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DOGS AND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE PP| HE fact that dog tax cases are to be handled directly T through the prosecutor’s office this year is welcome news to the community. Heretofore, harrassed dog owners who have failed to pay their taxesr nd not a few who have paid their taxes, have been forced to submit to arrest by constables and frequently to appear before justices of the peace in communities far from those in which they live. It has not been unusual for a dog owner in Broad Ripple to be called before a justice of the peace in Irvington and then after considerable inconvenience and loss of time to show that he had paid his tax and that the constable or whoever was responsible for the arrest had made a mistake. It is to be hoped that with these cases handled directly from the prosecutor’s office only actual offenders will be arrested and that they then will be tried in their own communities. THE ISOLATIONIST’S FLIP-FLOP "UILL’S fair in love and war, they say. And that politics is A war in its most atrocious form, we’ll all admit. But pardon us while we laugh at the efforts of Ambassador Kellogg, George Harvey, Bascom Slemp and even I'resident. Coolidge himself, to steal the thunder of others. The settlement of Europe’s reparations problem through American aid, they say, is the biggest thing since the armistice. Which it is. But they go on to claim that it fully justifies the Administration ’s foreign policy. Which is piffle. _ The reparations settlement as a direct result of American participation is the most complete vindication possible of the anti-isolationists. And by the same token it most thoroughly discredits the Administration’s policy of “let-Europe-stew-in-her-own-juice,” which it hung on to for years. Until rain threatened the farmers and others of this country, the Administration leaders fought every form of the suggestion of our more far-sighted citizens that until Europe was given the disinterested aid of America she could never get back on her feet, and that we could best help ourselves by helping Europe. When events —and their own political interests —forced them to back-track, they followed the suggestion not by going to Europe by the front door but, as one high Administration official admitted, by crawling in through a knothole. Nevertheless the predicted happened—European peace resulted. Now listen to the chorus of self-praise! One would think these fellows were the original anti-isolationists, to see them pat one another on the back and listen to their cries of A..a boy 1”

THE RULER OF THE WORLD i-—-' NE of two great organizations will eventually control the Vj world. The two are the United States Government and the power trust of the United States. Whichever secures domination of the hydro-electric resources of this country will hold the world in the hollow of its hand. Engineers, hardheaded, practical men, admitted this at the world conference on power just held in London. All other nations are fast reaching their maximum production of coal, oil and hydro-electric power. In the United States alone is a vast undeveloped surplus of hydro-electric power. Other nations will be forced to buy this surplus for their own needs. United States power will determine economic mastery, peace, war. ( Who shall make these decisions of the future between poverty or well being, between life or death, for the peoples of the world? Shall we, through our Government, do it, or shall we leave it to the men in the power trust, who will choose, we know, whatever course will safeguard and increase their fortunes ? We must decide, and we must decide soon. DR. RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Leland Stanford University, pleads for “the masculine touch” in the public schools. Toe or palm? WHEN THESE modern girls begin to talk about escaping the tyranny of the home is just the moment they need it most. AN EASTERN professor says “there is a place for jazz,” but, being a stickler for unsullied diction, he refrained from naming it. THAT ENTHUSIASTIC father who named his new-born twins “Hell” and “Maria” certainly indicated his capacity for raising the former, at least. . THERE ARE a very large number of men in the country who are now entirely surrounded by politics and have no conscience to guide them. THE FISHERMAN who told Davis he would carry Maine must be brother to the golf player who told Coolidge he would carry West Virginia. WORD FROM Washington is to the effect that the President will conduct an educational campaign. Go to school with Coolidge. THE GOVERNOR of Maine has sent a fine collie to the State penitentiary to influence the prisoners for good. He insists the animal will be a pleased rather than a hot dog. A DETROIT autoist tried to excuse himself by insisting that he was trying to reach a service station before his gas gave out, but the court deliberately sent him to one for 60 days. FREDERICK WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN is said to be running a flour mill and realizing that the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they get there just the same.

RED STAR IS EASY TO FIND Fiery Red Antares Appears Near Southern Horizon. By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Tim^a T<™ ■“1 HE constellation of Scorpio, tho scorpion, will be found low on the southern horizon, below the constellation of Ophiuchus and Serpens, the serpent-bearer and serpent, which we have just been surveying. Scorpio suggests the figure of a scorpion more strongly than do any of the other consolations suggest the thing after which they are

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THE SKETCH SHOWS THE CONSTELLATION OF SCORPIO, THE SCORPION.

named, with the exception of the Great Dipper. You will have no difficulty finding the constellation because of its position close to the southern horizon and also because it contains the brilliant first magnitude star. Antares. Antares has a deep ruddy color. In hunting for this constellation, you must pick a station where buildings or trees do not interfere with your view of the southern horizon. Supposed to Be Heart The fiery red Antares is supposed to mark the heart of the scorpion and is sometimes called “Cor Scorpionis," which is Latin for the heart of the scorpion. Antares is a particularly beautiful sight in the telescope, for the telescope reveals it as a double star, a seventh magnitude companion of emerald green color contrasting beautifully with the ruddy color of the principal star. Antares is so far away* tUat It takes its light 112 years to reach the earth. Astronomers believe that the star gives out 900 times as much light as our sun. Two small stars cf the third magnitude, known to astronomers by the Greek letters Sigma and Tau, are situated one on each side of Antares. The head and claws of the scorpion are marked by a group of third and fourth magnitude stars. These include Jabbah, a fourth magnitude star, Grafflas, a third, and Dschubba, also a third magnitude star. Graffias is a pale white star. The derivation of its name is unknown. Refer to Position The other two names refer to the position of the stars. Jabbah means “crown of the forehead." Dschubba means “the front of the forehead." The telescope shows that Graffias is a double star and Jabbah a triple one. The tail of the scorpion Is formed by a number of third and fourth magnitude stars which sweep through the Milky Way in a “(J”shaped curve. Two stars, Shaula and Lesuth, mark the sting at the end of the up turned taiL The name, Shaula, means "the sting." Lesuth, though derived from a different root, also has the same meaning. They are both third magnitude stars. Shaula, however, is a little brighter than Lesuth. Two beautiful star clusters are situated just northeast of Shaula and Lesuth. They are faintly visible in a good pair of opera glsases. Next article: The myths of Scorpio. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz.) A Thought Bear yeone another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.—GaJ. 6:2. • * • Kindness Is the golden chain by which society is bound together.— Goethe. Wife’s Vacation "Is your wife enjoying her trip?" "No. she keeps worrying whether the canary bird will know her when she gets home.”—Kansas City Star.

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Piggies By HAL COCHRAN It’s fairytale stories that little folks like when it’s tinqe for the sandman to come. And folks like to tell ’em to most any tike, till the little one’s senses are numb. A child falls asleep to the tale of a bear, or a story of Little Boy Blue. ’Twill list to the story that hasn’t a scare, though it may be an old one, or new. A grown-up will sit by the side of the bed while tiny tot’s snuggled in tight. And goodness bu: knows what queer things may be said, as a story’s unfolded at night. It’s likely that most every mother an., dad have talked little people to sleep. The simplest of tales will make any child glad, and ’twill listen with nary a peep. Os stories that come when the sandman is near, it’s likely that every one knows that the one that the smallest of kids likes to hear, is the one about ten little toes. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK. Aug. 20.—A1l the “smart cracks" aren’t uttered byhumans. Parrots have gone In for the new and lighter lingo. A friend relates many of the interesting quips of his bird. When the bird is covered for the night, he invariably bawls out, “Good night, boys." "Do you like it?” is the question he asks as the family sits for meals —especially when there is company. Two children were playing on a fire eseai>e, overlooked from the parrot's cage. "Watch your step," was the admonition he shouted. If the door bell rings the bird cries, "Come in. Who is it?" He refuses to leave his cage on any pretext. The last time he was taken from the cage he was moved to Chicago. He didn’t like the western city and fears a repetition of the Journey. But every time his cage is placed under a shower bath, he flaps his wings and squawks "Atta boy!" When the bird's master leaves for the office each clay, the bird waxes sentimental—then humorous and defying, with “Good-bye—hate to see you leave—good-bye— haw-haw-haw." A patriarchal bird and dog dealer in Brooklyn has a parrot that has been his sole companion for many years. The bird, a rare species, is worth a fortune. But the man of dwindling wealth probably would starve before parting with "Bobby." Each night as the dealer walks about his shop petting his dogs a fond good night, (he parrot, mournfully and Jealously asks, "You love Bobby?” Indeed, the aged dealer does. * • • Alexander Dolowitz, nattily dressed but homeless, tried to break Into jail but failed. He took a long taxicab ride and then refused to pay on the grounds he had no money. The magistrate was powerless to sentence Dolowitz because the taxi driver refused to appear as a prosecuting witness when he found Dolowitz was anxious to be jailed. Spite work. • • • A warrant for the rearrest of Robert Allen, a prisoner in Sing Sing, had been filed. Allen asked officials who filed it. He found it was Justice Lewis Raisig in prison himself for embezzling fines. They wifi talk it over behind Sing Sing's wall this week. Family Fun Papa the Doctor “Pardon me. doctor, but last night your daughter accepted my proposal of marriage. I have called this morning to ask if there is any insanity in your family.” "There must be.” —Answers, London. Tommy’s Test “Well, Tommy, what do you think of your new bouncing brother?” ’ "Something’s the matter with him, pa. I dropped him as hard as I could on the floor, but he wouldn’t bounce.”

DEATH MAY AFFECT THE PRESIDENCY If Colt’s Successor Is Democrat, G, 0, P. Ranks Will Be Reducnd. By FRANK J. TAYLOR. Tr HE death of United States Senator L. B. Colt of Rhode uncertainty as to who will bo the next President of the United States. Colt was a Republican, one of the old guard. Rhode Island law says that the Governor must call an election to name a successor to fill the unexpired term. He cannot appoint a successor. Rhode Island now has a Democratic State administration. The State’s other United States Senator is a Democrat. Under the circumstances, the Democrats think they have more than a fifty-fifty chance to capture Colt’s seat. That is of more than passing importance in politics because the Senate may actually elect the next President of the United States. The lineup between the parties in the Senate is so close that a vote or two makes a great difference. Vice President Named The Senate can not name a President, but it does choose the Vice President, when at an election no candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes. Then, if the House deadlocks on President, as between three candidates, the Vice President named by the Senate automatically becomes President, on March 4, 1925. To make this puzzling constitutional question clear, take a hypothetical case. Suppose that at the election next November, La Follette ran first. Davis second, and Coolidge third, for the presidency, but not one of them secured a majority of the 531 electoral votes. When Congress meets this December, the House would try to choose from the three highest candidates a President to serve after March 4. when Coolldge's term ex pires. Congressmen would not vote as individuals, but each State would hava one vote dictated by the majority of its congressmen and a majority of the forty-eight States, or twenty-five would be required. States whose congressmen are equally divided between the two parties probably would not be able to vote at all. It is quite posable that the party ranks would remain tight, and no one of the three candidates would receive the vote of twenty-five States. Tn the meantime the United States Senate will have been trying to elect a Vice President. That choice will be easier, because the Constitution says the Senate must choose tho Vice President from the two candidates receiving the highest electoral (not popular) vote. Dawes, under the hypothetical case, if he ran as did Coolidge, will have been eliminated. Need Progressive Aid The Democrats could elect their candidate only with the aid df some progressive votes. They have bu. forty-three seats in the Senate now. The Republicans have lifty-one and the Farmer-Litbor party two. However, the Republicans lack a majority, because of their fifty-one. at least La Follette, Brookhart and Frazier, and very probably others, would refuse to vote with the Republicans. It takes a majority of tho ninetyeight Senators, or forty-nine, to name the Vice President.

If Cqlt’s successor is a Democrat, reducing the Republican strength to fifty, and if but three out of a list of Republicans including La Follette, Brookhart, Frazier, Ladd, Borah, Norris, Norbeck and Hiram Johnson, league up with the Democrat*? —reducing the actual Republican strength to 47, or less than a majority—the Democrats and the Progressives together coujd name the man who automatically would become President on March 4. If the House were still in deadlock over the President. On the other hand, if the Progressives and the Democrats could not agree on either Wheeler or Bryan, and the Republicans of the Senate stood pat, there would be no executive head at qll for the Government after March 4. The Constitution doesn't say just what would happen in that case. Tom Sims Says Mash from moonshine clogged the sewers in Cincinnati so the only tiling to do Is build larger sewers. When you see a stenographer reading, it Isn’t a spelling book. Bad news always looks worse coming than going. Some of these slow motion pictures should be made of movie stars marrying so we can see how they do it so fast.

No wonder everybody wants to be President of the United States. His pay is not income taxable. A small town is where the jail is full if they catch a burglar. Only ten out of every hundred flowers are scented, but the same is not frue of onions. Burmesb girls can't enter society | without ear plugs, and American girls can’t without spark plugs. It is so hot in Africa underwear is worn for an overcoat. Nature The long taproot of the common wild evening primrose is used as a table vegetable in Germany. The roots are used like parsnips and the crown leaves, blanched, for sajad. Plants pulled entire in mid-flowering time and carefully dried are medicinally valuable. The four broad, yellow petals of blossoms are rolled tightly until, at the failing of twilight, they swiftly unfold as if touched by fairy wand. Sweet odors pour forth and attract night moths which fertilize the flowers.

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Readers Discuss Klan Question Senator-Robert M. La Follette's Stand and School Problems Referred to in Letters From Correspondents.

NOTE —The Indianapolis Time* in glad to publish letters from readers discussing either aide of the Klan or any other pubic- Qiieetion But PLEASE write briefly. We do not like to print only parts of letters, for we believe readers should say their shy in their own way. However letters intended for publication MUST be limited to 200 words hereafter. Otherwise they win not be printed. .As to Public Schools !Tn the l (litnr of The Timet UR Nation does not need hooded fanatics to deal with boot- ,___) loggers and robbers. Why keep a police force if individuals also administer the laws? The Knights of Columbus are not a secret order. Their oath, vows and laws have been printed for the public to read. "Father’’ was a tribute paid to Washington because he freed us from monarchy—a title of affection. Neither Washington nor Lincoln would befriend the Klan. During Lincoln's time they were called j "Know-nothings.” No Catholic priest signs his name cither" but Reverend. The public refers to "our schools" when speaking of public schools. Truly they are our schools for we help people to educate their children who do not belong to our faith, by paying our taxes. Someone will say, "Well, why don’t Catholic children attend public schools?” Because we wish to teach them religion with the three R’r. How would you like the tax rate increased? We pay for our children’s education. In Canada and England every school is a free public school, but remember, taxes are divided between these schools, Jews and j Catholics receiving their share to maintain their schools. England knows what It means .for their children to lose their love for God. About School Taxes What if at the beginning of our school year In September we would demand admission to public schools for all private school pupils? The howl would be worse than a pack of coyotes, for already it takes more money to operate the public schools than all the rest of the city govern--1 ment. The Klan wants to eat their pie and have it too. Down in New Orleans, the hotbed of the Klan, the city government wanted volunteers to attend lepers at their swamp colony. Did Klan women go? No! But twenty-five nuns from one convent offered their services and are today taking care of tho lepers. We are a strange people worrying about our neighbors’ business. Catholics are not fighting against American ideals. They are fighting for them. Hundred percenters are not those who are loyal to the changes made in American ideas by demagogues, but those w T bo are loyal j to the original Ideals of the fathers of the Republic. In short, this is my well-meant counsel —let the law be the power i in emergencies. Stop trying to impose your theories of Americanism on your fellow citizens, and instead ; put into practice the true Americanism of the fathers of our Nation. MRS. W. A. COLLINS.

Approves I,a Foijette Stand To the Editor of The Times 1- . 1 OTING quite a lot of comments \ on La Follette’s repudiation of the Ivlan, I rise to remark that this is the first commendable utterance that I have heard fall from La Follette’s lips in twenty years. Ho is not going to lose any votes on account of the most righteous scoring he gave them either, for there were no Ivlan votes headed his way anyhow. The Ivlan, especially in this State, has troubles al' its own. It swallowed the Republican party bodily in the May primary and is having a hard time in retaining the load on its stomach. Thousands of Republicans refused to stay swallowed. They have extricated themselves from the wreckage, and while standing for Coolidge and Dawes to a man, they are certainly going to hit the State ticket in the face with an ax. Not for I<a Follette Now I am, and have been for twenty-three years, in close daily contact with artisans and laborers in all lines connected with the building tradps, and do not know of a

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! single voter who Is going to support ILa Follette. These men, even the | colored hod carriers, cement workers, and trench diggers drive to their ■ work in their own automobiles. : These same automobiles are used on | Sunday in taking their families on : a more or less extended outing. They ■ are part and parcel of the "masses” that La Follette says are being | crushed to earth by Wall Street and ! the special interests. Now if outward manifestations are any criterion. I can testify that these workers are happy as larks, unafraid and actually hoping that Wall St. and the special interests will “crush ’em” some more. Think you these men will hearken to any demagogue who preaches class hatred? Not on your life! By every test they are 100 per cent loyal to this, The Hand of Opportunity. They are about equally divided politically between Republican and Democratic parties, with now and then a nondescript that “does his bit” on election day by staying away from the polls. Any one knowing the working man, as he is, knows the above statements are absolutely true In every respect. E. P. McCASLIN. Discusses .Alien Letter To the Editor of The Times: At S an interested reader of the Klan and anti-Klan debate, I i. would like to add my views. First. I thank The Times for letting all know where La Follette Ask Ihe Times You can get an answer to any question ol fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. P. C . inclosing 2 cents in stamps 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 answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Can linseed oil be made to dry like ordinary varnish? Boiled linseed oil should dry within twenty hours. The film is softer than ordinary varnish and, i while it will get harder with age, it - will not become as hard as varnish \ under similar conditions of exposure. How many persons were killed and injured in locomotive boiler explosions last year? There were forty-two accidents of this kind last year in which fortytwo persons were killed and fifty-six injured.

A reader of this column asks for a list of girls’ preparatory schools. A mimeographed bulletin listing such schools will be forwarded to any reader interested on request to our Washington Bureau, enclosing a '2-eent postage stamp for reply.

What and where is the Bowery, and how did it get this name? \ This term is applied to a broad avenue in New York parallel with Broadway, extending from Chatham Square to the junction of Third and Fourth Avenues, at Cooper Union. Its original name, the Botiwerie, was derived from the estates of the Governor, Peter Stuyvesant, whose farms and orchards, embracing the region lying about the upper part, were called the Great Bouwgyie. Does the word fowl apply to all birds or only to poultry? The term applies to all birds In general, but is usually employed to designate gallinaceous birds, or poultry. Who played the part of the wealthy Hindu in Pola Negri’s “The Cheat”? JJharles De Roche. What trees bloom or bud earliest in the spring? Red and Norway maple, magnolia, cherry and peach. How many red corpuscles are there in the blood? About twenty-five trillion.

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stands on the Klan issue. Leave it ! to Tb> Times for fairness to the people. Do s Ray Allen not know that ther will be Just as many votes j ! thrown to La Follette on this ac-i j count as will be taken from him.' | Other people vote besides Klansmen,} | you know. Mr. Allen says the Klan ; is a menace to the bootleggers, robi bers, etc. Yes, providing those offenders are not Klansmen. The Klan ; bootleggers are not troubled by any ' investigating committee. 1 People join the Klan for different ; reasons. Some join for the Influence I and protection they get from it, politically and otherwise. Then there is the bigot who naturally hates a Catholic and is willing to pay flO to learn how to hate more. Some are taken in Ignorantly, not} quite understanding what it is all! about. Many of this last type with-1 draw membership when they learn a 1 little more about it. Not Like Klan Mr. Black in Saturday's Times ! says the Knights of Columbus Is an order like the Klan. God forbid. Tho K. of C. is a Catholic order the same as the Masons, Odd Fellows, etc. are Protestant orders, and unlike Klansmen, we are not ashamed of our membership in these orders. Members of those orders gladly acknowl- j edge their membership to any one! and do not wear masks to hide their; identity. I would like to have some Klansmen tell us just why they oppose the Catholic, Jew, Negro, and foreign born. So far, I have not found any one who would answer that question for me. If there had been a Klan to keep our foreign born forefathers out of this country, we would not be American-born. Why not give others the same chance we had? God created the negro the same as the white man and Christ himself was a Jew, so where is our right to denounce them? Mr. Black says the Klan is not fighting the Catholic. Why do they oppose our schools? They do not cast one penny to any one except Protestants. We educate our own children without any cost to any one but ourselves and help keep up their publio school besides. After all, they are really our children and I think we should have a voice in the kind of education they get.

Teaching Religion Certainly the Protestant children should be taught the Bible the same as our Catholic chuldren, but as I attended a public school I must agree with Mr. Black that I never heard the Bible read there. Os course, teaching religion in the public schools would have its difficulties, as so many different denominations attend, each understanding the Bible in a different way. The Klan says Catholics are unAmerican because they place God | above all things. Catholics are taught to love God first and then our country, but Ivlansmen object to this. Imagine that for a Christian organization! Who were our 100 per cent Americans in the World War? Were .there not as many Catholics at the front as any other denomination? The negroes and Jews were also there and many a foreign-bom boy gave his life for this country. The Catholic Church always was and always will be persecuted, and yet she thrives on it. When Christ founded the Catholic Church he said, “The servant is not greater than the Master. As they persecute me so they will persecute you." He also promised to be with us until the end of time. So you see we who believe in Christ's promises have nothing to fear from the Klan. The Catholio Church existed for sixteen hundred and fifty years before there was any other church and will continue to exist long after the Ku-Klux Ivlan has faded to nothingness. "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.” I am a 100 per cent American Catholic who believes in God’s command, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” MRS. AIMES.