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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-15
Science

Graham bread, Graham crackers
and Graham cookies are known to
every one. Their history constitutes
one Of the most interesting episodes
I'm American science-scionce mixed
with errors, religion and mob VIC
lenco
Sylvester Graham was born Just
1870 years ago. He was Presby-
terrain minister and devoted his life
to advocating reforms in eating and
drinking lie dld this first solely
from religious standpoint, but the
idea gained support and became
"the Graham system" which from
dietary standpoint was largely
scientifically correct 1t contended
that proper eating and drinking
would abolish most diseases.
The Graham system" went to the
extreme of vegetarianism and also
meant the eating Of whole wheat
bread. Ills lectures and the open
ling Of Graham hotels" in New York
and Boston caused riots led by
butchers and bakers After Ora
hams death the popular demand
continued for the bread he made
famous and bakers soon began put
ting it out. The name Graham
bread" at first applied in contempt,
became a respected trade term.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON
Success

OGER w. BABSON, the sta
X tistical expert, addressed the
National Society for Voca-
ttonal Education at a banquet in
the Claypool the other ntght. He
criticised modern school methods.
THE average pupil doesn't gradu-
ate from school on honest work, but
on wits" he said. Concentration
must be taught those who would
succeed. For, next to laziness. try
ing to do too many things at once
is the reason more don't succeed"
Every one who rises above
mediocrity has a prescription for
success. Recipes differ in color but
not In essential Ingredients
Work and concentrate are the
twin teeth in every prescription.
Which is discouraging.
People hate work and concentra-
ton Yet would like a nice. domes-
ticated little success TO romn with
in the evening. An easy patent pre-
scripton for success would be pop
ular. one that could he taken
while the patient relaxes at a movie
or concentrates on a crossword puz-
zle
But something for nothing has al
ways been -the-wisp that
man has joyfully chased. And al
ways into a bog. For whatever he
gets he must pay. Even success
must be purchased The price is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-15
Rv IIAL COCHRAN

You can't expect credit for doing a
thing unless you can do It up right.
It's quite up TO you what your ef-
forts viii bring That's a fact that
you'd best keep in sight.
Most any good person can start
with n shout at a thing they're in
tending TO do. Too often, however.
ambition dies out ere the task IS IN
full measure through.
They say talk is cheap and #
seems that's the case when it
comes to a man and a fob. He starts
IN with pep; then there isn't a trace.
yet its only himself he can rob
You'll frankly admit you've a task
to be done and YOU loudly declare
YOU will do It. And then you will
find that it's not so much fun when
the time comes for you TO go to It.
Whatever you tackle. just make
up your mind. you'll do 1t the best
that YOU can. Real working, not
suirking's the best way to find sfA-
ciencv's value to man.
Copyright, 1924. NEA Service. Incl
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Oh. That Way!

Mary. a rosy-cheeked girl from the
country, was the guest Of some city
friends. and volunteered one evening
to look after a neighbours children
while their mother attended q meet
ing. After her charges were put to
bed. the mother returned and asked:
Gwen, dear, how did you get along
with the children"
Not so badly" replied Mary, "ex-
cept that I had a terrible time with
the oldest boy-the red-haired one.
he was"
The .red-haired one" shrieked the
lady. "Why. that was my husband"
Experience.
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" above by George Harvey. editor of the conservative
l Washington Post It would be difficult condense in
the space untruth and unAmercan political
philosophy
In the first place the 'poor Attorney General" not
with the impossible task described until he himself
put impossible the income law The
framed the law had other idea than that the
papers should publish income payments Secretary Mellon
ddn like and obtained from the Attorney General the
opinion landed the question in the No blame
attaches Congress
But that Is the law the present Congress has made it.
says Mr. Harvey 1t viii remain law until the smash it,
There is the poison Law until the courts smash it
The spectacle of smashing law. enacted by the
acknowledgements avmakng branch Of the Government
is growing steadily offensive the American people But
here instance where the asked first declare
that Congress intended something utterly different from its
manifest intention and then 'smash that IS declare it
unconstitutional.
it the purpose the forces that control the
executive branch of the Government destroy the legislative
branchhe branch directly representative Of the people
George Harvey pointing the The thing he suggests
be done The listen to him. But it viii not
require very long period Of manhandng Congress in this
TO awaken the American people.
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AIR NAIL
DOES BIG
BUSINESS
More Than Sixty Million
Pieces of Mail Carried
in Year.
Times Washington Bureau.
400 Ven Vii. >, .

1322 Nelc YORK. Arc.
81 ASHINGTON, Dec, 15.-The
WI air mail service carried a to-
tai of more than 60.00O,O00
pieces of first-class mail matter last
year. the Postoffice Department has
just reported.
Air mail planes flew total OF l,
S63,251 miles.
In spite OF the hazard of night
flying and bad weather. the per-
Torrance Of the air mail service
was 95 per cent perfect.
Seventy four planes are now fly
ing in the service.
All of this mail was carried over
one route, New York to San Fran
cisco total length Of $3.50 miles.
While the actual revenues OF the
air mail service rs compared to the
expenditure of s1.496.000 have not
been computed In detail postal au-
thorities think that the service Is
more than paying its way. due to
the high charge for mail carried by
airplane. During the last year the
service was conducted with an ap-
preparation Of $1.500.00O furnished
10y Congress. This was to test the
practicabllity Of the air mail serv.
ice.
Postal authorities say this test
was a great success and are pre-
pared to extend the air mail service
over other routes as soon as Congress
authorizes them to do so
The next route probably viii run
sotuh from Chicago through impor-
tant southern cities 10 the gulf. en-
abl.nE the South 10 connect with
the East and West air mail
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"CARDIACS"
TT7VERY YEAR at Christmas time asked buy
III brghycoored seals help the fight against tubercu
ic fro+ All no

TT7VERY YEAR at Christmas time asked buy
brightly seals help the fight against tubercu
losis. That is a fine thing
another disease which doctors fighting
everywhere which many persons year
did the deadly tuberculosis
That disease is heart trouble.
We're speaking of the FORMS which the doctors
call pericarditis " angina pector acute endocardis
These highsoundng species only out Of every
100 deaths due heart disease The other nneve due
chronic organic heart disease the kind that has for
acs and doctors say that out of every fifty
sufferer of the malady.
Cardiacs be- they say usually the result Of
general Infection the body Infected teeth tonss
might trouble if they looked after when dis
covered. Up to the of 90 rheumatism frequent
of heart disease than all other combined
Heart disease the child is the thing against which di
the heaviest artillery fire. of Over 100000 children
the United States is estimated right suffering from
some form of heart trouble.
When Johnny says he feels queer after he has climbed up
couple of flights of stairs after running down the
he should be taken the doctor AS for the older
ways be cured possible reorganze things that life
go fairly happily and comfortably.
Women cardacs shoudn do heavy work involving scrub
bng floors lifting heavy things and trudgng and down
many hours day Some light work which they do sitting
down such sewing folding and addressing envelopes paint
ing stenography and typewritng viii their
strength.
Men cardiacs similarly cant be ongshoremen, but he
ticket sellers proofeaders bookkeepers in fact be
occupied in any sendenary occupation with comfort.
Treatment be given to cardacs clinics which will
keep them living meeting their responsibilities and being
dependent.
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A reader asks our Washing
ton Bureau for Information on
making popcorn balls. sugared
popcorn and other popcorn
daint!es Any other reader IN
terested may obtain a mimeo-
graphed bulletin on popcorn by
writing to our Washington Blu
reau. enclosing o cents IN post
age stamps for reply.
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Al q ~ Va 4 - ~ ~ ~ 90
electric companies
5000 600.
That sounds like
a rare Christmas
gift to electricity
consumers.
However. q house
h old er shouldn't
throw a wild party
Immediately on his
prospective savings.
For under the new
schedule the dones-
tic consumer using
so XVIII a month
which is above the
average-wiIl only
save f2c monthly.
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How much beef was imported
into the United States In 1928 and
where did most of 1t come from?
There were 19.356.47O pounds i'm
ported. coming mostly from Quebec
Ontario and Argentine.
How can chickens be cured OF
the habit Of eating eggs?
Remove such chickens from the
flock; pare the end of the upper
beaks with a sharp knife until they
show signs Of bleeding. Release the
chickens and place china eggs where
they can be within constant reach
Of them. The beal1s viii be very
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q am afraid the children are
growing skeptical about Santa
Claus"
Can you blame them?"
What do you mean?"
"Whiskers are becoming rare and
the youngsters have never seen a
EleiGh- ''-Youngsto Telegram.
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est threat OF the next war the
Thought that the Red cross may Is
sue CROSSWORD pu2z'eS scafes us
It's funny how some respected
citizens regard please Remit on an
overdue bill as nothing short Of
The carol. silent Night. Holy
Night" is 100 years old this Christ
Steamboat load of autos sank in
rolla I1rie An the crew and maybe
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william Allen White, Kansas edi-
tor: "All's the matter with us now
is lack Of self-expression. Man must
cut loose, must express himself In
other ways than the daily routine
that life offers"
Or. A. J. Carlson. University Of
Chicago: Fasting IS not painful
and hunger strikes are not the ter
rible ordeals they are pictured. The
only disadvantage IS the gradual
weakening"
Ida NJ Tarben. woman leader and
writer: Women have won political
power only to discover that such
power is largely illusory."
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Rates

ri HE public service commission
| Friday ordered a reduction in
electric light and power
rates in Indianapolis. Which is es-
timated will reduce annual reve-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-15

TVTi ASHlNGTON. De-" l5.--" ta-
nv Their. 7 cannot tell a lie.
did Il with my little Ratchet, "
no longer appeals tn the th!rl grader
as a laulah,e sentiment Not of
such stuff ara his heroes made. Real
he-men. tWo-dsJed guys f-lers that
Cues q l0t-thats the ideal 20 make
q modern lads eyes sparkle and his
breath come fast
Yet il would never 90 for George
Washington 70 pass from the list ~
Sanctiiled Americans. Georges coun-
try hasn't grown mat callous yet.
70 me mountain = 10 90 pIousi-
20 Mahomet ana George Washlh6
tom lS :" oe inAae lhi" me KIM OF
hero FOR Which modern nero worship
calls A -oElcsiit business ''N' P'7'''
cherry Tree l. "Out"
Inc ,"' .a'."''f'.'.. !, "'-'.i'' '.''S -
the TT. ' ~ ,'.'l-' " ',S'.''.'s -,'' 40 49,
~ '''''' ...'' 's ~ . w.,
.' ,'' ....--... ..-.-,-.n - ne
board Of Governors If The George
yVa-htre-ou-S ulsrave Institution in
Sew York. announces.
THE bicentcuuIal IS stiu eight
years away and Stewart believes
that gives him time 10 perfect an
educational campaign iu behalf Of
WashIsron lie has proposed to
-ho commissioners II education ill.,
;ne various States that studies ~
tho seven periods In Washington S
life be made in all schools, and that
special emphasis be laid ON sub.
merging Weems' history. the one
that rec0unt5 the cherry tree and
other myths
we want 70 show that Washing
ton WAS a real hoy and q real man.
not sanctimonious sissy" says
Stewart. "Washlngtou could swear.
Take the Battle Of Princeton, for I'm
stance Washington stood and
cUssed out Light Horse Harry for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-15
1T APPEARS that al

1T APPEARS that about the dangerous experience
may have this of the year hunting trip with
friend.
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SMASHING LAWS

confronted with task II
proving collector make income
of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-15

AIAGNUS JOHNSON insists he will be heard from again
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silent airplanes are not tho great
est threat Of the next war. The
Thought that the Red Cross may IS
sue crossword puzzles scares us.
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It's funny how some respected
citizens regard please Remit" on an
overdue bin as nothing short Of
IlaCkmaU.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26

| see the Legionnaries has met and
give their appetite whet for frequent
portions, more and more, of wars and
battles, blood and gore.
They took a awful vicious fling at
folks who try to do a thing to make
old Woodrow's promise good that wars
should cease, as all wars should.
In language that was quite uncouth
they hit at movement Of the Youth, as
II youths only aim should be to die
fortthe security of fat old bankers oil
concessions and Pierpont Morgan's
world possessions. That youth should
like TO live life that's free from
fraticidal strife. makes Legion men to
rave and gr9an and spit out epileptic
foam.
The Legion raving had its fill Of
Woodrow's der ,cratic pill, would like
to stuff the same dose down the
threats OF az he boys in town.
It's stranf that those who failed to
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die back UP Woodrow Wilson's lie.
that conscripts must be shippedd to
France to break forever old Mars
lance, should shake a very warlike
fist like any Wall Street jingoist. II
seems as II the Legion lacks gas
masks 10 ward off the attacks of our
financial pirate crew who mix imper-
ialistic stew. Perhaps the boys who
really fell would have different tale
to tell. But khaki lads who got as far
as training camps give me a jar What
they can't tell of war themself would
I'LL Harvard flve.foot shelf. Give
'em a little running start and they
will beat N. Bonepart, and put up
most awful bluff that Caesar didn't
know his stuff.
II Legion men wanta fight. move
we take EN- some dark night. and
turn 'em loose in some bull.pen where
they can win the war" agen. Then
let each battered sunuvagun just fig
ure out how much he won.
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WORKERS LYCEUM TO
Be SCENE OF A MOST
UNUSUAL EVENING

There is really no reason why
you shouldn't attend It, you know
And don't pretend that you don't
know to what we refer. You know
durn we'll that we mean the Com
munist cabaret that is being given
by the North Side branch Of the
Young Workers League tomorrow
night, Sept. ~, at the Workers Ly-
ceum, which, as is we'll known, is
situated at 2733 Hlrsch Blvd.
Well admit that you don't know
the surprises that are going to be.
pulled of there, and by cricky, we
don't propose to tell them to you
now. Suffice It to say to the wise
seekers for revolutionary amuse-
ment that the entertainment that
will be got up by the Communist
lads and lassies is Unprecedented in
the history of the sociaIs Of the rad
ical movement. Heaven and hell
have been moved in order to secure
adept talent and after much effort
it was done. The stage is set.
Cough up your dough and spend
night as you never spent it before.
A word to the wise should be suf-
ficient. The length Of this word is
for those who are not wise and have
to be told. Come in huge massesl
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of the city, forced the civil and mill
tarv authorities to give Haley pub
lie funeral, and to execute without
trial or delay of any kind two leading
members of the strike committee
And when the Chinese government
protested, the minister in Pekin OF
MacDonald's Tabor government" re
fused to give satisfaction, and instead
demanded further punishment OF the
strikers!
"The time is ripe, we have said
More than that--the time for the al
lies is now or never. For a new
power is rising to challenge them
the power of the revolutionary work
ers, peasants, and middle classes, or
ganized in the Kuo-Ming- Tang, or Ma
tional Revolutionary Party, under the
leadership of the veteran socialist
Sun-Yat-Sen. At his capital in Can
ton. the great port in South China
he has for many years carried on a
hitherto invincible fight against
counter-revolutionary foreign imper'
ialism. and in this fight he has had to
rely more and more on the workers
and peasants. Canton is the only part
of China where the trade unions and
the socialists can work legally.
"The allies have long tried to get
rid Of him by sending first one gen
eral then another; but always their
attempt has been foiled by their mu-
tual jealousies and rivalries. Even
today their rival puppets, Wu-Pei-Fu
and Chang-Tso-Lin, are locked In
struggle; but whoever wins, wether
the outcome is a despotism financed
by Japanese or Anglo-American CAPT
talism, the survivor will have to fight
Sun-Yat.Sen, the representative of the
Chinese people, the ally of Soviet Rus
STA, the spokesman Of the workers
and peasants will to be free Of all
capitalist rule. Chinese or foreign.
True, Sun-Yat-Sen has weighed up
his chances. He sees that Japanese
imperialism is the weaker. II 1t wins,
its, own domestic troubles are too
great to enable II to eat UP China.
Therefore he may support Chang-Tso-
Lin. And therefore the British ia
Dor" government, under the dictatlon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26

of the British, French, and American
bankers, is organizing Fascist move
ment in Canton, just as they did in
Soviet Russia.
"The story has already appeared in
the Herald. Let us recall its main
facts. Last May the Chinese mer-
chants, bankers, and capitalist ele-
ments held congress, at which they
decided to organize volunteers-of
course, only ito defend property"
To-day there are $4,000 of them, all
armed with rifles imported from the
British colonies at Hong Kong and
Shanghai. Their leader is Chen-Lin-
PAX, for fifteen years representative
of the British-owned Shanghai and
Hongkong bank, director of the ten
largest native banks, with capital
of 200 million dollars.
when Sun-Yat-Sen seized their last
consignment of rifles, they revolted.
When the workers of Canton formed
workers guards, and began to move
against the merchants quarter, the
British consul threatened that British
warships would lombard the city
British Sepoys have been told off to
protect Chen-Lin-Pak's property!
1.-THE result so far has been to pre-
vent Sun from marching against WI
Pei-Fu. His position, and with him
that of Chinese labor and Chinese
democracy, is critical They are
faced with the prospect of seeing
Chang-Tso-Lin defeated, Anglo-Amer,
lean capital victorious in the north
and then joining hands with the Can.
ton Fascist to stamp out the labor
, movement in blood. reestablish auto
cracy, and make China safe for the
British bankers. And the Tabor" gov
eminent is playing its part-relying
on the alleged Indifference of the
British workers to foreign affairs.
What can be done? The Chinese
workers have formed a Society for
fighting Imperialism; the Russian
Trade Union Congress has formed a
Hands OFF China" committee, in
which tens Of thousands of workers
are enrolling. This is the path we
must take. The workers organiza-
tions, the labor leaders, all who are
honest" in their claim to defend
labor and democracy, must defeat the
capitalists--and their puppet Mac
Donald. Hands OFF Chinal Down
with the Chinese Fascistil Defend
the Chinese Revolutionl With these
watchwords let us force the labor
government" to remember its duty
to fulfil its pledges of peace by with.
drawing all support from the counter.
revolution in China
Hands off the Chinese revolution"
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failure and that international recog-
milton of the Soviet power was bound
to come.
The last words of the accused were
that having spent many years in Tsar-
list prisons and in exile, he had lost
touch with the popular masses, whose
mood and feelings he no longer I'M
derstood. This, he says, explains why
IAN old revolutionary, who took part
in tens of attempts against Tsarist
ministers, later committed the most
abominable crimes against his peo-
pie and motherland, being one of
those most responsible for the latter's
bloody ordeal"
Issu>s Statement
The accused concluded his evidence
by the following statement: 'In the
face of the peoples representatives,
Savinkoff, declare that l erred, that
recognize the Soviet power. and l tell
to all the emigrants who love the Rus
sian people that they must recognize
the Soviet power. 1t is harder for me
to make such statement than to list
en- to your verdict
This conviction that the people is
with you l acquired not here, in the
court, but a year ago--in Paris. And
returned to Russia, for did not be-
lieve in what other people told about
you. am ready to hear the sentence
of death and ask for no leniency
Your revolutionary conscience will re
mind you that | have been a revolu
tionary."
The sentence was declared after
three hours conference of the judges
Boris Savinkoff has been sentenced to
capital punishment However, taking
into consideration the statements of
the accused, the tribunal has decided
to ask the supreme organs for re-
trieve.
Death Sentence COMMITTED.
The Central Executive Committee
of the U. S. S. R. has satisfied the
request of the Military Court and has
committed the death verdict to a SEN
tence of ten years prison.
In the motives put forth for this
decision, it is explained that since the
court, which tried aSvinkoff, was able
to establish that the accused has Civ
en- up struggle against the Soviet pow
err and since he himself has stated
that he is ready to serve Loyalty and
honestly the toiling people under the
leadership of the power established by
the October Revolution, the applica-
ton of the death sentence is not call
ed for by the interests Of preserving
the revolutionary order. The prole-
tartan masses cannot be actuated by
motives Of vengeance.
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the POI ER COLUMN

Twice every week.-Mrs. to your view the
motive behind the DAILY WORKER. interest
and inspiration Of Fan
WORKER and commtteesare tried sugaes
lions and accomplishments to drive the DAILY WoRKERo further
conquests.
Here is PoWER-the power Of effort Of men and
Of the working class who only belevebut AcT