Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1924 — Page 4

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A LIVE CORPSE SJETTLING bv pacific means of all disputes which may arise between the nations of the world is the basic idea a resolution adopted unanimously by the assembly of the ;ague of Nations this evening amid scenes of wild enthuism.” I This was the opening paragraph of a press association rettrt from Geneva where the annual meeting of the league is iw in full swing with forty-six nations participating. Every agle one of the forty-six countries voted for the resolution. “We must not stop until peace is accomplished!” cried ■ime Ramsay MacDonald of (heat Britain and Prefer Ilerriot of France rose to give the program his emphatic iproval. The resolution called for the early convocation of an inter.tional conference on disarmament and associated problems—re security and arbitration 'of disputes. And the league’s sarmament commission was instructed to prepare the way. “The league i£ dead!” the administration at Washington ys. But if there is a shred of truth in the dispatches from ■host of newspaper men now in Geneva, it is the livest corpse ■ record. I The wish, of course, is father to the thought. Having conKned the league to the grave in 1920, the G. O. P. has been Hsy ever since frying to make it stay put. And in vain. ■ Nor are the administration’s embarrassments over. PresiBnt Coolidge recently went on record in favor of an interaaBnal conference on disarmament. He will get his wish, thanks ■ the league whose disarmament commission has been busy preP ring for just that thing for the past year. P What will President Coolidge do now ’ Will the I'nited Pates cooperate with the other forty-sis nations and help make gfc* conference a success* Or will he keep us away, thereby Kbing another blow at the hated league-that-won’t-die? P We hope and trust not the latter. For America would he prt more than anyone else. Armored hy the increasingly good ®inion of the rest of the world the blow would glance off the Bgue and retur" a boomerang against the source that aimed it. P By refusing to die when stabbed in the hack in 1920 by J rv Cabot Lodge and his hand of political liliputs, the league s grown in stature and influence ever since. It is now well P its way to sturdy maturity. P The G. O. P. might as well give up the fight. Ts it could pt kill the league with knives while it was in its cradle, it can ■t kill it now by refusing to accompany it in its 'march along p road toward world peace.

IWHERE DOES “DEFENSE DAY” LEAD? have not yet had our first “Defense Day,” but the dan- j EU gers that lie in that day are already gravely apparent. I The original idea of “Defense Day” was that on Sept. 12 ■ of the military reserves of the United States should he kbilized to see how workable our military organization is. ■ The day growivAut of the bounds originally intended] ■en by our military men. Mayors everywhere are proclaiming p^day, or part of the day, a holiday. Men, women and children me called upon to march in great parades to show their readiBss to defend their country. It is absurd, of course, to contend pt such an hour’s parade is of any practical value in training people for national defense. Instead of- being a practical pt of the efficiency of our military forces, “Defense Day” is ■coming a test of the willingness of our citizenry to make a | blic pledge of their faith in force as the best means of setpig international disputes. 9 The World War taught us that modern war is so destrucpe that another one may destroy civilization itself. It taught ■ that war irreparably damages the nation that engages in it. Pen though the nation “wins.” Therefore, we know that our jttional safety depends, first of all, on staying out of war. True ■tional defense would call for, not war parades, which will | v make other nations distrust us, but for peace parades, ■lich will give hope to the war-weary masses in other lands. V Scientists have also been revealing hitherto disregarded pta about our human nature. We are learning that there is puamite in the human mind—in all our minds. We have pr- 1 that practically no on is immune from being infected S' the mob spirit which leads men to do together things they a uld not think of doing individually. | It is a scientific fact that when thousands of millions of pn and women parade in demonstration of their willingness | “defend” their country, there is bred in their minds some pngerous thoughts. They develop a “superiority complex.” pey begin to think that their nation is invincible. Yet the fact ■ that no nation is, or evemcan be, invincible. Our nation is pt. Yet the belief that they can lick the world can he easilv ■quired by the people of any nation. £* r ' years ago the people of Germanv were as peaceMr gas the people of the United States are today. But years Perilling, of perfecting and featuring a great war machine, them the belief that their national safety depended, V s their relationship to other nations, but on their ■■strength. Prom that belief to the belief that they could lick K world was an easy step. ■ Men and women civilians (and their children, for the pbies are being dragged into this feast of the War God!) who p these dangers will stand firmly on principle. They will not ■ bullied or browbeaten into taking part, in “Defense Day” $ ograma. The willingness of Americans to defend their couny in time of real danger is too certain to need any “test.” I SOME OF the political leaders talk as if they believe that peat and corn are going to do all the voting. ■ SCIENTISTS SAY it is snowing on Mars, which indicates pt they have their lowas and Minnesotas up there, t<*>. I PREDICTION IS made that the cost of living is going still ■gher, but cheer up! Is is worth the price. I ALL Tills talk about filling one’s mind with pleasant ■oughts is lost on some persons. Here’s one fellow who is ping to visualize the successor of the flapper. I AN OHIO woman of matnre years is suing for divorce be■use her husband heaped bitter derision on her newlv-bobbed pad. She doesn’t specify, but he probably referred to it as a Bp off the end block. * " - •

LA FOLLETTE ONLY HOPE OF PROGRESS Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb Tells Why She Is for Senator. By MRS. GLENN E. PLUMB Women’s Head of La Follett©Wheeier Campaign. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—WomYY/ en are the Nation’s house* keepers and home markers. All that is beautiful and inspiring in home life is in goodly measure due to the influence of woman. Without her there could be no home. Government is largely a problem of housekeeping on a national scale. For generations we women have been excluded from participation in that important task and now that we art' enfranchised, we must assume

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the obligations of an effective cotmrtnership or else admit we are not worthy of suffrage. The tragedies that v-ro<-k the individual homes are in njnit eases confined ly familii s in vvlue.h man assumes sole dicta tmsiiip and stifle*, the finer influence of woman. Arid so in our national household. The 1 ape-old policy of . fnan to exclude 1 woman' from the government has resulted in misery, poverty and war everywhere while in our own country It has landed the ship of state—our national home —on the rocks of corruption, exploitation and ceaseless strife. “Powerful Minority Rules” Today we are in the hands of a powerful minority of ruthless exploiters that has annexed all branches of our government for its own private purposes. A small but ever-growing group c.f men have recognized the need of a thorough house-cleaning in our national home. Wtfl women stand Idly by and permit of even help the same sinister forces that dominated our government for generations perpetrate their rule? Or will they help the few enlightened men wrest the government from the few and restore it to the many? Senator La Follettn is The only prelsdentlal candidate that offers us any hope of progress. Candidates of the two old parties live in the dead past. I>a Follette has ever and consistently stood to protect and maintain the principles of real democracy. lie has more laws to his credit., fundamental laws in successful operation, than any living statesman. In face of the nowerful steamroller of his own party he succeeded in blocking much vicious legislation and forcing the acceptance and turning into law twenty-seven of the thirty-one great measures he had presented as mlnorty platforms to Republican national conventions. La Folleite Woman’s Champion His voting record on al] measures of particular Interest to women should rally all thinking women to his support. As Governor of Wisconsin. more than twenty years ago, he gave the State its first women members oJ l boards controlling the educational. charitable and reformatory Institutions, and its first woman factory inspector. He gave Wisconsin its first effective child labor and compulsory school attendance laws. Senator La Follette has worked untiringly for woman’s suffrage and publicly advocated It long before either of the two old parties had indorsed it. s>uring his nineteen years In the Senate we find him consistently on the side of every great welfare measure, and against, evfirv encroachment upon the rights of the American people. La Follette has, since the early days of his career, sensed the drift toward monopoly and special privilege and has consistently and with all the energy at his disposal fought against it. We women, as enfranchised citizens, have a tremendous responsibility. Do not let us shirk it. We have had age-long experience as administrators of the home. For the first time, we have a chance to make use of our ability on ~a national scale. • • p.

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Science The great red star, Mira Ceti, in the constellation Whale, is dying. Recently it attracted much attention because of an unaccountable revival in .brightness. This "Stax is a star of .the older type and is dying down rapidly in heat and is now not as hot as our sun. But. It Is many timjes larger, and If the earth were as near it as the earth is to the sun, this- globe-would be a red-hot, lifeless planet. The explanation advanced by Scriven Bolton, F. R. A. S-, in an article on the subject, for the sudden flaring up of the dying star, is that a crust it beginning to form as the surface cools, in the same way one theory once accounted for the forming of the earth. If this is so, he says, violent explosions frequently occur as pressure of this formation grows and there are sudden flares of light and heat many times greater than usual. The spectroscope shows that Mira Ceti has a different composition from the younger and hotter suns. At any rate, great and violent changes are taking place in this giant exploding star.

In New York Ey STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK. Sept. 10.—There is as any mid-west hamlet. \t, jjs r iitatpn Island, twenty-eight miniate* from the .w.uer front byterry, Although a part of New York City it is apart from the general living attitude of the great community. There are old fashioned street cars and dinky engines pulling old-fash-ioned wooden coaches, which make a station of most anybody’s back yard. Thousands of people live in the various islands communities and neighbors go from house to house without head covering, much as they do in the congenial neighborhoods of the mid west. In the evening they go to the moving picture shows and recognize each other. After church on (Sunday they stand in groups and hear tho petty Information of the various famillea. The ferry ride from Manhattan Isle to Staten Island la moat pleasant and ’.n the run the Statue of Liberty and other landmarks are paaeed. During the warmer months many people raak*’ the trip for an excursion. It costs but B cents. On Staten Island people live in homes —fiats are practically taboo. It is an ideal place to rear children. Within a few years a subway will be built tliat will whisk people from the jam of Broadway to the quiet of the island In a few minutes. • • • When B’erdinando Greek) came In from a night of celebration he found Ills wife and two children waiting ■tip for him. He was in jovial spirits, but in sis ted on “just one more drink” before going to bed. Going to the darts dott he reached for his bottle, took one long drink— then dropped dead. The bottle contained rat poison. His liquor was beside It. Tongue Tips H. M. TOMLINSON, writer: “You can’t help liking the Chinese. He can never be beaten or outlived. He Is unconquerable and deathless. He has forgotten more than our culture has had time to acquire.” * • • DR. J. A REILLY, athletic director, Kansas City: "On our way home from the Olympic game®, we coaches and officials got together and voted that the French had no criticism due them and that the Olympics games had been handled satisfactorily.” • • * JOHN P. WHITE, ex-president. Mine Workers’ Union: "Coal- is the basis of your civilization. It spells light, heat, comfort and transportation.” • • • C. B. VAN DUSEN, merchant, Detroit: “We sometimes treat with contempt our highest privileges. The highest privilege of the American, people is the ballot.” * * * THEODORE DREISER, author: VI have never made a speech and never will." 1

Under Miss Indiana’s Torch

By GAYLORD NELSON WEDDING RINGS 1 RS. J. B. RICHARDSON of Rockport, lost her wedding ring thirty-seven years ago. The other day she found It In her garden where It had lurked undisturbed all these years. Perhaps to some people the most striking feature of the story Is the clear Intimation that Mrs. Richardson never Had more than the ono wedding ring. In certain circles, not in Indiana, sudden marriages and more abrupt divorces follow each other in dizzy procession. There one wedding ring more or less wouldn't excite a particle of Interest. The more popular divorces would in the course of thirty-seven years collect several gallons of wedding rings. They could lose a quart or two without missing them. REGISTRATION y dint of much beating of the cymbals, much spilling of . printers’ ink, and much scurrying hither anirt yon of party wheel-horses, some 75,000 true and lawful voters of Marlon County registered Saturday. It was a goodly number—to use a time-tried pulpit phrase. But why wasn’t it 175,000? An innocent bystander, studying otir fomrof Government and reading our Constitution, would conclude that the exercise of the right to vote Is the most important duty, and roost sacred privilege of the American ; citizen. Ho would conclude that all ! citizens would he eager to qualify ! properly for the exercise of that rigid. But they aren’t. Too many of them have to be prodded and l on registration day and prodded : and pushed again on election day. Too many of them stnj; away from ; tho polls altogether and damn the i Government. Even in Indiana, which is popular!ly reputed to he the home of politics, a surprisingly large amount of energy must he expended every re,-, istratlon and election day to overI come tho voters' inertia. Yet In this State voters are perhaps more alert to their duty than elsewhere. For here politics is not a quadrennial, biennial or even annual shrub. It's 'in full bloom the year 'round, and ranks as a major crop At least : that’s what other States think of us. There is one service party organisations render. They do the neces ■ sary prodding and pushing to get out the vote that won't come out of its own accord. Marion County voters will have one more chance to stop up and eti ter their names on the registration I books —that will be Oct. 6. ib.w many of those not now registered will come forward of their own free will and accord and do that very thing on Oct. 6..

Nature Bearing nut the law of nature that every .qrgunism has Us own Individuality, no two leaves on the same tree are of precisely the same pattern. The beautiful mosque of Omar at Jerusalem contains an enormous boulder from the surface of which, good Mohammedans say. Mohammed once ascended to heaven for a look a round. The guardian of the mosque will show you the imprint on the rock of the hand an angel which restrained the boulder in its eager and pious effort to follow tha prophet to paradise. Family Fun Some Bugler “Cullud boy, wo s got a bu dor in our company whut is a bugler! When dat win.’ jammer blows pay day hit. sourr’ Irik da simple funny orkesstry done broke loose on HI Truvy Toret” . "Is dat so? Wall ain’ got no bugler ’ta.!L When dat 11T boy blue of Company K steps out on’ wrops ’la lip roun' dat h’on an’ sounds mess call, de soldier boy looks down ax his beans on’ say. ‘Strawberries, berhave yo’self—you done kicked all de whupped cream oaten de plate!’ ” Judge. Too Much, Too Much “You say Gerty is in the hospital?’’ ‘‘Yes: her “new beau got excited in a traffic jam and tried to put both hands on the wheel without removing his right arm from her yfalst.”— Youngstown Telegram. Jack Is Game ‘‘No, .Tacit, I cs.n never be your wife, but I’ll always be a sister to you.” "Good! Say, when our old man dies, do you think he’ll leave us any of his money?”—Am. Legion Weekly. The Limit "Here, hoy,” said the man to the boy who was helping him drive a bunch of cattle; "hold this bull a minute, will you?” "No,” aswered the boy; “I don’t mind bein' a director in this company, but I’m darned if I want to be a stockholder."—Cartoons Magazine.

Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of Indianapolis Announces a Free Lecture on Christian Science by Richard J. Davis, C. S. of Chicago, Illinois Member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts B. F. KEITH’S THEATRE Thursday Noon, September Eleventh, at TwelveFifteen o’Clock, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-Four The Public Is Cordially Invited to Be Present

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A nnmliW of readers have reqt osti'd various statistics about the Bitie, its history, compilation, the number of times certain words occur, etc. Our Washington Bureau has compiled a two-page mini .graphed bulletin giving Interns zip facts about the Bible, and any other reader interested may secure it by writing to th© Washington Bureau. enclosing a 2-cent stamp for reply.

Which States of the Union have th© most varieties of wild flowers? North Carolina, New Jersey, California and Washington, have more varieties of wild f©avers growing in profusion than any other States. Give me the age, weight and height of Jack Dempsey? Age. 29; weight, 188 pounds! height, 6 faeet, I*4 inches. How is aduleration of coff. ? determined by the experts? By microscopic and chemical ex aminations. When did the term "horsepower” originate os a measure of mechanical force? In th© eighteenth century when the mechanical force of expanding steam in engines was replacing the muscular force of horses in hoisting and pumping in the British mines. What number of horses formerly used would the steam engine replace? was the question asked. When did Queen Victoria die? Jan. 22, 1901. What causes a “sour” noil? What is the remedy? This is usually due to the presence of worms and Blugs. The best way to remedy tho condition is to water it with a solution of lime wtiter.

“Love Me, Love My Dog ”

FEAR TIGHT MONE Y. IN CA MPA IGN Cash Is Not Flowing Into Coffers of Political Parties. /.’•/ Timrt Rprrial f~3l HICAGO, Sept. 10.—Campaign I { workers, particularly those lY''J affiliated with the Republican organization, are worried lest 1924 go down in the history of presidential campaigns as the “tight money” year. Money is not pouring uto tha Re- ! publican coffers ns it did four years ago. In that campaign tho Repuh- ! licans spent $10,000,000 to put their rg©n over. This year they have still : some little distance to go to get to the $1,000,000 mark. The “get the money, boys,” so well organized by Fre 1 Upliam in 1920, are not funci; ng as they did formerly. Seveni jeasons for this stringency of cash arty-given. The most serious handicap is the Senate Committee, with Senator William E. Borah Vits head, which is ready to investigate all campaign receipts and expenditures. Fear of exposure is keeping tho big money contributors out of the campaign—at least so far. Just what chances they will take when tilings become really desperate can only be guessed. The Democrats and Progressives are not rolling in cash, either. Both are running their campaigns on very small bank accounts, but that is what they expected. Both hoped to gather most of their funds In smaller lots and to obtain altogether only modest sums. As things stand the Republican* have more cash than either of the other parties, hut they have only a small percentage of what they would like to have, or of what they would have if It were not for the side-line activity of the Borah committee. Where Son Is Hurt “You say Herman is in the hospital. la his injury serious?” "I don’t think so, but after going over the totp time and time again In the war it hurts Ids pride to b© laid out by a golf ball.”—Youngstown Telegram.

Coke Ignites Easily If you think that Coke is hard to ignite or difficult to regulate, ask any one of the thousands of users of INDIANAPOLIS BY- PRODUCT “The Ideal Fuel" They all know it ignites readily and burning it is simplicity itself—and that it is clean and economical. STARTING A CORK FIRE Start the coke Are In the ordinary way, using a liberal amount of kindling. When the wood Is burning brisk, ly, throw in a grenerJ ons quantity of coke, bnt do not fill flrepot full. All available draft should be used to start a fire. After the first layer of coke is well ignited fill the flrepot full and then set the dampers so that the fuel bed will produce the desired amount of heat. Buy Indianapolis By-Product Coke and buy it now when prices are lowest. Phone Your Dealer Citizens Gas Coinpany

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1924.

Tom Sims Says Popfliar songs are even more fas* j clnating when you try ro remember \ where the tunes were stolen. Always carry a pump or a stump speaker along on an auto trip In case you have to fix a puncture. Stiff collars are going out of style. Men wear soft*collars now to protect tha women’s necks. No matter how old an old maid, sho likes to say “We girls.” i I A blind man is the only' one who can’t see any us© for silk stockings. | Nearly everybody knows who will be our next President, but they don’t U 1 agree. A President has a tough job The people are his landlords and he has to argue with them every day. Cant have much fun any more. Man in Texas was fined just for hit- ! ting a baseball umpire. You see autos parked all along the country roads these nights, perhaps to save gas. Thinking twice before you speak is ; better than speaking twice before : you think. i Some women won’t be happy in j heaven tinless they get new wings |every pay day. Procrastination is one thief never stopped. Tlu re isn’t much about a loafer to make fortune smile. Many men who pass for optimists are just too lazy to kick. A dream is a nightmare when she : has her hair rolled up. We have so much trouble because ; we make it for everybody else, ! The straight and narrow path la wide enough for its traffic. I You can’t get ahead by spending ! vour time getting even. • Keeping a friend in hot water wiii j eventually cook your goo**. On Daughter's Make-Up "My goodness, your face mke-up Is entirely off from one ear to another.” "Blame the luck I'll never eat watermelon harmonica, fashion at a picnic again.”—Youngstown Telej gram.