Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1924 — Page 4

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WHY “MA” FERGUSON WON rpnOTTX in Texas, “Ma” Ferguson at the polls has beaten |D | all other Democratic candidates for Governor, and now “Ma” is just as good as elected Governor of the btate, the Republican party being negligible in that commonwealth. Because “Ma” will be the first woman Governor of any State, a lot of folks are excited over this great victory of womankind in politics. One would think that “Ma” Ferguson was elected because she wore skirts, or wielded a broom, or knew how to bake pies. “Ma” Ferguson wasn’t elected because she was a woman. “Ma” Ferguson was elected because she stood for something. She stood for law and order, as against the outrages of the Ku-Klux Klan. It was the cause that “Ma” Ferguson personified that won in the elections down in Texas. People voted for ‘ Ma because they wanted to swat the Klan. This isn’t to detract from the glory that is “Ma” Ferguson’s because she will be the first woman Governor in the United States. It is to put things straight, particularly for the recently enfranchised women of the country, many of whom are disappointed because women don’t seem to be getting anywhere in politics. They can all take a tip from “Ma” Ferguson. She stood for something. Women will never be elected to office because they are women, any more than men are elected merely bcause they wear pants. Women will be elected when they stand for something the people want. That’s what “Ma” Ferguson’s victory should mean to women. “BARON” ROTHSCHILD mHE DEATH .of Leopold G. Rothschild, known to nearly everyone in Indianapolis as “Baron comes as a distinct shock to his many friends. Mr. Rothschild was a familiar figure in utility affairs and in politics. He had an extremely wide acquaintance and was universally liked. In the organization of the Central Indiana Power Company and in the affairs of the Merchants Heat and Light Company he was almost invaluable to his employers. His death followed a strenuous day spent in the interest of these concerns.

THE REAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE SHIS campaign is not so much one between political parties as it is one against political parties. It has become more and more clear that both old parties have passed entirely out of the control of the voters who compose them. First they passed into the control of professional politicians and now they are in the hands of receivers appointed by big property interests. Four years ago nearly twenty millions of dollars was spent in national* congressional, senatorial and State campaigns. Now somebody had to put up that money and if he put it up he had to get something for it. "Whatever he got had to be taken from the mass of people. The campaign contributor might get a national oil reserve or a special schedule in a tariff bill. He might get a waterpower site or be let off on an anti-trust prosecution. He might be slipped a big income tax refund or be given a juicy building contract. In any case either the public domain or the public treasury is drawn on to pay back the campaign contribution with interest and usury. Not only during actual campaigns but the year around the political parties actually live and are kept alive by the bounty of their real owners —the campaign contributors. Great offices are rented the year around. Political leaders are on the party payroll the year around. There is big expense the year around and the people who pay the bills own the party. So the old parties have been put into receivership by their contributors and taken out of the hands of their members. If you don’t believe this and if you are and have been a Republican or Democrat, stop and think just how much you have had to say or could Jiave said if you wanted to about how your party is run. No, your party is run by the professional politicians, the men who make slates, run conventions and pull strings—to say nothing of lobbying—who are actually on the payroll of campaign contributors the whole year around. If this is a government by parties and if the parties are subsidized by and owned by or in the receivership of great wealth as distinguished from the people, then a correct conception of this campaign would be from that point of view. If this is a government by parties and if great wealth controls the parties then great wealth controls the government,. La Follette savs that this fact furnished the one greatest issue of the campaign. Those who seek tojend this condition are not quarreling with Democrats nor with Republicans. They are not denying the everlasting truth of the fundamental principles upon which both old parties were founded. They are quarreling with those who have usurped the rights, dutieSj powers and privileges of those parties; the money changers who have set up their tables in the temples of republicanism and democracy. ARABS OF Bagdad have taken up golf, there being something about the veracity of the game that appeals to them. HENRY FORD says he would rather go to a picnic than to the Lnited States Senate, as if there is a difference. MR. CANDIDATE DAVIS owns twenty-five walking sticks, but they are of no great value or help when a fellow is running. GERMAN MARKS are rising, being now wofth 23 cents per trillion. Buy early and before you have to pay two bits for them. * IT DEVELOPS that some 200 deceased persons voted jn a recent Portland (Me.) primary by way of illustrating what it * means to be dead right in politics. A NEW YORK judge decides that playing mah jongg is not a crime, and it isn’t. bone disease. W - •

GREAT BEAR PURSUED IN THE SKIES Legend Says Hunter Chases i Him Around North Pole, Ev DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times mHE constellation Bootes was originally called Arcturus, the name now given to the brightest star in it, students of the stars think. Arcturus - means “the bearkeeper.” But the name Bootes or the beardriver is more than 3,000 years old. It is used by Homer in the Odyssey, the poem that tells of the wanderings of the Greek hero Ulysses after the fall and sack of Troy. The ancients imagined Bootes as the figure of a mighty man carry-

“WHAT THINKS BOOTES OF THEM AS HE LEADS HIS HUNTING DOGS OVER THE ZENITH IN THJjjIR LEASH OF SIDEREAL FIRE?”

ins a spear in one hand. In the other hand he holds a leash. Two dogs for the other end of the leash were supplied by the astronomer Hevelius In 1690. who made the picture of the two hunting dogs out of a small group of stars near Bootes. Bootes gets his name from the fact that he seems to be driving the Great Bear in circles around the north star. Sometimes he is called the plowman. This tits in with the faot that the Great Dipper is sometimes eailed the plow. Referred to by Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, the English writer, has an interestiry reference to Bootes in his “Sartor Resartus.” One of the characters, Herr Teufelsdrockh, returning from the coffee house at midnight, says: % “It is true sublimity to be here. These fringes of lamplight, struggling up through the smoke and thousandfold exhalation, some fathoms Into the ancient region of nifcht, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his hunting dogs over the zenith in their leash of sidereal fire?" There is a variety of legends to account for the identity of the beardriver. According to one legend, he was the inventor of the plow. According to another legend, however, he was Erichthonius, the inventor of the chariot. He has also been thought to represent Atlas, who holds up the world on his shoulders. This idea is thought to have originated as a resuit of the nearness of the constellation to the pole star. Called Barking Dog Other figures have also been imagined in the constellation. The ancient Hebrews called the constellation "the barking dog,” while the early Christians gave it the name of St. Sylvester. At one time the Greeks also called it “the wolf.” Such names as ‘‘the barking dog” or “the wolf” probably originated with the Arabs who pictured a pastoral scene in the stars around the north pole, imagining a shepherd, his flock, his •watchdogs and lurking wolves as accupying this part of the sky.

Next Article: The Constellation Virgo. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz) Nature The common stingray, which sometimes makes the Pacific beach bather yell so you can hear him five miles off, buries Itself In the mud save as to Its eyes. The rat-tair ray sometimes attains the length of six feet. Its flesh resembles raw beefsteak and It is able to grow another tail, upon losing its original. When it seriously feels the hook, it dives to the bottom and takes a hold that is hard to break. It is a terror to anything like light tackle and is sometimes caught with yard3 of old line trailing from its mouth. It will bite at anything from live minnow to salted sardine, and, when first hooked, has a habit of coming to the surface for a good look at the fisherman. If it doesn’t like his looks, it tries to break the passage record to Japan and there sure ensues business for rod and reel. No Doubt About It To avoid chartering a special car to ship 200 pounds of limburger cheese, a manufacturer packed it in a rough, oblong box and checked it as a corpse. At the first stop he went ahead to the baggage car to see there was no trouble. He stood by the box in a disconsolate attitude ivnd shaded his eyes with his hand. The baggage man was sympathetic. “A relative?” he asked. “Yes, it’s my brother.” “Well, you have one consolation. He’s dead, all right.”—Laughs.

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i R. F. D. By HAL COCHRAN A little old mailbox stands out in the road and it plainly is marked “R. F. D.” A heap of real sentiment in it is sewed though it means naught to you or to me. A little old lady and little old man care not if the thing looks forlorn. It’s well served its purpose as any box can, and a pathway out to it they’ve worn. Each day when the mailman is making his run he stops; then he’s soon on his way. The rural old people rush out, and it’s fun> just to see what he's left them each day. A mail order house sends a catalogue fine. It’s bulky as bulky can be. But nevertheless they will read every line and all of the pictures they'll see. The other odd things that are carelessly hurled and that lighten the mail master’s load, just keep rural people in touch with the world through the mailbox that stands in the road. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service.)

In New York By STEVE HANNAOAN XFTW YORK, Aug. 27.—1 none of those Intimate night clubs, which open at 10:30 o’clock at night ar.d close the next morning when stenographers and office help are rushing to begin the day's work. Is a | dainty young woman who sings. The club accommodates perhaps \ 200 guests and there is hut one \ waiter. The orchestra is composed |of a versatile piano player. Several , hostesses are employed to Jolly up j anaemic groups. The crowd begins to congregate | after the theater and then the frivol- ; ity begins. ' Drinks are sl. There is i a small space for dancing. Singing hectic jazz tidbits w-ith numerous variations the little song i lady keeps tho-crowd in good cheeruntil late in the morning. It is then j she begins the crooning of mournful melodies that appeal to the late j hangers-on. especially the men. Tears are shed in profusion and i the girl is requested to repeat vari-l ous sorrowing numbers over and j over again. Men thinking of the wife! and family back in a mid-Western town and women recalling the hap- : pier days of the fleeting girlhood. j It is a slow night that th# songster does not receive $25 in tips. Often she gathers as much as SSO. People who cry pay more than those 1 who laugh. Hostesses who sympathize with- - men on a lark are; tipped from $5 to S2O for their synthetic emotions. All evening the I girls drink "downs” at $t a copy.; “Downs” consists of a small glass of j ginger ale masquerading as liquor, j They are not permitted to drink on j duty. The substitute waiter made $67 In I tips the other evening. The regular! waiter is spending a two-months vacation in Europe.

Mother-in-law stories should be j outlawed, but this one is on court record. Mrs. Ida K. Greenwood has been restrained by court from crossing the street in front of her home to go to the residences of two sisters of her son-in-law and from talking with them or their neighbors. She was charged with "spluttering her mother-in-law spite.” * * • “I got a paekagp for Mr. Ziegfeld from the captain and I don't give if to anybody but him. It’s worth my job on the ship if I do,” explained a young man in Florenz Ziegfeld's offices. He was ushered Into the private office of the man who glorifies American girls and is regarded as the hardest man on Broadway to approach. In the package were six quarts of water. In an envelope the young man handed Ziegfeld was a court Bummons. He was a process server. Science T. Alexander Barns has recently returned to this country from the Ituri forest in central Africa. This section is the land of the Tarzan of fiction and,is populated by gorillas and chimpanzees. He says, however, that thi| most interesting feature of the trip was his study of an elephant school at th’e settlement of Api, a place controlled by Belgium. In India, the elephant, because of his remarkable intelligence, is a very useful beast. He does much of the public work, such as road-making, track-laying, etc. He carries materials that, in America for example, would be transported on motor (rucks. The Belgians started the training school for elephants at Apl in order to use them in the same way as in’ India. The tsetse fly in this section of Africa makes it practically impossible to keep horses and oxen. The fly is deadly to these animals, but the elephant is unaffected by it.

DEMOCRATS TO GAIN ON KLAN ISSUE Chambers Predicts Party Will Win More Votes Than Is Lost, By WALTER A. SHEAD. 1 PPROXEVIATELY 30,000 Democratic Klansmen will desert 11— — 1 the party in Indiana in the gubernatorial election, according to estimates of Walter S. Chambers, Democratic State chairman. Chambers, however, estimates there are approximately 100,000 Democratic Klansmen, but that the oalance will stay by the State ticket, voting as Democrats first. Democratic Klansmen, according to statements of some, “are tired of paying Klan assessments into the Republican campaign fund.” To offset loss, Chambers claims the Democrats will gain approximately 15,000 Jewish Republican voters; about 25,000 Republican Catholics and in the neighborhood of 100.000 Republican Protestants, who are anti-Klan. Chambers is also counting on a heavier proportion of the negro vote for the Democrats this year than | ever- In the history of Indiana poli tics. The Klan issue, no doubt, will drive many of the negro leaders from the party of Lincoln. Different Polling Method Different mode of polling the negro vote is also being tried this year. Heretofore this was left to paid poll takers, in most instances, named by Republican county chairmen, and as a result, many negro names were not found o.i registration records at election time. Negroes themselves, however, are taking the poll this year and one of the largest regisfrations in colored districts in years :s expected to result. Democrats want all the negroes counted this year. Republican leaders are spending much money in colored precinct i, and already some leaders, who are to be found from year to year on thside of the heaviest silver fist, are getting In their work. Mass Meetings Held • Schuyler Haas, Republican Seventh district chairman, who has purchased the “Indianapolis Ledger,” a negro paper. Is bending every effort to corral the negro vote through its columns. Several mass meetings of negroes have been heid in Indian- ; a polls recently, which have been turned into anti-Klan dmeonstra- | tions. The negroes are gradually : losing their fear of the hoodt-d brethren ar.d the white sheet end head mask no longer scarces them. There is every appearance of harj mony and unity In the Democratic ranks. The Democrat*** will make | the State campaign solely on State I issues, leaving national issues to I speakers from the national commit-

tee. Democrats are not spending much | money, as compared with Republic- ! aiis - Chambers has declared an ex- j pensive campaign does more harm than good and he is depending on I thorough nrganiation, the Demo- ; era tier platform and Republican sins | to win the campaign. Have Best Arguments That the Democrats have the best side of the arguments so far as State issues are concerned, cannot he ; J denied. In the light of the adminis-| tration of Goodrich and McCray and the resultant scandals, the average* | taxpayer is more than willing to 11s- ; ten to promise.! of relief from the : Democratic platform. Eabor voters. Ignored by the Republicans In their State platform, jwiil also likely support the Demo- ! cratic State ticket and the labor conjvenUon at South Bend, Aug. 27 and _’S will likely Indorse the Democratic | platform. With Lincoln Dixon, North Vernon, in charge of Davis’ western j ! headquarters at Chicago, Hoosiers ! , are assured cream of the national | speakers. The State speakers” bu- ; reau In charge of Omer S. Jackson, primary campaign manager for Dr. ; Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic j gubernatorial candidate. Is flooded 1 with requests for speakers and there 1 will be no dearth of talent when a j schedule Is completed. From this early date appearances ! point, to n victory for McCulloch over |Ed Jackson, the Republican candidate for Governor. From Indications, the presidential vote for John W. Davis will fall behind the McCulloch I vote in Indiana.

Tom Sims Says After everybody gets well educated there will be no one left .o do our work for us. 1 You never can understand women. One had a man arrested for cruelty to a rat Some towns are so lucky. In St. Louis an insurance man is missing. Chicago bandits robbed a poker game and the winners lost heavily. When a man tells a girl why his wife doesn’t understand him it usually is because she does. Mud baths are being used to make people beautiful, but you don’t see very many pretty politicians. Some of these stump speakers will be up a tree soon. Georgia woman who wondered if lid eves would get money hidden in a piano, found they would. People who live in rented houses should not write telephone numbers on the walls. Every man Is entitled to life .liberty and freedom in the pursuit of money. Most people have to work. That is why they do it. The man who doesn't know good manners frequently gets into the soup while eating it. Men become intoxicated with love. That is why it is bootlegged. Truth is stranger than fiction. It doesn’t come around as often. About the hardest thing to cure is injured feelings. Every man knows he will accidentally mail a letter in a trash can before he dies.

TINY NEMA IS PUZZLE TO SCIENCE Organism Both Harmful and Helpful to Crops, By KFA Service , y 1 71 ASHIXGTOX, Aug. 27.—At the \Jy same time disastrous and ben____J ethial to farming, the nema, a thread-like organism, is presenting a difficult problem to Government scientists. It is problem of segregating the harmful from the helpful, finding ways to combat the first type while trving to encourage the other. Tackling this proposition for the T'nited States Government is Dr. X. A. Cobb, nematologist. He has studied these organisms for the last forty years and is so busy trying to learn more about them that assistants keep a battery of micro-

NEMAS ARE LINED UP BY ASSISTANTS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IX WASHINGTON FOR STUDY BY DR. X. A. COBB. GOVERNMENT NEMATOLOGIST. AS DR. COBB FINISHES STUDYING ONE SPECIMEN HE ROTATES THE TABLE TO THE NEXT MICROSCOPE AND EXAMINES THE NEXT COLLECTION OF NEMA.

scopes revolving on a circular table before him, with specimens to study. The nema, one of the most widely prevalent organisms in the world, Is not a worm, although it resembles one. It’s threadlike in form and varies in size from too small tq be seen without a microscope to several feet long and the diameter of a lead pencil. It is highly organized, with organs, of hearing, seeing, eating, smelling, a nervous system, but no circulatory system. Hundreds of varieties of nema have been highly destructive to crops, while others have been parasites on animals and insects harmful to crops. There is a nema parasitic on the grasshopper and scientists are now trying to see whether they can’t control the hoppers by dis" tibuting these enemies -where the grasshoppers are now free of them. The worst nema for the farmer is the gall nema, which produces rootknot or galls on large numbers of rops. It attacks about 500 different plants, including weeds. THe trouble is worst in the south and in greenhouses in all parts of the country. But it does damage In all but the most northern States and sometimes even there. Sometimes crop Josses have run as high as 80 per cent. There have been big losses of cotton, potatoes, sugar beets, truck crops, tomatoes and nursery products. They have not yet molested corn, most grasses, barley, wheat, rye, winter oats, sorghum and some other plants. By growing some 'of these immune crops for a year or more the infestation can be cut down. In greenhouses the nemas can be killed out by sterilizing the soil in the beds with steam.

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Ask The Times You can pet an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1332 New Vork Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential —Editor. Who was Thomas A. Becket? Archbishop of Canterbury. He and the King of England, Henry 11. disagreed, and Thomas A. Becket was finally murdered as the result of a hasty wish on the part of the i king that someone would rid him jof this prelate. The king afterwards did penance at the shrine of Becket. t . Is it proper for a lady to stop In a public dining room at the table of another party to speak to a friend? Xo, she should simply nod and smile her greetings. What does the name ‘Amanda” i mean? “Worthy of love.” Can tulips be raised* from seed. \ and if so, how? Yes they can. but it will take you | four or five years to get flowers, and

they wall not be the same variety as the parent flowers. The seeds should be planted in boxes in light sandy soil in cold frames In late winter, and should be planted as deep as four times the diameter of the seed at least. What are the possible reasons why an automobile engine might overheat? Carbonized cylinders; too much driving at low speed: spark retarded too far, causing late ignition; def fective ignition system; not enough or poor grade oil; racing engine; clogged muffler; Improper carbureter adjustment; fan not working properly on account of broken or slipping belt; improper circulation of water due to clogged radiator tubes. Is It true that there is some kind of insect that will bore holes in lead coverings of electric cables? Yes, there is an inset known an the lead beetle or lead borer. What was the highest price ever paid for a painting? So far as we are informed, the highest price ever paid for a single oil painting was the $640,000 paid for Gainsborough’s "Blue Boy” bought by Henry E. Huntington. Is there a South Magnetic Pole? If so, what w r as its position in 1916? Yes, there is a South Magnetic Pole, the approximate position of which in 1916 was lat. 72 deg. S., long. 153 deg. E. f What becomes of the money the United States receives from the tariff? It is turned into the Treasury and used in helping to defray the expenses of the Government.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27,' 1924

POPULAR VOTE MOVE UNDER WAY Possibility of Election Tangle May Bring About Reforms, Timet Washington Bureau, 1322 Sew York Ave. ASHIXGTOX, Aug. 27.—1f this year’s election results in an election situation, so confused that electoral reform may be ; necessary to prevent its recurrence ! in the future. Congress will have before it a plan first proposed by j several Congressman of 1577, and re- | cently revived and remodeled by C. | G. Hoag, secretary of the Proportional Representation League of Philadelphia, and organization devoted to studying election systems and planning their improvement. Hoag would abolish the block system, or unit rule, and apportion i j the electoral votes of each State

among the various candidates In ex-j act proportion to the number off popular votes cast for those candidates. In this way he provides for responding more closely to the will of the people without changing the present relative power of the States. He anticipates strong opposition from smaller States if presidential elections were placed squarely on the basis of population, and proposes his compromise as a step In the right direction. Under the present block system. New York, for instance cast 759,426 popular votes for Woodrow Wilson, and 869,115 for Hughes, in 1916. But New York’s forty-five electoral votes were ail -accredited to Hughes. Under Hoag’s plan, twenty would have gone to Wilson and twenty-five to. Hughes. The 759,426 persons who preferred Wilson were literally disenfranchised under the present system. Hoag would let them, even though in a minority, help their favorite candidate. Hoag’s amendment provides that in case no candidate receives more than half the presidential votes of the States, the House of Representatives elected that year shall he. summoned in special session to elect, and shall vote by members instead of by States. A Thought A merry heart doeth good likei medicine; but a broken spirit drieth" the bor.es.—Prov. 17:22. He who sings frightens away his ills.—Cervantes.