Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY TV. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAI'BORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, the NBA Service and the Scripps-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 Wk. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 3500. BONDING LIMITS =”|HE city of Indianapolis, with the assistance of the Legisla--1 tnre, has attempted to get around the provision of the Contitution which limits bonded indebtedness to 2 per cent of usessed valuation of property by creating a number of bonding nits, each with a 2 per cent limit. Now the question arises as to whether the State and the ity really have succeeded in getting around the obvious intent f the Constitution. Some bond dealers are questioning the ontention that the park and sanitary departments really contitute separate units. The result probably will be that the Legislature will be sked to do something dbout it. Both the Legislature and the ity should go slow in doing anything that might increase borowing power. Cities as well as individuals should live within heir means. LA FOLLETTE (As T. R. and W. W. Saw Him) ■q-lENATOR La Follette’s lone and long tight against special interests and invisible government in his State, culminatng in the freeing of Wisconsin from those selfish influences, has lways attracted the admiration of friend and foe alike, regardess of political beliefs. It is interesting to read, now that La Follette is a candidate or the presidency, what two great Presidents thought of 'Fighting Bob” in the days when they were in the White House ind he was in the Senate championing the cause of the people. Theodore Roosevelt said publicly of La Follette: ‘‘Thanks o the movement for genuinely democratic government which Senator La Follette led to overwhelming victory in Wisconsin, hat State has become literally a laboratory for wise experimental legislation, aiming to secure the social and political betternent of the people as a whole.” Woodrow Wilson said of La Follette: “I have sometimes thought of Senator La Follette climbing the mountain of priviege—taunted, laughed at, called back, going steadily on and not illowing himself to be deflected for a single moment for fear he hould also hearken and lose all his power t oserve the great inerests to which he had devoted himself. I love these lonely figires climbing this ugly mountain of privilege. ’’ Today La Follette’s political enemies, in both parties, are trying to brand him as a radical, as an unpractical theorist, trying to scare the people from voting for him. Roosevelt, the Republican, admired him for being so practical in the establishment of “genuinely democratic government. ’’ Wilson, the Democrat, loved him because he was practical enough single handed to curb the selfish special interests. JIGGLING STATE FUNDS “priNE of the most important declarations in the platform vy of Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic nominee for governor, is that in jvhich he insists that the various special funds of the Statn are trust funds and that the “borrowing and juggling back and forth of these funds is a moral crime and ihould be forbidden. ’ ’ x This is one of the most important declarations in McCulloch’s platform. Perhaps the most outstanding mistake of the McCray administration was the enactment of a law, at McCray’s insistance, permitting the auditor of State to borrow from one fund for another. This has been going on since the enactment of the law and it has caused such confusion that a special act of the Leeislature may be necessary to restore the various funds involved. The first act of the 1925 Legislature should forbid the transfer of money from one fund to another. Sufficient money should be put in each fund to provide for the appropriations to come out of that fund. This can be done by fixing the tax rate sufficiently high to take care of appropriations. Nothing is gained by appropriating money and then fixing a tax rate too low to raise sufficient to cover tbe appropriation. Such practice merely leads to borrowing and juggling. Yet this has been done time and again, largely, it seems, to enable the administration in power to “point with pride” to a low tax rate.

THE STATE FAIR mN about two weeks Indiana is scheduled to learn all about itself again. The “school” will be the State fair. There are signs that the fair will be “bigger and better than ever.” New buildings are being completed at the fairground to give exhibitors unexcelled facilities. The number of exhibitors will be greater than last year. Virtually every activity in the State will be represented. The management of the fair predicts that the crowds will be record-breaking, if the weather does not interfere. The fair will be a good opportunity for the people of Indiana to “get next to themselves” and to the State in which they live. SOME 42 PER CENT of the telephone equipment in South America is in the Argentine, so the Brazilian rebellion must have started for some other reason. THE NEW million-dollar “corn king” advises everyone to stay away from the grain pit, which shows he is a good sport. He warns ’em before he skins ’em. * AS BETWEEN Clem Shaver and Bascom Slemp, it ought to be easy to start one of those old-fashioned Southern feuds that Opie Read tells about. THE GOVERNMENT down there insists the Brazilian revolution was started by a bunch of crazy men—Brazil nuts, as it were. THE ELOPEMENT and marriage of an undertaker and a deputy coroner, in California, again reminds us that business is business. THOSE AMERICAN communists must remember, when they speak of the right and left wings of their party, that they have nothing on the American eagle. * NEW YORK fines its speeders a dollar a mile. “Go slow or go broke” is the slogan.

HERCULES CARRIED TO THE SKIES Old Story Says Jupiter Rescued Giant and Took Him to Heaven, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times HE constellation Hercules, to be found almost directly overhead in the early evening during the summer months, tells the story of the Greek hero who was famed for his strength. Hercules w r as the national hero of ancient Greece. He was the son of Wlcmene, a princess and Jupiter, the chief of the gods. Juno, the chief goddess and wife of Jupiter, sent two serpents to strangle the infant Hercules as he lay in his cradle. But even at this

THE CENTAUR TRIED TO KIDNA P DEJAMORA. BUT HERCULES KILLED HIM WITH AN ARROW THROUGH THE HEART

early age Hercules possessed his great strength, for the myths say that he seized the two serpents and strangled them instead. In his youth he performed many feats of strength, but Juno, who still hated him, drove him insane. In his madness, he killed his own children. Minerva, the goddess of reason, knocked him over with a great stone. He fell into a deep sleep and when he awoke his senses had returned. Twelve Commands But Juno still hated him. So she decreed that because of his murders he must carry out the commands of his cousin Eurystheus. She hoped he would give Hercules commands which would lead to his destruction. Eurystheus sent him on twelve dangerous missions, since called the • Twelve Labors of Hercules.” One was to kill a lion, which he did with his bare hands. Another was to slay Hydra, the nine-headed water serpent. His next three ventures were the capture of a bear, a stag and the man-eating birds of Stymphalus. The sixth labor was to clean the Augean stables. This he did by changing the course of a river and sending the water through tho stables. ’ * Hercules was commanded to perform six more labors of a similar nature and he was successful In all of them. He married a maiden named Dejamora and the two lived together happily for three years. Centaur Is Shot Then one day when they were on a journey, Hercules engaged a centaur —an animal with the head and shoulders of a man, but the body of a horse—to carry Dejamora across a river. The centaur attempted to kidnep her and Hercules shot him with an arrow through the heart. The centaur told her to save some of his heart’s blood, place it on the shirt of Hercules, and that she would then have his love forever. She did so, but the blood of the centaur was a poison, Hercules, realizing tht he was dying, climbed to the top of Mt. Oeta and built himself a funeral pyre. But as the flames were ascending about him, Jupiter descended from Mt. Olympus, seized Hercules and carried him to the sky where he became one of the immortals. Next article: The constellation of the* Serpent-Bearer and the Serpent. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz.)

Science Until very recent times, as history goes, it was generally believed that the earth was a flat disc surrounded by water and that anyone foolish enough to sail to the edge would “fall off." Not only that but it was believed that the earth was the center of the universe. After those beliefs were dispelled and man took to the idea of the earth being a sphere revolving around the sun, he then believed that the sun was the center of the universe. Not until the last few years has that belief been overturned. It is still the popular belief among most persons who went to school some years ago. Man always has tried to make himself the center of the universe. When he had to give up the idea of his earth being in that exalted position, he chose his sun for it. He had some scientific evidence for this, as well as his desire to put his world in a central position; that was the fact that the sun is the center of the solar system. But it is not the center of the known universe by any means. Not only that but there are many suns in the Milky Way ten thousands times brighter than the earth’s sun.

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Results By HAL COCHRAN Mom planted a garden, a dear little garden when warm weather first made its call. She worked day and night just to plant the seeds right, and it wasn’t neglected at all. Dad thought it quite funny where went the spare money that mother oft kept in a cup. For seeds she was spending. Her prayer, never ending, that something, at least, would come up. She’d sprinkle and hoe just to help the things grow and she kept it a secret from dad. He’d get a surprise and he’d open his eyes when he saw all the things that she had. At last came a peeping, through lumpy soil creeping, a long slender stem growth of green. And then came another. ‘‘Ah, ha,” shouted mother, “that must be a radish—or bean.” Then summer roljed ’long and the garden went wrong, as a fine total loss were the seeds. The garden was green but ’twas plain to be seen that the best thing that grew there was weeds. ( (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNEGAN NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—A1l the professional dancing girls on Broadway are not on the stage. Hostesses in public dance halls make more money than girls of the chorus and dancing damsels with minor parts in musical shows. Lonesome rpen from out of town are the most persistent patrons of these dance halls with dimmed lights, two orchestras and a soda fountain. They pay 35 cents to dance three times with a hostess. The house retains a dime and gives the rest to its regularly employed hostesses. - One girl, attractive and an exceptionally supple ballroom dancer, is a dressmaker by day. At night she is the dancing escort of many men. She is the sole support of her mother and father, who is a paralytfe. Her income averages SIOO a week. Many of the waxed-floor performers, stenographers, telephone operators and department store clerks by day, drive to the dance halls in their own automobiles. They have one night off a week. There are male instructors, too. They are tall young men, w r ith g'-eased hair, nimble feet, and clothes cut so extreme they are amusing. Dancing with unescorted ladies is their nightly duty. Ore woman, age estimated between 55 and 00, comes twice each week. she buys twenty dance tickets, requests the same instructor for the entire evening. Each night she tips him $lO. A man and his wife, well along in years, are regular patrons. The wife dances with a male instructor, the husband with a hostess. They never dance with each other. They appear as happy as newlyweds. Another man, 74 years old, visits the dance hajl with hig two song. He spends more time on the waxed boards than either of his offspring. A lawyer from "Wall Street dances two evenings a week ‘‘for exercise.” The head of the hostesses in one of the halls is a pretty woman with dark eyes and prematurely gray hair. She is a grandmother.

Family Fun Another Difficulty Liza took little Rastus to the dentist. ' The little fellow took one glance at him and ran. “Mitah Dentist, if you want to pull Rastus’ tooth you'll have to take off that white robe.’’ “Why?'’ answered the dentist in surprise. “He thinks you’re a IClu Klux.”— Arizona Who Doo. The Lucyy Baby Pive-year-old Arthur, on being taken to see his new baby brother, gazed at him a moment and then said: “Gee, but you're a lucky kid! You won’t have to wash your own ears for years and years.*’—Boston Transcript. How to Get Hubby “While Umson was standing on a corner this afternoon his wife came up and winked at him." “Yes, she says that is the only way she can attract his attention.” —Youngstown Telegram. Wife’s Opinion “And there at my feet yawned a mighty chasm.” “Well, I don’t blame it”—Judge. One by Nurse “Nurse, did you kill all of the germs In the baby’s milk?” “Yes, sir; I run it through the meat chopper twice.” —Film Fun. A Thought The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. —Prov. 22:7. • • • Debt is a bottomless sea.—Carlyle.

RADIO IS CROWDED IN SOME SPOTS Many Stations Operate at Same Time in Number of Cities, By ISRAEL KLEIN NEA Service Radio Editor ADIO broadcasters are speeding to their own destruction. Already some are falling by the wayside. Yet new adventurers are coming in only to find the road so clogged up with competitors as to make progress extremely difficult. Difficult as the going is for broadcasters, this competitive rush for popularity and self-advertisement is making the air less agreeable for radio fans. The listeners are in the Situation of a pedestrian unable to cross a congested street. Look over the radio map of the nited States and * Canada, and see what is meant. Out of New York City, eleven stations may have the air at the same time if they wish. Os course, they haven’t the same wavelength, but what can a poor local fan do when the power of several of these eleven stations is so gret as to make reception of their own programs practically compulsory? Besides contending with the eleven broadcasters within the city, the New Yorker has hardship in tuning out four more equally as powerful in Newark, N. J., not far away. Same Elsewhere The same condition exists throughout the rest of the country. Thirteen stations in and about Chicago, ten around Los Angeles, eight in the vicinity of San Francisco, seven in Washington, nne in New Orleans, eight each in Omaha and St. Louis and five each in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. Seattle has nine broadcaters, Toronto seven, Vancouver five, Calga r y five, Montreal four, and so on through the rest of the continent. The situation has become so that a city fan is at a disadvantage in radio reception. If one local station isn’t on the air, another is and its power and broadness are such that he is forced to listen to that station or abandon his set. Even among the best of receivers there is difficulty in tuning out local broadcasters. Fortunately, there is generally an understanding among stations that broadcast from the same locality, affording each a definite time in which to transmit its programs unmolested. That would be fine if the programs are the kind the radio fans preferred. Programs Protested But a general protest is making itself hoard against the monotony of musical programs to the exclusion of spoken numbers. Calls are being made for interesting and educational lectures, while broadcasters still insist on putting any kind of music on the air. At the same time a prerogative promised fans by radio was that of freedom of choice among broadcasters. for whatever kind of entertainment the fan happened to like. But if -a local station, with power of 1,000 or even more watts, is on the air with a jazz concert, how can the fan who seeks operatic music, for instance, overcome the local broadcaster’s power, even if he has a good long-distance set?

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MAP SHOWING CITIES IN WHICH SEVERAL BROADCASTERS COMPETE FOR AIR FROM THE SAME PLACE. THE FIGURES TELL THE NUMBER OF BROADCASTERS IN EACH LOCALITY.

Tom Sims Says A group of Swiss Alpinists are planning to climb Mt. Everest and perhaps find a filling station on top. Senator Edge says Coolidge will get New Jersey, but all we can say is Cal has the Edge on them. Imagine the surprise of a presidential nominee w r hen he is officially notified of it several weeks later! Newfoundland premier has moved to end prohibition there where it is getting hot enough to make her taste good. Polygamy has been forbiddfen in Turkey, except in unusual cases, which, perhaps, means when a man sees anew dizzy blonde. A chorus girl was discharged from a New York show because of notoriety, so shine your shoes for the millennium. A man -wanted for counterfeiting in St. Louis has been arrested in Honduras, w r hich was making money go a long ways. Five robbers got $5,000 at noon from a Tuscola, 111., bank, but SI,OOO each is poor pay for running in the hot sun. A San Francisco woman killed a deer with a bow and arrow, no doubt much to the surprise of the woman and the deer.

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BY RADIO SHALL YOU KNOW THEM Davis Has Advantage Over Other Candidates in Broadcasting, By FRANK J. TAYLOR OLKS are going to know presiL dential candidates this year x . as never before. By their voices, over the radio, candidates will become judged. Radio is developing into the Great I nknown of the 1924 campaign. Ten million receiving sets are doing service already, the Federal radio inspector estimates, each set capable of accommodating several people. When John W. Davis made his acceptance speech at” Clarksburg, W. Va., he was heard by perhaps ten thousand drenched fellow citizens, but possibly by ten million who sat comfortably in their homes, from the Atlantic to the Rockies. A telephone circuit connected his microphone with broadcasting stations in a dozen strategic cities. In this campaign the candidate

with the "radio voice,” as radio people call it, has the advantage. It Is curious the -way voices work over the radio. In different sections of the country radio fans come to have an intimate, close feeling for certain speakers and entertainers because of their attractive voices. Over the radio. Candidate Davis has the advantage over his rivals in the presidential race. Davis is a clear, distinct talker. His voice is deep, resonant and clear. It is a voice that folks like. It is a friendly, hearty voice. It carries with it a magnetism that may mean many votes to the Democrats before the campaign is over. Seriously at a disadvantage is President Coolidge. The President’s voice is flat and indistinct. It doesn’t make you want to know the man who works it. It sounds too much like a tired tin pan. The President seems to sense this. He dislikes the radio heartily. A number of his speeches have been broadcast. He has had much more experience at broadcasting than his rivals, either Davis or La Follette. In the Senate,, Robert M. La Follette is one of the most effective of speakers. He is forceful and dramatic. He is perhaps the greatest actor in the Senate. This turns out to be his handicap when he is speaking over the radio. He must unlearn his technique of public speaking, and learn to read his addresses straight Into the microphone, if radio fans are to enjoy his speeches.

Ask The Times You can ret an answer to any question of tact or information by writin? to the Indianapolis Times Washing-ton Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in alamps for 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 answer'd. Ail letters are confidential. —Editor. Why is the ailanthus tree so popular as a street tree in some of the large cities? Because it stands smoke better than many trees, is not attacked by insects and has handsome foliage. How do wolves drink water? They lap it as dogs do. "What is a good name for a white poodle dog—female? Fill, Mimi, Fluffy Ruffles, Floss, Joss, Bess, Nellie or Tess. Which is the most poisonous spider? The Latrodectus species, found chiefly in tropical climates, but several of thtT’fepecies are found in the southwestern part of the United States. What is the fastest running dog? The whippet. How many eggs will a pigeon lay before she will set? A hen pigeon usually lays two eggs in three days before she starts to sit. If more than two eggs axe

laid it is advisable to remove the extra one, as a pair of pigeons can raise only two good squabs at one time. How far ( es the atmosphere of the earth extend? It is believed to extend, in a highly rarified state, to a distance of about 200 miles from the earth's surface. How high in the air do hurricans reach? From three to six miles. What is the meaning of the name Truitt? Truitt is probably a derivation from the word “Trudje,” a term common in the Netherlands, which means "spear maid.” Are there any statues of Americans in "Westminster Abbey? There is a bust of Longfellow and a tablet to LoweJl in "Westminster Abbey. What is the meaning of the term “cover” in finances? The term “cover” in finances is an amount of money or stocks used as security for an advance. The term is often used in the same sense as margin. Who discovered the South Pole? The South Pole was discovered by Raold Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, Dec. 14, 1911.

SATURDAY, AUG. 16, 1924

‘TWO SIDES TO KU-KLUX ARGUMENT Reader Gives His Views in Controversy Over Klan. To the Editor of The Times: m NOTICED arguments against the Klan. They are right that there are two sides to cue question. I am not a Klansman, nor do I hope to be, but why not have real facts that can be investigated and proved, before giving definite views. The Protestant and Catholic religions are the most common beliefs in the United States. There is a law in the public schools to read a verse from the Bible every niorning, but this mysteriously disappeared until the last year, when the Klan spoke about it. The Klan has been investigated, and its standard does not say to mob negroes. Y'ou say that it does, anyway, but there is no proof that it does. I believe in going against something only when I have facts. You say, why do they wear masks? If they did not, they would be recognized by robbers and bootleggers, and then they could not capture law violators. But yet they might use this mask for other purposes. AntiKlansmen could use these robes and do deeds of violence thereby degrading the Klan.

Good in Some Ways I think the Klan has brought out good ideals in some ways. You ask why they only initiate Protestants and American-born. They might think Americanism is deeper for these only. If the Ku-Klux Klan was the vile organization that some people paint it, why should they care who joined it? Are Protestants worse than other religions? Think of the Knights of Columbus. Do they have negroes, Jews and Protestants in it. No! They do not, but they do' not wear masks. Do we know the inner workings of it? Do we know its bylaws? No. It is another secret organization the same as the Klan. Doesn’t Fight Catholics The Klan does not fight the Catholics. I do not know of one instance where the Klan fought a Catholic because of religion. We worship the same God, so -why should we fight each other. One thing I do not like about the Klan—the children in high schools take the wrong impressions from it. They call Catholics “crossbacks,” and say they are the K. K. K.’s. The Klan does not teach this, but the children take sides and argue against each other. This cannot go on. The Klan from my standpoint is all right, but I am not backing it because of a few small things like the fact just mentioned. Shall we call a priest “Father?” Remember this little prayer: “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, etc.” This is all that Is needed to show what I mean. J. W. BLACK Tongue Tips Thomas R. Marshall, Indiana: “I have read all the platforms adopted this year and found one principle underlying each—the principle of getting into office or staying in.” H. P. FARIS, prohibition candidate for President, Clinton, Mo.: “Our party is the party of the times. It is the party of progress—the real progressive party. There is no reason why we should not win.” Prof. H. D. Mensing, F“t. Wayne, Ind.: “A Christian will serve his country faithfully. He will go quietly about his calling and consecrate his life and labor to the welfare of his country.” Tyrus Cobb, star baseballist: “Os course, I had a lot of natural speed to help me in the game, but the main thing is that I put everything I had into the play.”