Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 143, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1924 — Page 4

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DEBUNKING CALAMITY mO bear the orators say it, one is assured that if the other party wins, the country will go to the bowwows. The Cleveland Trust company has compiled a business bulletin which throws a curious light on calamity howling. The bulletin says: “Republican administrations have been at the head of the national Government duirng twenty-four of the past forty years, while Democratic administrations have controlled national policies during the other sixteen years. Through these four decades general business has m<Ned from depression to prosperity and back again many times. These movements are recorded by statistical curves. “These studies show that during the twenty-four years of Republican administrations 55 per cent of the months have been months of business prosperity, and 45 per cent months of depression. The records for the sixteen years of Democratic administrations show 55 per cent of prosperous months and 45 per cent of months of depression. There is not a half of 1 per cent of difference between the two records.” Thus, turning to the cold figures of the banking room, the bunk is taken out of the predictions of dire calamity that are so dear to the heart of the campaign orator, who orates at so much per diem. CUDDLING UP TO PIVOTAL STATES mSN’T it fun to see them figure on where the electoral votes are going to come from? The Coolidge nomination was assured and all competitors except Hiram Johnson were driven from the field when Slemp assembled, packed and crated with all charges paid f. o. b. Cleveland, the delegates to the Republican national convention. from the solid South. These are the States that by no possibility can contribute any of those much-needed electoral votes to Chairman Butler’s sparse collection. Davis was nominated after use had been made of the delegates from such States as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Minnesota. Vermont, Utah and Indiana to deadlock and be-devil the convention until it lost its mind, if any, and at last brought forth a ticket of the most amazingly mixed parentage. At Cleveland the Republican States were belittled by the solid south. At New York the Democratic States were buncoed by States in which a Democrat is a museum piece. In both conventions the doubtful or pivotal States got j nothing but a badge and an alternate’s ticket. But convention days are over and election is at hand and somehow the way the States which delivered the needed convention votes are being treated by the old parties after the convention reminds us of how the old parties treat the vot< rs after election. AIN’T WISCONSIN QUEER? OR A QUARTER of a century the La Follette theory of government has been in force in Wisconsin. If it is bad—if it is Socialistic, Bolshevistic or un-American —why do you suppose the people up there have gone on electing La Follette to the Senate and electing his State tickets by ever increasing majorities? One thing that is made much of is the rate of taxation in Wisconsin. But do you know that Wisconsin is one of the few States in the Union that pays its expenses as it goes? One of the few States in the Union that issues no bonds? While most other States pile up millions and millions of debts for future generations to pay and present generations to pay interest on, Wisconsin pays as it goes. Under La Follette control the State Constitution was amended more than ten years ago so as to forbid the issue of State bonds for any purpose. When emergency arises taxes are increased, the bill is paid and the State proceeds, debt free. A single instance will show how this goes. When the Federal Government was tumbling around trying j to adjust the compensation of World War veterans, nearly every Btate took some sort of action to provide for the immediate and pressing needs of the returned soldiers. Every one of the States, except Wisconsin, raised the needed money by issuing State bonds. The bonds were sold. The proceeds were given to the soldiers and the actual payment, through taxation, was wished off on unborn generations. In Wisconsin the war veterans were given as generous and sane treatment as in any State and a tax levy was made to bring the needed money into the treasury at once. Now to run a State or a city or a Nation without issuing scads of bonds for brokers and bankers to play with is just simply RED and that’s all there is to it. Yet these Wisconsin people seem to like it. Ain’t Wisconsin queer? AFTER ALL, the Michigan college student who said Irvin Cobb is a big base ball player showed the right stuff. He took a fat chance. A HOBO put up at a New York hotel and told the management that he was a writer in search of atmosphere. He got short order service all right.

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Arrests Son I'hStjA Deputy Sheriff Edward Kahl of Gillespie, 111., went through the ordeal of arresting his own son for murder. The son, Lester Kahl, 24 (above), has confessed, authorities say, that he lured his bride of a week (below) into the country, shot her and then buried her body in a shallow grave. The State Is demanding the death penalty. GOOD WORLD, AFFLICTED GIRL SA YS Although Hopelessly Crippled She Runs Own Business. By GEORGE BRITT .V FA Service Writer N r """ EW YORK, Oct. 23. —“I guess dancing is about the only thing in the way of business or pleasure that I don't, go in for,” says Elizabeth Heinemarm. Her eyes are dancing as she says it, and her radiant personality tells you the heart within is skipping a merry hornpipe. There’s no reason for being downhearted, except that she's hopelessly crippled. The impression Elizabeth ITeinemann gives—next to that of her cheerfulness —is of being strictly business. Sh" is proprietor of her own little shop for typewriting, mimeographing and translating. .She opened up independently in August, and now she is compelled by the volume of business to employ an assistant. f "Yes, I could have been taken care of without working." she said. "I have brothers and uncles. But I could ne'er bear that. Can you imagine anything more terrible? "This is my own office and I live alone !n my own little apartment. Instead of being cared for by my friends, I can entertain them and act as hostess for parties of my own. "The hard thing about being crippled is font people pity 1 you, or want to favor you on that account Business must not come to this shop that way.” Miss Heinemann is 25. At first glance one would not call more than just "nice looking." But this visitor challenges any one to talk to her ten minutes without finding in her eyes, in the lines of her face, in her smiio and manner, flashes* of true beauty. Asa little girl she was taken to Germany by Her mother to seek a cure from famous doctors. In 1917 she found herself back in the United States as much a cripple as ever, with both father and mother deal, and the family money ail gone. She taught herself typing and began a succession of jobs. The normal salary was cut because she was a cripple. Then she attained to one or two "positions.” She had to be dependent upon an employer for work, however, and such obstacles as entrance steps barred her from some desirable buildings. So she ventured out "on her own.” "Everybody is wonderful to me." says Miss Heinemann, "and It’s a good world.”

ELIZABETH HEINEMANN, ALTHOUGH CRIPPLED, BELIEVES THE WORLD IS GOOD.

Tongue Tips Dr. R. E. Vinson, president Western Reserve University, Ohio: “With all their faults, the schools have commended themselves to the American people as agencies to which may be safely entrusted a larger share in the national development.’’ H. H. Stevens, member of Parliament, Vancouver, B. C.: "It is the unquestionable right of each nation to determine and to declare the conditions upon which entry to its jurisdiction may be secured by nationals of other countries.”

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WHERE G. O. P. IS GETTING ITS MONEY Borah Committee Hearns Who Is Behind Coolidge, Times Washington Bureau, 1522 hew York Ave. ASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The meager details concerning the collection of the Republican I campaign fund that have become public through the Borah investiga- | tion show that banks and railroads | are strong for Coolidge and Dawes. According to Chairman Butler’s figures, twenty men contributed $250,000 to the campaign to date. ! All other contributions, he said, were smaller and widely distributed. The twenty- heavy contributors include residents of New England, of New York, of Chicago and of Colorado. But no matter w r here they live, they* are, almost without exception, bank and railroad directors. William Wrigley of Chicago gave the committee $25,000. Though chiefly' known as a gum manufacturer, he is a director of the First National Bank and the First Trust and Savings Bank, both of Chicago. He is in railroads and Industry as chairman oof the board of the Wilmington Transportation Company and of the Bon Air Coal and Iron j Corporation. Bank Directors J James A. Patten, who came through with $20,000, and B. A. Eekhart, contributor of SIO,OOO, are known as grain merchant and manufacturer, respectively. Both, however, are directors of the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago, j one of the largest hanks outside of | New York. They both are in railroads. Patten being a director of the Rock Island lines, and Eekhart of the Erie, Chicago & Erie and Terre Haute & Southern lines. Albert E. Carleton of Colorado Springs and J. Horace Harding of I New York City each helped the I Coolidge campaign fund to the exi tent of SIO,OOO. Both are directors of the Irving Bank-Columbia Trust s Company of New York. Both are also railroad directors, Carleton of j small western lines and Harding of I the New York, New Haven & IlartI ford and Wabash Lines. Also Directors Payne Whitney and Arthur Cur- ! tiss James, both of New York, contributed $15,000 each. Both have | long been directors of the First Na- | tional Bank of New York. James Is ; also director of the Burlington, Northern Pacific and El I’:u3o & Western Railways. Charles Hayden of New York, enn- | tributor of SIO,OOO, writes of hirn- • self that he Is "an officer and direc- '■ tor of fifty-eight corporations." Banks, sugar companies, copper | companies and cement companies are liis meat. He is also chairman jof the board of the Rock Island | Railroad. < J. B. Duke Is best known for j ‘‘Duke’s Mixture” and Julius Fleisch- | mann for yeast cakes, but they have 1 a common Interest In Coolidge and : Dawes —a SIO,OOO Interest each. They also have a common interest in I hanks and factories. Duke,, incl- ; dentally, is president of the South- ; ern Power Company. In 1920 it was the oil boys who ! were most generous In the matter of campaign funds. This year the. bankers and railroad owners seem to i be “it.” Nature Eggs of the hummingbird are so tiny that it would take 340 to make a hen’s egg. The spots on the plumage of the; Guinea fowl have a fable to account j for them. Once upon a time two; heartbroken sisters of a boy who , had died cried unceasingly. Night and day they wept, their tears roll--1 ing liko pearls over their garments. Heaven had pity on the sisters and i changed them into Guinea hens, whose plumage is to this day sprinkled with tear drops of the unhappy girls. Their sobs were continued in the discordant cry of the Guinea ben.

Squeezing A young couple was waiting for a street car, and one stopped that was much crowded. “Da you s’pose we can squeeze In this one, Mary?” “Oh, John, I'd rather wait till we get home.”—Whiz Bang. Sister's Newest “Haven’t you forgotten something?” she sweetly asked, pursing her lips temptingly. “Oh, yes,” he quickly replied, thrusting a hand into his outside coat pocket, “I wac going to give you this other stick of gum.”—

I T-Toosierisms j BY GAYLORD NELSON rr-rj rs Gertrude beeson, of illVlj the Eu & enia apartments, is I I out SSOO, and her confidence lias vanished. Detectives seek the money; the confidence will be difficult to restore. The details are simple. A portly gentlemen clothed In a bland air, natty raiment and lodge emblems, represented himself to her as an attorney for the Government. He suggested his connections often enabled him to help friends to investments yielding large profits. He had a good front. She believed him. And the money Is gone. It’s always easy for a glib stranger with an imposing facade and a line of conversation to separate folks from their money. For the business of the world is conducted on confidence. Without it there would be neither banking, commerce nor credit. The ordinary customer is not an expert judge of the quality of many articles he purchases. But he nas confidence in the merchant and the merchant has confidence in him. Which Is the backbone of trade. So common honesty is more than a phrase. It’s the ordinary standard of conduct. And deviations from it are not so numerous as a perusal of newspapers would indicate. It’s trrfe unusual, not the usual, that is news. Because honesty, Integrity and confidence are such common attributes business is good for th§ Wallingfords—until they are caught. Age r - 1 i E WAS for twenty-five years H janitor at Manual Training High School. Steady, reliable 1 and hard-working. | But illness threw him out of his ! accustomed groove. Nine weeks he was away from his job. When he returned he was notified that he had I been permanently replaced because l of ids age. So William ICappmeyer, age 74, - ptft his box of private papers in order, and stepped into the sunshine !of his back yard. Adjusting a rope and towel around his neck he j climbed a stepladder, ti'st the rope to the limb of a tree —and kicked the I ladder away. Just an old man tired and chafed j by tiie rough hand of time, worn j out and discarded by industry. Which, too often, is the tragedy of age. It isn’t work that kills. It’s the i idleness that comes when the routine of a steady, uninspiring, toll some life is broker.. The waiting, with nothing to occupy hands or mind —with nothing remaining hut a few ailing, rusting years on life’s scrapheup. That’s hard. Old age is dreary or lovely. Deary If it’s only the breaking up of a worn out human machine. Whether in tlie midst of wealth or poverty. But in a person with mind and soul nmllowed by years of kindly human interests, still alive to the passing world, it isn’t old age. Then It’s a glowing sunset. Weight SHE downtown district is dotted with automatic weighing devices upon which passing pt destriais may step and learn their tonnage. On some the secret is divulged for 1 cent: some are free. But all are used with surprising frequency. In front of the Hotel Severin is one that is free. Behind its glass face a little counter registers the number of times the scales have been used. On the unimpeachable testimony j of the counter that particular weigh- j ing device was stepped upon 2,036 j times in the course of forty-eight hours.

A thousand passers-by each day pause there to learn their individual stage of fatty degeneration. The iiso and fall of the tide of adipose tissue Is a subject of con- j corn. Not only among women who subsist on thin pieces of lemon rind with the fat scraped off, but also among strong men whose appetites range freely up and .down the menu cards. Weight is no small matter to most of us. We may have the long, sweeping lines of a strand of wire, or the, physical grace of a pile of brick. But I we long to be .an Apollo in modern ! garb or a perfect thirty-six. So we step upon convenient scales 1 to verify our suspicions that the figure of our dreams is coming true. , _ Services m HE board of safety has re-1 I quested the Salvation Army j and the Volunteers of Amor-1 ica to discontinue their Saturday' Saturday night open air meetings j at the, Kentucky Ave. and W. Mar- j ket St. corners of Illinois St. The reason Is congested traffic conditions. Which, no doubt, is true. These open air services take up space sorely needed by taxicabs, theater goers, window shoppers, and all the finer blooms of night life. Perhaps the meetings do not yield sufficient income in dollars or souls to Justify the expenditure of time and evangelistic fervor. ' And serv’i s conducted with a bass drum, tambourines, and careless grammar, may not appeal to some passersby. So the discontinuance of these meetings might cause no one to suffer. But at the bottom of the methods of these organizations is a great fundamental truth. Goods must be offered for sale w’here people are. Whether it be cigars or salvation. A voice In the wilderness may be a perfectly good voice, but it is unheeded. They seek the crowds—and find them on the streets. Asa result they accomplish much in the field of practical Christianity. Street meetings are the least of their services. Their charitable deeds entitle them to consideration, notwithstanding traffic conditions. What Ilubby Is “Is your husband an Elk or a Moose?” “Neither one. He’s just a perfect dear.” —Detroit News.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianajxcis Times Washington Bon au, 1322 New York Ave.. Wasnmgton II C, Inclosing 2 eents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal an 1 marital advice cannot be given, nor cull extenuvd research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot lie ansa- rtsl Ail letters are conlideni tial.—Editor. Is there gold at the back of ■ every gold certificate issued by the United States Government? Yes, either in coin or bullion. What Is the meaning of “Pto- ! sis"? It is a new*modical term of Latin origin and means the drooping of j the upper eyelid, produced by paraiysis of the levator muscle. Which cities in tiie world hare ; subways? New York, London, Paris, Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston. Who founded the Red Cross? Clara Barton. Wh 'n was Baltimore founded, and where did It got its name? Baltimore was founded in 1729, ■ and took Its name from Lord Baltimore, the founder of the colony of j Maryland. Why was Stepehen A. Douglas called "The Little Giant”? Because of his small stature and great powers as a speaker. When was the poet Berton Braley born? Jan. £9, 1892. How did Great Britain get the Rock of Gibraltar? OMbraltar was captured by British forces under Sir George Rooke July 24. 1704, and was ceded to Great Britain by Spain by the treaty of Utrecht in 1713. What did Sir John Hawkins do? In 1595, Hawkins and Sir FYancis Drake commanded a large fleet sent against the Spanish colonies in the West Indies; but they were unsuccessful. He is said to have been the first Englishman who was engaged In the slave trale. What are the. principal flightless birds? The ostrich and the penguin. I served for fifty-three days in the Army during the World War. Ain I entitled to the bonus? No. because no bonus Is paid for the first sixty days of ser-'ce, as each man received S6O bonus on discharge. Are glass and wood non-conduc-tors of electricity? Glass and wood are non-conduc-tors for all practical purposes, although no substance is ai. absolute non-conductor of electricity. In going up and down stairs does a gentleman precede the lady or vice versa? In ascending stairs, the lady precedes the gentleman if the stairway is so narrow that he cannot assist her: in descending she should also precede him if they cannot descend together. What is the highest speed that gasoline engines can run? Gasoline engines have been run at speeds higher than 6,000 revolutions per minute. No information is available as 1 to the maximum speed ever attained. The engines referred to above were used in racing cars. Airplane engines normally operate at considerably lower speeds. Very few are use at speeds higher than 2,200 revolutions per minute. Why doesn’t a bird which perches on a high voltage electric wire get killed by shock? Because the bird is not In contact with the ground or anoher wtire and po no electrical circuit Is formed, and the electricity does not pass through its body. When were rubber tires first Invented? Science Service says the first pneumatic rubber tire was patented by Robut-t W. Thomson, an Englishman, in 1845. It was not a com- 4 mercial success.

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Tom Sims Says The rum ring which causes the most investigating is that left by a glass of home-made wine on mother’s tablecloth. In Boston three men stayed drunk three days after they were jailed, showing wishes do come true. In Sioux Falls, S. D., a man of 8S has Just seen his first movie, but maybe it won’t corrupt his morals. The wild rumor that packers, who use everything about hogs except the squeal, will make whistles of the squeal, Is without foundation. In Atlanta, Ga., three men who thought they were eating mushrooms should serve as a warning to others. Once mushrooms were the most dangerous things in cellars. That was back before prohibition. A failure is merely a man who thought the worst things in life were the best things... The late chestnut has managed to secure the early bird's worm. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Know Indiana Where were the first salt wells in Indiana? Scott county, 1S15; Fountain county, 1829; Franklin, 1825-1840; Monroe and Brown, 1823-1830. Was Iron ever mined in Indiana? Yes, in the bog ore found near Mishawaka and In White County. What were the first factories In Indiana? In 1825, several p>ork packing plants were established. Highest activity was in 1840-1850. Terre Haute and Madison were the packing centers. A Thought If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. —John 7:31. * • • There is no small pleasure In pure water. —Ovid.

raSp Wliy you will Uipr like our s(J\ Vampire Picture / / Such stars and styles W'WslMm! * Such dynamo drama Hgml Such rare romance lillllii give hot and cold chills. nearly got us both a divorce. SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRESENTS “In Hollywood” with Potash and Perlmutter and their three Vampire Beauties, Norma and Constance Talmadge and Betty Blythe Next S? Laugh Week Week

THURSDAY, OCT. 23,1924

Comparison By HAL COCHRAN There’s never much gaining In constant complaining. We all find that out after awhile. It’s only a habit for people to crab. It is better, by far, just to smile. A fellow goes ’round with his head bangin’ low and he thinks that the world’s done him wrong. Yet, if he would cheer up, he surely would know it’s more pleasant to travel along. Just stop and considere, are you a real bidder for friends ’cause you’re spreadin' good cheer? Nobody will score you and folks will be for you, if you can just smile, have no fear. Os course you have,troubles! Why, every one does. But why tell the world about it? It’s boresome when people just constantly buzz. Your worry’s your own, so why shout It? Compare little you with a bird in a cage. That ought to new reasoning bring. You're free while the bird is caged up very tight, and yet he can constantly sing. (Copyright, 1524, NEA Service, Inc.) Science Tl>e laboratories, machinery and equipment used in electrical work today would be mysteries to Stephen Gray, who died in England In 1736. But all such progress was due to Gray, "the father of electrical science.” When he began experimenting, his entire equipment consisted of an inch glass tube, about three feet long, a piece of string and some silk threads. By rubbing the glass tube he generated electricity and transmitted it along a damp string, hung vertically, with an ivory ball attached to the lower end of the string. Tie then said: "If it will run down a string it will run along It.” He suspended the string, supported by nails, across a long room. It did not work. He then found, by separating the string from the nails tVth the silk threads, that it would. This established the principle of Insulation. the greatest step in electrical science. He then lengthened his conducting string and transmitted the electric Impulse across a farm field. This was the beginning of telegraphy. . ■