Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1924 — Page 4

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SPEEDING CONTINUES voyHEX will Indianapolis motorists learn their lesson? * * Eighty-five were found guilty of speeding Thursday and were compelled either to pay fines or to store their cars for varying periods of time. And yet seventeen more speeding arrests were on the police records Friday. At least two accidents reported Friday were said by the police to have resulted from speeding. Some of these motorists who are in such a great hurry to get nowhere in particular should be given a graphic demonstration of the results of last driving. They should be compelled to look upon the suffering of those maimed by reckless drivers and of the families of the victims. Perhaps they should be required to spend some of their valuable time —it must be valuable or they would not hurry so fast—behind the bars of the Marion County jail. ORIGINAL RALSTON MEN mXDIAXA Democrats are going to New York—a whole train load of them —for the express purpose of boosting Senator Samuel M. Ralston for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Whether they will be successful remains to be seen. - If Ralston should go to the White House, it is safe to say that he should have no difficulty in finding persons to fill publie jobs. We would be willing to bet that there is hardly a man on that train who, if the lightning should strike, would not claim the distinction of being the ‘‘original Ralston man. The Hoosiers should have a hot time in the metropolis—in more ways than one. EXPENSE ACCOUNTS "pTJOURTEEX candidates for public office in the last primary i 1 are charged with having failed to file expense accounts as provided by law. Officials announce they will be prosecuted. The law has required the tiling of expense accounts by candidates for a number of years. The newspapers have repeatedly published accounts of candidates who have filed. Any candidates who would overlook such an elemental thing as reporting their expenses could hardly object if voters overlooked their names on the ballots. THE COMING AGE CITIES and irrigation districts listening to the siren voice ___ of the power companies bidding for their surplus power lender long term contracts do well to pause before committing such economic crimes. Electricity is in its swaddling clothes. It has been only forty years since trains were first propelled by electricity and power was transmitted over high tension wires. Bell, who invented the telephone, is still living, and Edison, the electrical wizard, is still at work. Who knows what new uses may be found for electric current within this very year? One day we heard that Inventor Nicola Tesla has promised us transmission without wires. Tnis means that we may soon be selling our surplus power to some city across the Rockies. One night we attend a “concert” in Berkeley where another inventor plays for us “tunes” of marvelous colors on his “clavalux,” thereby opening a great and new field for the art of color painting through electric rays. Radio is not a fad, but the beginning of wonders, and its use of electricity would seem to be bound only by the limits of man’s imagination. Farmers may soon be operating their own fixation plants and manufacturing nitrogen from the air to fertilize their fields. Crop stimulation by electricity is well advanced in England. And there’s the dream of a people’s super-power system. Under this system surplus energy could be dumped into the super system for the common good and each unit would be a potential stand-by station for the rest. Hold on to your electric resources! In times of shortage like today let the power companies have it to use in behalf of the public good, but refuse to contract it out for a long period. Think of the amazing past and present. You may be giving away your very life-blood. Be at least as wise as the power companies who seek to get their hands on as much power as they can seize. Prepare, as they are doing, for a future pregnant with promise. Get ready for the electrical age.

SCIENTISTS say light does not travel straight. Perhaps you have noticed its devious ways with some heads. * IT MI'ST have shocked President Cal’s New England conscience to find itself right up against a profane end. THE ONE-FOURTH reduction in the income tax show ? that the powers are, at last, inclined to give up a little quarte . THE MAN who wanted to know the meaning of the word “hokum” probably never had read a political platform. THERE is one telephone and one automobile to every seven persons in this country and yet w ? e ponder on the wonderful increase in crime.

A Square Peg in a Round Hole

Merely means a misfit. Boys and girls and young men and women should begin to think of what sort of career they had best adopt while they still have opportunity for choice. But, if you are trying to fit into a round hole when you really belong in a square one —no matter how old you may be —it is a good idea to explore the field of other possible opportunities in some other

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HE A T GOES TO CRESS Y’S HEAD; POEMS! 'Political' Correspondent Breaks Out in Convention Verse, By WILL M. CRESSY Illustrated by George Storm m GUESS I shall have the song book privilege at the convention. I have submitted a sample copy to the committee and they seemed to like it. I have got a lot of new numbers by our brightest writers. Like—- “ Flow Gently and Often,’’ by Mr. Doheny. "Dome, Sweet Dome,” by Mr. Sinclair. “Don’t Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," by Carter Glass. “Africa Must Be Hell if My Ancestors Came From There,” by Mr. Bryan. Sample Verses “Gaston, Gaston, I’ve been thinking What a fine world this would be

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If your girls were all transported Far beyond this Commit-tee.” "High diddle, duddle. All in a muddle. They're using a fine-tooth comb. And the -Democrats laughed to see all the graft When they tipped over Teapot i Dome." m • * "We love you as we did long years ! ago. When first we played upon the ' Kansas green. But we little dreamed where you would lead us to When you were sweet — When you were sweet sixteen-to-one.” • * • “There was an oil man And he had a wooden well; No oil eould he get. No oil could he sell But there was another oil man As -running a? Jim Cox. And he always had Mazuma In his safe deposit box. Says Harry Xumber One. "Will you give me a check?” Says Harry Number Two. "T won't by Heck! "But here's a hundred thousand, “And you put it in your sox “For they’re apt to investigate "Tour safe deposit box.” T guess perhaps T will he made the poet laureate of the convention. In New York By STEVE HANNIGAN T~T'| EW YORK, June 21— New York's gypsy colony Is takJ ing the road again. It is following the sunshine trail of the open highway. After wintering in the empty store rooms of lower Fourth Ave. and Avenue A along the waterfront, the descendants of Romany hit the trail with the first breath of summer. Gay in garb and as picturesque and mysterious as of yore, the gypsies form an interesting colony in New York each winter. Arranging varan' rooms of any type after the fashion of the ancient covered wagon, with colorful hangings. pots, pans and whatnot cluttered about walls and ceilings, they pass the cold months. Then men do nothing—as usual, while the women tell fortunes for the disturbed of New York. Luxurious limousines line up liefore the gypsy hovels each day and expensively garmented women hear their future unveiled. The gypsey women earn from SSO to SIOO per day, reading the wrinkled and bleached palms of gullible New Yorkers. The gypsy travel season was delayed this year, not alone because of the weather, but because business was so good. Gypsy men, known for centuries as horse traders, have forsaken Old Dobbin and gone in for more modern bartering. Starting their yearly pilgrimage back to nature tr a ramshackle automobile, they tridj their mechamcal steeds as many as twenty tinus before they return to their winter home in New York. * * * Two outstanding features of a mediocre boxing program the other evening are unusuaj. The only disturbance noted in the audience was created by a woman. She was not satisfied with her ringside vantage point and told the 15,000 assembled people about It. The other was that a fighter named Clarence won. • * * An amateur artist with a sense of humor and a few well-stroked crayon lines created a laughable moment for Hundreds of passengers on a suburban train this morning. He changed the insipid face of a collar ad model tc a character of which any comic strip might well be proud. By drawing horn-rimmed spectacles, a mustache in need of cultivation, and an upturned nose that only a circus clown could tolerate, the artist made an unconscious suggestion that collar manufacturers could follow to advantage. Any body who could make a collar that would offset the handicap the artist gave] this card model would be accomplishing a noble act.

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Old Rags By HAL COCHRAN Let's look within the closet, of most any home at all. Let’s ponder o'er the things that fill up space. Y'ou’ll find a line of hangers, in the summer, spring or fall, that have hung there in the well-secluded place. An ancient dress of mother's that she wore in ninety-two is an echo of the days of long ago. A ragged suit of brother’s that's a long-since faded blue; they’re hanging on the closet rack, just so. Y'ou’d laugh to see the trousers that poor father used to wear. A freak of clothing make-up, if you please. E’en so, for no good reason, you will find them hanging there. They're faded out and baggy at the knees. A dress for graduation, worn by sister, so they say, is made of fancy frills and classy lace. She’d never have the nerve to wear this ancient gown today and so they leave it hanging in its place. Old rags! That's what we'il call them for that’s what they really seem. Like ancient treasures laid upon a shelf. In truth they’re just incentives for a kind of mem’ry dream. I know! I've got a lot of them myself. (Copyright, 1024. NEA Service, Inc.)

Ask The Times Jou can jet an answer '0 any ideation of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Wa hingtou Bureau, 13CC New- York Av*\. Washington D. C . inclosing Z cents in stamp# tor reply M a .<:. legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ail other questions will receive , 4 persona) reply. Unsigned requea.s cam.,it be answered. A i letters are couhdetitiai.—Editor. How many foreign orn residents are there in I ' difornia? \ccording to th census of 1 28. there were then 1.634. What is a mulatto and what Is an octoroon? A mulatto Is one half negro and one half white; an octoroon is oneeighth negro and seven eigh'hs white What, is a cyclone? A cyclone is a system of winds circulating about a center of relatively low barometric pressure. ! end blowing spirally inward. When and whege was the first leper colony in the United States established? In 1894. near Oarville, Li., about sixty miles from New Orleans. How ran I get a position as a postal clerk in Canada? Apply to the Hon. Charles Murphy, K. C., Postmaster General of Canada, at Ottawa, Can. Does the Government publish a hook on medicinal plants? Yes, “American Medicinal Flowers and Fruits.” It. is issued by the Government Printing Office at Washington, D. C. What causes brown spots to appear on steel engravings? They are usually caused by rust in the water which was used when the paper was made. Sometimes they are due to mildew, but spots of that sort are not as dark as brown. Are there any vegetables that are not propagated from seeds? Practically all vegetables form seeds, but the potato is one which is not propagated from the seeds except for obtaining new varieties. A reader of this column asks for a biography of President Coolidge. Any other reader Interested may obtain a mimeographed bulletin giving information, on request to our Washington Bureau, enclosing a two-cent postage stamp for I reply. In what kind of soils do magnolias thrive ar> how are they propagated? They thrive best in somewhat rich, moderately moist and poriiH soil, preferably sandy or poaty loam, but some kinds which usually grow naturally on the borders of swamps, thrive as well in moist and swampy situations. Transplanting is difficult and is most successfully performed just when the new growth is starting. Propagation put down in spring and tongued or noticed. Layers are usually severed anl transplanted the following spring, but as many of them die after transplanting, it is a safer way to take them off early in July, when the new growth has ripened, plant them In pots and keep in a close frame until they are established. Varieties and rarer kinds are often veneered or side grafted in early spring or simmer on potted stock in the greenhouse or frame. What are some good names for a Sunday school class of girls? Willing Workers, Sunshine Class, Rebecca Circle. Golden Rule Class. Queen Esther's Daughters. The Daisy Chain, The Dorcas Daughters, Forge tmenots. Are there any women working as electricians? The census of 1920 show nineteen women engaged in this calling. How much public land has been distributed direct to individuals? Over 1,259,000,000 acres, and the distribution is continuing at the rate of 10.000,000 acres a year.

BUREAUS HINDERING U. S. NAVY Senator King Cites Need for More Airplanes and Submarines, By WILLIAM H. KING, U. S. Senator from Utah. mHE Navy is not greatly different from other governmental agencies. It has its good points—its virtues ) and triumphs. But it has weaknesses and defects. It gets into ruts and at times is dominated by rather selfish forces or recationary elements. I have criticised the naval board, particularly in its policites of 1919 to 1923. Cut I know that some reforms which the Navy would have accomplished have been circumvented by tiic legislative branch of the Government. The Navy Department, like all other departments of the Government, has been impeded and hand; capped by bureaucratic methods. There has been too much red tape, too much precedent, too many archaic methods. New ideas and new methods have not been fairly considered, and technical and expert officers have not always been accorded that position which their genius demanded. Poor Showing I have been disappointed at our poor showing in submarines and airplanes, and have p.t times disagreed w.fh my colleagues in their support of appropriations for what I coneeivod to be unnecessary land activities. 1 shoflld be glad to see more submarines, more airplanes and airplane carriers and cruisers and fighting craft. If we aie to have a Navy, I desire that it shall he efficient and powerfuj. Unless an international conference Is called further to limit armament, obviously we will be compelled to spend millions of dollars to balance our Navy and bring it up to the proper standard. We are wasting too much money in small things—dissipating our energies in keeping up organizations and agencies that are either useless or unimportant. We should cut out the ex traneous things and all appropria tic ns not imperatively needed, and devote more Intelligently and skillfully and scierit'fically our resources •i> the building of types of fighting craft, surface, under the surface and above the surface. Department Fails I th.nk that even the most on-thu-dasfic supporters of the Navy must f- el depressed over the failure Os the Navy department to develop naval aviation. Appropriations have been quite generous since the war. hit? the progress in naval aviation has I teen insignificant. There must he coordination h tween the land and the sea forces, not only with respect to shore stations or aviation bases, hut. insofar as cooperation is possible. for the purpose of construction. There is conflict between the Army and the Navy with respect to air s'ations. Little can he shown for the tens of millions of dollars expended for naval aviation since the war. We have but few planes and but little ~f genuine experimental value to the credit of the Navy during this period. The present situation, as >t relates to aviation, is most unsatisfactory. A survey of the work of the Navy Department during the past few years cannot afford any great de grae of gratification. Its machinery has been clumsy and its plans and activities uncertain and confused. It is of vital importance that old fogies shall not run th Navy or that fantastic schemes and expert merits shall be undertaken. The development of the Navy rails for sc.entitle work, for the application of expert knowledge, for team work, fatperfected organization, and for head work backed by common sense.

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THIS CRISS-CROSS OF LINES AND CIRCLES IS A PLAN OB THE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR BROADCASTING STATIONS. OUTLINED BY S. W. EDWARDS OF DETROIT. DIRECT AND ALTERNATE ROUTES ARE SUGGESTED, AND SIMILAR ROUTES MAY BE EXTENDED AMONG STATIONS OF THE ENTIRE COUNTERY.

Science The world’s most interesting experiment's in education are now being cauried on in Russia and Mexico. The University of the Toiling East at Moscow is being watched with interest by scientific educators. Here are students of every degree of education and of all Asiatic races. Highly educated Indians and Chinese, with degrees from Oxford and Heidelberg, mingle with wild mountaineers from the Caucasus, who can barely read and write. Among the wonyin students are many who were brought up as Mohammedans and who come from villages where it is death for a woman to expose her fade on the street. These have thrown away their veils. In Mexico, where three-fourths at the people are illiterate, there has been organized an army of honorary teachers, now numbering more than 10,000. These amateur teachers, all under the department of public education, teach illiterate adults to read and write. *

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BROADCASTS PLANNED TO BRING HELP Service Would Relieve Wires in Case of Extreme Emergency. By N FA Seri ice Tpr*j ETRDIT. Mich., June 21—A 1)1 na;iona l communication sys- . I tern by which broadcasting stations may be used to transplant the telegraph and telephone during emergencies has been devised by S. W. Edwards of this city. Edwards is radio supervisor for the eighth district, of which Detroit is headquarters. He has submitted his scheme to the Department of Commerce, whose officials, it is expected, will study it and perhaps adopt it as a general emergency communication plan. The idea originated, Edwards explains. after storms in various parts of the country had practically shut off whole sections from the rest of the country by tearing down wires and crippling all other forms of communication. Substitute Service According to Edwards, in such emergencies, broadcasting stations could well replace the wires and so maintain transmission of informaticn from stricken areas. “This emergency service,” explains Edwards in his report, ’should lie prepared to handle on short notice messages relating to trains, press reports, urgent cornmen ial and Government messages, fiood and storm warnings, and requests for assistance in case of uncontrollable fires.” Edwards' scheme would assign to each broadcasting station of the B .■lass another of the r une class with which it is to maintain emergency communication at a definite wave-

length. His tentative plans embrace only the first, second, third, eighth and ninth radio districts, mostly in the Northeast and Middle West. But lie st*ys tiiis can be extended to cover the entire country. Details of Plan The larger, or Class B, stations could maintain a trunk line emergency system over the country, and turn over their traffic to the smaller Class A stations or to amaieurs for local distribution. By the use of telegraph, instead of telephone, Edwards believes a greater number of stations, including especially amateurs, could work together toward transmission of the emergency serice at all times of day and night. The plan of assigning definite stations for intercommunication. Edwards points out, is designed to avoid confusion if more stations tried to transmit at the same time. r“A ehaoitic condition would result if stations were to try and communicate with other statkms promiscuously,” he says.

Fine for the Horse

Tom Sims Says A golf ball leaves the ciub head at about 135 miles an hour, which is about as fast as a golfer leaves the office. Perhaps time really is money. Anyway, time is all some friends spend. Even if women do have more sense than men. you never see a man with about a million buttons on his shirt. As the candidate spreads his bunk so he will lie. The height of foolishness is on the same level with the depths of desp;iir. People who think too much of themselves do not think enough. Trouble with knocking around the world is it knocks you around instead. They do not shake hands at ail in China, and not enough in America. The biggest things in life are the small things. Baseball fans blow almost as much as electric fans. Many a garden plot has ceased to be the land of promise. i __ Absence of winter makes the '■’eaxt grow fonder. It is hard to sing “Home. Sweet Home” in a rente>d house. Since the first four years is supposed to form a child’s character we can report there will be no wild man shortage. A Thought He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. —Prov. 10:4. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. —Carvantes.

• Tongue Tips Peter J. Peel, member of American Olympic committee; "There should be an international definition of the world amateur. We want to coin it before the next Olympic meeting.” • * • Manager Jack Hendricks, Cincinnati Reds: "College boys should finish their education before joining professional baseball. League teams should be forced to keep from meddling -ki a young man's career while he is in school. ♦ * * Mayor .James M. Curley, Boston; “We in every way seek to discourage commerce, trade and international intercourse. We set up all the features of war, non-intercourse, isolation, repulsion, scorn and insult, and, without firing a gun, we get all the evils of war and destruction.”

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1924

BOSTON IN OBSER VANCE OF ‘FOURTH’ Bean City Observes June 17 as Holiday—Bunker Hili Figures, Bv Timex Special OSTON, June 21. —Most Americans celebrate "The Fourth” U- on July 4. Not so Bostonians. Tht people of this city have already eelebratted their 1924 "Fourth ” They did so on Jure 17, otherwise known as “Bunker Hill day.” "Bunker Hill day” is strictly a Boston affair. On that day ail business is suspended, including even the publication of afternoon newspapers. Over in Lynn, less than fifteen miles away, or in near-by Waltham, business proceeds os usual. But in Boston, "Bunker Hill day” is the most important patriotic memorial day in the year. On June 17. 1775 the angered and outraged subjects of King George fired on the Britsh troops in what turned out to be the futile but famous battle of Bunker Hill. Actually the fighting occurred at Breed's Hill, now in the center of Charlestown, a part of Boston proper. Not on Bunker Hill It is on Breed's H.ll that the Bunker Hill Monument is located, and it is to Charlestown that all Boston emigrates on Bunker Hill day. Though the Bunker Hill monument is open to visitors every day of the year, and the privilege of climbing its 295-step winding stairway is always to be purchased for one dime, it i only on Bunker Hill day that the famous obelisk attracts more than a hundred or so visitors. But on June 17, from early morning until late in the afternoon, a steady stream of visitors, some of whom li\fe within a few hundred yards of Breed's Hill, file up the narrow, dark stairway. Just Like Fourth A isit to the Monument is only a small part of the day’s ceremony. The program arranged this year was in all respects similar to the Fourth of July program carried out in every city and town In the country. It’s a fine blow-out that Boston puts cn. But old residents sigh and say, “Yes. it's still quite a day, but before Volstead there was nothing that could compare with the c, lebration that old Charlestown was able to put on.” Nature Trailing arbutus, official flower of Massachusetts, has almost disappeared from the State. Exterminated by thoughtless people who pulled it up by the roots to possess it3 flower. Old Bill Vanderbilt’s youngest boy, George, who in the nineties established a mammoth farm and country place known as Biltmore, in North Carolina, planted thousands of acres with white pine seeds just twentyfour years ago. This forest now yields 5,000 cubic feet of timber per acre per year without decreasing the stand at all. Blight, which arrived on the Atlantic coast only a few years ago, is rapidly kiling off the chestnut trees of eastern United States. Chinese chestnut trees fight the blight successfully and United States forest service is planting lots of them. Family Fun It Hurts Pa. Too "I get a nickel every tjme I cry.” “I've got you beat. I get a spanking from my father every time I cry and his time is worth $lO an hour."—American Legion Weekly. Why Johnny Itaces “Johnny, don't run so fast around the house. You'll fall and hurt yourself.” “If I don't run so fast it'll hurt anyway, mother. Dad’s chasing me.” —Michigan Gargoyle. The Supreme Test "Darling, will you marry me?” "Have you seen mother?” "Yes, but I still love you."—Aggie Squib.