Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE. E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, Presidf-nt FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WiL A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. , Member of the Scripps-Howard 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 * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * * • PHONE—MA in 3500.

e BROADER CIVIC INTEREST mHE Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs t i already has been a useful organization for. the bettermeEA of civic affairs in Indianapolis, but its possibilities have not yet been reached. Some of these possibilities were pointed put bv Clarence E. Wier at a meeting of the College Avenue --Civic Association. Weir pointed out that the lack of continued general interest -/in civic work may be due to the narrow scope of questions ' considered. “A practical program for enlisting the attention of people generally in broader questions relating to civic government would be beneficial,” he said. “Those interested in civic prob- * lems could unite for a study and discussion of these problems -■and form united opinion. “While it is necessary to be anxious to have one’s neighborhood habited with desirable citizenry, to have one’s school building properly operated, to have alleys opened and streets paved, we neighborhood groups must open our minds to broad'|r issues” *- Nothing very much worth while ever was accomplished by a group working for the interests of a very limited area and not giving a thought to the entire community. Civic movements must he for the good of all the people. u Indianapolis has many problems. It has a school problem /of serious proportions. It has a transportation problem that must be solved. It has a traffic problem that has been made a plaything of every Tom. Dick and Harry who wanted to take a -hand. These things can not be solved by high-priced experts who make surveys. They can not be solved if neighborhoods work -independently. They can only be solved by those whose thoughts are broad enough to take in the entire community, by the north ,side and the south side and the east side and the west side working together. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH MAINE? rH"I OMETHING momentous has just happened in Portland, I Me.—something that will startle the modern world that is now filled with bobs and shaved necks where once such things .never were known or feared. Mrs. Julia Seaton was delivering a lecture on hair before a large and interested audience there. She came to a point in her “talk where it was necessary to have, for exemplification, a short-haired persons. Stepping blithely front, Mrs. Seaton sweetly asked if one of her hearers with bobbed hair would please be so kind as to come to her assistance on the stage? Deep silence. Then rubber-necking. Then peering there and everywhere throughout the hall. Then nervous rustline of silks and flutter of handkerchiefs. Then titters and giggles and falsetto laughter. Mrs. Seaton waited —and waited. No response. Again she asked for help, assuring her auditors that nl unpleasant experience would be the lot of the one who offered assistance. More giggles and more fluttering of silk. But no one stepped forward. There wasn't a bobbed head in the house! No, ma’am, there Avasn’t. A young man from outside —a mere man—had to be drafted by the lecturer in order that she might put her point over to the ladies. Good, old, stable Maine may grow excited and rambunctious Avhen it comes to politics, as the ancient campaign ditty records, but in the matter of fashioning ladies’ hair, it simply declines to “go hell-bent.” NOW THE big job will be to keep Charley Dawes cool with Coolidge.

THE CHIEF trouble with the political leaders seems to be that they are on their way, but know not whither. SHOWING THE benefit of having a native son in the presidential office, Vermont ’s maple sugar crop increased 21 per cent this year. IN THE Department of Commerce reports, golf halls are listed as “missiles,” but that isn’t what the players call ’em when they are lost. i “PUSSYFOOT” JOHNSON insists that reaction from thp evils of the bootleggers aids prohibition. Perhaps so. It is somewhat better to be day than dead. IT IS reported that a serum has been discovered that will destroy the taste for moonshine, which will surprise those who thought the latter, of itself, did all of that and more. A HUGE crack has been discovered in the neck of the sphinx, which is all right, for that is the place these silent fellows occasionally get it. ONE OREGON congressional candidate reports that this entire campaign expenditure was two cents for a postage stamp. Some way, he conveys the impression that he lacked enthusiasm or something.

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SON’S WORK CARRIED ON B Y DA WES Candidate Owns Hotel for ‘Down and Outers’ in Chicago. By GEORGE BRITT, NEA Service Writer. HICAGO, June 23.—For 15 cents a W. Madison St. hobo may get a bath, nightshirt, me fumigation of his clothes and a clean bed in the Rufus F. Dawes Hotel. Yet if Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, founder of the hotel, can be made to mention it at all, he refers to it only as an investment. The hotel is a memorial to the

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Generil’s only son, Rufus Fearing Dawes, who was drowned in 1012. while 21 years old. just before his senio • year at Princeton. No Preaching Rust. s Dawes, as a youngster, had gone to the poor districts of the west sid*- and given time an.l money in relieving want When he worked one summer vacation in an engineering camp in South f >akota he us -d a largo part of his earning to give baskets to the poor. In his spirit the hotel is carrying on. There is no offering of advice or preaching, simply clean, cheerful comfort. Patrons are treated as paying customers are in any other business. General Dawes also has built a similar Rufus Dawes Hotel for men in Boston, and the Mary Dawes Hotel, for women, named for his mother, in Chicago. Befriended ‘‘Roll Boy” One of'*he best examples of individual helpfulness is Francis .1, Kil- j kenny, now prosperous as an invest-1 ment broker on La Salle St. Thirty j years ago Kilkenny was a bell boy j and cloakroom attendant at the; Union League Club. Dawes noticed j him as an alert, honest, promising lad,- .and Kilkenny was attracted to the vigorous, friendly young club member. Dawes took Kilkenny oyer first to work In the McKinley-for-President headquarters in 1596. Then he took him to Washington when he was made comptroller of the currency as his confidential secretary. During the war Kilkenny was a ]iour->nant and aid to General Dawes. Later lie was assistant to the director of the budget. Kilkenny retails how Dawes as comptroller of the currency refused to approve the dismissal of an old G. A R. colonel from a messengership in the office, but instead gave personal aid to the old man's domestic needs. And he lelis of Dawes’ | Intercession* with the President for a Federal prisoner, proved later to have been falsely accused. Family Fun Hard Luck ‘‘You say your wife has received an anonymous letter Informing her of something you did before your marriage? Well, the best thing you can do is to confess.” “I know, but she won’t lot me read the letter, and I don't know what to confess.” —Pearson's Weekly. Willie Informs Teacher “No, children, smoking should never be indulged in. It. has an evil effect on the nerves. Explain why it is, William.” “AA'ell, a feller worries so much about gettin’ caught doin’ it.”— American Legion AVeekly. I Ma Crushes Pa “What a glorious spring morning! I could dare anything, face anything, on a day like this.” “Come on down to the milliner’s!" —Boston Transcript. Harmony for Daughter “You’re never going to marry Mr. Cashdown, are you? Why, he’s more than twice your age, dear.” “Ah, but he harmonizes so beautifully with the antique furniture auntie left me.”—Humorist. Mother's Bridge Party “You want me to play bridge with a bunch of women. Excuse me! I couldn’t take their money.” “Don’t worry! You won’t.”—Boston Transcript.

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On the Beach By HAL COCHRAN What do I care what the wild waves are saying, while joyfully washing the beach. I’m just a wave of humanity, playing, and looking at things out of reach. Lolling in sand, I’m away from the throng and I’m resting my weary ol’ frame. Suddenly nature comes skipping along and I willingly join in the game. Soft, cooling breezes are patting my face and the sun fights them off, shining down. Elements battle for rule of the place, as a cloud shades old Sol with a frown. Gladly I watch, as the world goes along, all the wonderful things I can see. The wonders of life I can eye for a song, but the world isn't looking at me. Just who I am makes no diff'rence, ’twould seem, but through loafing I’m forcefully taught that all of my bigness Is only a dream, and I’m not half as big as I thought. (Copyright. 1024. NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HA XXIGAN NEW YORK. June 23. —Bryan G. j Hughes, New York’s most fain, us practical joker, has stopped his public jesting. He is now president of a bank in Bronxvillo. Hughes' most notable joke was to take an old nag off a horse car run —in the days before electric street cars—graze him in pasture for a few weeks and then ented him In the fashionable horse show of the year at Madison Square Garden. The tiorse was entered as Puldakah—an orphan. Two liveried grooms stood at Puldakah's stall all the while. Flown s for she iior.se were constantly arriving. For a long time solemn judges considered awarding class prize to the old horse-car nag. Then chose another horse. After it was -all over Hughes'| prank became known. Puldaknh attracted more atten ! lion at the show than any other ' horse —for Hughes’ employes were : always creating a scerto about the j stall. During an exclusive cat show j Hughes entered an alley animal and when It took first, prize in the Mexican hairless cat class. It developed that Hughes had the cat secretly shaved each night. His pranks are without number. A few weeks ago at the beautiful Knollwood (/nun try Club a’ White Plains. N. Y., one of the oldest golf courses in the country, I saw Frarcis Ouimet and Jerry Trovers, both-former amateur champions, pitted against each other in a foursome. j The rrafty .Terry of old was no match for Ouimet. Ouimet and his partner won Jerry is badly off form and Ouimet, although almost on top of his game at driving, was woefully inae curate at putting. Both are in business now and do not play as often as in championship days. Tongue Tips Mrs Delia Davis, seeking divor Detroit: “John and I were hap. / until he made his first down payment on his car.” Foreign Minister Stresemann, Germany: “We must recoznize that we lost the war.” Bishop Thomas Nicholson, Methodist: "The liquor forces have never been so nearly whipped, completely whipped, as they are now.” Prof. Rudolf Elmer, Swedish visitor to America: “It is gratifying to a Swede to see how well hi" countrymen are doing here, but is sad to contemplate the worthy and incomprehensible man power that has been lost to Sweden forever." Glenn Frank, editor Century* Magazine: “We want our religious leaders to study theology, but we want them to use the results of their study to give them a point of view from which to talk to us about the problems of life.” A Thought Be sure your sin will find you out. —Num. 32:23. * * * Every .sin provokes its punishment.—A. Bronson Alcott.

RACE CRAZE ONE OF ILLS IN ENGLAND This Is Part of Reason Why People Don’t Work, Writer Says, By MILJON BRONNER, NEA Service Writer ONDON, June 23. —Members of the British Parliament are always asking what ails the country, why it doesn’t get more work done, and why more money is not saved, but always dodge facing the truth about one of their plagues —year-round racing. Our country, with 1i0.000.0n0 people, only has races a few weeks in the year. And at most of the tracks the parimutuel system of betting is in vogue. Great Britain, with only 45,000 peo pie, practically has racing all the time.. And with it an army of book- ! makers The. people are race-mad. i Newspapers get out early editions in the morning just to give the fit il entries and the betting prices. Tne tracks always draw huge crowds Why wouldn't they, when the king and the nobility are both race horse owners and assiduous race-goers? The hours of labor lost by the myri- : ads of men who go to the races are | incalculable. The money lost and | which goes to the maintenance of i an army of parasites in the betting business must be huge. /* * * f— -~i t"R own Lady Nancy Astor I is just about the angriest 1 little woman in fourteen countries .and all because an imagii native reporter let his typewriter batter out a good one—while it ; lasted. It seems that Queen Marie of Ru ■ mania was guest of the Asters at | Plymouth the other day. And one of the scribes said that in her desire to have the queen see something inI teresting. Lady Astor called not: “Oh Marie, come here quick!" The American viscountess was so disturbed about it that she sent a formal a- nial to the pi ess. Rut she could have saved herself the trouble. Everybody in England knew that was a thing she wouldn’t have .-aid. You -ret chummy with ! lords and cal! them by their Christian n& nes, hut never in the great, never, with royalties. And if there is one person who understands all the rules of the social game it is the brilliant daughter ; of Virginai. Tom Sims Says Swat the tiles now or the flies j will swat you later, ! Don’t make the mistake of looking for the silver lining of .t bubble. The mosquito,’ our most successful bathing suit censor, is with us 1 again. i I* is very easy to rise in your own i estimation. , The man who says he will try anything once may try it once too often. • '.Chile trying to impress others be ci reful that, you don't depress them, j It usually takes all day to dodge a morning’s work. A boy usually grows up to be a man while a man usually grows up to be a bov. Many people are afraid of railroad j edossings. \Ve need more such peo- j pie. In some way you always pay for j what you get, even if you don't al- j ways get what you pay for. Being a millionaire is a fine job | for summer, but it takes a lot of ; money. Two can live, on bread and cheese : and kisses, if they don't run out of , bread ai.d cheese. Beir g snowed under with work | doe. n' 1 : keep a man cool in hot weather. Quit wearing high collars and give your neck a. vacation this summer, j Mint is growing wild in the wAods j and the .julep is growing a little wilder, but neither grows as wild as the people. Nothing looks sadder these hot days than a fat man wondering how j j long before winter will be with us again. A porch swing may stand still and I still go a long ways toward landing a husband for a girl.

Science Science constantly shoves back the date of the dawn of civilization and the existence of man in his present form. One eminent scientist has said that there is reason to believe man has existed on the earth in his present form for 1,000,000 years. Evidence along the line of man’s great antiquity may be discovered by an expedition now investigating the great central desert of Asia. This region was once a country of great inland seas, rivers, forests and great beasts now extinct. Many mounds are to be investigated. One of these, in Gobi desert, already reveals a civilzation that date back to 8500 B. C. Buried cities are the objects of the search of scientists in this region and in the part of Mongolia where dinosaur eggs, perhaps millions of years old, have been found. This part of Mongolia is now known as a famous fossil country. It may be found that the region was once the home of a highly civilized people w’ho existed at the same time as many of the prehistoric animals. The Family Doctor O. K. “Are you sure that I shall recover? I have heard that doctors sometimes give wrong diagnoses and have treated patients for pneumonia who afterward died of typhoid fever.” “You’ve been woefully misinformed. If I treat a man for pnenmonia, he dies of pneumonia.”— Argonaut.

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PLOT GETS THICKER IN j CONVENTION Bill Cressy Frames Up Ship of State With Lead- | v ing Candidate, By WILL M CRESSY. i Illustrated by G> urge Storm W r "”‘l ell, the plot is thickening al! th ■ time Candidates are getJ ting !•■!••• numerous. Favorite Sons are springing up over nigh* Every delegation brings new j ones. j Mister Miekie-Doo still leads, bur j | a majority won’t do here as it did! 1 at Cleveland: here it takes two-thirds: and he has not got them—yet. "You ! know me-Al,” the ’ Smith-Family-j ■Robinson" of Manhat-tamnmnv is-' land, seems to be resting easier since <!< orge Washington Olvany, named i for a man who could not tell a lie, ! has been chosen as Tammany leader. George and Al have always been great friends and perhaps Al can

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persuade George to persuade Tam many to keep out of it. For as a backer of national sinners Tammany has not been a glaring success. Mister I'nderwood is still leaning back in the cushions with a "cat-and-canary’’ expression, as if he knew something that we didn't. And anything that has been "under-wood" as long as he ought to develop quite a kick. Then we have got a newcomer down in our State, Florida, a M ster William Bryan, who might be persuaded to leave the privacy of his Miami orange grove to become a political lemon again. Or he has an understudy, Professor Murphree, whom he is willing to offer as a sacrifice to the cause of Democracy, prohibition and nonevolution. Or he even offers a third choice, “Brother Charlie,’’ Lincoln's friend. (Lincoln, Neb., not Abraham.) We can also offer Dr. Copeland. And in these days of various epidemics it is well to have an M. D. with his pad of prescription blanks. Governor Sdzer of New Jersey is sizzling around the honey poc, too. And with the mayor of Jersey City to handle his campaign he ought to do real well —in Jersey City. Senator Edwards, also of New Jersey—(l did not know the State was big enough to hold two booms at the same time) —is also willing to listen to reason—if it is wet enough. I coaid fix Up a real good Ship of State out of that pile of material we have here. I should take my "HULL” from Tennesssee. My “GLASS” from Virginia. It should be a Side WHEELER, with DANIELS for captain. I know a dandy little BAKER out in Ohio we could get. And Doc COPELAND for the ship's doctor. UNDERWOOD typewriters. BRYAN for gas. and for wind. SOME ship.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question ol tact or information by writing to the. Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave, Washington D C . inclosing 2 cents in stamps tor reply. Medical, legal and ! marital advice cannot be (riven, nor ; can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a persona! reply. Unsigned requests ear...ot be answered. A 1 letters are conhdential.—Editor. When did Enoch (in the Bible) I die? i He never died, according to the Bible, but was ’ translated;’' that is. taken to some other plane of life without having experienced physical death. What is the best cleaner for paint and varnish? About two tablespoonfuls of strong ammonia to the pail of water. On what day of the week did May 26. 1875, come? Wednesday. Why is it pigeons do not light on fences, nr is this true? It is true that one of the traits of pigeons is that they do not light on fences or trees, but the trait has never been satisfactorily explained. What is the "Parimutuel” or “totalizer?” A betting machine with a number of receptacles. The backer places

■ his stake in the receptacle appropri- : ated to the horse he favors, and it !the end of the race the supporters j of the successful horse divide up all the money staked on the different horses, less 10 per cent, which goes to the owner of the machine. When and where was Tommy Ryan born? What is his weight? His height? j 'nontmy Ryan (Joseph Young Ryan) was born March 31, IS7O, at Redwood, N. Y. His height is 5 fer-t 7 \ inches and his weight is 154 pounds. How many daily newspapers are there in the United States? 2,421. What is meant by the Heel of Achilles? This refers to a vulnerable part. J It is an allusion to the story that ; when Thetis, mother of Achilles, i dipped him into the Styx to make j him Invulnerable, she held him by I the heel so that the water did not touch it. Therefore, his heel was the one spot on his body where he was vulnerable. How mucli coal will a bin 5 feet long, 5 feet wide and 40 inch3 deep contain? It will contain 93 1-3 cubic feet. Allowing 45 cubic feet to the short ton for egg-size bituminous coal, it ! will hold a little less than or.e and four-fifths tons. The bin for hard coal will hold approximately two and three-fifths short tons, allowing ! 38 cubic feet to the short ton. The i allowance for the number of cubic ; feet to the ton is likely to vary about 10 per cent, according to the coal. How are camelias propagated? By cuttings taken in August and grown in partial shade. How is the name La Follette pronounced? La Fol-lette with the accent on the ! “fol.”

MONDAY, JUNE 23. 1924

LA FOLLETTE CONVENTION MAY MOVE Hall in Cleveland Not Large Enough to Hold Meeting, By HARRY B. HUNT, NEA Service Writer. ASHINGTON, June 23. —The \/U first move of the La Follette T convention, called for Cleveland. July 4, promises to be a physical one. The demand for representation as delegates from this, that and the other organization qualified for representation is so heavy that the present outlook in the B. of L. E. auditorium, where the meetings were first scheduled, would he packed .o the doors with the delegates alone. There would be no room for “distinguished progressives.” attending in a personal, not a delegate, capacity. There would be no room for merely “interested" visitors, whom thp conference hopes to convert to active support of its candidate and platform. Newspapers Left Out Last, but not least, there would be no room for the newspaper and magazine representatives. And without these last there would be no adequate dissemination of the new of the event, on which to a great degree hangs the understanding of, and support for, the conference's conclusions. Wherefore, ten days before the conference was due to meet, a hurry-up call was sent out by Arthur Holder, secretary of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, under which the meeting is called, to find a larger hall. The Grays' armory, with double the seating capacity of the first auditorium, seem? now the likely choice. If that proves too small, there sril! remains the great public ball, which even the Republican convention failed to fill in its early sessions. Democrats “Figure. The next complication endangering the smooth progress of the conference is—the Democratic convention. It has been hoped that the Democrats would write their platform and name their candidates before the progressives assembled. That would simplify matters, not merely in respect to platform, hut also on candidates. Should the “impossible” happen, and McAdoo drag the Democratic nomination out of the New York arena, a great block of the delegates attending the Cleveland conference would at once lose their enthusiasm overman independent or third-party candidate. This would be true especially of the delegates representing the great railway brotherhoods and affiliated organizations. MeAdoo’s nomination would put before the Cleveland meeting a real predicament and a puzzling problem. Should the New York nomination, as is unlikely, be delayed until July 4 or later, excuse will be found for marking time at Cleveland until at least Monday, July 7. before taking up the issue of a candidate. Nature In 1918 there were 204 herds of milch cows in the United States that had been tested for tuberculosis and freed of any taint that might have existed. In 1924 there are 32,242 such herds. * V * British colonial office, desiring to learn all about the travels of the humbaek whale, has outfitted an expedition which will sail the seas and bombard every whale met with small barbed metal darts that will puncture its thick skin, bu*. give it no pain. Recovery of these darts from whales captured in other parts of the globe will furnish data for tracing their travels.