Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1924 — Page 4

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And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men—Acts 24:16. The unknown is an ocean. What is conscience ? The compass of the unknown. —Joseph Cook. TO CONSERVE OFR OIL SUPPLY EIIIS new Federal Oil Conservation Board, just appointed by the President, has ahead of it one of the biggest and one of the hardest jobs confronting any commission in the government service. It is big because it involves an industry draining this country of ">50.000.000 barrels of oil a year and losing almost as much oil as it captures, eminent geologists say, by the process. It is big because oil is something that nature takes millions of years to produce, and because even our generous supply will last but a generation or two longer at the rate it is now being used. It is big because the defense* of the country at present depends upon the oil supply, and because a navy of oil burners can sail rings around a navy of coal and an air fleet without oil is as good as no air fleet at all. The job will be hard because it will bring the Government into conflict with an industry that has found a mountain of gold at the end of the rainbow, and it will be hard to curb the taste for wealth of those who have made millions overnight and others who want to make millions the same quick way. It will he hard to make oil men see that the country’s good is ahead of their good, that keeping oil in the United States against the day when it is needed by Americans is bettor than selling it abroad today at profits that are fabulous. It was only a few days ago that Secretary of the Interior Work called attention to this condition in his annual report, in these words: “The formation of a permanent federal oil commission . . . to study the conservation of onr oil deposits and to seek more thorough and economical methods of recapture, to be comprehended in a national continuing oil policy, is an urgent necessity in the interests of the public.” For his prompt action in initiating such a commission, to consist at the start of Secretaries Work. Hoover, Weeks and Wilbur, the President deserves the commendation of the country. Before the job is done, he and his oil commission will need the support of the people. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER ECRETARY HUGHES has forwarded to the League of Nations this country’s acceptance of the league’s invitation to participate in the conference of nations for regulation of traffic in arms, munitions and implements of war. That is a significant step in the right direction. Heretofore, the United States officially has declined to be on speaking terms with the league. Letters from league officials to the State Department have gone unanswered. The league just did not exist, officially. Yet. unofficially, it did exist. The State Department kept m touch with the league’s activities through the peep-hole of an Unofficial Observer. Officially, he never attended >i meeting of the league. Yet. unofficially, he attended them all and reported to Secretary Hughes. All this was brought about because the League of Nations had become a football in American politics, kicked about first in the United States Senate, and then in campaigns, by officeseekers and spell-binders who never understood the league. That undignified practice seems at an end. The T.nited States is going to this league conference officially, represented by spokesmen whose names will be known. , This newspaper has believed that the United States should be a full member of the LeagtA: of Nations. It believes that now. It welcomes this change in our foreign policy as a move in the right direction. Recognition of the league and participation in its good works is a step which should have been taken by this Government long ago, but one which, taken now, is better late than never.

Tom Sims Says If you just looked out for No. One this Christmas, remember it is the smallest number. The best Christmas gift is the gift of knowing what others want. About the only prices that have been lowered recently are those of the 1924 calendars. * Dallas (Texas) man threw a hatchet at her.* So she got a divorce. Women are so scary. Bad news from the Eskiimos. They are eating dogs. Next time your dog barks threaten to eat him. Los Angeles hank messenger says he spent $30,000. Maybe he mistook himself for a movie star. Auto oxx-ners will be tickled to death to learn a St. Louis garage man was fined for using a stored car. Chicago man sues his xxife for lost lox’e. If he x’aiues it at SIOO,OOO he should hax-e taken better care of it. While Christmas costs a married man more than a bachelor. It Is xvorth more to a married man. Everybody lox-es a fat man dressed up as Santa Claus. The worst thing about xvinter is it doesn’t come in summer. News from Paris; Artists have selected what they call the most perfect girl, figuratively speaking. St. Louis man phoned home after being missing nine years. May blame it on the poor phone service. Wisconsin football player will Recover from a txx’isted neck, but must miss necking parties a fexv month* It is easy to keep things coming x our way when you are going theirs.

Science Nothing has more greatly interested man than his dreams. Prom the earliest times, persons who pretended they could interpret dreams haie had a large following. Many volumes have been written on the subject, from scientific works down to the "dream hooks" where, for 10 cents, a person could find out what his dreams meant. Even recently an added impetus has been given to dream translations through Freudism and psycho-analysis. Superstition is more powerful in the field of dreams than anywhere else. Nevertheless, dreams are all explainable through common sense and science. All the evidence shows that dreams are due to external and physical causes. Certain illnesses produce certain types of dreams that are disagreeable or terrifying. A certain condition of physical wellbeing will produce what might he called ordinary dreams. How a person feels, what he eats and under what condiitons he sleeps have a great deal to do with it. As far ns science knows, there is no such thing as the dream that prophecies an event or that tells the sleeper of an event occurring miles away. These are accidents or co-incidents Nature A curious sort of fish lives in the Mack waters of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave. This fish has no eyes whatever and wouldn’t need ’em if he had, for not the faintest ray of light is ever seen, save from visitors’ torches, in this spot. The Norway reindeer that have hred and increased into hundreds of thousands in Alaska ream the country all summer and fall and are pretty wild, hut by this time they are all in the cor. als of their owners. One herd near Kotgebue Sound numbers 10.000. Laplanders at Post Clearance milk the does. But hubby has to hold the doe's head while wife

U. S. SEEKS TO PUT END TO COLDS U. S, Health Service Seeks! Method of Preventing Disease, Times Washington Bureau, 1322 Sew York Are. rrrn ASHINGTON, Dee. 23.—A VV drlve to eliminate the common cold, that most hateful of all human afflictions, has been inaugurated by the United States Public Health Service. In spite of the huge annual toll of suffering and Inconvenience, and in spite of the fact that millions of dollars are lost annually through economic waste caused by the common cold, this is the first nation-wide attempt to learn the causes and behavior of the malady and attempt a remedy. Most Prevalent Disease A preliminary report from the investigation now in progress shows that the cold is the most prevalent form of sickness in the I'nited States. Ninety per cent of the people have at least one cold a year and so many of them have more than one attack that the average for each person in the United States is 3.7 colds annually. Apparently the evidence indicates that there is a closer relation tie tween influenza and the common cold than had been traced previously. Hard coids and ordinary Influenza cases are almost indistinguishable, and the bacteria found in the nose and throat of such cases are identical. October and December are the months in which it is wise to guard particularly against cold. There is a heavy wave of infection in ail parts of the country in October, gradually dying down and then coming to a peak again in the latter part of Ix-oemher. Symptoms are the same in all localities, regardless of climate. ( old Contageous Physical fitness will do much to lighten the attack of the common cold germ, hut it will not prevent the disease entirely. The evidence proves colds are extremely contagious and even a robust person may contract the disease from a sufferer. If any sure method of preventing colds can he found, it will mean a tremendous gain to every person in the country. Every man and woman in the United States loses time. money and physical strength every year, because of the cold. Every business finds production slowed up by cold epidemics In the winter months. If the cure is effective in preventing influenza also, thousands of lives will be saved annually. In New York By .TAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK. Deo. 23.—It’s a merry, merry Christmas in New York. In the past three days ten men and women have died from drinking poisoned booze. In the first half <>f the month twenty-five died from the same cause. The number will increase rapidly during Yuletide. I‘.ooze i<= by far the most popular Christmas present in Gotham, j Some firms buy it in wholesale lots to pass out to patrons or employes. Except for im reused prices liquor is as easy to obtain in New York as it was b-f-.ro the Eighteenth Amendment was passed. There are fully 10,000 places in New York where lei nor can he bought. There are fully as many bootleggers who have no place of business, but deliver orders to customers at offices and homes. This is not just a wild guess. The statement is based on observations. You .‘an find loot loggers in all walks of life here. .Many of them are druggists, delicatessen merchants, apartment house superintendents an I case proprietors. One man is known as the "Tiffany of Bootleggers." He handles only the very best of imported wines and liquors. He lives on Riverside Dr. Most of his patrons are millionaires. He gets sls a quart, for w'hlsky. Most of the whisky sold around town and supposed to bo the "real stuff" sells at $6 a quart. With such an active trade in booze the year around it Is to be expected that great amounts of poisoned | liquor made in stables and tenej rnents will flow at Christmas time. -I- -I- -IBooze isn’t the only thing bootlegged in New York. There is an | embargo against chickens from cer--1 tain States because of a disease | epidemic among the fowl. Many of ;the condemned fowl have been ; sneaked out of the freight depots and sold in New Y'ork, reputable poultry dealers report to the health commissioner. • • • It just had to come sooner or later! I saw her In a tea room in the upper Forties. It was in black and gold and extended from her throat to her waist. Yes. yes, it was a cross-word puzzle panel worked in her dress. • * * 'Perhaps you've wondered how jewel thieves meet rich women, gain their good graces and find the opportunity for their crooked work. I am told that a fashionable millinery shop In the Fifties is the agency for many introductions between the underworld and Idle wives of the rich. A woman of mwins visits the shop to buy a hat. Upon a subsequent visit a clerk casually remarks that she knows a man “who is just crazy” about the lady. The lady’s interest is intrigued. Hater the milliner's clerk introduces the man and the lady. The nian usually is a handsome fellow, fastidiously attired and xvell qualified to meet his victim on her own footing. The rest is easy. One for the Plumber "Now, Robert.” said teacher, “tell us when is the harvest season.” “From November to April,” said Bobby. “Why, Robert, I’m surprised that you should name such barren months. Who told you those were the harvest months?” “Father; he’s a plumber.”—Boston

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Movies SHE Irvington Commercial and Welfare Association is preserving the history of Irvington in motion picture films. The first section h:ts been completed and will be shown this week. It shows Butler College, Jameson Park, principal buildings of the community. And pictures of more Kgp' • * than 3,000 school ■ tur ® conveys more ■nD nt a glance than jA j : 'j pages of descripj£j? Faesar crossing the BrajjyTP 1 ' Rubicon would tell more of ancient JM Rome than all of and Fall.” So we would hold priceless films taken in tho Garden of Eden or at the Battle of Waterloo. Because of the inability of words to vitalize scenes and men nil our history is dry. And the actors lifeless. But the future will he more fortunate. For modern inventions are preserving in imperishable records present times and people. Caruso is dead but his golden voice in phonograph records will delight generations yet unborn. Perhaps fifty years hence the Irvington film may be invaluable because it reveals In animate form the youthful features—and surroundings —-of ft President of the United States or other mighty one of earth. Flannels | R. W. F. TONG, State health Uj I commissioner, condemns the 1 I red flannels without which no old fashioned winter was complete. “Put on plenty of clothes when going outdoors instead of clothing the body in heavy undergarments," Is his advice. A generation ago for such heresy a frigid population would have lynched him For custom then dr creed Inflexible fiannnel winter shells with sand paper finish. Now we brave winter’s biting attacks in silk hose and Ilghtw- !ght undergarments. Winter has lost lt = terrors because of modem indoor ht ating. * But in the red flannel age indoor heating wasn't a science. It tus a jnkp. A person huddled before a ■lrafty open fire might char on one side while icicles stabbed his spinal column. Then re-1 flannels were sensible. To leap from bed In zero weather and start a fire in a yawning fireplace while clad in athletic underwear would have covered a person with ridicule and frostbites We give little thought to indoor heating appliances. But only as they have Improved has civilization pressed northward from the trop ics. The radiator and furnace don't look powerful. Blit they conquer the earth anil whip the thermometer.

Church to Be Dedicated Soon

*■■ - •. , - ,v *CI NEW GARFIELD AYE. METHODIST CHURCH.

Dedication services for the new Garfield Ave. Methodist Church, Garfield Ave. and New York St., xvill be held in about six weeks, tho Rev. C\ C. Bunnell, pastor, said. The new building cost about $50,000. A pastor’s study, and

Telling It to Congress

Taxes Will Pat Us Up The cost of Government, State and National, is Increasing so rapidly that if It continues to increase at the rate maintained during the Inst ten years, in another generation the people will scarcely he able to earn a livelihood and an amount sufficient to defray the cost of Government, even after we make due allowance for our National growth, economic expansion and increased earning power.—Hep. Lozier (Dem.) Mo. Nature’s Gift to United Slates Our country is a favored nation in the possession of this wonder gas (helium). Other nations have searched for it within their borders in vain. ' Just a little was found in Canada, a little in Italy, a little in Czechoslovakia, but not in sufficient volume to be of much practical value. But in the United States we have, relatively, an abundance. — Rep. Lanham (Dem.) Texas. The Victims Unless we save the national resources of our country that ought to belong to all the people, posterity Is going to suffer—Senator Norris (Rep.), Nebraska. Saving the Soli Anything that we can do in this country to increase our supply and reduce the price of fertilizer is one of the most essential things that can

Orphan VER a year a~go the sheriff's force seized SIO,OOO worth of i liquor in the hom-j of a north side resident. Which has been stored in the basement of the county jail while courts wrestled with the problem of its disposal. Friday the Indiana Supreme Court restrained county authorities from proceeding with the Criminal Court case seeking legal destruction of the stuff. Courts have held that it’s illegal to keep liquor. They have held that it is illegal to dispose of liquor in the usual fashion. And now a court | restrains destruction of liquor. Under the circumstances, the j batch stored in the jail is a judicial ! orphan. I’rohibition is a matter of law. ! sentiment and policy in this couni try. ’ But neither temperance nor respect for the prohibition law are helped by the vagaries of Its enforcement. It deals summarily with pm ket flasks of white lightning. But stutters and beats the air impotently when confronted with aristocratic liquor valued at SIO,OOO. While courts mull over the problem of disposal. Which is edifying to humble thirsts 'who have had shots of wood alcohol ruthlessly snatched from j their bps by enraged law. Abatement 1 HE smoke nuisance awoke to obnoxious activity yesterday i v morning after slumbering In seclusion for a week. And it’s just as strong as ever. The campaign of education hasn't dented the consciousness of this civic nuisance. The city smoke inspector has dispatched 105 second notices and 148 first notices to violators. But all the smoko these notices have abated could be deposited in the ear of an adult citizen Perhaps the notices liAve done some good. They have swelled postal receipts. But they haven't re- | fined the drab atmosphere that j crawls over the civic linen. East week it was decided at a con- ! ference attended by city officials and civic organizations to put two additional inspectors to work Jan. 1. They might --peed abatement. o>r only increase the output of notices. For abatement can only come from action, not desultory conversation. There is reluctance to hale smoke violators into court. For the ordlnwiee—officials f,-ej—is too flabby to stand In court. But It might bn tried. If it is -o puny two additional smoke inspectors won't remove one fuzzy speck front our tawny atmosphere For no toothless ordinance c.lh secure abatement. Father’s Opinion "What do you think of mv coming out gown?” "Well, my dear, I don't see how you could very well come out of it any further." —Boston Transcript.

largo Sunday school room in the basement are included. Auditorium xvill seat about 800. An addition in rear will be used for social purposes. Members hope to build a gymnasium later.

general welfare of this country.— Senator Simmons (Dem.), North Carolina. Short-Handed Although tMe force of employes has been increased on two occasions by Congress within recent years, the patent office is still in arrears. An application for a patent filed today may not he acted upon during the next six months. —Secretary of the Interior* Work, in Annual Report for 1024. Tale of a Tree By lIAL COCIIRAN T am only a staid old Evergreen, i but they hacked me and cut me down. I was taken away from my forest scene and then carted Into town. On a market floor I reposed a while, then a groceryman came by. He stood me up nnd he viewed my style with a scrutinizing eye. Then a ride I had, in an old machine, and when all is done and said. I’ll admit I was soon an Evergreen with a. price upon my head. They draped me up at the grocery front so that passers-by could see. And a sign upon me said, quite blunt, that a buck would purchase me. The people came and the people went; then a mother-type drew nigh, and a dollar bill was quickly silent; I was what she wished to buy. In the old machine and away once more was what fate then dealt to me. I was carried up to the buyer’s door —and some kiddies laughed in glee. Now I’m propped up high and quite erect- and 1m milking kiddles smile. So, after all, when I’m full bedecked, I guess I’m worth while.

One Man’s Trouble Is Another Man’s Joy

WAY TO MAKE FARMS PAY

Times Washington Bureau, | 1322 Setc York Are. 1 rrrtSASIiINGTON, Dec. 23.—The \V/ latest move in the way of or- — ganizing a farmers trust is ] a bill Introduced by Representative j M. O. McLaughlin, Republican, of 1 Nebraska, which provides for the i formation of nn "agricultural cor- ! poration for ‘he Intelligent guidance j of agriculture." To finance it would require an I out-and-out gift from the treasury] of 3200,00fi,00f. Its purpose, in ! brief, is to put agriculture on a 1 real business basis. Stated more in detail, the project ' would, according to McLaughlin (1) i reduce the cost of production by j preventing waste, hy stopping pro- '• duction of crops already over-pro-duced, and by stopping expensive * cultivation of lands which aren't] worth the trouble; (2) decrease cost j of distribution nnd selling; (3) create ]

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Who are the five most popular screen actresses? According to a newspaper test vote taken last January the most popular are Marion Dax-ies. Norma Talmadpe, Alice Joyce, Colleen Moore, and Gloria Swanson. To whom is Betty Compson married? James CYuzo. What Is nn obelisk? A square tapering shaft with a pyramidal top The most famous ones are those found In Egypt. What xvas the real name of Jules Verne? M. Olchexvitz. What is the area of Singapore Island? Two hundred and seventeen square miles. How long docs a camel lix-e? On the average fifty to sixty years. How ave Coney Island sandwiches made? There are xuirious recipes; one is to cut a roll lengthwise, put on It a "hot dog," or frankfurter, with a teaspoon full of diced raxv onion and some Chili sauce. Hamburger steak sandwiches may he made in the same way, only round rolls are used, and the steak is seasoned with salt and pepper and fried, then put between the roll, with the onion and Chili 'sauce. Serve while hot. What is the membership of the American Federation of Labor? The ax-erage total paid-up and reported membership of unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor for the fiscal year 1924 is 2,865,979 according to the report of the executix’e council recently presented to the American Federation of Labor Convention at El Paso. This figure does not in-

j abundance of quality farm products I with carry-over hut not exportable ; surplus, unless such surplus could jbe sold in foreign markets at a i profit, and (4) keep the farmer so | well Informed as to his business that 1 he would know just what to grow j In order to nuakejnoney. The United Cotton Growers have | Indorsed the bill. ] McLaughlin says he Is not going jto ask for a hearing on his meas- ; ure until the agricultural commission appointed by President Coolidge : has had a chance to study It and ] rei>ort on It at the meeting of aJn. |5. He thinks President Coolidge will Ihe agreeable as well, despite the j President's often expressed senti!ment that such things as this must 'be done by the farmers themselves, j The board of seven directors proj vided by McLaughlin's measure i would consist of the Secretary of Agriculture and six men appointed

elude members In good standing, but who, by reason of being out of work in strikes and lockouts, paid no dues, The abox'e figure, therefore, refers to dues-paying membership only. When Is "WnJpurgis Night?" The eve of May day, when xxitches are supposed to hold high revelry Who xx-as Tito? The handsome but weak hero of George Eliot’s "Romola,”

THE HARDINGS A reader of this column asks for details of the life and death of former President Warren G. Harding and of Mrs. Harding, and her grandchildren. Any other reader wishing biographical material of this kind should send to our Washington Bureau for a three page mimeographed bulletin on the Hardings, enclosing a 2-cent postage stamp for reply.

What does th name Ulysses mean? A hater. What arrangements have been made for the protection of the Vatican ? There is xvithin the Vatican a xvellorganized serx-ice of police and guards. Military and police bodies protect persons and property, and the fire department prevents damage from fire. The special military

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;by the President, not more than | three of xvhom xvould be of the same i political party. The salaries of the j six would be SIO,OOO a year each. , excepting the managing director, I who would get $15,00. Each of the | six men would he, according to McLaughlin’s scheme, an expert in j marketing and distributing at least ► one farm commodity. "This corporation,” says McLaughlin, “would advise the farmer lon crops. It xvould take over his surplus crops, pay him for them and 1 store them up until there was a mar- ; ket for them. Surpluses would be I all the corporations xvould buy. If ; losses are sustained by the corpora--1 tinn one year, they can be taken out j of the proceeds the next year, which really means that they would be assessed back to the farmer. "Ox-er-production in one place would he eliminated and scarcity in i another would be a thing of the past, j Distribution would also be equalized.

guardians of the palace are the Swiss guards; entrusted with the specitij rally police duties are the gendarmes, j The palatine guards are rather a | guard of honor, and the noble guard, in. mounted bodyguard with very limited service. The fire brigade is formed by the Ouardie del Fueco. What are the synonyms for abasement? Dt-gradatlon. fall. degeneracy, | humiliation, abjection, debasement, j and servility. What does the name Phoebe I mean? Pure, radiant. What is a pigwidgeon? I A fairy; anything very diminutive. What will make brass fixtures | look like silver? Paint with aluminum paint. I Where are Minnehaha Falls? On the Minnehaha River near ! Minneapolis, Minn. What Is the normal proportion of the blood to the weight of man? One-thirteenth or one-fourteenth. Are the expressions, “I don’t believe," "I don’t think." etc., correct English? Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, In his "Desk-Book of Errors In English,” i j says: “Don’t believe; don’t think; I ! don’t believe I'll go,” are solecisms i now in almost universal use. But I say, rather. ”1 believe I will not go,” i “I think it will not rain.”