Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1924 — Page 4

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EVADING THE ISSUE "PUD JACKSON, Republican nominee for Governor, made an E' unsuccessful attempt to evade the issue in the Indiana campaign when he discussed religious liberty in his keynote speech at Newcastle Saturday night. The issue in this campaign, the The Indianapolis Times has said repeatedly, is one of whether the people shall rule or whether the State shall be governed by an “invisible empire.” The quarrel is not religious in any sense. No one is fighting the Ku-Klux Klan because it admits only Protestants to membership. The membership of numerous other organizations is limited to Protestants. The quarrel with the Klan is that it is a secret organization attempting to set up an empire within the United States for the purpose of obtaining a strangle hold on the government of the States and of the Nation. This activity of the Klan is in no sense religious. In fairness to Jackson we are quoting his statement, with which we agree absolutely—but we fail to see its connection with the campaign. He said: “There is an attempt being made on the part of some of the opposition party to inject an issue in this campaign that has no place in politics. This can have no other purpose than to prejudice some of the voters, hoping thereby to gain votes for their party. The hope is that they may prejudice the Catholic, negro and foreign voters, that they may vote their prejudices rather than express their better judgment. “I am uncompromisingly in favor of the separation of church and State. I am unqualifiedly opposed to any religious denomination, either Protestant or Catholic, using its religious organization to secure control of our Government or any branch thereof. “I am just as uncompromisingly in favor of religious liberty. Every individual has the right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. This religious conscience may be expressed through whatever religious organization with which he or she may care to affiliate. This right is guaranteed by the Constitution of our country, and mtist be kept inviolate.” Very good, Mr. Jackson. Now will you forget religion for just a moment and answer these questions: Do you believe in the policy of the Ku-Klux Klan in endeavoring to obtain a strangle hold on the government of Indiana? Do you believe in government by an “invisible empire” or by ALL the people ? If you are elected Governor will you represent the people of Indiana or the “citizens” of the “invisible empire?” These are the issues in the campaign, Mr. Jackson. Religion, as you sav, has no place in politics and it is surprising that a man of your experience and wisdom should include such a subject in a campaign speech.

BUSINESS METHODS THERE’S what can be done when business is substituted for l - 1 politics in the operating of State departments. Pennsylvania hires thirty persons and expends $55,000 a year to collecHts $6,000,000 in gasoline taxes to apply on building of State roads. It collects on an average of a little more chan. $6 gas tax per automobile in the State. Indiana hires OXE man and the part time services of a girl stenographer and expends $6,000 to collect $4,725,000 in gasoline tax. It collects on an average of S7.BS per automobile. A recognized expert on gasoline tax says that an average of $7.30 should be collected for each automobile in the State. Charles Benjamin, gas tax clerk in the State auditor’s office, gets 58 cents more than that through his methods. He has no field men, as does the Pennsylvania gas tax department. lie .watches the returns of each company and if it appears that jkhe tax is falling off he investigates to see if the State is being He has collected $35,000 delinquent taxes through his method with the part time aid of a stenographer. The automobile license department collects about $3,700,000 a year. But it costs more than $lll,OOO annually to collect it. It takes about eightv-nine persons to collect it. It appears that duly allowing for the fact that it costs more to operate a licensing department, the auto license department could take a little object lesson from the operation of the State gas tax department. BEWARE OF the driver with a bathing beauty pasted on his windshield. His vision is low, as the aviators say. IF ALL those Chinese cities are to be invaded, it seems that Gen. Mali Jongg is the very one to lead. ALSO, THE world flyers have demonstrated that the longest way round is not the shortest ivay home. WE “ DOLLAR-CHASERS ” must throw off at least 100 scents, judging from the way Europe chases us. IT LOOKS like rubbing it into A1 to make Lieut. Lowell [Smith president of the National Smith Society. i THE EX-PRESIDENT of Chile seemed to have had a hunch |hat his constitution, as a matter of safety, should follow our lagI WHEN THE papers speak of the prince’s engagements I hey make mamma feel that she isn’t on to her job, and daughI er knows it. FRENCH Academy*has removed the word “cocktail” dictionary, the genial menu card stands pat for the the liquid language. <

Scouts — Amm e Bradley Cain, 14. six feet one, and W. C. Orr, Jr., 12, three feet eleven, are members of the same Scout troop in Denton, Texas. They are said to be the largest and smallest Scouts enrolled. Bradley weighs 290, 225 pounds more than his buddy.

DAWES FAILS TO GET BY WITH BLUFF Old Parties Unhappy Over Reports Received From West. Times Bureau, IS2Z .Vet C York Arc. Ty~p ASHINGTON, Sept. 29. yy Hell an' Marla Dawes han panned out. as blusterers generally do, pretty much of a bluff. Cus.slng isn’t eloquence as a general practice; and when Dawes started out to cuss his way to the center of the stage and began blowing about what he was going to do and how he was going to do it. students of human nature knew what to expect. They know that the fellow who blows too much generally blows up before his wind gives out. Dawes’ didn't make a hit. even with his own partisans, when he went to Wisconsin and abused Da Follette as a demagogue and a Bed. but he did attrack enough attention to draw the fire of, the Progressives on himself. When Senator Wheeler opened up on Banker Dawes in his own home town of Chicago and turned tht light on the bank deal with Borlmer, he made charges that can't be waved aside as hearsay or partisan bank; because the facts are in the records of the Supremo Court of Illinois. Young, Not Dawes And while the Dawes plan of settling Europe's disturbed finances has been played up as something great that Dawes did, It turns out that the American financial and business genius who is entitled to all th credit for originating and carrying out the so-railed Dawes plan Is Owen D. Y'oung. Y'oung’s plan is called the Dawes plan because Dawes happened to be the political chairman of the commission of which Y'oung was the moving spirit. Ami Y'oung is the man who remained in Europe to carry out the plan and make his dream come true. Altogether there is mighty little satisfaction in Cl. O. P. headquarters over the Dawes performance up to date. There was hope that he could take the burden off Coolideg’s shoulders by doing all the rough stuff while Calvin remained cool calm and quiet In the White House. Now It look sas if Coolidge would have to emerge and do the heavy campaigning himself. Coolidge has no record to defend; Dawes has. Both Unhappy Neither Republicans nor Democrats are happy over the inside reports they are getting from the West. Even the correspondents of partisan newspapers have begun telling the truth about California lowa and other States out West; and all point to a La Follette groundswell. No matter what publicity bunk is given out about how Davis captured the West, the information that comes from seasoned Democratic politicians is that Davis has no chance out West, and that the wise thing to do is to encourage Democratic voters to vote for La Follette and help take former Republican States away from Coolidge. The big money isn’t coming in very fast. The big fellows evidently don't like the idea of that Borah committee taking a look-see to find out who’s contributing. But. of course, they’ll come in on the finish. One way to get around the publicity feature of big contributions is to run a deficit, with the understanding that the big contributors will make it up after election. The people don’t seem to scare worth a darn this year. The only frightened ones are the politicians, and they're scpred because they don’t know how the people are going to vote, and don't know what to dg about it. That silent vote is so aliflred silent that it keeps ’em awake nlghs trying to hear It.

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GIRLPRODIGY NOW TRAINS OWN CHILD Wants Daughter to Be Just Like Other Babies, Not Unusual, Bn NEA Service | p lOUX CITY, lowa, Sept. 29. — I She was a child prodigy herLz_l selfBut she doesn’t want her own child to he one. Before she was 2, Viola Olerich was being proclaimed throughout the West “the cleverest baby on earth.” That was twenty-five years ago. She could read fluently, talk in polysyllables, name all the bones in the human body, identify hundreds of famous men, solve difficult geometric problems, talk intelligently about the planets and do dozens of things that would stump the average high school pupil. Took Dictation At 3 she was taking dictation on the typewriter and turning out perfect copy. At 4 she was out-speiling a group of picked university students. Under the tutelage of her foster father, Prof. Henry Olerich, she made remarkable progress in her studies, gaining an unusually broad general education. Then she dropped out of the limelight. Three years ago news of her marriage to a young man employed in the offices of an Omaha packing company leaked out. Then the world again lost sight of its “cleverest baby.” But now she has been rediscovered. She is living here. Has been for a year. And she has a little daughter of her own—Virginia. Virginia is just 2—the age at which her mother was astounding scientists, educators and medical men. But Y'irginia is not a child prodigy. She's playing with dolls, a big rubber hall and still talking baby talk. And her mother is glad. “I don't want her to be a child prodigy." she says. “I want her to be like other children. “If the body is strong and healthy now, learning will come easily when school age is reached. * Just like Olliers “I'm exerting no effort to make her a prodigy. Os course, I shall aelp her all I can throughout her school career. But now I want her to be just like other little girls. “After all, taking care of a child's physical needs, together with the ordinary amount of discipline, seems to me about the most important duty of a mother during the first few years of her child’s life. “And that's what I am trying to do.”

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ABOVE—VIOLA OLERICH, AT 2, WAS CALLED THE "CLEVEREST CHILD IN THE WORLD.” BELOW VIOLA, NOW MRS. JOHN STORMS JR. OF SIOUX. CITY, lOWA.. AND HER LITTLE DAUGHTER, VIRGINIA, WHOM SHE IS REARING JUST AS AN ORDINARY LITTLE GIRL.

Science The United States bureau of fisheries has tagged ten thousand fish, mostly cod, but some pollock and haddock, in an effort to find out all about their habits and homes. These studies are conducted for the purpose of conserving the fish supply. The fish that were tagged were all caught with hook and line. Each was then laid on a wet board and handled by men wearing wet gloves. These precautions were necessary because a dry surface would remove the glutinous veil that protects the scales of fishes. Removal of this veil exposes them to the attacks of many forms of parasites. A metal tag Stamped U. S. B. F. was attached to the tail. The fish was released after a record was made of its number, size, etc. The bureau asks that every time one of these fish is caught its tag be sent in. By having a considerable number of these tags returned with information of the locality, date and size of the fish when caught, the bureau can compile statistics and information about the lives and habits of these fish that will be of great value. Next to the herring, the cod is the world’s most important economic fish.

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Goldfish belong to the carp family and are sometimes called green carp. The first goldfish seen in France were those imported for Madame Pompadour. Later, they became established in streams in Portugal and then on into ail Europe. In Portugal they are used as a food delicacy. There are record* of goldfish living in aquariums until 1 Oto 16 years of age The ancestor of our goldfish in its native stream is not gold, but is olive green above and yellow he neath. An all-gold colored fish wouldn't stand much chance of longevity in streams or ponds, and so they were developed in private aquariums in China and Japan. United States has sixty-five protected bird reservations.

The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. Pete, the porter, says a little garlic goes a long way and many ways at the same time. The meanest man in seven States is the gink who puts olive seeds in the baked beans. “If the corset ever does come back," said a woman in the end chair this morning, “you men will receive it with open arms." NEXT! Know Indiana When was the Whitewater Canal started? Sept. 13, 1836, the same year the $13,000,000 internal improvement bill was passed. When did Imported goods first appear in Indiana? About 1820 broadcloth, brocades and taffetas first appeared in the State. Did Grant have charge of any Indiana troops? Only incidentally. He was in command of the Army of Tennessee, in which a great number of Indiana men were enlisted.

Tom Sims Says Ho hum! This Chinese war is shooting our alphabet for. a row of glass dressing rooms. The Chinese soldiers marched on Hang Chow, reminding us of our war when we marched on no chow. A hunch of seasick Chinese must have named that town of Hang Chow. The worst fighting in the Chinese war. however, seems to center around the province of Typographical Error. A big railroad lost $93,000 on its dining ears last year, but we don’t see how. No matter how much a railroad loses on its dining cars the customers always lose more. The most pitiful person on a dining car Is the man who likes to drink out of his saucer. Reports from the various camps indicate we will have three Presidents next time. Coojidge doesn't play golf, so that's why he talks so little. The Prince of Wales has just seen his first baseball game. Now wh.it little boy wants to he a prince? Being a Prince of Wales is a fairly good job, but you don't get much time off for doing other things. So far no political candidates have entered the international air races scheduled for Oct. 2 in Dayton, Ohio. Reports indicate many stump speakers are up a tree Instead. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Hymns By HAL COCHRAN The world rolls along on the lilt of a song and there's music wherever you go. There's harmony sweet that is really a treat and an aid for we folks here below. We rise .n the morning and start out to hum, as any old song comes to mind. It brinks on the cheerfuls and chases the glum, and it keeps up the spirit, we find. The popular airs that we crave for today are picked on whene'er we begin it. We'll never run out of these airs, so they say, ’cause anew one comes out every minute. The bla-lia and jazz of the great modern song, played over and over again, gets tiresome, and then there is really relief, when we try out a hymn now and then. When tickling the keys, just in popular airs, and keeping your voice right in trim, you’ll find that you'll get anew thrill from your wares if you’ll now and then warble a hymn. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Contribution “The sap Grace is engaged to asked her to contribute something toward the home he's promised her." “Do you suppose she will?” “You bet! She's going to ‘give him the gate!’ ” —Judge.

For La Follette By GEORGE W. NORRIS, United States Senator (Republican) from Nebraska. Senator La Follette is not only a courageous fighter against wrong and evil, but his long public record shows him to be one of the most constructive statesmen of the present day. . . . He was the author of the seamen’s act, a law that abolished slavery on the hgh seas. In the fight to tax weaith for carrying on the war he proposed measures that would have relieved the poor and raised the money by taxing those who had made millions out of the war. Had his proposition on railroad legislation been enacted into law we would not now be confronted with a transportation system which injures the manufacturer, overburdens the consumer and ruins the farmer. He has always a remedy when hfe has condemned an evil.

Ask The Times Y’ou can get an answer to any question o i tact or information bj writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New Y'ora Ave.. Washington, P. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot he given, nor car. extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a persona! rep.'y. Unsigned requests cannot ! be answered. All letters axe confidential. —Editor. What was the amount of the j fortune left by George Washingi ton? About $530,000, at a conservative estimate. In what kind of business was Grant engaged before he entered the Civil War? Having engaged unsuccessfully in both farming and real estate, he went to Galena, 111., where he took a position in a store owned by his father. How many times a day do Mohammedans pray and how many postures do they assume? They pray five times a day, assuming thirteen postures during prayer. At what ages to cats and dogs attain maturity? YVhat is the* ! average age attained by these animals? Cats attain full growth at the age of 9 months, while a dog does not attain full growth until the age of il4 months. The average length of | life of a cat is from 12 to 15 years; j of a dog, 12 years. When and how should peonies i be divided and transplanted? , Transplant any time from the [ latter part of August through the month of September. They require a medium loam soil and do best In Sunny places. Dig the plants up and cut the clubs of roots with a large sharp knife. Do not divide them too finely; cut them with two i or three eyes on each one; cut hack | the old leaves, and plant each plant I three or four inches deep in the soil. Where is Pols Blanc Island arid how long is it? In Cheboygan County, Michigan, in Lake Huron, about ten miles southeast of Mackinaw. It is about ten miles in length. At what age do people attain their full growth? Most people attain full growth by the time they have reached 24; in the majority of cases perhaps a little earlier. A girl is apt to reach this stage a little earlier than a boy. Wiien was the first Federal census taken in the United States? In 1790 in South Carolina. The next taken was in Alabama in 1820. On what should captive lizards be fed? On insects, ant eggs, little pieces of meat, a little egg and a little milk. Why is blood red? The color is due to the presence of a pigment, haemoglobin, in the red corpuscles. This pigment contains about 0.4 per cent iron. Why is the name Delilah often applied to a woman apparently as describing her character? It Is often applied to a Woman who beguiles and betrays a man, because Delilah, the wife of Samson, according to the story, beguiled him into telling her the secret of his strength, which was that he should not cut his hair; she then cut his hair and betrayed him to his enemies, the Philistines, who captured and blinded him. What is a rhombus? A four-sided figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel, but which has two of its angles obtuse and two acute. There is also a genus of flat fishes called rhombus. What name do children born out of wedlock take? Usually the mother’s name. What is a simple method of measuring the flow of a spring? Dam up the stream, insert a pipe or an overflow, so that the water can be collected in a bucket as it. runs into the overflow, and count the number of buckets collected in a minute.

MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 1924

H^oosierisms I BY GAYLORD NELSON

1~ : lOHN F. WHITE, secretary of the Federation of Community ■■J—l Civic Clubs, suggested at a Federation meeting Friday night, that the public service commission, as-now constituted, be abolished. He would retain the engineering and accounting departments but would return rate regulation to the individual cities. Utility commissioners of ability may be scarce. But would the crop be any more luxuriant if each city raised its own? Public utilities are no longer onelunged affairs. One organization may operate in a dozen cities or over a major fraction of the State. They are conducted on a high plane, Still their wings haven’t sprouted nor have they been measured for harps, They aren’t averse to picking up a dime from the middle of the road. And, like the rest of us, they won't run a mile to find the owner of a stray coin. The substitution of a numerous progeny of undernourished local commissions, for one strong Statewide body, is to increase the possibility that some of the public's dimes will be scattered in the road to tempt some enterprising public utility or agile local commissioner. If the present system in unsatisfactory, public utility regulation might he vested In the justices of the peace. They can handle anything—and do. Well, the Indians almost won a A. A. pennant, which is about as satisfactory as eating an almost good egg.

Football ATURDAY marked the forI I '°P en s r,i ? the Indiana 1 football season. From now until after Thanksgiving they’ll be hard at It. Purdue, I. U . Notre Dame, high schools, on down to barber colleges and correspondence school. And the press will chronicle casualties. What’s the game all about? Some find nothing elevating in. watching a cluster of young men, in upholstered pants, root up perfectly good turf with any convenient angularity of their persons—occasionally pausing to spit out a used tooth or a blazing adjective. Some fail to be inspired at the sight of a football crowd shrieking mad-, ly and excitedly dangling their tonsils in the brisk autumn afternoon as some limber lad lugs an inflated bladder over the last white line. They're right. Football is a rough, brutal game. More dangerous and perhaps more silly than mahjong. It has no redeeming qualities except that it is a hard, clean sport. It demands a vigorous body and a clean mind and it instills into youth 'the fundamentals of that something we define as manhood. There are casualties from it —and from any other of man’s activities. But, probably, for the youth of Indianapolis a nose broken in football is less damaging to inward beauty than a bottle broken in the Jack O'Lantern Gardens. A few Illinois affinities are learning that the road to happiness is not paved with arsenic. Blackmail ILAUDE WORLEY, Criminal Court investigator, raided the J busy office of an eminent Marion County constable Saturday. The constable and three deputy luminaries now face charges of conspiracy to commit a felony. All growing out of operations on a State-wide scale to heckle small employers who had failed to comply with the provisions of the workmen’s compensation law. YVhich again raises the unanswerable question: Why is a constable? The compensation law, for the benefit of the workmen, la a goodr law. And should be enforced. But, in giving Marion County justice of the peace courts Jurisdiction over violations occurring anywhere in the State, it allows some business genius—who chances to wear the tin star and double cross of a Marion County constable —to fatten at the expense of small employers In distant counties. A constable, whose activities are restricted to a single county. Is a mild distemper. YVhen he is permitted to roam the whole State in search of revenue he’s a raging epidemic. For, with him. too often, law enforcement and blackmail are synonymous. A IT-months-old baby on N. Delaware St. drank kerosene. Honk! Ilonlt! There’s another baby Lineoln. Citizenship mUDGE A. B. ANDERSON denied the citizenship petition of Rev. YVilliam YVilson of McCordsville. Rev. Wilson said he wasn't willing to fight for this country. That admission hefore Judge Anderson is willful suicide. Such would be any coroner's verdict. And such an unnecessary suicide. For, to get by a judge and Federal examiner, an applicant needs only a fluent tongue and a numbed conscience. Judges and examiners try to separate the tares from the wheat. But there is no machinery whereby the alien's history—from his entrance into the country until he petitions for naturalization—is available. An applicant need not study the institutions of this country. If he will study the art of perjury. There are others —both foreign and native-born —as averse to fighting as Rev. Wiison. No swivel-chair job went begging during the late war. And Rev'. Wilson could have passed had it not been for his professional restraint. For under our existing system applicants for citizenship must be ad’ mitted en their court conversation —■ not on their records.