Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1924 — Page 4
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IS THE KLAN AN ISSUE ? I PIE Democrats of Indiana finally came to a solution of the problem regarding the Ku-Klux Klan question by repeating the provisions of the Constitutions of Indiana and the United States on the subject of religious liberty, and declaring for freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of worship. These are the three things on which the American Republic and the commonwealth of Indiana are based. There can be no objection to such a declaration from Klansmen, Catholics, Jews, negroes or any other kind of Americans. The Democrats at the same time, however, nominated Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, who declared against the Klan. Nevertheless, with both conventions over, the Klan has not officially become an issue. Neither party platform mentoined the organization. Neither declared for or against anything that has not been contained in other platforms in previous years. Os course, this does not mean that the Klan question will not greatly influence the campaign. But it does mean that neither party can be held responsible for opening up a direct fight on religious issues. MAYBE IT’S A SUITCASE | ✓CONGRESSIONAL investigations have accomplished much in Washington. Daugherty’s out, and Burns, too.. Likewise Denby. And Alkali A1 is but a memory. But the folks who work in the Interior Department in Washington and the visitors to that building are not going to forget him. Every time they step into the main hall at the entrance they see. hanging a full view, a huge portrait in oil. bearing the inscription, “Albert B. Fall. Secretary of the Interior. 1921-23.’’ In one hand he holds his glasses. You can’t see what he holds in the other. It’s behind him. HALF DELEGATES \yfiINFIELD T. DURBIN, former Governor of Indiana and W one of the fourteen half delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention, has announced he is not going to the convention because he does not care to cast half a^vote. Both the Republicans and Democrats have “half delegates” this year. The Democrats took this course to provide for women delegates. The Republicans did it to soothe the feelings of members of various party factions. It is supposed to be a great distinction to be a delegate-at-large, yet under the present Indiana system a delegate-at-large has just half as much voting strength as a common or garden variety of delegate. Wonder if half delegates will be placed two in a seat in the convention halls.
FRAUDS lIE American people certainly like to step up and place i ___ a bet on which shell the little pea is under. In 1914 stock swindlers gently separated the public from $250,000,000. This year the plunder from worthless stocks will be four times as much, predicts Ilcnry L. Doherty, the investment banker. That’ll be about $lO for every man, woman and child. Says Doherty: ‘‘Americans are the most gullible investors in the world.” Political observers guessed as much, long before Barnum started his museum. As for stock swindlers, the man who tries to get something for nothing usually gets nothing for something. AHEAD EY. CLAUSEN enters his six-year-old son in the class of ed longer, the enrollment list would be overflowed. Getting quite common, to book a youth several years ahead for college entrance. The colleges are swamped with customers. Higher education is increasingly within reach of more and more of the population. That means, the level of average prosperity is rising. MR. RINGLING may say whatever he wishes, but it is the G. O. P. elephant that can do the tricks. THERE ARE 363 causes for divorce m this country and each one is working overtime. A BALTIMORE PAPER says “baggy pants conceal many a great intellect.” Odd people, those Baltimoreans. THE PRESIDENT is fully recovered. He isn’t saying a word. ENGLAND BOASTS a horse that really laughs, but surely uot at English humor. NOW THEY SAY weeds have been discovered on Mars, too, and the home gardener who owns them might just as well come out in the open where our telescopes may look him over. A CHICAGO man was awarded a dollar for the lost affections of his wife, but that wasn’t too much in view of the fact that the purchasing power of a dollar is only 67 cents. That’s about right in Chicago.
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SHE LONGS FOR HOME AFTER TRIP Woman on Tiny Ship for Two Years, Traveling 15,000 Miles, By GENE' COHN NEA Service Staff Writer. EW YORE, Jure 7.—Put a woman aboard a Chinese junk I—.. that bote cork-like into strange corners ct the world oveil a 15,000-mile course— Give her a speaking acquaintance with pirates and pythons, typhoons and tidal waves— And when she reaches sea. trail'send what will she .most that civilization has to offerfjjb “A kitchen and a ga.vrange, of course,” answers Choyee Waard, dainty Chinese wife of Charles Waard, lithe, bronzed modern ‘‘flying Dutchman” who has brought the Amoy junk of ancient Chinese vintage, from the pirate-infested water lanes of China, across the Pa-
MRS. CHOYEE WAARD AND THE CHINESE JUNK AMOY. IN WHICH SPECTACULAR 15,000-MILE SEA TRIP WAS MADE MRS. WAARD IS SHOWN COMPLACENTLY SMOKING A WATER PIPE AND HOLDING HER BU DHA.
cific and thence, through the Panama Canal, to ‘ snug harbor ” at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. From this point of vantage Choyee Waard, with her Eurasian son. Robby—as fine a seaman as ever wore short breeches —playing at her side, looks out upon the skyscrapers and sighs for the , oor city shut-ins. Pics Important But, simultaneously, she sighs for a kitchen. For suddenly pies have become more important than pirates or pythons. “It’s a little inconvenient.” she says in perfect Engiian, pointing to the tiny galley of the junk. “And I would like to cook my husband a good meal.” Such a view is easier to understand when one learns that a python became part of the junk's menu on the eross-Paeifle trip and it is said a Chow dog was goulashed by members of the Chinese crew. The episode of the python dinner caused two of the crew to desert, for the snake is a symbol of wisdom to the Chinese and may not be eaten. Two-Year Cruise The cruise of the Amoy started two years ago. Captain Waard had used the craft as a pirate chaser in the Chinese rivers. For twenty years he had been a Chinese "river man.” A Dutchman, with the sea strain in his blood, Waard left Canada for the Orient as a boy. Now he is on his way home, and he chooses the ancient junk as a means of travel. So he set out on such a trip as has no equal, probably, in modern sea annals. With two Chinese crew members, his wife and his son, Captain Waard put to sea. His is one of the most ancient types, being made entirely of camphor wood and Chinese ilr, held together by bamboo pins. A few days out they were attacked by river pirates, and since then the.v have been storm-tossed and becalmed in many waters. Through it all Mrs. Waard "has been a wonder”—as her husband put* it. Yet there is little of the sea taste in her mouth. For Choyee Waard is Buddhist. Her husband's wishes are to be observed, and he wishes the sea—so she smiles, but sighs, nevertheless, for the kitchen she will one day have when the home port is a cottage somewhere. Tongue Tips Dr. Algernon Crapsey, “the last of the heretics,” Rochester, N. Y.: “The church politicians are beginning to realize that you cannot fill the pews by emptying the pulpit.” Mrs. W. S. Hefferan, Chicago board of education: “Today the mother has far more responsibility in training the child than the mother who was not recognized as a citizen, but who was left in the unfranchised group to which belonged the insane, the idiot and the Indian.” Chief Warren S. Stone. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers: “The reason for the being of labor banks, and the reason for their success, have been, I think, that they have sought to render good service and safety ahead of profits." H. H. Rice, chairman National Automobile Chamber of Commerce legislative committee: “The motor vehicle should be called upon to pt v special faxes to maintain improved highways.” jk
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Painting Time By HAL COCHRAN The brush brigade is busy and the paint is flyin’ fast; the things around the house are lookin’ bright. The parents in the household are the leaders of the cast that is puttin’ on the show both day and night. A grassy green is dwindling as a paint pot stand at ease, while father dips the brush in perfect ryhme. He’s touching up some wicker chairs, while on his hands and knees, preparing for the good old summertime. And mother spreads- some varnish till her bones are aching sore.' She takes her time, for things must be just so. She brightens up the surface of the spacious hardwood floor. She soon will have the floor space all aglow. Then little Jane and Willie, who are only in their teens, have begged to help their parents, goodness knows. And so we find them splashing blots of black upon the screens, and also blots of black upon their clothes. Y’es, painiing time is with us and it’s quite the proper style to don your oldest clothes and join the fun. For fun you'll really make it if you’ll work away and smile and know you’ll have things brighter when you're done. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Tom Sims Says: A housing shortage is causing almost as much trouble in England as the rent shortage is in America. In Paris they have declared war against American jazz hands, hut we'll Let they like them just as we do. Perhaps the worst feeing In the world is to get till heated up in a political speech and know you must stick to the truth. New Y'ork actor has inherited a fortune, which is about the only way a New Y'ork actor ever gets one. With more than a thousand women at the Republican convention no conversation shortage is reported. Fever blisters have stopped more girls from kissing than arguments. Near Brussels, a small town had twenty-eight golden weddings on the same day. Staying married is a quaint old custom. Over in Paris, shoes are being made of snake skins, much to the disgust of the snakes. The difference between a success and a failure is that one gives reasons while the other gives ex c uses. Every girl likes to wash dishes until she gets to be five or six years old. With this year almost half gone many of us are feeling much further gone than that. They raised a kick about the shells xi famous dancer wore in New Y’ork, claiming she shell-shocked reformers.
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U. S. NA VY IN NEED OF AIRPLANES Lack of Fliers and Light Cruisers Is Principal Handicap, L. E. Judd, editor of the Akron Press, accompanied the naval fleet to the Caribbean Sea for its maneuvers this sprint. He made a study of the Navy's needs from a layman's point of view. By L. E. JUDD mN theory America's Navy is equal in strength to that of Great Britain xind stronger, in the ratio of five to three, than that of Japan. Actually we are much weaker than either of these nations. Our comparative weakness lies in two major directions: 1. A glaring lack of fast light cruisers. 2. An almost total absence of aircraft carriers and planes. The arms conference did not limit any nation in the construction of these types of fighting units. Its limits were merely placed on craft of ten thousand tons and over. Both Great Britain and Japan have taken and are taking advantge of these possibilities of strengthening their fleets, while we have been guilty of a stupid inaction that places us down among the second and third rate sea powers. Cruisers Necessary Without more light cruisers our dreadnaughts would easily be wined 'out in battle, cruisers of this type are capable of 35 knots per hour. Their armament is lighter than that of a capital ship. But do not think of them in a casual way. Asa matter of fact, the 10,000-ton cruiser o r today is stronger than battle ship of the days of the Spanish war. Two modern 10,000-ton cruisers could have defeated the entire American and Spanish fleets combin<'d that fought at Santiago that Sunday morning in 1898. Great BrifEtin, by virtue of her superior number of light cruisers, now has battle superiority over our fleet, although the arms pact contemplates that we should be equal. And Great Britain's present program calls for the construc’ion of fifty-two new light cquisers. which will make us all the weaker. This situation is counter to American Interest, although. we must confess, it is splendid peacetime naval strategy on the part of the British. Plenty of Destroyers We are comparatively strong in the matter of destroyers. In fact, we have about two hundred of these ships that we can not mp.n. Some of them tire not even being cared tpr as they rest at anchor. These small vessels have horse power equal to a battleship and are capable of making express train speed. They use torpedoes at a maximum range of nine miles and conduct their maneuvers from behind self-pro-duced smoke screens. Our destroyer strength is due to the fact that we followed the urgent pleas of our allies during the emergency of the World War instead •>! following our own desires. < Hir allies wanted destroyers and we built them—plenty of them. But even our destroyer strength ts made less potent by our lack of mother ships and tankers. The cruising radius of a destroyer fleet is limited by its fuel carrying ca parity. If the destroyers are re quired to make a long dash, their speed can he no greater than that of their supply ships, which will not make more than ten knots. Short on Submarines In discussing naval weaknesses we must not, overlook our submat ines. In the first place, we haven't a sufficient number of them. In tiesecond place, those we have are of an antiquated type and in run down condition. German methods caused most of us to look upon these sea tigers with loathing. That sentiment has been encouraged in America by the British who, as you know, have the greatest merchant marine and therefore stand to loose more via the submarine route than other nations. The place of the submarine cannot he taken by any other type of craft. It has a great usefulness in defense and offense. The fact that Germany used it as an instrument of terror is a reflection on .Germany rather than on the type of ship. Science Most people believe in hunches. They believe that, in some fashion, things come to them more clearly and more truthfully throfigh a flash of thought than through slower thinking. Through this hunch process they frequently determine what to do. # However, hunches generally are no more than a first, quick impression, that may be right or wrong. In some oases a person may think logically with great rapidity and arrive at a conclusion which he thinks is a hunch, when, as a matter of fate, it wias a logical process of tho ght. In other cases a person’s mir may work sub consciously and pr uce an answer deciding him to follow a course of action—right or wrong—in somewhat the same man ner as a person suddenly remembers a name long after he consciously tried to remember it and failed. But. according to many recent experiments and much scientific study of the subject, most hunches are no more than sudden, baseless guesses. There is not a scrap of real evidence known to science tending to show that hunches or anything else beyond the process of reason help man to foresee the future. A Thought And having food and raiment let us he therewith content. I Tim. 6:8. • * * He is well paid that is well satisfied. —Shakespeare. Antis There may not be a great many things to vote for next November; but most people prefer to vote against things, anyhow.—Kokomo Dispatch.
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-3 SLEEP IN EACH BED IN CLEVELAND They Spend Time Betting on Which Is Passenger , Station, It * getting - crowded in Cleveland, but Will Crasey i uhll on the job This is the second of h-.s convention stories for The Times Next week the performance really begins By WILL M. CRESSY Illustrated by George Storm CLEVELAND, Ohio. June 7—The Clans are gathering. i never saw mo many willing workers in my life They are willing to work anybody, 1 tell you it makes a fellow's heart swell with ptide to realize that we live in a free country. And to know that out of 110,000,000 people we can vote for either one of two men that we want to. Or. if Mr. I-a Follette holts, we can have our choice of three men. You see the way this thing works, first we hold our primaries. At wh.vh Oil! bosses tell us .who
to vote for to send to these conventions. And then when they get there the big bosses tell them who to vote for. And then we can vote for thi one they pick out. Which gives ns a great chance to choose. One thing I like about these conventions is the way it brings us men together. I have got nine in my room now, and two more coming. We have got three in my bed; but I don't care; I am in the middle. The fellow who sleeps in the bathtub had a little hard luck last night, though. He got to kicking around and opened the hot water faucet. And he is wondering how they are going to “seat” him as a delegate. This morning a wrinkled, tousled, wild-eyed man came up to the clerk of the hotel and said; "Say, look here! You will have to get me a bed! I can't stand this any longer!” “How long have you been here?” asked the clerk. “Three days.” "Where have you been sleeping?” "In the laundry, on top of a sick Democrat. But he has just found out I am a Republican and kicked me out.” One of the Oklahoma delegates has sued the hotel because in turning over in the night a billiard ball broke a bottle in his hip pocket. And a Texas man v. ho was sleeping in a barber’s chair touched the wrong button and when be woke up found he had had a bath, a manicure, his hair bobbed and a permanent wave. But the more I see of the town the better I like it. They are such go-ahead folks. They have got a couple of depots down on the dumps by the lake shore that go ahead of anything I can recall just now. They are the very last thing in architecture —before you come to the breakwater. The newly arrived delegates have a lot of innocent amusement betting on which are passenger stations and which the freight depots. Perhaps the quickest way for a man to start a long senes of arguments is by disagreeing over his wife’s wall paper selec^ons.
Once Upon a Time
Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New Y'ork Are.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a persona! reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential .—Editor. What was the most important art gift ever made to the U. S. Government? The Freer collection, valued at about $6,000,9#0, and including many paintings by Whistler. This was bestowed by Charles Lang Freer of Detroit. When did the Christian Church originate the custom of baptizing “in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” The apostles baptized only in the name of Jesus Christ? We think you are mistaken about the practice of the apostles. See the twenty-eighth chapter, eigh teenth and nineteenth verses of St. Matthew's Gospel. Is there such a thing as a gingerbread tree? The doom (or dum) palm tree is sometimes called by this name for the reason that it has fruit about the size of an orange, and when the red outer skin is peeled off. a con-
siderable thickness of a spongy dry substance is found within it, which has an insipid sweetness and a remarkable resemblance to gingerbread. This tree is a native of Arabia, upper Egypt, and the central parts of Africa. What was Carmen Sylva’s real name? Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Louise, Queen of Roumania. What can be done for dark brown liver spots on the face? Proper exercise and diet are advisable. Adopt a suitable system of exercise and take it systematically. The spots are due to improper circulation. The use of a peroxide cream will help as a local application. Who are the American cardinals? William O'Connell. Boston; Dennis J. Dougherty. Philadelphia; Patrick Joseph Hayes, New York City; George William Mundelein. Chicago. Does the period of ten days allowed the President to approve or veto a bill include Sundays? No. What is the most valuable gem? Diamonds are popularly considered the most valuable gem, hut in reality the best quality of emeralds and rubies are much rarer and more valuable. Nature Observations show that, most ant colonies are started by one or a pair of queens. The queen, after the swarming period, alights and tears off her wings and digs a burrow in the soil or decayed wood. Here she forms a nest, closes the entrance and remains until her eggs are laid, She stays here until the eggs are hatched into larvae. During this time she takes no food hut feeds her brood on the reserve material in her body. The hatched-out ants soon begin to enlarge the nest and later other workers are reared, and so the community grows.
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1924
IS SOLDIER BONUS LA IV INVALID? League Plans Action to Enjoi *i Payment of Compensation to Soldiers, Times Washington Bureau, 7.122 Xetc York Arc. ,Y/ ASHINGTON, June 7.—ls the yy bonus unconstitutional? That l - J ; s a question the Ex-Service men’s Anti-Bonus League is planning to present to the courts for an answer. The Anti-Bonus League, an organization of wealthy young New Y’orkers, who have maintained Offices in New Y'ork and Washington, was on the point of dissolving itself as an active body when it occurred to Capt. Knowlton Durham, national president of the league, that the pur liose of Congress might still be j thwarted by court action. He called together his wealthy I cronies, including Charles H. Baet- ; .ier. Richard S. Buck, Col. Benjamin | F. Castle, George Brokaw r Compton. Charles Curie, Boudinot Keith i William H. Kobbe, Seth Low F. Maurice Newton. L. O. Rothschild ,nd Theodore S. Watson. They de i eided that a special "law committee” j be appointed 'to inquire into tech- | nical legal ways in which the payment of the bonus could be prevented. As chairman of this committee the bonus opponents selected Henry L. Stimson, ex-secretary of war ! Other members are Allen C. Orrick, Compton, Curie, Keith and Roths- | child. Suits Planned The present plan is to invoke the power of the courts in obtaining an - injunction restraining the Secretary j of the Treasury, and the Navy and : War departments, from paying any bonuses or distributing bonus certificates. This action will he fought by the Attorney General and also by the National Advisory Board. In explaining the unusual action contemplated by his organization. President Durham said. “Section Sos Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States gives Congress power to ‘pay all debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.’ It also gives the general power to raise and support armies and to provide and maintain a Navy. Having in mind that I the States reserve to themselves all powers not specifically delegated to the Federal Govrnment, we are considering whether Congress, under the general welfare clause can appropriate billions of dollars to the use of one class of its citizens upon the theory that thereby it is promoting the general welfare of the country.” All Are Veterans The members of the Anti-Bonus League are all veterans of the Worjd War. Almost without exception they are sons of wealthy parents, and many of them are wealthy of their own right. Though engaged in varied occupations, banking and brokerage claim the attention of most of the active anti-honusers. Several of them maintain offices in Wall Street and others are connected with big New Y’ork banking and brokerage houses. Some months ago a declaration of the league members was received by President Coolidge and warmly commended by him for the stand that they had taken against the bonus. Should their plan to otbain an injunction against bonus payments receive the aid of the courts, the bonus payments could be held up during years of litigation even though Ihe law were eventually sustained. Family Fun .As Children Se It “Do you believe there’s a devil?” “No! It's like Santa Claus. It’s your father.”—London News. The Family Vietrola When the Vietrola mechanism began to need lubrication the only oil a Tod Lane man could find in the house was old and rancid. He used the oil, however, with fair results. A day or so later the man’s small son said to him: “Father, the Victrola sings, all right, but it’s breath is terrible.” —Youngstown Telegram.