Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1924 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • ‘ Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Patne Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W Maryland St. Indianapolis • * * Subscription Rates; Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • * PHONE—MA in 3500.
HONESTY IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS mN announcing his platform Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, > Democratic nominee for Governor, declared he believed honesty in public affairs is as important, or even more so, than honesty in private affairs. He repeated the often-used expression that “a public office is a public trust.” It is a sad commentary on the condition of our State and Nation that ordinary decency and honesty should become a factor in a campaign. Such things should be taken for granted, but experience has shown us they can not be. In Indiana and in the Nation, corruption almost unequaled in the history of the country has been practiced by persons whom the public put its trust. The expression “a public office is a public trust” should mean exactly what it says. It is not necessary to review in detail the humiliation through which Indiana has passed during the last year. The juggling of public funds, the private use of the board of agriculture money, the personal and phblic dishonesty of the former Governor, who is now in the Federal penetentiary at Atlanta, are too fresh in everyone’s minds to need reviewing. So are the occurances at 'Washington growing out of the Teapot Dome and other investigations. We have had men in office who did not believe that a public office is a public trust, but that a'public office is an opportunity for public plunder and private gain. It has come to such a pass that we can not take honesty for granted, as we should be able to do, but we must scrutinize carefully the character of our candidates. Indiana should be swept clean of McCrayism. Most of the men who were associated with him, let it be said to their credit and to the credit of the State, are honest men who either had no of knowing what was going on or who were ignorant of the purposes for which they were being used. But the affairs both in Indianapolis and in Washington have taught us to look more carefully to the men to whom we give a public trust. THEY’LL VOTE THIS YEAR N - P'""“ ROMOTERS of the Get-Out-the-Vote movement mean well, but something more than urgent solicitation and appeals to patriotic duty is needed to the millions of stay-at-homes to go to the polls. In past elections there were plenty of perfectly good patriots who saw nothing patriotic about going to the polls to exercise the privilege of choosing between what they thought were two evils. One reason why some voters stayed at home was that they had no chance to vote for anything they wanted, even if they did go to the polls. Some of them had tried voting one party ticket and then the other, only to find after all that there was no real difference between what they got after election no matter how they voted. Undoubtedly there will be a big vote this year. Millions who haven’t bothered about voting for years will vote next November. But not because anybody has convinced them that it is their duty to vote under any and all circumstances. It will be because they have some choice besides choosing between voting for the hand-picked candidates of two boss-controlled parties. The increased vote may tickle the promoters of this movement. They may think they pulled off something new and big. But the reason will lie deeper than that. The people will vote when they believe they can express themselves and their longings politically in their ballot. Tweedledee and Tweedledum are not the only pebbles on the beach this year. CITY COOPERATES M*’’’’”' R. FIXIT, whose job it is to carry the complaints of citizens made through The Indianapolis Times to the city hall, reports that city officials and employes are cooperating willingly in trying to straighten out difficulties and satisfy the demands of citizens. Scores of requests made in this way have been granted. In some instances action has been delayed because~of lack of funds or lack of facilities. In some cases the city has been asked to do things which it can not possibly do. But there is no doubt that the city administration is making an effort. The administration may not be all that it might be in a business way and it might not be initiating many improvements itself, but it can be said of it that when complaints are made to the proper individuals in the administration an honest effort is made to correct the difficulties involved. All of which is that much to the credit of the administration. IT’S GOLDEN grain in Kansas, all right. k*. "* 9 NOTV IS THE time to recognize Russia. Divorce costs only $1.50 over there. WE 6AN understand that Sao Paulo shooting better now. The town is called “the Chicago of Brazil.” / A SCIENTIST says there will be no servant girls in ten years, but that will be time enough for all the delicatessen shops to get located and open for business. SENATOR WHEELER says he will opposer every man who bears the dollar sign, which carries with it the promise that time, is not likely to hang heavily on his hands. NOW THE prohibition officers are beginning to scrutinize these prepared dopes that go as domestic animal cures. They suspect someone of putting the rum in the serum. V WOMEN OPPOSE fashion’s edict that long hair shall come Back, urging that it take too long for the hair to grow. Great Puelilah! don’t they know the punishment must fit the crime? A RAILWAY advertises for a suitable slogan to be inscribed on time table covers. How would “Food for Thought,” “Know the Worst-” “Why Men Stay Home” or “Puzzles in Figures” dot ■ ,
GOD JUNO BECAME ' ■ A SWAN Ancient Story Accounts for Constellation in the Stars. By DAVID DIETZ / Science Editor of The Press mUPITER. king of the gods, had many love affaiss according to Greek mythology. The constellations of the Great and Little Bear symbolize the story of one of these affairs as we have already seen—that of his love for the beautiful nymph Callisto. The constellation Cygnus, or the swan, symbolizes another, according to one version. Jupiter fell in love with Queen
JUPITER DISGUISED HIMSELF AS A. SWAN WHEN HE WENT TO WOO THE BEAUTIFUL IEDO.
Leda, the beautiful wife of Tyndarus. king of Sparta. „ Juno, queen of the gods, kept a watchful eye on Jupiter. You will remember that when she discovered Jupiter's love for Callisto, she changed that unfortunate fyymph Into a bear.' , So Jupiter disguised himself as a swan when he went to woo Leda. Subsequently, as a remembrance of Leda, he placed the constellation of the swan in the sky. * According to another version, the constellation represents Cycnus, 1 a cousin to Phaeton. It is thought that originally the name of the constellation was Cycnus and not Cygnus. Phaeton was the son of the sungod Apollo and the nymph Clyinene.’ But other mortals scoffed at Phaeton when he claimed that he was the son of a god. He complained of this to his mother and she told him to go to Apollo and ask for himself if he had not been correctly informed of his parentage. Arrives at Palace So Phaeton started East for the regions of the sunrise and finally arrived at the palace of the sun. From a- distance, he saw’ Apollo seated on a throne wffth the beams of the sun shining around his head. The throne was covered with sparkling diamonds. The light of the beams around Apollo's head were so bright that Phaeton could approach no closer. But Apollo called to him and asked him what he wanted. “Oh light of the boundless world, Apollo, my father —If thou dost yield me that name—give me some proof, I Deseech thee, by which I may be known as thine,” the young man cried out. Apollo said that he would grant the youth any wish he would name as a proof. So the youth asked to be allowed to drive the chariot of the sun through the sky for one day. Apollo repented at once. ‘‘None but myself,” he said, “may drive the flaming car of day. The first part of the way is steep and such as the horses when fresh in the morning can hardly middle is high up in thg heavens, whence I myself can scarcely, without alarm, look own and behold the earth and set stretched beneath me. The last part of the road descends rapidly and requires most careful driving." But Phaeton Insisted and Apollo finally yielded. Lost His Nerve However, when the chariot of the sun was high above the earth, Phaetor lost his nerve, and becoming* dizzy, dropped the reins . The horses ran aw r ay and leaving the proper path descended too near to earth. Parts of the earth were burned up. That is why we have deserts to this day. Jupiter sa\y tjiat something had to be done, so he hurled a thunderbolt, killing Phaeton and knocking the unfortunate, youth’s body into the river Eridanus. His sisters, as they mourned his death beside the river, were turnedf into poplar trees on the bank. Cycnus, cousin of Phaeton, continued to mourn and to search for the body in the river. So the gods turned Cycnus into a swan. And that is Vhyu the swan always sails about in a pensive rrtanner, and often thrusts his head beneath the surface of the water. Then later Jupiter placed Cycnus In the heavens where we now see the constellation of Cygnus, the swan. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dletz> Next article: The constellation of Aquila, the Eagle. A Thought ' Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.—Prov. 29:20. He that will be angry for anything will bo angry lor nothing.—Sallust.
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A Friendly Tip By HAL COCHRAN A man likes to do little things for his wife; that is, if he's really a man. The right sort of fellow will brighten her life every time that he possibly can. . • A small buncfi"*of flowers, now and then, means a lot- There’s even a thrill in some candy. Just wipin’ the dishes may seem tommyrot but it’s nice, ’round the house, when you’re handy. The Missus has routine; life’s made it that way and her schedule of work is laid out. She gen’rally sticks to It day after day ’cause she’d rather just do it than pout. I can’t make it clear why the average m&n can picture the-home job so light. Why is it he never can just understan’ why the Missus is tired out at night? When father comes home he may bring things, that’s true, hut there’s one thing he may overlook. The Missus needs cheer words and sym‘ pathy too. Put that down i/i your memory book. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK. Aug. 11.—Men with hard eyes, faltering footsteps, graying hairs, and a tendency to portliness are the cause of the six-by-ten dance floors in the popular late-at-night supper clubs. They are the consistent habitues of the intimate clubs that cater to the night-life throng. Young men cannot stand the financial strain of this expensive .entertainment. Only men of age and years of struggling to attain the pocket full of big bills can peer at the morning's with its high couvert charge and higher charge for charged water with an air of unconcern. The nearest these youtbless men come to activity is keeping an alert eye on the young, frivolous girl who accompany them. the orchestra starts playing a few ambitious couples arise for the struggle. That's where the old men hide bunions, gimpy legs, rheumatic muscles and corpulent bellies behind an abbreviated dance floor. They complain that there is not enough room to dance and their colorful companions agree. After all, few’ of the older generation can jig without tramping on toes and bruising an ankle or two. The manager of a supper club that boasts of a well-known orchestra relates that when he opened his club with a large dance floor, the guests were few and far between. Instead of taking out tables. he added many. And he placed them on the dance floor. Business immediately picked .up. Within a week it was impossible to dance in comfort, hut the club was packed. People, who swore on leaving that they would never ra-> turn, made reservations the following day. ' Old men, seeking an excuse for flown youth, are the cause of it all. Split skirts are appearing along the avenue again. Bulky knots of rolled, silken hose .are to be seen in the skirt gap as a modish damsel passes. The first split skirt I saw was years ago in Lafayette, Ind. It was during a period when long, tight skirts were being worn. The skirt was split to the knee. What a shock —and then disappointment it created. It was wern on the street by a female impersonator, who was on a local vaudeville bill. The new style skirt, however, is much shorter and the split is only a few inches long in most instances. Tom Sims Says v Mirrors take the conceit out of sensible people and put the conceit into foolish people. Difference between kissing and being kissed is there Is no satisfaction in the former. Autos are not as thick during the rush hours as some of the drivers. Women never will be men’s equals until men object to being hugged. A self-made man is usually one who selected a wife that made him work. ‘ What this country needs is more hound dog’s and less lap dogs. The human race is said to be 800,000,000 years cjd. In all that time men haven’t learned better than to "laugh at their wives. If everything got lost as easily as a good pipe, everything would stay lost most of the time. Ministers telling about fire and brimstone ought to scare a lot of people during the hot weather. Perhaps fat men make the best salesmen because they have the bulge on the slender salesmen. If we got everything we wanted we Wouldn’t want everything we got. f The las£ rose of summer and the last nose of the rummer are not gone.
RADIO IS A GROWING INDUSTRY Business Multiplies Thirty * Five Times in Three Years, BY ISRAEL KLEIN, NEA Service Radio Editor TTTaiTHIN three years radio has Vy increased thirty-flve-fold in -. value! Such is a sample of the remarkable growth of this Industry. Yet it is still in its swaddling clothes. While Inventors are searching for means to develop this science toward even a semblance of maturity and stability, the industry based on their ingenuity is progressing far ahead of them. It is a phenomenon that has- never been equaled in commercial history, not even in the automotive field. Three years, ago, just about the time wireless telegraphy was becoming popular as radio, production of radio apparatus and wireless telegraph supplies amounted to less than $10,000,000 for the entire year of 1921 and was only about half that at the beginning of that year. This year Roger W. Babson, famous economist. estimates sales of radio sets and parts will amount of $350,000 - 000! That’s a conservative estimate, he says. He doesn’t take into acount, eithdr, the money spent by broadcasters and other large corporations for concert experimental work that Is being pushed ahead in this field. Other Items He doesn’t figure maintenance and overhead and the many other items which, if combined with the sales and other expenditures, would make this almost a billion dollar industry even today. It is in considering the sales figures. however, that Babson can compare radio with the other large industries in the United States. Thus he finds that radio has already entered the category of the ’’elite” among industries. It is one of the thirty.five greatest businesses in the country, along with furniture, leather, chemicals, sugar refining and other important industries. In a review of this new business in Radio News, Babson points out that the vajue of the radio business is nearly twice as great as the carpet and rug business, and of sporting goods. And it is nearly threefourths of the Jewelry business, including clocks, watches and novel ties. Other figures show the same development. Production of radio tubes in 1921 was little over 100,000. Today it is far into the millions. One laboratory alone, of a big radio manufacturing corporation, turns out from 11,000 to 13,000 vacuum tubes a day. Growing Popularity Broadcasting had just about started in 1921, with only a dozen or more stations on the air. Now between 50) and 600 broadcasters are filling the air nightly and causing such congestion that there is talk of limiting broadcasting in the future. Three million homes today have radio receiving sets —practically all converts since 1920 or 1921. At that time practically all %ho tinkered with radio were classed as amateurs. Today there are many times more
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amateurs and a host of “novices,” those fans who know little or nothing about the science. More figures: To supply this growing host of radio fans, there are 3,000 manufacturers of radio sets and parts. Distributing these are 500 electrical, 250 radio, 200 hardware and 50 talking machine jobbers. Selling the apparatus direct to the users are 15,000 electrical dealers, 2,000 , department, hardware, drug and furniture stores and 3,000 radio, music, sporting'goods and auto supply stores. And all are profiting! V Tongue Tips AUSTEN LAKE, baseball writer: “Strange to say, in this era of high priced minor league players, one seldom, if ever, hears of a catching phenomenon. Does this mean that backstopping of the kind made famous by Johnny Kling, Archer, Bresnahan and others has given way before the mania for hard hitters?” • * • DR. CLARENCE M’WILLIAMS, New York surgeon: “Successful gland operations are myths. Sometimes the transplanted organs take, but they disappear in a few weeks.” *l* * MRS. ROBERT LA FOLLETTE: “The state of the home depends very much on the state of the Nation.” * * * MABEL WILLABRANT, assistant United States attorney general: “We propose to make smuggled liquor cost so much it cannot be handled.” Herbert Is False "Do you really love me, Herbert?” “Os course I do.” “Then why doesn’t your chest go up and down like the men on the films?”
By His Enemies Ye Shall Know Him
GOLD MA Y BE CHEAP AS BRASS Success of This Experiment Would Wreck Financial System. Times Washington Bureau, IiSZ yew York Ave. rrrTi ashington, Aug. n, \X/ Y'our money is now at the mercy of a chemical experiment. If it wins, you lose. Over in Berlin a group of reputable scientists —headed by Prof. Miethe, back of whom is a long record of practical achievement in physics and chemistry—is preparing to make a test which may: Turn Wall Street heels gver head. Knock the props from under the Bank of England. Turn the gold in the United States Treasury into the equivalent of lead. Pauperize millionaires and make the corner grocer laugh at you when you offer a S2O gold certificate for a pound of cheese. According to news which has
reached the capital, Dr. Miethe has discovered a secret which in black magic sought in vain for ages. He has apparently f&und out how to make gold from mercury by submitting mercury to an intense heat generated in vapor lamps. Both the London Morning Post and The Spectator, ultra conservative British papers, are agreed that the long-sought-for transmutation of the elements has been solved. Scientists also seem agreed that the process of reducing mercury to gold aijd helium or hydrogen can be cheapened by using the newly discovered electrical furnace of Prcf. Lohmann, which generates over 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and steps are now being taken to put this to the test. “Should the experiment succeed,” say£ The Morning Post," the result would be cataclysmic for the whole of human society, since the possibility of limitles quantities of gold at a negligible fraction of the present current value would destroy all the bases on which modern monetary systems rest.” Supose a month hence the announcement comes from Berlin that the experiment is a sucess and that a “gold factory,” equipped like a Ford automobile plant or United States Steel plant for quantity production, would be built at once. The effect of the world war on international finances would be as nothing compared to the chaos which would grip our civilization. Business the w r orid over would come to an Instant standstill and not another wheel would turn until some new standard could be found and anew means of doing business Invented.
Ask The Times You can set, an answer to any question of fact of 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 martial 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 Galveston flood occur? What will make fishing nets strong and prevent them from rotting? One method is to have them “barked and tanned,” by a preparation made of the barks of trees. Another is to soak them in tar. The latest and most popular method is to soak them in a preparation of copper cleate. What is saccharine? A white crystalline compound from toluene, a constituent of coal-tar. How is the center of population of the United States found? A large jnap of the United States is pasted on a thin stiff board. Ail but the outline is cut away, and the board is cut to coincide with this. The map is then balanced on a pivot. Small weights representing certain units of the population are placed on the map according to the Census over the spots where they reside, and the pivot moved from time to time so that the balance is not disturbed. The spot above the pivot, when all the weights have been put in place, is the center of population. What colors are Persian cats. White, black, blue, chinchilla and smoke. Black is the most valued color.
What Is the entrance salary of a mail carrier? Fourteen hundred dollars a year. Was Jesus crucified by Roman soldiers? Yes. What are Borne good Indian names for canoes? Uanliyi, place of friends; Nunta Udeliga, sunset: Tahigwa, at peace; Amaiyulti, waterside; Inawendiwin, friendship; Tapawingo, place of joy; Katinonkwat, heart's edesire. Is tortoise shell obtained from the tortoise? No, it is obtained from the large scales of the carapace or shield of the Caretta imbricata, a species of sea-turtle, and also from the Hawksbill turtle. What was the first State to emancipate slaves in the United States. What States followed? The first constitution to abollsn slavery was that of Vermont, 1777. Massachusetts followed i-n 1780, and acts of gradual emancipation were passed by Pennsylvania in 1780, New Hampshire in 1783, Rhole Island in 1784, Connecticut in 1784, New Jersey in 1804, and New York, 1799. New York afterward passed an absolute emancipation act effective July 4, 1827. The other original States allowed slavery, and In new States the question was settled by constitutional provls'ons on admission. The Emancipation Proclamation of Lincoln issued Jan. 1, 1863, freed all the slaves in the sections in rebellion. The adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, Dec. 18, 1865 abolished slavery in all parts of the Union. What Is “eminent ddmain?” The right of a government to take private property for a public purpose. Is It true that grains of wheat thousands of years old taken from tombs in Egypt have ) grown when planted? No, stories to this effect have been proved unauthentic over and over again by scientists and Egyptologists such as Hooker, Carruthers, Flinders-Petrie, Newberry and every other botanist and antiquarry of any eminence, and by Investigations by committees of the British Association and the United States Department of Agriculture. Wheat seldom preserves its vitality beyond the eighth or ninth year.
MONDAY, AUG. 11, li*
READER IN DEFENSE OF THE KLAN Another Writer Pleads for Tolerance and Brotherhood of Man, To the Editor of The Times * Y rj HETHER unwittingly or not. vy 'he Scripps editor did- us all a valuable service when he induced La Foliettte to place himself in black and white against, the greatest Protestant movement in our land today. By referring to the Klan as a “menace” and “unAmerican” and "Fascisti” and ‘‘a . very’ real and present threat to our institutions,” the Scripps with commendable frankness, also shows his true colors, and we now know where to place and The Times, which I am informed is under his direction. Yes, the Klan is a menace to certain classes; the bootlegger, the gambler, the ‘’licentious fellow, the crooked politician, the foes of Protestantism and our public schools.. It is a very real menace to these barnacles of society. They have built an “Americanism” that sounds for all this corruption, and the Klan, by endeavoring to elect honest men to office who may seem "un-American” to then?, but not to any one who reads the Constitution, and, reading, understands. And the Klan may seem to be a very real and present threat to our Institutions, such as above, but not to American institutions.
Wants Ii T-ei Alone Gentlemen, let this thing If it is wrong there is still patriotism enough in America to shelve it. Something has called It forth at this time. You read, you ponder—can’t you grasp it? Protect our schools. Quit assaulting Protestant ministers by club and pen, do your best to obey the laws, give capital and labor their just dues, read and act for yourself (stop allowing the other fellow to do it for you), and thia~“menace" will cease. But until you do this I’m very much afraid you’ll have to endure it foi; some time, for the spirit of justice and freedom still survives—and there you are. This calling of names and assaulting of peaceable gatherings only show3 where tM intolerance really lies. As the time seems to have arrived when nativeborn, white Protestants can’t hold meetings -without being murderously set upon, so the time has also arrived for your so-called “menace” to act. Don’t drive it too far! RAY ALLEN. ! The Other Side To the Editor of The Times Here Is a conversation between two veterans of the world war who went through the fires of hell together: “Buddy, I am running for office and I want you to vote for me. Os course, you will because I am on your ticket.” “No, buddy, I can not.” “Why?” “Well, you know you are a catholic and I am 100 per cent, and according to their rules I can not vote for a Catholic.” “Did you think of this when I carried you off the battlefield when you were wounded?” “I know, but I van not vote for a Catholic.” - What do you think of a case of this kind? You who call yourself 100 per cent, examine yourself in the light of the love of the Lowly Nazarene, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Are you a 100 per cent preacher, who upholds a doctrine of religious intolerance ar.d race hatred? God pity you and may you go learn of Jesus who died for everyone regardless of race or color. This is written by a Protestant who believes in the love,of Christ,, the brotherhood of man and the Constitution of the United States. J. C. BRILFY.