Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1924 — Page 4

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.'—Prov. 22:15. The bearing and training of a child is woman's wisdom.-* Tennyson. IT WOULD HIT HARD EORKIGN scientists are coming to this country with tin changed to gold by a process which, they claim, means the transformation of the baser metals into gold at an enormous profit. One can hardly imagine what would happen should a S2O gold piece, for instance, suddenly become worth $2. America is estimated to hold some 60 per cent of the gold of the world and all American money is based on gold. Scientists are working to break up the atom and release its energy, and there are some who hold that this would mean explosion of the earth. Suppose that some scientist should discover a fuel in water much cheaper than gasoline. It would mean ruin to millions of private fortunes, businesses and whole towns and cities. Maybe we’re becoming a bit too smart. There’s a difference between cataclysm and decent evolution, and the scientists shouldn’t pull off too much without giving folks time to prepare for the change. USEFUL WINTER READING F 1 ”””" OLKS CAN find no more profitable reading for these long winter evenings than a report just made by the Federal Trade Commission on cooperative enterprises in Europe. They may find it not only profitable but entertaining, for there is no more alluring literature than that which paints the realizations of one’s own dreams. “If the farmers could only get together—” says the farmer, facing the confusing question of marketing the products he has wrung from the soil. He has come to know that this is his greatest problem. Sale methods have not caught up with improved production methods in the case of the farmer. lie is miles behind the manufacturer in this respect. Selling has become the most highly developed branch of manufacturing industry. It is the usual thing to find an advertising genius or a selling genius at the head of a big industrial corporation these days, with the various construction geniuses in the concern playing comparatively minor roles. This is true in other industries, but not in agriculture. The Federal Trade Commission’s report is the work of Chairman Huston Thompson and Dr. "William Xotz. head of the commission's export trade division. They spent the summer of 1923 in Europe, visiting fifteen countries. They have reported to Congress what they found. The report will be enlightening to the average American farmer. Write to Congressman Moores or to Senator Ralston for a copy of it. SPOILS SYSTEM AGAIN i DOLPH SEIDENSTIC'KER, Democrat, who served the State Pardon Board for twelve years, is to be replaced by Jan. 1 by Caleb S. Denny, Indianapolis attorney, Republican. When Seidenstieker leaves his office he will attempt to convey to Mr. Denny in an hour what he has spent twelve years to learn. Seidenstieker has spent his whole time investigating applications for executive clemencju Governor Emmett F. Branch has announced the board will consider dispensing with the fulltime position. Who then will make the necessary investigations? They must be made or the board might as well be abolished. This situation is the result of the famous Indiana spoils system. Two previous Republican Governors saw the wisdom iu keeping Seidenstieker on the board. The present, or rather the incoming administration, apparently has succumbed to political expediency in replacing Seidenstieker, the only man in the State who took years to learn the business.

Automobiles Put Railway Line Out of Business

Tinie T f’axhinoton Bureau, Ml Setc York Are. 1y j ASHINGTON, Dee. 26.—The serious effect that automobile competition may have on railroads is being officially brought to the attention of the Interstate Commerce Commission. For the first time in its history the commission is to be asked to permit a railroad to abandon important branch lines because motor-bus competition has made it impossible for the railroad to make a profit. The railway in question is the Boston & Maine, a company operating approximately 2,500 miles of lines extending west and north from Boston. Os this total mileage, the company now •wishes to abandon 1,000 miles because “motor traffic has taken such a large part of the traffic that rapidly increasing losses have resulted." Bus Competition Privately owned bus lines have been responsible for the railroad's loss of revenue. In petitioning for permission to abandon the unprofitable railway branch lines, the owners have decided to compete with the now established bus lines with motor busses of their own. As a preliminary step toward such motor competition, the railroad has brought legal action against the larger of the private bus lines, charging that its competition has placed the property of the stockholders in the Boston & Maine In jeopardy. Before the railroad may proceed with its plan, which involves considerable new financing, the I. C. C. must pass on the proposals. In pde paring his case for presentation before the commission, Homer Loring, chairman of the Boston & Maine executive committee, is endeavoring to show that “the best interest of the public and of the stockholders can be served by discontinuing 1,000 ’’-1rV sos Un £ B, by obtaining $13,000,for nt* financing, and by or-

ganizing the Boston & Maine Transportation Company to operate motor trucks and busses along the routes of the abandoned railway." Help Railroads Another railway official who recently took cognizance of the growing importance of motor competition is President-elect W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Lines. Atterbury, instead of regarding the automobile solely as an exterior and harmful Influence on railroads, professed to see in them aids to more efficient railroad management. “I believe the railroads will work out a scheme of co-ordination of rail and motor service,” Atterbury said. "On the Pennsylvania system we have already put into service a number of motor truck lines, which, in large part, take the place of the ■local freight trains. We are also devoting a great deal of attention to the use of motor trucks at railway terminals to relieve congestion. “Os course, the automobile in some parts of the country has been a serious competitor of the railways. But my own view is that a good deal of general good can be accomplished through co-operation on the part of all those concerned in the problem." Music A south side man trying to get Aberdeen on his radio the other evening fell asleep on the couch and snored vociferously. Bob and Bill, sleeping near the head of the stairs, heard the noise. "I guess dad must have Scotland all right,” said Bill. "I hear the bagpipes.”—Youngstown Telegram. Rea! Christmas Party By Timex Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Dec. 26. With their six children present, Mr. and Mrs. August Fagel celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary Christmas day.

BONUS NO WORRY TO VETERANS Less Than Half of Service Men Apply for Compensation, Times Washington Bureau. 13tZ Sew York Ave. rrrjl ASHINTGON, Dec. 26.—More than half of the World War U-L_ veterans entitled to adjusted compensation insurance are not interested in the matter enough to apply for it. This is the conclusion of officials in charge of Administration of the recently enacted bonus. Os the 4,200,000 veterans entitled to the bonus only 1,800,000 have applied for it. About 2,400,000 have not tiled applications. The first batch of insurance certificates are ready to be mailed from the Veterans' Bureau here Jan. 1. Some officials attribute the failure of veterans to apply for their insurance certificates to misunderstanding on their part of the value of these certificates. Representative Elmer Thomas of ‘ Oklahoma is proposing in Congress ! to simplify the payment of this ad- ! justed compensation by amending ! the present law so that the insurance certificates can be turned in to the Government for cash immediately. Thomas is drafting a bill to this end. He says that many ex-service men feel that borrowing money on insurance certificates involves too much red tape. "Many of the men need the ready cash now and the bill which T am now completing and will introduce as soon as Congress reconvenes provides that the certificates can be treated the same as any paid up life insurance policy," Thomas stated. "For instance, the bill will provide that any veteran can surrender his certificate to the Government at any time and receive what is coming to him at once.”

Telling It to Congress

A Hole in Our Defense During the last war Germany discovered that our weakest point was in the matter of nitrate. We were depedent upon a foreign country — Chi!*—to supply this. We are the only government lr the world of any size that is really dependent upon another country in that respect. —- Senator Harris. (D.) Georgia. Something Not for Profit The post offices are not conducted for protit. they are conducted to transport letters and papers for the people. The public schools of the United States are not conducted for money profits; our profits there are Informed, educated young ladies and gentlemen, fax above money profits. The national parks, the lungs of !lie i country, erf not maintained forprofit. They are maintained s6 that the people may there regain and recreate their exhausted strength.— Senator Ashurst. (D.t Arizona. Farmers Are Better While much further recovery is required to f.ring it back to its pre-war condition, American agriculture, on the whole, is in the best position it has held since 1920. Prices of many crop* are a‘ the highest point In four years and costs ~f production have declined somewhat from the high point of the depression period.—Report of the Department of Agriculture. A Banner Year The National Park Service handled the hugest volume of tourist travel in the history of the national parks during the 1924 season, 1.422,353 visitors, as against 1,280.886 during 1923 and 1.044.502 in 1922. Secretary of the Interior Work, in annual report for 1924. The Power of Truth Sometimes it. is as dangerous to preach the truth an to enter a powder magazine with a. lighted torch, but, nevertheless, truth yet exists; and all history has taught us, all people’s governments have taught us. that ultimately, finally, the truth will prevail.—Senator Johnson, (R.) California. Science Dr. Takahashl of Japan has obtained an active ingredient from cod liver oil that is so concentrated that a very small pill or capsule equa-ls a table spoonful of the oil. This will be of great Importance to the welfare of children. If am under-nourished baby could eat a pound of fresh, pure butter daily, Jt would become strong and well because of the Vitamlne A contained In the butter. This, of course. Is impossible, but the baby may get the same amount of this vitamlne In a tablespoonful of cod liver oil. This has long been used as a remedy, but it Is only recently that its great value has been fully realized. However, the oil is unpleasant and it is difficult to get a child to take it. The Takahashl process at present Is very expensive, but this is due to the experimental methods that will have to be used in producing It. It Is expected that it soon will be produced In quantities through a method of manufacture that will place it within the reach of all parents. Nature T’nited States Department of Agriculture now proposes to make them cotton orchards instead of cotton fields. At its experiment garden, Miami. Fla., cotton twigs ore grafted onto a rare tree from Hawaii, the only one discovered that the cotton plant will cross with. If successful, the trees will l>o fifteen to twentyfive feet high and can be sprayed like apple trees for the well known boll weevil British zoologists placed butterflies In a screened box containing bowls of whisky and water The rna.es took to the whisky in great shape, but the females spurned-It.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

T r action HE Union Traction Company plans to ask permission of ..... the public service commission to abandon its line from Anderson to Middletown. Which is unprofit able. It is expected Ip o m patiies will ■ u n p r ■> lit able * sranc^cs next year. murder of their timuori tMujra' tor busses. sible. For most NELSON branch lines were born to die after an inglorious mid pny existence. . Busses have simply hastened the demise. In the opulent days of traction expansion an ambitious promoter, in every' trifling village, started a line from the public square to the Pacific coast. Generally the tracks quit at the first hamlet —though the company name rolled on with sonorous dignity. These fragmentary lines from nowhere to nowhere eventually were incorporated in larger systems. Where they were frequently bleeders. not feeders. Which was unimportant in the era of swollen profits. But not now. Perhaps abandonment of unproductive service may harrow tho pride of tow n affected. •St ill lopping off dead branches helps trees. And pruning deadwood from traction systems may invigorate them to serve better public needs. Gas J. BURKE, secretary of the Indiana Gas Association, repeople in the State now use manufactured gas. Principally for cooking. Among States Indiana ranks ninth in the number of gas consumers. Which may account for the juvenile crime wave that now surges here. For the old wood-burning stove was a powerful disciplinary tool. That regenerated many way ward youths who seemed predestined for tho gallows. With the corning of gas woodsheds —the courts of hist resort, where youthful delinquencies were exam ined and dusted off —have gone. And youth roams the streets. The tHiy of the wood-burning period might have been wicked at heart. Hacking with an ax at a cross-grained chunk of hard wood certainly developed homicidal tendencies.' But he had to split the wood before indulging in pleasure. Which curtailed the time the boy could devote to his murdering. But despite Its debilitating moral effect on youth the substitution of gas has greatly lightened household labor. Ib.usewlves have fewer ashes in their hair and fewer slivers in their dispositions. And efficiency in the kitchen improves homes. For real homes are built around kitchens.

Man-Made Women

By MRS WALTER FERGUSON EATBLY there has been a ringing demand from the men folks for the return of the old fashioned woman. Hire are the prophecies made public unless wo go back to nur ancient traditions ond manners. The men have quite a lot to say about their veneration and respect for sweet feminity. They hold up as their highest ideal the girl who is gentle and modest, thoughtful and kind, find quite true to form, but they never marry this ideal. Now, if the world is actually going to the dogs because there are not enough high principled women, the men can very easily remedy this condition. In their hands alone lies the power to save civilization. For merely venerating and respecting a girl is not going to get her anywhere, as she is fully aware. A man can admire and worship sweet womanhood all he pleases, but If he never proposes what good is the girl going to get out of that? Being venerated is not half as nice as being all dated up. as Miss Twentieth Century very well knows, and naturally she acts upon this theory. Too many young men are passing up the gentle, modest girl to take tire flippant, cocktail drinking misses out for joy rides; too many older men are leaving their faithful working wives to pick up the younger and gayer sort for tho women to put much faith in all this talk about. " womanly women," which the men put out for camouflage purposes. When a man sighs because he can-

Two Tours to the RfVIERIA All expense tours including second class rail travel, meals at hotels, accommodations at hotels, conveyance of passengers and baggage to and from hotels and depots, sightseeing at Paris and Versailles. Tour B, Sailing from New York, Feb. 7, 38 days, 9487.00 Tour A, Sailing from New York, Jan. 10. 35 days, $7131.00 For full information see RICHARD A. KURTZ, Manager Foreign Dept. H-union trust* 120 East Market Street. MA in 1576.

Limit ■p-,”] REDERICK E. SCHORTEjp I MEIER, secretary of State — J replying to a request for his views on automobile legislation—suggested raising the stale speed limit from twenty-five to thirty-five miles an hour. Which automobile clubs and motorists generally favor. For the present limit is considered merely # legal heirloom —an archaic blue-law. To most people its infraction involves no moral turpitude. On the contrary they boast of smashing the fragile statute and scattering it broadcast on the highways. Their only penalty the dust of speedier law-breakers. Drivers who do not exceed the present limit are disgusted with their motors. Even the law-abiding mayor of Indianapolis made a cross-country dash of 165 miles in three and onehalf hours. Just about 100 per cent fracture of the law. For which he was proud. The present limit does not promote highway safety. For any speed may be dangerous mixed with carelessness. And carelessness can’t he limited. Probably highways would be no more hazardous nor would traffic move more swiftly if the limit was raised so it wouldn't bo trampled on by ordinary motor traffic. A thirl y-five-mile-an-hour law would not legalize tin accomplished fact. Gift ItTIiUK JORDAN. Indianapolis manufacturer, has given cording to announcement yesterday by the financial secretary of the college. It is a splendid contribution to a worthy object. For a well equipped college, is to he desired in any city. Not only from the business standpoint. But for its contribution to the spiritual and cultural life >f the community. However, colleges, though they yield enormous public dividends, are not self-sustaining- So it is largely bv * private munificence that they have grown numerous and great in this country. American tire accused of thinking over-much of the dollar. Perhaps they do. But not altogether for th<dollar itself. Nor mean avarice. It is somewhat for the public service the dollar will perform. And It is to the lasting glory of America that it produces so many Individuals who unselfishly give large sums to enterprises for the common good. Tt is not the donations, but the spirit actuating the donors that is a priceless national heritage. So Ttut ler College and th<- city are enriched less by Mr. Jordan's gift than by the public spirit that prompted it. Wise Willie Willie was being measured 'or his first made-to-order suit of clothes. "Do you want tie- shoulders pad, dod, my little man?” Inquired th* tailor. "N'iw—pad mo prints"—Belle Hop.

not find his ideal, the chances aro that ho ha.s not hurled for her very hard. One does not find tho domestic typo of woman at the stage door, nor the modest damsel decorating the drug store drink parlors, nor the ideal wife and mother in the public dance hall. About all the men seek Ihejjo days is j*>p. pep, and more pep. They may yell in their off moments for high ideals ami modesty, but their actions certainly belie their words. And tho pfty of it is that we used to have high ideals. Some of us have them still, hut the marrying men, wo often notice, go on leading tho other kind to the altar. They've made us what we are today. and still they're not. satisfied. Tongue Tips Dr. E. U. Hill, educator, Philadelphia; “There Is a feeling that with all our educational equipment, students aro not being educated. We are missing the mara. Wo tiro on a sort of merry-go round. We aro In motion and there is plenty of exoitemont and jazz, but wo aro getting nowhere.” * • • Uncoln J. farter, old-time inelodramatist. Goshen, Ind : "There are. a lot of peopl ■ who think I am dead because I am not producing a melodrama. a year. The fact Is that, the heroine and the hero and all tho scenic effects of the melodrama have moved over to the films. That’s all. I'm still as much alive as ever, but the old business Is gone.”

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You can get an answer to any question of Ihi t or information by writing to The Inuianapotls Times Washington bureau, 1352 New York Ave. Waafiiiiguui I). C , inclosing 2 rents in stamps for reply Medical, i'-gal and marital advice cannot be riven, nor can extend'd research be undertaken. AH other question* wi? rec.-iv- a persona. reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential —Editor. What was the value of the aircraft products produced in the | United States during 1923? $12,945,263. Who was the first king of united Italy ~rul when did he die? Victor Emmanuel II; he died in ; 1878. What is the largest motorshlp tow in existence and what are Its dimensions? ! The “Aorangi.." which was built j in England, is 6UO feet long, has a I beam of 72 f.-et and a displacement |of 23,000 tons. It will have space for 950 passengers. It has an average speed of 17 knots an hour. On what day of the week did Oct. 11,1 S6S, come? <>n Sunday. How is nicotine obtained from tobacco? By extraction with water, alcohol, ~r acetone, in all of which It is solubl*-. or by distilling the tobacco with steam. What is the best time the best trains can make from New Y'ork to San Francisco? Eighty-eight hours. Will lions and tigers cross? Yes. there is in the London zoo an ! animal known is a “tigon,” the i mother of which was a lioness and i the father a tiger. i What action was taken against .b-rforson Davis after the Civil I War? \fter the surrender of Ijee. Davis | was captured on May 10. 1865. at Irwinville, Georgia. He was confined In Fortress Monroe. He desired a •public trial and feared he would die before refuting the charge of comi plirity in the assassination of Lin-

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i coin. An indictment was found j against him for treason but he was ! admitted to bail May, 1867; Horace I Greeley, Gerrit Smith, and other prominent Northerners going on his bond. An attempt made by his counsel to quash the indictment failed. He was released by an order of nolle prosequi in February, 1869. fan you give me several common Spanish names for boys? Pedro. Rodolfa, Juan, Silverio, ' Alejandro, l’epe. What does It mean by a “subtitle” and a "leader" in a photo- ! Play? A subtitle is a printed legend, or caption, used In a photoplay to describe action, lapses of time, or to introduce characters. The part of ; the film commonly referred to as a "leader" Is a thick stretch of blank Waste Paper By UAL COCHRAN Ragged little calendar of nineteen twenty-four, you've really done your duty very well. But now your days are numbered, as they have been j heretofore, and you’re bound to i pass, ns time is sure to tell. We've seen you in kitchens ! where you've caught the ladles' eye. \ and they've marked the grocery i orders on your face. In the room ; where they do stitchin’ you have | shown time fleeting by. Yea. in I homes you've hung in every little I place. And the men folks, too, have had you In their offices and such, and i you've helped to keep their business ; going right. Every day you’ve always added just the necessary touch, ani they've changed you as | the day swung into night. Day by day we've turned your ! pages; month by month you've riled j away, till of nineteen twenty-four j there Is no trace. True, in duty you j were gifted, but, alas, you’ve slowjly drifted till the year of twenty- | five must take your place.

FRIDAY, DEC. 26, 1924

film which is attached to the reel and run off before the picture appears on the screen. It Is sometimes used for a brief space In the middle of a picture to denote lapse of time Intervening between scenes. What is the favorite food of beavers? The bark and twigs of aspen, poplar and willow trees. Why does an apple turn brown when cut? Because the oxygen of the air tends with tho water vapor to act upon the apple and oxidize or burn it up slowly. What is the area of the moon's surface? 2.466.656 square miles. What is a sob? A convulsive inhalation of air during a spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm under the impulse of painful or hysterical emotion and usually accompanied with tears. Which American division in the World War made the greatest advances against the enemy? The 77th Division advanced seventy one and one-half kilometers against the enemy and leads the list of American divisions In this respect. The 2d Division, which advanced a total of sixty kilometers, is second. Is fife worth living? This office never expresses opinions. but we will quote from Alfred Austin's poem. "Is Life Worth Living:” "No long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remain# To leaven lowly lives; While there Is one untrodden tract For intellect or will. And men are free to think and act. Life is worth living still.”