Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1924 — Page 4

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WARS AND WIGGLE-TAILS •Pg-ITOP \vars!” The Federal Council of Churches has just u sent out this message to 150,000 Protestant congregations the world over. “The war sys L em of the nations,” says the Council, “is the outstanding evil of present-day civilization. It is the most ominous anti-Christian phase of modern life. The nations are constructing more and more effective devices for wholesale destruction. Should another world war overtake us, helpless men, women and children by the million in cities great and small would be suffocated, poisoned, burned to death.’ But, warns the distinguished churchmen, wars can not be stopped “merely by picturing the horrors, the evils and sins of war. To succeed the churches must grapple with the task in ways that are practical, concrete systematic and constructive.” ■Which, of course, is dead right. , A lot of :well-meaning people everywhere are meeting and passing ringing resolutions condemning war, demanding demobilization of troops and otherwise wasting precious time. The only .way to abolish armies is to remove the danger of war. No nation is going to demobilize as long as it fears being attacked, no matter how peace-loving it may otherwise be. Nor, to be perfectly frank, should it. Yellow fever was not put down by telling the world how dreadful it was, how many people it killed, or how fine it would be if it could be stamped out. Nor yet was it abolished by burning sulphur around the house to keep mosquitos away. It /as done away with by draining off the marshes and spreading crude petroleum on the surface of mosquito-breeding pools—in short, sanitation—by getting at the wiggle-tails which produced the mosquitos which in turn produced yellow fever. By universal cooperation we, the peoples of all earth, must make the world sanitary—get at marshes and cess-pools of international skulduggery and remove the causes which lead to war. We must kill war like they killed the Yellow Jack—by getting at them before they start, while they are still in the stage of the wiggle-tail.

VOTE LIKE YOU KICK By HARRIS J. BIXLER, IT. S. Representative from Pennsylvania. IMERICAN citizens are responsible for the character of ___J their government—whether it be Federal, State or local. Our public officials are nominated and elected by the people. The underlying cause of most political evils of today is the indifference of our citizens to their right of suffrage. Even the briefest study of nomination and election figures shows that the majority of the legal voters are taking no part in either their party primaries or the general elections. Less than half the citizens of the United States voted in the presidential election of 1920. The percentage taking part in the congressional elections of 1922 was even less. Representative government is not automatic. It is not self-supporting. It draws not only its authority from the people, but it draws its strength and vitality from them. Lnless they participate in public affairs in an active and intelligent manner their government must of necessity cease to oe representative. FATHERS’ DAY came and went, just as father does every day. INDIANA BOASTS a goose egg weighing 14 ounces. Must be a Democratic candidate for something in it. ANOTHER THING about these graduates: They are now in a position to learn something, if inclined. NOTHING AT ALL can stop the steady march of progress. A valise in which bottles can not upset has been Invented. MR. GEORGES CARPENTIER’S announcement that he has retired from the ring seems to have a real punch in it this time. AMONG the latest expeditions is that of the Boston newspaper man who, trusting in Providence, has just left to study wild life in Rhode Island. # A WALL ST. messenger has run away with $45,000 and there is fear among the bulls and bears that the lost sheep was once a lamb who took his gambols seriously. THEY’VE FOUND in Italy a pre-historic cave containing a skeleton crouched over a stone table. Some telegraph operator, ’way back, tried to take the details of a Democratic convention and perished miserably.

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SOME STARS BRIGHTER THAN SUN ( Ancient Arabs Gave Names to Some Heavenly Bodies, By DAVID DIETZ ' Science Editor of The Times HE Arabs rot only recognized the constellations of the Great Dipper*, as have men. in every climate and in every age, but as they rode across the desert on their horses they felt that they bad grown to know each star intimately and to each they gave a name. We, too, will feel that the stars in the dipper are our friertds if we take the slight trouble to learn the names the Arabs gave them. The star at the tip of the handle of the dipper is named Alcaid (pronounced al-kaid). Alcaid means “the chief." Go outdoors tonight and look at it. You will notice that it is bluish

THE ANCIENT ARABS GAVE THEM THEIR NAMES. white in color. This means that it is a very large and a very hot star. It is much larger and much brighter than our own sun. Alcaid is the second brightest star in the dipper. But in 1847 the great astronomer Herschel called it the brightest star in the constellation. Consequently maaj 1 astronomers think that it must have lost in brilliance since. The fact that the Arabs called it “the chief' also leads one to believe it must have been the brightest, although they might have named it because of its position in the constellation. The next star in the handle of the dipper is Mizar (pronounced mee-zar). Mizar is bluish white in color, too. hut ranks fourth in brilliance among the stars of the constellation. Mizar means “the girdle." There is a surprise awaiting you in Mizar. Stare at him very intently. If you look real sharp you will see a tiny little star just above Mizar. so close to him that it is almost hidden in the light from Mizar. The Arabs called this star Alcor, which means “the near one.” So you see there are really eight stars in the dipper. The Arabs sometimesgalled Mizar and Alcor together the “horse and

AkCOR V. MliAO ai iCAfP **A - Ai.icrrH dubmb^ MeoßEit * j THE NAMES OF THE STARS IN THE GREAT DIPPER. rider." They also called Alcor “the test,” because the ability to see Alcor was a good test of one’s eyesight. Mizar has other surprises for us. But these we cannot see for ourselves unless we have a telescope. The telescope reveals that Mizar really consists of two stars so close together that they appear to the eye as one. And that delicate instrument, the spectroscope, reveals that the larger of the two component stars is really two stars itself, but so close together that not even the telescope will reveal the fact. So you see that when you look at Mizar you are looking not at one star but at three that appear as one. The next star in the handle of the dipper is the brightest of the whole constellation. It Is named Alioth (pronounced ald-oth), which means the “tail sheep.” The star where the handle Joins the bowl of the dipper is named Megrez, (pronounced mee-grez). Megrez has a yellow tinge and is the faintest star in the dipper. The star at the bottom of the dipper below Megrez also has a slightly yellow tinge. Its name is Phecda. There remain only the pointers, of which more will be said later. These

THE ARABS THOUGHT ALCAR A GOOD TEST OF EYESIGHT. are named Merak and Dubhe (pronounced mee-rak and du-hee). Merak Is a beautiful white star with a greenish tinge while Dubhe is yellow in color. These last four stars get their names from the fact that the Great Dipper, as we shall see later. Is part of a larger constellation, the Great Bear. Megrez means “the root of the bear’s tail;” Phecda, “the thigh of the bear;” Merak, the “loin of the bear.” Duhbe means simply "the bear.” Next article: Motions of the Great Dipper. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz.) A Thought Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea. strife and reproach shall cease.—Prov. 22:10. * • * The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.— Budgell. How Bob Looks “Did you notice Ethel’s bob?” “Bob? It looks like the very old Harry.”.—Boston Telegram.

The Linotyper By HAL COCHRAN Some thought should be spqnt on the linotype gent who tipkles a keyboard all day. Why© news is still ripe he sets it in type and it shortly is sent on its way. The paper you read is just grown from the seed that flows from a lino machine. The keen operator’s a trusty dictator who makes rapid use of his bean. When copy is written he shortly is hittin’ his keys in a forty-mile gait. His fingers are trembling while type is assembling for he can’t afford to be late. He knows what is doing; what news dope is brewing, a long time before you and me. For, while news is breaking his fingers are taking it down just as fast as can be. The word waits each day (or the papers to scan, while the lino man’s plugging away, for the man who sets type is the type of a man who sets up the news of the day. So, while you are reading this paper tonight, let all proper credit be hurled! It’s due to the fellow who sets the news right with the hand that informs all the world. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

MORE FACTS ARE ASKED BY READER ‘White Collar Martyr’ Answers Letter of ‘Progressive Voter,’ To the Editor of The Time* mT seems to be one of the tragedies of life that those most capable of directing the I larger affairs of the State and nation are rarely discovered until the ] time has passed when their services I would have been most valuable. As one of the poets has expressed | it: “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air." etc. Such seems to have been the un- | fortunate experience of the person j whose letter appears in your issue ! of July 8. In one short coulmn of well-chosen I words your contributor presents the j solution of all governmental and eco- ! nomic problems, even to th> pulling I down, of the mighty oligarchy of the aristocratic postal workers. However, some important details are lacking, and in the absence of all the minutiae this masterpiece appears to the discriminating public much tike the old Mother Hubbard dress—covers the thing and doesn’t touch anywhere. There is one point at least on which some of us would like to have more light. In connection with his statement that “if the postal employes are not satisfied with their wages, they should relinquish their places in favor of the thousands of good, capable people who would be j glad to fill them," just what method would he have them adopt? Would he recommend that they all quit at the same time, or should they drop out by ones and twos over a period of say ten or fifteen years, so that this new force of capable ones may be trained without impairing the quality of the seA-ice? Now if Mr. Progressive Voter would elucidate this feature of his program and overcome his retiring modesty long enough to permit his identity to be established, we will agree to use all the pernicious influj ence of the postal employes to help him secure one of these coveted positions. ONE OF THE “WHITE-COL-LARED MARTYRS.” Likes Editorial i To the Editor of The Times: Your manly and straightforward ' editorial of .July 4, under the capj tion, ’Bob Will Be Welcome,” is | not only refreshing to the writer, but j I am sure it echoes the heartfelt ! sentiment of every honest voter and independent thinker the country over. Every straight-thinking man and woman will rejoice to read in one of Indiana’s leading dailies just what they have been thinking for some time. The able and timely article mirrors to a nicety the reflective thought of a great and increasing throng of people who have become thoroughly tired of the tactics of both old parties. P. FL TRAVERSE.

Nature A possum at birth weighs only a fifth of a gram. But this is one of the few animals of the world that are only half bom. For weeks the tiny baby lies in its mother’s pouch seemingly lifeless but with its lips glued to a nipple. Mrs. Alligator is laying eggs In the shore sahris or mud right now, and by the end of July there will be forty to sixty eggs in the nest. The sun’s heat incubates them. A full grown Suharo cactus of southwest United States, the world’s most beautiful cactus, will reach a height of fifty to sixty feet and be 160 to 200 years old. There are whole forests of them in Arizona.

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ALL BONDS NOT OWNED BY THE RICH i Survey Shows Tax Exempt Securities Are Weil Distributed, By HERBERT QUICK. SHE advocates of the Mellon proposal to amend the Constitution of the United States so as to permit Congress to tax securities now exempt from taxation, are put in a deep hole by the report of the Federal Trade Commission. They have insisted that these securities are bought by multimillionaires to avoid taxation. The report tells us that only a litt}e over oneeighth of the tax-exempt bonds are in the hands of people with incomes of over SIO,OOO a year. About a quarter of them are in the hands of corporations—most of them banks, one feels sure, in accordance with the banking laws—and the great balance about among the folks with incomes of less than SIO,OOO a year. And one must have a lot more than slo,ooo' a year to rank among the malefactors of great wealth. And that ends the great argument for the amendment.

Change Argument The advocates of the plan to subject our States, cities, counties and our farm loan system to Federal taxation on their bonds are now driven to the argument that the taxexempt securities ajlow a great volume of money to go into “non productive" or “static” investment. While money for all safe business is as low as now, this is an argument lacking on force. But what really is done with*' the money raised by the sale*of taxexempt securities? The farmer pays off an old mortgage, or he buys materials for improvements. In either case the money goes back Into active business. A city paves, or huilds waterworks or sewers or schoolhouses, or a State builds roads. The money employs labor or buys materials. In all cases it helps business quite as much as though it were loaned to one of the Mellon concerns or any other big business which is/flghting for the amendment. Plot Deepens The desire for the amendment is based on quite another and a concealed ground. It does not grow out of any scarcity of money, or high interest rates on taxable securities. The plot is deeper and more secret than that. It grows out of a desire on the part of the big interests to give Congress the power to cripple the States and municipal corporations and the Federal farm loan system by taxing their bonds. The power to tax is the power to destroy. What the proposed amendment seeks to do is to give the big interests the power to destroy the States and the counties and school districts and many other agencies of the people in their service to the people, and to turn that service over to the big Interests. Remember that when you vote for your Senators and Representatives. In New York By STEVE HAXNAGAN NEW YORK. July 11— Hell’s Kitchen, one of the most notorious gang-breeding spots in all New York, ts serene. The boom of pocket cannons and the clang of patrol wagons is replaced with the tuneful tinkle of ukelele strings and the harmony of hall-room quartettes. The noisiest note ir. the Kitchen now is the clash of colors of hodcarriers and plasterers’ daughters treking out to a Saturday night Jib. Where once predominated slinking figures in misfit clothes, with caps pulled far down over nervous eyes, the cakfxeater type, dolled to the height of fashion, now holds sway. Hell’s Kitchen’s new generation mimics the diess and manners of society. In the old days, a murder in the Kitchen was only cause for passing comment. Now it creates as much of a furore as it would in -any small town. Hell’s Kitchen earned its name many years ago and was applied to the territory between Tenth and Eleventh Aves. north of ThirtyFourth St. Hell’s Kitchen, itself was a ramshackle frame house in the middle of the block, where the gangsters met and hatched their plots. It has since been torn down. The “Tub of Blood" was the name of one of the picturesque saloons in the days when crime flourished in she Kitchen and a life was worth no more than a word of contradiction. Only one old-fashioned custom holds In the Kitchen. It is the typical Irish wake, the “sitting up” ceremonial with the dead. MBnMnnMMHHnMHMMMNI Guaranteed Service HOUSE or PAINT SI.OD GAL. 467 W. Washington Bring This for a Discount

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Family Fun One Way Albertson hated having his photograph taken, but at last he con sented. In due course the proofs arrived, and when his wife saw them she exclaimed in horror: “Oh, George, you have only got one but ton on your coat!” “Thank Heaven,” he replied, “you’ve noticed it at last! That’s the reason I had the photograph taken.”—Argonaut. Why Dad Stays Home “Your husband doesn't travel much, does he?” "No, he doesn't go away from home because he' hates to ask total strangers to flx his hair over his bold spot.”—Youngstown Telegram. Sister’s Young Man “When do you expect to marry* my daughter?” “As soon as the announcement of our engagement has given me a line of credit.” —Judge. One on Her “John, this is our anniversary* month, you remember —June, the marriage month’” “Yes, I remember. I fell in love in March, the mad month, and proposed in April, the fool month.”— Boston Transcript.

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Tom Sims Says Many a pink complexion hides a blue girl green with envy. Those not careful about what they get into find it is trouble. Standing up all night may make you as wise as an owl, but owls have no sense during the day. Tomatoes once were called love apples. So this may be why they* are best taken with a grain of salt. Lawyer claims a New York cop beat a woman in a dispute, but we claim it can’t be done. A serious shortage of people with nothing to say is reported. A quarter looks like a dollar to >*ou and a nickel to a furniture dealer. Birthday’s are celebrated before 20; after that they are cussed. They caught a famous Oklahoma bandit in Missouri, possibly because he couldn’t show them. Never make a complicated will. Just leave the money to a lawyer in the first place. Teachers who have had no luck marrying are signing up for another y*ear of teaching. •