Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1924 — Page 4

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LESSON OF THE ZR-3 SHE ZR-3’s flight is the most significant exploit in the history of aerial navigation. Bucking headwinds, buffeted by storms at sea, this last and greatest of all Zeppelins, in three days, flew some 5,066 miles across Germany, France, Spain, the Atlantic Ocean at its very widest, past New York and on to its hangar in New Jersey. Carrying a large crew, a car like a Pullman, thirty-five tons of fuel and other freight, the huge airship made the voyage with the ease of a transatlantic liner. Had the "World AVar not ended when it did, ships like the ZR-3 would have paid ns this visit sooner. Instead of dipping in graceful salute, however, to the spell-bound people of New York, she would have let fall tons of gas and high explosives hurling Manhattan’s skyscrapers crashing to the ground. Multitudes would have perished. A glance into the future brings on a cold sweat. Unless the world can find a way to prevent another war, look out! The civilian populations of great cities will be in greater danger than front line troops. Indeed there will be no front line, in the old sense. The entire Nation will be “front line” and you, and your wife, and your babies and your old mother and father, will be right in it. The ZR-3 will doubtlessly be followed by other and much larger airships. They will carry whole arsenals of poison gas, high explosives and other man-killing devices. Chemists have discovered new gases so potent that a little will wipe out entire states, and so cheap that it costs next to nothing. An airship even like the ZR-3 can cross from Japan to San Francisco or Seattle in three days. The Japanese right now are speeding up, particularly on aircraft aid poison gas. Two things must be done by Government at Washington; First, we must join in with the other powers and do everything we honorably can to prevent another war. Second, we must look to our defenses. We must be just as strong as any other Nation on earth, on the sea, under the sea and in the air. And particularly must we make safe our vital outlying bases —at Panama, in the West Indies, Hawaii and elsewhere—for it is better to keep an enemy from our shores than to lick him after he gets here. Nor must we forget that the stronger we are the louder muvoice will be when we suggest world peace and disarmament. Nobody pays any attention to a weakling when he asks no more fight. If the fellow who can easily lick all the rest says “let’s don’t fight any more,” however, he is pretty sure to get his wish, ARE WE CULTURED? mNDIANAPOUS, we are told, is a cultured city. It is a center of literature and of learning. In our schools we teach the best of literature. We lay great stress on the poetry of Shakespeare. Every high school pupil is permeated with Shakespearean lore. Then we go to the theatei only when we have an opportunity to study anatomy. But we don’t go to the theater to stnd} r and enjoy the drama. We leave Shakespeare to the stilted reading of the classroom. We don’t care for it on the stage, for which it was intended. Even the students apparently don't care for Shakespeare outside the classroom. At the Shubert Murat Theater this week is being presented one of the most beautiful performances of “Romeo and Juliet” ever seen in Indianapolis. During the first part of the week—until the teachers arrived —it played to empty seats. This is not unusual with Shakespearean performances in this city. It is a condition that has existed for a long time. Jane Cowl, Sothern and Marlowe, Walter Hampden, Fritz Leiber and other Shakepeareans and actors of the classics fill the theaters of other cities. When they arrive in Indianapolis they are greeted by empty seats. This is a reflection on Indianapolis. These people, of course, must make a living. Consequently, after one or two experiences they refuse to book Indianapolis theaters. Thereby the city is deprived of a privilege because it will not take advantage of that privilege. Is Indianapolis less cultured than other cities? It seems we must admit it is. LOOKING HIS Wall Street-made millions over, Publisher Vanderbilt hands his newspaper support over to Coolidge. LA FOLLETTE complains of a $600,000 Coolidge slush fund in Pennsylvania. Perfectly natural, Bob! Perfectly natural! Mellon aluminum monopoly, coal barons, steel trust, oil kings—why, $600,000 is blamed stingy. L. A. COOLIDGE, candidate for Republican senatorial nomination in Massachusetts, referred to the child labor amendment as “the spawn of communism and the progeny of the soviet.” Then Massachusetts kicked his political pants.

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REPLIES TO CLAIMS OF G. V. COFFIN t Says Negroes Influenced by Facts, Not by 'Voodoo.' To the Editor of The Times 1E wonder when our Republican friends will learn that YT we are no longer living in the past. George V. Coffin, in a recent statement, shakes the bloodshirts of the past with reference to the Sam Pan-ott regime, hoping thereby to intimidate the negro voter that he may be led dumb as a sheep before the shearers to the polls at this election to vote upon issues of the past. He also insults the Intelligence of the negro by his reference to the negro being “voodooed.” True, Mr Coffin, in the dark days of the past, our ancestors like yours, believed in the dark arts, but today the proffered scene of Sam Parrott does not frighten the negro from his chosen goal, or revive isseus that are dead that will in any wise influence his vote upon the issues of this campaign. Refers to Dyer Rill We take It that Mr. Coffin must know of the negroes' murdered hope over the defeat of Dyer anti-lynch-ing bill, further, we doubt his knowledge of the cries of , hungry children, the hollow-eyed mothers and ead-faced fathers, who have been reduced to starvation by the invisible empire. Mr. Coffin forgots that we have read the aims and object of the Invisible Empire, from which we learn Its plans to exploit us; its secret agencies have undermined the negroes' Jobs and turned him in the street. Do you think us “voodoed,” because we have the manhood to strike at the serpent that has already bitten rrany of us and is coiling now to smite the rest with its venom? No. Mr. Coffin, we are not "voodoed" l>eeuuse the past no longer charms us; and we refuse to believe our information “bunk” when we have read it from the literature coming from the secret archives of your “Invisible Empire.” > Were Iya! to G. O. P. For fifty-eight years we have been loyal subjects to the Republican party. law abiding, patient, waiting, suffering citizens ft thisHhepubltC—you tell us we have made £<><!. Through all of our sufferings, Ve have been inspired by your campaign smiles and your promises that have always miscarried to ground our hope in our constitutional guarantee that stood us upon our feet as men and established our going and corning. Stood Idle We believed that you, our hen factors whom we had loyally supported, would protect us In these rights. But tho awful truth has dawned upon us. that you have winked at every encroachment made upon us. you have stood idly by and seen the chains of oppression forged upon is, without raising your voice only insofar as to make campaign material. Today we find the party of Lincoln has deterioated Into a copartnership with the Invisible Empire. the Ku-K!ux Klan, that is directly opposed to these sacred guarantees that make all America equal before the law. This is no “hunk" and far he It from "voodooism.” It is , the disappointed manhood of our group taking Its rightful place In the body politic, supporting the party that supports the Constitution that means most to us. A COLORED VOTER. Nature Hen belonging to. Frank Dixon, Walton, Neb., laid an egg with a handle, egg matter covered with shell, at one end of it. Tho Indians say that once on a cold day a rabbit sitting on a wll low tree left some of Us hairs frozen fast to the bark. Next spring tufts of white ctme out all over the tree and they called them "pussy willows." When rabbits climbed trees, says an Indian legend, tho father of them all fell one day and split open his nose. That's why It’s split to this day. A Thought A man that fiattereth hla neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.— Prov. 29:5. Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.—Tacitus.

La Follette By MRS. ALICE BRANDEIS, Wife of Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. La Follette has been stigmatized as wild, irresponsible, revolutionary. All the more significant is the faat that, in spite of this, most nf the reforms ho has advocated in the course of his long career have become law. There is good reason for the hope that In the field, too. of Imperialistic expansion his arguments will prevail, and that, if opportunity offers, he will carry through the policy so long and consistently advocated by him, of no Government aid to commercial exploiters, but a constant endeavor to assist in generous and disinterested ways, the development to the southward of strong, independent States. In this field as in domestic matters, Senator La Follette is truly and wisely progressive in that he devises and supports measures necessary to conserve, under changing conditions, the underlying principles of*American liberty and democracy.

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I T-Toosierisms | BY GAYLORD NELSON f ™"| T Masonic Temple, Thursday, I I Donald L. Simon —speaking Lr* - ! to the grammar grades and junior high school section of the Teachers’ Association on moral training school —stated: “Moral training is absolutely necessary to shape character.” He Is right. \ For it is character not knowledge that makes men and women great. Without it no person can attain real success. And the fixing of character must be done early in life. It can not be acquired in maturity but only by moral training in the formative days of youth. So book knowledge, while one, should not be the only product of education. Most adults have forgotten all about grammar, physiology, geography and other subjects comprising their course of study in school. The binomial theorem may be a disease or the capital of Arabia for all men remember. They only know they don't use it in their business. But they do use in their business every day those habits of industry, standards of conduct, and traits of character, whose foundations were laid in the school days of their far off yoyth, It is the building of character that is the most lasting achievement of schools. And moral training is as Important in the curriculum as geography or algebra. Curtain mIIDGE JAMES M. LEATHERS of Superior Court yesterday granted a permanent injunction restraining the State election commislsoners from placing the names of six microscopic political parties on the November'ballot. Those barred feel, no doubt, that the people’s freedom has been Infringed by Judge Leathers' action. But no zealous Paul Revere spurs through the countryside arousing the sturdy Indiana voters with the | clarion cry: “To arms! The iron ! heel of tyranny has squashed tho j fragile egg of our liberties!” Far from it. For the injunction Insures the use of voting machines. With a saving ! of IiOO.OOO over Australian ballots ! which would have been required with twelve parties. Which saving doesn't arouse the average voter to a frenzy of resentment. Not noticeably. Anyway, the simple voter refuses I to spring to arms to defend these | minor parties. He believes .that he i can pick his favorite political pana- | era from the array of parties still left In the field. Six gives him amj pie range. So six small and obscure parties 1 have strutted their bright hour upon ; the stage. For this election, and as ; far as this column is concerned, the j show Is over. “Curtain!" Puzzles T ,[ 1 I TIE cross word puzzle is the latest rage In Indianapolis -■ and throughout the country. The newspapers run them and they s are published In book form to meet 1 the demand. The popular refrain Is: Are you j cross-wording now? The mental energy expended on ■ the cross words would solve nil tho troubles of Europe, settle all our national questions, and still leave enough surplus to find tho answer to the market house problem of Indianapolis. And It’s all waste motion For a puzzle victory Is useless. One can't get money on It. One can't even gloat among his friends. They are too busy working their own puzzles ! to heed them. [ All one can do Is to add a couple !of mental cubits to his intellectual j stature —and attack another puzzle. But the human race has always I shown a curious addiction to puzzles, j A few years ago It was tho jigsaw. And farther back pigs-in-clover swept the country- In the beginning the riddle of tho universe was the first puzzle. And it hasn’t yet been solved. Ix>glc may frown on the seductive ! cross-words as a waste of time. Still solving them Is entertaining. And j it keeps the brain fibers from getting | soft and paunchy. Srsf cross-wordtng is better than ! living in a mental vacuum. Mothers ARROLL DIXON, 5 years old. ran across the tracks to meet an older brother late Wednesday afternoon, at the intersection of S. La Salle St. and the Pennsylvania Railroad. He stumbled and an unobserved cut of freight cars mangled his right arm. While awaiting removal to the hospital he stoically suppressed his tears and evidences of pain, and assumed a pitiful cheerfulness. For the sake of Ids mother who knelt beside him. Later, at qity hospital, as they prepared to move him to the operating room to amputate his mutilated arm he said: “I guess I can stand to have you work on my arm if you will let my mother come into the room." The present haphazard parental system of rearing children Is a failure. That’s what some advanced thinkers and communists preach. To rear all children In standarlzed state managed institutions would promote racial efficiency, they argue. Perhaps so. But the child turns first to mother for comfort, understanding and strength in meeting the pains and crises of life. And the influence and example of mothers send sons forth to perform the deeds of high courage in the wide world. There is no immediate prospect that mothers will go out of fashion. No efficient substitute for them exists. They remain supremely important. At least little boys, like Carroll Dixon, think ,so. Wife's Sarcasm “Alas! Alas! Our child has torn up my latest poem.” “Graciocfe! I didn’t know the child could read!” American Legion Weekly.

G. O. P. CAN SWING JOB TO DA VIS Talk of Bryan 'Peril' Is Said to Be for Effect, Times Washington Bureau, ISSS hew York Ana. ITyrJ ASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Only \)y a few weeks ago the old guard discovered the deadlock that may be encountered if the election of the President should be thrown Into the House of Representatives. Now the word “deaullock” has become too tame. It's a “peril,” not a mere “deadlock,” that the country faces, say the G. O. P. spokesmen. Through Secretary of State Hughes, Republican Chairman Butler, Candidate Dawes and many others have argued laboriously over the dangers that face an election in the House, they have, in the view of Democrats and progressives, dodged he main issue. Tho Republican “heavy" argument Is that if Coolidge is not elected at the polls, the election will be thrown into the House, insofar as the presidency is concerned, and into the Senate for the vice presidency. Can Re No Choice In the House, it Is then argued, there can be no choice because of the nearly even division of States and the fact that a tint majority* of all the States Is required. Then, say the Republican wlsa men, the election of Vice Prseident by the Senate will become the all-im-portant matter. The Senate will pick Bryan, they predict. Then Bryan will become President, and the rest ifwSeft to the imagination. Democrats and Progressives have not been slow to point out the weakness In the Republican “reasoning.” Say they, “if the danger of Bryan is so great, why cannot Republicans In the House 'save' the country from Bryan by helping to elect Davis ;n case the election goes to the House?” Not Sincere The Democrats, particularly, contend that the Republicans are not i sincere In their expressions of fear i of the Nebraska Governor. But If that fear Is real —ts the Re- ’ publicans really believe that Bryan j would be harmful to the country, they have it in their power to prevent his elevation to the presidency. It would require only a few votes in the House for the Republicans to i insure Davis' choice. \ As Secretary of State Hughes and the other Republicans who are stressing this argument in their I campaign talks ore fully aware of the real situation, they are now genj entity credited with making use of j *h!s argument solely with the idea iof frightening votes Into the Republican column without they themselves sharing In the fear. Tom Sims Says Anybody can solve our problems, j but few get the right answers. If music Is the language of love the saxophone player hates every* ; body. A politician Is a man who expects Ito clean up by slinging mud. Women don’t play ball because the players are too far apart to talk. The head of the transgressor Is ■ hard. Our objection to a cut-mte barber •hop Is the rate Is usually about two ; cuts per minute. * One Interior decorator who never i goes broke Is the dentist. The seat of our Government is ali ways bplng kicked about. Ijove laughs at locksmiths, hut [only grins at a bill collector. Our experience Is that pride gneth with a fall. There isn’t any payday for laboring under a delusion. of us can see how the styles have changed by comparing our stilts with the new ones. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service. Inc.) Know Indiana What were school conditions In lß4fi-ISSO. The Whig Governors paid more attention to commercial Improvement than to education. Governor James Whitcomb (1843) was the first one to give thought, to our school system. When was the first general school law passed? Tn 1847 by the General Assembly, providing for taxes for schools alone. What was the Putnam County case? In 1854 the county appealed the school tax to Supreme Court. The court raid local tax for schools was unconstitutional.

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1822 New York Av Wasoirijpou, D. C . inelos ug 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot bo given, nor can ext.-rui.<i research be undertaken. Ail other questions will receive a perI soua! ■ ply. llnsigmxl requests cannot be answered. All letter* art confidential.—Editor. Can the President call any number of extra sessions he may find ! necessary. | Yeti. I Is the eye of a fly a compound i eye, and how many individual : “eyes" does it contain? Yes. it is compound, containing, it Jis estimated, about ten thousand facets, or individual “eyes.” Where did Paisley shawls get their nttme? They were manufactured In Paiai ley, Scotland. What Is done with the corn cobs at corn canning factories? They are run through water, cut up, stored In silos, and later used for stock food. In which years was Bolva Ann I/ockwood nominated for President on the Equal Rights Ticket? In 1884 and 1880. What Is the origin of the saying, "I know oil which side my bread 1 is buttered?" Its origin is not known. It la to be found in "The Proverbs.” an early collection of colloquial sayings, first printed in 1546. What does "Bis dat qul clto data” mean? Latin for "Ho gives twice who gives promptly.” What, does "Carnahan” mean? Cornish for "valley of rocks." When did tho House of Representatives elect a President of the United States? Thomas Jefferson. 1801. and John Quincy Adams, 1825. In 1837 the Senate of the United States elected Richard W. Johnson Vice President. What Is tho longest State. In the Union? Texas: Length. 800 miles. Can you tell me what was the year of Issue of the 8 cent gray United States stamp with heau of Martha Washington and what Is It worth? The 8-eent gray-lilno Martha Washington stamp was of the series of 1902-1903. Uncancelled it Is catalogued as worth 35 cents. If an Inhabitant of the earth was suddenly transferred to The planet Mars, w r ould he be able to Jump higher in the air than he would on the earth? The force of gravity at the surface of the planet Mars Is four-tenths that of the gravity at the earth's surface. One could, therefore, jump 2 times as high on Mars na on the earth. What and tvhere are Rottveil. Erzeblrge, Garmirch? Rottveil Is a town in Wurttemburg, Germany; Erzeblrge (ore mountains) Is a mountain chain hounding Saxony on the southeast end Bo- ' hernia on the northwest; Garmlsch is a town in Bavaria.

Wasted Energy By HAL COCHRAN Are you one of the people who’s rushing all day and then probably rushin’ all night? The mania for speed has just made it that way and the habit's a long way from right. There once was tho time when tlte people got by just as well as were getting today, and they just took their time without batting an eye and they also found moments for play. But nowdays It's changed and we all tear about like each minute was really our last. We hop out of bed in the morn with a shout and then j rush till another day’s passed. If we drive down to work, it is ; speed all the way. It's a race and jwe feel we should win it. Or maybe we’ll chase, if a car gets away, though another will come in a minute. We’re racin’ and runnin’ and rushin' around, just speedin’ our bodies to death. And what do we gain? Not a thing, I have found. We merely are losin' our breath. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

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Science Tt is not easy to find marked progress in man’s intellect over a ! period of a few r thousand years. A papyrus, written about 2000 B. C-, I that solves some real mathematical ; problems, has been found in Egypt. The ancient Egyptian method of i counting was based on the number jof fingers and all hieroglyphs use | symbols representing fingers for j digits. But In the period known an i the first dynasty the Egyptians had | advanced to the decimal system and | used a U t;pside down for 10. From : that point they advanced rapidly ■ in mathematics. In the papyrus mentioned are found equations solved j such as the following: “A quantity whose seventh part is added to it bej comes 19; what is the number?” By modern algebra the answer, 16%, is readily attained, but it required intellect of a very high order to figure out the method originally. The Egyptians of this period also were familiar with fractions and alj most discovered the “calculus. ' which was not invented until near the close of the seventeenth century A. D.