Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1924 — Page 4

The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, BuY Mgr. - Member of the Scripps Iloward Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the Uniied Press, the NEA Service and the Scrippa-Paine Service. * • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daiiv except Sundav 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.

THE BUDGET AS AN ISSUE . mT begins to appear that the operation of the budget law under the McCray and Branch administrations is becoming a real issue in the campaign. The Democrats, who opened their drive in forty-one counties last night carried the issue to the Republicans. It is now their move. The G. 0. P. may be compelled to leave off asking of voters merely “Are you a citizen of the Invisible Empire?" and get down to facts about the State government. When he was inaugurated Governor McCray told the people of Indiana that he expected to conduct the affairs of the State in the same manner in which he conducted his own personal business. Then he proceeded to carry out his promise. A budget law was enacted and then the Legislature at ihe insistanee of McCray provided that money could be transferred from one fund to another, making the budget in fact a joke. A State employe made a remark to this effect recently, whereupon Governor Branch issued a long statement answering him and defending the present practices in the Statehouse. We believe everyone is for a budget law. Certainly the Democrats are for such a law. That is why they are opposing the action of the administration in making the law meaningless.

THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE M UCH as we are opposed to hisrh taxes, we believe that the State tax board is starting at the wrong end when it suggests the possibility of a 2-eent cut in the tax rate for next year. It is bad business. Taxes can not be reduced by simply cutting rates arbitrarily. This merely leads to more borrowing and consequently higher taxes later on. For surely the State must pay its debts some time. . . There is only one way to cut taxes and that is to reduce expenditures. If expenditures are cut taxes will automatically come down. But as long as money .is spent it will be raised. If the tax rate is cut and the money still is being spent, the State will rush to the banks and borrow the necessary cash. And the cash will be forthcoming as long as the State agrees to pay sufficient interest. The banks know the taxpayers are good for it. AND STILL MORE HUMAN FUEL r . I GAIN the town of Keramerer. Wyo., is desolate with groups |/\| of fatherless children and terrified mothers. Thirty-odd miners’ lives were burned up human fuel, in a coal mine, to satisfy a coal baron’s greed. Keminerer’s death tonnage is above par. Last year Kemmerer’s miner families furnished a hundred lives to the hungry monster, Greed. Dawson. New Mexico, gave 12b lives. Crosby, Minn., gave forty-two lives. Shanktown, Pa., gave thirty-seven lives. Johnson City, 111., gave thirty-four lives. And other communities furnished their human fuel, to keep your furnace burning and the coal barons’ profits soaring. Necessary? No. not to get coal! Only to make greater profits. “ Investigations carried on by the Bureau of Mines for more than ten years have demonstrated beyond question of doubt that spreading of coal dust explosions can be prevented,’’ says H. Foster Bain, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, in Washington. “Responsibility rests with the mine management,” he adds. • • • But profits call for human fuel. From where, next time? HAVE THOSE who are in search of thrilis overlooked Herrin ? AN OHIO woman has given her husband a cherry pie everyday for twenty years, speaking of hardy perennials. THE SIX Democrats in Plymouth, Vt., will vote for Coolidge. It’s the hay vote. SCIENTISTS SAY we should give no heed to signals from Mars. Some traffic cop may be responsible for them, probably. EVER AND anon Col. House emits a few words of political wisdom, but he lacks the acoustic properties that once were his. PREDICTION IS made that the world will come to an end in 1925 and thus the way is paved for William Z. Foster to retire from the presidential race without exciting invidious comment. • f DOWN IN Texas they have begun suit to shut “Ma” Ferguson off the ballot, on the ground that “Pa” Ferguson will really be the Governor if "Ma” is elected. Pa-shaw! Are they attempting to prove the uneonstitutionality of the laws of nature?

The President

What do you know about the 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 bom? 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 ail the Presidents?

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WILL HEADS OF MERGER WRECK IT? Herbert Quick Answers This Question in the Negative. Editor s Note—Herbert Quick, who is a farmer, a lawyer and an economist. as well as a reporter, went to Chicago to find out about the formation of the new -Traill merger, the greatest co-operative marketing venture yet attempted in this country, for the Scripps-Howard newspapers. This is the fourth of several articles. By HERBERT QUICK XE suspicion in the minds of interested people with reference to the new “Farmers’ l Co-operative Grain Marketing Com- | pany” is that it is tb first step in forming a merger cl ,he old grain companies for the oenefit of the old magnates themselves. The suspicion is that the Gyain Marketing Company will take the old companies over, that the farmers will not he able to pay for the properties, or that after they have partly paid for them the old grain men managing the new company will wreck it and then take it over as a privatelyowned grain trust. Let us consider Let us assume that these old grain men have no conscience and no scruples. Let us assume that they are men of brains and judgement, actuated by unadulterated selfishness. We may do this without offense to them, though it seems to do them injustice. They have been men with extensive credit. Their mere words have been good enough to be trusted without a scrap of paper in immense transactions. In other words, among men to whom they were bound by busi-

1 ness duties, they have good reputations. But if we take it for granted that they are out for the stuff without any principles but selfishness, we shall he on the safe side, even at the expense of doing them injustice. They Can Wreck If And they have the power to wreck the/ new company. As purely selfish men. what will they do? And if they wreck it, will they have a trust formed for themselves? Th A y have taken the Class B preferred stock for $4,000,000 in cash which the Marketing Company needed for* working capital. Until this is repaid, their properties ate merely !<■ ised to the Grain Mar- | keting Company. The time of payjment is one year, if the $4,000,000 are not paid at the end of a year, they may call a halt, liquidate th" Grain Marketing Company, and take their nroperties back. When this $4,000,000 is'paid, however, the properties will be deeded over to th Grain Marketing Company. A real trust will be formed, but it will be legal under the new cooperative laws, for it will belong to the members <>f the Grain Marketing Company—farmers ands irm organizations. What will happen then of the farmers’ company is wrecked or goes broke? The legal title of the huge properties will be in the Grain Marketing Company, hut the value of it will he represented by the Class B' stock owned by the old Interests. The farmers will have an interest in it to the extent to which they have bought Class A stock and retired the purchase-price stock. If it is then wrecked or goes broke, it will j go through receivership proceedings and he sold. The farmers will get the proportion of the selling-price represented by the A stock and tiie old interests will take that proportion "/resented by the B stock, after the debts are paid. The court would no doubt sell it as a whole to get the best price. Probably there would be no bidders except the old interests. They ire the only grain men who could afford to hid. If they were putting through a pian to get all they could out of it, they would bi‘l the lowest price at whieh they could get the properties so as to he obliged to divide as little as possible with the A stock of the farmers. Reasons Against Move Under this condition of things, a trust would have been formed owned by the old owners of the businesses. But as purely selfish and unscrupulous men, would they do this, being men of excellent judgement? Here are some of the reasons why one would think they would not. Such a failure of the grain marketing company, especially if it trimmed

| the farmers out of their money paid ; for A stock, would be a sensation over the whole country. It would cause a storm in Congress. The De- ; partment of Justice would be backed Iby a burning indignation in all the agricultural States in legal attacks [on the new trust. It would be born I into the most serious trouble with ithe Government. It would be faced | with demands for new legislation for the relief of the grain raisers. It would create a most dangerous situation for the new grain trust formed by the ruin of the present grain marketing company. The old grain ! men must know this very well. This is what is likely to happen if they are false or even unfortunate in the management of the new grain marketing company. T cannot see it in any other light. Therefore, it seems to me that we may assume that these old grain men may he impelled by pure selfishness to make the "Farmers' Own Grain Company,” as It calls itself, a success. Nature Zoo managrs declare that lions, tigers and other savage meat-eating animals do their stage and circus stunts only under fear of torturing | punishment. A circus trainer says: ‘ "All that’s necessary to train a w r ild minimal is kindness and a red-hot iron." Poison Camas, or hog’s potato, is a serious plague to Western stock men. particularly sheep growers of Wyoming and Montana. Thousands of dollars are lost annually on Its account. All parts of it are poisonous to grazers, but as it has a decidedly bitter taste, cattle usually pass it by.- horses being even more particular. The little discrimination shown by sheep when feeding causes J their downfall. The bulbs may be easily and quickly pulled from rainI softened ground when combating it in small areas.

Under Miss Indiana’s Torch By GAYLORD NELSON RECORDS At—"— | MERICANS go out after the records. With us it is not the game for its own sake that counts. We go out to get the trophies and to smash the records. Not only in sports, but in most other lines of human endeavor. That we are successful is shown by the fact that most of the trophies and records are held in our midst. We held the record for the tallest building in the world and for the deepest hole in the ground. We hold the records in most track and field sports. We have the world’s champion tennis players, swimmers, polo team, and so on. We have the world's fastest race horses, and the world’s slowest court procedure. We also have seventeen times as many murders annually as Great Britain. Whieh is a record. And in the past year 15,000 persons have lost their lives in automobile accidents in the United States Automobile accidents topping the list in causes of accidental deaths. Which is a record. And in Chicago there were fortyeight automobile casualties in September. Which is a record. And yesterday in the Indianapolis city court there- were 12fi persons to face the judge on charges of speid- I ing. Which is a record. Yes. we are a nation of recordbreakers. Also occasionally we break something else. Laws and ordinances, for example ANSWERED

|T~r| KREDTTH NICHOLSON, the j I author —and candidate for | 1 ~TIJ State Senator on ihe DemoIcratic ticket —was' invited by wire to lend his name to the Republican authors committee, now being formed in New Y’ork. Naturally he declined. He returned a retort courteous. | but it sufficed. The incident reveals one of the characteristic by-products of our alleged civilization. Let any man loom a trifle taller in the public eve than the average and he is immediately besieged by j promoters of all sorts of enterprises | 'o lend his name to some committee. The purpose <>f the enterprise may |be good, had or Indifferent. That's 1 ! immaterial. Then stationery is printed—roans . 'of it —with the names of the emin- ! lent committee thereon in conspieu- j | ous type That ends the matter so far as . *he eminent citizen is concerned. Mis only function on the committee ;s the use of his name. The pro- ; meters of the enterprise do the rest. There would be fewer questioni able schemes launched; fewer usei less organizations born to spread propaganda for some perfectly use- ! less cause: if the eminent citizen— I who are importuned to permit the | use of their names—would refuse | the doubtful honor. To all such appeals there is no j answer as effective as that of Mr. ! Nicholson: "Love and kisses.’’ CONSTITUTION I —’l HARI.HS W JEWETT, for-1 I mar mayor, speaking before 1 I 1 the Kiwanis Club, as a part of the Constitution day program, deplored some oT our recent governmental tendencies. • “We are living in an age when Innovation and experimentation are idols of the people," he said. Exactly so. But progress is the result ->f inno- | various and experiments Not only in tin fields of mechanics, industry and science, but also in tin field of : government The. Constitution —whose one hundred and thirty seventh birthday we observe this week —resulted from a willingness to experiment in government. It was an innovation. It’s great glory Is that It Is an Innovation that haa successfully worked. Tho spirit breathed Into the Con stltution 137 years ago, by the greatest body of political experimenters j of the time, should bo reverenced j as much as the material instrument. | Because of that spirit the Constl- j tution remains a living j

to mull over. The direct primary and other democyratio tendencies of the day—deplored by Mr. Jewett —may be only unsightly wrinkles on our governmental fabric, or they may be a real improvement in the design. In the end they m:ty ruin us. or they may evolve a more perfect government than has yet existed in the world. We’ll never know except by experiment. And the Constitution provides for experiments. AERIAL CIRCUS ”q“\AM EWBANK, 706 N. West S Kt., had his peaceful repose - snatched right out of his hand the other night. A five pound aerial bomb crashed through his roof and his slumbers. Three illuminated planes were doing flip-flops and cart-wheels, over the downtown district, to advertise the international air to be held at Dayton. The bomb was a memento dropped from one of them. It’s thrilling to gaze skywapd, with wide open mouth, and see some aviator take liberties with the law of gravity. But if an aviator should drop a monkey wrench, a wing, or some other unconsidered trifle down on the exposed epiglottis of an enthralled spectator, it wouldn’t he so thrilling. For that spectator. Even a remark, dropped from a sufficient altitude, might be devastating in the closely packed streets below. * Os course It is perfectly safe to fly planes over the Congested district of the city—as long as they fly. But the law of gravity can’t always be ignored. And, permitting planes to stunt '•ver the heart of the city, is a direct invitation for the law of gravity and the undertaker to arrive on the scene arm in arm.

WELCOME PREPARED EXPLORER Radio Keeps Home Town in Touch With Progress of Arctic Voyage. Bi/ .VF.4 Service Typist'ASSET. Maine, Sept, 19. —a welcome of the kind he has never had before is awaiting Capt. Donald B. Mac Millan when he returns here from over a year's exploration in the Arctic. Heretofore the famous explorer’s homecomings were a surprise to his folks and the rest of the conn rty. He had no way of letting them knew just when he would get hack except for an occasional letter. Now, thanks to radio, the people of this community and of MacMillan's home town, Freeport, are going to surprise him. They are keeping in daily touch with him through special apparatus set up by the American Radio Relay League at the dock where he is expected to land. Even while MaMclilan was icehound in the Arctic his people back home got occasional glints of news from him by radio. < Operator on Board This achievement was made possible through the efforts of the American Radio Relay League, an organiation 'of 17.000 American radio amateurs, in selecting Don aid M'x, one of this number, to accompany MacMillan its operator and in keeping the air open constantly for signals from him. Now F. li Si hneli, traffic manager of the A. R R !,., is here working the special transmitting and receiving apparatus by Which he is ('omrminicat.i > daily with Mix on the the ship sails slowly flown the coa.-c of Labrador. Through him come news dispatches of the ship’s progress, with occasional messages from MacMillan himself Valuable Aid “Whatever tray he the import of his exploration- to tl. scioi rifle world." says a report from the a. R. K. 1... "Captain MacMillan, with the help of Donald Mix, lias already accomplished mi- fe.it of very great importan-• H-> has proven to every fine the value of radio as a practical aid to ex plorers. "Never again will an explorer, wherever he may he hound feel that for the duration of tin- journey contact with home is lost.”

THE BOWDOIN. DONALD 11. MACMILLAN'S SAILING VESSEL, j AS IT LEFT WLSOASSET, ME . IN JUNE. 1923. ABOVE, RIGHT,: INSET OF MACMILLAN. AND BEL<>W. DONALD MIX, RADIO OP j ERATOK ON THE BOWDOIN.

A Thought He that Is soon angry dealett foolishly; and a man of wicked d* vices is hated. —Prov. 14:17. • • • Anger Is practical avvkardness. — Colton. Risky “Dinah. I hear you are married.” “Yassum, Iso got a good man now.” “Docs he provide for you al! right?” "Yas. he a good provider, but I'sf skeered lie going to be notched at it.’ —E v cry body 'a. Family Outing "Can I sea Mrs. B?” “She's out, sir.” “One of the family, then?” "All out, sir.” "Wasn’t there a fire here last night?” "Yes, sir, hut that’s out, too.” — Boston Transcript.

LJjj rSsX&J-TJi II 2 Now—or Any feC* Wet 11 Season You have always wanted to visit Hawaii—that land of palm tfrees, purple islands, surf riders, moonlight and romance. The Hawaii season is all the year round. Round trips, SIBO.OO up. Write or call for some of our illustrated booklets describing our many tours in detail. RICHARD A. KURTZ, Mgr. Travel Department 120 East Market Street MA in 1576

Ask The Times You i an get an answer to any Hues tion of fact or Information by writing to the lnd.an.t polls Tines Washington Unrea l 1322 New Vnra Ave.. .Washington. D. C . inclosing 't cents in stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot, be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ail otter quest tone will receive a personal rep v t'! s;,-ne-.t requests cannot be at of Ail letters arc confidential.—Editor. Will quicksilver poured into a welj work its way through the ‘ •rt h nn,i give the stream of the lake another course? No. as . matter of fact, the penerating qualities of mercury are not s great as those of water. In what year was Zev the champion American race horse? j 92 1 How did the name Kalamazoo originate? There are various accounts. One

authority states It Is from the Indian word negikanamazo, moaning “otter tall.” "Beautiful water.” “boiling water” and "stones like otters” are other translations. How can the original color '"of slate laundry trays be restored? The color may bo partially, if not completely, restored by washing with o or 10 per cent hydrochloric acid. Immediately rinsing out with water, and then scrubbing out with soap solution or a soap scouring compound. How can enamel be removed from copper wire? Hot caustic soda solution loosens the enamel, so It can be wiped off. If almond oil Is exposed to the air in thin films how long will It be before oxidation occurs? No definite period of time for oxidation can be laid down. The oxidation would continue for a period of time to be reckoned in months. What Is the height and weight of Milton Sills? He is six feet tajl and weighs 160 pounds.

Better Be Looking Ahead

Tom Sims Says Scientists say- we must wait 200 years to learn if Mars is inhabited, but we refuse to do it. After listening to a propeller hum all around the world these fliers shouldn't mind mosquitoes. In Turkey, forty men who didn’t use their heads lost them. New beauty champion of America has long curls, indicating some of the judges were hair tonic salesmen instead of artists. Every autumn, everywhere, nature holds Us own beauty contest. New York reports a nurse shortage. No wonder. All the wise New York drinkers are marrying nurses. Ex-King George of Greece is borrowing money and perhaps looking for a good stand for a nesv case. The eternal triangle causes enough trouble for us without the presidential campaign becoming an infernal triangle. They have quit asking, "Am I the first you ever loved?" Now they ask, "Am -I the last y-ou will tie to?"

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Safety Always By HAL COCHRAN The common shout of nowadays is always Safety first. You'll hear the cry no matter where you go. It's just a short expression that has duly been rehearsed, and It’s one that everybody ought to know When little folks start off to school they'll hear their mother say: “Now watch your step when crossing o'er the street. Play safety as to autos ’cause they take the right-of-way, and it’s up to you to be the one discreet.’’ And then you’ll find at crossings, where the railroad trains whiz by, a warning that you ought to understand. It's “Safety First" that greets you. where it’s sure to catch the ey*. It tells you of the danger near at hand. The "Safety First’’ idea is a good one. I’ll admit, but it's weak when figured right down to the letter. It seems ’teould be much stronger and 'tootild make a bigger hit. Don’t you think that Safety ALWAYS would be better? (Copyright, 1924. NEA Service, Inc.)