Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1924 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scnpps-Paine Service. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • * PHONE—MA in 3500.
WHY THE DELAY? less than two weeks thousands of Indianapolis high school and grade school children will be going back to their studies, traveling on street cars. The public service commission has had before it since last spring a petition filed by the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs asking for a reduced rate of fare for school children. Nearly every civic club in Indianapolis has approved the idea, which was suggested first by The Indianapolis Times. Car companies in many other cities have long given school children the benefit of a lower rate of fare than the regular schedule. Yet the public sendee commission has not even set a date for a hearing on the petition. Why! Last spring it was explained that action was being held up pending re-routing. We do not exactly see the connection between this petition and re-routing. Neither have we seen any serious attempt to re-route the cars. The street railway company says it wants the good will of the public. The public service commission and the city apparently are seeking to do everything they can think of to help the car company. We know of no better way to create good will than through giving school children reduced rates. At any rate, it is not for the commission to judge whether a case shall be brought to hearing. The petition for reduced rates for school children is a bona fide petition, filed in legal form. The civic clubs should insist on an immediate hearing. STREET CAR SCHEDULES mNDIANAPOLIS Street Railway Company might well follow the example set by the Beech Grove Railway Company in shortening the running time of its cars. Especially could this be done by north side lines, such as Fairground and College, to advantage, providing better and quicker service for patrons. Cars on these lines “loaf” along to kill time because their schedules are not fast enough. If schedule's were shortened each car on these lines could probably make another round trip daily. According to motormen, from five to seven minutes could be cut off running time of many of the lines in the city, of course providing tracks were in shape to stand any speed.
THE GREAT AMERICAN WEAKNESS D r ~” ID yon ever stop to think of how we fall for the nobility stuff? There was such a mob of palpitating Americans about the Berengaria before the Prince of Wales came aboard at Southampton the other day that he had to charter a launch and steal aboard before daylight to frustrate them. When the great liner left the dock she was loaded to the guards with Americans, men and women, who had wildly sawed off their trip to Europe so they might boast of having crossed on the same boat. A Chicago clothing merchant is reported to have paid SI,OOO bonus for any old accommodation they would give him so he could copy the prince’s clothes. His enterprise will no doubt pay him -well. Millions of Americans will first laugh at the prince’s “trick clothes,” then fall for them like a ton of brick, openly pitying the rest of us poor saps less snappilv garbed. It seems that American girls particularly swarmed the decks of the Berengaria. The boat had a distinct list to starboard, on which side it was rumored the prince would have his chair. To see the prince in person lifts an American girl to an enviable social position back home. To shake his hand is the equivalent to a knighthood’s accolade. While to dance with him—oh, heart, cease thy twittering—means forevermore to be an American princess and one of the earth’s exalted—at least in America’s world of sqcial climbers. We scorned a kingdom in our nation’s youth and abolished titles, but ever since we’ve been behaving as if we regretted it. What American woman would journey to Berlin to be presented to President and Frau Ebbert? Yet the great American boast is: Darn what your ancestors were! What counts is YOU! Which ought to make of the German saddle maker who became president a personage worth going far to see. But do we look at it that way, really? Not much! Every year there is all but a knock-down-and-drag-out fight among American dowagers and daughters in London scheming for the privilege of bending their democratic (?) knees before a king and queen. Are we snobs? Poseurs? Hypocrits? What do you think about this great American weakness —really ? Women are not slow in asserting their supremacy. Now they are holding up filling stations. Now that “Hell an’ Maria” has declared against the J4lan, why don’t the newspapers who have been making a hero of him assert themselves on this subject, too? Ma Ferguson asserts that she and not her husband will be Governor. Maybe the same state of affairs existed when the family occupied the Texas Governor’s mansion before. A SCIENTIST 6ays the peanut is not a brain food and report is that Chicago is the largest consumer of peanuts in the country. So, you see. THE SPIRIT of progress is slowly but surely jimmying its way into Maine. Burglars, the other night, carried off an entire bank vault. The theory in Marion county seems to be that taxes should be cut one year and then increased the next to make up the deficit of the year before. Did anyone ever consider cutting expenditures ? Our two contemporaries are quarreling over morning and evening paper supremacy. They should realize that it isn’t dignified soy. two nice old ladieskto fight. Anyway, newspaper readers already know the answer to the argument.
BOOTES IS IN FORM OF A KITE Arcturus, Inspiration of Poets, Is Part of Constellation. By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. E have explored the northem, eastern and southern J portions of the summer sky. Let us turn our attention to the western part. If you will look south of the Great Bear and west of Hercules tonight you will see the constellation of Bootes, the Bear-Driver. Bootes is pronounced bo-o-tes, both o’s being given the sound of ‘ioh,” and the last syllable being pronounced like the word “tease.”) The constellation is easy to find because it contains the beautful first
ALKALUROPS * * NEXKAR *' \ * *, *SEGINUS *' * * y\ • / / # * MIRAK ik •* V * *LA SUPER BA : / j • / 4 * CMARA \ / COR CAROL l * ARCTURUS * MUPHRIP
THE CONSTELLATION OF BOOTES, THE BEAR-DRIVER, AND THE ASTERISM OF CANES VENATICI OR THE HUNTING DOGS.
magnitude star. Areturus. This star is golden yellow in color. It is one of the most beautiful stars in the heavens, and has always been an inspiration to poets. Walt Whitman, great American poetic genius, wrote of it in these words: “Star of resplendent front: thy glorious eye Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.” Much Brighter Than Sun Areturus Is so far away that It takes its light forty-three and onehalf years to reach the earth. It Is probably 2 times brighter in reality than our sun. Some astronomers believe that it gives out more heat than any other star in the sky. But the heat from it. which reaches the earth, is no more than one would receive from a candle fives miles away. The brighter stars in, Bootes form a kite-shaped figure. Areturus is at the lower corner of the kite frame. The top of the “kite'' is marked by a fourth magnitude star Nekkar The sides are marked by a third magnitude star on the left which : astronomers call by the Greek letter Delta, and by a third magnitude | star named Seginus on the right. Between Delta and brilliant Arc- '■ turus is a third magnitude star, Mirak. Called Herdsman Nekkar is golden yellow in color. Its name means “the herdsman." This was the name which the Arabs gave to the whole constellation. The name Seginus Is of doubtful origin. Mirak means the girdle and refers to the position of the star in the constellation. Northwest of the constellation Bootes is a small group of stars, or an asterism, to use the technical name given such groups by astronomers, known as Canes Venatici or the hunting dogs. Bootes was imagined by the ancients to have held the two hunting dogs in leash. This star group is a modern one, having been formed by the astronomer Hevelius in 1690. The brightest star in this asterism is a third magnitude star known as Cor Caroli or “the heart of Charles,' 1 in honor of King Charles I of England. Next article: The myths of Bootes. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz.) H Tom Sims Says This seems to he the hottest summer since last year. Sometimes the pensive girl makes an expensive wife. Perhaps they are called telephone exchanges because they swap right numbers for wrong numbers. Woman’s place is in the home, and when she is out of place everything else seems to be out of place. The ice man can’t claim this climate doesn't agree with him. The harvest moon is coming, and if a bachelor can get by it he will be fairly safe until spring. Street cars are still refusing to pull over to the curb to dodge the reckless auto drivers. '—’ ' ' - Ther6 are too many flies that haven’t been swatted yet. Any man who gets up early on Sunday Is lazy. He does it so he will have more time to loaf. Being rich consists of having more than someone else. After visiting .several beaches, we can give it out as an established fact that girls have knees, two of them. Some dull people wear smart clothes. An easy way to make a small boy take a bath Is to paint a “No Swimming” sign on the bathroom door.
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Fans By HAL COCHRAN In grandmother’s day, lo these ages ago, a fancy-like fan played its part. Bfedecked in fine fehthers it made breezes blow when its sections were spread wide apart. The youth of that time courted grandmother fair and he wooed as a gallant young man. The fan gave the romance that seemed to be there, for she’d blush ’neath the spread of her fan. She’d ride In her carriage to church Sunday morn and her fan was spread out on her arm. No wooer could call her appearance forlorn for the fan added much to her charm. Yes, that was the way it was long ago and it makes present romance seem poor. My grandmother’s told me and she ought to know. She’s lived througKlt all, I am sure. And what'of today—is the romance still here? It seems that there Isn’t as much. The romance in fans has just faded, I fear, since they're madd out of cardboard and such. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN. NEW YORK. Aug. 26 —With ten- ! minute lunches in busy New York j has come a new' industry. It is the | sandwich makers. | All through the night they labor over the dried-out snacks the busy business people wash down with soda-counter concoctions. In one sandwich factory where 12.000 atrocities are wrapper! in oil paper each night, sixteen people, many of them girls, turn out the noon-time specialties on a production basis. One cuts bread, another butters it, another slips a bit of meat, cheese, or both on the bread, another builds a top on the sandwich with a second piece of bread and the last wraps it. Several crews work feverishly through the long hours of the night and early in the moaning, delivery wagons take thorfood to the service stations throughout the city. Quick lunches have become a hysteria here and few people ever go near a restaurant where they may sit and be served in leisurely fashion. Back in Indiana everybody used to go home for the noon meal and after it was finished, nap for half i hour be.fore returning to work. But not here. The quick lunch record i holder is hailed with cheers. He consumes two sandwiches and gulps a glass of milk in 63 seconds. Life is short here, so they want to make the most of it. • • • “Apartments to let to respectable colored people only.” reads a sign on a building being erected in Fortieth St. • • • New its mayors wdthin the city. Jack Spero, mayor of Washington Heights, is mayor of mayors; Stitch McCarthy, of Grand St.; John Lepplg, of Avenue A; Kardonic Phillips, of Delancey St.: Morris Einstein, of First Ave.; Frank Dotsal. of Avenue B, and Eddie Rosenstein, of Broome St. • • * “We don’t bob hair,” is the sign in a barber shop window uptown. Other shops are expected to follow suit. The menace of women in barber shops is disconcerting. • • • There are more bicycles than ever before in Patchogue, down on Long ligand. When two cyclists were arrested for riding on the sidewalk, it was found there ( was no ordinance under which they might be punished. So one had to be made. Nature Mrs. Imogene Atwood, Haskell’s Corners, Maine, has a bantam hen which has laid eighteen eggs with no yolks in them at all. Ninety to 100 degrees weather as a dally offer doesn't intrigue the herd of polar bears at the Washington, D. C. Zoo a bit. After 6 days of It, the keepers half filled a >ink with ice and let the big white boys go to It. Coming out, It was noticed that clouds of steam arose from them. Keeper said that the more a polar bear "steams,” the cooler he becomes. Family Fun One on Mother-in-Law “Will you drive a bit faster, my mother-in-law must not miss the train.” “Don’t worry, sir. I’ll drive as though It were my own mother-in-law.”—Detroit News. Takes After Mother “I notice that when baby cries for a thing he usually gets it.” “Yes; he has got on to that by watching his mother.”—Boston Transcript.
KLAN STIRS POLITICS IN HOOSIERDOM Coolidge Wants Indiana — Jackson Election Is Secondary. By WALTER A. SHEAD L „ ITH the opening of the guberJvV natorial and presidential camLLLi paigns in Indiana, scheduled for Sept. 1, the political situation in the Hoosier State, at this date, is about as clear as the proverbial mud Although the troublesome KuKlux lvlan question has in a measure been eliminated as a national issue by the four-square declarations against that organization by La Follette, Davis and Dawes, the issue of the Invisible empire is still a vital one in Hoosierdom. Ed Jackson, Republican candidate for Governor, was nominated by Klan support, and continues to bid for that support, both openly and through secret organization. Dr. Carleton B. McCullough, Democratic candidate, made his convention race directly on an anti-Klan platform, and while he has not as yet brought the issue to the fore in his pre-campaign addresses, he has published his platform as against the hooded -body. R/ D. Raymond of Valparaiso, a member of the La Follette party, who declares Jie will enter the race for Governor as an Independent, and who admits he belonged to the Klan, now repdiates his brother members and declares for an anti ‘ Klan platform. Has Utile Strength While it is agreed Raymond's action may cause a slight split in the La Follette ranks, the up-State man is not given credit with having any considerable strength by La Follette leaders. Raymond declares he will suppoi't the La Follette-Wheeler ticket nationally. The question uppermost in the minds of politicians is: Where are the more than 300,000 votes claimed by the Klan going in Indiana? Democratic Kjansmen cannot consistently support Davis and McCulloch. They can hardly support Jackson and at the same time vote for Coolidge and Dawes. They cannot support La Follette consistently. While Republican leaders claim the legular Republicans throughout the State will "come around” all right and vote the eagle straight on Nov. 4, there is evidence of discontent and discord cropping out here and there even in the G. O. P. State organiza-
Regular Republicans who are not i Klnnsmen will vote for Coolidge and i Dawes, but they cannot forget how ! the organization was trampled upon i and the State Republican convention ,run by D. S. Stephenson, ex-grand ! dragon, and his Klan cohorts. They I are likely to overlook Jackson v at i the head of the State ticket. Evidences of friction in Repub- ' liean State headquarters are daily 1 apparent. Leaders who have bean party workers out-State for years, have refused to visit headquarters, because of the fact that Daily McCoy, Jackson's primary manager, is secretary of the State committee, if not a Kiansman. McCoy is known to be strongly pro-Klan and this is evidenced irt his appointments. Persons who are strangers in State politics are constantly in McCoy's outer office, usually with an ax to grind. Supporters of Mayor Lew Shank in his primnry race, and Ed Toner primary adherents have been ignored entirely in making appointments at State headquarters and ■ even in county and precinct organization. In only one office in the entire third floor of the Severin. which the State committee now occupies with dozens of clerks, bureaus and hang-ers-on, is there any spirit of harmony. Straight Republican This office is that of Mm. Vivian Wheatcraft, Whiteland, State vicechairman and head of the womens' department. Mrs. Wheatcraft is openly anti-Klan, but attempts to run a straight Republican organization without Interference from the Klan. Her's Is a real job to present an appearance of harmony. Although the Senator WatsonHarry New feud cropped out recently in she Bert Morgan fiasco, the matter has been let die out until after the election. It is known however. President Coolidge 'has given the Watson organization in Indiana his full support and indorsement. Morgan will feel this after election. Clyde Walb, Republican State chairman; Joseph Keallng, national committeeman; Governor Branch, and other Republican leaders, who attended the Coolldge notification at Washington, went to the mat. with the President and had a thorough understanding with him as to conditions in Indiana. It Is said, Coolidge agreed to recognize only the Watson force in the Hoosier State. Coolidge Wants Indiana Coolidge wants to carry Indiana, a mid-western pivotal State and every effort of both the national committee and the State organization is being made with this in view. Election of Jackson is secondary. it. fact, close observers see indicaflOT '- that Senator Watson would not be sorry to see Jackson defeated. Jackson has his eye on the United States Senatorship and Watson would not be overjoyed to have him as an opponent in four years. Another thorn in the side of Jackson supporters is the Dawes attitude on the Klan. Dawes plainly stated to the Indiana Republican committee his attitude on the subject at the recent Chicago meeting. It Is not to be supposed that should- Dawes speak in Indiana he will be allowed to do so without being forced to voice his stand against the Klan. A Thought Pie that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.—Prov 28:27: v• * * Gifts and alms are the expressions not the essence, of this virtue. — Addison.
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Tongue Tips Edward Hurst, investigator, Atlanta: “It's not the dancers at all, hut the music that is to blame for the prevalent rough-and-tumble dancing.” • • • The Rev. John D. Jones, Massachusetts: “There is no such thing as new truth, but what is new is man's’ appreciation of it.” ’ • • • Manager Dave Bancroft. Boston Braves: "I would tejl any young man, upon graduating from school or college, to go ahead if he has an offer to play a good class of minor league ball. Rut he ought to eet his education first. Tben. if he fails to make good in baseball, he can quit and get into some other line of work.” • • • Yusuke Tsurumi, Japanese author: j “Never before has American influence in Japan been as great as it is today. In alost every Tokio street you may read the unmistakable j i signs. Things American are every- ' where.”
BELOW, THE GOOD SHIP NARMHAL. UPPER LEFT, CAPT. H. C. BILLINGS. HARVARD GRADUATE AND FORMER ARMY OFFICER, ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CREW. UPPER RIGHT, COUNT W. AYVAZOGLON, FORMER RUSSIAN OFFICER, ANOTHER GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER.
Science Is there life on the moon? For many years romancers and scientists have speculated upon this subject. Most of the latter have decided that there is no life on the earth's satellite. However, it is not certain. The moon is only 240,000 miles from the earth —a very short distance in astronomy. For many years writers have told of imaginary trips to the moon. These have included Rostand in his immortal “Cyrano de Bergerac,’’ Edgar Allen Poe in “Hans Pfaal,” and stories by Jule3 Verne and 11. G. Wells. Study of the moon has been greatly revived by the stories printed about the attempt of Prof. Robert H. Goddard of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., to shoot a rocket to the moon. It is generall conceded by scientists that if life does exist on the moon, it is probably a low form of vegetation existing in hollows the atmosphere is heaviest. If there were activities approaching those of humans, such a3 the building of cities, it would be easy to see them. There is, however, a possibility of life i>eing carried on in vast caverns where the atmosphere would collect in its densest form. But such theories are not taken seriously by sdenUats.
VOYAGERS RETURN TO THEIR JOBS Rookie Crew Back From Long Trip to South Seas. By XEA. Service S' - AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 You wanderlust-smitten, take i— heed from this before you'd |go a'roaming. | A jump from the fireside and (rutted life may appeal on the day of departure. But old man Nature and the laws of diminishing returns will he right on the job demanding a rake-off from idleness and pleasure the moment j'ou co:ne hack. Such conclusion is justified from experiences of the motley crew of the good ship Narwhal, just poked through the Golden Gate after touch-
ing unknown lands in the seven seas on the grandest holiday ever terminating in this port. Eighteen months ago the Narwhal set sail from here with as green a galley of willing salts as ever weighed anchor or climbed aloft. They counted among their cabin authors, actors, scientists, an army captain, a romantic undeitaker and others of diversified avocations, twenty-two In all. Out on the main they set their sail, singing bold chanties of the deep, “Yo. ho, ho. and a bottle of rum,’’ “Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest,” and other immortal passages that have inspired maritime folk from the days of the galleon. Theirs was an empire afloat. One of their number ruled as communistic president and half-naked cannibal kings broke cocoanuts and spread the festive board for their entertainment In strange isles of the south seas. Now that the voyage is over Capt. Charles Arey says he wouldn't trade his crew for any other afloat. “They’re fine lads,” he declares. “A better crew one couldn't’ want.” Back to his funera} parlors the undertaker has gone and the artists and painters arid others stiff-legged, too, unwillingly have made their way to the hated niches of older times. From zest to mediocrity they have settled themselves, and the way ahead looks black and dour. Each day has Its unaccustomed tasks, relentless and demanding fulfillment.
TUESDAY, AUG. 26, 1924
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