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BRITAIN SETS FAST PACE EF Bob La Follette were to urge the United States Government to buy up all our coal lands now in private hands and take over absolute control of the industry, Old Guard and Bourbon. Republican and Democrat, would set up a howl which would lift the roof. They would call him Socialist, communist, syndicalist, bolshevik and worse names stalk Yet David Lloyd George, former Premier of Britain, leader of England’s great Liberal party, advocates that the British government do that very tiling. Elsewhere in this paper you can read about it. You will find it interesting, particularly as the recommendations come not from the Labor government of Premier Ramsay MacDonald who fcrr many years has advocated nationalization of mines, but from what might be called the Democratic party of England. For that matter, the scheme is not without supporters among the conservative party, either. The Spectator, a conservative organ, regrets it was the Liberal party, rather than the conservative, which discovered it because “there is nothing in it which is inconsistent with conservative policy.” Read the story. See how progressive “conservative” Old Mother England is becoming. She is setting a pace in progressive action which America, her emancipated child, will find it hard to follow. A DOCTOR’S PRESCRIPTION SHE EDITOR ran into one of his doctor friends on the street a day or so ago and the conversation turned to politics. “Can you keep a secret?” asked the doctor. “Yes.” “Well, I"m going to vote for La Follette. Just thought you might like to know.” The doctor would be surprised to learn just how many secrets exactly like his this editor is keeping. An architect here, an attorney there, a small business man, a clergyman and so on. All folks who say they are going to vote for La Follette, but say it very quietly. The professional men who do not wish to clash with the political views of clients, the business men who feel the same as to customers. They’ve made up their minds and more or less dismissed the subject until election day. Why are men of this class joining in the progressive movement, a movement that is supposed to be made up of fanners and working men ? The doctor quoted above gave a pretty good reason for his own decision. “I don’t know about the advanced theories attributed to La Follette and Wheeler,” he said. “What I’ve come to think about them is that they do not represent much more than oldfashioned honesty applied to politics. What they’ve seemed to stand for in public life is merely the interests of the whole people as against the interests of a particular few. And the only benefit a man in my profession can obtain from politics is a square deal. What I want, more than anything else, is a square deal as a consumer, as a buyer of food and clothes and the other necessities of life. “As for the country as a whole, it seems to me it is something like the individual citizen. When the individual’s health “begins to get away from him, the doctor sometimes has to resort to new and advanced methods of treatment. More often the doctor simply has to get the patient back to the fundamental principle of being honest with himself physically to persua le him to treat his body fairly, to give it half a chance to be well This means the abandoment of unwise habits of living and <*vcesses of one sort and another. “So with the Nation. Legislation has come to be a mutter of special privileges to special people and the people as a wbcle suffer the consequences. A good purge appears to be called r>r and that s about all. If the Government is administered for the benefit of all the people, nobody can complain. Certainly rut •. fellow in my profession. ” POINTS AN OLD MORAL **f I J WAS taught conscience until I was 8 years old,” said 1 * ) young Leopold, the confessed Chicago killer. “But after that time I drilled conscience out of myself.” He succeeded in the drilling, for he committed a crime so brutal and inexcusable as to shock, not a community, but an entire nation. He had no conscience to guide him and, rudderless oi? a sea of wrong that edged the land of right, he floated into crime willingly, even gleefully. There is nothing redeeming or good about Leopold, but he has emphasized an old moral to adorn a miserable tale. It isn’t the fruit of books, the written law, or the culture offered by refined surroundings that lift men above the lowest and vilest of the earth’s population. It is the little something inside of the individual person that directs his mind and stays his hand Without it he isn t civilized and the world is worse for his having lived. Leopold is a horrible example.

President Dawes; President Bryan; President Wheeler?

Maybe! There’s more chance of one of the vice presidential candidates being the next President of the United States than there has been since the modern method of electing a President was put in force. Why? Because with three parties in the field, the possibility grows that no candidate for President may have a majority of 266 electoral votes; and the House of Representatives is so divided that in all human probability it could

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not select a President from the three high candidates,: and therefore the Senate would have to choose a Vice President from the two highest and he would thus automatically become President of the United States, on March 4 next. Qj If you want the detailed explanation of how this might happen, together with the biographies of the three vice presidential candidates, fill out the coupon below and mail to our Washington Burea v

REMEMBER GUIDES IN THE STARS You Will Have No Trouble Finding Constellations With These Points, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times. Sr— —| o far we have surveyed the five constellations "'which are close to the celestial north xtle, the north pole of the sky. These oonstellations are frequently called the circumpolar constellations bjeause they all lie around the pole. Because of their closeness to the north celestial pole, these constella-

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THE SKETCH SHOWS A MAP OF THE SKY NEAR THE NORTH CELESTIAL POLE. THE FIVE CONSTELLATIONS WHICH NEVER SINK BELOW THE HORIZON ARE SHOWN. ALSO THE BRIGHT STAR CAP EL LA.

tions are visible every night of the year. In this they differ from the other constellations which are only to be seen during certain seasons of the year, being below the horizon at night during the other seasons. Before going on to the summer constellations let us review brielly the five constellations we have surveyed so far. It is important that you know these well for they are important guides when you try to find the other consteilationa Go outdoors tonight and see If you can find all five of them without difficulty. First, of course, you will spy the Great Bear, easily found by the seven bright stars which form the Great Dipper. The Great Bear, you will remember, 1s the nymph Cal Us to whom Juno turned into a bear because she was Jealous of the love of Jupiter for her. And while you’re viewing the Great Bear don’t forget to give a glance to little Alcor, whose tiny light shines bravely near the star Mizar, the second star in the handle of the Great Dipper. Then trace a line from Dubbe and Merak, the “pointers" of the Great Dipper, to Polaris, the pole star. Polaris, you will remember, is at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper, or the tip of the tail of the Little Bear. Starting with Polaris, trace out the seven stars of the Little Dipper. The Little Bear, you will remember, is Areas, the son of Callisto, whom Jupiter turned into a bear when he was about to kill Callisto, not recognizing Ills mother whom Juno had turned into a bear. Cepheus Identified Now continue the line from the ■“pointers’’ to Polaris, until you reach Cepheus. Five stars, none of them very bright, identify Cepheus. As you know, they form a five-sided figure like a square with a triangle on top of it. Cepheus was the King of Ethiopia, who accompanied Jason in his search for the golden fleece, and who was the husband of unhappy Cassiopeia. By continuing the line from the “pointers’’ to Polaris still farther, you reach Cassiopeia Five stars sprawled like a “W,” pulled out of shape, identify Cassiopeia You will recall that she 1s the queen whom Father Neptune turned Into a constellation because she was vain and boasted that she was more beautiful than the sea nymphs. Four Stars in Head Last of all, look for Draco, the great dragon curled between Great and Little Bears. -His tall begins with a little star very near the line between the “pointers” and Polaris. His head id identified by four stars which form a little diamond. Draco, according to one version, is the serpent that Tempted Eve, according to others the serpent that Minerva hurled Into the sky, the dragon Hercules killed, or the dragon Cadmus killed. If you can find these five constellations without trouble, you aro ready to survey the summer constellations. Next article: The constellation Lyra. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz) Science Electric lights have been used in raising chickens to make them believe it was daylight, when it was really dark, and now they are being lsed to fool planta Different rays of light have very marked effect upon all living things. Some of these rays are of great use in the treatment of disease. Others greatly stimulate growth of plants. Even electric light, merely as a substitute for daylight, has been proved to have great effect upon plants. Experts In the United States Department of Agriculture experimented with powerful electric lights. They found that not only the time of blooming, but the size of the plant is controllable by increasing the amount of light- There are on exhibition plants treated in this way and similar plants that have grown normally. The ones that are “lighttreated’ are the stronger and larger.

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The Bubbler By HAL COCHRAN A place in truth, where age and youth have mingled day and night. Just standing there, its welcome's rare, an ever tempting sight. A man of gray will pass its way. He’s weary, hot and slack. Ambition’s gone; he lingers long, and then it trickles hack. A tot of 4 will cry for more, so sister holds him high. He’s held until he gets his fill. And then —they pass on by. A business man will slyly scan the people who imbibe. He's tempted then; you know it when he joins the thirsty tribe. It’s yours or mine; we fall in line and sip and sip in deep content. Thus age and youth, to tell the ty-uth, are really pleasure bent. Oh, Bubbler small, you help us all. I join the folks who pause and bow io you, like others da Yours is a worthy cause. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNA GAN NEW YORK. Aug. s.—Gleaned from one day's news, here: Seventeen people are thankful today for the throbbing toothache that kept Regina Korn awake and pacing the floor. She saw a fire In a tenement house across the street from her window. Battling her way into the house she carried several children to safety and aroused others just in time. After the fire was extinguished, her toothache was gone. Laurence Farrell, 9, had a toothache that caused him great pain. As he lay in bed he moaned and groaned. At first, Joseph, his brother, two years younger, sympathized with him. Finally Joseph shot Laurence dead with his father's pistol to stop his “hollering.” When Hubert Glossick came home his supper wasn’t ready. That made him very angTy. He hit his wife twice. The second blow sent Hubert, Jr., three months old, crashing to the floor from his mother's arms. The baby's skull was fractured. Mike O’Donnell, 57, and shifty, la sentenced to spend only three years In Sing Sing, while his partner, with whom he was convicted of attempted safe robbery, is sentenced to five years. The court was lenient to Mike. He once spent ten years In Sing Sing for a crime committed by his brother. His innocence was confirmed by the deathbed confession of his brother. William Clark recently sentenced here to prison for five years admits spending thirty of his thirty six years behind prison bars. New York has gone wild over “cross-word’’ puzzles. It Is a serious epidemic, threatening other recognized Indoor sports. The puzzle consists of a skeleton checkerboard, with a key to the words to be inserted. The key suggests the word and the number of letters it contains. Some of them are exceedingly difficult to fathom. The best puzzle worker I have seen in action is a Follies show girL Matching her vocabulary and fund of information of world-wide places, events and things, against the general knowledge of a veteran news editor who has been around the world, she won handily. She comes from Des Moines, lowa. Nature Gladinoli, the wondrous “glad” now coming into bloom by the millions in United States, has no. American ancestors. It evolved almost entirely from species native to Africa. It is now known where the poisonous qualiites lie in Darnel, or poise n rye-grass. A fungus disease attacks the tissues under the seed coats and causes this grass to be most dangerous when ground and mixed with other flour. Bread concocted from such mixture is likely to cause “eruptions, trembling, and confusion of sight in man and flesheating animals.” Malted with barley, the ale causes very sudden intoxication. Queer part is that the plant makes splendid hay if cut before seeding, and isn’t harmful to grazing animals. Its seeds are poultry feed, too. Family Fun Wife's New Cook “Officer!” “Yes, ma’am. What’s wrong, ma’am?” “Nothing’s wrong: but I wish you’d step Into the kitchen and tell the cook to put iust a little more salt in the potatoes than she did yesterday ” —Judge. The Moving Neighbor “The Joneses are moving.” ’’Why, they’ve only been here a year! People were just beginning to get to know them.” "Yes, that’s why they are going.” —Baltimore (Sydney).

BUTLER SAYS COPS DON'T TAKE CASH Philadelphia Police Chief Gets Results in Cleanup Drive. Editor's Note—This is the second of three articles by Ruth Finnry on the effort of General Smedley Butler, ox the Marines, to clean up Philadelphia. By RUTH FINNEY 1 HILADELPHIA, Aug.,s.—Students of human natiire who contend there is no such thing as honest law enforcement look with skepticism upon the claim of Gen. Smediey Butler, Philadelphia director of public safety, that he has some 1,600 policemen under him who are not taking bribes and who are actually enforcing the laws. Butler is no evangelist and he has worked no amazing conversions in the rank and file of the Philadelphia police force. Nevertheless his men are doing what he tells them ard this is the way he accomplished it. When he ;ook office last January he gave orders for a “clean-up.” The men thought he meant it to just the °xtcac all his piedecessors had meant it. They were wrong. Men Are Shifted When no results were forthcoming, Butler demoted men and shifted their beats. Still they didn't obey him to any noticeable extent because they figured if he didn’t mean it, they would get in trouble, and if he did mean what he said, he couldn’t possibly last long, and it was wisest to stand in with those who always had been bosses and who would be again. Finally he demoted a police lieutenant who was one of Congressman Vare’s closest henchmen. The man boasted he would be back in a day or two. But nothing of the sort happened. Then some of the men in the department began to believe Butler might survive, after all. It appeared to them a wise thing to obey this new leader. Grad tally about a third of the police force began to feel that way about it and carried out Butler's orders.

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This one-third is the backbone of Butler's force. The other two-thirds of the men are kept moving rapidly from beat to beat until they shall become convened, going at such a rate that they have no time to es iabiish connections and find neat add easy sources from which to en v .am-e their incomes. Butler on rightly “surprise rounds” is watching she whole crowd, and by his new 'xploits is keeping them con vincec that loyalty to him 1s not endangering the self-interest of any man. There you have the whole j secret of the thing. With his "converted” one-third Butler started his crusade against viva. Since the first of the year, his men have made 3,25a liquor raids have seized 500 stills and 140.000 j gallons of alcohol, beer and mash' ; and liave closed every one of the | thirty-two breweries operating in j the city six months ago. | Where there were thirty-two disorderly houses raided in June of last ; year, there were fifty-five raided this June under Butler’s orders. Where j eighteen “speakeasies” fell before | the law last June, there were 220 ! casualties this corresponding month, j Those are just examples from a long list. Removes Politics With the internal reform and the vice crusade well under way, Butler took his next step, redistricting, which is designed to divorce his department from political control. Under the old plan, police districts and wards had Identical boundaries. Ward leaders who wished to help a friend in trouble had only to speak to their magistrate. Now each police district includes all or parts of at least three wards. Thus there are many magistrates in a district and an offending brother is just as apt—more so in sact —to be taken before a magistrate from another ward who hasn’t the slightest Interest in what the ward colleagues of the accused man may think of his sentence. And with that condition prevailing, ward bosses have just about as much power as they would have If deposited suddenly In Mars. The law giving Butler power to do this has been on the statute books since 1867, but this is the first time it occurred to any one to enforce it. Tom Sims Says Asa man thinks so is he, until his wife change-.: hik mind. Ignorance isn’t so very much bliss in the eyes of the law. Where is the money you saved on coal during the hot months? He who waits to laugh last very often has no laugh coming. All left of the summer girl’s wearing apparel is the outskirts. Some marry for better or worse, and some just to argue. School days threaten to return. No joy is permanent. A watch has 160,144,000 ticks a year, but a campi - scratching would swear lie has more ticks in a minute. Giraffes can see behind without turning their heads, so wouldn’t it be terrible if go.isiping women were like giraffes. Nearly every day is sun day now. Farmers near railroads and pikes should paint their cows a bright red. Rats,* according to Washington experts, are increasing, but this may be propaganda to boost the silk stocking trade. The sky is the limit for the man who keeps looking up. Man wants but little here below his chin in hot weather. Somebody is always favoring a drastic change for everbody else. Some people think as if they had the headache. ilNi& Only a short time before fall; not, however, a fall in prices.

Handy Andy Mellon

PITTSBURGH IS NAMED FOR STOGIES

(Will Cressy Says Smoky City Honors One of Its Products. By WILL CRESSY ITTSBURGH is where you change cars for Allegheny. J (In pronouncing Allegheny you do not speak it you sing iL) Also where you change your color, your collar ahd your barge bills when you pay your larger hotel bill. Pittsburgh has two class A hotels, each higher in price than the other. Pittsburgh 1s called “The Smoky City” in honor of the Pittsburgh stogies which are made there and smoked elsewhere. Pittsburgh is the largest steel city In the world. (There are two ways of spelling steel; 1 am taking the safe way.) Pittsburgh is a beautiful city—about three- miles out. Pittsburgh has the largest Shrine i in the world. Pittsburgh the capital of Poland and Jugoslavia. Pittsburgh has more millionaires to the square foot than any city in

.America. (“Square” is an adjective, referring strictly to its subject “foot.”) Pittsburgh workingmen believe in “Strike While the Iron’s Hot.” The Pennsylvania Railroad passes through Pittsburgh. The B. & O. dodges it. Pittsburgh's school system is a model. Every schoolroom is hung with mottoes; for Instance: “Early to mine and early to smelt is the way Andrew Carnegie always felt.” “ ’Tis a wise son who knows his own father's second wife.’ “Eat, drink and be married, for tomorrow she goes to Cleveland.” “A smudge on the nose is one of the noblest works of God.” When you see a Pittsburgh man walking along the street holding his hand palm up, on a level with his shoulder, he is simply practicing up for luncheon, so he can carry the tray without spilling it. Pittsburgh has a of 588,200. The two hundred are Americans. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Sex-vice, Inc.) Tongue Tips Delegate Lawson, State Federation of Lavr, Minnesota: “If this country is attacked I don’t care if it is capitalistic or not, I will defend it. It’s mine.” George W. Wickersham, former Attorney General United States: “From Blackstone, as from other book, did the American statesmen find assistance in giving legal form to democratic ideas of government." Edward S. Martin, writer: “The important thing of all is man. If man really gets ahead, all mundane creation gets ahead, from the dog 'and the horse and the monkey to the eagle, the glowworm and the clam." ,

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., Washixgton, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and mamal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research he undertaken. All other questions w-ill receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the food value of farina? 1,685 calories per pound. What is the Sunday school enrollment in the United States? The latest available statistics show 390,007. What is a “conference committee” in Congress? When a bill is passed by one House of Congress and amended by another, and the first House refuses to accept the amendments of the second, the differences are composed by a special committee with members from both Houses, called a conference committee. When was the Southern Confederacy actually set up? Feb. 4. 1861, delegates from six States—South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana—met at Montgomery, Ala., and set up a provisional government with Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as President and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia as Vice President. Subsequently Texas, Arkansas, Virginia. North Carolina and Tennessee and governments rep-

resenting a minority of the people of Kentucky and Missouri applied and were admitted, and the permanent constitution, modeled on that of the Constitution of the United States was adopted in the autumn of i ftfli Do eye-teeth have anything to do with the eyes? No, they are merely a popular name for the canine teeth. Is a great deal of hair, especially on a man’s chest, a sign of great strength? No. If so, women, who up to the time of the bobbed hair fashion, certainly had as a rule, more hair than men, would be the stronger sex. The theory of hair denoting strength, is probably an idea arising from the account of Samson in the Bible. There is no scientific reason why an abundance if hair denotes great strength. In what year was the first congressional campaign committee to help elect Congressmen organized? In 1866 by the Republican members of Congress. Is It true that a murdered person may have photographed on the retina of the eye an impression of the murderer which can in turn be photographed so as to identify the murderer? Unfortunately no; if so, the work of our detective forces would he much simplified. It la true that Professon Kuehne of Heidelberg and Professor 801 l of Vienna succeeded, using mart elaborate precautions and very delicate apparatus in securing certain results fr-om the retina of the eye of a rabbbit, but their experiments were conducted under scientific conditions such as could never obtain except as a result of laboratory experimentation.

TUESDAY, AUG. 5, 1924

EX-PREMIER FOR MINE OWNERSHIP Lloyd George Would Have Government Control Coal Output, Timet Washington Bureau, 1322 Xew York Ave. L—TS ASHINGTON Aug. s.—Gov|YY/ ernment control of coal mines 1 is now within reach of England, according to information in the hands of the writer. Thus the labor government of Premier MacDonald seems to have scored a partial victory at least. For while MacDonald’s party advocates nationalization of mines, generally held impossible of realization at this time, it has forced the liberals, led by Lloyd George, to take a very advanced position with regard to the democratizing of industry. This means that while the labor government may not put through its maximum program, it should be able to put through measures vastly beneficial to the long-suffering British laboring class. What happened Is this: The Liberal party, spurred to action by the necessity of keeping up with the trend of times, appointed a committee to study and report on the coal industry in Britain. Lloyd George was made chairman of that committee. Report Is Made The committee has made its report. It finds and recommends: I—That nationalization would almost inevitably lower wages, add to the price of coal and tend to destroy mltlative and efficiency. 3—That there should, however, be complete unified control of the mineral resources of the kingdom and their development in the national Interest. 3. That the government should buy out the 4,000 royalty owners (that is, the owners of the coal lands) and that a small body of royalty commissioners should be set up. 4. That this commission should then grant leases for the working of the mines on condition that the mine lessees provide good houses; modern, sanitary villages; recreation grounds, public parks, a tree-plant-ing program, and so on for ths benefit of the workers. 6. Tfiat, the miners themselves should have, equal say with mine lessees, in the matter of general policy of the industry, through representatives of the workers sitting on equal terms -with their employers on pit committees, or local mines; district boards and in a national mining council. Responsibility Unimpaired 6. "That once general policies have been worked out, executed responsibility for the actual operation of mines remain unimpaired with the lessees. None the less striking was the Lloyd George committee’s proposal for the electrification of all British railways and industries by means of superpower stations in every coal district. Coal could thus be consumed at ♦he pit-head and the electricity sent over the country instead of as at present laboriously loading cool intc freight cars. and dragging it long distances there to be unloaded and converted into power. This is not nationalization as MacDonald sees it, but it is a long step in that direction is everywhere conceded. Her Name Little Susan had won a prize in school, a lovely doll. Asked by her teacher,what she would name her new pet, she answered. “Serchie.” “Serchie.’” exclaimed her teacher, ‘what a queerr name,’ Why I never heard of it before.” “Bui, teacher,” said little Susan with grave surprise, “surely you haven't forget—yon know, the song we sing in class—Tm going a-milk ins, Serchie said!’ ” —Argonaut.