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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-12

Court Friday to explain why he
should not he cited for contempt of
court.
Judge RundeTl recently ordered
Mayor Harris to sign the bond is
sue providing payment for the new
waterworks system at Bloomington.
Tuesday was the last day in which
TO sign the bonds or file an appeal
Judge Rundeu ordered his arrest as
n result
Mayor Harris has fought the bond
issue from the start
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EMPLOYEES TO FEASV
State Auto Insurance Association
Plans Chicken Dinner, Nov. 20.

Eighth annual Thanksgiving
chicken dinner viii be given home
office employees Of the State Auto
Insurance Association, Nov. 20 at
Maple Grove on Allisonville Rd.,
north Of the city.
A. W. Early, vice president, will
act as POSTMASTER. Addresses will
be given by w. E. Mckee, treasurer;
Arthur Wolf. secretary and Clar
ence Odel Miller. legal counsel Must
cal numbers will be furnished by
employees. Dancing viii be held.
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Farm Home Burns

BIZ Times Special
LA PORTE, Ind, Nov. 12.-The
farm home of Albert Nelson was
totally destroyed by fire with a loss
Of $4,000. The Nelson's had been in
La Porte during the day and re
turned TO find their home in ashes.
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LOST WOMAN FOUND
Mother of Famous Artist Wanders
Away From Home.

BIZ United Press
GAINESVILLE. Ohio, Nov. 12.-
After being missing ten hours. Mrs.
Mary Christy, 80, mother of Howard
Chandler Christy, New York artist.
was found by a posse early today
at the side of a lonely road half a
mile from her home.
She was suffering from exposure
and could give no explanation of
her disappearance Physicians said
her condition was serious.
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ARREST ISFACED
MAYOR HARRIS
Court Acts When Bond Is
sue Is Not Signed,

BIZ Times Special
BLOOMINGTON. Ind. Nov. r.
Sheriff Walter Peterson this week
viii arrest Mayor John G. Harris Of
Bloomington and take him before
Judge Herbert Rundeu in Circuit
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Recount Is Asked

BIZ Times Special
SEYMOUR, Ind, Nov. IA
petition asking for a recount of the
ballots cast in jackson County in
the recent election for the office of
county treasurer, was filed today by
Cash Kern, Republican candidate,
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SHtI.F TSFETI.

If you do not have sufficient room
in your kitchen for an extra table.
a shelf that turns down under a
window which may be raised when
desired. is most useful
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-11-12
HOME FIRED BY CANDLE
Young Son Was Looking in Closet
for Clothing.

BIZ Times Special
SEYMOUR, Ind. Nov. 12--The
farm residence of Samuel L. Gar
riott, near here, was destroyed by
fire, believed to have started when
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EXHIBITORS TO DINE
Banquet VIII BE Held Thursday
Night at the Athenaeum.

Everything is in readiness for the
banquet for exhibitors of the second
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his 1O-year-ol5 50 ntook a lighted
candle into a closet to look for
clOthinc
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TO CLEAN TOPS

Clean glass tops on your dining
and dressing table with cloth
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who was defeated by thirteen votes
by Allen Swope, Democratic candi-
date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-18
THE CITY TAX RATE

"a HE city of indianapolis is faced with increase
cents in the general fund rate alone.
1t is not exactly clear why the operation of the city gov
nment should cost next year than this year.
he fact that it to be habit of governmental
pend more money ever-progressing scale
The city should place itself in the position any other
BUSINESS No business spends money each year
unless is growing such that expenditures
re necessary and jusfabe Business conditions right now
re not good they could be- For this many
kerns retrenching.
Did 1t ever to the officials of Indianapolis and the of
as of the other units that step could be
aiken in their businesses well private Dead
ood and useless expenditures be off well by
cpaity by private businessprovding politics not
Allowed to interfere
There also reports that certain units of the
expecting the Legislature their borrowing
bower This should be discouraged by every possible
municipalities well individuals should live within their
means
Vi course things attended for long
expenditure of more necessary This city
reets There is chuckhoe for every dollar city bud
Reasonable expenditures for resurfacng should be made
BY all means.
But should be to that the city gets its moneys worth
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MOTOR BUS BUSINESS

T E growth of bus transportation and out of In
dianapois of the marves of the modern city The
xtent which this business be expected to within the
ext few years be calculated.
Already than 100 busses carrying 1000 passengers
bake 162 round trips day With the growth of the motor bus
the increased problem of handling them in traffic
of the unwedy city and other
motorists considerable difficulty.
The buses to be growing larger constantly There
lines running into Indianapolis huge parlor
which carry large number of passengers comfortably They
resemble Pullman the extent of having fancifu
ames
The decision bus terminal is just another step
the growth of the business Such structure viii help solve
The traffic problem viii add the comfort of passengers
Already the bus making inroads into the business of in
eurban companies That they VIII eventually suppan inter
rbans is not without the realm of probability In fact the
may not be far off when nterurban companies VIII be
forced to quit and leave the field to the buses.
With the rapid growth of this form of transportation
he problem of regulation This that should be
dered seriously by the next Legislature The buses
should be compelled pay reasonable proportion for up
keep of the roads which their They should
forced to give regular service and look after the safety Of
their passengers.
The nterurban bus transportation problem that
DO longer be overlooked.
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In Ne7e York
BY STEVE HANNAGAN

NEW YORK, July 1S.-Dopey Dan
is in decay.
From the highest position of affiu-
ence as a gang leader in New York's
underworld, he has fallen. He is in
Jail charged with petit larceny. To
day he is scoffed at by men who
cowed at his approach in other days.
Dopey Dan never worked with a
gun. He was the master of the most
unusual criminal pursuit of which
Z ever have heard.
He used to break fingers.
In the days of furious garment
worker strikes. Dopey Dan was the
reigning terror.
It was his highly paid task to
break the needle fnger''-the index
finger on the right hand. of all gar
ment workers who would not strike
or who were opposed by the clique
which hired Dopey Dan. the master
finger breaker.
He worked long and alte during his
busy season. amassing high sums
of money at S. a broken finger.
Dopey Dan was a finger hunter. com
parable, only to the head hunters of
Borneo.
OF course. when Dan broke the
needle finger of a garment worker
the tailor had 20 quit work and was
off duty with the broken member for
many a week. Soon Dan became a
threat to all garment workers.
There were other members of the
hnger-breaking brigade. but Dan
was the leader Some Of the gangs
men, it is said, cut off the needle
finger Of many tradesmen. But Dan,
the story goes, always was honor
able-he only broke the fingers.
Dan worked himself out of job.
The garment workers wouldn't dis
obey his orders. He had no more
fingers to break.
So he degenerated to petty tfiev-
cry.
Wagon HILL" once the famous
Aston estate, Is now the last resting
place for broken-down wagons and
automobiles.
The whiting house of today, over
looking junk heap, was once a
distinguished home.
Far uptown. it can be seen from
the Ninth Ave. elevated.
Here wrecks of men attempt to
reconstruct wrecks of wagons from
the debris.
On these aristocratic ruins, chill
dren play chauffeur in an automo-
bile whose power plant has wheezed
it's last chug.
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Squeak
BY HAL COCHRAN

No matter how new or how Old
so to speak, you can always find
fault with your bus. Some one in
the family will locate a squeak and
it's cause for considerable fuss
'Ths window is loose and it's
rafting loud" poor mother will
boldly declare. So dad with a new
little worry's endowed since he
knows that the squeaking is there.
Then Sister Sue shouts, "Oh. the
springs are all rusty and they scrape
when we bounce up and down" And
therefore the spring parts are forci-
bly, cussed by the tribe as they're
motoring round.
The hood rattles loud as you drive
Ger a bump and the steering wheel
wheezes a bit A fender announces
it's weak with a thump and there's
many a bolt doesn't fit.
But still, after all, your old auto
seems grand. though it sounds like
a bundle of tin. When you buy
machine. you should well under
stand, that a whole lot Of squeaks
are thrown in.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc)
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Ed HEN was a boy, Two men
IN/I started from my neighbor-
" hood for the town of Iowa
Falls. The people of the latter place
found them next morning in the bot.
tom of a very deep glen called Rock.
Run" Their horses were killed and
their buggy was a wreck. They
themselves were seriously injured.
The thing which makes the story
interesting enough to bs remembered
was the story they told to account
for their mishap.
They said that they were driving
along the road just as 1t entered
Iowa Falls In rather hard shower
of rain, accompanied by thunder and
lightning. All at once they saw
rolling along on the groud toward
them a great. cleaning, glittering
ball of fire. Tt seemed to move along
the earth, bounding like a huge in
candescent rubber ball. 1t struck
them. went off with fearful bang,
and knocked them off the bridge
across Rock Run into the glen be-
low
But It Was True
Well, everybody laughed and
laughed. That story was too thini
Did they expect anyone TO believe
that story? And yet a moments
thought would have told anyone
that human ingenuity would never
have been able to invent such
fantastic tale. The best evidence of
its truth was that it was so incred-
ible-if make myself clear.
What had done them harm was
what is called ball lightning" or
globe lightning"
On the last of June Of this year
an instance of the occurrence of bali
lightning occurred at Rose Hill,
Delaware. People saw a huge ball
Of fire coming rapidly from the west.
Finally it fell to the ground and ex-
ploded with a loud report Persons
who went to the spot where It went
off found, they reported, hot cinders
and ashes scattered for several
yards. 1t may be assumed that the
cinders and ashes came not from
the electricity, but from something
burned up by it.
Called Rare
I have no doubt that In many
neighborhoods where this is read
people may be found who have seen
ball lightning. though such an au-
thority as the Century Dictionary
terms it rare phenomenon" I
have heard of one case-I have no
proof of it-where the ball dropped
down the chimney Of a log cabin
and rolled and bounded about for
a few seconds on the hearth of the
fireplace.
What is ball lightning? It seems
to me one Of the most wonderful
of mysteries. How can electricity
take the form of a ball and retain it
for even a second? When we know
this, we may have the key to many
mysteries. If we knew about it, we
might be able to put electricity up
in bales and ship it like hay.
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Tom Sims Says

It takes a marriage license to get
married on and an auto license to
get a date on.
Make the flag stand for some
thing" cry the July Fourth orators;
and the rest Of the year it stands for
anything.
A man can be happy without a
home If he is only staying away from
one.
Every man should have a hobby.
The women have no time for hobbies
because they have bubbles.
An optimist is a man going fish
ing.
A lite sense will hide a lot of ig-
norance-
In New Jersey, a judge ruled you
can t run an auto and hug q woman
We rule it is up to the woman
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-18
Nature

does the worm get into the chest
nut? About this time of the year,
the chestnut weevl comes along
and. finding the nut in the tender
embryo stage, she drills hole in
1t with the hook on her snout and
lays an egg in the hole. The nut
grows very rapidly and, in a very
short time, the wound is grown
over. Presently the egg matches in
it's prison and the young weevil de-
velors into hungry worm which
eats pretty nearly all the fruit in
side the hard shell by fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-18

OCItHC5 LuILUI OF IIIt I1IItS
ri EFERENCE to the consteIla-
* ton of the Great Bear is
found in the literature of all
ages, so great an impression has this
group of bright stars always made.
In that great drama to be found
in the Bible, the Book of Job, there
is mention of the Great Bear.
Evil misfortune, it will be remem-
bered, fell upon Job. His herds and
f1ocks were stolen, his sons and
daughters killed, and he himself was
attacked by sickness. Then Job sat
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down among the ashes and cursed
the day he was born. First his
friends tried to make him change
his view. and then finally the voice
Of the Lord spoke to him out of the
whirlwind in that wonderful passage
that begins.
Where vert thou when I laid the
foundation of the earth? Declare if
thou has understanding. Who hath
laid the measures thereof. if thou
knOwest? Or who hath stretched the
line upon it? Whereupon are the
foundations thereof fastened2"
And among the questions asked Of
Job is this one:
''Castn thou guide the Bear with
her train "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-18
Give the definition of discs
Observation-Disclosures. Who is
the Vice-President now?

the V1ce-President now?
A Observation-Disclosures is one
who advocates disestablishment.
which is the act or state Of being
disestablished, as the disestablish-
ment Of the Irish church by act of
Parliament Observation-Disclosures
ism would therefore, be the prin-
ciple on theory of one who is a
isestablishmentaria The word
had purely local use and is vir-
tually obsolete.
There is no Vice-President Of the
United States now. but the presi-
dent pro tempore of the Senate. Al
bert B. Cummins. is acting in that
capacity until the next election.
What We're wildcat Banks"
and how did they get this name?
This is the general name applied
TO institutions established in large
numbers in the South and West
after the transfer of Government de
posits from the United States Bank
1t frequently happened that these
hanks had little capital, )ut that did
not prevent them from issuing bank
notes. giving them out in easy loans
to land spectators, who. in turn.
raid them out in country villages
where the standing Of the bank of
issue was unknown. Sometimes
when the holder presented those
notes, it was found impossible to
find the rank of issue. This system
cf banking continued for about four
years, until it resulted in the panic
Of 1897, after which more adequate
laws were adopted. These banks
were called wildcat banks" because
they were established in the back
woods, and because their victims
were "ncst awfully clawed."
When and by what State of
the Union was The first child
labor law passed?
By Massachusetts, in 1912: it
limited the working hours Of chill
dren under twelve to ten a day.
Where is Mount Resurrection?
1t overlooks Resurrection Bay,
Seward, Alaska.
What was a Kangaroo votingP
This name was jestingly applied
to the Australian ballot when it
was first introduced in this country.
From whom were the original
Twelve Tribes of Israel de-
scended?
From the twelve sons of Jacob.
What is the agricultural bloc
in Congress2
A group of Senators and repre-
sentatives from agricultural constit-
uencies united for the purpose of Sc
curing legislation favorable to farm
ers. They hold separate caucuses
and have an official leader in each
house. On measures of general in
terest they vote with their parties,
but they have served notice that
they will not favor legislation de-
sired by other classes until the in
terests Of the farmers are secured.
This bloc is said to have been large
ly responsible for the defeat of the
ship subsidy bill in 1923.
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Reserve Officers to Have Camps

Week end camps at Culver, Ind,
for reserve officers of the Saith Di-
vision win be held July 1920 and
July 1927, according to Maj. B. f.
Ristine. The camps are for officers
who can not go to an extended camp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-18

AfE 4 tHAto IRLNtNf
TITAN FRANCISCO. July IS
IN California is tasting the bit
III ter fruit Of false economy in
government.
In 1922 the voters defeated Gov
ernor William y. Stephens OF the
old Hiram Johnson dynasty, and
elected Friend w. Richardson, a
Quaker editor. on the single plat
form Of economy" To make good
his election promise Richardson
slashed ruthlessly into the vitals of
every Government function with the
economy ak
Richardson cut the forestry de-
partment budget in half Today for
est fires are raging unchecked, eat
ing into some of California's most
valuable pine and redwood forests
and menacinE the Tahoe and Sc
quota national forest reserves. To
date $4,000 acres have been de-
stroyed and 100000 damLge in
CURED. although the dry season is
not half over. Uncle Sam is shar-
ing equally with Richardson the
criticism for failure to provide AIDE
quate forest protection in his budget.
Animals Suffer
Richardson cut SIS. 900 a year from
the bureau Of animal industry. Early
this spring the foot and mouth dis
ease broke out among California cat
tie, spreading to twenty counties and
causing inestimable damage to the
cattle industry. While saving $S5,5 800
a year in taxes. the people have sub
scribed out of their pockets 81
600 600. which must he repaid AT the
next Legislature. but the damage
will be ten times that in the State
at large.
Richardson cut s300.O 600 from the
| Industrial Accident Commission bud
get. The first year following there
occurred 716 industrial deaths, more
than ever in the States history. One
| commissioner, resigning, stated that
thousands of uninspected boilers and
elevators are a constant menace to
life in California; that there Is no
mine inspection at all; that there are
fragrant violations Of safety rules in
buildings all over the State, and
that the model State compensation
insurance fund is being slowly
wrecked by it's enemies. the private
competitors in league with Richard
sons political appointees.
Institution Crowded
All the States institutions, from
the two big penitentiaries to the
homes for blind and feeble-minded
children, are badly overcrowded.
The schools are suffering from lack
of teaching forces and facilities in
the seven State Normals. No at
tempt is being made to enforce the
women6 minimum wage law. Amer
icanization of immigrants has
stopped. The work of stamping out
tuberculosis and red plague" has
about ceased. And. having made no
provision for new revenue, Richard
son will present the next Legisla-
ture with a $4,000, 900 shortage below
1.-THE present meager budget.
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4 Thought

Blessed are the pcaoemakers: for
they shall be called the chilLfen of
God.-Matt. SO.
Peace is the fairest form Of hap
piness.-W. e. Charming.
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THE MODERN MAGEILANs

II IS 400 years since Portuguese chap named
IL Magellan who captain in the of Portr
broke with his unapprecatve king over to SPAIN
where he persuaded another king fit him up of
i've vessels to sail around the world.
Magean expedition took three years circumnavgate the
globe or the first me thus proving beyond doubt
world was round.
It was lonely trip skirtng down South America up the
coast and the broad Pacific where Magellan first
found Cities in China,
Cities what Magellan sought He was killed in the
philippines before he reached the of cities
But in years there grown up along the
aulo Rio Janero Buenos Aires Santiago San Francisco
Honolulu, Manila and host of Others the like of which
Magellan dreamed.
MageIans voyage made possible these very cities he
Sought in vain Cities follow steamship routes railroads and
now air lanes; these latter attract attention today
Only this week there arrived in Europe American
ers hreequarter Of the way around the globe by They
have covered in 239 flying hours roughly ten days as
Steamship sails Fifteen solid flying days from the starting
point will see them home again.
Actually it is taking them three months to girde the
globe, almost long it takes steamship took Ma
genans three years do what lines now make in
boo days
What and great cities will 4O0-or even 1OO-years
along the barren Alaskan and Siberian skrted by
hese fers Or what will this air lane forsaken
iceland Greenland and Newfoundland which are along the
chosen roue9 What ancient centers like Bagdad
great in memory only will hum anew with life?
Of course these Americans have found ultimate
round theword air Magellan sailed around South
America and around Africa Men sail between North and
South America and between Africa Asia through man.
made canals.
But the canals cities And it is interesting TO
speculate what seeds Of future cities American aviaors
may have in their epochal flight around the earth
SOME MEN run for office; others jay-wak.
OF COURSE, Harry Sinclair go to Albania until he
<a1ibis this Afall business
NOW IRIS said those Indian. are not ssoten4-ju.s
another bogus label it seen
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A physician may be Great Brit
aims first ambassador to Soviet
Russia. He is DR. Leslie laden
Guest, now a member Of lrlia-
ment. Although official cS.lhrnla-
ton Is lacking, it is understood
he already has been agreed uron
for the post
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WILL
NEW YORK
GO IN FALL?.
State With Biggest Popu-
Iation May Turn Tide in
November Election.
Times Washington Bureau,
1922 Net0 York AUe.

IN EW YORK, July 18.-"If John
TN w. Davis can carry New
- York State, he will be the
next President" That is the opinion
of the Boston Transcript than which
there is no more dyed-in-thewool Re
publican newspaper in the United
States. The Transcript comedies
that Davis may carry New York.
If this Republican paper is ready
to admit the Democrats have even
bare chance in the Empire State,
there must be Democrats who feel
the States forty-five electoral votes
are already to Davis credit. And
that is exactly the case. New
York's Democratic leaders think
they can swing the State to Davis.
AS Davis is already assured of the
1879 electoral votes of the Solid South
and the border States, it would re-
quire only thirty-two more votes, in
addition to New Yorks forty-fve, to
make him President. 1t is reasoned
that If Davis is strong enough TO
carry New York, he will have no
difficulty in carrying enough other
States to obtain the required thirty