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Evening star., 1926-06-20
Views on the News.

It's getting TO be too much of a job
reckoning gasoline consumption III
terms of gallons. The Bureau Of
Mines recently quizzed retiners re-
garding a change from gallon to bar
rel and found 700 for the change
as against 175 against it, A barrel
contains AZ United States gallons. This
should make it easier to read statistics,
although a change would necessitate
revising all charts and graphs which
We're figured on a basis Of gallons.
Better automobile export shipping
is the aim of American ear manufaC-
turers, and while such activities may
seem to be far removed from the sub
ject Of domestic motoring conditions.
still they really are quite definitely re
lated. The lower the rates for ocean
shipping, the more foreigners there
will be to buy American cars. This
Evening star., 1926-06-20
BRITAIN TO BUY AUTOS
FREELY IN u. S., is VIEW
Market for American Cars Will
Be Fine There, Says Forbest
Angel After Trip.

Great Britain, spending $4,000, 900
yearly for good roads, is the greatest
potential export market In the world
for American automobiles. The day
is coming when Britain will rival
America in per capita ownership of
automobiles.
This is the belief Of Forbest Angel
American manufacturer. who has been
making a survey of European auto
mobile markets.
Sales Of American cars in England
this Spring have been higher than
ever before, and next year, when the
annual tax on horsepower. which so
handicaps American cars, is removed
and a simple gasoline tax imposed in
its place, will be the great opportunity
for American manufacturers TO find
market for their surplus production, :"
he says.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
What Makes the Spots.

Those fiat spots on balloon tire
treads are somewhat of a puzzle. They
look as though the brakes had been
slammed on suddenly and vet they
show up on front wheel tires where
there are no front-wheel brakes.
one tire man who repairs hundreds
of thousands of tires year urges use
of a little more air in the balloon that
shows this sort of wear. Just a pound
or two more. Certainly can't be any
harm in trying this remedy.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
What's the Answer?

j. What is compression ratio?
?. Why is the electrolyte OF a stor-
age battery not weakened and greatly
diluted by semi-monthly additions Of
distilled water?
3. Does the engine run faster for
any given speed when tires are softer?
4 How does water get out of the
doors of closed cars after running
down from the windows?
8. Are all magnetos high-tension
generators?
CThink these over during the week
and look for the answers i'm this de-
partment next Sunday. You may be
wrong).
iCopyrght. 1926
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Add Fuel Dope First.

It is best to pour the fuel dope into
the gasoline tank before adding gaso-
Evening star., 1926-06-20
PACTSOF TRUCK
/ TIRES ARE TESTED
Best System to Eliminate
Bumps Suggested by Data
L Gathered in Trials.

Deductions drawn from data oh
tained in a series of tests of motor
truck tire impacts on road surfaces.
extending over two years and carried
out in cooperation with the Society
Of Automotive Engineers. are given in
d. paper prepared recently by j. 4.
Buchanan, OF the United States
Bureau of Public Roads.
These conclusions, as set forth in
Mr.. Buchanan's paper, are that the
impact reactions. or force Of the blow,
increases as the weight supported by
the tire is increased, but that the ratio
Of the reaction to the weight becomes
less as the weight is increased: that
the narrower the tread rubber of solid
tires is, the less is the impact reaction,
and that increasing the height of the
tread rubber has a marked effect in
reducing the impact reaction in both
single and dual tire mounting; that
dual tires cause greater impact forces
han single tires of corresponding
load capacity; that breaks in con-
rinuity of the tread surface cause
heavy repeated road impacts. and that
dual tires should be mounted with the
AAVdO uGSlSH stag SSChSu'
Vertical Reactions Measured.
In the tests the vertical reactions
from road distractions We're measured
by a specially constructed instrument
called an aCcelerometer mounted on
the truck and designed to measure the
force and speed OF upward thrusts
and at the same time to measure the
proportional detection of the truck
spring adjacent to the wheel.
The results show that pneumatic
tires may make a rough road seem
reasonably smooth and solid tires in
poor condition may make a smooth
road seem unreasonably rough. A
few tests indicated that no great diff
ference in effect was produced by
varying the unsprung weight, that is,
The weight of wheel, tire and axle
below the vehicle spring supporting
the frame and its load
Eliminate Much ROughness.
From cushioning viewpoint. the
combination of a low pressure balloon
tire or an underinftated high-pressure
pneumatic tire. a relatively heavy un-
sprung weight, and a comparatively
flexible truck spring, might eliminate
all but the seVerest road roughnesses.
A change in mounting dual tires
having a very deep non-skid design. so
that the depressiOnS in the two tire
treads We're staggered instead of being
opposite each other. resulted in reduc-
ing the impact reaction from $500
pounds to 1900 pounds at each repe-
tition of the tread design on a smooth
concrete road. The greatest impact
reactions occurred with all the trucks
ut speeds between u and Is miles an
hour. The impact force with pueu-
matte tires had duration of $1,000 of
a second, and with a wornout solid
tire of about 2-100 of a second.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
YOUR CAR and MINE
A Weekly Department of Helpfulness, Information and
Entertainment for Motor Car Owners.
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN
Modern engineering has given the lie to the song,
neck by making the long, long trail less winding.
By WILLIAM ULLMAN.
MOVE ALL THE WAY OU'

between the automobile industry and real
The interesting feature of it that neither side appreciates the
fact.
Many sections such those around New York and other
metropolitan feeling the pinch OF population
such localities real booming and automobile dealers
irving and succeeding selling possible
More residents transportation and because
irving make the world larger, traffic and
congestion
Yes real moving OUT but for home building mainly.
This transportation into the business Out
living people get portion the business Father
ionalv risks hair the community shop washing ma
chine can be bought suburban STILL the real
busines-shopping pleasure eekngs confined the
the highways far the saturaton
point Out in the great open spaces however the roads
actually hungering for
in
ida town in the metre
Evening star., 1926-06-20
A Good Rule to Follow.

Here is a piece of advice that has
been revamped to meet the demands
Of the automobile operator who al
ways thinks the traffic cop is sighting
him:
Command attention because Of the
attention you give your job Of driv-
ing"
Evening star., 1926-06-20

engine oil or a prepared squeak re-
mover, but in most cases the paint
itself is very effective as a squeak
stopper.
At the automobile factories when
lining the tenders so they do not
Evening star., 1926-06-20

scrape against the frame and set up
annoying noises it is customary to
saturate the padding with paint. This
is done also with padding used TO
insulate the body from the metal
frame.
Evening star., 1926-06-20

Many lines Of business could con-
duet their affairs just as well in a
quiet seaside town as in the metro
politan centers. Because they do not.
the automobile designed to meet the
need Of transportation between home
and office, theater or store, seems to
be failing.
One side or the other must give in
eventually. The public loves it's auto
mobiles. 50 1t should not be difficult to
guess the outcome of the struggle.
Evening star., 1926-06-20

line. The force of the fuel coming
from the hose will serve to break up
and distribute the dope to better ad-
vantage,
Evening star., 1926-06-20
PAINT STOPS SQUEAKS.

Before touching up rusty bolts and
joints with black enamel, it may be
advisable to treat such parts to q little
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
A NEW CHAMPION

Today the world has new champion, clean
living, intelligent, fighting gentleman who has mas
tered the fallen Dempsey.
There will be no regret at this change Of title
and honors and wealth
For in Tunney there more Of those qualities
which we hold admirable than Dempsey ever had
There will be more satisfaction knowing that
fighting man. who fights in war as well as peace Is
the premier Of fighters.
1t is no secret that Dempsey held no great
amount of public admiration.
His conduct during the did not help, and
when he found payaffn nose, he stepped out of
character as far as the public was concerned.
So the people who follow fighting and that
means very large majority, will be glad that Tun-
ney, the pride Of the Marines, who wrote his name
into history at the Marine we'll at Philadelphia,
has come into the craftsmanship
Perhaps the character of Tunney may help us
throw off of the hypocrisy which have writ
ten into laws on the subject of pugism
There is the law which prohibits the transporta-
ton of films of such meeting the State lines.
That is Federal law that passed in order
to make the fstic adventures of Jack Johnson less
profitable and less likely to arouse race wars.
AS result of that law it is criminal to ship pic
lures which would show not only the blow for blow
but good enough the faces Of the Vice President,
of great fnanciers of noted lawyers, of Senators,
of bankers, actresses, all watching contest of which
she picture is deemed degrading and brutalizing
Very few really believe in that law and yet there
it stands and is used largely by thrifty officials Of
the law to obtain cut from the illegal transporta-
ton of such films
That law If we are to send our great to such
places and not resent 1t, ought to be repealed
If these notables not degraded by watching.
pictures ought not be especially debauching
AS long as human nature is what it u.s. men and
women will admire those who fight.
1t may be lamentabe, but 1t is true.
While we condemned pugilism IN the past, 1t Is
true that when Uncle Sam called the youth of this
Nation to war, of his first steps was to teach
pugilism to every youth.
Why not fix up our State laws on this subject
to a point where they nearly approach public
sentiment?
commission, such regulates boxing matches
in other States, might work in Indiana.
For evidently this is profession which appeals
to others besides the lowbrowed thug and the
bruiser Likewise it to interest our "best
brains, If the list Of notables who TunRey be-
come champion means anything
Let's be honest about it-and wish Tunney
lot of luck
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
TAXING BOOTLEGGERS

By more efficiently taxing bootleggers Federal
officials hope to pay large the of prohibition
enforcement.
AS outlined in Washington dispatches the plan
resembles strangely older one by which birds
were to be caught by sprinking salt their tails
There is nothing whimsical, however. in the tax
alton theory back of the proposal
These taxes to be levied so effectively against
the bootleggers, production and occupationa taxes
are relics of day when intoxicating liquors was
legal commodity and source of the Governments
largest revenue. Today the commodity is not legal
and the Government is insdiously playing both ends
toward the middle in attempting to derive revenue
from business it has professed to outlaw forever.
bootlegger operates for profit IT, after catch
ing him. it attempts to tax his illegal business abe
Government is striving for tainted profit just as
much he
This theory of legally taxing illegal commerce
has been gazing strength every year. Under the 1926
revenue act Congress provides that convicted boot
logger must pay not only $40 every gallon of dis
titled spirits diverted to beverage use but from
$1,000 to $4,000 occupational tax as well.
No matter what the courts hold, this kind Of
thing is morally rotten
If convicted bootleggers should give up more Of
their ilgotten gains let the Government levy high
fines There is world of difference between a
tax and fine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
ANSWER, THIS APPEAL

The urgent appeal Of the Red Cross for more
funds for stricken Florida must be answered.
The call upon Indianapolis for $4,000 is pitiably
small and to fail to answer promptly, as the neeo
is immediate, would not be pleasant memory LOT
future historians.
This city sent many of her people to that State
when it embarked upon its era Of rediscovery and
expansion.
That should make the tie stronger were there
any need for emphasis.
The only fact which it should be necessary to
remember is that out of the skies and up from the
seas came an angry gesture of Mother Nature winch
made thousands homeless washed away foods and
the comforts reduced thousands to unequal strug
gle for life itself.
AS always, pestilence threatens and hunger is
menace.
There are lives which can be saved if there is
furnished the Of purchasing the necessary
medicines and food and shelter.
Otherwise many will die and others will live in
misery and pain from illnesses which they will in.
evitably contract
This city in the past has met promptly every
appeal to it's sympathy and its great heart
1t has sent it's money and its men to every area
which has been visited by disasters.
No ocean has limited its interest and no distance
has diminished its sympathy.
The hungry children of the Near East, the vic
tins of the Toxic tidal wave the survivors of the San
Francisco fire, in their hours of need received the
help they needed.
The tragedy in Florida has passed its dramatic
stage But it is still Tragedy and will be for many
days.
Elsewhere in this paper is a coupon which will
guide those who feel their hearts grow mellow at the
thought of suffering in giving reality to their kind
Send your contribution today to the Red Cross
ly sentiments.
that the stricken people of Florida may know that
this city sympathizes with their condition and wishes
to help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
WE'RE GETTING BETTER. NOT
WORSE.
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Don't you get tired Of hearing many people rant
about what they call modern wckedness? AS If there
could be such thing Wickedness is ancient the
devil himself and the bad things do about
NEs those which occupied ancient Troy.
But when you sit right down and think. you can't
help but see that we have improved bit over our an
cestors, If do drink bootleg liquor
Here have 100000 worth of stock in big in
dustres owned by the men and women who are en-
ployed. That's step up from the feudal system.
Here we have women permitted to get out and work
as they see fit That's distance from the harem
We have trial by jury for the owliest citizen and
improvement the lettre de which ter
rorzed France in the eighteenth century.
More people their homes in this country than
have done before. More laborng men drive
automobiles, more farm women have electric house
hold conveniences.
It's not such bad old century, after all. Solomon
in all of his glory and wisdom would be back number
with the average factory hand when 1t knowl-
all Of his conquered worlds, would stand aghast at
the radio Napoleon, with all of his power, could
do the things that possible to the average American
schoolboy.
Read Charles Dickens for a picture of the charity
administration in his day. which is not long past.
Compare with our still imperfect methods of looking
after neglected children.
Think of the debtors prisons all over England
which were opened now and then so that their occu-
pants might to America Isn't our bankruptcy
law finer and more just?
Glance at the alluring tale Of the travels Of Marco
Polo who in 1895, went from Venice to Cathay taxi
ing years the trip, consider flyers who not
long ago went sweeping around the globe
And If you think virtue and decency have suffered
a relapse remember the various mistresses of kings
who, by reason Of their Illicit relationship with the
powerful men on earth, able to dictate the
policies of great nations.
The millennium of righteousness may not be here
but we thousand times more fine and clean than
has been The evolution Of the spirit is for
active.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
Prosperity DuIIS

Prosperity can dull the conscience
If people think too much about it.
and that is what ails this country
today.
Ever since the Republicans took
office six years ago. we have been
fed up on the gospel that nothing
matters so long as business re-
mains good.
You can thank that gospel for
such an attitude OF Indifference to-
ward political scandal. never OBJ
tanned in the United states before.
Who is shocked at beholding a
former attorney general and a for
mer alien property custodian on
trial? Who cares what becomes Of
the Fall-Slnclair-Doheny case? Who
is worrying about the primary slush
fund?
Harding tried to keep things
straight by being kind to every
body and Coolidge has been keep
ing them straight by keeping quiet.
Roosevelt was stronger than
either of them for the full dinner
pail, but he never forgot to be strong
for common honesty at the same
time.
Wilson was never so busy, or so
sick, that he couldn't find time to
brand those who betrayed the pub
lie trust.
Smiles followed by silence at
Washington with regard to every
thing except prosperity. has made
the people wholly unconcerned about
the rawest kind of corruption.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
A Quiz on the
Bible

This quiz uses the Bible as it's
text. Write your answers to the
questions and then turn to page %
to check with the correct list:
What Biblical incident does the
accompanying scene illustrate?
2-What was the difference in age
between Esau and Jacob?
= 3-From what book of the Bible Is
this quotation taken, There is no
peace, saith the Lord, unto the
wicked?
4-What is the last book of the
New Testament?
5-Who destroyed Jericho?
6-Who was the king that made
Esther his queen?
How many generations of chill
dren did Job see before his death?
S-What was the name that JAG ob
gave to the place where he dreamed
Of a ladder ascending to heaven and
covered with angels?
e--Whom did the Lord send to as
sist Moses?
10-Who was hit on the head with
a rock thrown by a woman and then
called on his armor-bearer to thrust
him with sword so he would not
have the disgrace Of being killed by
a woman?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
WHY THEY DO 1T

Admittedly the treasurer of this county took
away from large number of citizens fines and fees
under a scheme by which they were lulled into
belief that they had paid their full tax.
There is no question about the scheme or its
intent or its iiegality.
That is evidenced by the fact that this official
has promised to return the money to those who ask
for it.
That official went into Office by the votes genu-
ne and otherwise which the local machine furnishes
its pets and its cogs.
The total amount Of money which would have
been taken away from the citizens ran into many
thousands of dollars, much perhaps the same
official and his predecessors got under the Barrett
law, also of doubtful morality.
Why do officials do these thngs-and get away
with it?
Every one has the answer of course.
We permit our Government to be run by boss
who deals with all sorts OF men, including United
States Senators.
The boss runs the town. His machine needs the
money. The laws make it very difficult to bring any
one to justice If he does not wish it.
If caught in the act promise to return the
loot is all that is needed
The answer is to throw out the boss and get pub
lie ownership OF public officials
Mussolini has lot of troubles but we doubt II
he is bothered much by life insurance agents.
Maine goes Republican again and there seven
days in week.
A in Indianapolis who stole a concrete mixer
didn't need any of its output for his head.
If saving the surface all there are many faces
which will last million years.
We never see pumpkin pie that don't think it
needs cheering up a bit
He who hestitates gets bawled out by traffic cop
Blue is a wonderful color. but terrible feeling
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
Is It BarbariSnn

The general hue and cry over
sentencing bootleggers to the bread
and water diet has inspired a Ne
braska judge TO try it on himself.
After four days he is willing TO
agree that the punishment is pretty
severe. but no more than a man de-
serves who would sell liquor TO high
school children.
What such an offender may de-
serve is not so important as what
society deserves. So far as individual
deserts go, there are crimes that
might merit torture, but the world
has long since put aside that idea as
too brutalizing in it's general effect.
The issue raised by these bread
and water sentences is not whether
they are just punishment for boot
leggers, but whether this country
can revert to barbarism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
100 STUDENTS
FROM Capitol
ATTEND De PAUW
Total Enrolment at Green
castle School Reported
1900 This Year.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Sept 24.---
One hundred Indianapolis persons
are among the / 500 enrolled this
fall at De PAW University. Presi'
dent Lemuel II. Murltn announced
today.
There were 1913 enrolled last year.
FRESHMEN-M Marjorie G., Alexander
Paul Wesley Blake. Harry Bailey, NORMAL
Babcock, Arthur Cosgrove, Theodore Cai
Kelso Elliott. Marjorie Fleury, Norma
Ferguson. Arthur Funston. Charles Cor
don Eugenia Harris He f,1d al t7,, Jf9s 81
Frederick Lockwood. Don Menke. Burer
Mccormack. Mildred McFall.. FRANCIS A
Pearson. Graham Robertson. James Royer
Lee Searey. Avery Shepherd, Joe Stout
Howard Truit and Louise Waldorf
bel ! App 5ti5.' Mildred AslSren. Aaron Ar
mold, James Bailey. J.. Jean Baker Res
Bauer, Frederick Bishop. willard Bray
lock- Richard Bunch, Anna Louise Burk
ert, lie Grand Cannon. John Austin Car
rinEton, Elizabeth Clark Gerald Ctl;Sre
ham. Addison Bowling. Thelma Davy
Paul buddy George Esterline, Leslie Gard
well Everson4 Helen Elizabeth Fehr, Mar
II, Hanger Laura Hare, Donald HawSins
Richard Townsend Hill. Martha LouisI
Hodges, NJ. Alberta Jones, HengTiettss
Elizabeth King. wills Kinnear, NorTni
Lenglade, Margarte Macy. ,JohIIesId ahrdd
Misner. James McGarvin Mul ~ Jrl
Aileen Aoblitt. Evelyn Oberreicr~ EvelyI
Parnell, Dorothy Peterson. Ruth Quebhe,
man, Gordon Taylor Ritter. Wyne RNtsij
Mary X. Richardson. Robert II. ReinCl
Frances Sharp. Dean St. Clair. Herbert II
Sedan. Merlin Shellabarger Paul Shli
Florence Whittenburg, Horace A. WrigfA
and Smiley Young. I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-24
4 Great Cause

1t is now proposed that all So
cieties interested in the cure of
cancer form a world federation.
Can you think of a better cause
behind which to mobilize and unite
humanity?
With small pox, yellow fever,
leprosy and tubercoiosis we'll under
control, cancer remains the great
fortress for science to storm and
take.
1t is not only terrible because OF
its fatality. but because Of the
suffering 1t involves.
There are very few Of us but
what would prefer most any form
of death to that by cancer.
There are very few OF us, too, but
what would make some sacrifice and
give up something of our pet
traditions, If by so doing we could
rid the world of this dread malady,
even to a partial extent.
Who will be the genius to discover
and find a remedy? We do not
know, of course, but we do know
he will come quicker through the
massing and mobilization OF human
thought.