Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE. E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROT W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORX. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • " Client of the United Press, the XEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing * C>.. 214 220 W Maryland St.. Indianapolis • • * Subscription Bates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 3500. FOUR INSTEAD OF FOUR HUNDRED nrrriOUß HUNDRED arrested in police round-up” sounds r as if the Indianapolis police were feverishly active. They are, but what are they accomplishing? The answer is, little or nothing. The police department, under the direction of Mayor Shank [n the absence of Chief Rikhoff, is making a “clean-up.” It is raiding poolrooms and similar places and making wholesale arrests on vagrancy charges. Professional bondsmen are reaping a harvest and the city court will be worked overtime discharging defendants against whom the police have no evidence. The police are not catching criminals in this round-up. They are arresting a few loafers and a lot of working men who have little other diversion than the corner poolroom. Is there any more reason for arresting a man because he chases a little ivory ball over a grpen table than there would be arresting some of the rest of us. who occasionally chase a little rubber ball over a green field? The police have made 400 arrests and probably will make more. We could suggest four arrests that would be of much greater importance and would do much more credit to the department than all these 400 put together. For instance, why not a couple of the murderers who are still at large—say the murderers of Orme and the Watson boy —and one or more of the men who blew the safes in Ayres' store, and possibly a filling station bandit or a bank robber?

GOVERNOR BRANCH AND TELEPHONES GIOVERNOR Branch is to be commended for his statement | ___ setting out his attitude toward public utility regulation and particularly toward the tactics of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. While his statement may seem to have come a bit late, due to the agreement to reduce rates, his attitude is a proper one and should guide the State in further dealings with the telephone company and with other public service corporations. “The present commission will be inclined to encourage competition for the protection of the public if this is required,” he said in speaking to the Republican editors at West Baden. He continued: „ “The Legislature can be convened for the purpose of devising a law which will give complete control of utilities to the State and prevent the companies from going into Federal Court if they are not pleased with the findings of the public service commission.” First, as to competition. There has been during the last few years a decWed tendency to consolidate public utilities. We are beginning to feel the effects. Telephone rates started upward after the consolidation. Water rates are up. Gas rates are high. Care fare recently was increased. The concerns that service are monopolies in their field. L- - competition in the public utility business in Indianapolis is between the light and power Companies. And light and power rates are comparatively low. There is no getting around the fact that competition means lower rates. It should be encouraged wherever possible. Governor Branch’s second proposal may not he so sound as his first. Frankly, we doubt the ability of the Legislature to prevent a public utility from going into Federal Court. Utilities have gone into court on the ground that their property was being confiscated without due process of law in violation of the Constitution of the United States. The Legislature could hardly go beyond the Constitution. If, however, there is any possibility of strengthening the public utility law to make State control more certain, it should be done. Those who would abolish the public service commission have learned their lesson. They have seen from the act'on of the telephone company what happens when a utility is relieved from control. We would like to see a user of an indispensable utility service go into court sometime and ask for an injunction against exorbitant rates on the ground that his property is being confiscated by the utility in violation of the Constitution. GRADE CROSSINGS |F COURSE, the ideal way to prevent grade crossing accidents is to do away with grade crossings. This will come eventually, but it takes time. The second best way is to guard the crossings. The fact that many dangerous crossings in Indianapolis were not guarded came as a revelation to many citizens. The investigation by The Indianapolis Times revealed the fact that in some instances crossings which city ordinances required be guarded were not guarded. Why the railroad companies would not provide watchmen or gates and thus avoid responsibility is hard to understand. However, with a little urging, results have been accomplished and watchmen have been stationed at many crossings. This is a real step toward safety for both motorists and pedestrians. The placing of watchmen may save many lives in Indian- ' apolis. A CALIFORNIA man has married his mother-in-law, which [will jolt those who still scoff at the wonders of that climate. “THERE ARE NO policemen in heaven,” says a preacher, , which sounds like the start of a boom movement.

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ONCE THEY BELIEVED IN SKY MUSIC Ancients Thought Spheres Moved and Made Sound, By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. —■2l HEN we gaze at the sky it \)y appears to us as though all YV the stars were at an equal distance from the earth and fastened to the inner side of a dome or sphere above the earth. The ancients thought that this was really the case. They imagined that a series of crystal spheres surrounded the earth and that these turned about it. They believed that the spheres made heavenly music as they turned and some with good imagina-

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THE DIAGRAM HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND THE APPARENT MOTIONS OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERE. IT IS JUST AS THOUGH YOU WERE SITTING INSIDE A HOLLOW SPHERE WHICH WAS REVOLVING ON AN AXIS WHILE A PLATFORM ACROSS THE MIDDLE ALLOWED YOU TO SEE ONLY THE UPPER HALF. IT IS THE HOIJIZON WHICH ACTS AS THIS PLATFORM.

tions even professed to be able to hear it at times. The great English poet. Milton, speaks of "the music of the spheres,” in one of his poems. Today we know that the case is different. We know that the stars are great flaming suns, that the nearest star is 275,000 times as far away as our sun and that many stars are more than 1,000 times farther away than that. Eut in studying the constellations, we are not interested in the actual distance or location of the stars, hut only in their apparent position against the dome of the sky. Consequently, for this purpose the astrohomer, speaks of the "celestial sphere" just as though the sky really wer>> a dom> over our heads. A line projected into-the sky from our north pole marks the north pole of the celestial sphere or the north . celestial pole as the astronomer calls It. Celestial Equator A lino drawn around the sky parallel with the equator of the earth marks the celestial equator. As we know, our earth is turning on its axis from west to east. Asa result of this the celestial sphere seems to be turning around the pole star from east to west. The earth is also revolving around ! the sun. The result of this motion j is to make the celestial sphere sem Ito gain four minutes each night, i That is, a constellation In any po I sition at a certain time tor ght will j reach that same position tomorrow night m just four minutes ’.ess than twenty-four hours. Now this has an important bearing upon our view of the constellations. The earth upon which we live makes it impossible for us to see more than half the celestial sphere at a time. We can only see the pait above the horizon. Furthermore, we cannot watch stars for the full twenty-four hours, as we can only see the stars between ! sunset and sunrise. When the sun is up, the bright light of the 3un makes the -stars Invisible. Reference - to the accompanying illustration will show that the stars close to the north celestial pole are always above the horizon. Consequently they will be visible eveiy j night.

Time Differs But stars farther from the north celestial pole are only above the horizon part of the twenty-four hours. The diagram makes this clear. Now let us suppose a certain star rises, or comes up above the horizon, at 9 p. m. tonight. Tomorrow night it will rise at four minutes to 9, the next night four minutes still e rlier, and so on. „ As the months pass it will soon be rising in the daytime and hence will be invisible at night. This explains why the night sky looks different in each season of the year. In the summer certain constella tions are visible in the evening and others are invisible because they j are below the horizon at njght. Six months later the situation is ! reversed. But as we have said, the con- ; stellations close to the pole star ! never sink below the horizon and so ; are visible the year round. Let us survey these constellations I first. Then, since this is summer, we : will pass on to the summer con- ! stellations next. NEXT ARTICLE: THE GREAT i BEAR. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz) Nature New Virginia racial purity law makes you white if you have no more j than one-sixteenth American Indian blood in you. This lets in descendants of Pocahontas. * * * E. R. Welch, Florida nimrod, will i hunt mountain lions in Colorado this ; summer with the bow and arrow. I Says he can put an arrow through a one-inch plank.

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That Light B yHAL COCHRAN When you’re down in a cellar that’s dark as can be, and you're scarchingly groping about, you Jdst about find what you’re trying to see —then the pesky old candle goes out. A man holds a match box, there’s one match within it. 'Tls struck for a pipe light, no doubt. And then while he stops just to chat for a minute —the match flickers down and goes out. Y’ou sit by a lamp and you pick up a book. Then suddenly you are disgusted. So often, before you have taken a look, the lamb globe goes black, ’cause It’s busted. Old Sol sends his rays through your front window pane and it hints of a beautiful day. Then, almost in nothing, the clear turns to rain as a cloud up and gets in the way. The lights that you light in ’he darkness of night and the light that turns night time to day. are fine when they're lit, but they don't make a hit when they suddenly flicker away. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNIGAN NEW YORK, July 14.—Years ago, at the climax of an unhappy romance, she vowed no man ever would see her face again. * That was years ago, for she is now an old woman. But no man ever hah seen her face since the girlhood day she made her VOW. Over the lower portion of her face, covering her mouth and nose, site wears a black mask. It appears to he part of an ancient stocking. Her skirt is a combination of no less than three vari-colored petticoats of another period. She wears a burlap apron, tied about her with rope strong enough to bind Hie Leviathan to her pier. Alone, she lives in a decaying house that once stood for wealth and position in the community. The garden is overrun with weeds and the glass has not been cut in years. The recluse babbles of days that were, of money coffers slowly being drained. All that is gleaned on the fringe of a little village, forty-two minutes from Broadway; at a resort town popular with big-town folk on holidays. • • * In “speakeasies,” where food, as well as illicit beverages are served, the waiters invariably ask “good beer?” when one asks for a drink of beer. They construe near-beer to mean bail bee \ • • The New York idea of publicity Is amusing. A young musical composer, just coming Into his own, asks advice from two friends, both newspapermen. "I’ve got a chance to get mixed in a big breach of promise scandal with a Follies girl.” he confides, "that would get me on the front page of all the newspapers.” He was willing to take any chance with his name and reputation to get before the public eye. • * * A woman wearing a black satin dress, with a green print material underskirt, attracted a crowd of 100 followers on Broadway. Everybody but the wearer thought the dress funny. She thought it modish.

Science W/ IHEN man was working on "flying-machines”—and was considered crazy if he did so —most of the plans and models used man himself as the motive force. It W'as thought he had to operate a machine in some fashion as a bijd operates its wings. At a session of the Royal Society of England, in the year 1679, Robert Hooke, mathematician, read a paper in which was described a method of flying invented and used by M. Besnier, a blacksmith of Gable, County of Mayne. The contrivance consisted of four wings, folding and shutting, and worked by the hands and legs. Besnier actually flew with this. The report says "he was able to fly from a high place and cross a river to a pretty distance." One of the scientists who attended the meeting suggested that such a machine could not go far because a man soon would tire and the report of tiie session says' he recommended "making a chariot with springs and wheels that would be able to carry one or more men.” A Thought Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without ram.—Prov. 25:14. * * * Where boasting ends, there dig rity begins,.—Young.

EX-SOLDIERS OPEN HOUSE FOR ORPHANS Institution Living Memorial to Men Who Lost Their Lives. By LOUIS C. CRAMTON, U. S. Representative From Michigan. ASHINGTON, July 14. I think it is proper to call attention of the Nation to what ex-service men are doing in behalf of disabled ex-service men and their dependents. Already this program of practical aid is under way. At Otter Lake, one of Michigan's myriad inland lakes, there has been opened the first unit of the Children's Billet — a home, not an “institution.” It is to be a truly and sure-enough home for those boys and girls whose daddies are dead or incapacitated because of what they did in America’s greatest war. The site was orginally chosen by the Michigan department of the American Legion, which started the work and for a time had it under operation. Then the outstanding merit of this work caught the attention of the National Legion, i.nd it asked Michigan to turn the unit over as the first step in a country-wide program. This has been clone, and all the work is now officially under the direction of the national children's welfare committee of the American Legion.

Living Memorial The Ideal hack of this movement is that the home shall be erected as a living memorial to the men who gave their lives or their soundness of body to their country. Instead of useless marble or bronze this memorial is to be built of the future hopes and careers of war-orphaned children. It is the obligation of the American people to the men who died or were maimed for them. It is the salute of legionnaires to their comrades who have gone west. Fortunately for the physical welfare of the children. Otter Lake furnishes every opportunity for happy outdoor play. Food is fresh from the countryside and so economical that the most plentiful and scientific diet is costing not to exceed 35 cents a day. The sleeping accommodations are on an especially designed and constructed porch overlooking the waters and wooded shores of the lake. In these conditions the training of the child in right habits of health is simplicity itself. Farm Is Important The ninety-six-acre farm which surrounds the home has its important economic function. Large parts of it are available for cultivation, and these activities will have an important educational influence. On the farm are cows, horses, pijfs, chickens, turkeys, geese and dudks. On the farm itself a diversity of crops can he raised which will train those children who are interested in farming in a great variety of ways. The home at Otter Like is situated on the brow of a hill which directly overloo s the lake itself. Around ibout ate about even jartions of arable fields and open woods. About a half-mile away are two more spring lakes. The country is all rolling in character and is the high est altitude in this part of the State. With the ninety six acre site now owned in fee there is every opportunity for future expansion. The present development has been hiorght about partly by the actiyities he legionnaires of Michigan, partly by a substantial appropriation of the Michigan Legislature, and lastly, and probably most important. by the national sponsorship and efforts of . the national American Legion. The future of the Otter Lake home must he based on a realization of the greatness of the task. The number of eligible children is very large. Already the existence of the home has become known and the demand for its benevolent aid is growing- far, far beyond the possibilities of the present facilities. Because of the plan of building small cottages, the expansion can he made gradually and economically without the danger of overbuilding or unwise expenditure.

Tom Sims Says Popular songs could be worse. No song is as bad as its parodies. Maple sirup is being made from prune juice instead of brown sugar. In a sma!i town the stray dogs get you ar.c in a large town the stray bullets get you. A platitude is a familiar saying entirely surrounded by people who say, "Ain’t it the truth.” Never marry a woman who smokes clgarets and throws ashes on the floor' for you to sweep up. "Get together” is the advice given politicians. You can’t get much by yourself. Peop-e are sitting on their porches to see who goes riding to see who sits on their porches. Several ball teams have quit claiming this year’s pennant and are claiming next year’s pennant. Only thing harder to carry than two watermelons is three. * Dog days are just about due. Don’t treat your husband like a dog or he may go mad. No matter how big the auto, there are times when three’s a crowd. It is estimated some good looking girls have been taught to swim forty times this summer. Cheap matches are all right if you happen to a good one. Preachers have a good job in summer. none of their flock wanting to go where it is hotter. Feed a man every date he has and you have him half married. Window panes Inst much longer if kept away from baseball games. Lattice work keeps the rain out if the holes are stopped up neatly.

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SYRACUSE ISA TOWN OF DODDERS They Jump Out of Way of Trains instead of Flivvers. By WILL CRESSY (Copyright, 1924, by NEA Service, Inc.) YRACUSE. N. Y., July 14 Some day you should be riding along on the New York Central Railroad, and you should look out the window, and should discover that you had left the railroad track, and were running up the main street of a town, do not b* frightened; you are only passing through Syracuse, N. Y. There is probably no town irr America w hich has "gone through’,’ as much as Syracuse. Not only does the N. Y. C. go through it, but

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also the Lackawanna and the West Shore. And even the Erie and Oswego Canals puncture it. Syracuse was named for a town over on the island of Sicily, in Itly. The Italian town was started first in 734 B. C., but this one has grown faster. This Syracuse was sprouted way back in 1786, under the name of Webster's Landing. About alj the town did for the next thirty-eight years was to change names. For if you had lived there during that time you would have had to have your mall addressed in turn to Webster’s Landing, Bogardus' Landing, Milan, South Salina, Cossitt's Corner, Cossitt and Syracuse. But about that time, 1804, the town had a boom. For the whole business, 250 aci'es, was sold for $6,550. But it was a good buy at that. Owing to the prevalence of railroad tracks and canals the principal occupation of the town is dodging railroad trains and not falling into the canals. Syracuse is in the grape raising belt. Everywhere you would see them raisin’ grapes. Now all you see Is grape raisins. And, as Mr. George J. Postum said, "there’s a reason.” And, as Mister Kipling says: f • “Yeast* is yeast and the best is a And the shall .never meet.” Syracuse leads all the cities in the State in the manufacture of boots (for boot-leggers) gum-shoes (for gum-shoe agents) and plows (for planting barley malt and hops). It also has large factories for the making of coke, tar, ammonia, carbolic acid arid nitric acid and other aids -to the Home Brewers and the Undertakers. While the name of the city is Syracuse, everything else in it is, Onondaga. It was owned originally by the Onondaga Indians. The Onondaga Indian Reservation is only six miles out now. It is in Onondaga County. On the shores of Lake Onondaga. The leading hotel is the Onondaga. The Onondaga Tubercular Home is here.

Ask The Times You tan get an answer to any question of tact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave . Washington. D. C . inclosing 2 cents m stamps tor reply. Medical, legal and mantai advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential .—Editor. How can one kill the grass between the stones of a walk? By pouring kerosene or a strong salt solution on it, taking care not to pour it on the surrounding grass. What became of Judas? He committed suicide by hanging; see the 27th chapter, 3-S verses, of St. Matthews’ Gospel. Has the claim of "virgin birth” been made for anyone else but Jesus of Nazareth? There are many “virgin birth" stories derived from classical antiquity; for* example, the birth of Amenophis 111 of Egypt is described on the walls of the temple of Luxor as from a virgin and the god of Thebes-Amnon-Rai; Asshurbanipal is described as one whom the gods Asshur anti Sin formed in the midst

of his mother: the story of King Sargon of Agade about 2,800 B. 0., relates of himself that he was of a vestal mother; Pythagoras is reported as the son of Apollo; Alexander the Great wished to be known, not as the son of Philip, but as the son of the god Zeus. In Rome antiquity, there is found the tradition of Rorrmlous and Remus descended from a vestal virgin and having the god Mars for their father. The Emperor Augustus gave out that he was the son of Apollo. Who was the last widow of a Revolutionary soldier to be on the pension roll? Esther S. Damoh. of Plymouth Union, Vt., who died in 1906. age 92. Can dogs have appendicitis? Strictly speaking, they cannot, as there is no appendix to the caecum, but they do occasionally suffer from inflammation of this part. Is it true that a rabid dog is afraid of water? No: before the symptoms are fully developed he drinks a great deal and even during the latter stages, though unable to swallow, he will thrust his muzzle ,nto a basin of water and try to drink. Family Fun Wifey’s Hot Question "A month ago I made my will, and everything is left to you.” "What are you waiting for then?” —Szczutek (Lwow.) Hope Arouses Dad “This paper says that a Springfield woman has a baby that never cries.” " “By George! I tyonder how she’ll trade. —Boston Transcript. Willie’s Sunday School “And did you enjoy Sunday school?” “I was just going to when the teacher saw me.” —American Legion Weekly. Tho Maid Obeys "Did you open the parlor window?” “Yes, ma’am. Can’t you hear the wind blowin’ things over?”—Judge.

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FINNS A RE NOT SAME AS R USSIANS Country of Men Who Figure in Olympic Games is Progressive. By FRANK J. TAYLOR ■ 1 LOT of folks thinks of those A Finns, who gave the AmerH icans such a hard run for first place honors at the Olympic games, as a branch of the Russian family. Nothing could make the Finns more angry. They are not Russians, and they want the world .to know it. They hate the Russians, who for years have dominated Finland. Perhaps a few words about the Finns will interest folks who read the sporting page more than they do geography or history. The writer visited Finland, following travels in a dozen other European countries, and he was impressed with the fact that the Finns have made their “Land of Marshes,” as the country is known in the native tongue, the most civilized and progressive state in Europe. Finns Are Alert Where the Russians are easy-go-ing, the Finns are alert and efficient. While Russian cities E.re known for their filth, Finnish cities are remarkable for their cleanliness. While Russian trains run when they get ready, Finish trains are on time and are speedy. While the Russian children go to school if they want to, the Finnish youngsters are so educated that Finland has the lowest percentage of illiteracy in the world, lower by far than that of the United States. Who, then, are these Finns? Their nearest kin in the families of nations are the Hungarians. The Finns came originally from, around the Ural Mountains, in Asia. They fought their way for a thousand miles across Russia, back in the Middle Ages. They refused to amalgamate with the Russians, as did so many lesser peoples. Under Own King Under their own kings and possessed of an invincible national pride, they flung together until they reached the land of lakes and marshes between Sweden and Russia. They defended themselves from both the Russians and the Swede3. though at times they were con quered and ruled by both nationalities. Following the war they broke away from Russia and established a republic, of which they are tremendously proud. Their capital is the little city of Helsingfors, clean, hospitable, beautiful. Finland is a welcome sight to the American who has been abroad some time. Traveling across Finland on the train reminds one of a journey across Michigan, or Wisconsin, or Minnesota, with the lakes, the neat farm houses, the well-kept farms and the trim little villages. They Cooperate Many Finns have come to the United States. They were forerunners in the cooperative movement in this country. In Brooklyn. N. Y., where many of the settled, they have model cooperative apartment houses at a cost of about S3O a month for six rooms, which are the envy of their less cooperative American neighbors. The Finns won’t live in slums. Back home they loved good air and the outdoors; over here they insist upon it. Incidentally, those Brooklyn Finns eat bread that costs about half the regular price, because it comes from their coopera|ive baker, and they bnf their food at a cooperative store, as wholesale prices. They have brought a lot of other progressive ideas on how to live and be happy from the old country to this one.