Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1924 — Page 4
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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM |R. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic nominee for Goyernor, says in his platform: “After the Ku-Klux Klan issue forced itself into politics by enveloping the Republican party I insisted upon a plank in the Democratic platform standing for freedom of religious worship and all other guarantees of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I stand squarely for the purity of the courts, the supremacy of the law and the Tight to worship according to conscience.” How a citizen of the United States could take any other stand is hard to understand. Article 6 of the Constitution of the United States says: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. 9 ’ Any organized religious movement in politics is objectionable, whether it be Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or of any other faith. The founders of our Government obviously took steps to make it clear that religious creeds should never become involved in party politics. Making a religious distinction among candidates, or attempting to elect or defeat a man beeause of his religious sentiments is clearly a violation, at least, of the spirit of the American Constitution, which says that no religious test shall be required as a qualification for public office. One of the foundation stones of American freedom is religious liberty. The country was settled largely by those who came here to be free from religious persecution. Then why should we even think of permitting the matter of creed to enter for one moment into the Government of our country? When we limit public office to members of any particular religious element our American liberty will be gone and we shall have reverted to church domination like that of the middle ages. This would be equally true regardless of the creed. The Times in this campaign will not ask whether a candidate is a Protestant, Catholic or Jew. It is none of our business. So far as Dr. McCulloch’s advocacy of the purity of the courts and the supremacy of law are concerned, any candidate qualified to hold public office should stand for these things.
OH, FOR A POET Kv/ are we to shout, in derision, “Chicago, hog-butcher to IW the world?” Why should we turn the boast of the Illinois poet into a club against the Windy City, famous for its stockyard odors? We sit, complacently on our municipal front porch, drowsing away like an idle oriental, conscious of the offensive odors from the southwest but too lethargic to protest. hy should any private corporation be so far privileged that it may offend, with imunity, 350,000 noses at frequent periods when the wind is in the southwest? If Indianapolis continues to acquiesce in this encroachment upon its cqp3fo^t t- p?spe?t and its dignity, then let ms;’fori, hffii a poet who wHI cryT* " Indianapolis, the nation’s meat-shop! ' What care we if it smells to high heaven? We fill our lungs with attar of grease and burnt hides And rejoice therefore. . • . Indianapolis, the nation’s meat-shop! PREMIER GRABSKI of Poland reports the financial success of his administration. There is something in a name. CHEER UP. Static will not seem so bad if, as Senator La Follette says, the radio will curb campaign lying. THE FACT that seventy-six persons were arrested for drunkenness during one Boston Sunday, indicates that twelve nuled is not the limit there. DETROIT NEWS is in error when it says Moses was the first traffic cop because he divided the Red Sea for pedestrians. Mr. Adam and Mrs. Eve who were first signaled to go. IT IS CLAIMED that it costa only $2,500 to smuggle an alien idiot into the United Sattes, which doesn’t seem to be a tariff adequate to protect the home product. “WHAT IS Charles W. Bryan’s middle name?” asks a Boston paper, and we suppose some hide-bound Repute -,n will reply that it is “Dennis. ” UNDER THE influence of a phonograph, a Detroit prisoner quickly confessed to theft, and it may suggest use of the saxophone hereafter instead of the terrible “third degree.” THE CALIFORNIA member of the Republican national committee says the present registration shows a Coolidge majority of 700,000 in the State, but he modestly claims only 400,000 for election day. Thus can be seen what a fine climate does to conservatism. v
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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ANCIENTS SA W SWAN '••IN SKIES You Can Find Him by Hunt- * * ing First for Northern Cross, . By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times T 1"-“"I HE constellation of Cygnus or the Flying Swan is easy to quainted with the other constellations we have discussed so far. Go outdoors in the early evening and look toward the northeast. There, east of the constellation Lyra and south of the constellation Cepheus, you will notice a group of stars which resemble the form of a cross. This group of stars is cilled the
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THE STARS OF THE CONSTELLATION CYGNUS, AND HOW THE ANCIENTS imagined they formed the figure of a flying SWAN.
Northern Cross to distinguish it from the famed Southern . Cross which shines in the southern sky. The Northern Cross forms the foundation of Cygnus just as the Great Dipper formed the basis of the Great Bear. The top of the Northern Cross is marked by a first magnitude star, Deneb. It is easiest to find the constellation by hunting first for this star. The upright of the cross contains three bright at the tip, Sadr at the point where transverse crosses the upright and Alblreo at the bottom. Deneb is brilliant white in color. Astronomers estimate it is ten times as far away from the earth as is ‘Vega, the fyest-magnitude star in t&e ’Constellation Lyra. The name, Deneb, means “the hen’s tali.” Tihe Arabs did not always regard Cygnus as a swan. Hence this name. Sadr is a second magnitude star. Its name means the “hefl's breast.’’ Aibireo is also a third-magnitude 3tar. It has a topaz yellow color. The name means the "beak of the hen.” Aibireo Is a double star, the telescope revealing one component to be yellow in color and the other blue. Two third-magnitude stars mark the ends of the transverse of the cross. At the left end of the transverse is the star Gienah. This name means ’’the wing.” Gienah is yellow in color. The star at the other end of the transverse has no name. Astronomers call It Delta, after the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, because it is the fourth brightest star in the constellation. The diagram shows how the ancients imagined, these stars fitted into the form of a swan, the transverse of the cross becoming the wings. The Milky Way passes through this part of the sky so that Cygnus is situated right on it. On nights when there is no moon, you can see the> Milky Way if you pick a station where ground lights do not interfere. The Milky Way is seen to much better advantage In the country than in the city. To the naked eye, the Milky Way looks like a streak formed of faint luminous clouds. The telescope, howeveV, reveals that the Milky Way is composed of thousands upon thousands of stars. Later we shall disc C-s the Milky Way in greater detain In the accompanying diagram of Cygnus, you will notice a spot marked the "Coal Sack.” This is \ spot in the Milky Way which looks like a black hole. Astronomers at first were inclined to regard it as such. Tpday, however, astronomers think that it is a dark nebula which shuts off the light of the star# behind it and therefore gives the impression of a blank space. The star marked “61” in the diagram, and known to astronomers as "61 Cygni,” is the star whose distance from the earth was first measured. This was done by the great astronomer Bessel in 1838. The little square labeled 1816 indicates the spot where anew star, or Nova appeared in the year 1876. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz.) Next article: The story of Cygnus, ; the Swan.
One on Mother “You must excuse my mother, dear. She doesn’t approve of man callers at all. She has very narrow views.” • “Yes, most of her views seem to be limited to the keyhole.”—Detroit News. Sister's Make-Up "Did *it make you angry when Jack kissed you?” “Yes—it did!” , “Are you still angry?” “Oh, no—we kissed and made up.” —Judge.
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Watch Your Step By HAL COCHRAN The fashions today are exceedingly neat, and especially those worn by the women. How striking the gowns that they wear on the street and the suits that they don when in swimmin’. The sandal-like shoes are attractive to me and the’ silk that goes in ’em looks nice. They say that the girls wear ’em rolled at the knee but I have stopped to look twice. The newspaper ads show the flimsy affairs, but they’re only for women, I guess. I know what the every-day gentleman wears but I’m stumped as to how women dress. There’s one thing that’s certain; I’ve made up my mind that the thinnest of gowns, as a rule, are the prettiest ones that In summer you'll find ’cause they give you that essence of cool. So here’s to the folks, heavy or lean, whose dresses in thin goods are done. But if they’re as thin as some gowns I have been, take a tip and keep out of the sun. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
KANSAS IS STILL FOR PROHIBITION Announcement Says 'Demon Rum' Has Been Finally Conquered. By W. JETT LAUCK Ks~ ’““T ANSAS has had forty-four yer.rs of experience with prohibition and is optimistic about prohibition enforcement. In fact, it has just issued a “Victory Message" signed by its leading officials and publicists, declaring that after four decades of struggle it has practically conquered the demon rum. TJus is a heartening message to the rest of the country. Moreover. the experience which Kansas, narrates seems to be one which her sister state® will also pr ra through but probably within a shorter period of time.
Results Set Out The conclusions set forth by the distinguished citizens of Kansas who signed the report on prohibition are summarized as follows: “No repeal or modification is needed, wanted or considered. “Ease of enforcement grows with enforcement. “Officials and private citizens are agreed that prohibition is the State's best business asset. “Many crimes that are committed in communities that tolerate liquor are absent from Kansas. “Convictions of violators is easier now than at any time In the past, due to the years of proof that intoxicating liquor is a commercial and social detriment to any community. “Many undesirable influences that attend liquor were banished from the State when liquor was banished. “Liquor sales are not even permitted in Kansas on doctors’.' prescriptions. Liquor is an outlaw in Kansas. "Kansas is forty-four years removed from the thought of ever returning to the days of the saloon.” Don’t Want It What is probably of the greatest significance, however, is the added statements of the report that “Each generation is further removed from an appetite for poisonous drink,” and respect for the law, which, in Its early stages, was "brought about by compulsion, now is voluntary.” There can be no doubt that the sajoon developed more widespread habits of drinking than even bootlegging in its most unregulated form has done. As time elapses and the saloon further recedes, a decreasing proportion of our population will be habitual drinkers. Respect for the law will increase and its enforcement will become easier and more widespread. Kansas’ forty-four years of State and Federal prohibition clearly indicates this conclusion.
Tongue Tips CALVIN COOLIDGE: “Doubters do not achieve, skeptics do not contribute, cynics do not create.” * * * WILLIAM JAMES, philosopher: “One hearty laugh together will bring enemies Into a closer communicaticffi of hearts than hours spent In Inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.” * * • COL. COURTLAND STERNESS, commissioner of Canadian Northwest Mounted Police: "If the movies would only let us alone! No officer or-man gains his praise in the press. He is judged by the work he does and the he does it.”
OFFICE MEN CAN NOT GET ENOUGHJOBS Employment Records Show Falling Off in 'WhiteCollar' Demand. BY ALEXANDER HERMAN, NEA Service Writer N r ~~ EW YORK, Aug. 9.—Whitecollar slaves are fast wilting under their neckbands—not from too much work, but the lack of it. . During the past three months, according to the records of one of the country’s largest employment bu reaus, there has been *a falling off of 30 per cent in the demand for male office help. And the offered are 20 per cent less! “The decrease in the demand for female clerks,” this report shows, “has been correspondingly great, and the salary drop identical. “Even the office boy is feeling the cx. The demand for his kind is but 40 per cent of what it was last year, and the salary paid him is subject to a drop of five per cent.” There are more than 3,000,000 regulars In the white-collar army all over the country; with nearly half a million reserves recruited from school and college vacationists. Usually they have little difficulty filling in as substitute during the summer months. But this year times are slack and the going is hard. “Firms are app*rently consolidating their office forces,” say employment experts. “Little or no expansion Is being undertaken.” Yet, while the demand is decreasing, the supply Is increasing. “Not only are the business schools turning out graduates by the thousands," says Leonard Bright, for seventeen years a white-collar slave and now president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union. “But many of the young women, who took stenography and office work, merely as an avocation until they married, are now remaining at their jobs. “During the past two years the number of such married white-collar workers has increased markedly. The reason, of course, is to be found in the wages of their husbands—too low to maintain the high standard of living set by most young people. “Particularly pitiful is the situation of the bank clerks, who, as far as hours are concerned, are probably the poorest paid of the white-collar class. Some clerks holding positions of paying tellers, get as little as J3O a week for their responsible work! “But for wages, irrespective of hours, girl offic# workers hold the record—getting as low as $lO a woek in New York, even though most of them are high school graduates.” Preceding the present depression, had been a ten-year rise in the average pay that reached its peak last October, when the average weekly earnings of office employes in New York State soared to $32.56, against $19.18 in 1014. But now comes the toboggan, . ‘ And’with It may come all kinds of dangers," points out Miss Lily Kiraly, the young recording secretary of the union. “For many girls who are out of work have families dependent upon them. And they must bring in some earnings.”
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MISS LILY KIRALY, SECRETARY, AND LEONARD BRIGHT, PRESIDENT OF THE “WH ITE COLLAR” UNION.
Family Fun Excellent Chances “Where are you employed?” asked her old man suspiciously. “Have you any chance for promotion?” “O, the best in the world. Except for the office boy, I now hold the lowest postlon In the firm.” —Argonaut. For Bachelors Only “Did you enjoy the bachelor dinner last night, dear?” “Oh, yes; rather slow affair, though!” “And who were the bachelors named Mazie and Beatrice who wrote their names on your shirt bosom utige. A Thought He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. —Prov. 16:32. * * • Keep cool, and you command everybody.—St. Just.
At Last the Old Woman’s Going to Move
Ask The Times You can jet an answer to any question o i fact or information by writing to the Indianapolia Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New Yorlt Are . Washixgton, D. C.. inclosinp 2 cents in stamps lor reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. When did the expression “cotton is king” originate and what did it refer to? This was a southern slogan of 3 861, based on the belief that the manufacturing interests of the north, because of their dependence on cotton, would not consent to war, and that If they did so, England must interfere because of the neces sity of getting cotton from the southern States for her manufacturing industries. When and where was (the Tuscana torpedoed and hoW many American poldiers were drowned 7 This vessel was torpedoes between Rathlin Island and the Mull of Kartyre in the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland, on the night of Feb. 6, 1918, There
were about 116 American soldiers drowned. The exact number is not known. Is\ the climate of Trinidad healthful? Yes, the climate, though hot, Is healthful and is well suited to an American. What is good for swollen and tender feet? Try a footbath of hot water In which half a pound of Epsom salts has been dissolved. How do animals in the depths of the sea, under the tremendous pressure which exists there, stand this? The bodies of these animals are so soft and permeable that the pressure is easily rendered thS same within and without. ■Where did the sign of mathematical equality come from? According to Science Service, our sign of equality was invented in 1667 by an English algebraist, Robert Recorde. Before than, the relation of equality was usually expressed in words.
U. S. UNIQUE IN GROWTH QUICK SAYS No Other Development Can Ever Equal Ours, Writer Declares. BY HERBERT QUICK A| BRITISH writer describes the wonderful growth of the U— United States and contrasts it with the slower development of the British Empire. He thinks that the United States has grown so marvelously because we have followed the policy of development .and that the British Empire, with its enormous natural wealth, could do the same. Let us see about this. Great Britain and Ireland are old and settled. Except as to Ireland they are fully developed and in fact over-populated. And Ireland would not submit to the intrusion of a huge, new, alien population. Ireland is too wise for that. Over-Populated India and the other Asiatic dominions are already over-populated. The tropical American and African dominions are either unfit for white occupancy, or already full of colored population, or both. Expansion and development must come if at all rapidly in South Africa. Australia and Canada. Canaija is immense in area hut it shades off toward Arctic conditions. It can be developed with only moderate rapidity and as the result of economic pressure. Australia is huge in total arefc, but is largely desert. She can not develop even as fast as Canada. She is at the Antipodes from the rest of the world. South Africa runs into a dense negro population, which keeps it from being a good country for a white working class. And there is the outlook of the British Empire. It can not develop as did this country for reasons suggested above. Doors Wide Open And there is another reason. The United States threw wide the doors for immigration from all the world. Fortunately it came largely from assimilable peoples. Those, days are over. South Africa, Australia and Canada will not let In the hordes which want to crowd In now. Neither will we. Without unrestricted immigration they can not develop as we did. Moreover, their birth rate has fallen off with rising intelligence. For all these reasons none of them will repeat our marvelous growth. The United States will stand as the unique instance in all history for rapid development.
Science The United States is making the greatest strides of all countries in both theoretical and applied science. The demoralization of central Europe Is largely responsible, but added to this is the great growth of popular* interest in science, since the war. There Is one great obstacle In the way, however. An English-speaking person who starts on a scientific.career must, among other things, acquire at least two foreign languages. The English language Is much richer in words than any other and is spoken by more persons, but it is deflciet in works of reference. The one great work pertaining to the vegetable kingdom is in German. The great reference works, without which no chemist can identify an organic compound, is in German. Other reference works are in French. The English speaking scientific vorld needs a codification of all knowledge pertaining to the natural sciences.
SATURDAY, AUG. 9, 1924
In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—“ The Radio Franks” are going on tour. For one solid year they have been bboadcashing their harmony from every big station in New York. Their voices and melody have circled tho land. Now they are going on a tour that will take them to many big broadcasting stations throughout the country, a trip that will consume ten months. Frank Wright is the piano player songster of the duo, -while Frank Bessinger sings. Bessinger, who comes from Owosso, Mich., has stored in his memory the words of every song hit since 1910. Wright can play them from memory. Yet with all their memory for words and music they have to hire a man to kpep their appointments in order. Neither of them can remember what they are to do r.ext. The last time I saw Bessinger he had spent a thoughtful two hours trying to remember what it was his wife had told him to take home. * • * When New Yorkers go a touring in the cool of the evening in their automobiles, they find the more popular roads jammed with traffic. Bu; there is the Motor Parkway, forty five miles in length, out on Long Island. It costs sl.lO to make the drive through the parkway. There is no speed limit and the young bloods shoot their roadsters along the path at a rapid rate. There are few accidents on the road. * • • The bar of the Hotel Belmont, a most popular pre-prohibition rendezvous for visitors to New York at cocktail hour in the evening, has been transformed into a cafeteria. Many well-known drinks were developed to perfection by the Belmont bartenders; notably the Doctor, Pineapple Bronx and Cloverleaf cocktails. Other favorites were Shock Absorber, New Orleans Fiz, Tom Collins and Sherry Flip. Now iced tea and coffee, roast beef and braad and rolls hold sway. • * • Male butterflies like to get drunk, while the females of the species drink water to the exclusion of rum, according to an English zoologist. It’s that way on Broadway. Nearly all the male butterflies do the drinking, while the female butterflies, especially the smart ones, remain on a diet of charged water.
Tom Sims Says Summer Is half gone, so practically every elbow in the United States should be clean by this time. Bad news from Germany today. New law lets brewers make beer as strong as they please. Who can pity Germany, poor Germany, now? Big truck managed to wreck a train at a crossing in Indiana, but never try It with a light car. About 600 acres of wheat burned near Kimball, Neb., and It must have smelled something like a bride making biscuits. When these ’round-the-world-flyers find out how hot it is sitting still, they may fly around the world again. The public is so listless this summer; we have been discussing the same Chicago murder case for several weeks. A skinny bathing girl has no chance to get sunburned because she stays in the water most of the time. Bucyrus (O.) man recently collected for a black eye received 32 years ago, and indications are the soldiers will get their bonus. Dog days make people growl. Fools dive in where good swimmers fear to tread. Beer is being sent from New York to the rum fleet and the United States may start exporting liquor soon. A wise bachelor never takes a girl riding on a moonlit night or pokes his finger into an electric fan.