Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1924 — Page 4

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THE CASH AND CARRY METHOD rpriOITR rears ago the Republican national committee pub|r I lidy and solemnly declared that campaign contributions would be limited to SI,OOO per person. Then it went ahead and spent eight million dollars to get the seven million popular majority for Harding and Coolidge. After the campaign a huge deficit existed. It was in the form of great loans from New York banks. In the ofl scandal hearing Will Hays was forced to admit that these huge borrowings were repaid by big sums secured after election. He specifically mentioned one of $75,000 from the Sinclair oil outfit. Sinclair got Teapot Dome. The Mellon aluminum outfit chipped in $25,000 in 1922. Mellon got anew high tariff on aluminum that is collected from every housewife who has aluminum in her kitchen. She can figure how much she paid if she will remember or find out the price of pots and pans in 1920 and compare it with what she pays now. Mellon’s aluminum also got a fifteen-million-dollar rebate on its taxes from the United States Treasury while Mr. Mellon was Secretary of the Treasury. Senator Borah may find out a lot of things about campaign contributions, but he won’t find out anything about this kind. He can’t because they are not made until after election. They are the big wads that come from the surethin g players. The money is not given to help a party win an election, but is given to a party because it has already won an election and is in position to deliver oil lands, tariff schedules, tax refunds and such. The delivery is made out of the property of the public at a rate of about one thousand dollars to every dollar contributed. It is the well knowwn “Cash and Carry” principle applied to politics.

COCK-A-DOODLE DAWES PELLBINDERS are trying to gull the public into another Coolidge myth. To hear them tell it the Coolidge Administration invented the German reparations plan, lock, stock and barrel. Candidate Dawes, who owes his very nomination to this fiction, lends himself whole-heartedly to the idea. He tells his audiences how he saved Europe and the universe by giving the world a “basis of enduring peace.” The truth is—and Dawes and the rest of the myth-build-ers know it—that the German reparations plan was created way back in 1919, but was blocked for years by the very men who today are boasting loudest of its efficiency. Part VIII, article 233, of the Treaty of Versailles, created a “Reparations Commission which shall draw up a schedule of payments* prescribing the time and manner for securing and discharging the (German) obligation. ” *~ “ Article 234 provides that this commission “shall from time to time consider the resources and capacity of Germany” to pay, and “shall have discretion to extend the date and to modify the form of payment.” Annex II proceeds to make the United States a permanent member of the commission. But, despite the plea of an agonizing Europe that the help of a great disinterested Nation like America was absolutely essential if there was ever to be any real settlement, the G. O. P. refused for four long years to have anything to do with the commission. Instead it adopted a policy of isolation and told Europe to go chase herself. It was only after millions of American farmers had been ruined largely because the bottom had dropped out of their market in Europe for lack of settlement, and the sharp sticks of public opinion had got behind it, that the Coolidge Administration at last realized its mistake. Then only did it name the long over-due American representatives to act with the commission. Which is where “Hell-and-Maria” comes in. Now the vice presidential candidate and the other political spellbinders go about boasting how the “Dawes plan” saved the world! “Cock-a-doodle-doo!" crowed Edmond Rostand’s wellknown rooster every morning at dawn. Then all day he went strutting about telling the rest of the barnyard how he’d made the sun rise. v And so it is with Cock-a-doodle Dawes. AN EASTERN npan whipped two wolves with his bare hands. Try it on the one at your door. NOW WATCH the bright lights, if you want to know what the East is going to do with the daylight it saved. THE STRAIGHT and narrow path was all right until the automobile came along and caused detours. CONAN DOYLE says everybody works hard in the other world, which may account for the vehement demand for better doctors here.

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MAN, 103, WILL VOTE FIRST TIME

Never Took Trouble Before, but Wants to Start Now, Bv XEA Service GREENSBORO, N. C„ Oct. 18.— Robert Leonard, a native of Guilford County, now In his 104th year, will cast his first ballot at the November election. Although he has been eligible to vote for ninety-two years, has seen twenty Presidents occupy the White House, Leonard has never visited the polls. This year, however, he intends to vote —and he also says that he is going to walk to the polls with the rest of the folks. “I didn’t think the country would be materially helped by my vote," he says, in explaining why he never exercised his citizenship rights. "Now they have convinced me that it is my duty. So I'll be there." ‘During the time that Leonard has been eligible to vote. James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes. James A. Garfield. Chester A. Arthur. Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft. Woodrow Wilson, "Wfu ren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge have been President. Leonard explains his longevity by saying, “Leading a clean life and letting bad liquor alone." He has some very decided ideas about modern customs and practices of the young folks. He thinks night automobile riding by youngsters a great evil. "Why, young girls stay up until 10 and 11 o’clock at nights now. Then they don't want to get up In the morning. I've always gone to bed about 7 o’clock at night, and I get up early In the morning.” Leonard is not opposed to dancing —providing people wouldn’t stay up too late to do It.

ROBERT LEONARD, WHO WILL VOTE FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE AGE OF 103.

The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. Prof. Diggendelve, in the end chair this morning, said the expression, “pulling in their horns,” is purely figurative, except in the case of trombone players. A volcano is just like some people In that it spends most of its time Just standing still and shooting off its mouth. Pete, the porter, says he is going to get married as soon as he can find a girl sensible enough to have serviceable feet. A man don’t have to wear a collar to get hit under it. NEXT!

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CANADA IS TAKING U. S. GRAIN TRADE Increase in Flour Exports Grow- Faster Than Those of States, Timet Washington Bureau, 1322 Arte York Are. rrrr-a ASHINGTON, Oct. 18 —Can\3U ada, within the last few years, has taken our wheat trade right out from under our noses. This report comes from the United States Department of Commerce. During the last fiscal year Canada’s flour exports were 218 per cent greater than they were In the prewar period, while the United States Was increased its exports only 61 per cent. In barrels, Canada's increase has been from 3,832,000 to 12,154,000. The United States has increased its exports in barrels only from 10,678,000 to 17,253.000. The United Kingdom has always been one of cur best customers. We shipped it 2,713,000 barrels of flour before the war, compared to Canadian shipments of 2,355,000 barrels. But In 1924, says the Department of Commerce, the United States sent only 1,452,000 barrels, while Canada increased its exports to the mother country to 4,326,000. Increase In Germany To Germany, United States exports increased from 187,000 barrels in the pre-war period to 1.488,000 in 1924, but Canada's increase was still more striking—from 22,000 to 2,251,000 barrels. Norway decreased its flour imports from the United States from 213,000 barrels in pre-war years to 120.000 in 1924 From Canada it imported 465,000 barrels in 1924, compared to 116,000 in pre-war years. Combine exports from the United States and Canada and they were 14.927,000 barrels more in 1924 than before the war. Os this increase the shftre of the United States was 8,575,000 barrels, or 44 per cent, and that of Canada 8,352,000, or 56 per cent. Canada got the lion’s share of the Increase —no mistake about that. She even exported 300 per cent more flour to the United States in 1924 than she did In years before the war. Grow IyC.s Wheat This trend checks up with what the Department of Agriculture has been saying for some time, that American farmers would grow less and less wheat for export as time went on. The reason given was the strong competition offered by Canada and. the Argentine, both of which coimtries pel] cheaper and offer a better grade of flour. In the States, the best grades of flour are kept for homo use. Canada’s home demand Is small. A still more striking figure is given by the Department of Agriculture, which calls attention to the fact that the United Kingdom to which the United States furnished 50 per cent of the imported wheat and flour twenty years ago, now takes only 9 per cent of her needs from American farmers. A Thought He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.—Prov. 28:17. • • • We should enjoy more peace if we did not busy ourselves with the words and deeds of other men, which appertain not to our charge.— Jeremy Taylor.

Tongue Tips Kathleen Norris, author: “One feels a sort of kindly contempt for the jealous wife.” * * • Simon Michelet, Washington: “The stay-at-home vote and the women’s vote are two hitherto unknown factors that have weight enough to settle the issue of any national campaign.” • • • Samuel L. McKelvie, former Governor of Nebraska: “America with the Dawee peace plan is guiding the destiny world today.”

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Ask The Times You can (ret an answer to any tion of fa-t or information by writ my to The Indianapolis Time.-, Washington | Bureau, 132" New York Ave t\ ilngton. V. C , Inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, Peal and marital art vice cannot t>e riven, nor i can extended research be undertaken. | Ail other questions will receive a persona! reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are conliJcnti.vl—Editor. What docs the word Bodensee mo. in? "Bottomless Fa." Which city is the lirrer, Dublin or Belfast, Irelan iV Dublin has a population of 309,272; Belfast, /255.492. What causes the condition known ns "cauliflower ear” la prize fighters? It is caused by a rupturing of blood vessels in the ear from a blow. ‘Owing to the peculiar structure of i the ear, which is largely hard cartilage, and the smallness of the flesh} parts, the swelling, naturally coming from the bruise and rupture, I pushes out in the line of least re- | aislatlce causing the peculiar "cuuliflowfer" formation. Has there been anew National Forest created in Pennsylvania? Yes. there was one created in 1923, the headquarters of which are at Warren, Pa. What !h the average shrinkage in the weight of chickens in shipment? In six to eight hours the average shrinkage is about II per cent. Chickens which have been fattened will shrink more. What is the method of figuring the number of barrels of water to an aero which falls when one inch . of rain falls? The number of square inches in an acre is multiplied by one to givethe number of cubic inches. This number is divided by the number of cubic inches in a barrel (which may vfcry somewhat). Tho answer is over 860 barrels. What does "Nemo" meant Latin, meaning “no one." Is copper sulphate ever used as a boiler compound in steam boilers? The United States Bureau of Standards say? it knows of no refereneo to such use. They believe jit would be objectionable. Copper 1 sulphate in solution Is distinctly | acid. The use of an acid in a steam | boiler is hazardous since corrosion might easily result. Tho use of a ! copper salt would tend to stlmui late corrosion owing to the plating out of copper on the iron surfaces. How can I remove Iron and china glue from plate glass? It is Impossible to recommend definite methods without knowing something of the nature of the glue. If the glue is not loosened after prolonged soaking with warm water, try an organic solvent such as benzene or gasoline. A cleaning solution made by dissolving potassium dichromate in concentrated sulphuric acid will attack most organic matter. Care must be taken in handling this as it will burn the skin and clothing. A solution of washing soda may also be helpful. An abrasive material such as tho scouring powders on the market might also be effective. What Is the name of the famous old tree located at Oaxaca, Mexico, and how old Is It? “Arbol Del Pule.” Its age Is uncertain, but is said to be about one thousand years. What is “senatorial courtesy?” This term is used to define thfe custom of extending certain courtesies to one another in the Senate, especially that of deferring to the wishes of the Senators from a State with reference to the confirmation of nominations from that State. Are white and piebald horses more subject to infections and other diseases than brown or other dark colored horses? Yes. They are subject to buckwheat poisoning, sandburn and "melanosis” w r hich develops in the way of tumors of black pigment. WTiat Is the average life of a canary? Ten years.

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WOMEN IN ANSWER TO MARSHALL They Belittle Tom’s Article on Possibility so • Sex War, Time* Washington Bureau, 1322 .Vfio York Ave. \ J ASHINGTON. Oct. 18.—Has j enfranchisement of women 1. YV opened the way for a war of the sexes? Are women as voters going to be animated by primal sex antagonisms and thus upset everything as we 5 know it today for some strange new ' order of life? Thomas R. Marshall, former Vice President of the United States, sees some such spectre and is apparently very much frightened about it. ■‘The National Woman's Party proposes an intensive campaign to elect 100 women to the House of Representatives," he says in a recent article. "It would perhaps be untrue to say that this is wholly a question of sex, and yet what else is it? It is not a movement to elect the most competent candidate in ea>-r district. It Is not based on a theory that a woman is better fitted for public service than a man. It ; seems to be a movement to elect women because they are women. '‘lnfinitely Worse.” “But society has had enough trouble over the sexes in other than political relations. Bad as is the state of politics always, it will be infinitely worse if we begin to divide the voters of America into male and female.” i I Meanwhile, the National Woman's | party, so feared by Mr. Marshall, en joys a little, pitying mirth directed at the gentleman, and then proceeds to explain away his fears. In the first place, the party js campaigning to elect five women to Congress, not a hundred, they point out. live Pennsylvania women have been nominated in various districts, and rll five are members of the National Woman's party, as well as of the political parties which selected them. “Our object in this fight is not to hack women just because they are , women, but to back women of our ; party who are qualified to sit in Congress, and who will support the proposed equal rights amendment and a general feminist program." says Elsie Hill, chairman of the National Council of the Woman’s party. Want Fighting Program “This Is necessary because while there are men In Congress who will second our efforts to secure economic as well as political equality for women, there are none who will Initiate a fighting program along these lines. Labor often secures help from Congressmen elected on other issues, it must have its own leaders in office to initiate its o’Wn programs. “Women naturally have to bear the brunt of the equal rights campaign. Men have never had to suffer the inequalities imposed by law, and cannot feel the injustice of It deeply enough within them to make them long to fight. “Mr. Marshall has often stood for Democrats for office not because he believed they were more competent than their Republican opponents nor better fitted than they for public service, but because he believed in the issues for which they stood. It is exactly this reason which causes us to support the five women members of our own party. “We believe we are not selfish In making equal rights the paramount issue. It underlies all other political and economic ills, and when the Immediate issues of our day are all settled, others like them will have arisen unless the underlying cause is remedied. Our program does not affect women only, but .all humanity." Husband's Lack “Oh, why did I ever marry yotf? Five times you proposed and then I weakened." “You mean then my luck gave out!”—Judge.

Tom Sims Says Truth is stranger than fiction, and, among our present books, a stranger to fiction. The soil of Siberia is sometimes frozen to a depth of sixty-three feet, so it is very difficult to dig fishing worms The Dead Sea is fishless, comparing In this way favorably with all streams, lakes t£nd seas. The lengths of a mile vary’ in different countries, and with different people you ask. The visiting card is of Chinese origin, and so. evidently, Is the habit of signing letters. While yellow Is the favorite color of Chinese officials they are busy now seeing red. A man in Washington has developed a stingless bee, which should be shipped in large quantities for picnics. Germany plans to l°ad the world In aircraft building. She once misled in aircastle building. In Victoria, B. C., already 1,350,000 cases of salmon have been packed, boarders being powerless. They* held a parade of girls with long hair in Hull, England, which was very nice and quaint and oidfashioned. (Copyright. 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Science The planets Saturn and Jupiter have been the objects of much study in recent years, due partially to rheir great size and to the improvements in methods of observation. Jupiter, the giant of the solar system, is now the most noticeable object in the southwestern sky. It is 1,300 times as large as the earth and It revoves around the sun once in twelve years, dragging with it a number of moons. Saturn is the greatest planet next to Jupiter. It has ten moons. Saturn Is the planet with the ring around it. Galileo, who rst studied the planets with a telescope, saw that Saturn did not look like the other planets, but he could not discover why, as his telescope was one of the first if not the first made, and it magnified only thirty times. It is now known that the ring around Saturn in reality is composed of a number of rings with openings between them. Remnants By HAL COCHRAN Out in the yard there’s a garden, once fair, but it's withered and faded away. Only a trace of what used to be there is the sight that will greet you today. During the summer It echoed of toil through the blossoms that shone in tho sun. Somebody played with and planted the soil, but the growth thus created is done. Stems that were once in their greenest of green and stood proudly high in the air, now droop in sadness, just making a scene that is totally wretched despair. The warm summer sun has neglected the spot while the chill winds have taken its place. Beautiful blossoms have shriveled to rot and of beauty there’s hardly a trace. Just one little rose in this garden still grows, hut 'twill fade ere much time can elapse. ’Tis surrounded by death, maybe gasping for breath. It’s the last rose of summer, perhaps. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) e Know Indiana Where was the first stage line? From Louisville to Vincennes in 1820. What was the distance and fare? One hundred and seven miles for SB. When was the first post stage established? In 1824 on the same route. She Wouldn’t “Would you scream if I kissed you, little girl?” "Little girls should be seen and not heard!”—Tennessee Mugwump:

SATURDAY, OCT. 18, 1924

i J-Toosierisms | BY GAYLORD NELSON

T~TJ AYOR ROSWELL O. JOHNSON of Gary, and fifty-one County were convicted in Federal Court in Indianapolis, in March 1923, for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. Yesterday the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, at Chicago, affirmed the conviction. A g- od stiff bracer follows the Gary spree. The case involved wholesale violation of the liquor law in Gary, and many of the defendants besides Mayor Johnson Were identified with the city and county administration. The prohibition law may or may not be .a failure. Most laws are if one hundred per cent enforcement is taken as the determining factor. But even prohibition can be enforced with reasonable rigor. If the responsible authorities so will. And there is no place in Indiana —even in industrial centers like Gary with its large foreign element —where open and notorious violation of the liquor law meets with public approval. Not from more than a thirsty minority. Years ago Boss Tweed of New York, when charged with appalling corruption, could ask insolently: “What are you going to do about it?" And got away with it. City officials In present day Indiana who try to run wide open towns may adopt the same contemptuous attitude. But they can’t get away with it. Not with the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Zoning A~) FEW days ago application of the National Refining Company for permission to erect a filling station at the southeast corner of Forty-Sixth St. and College Ave. was denied by the city plan commission. Perhaps there’s need for a filling station at that comer. Anyway it might be argued a filling station is not a commercial enterprise—frequently it's a work of art.

Cities used to grow in careless, slipshop manner. It was a common occurrence for fine residential districts to be invaded by noisy smelly neighbors. An aristocratic section might become overnight the savory backyard of a garbage reduction plant. And that was termed municipal I progress. Then the Idea prevailed that an I individual owner could do as he i pleased with his real estate. It was | his—that settled the matter. Indianapolis still exhibits on its | face the scars of those wild free ! days of civic dissipation. And some ! scars will be carried to the grave. But now we have reformed and, with the adoption of definite city plan and zoning measures, a better day has dawned. Os course, strict enforcement of zoning measures takes from private owners some of their ancient property rights. But they are not robbed of all the joys of real estate ownership. , They are still permitted by the plan commission to pay the taxes. Suicide -T-yi ICTOR RATLIFF, 229 E. y Pratt St., in Jail on an embezzlement charge, ate the heads off matches In an attempted suicide Thursday. He failed. He was the fourth to essay self destruction in the city this week—with only moderate success. And just a few days ago a veteran United States Senator took his own life. Suicide collects its toll of human lives with the regularity of any disease. In Indiana it is the cause of nearly five hundred deaths annually. The yearly total fluctuates. Depending on economic conditions apparently. For In the State the fewest suicides were recorded In years of greatest prosperity. Annually since 1920 the number has steadily increased. Normalcy’s deadly work. Suicide offers an easy way out. It's not surprising that a personharassed by crowding family troubles or economic disasters should contemplate self-obliteration with favor. And many of us might like to try it —if we could return in case it didn’t suit. But, despite the obvious scenic at.' tractions of the suicide route, It's restricted to one-way traffic. It offers no return ticket. So it’s the uncertainty of what lies - at the terminus of the route, not the pam of the journey, that restrains us. Living OOD prices in Indianapolis were 3 per cent lower on Oct. 1 than a year ago. So the figures published the other day in the retail food index of the United States Department of Labor reveal. Which, of course, Is cheering news. For a surprisingly large fraction of the expenditure of the average family goes directly for food and indirectly for the preparation and serving of food. It’s the largest single item of a family budget. Hence the rise and fall of food prices is of interest to most families. Three per cent decrease Isn’t much, but a decline of any amount in the cost of living is better than an increase. But in spite of 10-wered living costs in this city people will be unable for some time to imitate the lilies of the field, who neither toil nor spin. And the family purse will continue to be gaunt just preceding payday. Still according to the statistics of the department of labor an Indianapolis family which spent $lO a week for groceries last year must only spend $9.70 now for the same amount. From the 30 cents thus saved they can buy country homes or take up any other hobby of the idle rich. Statistics were a great invention.