Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1924 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRENER, Editor WM. A. MATBORN, Bn*. Mgr. Memh°r of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the Vnited Prose, the SEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. * • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Pents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * • • PHONE—MA in 3500.
He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. —Jas. 5:20. A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways and his thoughts.—D. L. Moody. A CHRISTMAS STORY A r “1 PHANTOM man from Mars, exploring in an airplane. visited our earth. lie landed at night in a clearing at the center of a forest. Leaving his plane, he set forth to a great city and mingled for days among the people. Now. this man from Mars had a magical power of making himself invisible, iso no one saw him. Returning to Mars, he reported: “The earth people impressed me as selfish, self-centered. It’s every man for him self. They scheme against each other and are guilty of meanness, even crimes, in a struggle to get more wealth than they need. Life on earth is a hard fight, wearisome, disappointing. The earthlings are not yet sufficiently civilized to realize that they would all be richer and happier by cooperating—by helping instead of opposing each other. The result is that in a world of plenty there are millions of unfortunates who have only the bare necessities of life. Envies and jealousis are rife. It must be a wretched place to live.” SHE Martians sent their phantom explorer back to earth. He arrived on Christmas Eve, spent a few days and returned home amazed. This time he reported: ‘‘Th>* earthlings have a most extraordinary festival known as Christmas. On this day. every one is generous, kind, happy. It is the only day in the year when the goal of the earthlings is to give instead of to get. With thrills of pleasure they bestow gifts on their loved ones. They seek out the poor and help them liberally. All is peace, happiness, good fellowship. ’ The phantom explorer paused and eyed his bewildered listeners. “The remarkable part of Christmas on earth,” said he, “is that the earthlings realize Christmas is the happiest day of the year by reason of this Christmas spirit. It seems not to occur to them that all other days could be as happy if the Christmas spirit were in force all the time instead of just one day a year. Perhaps, later when they see the light, every day will be like Christmas. True happiness is in unselfishness, liberality and helping others.” LABOR’S NEW LEADER w/LLLIAM GREEN* succeeds Samuel Gompers. He has been W given a high honor and a great responsibility. N*o man has more friends to wish him success; they expect him to bear both honor and responsibility with distinction. During-bis tenure of the A. F. of L. presidency,' certainly if the next convention follows the present example of the executive council and continues him in office. Green will have to face the problem of the labor movement, which is polities. He always has been a Democrat. For four years, earlier in his career, he held political office as a Democrat, being for two terms a member of the Ohio State Senate. In the recent campaign he voted as a Democrat, supporting John W. Davis, though not participating actively in the campaign. Green’s politics helped to form a three-cornered paradox. Ilis chief in the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, voted for Coolidge. The American Federation of Labor, as a body, announced its support of La Follette. Green and Lewis as citizens are entitled to cast their ballots for whom they please. One can convince himself that the best interests of the country demand Davis in the White House and the other that the best interests demand Coolidge. fir both can convince themselves that politics has nothing to do with the interests of labor and that in politics a Democrat must always be a Democrat and a* Republican must always be a Re publican. This is their privilege, but in exercising it they will find themselves pretty much alone among labor leaders. The American Federation of Labor has progressed, as a body, beyond this point in politics. It has recognized the need of solidarity. It knows that so long as men and women vote merely as Re publicans and Democrats, organized labor can command no respect from the political powers, that it can only beg for consideration. This is not arguing the case for a labor party in America The day of such a party may be long distant and it may never arrive. But with the economic issues as clear cut as Messrs. Green and Lewis themselves declare them to be, the day when organized labor should work together in politics already has ar rived. No man could have resisted the labor party idea any more stubbornly or any more effectively than Samuel Gompers did. He won the name of conservative because of his political views. But he came at length to see that so long as the and file of labor voted merely as their fathers had voted, they were voting like so many sheep. Gompers opposed a labor political party. lie worked, however, to make the force of labor felt as occasion demanded it. He worked to keep the mind of labor open in political matters. That is the political progress made by the A. F. of L. during Gompers’ time. / With every possible good wish for his intelligent and likeable successor, this newspaper believes that he will do well to ponder the reasons that brought the conservative Samuel Gompers to the course he followed in the 1924 campaign.
Science Dr. T. F. 'Wall, noted engineer of Sheffield University, England. Is prominent In the work of trying to disrupt the atom. Most scientists believe that there is such great energy stored in atoms that its release and control will run the world's machinery ahd as much more as the world can install. The United States bureau of standards *ays that the most important scientific accomplishment of the decade is the exploration of the atom. However, nobody knows absolutely about the power of the atom. Some believe that atomic energy is found only In radioactive substances. Others have, evolved the theory that the disruption of the atom medhs communicating its energy to all oth-,
i er atoms and their consequent de- ' struction. In fact, the end of the world in one sudden explosion. Dr. Wall is subjecting different : substances to a sudden electric disi charge of great intensity in attempts to disturb the atomic structure. Other scientists are experimenting with great heat. In these experiments a temperature of 60,000 degrees Farenheit has been attained. This Is six times as hot as the heat of the sun. The Cook’s Way “Ye can get a hat Just like your missis' velvet wan for sivin dollars at Brown’s Bargain Store." “Yes. an’ I can get wan for nothin’ by tellin’ me missis about the wan in Brown’s Bargain Store."—Brisbane Mews.
IS LONGER LIFE WORTH THE COST? ” - Scientists Debate This Question —Say It Can Be Done. By FRANK J. TAY7 X>R HAT would folks give to have \U ten or twenty years added to their lives? And If they would pay the price, are their lives worth lengthening? A group of forty of the best minds of the medical and hygienic world gathered in New' York recently and decided that they could increase man's span of life if they had the money and if man’s life was worth saving. That was the starting point of an enlightening discussion. One man said: “We can add twenty years to the : average person's life. That is evi- ; dent. Our demonstrations prove it. j We have the information, the skill, i But—are our lives worth saving, worth extending? And are we will- | ing to pay cash in order to have | our lives saved?” Ought to Know The man who said that ought to 1 know. He was Charles Edward Amory Winslow of the Yale Medical School and Professor of Public Health. , Another man spoke: ‘'We have the money to spend on public enlightenment. We can buy healtli for the people with it—to a ! certain extent. But before wo can I get tiie people to benefit by a medical editttion, we have to get them really to want improved health and lengthened life. We arc discovering that to lie exceedingly difficult.” The man who said that was Eiihu Root, octogenarian, lawyer, public i servant, trustee of numerous funds j to be spent for the public good. (Question of Right Hr. William 11. Welch, director of the Johns Hopkins school of hygiene, arose with this thought: "Do you think we are doing the I right thing in selling health and life to the public? Aren’t we, perhaps, just keeping the unfit alive at the ' expense of the fit, instead of letting nature do the weeding out by disease and death? Is it right that we oldI sters should be permitted to go on ; living, for instance? Do you think we aged men are really entitled to a few years more?" | Dr. Welch is more than SO years i of age, but ruddy, vigorous and ac- ; itvp. Another man rose to reply to | Dr. Welch's questions: “The improvements accomplished i by preventive mediums during the past fifty years have revolutionized the life of civilized countries. Less than 30 per cent of the people living in the United states live to !>c over 65 years of age. Twenty-five per cent die between the ages of 23 and 43. Another 5 pep cent of the deaths occur among girls and boys. Re- ; tween the ages of 45 and 63 nearly , a third of all the deaths occi.r. So it really doesn't matter much if an octogenarian is granted a few extra years. The problem doesn't lie there. The average life of the child, the girl and boy, the mother and father, cannot he prolonged without preventing disease and increasing tlie health of the community. . . . The general prolongation of life 1 means that each Individual must live his life In accordance with the laws of both personal and social hygiene, so that tlie health of the ; whole community may be safe--1 guarded." For Happiness This speaker was Dr. William IT 1 Park, director of the Bureau of j T.laboratories of the Now York City 1 Health Department. Dr. Welch arose again and said: "You're absolutely right. Tt isn’t | increased life so much as Increased j happiness that we ought to strive | for. And good health is the prime i condition upon which rests the pos- ! sihiiity of happiness. . . . Anyway. we can’t save the lives of the unfit, j We couldn't even if we wanted to. I Oulv the fit have the intelligence to ; seek health, buy health, make the sacrifices for health. If we lengthen the lives of such intelligent people we are not harming the race.” The question of what folks would pay for”longer lives and better health arose. Dr. Matthias Nicoll ,Tr.. New York State eommmissloner of health, answered It this way: “In my opinion, people won’t pay : a cent for the health of the community at large. They won’t pay for the lives of their neighbors, or of the coming generation. But they will pay for their own lives and their own health. They will pay, as individuals, when It is demonstrated to them that they will, individually, get their money’s worth of life.” But another man knew they would. He was Homer Folks, secretary of the New York State Charities Aid Association. He told how people scoffed !n 1909 when It was proposed to raise funds to fight tuberculosis by selling health stamps at Christmas time, but how ten years later New York was buying annually half a million dollars' worth of these stamps, or 10 cents worth for each Inhabitant of the city. There the discussion ended. What do you think, having read thus far? Is more of life worth while? Nature Having transmitted electrical power from Niagara Falls to New York, the engineers are now striving to push the sending distance up to 1,000 miles for a million volts which would equal the power generated from 25,000,000 tons of coalSan Francisco has the fewest thunderstorms and Tampa, Fla., the most. Dr. Nichols of the -Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, has a petrified streak of lightning. He found it in the famous sand dunes near Chicago. The bolt had hit into a bank, melting a two-inch thickness of sand to a depth of eight feet. It quickly cooled into a hollow, glassiike, crooked stick.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
Coasting r. v prTH the first snow blanket the j VX/ hearts of Indianapolis youngsters leaped with joy. For enow means sleds, sleighing, coasting and childhood's tingling winter sports. But these pleasures must he pursued vicariously—if at all—in city. streets. The snow Ester astrideii are disorganized for f u r t h er coasting traffic tangle. NELSON But to children winter is only a chill season of discontented days indoors, unless they can romp In the snow. And a sled indoors is a hollow mockery. So yesterday Mayor Shank ordered street hills in various sections of town closed to traffic. They will be reserved for the coasting youngsters. Tt may discommode some traffic. But the act merits the approbation of every one who remembers keen winter days, and swoops downhill on rakish sleds. City traffic is always with us and on us. But sparkling childhood, crunching snow, Christmas and coasting, stay only a moment and are gone. Rightly they should tie : given opportunity to make the most of that moment. Curiosity A* - """" MAN was caught th<’ other night looking in a window of - I the Y. W. c A. building on X. Pennsylvania St. He was arrested on charges of “peeping." Police ' say that twice before he lias faced similar charges. Aggressive curiosity has speeded human progress. But In Peeping Tonis native curiosity has gone to seed. They are social afflictions. For they stick protuberant eyes into keyholes and the . racks in . are. : lessly drawn shades. Which satis- ; ,ies their avid curiosity. But an--1 noys those whose privacy they in- , vade. i And privacy is a sacred right. 1 Without which life would be unboar.able. Because human nature shrivj els If exposed too long to public vie w. Even a gregarious person must no- ; easier!ally escape from folks to let | his poor lUt.e ego relax and be natural. And he doesn’t want throbbing j curiosity and straining ey. >• to disturb this rest. For ego is dele cite and nervous. So decent people abhor the peeping practice. And one who follows it as a vocation Is in a precarious line. His only possible profit is an tin- | substantial and unbankable eye-full. ' For which he risks ignominious arrest and a real penalty, lie finds fee.ling ravenous curiosity expou- : sive.
‘Safety’ Will Have Real Christmas
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Old “Safety,” who has weathered many a storm answering tho call for help, Is preparing to celebrate his thirty-eighth Christmas. He lives on a pension at city hospital. Dave Springer, special policeman, who drove "Safety” In tho early days, said ho received his name because "he was always reliable.”
SOS By ILVL COCHRAN Will some ono please loan mo a hunch for a verso. My mind isn’t working so good. I’ll take what you give mo for better or worse, like any verse writln’ man would. Whenever a hunch comes, a man can turn loose, for writing at random. is fun. But when you aro blaha, there isn’t much use. It seems that your mind Just won’t run. I might write a poem on mother or dad, for they furnish ideas galore. But I fear the attempt, at this time, would be sad and, besides, I have done it before. I realize well that the world’s full of things and they all have poetical trace. But none of tho hunches a weary mind brings, and tho world simply laughs in my face. Yet, who laughs last laughs tho best, so they say, and the last laugh is mine, with a punch. For, though I was shy n.n idea today, that fact, in itself, was a hunch. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) To Notify Mother "Well, Mary, you have a brand new baby sister.” “Oh, DlSddy, can’t I be the first one to tell mother?” —White Mule.
Money rpn RANK IMBACK of LoogooI M I tee, Ind., has received word 1 * I that he has fallen heir to a fortune of $300,000 left by an uncle in Switzerland. However, a string is attached. A stipulation that he must return to claim liis inheritance on money j earned by himself. That is a wise provision. For noth • ing engenders more respect for cash than earning it. When so asquired —be it one dollar or millions—it isn’t carelessly allowed to leave home without a good excuse. Any ono would like to be sole heir of an uncle with mounting fortune and declining health. But fortune propelled in by the hand of death frequently isn’t respected, it's only expected to gratify whims. The proprietors of lucky windfalls usually do that with both hands. Until their primrose paths reach stony ground. Then they sit with squalling whims on their knees and vain regrets around their necks. While they await another windfall. Which generally, like a haughty Pharisee, ignores them. So easy money is hard to hold without preliminary training. And it more often cripples its possessors than it helps them. For it develops wishbone at the expense of backbone. Delay l’rpj Hi: Indiana poll' post office is' I I I exjierlencing its usual hist * minute Christmas rush. The cold wave—crippling train service— j has delayed incoming mail. Bad) weather discour aged early shopping | and piled up outgoing mail. Probably the weather is .t contributing factor. For during the period, Dec. IH-23, mail handled by 1 the local postofflee was far below corresponding days last year. However the basic reason fop the last -minute rush isn’t weather —but j procrastination. “Shop early and mail early” has • been the Christmas slogan for years, flip it remains more an illuminated* wall motto than a rule of conduct For it runs head-on into the solid w til of human ineritia and is j crumpled. People love procrastination. In Christmas shopping and all ordinary affairs of life this trait is evident. People prefer to be late if possible. They get. to their own funerals on turns hut even then un- i willingly. One who worships promptness and dues today’s task today differs from the garden variety of humans. He j is almost a freak. Perhaps admired , from a distance. Rut ho isn't companioriable. His only familiar associates are success and accomplish- , mom. But what arc they compared to comfortable procrastination? Right: "John, the ceiling of the dining room collapsed Inst night. This morning the kitchen ceiling fell In. What do you expect to fell the land lord when ho calls for the rent this month?" “Flat broke"’—Whiz Bang
“SAFETY"
"After ‘Safety’ got uncontrol* able for tho fire department they brought him out here when ho was 6 years old, and ho has been here ever since," he said. When tho ambulance service was motorized, some twelve years ago. "Safety,” believed to be tho oldest horse in Indianapolis, was assured of a home tho remainder of his days.
Tom Sims Says Texas news today. Arrested a man ! dressed as a golfer In Ft. Worth, but, sad to say, not because of it. Women mustn't smoke In the Detrolt Athletic Club, so now where there's smoke thero aro men. They caught a man setting apartment houses on fire In New York; probably a reformed janitor. Charged with extortion, a Chester, Pa., man was charged with electricity as he reached for the ransom money. In Troy, Ohio, the will of Mrs. Honeyman has been set aside, because she wasn’t sweet to her kinfolk. Since income tax lists are published, no doubt some will pay too much next time Just as a. bluff. In Toledo, Ohio, a bear attacked four prohibition agents. We hate to, but we must say there was something bruin. Christmas brought many electrical gifts. They can do everything by electricity now, except pay the bills. (Copyright, 1924, KEA Service, IncJ
There Goes One of His Nine Lives
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AH! BEAUTY! WHAT IS IT?
By RUTH FINNEY CTTa A.N HI NO TON. IV.- \V!:v \X/| is Ar.-u-ri' an !>.ury. anyway? t- TT 1 The poets may hr- .•':>• of red lips like roses, of skin white as summer clouds, of azure .-y.-s, of hair like spun copper, but the National < b -graphic Society, with ll’Ue American literalism, draws aside the veil of illusion and tills us what this beauty of ours really is. The rosy bloom on rouged cheeks is made of crushed dried bodies of the cochineal insect, or som-tinies of the corollas of the safflower, from the Near East. Tiie fair, white skn is mule so by powdered rice starch or ern -larch, or chalk <>r talc ground fine. Lard of gr -ase, disguised as cold cream, makes the skin soft and dear. Woman’s henna hiir is achieved with the aid of a ] iant grown in Egypt.
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You can a.i answer to any quo*- <■ m nf .1 ;- r iifi tam bj ( V The Ire',: it;.,;. . t.- lat * W ftt;,. .1 Bureau, Sew York Avc Vi aanInrton. P C, inc-1 s'n, - 2 cent* in e-.i- ; K : Medical. Vs •>. an 1 marital advar an: W tie fr.veti nor can oxter. ; .1 rrmnreh t..- undertaken. A ’ other -.lie*:-. - r • iv. n persona! reply fnslimod request* -a mot tie ansv. - red All letters are cuUlidentlal —Editor. Who is Henry Ford, 2nd, mentioned In th. irte.ime t i\ )v| orts? The son of Eilsel Coni, who is the only son of Henry F- rd. What is nil :i lit by a ’’Sabbath Day's Journey'.’" Tills is a Hebrew measure of length. From the prohibition to gather manna on the Sabbath or to go forth from the camp, and from the delimitation of the Levitical cities, the rabbis concluded that 2,000 cubits was the utmost distance allowed for travel on the Sabbath. There was n tradition that the distance of the Tabernacle from the limits of the camp was 2,000 cubits. In the case of cities the Telling It to Congress Self-Sustaining In fifteen or twenty years we shall not have the same need for a foreign market. By that time our population should have grown large enough to consume most, of what wo | produce.—The Late Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, In Annual Deport for 1924. * • • Sight Unseen Almost any contract we should make for the Government (for Muscle Shoals) would be a sort of leap in the dark, and we should he giving away a valuable pronerty under almost any terms that wo could make or which aro proposed to be made. —Senator lfarreld (Rep.), Oklahoma. • • Timber Shortage According to the report of William B. Greeley, national forester, the condition of our lumber and wood supply Is most appalling. There are i only fourteen States, in the South and extreme West, which have astir- ! plus of production in lumber over consumption. In the remaining States of the Union the consumption of lumber is greater than the production.—Representative Ragon (Dem.), Arkansas. * • What Farming Ain't It is folly to claim that the farmers are prosperous or that the agrarian crisis has passed. Fundamentally, agriculture is not on a safe, sane, sound or profitable basis. —Representative Lozier (Deni.), Missouri. • . * . Ruling the Red Man During the session of the Sixty Eighth Congress forty-four different bills beneficial to Indians became law, the greatest number In any single session of Congress.—Secretary of the Interior Work, in Annual Report for 1924. I
The rosebud lips are rosebud because of beeswax, grease and the safflower. Those starry black eyes owe their •.Turin to India ink or coal tar dyes. There she is, nothing but a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, and t>. any is just as commercial as food, and tie-re aren’t any more fairy princt-s-es any more than there’s a ; Santa Claus’ Now we’rt disillusioned, we might as w* 11 g-n farther into this thing. Cosmetic comes from a Greek word meaning to adorn or beautify, and the art of the beauty parlor date' hat k even farther than that. Thousands of years ago, savages lin the woods started using cold i cream. They made it of rancid but- : ter and salt: Cream thus becomes riie most ancient beautifler, only today they make it with a liquid paraffine base so it won’t be rancid. Next oldest as a beautifler is soap.
starting point of measurement for the Sabbath day’s journey was tiie outer wall; within, even were tiie city as large as Nineveh, it was permissible to travel without limitationWhen and where was Mary Washington born? In Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1706. What are the duties of the t "a-'master at a wedding? Tt is rather unusual to have a toastmaster at a wedding. However, if it is desired to have toasts and speeches at the wedding supper, the toastmaster has only to preface these toasts with witty remarks and anecdotes. Just as tho toastmaster at a banquet does. He should use appropriate and fitting Jokes and anecdotes and his remark should only preface the other toasts and | therefore should be brief. What does the Hawaiian cxi presslon “Mai Poina lau” mean? “Don’t forget me." What salaries are paid elevator j conductors In Government employ? Tiie salaries range from S9OO to $l,lOO a year. What does the name "Rumania” mean? This is the Roumanian form of ‘‘Human,” from tho Latin "Romanus” meaning “Roman; of Rome." How should Polyphemus moths be cared for? They do not require any care. They should be kept in a partially darkened place; they do not need any food, as they do not eat after emerging. They mate, lay their eggs on leaves, fly around for a few evenings, and then die. ITow can galvanized iron be cleaned? If the material Is covered with iron rust tho original appearance of the coated article cannot be ire-
Tiie spirit of the season PROMPTS US TO EXPRESS <jr~2F> TO OUR MANY FRIENDS OUR M KEEN APPRECIATION FOR THE LOYAL SUPPORT THEY HAVE Ju GIVEN DURING THE PAST YEAR /l\ AND EXTEND TO THEM OUR BEST / 1\ WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRIST- I || MAS AND A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. The Union Trust Cos. 120 E. Market St.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 1924
The Phoenicians are believed to have discovered the art of making soap and the advantages of its use. They taught the Gauls their method, and front them it was passed on to tho Romans and the method improved. A complete soap factory has been found in the ruins of Pompeii. “Civilization has slipped around the world on a film of soap,” remarks the Geographic Society. And thus the United States is a great missionary nation, for $3,000,009 worth (if soap is exported annually. Although the colorings for rouge still must come from abroad, the United States now exports about $2.5i)0,000 worth of cosmetics every \ ear and manufactures about $90,000.000 worth for home use, beside. Imports amount to $9,000,000 annually, hut a great part of this is perfumery and raw materials. “Made in America" complexions are becoming more and more popular.
-r ii-' i. If the zinc coating has simply acquired a tarnish of “bloom," cither scouring with an abrasive, or treatment with strong ammonia water containing some sal ammoniac should clean the surface. ITow much is It estimated the Indian population of what la now the United States has fallen off since Columbus discovered America? Far from falling off, It is estimated there are more Indians In the territory of the United States than there were when Columbus made his discovery. The figures of the Department of the Interior show that there are 346,962 Indians, counting ali tribes, a gain of 16,283 In the last eleven years. Are skunk secretions used for perfume? If not, what Is the musk used for perfume? Skunk secretions are not used. Musk is the secretion of the musk deer of the Himalayas, How manv persons are directly engaged in the telephone business in the United States? Some 350,000. Where Is Monte Carlo? In Monaco, five miles northeast of Nice. 4 What is Rocky Kansas' real name? Rocco Tozze. How are quartz and agate prepared for use? They are silt with a thin Iron disk supplied with diamond dust moistened with brick oil. The rough grinding is done on a lead wheel supplied with coarse emery and water. The smoothing is done with a lead lap and fine emery, and the polishing may be accomplished by means of a lead lap whose surface is hacked and supplied with rotten stone and water. Is Charlie Chaplin a Jew? Yes.