Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Edltor-in-Chlef ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. I 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 Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • * PHONE—MA in 3500.

JUSTICE SHOULD PREVAIL mHE PRESENT movement to bring about equal justice to all persons accused of crime regardless of their station in life should not be construed as an effort to prevent punishment for crime. The Indianapolis Times is very much interested in this movement. It believes emphatically that there should be one law fcfr every one —not'a law for those able to employ highpriced attorneys and another for those who are not. At the same time The Times believes that the penalty should fit the crime and that criminals should be held to a strict accounting for what they have done. In Chicago a jury turned loose a boy who took $792,000 worth of bonds from a bank. Ilis attorney dedfared that if he had the means he could prove that the boy was “moved by an irresistible impulse to take the bonds.” So the jury turned him loose on the community, still presumably possessing a tendency toward similar impulses. Unequal justice, unfair as it is, should not be made an excuse for no justice at all. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES SHE La Follette organization in Indiana has indorsed ten candidates for Congress. All but one are Democrats. We believe that for the most part the Democratic candidates in Indiana represent the rank and file of the people aud are more progressive than the Republicans, most of whom devote their time to serving as rubber stamps for the administration. Among the candidates indorsed is Joseph P. Turk, Democratic candidate in the Indianapolis district. The Congressional situation in Indianapolis is peculiar and we fail to see how the voters can become very enthusiastic over either of the candidates. Ralph Updike, the Republican nominee, is a young man who served one term in the Indiana House of Representatives with only fair success. He is reputed to be backed by the KuKlux Klan, which is seeking to obtain an invisible grip upon the Government popularly supposed to be a government of the people. On the other hand, Turk has been in politics for a number of years, holding down minor’ jobs and making considerable noise, especially as an opponent of prohibition. He is reputed to be backed by another organization which apparently is attempting to obtain a grip on affairs in Marion county at least. In other words, the contest in Marion county appears to be distinctly between two warring groups. Each group has a candidate who is hardly representative of the community. The great mass of voters who are seeking a man who will really represent Marion county have no candidate. “ORDERS’’ FROM THE GENERAL G jn EXERAL FRANK T. HINES, director of the United States _ Veterans’ Bureau, demands that criticism of the bureau cease. Speaking before the members of the American Legion assembled at St. Paul, General Hines said “the Veterans' Bureau has been cleaned up, but it cannot take another step forward tuiless public confidence is preserved.” In view of the exposures of last year, when it was shown that the administration of the bureau was honeycombed with graft, dishonesty and utter incapacity, it is too much to expect, the public now to assume that all wrongs have been righted. As yet no man has been punished for the crimes brought to light last year. Many of the men who were shown to be at least incompetent are still at their old jobs. Even one of the members of the Senate committee which investigated the bureau, and a Republican at that, recently demanded that Hines take steps to weed out the “Forbes gang” in the bureau. General Hines is hitching the cart ahead of his horse. Public confidence in his work will follow naturally upon his making a success of his work. After all, Hines’ job is &> administer the bureau, not to lecture the public on what it shall think or say about his work.

THE CAMPAIGNERS are advocating removal of about everything from polities except the peanuts. NOMINEE DAVIS should take heed whither he goeth. If he keeps on adopting La Follette’s platform planks he’ll lose his standing as a “liberal conservative.” NAVY SECRETARY WILBUR’S California addresses may not show much naval knowledge, but they disclose a strong affection for Calvin Coolidge and Andy Mellon. L’POX STRIKING the Pacific Coast region, William Jennings lamhasts Sunday golfers, calling them the nearest evidence of ape ancestry. It would be simply awful if it is now discovered that John Davis and Brother Charley play Sunday golf.

The President

What do you know about tha election, powers, duties, succession in office of the President of the United States? Do you know how many Presidents have died In office, the causes of their deaths and where they are buried? Do you know the names of the wives of the Presidents, and where they were born? What do you know about the mothers of our Presidents? Do you know what happens if both the President and Vice President die in office? Do you know the religious beliefs of all the Presidents?

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Do you know the ages of the Presidents when they w*ere inaugurated, how long they served, how old they were when they died? All this information and much more is contained in a bulletin prepared by our Washington Bureau, crammed with facts about the office of President. This is a presidential campaign year. You ought to know all that is to be known about the highest office in the Nation and how its functions and duties are exercised. Fill out the coupon below and mail as directed:

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Benjamin Johnson, 51, a Richmond (Ind.) business man and a birthright member of the Society of Friends, holds a unique rec ord for attending sessions of Indiana yearly meetings of Friends. He has just attended the meeting for the seventy-first consecutive year.

LA FOLLETTE MAN TALKS TO FARMERS Hiram Vrooman Tells Why , Senator Should Have r Rural Vote, By HIRAM VROOMAN, j Chairman Illinois Farmers’ Progresj sive Conference and Manager of I the Twenty-six Vrooman Farms. mF there was a time when farmers should reason together in a common sense way, it is now. Life and its problems were never more serious for the farmer than now. The Illinois Farmers' Progressive Conference has indorsed La Collette and Wheeler and I am writing to the farmers of America, more as the spokesman or mouthpiece of this rapidly rising power of organized i farmers, than as an individual. In .showing why the farmer has more ! to gair. from La Follette as President | than from Coohdge or Davis. The first fundamental fact to conj sider is this: The farmer as a class is being preyed upon by a great autocratic money power which is in the effort to reduce him to peasantry: and its chief method is to use politics. There exists an autocratic profiteering money power which is bent on conquering and controlling all fields of profitable industry. And agriculture is yielding more rapidly to Us conquests than any other because it is not organized for defense. •Somewhat as Manchuria has been occupied and is dominated by Japan, so has the farming industry of the United States already been seized upon and occupied and is being dominated by the autocratic money power. To Break Monopoly It was this that was uppermost in the mind ofLa Follette when he wrote, as the*dominating plank in his platform: “To break the combined power of the private monopoly system over the political and economic life of the American people is the paramount issue of the 1823 campaign.” We farmers know from experience that financial sharks are adept in playing a game by means of which the players squeeze immense profits out of the farmers' losses; that the loot. In fact, runs into the billions of doljars. And we know furthermore that they could not play this game without playing politics. Indeed it is part of the political game as played by them. And we know furthermore that the orpy remedy in the hands of the farmer and of the people is to play the game of politics in opposition to these financial sharks. This year farmers have an opportunity to play this game on an equal basis with the bosses. La Follette’s candidacy offers a chance of a generation. /

Must Make Companions This man whom the farmers can eject to the presidency is to be studied and judged not by the criterion of perfection, but rather by the far more modest standard of virtues depioted in the characters and records of John W. Davis and Calvin Coolidge. Which is the greatest statesmen of the three? Which of the three records reveals greatest concern for the rights of men? Which of those three men can be reasonably expected to do most for the farmers’ interests if elected President? These are pertinent uestions. The American voter is seldom given a chance to vote for any candidate altogether satisfactory to him. In the majority of elections it is merely a matter of choosing the lesser cf two evils. This campaign of 1924 is unique in this, that practically all progressives recognize La Follette as their common champion and leader And it is within the power of the farmers and their wives in the doubtful States to elect La Follette as the next President of the United States, This position of advantage and of unusual power for the farmer is due to the peculiarities of the present political situation. This fact and this situation are so important that it is but necessary for the farmers to realize their full significance to make the hope a reality. Votes for La Follette will not be wasted votes. They will be the most effective votes ever cast. A Thought So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. —Ps. 90:12. • • • I wasted time, and now doth time waste mp.—Shakespeare.

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FARMERS IN DOUBT ON GRAIN DEAL Personnel of Merged Concerns Is Questioned in Some Cases, Editor's Note: Herbert Quick, who is a farmer, a lawyer, and an economist, as well as a reporter, went out to Chicago to find out about the formation of the new xrain merger, the greatest co-operatn-e maraeting ven- ( ture yet attempted in this country, for the Scripps-Howard newspapers. This is the third of several articles. By HERBERT QUICK ft "™"y HE human elements in this I gieat grain marketing scheme i* -1 are the most important things in it. In the first place, if it is to succeed it must command the confidence of the farmers and their organizations. It is a terminal elevator trust made legal by the new cooperative laws. The important co-operative factors already built up are the 5,000 farmers’ grain elevators, the wheat pool and similar organizations which must be formed. Now unless this grain marketing company can command the confidence and get the shipments of grain from these organizations, it can not, in my opinion, be a success. It has not yet won theconfidence of these organizations to any great extent. The farmers and their organizations criticise the men in the control of the grain marketing company because it comes from a deal between ! their old competitors and enemies, I the big grain companies. Armour, I Rosenbaum and others, and because j the ‘‘key men’ ’of the old companies are retained on salary to run the ’ “fanners' ” grain trust and. second, they object to the manner in which i the new company was formed. “Represent Themselves” As I have stated, the officers of the new company, and its directors, are with two or three exceptions officers of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the farmers' elevator companies, The Wheat Pool, the National Orange, and the old and failed United States Grain Growers. But none of these organizations as bodies gave them any authority to form the Grain Marketing Company. The farmers say that these men had no right to claim to represent their organizations and assert that they do not really represent any one except themselves. They insist that instead of being selected by the farmers, they selected themselves or were selected by the old grain companies in a deal to sell the terminal grain business to the farmers. On the face of It. this is true. The men who are officers and directors of the Grain Marketing Company who claim to represent the farming interests have an answer to this. If the Grain MarketingCompany was to he formed, they say, somebody had to form it. They insist that the attempt to get. the co-operative elevators and the other farm organizations together to act. on the grain magnates' offer would have been hopeless. If they had not done it. it would not have been done. If this new grain trust which they offer to the farmers to control Is a good thing, they think they should he credited with good intentions and willingness to serve. Is It Good Thing? There is strength in this argument. Probably the producers' organizations could not have been gotten to act together to buy out the old grain companies. The real question for the farmers now is. Is this a good thing? Is it properly put together? Are the right men running it? Can it he made to work to the benefit of the grain raisers? Can the farmers raise the $26,000,000 or so much of it as is essential within five years to buy the grain companies out? If ail these questions are answered in the affirmative, the farmers have much interest In taking the grain business over. Another objection made by the farmers and their representatives is the fact that Marcy of the Armour companies, the Rosenbaums, Davis of the Davis-Nolan-Merrill Company and others of the old grain crowd are actually managing the Grain Marketing Company. Can they be trusted? This is the question one hears over and over among the farmers. Must Have Experience The answer given to this Is that the Grain Marketing Company could not run without skilled and capable men in its management. The contract requires that these men he given the management. There are two reasons why this must he. First, none of the actual directors and officers know anything about the grain business. Second, the Grain Marketing Company must have credit running into the millions. Now, no hank would lend it a cent if it were not for the fact that these old and skilled grain men are In charge and have a contract that as long as they are faithful they are to he kept in charge. So as to personnel, we have the self-selected officers and directors representing agriculture and the necessary management by the old grain magnates. Whether nr not these old enemies of cooperation will work faithfully to make the company a success or will wreck it as they have the power to do. is a matter for later consideration.

Tongue Tips Louis A. Coolidge, United States senatorial candidate, Massachusetts: “I do not believe that any legislative body is competent to determine what percentage of alcohol makes a beverage intoxicating.” * * * Kid McCoy, In jail accused of murder, Los Angeles: “Well, a fellow in here thinks mostly of those dear to him. My mother, God bless her! I have thought of her often these past few days.” * * * Tyrus Cobb, baseballist and Georgia “peach”: “A ball player is as old as his legs.” * • The Rev. John Gardner, California: “Salvation means restoration to sound health and true minds.”

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any Question of fact or information by writing to tin- Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 132*2 New- Yorit Ave Washington. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advl-- cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ail other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. What line now owns and runs the tv fv Majestic? The White Star line, a British company. What is the name of the instrument used to measure the velocity of the wind? The anemometer. How is the distance from the earth to Mars actually measured by astronomers? Do they guess at It? The logarithm of the distance from the earth to Mars is published in the 1524 American Kphemerls and Nautical Almanac for Greenwich mean noon of every day In the year. This distance is computed in the following manner: By means of New comb's Tables of the Sun and Tables of Mars, the geocentric polar co ordinates are determined for the sun and the heliocentric polar coordinates for Mars: then, by means of formulae which are given in works on spherical astronomy, these coordinates are converted into rectanguar coor dlnates, X. V. Z for the Sun and x. y, z for Mars; whereby the post tion of the sun's center relative to the earth's center is defined: and also the position of the center of Mars relative to the center of the sun. Then the required quantity becomes known from the formula, "distance fro rnthe earth to Mars equals the square root of X plus x) 2 plus (Y plus y) 2 plus (Z plus z) 2 The distance Is usually expressed in terms of the astronomical unit,, which is the sun’s mean distance from the earth: the distance, when so expressed, is to be multiplied by 92.987,416 in order to get a result in miles.

From what language and what are the means of the names Baughn, Perry, Sheffield and Key? Baughn (German) from baugh, meaning “bee;” Perry (French) from pierre, meaning “rock;” Sheffield (English) from shep-field, or field of sheep; Key (English), meaning quay. What is the largest theatrical circuit in the United States? The B. F. Keith circuit, which owns thirty-five Keith theaters, and has many others under lease or affiliation. What does “Sepher Toldoth Jeschau” mean? “The Book of the Birth of (Joshus) Jesus.” llow muh does a raijroad coal car cost to build; how much does a loemotive cost? The cost the average coal hopper car is around $1,700. The price of a locomotive depends on the type. Railway Age of Jan. 5, 1924, gives a list of unit prices which range from $34,000 to $90,000. Last Payment By HAL COCHRAN When cometh the first, there’s no doubt you are cursed with a payment on this or on that. Though you’re up to your neck you must write out a check so the promise you made will stand pat. The mailman will ring and a notice he’ll bring; just a notice that something is due. It just makes you think so you get out the ink and you scribble a payment or two. The story's the same; it’s just part of the game. It was easy to purchase and charge. But installments that corre, though they cut down the sum, make the promise you made loom up large. It seems that it's true that some folks—maybe you —ln their payments on charges grow rash. If you let payments go it is best that you know, in the first place you’d better pay cash. But, in case that you charge, whether little or large, send the monthly amount unafraid. Just kep at it until you can get the real thrill when the final installment is paid. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

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SNORING MAY COME UNDER TABOO NEXT Bad Habit Will Yield to Medical Treatment, Says Doctor, F.y GEORGE BRITT .YEA Service II ritcr Ah-z z-z!" The phonetics don't repie. sent a mosquito's buzz, but worse. The noise is what Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, Chicago health commissioner, describes as 'booming, siz zling, hissing, puffing, tearing, renti.rig, scraping, rasping, gargling gurgling, sawing or a combination of ail.” It is snoring—a crime and a mistake, a disease and a nuisance. Dr. Bundesen's attention was drawn to snoring as a result of the campaign he waged a few months ago to rescue city dwellers’ nerves from unnecessary noises. Automobilists who soynded klaxons neeJlessly were haled into court and fined. Barking dogs were hounded out of town. “My dear.” began Dr. Bundesen's wife one night, when he got homrfrom crusading, “there’s just one little inconsistency in it all. While

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you are filter the unnecessary noises, can’t you do something about your snoring?' "Oh, I never snore,” answered the doctor. "But I do,” he admits now. “And I’m going to get over it. I have been a mouth breather in my sleep without knowing it. “An examination showed a slight enlargement of bone in my nose which obstructs the free passage of air. I’m going to have it removed and eliminate the jarring notes.” Snoring will yield to medical treatment, Just like any other disease, according to Dr. Bundesen. No snoring germ has been isolated yet, but the ailment Itself causes more discomfort than many a virulent germ disease. “The noise of snoring l is caused by vibration of the uvula or soft palate as breath is taken in through the mouth,” Dr. Bundesen says. “Sometimes the tongue joins in the vibration. “To stop it, simply close the mouth. Opening of the mouth to breathe in sleep is usually made necessary by obstruction, such as adenoids or swollen nasal passages. “Snorers rarely realize that they snore, and their neighbors usually suffer in disgusted silence. The sno?er's suspicion should be aroused, however, w T hen he awakes in the morning with a dark brown taste and his tongue dry like leather. The condition isn't critically dangerous, but it ought to be remedied. “About the worst effect upon the snorer himself is that hat is more liable to colds than otherwise.”

To?n Suns Says Well, the women in Deauville are I wearing nose rings. Not led around Iby them, though. They are led by ' pocketbooks. We have looked everywhere and | can't find a single war veteran buying bootlegg and airplanes with h'.s Federal bonus. Isn't it about time the two Chicago murderers were asking for a pardon? They say a man recently made two millions in Wall Street. Even if he didn't make it, he got it. The annual baseball big league race to see which teams will come next to New York is doing nicely. Reports from various sections in dictate heavy winds are damaging tl.e crop of political plums. Chang Lin wants to be the head of China. We don't. The head of China is liable to be Cut off. Situation in Chile is said to he chaotic. Let’s hope it won't be that way here when we are chilly. Defense day iias to be defended. Women are entering all branches of industry. Girl got arrested in New Orleans for bootlegging. The new Pact of London will help tobacco growers, but just the same it isn't a cigaret pack.

Science Announcement of the invention'of the Matthew's ray seems to be responsible for many stories of mysterious rays coming from® many parts of the world in the last few months. These stories are all along the same line—deadly rays that can bring down airplanes, stop automobiles and Jdll people at a distance. There is nothing decidedly new in the invention of such rays—that is, rays that appear to be capable of development to the point w'here they can do such things. There are a number of known inventors who can demonstrate that it is reasonable to believe such things ran be done. But thus far none of them actually has been done except in a very limited way. For instance, GrindellMatthews, inventor of the be.‘| known ray, can stop a motorcycle engine by turning his ray on the magneto system; he can explode gunpowder at the other end of the room and he can kill a mouse with his ray several feet away. It has been proved that a ray can be shot out for short distances. Whether it can be developed into a deadly agency in warfare has not yet been proved. Then the Fun Began “John, John, wake up, John; there are burglars in the pantry, and they’re eating all my pies.” “Well, what do we care, so long as they don’t die in the house?” —New York Herald.

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Under Miss Indiana’s Torch

By GAYLORD NELSON' SOUVENIRS ~ j N Chicago Lieut. Erik Nelson, round-the-world flier, was of--1 U sered SI,OOO for his old furlined flying coat—worth intrinsically only a fraction of that sum. But the persistent souvenir hunter, 'who made the offer, would shave deemed it a bargain at the price. nAd now Chicago proposes that the flag plane of the cruise—the “Chicago”—be observed in the Field Museum in that city. Because it is one of the pair of planes which first girdled the earth. A pretty sentiment. A fitting end for a priceless relic. But the cold facts are: About the only part of the plane “Chicago’ that actually participated from start to finish in the flight was the name. v Nearly every, other part has been worn out and renewed since the plane hopped off from Seattle five months ago. Its vital organs have been scattered from Kamchatka to Singapore, from India to East Boston Air Port. •As well might Indiana bottle and preserve a specimen of the Hoosier air through which the flight passed. But we Americans crave souvenirs. Cold facts never deter us therefrom. The glory of the round-the-world flight was not in the planes, but in the men. So at'the heart of every episode that stirs the imagination is a man—not an inanimate object. The souvenir hunter can't capture the human equation and preserve it in a museum. PROPERTY EVEN Valparaiso cows licked the paint off a bilboard. Perhaps the meal tasted all right, but the after effects were unfortunate —for the cows. They died. And now the owners of the cows have brought suit in the Laporte Circuit Court against* the billboard company for SSOO damages. Probably there is one billboard that will come down promptly—without any action on the part of county authorities. A billboard may be a menace to traffic. It may obscure the vision at an important intersection. It may indirectly or directly cause the death of some traveler. And only mild protest will result. If it is on private land nothing may he done. But a billboard that is responsible for the death of seven cows is another matter. Cows are personal property with a cash value. And property rights are more or less sacred with us. Nothing should be permitted to endanger property rights. Not even billboards.

THE ECHO mN Indiana: Claude Belzer— IS-year-old murderer —in jail at Noblesville. will probably plead guilty. He hopes his youth will save him from the electric chair. Two youthful principals in a recent murder case escaped the death penalty; why shouldn't he? In Illinois: Public opinion is flooding the mails i with pleas to Governor Small of Illinois. He is urged to intervene in. the case of Bernard Grant —uneducated. 19-year-old, Chicago hoy—convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. The 19-year-old principals in a recent murder case didn't hang; why should he? • In Chicago: The attorney for 'Willie Dalton —. 17-year-old Chicago bank messenger '. —who embezzled $700,000 in bonds, pleads the you:h of the defendant and the “emotional Impulse” that prompted his act. Two principals in a recent case had youth and “phantasies;” why shouldn’t "Willie Dalton have them? . Judge Ca verly, in summing up • this recent case, characterized the ■ lengthy hearing, with its exhaustive \ expert testimony, as a valuable contribution to legal lore and the literature of crime. The Judge was right. *7 The echo of that particular case will rumble through Middle Western' jurisprudence for a generation. In fact it is already rumbling. * OMENS j A j UMMER is aboijt over in InI I dianapolis. Winter, adhering l )to its customary annual , schedule, is on its way. All the usual omens indicate this. The bird season has opened. City smoke inspectors have indulged in their annual hurst of activity. The L'nited Mine Workers are considering a campaign to promote the use of local coal throughout States of the Middle West. Blizzards have already raged at North Bay, Ontario, and other Canadian points. Snow has been reported in North Dakota And— The price of coal has taken Its annual upward slant in Indianapolis. Which is the most infallible omen of all. Indiana coal has been advanced by some retailers from $5.75 to $6 per’ ton; Pocahontas lump from SS.SO@ 8.75 to [email protected]. Yes, the season is at hand wherl coal is once more a commodity, not* a topic of casual conversation. And. the price stiffens accordingly. Almost before they know It, In-; dianapolis householders, who haven’t put in their winter supply of fuel, will be jh the grip of a soaring coal market —or frozen to death. Which is more sefioua than an. omen. Hopeless “So your engagen#nt to Miss Blank is broken?” “Yes; her mother said she was a-first-class cook, and I saw at one©. I'd never be able to keep her ” —■ Answers.

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