Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1920 — Page 6

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INDIAN AFOH£3, IND. Dally 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. —■-■ - 7 Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce at Indianapolis, lnd., under the act of March S, 1879. Subscription Rates—By carrier, Indianapolis. 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mall, 50c a month. $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or <B.OO a year. DOES A LAUNDRY COMBINATION make more money In the winter or the summer? -cWHY should Alvah Rucker wish to run for congress since he has become such a favorite In criminal court? CHANCELLOR KAPP says the new German government will carry out the treaty. England and France agree with him. CONSUMERS OF ICE are not nearly so anxious to know how much the new price will Increase their hills as they are to know why there should be an increase. COLBY’S NOMINATION as secretary of state is still being held up by Senator New and others. Yet the republicans prate about the absolute power of the president.

A CORRESPONDENT wants to know why no fund was started for the relief of Lee Stringer’s family. Perhaps the consciences of the politicians who make murders of policemen possible were not troubling them so much while election was farther away. McAdoo’s Consistency Whatever doubt might have existed in the minds of Indiana democrats as to the sincerity of William G. McAdoo’s plea for uninstructed delegates at the San Francisco convention ought to be dispelled by this time. Mr. McAdoo refused to enter the primaries in his native state, and expressed his views to his friends in Georgia in a vigorous manner. He refused to allow the use of his name in the Indiana primaries and personally thanked the friends who refrained from filing his petition. He refused to run in California and now that he has been informed he can not withdraw his name from the Michigan primary he makes the following pledge: “In the circumstances, nothing seems left for me to do except to say that if by any chance the democratic electors in the Michigan primary should honor me with an indorsement I shall immediately release the delegates from any obligation to support me and beg them to enter the democratic national convention at San Francisco without any limitations upon their freedom of action so far as I am concerned.” Lack of consistency is not a charge that the republicans will be able to make against McAdoo when he becomes the democratic nominee. Would Bush’s Plan Work? Edgar D. Bush of Salem, who retired from the republican race for the nomination for governor because he did not have a barrel of money from which to supply the hungry politicians in his party, resents a statement made by a republican editor that he is, next to Warren McCray, the wealthiest of those mentioned for the nomination. In Lis resentment Mr. Bush suggests that the editor compare the tax schedules of the various candidates. He says: ‘There is a way to give the public the truth. Let me suggest that those gentlemen get the tax schedules of the three candidates and myself and publish them. I own no bonds, no stock in any corporation, my personal property consists of my farm equipment and live Btock on my farm of less than 200 acres on which I Uve. In September. 1919, upon the death of my mother I inherited the house and lot in the town of Salem, which was her residence. I told the public the truth when I said I had not the money to continue in the race for governor.” All of which recalls that Jim Goodrich, our wealthy present governor, returns for taxation property of a value of less than $3,500, arid says nothing about the $5,000 automobile for which his wife has taken out a state license. With all due consideration for Mr. Bush’s argument it might be well to remember that tax schedules in Indiana are of more use in proving ability to dodge taxes than in showing present worth. City Planning Without desiring to discourage those business men of this city who show a desire to replace some of the ramshackle makeshifts for sendee garages that exist in Indianapolis, The Times suggests that there are more desirable places for the erection of buildings designed to house business institutions than the city’s boulevards. Presumably, a boulevard Is a right of way along which residences are most wanted. Certainly no boulevard is ever improved by the location on it of business enterprises. There may be some businesses that do not particularly detract trpm the beauty of boulevards, but there are none that enhance it | Indianapolis Is, unfortunately, without a real city plan. Its mile square was carefully laid out and the start of a beautiful, conveniently arranged city was made. Commercial Interests have interfered with the development of the city in coordination with the mile square. The result is a series of Tog” and dangerous corners that should be eliminated no matter what the costs. These disagreeable features of the city sprang into existence some years ago and the present generation is not to be blamed for them. But the preseftt generation can avoid the mistakes of the past. It can avoid cluttering up our boulevards with commercial enterprises and leaving to posterity something that will In the future be condemned with as much vigor as this generation is now condemning the short-sighted manner to which streets were “jogged." Let's adopt a city plan and live up to it.

Meritorious Proposal Adolph Emhardt, democratic county chairmen, has presented a proposal to H. C. Hendrickson, republican county chairman, that the republicans of Marion county can hardly afford to turn down. He suggests that the state registration law be amended to wipe out that provision of the law enacted at the 1919 session of the legislature, under which two residents of the precinct can certify to the correctness of a registration, thus making it unnecessary for the registration applicant to be sworn as to the correctness of the application. Mr. Emhardt says: “In 1918 many spurious applications were filed with the registration board; on many of them the signature of the voter was forged, signed without Ills knowledge or consent. In many cases the signature of the voter and notary were In the same handwriting. If advantage were taken of the law as it then stood, requiring the voter to swear to his application before a notary public, it is plain what will happen under the provision permitting any two voters to certify to the application. It opens up such an easy way to fraudulent registration, as amounts almost to an invitation to violate the law. No doubt thousands of registration applications will be turned in on registration day so certified, and it will be impossible for the registration board to investigate their genuineness. We may look to see the filing of applications bearing the names of practically every voter In those precincts where fraudulent methods are frequently used, and the board will have neither the time nor the means to investigate them. The law should be so amended that every voter, not disabled or absent from the county on registration day, should be required to appear in person and register, and such registration should be a permanent record, changed only when the residence of the voter is changed.” This amendment of the registration law, in common with a great many other things done by the 1919 legislature, was lamentably lam© 5f not. vicious. Having enacted an amendment that is practically an invitation to law violation, the least the republicans can do is to co-oper&te in its repeal. _ * \ None other than those who expect to use the amendrent for unlawful and vicious practices will oppose its ripeal.

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MARKET HOUSE PRESENTS TRIPARTITE COMBINATION

! Editor The Time* —The city mnrket hn become a great problem under the commission house, political and middleman ; management (the tripartite combination which is far more < leterlous I locally, especially to families of the j very large number of wage earni ersi than ever has been the bo- • called bipartisan political control of elections and ultlmato public officers. The plan of selling to the middleman for resale at the market by the commission man generally Is a price arrangement which Is absolutely uniform and must be maintained as to both wholesale and retail prices, otherwl*e the supply la cut off and the offender la on* j able to do business, either as a wholej saler or retailer. The free masonry of ; the market house stand holders’ assoelai tlon Is Impregnable and wholly Imper- | vlous to any change or Improvement save , along present lines of management which I are inimical to public welfare and policy, i The practice of barter and sale of stands i at several hundred dollars of a premium 1 from one person to another Is entirely at variance with the legal grant or title to the market property held by the city for the benefit of Its citiiens generally in the purchase of supplies for table use, supposedly from producer to consumer.

| Several years ago there were score* jof produce and poultry wagons that came to the city, some backed np to the market on regular (lays, other* put : up at stable burn* ncer the market j house, selling their ware* freely to all, either wholesale or retail at nou-regu-lated prices. These have now been superseded by large anto trucks which are enabled to reach a large territory. Inaccessible to steam railroads or traction line* for supplies of farm productions and are gladly welcomed by the farmer and housewife ns a medium by which they can market their surplus poultry, butter, egg* and produce, and on the return trip of the truck can receive purchases made for them In the city. This auto-truck basins** man, the direct agnt for the Inaccessible producer and farmer, should be accorded not only a welcome | on the city market as in former' years ! by wagon, but should he provided with a place In conjunction with the garden- ! ers who live near to the city, and should j not be forced a* they are now In both ; instances to sell to wholesalers or middlemen. Now If the trtiek owners weru to attempt to sell at retail on or neat the market they would soon And their

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wholesale opportunity gone In the vlcinlity of the market house. The city board of health's criticism concerning the city market house Is especially applicable as pertains to the live poultry space occupied by a class of middlemen keeping In stock live poultry, at all times every day hi the year, in dirty and Insanitary coops and enclosure* and obtaining their supplies largely through the truck owners from the communities that sbonld have public market opportunities for retail on the regular market day*. Those who desire to wholesale should be privileged to sell on Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays and thus could the market house be made useful six days In the week Instead of two whole days, as Is now arranged, and the opportunities greatly enhanced for the purehas* of farm supplies by out citizens generally at non-regulated prices. The permanent aud continuous occu pancy of the standholders with their live poultry and decaying, vegetation and fruit is certainly very Insanitary. Under proper arrangements, the entire floor space could be hose-washed once if twice weekly and with anew coat of paint Inside occasionally, be made perfectly sanitary.

The political status of the whole affair does not possess one redeeming sea ture for the benefit of the citizens generally who are supposed to reap the benefits of their eommunlal property. Those In charge who may personally he Interested from a political or personal standpoint and others who have stands or space desire the present "departmental store plan” to continue or If any change Is made that It be more deeply In trenched. The writer has made personal visits during tbo past two years at markethouses in the cities of Baltimore, W’aahlngton and Philadelphia, and found the physical properties in two of the cities Inferior to Indlanapolla and the plan and management of all entirely at vaDance with our own. No products of the fnrra or garden remain constantly in stock, at stands, the better to control prices, but are sold out completely each ; market day at some price, and the mar j ket proper Is made clean and sanitary for the next market by the hose plan or otherwise. No change whatever will take place > at the city market for benefits to b > derived from producer selling to consumer so long as standholders like the-j

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Taggart Baking Company, of which Mr. Taggart, president of the safety board. Is the leading ’ spirit; Mr. O'Mahoney, president of the Htnndholder*' association; Mr WyckofT of the IndianapolisPoultry Company are members of committee* to mrke contemplated change* because, should they act to bring com-

petition, they would have all the re-at of their fellow standholders greatly Incensed at them. Therefore let the tripartite combination that now holds the fort so Irresistibly be severed. All praise to efforts of the Woman’s Department club for a better market In every way. Then

we shall not have a $300,000 departmental store for the taxpayere to support by Increased taxation while hospitals are so sadly In need and Inadequate wages are paid to faithful and necessary employes of the city. CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON.

OFFERS rRATER IX FEE TOWS. CHESTER, S. C.. March 11.—Chester will look to Cod to wipe out the in^ fluenza epidemic. Each night for -"one minute all electric lights will be extinguished, giving notice to all to oiler up their supplications. ~'