Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1924 — Page 4
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BUNK ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT ■prjO you realize how much nearly chemically pure, 100 per 1/ cent bunk there is in this yapping about La Follette’s “assault upon the Supreme Court.”? Do you know exactly what La Follette has proposed? All in the world that has been proposed by La Follette and the progressive platform is that a constitutional amendment be submitted to the people asking them to vote yes or no as to whether or not they want the present practice of the Supreme Cour to continue. And what is the present practice? It is that if five out of nine members of the United States Supreme Court choose to say so, an act of Congress passed by both houses and signed by the President may he set aside as null and void even if the other four members of the Supreme Court vote the other way. There is nothing in the Constitution, as it was written, which even squinted at any such power in the Supreme Court of the L’nited States. If the people voted that the court should not do this any more, the Constitution would not be destroyed. But that is not the point. The only thing that La Follette has suggested is that the people be allowed to vote on su<-h a constitutional amendment. Anybody who says that to permit the voters of the United States to express their will at the ballot box on any subject means the destruction of this government, is talking chemically pure and 100 per cent bunk. "When the Supreme Court decided the Dred Scott case in 1856. its decision was appealed to the people. Abraham Lincoln bceame President on the issue that the court was wrong, but it took a Civil War before the people could express their will in the constitutional amendment which settled the slavery question forever. Vetoing the Supreme Court and re-writing the Constitution did not wreck these United States that time. It saved them. In 1912 Roosevelt was running against the Republican party and preaching the doctrine that court decisions should be recalled by a vote of the people. T. R. didn’t wreck the country. The perspiring patriots and professional politicians who sav that a proposal to submit anything to a vote of the people is revolutionary and looks to the destruction of the Government and of the Constitution, are themselves denying the corner stone in our whole edifice of government which is found in that perfectly clear phrase that governments “derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” If the people of the United States shall vote to consent that the ninth member of the Supreme Court shall he greater than the people, or than the House of Representatives, or than the Senate, or than the President of the United States, or than all of them combined, then that ninth member of the United States Supreme Court will have that right because it will he derived from the consent of the people which it governs. To suggest whether or not they shall be asked to vote their consent or withhold their consent is purely and simply a constitutional proceeding. And that is all La Follette and the Progressives propose.
BUSINESS WILL BE GOOD r-p‘ HERE may be some who would vote for La Follete but for * J the fear that if La Follette Is elected “Big Business” will cause a panic and well all be out of work. If there is a small group of men who have such a power of life and death over the many in America, is it not time that their power was challenged? Are we not willing to make a sacrifice for the freedom of our children! But there is no need for such a sacrifice. If La Follette is elected, nobody will know better than Big Business that he is elected for four years, and that fact will have to be endured. Big Business will see how foolish it would be to sit down and gnash its teeth over the result. Big Business isn’t foolish. If it were foolish, it would never have become T>ig business. It wants its steady profits, just as much as the workingman wants his steady work. There is not a single plank in the La Follette program that is bad for honest business and nobody knows it better than the smart men who control our industries. They will make a wry face when La Follette starts to make them behave—but they won’t shut up shop. Bite off its nose to spite its face—not Big Business! TIIE TROUBLE is that so many auto drivers have reached the age but not the discretion. TIIE MYSTERY of the atom may be revealed soon, but we must continue to take our hash as it comes. SHANGHAI S GOLF club has closed on account of the war, and the tired business man over there must remain so—until it rains, at least. THESE BEING the days of mergers, how* would ft do, Judge Landis, to merge the National Story-Tellers’ League with the national baseball leagues?
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Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett, Elmira, X. Y„ is going to run her own gold mines herself, even if they are in Korea. Her husband, former Congressman J. Sloat Fassett, died and left her the mines and other extensive property holdings. She took his place on the board of directors of an Elmira bank and assumed control of other property ho left her. Sho is now on her way to Korea, by way of England and Europe. Sho was formerly Miss Jennie Crocker of San Francisco. LEADER IS A PECULIAR CHARACTER Writer Describes Chinese General Who Is Christian, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Foreign Editor, Washington Bureau. , | IIE new power behind the ! | I throne in Peikn, “The Chris- „ J tian General" Fong Yuhs.ang, is one of the oddest characters in China. He personally and regularly conducts prayer-meetings among his troops. He drills his men to the tune of “Onward Christian Soldiers.” He imports Y'. M. C. A. lecturers and Chinese-speaking missionaries to entertain and instruct his followers. lie provides them with tradesschools and insists that each make himself master of at least one trade. He teaches them to knit socks, weave cloth, ami make their own underwear and uniforms. Wherever lie goes one of the iirst things he does is to install showers, and every rookie under him must memorize the Chinese equivalent of “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” I saw General Feng at Changteh when he was Defense Commissioner of West Hunan, Central China. Changteh is on the Yuan River about twenty-five miles up front where it runs into Tung Ting Hake, a body of water which, in summer, is about hah the size of Lake Erie. I crossed the lake in a launch, from Changsha. Ixoks Japanese Feng has the build of an athlete. His face resembles certain Latin or Greek types, and what there is of the Orient about him is rather more Japanese than Chinese looking. He is still a young man, as generals go, being probably in the neighborhood of fifty. Feng Is entirely devoid of swank and takes as much pride in his work as a small boy does in anew express wagon. lb* personally showed me through his barracks, the cleanest and most wholesome quarters I saw a: vwhore in the interior of China. On every table in the men’s quarters were ink pots arid brushes for writing and a New Testament, Chinese version. Feng’s time, however, was not given over entirely to his troops. He was rounding up opium addicts and putting them through a “cure;” he had cleaned up the red-light districts throughout West Hunan and had established schools for girls. For, a most unusual thing in a Chinese, he insists upon the equality of women. When General Feng left Hunan a howl went up from the people. They liked him and they liked his methods. But he carried his ideas with him to Shensi, north of the Yangtze River, where he went to command the famous Sixteenth Brigade. Commands Third Army Later on, he was promoted to inspector general of the national army, and commander of the 11th Division. At the outbreak of hostilities between North China and Manchuria, Marshal Wu I’ei-fu, commanding the national forces ,put General Feng in command of the third army, embracing the 11th Division, Feng’s own, and several other brigades and detachments. This army was sent against the Jehol sector, northwest of Pekin. But General Feng purposely left behind his own faithful division “to protect the government.” And he. himself, never got more than a few miles from the capital, returning secretly, at night. Suddenly he deserted Marshal Wu, surrounded the palace of President Tsao Kun, forced him to call oil the war and exile Wu to Thibet. A strange procedure for a “Christian general.” But it fits in with the Chinese mind. And then again: “East is East.” Know Indiana When was the first deaf and dumb school established? In 1843 a private school was established by William Willard, a deaf mute. It opened with sixteen scholars. When was it adopted by the State? In 1844. In 1846 new land was purchased and in 1850 the present school was established with nemerous improvements and additions since. Where is the school for feeble minded? At Ft. Wayne. tfm
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ECONOMISTS SUPPORTING LA FOLLETTE Students of Politba/ Science Make Statement Favoring Progressives. Rt/ Times Special r~—l HICAGO, Oct. 2S.—Asserting I v ! that the t,me has com ° for I Ia new political alignment, a number of the most prominent economists and professors of political science in the United States have joined hands in their support of the Progressive ticket. Profs. John R. Commons and John H. Gray, formerly presidents of the American Economic Association; John Dewey, Felix Frankfurter, William F. Ogburn and Robert Morse Lovett axe among the signers of the following statement issued by the educators: “In our judgement, Senators La Follette and Wheeler should be elected because of the progressive platform on which they are nominated, the forces they represent in political life, and their personal character and record. Need Realignment “The time is ripe for a realignment in American polities in such a way 'as to make our parties stand for fundamental issues. There is a natural cleavage between conservatives and progressives. As the dominant elements in both of the old parties represent a basic conservatism, progressives should now unite, even though they differ in details. "Support of the La Follette ticket will help greatly in the formation of anew party and the desired realignment of political forces. Such a party is particularly needed at the present time as a medium through which the neglected in terests of farmers, city workers by hand and brain, and others dependent on their earnings may be more adequately represented, to the end that we may secure a more satisfactory balance in our social life. In Right Direction ’The proposals of the Progressive platform with respect to domestic ■ issues look so generally in the right i direction as to command the support of men and women who believe jin social progress, though they ho'd different social philosophies. Fur- ! thor. the Progressive platform proposes to diminish the danger of war by dealing resolutely with the ! economic causes leading to war, by reducing armaments, by working f >r j the outlawry of war by interna- ! tional agreement and by placing responsibility for making war ui rectly on the conscience of the people.” Ask The Times You can set an answer to any question of tact or inlormatu.n try writiiij to The Indianapolis Turns VVasiiltiSto.i bureau. 1322 New Yu. k An- Wasiiingrton. Pf C.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Med,-a . Pu t, uui - marital advice cannot -be given, nor 1 can extended research !>■ undertaken. j A:', other questions will r-ocive a personal reply. Unsigned requests < annul be answered. All letters are confidential—Editor. Please give the war rtcords of Ed Jackson and Carle ton B. McCulloch. Ed Jackson resigned as Secretary of State to enter the officer’s training camp at Ft. Harrison. He was commissioned as a major and served in this country, a part of the time with the R. O. T. C. at Purdue University. He did not serve overseas. Dr. McCulloch entered the service is a captain in the medical corps, going to France, where he was promoted to major and then lieutenant colonel, i He was decorated with the French croix de guerre for bravery under fire. At the close of the war he was commissioned a colonel in the reserve corps. What are the fringes of hang- j ing rope, suspended from beams | ! over railroad tracks for? These are to warn trainmen who ! might be working on top of freight j cars of the approach of a bridge vr i a tunnel. They are so hung that j they will hit a man if ho is standing up. I Tow many laws have been passed by the Sixty-eighth Congress? Thus far, 290. How old is Bebe Daniels? Twenty-three. Should one use the words "nuthoress" and “poetess" In referring to women writers? No. Author and poet include both sexes. ITow many islands are there In the Philippines group? How many have names? Seveyt thousand eighty-three, of which 2,441 are named and 4,642 are not. When did the Eastland disaster occur; how many lost their lives? July 24. 1915, at Chicago; 852 persons were drowned. Where did the expression “purple and fine linen” originate? Seo the 16th chapter, St. Luke, 19th verse, a reference to a certain rich man who was clothed in “purple and fine linen.’ What would be a pretty color scheme for a living room? Old, ivory, blue and rose. How can I prevent rust from forming in a boiler that will not be used during the summer? Drain the boiler, build enough fire to dry it out well, and then close it up tight. What is the difference between aerobia and anaerobia bacteria? Aerobia bacteria is that which requires free oxygen for the maintenance of vitality. Anaerobia bacteria flourish without free oxygen. May a wife accompany her sailor husband on his transport trips? No, this is against the regulations. For what is the Victoria Cross conferred? This British decoration is conferred for conspicuous bravery. How can pieces of steel be treated to make them rust-proof and yet not ipsul^K^lectrically.
Right Here In INDIANA mOHN P. MARTIN attempted to gain entrance to a dance at the Athenaeum Saturday night without a ticket. The doorkeeper remonstrated vocally and physically. A 4 gun was discharged and young Martin is dead. Probably admission to the dance hall by way of a regular ticket cost fifty cents or a dollar. “Gate crashing” is one of the favorite sports of a certain type of young men. At football games, dances, and any place where youth gathers, the art, prowess, or skill — whichever it may be termed —is exhibited. With “crashers” is isn't the money involved; it's the principle of the thing. The youthful Sioux wasn’t entitled to rank as a brave until he could display the scalp of an enemy. It was immaterial how it was obtained. Its former owner might have been slain by fair combat, treachery or acute indigestion. The scalp itself was the valued trophy. Scalp collecting is now impracticable. Not because of the moral restraint on the practice, but a row of gory scalps dangling from the belt spoil the set of the modish coats worn by aspiring Valentinos. Ho their trophies of personal bravery are foiled doorkeepers. And dances are their happiest hunting grounds. Poor Romeo, with his romantic tenderness, would he a crumpled wall flower at a modern subscription ball. He’d t.e elbowed off the floor by valiant “gate crashers.” Playgrounds HE park board lias adopted its 1925 program of projects for development. They number nine, among which are three playgrounds. These will be in the llaitgliviile section, in Brightwood and on the south side at Miekel and Wyoming Hts. It is gratifying that playgrounds arc included in next year’s program. Indianapolis is well supplied with major parks. And, with the completion of Memorial Plaza, it will possess an unsurpa-ssed beauty spot n the heart of the city. The needs of adults and lovers are provided for—but the city lacks an adequate system of playgrounds for the children. The plans of the park board will supply a real need in three sections next year. But three playgrounds in one year is not exceeding the speed limit. In Boston, where the city pityground idea was born, every neighborhood Is In convenient proximity to a children’s recreation spot. We have tilling stations on every corner to fill our automobiles with tli<- stuff —some times called gasoline —that makes them go. Ho in every neighborhood we need playgrounds. They are filling stations that pour into children of the vicinity the fresh air and red corpuscles without which they can not go. Outdoor play under the canopy of heaven is .better than under the wheels of street cars. Nerve | SHABBY young man hung /VI around tip- Hewrin Coffee! Shop Sunday evening—ordering bits of food at intervals —un- j til nearly closing time. Finally lie approached the cashier! to pay bis bill. As sin- open- and the > cash register to tntike change he j reached for the drawer and drew a ! pistol. It was a well planned hold up. But futile. For the cashier screamed and he lied. His design failed because he lost his nerve. The net result of hours of planning was a brisk sprint through the midnight air into the arms of a policeman. The same thought, time and effort devoted to a legitimate enterprise might have netted a larger profit. Perhaps not. For he had ambition, but lacked nerve. Which is as essential in everyday affair’s as it is for a hold up or other criminal act. And one who faces the perplexities of life unafraid doesn’t need to hold up coffee shops for a livelihood. We are licked by fears, not by actual adversities, or unkind fate. If we give way to the fears we conjure up we are always mentally fleeing from the phantom screams of a spectral cashier, into the arms of n metaphorical policeman. Nerve —which is courage—is the final answer to the human equation. Icy mAMES F. WHITE skipped out end forfeited a $2,000 bond more than a year ago. He has just been apprehended in Lorain, Ohio, and brought back. And an Indianapolis professional bondsman rejoices. He stood to lose hard money unless the missing man was located. White was found In the room where his 8-year-old son lay dead. There handcuffs were slipped on by the bondsman and ho was led away—though the grieving father begged to be allowed to stay in the Ohio city for his boy’s funeral. Business is business. With professional bondsmen and others. Idle sentiment shouldn't be permitted to endanger the safety of such a sum as $2,000. Even if it is necessary to tear a father away from the funeral of his only son. Sentiment is good—but dollars are money. Before Judge Collins Monday, the father related his bereavement and the summary manner in which he was torn away. He was promptly released to attend the funeral. The bondsman’s part in the episode was inglorious. His lack of feeling surprises us. Naturally. For we have nothing at stake in the matter. He did. risked real money. And the a dollar is usSjfMj tap- 7 ■
In New York By JAMES W. DEAN. I. , I iIW YORK, Oct. 28.—As days I grow shorter and nights L. J longer business in Broadway’s gilut-d palaces picks up. Two new cal.nets will have a cover charge of $5 a person. Profits of those night jazz joints average about $2,500 a week. Some of the more successful ones show a profit of $7,500 a week. The Silver Slipper, until it was padlocked by prohibition agents, averaged a profit of SIO,OOO a week and is reported to have made $12,000 one week. The cabarets do not have to have a large patronage to make large profits. Every check represents a profit of 80 per cent. Many well known stage people, especially vaudeville performers, are engaged as entertainers. Some of them have entirely severed their connections with the stage for this work. Their pay often runs into figures. Jimmie Hussey, comedian, is re put'-*! to receive $2.000 a week as a
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MANY SUMMER. HOBOES RETURN TO NEW YORK FOR THE \\ IN : l!i; BECAUSE OF THE WEALTH OF ODD JOBS THERE. ONE OF THE FAVORITES FOR DOWX-AXD-OUTKRS IS THE SANDWICH MAN JOB.
master of ceremonies in a cabaret just opened. The two latest bits of catchy slang in Gotham are, "And I don’t mean maybe!” and “You don’t know the night 1 spent!” You can say either one of them on almost any occasion. "Z7“| ARNEY OLDFIELD, in his |4 palmiest days, could have broken no speed records along the roads about New York on Sunday. For miles in all directions roads are blocked with machines creeping along, fender to fender. Bob Dorman, correspondent, photographer, airplane scout and driving demon, reports that it took liim exactly one hour to travel one mile on the Philadelphia road last Sunday.
Not responsible for loss of buttons or ripping of seams caused by laughter & screams while seeing Samuel (joodwyn’s Production “lia with Potash and Perlmutter and their three vampire beauties, Norma and Constance Talmadge and Betty Blythe WHAT THE CRITICS THOUGHT ABOUT IT. R. APDIRON ADAMS, STAR—Pliintly *nr ,-rlcd . . . Ct?ver, fanny, punchful. WAI-TER WHITWORTH NEWS—Convulsln* y funny . . . Nothing more hilurioua has been even on the silver screen in many a month. WAI.TEIt I). HICKMAN TIMES —Yo are going to travel many days until you run across as much delicious fun as you will find in this new Abe and Masrross film. WpW CIRCLE Won’ STANDING IN THE VAMPIRE VOTING CONTEST TODAY. j 882; Norma TaNnadeejflUSe; Betty Blythe, 449.
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Science Understanding the functions of | the thyroid gland has been one of i the great achievements of modern medical science. It has long been known that this | gland, in the neck, often resulted in j goiter, but why it did this and what , its importance was in the operation ! of the mind and body was unknown until recently. Today it is recognized that over-activity of the gland not only causes goiter but that it has great importance in the development of children. Over-activity of j the gland results in the highlynervous, unduly sensitive child. Un-der-activity frequently means dullJ ness, what is often thought to be I laziness. Sometimes it causes idiocy. Sir William Osier says: “The art jof medicine has made no more brilj liant advance than in the cure of i the disorders due to the disturbed : function of the thyroid gland. That | we can today rescue children otherI wise doomed to helpless idiocy is a j triumph of experimental medicine.”
A Thought Am I my brother’s keeper?—Gen. 4:9. • * Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.—J. G. Holland. Daughter’s Wasted Hint “My, those hot dogs smell good.” “I’ll drive a little closer to the stand.”—Exchange. Hubby’s Comeback “Suppose I should conclude to publish your k>ve letters?” “Why not simply make a public acknowledgment that you married an idiot!”—London Mail.
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Evening By IL-VL COCIIRAN A little old lady in soft effect gray sits dreaming and passing the drear hours away. She’s buried in thought and her mind is a tease, just wafting around like the cool fall-time breeze. Peek into the mind that has lived on through years, and what will you find? Cause for joy and for tears. Her life is at evening; she’s dreaming of dawn. Her memory traces to days that have gone. There once was a time when a home was her own. But death entered there and it left her alone. She's watched kiddies grow into women and men. just a portion of life she will ne'er live again. But there’s comfort in day-dream-ing back to the time when life was a poem in meter and rhyme; when right in the prime of her life she was dressed, with happiness, comfort and everything blessed. This little old lady, in soft effect gray, sits dreaming and p:tssing the drear hours away. The dream is of dawn that brings evening time light. All her conscience is clear and she’s ready for night. Copuri'Jht, 192 i. XEA Service Tom Sims Says Some of the people who know ail the football scores don’t know who is running for President. Sometimes the only reason for divorce is the chairs in the parlor are not comfortable. Women will meet in Washington to find a cure for war. We don’t know which war, unless it is the last one. ■You can boil some microbes in oil and they will still live. This proves microbes and politicians differ. Autoists, says a dealer, do not take proper care of their tires. Nor, we ttdd, of their friends. A pessimist is a man who has been listening to a mechanic explain what his car needs. And about this early bird stuff, a policeman tells us It Is the early revenue officer who gets the worm. The melancholy days have come, the most beautiful of the year. A rosebud mouth is a very beautiful thing—while closed. It will soon be time to start wishing it was summer again. The reason some merchants have to charge so much is they have to charge everything. The will of the people is sometimes broken. You never hear a man brag about how good a boy he was. A bachelor is a man who is so selfish he even wants to keep all of his troubles for himself. People who sit in the back row at church belong in the front row. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)