Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE. E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President EELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. ' Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client .-or 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 Pi blishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

JUDGE HAY’S DECISION F r “— INALLY we have a case in which regulation of public utilities by the courts has worked to the public good. This was the case of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company against the public service commission in which Superior Judge Linn D. Hay refused an injunction to prevent the commission from enforcing lower rates for the transportation of coal in intra-state traffic. This case, however, was not based on the theory that the property of the company was being confiscated as a result of low rates, as was the recent Indiana Bell Telephone case in Federal Court, but it was taken through the regular channels as provided by Indiana law. In view of the recent action of Judge Page of the Federal Court in allowing the telephone company to fix any rate it pleased and the immediate action of the company in taking advantage of the situation and increasing rates, some of the remarks of Judge Hay in the Baltimore & Ohio case are interesting. • “At this time the trend of rate making is downward in conformity with things in general,” the court declares. Things in general evidently do not include the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, which has been a beneficiary of numerous increases which the public has been forced to pay or to do without telephone communication. Judge Hay all through his opinion points to the fact that conditions are returning to normal and that the trend of prices is downward. This is indeed a refreshing point of view. We recommend the appointment of Judge Hay to the Federal utility rate making bench.

THE PLATFORM |R. BRYAN says the platform is the best ever written. ___ Whether it is or not, it is the longest. There is a reason both for its quality and. quantity. Its quality is high, for it is the work of the most skillful group of platform smiths ever gathered. Its quantity is great, because whenever the skilled workmen couldn’t agree on a plank they put in a stump speech. So they agreed on everything except the league and the Klan. Here even the stump speech method failed in the committee, hut it is worth noticing that the delegates themselves in each case accepted the stump speech and rejected the plank. The platform is really wonderful in the passages where it rips the quivering hide off the elephant and nails it on the garage door with white hot nails. The influence of the industrial development of the South is noticeable because more clearly than in any former platform it is recognized that the farmer and the laborer are fellow passengers in the same boat. That thought repeated in various forms is the most progressive thing in the document. It is recognized that tariff extortion, railroad discrimination, tax injustices and financial juggling are all aimed to take from the farmer and laborer as much as possible—through powerful combinations of employers, bankers, transportation corporations and buyers—and to give them back as little as possible through a high cost of living manipulated by trusts and combinations. All that is set out in the platform. In some cases, specific pledges to cure are made, in other cases, a straddle takes the place of a pledge. The Klan tempest ended in a pussy foot. The league contest ended in a beautiful lip service to Woodrow Wilson and a cold and cynical repudiation of his tea''.mgs. It is difficult to see how Newton Baker and his devoted band can stand on such a plank. Y hen it comes to the big issue—whether business or human beings are the chief concern of government—the Democrats did not accept the challenge of the Republicans. This issue was presented in the case of child labor, merchant marine, Muscle shoals, transportation rates and railroad labor, conservation and reclamation, and in each case the platform dodged the question. It wouldn’t say whether, if private monopoly became incurable and intolerable, public ownership or operation should intervene. So while it denounces the gift of Teapot Dome to Sinclair, it winks at giving Muscle Shoals to Ford. When it comes to subjects like Asiatic immigration the platform is as bold as forty lions. The party says it isn’t afraid of a Chinaman and it says it with a blunderbus. It says it isn’t afraid of a Klucker, but it says it with flowers. However, the platform is a wonderful bit of work. The Bowery and Butte, Boston and Birmingham, can spread their blankets together and sleep in peace. Its authors, wise and skilled, tried to hold together in a compact party, a whirling mass of discordant elements, just at the moment that they were further inflamed by a religious row. In accomplishing this, the platform could not accept the Cleveland challenge of the Republicans. So many compromises led inevitably to the middle of the road. That leaves a perfectly good progressive side of the road open for traffic—all paved, lighted and everything. FIRST THING, Harry Thaw goes purring around one of those beautiful New York widows. He has a chance at love’s young sweet dream yet, if the asylum doesn’t get him again.

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U. S. TO USE NEW TYPE OF ENGINE Shipping Board Boats Will Be * Equipped With Diesel Motors, By LARRY BOARDMAN NEA Service Writer “3 ASHINGTON, June 30.—Die\X/ sel-equipped ships plying over JUJ regular routes, are going to help the United States shipping board win its light for supremacy of the seas. Twelve ships, lying idle now, but whose hulls are in perfect condition, are being fitted out with these engines, the last word in marine power. The hulls selected are of three sizes—B.Boo tons, like the Kayseeka; 9.400 1 tons like the Betsy Bell, and 12,000 tons like the William Penn, the last of which already has been so converted. Within a few years this Diesel fleet is to be augmented to sixty ships, aggregating approximately 600,000 tons. Fuel Savers When completed they will be used for long cargo hauls—ln the Australian, oriental and ’round-the-world trade. “Diesel engines are particularly suited for this type of work,” says T. V. O'Connor, shipping board chairman. “They maintain an average service speed of about 11 knots an hour when fully loaded—not particularly fast, but all that is required. “Their principal advantage is in low fuel consumption, low operation cost and that they can carry enough fuel to carry them around the world. They are practically Independent of re-fueling stations—an important item in a long haul. “Another point in their favor la they are exceptionally "dependable, running on their schedules like clockwork.” A Diesel engine operates on much the same principle as a gasoline motor. with the difference that it has no spark plugs. Instead of gas, it uses a fuel oil which “explodes"—

THE FREIGHTER KAYSEEKA SOON TO BE "EQUIPPED WITH DIESEL ENGINES.

or, to speak technically, ignites and burns rapidly—under compression. Will Ite Sold I.Ater The Diesel engines in the Shipping Board fleet will be used to drive electric generators. The generators will silpply current for electric motors which, in turn, will drive the propellers. After equipping and putting its Diesel fleet into service, the Shipping Board contemplates selling the ships to private interests. In the meantime it plans to build up America's foreign trade —and net considerable profit doing it. Science The ultra-microscope, the latest invention for studying the invisible, has opened an entirely new world of almost unbelievable smallness. Before the discovery of the simple microscope the smallest object that could be seen was a point one twohundredth part of an inch in diameter. The earliest microscopes soon revealed small animals and plants like vinegar eels and algae. Later, the compound microscopes rqvealed the world of bacteria, some of which must be magnified 1,200 diameters In order to make them visible. The ultra-microscope opens a field in which are tfie germs of some of the deadliest diseases, including smallpox, scarlet fever, the foot and mouth disease cf cattle and the mosaic disease of plants, especially tobacco. There is still another great world between these minute organisms and the molecules. What this space is inhabited by we shall not know until still more powerful Instruments are Invented.

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In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, June 30.—“ Never ride in an automobile driven by a heavy, middle-aged chauffeur,” advises Forrest M. Halsey, movie scenario writer who fashions continuity for stories filmed by Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. “Always pick the slender, youthful pilot for the most comfortable, speedy though safe and pleasant journey.” Halsey has made a lengthy investigation through daily use of taxicabs. We tested his psychology yesterday. I picked three heavy-set, mid-dle-aged drivers. He chose youthful drivers of lean proportions. We made the rides together. Halsey won. Wearing a pair of new broque shoes, I called at the apartment of a friend of mine the other evening. Opening the door, he spied the new shoes, of which I was quite proud and said, “Take off your rubbers and come in." The added stitching to the sturdy black shoes does create the impression of synthetic arctics to the close observer. I haven’t worn the shoes since. But I’ll wear them on rainy days from now on. A classic head was printed in a morning p%per here over the wellcirculated story of Frank Tinney, famous comedian, and Imogene Wilson, show girl beauty, and their recent misunderstanding. It read, “She wouldn't do what I asked her to, so I socked her in the jaw.” In the rush of things in Manhattan the poor old horse is almost forgot ten. All his convenient and elaborate drinking fountains of days gone by have been removed. Along Eighth Ave. the city provides a man at various fire hydrants to draw water for the animals. Team sters fill palls and water their horses. It is like an oasis in a desert of commotion. A Thougnt A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadfth a net for his feet.— Prov. 29:5. The lie that flatters I abhor the most. —Covrper.

Ask The Times You can sel an answer to any quesUon of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis T.m*'s Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advices cannot bo given, nor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What were the Cities of Refuge? Six of the forty-eight cities, given to Levi in the division of Canaan, were set aside by the law of Mose3 as places of refuge for the man slayer or accidental homicide. The names of these cities were Kedesh, Shechem, Hebron (one the west side of' Jordan). Bezer, Ramoth-Gileatl and Golan (on the east side of Jotdan). What is a claymore? Formerly the large two-handed, double-edged sword of the Scotch Highlanders: now a basket-hllted, double-edged broadsword. "What Is the laughing jackass? A bird found in Australia; it Is of the kingfisher family. Why did the Egyptians hold the Ibis as a sacred bird? No doubt because It appeared in Egypt with the rise of the Nile. What is a tuckahoe? A queer vegetable found in the southern seaboard States of the United States. It grows underground, somewhat like the European truffle. It Is referred to as a genus of spurious fungi, but probably, is a peculiar condition of some root, though it is not definitely known of what plant. What valuable antiseptic is made from seaweeds? lodine is made from kelp, which is obtained by burning seaweeds. A ton of kelp yields eight pounds of iodine.

A reader of this column asks for a list showing the measurements of Annette Kellerman and other so-called "perfect women." A one-page mimeographed bulletin containing these will be sent to any other reader interested, on request to our Washington Bureau, enclosing a tw'o-cent postage stamp for reply.

Jljilow did the Egyptians make paper out of papyrus? This plant is aquatic. It was prepared for use in writing by taking long strips, carefully separated from the stem longitudinally, laid side by side, and then covered transversely by shorter strips, the whole being caused to adhere together by th# use of w r ater and probably some gummy matter. Who founded the ! French Legion of Honor? Instituted by Napoleon I, while consul, May 19, 1802, and inaugurated July 14, 1804. Where did the bungalow style of architecture originate? In India. What were McKinley’s dying \*mrds? "God’s will, not our will, be done.”

STORY OF OIL SUITS IS GIVEN Action Follows Sixteen Months After Senate Committee Report, Times Washington Bureau, 1822 Hew York Ave. fTy/] ASHINGTON, June 30. i yy When Attorney General Stone brought suit against the Standard Oil Cos. and some forty others at Chicago to break an alleged gasoline monopoly, the action came sixteen months after Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and members of a special Senate committee had recommended to Congress that it be taken immediately. The Attorney General charges that although there are no valid patents covering the basic features of the process, the Standard Oil Companies of Indiana and New Jersey, the Standard Development Cos., Texas Cos. and Gasoline Products Cos., are seeking to extort huge sums from other manufacturers of gasoline in the guise of royalties, and by means of license agreements to monopolize interests and foreign commerce. license System The other defendants, classified as secondary' defendants, are charged by Stone with sharing in keeping up the price of gasoline by accepting licenses from the above named primary defendants. Important as the suits are to every auto owner or other user of gasoline in the country, nevertheless t aey repj resent about one-eighth the emedies La Follette suggested nearly a year and a half ago. Back in June, 1922, La Follette became convinced that price gouging existed in the gasoline Industry and that even worse conditions would follow if the Government did not take some steps to prevent independent dealers from being crushed under •he heel of a monopolistic combine, j Resolution Adopted He succeeded in pushing through 1 Congress a resolution authorizing | the committee on manufacture, of

which he is chairman, to make a thorough investigation of the industry. Whereupon, with Senators McNary of Oregon, Brookhart of lowa, Smith of South Carolina, and Jones of New Mexico, he spent some four months examining scores of oil officials and other witnesses. Then La Follette prepared his report. “The dominating fact in the oil industry today Is its complete control by the Standard companies. Any discussion which does not frankly recognize this control can only be misleading," the report began. ( barges Against Standard He charged that. Standard Oil today fixes the price which the pro- | ducer of crude oil receives at the well, the price which the refiner receives for his gasoline and kerosene and, what Is more vital, even the retail price to be paid by the consurnef. La Follette's revelations came as a shock to the great mass of citizens who had supposed the Standard trust had been broken by the dissolution decree of the United States Supreme Court in 1911. Eight remedies were suggested In the sixty-nine-page report for breaking the alleged combine and preventing gasoline prices soaring beyond the reach of the average citizen once all the independent companies were crushed. The most significant of these recommendations were: That attempts at price manipulation should be made the basis of Federal grand jury action in every State where such prices prevailed. That the Department of Justice should immediately institute a rigid investigation into all claims for basic patents on pressure still processes and to institute suits. And that pipe lines must be made real common carriers.

Tongue Tips Dr. W. H. P. Faunce, Brown University: "Because of the World War the worjd became a welter of prejudice and ill-feeling that the women who are going out of colleges must combat.” * • The Rev. J. Frank Norris, the "Texas Bearcat”: “If we have no infallible Bible, then we have no infallible Christ.” * * * The Rev. Earl Blackman, Kansas City: “Most of ‘ihe trouble with children results from ignorance of tl?e parents or their lack of courage to meet the truth.” * * • Justice Benedict, Brooklyn: "There is far too much time spent in the detection of the misdeeds of the ordinary offender against ordinances and regulations which involve no moral wrong, and too little time devoted to catching and punishing criminals possessed of influence and wealth.” • • • Dr. Henry Van Dyke, writer: “The stone forest of Arizona will never decay, but it in no place for a man to sea up, his tents forever.” Between Girl Chums “He kissed me five times before I could stop him.” “He always does.”—Judge.

BILL CRESS Y NAMES IT MAD GARDEN Madison Square is Too Long / and Not Descriptive, He Says, By WILL M. CRESSY Illustrated by George Storm . EW YORK. June 30. —As long* jN as we had have a oonvention I don’t know but this was the liest place to hold It. Only they might as Well have taken the “ison" off the name and called it the “Mad” Square Garden. I suppose some folks would think the "Square" is superfluous, too. “Mad Garden” might not be such a bad idea at that. I can understand these DelicateDelegates and Delegates-at-Loose and Alternating-Alternates coming here, because they've got business. But Imagine folks paying one hundred dollars for a seat. It is a good show and all that, but a hundred | bones! Think of all the good shows j a fellow could see for that money. As far as ! can see, the duties j of a delegate are to just sit around and wait. Each one must have a list of the candidates he is to holler for;

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and then the minute any of them are mentioned he is to jump and shout and yell and wave a banner and join his fellow-patriots in marching around the hall. One of them asked me the other day if it was true that McAdoo dug the tunnel under the North River all alone. I guess the name “Smith” has never been so popular in the conntry before. Generally anybody by the name of Smith sort of apologizes for it. But here, if you saw a man acting sort of haughty and stuck up, you could make up your mind his name was Smith. There are lots of Democrats who only know the names of two j Democrats —Andrew Jackson and Bill Bryan. And they do not know that either one of them is dead. New York certainly has done herself proud. I have never seen morg attention paid to decorating and lighting. (This lighting up even extending to some of the delegates.) The hotels and restaurants have not raised the ante so very much. They did not have to. They had never come down. V I never could understand why a man wanted to be a President. Just imagine a man voluntarily taking the job of worrying for a hundred million people. Voluntarily putting himself up as a mark for a hundred million people to throw rocks at. I am the unofficial “mayor” of a summer settlement of five hundred souls, and a dozen or so without souls, and, lain a nervous wreck by the first of August. Some years I am lucky to keep out of Jail. And here are these fellows trying to get a job two hundred thousand times worse. Fire losses increase. Insurance rates may go up again. All this in spite of celluloid collars going out. A complete set of silverware, with no spoons or anything missing, has never been on a picnic.

The Argosy

Tom Sims Says The smallest things on earth may be the parts of an atom, but the too smallest things are electric fans. A summer resort is a place where everboJy is from somewhere. The June husband tells us no would like to see a comb without any hair in it just once more. We haven't been to the movies this week yet. so all the stars we know are old ones. When two live as cheaply as one they do It much more quietly. Now is about time to begin bad habits to swear off next New Year. If at first you don't succeed, fan, fan again. Some of our farmers are becoming so well educated they can't tell when it is going to rain. The common or garden variety of people are growing more popular. We like winter better than summer because flies don't. Loud bathing suits keep the men from going to sleep. Some write long letters home about the fun they are having, while those having the fun have no time to write. People who know an aviator alfays grab the paper to see if he the one who fell.

The Huckster By HAL COCHRAN What, ho! 'Tis the call of the huckstering man that is floating around on the air. A fellow of ruddiness. sun-kissed and tan -who is driving a lazy-like mare. He plods down your street and he shouts in a voice that will echo from valley and dell. You rush to his wagon and pick out your choice of the things that he’s trying to sell. There's radishes, onions and fruits of all sorts and he keeps them on open display. Perhaps he's the fellow who really retorts, “Yes, I hat'e no bananas today.” His wagon is loaded, when first he starts out, with the farm things, as fresh as can be. And then, very shortly, we all hear him shout so he’ll sell them to you and to me. Which all should remind us to issue our thanks to the loud-shouting huckstering man. For he is the fellow on whom mother banks when she’s looking for good things to can. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc ) Family Fun Coming Down, Anyway Among those in town who have balked at vaccination is an elevator conductor, the very person, above | all others, who never knows what |he is coming down with.—Detroit j News. Her Father's Voice "What are you two doing down j there?” “We're going to play "Sweet fKisses” on the Victrola, papa.” “Would you just as soon play it on j the davenport? I’m afraid two would be pretty heavy on the Victrola.”—Film Fun. By the Family Doctor “What is the first thing you would do if a patient of yours were blown into the air by an explosion?” “Wait for him to come down.”— Szczutek.

MONDAY, JUNE 30. 1924

OLD IMAGE OF CHRIST IS FOUND Picture on Cup Shows Him | Without Beard —Sculptor May Have Seen Him. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ASHINGTON, June 30.—1 Yy have just examined what “LTllustration," France’s most i carefully edited weekly, calls “the ■ oldest image of Christ.” It is on the side of Sacramental ] Cup which, experts declare, dates from the time of Christ himself and it is believed that the artist who chiseled it might very well have seen the Savior, face to face. It seems that in 1910, a party cf Arabs, foraging in an excavation at ! Antioch, on the Orontes some 300 miles north of Jerusalem, came upon a silver chalice, or sacred cup, some eight inches tall, by about five inches wide. This chalice ultimately found its way to America where it was studied by experts—among others Dr. G. A. Eisen. of the Academy of Sciences of California and Arthur Bernard Cook, lecturer on archeological subjects at Cambridge University. Hidden in Vault “The great chalice of Antioch,” as the famous relic is now known, appears to have been hidden in the subterranean vaults of the basilica of the Assyrian capital, perhaps by Constantine himself. In the fourth lentury, to keep it from being carried off by plundering invaders. It is fairly well determined that the chalice, even then, was regarded as one of the oldest and most sacred of the Christian church. The chalice bears the images of Peter, Paul, John, Mark, Matthew and other Biblical subjects, in addition to the central figure of Christ Himself. An oddity is the portrait showing Christ without a beard, though it is obviously intended to represent Him as an adult. Dr. Eisen, after years of study, says LTllustration, is certain of at least two things: Contemporary of Christ One is that the cup was sculptured by an artist, himself a contemporary of Christ, and the other is that the image of Christ, as represented oa the chalice, is as Christ -was coa* ceived in His day by His followers, many of whom must have seen Him. The French journal takes the studied view that this image of Christ represents the oldest thus far known, while as to its being different from the commonly-accepted likenesses. L'Ulustration’s critic is inclined to consider that an unimportant detail. The paper points out that St. Augustine, writing of Christ in 397 A. D., in his “Confessions.” said: “The image of Christ as we conceive Him to have been in the flesh, is created and modified by innumerable impressions. Precisely how he looked is not definitely known.” No authentic description by one known to have seen Him apparently exists today. So the image on the sacred chalice of Antioch is regarded as having very distinct claims to authenticity

Nature There are lOO'speeies of the maple tree and North America has nearly all of them. Only a few species are sugar maples. The Germans call the pansy “steif-mutterchen,” stepmother. Examine pansy blossom and in the center you’ll see large, finely decorated petals—stepma’s beautiful dress. On either sid9 of her are fancy petals—handsome dresses for her own daughters. On the outside tare plain petals—stepdaughters dresses! We’re taught in school there are five great lakes—Superior, Huron, Michigan. Erie and Ontario. There i is actually a sixth—Lake Nipigon. It] isconnected by river with Superior! thirty-five miles away. Nipigon, the! most beautiful of the six, is nearly! seventy-five miles long and forty! five broad. 1 ©