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WOMAN’S WAY IN POLITICS OOOKING around tor someone on whom to east the blame for the long deadlock in New York, those tired, downcast Democrats sitting around in smoke-filled hotel bedrooms in the Garden, are blaming it on the women. “Men will listen to reason,’’ they said, “but these women stick to their candidates through thick and thin. Those pledged to MeAdoo won’t give up the ship. Smith’s backers would rather die than give in!’’ One-third of the voting delegates Fin New York are women. Politicians looked at them hopelessly and said, “ Women mustn’t act like that, or they’ll never get anywhere in polities. Lots of people think the nineteenth amendment was a mistake anyway. Giving the women the vote hasn’t accomplished anything. It’s just doubled the volume of votes.” This reasoning is self-contradictory, of course. Women have some power or they couldn’t cause a situation like that. Besides, they were not given the vote because they would do such wonders with it. They were given the franchise because as citizens—free, white and twenty-one—they were entitled to it. Positions carrying either salaries or power in politics women have not. Their point of view was more that of the voter than of the politician. They may need time to develop their tactics, which will probably be different from those employed by men. And it’s in order to rejoice that they are. TIME A GOOD ALARM CLOCK isn’t it? In 1921 the G. O. P. administration started jO | out by announcing a policy of international isolation. “Reparations and the other aftermath of the World War.” it said in effect, “do not concern us. They are Europe’s affairs. Let her settle them as best she may. As for us. nothing doing!’’ Today, almost unbelievable though it be. the only two outstanding accomplishments of that same administration have to do with foreign relations—“entanglements.” if you want to be catty. The twi things which the G. O. P. now boasts of most loudly are the Washington Conference—which resulted in new treaty ties not only with European nations hut with China and Japan—and the Dawes-Young reparations plan for settling Europe’s quarrel. “This countrv is vitallv interested in economic reeoverv ✓ * abroad,” President Coolidge now says, as he prepares to deal himself a hand. On July 12 the meeting of the Inter-Allied Premiers is scheduled to begin in London. Our own premier. Secretary of State Hughes, will be on hand to advise our own official delegate to that conference. Ambassador Kellogg, in the prayerful hope of settling Europe’s problems for her. Europe stew in her own juice!” said the administrathree years ago. nfJJtpdd. isn’t it, what a difference just a few years make. Time great alarm clock. It wakes up lots of folks. Almost we are tempted to say we told you so. y But we won’t. You say it! STUMPED EN a recent week, with business supposed to be dull, the Nation’s bank clearings totaled SB7 for every SBO of hank checks sent through the clearing houses in the corresponding week of last year—when times were booming. People haven't been spending more than in 192 J. They haven’t been on any orgy of paying hills. Prices haven’t been higher to show up in the form of inflated clearings. If you can explain the gain, step to the head of the class. The business experts are stumped. SAXOPHONE playing is now being taught by mail, a very irise precaution. MUCH ADO about nothing, or very little, is this bathing suit discussion. JULY 4 and President Coolidge were born on the same date, but for different reasons. KANSAS farmers are cutting wheat with the hope that thereby they.are cutting ice. A DISPATCH says that dentists arc largely increasing in South Africa, and its follows that those Zulus are going to learn how much more refined is civilized torture. THERE may be no relationship between the two matters, but it is a fact that the Kansas farmers began to call loudly for harvest just as the graduating classes were ready to take hold of the world.

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NAMING OF | STARS STILL IS MYSTER Y Greek Physician Preserves Tradition by Writing Poem, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times nr OST of the constellations or jjvl star pictures are a little hard L . j to find at first. This is because there is no direct and obvious connection between the actual arrangement of the stars and the object which the constellation is supposed to represent. The constellations do not realiv lodk like the animals, giants, warriors and gods after which they are named. The only exception is the constellation known as the Great Dipper. t It must be remembered that the shepherds of old merely traced fanciful pictures in the sky out of their own imagination and assigned places to the stars in them. This was done a long time ago. Nobody knows how long ago. As far back as there are authentic rec-

ARATI'S, A GREEK PHYSICIAN, WROTE A POEM tVkit'T THE CONSTELLATIONS IN THE SKY. THA T IS HOW WE HAPPEN To KNOW THEM TO 1 HIS DAY.

ords to he found, the stars have already been divided into constellations and given names. This practice has existed among all nations. The system which we use today, however, is patterned chiefly after the system devised by the ancient Greeks. Described in 3,0 15. C. The first complete description of the constellations, or as the astronomers would say. the first catalog of them, was made by a Greek scientist who lived in the year 370 B. C. His name was Eudoxus. He was one of the very prominent scholars among the Greeks. Besides being an astronomer, he was a mathematician, a physicist and a student of government affairs. He described forty-five constellations in his catalog. We know this, although the original catalog of Eudoxus was lost. The rVason we know it is because just 100 years later a Greek physician who happened also to be a poet wrote a poem titled “Phainoraena," Which means ‘‘appearances’' or "Phenomena.” The pcet's name was Ambus. In his poem. Aratus recounted the system of constellations as cataloged by Eudoxus. This poem was translated into I.atin several times, once by Cicero, with whom all high school students of Latin are of course very familiar. Poem Still Exists The pcem of Aratus is still in ex istence arid so we know all about tiie original work of Eudoxus even

though it has been lost. More titan 100 years later, in about 139 B. C., there lived a famous astronomer and mathematician in Alexandria. Egypt. His name was j Ptolemy. He wrote a book known as the Almagest, which was used as a text hook of astronomy and mathematics for succeeding centuries until far into the middle ages. In this work Ptolemy added three new constellations to those of Eudoxus making a total of fortyeight. As time went on more of the southern hemisphere was explored and so stars invisible to the ancients ir. their restricted world came into view. Asa result new constellations were plotted and given names. Finally, in 1840, the British Association for the Advancement of Sei ence appointed a committee headed l>v the great astronomer, Sir John Herschel. to define the constellations and set their boundaries. Asa result of their recommendations eighty-seven constellations are recognized today. Let us now turn our attention to the more important ones which are visible from the northern hemisphere of our earth. Next article: Getting acquainted with the stars. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz) Masons Plan New Home Hjj Time/i Special SHELBY VILLE, Ind., July B. Land has been purchased for anew Masonic Temple to be built this year. Liked Color Grace was taking her first look at the new baby, and gaily mimicking its little wrinkled face. “I'm afraid you don’t like your new sister very well,’’ observed the nurse. “Oh, yes, I do. Miss Smith. I admire it very much. Why, it is just my favorite shade of red!”—Judge.

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The Circus By HAL COCHRAN When the sun starts to rise at the break of the day and the daylight makes everything plain, the kids about town shout a husky hurray as they welcome the circus folks' train. The long string of coaches and animal cars will squeak to a stop near the lot where the clowns and the Jugglers and acrobats stars will soon show the folks what they’ve got. The big tent it pitched and the spirit is grand and excitement's as tense as can be. The kids about town gladly lend them a hand in the hope that they'll let them in free. The elephants drink as they ne'er have before, ’cause there’s plenty ,of water on hand. The kids lug it in till their muscles are sore, to the tune of the big circus band. And then the shows start ’mid a shouting of glee ere the kids who have worked settle down. And this is the way that it always will be whene'er there’s a circus in town. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.—Prov. 16:19. * * Content thyself to live obscurely good.—Addison.

Tom Sims Says Being a politician pays good money. It should. You are always liable to reform and be out of work. What this country needs most is a law requiring that all bills be sent anonymously. Tomatoes were once called love ap pleß, which may be why they are best taken with a grain of salt. If, as a Chicago man says, the sun is having chills, we hope It never has the fever. The .Tune husband tells us she really did try to serve some onions with perfume on them. Senator Copeland has a bill to tax every gun sold <IOO. Liston to th--roar of five million game hunters. Bill is fathered by th>- New York j police. , The world seems to be peaceful only during those months having a "z” in them. You read about many formerly rich men dying poor and just as many formerly poor men dying rich The man without a country was hard up, but if the farmers don't find better times soon this may become the land without a country. Family Fun Husband Insulted “I was held up by a footpad.” ‘‘Mercy! How exciting! Did he demand your money or your life?” “Yes, but I only had sixty cents about me.” "And he took that, in preference to your life? What an insult!"— Boston Transcript. Sister in Doubt “Y'ou are the sunshine of my life. Your smile falls like lightning into my soul. With you by my side I would defy all the storms of life.” “Is this a proposal or a weather report?”—Sonddags Nisse. An Elector

If the Democratic nominee for the presidency carries Wyoming in November, that State’s electoral ballot will be carried to Washington by Mrs. Anna B. Haggard of Cheyenne. She is one of three women electors named by the Wyoming Democratic State convention.

AVERAGE OF INCOMES IS VERY LOW Only 6,20 Per Cent of People Receive More Than SI,OOO Annually, Times Washington Bureau, 1322 Aew York Ave. VyTj ASHINGTON, July 8,-Ornv yy 6.20 per cent of all the peopie in the United States had as much as SI,OOO to live on during the year 1922. In that same year the average net income of every person, man, woman or child, in the country, was only $194.72. Os the 6.20 per cent of the people in the country whose incomes were SI,OOO and over, more than twothirds lived on less -than $3,000 a year. There are in the United States sixty-seven persons admitting they have annual incomes of $1,000,000 and over, and 161 more who acknowledge incomes of between half a millon and million dollars annually. These are facts revealed by the preliminary report on income tax statistics just made public by the United States Internal Revenue Bu reau. Maiij Have (he Returns The report shows that 6,787,431 persons filed income tax returns J n 1923, swearing to net incomes totaling $21,336,212,530 received during the year 1922. The total tax paid was $861,057,308. Striding proof that "the rich grow riches” is found in comparison of these figures with those for 1921. The new report shows an in crease of 1.88 per cent in the number of persons filing returns, an increase of 8.98 per cent in the total net Income reported, and an increase of 19,69 per cent in the total tax paid. In other words, while only a few persons succeeded in rising to the moneyed class, those already there increased their Incomes by a much greater proportion, and most of these increases were made by the fabulously rich, since the percentage of tax-paid curves upward so abruptly. Indicating that more incomes rose to the level where surtaxes were higher. Distribution Shown These figures show the distribution of the wealth of the country among individuals: * In addition to the sixty-seven person- with incomes of $1,000,000 and more, there were 309 persons with incomes from $300,000 to $500,000; 1,323 with $150,000 to $300,000; 2.171 with SIOO,OOO to $150,000: 12.000 with $50,000 to $100,000; 35,478 with $25.000 to $50,000; 151,329 with SIO,OOO to $25,000; 391.373 with $5,000 to $lO,000; 1.190,115 with $3,000 to $5,000; 2,129.898 with $2,000 to $3,000, and 2.471,15 T with SI,OOO to $2,000. Geographically, the wealth Is concentrated in the East. Os the. twenty billions of income reported, onefifth was classified as coming from New York. A little less than onetenth was from Pennsylvania, and another one-tenth from Illinois. California ranked fourth among the S’ates. with 6.36 per cent of the total incomes, but was the only State west of Chicago with any large share in the wealth of the country. New York paid 31.82 per cent of the total tax collected. Pennsylvania and Illinois ranked next with Massachusetts fourth and California fifth. Nature Cost of removal of weeds along the railways of the State of Ohio is over half a million dollars a year. In Tndia. where “.Tohnson-grasa” is much used as fodder for cattle,

their deaths frequently occur .after eating wilted plants of this grass. The plant sometimes develops a poisonous quality due to hydrocyanic acid. Plants wilted, owing to lack of rain, contain this acid. When freshened by rainfall, this principle disappears. The seeds of the weed “Crabgrass" are quite nutritious and are used as food in Germany and Poland, t>eing cooked in milk, like sago. Youve probably admired the pret tiesr moth of the summer—wings white and creamy white with tiny black specks scattered over them. That is the ermine moth and feeds only on plants and not on your winte. pair of pants. It exposes itself boldly to insect- eating critters, but they don't bite—they know it’s not good eating. Science Pneumonia causes about 90,000 deaths in the United States every year and there are many times that number of cases where it causes serious illness, perhaps with permanent effects. Many lives may he saved by a new rhemical discovered by Dr. Lloyd B. Fejton of Harvard University. This remedy is not a serum, but a crystalline chemical, obtained by precipitation from the serum of a horse. It is too early to say definitely what the result will be, but first indications are that this promises to be a discovery of even greater value than insulin. It was discovered while attempting to find a remedy for the flu. Dr. Pefton is only 32 years of age, agraduate of Johns Hopkins University and has been for the past two years at Harvard. Tongue Tips Lemuel T. Baker, retired business man. St. Louis: “I worked too hard, not hard enough to kill me or wear me out, but too hard to form a taste for the best things that money can buy. I am not having as much fun out of being what you'd call being comfortably fixed financially as I looked forward to in my hard-work-ing days ’ * * * Dr. W A. Evans, expert: “Health is an aid to good temper. Hygiene is merely the art of right Hying. It talks common sense.”

Ask The Times You can gef an answer to any Question of fact (>r information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 3 cents In stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital ail vice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a persona. reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered Ail letters are confidential. —Editor. How did cinquefoil, or five fingered grass, get its name? What is the nature of this grass? l'iie nam<* is in allusion to its five leaflets. It forms by its long runners a thick covering on dry and .’terlle soils. Its bright yellow blossoms are quite showy. Is it true that in every litter of timber wolves one dog Is born which is Killed by its parents? It is not true. Is propyl alcohol intoxicating? What an the restrictions placed on its purchase? It is slightly intoxicating, but it is also poisonous. There are no re strictions placed against its purchase. What causes foam to rise on fruit jars. How does one get rid of it? It is caused, usually, by the gas in the fiuit being driven out by the heat of the cooking. There does not appear to ->e any home method of getting rid of it other than by forcing it out with a knife or spoon. What does “wazir” mean? An obsolete word for vizier. What is a good homemade facia! pack? Fuller s earth moistened with witch hazel. What was the origin of the German police dog? It is supposed that this hreed of dogs is deseende t from a wolf crossed with a shepherd dog. Who were the architects of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? It was begun by Bonannus of Pisa in 1174, continued by William of Innsbruck, and completed in 1350. What is a rheostat? An instrument by which a variable nr adjustable resistance may be introduced into a circuit to legulate the strength of a current, as in the field coils of a motor or generator, etc. What is n transformer? A device for producing, by means of an electric current, a current of different strength and potential; especially, a form of induction-coil used in alternating current systems of electrical distribution, by which a current of high potential is transformed to one of lower potential, or vice-versa. Who was Enoch Arden? The hero of a poem by Tennyson. He was shipwrecked and forced to spend many years on an uninhabited island. When rescued at last, he re turned home to find bis wife remarried Unwilling to disturb her happiness, he does not reveal his identity until his death.

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READER IS IN FA VOR OF VOTE PLAN Letter Writer Says Referendum Would Return Power to People. To the Editor of The Times: [rip, jHE ultra-conservative Wash j j I | ington Post looks upon the !L —I proposed referendum on the ; League of Nations question by the ; Democrats as being a “vicious precedent." Those Big Business fel- ! lows and big politicians are dread- ! fully alarmed when someone proj poses to bring the governing power j closer to the mass of the people. They are a lot of ultra-selfish mossI backs. | We should have more of the initiative and referendum form of government as Robert M. La Follette advocates. This system of government through chosen regpesentatives is certainly a haphazard system of the j *hirty-four candidates seeking election to our State Legislature. I have never met one of them, so do not know what their Ideas or politics are. One newspaper informed us voters three days before the primary election in which county these different candidates had been born and raised and which colleges they had attended. The rest of it was left to fate. So much for our representative form of government. Would Abolish Parties On the other hand, if proposed laws were put before us voters under the referendum plan we would vote with more intelligence and effectiveness. I believe that political parties and party lines should be abolished. Political parties are not business corporations, as some would have us believe, and so we cannot hold them responsible for their I wrong-doing when In power. I There is one idea of Robert M. La ! Follette to which I believe the ma- | jority of the people would be op- | posed, and that is the Government ownership of the railroads, especially since the linen collar martyrs of the Postoffice Department have set up such a howl for more pay simply because they are working for the Government, an institution of supposedly unlimited wealth. Os course it would be the same old story over again if the Government owned and operated the railroads and the peanut stands throughout the country. The masses of the people would be slaves to the Government martyrs. If the postal employes are not satisfied with their salaries they should quit kicking and step down and out. as there are thousands of other good, capable people who would be glad to have their places. A PROGRESSIVE VOTER.

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In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, July B.—Twenty-five admirers of a bright 3-year-old hoy !in Greenwich Village are buying I stock in his future. The little fellow lives with hia j father. His parents are separated. The youth is to be incorporated on his fourth birthday. Ke will become the legal institution of his twentyfive elders, who will watch his advance in years as they would a growing business. ✓A board of directors will guide his | destinies. The boy will be given ; every possible opportunity to become i a great and successful man. Each week the members of the : human company will deposit 25 cents to the youth’s bank account. By tfie time he is ten years old the account augmente i by compound interest will be sufficient to grant him eduj cationa) opportunities available to few boys. Practically every member of the M ate —all of them are well educate and successful. ™ Already they are debating as to where he will be educated. Some want 1 1 rear him in Europe, that he may be influenced by the continental I atmosphere. It will be interesting, in a few ( years. to note whether this flesh and blood organization pays dividends. United States Navy sailors on leave in New York always appear forlorn and lost. The big fleets put in here after a long and surely tiresome cruise and the men beam as they walk the plank to shore leave. In a few hours they may be seen standing on corners, dejected in appearance. probably wishing they were back to sea—or in some other I port. Thousands of them stampeded New York not so long ago. But they were swallowed up in the great city within a few moments. But little recreation presents itself to the uninitiated in New York—unless his pockets jingle with the fascinating tinkle of gold. * * The high price of marbles has driven the boys who play on the sidewalks of New York to anew and less expensive game. “Checker marbles” it is called. It is played just as marbles has been played in every hamlet for years—except the marbles are flat discs. The hoys shoot the discs along the sidewalk in an attempt to knock their opponents’ discs out of drawn ring. H "We don't lose checkers like did our nickel agates,” the boys explain. There is thrift in New York—when it is necessary. Mother’s New “Help” “Why. Sarah, the parlor windows are so dirty 1 can’t see through them.” “Well, ma'am, I just come in the front door, an' except fer Aliss Ritz an' her young gent across the way in the windy, there ain't a thing worth lookin' at.”—American Legion Weekly.