Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 82, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1924 — Page 4

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MORALS OF FIGHTERS OYERNOR BRANCH has stopped a boxing match at VA East Chicago, in which Jack Johnson, ex-heavyweight hampion, was to have participated, “for reasons which the mblic will very well understand.’’ There was no question of the proposed bout being a prize ight and therefore in violation of the law. There was no quesion of any law violation of any description. It can only be assumed that the Governor stopped the fight lecause of the unsavory reputation of one of the principals. He ixplains in a public statement that it was not because of the lolor of the boxers. We suggest that the next Legislature create a board of lensorship to look into the morals of all prize fighters participatng in boxing exhibitions (the only legal form of fisticuffs) n Indiana. \ PRISONS YS. HOSPITALS CARLETON B. McCULLOCH, Democratic nominee for L/ | Governor, declares he believes it a mistake to build >alatial homes for criminals like the one at Pendleton while nsane women are confined to the county jails. He is everlastingly right in this stand. It is almost unbeievable that Indiana should have neglected the care of mentally liseased in the manner*in which it has. The Legislature ap>ropriated money for the extremely elaborate reformatory at s f*ndleton, but conti ibuted not one cent to remove from our .nnnty jails persons confined there merely because they are ill. One of the first acts of the next Legislature should be the mactment of a law to relieve this situation. It is inconceivable ;hat insane persons should be locked in cells with little or no nedical attention simply because they are iIL It harks back o the dark ages. So far as the reformatory is concerned the damage there las been done. It is probable that an additional appropriation vill be asked of the next Legislature to add to the millions aleady spent. The institution should be completed as rapidly as jossible and with as small an expenditure of money as possible. It is rather a matter of irony tljat a palatial prison will stand as a monument to the late McCray administration. LA FOLLETTE ON THE KLAN (From the New York World) “q" SENATOR LA FOLLETTE has never made better use of O his talent for direct statement than in his letter to Robert Scripps concerning the Ku-Klux Klan. He expresses in downright and explicit English the ideal attitude of any candidates for the presidency toward a secret organization trading in race prejudice for wealth and political power. That the Klan possesses immense political power and that it threatens to obtain a dominant Dosition ir. other States than those in which it already dictates platforms and nominations cannot be doubted by any reader of the series of articles by Ned Mclntosh now appearing in The World. The candidate who leliberately and definitely condemns the Klan and its works must expect to cut himself off on a question of principle from the support of a solid minority-which might easily turn the balmce in his favor in uncertain States. Regretting the question of religious and radical tolerance in a Campaign which he would have preferred to conduct on purely economic lines, Senator La Follette nevertheless names names and issues an unequivocal defiance. He is “unalterably opposed to the evident purposes of the secret organization known as the Ku-Klux Klan as disclosed by its public acts.” He believes that “it cannot long survive,” and he bases this belief on the fate of earlier movements of similar character in American politics. His stand is that of Abraham Lincoln toward the Know-Nothings and that of Thomas Jefferson toward the “right of inquiry into the religious opinons of others.” If he has not alienated every Klansman in the United States from his ticket it is not his fault. No candidate can blink the fact that Senator La Follette’s declaration sets a standard of candor and courage in regard to an issue admitting of no compromise which does not lend aid and comfort to the most vicious faction in the public life of this generation.

I THEY REALLY WORK HE TIRED BUSINESS MAN, suffering for want of a vaea--1 * tion and showing poor form on the links, might find rest by reading the paper which was presented before the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation in a meeting at Montgomery, Ala., by Miss Helen Johnston, a demonstration agent. It summarized the returns from 1,000 questionnaires sent to the wives of Alabama farmers; and showed that they work an average of slightly over twelve hours a day. \ • And it’s real work, without afternoons off or rest periods—work that is never done. Sewing and mending—looking after unending housework—caring for babies—nursing during illness—these are but few of the things to be done in addition to actual farming tasks. They are hard and exacting jobs; the are routine and commonplace, and, worst of all, they can never be completed. As one thing is done, new ones pile up. The average business man enjoys a perpetual vacation compared to the average farm wife. There was something pitiful in the conclusion of Miss Johnston’s report. She asked the farm women what they’d rather have than anything else, if they had the money to spend for it. They didn’t answer dresses or parties, trips or autos or any of the other luxuries that rise to mind. Above everything else, they’d rather have running water in their homes. To the city dweller, who has but to turn a tap —to whom running water is so commonplace that it never gets a thought—the answer is at first startling. And then, as you think of a woman working twelve hours a day, washing dishes and children, scrubbing and cleaning, without even water in the house, you begin to realize that this commonplace thing would be the greatest of luxuries to her. It takes such a report as this to make one realize his own blessings. And, too, it takes such a report to make on realize the injustice and cruelty of a system under which women must work more than twelve hours a day, toiling their lives away, yearning for so small a thing as water in the home.

“EAGLE” IS OLD GROUP OF STARS Ancients Said Big Bird Carried One of Gods to Olympus. By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times. HE constellation of Aquila, the Eagle, is one of the oldest l _ known. The constellation w r as known to the Akkadians, a race of mountaineers who lived in the mountainous regions to the east of Assyria. The Akkadians are the most ancient race of which we have any definite knowledge. They called the eagle “Alula,”

THE SKETCH SHOWS THE EAGLE OF JUPITER CARRYING GANNTMEDE TO MOUNT OLYMPUS. THIS SKETCH WAS MADE AFTER THE FAMOUS PAINTING BY RUBENS IN THE GALLERY OF THE PRADO AT MADRID.

the great spirit, and said that it symbolized the noon day sun. fteferences to the constellation are found on an Assyrian tablet which dates oack to 1200 B. C. The Romans gave it the name of “Aquila,” and both the Greeks and the Romans regarded it as being, the eagle of the chief god, Jupiter. This was the eagle which carried Gannymede to the home of the gods on Mt. Olympus. Gannymede was a beautiful Trojan youth. Jupiter, so the legend goes, was so pleased with his appearance that he sent his eagle to seize the youth while he was playing with a group of friends. The agle carried Gannymede to Mt. Olympus, w T here Jupiter made the youth his cup-bearer. It is interesting to note that we have located close together in the sky the constellation of Cygnus, the flying swan, the flying eagle, and Lyra, which as we know, was frequently regarded by the ancients as a falling eagle rather than a harp or lyre. Many students of the stars think that there must be some significance to this grouping. In all probability the ancients did have some definite scheme in mind in grouping these figures together. But whatever It was, it has become lost in the course of the ages. The Chinese had a beautiful legend connecting the two constellations of Aquila and Lyra. It >s called the legend of the spinning damsel and the magpie bridge. The constellation Lyra is supposed to represent the spinning damsel. The constellation Aquila represents a cowherd who fell in love with her. The girl’s father, in anger, banished them both to the sky, where they are separated by the Milky Way, which, according to the legend, is supposed to be a river. The father degreed that they might meet only once a year. This they are able to do with the help of the magpies, who fly to the sky once a year and form a bridge over the river of the Milky Way. The Japanese have a festival called ‘Tanabata.” It Us on this night that the lovers are supposed to meet, according to Lafcadio Hearn. In Korea the children throw stones at the magpies if they see any on the day of this festival, because they say that the magpie, who is in his usual haunts then. Is shirking his duty to the lovers in the sky. Next article: The constellation of Delphinus. the Dolphin. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz)

Family Fun Did He See the Saw? “Hobo, did you notice that pile of wood in the yard?” “Yes’m, I seen it.” “You should mind your grammar. You mean you saw it.” "No'm. You saw me see it, but ain’t see me saw it. —Christian Evangelist. Dad’s Night Out “How did you find your wife when you got home last night?” “Easily. But it took me a long ttime to find home. (Sydney). One Long Honeymoon “Does your wife ever nag you?” “No, we’ve only been married a year. We call it coaxing, so far.” — Boston Transcript. The New Gorl “Can you do washing and ironigg?” “Oh, yes—l used to be married and have a home of my own.”— American Legion Weekly. Not on Sister’s List “Now, honest, am I the first man you’ve ever really loved?” “Absolutely. I went over my whole list only this morning.”—Bulletin (Sydney).

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Sunrise BY HAL COCHRAN When the end of the day comes a rollin’ around and your energy’s running on low, it’s often the truth that your spirit’s not sound and ambition blood ceases to flow. You drag you along on your home-ward-bcynd way, just a listless old hulk of a man. You've used up your strength in the work of the day; but you hang on, as long as you can. Yet, why do you fret about fagging all out? Your system can’t always be mellow. It’s bound to be giving when work Is your living. Why, that’s only human, old fellow. You ought to remember that nature is wise, and life knows what’s best. They’re really the things that put tired in your eyes and demand that you need a good rest. So, don’t get the grumps and go down in the dumps. Get rest that is needed Ky men. When the sun's up tomorrow, ’twill drown out your sorrow and start you all over agafn.

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK. Aug. 13.—Nineteen years ago, Isadora Plnsker came from Russia to become an employe at the Green Room Club, an or ganization of men of the theater His name was too long so he wa< rechristened “Sam.” Today, it is said, members of the organization “on their uppers” owe him at least $3,000 and still call him Sam. His devotion to members of the club amounts to reverence. Theii troubles are his. He started as an assistant porter. Now he is a waiter and chief cart room attendant. Years ago a prominent actor living at the club gave Sam some old clothes and worn shoes. Five years later days of prosperity passed and the prominent actor was desti tute, not an uncommon lot at times for members of the profession. He awakened one morning to find the old clothes and worn shoes he had given Sam neatly repaired and generally rehabilitated. The performer has today climbed to even more successful heights. To mention his name would be unfair. At one time, when the club was in financial difficulties, Sam offered to give the SI,OOO that would make It solvent. % In days of rope fire escapes, when in case of conflagration the imperiled clasped the rope, jumped out the window, and “turned to the left,’ one of the club members suggested to Sam that the fire escapes had not been tested in a long time anr’ that the ropes on many of them might be rotten. A late homecomer that night found Sam dangling from the end of the last rope fire escape. He had tested them all at the risk of his life, after his regular work was done. He tested from the top instead of bottom. Sam worked an average of sixteen hours a day for the first seven years he was at the club without a holiday. Then he asked for an afternoon oft “to g°t married.” It was granted. Members of the club have never been able to decide just when and how Sam courted his wife. Os $750 Sam had saved for his wedding day, he spent $350 furnishing an apartment and the remaining S4OO for a party he gave to club members who attended his wedding. Sam never has had time to learn to read or write. But he can remember the dinner orders of any number of guests. Never once has he forgotten, club members relate. v He has a wealthy aunt in Lt>s Angeles who has offered him an annual Income if he would go to the California city and make his home. Sam refuses. How could the Green Room Club get along without him? The members can’t answer.

Tongue Tips Blind Boone, musical prodigy, Columbia, Mo.: “Jazz, to me, is something that tickles the feet and mind, and is a fad. Music is but conversation in tones, and I call jazz foolish talk.” * * * E. W. Hoch, Marion, Kan.: “Are you one of these wiseacres who can run the universe but can’t run your own personal affairs?” * * * C. O. Moser, secretary Cotton Growers’ Exchange, Dajlas, Texas: “The recent advance in corn has made the middleman wealthy, but scarcely has affected the actual producer.” ! * * * Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas: “So long as present world conditions exist, my personal view is it is proper to make adequate provisions for national safety.” • • • Dr. Prank Crane, editorialist: “Beware of a man, stijl more of a woman, who is silent; they mean business."

CANDIDATES ALL CLAIM VICTORY Predictions of Result This Fall at Variance Among Managers, By CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer CTCD ASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—1f La (VY/ Follette and Wheeler get as I many Democratic votes as the Republicans predict, and if they get as many Republican votes as the Democrats say they will,' then the Progressives stand a first-class chance to win. However, the Republicans deny that the Progressives will draw very heavily from their tickets; the Democrats deny that the independents will draw very heavily from theirs. So there you are. Never probably was there so doubtful a presidential campaign as this year’s. The 1912 fight was a triangle, but the third element which entered into it was the result of a one-party split. This year the third element is made up of candidates from both the old parties. Adams May Run In lowa there is talk of the candidacy of John T. Adams, recently chairman of the Republican National committee —as an independent against Senator Brookhart, but, really with Republican support. Republicans, however, are optimistic and on the basis of their definite, unqualified claim, to say nothing of that for which they hope, they would have 281 electoral votes, or fifteen more than necessary for a “majority over all.” Democrats, however, claim 189 electoral votes at the start. With such a nucleus they would win if they could capture New York and one other State. The Progressives claim ten States for a total of eighty electoral votes and have great hopes of landing five more States. In the remainder of the country they make no concessions to either of the old-line parties whatever, simply saying they will surprise them both everywhere. Doubt Is Great At all events, the element of doubt is very large. Take the following list of the Suites' electoral votes and apply them to the accompanying map. You will then see what claims are made by the various political groups. Your guess on a winner will probably be as close as the other fellow's. The States' electoral votes are: Alabama 12) Nebrankj, 8 Arizona 3; Nevada 3 Arkansas 91 New Hampshire.. 4 California „..13!N>w Jersey .... 14 Colorado 6; New Mexico 3 Connecticut 7) New York 45 Delaware 3 North Carolina ..12 Florida H North Dakota .... 5 Georgia ........ 14! Ohio 24 Idaho . t Oklahoma 10 Illinois 29' Oregon 5 Indiana 15 I’emuylvanja ....38 lowa 13! Rhode Island 5 Kansas ...10 South Carolina .. 9 Kentucky 13) South Dakota ... 5 Louisiana 10 Tennessee . ...... .12 Maine 6; Texas 20 Maryland 8 Utah 4 Massachusetts . . .18 Vermont 4 Michigan 15! Virginia 12 Mnmesota 12 Washington ...... 7 Mississippi 10! West Virginia ... 8 Missouri 18 Wisconsin 13 Mpntana 4) Wyoming 3

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MAP SHOWING HOW EACH POLITICAL PARTY CLAIMS VICTORY.

Tom Sims Says Butchers will hold a convention in Chicago, probably to discuss how they can make ends meet. Practicing on a saxophone is dangerous. You are liable t olearn to play it. Some towns are so lucky. In New Orleans, a robber, trying to get away, fell and broke his leg. What is so rare as a breeze in August? Los Angeles man, asking a divorce because she let other men her, should have fed her on onions. Hurry with your vacation. Soon as it is over you will have to start saving up for Christmas. Iced tea seems to be the most popular summer resort. 7very day will be Sunday by and by, thinks the optimist, but the pessimist feels sure they will be Monday. Seven bricklayers fell thirty feet in New York, but there are no signs of bricklayers’ pay coming down. Half of the world’s supply of gold is in the United States now, most of it seemingly in front teeth. In New York a man is accused of starting 100 fires, so perhaps he is a janitor crazy with the heat. La Follette has bought a strawhat with a felt brim and goes about hoping his campaign will be felt also,

G. O. P. SPLIT REPORTED IN CALIFORNIA La Follette Makes Considerable Gains in Western State, By MAX STERN AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 C The G. O. P. machine of Califomia is entering the presidential race hitting on one cylinder and with a terrible knock in its insides. In the first place, the progressive and conservative elements are split wide apart over the recent CoolidgeJohnson contest. Senator Hiram is here and maintains a silence so sphinx-like that it makes Silent Cal sound like a chatter box. But it is to be noted that Hiram’s former secretary and political manager, Franck Havenner is State campaign manager for La Follette. After the Aug. 26 primaries some of the leading Hiram Johnson politicians will come out openly for the La Follette ticket, even if Johnson

remains neutral or gives lip service to Coolidge. Next, there is within the ranks of the regulars a serious schism which Secretary Herbert Hoover, who is also here, is said to be spending his days trying to smooth out. This concerns a recent fight between the southern California and the northern elements over the selection of a national committeeman. The Chandler-Arnold-Long faction wanted C. C. Teague, a millionaire lemon grower, instead of Will Crocker, San Francisco banker. The former was supported by Coolidge’s campaign manager, Mark Requa, formerly of the Sinclair oil interests, and by Hoover. Crocker beat the opposition from the south, leaving a lot of noses out of joint, but the Requa element is in reality in the saddle. The result is that some of the leading Republicans behind Crocker will not do much marching in the Coolidge parade. In the meantime the thirteen electors for La Follette have been picked and will go on the ballot as independents. Rudolph Spreckels, State campaign manager, declares that every day makes La Follette’s chances of carrying California more hopeful. Sister at Sea, 1924 “Oh, dear, I’m in such a quandary.” “What's wrong?” “Why, I proposed to Jack last night and he accepted me, and now Tom who refused me last week writes that he has reconsidered in my favor.”—Boston Transcript.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any Question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New- York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents tn 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. Why is President Coolidge’s father called "Colonel”? Because he was given this title for serving on the staff of one of the Governors of Vermont. How- do the United States mints test for gold and silver? By fire assay. Is calcium lactate used in medicine, if so, for what? Yes, it is particularly valuable for supplying lime to the system. Have aviators ever flown as high as the height of Mt. Everest? Mt. Everest is 29,002 feet in height and man has flown to a height of 36,555 feet. What Is meant by "reaction time?” "Reaction time” is a psychological term used to express the time it takes a subject to gel and act upon a sensation, says Science Serv

ice. It varies with the natural speed of the individual and is easily measured in the laboratory. What is the largest producing gold mine of the United States? Home Stake Mine, Lead, South Dakota. What is the richest silver mine in the world? The Valenciana Deep Mine in Guanajuato, Mexico, near the city of that name. has produced a billion dollars worth of ore. How old was Cleopatra when she died? Between 38 and 40 —according to some historians. Her exact age is not known. Are there any libraries especially for negroes? Yes, quite a number of them. The most expensive ojje is the Western Branch. Louisville, Ky. Nature The giraffe, having enough throat to vociferate like a sea captain, is, nevertheless, dumb. Was never heard to utter a sound. Icebergs from the Arctic rise up in peaks and towers while Antarctic icebergs are usually flat as a table on top. Reason is that the North Pole is warmer than the South Pole. V. In the Arctic the summer sun melts the icebergs and the sides break down first. Temperature rarely goes to the melting point even in mid-summer in the Antarctic,

WEDNESDAY, AUO. 13, 1924

SESSION ON DEBTS PLANNED United States Will Be Invited to Next Conference, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Times Foreign Editor. ASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—An Yjy] interallied debt parley where __J the fate of some $20,000,000,000 will be involved, will shortly be called either in London or in Paris. The United States will be invited, about $11,000,000,000 of this stupefying total being owed to this country This is SIOO for every man, woman and child in America. While not likely that the United States will be asked, point blank, to cancel this $11,000,000,000 debt, it will develop at the conference that aside from Great Britain there is small chance of collecting any appreciable part ol this money in the very near future. Britain owes us about $4,600,000,000., For this we now hold British government bonds drawing 3 and ZM per cent Interest. Postponment Asked France owes us some $3,990,000,000. This debt has not been re funded, as was Britain's, France having asked that the matter be postponed "for an indefinite period,” until her financial situation should become more clear, "particularly as to reparations receipts from Germany.” The renuflning $2,500,000,000 Is due from Italy, Belgium, Roumanla, Greece, Russia, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and other countries. These stupendous sums, however, represent only the allied Indebtedness to us. They owe each other proportionately staggering amounts, principally France to England, and Poland, Roumanla, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia to France. The total interallied and associated powers debt must be pretty close tc $20,000,000,000.

May Bond Debt There is talk of France bonding her debt to the United States as Britain did, though with a clause relieving her of Interest payments for a period of years. Meantime a subtle, but nevertheless powerful, drive is gaining headway in Britain with the object of obtaining at least partial cancellation of interallied war debts. Though Europe owes Britain much, it would be sound business for her to cancel the whole indebtedness, wiping the slate clean. Europe represents 40 per cent of Britain's foreign trade. Reparation* Russia and Europe’s debts have been the fatal trio holding up this trade since the war, causing critical unemployment in the British Isles. Only Question Left Two of these three obstacles—reparations and Russia—are now by way of being removed, leaving only the debt question to be solved. The existence of these debts is now costing Britain more in lost trade and unemployment than they are worth to her. If they were suddenly canceled, leaving Europe to spend the money for British products, British trade would flourish even as the proverbial green bay tree and unemployment would disappear. Hence the propaganda, principally aimed at the LTnited States. But America has comparatively little to gain. In fact, cancellation for her would mean almost total loss. A Thought Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. —Matt. 6-12. | p OR right is right since God is ! H God, and right the day must i— win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin,— F. W. Faber.