Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY YY. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRENER, Acting Editor WM_ A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Seripps-Palne Service. • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 214-220 W Maryland St.. Indianapolis • ♦ • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere— Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA In 3500.

AN OUTSIDER VIEWS INDIANA (Prom the New York Times) LYDE TTATjB, chairman of the Indiana Republican State committee, on his way to Chicapo the other day to lay his sorrows upon the bosom of Chairman Butler, moaned aloud that certain influential Hoosier Republicans were “doing nothing for the national ticket,’’ and that other influential Republicans wouldn’t lift a finger to help the State ticket. Why should they! An Indiana Republican must have a strong stomach if he can stand his party this year. Governor McCray, of whom the judge before whom he was tried and convicted for fraudulent use of the mails said that he had “never seen so many felonies committed by one individual,” is serving his term in a Federal penitentiary. Two other Republican State officials were sent to jail. There were numerous other concrete illustrations of Republican mal-administration. State and county taxes were more than doubled. The Republican party of Indiana deserved and expected defeat. Aside from the scandals, there was a great deal of division and ill-feeling, the inheritance of old jealousies and recent disasters. The G. 0. P. in Indiana was in evil case. In a desperate effort to save itself, it threw itself into the arms of the Grand Dragons and Great Titans. It let the Ku-Elux Klan swallow it. It sought to palliate its felonies by consenting to racial and religious proscription. Sleeping partner of a society that nullifies so far as is in its power some of the most vital guarantees of the rights of a citizen in the Constitution, it professes to be deeply alarmed by Mr. La Follette’s proposals to amend the Constitution. It is hard to believe that any party in any State was ever in sneh a position of continuous and increasing humiliation and degradation as the Republican party of Indiana occupies today. There is a straight fight, not as between Republicans and Democrats, but as between the Klan and its enemies. The national and the congressional tickets can hardly fail to be affected. Catholic and Jewish voters the Republicans may have sacrificed of necessity. The colored vote, which they used to count as nearly all their own, they have largely lost. They are making frantic efforts to regain some parts of it. If Mr. Walb deplores the inactivity of some “influential” Republicans, how many obscure Republicans must be disgusted by the double baseness of their party? And if the Eu-Klux Klan issue seems to overshadow others in Indiana, the earlier issue in that State, the primo issue in all the United States, remains inescapable and supreme. The case against the Republican party is stated most effectively in an editorial from the Newcastle Times, published as an advertisement by the Democratic State committee. After reciting Republican transgressions in Indiana and Washington, the article asks: “Suppose these and dozens of other offenses against common honesty and common decency had been committed by the Democrats instead of by the Republicans, in the State and national Government, do you suppose the people would stand for it? Would not an outraged people drive them from public office?’* Republican dishonesty in Indiana and the Nation: Republican surrender to the Klan: Indiana has treble cause for “going Democratic,”

THE BUDGET BUDGES pTIR. CARLETON B. McCULLOCH, Democratic nominee for U Governor, has declared “We want a budget that won’t budge.” Here is one of the reasons: Under the elastic budget now in effect in the Statehouse, a budget that not only budges but submits itself to any changes politicians may desire, the following salary increases have been allowed: Budget commissioner, from $3,600 to $1,600. Insurance commissioner, from $4,000 to $5,000. Bank commissioner, from $4,000 to $5,000. Deputy treasurer, from $2,500 to $4,000. Deputy secretary of State, from $3,000 to $3,600. Secretary to Governor, from $2,500 to $3,700. Secretary of tax board, from $3,000 to $4,000. Secretary of securities commission, from $3,000 to $3,600. Still the Statehouse politicians are ranting about economy and their wonderful budget law, which seems to have been designed for sweetening political plums.

Nature In England, during th© reign of Edward IV, swans were declared lo be royal birds and a law was enacted that “No persoii who did not possess a freehold of a clear yearly rental of five marks” was allowed to own swans. A year's imprisonment and a fine, at the king’s will, was punishment during the reign of Henry VII, for stealing a swan's egg. There are less than a dozen species of swans. The swan usually to be seen in our parks is of Euro ?ean origin and has been domesticated for at least 800 years. It is called the Mute swan, because silent in captivity. Naturalists say these swans, in wild state, trumpet loudly during breeding season.

All About Every Movie Star

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Family Fun Improvement When Deacon Miller’s little son referred to his father's nose as a “beezer,” his mother scolded him soundly and concluded with: “Jimmy, don’t you ever dare to speak of your father's snoot as a 'beezer.* ” —Whiz Bang. By Sister’s latest “Have you ever been in love?" “That’s my business.” “Well, how’s business?”—Film Fun. Dad Had Reasons “Oh, Daddy, I'm so glad you gave George my hand. I was so afraid you would object to him because he was a prizefighter.” "The very reason I didn’t, my dear.” —American Legion Weekly.

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Solution J. Russell Clark, Elmira, X. Y., has worked out a method to avoid shutdowns or layoffs in his American LaFrance Fire Engine Company plants. He employs 1,000 men, and they work during boom times and during depressions when other factories cut down production or close up. Here is his secret: During dull times the work day is short, and as business picks up the day and the pay are increased. Ask The Times You can set an answer to any •lucstion of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington ' Bureau, J 322 New York Ave.. Wasnington. D. C„ inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. AH other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot ' be answered. All letters are coufldectial.—Editor. Was Martin Luther at one time a Monk of the Roman Catholic Church? Yes. What is the meaning of the name Luther? Illustrious warrior. Why are not the ends of rails on a railroad track welded together? To allow for expansion and contraction. From what is grenadine made? The juice of the pomegranate. Using all nine numbers in every combination, how many combinations can be made of the numbers one to nine? 362.850. Has anybody ever succeeded in making an egg synthetically? The United States Bureau of Agriculture says no. Is it true that the man who engraved the United States note of the 1917 series is in prison for defacing the same? It is not, according to the United States Secret Service. Which was the first girls' school in the United States? The seminary started by the Rev. Joseph Emerson at Byfield, Mass., in 1819. What are ‘'hells" on a ship? On a ship the day is divided into six periods of four hours each, beginning at midnight. At half past twelve one bell is struck, at 1 o’clock two bells, at half past one three bells, and so on up to eight bells at 4 o'clock. At half past four it is one

SEARSBURG’S POSTOFFICE AND OLD NED BARTLETT, 72, WHO THREATENS TO QUIT UNLESS HIS SIOO-A-YEAR IS RAISED $2. INSET ARE S. W. LEONARD AND HIS WIFE, WHO HAVE HELD THE JOBS OF TOWN CLERK, TREASURER, CONSTABLE, TAX COLLECTOR AND SCHOOL TRUSTEE AT SOMERSET, BUT WHO HAVE DECIDED TO MOVE AWAY.

bell again, at five two bells, and so on up'to 8 o’clock. Half past eight is one bell, and so on. What is tho average wage of a coal miner? $1.28 per ton. Why did Roosevelt veto the thirteenth censusl^dll? Because it provided for a noncompetitive examination for clerks needed, thereby throwing the new census out of the civil service, and Roosevelt wished it to come under the civil service. What is the meaning of the expression, “The rule of three falls down in matrimony?” This refers to the fact that the interposition of a third person in the matrimonial affairs of a husband and wife is disastrous. It is a play upon words. What is tho hightst point in the Philippines? Mount Apo, 9,610 feet.

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SOMERSET POSTMASTER ASKS RAISE Threatens to Resign If Coolidge Won’t Give Him $2 Increase, Bp NEA Service r- OMERSET, Vt„ Oct. 25. SEven Babylon. Tyre and Carthage fell —and this town of Somerset is slipping fast. The other day almost all of the city officials at iJt politicians departed —both of them. It lost half of Its voters—both of them. The town clerk, the city treasurer, the constable, the ax collector and the school trustee have all quit —both of them. In other words Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Leonard are moving. And, as though that weren’t had enough. Ned Bartlett, the postmaster, has demanded a |2-a-yqpr raise and says he’ll quit if he doesn't get it. Nobody in the neighborhood can figure out what Ned’s kicking about. He gets SIOO a year now. If he leaves there’ll be only two voters left—Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor. And there are but two pupils left for the school. Yes, Somerset is fast skidding. Two years ago this community had ten legal voters. The Chamber of Commerce, emulating Los Angeles, advertised a population of twelve. The one encouraging fact is that Postmaster Bartlett is public-spirited and patient. In spite of his withheld $2-a-year raise and the demonstrated ingratitude of the republic, he still is on the job, as is Indicated by the notice in his own handwriting tacked on the office door. It says: "If you don’t see the postmaster, holler!’’ Just tell Bartlett that a main can't live on two dollars a week and he will laugh at you. “Well,” he explains in his quaint drawl, “you see I don't have to keep up a marble uullding like some of the other postmasters do. I ain’t got any clerks and there’s only mo to feed! “I don’t ask much off of the world. I don't eat meat. I'm a vegetarian, I am, and I have a little garden that T tend to. I keep well on fruits, grains and vegetables. Over thar on the mountain side I got quite a little space o' ground and I live simple. Just as the Lord Intended. “Now. this suit T got on: The pants cost me 97 cents from a mail order house: my shirt cost me G 7 cents from the same place. You don’t need fancy things up here. Khaki is all right. I don’t drink coffee, tea or whisky, and that cuts down expenses. “I’ve been postma -w for ten years and at the beginning my salary was $75 a year. But things cost more now. and a fellow has to go pretty easy to live well on SIOO a year. So T'rn writing a letter ’o President Coolidge about it. "No, I don't want you to think I spend the whole $2 every week, because I don’t. Sometimes I g*-t along on a dollar, but then along come a lot of expenses and it piles up even over $2.” In complete contentment “Dad" Bartlett passes his years untouched by the struggles and troubled of the outside world.

Know Indiana When did the pork packing industry in Indiana disappear? After the Civil War, when it was concentrated at Chicago. Where were tho first flour mills? At New Albany, Logansport, Lafayette and Terre Haute. Y\{here were tho first distilleries? At Lawrenceburg, Terre Haute and Vincennes. A Thought Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.—Col. 4:6. • * * The soul of conversation is sym-pathy.—-Hazlitt.

I T-Toosierisms I BY GAYLORD NELSON

SHE Haynes Automobile Company of Kokomo has been adjudged a bankrupt by Judge Anderson in Federal Court. The liabilities exceed the assets by $2,000,000. This marks the culmination of the financial difficulties with which the company has wrestled unsuccessfully for months. Thirty years ago the company's founder was one of the first in this country to tinker with that impractical mechanical jest—a horseless carriage. Since then the side-splitting jest has produced a great industry, and many conspicuous fortunes. Yet the mortality rate has been high. Scarcely a town in Indiana but exhibits the rusting cadaver of an automobile plant. For, when the industry first felt the stimulus of popular applause, no town booster felt properly equipped for the day unless he carried in his pocket or in his head plans for an automobile manufacturing company. Survival of the fittest is a harsh doctrine, h">t it operates. At least . the motor field where, with the passage of years the strong have grown stronger and the weak have become history. And now, although fifteen millions of motor cars roll over our highways and Into our ditches, the building of them Is a prosaic manufacturing enterprise, not a roseate dream. The automobile industry is in the third generation of that cycle from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves. It Inis to work for Its living and profit. Alcohol A I"'" MOTHER with her two ehildred dead. A father suddent__J ly bereft of his whole fam- . A couple of wrecked automobiles. And John Strothenk arrested and held under bonds totaling $21,300. That’s all that happened when a few splashes of alcohol were transmuted into speed. Asa result of *h!s tragic demonstration of the fatal potency of the stuff authorities declare that reckless driving when talntei with alcohol will ho sternly punished. As Prosecutor William H. Itetny put It: "These drunken drivers will be dealt with in summary f ishlon. V man who takes a drink his no business at the wheel of an automobile. Alcohol Is a valuable chemical compound. It is useful In conversation, varnishes, industrial Arts, and hair tonics. But It isn't especially useful on the highways. Not when It's poured into the radiator of the driver Instead of the machine’s radiator. For it mixes in all proportions with gasoline. And euch mixtures are unstable. They have incalculable explosive possibilities. They frequently burst Into Involuntary manslaughter. Every motor driver can’t he submitted to a chemical analysis. So all unholy marriages between steering wheels and liquor can't be dis- i solved. But a few adequnte penalties for drunken drivers would remove much of the odor of alcohol from the culil breath of accidental death. Attire | ORE than 400 members of the American Bar Association, at tending the convention in London lust summer, had to rent suitable attire to wear at a garden party given by the king and queen of England. So Judge James M. Leathers of Superior Court divulged at a recent dinner of the Indianapolis Bar Association. The statement doesn't surprise. Instead, one wonders why more law yens weren't obliged to rent court costume. For with us royalty if not common. J’robubly the only contact some of our lawyers have with kings and queens Is with the regal pair that adds dignity and pomp to a royal flush. And English court etiquette is strict. One who would mingle with royalty there must wear the prescribed costume. The lawyers conformed to the conventions without a whimper. Because we always observe custom In our garb. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma decided In a celebrated ease that Fred Tlarvey-—who operates a string of railroad eating houses—can on force his rule that no man shall egj In Harvey dining-rooms minus his coat. The court's decision didn't provoke an insurrection. For all men dread to wear apparel that, is out of tune with the harmony of the occasion. Most of them either suitably attire —or retire. Fog - "1 HE stuff that twined so effectually about the city’s l- heart strings yesterday was called by some “fog.” Others termed it "stnog.” What it was called by the ordinary person, with no claim to intellectual distinction, is unprintable. The sclentifiec appellation doesn’t matter. It was the stuff itself, not its name, that was annoying. '* must be comforting to people, a ..use personal flues were sooted up and whose interiors resernole a, productive coal mine, to know the day broke a record, at least. J. H. Armington. weather bureau meteorolgist, explained it as the result of a high pressure area, moderate temperature, fair skies, and practically nc mind. And practically no city smoke ordinance, he might have added. If the city smoke ordinance possesses a full set of teeth it must have left them with the dentist for repairs. For yesterday the teeth weren’t biting violators of the ordinance. About the only visible accomplishments of our ordinance are the inspectors. Tt rerun’s them to visit i round and conduct a social correspondence with s< ft coal users. That may to entertaining. But not to folks who wallow through ihe soot—aid pick black black fuzzy specks of “fog” from their cheeks. x

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Tom Sims Says Every' girl has moments when she could win a beauty contest. Most of the hats In the political iing look more like footballs now. Light words sometimes weigh nor© ’han heavy ones. A rolling r-tone gathers no work. Nothing tickles a woman with & new coat like a cold spell. The height of fashion this season is about ten Inches from the ground. Only way to save our fur-bearing arimais is to teach them to shave. Some of the nutting parties in the woods are nutty parties. Every man is entitled to life, liberty and freedom in’the pursuit of more money. * Things are getting brighter. Even the leaves are turning. A girl with long hair feels as conspicuous now as one with bobbed hair did a few years 9 go. (Copyright, ’924. NEA Service, Inc.)

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Science A great electrician recently was asked: "If you had the choice of what you would invent next, what would it be?" He replied: ‘‘An efficient and light device for storing electrical energy." Whoever solves this problem will reap enormous rewards, because its commercial value is greater than can be estimated. There has been no improvement of importance in storage batteries since they were invented. They are heavy, fragile, difficult to handle and inefficient. By inefficient is meant that they turn out too small a percentage of the current required to charge them. There is not much hope in the electrical field in the storage battery. Any attempt at solution of this problem means that the field •of energy storage must be restudied from the Leyden jar up. If it can be solved and a light unit invented, electric airplanes, light autos and heavy railroading will be among a few of the benefits mankind will receive.

{One of a series of messages on the subject of public service) The Human Side of this Business OVER 1200 people are on the payroll of Interstate Public Service Company. This business employs men and women in a wide variety of occupations. The meter man comes to your door. Perhaps you see the cashiers and clerks in our offices. They are but a few of the many. Back of this service are business executives and assistants; financial men who market the company’s securities; engineers and draughtsman who plan and supervise extensions; power house employees, conductors, motormen, linemen, repair men, telephone operators and general office employes. Through good times and dull times this organization is maintained. Employment is steady and unfailing—for electric, gas and transportation service is always in demand, business conditions regardless. This Company’s essential service to 81,000 customers in 107 communities is a business of considerable importance. And by far the greatest factors in the Company’s success are the ability, efficiency and faithful service of its loyal employes.

SATURDAY, OCT. 25,1924

Babyhood By HAL COCHRAN You're a wee little thing, but what . cheer you can bring as you’re creep- | in’ and crawlin' around. Your folks, as you're growin,’ are constantly knowin’ a bundle of love has been found. The thrill in your cooing and funjny agooing is something naught ; else can create. That wee little j smile that you have all the while I keeps us all in a cheerful-like state, j We wonder who tinted your J cheeks blushy pink and then touched up your peepers with brown. We ] wonder, and yet we are tempted to , think, that a master of arts sent you down. Why, e’en when you whim per and [ tear drops are flowing, there’s I something about it we like. We i sort of regret it on seeing you grow- | ing, you sweet little wonderful tyke, j In years yet to be we will look back and see all the days when you'd j gurgle and coo. And then, when | you're old, you will laugh when 1 you're told how we all made a fuss over you. Copriright, 192',, NEA Service