Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1924 — Page 4

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TAKING THE COUNT “pHANDIDATE DAWES was met by a reporter when he L reached Terre Haute. The reporter asked a series of questions about the Lorimer hank mess. “I have been asked these same questions before/' said Dawes. “I will answer them but I want time.” So it seems Mr. Dawes will take the full count in which to frame his answer. The longer it is delayed the more people will be interested in it. After all this delay it ought to be good. Terre Haute, being Eugene Deb's home town, Mr. Dawes spoke nicely of him, saying that he “admired Debs because he fought for the principles which he believed to be right.” Then he warned against the red flag and socialism and said that “upholding the Constitution is the sole and only issue in this campaign.” That seems to be descent from Hell an’ Maria to apple sauce. POTS AND PANS AND POLITICS “T”]. W. MELLON, second or third or fourth richest man in the A land, is sitting pretty in every modern kitchen in the country. Every housewife is helping to make Mellon richer still. Not willingly, but obligingly. Mellon levies tribute on every aluminum pot and pan she uses. Mellon and his family and his friends own the aluminum trust, the tightest, strongest monopoly in the country. It makes no difference if Mrs. Housewife buys pots ancl pans made abroad. Mellon sells raw aluminum to the foreigners. Last year Mellon’s aluminum trust’s profits were 40 per cent. The commissions the trust paid salesmen to sell pots and pans were 40 per cent. The rest was what it cost to produce the aluminum ware. Every housewife wants aluminum pots and pans because they are clean and sanitary. But what makes the aluminum trust pie for Mellon and his family and friends is the Fordnev-McCumber tariff. The tariff on aluminum, set after Mellon had completed his trust, is higher than ever before. Mellon owns the aluminum deposits, mines the raw bauxite, smelts the pig aluminum, sells much of it to foreign manufacturers who pay the freight to and from Europe, and yet Mellctn has to be protected, against pots and pans the Germans and the English send over! Why? To make 40 per cent dividends. Necessary to protect the industry? Not at all. The tariff commission lias prepared a report showing that the aluminum trust doesn’t need this protection. The report is up to the President, who- can reduce rates 50 per cent. But at the right hand of the President sits Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, second or third or fourth richest man, who owns the aluminum trust. * Andy is sitting prettyl

PAY-AS-YOU-ENTER POLITICS mT MAY he something new in politics, but there is nothing that calls for the adverse criticism of charging admission 4 jO La Follette and Wheeler meetings. It is generally admitted that campaign funds in the past have been contributed by those who expect to profit by the election of the candidates they support. Sinclair and Doheny contributed to the campaign fund of 1920; and, verily, they had their reward. The protected wool, cotton, steel and other Big Business interests contributed in 1920; and, verily, they had their reward in the tariff bill. Senator Lodge said that 90 per cent of the contributions to the campaign funds of the two old parties was put up by Wall Street; and, verily, Wall Street has had its reward. Sinclair and Doheny won’t contribute to the Progressive campaign fund. Neither will Morgan and Gary. Wall Street owners of the railroads won’t contribute. The packers won’t help La Follette. Neither will any monopoly or other beneficiary of legislative and legal special privilege. There are no Frank Munseys and George W. Perkinses to play angel to the Progressive movemenUof 1924. That’s because there will be no special privilege hand-outs coming from the Progressives when they take over the Government for its rightful owners, the people. So it is entirely proper that the plain people themselves should pay the campaign expenses of TIIEIR candidates. It costs millions of dollars to finance a presidential campaign for one of the old parties. These millions are put up by individuals and interest* who expect to get it all back with exorbitant interest. *' The people know now how some of them get their money back. They know about Doheny, Sinclair, Fall and Daugherty. They know about Teapot Dome and the Veterans’ Bureau. They know how even President Coolidge himself backed the Mellon plan to reduce the surtaxes of the multimillionaires and put the big burden of taxation on the backs of the small business men, the professional men and aIL who work for salaries or wages. So the people who want their Government turned back to them, and tnade again a Government of, by and for the people, are quite willing to help pay the expenses of TIIEIR fight by paying admission to THEIR campaign meetings. That’s all there is to it. 7 “CAVERLY FOUND in Hospital in Nervous State,” says a headline in the Daily Clintonian of Clinton, Ind. Illinois is worse than nervous. SURGEONS HAVE removed a fat man’s abdominal protuberance with a knife, and, as usual in such cases, made him fork over a good fat fee for the job. IT IS reported that, despite our immigration law, insane persons succeed in slipping into this country, where they can feel perfectly at home.

The Oil Lamp By HAL, COCHRAN Just a little old holder that’s made out of glass and a top-piece that’s blown of the same. There once was the day when the oil lamp was class, but it’s passed, nowadays, out of the game. In years long ago grandma climbed up the stairs with the oil lamp clasped tight in her hand. She’d shadow her way ’mid the flickers and glares, as the old folks will well understand. At dusk, when the sunlight was fading away, the oil lamp would answer the need. It flared up and glared at the end of the day so that grandma and granddad could read. But now it is gone to the used-to be More modem arc lights that we know. So down in the cellar the old oil lamp stands, just an echo of long, long ago. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

WHY CA L •FORGETS ’ THE STRIKE There Is a Reason Why Coolidge Does Not Discuss Walkout, Times Washington Bureau, ISiS .Win York Are. TyrJ ASHINGTON, Oct. 4—A camyy paign biography of President Coolidge states . that “had it not been for the Boston police strike, Calvin Coolidge unquestionably would have gone into the shadows of private law practice and been little known outside the commonwealth of Massachusetts.” Following this statement is one in which surprise is expressed that the President “never talks of the strike,” even though he owes his career to it. Had the biographer made a careful study of Coolidge’s part in the strike, he would have understood why the subject is anathema to the President. * For, though his fame rests thereon. the then Governor Goolidge had little or nothing to do with tho settlement of the strike. Verdict of Committee That is the official verdict of the citizens odmmittee of Boston, a committee composed of thp leading citizens of the* city who organized for the purpose of helping settle the dispute with the police. Nearly all the members of this committee are Republicans. Yet. In an official report, they state that Governor Coolidge did not assume control of the situation until six or seyen hours after the strike had been ended. Before reaching this conclusion, the Citizens’ committee made a Complete chronological record of every phase of the strike from the time it wns first threatened, on Aug. 27, 1919, to the settlement on the morning of Sept. 11. The Governor of Massachusetts controls the Boston police force through his power to appoint the police commissioner. From Aug. 27 to Sept. 3, Governor Coolidge manifested no interest in the strike situation. A committee of citizens, working in conjunction with Mayor Peters, had attempted to negotiate with the Governor through his appointee. Commissioner Curtis, but without success. Finally, cn Sept. 3, the committee called on the fbivernor and were Informed that Mr. Coolidge would take up the matter through the commissioner. From Kept. 3 to Kept. 8, attempts were made to work out a plan of settlement. The Citizens’ committee and the mayor were In full accord, but had lifficulty with Commissioner Curtis.

The chronological record from Sopt. 8 to S©pt. 11 tells the rest of the story. Sept. 8: Mayor Peters attempted to communicate with Governor Coolldge in order to present the plan of settlement, but failed to obtain an audience. He then mailed to plan to Coolidge and published an announcement so that the public might know it had been put up to the Governor. Sept. 8: After repeated attempts, citizens' committee finally obtained conference with Governor late in day and urged him to call out State guard at once. Sept. 9: Coolidge informed Peters formally he had no authority to interfere. Peters made public statement that he regretted Coolidge neither approved plan nor offered alternative for settlement. Sept. 9: Mayor Peters and committee saw Curtis. Curtis said he had situation well in hand, that he did not need State guard and did not w*nt it. No Action Taken Sept. 9: Mayor and committee saw Governor and pleadod for State guard, but no action taken by Governor. Sept. 9: Same evening, rioting began and some robberies reported and disorder threatened. Sept. 10: Curtis dug up old .statute giving city official the authority to call out troops in that jurisdiction once necessity arose. Curtis called on Peters to take action and withdrew himself and his authority from picture. Mayor Peters assumed responsibility and Authority and called out troops. Sept. 10: Mayor Peters demanded Coolidge call out additional Curtis replied by merely acknowledging request and again asserted his retirement from authority. Coolidge responded that he was awaiting any further call for troops. Sept. 10: Peters cnlled for additional troops for Sept. 10, at E o’clock. Sept. 11, Thursday: Order restored and city tranquil. Thursday afternoon. Coolidge called out State Guard. The report of the citizens committee: “By Thursday morning, order had been generally restored in the city. On Thursday afternoon. Sept. 11, the Governor assumed control of the situation as indicated by his proclamation of that day.” Thoughtless “I saw Mr. Huggins kissing'you for ten minutes while he was saying good night. Why didn’t you make hitp stop?” “Why, I never thought of that.”— Detroit - News.

DUAL FIGHT WAGED ON BOLL WEEVIL / i Specially Equipped Plane Used to Stop Spread in Cotton Fields, Bv NEA Service ALLULAH, La.. Oct. 4. The United States is making a concentrated drive against the boll weevil from inside and out. Inside its boll weevil laboratory here, the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture Is trying locate the substances in the cotton plant which cause the boll weovil to feed on this plant and none other. Once found, it will be an easy matter to find a counteracting chemical. Aviators Busy Outside a specially equipped plane flies low over the cotton fields us the South, spreading powdered poison wherever the insect may do harm. ■ B. R. Coad, of the Bureau of Entomology, is in charge of* the boll weevil work here. Despite the unavoidably slow progress, Coad reports hopeful advances in understanding the chemistry of the cotton plant. g Dr. Frederick B. Power of the Bureau of Chemistry and one of the world’s most able chemist in this class of work, has isolated chemical substances of the cotton plant which have been put into field tests in the laboratory’s cotton fields. Bui It will boa yrr:r or more before Dr. Power believes lie could reach any conclusions. While this research work Is going on, the Government Is building special airplanes to allay tho advance of the boll weevil. The first of this type is called the “801 l Weevil.” and a picture of cotton’s deadliest enemy has been painted on each of the lower wings, in place of the United States Air Service insignia. Years of Tests This airplane is the result of years of air t€*sta directed toward production of the most useful type of flying machine for the purpose. A large hopper, containing the powdered poison, Is built Into the fuselage. Vents under tho engine housing permit the strong surrents of air from the propeller to pass through the hopper, where it picks up the powder and passes off at the rear. Flying IoV over the cotton field, the pilot opens these vents so that the air may pass through the powder and spread It over the plants. The same machine can be used over other fields and forests where the vegetation is menaced by Insects.

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THE “BOLL WEEVIL” SPREADING POIBON DUST OVER AN IN FECTED COTTON FIELD. INSET. CLOSEUP OF THE ‘'BOLL WEEVIL.”

Tom Sims Says Jackie Coogan has gone to Russia, which is an awful place for any little boy who likes to eat. London’s match-tester is dead. He struck forty matches a minute during working hours. Many pipe-smok-ers beat thet record. Robbers entered two help-yourself stores in New York and helped themselves to the safes. A Senator says on© vice presidential candidate is a common liar. That will make any politician mad, calling him common. What’s in a name? In Selma, Mr. and Mrs. Luekie, after being married, drove from the church into an auto wreck. Don’t blame a man for hanging around downtown until you learn if he is’getting out of working his son’s arithmetic. There is hardly a barber chair footrest in the country now that hasn’t had a woman's feat on it. Scientists In Europe find ants existed sixty million years ago, probably starting with the first picnic. Many of the young sheiks are wearing belts two Inches wide which are just above where they should be used. An eye for an eye may be all right, byt the modern girl wants a nock for a neck and a mouth for a mouth. A couple slttitng in the some ohair doesn’t leave much room for argument. , Time cures all things, according to a Judge who recently sentenced two to life Imprisonment. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ino# A Thought All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes: but the Lord welgheth the spirits —Prov. 10:2. Beware what spirit rages in your breast: for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.—Roscommon.

Science One of the most important food fish of the New England coast Is one of the strangest creatures In the sea—the flounder. The flounder belongs to the flatfish tribe. Next to the halibut, it is the most widely caught flatfish In Atlantic waters. Its strange characteristic Is that one of its eyes migrates, traveling over to the opposite side of the head and establishing itself close to the other eye. This mlgratkm of the eye is one of the st ran go provision 3 of nature for Its protection. In early youth flounders swim about normally, like mbst other fish, but, os they develop, they lie flat in the sand. Some species lie on one side, some on the other. The right eye travels over to the left side or the left over to the right as the case may be, so that the fish finally has both eyes on one side of its head. Its habi% of lying flat in the sand would make one eye useless were It not for this process of migration.

Tongue Tips Ruth Roland, movie actress: “To save means to haw. and prosperity is the road to happiness." Sam A. Barker, Republican candidate for Governor of Missouri: “Transportation and a market are all that the farmer asks. Ho asks no special privileges, no quack remedies.” George Ada, writer: “He felt like the symptoms on a medicine bottle.” 11. D. OLEVELY, literature expert: *T look for a slump In Dickens during the next few years. The younger generation does not read Dickens.” Dr. Henry Van Dyke, preacherwriter: "Os course, it is only tho fool who is continuously light-heart-ed.” Know Indiana Where and When was tho first mute school established? On a 130-acre site east of Indianapolis, in 1544. Where was tho first stage coach line In Indiana? From Madison to Indianapolis, In 1828. The fare was 614 cents a mile. What was the first steamboat to reach IndlanapoJiß? The Robert Hanna, in 1881, appeared in the White River. The Bobber Shop \ By C. A. L. TWs stingiest man irr seven States came in today to get his whiskers shaved off so he can smoke his stogies .shorter. Blondy, tho manicure, says she must get herself some larger powder puffs because her baby always fats the Ijttle ones for marshmallows. Pete, the porter, says any man in a light suit would rather sit on a tack than a chocolate drop. NEXTi

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Ask The Times You can get ail answer to any question ot laot or information by writui* to if,a Indianapolis Tunes Washington bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, I). 0.. inclosing 2 cent? in stamps for reply. Medical, legal i.nd marital advice cannot be given, nos 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 dimensions of tho United States shipping board vessel General Grant, operating In the aPclflc Ocean? length, over all. 536 feet; breadth, 72.6 feet; draft, loaded, 30 6 feet. What is the cost of a railway 1 locomotive? The price depends on the type. Railway Age for .Jan. 5, 1924, gives a iist of unit prices which range from $34,000 to $90,000. What are the meanings of the following names? Esme, probably a corruption of “Eastman.” meaning “man from the East,” Anglo-Saixon. Ellis, from the

Hebrew "Elisha,” meaning “God the Inrd." Dewey, from the Welsh, corruption of David, meaning “beloved.” Ennis, from the Irish "innls,” an Island. , Do the ex-Prwrtdents or their widows receive pensions? Ex-Presidents do not receive pensions; neither do their widow* because of any existing law but Con-gi-ess has, In a number of case?, passed special laws giving them pensions. Does ono have to file a claim to have excessive income tax payments made this year returned? No, the Bureau of Internal Revenue is making these refunds as rapidly as possible. Is Buck (Charles) Jones married and has he children? He is married and has one tlaugter. What is the inscription on the Pope’s tiaxa? V. F. D.. which means “Vicarius Fill Dei” (The Vicar of the Son of God). hat is the Great Divide? The name given to the snowy range f the Rocky Mountains forming the water parting between the valleys of the Eastern and Western parts of the United States. It runs in a zigzag line from northwestern Montana through Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado and ends In southwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border. Whom did Aaron Burr marry? First Theodosia Prevost, then Madame Jumel. What is “call money.” Money loaned on security or deposited in a bank subject to repayment at call —that Is, on demandL In what plays has Jackie' Coogan appeared? In “The Kid,” "Peck’s Bad Boy,” “My Boy,” "Trouble,” "Oliver Twist,” “Daddy,” “Circus, Days,” "Long Live the King,” '“Robinson Crusoe, Jr„" "A Boy of Flanders.”

U. S. SWEPT TO LEAGUE BY EVENTS World Body Hourly Gaining Prestige at Geneva Conference. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor rTTTJj ASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—G. O. P. I yy leaders here are increasingly alarmed over the turn of events at Geneva where the League of Nations is hourly gaining in prestige and power. They see themselves In a hole. Slowly but surely the realization that a boner has been committed in keeping America aloof Is beginning to penetrate the intellects of some of the highest V>fflclals in the capital. They now see what a fiz.zle Senator Lodge made of his attempt to kill the league and dread the day when public sentiment wifi force them to back water. They are also beginning to grasp the atui>endous fact that the United States, even though not a member. : now finds its own international best; interests are with the league and | that events are daily adding new reasons why we should join. In Keeping With l . S. The plan of arbitration, international security against war and world wide reduction of armaments just adopted by the league and hailed by many as a death blow to war is privately, though reluctantly, admitted to be strictly in keeping with American ideals. The United States prides itself upon never liaving waged an aggressive war. It Iras always fought in self-defense. By cooperating with •lie league now, we cannot only do our for world peace but. in, tho event we have to fight another defensive war, we will have the? rest of the world actively on our side. For decades the United States has been pleading with the rest of the world to arbitrate Its differences, when not purely domestic. Instead of going to war over them. Now the rest of the world Is lining pp to do that very thing, presenting at the same time the amazing spectacle of begging in vain for America to come along with them. To reverse ourselves at this crucial time, when world peace Is at staka, would be to brand us as Intolerant bigots and bullies, and would bring down upon us universal disapprobation and contempt. And if we scorned, the machinery set up by the vest of the world to preserve peace, and went to war regardless, we should run the grave risk of being declared an outlaw. And we would deserve to be.

Almost Panic Some of the things are soaking through league irreconcilahjles here and creating almost a panic. A world conference on reduction of armaments is to be called for next June, to meet at Geneva under the o'.spices of the league. That is to say, all the nations of the world will be there. The United Stdtes will be invited, and President Coolidge, already on record as favoring such a conference, will find it difficult, ifmot impossible, to stay away. It needs no super human mind to see that if the invitation is accepted, and we go to Geneva, and we join with the rest in a world-wide plan of arbitration, security and arms reduction, we will be, to all intents and purposes, in the league, call it what one may. Thus, more than one pro-league member of the President’s Cabinet is smiling up his sleeve as he seerf’ the irresistible current sweeping America leagiteward. Nature American mining engineers report that 36,000,000,000 worth of gold is in sight ready to be mined In Siberia. And that that Is insignificant to the country’s riches in coal( oii and other natural resources. Horseshoe crab of our Atlantic coast is peculiar in that It'S the only animal known whose blood is blue. Also, if the horseshoe crab egg fails to hatch out in the warm sand of this summer. It may be born, next summer.

J-Joosierisms , BY GAYLORD NELSON

A "IN Indianapolis man left a Logansport hotel the morning i__J of Sept. 5, to call on a customer. And vanished. Family and friends, suspecting foul play. Instituted a Nation-wide search, expecting to find no more than his mutilated body. Money was spent freely in the hunt. Nothing was found. Friday his wife received a letter from him postmarked New York. He had vanished of his own accord and wouldn't return. It is an easy matter, if a man tires of his troubles and the'steady grind, to get out of it all—by vanishing. He can board a train and erase himself like sponging a drawing off a slate. But few men do a fade-out like this man. „ Because the ties of love, pride and duty hold them in their groove. No man is a free agent. His disappearance would inflict heartaches on loved ones. So the average man sticks to his tread mill, no matter what happens, and refuses to shirk. He and his loved ones may sink—but they sink together. And when a man,_!acking lime in his spine, does execute a cowardly fade-out, it is a conspicuous frontpage event. The human sense of honor and; duty averages high. When so few men do sponge themselves from the slate —and quit. 4 Property RS. LOUISE OFF, Lafayette Rd. and Cooper Ave., doesn’t i___J want the new Kessler Blvd. wagging its tail In her front yard. The park board appraisers proffered a check for SI,BOO In payment for the slice of her land re-' quired for the improvement. The check was refused. Construction work approached her line, and workmen appeared to behead her four catalpa trees. Immediattely the voltage of the Off family stepped up to a high tension, and the sparks flew. So did the workmen. They weren't afraid. But they went. There the matter rests. Mrs. Off retains her belligerent attitude; the park board scratches ita •collective head, and the boulevard, stretching in the sun, slumbers. Perhaps SI,SOO is ample compensation for the damage to her property, as the park board asserts. Perhaps it's inadequate, as she claims. But until it is legally decided Mrs. Off retains possession of her land to tits uttermost Inch. For this is America and the land in dispute is her private property. She’ll defend it. The scare of socialism and communism here • is* just flamboyant prattle. Because there are millions of Mrs. Offs in this country.

Schools 11 l NDIANAPOLIS is at present short 100 classrooms in its grade requirements, state members of the school board. And the last cut in the school levy, to 93.5 cents, will preclude making up any of that room shortage in 1925. It will be difficult to provide even for the normal increase in grade school population. For the grade school capacity in every city must be constantly enlarged to keep pace with tlfe increasing population and school attendance. To fail behind Just one year in enlarging the school plant makes it that much harder to catch up. Only by adopting a steady, annual building program is any sort of equilibrium maintained between demand and supply. Eventually the schools must be built. And a no-const ruction .policy pursued for a few years will bunch the buildings of a number' of those minor schools in one year. To the discomfort and dismay of the taxpayer. • While the elimination of construction one year gives the taxpayer apparent relief, it merely postpones his evil day. Which day always arrives with no loss, of disagreeable features because of the delay. Such a policy only fattens the emaciated taxpayer for a real killing later on. And ue might as well lie half killed now as completely slaughtered farther up the creek. Progress NE day early in Octqper, 1851, a young man of 21, and his bride siarted from Indianapolis ,in an wagon, for the W eat. i A year later, In October 1852, the couple arrived at Portland. Ore., to make their home. They had traversed 2,C00 miles at the leisurely pace of fifteen miles, or less, a day. Lato yesterday afternoon a plane landed at Clianute field in Illinois. In it was the man who had left Indianapolis with the ox team, in the flush of life’s morning, seventy-three years ago.

The man was Ezra Meeker, returning to the scenes of his boyhood. lie is one of the few, and the most famous, of the surviving pioneers who tramped west-ward over the old Oregon trail, with the plodding oxen. He has lived the "Covered Wagon.” and has seen the West grow from an unpeopled wilderness to a rich agricultural and industrial empire. It took him months to go west by ox team. He returns in three days by airplane. That’s progress. One human life has spanned the progress in transportation from ox teams to airplanes. By what mode of transportation will the young man of 21, who leaves Indianapolis today to seek fortune in 1 distant parts, return after a lapse of seventy-three years? Prayerful Bobby "Have you said your prayers, Bobby?” “Yes, mother.” “And did you ask God to make you a good boy?” “Yes, mother—but not yet.” j