Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1924 — Page 4

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A TIP FOR SISTERS IX POLITICS fyjN a few weeks the National "'Voman’s Party will launch a I * | drive for women in Congress. The idea of women in Congress ought to be as normal and ordinary as is the idea of lawyers in Congress, or farmers in Congress, or Methodists, or any other group with many interests in common with the mass of people, and a few specialized interests. Any woman who demonstrates her ability in her local field or who earns party advancement should be as readily sent to Congress as is a man in the same circumstances. Here is a friendly tip to women in general as to why this happy condition does not exist. "Women holding office to date have made men uncomfortable. They’re sort of.spo*led that delicious spirit of camaraderie that invests Congress or a city council or any other political group with the same fraternal charm as a secret lodge. Men haven’t felt that they could put their feet on the table, cloud the room with smoke, and swear once in a while as they debated affairs of state so long as there were women in the room. Let the woman politician stop spoiling the party. Let her smoke too, if she enjoys smoking and does it at home. If she feels like unburdening herself of a string of the kind of words papers don't print, let her do so. If she doesn’t know how to do either of these things, or doesn’t want to, let her make it plain that she doesn’t expect others in the room to act like stilted tin angels just because she is there. Let her stand up once in a while if there aren’t chairs ’enough to go around. Let her show convincing logic to support her pet project if she expects to have it approved, not look timid and rely on chivalry to let her slide by. Let her take the stage and win her audience by what she says, rather than by how she looks. In other words, let her act like a human being, and when she does she will find a ready welcome to any field she wants £o enter. SHAKING HANDS W 7 HEX Governor Bryan got home to Nebraska from the New __ T ork convention with the Democratic vice presidential nomination dangling from his belt, the folks back home gave him a cordial reception and called for a speech. Governor Bryan spoke, of course. At the conclusion of his few remarks he invited everybody tu come up and shake hands with himself and Mrs. Bryan. And thire the newspaper story ends. It doesn't tell how Brother Charley shakes hands; so the story is incomplete. Shaking hands is a habit—sometimes a good one, but often a bad one. Some men grasp your hand firmly and shake it as if they .meant it. Others might as well hand you a hunk of liver to hold for a few seconds. President Coolidge shakes hands efficiently. If you happen to be in line with others marching by to shake hands with the President, calm and cautious Calvin takes hold of your hand and yanks you right along on your way and then reaches for the next victim behind you and gives him the same treatment. There is no shake about it. It’s merely efficiency method applied to an ancient formality. Coolidge helps you through the ceremony about like Henry Ford’s system rushes a tin Lizzie through the factory. If he didnt aju>ly efficiency to handshaking much valuable presidential time would be lost. You might stop and chat, or at least try to say hello or good morning ; and that takes time. So you are firmly helped on your way and can go back home and say you shook hands with the President—although you did no such thing. And you got about as much of a thrill out of it as you got when you kissed your maiden aunt. That is, you kept cool with Coolidge. And when you come to think of the foolish hand-shaking habit you can’t blame the President for getting the fool ceremony over as quickly and with as little waste of energy as possible.

HEALTHIER A MERICANS were healthier the first three months of 1924 /h tlj an ever before in January, February and March. So reports a big insurance company, the Metropolitan Life, whose policyholders number into millions. Deaths from diphtheria dropped decidedly. Scarlet fever also. Flu’s death toll tvas small. Tuberculosis mortality showed a “gratifying decline.’’ Deaths from diabetes were 23 per cent fewer than a year ago. Science is curbing the ancient diseases. Nature will send new maladies to take their places. Already, for instance, nervous ailments are increasing alarmingly. THE CONCENSUS of opinion among the experts, social Workers and policemen seems to be that the present younger generation has plainly shown its great incapacity and lack of discrimination by selecting a very poor quality* of parents. VERY PROPERLY and consistently, it is stable government .hat gives the dark horses a chance to cavort and snort in green pastures. REPRESENTATI\ E JOHNSON says this country will,have a population of 200,000,000 in 1974, and we are guessing he is tight. One family in Centerville, Md., already has reported its fourth pair of twins.

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EARTH IS WABBLING ON AXIS As Result, Polaris Will Be North Star Only 3,000 Years. By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times rp J INCE the early days of ,1 I civilization, Polaris, the north L ■ 'I or polar star, has attracted almost as much attention as the constellation of the Great Bear. Consequently, now that you have grown familiar with the Great Bear, you will want to get acquainted next with Polaris, and the Little Bear, the constellation of which the north star is a part. m The north star is easily found. Dubhe and Merak, the/‘pointers'" of thp Great Dipper, show us the way. POLARIS A GREAT - DIPPER . • # POINTERS > THE "POINTERS” SHOW TIIE WAY TO POLARIS. A line drawn through these two stars leads us directly to the north star. Like the stars in the Great Dipper, Polaris is a second magnitude star. That is, it is not among the group of brightest stars in the sky, but among the group of next brightest ones. But there are no very bright stars very near Polaris and so there is no danger of confusing him with any other star. Polaris is white In color, but with a slight yellowish tinge. Astronomers believe that Polaris is actually about the size of our sun. Consequently it would have a ttiamoter of about 866,000 miles. But it appears so small to us because it is so fai away. It is so far away that light traveling 181,000 miles a second takes more than sixty years to get from the star to the earth. That means that if the star was suddenly to be snuffed out by some

THE TELESCOPE AND SPECTROSCOPE PROVE POLARIS TO BN A MIGHTY SUN WITH THREE COMPANION SUNS. great stellar catastrophe we would not know it for sixty years. For sixty years after it had disappeared we would still see its shining image in the sky and be able to tell the true north by that image. The telescope reveals the fact that Polaris is really a double star, having a very faint companion of a dull blue color. This companion star is invisible to the unaided eye. And the spectroscope reveals the fact that Polaris has two other companion stars which are so close to it that not even the telescope will reveal them. So when you gaze at Polaris you are really looking at a system of four stars which appear to the eye as one star. The reason that Polaris is the north star is because a line projected into the heavens from the north pole of our earth would reach the heavens at the point where' Polaris Is situated. But scientists have proved that our earth doesn’t rotaXe smoothly on its axis, but wabbles just a little. The axis of the earth Is slowly shifting its position. The result is that the line drawn from' the north pole Into the sky makes a little circle there. The shift of the earth's axis Is so slow that it takes 25,000 years to complete the whole circle.

CIRCtt MADE .- -* POLARIS •M 25.000 YEARS V. /j ' s * v-— v / Noprn KUP THE AXIS OF TH,E EARTH. PROJECTED INTO THE SKY, DETERMINES THE NORTH STAR. But as a result of this- shift, Polaris will only be the pole star for another 3,000 years. The honor will then fall in succession to a series of stars, one after another, in the constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. In about 11,500 years from now the brilliant white, first-magnitude star Vega will be tbe pole star. And in 25,000, Polaris will again perform the duty it does at the present time. (Copyright. 1924, by David Dietz.) NEXT AJRTICLE: More about Polaris. ( Nature The cartoonist who caricatures the earth map as a living person, with legs, or with a grinning or frowning face, only carries out an ancient pagan belief. The Egyptians, 5,000 i years ago, symbolized it as a sphere with human legs. Even today, certain Hindu sects believe that Ine earth is a living being. Sound-making vibrations in the air stimulate the organs in our ears, which in turn carry the vibrations to our brain and thus ,we “hear” the sounds. When' the shock, or sound, sends off less than sixteen vibrations in a second we don’t hear it, nor can we hear it if the sound, makes more than 40.000 vibrations per second. lowa farmers, learning that nature does much better for their crops when plants haven’t wet feet constantly, have spent more for drainage tile than the Panama Canal cost.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Hair Cuts By HAL CO- TRAN Who do you see the every day p’rade that leads to the old barber chair? There's mother and sister and grandmother, staid; and sonny, quite often is there. Mom goes for a cut that is stylish; her hair to fashion, it seems, is a slave. And then she will patiently sit in the chair while they hand her a permanent wave. The barber shouts “next” and then grandmotheT hops. She dreams of her sweet-sixteen day. And, thus, you will find, when the barber man stops that her tresses are bobbed half way. Comes sonny a running; his patience is weak, for he is a play-seek-ing soul. There’s many a time from the barber's he'll SQpak. Then Mom cuts his wool with a bowl. When sister gets in she's exact as can be o’er the way that her head of hair hangs. She faces the mirror so she can see how the barber is cutting her bangs. • v We almost forgot abmit baby and dad, but they ne’er to the barber are hauled. Perhaps they have reason enough to be glad, for Pop and the infant are bald. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

SHORTAGE OF WORK CONTINUES Labor Figures Show Middle West Fares Better Than Other Sections, Times Washington Bureau, 1323 New York A re. rrrtj ASHINGTON. July 19. \Ju spite of the fact that tly vv agricultural and building sea sons are at their height, thousands of laborers in all parts of the country are out of work, with no immediate prospect of relief. This condition is indicated by reports to the United States Department of Labor from their .district directors in all parts of the country. The Middle West and South are the only sections not having a large labor surplus. Nebraska is the only State in these divisions with more laborers than she needs, although all others have sufficient men to handle the harvest. Coast Most Serious Conditions are most serious on the Pacific coast, where the foot and mouth disease, the widespread drought and curtailment of the lumber industry have caused an abnormal condition, throwing thousands out of work. In every part of the country building is proceeding on a large scalp' and all labor skilled in this line is employed. Road construction is furnishing work to large numbers who have been thrown out of employment in the other industries. Throughout the Eastern industrial centers, at least 50 per cent of the factories are running on part time schedules, and it has proved almost impossible for those employed on this scale to find additional work. Steel, manufacturing, iron and automobile industries all showed a de cline In the past month. Fanners Delayed In Ohio, rain nearly every day in June delayed farmers, and farm laborers will not be needed there until later than the normal time. Utah and Nevada are getting part of the Pacific Coast surplus and are not succeeding in absorbing it. Montana needs experienced miners, hut in the East the bituminous coal industry lias been curtailed, leaving thousands without work. No prediction of improvement forthcoming is made by any of the labor offices reporting. A Thought A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is His delight.—Prov. 11:1. * • • - Honest minds are pleased with honest things. Beaumont and Fletcher. Wife Sure Knows "Does your wife know how to wash dishes?” "I should say she does. I can't do them to suit her at all.”—Ameri can Legion Weekly. Daughter’s Y. M. Willing “So you propose to take my daughter from me without any warning?” “Not. at all. If there is anything concerning her you want to warn be about I'm willing to listen.”— London Answer.

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They say “yes m’am” to the under sheriff of Cody, Wyo., for she’s Mrs. W. H. Loomis. Her first arrest was of a bootlegger, who meekly replied “yes, m’am” when she served a warrant on him. Mrs. Loomis, besides taking care of official duties, handles her own household affairs and teaches a Sunday school class.

ARTIST IS STARTING OVER AT 71 Russian Comes to United States With Some of His Paintings. Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Arc. TTHI ASHINGTON, July 19— Start- ; ing life anew at the age of , not Mark Jaffe, a noted Russian painter, just arrived here from Leningrad, as the Bolsheviks now call Petrograd. Jaffe, in the days before the revo lution.fwas an artist whose paintings found favor with the Czar. Several of his works were in the royal galleries. The Russian artist comes to the United States under novel circumstances. He was allowed to Jeave Russia only on condition that he | pay to the Soviet republic 10 per cent of his earnings from the sale of paintings to Americans. * He brought with him a score or more of canvasses. His best ones were appropriated by the Soviet republic as state treasures. life Not Happy j Life of artists and intellectuals in j Russia today is anything but happy, judging by Jaffe’s experiences. His wife and son are refused permission to leave Russia. His daughter died of malnutrition. His house was commandeered by the Soviets. Literally dragging their possessions through the streets because they coujd not employ help, Jaffe and his family were obliged to move into a house that was left after all the workers’ families had taken their pick of the homes in Leningrad. Jake's son was j denied graduation as an architect from the university because he was not the son of a worker; he had finished his courses successfully and could have graduated had his father painted barns instead of pictures. There was no demand for art in ; Russia, Jaffe said, and his wife urged him to come to America, when | ihe Soviets offered to let him go if ! he would give the Russian governi ment 10 per cent of his earnings. ; For the sake of his art, Jaffe said. I the family was divided. Paints Historical Pictures Jaffe's specialty is painting porj traits showing dramatic historical 'moments. Historical snapshots, his works are sometimes called. He | hopes to paint some of the most i dramatic moments in American history and will paint studies of what he calls "the American face.” In spite of his age, Jaffe Is enthusiastic and energetic. He looks like a man of 50. He is under the additional handicap of not knowing English. He Is busily studying the | language. He gets all the joy of a j small boy out of each new American j discovery, such as grape juice, ice I cream and all that, i Jaffe is not bitter over his hard luck since the revolution. With ■ typical Russian Jatalism. he shrugs ! his shoulders and says. "It had to i come.” Does he like America? “I never want to leave it.’’. Tie. says.

Family Fun lie Prepared "Here’s a letter, pap, from a lady what wants to spend the summer here, and she wants to know If we have a bathroom.” ‘ Write and tell her the truth. Hiram. Tell her she’d better take her hath the day before she conies here.”—Whiz Bang. Truthful Goorgie Little George Washington proudly displayed a large butterfl} which he had caught. “How in the world did you get It?” his father asked. “Father.” replied Georgia, ‘‘l can not tell a lie, T did it with my little hat yet.”—Youngstown Telegram. Ifer IfeWful Dad "Would your father be willing to help me in the future?” “Well, he said he wanted to kick you into the middle of next week.— Film Fun. Tle Way Out “Our rooms look perfectly disgraceful and here are visitors coming.” ‘ “Let's throw things around a little more and we can tell them we are house cleaning."—Boston Transcript.

Science Not many years ago. insane persons were chained to the stone wells of dungeons and abused and tortured. Although progress has been made, the treatment of mentally diseased or defective persons today is recognized by science as one of the worst blots on the record of civilization. People frequently are thrust across the line between sanity and insanity by harshness or. wrong treatment.. Many persons are sent to insane asylums who should not be there, but who soon* become actually insane amid terrible surroundings. This class needs treatment, but should not be locked up. They arc mentally sick, but r.ot “crazy.” Anew institution in Paris known as the Service of St. Anne, is the pioneer in the scientific treatment of persons suffering front mental affliction. Attendance is entirely voluntary and no restraint is used as to the time of departure. The result is that persons suffering from mental trouble go there for treatment as they would go to a hospital in case of a broken leg. A distinct feature of this idea is the absence of the bareness and monotony of the usual hospital and asylum. The rooms and corridors are gaily dec orated and everything possible is done to create a sense of well-being. Coercion The Hiwires, circus performers, were at the top of their trapeze, and the Mrs. was holding her husband in midair. "Now dear,” she said softly down to hint, “can’t I have that new gown?” “I—er—l am not in a position to say, -darling,” he replied.—American Legion Weekly.

Tom Sims Says Even if wealth is a burden, lack of it is more so. Progress seems to consist of flnd- | ing new things to worry about. • Iv once took nine tailors to make Ia gentleman, but now it takes nine j months to pay one tailor’s bill. | Autos and men are alike in that both go faster down hill. A red nose is no longer a sign of j drink. He may have a girl who uses | too much rouge. There's notning new under the sun, but a lot'of strange things are happening under the moon. The peanut crop is good, so maybe 1 we won't have to shell out so much j for them. A June bride tells us she stays .broke because her husband gets up ' first. § If most peojile were as bad as you {think, they would be much*worse than they are. | The only way to exist without working is to be an automatic cigar | lighter. Many movie actors can't afford a new divorce suit this summer. Now the politicians will see if it all comes out in the whitewash. When money talks it counts. A small boy tells us he can’t see i why they call it heaven when the big fire is elsewhere. __ It is hard to tell whither money makes fools or fools make money. From the way they tussle about j the floor, “dance haul” is correct. i Sometimes a man has so much to his credit he can't pay.

Tongue Tips Mrs Lydig Hoyt, beauty and writer: In spite of the influx of Americans. Paris keeps her soul, her individuality that no one can touch or change." Mrs. Mannly Fosseep, political leader, Minneapolis. “Many of these aiiens are curbed even jn their religious freedom, in their own countries, but are eager to change the best traditions and loyalty of the peoples of America.” Sinclair Lewis, author: “In New York the streets are deep, intimidating grooves in which the people are vermin.” Daisy Deane Williamson, State home demonstration leader, New Hampshire: “Color schemes have everything to do with the attitude toward the job of home making.” Dr. J. Mace Andress, health lecturer, Boston: “A healthy person is one who is able to meet the problems and situations of life with a fair degree of success and with a minimum strain.” Dr. Murlin, president Boston University: “One cannot be at bis best as an intelligent and loyal member of his college unless he has filial devotion, rational piety and fervent patriotism.” Mrs. Lydig Hoyt: “The behavior and principles of the parents are the only things that will gain respect for them, even from their children.”

South American Sport

WEE VILS GEORGIA PROD UCT Will Cressy Also Tells About Watermelons in Atlanta, By WILL M. CRESSY (Copyright, 1924, —NEA Service, Inc.) ATLANTA. C.a.. July 19.—A-T-L-A-N-T-A is the short way of spelling GEORGIA. Atlanta was named for Mr. George P. Atlantic, the discoverer of the Atlantic Ocean, and the founder of the Atlantic Coast Line R. R. and the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Cos. At the rate Atlanta is growing, all the other towns in Georgia soon will be simply Suburbs of Atlanta. For instance, there is ROME. Rome was named for the place where Mister Nero fiddled "There'll Bea Hot Time” to show his opinion of the Rome fire department. While Atlanta is very patriotic, their favorite song is NOT "Marching Through Georgia.” Iks principal exports are cotton, peanuts, ex-kleagles. watermelons, cocoa cola and professional southerners. By choice the Atlanta negro is Republican. But $2 is a lot of money.- And in Georgia the letters B. V. D. mean “Better Vote Democratic.’ Politically Atlanta is probably the most advanced city in the United States. They rewrite the CONSTITUTION every morning. But disclaim any responsibility for the eighteenth addition to it. Georgia is a great fruit-producing State, its most prolific crop being

the peanut. In the spring when the neamit tres are in bloom Georgia is said to rival Japan in cherry blossom time. The peanut is, or are. according to whether they are double jointed or not, the only rival to the clove for removing incriminating evidence from the breath. Peanuts are either taken straight, or used to make peanut butter, peanut brittle and rich Italians. The only -place to eat peanuts in a refined manner is at a circus. The watermelon is another Georgia product. A watermelon is striped pumpkin full of sweetened -water. It grows best in a sandy soil, IN A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD. But the staple crop of Georgia is COTTpN. Cotton is used principally to feed boll weevils with. It is also good to stick in the ears for earache. Doctors also use it to sew up inside of folks after an operation. Cotton grows in a bulb, like an electric light. It hatches like a chicken. Then the cotton is picked out of the shell by hand. Black hand. (African, not Italian.) Cotton when picked is full of seeds. Cotton seeds. (Ain’t Nature wonderful?) -Cotton is used in the manufacture of about everything but tomato catchsup and toupees. There are also many by-products of cotton. These are things we buy thinking we are buying something else.

SATURDAY", JULY 19, 1924

Ask The Times You can 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 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. All letters Are confidential.—Editor. What was the story of Isabella and the Pot of Basil —the title of a painting by John W. Alexander? Isabella, a high born maid of Messina, loved the manager of her brothers’ estates Lorenzo. When the brothers found this out they killed Lorenzo. His ghost appeared to Isabella in her sleep and told her he had been slain by her brothers. She , found the corpse, but since she could i not repiove it to holy ground, she | cut off the head, wrapped it in linen, j put it in a pot, covered it -with ; earth and planted basil in it. She tended this plant with great care, watering it with essences, orange water and tears. Her brothers, thinking to cure her of some mental disorder, took away the pot; she cried unceasingly for its return, whereupon they split it and found the head, which they recognized by its fair curls. They then realized the murder was discovered, buried the relic and fled to Naples. Isabela died of heart-emptiness, still lamenting her pot ot basil. What is contraband of war? The term embraces arms, ammunition, materials, for manufacturing explosix-es and munitions of war, aimed vessels, clothing of a military character, saddle and draft horses, provisions intended for military use—in short articles which belligerents forbid neutrals carrying to their enemies. According to international law these are liable to seizure atid Confiscation by order of a prize court, and the vessel carrying contraband is liable to confiscation if the contraband forms, either in value or Yveight, more than half the cargo. Durip.g the Civil War, negroes who came within the Union lines were considered contraband of war. When did man first pass a winter within the antarctic circle? In 1898, when the Belgian expedition In the Discovery, under the command of Captain De Garlache, was beset by ice in latitude 71 degrees 31 minutes south and longitude 85 degrees 16 minutes west. What is Wind? Air in motion, resulting from atmospheric pressure by which air is forced to move from a place of high barometric pressure to a place c? . lower pressure. What do biologists mean by differentiation? The evolutionary process in the course of which an organism becomes increasingly complex and increasingly fitted for its special conditions ,of life. Who was Diagoras? ’ A Greek philosopher and poet, surnamed the Athenian of Melos. He was driven from Athens on account of his atheism (411 B. C.) and died in Corinth. What is the lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy? Ensign. Wfiat is a doctrinaire? An unpractical theorist who argues on a “theoric scheme of policy that admits no pliability for contingencies” (Lowell). The term is usually applied to socia. or political idealogists. May dinner and afternoon calls be .eturned on Sunday afternoons? Generally it is not considered the best form. Ihe correct hours for calling are between 3 and 6 o'clock in the afternoon on week days. How is crepe paper treated in order to give it the power to change colors, blue or pink, according to the weather? By soaking it in chloride of cobalt to which a little common table salt has been added and a small amount of gum arabic. The latter is used for giving body to the paper.