Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1924 — Page 4

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WHERE WILL HE JUMP? ET"| D JACKSON, Republican Klandidate for Governor of L Indiana, is going to have to do some plain and fancy sidestepping from now on if he expects to be in the running on election day. Robert M. La Follette led the procession in denouncing the Ku-Klux Klan. John W. Davis, Democratic nominee, followed him. Charles G. Dawes, Republican nominee, chirped in with a half-hearted statement whici., nevertheless, put him on record. There is nothing left for Calvin Coolidge to do now but trail along. Where does this leave Jackson? Jackson was nominated, undoubtedly, by the Klan. He courted the friendship of the invisible empire, visibly and invisibly. He has never denied that he prizes this somewhat dubious friendship. But at the same time Jackson is seeking office on the Republican ticket, and the Republican national ticket, so far at least as Dawes is concerned, is against the Klan. Will Jackson repudiate Dawes or will he repudiate the Klan? If he repudiates the Klan he will have slapped the faces of those who nominated him. If he repudiates Dawes he will have repudiated the vice presidential candidate of the Republican party. If he does neither, nobody will know whether he is seeking office as a Republican or merely as a Klandidate. If he is merely a Klandidate no Republican could consistently vote for both him and Dawes. If he is a Republican, no Klansman could consistently vote for both Dawes and him. Which leads us to the question of where the Klan vote is uoing now, so far as the national tickets are concerned. Possibly the Klansmen will not vote at all but merely continue to hold allegiance to the invisible empire, with headquarters at Atlanta or Indianapolis or wherever it happens to be today.

THE KROIBLIXG KLAX H r " ARD on the heels of the recent defeat of the Ku-Klux Klan in the Oklahoma senatorial primary came the defeat of Judge Felix Robertson, Klan candidate for Governor, in Texas Saturday. Robertson was beaten by a woman, Mrs. Miriam Fergusor, in a straight-out Klan and anti-Klan election fight. She wilj be the first woman to sit in a Governor’s chair. The defeated Knights of the Invisible Empire bitterly complain that Mrs. Ferguson is merely the political dummy of her husband, ex-Governor Ferguson, who was impeached, discredited and forever barred from holding public office in Texas again. This claim is true, for although Mrs. Ferguson will hold the title, her husband will be the real Governor of Texas. The fact makes the Klan’s defeat all the more significant. It demonstrates that the voters of Texas, after having tried out both Ferguson and the Klan, are now willing to return to a discredited Governor in preference to the Klan. Their choice was a narrow one. but the issue was sharply drawn. Almost the same thing happened in Oklahoma when that State accepted another discredited Governor, J. C. Walton, as its instrument to wallop the hooded order. In both cases the voters expressed more dislike for the Klan than like for their candidate. The Klan is burning out in the South, despite the frantic efforts of its highly paid organizers to fan the dying flames of hatred, bigotry and intolerance. The emotional wave is passing and sound, respectable men who were duped into joining by these money-getters are regaining their senses. Bitter at their betrayers, they are striking back now with the handiest political weapons at their command. And so this emotional wave, marked by clearly defined steps in its chain of stages, is passing in Texas and Oklahoma. Already the tide is beginning to recede in the newer Northern strongholds of the Klan. In time it will completely disappear and the Ku-Klux Klan will be nothing more than a shadowy memory as are today its predecessors, the Know-Nothings and the A. P. A. STAXDARDIZED U. S. A. soon live in a country where everything’s just like W everything else. The housewife won’t have to stand behind her curtains and peek out to see what sort of furniture the new family is moving in. She won’t have to go into the vacant house just to see what it’s like. She will know without looking. The furniture will be just like the furniture she has and the house will be just like the house she lives in. The traveler who seeks novelty will have to seek it abroad. Throughout the length and breadth of the land he lives in there will be no variety and nothing he has not seen at home. The Division of Simplified Practice of the Department of Commerce is at work on standardization of manufactured articles and has been for three years. Recently a report was made on results accomplished. On July 1 grades, sizes and nomenclature for soft woods were standardized and it is predicted the simplification will save $250,000,0000 annually. Hotel chinaware was simplified from 700 items to 160 and metal lath, forged tools, paper, blackboards and slates were all standardized on the same date. During the year woven wire fencing, milk bottles and milk caps and hollow building tile have all been standardized. Next January there will be only seventy-two varieties of brass sink traps manufactured instead of 1.114 varieties. Bolts and nuts will be reduced from 1,500 types to 840. Hospital beds will be uniform in length, width and height. They are studying automot've parts, gas water heaters, screw drivers, pocket knives, dental supplies, cotton fabric colors, wood handles for tools and other things now with a view toward standardizing them. The plan of standardization was conceived to check the tremendous drain on the nation due to waste in industry. It is meeting with warm response from American industries, according to the Department of Commerce and has proved of vast economic importance in increasing production and sales, overcoming seasonal employment and reducing inventory‘and production costs. So far no division has been created to standardize tips, proposals, surnames, picnic sandwiches or the dialects spoken by American citizens in vaijous parts of the country.

CHIRON WAS POISONED BY ARROW I Legend Tells of Centaur • Skilled in Medicine and Archery, By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times AGITTARIUS, the Archer, represented by the constejlation to the east of Scorpio on the southern horizon, is supposed to represent the famous centaur Chiron. Her, as we have seen, the ancients imagined the archer as one of the creatures which were half men and half horses and known as centaurs. These creatures were supposed to have lived in Thessaly. Most of them

CHIRON, THE CENTAUR, TAUGHT APOLLO TO PLAY THE LYRE.

were the enemies of man according to the legend But two of them were friendly to the human race. These two were named Chiron and Pholus. Chiron, the one represented by the constellation, was famous for his knowledge of medicine, music and archery. He is supposed to have taught the expert, Aesculapius, the first physician, his knowledge of medicine. He instructed Apollo, the sun god, in the art of playing the lyre, and he taught astronomy to the mighty Hercules. Wounded Accidentally But Hercules accidentally wounded Chiron with a poison arrow. Chiron was immortal, hut the poison caused him such pains that he prayed to Jupiter to relieve him of Immortality, since the would was incurable. So Jupiter answered his prayer and placed him among the constellations in the sky. The Latin poet. Ovid, described his end in the following words: ‘‘Midst golden stars he stands refulgent now. And thrusts the Scorpion with his bended bow.” Records of the constellation of the srcher are found on ancient Babylonian monuments. Known in Egypt The constellation was also known in ancient Egypt and India. Tn Assyria, the constellation was identified with the god, Assur. The Arabs, however. gave the constellation a very different significance: They Imagined that It was a flock of ostriches. The ostriches were thought to he passing back and forth from the Milky Way which was taken to represent a river. Avery bright “nova” or new star is said to have blazed forth in this constellation in the year 1012 and to have been visible for three,, months. A record of this is to be found In the Chinese chronicles. The figure of the archer appears on a coin of Gallenus of about the year 260 A. D. Next article: The constellation Bootes, the Bear-driver. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz.( Sister’s Slip ‘‘That’s the first time in my life that a man ever kissed me!” ‘‘You told me that same thing a month agod’ “Oh, it was you, was it?” Character Reader “He looks like a fool.” “But, papa, he has asked me to be his wife.”’ “He has? Well, don't ever tell me that I can’t size up people.”—Boston Transcript. Guess Who Bet you can't guess who this is? Well, it is John W. Davis, thirtyfive years ago, while the Democratic presidential nominee was a sophomore at Washington and Lee University.

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Sketching By HAL COCHRAN When you sit by a phone with a pencil in hand, it is funny what queer things you'll draw. Just markings that none can quite understand; just lines that will perpetrate awe. Your mind's on your talking; your hand is at ease; it pushes a pencil around. 'Twill scribble and sketch just whatever it please. When you’re through, what queer markings are found. A white piece of paper lies there by the phone and you use it to greatest extent. Just why you are sketching 'twill never be known, but on sketching you’re leisurely bent. Some telephone numbers are written out plain; you don’t even know whose they be. The writing you do is just written in vain; my advice, if you leave it to me— Is, go on do your sketching in telephone booths. There’s no one who really can scoff. For, wheV you have finished, the next man, forsooth. will pick up right where you left ofT. (Copyright, 1024, NEA Service, Inc.)

Ask Hie Times You e&a trev an answer lo any question o 1 fact or , lforination by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave Washington. I). 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 wilt receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential—Editor, Why does the compass point to the north. Because the needle is attracted to the magnetic pole in the north. The , ”riter was for eight years a r a t of the United States pre iou to enlistment in the Canadiai army. Is there any way I Com secure my citizenship p ipers or is there any law that grants veterans who served with the allied forces their final papers? If you had citizenship papers previous to enlisting in the Canadian army you are still a citizen of the United States. If not, you can obtain blanks to fill out for this purpose at the Federal Building. You should have received your papers at the close of the war. If they have been lost, they will he replaced. Write Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, chief of staff of American Army, Washington, D. C., explaining why you did not receive them. riense prim the electoral vote for 1924 by States. Alabama. 12; Arizona, 3; Arkansas, 9; California, 13; Colorado, fi; Connecticut, 7; Delaware, 3; Florida, (5; Georgia, 14; Idaho, 4: Illinois, 27; Indiana, 15; lowa. 13; Kansas, 10: Kentucky, 13; Louisiana, 10; Maine, fi; Maryland. R; Massachusetts, IS; Michigan, 15; Minnesota, 12; Mississippi, 10; Missouri, 18; Montana, 4; Nebraska, 8; Nevada, 3; New Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, 14; New Mexico. 3; New York. 45; Nqrth Carolina, 13; North Dakota, 5; Ohio, 24: Oklahoma. 10; Oregon, 5; ‘Pennsylvania, 34; Rhode Island, 5; South Carolina, I9; South Dakota, 5; Tennessee, 12; I Texas, 20; Utah, 4; Vermont, 4; Virginia, 12; Washington, 7; West Virginia, 8; Wisconsin, 13; Wyoming, 3.

Can a person secure Information from the United States Pension Office contained In the pension record of an individual Civil War veteran? All records of pension cases filed with the Pension Office are confidential. The Pension Office only elves out information concerning them to persons who, in the opinion of the officials, have sufficient reason for desiring information. It reserves the right to give or withhold information, as its judgment dictates. What is the immigration quota from Canada and Newfoundland? Persons born in Canada or Newfoundland are freely admitted as non-quota immigrants. Is it proper to send wedding presents to a woman who is being married a second time? It is just as proper to send gifts at the second marriage as at the first. When should hollyhocks he transplanted? Late in September. When and where was Hoot Gibson born, is he married, what Is his weight, height and 'personal description? He was horn in Tekamah, fjeb., in 1892. He has been married twice, his present wife is Helen Johnson. He is five feet ten inches in height and weighs 160 pounds; has light hair and blue eyes. Does a soldier who receives additional pay for being awarded the distinguished service cross continue to receive this pay after he leaves the Army? No. How is the ice in skating rinks supplied or kept frozen? By freezing a layer of water upon the floor by means of a mechanical refrigerating plant.

ONE CITY PAYS BACK ' TAX MONEY Here Is What City Manager Has Done for Knoxville, By NATHAN D. WHITE K<~~ “| NOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 25. This growing city in the I— Southern Appalachians which surprised the nation the other day by making a 10 per cent refund to its taxpayers, presents an interesting study in municipal house-cleaning. Back of the tax rebate lies t& months of efficient, non-political citymanager government. Back of the city manager government were four years of bi-partisan political government. Graft, waste and extravagance were rampant under the political government. Streets were built to improve vacant property of city officials or their friends while thousands of citizens waded through the mud to and from their work. Water mains were installed on streets without houses while residents on thickly populated streets bad to use cisterns, wells and springs. Even Skimmed Milk Whisky seized by the police was turned over to the city hospital from which it soon disappeared. Politicians, it was brought out in an investigation, skimmed the milk of hospital patients and used the cream to make eggnog for themselves. The politicians fixed a low tax rate to fool the voters —and then piled up a debt of $4,000,000 In four years. Then the voters, sick and tired of It all, held a referendum election end kicked out the old city commission plan, which had almost bankrupted Knoxville. They selected the city manager plan and hired Louis Brownlow, a trained city executive, to manage a large business concern. Brownlow and his helpers hardly knew w-here to begin, but they started out by making a budget of a half-million dollars less than the political administration had spent m the previous year. They levied sufficient taxes to meet the budget, which included many debts that had been inherited. Disregards Politics Brownlow selected as city department heads trained men, men who knew how to run a city—without regard to politics. Streets have been built and repaired. City water has been made pure. Water service has been improv'd. Garbage collection is regular. Health and welfare activities have been extended. And yet, the city manager administration found at the end of ten months that the budget, although $500,000 less than the political administration had spent in the previous year, was greater than needed; that several hundred thousand dollars would he left In the treasury at the end of the year. So the city council met and voted the 10 per cent refund to the stockholders —the people of Knoxville —as a tax refund. Family Fun Evidence “Jan*," said Mrs. Lush to her servant, “Mr. Lush swears that he got home at an early hour. Can you tell me what time It was exactly?” “Well, ma'am,” said Jane, “all I can tell you is this: I didn't see him come In nor nothin'! But when I came down stairs this mornin' his overcoat was still swingin' backwards and forwards on the hook."— Pittsburgh Sun. Dad Tumbles “It isn’t the size of the gift, hut the spirit that goes with it, that counts." “Who is going to ge* a 79 oent present from us m .v?"—Boston Transcript. Little Brother’s Joke “For the love of Mike, what’s happened to the office? Did a garbage truck crash into it?" “No, boss, my little brother was In here this morning and he stuck a ripe banana into the electric fan.”— Youngstown Telegram. Son's Bee “Rex, didn't mother tell you not to play with that bee?" ''Yes, mother; hut he was all right until he sat down.” —Scripps Paine Service.

Science The name of Steinach is again being printed around the world. He is said to have discovered another method of shoving back old age. It Is' announced as a method of “Internal heating.” The medical world looks with suspicion upon all such apnouncenients. It Is a fact, however, that both Steinach and Voronoff, with different methods of gland transplanting, accomplished results that entitled them to serious consideration. The experiments of Voronoff, a Russian surgeon, are still being carried on at the College De France, Paris. There is no doubt that the Voronoff method has shown interesting results. Muscular vigor and mental activity have been restored In old men. However, the question of whether this is beneficial to the patient in the long run Is not yet answered. Nature . Walter Dirig, farmer near Utica, X. Y., has a turkey whose stolen nest was robbed by a snake or something. Perhaps believing in safety second, if not first, Mrs. Turkey adjourned to the garage and for three days in succession laid an egg on top of the car. Oyster culturists claim that cne acre of oysters properly planted in unpolluted water and preserved from extensive depredation will produce $20,000 to $30,000 worth of the bivalve —at the end of three years. Nobody these days can wait and work and watch three whole years to get rich.

U.S. READY TO RECEIVE THE PRINCE American Major to Be Aide to His Royad Highness. BY lARRY BOARDMAN NEA Service Writer, ashington, Aug. 25. When the Prince of Wales disembarks on our shores he immediately will stage that wellknown act, “Hands Across the Sea," with his old friend, Major Oscar N. Soibert of th.' United States army engineers. The major has been appointed personal aide to the prince during his highness’ stay In America. He was selected for the job because he and the prince were more

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LOUIS E. STODDARD (LEFT) AND MAJOR OSCAR N. SOLBERT.

or less clubby in dear, old, foggy London, where Solbert served for some time as .assistant military attache at the American embassy. A few months ago Solbert was ordered back to this country to servo as junior aide to President Coolidge. When Louis E. Stoddard, as president of the United States Polo Association. invited the prince to come over for a visit, he conferred with President Coolidge and Secretary of War John W. Weeks concerning a proper reception for his royal highness. Knowing Solbert and the prince had known each other in the past, Stoddard asked th<- major be designated as the prince s personal aid. Both Coolidge and Weeks artproved. Now Solbert is with Stoddard in New York wai*ing to extend the glad hand when the scion 6f royalty steps off the boat. Solbert w-as born in Sweden, Pan. 22, 1885. Ho was appointed to West Point from Massachusetts in 1906, and was graduated from the military institution in 1910. During the war he held a temporary commission as colonel of engineers. He was awarded the Distinguished Service -medal for “meritorious and distinguished service" as Unite! States military attache at Copenhagen, Denmark. Blackmail "Dearest, no one will ever Knowhow I love you!” Voice From Under Sofa—“ Huh! Dad’ll know unless I git about a quarter!”—Judf The Radio Baby "Isn’t he a wonderful baby?" “Yeh, but I think you ought to change the wavelength; ycu get too much static."—Judge.

Yes, He Will—Not!

Tongue Tips Dr. J. Stuart Holden, Massachusetts: "Love cannot exist with <envy and jealousy, which are in every sphere of life among the most devastating of human passions." • • • Prof. A. Eustace Haydon, University of Chicago: "The most significant thing in Chinese history is that the real leadership there always has been In the hands of the Intellectuals, with the soldier at the other end of the scale.” • • • The Rev John D. Gardner: "Science and philosophy say that weak things are to he eliminated because they Interfere with the progress of life'” • • • Mrs. Herbert Hare, traveler, Kansas City: “Bobbed hair is not nearly so popular in Europe as it is in this country. But when it does come to hobs. I think the girls in Vienna are the most beautiful.”

Tom Sims Says A swelled head is easily broken. Paste this in your hat. Some men lie to their wives while others only think they do. Some people let a telephone ring as if they didn’t know anybody. Our idea of something not to lose sleep over is losing sleep. Among the painful bills presented at summer resorts, those of mosquitoes lead the list. If you are well bred, after eating onions, you will keep your mouth shut about them. Doctors say vegetables will make one slender, but elephants are strictly vegetarians. A smile goes a long ways sometimes when it is most needed at home. , Count that night lost when the slowly rising sun shows no mosquitoes or bedbugs have perished at their fun. Movie star used a mirror to how to shoot himself, instead of why. Our objection to decided blondes is they are seldom decided abo’ut anything else. This living the world ow-es us is pain on the installment plan. The man who can’t remember isn’t as bad as the one who can’t forget. Only way to keep up with running expenses is by making them walk. People who really think kisses have germs usually look the part.

MONDAY, AUG. 25, 1924

QUADRUPLE ENTENTE IS ORGANIZING ! Alliance cf Japanese, Germans, Russians and Chinese Seen, By WILLIAM ‘’HILIP SIMMS, Times Foreign Editor ASHINGTOX, Aug. 25.—A \U dynamite-laden quadruple enJ tente between'Germany, Russia, China and Japan is in process of formation. Russia and Germany already have agreements, the precise nature of which is not clear. China and Russia have just entered into a similar contract. Japan and Russia may, come to an understanding any day! while Japan is now engaged in revolutionizing her relations with China, seeking closer, ties. 1 Germany, up to 1914, was Japan’s model. There still exists, despite I the war, a strong affinity between the two nations. And Russia, be- | sides being Germany's natural market outlet, is better understood by her Teautonic neighbors than by the people of any other country on earth. China Resents Meddling Anti-foreign sentiment is now on the rapid increase in Chinna. She more and more resents “foreign meddling” in her affairs. Germany and Russia now concede China’s complete sovereignty which the other powers still deny, demanding extraterritoriality, the right of supervision of Chinese customs, salt taxes, and so on. Japan is altering her attitude somewhat in this respect, trying to placate China and win her over by playing up racial affiliation and conspicuously championing her cause against “humiliation” at the hands of western nations. The ultimate linking up of these four powers, with some 700,000,000 inhabitants, or nearly half the population of the globe, is considered by many as the most natural thing in the world. Such an entente would cover territory stretching from the Xorth Sea to the Pacific Ocean and, from the point of view of material resources and military pow-{ er, would be well nigh, if not absolutely, invulnerable. The trend of international events is now strongly in that direction. United States Should Act Only one thing can prevent it: Action by the United States. The world now is at the crossroads. The great powers are undecided which way to go—whether to heed the universal desire of the masses and combine their forces against war by building up some sort of international machinery to lessen the causes of war, or return to the old scheme of balances of power. Just now most leaders seem to favor the former. But reactionary influences are everywhere pulling in the opposite direction. Moreover, some of the more liberal nations are becoming discouraged, realizing that it will do little good if only some of the great powers enter into the international association for peace, the rest remaining aloof. Premier MacDonald of Great Britain, for instance, says Britain will do everything she can to make the League of Xations a success but, failing, must seek alliances abroad in sheer self protection. America can turn the balance for peace in the coming crisis just as she did in the reparations dispute. If she fails, then the world is destined to split up into groups of alliances and ententes and war will follow as night the day. A Thought 1 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.—l Cor. 13:13. • * * He is truly great who hath a great charity.—Thomas a-Kempis.