Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. • Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday 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.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.Prov. 22:16. He deservedly loses his own property, who covets that of another.—Phaedrus. OUT OF THE SCHOOLS [Tyr ITH the Legislature barely under way, there already is a jW| squabble in the Housq of Representatives over appointments to the important committee of education. Already factions are at work seeking to dictate appointments. Are these efforts being made in behalf of the schools or are the}' being put forth for political purposes? Why this sudden interest in education? The only possible answer is that somebody expects to gain something at the expense of the schools. Our public schools are too important to become political issues. Education is one of the bases of the State and Nation and should not be tampered with except for its own good. Speaker Leslie is to be commended for his stand taken in the statement in which he said: “The schools of Indiana are not going to be made the football of any faction or of any private aims. I believe I can select a committee of men big enough to be above selfish motives of any organization or faction.’* We hope the speaker will be able to carry out his purpose. From where we sit it seems this could best' be done by appointing to the committee members of the House who are not struggling for such appointment. By so doing he probably would offend some of the members of opposing factions, but undoubtedly he would be serving the schools and the State. IS IT GOOD-BYE, IRON HORSE? m iE “IRON HORSE” came and saw and conquered. It had its season of power. And now it is on its way, apparently, to join its long-defeated rival, the flesh and blood horse, in the ranks of near oblivion.. Engineers say the turbo-locomotive will be the next important development in the woijld of transportation. A 2,000-horse power turbo-locomotive is now being built in the Krupp works at Essen, Germany. Designs have been completed for 5,000-horse power locomotives, and it is only a matter oi time until these will be made. Henry Zoelly, Swiss locomotive engineer, in this country to attend a recent meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, believes the final downfall of the old type locomotive is very near. Old-style locomotives are able to develop only 5 to 9 per cent efficiency, he points out, while stationary steam plants attain 20 per cent efficiency with ease. The turbo-locomotive represents an advance over the old piston locomotive similar to that of the steam turbine in stationary plants. Fifty per cent fuel economy, low water consumption and smooth running are further advantages of the new invention. These counterbalance the advantages of electrification, earlier competitor of the piston type locomotive. In addition, the electric engine was dependent upon a few generating stations and long transmission lines, and was extremely costly. If you want to know how the new locomotive is to run, here itallis: • Two steam turbines on a single shaft are mounted crosswise at the front of the engine. These turbines (one, of them used for backing) drive through reduction gears a jack shaft carrying the crank and crank pins. The drive to the wheels is obtained through connecting rods in the usual way. The tender carries a special device for cooling the condenser water so that \it can be used over and over. Simple, isn’t it ? Zoelly hinted at further wonders to come. Very high pressures wffl be used extensively in driving turbo-locomotives, he believes, as soon as a suitable boiler to stand the pressure can be evolved. TRUTH FROM THE OTHER SIDE EHE NEW YORK WORLD opposes the Child Labor Amendment. The principal ground of its opposition is the belief that such legislation should be State rather than Federal. The World is unwilling to give false reasons for its views and resents the campaign of falsehood being made by the paid workers against the amendment. Editorially, The World says: “The Child Labor Amendment is not Bolshevism. It does not prohibit the labor of youths up to 18 years of age, It does not prohibit boys from doing chores on the farm or girls from washing dishes. It does not threaten the family, the home, religion or the flag. The men and women back of it are not inspired by Moscow, directed by Moscow or beholden to Moscow. They are, on the contrary, as fine-spirited a group of American citizens as this country can show.”

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

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The Universe

sition of the sun? How fast the earth moves in its orbit? What is the speed of light? Why does an eclipse of the sun occur? These and hundreds of other interesting facts about the universe in which we live are covered in the latest bulletin just issued by our Washington Bureau on POPULAR ASTRONOMY. If you wish a copy of this bulletin, fill out the coupon below and mall as directed:

CONGRESS AND WILBUR FAIL TO AGREE ON NAVY

Standing of Marine Armament Is Point of Vital . Disagreement, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS (Tyrl ASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The yy impression Congress has given the country as to the condition of the American Navy and what Secretary of the Navy Wlldur ha* to say about it fail to jibe In vital places. Congress says, in effect, tlfht our Navy is second to none, while Secretary Wilbur says It is second best .in general and third best in spots. Specifically, the Senate Naval Appropriations Committee and the corresponding House committee concur in the statement that “the country need not be alarmed” about report* that the Navy has fallen below the 5-5-3 ratio, and adds that certainly so far as capital ships are concerned, the raUo is being maintained. Here" is what Secretary Wilbur wrote to Chairman Butler of the House Naval Affairs Commitee: "A fair comparison of the' prefegnt fighting strength in ships of Great Britain, America and Japan would appear to be 5-3-3.” v Considered Unfair „ But even that statement, if left unqualified, was considered unfair by the secretary—who thinks in terms of sea power as a whole and not merely in terms of ships—for he added at once: “This ratio does not take into consideration strategically located and well equipped naval bases which add greatly to the sea power of a nation.” , The above qualification, in reality, is vital. A chain is r.o stronger than its weakest link. A navy is no stronger than the punch it can deliver in waters where it may be called upon to strike. In the wat-, ers of the Philippine Islands, for example, which Uncle Sam Is just as much In honor bound to defend as he is the Panama Canal or even Long Island, we have no developed bases and, because of. that, we rank, not second as a sea power, but third. This, Secretary Wilbur frankly acknowledges. For that matter we have very few adequate bases anywhere, despite the admitted fact that “they add greatly to the sea power of a nation.” Bases Inadequate “We have no operating bases ,in the Pacific that are adequate,” Secretary Wilbur told Chairman fcutler. “The Atlantic bases are better but are not nearly all adequate.” "As regards petroleum reserves,” he stated, “we have a deficiency of 68 per cent in the reserves Required for the Pacific, i. e., 32 per cent only of the necessary reserves on hand. The Atlantic reserve deficiencies are still greater.” And in Hawaii, our mainstay as an outpost of defense in the Pacific, . . . "The reserve at Oahu,” he said, “on Jan. 1, 1924, was about 1,759,667 barrels. In a Pacific war the Navy wil use about 70,000,000 barrels the first year.” Less than a two weeks supply this time last year, and the situation has grown little better since. Not Up to Ratio Kven as to capital ships we are not up to the 6-5-3 ratio as intimated by Congress. As to tonnage, perhaps, or nearly so But not In other vital particulars. “The British capital-ship fleet,” says Secretary Wilbur, “enjoys a very marked superiority In number of ships that may be brought into action at the moderate and decisive r&nges between 21,000 and 24,000 yards.” ' At 23,000 yards, according to official figures, the British could hammer us with their entire fleet of twenty ships while only ten of ours could be brought to bear on them. At 22,000 yards we could bring In two more, making the odds 20 to 12 in Britain’s favor, or 6 to 3 instead of 5 to 5. At 21,000 yards all our eighteen ships could go into action, providing they could keep up, wtyich most of them could not. The British have two battleships that can steam 31.5 knots an hour; one, 31 knots; one, 30; five, 25; seven, 23; and four than can make 21 knots an hour. None of our ships can do better than a fraction over 21. All but one, the “Florida,” do from 20 to 21 knots. The "Florida” is to be overhauled so she can do from 18 to 20, All of which means that sixteen of Britain’s twenty battleships are faster than oars and normally could force a battle at whatever range suited their f&ncy—say at 23,000 yards where tJielr guns could pound us at the rale of two to one and prevent our drawing any closer. Which by no means gives our sailor scrappers a 50-50 or 5-6 chance with the British, members of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. -Too True By HAL COCHRAN I’ll betcha, if you’re married, you have staged a scene like this, and I’ll betcha that you’ve done it more than once. I’m really sorta trustin’ that the thought won’t go amiss, ’cause it’s one of married people’s little stunts. It’s early in the morning and you’ve just jumped out of bed, and the time is drawing nigh for daily toil. You’d really ought to hurry down to work, but, shucks, instead, jOu’re waiting for the coffee pot to boil. You loaf around the fireside while the chill wind blows without. It’s just a bit of warning that you need. The paper’s on the front porch, and you crave the thing, no doubt. It’s nice to sit by open grates and read. And then the talk commences: who shall bring the paper in? Just who will brave the chilly morning air? The mister asks the missus; she refuses with a grin. For tempting biting wafts she doesn't care. "Oh, you go out and get it,” is the way the line will run. But neither wife nor hubby cares to freeze. And so the paper stays upon the porch until the sun comes out to take the chillness off ;he (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Iba)

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

Hooky IALPH R. TRAVIS, a 14-year-old pupil in the La Porte u-_J High School, has never been absent or tafcdy in the tenyears since he started to school. It is not surprising that he is declared, by his teachers, to be a model student. His. faith--oful performance is exceptional. Os course, he has missed some missed the thrill of stolen hours — and the greater thrill of trying afte'rwarri to convince a skeptical teacher that the He has never NELSON “played hooky.” Which, to most boys, means he has never lived. The average lad is not distinguished by voluntary immolation at the shrine of knowledge. To him a hangnail is sufficient provocation for a week’s sick leave. Anything or nothing is excuse for tardiness. Many men of weighty affairs had poor school attendance records. In their youth, instead of dreaming of the sober joys of education, they dreamed of the schoolhouse burning down—and an enforced vacation. Most men never entirely outgrow the juvehile propensity to “play hooky.” They long to sneak off to some adult substitute for the old Bwimmin’ hole, and revel. An occasional indulgence of this impulse is refreshing. Over-Indulgence is merely loafing. Golf HE city park board has authorized purchase of land 1 east of Keystone Ave.—between Southern and Troy Aves.— for a municipal golf course. South side golf bugs rejoice, for that section of the city lacks courses. A few years ago embattled taxpayers would have fought a proposal to acquire land for such purpose, from sun-up to the nineteenth hole. Golf was considered a feeble amusement of the idle rich. But from being an object of derision the game has become the favorite outdoor sport for a considerable fraction of the population. Places too small to support bonded debts or official scandals have golf courses. And in cities they have become popular public necessities. Perhaps it is an economic waste. The land occupied by a golf "course might grow a city dump or a farm mortgage. And thus become a working piece of real estate instead of Just a place for recreation. However, outdoor play isn’t economic waste. It’s health Insurance. So a city, for its future well-being, should provide adequate facilities for popular outdoor recreation—whether the need is for a place to wiggle the ears or wiggle a golf club.

CHANGING LAW -’ AN EDITORIAL

By M. E. TRACT ETFTY years ago the sheriff seldom buckled on his gun, except to go after a murderer, horse thief or highwayman. , Fifty years ago the policeman was generally respected as one who stood between the community and desperate men.' Fifty years ago trials were few and far between, but they usually meant something. Fifty years ago arrest was regarded as disgraceful, because few were arrested, save for real offenses. Times have changed, and so have customs, but nothing has changed more distinctly than the law. We have become a people of small vices Oi r peace officers are busy preTom Sims Says A stitch In time saves nine cuss words. The rain falls on the just, especially on the Just washed anto. What you can buy for a song is seldom worth singing about. One good turn deserves another, and one bad turn usually gets another. j A spendthrift is one who spends all his money to prove he has it. - Turn up your nose at other people and they will turn you down. The female of the species is more deadly than the jaiJ Too much money will make you unhappy, unless you have it yourself. A little loafing now and then is needed by the best of men. ' Jumping at conclusions Is jumping at delusions. If it really is payed with good intentions, it can' be repaved now with the broken new year resolutions. The early bird gets the worm. That’s true. But you never can tell if you will be the bird or the worm. Talk is cheap because It is made out of nothing. He who hesitates gets his rear bumper smashed. •> The silver lining to the biggest domestic cloud is payday. One nice thing is cold waves are about like permanent waves, they never a,re permanent. Making love is often simple because thotjg who make

Empty EGINALD MOSIER, a La Grange youth, playfully pointed an empty revolver at his head and pulled the trigger. He wanted to prove the weapon Wasn’t loaded. Yesterday he died in the hospital without regaining consciousness. This is the fourth death in the State in little more than a month caused by playing with unloaded, guns. It is not an unusual record. Month after month empty weapons exact their bloody toll of youth. Warnings against the menace prove unavailing. In many peaceful homes revolvers are kept on the theory that they afford protection. Seldom has this theory been substantiated by events. Probably a well-trained typhoid germ camped on the front steps would protect the householder against evildoers as much as a loaded revolver under the pillow. Firearms, particularly pistols, have an irresistible fascination for boys. "Around them is the glamor of romance and adventure. They fire a boy’s imagination. With gun in hand he becomes, for the moment, a bold bad-man. The pistol's purpose is to kill, not protect. The householder that harbors it for any purpose is Inviting tragedy. Because boys will play with it. Even when empty it isn’t a safer plaything than a rattlesnake, . Resignation , eOMER ELLIOTT, United States district attorney, submitted his designation five .months ag o.l Delay in selecting his successor,. however, keeps him in the office against his wishes. The third man to whom the post was tendered has just declined the offer. A private employer, when a resignation is submitted, acts promptly. He doesn’t insist the job stick to its reluctant holder like a mustard plaster. FYom the men available for the vacancy he selects one possessing the necessary qualifications. g Private enterprises have learned that an employe dissatisfied with his position is disturbing to business morale. 1 Perhaps it is difficult to find a new district attorney. The salary is not impressive. Nevertheless there are many well-qualified men in Indiana who would accept the place. It wouldn't take five months to find one if personal qualification was the sole consideration. The delay is not occasioned by inability to find a competent man, but to find the right man—politically. The office is a morsel of senatorial patronage, and politics fatten on patronage. Patronage takes precedence over public good and private wishes. That’s one reason there is frequently more government in business than business in government.

venting childish infractions of some new regulations, or in tagging and writing up offenders. The bootlegger, the careless driver and people who don’t know the rules, have come to absorb nine-tenths of our attention. Things that dad used to accomplish with a lath, or mother with her slipper, we now leave to great cohorts of blue-coated representatives of the majesty of the law. SHE law has become a sort of nagging chaperon, and the people are getting to laugh behind Its back in consequence. It is no longer something big, fine, dignified and aloof, but a familiar, picayunish monitor that pries into every little detail and excites itself over every sort of peccadillo. The law has caused us to become a people of small vices and many crimes. It has made us offenders by the million. Worse than that, It has made us contemptuous and indifferent. Politicians may be responsible to 4ome extent for the way the law has entered our private life and Interfered with our personal conduct, but back of the politician, prodding him on, and crushing him when he failed to comply, there has been a multitude of theorists, reformers and etficiency experts. From a hundred simple statutes, the law has swelled to tens of thousands of fine-spun regulations. It has grown so voluminous that no one can hope to master it. It has grown voluminous, not because o$ major offenses, not because society has grown vicious in a big way, but over petty trifles and frivulous demands. SHE man who parks his car in the wrong be mentioned in the same breach with a forger, but in the eyes of the law an arrest Is an arrest. We are cluttering our statute bpoks with tardy marks and demerits, yet they go into the hopper as part of the law, and the law is coming to be' looked on as a sort of school mistress because of it. Basic principles are being obscured by a multitude of cute U'tle devices. We no- longer demand that mun do their duty to the State and each other by being honest, truthful and self-controlled, but by watching red lights and listening to bells. We can wink at perjury, but we can’t tolerate jay walking. We can give the killer a suspended sentence, but who disobeys the traffic'’ cop takes a grave ehar.ce. We can forgive U corporation the mistake of $2,0Q0;000 in its income tax return, but if a farmer happens to leave a pint of fermented grape [juic© in the wrong place, we are merciless.

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STATE CHILD LABOR LAWS .

By LOWELL, MELLETT HE child labor amendment, if ratified by the States, will .— I merely enable Congress to enact legislation protecting children. Belfevelng it had full constitutional power to do so. Congress twice in the past eight years did enact such eglislation. Both laws were held unconstitutional, but they indicated the sort of legislation Congress can be expected to enact if the amendment now proposed is adopted. A great deal is made of the eighteen years’ provision in the amendment. Bear in mind that when it enacted child labor legislaAsk The Times You can Ret an answer to any (Question of fact ot; information by writing !o The Indianapolis Times Washington lureau, 1322 New York Ave., Wash- ,~ ngton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for* reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. AH other questions will receive a oersonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential—Editor. Is it true that New York City has rpore Jews than Jerusalem? Tes, New York has more Jews then any other city In the world. The latest figures show there are 1,643,012 Jews there. Were any members of Harding’s Cabinet of foreign birth, Secretary of Labor John J. Davis was born In Tredegar, South Wales. How-can paint be removed from linoleum? ' • Often It can be scrag ed off with something blunt like a clothespin or a spoon. If these do not remove It, scrub the spot with gasoline. On what day of the week did Jan. 13, 1912, come? Saturday. What three Presidents died on July 4? John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. When and where was the Kappa Alpha Psi colored fraternity organized?^ Jan. "5T 1911, at Indiana University. j Is there such a thing as a perfect vacuum? No, this is impossible except as a theoretical conception. What city is called "The Smoky City?” Pittsburgh, Pa. Where is the great American desert? In southwestern Arizona and eastern California. What official is at the head of the civil service commission? The president of the commission appointed by the President of the United States. The present incumbent is William C. Deming. What Is Richard T. Crane’s address? J 836 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. What are some of the moving . picture plays in which Warner Baxter has appeared? “If I were Queen,’’ "Blow Your Own Horn," “The Ninety and Nine,” "The Girl in His Room,” "A Girl's Desire,” “The • Garden of Weeds," ‘Christine of the Hungry Heart.” How can paint be removed from glass? Rub a rag moistened with ammonia water or with a commercial paint and varnish remover. Scraping, or rubbing with fine pumice or a suitable abrasive soap, will also be, helpful. In scraping or rubbing with an abrasive care should be exercised not to scratch the glass. The ammonia or paint and varnish remover should be applied carefully to avoijd any of It coming in contact with the painted work, such as sash, frame, etc. Who wrote the following lines: "One murder made a villain, millions a hero. Princes were privileged to kill. '

The Dry Water-Hole

tion in 1916 and 1919, Congress believed that it could regulate the employment of children up to 21. But here is all that the acts of Congress provided: Children under 14 should not be employed in mills, factories, manufacturing establishments, canneries or workshops. Children between 14 and 16 should not be employed in such establishments more than eight hours a day or six days a week, and should not be employed at night. No Children in Mines Children under 16 should not be employed in mines or quarries. The Federal legislation which was declared unconstitutional was no more “radical” than that. But, there are only thirteen States in the Union that now measure up to these requirements in all particulars. Only eighteen States measure up to the provisions in regard to work in factories, canneries and so forth. A Telling It ' to Congress Not Economy There is a type of economy that is well understood to be false ecpnomy that has been recognized time after time in private business enterprise, and corrected after that recognition. In my judgment, it is false economy to have anr army of 300,000 more or less dissatisfied workers. It is a type of economy that would not contribute, if continued, to the best results in that great and important department of the Government (Postoffice Department). —Senator Edge (Republican), New Jersey. Real Conservation The true way to conserve our coal supplies and our oil supplies, so far as power production is concerned, is to develop power from water, which does not waste by its use, hut is supplied by nature year after year.—Representative Merritt (Republican), Connecticut. Why Is It? Before the war wheat was just about a dollar a bushel and bread sold at five cents. Since the war wheat has gone back for the last four years to a dollar a bushel, but bread has been held at over eight cents a loaf.—Rep. Brand (R.) Ohio. It Doesn’t Pay Income from agriculture has not in any year since the price decline of 1920 sufficed to allow both a commercial return on capital and adequate rewards for the farmers’ labor, risk and management. Yet it has shown a gradual improvement in the last three years.—Department of Agriculture Annual Report.

Reader Thinks Astronomers A.re Kidding A.hout JSdoon

To the Editor ot The Timet m NOTICED in The Times an article stating that a small moon or planet had been discovered within 2,500 miles of the earth’s surface, and traveling at the rate of thrfee and a half miles* per second. This Is certainly startling, if true. I have noticed the same article in one or two other papers. Still I am constrained to believe that a cruel hoax is being pei-petrated on an unsuspecting public. We have been assured by astronomers for many years that it would be impossible for any roving body from out in space to come near the solar system without being discovered long before it came within striking distance. Yet here is an interloper coming within £.500 miles of earth before be mg- discovered. Now, even if this body is ever so small as one mile in diaSheter, it *ould at that distance outshine

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few States, on the other hand, go beyond the Federal attempt, in the protection of children. The Federal laws left the States free to do this, as would any Federal laws enacted under the proposed constitutional amendment. Federal legislation would simply set a minimum stand; ard. \ge Minimum in States Montana and Ohio now make sixten years the minimum age for w;ork in factories andlstores. (Certain exemptions are provided, as is the case with nearly all the regulations.) Texas, California, Michigan and Maine make fifteen years the minimum for such workin ail the remaining States, except two, the basic minimum with a great, variety of exemptions, is fourteen years. In Utah and Wyoming there is no minimum age fixed. Boys in Mines The minimum age for boys working In mines in Wisconsin, Arizona I and New Jersey is 18. In Texas it is 17. In twenty-eight States It is 16. In Michigan it is 15. In Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Louisiana, South Carolina, South Dakota and Minnesota it is 14In Nebraska, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine no minimum is fixed. v Hours Per Day Children under 16 may work no more than eight hours in stores and factories in twenty-seven of the States. In Idaho, Pennsylvania and Florida they may work nine hours. In Texas, South Dakota, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina and Rhode Island, ten hours. In New Hampshire, 10% hours. In North Carolina, 11 hours. In Georgia there is no limitation. Night Work Most of the States prohibit nigtit work in factories and stores by children under 16. But Montana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Vermont- and Maine only prohibit night work In factories. In Georgia the prohibition is only for factories and only for children under 14%. In South Dakota the prohibition is for children under 14. In Texas, Utah and Nevada there is no prohibition. People Travel Farther The number of passengers carried on railroads in 1923, although larger than in the year preceding, was smaller than in 1913, 1914, 1916, and in each subsequent year, including 1921, but this relationship does not hold true of the passenger-miles because of the increase In the length of the average journey.—Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

volve around the earth more than three times In each twenty-four hours. Is it possible that it could escape the vision of unaided eyes on any clear starlit night? I think most certainly not.If such a body be near us, however, and its orbit is not yet stabilized, then it is a positive menace to the world and all therein. It may take a notion to “land.” Think what destruction would result in its landing field. A whole city could be swept out of existence id less thn one second. If this visitor should be as much as ten miles in diameter, then there would be sufficient debris to bury Marion County more than two lhiles deep. Such a cataclysm would make Vesuvius in destroying Herculaneum and Pompaeii, A. D, look like a piker. I cannot help believing we are being “strung” for a nine days* sensation. - -