Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Effltor-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 Serrice and the Scripps raine Service. * • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. 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.

SCHOOL OPENS mNDIANAPOLIS children went back to school today, hundreds of them taking their places in modern new buildings instead of in the frame portables of previous years. In many respects school days are the most important of a person’s life. We are coming to realize this more and more. For this reason everything possible should be done to provide proper surroundings in order that mental and physical grov th shall not be hampered. The eight new grade school buildings were not obtained without a struggle. There is an element in this community that appears to be opposed to any expenditure for school buildings. More new buildings are needed and they will be obtained, but not without opposition. There is no more important problem in this community than the provision of proper school facilities. THE REAL ISSUE "pT” ESPERATE efforts are being made to cloud the real issue U in the Indiana campaign. The latest is a long statement from Jackson headquarters discussing his connection with the headlight law under which he, as secretary of State, approved certain makes of lenses for automobile headlights. Headlights are not the issue in this campaign. Neither are the numerous other things that are being brought to the attention of the voters. The issue is simply this: Shall duly elected representatives of the people govern the State or shall Indiana be governed by the officers of the invisible Empire? We are waiting with some impatience a statement from Jackson headquarters as to just what connection the candidate for Governor has with this organization and as to whether he. if elected, expects to take orders from the people or' from the heads of a mysterious empire. We are much more interested in the reason why a Klan symbol appeared on the speakers’ stand at the meeting at Martinsville Friday night than we are in a headlight law that has been repealed. The Indianapolis Times quarrel with anyone’s religl.u. Religion is an individual’s own affair. But we certainly do demand to know whether a candidate for Governor expects to be his own master or whether his election would mean that he would be a puppet with a group of wizards, dragons, klaliffs, klokords, kludds, kligrapps, klabees and night hawks pulling the strings. That is the real issue.

SHERWOOD SHOULD ACT SHE charges made against Prof. N. H. Sherwood of Franklin, Republican nominee for State superintendent of pub- ' lie instruction, are of such a serious nature that he can not continue to ignore them and at the same time retain the confidence of the people whose votes he is seeking. A group of school men and women have declared that Sherwood was involved in irregularities in connection with the certification of teachers’ records to the State board of education. They have charged that a magazine of which he was one of the heads collected money for subscriptions after the magazine had suspended publication and that the money was not returned. In justice to himself Sherwood can not continue to be silent. He should either take steps to clear his record or resign from the ticket. MAHOMET CAL r—iF the future justifies our hopes and war is ended.” said I 1 I Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Britain, speaking at Geneva, Switzerland, “it will be only through the League of Nations.” Therefore, he added: “England is here to increase the authority of the league.” And Premier Herriot of France spoke in the same vein. But President Coolidge takes a different slant. .His attitude is that if the future justifies our hopes and war is ended, it will be only through the G. O. P . . Therefore, he orders America to stay away from Geneva to decrease the authority of the league. There you have the two ways of looking at it—the humanitarian’s way and the politician’s way; the one working for the good of all, the other for the good of his party. Premier MacDonald and Herriot suggest that America join with the other fifty-two nations of the world now cooperating with the league and help them abolish war. President Coolidge says the other fifty-two nations of the world now in the league must join with the G. O. P. and help it abolish war. The mountain must come to Mahomet. Sans which he won’t help. While all mankind is desperately crying out for peace, a handful of job-hunting politicians here in America are blocking the way. So far as they are concerned the guns of Mars can keep on belching and our boys can continue in the role of cannon fodder —unless, indeed, the whole world will agree to retrace the steps towards peace already made, under other leadership, and fall into line behind them. Theirs only, must be the glory, theirs the privilege of boasting: “See what WE did!” as they scramble for office. Otherwise, if they can prevent it, this country will not lift its finger to abolish war. Inspiring leadership, what? A FREE home for the feeble-minded is proposed for Washington, showing that, slowly but surely, we are allocating our benevolences to their proper environment. THE AMERICAN people are consuming a billion pounds of sugar a month which, we take it, is living up to this “sweet land oflibertee.” A RECENT bride and groom in a New York wedding met for the first time automobil.es collided. Having been thrown together, theJ^4is ; fiut one thing for them to do, it seemed, f

DOLLARS GO WITH DOROTHY Girl Cashes in on Fake Scheme to Ship Liquor, By SEA Service Mi i ONTREAL, Sept. B.—Perhaps you were one of the thousands' that received a letter from the Co-Operative Alliance of Montreal. The letter outlined a most alluring. proposition. For from S2O to SI,OOO you would share In the profits of the niost romantic business since the days of piracy—yet it was to be within the law. The Co-Operative Alliance was to export liquor from Canada. Not to the United States, but to the twelve

&V (£u-<@jierathiF AUianrr P-r. AVtHOWHm wfUHI 2 00&4 MOWMCMR t*l V 1 ibe hereby accep* roembmsh'.p m the Co-Operatic Alliance and band ■yoc eixioerd herewith the sam erf (% Dollar* to be useri a* Mated | your tellers dated Jo*e tat' 1924 Kindly forward metaberahip card and form fsrcnpt me immediately. Kiudly place ae m towch with ytmr Dwrriet Age-m* m the tLS A 4 ) (This m ofAtooai place cro*a m bracket* deaired ) NAME A DDR ES S , All profit dtatrihvttoos are made by rrgratered mail only and are forwarded in caah.

ALOVK, DOROTHY DIXON. BELOW, AN ALLIANCE MEMBERSHIP COUPON.

miles limit. There it was to be sold. The alliance took rio risk. Your money would be repaid 200 per cent within a short time. William Mathewscn and Captain Archer were the organizers of this legal project, according to the literature. Perhaps you—or some of your acquaintances—are wondering what happened to the money invested in this lucrative plan. Dorothy Dixon knows. But Canadian postal inspectors haven’t been able to find her. Big Eyes For this slip of a maid, with big black and seductive eyes, was the William Matheson, the Captain Archer and figuratively, the captain and whole crew of the venture, which didn’t even on a ship. Miss Dixon noticed one morning that mail she had expected had not arrived. Into her ever-ready black grip she threw the funds, supposedly intended for the "purchase and assembling of shipments of beers, wines and liquor, - ’ which were to be “forwarded in registered bottoms for disposal outside the ‘territorial waters’ limit,” according to the circulars. Money Goes With her grip in hand and her long black coat muffling her form, passersby saw her step into her expensive automobile and depart. , How much money this lone-handed confidence, worker escaped with is not known, but if is known that thousands upon thousands of letters were sent to Americans, offering an “oppontunity” to subscribe to the alliance. Postal Inspectors, although they now hunt the girl in the underworlds of southern cities —her soft southern accent giving them that clue —admit she has a good working knowledge of psychology. Dodges Checks “For your protection,” the ciieulars read, "We have provided that all moneys must be forwarded In cash only. By handling matters in this way* there is no possibility of your bank or friends knowing about your arrangements with us.” Her lists of names were carefully selected. It was gently hinted, that members of the alliance might be able to buy the liquor from bootleggers (agents, she called them) at reduced prices. The lure Os illicit gains is psychologically strong and Miss Dixon knew it. She probably was not a college graduate, but she gained certificates of her knowledge of men—nice erinkley certificates, engraved by the United States Treasury Department. A Thought Better is a little with righteousness,* than great revenues without right.—Prov. 16:8. * • Heaven itself has ordained the Fight. —Washington.-- - l

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Independence By HAL COCHRAN It's really uncanny how coats get his nanny; just shirt sleeves are better, says he. And brushes and combs were not made for men’s domes ’cause they’re feminine-like as can be. His tie mfty be tied in the regular place, but it's never a thought that he gives it. His styles have a real independent-like trace. It’s HIS life —so he honestly lives it. The fashions that come and the fashions that go never bother this fellow at all. He wears what hte pleases: the world can all know that he scoffs at the dress-parade ca,ll. Suspenders hang out where all people may see and they’re never old-fashioned to him. He feels from the pressure of belts he is free; just another original whim. Yep, he‘does as he likes and it’s comfort he gets. And by slaves of mere fashion he's eyed. His outward appearance may be one that frets, but at least he is honest inside. (Copyright, 1924, NBA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, Sept. B.—Dan is a bootblack with an exclusive trade. He caters to police commissioners, detectives and patrolmen. His stand is in front of central j>olice headquarters and he has a monoply on the shoeshining business of the protectors of law and order. Trudging along with his bootblack kit thrown over his shoulder, Don whistles Ills way into private sanctums close to ordinary citizens. He hears plots and counter-plots as he plys his trade. But his unckla a policeman and Dan has learned the value of silence. He never carries talcs. Athough Dan is only 11 years old. he aleady has an apprentice to his trade. It is his 5-year-old brother, Sam. Sam follows his brother as eiosely as a shadow, and while Dan brushes and polishes the shoes of his customers. Sam expounds the Equality of the shine being administered and suggests in a business-like manner that the shine, price 5 cents, is really worth a dime. Sam's sales talk usually is rewarded. Dan expects to turn his prospering business over to his little brother, as soon as Dan is big enough to joij the police force. ♦ * Just saw a bobbed-haired 'girl thrust her locks into a horse’s drinking fountain, shake her head and go on about her way. A crowd laughed—but that was all. • * New York police arrested Jack, a stray dog. the other day. He bit the wife of a physician and was placed behind the bars. Tom Sims Says The corn-fed girl of yesterday now has a corn-fed daughter of today, but It is a different kind of corn. It must be awful to be so j>opular you have to kiss a different man every night in the week. Dancing is good exercise and so is just straight wrestling. While white duck trousers look nice on men they wrinkle quickly with two sitting on them. Absence makes' the heart grow fonder only when it is absence of all others except the two of you. Faint muscle ne’er won fair lady. Even if marriages are made in heaven they must be kept at. home. A large part of the rising generation only gets up to’ sit down. We would hate to be a rich man’s son and have to get arrested for speeding to keep our reputation. Here and there you see a baby who things its mother is just visiting its mfbse?

Under Miss Indiana’s Torch By GAYLORD NELSON SCHOOL DAYS mT was this morning on S. West St. He wasn’t there. In truth he seemed to have the accumulated grime of ages on neck and wrists. All those stratified layers of dirt couldn’t have been deposited in one short lifetime; they must have been family heirlooms handed down from father to son for generations. A few of the outer layers had been barked off from face and hands by intensive application of soap but enough remained to indicate his natural state. His clothing was held up by the grape of God and a safety pin as is customary with boys the world over. At his heels trotted a dog. Not a pedigreed canine, such as those on whom they tie blue ribbons out at the State fair—just a dawg. Ho was of no particular breed; through his veins was spattered the blood of all canine strains from the hound of the Baskervilles to the hot dog of the sandwich. But he wagged his tail emphatically and barked crisply when spoken to. That's what a small boy wants in his dog, friendship, applause and understanding, not blue blood. It was just a small boy, trudging stolidly and without enthusiasm toward Public School No. 12 to begin another year’s exposure to the scourge of education. Huh! He'd just dare the teachers to teach him anything, he would. Boy and approached the school: their pace siac vned until it required close observe’ j i to reveal their passage of a g: point. The doorway yawi. .. The boy stopped, picked up a clod and threw it. without malice or force, at the do% “Git fer home. Chief." he admonished, and the dog sidled away with drooping tail and many backward glances. With hands thrust deep into his pockets, and with shoulders sagging Wearily, the -mull boy entered the door. For him and for “Chief” the world has temporarily come to an end. Vacation is over. Aw, gee! HOW COME? FIY is the price of motor fod\/y| der in Indianapolis 18 cents -I per gallon—plus 2 cents taxwhile in North Dakota the same juice sells for 10 cents per gallon? Indianapolis astronomers, and other star gazers, who have spent the summer furiously debating the question whether or not Mars is inhabited, might profitably unleash thetr massive intellects on this problem of purely local Interest. And to complicate the problem let it bo added that Indianapolis is oni\j 17b miles away from one of the largt st oil refineries in the world, while North Dakota is a thousand miles distant from the source of supply. Truly. Providence and the gasoline market move in a mysterious way their wonders to perform. Has some one repealed that good old law of supply and demand? Howcome?

POETRY i SPEAKER, addressing a meeting of Indianapolis i- school teachers i the other day, paid: “One of the high purposes of the teacher's calling is to help lift humanity from prosaic to poetic experiences. Humanity cannot live by bread alone.” Ain’t It the truth? We need gasoline, and tires, and movie tickets, and hair lacquer, and, oh, so many things. Poetry is no doubt an attractive | frill on life and should he cultivated ; —but what Is poetry? We used to i think we knew when James Whit- ! comb Riley was here and played his | unforgettable rnqlodies on our heart strings, but modern poetry Is something else again. We don’t know what it is. but it looks like a riot in the composing room and sounds like a collision between the ravings of John McCullough and a bad case of static. / To attain poetic experiences comparable to the modern mad and free —especially the former —verse would necessitate a lurid night, a billowing headache, a furred tongue, and a morning in police court. Surely the speaker doesn’t advocate that, hut he should make clear what he considers poetry. HENRY’S PROPHECY r ENRY FORD believes, accordllT ing to an interview, that the II big city is doomed, that from now on the tendency will be for a decrease in population. He thinks big cities have outlived their usefulness and the mounting cost of city life will drive people to the country. And so on. Henry may be right, but he overlooks the principal elements responsible for the city. That is man’s gregariousness. There were great sprawling cities before the world dreamed of Industry, trade or finance in the modern sense. The only limit to the size of cities has been transportation. As this has improved cities have grown | a: ,er. To many people living in Indianapolis, Detroit, Chicago and New York the advantages and opportunities of city life far outweigh the cost of maintaining these big centers of population. They wouldn't move out if they could; they frankly like city life. They prefer thirty years in Indianapolis, Detroit, Chicago, or New York, as the case may be, to a cycle in Cathay or a lifetime on a corn-belt farm. There are enough of that sort of people in the world to keep the cities growing. Henry’s prophecy may come true, but some folks don’t believe it, or haven’t heard of it yet. If you think Indianapolis is destined to become only a wide place in the road in the near future, just step down and try to buy the Monument, the Union Station, or other choice bit of downtown property. You'll find they are not on the market at farm land prices, Henry notwithstanding.

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DANCING IS FORD’S NEW PET PEEVE Henry Wants to Take Sliimmie Out of Jazz Stepping, liy .VL'.t Service ——i UDSON, Mass., Sept. B. (T 11 Henry Ford, who turned I* *| antique dealer when his presidential timber was ruled off the market, is taking up reforming again. It’s the great man’s great weakness. First it w;ts war, then hanking. and now it’s dancing that has become his pet aversion. So he is going to reform it —take the shimmy out of it. as he did in

MIL AND MRS. BENJAMIN B. LOVETT WHO WILL HELP HENRY FORD TAKE THE JAZ Z OUT OF DANCING.

his flivvers; make it stand on its own feet; and put the whole business on a safe and sane basis. But history, at last, has taught Henry that it is difficult to bring about a reformation single-handed. For although he shakes a mean hoof himself, when the fiddler strikes up, he can hardly compete with a firstclass finale-hopper. So he has turned to puritanical New England for help. Here in quiet Hudson, not far from his Wayside Inn, where he runs his antique shop, Henry found a couple of dancers who still remember the waltz, the square dance and the minuet. At first he thought of putting them in his antique department, but then he decided to invite them to Detroit for the week of Sept. 7, to start the dancing reformation there. Inspired with the zeal of crusaders, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin B. Lovett accepted the invitation. They are now practicing up on the dances of yesteryear ar|i before, with which they hope to put jazz to rout, and make Henry happy. Husband’s Future “I hear yo' husband done got shot seben times troo de body. Y r ou s'pose he’s gin’ter git well?’ ’ “I reckon he’ll live, but he’ll always be mighty porous.”—Judge.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of tact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1312 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C., tnc’.osing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot ba given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters axe confidential.—Editor. Is there any woman candidate for President or vice-president on any party ticket running In this election? Yes; Miss Marie C. Brehm of California is candidate for vice-president on the National Prohibition party ticket. Will a bullet, fired from a gun straight into the air have a greater velocity after reaching a certain distance than it will attain in falling? A bullet, fired straight upward in air will, on descending, have a less velocity at each and every’ point than it had at the same point on its

upward course. Moreover, there is continuous retardation on the upward and continuous acceleration on the downward course. How many old line life insurance companies are there in the United States? 21. Is it proper to say, “He was dark complected? No; it should be, "He was dark complexioned,” or “His complexion is dark.” What .is proper food to feed to pet frogs? Will they eat cockroaches?’ Frogs will only eat live food, such as insects, small fish and other small aquatic animals. Cockroaches will serve nicely for their food. How many automobile licenses were issued in Pennsylvania in 1923? For all motor vehicles, including trucks, 1,043,770. Is calcium used in medicine? Yes. to some extent, chiefly in dis infectants, for treatment of colds, and for bone building. How much national forest land does the Government own? A total of 157,502,793 acres, or 246,098 square miles.

MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 1924.

LEADERS OF OLD PARTIES ARE SCORED They Made No Appealon Platforms, but They Are Active Now, Times lVnuhinaton Bureau. 1322 Sew York Ate. rrrriASHINGTON, Sept. B.—This sudden tenderness of Coolidge v . 1 and Davis toward organized labor means that somebody’s scared. And that somebody is the political strategists in both old parties and the financial strategists back of them. They weren’t afraid of organized labor at the Cleveland and New York conventions. They didn't think It worth while to make any appeal to labor in their platforms. That was because “they knew that organized labor had -been so split up politically in the past that there was no such thing as a labor vote in presidential elections. Organized workers might be union men industrially, but politically they were Democrats. Republicans and Socialists. By splitting up their voting strength politically they neutralized themselves and commanded neither respect nor fear. When the two old-party platforms were made. La Foilette hadn't been nominated and hadn't agreed to run. And the American Federation of Labor hadn’t decided to throw its united political strength away from the old parties and go along with the new La Foilette progressive movement. Solidity Scares Them The prospect of an almost solid labor vote for the first time in a presidential election is what scared the machine Democrats and Republicans and their masters. Unexpected strength of the La Fol-lette-Wheeler ticket all over the country has the bosses on the verge of a panic. La Foilette has forced the fighting. While both old parties tride to straddle on the Klan. La. Foilette tackled it with bare hands. Then Davis stepped ov -a bit farther than the convention ti at nominated him and not only denounced the Kian idea, but named *ne Klan. Next Dawes mentioned the Klan, but tried to condemn and yet justify it in the same speech. But Coolldge is still holding back. The movement of organized labor toward La Foilette threw another scare into the old party camps. Again Davis took the lead, leaped way ahead of the party platform and got as close to La Foilette as he could by jumping on the railroad labor board and labor injunctions and taking a stand for the anti-child labor amendment. That Special Audience Republican strategists made a plea to labor by organizing a special labor audience and taking it to a free lunch at the White House to hear Coolidge make a labor talk without saying anything. Dawes couldn’t pinch-hit for Coolidge on the labor issue because of his fierce open- record in Chicago, where he organized for political purposes an open-shop Klux-like organization of his ow-n and named it the “Minute Men of the Constitution.” In an attack on Chicago labor leaders who opposed the re-election of what they called injunction judges. General Dawes, of the Minute Men, said: “A labor injunction restrains men who wars to assault and kill from carrying out such practices.” The tactics of the Wall Street strategists who dictated the nomination of both Coolidge and Davis are easily understood. Had La Foilette kept out of the fight, Wall Street couldn’t lose. Either Coolidge or Davis would be satisfactory. They could let the politicians in the two old parties fight each other until black in the face and not care a darn which set of bosses won. It made no difference to the Morgans and Garys which party machine won the ejection so long as they named the candidates. There was no chance for the people to win. All they could do was to choose between handpicked candidates.