Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1924 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times EARLE. E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. j Member of the Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. * • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St.. Indianapolis Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * * * PHONE—MA In 3500.
THE BOODLE IN THE BUNK mX THE rush of closing up Congress in time to get to the Cleveland convention, two significant things happened. Both had to do with boodle in politics. Ever since the huge pre-primary slush funds of the 1920 campaign there has been an exposed nerve in Washington political circles. Just mention campaign funds and professional politicians of any and all parties twinged with pain. The heavy sugar campaign of Newberry and its exposure made the exposed nerve throb something awful. Then there were the big oil contributors whose gifts had been concealed by campaign treasurers. Then there was Mayfield and the KuKlux money. Not only did these things hurt, but also even the hardest boiled politician began to kick on the high cost of politics. Here were presidential campaigns costing from eight to ten million dollars and senatorial campaigns costing from a quarter to half a million. Well, it was getting so that after the campaign contributors who had the first mortgage on the crop after they had gotten theirs, there were scanty pickings left for henchmen and party workers. For three years Congress talked and ached and twinged. A dozen corrupt pratices bills were introduced and sent to committees. But nothing was done, nothing happened. Adjournment was less than a week off when Senator Borah exploded without warning. He produced an elaborate and searching anti-boodle bill and hitched it onto a postal bill as a rider. Borah s bill had teeth. Wh?n the bill went to a secret conference of both Houses they unnitched the Borah rider and substituted another. Not so dental, but still good and strong. House and Senate accepted the amendment and the bill was passed. By that time Congress had only a few hours to live and President Coolidge vetoed the bill. It being too late to try and pass another one. Senator La Follette bobbed up with a Senate resolution (which required no action either by the House or President) ordering a special committee to sit during recess to hold session and anywhere in the United States; to summon witnesses; hire clerk and other help, subpoena books and papers and, generally, to be prepared to report to the Senate next December all about the dough in the coming mpaign. And La Collette’s resolution named the committee, too. Republicans. Borah (chairman) and Jones of Washington; Democrats, Caraway and Bayard; Farmer-Labor. Shipstead, and the Senate swallowed the dose without an audible gasp. So it is that Bill Borah and his mervy men will establish headquarters at Chicago and start right in auditing the campaign expenses of each and all from presidential candidate to Senator and Congressman, including payments to the campaign orator who perspires for profit. Asa wonderful new feature of the 1924 model political cam paign, this is about the snappiest ever and it would add greatly to the enjoyment of the voters, for it may be they can now know when bunk is handed to them and who paid for .the bunk. Borah Avill show the boodle in the bunk.
FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER GIATHERING on the lawn at Princeton University the other i day, alumni of that institution paid tribute to the memory of "Woodrow Wilson and voted him first place among Princeton’s famous sons. The ceremoifr was significant, because it was fifteen years ago, on that same spot, that Wilson bade farewell to Princeton, of which he had been president ifiany years, and turned to the political world for his new field. Wilson left Princeton because the alumni and trustees could not understand him nor his motives when he tried to reorganize the eating club system to make the university more democratic. On this and other progressive measures he was opposed at every step, until it became evident that he was ahead of his time in educational ideas. Thus it was that Princeton’s loss was New Jersey’s gain, for Wilson immediately accepted the nomination for Governor, and won. His record as Governor was the step tlat led to his nomination for the presidency, and his works as President are toe new to require narration here. That is the intriguing feature of Wilson’s life. Like Lincoln, he was misunderstood by many of his contemporaries. It took the educated alumni of Princeton fifteen years to understand him on the little matter of making the university more democratic. Small wonder thgn that Wilson should have died without being understood by the world he tried to make better. Fifteen years from now, when partisanship shall have spent its venom, Wilson’s dream of world peace through the medium of a League of Nations, may seem as logical and natural as democracy now seems desirable to the Princeton campus. And men may look at each other and wonder why the man who advanced this idea was maligned and misunderstood. That’s the way men do—fifteen years after. A MECHANICAL bricklayer has been invented by some fellow who knows where the big money is. IF INFORMATION is correct, the 7,000 Moscow poets who have formed a union are not going, but are merely hoping, to make a strike.
A Square Peg in a Round Hole
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BIG SHIPS IN NEED OF CHANGING Only Five of American Battle Fleet Considered Modern, Bv CHARLES P. STEWART ICE A Service Writer , rr-Tl ASHIXGTON, June 18.— \X/ America's industrial practice ' ' always has been to build an entirely new machine when an old one got the least bit out of date. Maybe the old one could be tinkered up to give more or less the same results, but the American idea is to scrap it and put the money into anew ' one—up-to-the-minute throughout. Everybody knows how this rule has been applied to automobiles. The navy has applied it to war craft, too. So far as capital ships are con-
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INSIDE BLISTERS ON THIS SHIP, THE U. S. S. CALIFORNIA, ARE WHAT MAKE IT PRACTICALLY TORPEDO PROOF. TIIE DOTTED LINES WITHIN.THE PROW VIEW OF THE SHIP SHOW NOW-THESE BLISTERS ARE SHAPED. THE DOTTED LINE OUTSIDE, SHOWS HOW THE HULL WOULD BE WIDENED AND SPEED REDUCED, IF OUTSIDE BLISTERS WERE ATTACHED.
it can be applied no longer. This is because the armament limitation treaty fixes exactly the date on which each old capital ship can te be replaced. If, before the date arrives for replacing a certain capital ship, this country fails to keep that ship fully modernized, and if British and Japan, say, do keep their corresponding ships modernized, America is so much the worse and Britain and Japan are so much the better off. Thirteen Behind Times That's exactly -what is happening. America has eighteen battleships. The Tennessee. California, Colorado, West Virginia and Maryland are up-to-date vessels of their type in every respect, equal to the battleships of any power on earth. All the others need more elevation to increase their turret guns’ range. All need additional deck protection against aerial attacks. All need better submarine protection—“blisters,” as they’re called. The Utah, Florida. Arkansas, Wyoming, New York and Texas need new bailers and conversion to oil fuel. It's obvious how a gun’s elevation affects its range. “Thirteen .of our capital ships.” says Captain F. H. Schofield of the United States Navy, “were designed and built at a time when airplane spotting was not seriously considered. (And a gunner stood small chance of hitting anything too far away for him to see.) Surpassed by British “In consequence the angle of elevation of their guns is limited to range around 20.000 yards. It is well established that effective firing can be done with airplane spotting at ranges in excess of 30.000 yards.” Britain promptly took this into account. British versions differ as to when she increased the elevation of all her capital ships’ guns. The essential fact is that they outshoot the guns of all but five of oifr capital ships by about two miles. What J. nan’s ships can do is Japan's sec ret. but American naval officers agree there’s good reason for believing they can outshoot even Britain’s; that they can outshoot ours possibly as much as five miles. No argument’s needed to convince even a layman of a ship’s danger if airmen can drop bombs on her unprotected deck or a submarine can get at her unprotected hull, below the waterline. Os course dilapidated boilers prevent a vessel fron: making time. Coal Handicaps Ships To quote Captain Schofield again: “Modern navies use oil as fuel almost exclusively. Any navy that has to use Coal-burning ships in its formation will be distinctly handicapped tactically and will also be handicapped strategically.” Britain has twenty-four capital ships, but her treaty quota is twenty. That’s what she’ll have when she’s completed certain scrapping soon tP begin and building now nearly finished. Os these twenty, sixteen are battleships and four battle cruisers.
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Dad’s Den By HAL COCHRAN F course father wanted a (J room of his own so he told J Mom about it and then she fixed up a place where he’d be quite alone and the family all called it his den. A desk and a lamp and a fine leather chair was the usual way to begin it. But now, in a week, you should see what is there; what a fine lot of trash there is in it. The table is covered with marbles and tops and the bookcase is filled up with toys. A kite, from a string on the chandelier drops and the place is a hangout for boys. For a day it was nice but it’s not any more. To a leather chair sonny’s tied Rover. A lot of dad’s books are spread put on the floor where the youngster’s been looking them over. Ah, yes, ’tis a* den; just a rest room for men and ’twas meant to make father feel glad. But the truth of the matter, mid qjutter and clatter, it seems they all use it but dad. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
In New York By gTEYE HAXNAOAN NEW YORK, June IS. —An acquaintance of mine recently committed suicide. A lonely lodging house was the cause of it all. Born in a town with trees, cows and chickens in upstate New York, he grew up with fresh air and the friendly back slaps of neighbors. Then he went to a mid-western city, where he followed his avocation for eight years. Ho became an expert and answered New York’s beckoning call to advancement. Steel treated with kindness, the metal of his happiness would not pour with New York’s melting pot. He became melancholy, brooding, unhappy. Front his office each day he went to the silent four walls of a roominghouse existence he called home. He snatched food in the dozens of taverns so friendless to all strangers. His life became unbearable. Although he often talked about it, It was an unnecessary prologue to his ending. It was so evident. Friends—none of them as close as his friends of other years—tried to counsel him. He refused invitations to spend week-ends in the country, refused to indulge In the recreation stunts of his fellow workers. One day he failed to appear at his office. Two workmen went to his room. It was locked from the inside. A policeman was called and broke down the door. The unhappy man had taken a strong poison. It is typical of many cases here. They never are chronicled because the persons are unimportant—unimportant cogs in a gigantic, hurrying world. T never would have heard of it had I not learned of it through his close associates. The amazing point of the sfor.v is that although he was a skilled workman, worNing with delicate tools, his work was tvrfect on the day before he ended his life—as perfect as the day he came to New York, astic, seeing success and added wealth on the horizon of his future. * * * "Be your age” is the latest flippant phrase of the avenue. It was coined for young men find women who are aping the ways of their elders, reaching the blase period of maturity long before its time. * * Anew taxicab line has appeared on the streets. The fare is 10 cents per mile lower than the previous lowest rate. Nature Most folks think that a gnat’s snap is of no consequence beside a mosquito’s bite, but the fact is that gnats are mosquitoes, only the name has been translated into Spanish. The stiletto with which the gnat stabs you consists of seven distinct parts. Just as is the case with all other mosquitos, only the female is dangerous, because the male hasn t the power to break your skin. They Know Dad “I can’t get anybody to play golf with my husband.” “But, my dear, everybody has played with him!”—Judge.
“NEXT WAR” IS ISSUE INCAMPAIGN Movements to Prevent Conflict Are Considered by Both Parties. Washington Bureau, • 1322 New York Avo. \ W*—- ASHINGTON, Juqp 18.—Howto prevent civilian populations from being literally wipeq out in the next war—against which all the great powers are preparing—will be an issue in the presi--dential campaign now beginning. While recognizing “there has been an increase in the land and air forces abroad which constitute a continual menace to the peace of the world,” the G. O. P.’s new platorm is significantly silent on air craft which, in anew war, would rain down death on helpless old folks, women and babies. “We firmly advocate, the calling of a conference on the limitation of land forces, the use of submarines and ix/isnnous gas,” the platform declares, but it omits all reference to any reduction of the armies of the air. And these will surely fight the war of the future. The position of most experts is that limitation of air forces is im possible, because the number of commercial aircraft can not be limited. It is only the work of a few' hours to transform such craft into top-notch war machines. Thus a determined effort will he made at New York to insert a plank in the Democratic platform pledging the party to join with the’ other nations of the world in some sort of concerted effort to prevent war. For experts admit the wholesale use of aircraft to carry the war to important civilian centers is inevitable, once war is allowed to start. The Washington conference lint Ited the size or tne major ships of the Navy, and of naval aircraft carriers. But no limit was—or could be placod on the number of plane-car-rying Zeppelins ior on any other species of Zeppelins or other aircraft. Convinced limiting the number, size or species of. commercial air craft, even if possible would be only it dangerous sham, the great powers today are feverishly busy perfecting this arm. The G. O. P.’s 1924 platform having gone on record against the League of Nations or any similar association to guard against the terrors of anew vyar. the Democrats will include a plank indorsing some such league or association, probably with reservations, or there will be a light inside the party worth going many miles to see. Tongue Tips Mrs. Ruth Gerth, Minneapolis: “If we fill our homes with shams or make them common, we may expect that our children will be shams.’’ • • • Foreign Minister Tehitcherin, Russia: “The economic and political interests of the world center more, and more upon the Pacific, which is the ocean of the future.”
Tom Sims Says The proper way to wake up business Is with a few rousing cheers. Looks as if the backbone of winter is just about broken: One day our swell ball team wins. Next day our rotten ball team loses. While passing out pointed remarks remember the porcupine. His only friends are other porcupines. You can't keep a good man or a good head of hair down. People go to a lot of trouble they should keep away from. Distance doesn’t lend very much enchantment to a tack in your shoe. fiver, if she does rouge nicely, find out if she can cook. Two can’t live on rouge alone. The small boy's idea of heaven is a place where they use ice cream bricks for paving the streets.. All good feelings should be expressed. Most of them arrive as if they are sent by freight. Experience isn’t such a great teacher if you spend ajl your time 0- .n-• same lesson. • m *btno- about having the old pep all night is you have the old pip all the next day. Naturally, the rising generation gets out of bounds. The most expensive thing about a house is company.
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TWO AUTOS CA N PA SS ON STREET Citizens of Philadelphia Are Proud of Fact, Cressy Says, By WILL CRESSY (Copyright. 1924. NEA Service, Inc.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. June 18.— i Philadelphia is a bustling little Penn- ; sylvania town, situated across the river from Camden. N. J.. and three miles off the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The State of Pennsylvania was named for William Penn, the inventor of the lead pencil and the fountain pen. the founder of the P. R. R. j and the William Penn hotel in Pitts- | burgh. , Philadelphia, named for -.Sir Philip j Delf. the inventor of Pelf crockery, j has always been known as the “Cradle of Liberty.” Being brought ; up in the cradle this way, Philudel- j phians are all slightly somnolent. I The Sleeping Sickness is not recog- I nized as a disease here. All Philadelphia homes have white doorsteps and window shutters. This t* 4o the home owners can find their
PHILADELPrfIANS ARE ALL SLIGHTLY SOMNOLENT.
front doors if they are caught out after dark, and so that the morning sun will not disturb the sleepers. Philadelphia is the home of the Liberty Bell and all its citizens try to live up to it. The bell is cracked. The principal streets are all named for nuts. Chestnut, Walnut, etc. They are all ‘'One Way" streets, except one, and they are so proud of the fact that two cars can pass on this street without friction that they have named it “Broad St." In 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed here; hut it took all the rest of the States to put it over. It was during the discussion of this measure that Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death.” And they did. Philadelphia is also known as “The City of Brotherly Love.” The sisters are the same,way. Mister John Wanamaker ran the village store; and made some money at it; but then they made him Postmaster General and he lost it all trying to sell stamps at cost. Governor Pinchot a<nd Major Butler of the militia have' been quite busy of late trying to blot up the towri. “But they say” it still leaks in spots. f Philadelphia f/as a subway, but the secret Is well guarded. A Thought Love the truth and peace. Zech. 8:19. Individuals may perish but tyuth is eternal. —Joseph Gerrald.
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Ask The Times You can set an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New Y'ork Ave.. Washington. D. C., inclosing 2 cunts in stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and mantal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. A!! other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—EdnSh What is the difference between chars and trout? Chars have smaller scales than the trout, and have red instead of black spots, especially during the breeding season. The color is grayish green above, the lower parts red, especially in the male. The lower fins are anteriorly margined with white. The sides of the body have round red spots, and the back is not marbled. There are physical •ifferences also. How many Jews are there in Russia? There are 3.133,367 Jews in all the territory of Russia, according to estimates in the Jewish Year Book. Who was Pandora? According to ancient mythology, the gods, to punish Prometheus and mankind for the theft of fire, formed a beautiful woman from earth. Each of the gods gave her gifts and she was sent to Epimetheus, brother o' Prometheus, who, in spite of warn ings, received her. Moved by curios ity. Pandora opened a casket i which there were kept safe man.
| blessings, which thus became sea* | tered and lost, only hope being saved by the closing of the lid. Another ! version is that the casket contained I all the ills which afflict mankind and the Pondora let them loose. What will keep light hair light? A pinch of baking soda in the last rinse water. • Are frogs fishes? Are they protected by the game law? No, frogs belong to the family Amphibia, a class of vertebrates intermediate between fishes and reptiles. They are not protected by the game laws. Name seven Roman emperors who were assassinated? Caligula, Galba, Commodus, Pertinax, Geta, Heliogabalus, Severus. Who planned the city of Washington? § Pierre Charles L’Enfant, (a French engineer who served in the Revolutionary War) under the direction, and according to the general ideas of General Washington. When was printing first practiced? In 1467 in R?>me; in 1470 in Paris; in 1474 irt Spain, and in 1477 in England’. \ What is the maximum amount of adjusted service credit that can be given under the new soldier's bonus law for overseas service: and for home service only? $625 for the former; SSOO for the latter.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1924
ACTIVITY OF V F. W POST DESCRIBED Arthur G, Gresham Tells of Accomplishments of Indianapolis Body, To the Editor of The Times: fryyj E have many clubs, fraternal j W patriotic organizations in L 4 Indianapolis, all of which are of some service to the city, and many with which but few citizens are acquainted. As an officer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, I wish to call the public's attention to the services rendered to the city by Hoosier Post No. 624. Veterans of Foreign Wars, 430 N. Pine St. In the past four years this post has been a consistent booster for Indianapolis. It has never asked donations nor solicited money from the i public with which to carry on its ; activities, yet it has spent hundreds of dollars boosting the city. Fori j example, when ex-Premier Lloyd" George of England visited Indianapolis. Hoosier Post spent $127 just to send a complete squad of medal of \ honor men to the depot to meet him. j These men came from all over Indi- ; ana. Hoosier Post paying the expenses. This was the first time that such a courtesy was ever paid a visitor to our city, yet no newspaper made any mention of it. Distribute Pamphlets Last year 65.900 pamphlets, "Etiquette to the Stars and Stripes.” were distributed free to the school children of Indianapolis. There never has been an occasion when this post was called upon to assist in a demonstration that they did not give their whole-hearted support. Memorial day this year would have been a failure had it not been for the loyalty of the V. F. W. Hoosier Post has conducted more military funerals than aU other organizations repre. sentative of the World War. Combined, 92 per cent of these funerals were non-members and at an average cost of $14.50 each, not counting the salaries of the men who left their work to assist. Barrels of candy are sent to or* phanages on Christmas Phonograph records by the dozens are sent to disabled service men whose homej are in Indianapolis but who are in Government hospitals in other States. Ready to Serve This post does not owe any business firm in Indianapolis a cent. They are ready to help a worthy cause or a worthy comrade. They do not pretend, however, to contribute to the support of floaters, men drifting through the country, Each year Hoosier Post gives its support to the Red Cross drive and to the Poppy campaign. This post has never received a cent from the Community Chest, yet it has given Indianapolis threefold more service than many organizations that receive thousands of dollars from the Community Chest. When we consider the service that the members of this post have rendered to the city of Indianapolis, and consider that each member is a man who has fought for America, surely it is putting it mildly to say that Indianapolis should be proud of Hoosier Post No. 624, Veterans of Foreign Wars. ARTHUR G. GRESHAM. Family Fun The Blow That Killed “Here’s a fashion item reading that this summer we women will wear one-piece suits.” “Great Jerusalem mother! Which piece?”—Scripps-Paine Service. One For the Nurse “Did you have a good time in thej| park?” asked mother. ™ “Oh. yes, we talked to a nice policeman, and he didn’t arrest us even when nurse kissed him.” —American Legion Weekly. Jack Recovering “How is Jack’s arm that he hurt?” “Oh. it’s able to be around.” “Yes, I noticed that in the conservatory last night."—Boston Transcript.