Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1924 — Page 4

The Indianapolis Times EARLE. E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chlef ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally 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. MOTOR BUS BUSINESS r r* HE growth of motor bus transportation in and out of In- * dianapolis is one of the marvels of the modern city. The xtent to which this business can be expected to grow within the text few years can not even be calculated. Already more than 100 busses, carrying 7.000 passengers, nake 162 round trips a day. TTith the growth of the motor bus rasiness comes the increased problem of handling them in traffic. some of the busses are unwieldlv on city streets and cause other notorists considerable difficulty. The busses seem to be growing larger constantly. There now ire on some lines running into Indianapolis huge parlor cars, vhich carry large number of passengers comfortably. They rven resemble Pullman cars to the extent of having fanciful lames. The decision to erect a bus terminal is just another step n the growth of the business. Such a structure will help to solve ■he traffic problem and will add to the comfort of passengers. M Already the bus is making inroads into the business of in■erurban companies. That they will eventually supplant intergirbans is not without the realm of probability. In fact, the ■ime may not he far off when interurban companies will be ■orced to quit and leave the field to the busses. Wj With the rapid growth of this form of transportation comes ■he problem of regulation. This is one that should he considered seriously by the next Legislature. The owners of .busses ihonld be compelled to pay a reasonable proportion for the upkeep of the roads on which their cars travel. They should be 'orced to give regular service aifci to look after the safeW of heir passengers. The interurban bus transportation problem is one that can 10 longer be overlooked. THE CITY TAX FATE r T' l | tLE city of Indianapolis now is faced with an increase of j 5 cents in the general fund rate alone. * It is not exactly ’clear why the operation of the city govrnment should cost more next year than this year, other than he fact that it seems to be a habit of governmental units to pend more money on an ever-progressing scale The city should place itself in the same position as any other rasiness concern. No business spends more money each year mless it is growing to such an extent that such expenditures ire necessary and justifiable Business conditions right now ire not as good as they could be. For this reason many conterns are retrenching. Did it ever occur to the officials of Indianapolis and the oficials of the other governmental units that such a step could he aken in their businesses as well as in private business? Deadrood and lseless expenditures can be cut off as well by a municipality as by a private business—providing politics is not ■flowed to interfere g There also are reports that certain units of the Government ■re expecting the next Legislature to increase their borrowing ■ower. This should be discouraged by every means possible. ■ Municipalities as well as individuals should live within their ■□eans. B Os course, some things are not attended to for so long that ■xpenditure of more money is necessary. This is true of the city ■treets.. There is a chuckhole for every dollar in the city budget. Reasonable expenditures for resurfacing should be made ■>y all means. I But it should be seen to that the city gets its money’s worth. 1 ' THE MODERN MAGELLANS ■ T |T IS now 400 years since a Portuguese chap named ■ i Magellan, who was a sea captain in the service of Portugal, broke with his unappreciative king and went over to Spain, ■rhere he persuaded another king to fit him up with a fleet of ■ve vessels to sail around the world. I Magellan’s expedition took three years to circumnavigate the ■lobe the first time, thus proving beyond doubt that the ■roxld was round. E It was a lonely trip, skirting down South America, up the pacific coast and across the broad Pacific, where Magellan first ■found cities, in China, Jr Cities were what Magellan sought. He was killed in the g. ilippines before he reached the lands of cities. But in more recent years there have grown up along the ■onte that Magellan sailed many teeming cities, Havana, Sao ■’aulo, Rio Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, San Francisco, feonolulu, Manila and a host of others, the like of which never dreamed. Magellan’s voyage made possible these very cities he sought in vain. Cities follow steamship routes, railroads and aow air lanes; these latter attract our attention today. Only this week there arrived in Europe three American iiers, three-quarters of the way around the globe by air. They [lave covered it in 239 flying hours, roughly ten days, as a steamship sails. Fifteen solid flying days from the starting point will see them home again. Aetnally, it is taking them three months to girdle the globe, almost as long as it takes a steamship. But it took Magellan’s crew three years to do what lines now make in EOO days, S What new and great cities will 400—or even 100—years pee along the barren Alaskan and Siberian coasts skirted by these fliers? Or what will this new air lane mean to forsaken Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, which are along the chosen route? What ancient commerce centers, like Bagdad, great now In memory only, will hum anew with life? Os course, these Americans may not have found the ultimate areund-the-world air route. Magellan sailed around South America and around Africa Men now sail between North and South America and between Africa and Asia, through ijianmade canals. But even the canals made cities. And it is interesting to speculate what seeds of future cities these American aviators may have sewn in their epochal flight around the earth. f SOME MEN rnn for office; others jay-walk. OF COURSE, Harry Sinclair can not go to Albania until he alibis this Alfall business, NOW jTIS said another bogus label, it

SKY BEAR MENTIONED IN BIBLE Homer Also Mentions Constellation Surrounded by Many Legends, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times R - EFERENCE to the constellation of the Great Bear Is found in the literature of all ages, so great an impression has this group of bright stars always made. In that great drama to be found in the Bible, the Book of Job, there is mention of the Great Bear. Evil misfortune, it will be remembered, fell upon Job. His herds and flocks were stolen, his sons and daughters killed, and he himself was attacked by sickness. Then Job sat

THE ANCIENT GREEKS USED TO STEER THEIR SHIPS BY MEANS OF THE GREAT BEAR.

down among the aahes and cursed the day he was born. First his friends tried to make him change his view, and then finally the voice of the Lord spoke to him out of the whirlwind in that wonderful passage that begins. “Where wert thou when I laid the foundation of the earth? Declare If thou has understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?" And among the questions asked of Job is this one: “Castn thou guide the Bear with her train ” Referred to Stars Biblical students consider this a reference to constellation of the Great Bear. They think that the people of the Biblical day regarded the bowl of the dipper as forming the body of the bear and the three stars, wnich the Greeks regarded as the tall and the Indians as three hunters, as being three cubs which follow' in the trail of the mother bear. The great Greek poet, Homer, refers to the eonsteilation of the bear In the Odyssey, the poem which recount sthe wanderings of Ulysses. After the Greeks had burned and sacked Troy and returned Helen to her rightful husband, Ulysses, one of the Greek chiefs, started home, Many strange adventures befell him so Homer tells in the Odyssey. Ulysses stopped at the -Island of the Pun, so Homer says, and there his men slew some of the sacred cattle which belonged to the sun-god. Asa result, his ship was overtaken subsequently by a great storm and lightning struck the craft, shattering the mast and killing the pilot. The waves broke the sip into pieces and allf the crew drowned. Ulysses alone survived, being washed up by the wave* on an island which belonged to the beautiful sea-nymph. Calypso. Tells About Bear Calypso helped Ulysses build a raft and when he left, she directed him to: “Hold the Bear, called else the Wain, Continual on his left thru all his course." In other words, to steer his raft due east. It will be remembered that the Greeks often called the dipper, “The Wagon” just as the English call it "Charles Wain.” The Greeks usually steered their craft by means of the Great Bear or dipper. Manlius, Roman poet and astronomer, wrote: "Seven equal stars adorn the great Bear, And teach the Grecian sailors how to steer.” It was also customary to tell the time of night by the position of the bear in the sky. In "King Henry IV,” Shakespeare has the first carrier at Rochster Inn, exclaim as he enters with lantern in hand: "Charles’s Wain Is over the new' chimney, and yet pur horse is not packed.” Tennyson, the English poet, writes in his “New Year’s Eve:” “We danced about the Maypole, and in the hazel copse. Till Charles’ Wain came out above the tall white chimney tops.” NEXT ARTICLE: The North Star. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz) Nature * With no hole in the shell, how does the worn get into the chestnut? About this time of the year, the chestnut weevil comes along and, finding the nut in the tender embryo stage, she drills a hole in it with the hook on her snout and lays an egg in the hole. The nut glow's very rapidly and, in a very short time, the wound is grown over. Presently the egg hatches In its prison and the young weevil develops into a hungry worm which eats pretty nearly all the fruit inside the hard shell by fall.

Squeak By HAL COCHRAN No matter how new or how old, so to speak, -you can always find fault with your bus. Someone in the family will locate a squeak and it’s cause for considerable fuss “Ths window is loose and it’s rattling loud,” poor mother will boldly declare. So dad with a new' little worry’s endowed since he knows that the squeaking is there. Then Sister Sue shouts, “Oh. the springs are all rusty and they scrape when we bounce up and down.” And therefore the spring parts are forcibly cussed by the tribe as they’re motoring ’round. The hood rattles loud as you drive o’er a bump and the steering wheel wheezes a bit. A fender announces it’s weak with a thump, and there’s many a bolt doesn’t fit. But still, after all, your old auto seems grand, though it sounds like a bundle of tin. When you buy a machine, you should well understand, that a whole lot of squeaks are thrown in. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, July 18. —Dopey Dan Is In decay. From the highest position of affluence as a gang leader In New York's nuderworld, he has fallen. He is in jail charged with petit larceny. Today he Is scoffed at by men who cowed at his approach In other days. Dopey Dan never worked wdth a gun. He was the master of the most unusual criminal pursuit of which I ever have heard. Ho used to break fingers. In the days of furious garmentworker strikes. Dopey Dan was the reigning terror. It was his highly paid task to break the “needle finger”—the index finger on the right hand, of all garment wmrkers who would not strike or who were opposed by the clique which hired Dopey Dan, the master finger breaker. He worked long and alte during his busy season, amassing high sums of money at $5 a broken finger. Dopey Dan was a finger hunter, comparable only to the head hunters of Borneo. Os course, when Dan broke the needle finger of a garment worker the tailor had to quit work and was of? duty with (he broken member for many a week. Soon Dan became a threat to all garment workers. There were other members of the finger-breaking brigade, hut Dan was the leader. Some of the gangsmen, it is said, cut off the needle finger of many tradesmen. But Dan, the story goes, always was honorable—he only broke the fingers. Dan worked himself out of a job. The garment workers wouldn’t disobey his orders. He had no more fingers to break. So he degenerated to petty thievery. • • • "Wagon Rm," once the famous Astor estate. Is now the last resting pjace for broken-down wagons and automobiles. The wilting house of today, overlooking a junk heap, was once a distinguished home. Far uptown, it can he seen from the Ninth Ave. elevated. Here wrecks of men attempt to reconstruct wrecks of wagons from the debris. On these aristocratic ruins, children play chauffeur In an automobile whose power plant has wheezed Its last chug.

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HOW WILL NEW YORK GO IN FALL? State With Biggest Population May Turn Tide in November Election, Times Washington Bureau, lAii Xetc York Ave. EW YORK, July l£.—"lf John W. Davis can carry New York State, he will be the next President.” That is the opinion of the Boston Transcript than which there is no more dyed-in-the-wool Republican newspaper in the United States. The Transcript concedes that Davis may carry New York. If this Republican paper is ready to admit the Democrats have even a bare chance in the Empire State, there must be Democrats who feel the State’s forty-five electoral votes are already to Davis’ credit. And that is exactly the case. New York’s Democratic leaders think they can swing the State to Davis. As Davis is already assured of the 189 electoral votes of the Solid Sbuth and the border States, it would require only thirty-two more votes, in addition to New York's forty-five, to make him President. It is reasoned that if Davis is strong enough to carry New York, he will have no difficulty in carrying enough other States to obtain the required thirtytwo.

State Is Democratic New York State is at the present time politically Democratic. The Governor is a Democrat. The State Senate is Democratic. One of the U. S. Senators is a Democrat. And twenty-two of the forty-three representatives in Congress are Democrats. In the last election, in 1922, the Democrats carried the State by more than 300,000 votes. If Governor A1 Smith will run for re-election they will he able to repeat this remarkable performance, Democratic leaders believe. Pressure is now being brought on Smith go make the race again, and should ne agree to do so, It is altogether probable that he will carry the State for the national Democratic ticket. Since the Civil War, New York has gone Democratic five times in the fourteen national elections. In four of these cases the Democratic ticket was headed by New York men. These were Seymour In 1868. Tilden in 1876, and Cleveland in 1884 and 1892. The only other time In the last fifty years that the State has gone Democratic was in 1912 when It gave its votes to Wilson. Smith Is Popular Normally, then. New York is Republican. But the great popularity 1 of Smith, and the fact that there Is no real enthusiasm for the Republican candidates or the Republican platform, are factors which may upset the "normalcy” of the Republican strength. In only tl ee of the last fourteen national elections has New York failed to Iks on the -winning side. In each of these elections it was In support of a "native son” that the State lost out. Seymour and Tilden were New York Democrats who carried their State but failed of election. Hughes in 1916 carried his home State for the Republicans but lost the nation. New York has several times turned the tide of an election, and at least two Presidents owed their success to New York’s support.-With a k<*m realization of this, managers of both the Republican and Democratic candidates will see to Jt that a hot and heavy camplgn is made for the much desired forty-five votes. Has Much to Say New York has more voice in the election of a President than tho eight most westerly states of the Nation together. Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada and Arizona together have only forty-three electoral votes. So New York State Is worthy of much attention from political managers. Almost Invariably the Republicans carry what Is known as “upstate” New York, while the Democrats carry New York city. The result of the election then depends on which of the parties has rolled up the biggest surplus vote in its own territory.

Roughly speaking, the same alignment will feature the election next November, but if A1 Smith runs for Governor, it is entirely probable that he will carry all the “up-State” cities such as Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, and make a severe inroad on the normal Republican surplus. Tn addition, Smith is regarded as certain of carrying New York city by half a million votes as he did in 1922. The only question that remains is whether or not the Smith voters will vote a straight Democratic ticket, involving, as it does, support of the much disliked “Brother Charlie" of Nebraska. Tammany leaders say they will give their fullest support to Davis and Bryan. If they do, and they can Induce Smith to run again, New York’s forty-five votes are more than likely to be found In the Democratic column of the newspapers of next Nov. 5. , T Tom Sims Says It takes a marriage license to get married on and an auto license to get a date on. “Make the flag stand for something,” cry the July Fourth orators; and the rest of the year it stands for anything. A man can be happy without, a home if he is only staying away fi-om one. Every man should have a hobby. The women have no unio for hobbies because they have hubbies. An optimist is a man going fishing. A litte sense will hide a lot of ignorance. In New Jersey, a judge ruled you can’t run an auto and hug a woman. We rule it la up to the woman. ■ V' V ' •’ ■. r '. ■ • . '

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CALIFORNIA REGRETS ITS “ECONOMY” State Suffers From T%>o Little Spending of Money, By Times Special IAN FRANCISCO. July IS California is tasting the blti___j ter fruit of false economy In covernment. In 1922 the voters defeated Governor William D. Stephens of the old Hiram Johnson dynasty, and elected Friend W. Richardson, a Quaker editor, on the single platform of “economy." To make good his election promise Richardson slashed ruthlessly into the vitals of every Government function with the economy ax. Rii hard.son cut tho forestry department budget in half Today forest fires are raging unchecked, eating into some of California's most valuable pine and redwood forests and menacing the Tahoe and Sequoia national forest reserves. To date 84,069 acres have been destroyed and $900,000 damage incurred, although the dry season Is not half over. Uncle Sam is sharing equally with Richardson the criticism for failure tb provide adequate forest protection in his budget. Animals Suffer Richardson cut SBB,OOO a year frorp the bureau of animal Industry. Early this spring the foot and mouth disease broke out among California cattle, spreading to twenty counties and causing Inestimable damage to the cattle industry. While saving $85,500 a year in taxes, the people have subscribed out of their pockets $2,000,000, which must he repaid at the next Legislature, hut the damage will be ten times that in the State at large. Richardson cut $300,000 from tho Industrial Accident Commission budget. The first year following there occurred 716 Industrial deaths, more than ever in the State’s history. One commissioner, resigning, stated that thousands of uninspected boilers and elevators are a constant menace to life in California; that there is no mine inspection at all; that there are flagrant violations of safety rules In buildings all over the State, and that the model State compensation insurance fund is being slowly wrecked by Its enemies, the private competitors in league with Richardson’s political appointees. Institution Crowded All the State’s institutions, from the two big penitentiaries to the homes for blind and feeble-minded children, are badly overcrowded. The schools are suffering from lack of teaching forces and facilities in the seven State Normals. No attempt is being made to enforce the women’s minimum wage law. Americanization of immigrants has stopped. The work of stamping out tuberculosis and “red plague” has about ceased. And. having made no provision for new revenue, Richardson will present the next Legislature with a $5,000,000 shortage below jthe present meager budget. A Thought Blessed are the pcacemake s: for they shall be called the ohiluren of God.—Matt. 5:9. Peace is the fairest form of happiness.—W. E. Channing. Reserve Officers to I Live Camps Week-end camps at Culver, Ind., for reserve officers of the 84th Division will be held July 18-20 and July 25-27, according to Maj. B. F. Ristine. The camps are for officers who can not go to an extended camp.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question ol fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Tirst-s Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents tn stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal repiy. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Give the definition of disestablishmentarianism. Who is the Vice-President now? A disestablishmentarian is one who advocates disestablishment, which is the act or state of being disestablished, as the disestablishment of the Irish church by act of Parliament Disestablishmentarianism would therefore, be the principle on theory' of one who is a disestablishmentarian. The word had a purely local use and is virtually obsolete. There is no Vice-President of the United States now, hut the president pro tempore of the Senate. Albert B. Cummins, is acting in that capacity until the nJxt election. WTiat were .‘‘Wildcat Banks” and how did they get this name? This is the general name applied to institutions 'established i.i large numbers in the South and West after the transfer of Government de posits from the. United States Bank. It frequently happened that these banks had little capital, mt that did not prevent them from issuing hank notes, giving them out in easy loans to land speculators, who, in turn, raid them out in country villages where the standing of the bank of issue was unknown. Sometimes wh°n the holder present -d those notes, it was found impossible to find tho rank of Issue. This system cf banking continued for about four years, until it resulted in the panic cf 1837, after which more adequate laws were adopted. These banks were called “wildcat banks” because they were established in the backwoods., and because their victims were “mest awfully clawed.” When and by what State cf the Union was the first child labor law passed? By Massachusetts in 1842; it limited the working hours of chil dren under twelve to ten a day. Where is Mount Resurrection? It overlooks Resurrection Eay, Seward, Alaska. What was a Kangaroo voting? This name was jestingly applied to the Australian ballot when it was first introduced in this country. From whom were the original Twelve Tribes of Israel descended? From the twelve *,ons of Jacob. What is the agricultural bloc in Congress? A group of Senators and representatives from agricultural constituencies united for the purpose of securing legislation favorable to farmers. They hold separate caucuses and have an official leader in each house. On measures of general interest they vote with their parties, but they have served notice that they will not favor legislation desired by other classes until the Interests of the farmers are secured. This bloc is said to have been largely responsible for the defeat of the ship subsidy bill in 1923.

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WHAT IS i BALL OF ■ LIGHTNING? Quick Tells Stories of Strange Experiences With Phenomenom, BY HERBERT QUICK ——a HEN I was a boy, two men Vs/ started from my neighbor- * * hood for the town of lowa Falls. The people of the latter place found them next morning in the bottom of a very deep glen called “Rock. Run.” Their horses were killed and their buggy was a wreck. They themselves were seriously injured. The thing which makes the story interesting enough to bo remembered was the story they told to account for their mishap. They said that they were driving along the road just as it entered lowa Falls In a rather hard shower of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning. All at once they saw rolling along on the groud toward ahem a great, gleaming, glittering ball of fire. It seemed to move along the earth, bounding like a huge incandescent rubber ball. It struck them, went off with a fearful bang, and knocked them off the bridge across Rock Run into the glen below. But It Was True Well, everybody laughed and laughed. That story was too thin! Did they expect anyone to believe that story? And yet a moment’s thought would have told anyone that human ingenuityj would never have been able to invent such a fantastic tale. The best evidence of its truth was that it was so Incredible —if I make myself clear. What had done them harm was what is called “ball lightning,” or “globe lightning.” On the last of June of this year an instance of the occurrence of ball lightning occurred at Rose Hill, Delaware. People saw a huge ball of fire coming rapidly from the west. Finally it fell to the ground and exploded with a loud report. Persons who went to the spot where It went off found, they reported, hot cinders and ashes scattered for several yards. It may be assumed that the cinders and ashes came not from, tho electricity, but from something burned up by it. Called Rare I have no doubt that tn many neighborhoods where this is read people may be found who have seen ball lightning, though such an authority as the Century Dictionary terms it a “rare phenomenon.” I have heard of one case—l have no proof of it —where the ball dropped down the chimney of a log cabin ,\nd rolled and bounded about for a few seconds on the hearth of tha fireplace. What is ball lightning? It seems to mo one of the most wonderful of mysteries. How can electricity take the form of a ball and retain it for even a second? When we know this, we may have the key to many mysteries. If we knew about it, we might be able to put electricity up in bales and ship it like hay.