Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARI.E E MARTIN. Editor-In-Chief ROY W HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNEI! Editor WM A MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member ot the Scripps Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Press tin- NEA Service and the Scripps-Palne Service. • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dallv except Snnday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos 214-220 W Marrlap.d St., Indianapolis • Indianapolis—Tori Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • * PHONE —MA in 3500.

SKRE; MODIFY IT, PAT mT IS AX interesting picture of American life that Pat Harrison. Mississippi Senator, presents in announcing that he is ready to help modify or repeal the law that makes income tax payments public. First, as to industry and labor. If captains of indu try have great losses in any year they can employ these losses as an argument to reduce wages, says Pat. In fat years, on the other hand, when profits have been large and incomes great, the employes may be encouraged to strike or otherwise seek a larger share of the excess earnings, Pat says. As to that, it didn’t require a tax publicity law to start either of these movements, up or down. Employers pull long faces when times are hard and reduce wages if they can. Employes try to climb aboard and ride when profits start skyrocketing. They always have and always will. And there isn’t much chance for deception, as to which time is which. The publication of a very small income tax on the part of a physician or lawyer, Pat says, might affect the prestige of the worthy professional man. even though he possessed the largest practice in the community and the returns were small because of losses otherwise incurred. Pat’s idea would be that when times are worst for the lawyer or doctor, the fact should be carefully covered up. That would he the time for the lawyer or doctor to buy one or two more automobiles and so confound his snooping competitors, if Pat’s theory is correct. American business, as Pat seems to see it, is built entirely on front and this front must be maintained, no matter how phoney. If that is the basis of American business and American prosperity, it isn’t a very sound basis. But Pat says he will join in modifying the law. Avery simple modification will do the work. All that is necessary is to make the law read as it did when originally passed bv the Senate. This required the publication of income tax returns. Note the difference. Now publicity is given only to the amount of tax paid. If the eomplete returns were published it would explain why the eminent lawyer or doctor’s tax was so smail and so save his prestige and Pat’s feelings; if the complete return were published, employes would not erot exaggerated ideas of the employer’s profits, in good years, and the employer could not give the employes an exaggerated idea of his losses in bad years. That ’ll do the business, Pat. Think it over. SHE FORGOT, TOO LATE A" PROMINENT woman in New York went to her garage the other day and started her automobile. She thought of something she had forgotten, went back to get in, and left her motor running in the closed garage. Returning, she got as far as the door of her car wliero she fainted and fell. When found half an hour later, she was dead. Carbon monoxide gas from the running motor had killed her. Odorless, it silently crept around her and poisoned her before she could flee or call for help. She knew what carbon monoxide would do to her, but she remembered it too late. WHY FOLKS LIKE PUZZLES | f-i"|Orß THOUSAND years ago on the Island of Crete, men 1 I [ were making and solving word puzzles. The Johns Hopkins University Museum lias a relic of those days, the Phaestus Disk, that no man of modern times lias ever solved. The Greeks had their rebuses and acrostics. And modern man has his cross-word puzzle. After all, these cross-word puzzles fill a very fundamental need of human nature. Man, beset on every side with problems that he cannot solve, beaten and cowed by the puzzles of existence, of human relations, of every-day affairs, is rested and restored by encountering a problem that he can solve. It puzzles him, he mu3t work over it, but at last he dominates. The thing is brought to submission and he is supreme. That’s a valuable experience. We all need to succeed frequently. If we are not to become broken-spirited victims of our own inferiority complexes, each of us must have a little world in which he can he a glorious conqueror. The cross-word puzzle is the answer for multitudes of us. CHICAGO UNT\ ERSITY will prepare a dictionary of American English, we are told. Applesauce embalmed.

Facts Georgia ha* 310.732 farms. One of Poland's most important exports Is dried mushrooms. Yellowstone National Park has about 3*kinds of birds. Japan has a land area of 147.000 square miles. A national cancer institute has 1 ,eer. established by the government of Peru at Lima. Between 500 and 1.000 lepers are ltelieved to be at large in the United States. Thirty thousand gray whales were on the California coast in 1553. Fifty thousand square miles are devoted to wheat in India. The best plant for use in an aquarium is sagittaria. Corn brings a greater total return to the farmers than .any other crop. Goldfinches are fond of sunflower seeds. The lady's slipper has been suggested as the national floral emblem. The Torrey pine is restricted to the southern California coast. Tlmher farming has not been profitable in the United States. An elephant consumes about 200 pounds of hay daily. Canada has about 500,000,000 acres of forest land. There were 267,000 emigrants from England last year. A meadow ant’s three eyes are on the top of its head. Old jokes are called “chestnuts” in England. The earth must move about seventeen miles a second In order to ... -round the sun once In 356 da^S.

Science Sir Charles A. Parsons, noted Prifish scientist, believes the world's heat and power problems could be solved forever by sinking a twelvemile shaft and exploring the interior of the earth. He suggests that this hole be lined with granite and be twenty feet in width, with platforms a? frequent Intervals. It. would cost, he estimates, about one hundred million dollars. The project has been suggested many times before, but has not been proposed In such detail. Sir Charles has experimented to the extent where ho says it is practicable from an engineering point of view and ; the only bar is the money. Solution of the power problem by drilling into the earth lies in tapping steam supplies. There is noth ing experimental about this phase of the project. For several years, engineers in Italy have used steam from boiling springs to operate engines. Near Heaidsburg, Cal., a supply of natural steam has been tapped at 300 feet underground. This project is nearing completion and it is claimed that power from this steam, when suitably controlled, will light and heat San Francisco, seventy-five miles away, and run every factory in the vicinity. Trap for Girls “Why have you traded your car for a motorboat?" “Took a girl in the car five miles from town last week, told her she’d have to kiss me or walk home, and she walked home.” —Missouri Showme.

RAILROADS ADD LITTLE NEW TRACK Slightly More Than 500 Miles Built During Year, Times "Washington Iturrau, 1322 Xrw York Are. | VSHIXGTON. Dec. 4.—Thirty- | yjJ five years ago it was a rare i LIU month that did not see the completion of from 500 to 1,000 miles ! of new railroads in the United States. Today, 500 miles of new trackage is a record road of an entire year's building. Statistics now being compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission in conjunction with “Railway Age” indicate that 1924 will see the j completion of hut little over 500 ■ miles of new trackage. Not since ! 1919 has the 500 figure been reached, j and in that year the total new • mileage was only fiS6. An Idea of how completely railroad building has fallen behind its old records may be gained by comparing | ; decade ISSI-IS9O with that of j i 1915-1924. Tn the former ten-year ! period slightly over 75,000 miles of! rcav railroads were completed. Since 1915 the total is approximately 6,000 miles. More Than 1,000 Miles From the end of the Civil War to 1915, or for a period of forty consecutive years, the new trackage ! exceeded 1,000 miles every year and j ran up to 12,STS new miles in 1897, : the biggest railroad-building year in : the history of the country. The three big eras in American railway building were the years from j ! 1x66-75, 1 SSI-50 and 1900 10. The | ! first boom followed immediately , j after the Civil War and saw the completion of 40.000 miles **f new trackage. After a comparative lull for a few years, the building was re- j sumed at the rate of over 7,500 miles per year just after 15S0. In the '9o's new censtnn non again subsided somewhat, only to be followed by a boom which carried it to 45.000 miles between 1900 and 1910. The present annual rate of con struction of new lines is only one- | fifth of one per rent of the total mileage which now approximates | 250.00,1 miles of single track lines. | Among the most Important add: j -inns that have been made to the railways in 1524 is the “Castleton • cut-off.*’ built by the New York OnAral lines just south of Albany, New York. The new construction In •-'tides a m'.le-’eng bridge across the Hudson River an 1 about thirty miles ,-f new trackage in approaches. Ti e cut - ff. whu h was opened for i traffic only two weeks ago, provides j a direct main line ,-f six tracks ttweon the We-* arid Has:. Formerly tfic New y rk. tVntral was forced ' to route all traffic through a “bottleneck” at Albany. where draw hri ?gv and heavy grades further delayed trains. Th*< present route skirts Albany by ten miles, and pro. | vides a direct mute front Boston arid . New England tot the West. New fior-nruction elsewhere in the Fnited States is almost entirely of 'this same typo. Very few miles of track are lacing run into new territory. but are being laid to eliminate j severe grades and other handicaps to ] efficiency.

Ask The Tunes You can *t an anewT to any qu<-*-Uon of fa.-t ir Information by .ir:l.n< to The Imt:aiiapoiln Tutu* >\ Mhliuftun i Bureau. 1.12 2 N* * York Am.. W.chln<lon. It C lni:l<'H:n* 2 cent* In stamp* for reply Med! -al i'-ta! and martial advs .• cannot he (riven nor can . x• reseat "■ be undertaken All other queet reeelv- a per •ona! reply Cnsu-r.- and request:. "‘‘.".not h .mfCAtred Al. letters are confidential —Editor Are ex-soldiers allowed to hunt, without license, provided they j carry discharge papors? i Yes. Why do the Eskimos of OreenI lnr.fl cremate their deed? Because they believe their la tiani gey of pollution from the evil * spirits until the smell of the corpse i has passed away. They bum the ; dead body almost before It has bei come coid. and try to avoid Inhaling j any of the fumes. They also bum 1 everything in the house that belonged to the dead person. These i customs have existed for centuries. i Os what church is Governor i Smith of Now York a memlter? j He is a member nf the Roman I Catholic Church. Is there any Constitutional provision prohibiting the President of the United States leaving the country during his term of office? No, otherwise Pr< sident Wilson could not have gone to Paris to attend the peace Conference. What is the fastest, battleship In the United States Navy nnd what is its speed’’ The Maryland is the fastest, with a speed of 21 7 7 knots per hour Where Is Pearl White at present? She is now In France working In foreign movies at. the Eclair studios in Paris. How ran an automobile he | started without using the crank j or the starter? There are several ways. One is to jack up the rear wheels and put ;the ear in gear, then spin the wheels. : Another way is to have someone | push the car while the clutch is disengaged and the car is in second jor high gear, and when the car [has obtained a good forward motion i let in the clutch. The forward mo Ition of the car will turn over the j engine. If parked on a hill, put i the car In gear, disengage the i clutch and let the car drift until It has obtained a fair speed, and then release the clutch. Ts there any danger from the coal gas thrown off by the furnace? The gas thrown off by Ihe combustion oi coal in a furnace is partly carbon monoxide gas. and if Inhaled in sufficient quantity will cause death. It is the absorption of the gas into the blood that causes the ill effects. There is at first a sensation of lightheadedness and suffocation when such gas is inhaled.

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T*~ UK Indianapolis Chamber of: Commerce gives out monthly w ___ a list of closing lines for use —one daily—ln business matters. Each line laurls the city. The December list includes: 'lndianapolis—A Panic-Proof City"; “Indianapolis-—A Most Accessible City”; “Indianapolis—A City of Inspiration.” And others equally pertinent. Slogans will win a war or market a tooth paste. No manufnetuerer advertises his product without a catch phrase, “i! floats" and “Ask the man who ow ns one” are not impressive lint'. Hu: constant association <*f tlv thoughts and the products make a powerful selling force. Because it is merely putting the power of suggestion to work. A healthy man informed repeatedly that he appears ill, will have a clinical thermometer in his m ath before night. And if a <nty is- persistently advertised as a dying < on munity it will become that. Tie power of suggestion will male it true. Perhaps all cities have disadvantages and fail to attain always the ideals expressed in booster lines, p. : by constant repetition of such i slogans people believe them. And j the ideals will come true. 1 tie • [tower of suggestion will make tie m facts. Red Heads IVSI HAUIJES C.KKKN. ...Id? in i I j Superior t'->urt. •>. ’\ i• - .--m j ) b.-rs : i. V.. • get ring a divorce. An .■! i vett -n j court attache carn'l'-ss *i. ! seekers have ti ed pi. • him. Which perhaps .--core* an •: or and J tim-tion for pr. >g. . f ! t hatches. Quick temper is 'associated with j inflammable heir So p“: ha p- nc-n i who trifle with women, so adorn* and, j are obliterated w.tiwut i.- ip of * ! divorce court Probably lh* belief in t! • ..d i pugnacity of r* -1 hotuP i • ust a . myth But It ha" i ■ : te 1 ft * m i t lie time of V-h i, •I. ■ . - ! K: ■ i crick Bariiarossa, down to that ‘ f 'lt* and" < ira nge. An impartial study wot:’.! drupe[less reveal that r* t h. <lk have ; played their proport*. n.a;>‘ '-•' are In the world’s rtmin'i. .lust as have I blonds and brunets Have br-.-n just las combative and- o-fui as other people. Color of hair —or absence of hair -lets little effect on what goe- :n the head N v > mor* that; a ' -f [laint !!.•'• the ’•?.• w> a j a Rolls itoyce and a fliwi t . It's the ma* hlnery er the 'hood, not th>- paint a .th 1 •1 1 automobiles nr. ! liiiiioni ti.it i makes the whe-lr g.. *r and. Antidote "TTI YLVESTER M. J< ilihAN'. S 1132 X. Alabama St , r- ——— : c,j. •!•.?.) bandits, who a* t etc. [a • i in. id-il[l Ills P.rlgh! Wood [-.oil .. Tuesday night As tiles Vi.,! the place be opened Are. They r* idled Result: His trigger finger was smashed, nn# bandit was baddy wounded, and all four fled. There was no hold-up. It was nervy for a law-abiding citizen to walk toward menacing j pistols and begin hostilities But it tamed one quartet of outlaws. I Hold-ups ore so common they ex- | cite no comment. And with cold ; weather they increase in frequency instead of diminish. But active re- , distance to them Is rare. I Consequently bandits grow bolder | with each successful foray. Every quiet citizen believes some ! thing should he done to 1.-ssen the | nightly lawlessness. The police can't j do It —for they can’t he, every where jat once. Unless vaporized and mixed j with city atmosphere. Which would j be unsatisfactory—to them | But the holdup pestilence cart he 1 eradicated. A few protests registered j with smoking guns will do much to ! remove the pests. The most effective I antidote for bandit poison is scurryj ing lead. Signals ! | | —i IIV K firemen were in jured j !“• | when the truck of pumper -—J company N’o. I*, collided late Tuesday aft* moon with an autonmhie- at Meridian and Sixteenth Sts. The automobile driver didn’t hear the warning siren. So he drove past the silent, policeman—which was | flashing ’’go’’ north and south—nnd j into the path of the truck speeding j west. lit* heeded the automatic signal j hut not the behest of the emergency, j Automatic signals facilitate traf tic regulation. Without them there would be chaos. Curbs, sidewalks, and private property at many corners would be cluttered tip with fragmentary humans. Silent policemen are always on the job and are certain and impersonal in directing rtafhe. But they haven’t any brains. N T o emergency disturbs their poise They flash “stop” and “go” with mechanical unconcern. Too efficiently! Kor they lull motorists to a false sense of security. A driver failing to hear a fire siren and relying on the signal's authority may cause disaster. An emergency demands thought. Only humans, not machines, can supply that. And at corners security is only assured by thinking drivers or thinking cops.

PRESIDENTS WIEE HAS BIG TASK Duties of 'First Lady' Rival Those of the Chief Executive, Times Washington finre.au, 1322 Sew York 1 rr. CTTt] ASITINGTON. Dec. 4.—Calvin 'Mt/I Coolidge is not the only sue- ! i ’ T -1 cessful member of liis family. Grace Goodhue Coolidgo, his wife, ■ starts the se,.- *nd year of her "term with a hard course, traveled nobly, i ! behind her and with her personal as j well o.s her official right to lead j Washington society well established. I Mrs. Oooiidge has had a hard year. \ Her first official entertaining, t^e! sickness ami death of her son. and the election were all crowded into that year. Mrs. Coolidge triumphed and is ready to go on. For a while, after the death of j Calvin Jr., she looked thin and sick. ; The health of Mrs. Taft, of Ellen ( Wilson, and of Mrs. Harding broke! under the strenuous duties of offi- j eta! life without the added burden of ; personal sorrow. But Grace Cool- , idge stood the harder test, and Instead of failing, she is better n- w. ( “Season" Planned She has announced plans for the’ usual White House functions and! the "season" is on In Washington j society. There will be a Cabinet! dinner first, as usual and then live; large receptions, including tho one; ! for the public or. New Year's day. T!■ 1 1 aside from these formal afi fairs, the name of the first lady Is ic-!. !om seen in society column*. ! I Wb.'-n It is there It appears os pa- j I troness f.-r some affair on which ! -!-e b s placed the stamp of app! ' \ .'ll. S'-attends every musical affair lof not., in tile capital Music is h**r invocation. That, perhaps, is the j reason she Is aide to tone out so I skilfully nil the discords that must (arise )n official life and to draw all | sorts of different persons Into hari nn rb'tis c*-nfriet. Her husband's silences, perhaps. • Would IV* fie quite so successful | w<■ - It net for the clever, friendly ' j.-niji tb‘-lt o.s* with con- \ ■ .->r T'-.,* Witte !?•'*-,. } :-f ■-* to the : New York actors for instance, startj e,l out “a the, " The president didn't' lilt it with the crowd But Mrs. ic< !! ho- 1 a* ■ ! into the breach as Ia sort of ritv Jnterlotutor. Sb rl.r. I rq *, ; - fi, f, [*|-. s*. (d.-ti* and his to the Jok**rs, | and all \w* well She l-'culs Them Th. v tv.' at v.i.'r s* , r y . *out th -. • vt to Verm -nt this s m-tner. A . 1.-.- !•. -!) if Grangers car e, over ; to c,U on the ! a-*- ud, nt and t . wish ! i.irn well iie,shook th*-lr hands and 1.5., red :r,:o tie- Ic'lisi. I'hat ..mazed :;.d pal::** t tho countrj* folks. ' who weren't us-.-d to the formal .an-i ~f h* op.'aUty. It didn't take Mrs. i',, mor*, than n mmute find out what was wrong bi.o \V'*bt straight into the h*>use and , ;a ' i to making s,‘.*:dv. :on,-A, and ! once all was well. ifi. of j- is'that she's Just ■ 1 / , ,-*• . fo:-,*;gn ami, u-s dor as she Is Mrs. (.s>.>li-L;-> sings and plays the j'i mo. Si • has a private music j room on the second Moor of the (While ll.icc, In addition to th,3 | room with the famous gold piano I And In the upsbUvß sanctum there tire songs on the piano labeled j "Words nr 1 Music by John Fool- ' 5 ,n.; J.. ,-. w> it. * sot a.-,. ■ . 'll ongs, t I ! vever -a h him. t- music Is on!\ a recreation. He iocs not plan : to make it a !:f- work. 11l New York By JAMES W. DEAN JITW YORK. Deo. 4—When Maude Adams dies ehe will more marked, po far os the public ;Is concerned, than that she under- | went when she retired from the stage and entered social seclusion. (Her name now Is almost, a myth. ‘ Probably In all this country there is j no figure clothed la such romantic 1 mystery. Hhe Is in herself as dramatic a. character as tiny sln> porjtrayed on the stage, j Yet Maude Adams retired only five ! years .'mo. Today sl\e is 52 and but little changed since her appearance as I ’e'er fan. And It is not at all unlikely that ! before she goes to Join feter fan and Wendy in “Never Never Land.” | that her name will have a signifij can*o greater than that which atj taches to the fame of being the greatest actress of a generation. Maude Adams Is trying to evolve h. means of creating a light ns strong Ins that of the sun and through that | medium obtain photographs in the • colors of nature. With that accomplishment her name would go down ; to posterity with those of Newton, j Watts .and other scientific pioneers. • * • Old fashioned nickels which lack the word “cents’" on tho reverse fide, are now worth ?5. it is reported, ; Harry Bohn, a newspict ure salesman, ! tells me a strange story about an enthusiast ic collector. This fellow, .1 ~tues Woodward by name, gave up Ills job to work as cashier in a nickel-in-tho-slnt restaurant in the hope of finding wealth in $5 nickels. He was so slow in making change because of stopping to inspect each nickel that he was fired. Then he : secured a job as n money-changer in a subway booth. And, so fur, lie has found only one $5 nickel. It, Might Work “At last Jim has been able to put a stop to his wife’s extravagance.” “How did he manage it?” “He warned Iter that if she didn't let up there’d lie nothing left for alimony.”—Boston Transcript. r NEW FORDS FOR RENT Drive Yonraelf—All Models .Vo lied Tape. 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Tom Sims Says ! Christmas is dashing madly to--1 ward us :• the rate of s.xty sec- | orals a minute. This Claus family is about like 'all the others. Mrs. Santa Claus •lom the v-orl-c and Mr. Santa Claus Wish o' t St. N. k wo'.iU bring us : about half a d*c--n brand r.'*w pay may*, large dze. , Our true half •!.- :.. n 1, king a* their vvnb-hes don't can- much what time . ;t is Wouldn't it ho a heap ot fun if . y.ui . -ei . five up to your ideals ! wi*:io*i: u-;:,g .my energy? W nt w much nicer if it i ii.'f w •'• it r ' rhf. M e - ilsV ri coats b* ing sold • this w.e'-r were worn by rabbits ; ..*•: winter Movie prruluct.on win be reduced, s i M'.nyhe t!>*y will show the same i ms over ;:. ,-f Just the same plots. Pomebody could make a good , movm of a mad dog chasing a tax collector for miles and miles and miles. in Boston, the center of culture, ;l matt g.iv-* up. ids ‘oTi V.ecause he , o). -w t. . at work :i- 5.p t -;.: l N'l-:A S' -vl*. . Inc.)

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Tongue Tips Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, New : Y'ork: "The price exacted of the flapper by what she considers her freedom is a lessening of her years, an inability to get all that should be obtained from life, physically and spiritually, nnd a general depreciation of health.” Otto Kahn. Financier and Supporter of Music and Art, New York: "Want to know how I got my first promotion? My first boss called me to him and informed me I was promoted out of my turn in recognition ; of the zeal, energy and accurateness with which I accomplished the functions of a stampllcker.” Dr. Payson Smith, Commissioner ! of Education, Massachusetts: "A great problem of the schools is the economic complexity of life facing b..ys of 17. who are hunting not only their first Job but for some avenue to life work. For the girl this is not , so pressing, as the argwer to her question may walk in some eve- | ning.” Costly "I'm sorry my engagements prevent my attending your charity concert, hut I shall be with you in | spirit.” Splendid! And where would you | like your spirit to sit? T have tickets fur a half a dollar. dollar, and two i dollars." —(’hlcago Tribune.

The NEW DECALOGUE OF SCIENCE Albert Edward Wiggam Wiggam outdoes twenty H. G. Wells— The Churchman. SB.OO

THURSDAY, DEC. 4, 1924

Letters By HAL COCHRAN It's easy enough just to promise you’ll write and with friends of yours keep in close touch. But the : thought dies away, when the friend’3 ' out of eight, though the task ne’er amounts to so much. Some relatives visit you; then go (away, with requests that you drop them a card. You promise, but hesitate, day after day. Why is it that j wri'ing’s so hard? No doubt there is paper, right ready at hand, that you purchased ; for letters and such, but it seems (that you never can quite understand | why you seldom are using it much. In just a short time you could ; .lash off a note that would tell friends the news of the day. But, at postponing writing we all seem to •lote, though real promptness at writing would pay. Just take a night off; write the letters you owe. for on writing a whole i lot depends. You’ll find that the letters to friends that you know will help them to always he friends. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought Why art thou cast down, O my ■ soul? and why art thou disquieted in i me? Hope thou in God. —I’s, 42:15. * * * ! Christians are directed to have j faith in Christ, as the effectual ! means of obtaining the change they j desire. —Franklin.

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SOCIALISM CRITICAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE J ’ Ramsay Mac Donald The standard work on Socialism.—New York Times. $3.50