority and marches with him into the big dining room, followed by the others. Mrs. Coolidge doe-; not appear. At the breakfast tattle everybody remains standing until the President takes his seat. Strangely enough, he doesn't sit at the head of the table hut chooses to occupy a place between two of his guests. Help Themselves The President is served first by white-coated negro waiters. First they bring grape-fruit and after that ham and eggs are passed around on a platter and each guest helps himself —no individual service on the ham and eggs, mind you. The coffee and cigars follow. Sometimes the menu is varied to wheat cakes and maple syrup. Not until after the breakfast is completed and the President broaches the subject is the matter of politics brought up. They they get down to business. Other Presidents have had Senators and Congressmen as guests for luncheon or dinner, but Mr. Coolidge is the first executive to invite them to breakfast at the White House. Perhaps he figures that minds work clearer in tthc morning.

Nature Ts you have pocket gophers, in your lot they are right now taking big toll of the roots of your plants because the babies have arrived and much food is needed. A single- family's tunnels including branches, may be hundreds of feet long. The nests are made iff fine dry grass and are located two to four feet, under the surface. Pocket gopher's chief delicacy is dandelion roots. Caterpillar is crawling everywhere these spring days, feeding sumptuously and storing up fat. Soon, however. the chrysalis will he growing inside of him and consuming the fat. whereupon Mr. Caterpillar, disgusted with that kind of life, will quit eating. Presently his skin will split down the back and the chrysalis will wiggle out. At once a transparent liquid is exuded which covers the chrysalis and drying, glues the legs and wings close against the body of the future butterfly. As the last stage the film splits and Madame Butterfly emerges, a sorry-iooking creature with small crumpled, wet wings. But the wings are full of tiny tubes which the insect quickly fills with air. The sun dries the now expanded wings, they grow rapidly through quickened blood circulation.-and the gorgeous butterfly soars where it listeth.

Family Fun Then the Fun Began “Why were you holding mania on your lap, daddy?” “Your mother fainted, son, and I was just soothing her.” The next night ho met his father at the gate and. in breathless excitement, (declaimed: "Oh, daddy, mama fainted again today!” “Your mother fainted?” “Yeh, but she’s all right now. The iceman soothed her.”—Denver Parakeet. For Sister’s Young Man “Has a man ever kissed you before?” “Y—yes.” “Tell me his name and I’ll thrash him.” “But —but—but he might be too many for you.”—Boston Transcript. Tongue Tips Rev. Alvin G. Hause, Kansas City: “I would rather leave my sons with the heritage of a saved soul than a million dollars.” Mrs. Lena Lake-Forest, honorary president National Federation of Business Women: “The moral standard of uny city goes up or down as girls have Or have not jobs.” Dr. Frank W. Bible, district secretary Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions: “The oftly way to describe the Chinese people is to say they are five thousand years young.” Henry Conrad Blandford, Christian healer: “Jesus did more healing than preaching.” Sidney F. Wicks, English editor: “The difference between clean journalism and yellow journalism is merely one of brains.”

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A BANKER, A BANDIT AND BEANS O'Dare Tells of 111-Assorted Trio in Prison Dining Room. BY KAIN O’DARE L “ "pi E were all inarching into the [YYm dining room in the Federal l. * 1 penitentiary at Leaven worth. in front of me was a banker, back of me was a bandit, and all about us on the tables were beans. The three of us happened to get together at one table. The banker whispered—it was against the rules to talk —“Beans!” The bandit whispered husaily: “Beans'” "Beans!” 1 replied to both of them out loud, and got reported by a guard for cursing. This shut me up for a while, and 1 listened to the prison band playing a dirge up in the front part of the hall. “The music is appropriate,” whispered the banker, fishing a slimy

BEANS! BEANS! BEANS! piece of pork from out of his beans. “I wish that band was down the attorney general’s throat!" said the bandit under his breath. “Especially the trombone.” I told him in sign language. "Beans?" asked a waiter coming to the table with a tin tub strapped to his stomach with a dipper in it. “If 1 ever see one on the outside.” mumbled the banker, munching his second helping, “I’ll protest it.” “I’ll shoot it,” snarled the bandit. “Look out!” I cautioned, seeing a guard making for our table. “What are you fellows talking about?” he asked, taking a pad out of his pocket ready for a report. “I’m sore because the waiter has only been to our table twice with the beans,” said the banker to save his hide and a call on the carpet in the deputy warden’s office. “Only twice,” said the bandit, mournfully. “Twice,” I blurted out hoarsely, trying to figure which was worse, the deputy warden or the beans. “I’ll see that you get more beans!” snapped 'the guard, placing the report pad back in his pocket. “Beans?” asked the waiter, who was directed to our table. “Yeh,” whispered the banker, pitifully. “Uh, huh,” groaned the bandit. I extended my plate, making a solemn declare; tio'h to myself that I would never talk again as long as I was in the penitentiary. From that time on there were three prisoners with exemplary conduct in the dining room. Surety First “I never allow a young man to kiss me more' than a dozen times a year.” “Well, we’ll probably have a scrap before then, so I’d better take the whole, quota now.”—American Legion Weekly.

Ask The Times You c.iii 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 cnts in stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot he given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests .annul be answered All letters are confidential .—Editor. Where are the Ilavasupai Indians located? Since 1884 up to the present time they have lived in the north central p. rt of Arizona. What is the latest report by the Bureau of Standards on alcohol engines? This work has been done at tlie request of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Nav\ Department, and no reports have been made available to the public. Briefly, however, the results show lip- following: Alcohol is a satisfactory fuel for engines. It may be operated at compression presssures up to 400 pounds per square inch (average automobile —SO pounds per square inch, average air-plane—l2o-150 pounds per square inch). It is difficult to start an engine on alcohol. How can 1 get rid of ants on peonies? Place a few large meat bones neat the plants. When the ants have collected on these, drop them into a I>ail of boiling water, and repeat the process until no ants remain. Can a key-winding watch be made into a stem-winder? Yes; but, as a rule, the watch is not worth the necessary expense. Does New York State conduct a merchant marine school? Yes, on the ship “Newport.” What are the wages of customs and immigration officers? The former are paid from $3.50 a day to $2,500 a year; the latter from $1,040 to $2,240 a year. Is the visiting card invitation proper to use when inviting guests to an informal dance? Use the joint visiting card of*yourself and husband and write dancing, the hour and the date in the lower left hand corner. Where was Mary, Queen of Scots buried? Mary, Queen of Scots, was first buried at Peterborough in 1587 and in 1612 her body was removed to Westminster Abbey. How many words are used by the average individual? The average individual uses only about 1,000 words, that is if he doesn't do much thinking. If he is educated, talks w r ell and reads and writes a moderate amount his vocabulary would be from 3,000 to 6.000 words. Shakespeare is considered to have laid a very wonderful vocabulary of 15,000 words and Milton's was about 8,000. Is there any way to prevent the odor of cooking food in the house? s It is said that a little salt sprinkled on the stove will remove any disagreeable odor. Where is the highest navigable lake in the world? Lake Titicaca, on the boundary between Peru and Bolivia; it is 12,500 feet high.

Other Editors IT DOES Senator Ralston’s announcement that he has reduced forty-five pounds sounds decidedly flirtatious.—Lafayette Journal and Courier. Are They Still at It? Uncle Tom still grips the people and when Tom and Eva leave the human stage, the people flock to see them on the screen. Tears are not quite so plentiful as in the old days —but enough.—Bluffton Courier. It’s Terrible The saddening thought to those who won the nominations is that they now have to go out and do it all over again.—Muncie Press, What If They Were Close? When one observes the long spaces between telegraph poles one marvels at the accuracy of the accidental aim of automobile drivers. —Marion Leader-Tribune.

THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1924

‘IF 9 IS BIG FACTOR IN CONVENTION Two-Thirds Rule and Other Things Add to Doubt. By CHARLES P. STEWART, NEA Service Writer. ASHINGTON, May 22.—If—if W -ifThat word crops up all the time in every discussion of Democratic presidential possibilities. If it weren’t that somebody’s liable to get the nomination who’s hardly been mentioned at all. it would be easy to tell who the leading candidates are. They'd be McAdoo, A1 Smith. Underwood, Ralston and John W. Davis. If it weren't for the two-thirds rule it would be just Smith and McAdoo. If it weren’t for that same twothirds rule, it probably would be Underwood —if the preceding guess hap pened to go wrong and neither McAdoo nor Smith could get a bare majority. And if, by any fluke, that guess happened to go wrong, too, then it certainly would be Ralston or Davis —if. once more, it weren't for the two-thirds rule.

If Only—But! McAdoo unquestionabl> thought he had it for awhile. It never was certain he'd get two-thirds of the votes but it did look, up to the time of the oil revelations, as if he had a majority. But the oil scandal upset that. At first it didn’t look as if he had a chance. But he’s picked up again. He’s pretty strong now—though probably not strong enough to get two-thirds of the votes. For ronrt time Smith looked like nothing but an unusually husky favorite son. But up i ntil 3oss Murphy died he gained steadily. He never looked like getting two-thirds, of the votes but he looked like gefc-' ting a majority. f ■ Then Murpty died and hi'S support threatened to go to pieyefes. After that it hega,. to gat together again and right row it doesyfl’t look as strong as it did—nc>f’ so much because Smith appears to have lost anything as because McAdoo appears to have gain ed. Anyway, /neither one seems likely to get tjvvo-thirds of the votes. > All Have Chances If-# —they finally decide that such is th\? case, then what’ll happen? The McAdoo following probably will ereak all up. The Smith following' probably will go largely to Underlwood. If 1 Vnderwood has enough friends, plus trie votes he gets from Smith, why tlfien he’ll be the. nominee. But will hil? It's doubtful. Then\ seemingly, it wall be up to Ralston i and Davis. . If, ir i the meantime, some other Candida te hasn’t come to the front, one of those two ought to win—if he can get two-thirds of the votes. And tht t’s a mighty big “if.”

I Musi eland Chrisitoph Gluck was the sou of a game-kpeper. His operas, which he began tV> compose when in his early twentieth, met with great success. While in London, he encountered the unfrieikdly criticism of Handel, which howevelr, never checked Gluck’s admiration\ for the latter's works. Gluck w'as the teacher of Marie Anwho was very fond of her master, )even after she became Queen of Fran’ce. He went to Paris, where he was\the central figure in one of music’s ' greatest quarrels—Gluck, and his I French contemporaries, versus Pucjcini and other supporters of the Italian opera. Gluck died at the age of t>. after having Jived a life full of Adventure and wide experience.

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