Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1924 — Page 4

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WHILE DOHENY POIPS OIL OUT in Los Angeles, the alibi artists arc busy building up anew excuse for the illegal leasing of the Navy’s oil reserves to private exploiters. Their alibi now for the secrecy with which the oil reserves were turned over to Doheny and Sinclair bv Secretaries Fall and Denby is that it was necessary in view of the arms conference, then in sesion at Washington. IT. Foster Bain, director of the Bureau of Mines, testified that the arms conference couldn’t get Japan to agree to naval armament limitation if she knew the Navy’s oil was being swapped by a private deal between Fall and Doheny for a naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., issued the secrecy order, Bain testified. That was a strange thing for a Roosevelt to he doing. When the great T. R. wanted to keep peace with Japan, he sent the Navy around the world, causing it to visit Japan, where the Japanese could see it. When T. R., Senior, wanted naval bases in Hawaii, the Phillippines and Guam, he went to Congress and asked for the money in the constitutional way. The Doheny defense, which included underlintrs of the former Fall and Denby regimes still on the public pay roll, is trying to fan patriotism into an alibi fop the Fall-Dohenv-Sin-clair deals. The defence is trying to make folks forget about Doheny's SIOO,OOO to Fall in a little hlaek suitcase. The real reasons for the secrecy with which Fall delivered the Navy’s oil to Doheny and Sinclair are well fixed in the public mind. They are: Swapping the Xavv’s oil for a naval base at Pearl Harbor, without congresisonal authorization, is illegal nad unconstitutional. anti Fall and Doheny and Denby and Roosevelt knew it. If this private deal had become known to the public at the time, the popular protest would have saved the naval oil reserves before the private exploiters could get their well dinners on the ground. As it i.>. under the dark cloak of secrecy, the wells were sunk, some oil was pumped, and the United States is in the courts, ASKING the return of the naval reserves. The case rests, while Doheny pumps oil.

SLUSH FUNDS 017 BOOMERANGS hyd HEN the average human runs up against an abuse that IW he sees no way himself to correct, he generally remarks. “There ought to he a law—etc.” We have acquired the habit of looking to a paternal government to fix things up for us; and one of the evil results of this attitude of mind is a loss of self-reliance. After every presidential campaign we fall hack on our there-ought-to : be-a-law remedy for what’s the matter with us. We have tried that remedy repeatedly. But, so far. none of the laws, nor all of them put together, makes much change for the better. It seems to he impossible under any corrupt-practices act to prevent spending money without limit by those who think they have good reason for spending it. Publicity helps whether it results in more law or not. Probably the Borah committee could accomplish quite as much by a searching inquiry into the campaign contributions and their expenditures by all party committees, individuals and other organizations, as Congress can accomplish by enacting new laws or patching up the old ones. For. after all. the remedy for this admitted evil lies with the pe<*pie themselves. If the lavish expenditure of money in elections doesn’t offend their sense of political morality, then no matter how many laws we have, their spirit will be violated with impunity. Until we have developed a sound and earnest moral sense on this practice all political parties will collect all the money they ean get their fingers on and spend it as they see fit. And that means that the battle will go to the strong—financially. Hence the importance of the Borah committee going to the very root of the evil, now that the election is over and no party can be helped or harmed immediately by what the committee reveals. We will get more real good out of a searching investigation after an election than while a campaign is on. If the people get all the facts concerning all the parties, and find out where all the money came from and who got- it, why it was contributed, the relation between campaign contributions and governmental favors, then the people will have facts upon which to reach conclusions. Out of it may then come a moral sense that will make the lavish expenditure of money to control government defeat, its own end. And if there is any way of curing the disease by legislation that way will develop when there is an insistent public demand for it. We suspect that one reason why the public fails to work lip much indignation over the use of money in political campaigns is that there isn’t any real difference between parties in this particular brand of morality, and that those who yell the loudest against the party that gets the biggest fund would like to change places with them and get the big end of the political purse themselves. Publicity is first aid if not the final remedy. “THE NEW automobiles are more striking than ever,’’ says an advertisement. Good night, nurse! AN ARAB, on the way to execution, is safe if he can hut lay hold of the skirts of a woman. llow different here! AN EASTERN philosopher says the place to study family character is in the garbage can. There is something in it, if you get the meaning. E THE most potent words in the constitution of the United ■tates are its initial announcement: “We, the People of the United States.” THE ARCHITECT who once got his reputation from a skyor a cathedral now tries his art on a filling station or a

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Secretary of State Frank E Lucas is acting Governor of Wyoming. He stepped into the guhernatorial oflice following the death of Governor William B. Boss. In New York NEW YORK. Nov. s.—Judge Elbert H. Gray, steel magnate, has d!o\- 19 in the famous Golden Horse shoe of tie Metropolitan Optra | which has just opened its season i with “Aida. - It is reported along Broadway that he paid Henry Kr;< k : •'- || .i.oiio for the box. i In thirty-one years only seven Guide hot (hanged hands. Tn Hit- the thlriy- . five boxes in the charmed virile i were sold for $30,000 e-i.-lt. tuu the I purchasers paid an additional ?30. t‘o<i tax to support the venture. The original holders drew lots for | choice and J. I*. Morgan won th v 1 draw. H>> selected Box 37>, the one !farthest from the stage. He was also | seventh in. the draw and took Box 31 as his second choice. However, : some of the high-hats were disap I pointed in the drawing and cot;cessions had to he made. In ‘he anal alignment Cornelius Vanderbilt was ! installed in Box 11. i Due not only buys social prestige ! when purchasing a box in the Golden Horseshoe. He makes a worthwhile investment as well. Tite property on which the Metrop an I stands at Fortieth St. and Broadway was recently appraised at •l, 059,000 by the city. And if one doesn't care to attend i every perform a tie- a box a i 's

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JUFT TWENTY FIVE 1 EARS. A BARE tjl A KTEK ftF A GEXTEKV, A HiKS THE 811-I EKEN'T: bet a KEN THIS SCENE AND CON GKSTEI -. MECHANICAL l-oKT' .SECOND ST.. NEW* Y< iRK. To DAY. THE PLODDING CAR iloßSikS DREW THEIR LOADS FROM FERRY TO FERRY AT 'HOE ENDS OF i'll II STREET.

six scats can easily be rented for Sloo. There are 120 performances during the season. • • * With only seven changes in own orshlp In the Golden Horseshoe it Is to be presumed that the upper crust of Now York society has te en dented but little since 1592. • • • Along the North lUvcr docks. . . . A Portuguese sailor with ft livid scar on his neck, his blouse turned down ns though to boast of the scar. What's his story???? A grizzled old fellow in rags watching the tide flow up the river. Watching and seeing nothing. What’s his story???? Under a sidetracked freight car a young fellow, filthy and unkempt, curled up there .like a bit of Human flotsam washed ashore. What’s his story???? Out "fa window above a squalid livery stable, a little boy peers. Rale, wistful, lonely. Itncie diately before him nothing but human scum passes. In the background great ships come and go from the seven seas. Os what i.s he dreaming? What will his story be????

Nature !ti cities of Southern Kurope herds of gnats tire driven through the streets to be milked at patron’s doors. It is a common sight in Naples to see a goat climb two or more flights of tenement stairs, so as to serve a customer at his very door. A pig’s sense of smell is said td he as keen as that of a dog. In France pigs are taught to hunt for an edible fungi—-truffles—which grow upon roots of trees, below ground’s surface. Raising a Wind A colored preacher was comparing the church to a ship. ’’Now. breddern.” he went on, “when you have de ship ready and de sails all up, what does yo’ need fer to make de sails till out and scoot de ship right along into de hebbenly harber? Huh?” “Wind,” said old Deacon Simpson in a low tone. “Jesso! Perzackly!” continued the pastor. “Brudder Simpson will pliii.se circ-’Jate wid 14b high hat au' de wind.”—Boston Transcript.

U. S. ASKED TO ASSIST THE INDIANS Program Will Be Placed Before Congress by Defense Society, /*.-' Time* Sprciiit ] AN FRANCISCO. Nov. 5.—A constructive program in behalf of the American Indians will be. placed before the next Congress by the American Indian Defense Association. John Collier, secretary. has announced the following general planks in the demands: 1. Laws giving to the Indians the rights of American citizens. This includes not merely the right to vote, but habeas corpus, trial by ! jury, free speech and assembly and j ih- ending of the system of practical | serfdom. 2. Complete reorganization of the Indian si rvieo This includes transfer of most of the Indian functions to the Agriculture Department and taking them from the Interior Do--1 pa.rtmeii!, which has become little more than a bureau for getting rid ! of the Nation's natural resources. 1. Transfer of nodical rare of the Tndiat s to the public health service This would give needed aid in meeting the terrible problems of disease ravaging the tribes. More than thirty thousand Indians are going blind from trachoma, and at least twenty five thousand have tubereulosis. The infant mortality among Indians is double that among white populations and the dental service is so poor that Tndlan i given the opportunity ■-f seeing tiie dentist once in fori y-ft- :r years 4. Repeal es the gag rules new operating as a sort of peacetime mar tia! l.'iW over 123.0<Mt square miles iof Indian territories. This rule, enforced bv the Indian bureau, has effectively shut from the American people the tragi • story of Indian suffering, and has excluded from tho ' reservation social service workers, * scientists and even missionaries. A Thought Thou shelf come to thy grave in a full age. like a shuck of corn cometh in his season.—Job. .9:26 The vita produces me re grapes i when it is young, but better grapes ! for wine when it is old. because ! ?j. e, , , • more perfectly cono. t.B o on.

Tongue Tips GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, English author: "Those who have attacked the Ivtlior party’s attitude said the Russian government had not paid its debts, but they said nothing about the French government, which owes tho British gov- ' WALTER JOHNSON, premier baseball pitcher: "No, Pm not nn old man with whiskers. Why shouldn't a tnan I** in the majors twenty years, If he takes care of himself.* When I started, a green country bov, some of tho old timers gave mo some good advice. “Cut out the drinking, smoking and carousing around,’ they said. I al ways thanked them for it.” MISS ALICE SANDIFORD, national director Girl Scouts of America: “(>f t lio 300,000 girl scouts wo have in America, by far the greatest majority of them tire more Interested in home work and baby nursing than they are 1n office work or professional careers."

DB. RDITTI BRYAN, Berkeley, Cal.; “The mental state of persons has much to do with the physical condition. if physicians had long ago admitted the relation of mind to body, there would have been no occasion today for tho cults which declare medicine is rot needed." Know Indiana What was “state scrip?” In 1830, $1,">00,000 in scrip, bearing 0 per cent, was issued and receivable for tax payments, in order to relieve the indebtedness due to overexpansion in internal improvement. The expedient failed. How was the debt of 1840 paid. Governor James Whitcomb arranged to dissipate the bonded debt by turning over the Wabash and Krie canal lands to the creditors and to issue bonds bearing less interest In exchange for the remainder outstanding. When was the first Thanksgiving proclaimed in Indiana? In IS3T by Governor David Wallace.

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Ask The Times You can get an arnw-r to any <iu<* •• tien of tael or giformalioii by anti:,: to The ImiiHJcUKi i Tines Wad,. :.;lri bureau, lag: Scv v • o v-. iVo ~ I) C . inclosm? g In etanui? for reply. Medical. 1-gat ird marital adn,T cannot tw, given nor can exn rear ir be ui ■". - A : Other quest:*’. q wit: r-c. t \ a : -r .1 i•*- c• 1 -it. All lettcrafarc eanteisxitia! Kalitor On an average, how long does a ti dung vessel from Now England Slav on the Grand Banks? About a week, although sometimes they stay three nr four weeks, depending upon tho length of time it 1 tin m to get a load, and we.uk or conditions Win, is the youngest capfa’n • m ployed by the I t.iU'd States ship p.ng board’’ t'apt George R. Griffith. 26 years old, captain of the I-ifoeme, a fre-'hr chip sailing from New fir1, i; to the South American pur's. Which sports are the most strenin : , on the wind? i • xir:'. football, handball wres tling. swimming, running, tennis ' at; l basketball What are some good appetizers to feed poultry':’ The knifed States Department of Agriculture does no* recommend the folding of tiny soeiilleil appot./.ers to poultry, although Borne pou' ry nn n fed 1 pet cent of salt or r< i pepper in the wet nut sit. The ! ■■ns -lionld 'oe mad' to oaf their so-1 wi*bout any appetizers Keep the mash U'fnre them all the nme and i-u; diiwii on tiie scratch f-•*.*-1 until they eat more mash. What State has the greatest per '.age of surfaced roads in the t niteii States? Ii dun,a; withs total ! "lid mileage of 70.2 tt>. of which there are 7 miles of surfaced t ads. Who discovered helium gas? "Whore i.s it. found? It was discovered in the sun by Loekyer in ISOS by means of tiie spectroscope during an eclipse. It occurs also in association with argon and pitrognn. It i.s also found in the stars, in small rtuantifios in the earth's atmosphere, in gases yielded by certain mineral waters, and in meteoric iron. How should the Seven Sister Ramblers be planted. One foot deep in good rich soil, in a sunny location, between Oct. Is and Nov. 15. Which representative at the peace table at Versailles obtained most for his country? It is a question whether Lloyd George won the most fur Great Britain, or Olemeneeau obtained t lie most for Franco. When did (lie Roman Catholics cotne to America? In 1492, with Columbus, who was himself a devout Catholic. What is the population of Europe? Tho estimated population 1s 476,000,000.

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The smallest church in the world, St. Anthony’s chapel (above), three miles from Festina, lowa, nolds exactly eight persons. Thousands of tourists visit each year.

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CONGRESS WILL HA VE HUGE JOBS Important Measures Pending Before Legislative' , Body, lim<A IIN/sMn'yfon Hurrnu, l rg .Ycir York A'<*. TT-TTI ASHING !'! i.\\ N-w i. —When \v/ Congress a sop,hies in De- _! limber I* will .• faced vvi’h ■■ any serious probi ms that were ttn-cttled v, in'll adjournment ■ was taki-ti on Jiipo 7. Tin- S' : ate will ti'.'l confronting ■ it. thus specific job. That on the I calendar date if 1 tec. 3. 1924, at 2 o'clock p m. tiie Muscle Shoals bill shall he taken up for consideration ,ml n t la >j aside until finally pose.l of. This means that Muscle Shoals will he the regular order of business it 1 car, he put aside for Hie pur- ;■(■' of cons; j, ring ( ' tier matters !v 0-1 unanimous consent being Had not beep for the approachj.cg national conventions las: June. ! t 'm-.io'iw would pot imve ad.a ■urned t.ii'kling a number of bills :: -h must now i>e fought out ill the winter session. <>n June 3 an aUcmpt was made to reach an agreement that when Congt ess r< conven, i. important legislation t>e taken up in tho follow ng order: 1. Emergency legislation for the chef of agriculture: :. The Hov.ill-B.arkicy bill for the Mitlement of disputis between railroads, and their employes: 3. Amendment of the rate-making • < c! ions of the K-i.-h Cummins transportation act: 4. Ueclumation relief legislation. To Be Tressed Tliough no hard and fixed agreement was reached on these matters, as in the case of Muscle Shoals, they will nil be pressed for action in both houses of Congress. Tiie I>a Follotto platform pledged prompt action on all these matters and the adherents of various hills are sutlb'iently numerous to guarantee that some action must ho taken by Congress. Other matters which Congress will bo called upon to consider Include: 1. Income tax publicity. The recent squabble in the Administration over the meaning of the statutes will almost purely call for action in Congress. 2. Shipping Board administration. Investigation of tho conduct of tiie Shipping Board, which is still proceeding, will he followed by efforts to improve the laws governing that hoard. 3. Elevating the guns on warships. Secretary* Wilbur has announced that he will ask Congress for authorization to elevate tho guns. Power Plant Project 4 Boulder Canyon development project. Tho proposal to build a dam and power plant at Boulder Canyon will he pressed for action, and may ho joined with general reclamailon legisintion. 5. Postal employes' pay increases. Though President Coolidge vetoed the bill to Increase the pay of postal employes, nn effort will be made to pass the measure over his veto. 6. Entry into world court. Through control of the .Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, opponents of flic world court wort able to hinder consideration of tiie measure last spring, hut it will lie at the head of tho list of foreign problems this winter. 7. Resolution authorizing attendance at world disarmament conference. Congress is expected to adopt a resolution instructing the President to appoint delegates to tl is conference which will opt*h at Geneva on June 15, J 925. S. Recognition of Russia. Proposals that the United States recognize have been made in the past, and in view of the action of France and Great Britain, will he urged again, 9. Ctutlawry of war will again be proposed by Senator Borah.

Snow Flakes By HAL COCHRAN In these nights that are still Cos re's a touch of a chill and it tells us that .Tack Frost is nigh. The crops fade away as the fHil-ium-'.s 'at play. We have witnessed the summer time die. When th sun sinks away at the end of the clay there's a dreariness settling down. The last touch of red, wi*h its wonderful spread shows how green leaves have turned unto brown. As fall weather hovers we take on . more covers rtn.l dress in a snuggier way i "ir winter hound trip brings the frosty-made nip and we'rt feeling it plainly today*. When frisky* wafts mingle our Mood is atiuglt ; we’re filhd with a spirit of snap. Our dullness is lost as we witness Jack Frost hold th I w* other run right in his lap. ' There’s a hint In the sky that the •• rev flakes will fly. as tiie clouds ■ gather daytime and night. King ■ Winter is humming: the rime | fast looming when nature will dress up lin white. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service. Tnc.) Tom Sims Says Enough .-'"ft soap was used during the campaign to wash a ioal mine as clean as a snowdrift. Conservative guesses estimate the energy* used by a candidate in shaking hands would milk every cow ■ twice. Tho largest sapphire in the world ■ weighs ten ounces, while the largest saphead weighs more. All the words used during a presidential election placed end to end reach no conclusion. Campaign speeches over the radio havo boosted movie attendance even more than salacious pictures. If all the men who failed to vote on election day were placed In one group they* would criticise the candidate elected. The brain of an ant is nbout the size of a needle head. The s,une is true of some uncles. The speed of a carrier pigeon is 1.200 yards a minute, and that of back-fence gossips a dozen yards an hour. All the cigars given away during a presidential campaign are enough to make any man quit smoking. T,he Chinese used umbrellas 3,009 years ago, most of which probably belonged to friends. The mud slung during a campaign gathered together Would make several mountains out of mole hills. Experiments by scientists have proved that the earthworm has a memory’, and men yvho borrow money have notScience Contrary to general belief, the i United States, has one of the largest per cent ages of illiterate persons of any civilized country*. There are over two million persons over 21 years of age, in the United States, who are unable to read and write. There are at least that many more who are semiilliterate. These latter have been taught perhaps to read, but not to write. Immigrants are partially responsible, of course, but there, are many* of real American stock who | come in this class. These are to he ! found largely in mountainous and sparsely* settled districts, where going to school has been difficult and where the matuyil labor necessary to existence has occupied all a person's time and energy. In contrast to this, persons of average education have been responsible for a demand for books of a scientific and educational nature in the last few years that is unusual • >ne publisher has issued all tho * lassies and the best works on art, science and poerty in small volumes with easily-read type at 5 cents a copy. The sale of these little volumes has broken all records of boAselling.

Right Here In INDIANA By* Gaylord Nelson *

~~pr~ UNDAY thirty-six motorists were arrested by the town marshal of Carmel. They were charged with failure to heed the yvinks of a mechanical cop at the intersection of the toyvn's main street, and Range line road. Complaints poured into the Hoosier Motor Club that the marshal yvas operating a. traffic trap. The silent policeman changed from “go" to “stop" so rapidly its commands could not be obeyed. So asserted indignant victims. The marshal says the device performed on the ordinary time schedule. Traffic traps introduce a sj>orting element into n doting. But automobile drivers are already i tearing them -Ives asunder on the problem of the irresitible force and the immovable object. They* are hre.ii mg their backs trying to push stubborn trains from grade crossings. Their garney instincts are satisfied without the additional thrill of breaking their backs lifting the mortgage from a town marshal's old homestead. For many town marshals and iusfiees regard traffic rales as a source of personal income—nothing more. Consequently motor clubs keep busy- filing the teeth of snares laid on ! j ich traveled highways. Because the snapping jaws continually lacerate the purses of club members. A traffic trap makes a profitable gam-. Si dots the combination of a rollicking pea and three walnut shells. But neither promotes respect for law or safety on the highway. Paupers HE Marion County board of : j | J charities and correction have L submitted to the county commissioners the report of a recent inspection f the Poor Farm, where 242 oid human derelicts have washed ashore. 'We t utd conditions very* much thi same as on our last visit,” is tho ■ •. preface to the narrative of the board's visit to the Infirmary. H'>me of the defects enumerated ! are: No screens and flies swarming n the dining room and around in- , niiit-s: unplastered walls; bare j cement floors—to be covered with J colii lino'.-Aim: too few cows on the I farm to furnish daily butter to the ■ inmates; no poultry house and no A-hScki-us —so never eggs for the inj mates. Food and shelter are furnished the paupers. Perhaps that’s enough. | But the place is bleak, cheerless and lacking any of the comforts expected in human habitations. Yet it's the perfect picture of an ; almshouse. No better and no worse ; than many others. The number of paupers in almshouses ;:i the country has decreased ;in the past twenty years. The num- . her In Indiana is practically the same •is twenty years ago. Despite the growth in population. Perhaps one reason is increased 1 prosperity. Another reason may be lire clmr ■■■ter of the average alms■house as shown by* the hoard of charities report. Most people -would rather die than j go there to live. Hunters GARDNER, an IS L j year-old youth of Lawrence, L*.. 1 died at the Methodist HosI pit.ul Monday night from the accij dental discharge of his shotgun whilo 1 rabbit hunting. | The same night a young fellow* of j Rochester, Ind.. did. He was shot i by- his twin brother while they* were duck hunting. And that, day* a y*oung : man of Grecncastle shot himself j through the hand while hunting. Tho annual hunting season is on | with the usual tally of casualties, j Scarcely a day passes, but some ! ambitious hunter is mistaken by excitable companions—or himself—for a rabbit or a duck. And receives a load of shot. Shoot first and investigate afterwards is frequently the motto. The casualties are regrettable, but firearms an’ dangerous. And rabbits can't be stopped with platitudes or moral suasion. Men like to hunt. Tt isn’t altogether the Joy of killing game that lures them. There is health and exhiliration in tramping woods and fields in the autumn air. Which probably offsets the price of an occasional accident. Any way* it is better for the individual and society to take a shotgun and hunt wild game in the woodlands than to take the same weapon and hunt trouble in town. The latter game is not good to eat —except among cannibals. Crowds If" -“I AST night the downtown streets swarmed with people. Street cars were rerouted and the usually* arrogant automobiles sneaked up the alleys or stood at the intersections and shivered. For it was election night. And the free born citizen of Indianapolis not only casts his ballot but he wants to know bow others vote. So he came downtown to see. Before every bulletin board people were jammed like the proverbial sardines in the cans. A person in the midst of the crush couldn’t turn over a thought in his mind without pushing the vertebrae of hfc neighbors into their vest pockets. But it yvas a good-natured throng. The flashing bulletins might reveal the favorin' candidate of some ardent, partisan spectator—who had fought, bled and died during a wordy campaign—becoming a hopeless alsoran. Yet tiie spectator rarely lost his temper. He took the blasting of his hopes quietly. There yvere feyv tights yvith voice or fist. So it isVvherever American crowds gather. They are noisy but goodr.atured. There are many surly, ugly, meantempered people in the country. And in Indiana. But there are more who are pleasant and cheerful. An American croyvd reflects the predominant temperatment of tiie majority. It is amiable.