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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
What Editors
Are Saying
Goat

michigan City Evening Dispatch
Auto owners must pay the increased
fees for their license plates just the
same as If the st. Joseps Court had
not declared the law unconstitutional
and IL the Supreme Court sustains the
lower court it is the opinion of the
attorney general that it will require
a special act of the Legislature to au-
thorize the return Of the extra money
paid by the owners for licenses. And
the Legislature does not meet until
January, 1925, either. AS usual the
poor citizen is the goat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
Universal
(Kokomo Oispatchl

The demand for tax reduction
sweeping over the country can now
be heard by any listener without put
ting his ear to the ground. Business,
labor and every other element Of our
economic life Is weary of, high taxes
and would draw a freer breath If Con-
gress enacted any reduction measure,
no matter how small the rate cut. 1t
does not look like a partisan issue.
Every person with an income above
the rudimental living level pays direct
taxes to the Government. Every per-
son. whether having any visible in
come or not, pays indirect taxes
through what he buys or what is
bought for him. Taxation is univer-
sal. Tax relief, therefore, should be
universal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
LONG
POLAR TRIP
WILL FAIL
Quick Declares Naval Secre-
tary Is Betting With Other
Mems Lives.
BY HERBERT QUICK

DON'T know that our Secre.
II tary of the Navy is a betting
- man, but If he has the gam.
bling instinct, 1 respectfully suggest
in the proposed expedition of the
great dirigible, the Shenandoah, to
the polar regions next summer, he
is taking long odds.
The odds are the Shenandoah will
be lost with all on board.
If the secretary were betting his
money against money, 1 should not
| object. l do object when he bets the
lives of a large number of human
beings on the ability of the Shenan-
| doah to make that voyage over the
ice and come back from the solitudes
safe.
| don't believe he has any moral
right to do it. I refuse to assent to
the proposition that any Of their su-
| perior officers have the right to send
men out on a venture when nothing
important is to be gained by success
and where It IS ten to one that they
will all be lost.
Even Money on Failure
In the language Of the gambling fra
ternity, 1t is even money that the
Shenandoah will be lost before she
even gets to her point of take-off for
the polar trip. It is ten to one she
will be lost If she takes off for the
voyage.
OF course, the officers and men who
are scheduled to go viii say they are
willing. They are good soldiers. They
do not think of their own safety. 1t
Is therefore the duty OF the Secretary
Of the Navy to think Of It for them.
The dirigtble is, except under favor
able conditions, an unmanageable
easily wrecked machine. The French
General Dumont was interviewed re-
Gently and stated the building of the
dirigible should be abandoned. The
loss OF the Dixmude marked the end,
he said. 1t ought to mark the end
Livery great airship has been lost be
fore it was long in use.
Tragedy Is Predicted
General Dumont asserted the Shan.
andoah will surely be lost. He did not
say it will be lost II 1t starts on this
polar trip. but the inference as to his
judgment Is plain.
The Shenandoah voyage was planned
before the loss OF the Dixmude. That
sad affair should bring about a recon
sideraion. The Secretary Of the NAVY
has this in his hands. II this voyare
Is undertaken and the boys are lost.
no VIII be responsible. The people
VIII applaud an abandonment of the
trip. should not like to be in his
place II he has to bear the response.
bility-I had almost written the guilt
of the probable tragedy, If this fool.
ish thing goes on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

Is to the farm dis.
play world what
the International
Livestock Exposi.
ton is to the beef
and dairy world.
More than a half
million people
will attend in the
few days II holds
forth.
b g S / d e s han.
ding this expo
sition Buelow
stages all of the
big affairs in To-
ledo, including
two auto shows
during the year.
He spentia his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
Family Fun
Lines Busy

A man who believed he knew all
about parrots undertook to teach
what he thought to be a young. mute
bird to say Hello" in one lesson.
Going up to the cage. he repeated
that word in a clear voice for several
minutes, the parrot paying not the
slightest attention. At the final
Hello" the bird opened one eye,
gazed at the man and snapped out,
"Line's busyr'L Farming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
Tongue Tips

The Rev r. Brannstein, eastern
preacher; Religion is the revelation
Of God through Jesus Christ to the
heart Of man. Theology is what other
men have said of that revelation. We
are not Christians because we are
theologians. We are theologians be-
cause we are Christians. Before we
had the science of botany we had
flowers. Before, we had the science
of astronomy we had stars. Before
we had the science of theology we
had God"
DIR. Charles II. Willis. medical di-
rector of Provident Insurance Com
pany: Vacations, living out Of doors,
the taking of more exercise. the less
frequent use of trolleys and trains. the
simpler diet Of fruits and vegetables.
help to keep the death rate low in
summer. 1t begins to rise in the lat
ter part of September, after the eff
fects Of the summer vacations have
worn off. If people took vacations
twice q year-in February as well as
July and August-paid more attention
to personal and public hygiene, our
death rate might be lowered. At least
it would be more uniform throughout
the year.
M. O. Eldrtdge, executive chairman
Of American Automobile Association:
1--WE all believe in traffic laws, but
the most of us do not think of en-
forcing them until we find ourselves
picking ourselves up out of the street,
or being picked up"
Henry Ford: IT have little conf
dence in these professional schools OF
religion. BY the time they get through
with religion 1t is very thin product.
But I believe in q movement to put
religion in the schools"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
Plea for Pigeons

To the Editor Of The Times
Now that the earth has been
wrapped in a mantle OF white and the
gurgle Of the fountain in University
Park has been silcenced by Old Win
ter, the swarms of humanity of all
classes that frequented that beauti-
full park in the good old summer
time have ceased to lounge therein.
But how about the pigeons that all
visitors to the place were so anxious
to have flop ali over them in their zest
to get the crumbs? Are they to be
left to dire hunger now, while their
friends of yore sit toasting their toes?
A few million German marks will save
the birds
WILLIAM C. U. LATEN.
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loquacious ana tiresome. He insisted
on regaling my friend, a very polite
man, with local news of no interest
whatsoever to strangers. After long
ride and much talk by the cabby they
passed one house and the driver
pointed an unclean finger at it and
said, impressivlsy: sLincoln's home
!" Is he, inded ~ replied my friend,
bored, but still polite"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
PEOPLE
Snowman Once
PennileSs

IN Va Serrtce
IT OLEDO, Jan. 9.-Eieven years
ago II. V. Buelow came TO To-
- ledo broke. lie slept on park
benches and for forty-eight hours had
nothing to ea
Today Buelow is the head of the
National Farmers Exposition, which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
BY DAVID DIETZ
Science Editor of The Times
C.I--L4 L. n Ia d.

NUpyTABIEN " IdFKW LE5IE
FRI HE sun. we learn from
astronomy, is not the lord
IL Iy monarch of the skies that
1t appears to be.
1t only appears so to us, because
this earth of ours is so very much
closer to the sun than 1t is to any
OF the stars.
Many OF the stars which appear
to us as mere pin-points o. light
are anywhere from fifty TO FIVE hun
dred times larger than the sun
The reason for the difference in
appearance to US is that the sun is
SO. 000, 900 miles from us. while the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
Heard in the Smoking Room

III HE subject in the smoking room
was the sightseeing trips in
49, various towns of the country.
A friend of mine tells me that Spring
field, ILL.,, boasts the greatest bores
among it's sightseeing guides that he
ever met up with" said one of the
smokers. HE was there recently and
he hired one OF the towns cab drivers
to take him around. The cabby was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

summers at his villa on Lake Erie
and with the beginning of each new
year he tours to his winter home in
Florida.
Buelow is an old friend Of Henry
Ford having known the magnate be-
fore the days of his financial success.
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A RESULT
VARYING FORCE OF GRAVITY. THE
FIGURE SHOWS
ATHLETE
ON SUN
FORCE GRAVITY WOULD BE TWENTYSEVEN TIMES AS
CONDITIONS
FACT
so GREAT
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
Says Pa to Ma

EFF the human body is renewed
every seven years. I can't be the
same woman that you married"
I've been suspecting that for some
me."-Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
A N s w E R s

You can get an answer to any ques-
ton Of fact or information by wridng
to the Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave Wash
stamps for reply. Medical. legal and
marital advice cannot be given. nor
All other questions will receive per-
sonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot
be answered All letters are conflden-
tlal.-Editor
What was the first scent show
IN indianapolis?
The Bijou. about 124 E. Washing
ton.
What is the best way to clean
the hair on the mounted head Of
a deer?
Rub lightly with absorbent cotton
saturated with gasoline.
Is 1t true that trained monkeys
are used to knock cocoanuts from
the top OF the trees7
It Is not true; natives are employed.
Are briquets SAFE to use as
fuel?
The United States Bureau OF Mines
says that briquets. as usually pur-
chased in this country. are perfectly
safe to use as fuel.
What Is the largest number. of
children that has ever been born
at the same time?
A certain Signora de la Riva, of
Florence, who is mentioned by more
than one italian writer, Is credited
with having given birth to eight
children on Sept. 3. 1867.
Does the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul have it's own tracks
from Chicago to the coast; il so,
how Tar is the line double track?
Yes, the c.. NJ & st. Paul has its
own tracks to the coast; the line is
double tracked as far as st. Paul,
Mimi
Has Liberia ever asked the
United States for a loan?
Liberia wanted a lean OF SIS, 900, 900
In order to balance her budget, for
like many other countries her taxes
were running behind and the finances
Of the country were in bad con.
dttion. Congress. however. did not
pass the loan, and 1t was not granted.
How many different species of
birds are there in the United
States2
About 1900.
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The editor is willing to print views
Of Times readers on interesting sub
lects. Make your comment brief.
Sign your name as an evidence of
good faith. II viii not be printed
If you object.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
Willie Sticks Dad

PA, teacher says we are here to
help others"
Yes, that's so.'
well. what are the others here
for?''-New Zealand Farmer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
For Sisters Teller

"I'd offer myself to you for a
Christmas present if I thought you'd
take me"
I'm afraid I'd have trouble in ex-
changing you. Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

This is the third article of series by
Dietz on Secrets of Science" He dis
cusses scientific facts and phenomena
in every day terms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

FRI HE most generous and merciful
in judgment upon the faults of
IL others are always the most
free from faults themselves.-Aughey
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
A Thought

Let not him that eateth despise him
which eateth not; and let not him
which eateth not judge him that eat
eth; for God hath received him.-Rom.
14:3.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

What was the first scent show
In Indianapolis?
The Bijou. about 124 E Washing.
tor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

What is the best way to clean
the hair on the mounted head Of
a deer7
Rub lightly with absorbent cottor
saturated with gasoline.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

Is 1t true that trained monkeys
are used TO knock cocoanuts from
the top OF the trees?
It Is not true; natives are employed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

How many different species of
birds are there in the United
States2
About 1900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09

Are briquets SAFE to use as
fueI7
The United States Bureau OF Mines
says that briquets. as usually pur-
chased in this country. are perfectly
safe to use as fuel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-09
Against Soviet

WILLIAM c. U. LATEN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
FIRST PROBED
DAILY WORKER;
NOW--B ULLS
Investigating CT ero
Police for Beating

Frank Matoucek, the assistant
states attorney, who has been inves-
tigating the DAILY WORKER at the
request of members of the Cicero po-
lice, has now been assigned by his
boss, Grove, to investigate the Cicero
police for brutally beating up Miss
Rosetta Duncan of the Duncan Sis
ters' musical comedy, "Topsy and
Eva"
Judging by the actions of Matoucek.
Miss Duncan cannot hope for much
aid from the states attorneys office.
1t was at Matoucek's suggestion that
the police raised the bail of the
DAILY WORKER reporter arrested in
Cicero for a series of articles against
the Western Electric company from
-$25 to $500. Matoucek, in the case of
the DAILY WORKER, worked hand in
glove with the Western Electric com
pany and the Cicero police, who also
seemed to be doing the biding of the
Western Electric company.
At the request Of the Duncan sis
lcTS publicity ududSti, tuc JAIL
WORKER reporter saw the reopening
of their musical comedy. OF course,
the publicity man was looking for a
new angle on the Cicero beating up of
'Topsy" for violating a Cicero traffic
law. The capitalist reporters inter-
viewed the DAILY WORKER report
er. He pointed out to them that his
arrest occurred because the Western
Electric company dominates the po-
lice and administration OF Cicero.
They told him they didn't think they'd
use the story because the DAILY
WORKER is Communist newspaper.
Police Don't Follow Bryan.
Miss Duncan received a broken nose
and a beating up from the police of
Western Electric town, who were evil
IDENTIFY celebrating the holiday in the
good old patriotic anti-Bryan manner.
The DAILY WORKER reporter is
glad they were at least half sober
when they arrested him on a charge
Of 'disorderly conduct for telling the
citizens of the town the truth about
the corrupting influence exerted by
the Western Electric company on the
Cicero police force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
ACQUIT POLICE
Who TORTURED
INNOCENT men
Turn Kansas City Bulls
Loose for More Crimes
fspeciaI TO the Daily Worker.l

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July S.-Last
February three men held up and
robbed local paymaster The po-
lice arrested three Negroes and, after
eight hours torture, beating and
burning, made them sign long, de-
tailed and contradictory confessions.
Ramsey, one of the three, was 50 hor-
ribly mauled that the doctor rushed
him to the hospital at once. His re-
covery seemed unlikely
In Missouri to assault a prisoner is
a penitentiary offense. A week after
the absurdly contradictory confess
sions were gotten, three prisoners
picked up on suspicion in East Chi
cago, Ind, voluntarily told of the Kan
sas City holdup, of which their cap
tors knew nothing, and confessed.
All three deny that the Kansas City
victims had any hand in it.
Race organizations protested with
extreme vigor. This being an election
year. the prosecuting attorney at last
proceeded against Smithers, a detec-
tive, and Newman, private slugger
of the police commissioner. The trial
took two days,
The torturers were identified by all
three victims. A policeman who was
a witness could not be found" There
was copious evidence as to the pitiful
state of the men when rescued from
the city police. The case was so
formidable-even without the wit
nesses the state "could not find"-
that the defense contented itself with
pleading for a light sentence.
The jury (all white political scav-
engers, of course) acquitted the pris-
oners after a few minutes with
drawal. Let us now ponder on the
fourteenth amendment to the holy
constitution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
GODS
BEHEADED AT
CLEVELAND MEET
BY ROBERT MINOR.
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July S.-Three
of the smaller gods of Socialism fell
today when William M. Brandt of ST.
Louis and Edmund T. Melms of Wis
consin failed of reelection, and James
Oneal of New York failed to get on
the national executive committee at
the Socialists national convention
here.
William H. Henry, leader in the
fight for the left wing minority re-.
port, was beaten after four ballots.
The new committee is Hillquit, Ber-
ger, John Collins of Illinois, Harkins
of New Jersey, George e. Roewer of
Boston, James Maurer of Pennsyl-
vania and Joseph w. STARTS of Ohio.
Debs was reelected chairman by ac-
clamation after Berger had demanded,
Does this mean that Comrade Debs
will have a seat and voter" and, being
answered afIirmatively, objected to
creating an Office for any man to
make a committee of eight votes
which find it impossible to do bust
ness"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09

Harvester Worker Tells Story to 1.-THE Daily"
HOOKING BACKWARD"
GANG BID FOR SANS
AID; IGNORE RUSSIA
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
CLEVELAND, O., July $50 rap
idly did the Conference for Progress
slve Political Action steam-rolIer
it's program and Endorsement Of the
Wisconsin "pillar Of salt" that many
of the delegates scarcely realized
that the Convention" was over
when it was, and still fewer appre-
ciated that a resolution that would
have committed the "progresslves"
to favoring recognition of Soviet
Russia was quashed, altho some of
the unions represented in the con-
ference are on record in support of
similar resolutions. LaFoIIette and
also William Johnston Of the ma
chlnists previously have been for
recognition of Russia. This former
"indiseretion" is hushed now to bid
for Sam Gompers' smile.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
JIM CONNORS, LOCAL
LABOR LEADER, CAUGHT
RIDING IN SCAB TAXICAB

Jim connors, vice-president Of
the Brotherhood Of swItehmen Of
North America, and one Of VIII
lam H. Johnston's floor leaders at
the Cleveland meeting Of the con-
ference for Progressive Political
Action, evidently does not take his
union card very seriously.
Connors has an office In the Fed
Grafton Building, the walls of
which are pIastered with stickers
reading "Yellow cabs are scab
cabs" yet this same bonafide red
batting labor faker, on landing at
the Englewood station on his re-
turn from the Cleveland confer
enee, could not take a union cab
or a street car to haul him to his
residence, but boarded a Yellow
cab under the eyes of ten trade
unionists who were watching him.
After connors boarded the soab
cab, two Of the trade unIonIsts,
also returning from Cleveland, re-
buked the labor faker for patroniz-
ing the seab cab. He was dumb.
What will the union ehauffsurs
of Chicago and trade unionIsts In
general think of labor leader who
is not satisfied with fighting the
radicals In the union, but goes TO
the extent Of supporting a seab
organization like the yellow TsxI
company connors fought ths
Communists az Cleveland and
posed as a bonsflde trade urt6n-
list, but while he rode home In a
scab taxi the Communists wRom
he denounees rode home In 2
street car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
WORLD CONGRESS
GATHERS AT THE.
GRAVE OF LEN|N
Communists Pay Honor
to Great Reuolutionist
(staH writer Daily worker.l

(Staf Writer Daily Worker.)
MOSCOW, June 10. - (By
Mail. 1.-The second session of
the Fifth World Congress of the
Communist International was
opened at 6 o'clock in the eve
ming of June 18, in the Hall of
ST. Andrew. The Congress de-
cided to assemble for the day
at Lenin's grave at Revolution
Square. Ten thousand men
and women Iaborers gathered
about Lenin's grave to welcome
the delegates of the Congress by
singing the International. With
Lenin's guidance, with the
thought of Lenin in mind, the
labors of the Congress are be-
gun; in the spirit of Leninism it
will solve its problems. That is
the idea behind today's discus
sion.
Deeply moved, Kalinin, presiding
officer of the All-Russian Executive
Board, pays homage to the memory
of Lenin. Common cause with the
peasantry, dictatorship of the prole-
tariat, war against the suppression Of
nations-these are the bases of Lenin-
ism. In this spirit will the World Con-
gress do its work.
Lenin Great Inspiration.
A delegate from the German Com
munist party speaks or how strongly
Lenin's name and Lenin's teachings
have taken hold on the German pro-
letariat. With wild cheers ten thou
sand workingmen receive the an
nouncement, that the city of linden
burg will be renamed Leninburg.
Lenin was the creator of the Russian
Communist party, he was the creator
of the Soviet Union; he was the Gre
ator of the Communist international.
In the spirit of Lenin, under the guild
ance of Leninism, thru retreats and
thru obstacles, the German workers
will guide the revolution to victory.
Roy of India explains what Lenin
and Leninism means to the oppressed
peoples of the East The Second In
ternational was a loose union of the
workers of the West. Lenin built the
Communist International, which is
welding the world proletariat with the
peoples of the East, in a common fight
for freedom against capitalism and
imperialism.
The praesidium and the delegates
thereupon file past the assembled
workers.
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Bella Kun: Who will guarantee the.
inflow OF new proletarian elements
into this organizing intelligentsia
which is exposed to the danger of
degeneration?
Lloyd George and Masters.
Buoharin: This question is very
interesting. It leads us to discuss the
so-called oligarchy. The bourgeoisie
itself does not rule as whole class,
but thru its parties, and their leaders.
For. instance, the relationship of the
Lloyd George Cabinet to the bourge-
oisie is not class relationship. It is
said the political bureau Of the Rus
sian Communist Party governs Rus