Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1924 — Page 4

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WHERE LA FOLLETTE IS UNPOPULAR Banker Dawes was turned loose on the country to atW tack Senator La Follette as a “red” and a dangerous demagogue, the G. 0. P. managers overlooked one very important fact—that La Follette is probably as well known to the people all over the country, through personal contact, as any other man in public life. For many years La Follette has appeared before millions of the solidest kind of conservative American citizens in his lectures on the Chautauqua circuit. These people know La Follette. They know what he thinks and what he believes. They know the kind of man he is. They have met him face to face. And they know that any man who charges Senator La Follette with being a “red,” a near-Bolshevik or a dangerous demagogue simply lies. If La Follette were anew man in political life if he were as much a stranger to the people as Dawes is; if his career as a faithful public servant for thirty years and more were not an open book; if he had not written his political convictions into the laws of his State and the Nation —why, then these attacks on his character might accomplish their vicious purpose. La Follette has made enemies, yes. But he never made an enemy by serving himself. Every one of them was made by fighting the people’s battles. His bitterest enemies have been found in the Republican party, with which he has been affiliated all his life. They are found among those who have prostituted the Republican party and dragged it down from the high plane where Lincoln placed it to the leved of Newberry ism, Fallism, Dohenyism, Sinclairism, Denbvism, Daughertyism, BurniSm and Forbesism. Asa Republican, La Follette gave the best years of <his life trying to keep that party on the course charted for it by Lincoln. He has tried to keep the Nation on the constitutional course charted for it by the framers of the Constitution. La Follette stands head and shoulders above all his contemporaries as the fearless champion of the Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln and the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson. And that is why he has enemies among those who would call Lincoln and Jefferson “reds” and demagogues if they were alive, and who only revere them because they are dead and can’t carry on the fight they helped to start. La Follette is unpopular in certain circles for the same reason that all public men are unpopular who honestly try to save the people from those who thrive and amass wealth by exploitation. OUR LEARNERS -i Y/| E ARE beginning to wonder a bit about this matter of eduW cation. It seems to be quite thoroughly impregnated with teaching, but how about learning* We ask you. They had an intelligence test of the freshmen at the Michigan agricultural college the other day, and its result was a revelation. Answering questions, these aspiring students made known that Magnus Johnson is a baseball pitcher, Irvin S. Cobb is great baseball player, the battle of Lexington was fought in 1620, the Mayo brothers are manufacturers of cough drops, an oyster bed is an acre of diamonds, a cutlass is a cannon, and Madras is a pre-Volsteadian drink. That’s what that college is up against. But turn to Wisconsin and see what happened. A brightfaced young woman made application for a teacher’s license in one of the Badger towns. “Who is Robert La Follette?” asked her examiner, making it easy. “Robert La Follette,” she replied with confidence, “is a Frenchman who came to America during the war.’' Can you beat it? * Yes; look at Oregon. The class was being orally examined in mathematics. “Tillie Mook,” said the teacher, “you may tell me what is a substrahend?” “A subtrahen,” replied Tillie, her face all aglow with knowledge, “is a hen that lays more eggs than the common kind.” Oh, well! There may be some use, of course, and we had best keep on trying until not only teachers, but cold chisels and mallets, have failed. THE PRINCE caught cold in Canada, which is close enough to warrant some sneezing in New York. 3L\INE HAD an earthquake a day or so ago. Nature was trying to give it the shake-up its voters rejected. THERE ARE 1,084,128 women engaged in agriculture in this country, which is not large enough to keep all the boys down on the farm. IF WE get the Michigan Republicans correctly, while they do not look on the Senator as a regular member of the family, he is one of the Couzens. SINCE LATEST reports, automobiles have increased 20 per cent in number, and, by the same token, the chances of the pedestrian have decreased to the same extent.

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RACE FOR SUPREMACY IN AIR ON European Countries Contest With U, S, in Armaments, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—With XU the arrival in this country of the ZR-3, after a record nonstop flight across Germany, France, Spain, the Atlantic Ocean and part of the United States, dawns the grim threat of the most deadly armaments race the world has ever known. This time it. is for the domination of the air. Britain —to start with her —already has two dirigibles of the ZR-3 type. She is building two more, but twice as big. In peace-time they are to be used as an aerial express between England and Australia, via India. Purely experimental, these will be superceded by others, far bigger still, as soon as the lessons are learned. Os heavier-than-air craft. England last year had thirty-four squadrons of twelve planes each. Next year her program calls for eightyfour squadrons, or more than one thousand planes, exclusive of numerous training and reserve machines. Baldwin for Air Base Ex-Premier Stanley Baldwin, who may soon succeed the present Labor Premier Ramsay Mac Donald as head of thet British government, has as one of his major policies a fiftyfive million-dollar naval and sea. plane base at Singapore and the building of an aerial armada "of sufficient strength adequately to protect us against the strongest air force within striking distance.’’ Which means a race with France. Last year France had 100 squadrons of first-line planes. Next year she plans to have over 200 squadrons, or more than double her present force. To be axact, her program calls for 2,150 planes in 1925. Among her aerial engines of war is a "high seas” type, a giant triplane several stories high and capable of "landing” in mid-ocean and riding out a storm. They have a terrifying range, can carry cannon, torpedoes for sinking the biggest battleships, enormous bombs and a numerous crew. Builds Air Force In the western Pacific, Japan is boldly bidding for aerial supremacy in the Far East. Her latest act was to cut five whole divisions from her army—more than sixty thousand men—to make room for a stupdendous air force. Without materially increasing her total military budget, with one codp she thus adds some twenty million yeti, or ten million dollars, to her already generous appropriation for aircraft which recently has been running around twenty-one million dollars a year. Japan’s latest order for planes went to Germany. The German Bohrback Works, at Copenhagen, have set a world's record with new-type machine built for Nippon, In atrocious weather, and carrying 2,200 pounds of freight, the big sea plane made 250 miles at an average speed of more than eighty miles an hour. American hydroplanes, though with greater horsepower, cannot go so fast.

U. S. Outstripped The United States is being outstripped. Secretary of War Weeks, however, in December will ask Congress for $23,000,000 with which to carry out the first phase of a fiveyear program. Major General Patrick, Army Air Service chief, wants 2,500 planes. Even then, with a country as far-flung as ours, we will be considerably below the standard set by ether nations. Tho Washington conference having limited the size of capital ships and the caliber of the guns they carry; and, having established a maximum strength ratio between the live great sea powers so that America and Erltain would have five tons each to Japana’s three and France and Italy's one and three-quarters, they now make ready to transfer their armaments’ competition to the skies. Unless the league of Nations project for a general arms limitation conference at Geneva next June pans out, civilian population nowhere, however remote their dwelling place, will he safe from sudden death by poison or bomb dropping on them from the clouds. Shadows By HAL, COCHRAN Shadows often flicker when you lie In bed at night. Make your pulse beat quicker when they bring a sudden fright. Mister Moon is shining and he seeps into your room. Oft his silver lining breaks the (Inkness and the gloom. Glaring through the tree leaves, it would seem that he has gall, to try to make you think that he’s artistic on the wall. When the wind is blowing hard a little leaflet sh ikes. Then your ceiling’s quickly marred with faces Moonman makes. Your imagination lets you see a lot of things, funny, queer and I fanciful, that Mister Moonman | brings. How they show so plainly you can never understand. Yet they j seem like little folks that come from j fairyland. Quiet reigns supremely In your bedroom every night. Then it’s just a mystic land when you turn out the light. Watch the little shadows as they on your ceiling creep. Just give Mister Moon a chance; he’ll shadow you to sleep. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear. —Prov, 18:14. * * * What is more miserable than discontent? —Shakespeare. By the Maid “Mary, did you change the lint n on my husband’s bed?” “No, mum, it ain’t wore out yet.” —American Legion Weekly.

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x x • • ~j; I—i oosierisms | "*• BY GAYLORD NEI.SON mNDIANAPOLIS today welcomes the thousands of men and women come to paritoipate in the three-day sessions of the Indiana State Teachers' Association. We might prefer to welcome each feminine member of the association with a chaste salute on the check. However, that’s physically impracticable and perhaps perilous. Still the spirit is willing though the flesh be weak. For it is in the public school system that the durable fabric of democracy is woven. It is the teacher who carries aloft the torch of popular education, without which a selfgoverning nation can not endure. It is not her fault —for over 71 per cent of the teachers of the State are women —that often she fails to start an Intellectual conflagration in the mental garret of reluctant youth. She brandishes the educational torch vigorously, yet there may be no inflammable material to fire. But, despite the unwillingness of some pupils to submit to more than a passing contact with book learning, the pedagogues follow their high calling with unflagging zeal. They give their best to their profession. Lack of appreciation, and frequently inadequate salaries, do not deter them. Indiana may be proud of her teachers. For it is In the six thousand schoolhouses and under the twentytwo thousand teachers that the future destiny of the Iloosler State is being wrought. Bandits mUST beforo noon yesterday two bandits casually entered the Rural St. branch of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, where only one employe was on duty. They escaped with $4,265.06. Just a common daylight hold-up. Almost every day a grocery store, filling station or other business place suffers from the visit of armed bandits. Such incidents are no longer unusual In tho city. They are part, of tho regular course of events —like tho rising or setting of the sun. Also this week in front of two downtown movie houses have iwn displayed cases full of old pistols, black-jacks, brass knuckles, and other paraphernalia of criminal violence. Above the cases are cards with the legend, “Soma of the murderous weapons used by daring criminals.” Tho displays are part of the advertising hokum of a sensational picture. Perhaps neither picture nor advertising have an evil effect. They may not incite a wayward youth to turn bandit. Probably the elimination of sensational crime pictures wouldn't reduce crime any more than moral suasion does. And moral suasion has failed to restrain bandits. Because it is difficult to entice them within a circle of moral influence. But why glorify tho bandit and the tools of his trade at all? For he’s not heroic —lie’s just a felon. Bathtubs HE Indianapolis Water Com pany has filed application with the nubile service commission for an increase of 13 per cent in water rates in tho city. But it seeks to raise tho rate on bathtubs in private families from $3.50 to $4, and on bothtubs in rooming houses from $5 to $5.75. An Increase of 14.3 per rent and 15 pi*r cent, respectively. That's above tho average Increase. It's a dirty dig. Sixty or seventy years ago a proposal to increase water rates on bathtubs wouldn’t have excited many householders. For bathtubs and plumbers were unknown except by hearsay. So wo call that period the good old days. One foolish enough to bathe when the weather was unsuitable for Jumping into the creek was forced to perform his strange rites in a wash boiler in the kitchen. But now times have charged. We are a strong, moral and clean people. The bathtub is the center of the home circle. And folks bathe—or are very lonesome. Os course if we refuse to stand the 14 per cent additional gouge in the tariff we can resort to the ancient custom of Cleansing our bodies by rubbing with dry sand. Which we can get from the Water Company. It has plenty of “sand.”

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G. O. P. GRIP ON SENATE DAMAGED Death of Brandegee May Be Fatal Blow to Hopes, Times Washington Bureau, 1,122 A T ew York Ave. ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The yy grip of the G. O. P. on the United States Senate, already insecure, has suffered what may amount to a fatal blow through the death of Senator Frank Brandegee of Connecticut. Brandegee’s term had two more years to run. He served In the Senate for nineteen years, having been chosen to fill a vacancy in 1905. Throughout that period he was a regular of the regulars, and of late years has been regarded as one of the pillars of the Senate conservatives. The Republicans, up to the time of Brandegee’s death, controlled both seats from Connecticut. Now, though the Governor is a Republican, they stand a chance of losing one of them. Connecticut laws provide that in tho case of a vacancy in the office of Senator, the Governor shall issue writs of election and notify the people of the State of an election in the same manner as at tegular biennial elections. Election Necessary Regular biennial elections, the laws provide, shall be held on the First Tuesday following the first Monday of November and warnings “shall be given at least five days previous to said meetings (of electors) by posting notice thereof on the signposts of the town.” Tho seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution provides that in the case of a vacancy in the office of a Senator, the Governor of the State in question "shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancy; provided, that the Legislature of any State may empower the Governor to make temporary ap pointments.” Thus, unless the Legislature of Connecticut empowers Governor Templeton to make a temporary appointment, tlie G -vernor must call for a special election. This may spell danger for the Republicans. Two years ago, when Senator George I*. McLean was running for re election he was given a very close race by Thomas J. Spellary, the Democratic candidate. Me. Lean, though enjoying the prestige of twelve years in the Senate, oh tained only 169,524 votes to 147,276 for Spellaey. Old Guard Horrified Tn th Senate, Brandegee’s absence will severely hamper the old guard. As chlarman of the Judiciary Committee, to which post he will he succeeded by Senator Borah, he was able to head off many bills whieh did not meet with the favor of the conservatives. Brandegee, as much as any other man in the Senate, Is held responsible for the defeat of America's en try Into the League of Nations. He was a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and was even more assiduous than Senator Lodge in opposing President Wilson. A crony of former President Harding and of Harry Daugherty, Brandegee followed the developments tn the Teapot Dome and Department of Justice scandals very closely, though his name was never publicly mentioned during the inves-

Tongue Tips Rev. L. M. Blrkhead, Unitnriryi, Kansas City: “Stand on a hilltop and enlarge your perspective. How can people take a larger view of affairs when their perspective is so limited that they ran see only the garbage can and the clothesline in the backyard?” • • Maj. Gen. W. M. Wright, old 89th Division: I‘The wave of military efficiency will soon begin to curve downward. No matter how hard the Army works In peace, it ie wasted effort unless you support it,” Helen Gould Shepard, New York: ”1 gave away most of my money. Thought it was my duty to tlie community." • • • George Bernard Shaw, English author: “Six drops of any alcoholic liquid will depreciate a man’s critical acumen by 10 per cent. That is what people take alcohol for; it dulls their self-criticism and makes them silly and happy."

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of tact or information by writing to The liuiiauapolL Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave . \Vantngton. D. C., Inclosing 2 cents In stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor cai extended research be undertaken. A i other questions will receive a persona! reply Unsigned requests cannot t>e answered Alt letters are confidential.—Kdltor. Where is Rarotonga Island; who controls it? It is one of the Cook Islands in ! tHe South Pacific. It is In the possession of New Zealand. The port of Rarotonga Is the capital of the Island. What Is the significance and use of the red and green lights on the sides of vessels? Why was one color chosen for one side and another for the other side? When a vessel can see only the green light on an approaching ship, it is an indication that the oncoming vessel is presenting her right side; when tlie red light only is visible, the ship is presenting her left side, when both lights are visible she is coming straight ahead. Thus the course nf an approaching vessel can lie determined and collisions avoided at night. When these lights were first used, the grean was chosen for tho right and red for the left; it might have been decided vice versa just as well. Airplanes flying at night also use these red and green lights. What do the names Aileen, Loraine, Vivian an dShirley signify? Aileen, "my own one;” LoraJne, “laurel;” Vivian, "lively;” hhirley, "sweet.” What is the proper dress for a gentleman to w r ear at an evening wedding? At a formal evening wedding, a gentleman guest should wear full evening dress, especially if invited to tho reception following the wedding. What river in the United States produces the most fish; what river lias the greatest number of different kinds of fish? The Mississippi produces the largest number of fish, and the St. Francis River of Arkansas contains the greatest number of species of fish.

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Know Indiana What were the first churches In the territory? Catholic churches at Ft. Wayne, Lafayette and Vincennes. They had been established almost a century before other churches came In. What was tho Michigan Road? In 1826, by a treaty between Governor Ray and the Pottawattamies, the Indians gave one section of land for every mile of a highway to be built from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River. Was it ever built? Yes, but was turned over to the counties to maintain in 1837. Tom Sims Says Well, in New York a woman stole a gold vanity case, showing she was dclng her Christmas shoplifting early. Four politicians fought a duel in South America. Now who says South America isn’t a fine place? The fall of something in China is always considered imminent. Steamer recently landed with 20,000 canary birds. Looks like an easywinter for house cats. Straw votes are showing the way the air blows, Perhaps no one will ever know why the world series was not held entirely in New York this year. New Yorker was found leading a triple life, just the ordinary double life having lost its kick. Most of those who can’t find time to vote can find time to criticise the election results. The cost of refining sugar is being investigated with the hopes of finding some crude deals. Dollars contain other metals also because at the rate dollars travel pure silver would melt. The clothes that make the women are the ones that shake the men. Our Idea of a bad insurance risk is an innocent bystander. No woman is an old maid until she admits it to herself. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 1924

Science The Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights has lost its secret. For countless generations men in northern climes have been stricken with awe by the beauty and mystery of this celestial phenomena. Prof. L. Vegard, in his laboratory at Christiana, Norway, has reproduced, on a small scale, the Aurora Borealis In all its glory. The spectacle is formed by nature | one hundred miles above the earth, i through a sort of shell of frozen niI irogen crystals which are in a state jof electrical excitation. These crya- ! tals are strongly electrified by a stream of cathode rays, which ] causes the brilliant coloring, ranging from the bright red of nitrogen to | the characteristic yellow-green radi- ! ations of the Northern Lights. Examinations with- the spectro- | scope have verified the findings of Prof. Vegard. < Nature F. Romer, Washington business man, has hay fever badly. Doctors tried the new serums on him for seventy-six different reactions —goldenrod, rag weed, dandruff, dog’s hair and many others—when suddenly the reaction came from parrots’ feathers. Romer had a parrot in the house and when he packed it off to a relative, the hay fever disappeared. Doctors say that not more than one person in a million would get the sneeze affection from a parrot. None Expected A wedding party was disturbed by the crying of a baby belonging to one of the women guests. One of the young ladies present remarked to the bridesmaid: “What a nuisance babies are at a wedding!” ”1 should say so,” returned the latter. “When I send out the invitations to my wedding I shall have printed in the corner, ‘No babies expected.’ ” —Ziffs.

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