Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1920 — Page 4

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Jui&ma Jlaiki STintes 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 postofflce at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1679. Subscription Rates—By carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mail, 50c a month, |1.25 for three months, 32.50 for six months, or $5.00 a year. THE NEWBERRY CASE is a good example of the result of too much money in the possession of a political organization. SCIENCE d'oes wonderful things, and some professor may yet isolate Ihe germ of the common or epidemic form of greed. MISSISSIPPI school teachers have been forbidden to marry during a term. The idea is to keep them in a state of Miss. IN MILAN a childless marriage is ground for divorce. That causes most of the divorces In this country, too. ►. 9 T An Indiana Mayor's Achievement It the American people realized the money value of trees to themselves as well as to the nation this country would not be in the danger tt is of forest denudation. Mayor Dumont Kennedy, Crawfordsville, Ind., has an object lesson of increased wealth from a few trees. The mayor is a farmer. In his cow lot was a slightly rising mound. On May 10, 1902, it occurred to him that this mound would make a good site for a home some day. So, that very day, be planted twelve young shade trees around that mound, leaving one hundred feet each way in the center for the house. In eighteen years those twelve trees have grown to fine size, their branches spreading beau- ' tifully around that central spot. The acre on which those trees grow was worth S2OO as a cow lot. Today it is worth SI,OOO as a building site, entirely because of the trees that Mayor Kennedy planted. Trees are a joy forever. They are worth planting for the pleasure of seeing them grow; they are worth planting for the value they bring to your land by reason of their decorative effect. Arbor day is not far away. Plan to plant one or more trees on your lot. Grey Breaks Precedent Lord Grey, British ambassador to the United States, has sided against ihe president and with the senate in the wrangle at Washington over the peace treaty. This is the fundamental fact of his now famous letter to the London Times. He says; “No charge of bad faith or repudiating signatures can he brought against the action of the United States senate. By the American constitution, It is an independent body, an independent element in the treatmaking power.” _. Lord Grey, who is not a lawyer, but a country gentleman, has spoken out, against all precedent. Ambassadors are not supposed to take sides in domestic controversies in countries to which they are accredited It is undoubtedly > within the power of the state department to say Lord Grey has become “persona non grata,” which is the diplomatic phrase for asking for his recall. But, it would be better for all concerned at Washington to get on with the treaty. That is the important thing.

Democratic Prospects Good Indiana democrats evidently are waking up to the fact that if they will get busy and do something they have an excellent chance of succeeding this fall. The midwinter banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial association was the biggest affair of its kind in the history of the organization and there was apparently no lack of enthusiasm. The meeting was not the only sign of awakened enthusiasm. The resolutions adopted by the editorial organization at its business meeting showed every indication that the editors realize there are issues on which a vigorous campaign can be conducted and which, if used in the proper manner, can mean nothing but victory in the state. "Goodrichism” is on° of the burning issues so far as Indiana is concerned, and It. remains for the editors and members of the party generally to follow' up the start made in the adoption of their resolutions. Neither is the national situation so dark as some would make out. The speeches of Gov. Cox and of Mrs. Idah McGlone Gibson were something of a revelation to persons into whose ears there has been dinned for months nothing but criticism of the administration at Washington. The failure of the senate to ratify the peace treaty, as touched upon by both speakers, is a disgrace to America and a thing which the majority of the American people strongly resent. The fact that five or six men can prevent the making of peace and thus impede the progress of civilization is a fault of the American form of government. Their choice in ffoing this, however, rests entirely with themselves and they alone are responsible. American citizens may differ as to the form of the treaty, but there is no doubt that the vast majority of them desire an immediate peace in order that the affairs of life may again assume normal. That “little group of wilful men,” who are preventing the western hemisphere from returning to a peace-time basis, are doomed to defeat when the American people wake up to a realization of what is happening, and the party to which they belong should carefully before it comes to their defense and ranctions their actions. A Booze Trick That Failed \ Once more the booze interests have failed in a characteristic trick. This time, under the guise of charity, they sought to put the government in a hole by trying to have donated to the hospitals for the treatment of the “flu” the whisky which had been seized. The booze interests could well afford to do this because this would have been an admission on the part of the government that whisky was good for influenza and other light complaints, and would have given them a good argument in trying to have booze made legal again. But the real doctors of our country—notably the director of public health in Chicago—spiked the game. They requested the government not to give the whisky to the hospitals; in other words, not to make it possible to give poison booze for a poison disease. So far the government has stood firm and has not yielded to the “fine talk” of the booze interests, and has not made any admission that booze is good for treating disease. Gov. Edwards of New Jersey, a democrat, seems to me to have put himself in the same boat as the five socialist members expelled from the New York legislature. It was charged that they had been elected on a platform contrary to the constitution of the United States, which they had to take oath to support. How about this governor who was elected on a platform which advocated the repeal of a section of the constitution —the section which prohibits booze, and yet took an oath to support that constitution? If the five socialists were inimical to the government of the United States because they objected to certain sections of the constitution, why isn’t Gov. Edwards also an enemy of the government? Meanwhile bootlegging goes merrily on, although the government is taking steps to stop it. The booze dealers whose stock is not in storage, recently have sprung what they believed was a clever trick. A good many of them have reported to the government that overnight their warehouses have been entered and their booze stolen by the truck load. “How can you blame me for letting the booze out when it was stolen from me?” they ask. Some of" them got away with it. A great many have not, and they face charges of having robbed themselves. It’s a perfect joke for them to Imagine they could get away with anything like that, in their efforts to get their money back by supplying the booze to bootleggers. Those fellows are the kind who would invite a friend to their houses, give this friend a bottle of whisky and then, if he got caught carrying it away, try to save their own skins by charging that their friend stole the booze from them and should be arrested as a thief. It is against the law to give whisky away. It is even Illegal for those who laid in a supply at their clubs to have their friends gather around and get a drink. They are just as much bootleggers as the man who peddles the stuff around to other people. The man with a bottle on his hip has taken the place of the man who used to tote a pistol around. One is just as deadly in his way as the other, —W. D. Boyce in the Saturday Blade, Chicago.flL

FOOLING INDIANA VOTERS No. 6. —The Republican Covenant. Copyright, 1920, I. V. B.

The republican state committee says: “No one will attempt to deny that the present tax law was enacted to carry out in letter and spirit a solemn covenant made with the people of Indiana by the republican party in the campaign of 1910.” If the republican committee was as candid today as some of the present candidates for nomination on the party’s own ticket it might well add: “No one may attempt to deny that the present tax law has failed to carry out either in letter or spirit the solemn covenant made with the people pf Indiana by the republican party in ' the campaign of 1910.” The republican state committee defines that covenant as follows: “In the first place, the party asserted its belief in a constitutional limitation on the tax rate. In the second place, it pledged itself to give to the legislature the power to provide effective tax reform. In the third place, It pledged Itself upon the adoption of an amendment limitng the tax rate and giving the legislature power to provide effective tax reform, the enactment of legislation that would bring an equality in assessments.” Now let us see what parts of this covenant have been carried out in the enactment of the “greatest achievement since the Civil war.” It must be conceded that the party retained its belief in a constitutional limitation on the tax rate. In Indiana the constitution has grown to be so little respected that it is common to hear republicans asking each other, “What’s the constitution among friendsV” Any measure that can be safely tucked | away in the constitution meets with in--1 stant approval for the very reason that the republicans realize the futility of seeking to amend the constitutionand know that any expression of approval of a constitutional amendment will never come back home to roost. “It pledged itself to give to the legislature the power to provide effective tax reform." Has the republican party added one iota of power to the legislature since it has been in office'.' Has it given the legislature the power to provide effective tax reform? If such a power has been given to the legislature, where effective tax reform? Certainly it Is not in the "greatest achievement since the Civil war,” for both the governor and the committee admit that the “plain and single purpose” of that law has not been accomplished and assessments are not now based on the true cash value of property. : Last, but by no means least, the republican committee says the party pledged itself to “the enactment of leg islation that would bring about an equality in assessments.” But as a preamble to that pledge tt inserted a time clause which makes the pledge contingent on “the adoption of Tin amendment limiting the tax rate and giving the legislature power to provide ! effective tax reform.” Did the republican party keep this pledge to bring about “an equality in assessments?” You know it did not. You know the constitution was not amended and you see here very plainly that the republican party had no intention of bringing about “equalities in assessments without a constitutional amendment. The unvarnished facts are that the republican party pledged itself in 1918 to bring about a constitutional amendment, failed to do so in 1917 and 1919 enacted a law which the republican committee now Says is; “The best tax law that could be devised under the constitution as It now stands.” This is the last word of the republican party on tax legislation. In the year 1920, with the school system of the state crippled through the

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tax law; with county officials unable to colleqt taxes that are due; with the courts of the state refusing a definition of what power is conferred by the law; with half the state overassessed and the other half underassessed; with city, township and county governments on the verge of bankruptcy and the state institutions begging for money on which to operate; with tax dodgers gleefully refusing to pay any taxes and the little home owner bowed tender the burden of high assessments, horizontally Increased, the Indiana republican state committee comes forth tn its egotism and blandly says of the legislature that stands ready today to repudiate Its own enactments: “It provided the best tax law that could be devised under the constitution as it now stands.” If this be the “best tax law that could be devised” what has Indiana to fear from the worst tax law that could come upon us! Article No. 7, appearing Monday, will discuss “The Public Voice.” FACTS The earliest coinage that can be called American was minted in the Bermudas in 1612. Diamonds have been discovered in the gold coast colony of Africa. The largest weigh a karat. In the present century 1,050 miners’ strikes have occurred in Great Britain, as compared with about .TOO of all other trades combined. The total number of new European stamps issued is about 2,000. of which 1,500 are the first stamps of the European states. The total subscriptions to treasury cer tificates issued Jan. 2, 1920, and maturing Dec. 15, 1920, was $703,020,000. They bear Interest at 4** per cent.

is)hen 1 Y’ know, it kind-a strikes me now, A-pond’rin’ on th’ ways o’ man, Thet folks ’re jlst too restless-like An’ grumblin’ V beat th’ band, A-rearin’, tearin’, ravin' ’round, A-strikin’ now an’ then, Y’ s'pose we’ll quiet down some day. Be satisfied? Urn? When? t Why, jist last, month .Tim got a raise, T’ what he thought thet he Should git. Next week he heerd thet Smith, Who lives near Jim, y’ see, lied got a bonus an’ back pay, A raise—Jim howled again— Now s’pose Jim gits a raise, will he Be satisfied? Um? When? It sort a comes t' me thet folks Have alius yelp?d a lot About th’ worldly goods thet they ’D like but haven’t got. W’hy. goshens, if th* Fates could jist Divide up things ’mongst men So we each got our share. Would we Be satisfied? Um? When?

Pinning a Medal on the Druggist How often in the evening have yon decided that you wanted Just a bit ot this, that or the other thing to nibble on in the evening? And how often have you run jut of smokes just when you were prepared to settle down and enjoy a pttff after an evening meal ? And where do you go to satisfy your wants? To the druggist's, sure enough. When practically every other store In town has closed Its doors for the night, you can usually drift Into your friend, Mr. Druggist, and spend your odd change. Who, if not he, is the fellow who flxee up the luscious ice cream cone for your kiddle? And who is the fellow who Is alwnys ready to give yon something that wilt relieve that tickle in your throat? When you’ve nothing to do and you sort of feel like chatting with someone, nine times out of ten you'll drift In to gab with. Mr. Druggist. Her Costume, Even to Hat, Is of Brown Kid BOSTON, Feb. 7.—Attired from head to foot in kid. Miss Josephine Bowen is the center of attraction for thousands daily at the shoe convention. She designed the costume herself. The kid is chestnut brown, which manufacturers *ay will be the fashionnble shade in footwear next fall. The turn which crowns Miss Bowen’s golden curls is a model of that worn by tins “blue devils” of France. The tam, the Norfolk &irit and the high lace boots are all of tbe same material.

Being an analysis of “The O p e r ation of the 1919 Tax Law”—A Booklet in General Circulation Is sued by the In and i ana Republican State Committee.

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Ex-Soldier and $38,000 Disappear CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Max D. Kelner, alias George A. Frame, 26, world war v'tfpran, was missing today. “Absent without leave" also were Liberty bonds valued at $38,000 belonging to the Harris Trust and Savings bank. Late yesterday Kelner. or Franze, ns he was known at the bank, was sent to exchange the

bonds for ones of larger denominations. When ha failed to return search revealed that he had last been seen by his wife who Is employed in a restaurant. She maintains that he has been robbed and perhaps killed. Police are watching all outgoing trains. MAYBE HE WOULDN'T PRACTICE. DETROIT, Feb. 7.—Recause his wife spanked him on—er —various occasions, Leo Stein, violinist, was granted a divorce here yesterday.

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Ends Life Brooding* Over Father’s Death SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Feb. 7.—Grief over her father’s death today was given as the reason for the suicide of Mrs. Ralph Thomas, wife of the president or the Indiana Cord Tire Company. Her body was found hanging In the kitchen of the Thomas home by a 9-year-old daughter.