Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1924 — Page 4

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THE THROWING OF BOB’S HAT mHE PROGRESSIVE conference at Cleveland started off with a reading of that most radical of all American State papers, the Declaration of Independence. That was the paper in which our fathers said that whenever a government fails to protect the life and liberty of all its citizens equally and promote the happiness of all, equally, “it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new governments.” The declaration recited the wrongs suffered at the hands of King George. Those were failure to enact laws for the protection of the people: Obstructing justice and law enforcement. unjust taxation, interference with foreign and domestic trade and •general perversion of government into a cruel master instead of a faithful servant of the people. Then Senator La Follette ? s address to the convention was read. La Follette sketched the political history of the country the last thirty years and his recitation of the wrongs sounded strangely like the recitation in the Declaration of Independence. He holds that while there are many issues all are the children of a single underlying fault. That is that the Government has been taken from the people and is under control of selfish intersets who operate it as an adjunct of big business. “To break the power of private monopoly over the political and economy life of the American people is the one paramount -Jssue of the 1924 campaign,’’ he said, and continued l “The supreme issue is not rad road control. It is not the tariff, banking or taxation. These and other questions are but manifestations of one great struggle. “The supreme issue, involving all others is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of many. This great power has come between the people and their Government. We must, with statesmanship and construction legislation, meet these problems, or we shall pass them on, with all the possibilities of all violent conflict and chaos, to our children. “Democracy cannot live side by side in any country with control of government by private monopoly. We must choose on the one hand between representar've Government, with its guarantee of peace, liberty and economic freedom and prosperity for all the people, and on the other war, tyranny and the ; impoverishment of the many for the enrichment of the favored few. “Upon this issue. I eru ready to enlist with you to wage unceasing warfare until the American people have been restored *to the full enjoymeit of their political and economic rights. “Every great political advance in America has come from the efforts of f Te common people of this country. It was upon them and ne. upon the privileged classes of society, that Jefferson, Jackin and Lincoln relied. “We shall be falsely accused of advocating radical and destructive policies even while we alone are fighting for the old upon which this Government achieved its greatness. “Popular Government cannot long endure in this country without an aggressively progressive party,” said the Senator, but be went on to say that this was no time to attempt to start anew political party. He holds that political parties are born after and not before national campaigns, and they have come from the people not from the proclamations of individual leaders. If the hour is at hand for the birth of anew political party, he said, the American people next November will register their will and their united purpose by a vote of such magnitude that anew political party will be inevitable, if the people in this campaign repudiate the presidential candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties, as in the providence of God I trust and believe they will—we shall witness the birth of anew party and the beginning of anew era in the life of the people. “I shall submit my name as an independent progressive candidate for President, together with the names of duly qualified candidates for electors for filing on the ballots in every State in the Lnion. My appeal will be addressed to every class of the people and to every section of the country. “I am a candidate upon the basis of my public record as a member of the House of Representatives, as Governor of Wisconsin and as member of the United States Senate.” Saying that it is time the Wisconsin platform is a declaration of program and principles, he went on to sav : “In the course of campaign I shall give frank expression to my views on every political issue of recognized importance. The people have a right to know the position of every candidate upon the questions which are of vital moment to them. I have never avoided or evaded issues. I shall not do so now.” And so La Follette’s hat is in the ring.

COST OF LIVING mHE cost of living is 21 per cent lower than it was at its peak in July, 1920. But it’s still over 61 per cent higher than when the war started in 1914. So reports national industrial conference board. Its figures are for a family of five, averaging the whole country. Many will diagree. Most of us think it costs twice as much to live as it used to, or more. But this is undeniable. Cost of living is gradually going down. The dollar saved now will have a bigger buying power later. REPORTS say there are more flies this season than usual, which comes of leaving the swatting so largely to Babe Ruth. OVER IN PARIS the women are showing their ears, the brazen huzzies.

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ONE MORE ALIBI HITS THE ROCKS Members of This Lodge Go to Meetings and Stay Home, Bv XEA Service O' "j MAHA, Neb., July 5. —Women may finally clinch one of the most favorite alibis husbands have for an evening out. It's the regular weekly lodge meeting For now lodge meetings can be attended at home —by radio. The pioneer in this new departure from th< regular diversions of men in the Woodmen of the World, from whose headquarters here regular proceedings are broadcasted monthly to the m°mbers at their homes. The organization has its own broadcasting station. WOAW, which is said to have one of the largest religious radio congregations in t the world. Helps Travelers Karl E. May. president of the ! Chamber of Commerce at Shenan- ; doah, la., conceived this idea when jhe visited the station last year. It I was to hold a world radio camp or ; lodge meeting, once a month, for I the benefit of those who could not attend the meetings in person. This is of special benefit to those ; living in towns where no local camp is chartered and to members on the road. To those men. May believed, the Woodmen of the World could bring their meetings and rituals by radio, whether they be in hotels, isolated j homes or trains —provided they have a radio receiver near by. Nothing Omitted May was made consul commander j of the camp ar. 1 as such performs j the rituals. At each meeting May

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EARL E. MAY. CONSUL COMMANDER OF THE WORLD RADIO CAMP. CALLS THE MEETING TO ORDER BY RADIO. ALL HE SEES BEFORE HIM IS THE MICROPHONE.

stands before the microphone, holding the ax symbolizing woodcraft and reading th>- rituals. The entire proceedings of the camp meeting are broadcast. These include roll call, reading the minutes, reports of committees, initiations, orations and prescribed rituals. Besides the order of business and rituals, a social program is broadcast. including vocal and instrumental music, so that the members of the Woodmen of the World lack nothing in their radio camp meetings. And their wives learn what the men do at lodge rheetings.

Anatoic^Fnuicc This new bust of Anatole Prance, dean of French writers (top), has just been completed by Emile Bourdelie. leading French sculptor. Btlow is the aged author's latest photograph. Oil the Family Phone "Someone wants you on the phone.” "Well, if it’s a girl, tell her I”.l be there, and if it's a man, tell him I’ll take a pint."—West Virginia Moonshine.

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In New York By STEVE HANNIGAN NEW YORK. July s.—The most popular and aristocratic night clubs and cabarets in New York have been closed —padlocked for a year by revenue authorities because it was said the Volstead act was being violated. For a time New Yorkers were in a trance. They didn’t know where to go for their after-theater frolic. But all seem to have found anew place. There arc many spots in New York where one may dance and drink despite 'he law. However they are being made more difficult to find each night. This is particularly true for the visitor. The other night I went to anew case out of curiosity. It is far uptown and off the beaten path. Most anything was purchasable. The music was far more inspir.ng than any jazz bands I ever heard along the gilded highway. One could dance —but the music was far too inspiring to waste on sliding floor gymnastics. The orchestra was composed of a zither player and a band of musicians, playing string instruments. They played the classics. It was beautiful. Thoughts of home and mother came over me. I was home and in bed at 10:30 o’clock. * • * While on the subject of prohibition days in New l'ork, I might add that the only bar in many cities, excepting Buffalo, N. Y., where free lunch is to be found, was shown to me the other evening. At current prices of hooch, they should serve an entire meal. * * Anew way to create a scene in New York in perfr, t safety is for a bespectacled person to attempt to start a brawl in any of the supper clubs. While he is fakir? off his glasses to prepare to meet his victim, shouting and bickering all the while, friends of both parties grab them bj the arms and force a reconciliation. It supplants the custom of taking off one’s coat and is far less tiresome, less mussy and deemed more gentlemanly. 1 am told.

Ask The Times Vou i.in I an u.i.-wci turn ot fact or inform iti to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. IHie New Yon. Ave.. llaatifnrton. it c., UK-i.-in. . n,, ~i stamps ‘or reply. Mednal, '.raal and marital adviej cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other quoetion* will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. Ail letters are conlidentiai.—Editor. Where are the headquarters of the Carnegie hero fund commission? 2307 Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Where is Ascension Island? An isolated volcanic island in the Atlantic, latitude 7 degrees, 55 minutes and longitude 14 degrees 23 minutes, about 700 miles northwest of St. Helena. How long did it take ihe Vickerys-Vimy airplane and the dirigible R-34 to cross the Atlantic? The Vickerys-Vi ray airplane crossed in 16 hours. 12 minutes; ihe dirigible R-34 In 10S hours, 20 minutes. When did the historical period in the development of the Chinese begin? It may be said to have begun with the Chou dynasty, founded in 1122 B. C. Do brass or silver rust? According to the United States Bureau of Standards, both brass and silver will tarnish or corrode under certain conditions. In a certain sense such tarnishing may he considered as rusting, although the latter term is usually confined to the oxidation of iron under the influence of air and moisture. Can garter snakes be kept in captivity? If so, how are they cared for? Are they dangerous? Yes. these snakes can he kept in captivity. They do not need much care, for they are very easy to keep. Provide a good sized box and cage for them, with a pan of water in it, and feed them chiefly on small mice, grasshoppers and any insects. They are not at all dangerous. What is “America’s creed?” ‘‘l believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. "I therefore beiieve it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.” William Tyler Pae. „

GIRL, BLIND, CRIPPLED, IS CLUB HEAD Irene Judy Directs Organization to Help Afflicted Children, By XEA Service 1 ARNETT, Kan., July 5. —”AfIC 11 fl ' ctions are t * l6 medicine of I V ~* 1 the mind.” So wrote a wise old bishop not so many years ago. And the life of Irene Judy, Garnett’s “Pollyanna,” has proven he was right. Nineteen years she was a bedridden cripple. The last few years she was blind also. And during those last few months they had to feed her, too, for she was unable to move a hand. Yet throughout those nineteen years she was performing, day in and day out. a great humanitarian service. Oblivious of her own sufferings, she constantly was ‘‘carrying on” for other unfortunates. Years ago she organized the girls of this little Kansas town into a club to aid cripples and afflicted both here and in other places. The Merry Mercy Maidens —that’s what the club was called —soon grew to include virtually every young woman in town. It looked after sick babies and crippled children here in Garnett. It raised money for the little tots, with twisted limbs, in Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. But always it found its driving force in the girl who lay abed, able to help others, but unable to help herself. Each day the girls would visit the sickroom to report some work of mercy or charity. ‘‘You’ve done well.” their crippled leader would tell them. "Now let’s Mo more." As her body grew weaker, her mind grew stronger. There were i euys when she would dictate poems ! for the newspapers. Their theme always was the same—service to ot hers But Irene’s task is finished. She was 27 when death came. Her work, though, goes on. The Merry Mercy Maidens are driving to do it as she would have none it. And the other day the whole town turned out for the unveiling of a monument to Irene’s memory. And thousands front Kansas City and oth*-r places were present, too. ' She was one of the most remarkable persons 1 ever met,” said lit- Katherine Richardson of Mercy Hospital. Kansas City. In the dedicatory address. "Her -nul was the most noble I ever knew, though the ’house’ it dwelt in long before had broken down.”

Way Back There By HAL COCHRAN. When you're filled with that feeling of oh me, oh my, and my mind ha- anno flop for the day, you might just as well let a few hours slip by while you turn from your business to play. Crawl into a hammock and settle in ease and let your old jaw turn to yawning. Just lie there, a target for any old breeze, and let the blue sky be your awning. When all this is done and you really relax, your thinker may rest, but 'twon't last. It shortly is workin’. ’cause that’s how it acts, and your thoughts take you back to the past. The little old town where you played as a kid will picture itself in your mind. You’ll smile as you think of the things that you did in those days that tire left far behind. There really is pleasure in merr. ory dreams, and though you're accomplishing naught, your mind needs the tonic that's found, so it seems, in the rest through the change of your thought. (Copyright. 1924. NEA Service, Inc. >

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Nature Prince Grant, old family horse that Mrs. M. K. Grant of Wilmington, Del., raised from a colt, is given an annual birthday party by his mistress. At Prince’s last party he was gayly decorated with ribbons and he ate four plates of ice cream, six pieces of cake and a box of candy. Up on a mountain in Glacier National Park, Mont., is a fir tree that foresters say is 300 years old. Every winter in its youth huge snow drifts bore it to the ground and the short summers gave it little time to regain a perpendicular position. Result is that its trunk, a foot in diameter and still alive and growing, lies along the ground. Oil Mother! “I'm very careful: I always send my children out of the house before T quarrel with my husband.” “The little dears, they look so healthy from spending their time in the open air.”—Szczutek. Little Sister’s Eclat. “Mother, may I have a penny?” "What do you want it for, dear?” “Well, I’m going to the candy store with some friends of mine an’ I want to be able to hold my end up.”—Punch.

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JAP NAVY STRONGER THAN OURS 1 Britisli Authority Sees No Gain for America in Pacific Battle, By CHARLES P. STEWART \KA Strrirc Writer \shington. -in \X/ comparing navies, most exVV ports measure America’s against Japan's. Not, exactly, that they expect a Japanese-Ameriean war. But they think that the likeliest one, should there be any at all. America’s Navy unquestionably outclasses France's and Italy's. It doesn’t equal Britain's, but nobody sees a chance of an Anglo American clash. W. B. Shearer, torpe to boat inventor and naval critic, declares Japan's navy three times as strong as America’s Most Navy men laugh at this. The commonest estimate is that the ratio is H to 7 in America’s favor. Fighting near her own shores, this would he a huge advantage on America's side. In the western Pacific. the advantage would be almost equally Japan's. The western Pacific is where, to a certainty, the fighting, if any, will be. Japan, when she fights, doesn't declare war. She just begins. She might do a little raiding on Hawaii: perhaps on the Pacific coast. But not much. It would be too far from home for her. Presumably her first act would be to seize Guam: then the Philippines. Almost certainly this would find part of America's Navy in the Atlantic. Her Pacific forces would have *o await these ships’ arrival

before risking a general engagement. How long would this take? It’s fair to assume the fleets would rendezvous at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Pacific force would get there in a week —and wait. The Atlantic force would gather, probably, at Hampton Roads. It couldn’t sail right away. Much fitting and overhauling would be necessary. Auxiliaries would have to be improvised. For the whole Navy, personnel would have to be increased from about 80,000 to about 170,000. The best authorities say it would take a year to put America's whole sea establishment in the western Pacific on a basis of reasonable efficiency. But, after a fashion, the Atlantic ships would be ready to leave Hampton Roads in from six to eight weeks. To get to Pearl Harbor it would take four more. Ten to twelve weeks gone! Meanwhile Japan would have an opportunity to seize American possessions in the Pacific and prepare for battle near her own shores. A Thought A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.—Job 22:1. No legacy is so rich as honesty. —Shakespeare.

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Tom Sims Says Some men stand ready to back up what they say while others stand ready to back down. We are training for our vacation trip by giving dimes to everybody we meet. It must be awful to be a genius and have to sit around thinking up new ways to act strange. Choose your words carefully because you may have to take them back. These fur trimmed bathing suits are not as foolish as they look. All seals are fur trimmed. The rain falls on the just and the unjust, but especially on the juststarted picnic. A pessimist is a man wondering how on earth his straw hat got so dirty. This light that lies in a woman's eyes is so illuminating. It’s a wise young doctor who settles down near a railroad crossing. It is estimated that high water this spring washed away several thousand stills. The baseball pools, full of sharks and suckers, are wtih us. The average man has a better average than the average man thinks. A wise man paddles his own canoe, but a wiser one gets something to push it. Woman’s place, after dinner, seems to be on the front porch. Reliable figures would show that by this time every good fisherman has had a hook stuck in his finger. Some men living a dog’s life have no license to do It. You never see a bootlegger having a rummage sale on old stuff.

Science Slowly but surely Einstein seems to be winning out over his opponents. There are three, astronomical consequences of his theory of relativity. First, the movement of the perihelion of the orbit of the planet Mercury, which could not be explained by the Newtonian theory of gravitation; second, the deflection of light in a gravitational field, recently settled by Dr. Campbell, president of the University of California; third, the displacement of the lines of the spectrum toward the rec end by gravitation in light coming from the sun. This last has just been proved by Prof. Evershed in Indiana. The proof of these three contentions seems to establish the Einstein theory and, if announcement of their proof had been made at the time Einstein first attracted attention, would have created a great sensation. If Einstein is right, the universe is limited. Hers Only “Are mine the only lips you ever kissed?" “Yes, darling, and the nicest.” — Tit-Bits. When Jack Quit “I hear Jack has broken off his engagement with Gladys. How did she take it?” “Oh, it completely unmanned her.”—American Legion Weekly.

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1924

WASHINGTON IS WORRIED OVER JAPS Officials Troubled Over Reiteration of Statement on Exclusion, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS [T v -j \SHINGTON. July s.—Not that it is going to make the slightest difference so far as exclusion is concerned, but in its row with Japan two things have got Washington worried. One is the sullen reiteration of the Mikado’s responsible officials that Japan refuses to consider exclusion from the United States as a closed incident. The other is the obvious intention on the part of both governptent and public to bide their time and strike to “wipe out the insult” when and how and where it best suits Japan's purposes. Exclusion Is Done So far as this country is concerned Japanese exclusion is done, and will not he undone, no matter what Japan may demand or say or do. Which is why Japan’s determination to continue agitating the question seems likely to result only in making bad blood worse. Little excitement was caused here by the flag incident —the cuting down of the S‘ars and Stripes from its standard in the American embassy compound in Tokio —for the reason no nation can prevent occasional outrages of the kind being committed by individuals. Official regrets are generally considered sufficient apology. But what is far more ominous is the attitude of Japan as a whole — the government, the almost sacred

Genro who advise the Prince Regent and prime minister, foreign minister, cabinet, imperial diet and public—insisting that the “insult” can/ not be allowed to stand. _ / Resolution Passed f "Resolved," said a House oi ’ Representatives resolution, “that the House requests the imperial g overnment promptly to take such measures as the situation require s.” Said Viscount Kato: “An examination of world conditions reveals that the powers are developing national strength with a view io extending their influence abroach and Japan needs a general awakening.” Premier Kato packs a mailed fist in a veh’et glove. A soft-speaker, he is at heart an arch-militarist. His was the genius that inspired the twenty-one demands on China in 1915 which w r ould have made China virtually a Japanese colony. Read his words over again'' in the ljghc of this. And, lastly, popular societies have posted the following all over the country: panese must never forget July 1 (when exclusion became effective) when America inflicted an intolerable insult on Japan. Reniember the date. “Prepare for suph steps as ire demanded by the hohor of the fatherland when the occasion comes”