Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1924 — Page 4

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COOLIDGE AXD DAWES EHE Republican party has renominated Calvin Coolidge for President of the United States and has nominated Charles G. Dawes for Vice President. The Indianapolis Times congratulates the Republican party. Its action means that a step forward has been taken in American politics. Even more, The Times congratulates President Coolidge for the credit, for this forward step must be given chiefly to him. Yesterday at Cleveland the Republican party underwent, if not a rebirth, at least a rechristening. It became frankly and openly, and certainly most sincerely, the American conservative pax ty. Conservative it has been for a long term of years, but oily now does it throw aside the camouflage of progressive pretenses and emerge in its true role. It is a proper role in national politics and the time has long been overdue for a leader to exhibit the courage that Coolidge has exhibited this week and openly define its character. Almost since the beginning of this democratic republic our principal political parties have separated themselves by labels, “Democratic” and “Republican.” The labels are meaningless. Every true American is a Republican and every true American is a Democrat, Tor every such American believes in a republic and believes in a democracy. These empty titles perhaps are harmless in themselves, but under cover of their meaningless character there has developed a serious situation in our national life. Citizens have divided themselves into two warring camps with so little understanding of why they are so divided that the controlling minds in these camps have been able to use the ballots of the citizenry to work their own private will. It is time for citizens to give careful thought to the question of why they should wear either of the labels. Calvin Coolidge has brought this upon us. He has made the Republican party the conservative party. He is simply and genuinely a conservative himself, and by his direction of successive events in Cleveland he has made the party exactly like himself. In any event,'he has made the party organization so, and has formulated Tor it a platform so distinctly in keeping with the conservative idea that no man may mistake it. Thinking voters divide themselves as conservatives and progressives. Thinking voters are not always a majority of the whole number. The majority unfortunately have been just Democrats and Republicans. Prisident Coolidge’s course is designed to make more voters think. It will bring conservatives into his party. It will drive progressives out. Whether the progressives will have a place to go depends on the events of other conventions to be held this summer. The Democratic party sits in convention week after next. If its course is as logical—and sincere—as Coolidge has made the Republican course, it will make the Democratic party the progressive American party. \ It cannot do it by nominating a conservative candidate on a progressive platform or by nominating a progressive on a conservative platform. Least of 611 can it do it by nominating an ambiguous candidate on an ambiguous platform. The Democratic party has a clear call. It is to drive its conservatives out. Even as the Republican party is driving out the progressives, and so to join with Coolidge in giving real meaning to each party. The Republican party, led f.y Coolidge, has the first important step and all thinking Americans will congratulate Colvin Coolidge and give him their thanks. *

THE honeymoon is over when the billing exceeds the ctooing. CHAUNCEY DEPEW says he will not take up golf until he is 100. The sanity of that man is uncanny. “LONG HAIR is coming in again,” ,says a note from abroad. Probably in upholstery or something like that. THE commission on the necessaries of life thinks it is an organization, but it isn’t. It is what the profiteers get. PRESIDENT Coolidge’s father was reported to have been plowing while the convention was in session. Must not have had as much rain in Vermont as in Indiana. SENATOR EDGE says the quality of the Senators is at the lowest ebb in history, but he will have to admit that the quantity never was at higher flow. - - ✓ p UNCLE SAM is described as “choked with gold,” which is probably the reason why everyone seems to expect him to cough up. A MICHIGAN juror got drunk on duty, was sent to jail for two days, fined $lO and dismissed from the jury. Those sterling citizens who wish to avoid jury duty may learn from this man just how to do it.

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BILL TRIES TO DECIDE ON POSITION He Doesn’t Know Just What Kind of Sinecure to Accept. The convention's over and Will Cressy wants a political job. He decides to visit Washington to talk to the Republican leaders about it, on his way to attend the Democratic convention in New York, He discusses bis plan in the eighth article of hi* political series for The Indianapolis Times. By WILL M. CRESSY. Illustrated by George Storm. EVELAND, June 13—Well, ICI the convention is over. Now L—J to figure up the debit and credit and strike a balance. “To the victors belong the spoils” and to the victims belongs what is spoiled. I cannot tell yet just which category I am coming under. But I know I am going to; get something in recognition of the great work I have Jjeen doing for our party. It has not actually been promised to me, but I have been approached. In fact, I have been approached twice during the past week. Being a prohibitionist (besides being well supplied) I could not listen to the first proposition. But when they come to you with tears in their eyes and beg you to accept some political—er—oh, yes—some “political sinecure"— well, that is different. Only I cannot think of which particular political “sin" I want to “cure.”. At first I thought I would be secretary of the treasury. That ought to he a popular position. But I don’t know. With the passing of the bonus bill, the proposed financing of all the cropless farmers out west, a $60,000,000 increase in

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the annual mail deficit, the financing ' of Muscle Shoals, the reduction of the surtaxes, government control of the railroads, mines, shipping and all the other non-paying business in the country. I am afraid rny public life would be too much like my private life to be interesting. Then I considered the position of secretary of agriculture. Being. as : I am, the proud but poor possessor, I and sole operator, of two condensed i farms, one in New Hampshire and one in Florida. I am peculiarly fitted j for this position. All the secretary has to do. anyway. Is to send out j seeds in the spring and excuses in the fall. And I have a line of ex cdses for non-production that no- j body can heat. Why, I could plant dogwood and j have it come up But the crop that is a .'inch for me is lem- j ons Some years everything comes j out lemons. Then I thought for a while I | would be a slouch. No, that is not it! A sloth —no —a sleuth! One of , those Burns men. who goes around j detecting crime. But there have been ! so many crimes: detected lately that j there cannot he many left. I think I will stop off at Washington on my way to the Democratic convention and see what they have to offer. Bride and Groom By HAL, COCHRAN Good luck to you both in your married life; to you, friend groom, and your future wife. We have worn you out with our griefs and tears, and our woes poured into your patient ears. And oftentimes we have drunk with yeu full many a glass of joy’s best bbew. We’ve laughed together and yet not wept, and many’s the merry tryst we’ve kept. Our hearts are with you in all you do, and we just want to say “Good Luck” to you. , God must have -willed that you be cur friends, and that sort of friendship never ends. Our vanished secrets are perhaps the best; we all should be thankful fbr* memory, lest we sometimes forget what our lives have meant as we’ve fully enjoyed what the fates have sent. Life bids us bravely smile and wish that yours be the best of life's love dish. Through all of your loving smiles and tears, “Good Luck" to you both in the coming years. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.— Prov. 28:19. * * * L * I ANITT keeps persons in favor I I themselves xvho are out I I of favor with all others.— Shakespeare.

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In New York By STEVE HANNAGAX “JEW YORK, June 13 —The corner drug store is now about as well and variously stocked as the one general store in any crossroads hamlet. Y'ou can purchase most anything in them —except drugs. I cried to get a simple prescription filled ,the other day. I had to visit five stores before I could find one equipped to do it. And one of the clerks asked. “What color is it supposed to be?” while examining the doctor’s orders. If it had been a color chart instead of a note in Latin he’d have made a sale. But you can get most anything from' a kit of tools to a suit of clothes in the corner service station. Handkerchiefs, shoe polish, fruit, mah jongg sets, meals—most everything but drugs, and you can get those if they’re patent medicines. A clerk in the average drug store today must have served an apprenticeship in a dairy lunch, a shoe store, hardware counter, near-beer saloon, pool room, hospital and a. fortune teller’s booth to be able to cater to the needs of his clients. • • Women who make their permanent home in hotels are the most pitiful sights in New York. They excite more sympathy within me than the most ragged urchin of the tenement section. Middle age approaches with hurried steps. Their faces become pallid; pouches project from beneath their eyes, dimmed with searching for something to do; they walk laggardly and whine constantly. They have nothing to do, no interests to enthuse them. Most of them havte seen every play except “Uncle Tom’s Cabin" which they contend was before their time. They eat, sleep—and drink. Their walking hours are devoted to a hollow attempt to "have a good time.” Money and leisure, extravagantly spent, are dangerous weapons.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Ifliiianapulia Tune* Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Wishington. D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—LUilor. What was the "Bill of 1800?" A law introduced in that year by Senator James Ross r,t Pennsylvania to regulate the electoral count. It provided for a “grand committee’’ of six Senators, six Representatives and the chief justice. These, sitting ;n secret, were to settle all disputes concerning electoral votes. The hill was amended in the House so as to give the committee the power merely to take testimony, doubtful returns to be rejected only by a concurrent vote of both houses; this was amended by the Senate so as to ifause returns to be rejected unless accepted by a concurrent vote. The bill was lost. The bill is memorable as the first open attempt on the part of Congress to arrogate to itself the duty assigned hy the Constitution by the president of the Senate of counting electoral votes. Where is Spitzbergen? IrAthe Actic, north of Norway. Who was Secretary of the Treasury during Taft’s administration? Franklin MacVeagh. How is the name Fifi pronounced? As though spelled Fefe—with a long e. Why is the first day of Lent called Ash Wednesday? * From the ancient custom of sprinkling ashes upon the heads of those who were condemned to do penance on that flay. Was Sir Walter Raleigh a .poet? Yes, he wrote a number of poems with merit enough to survive. Among them: “Now What Is Love,” “Wrong Not, Sweet Empress of My Heart,” “The Lie,” and “His Pilgrimage.” How soon do orange trees bear? Usually within three or four years from the time of planting. What does Boscobel mean? Beautiful thicket.

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QUICK TALKS ON MOTORS AND MOVIES Situation in America Different From That in England, Writer Thinks, 1 By HERBERT QUICK Br-- 1 ARON SUMNER, one of the British law lords, has just denounced three modern inventions. They are: 1. The gramophone, which *in America is the phonograph, because “it has corrupted the musical sense of England and America for nearly a generation.” In this lie is clearly wrong. Those who love good music can get good records for their phonographs. Those who get bad music from their machines never had any musical taste. They merely give themselves away with it. 2. The moving picture, “because it does little except stimulate the passions and act as a soporific for the mind.” Here I am with the nobje lord. He is at least 99 per cent correct. 3. The motor car, “than which (says he) I know of nothing that has done more to increase a feeling of jealousy between the classes.” Not True Here In England this may be true. It is not true in America to any extent. Once I passed a long funeral procession motoring on a road in Illinois. Clearly the people in it were farmers. A local man who was with me told me that they were most of them tenant farmers. I have a hired man on my farm who has a car. It is a second-hand six and the clutch slips some, but out on the road it looks about as well as any car which is not new. He is more nearly on an equality in that car than at any other time with the wealthy. He can go fast enough to break any speed limit. He paid SBS for it. Flivver for SSO When hired men draw down from forty to fifty dollars a month, in this hefliwered land, they can get a runnable car for a month’s wages or so. Such cars are cheaper than horses ever were. They do not eat anything when idle. At thousands of factories, the cars of the employes clutter the place all up and parking is a problem. And this doesn't mean affluence on the part of the laboring men. either. When the bankrupt farmer has to leave his farm, he plies the family into the old car and becomes a gasoline tramp. TA- motor car has had important on society, hut as to accentuating the class struggle in this country. Its influence is negligible. Thanks, largely, to Henry. Tom Sims Says: In Balias. Texas, a grocer is suing a girl for breach of promise. Ofily a very foolish girl would jilt a grocer. The worst thing about spring is summer always follows It. A hypocrite Is a man who can’t even believe what he hears when he talks to himself. When describing a whirlwind talker you can leave off the whirl. A little cussing now and then often helps the best of men. This year is just about half gone and the New Year resolutions are just about all gone. Married life In a flat during the hot summer months has a tendency to become too flat.

The consumer gets a raw deal when the cards are stacked. Marff a man sits around all ds wondering why he doesn’t get his pay raised when that is the reason. An open mind is all right if you know when to close your mouth. Many people saving for a rainy day find vacation time is a flood. Our objection to being a champion prizefighter is you can’t appoint. an assistant to do all your work for you. Trains of thought are often delayed by excess baggage. In South Africa they have discovered anew blue baboon. After looking at his picture you can readily see why he Is blue. You can’t keep a good man down or a good-for-nothing man up. # A man is often misjudged by the company he keeps. Many hands make light work, and many hands make light'of work. These are the days you miss a man for a couple of weeks, then you see him back home sunburned and broke.

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CIVILIZATION KEY SOUGHT IN YUCATAN Ruins May Change Story of Human Life, Scientists Say, By ALMA REED S' FA Staff Correspondent i inCHES’-IT%\, Yucatan. June Cl3. —The walls of history _____ totter as American archaeology digs in the Maya ruins of Yucatan. For, when the Maya mystery is solved, the whole structure of civili- ! zation’s s-oigf, may crash to earth. No less a hope has guided science ■ to Ohichen-ltzn. Here, experts of : the Carnegie Institution are concen- j trating for the first large-scale ex I cavations in the entire Maya region, j Among these ruins science will j search for the Maya Rosetti rtone—a treasure more precious than all the goldeh looi of Tut-Ankhamen’s tomb. 1 Only suenka key will decipher accurately thelhieroglyphic writings on j the countless sculptured walls and columns of Chichen-ltza and the older Maya cities. Today, absolutely nothing is known of the beginnings of the remarkable mother race of the American continent. But the theories are varied and startling. According to some archaeologists, the origin of j the Maya is one with the origin of mankind, The disciples of Dr. Auguste Le 1 Plongeon hail the Yucatan peninsula j as the very cradle of human civiliza- j tion. They locate the site of the Gar- j den of Eden near Chichen-ltza, and name Abel, the victim of the world's j first murder, as the city’s founder. J The eccentric French savant, who | labored among the ruins for the j greater part of his life, held that the Egyptians received the rudiments of j their culture from the Maya about j 150 centuries ago. In support of his } theory, he points to the striking simi-! larity cf custom, art and belief * among these anefent peoples. He | claims that the white-robed priests of j ITxmal brought into Egypt their elaborate religious ritual and the doctrine of reincarnation in the days before a vast mainland had collapsed to form the floor of thfe troubled Atlantic. Some months ago I asked Dr. William Gates, the highest authority or, Maya hieroglyphics, what he expected as a result of the then proposed excavations in Yucatan. This was his answer: “History will be rewritten. I am already convinced from my own studies of the inscriptions and from other evidences that the earliest Maya knew of the culture of Egypt ant. Asia, and that 10,000 or 15,000 years ago there existed international world communication. “Egypt woke us up to a world back of Greece and Rome. In the Maya ruins we can faintly glimpse a world beyond Egypt, or at least one contemporaneous with its oldest civilization. “The vast stretch of country from the Honduras borders of Guatemala northward through the Yucatan peninsula Is covered with the re-

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