Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1924 — Page 4

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INDIANAPOLIS WINS AGAIN SHE Memorial day race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was one of the most successful of its kind from every standpoint. The crowd broke all records. Five of the cars that finished broke the track record for. 500 miles. There were no serious accidents. And an Indianapolis-made car won. The value of the Speedway again was demonstrated. The race not only is a sporting event, but it is a testing laboratory for the automobile industry. On the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the last twelve years the automobile business has developed from the experimental stage to what it is today. And it still is developing, as evidenced by the speed and stamina of the cars in the race. A higher percentage of starters finished than ever before, despite the terrific pace. Indianapolis should be proud of the fact that a home product won the race. Os the twelve big races here, six have been won by cars bearing the labels of Indianapolis factories. The race demonstrated the fact that not yet has any one obtained a corner on the manufacture of automobiles that can win. The Miller motor has been hailed by many as the ultimate in racing motors. It did make a wonderful showing in the race, but Duesenberg, Indianapolis product, beat it. It is this sort of thing that keeps the racing game alive. FORGET POLITICS rT“ S usual with scandals in public affairs, the revelations in connection with construction of new’ county buildings and the sale of the Marion county workhouse are bringing about charges and counter-charges among political factions. The Indianapolis Times, which had a part in revealing the manner in which the public was swindled through the erection of these ridiculous buildings for the house of public wards, is not interested in whose political toes are trampled on. This newspaper is attempting to see that justice is obtained for the taxpayers of Marion County and for the helpless wards of the county. The chips can fall where they may. Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court and Prosecutor William Remy are taking the proper attitude in pledging the services of the grand jury, the county investigating body, in determining the responsibility for these things. Publicity on these affairs may prevent similar occurances in the future. POORHOUSE LUXURIOUS poorhouse for down-and-out rich men is opened in New York. It’s described as rivaling a firstclass hotel in comforts and beauty. Built and maintained by a fund of $5,000,000, left by Andrew Freedman, capitalist and baseball magnate, who died in 1915. Back of it all is the principle that if you’ve never had big money you don’t know what you’re missing. How about rich men’s home for the old age of people who have always rubbed elbows with poverty? Still better, change the system so there wouldn’t be any need for poorhouses. Poverty is inexcusable in the midst of our tremendous national wealth and prosperity. COMING B*~~~" USINESS will make a turn for the better in the not distant future, predicts Willis L. King. He’s vice president of Jones & Laughlin, powerful in the steel industry. King looks for better times after the presidential nominating conventions. The really big spurt upward will come after the fall elections, according to opinions of leading business men. Times cannot continue dull very long, that’s sure. Stocks of raw materials in manufacturers ; hands and finished goods in retail stores are low. There has been little overbuying or overproduction.

BONUS “Tj ANDLING soldier bonus called bigger job than the Li draft,” says a headline. That’ll probably be the case. Uncle Sam is apt to be a heap sight more careful handling dollars than he was handling drafted men during the war. The cheapest commodity is human life, when a war’s on. That’s because we have a democracy except when we need it most—during war. WALL STREET is worried about the bonus because it isn’t in on the money. “THE party platform will not be the important thing in the coming campaign,” says an Eastern paper, and it’s probably true. The alibi will be more necessary. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT has figured out that A1 Smith can be elected. Now, all that remains to be done is to figure out that he can be nominated. SINCE Uncle Sam is going to print all his currency in four colors hereafter, a considerable decrease in the amount of color-blindness may be expected shortly. A DEPOSITOR, who was kicked by a bandit while the latter was holding up a bank, took no notice of the insult until he discovered that his assailant wasn’t the institution’s president, as usual.

The Soldiers' Bonus Law Do you want to know what the bonus law gives to veterans and newly passed War Veterans Ad- their dependents, how the benefits justed Compensation Law pro- of the law are obtainable, who vides? receives these benefits, and how Our Washington Bureau has a the enormous job of administerspecially prepared bulletin ready ing the law is to be performed, for distribution to every reader If you wish a copy, fill out the of The Indianapolis Times, who coupon below and mall as is interested in learing what the directed: BONUS EDITOR. Washington Bureau. The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin THE BONUS LAW, and enclose herewith 5 cents in loose postage stamps for same: NAME ST. & NO. or R. R CITY STATE

COX’S FACE SHOWS HE’S GOOD BOSS Has Aggressive Chin Like Roosevelt’s, Analysis of Psychologist Shows, By DR. WM. ”M. MARSTON Washington Psychologist and Psycho-Analyst mAMES M. COX has a strong face and head. To begin with, we should get over the idea that a prominent chin signifies aggressiveness and courage. Roosevelt, one of the most courageous and aggressive men in public life in the last half century, had a chin very much like that of Cox’s. Chins of this type signify, primarily, executive ability. They are like the sharp, tapering bow-line of a speed boat, made to thrust forward rapidly into the opposing water, and let the water slip away behind. Cox’s chin means that he will always try to go straight to the point without quibbling or wasting time on formalities. Has Cupid’s Bow Note, next, the slight “Cupid’s bow” in the Co* lips. Here is our first indication of love. It promises that the curved lips will speak about altruistic or loving subjects. Cox’s mouth ,hows he will make his campaign speeches upon some broad, humanitarian issue, rather than upon the immediate, selfish interests of his auditors or himself. There is something important to be noted in the shape of Cox's eyesockets. Here we find the crucial index of appetite or sex. The setting of flesh and bone in which the eye-ball is placed may approximate a right-angled triangle pointing out-

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ward, or a similar triangle pointing inward. Behind his eyes is a strong, appetitive drive for what he wants. He Can Think Finally, Cox’s head proves conclusively that he can think, and that he does not act by "instinct,” or without being conscious of what he is doing. His forehead, temples, and the upper dove-curve of his skull are all in excellent proportion, and show’ no unbalanced extremes. To sum up: Cox’s eyes see many things that are worth having, and his chin is made for going after those things hard and fast, without being stopped by impeding formalities. His head is excellently fashioned for active, practical, but reflective and calculating use. His mouth is made for talking of large, far-reaching and generous projects for the benefit of humanity. Family Fun Limit “Before we were married you said you’d be willing to die for me.” “I know It.” “And yet you refuse to beat the rugs.” “Sure! Dying Is my limit.”—Boston Transcript. Always Some Hope “It must be terrible lonesome for a young woman to marry an old man.” “Oh, I don’t know; you can sit at home in the evening and listen to his arteries harden.”—Film Fun. One for the Doctor “Your life hangs by a thread,” said the doctor. The patient breathed a. sigh of relief; he was married and often had buttons remain that way for a long, long time.—Boston Transcript. Hit it First Thing “You seem to be all run down, Mrs. Peck. Let’s see your tongue?” “That’s right, doc; you guessed it right off,” said Mr. Peck.—Judge. Why The Mrs. Sleeps “Airs. Uppish sleeps twelve hours out of every twenty-four.” “Did her physician advise It?” “No, he said that the average person needs about seven hours, but she considers herself far above the average.”—Boston Transcript.

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Balloon Man By HAL COHRAN No telling how far he may walk every day; no telling what cheer he may bring. From morning till night he is wending his way. In his work it’s the regular thing. The kiddies all smile when he comes into sight. They feel that he’s really their friend. The welcome they give him by day or by night is the kind on which he can depend. When circuses come for a stay in your town; when playgrounds are open tor all. the friend of the youngsters is bound to be ‘round; he’s certain to answer the call. His wares are in colors quite startlingly bright, in greens and in reds and in blues. They float in the air as a wonderful sight and it’s hard for the youngsters to choose. If you are a parent you know why 1 shout of this fellow-who gives tots a treat. You’ve furnished the price to your kidies, no doubt, for balloons from the man on the street. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Nature The larger the bird’s egg, the fewer are laid and the more carefully they are protected. The largest bird's egg is that of the wingless Kiwi of New Zealand. She lays two and secrets them in the end of a tunnel she has dug in the ground. An unknown citizen of Massachusetts gave $25,000 to preserve a tract of 113 acres of magnificent redwood forest forty-five miles south of Eureka, Cal. It is now a State park. Every one should know how to locate the north polar star. First find the front outside star in the top of the howl of the big dipper. Then glance straight upward from that bright one and the first star your eye comes to is Polaris, the north star. It is not a big or very bright star to us, being an enormous distance away from our system of sun and planets.

Science A large body of platinum has been found at Waterberg, in the Transvaal, Africa The lode is from six to twenty-eight feet wide and has been traced for 37,000 feet. This is of gTeat importance to scientists, even more important to them than to the commercial world, for it is essential in many scientific appliances and has become very difficult to procure. Before the world war most of it came from Russia. These fields have not producecf any for the outside world in recent years, but even When they were working, it Rad become more expensive than gold. This was due to the fact that jewelers had begun using it and a great demand for it from the rich soon used. it up more rapidly than it could be produced. It soon was left out of the manufacture of much electrical machinery, where it was once considered essential, and replaced by a cheaper but less satisfactory substitute. Tongue Tips Judge Carlos Hardy, Los Angeles: “The increase of crime goes hand in hand with the failure of parents to discipline their children and to give them religious training.” S. L. Nye, retiring president American Booksellers Association: "What we need is fewer and better books.” Pierrepont B. Noyes, president Oneida Community, N. Y.: ‘‘Fear and ambition have poisoned the politics of all the little states of Europe.” Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks, New York: “Truth can never be exhausted. What the past has learned is the prophecy of what the future is to teach.” President Calvin Coolidge: “America’s hope is in the -stability and purity of its home life.” “Happy Jack” Robinson, who has spent forty-six years in prisons: “Wardens of great prisons should get together and adopt a uniform system of vocational training. I have a smattering of many trades, yet know none of them well enough to go intoi£>usiness.”

SAVIOR IS PAINTED IN CELL WALL Artist-Convict, as Result of Work, Pardoned by , President, i By KAIN O’DARE. —IS name was Leon, and he Hwas sentenced to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth for ten years after a conviction of counterfeiting. Leon, the artist, was an English subject and the head of a colony of empire dreamers in Canada. Os course the colony came under Canadian laws —but Leon was a dreamer, a dreamer of great things that would eventually set his people free and allow them the harvest of his great dream, whatever it was. Financially the colony was weak. Caine to Raise .Money Leon came to the United States to raise money. He found out that folks down here were bulidning automobiles, homes and pushing baby-carriages, and were producing instead of dreaming. Leon’s plea for his empire fell on deaf ears. It is alleged he made several thousands of dollars wortli of counterfeit money which was so good that banks counted it as genuine. Os course, the Secret Service had to butt In and Leon went to Jail for ten years. Good counterfeiters are usually good artists. The officials at Leaven-, worth assigned Leon to decorate the Protestant and Catholic chapels Today, if you were to visit Leavenworth, you would behold a picture of Christ, done in oil above •lie alter in the Catholic chapel. The Savior is sitting in a cell in consultation with two prisoners in stripes. People from alt over the world have stood before that picture with bared heai.s. and witli eyes glistening with emotion. Uses Bandit its Model To the right of Christ the prisoner has only one arm. The man who posed for this picture was Ben Sterns, the famous one-armed train robber of Oaklahoma. To the left of Christ the prisoner is hollowedchested, eyes peering from deep sockets—lt is those eyes that hold and grip the person below the picture; there is a light there like some dead ppirit coming into flame. The. man who posed for this picture wan also a prisoner who had spent years and years behind the grim walls of Leavenworth. And then there is Christ himself! Os all the beautiful paintings that have been made of this wonderful character I do not behave there is any to surpass the one that Leon painted within prison walls. The man who posed for this picture was a Jew doing a long term in Leavenworth. There came a Washington society woman to Leavenworth to look at the picture of Christ. For hours she stood in front of the altar. Tells President Wilson Back in the shadows, near the entry, a guard paced back and forth, waiting to usher the visitor to other places of interest. He had had orders from the warden to give the visitor all of the time she wanted. The end of the day came. A golden light struck through the stained windows of the sacred chamber and fell on the shoulders of the society woman from Washington, who was kneeling in prayer. Shortly after this woman returned to Washington and showed President Wilson a photograph of the Christ painted within prison walls. It is said that the President did not speak for some time, and that when he lifted his eyes to the woman, who j| |. i rilii uLa PAINTING OF CHRIST IN PRISON was a close friend to his daughter Margaret, there was a light there that comes from another world. “I want you to do something for the man who painted that picture,’’ requested the woman. “I shall wire the warden of Leavenworth to parole him to Washington,” promised the President. The man who painted Christ within prison walls is today a decorator of public buildings in the capital city. A Thought Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. —Rom. 14:19. • • * Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.—Collins. Come Up for Air He had kissed her long and incessantly and, when finally he stopped, the'tears came into her eyes and she said: “Oh, dearest, you have ceased to love me.” “No, I haven’t. I’ve just stopped to get my breath,” —Penn Punch Bowl.

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CO UZENS IS NOT ELIGIBLE AS TIMBER Can Not Be Candidate for President; Was Born in Canada, By CHARLES P. STEWART, NEA Service Writer. VY/j A .SUING TUN, May 31.—1f W I Senator James Couzens were L,ll—ll ■ J a native American he’d be | quite a presidential possibility. His name's been mentioned more than once. But of course each time this hap- ■ pens the suggestion's author has to bo reminded that the Michigander was born in Canada. So he isn’t eligible. It isn't tho regular Republicans who think so well of Couzens, though it was as a Republican ho | was sent to the Senate. It’s the insurgents. They say there probably isn't a man in either house of Congress, except Senator La Follette, who’s done insurgency so much good. Isn’t Politician True. Couzens isn’t a politician. If he were, he wouldn't have been so effective. Take the Treasury Investigation he started. He WOULD investigate. The politicians said all right. They fixed him with a committee they couid depend on not to discover anything. If Couzens had been a politician himself he’d have realized he was euchred. He’d have quit, at least for the time. Not being one, he simply hired an expert to help him and announced he’d go ahead without tiie committee’s help. He hasn't proceeded far, for just then he felt sick, but that’s his method. Not knowing the rules, he doesn’t play by them. He’s liable to do ANYTHING. That's why he’s dangerous—that and the fact that, naturally, he’s u very turbulent man. The most mischief he’s done is along the line of putting publicity into everything. The publicity he’s put in hasn’t begun to break out again very much yet, but It will. For example, income tax secrecy is sure to end soon. There are lots of income tax abuses, that can’t continue if everybody knows all about them. Good Publicity Getter Publicity in campaign contribution is developing right now. And then there’s Couzens' scheme for compelling Cabinet members to come into Congress and answer questions about their departments. The Michigan Senator started all this anti-secre<?y activity. The regulars don't like it a hit They’ll,do their best to keep Couzens from coming to the Senate again. This Congress ends his term. Plans to fight him at the polls already have been laid.

Tom Sims Says: The voice of the people is heard best just before an election. A heavyweight has a fat chance of keeping cool this summer. When a woman gets a man up a tree she makes a monkey out of him. Maybe the immigrants think they have a right to this country because it was discovered by an immigrant. June brings to mind the peculiar fact that the shortest sentence in the world is also a life sentence, it is “I do.” An easy way to make a friend is to tell someone he works too hard. Congress doesn’t worry as much about the farmers as it would If the farmers could raise a majority. The man who has the least credit takes the least care of it. Bet there are no bills in the dead letter office. Dempsey has adopted some orphans, proving Jack is putting on heirs. What is so rare as the money for the income tax payment in, June.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question ot fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. AH other questions will receive 'a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Who is the King of Norway? Haakon VII. What is Gaston Glass’ address? 3800 Mission Rd, Hollywood, Cal. How may garments be made fireproof? By putting an ounce of alum or sal ammoniac in the last water in which muslins or cottons are rinsed, or a similar quantity in the starch in which they are stiffened. This will not make the garments absolutely fireproof, but will merely render them difficult to take fire, and if they do take fire, they will burn without flame. Why do leaves turn red or yellow in the fall? The colors of the leaves in the fall depend upon the chemical contents of the tree. When the leaves Yegin to turn this is a sign that they are returning to the body of the tree any food matter contained in them. All that remains in the cell cavities of the leaves is a watery substance in which a few oil globules and crystals and a small number of yellow, strongly refractive bodies can be seen. This gives the yellow color. In some trees there is more sugar in the leaf than readily goes back into the trunk of the tree. This gives a red color which later turns to brown as the leaf dies. Who was Helen of Kirconnel? The titular heroine of a famous Scotch ballad of uncertain date and authorship. Tradition is that she was a daughter of the Laird of Kirconnel In Dumfriesshire. Between two suitors she preferred Adam Fleming, and during a secret meeting in Kirconnel church yard on the River Kirtte, the rejected suitor fired on his rival from the other side of the stream. Helen was shot in shielding her lover and died in his arms. Does thunder cause milk to sour? The souring of milk is in no way connected directly with the electrical phenomena. There are certain bacteria which feed on the sugar in the milk, causing it to acidulate and sour the milk. The air is usually very humid just preceding an electrical storm and these bacteria multiply more rapidly than at an ordinary temperature. Father’s Can-Opener "My dear, what are you opening that can with?” “Why, with a can-opener. What did you think I was doing it with?” “Well, I thought from your remarks that you were opening it with a prayer.”—Progressive Grocer. Bobbie a Diploma* “I’m sorry to have to do this.” said little Bobbie, as he spread the Jam on the baby’s face, “but I can't have suspicion pointing its finger at me.” —Everybody’s. Now that warm weather is here we can see what the girls had up their sleeves all winter. A man who knocks at our door is always welcome If he quits after we let him in.

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NEW DEATH INVENTIONS TERRIFYING Entire Populations May Be Snuffed Out, Say Experts, Times Washington Bureau, 1322 Xew York Are. WASHINGTON. May 31.—While officials here play petty politics over even so small a step toward peace as entering the world court, the great powers are feverishly preparing death devices for use in the next war so unutterably terrifying that they seem more like a Jules Verne nightmare than scientific facts. Battle lines will be obliterated. In fact, there will be no battle lines. Civilian populations—old men, women and babies —far in the interiors as well as the coasts and frontiers of countries, will be wiped* out, en masse, and, if the present rate of progress is sustained, the victory will merely be a question of which nation does it first. Fogs of Death Here are some of the things they are cooking up for you: Airplanes which, flying at 150 miles or more an hour, will let fall fogs of instant death. “Demon rays,” like radio, which, .by the touch of a button, will hurl destruction from great distances. A death-dealing rocket, or bomb, which can be fired across the Atlantic or the Pacific —half way round the earth —and made to land in populous cities, munitions centers or at random among the civilian population anywhere, scattering panic to the point where the Government would be forced to end the war. A super-fuel enabling planes, to circle the globe, making it possible to deliver an air attack from any distance, the airfleet being entirely controlled by wireless. Huge Airplanes Even bigger airplanes, capable of carrying large numbers of troops, field guns, tons of explosives, gas agents or other man-killing devices. Dreadnaughts which can travel under water stupendous submarines. carrying heavy armament, high-velocity, long range guns of large calibre. “Mechanical soldiers” emitting death rays and gas—wireless controlled machines taking the place of infantry. Huge tanks, land battleships, also operated entirel by wireless, etc. The imagination is being entirely outdone. Max-shal Foch says of mass attacks from the air—-bombing, gassing, poisoning, strangling virtually entire populations: “The potentialities are almost incalculable. Such an attack, owing to its crushing moral effect on a nation, may impress public opinion to the point of disarming the Government and thus become decisive." Language Mixed We had a guest for dinner the other night and all of us were talking about how we loved good coffee. Father was especially enthusiastic and said: “I make it fresh every morning: I get up early and build a fire in my pajamas.” “They must be warm for summer,” said the guest’, without a smile. “What are they made of—asbestos?” —Successful Farming.