Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1924 — Page 4

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.The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F BRUNER, Editor. WM A. MAYPORN, Bus, Mgr. Member of the Keripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service aud the Scripps-PMne Service. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 214 22<> \v. Maryland St.. Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates. Indianapolis—Ten Cents n Week Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA in 8500.

TIIE MEDIOCRITY RULE “INDER the seniority rule, worth and ability have nothing to do in the selection of chairmen of committees in the United States Senate. If a congenital idiot happened to be elected to the Senate, all he would have to do to become chairman of an important committee would be to live long enough and keep on being sent back to the Senate. We are not arguing that a congenital idiot would be out of | {>lace as chairman of a Senate committee, at times. Indeed he might be .just the man for the place. But that isn't the point. What we want to make clear is that if a chairman happens to be the best man in the Senate for the job, he doesn’t get the job because of his fitness, but because he is next in line by seniority of service. There is little chance of a change, however, because the seniority rule makes it possible for little men to hold big jobs; and there are more little men than big men, as a rule, in most legislative bodies. So neither the Republicans nor the Democrats want to change the system. No matter what the political complexion of the Senate, Republican members from sure Republican States and Democratic members from sure Democratic States are sure to go to the top if they live long enough—and keep up their party regularity. The main thing accomplished by throwing La Follettc. Ladd. Brookhart and Frazier out of the Republican party to enable less able Senators to jump over their heads on impor rant committees. In this case i: is accomplished without disturbing the sacred seniority rule. Naturally enough the Democrats love this rule quite as much as the Republican Senators do. for if there happened to be a Democratic landslide two years from now. for example, and • some of the ablest men in the Democratic party in States now Republican should be elected, they would have to go to the foot of the class on the committees. Their ability would count for nothing. It is possible that Senator Butler of Massachusetts thinks! this rule might be improved in some particulars. It prevents i him from starting in where former Senator Lodge left oil. TURNING BACKWARD OX TAX PROGRESS X the same day that New York bankers and business men |U; hailed him as a “second Alexander Hamilton.” Secretary of the Treasury Mellon made use of his annual report to advocate again the adoption of the recently-rejected Mellon tax plan. Lightly pushing aside the now recognized principle that men should be taxed an increasing proportion of the r wealth! as the sum of their worldly possessions grows. Secretary Mellon urged cutting the rich man’s tax at the expense of. the poor man’s. There were seven high spots in the Secretary's tax recommendations. Perhaps it is because each of these seven arguments is a plea for those who have, as against those who have not, that the men of Wall Street, gathered at a banquet in New York, hailed Mr. Mellon as the financial genius of the age. Mellon’s tax recommendations were: A 25 per cent maximum surtax, a fi per cent normal tax for rich and poor alike, a revision downward of the estate tax, a reduction in or elim- I ination of the gift tax. repeal of tax publicity, outlawing of tax-exempt, securities and adjustment of income tax rates to such a point where incentive to tax evasion will be removed. Each of these recommendations touches upon an important subject too involved for brief discussion. Suffice it to sav that the recommendations, if carried out. would remove with one gesture the accumulated wisdom of progressive tax legislation during the past decade. f ongress will think twice before accepting Mr. Mellon’s proposals. GENE STRATTON PORTER mX THE untimely death of Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter, Indiana loses another of the authors who have given the State its reputation throughout the literary world. Mrs. Porter had a keen insight into human life. Tn addition -he knew nature as few persons are privileged to know it. Her place in northern Indiana was the setting for some of her best, stories in which she mingled human nature and the nature of the plants and the beasts of the field and the birds of the air in such a way as to produce best sellers. ft was particularly appropriate that she should have given to the State a part of famous Limberlost for a park. Every lover of nature and of literature mourns her passing. GERMAN! HAS prohibited the importation of British whisky, which should increase the business, if we know anything about prohibition. FEWER STIFF COLLARS are sold than heretofore and one wonders what they feed the laundry mangles now.

Welcome Sound By HAL COCHRAN Oft, the humming of a kettle Irritates the beet of men, or the creaking of a door will set you wild. That's the case when nerves are ragged and you're nervous, now and then. You are quite a fitting -lUbJect to be riled. Baby howls; It sets you crazy, though you fully realize that the youngster’s bound to have his little weeps. Som one's singing and vour’s fretty tilt the last sweet echo dies. Oh. your nerves are playing heck in bounds and leaps. Total quiet you're desiring. All alone you want to be. And you seek the spot where solitude 13 found. Os • iisturbances you are tiring; there's a longing to be free from the natural run of irritating sound. Then there comes a muffled rumble: then a clatter all around. But there’s reason why you’re smiling through the din. No. It doesn’t irritate you ‘ause you're glad to hear the sound of a coal man rushin’ coil down In your bin. (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service, Inc.)

Science In the last few years science has 'changed many popular beliefs and j has totally destroyed others. School children of today have a general idea of the groundwork of astronomy, biology and chemistry. One educator recently announced that the children of today were far better educated and better informed Ithan their parents are. even in the rare cases where the parents had 'a fairly complete college education in the sciences, twenty five years ago. Most parents of today were sadly | handicapped bv almost total ignorance. They are taught that a horsehair could be turned into a snake by putting it into a bottle of water; that If a snake i 3 killed its tail never dies until the sun goes down; that lightning never strikes a barn where the swallows nest; that if you 1 kill a spider it will rain tomorrow. And many similar beliefs. Ridiculous as these may sound to boy or girl student of today they were accepted as true a few years ago. and are still all that constitutes ‘“science" today in certain backward sections of the country.

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! ,n a bottle by means of a pne.uma.tio - t rough The gas is liberated freely | from tills mixture at a lower tern- ! ptrafure than when either com- ! pound is heated alone. Largo quantities of oxygen nr- prepa • and j for commercial purpose-; by h-' -.’lng a mixture of potas turn chlorate : and manganese dioxide in an iron . vessel. | How can one tell true m eer--1 schaum from the imitation? Rub the article with silver Ts the ’silver leaves marks like those of a 'wad pqnc.il on the mass, it is not genuine; but If no such lines are produced, the article is genuine (*n what day of the week did I April 9. IST?, cmne? Monday. Was thero such variation in the 1 distance between the earth ami the planet Mars from Sept. 15 to Oct. j 16. 1624? The distance* were ns follows: Sept. 15, 38 million miles; Oct. 1. *4 million miles, Oct. 15, 51 million miles. Are the tonsils of any use to a pereon? Up to about the fourth year the tonsils have a distinct function In the preservation of the health and the development of the child. They have to do with Influencing the ab- . sorption of the food Into the blond. ! It has been found that after the Tom Sims Says St. Louis news today. Man asked r policeman to shoot him. Maybe he believed what his wife said about him. Christmas is coming in Phit-ago. Girl snys she forgives a man xvho shot her in the ear. Our selection, after much thought, of sn all-American fnothnll team this season Is Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus. What means Christmas in four letters? No, it isn’t "Xmas.” Give up? Weil, that's it. It Is "give.” Bad Utah news today. Car load of eggs broken In n train wreck. And the hens so busy trying to lay up some for Christmas. Rife, to a turkey. Is Just one dnrn - holiday after another. Christmas and Thanksgiving were ; put a month apart to give us ail time to get hungry again. : Only four more shopping months j before Easter. How time flies. And ; after Easter comes fly time. Ho hum. Prosperity is coming back unless we start yelling and scare it, away. The only real relief for a bad cold seems to be cussing. Avery practical costumo for the j chilly nights is a stove trimmed with an easy chair and a book. Be careful when buying eggs for Christmas! they may he bad. And the same Ts true about the nogg.

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To prevent confusion between air mail and ordinary mail, the air moil extension committee of New York has designed a special envelope for air mall service. Miss Genevieve Zix, 1722 S. Meridian St., stenographer in the office of Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, Is holding a sample of the

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MISS GENEVIEVE ZIX

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON 1

HE new Christamore SettleJ ment House, 2400 W. Miohi- ■ 1 pin. was dedicated Saturday. The completed units consist of a modern gymnasium and an auditorium. It is the finest settlement plant in the country, stated Hr. John 1,. Elliott of New York at the dedication. The buildings are admirable. Hut the idea hack of them is finer. For they are not to ornament the vicinity but to serve people as a common meeting ground. One penalty of crowding together in large cities is sacrifice of the j homely neighborhoods that makes | small towns n attractive. The indl-! vidual is lost in the squirming mass. I Frequently the man next door is ■of a fellow street car patron. Whose large feet arid sharp elbows annoy adjacent straphangers. Y.-t th*- pride and friendships that are the fonts of neighborhood spirit add to the happiness and contentment of individuals. And make towns better. A city composed of neighborhoods is a community If it has merely population it is just tin overgrown! hotel A stopping place for translants. And the Christamore Settlement House will benefit all Indianapolis. | Hot around It will grow a neighbor- 1 hood Inaugural |_r=a TI.T.IS DYE of Kokomo, j \)wj chairman of the committee, ’ 1 " J plans the most elaborate inauguration in State history for; Governor Jackson. Also he’s rais- j ing $15,000 for Indiana's part ini 'he Inaugural at Washington March 4. it:*, enthusiasm ! understandable.: V victorv is a sickly thing if it is W"r'a ' 'J. b:.,".ng with pomp. I'he rurailing Homan triumph—with the vanquished chained to j chariot, wheel*—-is out of date. And! our constitutions don't provide 1 , coronation ceremonies with ermine clanking earls s-iin kr.ee • i pants, and creaking tradition. I Sc we have elaborated our in- i •lugurni ceremonies into substitutes; f.- !: van triumphs and corona- ' '< "p : man simplicity was all •<, - the spectacle of a : T’:- -tdem >' 1 rtg alone to the Capitol -• i> otjr.try ■wain courthouse hr,end for a n;’cringe license—*ff is no thrill. Taking the oath i of . ff'ite so pre lalcally Isn't ceiehrat- | Ins a victory It's merely going to i work. And unpopular. i- • -i, qth. it has been discarded for -,te t: • uguruttons which • ■ '' :■'* p’i ■ • taste fo r show . ■-,! *;?!-•!. Which is harmless. Tl' *H'jp** !' -n't the inaugural gold - Ur. .id * hat makes an administration • "ti. -;• >•! It's the shirt-sleeves displayed afterwards. A Thought v.’hoso t'oasteth himself of a false ... and v 1 ". .: ■ rain.- I’rov 1‘ ! 4 * * No rr.o'-e d..!ny. vain boaster, hut '■ er'n. •!>rvdep j It ■' p' filth*. !'T4. NEA Service, I no.) Neighbor's Wife Mrs Smith, you got any little kit- " No. dear, why do you ask?" "Weil tit.iw " hi you was a regu'ir Ml cat " Fig Leaf. Hobby No Hog F' hh.-. i't you w,n* to come jin s.-• • oil" n**w little sistei'"" "Nov 1 'll 1 s*'e!n‘ all T v. ant f •! it ’.; 1 '.,'or ■■!'. ' H -ston Transcript

new envelopes received by Bryson. It has a red. white and bluo stripe, three-fourths of an Inch wide, about one-eighth of an inch from the top. In the lower left-hand corner Is Inscribed in red letters, "Via Air Mail.” The Government suggests that air mail users have a®eh envelopes printed.

EDGE A. B. ANDERSON, In Federal Court, was shocked at the array of youngsters before him Saturday. Boys from 15 to' 17 appeared—most of them for interstate transportation of stolen automobiles. "Finally they will be trundling I them in here in tiHMip*MQMggjg|gj baby carriages," he 1 11 r " u S b out the 810 liar observations 14; T For boy criminals crowd tlie courts. m Tbe average kbJM span a gangJtttk or gunman in twenty elgh: years. Jum&M declared a careful investigator. NELSON Which revises the proverb that the good die young. Because flaming youth seems to cause most of th*conflagration of the ago And everything is blamed —from ! prohibition to parents. Particularly i parents. They rear children ton | softly and imt. frequently enough! ■with a barrel stave, is the plaint j But nn Evansville tlnd ) man—who recently spanked his 17-year-old daughter for flagrant disobedience— j was arrested. The situation Is deplorable. But I i probably no single remedy will cur,* ! society’s present attack of infantile, i colic. For youth always is the unsolvable , X of the human equation. Until it : becomes Mr. A or Mrs, B —and | raises a brood of X'a of its own. Inflation Irp |HE publio service commis- | I sion has officially set down --its foot. No public utility : buying another—at an Inflated price j —will be granted rates on the basis 1 jof such purchase price. But only "ti fair valuation. ; Perhaps the edict will err,nip the i style of some operators. I Restrictive rules, regulations and , governmental assumption of rate- : making powers are rapidly bringing Ho a close the swash-buckling, hue- ■ aneer ert when public utility pro- : moteru r-!<* the waves of watered Nock. And people walked the ! planks. Mergers wer then stock jobbing enterprises—and Inflation a tin.* ar*. Asa result both utilities and j üblic were sold. Now they are usir llv dictated by t:i ur.d judgment. Ami may result in o iterating economies—in extension or improvement of service—and for j the common good. Such unions should be encouraged. But not promiscuous marriages. For absorb and inflate are still often the impish Ethiopian twins .n utility merger w,"■'dpi!, s. V -ry vex- | ing to consumers who split the wood. If the commissi,m separates these twins—permits growth hut not inflation—it will do a service for defiattx! patrons. In New York By .TAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK, D.-c. S.—The sixday hike races at Madison Square Harden. A dozen riders circling around a small sauoet with ten thousand human flies crowded on the rim. A dozen automatons, seemingly, with their legs threshing up and d"wn on pivots. Monotony tor hours. A slight thrill for a few mo-m-nts when they "sprint." Tim least colorful of all sports. Bike riders are the most impersonal of all athletes. There is nothing distinctive in them as they sit hunched over their handlebars. Yet Madison Square Garden is packed with spectators, many staying there all night, eating hot dogs and washing them down with pop. Bobby Walthour varied things a little this year by working a crossword puzzle as he rode around the elipse. That was probably the first time that one of these puppets showed that he was not entirely mechanical. Walthour. twenty-one years ago. slept in his father’s cot at the side of the track. He was only a few ; months old. .And ho resented In no uncertain terms the loud cheering I of the crowd which awakened him. The cheering was occasioned by i sensational finish being made bv hit father. • • • Futility reaches the nth degree in the six-day bike race. They ride i and ride, hut get no place. If the : riders followed a straight line, the*' could get from here to San Diego i in six days. • • • T Love s a funny proposition. A Brooklyn man in his twenties married a woman of 45 and deserted her, running away with a sweet j young thing of 75.

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REVOLUTION ALREADY IS COMPLETED Herbert Quick Discusses Centralization in U. S, Government, By HERBERT QUICK. East October Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler delivered an address at Columbia University which attracted wide attention. Millions read about it. Few read it. This is unfortunate. It was a very .'ible and thoughtful address and well worth reading in full. It is published as a pamphlet called "The New American Revolution.” Dr. Butler thinks we ore ceasing to be a Federal republic and becoming a centralized government. In tliis ho is correct. JIo mentions the Fifteenth Amendment to give the suffrage to negroes as a case of the fl ilure of a Federal amendment to accomplish Its purpose. He is correct in this, too. Probably he is i right in suggesting that the negroes ; would have secured more actual par- ! tieipation by this time in governj ment if the States had been allowed j to handle the matter in their own I way. Amendment Mistake He believes that the Eighteenth ■or Prohibitory Amendment was a ; mistake in the same direction and I that it may be doomed to become a | dead letter like the fifteenth. In this, I *oo, lie Is probably correct. In my travels about the country, I have observed what seems to me a complete ; failure of the Prohibition Amendj ment to do inor ethan satisfy the devotee-.-- of temperance by law who are | comforted merely by the reading of the statutes forbidding something to i which they object. It has transi formed alcoholic indulgence from oer- ' tain classes to others. In States which j htfore Federal prohibition was enj acted there was scarcely any hip- ■ po* ket traffic, it has become a part of the fushion of society. The evasion of the law not only covers the States in which prohibii lion is unpopular, but it has swept j over those where formerly the illicit s'-Ui and the bootlegger were almost ; ur.K.'if'wn. This is sad, but I think ; it is sadly true. It Butler thinks that the cause ; of child labor regulation will not be : !v. *, • i by the adoption of the <-hiM labor amendment. He thinks ’ -*at th:a cause will surely triumph 'f w>* depend on argument In the re- . i'ran* States rather than resort to the building up of another great : department in W ishington. The enactment of a law is traditionally the abandonment of argument. In this too, Mr. Butler is probably j correct. And in his argument against the proposed appropriations by Congress for education in the States, I am sure he is right. Education will almost surely be donii- : :t f i by the 1 r.ited States governI ment if the business of making ap- : propria lions for it is ever begun. V. r.at w need in education is the r..:i:t to make experiments and possfl ;e errors locally. The dead hand "f United States domination might •*- the worst thing which could happen to it. Courts Take Lead The remarkable thing about Dr. j Purier's address, however, consists !'-n wV-t he did not say. It-is true that tiie United States Government has been marching right across th° whole field of Government for a century. Bur its chief leader his b'-'-n the Federal courts, and not Congress. But if I remember Dr. Uir was 'bitterly opposed always f* any diminution of tiie power of these courts-. He did not mention :'o Fourteenth Amendment nor the fact that under it the courts have ; be-'-n regulating a thousand things which no person ever before had thought it applied to. A’ i the fact is, th revolution of which he sneaks is already accom pushed. This country is already ••-n.tr '.'.ized The State governments have become vestigial and in many i respects useless. Our only course j henceforth is to make the United : States Government Democratic. The ' first step in that direction is to : amend the amending clause of it so i that we inay by the voice of a oa- ; jority and without too great delay get rid of amendments which have failed. Nature The purest red is the shade which has the least trace in it of yellow ,or blue. Man’s skill has not probtced the purest red known. Nature lid it in the common garden radish. Xeetor. when the bee gets it from 'be flower, is between three-fifths i four-fifths viter. Deposited in •the comb, it then becomes one of ; the jobs of the work bees to fan ; the water out of it. The heated air of the hive helps. When the job's i done, the honey contains only 18 parts of water to 82 parts of sugar, minerals, gum, acid, oils and other j substances. Honey in arid sections contains less than eighteen parts >f water and often crystallizes so j that it can be used in solid form.