Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1924 — Page 4

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WHY BOX ITER THE SUPREME COURT? ml DGE SOPER of the T’nitetl States District Court at. Baltimore has ruled that the Baltimore Post did not violate the law—that, in fact, it was carrying out the very purpose of the law—when it published the list of income tax payments furnished hr the income tax collector. That makes it unanimous. The Attorney General put the question up to three Federal judges, one in New York, one in Kansas City and one in Baltimore. The Attorney General sought to have the courts hold that when Congress provided for publicity of income tax payments Congress did not mean real publicity. though it might have meant personal gossip. The three judges have rendered the same opinion, all opposed to the Attorney General's theory. Os course Congress did mean newspaper publicity. That was the very basis of the disagreement between Secretary Mellon and Congress. Mellon lost his tight in Congress and appealed to the Attorney General. The Attorney General's office has now done all it can do for Mellon, and, we submit, he should let tbe matter drop. Why bother the already over-bothered Supreme Court with a contention for which he has not received the slightest flicker of encouragement in any of the Federal courts to which he has submitted it ? IS ARMAMENTS RACE INEVITABLE? q RESIDENT COOLIDGE says the way to have peace is not l by matching ship for ship and man for man in an armaments race with the other great powers of the world. He is right, absolutely right. There is no surer recipe for precipitating another Armageddon than that of competitive armaments. But what are we going to do? How are we going to stop such a race? Japan, at least, has already started, hitting a dangerous stride. She has switched 150,000 shipyard workers from building battleships—limited by the Washington 5-5-3 agreement—to building cruisers, long-radius submarines and other deadly fighting craft which are NOT limited by the treaty of "Washington. Governed as she is hv an autocratic, military-raimled cast exactly the same crowd that attempted to put over the infamous ‘"twenty-one demands ’ which would have vassalized China while the rest of the world was busy fighting for democracy in Europe—to permit Japan now, when she is furiously angry at us, to build up a dominant navy, a navy that could lick us, would spell trouble even more quickly than competitive armament. It is not enough to say. therefore, that we will not he forced into an armaments race; that no matter what the other great naval powers do. or however mighty a navy they build, that we will pay no attention to them, nor build another ship more or less than we intended to do anyway. That is a dangerous attitude. We cannot, with indifference, watch any power—particularly trouble-seeking Japan—strengthen its armament to the point where it can domineer over us or bully us and make us take it. Not quiescence, but ACTION, is vital to us now. lint not necessarily by the hasty acceptance of the challenge of Japan to an armament race and rushing to completion a navy to outdo hers. Not at all. The League of Nations offers the alternative. The league is trying to bring about next year—l92s—another arms limitation, arbitration and outlawry of war conference. There is our chance. We must forget politics for a while and help the league make that conference a success. We must help the conference get going, then we must send our best brains there, not as unofficial observers or doubting Thomases, but as leaders with a helpful, constructive program. That conference must be put over. No nation in the world has more to gain and less to lose by cooperating with the league than ours. Indeed, cooperation has now become imperative. Yet, oddly enough, the two nations that are showing the greatest amount of indifference arc the Fnited States and Japan. That Japan might hang hack we ean understand. That we should he anything but enthusiastic boosters of the plan is incomprehensible. It is our one alternative. To let things go on drifting, then in spite of all we can do, and in spite of the best intentions in the world, in sheer self-defense we may be forced into an armaments race which can only end in war and blood and nun.

Science ' The commonest form of illness is what is called a cold. It Is unnecessarily common. It Is also more dangerous than is supposed. It is often fatal, as it frequently to pneumonia. It ranks first among She causes that keep persona awaiy from their work. _A cold is not the result of sitting in a draft. This might reduce the resistance of the, delicate membranes of the nose ami throat, mak ing it easier for them to he infected, o r If a person is heater! a chill due td sudden cold Is injurious, hut a cold itself is always due to infection Nothing can give n person a cold except germs, folds are caught only from other persons. The government health service has made a careful study of colds nnd finds that the average length of the 0011101011 variety of cold is six days. The best safeguard against Infection is fresh air and clean hands. A Thought By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ve have love one to another. —John 13:35. • • • To live ic not to live for one's ealf alonet let us help one another.— Menander. For the Nurse "Are you the trained nurse that rna said was coming?” "Yes. dear. I'm the trained nurse.” "Well, come or! see you do some of your tricks.”—Follies.

Tongue Tips ('apt. R. P. Hobson, Los Angeles: "Drug addiction has become the United States' moot serious problem and one that cannot be adequately handled by laws and their enforce ment agents. It must be done through education.” Rep. R. H. Ulaney, Michigan: “The good opinion of Canada Is something we cannot afford to jeopardize and this project to patrol the border algalnst the free coming and going of our northern neighbors is the best method we could choose for changing tlielr friendship into bitter resentment.” Dr. Frederick Fdetce. psychologist. New York: “Capital punishment for sane slayers, whether they commit their crimes deliberately or In passion. and the confinement of insane slayers in asylums would immeasurably improve the conditions in America that are now appalling." Dr. Alfred Johnson. Brookline, Mass.: "Great changes are taking place in the famous fciverglades of Florida. The greatest of American swamps is fast being drained and towns and vast market gardens are springing up in regions that, only a few years ago. were under water.” As Usual “You admit you overheard the quarrl between the defendant and his wife?" “Vis, soi*. 1 do. ” “Tel! the court, if you cart, what the husband seemed to be doing.” "He seemed to be doing the listening.”—Continent (Chicago).

IS MEXICO TO BECOME ‘DRY'LAND? New President of Southern Republic Is Known as Prohibitionist, R?/ Titnra Special Dec. 19.—Will Mex I ico go dry? President Plutar- ■ oho E. Calles, overwhelmingly elected In the first peaceful and constitutional election held in recent years, is a prohibitionist. As governor of Sonora he declared the state dry and tracked np his edict with force. Any bootlegger in Sonora was treated as an enemy of the state and dealt with under an iron hand. Whether Fades intends to establish prohibition in Mexico or not. It j is all too well known down here that I one of the planks In his presidential I platform was the fifty mile dry zone jin Baja California below the Califorj nia line. This plank is worrying the J get-rich-quick booze barons of the ; border, and it is the chief topic in | the glittering palaces of fast ploasI ure In Tijuana. Mexicali. Tecato and i other whisky frontier towns 1 There are millions involved in the ! proposal. The breweries and distil lerles. the scores of saloons, dance | halls an,l gambling houses, the big | race track interests of Baron Long :nd dim CofYroth. all rite money invested along the border will begin | talking as soon as the proposal gets j serious consideration at Mexico City. | if it is decided to establish the i dry zone many of these interests I will move southward along with rh<> line Ensenda on the Pacific and a j little hamlet at the mouth of the 'Colorado River on the guif. called La Rolsa, will In that ease become .the new bonze bonanza towns of : Lower California. Ask The Times You c!i *et an answer to any qu*#tlon of ,•-I or formation by wremy to Tbe Itiui.iiiiip.i la '! into* Wa*'il,.tto.i Rnrvati, 1;1'2'2 New York Av r Washington. O C incln'njf rent* In pa for reply " ■ , legal and marital advt-e cannot !„• given, nor can emended rcN.-ar.ti tie undertaken. \ I othrr nu stton* reeelv, a jx raorial reply Unsigned request* cannot he anew- red AH letter* are confidential —Editor What is Cii.idvs lluletfe’s ad dress" Universal Studios Cniversal City, Cnl. Where is rh larges! .airship j lighthouse in the world" •hi Mt Afriqtio, nine miles from Dijon, France, at an elevation of 1 r,no foot: i? can )•* ween from a dis tanoo of 200 miles When does !I|en Chadwick's birthday come? On Nov 25 What does tbo expression, "once in a blue moon.” mean? ft means never, as tiic noon is never blue. Must American citizens have passports to travel in Mexico? No. but if is advisable for them to have it. their possession a oer tiflcate of identity which shows the fact of their American titizenship Where ran gold be sold? At the various Pnlted States assay > offices, which are located at Boise. Helena, Ileadwood. Seattle and Salt Lake City, also the mints at Now Orle.tns nnd Carson City are eon ducted as assay offices. When i~ tire “water mark' put on paper? During the process of manufaclur ing when the design is pressed into the iEI per while it is being rolled. ! Where did tiic i lea that the opal !s unlucky originate? This is based on a Teutonic super stitlon nnd is comparatively modern Mention of its supposed evil qualities Is made in a work entitled "Magic Art.” Mundane. Submundano and I Supermundane Spiritism,” In which j the opa! is credited with being fatal to love and sowing discord between; j giver and receiver. Who wrote tlie. famous old poem, j "Rock Mo to Sleep?” Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Alien. Mow much wood Is used each I year in the manufacture of tooth picks? About 85,442,000 feet, board measure What is the population of Denmark? 3,200,000. What is the difference between ‘‘one foot square” and "a square foot?" One foot square means n square, leach side of which is equal to one foot. A square foot may ho of any shape provided the total area Is one [square foot.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

Artery SHE city plan commission Is preparing to recommend the project for widening New York St., an 1 relocating it from Highland Square to Randolph St. Thereby eliminating two jogs. This will provide another east and west traffic artery through the heart of town. Which is lis a single track J|yj !°wn With WashIn: iv< ly. But, after galloping gallantly a few blocks, t hey expire in a backyard. Or sneak around a corner and evade pursuit. Which congests tho one main thoroughfare dangerously for municipal health. A city's well-being depends on people's ability to get from hither to thither Downtown may he a fairyland of five and ten cent stores, one-armed restaurants, and traffic cups. Rut without easy access to tills throbbing municipal heart suburbanites and neaj- suburbanites will stay home and get their metropolitan t Drill by perusal of mall order catalogues. So the conversion of New York St. from its crooked career to frank open existence throughout its length will he a worthwhile civic reformation. ■ Gyms EHIS week two Hoosier colleges i Muncle Normal and Dan villc Normal —-dedicate ex j pensive gyms. Which is not unusual, j For almost every w* k anew atb ( letlo structure is dedicated by sot ie j cnl!,- go or high school. And schools -where purchase .fa new dictionary would involve heated j argument easily erect imposing ; gyms. For uthle'ic sports are now more j Ilian schoolboy diversions They arc! popular spectacles The modem eub stitute for the gl.uiiatortal shows of j ancient Robe So It's easy to raise money for School athletic st t ;nd tires. And the: gym-building epidemic swo ops in diuna. From small high schools. [ witli intense local pride, to the larg j cs* colleges. Education Used to consist of' rugged and ‘Hus of the three It s i reading, 'ruing, 'rulimetic From the I imp' rtur.ee if athletic nuit' sr- in! ’ lie modern schniustl*■ s do-me the thre, it's now stand mostly for Halt Rah’ Rah! I 'ndoubterily the present tendency over-strt ssch athletics They have be ei.mi profitable shows In which only picked individuals participate. However, magnificent gyms glorify physical prowess. And may inspire' desire for physical training in tic whole student Is,dye if so, they will be valuable. not as sport monuments, but us factories for sound bodies Tom Sims Says Women, try to keep out of jail In Mt. Vernon, I!!., a woman in 'ill u few months gained fifteen pound*. ! One school hoy snot another in a < ‘hicago classroom. Their parents should teach them not to play so rough. Been it big year for t'oolidge < lot r„ elected ind besides a man re-! turned a dime tie lost It would be interesting to know ,f the man who returned i\,oiidg, lost dime is a rati rut 1 Hoy Scout. But ; bo is Navy will spend $111,000,000 for fourteen new ships Work will be ! rushed in u mad effort to complete them before they are out of date. A scientist claims Ben Franklin didn't fly a kite. That's terrible, Wonder if there is a Santa Claus? Philadelphia minister says wo are j world's most, criminal nation, so maybe somebody got his unthti Uu or son ict hing. "The phone,graph with a soul" is the now slogan of one house. Hope not. Because laat night a neighbor told ours where to go to. The man who spends his life look ing for the needle in the haystack may find it after it ts tusty. Building up a checkered career wouldn't l,e so bml if you didn’t always find it your move. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

Hacks A' SCHOOL. HACK—carrying thirteen children —was struck by a freight train near New Albany, Ind., Wednesday. Only four of the occupants, including the driver, were injured. Which is a pretty good record. For six weeks ago—a few miles from the spot where this accident occurred —another school bus was struck by a train. Three children and the driver were killed. That tragedy aroused State authorities, And they ordered school drivers to obey the law requiring of them a full stop at ail railroad crossings. That edict didn’t penetrate the consciousness of one driver. For almost before the order got cold he drove Into a smash, in the same way, In the same locality. Crossing accidents —involving school busses freighted with the State's most valuable product, children—learn nothing. They always occur in the same way From the driver's carelessness. The only new feature is the casualty list. Consolidated schools with free transportation have greatly Improved rural education. But such i education isn't worth tile price unless there is assurance that children, in school vehicles, will go tu classes not to crossing trai • s. Fines DMOND REXKDIf'T recently p, stole a belt valued at 25 cents from a downtown department store. He was apprehend |ed. And was fined $25 in city court, j Os course, the theft of any article |is a grave offense—a crime. Which properly carries a severe penalty, j it"t tbe next day city court cn[fortained its weekly speeders' convention. Fifty-one drivers were fined And the average penalty in flirted was sl3. legally Infraction of traffic ordi nance* is nothing At moat It's a blunder—if the violator Is caught. And probably an average fine ,>f *l3 is har-h for those whose f< slipped! ell accelerators inopportunely. At least that 1“ the judicial view ' of flic compurritiv,. gravity of a heir theft and speeding Relit lari tty is wrong Rut the puling" from the .!■ r docsn • extend hi ■v 11 Mi j the value of tin tilling ,tr ■ taken. It , ndang-rs no lives. While striding menaces j:f and Mrnh of Innocent bystanders So j potentially it is more danger.-is to so-iety than petty rticf. Mill the law thinks otherwise For statute hooks ami (urispnidcnc* still j tegurd tilings more tenderly than I people. And urlty of property! paramount to safety of human lives

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or that in the style, so there's ripping that has to l>e done. The gown's torn to we*s lions and bus after while, and then the remaking's begun. A dressmaking magazine's right near at hand, and it helps as tiie make-over grows. The same goods is used In the gown, understand, but it's different in looks, goodness knows And then, when it's finished, the owner appears, and it’s only quite human, I guess, to get a real thrill when from somtene she hears, "Say, when did you get the new dress?” (Copyright, 1924. NEA Service. Ine.)

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Nature Captain Vancouver said he heard no song birds on the big British Columbia island lie discovered 132 tears ago. but today you can hear the rich, long urawn out whistle of the "varied” thrush, or Alaska robin, anywhere on the island. A chap with a b’l-ast of’russet, crossed by a royal band of black, auid a back of blue. The "golden" baboon is an animal of Africa, and he has a fur that Is as near gol i in color as fur can become. Maid to he only one specimen in the United States, at the National Zoo, Washington.