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

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3luiftatm Kails OTimcs INDIANAPOLIS, IND. # __ i 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 ts 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, 60c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six-months, or $5.00 a year. THE CAMPAIGNERS will never forgive Old Man Flu if he butts in again this year. WE CAN FORGIVE Carranza much for the delicious humor of his plan to annex the border states. THE QUICKER we produce In this country the quicker will we bring down the cost of living. IT’S EASY to understand why Europe is broke after you learn how much outlawed American booze she bought. WHEN GOVERNMENT sees its duty, but suffers with cold feet, it can stall a while by appointing a commission to investigate. WHAT WE CAN’T UNDERSTAND is why that Dr. Davis who pulled the kaiser’s teeth hasn’t announced for the presidency. . t HITCHCQCK says it is up to the senate and Lodge says It is up to the president We can’t pass a treaty by passing the buck. ' THE ASSERTION that 80 per cent of the Russian people favor the soviet government probably means that 20 per cent are out of gun range. From Toad to Star If everything created, from a star to a toad, has rhythm, IS rhythm, and if everything vibrates at a certain pitch, at a fixed key in the great orchestra of the universe, ,and if light, sound, color are merely varying pictures of this one rhythm, then the philosopher can have a lot of quiet entertainment playing the game of supposing. Does this seem erudite, complicated, hardly worth saying? It isn’t at all, if you get the right angle on it. Suppose that big 10story structure, swaying and swinging in the morning breeze, is pitched to a certain key-note; and suppose a master musician on bassoon or violin, with trumpet or with viol, struck this note and sustained it, and prolonged it to the breaking pitch; certainly the crash of the huge structure would follow. Demolishing a monument with a fiddle note! Silly? Maybe not so silly; perhaps those walls of Jericho tumbled, tottered and fell prone because the trumpets of Israel struck the brazen note that held them together. But whatever might be the influence of rhythm on things material humans are discovering that It has a power for good or evil over men’s hearts and minds, and are finding a scientific reason for a lot of things that before were taken on faith. The drum, the reiteration of its deep booming notes, is an instrument of war, and its rumble is savage, and It stirs to savagry. The blast of the bugle, clear pitched, cleaving through inertia, urging man to the charge, doubtless only a bugle note would stir him that way. An orchestra of strings and wood winds bring the lilt of the dance, the melancholy of a rainy autumn day, or the sobbing of a mother mourning her first bom, and certain potent symphonic passages of the masters touch the human heart universally. Rhythm in everything, all throbbing to the same keynote of the Eternal Master; all disconcerted by the same discords in the divine harmony, all surging to the boom of the bass drum, and shrieking to the shrill of the fife. Molecules tied together, and yet eternally set' spinning away from each other; swayed by unknown impulses; scratching and wooing, and clawing and loving as the organ notes of infinity call. Some men play upon the human heart as though It were an organ with pipes; play upon it certainly, with exact response, with definite understanding. Such men, knowingly or unknowingly, have mastered the hidden rhythmic laws, and are but little lower than the apgels; or, mayhap, bpt little higher than the devils. , For great knowledge is not always beneficent, and Satan was never accused of being either lazy or dumb. Rhythm is nothing!

Should Wood Resign? The candidacy of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A., for president of the United States grows apace. The general’s movements'as told in the news dispatches indicate that he is no slouch of a canvasser. Quite likely he has taken a leaf from the book of his life-long friend, the late-lamented rough rider. Asa major general in the regular army he draws SB,OOO a year salary from the public treasury with additional allowance for quarters—house p ent, light and fuel. He is 59 years old and therefore is due for retirement at what amounts to full pay in about three years. It has been suggested that inasmuch as he is a full-fledged candidate for the presidency, Gen. Wood should resign from the army at once. On the other hand it is pointed out that few candidates do any such thing until after they are elected —or anyway until the nominations are handed to them. Charles pvans Hughes sat tight on the supreme bench in 1916 until the republican convention at Chicago voted him as the party’s candidate for president. Roosevelt stuck to the governor’s chair to the end of his term, although he had given much of the previous year to his canvass for the vice presidency. William McKinley was an active candidate during the entire four years he held the office of governor of Ohio. ,Grover Cleveland remained governor of New York in 1884 even after he had been elected president. These were civilian candidates. What have the army candidates done in such cases? W. S. Hancock was a major general in the army when he was a candidate for the democratic nomination for president in 1880. Evidently he did not consider it necessarily good ethics to resign his commission. Gen. U. S. Grant resigned from the army after his election in 1868; he was in command of the army all through the campaign. In 1852, Gen. Winfield Scott, the hero of/the Mexican war, a candidate for the whig nomination and got it. He didn’t resign before* or after the convention made him the standard bearer. Thus the precedent is overwhelming, that a man can hang on to whatever office he holds until he gets the nomination, and after. The question, therefore, is up to Gen. Wood’s own personal ethics of what course h© should take in view of all circumstances. If he is going to rush over this country with all the campaigning pep of a Roosevelt, does he feel that he will be right in pocketing the public money while he does little or no major generalling? Would it not, indeed, be better politics, better tactics, to resign from the army and seek the exalted position as a civilian rather than as a blood-and-iron soldier? j Whisky and u Flu” Not even the flick can get whisky. While influenza and pneumonia cages pile up daily, not more than 10 per cent bf druggists hare applied for licenses to sell whisky for medicinal purposes. Even prohibitionists, now stricken with the flu, are beginning to see that there are two sides to, the question.—Commerce and Finance. More gloom. It’s poor picking these days when the fellows who write can’t find something to sob about. Now the sick are dying because they can’t get whisky. But listen to Di# Copeland and Dr. Robertson, health officers, respectively of New York and Chicago: "Do not feed the people whisky for pneumonia and Influenza. Whisky is not a remedy for pneumonia. It can neither prevent nor cure. Every one who has studied the subject has arrived at the same conclusion.” Dr. William Osier the noted Johns Hopkins physician who died recently a baronet ■in England, declared in his book cji pneumonia that whisky is not only of no use as a remedy or a preventiye, but it is positively bad for the patient. * Surgeon General Riue of the United States public health service warns against of whisky in “flu” and pneumonia. Xhat should pretty nearly settle it. Ci|b out your grief, boys.

FOOLING ' _tbe 1919 Tax INDIANA VOTERS SrSrMS; Circulation in* , sued by tbq^ No. s.—At True Cash Value. indiana Re-v - s - publican State - Copyright, 1920, I. P. B. Committee.

The republican state committee says: “The present tax law, passed by the legislature of 1919 and generally opposed by the democrats In the legislature In spite of their own pledge and promise cod tains in their platform of 1916, undertakes to make it possible for the reorganized state board of tax commissieners to assess property at its true cash value. “That is the plain and simple purpose of the law.’’ The purpose, of the present tax law, it has been declared previously by the republican committee and the governor, was to revise the old law “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." Here, then, is another definition, even more limited and lees in accordance with the mandate of the -constitution which says that such laws shall be enacted so as to produce a “uniform and equal rate of taxation.” This law, we are now informed was enacted “to make it possible for the reorganized state board of tax commissioners to assess property at its true cash value.” The republican committee complains bitterly that the democrats in the legislature ‘opposed the enactment of this law in spite of their pledge of “such legislation as may be necessary equalizing taxes throughout the etate, and reducing the burden of taxation to the lowest possible, limit,” According to the statements of the republican committee itself the purpose of this law, “plain and simple," was not to provide what is “necessary in equalizing 'taxes throughout the state and reducing the burden of taxation to the lowest possible limit,’’but was “plain and simple, to make it possible for the reorganized state board of tax commissioners to assess property at Its true cash value.” It is not strange that the democrats in the 1919 legislature opposed this law. It Is foolish to assert that their opposition to this law was in opposition to their platform pledge. The purposes were admittedly not the same. There was a question of judgment as to whether the Instrument through which the purpose

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was to be carried out was efficient and there the question of whether such a law was necessary to carry out the democratic pledge. The democrats In the legislature who opposed this law are wholly vindicated by the fact that while the law may have made it possible for the tax board to assess property at its true cash value, it (Ud\iot make it compulsory and the tax board has not generally assessed property at its true cash value. In substantiation of this statement one has only to read the statement of Gov. James P. Goodrich, Jan. 29, 1920, concerning the Union Heat, Light and Power Company, In whfch he says: “The property of this company is assessed today for at least $50,000 more than its true cash value.” Or, if the reader does not care to accept Goodrich as an authority, he has only to read one of the dozens of complaints now in the courts of the state to discover that every complaint is based on the fact that the assessments produced by this “greatest achievement since the civil war” are greater than the true cash value, the assessment at which is declared by the republican committee to be the “plain and simple" purpose of the law. The opposition of the democrats in the legislature to this law needs no Jus tifleation. They find only commendation in the fact that it is admitted by the governor that the law has not brought about the assessment of property at its true cash value, and the admission of the republican committee that Its “plain and simple purpose" was only to “make it possible” for the tax board so to assess property. No. 6 will discuss “The Republican Covenant.” RE.LF J OB INSULATION. Anew product suitable "for use in electric insulation is being obtained from the treatment of kelp in Australia. 21,028 STATE BANKS. There are now in the United States 21,028 state-cnartered banking institutions having total resources of $25,963,075,836.30.

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