Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief ROT W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER. Acting Editor WM. A. MAT BORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Allian’e • • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Palne Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214 220 W. Maryland St.. Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—fen Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • * PHONE—MA in 3500.

WE REPEAT "qpIHE EDITOR of The Indianapolis Times has just received 1 a letter from a reader who asks: “What has The Times to say editorially as to the dirty work of the labor union at the Elks building?” We were under the impression that we had made ourselves clear on this subject. To those who are not yet acquainted with the stand of The Times in this matter we call attention to an editorial which appeared on the front page of this paper Aug. 20. It was set four columns wide in bold type. Among other things it said : “Authorities should overlook no precaution to prevent further destruction of property and further interference with peaceable workmen who are earning their living. No effort should be spared in speedily apprehending the guilty persons. “Labor unions should cooperate in cleaning their own houses. “Destruction of private property must not be tolerated for a moment. Every workman has a right to expect and demand that he be allowed to earn his living in safety. Every property owner has the right to expect and demand that his property be protected. “The first duty of any government is to safeguard life and property.’’ We hope this answers the question.

COURTS OR BALLOTS > I r-i i FFORTS of the R-epublican party to keep La Follette elec- | ill I tors off the various State ballots, through appeal to the courts, are the clearest possible confession of desperation. Unable to check the growing La Follette tide hv ordinary political methods, the politicians are attempting to rob the voters of their franchise. The California Supreme Court, by a vote of 4 to 3, decided La Follette's electors could not appear on the ballots of that State. Their decision came right at a time when every report from the State indicated La Follette and Coolidge were running neck and neck there: when a correspondent of the conservative Republican Cincinnati Times-Star had just wired his paper that La Follette seemed due to carry the State, and when the Literary Digest poll showed the Republican and independent tickets almost in a tie there. Terrified by this unexpected revelation of strength, the politicians turned to their old friends, the judges, for relief — and got it by one of those one-man majorities. In this connection, it is well to remember that control of the courts is one of La Follette’s chief planks. Therefore these suits are being brought before a body of officials who are overwhelmingly prejudiced against him. Courts are like cops—they stick together. Judges protect the powers which fellow-judges have seized or acquired. This growing movement to deny the people a chance to vote for La Follette will, in the end, encourage the very reforms La Follette stands for. Courts have seen fit to enjoin the people from doing almost anything they chose to oppose. They have seen fit to punish criticism of themselves. They have seen fit to deny jury trial and ordinary criminal procedure in what were clearly criminal cases. And now some of them are seeing fit to try to deny the people the free use of their ballots. The only argument for control of the courts is the actions of the courts—and the courts are making this more and more evident. THIS IS a wide, wide world, but it cramps the motorists considerably even at that. WHAT BILL WHITE is trying to do is to prevent them from calling it “Klansas.” “WHAT IS affluence?” queries an editor, than whom no has a better right to ask. BEING BROKE and in the hands of receivers, the town of Sour Lake, Tex., is now very bitter. THE FANS who bet on the Giants probably will vote against Coolidge now because he lives in Washington. A CONSERVATIVE is one who permits others to think for him; a progressive thinks his own thoughts. IN ONE section of China, with a population of 8,000,000, the women support the men. Next boat sails Thursday. A MISSISSIPPI woman has just married her eighth Confederate veteran, which just about makes her one, too. SHOWING HOW necessary it is for a candidate to have the goods, a Chicago stockyards crowd told Candidate Davis that “We want beer!” THOSE WHO ardently maintain that Nature makes no mistakes will have to do a lot of explaining to satisfy us that it was all right to locate vast fields of coal at the north pole.

Rooms for Teachers Needed Those having rooms which can be rented to Indiana school teachers during the meeting of the Indiana State Teachers Association, Oct. 16, 17 and 18, will kindly fill out attached blank and mail to the convention bureau of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, immediately, so requests for lodging accommodations may be filled as promptly as possible. Convention Bureau, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis: You may list the following rooms for the use of Indiana teachers on Oct. 16, 17 and IS: Name Phone Address Number of single rooms Double rooms Price per night for each person

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If the President's son, John Coolidge, sets styles for young men, they will include a f dinky green cap and bluish ink stain on the right forehead. Such is the regulation for Amherst freshmen, by order of the sophomores, and John is conforming.

SIOO FOR VALUABLE PA CKA GE Diamond Broach Worth $150,000 Sold Cheap at Dead Letter Sale, P.<i XEA Sfrrirr CrrT] ASHIXGTON, Oct. 11.—It was \X/ a diamond brooch. And it was worth $150,000. But it sold for SIOO “sight unseen" at the dead letter office auction of unclaimed pacakes. Watches, rings, necklaces—hundreds of other valuable articles, too. are going the same way. Careless wrapping and addressing of packages is costing parcel po3t users millions of dollars annually. Hundreds of boxes, improperly wrapped or addressed, are being brought daily into Uncle Sant's “mail graveyard." Every effort is made to locate either the sender or the person for whom each was intended. But after they once get into tHe dead letter office, that's a well-nigh impossible task. All the packages are held for a time. Then They are auctioned off without even being opened. The bidders take a chance on what's inside. But it generally :s well worth taking. So you see that package that never came may have gone the way of the r il!ions of other packages that rest, in peace in the "mail grave yard.”

ONE DAY'S ACCUMULATION OF UNCLAIMED PACKAGES IN Till DEAD LETTER OFFICE AT WASHINGTON.

The Newsy By HAT. COCHRAN From early in the morning till the late hours of the night you can hear the newsie shouting out his wares. He will tell you of elections, of a ball game, or a fight as his voice the latest newsy doings bares. Whether wind is blowing briskly or there’s calmness in the air; whether snows have put the slush beneath your feet; whether sun is shining brightly, you will find the newsie there, selling news to paper buyers on the street. Wise the man who keeps his hand on all the doings of the day. Wise the fellow who can tell you what is what. And the wisest of them all will list to what the newsies say and then purchase of the papers that they’ve got. Just consider Mister Newsy! He is on his job all day and he ever sings his printed-matter song. He’s the fellow who informs you, when your cent or two you pay, that the world’s forever moving right along. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) The Bobber Shop P,y C. A. L. WE HAD to fire anew barber this morning because he asked a girl in knickers if she wanted a shave. PETE, THE porter, has stopped drinking because he says he hates to think cf getting blind drunk when there’s so much to see. BLONDY, THE manicure, read "Three Weeks” in one afternoon. How times flies! A MARATHON RACE didn't attract much attention when it passed the shop this morning because the customers thought it was an advertisement for underwear. NEXT! A Thought Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.—Ps. 6:12. * • * For my part I'd rather he the first man among these fellows than the second man in Riome.—Caesar.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

METHODIST BISHOP FOR LA FOLLETTE

Churchman Says He Is Only Candidate Opposed to Klan,

Os the Methodist Episcopal Church Chancellor of Edward Waters College, Jacksonville. Fla.; Director Payne Theological Seminary. Trustee of Wilburforee University, Director National Association for the Advuacement of Colored People, Member American Academy of Political and Social Science. mAM unreservedly for the progressive candidacy of Senator La Follettp and Senator Wheeler for President and Vice President of the United States. It must be unmistakably plain to every colored American that there can be no hope for him politically, economically or spiritually under either the Be publican or Democratic parties. The Democratic party has long been the party of the Ku-Klux Klan, the party of Jim Crow, disfranchisement and lynching. The Klan was founded in the South half a century ago and was revive! in the South ten years ago. Taken Over by Klan As for the Republican party, sixty years ago the party of Abraham Lincoln, it has now been taken over bodily by the Klan ’ in the North. It is openly the Klan party in at least a dozen northern States. Alone among the three candidates, Mr. Coolidge has refused to open his lips on the subject of the Klan. The best that we have bee nable to get from the White House is a brief statement from the lily-white Mr. O. Bascom Slemp, Mr. Coolidge's secretary, to the effect that Mr. Coolidge is hot a Klansman. How gratifying to learn that Mr. Coolidgo does not put on a nightshirt and a pillow case and join the night riders after supper. All Are Equal La Follette, on the other hand, is the only candidate who has come out vigorously against the Klan in words that no one can mistake. His *-r.tire career shows that he regards all Americans as equal, without regard for race or color. But even had he bc'm tol illy silent, it would be folly at this time for colored Americans not to take advantage of the glorious opportunity furnished by the birth of this new party not to ally themselves with it and show the Republican party that there is a limit to the endurance and to the patience of the colored American citizens. The colored people of America have been faithful to the Republican party for half a century. In return, they have received nothing but broken promises. The Republican party has deliberately taken advantage of existing situation by which it knew that the negro could not turn to the Democratic party to get justice.

Tom Sims Says No telling how much money is I spent to run the Government and taxpayers. It must be awful to feel bad and have nothing special to kick about. Have you noticed the increase in beauty contests since women vote? Among the wild movements on foot we have the new fall dances. A man with a noisy hat usually talks through it. Nobody seems to care about the price of cotton stockings. Some say the new dances broaden the feet while others claim they only thicken the head. If a girl’s face is her fortune there’s billions in a drug store. Some husbands are happy, other's wives won’t stay home alone. Opportunity doesn't knock around with other knockers. Wouldn’t it be fine if we all made what we claim we do? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Science Present-day opposition to science, as shown by the fight against the theory of evolution, is nothing new. In all ages science has met with antagonism and, in some respects, this has proved beneficial in making science more searching and more exact. The advance science has made, however, and its benefits to the human race, are illustrated by such incidents as the following: A hundred years ago, the use of anesthetics in child-birth was opposed on the ground that it sought to remove the cui'se that had been put upon women for the sins of Eve. In 1826, school boards in Ohio refused to permit the use of school houses for public debate on "that device of Satan,” the railroads. King Charles of Spain declared that digging the Panama canal would be a sin because it severed North and South America and “what God hath joined together let no man put asunder.”

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Ask The Times You can iret an answer to any yiiejtion us fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Time* Washinslnu Bureau, 1321 Nrw York Ave Washington. D. C . inc!oa:n* 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extend.-d research ir* undertaken. Ail other question* will receive a persona! reply Unsigned requests cannot be answ red. All letters are confidential—Editor. How can I change measurements given on an inch scale? By reducing the number of inches to fourths ami dividing by three. When did the First Squadron of the 2d Cavalry sail for France during the World War. and on what boat; when did it return and on what boat and what port did it arrive at’ Sailed for France on the Northern Pacific, March 29, 191S; left France for the United State on the Rijdam, June 19, 1919; arrived New York, June 29, 1919. What are the main constituents of or Unary clones? Silica. iron, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, carbonate; acid radicals are sulphate, phosphate; rarer substances are nickel, magignnese. ehroniutn, barium What is the best time to plant, cherry trees for seedlings; when is grafting best done? Planting of cherry trees for seed lings can be done either in the fall or spring, hut preferably in the fall, when the seeds should he stratified in moist sand, and put in a protected place over the winter, and planted in the spring. Grafting is done while the trees are dormant. If seedlings are grafted, this is done in the early winter and they are parked away in dampened moss and kept cool until spring, when they are planted outside. What new provisions for pensions did the Reed-Johnson hill, passed by the last Congress, contain? This hill increased the pay of widows of men who served in the World War from $25 to S3O a month. Under it. the rat* 1 for a widow with one child Is S4O, and $6 additional is allowed for each child after the first.. What States are included in the Twelfth naval district? California is the only one.

What is the value of the 2-cent piece, silver, of 1565? It is valued at from 25 to 75 cents. What per cent of the water that goes over Niagara Falls flows over the Horseshoe falls? Ninety-five and seventeen-hun-dredths per cent. Who was the King of Denmark in 1816? Frederick VIT. How is the figure of Science usually represented? By a female figure holding a globe, a triangle snd a mirror. What, is the weight per cubic foot of cinders, sand and gravel? Ashes and cinders, from forty to forty-five pounds per cubic foot; sand and gravel, dry and loose, from ninety to 105 pounds; packed, from 100 to 120 pounds. What, is a prune? Any variety of plum which can be successfully cured without removing the pit. What is the nvreage velocity of a baseball thrown by a big league pitcher? About 210 feet per second. Is it true that imitation ivory i be made from milk? Casein, from milk, has been used since 1903 for making galalith, an important substitute for ivory, celluloid, ebonite, etc. "What are the continents? Geographers usually recognize five; North America, South America, Eurasia, including Europe and Asia, Africa and Australia. A sixth continent is sometimes represented by the land area about the Antarctic region. W r hat would be the effect of lengthening the stroke of a piston and at the same time decreasing the diameter of the piston of a steam engine? Lengthening the stroke increases the power, and decreasing the diameter decreases the power; consequently, if the stroke is lengthened and diameter of piston decreased the rate of increase or decrease in power would depend on the amount by which the stroke Is increased and diameter decreased.

Handy Andy

CONDITION OF LABOR IMPROVED Government Report Shows Unemployment Is on Decline. Timex ]Vnnhinpton Rurenu, lMi A ric York Ai r. —r-i ASHINGTON. <ct 11.—For the VY/ first time since last March, *' employment has checked its | long, down-hill skid and has secured a shaky toehold lor the upward climb toward prosperity. The report of the United States Department of Labor for the month lof August shows a 2 per cent imj provement in employment over July. ; Earnings of employes increased *3:7 | per cent and per capita earnings increased 3.5 per cent. However, conditions are far from ! being ns favorable as they were at this time a year ago. Since last August a total decrease of 15 per cent has taken place in employment, a decrease of 17.2 per cent in pay roll totals, and a decrease of 2.6 per cent in per capita earnings. Gains in Central Most of the gains during the past ! month have been made in the north 'and south east central States both as to employment and size of pay I rolls. Small decreses in the number iof employed were reported from jthe New England. Middle Atlantic, ■ west north central, and Pacific States. All groups showed increases in pay roll totals, though these were very slight in the west north central and mountain groups. The pottery industry made the biggest gains during August, but was closely followed by the woman's clothing Industry. The stove In- ! dustry picked up. also piano and ! organs, confectionery, fertilizers. utomobile tires, shoes, carpets, silk and hosiery. Shoe industry Hit The rubber boot and shoe industry is the hardest hit in the country. During August it dropped one-third |of its employes, and some of the I larger plants praotieall yclosed down. Comparing August of this j year and of last, this industry shows a falling off of 60 per cent. Decreases | also are shown by the carriage, shirt and collar, machine tool and machine shop, agricultural implements, and steel sbip building industries. Per capita earnings increased in thirty-seven out of the fifty-two industries tabulated, remained the same in one, and decreased in fourteen. The woman's clothing industry had the bigyest Increase of 21 percent. There was an increse of 13.7 per cent in the Iron and steel industry, and increases down to 4 per cent In boots and shoes, furniture, tobacco, pottery, silk goods, woolen goods, automobiles, dyeing, hosiery and knit goods, and electric railroad car repairing.

Family Fun Nerve “How do you like your new neighbors?” "Well, I have a great admiration for their nerve. They sent me a bill the other day for the eggs they claimed their hens laid in our garden.” —Boston Transcript. One for the Dentist “I thought you 'were a painless dentist. Didn't I just, hear a man howling in there?” “Ah, he was just cheering my feats of strength.”—American Legion Weekly. Brother's Lip-Shadow “Don't you think my mustache becoming?” “It might be, but it hasn’t got here yet."—Georgia Yellow Jacket. Wife’s Fatal Bob “My wife found a blonde hair on my coat.” “Well, isn’t hers blonde?” “Yes, but this was half an inch longer than her bob."—American La gion Weekly. Sister’s Limit “I will love you forever!” “Midnight’s as late as I can sit up!”—Judge. Boy’s Best Wish “What does my little man wish to buy—chocolates?” “You bet your life I do; but I’ve got to buy soap.”

Know Indiana What was Indiana's population when it became a State? Between 80,000 and 100,000. No accurate census had been taken. What was the base line of surveys in Indiana? The intersection of the second meridian with an east and west line seven miles below Paoli, Ind. What were Government mlnimums in land sales? Forty acres at not less than $1 an acre. Tongue Tips Dr. Marion Burton, president University of Michigan: “Man must destroy war or war wiU destroy man.” Prof. Frank Alva Parsons, head of New York School of Fine and Applied Arts: "A naked body is beautiful —if it is beautiful: but very few people have bodies beautiful enough to stand nakedness. When the truth is known about anybody, it is all over.” Mrs. Gilbert La Bissioniere, Minneapolis, celebrating her golden wedding at 70: “What do I like? Jazz music, and the wilder the better; also movies; also the radio; also bobbed hair, if it is red.” Kathleen Norris, novelist: “The great thing about happiness is no: in seeking it. but in knowing it when you find it.” Barbara Littlejohn, writer: “What a life to have lived, when people thought childhood was not a time set apart fur childhood's own ex periences. but one prolonged, mis erable getting ready to be an adult.’ Nature In wild life the coon washes everything it eats and constantly washes its own face and paws. A pet coon, taken for treatment to the Speyer animal hospital in New York, refused to eat until they took him to the bathroom and let him wash his hands and face under the running faucet. As dog catcher of Wilmington, Del., for twenty-nine years. George Kopp has taken over 40,000 dogs into custody and has been bitten only once. A collie, sentenced a few months ago to State prison so life by Maine's Governor for the influence a dog companion would have on the prisoners, has gone the rounds a number of times and made friends with every man.

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1 nrGLAS EN DEN SHAW, full-blooded Haida Indian, !____] son of an Indian chief of Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, has just teen appointed as a fully qualified pilot for the navigation of deep sea boats in Pacific coats waters. He is now official pilot of the 4,000ton lumber-carrying ships El Abeto, El Cedro and El Ciuta of the Massett Timber Company, Ltd. The appointment of Douglas Edenshaw is remarkable by reason that not only is he the first red man to be appointed to such a position, but because so short a time ago as fifty-eight years his ancestors, the Haidas, were the most war like and dangerous of Pacific coast Indians.

SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1924

T-Toosierisms , BY GAYLORD NELSON ' I mHE State oil inspection act was upheld recently in Fedi eral Court, when the action of four refining companies seeking to enjoin its enforcement was dismissed. The oil inspection act is legal—but useless. It was designed to prevent the sale in the State of kerosene with a flash point below 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Before the advent of the automobile kerosene was the profitable product, and gasoline the waste byproduct, from petroleum. Refiners crowded all the gasoline they dared into kerosene. The inspection law restrained them. Now the situation is reversed. All the lighter constituents are skinned out of the crude oil to make gasoline. Economics not the inspection law restrains the refiner from marketing kerosene with a flash point below 120 degrees—for he isn't making that kind of kerosene. Not if he is in his right mind. Os course the law provides political jobs for over thirty stalwarts. And the State collects about $200,000 in inspection fees at an expense of $78,000. But that net revenue is small potatoes now when State fiscal operations are conducted on the scale of millions. The revenue is too puny to justify the overhead and annoyance of inspection. The law should be repealed. If revenue is needed tax, not Inspect, i the oil. * Resulting revenue would be greater and useless political Jobs less. Vandalism

mOHN J. M'NAMARA, business agent of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers loj cal, was arrested Thursday on inI dictments charging blackmail. This results from the investigation ! by the grand jury of vandalism done j at various construction jobs during \ the past year. Particularly at the | new Elks clubhouse in August. Vandalism is a senseless act. It is the elder brother of the de structinve temper of children. They vent their spite for some real or fancied wrong by kicking over the furniture or by smashing some perfectly innocent inanimate object that happens to be near by. So the grown-up vandal hacks an ornamental metal door or heaves a brick through a stained glass window. The act may relieve the feelings but it rights no wrongs. The child, chafing under restraint, wins more from obdurate parents by coaxing than by wrecking a cut glass vase. Destruction of property doesn't persuade. It angers. Progressive labor officials know that. So quickly following the damage at the Elks clubhouse the business agents of most of the building trades unions disclaimed and denounced the sabotage. They believe that labor disputes are more surely won by sound, ar- i gument, than by the sound of dyna t mite or acts of vandalism.

Candy HIS is Candy Day in Indianapolis, so designated by proclamation of Mayor Shank, | and so advertised in many of the city’s confectionery windows. The slogan is: “The sweetest day of the year.” Which should appeal to young and old. For the passion for candy is not confined to maidens, children* and shut-ins. The war taught us that it is equally relished by husky i men. There is a blood relation between the chocolate coated pill of the hospital and the chocolate bonbon of the parlor. For confectionery began its career as the expedient of physicians and apothecaries in concealing, with a coating of sugar or honey, the taste of vile medicinal concoctions. A sort of iron-hand-in-the-velvet-glove combination. Since then sanay-making has grown to a big industry and our national sweet tooth consumes many tons of it each day. Even in Indianapolis, which is not one of the greatest centers for its manufacture, there are more than thirty factories actively supplying our demand for sweets. Today many a husband will take home candy as a propitiatory offering to the household goddess. He knows that a box of it is more effective than a steam roller in smoothing rugged domestic paths. Pistols Af‘ H PERTINENT remark was made by Judge Collins in - Criminal Court yesterday. In sentencing two colored youths for a shooting affray, he said: /'As long as the Legislature allows dealers to sell deadly weapons as freely as marbles, just so long will I have to send boys to the penitentiary.” Arms will be needed until the Golden Rule becomes more than a pious aspiration. But private security no longer depends •on the free traffic in pistols. In Texas, where the six-shooter used to be the law and the prophets, advertising a pistol for sale is now unlawful. The West has moved East. For in Indianapolis a gun is about as easy to buy as a cigar. AVith the result that a callow youth, with a distorted sense of grandeur, buys a weapon and fares forth armed. He becomes aggrieved. He is given a cross look, or the biscuits aren't done to his taste. Out comes his smoking gun. “Another iedsktn bites the dust.” And another youth enters the penitentiary. Criminals will always be armed. A law’ completely disarming the lawabiding would be a mistake. But the sale of weapohs to imbeciles and minors could be regulated. For the bark of the fretful pistol is no longer the voice of civilization in Indiana. It’s in the Looks “When we get to Niagara, dear, let’s try not to look as though we’ve just been married.” “Good idea, darling. You carry the suitcase, eh?”—Judge.