Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1920 — Page 6

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jmttaua lunly mnm 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 secc-nd-elass matter at the postoffiee at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Kates—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. TODAY’S TIP: Don’t be afraid of “flumonia” and you won’t get it. IF THE GOVERNOR takes -that $lO watch of his along he’s not-likely ''to miss any trains on his speech-making trip. A LITTLE MATTER like being arrested is no longer a novelty to Rose Pastor Stokes. Rose ought to know the jailers by their first names by now. * ' ATTORNEY BONIFIELD’S discovery—"the funniest thing that ever happened to him” —that his client, an automobile thief, had selected him for a victim, might not. have beeij,s© humorous if Fred hadn’t been a lawyer. SOON THE TREATY and the former kaiser will have to make room in the papers for the great American game. The way the kaiser uses his right arm sawing wood won’t command half the space Herman Bronkie’s will when he gets into action. THAT YOUNG BRIDE who was refused -Admittance to the Severin, where she had been stopping, after she had leaped into the lagoon, can never accuse the management of excess optimism. They were afraid, we read, that she’d jump out a window. Bi-Partisan Effort It is difficult, if not impossible, at this time to define the extent of the bi-partisan arrangement which the organization leaders in the republican ranks are making to enable them to retain control of their organization and assist in the election of their slate at the coming primaries. It is very apparent that plans for the nomination of republican machine candidates by the aid of democratic voters have been fostered in Marlon \county and have developed to an extent that is making it difficult for the democrats of the county to maintain their own organization. Whether this situation has ever been borne home to the real leaders of the democratic party is exceedingly doubtful. Some of them have heard of the bi-partisan effort and to others there have appeared unexplained circumstances that are easy of interpretation as ramifications of republican machine Interference in democratic affairs. Perhaps the same situation exists in other counties in the state. It is known in Indianapolis that the republican machine is depending on its strength in the cities of tho state to nominate its candidates. There may be a particular reason for this other than the natural strength afforded by compact groups of voters. In Marion county it is high time that the democratic party was reorganized and proper candidates brought out for the chairmanship and j the county offices. There has been no concerted movement to do either. And in the period when men who have the good of their party at heart have hesitated influences intent only on acquiring power to manipulate election results have been busily at work. Such deals as are now being relied upon by the Marion county branch of the republican machine to maintain their organization are dangerous only as long as they are secret. When their purpose is exposed to public view such schemers flee from the field. But no one agency can be relied upon to trace their backdoor efforts. The only safe way to prevent the capture of nominations by men who are not fit to have them either by reason of their personalities or their affiliations is to present to the people desirable candidates in time that their character will insure support. There are more democratic votes in Marion county than in any other county of Indiana. There also appears to he less interest in democratic success here than in any other part of the state. Ts this apathy natural or induced, desired or undesired? The next few days ought to make it possible for every democrat in ; Indianapolis to determine whether he is willing to allow his party to become j merely a handy adjunct to the republican organization.

America First America's delegates have left, the peace conference to its compromises; but America can never leave Europe to its conflicts. Otherwise, new world wars will come and will drag America in. In all diplomatic negotiations endangering a world conflict, the rights of neutrals should he as fully safeguarded as the rights of either contestant. Neutrals may have no vital interests at stake, yet once the war starts, they may he drawn in as innocently as a ship by a sudden maelstrom. America, therefore, can not stand by, an indifferent spectator, while Europe makes wars that will trample on neutral rights. Neutrals are nothing to war-mad nations while the insanity lasts. America has no concern with European quarrels. All the more reason why we must keep the disputes down. Our welfare is served when Europe is at peace; our peace is tn danger when Europe is at war. Therefore, we can not let Europe go her own way. De must be present among the Europeans, if only to prevent their little quarrels becoming big ones. If we isolate ourselves at Washington, and pull down the blinds, we shall know nothing about the next war until it is upon us. Then," we shall be involved, sooner or later, as innocently as in this war. The easiest way to safeguard our neutrality is through the league of nations. From that vantage point, we can keep an eye on tlie world and halt far-off diplomats trying to make trouble. The league of nations is the cheapest neutrality insurance in the world. But, before we can take advantage of it, we must stop our party quarrels over the peace treaty. We must get hack to thinking of America first.

A Tea Party On Dec. 16, 1773, some of onr forefamers gave a little tea party. We call It the Boston Tea Party. King George 111 tried to tax the colonists. He tried to reach into their pockets via their teapots. / They threw his taxed tea into the water of Boston harbor, and laid the foundation for a free and independent nation. In Indiana in 1919 a bunch of republican politicians who believed their efforts at'“centralization” of power had placed them in as secure a position as.King George ever held, attempted to tax the people of this state as they saw fit. They tried to reach into the pockets of the taxpayers and abstract their purses while they raised a great roar about the “grand old party," in the hope that the roar would drown the taxpayers’ protests. f In Boston the taxpayers threw away the tea father than submit to unjust taxation. I In Indiana the people have only to throw overboard the party that permits itself to be. the tool of the power-crazed autocrats. Are the people of Indiana less free and independent than their forefathers of Boston?

Home Cooking The restaurant man who advertises "Home Cooking” knows his business. That appeals to the average man. “Apple pie like mother used to make” is a lure that none but strong-willed men can resist. But even then, sometimes, there’s a lack of flavor which can hardly be defined, but which a fellow realizes just isn't there. Thousands of men are dining wanderers. They are “fed up” on hotel and restaurant cooking. They can recognize the morning's beefsteak in the evening hash unerringly. French menus have no charms for this army. There are so many men who have no home life, who rarely experience a home-cooked meal, that an invitation to "come on out and let's see what the neighbors brought ii\ for dinner,” is an invitation not to be declined. Try an invitation like that on one of your bachelor friends some evening. Give him a taste of the American plan family dinner,,with Willie and Mamie all shined up and on their good behavior and the good wife on her throne behind the coffee pot. Give mother a chance to show off the cut glass, at least. Chances are your guest will clean the platter and rise up and call you ble6t. j V

FOOLING INDIANA VOTERS No. 4.—A Republican Excuse. Copyright, 1920, I. F. B.

Having set up, in its flowery praise of Gov. Goodrich, the utter simplicity of producing a proper taxation method in Indiana, the republican state committee must needs explain why the administration of Gov. Goodrich failed to carry out its pledge. This it attempts in several pages of its booklets It says: "The legislature tnot Gov. Goodrich) of 1917 having failed in its immediate purpose of making possible, by change in our constitution, a thorough revision of our system of taxation, the legislature of 1919 did the next best thing. It provided the best tax law that could be devised under the constitution as it now stands. “This is true, because under the constitution as it now stands only a general property tax can be provided. The legislature has no power to classify property for purposes of taxation, nor has it power to enact an income tax law. The legislature of 1919 did provide a limitation upon the tax rate which will apply so long as the law is in force.” The “immediate purpose,” then, of the legislature of 1917 in attempting by an illegal method to call a constitutional convention was, according to this admls slon, to make possible “a thorough revision of our system of taxation,” and not, as we were solemnly assured at the time, n bona fide effort.lo revise the constitution to meet the changes which have taken place in our advanced civilization. This is interesting ns revealing not only the insincerity of the republican effort for a revision of the constitution, but also in that it shows how the simple task to which Gov. Goodrich pledged his admin-

DEMOCRATIC EDITOR EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS OF PARTY PLATFORM By ISAAC R. STROUSE

Editor The Times—Sagacious republican lenders In Indiana do not expect to get more than 3 per cent of the labor vote. What are we going to do to deserve the 97 per cent? We can t fool the men composing this large element of voters by lofty phrases and glittering generalities that may mean anything or nothing. We must say what we mean and mean what we say. The labor re elected Wilson. Our ticket won in Ohio by means of labor’s almost solid support. In Indiana we might, have won by 20.000 had it not been for a situation brought about by the men in control of the party which alienated democrats to the extent that our vote was less In 1910 than it was when Bryan ran eight years before, and this, in spite, of the fact that labor centers like Vigo county, where the issue was acute, gave us large pluralities. Intelligent laboring men are yet look Ing to the democratic party and hoping it may be true to its oft repeated declarations. such as may be found in every platform since 1893 against “government by injunction." We can not hope to carry a county in the state in which there is a city unless we have the support of organized labor. The favorable drift wo are anticipating as a result of the Goodrich fix law will be a mere spring branch in comparison with the mighty current against us if we straddle or evade the labor issue and pollyfox around, fearing to reaffirm the principles which men like Jefferson established in our bill of rights. We must by concrete and definite declarations prove our sincerity of purpose. In my opinion we should adopt without crossing a “t" or dottiug an “i" whatever plank is submitted to the committee on resolutions at our state convention by the American rederation of Labor for our platform. Have we for twenty-five years stood for a principle only to back away from It when that principle promises to M

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istration in 1915 had grown into a collossal burden in 1917. In effect the republican state committee now says that this “greatest achievement since tje civil war” was only a makeshift at best, adopted by the legislature of 1919 after the legislature of 1917 had failed in its “immediate purpose.” Be that as it may, it is, nevertheless, “the best tax law that could be devised under the constitution.” What, then, did Gov. Goodrich have in mind when he said the legislature would have the support of the tnxayers “in any intelligent effort directed toward the revision of our tax laws?” Was the only “Intelligent effort” to revise these laws embodied in a call for a constitutional convention, and if so, does the republican committee now admit that the “greatest achievement” is not even an “intelligent effort?” The constitution of Indiana says; “The general assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation; and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of ail property, both real and personal.” This is exactly whal the republican committee says Gov. Goodrich pledged his administration 1o do. Why, then, should it now argue that the constitution prevents It from carrying out its pledge when tho constitution expressly mandates the general assembly to do that which the republicans promised to do ? No. 5 will dlicuss “At True Cash Value.”

the paramount issue In a political campaign? , „ And then we should have candidates to go with such a platform. No smug reactionary, mouthing platitudes, unknown as an advocate of Wilson end Bryan democracy except from the lip; (and we mean such things as the Initiative and referendum, the Adarnson law. the John Kern labor laws passed from 11113 to 1916 and all the other "socialism" of the first Wilson administration), candidates who by intuition as well as environment have been In tune with radical democracy ns against reactionary democracy. Candidates like Dick Mlllei of Indianapolis or Claude Bowers of Ft. Wayne. r have no purpose In naming these men other than to deplore the fact that one of them Is incapable of becoming a candidate by reason of the very thing that so often defines a democrat and ought to make him all the stronger -he ts “too poor to make a rare.’’ Yet 1 do not say that other men who may already have been mentioned as demceratlc candidates are lean worthy than these. Some of them I do not know personally, and I have not heard of them as advocates of the fundamental democracy I believe In and have faith In as a force that wilt carry hr to victory. ISAAC R. ST ROUSE. Rockville, Ind. FACTS Alaska’s mineral output in 1919 amounted to $18,850,000, smaller than any year since 1910. Vessels operated by the T’nited Statps shipping board earned about SIOO,OOO each In 1919. I’alnts that arc said to be both fire and water proof are made from the oil of a Manchurian bean.

| A PUBLICITY PROBLEM Editor The Times—l am amazed at, your disclosures relative to the press of Indiana, but I am more than amazed at your Statements concerning the alleged indifference of the leaders of the democratic party to the existing conditions. There isn’t n successful business in Indiana today that does not include carefully worked out methods of making known its ability- to serve the public or that part of the public it seeks to serve. How does the democratic party expect to receive the support of the voters of Indiana if it does not take immediate steps to enlighten tho voters as to what It has to offer them? No business o-ganization is likely to succeed until such time as its directors realize that publicity is essential to success. By the same rule, it is certain the democratic party in Indiana can not possibly succeed unless its directors realize that publicity is the greatest of its necessities. I can not believe that the men who have been selected 1 to lead the democratic organization are so blind to the modern methods of business that they will attempt to ignore this phase of the campaign. Conducting a successful political cam paign is no different from marketing an article of merchandise. No matter how good the article, nor how great the market for it, there will be no sales until prospective purchasers learn that such an article is available and where they may obtain it. This year the voters of Indiana have come to the realization that they need 1 a different sort of government than the republican party has been giving them’ They are on the lookout for something to ! take its place. If the democratic party has anything to offer that will in any measure fill the needs of the voters of the state the problem is purely one of making the voters know where thev can get what ;they want. Thus the question of partv success becomes only a publicity ,lem for which any advertising or pul, : Deity director can outline a solution. I rhere ought to he enough live democrats 1 In the state to insure putting over a soli, tlon if there ip not, then it is certain ! that the democratic partv can not sue I coed, and, Indeed It ought not to suc- . ceed. Indianapolis. AX ADVERTISER.

Being an analysis of “The Operation of the 1919 Tax Law” —A Booklet in General Circulation Issued by the In and i ana Republican State Committee,

Here the Reader Says His Say WATER FOR HORSES. l.dltor The Times—How about a little water for our horses? It seems as though our city officials would have a heart for tile dumb brutes that are driven on the streets of our “no mean city." it. is a common thing to see a driver use bis whip to get his horse by a dry fountain Othef,cities have water for their horses why not Indianapolis? A TIMES SUBSCRIBER. Indianapolis, ind. ASKS \ Q| ESTIOV Editor The Times At least To per cent of the citizens of Indiana, from the face of 'returns from over this great state. | r respective of party ties, indicate they are very, very tired of Goodrlchism. ‘ Hi® administration has been tabooed bv, all fair minded citizens as one of the worst that Indiana ever experienced. The en tire population ought to give expression by a vote of thanks to the Indiana Times for Us exposure of Goodrich schemes, etc,, since he became governor of Indian The Times has bravely got out its honest, to goodness club, turned over the Jog and run those who were underneath same to cover, and they are quietly going into their holes to hibernate. It certainly is a "glorious feeling" to have a news- i paper that, in our state, ha.s the courage istich ns The Times) to cal! u spade a spade. The state of Indiana should be doubly thankful to The Times, for if it were not for The Times, Goodrich would still be under the Impression that, he was presidential size. U j s really at times amusing for Jim to think he ever bad a look-in as a presidential possibility. The Indiana Pally Times has given Jim Goodrich a good steep and long toboggan ride toward political oblivion.

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This instance of his retiring from the presidential race, Is the first time any one ever heard of Jim backing down from any proposition he was aspiring to. Thinks to The Times he will soon be so politically dead that even his present official adherents will shy at going near his political corps". Why not impeach him, under the constitution of IndiauaV This is from a traveling salesman. F. L. M. SENATORS, VI.EASE NOTICE. Editor The Times 1 would like to ask the patrons of your paper, married people preferred, a fair question. Howfar will SIOO a month carry a man with

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a family? Those who compare these figures will find them just about, perfect. Rent, S2O per month; gas, $1.50 per: lights, SI.BO per; groceries, about S6O per; insurance, $3.50 per. That leaves $13.50 per month, just about $.3 a week. Now most all of us have city water and we can t beat the water company—because T tried. Also, we must have, coal to burn In winter, unless we go to Florida, and that costs money, too. Now a few more little items which go to I make a home happy, such as doctor bills, > and clothes also cost money. This is : what the United States government Is | paying their first year regular men, the

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postal clerk. Now the United State# la the best country in the world but It 1# like the comedian said about the cro#seyed girl, "She was a good girl, but she looked crooked.” I’OSTAL CLLOKK. Indianapolis, Ind. Imports of rice into the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, were .329.894.154 pounds, valued at $lB.6868,765, against 407.993,958 pounds, valued at $14,783,018 in 191$. The treasury department has authorized the flotation In the United States of an issue of $25.000.00<) iu Italian bonds, which will be the first instalment of a complete issue of $100,0000,000 worth.