Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1924 — Page 4

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PROSPERITY IN INDIANAPOLIS mNDIANAPOLIS citizens are prosperous. This is revealed by figures of the United States Chamber of Commerce, which show that the average income in this city is $1,335 a year. While this figure is not particularly high, it is above the average of many cities. The figures on expenditures are interesting. They show that from its income the average family spends $381.19 a year for food. With the average family containing an average of a little less than five members this means that considerably less than $2 a week is spent for food for each person. At the same time the figures show that the city’s annual retail trade is $57,000,000, a fairly high figure. Indianapolis has been called one of the most American of the cities. This is borne out by the figures which show there are only about 17,000 foreign born persons in the city’s entire population. At the same time there are about 35,000 colored persons, probably adding rather than detracting from the American aspects of the city. The Chamber of Commerce figures also show a high percentage of homes owned by the occupants, at the same- time indicating that many thousands of these homes are being paid for on payments, indicating the element of thrift. LUCK PLAYS A PART EUCK plays a big part in human events, moralists to the contrary notwithstanding. A farmer, speculating on the Chicago Board of Trade, has just made $2,000,000 in corn. Evidence in the bankruptcy trial of Former Governor Warren T. McCray showed that he had an account on the Board of Trade and speculated in grain. But he lost. Now he is in the Federal peniteniary at Atlanta, serving a ten-year sentence. What a different story have been told if McCray had won! With $2,000,000 he would have been bale to pay most of his debts. He still would be one of the largest land owners in the State and he probably still would have been the Governor and a respected citizen Luck does play a part. CAMOUFLAGE "TIDD one more item to the long list of ills brought on us by A the World War. It is Camouflage. With the signing of the armistice, we junked the machine gun, the bayonet, the hand grenade, poison gas and the like. But we overlooked that dangerous weapon, Camouflage. It has been hauled out and is now trained on the American voting public by both major political parties. How much damage it is going to do we will know next November. Camouflage, you know, is the art of making things look like what they are not. Wall Street and its allies put before us as the Republican presidential candidate Calvin Coolidge, their loyal champion and friend. Then these same interests dipped into their crmouflagekit and decorated the package with a colorful, swearing, direct actionist and publicly popular Dawes. W'all Street then turned its attention to the Democratic ticket and presented to us the presidential candidacy of John W. Davis, a Morgan lawyer, a man to be depended upon by the interests he has so ably served. Once more the camouflage kit was hauled out and this candidacy was decorated with a progressive, mid-western, temperance preaching, trust fighting Brother Charley. Both parties are as alike in strategy as they are in most other respects. Hence, both parties will use their camouflage, Dawes and Bryan, in an appeal to the masses. It doesn’t matter to Wall Street—let the masses have their Dawes or their Bryan. In either ease an impotent place in the Senate chamber is all that is at stake. It’s the White House that Wall Street wants.

WE CAN’T POINT WITH PRIDE mT’S customary to think of London as a foggy, slummy sort of place, distinctly unwholesome in comparison with New York. But the bitter truth is this ; Only sixty out of every 1,900 babies born in London died last year. In New York, sixty-seven out of every 1,000 babies died. Taking England as a whole, the infant death rate was sixty-nine out of a thousand, and in the United States it was seventy-seven out of a thousand. So far as babies are concerned, in their first struggle for life, England is the land of opportunity. America could better afford to compare unfavorably with England in trade, in gold, in armaments than to be behind her or any other country when it comes to the safety of her babies. IT IS SAID the Prince of Wales now thinks of trjung matrimony. Riding for another fall ? “WHAT DID we get out cf the war?” asks one editor. Not “what did we,” but “when u-e we going to get out of the war?” WHO KNOWS but the flight of those Rhode Island legislaors to a sanitarium, in the midst of a session, may become a time-honored precedent ?

The Candidates

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STORY SAYS NYMPH WAS MADE BEAR Legend Tells of Juno's Revenge Against Callists Because of Jealousy, By DAVID DIETZ, Science Bditor of The Times. EHE ancient Greeks connected a love affair of Jupiter,' the king of their gods, with the constellation of the Great Bear. The Greeks, it will be remembered, believed that there were many gods and their home was on high Mt. Olympus. But they also believed that these gods frequently visited the earth and mingled with the people on earth and that they were stirred by the same passions and be-

ARCAS DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIS MOTHER. HE ONLY SAW A BEAR RUSHING UPON HIM. HE RAISED HIS SPEAR TO KIEL. HER.

set by the same temptations that af feet mortal men. Jupiter was the king of the gods, and Juno, his wife, was queen. The ancient Greeks pictured Juno as having a very jealous disposition. One isn’t surprised at that, for the ancient legends frequently tell how Jupiter, while wandering along the earth, fell in love with a beautiful nymph of princess whom he chanced to meet. Jupiter in Love Among the nymphs with whom Jupiter fell in love was one named Callisto, the Beautiful daughter of the King of Arcadia. Not unnaturally, Juno became exceedingly jealous. Now Callisto was famed as a huntress. So Juno, to punish Callisto, turned her into a bear. Jupiter. It seems, could do nothing For though the Greek legends portray him as the king of the gods, they also give the impression that he was somewhat afraid of the wrath of his wife Juno. The beautiful Callisto, changed irto a bear, led a very unhappy life. She was now afraid of all human beings and had to flee from those who had formerly been her companions on hunting expeditions. And she was also afraid of the wild animals of the forest, and though she possessed the form of a bear she feared the other bears and lied from them. So Callisto spent many years in the forest, fleeing from both men and beasts. Recognizes Son One day, however, she spied a youth hunting She recognized him as her own son. Areas, now grown to manhood. Forgetting herself, she rushed to embrace him. But Areas did not recognize his mother. He only saw a bear rushing upon him. He raised his spear to kill her. But at this point, Jupiter intervened. He changed Areas into a bear. Then he seized both bears by the tails and threw them into the sky where Callisto became the constellation of the Great Bear and Areas the constellation of the Little Bear, which we shall survey later. As Jupiter threw the bears into the sky, he whirled them about Ills head. This stretched their tails, according to the old legend, and that is why the Great Bear has such a long tail. The Greeks were not the only ancient peoples, however, to weave a story around the Great Bear. The American Indians also had legends about the constellation. One of the most interesting belonged to the Algonquin and Iroquois Indians who roamed the regions of the Great Lakes. Next article: The Indian story of the Great Bear. (Copyright, 1324, by David Dietz)

Family Fuji Why Not? Ak strange fact about the medical men of England is that they don’t care to be called by their titles. Except on official occasions an English medical man would rather you called him “Mr.” than “Dr.” A specialist of great renown was golfing one morning when an acquaintance shouted to him cheerily across the links: “Go4d morning, doctor!” The specialist shouted back in a gruff voice: “Good morning, wholesale manufacturer of boots and shoes!” —Argonaut. Pointers for the Cook “Ma, can’t I have another apple dumpling?” “No, dear; there is but one for each of us; the cook counted noses.” “Oh, dear! I wish she had counted ears.” —Boston Transcript. Ma's Joke on Pa “Jack’s cetrainly been engaged in some shady undertakings.” “What’s he been doing?” “Hanging awnings.”—West Vir* ginia Moonshine.

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Picnicking By HAL COCHRAN It’s one of those days when you want to get out, ’cause your nerves about worktime are kicking. You want to step forth in the open and shout, so you plan on a day of picnicking. You pack up a bottle of olives and jam; some eggs are put into the kit. There’s salad and pickles and wieners and ham. You paCk while the kids throw a fit. Then, last, but not least, there, is coffee to make apd it s poured in the old thermos bottle. You pile in the bus, which commences to quake as dad puts his foot on the throttle. Hurrah, you are off on a pic licking spree! And shortly a nice place is found. You drive to a stop ’neath a big shady tree and the lunch is spreaa out on the ground. You should be at ease, but you're not, if you please, for the day is a terrible test. The kids run and shout 'till they wear you all out; yet you call it a wonderful rest. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

POSTOFFICE EMPLOYE FIGHT ON Workers Do Not Get Jobs Through Pull, Reader Declares, To the editor of The Time* . B. R. has altogether the Y wrong idea of a postal worker and 1 doubt very much if he has ever been one. In the first places a postal employe is Hot bought in the service by a political pull. He has to take an examination, has to make a passing grade and is appointed according to the percentage he makes. Political pull has nothing to do with the common mail man. However, the argument produced by N. B. R. may hold /ood In the postmaster general's division'. These jobs are ro doubt political jobs, but, they succeeded in getting an increase from $5,000 to $7,500 per annum nnd yet every one opposed to the increase of S3OO per annum to the mail man. N. B. R. and every one else pays I increased rates on everything, but i would kick if they had to pay 3 cents to post a letter in order to give the | mail man his raise, if such a thing were'necessary, and if in bad weath : er his paper, groceries or such thing ! were late, it would be all right, because he would feel for the poor j fellow that had to be out In it. But : how about the mail man? It is a j different story. Regardless of weather conditions, he expects hi3 mail on time, and so many deliveries per day. No doubt the postal workers are j making a living wage, enough to ] exist, but we should remember uni- j form cast, and a man likes to realize j a small savings from his earnings, j Can the mail man do it? No! | People should help the mail man. j He is the greatest public servant in j the world, and enjoys to please you. MILO.

Must Teach Children To the Editor of The, Times AVhen civilized man learns to live without fighting we will need but few lawyers. As man becomes civilized and educated we will need but few doctors. When education reaches that height it is Capable of attaining, we will need but little Government to control the individual manhood of the nation nor will he bring into this life poorly developed and inferior children. This is the most important subject for our mind to develop upon. This in fact is answering tfce purpose of creation by complying with the will of the divine mind. Whep we apply the same energy and intelligence to childhood as we have in developing perfect machinery, then will this earth be transformed into a Garden of Eden in fact. Then too will the politician and financier be transported to the moon and mortgage it and own it at their leisure. We would expect, however, that a receiver would be asked for in a short time. Civilization in any clime or space can never advance to the condition it is capable of -attaining under any national condition this world has ever known. FRENCH lIOLLINSHEAD. A Thought Love the truth and peace.—Zech. 8:19. O while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. —Shakespeare. Her Net, “Two hair nets, please.” “What strength?” “Two dances and a car ride.” —Aggie Squib.

THERE ARE FEW CARS IN DETROIT Hank Ford’s Town Ruined Shoe Business, V. ,:i l \ Cressy Finds, By WILL M. CRESSY, (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ~1 ETROIT, Mich., July 16.—Detroit, the City that Ruined the 1- ■ Shoe Trade.’ The first record we find of Detroit was in 1701, when a French automobile manufacturer r y ♦he name of Cadillac, came th re and established a Detroit branch of the Cadillac factory. - The town and the shop | > and real well up until 1812, when a party of English tourists, under the command of General Brock, "came to town, knockad the town apart and put it together to suit themselves. But a year later an American patriot, Sir Henry Ford, recaptured the town, built a little shop and started making Eagle boats for the U. S. Navy and Ford cars for the rest of the population. By 1824 the town had grown so big that it was made the State capital. But it was not a success. The minute a legislator would get there he would throw up his job and go to work for Henry Ford. So, in 1847, they moved the capital to Lansing, where there would b<F nothing to disturb *he deliberations of the law makers. Pretty Village Detroit is a real pretty little village, with street cars, a moving picture theater, several papier-mache hotels and twenty-one public parks. Belle Isle, the largest of these parks, is on an island that it cost three and a half million dollars to get to. Just illustrating what Detroit folks are willing to pay to get out of town for an hour. On this island is the largest flock of. tame canoes on earth. It wa3 started in 1896 with only one pair of canoes. And by letting (Human) Nature take its course it has grown to its present size. In former years, during hard times, the other twenty parks were devoted to potato raising. But row they are given over entirely *o fruit. Peaches, Pairs, Prunes and Night Blooming Dates. They also abound in Wild Life, such as Squabs, Goslins, Ducks. Dear. Old Bucks, Sad Dogs and Young Pups, Old Hens and Y'oung Chickens, Night Hawks, Chicken Hawks, Sparrow Cops and Nurse Girls. If all the automobiles made in Detroit in a year were PAID FOR nobody in America but automobile makers and agents would have a nickel. Ford Makes .Money Detroit makes more stoves in a year than all the countries of Europe would use in fifty years In addition to all the automobiles made in Detroit, Henry Ford also mckes money. For a while there was talk of putting a Ford in the White House; but it was a flivver. Detroit is called "The Working Man’s Paradise.” No matter what trade, business or profession you follow. you can have your own newspaper or magazine in Detroit. For there are: The American Elk, the Beekeepers’ Review, the Bulletin of Phar-

macy. the Concrete Magazine, Electrocraft. the Gleaner, the Horseshoers’ Journal, the Medical Journal, the Dairy Farmer, the Investor, Motorman and Conductor, Motor News, the Retail Druggist, the Stove Mounters’ Journal. the Studio, Perin’s Stenographer, the Therapeutic Gazette—and, although I do not, know where*they get their subscribers — Truth. Vive la Detroit. Tom Sims Says Too hot to worry about politics. We haven’t even learned the names of all the new soft drinks yet. The most important thing about a political machine is the clutch. Hunt the bright side. Even cantaloupes have their good points. They never squirt in your eye. If you buy your Christmas presents from a mail order house it ts time you ordered them. The dawn of anew era is frequently obscured by clouds of pessimism. There is so much booze in New York now they have quit looking up to drunk people. Nothing tickles a real dog more than biting a pedigreed pup. Boys are not getting sick half as often as they did before vacation started. Nice thing about hot weather is a man can’t blame it on his wife. Even if sparerib prices are down, never hug a girl too hard. I < Many June husbanrls are forgetting how to drive with one hand already. Isn’t it strange how you buy a new phone raph record and in a few days the other side is the best?

A Busy Day at the Bathing Beach

In New York By STEVE HVVNAGAN . NEW YORK, July 16.—One of the clerks at the hotel in which I live is an Englishman, small of stature and unuspally active. Although he has been in the hotel j business many years he does everything as though he were an efficient beginner, trying to earn a raise in salary. He is by far the most accommodating hotel clerk I have found between New York and San Francisco. Yesterday I learned, after knowing him two years, that he is worth a fortune, made in weil-chosen business transactions. Each year he spends his vacation in Europe, spending much of his time in London, the town of his birth. He in the hotel as clerk because It gifes him an opportunity to meet so many people—’’some of whom are interesting,” he adds'. He could buy and sell the majority of guests to whom he caters. i • • New York is a peculiar place. • Ip the office building in which I work one can't ride on the passen- | ger elevator unless he has on a col- ; lar. In other words, he must be ! dressed fit to kill before he is tendered transportation. On a warm afternoon, while sweltering over a typewriter, I ran out of tobacco. I dashed for the ejevator —fully dressed except that I had taken off my collar and tucked my neckband in. ‘Take the rear elevator,” commanded the dusky operator who has

been getting all my spare cigars for months, “delivery boys an 1 help ride the employes lift. You can’t ride on this car unless you are fuljy clad.” Back in Lafayette, Ind., my home town, you could put your bathing suit on in the office and ride on the elevator to and from your swimming lessons and nobody appeared distressed. * * • "Before you make your will,” advertises a New York hank in the Fifth Ave. busses, "be sure to consult us/’ A few years ago—in the pioneering days of automotive transportation —that sign would have stricken terror in the minds of nervous people, just as it might if it were posted in the cabin of a passenger airplane today. But the busses are safe. Hubby’s Retort "Are all men as stupid as you arfe?” “No, my dear, look at all the bachelors there are.”—Kabaret.

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NAVY TRIES TO SAVE BUILDINGS Structures Built to Last Four Years Still Are in Use, Times Washington Bureau, ISBB .Vet c York Are. TyjjASHINGTON, July 16. A YV snail race against time is J under way here, with the Navy Department in the lead. This novel race is taking place in the contest of Government eftgineers to prolong the life of fifteen temporary buildings, “thrown up over night” during the war period, which are now slowly sinking into Potomac mud. When erected, the buildings were for three or four years of life, at the most. Already, they have served six years. Now the Navy and Munitions Bldgs., comprising two semi-per-manent structures having a total floor space of 1,800,000 square feet, are sinking. The huildings are erected on the Mall, which was reclaimed from the Potomac River. Engineers thought th* concrete under, inni.igs were or, ted rock. Several months ago, however, water began seeping through the flooring in\one section of the building, ruining the floor covering and causing desks to warp out of shape. The thirteen temporary buildings have a total of 2,600.000 square feet of floor space and Government engineers are trying to keep them in use until Congress, appropriates funds for permanent structures. "It costs the Government just 31 cents a square foot per year to maintain them and the two semi-perma-nent buildings, while if we were obliged to rent space in private buildings we would have to pay SI.BO a square foot,” Capt. F. W. Hoover, deputy superintendent of State. War and Navy buildings, stated today. "No one can estimate what the life of the temporary buildings wijl be, although the underpinning in every one has been changed from Virginia pine to first growth Georgia pine since 1921. The Georgia pine has almost double ability to resist dampness and weather. As an additional safeguard against dampness spaces were left Under the buildings to insure ventilation.” Science The fastest trip around the world, thus far, is one that was made in SO seconds, by a telegraph message sent by King George, at the opening of the British Empire exhibition, London. It is considered a remarkable feat. x The message went by way of London, to Halifax, Nova Scotia; across Canada, across the Pacific via Fanning Island, to Auckland, New Zealand; to Sydney, Australia; to Durban. South Africa; to the Island of St. Helena and Madeira Island, then back to London. ■bn the way it was relayed on hundreds of side trips and in addition was broadcast to loud speakers all over the British Isles.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16,1924

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D, C.. inciosinp 2 cents in ► stamps tor 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. AU letters are confidential.—Editor. How did the expression, “fits to a TANARUS” originate? From the draughtsman's square, which is called a “T” square. What will keep whitewash from rubbing off? Adding alum to the whitewash. How can one stiffen hats? By the application of a little gum water, the hat being pressed on a block with a hot iron to bring it back to shape. What is the traditional date cf the founding of Rome? 753 B. CT. Historians attach no importance to this date. Who was George Psalmanazar? An impostor, who lived 1679-1T63. He published a faked geography of Formosa and other hooks. He afterward repented his deceptions and reI deemed himself by an honorkble- and useful life. What does the name La Follette mean? ‘The sportive one.” It is a French name. ■i Is "per cent” correctly spelled as one or twe words? As two words, but constant usage has made percent equally common. How long ’s It before a cocoanut tree, planted from seed, will produce a good crop of cocoa*nuts? From ten to fifteen years. How long does it take date palms bear? They usually bear In their fourth year.' Who did Eddie Polo marry? Pearl Gray. On what day of the week did Dec. 18, 1895, come? Wednesday. How are sink holes formed? Because of the solubility of certain rocks, as limestone. Surface waters in passing through them often remove material unevenly. Asa result a pitted surface form V s produced, without outlet except the subterranean one. Natural bridges result from the preservation of portions of the roof of such collapsed caverns. 1 Is poultry manure a useful fertilizer? It is one of the most effective and complete fertilizers. It should be kept so dry so that It can be scattered over the soil at the rate of cne pound to the square yard. Acid phosphate can be mixed with it at the rate of twelve pounds to the hundred of poultry manure, or applied directly to the soil along, with the poultry manure, at the rate of two ounces to the square yard. What are the official big league baseball rules regarding the: ball? The ball must weight not less than five nor more than five and one-quarter ounces avordupois. and be not less -than nine nor more than nine and one-quarter inches in circumference.