Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1920 — Page 4

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3lni)iaua llailij amitee INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan fcayne Cos. Entered as-second-class matter at the postofflce at Indianapolis, Ind., under the .act of March 3, 1579. Subscription Kates —3y 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. THE PROPOSED international farm conference may decide in favor of more plowing and less conferring. IP EUROPE tries to settle questions without America she may have to settle the next war without U. *S. A. THERE IS A SCHOOL for women voters in Chicago. Huh! A man doesn’t have to know anything to vote. THE FORMER KAISER has given a hospital to a Dutch town. If the man can't keep 'em full he will give ’em away. ILaWSING is given credit for ftoining the phrase, “A strict accountability.” Here is a modern example of one hoist by his own petard. A GEORGIA FARMER has grown a variety of cotton that resembles lamb's wool. He should be able to get pickers on Wall Street. EUROPE thinks we should bear our share of the burden, but not interfere in such little matters as the trimming of the Jugo-Slavs. WHEN we observe the way the new-rich are spending theirs, it occurs to us that it won’t be more than two generations from patches to patches. ■ OF COURSE the republican state committee meeting was harmonious. Didn’t it vote unanimously not to have anything to do with Gov. Goodrich’s legislature?

A wav With the Gag *• The Times is in hearty accord with the demand of the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette that the democrats in the general assembly refuse to commit themselves to any gagging program that may be suggested by the republicans for a special session of the legislature. There would not have been any necessity for a second special session of the legislature had the democrats of the assembly not permitted the Goodrich gag to be placed on them when suffrage was ratified. There may have been a reasonable excuse for consenting to the gag at that time on the theory that it was only through such consent that suffrage could be given to the women. But no such excuse exists today. There is only one reason why a special session of the legislature should be limited to less than the forty days allowed by the constitution. That reason has to do entirely with the the republican campaign in 1920 and any democrat who consents to such a limitation gives aid to the enemy as material as a contribution to the republican campaign fund. y The people of Indiana are demanding a special session of the legislature in the interests of public welfare. There are a dozen or more necessities for legislation confronting the republican majority. Some of these necessities can he shoved to the rear. Others must be considered at once. The democratic members of the legislature owe It to their constituents to become the judges of what requires immediate action, and not to permit such decisions to he made for them by the republican bosses of the state. No special session of the legislature ought to he permitted to adjourn until the people of Indiana have been given the truth about the personal interests of Gov. James P. Goodrich in the garbage plant deal with the city of Indianapolis, the use of convict labor on the Globe Mining Company's property, the pardoning and paroling of convicts, and the contracts for supplying the state with coal. The Times has told the truth about these matters in Its columns, as completely as It could be ascertaind without legal power to complete the investigations. Its assertions have never been disputed by the interested parties. There is every reason to believe that the legislature could add some interesting chapters to these stories through the authorization of committees with power to take evidence from subpeonaed witnesses. If it is not true that Gov. Goodrich and his friendß and associates have personally profited by reason of the exercise of the executive authority vested in the governor, then the republican legislature will have no objections to an investigation for the purpose of determining the facts. If the republican majority in the legislature is afraid of the facts investigation of these charges will disclose, then let the people of Indiana know they are afraid. We believe the republicans of Indiana are as much interested in clean government as the democrats. We believe they are entitled to know when the state’s interests have been betrayed by the state’s officials. We have charged, and the charge has never been denied, that there is sufficient evidence of improper dealings in the administration of James P. Goodrich to justify a legislative investigation. If It should become impossible for the people of Indiana to learn the truth concerning this administration through such an investigation, let no democrat be a party to making It Impossible.

“Courtesy Cost Nothing and Makes Friends” “Courtesy costs nothing and makes friends.” The truth of this simple little saying, which many years ago graced the copy books that were used in Indiana’s schools, will be demonstrated before the Advertisers of the World, when they gather In Indianapolis in June. Preparations are now under way for the proper emphasis of courtesy when the visitors gather in the city, and this will be one campaign on which we can all unite, regardless of age, politics or previous conditions of servitude. There is too little courtesy in Indianapolis. It means so little to the giver and so much to the person who receives It that there never can be too much courtesy. Courtesy costs nothing. There are none pf us without a full supply of it at hand. It springs unsolicited from an inexhaustible source and the quality Is just what we chose to make it. Courtesy begets courtesy. The finest quality can not help stirring at least an appreciable quality from any source. It softens disappointment, soothes ruffled feelings, commands respect everywhere and never is a source of loss to those who pass it out freely. Best of all, courtesy makes friends. Indianapolis is to be visited by thousands of big men. Big men because they are men of affairs, with a wide vision and of quick impressions. Their memory’ of Indianapolis will live long and be of as much benefit to Indianapolis as Indianapolis permits. This city wants these men to be its friends. No simpler, nor more wholesome method of winning their friendship exists than through courtesy. We bespeak complete co-operation with the associated advertisers in their campaign for courtesy in connection with their convention. And well we know’ that when an effort is made to be courteous, courtesy becomes a habit Let us be courteous to our visitors and we can not then fail to he courteous among ourselves.

What About the Women? Regardless of whether the federal suffrage amendment is ratified before the November .general election the women of Indiana will not have full suffrage unless there are changes in the election laws of this state. As they exist today it would be a physical Impossibility for all the women of the state to vote. Some arrangements must be made to take care of an electorate that is doubled in size at one time. The only way the election laws of Indiana can be changed is through calling a special session of the general assembly. The republican state committee has gone on record as opposed to such a session. Isn’t there a sufficient basis here for the suspicion that the republican party in Indiana is not nearly as anxious to have the women’s votes recorded as it appeared when it was compelled to yield to the pressure, of public opinion and ratify the amendment?: •

HERE IS THE MAN! WINCHESTER DEMOCRAT

More than six years ago this paper, in a double column editorial, called attention to the wonderful achievements of William G. McAdoo, as secretary of (he treasury. ''lt pointed out. his transcendant abilities to perform the work to which he put hand or brain. Four years ago the Democrat again cited him at his Herculean tasks. Two years ago when 270,000 miles of railroads were turned over to his management, again it was our pleasure to say that the trains would go. munitions of war would move, food for the soldiers would he delivered. Allowing ourselves to take a backward look, consider the career and performances of this great doer of great deeds. No greater man was ever at the head of the treasury department than William G. McAdoo, and but few his equal there. His scope of vision, his profound knowledge of things political as well as things commercial and practical, his indomitable courage, his unflinching integrity and withal, his adhesion to fundamental democratic principles, mark William G. McAdoo as one of the great democrats of the nation. He knows his country’s

LOOKING BACKWARD OVER THE STRUGGLE FOR SUFFRAGE By MRS. OKOKUG BASS.

When many hundreds of women journeyed to Chicago from all parts of the United States to celebrate the victory of suffrage after an unremitting battle of sixty years, they went, knowing that the Nation:'r American Womarl Snffrnge association was to be merged into the National League of Women Voters. As women are usually strong partisans, membership In Dio league means merely a slight delay in alliance with democrats or republicans, and a brief review of history is therefore timely. Until section 2 of the fourteenth amendment was adopted the word "male'’ did not apear in the constitution, and the credit of thus limiting suffrage belongs to the republican party. When the women urged inclusion in this amendment they were told: "Suffrage fir black men will be all the strain that the republican party cau stand” At the (into that the fifteenth amendment wan pending the suffragists again made a strong appeal to the republican party. Asa result the second plank of the platform adopted by the con ventlon held In ISCB declared that on this question state's rights should prevail, except in the case of the colored man. Four years later great hopes were awakened by a plank do daring that the demands of women for equal rights should be (reap'd with “respectful consideration.’’ Aft era republican victory, the women who went to Washington with high hopes of speedy enfranchisement learned that there was apparently to be no time limit on the “respectful consideration.“ Centennial year came and the republican psrty in Its Cincinnati convention “recognised with approval the substantial advances" made toward the establishment of equal rights for women and repeated the opinion that “honest demands' should be treated with ‘respectful consideration." The Susan B. Anthony amendment, destined to focus the political hopes of women for more tbau forty years, was Introduced In the senate .Tan. If), 1878, The committee to which It was re ferred reported on it adversely. In accordance with a resolution, passed in 18TO by the national suffrage bon ventlon a committee of three women visited President Hayes "to remind him of the existence of one-half of the American people, whom he has entirely overlooked and of whom It would be wise for him to make mention in his future messages,” but bo omitted r“ference to suffrage In any later message.

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needs, the world’s needs. Through hie arduous efforts, today, the government dominates the finances of this country iand not the banks of Wall street. Marvelous has been the financial history of this country the past seven years. Wonders have been performed. All of our people have had ready access to money, and the democratic federal reserve law financed the warring nations as well as our own without a tremor. Prosperity has abounded at home, and In the face of It all, billionß and billions and billions were consumed to put this mighty nation’s army three thousaud miles across the seas to save civilization. No man In America did so much, mentally and physically to achieve our purposes as William G. McAdoo. He bore the burdens of a dozen men and heroical ly carried them all forward until the Tunkers of Potsdam surrendered. When the new day of democracy dawned, March 4, 1013, little had ever been heard concerning the career of William G. McAdoo. He was known as a New York lawyer, and that he had been

After- twenty years of. “respectful consideration" the Forty-ninth congress, both branches of which were republican, bent the federal amendment by a vote of 34 to IC. But the world has been moving slowly. Although in 189(1, when the women of Wyoming. Colorado and Idaho had been enfranchised, the republican platform had a plank favoring the admission of women to “spheres of wider usefulness,” the electoral votes of the three suffrage states were cast for tin' democratic candidate for president. For nearly teu years after that, both branches of congress were republican and the suffrage amendment had scant attention. Most of the time it was apparently forgotten by the legislators. It was not until the Sixty-third congress, 1913 1015, in which both branches were democratic, that for the first time In history, on March 19, 1011, a favorable majority was given. Os the slxty-ntne votes cast in the senate, thirty-five were for the amendment and thirty-four against. Nine senators were paired in favor, but the vote was far short of the necessary two-thirds. !u the Sixty-fourth congress the amendment was Introduced In the senate, Dec. fl, and in the house, Dec. 7, 1915, No action was taken la the senate, and in the house it was indefinitely postponed by the judiciary committee In the Sixty-fifth con gress, after a personal appeal had been nifido by President Wilton, the house passed the resolution, Jan. 10, 191” Between thin date and ijept. 30, when the president went to the senate and made a strong apepal, the amendment from time to time otmsed InteusA interest and anxiety. President Wilson staunchly and persistently advocated the amendment. working for It in every pealble way. In 1 *ls, when n woman suffrage amendment was pending In New Jersey, he went home to vote for It. and after his nomination In the democratic national convention of 1910. he spoke at the National American Woman'Suffrage convention in Atlantic City. I>e I* the orly president of the United States fwho ever identified himself with tha sufrfijro movement or in any wa assisted It.. With characteristic courage where a principle is Involved, he gave himself unreservedly to this cause. To his administration will lielong the honor of having enfranchised the women of the nation. While he is Read of the government, something nu re than 25,000,000 women will receive the vote.

some sort of promoter. President Wilson, however, knew this man and made him secretary of the treasury. At once McAdoo got busy. The first thing he discovered was that the National City Bank of Wall Street, had a salaried clerk with his desk in the controller's office in the treasury building at Washington. McAdoo wanted to know "why he was there and how much rent he paid the government? He was there as a spy—the .Morgan way—to get reports on other banks and on financial affairs generally, for the inner circle of the Wall Street buccaneers. Under republican rule whatever Wall Street wanted Wall Street received. But McAdoo put the skids under the hireling and shunted him toward the Potomac. Next the secretary learned that the saintly John Wanamaker was $200,000 behind in the payment of export dutlep on goods made by European “pauper labor.” The republicans said that they sought for months to collect the money for the government, but Wanamaker would not “come across.” In six days' notice he “came across” for McAdoo. This accounted for the fact of whole page advertisements against Wilson in 191 C, paid for by John Wanamaker—he wanted his republican chums back in power.

Then the money sharks got another jolt. Knowing that vast sums fit money had been loaned to pet bank* In Wall Street from the United States treasury, with never a cent of Interest paid for Its use, more than $33,000,000 had been lest even at 2 per cent, Mr. McAdoo said: "This will not go now. After June 1, 1913, not a dollar goes to any tank without paying the treasury interest therefor.” The Street bei’owed like “bulls” and growled like “bears.” But In two years' time McAdoo saved the people the snug sum of $2,732,133 in interest. The new reserve law then eliminated loans to banka. The blood suckers of the Street next laid a cunningly devised basis for a money stringency. Today they are adopting the same dirty plans. Their emissaries were sent out to bankers' banquets to tell th< assembled banqueters how portentlous the clouds looked. They talked of a money scarcity all over the thst Americau securities held abroad were to be dumped back upon us, that It would take all our gold reserve to pay for under-par paper. After spreading their slime throughout the country—the panic was ready to flame but In all Its Wall Street effulgence—but It didn't flame. The cut-throats bad forgotten who was on the Job at Wash h.gtnu. They had forgotten who put the tunnels under the New York rivers. It was McAdoo, and with equal skill he sapped their subterranean passageway. He punctured the panic bubble. He coolly announced that the treasury had $500,00(1,000 brand-new, silk-threaded currency that could be put In circulation in a day's time Consternation hit the street. The coaplrators were eaught In their own trap The banquets stopped Gne old guerrilla was heard to say: I hat a what come* from putting a damned dlbh-dlgger In the treasury” Reader, review that story-R Is one of fascination. About this same time the farmers were needing money to move crops. McAdoo •r ,h4t ihf, y It Fifty million dollars nc-re assigned to bunks in the grain states. McAdoo was hailed as the farmer's deliverer. One national banker said: "It came as manna from heaven. Another wrote: ”!t makes tears of joy come to tny eyes tn gratitude to our Creator for the gift of such a man.” With the coming of the federal reserve law things of this sort arc past history. More than any one man William Gibbs McAdoo wrought out the dctal’* of ocr present money system —Lb* greatest ever known to human history. Under it we have if on-3 through the greatest cataclysm that ever shook the earth, and the system itself never felt a quiver. The wreck of the whole world t ty have been averted by tt. Under the old Wall street regime panic would have been Inevitable when the Goman horde broke loose. Only an i(Hot can sav that dire peril would not have a sea lied us In the war work Mr. McAdoo was rer thinly the super man. If* engineered the Liberty loans He devised all the ways and means. HU first proposal was to tho banka, They offered $500,000,000 at 4*4 per cent. He needed two Milton io|. lars. and was ready to pay 3’4 per rent for the money Banka refusing to be Interested McAdoo took the matter to

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Whether presidential timber or mere presidential lumber shall head the two great national party tickets in the coming campaign, and, finally, ser r e as president of the United States during the next four years, is a question which deserves the very earnest consideration of every voting man and woman, it is essential, first, that real timber, and not mere lumber, be nominated f)y the two great parties at their coming conventions and, secondly, it is of the utmost importance that from this timber the very best possible selection be made at the fall election. The problems that the president of the United States will face during the next four years will be too great for the country to take any chances on' his being built of a fiber too weak to weather any gale. It Is not difficult to determine which of the presidential possibilities now in'the public eye measure up to a standard entitling them to be called real timber. The record of every man whose name has been suggested thus far in connection with the presidency will show whether he is possessed of the elements of a giant oak capable of being shaped to meet situations requiring the utmost strength and stability, or merely a finished board adaptable to one or two purposes for which he has been specially prepared. William G. McAdoo was born in Georgia, the son of a country editor. (This may be one reason he objected to increases in postal rates.) He left Georgia at the age of 13, and, subsequently, largely by his own efforts, acquired a legal education and practiced in Knoxville, Tenn., for several years. Aspiring to a larger field, in his early thirties he went to New York City and there came to him the great dream of building a tunnel under the Hudson river, a dream which became an accomplished fact due solely to the perseverance and indomitable will of the struggling young promoter. McAdoo was without money, without friends and without influence, but he had the conviction that his tunnel idea was right basically and biß unswerving loyalty to this belief carried him on to victory. Not until McAdoo became identified with Woodrow Wilson’s campaign for the presidenoy in 1912 had he been active in politics. Attracted by McAdoo’s fine ability as an executive and an organizer, President Wilson quickly offered him the portfolio of secreaary of the treasury and he accepted. From the moment that McAdoo became connected with the treaury he proved to be a man of great creative ability, and one upon whom the president could place heavy responsibilities with the assurance that they would be discharged satisfactorily. McAdoo quickly transformed the treasury department from a position in the public eye of an “old folks’ home” to a beehive of industry. His activities during the six years that he was a member of the president’s cabinet brought him in contact with virtually every class of American citisens and he impressed all of them with his great capacity for accomplishment and unquestionable sense of fairness. As secretary of the treasury he virtually dictated the financial policy of the government during the war and, despite thfc heavy load, he showed himself capable of carrying simultaneously many other burdens, such as (he director generalship of the railroad administration when the government took over the railroad lines. At one time McAdoo was the head of almost a dozen different government activities. Among the outstanding accomplishments of Mr. McAdoo’s work as a cabinet member are these: Fathered anew currency system which greatly stabilized business; created the farm loan act, which enabled farmers to borrow money at low rates of interest; prepared and pushed through congress “the war risk insurance act; planned and saw to conclusion the first four liberty loan campaigns, and rescued the railroads from a chaotic state and turned them into a great war machine. The necessity of earning more than a secretary of the treasury’s salary caused Mr. McAdoo to retire from the cabinet in 1918 and lie now Is practicing law in New York. Mr. McAdoo has declined to engage in an active contest, but his friends will make a fight in his behalf at the democratic national convention.—W. D. Boyce, in the Saturday Blade. Chicago.

the gVeat throbbing heart of America, and the people the liberty-lortng people c*me across magnificently with the two billions, then the four billions, again another four ands quarter billions, still aguin with seven billions, and the fins! Victory loan of right billions. Stupendous was the work. The Thrift and War Savings stamp plan was Inaugurated by whom? MoAdoo. War risk Insurance on vessels and car-

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goes was planned by whom? McAdoo. War risk Insurance on soldiers and sailors’ lives wss established by whom? McAdoo. The federal farm loan system instituted and managed by whom? McAdoo. Who was head of the war finance corporation. designed to finance every Industry In need during the war? McAdoo. Who was entrusted with the control of all the railways and all the esprees

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As to Mr. Zoercher

If Tax Commissioner Zoercher Is the good and holy democrat be so freely asserts that he is there is no discounting the fact that he is a long way from home base. If the democratic party does the thing that it should it will proclaim and declare In Italic caps for the repeal of the Goodrich tax law. It is a case where disinfectants will not work. The things smells too loud. We take it that the democrats whpn assembled in state convention, will not consider for a holy minute any compromise or any attempt to amend the present law Into something resembling a just, fair and equitable law for the valuation and assessment of the real and personal property of the state. We do not believe that it can he done. Gov. Goodrich is now calling an extra session of the. legislature hoping they may be able to repair the law by amendment so that it will he more acceptable to the people. He aPi| his party are already scared and thexi now fear that the simple amendment not straighten out the kinks. The dem* crats xvtl! never attempt to remedy tbS law in this way. its repeal with a strong ’ and virile proclamation on home rule Is the only respectable attitude that me democratic party can take. When this is done Tax Commissioner Zoercher can only pose as a democrat, and we advise him to steer clear of Perry county while lie is posing. .The democrats in,his old home county are not democrats simply to hold office, and it is a cinch they will not be enamored with a mugwump who is so willing to admit that be is bigger than his party.—Ft. Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette.

It Fits the Case

Editor The Times-Wouid like to see this clipping used on the editorial page in connection with President Wilson. 1 hink you could make better comments than any one else. if any one had written this within the last year and bad te-en thinking personally of the president they could not’ have hit the nail ou the head any better. I do not know in which of Kipling's writings this was found. “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting <r. being lied about, not deal in lies— The world Is yours and all that’s in It And, what's more, you'll lx- a man.” A SUBSCRIBER OF THE TIMES. 2862 Cornell avenue.

A True .Viewpoint

“At this poiut let me say that we •an not as a people escape our responsibility to rthe moral and material welfare of the rest of the world. We would be untrue to the memories of these, our dead, if we do not now help to maintain that for which they died, the liberty and the safety of nil the free peoples of the earth. Our selfish dreams of a blissful isolation are over. These dead have helped to plaee us where God's destiny points—to the moral leadership of the world and that leadership brings with it duties that we must perform. “The world looks to America for regeneration. Opportunity stands knocking at our door and it will he the part of wisdom to open wide to the heavensent visitant. Let us hope that In a short while politicians shall cease from trifling with the tears and prayers of humanity, and give to our nation its just and proper share in the covenant of peace, that these, ojr dead, helped to make possible by their, supreme sacrifice.”—Address by Henry Spaan of Indianapolis. in the United States In December, 1917? William Gibbs McAdoo, the greatest all-around door of grand, glorious and sublime things when the whole earth was tottering—certainly the people of this great land of liberty want this mighty man to serve them as president.