Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1924 — Page 4
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THE INEVITABLE MR. DAVIS mHE fat boys wanted John W. Davis. The fat boys get what they want. That is why they are fat. That is why Davis is the candidate. But it was not easy. It was necessary to rend the Democratic party from end to end and to tear its traditions to tatters. Invisible government working through the city bosses and professional politicians had a harder time than Mark Hanna had when he definitely turned the Republican party over to Wall Street. This fight from the beginning, nearly four years ago, has been between a progressive Democratic party of, foi and by the common people and a conservative Democratic party of, for and by campaign contributors. In other words, Wall Street, the railroads, the trusts, the oil folks, the combines, and the stock markets. Much of the battle was fought beneath the surface of current events. It was MeAdoo against Wall Street. His was a single army and numbered not quite half the delegates in the convention. Wall Street had an army of allies, not always easy to handle but at least united against McAdoo. The convention battle was in four major actions. First, the friends of M oodrow Wilson were deftly split over the League of Nations plank. Life-long political friends became enemies when the record of Wilson was fulsomely praised and his policies were contemptuously dragged in the dust. Next a religious war was precipitated and again the thousand delegates were divided into two camps filled with bitter hatred. Third, booze was dragged in and another split was made and irreconciliable enmities were fired. Then the convention was ready to -become as clay in the hands of the cunning potter. But it had to be softened with the sweat and tears of 102 ballots. Each of the most powerful elements in the party had to be taken in hand separately and publicly whipped. And so they were. The McAdoo outfit and the units of the allied antiMcAdoo army. The Wilson men, the solid South, the senatorial bloc, the Klanners and the anti-Klanners, the farmers and the labor crowd. Even Tammy and the Brennans and the Taggarts. Then John W. Davis was put over. John W. Davis, who proved his courage and his fitness for this particular job months ago when he said that if he couldn't be both Morgan’s lawyer and the Democratic candidate he would choose, as between the two, to be Morgan's lawyer. But he didn’t have to choose, after all. He can be and is both.
WHY DID RALSTON WITHDRAW? TylllTH realization of the real meaning of the nomination by W the New York convention of John W. Davis, attorney for J. P. Morgan and the New York Bell Telephone Company, for President, the resentment of Indiana Democrats toward Senator Samuel M. Ralston is growing. He had it in his power to save tj/em from such a fate and he “threw them down.” R-alston’s attitude is hard to understand. He has declined to give any explanation. The Ralston boom started nearly two years ago when he'was elected to the United States Senate. It grew steadily. Ralston could have stopped it at any time if he had chosen. But he gave at least his tacit consent. The Indiana Democratic leaders went to New York at their own expense. They worked night and day to bring about the nomination of their favorite son. They were on the brink of victory, when Ralston made it known that he would not be pleased with the nomination. If he had said so months ago there might have been a different story. If Ralston had been nominated he probably would have carried the Democratic State ticket with him. As it is, the State ticket now hardly has a fighting chance. The Democratic party made Ralston what he is today. His achievements have come about largely through the efforts of his friends. There must have been some very good reason for Ralston withdrawing when he did. There must have been a better reason than the prospect of leading the party to defeat. He should at least have given his reasons to his friends. MAYBE ONE reason why Ralston was not nominated at New York was because any man who can afford to pay telephone tolls in Indiana between Indianapolis and New York might be considered a tool of the monied interests. IT IS SAID that Jack Dempsey is losing his fighting face in the movies, just as he did in war, probably. AND NOW a course in barbering is suggested as an addition to the curriculum of the public schools. Kinda bobs up, as it were. THE INFORMATION is given out that “the coal industry is regulating itself,” but that has been the trouble all of the time. AS SEEMED perfectly proper and in good taste, the Farmer-Labor party gave the vice-presidential plum to a fruit farmer.
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“DIPPER ” IS KNOWN AS A “WAGON” Names of Constellations Differ Among Diftejent Peoples. By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times [— — lETI ET us go outdoors again tonight, if the sky is cloud1 J ~~ < I less, and again gaze up at those twinkling points of fire which have been shining down upon the earth since its bebinning. But instead of contemplating the whole vast panorama, let us concen- ! trate our attention upon one group or constellation. We will choose the constellation known as the Great Dipper. I am sure you will not fail to And it at once in the northern sky for everyone knows the Great Dipper. Every one recognizes the Great THE ROMANS SAW A PLOWING OX IN EACH STAR OF THE GREAT DIPPER. Dipper, even though he does not any I of the other constellations, because the Great Dipper, unlike the other constellations, actually looks like what it is named after. Recognition is made still easier by the fact that the stars which compose it are all bright stars and there are no other very bright stars ner the dipper. The dipper is one of the first constellations which attracted the attention of men. As you gaze up at its bright shining stars, bodly outlining the dipper against the black curtain of the sky, you understand easily why this is so. But it has not always occurred to men to call it a dipper. In Europe, it is frequently referred to as the plow or the wagon. A
f ~ * * V-T THE GREAT DIPPER common name for it in England is “Charles' Wain." This is thought to have originally been "Churl’s Wain," meaning a peasant’s cart. In time, this .became changed to “Charles’ Wain." The Romans imagined that the seven stars in the Great Dipper represented seven plowing oxen, and so they called the constellation the “Septentriones." But like the English of today, the early Greeks saw the figure of a wagon in the constellation and so they called in “Harnjixa," which means “the wagon.” The Eskimos imagined that the stars of the dipper formed the outline of a reindeer. The Arabians thought of the four stars which make the bowl of the dipper as forming a bier and so they called the constellation "Na'sh,” which means a bier. Mention of the constellation is made twice in the Bible in the Book of Job. The Hebrew word is "Ayish," evidently related to the Arabic name. In this connection, it is interesting to note that the early Christians also ’ egarded the constellation as forming a bier and called it the “Bier of Lazarus." The three stars which form the handle of the dipper were thought by them to represent Mary, Martha, and Mary Magdalene. Each o i the seven stars which form the dipper was given a name
THE ESKIMOS THOUGHT THE STARS OF THE DIPPER FORMED A REINDEER. by the Arabians. Every one should know these names. Once you know the names of the twinkling stars of the dipper, you will feel each time you glance up at the constellation as though you were greeting seven friends. Next article: The names of the stars in the dipper. (Copyright, 1924, by David Diet!) Science In his latest romance, H. Rider Haggard describes a race of “hairy men” in Africa, half-beast, half-hu-man, “a people such as were our forefathers thousands or millions of years ago.” Stories based upon the theory of the "missing link” are not uncommon and it is true thkt there exist in the w'ilds of Africa and in one or two other places, human beings who are more closely allied with beasts than they are to the more advanced types of men, also beasts that are like men. For the purpose of studying this phase of the evolution of man, T. Alexander Barns, recently returned from the Ngorongoro crater region in the eastern Congo, proposes that this little known section be set aside as a game refuge. This region is the home of the gorilla and chimpanzee. In this section they are almost tame, as they have been hunted very little. The pi*oposal to protect them has scientific support.
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In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, July 10. —The man who conceived the idea of the sightseeing bus can’t walk. He overlooks the bustle of Broadway every day from a wheel chair which he rolls atop an uptown hotel. He is Howard Rice, a middle-aged man, who seven years ago was stricken with a strange malady which has rendered him unable to walk. Strange that the town that has made the rubberneck wagon famous —New York, with its Chinatown, Bowery and Coney Island trips—did not originate it. Rubberneck wagons made their first appearance in St. Louis during the 1904 world’s fair. There were four of them, built especially to Rice’s specifications. Two of them seated forty persons, two more twenty each. Despite his affliction, Rice is one of the most pleasant and enthusiastic persons I ever have met. He gets no physical exercise, yet has a healthful glow in his cheeks. Each day he suns himself for hours on the roof of his hotel. Winter and summer, rain or shine, it is just the same to him. During the lavish afternoons of summer Rice holds daily roof parries. Men prominent in many endeavors visit him. Although the sightseeing bus was his idea. Rice made little money as a result of it. He didn’t follow it through to its present state of perfection. He is, however, financially independent. Through seven years of distress, Rice never once has complained, close friends relate. His one ambition is to ride in an airplane. * * Western Union messenger boys in New York exercise their lungs as well as their legs. They have a brass band—a good one, too. The lead band is composed of seventy pieces, with several times as mgny recruits to take the place of snappy messenger boys who climb up the ladder to fame. White caps designate the members of the band from ordinary messenger boys. The band members usually are paid $5 a performance. On saunters through the East Side I always wonder what the men with whiskers, drooping to their waists, do with them at night. Do they sleep with the whiskers on the outside of the covers, or do they tuck them beneath the sheets? • • • In the 3 by 9 front yard of a house in congested Flf'v-Fourth St., between Eighth and Ninth Avrs., is a small tree, battling its growing way alongside the house. A Thought Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but judge this rather. that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.—Rob. 14:13. Who upon earth could live were all judged justly?—Byron. Ask The Times
You gel an auawer to any question of ?a.*t or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau l.'fC'i New York Ave Washington. I> C. inclosing •• cents in stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered Ail letters axe confidential.—Editor. What are some words just added to the language? Faoista, realtor, vitamtne, altigraph, soviet, narcism, ruthene, nacelle, duvetyn, cordoba, askari, zirclte. What is meant by a "tongue twister?” A sentence or verse which contains a number of words beginning with the same letter or a number of letters with the same sound and hence hard to say in order. An example is: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pecks of pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick.” Who was Danny Deever?” A character in a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Danny Deever was hanged for shooting a sleeping comrade. What was the record run of the Deviathan? November, 1923, when she crossed from New York to Cherbourg in 3 days, 7 hours and 20 minutes. What the name of the homesteader who first discovered gold in Cripple Creek, Colo.? Bob Womack. What is meant by Symmes’ Hole? An imaginary aperture in the earth’s crust near 82 degrees north latitude, imagined by Capt. John Cleaves Symmes (1780-1829) to communicate with the interior of the planet, which he thought was inhabited with animal and plant life, and lighted by two subterranean suns, Pluto and Proserpine. Humboldt states that Symmes repeatedly and publicly invited him and Humphry Davy to descend to the earth’s interior by this hole. Who was the first woman to sit in the British Parliament and who was the first woman fleeted to the United States House of Representatives? Viscountess Astor in Parliament and Jeannette Rankin of Montana in the House of Representatives. What State has the largest number of divorces in proportion to population and which the fewest? Nevada has the largest number, while there is no divorce law in South Carolina. When will Easter Sunday come in 1926? April 4. What State has the most mo tor vehicles on farms? lowa. How many were executed during the French Revolution? About 4.000. What was the maiden name of Patrick Henry's wife?
BASES FOR NA VY ARE INADEQUATE Situation in Pacific is Said to Place United States at Disadvantage. By CHARLES P. STEWART HE A Service Writer CtraASHINGTON, July 10.—The \X/ strongest warship afloat is Y ' helpless without fuel. Nor can it stay much good without occasional repairs. True, supplies can be brought to the front by other shipg. But this is wasteful—of money, of shipping and of protection. It’s especiaJly wasteful of protection, for fighting ships can’t fight if they’re busy protecting the vessels engaged in bringing them supplies. The farther supplies must be brought, the harder it is to bring them. Finally it becomes impossible. Besides, It's a method which doesn’t take into account the matter of repairs. The only satisfactory system is to have supply bases on shore—on islands, for instance, in the fighting zone. Suelf bases should have storehouses, coal piles, oil in tanks, barracks for reserves, hospitals, wharfs, anchorage room, repair shops and drydocks. They must be behind fortifications, for, again, fighting ships can’t fight if they’re tied to their base in order to defend it. Inadequate at Home As for our home bases, “we have none on the Pacific,” says Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, "that are adequate; our Atlantic bases are better but are not nearly all adequate." Still, naval experts aren’t so much worried about our home bases. They ought to be “adequate,” of course. But so far as the Atlantic is concerned. though he shouldn’t assume we’re safe in any quarter, it’s a fact that even alarmists look for no attack on us from the East.* If we should have trouble, the best authorities think it will come from the \Vest. Concerning the western ocean, “raids in war," said the late Rear Admiral H. S. Krapp, “always are a possibility, but I venture the prediction that our country never will be invaded from across the Pacific until the Hawaiian Islands are first reduced by the enemy. Granting his success in that, he would be so delayed that the United States would have time to organize forces that would make invasion a hopeless undertaking.” But how about bases distant from our own shores? Pearl Harbor "Aside from the Canal Zone, which is operated now only as a commercial base, we have outside of continental America," says a naval report of March 1, 1924, “but one adequately fortified base and that is Pearl Harbor, in the vicinity of Honolulu. This base probably is secure againtt capture, but it would harbor only a fraction of our fleet, while the remainder would have so
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be protected outside, as best we might. “The facilities or defenses of our other possessions in the Pacific we are, forbidden by treaty to improve.” In Hawaii we have facilities, too, though they’re inadequate, for some warship repair work. We have there also about 1,759,667 barrels of oil—and in the first year of a war. Secretary Roosevelt remarks, our Navy would need 70,000,000 barrels. Besides, only twelve of our eighteen battleships are oil burners. Extreme Outpost West of Hawaii we’re “wide open.” It's agreed that the center of operations, should we have a Pacific war, would be west of Guam. From Hawaii td? Guam is 3,330 miles. “A modern battle fleet,” says William Howard Gardiner, one of America's ablest naval critics, “has an effective .operating radius of only about 2,000 miles from its base.” True, Wake Island, 2,010 miles west of Honolulu, on the way to Guam, is American, but it’s a mere coral atoll, worth as a base, experts agree, aabsqJutely nothing. The Philippines have a floating drydock—too small, however, to accommodate major ships. But if Japan began war suddenly, according to her custom, nava) officers concur that she’d have seized the Philippines and Guam long before an American fleet could get even to Honolulu. In short, for practical purposes, Hawaii is America’s extreme western outposf in the event of a Pacific war. Wifely Diplomacy “I thought you were going to have your hair bobbed.” "I was, but my husband gave me SSO to change my mind, so I am having my wrinkles taken out instead.” —Boston Transcript.
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HERE ARE WAYS YOU CAN BE RICH Income Tax Returns Show How Most Money Is Made by Citizens. Timet Wat him/ton Bureau, 1322 Sctr York Are. ASHTNGTON, July 10.— If you’re a June graduate and uncertain what business to enter, take a tip from the United States internal revenue bureau. From the standpoint of income, the most money is to be earned in ! the profession catering most directly to Homo and Mrs. Sapiens, statistics just completed by the income tax bureau show. Os all money earned in the United States in a year, outside of that earned in wages, 32.10 per cent came directly from medicine.
law. the amusement business and the hotel business. The income derived from stores of ail kinds ran it a close second, furnishing 31.39 per cent. Third From Trade Stores yielded a proportionately less income, for while their net total was almost as great as the public service incomes, the number of stores reported was greater than the number of incomes of the other class. Os all businesses in the country, 32.78 per cent are trade of some kind. The public service businesses amount to 29.08 per cent of ftle total. Agriculture and related industries provided 8.15 per cent of the Nation’s income. Manufacturing of all kinds was below it, with 7.78 per cent. Ranking next are construction businesses, composing 5.15 per cent of the total, and finance, banking and insurance, with 4.56 per cent. Mining Smallest The smallest class of income is from the mining and quarrying business. The number of stores is nearly twice as great as the number of farms and manufacturing plant put together. There were 297,133 incorm s reported from trade, as against 104,834 from agriculture, and 59,5 i.3 from manufacturing. lii manufacturing, food products, beverages and, tobacco led both in number of plants and in income derived. Textiles were next. Metal products lan a poor third, followed by printing and publishing establishments. Os the Jatter there were 7,463, yielding a total net income of $28,404,608. Quick Change “What is it, Willie?” “When we ride in the cars today, if I tell the conductor that I am under 12, can I be old enough to go to the mo\ies ; alone after supper?”— American Degion Weekly,
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Tinkering By HAL COCHRAN When from work you’re away and you plan for a day just to loaf around home, it is true, that your plans run amuck and you always get stuck, for the wife finds you plenty to do. The icebox is tainmd; the screens must he painted; v€u humbly get down on your knees and fix up the chest while in old clothes you’re dressed; then you get out the paint, if you plea.se. It isn't a joke that the babe’s bed is broke; a couple of slats fallen through. With a hammer and nail to the job you must sail, for the fixing it up's up to you. The porch must be scrubbed and the window panes rubbed and the furniture’s needing a shine. You work right &long, righting things that are wrong, if your Jot is the same as is mine. Yes, you'll sure be outguessed on that day that you'd rest, for the married men always have found that the Missus gets dizzy at keeping them busy; just workin’ and tinkering 'round. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Torn Sims Says These July days are not so much, but these July nights beat the famous Arabian nights. Fish statistics show every fish weighing over 60,000 pounds has escaped nine times this summer. Women can keep secrets. A man "seldom knows he is going to be married until it is time for him to know. Cops are hunting an Ohio newlywed oecause he was so shy. Wrote some checks and was shy of a bank account. These fickle youths know nothing about handling money. In San Francisco, a boy swallowed $lO The airplane will never take the place of the auto until you can park along a dark cloud. Many college boys looking for vacation jobs would make excellent eigaret demonstrators. Many a girl who can’t cook can wield a wicked lipstick, and we can t say which tastes the best. A fish is what never stays where it looks like a swell place. Mistaking the house next door for your own, late at night, is very hard on the reputation. We can’t keep up with what is going on in hot weather. We have to keep up with what is coming off. Some people can hang around bees and net get stung, but you can’t hang around some people and hot get stung. All we hope is that these women trying to act as if they were men, grow whiskers and have to start shaving. A liar is a- painless dentist.
THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1924
SOLDIERING IS POPULAR AS VACATION Young Men Are Flocking to Uncle Sam’s Training Camps. Timet Washington Bureau . 1322 A etc York A re. yj AbHINGTON, July 10. i yy Among the most popular vathis summer is a month at one of t ncle Sam's training camps, learning how to be a soldier. Capt. C. C. Lowe, who handles the applications for entrance into these citizens’ training camps, says that never before has there been so many ! men on the waiting list. Up to date 1 there have been 50,000 applications, j a considerably larger number than j the 28,000 whom it was first planned to accommodate. With the extra appropriation of SI 30.000 granted by the Senate over ,the House bill for $2,100,000, making a total of $2,230,000 for this work. Captain Lowe believes that 32,500 mer. can be trained. Citizens’ training camps were started in the summer of 1921, when 10,000 boys attended. In 1922 the number was more than doubled—--22.000 recruits were on hand. Twenty-four thousand were handled In 1923. Four-Year Course The courses given were originally known as the red. white and blue. One was given each year and the boys graduated when they had finished the blue course. The red course was devoted to the duties of a private soldier. It has been found, however, that more time is needed for the Instruction in the duties of a private soldier, so the complete course has been lengthened to four years. From now on the first year will be devoted to what is known as the “basic course.” After a boy has attended camp for four successive summers, and has finished the red, white and blue courses, he may, if he wishes, take an examination. If he passes he may be offered a commission in the Reserve Corps. General Pershing is anxious that every one, particularly mothers, should understand that boys are not enlisting in the Army when they enter one of these training camps. No boy is even kept there for the month against his will. However, because the War Department feels some responsibility for these youngsters they insist on letters which will guarantee their earnestness and good faith. Some Run Away Once in a while a boy of 17 or so wi.l think it a good chance to get away from home for a trip by telling his family that he is going to the camp. Precautions are taken that the lads will not use the camp as an excuse and try to get away from it as soon as they arrive, to carry out some plan which they have not told to their parents. Board and room are furnished free. The Government gives the recruit a suit of private’s clothes and payu him 5 cents a mile for transportation to and from the camp. John Coolidge, son of the President, took this training at Camp Devens, Mass., last summer, and ex pects to go again this summer. Already registered at Camp Meade, Bid., are 3,800 men. Thirty-nine hundred are at Camp Knox. Ky. In Camp Del Monte, Cal.; Ft. Douglas, Utah: Camp Lewis, Wash.; Ft. Worden, Wash, and Ft. Scott, Cal., there are a total of 2,800 men. Plattsburg is taking care of 1,064. NEW FORDS FOR RENT Drive Yourself—AH Models So Bed Tape. New Central Station LINCOLN GARAGE fS Kentucky Ave. Lincoln 7686