Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1924 — Page 4

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INDIANAPOLIS, LANDLOARD ' mF IT KEEPS on the‘city of Indianapolis will be one of the city’s largest concerns dealing in rental property. Why the renting of property is a part of the function of the city government is hard to understand.* Another example of this business has been revealed in the controversy over the proposed boulevard on the south side. Here the city bought a number of houses, repaired them, turned them over to a rental agency and is receiving rent from them—after the agency deducts its commission. The houses were purchased after residents in the vicinity had paid anywhere* from $550 to SB4 for a boulevard that has not even been constructed. The houses on the boulevard site have repaired and rented. A street on the boulevard site has not been repaired. The park board explains it was not worth while to repair, the street because the boulevard would soon be constructed. But it was considered worth while to repair the houses. Meanwhile, the residents in the neighborhood are busy cutting the weeds on the land for which they gave their money. The city insists that weeds on privately owned property be cut, but it does not cut its own. The ways pf the city administration are beyond understanding. ' MELLON ÜBER ALLES mUST BEFORE it adjourned, Congress enacted anew and somewhat progressive tax bill- It wasn’t the bill that Secretary Mellon wanted. His tax plan was turned down because Congress felt that it benefited the rich too much and the poor too little. So Congress wrote its own tax bill. That is the proper function of Congress. The Constitution says that Congress shall levy all taxes. It says the Treasury Department is to carry out the orders of Congress. All secretaries of the Treasury * previous to Andrew W. Mellon have understood and accepted this provision of the Constitution. * One of the things that Mellon ob/ected to in the recent tax bill was a provision for publicity in case an individual or a corporation disagreed with the Government as to taxes and wanted the assessment reduced. Hitherto, these reductions have been worked out at a secret conference of a Treasury official with an income tax expert representing the taxpayer, the expert receiving a percentage of the money he got back from the Government. Congress tried to end this secret tax refunding by creating anew board of tax appeals, one which was to hold open sessions and one whieh was instructed to publish the results of its conferences. Mellon and his aides fought this publicity feature bitterly. Congress thought it in the public interest to providl for publicity relative to public funds. The President and the Secretary of .the Treasury were authorized tp appoint the new board and put it to work. They are doing so grudgingly. But meantime, Secretary Mellon has dug into the past and revived an ancient board of appeals, which Congrses thought it had abolished. has dusted this board off, renamed it the division of review and appeals, and tax controversies will *be handled before it, in secret sessions. The new board of tax appeals, which was going to handle cases publicly, can sit and twiddle ifs thumbs. Treasury officials, Wall Street tipsters and other insiders have been saying ill along that Mellon had something up.his sleeve that .would beat the publicity provisions of the new tax law. There it is, the dusty, musty old board, revived renamed. But Congress may have something to say about it when it returns in December. Congress knows it powers, under the Constitution. And Congress knows what the public thinks of secret tax rebating to the rich. Mellon may make monkey-shines at Congress in the summer while Congress is away, but a reckoning is coming.

GEORGE HARVEY MAKES IT CLEAR SHIS newspaper has remarked that Wall Street will be satisfied if either Coolidge or Davis is elected. If confirmation is wanted, read the following: The duty of every Democrat and every Republican is to work hard for the success of his party. Every reasonable man will admit that the country is either Democratic or Republican and that one of these parties should administer the Government. The party receiving the highest vote in November will be morally entitled to take over the'Government, but if too many voters support ticket the actual will of the people of the United States may be thwaAed, with no advantage to the third party and with great confusion and danger to the country. That is from the pen of George Harvey. George Harvey is now editor ©f Ned McLean’s Washington Post, mouthpiece of the Coolidge administration. (You remember Ned McLean who saianand he didn’t.) George Harvey has been the journalistic voice of Wall Street in many a campaign and is at it now in this 1924 campaign. , ' ‘"The duty of every Democrat and every Republican,” says George Harvey, “is to work hard for the success of his party/’ As long as “every Democrat and every Republican” can be kept hard at work for the success of his party, George Harvey knows he will be too occupied to give any thought to the good of his country.. Which is how Wall Street would have it. _____ _ A WEST 3 IRGINIA candidate reports expenditure of 10 . cents for a bag of peanuts, so we now know we do have that kind of politics. , < ‘ ----- - v - SURE, IT IS an ill wind that blows nobody good, think the boys of Walnut Grove, la., whose school books were recently car-' ried thirteen miles away by a cyclone. NATURE IS far more wonderful than had been supposed. It has even awed the mayor of Atlantic City into a protest against one-piece bathing suits. • \ k THOSE WHITE Indians say New York surprises them, which is the usual sensation when one is brought into close proximity with real wild life.

3 STARS TO APPEAR IN THE NORTH As Earth Wabbles Honor Will Pass Through Constellation. By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The" Times. ING CEPHEUS was the king of Ethiopia and the husband I of unhappy Cassiopeia whom -Neptune turned into a constellation and placed .in the sky because of her vanity. This, according to the old Greek legend, as a warning to all young ladies who have a to be vain about their beauty. We would expect that the ancients would have soon imagined Cepheus among the stars too, and that they would place him near Cassiopeia. That is just what they did. So if it is cloudless Honight, you cab go' outdoors and have a look At King Cepheus.

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now, by tracing the line from the pointers in the Great Dipper to Polaris, the north star, and then continuing this line for about an equal distance on the other side of the north star. Cephues will be found to lie quite near this same line arid between Cassiopeia arid the constellation of the Little Bear of which Polaris is a part. Cepheus is about equally distant from the two constellations. Stars Form Letter Cassiopeia was fpund by searching for five fairly* bright stars that seemed to form the letter “M” or "W,” depending upon whether it was observed when above or below the north star. Five stars also form the foundation of the constellation of Cepheus. These stars, as shown in the accompanying diagram, form a geometric figure like a square with a triangle on top of it. The stars are faint and not very* easy to find at orst. They are all third and fourth magnitude, although one approaches fairly closely to being a second magnitude. But If you have a little patience and %e moon Is not too bright, you will soon find Cepheus. Be sure to find him! For if you want to get acquainted with the constellations, you must get to know each one as we go along. The brightest star in the constellation was named Alderamin by the Arabs. This means the “right arm." But as you can see from the drawing lif King Cepheus, this star is really situated in his rignt shoulder and right arm. Alderamin is white in color and is usually rated as having a magnitude of about and a naif. The r.eit brightest star Is Alflrk, which occurs at the girdle of Cepheus. Afirk mefans the "stars of the flock." In very early times, the Arabs regarded this constellation not as Cepheus hut as a flock of sheep. This name is thought to be a survival from that day.

Alfirk Is Double Alfirk is revealed by the telescope to be a double star, that Is, to consist of two stars revolving about each other. The spectroscope further reveals the fact that the larger of t le two stars is itself a double star bat that its components are so close together that the telescope fails to separate them for us. These two components revolve around each other in a period of five hours. Nq other spectroscope doubles are known at the present time with p.a fast a speed of revolution as this. The third brightest star in the constellation is Er Kai, an Arabic name meaning the “shepherd.” This name is thought to have come down from the same time as the name Alfirk. Er Rai is situated in the knee of Cepheus. Its color Is yellow. These three stars should be of special interest t<4 us. It will be remembered that due to the fact that the earth wabbles on its axis, tilting slowly through the centuries, Polaris will one day lose the honor of being the pole star. Astronomers compute that Er Rai will be the pole star in trie year 4500. In 6000 A. D., the honor will belong to Alflrk. And in 7500 A. D., Alderamin, the brightest stajr in Cepheus, will be the pole star. Next Article: "The Other Stars In Cepheus.” A Thought He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.—Prov. 15:32. • • • Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself.— Plato.

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Chair Arms By HAL COCHRAN Consider the arms of a big comfy chair that sits in most every one’s home. There must be a reason why chair arms are there —it ought to be good for a pome. Dad comes home from work and he spies the armchair. He leisurely flops himself in it. And shortly the arms find his legs hanging there and he’s snoring away in a minute. Just patiently knitting, all day mother’s sitting; the old chair just fits her, It seenab. And then, on the arms, she will rest aged charms and she shortly will drift into dreams. A sweetheart will gracefully 101 l in the chair; her reason is shortly made clear. The arms find a lover is soon sitting there as lie whispers sweet things in her ear. ” A -little tot’s naughty; some cross words are said, and afteT mom’s reprimand’s spent, the child on the chair arm will bury its head and weep to its wee heart’s content. A plain comfy armchair that’s ancient or new; what long lists of thoughts it will bring. Consider this armchair; give credit that’s due to 3. very considerate thing. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

hi New York By STEVE HAN.NAG AN. NEW YORK. July 28.—There are many men in New York who bet on race horses every day—and never see a race. They make their choice from charts and dope sheets. Many have .been following the printed tilts for years. • They save “charts and past pprformances’’ for many years, some of them having systematic filing cabinets for their records. "Shorty” Murray, known to all Broadway bookmakers, broke tradition last week and left town to see the runners. When he returned he was carrying most of his clothes on his arms. "Where’s your trunks?” his friends questioned. "I’ve got them with me," he answered. V "Why don’t you pack ybur clothe3 in them?" "No room,” Murray explained, "I’ve got my records in them." It developed that his two trunks were filled with resuits of races of many years, some of the reoor-ls faded with age. Murray has "outdoped" the bookmakers for three apartment houses, and a marble quarry_ He started with notv independently wealthy, and lives in a Park Ave. apartment.

The most consistent sun dodgers* in New York are the stage hands—the men who shift the scenes in Broadway's theaters. Their day does not begin until 11:30 p. m., after the show. Then they gather for their conversational recreation. They go to bed with the break of day* and do not emerge until midday, when they go into darkened theaters to await the passing of the sun. Bill Butler, one of the oldest scene shifters, is an exception.. He lives an hour from New York and is in his theater at 8 each morning. He remains at work until after the show, then travels an hour to bed. in the winter Bill, his co-workers say, just gets home in time to fix the furnace, eat breakfast ahd start back to the theater. Butler is the master carpenter for a chain of theaters operated by one producer. • • • “May Time” and “June Night,” two new song hits,,didn't hit until July. Proving that weather has nothing to do with success. * * * Saw a man hit by an automobile, a victim of summer flapper raiment and a penetrating sun. He didn’t see the auto. j Tongue Tips Glenn Frank, editor Century Magazine: Politics, when divorced from education and religion, becomes a petty thir.g.” * * * Miss Mary McCormick, state department of education, Albany, N. Y.: “Good nutrition is essential to strong teeth, a rosy), clear' complexion, a lithe body and general health." • • * Ex-Vice-President Marshall: “This age is much like that of the gold rush to California. It is not at all a bad age when the sum of human sympathy Is set out alongside of the sum of human evil." • • • Dr. Henry Van Dyke, lecturer arid diplomat: “Learn to distinguish between a reverse and a defeat.” • • * Frank Harris, writer: “When Oscar Wilde wrote that a man could be happy with any woman, so long as he was not in love with her, he uttered vary vise savin**.”

LAFOLLETTE INFLUENCES OLD PARTIES Nobody Knows What Will" Happen in Three-Way Campaign, Times ’Washington Bureau, 15 22 New York Are. ASHINGTON, July 28.—What\]y ever the final vote for the ' Y J La Follette-Wheeler ticket may be, its very existence is already having a significant Infltence on presidential politics. One effect is the marked disposition of supporters of Candidate Davis to convince voters that Davis is really and truly progressive. There £re other Indications that Davis himself will do all he can in his campaign speeches to further this strategic move. Unless Republican strategy is stand pat as a conservative and depend upon Business an ’-High Finance to pull him, through. This strategy is based on the theory, or the hopes, that the appeal of Davis to progressive Democrats, if it is at all successful, will drive conservative Democrats to Coolidge, and that Davis and La Follettee will divide the progressive vote. It Is Old Stuff All of this old-party strategy, however, Is old stuff and is based on guess work. In 1912 Wilson and Roosevelt were classed as progressives, while Taft was conservative, or reactionary; and Taft carried only Utah and Vermont. Had the Democrats in that year nominated a conservative of the Davis type, Instead of the progressive Wilson, it ’s within reason to believe that Roosevelt would have swept the country with his Bull Moose platform. What will happen this year, nobody knows. For nobody knows how big the independent vote for La Follette and Wheeler will be While for many years we have heard 6f the ’ labor vote," there | never was any such thing in American politics. Nobody ever was able | to swing the vote of union workmen, | let alone the larger number of un- ; organized workers, solidly behind any candidate. Politicians came to understand this, and ceased to fear the "labor vote.” That may explain ! the scant attention organized labor got in both the old-party conventions. What About Labor

Year after year members of organized labor remained Democrats, Republicans or Socialists, when election time came around. They had the votes, of course, because there are many more workers than bosses, but they neutralized their voting strength by fighting one another politically as Republicans, Democrats and Socialists. Organized capital didn’t have to bother licking organized labor politically. Labor licked Itself. It may do so again. Nobody knows. Then there have always been tricks by which shrewd political acents of special privilege could divide the ranks of labor. To illustrate: A high official of an industrial plant, employing about ten thousand men, subscribed for 6,000 copies of "The Menace," organ of the Guardians of Liberty, in 1913 or 1914 and had them mailed to employes of the plant. When he admitted this and was asked it he were prejudiced against Catholics, he replied: Lord, no; but if we can keep our men fighting among themselves over religion they can’t get together In labor unions." \\ hat Was Influence? It would be Interesting to know just what powerful influence so cunningly injected into the Democratic convention In New York the two issues that created such bitterness. It is possible that Interests deeply Interested in the election of Coolidge and Dawes had their agents at work in that convention* The wet-dry and Klan issues didn’t plunge into, that convention on their own hook. It is also possible that other tricks will be played during the campaign to divide the ranks of labor and to drive the western farmers back into the Republican fold. An<J the shrewdest and most resourceful political tricksters are always found on the side politically which has the biggest barrel. It may be part of the big game to have Davis make a big drive to hold progressive Democrats away from the La Follette ticket and at the finish throw the full strength of conservatism, in both old parties, back of Coolidge. In which event Davis will be thrown aside like a squeezed lemon, as Parker was in 1904. In any event there won’t be any political sentiment in business this year. The last thing organized capital wants in this country is a powerful Labor party; and its strength will go hack of Coolidge or Davis—whichever seems to be the one best bet to down the La Follette movement.

Tom Sims Says Being a picture of health does no good if it is hand-painted. A hair on the head is worth six on the comb. What makes a woman madder than a nlew dress fading? When a man gets disappointed in love he goes around blaming the world In general for it. Now is the time to start letting your whiskers grow as a preparedness against Christmas neckties. ■I Fire broke out in a Chicago police station, but they caught it in time. Only a few more months in w|iich to do something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Here’s a slogan some presidential candidate can have: The dollars that run the Government run the taxpayers. Years ago they got the buggy and went sparking: now they get the buto and go parking. A pessimist is a man looking at a thermometer. Stand on your own rights and you can’t be told where to get off. “Don’t worry” makes a better motto when you add “other*.”

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PIRATES LIVE IN SOUTHERN METROPOLIS Will Cressy Does Not Seem to Like City of New Orleans, By WILL CRESSY N r " “I EW ORLEANS was originally a Pirate’s Retreat. Some of them have not retreated yet. They run Curio and Antique Stores over in the French Quarter, where they give no quarter to customers. They a£ll Grand Rapids Antique Furniture. Pottstown (Pa.) Antique Pewters, Hackensack (N. J.) Antique Pottery and live Alligators, the only native products in the stores. The city was first laid out, with a rowboat, in 1718, by Jean Baptiste La Moyne and named for Le Due de Orleans. In 1726 France sold it to Spain. In 1800 Spain sold It to France. IN 1803 France sold St to the United States. It was a fine sell. In 1815 a Sir Edward Pakenham came over from England with 7,000 picked English troops and decided to capture New Orleans and stay there a while. Gen. Andrew Jackson, with a couple of thousand American backwoodsmen, piled up a lot of cotton bales and welcomed them to the city. Twenty-five hundred of them, including Sir Edward, are there yet. American losses, eight killed and thirteen wounded. HURRAY"! During the winter season New Orleans Is inhabited by French Cooks, Cajens, Sazerack Mixers. Creoles, Race Track Touts, Ginn Fizz Shakers, Mardi-Gras-Float Builders and Negro Jug Band Players. In the summer it isn’t. The finest residential parts of New Orleans are its cemeteries. There are no graves in N. O. You are

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either filed away for future reference in a set of stone letter boxes, or in a little stone playhouse built on top of the ground. The city's greatest annual event is its Mardi Gras; when,' for a week, its people, and the tourists, go around the streets masked and throwing waste paper at each other. They also have beautiful parades of floats. But -what good are floats when you cannot get the proper material tp float with? Arcadia, just outside of N. 0., is where Evengeline brought her troupe when the show was closed down in Nova Scotia somewhere. It was a long jump, but it was worth it to get out of Nova Scotia. In some way known only to themselves, these dwellers in Arcadia call themselves “Cajens.” While the Creoles, a mixture of the best of the Spanish and the French bloods, are indigenous to New Orleans, Carl Norman, “The Creole Fashion Plate,” and “Sam Jack’s Creoles” did NOT come from New Orleans. New Orleans Is the greatest shipping point in the world for cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco, T do not know much about the cotton, rice and sugar, but I thoroughly approve of shipping the tobacco away. There are six railroads running into—and out of—New Orleans—when it does not rain too hard. And THAT helm*.

Ask The Times You can ret 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 be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. U'nsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Is all of the cane and beet sugar used In the United States produced here? The United States proper supplies only about 1,200,000 tons of the annual supply or scarcely one-fourth of the total of over 5,000,000 tons of I sugar consumed annually in the 1 United States. Combined with the production of sugar from cane in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii and the Philippines, the production of sugar under the American flag' does not quite reach half the amount consumed by the American people. What is the plural of daugh-ter-in-law? Daughters-in-law. Which one of the early American poets was a “child wonder?” John Trumbull (1750-1831) passed the Yale entrance examinations at 7 years of age. He was not allowed to enter until he was 13. however, and by that time he had read so much Greek and Latin that there was nothing for him to do in college but mathematics and astronomy. He turned his attention to those and to literature. What is the work of a mining engineer? Mining engineering includes all the work in connection with the exploration for and the development of mining of ores, coal and minerals. Wh&t does gunpowder consist of? Black gunpow’der usually consists of potassium nitrate 15 per cent; charcoal, 15 per cent; sulphur. 10 per cent; brown prismatic gunpowder, known as coco, contains underburned charcoal 10 per cent and but 2.5 per cent of sulphur. This

grain is a European**development of the one invented by Genei'al Rodman, United States of America. Where is the Yazoo River and how long is It? It is in the northwestern part of Mississippi and flows into the Mississippi River. It is 280 miles long. What is a Gila monster? A large lizard of Arizona,. New Mexico and the southwestern States having tubercular scales. The Gila monster and the similar Mexican H. horridum are the only poisonous lizards known. What is the longest tunnenl in the United States? That on the Boston & Maine Railroad, in Hoosac, Mass., about 5 % miles long. Do railroads employ firemen under 18 years of age? Not as ’ a general rule. If afT excetion is made, the written consent of the parents Is requireq. How did the word “junkers” originate and what is its meaning? Junkers originally meant younger members of a German noble family. It took on the meaning of reactionary noblemen in the middle of the nineteenth century and was usually user as a term of reproach.

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EDUCATION CAN NOT BE INHERITED Experiments With Rats Show Learning Is Acquired, By HERBERT QUICK AKE two boys or girls in infancy. Take one of them x. from some backwoods neighborhood whose ancestors for generations have never been able to read or write., never were in touch with anything modem, and have always been very, very poor. Take the other from a family which has during all these generations been composed of well-educated, active, publicspirited people, living full lives in the midst of the highest civilization. Suppose that the two came hundreds of years ago from the same ancestors. In other words, that they are of the same blood up to the time when their ancestors separated, one set of ancestors to. go down hill to poverty and ignorance and the other to ride the waves of prosperity and education. Which Mind Best? Which of these children of today would have the best mind? The child of the backwoods and Ignorance and poverty, or the child of education and comfort and progress? You will probably say that the latter would have the best mind. And you probably would be wrong. Dr. Vicari of the Zoological Laboratory of Columbia University works with rats. He educates them. He puts their food, for instance, in a complicated labyrinth. In other words, he makes it hard for them to find it. They learn. They learn to solve all sorts of puzzles to find their food. Knowing rats, you will easily believe this. Rats Educates He times them on this ability to solve the labyrinth. And the rats with four generations of educated ancestors can not learn to solve this labyrinth any quicker than can those from the ignorant, benighted, backwoods families of rats. It is the same with people. Education is an acquired characteristic. And acquired characteristics are not inherited, You may train fathers and mother* for a thousand years to operate a linotype machine and their children will be no better operators than some whose people have lived in the sticks and never saw a newspaper office. Our ancestors in the forests of Euorpe a thousand years ago had as good natural ability as we have and would have made as good college professors, though tl|ey went naked and painted their bodies. m And this is a fine thing to think of. Give the poor and ignorant of the next generation the right sort of opportunity and their native ability will fill the world with geniuses.

Science Leaders in medical believe that a cure for cancer soon will be found. The strange Increase of this disease in recent years has urged science to its greatest effort. Cancer seems to be a disease of civilization. It is practically unknown among savage tribes. As modern appliances make It less and less necessary for people to exert themselves, deaths from cancer become more numerous. Thus far the use of the X-ray has been one of the most important methods in treating cancer, and, such treatments probably will be greatly improved by anew invention. The short rays are the kind most needed in this treatment. Glass does not permit the passage of these rays, tynd until recently the tubes in which X-rays are produced have always been made of glass. The latest discovery is a tube made of vitreosil, as fused silica is called. Vitreosil permits the passage of the short rays. Vitreosil will stand a much higher temperature than gl#ss and is much stronger. This means more continuous service from Xrays, which is of great importance to industry as well as to medical science.