Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER. Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • * Client of the United Press, the NEA Service 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. • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

BACK ON PAGE ONE “TIFTER months of skillful shushing by the Republican naA tional committee the oil scandal was pretty well chloroformed. Now. by grace of Harry Daugherty, it is back on page one of nearly every newspaper in the United States. AH he has done is to call Gaston Means as an expert witness to prove that Gaston Means was a liar before the Wheeler committee. Then Means adds, on his own hook, that the statement saying he lied to the committee is, itself, a lie. Well, that is that. But Means wasn’t before the Walsh committee, neither was Roxie Stinson nor any other of the Wheeler witnesses. The Walsh testimony stands. And what was it ? That the Department of Justice, under Daugherty, was in communication with Ned McLean when they were trying to alibi Fall. That the Department of Justice was aiding the defense and not the Government. That McLean was a dollar-a-year man in the Department and that the wife of his private secretary was the private secretary of William J. Burns, head of the Department’s sleuths. The Ducks, the Dukes, the Champions, the Apples, the Peaches, the Apricots, the Principal and all the rest were in the Walsh hearings. It doesn't make any difference whether Means is a liar or when. His friends boasted that Coolidge sat in the Cabinet until it was revealed that the Cabinet knew about Teapot Dome. It is certain that he sat in the Senate the day La Follette took the lid off of Teapot Dome—eighteenth months before the Walsh committee got it permanently off. Coolidge similarly sat in his chair as President of the Senate when Senator Kendrick told the Teapot Dome story. Meanwhile, the oil is being pumped out of the naval oil reserves every day in the week, hundreds of thousands of barrels of it. • Meanwhile the same outfit that ran the Department of Justice under Daugherty is running it under Attorney General Stone—except when Solicitor General Beck and the others are out making speeches about red revolution and saving the United States Constitution. Anyhow, the lid is off Teapot Dome again, and Daugherty took it off and oil is back on page one.

APPLE SAUCE FOR WOMEN TpIHE Democratic party started its dijive to get the woman 1 vote of the country by blaring “Oh, You Beautiful Doll" at one of the prominent Democratic women every time she appeared on the platform at the convention and behaving toward her generally as if she were Ann Pennington or some other pulchritudinous Follies girl instead of an intelligent and important factor in a big undertaking. Now they follow this auspicious start by issuing a campaign book for women only in which the issues of the year are neatly set forth in Mother Goose rhymes so the women can understand them. They have compiled model speeches for the women, too, so the dear things will know what to say when the urge to make a speech gets the better of them. We expect to sit back and have a lot of fun watching what happens when the women thoroughly digest the mean of all these little attentions. You know what happens, don’t you, when a man tries to tell a woman how to run her kitchen, or what kind of a hat to buy? You can imagine the result if he would write out what she was to say and what not to say at a meeting of the Ladies’ Aid? Before this campaign is over, these-Democratic men are apt to learn a few things about speeches and speech making—and the things they hear won’t be modeled on the sample in the campaign book, either. They’ll have an originality and an irresistible force all their own, If we’re any prophet. As for election returns—well, what does any woman do when a man insinuates she doesn’t know what she’s talking about ? MURDERS M r ~ "jURDERS come and murders go. Yesterday, two rich __ youths murdered a boy, “just for a thrill.” Today, a minister poisons his wife and a neighbor woman poisons her husband, just because of the eternal triangle—or rather in this case the eternal square. ' But there is nothing new about these murders. If it were not for fear some enterprising fellow citizen might submit a few samples, a contest for something new in the line of murders might be interesting. As it is most of us are tired of reading about murders. But somehow we read all about them anyway. And the poor editor is tired publishing all about murders, but what can the poor editor do. They happen and he has a suspicion you read ’em.

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* Taxi! LJBMHnMIHMRHMMnMWMHMaaiMnaa , MRS. LYDIA A. CARLETON of Brookline, Mass., is likely to respond when a person in her town shouts “Taxi." For she recently gave tip clerical work because of low pay and turned to driving a taxi on Brookline streets. STRAWVOTE MA Y ME A N SOMETHING Poll Taken on Rural Routes Shows Direction of Thought, Time* Rureau, 1322 Scic York Arc. [TyiS ASHINGTON. Sept. 24. i While it is conceded that the ___] La Follette ticket will run strong in the cities because of the general drift of city workers in that direction, there has been much speculation as to the strength of La , Follette among the farmers in States | outside of the northwestern group. “The Farm Journal,” published |in Philadelphia and Chicago, is i taking a poll of rural free delivery | routes, which would indicate a practically solid farmer vote. The total I for all States since July 0. gives La | Follette Coolidge 6.201, and ' Davis 2.942. ! “The Farm Journal" says: “On the face of returns to date in The Farm Journal’s presidential strawvote, Senator La Follette will make i a clean sweep of the northwestern tier of States, from Wisconsin to | Washington, with the possible exception of Idaho. If Idaho is ini eluded, tliis will give Ln Follette a j solid block of fifty electoral votes, all lof which are taken from the ll* ! publican majority of 1920.” Figures Are Given Then are given the figures f"r Colorado, Illinois. lowa, Kansas, i Nebraska, Oklahoma and Oregon, which total Coolidge 2.411, Li Fol- ■ letfe 1.882. Davis 1.219. It should be remembered that this j straw vote is taken exclusively on I R. F. D. routes: and it means, if it j means anything that some ordinarily safe Republican States outside the Northwest are extremely doubtful. Illinois, for example, gives Coo - -1 idge 212. La Follette 148 and Davis 119. among the voters outside of Chicago and the other rlties. towns and villages. .If La Follette is that 'strong among the farmers of 1111nois his chances of carrying Illinois are better than those of Coolidge. The total vote of Coolidge among the farmers is a minority vote in that | part nf Illinois from which the State's big Republican majorities come. In lowa the straw vote is: Coo!idge. 208; La Follette, 202: Davis, 70. If that's the best Coolidge can do among the farmers of lowa, the city vote ought to give the State to La Follette easily. Kansas No Different Kansas gives Coolidge no more hope than lowa, for his vote there, among the farmers is but 297 to La Collette's 269 and Davis' 137. In Nebraska, outside of Omaha, Lincoln and other cities, the vote is: Codffdge, 531: La Fojlette, 438; Davis, 275. There, ton. the Republican vote is a minority vote and La Follette is right on the heels of Coolidge. In Colorado the vote is Coolidge, 284; La Follette, 192; Davis. 145. In Oklahoma. Coolidge, 544; La Follette, 341; Davis. 330. In Oregon, Coolidge, 335: Ln Follette. 292: Davis, 143. In Colorado, Denver, Pueblo and other cities are not Included. In Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and all other cities are omitted; and in Oregon. Portland and all other urban communities have no part in the poll. From AH Parts Commenting on the total of 6,201 for Coolidge, 6.178 for La Follette and 2,942 for Davis, The Farm Journal says: “These figures are from all parts of the United States, but chiefly from the important agricultural States of the mid-West, where the vote is being taken by The Farm Journal on R. F. D. routes.” The significant fact in this poll is the close division of strength between Coolidge and La Follette among the Republican farmers. If a like situation exists among the farmers in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, the industrial vote In the cities and among railroad employes is apt to sweep these three States together with the entire West and mid-West into the La Follette column. Even Pennsylvania is in the doubtful column, under these circumstances, when the fact is considered that Harding and Cox together got less than two million votes in 1920 and 2,500,000 eligible voters stayed away from the polls. A Thought Seest thou a man diligent In his business? he shall stand before kings.—Prov. 22:29. * * * To business that we love, we rise Detimes and go to it with delight.— Shakespeare.

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SCIENTIST SEEKS NEW HEALTH RAY Young Doctor Works in ‘Mystery Laboratory' for Secret of Youth, Bn SEA Service LPINE, N. J., Sept. 24. A From the queer doorways of the white, cubist-shaped ' mystery laboratory” of the Jersey Palisades there has stepped a young scientist with what he believes to be the key to the fountain of health. Dr. J. Clawson Burnett is his name and, with J. H. Hallberg, an engineer, he has been for two years carrying on secret experimentations seeking it fundamental electrical law governing life. They have tried to prove the practicability of the atomic theory as applied to the human body. In this respect the laboratory seems to have been haunted by the ghost of the late Dr. Albert Abrams, of San Francisco, whose electronic reaction machines created a furor in medical circles. A Scientific American investigation declared it impractical shortly after Abram’s death. - But Dr. Burnett has contrived a new oscilloclast, designed to heal disease by electric force, and has had the cooperation of an expert electrical engineer. They are going to demonstrate their device before scientists in Chicago and invite strictest Investigation. Dr. Burnett declares he has no commercial interest. He is quite wealthy. If science declares his device to be valuable the world is welcome to it. “In constructing our machine we worked on the theory that light is of primary importance.” he explained. “Therefore vibrations are of primary importance. I think we are at liberty to assume that the whole body is affected by light—or electromagnetic waves. “I think that in time we will be able to diagnose and cure disease by these electromagnetic vibrations. Medicine, with all due respect to it. is still an art. By means of electricity we hope to make exact diagnosis, and cure by exact science. \Ye hope to find'a fundamental law governing life. “We have no idea that we can end disease. Man is too well satisfied with the way he lives to make that i possible.”

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Mystery By UAL, COCHRAN There are plenty of things, it appears, must have wing's, for they come ami they linger, then go. It Is well worth a smile how you have them a while, and they're prone and just where you don't know. It is well we begin on the mere little pin, for its life is a short one. at best. It serves you a clay, then it passes away into nowhere, to join all the rest. Atid then comes to mind any pencil —you’ll And that no matter how costly or cheap, one minute they're here; then they just disappear*. They’re a mighty hard object to keep. And say, where’s the fella who's owned an umbrella, who’s managed to keep it for long? It’s suddenly borrowed; the owner is sorrowed. Another good rain-stick gone wrong. I'm inquisitive, so I -would sure like to ki.ow what the answer to all this can be. Things go, that we know, but just where do they go? It's always a myst’ry to me. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Nature In Arabia the temperature often drops as much as 70 degrees between sunset and pitch dark. There is record that in the month of February, at the resort town of Hail, the thermometer stood at 78 degrees at sunset and at 18 twenty minutes later. Bobby, the collie dog that found his way home all the way from Indiana to Silverton, Oregon, last -winter when his owner lost him from a touring auto, will pretend to do it all over again for the movies. Not Up to Johnny “Johnny, you talk altogether too much.” “Now see here, pa, am I to blame for your marrying into a talkative fagniiy?” —Boston Transcript.

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Science The attention recently attracted by the closeness of Mars to the earth shows the great interest of people today in scientific matters, few years ago an event nf this kind would have caused little interest unless it could be connected with possible disaster, like the popular spe.-u lation that existed about Halley's comet and its chances for coming into collision with the earth. in the case of Mars, however, people have shown genuine interest, minus superstition. Thousar: Is have \ Cited observatories to look through giant telescopes. Even small telescopes at 10 cents a look have done a large business. One reason for the great interest ln Mars Is, of course, tie problem

of whether It. is inhabited. Puzzling radio messages may be dismissed as unworthy of serious consideration. It will be many years, in ajl probability. before any safe answer may lie advanced, because there are no scientific instruments of today capable nf deciding the question. The only thing really known is that there is evidence that heat, atmospheric and other conditions of the planet will support some form of life. Tom Sims Says In Lisbon a bomb thrown into the Hotel Swiss-Atlantic may have bent a few of their steaks. Three men who failed to escape from the Atlanta (Ga.) pen must spend the winter in jail, where it is nico and warm. Dr. Yen heads the Pekin government, proving even a name which sounds like money counts. The German cabinet Is about to be overturned, but then that has become a German custom, so don’t worry. The trouble with getting somebody to help you spell a word Is they look as if you were so ignorant. The polo trot is said to be the new fall dance, but we don’t know if they run nick and neck or nose and nose. A sugar surplus is reported: this time Dy the market editor, instead of by the June husbands. Farmers from various sections report profits from crop pools, unless there were sharks in them. Vicksburg (Miss.) barbers quit bobbing on Saturday to shave men, which will help the women more than bobbing. Wealth is a burden of which someone always stands ready to relieve you.

WHY LABOR IS FOR 808 LA FOLLETTE \ Samuel Gompers Declares Senator Is Friend of Working Man, By SAMUEL GOMPERS, - President, American Federation of •Labor. SHE v.age earners of America —indeed all fair minded people of America —all men and women who are not indifferent to the appeal of humanity must realize nmr, fully nov. than ever that : n expressing preference for tic domestic political pronouncements of Senators L, Follette and Whtwler that the American Federation of I.abor followed the only course by .vhich it could remain true t i the lofty Ideals and humanitarian professions to which it has been dedicated. Partisan political fanaticism may ascribe to labor motives of an unworthy nature. But all not blinded by partisan political prejudices will rightly understand labor's attitude and procedure in this political campaign and will judge us accordingly. Appeal Not Partisan Tn urging the wage earners of America. Its friends and sympathizers and all freedom loving people to., support and vote for La Follette. the American Federation of Labor is not directly or indirectly, openly or covertly supporting or encouraging a third political party. Libor's ippea! in support of l„a Follette is not based on party organizations of any kind—its appeal is founded on the promptings of the human heart and the desire to | cleanse all political parties of the "dollar" machinations which have warped the very fibre upon which they were originally founded. Labor’s support of La Follette Is based on the fact that he has ever been willing to risk his political standing by advocating measures to make Government more responsive to the will and wishes of the people. For Popular Election It was he who advocated the popular election of Senators when his party denounced him for his “radicalism.” It was Robert La FolMte who advocated the Seamen's Act when it was unpopular, and mistrusted, and hated by all the so-called conserve oT wealth. It was he who has been a pioneer in the movement of taking politics out of the field of contending forces and bringing It under the control of intelligence by making available legislative experience and research on related fields. Robert M. La. Follette has been a leader of leadeVs, a pathfinder in political progress, a fearless foe of greed and exploitation and a champion of the rights of the people. His long public career has ever been directed and sustained by faith in humanity, high ideals of public service and the duty of citizenship. Know Indiana What is the predominating strain in our Indiana population? English, Scotch and Irish peasantry. What are the sources of the “Hoosier dialect?” It is the language of the Eighteenth Century commoner of England, who used “jine” for “join,” ”drap” for “drop” and who dropped the final “g” from participles. Where does the dialect flourish here? In the rural districts in southern Indiana chiefly. The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. When Pete, the porter, heard his wife’s relations weren’t coming to visit them after all, he went right away and had his picture taken ■whiie it was easy to look pleasant. Some people are so slouchy even their skins don't seem to fit good. The stingiest man in town took some golden- bantam corn to a fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration as a present to the happy pair. Next!

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question nf fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C . inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, iegal and mama? advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. A!1 other questions will receive a personal repiy Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential—Editor. Cart fresh water fish be drowned or suffocated? Yes, if they become caught in a waterfall or between rocks and water gets in behind the gills, or they can be suffocated if they get too much air. Too much air will strangle a fish just as too much water will strangle a person. What was the "Stockholm Blood Bath '. In 1520 the Danish King Christian 11. in order to strengthen his posi tion in Sweden, had a large number of Swedish nobles decapitated on the Stortorg: this was called the “Stockholm Blood Bath." What countries of South America are under foreign dominion? British Guiana, Dutch Guiana and French Guiana. There are numerous inlands owned by foreign powers. Is the pumpkoin a fruit or a vegetable? It is classed as a vegetable. Why was Lord Byron refused a memorial in Westminster Abbey? Because the dean of the abbey believed Byron's notoriously immoral life made it unfitting to give him a memorial in a house of worship. Who are the world’s finest pianists? Paderewski and Rachmaninoff are usually so considered.

How did the word “tallhr” originate? From the French word "tailler," meaning cutter. How far does the gravitation attraction of the earth extend? Theoretically, to Infinity, in constantly decreasing amount. In what year did the battle occur in which General Custer was killed by the Indians? The battle of the Little Big Horn, Mont., occurred in June, 1876. About how many Indians is it supposed were in North America at the time Columbus discovered America? It is estimated that there were about 1,115,00. What is graham flour? Unbolted wheat meal ground from the whole kernel of wheatt. What kind of animals are worms Invertebrate animals. What is the longest lived animal? There are turtles on the Gallapogoes Islands which are known to have lived 400 years. These are the longest-lived animals known. What is a good quotation from Confucius? “To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.’ Has there ever been an instance in the United States of only four coins of one kind being coined? Two instances have occurred, j After the seizure of the New Or- I leans mint by the Confederacy four ; half-dollars were struck by the Con i federate Government. At the San i Francisco mint in 1894 only four j dimes were coined. What are the five largest ocean j liners? The Leviathan, Majestic, Beren garia, Olympic, Aquitania and Columbus. What is the value of the halfdollar of 1807? From 55 to 65 cents. What is the horsepower of the Ford car? Os the Chevrolet? Ford, 22.5; Chevrolet, 21.7. In what year was Colleen Moore born? In 1901. What is the difference between chocolate and cocoa? Chocolate is the solid or plastic mass obtained by grinding cacao nibs without the removal of fat or other constittoents except the germ. It has a caloric value of 2,860 per pound and is very rich in fat. Cocoa is cacao nibs .with or without the germ, deprived of a portion of its fat and finely pulverized. It has a i value of 2,320 calories per pound, and is rich in both carbohydrates and fat.

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Under Miss Indiana’s Torch By GAYLORD XELSO: Merger HE first arc light to sputter on Indianapolis streets was in Then the Indianapolis Brush Electric company—the first electric company in the State —erected five towers with 16,000 candlepower J o the tower. One in Monument Circle, and one each at the intersections of the four streets, Illinois, Washington. Pennsylvania and Ohio. ‘And that was only forty years ago. Now, a public utility group—the Insull interests—seeks authority from the public service commission to absorb two other groups operating in the northern and southern sections of the State, respectively. If authority is granted the Middle West Utilities Company, the Interstate Public Service Corporation and the Calumet Gas and Electric Company—all Insull interests —will control an almost State-wide network of electric companies. And it is only one of several large public utility groups selling lighting to Indiana. Truly the business has done very well here since the original electric company erected its five lighting towers on faith and a shoestring. And the merger indicates that, despite the stringent State regulation and taxation under which the utilities groan, there is a pretty fair profit in electricity. In W. Maryland St. the Athens Case is next door to a Turkish bath. When Greek meets Turk then comes the rub. Dig,nr ILLIP B. DYE. chairman of yy the Republican Ways and • -i Means Committee of Indiana. has sent a letter to clerks cf the Internal Revenue Service in Indianapolis. The heart of the letter reads: “I deem it timely to suggest to you that your voluntary contribution to the Republican State central comi mittee is very much needed at this j time. For your further considerai tion and information will state that j the uniform amount of contribution from the Revenue Department is i $50.” Listening intently one can almost hear the ax being sharpened on the grindstone behind Cal's woodshed to be used in persuading any employe who fails to comply with Mr. Dye’s suave hint. The Republican party's candidate for Vice President declared this ro be a campaign of brass tacks. Not for the workers in the revenue service. Just let them try to get by the ways and means committee with a handful of brass tacks. They’ll find it's a campaign of lead pipe—wielded by a master hand. The result will be a “perfect crime." The only campaign brass on display is the property of the.-Rfpublic-an ways and means committee of Indiana. And that brass is needed in its business. For the' minor employes of the revenue service the campaign slogan is not “Keep Coo! with Coolidge,” but “Dig for Dye.” At least—DlG.

Indiana conductors want law to penalize auto drivers who fail to stop at grade crossings. The train usual- | ly attends to that. Postoffice “7”] PPROXIMATELY 700 postmasters are in the city, at- —■ --J tending the twenty-fourth annual convention of the National Association of Postmasters. Yesterday Harry S. New. Post- . master General, addressed them. He said there was a smaller defl- | cit in the postal service last year than in previous years; however, the Administration does not insist that it be self sustaining. And he is right. Neither do the people of the United States demand it. They only want it operated with such economy as is consistent with the best service. For the function of the postofflee is, above all. service, with profit a secondary aim. Although It does not pay its way to the last cent. It more than pays its way as a national convenience. No other function of government reaches all the people like the postoffice, or enters so deeply Into their daily lives. The postoffice gives them something. It may be only a package of free seeds or a mail order catalog. But it is something. While most Government departments do things to the people—not for them. The Government can well afford to maintafn the postal service at a loss. Almost every other department of the Government is a loss. Some of them dead losses—dead from the neck up and from the waist down. Congress, for instance. Peru (Ind.) man weighing 410 pounds marries woman weighing 390 pounds. That ship of matrimony is no Riverside Park canoe. Fairgrounds mT was expected at the meeting of the fair board today that the project of establishing an amusement park at the State Fairgrounds would be discussed. An amusement park could b# operated during the whole summer with luscious profits. That’s the argument. As the immortal Col. Mulberry Sellers would say: There’s millions in it. Undoubtedly there is a place in the scheme of the universe for &Q amusement park. But, with all outdoors at hand, why pick out the fairgrounds for that place? Instead of having derby racers, shooting galleries and stomach ache sprouting all over the place during the summer, why not grow lawns and shrubs and And make the fairground a real park. Os course, business is business. If the fair board must get a profit it might convert the central library into a skating rink, or attach a huge ferris wheel to the monument. There would be millions in it.