Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 134, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1924 — Page 4

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JACKSON’S MOVE rprjD JACKSON, Republican nominee for Governor, never has |L 1 denied he is a member of the Ku-Klux Klan. His name was filed with those of 12,000 others in a suit in Chicago. A Klan official testified under oath that the men whose names appeared on the list were Klansmen. The evidence is against Jackson. It is up to him to state his position. The principal question before the voters of Indiana right now is: Shall Indiana be governed by all the people of Indiana or by a hooded minority known as the Knights of the Invisible Empire? It is not a question of religion. It is not a question of personal sentiment. It is a question of whether the Constitutions of the State and Nation shall be followed or whether they shall be scrapped and the State government placed in the hands of a secret organization. Nobody is quarreling with the Klan because it admits only Protestants. That is its right and privilege. The quarrel with the Klan is over the fact that it is trying to set itself up as an invisible government in the State of Indiana. Indiana must be governed by men who are willing to go about with their faces uncovered, to let the people who employ them see what they are doing. The State capitol must not be enshrouded in a mask. Indiana needs and insists upon being governed by a Governor and a Legislature representing all the people. There is a place for secret organizations and they are very well in their place. There is no quarrel with the Klan as a secret organization. In Indiana it has been peaceable and law-abiding. But there is no place for secret organizations in politics. They must not control the Government. j PROGRESS? XCLE EZRA MEEKER, 94 years old, and pioneer of covered wagon days, flies from Washington State to Washington, D. C., and on his arrival announces that he is a Republican and always has been a Republican; that he is going to vote for Coolidge and that he considers the “Socialist-Third Party” a serious menace. You wonder why an old man who is young enough in his ideas to fly all the way across the country in an airplane should be so desperately afraid of a departure from the beaten path in politics. Then you come to the last sentence of his interview and it is illuminating. “I prefer the covered wagon to the airplane,” Uncle Ezra says. Os course he’d prefer a covered wagon rate of progress in national development I LIFE IS CHEAP—TO SOME i XE FALSE move, or a slip of the foot, and then —an accident making a boy of 16 a cripple for life! in three States in one year, the children’s bureau reports, there were 7,478 industrial accidents to young workers under 21 years of age. In thirty-eight cases death was the result. In 920 instances, partial disablement for life. Most of the serious accidents happened to those 16 and 17 years of age. Os injuries to workers under 16, 10.7 per cent resulted in death or partial disablement for life. Os injuries to workers 16 and 17 years of age, the rate was 13.4 per cent killed or permanently disabled. Os injuries to workers 18 to 21 years, the rate was 12.7 per cent killed or permanently disabled. Yet greedy industrial barons argue that child labor legislation is not needed.

Ask The Times You can ret an anrwer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in •tamps 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. During the days of slavery did the North have slaves as well as the South? The slave-holding States were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Kansas. What do submarines cost the United States Navy? They have ranged in cost from about $535,000 to $1,500,000. What is the name of the naval station ship at Charleston, S. C.? The U. S. S. Hartford. What color hair does Richard Dix have? Brown. What is the best material to use as a Slier on walls composed of sheet rock? Calcined gypsum, which may he purchased, mixed with water and used as such. What bind of a mark did God place upon Cain? The Bible account does not State, and there is no other source of information. What is the order known as “B’nai B’rith?" An association. of German Jews formed in the Umted States in 1843. The purpose is the moral improvement of Its members. Its organization resembles that of the Free Masons, but it is not a secret society, and has no elaborate ceremonial. The order has since been largely extended. ‘ Which signer of the Declaration of Independence was a Roman Catholic? Charles Carroll. If a man had a compass in hl3 hand and stood on the top a mountain containing iron, where would the needle of the compass point? It ccmtlnupe to point ‘ to ths magnetic north.

Sight Seein’ By HAL COCHRAN Whenever you go visiting in towns where you don’t live you seldom ever think to make a fuss if a nice, kind-hearted driver says a dollar you must give if you want to ride his rubber-necking bus. You will gladly pay the money, and he’ll ride you ’round the town, and you’ll hear him shout the his’try of the place. You’ll travel all the highways and byways, up and down, and you’ll keep an awed expression on your face. When you’ve sat and looked and traveled till your dollar’s worth is gone, you will say the trip was lovely. there’s no doubt Then you’ll find, -upon awakening, on the morning after dawn, you’ve forgotten all the things he talked about. In the meantime, just consider what you know about your home. Don’t with total home-town ignorance be cursed. And the next time you’re inclined to take a rubberuecking roam, why .not learn about the town you live in first? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Know Indiana What is the ‘‘Constitutional Elm?” An elm tree at Corydon under which many sessions of the first constitutional convention were held. It is still standing. What counties were in the territory before it became a State? Clark. Daviess, Dearborn, Franklirt, Gibson. Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Orange, Perry, Fike, Posey, Sullivan, Switzerland, Warrick, Washington and Wayne. ■What officers were elected In the first general assembly? Robert A. New, secretary of State; William H. Lily, auditor; Daniel S. Lane, treasurer, and United States Senators James Noble and Waller Taylor. Missionaries Return By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 13. The Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Shirley, who have been in this country on a year’s vacation, returned today to South Africa. This was their first visit home in seventeen years.

DEMOCRATS SHOW GAIN IN STRENGTH Political Pot Boils With Three Weeks Until Election, By WALTER A. JIJEAD CTTri ITH election three weeks away V) 1/ the political ca'.dron in In--i diana is about the blow the lid as the campaign reaches the boiling point. A survey of the situation indicates many changes from a month or even two weeks ago. There is little question, but that the Democratic both State and national has goined during the past month. Two weeks or even a week ago President Coolidge had a walk-a-way in Indiana that might even have ‘ carried the Republican State ticket with him. Today his candidacy is considerably weaker from inroads of Davis and La Follette strength. According to statements there will be come cutting of the Coolidge vote by Jackson adherents. The Jackson people apparently are not satisfied with the passive attitude of the national committee toward the Republican candidate for Governor. Davis’ swing across the northern part of the State undoubtedly made him votes and Democratic leaders are expecting the candidate’s trip through Indianapolis Lafayette and Terre Haute to add to his strength. La Follette strength, which has been confined somewhat to industrial and railroad centers has spread to rural communities and from reports coming into State headquarters the Wisconsin Senator will make a strong bid, at least, for the runnerup in the State- Fanners in some districts are rallying to the La Fallette banner. Heads of farmers’ federations are working for La Follette, attracted by his program of farm relief. Backers From All Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for Governor is drawing support from backers of all three national tickets. Almost invariably La Follette supporters will vote for McCulloch and there are many hundreds of regular Republican voters who will cast their ballot for Coolidge and McCulloch. The regular Democrats of course will vote for Davis and McCulloch and down the lineSupporters of Ed Jackson, Republican candidate for Governor, are Jackson supporters first. F*w will vote for La Follette; none, likely. : for Davis. Coolidge will get the | most of them. The Ku-Klux Klan, backing Jackson, it is said, are interested in Jackson primarily, and the rest of the Republican ticket is secondary. This is indicated in the recent statement of State Chairman Clyde A. Walb, that the Klan i had not given a pennv to the Republican State committee, although raising plenty of money for the Jackson campaign. It will be remembered that Jackson was one of the recipients of "The Old Man’s” telegrams urging Walb’s appointment he blocked at the time Lawrence Lyons resigned both from the Kian and the Republican State chairmanship. Silent on State Roth National Committeeman Joseph B. Kealing and Miss Dorothy Cunningham, national committeewoman, have made public exI pressions of confidence in the national ticket, but failed to make any statement on the State ticket. Democratic campaign leaders, while optimistic over the outcome of the election and confident the entire Democratic State ticket will go across, are not letting up in their militant fight. McCulloch Is making an Intensive campaign and is covering every corner of the State, as also Is Jackson. Brother is "Go Between.'* Walter Bossert, grand dragon of the Klan and representative of Imperial Wlsard Evans, Is playing ball with Jackson, and Jim Jackson, brother of the gubernatorial candidate, Is the "go-between.” Jim Jackson, maintains headquarters at the Severin and is in almost daily conference with Dailey McCoy, secretary of the State Republican committee Jim Jackson has even been present at financial meetings of the State committee. McCoy’s Klan tendencies are well known and even in his own district, the Fourth, where he is district chairman, it is known he is antagonistic to the candidacy of “Billy” Hill for congress. Hill is antl-Klan and won the nomination on an anti-klan platform. McCoy recently made a speech in his district in which he mentioned every candidate with the exception of Hill. Tom Sims Says One sign of winter is when the frost is on the pumpkin and the shock is in the corn price. Many a man reads auto advertisements when he should be reading shoe advertisements. A wife is a great comfort during all those troubles which a bachelor never has. One thing wrong with our homes is too many couples think a pair beats a full house. Efficiency means doing two things at once because you are too lazy to do them one at a time. One nice thing about having enemies 's you can blame things on them instead of on yourself. Just when women were doing nicely in politics someone springs the report that it makes them fat. Business hint: Many coal dealers are interested in cash registers and adding machines. The bathing beauties have left the magazine covers. They are busy posing for 1925 calendars. Skirts are getting short again because some women had no show with them Jong. Time these politicians get through talking about it our constitution certainly will be run down. These melancholy days certainly are fine. ; I (

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T-Toosierisms BY (iAYLORI) NELSON

EHE Seventh Christian Church has anew edifice at W. Thirtieth and Annette Sts. It’s a temporary tabernacle to serve during a series of protracted meetings. It isn’t distinguished for majesty of mass or delicacy of line. It's only a rough, unpainted structure 90 by 120 feet in dimensions, capable of seating 2,500 people. But in its -way it is an impressive monument. For the tabernacle was erected between morning and dusk Friday by 150 unpaid volunteers from the congregation. Lawyers, doctors, judges, business men, donned overalls and attacked unaccustomed manual tasks that the building might be completed by night. They perspired for an ideal, not for material gain. Th& building is concrete proof that, when something besides the day’s pay is at stake, men will toil tirelessly and with unquenchable ardor, without thought of hours or time. And, while in the workaday world many have ears attuned dnly to the quitting whistle, there will occasionally be one who finds inspiration and joy in his work. His driving force is more than bread and butter. It’s the pride of doing and the ambition to accomplish. To him the job is the biggest interest in life. $ And such men build moral, Intellectual and industrial monuments. They make their imprint on their generation in Tibet or Indianapolis. Safety T<~ WO prominent young men of Indianapolis were killed in automobile accidents within a week’s interval, under similar circumstances. Lintoh A Cox Jr. met his death when the machine in which he was riding skidded on a slippery pavement near Straughn, Ind., one week ago Saturday. Iyast Saturday night the car driven by Frank H. Marmon overturned in loose gravel near Avon, Ind. And he was crushed io death. In both cases the automobiles were in the hands of skillfu' and experienced drivers. The machines were being driven rapidly, but not at a speed unusual on rpen highways. Not at a rate, under ordinary conditions, incompatible with a fair margin of safety. If the unexpected did not happen. But the unexpected occurred. In one instance a slippery pavement failed to grip the wheels when, in an emergency, the brakes were applied. In the other cu%- an unlooked for patch of loose gravel. And the unexpected cost Linton A. Cox Jr., and Frank H. Marmon their lives. Highways are constructed with such forethought and safeguards possible to minimize accidents. And automobiles are built with a large margin of mechanical safety. But an automobile is speedy—not alert. And the unexpected may be only forty rods aheac^ So driving caution, vigilance and alertness give the only sure margin of safety. Autographs EORGE H. HEALEY, clerk of Gthe State board of election commissioners, investigated a few days ago the petitions of two minor parties that seek recognition on the ballot. Some persons, he found, had signed under the delusion it was a poll book or some equally toothless document. Others just signed. They knew not what. Nor troubled to learn. Now they learn the papers weren’t as toothless as they seemed. Nothing circulates so easily as a petition. Its progress is frietionless, for the only lubricant needed is plausibility on the part of the circulator Then the names go down. Whether it be a petition to burn the Statehouse or hang all the signers at dawn. The dotted lino baa a fascination for many Americans. They sign, and then, like Banquo’s ghost, their autographs come back and haunt them. Appended to a promissory note or to a petition to put a minor party, of which they know nothing and care less, on the ballot. Os course, it takes time to read a petition and to understand what it is all about. Bo they pen in haste. And repent at le.isure. The art of writing is not altogether an unmixed blessing. At least inscribing autographs. Fame mOTIN W. DAVIS, Democratic candidate for President of the United States, spoke in Cadle Tabernacle Saturday evening. He may or may not become President, but by action of a great politaJ party he is an outstanding figure for the moment. And conceivably he may wield a large influence in shaping the future of this Nation. Some millions of Americans will probably vote for him three weeks from tomorrow. But. although thousands jammed in to hear him present his ideas of the issues confronting the country, only a handful were in the Union Station to see hin\ arrive in the city. It was his political status and his speech, not the physical aspect of the visitor, that attracted the crowd. He passes unnoticed on the streets. A few weeks ago an American lad stopped from a train in Paris—and faced a mob of 15,000 Frenchmen, who fought to catch even a fleeting glimpse of him. A little later the same small, nice boy was decoroted by the government of Greece in the presence of. a multitude that required the troops to handle. And through it all he never made a speech. That nice, unspoiled youngster—thus accorded ovation abroad—was Jackie Coogan. What is fame? Baby’s Career “What makes you think baby is going to be a great politician?” “He can say more things ' that sound wel and mean noithing at all than any youngster I ever saw.”— Everybody’s.

BULL MOOSER STANDS FOR LA FOLLETTE Progressive Leader in 1912 Declares Measures Are Sound, By AMOS PINCHOT, Progressive Leader, Active in the Roosevelt Campaign of 1912. OR twenty years I have followed La Follette’s career m I detail, and I have never known him during that time to stand for a single extreme or unsound measure, nor had he ever advocated or helped put through any measure, except after the most painstaking and careful study; and nothing he has either proposed or put through has failed finally to be recognized by even the more conservative elements as both sound and necessary. At the present time every real progressive knows the dominant power in America happens to he in the hands of a very small and rich group of corporations and individuals who control both major political parties. The ridiculous atempt, therefore, by the little group of ex-progressives to rebuke Senator La Follette for the fight he is waging against the plutocracy merely shows they are serving the cause of reaction not any too wisely. Any political movement which fails to see that the real fight of democracy is waged to take the power out of the hands of the plutocracy and lodge it in the hands of the whole people is not a progressive movement. In closing I would say that if to fight the group or class that has captured and prostituted our government for private money making ends in the Harding and Coolidge Administration is raising the class struggle, as these ex-progressives say it is; if to challenge the control of gov- ! ernment by Industro-flnancial organi izations and pious grafters and cor- | ruptionists and to set up a govern- ! ment by and for all classes instead jof one. class, is to promote class I cleavage, then let the ex-progressive signers and their G. O. P, candidate, with his Daweses. Daughertys, Slentps. MeT>ans and Burnses, make the moat of it. Sister learns “Yes. dear, your father and I first met at a dance." "Oh. that’s why he's always telling me to keep away from dance halls." —Chicago Poenix.

rTi - f ire F low I esc 13th and Lewis Streets —October 6, 1924

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4 of the 10 Streams used In the test. These 4 streams were supplied by a pumper attached to a modern 2-way and steamer fire hydrant located at the N. E. corner of 13th and Lewis streets. Nozzle pressure 62 pounds.

Total Discharge From 10 Streams 3,040 Gallons Per Minute Tlic following is an extract from the report of the Indiana Inspection Bureau: “The objeqt of the test was to demonstrate the efficiency of the water supply since the recent additional feeder mains and hydrants were installed. This district is occupied by lumber yards, several industrial plants and closely built frame dwellings. The test conditions approximated those which would obtain in fighting a heavy or second alarm fire at this location, with ten good fire streams in operation. The result indicated that this required volume of water was available, through pumpers, with ordinary pressure maintained at the water-works plant. "No attempt was made to determine the ultimate capacity of the mains, which would be considerably greater, on account of possible water damage to property, interruption to traffic, etc. Only one of the pumpers used a full sized steamer connection of the hydrant; the others took suction from single 2Va~inch outlets only. Pumper No. 4, attached to a 2%-inch hydrant outlet instead of the steamer outlet which was available to prevent blocking of traffic, and this machine served but two hose lines, where four could have been supplied.” INDIANAPOLIS WATER COMPANY

Courage—The Storm Will Soon Be Over

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Tongue Tips Rev. James Maywood, Methodist, Detroit: “Maudlin sentimentality is Influencing our courts and increasing crime ten-fold.” • • • Senator Lynn Frazier, North Dakota: "The radicals of today are the conservatives of tomorrow. It always has been that way.” • • • Dr. David Friday, director of economics, School of Social Research. New York: "There are no more

| people on the farms now than there | were thirty years ago, but the city j population has almost doubled. That lis why I say farm prices must go up Jrom now on.” A Thought For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers varieties; but fear thou God. —Eccl. 5:7. * • • Dreams —the visions of a busy brain.—Joanna Baillie.

Rate of discharge for the 4 streams 1,175 gallons per minute. 3 other pumpers connected to hydrants in the * immediate vicinity furnished 6 streams with a total discharge of 1,865 gallons per minute.

MONDAY. OCT. 13, 1324

Nature The natural home of the porcupine is a nest of dry leaves in a hollow log or under a pile of rocks, much of his time is spent in trees, climbing about, eating the buds and hark. Sometimes he will stay in one tree for several days. Porcupines are very fond of salt, and campers do well to guard their bacon or other salty food. They particularly enjoy gnawing the wood of an old salt barrel. Sugar is another weak point with them, and they often damage maple sugar outfits in their hunt for the sweet.