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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21

THOR Congress pass general immigration law holding
II quota all immigration and yet leave
the wide Mexcans be and is absurd
The Mexican is ndigestble immigrant any that
Europe Asia There Mexican settlements
the United old this Government and where
the generation Americanzed than the
first was $50 years ago.
So long the Mexican confined to the border
agriculture there and until unlimited mmigra
ton United States had up and chronic
indigestion, the Mexican problem was urgent
Now however with Mexicans penetrating into the mines
and mills of the North the question becomes serious indeed
Any argument and unlimited immigra-
ton from southeastern Europeor from anywhere esewoud
apply with equal force to Mexicans.
1t too late for Congress put Mexican bar in the
immigration bill it should be done. The Mexcans
They a rich and saubrous country
They stay while proceed with painful task
of digesting the immigrants already here
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
Science

Moralists contend that lies cause
more evil in the world than thefts or
any other human perversity. Science
is now working on plans for making
1t hard to lie. Truth serums have
been invented. But the latest enemy
of prevarication is a simple little in
strument called the retinoscope.
The inventor, a New York optical
scientist, Dr. w. D. Bates, starts on
the generally admitted psychological
basis that lie causes a mental strain.
He says this strain in turn causes
temporary nearsightedness. The ret
inoscope reflects a bright light into
mirror. The subjects eye Is studied
through the instrument while he re-
peats. the doubted statement. IF he
is drawing upon the Imagination
rather than upon memory. Doctor
Bates says, the shadow of the retina
moves in an opposite direction than
the direction of the shifting mirror.
The fact that this is reflex action
uncomfortable, insures the accuracy
of the test, according to the claim of
the inventor. 1t is a test no criminal
can dodge, though he may refuse to
take a truth serum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
Hook and Line

The catch of the season is plenty
OF reason why people should ponder
and dream. And every ones wishin
that they could so fishin' and loaf
by the side of a stream.
The bamboo is calling; Wen all soon
be falling: our lines will be knotted
and strung Desires everlasting to
be out a-casting are silenced when
fish lines are flung.
The whir of a reel makes a fisher
man feel that the call of the open
and wild is taking him back to the
days when the knack of casting was
his. as a child.
To sit on a dock or a moss covered
rock and wait for the bobber to
beckon is what makes the dream. as
you sit by stream. the real call OF
nature, / reckon.
Your luck is a chance, sir, but peo-
pie will answer the call cause they
can't help but heed. It's sport just
to tinker with hook, line and sinker
and that's all you actually need.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service. Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
MuSicLand

Wolfgang Mozart began composing
at the age of four years. His child
hood was spent in Study and compost
ton. He became madly in love with
a popular soprano, and, a few years
later, married her sister, who became
an invalid and was great burden TO
him. 1t is true of many great men
that their best works were accom-.
plished during the period of their
troubles. This is true of Mozart He
was a very insignificant looking man,
when not on the concert stage. He
died at the age of thirty-five and was
buried in the grave of a pauper
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21

EXEMPTION
IS MISTAKE
Mellon Is Striking at Public
Development, Herbert
Quick Thinks.
BY HERBERT QUICK

m ONERNOR RITCHIE of Mary
IL land went to the front in Wash
IL ington against Secretary Mel
Ions blow at tax-exempt securities.
This is the only official voice yet
heard from the States on the new at
tack on the rights of States. cities,
counties and other municipalities to
borrow money without being taxed on
their bonds, and of the farmers TO
get low interest through the Federal
farm loan bureau.
This is the first of movement in
the States, which must grow.
Not Tax Matter
The propaganda against tax-exempt
securities is not what it seems. 1t is
not a taxation matter at all, and no.
body knows that better than that
great representative Of special inter
ests, Mr.. Mellon They do not declare
their real purposes. If they did they
would not get very far. They cloak
their objects behind a demand for tax
reform. relying on the blindness of
the debtor class to the fact that taxes
on evidences of Indebtedness are al
ways paid by the borrower.
The rely on the fact that the Dor
rowing public are fools. But this
may not be a universal fact.
Would Kill Progress
The object Of the Mellonites is to
kin public ownership of public utili-
ties: to kin the great superpower
plans of the progressives; to kill the
building OF roads which will compete
with railways to kill the ability of
States, counties, towns. villages and
cities to do business untaxed.
Give Congress power to tax the
present tax-exmpt securities and you
give 1t power to destroy the move
ments financed by them. You put all
our local work, from the State high
way down to the schoolhouse in the
next block, under the thumb Of Con
gress You end local self-government
except as permitted by Congress. And
you change this republic into a cen
trslized empire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
''HANT" MOST
POPULAR IN
WASHINGTON
Japanese Ambassador Known
by Nickname in Ma
TONS Capital,
Ely WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs

Meet HAM"
HAM" is Masanao Hanihara, jap
anese ambassador to the United
States.
What sort of a chap is he?
In the first place people call him
HAM" Which says lot He
knows more people and has a wider
range of friends than any other dip
lomat here.
There is nothing of the ''inscrutable
oriental about HAM" In fact, he
puts on less diplomatic dog than the
average third secretary of an Ameri-
can legation, and smiles are far more
at home on his face than the owlish
look so much cultivated by men of
his calling.
Well liked
"Hani" likes people, and people like
him. He knows America, too Few
natives and. fewer foreigners know us
better for he has made the United
States his special study, hobby, oc-
cupation and pastime for pretty nearly
a quarter of a century.
There isn't any detail Of American
life or customs he's not familiar with
from chewing gum and hair shingles
to our passion for bananas. It is said
of him that he can even work out
train schedules in an American rail
way folder.
After graduating at Waseda Uni
versity in Japan HAM" became a re
porter for a couple of years, then went
to Annoy. China, and Seoul. Korea, for
two years more as a student diplo
mat.
Always Goes Higher
He came to Washington first in
1900. when he was "a years old He
was third secretary of legation then,
smallish, roly-poly and beaming with
smiles. And though he has been
called to other posts for short periods
he was consul general in San Fran
cisco for two years-he has always
come back here to a higher position
than the one he left.
He succeeded Baron Shiehara as
ambassador after the Washington con-
ference. There is no more important
diplomatic post in the world than
Washington, and for Japan it is the
most difficult as we'll as the most i'm
portant. That's why he was sent here.
HAM" knows the ropes. He knows3
Congress. He's watched its antics
from the gallery for years.
If anybody Numbered in the word
ing of letters sent to Congress bear
ing on Japanese immigration, it is
hard to believe it was HAM,
It seems, though, that somebody has
Numbered and diplomacy must have
its goat. HAM rhymes with nan
n.y. and that makes it easy.
Too bad too. Toxic can't pick a
friendliar. betterhked man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
Tom Sims Says.

Indications are there will be big
apple crop this year. II nothing
happens there won't be enough jugs
and bottles to hold it.
Everything has it's place. Flies
keep lots of people from just sitting
around doing nothing.
Bartenders should make good um
pires, being used to bottles.
Teeth are nice things. If you had
no teeth what would you grit when
your new spring shoes hurt?
AS the weather grows warmer
dresses become more scant BY Au
gust all left of them will be the out
skirts.
Not a single case of a woodpeckel
lighting on a campers head has been
reported so far.
Many a wife wonders if hubby has
gone fishing for speckled beauties OF
for freckled beauties.
The average mans idea of high
brow music is a photograph record
with something on only one side.
With so many men working for the
presidential candidates it looks like
a great year for the cigar stores.
Spring makes everybody want tC
be somewhere else. even after they
get there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
How Plan Works

The endowment insurance plan is
worked out as follows:
Assume that a veteran served $50
days overseas. His basic bonus. at
the rate of s1.25 per day of service,
excluding the first sixty days, would
be $625.
Instead of receiving the 1925 in
cash, he would be given an endow-
ment policy for approximately $1,000,
payable in twenty years, or upon his
death should he die within the twenty
year period.
The amount of insurance is arrived
at by giving TO the veteran a paid up
insurance policy equal to the amount
his 1925 would buy if paid in a lump
sum for a twenty-year policy. In ad-
dition. Congress proposes to add %
per cent to the amount of the policy.
Whereas the $625 would buy. for a
man of q, twentyyear endowment
policy for about 81 .2S0 from regular
commercial company, Congress would
add % per cent, making the total
$500.
Veterans who served less than ITO
DAYS are excluded from the insurance
policy. Men who served sixty days or
less are given no bonus whatever.
Those who served over sixty days and
less than 1lb days are to be given cash
bonuses. All others are to be pro
vided with insurance certificates,
worked out on the plan outlined above
except that in no case are the first
sixty days OF service to be counted
The reason for this is that when
the veterans were discharged from
service they were each given a cash
payment of $50. Bonus advocates
agreed to consider this payment as a
bonus on the first sixty days of a
veterans service.
The average size Of the endowment
policies for the 5000, 600 veterans
who served over 10 days will be ap-
proximateIy $1,000 The largest po-
ncies will be slightly over $500 and
the smallest about S125.
Many Are Dead
or the 100000 World War
Veterans who were living on Jan. /,
1919, NEARLY 100000 had died before
Jan. 1, 1924. OF the remainder, near
~ 800, 600 served less than sixty days
and consequently will receive no
bonus. Nearly 100000 served more
than sixty days. but less than 10
days and will receive cash bonuses.
FThe average age of the remainder
5000 900 is estimated at thirty-two,
and the average amount of adjusted
compensation is estimated at $3S2.
This sum. plus 20 per cent will pur-
chase for a 32-year-old man an endow-
ment policy for 1862 payable in twenty
years For a younger man the policy
would be larger, for an older one
somewhat smaller.
Pending the maturity of the endow-
ment policies. veterans are to be per.
mitted to borrow, after the first two
years, up to 80 per cent OF the cash
value of the policies.
Senate Democrats have introduced
a bill to pay cash bonuses to all
vets eliminating the insurance plan
entirely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
ELECTION
JUMPS TO
NEW ORBIT
Result Is Wave Of Light, Ac-
cording to Quantum
Theory,
BY DAVID DIETZZ
Science Editor of The Times

r. LECTRONS, as the reader now
r. knows. are particles of positive
IL or negative electricity.
In ordinary conversation when we
speak of electricity we mean an cleo
trio current.
The electric current is nothing more
or less than a stream or flow of cleo
irons.
In an electric battery, the chemical
action causes the collection of cleo
irons at one terminal of the battery
and then forces these along the wire
connected to the terminal.
The physicist thinks of these cleo
irons us being handed" along the
wire from atom to atom just as at
a country fire the men composing the
bucket brigade hand along the buckets
of water.
Space in the neighborhood of a wire
carrying an electric current seems to
behave in a special way.
The physicist says that there are
magnetic lines of force in the space
around the wire. We can prove this
by running the wire through a piece
of cardboard and scattering iron fill
ings on the cardboard The filings al
ways arrange themselves in definite
patterns depending upon the direction
and strength of the electric current
and other factors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
HOW BONUS
WOULD GO
TO VETERAN
Exact Terms Doubtful-En-
dowment Plan Is Almost
Certain,
BY c. A. RANDALL

ONGRESS expects to pass the
soldiers bonus bill and turn it
over to President Coolidge for
executive action. About that there is
no longer the slightest double.
The exact terms of the final bill are
still uncertain, but present indications
are that the bonus will consist of an
endowment insurance policy for each
veteran who served more than ITO
days.
The House has already passed such
a bill. The Senate now has under
consideration two propositions. One
is an almost exact duplicate of the
House bill, and the other provides for
immediate cash payments. The Sen
ate expects to turn it's attention to the
bonus question after the immigration
bill has been disposed of.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
Tongue Tips

E. w. Howe, editor: "One reason I
like President Coolidge is that he
doesn't play golf
Billy Sunday, evangelist: This old
whisky-soaked. bootlegging pimp of a
world is going to hell so fast she's
breaking the speed limits"
Daniel Upthegrove. president Cotton
Belt Railway system: Railroads
should be regulated by the people
that is, public regulation by control Of
the politicians"
Evangelist Mel Trotter, Kansas
City: What we need in some of our
churches today are some first-class
funerals -
Secretary Wilbur, Navy" ANY law
is valuable only in so far as there ex-
lists the power to enforce it."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21

noticed the Easter crowds in the
churches were larger than usual.
Any one who has been away from
the city very long would hardly reco ?
nize Monument Circle! The Guaranty
Bldg. and the Continental National
Bank Bldg. have done much to change
its appearance. and now the Colum
bia Club is being torn down and he
Hotel English is having it's face
cleaned.
Many citizens are not waiting for
paint-up and cleanup week, but have
been busy with paint brushes and
rakes since the first robing appeared
Don't worry. There will be plenty
Of warm days on which to wear those
Easter clothes.
If Ali Bahia was half as tough look
ing as Clifford Richter is in that
Shrine show makeup it is no wonder
he got away with so many things.
Bring on your fishing stories. Let's
see who can tell the biggest one.
Once again, let us. remind you that
the car company has announced that
old-time car tickets are not good for
7-cent rides.
Judge Sidney S. Miller's ruling that
the names Of candidates who want to
withdraw can't be removed from the
ballots is tough luck for the voters.
FIT. Wayne politicians want eighty
FIT. Wayne men In Jail in Marion
County TO vote. We suppose they
will be sending spellbinders to talk in
the Jail next.
Only two more weeks to choose
among those fourteen candidates for
Governor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
What The Family Heard

The head usher in crowded pic
ture theater said to one Of his aides:
Tell that fat woman she'll have
to take that big hat off that other
seat and hold it in her lap
The usher came back a few mo-
ments later and asked his chief:
''Whatll I do now? She says she
amt got no ap."--Youngstown Tele-
gram.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
IT'S A BIG IDEA

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE has taken a step that fine in
way-one that should have been taken long time ago.
has appointed committee composed Of Secretaries Weeks
Work Wallace and Hoover and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt
formulate plans whereby the national Fairgrounds may
available to ALL rich and who desire to play In other
words his purpose TO organize and direct through Federal
agencies grand and general program for outdoor recreation
1t is worthwhile idea and the only wonder is that the
controlling millions millions of of national
forests and parks has failed until realize the advantages
of placing those magnificent holdings under wedefned and
widespread program that would give the people their fullest
enjoyment Some of the States have long recognized the
tages program among being York. and
Syracuse University has for years maintained only
forestry fitting students leadership teaching
public how the forests Fairgrounds and recreation
we say the project inception however would
promising valuable time been
saved had there been placed the
who something playing great
thought have escaped the President entirely.
ONE nomination for the AIIndianapol Pest is the male
female person who persists strog up the ehand
of the sidewalk.
the great public still of humor
by the interest latest from the passing
Ping, the Paderewsi Pooch.
NOW that consumer the inventor claims will eimi-
10 per of the fuel will only eliminate per
of the smoke everything will be lovely
81 Do not know how handle cigarette hip flask .
said Mrs Magnus Johnson, and of course be
glance that Washington was no place for her
EXAMBASSADOR HARVEY has been heard and he
says he independent independent He proved that
time ago when he those pink knickies
MORE and we are convinced from attendance at re-
movies that backmhs sailors write
while lawyers others equally versed raoadng d.
rect the train wrecks.
WHO will rise say county did exercise
great sagacy which public officials famous barring
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
Test Yourself

Speed combined with correstness of
results is a requisite to the successful
completion of this test
Directions: Read the directions and
do what they tell YOU as quickly and
accurately as you can. 1t should not
take YOU more than a minute to com
plete the whole test.
l. Put , in the third square and
a in the first
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21

WHO will rise county commissioners did
great sagacy for which public officials famous barring
heavy treadng vver from Kentucky bridge
is unsafe when hardly strong enoul to up
under the weight of nteurban freight sty pork
3eTs route to the stock yards9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21

RI leY aside the rod and save tine
III child, is the advice of Miss
CJulia C. Ferris of Auburn, N.
Y. "Whippings, she, says, ARE
why many girls leave home, and
beatings have sent many boys into
evil ways" Miss Ferris has taught
for more than sixty years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21

the lower ground
Do automobiles pay enough in
various taxes. licenses. etc, 10
cover most OF the bills for high
ways?
In 1922 the total expenditure for
highways in the whole of the United
States was $s9S. 352 .307. In that same
year 1852, 047 1913 was paid into State
treasures by motor owners in the
way Of registration fees, licenses. etc.
In addition, they paid 1923. 4S3 in
gasoline taxes. The Federal excise
tax on cars trucks. tires. parts, etc,
paid by each purchaser Of a motor
vehicle, amounted in the year to s104.-
433, 1853. Personal property and
wheel taxes also amounted TO approx
mately $50 900 900. OF Course all OF
this money is not used for roads. but
went into the various treasures. How
ever, a considerable portion was spent
on highways.
Where should one write to get
the loan Of Government Motion
Picture films?
To the Motion Picture Laboratory
OF each Of the following departments,
all in washington. d. c.: Agriculture.
Interior. War, Navy.
What is the formula for water
proohng paper?
Dissolve , parts OF borax and
parts Of shellac in % parts Of water.
and strain through a fine cloth. With
q brush or sponge apply this to the
surface Of the paper. and when it Is
dry, polish it to a high gloss with a
soft brush
Is II true people are a little tai
Ter in the morning than at night.
and IL so, why2
There is a fractional difference in
the height on retiring and on arising
in the morning. The constant pres
sure on the muscles and joints has a
tendency to shorten the bodf frac-
ton during the day.
What was the vote in the SEN
ate on confirming the appoint
ment of Walter Cohen as collector
OF customs in New Orleans?
Thirty-nine in favor and thirty-eigkt
against.
Who was IL that brought the
gland transportation operation
before the public?
Serge Voronoff, the Russian sur
geon OF Paris, leaped into notoriety
about three years ago with his gland
transportation experiments. At Lon
n lie fad lot Nf
the transference Of monkey glands to
human beings, with before and after
effects on three specimen cases, men
aged IS, "a and n.
What language is spoken. in
Guatemala?
Spanish.
How is valet pronounced?
The French word valet has become
thoroughly Arsylicized and therefore
may be pronounced wallet as spelled.
What is the best stationery for
lady to use in answering invita-
tionS7
For the formal invitations, use plain
white, unruled sheets that fold once
into their envelopes. For informal in
vitations, any personal stationery is
correct.
What is meant by Jeffersonian
Democrat?
The Democrats delight in applying
this designation to any public man
of their party whose simplicity, direct
ness, sympathy with the people and
views on public economy meet their
appreciation.
Who was Lorna Doone?
The heroine Of book of this name
by r. . Blackmore.
What was the average mental age
Of the men sent overseas with he
A. e. f.?
The average mental age was 13
years. One per cent of the men draft
ed had the mentality Of 5-year-old
child.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
Family Fun

Working
Scientist says 90 per cent of girls
who marry are working girls"
"That is true enough, as far as ii
goes, but he neglected to say that a
hundred per cent of the girls who
marry are working men."-Lemon
Punch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21

What does Mavourneen mean?
Machree? Macushla?
My darling my heart" dear
or dearest"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
Please give me a formula

Please give me a formula to
make the cheeks plump.
We suggest that you adopt a
weight increase diet and regular ex
ercise etc, in order to gain weight
This is the only sure way of making
the cheeks plump. We know of nj
other formula.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-04-21
Hubby Knows Fish

You never bring me candy like you
used to before we were married"
THAT so-well, you never heard of
fisherman feeding bait to a fish af-
ter he had caught it. did you7"-Chap-
arral.