Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1924 — Page 4

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POLITICS AND PROHIBITION TCIOLITICS and prohibition do not mix, any more than Jr politics and any other form of law enforcement. The Government can no more have an efficient department if its existence is dependent on the turn of the political wheel than the city of Indianapolis can have an efficient police department under the same condition. ✓• This controversy over the proposed removal of Bert C. Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana, is an example of the working of politics in tips department. There are arguments on both sides of the question. It appears that Senator James E. Watson is seeking to remove Morgan because he does not approve of Morgan politically. That Morgan has been active politically while at the same time trying to hold down his job as prohibition enforcement officer is well known. He even was a candidate for fetate office. are not saying that Morgan is not an efficient officer. We are holding no brief for Senator Watson and his manipulations. But we do contend that there has been too much politics on both sides for the good of law enforcement.

“DEGREE OF RESPONSIBILITY” IATHAN LEOPOLD and Richard Loeb are guilty of ___ murder by their own formal admission in court* They have abandoned the one plea that might have saved them —the contention that they were insane when they deliberately killed little Robert Franks. Their own counsel admit they were not insane, else they would not have entered pleas of guilt/T Insanity could have been the only conceivable extenuating circumstance. The two young murderers are now planning to throw themselves on the mercy of the court. Their attorneys are going to argue and witnesses are to be heard to show “degree of responsibility.” These two boys deliberately planned one of the most coldblooded and one of the most deliberate murders in criminal history. They thought they were sufficiently bright that they could get away undetected. They were suffering from overdeveloped egoes. They had the opinion that a super-intellectual could do no. wrong. “Why,” one of them explained, “this was no different from the act of an entomologist who impales a beetle on a pin.” It is hard to understand how there can be any question as to degree of responsibility. OLYMPIC GAMES FUNDS A r ““l MERICAN athletes are making a wonderful showing at the Olympic games in Paris. They are doing credit to America. But Americans, at least some of them, are a little slow in giving the athletes the financial support necessary to carry on. The American Olympic committee has charge of the raising of funds' t6"pay the t??penses of America’s representatives’ Tn France. Each State-has been given a quota to raise. Indiana’s quota is SIO,OOO. Only a part of this SIO,OOO has been raised. The remainder mast be obtained within a short time if Indiana is to be counted among the States that have given their support to the Olympic games. The amount is Dot large and it should be subscribed within a very short time if everyone will do his part.

* ON BELONGING TO A PARTY • D r ~~~~ ID YOU ever stop to think wtat it means to belong to a __ party? * If you have a horse or a dog or an automobile that is yours, you know it belongs to you. It belongs to you because it is yours. * * Well, that’s just what it means when you admit that you belong to a party —we’re speaking,.now of political parties, for this is presidential year and we can’t get entirely away from politics. Men used to say they were Democrats or Republicans, and that they belonged to the Democratic or Republican party. Most of them were so bitterly partisan that they wouldn’t vote for their best friend if he happened to be running on the ticket of the other party. Most newspapers were party organs. It was their custom to plead with their readers to vote the ticket straight, to put a cross under the eagle or rooster, as the case might be, and “let ’er go at that.’’ . • Partisanship ran so deep that a man who scratched his ticket was regarded as a traitor to his party —if he got caught at such devilment. Times have changed, fortunately. Many voters no longer think they belong to a party in the sense that a dog or a cat belongs to its owner. Some of them have actually come to think that they belong to themselves and have a perfect right under the Constitution and statutes to vote as they please. And some have cbme to think that it is better to belong to themselves, to be free, untrammeled souls politically and instead of belonging to one party to be free to look them all over, have all that’s worth having in all parties belong to them and to take what seems to them best. They have come to understand that belonging to a party and voting the party ticket blindly makes them servants of a party, slaves of the bosses who control the party and hand-pick its candidates. 0 We know of a man who addressed a meeting at a church one night. The minister a§ked him what church he belonged to. He replied that he didn’t belong to any; that there was so much good in all of them that he feared if he belonged to but one of them he might miss all the good in all the rest of them. The man who owns himself and belongs to,no party is free to take his pick of the best that is offered. And it’s a rather comfortable feeling to own yourself politically, even though you be more or less of a slave otherwise. Os course, there is some compensation in belonging. You don’t have to do your own thinking. THE STRANGE THING about it is that those warring Fleisehmans did not use their yeast to Cure marital troubles. THERE ARE NOW enough spending Americans over in London to make that English war debt look easy.

2 DIPPERS ARE SEEN IN HEAVENS North Star *ls at Tip of Handle of Little One. By DAVID DIETZ , Science Editor of The Press _ T now, 5t am sure, you have P learned to find the north star without difficulty. If so, you wilj. be able to find the Little Dipper at once. The Little Dipper, as we shall see later, forms the constellation of the Little Bear. However, you must piSk a night when the moon is not very bright to find the Little Dipper. Thg.t because some of the stars in it are very faint, and when the moon is bright they are hidden in the glare of moonlight You must also pick a station where ground Jlghts such as arc lamps, for example, do not interfere with your vision. The Little' Dipper occupies only about half as rtluch space in the sky as does, the Great Dipper. Polaris, the north star, is at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper. The next star in the handle of the dipper is a small fourth magnitude star. If you look sharpjy, you will notice that it has a greenish tinge. The Arabians named it Tildun. The third stAr in the handle is a faint fourth magnitude star, as Is also the star at* the Juncture of the

/|f§\t\ t.ti * \ j ii • V VVYCX//// THE DIAGRAM SHOWS HOW THE STARS FORMING THE LITTLE DIPPER APPEAR TO REVOLVE AROUND THE NORTH STAR. handle and the bowl of the dipper. The star at the outer edge of.the dipper’s bowl will hold your attention, I am sure. It is a bright twinkling star of second magnitude, though not quite as bright as Polaris Itself. It has a dietinot reddish hue and glows m the sky Tike a brilliant little ruby. The Arabs named this star Kochab (pronounced ko-kab), which means the ’’star of the north." The other two stars in the dipper are both faJ df stars. The star below Kochab is a third magnitude star. The remaining star in the bowl is a Astronomers have adopted the system pf naming the stars in constellations after the letters of the Greek alphabet, calling the brightest star ■’Alpha," the first letter of the alphabet, the next “Beta," tho second letter, and scTonAccording to this system, Polaris is known as Alpha. Kochab, as Beta, the star below Kochab as Gamma,

BETA f- -*SAMMA 4 VCMAB I j ! : uasA MTnoq ; ; ZEJxA ; / ETA / V rQSILON POL A firs NAMES OF THE STARS IN THE LITTLE DIPPER. the star at the Juncture of the bowl and handle of the dipper as Zeta and the star below Zeta aa Eta. The four stars in the bowl of the Little Dipper serve as a convenient chart for comparing stellar magnitudes. That is because Kochab is a second magnitude star, Gamma a third magnitude one, Zeta a fourth magnitude star and Eta a fifth. The two stars, Kochab and Gamma, are frequently called the Guardians or Wardens of the Pole. This Is because they circle about the North Star as the dome of the sky appears to turn, just as though they were placed there to watch over the North Star. Shakespeare makes use of this fact in "Othello,” where he Is describing a great storm at sea at night when the -waves were unusually high." He writes: “The wind-shak’d surge with high and monstrous mane. Seems to cast water on the burning BeaT And quench the guards of th’ everfixed pole.” In the northern part of the world where the Little Dipper Is to be seen low in the northern sky, it indeed might seem,-during a great storm, as though the waves were dashing over the Little Dipper. NEXT ARTICLE: THE LITTLE BEAR. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz) Nature Lupine, one of the great flower and forage plants of western America, was supposed by the ancients to be wolfish, hence its its name from "lupus,” Latin for wolf. When they decided to lay out famous Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, they found little more than shifting sand dunes. Lupine seed was sown in that sterile ground and the roota of the spreading plant knitted the soil together and converted the whole into the solid ground that i3 so beautifully covered now. Sister’s Steady , “My daughter, sir, sprang from a line of peers.” "Well, I dove off a dock once.”Detroit New*.

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Homemade By HAL COCHRAN There’s a magic little word that makes a fellow want ter eat. It’s a word that never can be overplayed. Every time that you may hear it, it suggests a wholesome treat, and the little word I think of is homemade. You appreciate the foodstuffs that are purchased at the store, and they satisfy the appetite, 'tis true. But the grub that makes you happy; makes you holler for some more, is the food that mother cooks herself for you. Apple pie that fairly savors of the finest kind of taste Is the kind that makes you hungry when you’re not. It’s* the brand that mother bakes you and po goes to waste, for the pie, from, start to finish, I its the spot. Homemade bread Is brriced af morning and it seldom lasts till night, though a baker's loaf is not as strongly playefi. Is it just that mother makes It In a way that seems Just right? What’s the reason that you like It best homemade? Even parents have the habit and they get the homemade thrill! It’s a trait that in each living soul is bom. Though It isn’t to their liking, yet they'll eat their fullest fill, when a youngster in the family pops some corn. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

U. S. MAKING FIGHT FOR BIG FORESTS Hundreds of Men Employed to Combat Blaze —Expenses Mount. Times Washington Bureau, 1322 Sew York Are. 7TT3 ASHINGTON, July 22. \dU About $113,000 has been flght—ing fires in national forests on the west coast since July 1, according to-the United States Forestry Service. This Is almost half the annual appropriation of $260,000 which Congress allows for that purpose. The national forest reserve Western Montana and Northern Idaho has had 284 fires to fight, many of them comprising big areas of laud as largo as 5,000 acres. They have had to put 1,000 men on the fire lines and increase their patrol force to 760. Their expenses have been $26,0000 since the first of the month. In the California national forest 162,000 has been spent during the first two weeks of the fiscal year and In Washington pnd Oregon', $22,000. All this money is in ad dllion to amounts spent by the Federal Government and the States, cooperating under the Weeks law to protect State and privately owned woodlands.

Caution Necessary Though most of the fires are now reported under control constant caution during the next v months must be exercised, t Forestry Service states. Losses are reported to be somewhat under a million dollar* in private and State forests—t2Sfi.oOo in California, $250,0000 in Washington, SIOO,OOO In Oregon and $50,000 in Idaho. The date fires this year have not carried in wake the tremendous losses suffered In 1910 and 1916. During the eight year period between 1916 through 1923, there were in the United States 31:9.780 forest fires, causing damage amounting to $142,517,051. Over a '."r.drtad million acres were burr during that period. More trouble is experienced with forest fires in the Northwest than in the East, because they are apt t.o be “crown fires,” that is to say, in the tops of the trees. In the hardwood regions and among the pines, the fires stay near the ground. When they are once put out, it is mostly the young trees which have suffered and these often resprout without, any artificial stimulus. Wounds in the larger trees, even in the hardwood regions, however* often occur as the resuit of fires, and these'open the Way for fungus growths and other troubles.

States Organized Many States have their own forest Are organizations, cooperating w ; th the Government in this work under the Weeks law. The estimated cost for protection In twenty-nine fctates for these forests, which are exclusive of national forests. Is seven million dollars per year. The forester in charge of the United States national forest In California, because of the troubles he has already had, has closed a milliin acres of themational forest to campers and settlers moving from place to place and anticipates shutting off another million acres of the Santa Barbara forest, except to those going through under permit, in which names, addresses and license numbers of cars will be carefully recorded. The Increased number of “tin can tourists” la blamed for the large proportion of forest fires In recent years. Railroads back in 1910 caused 40 per cent of the fires, while the railroads could be blamed lor only 7 per cent

Science The annual loss to the United States from preventable diseases is estimated at $3,000,000. Modern medical science has removed most of the diseases of a few years ago sfSbd in the way of a long life. Today Jong life is probable, with reasonable care, while twenty years ago It was very doubtful whether a person could acquire, old age. He had to be ‘lucky” t*> do it. During the last 800 years the lift* span has more than doubled. In the last twenty-five years alone It has been Increased by more than ten years. The average length of life In the United States la now fiftyeight years. In 1900 It was only forty-five years. Perhaps the biggest factor in this situation js that babies now get a good start In the world. A few years ago they were under a great handicap. It was then thought useless to try to avoid certain children’s diseased Today science’ has practically stamped out these diseases—that Is, science has made it unnecessary for children to have them. A baby, born today, gets a vastly better start than ten years ago.

FANS WILL LISTEN FOR WHU CALLS Small Boat of Exploration Party Is Equipped With Radio. By .V EA Berries July 22,—Radio heroj after will keep the world in 1 closer touch with Its explorers and adventurers than has any other means of communication heretofore. First actual example of the efficiency of wireless for this purpose has been shown by contact made with the MacMillan arctic expedition by radio amateurs In- Canada and the United States. Now a second expedition has been started on Its way, and complete radjo equipment has not been overlooked for continued communication with the world. The expedition is that of William Hale Thompson, former mayor of Chicago, in search of the muchheralded tree-climbing fish of the south seas. In a 68-focrt auxiliary ketch, the "Big Bill,” the crew of seven is now sailing down the Mississippi on its first leg of its adventurous journey. For two years this little sailing vessel is expected to roll about the south seas in 6earch of the unique fish that has'aroused the curiosity of scientists. To Take Movies To guard against having to return with any stories of the “big one that got away," a motion picture camera sand an expert photographer are on board. What fish are caught will be taken to the Field Museum here. Incidentally, Thompson plans to spread the Idea that Chicago should be the greatest seaport in the world, with the Great Lakts navigable for ocean going liners. This is in the ifiterest of the Great Lakes-10-the-Sea project w-nlch has been agitated for years. For the two years that the “Big Bill" is expected to be in southern waters, the world will learn of its wanderings through the activity of E. C. Page, Its 'youthful radio operator. Page is an amateur of Evanston, 111., and was recommended by Capt. A. J. Duken, in command of the expedition, by local representatives of the American Radio Relay League. Equipment His equipment consists of a 100watt transmitter and two receiving He is able to send his messages on waves ranging from 100 to 600 meters, and to receive on v avelengths of from SC to 6,000 meter". The official qall of the vessel Is WHU. The radio equipment has been tested and from Chicago Page nar succeeded ,in talking with Atlantic and Pacific, coast amateur radio operators. Besides trying to get In touch

WTIU ARE THE CALL LETTERS OF THE “BIG BILL,” AT LEFT, WHICH IS ON ITS WAY TO EXPLORE THE SOUTH SEAS. E. C. PAGE, INSET AND SHOWN AT THE PANEL AT RIGHT, IS THE VESSEL’S RADIO OPERATOR.

with amateura In the United States, while the vessel Is in the sy.utb seas, Page expects to communicate with operators In South America, Europe and Australia. So far as radio is concerned, the expedition will present an opportunity to study the efficiency of the shorter wavelengths in the fcllmate peculiar to southern W’aters. Besides Thompson, Page and Captain Duken on the trip are Mrs. Duken and her 10-year-old-son, J. Ellsworth Cross, camera man; A. M. Caron and Ray Martin, engineers and navigators.

Tom Sims Says Nothing makes a defeated candidate madder than going back to work. Nearly everybody who is glad to meet you la selling something. After a girl contracts to go through life with a man she naturally hates to make most of the trip alone. / The law helps those who help themselves. When a fisherman begans telling about his trip remember this: The largest bass ever caught weighed only eighteen pounds. You can’t always take a mkn at his face value because some are twofaced. Statistics show women have charge of spending 90 per cent of the money in circulation and the flgipes don’t have to be proven. Birds' of a feather knock together. The nice thing about a bad start is it gives you more to brag about liter you do win out. After eating supposedly young chickens In restaurants we have decided youth will not he served. We were anxious to see the first signs of summer and we will be just as anxious to see the last signs.

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In New York By STEVE H ANN AG AN NEW YORK, July 22 —R. L, Smith, ballyhoo historian of New York, w’ho has told the history of Gotham and its. sights to nearly 2.000,000 people in the past fifteen years, comes from Manhattan, Kan. Smith is the announcer on an excursion boat that sails arowid the Island twice each day, carrying tour r ists and sightseers from all corners of the country. "New* Yorkers seldom make the trip and few of them know anything about their own town. They take everything for granted. % he declares. A bachelor of 50, Smith, who lives in mid-town, participated in the Cripple Creek gold rush in 1895 and has been on the vaudeville stage and in minstrel shows. In e fifteen yearn he has been telling the world about New York he has worn out three boats, but his voice hasn’t been worn In the slightest. Six hours a day

\ _ he without ever skipping a syllable. During the winter season he conducts sightseeing parties about Havana, Cuba. "I never had been in Havana when I took my first party down,” he admitted, "but I studied guide books and histories. Then I spent several days locating the points of interest. I ]<jiew more about the place than the people who lived there.” That’s what he did when he came to New York twenty-five years ago. , How deep Is the water —and is it salty? are the questions most often put to Smith by tourists, he claims. Smith keeps up a running fire monologue during the forty-mile trip that requires three hours. Never once does he stop. Interspersing heavy details with witticisms he keeps his floating audience in good humor. “Miss Liberty, the statue; is a perfect thirty-five thirty-five feet around the waist. “Those are the police boats of the dry navy. If they come alongside, throw overboard your booze —or give it to me,” he admonishes. On one trip a man rushed up and gave him a flask. But this man who has described the Statue of Liberty and Blackwell’s Island so many times, In such minute detail, never once has visited either point, though he passes them every day. A Thought A reproof" entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. —Prov. 17:10. • • * Better a little chiding tha i a great deal of heart-break. —Shakespeare. Right Kind “What birthday present are you going to give your husband?” “Oh, a hundred cigars.” "What did you pay for them?” “Nothing! For the past few months I have taken one or two from his box daily. He has not noticed it, and wflll be delighted vvfth my tact in getting the kind he always smokes.” —Tit-Bits.

‘SHR UNKEN’ BASKETS NUMEROUS Short Measure Costs People of United States Millions. Times Washington Bureau, 1322 Jew York A re. —TI ASHINGTON. July 22.—AmerWU leans are mulcted out of millions of dollars annually by shrunken fruit and vegetable baskets and hampers. Jyst how mpeh the amount totals is not known, as even officials in the agricultural department’s bureau of economics were unwilling to make a close estimate. "Unfortunately you can’t get, thieves to report their 111-gotten*’ gains, so any estimate we would make would not be accurate," H. W. Sampson, chief of the division of grades and standards stated today. The gouging is by unscrupulous merchants who sell their products in baskets below standard size, but so cleverly constructed that the purchaser Is unable to detect the shortage by a glance. Soifie ideas of the extent of the losses through short measure can be gained by the fact that the agricultural department states that 30,000,000 hampers are manufactured annually. Sampson says that fully one-third of the so-called half-bushel hampers being manufactured are short measure. "The use of the fourteen-quart basket has become universal in certain districts, where it has entirely supplanted the half-bushel size, although many purchasers believe that they are getting a half bushel of produce when they make their purchases," Sampson stated. "About 25 per cent of what are commonly supposed to be bushel baskets are short measure," Sampson declared. Uniform Size The bill which the Agricultural Department has been endeavoring to get through Congress since ISIS provides that baskets for fruit and vegetables can be manufactured only In five sizes: Eight-quart, 16-quart, 24-quart, 32-quart and 48-quart. r ’ At present these are at least sev-enty-five sizes of these baskets and hampers in use in all sections of the country. The Agrfculturla Department hopes to get the bill limiting the baskets and hampers to five sizes through Congress at the December session. In the meantime Sampson advises every housewife to either buy vegetables by weight or to get various sized baskets, have them tested by I the local scaler of weights and meas- i ures and then Insist on getting them filled on every purchase.

Family Fun Explained At a literary dinner reed birds were served. These are so small that a microscope is almost necessary to perceive them on the plate. “How do they catch these microbes, anyway?" asked one of the guests; ‘do they Shoot ’em, spear ’em or catch ’em in a net?” “Well,” drawled the man addressed, "I’m surprised that you don’t know. They catch them with fly-paper, of course.” —Boston Transcript. > Angel Wife "My wife Is like an angel." “Really?” “Yes. She’s always up In the air, always harping on something, and she never has anything to wear.”— Williams Purple Cow. Then Wife Yawned “Yes, John, as I was saying, Miss Blank has no manners. Why, while I was talking to her this morning she yawned eleven times! “Perhaps, my dear, she wasn’t yawning—she might have wanted to eay something.”—Good Hardware.

TTUESDAY, JULY 22, 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.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot ba given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a pergonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the distance from the home plate to the pitcher"* slab? Sixty feet 8 inches. What Is a good treatment for dry skin? cleanse the skin thoroughly with cold cream. Leave this on for a few minutes so that it may soften the si. rface and draw impurities from the pores. Remove the cream with a soft cloth and then massage the face again with cream, using the sweeping movement covering both face and throat. Do not use water on a dry skin, and never soap. What is the translation of the Latin, "Magna est veritas, et prevalobit”? ‘h'he truth Is mighty and will prevaiL” Is-it correct to accept an Invitation to dinner when asked to fill the place of another guest? 1 , Yes, one is supposed to accept, unless there is an excellent excuse. The host would only ask a friend to fill a place and this is a special courtesy, which must not be rofused. What is the death record per minute in the United States? 2.5 deaths occur per minute.

Is an ostrich faster than a horse? It is said that an ostrich can cov*er twenty-five feet at a single stride and when running at full speed, with short wings outstretched, cannot be out-distanced by any animal. What is the “shower bouquet" for the bride? A cascade of flowers and rfbbon, white roses, orange blossoms, or lilies of the valley,’ or other combinations, massed together in* the center, and from the center lengths of ribbon and trailing flowers wHxch'com* almost to the hem of the bride’* gown. How tall Is Richard Barthelmess and when was he born? 5 feet 7 inches; bom May 9, 1895* How many public school build-* ings are there In the United States? According to the United States Bureau of Educaflon, there are 271< 319. What Is the origin of the word “jazz?" There are many stories; one of the latest Is that given by Vincent Lopez, who believes that it originated In Vicksburg, Miss., where a negro, “Charles (Chaz.) Washington.” was known for his syncopated rhythm. It was the practice in his band to repeat the chorus of a popular number and because of the catchiness of “Chaz.’s” drumming, the crowd would call for an encore. The leader would say, “Now Chaz.” Thus the origin of jazz. What Is the present theory of dreams? Dreams are explained as the symbolic fulfillment of repressed wishes or desires. All dreams are not repressed wishes, however, but are more or less Inchoate reproductions of impressions received during tha day. Can you tell me the name of the “human fly” who was killed at. the Hotel Martinique in New York? H. F. Young, died March 5,1923 v in a nine-story fall from the front of the Hotel Martinique. What order has the word “Fortltudinl” as its motto, and what doea it mean? The Order of Maria Theresa. The word means “For Valour.” How can scratches be removed from celluloid? By carefully brushing the surface of the celluloid with, glacial acetic acid and allowing to dry The acid should not be allowed to come in contact with the skin. t How many 1-cent pieces were coined in 1922? 57,160,00 U-