Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * • Client of the United Press, the. NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. • Published daily 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.

JUST SUPPOSE S' - "“ UPPOSING you wanted to buy anew suit or invest in a u ___ new hat for your wife. Suppose that before you could do this you were compelled to go to a man who lives in Greenfield and one who lives in Rockport and one who lives in Irvington. Suppose you had to ask their permission to spend your own money for anew suit of clothes or anew hat for your wife. Suppose the man who lives in Rockport and the one who lives in Greenfield know nothing at all first-hand about your family. Suppose the man who lives in Irvington does not believe that women should wear hats nad believes that it is all right to go to church wearing patched trousers regardless of your ability to buy new ones. Suppose then that these three men should look over their horn-rimmed spectacles and stroke their whiskers and decide that you could buy a suit of clothes if you paid for it on the installment plan with interest and that your wife could do without anew hat for the next two or three seasons. How long would you stand for anything like that? Yet that is exactly what is happening to the city of Indianapolis. The people of Indianapolis wish to build new school buildings. They need the buildings. They are willing to spend their money for them. The elected representatives of the people have decided how that money should be spent. 'Then why not go ahead and spend it ? Because the law doesn’t read that way. Indianapolis and all the other cities of Indiana have been declared spendthrifts and a guardian has been appointed. The guardian is the State tax board consisting of a man from Rockport, a man from Greenfield rnd a man from Irvington. When this city of 350,000 rational human beings wants to build anew schoolhouse to educate its children and to keep them from the necessity of attending school in death-dealing shacks it must, if ten taxpayers so will it, go before these men on bended knee and ask their permission. And these men talk kindly to the city and tell it to put its money back in its pockets and keep its children out of school or let them attend school in miserable shacks, because these three men know more about how this city of 350,000 rational human beings and how its elected representatives should spend its own money than the city does itself. This is an actual presentation of the situation that exists in Indiana today. If the next Legislature does nothing else it will have accomplished a great good if it repeals the law which gives three men veto power over municipal affairs. The people of Indianapolis do not need a guardian. BORROWED ISSUES EHOSE Democratic papers which are roaring so loudly against that pair of dangerous “reds” and “radicals”— La Follette and Wheeler—seem to forget that La Follette and Wheeler largely supplied the Democratic party with the campaign matter with which it is seeking to gain victory. “Red” anti “radical” as they are, the Democrats were very glad to stake their campaign for “common honesty” on ammunition supplied by the two indepdent candidates. La Follette introduced the resolution under which the Senate public lands committee investigated the leasing of the naval oil reserves. In an all-day speech on April 12, 1922. while Calvin Coolidge was presiding over the Senate, La Follette outlined the circumstances under which the leases were made and the suspicions surrounding them. A year and a half later, evidence, revealed by the investigation conducted under his resolution, supported the charges which he had made with such astonishing accuracy. Senator Burton K. Wheeler started and conducted the Daugherty investigation. Although the investigating committee was headed by Senator Brookhart of lowa, the work of pushing the investigation fell upon Wheeler, and he accepted it with such vigor and success that Harry Daugherty and William J. Burns were forced from office, and the most amazing tale of scandal, corruption and official indecency in America’s history was unearthed. When you read, in some Democratic paper, a denunciation of these two “radicals,” don’t forget that the Democratic party and its candidates were very glad to seize upon and use the weapons they provided. The Democrats may not like their candidacy—but, oh boy!—they were certainly glad to grab their issues.

LANDIS’ JOB SHE WORST has happened in this controversy over the bribery scandal in the New York Giants’ race for the world series baseball pennant. The affair has resolved itself into a row between Ban Johnson and Judge Landis, baseball czar. Johnson wants to “get” Landis and sees this as his chance. That means that the chances of following the “scandal” with a cleaning up of big league baseball are not too good. The friends of Landis will line up behind the baseball boss, and his enemies will join the Johnson crowd to weaken the position of the “commissioner.” Clean baseball will become but a side issue. Baseball fans could do well to keep these points in mind: Landis may be a good commissioner at times and a poor one on another occasions, but if his job is abolished, the one authoritative means of keeping baseball clean is gone. Money has been king of baseball for many a season, and the one assurance of a square deal for the less wealthy clubs is the existence of an authority who can act on the protests of fans who demand clean sport. In the case of the New York Giants, Landis had no alternative but to expel the players who admitted attempting bribery. Likewise, he had no recourse but to assume the innocence of the other players until they were proven guilty by competent investigation. v After the world series is out of the way, the next big job ahead of the baseball commissioner will be to see that the whole episode is investigated and aired. And this airing ought to go on in the open and not in star chamber sessions. ■Liseball is the American public's great sport and, in tbs last it is the fans who have to see that it is kept ck an.

Job for Mars I ' jralffplk' M i Herbert Janvrin Browne, Washington scientist, declares all weather is made by the sun. Owing to lack of oceans ana atmos pheric density on Mars, it has the same weather the earth will have three years later, he claims. A study of Mars may enable him to give long-distance weather forecasts. Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Wasnington. 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 rannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Is Elinor Glyft married? Yes, she is Mrs. Clayton Glyn. Who have been the pennant winners in the National League since 1912? 1913, New York; 1914, Boston; 1915, Philadelphia; 1916, Brooklyn; 1917, New York; 1916. Chicago; 1919, Cincinnati: 1920. Brooklyn; 1921, New York; 1922, New York, 1923, New York. Can you give the names of the naval officers who are assigned to the command of the President's yacht, Mayflower? Capt. Adelphus Andrews. Lieut. Commander John S. Meigs, Lieut. Lloyd J. Wiltsle, Lieut. T De Witt Carr. Lieut. Ralph U. Hyde, Lieut. Thomas J. Ryan. Lieut. Commander .Toel T. Boone, Medical Corps; Lieut. M. M. Smith, Supply Corps; Lieut. Edgar Alien Poe. Jr., United States Marine Corps. Can you give some idea of the sizes of molecules and atoms? In a single cubit centimeter of air—a globule about the size of a small marble—there are thirty million trillion molecules. And since the molecule is a group or cluster of atoms, the atom Itself is smaller. Atoms differ very greatly from each other in size and weight. It is per haps sufficient to say that some of them are so small that it would take 400,009,000 of them, in a line, to cover an inch of space, and that it takes at least a quintillion atoms of gold to weigh a single gramme. Eivs million atoms of helium could be placed in a line across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. When were Ethel and John Barrymore born? Ethel Barrymore, horn Aug. 15, 1879; John Barrymore, born Feb. 15, 1882. How many dpeks and what size are they at Liverpool, England? There are sixty-five docks with a water area of 600 acres, and twentytwo graving docks at Liverpool. What book had the greatest success of any book of American Action? "Uncle Tom’s Cabin." Are there any successful means of producing artificial rainfall? In other words, are the claims of any "rainmakers" justified? Professor Humphreys of the United States Weather Bureau says: "I can assure you that none of the proposals for rain-making and cloudkilling that have yet come to the attention of the Weather Bureau are of any practical use, and we are confident from experience of the past that no such panacea is yet in sight”

Know Indiana Where was the original site of Ft. Benjamin Harrison? At Terre Haute on the site of a desperate battle between the Illinois Indians and the Iroquois Confederacy. French settlers called the place "Bataille des Illinois.” What is the “Pigeon Roost Settlement?” Spot in Scott County, where in 1812 the Indians murdered a man, five women and sixteen children. A monument now marks the spot and can be seen plainly from the windows of Pennsylvania trains en route to Louisville. What was the St. Mary’s Treaty? Executed at St. Mary’s Ohio, Oct. 3, 1818, when Delaware Indians sold to the United States lands in central Indiana southwest of the Miami reservation and southwest of the Wabash River. Aggravdtin ’ By HAL COCHRAN A picture of summer, when winter is here, will carry you back with a thrill. It hangs on the fall, spreading all kinds of cheer, and you gaze till your eyes get their fill. Or, maybe, a fellow recalls days of old w r hen you were a kid in your teens. It's only just foolin’ you, what he has told,* ’cause you can not go back to those scenes. When things that are said, or when things that are shown, can please you they’re not overruled. We grownups just like to forget that we re grown—it’s a fact that we like to be footed. That ruling applies, it Is best that we add, except where our longipgr.ess cracks. For instance, it never can make us feel glad, when there’s fruit on the table—of wax. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

T-Toosierisms BY GAYLORD NELSON OVERNOREMMETTF. BRANCH has called a grade crossing safety conference for Oct. 14-15. Railroads, interurbans, local officials, civic bodies and automobile associations will be represented. * Indiana is the third State to hold such a meeting. The present menace of grade crossings is realized, and, with the increasing use of highways, the menace will grow. In 1923 there were 2,268 killed and 6,314 injured in crossing accidents in this country. Compared with the total number of accidents, this is modest. But it’s the population of many thriving Indiana towns. This State contributes liberally to the total, as a casual glance at the day’s news discloses. Grade crossing accidents are so unnecessary. Trains and interurbans don't leave their tracks and chase motorists into .the fields to get them. But some willingly take a chance to cross crossings quickly. And they get there. "There” being eternity. The ideal solution would be the elimination of all grade crossings. But that's an “iridescent dream." All that can be hoped for is to reduce accidents by education and minor safety devices. But no safety device can foil an ingenious fool. Yet the conference will accomplish much if it can persuade some motorists that, at a grade crossing, they should take more precautions than breathing a prayer and crossing their fingers. Smoke ITY smoke inspectors are enjoying a brisk fall trade, i, .. 1 Forty-six first notices of smoke ordinance violations have been sent out. Some of the larger industries of the city are included in the list. But all our smoke nuisance isn’t due to industrial plants. Public buildings, apartments and private residences add their clouds. For Indianapolis, like most coal burnlnd cities, is a victim of the smoko habit, especially in the fall i and winter. Then the city atmosphere is more or less solid continually. A citizen must squeeze through it to the infinite damage of disposition and linen. And frequently in the j evening, in the downtown section, it , is so substantial it could be cut. , trimmed and fabricated. It may be impossible to abolish ' the smoke nuisance entirely, but it nan be checked. If as much diligence j is exercised in eradicating the cause as is displayed in eradicating the effect. A velvety smoke plume Issuing from a chimney does not always herald prosperity. It may indicate carelessness. In any event it costs money. A dollar wasted up the chimney adds a dollar to the laun dry hill. They will be public benefactors, who tame our smoke nuisance this fall, so it won’t pry so deeply into our family affairs and so besmirch our family skeletons.

Writers SHE Electrical Development Association Is conducting an essay contest among the school children of Indianapolis. The essays to be on the subject ’’Better Home Lighting.” More than 8.000 school children in the city have registered for the contest. The primary' object—as far as the association is concerned —is to aid. comfort and promote the electrical industry. Cold blooded business, nothing else. Probably a large number of the children registered will never complete their essays. The task will seem too arduous after the enthusiasm of the moment cools. And perhaps the majority of essays handed to the Judges wil) be reckoned hopeless by most uncritical literary standards. But from the mars a few will be culled that are more than creditable —that exhibit embryonic talent to a high degree. Although the Electrical Association isn’t offering its prize for that purpose, it’s contest may give some child an impulse to write, and fan Into flame a spark of genius that in future years w'ill give Indiana a successor to Riiey, Ade or Nicholson. For the will to write is latent in every Hoosier. And thus, casually, ’ are writers started on the road to fame and trouble. Fares SESTERDAY tne Indianapolis Street Railway Company filed its September report with the public service commission. From the report the street car business appears to be convalescing. For receipts show an increase in September over August and are approximately $16,000 more than in September, 1923. But it’s a false flush of health. In May the company was granted a boost In fares. So, while the cash receipts for September 1924, were greater than in September 1923, fewer passengers were carried. That’s true in many cities. It Isn’t strange that' street railw'ay officials all over the country lie awake nights and pick fretfully at the coverlets. They have something to worry about. And that’s the vanishing passengers. Increasing street car fares may bolster up revenues temporarily, but there’s a limit to the possible rate increse, while there is no limit to the possible decrese in number of persons carried. Busses may solve the city’s transportation problem, but they won’t polve the street railway’s problem. Only more customers will solve that. In Indianapolis are many people who would like a sea voyage. They can feel all the effects of an ocean trip by riding some of our car lines. And all for the modest expendi* ure of 7 centa. Perhaps,here the cultivation of a marine tourist traffic might Increase the number of fares.

ALUMINUM COMPANY IS TRUST Commission Finds Mellon Concern Is Violating Law, Times Washington Bureau, 1322 Newt York Ave. ASHINGTON, Oct. B.—When \Jw American housewives buy aluminum pans and kettles, they pay tribute to a great monopoly. This is the charge of the Federal trade commission in a report on the activities of the Aluminum Company of America and its subsidiary, the manufacturer of the “Wear-Ever ' aluminum cooking utensils. The aluminum trust is owned by the family of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. In compliance with instructions given it by' t,he Senate, the trade commission hs just completed a three-year study of the ins and outs of the aluminum industry in all its phases. Among the findings are these: 1. That the aluminum company violates the Sherman anti trust law. 2. That unfair competitive tactics are practiced against rival cooking utensils. 3. That rebates are given to trustcontrolled companies to further hamper independent manufacturers. 4. That defective aluminum is sold to independent manufacturers. 5. That deliveries of sheet aluminum to independent manufacturers are so tampered with as to make the independent companies uncertain of supplies of raw material. 6. That threats have been made to ‘‘exterminate’’ rival companies which planned to set up their own rolling mills. 7. That high retr.il prices are maintained by threats against retailers if they handled other uten sils than those made by the trust. The reason the Aluminum Company Is in the position to "get away” with these unfair practices is discussed at length by the Trade commission. The secret lies in the high protective tariff, combined with the Mellon company’s control of domestic bauxite, the raw material from which sheet aluminum is manufactured, the. commission states. Naturally, the aluminum trust has made money. In fact, the Trade commission reports that the average profits of the trust' for the period from 1906 to 1921 were 24 per cent per year. Though the exact figures for trie subsequent years are no, yet avail-

TheS.ofA.T.U. This little instrument, sitting conveniently on if % your desk, or tucked unobtrusively in a nook of your home is the Emblem of the S. A. T. U. The Society of American Telephone Users is a co-operative organization for the promotion of convenience and the annihilation of time and distance. It has the largest membership of any organization in the United States, yet sill members have an equal voice in its affairs and as yet only a few have recognized their own membership. There are four branches of the S. A. T. U. and you belong to one branch or the other. If you are a telephone patron you are an Active Member. ) If you are actively engaged in telephone opera - ' tions you are a Working Member. If you are connected with a department of govemment that exercises jurisdiction over telephones you are a Co-operative Member. If you receive any benefits whatever from telephone service (and everybody does) you are an Honorary Member. We, who are working members of the S. A- T. U. are proud of our membership and we conceive it to be one of our duties as working members to acquaint you with some of the long over-looked advantages of membership in an organization which you, perhaps, have never completely recognized. We are publishing this series of advertisements, under the em* blem of the S. A. T. U., that we may discharge the duty of a M Iu&Jl y working member to the active membership which employs us. In the next advertisement we will give our concept tion of the Active Membership and what it asks of us. INDIANA BELL TELEPHONE- CO. A Division of the Working Membership of * The Society of American Telephone Users.

able, the statistics of the company show that more business h;.H been done in each of the last three years than during any preceding years. In efforts to prevent the percentage of profits from becoming too startling, the Aluminum Company has increased its own capital stock several times during the last twenty years without actually adding new funds. The full report of the Trade commission will be published during the next month and will be in readiness for submission to the Senate in December. In the same report, the unfair competitive methods Indulged in by manufacturers of sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, brooms and other household goods will be scathingly denounced.

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Tom Sims Says Everything has good points. Taking a deep breath for a long kiss develops a girl’s lungs. Doesn't it seem funny to pick up a paper and see nothing about the round-the-world fliers? Tresent politicians don't need airships. They go up in the air very easily without them. Scientist thinks the next presidential campaigners will travel in airships. Well, they’ll have the air. It's poor government when they have to revive old scandal instead of digging up something new. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Nature Magpie’s nest is a complicated structure of mud and sticks, built in layers and is lined with fine roots. Over the whole Is placed a stick roof, with a door at one side. About the door and all around above the nest is placed a thorn covering. Thus, Mr. and Mrs. Magpie aim to discourage vistiors. These nests are high up in a big tree or in a dense bush. An average of 6,000 hitherto unlisted insect species are discovered and classified each year. ' Cork submerged 200 feet will not rise because of the pressure of the water. A'