Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1924 — Page 4

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2g WHAT DO ILLINOIS BANKERS SAY? g 5 -|T WOULD be interesting to know what the State Bankers’ jgl j Association of Illinois proposes to do concerning the assersßn of John Barton Payne that Illinois banks generally rest on firmer foundation than did William Lorimer s bank, which Kggjled in June, 1914. d| If the statement is true, this newspaper would not hesitate advise depositors in Illinois banks to withdraw their money Hid place it in other States. If it is untrue the bankers of the State had better be making it clear. W John Barton Payne is a man of some eminence. He was i>uce a member of the President’s Cabinet, once chairman of She shipping board and is now chairman of the American Red Those citizens who know this about him and do not iinnw that he was Charles G. Dawes’ attorney during the LoriIner bank litigation, are apt to believe him. He says: I “What was done by the Central Trust Company and Gen[eral Dawes in providing the cash, and by the auditor in counting it (knowing it had been provided for that purpose) had been the practice in Illinois for generations. Think what that would mean, if true. It would mean that crooked bankers have been conspiring for generations in Illinois to deceive their depositors. It would mean that the line you read in every bank advertisement, “Capital and Surplus Such-and-Such Amount,” the statement supposed to guarantee the safety of your deposits, actually has no meaning whatever. It had no meaning in the case of Lorimer’s bank, for Dawes and Lorimer had conspired together in a lie. The lie was successful to the extent that Lorimer got permission to do business and to the extent that 4.000 depositors lost their savings eventually. It was not entirely successful in the case of Dawes himself. Last July the State Supreme Court, after seven years’ wriggling on his part, ordered his bank to pay SIIO,OOO, with interest, for his part in the fraud. If this las been the practice for generations in Illinois, other crooked bankers have been more clever than Dawes. Only two got caught and in each case the courts held that it was a fraudulent transaction. We prefer to believe that Mr. Payne is not telling the truth. We dislike his inference that Illinois banks generally are on fraud. But we would like to have the Illinois [Bankers ’ Association confirm our belief. So, too, would tens lof thousands of Illinois bank depositors.

AN OIL ATTORNEY’S OPINION i p ORMER Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma went to ll* Pittsburgh, the other day, to open the Democratic campaign. In an interview he said: “Senator La Follette will receive a tremendous popular vote and some electoral votes. I am satisfied that the movement he represents has come to stay. The La Follette movement means that what.has come to England and other countries is coming Eventually to America. “If the Democrats will stand by the Democratic ticket victory is underwritten. It is up to the Democrats to determine the result of the November election. I believe there has been a drift to Davis during the past week. “The Republican party has sought to petrify reactionary - ism. Those who are trying to keep things just as they are, are butting their heads into a stone wall. “There is very little difference in principle, and very little in degree, as I see it, between the La Follette program and the Roosevelt program of 1912, although the Roosevelt proposition was more transient. *‘The people must choose between radicalism and rational for a great change is bound to come. The country is fiApoiog to stand pat.” this connection it is interesting to remember some inthat occurred when the oil buttle was at its height in jjadUnited States Senate last winter. SjMrrhe c'hpitol swarmed with visible and invisible lobbyists. jgSWnvisible ones were mostly former public officials and presgjjKgiblic officials and members aud former members of Confi f both parties. his privilege as a former member of the £j3iS, was riVht in on the floor of the Senate. The Teapot lid yfSftting anr* every effort was being made in both parties to jyggQghe seondal and “stop the disgraceful conduct of the SenW Then it came out that Gore was one of the flock of oil ■wyers—and Gore promptly faded from the scene. ■ He’s out again. For Davis. I A NEW YORK play is called “Conscience,” and the old ■>wn is evincing a purpose to see what it is like. I THAT SCIENTIST who dug tunnels under Washington ■>r exercise must have had a ground hog complex. ■ THERE IS only one respect in which the various straw P< s agree. They all show John W. Davis in third place. I EXPLORER MeMILLAN says the Arctic glaciers are movH. steadily but slowly southward. Wives with cold feet may y themselves yet. 7C-* A SCIENTIST says smoking will ruin the natural tint of tj7|"ien’s cheeks, whereat there are sounds of derisive laughter v vA e beauty parlor. THE BRANDY distillery is the cow that furnishes with milk,” says a resident brewer. No wonder that is usually'setting up a high bawl. **• RAILWAYS of the country, last week, placed orders worth of equipment and it looks as if the crossgoing to be more interesting to motorists than ever. ID ATE DAVIS talked to a Missouri crowd the other * a terrific downpour of rain, showing that he is betake the matter seriously, no matter what others for. \ wom ar. has sued her husband for di ■'“jke 7 she had her hair all 4 approved A." She /

Tongue Tips The Rev. Harmon Allan, Federal prison chaplain: “Great evils are brought about by the motor car and public dances.” ** * . The Rev. John D. Jones, England: “So far as this life is concerned, it is better to travel than to arrive, for when a man arrives he stagnates, and stagnation is moral death.” • * • Gen. James G. Harbord, U. S. A.: “In all our history we never have had more than adequate armament for defense, and often it has been very inferior for that purpose.”

I T-Toosierisms , BY GAYLORD NELSON

mHEODORE ,T. BERND, chairman of public works committee of city council, inspected the market house, and said: “A few buckets of water and a little paint would do more good than anything else.” And he rightly values the sovereign virtues of paint. A few dabs, applied with diserttion and a steady hand, will obliterate the ravages of time on a building or a feminine countenance. For the time being. Our homes, sweethearts, automobiles, wives. billboards, and daughters, are all preserved and beautified with paint. It would be a drab world otherwise. Even politicians are coated with whitewash, and they aren't worth preserving or beautifying. Possibly $189,000 is too much to spend on repairing or remodeling the qld market house. The venerable shell may be too far gone for a major operation. And that sum cer- | tainly isn’t sufficient to build anew market house commensurate with the present and future needs of the city. Painting offers a solution. The structure may be a whited sepulcher, but with a thick layer of paint on its ancient bones it would resemble. for a season, a blushing bride. But as for scrubbing the interior with water, one shudders to contem- ! palte the consequences, j What would become of the rats? Dollars ROF. IRVING FISHER, the eminent economist. states i_J that the dollar this week is worth 67.7 as compared with the 1913 i dollar. Whereas bust week it was ; worth 67.9 c. The dollar, according to his report, is slowly regaininer its strength and complexion since its awful sinking spell In May, 1920, when it was ; worth only 40.5 c. compared with the I 1913 dollar. All of which is interesting, if true. Indianapolis housewives have realized for several years that the dollar •has lost its former-strength and cun- | ning. But it's a shock to know just j how poorly it has been. However ! those who take our money have long realized,that it no longer, i possesses Its did- tlrfie authoritative voice, but speaks with a lisp. | For they treat our dollar with the I condescension the puny coin de- | serves. They properly snub it. Why Professor Fisher selects the ! 1913 dollar as the standard for comi parison is uncertain. Perhaps bei cause that was the last year most |of us had more than a passing acquaintance with a dollar. Still a 67.7-cent dollar is nothing to j cheer about. It may he on the road to normalcy, I but it isn’t traveling.

Rugs mAMES F. BALLARD, o? St. LOUIS, has lent to the John Herron Art Institute a collection of Oriental rugs. They will tie on exhibition at the institute for three months. The acquisition of Oriental rugs has been a life hobby with Mr. Ballard. In its pursuit he has spent a fortune. There Is a fascination about oriental rugs that few normal men can resist —until they notice the price tags. Then they can resist, all right. But many men have a hobby for collecting something. And there'B nothing from which a man can obtain more pleasure than from such a hobby well ridden. It may be a hobby for costly objects like rugs, first editions, etchings or pottery. Or it may be postage stamps, souvenir postcards, or cigar bands. They all afford a pleasant avocation in addition to man's grim vocation of making a living. Even the State rides a collecting hobby. Its mania is collecting taxes. But its collection will afford Indianapolis less pleasure than I.lr. Ballard’s rugs. Campaign mT Is a bitter political campaign—both national and State. The spellbinders are rocking the foundations of the universe with verbal dynamite. Car aidates and their camp followers speed across the country, tearing the air and the eagle to shreds. Yes. it’s a bitter campaign. Voters are aroused to fever pitch, as an incident observed this week reveals. Eight business men were lunching at the Claypool, It was the meeting of an Indianapolis civic club. "Let’s see, who are the candidates for Lieutenant Governor?” asked one of the eight. A pregnant silence. For none of the other seven could name the candidate for Lieutenant Governor on either major ticket. But ask in any group of eight men in town the standing of the Indians in the American Association pennant race. The reply will be immediate and accurate to the third decimal. Yes. the average man is deeply stirred by the political campaign. No wonder the vote has to be dragged out. A Thought Sub, ye are do yJ

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U. S. HAS NO SA Y IN JAP DISCUSSION Controversy Before League of Which America is Not Member, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Times Foreign Editor. ASH TNG TON, Oct. I.—Japan VV k as served official notice on | the 'world that when she | thinks her hour has struck she will jgo to war with the United States over immigration, providing satisfaction has not been accorded her meanwhile. This is the only possible interpretation of Japan’s renewed fight at Geneva either to amend, or kill outright, the League of Nations’ proposed plan to abolish or limit all wars. And in this grave crisis America is voiceless. Every great power in the world is present at Geneva, trying to prevent future wars, principally, so far as the present is concerned. a great war in which this country stands to be one of the principals. Yet we have no voice in the negotiations. We, alone of all the great powers, are not t member of the league. Japan’s Stand What Japan is fighting against is this: In the proposed protocol governing arbitration and security, it is stipulated that if, in a dispute between nations, one party claims the subject matter is purely iiomesth:, and is upheld in this contention by the World Court, to which the question would be submitted, the arbiters would so report and let the thing drop. Whereupon, should the complaining nation go to war with the other [over this issue, It would automatically he deemed the aggressor, and sanctions would be taken against it by tho league accordingly. Japan alone opposes the protocol. Her dispute with America over immigration is obviously behind her opposition, though of course similar treatment in Australia. South Africa and elsewhere has some bearing on her attitude. But her chief quarrel is with the iUnited States Prominent Japanese have openly stated Japan would ultimately go to war over the immigration “Insult.” as she calls it. if i the affront were not otherwise wiped j out. Out in Open Whatever the outcome of the crli sis at Geneva, Japan at least has < come out in the upon. Seeing a war j ahead of her rtVer Immigration, unij veraally recognized as purely a domestic problem, and certain to he | upheld as such by the world court it the question ever comes before it., j Japan wishes to avoid. If possible, being declared the aggressor nation. If she cannot avoid that, then she ! wishes to have the records free of [any admission, at any stage of the ! game, that she. herself, considers 1 herself the aggressor. Nature At the same tim - that the American buffalo was still numerous on this continent the^ beautiful African springbok antelope roamed in vast j numbers. One writer saw a single ,herd of hundreds of thousands ; s'reaming in packed formation for [ hours over a pass between two hills. Whqje flocks of sheep swept away by them, as by a tornado, and even Hons were caught, trampled to death and ground Into the soil by a million or more hoofs. Today you can find springbok in small numbers by hard hunting. Doctor’s Orders "My husband has been very ill very ill. so I have to do his shopping and I want a shirt." “Certainly, madam—stiff front and cuffs?” “Oh. no! The doctor says he must avoid everything with starch in it.” —Follyology.

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Ask The Times You can gel an answer lo any question cf fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1332 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. Are children born in the United States of alien parents, and afterwards taken abroad to live, still citizens o£ the United States? Children born of alien parents in the United States are citizens of the United States. Residence or domicile of the parents in any foreign country after the birth of the children can not affect the childrens’ right to American citizenship. They have a right to make an election of nationality when they reach the age of 21, and if they choose American citizenship, they are American citizens. How much does a bale of cotton weigh? Five hundred pounds. How much does it take to make an inch of rainfall when melted? Ten inches of snow. Will a woman citizen of the United States lose her citizenship if she marries a Japanese? Yes. the Japanese are ineligible to citizenship and the laws of the United States provide that a woman citizen ceases to he a citizen when she marries an alien ineligible to citizenship. What are the “Seven Seas”? The North and South Atlantic, the North and South Pacific, tho Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic Oceans. On what date in November did Thanksgiving day come seven years ago? In 1917. Thanksgiving day came on Nov. 29. How is corn silage best prepared? It is best when the corn is cut at u stage containing about 65 or 70 per cent moisture. This may be told when the lower leaves on the stalk are turning brown, about 90 per cent of the kernels are dented and 75 per cent are so hardened that no moisture can be squeezed out. The length to which the silage is cut should he from one-half to one inch. In filling the silo packing Is "ssential. If the silage is too dry to pack well, water should he aded. When the silo is filled the silage should be covered to prevent spoilage. A layer of cut corn or sorghum stalks from which the ears or grain have been removed does this effectively. How can sediment In boilers and radiators in- removed? Bv adding about live gallons of vinegar to the water in system, operating plant at full capacity, and then blowing off all water and mud through the bottom blow-off of the heater. Tt can be prevented by using water containing no scale forming components or treating water to prerip ite them before in•reducing it into the boiler. Treatment will vary with the chemical analysis of the water.

La Follette By ROtiCOE POUND I)--aa of Law S.-hool, Harvard T'nt-vt-rsiiy wfio at and.* at tho head of tho l.i>*al Ti.n-hmtr Profrsciou on this Continent Even Senator La Follette's enemies must coneede. if they are commonly honest, that he is one of the great figures in contemporary public life. Such men can not he spared. Senator La Follette has stood consistently and courageously for the right as he saw it through good re and has not changed his convictions with e-ich change of political fashion. ! have been a zealous and consistent Republican since I wits able to vote, but I do not believe loyalty to the party requires that we place it in the position which the Democratic party occupied in American politics prior to the Civil War.

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Goloshes By HAL COCHRAN Have you heard that tramp Os rubber feet that winter's brought about? Have you heard the sloshing down the street? It’s here, without a doubt! From early in the morning till the wee hours of the night, the march and scuff approaches and then marches out of sight. The sweet and sixteen lassies are the ones upon parade. You can hear a funny Rapping as a flapper’s foot Is laid Tls the sloshing of goloshes that the chill days always bring, or the slush upon the sidewalks that is due to winter’s sting. All the mud and water puddles that now are, or will he here, can be walked through with golqshes on without the slightest fear. Yep. I’m for the old goloshes, if the wearer wears them right. Asa favor, fair young ladies, keep the 'dern things fastened tight, 'cause the sound of your goloshes sends the looks of them kerflop, when you leave the buckles flapping from the bottom to the top. 'Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Illinois Central System Seeks to Encoipg Interest in Diversified Fanning S&

The Illinois Central System rejoices to observe the better prices whijl products are bringing. When the tanner can buy. all business is stimulated, fc? gratifying to know that many fanners are insuring themselves against the #3 losses in the future by diversifying their crops. This program is one Lj* long been urged by the farm experts in the service of the Illinois Central INS Farming has undergone great changes in recent years. Many of us w jpS comparatively young can remember when land and labor were cheap and highly productive. Farming was a simple proposition then. Farmers grew could grow with the least trouble. They gave little thought to retaining their soil and to economies in operation and management. They sold their a small margin of profit, and yet they were able to provide for their familii with the standard of living of those days. The reason for their success is plain. Their cost, of production was of living was low, and their manner of living was simple. Now their cost tion is high, their cost of living is high, and their manner of living is much than it was. The present higher standard is the right of every if the farmer is to live in accordance with the modern standard of livinp.oslß& in accordance with the modern standard of living. Intensive methods must be used to make farming profitable. Suitab fcSjSFjjjg be planned for the soils. Intelligent study of tho various grams, grasses fruits, to determine the types of soil for which they are best adapted, into profits. The farmer who plants poor seed instead of tested seed of a crop is letting half of his land lie idle, while his labor and if the land were producing to capacity. Labor expended in planting, FjSMyi? 1 harvesting a field which produces only half of a crop is 50 per cent One-crop farming is not successful farming. It means taking chanand the market and continually rohbing the soil of its fertility. DifcSjSgjftfr'* means livestock on the farm. It means dairying. It means poultry. It of crops. It means having something to sell throughout the year. food. In deciding upon the kind of livestock t o raise, the farmer of cou S, that he believes will be the most profitable. A good dairy cow eam steady income producer. No farmer can afford to feed scrub dai be able to buy purebred cows, but he can at least buy high grade mate them to purebred sires whose ancestors were high producers The man who farms in this way insures himself against loss>.* tions he is better off than the one-crop farmer, because be has sot*£ •: a few dairy cows and a garden, ar.d he is growing a large part his family, thus reducing his living expenses to the minimum wit! nrd of living. <f ” : ; The Illinois Central System maintains a Development and practical men whose duty it is to co-operate with farmersßjv by this railroad. The services of these men may be obtained freeffr They are prepared to visit any community on our lines where JKfer. to farmers. We are glad to have our farmer patrons use this Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. r >vi V *. c : At-V. PresidenrS?- kt

Tom Sims Says They claim the Prince of Wales sets the styles for young Americans, and he stayed out all night. They arrested a French count in New York for bootlegging: but it may he a mistake, most bootleggers looking like counts now. Big tire near Pasadena, Calif., didn't get any presidential umber. The price of gas is down a little, but this won’t reduce the number of cars parked along country lanes. The law says you can’t make home-made wine, but many citizens know it. will turn to vinegar, anyway. Babe Ruth is leading in home runs again, or rather, yet. A man has started around the world In a twenty-foot boat, setting sail, of course, from our twelve-mile limit. Ford is selling about 5,000 cars a day, much to the disgust of shoe men

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1, |

Know Indiai 'VHen was Notre Jr. 184 Father Uorii^B^f or- iuia-- - 11 'f%#C i t l.shment. hNH Where was he ce^^H trade in 1819? At Ft. Wavne. • nor Hawk's war? A'A, Noah Noble. MS (Die 'I w-.sl to .omplaW|B bride haughtily, “aboutKjJG sold It was tougl^^f "Tough, ma'am?” ‘ Vs, tough. I and ■ ■’ hu-bard <-onlflgJllft *.- a **3 Wifey Gets “That conductor if I hadn’t paid my “What did you do?” “I glared back at hir 1 had.”