Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Edttor-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 Seripps-Paine 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.

TO INDIANAPOLIS TIMES READERS lESTERDAY each of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, of which this newspaper is one, printed an editorial endorsing the independent presidential candidacy of Robert M. La Follette. The writing of that editorial was the most important work I have undertaken since the receipt from E. W. Seripps, the founder of this newspaper organization, of the following letter: NEW YORK, June 14. 1924. Mr. Robert P. Seripps, , My Dear Son: A little over four years ago I turned over to you and Mr. Roy W. Howard the control of all my newspapers and news gathering and news disseminating agencies, directing I you to act as Editor-in-Chief. I executed a power-of-attorney, appointing you to take full charge of my estate. I advised you to “go slow” in the matter of exercising control over the editorial direction of the institution until you should have become thoroughly acquainted with the personnel and until you should have had time to mature your own convictions with regard to publie policies. Under yours and Howard’s direction of the institution, its property value has greatly increased. I am now past 70 and have decided it will be better not only that I should cease active control, but to have any t sort of influence over your activities. It is my opinion that the value of the properties over which you exercise control might well increase many fold if your chief aim were merely to cause Increase in wealth. However, I repeat now what I told you when I first launched you in your career, that I would prefer thst you shouy succeed in being in all things a gentleman, accord- ' ing to the real meaning of that word, than that you should vastly increase the money value of my estate. Being a gentleman, you cannot fail to devote your whole mind and energy to the service of the plain people who constitute the vast majority of the people of the United States. I have so arranged my affairs that beyond all doubt you will control my estate after my death, and hence control all of those newspapers which I had previously controlled (and perhaps many more), besides those news-gathering and news-disseminating associations which I built up. I have turned over to you a property so large and so well organized that not only can you afford to do your full duty as a public servant, but you are and can be, continually, entirely free from any temptation to cater to any class of your fellow citizens for profit. You have not had nor should you at any time ever have any ambition to secure political or social eminence. I belong to two past generations. You belong to the present, and your duty is, I consider, towards the present and future generations. I cannot consider that you have any inclination or that you are going to be subject to any temptation to do anything other than your full duty toward the public of this and future generations. Affectionately, EDWARD W. SCRIPPS. , It is a great honor which has been done me and a great obligation which I have undertaken. I feel equal to it to a very great extent because of the character and ability of the men who are associated with me in the work that E. W. Seripps has laid down. In both the honor and the obligation every man who is employed in the service of these newspapers must share. The editorial indorsement, straight out and without reservations, of La Follette for the sake of the cause he leads, and fair and impartial reporting of the campaign news of ALL of the political parties, I take to be the first duty of these newspapers at this time, under the stipulation for public service which E. W. Seripps has made, and in accordance with our policy in the past. ROBERT P. SCRIPPS.

‘‘INTERNATIONAL ’’ RELATIONS mNDIANA and West Virginia truck drivers driving in Ohio have been arrested on charges which no one has been able to make quite clear. Asa reprisal, West Virginia threatens to arrest drivers of all ears bearing Ohio licenses. “International’’ relations between Ohio and neighboring States are strained. Diplomatic, and some more or less diplomatic, “notes” have been exchanged. The situation is what a European correspondent would call “critical.” Seriously, this little squabble demonstrates the necessity for agreements between States as to the use of highways by citizens of other States. SCHOOL ECONOMY mHE PEOPLE of Indianapolis will agree heartily with the sentiment of the finance committee of the school board that the board can not sacrifice needed improvement and extension for economy. It is just and proper that the school budget should be “cut to the bone” so far as unnecessary expenditures are concerned. But under no consideration should necessary school facilities be sacrificed in the name of economy. We believe the taxpayers of Indianapolis would not approve this kind of economy. The biggest program before the school board is supplying a seat for every pupil in a decent school building. The school population is growing rapidly and it will take real and earnest work to keep up with it. It also will take considerable money, but we know of no way in which money could be better spent. SPEAKING OF evolution, once a Bryan was the head and now a Bryan is the tail. What does W. J. make of that? I GONE ARE the days when it was possible to obtain a change of scene. The billboards are the same everywhere. IF THE Prince of Wales desires to “travel incog.” in this i country, he will have to keep off a horse or something will liappen to expose him, PROF.* TODD of Amherst College says it is not unlikely •that New York will, one day, be destroyed by an earthquake, no doubt basing his prediction on the theory that “one woe upon another % heels doth tread.

HERCULES NOW SEEN OVERHEAD Ancients Imagined 'dod In Kneeling Posture With Club, BY DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. JOU will have-to crane your neck a bit to see the conL—stellation Hercules because he is nearly overhead in the early evening at this time oY the year. So if you go outdoors tonight and look overhead you will see Hercules or the Kneeler, as the constellation is sometimes called, above you. He is just south of Draco, the dragon. As you see him in the summer sky. his head is pointed toward the south,, because the an-

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THE CONSTELLATION OF HERCULES OR "THE KNEELER"

cients imagined the figure so that the left foot of Hercules appeared to the trampling on the head of the dragon. The accompanying illustration shows the arrangement of the stars in Hercules. They resemble somewhat a letter "H" pulled out of shape. The ancients, as the drawing shows, imagined Hercules as kneeling with his right arm upraised and holding a club. Just why the figure of Hercules should have been imagined upon his knees seems to be a mystery. Students of astronomy think that the tlgures was known merely as the "Kneeler” at a very early date and that it subsequently became known as Hercules. Other names given the constellation were “The Phantom” and “The Man Upon His Knees.” There has also been an attempt upon the part of some students to identify this constellation as Adam. Draco, it will remembered, was thought by some to be the serpent of the Garden of Eden. The position of the Kneeler. with his foe,t on the head of the serpent, would be symbolic then of the eternal enmity between man and the serpent. The chief star of the constellation Hercules is Ran Algethi. The name means the “head of the kneeler,” and describes the position of the star in the constellation. It is orange-red in color. The telescope reveals it tr> be a double-star. The constellation contains an unusual number of doubles. Zeta, Gamma. Delta, Mu, Rho and Kappa or Marfik are all doubles. By far the most interesting object in the constellation is the great star cluster situated midway between the stars Eta and Zeta. It is usually referred to as the “Great Cluster of Hercules.” On a veiy clear night it is just visible to the naked eye as a tiny pin-point of light. A small telescope makes it look like a dim nebula, one of those cloud-like masses of luminous gas which are found in the heavens. A more powerful telescope shows it is a great cluster of stars, spherical in outline, and with the stars growing 'thicker and thicker toward the center, so that it is impossible to make out individual stars at the center. Photographs taken with the great reectirg telescope at Mount Wilson show the cluster contains more than 60,000 stars. These stars are billions of miles apart, but the whole cluster is so far away from our solar system that we see it condenstd down into a small, compact group. Next Article: The Story of Hercules. Tongue Tips TEX RICKARD, prize fight promoter: “I don’t believe it is because we are unintelligent or savage that we like to witness prize fights. It’s because we are a race of competition lovers.” JAMES A. REED, Missouri senator: “The pacifists’ dream of eternal peace can only be realized in a world illumined by' the spirit of the millennium, or in a land powerful enough to be Immune from the attacks of enemies." HAROLD COX, financial expert: “Sooner or later even the British Socialists will learn that permanent prosperity can only be attained by honest work, reasonable thrift and the intelligent direction of industry” c DR. CHARLES GRAY SHAW, professor of philosophy, New York: “In ,a distant day men will know too much to laugh, just as primitive men knew t.oo little to smile. Even now men no longer laugh at. things they used to laugh at.”

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Selling BY HAL COCHRAN Again comes the curse of just WTitin’ a verse about someone or something or other. You white ’one today and it’s out of your way; then it’s time to begin on another. Consider the fellow who works in the store where men folks will go for their buying. day he’s displaying men’s things by the score and to please all his callers he’s trying. You ask for some socks that are fancy with clocks and he shows you a lot that are plain. They don’t suit your eye, but he gets you to buy and you seek for the reason in vain. You’ve likely in mind just the sort you would find as he takes down some shirts from the shelf. But plop goes your choice, as his salesmanship voice says: “I’m wearing this color myself.” How come that the clerk whom you never have met; the clerk who is ever so kind, can always outguess you on what you will get? He’s the fellow who makes up your mind! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, In^^

In New York By STEVE HANAGAN NEW YORK, *Aug. 16.—Birds, dogs. fish, cats, monkeys, from many different countries and climes intrigue crowds of people every i day from their window abode in one j of Fifth Ave’s. most unusual shops. | Cute dogs, some of them priced os high as SI,OOO, frolic to fascinate strollerjc Parrots from Brazil screech and perform. Birds of most every hue and size from India. Africa ami Australia, warble. Mice from Japan, with unbalanced heads, waits, in idiotic pantomime. Monkeys chatter for tropical fruit. Fish, of varying size from many waters, swim lazily in costly howls. Love lards coo. Fifth Ave. pauses to gaze. A young man with premat arely gray hair, passes among the birds They fly on his shoulder, whispering something in bird language into his ears. He answers with a strange garble of sounds. The birds understand —for they perforin tricks and then fly back to gilded cages. Before the war this young man, who is C. H. Abbott, 29, of Portland, Ore., was a civil engineer. After the armistice he became friendly with a bird fancier in Hamburg, Germany. When he returned to the States ho brought with him a number of birds. 11c sold them at a prefit, and started liis business. Since then he has made twenty trips abroad. Bird and dog lovers from all parts of the country call to examine his stock. New Yorkers, who live in apartments where pels are banned, call each day to serve dainties to caged friends. The monkeys begin to leap and chatter. A man who feeds them every day has entered the door. The monkeys recognized him. While I was in the store, one of the parrots, becoming frightened, flew out into the middle of trafficjammed Fifth Ave. Abbott who talks to birds, walked calmly out into the maze of automobiles and busses, spoke to the runaway parrot. Then the bird climbed onto his hand and chattered thanks as Abbott returned it to the cage in the store. • • • Prohibition has made strange changes in New York. Rector's marked spot of Broadway in the "intemperate” days of licensed compotation. is now a public dance hall with two jazz bands and a soda water fountain.

Science P. Leoomte du Nouy of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research invented an improved method for weighing molecules. A newspaper paragrapher said: ‘‘Our idea 'of nothing at all: weighing molecules.” Tn terms of weight it comes close to ‘‘nothing at all,” but otherwise it is of great importance to the human race. In medicine the smallness or largeness of the molecule frequently means whether or not it will pass through membranes to regions of difficult access and effect a eure- v The molecule is composed of atoms. Atoms are composed of electrons. A molecule of sodium oleate, for example, weighs twenty-five decillioniths of an ounce; that is, if a person writes dow# a decimal point, then twenty-three zeros and the figures twenty-five he has it in figures. This, nevertheless, is a large molecule. To express the weight of its smallest atom more, ciphers must be added. Since the atom itself is composed of a system of miniature worlds, still more ciphers must be added to express the weight of one of these electrons. ‘ The importance of this branch of science may be seen when it is realized that every time an X-ray picture is made these small bodies are being utilized.

‘CANDITATES DO SHOW A DIFFERENCE ’ Reader Can See No Similarity Between Coolidge and Davis, To the Edit O'- of The Timex mHE speech of Mr. Davis has caused his opponents no little concern. They at once hide behind “No difference between Coolidge and Davis. Why change?” It is human nature for the weaker kind to try to tack onto the stronger, and endeavor to share their harvest at the expense of the other fellow, the opponents attitude cause one to think of “child hero-worship” all the children will claim the same potential strength as the hero, and no less degree of proficiency or success—yet to be attained. The attack of Mr. Davis is so clear, so pointed, so truthful, that the enemy yields at once, crying—“fine, fine, just like mine except, this or that.” But in no sense can the press of the nation justly claim this likeness. It is not true. The people know there is a difference between: action and inaction: fahm prosperity and poverty; national action and individual action: high and low taxes; winking at crooks and firing at crooks; in crying for help and silence and entertaining, when the thief is gaining his plunder; in promise to increase high taxes or lower them, if elected; in a further continuation, or discontinuation of all these and more. Either to He Preferred The public knows that either one of Coolidge’s opponents has done out of the White House more for the American people than he has done in ii. The public knows that very few real red-blooded Americans would go through a campaign, sit and preside over the Senate, sit in Cabinet meetings, assume the presidency and make not a single forward motion toward finding and punishing a bunch of national crooks, until forced by governmental action to make a move, especially when his attention was railed to it while presiding over the Senate. The Administration has done nothing Mr. Coolidge wanted done, and he has done nothing that he could have done without It. If given the support he will undo what the Administration has done for the people, and do what he wants done for the interests. If the people are to have what they want and need, they must have a change. Should Have to Fight Little more than a year ago the lending politicians of his party we are told were casting about for a real man to be nominated at the coming convention to act as rice president of the United States. However, over night the entire setting was changed, a little man liecame large, the unheard more silent, and his associates assigned charged of the government. They say it is a mystery how the press has made nothing into something in a course of about twelve months. If he and the Administration were obliged to fight the press as (say La Follette) his worth and measure would soon Ik* taken. The silent man is a powerful man only when he acts, and inaction and silenc-e combined make a “Joke" out of a prominent character. We say there are many reasons for a change that must come, it is necessary, and cannot long be delayed without in-epurable damage to the Nation. That portion of the press that, cares to foster the truth and nothing but the truth can do much to hasten the change. It Is unfortunate for political purposes the press let the oil scandal spread everywhere before the psychological moment, but. the memory of the American citizen is good, and his reasoning clear, and his action definite. INTERESTED. Tom Sims Says Tear bomb was exploded at a -St. Cloud (Minn.) dance and every girl there looked as If her shoes hurt her feet.

A single wire, nay the radio experts, makes the best aerial. And a single gossip, wo say, makes the best broadcaster. Epinard, the French race horse, has a name which moans “spinach.” so he should have plenty of sand, ‘f you know your spinach. Ive stood all I can," says ths wife of a famous comedian, proving that love chuckles at jokesmiths. Twelve college girls spent their vacations in a New York tenement, and liked it because they didn’t have to do it. In Naples a. pack of wolves gathered outside a church door, possibly thinking it was where the preacher lived. Washington cops are making raids in dress suits. The life of a cop is indeed a hard one. Rebels are marching on the city of Choluteoa, in Honduras, but we'll bet they can’t pronounce It. If it gets much hotter we are going to sweat Instead of perspire.

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How many bus lines now operate out of Indianapolis? How many intent! ban trolley lines? How many steam roads? 1 Sixteen. 2. Thirteen. 3. Sixteen different roads; five main lines. How many different traction lines come into Indianapolis? It it the largest traction terminal In the world? 1. Thirteen. 2. Yes. Are genuine pearls damaged by heat? Yes, very easily. What Is the address of Alice Joyce. 366 Madison Ave., New York City. What is the easiest wind instrument to play? The saxaphone is so considered. What is the longest record for walking? * Twenty-five miles in 4 hours 3 minutes 36 seconds, made by J. B. Clark of New Y r ork City Dec. 6, 1879. What were Thomas Paine’s last words? Some authorities assert they were “I have no wish to believe on that subject,” in answer to the inquiry “Do you wish to believe that Jesus is the Son of God?” What birds sing at night? The nightingale, vesper sparrow, mocking bird, yellow-breasted 'chat, oven bird and rose-breasted grosbeak.

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Nature Porcupine’s quill has a tiny barb at its end and is so loose that any other animal even touching porky gets one or more. Once in you, every move of the stabbed mu3de draws the quill deeper into your body. Dr. Merriam, naturalist, has found porcupine quills in nearly every North American meat-eating animal that he has dissected. A quill between the twin bones of a fisher’s leg was one of his discoveries. A Thought The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth.—Ps. 37:21. * * * The borrower runs in his own debt. —Emerson.