Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chlef ROY W. HOWARD. President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor . WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * ’Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-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.

AT YOUR SERVICE mNDIANAPOLIS is all dressed up in its best this week, entertaining company. The company comes fronf all over the United States, with representation from other parts of the world. The visitors are here to see what many call the world's greatest sporting event, the annual 500-mile automobile race. Certainly it is the world’s best attended sporting event. The city is at the service of its visitors. It is the purpose of every one to make their stay as enjoyable and as comfortable as possible. Os course, we are a little crowded, because of the unusual number of visitors, but we are doing our best to take care of everybody. As the Better Business Bureau points out, Indianapolis is known as a “city,of the square deal.’’ It is our pride to keep it that way and every one is cooperating. It is our hope that every visitor to Indianapolis will leave with a warm spot in his heart for the city. We are at your service. GRAND JURY ACTION mT BEGINS to appear that Marion County is to have a “Teapot Dome” all its own. Charges are noiv being made that an ordinance providing for the sale of the Marion County workhouse property was changed without authority, resulting in the county retaining less of the property than was intended. Grand jury action is being asked, and grand jury action certainly is needed. The jury should, while investigating this affair, go into the construction of the new buildings at Julietta and at the county poor farm, the former of which is ready to fall down and the latter of which is not habitable. Certainly this condition is nothing short of criminal. DO WE WANT ANOTHER WAR? lEMORIAL DAY may perhaps afford time for Americans to pause long enough to examine the dangerous situation that has developed between their country and Japan. Such an examination might avert a war that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives and untold treasure which would be gouged from the common people. America and Japan are drifting steadily toward war. There is no use blinking at this fact. They will be fighting! within a short time, as the lives of nations go, unless present; currents are checked or diverted. The drift toward war is not anew thing. Thoughtful men of both countries believed war was near in 1920, 'when the i tendency was stopped by the Washington arms conference. It has been revived with greater vigor since the crisis arose over the measure excluding Japanese from this country. This acceptance without question of the contention that a war is inevitable will be one of the primary causes for it. The statement that a war cannot be avoided, taken as axiomatic, has been a big factor in bringing on other wars. Once the belief becomes fixed in the public thought of Japan and America, it will be too late to avert catastrophe. Now Japan is in error in the way she is taking exclusion. Both the protest of the Japanese Cabinet and the tone of the public press show this. American diplomacy ought to be able , to set her right. Americans can make it clear, without any sacrifice of pride, that the question of race was not involved in passage of the immigration bill. Japan can be shown—unless she is looking for a quarrel—that the question was purely an economic one involving maintenance of American Standards of labor and living —something eminently vital to this country. The immigration bill was necessary and justifiable, of course. It was unfortunate that Hanihara, with his “grave consequences” letter, put a chip on Japan’s shoulder which Congress promptly knocked off.

But all that is water over the dam. The thing that is now to be done is to come to a frank understanding, restore friendly relations between the two sountries, stop the drift toward war, and destroy the belief war is inevitable. America doesn't want another war. Americans can prevent one if they will try. “THE POTOMAC became a river of wrath,” says a flooddescribing paper. We thought they’d get a rise out of it. “CONGRESSMEN say they cannot live on their salaries.” Fine. EXPERTS SAY the country’s anthracite will last 150 years, so posterity cannot claim it was not warned in time. PERHAPS the dance appeals more strongly to the Prince of Wales because it gives him something to hang on. THE BOBBED HAIR vote can just about carry the election if it starts at a good clip. THE POLITICAL news from Massachusetts indicates that they are running Speaker Gillett for the Senate as a sort of safety raiser. IF WE GET Attorney General Stone accurate regarding the bureau of investigation, Senators need no longer be afraid of their shadows.

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GONG ENDS ONE MORE PRISON DA Y O’Dare Describes 'Quitting Time’ at Leavenworth Penitentiary, By KAINT O'DARE ' mHE 9 o’clock gong rang through the great halls of the cellhouges in the penitentiary at Leavenworth. In half.an hour would come taps. Gallery runners hustled here and there in a last effort to finish their errands for their kindred, pacing their little cells dotting the corridor. Books were closed and tossed into cupboards. Sheets were flapped back from bunks, and pillows were spanked. Shoes were scudded across cement floors. Water faucets hissed and clicked their valves. Songs part-

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ly finished were ended. A guitar died mournfully. Streamers of sparks shot thiough bars, over the raflngs of the gajleries, and the butt of the cigaret, itself, was swalled up in the abyss of the hall below. Keys rattled. Gallery runners were locked in for the night. Sliding bars sealing a hundred ceils at once were slid into place. A guard in gum shoes passed like a phantom through the galleries and took count of his charges. Then came the ebb-tide of 3,000 nu n, creeping silently across the bar of tfieir tragic day. The long, drawn out song of a bugle heralded themjinder the magic wand of taps to the sea of life out there beyond the grim walls, under June stars. Three thousand men closed their eyes and dreamed they were boys. Science Nearly all Insects have distinct facial expressions. Seen under a magnifying glass these expressions are startling. Most of them are terrifying or frightful, but some have expressions of wisdom or studiousness and some appear to be amiable and contented. The tiger beetle is one of the most ferocious in appearance. It has large staring eye§ and mandibles that look like huge teeth. There are other insects that, like the tiger beetle, are as ferodious as they look, but some that look the most bloodthirsty are quite harmless. The Hercules beetle is several Inches long, has immense claws and a long horn and looks deadly. However, its appearance is merely to frighten other insects away, as it is entirely harmless. The expressions probably are protectiee measures that nature gives insects. They have many other qualities enabling them and even to Increase in the face of man's warfare against them. The most important gift of all is the compound eye that enables them to avoid danger.

Nature

Scorpions, itch mites or tic rs, belong to the same class as .spiders. Ticks usually confine their operations to quadrupeds, but sometimes attack human beings, causing much irritation. They are simply gigantic mites with tough skins. Their mouths are beaks furnished with hooks. It is by these hooks that the tick is able to anchor himself into the fl&sh, where he proceeds to“ suck the host's blood. The male is small and not often seen. The female’s body, after feeding, becomes distended until she looks like a seed or bean. When the southern cattle tick is full grown she drops from her host to the ground and lays a few eggs—--2,000 to 3,000. These eggs hatch into “seed-ticks,” and, being lively, ascend nearby weeds or bushes, where they wait until some animal passes near enough for them to catch hold.

Tongue Tips Rev. O. H. Sletten, talking to Norwegian celebrants, Minneapolis: “Men who can play their violins or live their lives on a single string with a sole, unfaltering purpose, are the ones who count.” Kathleen Norris, author: “I think we live here in America in a better world than we had for at least 1,000 years.” Ethel R. Peyster, writer: "Tolerance must be the basis of family cohesiveness—tolerance and consideration —the keynotes to peace in the homes and in the nations.” Prof. Thomas A. Adams, political economist, Yale University: “We should protect the Government from the error cf indulging any further in tax systems which tend only to develop and perfect the art of dodging the laws.”

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Affray

By NEA Service WASHINGTON, May 29. More and mote, interest in Washington is centering in the coming struggle at New York. The Cleveland convention, by contrast, admittedly will be a tame and deadly dull affair. At New York, it will be an affray, not an affair, and not even one-to-four money can be found on the result. Hiram Johnson : who at one time was expected to furnish fireworks for the Cleveland show, has fizzled. His notification that he releases delegates instructed for him indicates that his name will not even be, placed in nomination.

Annual Surprise ! By HAL COCHRAN r"“"1 F you’re feelin’ like me, you j I will surely agree, there’s a Li • kick in the thought of a swim. You can’t call it rash when you’re achin’ to splash In the water with vigor and vim. When comes the hot weather folks gather together and talk of a picnic or two. While beach ads you’re scanning, you’re hurriedly planning on what is the best thing to do. Os course, in the end, you can always depend that you'll motor or walk t s. be, ch. , A swim is the thing that is ,ertain to brifig all the people whj Tve within reacja Then /cu gladly recall that, quite late in tfc) fall, a garment for bathing was ’ cored. So out comes the trunk w.ure the suit has been sunk and it’., due to be quickly explored. You i.unt and you hunt; it’s the annual stunt. Then you find it and nonly you don it. But then you’re confused for it cannot be used ’cause toe moths have been dining upon it. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Family Fun Must a Had Some Teacher called upon a bright i youngster to recite the fable of the fox and the grapes. "The fox jumped and just missed 'em,'’ said the boy, "and he jumped again and just missed ’em—and he jumped and he jumped and he jumped ” “Yes, and then what?" "He sat down and said: ‘Aw, heck! IT eat a banana.’ ” —Whiz Bang. Heartbreak for Bobby "What does my little man want to buy today—candy?” asked the shopkeeper as the small boy entered. "Yes, that’s what I want to buy, but I've got to buy soap!”—London Tit-Bits.

Musicland " j l The life of Franz Schubert is I |uU\\V \ \\\\ J *— T rtprobably one of the most interesting j ' \\\\.A §j biographies in the history of music. 1 1 1 1 \ \ \\' N\J| He was the son of a poor school- IM \ \ / Nd] master and one of nineteen children. . 1 'V' J’l His family was musically inclined S and encouraged the early efforts of Franz. Schubert’s music, probably more than any other of the modem J composers, shows his character very A. Vrs-—UY—- . , ’ . .. U' L//1 MACHINERYctearIy. There was a decidedly ro- WEIGHT {Pj mirror mantic side to his nature, as shown 0N

' Musicland The life of Franz Schubert is probably one of the most interesting biographies in the history of music. He was the son of a poor schoolmaster and one of nineteen children. His family was musically inclined and encouraged the early efforts of Franz. Schubert’s music, probably more than any other of the modern composers, shows his character very ctearly. There was a decidedly romantic side to his nature, as shown in the fact that he loved, to the point of idolatry, a young pupil of his,. But, because of his retiring nature, never 1 expressed his sentiments to her. His writing was always very impulsive. A story runs that a friend once handed him the poem, "Hark! Hark! the Lark.” After hesitating a moment he cried “I have it!” Whereupon, he sat down and played the beautiful melody which now accompanies those words. One of the things that, has helped to make Schubert’s music love is his kind and loving nature, free from every thought of jealousy. Schubert died at the early age of 31, soon after he had directed the first public concert of his magnificent “Unfinished Symphony."

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SUNSHINE MAY COOK FOR FAMILY 'Solar Stove’ Experiments Being Conducted in Washington, By LARRY' BOARDMAN NEA Service Writer May 29.—Some yy of these days Mrs. HouseJ_U wife can throw away the contents of the kitchen stove woodbox, sick the bull pup on the gas bill collector and do her cooking by the heat of the sun. This is the prediction of those watching the experiments now being conducted by Dr. C. G. Abbot, director of the Smithsonian Instii tution’s astrophysieal observatory. Dr. Abbot has been carrying on his researches up to date with a ■ large "solar cooker” erected on Mount Wilson, in California. These experiments have proved so successful that he is now contemplating working out a solar cooking device of the same type, but small enough to be used in the home. How It Works The Mount Wilson solar cooker is operated as follows: A curved mirror, 7 by 10 feet, is set up with its concave reflecting surface toward the sue and its axis parallel to the axis of the earth. Above the mirror is a reservoir filled with cylinder oil. Two pipes, leading from the middle and bottom of the reservoir, are joined together and run as one pipe underneath the mirror, then up and through the center of the mirror, and back into the top of the reservoir. The sun’s rays reflected by the mirror's concave surface are concentrated on the section of pipe running through the mirror's center. The oil in this section of pipe becomes heated, expands, and enters the top of the reservoir. The cold oil farther down in the reservoir is then forced out thi-ough the two lower pipes, through the pipe underneath the mirror, into the heated section of pipe and back into the reservoir top —a continuous flow. Temperature Regulated Two ovens are built in the reservoir, and as the hot oil flows in a cooking temperature is raised and maintained. Either the upper or • lower oven may he used, depending j on temperature desired. The temperature is further regulated by

SUN OVEN AND WORKING DIAGRAM. a valve which cuts off oil circulation through either the middle or bottom pipe at will. Both pipes and reservoir are heavily insulated to hold the oil’s heat over /night. The mirror is rotated on its axis by a simple System of weights and ordinary alarm clock machinery in such a way as always to get the full benefit of the sun’s rays. That Job Soon the college mafi will be hard put to it to decide whether to be President or a major league star. — Lafayette Journal and Courier.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Tunes Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Washington, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medira.. legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be indertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be ane- “-ed. All letters are confidential.—Ecu tor. How did the Germans manage to fire a shot so far when they bombarded Paris? Partly because of the size of the gun, and partly because oi the novel construction of the shell, which was : iuplcx. a fifteen-inch shell, arranged ; to shoot out at a certain height and distance a smaller nine-inch shell. Do planets ever occult one another? Instances are on record of one planet occulting another, but these are of very rare occurrence. Kepler states that he watched an occultaj tlon of Jupiter by Mars on Jan. 9, I 1591. He also mentions that Moest'.in witnessed an occultation of Mars |by Venus on Oct. 3, 1590. Mercury was occulted by Venus on May 17, 1737. As these observations, with

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j the exception of the last, were made ! before the invention of the telescope, it is possible that the one planet was not actually in front of the other, but only that they were so close together as to have had the appearance of being one object: as was the case with Venus and Jupiter on July 21, 1859. What is the dial diameter of a 12-size watch, a 16-size and an 18-size? 1 7-16, 1 9-16, and 1 11-16, respectively. When does the history of, Jajan begin? With a year corresponding to 660 B. C., when Jimmu Tenno, the leader of a band of invaders, settled in Yamato after having conquered several of the tribes that opposed him. A Thought As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.— Prov. 27:19. * • Truth makes the face of that person shine who speaks and owns it.— South.

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Tom Sims Says: Great Britain is striving for the | cotton supremacy of the world, so I our boll weevils should be indicted for helping her. They quieted down in Washington one day recently long enough to cuss the railrdads for a few rounds. The sad thing about being a rich man’s son is the world doesn’t get a chance to teach you very much sense. Every small town telephone is a broadcasting If you doji’t hear as many cuss words as you usually hear it may be heeause they.- are attending the political conventions. A man who escaped from the Arkansas pen thirteen years ago was caught in Memphis, Tenn., proving all detectives are not in Washington. Assurance of immediate tax reduction was siven again today for the sixtieth time within the last two months. .