Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times CARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER. Acting Editor WM. A MAYBORX. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Soripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos 214-220 W. Marvland St, Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis —Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

JACKSON AND EVANS JACKSON, Republican candidate for Governor, is reL peatedly for religious liberty and worship according to conscience. During his Newcastle speech the G. 0. P. candidate ignored a heckler, who asked about his Klan membership, and went on with his speech. Jackson’s declaration closely followed the views as expressed by Imperial Wizard Evans of the Ku-Klux Klan, who in a speech at Kansas City, Sept. 24, also declared for religious liberty. Evans said: “Klansmen do not hate Roman Catholics, Jews, negroes nor aliens. The Klan does not expect to command people to their religious beliefs. The Constitution of the United States tolerates creeds but favors none.” So Jackson can express himself as favoring religious liberty and still coincide with the expressed views of the imperial wizard of the “invisible empire.” Religious liberty, however, is not the issue in this campaign. D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, is spending thousands of dollars through his political organization in behalf of Jackson. Stephenson is quoted as declaring he will claim “my pound of flesh.” * The campaign issue concerns the Klan as an “invisible empire,” attempting to control the government of Indiana. It is in no sense a religious controversy.

THE BUBBLE BURSTS OME MONTHS ago we warned against buying up old Geri___ man war bonds in the hope of making a killing. What we predicted would happen, has happened. The bubble has burst. The German government has decided against any revaluation of the old Imperial war bonds held by foreigners, and if German holders thereof—and there are many heavy losers—are given relief, it will be only through “special assistance ’’ voted to them alone and by way of charity. So bonds which a few weeks ago went soaring in this country from nothing at all to $3,200 to the million marks worth, have already crashed back to under S9OO, bringing heavy losses to American holders. The slump can hardly stop there, but there may be fluctuations due to the fact that some will keep on believing anyhow in the bag of gold at the rainbow’s end. The poet was right when he said hope springs eternal. And so was Barnum, who said it differently. IN FREE AMERICA—AND lOWA HIL LA FOLLETTE, son of Senator Bob, went to Water_J 100, la., to make a speech for the Progressive ticket the other day. He was refused permission to speak at the Armory in Waterloo because his father, they said, was opposed to the national guard—which is not true. He was refused permission to speak in the auditorium of East Waterloo High School—because the Republican bosses objected. He was refused permission to speak in the Blackhawk County courthouse at Waterloo—also because the Republican bosses objected. It didn’t make any difference, of course, that the people own these structures, built by the money of taxpayers, and that they were public buildings, or that there was no other adequate hall in town. These things happened in the land where we boast of our free speech and free institutions. They happened to the son of a man who is accused of having an ambition to wreck the Constitution of the United States. So Phil went oht to the ball park in the evening and talked under the stars, in the dark, to a huge and enthusiastic audience made up of the folks whose taxes built the public buildings.

THEIR ROAD IS OILED they roll along, over oiled roads to party preferment. those servants of the Fall-Doheny-Sinclair plunderBrJil who stuck by the Grand Old Party when it was under fire BBie Teapot Dome investigation. Here are six loyal pinch hitare up for reward at public expense by the G. 0. P. ■■ Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., ex-director and ex-vice president Sinclair Oil Company, who fell headlong in the Teapot Dome oil scandal, is nominated for the office of Governor of New York. He got his brother Archie a job at SIO,OOO per year to “learn the oil business.” Archie had the job when the leases were signed. Charles G. Dawes, a member of the family which organized the Pure Oil Company, which in turn is closely affiliated with the Sinclair and Standard Oil companies, is nominated for the office of vice president of the United States. Mark Requa, Sinclair director and vice president, is chosen by President Coolidge as his pre-convention campaign manager in California and is recognized as Coolidge-Dawes spokesman on the Pacific coast Phil Campbell, rejected by the voters of Kansas, became attorney for the Prairie Oil Company. Forwith the Republicans called on him to act as parliamentarian at the Cleveland convention and now call on him for expert advice on “practical” politics. He was also an active attendant at the Democratic national convention. Holm O. Bursum, who as a member of the Senate Teapot Dome committee, voted to ask Mr. Sinclair no embarrassing questions, and who voted to close the hearings before Senator Walsh had dug up some of the essential facts, is re-nominated by the Republican State convention for Senator from New Mexico. Rear Admiral John K Robison, who testified he learned about oil from Doheny, and who, as the officer in command of the Bureau of Engineering of the Navy, allowed the oil reserves to be stolen, is recommended by Secretary Wilbur and ex-As-gistant Secretary Roosevelt for promotion over the heads of other naval officers. v IN NEW YORK’S cider belt, the apple crop is reported as millions of barrels short. So far, sober thought has suggested, no relief

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SLTHOUGH totally blind, George Minsker, 65, sticks to his post as president of the Kanawha Woolen Mills at Charleston, W. Va., where he has been on the job for over fifty years. He knows his plant so well that he can feel his way about, and he knows what work is going on by the sound of the machineryPREMIER’S * POWER IS TOTTERING Writer Says British Labor Government May Fail Soon, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Foreign Editor, Washington Bureau. SSAILED both from without and from within, the labor i__ government of Great Britain, headed by Premier Ramsay Mac Donald, may fall within the next thirty days. The Liberal faction, led by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George, is up in arms against what they term the “fake” treaty with Russia, and will wage a bitter offensive not only to prevent its ratification by Parliament, but to unseat Premier MacDonald, who engineered it. In this grand assault against the labor cabinet certainly some of the Conservatives will join. How many remains to be seen. Added to these will be a small but powerful group of industrialists who believe the general putting into effect of the scheme to rehabilitate Germany will prove fatal to the already hard hit British industry by flooding the markets with German prdoucts.

Party Is Split Then, too, the labor party Is split. The radical and revolutionary groups charge MacDonald with having betrayed the party by working with the Liberals and Conservatives and abandoning the Socialist program. Others within the party say he has failed materially to reduce unemployment, still the biggest problem in the countryLastly there is the incident of the Premier's “endowed automobile.” The proprietor of a cracker factory, seeing Premier MacDonald either footing it, riding the subway or rattling along in an American flivver, bought him a Daimler like King George's. The upkeep of a car, as every one knows, being the main expense, the biscuit king “endowed” it —that%is. he set aside a block of stock in the cracker works for the upkeep of the machine. All this happened last spring. A few weeks later the cracker maker was knighted. And the whole story came out. The premier’s worst enemies do not accuse him of even a dishonest intention, let alone selling a baronetcy for a slice of biscuit stock. But the incident is regarded as a blunder because prejudicial to his prestige, both among the Liberal and Conservative opponents and in ills iwn party. In fact, the chief critics of the incident are Laborites, atnongst whom—unlike In America — automobiles of any kind, not to mention royal ones, are mighty few. Treaty Involved While this incident is bound to play no little part as a sort of undertow, the fight in the open will center about the so-called Russian treaty, described by witty critics as an “agreement to agree if the parties can agree.” There are really two “treaties," one commercial, with a promise of trade credits to the Soviet Republic, the other more general. The latter deals with British claims and debts against Russia, Russia admitting liability and agreeing to pay after determining the amount. These treaties, initialed some weeks ago to MacDonald and the Soviet agents, are now before Parliament for ratification or rejection. The chances for rejection are at least even, whereupon the normal course would be for the premier to resign and “go to the country.’’ That is, there would be an election to let the British voters decide. Labor organizations in the British Isles have .been warned to be ready for a general election by December, indicating MacDonald would follow tradition. Yet there are rumors that he might accept parliament’s decision. Were he to take this course, however, and hang on to office, his prestige would be virtually gone, even in his own party, and his political days would be numbered. The chances are, therefore, that if defeated he would resign. Nature Elephants get corns on the soles of their feet. When the big fellow is free he wears them away, but circus elephants standing still most of the time must have their’s pared. They are never known to resist or resent this operation. Out in Washington State they have coined anew word—florian, one who grows flowers for pleasure, as distinguished from florist, one who grows flowers for profit. Another definition of “florian” is: one who considers a flower catalogue as literature.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

i 'Hoosierisms I BY GAYLORD NELSON

mHE Indiana State Prison, State Reformatory and State Farm are something more than penal institutions. They are State operated manufacturing enterprises—not conducted primarily for profit but for discipline and health —with a large and varied output. Other State institutions are large users of these particular products. So there is a law requiring other State institutions to first from the prisons, before going into the open market, such goods as are prison rnade.Take the mci.ey from one State pocket and put it \n another State pocket. Seems logit a . and economical It’s the way private business controlling a diversity of enterprises would operate. - But, it is charged by prison authorities, this law is ignored. Other institutions buy in the open market first. Forcing the penal institutions to dump their entire output on the outside market —to the dissatisfaction -of outside manufacturers and free labor, thus compelled to compete with prison labor. There’s a screw loose somewhere. And, as usual, it appears to be the screw on the State money chest. The motto among State institutions seems to be: Let not the right hand know what the left hand is doing. Southern Illinois man has read the Bible forty-eight times. That’s good. But lias he bought any arsenic?

Contagion N 1- —OT anew case of contagious disease has developed In In- . J dianapolis In three days. Which in a city of this size is a fact worthy of notice. For a large city is a lush pasture for the little microbes with the big names and the nasty bites. There they frolic and multiply with amazing energy. And in India foils they were the original settlers. The first men to move here were met at the forks of the creek by a civic reception committee composed of those irrepressible wags—chills and fever. And for twenty years afterward yellow jaundice was part of the city charter. The city has grown since then. But even lately no citizen has had to forego his favorite contagion because of scarcity or overwork of the iittle bugs that Introduce a friendly contagion into the bosom of the most haughty banker. The absence of contagious disease testifies to our cleanliness and the excellence of our municipal sanitation. There's room on our civic chest to pin more medals of this sort. “A man must have a vision of his job,” said a speaker at the hardware convention. Some jobs are nightmares. Barricades • TRENCH is being dug in A the pavement on Washington St. between Pennsylvania am\ Delaware, and on S. Meridian, to the discomfort of motorists. At a dozen places downtowm building materials clutter up the -#eets, and barricades force sidewalk traffic to detour. The police aren’t the only restraint on traffic. The life of pedestrian and motorist, alike, is Just ono barricade and one red lantern after another. This eternal tearing up of streets and blocking traffic gives the citizen that haunted expression. He never knows whether he is going to fall into a pit or have a hod of brick fall on him. 1 It is a nuisance, of course, but it. is ono of the penalties a city pays for growing and building. The obstructions cannot be admired for beauty or convenience—but they can’t be avoided. Until the city is completely finished. And there are completely finished cities. Where no pavements are dug up to lay cables or mains; where no construction work impedes the pedestrian. On earth, too. Nineveh and Tyre, for Instance. They are completely finished. Yet in what league are they? Fortunately Indianapolis isn’t finished yet. We’re glad our barricades are there—even when we cuss them.

Lagrange (Ind.) man complains that buffalo Government gave him wrecked his fences. If he wanted a pet why didn’t he get a goldfish? Pleasant Run [RANK COOPER, 1316 Keystone Ave., wrote so The ■1 Times: “Will you kindly Fixit so that we poor south siders can get our boulveard along Pleasant Run that we paid for in 1923. We want it before Mayor Shank gets his boulevaJfl in front of his new Golden Hill home.” He Is ungrateful to Insist on premised improvements. True the city* took his money, but it left him life and freedom to squirm under the yoke. That’s sufficient. But he wants his boulevard. How foolish! He wants to mar the sylvan beauty of the landscape where Keystone Ave. crosses Pleasant Run. At present he can ait at ease on his porch and view the rugged, inspiring scenery of a city dump where his boulevard will be. He can watch the mosquitoes—graceful as fawns, only larger—gambol on the trash heaps. He can be lulled to repose by the brunet waters of Pleasant Run as they purl joyfully amid the discarded tin cans, under the bridge. His-boulevard would only replace the untamed beauty of the vicinity with a nice residential district. And yet he demands this so-called improvement, while the teeming masses of Golden Hill live in unutterable squalor. Mr. Cooper Is absurdly selfish. He should be willing to let the mayor first brighten the pinched lives of Golden HilL

FOOD FIGHT IS MADE IN WISCONSIN John Q, Emery, State Commissioner, Is Friend of La Foiiette. Editor’s Note: To confuse voters not familiar with Wisconsin politics, Senator La Follette’s enemies frequently insinuate that, it elected President. La Foiiette would have difficulty in surrounding: himself with aides capable of running the Government. To find out what kind of men La Foiiette would choose for big jobs, the ScrippsHoward newspapers sent a man to Wisconsin to find out what kind of men La Foiiette engaged when he was Qovernor. This is the first of several articles on “Men Around La Foiiette, in Wisconsin." By KENNETH WATSON I ADI SON, Wis., Sept. 30.—The “most feared man in Amerlea,” as far as unscrupulous Interests who seek to force adulterated and misbranded food products upon the country are concerned, is John Q. Emery, State food and dairy commissioner of Wisconsin. Emery Is one of the men who fought shoulder to shoulder with Senator Robert M. La Foiiette in his fight of twenty years ago to raise standards of Wisconsin food products and laws. One of the few survivors among the original “La Foiiette men,” Emery, although 81 years old, is still a power in Wisconsin.

Emery gained national prominence in 1909, when at the famous "battle of Denver” he fought the decision of the Remsen board, appointed by President Roosevelt, which claimed that benzoate of soda was not harmful as a food preservative. Agrees With Wiley Previously Dr. Wiley of the United States Agrlcltural Department, following experiments by his "poison squad.” had found that the chemical was deleterious to health. Emery arrived at the same conclusions and vigorously fought the big food interests of the country when the Government let down the bars on benzoate of soda following the 1909 convention. Fighting with Emery was Dr. Erwin Ludd, now United States Senator from North Dakota. Although use of benzoate of soda in food products is now permitted under interstate commerce, Emery was successful In his battle to prevent its use in Wisconsin. Not an article of food can be sold in Wisconsin now that contains benzoate of soda or other chemical preserva- | tlve. Another great battle which gained an enviable reputation for Emery came soon after Governor La Foiiette appointed him food daity commissioner in 1902. La Foiiette and Emery succeeded in enforcing a law making it illegal to soli oleomargarine in Wisconsin as yellow butter. Emery Wins Fight The g-eat packing interests opposing the law carried the fight through the State Supreme Couit, but Emery won out. “Now if any one buys oleomargarine In Wisconsin, he gets it at oleomargarine prices, and he can order butter without fear of getting anything else,” Emery stated. La Foiiette and Emery eariy waged war on the practice then in universal use throughout the nation by which butchers freshened old meat by use of chemicals such as sodium sulphite. After Wisconsin passed a law' forbidding Us use, meat dealers showed signs of revolting. Emery promptly sent inspectors into every’ market in Madison. All but three dealers were arrested and heavily fined. The raid was followed by one or two in nearby towns and the butchers, seeing that Emery meant business, stopped the adulteration and sold pure meats. Another big fight prevented sale of so-called “corn syrup” which in reality was 85 per cent glucose and 15 per cent sorghum.

No Doubt About Stand No one can doubt where Emery stands regarding La Foiiette. “I am a L\ Foiiette man from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet,” ho exclaimed fervently, “for I know the fight that La Foiiette has made and is making against corrupt govern nent. “I had hardly started as food commissioner when big business men that were being affected by the new laws came to La Foiiette to complain about me. He refused to listen to their complaints, but referred them all to me. “During all the time ho was Governor, not once did he Interfere with my department. I know that La Foiiette did not seek the because it was a good job, but because he wanted to do the people a service.” Recently Emery piloted a battle resulting in the enactment of the so-called Wisconsin filled milk law which forbids the sale of condensed skim milk to which cocoanut fat has been added. Emery successfully defended this law in the State Supreme Court. Today Wisconsin leads every State in the Nation in dairying, an industry that last year brought $247,215,000 into the pockets of its farmers and manufacturers. Twenty years ago the sale of dairy products commanded less than onefifth of that amount. Most of the ’’Jit for the sensational rise is given by the citizens of the State to La Foiiette and Emery because of their score of years’ fight against adulteration and for efficient laws to v .ect the industry. A Thought This people draweth nigh unto me. with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart Is far from me.—Matt. 15:8. * • * Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.—Johnson. Customary When Gus ordered soft-boiled eggs ln'a Minneapolis restaurant not long ago the waitress brought them in on a little tray. Before she reached the table she dropped an egg. “What sha<Jl I do?" she exclaimed, horrified. “Cackle,” replied Gus.—Whiz Bang.

California’s Sun-Kissed Brand of Politics

The Spare Room By HAL COCHRAN It’s the mystery room in the house, one might say; a room that just stands there unused. At least a big share of the time it’s that way. so that things there will not be abused. The door is kept closed when the kiddies are ’round, and the curtains are down to the sill. But sometimes a chance to get in it is found, and it gives little youngsters a thrill. The things in this room are just so all the time, and the linen is spotlessly’ white. It seems it’s the essence of meter and rhyme whether peeked at in daytime or night. The bed holds two pillows with r.ary a crease, though they’re tempting as tempting can be. The room simply rests there is absolute peace, from the rest of the household quite free. And then comes the day when some visitors call and the door of this room will swing out. There’s nothing unusual about that at all; it’s the spare room I’m writing about. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Tom Sims Says The women are wearing their new fall hats. At least, we think that’s what they are. Cold is what makes the Eskimos fat. which is what makes a girl wear siik stockings in winter. When a girl throws a good man down he bounces right into another one’s lap. We would hate to be so fat we had no lap upon which to sit the younger set. Late to bed and late to rise makes one unhealthy and broke and wise. Tho first season a debutante 'a quite the berries, next season she. is made into wine and the third seasons turns to vinegar. Many a flame is started by the flicker of an eyelid. The mother who said: “What beautiful scenery'!” has a daughter who says: "‘What nice parking places.” Tho new fall dance steps have many twists and turns. Father no longer slips in late at night. He breezes in, confident the others are not there to hear him. Tho rising generation stay’s up to see the sunrise instead of gettting up to see it. (Copyright, 1924* NEA Service, Inc.)

Science One of the most Important contributions to knowledge of Africa is the collection of pictures and the facts connected therewith obtained on a recent trip by Major and Mrs. E. Alexander Powell, American scientists and explorers. Some of the most interesting pictures were taken in Abyssinia, where they were entertained by the prince regent. This little known and mysterious country was the “Ethiopia” of ancient times. It has maintained its independence even in recent years against the aggressions of European nations and has a queer mixture of modern customs ancient ones. Slavery was common until recently and still exists but the present ruler claims it is being suppressed. Many of the customs bear resemblance to those of the old Testament Hebrews. The rulers, in fact, claim an unbroken line of descent from King Solomon. Over the throne is a legend that says: "The lion of the tribe of Judah hath conquered.” One theory' is that the country was settled by the lost tribes of Israel. The Family Skeleton "My maw and paw had an awful time getting married. Maw wouldn’t marry paw when he was drunk and paw wouldn’t marry maw when he was sober.” —De Pauw Yellow Crab. Dad Too Slow "I’ll teach you to kiss my daughter!" “You're too late, I’ve learned already.”—Film Fun.

La Foiiette By JULIA LATHROP Farmer Chief of Children’s Bu reau, and World Famous Pioneer in Humanitarian and Suffrage Work. Both in Wisconsin and in the Senate he has a record of farseeing, constructive measures worthy of the statesman that he is. His work proves that he is inspired by a proud belief in the progress of our country under constitutional forme toward the better social order of which we all have occasional glimpses, while his vision is sure and constant • • i n . dustrial justice, industrial peace with honor, has no finer advocate.

Tongue Tips Mrs. Marston Acres, Church Militant League, England: “The marriage service, as it stands now, is the application of. sixteenth century ldeas of woman to the twentieth century. It implies a distinct inferiority’, both of posAion and intellect, in the wife.” • * * Premier Herriot, France: “Yes, the United States is the land of joy, of a free life beneath a wide blue sky.” * * * Explorer Donald McMillan: “White Eskimos? I’ve seen lots of them. They’ only mean that some white men had been there ahead of you; they are half-breeds.” * • A. Wallis Meyers. English tennis expert: “Bill Tilden is not only the first tennis player in America, but you could include all the rest of the world and he wmuld still be first.” Family Fun With Qualifications Dorothy was objecting tearfully to some command of her mother. “WeJl,” said her sister. “I guess we'll trade off this old mamma for anew one. since y r ou do not like her.” “Yes. you may’,” sobbed Dorothy, “biit (hesitatingly), I would like the new one to have the same old face on her."—Boston Transcript. The Maid’s Proof “You say you worked for the Van Twillers. Can you prove that?” “Well, mum. I can show you some spoons an' things with their initials.’’—Boston Transcript. Dad’s Radio “I don’t know’ what station is broadcasting, but it sounds like hell to me.”—Judge.

TONIGHT-8 TO 10:30 OPEN HOUSE at Pettis — The one night each year—at the beginning of our Anniversary Celebration—that Pettis is host to the city and .state! No Merchandise Sold— Just a Jolly Good Time! A Gala Night! The store will be in festive dress. There will be style shows, demonstrations, displays and amusement features long to be remembered. YOU ARE INVITED! Pettis Dry Goods Cos. The New York Store. Est. 1853.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of tact 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, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What are the names of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Interior. Labor, Navy’, State, Treasury and War? Henry C. 'Wallace. Secretary of Agriculture; Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary’ of Interior; James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor: Curtis D. Wilj bur. Secretary of the Navy; Charles j Evans Hughes. Secretary of State; j Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary - ' Os Treasury’; John W. Weeks, Secre- ; tory of War. Where can I send for pictures of birds? National \ssociation of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. How much peanut, cocoanut and cottonseed oil is used in the'iftaTitifaeture of butter substitutes iri the United States each year? U In 1923 the following quantities were used for this purpose: Peanut oil. 5,954.509 pounds; cocoanut oil, 75,915,159 pounds; cottonseed oil, 20.459.619 pounds. What is a good formula for a paste for pasting newspaper clip- ! pings in a scrapbook? ( Rice starch. 1 oz.; gelatin, 3 dr.; | water. % pint; heat, with constant i stirring, until the milky liquid be- | comes thick and glassy, when the j paste is ready*. Keep the paste In : itght bottle, with a few drops of ! clove oil. ■ How are fingerprints Identified? The prints of no two Individuals are exactly* alike. The lines shown in a fingerprint consist of a series of “whorls,” and these are classified by their direction and appearance in such a way as to fit into a card index scheme. The fingerprint expert, by looking at the print, can place its relative appearance, and then run through his cards In the section which contains prints of similar appearance until he comes to the exact one he Is looking for. What Is chinchilla? A small South American animal of the rat family, but outwardly much resembling a ground squirrel. All the species are gregarious, feed much on roots, for which their strong and sharp teeth are particularly adapted, and live either In holes, which they* select for themselves, or in burrows, which they excavate. They are valued for their fur, particularly the chinchilla of the Andes, which has mouse-gray very soft and lustrous fur and constitutes an important article of commerce.