Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1920 — Page 10

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SAYS CAPITAL | FAR FROM BEST E GOVERNED CITY > Simms Suspects Something Wrong and Confesses He’s Worried. LAYS BLAME ON “HILL” | A.v WILLIAM PHILir SIMMS, International News Service Staff Correspondent. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—1 am very much worried. Before 1 came to live in Washington I had the idea that, as ‘•'America is the greatest ocuntry under khe sun, the District of Columbia with *the nation's capital in the middle of it, ought to be the best governed spot on P* face of the globe. And It Is not. * So I am worried. I am worried about ’our lawmakers on the hill. I am beginning to suspect that all is not as it should be with them. That maybe they are not supermen, as I had dreamed as fa lad, nor yet the intellectual giants I (hazily considered them as an adolescent. fPerhaps they are not even ready to die

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for principle, as I figured,they surely were in my twenties. I’m afraid something Is wrong. In fact, I’ve a strong hunch that something is wrong. Having come to Washington and looked it over I’m afraid -the men on the hill—as oleitimers call the kuoll where the capitol sits—ate, for the most part, just ordinary little men with personal ambitions, who think more of their, jobs than they do of their party and more of their party than they do of their country. Perhaps your representative is the exception ; for your sake I hope he is. Washington, you know, is run by the federal government on the commission plan. This being the case the nation's capital ought to shine like a jewel and be a model in every way for the other cities in the country and the world to pattern themselves after. THEN HE GIVES AN ILLUSTRATION. But It is not. , Let me illustrate: Last night I started home. The snow has been falling occasionally here for about a month and the streets over which I walked were still slippery with the packed snow which had first fallen a long time ago. It had never been scraped off the sidewalks. Everybody slipped and skidded as they walked. Some fell. I waited a long time for a car. There

was a tieup aomwhere on the line and there Was a long delay. Presently several came along in a bunch, all packed to suffocation, women and girls as well as men standing, pressed against each other like herrings in a box. One woman with two small children begged to be let off the car. Her children, she said, could not stand the crush. My fare co3t me 7 cents. It is going to cost more, 1 hear, the street railway companies explaining that they are losing money. In Paris, where there is much better service and where, by law, everybody is not only entitled to a seat, but gets it, save in the subway, where a limited number are permitted to stand, the fare is 30 centimes (less than 3 cents at the present rate of exchange) for a first-class fare and 20 centimes (leas than 2 cents) in second-class, and if the passenger travels "only a short distance — the lines are divided into '“sections"—the fare is still less. FINALLY STOPS FOR GOOD; HE HOOFS IT. Os course, wages are not so high there as here, blit the difference is not in the proportion of three to seven. And living is an expensive there as in this country, while the street railway there has to pay much more for coal and all other supplies and equipment than In America. Well, after I had managed to crowd my way to the platform of the street car the painful pilgrimage home began, the car stopping c.-very now and then in midsquare as though too overburdened to go

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any farther. Then it caught up with another car, hopelessly stalled or broken down, and stopped for good. Home being only about a mile distant. L climbed down and hoofed it the rest of the way, slipping and sliding over the bumps of Ice fisrmed of snow which had fallen two or three weeks ago. At dinner we fell to talking of the fight against profiteering. “Do you know,” said the housekeeper, “that these oysters you are eating cost more here in Washington (han they do in Cincinnati and St. Louis? And Washington is in the center of the oyster hlt, while Cincinnati and St. Louis are In the interior of the country. Why?" 1 was stumped. .“And are you aware,” asked the same person, “that the bread you have on your plate costs more in Washington than it does in Chicago or Kansas City? How comes that?” I did not know. “The sugar you are putting in your coffee-cost me 22 qents a pound, lumpy,

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brown, and bad as it is,” complained the housekeeper. “Will you tell me why that la when American white loaf suggr is selling in France today for 15 cents a pound?” HAS SUSPICION OF PROFITEERING. I admitted my inability to respond to her direct question, but, having been handed so many posers by the housekeeper I felt some reply had to be made or forfeit my reputation of being well informed, so I said: “It’s the fault' of those fellows on The Hill.” And as I look back on it I don't think my answer was so bad at that. The more I think of it, the more do I believe what I said is true. It is their fault. If American sugar Is selling in Europe for 15 cents a pound, then the wholesale price in America must be so far below 15 cents a pound that high freight rates across the ocean and high freight rates across Europe, plus handling charges, and retail dealers’ profits and the rest

can bo added and still make a profit. As the housekeeper says, then why 22 cents here? So I’m worried. I suspect American citizens are paofiteering. I suspect, too, that the folks in Washington, the people on The Hill, I mean, are not doing all they might do to stop it. These things are mentioned by way of illustration. There are many other disappointing things about our national capital., Maybe your senator and your congressman are all right, as I remarked a while ago. I hope they are. And if they_are, I do wish the rest of the country would use as mubh care in selecting their senators and congressmen as you use in selecting yours. That’s whac I -wish. BOTTLE PROTECTION. An electric attachment has been invented- for bottle cap openers used in public places to sound a bell aa an alarm if an unauthorized person opens a bottle.

Owners of $15,000,000 Forget Their Mon^ LONDON, Feb. 6.—The Bank of England has $15,000,000 unclaimed depositsAfter thirty years, during which an account has neither been Increased nor diminished, the law requires that for two years the bank must conduct a search for the depositor. Falling, the money Is turned over to the government and held Indefinitely against the coming of a claimant. Needs Time to Get Used to “Dry” Booze CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 6. “Judge,” said he, who was charged with immoderate imbibing, “judge, you ougbta make allowances for a guy until he gets used to this prohibition booze. I only had one nip and it laid me out.”

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