Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1924 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1924

U. S. AFTER ‘RAY,’ INVENTOR CLAIMS Written Offer, Says Mathews —Officials Denit It, By United Press PARIS, May 2S.—Americans have entered the race to obtain the secret of Grindell Mathews' death ray, Mathews said today. He announced he had received a written offer from the United States. Other reports said the national academy of sciences at Washington 1 had cabled the inventor, asking particulars and that American naval attaches here had been ordered to investigate Mathews’ claims. American officials here denied the United States was in any way i interested in the ray. Burglar Sentenced By United Press RICHMOND, Ind., May 28.—Convicted of stealing $1,200 worth of merchandise from local stores, William Stephensky, Toungstown, Ohio, today was under sentence of ten to twenty-one years in Indiana State Prison. J Clew in Brick Throwing Mrs. Ira Dillman. 90S E. St. Clair St., gave police a clew today which she believes will mean the arrest of the person who hurled a brick from a passing auto through the front window of her home.

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The Demand Rate for Electric Power and The Way it Is Calculated

There has been a good deal of explanation given in the daily papers by Merchants Heat and Light- Company of the reasons why a Demand Rate forms a part of the charge made to users of Electric Power; the other part of the charge being an Energy Rate. The old schoolmen used to say that ‘‘Repetition is the Mother of Knowledge;” so that, at- the risk of being prosy, we will once more repeat that it makes a Good Deal of Difference to Him who has to Provide the Machinery and Plant whether he gets Enough Business to Keep it Going for An Hour, or for a Full Day. If he gets but an hour’s business he must earn a return on his investment from an hour’s use; while if he gets many hours’ business, he may spread his earnings necessities over more time and give a lower rate to his customers. So much for that. In some of the idle talk which has been indulged in by some folks in this city since business began to slow up a little and gave them time, the impression has prevailed that the Demand Rate is Loosely Calculated, and that one Customer’s Demand might be Reckoned More Loosely than that- of Another Customer. Nothing could be Further from the Truth. Asa matter of fact, the whole business of measuring a Demand Rate is done Mechanically, by a Demand Meter. Only that Class of People who Can’t Understand how and why a Watch Keeps Time nowadays declare th?.t- mechanical methods of measurement are unreliable. Most folks, nowadays, accept the Weights shown on their Grocers’ and Butchers’ Scales, Trust their Druggists to Measure out their Physic on his Balances, pay their Gas Bills according to results shown by the Meter, and Swear by their Speedometers when they come into conflict with the “Cop” about the rates at which they are traveling. They Add, Subtract and Divide by the use of Mechanical Devices, count coins in the bank by weight, take the Doctor s Word for their Blood Pressure when he Clamps a Registering Device on them, and generally accept mechnaical measurements in almost every affair of life. The Demand for a Supply of Electric Power is measured by an Electric Demand Meter, which is Quite as Accurate as any other Meas-

MERCHANTS HEAT & LIGHT COMPANY “THE DAYLIGHT CORNER ”

Meetings Here Thursday THURSDAY. MAY 2D Merchants Detective Association. Meeting. 8 p. m. Denison. Exchange Club. Luncheon. Lincoln. Credit Men. Luncheon. Claypool. Vonnegut Machinery Cos. Dinner. Severin. Traffic Club. Luncheon. Hotel Severin. Ladies and Gents Whist Club. Severin. Lumber Credit Bureau. Luncheon. Severin. Indianapolis Chapter Asociation of Engineers. Luncheon. Board of Trade. Traffic Club. Luncheon. Severin. Sigma Chi. Luncheon. C. of C. Gyro Club. Directors. Luncheon. Severin. American Business Club. Luncheon. Hotel Lincoln.. General Contractors. Luncheon. Spink Arms. Advertising Club. Luncheon. Seventh floor, C. of C.

Vonnegut School Musicale Music classes of the Clemens Vonnegut School, Vermont and Fulton Sts., were to present a program this afternoon. “The Funeral March of a Marionette” was to be presented by Marvin Wood. Ida Prette, 8A pupil, was on the program to sing “O Sole Mio” in Italian.

High School Girl to Speak By Times Special Anderson, Ind., May 28.—Miss Martha Huffman, high school senior, will deliver an address at Memorial Day services in Maplewood cemetery. Walter Myers, Indianapolis, will he principal speaker. “Old Swimming Hole” in Park By Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., May 28. “The Old Swimming Hole,” made famous in James Whitcomb Riley’s poem of that name, will be included in the Riley Memorial Park, for

IT’S UNANIMOUS! FOR ROBIN HOOD “Altogether it is an opera that every one should hear, as its appeal is universal. A large audience enjoyed the lilting tunes, the humor and the splendid teamwork of the Aborn company.” GRACE HUTCHINGS, The Star. “One can say that the Aborn productoin is excellent, that it is an advance in the right direction, that it is an agreeable evening’s entertainment, and that you ought to see it” WALTER WHITWORTH, The News. “The Aborn oompany is starting its second week with this opera and it is fast winning the attention of Indianapolis audiences. There could be no doubt of the appreciation of the audience Monday night.” FELIX BRUNER, The Times. KEITH’S TONITE is “CASEY NITE”

uring Instrument. It records on a sheet of paper just like that shown in the cut at the head of this Educational Advertisement, every variation in the demand for Quantity of Electric Current, at every given moment. It Records, in ink, with a pen, the sloping up and down strokes shown on the cut. If it be flve Kilowatts, the markings go up just so far on the sheet. If it be ten o rtwenty Kilowatts they go up just so much farther proportionately. They Don’t Lie. They are on Nobody’s Pay Roll, and have No Interest in Untruth. Being Mechanical, they have No Consciences Whose Dictates they Decline to Follow, as so many Human Beings do. They Simply Record the Facts. The Foregoing Picture is a Copy of One of their records. One of these Records is made Every fifteen Minutes by the Demand Meter. It registers the Highest Demand as well as the Lowest. The Highest Demand for any Fifteen Minutes in the Month or Year, establishes the Highest Demand rate for that period, subject to One Condition. This condition, in the Practice of Merchants Heat & Light Company, is that instead of Assessing its Customer for the Highest Momentary Demand, as shown by the Demand Meters, it assesses him at the Average Demand for the Fifteen-Minute Period. The Highest Record Average Demand for any Fifteen-Minute Period in the year is the basis of the Customer’s Demand Rate. It might be possible to assess the Customer the Highest Momentary Demand and be Within the Law; but that Would Not Be Honest to the Customer, and in the Business of Supplying Electric Power it has been found that Honesty is the Best Policy. Sooner or Later the Discovery will be made by others, and finally, perhaps, by the Critics of the Utilities. The Drawing on the left of the cut which heads this article shows how fairly the Average Demand Rate is arrived at. If you are a little old-fashioned and it isn’t clear to you, don’t take it for interpretation to one of these self-constituted experts who has been in the limelight in the city lately. Ask Your Own Kiddie, who is studying Mathematics in the High School. He will explain it both Intelligently and Honestly, because he can Understand it, and he has no interest in Misleading you.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

which Greenfield council has passed an ordinance to sell a SIO,OOO bond issue. The park will cover about forty acres. Constantine Knights to Meet Fifty local representatives of the Knights of the Red Cross of Con- j stantine are expected to attend the j imperial council meeting at Louis- ! ville June 11-12. L. P. New!?y of j Knightstown, head of the Indiana \ organization, presided at a meeting j at the Claypool Tuesday night, when ! plans were discussed.

AMUSEMENTS

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I TONIGHT, " MATS. TODAY, I 8:15 THIKS., SAT., 2:15 g THE MURAT PLAYERS PRESENT ICEBOUND I The Great Comedy Drama With a New York Cast DANCING “W ohbr Performance Nights 25c, 50c, SI.OO Mats., 25c, 50c. Downtown OfficeMerchants Heat A Light Cos. Next Week—“So This Is London.”

PALACE ~%?. NICK COGLEY Stage and Screen Comedian AS '‘OLD RELIABLE” “THE STRIPED MAN” % SUPPORTED BY HERSCHELL MAYALL & CLARK MARSHALL OTHER BIG ACTS PHOTO FEATURE GLENN HUNTEK in “GRIT”

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WHERE THE CROWDS GO! I VDIP ALL THE LI f\IU™ E,TO - Bltt V 11 P. M. J. FRANCIS HANEY’S REVUE BUD Belle Oliver SNYDER Cantwell & Walker and Demaria Five BLUCH KINZO DOLLY PERCY CONNELLY & WEINRICH Sonnet Comedy Serial, “The Telephone Girl” Dancing: In the Lyric Ballroom Afternoon an<l Evening.

MOTION PICTURES NOW SHOWING POL A NEGRI in “MEN” Will Rog*r* In "Highbrow Stuff 1 ’ .Jackson Orchestra APOLLO REGINALD DENNY —lN' “SPORTING YOUTH” MACK SENNET COMEDY “SCARE ’M MUCH” Virgil .Moore’s Apollo Orchestra Big Special Race Week Show “RACING LUCK” A Super Speedy Comedy Drama Overture “SWEETHEARTS” BAKALEINIKOFF CONDUCTING FIRST COMPLETE PICTURES ‘‘KENTUCKY DERBY” MrTrADIO MAN” Dessa Byrd—Bert Lindsay LOUISE FAZENDA IN “DIZZY DAISY” N~E WS— CHATS COMING SUNDAY COLLEEN MOORE “THE PERFECT FLAPPER"’

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