Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1920 — Page 6

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Jtibiatm Sail® ©tittg INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 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 postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates—By carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mail, 50c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5.00 a year. AGITATION FOR simplified spelling has given way to an agitation for simplified getting. GERMAN MUSIC will regain its old popularity, but in the concert of nations it will be a minor strain. IT MAY BE that Chicago school teachers are radical as charged. Trying to live on a school teacher’s salary would have that effect. Europe Busted Many people in this country were surprised to learn a few weeks ago that the allies have never paid the United States a cent of interest on the $10,000,000,000 they had borrowed from us and that we are unable to collect the $6,000,000,000 of commercial debts that are ow'ed to us by European countries. The United States secretary of the treasury, and even congress, are in favor of asking them for it now. If we could collect from Europe the interest on what she owes us, to say nothing about the principal, we could fast retire our own bonds, or at least lighten our own taxes. When we went into this war we went into it, as we always do, for the sake of humanity, and to prevent the kaiser from becoming ruler of the world. If we had not, we would be his subjects today and, of course, our taxes would be as high as they are now; to save our own “bacon” we went into the war. A few days ago some statistics were given out by the foreign banking department that so startled the big bankers that had been grabbing off what looked like big money through dealing with Europe, that the story was not continued or repeated. Nevertheless, it is true that unless conditions change, Europe is broke. The estimated wealth of Germany is $50,000,000,000, with debts of $55,000,000,000, including what she owes and is supposed to pay the allies. This makes her $5,000,000,000 worse off than nothing. Austria-Hungary is hopelessly broke and starving. France is the richest country in money and has more money coming from Italy and a lot of “busted” Balkan states, including Greece, than she owes, but what docs it benefit you if somebody owes you SSOO and you owe somebody SSOO and they can not pay you the SSOO. but you must in some way dig for the SSOO you owe? If you can’t get it you are broke. So it is with France. After having lost so very many men in the war, the earning ability of the nation has been reduced to the minimum; she can not earn enough hardly to live today, to say nothing about paying back what she owes us and her own people; in fact, she hasn’t taxed her own people yet any more than they were before the war, while in this country we are taxed six times as much as we were before the war. England, of course, is the richest country in the world because she has so many rich colonies, like Canada, Australia and South Africa, and today she only owes about one-fifth of w r hat she is really worth. If she goes along quietly without internal trouble she can and will pull through. But she has loaned a large amount of money to a lot of nations like Turkey and Russia that can never pay her back and there is where the pinch comes. Her balance sheet is all right if what she had coming to her were good. Poor, hard-working, light-hearted, stick-you-with-a-knife Italy is in a very, very bad The only thing that may save Italy is the large amount of money that the Italians earn in the United States and send home to their relatives, who live on little or nothing In Italy; they possibly can pay their very high taxes with money earned in the United States, and, in some way, somehow, pull out of the hole. The king of Italy is a very bright and wealthy business man, although he got it badly. He had $25,000,000 invested in the United States Steel stock two years before the world war, but the kaiser arranged for him to get in on the ground floor in the Krupp Gun Works in Germany and he took his money out of the United States Steel stock and invested it in German stock. That, possibly, is one reason that Italy is still quite friendly to Germany and, I believe, ntver declared war on her. He is very sore at the United States. Russia, of course, is busted, and will be for many years to come. She car. never pay back what she has borrowed, if she wanted to, and it will be twenty-five years before she will have a sufficiently stable government to even trust her for goods in a commercial way. It looks more and more every day as if the United States was going to have to pull in her horns, get down to earth again, quit talking in billions and go to work. It isn’t much use in trading with foreign countries who can not pay the interest on their loan and who are so hard up we don’t even ask them to pay it. This country is short of and needs everything in the manufactured line and prices are entirely too high. It w T ould be much better for us to settle down for awhile and get back to normal prices and attend to our own business and not try to control the markets of the w r orld. Profiteers In this country have gone money crazy. The sooner part of them are put in jail and the balance are brought to realize the true situation, the better it will be for everybody.—\V. D. Boyce, in the Saturday Blade, Chicago.

Goodrich's Defense The proposed speaking tour of James P. Goodrich in defense of his administration as governor is probably without a parallel in the history of Indiana. Being compelled by an overwhelming sentiment in his own party to withdraw from the race for the state’s support as a candidate for president, he now proposes, five months before the primary, to take the stump in defense of an administration which is not presumed to play a part in the selection by the republican voters of candidates to succeed it. It will be generally conceded that the administration of James P. Goodrich needs defense. But there t ill be considerable doubt as to the efficacy of any defense of the Goodrich administration that might come from Goodrich himself. However, in taking the stump in his own behalf, the governor modestly admits that none could make as able a defense of himself as he can make and he also arouses some speculation as to where he could find a republican who would stump the state In his behalf. Although Mr. Goodrich and his ever-complacent state chairman, Ed Wasmuth, do not appear to have found it out yet, It is a fact that the leas said of Goodrichißm in the coming campaign, the better the chances of republican Buccess. This viewpoint is known to be held by at least two of the republican candidates for governor, and possibly three of them would subscribe to it if they were consulted. But this is not a campaign in which, the republican party is to be permitted to select its candidates or build its platform. James P, Goodrich has retired from the field where liis own candidacy was In such disrepute that It could only have encountered a humiliating defeat, but he has not retired from republican politics. He now proposes to make his administration a canjpaign issue, force the republican candidates, who have no choice, to accept the issue and thereby stand up to the storm of disapproval from which he sought shelter when he retired from presidential consideration. X The Air Mail Two bills, pending in congress, propose to take the air mail service from the postofflce department and turn It over to the war department. This in face of the fact that since inauguration of the air mail, May 16, 1918, it has carried 22,254,400 letters, advancing their delivery on an average by sixteen hours. And, too, in face of the fact that commercial needs are ever present, while the next war may be decades distant. There is fully as much sound business judgment in thus turning the mail service from the postofflce to the army “because aviators will be needed in the next war,” as there would be in handing over the railroads, the telegraph system or Industrial plants capable of making munitions to the secretary of war's department, because these, too, will be needed to fight the next war. % . Keep the air mail where It belongs—in the postal department. If the army needs a war-trained air corps, include that in the armyv equipment jm

FOOLING BSK Jr-*; O p e r ation of INDIANA VOTERS Circulation IsNo. 3. —A Republican Failure. * “ e j{ \ a „a kp* publican State Copyright, 1920, I. P. B. Committee.

In accordance with what was evidently the author’s purpose lo make Gov. Goodrich the dominant figure in the republican party, this booklet quotes him in the beginning and in the end. In its introductory paragraphs it attempts to define the tax situation as Gov. Goodrich found it prior to taking office. It quotes him as follows: “If the public conscience can be aroused and the true facts presented in a ca'm and dispassionate way, we feel sure that the taxpayers of Indiana will support their legislature and the state administration in any intelligent effort directed toward the revision of our tax laws, so that the state shall cease to exist half free and half taxed, and that every citizen shall contribute to the support of the state in proportion to the property he owns.” Assuming this viewpoint, one can not help being impressed with the simplicity of the tax problem of Indiana. Only three things are necessary to cure all the tax evils: 1. Arouse the public conscience and present the true facts in a calm and dispassionate way. 2. Make an intelligent effort toward the revision of our tax laws. 3. Enjoy the support of the taxpayers and the legislature in the enactment of this revision of tax laws. The republican state committee says: “Time and again, subsequent to the speech at LaGrange, Gov. Goodrich emphasized the inequalities in the assessment of property and pledged hi.nself and his administration, if elected governor. to remove the inequalities In assessments."

SOME FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM PLANKS By J. P. DUNN

Editor The Times—l read James K. Risk’s article in your Issue of Jan. 31 on what should be In the next democratic platform, with much interest; because, while it is rather premature to undertake to decide definitely on the subject, it is certainly desirable that democrats should be thinking about it. When Chairman Hays made big offer of SIO,OOO for the best republican platform, it struck me as absurd, but when you consider it, it is not a bad way to get people to thinking about what should be in the platform; and that is what is necessary if you are to get a good platform. In my opinion, the people of Indiana, and of the whole country, are tired of talk. They want something done. The “great constructive party” has been in control of congress for a year, and has not constructed anything, i think tinpeople would welcome a platform which would avoid glittering generalities, and state specifically what the party proposed to do. In the expressive phrase of the day, what the people want is for the political parties to “get down to brass tacks.” I would suggest that Mr. Risk's recommendations are not satisfactory In this regard. In the first place he favors a declaration for “common honesty.” If that declaration were made, the republicans would probably congratulate the country that the democratic party had at last awakened to the desirability of common honesty, and declared for It. If we answered that the need to which we referred was In the republican party they would reply asking a bill of specifications. What particular act in violation of common honesty did we refer to? I would specify in the platform. It surely is not common honesty for an official to violate his oath of office. The governor, members of the legisla ture and judges of the supreme court are all under oath to support the constitution of the state. The constitution

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Gov. Goodrich then pledged his administration to do these three simple things that were necessary to solving the tax problem in Indiana, and in the furtherance of that pledge his administration, with control of both the senate and the house, enacted the present tax law revisions, the “greatest achievement of the republican party in Indiana since the civil war.” But did the inequalities in assessment vanish ? Ask your neighbor. Compare your tax assessment with his. Look over the list of appeals that were taken from your township to the state tax board and then look at the assesments of those who were not willing to appeal. Seek the records of the courts, where case after case is pending against the state tax board having for its purpose the righting of confiscatory assessments. Os, if you are too busy to do that turn to page twenty-four of the booklet of the republican state committee and consider the assessment on the lot owned by Jennie H. Hewitt of Cadiz, Henry county. You will note that, according to this official document of the republican committee, this lot was assessed for $340 in 1918, $1,320 in 1919 and sold for SSOO. This Is an illustration of the manner In which the “greatest achievement of the republican party since the civil war” removed the inequalities in assessments, which Gov. Goodrich pledged his party and his administration to remove. N0.4 will discuss “A Republican Excuse.”

provides that no bill shall be presented to the governor on the last two days of a legislative session. At the last session of the legislature two-thirds of all the bills passed were presented to the governor on the last two days of the session, and were received by him, in defiance of the provisions of the constitution. It Is true that this provision has been violated for a number of years past, but never as at this session, and never with such disastrous results. There were never before so many bills found to have been altered after passage, either through mistake, or worse than mistake. It has become a sort of tradition In Indiana that It is a “privilege of the governor” to receive bills on the last two days, but there Is no foundation for this. The supreme court has repeatedly held that such action was in violation of the constitution, bnt gets around It by holding that the signature of the governor to the enrolled bill Is his official certificate that the bill was constitutionally passed, and they could not allow it to be questioned. And so, between these three departments of government, nil sworn to uphold the constitution, the constitution is openly violated, and there is no remedy. r would pledge every democratic nominee against this wrong, in the state platform, and promise ex plieitly that no bill would be received on the last two days of a session under any pretense whatever; for there Is not the slightest necessity for any being presented. if the legislature nttends to business in the first half of the session, In stead of wasting Its time skylarking. Mr. Risk says the democratic platform should declare for a constitutional convention. Heaven knows the state needs a constitutional convention, hut the supreme court has declared that the legis lature can not call one without a vote of the people In favor of It. The utmost that could be done honestly is to promise a submission of the question to the (Continued on I’age El-ven.)

Bsss&ssßamsame^BamammmasßßXimmi A Column Conducted Under Di-! rection of Dr. Rupert Blue of U. S. Public Health Service. Unelei Sam, M. I)., will answer, either ! in this column or by mail, questions ot 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. Q. I was discharged from the* army j eight , months ago, and despite all I can do can not get rid of an annoying reminder of myservice, namely, cooties. What would you advise? A. You are probably entitled to free ■ medical care under the provision of the war risk act. Please send me your name and address and I will see that the matter is referred to the proper >uthorities. Q. I am a high school student, studying biology. Can you tell me all about sewage disposal? A. To do so would require a book. If you will send me your name and ad- ' dress I will send you some helpful j pamphlets, which will probably give you j all the Information you desire. Q. What Is “winter cholera”? Is it Asiatic cholera? How Is It spread? A. The term is loosely used. Mostly \ It Is applied to a diarrheal disease caused i by drinking infected water. Sometimes investigation has shown it to he simply an epidemic of typhoid fever. Such wa-ter-borne epidemics are more apt to come In winter and spring as a result of ralus and freshets polluting water supplies. ] In suggesting “Two Good Rooks a Year for My Child,” Charles E. Rush, | librarian, mentions the following books j for children between 8 and 14 years of i age: Eight years, “Robinson Crusoe," ! by Daniel DeFoe, illustrated by E. Boyd i Smith, and “Uncle Remus,” his songs I and sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris, j new and revised edition with illnstra- I tions by A. B. Frost. Nine years, “Gnlli- ! ver’s Voyages to Lilllput and Brobding- i nag.” by Jonathan Swift, illustrated by • P. A. Staynes, and “Arabian Night,” ed Ited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith, and Illustrated by Max field Parrish. Ten years, “Joan of Arc,” written and illustrated by Maurice Boutet de Monvel, and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass,” by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel. Eleven years, “Merry Adventures of Robin Hood," written and i Illustrated by Howard Pyle, and “Won j der Book for Boys and Girls," by Na- ; thanlel Hawthorne, and illustrated by j Walter Crane. Twelve years. “Treasure ! Island,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, aud j Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, and “Ivan- j hoe." by Sir Walter Scott, and illustrated i by E. Bcyd Smith. Thirteen years, “King Arthur and His Knight." written and ! illustrated by Howard Pyle, and “Tom Brown’s School Days," by Thomas Hughe* and illustrated by Louis Uhoad. Fourteen years, “Huckleberry Finn,” by Mark Twain and Illustrated by E. W. ! Kemble, and “Two Years Before the i Mast.” by Richard Henry Dana Jr., and Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. FACTS Letters are delivered in some of the islands of the Tonga group, in the Pacific, by skyrockets fired from steamers. At one time It was the fashion in tho Russian army to compose regiments of men having the same features. Under normal conditions Italy annually converts 1,800 tons of orange blossoms and 1.000 tone of roses into perfumes. A South African mine develops lfio horse power from the fall of water piped Into the workings for various other uses. One hundred years ago the center of population of the United States was six teen miles north of Woodstock, Md.

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