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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
OFFICE MEN
CAN NOTGET
ENOUGHJOBS
Employment Records Show
Falling Off in White
Collar Demand,
BY ALEXANDER HERMAN,
NEA Service Writer


mi EW YORK, Aug. 9.-White-
I'M collar slaves are fast whiting
- under their neckbands-not
from too much work, but the lack
of it. r.
During the past three months, &C.
cording to the records of one of the
country's largest employment bu
reaus, there has been "a falling off
Of 30 per cent in the demand for
male Office help. And the salaries
offered are 20 per cent less!
THE decrease in the demand fol
female clerks" this report shows,
has been correspondingly great, and
the salary drop identical.
Even the office boy is feeling the
ak. The demand for his kind is but
40 per cent of what it was last year,
and the salary paid him is subject
to drop Of five per cent"
There are more than 5000, 900 reg
ulars in the white-collar army all
over the country; with nearly half
a million reserves recruited from
school and college vacationists. U.s.
ually they have little difficulty filling
in as substitutes during the summer
months. But this year times are
slack and the going is hard.
Firms are apparently consoldat.
ing their office forces" say employ.
ment experts. Little or no >expan.
sion is being undertaken"
Yet, while the demand is decreas.
Ing, the supply is increasing.
Not only are the business schools
turning out graduates by the thou
sands, says Leonard Bright, for
seventeen years a white collar slave
and now president of the Bookkeep-
ers, Stenographers and Accountants
Union but many of the young
women, who took stenography and
office work, merely as an avocatlon
until they married, are now remain
ing at their jobs.
During the past two years the
number OF such married whitecollar
workers has increased markedly. The
reason, Of course. is to be found in
the wages OF their husbands-too
low to maintain the high standard of
living set by most young people.
Particularly pitiful is the situa-
ton of the bank clerks, who, as far
as hours are concerned, are probably
the poorest paid of the white-collar
class. Some clerks holding positions
of paying tellers. get as little as $50
a week for their responsible work.
But for wages, irrespective Of
hours. girl off!cs workers hold the
record-getting as low as $40 a week
in New York. even though most of
them are high school graduates"
Preceding the present depression,
had been a ten-year rise in the aver
age pay that reached its peak last
October, when the average weekly
earnings of office employees in New
York State scared TO s3256, against
S19. 1s in 1914. .s.
But now comes the toboggan
And with II may come all kinds
OF dangers" points out Miss Lily
Kiraly. the young recording secre-
tary OF the union. For many girls
who are out Of work have families
dependent upon them. And they
must bring in some earnings"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
In NezU York
Bv STEVE FLANAGAN

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-"The Ra-
dio Franks" are going on tour.
For one solid year they have been
broadcashing their harmony from
every big station in New York.
Their voices and melody have cir
cled tho land.
Now they are going on a tour
that viii take them TO many big
broadcastlng stations throughout the
country, d trip that will consume
ten months.
Frank Wright Is the piano player
songster of the duo, while Frank
Bessinger sings.
Bessinger, who comes from
Owosso, Mich, has stored in his
memory the words of every song
hit since 1910. Wright can play
them from memory.
Yet with all their memory for
words and music they have to hire
a man to keep their appointments
in order. Neither of them can re-
member what they are to do next.
The last time I saw Bessinger he
had spent a thoughtful two hours
trying to remember what it was his
wife had told him to take home.
When New Workers go a touring
in the cool Of the evening in their
automobiles, they find the more pop,
ular roads damned with traffic.
Bug there is the Motor Parkway,
forty five miles in length, out on
Long Island. It costs s1.10 to make
the drive through the parkway.
There is no speed limit and the
young bloods shoot their roadsters
along the path at a rapid rate. There
are few accidents on the road.
The bar of the Hotel Belmont, a
most popular prohibition rem
devious for visitors to New York
at cocktail hour in the evening, has
been transformed into n cafeteria.
Many well-known drinks were de-
veloped to perfection by the Bel
mont bartenders; notably the Doc
tor, Pineapple Bronx and Cloverleak
cocktails Other favorites were
Shock Absorber, New Orleans Fiz,
Tom Collins and Sherry Flip.
Now iced tea and coffee, roast
beef AMI brad and rolls hold sway.
Male butterflies like to get drunk,
while the females Of the species
drink water to the exclusion of
rum, according to an English 70
ologlst.
It's that way on Broadway. Nearly
all the male butterflies do the
drinking, while the female butter
flies, especially the smart ones. re-
main on diet of charged water
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
Watch Your Step
BY HAL COCHRAN

The fashions today are exceeding
ly neat, and especially those worn by
the women. How striking the gowns
that they wear on the street and the
suits that they don when in swim
min.
The sandal-hke shoes are attrac-
tive to me and the silk that goes in
EN- looks nice. They say that the
girls wear 'em rolled at the knee but
I never have stopped to look twice.
The newspaper ads show the
fiimsy affairs, but they're only for
women. guess. know what the
everyday gentleman wears but I'm
stumped as to how women dress.
There's one thing that's certain;
I've made up my mind that the thin
nest of gowns, as a rule, are the
prettiest ones that in summer you'll
find cause they give you that es-
sence Of cool.
So here's to the women folks,
heavy or lean, whose dresses in thin
goods are done But if they're as
thin as some gowns I have seen,
take tip and keep out Of the sun.
Copyright. 1924, NEA Service. Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
0verPopulated

India and the other Asiatic do
minions are already over-populated.
The tropical American and African
dominions are either unfit for white
occupancy. or already full of colored
population, or both.
Expansion and development must
come if at all rapidly in South Afri-
ca. Australia and Canada.
Canada is immense in area but It
shades off toward Arctic conditions.
1t can be developed with only mod
crate rapidity and as the result of
economic pressure.
Australia is huge in total area, but
is largely desert. She can not de-
velop even as fast as Canada. She
is at the Antipodes from the rest of
the world. South Africa runs into
a dense negro population, which
keeps it from being a good country
for white working class.
And there is the outlook Of the
British Empire. 1t can, not develop
as did this country for reasons sug-
gested above.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

Northern Cross to distinguish 1t
which shines in the southern sky.
The Northern Cross forms the
foundation of Cygnus just as the
Great Dipper formed the basis Of
the Great Bear.
The top of the Northern Cross is
marked by a first magnitude star.
Deneb. It is easiest to find the con-
stellation by hunting first for this
star
The upright Of the cross contains
three bright stars. Deneb at the
tip, Sadr at the point where trans
verse crosses the upright and AL
bireo at the bottom.
Deneb is brilliant white In color.
Astronomers estimate 1t Is ten times
as far away from the earth as is
Vega, the first-magnitude star IN, the
Feonstellation Lyra-
The name, Deneb. means 'the
hens tail" The Arabs did not al
ways regard Cygnus as a swan.
Hence this name.
Sadr is a second magnitude star.
It's name means the hens breast. ="
AIbireo is also a third-magn
star. 1t has a topaz yellow color.
The name means the "beak of the
hen" Albireo is a double star, the
telescope revealing one component
to be yellow in color and the other
blue.
Two third-magnitude stars mark
the ends Of the transverse Of the
cross.
At the left end of the transverse
is the star Gienah. This name
means the wing" Gienah is yellow
in color.
The star at the other end of the
transverse has no name. Astrono-
mers call 1t Delta, after the fourth
letter of the Greek alphabet, because
it is the fourth brightest star in the
constellation.
The diagram shows how the an
clients imagined these stars fitted
into the form of swan, the trans
verse of the cross becoming the
wings.
The Milky Way passes through
this part of the sky so that Cygnus
is situated right on it.
On nights when there is no moon,
you can see the Milky Way If you
pick a station where ground lights
do not interfere. The Milky Way
is seen to much better advantage in
the country than in the city.
To the naked eye, the Milky Way
looks like a streak formed Of faint
luminous clouds. The telescope,
however, reveals that the Milky Way
Is composed of thousands upon thou
sands of stars. Later we shall dis
cl-.1 the Milky Way in greater de-
tail
In the accompanying diagram Of
Cygnus, you will notice a spot
marked the Goal Sack" This is a
spot in the Milky Way which looks
like a black hole.
| Astronomers at first were inclined
to regard it as such. Today. how
ever, astronomers think that it is
dark nebula which shuts off the
light of the stars behind it and there
fore gives the impression of a
blank space.
The star marked "61' in the dia-
gram, and known to astronomers as
"61 Cygni," is the star whose dis
lance from the earth was first meas
ured. This was done by the great
astronomer Bessel in 1888.
The little square labeled 1876 indi-
Gates the spot where a new star, or
Nova. appeared in the year 1875.
| Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz)
Next article: The story of CYgnus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
q. S. UNIQUE
IN GROWTH,
QUICK SAYS
No Other Development Can
Ever Equal Ours,
Writer Declares.
BY HERBERT QUICK

lBRITISH writer describes the
Al wonderful growth of the
Ill United States and contrasts it
with the slower development OF the
British Empire. He thinks that the
United States has grown so marvel
ously because we have followed the
policy of development and that the
British Empire, with its enormous
natural wealth. could do the same.
Let us see about this.
Great Britain and Ireland are old
and settled. Except as to Ireland
they are fully developed and in fact
over.populated.
And Ireland would not submit to
the intrusion of a huge, new, alien
population. Ireland is too wise for
that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

Excellent Chances

Where are you employed?" asked
her old man suspiciously. Have
you any chance for promotion?'
20, the best in the world Elk
cept for the office boy, now hold
the lowest position in the firm. Ar
gonaut.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
One on Mother

You must excuse my mother,
dear. She doesn't approve of man
callers at all. She has very narrow
views
Yes, most of her views seem to
be limited to the keyhole. Detroit
News
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
Doors Wide Open

And there is another reason. The
United States threw wide the doors
for immigration from all the world.
Fortunately it came largely from as
similable peoples. Those. days are
over. South Africa, Australia and
Canada will not let in the hordes
which want to crowd in now. Neither
will we. Without unrestricted i'm
migration they can not develop as
we did.
Moreover, their birth rate has fall
len off with rising intelligence. For
all these reasons none of them will
repeat our marvellous growth. The
United States will stand as the
unique instance in all history for
rapid development.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
For Bachelors Only

did you enjoy the bachelor din
ner last night, dear?"
"Oh, yes; rather slow affair,
thought
And who were the bachelors
named Maize and Beatrice who
wrote their names on your shirt
bosom ?''-Ju1ge,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
ANCIENTS
81 w SWAN
IN SKIES
You Can Find Him by Hunt
ing First for North
ern Cross.
BY DAVID DIETz,

Science Editor of The Times
ri HE constellation of Cygnus or
the Flying Swan is easy to
- find if you have gotten &C.
duainted with the other constella-
tons we have discussed so far.
Go outdoors in the early evening
and look toward the northeast.
There, east of the constellation Lyra
and south Of the constellation Cep-
heus, you will notice a group Of
stars which resemble the form of a
cross.
This group of stars is called the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
Sisters Make-Up

did sit. make you angry when
Jack kissed you?"
"Yes-it did!'
Are you still angry?"
'-Oh, move kissed and made up, .
Judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
Ask The Times

You can get an answer to any cues
tion of fact or information by writing
to the Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Wash
Ii gton, D. c.. inclosing 2 cents in
stamps for reply Medical. legal and
marital advice cannot be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
All other questions will receive per-
sonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot
be answered. All letters are coDhden-
lal-EditOr.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
4 Thought

He that is slow to anger is better
than the mighty; and he that ruleth
his spirit than he that taketh city.
Prov. 1882.
/ Keep cool, and you command ev.
erybody st. Just
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

THE CALIFORNIA member of the Republican national
committee the present registration shows Coolidge ma
Jorl OF 100000 In the State but he modesty claims only
600 for election day Thus be what fine climate
to conservatism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

| ~N~ ONp
The conclusions set forth by the
distinguished citizens of Kansas
who signed the report on prohibition
are summarized as follows:
mo repeal or modification Is need.
| ed, wanted or considered.
Ease of enforcement grows with
enforcement.
'Oficials and private citizens are
agreed that prohibition is the State S
best business asset.
'Many crimes that are committed
in communities that tolerate liquor
are absent from Kansas.
Convictions Of violators is easier
now than at any time in the past,
due to the years of proof that intoM-
eating liquor is a commercial and
/ social detriment to any community.
MANY undesirable influences that
attend liquor were banished from
the State when liquor was ban
| ished.
Liquor sales are not even per.
mitted in Kansas ON doctors pre-
scriptions. Liquor is an outlaw in
| Kansas.
Kansas is forty-four years re-
moved from the thought of ever re-
turning to the days of the saloon"
Don't Want 1t
What Is probably of the greatest
significance, however, is the added
statements Of the report that Each
generation is further removed from
an appetite for poisonous drink, -
and respect for the law, which, in
its early stages. was brought about
by compulsion, now is voluntary"
There can be no doubt that the
saloon developed more widespread
habits of drinking than even boot
Logging In its most unregulated form
has done. AS time elapses and the
saloon further recedes, a decreasing
proportion Of our population will be
habitual drinkers. Respect for the
law will increase and its enforcement
will become easier and more wide
spread. Kansas. forty-four years of
State and Federal prohibition clearly
indicates this conclusion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

CHEER UP. Static will bad if as Senator La
Toilette says the radio will curb campaign lying
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

Bad news from Germany today
New law let's brewers make beer as
strong as they please. Who can pity
Germany, poor Germany, now?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
Tom Sims Says

Summer is half gone. so practical
ly every elbow in the United States
should be clean by this time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

UNDER THE influence of phonograph Detroit prisoner
quickly confessed theft and may suggest of the
phone hereafter instead of terrible third degree
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

DETROIT NEWS is in when it says was the
first traffic because he divided the pedestrians
Mr. Adam and Mrs Eve who were first signaled to 90
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

THE FACT that seventysx persons were arrested for
drunkenness during Boston Sunday indicates that twelve
nailes is not the limit there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

WHAT is Charles W. Bryan's middle name9' asks Bos
ton paper, and we suppose hdebound Repub. N will
reply that it is Dennis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

1T is CLAIMED that it costs only $1,000 to smugge an
alien idiot into the United Saes which doesn't seem to be
tariff adequate to protect the home product
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

PREMIER GRABSKI of Poland reports the financial sue
cess of his administration. There something in name
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
KANSAS IS
STILL FOR
PROHIBITION
Announcement Says Demon
Rum Has Been Finally
COnnuered.
Conquered,
BY W. JET LAUCK

ANSAS has had forGy-four
TX years of experience with
LII prohibition and is optimistic
about prohibition enforcement. In
fact, it has just issued Victory
Message" signed by it's leading off,
Gals and publicists, declaring that
after four decades Of struggle it has
practi cally conquered the demon
rum.
This is a heartening message to
the rest Of the country. Moreover.
the experience which Kansas. mar.
rates seems to be one which her
sister states will also pc 30 through
but probably within a shorter period
Of time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

When did the expression "cot-
ton is king" originate and what
did it refer to?
This was a southern slogan Of
1861, based on the belief that the
manufacturing interests OF the
north, because Of their dependence
on cotton, would not consent to war,
and that IL they did so, England
must interfere because of the neces-
sity of getting cotton from the
southern States for her manufacture
ing Industries.
Z When and where was 1.-THE Tus-
cana torpedoed and how many
American soldiers were drowned?
This vessel was torpedoes be-
tween Rathlin Island and the Null
of Kartyre in the North Channel
between Ireland and Scotland, on
the night of Feb. 5. 1918. There
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

Big truck managed to wreck
train at a crossing in Indiana, but
never try it with a light car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09


About 500 acres of wheat burned
near Kimball, Neb., and it must have
smelled something like bride max
ing biscuits.
When these 'round-the-world-fiy
find out how hot it is sitting still,
they may fly around the world again.
The public is so listless this sum-
mer; we have been discussing the
same Chicago murder case for sew
eral weeks.
A skinny bathing girl has no
chance to get sunburned because she
stays in the water most of the time.
Bucyrus (O) man recently collect
ed for a black eye received 80 years
ago, and indications are the soldiers
will get their bonus.
Dog days make people growl.
Fools dive in where good swim
mers fear to tread.
Beer is being sent from New York
to the rum fleet and the United
States may start exporting liquor
soon.
A wise bachelor never takes a girl
riding on moonlit night or pokes
his finger into an electric fan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

COL. CORTLAND STERNESS,
commissioner of Canadian Northwest
Mounted Police: IF the movies
would only let us alone! No officer
or man gains his praise in the press.
He is Judged by the work he does
and the way he does it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
Tongue Tips

CALVIN COOLIDGE: Doubt
ers do not achieve, skeptics do not
contribute, cynics do not create"
WILLIAM JAMES, philosopher
lone hearty laugh together will
bring enemies into a closer com
municatIoh of hearts than hours
spent in inward wrestling with the
mental demon of uncharitable feel
ing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09
Oh. FOR A POET

kV1 HO to shout derison Chicago butcher
wv the word Why should the boast of the Illinois
poet into club against the Windy City, famous for its
yard odors7
We Sit compacenty municipal front porch
ing like idle oriental of the odors
from the southwest but too lethargic to protest
Why should any private corporation be so far privileged
that it offend with munty $4,000 at frequent
periods when the wind is in the southwest
indianapolis continues acquece in this encroachment
upon its comfort and its dignity then let U.s. have
poet who VIII cry:
Indianapolis the nations meat-shopl
What we if it smells to high heaven7
We fill our lungs with altar of grease and burnt hides
And rejoice therefore Indianapolis, the
nations meat-shopl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

NR Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic nominee for Gov
II ernor says in his platform
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz)
Next article: The story of Cygnus
the Swan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-09

When these Observation-Disclosures
find out how hot it is sitting still,
they may fly around the world again.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-10
WEIR-JETER RECITAL
OPENS SECOND SEASON

The Artist Course Series Of sir
Wednesday afternoon concerts will
again be given this year at the Lin
coin Theater, making the second
season when the colored world
artists in music have been brought
to Washington through a local com
mittee Of which Mrs. Milton A.
Francis is chairman.
The first recital will be presented
next Wednesday, November IL, al
6 p. M, with a violin and 'cellc
recital by the "Weir letter" associa
ton Of artists. Felix Weir meas
ured up to the standard set BY
Jeter, rendering Memberships violin
concerto in excellent STYLE" wrote
the Cleveland (Ohio) Call.
The additional artists are Wilson
Lamb, baritone, in song recital on
December 10; Abbie Mitchell, So
prano on January 81; the Howard
University Orchestra, DOrcy T.
Rhodes conducting, and Wesley
Howard, violin soloist, on February
a; r. Augustus Lawson, pianist, OF
whom the great yiennese peda.
gogue, Theodore LeschctizlSy, wrote
americans generally have tech
nique; Mr.. Lawson has poetry" on
February IS, and Marion Anderson
contralto, on March 1S.
A "Guarantors Fund" will this
year assure the continuance of this
very valuable development in Ameri
can music and musicians.