Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX P. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlppe-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Palne Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Co., # 214-220 W. Maryland St, Indianapolis • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cfents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Wwk, • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

THE COUNTY UNIT SYSTEM mHE SECOND PLANK in the platform of Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic nominee for Governor, says: “I am opposed to the county unit school system and hav<? pointed out it is further evidence of centralization of power, to which the Democratic party is unalterably opposed.’ ’ We disagree with the doctor in this subject. But, we hasten to add, we also are unalterably opposed to centralization of power such as takes away from the voter'the right to govern himself. We do not agree that the proposed county unit school system takes away from the individual any right to govern nimself. There are more arguments in its favor than against it. The township system as we know it in Indiana is a remnant of the days when travel was difficult and it was a real task to make a trip to the county seat. Asa matter of fact, there is now little reason for township boundaries and we dare say that if the State were to be organized new at this time there would be no townships. At the present time township schools are almost exclusively in the hands of trustees, subject to some State supervision. Frequently these trustees are men poorly qualified for the job of operating public schools. The county unit system contemplates a county board similar to our city school boards, with all parts of the county represented. This board would employ a superintendent, just as a city board does and he, with the board, would have charge of all the schools in the county. The county operating as a unit should be able to employ better teachers, should be able to buy supplies more cheaply, should facilitate the consolidation of schools as between townships and should make school operation more uniform. The board, with a competent educator at its head, should be able to function more efficiently than half a dozen or more trustees working independently within the county. At the same time the voter would exercise his influence with the board through his representative, who would be responsible to him. THE INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION SHE SECOND Indianapolis industrial exposition early in October will give residents of this city an opportunity to estimate the industrial growth of the community since the first exposition three years ago. The exposition will be of value to the entire community, because whatever is of benefit to industry benefits the community. The exposition is patterned after the highly successful exposition in 1921, on a non-profit-making basis. It will be housed in a builing four times the size of the Manufacturers’ Bldg in which the first exposition was held, and which, when completed by the State at the fairground, will give Indianapolis the largest and finest exposition hall of the kind in the Middle Wesi. It covers four acres of gTound. The committee in charge has given this outline of the purposes of the exposition: 1. To carry through a civic project of first rank which will be creditable to the city,, and be a step forward in its prosperity and industrial stability. • 2., To secure a finer spirit of cooperation and better appreciation of the value of combined effort among local manufacturers. Indianapolis coming more into direct competition with nearby commercial and industrial centers. To compete with them on an equal basis, Indianapolis must adopt the plan of group endeavor employed successfully by other indutsrial communities. Indianapolis has been criticised for the lack of such cooperative effort by persons who have had an opportunity to study its industrial status from the outside. Due to its splendid location and the rich marketing area surrounding it, the tendency has been many times for the city to be satisfied with things as they are, and to minimize the danger that other cities near by, less well situated, may nevertheless offer dangerous competition because of their ability to combine individual initiative with concerted community endeavor. 3. Value to manufacturer in having his goods placed before thousands of possible purchasers who will become acquainted with his products by seeing them displayed in the most attractive form. Result of last exposition many manufacturers found in the exposition building products they previously had gone outside the city to purchase, because they did not know they were manufactured locally. 4. Value to community, education to thousands to see the goods made in Indianapolis factories by Indianapolis workmen; pride in community developed, loyalty increased, faith in city’s future deepened, and confidence built up. 5. Exposition not a money-making undertaking or a promotional scheme, but one of the important activities of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. 6. Manufacturers being urged to take space early to make task of voluntary committee workers dess difficult, and to enable all committee to proceed with the necessary preliminary arrangements without delay.

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, tjie 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 ail human probability it, could

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LEGEND IS HARP SA VED . MUSICIAN Dolphin Rescued Arion, According to an Ancient StoryBy DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. mHERE are other legends, besides the* story of Orpheus aud his unsuccessful attempt to bring his beloved Eurydice back from Hades, connected with the constellation Lyra. According to another the bright stars of Lyra represent the harp of Arion. * Arion was a famous musician in the court of King Periander of Corinth. He was returning from. Sicily by boat when he 'incurred the anger of the sailors, who decided to throw him overboard. He requested that he be permitted first to play upon his harp. His playing charmed the dolphins in the sea, who gathered about the boat.

AS ARION PLAYED, THE DOLPHINS GATHERED ABOUT THE SIDES OF THE SHIP.

Then he leaped overboard and one of the dolphins carried him safely to land. There has been an attempt upon the part of some students of mythology to identify the story of Arion with the Biblical account of Jonah and the whale. The majority of authorities, however, regard this attempt as far-fetched and unjustified. It is interesting to note that the Arabs frequently called the constellation the tortoise instead of the lyre. This is thought to have been due to the legend regarding the origin of the lyre. According to this story, Apollo, the sun-god, fqund the empty shell of a tortoise upon the • seashore. The tendons had dried and were stretched tightly across the back of the shell. This is supposed to have given him the idea for constructing the lyre. The lyre was among the oldest musical instruments. It was oldest stringed instruments known to the Greeks. The number of strings on it varied from four to eighteen. According to the Latin poet Ovid, the particular lyre which was turned into the constellation of Lyra had seven strings. Throughout history, the number seven also seemed to have been held as poss iasing a mystical significance. Longfellow, the American poet, described Lyra in these words: "I saw its celestial keys Its phords of air, its frets of fire, Th* Samian’s great Aeolian Lyre, Rising through all the sevenfold mars. From earth unto the fixed stars.” Lyra Is sometimes called King David’s harp. David, according to the Bible, was an expert musician. For that reason he is often called “the sweet singer of Israel.” The ancient Britons called the constellation "King Arthur’s Harp.” In Bohemia it was known as the "fiddle in the sky.” The constellation Lyra should he particularly interesting to us because our sun is moving toward it with a speed of about twelve miles a seconjd. Every second .brings us twelve miles closer to the place where Lyra now is. for our earth and the other planets move along with the sun. But the §tars in Lyra are moving with great speed so that when after the passage of millions of years our sun arrives where Lyra now is, Lyra will no longer he there. Next article: The constellation of Cygnus, the swan. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz) Family Fun Instead of Some On© Etee’s A south side mother said to her daughter: “Why are you wearing that fraternity pin on the back of your dress?” > “Sakes alive!" thee daughter said. "I thought I’d lost it.” "The fact is,” the mother remarked, "you have the slip on hind part before.” "Well, whaddye know about that!" exclaimed the girl; "here I’ve sitting in my own lap all morning.”— Youngstown Telegram. , Dad's New Chauffeur N "I don’t suppose you’re used to driving men like me, are you?” “Oh, yes; I drove the police patrol for three years.”—Judge. f Jimmie at Prayer Jimmie (saying prayers) What comes next, Ruthie? “Give us this day our daily bread.” "Aw, Im going to leave that out Mamma just baked today.”—Detroit News. -

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Reunions By HAL COCHRAN The chatter’s intense anfd excitements ahum when a fam’ly reunion’s on tap. From all nooks and comers the relatives come, it’s a thriller for mother and pap. The autos drive up and the buggies dray in; a scene that can hardly be painted. There’re kisses and “howdies” mid chatter and din as the grownups and kids get acquainted. “Say, who is the guy with the whiskers galore?” Aunt Susie will ask of Aunt Jen. “I know that I never have seen him before.” And she never will see him again. The relatives’ kids get to playin’ around and the meek ones are shocked by the strong. They wrestle and wipe half the dirt off the ground and just everything seems to go -wrong. And then they all join in a pienicky lurch. A riot describes it, I gu,ess. The relatives wonder who started this hunch. Who was it promoted this mess? WTten evening time comes and the party is o’er and there’s naught but a cluttered-up lawn, the fid folks are’ glad that they've seen ’em once more, but they also axe glad that they’ve gone. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Ask The Times You can set an Snswer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washingtodl Bureau. 1322 New York Ave . Waahligton, D. CV. inclosing 2 cents tn stamps for reply Medical, lega: and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research lie undertaken. Alt other questions win receive a personal reply. Unsigned request* cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the highest voltage obtainable from the Ford high ten sion coll? The peak voltage obtainable from the secondary of a Ford high tension coil varies between Jd.OoO and 30.000 volts. This voltage depends on the lesistance and E. M. F. in the prl mary circuit, tiie condition of the breaker points as affecting the rap idity of the make ami break, and on any resistance or capacity by con str noting a spark gap between two spheres each .1 cm in radius. A potential of about 30,000 volts per cin. is required Cos Jump such a gap. Are any civilians permitted to be buried at Arlingtdh National Cemetery? If an officer or enlisted man is buried in Arlington, his wife may be buried in the same grave. At the time of the Civil War, civilian war refugees were buried in Arlington. Now, however, with the exception mentioned, only men who are in the military service of the United States or who have formerly served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, are burled at Arlington. How long is it estimated it will take for Niagara Fails to eat its way back to Lake Erie? In 3po centuries the Falls have moved back seven miles. At its present rate of excavation, slightly more than four feet annually, Niagra will dig back the remaining sixteen miles to Lake Erie about the year A. D. 21,924. Will a bullet fired from a gun straight into the air ha-ve a greater velocity after reaching a certain distance than it will attain in falling? Yes. This increased velocity is due to the lighter density which the bullet will encounter on reaching a certain altitude. How large do whales get?' The sulphur bottomed or blue whales reach a length of 90 feet or more and, it is calculated, weigh about 70 tons. If one should set a 100 foot steel flag pole In a cement foundation, would it expand enough to hurt the foundation? It would not, but the United States Bureau of Standards is of ths opinion that for other reasons thjs would not be good construction. What causes a blue spot in the center of a screen in a motion picture show? This rr.ay be due either to the chromatic aberration in the co.iflenser lens, or the blue flame surrounding the arc. It may he reduced, if not eliminated, by shifting the arc back and forth from the condenser. What were some of the early Greek contests in the athletic field? Foot races, wrestling, boxing, chariot races, pancratium (combination of boxing and wrestling), contest of trumpeters and heralds, pentathlon (five-fold competition in runrning, jumping, throwing the javelin and discils and wrestling). Is one side of the street safer than the other for pedestrians? Yes. The left sidewalk is slightly safer than the right-hand sidewalk, for when crossing the street from the left-hand sidewalk, the pedestrian is not required to look over as large an angle for approaching machines as when the right hand , sidewalk; Is used.

GAS PRICE FIXING IS UNLA WFUL Federal Trade Commission Establishes Precedent in Florida Case, Timet Washington Bureau, 1322 .Yew York Axe. TyTIASHINGTON, Aug. B.—The yy Federal Trade Commission has established a precedent for action against the big gasoline distributing companies for price-fix-ing agreements, in restraint of trade. The precedent has just been estalished In a case arising in Tampa, Fla., and a "cease and. desist” order has been issued against the Standard Oil Company, the Texas Company, the Gulf Refining Company and the Tampat Retail Dealers’ Association. At Tampa the commission found the dealers’ association backed by the big supply companies entered into an bgreement to retail gasoline at a 4 cents a gallon margin of profit. Dealers who refused to demand this large margin of profit were informed that unless they adhered to the price they would be unable to buy gas from either of the three big companies. Dealers who supported the agreement half-heartedly discovered that the distributors were refusing them sufficient service. Covers Wide Range The order restrained the Standard, Texas and Gulf Companies from engaging tn the following practices: 1. Attaching any cdhdition, express or implied, to purchases made by gasoline dealers who are wholesale buyers directly. Immediately and proxlmately from refining companies, to the effect that such dealers shall maintain resale prices specified by the refining company, or specified by any other person or association of persons. S 2. Directly or Indirectly indicating to said dealers that unless they maintain a given resale price or given margin of profit they will nr may be unable to buy gasoline, or to buy it at the current price and at ordinary terms and service, or that they will or may encounter difficulty in so doing. 3. Asking, advising or requiring the said buyers of such gasoline to display a card or sign their respective places of business, showing their selling price, as a means of carrying out the aforesaid purpose. 4. Refusing to sell and deliver gasoline brought into the State and sold as aforesaid, unless such dealer so buying4naintains a given or uniform price or margin of profit as aforesaid, and from declining or neglecting to give service of gasoline efficient, or adequate In amount or in time or in regularity or service, to any such dealer because or on the ground that he is a price-cutter or docs not adhere to any given price or marglr of profit, either explicitly or upon any ground or under any subterfuge whatever. 5. Affording a less efficient and adequate service to any such dealer, buying as aforesaid, who may fail to adhere to a given price or margin of profit than is afforded to other direct customers at the same time, because of the resale price made by any other dealer or dealers. Coercion Must Step Thi order restrains the Tampa Retail Dealers’ Association, also, from attempting “strong arm methods” in persuading or coercing other dealers to stand by price fixing agreements and It restrains boycotts from supply sources as well as restrictive mehtods in any manner whatsoever. The effect of the Tampa ruling, Federal Trade Commission officials said, was local and it applied only to Tampa and vicinity, but it has established a precedent whereby the commifslon can proceed against the gasoline companies and the large retail distributors in other large cities where similar restrictive methods are employed. The commissi rn takes action usually when complaints are made by responsible citizens showing that unfair methods of competition are being employed In’ restraint of trade. Nature In your shrubbery or in the woods you have often seen two or more leaves stuck together—it's better to .say that they have been woven together. because on examination itwill be found that sealing has been done with fine silk thread. The insect which does this is called the “Hammock moth,” a special American pest*. He is usually found where the stems of the leaves join, hence "Hammock.” • • • Birds very much dislike the caterpillar or the pretty white butterfly which practically lives only in cultivated places, particularly gardens. This caterpillar’s odor and meat are both disgusting. But thei*e is a minute wasp, called ichneumon, which must wear a gas because it boldly sits on this smelly bug and lays eggs on it, and its young find the caterpillar’s flesh just to their taste.

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In New York BY STEVfI HANNAGAN NEW YORK. Aug. B.—New Y'ork’s most popular supper club. In the Roaring Forties. Only a few feet wide.’ But many feet long. Not a bit of ventilation. Women appear cool in evening dresses that might make a beach censor thoughtful Men steam iri boiled shirts and boiling collars. Georges Carpentier. One of his eyes still discolored from his last fight. He’s a great actor. The hostess of the club was a two-gun woman in the movies. She has parked her guns. But the fellow who adds the bills here must have them for protection. The ten-piece jazz band plays music that commands. “Feet get up and jig.” it orders. One couple might step in comfort in the space allotti-d to dancing. Thirty couples occupy it. Looks like a "battle royal” in an army training camp. Ah-ha. The show. About sixteen girls In the company. About twenty people—the ringside spectators —see the dancing. It’s all in fun. The big butter-and-eggs man from Muncie is there. Heavy Jowls and bald pate. Having a lot of fun. Wants to put his arms around every young performer who comes on. Next week he’ll send them a postal card “showing Main street looking from the west with the so-and-so building in the foreground.” Frisco does some impromptu stepping. Haven’t seen him in several years. He wins in a walk in the type of dance he originated. The cigar and derby and that “I’m gonna dance off both jny shoes” music. Get hot. Seven o’clock in the morning. Guess I’d letter pay off the mortgage on my hat and go to work. • • • Joe Cook, the comedian who startled Broadway with his humor last season, will never get over being a small town boy. He was born in Evansville. Ind., and spends his summer vacations in the country, down on the farm. Joe has anew speed boat and he cuts it across the lake near which he lives, with as much' pleasure as he paddled a flatbot.tomed tub on the Ohio River in his boyhood. Cook sojourned for a while, in his youth, in an orphan home at Lafayette, Ind. • • • “Rib,” “Skirt.” “Moll.” “Dame,” “Chicken," "Jane,” “Cutie” and numerous other nicknames have been applied to girls in the passing parade by the wise-crackers. But the new one is "Bob " "There goes a couple of classy Bobs.” Was a Broadway remark I heard last night. What next?

The new taxicab rate of 20 cents a mile is making riders of boys and girls wha haven’t been in a cab since baby carriages were forced out of traffic by economics. Sight-seeing busses used to charge $1 for the ride Coney Island. Since the taxi rate war the price has been cut to 50 cents. A Thought Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. —Rom. 15:2. • • Paradise is open to all kind hearts. —Beranger.

Tom Sims Says In Montreal a man lost $25,000 in twenty-five minutes on horse races, proving how foolish the human race is at a horse race. Great Britain is elevating her eyebrows at the elevation of our guns. The political machine which slings too much mud is easily stalled. When the Frenoh got into the Ruhr they also got into a rut. Coxey, leader of Coxey’s army, is running for Congress now, instead of walking as he once did. Making light of your troubles may help you to see the way cledY. The height of foolishness is to start smoking with the hope that li will make you look like the cigarette advertisements. Peggy Joyce seems to think her count is no account. The wheat market has recovered but all of the wheat growers haven't.

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Science What are the most powerful of all forces of nature? Dr. Carl George Lange, eminent psychologist of Copenhagen, replies to this by saying: "The emotions. They are also the most Important factors in the life of the individual.” Emotions certainly are the chief element in life, for an emotion is a state of mind that prompts to action. Love, hate, joy, sorrow and anger are emotions. Most human actions are based upon these emotions. Even bodily weakness and fear can be overcome by emotions. They will conquer, hunger, cold, pain and sickness. An emotion such as love may rise above even the fear of death and urge the body into feats of strength and courage which would be Impossible otherwise. Emotions rule the business world far more than efficiency experts realize. The shrewd executive rules others more easily through the emotions than otherwise, while maintaining rigid self control k mself. It may appear td be office system or shop discipline that does it, but in reality it is some variation of the emotions of love, or fear, or both. |