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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-25
What Editors
Are Saying

lebanon Daily Reporte9

lebanon Daily RepOrter)
Two Lebanon men were discussing
moral atmosphere Said one: 1T
makes me sick to hear a speaker be-
moan the community's cankering
morals and decaying conscience.
We're not living in a perfect age and
Lebanon is not Utopia yet, but things
are getting better, not worse When. /
came to Lebanon twenty years ago,
rough necks rode horseback into sa-
looms. There were fights on the
streets every day. A woman wasn't
safe alone after night, Almost every
bushes man in town was daily
drinker Think of the improved con-
ditions we have today. It's all right
to urge us on to better things, but
my stomach rebels when / am asked
to swallow bunk about the communi
tvs waning morality"
A poll Of citizens probably would
show that the large majority Of folk
are subject to the same nausea.
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Mission In Debt

To rho Editor Of The Times
Having read your warning against
fake organizations. I thank you very
much. Let me sound another one
beware OF false teachers going around
as wolves in sheep clothing, imposing
on the small missions and charities.
AS for me, I am ready for any in
vestigation Of my small books and can
give addresses OF some good worthy
persons we helped from st. Louis to
Chicago and thence to Indiana.
1 am alone in a small mission hall
at 800 Shelby st. have no solicitors
out and must have help TO carry on
my humble work. Our home Is III rear
of the mission hall. My rent Is $40,
Have no money for gas.
After falling from the Roman Cath
Ole church when mother died, for
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Tom Sims
- Newspaper
ANTI-SOBER
NO TONGUES STEPPED ON AT
THIRSTY NETTING

NO TONGUES STEPPED ON AT
THIRSTY MEETING
ri ORE than 1000 delegates at
| MI tended the anti-dry meeting in
III Washington The thirsty gath.
cred to make faces at prohibition.
Sober facts were presented. The
law. they say, is making good drinks
as plentiful as feathers on a gold fish,
but It is making bad drinks as scarce
as whiskers on Santa Claus.
GOOD NEWS
London is going dance crazy.
This is fine. A dance craze viii
produce a great race OF wrestlers
BAD NEWS
Prisoners in the Carlinville uIl)
Jail got drunk. We need a better
class OF people in our jails.
WORSE NEWS
Brockton CMass) grandma bobbed
her hair. Says she is only IS. A
woman is as old as she hobs.
CUssING NEWS
Nah jongg is a menace" says a
Techny Qu) preacher. 1t is increas.
ing our cuss words.
SPORTS
Stanford (Ky) teachers wife was
his pupil. He spanked his pupil Now
she doesn't love her teacher Imag-
inc a woman tryingto learn from her
husband, or a husband teaching his
wife anything.
AVIATION NEWS
Texas plane went nearly three
miles in a minute. which Is faster
than a dollar buying coal.
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eight years had no church. Sudden
ly by miracle of God the inspiration
OF gospel work came to me.
My priest taught charity first
don't claim Romanism any more, just
a pure faith in Jesus name, an evan.
gelist to teach and preach Christ, no
creed but Christ. Neither do protest
against any mans religion nor will I
permit any preacher to ridicule or
single out any certain one. Faith,
hope and charity go hand in hand
I'm in debt to an undertaken and
a dairy. Let some unseen hand pay
these bills. III say 1t was God.
COL. WIN. ]. SWEENEY.
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A Thought

T. The earth bringeth forth fruit Of
herself; first the eblade, then the ear.
after that the full corn in the ear
Mark 4:2S.
fri EIE feast Is such as earth, the
| general mother.
- Pours from her fairest bosom,
when she smiles,
In the embrace Of autumn.
-. Shelley.
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SFOiNeu from the original neDuias
The name which the astronomer
gives the shooting star" is meteor.
The neteors range in size from
pieces OF stone weighing a few
ounces to ones weighing ton or
more.
They revolve In space around the
sun until they collide with the
earths atmosphere The friction
heats them white hot and we see
what we call shooting star.
Usually they are burned to fine
ashes because OF the friction. But
occasionally an extra large one
isn't entirely burned and falls to the
earth. Examinations OF these show
them to be composed mainly of
stone and iron with traces Of other
metals.
Group Of Meteors
The nucleus Of a comet is moth
Ing but a group OF meteors
In 1925. William Won Biela, a
Bohemian astronomer, discovered
the comet known az Biela's Comet
The comet was one which had been
captured" by Jupiter and so re-
volved around the sun only In every
six or seven years.
When It appeared in 1919. astron-
omers were amazed to see that It
had divided into two comets.
In 1859. the two sections were
still farther apart and growing
fainter.
In 1886 the comet failed to ap-
pear In 1872 the comet like
wise failed to appear. but when
the earth crossed the comets for
mer orbit there was a brilliant
shower Of shooting stars or me-
tcors. A German astronomer named
Klinkerfues Interpreted the phenom-
enon correctly. The meteors were
the remnants OF the comet.
There are many streams Of me.
teors revolving around the sun in
regular orbits. Whenever tho
earth crosses their orbit. there fs
brilliant shower Of shooting stars.
Each OF these meteor strear.s is be-
lieved to have been a former comet.
Number Ia Unestimated
The number OF meteors in the
solar syGtem cannot be estimated
8 Astronomers estimate that there
must be tens OF millions OF little
meteors entering the earths at
mosphere ever twenty-four hours.
Accumulated meteortc dust il
found IN the perpetual SHOWS atop
high mountains and has been
identified in the ooze dredged UP
from the ocean bottom.
Our survey Of the solar system
Is now complete except for the
zodiacal-light materials.
When the sun is a few degrees
below the horizon, n faint nlumi-
nation is still visible in the sky
Hike a streak above the point where
the sun disappears.
1t is believed that the sun Is
surrounded by finely divided dust
grains or very small bodies re-
volving around the sun in a shane
much like that Of a double convex
lens. The light is thought to be
caused by the reflection OF sun
light from these particles. Hence
they are called the zodiacal. light
materials.
Next article in series: The stars.
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DAD In q Scrape

'smatter. old top. you seem to Do
worried. Trouble with the wife?"
Yes. This is the latest I ever was
out. I called her up about an hour
ago and told her where was. and"
We'll, you're all right. then"
mo. I'm not all right. I've forgot
ten where told her was."-Detroit
News.
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BY DAVID DIETZ
Science Editor of The Times.
Copyright by David Dietz.)

-7VERYONE has seen a shoot.
r ing star" Children say If
Ill you make a wish when you
see one. the wish will come true.
OF course, a shooting star" isn't
really star at all The stars, as
we shall see later, are great bodies.
many OF them a million times the
size OF our sun and billions of miles
away.
The shooting stars" are little
chunks OF rock. One astronomer
has called them bits Of cosmic rub
bish. 1t does seem as though they
are bits of materials which was left
over when the sun and planets we're
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-25
Family Fun
Boobies Trouble

Cant change my aams today.
mar"
What in the world do you want
tc change your name for7"
Cause. pa said he will whip me
when he gets home sure as my name
Robert London Answers.
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Good
columbia City POST

The congregation Of the First
Church of Oak Park. Chicago. is in a
grand turmoil over the fact that their
pastor has been named as "the man"
In a sensational divorce SUIT which
has been brought by the husband OF
one Of the active women workers in
the church. The Doctor" explains It
on the ground that everything he did
was to further the cause Of the
church.
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ADVERTISING

The EDITORS pipe is missing. The
pipe was chasing a cat yesterday
and accidentally tore down a neigh
boris garage. Answers to the name
of Gumshoe. Liberal reward dead
or alive.
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Heard in the Smoking Room

IF you want something to eat, /
said. go around to the back door,"
Thanh God, said the old negro,
I has at las found my own folks from
the South. 9
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RI AKING a fresh cigar from his
/ pocket the thin man was heard
- to say:
Before I left home the other day
an old colored man applied for work
and something TO- eat
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What is rosemary and for what


What is rosemary and for what
is It used?
A genus Of plants Of the family
labiatae 1t rs an erect evergreen
shrub four to eight feet high. with
linear leaves and pale blush flowers,
growing in sunny places. on rocks,
old walls etc, In the Mediterranean
region. It is generally cultivated as
an ornamental or aromatic shrub. An
essential oil, oil Of rosemary, obtained
from the leaves, is frequently used as
perfume and as a principal in
gredient in Hungary water Spirit
OF rosemary. made by distilling rose
mary with rectified spirit, is used to
perfume lotions and nniments Wild
rosemary, bog rosemary and marsh
rosemary occur from Labrador south
ward.
What is the annual appropria.
ton for the upkeep of the White
House?
About $4,000 a year.
How long does paper money In
general circulation last7
The average length OK life is two
years.
Who was IL said Il took a sur
gical operation to make a Scotch
man see a joker
Sidney Smith. in Lady Hollands
Memoir" SAYS: 1T requires a sur
a Scotch understanding"
How many brooms are used in
the United States each Year?
Approximately so 600 900.
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Editors Mail

The editor is willing TO print views
OF Times readers on interesting SUBJ
tecGs. Make your comment brief.
sim your name as an evidence OF
good faith. II will not be printed
II you object.
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ANOTHER JUDGE UNNECESSARY

INDIANA lawyers and Indiana members of Congress
opposing the bill ready for United States
Senate dividing Indiana into two judicial districts taking
proper attitude
There need for second Federal Court in
dockets of the present Indianapolis filed
it would be possible for the handle
The bill has all the of political the pur
pose repenishng the and taking
ing politicians Establishment of another necess
appointment of another judge with his
deputies of another with his deputies another
clerk with his staff.
New jobs where jobs necessary hardly fufs
the pledges Of Congressman insisting they for
decreased expenses and lower taxes
IT is not improbable that the young
lieutenant Wood to specializing Wall Street reached him
- the psychological moment and his golden
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DIAGRAM SHOWS THE CAUSE SHOWERS SHOOTING
STARS = OR METEoRs THE EARTH REVOLVING AROUND THE
SUN, CROSSES a SWARM Oh METEORS
ALSO REVOLVING ABOUT THE SUN. THESE SWARMs ARE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-25

On what days OF the week did
the following days come: Jan.
81. 1880; May 20, 1884; Dec. 4.
1908?
Saturday, Friday and Friday, re
spectively.
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How many boys and girls who
enter high school leave before
graduating?
Five hundred and slxty-one Of every
thousand boys and girls entering high
school leave before the end of the
fourth year
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Q U E T Q N 8
Ask The Times
A N s w E r s

You. can get an answer to any .ques-
tion Of fact or information by writing
to the indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau, 1922 New York Ave, Wash
ington. D. c., ncosing 2 cents In
stamps for reply Medical legal and
marital advice cannot be given, nor
can EXTENDED research bt undertaken.
All other questions viii receive per
eonal -eplg Unsigned requests cannot
De answered. Ali letters are conhden-
tial-EditCr.
/. What is Martha Lees ad-
p dress?
2. Who was the inventor of the
Victor talking machine?
S.'About how many people are
there In the United States?
Wv.
/. Address Martha Lee, care Indian
apolls Times
2. Address Victor Talking Machine
Company, IS w. Forty Fourth Sc,
New York City.
3. Population of United States, 1885,
71O,6
What was the population Of the
United States in 1860 and 1870?
In 1860, 81,443,3 21; 1870, 3S,55S. 371.
What are the five principal
causes of deaths in the United
States?
Organic heart disease. pneumonia.
tuberculosis. kidney trouble, cancer or
malignant tumor.
What do the cities Of Chicago
and New York spend yearly for
water?
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How long does paper money In
general circulation last?
The average length OK life is twt
years.
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What do the cities of Chicago
and New York spend yearly for
water?
Chicago, s4,775,S24; New York, S..
10000.
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What is the annual appropria.
ton for the upkeep Of the White
House?
About $4,000 a year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-29
Declares Squires
Sought Election
Contribution $4,000

st. Johns, n. F., Jan. c8-An
election contribution Of $4,000 was
sought two years ago on behalf of
Sir Richard Squires, former premier
of New Foundland, from the Com
mercial Cable Company John Meaney
former liquor controller. testified to-
day before the commission investi-
eating charges of irregularities under
the SQuires administration of the
colony.
Meaney said that when he went
to Montreal two years ago to nego-
tate with the British Empire Steel
company for a campaign contribution
of 100000 for Sir Richard, he was
also commissioned to proceed to New
York to negotiate with the Cable
Company on matters affecting the
company's cable system in New
Foundland. His instructions he said,
included a request for the $4,000
which was to be used in connection
with the New Foundland general
election of 1928
Under cross examination by Mer-
ton Lewis of New York, counsel for
Sir Richard Squires. Meaney denied
that he started negotiations last
December to prevent the present in
veStigation. Leslie Curtis, law part
ner of the former premier, will be
questioned on this point tomorrow,
1t was announced as court adjourn
ed
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pany would "agree to q settlement"
which, he said, was too indefinite.
Turning to the political aspects
of the subject, Senator Lenroot de-
clared that some Democratic sena-
tors seemed to be much agitated,
indeed, angry" at President Cool
idge for doing the very thing they
were seeking to compel him to do
through the adoption of a senate
resolution. He asserted that this
was too important a subject to be
made a matter of partisan politics
and that Senators irrespective of
party ought to commend the presi-
dent for the steps he had taken.
Adverting later to this statement
the committee chairman, Senator
Robinson declared that the presi-
dents statement, ION it's face is de-
signed for political purposes" He
added that Mr.. Coolidge Elm a des-
perate but futile effort to slield his
party from the political effects Of
the sickening disclosures in the Tea
pot Dome Investigation. had assert
ed that no one was shielded for any
party or political reason and that he
understood many were involved who
belonged to both political parties.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-29
Gardiner Law Students
Get Experience in Local Office

The law office Of e. L. Goodspeed
seems to be fast assuming the, ma
lure OF law. school. There are now
TWO law students In It, enrolled for
three year period. Clyde L. Gray,
Formerly student in Gardiner High
School and veteran Of the World
war. has been studying there about
years. Mr. Gray il also local cir
culatton manager Of the Kennebec
Journal and is the newly elected tax
collector for the coming year. Paul
r. Fitzpatrick, another local boy and
graduate Of Gardiner High School,
mas entered the Office this week for
Q full three year period of study. Mr..
Fitzpatrick has for the past four
years been employed as clerk at
Jackson's Drug Store Inasmuch as
Maine law requires three continuous
years of study, either in a law Of
nee or at Law School as a requisite
Tor taking the State Bar Examina-
tlons, and as there are at present no
law schools In Maine, 1t il very for
tunate that young men desiring to
follow the legal profession are given
this opportunity to acquire a practi-
cal knowledge of law at home. It
is ambition such as this that has
given to the Bench and Bar of Maine
many Of its greatest judges and ad-
vocates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-29

papers. had heard different women
say it was good for women's troubles,
and my aunt thought it would help
me as it had helped her. So took the
Vegetable Compound and it brought
things right, and was in good shape
before ! became a mother again. l
believe it helps at birth, too, as with
both my other babies I suffered a
great deal more than with this one.
/ thank you a thousand times for the
good your medicine has done me"
= Mrs. ROBERT PRICE, Scootac, via
Lockhaven, Pa.
In q recent countrywide canvass
of purchasers of Lydia L. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, % out of every
100 report they were benefited by its
use.
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Old Autos as Targets
For Practice by Gun
Squads in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Jan. 2S.-Brig. Gen.
Smedley D. Butler's land navy" of
Misunderstanding motor cars will begin
tomorrow to emulate the navy and use
obsolete automobiles as targets for
gunnery practice. it was announced to-
day by Lieutenant George w. Fritz.
in command of the traffic division of
the police.
The shooting will be done at speeds
of from 55 to O. miles an hour, Lieut.
Fritz said. and records of the hits
made by the various squads will be
Kept to foster competition.
Driven by the verbal lash of Direc-
tor of Public Safety Butler. Police
Lieutenant John Clay. commander of
the eastern end of the Tenderloin dis
trict. today evolved a system whereby
every saloon in his territory Is placed
under 24-hour surveillance.
"A policeman with every drink
was the description given the method
by the patrolmen themselves. One
bluecoAt was assigned to each of the
&c saloons in the sections Whenever
customer entered. the policeman fol-
lowed him and observed what he or
dered and what he drank. The po-
liceman left when the customer did.
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COMING EVENTS

Jan. 29-Annual meeting State Cham
Der of Commerce and Industrial
League. Augusta House 10 A. M.
Jan. 29--Central Maine Power Co.
stockholders annual meeting. Au-
gusta.
Jan. 2s-Feb. 1-Extension Service
.. Workers Campaign. U. of NJ.
Jan. 30-31-Tweifth annual conference
OF Maine Grange Lecturers at State
House. Augusta.
Jan. 31-Adjourned annual meeting
Insurance Federation of Maine. Au-
burn y. NJ. C. A.
Jan 31-State Of Maine Publicity Blu
reau annual meeting Elmwood Hoo
tel, Waterville. 1880 p. M.
Feb. 5-cumberlapd Superior Court.
Portland
Feb. 6--Fair officials annual meeting.
guests of Cumberland County Agri-
cultural and Horticultural Society
at Portland.
Feb. 6-7-Republican conference OF
New England States, Hotel Ban
croft. Worcester. Mass.
Feb. 7-Maine Sportsmen Fish and
Game Association annual meeting.
state House.
Feb. 7-s--Maine State Checker Tour
nament. Auburn.
Feb. 7-9-U. Of NJ. Winter Carnival
Feb. 7-9-Bates Winter Carnival.
Feb. 12-13-Meeting of Western Maine
Fruit Growers Association at Au-
burn.
Feb. 14-Maine Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation. State House. Augusta.
Feb. 14-March S---Coast-to-coast trip.
Sponsored by Portland Ad. Club.
Feb. 14-16-Auburn Winter Carnival.
Feb. 15-16--Evening school principals
and Amcricanization directors, Sem
rte Chamber. state House. Augusta.
Feb. 1S-19-Runford Winter Carnival.
Feb. 21-23 Augusta Winter Carnival.
Feb. 22-23-Winter Carnival. Damaris-
Gotta.
May 22-24--Interstate vocational con-
ference Bangor. -
Feb. 22-24--Christian Endeavor State
convention. Augusta.
Feb. 25-Mar. Annual Portland Auto
Feb. 25-27-chizzle wizzle.
Feb. Estates Maine State Alumni
Association cath annual dinner,
Rand hall. Lewiston. -
March 12-Democratis state conven-
March l9-20---Maine State conference
of u. A. r.. Bath.
March 31-April Annual Farmers
week at the College of Agriculture.
University OF, Maine. Orono.
April annual meeting Maine Fed
Grafton of Agricultural Association.
April 3--Maine state Republican con-
veDtion, Portland.
June 1i-18-240th ARTILLERY, &C. A, G.
officers school. Fort Wright. Long
June 1s-2i-Fieid Artillery school.
Presque Isle.
june 25-2s--sGth Infantry Brigade of
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two women summoned Doctor Wa
terman. who notified the medical
examiner.
Later Mr.. Harding said that his
daughter had been suffering from
lung hemorrhages, the most recent
2 lad occurred Immediately after her
return from Washington.
Boston. Jan. 2s.-Miss Margaret
Eliot Harding. daughter of w. +. G.
Harding. governor of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston, committed
suicide at her home on Beacon street
last Saturday. This became known
today when Associate Medical Ex-
aminer William J. Brickley announc-
ed his finding. He said that the i'm
mediate cause of death was a
Hemmorhage, that her act was prob
ably due to i'll health and that no
person was involved. He did not
disclose the manner in which the
young woman ended her life.
MISS Harding before she came to
this city year ago with her father
was prominent in social circles in
washington. She was born in Bir-
mingham. Ala, % years ago.
Last Thursday she returned from
a months stay in Washington. Her
father said that she told him she felt
tired and Ill and he suggested that
he defer a visit which he had ar
ranged to make to Washington. Later
in the day she said she felt better
an udrged him not to delay his trip.
He was on his way home from
Washington when she died. Only her
maid and other servants were in the
house at the time.
nP q -
Harding called him to her home on
Friday. He said she informed him
that she had thought herself on the
verge of a nervous collapse but felt
better and made an appointment to
see him at his Office on Saturday at
ternoon. He made no diagnosis.
DR.. Brickley said that he was call
ed to the house because Miss Hard
ing had died without medical at
tendance. District Attorney O'Brien
said the medical examiner had in
formed him that there was nothing
Of a criminal nature connected with
Miss Harding's DEATH"
Miss Harding, whose mother died
some years ago, had taken charge
of her fathers household here. One
of her sisters. Alice, Is Mrs. R. T.
Pell of New York. The other, Mary
Elizabeth, was divorced early last
year in Paris from Frederick H.
Prince. Jr.. and later in the year
married Eugene v. r. Thayer, for
mer president of the Chase National
Bank of New York.
Funeral services were conducted
this afternoon at the chapel of the
Massachusetts Cremation Society in
the Forest Hills district. They were
conducted by Rev. Abbott Peterson
of Brookline.