Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1920 — Page 4

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Jnfifcma |3aitij Wimts INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 26-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Offices —Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos. Entered as tecond-class matter at the postofflee at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription Rates—By -carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mall, 60c a month, $1.23 for throe months, $2.00 for six months, or $6.00 a year. AMONG THE THINGS it is not now necessary to worry about are those alleged messages from Mars or Venus. JUDGE EIWBANK avoids the issue in the Sipe case with the same ability that the appellate court exercises in the tax case. WAS WASMUTH appealing to the republican editors for help or merely giving them their orders for the coming campaign? HAS DR. M’CULLOCH discovered anew cure for cancer, or does he propose merely the political exercise of the well-known surgical treatment? Tax Payers Betrayed Centralization is established in Indiana, z The first necessity of government, the power to fix taxes, has been tom from the men who pay the taxes and established firmly in the hands of the governor. The greatest essential to home rule, to government by the governed, has been ruthlessly, cast aside in the mad scramble of the office-seekers for power —power to do as they pleased and in so doing to compel their neighbors to do as ordered. The thirteen colonies, from which sprung this nation, fought a war on less provocation. They rose up in their independence and said to their mother country: “You shall levy no taxes on us in the determination of which we have not had a voice.” And in support of that defiance of a monarchy red blooded men of old waded in blood for seven long years that out of their sacrifice there might come to posterity the right to govern itself. The people of Indiana have supinely* surrendered this birthright of the nation. By legislative enactment they have taken from themselves the right to assess themselves for taxation and have placed it wholly in the hands of a board appointed by one man, a man who shrieked from the political stumps of this state his one reason for seeking public office: “I want the power, you hold me responsible." Today this exponent of the theory that the people of Indiana are not worthy to govern themselves has the power. There can be no mistake about that Read what the appellate court, which copper riveted and iron bound that power, says of taxation: “Everyone will admit that the life and existence of government depends on the collection of taxes. This is one of the Inherent powers of government. * * * Governments can not exist without their revenues.” * • Today, in Indiana, this power, without which governments can not exist, on which the life and existence of government depends, is vested in the hands of one man whose ability to exercise it in his own arbitrary way is as absolute as was the will of the slave drivers before Lincoln said that "no man is fit to govern another without that other’s consent.” Have the people of Indiana consented to place this inherent right of government wholly in the hands of one man, to be exercised through a subservient triumphrate? Look at the records of the courts. Count the cases in which the taxpayers of Indiana, awakening to the growing menace of a centralized taxing system, have sought to Interpose the laws of Indiana between their rights and the grasp of the monarchy for absolute control. Listen, if you will, to the protestants who have visited the office of even/ tax assessor in this state to cry aloud their astonishment at the state of their own government, to raise their voices in vehement objection to the results of their own Indifference, their own mistake in listening flowery promises of the man who “wanted the power.” Can it be conceived that these taxpayers, clutching at the straws as they sink in the floods of state directed assessments, are content with this infamy? Is there no appeal? Can nothing be done in Indiana to preserve to the humble home owner and the freedom loving taxpayer those constitutional privileges which he so long enjoyed and so completely lost? What of the courts? Do they not stand between the greedy seekers of power and the people from whence all power must come? Are they not the bulwarks of our liberty and the guarantors of our rights to self-gov-ernment? The appellate court looks down upon the seizure of the taxpayers’ right to govern his own taxes and, with the sophistry of King George’s parliament, says: “We do not deem it necessary to enter into any discussion of the power of the state tax board to make the order of which complaint Is made, but we may say in this connection that we are ndt prepared to hold that it did not have such power. We prefer to place our decision on the broad ground of jurisdiction and public policy.” So much for the right of appeal. Firm in the belief that no law could be enacted in Indiana which would take from them their voice in the exercise of the inherent power without which governments can not exist, the people of Indiana sought the courts to call to their attention the fact that a one-man board was usurping the ■ -authority vested in the people themselves by the first principles of a free government, and the appellate court answers: “We are not prepared to hold that it did not have such power.” So be it. If by any legislative enactment which they did not understand the people of this state have assigned to a governor and his tax board their right to participate in the inherent powers of government, then that assignment must be revoked. If, through any show of force or use of deceit, or pretty promise of non-provocative use, the taxpayers of Indiana were shorn of their right to exercise control over the life and existence of their government, then such action was fraud and woe be unto the political party or the man or coterie of men who have practiced fraud on the people of this state. For in the hearts of men whose forefathers fought and died for freedom there still smolders the honest love of freedom’s institutions. In the home of Abraham Lincoln there lingers the echoes of that memorable speech: “No man Is fit to govern another man without the con sent of that other.” And this the people of Indiana will cast their ballots for selfgovernment, for preservation of liberty, as men and women betrayed who rise in righteous wrath against their betrayers. > What Helps Farmers Given soil, seed, machinery, rains, sunshine and agricultural experience, all farmers would progress at about the same pace, fields here and there would attain about the same yield. But this isn’t the actual happening. Some farmers do better than others. Some farms are more productive. Why Is this so? The answer probably lies in the question recently asked 2,300 representative farmers by the department of agriculture: “What helps the farmer most?” The answer was “words.” Mere words, words of advice, suggestion, experience, discovery, Invention, spoken by the county agent and contained in the papers, monthlies, weeklies, dailies that come to the farmer's gate. Sixty-nine per cent gave these two sources of suggestion credit for helping the farmer most, 38 per cent said they received most help from the county, agent and the farm bureau, 31 per cent placed the agricultural press first. _ The agricultural extension work of the department of agriculture under the Smith-Lever act, which reaches the farmer through the county agent and farm bureau, has made good. And the county agent doesn't do much else than talk, a few words about what this man is doing for his cattle, what another does for his corn field, how another battles successfully against this insect or that plant disease. Bearing all this in mind, it is not hard to see how and why it is that, taking both acreage and yield per acre into consideration, the average American farmer produces two and one-half times as much as the average Belgian farmer, two and three-tenths times as much as the English, three and two-tenths times as much as the German, and over six times as much as the Italian.

HARDWOOD MATERIAL FOR NEW INDIANA DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM Suggested by James K. Risk

Editor Indiana Daily Times —I notice that there is some suggestions coming to The Indiana Dally Times as to what should go Into the democratic state platform. The suggestions are timely and the subjects discussed by O. S. Jone? of Covington, Ind., are practical and_ sound. I know that the great majority of voters comprising the democratic party In Indiana believes the party t<f have a moral conscience and I believe the party should give expression, through Its platform, indicating Its support of all the great moral questions that have recently been written Into law, or aro In the process of becoming laws, ann additional moral questions that should be written in the law. The democratic party has been the real leader in the last seven years for moral reform. It has been well supported by the progressive element ot tlie republican party. The democratic party in Its platform, on which Its campaign is to be waged in 1920, in the state of Indiana, should give whol* hearted indorsement to national prohibition and declare sperlfleally that It will Insist on no backward step on this subject, and that it will stand for the most rigid law enforcement under the federal prohibition statute. The democratic state platform should declare for common honesty in every department of state government. It should pledge every candidate on Its ticket to a faithful, honest and economic service. The democratic platform must Invite confidence, and to do this It must offer confidence in return. The democratic platform should declare for a constitutional convention and demand that the delegates t.o the constitutional convention should be selected under our present direct primary lew and without any political Interference by any political party. A constitutional convention Is necessary In order that the people may have a right to give direct expression upon many needed reforms. Until our constitution will permit of the proper classK fleation of property, in creasing difficulties will always block the enforcement of a Jnst and equitable tax law. Unfair and unequal .burdens placed on the farmer or on any other class of people, through unjust tax laws, must not and will not be tolerated. Complete home rule for city governments will be Impossible until the constitution Is rewritten, providing for the people the right to decide among themselves and In their own way the kind ot charter they desire to operate their government under. We should have a revision of our court system and* this change can come only through constitutional procedure. There are many court reforms needed and (jertainly every one will admit that it is absolutely unnecessary to have two state courts with concurrent Jurisdiction, permitting the supreme court to review the decisions of the appellant court. Our present system permits of long delay and unnecessary costs in final adjudication of oases in court. The initiative and referendum has been endorsed by more than half of the states in the nation; the last states to accept this splendid reform was Ohio, Michigan and Massachusetts. The referendum gives the people the right to have the final say on legislation passed by the legislature, and the Initiative gives the people the right to 1 direct the legislature in framing laws suitable to the people. It sounds the j death knell to the corrupt lobbyist and ; makes It possible for the legislature to transact the people's business without outside interference. Mr. Roosevelt, when president of the ' United States, sent his secretary of war, Mr. Taft, to Oklahoma to advise against the adoption of the initiative and the ; referendum in the now constitution that I was before the voters of Oklahoma. The ! Oklahoma voters rejected Mr. Taft's ad- i vice, hy more than 100,900 majority, and 1 adopted the initiative and the rerefer- j dum as part of their constitution. Not long after this. Mr. Roouevelt ad- j initted that he was wrong in opposing i the Initiative and referendum, and. In addressing the constitutional convention

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of Ohio, said the initial and referendum was sound and advised Its adoption. President Wilson has given open expression in favor of the Initiative and the referendum, and the one. man, who is today regarded as the greatest champion of progressive thought and greak moral reforms, has advocated the Initiative and the referendum for a quarter of a century. I refer to the great commoner, Hon. W. J. Bryan. Our government is indebted to Mr Bryan for many splendid laws that have been written on the federal statute books in the last seven years, and the democratic party is certainly Indebted to Mr. Bryan for the service that he rendered to the party In nominating Mr. Wilson, in 1912, and the service again rendered in 1910 that re-elected Mr. Wilson. There are other needed reforms that can come only through constitutional revision and a constitutional convention is the only way in which all of these important subjects can be disposed of without unnecessary delay. The democratic platform should declare? for a budget system. The democrats of Indiana, in selecting their delegates to the state convention In Indiana, should select men of Independent thought —men who will give expression to both moral and progressive thought, and who will insist on writing a real democratic platform without Interference by political bosses. There must be no attempt In future to landpick the members of the resolutions committee In the democratic state convention. The women of Indiana and of the nation have battled long and consistently for their Just rights as American citixens, and within the next ninety days they will be dona fide voters. They will follow the dictates of their conscience and I am sure they will inquire of every candidate who aspires to public-office what his record ha been, not only on the suffrage question, but on the temperance question, and if he can not give a clean report that he has been on the right side of these great moral reforms he will not be table to obtain the votes of the good women of Indiana. If the democratic party does not come clean on all of these great questions and declare openly In favor of them the democratic party will not be able to secure its share of the women’s votes. The democratic voters of Indiana should demand from all candidates, who file petitions In the coming primary, where they stand on all the questions that the voters think should go Into the democratic platform and the candidate who is not willing, before the primary. sto state clearly what his program Is, Is not entitled to any consideration by the democratic voters of the state. The candidate who takes the position that he will not give expression on important subjects prior to the primary, but says he will run on any platform that Is made by the convention, Is a coward and unworthy of consideration by the voters of any political party. Honest, efficient and practical business management, as applied by all honest business men In the management of their business affairs, should he applied in the management of government. Men and women, who accept positions in government, must render an honest and efficient wervlce and mnst be diligent in safeguarding Interests of government. When men are willing to give their lives in defense of their government. certainly public servants should be equally anxious to serve their government honestly. The Indiana democrat who comes forward as a candidate for governor with a real program, and who will fight for his program, Instead of fighting for his personal ambition—the man who Is more interested in his country's welfare than In any office, and who has courage to express his convictions and accept responsibility for them, will have done hie ■duty and will have rendered a service to his party, and a larger service to the people of the state of Indiana, regardless of the results of his candidacy. JAMES K. RISK. The total amount of dissolved salts In tho ocean would, Jt Is calculated, If extracted, form a pavement 170 feet thick on the entire seabed.

FREE PRESS The proposition which I mean to maintain as the basis of the liberty of the press, and without which it is an empty sound, is this: That every man, not intending to mislead, but seeking to enlighten others with what his own reason and conscience, however erroneously, have dictated to him . as truth, may address himself to the universal reason of a. whole nation, either upon the subject of govern--1 ments in general or upon that of our own particular country; that he may analyze the principles of its constitution, point out its errors and defects, examine and publish Its corruptions, warn his fellow citizens against their ruinous consequences, and exert his whole faculties In pointing out the most advantageous changes in establishements which he considers to be radically defective or sliding from their object by abuse.— By Thomas Erskine. COMPETING FOR MEN With the United States, Europe, Canada and some of the South American countries clamoring for new man-power, competition for immigration is today practically on the same footing as the world struggle for commercial supremacy. This Is revealed as a result of a study made by the Inter-Racial Council of New ork and described in a statement sooh to be Issued in the form of a bulletin to the leading Industries of the country. The statement says. “The present shortage of foreign-born unskilled workers, due to the lack of immigration during the war aud tho emigration to home countries, proposed anti alien legislation and other cause-, calls attention to the fact that the United States is not the only country offering economic opportunities to the immigrant labor of the world. ’* “The Canadian government appropriates several hundred thousand dollars annually to care for and encourage Immigration to Canada. Agents are stationed In the principal European cities They have with them traveling exhibits of Canada's opportunities. The government pays bonuses to steamship offices for selling passage tickets to Canada. “Australian provinces are assisting Immigration. New Zealand arrange* with the shipping com pan lea for reduced fares for desirable Immigrants. “Argentina Is receiving large numbers of Italians, Spaniards and Ffench. Fret land Is given to the newcomers. Naturalized citizens are exempted from military service for ten years—a coHoesaion which means much to some of the race*, from Europe who have endured militaristic governments. ’’Brazil’s immigration laws will not only give free passage to all who come to Its ports as immigrants, but will take care of them on arrival, transport them to their destination, provide them with tools and seeds and supply them with medicine and care for their families. “The department" of emigration and immigration In Germany has been formed to work for the return of Germane from foreign countries. Hungary likewise is urging the return of former subjects. “France is counting on a considerable Influx of Italian agricultural labor. It Is stated that Italian emigration to North and South America will be much smaller In the future, although the seasonal migration to nearby European countriea will continue." FACTS Peru exported 434,438,70© pounds of sugar, worth $20,527,774 in 1918. The Aemrican Red Cross spent $.38,730,000 In relief work In Belgium and France in 1919. Coal production in the Unßed States for 1919 waa 544,623,000 tons compared with 878,212,000 In 1918. The nAval shipyard at Portsmouth, K. H., is tho oldest In the United States. Great Britain produced 255,345,440 tons of ocal in 191S, only 79.3 per cent of 1913 production. Jacob Margolls, Pittsburg anarchist, 1 told tho senate committee that he owned ; stock In a bank.

I EX-V. S. SUPREME JUDGE HUGHES

THE country was startled last week, and could hardly believe the report to be true, when Charles E. Hughes, ex-member of the supreme court of the United States and nominated by one of the great political parties for president, was found knocking at the doors of the New York legislature asking that he might be permitted to defend the socialists who had been kicked out, as a body, of the New York legislature. How the mighty have fallen! Both the constitution of the United States and the constition of the state of New York require that the members of congress or the members of the legislature of the state take a solemn oath that they will observe and protect the constitution of the United States and that of the state to which they have been elected to represent the people. The five socialists referred to were of a peculiar type of men and represented an element that is not wanted in this country, and they ran on a platform that had for its basis the destruction of the constitution of the state of New York. Os course, they could not be fired from the legislature until they had been admitted. In order to carry out their work of destruction they were willing to perjure themselves so as to get their seat; but this fooled nobody in the legislature of the state of New York and they were immediately expelled, as no right-thinking man would sit In a body like the legislature of the state of New York alongside of men who had perjured themselves for the seat and had been elected on a platform contrary to the constitution of the United States and to the constitution of the state of New York. They hired lawyers to represent them, but to the great surprise of the public there voluntarily appeared the great Charles E. Hughes, an exsupreme court judge, who resigned his position from the supreme court of the United States to run for president. I was always a little suspicious of his bend of mind after the last presidential election when he spoke for himself in five German socialist counties in the state of Wisconsin, these being the only counties in which ho spoke in that state. This said Hughes, years ago. when a young man, saw an opportunity to become popular with the people hy attacking the insurance trusts. He had a just cause and went at it fearlessly. The result was, he became so popular that he was elected governor of the state of New York. Later he was appointed to the supreme court bench, and then he began to show his weakness when he resigned the highest position that an attorney can really attain in the United States to run for president. Now he has shown up as a self-appointed defendant of people who have peruired themselves to ruin the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state In which they live and overthrow our republican form of government. —W. D. Boyce in the Saturday Blade, Chicago.

FATHER BELIEVES IN HOME PROTECTION.

ABIE WILL BE IN GOOD HEALTH THE NEXT NIGHT.

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IhcleJfaM) A Column Conducted. Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue of U. S. Public Health Service. Uncle Sam, M, D„ wIU answer, either In this column or by mail, questions of general Interest relating only to hygiene, sanitation and the prevention of disease. It will be impossible for him to answer questions of a purely personal nature, or to prescribe for Individual diseases. Address: INFORMATION EDITOR, U. S. Public Health Service, WASHINGTON. D. C. IF THE FLU ATTACKS YOU. In guarding against disease of *ll kinds, it Is Important that the body be kept strong and able to fight off disease germs. Perhaps the best way this can be done Is by having a proper proportion of work, play and rest, by keeping the body well clothed, and by eating sufficient wholesome and properly selected food. In connection with diet, It i& well to remember that milk Is one of the best ail-round foods obtainable for adults well as children. In a disease like Influenza health authorities everywhere recognize the very close relation between its spread and overcrowding. While it Is not always possible, especially In times like the present, to avoid overcrowding, people should consider tho danger to health and make every effort to reduce homo overcrowding to a minimum. The value of fresh air through open windows can not be overemphasized. So far as avoidance of direct infection through Inhalation Is concerned, It it advisable to beware of the person who coughs or sneezes without covering his mouth and nose. It also follows that one should keep out of crowds and stuffy places as much as possible; keep homes, offices and workshops well aired; spend some time out of doors each dayj walk to work If at all practicable; In short, make every effort to breathe ae much pure air as possible. The indirect transmission of Influenza while more difficult to avoid, can perhaps. be guarded against to a re rain extent. Less shaking of hands, shunning unclean oda fountains and restaurants, avoiding the use of common drinking cups and common towels, insistence on the observance of sanitary practices In food handling establishments, and on the enforcement, by the authorities, of the sanitary regulations governing aoch places—these are an measures that will help guard against infection. Their more general practice would do much to prevent the spread of disease generally. So far as our present knowledge goes, to a large extent the prevention of Influenza can be summed up in the single word “cleanliness.” f^EADIHESEBosks ijoufftiiblicLibrsn; We arrive at f&any of our conclusions about countries as about people—from what Is said or written about them. A biased report, whether through Jealonay or ignorance, may serve to give us a very distorted view. As loyal Americana, we should dislike to have American conditions and home life pictured falsely to those abroad. Rupert Brooke felt reasonably sure he had seen and understood America, although he saw merely New England, New York and at most tb® neighboring states. The central public library would suggest the following books as depicting most accurately and delightfully conditions and home life in America: “Louisa M. Alcott, Her Life, Letters and Journals,’’ edited by Mrs. Cheney; “The Lif® of Samuel Barrows,’’ by Mrs. Barrows; “Village Life in America,” by Mrs. Caroline C. Clark; Mark Twain’s letters: “My Mark Twain,” by W. D. Howells; “Mark Twain, a Biography,” by A B. Paine; “Acres of Diamonds,” by Russell Conwell; “Jn Spite of the Handicap," by James D. Corrothers; “Bon of the Middle Border," by Hamlin Gc -land; “Letter® to Ills Children," by Theodore Roosevelt: “Story of a Pioneer,’’ by Anna H. Shaw; “Harriet Beecher Stowe,” by Mrs. Martha F. Crowe, and “Letters of a Woman Homesteader," by Elinor Stewart.