Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1924 — Page 4
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THAT DAWES ‘ 4 APPEAL ’’ HEY say Brig. Gen. “Hell Maria” Dawes, G. O. P. vice presidential candidate, appeals strongly to the farmers of the country. Being pretty close to the soil ourselves, we confess we are a trifle mystified. Is it that as president of a big bank in Chicago he may have a lot of “farm paper?” Can it be thai as author of “The Banking System of the United States’’ he shows the farmer how, if he works hard, puts his wife and children in the fields, eats sparingly and saves his money, he may possibly pay Cff the interest on the mortgage Or, maybe, they have doped it out that he can carry the Northwest by threatening to have the banks foreclose on those 600,000 mortgaged farms out there if the farmers don't vote for him next fall. But somehow nonfe of those explanations explains. Not to our own satisfaction, anyhow. They don't sound natural. We've looked into this thing pretty thoroughly, now, and the biggest claim we can find that Dawes has on the American farmer is his gift to them of a brand new cuss-word with which to vent their feelings. And. by golly, they sure need one. What they have are in tatters. True, “Hell Maria” is pitifully inadequate. It neither fills the mouth nor relieves the soul. It does not satisfy. But it’s SOMETHING. And farmers long ago learned not to expect too much. Particularly from politicians. Is THAT what they ’re banking on to win the farmer vote? OUR NAVY: BUTTERFLt OR BUMBLEBEE ? XT OW comes Representative Fred A. Britten of Illinois, ranking RepubPcan on the House Naval Affairs Committee. with the charge that our Navy is run by a “butterfly set” in Washington. All the cushy jobs in the gay capitals of the world, “special European assignments, Mediterranean cruises, command of the fleets and top-sidb Washington appointments,’’ he avers, “have been jealously parceled out to those in the butterfly set and to none others.” “This select ring, he charges, “has thoroughly dominated the Navy, taking to themselves (and to their friends) all the plums. s “And I might say.” he adds, “that this condition is none too happily received by the officers aboard ship, who ere on the outside looking in.” Some days ago this paper listed a long line of peace-time accidents in the Navy, accidents which snuffed out the lives of scores of officers and men and wrecked millions of dollars worth of taxpayers’ property. We asked why. “Me have heard reports of cliques inside the Navy,” we said, “a sort of naval hierarchy which discourages initiative and acts as a damper when everybody should be up on their toes and at ’em every minute of the time.” Has this anything to do with it, we asked ? Representative Britten's charges would tend to answer in the affirmative. Thus it is to be hoped that the promised glance and a routine report that everything’s O K., but will a real looksee with an eye to solving the whole problem of what’s the matter with the Navy. AVi efficient Navy is quite as much a matter of morale and discipline as it is of ships and guns. Our officers and men, by and large, are as fine a lot as ever graced the calling of the sea, and if there be some hidden canker eating at our navy’s vitals, sapping its morale and undermining its discipline, it must be heroically rooted out. We said the other day, and we repeat now, that “in point of peacetime safety and all-the-time discipline and morale, our Navy must be maintained at the super-pitch of efficiency which our Americn manhood is perfectly capable of keeping it.” What the people want, and what the people intend to have, is not a “butterfly” Navy, but a Navy of hornets and bumblebees—a Navy with a sting KIND OF a waspish ticket—cool at the head but warm at the tail. DO THE PLANS for making New York safe for the Democrats include protection against Wall Street? GENERAL DAWES probably realizes, ere this, that the “Maria” part of his favorite exclamation is superfluous. IT IS GOING to take much ingenuity to get up a party slogan with cool Coolidge at the head and red-hot Hellan Maria at the tail of the ticket. 1 IT IS SAID that Herbert Hoover holds more degrees than any other man in the country, but even at that he shows no signs of political fever. TW O ANNOUNCEMENTS that seem to have relation each to the other are, first, that Henry is making 360,000 of ’em a year, and, second, that we as a race are becoming more supple. v A MASSACHUSETTS court decides that a pedestrian is not obliged to jump from in front of automobiles. Good law, perhaps; and. also good-by, pedestrian.
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MRS. MINET MEETS ALL THE TRAINS Chairman of Reception Committee Makes Delegates Feel at Home, By HORTENSE SAUNDERS XEA Service Staff Writer rnEW YORJL June 24.—Here’s \ Theresa Quinn Minet, beamJ ing at yoy with her best Al-Sniith-for-President-smile. It was the official greeting to all arrivals to the Democratic convention. She digested dozens of time tables and boat schedules, and worked out a plan whereby she or one of her fifty-four assistants was on hand to meet and glad-hand every delegate and his wife as they step from the boat or train. , “Back in Main Street, you always
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meet the trains." she explained. "It gives one a comfortable feeling to be greeted after a long, tiresome journey and escorted to a hotel. "Too many people have the idea that New York is cold and heartless and that all neighborliness and hospitality have been crushed out of it. If we don't do anything else at this convention we’re going to show the rest of the country New Yorkers are not as hard hAt 1 <is they are alleged o be. * t "Were dispensing Main Street hospitality on a Fifth Ave. scale. Garden parties, breakfasts, receptions and teas ar ; presided over by women who have been hostesses at the White House, cabinet functions and the leading centers of Europe. "Viators who have been coming to New York year after year and who have found their pleasures limited to the theaters, cabarets and supper clubs now have the opportunity this time to get into New York’s most beautiful homes and in her exclusive clubs and meet the sort of people they know hack home." When she isn't absorbed in being chairman of the delegation committee. Mrs. Minet holds a responsible positon as manager of the women's department of a New York bank. In New York By STEVE HAXNAGAN Furnished apartments are going begging in New York during the summer months. With warm weather really here, those who can have rushed away to the resorts. They are willing, in many in stances to rent the apartments com pletely furnished for a sum actually less than the bare apartment renis. Exclusive hotels, catering to permanent guests, offer attractive rates until Oct. 1, when winter leases are made. He. was a grimy little urchin, joyously eating a tomato, as I walked into the sealless elevated cut. He beckoned for me to take his seat in most gentlemanly fashion. His boy friend paid the same respect to my companion. Then they each held out tiny hands for a token. After he had been given a dime, he talked. His name was .Joe something that I can’t even pronounce, to say nothing of spell. Each evening he creeps under the turnstile at the elevated station, rides the train until it becomes crowded, then sells his seat. Joe always has enough money to purchase his favorite tomatoes, ice cream sodas and to see motion pic ; tures —the reward for professional i courtesy. "What a business man he'll grow | up to be! * * An ambitious mid-town druggist offers an ice cream soda free with every lunch purchased in his est.ab lishmer.t between the hours of 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. The ice cream soda was the first outside influence to worm its way within the confines of the old-sash ioned apothecary shop. Now the free soda is the lure to sell other delicatessen dainties. A Thought As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful uron his bed.—Prov. 26:14. * * * That destructn e syren sloth is ever to be avoided. —Horace.
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The Phone Girl By HAL COCHRAN Did you ever try sitting ail day in one place and still try to beep up your nerve? It’s something that brings to your system a trace of the something that imakes patience swerve. The sittng, alone, ought to be quite enough -to make anybody go sour. But, think of the ’phone girl, whose duties are tough as she waits on us hour after hour. - A1 day there’s a b'tizzing, and little lights flick on Ahe board, and she dare not forsake it. Complaints rattle in; it’s no wonder she’s sick of the job, though she sits there to take It! In all' of your life have you ever heard tell of a person just perfect—now truly? If you listened all day to the telephone bell it’s a cinch that you’d too be unruly. Remember that ’phone girls are human like you, and they’ll answer to kindness, you’ll find. So the next time you’re buzzing a number or two let ttfht thought buzz around in your mind. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Tom Sims Says Coal dealers don’t make so much : money during the summer, but 1 they get their friends back. It is hard on a girl to marry a man whose mother was a good cook. Besides helping crops a good hard rain might keep our ball team from losing. The i>est way to argue with a woman is to go out on the porch alone and smoke a cigaret. Forecasts of this year’s peach crop indicate it will be i peach. These are the days the boss gets mad when he finds things went along nicely while he was off fishing. Poor brakes cause auto crashes. Bad breaks cause business crashes. Girls swimming in sane? earrings are liable to come up with a fish flopping on one. Now and then you hear of a stream being dragged for someone who didn’t ask if It was deep. The new safe and sane Fourth of July isn’t half as exciting as the old unsafe and insane Fourth. An optimist is a man who takes blankets to a summer resort. Bet being swapped for a nickel cigar makes a dime feel cheap. In coming to a fork in the road many young couples! consider it proper to use it for a spoon Family Fun Sherlock A small boy entered the chemist's shop and asked if he might use the phone. This is what the chemist j heard: “Is Mr. Jones there? . . . i “Mr. Jones, I hear you’re looking' for a boy to help in your shop and run errands. , . . You say you, already have a boy. Is he giving satisfaction? . . . He is. . . . i Thanks. Good-by." “Look here,” said the chemist,; “I need a boy to help me here. Are you looking for work?” “Oh. no!” said the boy. “I work! for Mr. Jones and I just wanted to find out if T could risk asking for a raise."—Argonaut. Robbing Dad “I certainly despise bobbed hair.” “Why?” “When anything got out of order at our house my wife used to fix it with a hairpin, but now we have to send out for a plumber.”—Youngstown Telegram. When Daughter Practices "I say, old man, is your daughter going to practice on the piano this afternoon?” “I believe so.” “Well, then, I’d like to borrow your lawnmower. I’ve got to cut the grass sometime, anyway.—Boston Transcript. t . Easily Mended “You have b-broken the p-promise you m-made me!’’ “Nev'r (hie) mind, 'dear; I’ll (hie); make you ’nuzzer one." —Chicago; News! Husband’s Bluff “So you let your husband carry a latch key?” “Oh, just to humor him. He likes to show it to his friends to let them see how he is—but it doesn’t fil the door!” —Passing Show.
PRESIDENT LOOKS INTO ACCUSATION Representative Britten Says ‘Butterfly Set’ Is in Control, Washington Bureau, 1.322 New York Ave. ASHINGTON, June 24.—EsVX/ forts to make the United L__J States Navy the “strongest afloat” will never succeed as long as the present system of promoting officers exists. That’s the opinion of Representative Prod A. Britten, member of the House Naval Affairs Committee and one of the stanchest supporters of a strong Navy in Congrtss. In a letter to President Coolidge Britten charged that a select ring in Washington of line officers have thoroughly dominated the Navy for the past five years and have assigned to themselves and their friends all of tlie military and social plums. | “The degeneration of the Navy j which comes to light almost suddeni ly upon us is largely the result of ] this system." Britten declared today. System Bad Britten says that the present “se- ! lection-up’’ system of promoting ofTl- | cers is just as bad as the old pluckj ing board, which was discarded nine ! years ago when Congress learned | that the board actually had resortjed to pulling straws to determine ! wh , h officers were to be promoted | and which placed on the retired list. T ip present system provides for a I board of nine rear admirals, who imo ■ about once or twice a year to decide on promotions j Britten charges that this beard is • comprised for the major part of ad- • minis of ihe so-called “butterfly ‘set" who make promotions ao- | cording to whether the officer is a i member of the select ring and on senior!* v “When Congress created the ‘pro-n.otion-up’ system it was with the a%peutation of creating ambition and incentive among the officers. Asa matter of fact the top-side fellows select their own group and seniority 1 rcvails in spile of ht.e law to the tontrary," Britten stated. Conditions Worse “Conditions have been growing worse for the past four or five years Men are moved about like . cr.e, kers without regard for special i fitness for asM’.-nments as long as | they belong to the select set,’’ Brit--1 ten declared Britten’s letter to President Cool- ; ilee followed promotion or June It of six captains to the rank of the ! re ir admiral. With the exception of two captains. who had been passed pre- | vioualy the s.x promotions are taken from the first ten captains on the fist and by a peculiar oircumsitam, .the four captains passed over are ; graduates of the War Collt ge while ! the mix self cied have never been to the War College,’ Britten stated in ills letter. Within forty eight hours after his promotion one of the new rear ad- ; mirals. TANARUS, J. Bonn, ran his battleship, the West Virginia, aground in XorJ folk channel. Seniority Rule Commenting on the board’s adherence to seniority in its recent promotions. Britten stated today that it was unreasonable to believe that of th-- 150 Captains nor in the first ten that there ware not some who wi re better officers than the six se looted. The Congressman declared that there will he a lack of proper morale among the officers of the Navy as long as the present conditions preval. "Without an incentive for promotion there can be no ambition and without ambition the Navy will cease to function as the outstanding first line defense of the Nation." Britten said. It has been officially stated, at the White House that President Coolidge will order an investigation into the charges. Science As science increases its range of knowledge it becomes more necessary for scientists to specialize rather than to attempt to know something of all branches. The science of chemistry is new. but already has made such progress that no one person can know what is known of chemistry. Chemistry that deals with earths, metals and ordinary elements is called inorganic chemistry. The branch that deals with the compound of carbons is called organic Chemistry. The branch that investigates living substances and substances derived from them is called biochemistry. In this latter field alone the substances that have not yet been investigated run into figures that make millions look small. Scientists must specialize in this field in order to know' even a small subdivision of the subject. Nature Deadliest plant that grow r s in the United States, and it is found from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is the cowbane or musquash root, sometimes called “wild parsnip.” Ear a piece the size of a plum and it will throw you into convulsions in a few' minutes, and unless heroic measures are taken at once, it’s good night for you. Cowbane grow's in w'et ground and both its roots and foliage are poisonous. • * * When you lift a rotten piece of bark you are most likely to see a very small bug—less than an eighth of an inch long—w'ith six legs, w’hich leaps about in lively fashion. It is the “spring tail." At the extremity of its body, but on the underside, Is a long forked affair, the end of w'hieh is fastened tight and snug by a sort of catch. When the bug decides to jump, it distends the forked rigamajig, the catch lets go and up the critter springs.
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BILL CITES RECORDS OF CANDIDATES Humorist Looks Over Field and Checks Up on Democrats, By WILL M. CRESSY, Illustrated by George Stormb. N r ““-“ EW YORK. June 24. —Got a lot of new entries in our Natlonal Democratic Swapk akes this morning. I did not know there were so many Democrats in America. But th, n l formed my opinion from the last presidential election. This morning, as adtL 1 Harters, we have- Four Governors. Dona hey , of Ohio (not Poheny, the oil philanjthropis t. Parker of Louisiana. Davis of Kansas (which u=ed to he prohibi- \ tion!. and Ritchie of Maryland (who ; will have a short walk if he loses). I Investigating Firm Then we also have Walsh gWheeler of Montana, the Investigating Brothers. Homer Cummings,
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who piloted Wilson to Victory, but will need a better pilot than Wilson ha-1. Carter Glass of Virginia, wi'h a name that would make it a mighty delicate job for him to throw out the present attorney general. STONE. John J. Davis, who was sentenced by Wilson to serve a term as Ambassadors to England, but was pardoned out by Harding. Pat Neff of Texas, who has got a ninety-mile boulevard down there named for him, so would have a good place to practice his “running.” hut might strike hard go ing before lie got to Washington Ralston of Indiana, whose record seems to be that he looks like Grover Cleveland. And —but what’s the use? As far as I can see, every Democrat in the country except Will Rogers and Andrew Jackson are on the list. Checks ’Em Up There are 110.000,000 folks in the United States, not counting Grover Cleveland Bergdol or the Japanese farmers in California. Say that half of them are males: that makes 55,000.000. Probably half of this number are white male American citizens ,of voting age: that leaves 27.500,000. And we will hope that half of these are Democrats—l3,7so,ooo. And out of this 13.750,000 there is going to be chosen at this convention JUST ONE MAN that we can vote for. I knew it! I knew somebody would spring it on me. I have heard it ever?' year since I was 12 years old. He was one of the New Hampshire delegates and he swore it was brandnew. “Yes, sir,” he said. “Little Timmie Googan comes to my wife the other day and asks her if she don’t want to buy a little Democratic kitten. “But,’ sez the wife, ‘these are the same kittens von tried to sell me a week ago for Republican kittens! ‘Ye.s,’ sez Timmie, ‘BUT THEY HAVE GOT THEIR EYES OPEN’ NOW!’ ” Tougli on Daughter "But, darling, don’t you want to marry a man who is economical?” “I suppose so: but it’s awful being engaged to one.”—Flamingo.
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CHILDREN STARVING IN PLENTY Copeland Says Farm Solution Must Guarantee Cheap Food, By HON. ROYAL S. COPELAND, U. S. Senator from New York. Mr - ~1 Y ff.--:al interest in the proper solution of the farm problem lies in the necessity for cheaper food and for a greater abundance of foodstuffs for the teeming millions of city dwellers in the Empire State, as well as in the other cities of our country. How many members of the Senate realize that thousands of American children go to bed hungry every night? Hew many of you know that . ■ that thousands of them are actually in need of medical attention because of conditions due to the lack of proper and adequate food?
500,000 in Square Mile In my city of New York is a square mile where live 500.000 persons. Just think of it; a half-million in one square mile! Nowhere else on earth—not in India or China, or the isles of the sea—is there anything like it. I can take you to thousands of houses in that square mile where twelve persons live in three rooms, where four sleep in the kitchen every night. In hundreds of those so-called homes they live in inside rooms, without light or outside air. V hile some live amid such conditions from choice, most of them are there from necessity. Poverty, paltry wage, and social injustice have reduced thousands of families to live in .places which animals would Use from. Not Much Difference Let me tell you about the child life of my city. Remember, too, the child life of New Y<prk does not differ from that of Chicago, and San Francisco, and Philadelphia, and Boston, and New Orleans, and St. Louis. It is the same in every city. While commissioner of health O'JJ New York City I ordered a to determine the effects of the deprivation of the necessary food upon the health of the children. The number of children examined was 19.H37. The laige percentage of nutritional disorders was starting. It showed the following: One- thousand two hundred and ninety-four children were found to be suffering from malnutrition. Nine hundred and ninety-three had anemia. Seven hut dred and eighty-five were under normal weight. Six hundred and eight had other disorders due to the lack of proper food. Three thousand six hundred and forty-eight were markedly undernourished. In short, 7.32S out of 19,037 children showed more or less evidence of the lack of proper anti adequate food. It makes n:, difference whether the number of undernourished children runs into the hundreds of thousands oi whether the number is only a few thousand, if there is any undernourishment in the city *of New New Yrrk or any ether American city due to lack of food, it is an evil which must be removed.