Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1920 — Page 6

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Jnirtatia Jlailri (Simps 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. Bntered as second-class matter at the postofflre at Indianapolis, ina., under the act of March 3,18 TB. Subscription £ates —By carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mall, 50c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5.00 a year. THE WISH appears to have been father to the thought of a reconcilation between Bush and Goodrich. SURE, the negroes will gamble. Just as long as the city administration makes it plain there will be no real interference. JUST WHEN ONE BEGINS to plan a garden he remembers that the neighbors’ chickens will have mandatory control of it, as usual. HAS MAYOR JEWETT revoked Alexander's poolroom license yet, or hasn’t he learned of the convictions for gambling by this time. MR. RALSTON has demonstrated again that he has too high a regard for his friends to be led into repudiation of them for selfish purposes. CHAIRMAN SALLEE did not find it necessary to issue a statement that all was “harmony” after the democratic committee meeting last week. ' - ' - NO ONE expected Secretary Schortemeier to admit a lack of harmony in the republican ranks, but really it was unnecessary to try to emphasize the non-existent. THE COLUMBIA CLUB announces its intention to entertain all the re publican candidates for president and Will H. Hays is selected to be the first guest of honor. J Their Value Husbands are not like pork ribs, lard, bales of cotton or bushels of wheat. Husbands vary in values. Some are worth more and others are held less highly. There are no exact market quotations on husbands, such as one finds in the produce market, the stock exchange or the Board of Trade. It is, therefore, rather difficult to answer that New York woman who wants to know: “How much is a husband worth to any woman?" But for her benefit a little investigation of the subject will be undertaken. Two news dispatches are under consideration. First: Woman in Des Moines, la., offers to dispose of her husband for the trifling sum of $5,000. “I don't want him any more, so I sell him.” she informed an attorney she asked to complete the sale. And she had a “buyer” at that price. That, seemingly, would fix the husband price at $5,000. But — Miss Amy O’Connor filed suit against Allen Gray, Evansville, Ind., asking for $500,000 because Gray refused to become her ausband after promising to do so. Obviously Miss Amy valued a husband like Gray at bail million dollars. Possibly that is the top quotation for husbands* In the matrimonial markets, and a jury determined she was entitled to only SIO,OOO. The range of husband prices, then, appears to hover between $5,000 and $500,000. Before you, being a married man, place your own at the large figure, please bear this in mind: It was a married woman who set the $5,000 mark for husbands, and is was a woman, inexperienced In husband valuations, who placed the price of husbands at the half-million mark. Possibly a husband is more valuable before you get him A Coming Issue It is, perhaps, useless to call attention again to the fact that the administration of Mayor Charles Jewett is continuing to sidestep not only his pre-election pledges, but also its plain duty relative to the street car situation in Indianapolis. So many of Mr. Jewett’s pre-election promises have been repudiated, or forgotten, that the public has learned to expect nothing else since the garbage plant was purchased and the mayor began to raise fancy hogs. Yet, while Mr. Jewett continues to draw his salary as mayor of Indian apolis, the people of the community have a right to look to him for the fulfilment of his pledges. Among the most important of those pledges was his oft-repeated statement that he would cause an expert survey of the street car situation In Indianapolis and would act upon the obviops indications of that survey. Mr. Jewett has neither taken steps to have such a survey made, nor has he suggested any other plan of dealing with the deploiable need of better transportation facilities in Indianapolis. His boards have done nothing but evade the very evident problems presented by the inability of the local street car company to provide service. The board members have talked much and done nothing. And so long as they continue their present program there will be no betterment of street car service In the city. A mayor with sufficient constructive ability to fill the office now held by Mr. Jewett would hardly pretend that the transportation problem of Indiana had been solved through the simple process of instructing Robert I. Todd to ascertain whether fifty more cars could be obtained for Indian apolis. That, however, appears to be the sum total of the steps taken by the city administration toward solving the problems to date. A first-class politician ought lo be able to see that the future of his party will be affected considerably by the success or failure of its administration in dealing with transportation. There will be no greater issue before the people of Indianapolis In the next city campaign than the issue presented by the failure of the city’s transportation facilities to keep step with its progress. And the failure of the Jewett administration even to realize that there is such a problem wiN not be an asset to the next republican nominee.

Repudiated P?‘otnise When the general assembly of Indiana was called together a few weeks ago and thejwomen’s suffrage amendment was ratified, the people of Indiana, including the leaders of the American legioi/, accepted the solemn promise of Gov. Goodrich that he would call another special session of the legislature at which "general legislative matters" would receive attention. The people accepted this promise and in consideration of it surrendered to Gov. Goodrich’s personal desires their undeniable right to consideration of their other needs and desires. It now develops that Gov. Goodrich did not make the promise in good faith, for in only a few weeks after making it he calls a conference "to consider whether a special'session should be called." Thus the governor demonstrates that he was not in good faith when he promised a special session of the assembly for the consideration of general legislation, and by the promulgation of that promise induced the legislators to limit thei/ session to a single day spent in the ratification of the suffrage amendment. The Times said then, and time has borne out the assertion, that the governor’s promise was not made in good faith and was not worthy of credence. There is no particular grounds on which those persons who have been deceived as to the good faith of Gov. Goodrich are entitled to sympathy. They ought to have known by previous experience that the promise was worthless. If they did not, they can not now be heard to Klead that they were not so warned in plenty of time to have prepared ta* that certainty. W Tcaav, it is apparent that Gov. Goodrich will keep his promise to cajl special session of the legislature for the transaction of general business only in event he is compelled to do so. He has practically repudiated his promise, he had given ear to the request of the republican state committee that he repudiate hip promise, and he is seeking, to the limit of his ability, to obtain assurances that in event he does call a special session its program will consist of such “general legislation” as he may dictate. The question of whether or not to have a special session is a very simple one. Gov. Goodrich decided it weeks ago, when he declared that it was “inevitable.” < We will either have a special session, free to. transact what general business comes before it, or the republican administration will admit the solemn promises of governor are worthless, that the will of the people is entirely subservient to the wishes of the political boses and Indiana is, '''’.reality, ruled from the headquarters of the republican committee.

The Sensible Era Begins There fire straws which Indicate that the scrudbla era of our after-the-war reconstruction Is about to begla. It was Inevitable that some time or irther it would be necessary to call a haft on the fipward trend of prices and It would seem as If that time had come. Prices of everything have gone up naturally and a lot of shameless profiteers have seized tho opportunity to boost them still further in order to line their on* pocketbooks. Here is an example of the way that big business now looks at the situation. One result of tiie steel strike was that theie was very little wire to be had for rbe making of nails. The big teel mills couldn't make It and the small mills had to do their best to fill the demand for wire. Asa result prfees went up beyond all reason. Nalls were selling on the Chicago market at S9 a keg. Representatives of the American Steel and Wire Com pony, the largest nail manufacturers in the country, called a conference of wholesalers and others who handle nails in a big way. “Nine dollars a keg is entirely too much for nails,” they were told. “But it is the least we can charge without losing money,” said the wholesalers “We charge only $1.50 more than tha nails cost us and it is worth $1.50 to get the naiis from the railroad company’s warehouse, transfer them to our own, deliver them to our customers and collect tka bill later on. We make only a small margin of profit as it Is.” “The fault is not yours so much as it Is that of the manufacturer,” agreed tho wire company representatives. "But the price of nails must he cut in two, and that at once. We.are going to help you. We can make and deliver nails to you at $5 a keg. You still can charge $1.50 more than the nails cost you and at the same time sell to your customers at one-half what you now are charging them.” And that is why Chicago contractors find their nails costing them so much less. Only one es thousands of things that have been costing a great deal more than they should, to be sure, hut the attitude of big business men toward naiis is a healthy sign of how they are going to view other things. Almost at the same time the big lumber concerns announced a cut in the price of flooring and lumber to trim buildings and make sashes and blinds. Another healthy sign. Business men see the necessity of getting down to earth again, of bringing things back to a normal level before n big blowup should come. It Is lmpos slble to keep on at the rate we have I>c4n going and shrewd students of conditions could not see any end to the demands for Increases in the price of labor. One of the biggest concerns In England was compelled to close its doors because It no longer could meet the demands for wages made by Us men. No big American concern has done that yet. hut it might very easily happen unless we get on a sane basis, reduce the cost of the necessities of life and stop the upward trend in everything There are many things which point to the fact that we have reached the turning point.- W D Boyce In the Saturday Blade, Chlcbgo.

Public Defender Needed A defendant in a criminal trial Is granted by the federal and the safe constitutions the right to appear or defend In person, or with counsel, r.nv < haese which is brought against him Hut it is so often the case that the accused Is not capable of sett'ng up his own defense, or sufficiently supplied with funda to employ private couns. 1 to safeguard his interest. A public defender who Is paid by the state, a sworn officer of the law. with a duty to the state to protect such persons would be a wonderful help to the administration of Justice and do entirely away with assigned cases. Counsel which are assigned are not always compensated except In certain cases, an d there Is no valid reason why an attorney should be expected to give his time and pro fessional skill In defense of the accused any more than a physician or merchant should be required to donate tlieir skill or wares gratuitously, and fur this r wel las other reasons eases are will fully and carelessly neglected by those In whoso rare they are assigned Occasionally the accused has the good fortune to be assigned an experienced

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and capable attorney. But busy lnwjers have neither the time nor inclination to neglect their mote lucrative pracj tire for the privilege of basking }n the ! atmosphere or the eriminar court. Thero- : fore the court usually assigns counsel ; from among the attorneys in attendance | at tne time, or who are in attendance at the time tor tile purpose of being assigned. This assigned counsel easily convinces himself that hd has done bis duty to his client (who may be inn'oeent. but without funds lo prove it), If he, the assigned counsel, con get the prosej ciitor to accent a plea of guilty to a j lesser form of crime, or recommend a 1 moderate sentence. This often happens among the foreign element ns they stano quivering, at the bar of Justice willing *t<> abide by the advice of a carelessly assigned counsel, and before they realist* what has hnppcned they are on their way to prison and the only crime they are guilty of is "poverty.” Many an innocent map hns no dottbf been thus branded as a criminal owing to the fact that we have a prosecutor armed with nil tho implements of state forces behind him to fee that a man is convicted, and no power behind the assigned attorney to see that the innocent are given their liberty. The public defender should be on an ; equal basis with the prosecuting at forney and given the use of the same forces such as warding off baseless indictments before the grand Jury, employing tho i police and detective departments to gather evidence favorable to his client, and the power to appeal to the majesty of the law when necessary to protect i the interest of the accused. This would help many a poor, unfortunate person who now has to languish in jail through long delays, and without money to pay counsel, or prosecute his appeal. As- ! signed counsels for poor persons, or legal aid societies are not a substitute for a public defender. Furthermore, an accused person should not be depending on any form of charity either individual or organized, for resources or opportunity- to present a merited defense. He should be entitled .IE a matter of abstract right to be defended by a sworn public official, who would have a positive duty to perform for the state, and paid by the state to protect the innocent, and elso to see that the guilty were not excessively punished. Neither private nor public charity, no matter how meritorious, will avail as—a sufficient substitute for the denial of a legal requirement, for Justice, not charity, Is the need under present conditions. EDWARD DOYLE. Indianapolis. Sugarin’ Off N } The sap's sunning! Down In the back-acre lot the buds on the big maple are sticking little, vivid green heads out Into the air. This is the time to drive In a spile, and of an evening, after the milking is dme. go down and bring the pall up to the b’llln' pot. Wonder If the kids back home "till do It. D> they pull off a piece of the bark, against orders, and chew its sweetness? And do they dance as excitedly around the hired man the day the sap has been gathered, the day of the sugarin' off? There is a little chunk of bacon hung from the top forks of the spit over the pot. There Is to keep It from running over. Tiie nectar simmers all morning long it Is a Saturday, about this time of year, and the neighbor kids are ail there. From time to time the hired man winds , a little of the thickening syrup on a little pine stick, and hands it to one of them. Then he must take another little stick, and lay his precious loltlpoip of nature on the snow In a second It Is candy- such a sweetmeat as the city con fectlorter doesn't dare to Imitate. A little later there la maple sugar. In big cakes and syrup for th pancakes ! every morning. Ho. hum ! Wonder If the kids enjoy It as they used to years and years ago. Or have Improved and scientific methods taken all the tang out of the syrup and , robbed the day of sugarin' off of Its romance? NATCRAI, ENOUGH. "I feel- oh, words will hardly describe it 1 feel, Just—well all hiloycd up.” j ■aid the new father of an Infant son.— > Judge

A Lowden Story Friends of Gov. Frank O. Lowden of | Illinois, whose slogan is the treed of a | business administration at Washington, relate an amusing story illustrating that even a youthful country hotel clerk years ago displayed a decided tendency to favor the business man as against poli- | itcians. Lowden was making a speaking cam paign of Illinois for McKinley. In a little''town in southern Illinois he addressed a rousing meeting of republicans. Lawrence Y. Sherman, now United States senator from Illinois, was another speaker, and he and Lowden had secured the “star” bedroom of the only hotel in town as their quarters for the night. After the meeting the two spellbinders returned to the hotel, to be told by the young night clerk that their “room had been changed.” He conducted them to a small back room with two cots In It. Sherman groaned, while Lowden sought information, e “Young man,” he sal : “why did you change our room?” "Well,” replied the youth, bristling In importance, “you don’t ’spose we can give up the best room in the house to you political men when there’s traveling men cornin’ along, do yith?” “Sherman,” said Lowden, “we can’t beat that. It’s Just what we’ve been telling people—business comes first. Let’s go to bed.” To Stop Speeding Editor The Times—There is not a day, hour or week that there is not evidence of the .speeder on almost any street of the city and yet the police do not see them. We can expect nothing from the police department as those among the department know that It they should arrest some pet of tiie administration they would be consigned to the realms of the lost but faithful John Corricau. I have a plan that will stop this kill Ing of children within thirty days. It is as follows: Let enough 100 per cent Americans donate enough money to eni ploy ten men ad place them under the direction of some man who is not a coward and I would like to narno the man, although there are no doubt many who would do Just as well. Give them police power from the board of safety, If possible, and If they refuse appoint them constables and after thirty days it will be possible to reduce the force to five men. With this force of only five men who will do thesr duty there is not the slightest doubt In my tnlnd that there will be a single speed fleud who will have the nerve to practice his speed trials within the corporation line of the city unless he has a lapse of memory. Let us save the children. Mr. Editor, and I, for one, will be willing to donate at least $lO per month to the pense of employing such a force of n> to en force the laws. A CITIZEN. HWEfiDlMESEBcdis^ at ijcurfiubiic Li bmry Who loves the story of “The Pled Piper of Hamelin?" Then read this revival of it in “The Piper,” a play In four acts by Josephine Preston Peabody. This poetic drama, replete with beautiful thougth and musical ip form is intensely interesting and readable and at the same time gives evidence of its adaptability to the stage. While not as symbolic nnd allegorical as “The Bine Bird." ft is somewhat similar In appeal and will delight the reader whom Maeterlinck In his gentler mood attracts. “Burled Alive,” bv Arnold Bennett, Is the story of a shy though famous painter who, to escape the results of hi* own renown, allowed hla valet, Henry Leek, to be bu/led in his name, In Westminster Abbey with all the splendor due a great tmin. ICow lie In turn not only assumed the name of Henry Leek, but hla respon slbilttles as well, and how his own Identity was finally discovered, makes an exceedingly “lever, light and amusing tale. “Man, Women and Ghosts.’ by Amy Lowell Is ant st interesting collection

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of narrative poems, reprinted from va rlous magazines, grouped under headings such as “Bronze Tablets," “War Picture*,” “Overgrown Pastures,” “Clocks Tick a Century" and "Towns In Colour.” It includes romantic, epic and realistic examples of vers llbre. rich in coloring and vivid imagery with much variation and beauty of rhythm nml form. The collection contain* two of the author’s beat-known poems, “Patterns” and "Allle*." Evening a cold, bleak wind without; a warm, cheerful blaze within; a ready iiatener. a willing reader. Given these, a short atory read aloud will prove most entertaining. “Without the slightest hesitation, be went to the door on the right, and opened it.” Did the tiger come from I>ehind the door, or was it the lady? “The Lady or the Tiger," by Frank Stockton, will hold any listener breathless. In “The Outcasts of Poker Flat," found in Bret Hurte's collection called “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” the vivid picture of the two women buried under the snow,

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