Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1924 — Page 4
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WORKING MOTHERS HE Indianapolis school board has raised a question for i>— __ modernists and equal rights advocates to solve: Should mothers of young children work? The board has solved the problem in its own way by discharging twenty-four school teachers who are mothers. Many things are involved in an affair of this kind. There is an economic problem and a social problem. Under an ideal arrangement. mothers of children who need their care should not work. But the financial problem enters immediately. Supposing it is necessary for the mother to earn a living for her child. Would it be better for her to give it her personal care under conditions of actual want, or would it be better for her to leave it to the care of someone else and earn a living • We don’t know. There is no .way of telling how many of the t ,married teachers who were discharged were working because it was necessary to support their children. If there are cases of this kind, the mothers probably will find employment elsewhere. So the social problem will not be solved. What do YOU think of this problem? # RACING LIMITS r-p JHERE seems to be two limits that have not been reached 1 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. One is the speed limit and the other is the limit in smallness of cars. The authorities have just ruled that in 1026 the piston displacement of racing automobiles must be reduced from 122 cubic inches to 911,4 cubic inches. One can hardly realize how an negine can be much smaller than the ones now in use and still stand up under the terrific grind of a 500-mile race. Yet racing experts say it can be done and that the reduction will increase the speed, even above the average of more than ninety-eight miles an hour which broke all records in the last race. In 1911 the engines of the racing cars had piston displacements of 600 cubic inches. In other words, in a space of fifteen years the size of the engines will have been reduced more than five-sixths. A common or garden variety of flivver engine is enormous compared with the racing engines of 1926. THE SMOKE BATTLE LEGAL battle over the anti-smoke ordinance is under way. It was bound to come. But there is no reason why it should be a long one. The courts should act speedily. Attorneys have had plenty of time to prepare. If the ordinance is invalid, we should know it as soon as possible so that some law or regulation which will stand the test of the courts can be put into effect If it is valid, we should know it so the violators can be punish'd. Lender any circumstances, there should be no delay in doing away with the smoke nuisance.
KEEP YOUR EYE OX THE BALL |XE of the things that makes golf a fascinating game is its uncertainty. Only the experts are even fairly sure of themselves and they make weird shots at times. Tie great majority of players, however, are ever striving to better their game, but finding that no matter how much they play they may be good one day and rotten the next. * A player may tee up his ball, swing at it with his club and get a good long drive right down the middle of the fairway. That gives him a thrill. It seems as though he ought to do the same thing every time. Yet, at the very next tee he may think he is doing the very same thing in the very same way and yet top his ball and drive it only a few feet; or pull or slice the pesky pill over into the adjoining fairway or clear out of bounds. Then he has a thrill with the reverse English on it. Experts and teachers tell the ambitious beginner that he must keep his eye on the ball; that he must do this, that or the ovher thing. He tries, but, too often for his peace of mind, the darned thing doesn’t work. Something goes wrong. It isn’t the ball, of course. It isn't the club. It’s the player himself. And most often his mind. He may get mad and throw his club -—his innocent club —but the guilty thing is not the club; it’s :i;e owner. Some of the hazards on a golf course are called mental haz ards. If it’s a creek, a ditch, a pond or a hill, the fear that he may not conquer the hazard causes the player to drive right into it, where ordinarily he could negotiate the distance easily. Which means that he is controlled by his fears. Really, golf is a very human game. It is quite as much a mental as a physical game. Permitting one’s mind to wander at the crucial moipent is disastrous. The mind must be in tuu with the muscles. And—one must keep his eye on the ball. That goes also for all men. If every politician would say voer to himself the Golden Rule before making a speech, if every business man would say it over before starting in on his day’s work —if every editor had it in mind when writing editorials —if all of us convinced ourselves that we could make ourselves happier by living that rule of conduct—if the Golden Rule were our ball and we kept our eye on the ball, we would shoot straighter, play a better game of life and be happier and help make a happier world. Keep YOUR eye on the ball.
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DON'T BUY GOLD BRICK IN NEW YORK Beware of Tickets to Central Park at Democratic Meeting, By SEA Scrvire NEW YORK, June 19.—Here are the latest tips from the Democratic convention. They come ■- not from any of the many political camps and, therefore, may be accepted with the utmost reliability. They are inside steers for delegates, given by the conventions chief watcher—Mrs. Mary Hamilton, leading policewoman of New York, whose special Job it is to shield the visitors from the onslaughts of the city bunco artists. These tips are good for any visitor to New York at any time. “Don't forget your wits —when packing and after. And if married, don't forget your wife. She is always a good stabilizer. “Don’t think you know it all, and don't believe everything, ikot. everything that sounds well ends well. “Remember not to depend upon
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MRS. MARY HAMILTON. ATOP OF A NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER, OVERLOOKING THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION DISTRICT, WITH HER WARNING FOR DELEGATES.
.11 public porters and taxicab drivers. If at any time you feel that you have not been treated fairly by either, report it to the police. I*ook Out! Ixmli Out! “Be careful of hotel runners. There are many unscrupulous ones who will tatye advantage of you. Theirs is not the best way to secure accommodations." Because New York has long been a mecca for con men and flimflam artists, Mrs. Hamilton issues a special warning against the lost uncle, the flapper's lament and other stories. “Many of these plausible-sounding tales," she says, “are developed from remarks overheard in public places. “Remember, conversations in hotel lobbies are public property. They can he turned against you any time. “Don’t b- surprised if what you mentioned to a friend is brought up by a total stranger. Such a play for your good graces is simply a scheme against you. “Don't fall for beautiful and flirtatious women or suave men. “Don’t buy tickets for Central Park. “Don’t squander money on worthless relics or antiques with questionable backgrounds. \ No Raffle Planned “Don’t take a chance on the gilded Minerva which ornaments the tower of Madison Square Garden. It is not going to be raffled off at the end of the Democratic convention." Under Mrs. Hamilton's charge, a women's bureau of information has been organized at police headquarters. At it all kinds of questions are being answtmed. “The other morning,” she says, “a prominent minister called at 1:30. ‘What shall I do’ he asked. ‘There's a stranded girl here in my house. I’m a bachelor. I can’t turn her out In the street.’ “Os course we took caYe of her. “Another time a man called'*excitedly. ‘Mv servant has erysipelas. What shall I do?’ “There is a ward at Bellevue for such cases, and we took his servant to the ward.” Before the convention’s over there may be hectic queries from delegates wanting a tip for whom they should cast their ballot. “And that will he about the only thing we will not he able to give them,” concludi drs. Hamilton. Tongue Tips H. H. Mue“ International Coast Corporation, v>ew York: “This country must have more railways, more highways and more public improvements keep up with the construction th/t has been done and is going to be done.” * * * E. N. Hurley, Chicago, fprmer head ,of shipping board: "I have little praise for the man who never makes mistakes. a man is usually not a man of action.”
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In Any Home By HAL COCHRAN BOOK for your phonograph records is nice. That’s v hat everybody will say. But a record is ne’er in the same section twice. You simply can’t keep them that way. You purchase the book and you tiave a set place for* all of the records you’ve got. You tell all the fam’ly they’re easy to trace and then, when you try it, they’re not. For Tommy will take, from anew numbered nook, a tune that’s as sweet as can be. He’ll play it, then put it right bhck in the book where some other tune’s scheduled to be. The baby, perhaps, finds the book on the floor where sister has left it at night. The records were filed —but they’re not any more; for they're playthings to this little mite. The book may protect all the records on hand and keep them from cracking or breaking. But keeping them filed, you will soon understand, is a terribly hard undertaking. (Copyright, 1924, N*EA Service, Inc.) A Thought Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.—Prov. 30:8. * * * And plenty makes us poor.— Dryden.
In New York By STEVE HANNAGAX NEW YORK, June lit.—Richard Gimhel, 26-year-old scion of the fabulously wealthy department store family, just returned from his European honeymoon. Tanned with the suns of two continents, he flr.i h refused to pose for ships news photographers. They were asiounded. The wealthy Fhilude.phian had always been so graci >u? y accommodating. Kindly, but firmly, they asked for an explanation. He gave it. Last year when he returned from abroad he v;ia single. There was a beautiful Chicago girl on board. They had struck up a ship’s acquaintance during the homeward voyage. The photographer induced her to pose with the gay Gimble — as delightful atmosphere to an important picture. By the time the innocent picture was printed in Chicago an enthu-das-tie caption writer had engaged the girl to young Gimble. Two days later she appeared in his office in a reign of terror, following a frantic (rip from the West. She explained that she had been in love, engaged to be married. But when her fiance had seen the picture and misleading title in the home town newspaper, he had snapped the love strings and gone his brokenhearted way. Gimbel patched up the fragments of the love disaster over long-dis-tance telephone immediately, and all was well —with the Chicago e o uplc. But. as for himself—ho was through with newspaper photographers. Gimbel was reminded that conditions were different this year. He was married—and his wife was with him. As though he had forgotten all about his marriage, his face brightened at this ready argument of the crafty photographers. “Sure,” he said to his wife as they smiled Within range of the camera, “it doesn’t make any trouble if they do say we are engaged—they may even write that we are married." * * * The most luxurious office I have seen in all New York is the executive suite at the United States Custom House, downtown in Bowling Green. The ceiling is artistically done in gold leaf. Oil paintings depicting every port of the world adorn the side walls. The furniture is as stanch and stable as the Government that owns It. This one suite, occupied by the collector of the port, cost $35,000. Excuse Needed “Why, insurance is the greatest thing in the world. No man should be without it. I even carry a $50,000 policy, payable to my wife.” “It’s too much. What excuse can you give her for living?”—Houston Post.
HARRISON HAD LONG STRUGGLE Democratic Keynoter Sold Papers and Taught to Get Start, By Times Special (iTVIEW YORK, June 19.—When II the largest audience in the l i worlds history "tunes in’’ by jneans of a string of radio broadcasting stations stretching across the continent, to listen to the keynote speech of the Democratic national convention Tuesday, it will hear a man who: Asa bare-foot newsboy sold papers on the streets of Crystal Springs, Miss. a student worked his way through Louisiana State University by waiting on the tables and gathering up the college laundry. Asa country school teacher married on the munificent salary of $52 a month. Asa district attorney established a record for fearless prosecutions in Greene County, Miss. Asa Congressman, served three terms and then was elected to the United States Senate by receiving 95 per cent of the votes cast in the general election.
They Tall Him Pat So runs the story of Senator Byron Patton Harrison—" Pat” Harrison, as he is generally known—who has been chosen by the Democratic party for its stellar speech in the big show at Madison Square Garden. A radio audience running far into the millions wall hear him. “Pat”—and nobody around Washington ever calls Kim anything else —is one of the most human characters in the U. S. Senate. He wears an every ready smile, “tptes” a glad hand and is personality plus. A former college baseball player himself and later star pitcher of the Democratic nine in Congress when it used :o play the Republicans in those famous annual contests, he has a io: of fun nowadays at umpiring the corner-lot games of kid teams around Washington. Most any Sunday afternoon Senator Harrison can be found in the midst of a bunch of yelling youngsters, calling “balls” and "strikes,” “safeties'' and "outs.” Reporters Help Him Without detracting from Senator Harrison’s ability in the least, it can be said that he owes a lot to the news hounds who toil in the press galleries at the Capitol. Asa member of the lower house who was “always good for a story,” he became intensely popular with the correspondents and Nation-wide publicity flowed his way. These stories drift- ■ and back to Mississippi, got reprinted ii the local papers and the home folks began to sit up and take notice. In 1918 Congressman Harrison decided to make the try for Senator and went to the mat on a clear-cut war issue with Senator James IC. Vardaman. who was running for reelection, Vardanian—picturesque, figure with long hair, flowing cape and massive gold-headed cane—insisted that “America was stubbing Germany in the back while England and France held her down” and that "conscripts were little better than convicts.” Although Vardanian had been entrenched in Mississippi poll tics for a generation, Harrison defended President Wilson's war course and beat him by a big majority.
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STUDENTS TN THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL "LISTENING IN” ON THE NEW STETHOPHONE DEVELOPED BY THE WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY. INSET SHOWS A PHYSICIAN EXAMINING A PATIENT f ITH THIS NEW DEVICE. MOUNTED ON A "TEA WAGON.”
Tom Sims Says When a stranger promises to let you in on a money-making scheme he means he will take you In and you will be out. No wonder babies grow up to resemble their fathers. All they do is loaf around home and raise a racket. Salt will keep grease from smoking, but it takes a shingle to stop a boy. All people hunting trouble are not policemen, and all policemen are not people hunting trouble. Love makes the world go round the bend and park in a lane. The chief difference between underwear and bathing suits is colored underwear is considered old-fash-ioned. The unhappy end of many a popular novel is when it Is made Into a movie. He who laughs last laughs least and he who laughs first usually has a complete set of gold teeth. ,Your lot could be worse. Suppose you were a germ and It took a million of you just to make a man s;ck?
PA TIE NTS EXAMINED BY ‘PHONE Invention Enables Students to Study Diseases Together, By SEA Service, are telephoning heartbeats now. And scientists say the results may be more wide reaching than even those of 'phoning photographs. For the stethophone, the newVlectrlc stethoscope developed by engineers of the Western Electric Company, is expected to throw new light on the treatment of hear: disease, .and the early detection of tuberculosis. It makes possible the wholesale “listening-in" on the murmurs that mean so much in diagnosing heart and lung disease. Five hundred physicians attending a medical convention in Chicago sat spell-bound as they heard together the regular “thump” of a patient's heart, interspersed with the hissing sound of a leaky heart valve. Students in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School have used the new device in their studies, and find it an enormous advance over the old way of listening in rotation. The professor in charge explains the
case, and then all listen in at once. A few comments, and all listen again. Then the patient Is taken away, and another one brought in. Perhaps the patient does not appear before the class at all —the stethophone is taken to his bedside and connected by wires to the classroom. ‘The stethophone consists of a three-stage vacuum tube amplifier mounted on wheels like the familiar tea wagon. The sounds are picked up by pressing an electrical chestpiece against the patient's body. After amplification the electrical currents go to head receivers equipped either with stethoscope tubes or covered with soft rubber against which the listener presses his own stethoscope. A group of electrical filters cut out undesired sounds so the listeners can concentrate on what is most important. By using the stethophone as a “microscope" for body sounds, physicians hope soon to be able to make earlier diagnosis of tuberculosis.
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PROBLEM OF NEAR EAST DISCUSSED Book Gives Good Insight Into Oriental Affairs, By HERBERT QUICK ( _ " HE danger of war is the I nightnio.e of nations, more i * 1 now than ever since war has become so dreadful. And out dan-ger-point lies, not in Europe, but in the Pacific. Our most acute problems are in the Far East, where lie Japan, China, the Philippines and Siberia. Every thinking American man and woman., especially those ■who are or aspire to enter public life in any way, ought to study the Orient and our contacts with it. I have just read a book which I commend to all such students. It is entitled “Conflict of Policies in Asia," published by the Century Company and*wriuervby Thomas F. Millard. Mr. Millard's profession is given in “Who's Who” as that of a war correspondent, but he is editor of a magazine published at Shang hai. China, and the author of several books on the Orient. American Viewpoint He is an American, with views generally harmonizing with American impulses toward the Orient. He has been at times an adviser of Chinese diplomatic missions. He has a wealth of knowledge of matters Asiatic in the realm of international relations. He gives us in his book many memoranda written by ' himself at the request of diplomats and diplomatic agents; and to the student, these, coming in their historical order, serve to give the book an unusual interest, and by their repetition of the points covered, force the matters involved into the memory. From the viewpoint of the writer's art. they may be thought by some a blemish. It is a long bobk, covering the Eastern question for a couple of decades, and one feel3 something like an expert on them after reading it. This is a satisfaction.
Had No Plan Mr. Millard believes that Wilson went to Paris with The highest ideals, but without a plan; that he made a failure of the American case in settling the World War. and that the giving of Shantung and other Chinese loot to Japan was not only wrong but unnecessary. The Senate, he thinks, was right in rejecting the work of the Paris conference. Japan's imperialism received its first check, he thinks, in the Washington conference which ended the Jap-anese-British alliance. His treatment of what should be done about China is full of food for thought. This book is not the whole word in its field, but I know of no better work for the person who desires to study its subject—nor any more important subject of its kind. Dad's New Straw "I'd like to see some kind of a hat that will cover my bald spot.” “Here, Mr. Beanbrough, show this man a sunbonnet." —Youngstown Telegram. Why Wives Get Cross “Henry, this newspaper says that Henry Ford has in the bank $290,008.” "Yes. Show's he's a shrewd married man.” "I don't see that it shows that particularly.” “You notice that he banked that SB, don't you?"—Scripps-'Paine Service.