Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1924 — Page 4

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THE PEOPLE STILL RULE OHE Indiana Bell Telephone Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company are not bigger than the State of Indiana. This question has been settled. It is more important than any mere matter of rates. In commenting on the telephone rate ease, Federal Judge Page declared: “This court is not a rate making body. All this court can do is decide whether the rates made by the commission are confiscatory. The power to make them always is with the commission.” / Mark you, he did not hold that the power rested in a court or even in a utility corporation. He held that it rested with the public service of Indiana, the duly accredited representative of the people. The effort of the telephone monopoly to take the law into its own hands backfired. It obtained an injunction preventing the enforcement of rates fixed by the commission. It then went ahead and put into effect rates higher than it ever asked anybody to allow. But the scheme failed to work. Os course, as long as there is any respect for law it is inconceivable that such thing should work. It was contrary to every theory of utility regulation and to every sentence of the law which regulates the operation of public service corporations in Indiana. The people refuse to stand for being ruled by a concern that has a monopoly on a necessity of life. And, thank goodness, the courts won’t stand for it either. There bit of irony in the fact that the case in Federal Court that resulted in rate reductions was brought by the company itself. It rushed to the court when the people protested. And it found that the court believed in upholding the law. As the matter now stands, the business telephone rates have been brought down to the level of those in existence before the company attempted to take the law in its hands and fix its own rates. The company admitted that it had fixed these rates without even taking into consideration the section of the statute that requires thirty days’ notice of a new'rate schedule. M e believe that the business 'rates now in effect are not exorbitant. TV e believe that the residence telephone rates are. This will be decided when the public service commission, in due course of time, complying withjthe law* of the State, makes a complete investigation of the affairs of the telephone company and decides on a fair rate. It is to be hoped that the commission this time will be in a position to convince the court that its rates are fair. In the past it has not always been, so prepared. This may be one of the reasons for so much utility regulation by injunction. Thfcre probably never was such a concerted effort to put an end to the tactics of an unfair utility corporation as occurred in this case. Tou may say it was because big business interests had been hardest hit if you will, but the fact remains that this effort has demonstrated that there is such a thing as fair play and obedience to law in this country. The result cannot help working to the advantage of every user of public utility service hereafter. The public service commission and the attorney general, together with all the others who gave their time and attention to this case, are to be commended. TV e can not help feeling, also, that the newspapers played a part* in thus settling one of the most important questions that ever confronted this community. The people DO rule!

RADIO IN POLITICS ‘ fQ] AY ’ what did * vou think of Newt Baker’s speech at the L~J convention?” or “That fellow Walsh certainly bangs a svicked gavel, doesn’t he?” or “Did you hear that New York erowd booing Bryan?” How many times have you heard these questions from folks m the street, right here in Indianapolis. A hundred times. May--9e a thousand. Somehow, it sounds as though every other person had lopped the train for New York and had been lucky enough to get tickets to the big show at Madisoq Square Garden. Every )ther person did attend the convention. Almost—by radio. One of the last things the Democrats did was to pass a resolution thanking the telephone and radio* companies for broadsasting the convention, making it possible, as the resolution said, for folks to sit in on Madison Square Garden from the farthest ends of the land That little resolution calls attention to the importance of radio in politics. It may be a decisive factor in the campaign ,his year, culminating in the election in November. Folks w ho ne% er read much but the headlines on newspaper stories before are reading them through, start to finish, now to ind out why it was that McAdob lines broke on the hundreth /allot, or how it happened that Smith raised the Klan issue. Folks are not taking their politics entirely second-hand now. They re sitting in on the big doings, wherever they are happenng. They won’t have to take a reporter’s word for it about vhat La Follette said and how the crowd cheered at a speech nade in Madison, W is. The country over, folks can sit in on the iffair at Madison and hear exactly what La Follette said, hoiv le said it, what went before, and what after, and exactly how the crowd reacted The same will be true when Coolidge and Davis speak their pieces for the campaign. Radio may mean a revival of political interest on the part [if the public More power to the little old crystal set.

The Candidates

Coolidge, Davis or La Foilette? Who will be the next President? Or, if no choice is made, and the House of Representatives cannot elect a President, perhaps one of the vice presidential nominees will become President. You want to know the life stories of all these men. Our

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SKY SEEMS AS IF IT IS REVOLVING Turning of Earth Gives Illusion of Motion in Heavens, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times HE two stars which form the outer side of the bowl of the J Great Dipper—Dubhe and Merak—are of special interest to us. They are called "the pointers.” This is because a straight line drawn through the two stars leads to Polaris, the north, or pole star. Every one ought to know the north s:ar and how to find it by means of the pointers. You will never need a compass on a cloud-

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THE DIAGRAM SHOWS THE GREAT DIPPER CIRCLES AROUND THE NORTH STAR AND INDICATES THE PART OF THE SKY IN WHICH THE DIPPER WILL BE FOUND IN THE EARLY EVENING IN EACH SEASON.

less night if you know Polaris, the north star. Ancient mariners, before the invention of the compass, steered their craft by the north star. Go outdoors tonight and face north. Trace an imaginary line through the pointers. It will bring you directly to a yellowish-white stir of considerable brightness. This is Polaris. Now, if you will watch the Great Dipper and Polaris for some time, keeping in mind some reference objects on the ground, such as buildings or trees, you will soon make an interesting discovery. Tho dipper Is slowly making a great circle in the sky, moving in a circle at the center of which is Polaris. The motion of the dipper is from east to west, or more exactly, in the opposite direction of that in which the hands of the clock move. If you make your observations a few hours apart, you will see that the Great Dipper has moved over a wide area of the sky. If you notice the other stars, you will see that they seem to be circling around the north star also. It is just as though the whole dome of the heave ns were turning on an axis that passed through the north star. Os course, the dome of the sky isn’t turning any more than the sun is moving across the sky, although it seems to us each day as though the sun traveled through the sky from East to West. What Is really happening is that the earth is rotating on its axis from West to East, and just as this motion makes it appear to us as though the sun were moving from East to West, so it makes the stars appear to move from East to West. Now if you will observe the position of the Great Dipper at a certain hour tonight and then watch for it to reach the same position again tomorrow evening, you will find that It reaches the same position four minutes earlier. It takes the stars four minutes less than twenty-four hours to circle the sky. In other words, the stars are four minutes "fast” each night. Asa result, if you observed the dipper at the same hour every night for a year, you would find it moved a little around the circle each evening until at the end of the year it would be back where it started. In the spring, the dipper Is above the North star In the early evening. In the summer, it is to the left of the North star, In the autumn below It, and in the winter to the right of it. This second phase of the motion of the stars is a little hard to understand at first, but if you will remember that the earth is circling around the sun, making one revolution in a year, you will see why this change in the stars takes place. As we have said, all the stars appear to move as the dipper does. It is difficult to find the constellations unless we keep these motions in mind. Consequently, before surveying the constellations, let us spend a little time seeing how these motions work out. Next Article: The motions of the stars. (Copyright. 1924, by David Dietz)

Tongue Tips • John H. Clarke, late Supreme Court judge: “International statesmanship has stood still, in fact, for 1 the past thousand years.” Dr. Charles H. Mayo, famous physician: “We have few really insane , persons among the primitive races. ; But the moment man begins to worry he imperils his mind. I might say that insanity is a peculiar result of civilization.” Dr. Carey Grayson, late President Wilson’s physician: "Asa matter of ! health precaution, of health insurance for himself, President Wilson should not have gone to Europe and afterward he should not have gone ; all over the United States. He knew | the price he was going to pay, but no man could stop him.”

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Who Knows? By HAL COCHRAN A man has ?•„ white or a blue shirt to don. They both have been laundered with care. And yet he can’t tell just which one to put on, though it matters not which he may wear. He’ll go to a tie rack and gaze at his ties; in all sorts- of colors they’re dyed. The black or the brown or the green one? He sighs! It’s terribly hard to decide. His tan shoes are handy and shined bright new. His black ones are undar the bed. To put on the tan seems the sane thing to do, but he’ll clean up the black ones instead. One suit that he wears has been out in the rain; the other is pressed spick and span. He picks out the first one, which sounds quite* insane, but —isn’t"that just like a man? Just why are the men Yolks so odd about dress, and why do they fuss about clothes? It makes little difference what’s chosen, I-guess, so why do they ponder? Who knows? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK. July 12.—New York Is dance-mad. Couples whirling on dance floors as madly as an electric fan purrs, defy the summer weather. It is New York's chief recreation. Times have changed, too. It used to be the dance floor and the dance floor fringe of attending celebrities that attracted the throngs of skipsteppers. Now it’s the music. The band with the reputation for creating the most thrills per note has the rail. A band leader with the name of creating sensuous strains of syncopation receives more ardent adulation than ever a matinee idol or movie sheik. They get mash notes and anonymous telephone calls. There’s no age limit, either. I watched one man, with every age right in the world to the exalted title of “grandpa,” on the floor of a palace of jazz the other evening. He wa6 accompanied by two flappers. He didn't skip a dance the entire evening, performing as an exercise boy for the girls who might have been his daughters—hut weren't. He is a nightly guest, I was told. Women of age. hut fighting its coming, also adorn these gilded halls of dance. They come with younger men—and pay the checks. They never seem to tire of dancing. Numerous excursion boats and paj-k pavilions afford dancing “in the open.” But it seems too warm to dance any place except a swimming pool to me. after a hurried trip through jazzland. • • • “That man is so mean he’d put a tack on an electric chair,” is the way Joe Laurie Jr., comedian in “Plain Jane,” describes one of the other characters. “He could drink water out of a sieve” and “I hope he gets moths iri his mustache” are others of his numerous sag lines. • * • More people ride, in a year, on the seventy-three miles of subway and forty-two miles of elevated tracks of the Inter-borough Transit Company than ride on all steam roads in Amreica.

Nature Commonest of the garden spiders, the yellow' and black fellow, has the most wonderful web. First he weaves the usual spiral patch, but across these, in ziggy fashion, he spins a secondary web of very fine threads. This would appear to be a long tedious job, but watch him carefully and ycu’U learn that in his rear tool chest are about 150 spinarets, so that one trip across or around the web he’d spin out 150 strands. These are of gossamer whiteness. The fatal fondness of many insects for white objects is well known. Fred Thompson, Stamford, Conn., hung a pair of old winter overshoes on a nail on the back porch of his home, and Mr. and Mrs. Wren came along and built their nest in one of them. Asa rule the eagle is a solitary bird, a pair being the unit of nonassociation with other eagles, but in the Russian steppes there's a species of white-tailed eagles which hunt food in flocks. A. Thought The wicked flee when no man pur--ueth; but the righteous are bold as i lion. —Prov. 28:1. Right is the sun; the world cannot delay its coming.—Wendell ’hillips.

DEMOCRATS NOW HAVE NO PARTY No Important Issue Exists Between Coolidge and Davis, By HERBERT QUICK OR the purposes of this election, there is no longer any Democratic party. The platform means nothing, just as is the case utfth the Republican platform. The nomination of John W. Davis for President is the only result of the convention which concerns the intelligent voter. As President of the United States, Mr. Davis, if elected, will have more real power than any king or emperor in the world. That is why the floor of the Madison Square Convention was lousy with Republicans representing Big Business working for his nomination. Represents Same Interests He is the attorney of the Morgan interests. He represents as a lawyer ttfe greatest corporate Interests in the United States. Calvin Coolidge represents the same interests. Both the candidates believe that such interests should have their way in controlling the material affairs of this Nation. Therefore, the nomination of Mr. Davis was not the putting up of an opponent to Mr. Coolidgo’s policies in any essential issue. It was merely an act of the same people who nominated Coolidge to make sure of a still abler representative of their interests if Coolidge is defeated. On no important issue is there any contest between them. No matter what either of them may say. they are off exactly the same piece.

I/cmocrats Released Such being the case/ "very Democrat is automatically released from •■he duty to support the Democratic ticket There is, in fact, no Democratic ticket to support. No one cr.n justly accuse a former Democrat who votes against Davis of quitting his party He has no party left to quit. There are many reasons why such a Democrat should vote for Coolidge, ruth-r than for Davis. If Jie votes for Coolidge, he will, to be .- ure, vote against every liberal and progress.ve principle in American life, igtlnst- the things for which men who believe in the redemptive fore* f true democracy have workedJdr decades But he will vote against them Ju.it the same if he votes for Davis. The two men essentially stand for exactly tho seme things, , But if such a Democrat votes for Coolidge. he, will do one righteous thing. He will strike a blow at the political perfidy which placed a man lia* Davis on the Democratic ticket. He will do hts part to scourge treason to democracy. And the sCourge ought to tie applied John \V Davis should he sent into that no-man’s-land of politics to which Alton B. Parker was consigned, and In the same way.

Tom Sims Says Conservative estimates show all photos snapped on- vacation* have been shown to everybody. People who don't look before they leap land ir. disgust. Sharp eyes will not scratch a keyhole. There are sermons in stones, and a large stone in a ring gives a girl the right to preach. A good shimmy dancer has the advantage of being able to rock the baby to sleep standing up. The established fact that opposite* attract may he why poor girls like to marry rich husbands. While lightning only strikes once In the same place, some people get thunderstruck every day. • * . The average man thinks the world would be a fine place If everybody had sense enbugh to be like him. Many people are afraid to dive in shallow water. We need more like them. Man wants but little here below his chin in hot weather. It is easy to get too sick to work and still feel just well enough to go fishing. Many men can't go forward because they always have the brakes on to keep them from slipping backward.

Science Harnessing the ocean tides for power is being experimented with and written about more than at any previous time, although this is a centuries-old scientific problem. For several years the sea has furnished power for the city of Asbury Park, N. J. In France 28,000,000 francs has been provided by the government for the construction of dams and electrical machinery on the coast of Brittany, where there is a tidal difference of twenty-five feet. This project is expected to develop several thousand horsepower of electricity, and sh pay for tiself in two years. A p-oject that is the opposite to this is the form of the energy used to develop' the power is the plan to harness the great volcano Tatio, in the mountains between Chile and Bolivia. Engineers plan to convert into electric power the energy developed by the boiling lakes in Tatio’s depths, and to use it to conquer the mountains with electric railways. Wife’s Fortune Teller “Beware of a tall, dark man with a scar over the right eye,” "Him?” Don’t you worry about him. He’s my husband and I gave him the scar!”—Passing Show.

The Return from Madison Square

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PASTOR HAS SOME WAYS TO WIN FAN The Rev, R, R, Brown Is Called Billy Sunday of Radio, Hu SEA Service r~ —| MAHA. Neb., July 12.—Rev. |j r j| R. R Brown of this city is ,he Billy Sunday of radio. He takes off his hat and coat and performs and perspires before the microphone of Station VVOAW here, just as the famous evangelist has been noted to do before his congregation. He talks personally to poolroom loungers, hospital patients and isolated men. women and children, as though he were pointing a direct linger at them. And he gets results. “Hey. you guys in that garage." he'd ejaculate. “Take those hats off your heads and those cigarettes out

REV, R. R. BROWN OF OMAHA. NEB.. LETS HIS CONGREGATION STAY HOME WHILE HE DELIVERS HIS SERMONS TO THEM BY RADIO. HERE HE IS AT THE MICROPHONE. WITH HIS VYEAROLD DAUGHTER, MARYLIN JEAN, WHO WAS NAMED “THE RADIO BABY” BY HIS CONGREGATION.

of your mouths and bow with me in prayer!” Or he’d say, “You hard-boiled mossback, lying there on that couch. Get down on your knees and thank the Lord for all he’s done for you.” Sunday after Sunday Brown prepares his sermons for his ever-grow-ing radio congregation. By plowing through more than six thousand appreciative letters, he has learned he is being consistently listened to by a congregation that covers the entire Middle West. “I see ’em all in the steel-framed circles of my microphone,” Brown declares. “There's the husband who won’t go to church with his wife. There’s the gang at Billy’s billiard hall. “There’s a little conspmptive girl who is taking the fresh-air cure. There’s an old couple out on the farm who wnote me, ‘you have brought Sunday back to us.’ "There’s a little lad in the school for the blind who says I am making a good boy out of him. There’s a chap out in a car inspector s shanty who hasn’t gone to church for years because he has to work on Sunday. And there’s a little group of worshipers in a country school house in Colorado. “I take off my coat and preach to them till the perspiration pours down my face.” • In return this is his reward: Gifts of country butter, fresh eggs, honey, cake, homemade candy and many other things that used to make up a country clergyman’s pay years ago. £

Ask The Times You can gel an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington D. C.. inclosing 2 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 are confidential.—Editor. How many miles is it from Philadelphia to London? From the Market St. wharf, by the northern route, it is 3,456 miles; by the southern route, 3,566. What is the noimal weight of an adult who is 5 feet, 6 inches tall? One hundred and fifty-five pounds. How many persons visit the national parks of the .United States each year? The latest available figures are for 1922, when 1,044,502 visited them. Os what religious faiths, if any, were the murderers of our Presidents? John Wilkes Booth, who' shot Lincoln, is said to have been reared in the Roman Catholic Church; Charles Jules Ouiteau, who shot Garfield, had been a member of many faiths,

not including the Roman Catholic; Leon F. Czolgosz, who shot McKinley, professed no religion; John Schrank, who attempted to kill Roosevelt, was reported to be a Roman Catholic. Is it true that the cross-section of a pearl shows it to 1* structurally just like an off dinr.ry onion? Yes. How many male and female teachers are there in the United States? According to the 1020 census, 05,654 men and 553.648 women; What is Harold Bell Wright's address? Tucson, Ariz. Where did Scott get the name Ivanhoe? He selected it from the name of a manor. Hew much buttr can be made of one pound of butter fat? One and a fourth pounds. What animals hibernate? Bats, bears, some animals of the rodent order, such as the porcupine, the dormouse, some squirrels; all the animals belonging to the classes of amphibia and reptilia, such as tor-' toises, Jizards, snakes, frogs, and many species of mullusks and insects. With frogs and amphibious reptiles the dormant state is very common, and if the temperatifre is kept low by artificial means they may remain dormant for years.

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924

“BOSSES ROB POSTOFFICE EMPLOYES 99 Reader Declares Increase in Salaries Would Do No Good, To the Editor oi The Tiitet ROM what I gather from reading the “Voice of the i- People” 1 am reminded that seme have others have none. All arfe or. the hunt of cents and some ways of going about the acquisition of same causes a variety of cents to ascend. I have been reading with disgusting interest many notes about the proposed increase in postal employes’ salaries, and from them I gather that very few of the writers seem to know or have even the least idea what this is about. I will hand out my idea of the matter in as few words as possible. In the first place these employes are receiving plenty for the job they are filling (if they were allowed to .keep all they receive) but the crafty political boss who is responsible for him holding his job exacts a certain per cent of his income. This per cent the postal employes must promise to turn over to the guy of great, grand and powerful political influence before he gets his job. This cuts the worker's salary to where he is almost compelled to ask for an increase. If the employe's salary was raised he would receive (get to keep) no more than he now does (keep). Th:s move to increase the postal employes’ wage is simply a grand move to enable the crafty politician to exact a greater amount of that wage. I know this. I have been there, having resigned from a postal position because of this very thing.—N. R. B.

Collosal Blunder To the Editor of The Times It is always a collosal blunder for any convention to mix religion with politics. The writer, born and reared a Catholic, quite frequently attends services in all churches and has come out feeling better for having attended. Might I respectfully suggest that these ultra-theologians of all creeds are doing the cause of Christianity harm by their extreme orthodox teachings. They can put this in their pipes and smoke it. It is the height of folly for two men to put their party above their country, thereby dead-locking the convention. It Is especially wonderful what political influence Mr. Bryan, the political jinx of the century has. The country is fast becoming disgusted with the tactics of both the old parties. Independent voters are hoping and praying that some party will rise above party and bring this country of ours back to her original moorings. WILL F. FOLEY.

Family Fun The Pretty Bookkeeper A handsome young chap strode in, "Do. they keep automobile accessories here?" The little bookkeeper smiled her sweetest, “Only me,” she replied.— Good Hardware. Too Tough for Sister “Do babies really come from heaven, mother?” “Why, yes, dear. Don’t you believe it?” "So far as I’m concerned—but its pretty hard to swallow abouc little Harold.”—Judge. One by the Hired Girl The hired girl walked briskly in:o the grocery and dropped her bag on the counter. "Give me a chicken,” she said. "Do you want a pullet?” the grocer asked. “No,” said the girl, “I want to carry it.”—Progressive Grocer. Cheer for Hubby “I wish you wouldn’t talk while I’m shaving; you've made me cut my chin.” "Never mind, dear, you've got two more.”—Judge.