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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
u. S. RIGHT
IN CHOOSING
IMMIGRANTS
Quick Says Country Must
Discriminate for Pro-
lection,
lection,
BY HERBERT QUICK


fT HE protests of Roumania and
Japan against the immigration
- bill which has just passed the
House raise the vital question of our
right to choose our own immigrants.
Through most of our history we
held the door wide open to everybody.
We have quit that, and are now look
ing them over before letting them in.
Haven't we a right to do that?
We are a democracy. The destiny
of our cmIoren and our children's
children to the end of time depends
on the sort of people we have.
Haven't we a right to keep out those
not likely to mingle with our present
population and work with us? Democ-
racy is teamwork among voters. To
say that any foreign government has
the right to object if we keep out
those with whom we feel that we
cannot do teamwork is to attack our
very independence as a Nation.
Right in Principle
The bill now in Congress may or
may not be q good bill; but that is
Americas business. Tt is our best
try at the solution Of a question that
is our problem We have the right
to fail on it; but we have no right
to let any other nation dictate to us
as to the remedy. Who shall come
to America is an American question.
We discriminate against certain
races. We have the right to dis
criminate If we believe any race
does not mix well in our democracy,
we must so discriminate or we are
false towards When any body of
people already here makes a row be-
cause we keep out others of their
race, they prove the case for exclu-
sion. IF there were more of them
here. they would make more trouble.
Might as Well Settle
No weight should be given to any
foreign governments protest.
AS for Japan, we may as well settle
this with her first as last. We put
no badge of inferiority on the Jap
anese If they take it that we do.
then they prove the case against our
admitting them.
we say they are different and do
not make for peace and harmony IN
this country II may be our fault,
but even at that we should keep them
out. The matter may as well come
out Of the secret archives Of the state
Department and so on the statute
books now. If Japan chooses to be
insulted we shall be sorry; but we
cannot delegate to her or to any
other country or combination Of coun-
tries any power over the vital matter
Of the kind Of people to come into
the United States.
When foreign governments try 10
control our action In this matter they
are trying TO govern us. The u1ne
to declare our Independence IN the
matter is right now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
Family Fun
One WaY TO Do It

dad. can have a dime for the
pictures?"
mo, son. you've been twice this
week already. Why don't you devote
some of your time to reading and bet
tering yourself mentality"
dad, who is Einstein?"
''Why, --er-er-er-he's the man
who advanced the theory Of the fourth
dimension"
Whats the fourth dimension?"
why, that has to do with space"
What do you mean by space.
Dad?'
"Oh, nothing"
land what Is nothing, Dad?''
''HereI Here's a quarter. Get some
candy, too. "-Judge.
The Baby Named
II suppose old man, you're going
to name the baby John after your
self?"
mo; we've decided to name him
Thomas after a prolonged family
row. Boston Transcript.
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TEDDY AND THE JAP
carry It out

EV1HY this japanese exclusion? Canada bars
wv Japanese laborers and there's word Australia
cludeS them drasticaly Yet all
Why it that often and Japan all but come
to blows precisely the issue?
The is that statesmen politicians first and
afterwards at ALL They grab hold of the japanese
immigration problem and ride dangerously into office while
Japanese jngoes take the and keep the pot abong
Theodore Roosevelt left this country both plat
formula for dealing with this delicate problem We
indy them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
"KEYBOARD"
OF WA YES
ENORMOUS
Ether Is Like Great Piano of
Nature, Scientists Dis
cover,
CUVOII
BY DAVID DIETZ,
Science Editor of The Times.

science EOlIOr Inc Times.
HE discovery of electro-mag-
netic waves by Hertz led to
IL the radio telegraph and tele-
phone Of today For Marconi merely
perfected apparatus for easily general
ing powerful waves and other appa-
ratus for receiving them.
The only difference between these
radio waves and light waves is in the
length Of the wave.
The radio waves ARE very much
longer than the light waves.
The discovery of Xrays gave
scientists still another form of wave
to explore. These are also waves in
space or on the ether. They, differ
from ordinary light waves in that
they are very much shorter.
Today. the scientist knows that
there are a great variety Of waves
which can exist in space.
A chart showing all the known
waves is called the complete spec
trum. Visible light or the visual spec
trum occupies only a very small part
of it.
Like Great Piano
If we think of the complete spec
trum as a great piano keyboard con
sisting of fifty-fve octaves the visual
spectrum occupies only one octave.
The shortest waves known TO the
physicist are the gamma rays emit ed
by radium.
Our keyboard begins with three
and a third octaves of gamma rays.
These range in length from approx
mately one three-biluonth of an inch
to approximately one ee-milIonth
Of an inch
Then follows six. and two-thirds o.
taves Of X-rays. These are in turn
followed by three and a third octaves
Of unmeasured and as yet unknown
waves.
Next we find five octaves Of waves
which are invisible to the eye but
seem to have certain chemical prop
critics. These are known as the ultra
violet rays because they occur imme-
diately before the violet light of the
visual spectrum.
After the ultraviolet waves comes
the one octave which composes the
visual spectrum. This begins with
violet and ends with the red
Next there are ten octaves of heat
waves. These are frequently called
infra-red waves because they follow
Immediately after the red light of
the visual spectrum.
Electric Waves Next
Following the heat waves come
% Is octaves Of electric waves which
complete the spectrum. The longest
electrical waves are about 10000 feet
long.
There's quite a jump, it will be
seen, from the shortest gamma wave
to the longest electrical wave.
Until the year 1922 there was a
gap Of over five octaves in the spec
trum between the heat and electric
waves. The five octaves Of shortest
electrical waves were missing. But
DR.. Ernest Nichols and Dr. J. d.
Tear of Cleveland designed an ex-
ceedingly clever apparatus which
generated these waves and proved
their existence.
They even succeeded in generating
by electrical means waves that were
shorter than the longest heat waves
and which could be detected by the
same means used to detect heat
waves. thus proving conclusively that
the present day physicist is right in
believing that all the waves Of the
spectrum are alike, differing only in
their lengths.
Next article: The Cause of Light
Waves.
Copyright. 1924. by David DietD
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
HE WOULD
MAKE CITY
HALL CLEAN
Citizen Thinks Mayor Shank
Does Not Garry Out
Slogan,
b the Editor Of ~ Times

TO the Editor OF The Times
The other day I happened to be
passing the city hall on Alabama ST..
and I noticed the motto which Mayor
Shank has had printed on the two
benches which are sitting in front,
Help Make Indianapolis the Cleanest
City in the L. S A"
As I passed around the corner and
walked west in Ohio st. I took note
that the windows Of the basement.
which happen to be about even with
the sidewalk looked as though they
hadn't been washed for at least a
year.
Ii looks to me like it would be 4
good thing to put into practice a lit
tie OF Mayor Shank's preaching. If
he wants the people Of Indianapolis
to help keep their city clean, he
should see that the city hall IS not in
such shape that we residents are
not ashamed to own 1t as public
building
A RESIDENT OF INDIANAPOLIS.
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Miss Katherine Felt. American
teacher in Picking. China: 1.-THE only
fear the American and English women
have in Picking, If they are out on the
streets, is meeting with a certain type
of American"
II. II. Lindley, University of Kan
sas: Don't do too much for chill
dren. Through suggestion and proper
persuasion you can induce children
to win their own victories"
Premier Poincare. France: To-day
there is no nation which is not ex-
posed to the curiosity of others"
John @. Coolidge, father of the
President: 1T am thankful for my son
Calvin. I am proud he has been a
good boy"
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4 Thought

The Iaborer is worthy of his reward.
i Tim. 5:1S.
I'll HE fruit derived from labor is
the sweetest of all pleasures.
G -Vauvenargues.
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One ON the Doctor

do I think I scan cure your ca
tarrh? Why. I'm sure of it."
80 you are very familiar with the
disease?"
81 should say sol I've had 1t all
my lfe"-Judge.
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LET'S KEEP FOOD PURE

n TEP by step attaining perfection foodutfs Prior
ID to the pure food and drug the public knew
whether they getting butter when they asked for It, or
something that just looked like butter
Indianapolis jobber told Of product manufactured
called strawberry which did not contain
gle strawberry juice thereof yet it looked and tasted
like it. Glucose imitation strawberry flavor, tim
othy ooOrng the ingredients used make the
clever imitation.
Lemonade of the products initiated to
deceive public Imitation favorng, crc acid saccharne
coIorng slices of lemon for trimming makes the cele
brated CIRCUS lemonade.
The food and drug commissioner working give the
soodstuffs will be adopted.
might be said of the prisoner who removed from the
county jail because of smallpox that he broke out
NOW that ancient history, win be
first drowning.
WITH 100000 automobiles in the country there will
MAN, for time, hfe but not much hope.
THE Of the games out at Washington Park
sound like the results from the annual game the old settlers
picnic.
ON the hand the proposal quarantine Jail
smallpox doubt with approval certain social
circles.
SEVENTY-FIVE persons beneath the sod in Marion
County of ACCIDENTS attorney informed jury And
re would be many except agility of the pedestrian
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19

do you think Henry is on the
level?"
well, I'll go so far as to say he
is a fathead. youngstown Tele-
gram.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
For Good Bridges

For Good Bridges
To the Editor OF The Times
The Times of Wednesday stated
that because of strong competition
the bids received on eighty-six
bridges were below the State en-
g1neers estimate.
1t is hoped that the committee
handling these bids has had sufficient
experience by now to know that it is
not safe to accept ridiculously low
bid for any construction work. No
contractor can put up a substantial
structure with cheap materials and in
competent help. Good materials and
experience men cost money, but the
finished product is cheapest in the
long run. A bridge, even more than
a road, should be durable and safe.
TRAVELLER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
just Like Bobby

Bobby. what does lazy mean?"
Lazy means always wanting your
little sister to get It for you. Dos
ton Transcript.
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HIS FORMULA

al believe fundamentally sound and proper at
which be insisted which be insisted
upon with such courtesy and such
fairness and reciprocal obligation and
70 give any just of oense Asiatic peoples"
Called the ideal American Roosevelt less true
friend admrer Japanese Both America and Japan
follow the way he points trouble is to be avoided
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
Tongue TIPS

Il. w. Nelson chief United States
Biological Survey: The work Of
200. 900 men each year is required to
offset the damage done by rats"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
STOCK YARD
LAW NO AID
TO FARMER
United States Packers Act Is
Sitting Competition, Wit
ness Says.
ness SAYS.
By r. G. ORR

EUH ASHINGTON, April 19.-Mal-
WI administration Of the packers
49, and stoclyards act by the De-
partment of Agriculture is costing
the farmers Of the country millions of
dollars, John NJ. Burns, law clerk
in the department solicitors office.
has testified before the house COM
mittee on Department of Agriculture
expenditures.
The packers and stockyards act
was passed by Congress to help the
farmers get q square deal from the
commission men. Burns says the
law has been used to stife competi-
ton. instead of to promote 1t, as was
intended by Congress.
Rates Are Raised
Burns says that whenever private
individuals seek to go into the COM
mission business and file lower rates
than those prevailing before the pass
age of the act, which have been main
tanned to date, that they have been
induced by a combination consisting
of a representative of the Department
of Agriculture and men from the
stock exchanges to withdraw their
application, and subsequently have
filed the current rate"
That this is too high, Burns says, is
shown by the fact that farmer CO.
operatives, which charge their clients
the current rate" return between 80
and 40 per cent of the charge to their
customers as a patronage dividend.
Only about 10 to 10 per cent Of farm
ers growing stock can make use OF
farmer cooperatives.
Burns said this means that the
farmer today pays as much 70 markeN
his 6-cent hogs as he used to pag to
market his 24-oent hogs.
Amendments TO Be offered
Burns thinks the aot is good one
If It were properly administered. bat
suggests some changes. One OF these
would give the secretary OF agra.
culture power to prosecute q commits
sion man who robs a farmer. Under
the provisions Of the present act. he
says, all the Secretary can DO "a to
reprimand the robber and let him 60
Certain amendments TO the pack
ers and stockyards act viii be of
fered by the COMMITTEES very shortly
in the House, in an effort to protect
the farmers instead Of giving some
one a chance to knife them In the
back
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
Discusses Moses


To the Editor Of The Times
I am a reader Of The Times and
never miss a copy
The Times Forum is a happy outlet
for the political, civic and religious
opinions of its readers. was par
ticularly interested In a recent article
from the pen OF G. A. Carlisle. l
have no quarrel with Mr.. Carlisle's re-
ligious views on dancing. card playing
or theaters. However. would be
pleased to know how and where Mr..
Carlisle learned that Moses spent
forty years on the Isle Of Patmos.
Patmos Is a small island in the Aegean
Sea, to which the Apostle John was
exiled fifteen centuries after Moses
passed on. Moses is supposed to have
spent royty years in Egypt as the pro-
tege Of the daughter of Pharaoh.
After killing an Egyptian Moses fed
to INDIAN where he married a
daughter OF Jethro, priest of indian.
Moses remained with Jethro forty
years attending the fiocks. The next
forty years of his life Moses spent
with the children of Israel in the
wilderness Of Sinai. where he gave to
the Jewish race a system Of ethics
that for thirty-four centuries has
shown as a beacon light along the
shores Of time.
Moses was without doubt the great
est lawg1ver of all time. N. H.
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SEVENTY-FTVE persons beneath the SOD in Marion
County of ACCIDENTS attorney informed jury And
re would be many except foray of the pedestrian
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KIs PLATFORM

Sin present of the worlds progress he said, cit
highly peoples wholly different stages of
civilization of wholly different types of civilization al
though equally high shall be thrown intimate
especially undesirable when there difference in
both race and standard of living.
japanese would tolerate the intrusion into their
country Americans who would dpace japanese
the business think they entirely right in this
position.
america has and must insist upon the right
'The people of California right in insisting that the
thher that there should be
aborers of agricultural workers small trades
uAAn-in short, settlement immigration
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ON the other hand the proposal TO quarantine the Jail be-
Of smallpox doubt with approval in certain social
circles.
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One on the Doctor
He had never been i'll before. and
following his first attack he exam
inted the doctors bill carefully. Il am
quite ready to pay for the medicine"
he remarked at last but the visits
shall certainly return. "-Tit-Bits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19

INETY years old and still her
I'M own dressmaker. That's Miss
Sarah Lettice Burr Of Lans-
ing. Mich, who is busy right now
on her spring wardrobe. Il can see
as we'll as ever; why shouldn't 1
sew" says she. Miss Burr was
teaching school when Lincoln was
shot, attended memorial services for
Garfield and was IN Buffalo when
Mckinley was assassinated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19

THE Of the recent out at Washington Park
sound like the results from the annual the old settlers
picnic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19
Dads Hash

This hash looks rather neat
Yes. It's a case of a place for
everything and everything in its
place. American Legion Weekly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19

WITH 100000 automobiles in the country there will
main, time, life, but not much hope
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-19

might be said of the prisoner who removed from tn
county jail because of smallpox that he broke
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Ask The Times

You can get an answer - any quss-
ton of fact or information by writing
TO the indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau 1922 New York Ave, Wash
ington. D. O.. lnclosing 2 cents IN
stamps for reply. Medical. legal and
marital advice cannot be given. nor
can extended research be undertaken.
All other questions viii receive a per
sonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot
be answered. All letters are confiden-
tial.-Editor
Why are canaries used in
mines2
To detect the presence OF gas, a.
they are very easily affected by It.
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W HHt 10 BTAVILyJ
Gravity iB the aecelerating tendency
Of bodies toward the center of the
earth, being equal to the earth's at
traction minus the centrifugal force
arising from the rotation of the earth
on It's axis; weight, equal to about
3216 feet per second. More widely,
the similar tendency toward the
center Of any heavenly body. Loosely,
grav1tation.
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NOW that the first robin is ancient history, next W
first drowning.
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How can one remove grease
spots from books7
Put a piece Of blotting paper over
the spot and apply hot iron. Another
way is to apply French chalk, put
a piece OF paper over, and apply a
hot iron.
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D. c. BOYS CLUB.
ASKS AID FOR
CAMPERS
Any Good Fellow Can Help by
Clipping $11 Off Vaca-
ton Money !

Will you be a Good Fellow and
trim Sill off your vacation expense
money in order that some under
privileged boy can enjoy two weeks
camping within a stones throw OF
the exclusive Congressional Country
Club?
OF course you will, because it will
heighten the enjoyment Of your
vacation, knowing that you are re-
sponsible for some towsled-headed
kids having the time Of his life In
camp instead of flirting with dis
ease in some back alley.
Get in touch with F. V. Thomson,
superintendent of the Boys Club. of
Washington, or send a check for
$11 to j. Philip Hermann, treas.
urer, Boys Club, of The Washing
ton Times. 1t will be an invest
ment which will pay you dividends
for many months to come.
Will Have Seventy-five Boys.
Through the courtesy of the off.
Gals Of the Congressional Country
Club, the Boys Club will. beginning
July /, establish a camp which will
accommodate seventy-five boys a
week on the far side Of the lake
from the clubhouse.
Not only is the Congressional
Country Club donating the use Of
its grounds for the camp, but it is
also building a kitchen, storehouse
and office for the camp.
superintendent Thomson says the
Good Fellows are needed only for
boys between the ages Of ten and
fourteen because boys fourteen and
over will be able to earn their way
through the camp by caddying for
members of the Congressional
Country Club.
Remember, Good Fellows, II you
want, you can select the boy who
is to receive the two weeks camp
Ing at your expense. Action is
necessary, however. as the CLUB will
be open in less than two weeks.
The Boys Club of Washington,
with headquarters at Third and c.
streets northwest, needs no intro
'duction to Neutrality-suspicious.. This
is the first time that a camp has
been established in such desirable
section for boys on such an eco
nomical basis and under such com.
petent instructors.
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TRAFFIC POLICEMAN QUITS
ON HARSHNESS CHARGE

Il Accused Of undue severity to
offending motorists. Herbert w.
Pestler, traffic policeman. has re-
signed from the police department,
It was announced today by Major
Daniel Sullivan, superintendent Of
police.
Pestler had been in the police de-
partment for six years and had
lately been assigned to traffic duty.
A number of complaints were
made by motorists regarding his d.
rection of traffic and harsh treat
ment of violators.
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ST. JOHNS WILL HOLD
SCHOLARSHIP EXAMS

Examinations for high school
scholarships, open to boys Of public,
private and parochial schools Of
this city will be held at st. Johns
College, 1925 Vermont avenue, to.
morrow morning at o'clock. Sub
jects of the examination are gram
mar, arithmetic, history and geog-
raphy.
The scholarships will entitle the
winners to a four-year course in
classical, scietific, military and COM
mercial subjects.
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Lawn Fete Planned

A lawn fete win be held by the
Christian Endeavor Society of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church tonight on the lawn at
Fourteenth street near Fairmont
street northwest.
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