Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1920 — Page 6

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Jnfiiatia Sail® Shots 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 second-class matter at the postofflce at IndlanapoHa, Ind„ nnder the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription Rates — By carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mall. 60c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for aix months, or $5,00 a year. WONDER lE’ Mayor Jewett’s SIO,OOO hog will be fed with the product of his $175,000 garbage plant? >A HEADLINE ASKS, Tan a hubby spend all he pleases?” No, he can spend only all his wife pleases. JUST WHAT do the cement interests want done to the county unit road law, anyhow? Isn't the tax board able to insist that cement be specified before the bonds are Issued? IT’S ALL VERY PROPER for the board of works to ride in anew street car, run as a special for its use, but what the average citizen wants is a chance to get aboard any old car, run regularly. SEVEN INDIANA democratic newspapers and no republican newspapers have declared Mr. McAdoo to be their choice for the democratic nomination for president. No one else has such a flattering record. THE NEWS says of men who are not wealthy enough to run for the governorship, “ it is the duty of the political party Interested to see that these men have a fair show.” May we ask, why, then, the News felt it a duty to do all it could to run Ed Bush out of the republican party when he announced his candidacy? ~ * The Mi tie Contract , Again It is indeed Interesting to learn that the Jewett administration has evolved a plan under which it expects to avoid the necessity for publicly letting another "mule contract.” The aversion of the administration to Jvdvertlßlng for bids and spreading another contract on the records indicates that even the members of the administration have a sense of shame and a recollection that before he went Into office Mayor Jewett publicly denounced this mule contract as a "graft” However, the mayor found It desirable, after he was In office, to follow the lead of his predecessors and make another mule contract, whether the said contract was a graft or not. ] The Jewett mule contract is about to expire. The proper way to proceed would be to ask bids on anew contract, but to do that would be to direct public attention to a second contract of the type the mayor once said was a "graft.” A Moses has arisen in the administration. He suggests that insomuch as the old contract contains a clause that keeps it alive automatically, nothing be done about it whatsoever. This plan has two advantages. It makes It unnecessary for Mayor Jewett to approve of two contracts of the kind he calls "graft*' in one administration. It also prevents any quarreling among the boys as to who shall have the benefit of the "graft.” But honestly, now, Mr. Mayor, were you mistaken In calling the mule contracts of your predecessors “graft” or do you desire to stand before this community convicted of having denounced the other fellows’ contracts as “graft” and then deliberately making a similar one?

Why Rob the Grave? The booze Issue In the United States Is dead. It has been burled. There la less chance of bringing back the era of rum than of substituting the ox-cart for the automobile. For years and years the people of this land debated the liquor problem. Every side of It was argued over and up and down. Slowly but surely the wave of popular opinion swept over the traffic, and swept It out of legal existence in this country. Whisky died hard, it Is true, but it died. It seems difficult for a few to realize that John Barleycorn has passed away—FOREVER. They couldn’t persuade themselves that he was dead last July 1 when they saw him in his coffin. And now they profess to believe the old rum-sodden drink habit is turning over in his grave, anxious to be dug up and restored to command of the army of liquor drinkers. But it Is all a mistake. The saloon is a thing of the past In America. The drunkard is gone. Demon rum Is a political issue in the United States just as slavery Is an issue; as the purchase of Louisiana is; the stamp acts of George in are!

The sooner Gov. Edwards of New Jersey and the fw “wet 1 * leaders realize this the sooner they can turn their attention and effort to solving some of the real live Issues now- confronting this country. The Mexico of Today God made Mexico one of the wealthiest and most beautiful countries i on the face of the earth. Man has cursed it. She has mines of untold j richness, but she Is bankrupt She has oil enough to supply the world and j the government prevents the working of the wells. Her lands are rich and fertile, but her people are hungry and tattered. Her ancient cities are rubbish heaps and their Inhabitants pest-stricken paupers and desperate thieves. Famine, fever, poverty, ignorance and superstition hold sway while her makeshift government throttles her people and defies those who j would help them. Her bloom and charm are gone, and, instead of the Garden of Eden she well might be, Mexico is more like a back yard ash heap. The country has gone back to what It was before Porflrio Dias brought her out of the depths and set her on the road to prosperity. '' Carranza’s government hasn’t accomplished anything, even though it : has been backed by the recognition of the United States. The people are virtually enslaved by a feudal land system, 90 per cent of them can neither read nor write, they have little to cat, a large percentage of them are illegitimate, no effort Ib made to educate them or to instill in them any high ideals or civilization. Is it any wonder that Mexico is revolution-ridden? Mexico today Is much in the same situation as the Canaanltes of old, who were corrupt themselves and corrupting those around them, so much so that God commanded the Israelites to go in and destroy them. Perhaps, these thousands of years later, the United States, in the role of ' anew Israel, is called upon to step into Mexico—not to destroy her, but j to wipe out the festering sore which stands for Mexico and rebuild upon ! the ruins and wreck of this great country, a nation that will be able to come to the front to her destined place among the countries of the earth.— j W. D. Boyce in the Saturday Blade, Chicago. Hays, the Candidate Will H. Hays, the republican national chairman, whose activities in behalf of Will H. Hays conducted In the republican organization have caused many to believe that he is in reality a candidate for the presidency, refuses to affirm or deny the report that he had presidential aspirations. Mr. Hays was in the city to make un address to the Columbia club, j Prior to his coming, the managers of the Columbia club had announced that they would give a series of luncheons for the "presidential candidates." Mr. Hays was selected to launch the series. No one can be blafned if, under such conditions, Mr. Hays was listened to as a potential candidate for the presidency. The crowd at the Columbia club was assembled to hear a candidate for the presidency. It listened to a man who accepted an invitation to talk as a candidate. And as further evidence that Mr. Hays is a candidate one has only to point out that he refused to deny it. More Talk From Jewett The only way to solve the transportation problem is to get a real traffic expert who is impartial and who comes into the city unbiased by local prejudices and lays out a constructive plan on scientific engineering basis*; then for the board of works to follow out the recommendations as far as possible.”—Mayor Jewett. These are the same sentiments the mayor expressed prior to taJdng office as mayor, in January, 1918, and in the last two years he has done nothing to indicate that he had any intention of providing such a survey. Why get excited about a repetition of sentiment at this late date? 1

Finding Fault With Hays A correspondent of the New Yo’rk World appears to be unable to fathom the secret of Will Hayes’ greatness as a constructor and thinker, and writes: How can Will H. Hays, chairman of the republican national committee, really expect that his bromldlc political platitudes at this crisis will be acceptable to the the American people? Will be and other republican leaders never cease casting stones to the masses asking for bread ? The people ask that congress act, and Mr. Hays assures them that “the republican party at its birth was dedicated to the great principle of human rights.” The people ask, "What ahout the high cost of living?’’ and Mr. Hays assures them that “Abraham Lincoln was a simple, patient, wise and good man.” The people ask, don’t you ratify the peace treaty?” and Mr. Hays Informs them that "Theodore Roosevelt was a patriot of good conscience and stout courage." The people ask, “Who is going to be the republican candidate?’' and Mr Hays tells them that "we are living In a critical age.” The people aak, "What Is the republican platform?” and Mr. Hays assures them that he Is “advertising for the best platform possible In this best of all possible worlds.” The people ask, “Do you favor Leonard Wood for president and government by shrapnel?" and Mr. Hays says that “Lincoln believed in liberty regulated by law.” The trouble with the New Yorker is that he is an amateur in polities. To get the real thing he ehould journey to Indiana. Here Mr. Hays Is considered exceptionally clever, and we point with pride to the xery evidence to which the New Yorke.' objects. And If the New Yorker will only analyze the situation, contemplate the “record” of the republican congress, and the conglomerate mass of all "sorts and conditions of men" who ars to write the republican platform, hs will understand the wisdom of sldeatepplng a direct question on a vital Issue with a harmless platitude on the gentleness of Lincoln or the greatness of Goodrich, or the uses of the press.—Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. An English Viewpoint “When Abraham Lincoln was told that Gen. Grant drank too much whisky he answered: ‘What Is the brand, that 1 may send some to my other genarals?’ “If President JVllson Is suffering from any malady or the political Judgment, could not some American bacteriologist convey us a few of the germs that we may Inoculate our European premiers One’s chief regret In reading President Wilson's admirable plea for a wise and honorable policy In the Adriatic is that It should have been left to him to frame It. One feels that England has somehow surrendered her rightful part in the drama to America. “It is we who ehould have raised our voices first against the proposed terms of settlement that expressed the very spirit which we went to war to deflrat. We should all be grateful to President Wilson for extricating ns from a false position. Pity it la that w# were ever In it and that we can not feel the thrill of gratitude to any of onr own states men which all liberty-loving Englishmen felt toward Lord Palmerston for s*and Ing manfully bv Italy wheu her struggle was for her own frtedorn and not ’ for dominion over others. “Why should It be an American politician to whom It <s left to assert, in peace, the principle for which England fought the war? —Manchester (England) Guardian. The Silly Geese With the northern migration of ducks and geese about to begin, obrerrers of the sky lines will hove beautiful of. portunities to sec how nature has stippled these wild birds with that int!nct that eases them In the work of inaktiik the great Journeys from winter feeding grounds to summer nesting homes. Their application of the principle of the wed go is perfect. Humans know It 1 in the share of the common plow, ip the

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vessel’s prow, in a score of wedge-shaped articles used for separation. The arrangement of flying in two battalions with a common apex, a* largo flocks of ducks and geese do, Is the easiest for progress through the atr, and results lu the least fatigue. Long before man had applied this principle the wild birds were flying that way. And more thati that. For In a V ot geese, when the leader becomes tired he retires to the rear to recuperate, and a fresh bird takes his place. The point of the wedge ha* the hardest work. The others follow in so close that the displaced air hasn't time to close in again. Birdland divides the labor. In small flocks, sometimes there Is but a single file, no wedge. If one watebos closo he may find that the tip of one bird’s beak all but touches the tail of the on* ahead. That, too, Is so that the air displaced by the preceding bird may not close In before the following bird Is Into it Each has to meet less air resistance that way. One must take his hat off to whoever Implanted that wonderful Instinct in the heads of birds sometimes referred to as being “silly geesei.” McAdoo Is Leading While The Times has no more Interest in a democratic presidential candidate than any other voters, it desires to make a guess that whoever Is nominated will have to defeat William G. McAdoo of | New York. He will either be first or ! second when the final two-thirds votes are cast. Good sense and sober thought | demands such a candidate. He made ; good as secretary of the treasury; sold , the Liberty loan bonds to popular subscription, and has done more for labor than any other living American. —Tipton Times. Brains A classification of races, according to i experts, shows weight of brain, in j ounces, !g; Scotch, 60.0; German, -49. ft; English. •405: French, -17.6; Chinese, 47.2; Esqul- j ! man, 43.9. But compared with the size of body, the brain of the Esquimau Is ss heavy as that of the Scotchman. Experts say that a man's brain consists of 800.000,004* nerve cells, of which nearly 3,100 are destroyed every minute. The Ceutury Book of Facts concerning this, Buys': “Everyone, therefore, has anew brain once in sixty days But excessive labor, or lack of sleep, prorents the repatr of the i tissues, and (he brain gradually wastes away. Diversity of occupation, by calling , upou and in'll rent po'tlons of nilrnl or body successively affords, in some measure, the j requisite repose to ench. “But In the caee of overwork there is i no safety except In that perfect rest wlib h U the only natural restorative of exhausted power." The moral Ist Use your brain, but don’t i overuse it. NEWS SCHEMES ON M’CULLOCH (Continued From I’oge One.) cratlo nomine, “especially if that nominee ■Hi* idd happen t■ • be McCulloch. "Anyhow,” say* the News represent* live, “the News will not mako a fight on McCulloch. It might even he induced to support him If he talked right.” In Justice to Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch it ehould be said right here that he is not a party to this bi partisan proposition Careful investigation of the situation falls to reveal any evidence 1 that Dr. McCulloch has sought republican support for his candidacy for the nomination and there l* no Ind-catlon that he Intend* to do o. NEWS MANEUVERS NEED W \T< MING. Tr, McCulloch is new to the political | game as it is played by the News In , Indiana, lie has not watched the care ' fully laid plans by wWich candidates j for office, both republican and demo- ! cratlc, have been induced to wend their ! way to the little office on the ninth i

floor of the News building, there to be dazzled by offers of support for little favors that afterward involve big deals. Dr. McCulloch was not in politics in 1906, when the News supported Charles A. Gauss until the last minute and Anally switched to Lew Shank, who was 'the victor over Gauss by 1,635 rotes, and consequently he can not be expected to understand how Shank was Induced to mortgage his administration to Joseph B. Kealing as a part of the program for his election. Dr. McCulloch does not remember how, In 1913, the News vainly sought an alll ance with W. H. Johnson, the progressive candidate, and when it failed to obtain it brought out Dr. Charles S. Wood, as a candidate on an independent ticket, finally delivering to him the large sum of 2,032 votes, after having held out to him the prospect of defeat of Joseph E. Bell, Charles A. Bookwalter and W. H. Johnson, each of whom received more than six times the number of votes the News was able to control and deliver to Wood. Dr. McCulloch does not recall that Johnson openly charged that the News first sought to control him, then fought to defeat him because he would not agree to Its terms. * BOOKWALTER HAS BEEN THROUGH IT. Charles A. Bookwalter might counsel Dr. McCulloch against News tactics if he would. He recalls distinctly the many times Charles Warren Fairbanks, the real owner of the News, fondly expressed Ids complete lack of understanding as to why the News persisted In Its fight against Bookwalter, but even Bookwalter does not know how Richard Smith assembled members of his staff about him on the eve of the 1913 election and expressed the hope that they would all vote for Bookwalter rather than for Johnson. Dr. McCulloch has no recollection of the manner In which the News Induced Gov. Ralston to sanction a grand Jury Investigation for the legitimate purpose of punishing a fraud in the legislature and later perverted that Investigation into an attempt to besmirch the character of a number of good democrats and If possible send some of them to the penitentiary for recommending appointment to positions with the Indiana legislature. Consequently, Mr. McCulloch has been picked as the easiest democratic candidate with which the newspaper can flirt. Ha is to be Induced to become friendly to the News by means of half-way promise* to aupport him If he Is nominated. Hta friend* In the democratic party are to be Induced to tie up with the Newa so that its edltora may knowall the Insides of democratic politics first-handed and be able to relay auch information to tn* republican state committee where preparation* can be made to counteract any dangerous •strategy. Others, who can not support M“Culloeh for the nomination, are to be Induced to believe that McCulloch Is a “News man" In the hopes that they will be Influenced to desert him In event he la the democratic party nominee. SCHEME EASILY UNDERSTOOD. And eVentuslly. in event Mr. McCulloch doss obtain the democratic nomination, the# the News will be In a po ■ltlon to declare to him that It helped him win, that It la “strong for him,” snd if he will only agree with It on s certain line of procedure lo the governor’* offico It will help elect him With such sn agreement the News will worry no longer ns to the ultimate results of the rSeorlon. It will agr'"i be In a position to control .ertsin appointments, and continue to avoid pay ment of taxes on lta $2,000,000 valuation In probate court aa It did last yesr by listing lta holdings at only $297,000. It will then proceed to settle back in au e-.sy chair, give apace to the candidate* of both the republican and democratic candidate* and watch tb# drift of the campaign until a few days before th# election, when lta astute editors will make np their minds which candidate la likely to win, call him In and promise to deliver a certain number of needed vote* In return for .1 few m-ire prospective favor*. It's a fine game If you don't weaken. Tlii* News has played It for * nnmVi of very successful years. It bis started to play It thin year. It is up to the democrat* to say whether thv want It to succeed. Dr. Carleton B McCulloch, when ap

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agency that comes to him without conditions that might Interfere with the administration of the office of governor In the interests of the whole people of Indiana. My friends may rest assured that I will never enter the governor’s office with any pledges, made or implied, that would prevent me from acting in accordance with my Judgment of the wishes and needs of the whole people of Indiana.” —Indiana Publicity BnreSu,