Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1924 — Page 4

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POLITICS AS IT IS PLAYED T r ”""1 HE ups and downs and intricacies of Marion county politics certainly are confusing to the average voter. It is a wonder that the leaders of the various factions are able to keep them straight. The most recent upheaval results from the attempt of George V. Coffin, county chairman, to ‘‘fire” twenty-seven precinct committeemen for alleged disloyalty. Coffin heads one faction. Over at. the city hall there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. Court action is thr- atened to settle the status of these committeemen. The city hall wants to keep them. The city hall is controlled hy another faction. George Lemaux is city chairman. He must work with these precinct committeemen, or their successors, in the city election. Lemaux belongs to another faction. The committeemen involved were elected by the Republican voters of the precincts. But that appears to have little to do with it. A city election is coming and one faction or another must control. The control evidently rests with the faction with the most ability to tell the voters of the party in the various precincts who their precinct committeemen shall be. It is a great game. A PROGRAM FOR THE G. 0. P. HTT! OW THAT they’ve got it. what’ll they do with it? This |IN | question, with reference to the new Republican control of national affairs, is uppermost in the minds of thinking Americans. George Harvey undertakes to furnish the answer and his effort must be considered seriously. Harvey, who modestly admits having "made” President "Wilson and then having "made” President Harding, now has allowed one of the young men on his staff to announce that he is responsible for tho re-election of President Conlidge. Ilis slogan, "Coolidge nr Chaos,” did the work, it is explained. Harvey, as editor of The Washington Post, tells the Repub liean party what it must do to perpetuate itself, now that he has saved it from the radicals. Briefly, he argues that the party ran no longer be simply the instrument of the industrial interests. It must win over the farmers. Supported by and serving the farmers as well as the financiers and manufacturers, he believes there is no reason why it should not live another fifty years or so. The advent of a labor or radical party to take the plaeo of the Democratic party is certain, in Harvey’s opinion. Employers, outnumbered by employes, must tie up with the farmers —or. rather the Republican party must tie them together. They represent property and therefore are conservative, as he Sees it, and so belong in the same line-up. But to win the farmers over permanently, Harvey feels something should be done for them. He doubts that Providence always will provide record-breaking crops and high prices in flection years, as happened this year. What to do then? Well, he’d have some kind of tariff worked out for the benefit of the farmers, comparable to the tariff given the manufacturers. lie recognizes the difficulty in this, since in agriculture this is an export Nation, and lie hands the job of working out such a tariff over to President Coolidge’s new farm commission. What else to do? Well, Harvey recognizes that freight rates hit the farmer hard. High rates take the profit out of his farm products on the one hand and add vastly to the cost of all he buys on the other hand. For this, Harvey has a solution. "Railroad rates have remained at war levels because of high costs,” he says. “High costs have continued because of high wages. Eventually the question must be fought out with railroad labor. It is an unpleasaant prospect, but it cannot be blinked.” There is the one concrete offering of George Harvey to the Republican party as it comes into power. It must be considered. Harvey has influence, a lot of it, and his is the first offering from any source. Win over the farmers by beating down railroad labor, he says. Don’t reduce speculative profits, don’t squeeze out the water, on which the high freight rates rest, but beat down wages. Do that, says Harvey, and the Republican party will hold the farmers’ votes for another half century. There is the first suggestion for a Republican program. Without pretending to foresee further through the devious channels of George Harvey’s mind, here is a guess at his next suggestion: It will be that the Republican get squarely behind the campaign now being organized by the manufacturers to obtain the rejection of the proposed child labor amendment. And this, too, will be advanced on the theory that it will help hold the farmers within the Republican ranks. THE "BANANA KING” is dead in Boston. Yes, he has none now. A NEW dance is called the "Huppa-Huppa,” which sounds like seasickness, no matter how it. may look. THAT N(W A SGD’! lAN who paddled his canoe all the way ro New York unquestionably sought a desperate end.

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DA UGHTER OF TEDDY PROMINENT Mrs. Longworth Called Most Influential Washington Woman, By CHARLES P. STEWART .Y/7.4 Service Writer jrrtj ASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Mis. t\X/ Alive Roosevelt Longworth is L— considered the most Influential individual, politically, in Washington today. Not being a public character, j though, like her father, she has not the sort of influence with the mass ] of voters he had, but doubtless she ! could obtain it if she chose. But that is not her method. Mrs. Longworth pulls the strings and when she pulls them she gets results in Congress a.nd the executive offices. Whether Mrs. Longworth deliberately set out to acquire all this political power or whether she attained it through more or less natural developments that she never particularly willed, perhaps she doesn't know herself. Schooled in Politics Obviously she had certain advantages to begin with. She was a. President's daughter, and that President was regarded generally as on** of the two or three greatest the country ever had. Politics, from tho time she began to ralk. was part of her life. Sim never had to study public affairs. They were all about her. Sh*> absorbed them as naturally as sle* breathed. Then she married Congressman Nicholas Loflgworth. .Inst as every good wife tries to help her husband to succeed, she out to help Nicholas Longworth along the road to success In politics. And she preeminently knew how. Thr Longworths never have been ostentatious Washington entertainers. but they have entertained a great deal. Nobody is "big" enough not to feel flat toted by an invitation to the Longworth home Men Seek Her Counsel The visitor meets there the pick of Washington 1 if*- These contacts are more than ent-rt lining. They have a concrete value. They develop us-ful acquaintanceships. But .Airs I.otigw, rrh'.- own opinions and observations are the ones her visitors particularly seek They listen and p.iv attention when she speaks, and it pays, for mighty few

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MRS. ALICE ROOSEVELT LONG WORTH. DAUGHTER OF TIIEo DORK ROOSEVELT. CALLED ONE OF MOST 1 X FET: KNTI A L FIT I ZEN'S OF NATIONAL CAPITAL.

/ are the politicians who, when they speak, know as completely and exactly as Airs. Longwnrth knows, what they are talking about. When Congress is in cession, Mrs. Longworth attends the sessions of the House of Representatives almost as faithfully as her husband. She knows absolutely everything that goes on in politics, and she understands it inside-out. Homs Work r-.y 11AL COCHRAN There is plenty to do, when you've nothing to do, and you’re spending your time ’round the house. Such terrible bores as a long list of chores | are thought of, of course, by your spouse. You'd much rather rest, but you're quickly outguessed as the Alissus asks favors galore. Much trouble .-die airs; many things need repairs, and she figures that's what you are j for. The oIA vacuum cleaner has ne’er | acted meaner. It hasn't been oiled : for a week. The carpet is slacking; it likely needs tacking. The spout in the tub’s sprung a leak. It’s practically certain the diningS room curtain has busted a spring that was in it. You’re hopping around as new trouble is found ami you’re kept on the jump every minute. \V hen all things are mended and working is ended, the clock in the house hangs off IC. You hie for the hay, and you know, the next day, you can fix them all over again. (Copyright, 1024, NEA Service, Inc.)

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General Peppino Garibaldi, grandson of the great Italian patriot, has ignored the challenge to meet General Varini, Fascist! militia commander, in a duel. He will tight one only with Premier Benito Mussolini. Garibaldi insists. The trouble started, it is said, when Garibaldi protested against the militia’s attack on unarmed former soldiers. In New York By JAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK. Nov. 14.—Thirtyfight years ago W. W. Atfrbury was n. young ups: art just out of Sheffield School of Yale University, lie became a machinist apprentice in the simps of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona.. Being only ID and looking no older, the men around the shop sow to it that he had plenty of work to do. That was in ISSft. In three years he was sent out. a.s nr.si 'ant road foreman of engines. E*mr years later and tie was master mechanic at Ft. Wayne. In*!. Three yours there and tie was appointed superintendent of motive power of the entire system. In 1903 he became genera 1 manager of the lines east of I’:tt' oirgh. Nix year*; later tie was ! :th vie* president. ih.mges came quickly after that until in 191:: his title became vice president in charge of operations. And next September, when President R a ,ii:<-u ue.illy retires at 7", W \V A my he comes president. often when I pasa through the great Pennsylvania s’at.on tore, or look down upon tiv- trains as they scoot n11.!,-r the 11:1.1 e, !L;ver 1 won.

der if one of the mechanics I seo, oily and grimy at his work, will some day climb tip the trail Atterbury took. • • • John ICo.its, the poet, once wrote a rhymed letter to his brother George. It was sold in New York this week for $2,000. It was part of the William Harris Arnold collec--1 ion. Almost any day during the fall and winter you can find a sale of art and hook colli ctions going on In one of the Fifth Ave. galleries. This seems to tie the world’s center of collection of hobbyists. It is a wild and exciting life, too, it seems. Arnold, now dead, oneo j wrote a booked called "Adventures in Book Collecting." In Ids collections were originals or autographed copies by Lamb. Boswell, (it neral Grant, Robert Burns and Dickens. a * • Officer 5023, on traffic duty at Broadway and Forty-Fifth St., ‘stretched out. both arms to warn pedestrians not to cross the street. Avery pompous gentleman, with spats and cane, was just about to step off the curb. "Don’t you touch me! Don’t you dare touch me!” he screamed in a high voice. "I’ll bring action against you if you dare lay a hand on me ” The cop only smiled at him. Husband’s Worth "But, John, dear, before we were married you told me you were worth SSO a week.” "I am, but the boss just gives ine twenty.”—Oregon Lemon Punch.

POPULATION GROWTH IS A PROBLEM Herbert Quick Discusses Increase Expected in United States, By HERBERT QUICK •“IsxFjHE maximum population of J j I the United States,” says Dr. - * I Raymond Pearl, “will be 197,274,000 and this figure wall be reached by the year 2100 if the conditions of the nineteenth century remain permanently unaltered.” No living man is better able to make such an estimate than Dr. Pearl. What, in the light of such a statement, becomes of the haqkneyed utterance of the Cheerful Idiot that the State of Texas could support all the population of the United States? It merely convicts him of his old crime, chc-erfu! Idiocy. “If” Ls Involved Dr. Pearl says a great deal more than the statement I have quoted. And in this quotation there is that subordinate clause which many read ers will not note. The population will cease to grow in tiie year 2,100 when It has reached the number of 197,274,000 "if the conditions of the nineteenth century remain permanently unaltered.” Those conditions will not remain unaltered. Probably Dr. Pearl's fure- < as, will not be verified wit hin many He 1 it on a curve of growth which ts based on biological laws. It. is tile result of much investigation and study, and is very valuable. Increase of population, however, del • m l .'-. not only on the capacity •>f land to support, hut on the kind qf people. China and India am each smaller in fertile land than the ; Ur it ml States, but tie;: her of them eased growing in population at any f such figure a.s Dr. Pearl gives a.s i our maximum. He bases his forej oast on our l aving the aun.e sort of : people we had in the nineteenth century.

P.iriii Rate Drops Our original stock of people, beran having a decreased birth rate • :yhty or more years ago. Since • ken. lmnugrata-.n has bad much to •!" with our growth, and, especially in recent years, this has brought us races which have a greater birth rate than our colonial stock hud, and greter than tho Germans and Irish ami Scandinavians who were our lirst immigrants. Our something like 200.0n0 Japanese belong to a race with a high birth rate There will l,e millions of them by The Jews multiply ra; idly and a do the Poles. Rti.--S.nns and Italians. Gradually these races will lnrc.u;e as a proportion. Th v will •>"t as docs l.rr i’s-gra-m when sown ith red clover. After a Short ■apse of time the clover will be thin and the meadow will he prrponderr,ll> Their rapid {nervy unless they n :.iue An .-rii. n ch.inr,eristic* of i rth control, will slowly but with increasing momentum change the rnndU'.ot:.-: of tii*> Nineteenth Century. The Japanese, for instance, have the tendency to Increase to the very limit of den.-ity, as they have done in Japan. Unless they acquire our characteristics, there are Japanese enough in this country to Mongol*jr.o our population in a few hundred years and. along with the negroes, give to the United States, it would seem, a colored population and one far greater :h,n that forecast by th*' very Darned anthropologist of Johns i look ins.

Ask The Times Von . in L-ct an answer to any nnratloa of Ih. 1 or information t>> wru.iij to C •• i iiiiianapoUit Tim, r Washington t. nr,mi, 1.l JC ,\r York Ave. Washington. I>. C. inclor.ns Z cento In !!: . i for reply y|. !u and marital advice cannot la (riven, nor can extended ro-.-irvii be undertaken All other nueMu.im will receive a i„wHonal reply t.'nsiirnwt rentier!# cannot l>e answered All letter* aio confidential. —-KdUor. What is the average life of a cbigger? From ten days to two weeks—if It doesn't find a host. If however, it finds a host It burrows into the skin, swells up, falls off on the ground, and undergoes a transformation and becomes a nymph, und its life as a ehigger is over. Should a gentleman precede a lady in ascending or descending the stairs? No, the lady should precede unless they can ascend or descend together Why does not the movement of the earth through space and the rotation of the earth on its axis effect an aeroplane In flight? Because the atmosphere, or air. In v. 1 licit a plane travels is just as much part and parcel of the earth as the water of the oceans and moves with It This atmosphere is supposed to have a thickness of about 100 miles. What are the college colors of the Massauohestts Institute of Technology and of the University of Nebraska? .Massachusetts Institute, cardinal red and silver gray: University of Nebraska, scarlet and green.llow long dees It take for food to digest? From one to six hours. Soft liquid food requires less than solids. Fruit juices require very little time. Milk takes about two hours. Is It true that railroad car wheels are ever made of paper? For a while some passenger cars were equipped with Allen compressed paper-cored wheels, which made them ride easier. This use has been practically discontinued on account of the increasingly heavy equipment and improvements in steel wheels. The paper-cored wheels were intended to deaden sound and were never used in freight equipment. The Midnight Noise "What was that noise I heard when you got into your house late last night.?” “Oh. that was the wife falling for the story I handed her.”—Fig Leaf.

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PRESIDENTS’ WIFE BUS Y INDIVIDUAL Bu'n’r First Lady of Land is Not Exactly an Easy Job, Tien * Wvihiii /ton ftnri-ou, It.'2 .Voi- York Are. A ‘till NGTOX. Nov. 14.—1 t Vy may be wonderful to be First ——J Lady of the Rand, but it's a roil job, take it from the schedule of Mrs. <' i\:n Uoolidge who has had almost fifteen months' experience as ndslr.-s,. of the White ! louse. No ht- akfasr in bed for this lily. She aa- --s in good time every morn Inc, br-a’.f *si s with tho President in tin <- for him to r* ich his desk by 9 o'ci >ck. He. in th meantime, has be, ■ <>ut for his rnr’.y morning stroll or. on rare occasions, for a horseback ride. Before breakfast. Mrs Coolidge herself may have bad a brisk walk at -uif ‘ho Whit*'* House grounds with Rob Roc. h*-r d‘>vo:“d white colhe. | at her heels./ Breakfast over, she plans the menus for the dnv at the White Ho,me, wl'h the able assistance of Mrs. J,-Tries, the housekeeper. Next, there's the mail! lfs of Mail Ts you like to get lots of letters, you should l-o th> President’s wife. There ;ii" About 200 a day and many 'of their, are actually put on Mrs. Coolldgo’s own desk for her to see personally. Many others Miss Laura Harlan, her secretary, talks over with her and then answers are dictated to stenographers. Every day there are twenty or more r*v, pests for autographed pictures or n donation of sortie kind for a church fair nr bazaar. Mrs. Coolidge usually respond,: by sending an etching of the White House, autographed by herself. It is said that similar requests were answered by Mrs McKinley with knitted slippers, while Mrs. Roosevelt sent handkerchiefs. Mrs.. Taft, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Harding have all. like Mrs. Coolidge, used the engraving. Ask Appointments In the mail rnoh day are dozens of requests from individuals and groups of people who want to meet Mrs. Coolidge. Appointments are arranged by Miss Harlan by mail. Sometimes she will have as many as one hundred persons coming in at tea tirhe. Mrs. Coolidge, on advice of physicians and others who have noted the cruel demands made on the strength of former mistresses of the While House by meeting large groups of people, has trim! to distribute her time judiciously and not wear herself out. Certain social activities, such as meeting with the Senate Ladies' Tuesday Lunch Club, lira. Coolidge wants to keep up for personal reasons She has many warm personal friends in the club. In addition she must give receptions, garden parties, and musicales at the White House, and to some extent have a hand in the plans for refreshments and preparations for these and many other parties.

Tongue Ups Dr. A. 1,. Jacoby, phychiatrist, Detroit: “If high-powered automobiles are entrusted to individuals whose mental development is that of the average child of 7, no matter what the chronological age of the individual may be, we must expect accidents.” • • • Lewis C. Gandy, Boston: “Will New England ever cease worshiping its past grandeur and turn its eyes to the future?” • * • Dr. Henry Van Dyke, preacherwriter: *’ ‘The voice of the people is the voice of God’ will hardly do as a motto for the man who Is seeking truth.” * * E. H. Llndley, chancellor University of Kansas: “You can not tack a $4,000 education onto a 20-cent boy and receive many dividends.”

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i GARRES PAYNE The famous Kansas jac'- ibblts am scattered in ail comers of the globe, through the efforts of Charles Payne, Wichita (Kan.) nature student, naturalist and writer. For twenty-seven years Payne and bis partner, Julius A. Crow, have been shipping rabbits to all parts of the world. During this time they have shipped out of Kansas more, than 200, 11 u0 jackrabbits.

Science A recent newspaper article discuss; <1 with interest the tale of a desert prospector that he had seen wild c.-unols in tho Arizona desert. All old-timers in the southwest desert country have heard stories of those wild camels. Some claim to have seen them. The story marks one of the failures of science. In 1855, several shipments of camels were made from the Sahara. Tho United States government bought the animals through recommendations made by the army. In those days, the only way for freight to move across tho desert country was by ox train or horses. Army officers and scientists, who investigat'd the carrying capacity of camels and the climatic nnd other conditions necessary for them to exist. report,Hi that they would do well in the American desert and would speed up freight movement rapidly. They had overlooked the point, however, that in the Sara ha sands there are no rocks. Tho soil of the American desert is full of small rooks. The camel has very soft pads on his feet and these were tom by the rocks so that the animals could not be used as burden carriers. Many of them were turned loose in the desert. A Thought Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. — Heb. 1:7. * * * The angels may have wider spheres of notion, may have nobler form of duty: but right with them and with us is one and the same tiling.—Chapin.

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Tom Sims Says Experts find music will not charm | a snake, so next time you see one it Ls safer to run than sing. j The handles on aluminum frying ; pans don’t get so hot but the pans are too light for spanking children. They seldom have lightning in the ; polar regions, so that would be a dandy place to go to tell a lie. We can all bo thankful this Thanksgiving that saxophones are hard to learn to play. A wise man knows he is acting foolish to fall in love this close to Christmas. Women's clothes are so funny', they are almost as funny as the i men's. | The old-fashioned woman who drowned her troubles poisons him I now ' and v* It must be awful to be a school ; teacher and have so many children ' wish you would break your neck. The flea hop is the latest dance step. It ia quite an improvement over the St. Vitus. When it comes to quail hunting most men are fine at shooting sparrows. i It is estimated a great many peo- : pie will get real strong exercising to : get warm this winter. Among modern home inconveniences are gas heaters, around whi#h there is no place to chew tobacco. Most men try to forget their past instead of using it for their future. Perhaps a third of our cuss words were discovered hy men waiting for : their wives to dress for church. Motv who catch on to things too quickly let go the same way. The man at the bottom of most j things is usually up a tree. The future usually becomes the I past without anything happening. Life, at beat, is a gamble. And the man who never takes a long-shot seldom shoots very far. | (Copyright. 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Nature ~ At Riverton, N. .T., in 1916. w.-dP | opened a box containing nursery plants from Japan. No attention was paid to the dry soil about the | roots, but it contained the eggs of [the deadly Japanese beetle. The family from those eggs now numher untold millions and they have already spread over 3,000 square miles. At the center, Riverton, the situation is awful in the summer. The air Is full of beetles, a rascal about half an Inch long, whose taste for food Is not finicky. He'll eat a leaf, or an apple, or a weed. The Jap beetle is a beautiful insect, all shiny green and bronze, with white spots.