Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1920 — Page 6

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Jniliami Jlrtihi (Limes 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 Indianapolis, Ind., under the let of March 3, 1579. Subscription Rates —By 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. IT HAS BEEN SEVERAL MONTHS since The News referred to any one as having been indicted by the federal court. Would such references recall unpleasant memories? WABASH is a safe and sane place for Mr. Pesler to announce his platform. The people of that county are accustomed to listening to anything that pretends to be republican. WHY SPECULATE on the impossible? Os course Wood will not remove Hays when nominated. The republican bosses will take good care to see that he is never nominated. EXTRA! We forgot to remark that among the things Gov. Goodrich did not explain while on his speaking tour was the sale to Indianapolis of t.he SIO,OOO garbage plant for $175,000. HEADLINES say Mayor Jewett Is planning to finance the city hospital, but the subsequent stories show that what he really intends to do is to talk with Sam Ashby and Bob Bryson about It. 'Tis ever thus. THE DEGREE OF LOVE for the former scldier that the republican bosses have is well demonstrated by the introduction of Frank Riley info the prosecutor’s race for the purpose of Injuring Capt. William El Reiley. The Court Makes Haste The most remarkable thing about the supreme court’s decision in the telephone merger case is that the same court which has taken several years to deliberate, and is still undecided, as to whether Denny Bush was properly tried for assault and battery is able to make up its mind about the legality of this merger in a very few months. Only a matter of a SSOO fine and 180 days on the penal farm for a confessed payroll padder is involved In the Bush case, but years are taken by the court to decide it. A matter of several million dollars and the rights of a large community are involved in the telephone merger case and the decision comes almost before the public realized that an appeal had been taken. * This is, of course, very pleasing to the gentlemen who bought the securities of the independent telephone company and held them as a speculation while they worked to complete the merger. But even this unusual speed In disposing of the case does not appear to have been entirely satisfactory to all the interested parties. The supreme court upholds the refusal of the city council to approve the merger. It rules, In effect, that the merger was none of the council's business, and was binding without its approval. This would seem to be sufficient answer to the dlsgrunted critics of the city council, who have labored In the day and the night to attempt to show that the council’s refusal to approve this merger was depriving the city of some fanciful benefit. But now the council’s critics are undertaking to show that because the council refused to approve a merger, which the supreme court holds was none of its business, the city will lose a franchise tax of $6,000 a year! Perhaps it will. But whether it does or not, there is no denying that in holding up the elimination of the lndep. nt telephone system as long as it did the council saved to the patrons of the Independent system more money than the city would have received In the form of franchise tax for many years. The fact that this saving will eventually be deducted from the profits of the speculators in the telephone securities who appear to have gained most by the merger is probably responsible for the chagrin of the Indianapolis News and others over the council’s refusal to act on the merger several months ago.

Householder the Goat Assessment lists designed to increase the burden of taxation of householders and designed in no way to bring out more intangible property are being distributed by assessors in Marion county and are bringing about the complaint of overburdened taxpayers. The lists were designed by the state board of tax commissioners. The new lists, unlike the old lists, require that an itemized list of household goods be given. One whole column of the list is devoted to items of household goods set out in the utmost detail. Nothing which any householder possesses is overlooked by the tax board. On the other hand the section of the list which applies to Intangible property is unchanged. The tax dodger who year after year has failed to list his intangible property may continue to do so insofar as any new provisions on the assessment list are concerned. Gov. Goodrich, in defending the tax law, repeatedly stated that it was designed to bring out intangibles. Members of the tax board themselves have repeatedly made similar statements and promises regarding the bringing out of intangibles. Despite all these statements the only apparent effort in the preparation of the new forms to bring about the increased listing of property is the requirement that householders make itemized lists of their furniture. Will this increase the amount of intangibles brought out of hiding?

On Laundry Pricey The United States government operated thirty laundries during the war, charged a great deal less for laundry work than the combination that controls Indianapolis laundries is charging, paid for the buildings in which the laundries were housed and made a net proiit of $2,356,259 in the business. Os course, the operation of these laundries was under very favorable conditions. There was plenty of work and there was no particular need for competitive organizations and other overhead expenditures. Bvt no one who ever patronized these laundries will be heard to assort that the prices he is paying in this city-for laundry work are not ample to take care of any overhead that the local laundries may have. The stiff collar is rapidly disappearing from Indianapolis. The price list of the laundry combination is such as to make it unpopular. Housewives hate found that they can launder soft collars themselves and save a fficient to buy a week’s groceries in a short period of time. Another advantage that accrues from doing laundry work at home is th't the wearer of clean linen Is not compelled to own a double supply --ore at the laundry and one at home. In the old days one could send his linen to the laundry and get It back In two days, whether he elected to send it on Monday or Friday. More recently, since there developed such close co-operation between the various Indianapolis laundries, one sends his linen to them when they elect to receive it, and he gets it back some time after he has mortgaged the old homestead to pay for it and the laundry has condescended to return it. The period Is practically certain to extend over five days and It may be two weeks. All of which comment Is rather superfluous to the people of Indianapolis who have come in contact with enough actual demonstrations to be convinced. But it is Interesting to know that the government made a few millions by doing laundry work at considerable lower rates than the local laundries now do it. This information gives rise to hope which lives as long as life itself. • Some day, we do not know when, some laundry man who does not intend to retire on a fortune next year, may come into Indianapolis and undertake to do our washing at a reasonable price per wash, to. do it when we want it done and deliver It when we need it He will probably not be a member of any association and in all probabilities he will be considerably annoyed by the usual tactics of a trust, But he will have as a compensation the support of a_grateful community and the knowledge that he is not engaged in trying to put a premium on among his fellow men. a

GHOULS AT HOME AND ABROAD

It’s so easy to forget, Isn’t It? Only a little more than a year ago we were so worked up that the mere sight of a uniformed man, common 6ight as uniformed men were in those days, was enough to set us off on a little speech of sentimentality. The soldiers were fighting for us then and nothing was too good for them or for the families they left behind. Today we are Inclined to forget these things. And some, more forgetful than others, even stoop to prey upon those who have not forgotten and can never forget. In Washington, D. C., a man who should have been In uniform himself not so long ago, has been held--to the grand jury on a .chnr'g'e of defrauding relatives of hundreds of America’s soldiers reported dead or missing. His depravity knew no limits In extorting money from those who mourned the loss of some bravo American soldier..- A typical case was that of Mrs. John B. Bryan of Downers Grove, 111., to whom this wrote that her son needed transportation home. Mrs. Bryan's son had been reported missing in action by the war department anl his bereaved mother had hut one thing to buoy her up—the belief that her boy ad died fighting for his country. Think what must have been her feelings when she got that letter. How her heart must have ached to read the lying story to the effect that tho boy had deserted, under fire and was hiding. He feared to report to the war department lest he be courtmartialed and shot. Would his

Sensitive Noses An underpaid school teacher hepran raising porkers in her spare time She kept the -pen neat ts r school. But a neighbor remembered that a village ordinance prohibited the keeping of pigs within, the corporation limits. So she had to quit. Europe? That's different. Noses there may bo less sensitive. At any rate, few villages have a ban on pigs or chickens and a steaming compost heap is a fixture in many village dooryards in France. But not In the United States. Critics of this republic frequently assert that Its citizens care only for material prosperity. Thpy must be mi* taken. For this is one of the few nations where the material village pig Is sa'-rifleed to art esthetic village bouquet. Benefits of a sweet atmosphere should not he forgot when one complains of market bills. The price paid for keeping residence districts Innocent of pigs Is high. Is It too high? Persons with plenty of money and "sensitive noses are sure it Isn't. But that--school teacher has a thin purse. And a good appetite. Mho* Is no? so certain about It. She thinks that the cost of keeping a community pigless may be too great. Municipal Utilities Municipal plants as well as privately | owned public utilities companies have their trouble*. In Richmond, Ind., for ; example, the municipally owned light- , lng plant 1s operating Rt a loss. The ; situation there Is described by the Richmond Palladium. It sav*: “The application of the Wayne Light and Power Company to buy electric surrent to supply the territory outside of Richmond has brought to light a serious situation In regard to the future of th* municipal plant; namely: that unless the city materially increase* both the power and light rate* for current Immediately, the municipal light plant will operate this year at an actual lo*s of from $25,000 to s'o.ooo. “The rates now charged for hoth light and power are le>s than it costs lo produce the current. With the Increased cost of coal and labor In conneefion with the municipal plant some action most be taken immediately by th* city Os-

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mother send him the money upon which to come home? Mrs. Bryan thought she knew her boy, however. He was not the kind to desert. She knew his family on both sides, she bad brought him into the world and she had raised and trained him. No, was not a coward. So she turned the letter over to the authorities instead of sending the money and the swindler was caught. He has confessed that ho sent out hundreds of such letters. What would you do with a man like that? France, too, has forgotten, It seems. Many thousands of our boys laid their lives down cheerfully to help save France. Now that their families want the bodies of these heroes returned, does France extend a cheerful, helping hand? Mrs. A. Devcre of Chicago, who has Just brought back the body of her son from France, says she had to tip man after man In French official bureaus before she could get the body out of France and aboard a steamer for the United States. “There Is no way a parent can get a body out of France except by the tipping process,” she says. “There ara hundreds of relatives of. dead American soldiers In Frnnce attempting to do what I have done. They have located scores of graves but are powerless to do anything except with the consent of the French authorities, and consent can be obtained only by th* unstinted use of American dollars.” Ghouls at home. Ghouls abroad It’s so easy to forget, isn’t tt?— W. D. Boyce, In the Saturday Blade, Chicago.

flclals to prevent a substantial deficit for this year. ‘The reason for the request of tho Wayne Light and Power Company to buy, current from the municipal light plant is now apparent, because vvbat they would pay Is ninch less than It would c**t them to produce It, nml it Is tesi than it cost* the o!tv to produce it, taxpayers standing iead7 to make up the deficit for 1920. “Another serious situation and one which will vitally affect the development of the city Is the fact that thre Is not now a sufficient surplus of machinery at

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the plant to protect the present consumers. ‘Last year the plant, was reported to have made $62,000, while In reality and based upon business methods of any private manufacturing plant there was an actual minimum loss of $10,000; added to this amount are all the increased costs of 1020 over 1919, which must be taken into consideration In determining the loss for this year." Delegates Uninstructed "If we are to win in the next election, principles and service, not personalities or expediences, must control the action of the convention. I can not, therefore, enter any primary or seek to have any delegates or delegations Instructed for me. I am not Interested in the fortunes of any individual, but I m eager to Join my party associates in every form of patriotic effort to serve the interest* of our country, which in the hearts of every virile American must always transcend every other consideration. Please, therefore, keep me out of the California primary and convey to the members of the committee my best wishes and sincere ; appreciation. I do not doubt the triumph of democracy in tho coming campaign If our constant guide and Inspiration ls;| service to the country, everything; for ■ service to selfish interest, corporate or \ individual, nothing.” In the above language William G. McAdoo again insists that his name be not j presented In the presidential primaries because of hts conviction that the na- j tional oouventlon should be a deliberative * assembly interested primarily In the for- j mutation of principles and secondarily | In inen He takes the high position that j there must necessarily be a harmonious i relation between the platform and the j candidate; th&t the nature of the plat- I ' form will tend to point to the man best \ 1 fitted to represent It before he people and he Is right. Such being also the view of Mr. Marshall It Is deeply to be regretted that parties unknown to party ! councils should have forced & fight by tho Injection of the name of Gov. Edwards Into the contest, thus forcing the entry of Mr. Marshall. The fact that the vice president, who would overwhelming ly win in such a contest, ha* expressed a willingness to withdraw his name If Edwards’ name Is withdrawn, places something of a responsibility upon the ! shoulders of the New Jersey governor and lit* will make frleuds by ordering his name withdrawn. —Ft. Wayne Journal- j Gazette.

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