Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FEIIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client cf the United Press, the XEA Servir c and the Scripps-Paine Service. * • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv 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. * E —MA in 3500. \

PUBLIC OPINION AND WEALTH SHE two most powerful influences in modern civilization are wealth and public opinion. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, confessed murderers, were saved from the gallows because they had wealth enough to present their cases in court. Bernard Graflt, convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence, had no money with which to present his ease. He was sentenced to be hanged. Then public opinion went to work. Now he has been granted a ninety-day reprieve and his case will be reviewed. It is probable that his sentence will be commuted. Not in years has public opinion been so generally aroused in a criminal case as in the ease of Bernard Grant. Governor Small has received throusands of petitions. More than 5,000 were sent to him through The Indianapolis Times alone. This ease demonstrates that +he opinion of the public is in favor of one law for everybody, rich and poor alike. But this does not mean that public opinion is for ignoring law. We do not believe a single person who petitioned that the Grant case be reviewed feels that criminals should not be made to suffer the consequences of their crimes. HIGH COST OF “DATES” HE world do move. Indianapolis young people declare that a “date” nowadays costs sls for food and entertainment—if it is a moderately “big evening,” and at least $5 if it is any kind of an evening at all. When father was a boy and courted mother he was lucky if he was making sls a week. A “date” usually consisted of an efening in the parlor with the gas turned low. A “big date” would consist of a ride in a buggy hired at the livery stable for 50 cents or a strawberry festival at the Methodist church with the limit not more than 50 cents. In those days it was eustomery to marry young and rear big families. Nowadays later marriages are the rule rather than the exception. Large families are rare and divorces are numerous. Perhaps the explanation lies in the difference in the cost of “dates” and the subsequent upkeep. LA FOLLETTE BEARDS THE LION SENATOR LA FOLLETTE lias bearded the Wall Street ____ lion in its den. He went to New York City to challenge the real owners of the two old parties and declare the purpose of the people of this republic to pull down the mighty from their seat of power and rstore control of this Government to the people themselves. It was Senator Lodsre of Massachusetts who frankly admitted on the floor of the United States Senate that. 00 per eent of the campaign funds of both the Republican and the Democratic parties was contributed in New York City. It was Senator La Follette who went to the hanerout of these contributors and challenged Mammon to a finish fisrht. There was no timidity in that challenge. There was no fear. There was no dodging of the meaning of the fight. La Follette notified the selfish interests, that sit behind the stones and pull the strings that move their dummy managers of the twin parties, what the people want, what they have a right to have and what they intend to get. There can be no doubt about the Progressive plan of campaign. La Follette took the offensive. He attacked the two old parties as kept tools of a single guiding, directing, controlling financial and industrial oligarchy. He met the issue on the Federal courts and told exactly how Progressives expected to give the people themselves opportunity to curb the power of autocratic courts by entirely constitutional methods. But he isu t letting the invisible government get away with the strategy by making so much noise about the Constitution that the people will forget all about the corruption in the Washington Government and the betrayal of the people by both old parties. The La follette New York speech was an arraignment of the Republican and Democratic party organizations, that means the Progressive campaign from now until election day will be an aggressive attack on misrepresentation, incompetence and corruption in government that can not be met successfully by silence and evasion.

THE PRINCE’S nighthood seems to be in flower. SPEAKING OF prostrate nations, automobiles are rapidly increasing in number in Japan. GERMANY’S RETURN to normalcy seems to be assured. She is making 6 per cent beer now. FLO ZEIGFELD is barring bob-haired girls from the Follies, but the world will still give them a show. THE GERMAN doctor’s theory that stone bruises on the heel will cure all nervous disorders may be correct, but it will get darn little affirmation from memory.

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Insulin Diet Children of Kansas City are helping- the doctors keep 7-year-old Alice Hess alive. They are contributing their pennies to a fund that is paying for the insulin treatments Alice must take daily. As long as the daily dose is administered, Aliee runs and plays like other little girls. But if one is missed, she begins to pine away. She is suffering from diabetes. PROGRESSIVE VOTE MA Y BE A SURPRISE

Philadelphia Expected to Give Considerable Support to Independents, By LOWELL MEL.LETT HILADELPHIA, Sept. 22. No town in the country is next election day than this City of j Brotherly I,o\ e. United States Senator Wheeler, candidate for Vice President on one i of the three principal party tickets, has just paid the city a visit, but if the population is as sleepy as its newspapers apparently believe, he came and went again without being [ observed—oven by the hopeful re porters who were at the station to interview him. A large reception committee, adorned with large white ribbons, met him at the train and *n a long line of automobiles, each ; placiirtMM 1 "La Kollette and Wf.eel -i or." escorted him to his hotel; a number of prominent-citizens tendered ! him a lunch and he spoke at night to an Immense gathering. But it would require an eagle-eyed newspaper reader to dlseover his presence in the columns of his Philadelphia newspaper. There were columns devoted to the La Follette and Wheeler campaign, mostly explaining that it was hopeless, and there were editorials violently disagreeing with things I.a Follette and Wheeler were alleged to have said at some time or other, but the simple fact that one of the men so voluminously discussed happened to he in town for the day was someh w omitted. Quite a nice little item j •was made of the fact that his opponent. General Dawes, was in Evanston. 111. —his home town, where he can he found more often than anywhere else —hut the publishers found no news in Wheeler being in Philadelphia. Will Surprise Some So the vote that appears certain to be given the Progressive ticket In Philadelphia doubtless will surprise some of her citizens. For the feeling discovered in Phalldelphia is not greatly d:fferent from that in other Industrial cities. A great deal of organization work has been demand the organizers report a ready response to their efforts. The Central Labor Union, representing all ' the local unions of Philadelphia and vicinity, voted some time ago to indorse the independent ticket—something never before done for any national ticket by that body—and is actively at work to get out the vote In November. Philadelphia’s long record of political corruption Is giving the Progressive leaders some concern. They are wondering whether they will be able to get the vote counted after it is cast. A classic instance of the Philadelphia system, occurring a year or so ago. is still fresh In mind. Pill Roper, famous Princeton football coach, whose home is in this city, became a candidate for city councilman. The returns showed that he was defeated by 1.600 votes. Bill was so convinced that he really was a popular person that he had the ballots seized and recounte 1 in court next day. The result justified his opinion of himself. He actually ! had been elected by 800 votes. Butler Helps The political Philadelphian of only : a few years ago has been improved 1 in one respect, however, that will j work to the advantage of the independent ticket. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commissioner of public safety, in his process of cleaning up the police department, has taken the force out of politics. Time was when It was almost worth a man’s life to try to vote against the machine in this city. The police surrounding the polls made it so. Under Butler's orders, no policeman is j allowed within fifty feet of the poll- j ing place, except during the brief | time it requires to cast his own j vote. The days when unwelcome voters were kept away from the polls are gone, for the time being at least. All in all, the heads of the independent movement here think there is an opportunity this year such as never before known in Philadelphia for demonstrating their strength, and they say they are going to do it.

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DEPENDENTS FEEL LAW’S HEAVY HAND Make Prisoners Work and Send Money to Families, Reformer Suggests, By 808 DORMAN, NEA Service Writer HILA DELPHI A, Sept. 22. “Has it ever occurred to you __J that when a man is arrested and placed in prison, he is fed. kept warm, and has a place to sleep, while -those who have been dependent on him, and who are in no way responsible for the commission of his crime, are left to shift for them- ' selves—often to go cold and hungry and to be throw 1 into the street because they cannot pay their rent?” Dr. 3. P. Ross, head of the Prison Welfare Association of Philadelphia, w.is leaning forward in his chair, emphasizing his question with shakes of a long forefir His organization taks car of scores of families of men in prison. Continuing he said: "Society is defeating its own ends in its present methods of handling crime. Children Go Hungry “Children, dependent upon the support of a father who is in prison, go hungry and cold. They question the worth of a system that condemns them to privation and want, for a crime of which they know nothing. “The man in prison whom we claim is being reformed, is too often the victim of idleness. Theoretically he works. But any manufacturer would go broke whose employes turned out no more than prison labor." “Let. them work—not in competition with labor In the outside—hut in making those things which the State must have in its various institutions, its hospitals, its offices, its penitemaries. There are not enough men in prison in any one j Starr to make all that the State requires. "Let these men be paid standard I wages, and let the wages be sent to their dependents, if any. If they, hive no dependents, pay them a lower scale than those who have. “By working and earning money for the support of their dependents j these men can still feel that they ! are useful members of society. "They will not come hack into the world to find their loved ones the | victims of cold, hunger .and privation. Hatred Fs Result "Conditions as they now are. lead these men to a bitter hatred of the society that has ill-treated their loved ones. "Here's one case of many we are helping. "The husband got drunk one night, found himself broke, and went out ts, get some money by highway robbery, in the course of which his victim was badly hurt. "He was caught tried and sen j tenetd to thirty-eight years. -ilis mother and wife spent their j little savings to try and clear him i

THE PHILADELPHIA PRISON WELFARE ASSOCIATION CARES FOR THE LITTLE GIRL (ABOVE) FILE HER FATHER IS IN PRISON. DR. S. P. ROSS (INSERT) IS THE HEAD OF THE ASSOCIATION. LOWER PICTURE SHOWS ONE FAMILY LEFT DESTITUTE. EXCEPT FOR THE AID OF THE ASSOCIATION. WHEN THE BREADWINNER WENT TO JAIL. HIS MOTHER, 80, WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN ARE IN THE PICTURE.

With his sentence they were destitute. The wife was about to give birth to a baby, her third. “The husband went to prison, leaving an SO-year-old mother, a wife and two children of 5 and 4, with a third to come, and no means ! of support. | “We are taking care of them, | sending the children to school, and trying to make good citizens of them. “But our funds are limited. We can only take care of a few of the cases that come to our attention. “It is a problem that society miAt face or it is a problem that will destroy society. For in it lies the answer to much of the present inp :, -

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lla nd-Me-Do wn By HAL COCHRAN Consider the clothes that a youngster outgrows. They have oft been a problem for ns •her. Suits and things will not last 'cause a child grows too fast, so they're handed right down to his brother. The sewing machine runs a pace that Is keen as th*- altering work :s begun. A tuck may he taken and style is forsaken. This hand-me-down job is no in. A pleasant smile's shown by th, son who is grown as he watches mom cut down his clothes. He should worry! Why shoot, he will get anew suit is the thing that he cheerfully knows. That's not tru>* with the other—th r - poor little brother In r'.ire of a smile he Just frowns. New suit hopes departed, he's kind:, down hearted at having to wear hand-me downs. (Copyright. 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. Before he tried to play a trombone while riding in his flivver, Pete, the porter had the finest teeth in town. A layback haircut looks like a pompadour that has gone to seed. Blondy, the manicure, says her baby brother has learned to pretend he is asleep so he won’t have to listen to his father singing to him any more. The head bootblack calls his girl a tangerine because she isn't sweet enough to be an orange or big enough to he a lemon

BEVERIDGE GIVES RULES OF ORA TOR Y | Indiana Writer Says “Stop When You Are Through” By OLIVER APPLE WISH all political candidates and speakers could read a l—. .J little essay on "The Art of Public Speaking” which HoughtonMiffiin Company has just published for ttie modest sum of a dollar. It’s by ex Senator Albert ,1. Beveridge, who writes with authority because is admittedly one <>f the country’s lies; speakers His hook is esp<v ,daily timely now. when many folks •are first attempting public speaking to aid the new political movement. What an abundance of vapid, meaning less and ignorant talk, what i supply of gesticulating and hammer: ,g ami unwarranted emphasis could he done away with, if many so-called speakers would only read and practice what Beveridge says. "Oratory is an art, in the sense that music, painting, sculpture and the like are arts," says Beveridge. Then, pointing out that it would be only the most daring or foolish person who would tyv to practice the ar sos music or painting or acting—or even shoeing a horse, driving an automobile., laying brick —and the like, without practice ami experience, he utters this proven truth: 'Yet, curiously enough, most of ti : f t-1 that we can practice without knowledge or effort the two oldest and noblest of the fine arts, writing and speaking.” Robert G. Ingcrsoll, Daniel Webster. Wendell Phillips and Patrick Henry are listed by Beveridge as perhaps the four greatest public speakers America has produced—considering their efforts purely from ihe standpoint of oratory as ah art and without reference to opinion. "The supreme master of the art of public address” was Jesus Christ, Beveridge believes. "The loftiest theme can he treated best in simplest terms.” he says. •• Take, for example, the Sermon on the Mount, or. indeed, any of the teachings of Jesus, who even from the human point of view, was the supreme master of the art of public address. “Or take Paul’s speech to. the Athenians on Mars’ Hilt, the finest example of oratory ever delivered by mortal man—or, not far below Pauls masterpiece, that of Lincoln at Gettysburg. These sermons and speeches were exalted, yet they were in the language of the common people.” • • * The final rule for speakers, suggested by Beveridge, is one so simple that it would seem unnecessary. It is: "Stop when you are through. "All enduring speeches have Up>en comparatively short. None of the sermons of Jestis could, by any possibility, have occupied three-quarters of an hour, and most of them must have been less than half as long. "So be brief as you are simple, as plain as you are fair, and content with a good job well done, stop when you are through.” Tongue Tips REV. Z. COLIN O'FARRELL, Butte, Mont.: “The teachings that we are monkey-made instead of Godmade must revert the coming generation to brutality beyong description.” * * * IRENE CASTLE McLOUGHLIN. actress and dancer: ‘‘l am leaving the stage for good. I am 31 years old, married and no longer inter esting.” * * * DR. VAN DYKE, preacher: “No one can live his real life continuously in a crowd." *

Ask The Times You can rp; an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to tl.e Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington D C, inclosing 2 cents in j stamps for reply. Medical, legal and Jtiantal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. A!I other questions wall receive a personal r*>p!y Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What docs the name Miramar mean? It is from the Spanish "Behold j t he sea." What causes a block of ire to give off steam? j The steam apparently given off ! by a block of ice is the result of the i condensation of water vapor in the [air. the condensation being caused ! by the low temperature of the ice. What grounds are there for bej lieving that Bacon wrote the j works attributed to Shakespeare? The chief grounds for this be- ; lief are the supposed lack of educa- ' lion of Shakespeare and the well known culture of Bacon. Where do Eskimos live? In the Arctic circle in America j and Asia. [ How long do freshwater fish I live? It is difficult to say. but bass are said to live twenty years; trout from twelve to fifteen: and carp have been reputed to live 100 years. What per cent of the babies of this country arc born left-handed? Fully 4 per cent. Is It true that when it Is sumj mer in the United States it is winter in Brazil, and vice versa? Yes, it is true. What is meant jvhen one says it is impossible to change hu- j man nature? The meaning is'-that the individual is what X.e is by reason of his inheritance. But. of course, human j nature, like all animal nature, has i changed and is constantly changing, i due to laws of evolution, which inexorably tend toward the survival and perpetration of that kind of life best fitted to survive under certain environmental conditions—whatever 'hey may be—to which it is exposed. lln common usage, the term is merely a sophism put forth by any one who wishes to oppose any idea of change in methods of doing things. What is a colotura singer? One who produces the effect of giving color to vocal rnlisic by giving two or more notes to each j syllable, as in trills, runs. etc. What are tenors and sopranos? ' Tenor is the term applied to the ; highest natural adult male voice, i while soprano applies to the human i voice of the highest pitch or range: and is always used to designate a woman singer or very young boy before his voice changes. Tom Sims Says Faint heart or complexion ne’er! won a husband. Every man is entitled to a living j wage, but this doesn't seem to ap- j ply to the women. Bad luck is usually cussed for bad j luck, while good luck is usually taken for granted. Football's here. We heard a quarter back telephoning and he scared central calling the signals. Franco-British-German trade com- | bine against America is reported, which may hurt our exporting wine, monocles and pretzels. Thanksgiving is only a few weeks from here now, thank goodness. Now that we have a "Own-Your- | Own-Home” movement we need a movement to get all the autos paid for. “There will he plenty of coal this winter,” says a dealer. Yes, and no doubt there will be plenty of dia monds. Blowing about your goods is all tight. That's just the trade wind. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

MONDAY, SEPT. 22, 1924.

Under Miss Indiana’s Torch { By GAI'LORD NELSON Exposition mODAY the “Hoosier Limited" takes the road. It is the first of a series of i trips this miniature trackless train | will make to all parts of the State | to advertise the second Indianapolis Industrial Exposition, to be held Oct. 4 to 11. Indianapolis is a city of homeowning, home-loving home felks —the capital of a great State. :It is more. It is an industrial city 1 with an astonishing variety of manufactured products. The output of ! its factories flows in all the arteries I of trade to the remote corners of the I world. The new exposition building at the I State fairground will be none too large to contain the exhibits of its manufacturing enterprises. Some cities live on the tarnished glories of their past, on their wits, on their tourists, or on their climate. But the prosperity of Indianapolis is inextricably interwoven with the smoke of its factory chimneys. The city lives by the work of Its hands —by an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. No civic undertaking should receive more hearty support than the industrial exposition. It is well the "Hoosier Limited” is carrying an invitation to our friends and neighbors to visit this ox-1 position and inspect our Industrial" handiwork. TVe will show It with justifiable pride. Motor trucks bring 31 per cent of all live stock in Indianapolis market. Not counting road hogs. Traffic jTJ to there, with the least delay |il Bn d congestion is every city's problem. New York builds subways and discusses double-decked streets. Chicago has the "L” —with an II in it and dreams of subways. Still their traffic congestion grows. The street railways is in no position to extend its lines. Stockholders of a street railway—facing diminishing returns don't cheer heartily over proposals to spend large sums in expansion. The answer here, as in other cities, is the motor bus. It serves a real transportation need, and its use will grow. Whether j it functions best as the child of the street railway company or tinder independent management is immaterial. Bus traffic is now comparatively a transportation infant. But even now the motor bus is ,not exactly |a household ret. The immediate present, before the bus traffic becomes full grown, is the best time for the city to devise a definite 4 scheme to regulate and control bus! operations. Complete strangulation, however, should not be interpreted as desirable regulation. For we're bound to have more busses as time goes on —but we won't have any moro on Kentucky Ave. There isn’t room. Herron alumni held a “sketch picnic” Saturday. We, too, have had “sketchy picnics” where we didn't draw a thing.

Wrecks WABASH passenger train A jumped a switch point near i Williamsport, June 1, and plowed into a freight on the siding. Fourteen persons were killed and ; fifty-four injured. There was an investigation—as usual. And the public service commission made an order —as usual. The neglect of the conductor and ; brakeman to lock safely a worn J switch stand —itself a contributing factor —was chiefly responsible for the . wreck, according to the commission's report of June 20, Just made public. The report states: "It would appear that rule No. 104 of the Wabash Railroad has been violated. The rule is that all switches must he left in proper position after having been used.’ The commission recommends that the ruie be “literally complied with." 1 The railroad will try to enforce " it and it will be literally complied with —until some conductor or i brakeman grows careless or forgetlfe I Then there’ll be another wrec& _ —another investigation —another recommendation that a certain rule be “literally complied with." The endless circle. The strictest rules, every mechanical safeguard, may be thrown about train operation. But they ! can't altogether eliminate carelessi ness. There will still be wrecks—|and investigations—and reports. For the human factor is above all rules. A JefTersorville applicant for naturalizt Hon told the examiner he had n -ver seen the United States lag. The examiner “flagged” him. Petitions I . NEW political party is easily IL\ launched In Indiana. TheoL_.. ,J retically. To place its ticket on the ballot only needs a petition of 500 names. That is a mere exercise canter for a lightweight petition circulator. Between breakfast and downtown he can secure 500 names to any petition. From burning the Statehousa to revising the earth's orbit. In other States the birth of anew political party is no such casual event. To place anew ticket on the ballot they generally demand peti- - tions signed by 1 per cent of the . voters. ' 4 One per cent in Indiana would be 17,000 names. But Indiana only requires 500. Under the present law there might be, mathematically, 8,500 tickets in the field. Which is absurd. But so is the present law.