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Rejoice in the Lord, 0 ye righteous; for praise is comely for
the upright. Psalms 33:1.
What Bores You?
YEARS from now, when young men of today will be white
haired and hobbling about on canes, their piping voices
will interrupt the conversation in the airplane with this:
“I mind the time just like it was yesterday, back there in
1922 when Bell, the inventor of the telephone, died. Strangest
part of it all was that in his last years he didn’t have any phone
in his own house. Said it was a nuisance.”
That will interest people of the future more than any other
fact about the great inventor, just as it has recenly been causing
the most talk.
And yet it is a very simple piece of psychology.
A clerk in a candy store soon gets “sick of the sight of it.”
* The housewife, though she loves the furnishings of her home,
often becomes bored alm'ost beyond endurance by the sight of
the ever-present broom and dislipan.
Small wonder, that Bell became bored and annoyed by the
telephone after devoting most of his long life to it.
It corresponds to you, starting jubilantly on a task, but com
ing down the home stretch with: “If I ever finish this up, I’ll
never tackle another one.”
A kitten never tires of playing with a ball of yarn. A squir
rel would be content to run forever in its revolving cage. A toad
never wearies of music.
All animal life is more or less contented with routine exist
ence. The difference between it and man is that man alone has
the nervous temperament, forever seeking a change, tiring of the
old, laboring for the thrill of the new.
This nervousness is what has made man develop into civili
zation while animal life has plodded along mechanically, without
material improvement or jvogress.
In each of us there is a mysterious something that demands
contrast in life, to keep us normal and progressing.
Physically, emotionally and mentally we react from the thrills
of intense activity to a languid torpor.
It is a natural law and no life can be happy without recog
nizing and conforming to it. Very few men can avoid going To
seed without having a hobby.
Often a wife is blamed for being irritable and grumbling when
all that’s wrong is that she is deprived of contrast by being
cooped up without proper diversion.
Work like a beaver, when you’re working. When you quit
work, forget it—if you can. Concentration is a fine asset, but
only in its place. If life bores you, it is your own,fault. The
remedy is simple—cast about for diversions give you
contrast. And be thankful for sorrows and set-backs. Without
them for contrast, all pleasures and successes would become bore
some.
Next!
NEVBERRIISM lost two ardent supporters when the Re
publican voters of their respective states defeated Senators
New, Indiana, and MeCumber, North Dakota, for renomination.
The first opportunity for the Newberryites to seek vengeance
on a Republican who defied his party bosses and voted to unseat
the Michigan Senator, came with the primaries in West Virginia,
where Senator Sutherland sought renomination.
The issue was clean cut. Two of Sutherland’s opponents were
charged with making extravagant campaigns. Sutherland, who
strictly observed the State corrupt practices law, won by several
thousand.
His vote against Newberry did not weigh against him as it
had been decreed by those who supported the Michigan defendant.
The “Can” in Kansas
ANOTHER stand-pat, stay-put old guardsman has been dumped
by the people.
Congressman Phil Campbell of Kansas, Chairman of the House
Rules Committtee, the man who smothered the Johnson-Woodruff
resolution calling for a probe of war grafts, has taken the count.
For nineteen years Representative Campbell stood pat and he
stood put. He was the ideal “regular”—an obedient party man.
His status as chairman of the all-important Rules Committee made
him a tremendous power. His friends were grooming him for the
Speakership of the House.
Now the people have shorn him of his power. He overplayed
his hand. Next year he ■will stay at home. If any more popular
measures are pocketed as he pocketed the war grafts resolution,
somebody else will have to do the pocketing.
And—remembering Campbell’s fate—perhaps Campbell’s suc
cessor will listen less to the voice of party bosses and more to the
voice of the people.
What’s the matter with Kansast
Nothing. She’s all right.
Nine-Mile Antenna Takes Signals
Sent By Trans-Atlantic Stations
By PAUL F. OODLEY
America’s Foremost Radio Authority.
An antenna nine miles long!
That’s the size of an aerial used
on Long Island for trans-Atlantic ra
dio reception. But it is only fifteen
feet high.
It is of the type known as the
’ wave-wire” antenna, used in long-
Equals 1/2 a os> leagS! —j
IT—rap-
TTpsstanse Peceiver , p
mmMMmsm
HOW A WAVE-WIRE ANTENNA
IS PUT UP.
distance reception because it comes
nearer eliminating static interference
than ary other form known.
Like any of the long-wire type of
antenna, it receives best only from
those directions toward which it
points. By absorbing energy from
the wire at one end, the wire can be
put into such condition as to receive
from one direction only. This la ac
complithed by the use of a resistance
and an earth connection.
When but one wave length long,
the w re is quite directional in its
characteristics. When two wave
lengths long. It is decidedly more
directional. The longer it is. the
more desirable it becomes as an an
tenna designed to receive but from
one fixed station
As installed on the Atlantic coast
for European communications, little
difficulty is now had because of static
except that due to local thunder
storms. Even these effects are
dodged by the association of several
flfetions spread along the coast from
Asbury Park, N. J., to Bar Harbor,
Maine.
Most thunder storms originate over
land and pass out to sea. Thunder
storms which prevent operation of the
stations on the Jersey coast are un
recorded at Bar Harbor because of
the directional characteristics of the
antenna there. Thunder storms at
Bar Harbor are usually of insufficient
intensity to affect operation on the
Jersey coast.
Since all these stations are con
nected by telegraph, it becomes an
easy matter then to shift operations
from one to the other. In this way
European traffic comes through with
but few interruptions.
RADIO PROGRAM
Indianapolis (Hatfield) WOH
—Daily Except Sunday—
-10:00-11:00 a. m., musical program with
special features.
10:15 a. m.. financial, grain and live
stock market reports
1.00-200 p. m.. musical program with
special features.
1:20 p. m.. market reports.
4:00-o :00 p. m„ musical program with
special features.
4:15 p. m.. police notices.
4:50 p. m.. baseball scores.
8:30-10:00 o’clock. Monday. Wednesday
and Saturday, concerts.
Indianapolis <Ayres-Hamllton) WLK
—Daily, Except Sunday—
-11:00-11:30 a. m.. musical program.
11:30 a. m.. weather reports and weather
forecast (455 meters).
12:30 p. m, musical program.
2:00-2:15 p. m.. musical program.
3:00-3:15 p. m, musical program.
5:00 p. m.. baseball results.
10:00 p. m.. time and weather reports
(485 meters).
RADIO PRIMER
COPPER PYRITE Copper ore
containing iron occurring in several
forms. It is used in radio as a low
potential rectifier crystal. In conjunc
tion with zincite.
INTROOUGEBAGT
10 REFUND FIS
UNDER LEVER LAW
Senator Elkins Presents Plan
for Reimbursing Sales
Losses During War.
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LOVETT INDORSES BILL
Daugherty’s Assistant Thinks
Government Might Refuse
Defense of Cases.
■WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 7.—Re
tail merchants who had fines squeezed
out of them by the operation of the
invalid Lever act may get their money
back again.
With the act declared In violation
of fundamental rights of citizenship,
guaranteed under the Constitution of
the United States in a decision made
by the Supreme Court more than a
year ago, governmental gears at last
have been reversed through the in
troduction of a bill by Senator Elkins.
If enough gap is supplied, it is now
freely predicted that the retailers,
many of whom were forced into bank
ruptcy by the illegal penalty, will get
their money back, some day.
One reassuring angle of the situa
tion is the fact that though the Su
preme Court has quite plainly and
definitely ruled the exaction of these
fines as illegal, the Department of
Justice now" doubts very much if the
Government could defend itself against
actions to recover these fines.
Considered Seriously
In t.he eighteen months which have
elapsed since the Lever act was ruled
unconstitutional, the Department of
Justice has had time to consider it all
very seriously. And it has actually
done so, according to former Judge
Robert H. Lovett, now an assistant
of Attorney General Daugherty.
Judge Lovett even goes so far as
to let it "appear” that the Depart
ment of Justice believes that fines
ought to be returned. "I am of the
opinion,” he says, in reply to an in
quiry from Senator Capper, "that it
would appear to be to thetbest inter
est of the Government to have the
Congress grant the relief as proposed
in the bill, and I, therefore, recom
mend that this bill receive the fa
vorable consideration of your com
mittee.”
Lovett Replies
In this same reply Judge Lovett
said:
"The Department of Justice has
given very careful consideration to
the legal questions involved in this
class of litigation, and it is very
questionable whether the Government
will be able to ‘interpose successful
defenses to these su.ts.”
Whether the retailers get their
money back through the simple pro
cess of establishing their claims, or
by further litigation, is not yet defi
nitely known, but Judge Lovett said:
"I further beg to advise that even
if the Government should prevail in
these cases the tine and labor of
the court and counsel would be taken
up In the numerous trials, and the
expenses of the Government in de
fending these cases would thereby be
considerably Increased.”
So it appears likely that the re
tailers may incidentally be permitted
to save expenses in the same manner.
ANSWERS
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tion <>f fact or information by writing
to The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Wash
ington. D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in
stamps. Medical, legal and love and
marriage advice will not be given.
Unsigned letters wi.l not be answered,
but ah letters are confidential and re
ceive personal replies.—Editor.
Q. —Where can one get the report
of the advisory committee on city
zoning (Washington, D. C.)?
A. —From the superintendent of
documents. Government Printing
Office, Washington, D. C. ’ for five
cents. Remittance must be made by
money order.
Q. —Who designed the Confederate
flag?
A.—There were several Confederate
flags, but the best known one was
designed by E. C. Hancock of New
Orleans, I?A., and presented by Col.
J. B. Walton for adoption in 1861.
This is the flag with the red ground,
the blue diagonal cross emblazoned
with white stars, one for each State.
Q. —Who was the college student
whose unpublished book Joseph Smith
is said to have plagiarized when he
wrote the Book of Mormons?
A.—Some writers have conjectured
that Sidney Rigdon, an eccentric Dis
ciple minister, was the real writer
of the Book of Mormons and that
perhaps he took as a basis a manu
script historical romance written
some years before by one Solo
mon Spaulding, a graduate of Dart
mouth. However, no evidence has
ever been found that Smith and Rig
don had ever met or had communi
cated prior to the publication of the
Book of Mormons. The recovery in
1885 of the alleged original of
Spaulding’s manuscript (now in the
library at Oberlin College) has been,
to Mormons at least, conclusive proof
of its non-connection with their sa
cred book, for there is no real re
semblance between the two.
Q. —When were Lincoln pennies
first minted?
A.—ln 1909, at Philadelphia mint.
Q. —How the serpent walk be
fore the temptation of Eve?
A.—The Book of Genesis is the
sole authority for the story of the
serpent. It may be inferred from it
that the serpent had legs prior to
the Temptation, but was forever after
condemned to crawl.
Q. —Does the fact that furloughs
have been used shorten the period
of enlistment?
A. —No, the War Department says
that an enlistment terminates at the
stated time, regardless of the fact
that the furloughs have not been
used.
Q. —How can one remove spots from
spectacles caused by using an elec
tric welding machine?
A.—Try rubbing the spectacles with
alcohol.
THU INDIAN APOLiiS TIMES
Father of 21 Children Advocates
Doctrine That Labor Makes Men
McCLOUD, Cal., Aug. 7.—“Most
folks fail In raising children because
they don’t make 'em work hard
enough.”
And, as father of twenty-one chil
dren, Nicholas Singley, 73, Is well
qualified to speak on the subject.
One of California’s champion
fathers, Singley holds that each house
hold should have a minimum of six
youngsters. Singley’s first wife pre
sented him with ten and his second
with eleven children.
“I don’t advocate that every family
should attempt twenty-one,” he says.
“Don’t worry, I’ve had my little
troubles. But not one of my kids was
ever in any trouble more serious tfian
the usual childish pranks.”
What's his theory?
“Well, I reared them just the way
I was reared—to work. When you’ve
got them doing that you’ve got them
out of'mischief, you’rß training them
toward the future and you’re help
ing out the family income.
“I’ve never been an advocate of
whipping the kids.
“I believe in schooling, but keep
them working and busy when not in
school. It produced men and pio
neers. wives and ladies."
Singley was an early day pioneer
and Indian fighter: a firm believer
that hard work and long life go hand
in hand.
"My father lived to be 107,” he re
calls. “And I expect to do as well.
Modern American Tourist in Paris
Is Not Golden Egg-Laying Goose
By HUDSON HAWLEY-
United Neics Staff Correspondent.
PARIS, Aug. s.—To date, the Amer
ican tourist, in the guise of the golden
egg-iaying goose, has been a distinct
disappointment to France in general
and Paris in particular.
From all sides, from restaurant and
hotel proprietors, from cabaret touts
and promoters of other resorts of simi
lar nature, the cry goes up that " e
1922 vintage of American tourists is
pretty thin, and to the credit of our
fellow-countrymen be it said that the
present shoals of touring fish now
beating on the Gallio shores contain
very few suckers.
The golden days of the visits of the
war millionaires, the plutocratic pil
grims of 1919, 1920 and 1921, are now
well over. The wealthy people now
visiting ,the French capital are those
who had the Paris habit before 1914.
They know where to go. what to do
and how to do it on a reasonable out
lay. The rest of the present crop of
tourists seems to be composed of nice,
middle-aged or elderly couples from
Kansas or lowa—just for example—
who propel themselves about foot
UNUSUAL FOLK
By NBA Service
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7.—Though
only 7. Howard Wolfe Specht, Pitts
! burgh “child evangelist.” has been
| acting as supply pastor during Au
! gust in a church near the city. He
brought mary hear
rrs to *- ho converts'
bench of his
Young as be was
r 1 iffi Wii.iiiiiiilM then - the lad won
an honorary war-
HOWARD rant f or encourag
ing Marine Corps enlistments during
the war, and a Treasury Department
medal for Liberty bond -sales
He is a constant Bible reader and
his mother is determined to make a
clergyman of him. His father Is an
ei-sergeant of Marines, now a street
car conductor.
HEADACHE
By DR. R. H. BISHOP.
' n man Y people a
headache is just
an Incident to be
borne with pa
ir C* tience or dosed
> with powders and
r forgotten.
; A headache is
nature’s warning
| of some physical
defect.
, MKT _ The thing to do
when you have a
headache is to look for the real source
and then remedy the ailment, which
may be merely constipation or indi
gestion or lack of exercise and venti
lation. In the first case, take a purge,
give the stomach a rest for a meal
or two; then go slow on the quantity
of food eaten. If it’s lack of exercise
and fresh air, take a walk.
There are a dozen or so other ail
ments that may cause headache. Often
it's difficult to locate the exact source
of trouble.
Often the immediate cause of a
headache Is over-stimulation of the
heart, an accompaniment of a num
; ber of organic disturbances, resulting
in abnormally high blood pressure
within the brain.
The majority of headache remedies
contain powerful heart depressants,
which bring only temporary relief
add lefive the heart In a more daVi
gerous state than before. There is
always danger in drugs sufficiently
strong to depress the heart.
A competent physiciah usually can
tell by a few questions just what the
cause is.
LEARN A WORD TODAY
Today’s word is—ALTRUISM.
It’s pronounced—ai-troo-iz’m, with
accent on the first syllable.
It means—regard for or devotion to
the interests of others.
It was first used by the philosopher
Comte, who perhaps borrowed it from
the Italian, “altrui,” meaning “of” or
“to others,” or from the Latin, ‘‘al
ter,” meaning another.
It’s used like this—“ Many Anler*
icans feel that, while it is all very
well for them to discuss among them
selves the desirability of canceling
Europe’3 indebtedness to them, the
suggestion comes with a very bad
grace from the Europeans who seek
to profit by this hoped-for altruism.” *
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NICHOLAS SINGLEY
We didn’t think ten hours was a long
day—l’ve worked eighteen hours and
it didn’t hurt me.”
I by day, and generally go to bed quite
I soberly by 10 p. m.
To be sure, there are a few col
legians and sweet young graduates
vacationing or alleged to be'culturing
hereabouts, who now and again ex
ercise the inalienable national privi
lege of making themselves conspic
uous in public. But their number is
i so small and their income is so re
| stricted that they bring but little joy
! to tho purveyors of expensive pleas
ures In consequence, the prop-ietors
j of many of the elaborately equipped
j “American bars” are seriously think
ing of shutting up shop. ,
The invasion of Amlrican literary
and artistic folk which began about
, two months ago, hasn’t helped mat
- ters any. They had friends here to
steer them to non-gouging hotels and
restaurants and furthermore had too
I much work on hand to be naughty,
j Once they hit a breathing spell and
i went forth to disport themselves, they
! found prices so high that by now the
I great majority of them have fled to
: Berlin. Carlsbad. Prague and way sta
i tions, or returned sorrowfully to
: gloomy London.
THE REFEREE
By ALBERT APPLE.
CANCELLATION
Some Wall. Street bank
lera, notoriously generous
Jwji people's money >,
f*9 second the motion about
\ Uncle Sam canceling the
\ loans he made to Europe.
1 T®iwLStep behind the scenes:
J ** In addition to these Gov-
APPLE ernment loans, Europe owes
privato Americans between three
and six billion dollars. Part of this
sum, known as “the unfunded credit
balance," represents the of ex
ported goods that haven't been paid
for. Obviously,.the transactions have
been financed through banka. •
If Wall Street is eo keen about can
celing debts, it could practice what it
preaches by digging into its pockets
and canceling the unfunded trade bal
ance. That's a horse of a differed
color, Rollo.
TALK
Man, commonly accused of a ten
dency to talk too much, is losing the
art of speech in big American cities.
So says Prof. Edward Sapir, Cana
dian anthropologist, after a vlstl to
New York.
He found New Yorkers inclined to
be economical of conversation. They
surrender to tho difficulty of talking
in the uproar of business.
People lapse into silence when they
have to compete with loud noise.
Maybe what Congress needs Is to have
a boiler factory built next door.
QUEER
For twenty years no visitors wore
allowed in the Mellon home in Mil
waukee. Firemen broke In. They
found a dog temple. Nine mummified
dogs, expensively dpaped, lay in state
in the candle-lighted parlor. In an
upstairs room a queen dog presided
over eight living dogs, blinded by
lack of light. It all sounds like some
weird religious rite.
No one would think It queer, how
ever. if the Mellons had kept mount
ed fish, deer heads or animal p.elts
instead of dog mummies. The strang
est things in the universe are lnsido
the human skull. The' brain is su
complicated that no one understands
It, not even the owner.
What is your
ambition to-day?
HOW will it be realized
tomorrow?
We recommend
an interest ac- The mone T you save now will
coast for the . - x- -
systematic ac - play a cl e.tiiiite part in male
cumulation of icg y ou what you want to be.
Jfletcfjer
i&ainngg ani) Crust Company
Capital One and a Half Million Dollars
EXCLUSION CSSE
AT ELLIS ISLAND
ANGERSCAPITAt
Senator Willis Avers Carton
Ruling Is Absurd and Dis
respectful.
CLAIM HAIR SPLITTING
Officials Express Indignation
Over Arbitrary Decisions
of Bureau.
By HARRY B. HUNT
By NEA Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.--Official
Washington is aroused over the piti
ful case of Mrs. P.emi Carton, Belgian
woman who, with her 8-year-old son,
was forced by official red tape at
Ellis Island to make an extra 6,000-
mfle round trip to Europe in order
to gain entry to the United States
under anew quota.
Indignation over the Carton case
is as Intense among supporters of
the “quota” immigration law as it is
among opponents of the measure.
Willis Scores Act
Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio,
a mbember of the Senate Committee
on Immigration and a supporter of
the “quota” measure, condemned the
Cartm ruling in the strongest lan
guage.
“Absolutely absurd,” Willis said.
“It is such arbitrary rulings as this
that create, if not actual disrespect
for law, at least, an attitude closely
bordering on it.
“I should say that what was need
ed in this case and what seems to
have been wholly lacking in it was
just a little bit of common horse
sense. It wouldn’t have taken very
much.
“Asa member of the Senate Com
mittee on Immigration. I did a great
deal to help enactment of the pres
ent law and had not a little to do
with getting it through. I want to
see its spirit enforced to the fullest
degree.
“But I do not want to see trifling
technicalities applied in cases such
as this —such absurd technicalities
weaken regard for the law.
“To force this mother and child to
make a round trip to Europe in or
der to enter under anew quota when
that quota actually was open at the
time of the ruling, is positively silly.”
Mrs. Carton, whose husband has
declared his intention of becoming a
United States citizen, returned to Bel
gium from America several monhts
ago to bring back their son. .She
was told before sailing that there
would be no difficulty about her re
admisslon if she returned within six
months.
On their arrival at Ellis Island,
however, immigration authorities de
clared that because the Belgian quota
If immigrants for the fiscal year 1922
had been exhausted and because they
arrived before the fiscal year 1923
had quite arrived, they could not be
admitted, but would have to go back
to Europe and come again.
Final Ruling Delayed
“Mrs. Carton would have had no
difficulty in returning if she had come
back alone," it was exfWained at the
office of Commissioner General Hus
band. in dacussing the basis for the
apparently hair-splitting decision.
“She watt entitled to return within
six months and be admitted.
“But she returned as the custodian
of a person who never had been ad
mitted to the country and who could
not be admitted under the 1922 quota
—which was the year of his arrival.”
“Too bad, but law is law and must
be enforced.” is the attitude of in- 1
spectors and others connected with
the Immigration Bureau.
Commissioner General Husband is
out of the city and his opinion of
the ruling in the Carton case could
not be obtained.
WOODMEN PLAN PICNIC
Committee Meets and Elects C. A.
Osborn President.
The Marlon County Modern Wood
men picnic committee has elected the
following officers for the ensiling
year President, C. A. Osborn: sec
retary, Ben J. Schlanzer, and treas
urer, Joseph Heath.
The thirteen camps in Marion
County were represented at a meet
ing of the ’committee. It decided
to hold the picnic this year at Broad
Ripple Park, Sunday, Aug. 13
Arrangements have been mode for
the Union Traction Company to run
cars, leaving Delaware and Washing
ton Sts. every five minutes.
NOT EVEN SLEEPING
By BERTON BRALEY.
(Ths defeat of the Old Guard in various
elections lately is ascribed to the revival of
the Progressive party spirit.—News item.)
A SPECTER haunts the Stand Pat crowd,
h\ It tramples through their dreams
at night:
A Specter, truculent and proud.
That keeps them shuddering with
fright.
And through its thick-lensed glasses bums
A glance that shrivels from afar:
Out of the very grave returns
Tha Mighty Spirit of T. R.
HE who awaked a land that slept.
Wrapped in a dull and purblind
slo‘h;
Whose righteous wrath forever kept
The enemies of Mammon wroth;
He who, alive, held men to faith
That no defeat could break or
mar.
Returns, a fierce, dynamic wraith.
The Mighty Spirit of T. R.
THE Old Guard thought his soul was
dead.
Buried within that valiant flesh.
But now it comes with fervor dread.
To plague and. battle them afresh.
He leads hi* forces as of yore
And with a thundrous, cosmic iar
The Old Guards ramparts fall before
The Mighty Spirit of T. R.
(Copyright, 1922, NEA Service)
OLDEST MILITARY
UNIT IN SEDUCE
IMMUNE
Coast Guard Has Record Un
exampled-in Either Mili
tary Branch.
By FRANK J. TAYLOR,
Times Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. —America’s
oldest, hardest working and most
peaceful military unit celebrated its
132nd birthday.
The forgoing title belongs to the
U. S. Coast Guard.
George Washington, when the first
Continental Congress met, asked it
to authorize formation of a maritime
organization which could defend the
coasts of the new republic.
Ten Sailing Frigates
Congress, sitting in New York,
passed an act establishing the Coast
Guard. Ttn sailing frigates Ifcvere au
thorized.
Not a day has passed in the last
ISO years but that this Coast Guard,
created by Washington, has been on
the job, preventing smuggling, sav
ing lives, and protecting the coast
line.
The organization is still a sepa
rate unit. It operates under the
Treasury Department, independent of
the Navy.
Figure in Every War
Coast Guard vessels have figured in
every war the United States has en
tered.
Every August the Coast Guard
fleets gather at central strategic points
along the American coasts for ma
neuvers and stunts.
‘‘Quack, the Cop, ” After Eventful
Career, Settles Down to Poetry
By United News
NEW YORK. Aug. 7.—" Quack, the
Cop” has quit. Restless after twenty
six years of monotonous buffeting by
the ever-surging crime waves of the
great city, Lieut. George T. Quacken
boss thinks he’ll write poetry for a
while and maybe daddle in wireless.
Since that day forty-five years ago,
when he ran away from the learned
atmosphere of his professional
father’s home in Chicago, Quacken
boss has been a daddler.
He speaks, reads and writes Span
ish French, Mexican, Italian, Portu
guese and four Indian dialects with
their symbolic written characters. He
is a physician a telegrapher, a ca
pable instructor in commercial law,
mathematics and the mute language;
he is a proficient scholar in Latin and
Greek and has written poems.
Joins Police Force
Quackenboss was practicing medi
cine, having been graduated a
years before from New York Univer
sity, when Theodore Roosevelt ap
pealed for white collar men to join the
police force. He saw T. R. at once
and was made a patrolman. Officials
of the department tried to “ride him
out” of the force by assigning him to
hell’s kitchen at night—a long beat
in a tough neighborhood, so arranged
that he had to report to a sergeant
thrice as many times as the other
cops.
It was some tLiie before Quacken
boss by his conduct convinced his as
sociates that he was just a cop like
themselves. In thirteen years he be
came a sergeant and in eighteen
years, a lieutenant.
Thrills Begin Early
The father of Quackenboss was a
professor of Greek at the University
You’re Sorry
for that esteemed one who’s confined
to .the invalid bed or chair these
beautiful summer days,
Why not express your appreciation
of normal health and the sincerity of
your friendship and esteem for the sick
by sending a small bouquet of beautiful
flowers, especially arranged by us for
the vase.
240. Mass. Ave. Phone MAin 0840
“Say It With Flowers”
AUG. 7, 1U22
GUARD WEEPS AS
FAITHFUL PHILIP
. SDFFERSDEFEAT
Campbell’s Name Added to List
of Victims Claimed by
Popular Primaries.
TWENTY YEARS’ SERVITUDE
Powerful Figure Becomes One
of Silent Majority, Politi
cally Speaking.
By C. C. LYON
Times Staff Correspondent,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—lt's just
one political disaster after another for
the Republican Old Guard these days.
Until Aug. 1 primaries they were in a
panic. Now they’re in a rout.
The decisive beating Congressman
Philip Campbell got in the Third Kan
sas district Republican primaries is
just as hard a jolt for the Old Guard
as the defeats of Senator New in In
diana. Senator McCumber of North
Dakota and the smashing of the
Pennsylvania machine by Gifford Pin
chot.
Campbell’s downfall is attributed to
too close attention to Old Guard ad
vice instead of to public sentiment.
Moves Not Popular
! As chairman of the all-powerful
Rules Committee of the House he
made a number of moves, none of
which were calculated to enhance his
popularity with his Kansas constit
uents.
He brought in the gag rule that
made it impossible to amend the tariff
bill before it went to the Senate.
He brought in the rules that made
it impossible to raise taxes from big
incomes for the soldiers’ bonus.
He announced he would favor a rule
for a ship subsidy if demanded by
President Harding.
He blocked the joint demand of Rep
resentative Woodruff of Michigan and
Johnson of South Dakota for a House
investigation of the delays of the
Department of Justice in proceeding
against war grafters.
Long Service Ends
Campbell now passes from the pic
ture after nearly twenty years of
faithful service to the Old Guard.
Organization Democrats find noth
ing to enthuse about in the renomina
tion of Senator Jim Reed in the Mis
souri primaries. Reed won against
the opposition of the Wilson Demo
crats, the Anti-Saloon League and or
ganized women.
“Even rank and file Democrats ap
pear to be doing their own thinking
these days,” said a Republican Old
Guardsman in surveying the general
wreckage.
of Chicago. Young George inherited
an absorbent mind.
At 10 he ran away to Kansas to be
a cowpuncher. Five years later he
fared down into the old Southwest for
a<N'entnre and got it. Later he found
a job teaching mathematics and law.
Fairly proud of his recod, but by no
means a vain man, Quackenboss is
proudest of his son. The boy was a
soldier in the war and received a dec
oration which Quackenboss regards
more highely than all his own attain
ments or his citations for saving life
or quelling trouble in the' night
watches in hell’s kitchen or down on
the lower east side.
TO BEAUTIFY PARK
Board Orders Plans Drawn for Alice
Carter Triangle.
Plans for beautification of Alice
Carter Park, Meridian St. and Riviera
blvd., were ordered today by the board
of park commissioners.
The park is a small triangle given
the city by Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Carter,
and named in honor of Mrs. Carter.
The land is part of a large tract
Carter acquired and subdivided many
years ago.
’IF YOU ARE WELL BRED
You remember it Is not good form
to use initials, nicknames or surnames
or given names alone when signing
correspondence.
A married woman should sign her
self “Mary Smith,” not “Mrs. John
Smith." If she wishes to identify
herself as the wife of John Smith she
may put the name, Mrs. John Smith,
in brackets beneath her own name.