Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1924 — Page 4

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HOOVER FOR BAIT pOK, LINE and sinker, the new old guard has grabbed the party at Cleveland. But only hook, line and sinker. Bait to make the voters bite the new old guard lacks. The new old guard fishermen are casting about for anew brand of political bait. Voters are not biting as guilelessly as they did in 1920. They swallowed any old thing that season. Choice bait is scarce this year. Even amateurs like the new old guard know that. Lowden worms don't interest voters. Burton flies are lost in muddy waters. Maybe, says the new old guard, a Hoover spinner might catch some votes. The new old guard is wrong. Neither Hoover nor any other candidate for vice president can make the G. 0. P. ticket look like what it isn’t as long as that ticket is boss-ruled. Voters know that the vice president is nothing but a figurehead; that he does nothing for four years but draw his pay for looking at the Senate. The voters know now from reading news of the convention that the Republican party is run. not by the citizens in the party, but by a coterie of New England business men, who can he numbered on the fingers of one hand. The voters know that this New England clique came into power when a similar clique from Ohio was thrown out of power by the sudden death of V arren G. Harding. The voters know now that the Ohio clique was not in politics for nothing. For politics cost money. Friends of the Ohio clique put up the money, expecting to get it back many fold. The clique tried to pay it back out of the public domain and was caught in the act by Congress. The voters know that this New England clique and friends are putting up money for the campaign for Coolidge this year. The voters do not know why, as yet it is a question worth pondering. The voters know that while Congress of the United States, in company with the rest of the country, has been growing steadily more impressive during the last two years, the new old guard has been leaning over more backward in the direction of vast wealthy and special interests. With this wide gap of public opinion that separates it from the votes needed to win the election in November the new old guard is entirely familiar. That is why the new old guard is lacking for bait, bait that will make the voters bite. That is why the new old guard thinks of tempting voters with Hoover spinners and other inexpensive morsels. Say the new old guard, “Maybe they will bite on that/’ but say the voters, “Maybe we won’t.”

LOOK OUT, JAPAN! ,/tVIOKIO, Imperial hotel, social center of the foreign colony I 1 1 in the Japanese capital. Saturday night ball in full swing. Present, American officials from the Embassy. American ladies, in evening gowns. Other foreign ladies and their escorts. Soft lights. Music. Suddenly a great hullabaloo. Interruption. In the center of the floor, brandishing swords in some sort of barbaric dance, appear some thirty of the Mikado’s subjects, grimacing, shouting, gesticulating. Using obscene, coarsely insulting language, they made speeches demanding that every* American in the islands he run out; that American goods he boycotted, and that in future all Americans should be barred from Japanese shores. Women fainted. Some hurried from the room. The dance was broken up. This is just one of the “incidents” now taking place in Japan over exclusion. But such spectacles hurt Japan, not America. A lot of people had been inclined to side with Japan in the controversy. And most of us had believed the Japanese had progressed too far to relapse into medieval ways again. A few more scenes like this will bring disillusion. As to the threats, they are derisive. A boycott can be reciprocal and if made so, Japan would be absolutely eripped while America would go relatively unharmed. For over 40 per cent of Japan’s total foreign trade comes to this country and comparatively few of our products depend upon that country. And if the two nations descend to such depths as to start kicking out each other’s fiationals, there are so few Americans in Japan and so many Japanese in America that Uncle Sam can throw out 50 Japs for every lone Yankee the Mikado expels. There is little danger of the quarrel coming to that, however. The Japanese have too much sense to start it. The real menace lies in the possibility that the Japanese government may let the situation get out of its hands. The government appears to have known beforehand that the Imperial Hotel incident was to happen. Yet nothing was done to prevent it. It is said that other, similar incidents are on the program and probably little, if anything, will be done to stop them. In short, the government seems to desire such manifestations to show how the Japanese feel about exclusion. In fact, the government seems to desire to go the very limit in this direction without actually crossing the line beyond which the incidents might constitute a casus belli with America. It’s a dangerous game. Who can say where the limit is?

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Can you talk correctly? In a half-hour conversation, how many mistakes in English do you make? Do you say, "Accept of” when you mean "accept?” Do j'ou say “oldest” when you mean “eldest?” Can you tell when to use the W'ord "farther” and __when to use "further?” Do you “feel bad” or “feel badly?” When w'ould you say, "I shall go,” and when “I will go?” Everyone makes mistakes in English, but it is not necessary to go on making common mis-

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U. S. NA VY IS IN NEED OF CR UISERS Light Craft Necessary to Assist Heavier Battleships, By CHARLES P. STEWART, NEA Service Writer. TyT] ASHINGTON, June 11.—The yy first sea fighters probably wern’t a bit particular what type of craft carried them. But it couldn't have been long before they began to realize that two or three of a crew in a stanch wooden boat had advantages over a lone man in a frail skin covered coracle. So war vessels developed gradually until they reached the stage of today’s huge battl-ships. In fact, the experts who developed

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BATTLESHIPS. LfivK THE MARYLAND (ABOVE), ARE THE NAVY'S BACKBONE. BUT THEIR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON THE COOP lilt ATION GIVEN THEM BY THE LIGHTER VESSELS—CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS ESPECIALLY.

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CRUISERS ARE GREAT HELPS IN WARFARE. BUT SHIPS LIKE THE U. S. S. HURON (ABOVE) ARE FAR OUT OF DATE.

them kept at it until they overdid matters, in a sense. "From the very nature of excessive size and cost and hence limited number, together with the need for | keeping concentrated for tactical j reasons, battleships are prevented." I says an anonymous but offcially | j recognized United States Navy critic. "from exercising control over all , except a comparatively small area ;of the ocean .” Their business, this critic points i out, is "to control the seas by keeping them free of their own country's : commerce and denying a correspondi ing freedom to the er.cn.y”—an j j ' they’re too cumbersome to do it effectively. I jollier Craft Necessary A more mobile type of vessel had to be evolved. Hence the cruiser. The cruiser developed, too. Some- j thing still handier was required. The , destroyer was the answer to this | need. j Today the situation's like this: The battleship is a navy's real ' ' strength. Cruisers run its errands j \ and destroyers run <he cruisers’ ! errands. Suppose the fleet asembled—not I scattered over the seas, each ship or j small flotilla on some separate mis- ■ ' sion, but in a compact body—ready j | to fight. The battleships will bear the eni gagement’s brunt. I The destroyers are scouts. The j cruisers support them. As scouts, the fii'st duty of both I cruisers and destroyers is to obtain j information for the battleships. We're Far Behind The American critic adds: “We Are Nineteen 10,000-Ton ; Cruisers short of our 's' in the 5-5-3 \ Ratio.” America has no battle cruisers, hut most big fleets have. The battle cruiser is a battleship in offensive strength, hut has lighter 1 armor for the sake of greater speed. | Its task is to "crash through” a I hostile line at such moments ns I sometimes arise in an engagement when a battleship is too slow and a i light cruiser too weak to achieve de | sired resuits. The submarine meaning the cruising pattern and not the strictly coast defense type—is a guerilla fighter when detached from its fleet: it becomes a sharpshooter in a general engagement. The submarine flotilla, running at the surface, should be able to keep up with all but the swiftest vessels of its fleet on a cruise. But those craft are frail. As soon as fighting ! begins they must submerge, to escape destruction by the enemy's guns. Under water they’re hound to be left behind, hut their commanders must try to guess al the right places to disappear, so that the engage- ! ment. as it progresses, will sweep hostile ships in their direction. Even | if they fire not a torpedo, if they succeed in hampering the foe’s movements, through fear of them, they’ve done their work. Subs Create Fear Aircraft are a fleet commander’s "eyes." They signal enemy ships’ position and movements to him beyond the range of his strongest telescope. They spot enemy submarines. They do their best to damage enemy vessels by dropping explosives where they'll do the most good. And of course they fight among themselves. They’re even newer than the sub marines. Unquestionably they’re very important, but the exact ex tent of this importance hasn’t been fully estimated yet. A few enthusiasts rate them almost ahead of capital ships. More conservative navy men incline to re gard them as an auxiliary arm—lacking which, in adequate force and of adequate efficiency, a battle might easily be lost. Nevertheless only an auxiliary arm.

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The Sandlots By HAL COCHRAN SHERE really is pleasure in watching mere youth out flirtin' with fresh, open air. Y"ou can’t help but know, when it comes down to truth, that they’re trappin' good nealth in its lair. The youth of today are the old, after awhile, and the strength that they build, seems to me, means much, years to come, to the rank and the file and to what this’ great country’s to be. Let's turn to the sandlots, no matter just where, and what will we generally find? Real youth in its glory is bound to be there, filled with 1 pep of the genuine kind. There’s exercise plenty and laughter galore: real contests of strength, now and then. And youth plays j around till its muscles are sore as it’s building to women and men. No wonder there's pleasure in watching mere youth. No wonder the grownups will smile. Whatever , the world is today, it’s the truth that with health, ’twill improve, after while. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Ask The Times You can iel an answer to any qnt--*-tuni of fact or information by writing to the IndiuiapoU* Tunes Washingtuu I Bureau. 1.(22 N-.-w y, rk Avr . Washi infton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in 1 stamps for reply Medical. l<-al and marital advice cannot be given, nor ! can extended ri -• ar h b< undertaken. AH other questions wi!i receive a persona! reply Unsigned reques.s cannot be answ red. All letters are confidential.—Elinor. How soon should a stranger in a community return the calls of neighbors? You should not let more than ten days or at the most two weeks pass before returning calls. The first call is always promptly returned. What is the meaning of the word “bureaucratic?" The word means Government by bureaus. Specifically, it implies excessive multiplication of. and concentration of power in, administrative bureaus. The principle of bureaucracy tends to official inter- i ference in many of the properly prt- ; vate affairs of the people and to ; the eineffieiopt and obstructive performance of duty through subdivision of functions. Where is (or was) Deira? This was an ancient kingdom of Britain corresponding closely to the modern Yorkshire. It formed a part of Roman Britain, and the town of York was the capital and seat of j the Roman prefect. It was a number of native prisoners of Deira, exposed for sale In the slave market at Rome, that attracted the attention of Gregory I and led to the Christianizing of British, according to the old legend. How can ink spots he removed from wood? Put a few drops of spirits of nitre (nitric acid) in a teaspoonful of water. touch the spot with a feather dipped in the mixture, and, on the ink disappearing, rub immediately with a rag wetted in cold water, or it will leave a white mark. Was Benjamin Franklin a Christian? He was not an orthodox Christian, but he seems to have believed in a God. What is the correct dress to wear at a luncheon? An afternoon gown of silk, crepe, de chine, velvet, cioth, etc. In summer dresses of organdy, georgette, etc., are popular. Where and what is the "Little Church Around the Corner” and how did it get this name? This is‘the Church of the Transfiguration (Episcopal) in New York City. The name is said to have been derived from the refusal of a certain pastor of a. fashionable church in New York to perform the burial service over the body of an actor, telling Joseph Jefferson, who was trying to arrange for the funeral, to go to “a little church around the corner,” where arrangements might be made. Since then actors have held this church in veneration and nearly all actors who die in New York are buried from it. What can be done for lips that continually have a parched look? Use the following formula: Cocoa butter, 24 grams: white wax, 4 grams; oil of rose geranium, 1 gram. Where was Gloria Swanson born? Chicago, 111. Where did the Indian Runpier duck come from and what are Its characteristics? The Indian Runner duck was imported from India about seventy years ago. It is a very small bird, weighing between three and four pounds. It is called the leghorn of the duck breeds because of its egglaying aldlity. Its colors are white and faunP J: . I JMaH

OWNERSHIP BY PUBLIC PROVES OUT Cities Succeed in Operation ; of Light and Water Plants, By HERBERT QUICK ITIES, and governments generally, always do two things better than private companies. These two things are furnishing electricity and water. They are simpler than running railways or street cars. Here's an instance: Dr. Cora King of Washington, D. C., takes electricity from a privately owned power company—and a good one. Mrs. J. Cullom of Niagara 1 Falls, Ontario, gets hers from the publicly-owned hydro-electric company of Canada. In one month last i year they each used the same amount of current —334 kilowatt hours. Dr. King's bill was $23.18. Mrs. Cullom’s was $3.55. I’ublic ownership best by a ratio of more than six to one. Bills Certified The two bills have been published and certified to. If the comparison h; a been made between hills from , the Niagara power plants on opposite sides (if the Niagara River, the : American privately and the Canadian publicly owned, it would not have been quite such a damning showing for private ownership, but it would have been nearly so. It is so all over the world. Pri-: vate ownership and operation of electric companies stands condemned. Vet there are public men and lead ; ers of farm organizations who want I Henry Ford to have Muscle Shoals forever. Or if Ford does not get it, | they want one of the other private companies to have it. There are public men of good repute who want private companies to have the Colo, rado River power, though it ought 1 to be all developed as a unit for power, irrigation and flood control , under public ownership and opera- I tion. Out to Boh

The great power companies are out to rob us of our power, to enslave us forever, and forever to deny us 1 such advantages as that more high- ; l.v civilized people, the Ontarians, are | now getting from their power. Such men are intelligent in ; ordinary things, most of them. But they can not he intelligent on this matter and at the same time honest. They may be blinded by pluto- i cratic prejudice-, in which they are | ! not intelligent in public matters. They are not to be trusted. From ' President down to farm leaders, they j should be under suspicion for this •-tand alone. The true leaders of the people in these things are men like Senator Norris of Nebraska, to whom almost alone we shall owe the salvation of the Tennessee power if it is saved to the people. In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK. June 11— New York newspapers fake a delight in snickering at anything provincial, or smajl town is h. This is difficult to understand For there Is scarcely a writer or desk man on any of the New York newspapers who did not come from the open spaces. Practically the entire newsgathering personnel of a local morning paper was schooled in Kansas City. In one large press association of- j flee there is not a member of the ■staff who was born in New York State. The reason Is simple. New York 1 papers do not have time to train j “cubs." Os all the newspaper men T know, ! on,ly one was reared in New York City. And he is the most demure, unsophisticated member of the entire lot. Just now there is an oversupply j of good n wspaper men in New York There have been several conisolidations and withdrawals of papers, leaving many men out of work. * * * I sat in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison the other day. Scores have been electrocuted in it. The chair is an ordinary bit of furniture, resembling the light varnished, caneseated variety of grand-daddy’s time. It is equipped with leather straps in which men about to be executed are secured. There is something uncomfortable about the chair—it doesn’t "sit right.’’ But then it wasn’t built for comfort. If they ever get through with it at Sing Sing, I’d never bid for it as an addition to my living room set. * * * In the downtown district, near police headquarters, is a hardware store which exhibits much of its wares on the sidewalk. There are a number of children in the neighborhood. All of the exhibits are nailed or secured in some fashion. A wheelbarrow is chained and padlocked.

Tongue Tips George Grafton Wilson, professor international law, Harvard University: “The Versailles treaty was made in a spirit of revenge and retaliation, and, although the allies united to win the war they failed to unite to /win peace.” Dr. Mary Dunning Rose, New York: “Women need more sleep. Eight to ten hours. Some are better off with twelve.” Joseph Lee, president Playground Association of America: “Thrift in the use of leisure is more than apersonal problem. It is a home problem, a community problem and a national problem." Dr. Henry Van Dyke, diplomat and w'riter: “Anarchy can never be a philosophy. It is always the denial of a philosophy of life.”

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NOBODY HAS GONE WRONG ON PEANUTS Cal Likes 'Em, and, Therefore, Is Safe, Bill Cressy Declares, The convention delegates are getting down to practical politics now—the key- , • the tl; it. W.. 1 Cresa.v tells about it in the fifth installment of his fo-nes on the big Republican gathering in Cleveland. By WILL M. CRESSY Illustrated by George Storm CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11 Well, we are gaining all the time. Mr. Butler of Massachusetts is the new chairman of the national Republican committee. Mr. Butler ought to be all right. The Butlers of Massachusetts have always been good men. There was Benjamin F. Ben was the only presidential candidate who ever got less votes than William Taft. William carried two States, which was two more than Hen carried. Then Ben was a general during the Civil War. He captured New Orleans.

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Then ho got pinohed for spooning. And died declaring with his last breath that he did not look like William Jennings Bryan and that Ben Turpin was not his grandson. It’s Tough Job The resolutions committee has tried hard to tinker up a platform that W'oyld not stampede the La Follette Demo-republi-crats. From where I sit in the convention hall this appeared to be a tough job. But then I have got a hack seat. Ex-Senator Burton of Ohio delivered our “Keynote Speech.” You know, the one that all our spellbinders will be supposed to follow throughout the campaign. One of those “We view with alarm” anything Democratic, and “We look with pride” on anything Republican. It sounded a good deal like the old lady up in New Hampshire w'ho was ha tided a very small piece of very poor pudding, and felt that she had got to say something about it. “It’s real good, what there is of it —•’ then, after taking a bite, “and there is plenty of it, such as it is.” Not Far Wrong I’ll tell you what I like about “Happy Cal” Coolidge. He likes peanuts. And no man is ever going very far wrong on peanuts. You never in your life beard of a man robbing a bank, or committing a murder, under the influence of peanuts. And a. man does not have to depend on oil. or bootlegging, to keep him supplied with peanuts. But "Happy Cal’s” greatest claim on the American people’s support lies in the fact that he has never agreed with Congress. And, looking over the record of that body for the past two or three years ought to convince anybody that, differing from them on every point, Cal must be always right. Don’t Tell Mother “I see they have published a dictionary containing 5,000 extra words.” “Great Scott! For heaven’s sake don’t tell your mother!”—Goblin.

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Tom Sims Says: The older you are the quicker the j future becomes the past. Way radio works in summer you ! can't tell if it is a cat on the back fence or on the front fence. The honeymoon is over when hubby starts chewing tobacco again. Hitching your wagon to a star is all light; hut don’t let your little boy hitch his to an ice wagon. More girls are swimming this year. Bathing beaches are beginning to look like a flock of magazine covers. The rising generation may get some of its faults from associating with its parents. Over in Europe they are viewing things with alarm and alarming things with their views. Mosquitoes and flies never go on hunger strikes. By starting now and working every day on it you may get your Christmas shopping done earl.' this year. Very few of the autes left at home on a nice Sunday afternoon are able to run at all. More of us would be patient if it didn’t take so much patience.

Science Scientific mining, including better protection for miners, is one of the big problems of the day. There have been many mine disasters in the United States in recent years. Certain lessons have been learned in each instance, yet little has been done to take advantage of these costly experiences, because of public and official apathy. In England, the Government is making great scientific efforts to improve the conditions under which coal miners work, as well as to conserve the supply. In support of this policy there is a complete coal mine in operation at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley Park. London. Electric machinery can take down into this mine 2,000 visitors an hour. These pecfple see the miners at work and inspect the equipment for their safety and comfort, which is the same as in actual mines. The history of coal mining is told to visitors through a complete assemblage of models of mines and the machines used in working them. Nature Other than the ordinary fish-moth, is a species known as the domestic fish-moth. It is not so well known to housekeepers, but is to be found about hearths and fireplaces, and especially in bakeries. Owing to its heat-loving propensity, it is sometimes called “fire-brat.” These bugs, instead of being an all-silver color, are pearly white with dark spots. They are very fond of materials containing sugar. A Thought He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. —Pro. 10:45. * * • Better to wear out than to rust out. —Bishop Cumberland.

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NEW MONEY IS INVADING EXCHANGES If You Go to Europe You Will Want Lits, Ducats and Lats, <,rpniVE dollars worth of lits, p please, some ducats, and a lot of lats, and enough I zloties to tip the porter when I get I to Warsaw.” That’s what you'll be saying to ; your banker soon, if you are plan- | ning a trip through Europe. Foi 1, 1 they' are now preparing to launch a raft of new currencies over there. Russia already has a tchernovetz, : worth about the same as the pre- | war pound sterling, or nearly 85. Poland, on July 1, will make the zloty her new unit of currency, approximately 20 cents, and get rid of her worthless paper marks, some : 2,000,000 of which now bring less than a quarter. Money in Germany Germany' has a rentenmark as her unit of currency in common use. this worth about 25 cents, or 1,000,000,000 paper marks. But as soon as the | Dawes plan of reparations goes into 1 effect, she will adopt some other unit based on gold or its equivalent. Latvia, one of the war-born repubj lies, has adopted the lat as her unit iof coinage, tlie lat’s par value being j a gold franc, or 20 cents. The Free State of Dantzig has a I new unit called the gulden, also j worth a gold franc. Lithuania’s r.ew money, a unit of | which is called a litas, or lit, has its j par value fixed at one-tenth the j American dollar. Dollar Figures Austria has introduced anew J coinage of "shillings.” and several ! German cities have announced emerI gency currencies of their own. ! Bremen and Hamburg among the rest. Bremen’s new money states j on its face its equivalent in American dollars and in gold marks. Czechoslovakia has undertaken the coinage of gold ducats outside her regular monetary system, not to be used as legal tender, but as standard for foreign trade transactions. The French metal franc you gat nowadays looks like a gold piece, but is really not even a franc. It is a cheap metal alloy and merely says on its face: "Good for a franc.” It is backed by the combined chambers of commerce of France. Family Fun Not Unusual "Isn’t this wonderful, dear? Listen: A man had reached the age of forty without learning to read and write: then he met a woman and for her sake he made a scholar of himself in two years." “That’s nothing. I knew' a man who was a profound scholar at forty. Then he met a woman and for her sake he made a fool of himself in two days!”—Boston Transcript. Motlier-in-Law’s Fall “Oh. Jack, mother’s fallen down the stairs—now. dear, do be brave—and broken ” "Her neck?" “No, dear —that bottle of Benedictine she promised to bring us from Bermuda.” American Legion Weekly. Reminds Dad “Here is an interesting article on cocoanut culture in Mexico.” “Gee! That reminds me, I forgot to get some hair tonic for my' brother’s bald head." —Youngstown Telegram. Sister’s Catty Chum "Did you read the lovely things the society reporter put in the paper about me? He called me a beautiful belle of the younger set.” “Yes, dear. But what a pity he spoiled it —the mean thing went and inserted y'our photograph.—Boston Transcript.