Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1924 — Page 4

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LEAVE INDIANAPOLIS ALONE would much rather see the school board of Indianapolis W act as “judge, advocate and jury” in tax matters, as William Bosson, city attorney, declared it was doing at the meeting Friday night, than see the State tax board acting in the same capacities. The school board was elected by the people of Indianapolis to administer the school affairs of the city. The tax board was appointed by a former Governor and does not represent anybody. Only one member of the board even lives in Indianapolis and he appears to be unalterably opposed to erecting school buildings. The Indianapolis Times has frequently disagreed with the school board because it did not think it was active enough in providing school facilities. But we are in accord with the board in its refusal to back up in its present stand for more money for buildings in the face of opposition by a small group who woifld themselves like to act as “judge, advocate and jury.” This group does not represent the attitude of the people of Indianapolis. It is to be sincerely hoped that this school controversy does not go before the State tax board. It has no business before such a board. In fact, the tax board should never have been given the power to tell Indianapolis or any other city whether it .hould or should not erect school buildings. That is a matter for the city, through its regularly elected school board, to settle. The school board is responsible to the people of Indianapolis. The tax board is responsible to no one, unless it be to a political organization or to an ex-Governor who appointed it and who is now making a prolonged visit out of the State. The school board has been forced, through the pressure of public opinion, which should control such matters, to erect school buildings in Indianapolis. This has been done, apparantly, against the will of some of the members of the board. But the will of the people of Indianapolis has predominated. What right has the tax board to pass judgment on this decision? Let Indianapolis settle its own problems. REGISTER! SHE way to get out the vote on election day is to get out the vote on registration day. The first registrtaion day in Marion County and in most of the other counties of the State is Sept. 6. It is particularly important that every qualified voter is sure this year that he is registered. Otherwise he cannot vote in November. The issues in the present campaign are particularly vital and it is important that every man and woman entitled to vote express his preference, not only for President, but for the State and congressional offices. The issue this year is clean cut. It is one between American liberty and domination by special interests. This is particularly true in Indiana, where the fight is being conducted between an organization which seeks through invisible forces to set up its empire in the State and Government by ALL the people. In the Nation it is a fight not only between free government and the invisible empire, but between the rights of the people and special interests. It is therefore imperative that everybody vote this year. But first you must be registered. Don’t forget the date—Sept. 6.

HOW BIG IS MAN? H r ERE S an idea that should take the conceit out of any man. A Washington correspondent of The Indianapolis Times in discussing the planets in connection with the visit of our neighbor, Mars, points out that the solar system is very like an atom with its electrons revolving around a central “sun.” He points out that if a bubble hydrogen gas the size of the letter 0 were magnified to the size of the earth the electrons would be about the size of tennis balls. He then goes on to quote a scientist who advances the theory that the earth may be just an electron in an atom of the universe revolving about a central sun and that the universe may be composed of millions upon millions of these atoms just as is the bubble of hydon gas. A mun would be comparatively no bigger than an invisible germ on a tennis ball. We dare you to feel all puffed up after reading this. THE CAMPAIGN AND POSTAL WAGES SHE 10,000 postal employes in Indiana, as well as postal employes throughout the United States are particularly interested in the coming election. The Coolidge Administration refused to do anything for the relief of these loyal employes who are asking a living wage. Postmaster General Harry S. New opposed the increase. The Republican platform ignored the plea of these employes. President Coolidge did not mention it in his acceptance speech, but he did say some things that were construed as a slap at the postal workers. On the other hand, Robert M. La Follette, Progressive candidate for President, has taken the side of the postal employes in his argument. It should not take these Government workers long to decide where their interest lies. , A NEW YORK nursery has placed a ban on baby-kissing, which is protection to our infant industries for a fact. IT IS SAID that British lawyers are viewing the proceedings in the Loeb-Leopold case “with amazement.” Same here, and that isn’t all. NEW YORK is dubious about the Elizabethan ruff becoming a reigning fashion, as had been hoped. Roughly speaking, it covers too much. ' f MR. ADDINGTON BRUCE, psychologist, warns us against “the cosmetic peril,” which, we take it, is the red pel'll that has been on so many lips of late. THE WHITE HOUSE cat has disappeared, Secretary Hughes has had his whiskers cut and President Cal has accepted. campaign ought to move right along now.

MAN AND SERPENT CONFLICT Constellation Shows Archer Taking Aim at Snake, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times SHE constellation of Sagittarius, the archer, lies low on the southern horizon, just east of Scorpio, the scorpion. The figure as imagined by the ancients Is that of a centaur, the mythological creature who had the head and upper body of a man joine' to the body and legs of a horse. Th. centaur is imagined as having a bow

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and arrow in his hands, the bow drawn taut and the a.rrow aimed at the scorpion*/ So that here again is a symbol in the sky of the enmity between the world of man and the reptile world. Five of the stars in the constellation form a figure not unlike the Great Dipper. These are known to many people as the "Milk Dipper." The name is not inappropriate as the figure is situated on the Milky Way. In ancient times, these five stars were frequently spoken of as forming "the ladle.” But as students of the stars have pointed out, if one starts a search for every group of stars that resembles a dipper, one can find enough dippers to stock a celestial tinshop. Three Stars Make Bow Three stars set in a wide arc make the bow which is held by the archer. A fourth star to the right of the center one marks the tip of the arrow. The boy of the archer Is sometimes said to symbolize the "bow of promise set in the cloud,” that is. the rainbow which is supposed to be a promise that there will never be another deluge like the one in the time of Noah. The star at the lower comer of the “milk dipper” is named Ascella, The name means "the armpit” and refers to the position of the star in the figure of the centaur. Diagonally across from Ascella is Nunki. This name means “the star of the proclamation of the sea.” Star at Arrow Tip It gets this name frbm a custom which obtained among the ancients at one time of designating a part of the sky by the title of “the sea,." The three stars in the bow are named Kaus Borealis, Kaus Media and Kaus Australis. These names mean the northern part of the bow. central part and southern. At the tip of the arrow is A1 Nasi, the name meaning "the point.” All these stars, with the exception of Nunki and Kaus Australis, are third magnitude stars. These two are of the second magnitude. There are three star clusters north of the bow. These can all be made out rather faintly with a good pair of opera glasses. Next article: Myths of Sagittarius. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz.) i Science A cup of silver, found at Antioch, has been examined recently by Dr. G. H. Eisen, formerly curator of the California Academy of Science. This cup has an engraving of Christ and the apostles. Dr. Eisen says the cup was made in the first century, and, assuming that Christ and the apostles lived at that time, it is probable that the engraving was done by a person who knew them personally. He says, in fact, the representations may wejl be portraits. One, reason for this belief is that the pictures of Christ and the apostles do not resemble the usual and conventional portraits, made later. Christ is depicted as beardless in the engraving. When the olden Basilica of Antioch w-as consecrated, 341 A. D., this cup was one of its most cherished possessions.

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Boating By HAL COCHRAN The rewboat he played with whon he was a child is a thing that he’ll never forget. stream wavelets rippled he called the waves wild and he played till his clothes were all wet. And then he grew up till he lived in his teens and play thoughts passed out of his head. A mere touch of age brought a changing of scenes: a canoe w r as his pleasure instead. He paddled until unto business he’d turned; then he answered the more thrilling call. A skipper o be, was the thing that he yearned, so he skippered around in a yawd. Then age came along and he grew to be staid, though his love of the water dimmed not. And thus was his next plunge in boating life as he purchased a sea-going yacht. When he was a kid he looked forward, ’.n truth, to sailing the w'orld’s waterways. And now that he’s done P he looks back to youth with an nvy of toy rowboat days.

Tom Sims Says This is the age of miracles, but then all ages have been that w-ay. A man seldom turns over anew ; leaf until the old one Is about worn ; OUt. What we need is an auto that will stop and count ten before it tries to | pass another on a narrow road. If love is blind, all the world loves ! a blind man. Everything comes to he who w-aits | unless he doea his waiting sitting. Movies are classed os great eduj cators, but too much talking is going on in this class. Dollar bills Just naturally seem to be afraid of collection plates. Marry for money and you earn much more than you ever get. Swatting flies is better exercise i than cussing the government and helps things along more. People who say nothing Is impossible have never tried having a good time broke. | Some men cuss the weather as if i they had a perfect right to expect | winter this summer. Wish we could train ninths to eat | the same holes every year. The way of the depresser is hard. A loafer usually wishes he was j doing something else. i Some people’s idea of clean movies j is having the girls in bathing. A house without fly screens doesn’t need an alarm clock. Very few are satisfied with their lot unless it is a lot of luck. Sometimes we think the cream of society stays on ice. The man who can’t see better times ahead ought to go to an optimist. People who build autos don’t read the speed laws. Nature All parts of poison hemlock are poisonous and—every year many domestic animals and some cttildren are killed by eating it; This hemlock is often mistaken for parsley, fennel or caraway. It is said to be the herb which furnished Socrates' "Cup of Death,” in ancient Athens. The seeds and dried leaves are used as medicine for diseases of the nervous system. Guy Richardsons, editor of "Dumb Animals,” says that Buffalo Bill was once arrested in Rome, Italy, for converting Roman cab horses into Wild West buck-jumpers by the simple and effective process of fixing nails into the under side of the saddles. His wild and woolly cowboys were native Italians.

ACTRESS IS PL A YING HER LAST ACT Mrs, Julia Reinhardt Awaits Final Curtain in Poverty, By MAURICE HENLE, NEA Service Writer. npw YORK, Aug. 23.—Death stands just outside the door i~ of the dingy little room where Julia Reinhardt, shrunken and enfeebled, lies waiting. “I am so tired, so tired,” murmurs the woman who stanchly joined with Henry Ward "Beecher in 1868 in the fight for woman suffrage. Fame and friends have deserted her. Her passing might have been like that of the other thousands who go their way, unsung, unhonored in the New York that once acclaimed them. But a newspaper reporter found Mrs. Reinhardt. He wrote the story of her tragedy. Once Julia Reinhardt stood behind the focftlights while theaters rocked with shouts and huzzas for her. And within her was an answering tumult, a quickened pulse. She played with David Warfield in Belasco’s ‘‘The Auctioneer.” Aqd she acted in “The Grand Army Man," "Is Matrimony a Failure?” and "Her Honor, the Mayor.” Now the little room where she lives on Thirty-seventh St. rocks with the crash of noise from a skyscraper going up acros the street. Riveters rend the air with their tattoos. Motors squawk. Whistles blow. Night comes, but not quiet. As the giant tick-tack of the riveters dies down, the crasfh of a jazz hideous. There is no rest. It little matters now to Julia Reinhardt what comes to pass in her few remaining days. Occasionally she half opens her eyes. She recognizes that the man before her is a reporter. “I knew' Warfield, Belasco, Rose Voghlan, Barrymore. I was with Jane Cowl. I knew them all,” she mumbles, seeming to gather her strength for one last defense of what she has accomplished. “I spoke for suffrage, fought for it, suffered for it. Inez Milholland and I danced together at the suffrage ball as the youngest and oldest suffragists. “They're building a memorial to Inez now, and I'm starving to death, nr the next thing to it. If the actors hadn't sent this nurse I would have gone to the island.” * And so the unselfish who have heard of Julia Reinhardt's plight come to see her. The press agent. And a woman who says she'll send a chicken. And a woman who brings an autographed copy of her oyvn poems in which the dying woman may find comfort. And outside the world passes The riveters beat their tattoo. The jazz band wails on. But soon there will be rest and quiet for Julia Reinhardt.

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Tongue Tips Tboma3 Riley Marshall: "Times have changed. The political outlook of the people is not toward principles of government, but very largely toward men." Elihu Root, speaking of legal reform: “We don’t put any beef be hind the demand for reform, we don’t put any power behind it. Nobody is in any danger of being run ever by it, if he gets in the way.” Bob Quillen, writer: "Few men are broad enough to understand both golf and a wife." H. Addington Bruce, psychologist: "The proper mode of attacking a worry is the indirect method of substituting new ideas and associations in the place of the worrying ones.” Mary Marlowe, writer: “A woman can always understand a man better than she can understand a woman.” A Thought He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.—Prov. 17:5. When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to remember is how much has been escaped.—Johnson.

A President’s Quiet Vacation on the Farm

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Down in Battery Park, near the Barge Office, is a monument to wireless operators who have perished at sea—the men who share the most sacred tradition of the sea, that of being the last to leave the ship, or to go down with it. The list begins with Jack Phillips, the operator who went down with the Titanic, the “unsinkable ship” that struck an iceberg in the Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank in a few' hours. The ship struck the berg on the night of April 14, 1912. Phillips stuck to his post and attracted the attention of the Carpathia before the waves closed above the Titanic in one of the greatest sea tragedies ever recorded in history. Wireless operators who lost their lives on the Atlantic, Pacific, on the Swedish coast, the Black Sea. the Caribbean, Puget Sound, and the Great Lakes are included in the list. The iast name on the list is that of Fred Salim, wireles soperator on

the steamship Conejas, who was lost with‘his ship in the Black Sea on Dec. 27, 1923. In front of the monument is a water fountain, an ironical reminder of the water that plunged them into heroship. But it also is a service to humanity, an aid-giving monument dedicated to these men who died calling for aid for others. Three sides of the monument are already filled with names. On the fourth side is room for a few more inscriptions. There will be more names Inscribed some day. For men who go down to the sea in ships are the bravest of the brave. • • • This is the end of a story that would not be popular in fiction. The body of a derelict about 50 years of age was found hanging to an automobile truck. He had strangled himself to death. Beside him was a note, written in a fine, Spencertain hand, "Have faith in life. Be not afraid of darkness, but lift your eyes to the eternal stars.” The beginning of the story would bo interesting, for the man undoubtedly was well educated and refined. * * • The most uncanny and grotesque thing I have seen in New York in many a day was an airplane flying low over Broadway at night, with its wings illuminated with scores of electric bulbs. The drone of the motor caused thousands to peer into the black sky and be astonished by the artificial comet. A

THOUSANDS OF WORLDS ARE KNOWN Number of Solar Systems Probably Reaches Millions. Timee V?a*hin<7tnn Bureau, 1322 Neto York Ave, rrTTJ ASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Why Yty worry about whether Mars is inhabited? Scattered throughout the infinite spaces of the heavens on one scale and compressed into any small object in another’ scale, scientists say, there may be countless other worlds —giant worlds, dwarf worlds, worlds in the making and worlds that are dead. You grasp the first Idea when astronomers emphasize, as does Dr. Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, that our sun is merely a star in the universe and the other stars are suns, Each probacy has Its own planets whirling around it, Just as Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus anr Neptune spin around our sun. You grasp the second idea when physicists emphasize, as they do at the United States Bureau of Standards, that all atoms of matter are made up of incredibly tiny electrons that whirl around a central proton, or “sun,” just as our planets whirl around our sun. In short, each atom has its own busy little solar system, far too small to be seen even under the most powerful microscope. They Are Small The tininess of these little “worlds” is amazing. In a bubble of hydrogen gas no larger than the letter “O” there are billions of gtoms. If this tiny bubble were magnified to the size of the earth, each atom in the bubble would then be about as large as a tennis ball and each of the "worlds” in these atoms one thousand times smaller still. Who knows, then, but what there may be uncounted billions of worlds swarming around the stars in the heavens far beyond the limits of our conception; or that our own planets are not just infinitesimal specks, like the electrons of the atom, in the boundless scheme of the infinite? Microscopes fail utterly with the atom and even the biggest telescopes of astronomers give only a hint as to the secrets of the heavens. For instance, in discussing the alleged "canals” on Mars, Dr. Abbot says that the testimony of two eminent astronomers is as widely contradictory as would be expected from two persons who should attempt to describe the landscape of the moon without ever having used a telescope. Moon Is Close The moon is the only other world of which the telescopes afford a really good view. Under the giant lens at the Mt. Wilson observatory, the moon becomes a neighbor Only fifty miles away, in effect. The mountains and the dry ocean bottoms of this dead world can be seen clearly and their sizes calculated with fair accuracy. If a city the size of New York or Chicago existed there It would be observed without difficulty, but the moon is a waterless, airless world from which all life has long since departed. The moon is our closest neighbor. The sun is 400 times farther away and the stars are many times more distant.' If this same giant telescope were mounted on the sun, the earth—if the earth could be seen at all—would appear through it a dot no larger than the period at the end of this sentence. But the sun is much larger than the earth, so we get a bigger image; so large, in fact, that twenty-five or more globes the size of this one could be dumped into one of those tremendous fiery chasms that we call “sun spots.” At that, though, the great modern telescopes reveal a lot. They show swarms of stars invisible to the naked eye; stars so far away that it requires 30,000 years for their light to reach the earth; stars so dim that a two-year exposure is required lor photographing them.

SATURDAY, AUG. 23, 1924

Ask The Times You can gret an answer to any Question ol iact or information by writisj to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Are.. Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Al! other questions will receive a persona! reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All fetters are confidential. —Editor. If a train is proceeding toward a given point at the rate of sixty miles an hour and a man on the train is tvaikirg forward at the rate of five miles an hour, how fast is the man on the train proceeding toward the given point, and why? A man walking toward a certain point through a train which is mov- | ing at the rate of sixty miles per hour, has his rate of speed—five miles per hour—accelerated by the rate at which the train is moving. Therefore, he would be moving toi ward his destination at the rate of | sixty-five miles per hour. Where are the famous shrines of St. Ann Deaupre and of St. Joseph located? St. Ann Deaupre is located near j Quebec and St. Joseph at Montreal. A reader of this column asks I for information on preserving flowers and leaves. This is too long to print, but a one-pago mimeographed bulletin giving such information will be sent to any reader interested, on request to our Washington Bu- | reau, enclosing a 2-cent postage stamp for reply. What is the chemical composition of glass? It differs with the different kinds, but is essentially a silicate of sod* or of potash combined with silicate of some alkaline earth or other basic body, such as oxide of lead. What is the mileage of railroads in Great Britain? In 1923, it was reported as 19,823 miles. Should one thank the host and hostess on leaving after being entertained? It is not necessary to do so; ft was their pleasure to have you visit them, and it is not necessary to do more than tell them what an enjoyable time you had. What is the meaning of the J, D. degree? Doctor of Jurisprudence. What is the proper time to prune fruit trees? In February or March. What is the proper past tense form of the verbs dream, build, spoil? These are redundant verbs, which have more than one form for the past tense: thus either the forms “dreamed," “builded,” "spoiled.” or "dreamt,” "built,” "spoilt,” may be used Which Louis of France married Mary Tudor of England? Louis XIII. How far is Long Island Sound navigable for battleships of the largest type? For the full length of the Sound up to Hell Gate, w-here it becomes too rocky for the larger ships. Do storms travel faster in winter than in summer? Yes, storms travel about half again as fast in winter as in summer. The average speed of storms across the United States is twenty-five miles an hour. Summer storms travel twenty miles an hour, while winter storms average thirty miles an hour. Faniily Fun ' In Sister’s Car Kind Traveler (seeing parked car) —"Do you need any heljt?” Voice From Within—"We are getting along nicely, thank you.”—California Pelican. One on the Plumber “I think I’ll back ‘Plumber’ for the last race.” "I won’t. A horse with a name like that would get half-way round the course, and then, have to go back for his jockey!”—Passing Show.