Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBOBN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, the NBA Service and the Scripps-Palne Service. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Bunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • ‘Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. • • * PHONE—MA in 3500. For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered np again; neither doth God respect any person.—2 Sam. 14:14. Heaven gives its favorites early death.'—Byron. A THRILL OF PRIDE “T - ! DARK New Year’s night off the Delaware coast. TemA perature below freezing. A wet, sleety forty-mile-an-hoar gale driving a mountainous sea before it£ drenching the decks with icy waters at every plunge. Two hundred passengers asleep or sea-sick below decks and half of a crew of seventy-six on Blinded officers on the bridge in their heaviest seagear, shivering and straining ears that must take the place of eyes. A weary quartermaster wrestling with a stubborn wheel, straining to keep the vessel’s head up to the rushing seas. At such a moment a week ago a frightened member of the crew of the Clyde liner “Mohawk” reported to the bridge a serious fire in the forehold. Smoke was already beginning to stream into the cabins. Investigation showed the whole cargo ablaze, the entire hold a mass of smoldering flame. How the fire started nobody knows. Probably nobody will ever know. Fires start that way at sea. But what was done about it by those who were in charge of the “Mohawk’’.and responsible for the lives of her 207 helpless passengers is a matter of glorious record. Captain James M. Staples was issuing his orders. SOS calls were broadcast by wireless. The course was changed to run for the nearest port, which happened to be Lewes, inside the Delaware Bay entrance. More power was called for from engineers and firemen, to drive the big 6,000-ton hull through an angry sea at a speed that would never have been attempted except in case of emergency, the jolt, the jar, the crash of the waves on her bow becoming heavier with every extra turn of the propellers. Pumps were started. Every man who could be spared from the actual running of the ship was sent forward and below to direct streams from the fire hose, to batter down bulkheads and partitions with ax and sledge. ■ r , . Last, the stewards were sent to waken the passengers and serve out life preservers, quietly, without alarm. They were told to stay with the passengers, to serve food and hot coffee, to display calm themselves and prevent panic. The stewards—and the stewardesses—obeyed orders. There was fear among the passengers. But there was no panic, no loss of control, no screaming, in spite of the terror of the situation. The passengers must have sensed immediately that the officers and crew of the “Mohawk” were on the job, thinking and acting coolly, doing everything “that could be done. S HE Coast Guard service also showed that it was on the job. It was a wild night. But withih an hour of the first IS 0 S the Coast Guard cutter “Kickapoo” was alongside the doomed “Mohawk,” accompanying her on her mad race for a landing place. It was the “Kickapoo” that finally took the “Mohawk’s” people ashore. Two ocean tugs also answered the alarm. It was impossible to take the passengers off outside the bay because of the fury of the storm. Finally the “Mohawk” did make port. Her passengers, still orderly, were landed. The crew followed. The captain and a few others, the last to leave her steaming decks, opened fyer sea cocks. The proud vessel, one of the finest of the Clyde fleet, and with a war record as a transport, turned on her side and sank hissing in forty feet of water. It was the only way to save what was left of the gutted hull. A great defeat of the sea, a great disaster, with the loss of hundreds of lives, has always awakened a thrill of horror throughout the length and breadth of this country. But for prompt action, based on sound seamanship and perfect organization of the personnel of the “Mohawk,” this New Year’s night fire off the blizzard-swept Delaware coast might easily have done just that —might easily have been a pitiful tale of wholesale suffering and death. A great victory of the sea, the saving of every one of 283 lives in the faee of terrible odds, should awaken a thrill of pride. Captain Staples and his officers and men may mourn their lost ship. For weeks many of them will nurse broken bones, bruised limbs, frozen fingers and perhaps shattered nerves. But they have started the New Year right. They have shown what American seamen can do on American ships, even when the ships are sinking. They have stirred the hearts of millions ofinland living Americans who had almost forgotten that we had coast lines and a merchant marine. They, and the Coast Guard j|nen who aided them, have lived up to the best traditions of 'the sailors of all time, and in #6 doing they have proved that the elaims of the United States to a place in the world as a seafaring nation are real. .

Telling It to Congress A Basic Industry Transportation is so interwoven with the development, progress, and prosperity of our country that rat 9 making and the regulation thereof become a governmental d.uty and prerogative. Representative Watkins (Bern.) Oregon. Airships of Pence Whatever doubt there can be of the uses to whioh these ships (Zeppelins) can be -put in war-time there is no question that the possibilities of transportation of passengers and freight, in peace time is in its infancy. These ships may soon be Crossing the continent and the ocean for the accommodation of travelers and goods.—Representative H Massachusetts. ious delays to tulty operation nt (at Panama ents of any

conservation of our oil deposits and more thorough and economic methods of recapture, to be comprehended in a national continuing oil policy Is an 'urgent necessity in the interests Os the public.—Report of the secretary of the interior. Gift Ties By HAL. COCHRAN /When you stop .and consider your neckties, by heck, just think of the things that you get in the neck. Since Christmas day morning your tie nu& has held freak ties; yet to wear tnem you’re really compelled. From Aunt Sarah Susie a greenish one came. Perhaps she just trusted that ytu would be game. No need to explain; the tie speaks for itself. It‘s one that you’d rather tuck ’way on a shelf. Another relation has sent to your rack a tie that’s as black as they’ve ever made black. Why cbuldn’t the thing been a livelier hue. The mournful affect’s not appealing to you. v The ties that fblks send you as : presents and such are well meant, but never amount to so much. When presents are due you, they’re purchased, no doubt, 'cause buying a tie is an easy way out. Come look to your tie rack; now isn’t thahtrue. ItVthat way with

ITALY FACES TERROR REIGN AS MUSSOLINI FIGHTS

Leader Is Doomed Despite Appearance of Victory, <■- ■ : Simms Says, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Dr— ESPITE today’s appearance of victory the sway of Benito Mussolini, Fascist leadei and Premier of Italy, is doomed. No ruler can hold oh to power forever, once it becomes necessary for him to put newspapers to the torch, gag free speech and call out his persohal bodyguard to beat down hie political opponents. Which was the way the Fascist! saved their bacon in the present crisis. Calm has been restored in Italy but temporarly, rest assured, and before she gets back to normal the probabilities are that she will pass through a reign of terror surpassing anything yet suffered. The trouble with Mussolini is that he started by doing a good thing In a wrong way. Three years ago Italy was virtu'ally in revolution. Communists were in control in many districts and daily grodwing bolder. Business was at a standstill. Unemployment was na-tion-wide. Excesses were being committed on every hand and life itself was not safe. Yet a doddering dodo sort of government sat. in Rome, unable to do a thing. Becomes Dictator

Mussolini came to the resoue. He marched on Rome, followed by his husky ‘“Blackshirts” —mostly exservice men—ousted the impotents and set himself up as dictator. He got King Emmanuel’s signature, put that .monarch on the top shelf like a broken puppet, abolished parliament, cracked his whip over Itely and cried, “Let’s go!’’ That was a little over two years ago. At first people liked it. In the vernacular, they “ate It up.” Business hummed. Men found jobs. The wheels of government turned. Clerks actually worked. Expenses were cut down and income increased. Then abuses of power began to appear. The Fascisti, feeling themselves absolute bosses of the land, began to play the bully and tyrant. When any one dared criticise, they were beaten, sent into exile and sometimes filled. Which naturally produced more criticism and opposition. The Liberal party, depleted by the rise of Fascismo, began to show signs of life. Many of Mussolini’s most ardent followers went over to it and as apposition grew, Fascist excesses became more general. Newspapers that criticised Mussolini were mobbed, sacked or put to the torch. Clashes occurred in the streets: there were riots, cracked skulls and murders. Demand Constitution At Leghorn In October, some 35,000 Liberals met and issued a call to the country. Italy, they said, should come before party, and force should not be used to settle political differences. They demanded a return to constitutional government, which Mussolini had scrapped, and declared the army belonged to the nation, net to any party or man—as the “Blackshirts’* belonged to the Fascisti ' and Mussolini. More violent riots came on Armistice day in many cities; more violence everywhere. Some 150 deputies refused to sit in Parliament because Deputy Matteotti, one of their number, had been killed by Fascist sympathizers, and’ two Liberal members of the cabinet were asking for reforms./ s' In short, a jtorm was brewing and the premier’s grip on Italy waq slipping. He saw it and realized the crisis-of his career had come. He would have to do one of two things: Turn loose or tighten his hold. Which last is what-he has just done. The country is virtually under martial law, with all Liberals ousted from the Cabinet and Mussolini still in the saddle, for the moment, firmer than ever. At. the same time, Mussolini’s opponents, headed by Gen. Peppini Garibaldi, grandson of the great patriot; Giolltti, Orlando, Salandra, Nitti. Casatl. Sarrocchi and others, are girding tor battle. How long Mussolini can hold on depends upon the lengths to which he is willing to go. And his record strongly hints of extremes. He Is without fear and is no weakling. Whatever his ambitions are, and he is extremely ambitious, he will try to achieve themThe pity is Mussolini can’t clean house In his own party and make young Italy’s dream of anew saviqr come true. In many ways he is a great man.

Tom Sims Says . . ... . ... In Atlanta, Ga., a go.lfer who broke his wife’s jaw prac icing at home pretends it was an accident. Without waiting to work up to a cashier’s job, one man tried to rob a bank in St. Lpuls. From a newly married copule next door we learn that while two may live as cheaply as one they can’t live as quietly. Bad talcum powder news today. American wbnien used 10,000 tons or it. in 1925- . But that’s safer than, gunpowder. ‘ ; MdVies are great educators; Ini Miami, Fla.,, a waiter got fired for slapping a customer with a pie. r—„ . ■„/■ -. They raided ‘Si house in Deficit and got five kegs of beer but it is a long, pold spell before summer. . Los Angeles boy of six can play a saxophone. That’s what comes from hot being in the proper sug-. roundings. T- -•'’ .. ’ Woman of 60 married a rich man in Denver after thousands of younger women had failed. Bad New York news. Woman’s husband and her money left home together. She wants her money back. • . :■ • • 1 If you think women are cowards just blow your auto horr. to make-.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

Kerosene *| RS. ROSA SMITH, W. Twen-ty-Eighth St., tried to k’ndle a fire wltn kerosene yesterday morning. An explosion ensued. She received fatal bums. And five members of her family barely escaped the flames. Last month a little boy in the city was the victim of a similar accident. While a dozen faof the family. NELSON So the ready oil ean is a boon to harassed housewives. And is often called to their assistance. This familiarity with the oil can breeds carelessness. And those who wouldn’t stay in the same block with a stick of and; nainite use £oal oil, freely without a quiver. Yet a pound of kerosene possesses more explosive power than a pound of dynamite. And is equally excitable and dangerous. It may perform placidly as expected. Or a dying ember may arouse It to appalling fury. To use the oil can safely It must be handled cautiously. For tragedy ever lurks In its vicinity.

Gas Tax HE Motor Bus Association of Indiana—at the annual con- ■ ■iJ vention Tuesday—advocated an increase of 1 cent in the gasoline tax. It isn’t customary for taxpayers to beg heavier burdens for themselves. But the bus then are actuated by canny business sense. Gas tax means good roads. For which there is an Insistent demand. So probably no other levy inflicted by the State is so generally approved as the gasoline fa.x. For it supplies the money to Satisfy the craving for roads. Yet its exactions fall in proportion to benefits received. Therefore it is as near a perfect tax method as has been devised. And according to simple arithmetic if the 2-cent tax will build 600 miles of improved roads annually a 10-cent tax will build 2,500 miles. Which is the way advocates of an Increased tax figure. However, somewhere along the line with any tax the law of diminishing returns gets in its dirty work. As it now stands the State gasoline levy is the goose that lays the golden eggs. Before the tax is raised there should be reasonable certainty that it will increase the yield of golden eggs, not slay the goose.

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How much do you know about the sun, the earth, the moon, the stars? Can you tell the relative sizes of the earth and the planet Mars? Do ‘you know the circumference of the earth? How far the air belt around the earth extends? What is the basis for speculation as to the inhabltabiHty of other planets than the earth? How the distances to stars are measured? What is the compo-

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Bills T‘™ "I HIjQ legislative reference bureau has been-asked to preI pare approximately 130 bills for the General Assembly which convened today. A greater number than handled by the bureau before any session in several years. Which indicates that this Legislature will face, a record-breaking number of bills. And the frail hope of a short, snappy session Is strangled .summarily. Presumably each of these aspiring laws haA merit or demerit deserving consideration. But to read each bill carefully would take all of a conscientious lawmaker’s time during the session. He would have to neglect other official duties. Such as standing around the lobbies in a statesmanlike pose. Most legislators are embued with honest desire to serve the State efficiently. And to exercise sound Judgment. They are neither corrupt nor Incompetent. But it Is humanly impossible for a legislator to determine the actual merits of every measure on which he votes. His vote must often be either a guess or blind reliance on some leader. It isn’t legislative lack of good intentions and ability—it’s the system of flooding the hopper with a vast number of bills on every conceivable subject that is responsible for so much half-baked legisli .tlon. \ Watchmen SCITY ordinance requires a watchman to be maintained Jointly by two railroads and an interurban, where their lines intersect N. Tibbs Ave. Which order was passed in August, 1923. But no watchman has been installed. So city authorities will take action against the three offending companies. Seventeen months have elapsed since the order In the Interest of safety at one specific Intersection was passed. And still the three transportation lines ignore It. Which Indicates that some railroads may be strong for grade crossing safety—theoretically —but short on performance. Their devotion doesn’t extend to their pocketbooks until external pressure is applied. This city has witnessed several spectacular demonstrations in recent months of the havoc that can be wrought at unguarded grade crossings. Failure of railroads to install watchmen where needed, and ordered, is simply inviting more catas trophies. Safety is not attained by conversation, but by action. A S4O-a-raonth watchman at a potentially dangerous crossing may do more to promote safety than a million dollars’ worth of talk by high railroad officials. Os course the tvatchman Is expensive—but so is a preventlble crossing smash.

tated by hydrogen sulphide even from a much more weakly acid solution, and their sulphides obtained by precipitation with an alkaline sulphide continue to dissolve In dilute acids without reaching a limit .determined by the concentration of the hydrogen sulphide and the nickel-ion or cobalt-ion in the solution, as would be the case if the phenomenon were that of a difficulty soluble sulphide. V What are the greatest engineering feats of modern times? Among these are the digging of the Panama Canal, construction of the Hudson River tubes, digging of the Suez Canal, and the construction of the .Castkill aqueduct in New York. What relation was King Edward VII of England to the former Kaiser? What is used on wounds of vegetables, such as potatoes? Sometimes air-slaked or waterslaked (dried) lime is used to dry up wounds on vegetables. What was the history of the Garabed G. K. Giragossian Invention? . „ . , This man, an Armenian, a resident of Boston, Mass., claimed the invention of a machine which would run

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Tests for Investment Quality

By BAYAJRD DOMINICK President, Better Business Bureau of New York City. Copyright, 1925. HE degree of Investment merit possessed buy and 1 particular security * can be told by making the three tests for quality: (1) Safety of prinaipai, (2) satisfactory Income and (3) saleability. A. Safety of Principal 1. Security in securities: Remember, the preservation of funds already possessed is always the first objeot in making an investment. Unless a stock or bond provides reasonable safety for dollars now in the pocket, other attractions should have little significance. 2. Assets and’ earning record; A company’s capitalization (that is, its stocks and bonds) should bear a conservative relation to assets. Not only that, earnings in years past should ha ve paid fixed charges operation costs, interest on indebtedness, etc.) with comfortable margins. In

by power drawn from the atmosphere. He called It Garabed. On representations made by him before Congressional Committees, Congress passed a resolution directing scientists of the Government service to investigate his claims and his machine. An investigation was made, and as a result the alleged invention was declared to be perfectly worthless and its claims groundless. Uncle, the Kaiser’s mother was King Edward’s sister. Who said: ‘Whoever makes men good Christiana makes them good citizens.” Daniel Webster In his speech at Plymouth Dec. 22, 1820. What is the leading port and the largest city of South America? Buenos Aires. What is the deadliest reptile In the world? The cobra. What is the commonest tree In South America? The capote grows more abundantly than any other. What kind of airplanes are used in the postal service? Old Army DH 4s. What Is the record for paid attendance at a ball game? 62,817, Sunday, Oct. 14, 1923, at the Yankee Stadium, New York. When and by whom was the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence? Its first public reading was in the StatShouse yard, Philadelphia, July 8, 1776. The reader was John Nixon, a member of the council of safety of Pennsylvania. What will remove iron rust stains from white goods? Try sprinkling the stain with salt, moisten with lemon juice and place in the sun, more lemon juice being added if necessary. Nature Captain Schammon, noted authority on whaling, says that in 1852 as many as 30,000 whales were present on the California coast. Frofia 1919 to 1922, only a single whale was captured there. — A covey of quail goes to sleep at night in a ring with all tails together and heads pointed outward. This arrangement permits instant, unanimous flight. Many quails escape with broken wings or legs

brief, the security should be based on a going business, of established reputation, not on something altogether new. 8. Ability and reliability: With respect, to the management of the company whose securities are offered as well as to the house offering such securities for sale, investors should be certain always that they deal with men of known ability and integrity. These things can be ascertained and they should not be accepted on the say so of another. Competent management is indispensable to the success of almost any company. R Satisfactory Income 1. Stability of interest or dividend payments: Having made sure that money invested in a particular way will be safe, the investor should next made sure that it will bear Interest or dividends regularly. The records of the past are the surest guide to the future. In this respect, few things axe so significant, and none so simple to loam, as whether a company has or has not paid interest .and , real dividends regularly over a period of years. Stocks not on a dividend basis, but sold on the promise that dividends soon will be paid, are outright speculation. Often they are much worse than that, CL Saleability 1. Turning an investment into cash: Even though an investment promises safety of principal and satisfactory income, it will lack quality unless it is readily saleable at a fair price. Emergencies frequently arise, making it necessary or advantageous to have cash immediately. Because an investment is soundly secured, there is no certainty that it is one which would sell readily without material loss of principal. 2. What a fair price is: In selling, investors will not want to be obliged to accept bids five or ten points below the reasonable price, simply because there are no buyers. A fair price is one that is usually arrived

Business Is Better Than Usual, U. S. C. of C. Declares

■Timet Washington Bureau, 1318 New York Ave. Jan. B.—Busl\Y/ ness is better than usual, acJILI cording to the United States Chamber of Commerce, which has been making a survey of what we bought and sold abroad during the first nine months of 1924. Compared with business as it was done before the war, we both bought and sold in mueh greater volume. For Instance, where we used to export about 12,000 automobiles in nine months, we sent over 135,000 in the first three-quarters of 1924. This is an increase of 1,017 per cent. Similarly, whereas we used to import in nine months before the war about 16,000,000 pounds of raw silk, we bought in 34,000,000 pounds in that period of 1924. This is a gain of 11 per cent. Foot Fall Down Only four of our exports fall below pre-war figures—kerosene, unmanufactured cotton, lumber and corn. Only two of our leading imports fall below —raw hides and skins and tea. When you compare 1924 with 1923, however, there is a different story to tell. It shows that the United States is selling more and buying lees. Mexico and Brazil, to be sure, sold more to the United States in 1924 than they did in 1923. Cuba, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, Straits settlements, France, Germany and China all sold less. In the case of some commodities the quantity imported decreased, but the value in dollars and cents was greater than in 1923. This was true of petroleum, for instance, and of tin. Imports Grow We imported more coffee, both in volume and vat ne; more fcm, more tobacco, more wheat, more ore-

THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1925

at by active buying and selHng, based on the Intrinsic soundness of an investment. 3* What an open market l£: To be readily saleable at a fair price, an investment should have an open market, that is, one where the public actively buys and sells. It may, be through one of the stock exchanges, or it may possibly be an unlisted or over-the-counter market, 2. As to the rate of return: Having made reasonably sure that the Investment will bear interest or dividends regularly, the investor should examine the rate of return available on purchases made at the current market price. To the extent that he iB able to realize much moret than a fair 1 return, say 6 per cent; he will know in most cases that special care in the investigation of such a security Is necessary. If one or more of the tests for quality cannot be met. he should know why. Sound investments do not have to yield higher than average rates to attract real Investors. 3. Income from stocks vs. that from bonds: Good bonds of a solvent company (except Income bonds, which are entitled to intereet only as earned), should always pay interest. Defaults, in this regard, give bondholders or their trustees a legal action. Corporate notes, such as debentures.-also carry with them a definite obligation to pay interest periodically. Not so in the case of stocks. A company may pay dividends to its stockholders, but It' has no legal obligation to do so. 4. Margin of safety In earnings:' However. It Is Important from the standpoint of an Investor, whether' he holds stocks or bonds, that a company’s normal and regular net earnings cover all charges with a; good margin to spare. The businessshould be one which not only pays now, but bids fair to remain profitable In future years. Only those stocks and bonds which' meet these tests deserve to rank as sound Investments.

sugar, but its value in dollars and cents was about the same as in the same period in 1923. Our bad corn crop made it necessary to import 1617 per cent more corn in the first nine months of 1924 than we did in the similar period in 1923. We imported what was for us a spectacular amount of oats, too —6,838,000 bushels, 6862 per cent more than in 1923 On the other hand, four out of every five of America’s leading thir-ty-three foreign markets purchased more from this country during the first nine months of 1924 than during the same period of 1923. Great Britain increased her purchases 9 per cent; Germany, 26 per cent; France, 6 per cent| (10 millions more); Cuba. 3 per cent; Italy, 9 per cent (also 10 millions more); Mexico, 10 per cent; Austria, 8 per cent; Netherlands. 1§ per cent. Canada and Japan bought less in 1924 than in 1923. One on Harold “Stella, who sat on that newlypainted bench in the garden?" “Harold and I.’’ “Well, you must have ruined your clothes—both of you.” “Not both—only Harold’a”— American legion Weekly. Her Husband “Is your husband an optimist?" "Well, he’s an optimist in hoping for the best, but a good deal of a pessimist in working for it.”—Boston transcript. new ford; for rent • New Central Statfsn f jlt AD A C* C