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NICHOLSON MAX who is seeking a seat in the Indiana Legisla[U lature in Marion County stands out considerably above the general run of legislative aspirants. That man is Meredith Nicholson. Democratic nominee for the State Senate. Nicholson and his work possibly are better known outside of Indianapolis than they are in his home city. Besides being an author, he is a citizen who has given considerable thought to public affairs and who is well qualified to serve his State. Nicholson will be making considerable sacrifice in going to the Legislature. But he is seeking the office because he believes he can be of service. Legislatures, for the most part, are made of very ordinary individuals who are seeking some particular end, frequently political preferment. Nicholson is seeking a seat in the Indiana Legislature in order that he may do his part in solving the problems that will come before that body. He is capable of giving these problems clear, logical thought and consideration. Indiana needs this kind of a man in the General Assembly. Vote for him Tuesday. WHOSE LIVING? MELLON’S! HE HONORABLE Andrew W. Mellon, part owner of the aluminum trust, and also Secretary of the Treasury, contends that the high tariff on aluminum established by the Ford-ney-MeCumber bill is necessary to maintain an American standard of living for aluminum company employes. That has interested the Knoxville “Sentinel” enough to inquire as to what is this American standard of living which means so much to Mr. Mellon. Near Knoxville is one of the Mellon aluminum plants. The “Sentinel” found that the company pays 25 cents an hour for eight hours per day, making $2 a day, but gives a bonus of $2 per week to men willing to work fiftysix hours a week, that is, seven days a week. That wage means that Mellon private employes near Knoxville can earn about £BOO a year, which is slightly more than onethird what the Department of Labor tells Mr. Mellon, as a public employer spending Uncle Sam’s money, is necessary to maintain an American standard of living for the average family. All of which is interesting, in view of the fact that the 40 per cent profits of the aluminum trust are taken by law, acting through the tariff, out of the pockets of the American people. American Standard of Living! It’s a wonderful article when a rich man is before a committee of Congress grasping for reasons for a tariff for which there is no excuse. But it’s twice as wonderful, after the tariff is in force and the living that Congress thought it was guaranteeing the American workman can be diverted into the pockets of those who own the trust. Oh. Boy! Long live the American standard of living! TAXES AND PUBLICITY "T" LOT OF WEEPING and gnashing of teeth is gnin r ' to rx waste because the Secretary of the Treasury has made public the income taxes paid by all of us and the papers have seen fit to publish the amounts dug up and paid over to Uncle bam by certain ones of us. A lot of chuckles are being chucked hv folks who have been curious enough to scan the lists to find out what neighbors paid in the way of taxes —which is all of us. A lot of predicting is going on to the effect that the publicity clause of the new tax law won’t last long when Congress hears from the folks whose income tax payments have been made public. Which is probably as the Honorable Secretary of the Treas- ( nrav intended. Brother Mellon, be it recalled, fought the movement for publicity of income taxes up the aisles and down the halls of Congress. He dragged the President, and Big Business, and his rich friends into the fight. And lost! But he is still fighting publicity, and the officials of his department are among those who are prognosticating in high that the tax law will be changed by Congress They have another guess coming. Congress inserted the publicity clause in the tax bill because members of Congress were denied the facts regarding tax refunds to big corporations and rich men, even after Senator Couzens of Michigan had brought to light that tax payments and refunds were so irregular that several hundred Treasury employes had to discharged because of them. It may be slightly embarrassing to eertain rich men to have their tax secrets made public—though this paper can think of no good reason why it should be, if incomes are honestly reported and taxes honestly paid—hut it is highly gratifying to the hundred-odd millions of the rest of the folks to know that special favors to big taxpayers are made more difficult by the light of income tax publicity. The chances are that Congress, instead of repealing the publicity clause, as Treasury officials predict, will improve it and Strengthen it. And that’s what should happen.

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NEW DAY IN POLITICS PREDICTED Jane Addams, Noted Woman Social Worker, Sees Rebirth of Interest. By V f'A Service Cr*— inOAGO, Nov. 1. —We're shooting adrenalin irrto politics. That’s the belief of Jane Addams, internationally known humanitarian Sand sociologist, frequently called the 1 best known woman in America. 1 Peering into the future on one of ; those rare occasions when she talks for publication. Miss Addams. in an evclusive interview with NEA Service and The Indianapolis Times, predicted a realignment in the Republican and Democratic parties. Likewise she foresees a rebirth of interest in the affairs of State on the part of non-voters. All this, she says, will come as a result of th" present three-cornered political melee. See Realignment ‘‘The country can bo glad of the trend politics is baking." she says "Live issues are being brought into the open. Polks are commencing to feel they really have something for which to vote. That is a good sign “The body politic was nearing senescence. its issues were neutral. They meant nothing. And the nonvoter was tin apathetic aftermath. "Now a metaphorical adrenalin is being administered. Politics is commencing to stand for something—mean something. "To get out the vote you have first to obtain the voter’s interest. "Heretofore we have had just the cut and dried two old parties. They were harrl to distlngiil.-h. They had subsid'd into almo-t a neutrality. Such things are bad when the voter’s vote is needed. “I believe a realignment will lake place before long. The Progressives, standpatters and Tories will group by themselves. “That will be a good thing. It will interest voters. And when you interest voters they go to the polls Favors league * "Compulsory voting would he dreadful. It would he like compulsory church attendance —trying to set a good example, so to speak. ] “I fini glad for the turn politics ! 1r taking. Beneficial results will fol- j low that will affect every one.” Miss Addams favors the League; of Nations. "Peace lg the greatest thing the world needs today,” she said. “The I/eague of Nations is a means to peace. It is a splendid, practical device. "The league stands for more than just ending of war. It means ae | oompUshme.nt. This country would do well t.o enter the league. "Koine day, lam sure, it will.” j

COLORADO KLAN FOR COOLIDGE At Same Time Ku-Klux Is Fighting Senator La Follette. Hv Times (Special ENVER, Colo., Nov. I.—The Ku-Klux Klan of Colorado is enthusiastically and wholeheartedly behind President Coolidge and is, with equal enthusiasm, against Robert M, La Follette. There are two reasons for this support. The first is that the Klan has captured the complete Republican machinery in this State and lias entered a masked ticket from Governor down to county judges. The second is that the organization has been “signally honored,” as Klan leaders put it, by the appointment of Rev. William Oeschger, exalted cyclops of ’Klan No. 1, as a stump speaker for the party. The complete tie-up between the Republican national committee and the Klan was exposed when the grand dragon of this State, Dr. J. G. Locke, read at a great Klan meeting recently a communication from Republican headquarters asking that the dragon appoint “a good Klan lecturer” to go on a mission in the Middle West In behalf of Coolidge. He therefore, it was announced, appointed Rev. Mr. Oeschger to carry the message, and Oeschger is now stumping La Follette’a home State, Wisconsin.

Klan Sweeps State In the Republican State convention, and later in the primaries, the Klan, bossed openly and publicly by she grand dragon, swept every State candidate into office, with one exception. At the State Republican convention the grand dragon, with his suite, occupied a “royal” box and directed the conduct of the convention by messages to the floor leaders, and following this evidence ,of activity, he opened an office next door to the official Republican headquarters In a Denver hotel, where he has Keen holding sway ever since. In conference with Senator Phipps, a “Newberry” supporter arid now one of Coolidge's ardent boosters in Colorado, the grand dragon appointed the entire management and office force for the G O P. campaign, a move so bold that It resulted in the bolting of seventeen Republican committeemen outside of Denver, none of whom are this year working for the ticket. It resulted In the resignation, as well, of George H. Shaw, for four years Republican State chairman, Ivlaliflf .Makes Statement Finally, it resulted in an open declaration through bis own newspaper, The Colorado Springs Gazette, by (Iterance C. Hamlin, Colorado national committeeman, that “support of the national ticket did not carry with its the necessity of supporting the head of the State ticket,” Judge Clarence J. Morley, klahff of the Denver Klan. Every automobile corning from Kastle Mountain where the Klan holds its weekly political meetings, is adorned with two posters in red, white and blue, one says “Coolidge for President,” the other says “Morley for Governor,” Reading Matter By HAL COCHRAN What do you read, when you read, young man? What is it that takes your eye? What sort of script do you daily scan; what sort of books do you buy? Newspapers, surely, for every one does, no’s to know what’s the news Os the day. Sc !!<■>:■ ads and si ,1 Ml make reedin’ folks buzz ere they're throwin’ the paper away. Car ads that scream fnm the street car sides; bulllboards that fair seem to yell. A man always sees ’em whenever he rides and he reads what they're aimin' to tell. Latest of novels that come from the shop where bookworms and other folks drift. Good selling titles that make a man stop. Talcs that give tiredness a lift. Constantly rindin’! We're all at the game, and from this unto that we will roam. The heat resilin' matter? Allow me to name, the let ters you get from hack home. (Copyright. 1324, NEA Service, Inc.)

JANE ADDAMS.”

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Ask The Times You can gel an answer tv any question ul £ act u: ;aiurmatioa by wr.ua; to The Indian..;'' .is T••:.<•<> W .Wunfioa Bureau, 1322 New Ym Av. VV.iu- --. 1)rIon 1.). C . inc'.oainr 2 cents m a tamps for reply. legal and marital advice cannut be tr.cen o r eaa extended research be undertaken, i A.! other .pj. stior-, will r>.•!<• .. personal rrp!j 1 . demit cat .ot i be :.!!■ rd. A., letters art; confidential.—Editor. Does cutting a hen’s wings to prevent it from flying ever fences j stop it from laying? ! No ’ : Is there a verse in the Bible that contains all the letters of the . alphabet, and. if s.> what is it? There is no verse in the Bible | that contains all the letters of th< ■alphabet. However, all the letter ! exe. pt “J" are tc be found in Ezra j 7:21. j How long will mdar shingles j last? j They have been known to last as long as sixty years, but the average length of endur nee for untreated cedar shingif is about j thirty year rDo any foods contain alcohol? ! Any canned fruit, after jt has fermented, contains a certain amount |of alcohol. Vinegar contains a (slight amount of alcohol, as do ail ; flavoring extracts. j Is the District of Columbia a j State or a territory? | Neither. It is a Federal District, Get aside under the provis >ns of ' the Constitution of the United I States, over which Congress has exI elusive jurisdiction. What is the average life of a , horse? About 35 years. They have been known to live to CO years and over. How many verses does the Bible contain? The King James translation contains 31.191 verses; there ar.- 23.214 in the Old Testament and 7.in the New Testament. How ati scratches he removed from celluloid? By carefully brushing the surface of the celluloid with glacial acetic acid and allowing to dry. The acid should not be allowed to come in contact with the skin. Nature An owl’s plumage is certainly adapted to his mode of living and hunting. It is fluffy, and the wing tips, instead of having stiff edges, like most: birds', are bordered with a fringe of soft feathers. This allows "Wise Eyes” to glide soundlessly through the air on his hunting sprees. An owl's digestive sys fern is peculiar. He swallows his prey, as nearly whole .as possible, and then lets his stomach sort out the nourishing, rejecting the other. Bird feathers, hones, hair of mice, etc., are rolled into pellets in the owl’s stomach. Later they are thrown up. Owls remain mated for life and are very devoted. A Thought The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.—Prov. 30:25. * * * r.onk ere thou leap, see ere thou go.—Thomas Tusser. Family Fun Foijed Bluebeard smiled as he opened the closet door and saw the bodies of his former wives hanging by their gory tresses. Then he snarled as he toik a, look at his next prospective victim. “Curses!” he screamed. "She’s got her hair bobbed!”—American Legioner Weekly. Not for Brother “Well, I wouldn’t want to hold a girl on my lap for thirty miles in an automobile.” "You’re not very romantic.” "No, and if I can help It I ain't gonna get rheumatic either.” —• Youngstown Telegram. Tommy’s Sunday Schooling "Did Moses have a bad head- ! ache?” "No, why?” “Well, the teacher in Sunday | school said that God gave him two i tablets.” —Exchange.

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WOMAN WHO SERVES U. S. SPEAKS OUT \ * She is Assistant Attorney Genera! in Charge of Prohibition. Times Hureau, lr. • \nr York .4 re. ASHINGTi >N. Nov. I —ls you iyyi i' : ilu* left eyebrow just a . 1 ti.fi', in .skepticism, when v ■ *:: hear stories to the eit'*vt that i there's a woman assistant Attorney Gem ml here in Washington who dans talk right out in meeting about prohibition and politics, you ■ ran hardly be blamed. But. nevertheless and notwithstanding. the lady is not a myth. She lives and breathes, has an office in the Department of Justice and calmly states, whenever she sc s in, that prohibition is not properly enforced because prohibition officers arc usually appointed for political reasons and not for lability or Integrity. She is Mrs. Mabel Walker Wilie- ' brandt. ! Some years ago, Mrs. Willebrandt acquired considerable practice in ; mastering hard situations by teaching school out in frontier red school houses where her pupils were not lisping babes but tough ; young things who pulled out knives : mice in a while. Don't Frighten Her It was good training for handling bootleggers and politicians. They don’t frighten her. She looks them • in the ey<t, and that’s that. Who is she. whence, and why? Mrs Willebrandt was horn out in : Texas, and her parents drifted from : rnc small west ern town to another. ; She neve attended school until she , was thirteen. But when she started, she started with a vengeance. Four years later she had her teacher’s certificate and was herself instructing the young. She taught In Michigan and then in Arizona, attending normal school at the same time until she was grad- | uated. Then she taught some more, | and studied holidays, nights and j other spare moments In the Ferris : Institute, Michigan. , The text move was California. : She was principal of a Los Angeles school, hut couldn’t ho content with that small task, so she enrolled in j the law sehol of University of ! Southern California for late afternoon and evening classes. Khe*was admitted to the bar in 1913. Meanwhile. Mrs. Willebrandt had discovered that foreigners in Los Angeles were being exploited by tin- * scrupulous attorneys eager to got : hold of their life savings. Establishes Job So. in the midst of her school teaching by day and her law studies by night. Mrs. Willebrandt found time to campaign for and establish the post of public defender in I sis Angeles. She took charge of the woman’s end of the office and handled some 2.000 cases. When | her school teaching days were over and Mrs. Willebrandt was fairly launched on her legal career, it was only a matter of five years until she was a person of prominence in legal circles. She had found time, too, to serve as chairman of the legal advisory board in connection with the draft, to work in the Republican State committee, belong to the Bar Association and act as legislative chairman of a large club of women. In 1921 she was appointed assist-, ant attorney general with control of the institution, direction and dismissal of all cases connected with liquor law enforcement, and with corporation, income and excess profits taxes. She took the place on the understanding that she was not to be a nice lady figurehead, but an assistant attorney general with as much authority as any other assistant attorney general. That’s the story of the woman who is cleaning up prohibition. Since her frank discussion of politics in enforcement, four United! States attorneys have been and j six others have been asked or have ; volunteered to resign. She’s going to do more. By the way, she’s only 35 years j old. $

Tom Sims Says ! Flies travel at the rate of five feet a second, hut it takes them all summer to leave you alone. Most suicides occur in midsummer, so this is one thing which cannot lie blamed upon the price of coal. More thmi 800,000 women pay inj come taX in this country, but most Os them are cither already mar- ; rie<i or ugly. The average brunet has forty-six : miles f hair on her head and a few a res on her comb. But the average blond has ninety miles of hair, which may be why .they are considered faster. Even though the daily production > "f tires in Akron has reached 70,000, j ao puncture shortage Is reported. There is one motor vehicle J'or '■very 7.2 people in the United Sr i?es, the fraction probably being | father. Thomas Edison eats spinach, to- ! in a toes', carrots and sardines three I times i day. Anyway, they claim j iie does. j Learning to write shorthand is i very easy. The only difficult part is j reading it afterward. The dingo or wild dog of Austria* i Ha catches sheep, real sheep, and | not tin" kind the stock market • Itches. i Egyptian ivory often cracks In temperate zones, so should never be used in congressional heads, (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Science Over sixty years ago a star that was known merely by initials and i number was catalogued by astronomers. This star is visible to the naked eye. It shows a slight, barely pejrepiihle gleam of light. This star is now known as the Parkett Twin Star. Recently its light was analyzed with the aid of monster spectroscopic Instruments in a government observatory at Victoria, B. C. This and further study of the obscure star revealed some startling facts. The star is really two stare. The smaller is over 12.000 times brighter than the sun and is • ight billion times the size of the arth. The two flaming halls of gas revolve around each other with a j respective speed of 12S and 153 miles a minute. They are three times as hot as the sun and they are about fifty-two million billion miles from the earth. The light that was analyzed In the Victoria observatory left the twin stars and started for the earth 10,990 years ago, centuries before his tory started. Know Indiana What Legislature was it that adjourned itself in the absence of the I Governor? The territorial Legislature of 1814. j The Legislature passed a resolution, pointing out that its business was ] completed, that the Governor was ill and could not be present to prorogue it, that it cost the State SSO a day when in session and that it would therefore summarily adjourn itself upon order of the Governor’s secretary. What was the popualtlon increase from JSIO to 1816? 24,520 to 63,897. Were slaves held in Indiana after j the ordinance of 1787? Yes. the most popular guise being to use them as apprentices. The Robber Shop The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. "If signs go for anything,” said! a woman in the end chair this more- I ing. “the baby next door Is going to j grow up into a howling mob.” Captain Clinchpenny, who can j speak Spanish, Chinese and seven j other languages, uses most of his i words while missing golf balls. “A honeymoon In an airplane may beAgood enough for some folks,ys Blondy, the manicure, "but ake my chancer with the good fO.?) ills of Niagara.”

SATURDAY. NOV. 1, 1924

Right Here In INDIANA

By Gaylord Nelson'

mHREE Indianapolis business men are anxious to have the new Kessler boulevard extended east from Meridian St. to the Monon Railroad. So they make an unsual proposal to the park board. They agree to buy the fractional parts of lots left —after the location of the boulevard—-from the board at the same price per foot it paid for the original lots. The action is public spirited, yet it has a personal motive. Which is no secret. They want the boulevard extended because of property they 1 will own adjacent to it. A selfish motive. Yet it’s self interest that prompts all civic improvements. Boulevards are luxuries. They are not necessary for the transportation jof vegetables or for bare existence. ; But they increase a city’s attractivej ness and increase property values i far beyond the cost of the improve- ! ments. Not only in the immediate j vicinity but throughout the entire I city. People can live in hovels amid hog- ! wallows. But they don’t enjoy it. They prefer attractive surroundings, j A city with many public improve- | ments is attractive and desirable. \ There people want to come and set- ; tie. And where people want to live j real estate is valued by the square | foot instead of the acre. So while boulevards are costly municipal shrubs the luscious fruit in dollars and cents they yield amply repays their cultivation.

Larceny PATROLMAN on the police force and two rnen—who were night watchmen at the fairground during the Industrial j Exposition—were arrested the other | day on charges of petit larceny. They were charged with taking merchandise from display booths. For which they were convicted in ! city court. Within recent weeks thirteen | Chicago police officers v- r ere arrested for complicity in burglaries and other felonies. A short time pre--1 vious a trusted member of the \ Federal secret service was jailed i charged with connection with .the ■ s2,oo(*.ihio mail train- robbery I at | Readout. 111. Every now and then some pre- ■ sunied suppressor of crime finds himself behind the bars looking out | instead of outside looking in. Familiarity with crime breeds contempt—some times for law. i Constant association with lawbreakers develops in one—whose ■ character has not hardened from its original mushy state—a lawless ; point of view. Every law enforcement agency fails.to keep the skirts |of all its frail human instruments out of the mire they are engaged to mop up. Because, like the chameleon, a ■ man takes color from his surround- , ings and associations. One can’t play with mud pies without be- ! coming soiled. But one can wash ; afterwards. And fortunately most of those I handling crime wash so its smudge doesn’t become ingrained in their , character. Otherwise it would be a dirty world. Learning N Indianapolis, with a school population of 50,000, only 143 school children, under the age ! of Hi, were granted working permits ; in September and October. This is approximately one-half as ; many as were granted during the j same period last year, and only onetenth of the number four years ago. The day of the strong back and the weak mind has passed. Indianapolis parents realize this. | They show an almost unanimous deI termination to give their children ; at least an elementary education. Brawn ruled world affairs when ; knighthood flowered. Then readring and writing were rare disease-, not useful accomplishments. Only a ! - s iokly, deformed child was exposed to learning. Because tt didn’t matter. He was worthless anyway. It was Richard the Lion-hearted and other muscle-bound lads in hardware suits, who fought the Saracens by day and delirium trein- ! end !> y night, that, counted. A man ! was despired unless he had hairy ; hands and a thick ekulL It took a long time to correct this popular notion that scholar and milksop were synonymous, t But it has been corrected. Book learning is the rule instead of the exception, and the demand for popular education is universal. For the complications of clvllization are too much for brawn. The modern world Is rocked by the explosions of tiny brain cells. Carnival AST night the ghosts walked danced and limped ail over the downtown streets. Span ish cavaliers, clowns, duchesses, peasants, red flannel union suits and nondescript imps rubbed elbows, blew squawkers and hurled confetti and serpentine. It was Halloween-—All Souls Eve —when graveyards yawn. And graveyards must have done something besijje gape at sight of the costumes worn by some spooks. Spirits were abroad in garb that would make a %ecorous burying ground choke and fall over in a faint Instead of yawn. For the carnival spirit was out for its annual airing. From the Circle outward for a block in every direction the streets were given over to merrymaking and frolic. To most people the daily griild is serious business—with very little red fire and few comic capers done In grease paint. Yet somewhere down beneath the callouses rubbed on our souls by' rough contact with hard facts there is a joyous little imp longing to play. That’s the carnival spirit. It doesn’t aceomtriish much In an I economic sense. It doesn’t build railroads, tunnel mountains or make an awe-inspiring income tax return. But it adds immeasurably to happiness. And when she carnival spirit dies within us there is another job for the undertaker.