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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13

1000 acres. Shaker Heights began
to boom.
But they saw they must have
suitable transportation facilities if
folks We're to be induced to move
out there. They went to the Cleve-
land Railway Company and asked
it to extend it's tracks. The railway
company refused.
Built Traction Line
The Van Sweringens built their
own. traction line. To get a mile of
their right-of way, they bought the
Nickel Plate Railroad from the Van
derbilt interests for a price said to
have been $8,500,OOO.
The Nickel Plate, as a separate
entity, showed no great possibilities
as a money maker But with two
feed lines, the Clover Leaf and the
Lake Erie & Western, tapping a rich
agricultural and industrial territory,
it became a gold mine So the Van
Sweringens bought both roads.
The Nickel Plate had no Atlantic
seaboard outlet and also lacked pow
ers as a coal carrier. So the Van
Sweringens figured they needed the
Chesapeake & Ohio. Accordingly,
they bought it, too.
They interested other railroads
and started to build q new union
station.
Now, according to reports which
they do not deny, they are dickering
for the purchase Of the Erie Rail
road.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Science

Experiments, conducted under the
sanction of the United States Navy,
indicate that perhaps the easiest
route to a medication is to learn
while you sleep.
The chief radioman Of the navy,
J. n. Phinney, when a telegrapher
at IT, was about to lose his job UNI
less he acquired more speed. He
CHANGED to sleep beside a Geographic
relay and soon was able to read the
fastest operator. Years later, he
tried the experiment with radio and
it succeeded. Now Phinney, in
charge of the radio school at Pensa-
cola naval air station, has tried this
sleep teaching system on seventeen
backward students. One increased
his speed five words a minute, five
increased three words a minute, and
five two words-after the first test.
After six tests, radio had lost it's
terrors for these students, as they
averaged a gain of three words per
minute per night. Phinney claims
his system will work as we'll on any
other subject where it is applicable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13

the background against which the
American people are bound to judge
him in considering his claim to the
Nations highest office. OF Al Smith
himself it is hard to hear much that
isn't good in New York He has
been a good Governor, everybody
declares. Opinion to the contrary is
seldom heard, though you seek for it
among Republicans and anti-Tam-
many Democrats.
Start Was Humble
AS a candidate there is a great
deal In his career to win the SYM
pathy of the millions of average men
and women who elect Presidents. He
was born in an east side tenement.
Smiths battle upward and out of
the slums never caused him to lose
touch with his early neighbors. He
understands the poor and their prob
lens. He even talks the same Ian
guage, though he has passed the
stage where he called Murphy Moi
ply" and Hearst Hoist.
When asked why Tammany has
so regularly been successful in New
York, he said: THAT is because
there are moro Democrats in New
York than there are Republicans.
That's all there is to it. Some cities
are Democratic and some are Re-
publican. New York happens to be
Democratic"
But a study of Tammany Hall
makes this explanation somewhat
unsatisfactory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13

OWNERS OF
8RAHROADS
Besides, They Are Building
New Cleveland Union
Station,

BIZ NEA Service
RI LEVELAND, May 13.-Oris
Ii p. and Mantis J. Van Swer-
- ingen control eight railroads
and now are negotiating for a ninth
Their lines are capitalized at half
billion. They are young and hard
working.
But they successfully manage to
keep out of the limelight.
They despise all publicity. They
can't understand why people are in
terested in them.
Social functions bore them. And
women-well, they never seemed to
have crossed the path of the Van
Sweringen brothers.
At "A and AZ, o. P. and NJ. J. still
are bachelors. Neither has revealed
any intentions of marrying. When
friends gather at their home, one
plays the piano while the other
pours lemonade, and the guests
particularly if women-are left to
entertain themselves.
Building Apartment
Besides running their railroads,
the Van Sweringen boys right now
are: Building Cleveland's new $780,
000,000 union station.
Proceeding with the construction
of a $30,000,000 English villa apart
ment house in Shaker Heights, one
Of Cleveland's most exclusive sub
urbs.
And around Shaker Heights
hinges the story of this modern
business romance.
The Van Sweringens came here
from Geneva, Ohio, farmer boys.
They sold papers while going to
school. Later they got jobs in of
fees.
one Sunday. while both were
working in real estate offices. they
walked out into the country" They
became interested in the hilly sec
ton. through which ran a myriad of
small lakes, just south Of the city.
First they borrowed enough to
buy a few lots. Then they succeed
ed in scraping up enough credit for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Nv LOWELL MELLETT

BY LOWELL MELLETT
I'll AMMANY HALL, which, with
only occasional Interruptions,
has ruled America largest
city for 1875 years. is now seriously
thinking of anneYing the rest of our
broad land. Tarhmany proposes to
make one of it's own sons President
Of the United States.
This high resolve has been reached
rather by accident. 1t results from
the amazing personal popularity of
this pal ticular Tammany product.
His popularity is as amazing to
Tammany Hall as to any one, for
Tammany has not been accustomed
to see its sons grow in popularity
when tried in public office. Here
is one, however, who has survived
public service in the city and in the
State, Including two terms as Gov
ernor, and who gets bigger, in the
peoples estimation, year by year.
Spith Makes Friends
1t began to look as much as four
four years ago that Governor Alfred
Z. Smith had become very impOr-
tant to Tammany Hall. He had the
gift Of making friends. the one most
essential for a Tamany man. But
the beginning Of the present year it
was agreed that he was Tammany's
greatest single asset. Indeed, there
was a feeling that he was growing
too big for Governor. What would
they do with him? There were sug-
gestions that he presently would sue
coed Charles f, Murphy as boss OF
Tammany Hall, but it Ewas doubted
that ne really was bigA enough for
that job. So. it was decided that he
should be made President of the
United States.
This series Of articles has only a
little to do with Governor Smith di.
rectly. It concerns chiefly the re-
markable institution, Tammany Hall,
which produced him and which is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
K 4 IL LINK
WITH LATINS
URGED ANEW
Commission to Meet Soon
to Discuss Progress on
Huge Project,
BY MARRY w. FRANTz.

81 LII aboard for Mexico, Pan
a ANA and Buenos Aires"
III You may hear this cry in
the railway station in New York or
Chicago before many decades. if
plans now in formation are realized.
The project for a Pan-American
railway, to connect New York with
Buenos Aires, which has been slowly
developing since the first Pan-Ameri-
can conference in 1890, has taken a
new lease of life.
The governing board of the Pan
American Union, acting under in
structions from the fifth Pan-Ameri-
can conference. held at Santiago last
year, has just reorganized the Pan.
American railway commission, con-
sisting of eight distinguished engi-
neers and practical railway men Of
the United States. Mexico, Chile,
Brazil and Argentina. The commits.
sion probably Will meet in Wash
ington this summer to discuss the
proposed railway.
The route originally planned was
estimated at 10,116 miles in length
from New York TO Buenos Aires
Units now completed total $3.50
miles. leaving 3.547 miles to be
built The only great uncompleted
sections are between Guatemala and
the Canal Zone, 500 miles; between
the Canal Zone and Lake Titicaca,
2.S20 miles; and a stretch in south
ern Bolivia lesst han 200 miles in
length which will be completed with
in one year.
Although the completion of the
American Railway is still prob
ably many years removed because
of absence of economic pressure,
there is no reason whatever TO doubt
its final construction. The chief
deterrent at present arises from
the fact that in freight hauls
through line could not compete with
steamer traffic. However, practical
" every big unit of such line
might become economically self-sup-
porting; and the through line would
make a great appeal to tourists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
PRESIDENTS
CONTROL IS
NOW OVER
Tax Bill Action Takes Rein8
From Hands of Cool
idge,
BY HARRY B. HUNT,
NEA Service Writer.

ET1 ASHINGTON, May 1St-A1r
WI semblance of administration
GJ control over Congress has
gone by the board.
Against the most resolute opposi-
ton administrator leaders on the
floor, and in the face of virtual
demand by President Coolidge that
the Mellon tax bill be enacted as
written, the Senate threw out the
Mellon rates on surtaxes and substi-
tuted Democratic rates proposed by
Simmons of North Carolina.
On the same afternoon, the House.
invoking the new rule passed under
insurgent pressure at the opening OF
the session, discharged the Inter
state anG Foreign Commerce Com
mittee from further consideration
Of an important amendment to the
transportation act and ordered it TO .
the floor for consideration.
Parties Scrambled
Just one day later, in the Sen
ate, administration forces which
had blocked employment Of Francis
J. Heney to assist the Couzens COM
mittee il an investigation of the
Treasury Department, particularly
the revenue bureau. which collects
taxes and administers prohibition,
We're routed, and the way cleared
for another sensational inquiry.
Party lines were hopelessly scram-
bled in this fight, which resulted in
an authorization for employment of
outside counsel.
Since it was the proposal to en-
ploy outside counsel that drew a
heated protest from Mellon to Cool
idge and a caustic letter of criticism
of the Senate from the President,
this action can be construed only
as the Senate's declaration Of indie
penGence from White House and
Cabinet domination.
Simmons Figures
The new tax bill, as put through
the Senate. might be properly Ia
beled the Mellon bill, per Simmons.
Administration Republicans, how
ever from the wry face with which
they view the legislation, apparently
regard it chiefly as persimmons. For
certainly it is a bitter dose.
incidentally, the enactment of the
higher surtax rates proposed by
Senator Fulnifold McLende1 Sim
mons, A B, LII D., of New Bern.
n. c.. brings into prominence again
the dean of the Democratic party in
the Senate.
Four Terms
Simmons, who is just past 10,
rounds out this session four full
terms in the upper house-twenty-
four years. His runner-up for con-
tinuity of service on the Democratic
side is his North Carolina colleague.
Lee Slater Overman, who also has
Just turned 20. Overman, however,
has only twenty-five years to his
credit.
Physically, Simmons is the sena-
torial Lilliputian. He stands barely
over\five feet in height, When seat
ed, he is almost lost to sight behind
his desk, and when standing behind
his desk he measures up in height
to the average Senator when seated.
But what he lacks in bodily ply
sique, Simmons makes up in cranial
capacity. In contrast to his body.
his head seems unduly large. And
it houses an assortment of financial
facts and figures not exceeded in the
Senate unless it be those under the
hat of Reed SmoOt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Family Fun
Working at 1t

Two well-known actors were play
ing golf and every stroke proclaimed
that they were novices at the game.
Several fair-sized pieces of turf had
been sent skyward, and when one
unusually large piece departed from
its native soil one of the accompany
ing caddies turned to the other and
whispered:
did yer tell me they were ac-
tors, Bill?"
YES" answered the other.
Well" was the reply, "all I can
say is, they ough to be scene shift
ers. "A gonaut.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Tax Bill
By Uni.ted Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 10
Interest here now centers in
what Cautious. Cal" will do
when the tax bill, providing
for surtaX rates bitterly OPP
posed by Mellon and objected to
by Coolidge, reaches the White
House.
If he vetoes it. there will be
no tax reduction from this SEES
sion of Congress; none that will
apply to this years taxes. That
might be a big factor in the
coming campaign.
If he signs it, it will be as a
temporary bill to run until, if
elected, he can propose another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Ask The Times

You can get an answer to any ques-
ton of fact or information by writing
to the indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Wash
ington. D. c., inclosing cents in
stamps Tor reply Medical. legal and
marital advice cannot be given. nor
can extended research be undertaken.
All other questions will receive a per
sonal reply Unsigned requests cannot
be answered. All letters are ccnhden-
tial.-Editor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
'Radio" Subject of Address

Fred r. Finehout, instructor in
Technical High School. will speak
on Radio" at meeting of the In
dianapolis-Lafayet section of the
American Institute of Electrical En-
gineers at the Lincoln May 16. ac-
cording to announcement today by
David c. Pyke, chairman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Rad for Willie

Here, Willie, come away from
that bad boy"
He amt a bad boy. mamma. He's
a nice boy; he gave me half of his
orange and candy"
Mercy! The child is a Socialist!
Come away from him this instant. 3"
-Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
4 Thought

Ointment and perfume rejoice the
heart; so doth the sweetness of a
mans friend by hearty counsel
Prov. 27:9.
Friendship is the wine of life
YOupg
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Anderson Boy Sought

Police searched today for Wheeler
Gwaltley, Is, fair complexioned,
brown coat, red sweater, blue trous-
ers and gray cap. He is said to
have left Anderson, Ind, in COM
pany with a boy named Davais.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Her Dad Won Over

"Hu, my sweetest own! did win
your fathers great heart at last"
"Oh, joy! Are you sure of it,
lover?"
"Cinched, darling. He selected
this honeymoon train for us and
this railroad pamphlet says there
are five tunnels each a mile long
ahead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Not Crime. Anyway

Well, the Senate has found out
Harry Daugherty's middle name and
fastened it on him. It's Micajah,
which is bad, but not indictable.--
Lafayette Journal and Courier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Still an In"

Governor McCray's status did not
in one respect with his re-
moval to the Federal Penitentiary.
He is still one Of the ins.-Richmond
Times Dispatch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13

THE usual number of boats in the immediate offng
caused paper there refer them the Boston Bay
feet which is grossly misleading There ism drop bay
board ...
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Other Editors
What Farmers Need,

" IIItL II al HUE -NUUu-
1t is said there are 145, 900 radio
sets on farms in the United States.
The farm needs more broadcasters,
amplifiers and loud-speakers to carry
it's own bedtime story to the other
Acknowledgment Journal and Cou-
-rer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Who'll Be the Next President?

The will
November?
+bev1 orIv choose How platform
80 a.
- nated?
parties -
conven+ons be+uaar go
the adio,rr
of political
How delegates these has
conventions chosen? How
there? Who chooses
committees? presidential
campaign whfc explains the
primary, of
of
How do the delegations
the conventions? How
convention
outa send
fcers? S a party coupon beow
ton organized? Who chooses directed:
Washington D. c.
a bulletin CONVENTIONS AND
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN,
postage for
Name n...e-..........
City .-....... State
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13

Which is the larger, the
United States or Canada?
The area Of Canada is 3,729 665
square miles; that Of the United
States 3,026.791 square miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
TAMMANY
IN MOVE TO
ANNEX US.
New York Democratic Body
Seeks to Put Over Al
Smith,

Editors Note-This is the first of five
articles by Lowell Mellett. of The Indian
apohs Times Washington staff, who has
Just finished a study of the Tammany
machine and its ways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Tongue TIPS

Magnus w. Alexander, director
national industrial conference board:
1--WE live today in an economic world
in which every industry is under
necessity not only to know what is
going on in other industries, but in
taking part in the common prob
lens of industry"
Harry c. Meserve, secretary Ma
tional Association Of Cotton Manu-
facturers: New England provides
the highest wages and the best
housing to be found anywhere in
the world in the textile industry"
E. M. Statler, chain hotel man:
'There are very definite limitations
to the prices a hotel can charge for
what it sells. Those limitations will
not permit an operator to make a
profit on an investment required by
present high construction and equip
rnent costs"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13

Where was the Biblical
Canaan?
The country west of the Jordan
and Dead Sea and between those
waters and the Mediterranean.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13

square miles; that of the United
States 3,026.791 square miles.
What are the dimensions Of
Barbot's Midget Plane?
Surface. 30 square feet; span, 43
feet 3 inches. length. 20 feet; engine,
2cylinder Clerget. developing IS
horsepower at ground level and II
horsepower at 5000 feet; weight.
when empty. 243 pounds; weight in
flying order. including weight of
pilot and As pounds Of fuel, 49,
pounds.
BY how much does the birth
rate exceed the death rate in
the United States?
The birth rate (23.7 per 1000 pop
ulationJ for the birth registration
area in 1920 exceeded by 10.6 per
1000, the death rate Q3-1 per 1000
for the same area.
Are there any States in the
Union where aliens cannot own
real estate?
There are several States where
aliens, especially those ineligible to
American citizenship. are barred
from owning real estate within the
States territorial limits. This holds
true Of California and Washington.
On what day Of the week did
Feb. 90. 1899, come?
Monday.
What caused the death of the
son of Napoleon 1?
tuberculosis.
Who is Rebecca West?
A well-known English novelist.
Her book. THE Judge" is consid-
cred one of the strongest novels
written in late years.
What is Douglas Fairbanks
address?
Douglas Fairbanks Studios. Los
Angeles, Cal.
Why is the United States
called the Melting Pot?"
Because so many types of human
ity come to America and are
moulded into Americans, just as
different kinds of metals are flung
into the melting pot and fused into
some other composite metal.
What is the tariff on cut
diamonds. ready to be set?
Twenty per cent, ad valoren.
How many acres and how
many square miles are there in
the city of London?
About 443,4 acres or approx
mately 692.S square miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13
Tom Sims Says:

The dollars that run the Govern
ment also run the taxpayers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-13

I Ii aboard for Mexico, Pan
n ANA and Buenos Airesl"
You NAV hear this cry in
The Kadoka press. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1923-current, 1924-04-25
ALL FORD PRODTICTS
CONTINUE IN DEMAND

There is a rustic and a hustle
around Ford headquarters here,
which surely must cause Jack
Thomas some worry as to how he
is to satisfy the demands of the
public which appears to be suffer-
ing from a regular Ford hunger.
Jack is about to turn lose the four
tn car load of Ford runabouts,
touring cars and Sedans this week
and all on the time payment plan.
In fact he is already laying plans
for the fifth carlot shipment of
lizzies and folks keep wanting the
Ford that gets there just the
same.
Mr.. Thomas has also turned Two
shipments of tractors lose 10 Trans
form our fertile prairies and iudg-
ing by the demand. will be forced
to have a third shipment here
right soon.
The following are among last
weeks satisfied buyers: F. c. Kemp
er, Indian Creek township tractor
and plows: VIM. Burnette, Little
Buffalo township touring car:
Orville Leffinpwell tractor and two
bottom plows: George Porch tract
or and plows: H. c. Snodprass. In
terror a touring car SATURDAY. NIGHT
"And did Mr.. Fords advertisino o
campaign help you any," inquired
the rnporter.
"You bet vour life it did" said
Jack emphatically.
The Kadoka press. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1923-current, 1924-04-25
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
MAKE FINE SHOWING

The spring meeting Of the Pres.
bytery of BLACK Hills convened in
Sturgis April 18th, and closed the
night of the 10TH. with popular
meeting at which addresses were
made by the field secretary of
Huron College and others, The
" omars Mis- Ionary society held
sessions in the church parlor while
the men were meeting in the
church auditorium. A represent
ative of the Foreign Board from
New York made several inspiring
addresses. 1t may be of interest to
those who knew her to learn that
Mrs. V. j. Valentine who used to
be here is Superintendent of the
Sunday school of the Sturgis
church. While most Of the ses-
sions of the Presbytery were taken
up with the routine affairs. it is
interesting to inform the readers
that the interests Of local churches
and communities were carefully
considered and planned for. 1t was
the general feeling that while the
denomination is called "Presbyter-
ian" the churches rank as COM
munity churches in that the bulk
of the support comes from non
members and from those who are
members of no church and that the
welfare and integrity of these
churches come first and the preach
ers take secondary place. Great
iov was expressed by the Home
Mission Committee on hearing that
the linking of the churches Of Ka-
doka and Interior make it possible
for these churches to be independ-
ent, this year, of the Board of
Home Missions. This is big step
in advance and reflects great credit
on the community considering the
present financial straits. 1t is a
boost. too, for Jackson County that
the church in the County Seat
stands on its own feet after all
these wears Of financial assistance
from the Board of Home Missions
The Kadoka press. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1923-current, 1924-04-25
JUDGE BARTINE DENIED
MANUAMUS WRIT MONDAY

A ruling by the honorable J. G..
Bartine, of Oacoma. S. ID. circuit
judge of this district, was received
here Monday, which is of much
interest both to Jackson and Wash
abaugh counties. Claiming that
the legal limit was overdrawn
Jackson Counties auditor refused
to issue further warrants for the
unorganized county of Washa-
baugh, which is attached to this
county for judicial purposes. At
the March term of court Stanley
Barber brought action against the
auditor to compel her to resume
issuing warrants.
AS has been mentioned in these
columns before, the Judge took the
case under advisement. His ruling
this week upholds the auditor Miss
Anna Dithmer in her action of re-
fusing to issue further Washa-
baugh warrants.
This will mean that there are no
further moneys to be spent by the
unorganized countys highway
board until July. when a new fiscal
year will be started.
Whether the plaintiff will appeal
to the supreme court or not, is not
known at this writing. but rumors
have it that the case is not to rest
at this juncture.