Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EAELE E. MARTIN, Effitor-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 Scripps-Paine Service. • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos 214-220 W Marvland St., Indianapolis * * Subscription Kates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

LET THE CITY RULE ITSELF TTTAYOR SHANK is everlastingly right when he declares JVI the city of Indianapolis should be given power to govern itself. He proposes anew city charter as a means to that end. More and more the Legislature of Indiana has taken over control of Indianapolis affairs. The city can do hardly anything without consulting the Legislature, which seems to take a paternal interest in Indianapolis. Anyone who has watched the Legislature can easily understand what this means. The great majority of the Assembly iks composed of members who live outside of Indianapolis. This is as it should be, because a gQpeat majority of the people of Indiana live outside of Indianapolis. But the legislators from up state and down state have a peculiar feeling toward Indianapolis. They have a tendency to believe that the rest of the State should be served and that if there is anything left consideration should be given Indianapolis. But at the same time they are forever limiting the activities of the city. Mayor Shank is proposing anew city charter in order, he says, that more power should be given the council and the mayor and that the various taxing units, which are yearly piling up the taxes, be consolidated. Asa matter of fact, Indianapolis or any other city, should be as nearly self governing as possible and still comply with the laws of the State and the United States. Special legislation should be necessary only in rare instances. The city council should be impowered to enact its own legislation. The country has taken rapid strides in the development of municipal government since the last city charter was adopted in 1905. Indianapolis is behind the procession. It might be well at least to consider going a step farther than the mayor suggests and adopting a city manager form of government. If the city is made more nearly self-governing—and there is no doubt it should be—the citizens of Indianapolis should take more interest in their government, at least to the extent of electing the most capable men available to the city council and as executive heads of the city. No government, regardless of how nearly ideal it might be in principle, can be successful unless administered by capable officials. ONE WAY TO CUT TAXES EREDITH NICHOLSON, the well-known author, aspires ** H to the Indiana legislature on a no-more-laws platform. In the Johnstown (Pa.) district. Editor Warren W. Bailey is a Democratic candidate for Congress with much the same sort of slogan. “If you agree with me that a reduction of taxes is desirable,” says Bailey in his announcement of his candidacy, “and if you believe with me that the cost of government is beyond all reason. I shall expect your support. I do not expect the support of those who want to get more laws, and more bureaus, and more commissions and more job-holders.” It takes courage as well as common sense to speak out in public as do these men. They are in a way, and are breaking new ground. They are right, too. We have more laws than we need now. They are burdens rather than contributions to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Every new law that is placed on the statute books calls for enforcement, enforcement calls for job-holders, job-holders call for money, and money is secured only by taxation. There you have it as plain as the light of day. Every law—all law—is part and parcel of the stupendous and grinding tax structure we have built up, and always will be so. The necessary law exacts from us the price we should pay for stable government. The unnecessary law exacts graft from us and at the same time, tribute to blood sucking bureaus, commissions, pap-suck-ers, pie-eaters and crib-huggers. But the leaven of common sense in legislation is working. The aspirations of such men as Nicholson and Bailey promise it. A MODERN FAIRY PRINCE SHE PRINCE OF WALES has come at last with his thirty trunks and suitcases, his polo ponies, his fourteen relatives and servants and his four armed guards trailing along behind. For a young man who has such a bright future before him and seems to be a regular sort of chap, we feel downright sorry for the Prince. We wouldn't tell him so for fear of hurting his feelings, but our sympathy goes right down to our gizzard. If the Prince succeeds in his chosen profession—i. e., that of being a king—it’s going to be despite, and not because of hia friends. Already, in their efforts to fall over themselves, they have tried to make him a king of a fairyland, whether he likes it or not. For instance, on the ship coming over it was demonstrated to the complete and utter satisfaction of those who gave out the glowing interviews to the newspapers that— The Prince, after a tour of the engine room, was found to kr< w as much about the engines as the chief engineer. The Prince, amid numerous other contestants, won the prize in the fancy dress ball. The Prince showed the navigation officers a thing or two when it came to taking observations with the sextant. The Prince’s team lost in a tug-of-war on deck, but it could have won if it wanted to. The Prince “with a piston-like blow” cut the lip of Boxing Instructor Mason, whereupon the latter said, “Excuse me, sir.” The Prince was the best dancer on board. The Prince showed the ship’s steward a thing or two. And so on, and on—but there’s no need for us to take up your time and ours with all the glowing details of his prowess in every form of human endeavor. If the Prince is as proficient in all the varied lines that his friends boast of, then he has too much ability for one man. That being the case, he ought to incorporate himself. BUT 'WHY shouldn’t Mr. Candidate Davis knock, if he wants to get in? IT’S A FINE point, but can a man who has disturbed the Plymouth rocks of Vermont be called a dirt farmer in truth? WHEN THAT Michigan postmistress delivered the mail in her bathing suit her patrons thought the Sunday rotogravure section was arriving.

SHE WORKS TO GET OUT WOMAN VOTE Mrs, A, TANARUS, Hert Asks Feminine Voters to Get in Politics, By XEJI Service CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—Thirty million women will be expected to cast their ballots for President next November. Four years ago only about 25 per cent of the women, who were eligible to vote, did so. Tire leader of the Republican women in this country has just sounded a call to the whole 30,000,000 to expresss their political opinions through the ballot box. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, vice chairman of the Republican national committee, and as such the leader of Republican women of the

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country, is asking women of small towns and rural communities to interest themseivos in politics. Mrs. H. rt spent the early years of her married life on a small farm in Kentucky. Later on they bought a larger farm and in time her husband entered tile American Creosoting Company, later becoming its president. Mrs. Hert is now chairman of the board. Interests Farm Women Since Mr. Hert’s death, Mrs. Hert lias always retained her interest in the farm. She was brought up in a small community in Indiana and before her marriage taught school. “One wish I have before all others,” she says, "is to get the women on the farms to take an Interest in politics and to bring home to them the value of their votes.” Education for children of farms and of remote country districts has been studied by Mrs. Hert. She has been especially interested in providing educational advantages for the children in the cabin schools of the Kentucky mountains. Mrs. Hert has ushered in anew order of things in politics. She combines a forceful, businesslike mind with charming personality.] She is tall and graceful and simply gowned. Works With Men This new woman leader considers that there is no division between men and women in politics. She says, “We want to work sympathetically side by side with the men In all that will aid political success and party welfare.” The same business methods which she applies to her own business are being used to organize the Republican women of this country'. She believes that women should contribute to the party campaign fund just as they contributed to war funds. It has been said of women political leaders and the same thing applies to me, that no woman can be a national leader who is not an unquestioned leader in her home State and who has not the support of her party In her home State. Mrs. Hert has both of these things. She is national committee-woman from Kentucky and was vice chairman of the Republican State committee. She recently opened headquarters for the Republican women in the north Wrigley Bldg, here, more recently built of the "Wrigley Twins.” Science Government scientists have conducted experiments to find out, among other things, whether fat or thin persons can endure heat better. Strange to say, fat persons stand It better. The stout ones lost more weight than the thin ones, but could endure the heat for a longer period and were less exhausted at the close of the experiment. It was learned that persons can endure very high temperature and humidity for a short time, but that they cannot endure what might be called moderate heat and moisture for a long period of time. The discomfort caused the subject always was marked by an increase in the pulse. Asa rule, they did not show signs of great discomfort until the pulse had reached 135 beats a minute. By the time it got to 160, they complained of unbearable symptoms. Another strange result of the experiments was to let those who wished drink all the Ice water they wanted. Several did this with no bad effects. The tests indicated that 90 degrees Fahrenheit and 10 per cent relative humidity is as mtich as the human body can endure indefinitely.

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The Lid’s Off By HAL COCHRAN Each year brings the time when the straw lid’s passe, and father turns back to his felt. The straw is too frail-like when cold Is the day, though it’s fine wheh the sun makes you melt.The longer you hang to a lid that you wear the more a friend it will grow. The trusty ole/, straw that you park on your hair is the kind that the men folks ail know. But breezes seep in when the summer fades out and they seep through the straw, so ’tis said. Experience tells you there isn’t a doubt that this leads to a cold in the head. Now, who wants to sneeze and have watery eyes, and all for the sake of a hat? Why, no one, it seems, so the straw kelly dies as the mercury starts to fall flat. There’s one thing that’s queer (and it’s true every year) about straw hats you purchase in May. Folks hang on to felts till they’re worn out of gear, but they always throw straw lids away. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, Sept. 3. —Ocean Liner Row. Ten p. m. Great piers where great boats arrive and depart for strange lands. Aliens, ciad in colorful garb, edgnig away in the darkness of a New York night. Fish. Ugh. A tipsy sailor from a foreign port. Three cooks in kitchen white out for a breath of air. The Olympic Is sailing at 1 a. m. Happy crowds arriving in limousines and taxicabs. "Get a flag and j wave good-by to your mother-in-law," harks an aged man with a large stock of flags of all lands. An elderly matron in black stares at him in derision. Must have a married daughte. A Beau Brummel sailing for Paris opens a handbag to extract his passport. What ho! The clink of bottles. Taking a sandwich ito a surefire banquet. Bet be always has an extra collarbutton in his vest pocket. Many sightseeing visitors aboard. Visiting an ocean liner develops a desire for travel that cannot be denied. Hello, there! Gloria Swanson, the movie actress. She is wearing i brown sun-glasses, a pink dross, i black cape and hat to match. Not ia soul recognizes her. Better take 1 off your disguise, Gloria. She came to say good-by to Forrest Halsey, her story adapter, going to France to prepare the way for her new picture. Deck stewards haggard and worn. They’ve been on duty seventeen hours. One o'clock in the morning is an unusual sailing hour from this uort. But it Is popular. Except for those who are seeking publicity. The ship news photographers don't work at night. The meanest trick played ♦onight. Somebody sent that jolly fellow a sample of every remedy for sea-sick-ness on the market. He admits he'll probably need them. A crowd on deck fighting to peer through a stateroom window. Wonder who the popular person is? Charles Do Roche, the French movie idol who has been here for twenty months. Like a caged lion with sideshow spectators looking on. He’d have made a good football player. Shoulders like a full back. Clang! The warning bell. All visitors off. A scramble. Kisses and tears. Handshakes a.nd heartaches. Thera goes the first gang plank. They are taking in the second. Gee, that fellow made the boat, by a step. A second later and it, would have taken two "jumps. He probably catches trains while they are moving out of the station. There she goes! The tugs take hold of her. Ships that go out to sea at night. 1 The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. A man in the end chair who likes to munch the end of his cigar, nearly overlaffed himself when Pete the porter looked at him intently and said, “Hey, mister, your chew is goin’ out.” * * • Jerry Jambar, who went to New York to make a mark for himself, made one of himself instead. ♦ * * Blondy the manicure says a woman acknowledges her age when she begins to prefer comfort to style. * • * “Old Man” Hemmenhaw refused to look at Mars through a telescope in front of the shop last night because he believes in seeing America first. • * • Pete the porter writes two hands —one he can’t read himself and one nobody can read. • • • NEXT!

MILLION ARE INVOLVED IN CHINA WAR Conflict Turns on Political and Personal Ambitions of Leaders, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Times Foreign Editor. Tyrl ASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—-More yy than a million troops may JL— J oecome involved in China’s new war before iy is finished. A checkmp shows that 739,820 soldiers, at the lowest possible estimate, are now mobilized and ready for action. The future of the war turns upon the ambitions, mostly purely personal, of some eight native leaders. These are: 1. Marshal Tsao Kun, president of China. 2. Marshal Wu Pei-fu, war lord of Chihli and adjacent territory. 3. Marshal Chang Tso-lin, dictator in Manchuria and eastern Mongolia. 4. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the Canton, or South China government. 5. General Feng Yu-hsiang, Christian commander in Peking. 6. General Chi Hsieh-yuan, military governor of Kiangsu, in which province Shanghai is situated. 7. General Ho Feng-lin, defense commissioner of Shanghai. 8. General Lu Yun-Hsiang, military governor of Chekiang Province, south of Shanghai. Future at Stake In the hands of these men rest the whole course of the war and the immediate fulurc of China. To most of them such things as Cabinets, presidents, parliaments, even the republic Itself, are but chips in a poker game. The one who can put most in his pocket, wins. Marshal Chang, a former bandit who came into power in Manchuria thanks to Japanese intervention in his behalf, is officially credited with having 103,120 men In his command. He probably has 50,000 more than that. Marshal Wu Pei-fu, President Tsao Kun’s mainstay, has some 330,000. When Marshal Chang marched nn Peking eighteen months ago. Marshal Wu defeated him in a pitched battle fought under the very walls of Peking, and ever since then Chang has been hiding his time, waiting to catch Wu off his guard. At tics writing hostilities have commenced between Gen. Chi Hsiehyuan. of Kiangsu. with headquarters at Nanking, and Gen. Ho Feng-lin, Defense Commissioner of Shanghai The purported object is to oust Ho, gain control < f the Nanyang Arsenal there and bring the New York of China under Chi's authority. Chi is understood to command 98,120 troops. Action in Doubt General Lu, of Chekiang, with a command of 44,580 men, is leaning toward his successor in Shanghai, General Ho. Together these allies should muster a strength about equal that of General Chi. The question is what will Wu Peifu, the federal commander, do? It is reported President Tsao Kun has ordered him to crush General Lu, of Chekiang, which would necessitate operations against Shanghai. Would Wu weaken his forces about Pekin by sending a strong column 824 miles south across the Yangtze, China’s Mississippi, Chang would almost surely seize the chance to capture the capital. Dr. Sun, in Canton, Is already at war against Pekin and has been for three years. If Chang marches against Wu from the north. Sun would probably attack from the south, combining forces with Lu and Ho. Sun’s army numbers 132,000 men, according to latest count. With the Christian General Feng’s command of 30,000 troops, strategically located in Peking, on their side —and it Is rumored he may desert President Tsao Kun—the antigoverument, combined armies would number 365.000 men as against the government’s paper strength of approximately the same. These figures do not take Into account the military forces in Szchuan. one of the largest and most populous of China’s states, nor of several other provinces where troops totaling two hundred thousand or more are engaged In fighting among tnemselves. robbing the countryside or idling away their time, depending upon the locality and their own sweet will.

Tom Sims Says “Don’t spf nd all you make,” said Franklin, but some get it mixed and don’t make all they spend. The secret of many a suddenly rich man’s success Is a secret still. Sometimes wisdom comes with years and sometimes the years come alone. It takes 5,000 bees to weigh a pound, but one bee can make you sit down like a couple of tons. When a man goes to the dogs many former friends bark at him. It is hard to be crooked and keep a straight face. In Jugoslavia, Congress is called Skupshtina, which is nothing to what our Congress is sometimes called. Chicago girl says she will marry the man who pays her father’s debts, but applicants had better find out who made the debts. Artificial bait has caught more fishermen than fish this summer. Talk may be cheap, but cheap things don’t pay. Beer is so high in Germany the poor people can’t buy it and the same is true in the United States. Money doesn’t talk as much as some people who have money. You can’t make ends meet If they are loose ends. Many a politician sitting on the political fence has an expression on his face like he was sitting on a tack. Nice thing about being married is you never have to decide where vou will spend your vacation.

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KANSAS IS ON TOP OF THE WORLD State Has Big Corn Crop While Other Places Suffer, Times U'nsMn.cfon Bureau, 1522 Stic York Ave. r~ —] ASHING TON, Sept. 3.—Kansas is the “nouveau riche” ___ among the farm States. She profits two ways this year. First, she has a corn crop slightly above normal, and it's a bad corn year generally iti the United States. The country is short 470,000,000 bushels of corn. We may have to Import it from the Argentine. Kansas, however, has 123,000,000 bushels of corn, where she had only 122,000,000 bushels last year. For that her corn growers can get 93 cents a bushel right now. They could get only 82 cents this time last year. If the -.-rop in the Middle-West should suiter because o£ early frost. Kansas and southern farmers will be able to got still higher prices because of their neighbors’ misfortunes. (Top Is Assured Oklahoma has twice as much corn this year as last, and Texas has a fair crop. Like Kansas, the southern States have their corn crop assured. They don’t have to worry about the weather any more. Kansas also profits by sharing in bumper wheat crop. While the world is short 300,000,000 bushels of wheat, the Department of Agriculture estimates the United States will have 814,000,000 bushels, which is 25.000,000 bushels more than we had last year. For this the American farmer is now able to get about 25 cents more per bushel than he could get last year. Kansas has 154.000,000 bushels of wheat. Last year she had 84,000,000 bushels. Corn prospects for the more northern middle western States are gloomy. Minnesota is expected to have 130,000.000 bushels, compared to 155,000,000 bushels last year. Wisconsin. 73,000,000 bushels, compared to 83.000,000 last year. lowa, 361,000,000 bushels compared to 430,000,000 bushels last year. Nebraska, 211,000,000 bushels compared to 272,000.000 bushels last year. Illinois, 283.000,000 bushels compared to 337,000,000 last year. Indiana, 121.000,000 bushels compared to 193,000,000 bushels last year. Ohio, 101.000,000 bushels compared to 160,000,000 bushels last year. Conditions Improved Kansas is said to be in good condition for the first time in five years. Total sales of corn, wheat and other crops, . togethed with sales of live stock and animal products, it is believed, will bring cash receipts of $380,000,000, compared to $293,000,000 last year. However, the 1920 census gives Kansas 165,286 farmers. The increased cash receipts would be only about $530 each, if divided equally. Os course it doesn’t work out that way. Some farmers in Kansas are making 25 to 100 per cent more money this year than last year, when complete failure was the lot of many. However, extra money taken in even by Kansas farmers this year may have to go to pay debts.

Nature Cow Parsnip or Woolly parsnip, to be found growing on moist banks of ponds and ditches, has large fan shaped leaves and Is named for Hercules on account of its Immense root and stalk. This stalk will grow eight feet tall wtih a base two inches thick and wrapped in matted white hair. Leaves are densely covered underneath by this same woolly hair. The whole plant smells rak ad its juice upon one’s skin quickly draws blisters. In springtime cattle will sometimes eat the new shoots when it is allowed to grow about drinking places, making the animals very ill. As it grows older they leave it alone.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question iff iact or mfurnjation by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New Yorti Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps ior reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research bo undertaken. Ah other questions will receive a persona! reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AU ietters are confidential —Editor Why is It that the American Indians do not have beards? Avery meager growth of beard is characteristic of the American Indian race, but it has been an Indian custom to pluck the beard by means of crude tweezers made of two stones. How is corn roasted at an openair "corn roast?” The ears of corn, without being shucked, are packed in the ashes of the bonfire around the edges of the fire and left until the shucks are black. Then the ears are shucked and served in the usual manner with plenty of butter and salt. Will eating salmon poison dogs? Salmon is a common food for dogs and should not poison them unless it has been allowed to stand in tne can. What determines the color of one’s hair? Why does the hair of different people differ in color? The color of the hair depends upon the amount of color pigments which it contains, the amount of air in the intercellular spaces and the character of the external surface. The color Is more or less a racial characteristic, and the variance in the color of hair of one race is usually accounted for by the intermingling of races. How old is Richard Dix: what is his height, weight and coloring? He Is 30 years old; height, 6 feet and weight, 185 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Where, when and by whom was President Garfield shot? In the old Pennsylvania Railroad depot. Sixth St., below Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C., July 2, 1881, by Charles Jules Guiteau. How many farmers’ cooperative associations are there in the United States? It is estimated that the total is approximately 12,000. What Is the origin of the name Burke? Burke is an Irish name, but is derived from the German, “burg,” which means “castle.” What is trional? A white crystalline compound used in medicine as a hypontie. It has no injurious after-effects and does not lead to the formation of an organic habit, but is poisonous to some extent.

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Mrs. Melissa J. Gatch, cousin of Gen. Ulysses Grant, and the last of the Grant family, recently celebrated her ninety-fifth birthday anniversary at her home near Milford, Ohio. Scores of war veterans met to pay homage to her. In her honor, also, a Covington (Ky.) church dedicated a tablet which now adorns the pew where General Grant worshiped while in the North during the war.

two party , SYSTEM IS SHATTERED This Feeling Is Growing Among Politicians in Washington, By CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer ryTl ASHINGTON, Sept. 3 —The yy theory that the old two-party _! system of government in this j country has broken down beyond i hope of repair is gaining ground in Washington every day. If the La Follette-Wheeler ticket makes a strong showing in November, it is agreed that progressiveism undoubtedly can be regarded as having come to stay. But it is not so generally conceded that a general realignment will ensue. into two new groups, liberal an‘d conservative. Old hands in Washington incline to think, instead, that there still will be Republicans and Democrats —at any rate, for a long time to come—with the progressives as a third party in the field. Blocs Predicted The prediction is made further that the next Congress will see a more definite splitting blocs, none of which may ever develop into a regular party, with candidates under its own distinct emblem on eletcion days, but which practically will amount to that so far as congressional proceedings are concerned A situation of this sort is awkward. It ties up legislation. It makes governments uncertain and weak. Nevertheless, these difficulties can be overcome to some etxent by temporary combinations of various groups on questions on which they agree. It doesn’t’ work satisfactorily. The combinations are unj stable. They are constantly breaking up and being put together in new ways. But they do make a certain amount of legislation possible. Such conditions exist In most European countries now. Election Difficult But the election of presidents of the United States under anything lut a two-party system becomes very difficult, indeed. In most European countries the real chief executive Is the premier, who simply is the recognized head of the moninant parliaremtary combination and who hcanges automat icajly as the combinations chang*. But here a presidential candidate, to win, must have a “majority over all” in the electoral college. With three or more candidates competing, obviously it is easily possible for no candidate to be able to get such a majority. In such a case the House of Representatives must choose, and If the House deadlocks, too, then the Senate must make the choice. There’s a bare chance of a deadlock there, also, and then presumably there must be another election, with perhaps a fresh deadlock. Such a state of affairs, possibjy every four years, clearly never would do. A Thought This people honoreth me with their lips r but their heart is far from me. —Mark 7:6. If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites: they are the greatest dupes he has. —Colton. Lots of listeners “How do you find marriage?" “During courtship I talked and she listened. After marriage she talked and I listened. Now we both talk and the neighbors listen.”—Boston Transcript. Little Sister There “What were you and Mr. Smith talking about in the parlor?” demanded an irate mother. “Oh. we were discussing our kith and kin,” replied the young lady. “Yeth, you wath,” interposed her little sister. “Mr. Thmith asked you for a kith and you said ‘You kin.’> Whiz Bang.