Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1925 — Page 4

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To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.—Titus 3:2. 11l deeds are doubled with an evil word.—Shakespeare. CITY HALL POLITICS * I {“TINOTHER example of the kind of politics played under the lA| present form of city government is the warning issued by Mayor Shank to city employes telling them to “come out for Ralph Lemcke for mayor or lose;your job.” In other worlds, under our present system a city employe's vote is not his own. It belongs to the mayor who employs him. Job seekers at the city hall are being referred to Lemcke’s office, presumably to permit him to determine in advance whether the prospective employe is for him or against him. And still we talk of business in the administration of city affairs. How can there be any business or efficiency under such a system? Qualifications don’t count. The only question asked is “Who are you for?” Under the city manager system the manager would not be worrying about the next mayoralty campaign. His job wonjd be that of administering the affairs of the city, regardless of the next election. A The time for a change in our city government is NOW. TWO EDITORS •'i, mNDIANA has lost on the same day two of the - State’s principal exponents of party journalism, George Elliott, editor of the Newcastle Courier, and J. W. Pierce, editor of the Clinton Clintonian. Both were very active in Republican politics, having served in various capacities. They were not satisfied with exerting their powoa. merely through the columns of their pulnations, but they went oi}t into public life and became leading figures in political affairs. Party journalism in Indiana, as elsewhere, is losing its hold and it will slip further with the death of these two leading exponents of this kind of journalism. It is becoming more and more difficult to say “This paper is Republican and this paper is Democratic.” And this is as it rhould be. Nevertheless, Indiana sincerely mourns the passing of the two editors who were leaders in the affairs of the State. SOME HORSE SENSE AT LAST! ST the eleventh hour, just as we had begun, to despair, a little hprse sense has made itself heard in the aircraft investigation in Washington. For weeks we have been listening to two types of witnesses:

Witnesses who passionately cried out for sinking the Navy and substituting airplanes, and witnesses who just as passionately proclaimed that all was well in the best of all possible navies. Now comes Admiral William S. Sims—thorough modernist, enemy of bureaucratic mossbacks and former commander of our naval forces in European waters during the World War—with words that mean something. Said he: The Navy is not obsolete. But it stands badly in need of reshaping to meet the conditions of the times. The capital ship of today should be more like the two new British ships, the Nelson and the Rodney, which, i hough called battleships, are really aircraft carriers armed with big guns. Aircraft are absolutely vital to a navy. A navy without aircraft, that is without the means to control the air, most likely could not win a battle. Airplanes, carriers and submarines are the latest naval weapons. * To be of any use to the Navy, aircraft must remain part of the Navy, not be incorporated in a separate service, as advocated by Gen. Mitchell. Airmen for service with the Navy must t ba-navy-trained. “Offer me,” lie said, “the finest aud most gallant pilots and the best equipped air force in time of war when i was in command of the fleet, and if they were not Navy men I would say: ‘Take them away; they will only ball up the game.’ ’’ Admiral Sims is one of the clearest thinkers on naval subjects in th.o- country. He has made rn.ny enemies, principally because before he retired he was constantly kicking over the traces trying to keep the Navy from getting into a rut. Old togj ism has alw s been his bete noire. Thii.' old world keeps on turning and things keep on changing, including arms and methods of winning wars. Sims insists on keeping up with the times. We must have a thoroughly modern Navy, a Navy that can float and fly and dive; a navy abreast of the *,imes down to the very last second. We hope the voice of common sense will not only be heard in the National Capitol, but heeded as well.

Telling It to Congress^ Railway Employes The average number of persons employed In 1923 by Class I steam roads was 1,856,260, representing a substantial reduction from the peak In 1920, 2,022,832. The compensation to employes was 38,004,083.599. —Report of the Interstate Commerce Commsision.' Stolen JFVuM; Sweetest As the number who could lawfully enter this oountry was* reduced In each succeeding immigration act, the determination of the people of Europe to come to America grew. Prevented from entering at ports, by the limited quota, thousands of aliens were smuggled In across the borders or landed on tho seaooast. —Rep. Cable (R) Ohio, Combinations w Any, collective activity can la' used as a smoke screen to cover conspiracy against the public interest, but that Is no reason for condemning all collective activities. Properly directed, this kind of activity is one of the strongest forces for the maintenance of competitive action. —Report of the /Secretary of Com- **>•. a

Golf Widows By HAL COCHRAN Somebody answers the telephone bell. shortly j.’ /s, “Sure, that’s all right.” Asa t'jsult, someone knows Just as well that she’ll eat all alone on that night. Somebody else Is Just walkin’ around and getting the fresh open air; socking a golf ball ail over the ground with a spirit that’s peppy amj rare. Spring is the season when golf’s due to start, so the habit is running once Dad plays the game and the “golf widow’s” part is harking to dad tell his score. Father goes driving, rrith golf clubs of course, while hi* Tife, it pan safely be said, would muchly prefer, with an auto or horse, he would talre her out driving instead ■ , .: \

Bt. Patrick’s Day Party A reader of this column asks ’or suggestions for a St. Patrick’s day party. Any other reader Interested may obtain a two-page mimeographed bulletin of suggestions for such a party, by writing to our Washington Bureau, enclosing 2 cents In post *ge for reply. t

U. S. CONGRESS NOW CLOSING ACCOMPLISHED LITTLE

To Be Known More for What It Did Not Do Than What It Did, Timm WnsMnaton Burra*' lift tiev> York A.omue. rraASHINOTON, March S.—lt \X/ isn't so much what the StxYY _| ty-Eighth Congress accomplished during its second session as what it didn’t do, that makes the legislative period now ending a notable one. Congress did not agree to lease Muscle Shoals. Toe Senate did not agree to Join the v orld court. The Railroad Labor Board was not abolished. Farm relief legislation was not enacted. In fact, aside from the passage of the regular appropriation bills, the principal matters of national scope enacted since Congress assembled last December were the postal pay Increases and the boosts In the salaries of members of Congress and of the Cabinet. But regardless of the satisfaction that congressional factions may have In the passage of these pay Increases, there is hardly a member of Congress who is not happy over the part he played in preventing the enactment of laws which lacked his approval. World Court Defeated Isolationists, for instance, are happy over the ease with which they prevented the World Court from even becoming a matter ot Senate debate. This they achieved In tho face of President Oooltdge’s statement in his message to Congress that ‘‘l believa it would be for the advantage of this country and helpful to the stability of other nations for us to adhere to the court.” Advocates of public control and ownership of public resource* are pleased that the sixty-eighth Congress did not agree to dispose of Muscle Shoals to private operator*. From Dec. 3 to the very end of the session, Muscle Shoals and its disposition was constantly Congress. First the Senate had the problem for nearly two months, then It went to the House, then to a coni'- ence between the two branches, then back to the Senate and House, only tt be once more returned to conference. Up to the very last. Senator Underwood, Democrat of Alabama, still hoped to get favorable action on his bill. His chief antagonist, from start to finish, was Senator Norris, Republican of Nebraska, who Insisted that the Government should operate the immense project itself without private Intervention. Conservatives were happy to have brought the session to a close without the passage of the BarkleyHowell bill which was to have brought to an end the Railroad Labor Board. This Mil, sponsored by the labor organizations and generally favored by Progressives, was opposed by the railroads and subsequently by a majority of the regulars In Congress. Relief Measures Fall Though President Coolidge stressed the Importance of some form of farm relief legislation in his message of last December, the advocates of various relief plans were unable to bring their ideas Into harmoiV and the session ended with various groups, of “friends of the farmer” working earnestly to prevent the adoption of any plan but their own. Despite the importance of the things which Congress didn't do, it was anything but an Inactive session. The appropriation bills themselves required a great deal of hard work, and In addition the Senate In particular was presented with the prqblem of passing on many important appointments. The House, for its part, took over the investigating functions, so extensively exploited by the Senate a year ago, and made an important study of the relative merits of aircraft and naval equipment. As It passes from the scene, the Sixty-Eighth Congress left behind It two accomplishments of memorable importance—the exposure-of the rottenness which crept into the Government In 1921-1922, and the lowering of income tax rates.

In New York By JAMES W. DEAN NE\V YORK, March 3.—The casual sightseer in New York goes to the Aquarium in Battery Park to see all the strange fish on exhibition in their big glass cases, but one of the most interesting sights at the Aquarium is the fish hatchery. During the winter months it turns out r, million small fish to stock lakes end rivei* for devotees of rod and tackle. The Government bureau of fisheries sends the eggs from their fish farms in Virginia, Michigan, Vermont and Yellowstone Park. They are mostly of salmon, trout, whitefish and perch and hatch /out from four days to two weeks after arrival at the Aquarium. Time of •hatching depends on temperature of the water, fifty days being required at fifty degrees, bu' each degree over that decreases V hatching time by five days, f dxty degrees the eggs hatch air it Instantaneously. The small fish or fry are kept la tanks according to size until they are ready for shipment to lakes and rivers. Sire of fish eggs seem to be in inverse proportion to the size of the fish. A cod weighing seventy pounds will lay 330,000 eggs to a quart, while the eggs of a small brown trout will be so large that a quart will hold only 6,000. And while we’re about theee statistics you might be interested In knowing that & codfish lays nine million eggs at a time, but the baby codfish are no larger than those of a goldfish. • • • Reading what I have just written a bright friend arises to remark that if fish eggs become fish fry instantaneously at sixty degrees, fish fry would probably become fried fish at degrees. He also accuses me of nature-faking. In truth, I knew nothing about fish eggs except what an apparently truthful and

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By QAYLORD NELSON

Sentences mwo bandits were convicted in Criminal Court Saturday for holding up a grocery store. They were fined SI,OOO each and sentenced to ten to twenty-one years In State Prison by Judge Collins. There was nothing soft and mushy about the punishment—it was the maximum permis--ofor which they were convicted So that particuwas decidedly unprofitable for the perpetrators, for shrinkage of their sentences through time off for good behavior NELSON —and other devices with which society softens the blow of outraged statutes —they scarcely made living wages from their misdeed. They may think twice before they try another holdup. There has been much discussion of late on ways and means to check hold-ups. More and harsher laws have been urged. Consequently several bills have appeared In the Leg felature proposing to make certain forms of banditry capital offenses. The sentences Saturday reveal that the present statutes provide adequate penalties—if the Judge Is so disposed. If the present maximum is inflicted on every convicted bandit — whether his loot Is SI,OOO or a dime —the penalty will grate harshly on criminal ears. It will make the holdup business as unpopular with the outlaw as It is with the general publics. ’

Show SHE fourteenth annual Indianapolis automobile show opened last night at the State fairground. Sleek, haughty motorcars, gay decorations, music, bright lights, and record-breaking crowd, were in attendance aa usual—only more so. Fourteen years Isn't a great span. It’s only about the time required for light rays to travel from a nearby star to earth or to pay for a fur coat on the dollar-down-doll&r-a-week plan. Yet cars of fourteen years ago appear aa ancient In design as Roman chariots, dinosaurs, or other trans portatlon vehicles used In the world’s youth. In the Interval between the first and present show the automotive Industry has grown up. No Industry—except the late war—grew to such gigantic else in so short a time. But will It continue to expand? What will Its condition be when the twenty-eighth Indianapolis show Is held? A famous automotive engineer thinks that, with about 17.000,000 cars in the country now, the saturation point Is reached. Another authority believes it won’t be reached until every family—of which there are 27,000,000 In the country—has a car. Maybe both are right—the future will disclose In due time. Most people aren’t worrying about the industry’s future, but its present. They want to know what Is happening to the automobile now. The show this week shows them. Tom Sims Says When you are riding along a country lane and she takes off her hat It’s time to smoke your pipe. Have you noticed the scarcity of men's tie pins? It's because the women don’t fllke to be bald raw .he can’t Style hints for the future predict women may gowlt h o u t ' everything exLove Is blind, SIMS especially love of liquor; so is the lover after drinking some of it. Women who marry to become pets usually lead a dog’s life. Some people couldn’t kick any more if they were centipedes. Once they kissed and made up. Now they kiss the makeup. , If ham and eggs get any more expensive they wrlll be considered a couple of highbrows. If you are not opportunity, don’t knock. You seldom see a reformed reformer. The early worm will be with us soon. He will get fished with. We saw a shy girl the other day, but what she was shy on was clothes. ’ \ These cross-word puzzles are being called liars real often. We til make trouble and then wonder why we have it. Whore ignorance ui biles It is folly. You can keep a good-for-nothing man down. Seeing her before breakfast is a good cure for love sickness. *• Spring's coming. 4ind then ths ambition of moat of us wiU.be not to hr.ve ai y ambition. (Copyright. 1f25. NTS 4. SerrlotL IhoJ

Golden Rule A<“— "I RTHUR NASH of Cincinnati, head of a wholesale tailoring company, spoke at Roberts Park M. E. Church last night. "Golden Rule” Nash he is called because of his relations with his employes. Six years ago he took over a garment factory employing twenty-nine workers. 'lt was a typical "sweatshop.” The workers were 111-paid, hard-driven immigrants, toiling in insanitary, porly ventilated rooms. Strikes and fluctuating business caused frequent shutdowns. In assuming charge of this unlovely shop he announced In dealing with workers and managing the epirit of the Golden Rule should govern.' Employes should have voice In fixing their working conditions, wages, share in profits and become actual partners. The psan sounded chimerical—and was chimerical—but it worked. Today there are 6,000 employes. The company’s capital has been Increased from $60,000 to $3,000,000 — the principal part of which is owned by the workers —and each year the business has doubled and trebled. The result is a powerful argument for treating workers as human beings instead of automatic machines. Perhaps it can't be attributed entirely to a single rule of conduct. Probably there Is a good deal of executive ability and business sagacity mixed in the enterprise. Nevertheless, it indicates that interesting things might happen if the Golden Rule became an epidemic instead of an unused motto. Oil Inspection ,j HE State oil InspectionMepartj I • ment received a mortal i * * wound yesterday. The Senate, considering the budget, cut the department's biennial appropriation from $200,000 to $20,000. Probably Indiana will be able to limp along for the next two years, even If thirty-two lynx-eyed oil inspectors must me dropped from the pay roll. They are only a\jout as necessary to public welfare as a vermiform appendix. Oil Inspection was oMglnally established to prevent adulteration of kerosene with highly inflammable and worthless gasoline. Perhaps that was once necessary. Otherwise the wicked oil trust might have blown unsuspecting Hoosiers Into eternity. But that was Jong ago. Now no oil refiner In his right mind Is adulterating kerosene —instead, he is crowding all the kerosene possible Into gasoline. Even the latter product is not much more explosive these March mornings than the average motorist’s temper. Although oil inspection has long outlived Its economic usefulness. It has remained a political plum tree. So the plea that the Inspection service collected more In fees than Its expense has always prevented Its extinction. But there are enough annoying functions of government that have some reason for being without continuing those that are useless. Therefore the Senate performed a virtuous act in lopping off the oil inspection branch.

DOG TAXES TV the Editor of Trie Timet ar, has been a great deal of taik to the effect that If Senate bill 177 relative to a portion of the dog tax money being given to incorporated humane societies over the State becomes a law, it would le taking money away from school children who need it. I wonder if the parties objecting to this bill realize that humane societies buy shoes and stockings, feed and clothe the HSkle children, provide food, coaj and clothing forhose who might be depending on those children for their livelihood and make It possible for those children to attend school and return to a honie were they will find food and a warm fire. Help People So many persons are under the impression that humane societies confine their work to the dog and cat exclusively. My dear friend, If you really knew the reUef we are giving to old people, widows, orphans, deserted wives, neglected children, and In fact doing everything that comes under the head of humane work, iln fact we fill the little stockings every day in the year, and relieve suffering of dumb animals too. Is not this a worthy cause? Do you not think wq should have part of the dog tax to continue the work? Do you know that our Income is derived from $1 membership fees at present. If you are interested In the good work we are <Jolng, Insist on your representative voting for this bill and leave the dog tax as it is, as lower dog tax does not keep the dog oft the street. ' WILLIAM P. HARGvIN.

Wednesday Meetings Here Federated Patriotic Society. Meeting 2 to 4 p. xn., Severin. Jewish Shelter House and Old Home, Girls' Auxiliary, 8:30 p. m., Lincoln. Sinclair Opaline Club of the Sinclair Refining Cos. Dinner, 7 p. m., Lincoln. Indianapolis Gun Club each Wednesday at 2 p. m. 1 Jons Club luncheon. Lincoln. Kiwanls Club, luncheon, Claypool. Real Estate Board, luncheon, C. of C. i Butler Alumni, luncheon. Lin-

But It Keeps Bossy Poor, Giving Cream

WHAT AILS GASOLINE?

By M. E. TRACY. ETt Is easy to understand why turkeys go up Just before Thanksgiving, and women’s hats just before Easter. It is easy to understand why the hens won't lay, and why eggs become scarce when cold weather strikes. But what ailr gasoline? Gasoline is not a seasonal or perishable commodity. Gasoline is not affected by style, the weather or pests. The demand for gasoline does not vary much. If anything, it is less in winter than in summer. But there we are. with gasoline go ing up when, if anything, it ought to be going down. Obviously, there Is-something rotten In Denmark.

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You can set an answer to any question ol iaqt or iniormatlon by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1323 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and martial advice cannot be given, nor can exter-Hd research be undertaken. All other .mentions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential—Editor What Is the comparative area of the United States and Europe? United States, 2,973,774 square miles; Europe, 3,796.000 square miles, one-fourth larger than the United States, exclusive of Alaska. What was the longest speech ever made by La Foliette in Congress? A speech on the Aldrfoh-Weeland Currency Bill which lasted elghten hours and twenty-three minutes. Is there any truth to the statement that the head of the halibut is never marketed because of Its resemblance to the human head? No. The head Is never marketed because of Its great bulk, It being larger than the head of the average fish of Its size.

Who is the owner of Strongheart, the dog that acts in the movies? Jane Murfln, scenarist. How ib enamel applied to metal? The basis of all enamels is an easily fusible, colorless glass, to which the desired color and opacity are Imparted by mixtures’ of metallic oxides. The mass, after being fused together and cooled, is reduced to a fine powder, washed and applied to the surfaces to be covered. The whole is then exposed in a furnace till the enamel is melted when It adheres firmly to the metal. What were the dimensions of Noah’s ark? Three hundred cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 80 cubits high. A cubit was about 22 inches. This would make the dimensions approximately 650 feet long. 92 feet broad and 55 feet 'high. What was the capacity of a field hospital during the World War? Usually it had a capacity of about three hundred beds and the staff was composed of eight officers and sixty-five men. Was Francis Bacon the sou of Queen Elizabeth? Francis Bacon was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by the daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, tutor of Edward VI. Was Pharaoh a king of Egypt? Pharoah is the Egyptian title Os king. All the kings of Egypt, therefore, were pharaohs. ; • Is there a strip of land in Texas called "No Man’s Band?” YL It is a region 170 miles in lengtlk and about thirty-five miles la

A Texas Senator says the oil companies are trying to beat a gasoline tax bill now pending in that State, but If so, why take in so much territory? Does the whole country have to be trounced to keep Texas In line? No, no! There is more to it than that. t Those who are boosting the price of gasoline are looking for bigger and quicker returns than they could possibly hope for through the defeat of a tax bill. They are looking for cash right off the bat, fbr speculation on the side, for a chance to gamble on the stock market. The price boost Is not natural In origin, of course, since there is no natural cause for it. If storage supplies have been depleted, they have been depleted arbl-

wldth north of Texas, celed to the United States in 1860 and made a part of Oklahoma In 1890. Between these years the district had no form of government and became the resort of outlaws. How are coal briauets made? They are composed of anthracite coal dust, coal tar or petroleum residue, and are compressed under sev-

Science of Tolerance

mHE Science of Tolerance. Why not? Isn’t It about time? If we try to get world peace by going about It scientifically, why not adopt scientific methods for solving other problems Involving human relations? Most of these problems cause contention so lortfc as they continue to be wars of conflicting opinions. When we get down to facts opinions disappear—knocked out by facts. If we had more respect for facts we wouldn’t be so Intolerant In our opinions. Every religion started from iJne man’s opinion. Each of them today la that opinion as modified or enlarged by disciples of the originator. One of them may be right, all of them may be partially right and all of them may be partially wrong. Nobody knows, no matter how much he is set In his opinion. If any fact is to be found In all of them It would be something on which all agree. So there would be no contention between creeds on what Is accepted as a fact. Agree on One Tiling Humans may disagree radically about the respective merits of Christianity, Judaism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism and other established religions, but all of them seem to be agreed on one fundamental rule of life as Ideal—the Goldsn Rule. * Confucius as a teacher of the Chinese taught the Golden Rule 600 years before Christ was born. Christ taught it In his time and started it on its way throughout the world. No religion disputes it. Science confirms It. If we were looking for the Science of Tolerance we would start with the Golden Rule.

We all agree now that when Christ substituted the law of love for the old Moealc law of an eyt ft r an eye and a tooth for a tooth, humanity took an inunenso step forward; and most of us can find inspiration *ln that beautiful story about how Christ outwitted the cruel Mosaic law of stoning, and confounded his pritics by saying, "Bet him who is without guilt cast the first atone.” The intolerance of the orthodox churchmen of that time toward *the advanced, progressive opinions of Christ led to his crucifixion, but gave Uto to Hl* opinion that God la lav*.

trarlly. since they might have been kept up. There has been no general dlmunltion either In the number or flow of wells. There has been no general Increase In the demand for gasoline. Yet the price of gasoline has gone up about 60 per cent during the last few weeks. < Kerosene, however, has not gone up. Such facts are enough to. Indicate manipulation. Tlie boys can manipulate, of course, if that is the way th&y feel about it. They can take advantage of the unhampered control they en Joy, and rake in a few extra dollars by hamstringing the public. But it Is just such ruthless, un-called-for manipulation that brings about the regulating, the restraining, the supervising, the board, the bureau, and more taxes.

eral pounds pressure. The fuel so made is practically smokeless and equal to a good grade anthracite coal in heat units. What waa the birth aud death rate for the United States In 1923? In the, registration area, births 22.4 per 1,000 population; deaths 12.4 per 1,000 population.

The depressing thing about It all Is that nearly 2,000 years after ths crucifixion of Christ there are so many professed Christians eager to crucify thoee who do not agree with their opinions, both as to religious' and personal living. It Is this type that demands laws to malte others live as the Intolerant ones think they ought to live. It is this type that wants to make people be good by the force of a policeman’s club; and all because there Is a difference of opinion as to what Is good and what Is evil conduct. Who Knows Facts? Who knows exactly what is good and what Is evil? Who knows, as a fact, that his religious opinion is right and that of the other fellow wrong? W r ho knows, as a fact, that what he thinks Is good for him is surely good for somebody else? We may think we know what’s good for the other fellow; we may have very strong opinion# about it; but ye don’t know. We are wise Indeed if we can be sure we know what's good for ourselves. Anyhow, finding that out Is Job enough for any of us to tackle without taking In too much territory and trying to force others to think and live as we think they ought tq think and live. Tolerance of the other fellow’s opinion will do more toward helping all of us toward the truth about right living and right thinking than intolerance. The Golden Rule Is the nearest thing we have in the way : of a rule of right conduct, and the easiest and best approach toward the Science of Living. ' The Science of Tolerance Is worth learning, anyhow.

Good Men, Good Wages It la true economy to pay good men good wages and demand good work, and this is true whether these men be members of the Cabinet, members of Congress, of postal employes.—Rep. Browne (I>) N. J. Balmy Alaska Because of.the Japanese current in the Pacific all the coast of southern 'Alaska from Bering Sea down to Ketchikan has as mild a winter as the city of Washington, D. 0.. or even milder/—Rep. Mao Bafferty _ ait' i