Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1924 — Page 4

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WHAT IS HIS OBJECTION? majority of the Marion County building trades unions 1 have proved their sincerity in standing for peaceful settlement of union difficulties by their resolution on vandalism at the new Elks Building, adopted at their meeting Thursday. They have made it clear that they do not countenance violence. It may be considered significant that the only man who failed to approve the resolution was John J. McNamara, with whose activities in the past the public of Indianapolis is well acquainted. C. D. Sperlin, agent for the sheet metal workers, did not sign it because he did not have the authority. His union later adopted a similar resolution. How any one could oppose a resolution of this kind is hard to understand. The resolution merely re-affirmed respect for law and order and for peaceable agreement in cases of dispute, a policy to which all union labor is pledged. The resolution said in referring to members of labor unions: “They believe in law and order and are for its enforcement without prejudice by the constituted authorities. They demand that the lawbreaker be sought and punished regardless of his station in life, his affiliation and his influence. They likewise demand that the innocent be protected from any acts of lawlessness and from any suspicion of committing the same. This is the gist of the resolution. There is nothing in it to which any citizen should not subscribe. And yet John J. McNamara refused to sign the resolution. Why? A SEAT FOR EVERY SCHOOL CHILD EFT ERF, are 8,000 more children of school age in Indianapolis than there are seats in grade school and high school buildings. Yet another effort is being made to curtail building construction this year. Some individuals outside the school board are proposing that building be delayed until next year or that buildings be constructed in units. Next year the school population will be bigger than it is this year, and if construction work is limited, the excess of pupils over seats in school buildings will be greater. Indianapolis, like many other cities, during the war did not keep up with the growth in school population. Now the city must catch up with that growth. Once it catches up, the erection of buildings can be cut to meet only the annual increase in population. Then will be the time to reduce the budget, for new buildings, not now. The community owes every child a grade school and a high school education. This is one of the fundamentals of American institutions. Not only does the community owe them an education, but they have a right to expect that facilities be adequate and surroundings comfortable. Tax money cannot be better spent at this time than in the erection of school buildings.

XOT BRASS TACKS—.JUST BRASS / ITH his opening sentence Charles G. Dawes has ruled himW self off the track. “This,” he thundered in a voice that made the microphone rattle, “is to be a campaign of brass tacks—not bombast!’’ If his initial utterances can be taken as a true preface of what he is to say in the future, then his, at least, is to be a campaign not of brass tacks but of brass. Owing his very nomination to the work in Europe of the American committee of experts. Dawes consistently refuses all mention of the name of Owen D. Young, the real maker of the go-called Dawes plan. By his silence he takes to himself credit due another Which is not only brass, but moral dishonesty. On the same plane are his claims on foreign policy. Back in 1916, President Wilson saw world leadership coming our way and made plans to accept it. At the close of the war this leadership was ours by universal admission. Nations great and small hung upon our every word and followed our every gesture. Then came the wreck, in 1920, craftily engineered by Henry Cabot Lodge and others of his party who made up their minds that rather than enhance the prestige of a political opponent by accepting world leadership won under his Administration, the last vestige of it should be destroyed, come what may. Deliberately then, upon the ruins of our world leadership bought with the blood of our troops, Lodge, Pepper, McCormick, Brandegee, Moses, Hiram Johnson and the rest, built up a wall of isolation about this country and upon its every turret planted a G. 0. P. banner with the device: “Let Europe stew in her own juice.” Now Dawes asks this amusing question, and answers it just as amusingly: “To morally rot in a policy of national isolation rather than to cleanly contest in those mental battlefields in which questions must be solved for the advancement of civilization both here and abroad—is that the temper of the American people*/ I think not 1” Brass. Brass and bombast. Woodrow Wilson’s stuff boomed out as his own. We give him credit, however, for answering the question right. Such is certainly not the temper of the American people now, nor was it ever that—not even when the Lodges and the Peppers, the Morses and the McCormicks were doing their sinister utmost to make us think it was. Discredited first by the great American people, those former great luminaries of the G. 0. P. now receive a kick full in the face from the boot of their own candidate for the vice presidency. So have the mighty fallen. Spurning Lodge, one-time G. 0. P. leader and actual chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; disowning the once honored Republican doctrine of isolation; tearing down party standards which have fluttered over bulwarks of stubbornness for the past four years, Dawes now breezily enters some of his political opponent’s choicest positions and heralds them as his own all along. For sheer brass and bombast commend us to “Hell and Maria.” He’s there! THREE KANSAS cyclones restored the lost speech of an lowa woman, again showing the impossibility of remaining quiet amid Kansas weather.

OBSERVE THE SKIES TONIGHT Here Is Information on How to Discover Constellations, By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. *XT ri E have now described a majority of the constellations ___J visible in the summer sky. Before geing on to the others, let us review these briefly. Go outdoors tonight and see if you can find easily all the constellations taken up so far. First ctf all, there is the circumpolar group, which I am sure you know perfectly by now—l he Great

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THIS CHART SHOWS THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE CON STELLATIONS DISCUSSED SO FAR. THE CIRCUMPOLAR CON STELATIONS ARE ENCLOSED IN A CIRCLE.

and Little Bears. Cepheus, Cassiopeia and the winding dragon. Draco. Near the circumpolar constellations we find Lyra, the harp or lyre, supposed to represent the harp which Orpheus played. It Is jl st a little southwest of the head of Draco. You will remember that it is easily identified by the brilliant blue-white first magnitude star. Vega. Next, there is the constellation cf Cygnus, the flying swan. This lies south of Cepheus and east of Lyra. The foundation of the constellation is a group of stars sometimes railed the northern cross. The first magnitude star, Deneb, brilliant white in color, marks the top of the upright of the cross. Cyjmus Is a Swan Cygnus, according to the legpnd, is the swan. Into which Jupiter changed himself when he wooed the beautiful Led a. South of Cygnus Is the constellation of Aquita, the flying eagle. This is the eagle of Jupiter, you will recall, who carried the boy, Gannytnede, to Mt. Olympus, where he became mighty Jupiter's cupbearer. Aquila contains the first magnitude star, Altair. East of Aquila Is the constellation of Delphinus. the obliging dolphin who saved the life of the musician. Arlon. This is the constellation, you will recall, which is frequently called "Job's coffin.” Now look directly overhead. There is the great constellation of Hercules. The mighty hero, as imagined by the ancients, is looking toward the south and has his foot planted upon the head of Draco. Sorpemt In South Next face toward the south. Just south of Hercules you will see the constelaltion of Ophinuchus and Serpens, the serpent bearer and the serpent. The serpent hearer, according to one legend, was the famous physician Aesculapius, who not only cured people but also brought the dead back to life. Lastly, low on the southern horizon is the constellation of Scorpio, the scorpion, with the ruddy first, magnitude star Antares to mark his heart. Be sure you can locate all these constellations. If you can you have made an acquaintance with one of the most wonderful books In the world, the open book of the night sky. Only a few more constellations of the summer sky remain to be discussed. Next article: The constellation Saggitarlus, the archer. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz.) A Thought Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings. —Prov. 22:29. * • • • The master looks sharpest to his own business. —Phaedrus. •

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Sonny's Idol By HAL COCHRAN The mind of a boy keeps a turning around while he’s living the days of his youth. He’s learr. ng the right from the wrong, ’twill l e found, and he’s picking deception from truth. There much is ado in his fast-grow-ing head, 'cause creation has made it that way. He’s getting his pointers from what's done and said, and a lot of them enter to stay. As gray matter grows and the youngster fills out he will find he’s a mind of his own. If training Is proper there isn't a doubt, he’ll be anxious to go it alone. All boys pick an idol rthey worship It much. From youthdom to age it will be the one thing that contains the real touch —“Ah, there's an example for me.” Quite lucky the father who's lived so that he his son’s best ambition inspires. And any son's father, by trying, can be the idol his youngster admires. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK. Aug. 22—An oldfashioned beer saloon. On the fringe of the heart of New York. Swinging doors. Seidels. Sawdust on the floor. Tables and chairs of black walnut. Real anticnies, worn with the wiping of bar towels. A German waiter with flowing mustache. Ponderous bartender, with Jelling jowela. Don't know’ how real the beer is, but It’s good. Conversation in i every drop. Lunch for 20 cents. Ham. heans. potatoes fried in butter, bread. The | menu is written in soap on the mir- ; ror. Butter is a nickel extra. Pie is 10 cents. Soup is five. Food as ! tasty as I ever have eaten. Ladies entrance. Through a hall and Into n back room separated from the bar proper with half doors. Quiet. Modulated buzzing of conversation. A lady of refinement with a Beau Brummel escort. He wears a flower In his coat Jape!. She is gowned In modish raiment. Fifth Ave. type. Another couple. The girl decked in Broadway tawdriness. The man wears a cap and flashy cravat.. The first couple drinks from seidels. the second from tall, thin glasses. A lark for one, serious entertainment for the other couple. In the bar-room. Brass rail. HeaJ- ' ’hy laughter. Discussions of politics and murders Business men at eli bows with laborers. Each airing his 'views. A painter with white overjails. w’hite Jumper and whito cap. | Black shoes spotted with all colors of paint. A merchant beside him. Democracy. No hard liquor is sold. There is never any commotion. It looks like a moving picture set of s’ears gone by. • • • All girls In New York haven’t bobbed their hair. Sixteen chorus girls in one dancing act are modem j Lorelcis. They appear rather aristoI cratic, too. Tongue Tips Setsuo Ufenoda, Japanese writer: “The Japanese have no way to redeem themselves from humiliation except to give utterance to their thought and feelings and eat In sorrow’ the bread of bitterness that is served them." * * • Dr. Frank Crane, editorialist: "Unless a thing is a little fuzzy with magic and miracle. It Is not to mankind’s taste." • • • Rollin Lynde Hartt, writer: ”Trreligion is generally given as the chief cause for divorce, whereas, during the very period when church membership has increased, divorce also has increased." • ■ • Edward W. Bok, ex-editor: “It is curious that the American man with his perceptions always alive to asset?, has not sensed the value of a trained speaking voice.”

REPORT ON SUGAR FULL OF TROUBLE President's Vacation Is Dimmed by Tariff Commission Matter, Times Washington Bureau, 1.122 New York Ave. CZZIASHINGTON, Aug. 22,-Presi-JW ent Co< tf i( tee’s vacation joys I amid the cows and chickens on his father’s farm up in Vermont are being dimmed by the only piece of reading matter that he took with him. It is the United States Tariff Commission’s sugar report, now before him for action, a bulky document that the President carried to Plymouth. The sugar report is loaded with political T. N. TANARUS., and the fuse awaits his action. A majority of the commission has recommended a reduction in the present exorbitant tariff on sugar, while a minority want the existing rates continued. Hanging in the balance is a promised savings of many millions of dollars a year to the Nation's sugar consumers. If Coolidge cuts she tariff he is sure to incur the enmity of the powerful domestic sugar barons, now waxing rich under its undue “protection" from Cuban competition. If he doesn't, the La Follette progressives are certain to use it against, him. Has AuthorityUnder the flexible provisions of the new tariff law the President has authority to change any rate when such action is deemed necessary to equalize foreign arid domestic production costs. The data upon which he acts must be furnished by the tariff commission after an investigation. Revisions cannot exceed bO per cent either way. The Fordney-McCumber tariff on sugar is the highest in history, with an effective rate of ? 1.76 per 100 pounds. As it all sells for the same, the domestic producers have this much of an advantage—omitting differences in productions costs—over their Cuban rivals. Under the Democratic tariff the effective rale was only sl, but Senator Porter J. McCumber hiked it nearly double. In the fall of 1922 producers of Cuban sugar filed application with the tariff commission for an investigation, claiming that th erate was excessive. Most of this production, by the way, is now controlled Vy American financiers who took over the Cuban mills as a result of the deflation In 1921. La Follette Gets Action The ti riff commission dallied along the fall of 1922 until July 31, 1924. before it finally finished its inves’igatlon and made its report. It was Senator I-a Follette s insistence that at last brought it out. Meanwhile, the domestic sugar barons had been quietly reaping their harvest Meanwhile, too, it had developed in Congress that the family of Tariff Commissioner Henry H. Glassie was financially interested in Louisiana sugar production. By tacking a prohibitory clause on the annual salary bill, Congress "excused” Glassie from participation in the sugar study. When Coolidge at last received the report, McCumber—now an ex Senator —appeared on the scene again, this time a sth lobbyist for the domestic growers. McCumber called at the White House and naked Coolidge not to reduce the tariff on sugar, according to stories that have not been denied. Half of the nation's consumption of 4,000,000 tons of sugar a year comes from Cuba, according to the tariff commission. A decrease in the tariff on this naturally would be reflected by decrease in the price of domestic sugar as veil, with an estimated benefit of many millions of dollars to Mr. Average Consumer’s pocketbook. Family Fun Or a Politician “This vaudeville review tells about an actor who swallow’s fire and then blows smoke and flames from his mouth and nose.” “He’s probably trying to imitate the fellow w’ho orders soup when the train stops ten minutes for lunch."— American Legion Weekly. IVla's New Maod “Mary. I generally take a little elesta in the afternoon.’’ “Yes'm: most every missus I worked for liked a drop o’ something after her lunch.” —Boston Transcript. Tlie Gardener’s Wife “I’m very sorry to hear your wife is so ill, Benjamin. Not dangerous, I hope." "Thank’ee, Miss, but she be too weak now to be dangerous."—Humorist. Wife’s Advice "This darned self-starter won’t work. There is a short circuit somewhere.” "Well, why don’t you lengthen it, dear?”—Utah Humbug.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any queatiori o. out or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C. inclosing 2 cents in si imps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. A!1 other questions will receive a persona! rep?y Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential —Editor. What were the most Important events of Tyler s administration? The events of Tyler’s administration were as follows: Break be tween Tyler and the Whigs; the Caroline affair: dispute over the Northwestern boundary; the Dorr rebellion; the Patroon War; success of the electric telegraph annexation of Texas. What laws, administered by the Biological Survey protect Alaska game animals and birds? The migratory bird treaty act, the Lacey act (governing interstate shipments of game), the Alaska fur law. the Alaska game law, and the law and regulations relating to birds and game refuges in the Territory. Do the States of the United States pay an income tax to the United States Government? No. the Federal income tax is paid only by individuals and corporations. What was the religion of Uriah Smith, author of “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation?" Is he still living? He was ordained a Seventh Day Adventist minister Aug. 17, 1874. He died in 1903. How can Charlie Bryan run for the Governorship of Nebraska and for Vice President at the same time? Bryan is not running for both offices. He is now Governor of Nebraska, having been ejected in 1922; his term as Governor expires January. 1925. If elected as Vice President he would not take office until March 4, 1926. Why do I find lizards on the tops of newly thrashed straw plleB? There la no reason, except that perhaps they crawl there in search of insects. Are visitors allowed at the United States Military Academy at West Point? Can they visit ail the buildings? Visitors are allowed at West Point at nny time. The grounds and certain of the buildings are open to the public, hut the barracks cannot be Inspected. Is "Beta Pi” Greek and what does it mean? Beta and Pi are letters of the Greek alphabet, and have no more meaning than have our letters B and P. What is the Immigration quota from The Netherlands? The annual quota is 1,637, of whom not more than 10 per cent can enter the United States in any one month. Can apple trees six to eight years old be transplanted without injury? Yes; cut back the tops 'severely ard move as large a ball of earth about the roots as possible; this should, be done In March If possible.

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Tom Sims Says The most popular summer resort is, “It’s too hot to work today.” We would hate to be a bowlegged summer girl and always wonder if w r e were standing In the lightsome people are so absent-minded they forget themselves. It took six days to make the world and still some want to change it In one. A man who doesn’t know where he is going seldom gets anywhere. Nothing hurts your luck like having it m for somebody. The first three months of summer are the hottest. Our idea of hard luck is a fat man at e. dance on a hot night. Never count your chickens before they return from an auto ride. A pretty girl never likes to take her own word for it. Looking for trouble is a fine way to lose your head.

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Science A few years ago it was not uncommon for a person who had suffered an injury to the skull to be carrying around a silver plate in his head m the place where the bone used to be. Later, gold, platinum and bone were used. But all had the defect of being heavy substances that might result in other serious injuries and of course it was impossible to see what happened inside, once they were in place and that chance had to be taken In treatment of ths original injury. Now, however, the skull may be pieced out with a substitute which, among other advantaages, enables the doctor to look inside. The substance is sheet mica, which is transparent. It has been introduced into surgery’ by Or. Evan O’Neill Kane, Pennsylvania. Sheet mica can be sterilized in a moment by tjeing heated red-hot: it can be cut with scissors to any shape; it lasts and it is light and it can be bent to conform to the shape of the skull. Its use is considered a great advance in this department of surgery.