Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1924 — Page 4

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THE TELEPHONE SUIT F~| OLLOWING the example of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, the State of Indiana has appealed to the courts. It is asking that a receiver be appointed for the company and that its charter be dissolved on the ground that it has violated the corporation laws of the State. Attorney General U. S. Lesh and Prosecuting. Attorney William H. Remy are to be congratulated for their action. The public of Indiana is getting tired of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. The regulation of rates has been taken out of the hands of the public, but perhaps the people of Indiana still can efiforce their laws. Whether the company is a trust under the meaning of the laws is a matter for the courts to decide. But that the users of telephones are helpless so far as their relations,with the company are concerned is obvious. They can either pay the rates the company wishes to charge or they can do without telephones. The company certainly is a monopoly in most of the State, regardless of the question of whether it is an illegal trust. The complaint filed by the State officials sets out the already well-known fact that all but nine shares of the stock of the Indiana company are owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. It also charges that although the company has gone through the motions of complying with the law. which requires an Indiana'corporation be controlled by Indiana residents, the control really rests in persons who are non residents. W T e might add here by way of explanation that the Am?" ican company, owning virtually all the stock, receives the profits accruing from the business of the Indiana company. IX ADDITION, the American company receives I 1 /** per cent of the GROSS revenue of the Indiana company under the provisions of an existing contract. In other words, the higher the rates the more profit the American company makes, and in addition the 4y 2 per cent amounts to a proportionately larger sum. It is to be hoped that the attorney general and prosecuting attorney push their suit to the limit and that they put an end to such practices as those of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in Indiana.

STEALING BOB’S OIL THUNDER? Q' OME say the Department of Justice has stolen a lot of campaign thunder from Senator Bob La Follette in bringing Sherman law suits against fifty big oil companies. It hardly seems so. If the suits prove anything, they prove, first, that La Follette has about three times the speed of the whole Department of Justice, and, second, that La Follette’s remedies are considerably more to the point than Attorney General Stone’s. It was in June, 1922, that Senator La Follette secured the passage of a Senate resolution authorizing the committee on manufacturers, of which La Follette is and was chairman, to “investigate and report” on the oil industry. It was ten months later when Senator Bob smilingly came back with the bacon. There were two plump volumes of evidence covering 1,769 pages and a sixty-nine-page report telling what the oil people were doing to the public and suggesting what public officials could and should do to the oil people. When he made his report to the Senate, La Follette had dug up the patent-licensing device, which is the basis for Attorney General Stone’s suit, brought Wednesday xmder the Sherman law. La Follette had the contracts and licenses and agreement all printed in his report and his conclusions and suggestions were entirely clear. Having sat idle for a year and a half, the action now brought is hardly a fraction of what La Follette suggested doing. In the first place,.with respect tc all the Standard companies he believed he established a clear case of contempt of court for violation of the old Roosevelt dtyree. In the next place, he suggested grand jury action instead of the civil suit preferred by Attorney General Stone. Then he suggested government suits to void the gasoline patent and to control export of oil when needed here and to reduce freight and oil and oil products and to control pipe lines and so on and so on. * No, it cannot be said that Mr. Stone has stolen much of La Follette’s thunder, nor will the long-delayed oil suit do much more in a political way than to admit that the Daugherty regime in the Department of Justice was 'a scandal and a shame. Among Mr. Stone’s culprits is the Pure Oil Company, of Tice Presidential Candidate Dawes. The Gulf Oil Company, of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, is not among the defendants. Both of these great concerns figured prominently in La Follette ’s report two years ago. AGAIN MR. BRYAN wins the endurance test. Two national conventions in a little over a month and still as fresh as a daisy. THE MAN who said figures do not lie got his hunch in a tour of the bathing beaches. I MARS IS almost close enough to the earth to make old Bill Hohenzollern jealous. FRENCH GOVERNMENTS chguge anon, but their head-in messages to Germany never do. • ,

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NO WONDER CONFAB IS BALLED UP Will Cressy Lists Some Troubles of New York Convention, By WILL M. CRESSY, Illustrated by George Storm —J E’vV YORK, June 27.—Imthis VI year of our Lord 1924, when * the favorite campaign songs are ’The Sidewalks of New York,” “Rosie O’Grady” and “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here,” just to show the difference in styles, glance at this one, which was one of the songs which helped elect George Washington. (Or that he was elected in spite of.) “Should the tempest of war over-shadow our land. • Its bolts could ne’er rend Freedom's temple asunder: For, unmoved at its portals, would Washington stand And repulse with his breast the assaults of the thunder. His sword from the sleep of its scabbard would leap And conduct with its point every flash to the deep And ne er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls a wave.” Wouldn’t you just love to see A1 Smithy stand up on a platform and sing that, with gestures? If Roosevelt was “syntonic’;’ and Btyan refuses to give monkeys and sis hes a place bn his family tree; and Carter Glass has always had to be sick in bed or out of the country to be elected; and Henry Ford does not know yet whether he is a Democrat or a Republican; and Henry Cabot Lodge seems to be “A Txidgo in some vast wilderness;” and Ohauncey Depew and Joe Cannon could not go to the Republican convention: and our soldier boys are to get a nice bonus in twenty years; and there are 1,098 delegates to this convention; and 330 of them have not been told who to vote for; and 120 more have been instructed to vote for candidates who •cannot pbssibly be nominated; and the other 640 are divided up between McAdoo, Smith and Underwood; and it takes 732 votes to nominate—lS IT ANY WONDER THEY ARE ALL BALLED UP? Just under the heading of '‘Useless Information” I might state that a ]

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MR. FLOOD heads the Wet delegation from Philadelphia. History states that the island of Manhattan was bought from the Indians for three quarts of rum. If the Indians had saved it, and been here this week, they cofild have bought the island back again with it. Houdini, with his ability to open padlocks, could have made a fortune here this week. Not that it was not here, but it was harder to get, harder to drink, harder to pay for and harder to get over—if you did. And if they do not nominate somebody pretty soon 1 AM GOING HOME. Nature Just about this time you'll begin to notice that something has made perfect circular or oval or semicircular holes in the leaves of certain of your plants, especially roses. The pest responsible is not a common leaf-eating bug, but one of the species of wild bees. This bee builds a peculiar sort of nest in a tunnel which requires, first, an oval piece of leaf, then half a circle, and last a complete circle. You’ll notice that the holes are cut as true as if by a geometrical instrument. Mrs. Bee manages tho half-leaf by Liking the edge of the leaf as the diameter of the circle.

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Rienard Loeb, Chicago, one of the confessed slayers, of 14-year-old Robert Franks, can hope for no sympathy from his first cousin, Moritz J. Loeb. For Moritz is business manager of a Chicago communist newspaper that is crying for “justice” in the case. “Capitalistic justice is blind, yes, blind, to the crimes of the rich,” the paper says.

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In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, June 26.—What do novelists do in their off hours? Meredith Nicholson who has given the world thirty-seven novels is in New York. He did not come here to play golf, ride to hounds or bask in the afflorescence of the gilded hotels. He came here to play politics. And where, Mr. Nicholson is speaking, does one have the opportunity to study all emotions of mankind a3 in politics? Politics offers humanity at its best and worst. “You see,” he said, in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria, “that little fellow who wouldn’t weigh eighty pounds all wet with a rock in his hands He wears barrel cuffs and a celluloid collar. And well may he, for he controls 15,000 votes. He fairly staggers the imagination. Anywhere else save America he would be a peasant.” Mr. Nicholson believes there is more romance in politics than in big business. "What’s the fun of looking at a ticker when you can see screaming men, galloping up and down a convention hall in delirium? “America needs politics, but politics also needs Americans. We sneer at ward heelers and professional pick thanks but what do we do about it? “We—most of us—go out to the golf course and chase a little golf ball around.” So firm is Mr. Nicholson in his convictions that he, against his will, has been nominated for State Senator in his home county in Indiana and he’s going to run. If elected it requires a month a year of his time. And he has written a best seller in that time. Asa State Senator he receives $5 a day. • * * I know a barber who has been shaving a prominent New York doctor every morning at 7:30 o'clock for the past nine years. He never has missed a single morning. Each day the barber, a cultured Italian who speaks six languages fluently and who has the appearance of a nobleman, goes to the doctor’s apartment, bangs loudly at the door of his sleeping chamber. In a few moments the doctor is in a chair getting his morning shave. The physician relies impllcity on his barbering alarm clock.

Ask The Times Xou can get an answer to any quetioa oi tact or mlorniation by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., W.iahington. D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and marital ad Tiro cannot he given, nor can extended research ho undertaken. All other queations will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are coundeatiai.—Editor. On what day of the week did Aug. 19, 1897, come? Th ursday. What European discovered the Philippine Islands? Magellan In 1621. What is the salary of the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission? Twelve thousand dollars a year. How wide is tfie Mississippi near its source? At. New Orleans? About ten or twelve feet wide near Its source, and 2,600 feet wide at New Orleans. Is it true that there is a 25 per cent reduction on !”Come taxes for 1923, which rec ction is retroactive? Yes, those who hav already paid their full income tax will receive a 25 per cent refund. What became of Henrietta, youngest daughter c? Charles the First of England? Please give a short biography of her? Bom June 16, 1644, at Exeter, from whence she was removed to London in 1646 and with her governess. Lady Dalkeith, soon afterward conveyed to France. On the restoration, she came over to England with her mother, but returned to France in about six months and was married to Philip, Duke of Orleans, only brother of Louis XIV. In May, 1 1671, she came again to Dover on a mission of a political nature, it is supposed from the French king to hes mother, in which she was successful. She died suddenly soon after her return to France, not without suspicion of having been poisoned by her husband. What is a good recipe for canning crabs? Put five gallons of water in a large kettle, add % of a pound bicar bonate of soda (common baking soda>. When boiling rapidly, put In the live crabs and boil quickly for twenty minutes. Remove crabs and wash them in cold water. Pick out all meat, being careful not to include the shells in leg and claw joints. Wash the meat in a weak brine (one ounce salt dissolved in three quarts of water). Drain and pack in insidelacquered No. 1 fiat cans. Cap and exhaust eight minutes, tip, and process: No. 1 flat cans 45 minutes at 250 degrees Fahrenheit, or fifteen pounds of steam pressure. As soon as time of processing is up, let out the steam quickly, open the canner and plunge the cans immediately in cold water, as crab meat otherwise will become discolored. On this account, unless cooled Immediately after canning, glass jairs cannot be utilized for canning crab meat.

“ HARA-KIRI” is A rite AMONG JAPS Simms Tells How It Is Done by Those Who Wish to Be Emphatic, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS L ’ J HAT doqs it mean when a \jy Japanese commits suicide by I. Y 1 “hara-kiri?” What’s in his mind? What’s his idea? It may look absurdly futile to us, but not so to the people of Japan. “It is not a mere suicidal process,” says Inazo Nitobe, noted Imperial University professor, “but an institution, a ceremonial. An invention of the middle ages, it was a process by which warriors could apologize for their errors, redeem their friends or prove their sincerity.” Count Nogi, famous Japanese general, committed “hara-Tdri” in 1912 when Emperor Mutsuhito died just to prove his devotion to his Emperor. Follows Her Husband Thereupon Countess Nogi committed, not "hara-kiri” —for women do not practice this form of self-destruc-tion —but “jigai.” Tins is suicide by piercing the throat with a dagger. She did it to prove her devotion to her husband. In 1921, at the time of the dispute over whom and when Crown Prince Hirohito should wed, more than one subject of the Mikado performed "hari-kiri” before the palace walls in protest against the imperial family row then going on. It was a “sincere” way of saying, “Quit fussing! Get married!” I Just how is it done, this “harakiri,” or, as the better class of Japanese call it, “seppuku”? Act Described Mitford, in his “Tales of Old Japan,” gives a vivid description of an execution by the “hara-kiri” i method. In 1868 the foreigners of i Kobe were fired upon by the military and by way of making amends, the Mikado personally invited Taki Zenzaburo, who gave the order to fire, to remove himself. This the officer did, in a Buddhist temple at 10:30 o’clock one night In the presence of American. British and five other foreign legation attaches, in addition to the Japanese , officials. “In front of the high altar,” says Mitford, “where the floor, covered ■, i some three or four inches from the | ground, was laid a rug of scarlet j felt. Tall candles placed at regular j intervals gave out a dim mysterious j j light. “The seven Japanese took their' places on the left of the raised floor, j the seven foreigners to the right.” ! Stalw Self A moment later, in full regalia, the doomed man slowly entered, his ''second” —not his executioner- —at i his side. Midway between the two J lines of witnesses, he kneeled, sitting ! bolt upright on his heels. With ! great solemnity and much bowing, a ; pointed short sword, nine and a half ; inches long, was presented to him ! on a salver, by his “second.” This Taki reverently raised to his forehead in salute. Letting fall from bis shoulders bis cermonia! kimono or uniform, h:3 body was revealed nude to the waist. Deliberately then, without a sign of either pain or emotion on his face, he buried the sword in the left side of his stomach, dragged its razoredge horizontally across to the right side. then, turning the knife in the wound, thrust it upward. Leaning forward a Lit now—a Japanese gen- j tleman, thus dying, must never fall | backward—just as he was supposed j to do, his “second” took up a great ! sword and with a mighty swing, ered head from body, putting him out of his pain. Japanese literature glorifies ‘harakiri. ” Nitobe himself tells of three j young brothers, the youngest aged 7. who thus died together to expiate a family disgrace. Your Lot By HAL COCHRAN Father Time brings queer things in the life of a man and we all have our cheer-time find sorrow. The wise fellow does Just the best that | he can without knowing what’s coming tomorrow. We’ve all heard folks kick about: this and ’bout that and you, too, j have done plenty of stewing. You’ll fret till you hardly know where you ! are at. and the punch drops from! what you are doing. It seems It’s too easy to sit back : and fret while you park all your pep i on the shelf. And yet, it's the truth. | that wherever you get, it is pretty j much up to yourself. A sympathy strain in each fellow j Is found and it’s human, but isn’t, it, true that whenever you’re spreadin’ j such sympathy 'round you, too often,! feel sorry for you. You won’t need to worry ’bout I where you are getting or fret about j what labor brings, if you'll turn all ! the energy wasted in fretting to really accomplishing things. You may think your lot is a tough one, but then, just looking around vu assures that the lot of a whole Ifft of other men is a whole lot worse j than yours. (Copyrighth, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)!

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Tom Sims Says A June husband tells us she washed the ice and put the stuff out jin the sun to dry. Even hot weather has Its lesson. : If you don't want to go where it is . hotter start being good. Many a woman watches pork i chops on a hot stove while her husband watches the thermometer on the front porch. I Golf will not replace baseball until ! you get three strikes. Vacationists are taking to the tall ; and uncut hair. j A hero is a boy with enough | money to buy drinks for the crowd. Time it gets cool enough to go to j work it is time to go to bed. When you slap a man on the back ! and he kicks you in the eye you can j easily see he is sunburned. Night and day are both fairly good | for sleeping purposes, but the very best time is while the baby is asleep. Cantaloupes are fine if you can find a good one. Asa man doesn’t think so isn’t he. Science Mathematics crowds more and more to the front in schools and colleges all over the world. Today a working knowledge of calculation, including some algebra and geometry, is expected of all young persons who h ue any education. This is a great change over a few years ago. In fact, a knowledge of mathematics was considered vulgar, until recently, among the upper class shoolboys of England. At Harrow, one of Enbland’s aristocratic schools, fractions and Euclir} were not taught until 1829, while at Eton, mathematics were not compulsory until 1851. It was considered improper for a boy to study arithmetic unless he belonged to the artisan class. It was t.augbt, like shoemaking, only to those needing it in work.

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Family Fun He Did It “I tell you what,” the plumber exclaimed, “some of those old-time expressions are absolutely silly.” “What, for example?” “Well, how could a man 'Bite off his own nose to spite his face’?” “My Uncle Henry nearly did that once, but not intentionally.” “How did he do it?” “One night in his sleep he rolled over on his false teeth.” —Yi ngstown Telegram. Not On Dad’s Photo “Don't assume such a fierce expression. Look pleasant.” “Not on your life. My wife is going to send one of these pictures to her mother, and if I look pleasant she'll come down on a visit.”—Philadelphia Record. A Thought Faith, without works, is dead. — Jas. 2:20. * * * Faith is the continuation of reason.—William Adams.

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Tongue Tips Charles G. t>awes, vice presidential candidate: “The world and this country needs leadership fearless enough to fight for an unpopular truth.’’ Peter Peel, American Olympio committeeman, Chicago; “Golf has saved American manhood. Os that I am convinced. Without it there might be a general nervous breakdown.” The Rev. J. H. Franklin, New York: “In the world at large, race prejudice finds chief expression in our treatment of the oriental and the Jew, while Christ was both orienetal and Jew.” W. E. Brigham, Washington correspondent: “The most powerful man in American politics today is Robert M. La Follette, and he coujd not add to his power by going out and getting licked.” Very Rev. Warren L. Rogers. Episcopal, Detroit: “You may have your moral codes, your social codes, but to complete these you must have a * spiritual code.”