Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1920 — Page 6
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Jii&fema Sail? ojuico INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Dally Except Sunday, 26-29 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 act of March 3, 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 $5.00 a year. GOV. GOODRICH goes to Florida for a rest The state still waits for him to fulfill his promises relative to a special session of the legislature. ACCORDING TO MIKE RYAN Louie Haag has been "through a pretty tough mill during the last year.” If he doesn’t employ legal counsel by the year,we Imagine Mike is right. * WHY should Judge Collins be surprised that law violators seek pardons before they enter the Institutions to which they are ordered? Isn’t the purpose of a pardon plea to avoid serving a sentence? IS IT POSSIBLE that Senator Harding does not care to appear on the same platform that was graced by the other two candidates for the republican nomination for president, Mr. Hays and Gen. Wood? THERE ARE TWO REASONS why the state highway commission does not wish to stop road building in Indiana. The first is that the favored interests who are building the roads need the money and the other reason doesn't make any difference anyhow. Friends in Need Whatever may be said of the appeals for pardons that are being made by Charles O. McNulty and Thomas Dillon, convicted blind tiger operators, it con not be denied that they are well Indorsed by the republican political leaders of Marlon county. McNulty's plea, for which the principal excuse offered Is that he depended on a technicality that failed on an appeal of his case, is indorsed by such sterling republican patriots as Ed Schmidt, manager of J. W. Fester's campaign for governor; Joseph B. Kealing, attorney for the executors of the Fairbanks estate and generalissimo of the Boise Penrose organization in Indiana; Ralph A. Lemcke, manager of the Jewett "Good Government” organization; John W. Castor, republican county recorder: Carlin Shank, republican county commissioner;. J. C. Hayes, another republican county commissioner; Richard V. Sipe, republican county clerk; John J. Griffith, republican county surveyor; Dr. Paul E. Robinson, republican county coroner; Robert L. Milter, republican sheriff and candidate for re-election; Harry B. Smith, republican adjutant general of Indiana; John O. Ruckelshaus, president of the Columbia club and attorney for Louie Haag; Frank D. Stalnaker, handy treasurer for any republican organization. Dillon’s plea, made on the grounds that the close application to the scenery around the penal farm is injurious to his eyes, is almost as well indorsed. Castor, Shank, Grifflth ( Miller, Lemcke and J. C. Douglas, republican county assessor, wish him released. The array of political leaders who have come to the rescue of these two men and are now trying to clear them of the necessity of serving sentences which were imposed in due order by the court for the pleasant little pastime of selling liquor illegally Would almost lead cne to believe that no political campaign could be complete without their assistance In the republican camp. It is rather difficult, however, to understand why this array of politl- j cally wise gentlemen should bother to approach the state pardon board. We are quite certain that Gov. Goodrich never coulcl resist an appeal for a pardon from so many compatriots.
The Senatorial Nominee The withdrawal from the primary of Thomas Taggart as the sole candidate for the preferential vote for United States senator has produced considerably more of a puzzle for party leaders than was presumed when it was announced that the state committee would fill the vacancy thus created. The question as to the right of the state committee to offer a single candidate for the preferential nomination has been raised and Is creating a sharp division among the democrats. W. W. Spencer, who was on the committee which interpreted the (flection laws at the behest of Gov. Goodrich in 1918, has given to A. C. Sallee, democratic state chairman, an opinion in which he takes exactly the opposite view from the interpretation in which he coincided in 1918. He does not set out in this opinion any reason for a reversal of his attitude, nor does he give any clue to the logic by which he arrives at the later interpretation. This opinion and tfie whole question of how the democrats are to obtain a candidate for the senatorsMp will be submitted to the state committee by Mr. Sallee at a meeting which he expects to call for some time next week. It is the general opinion around democratic headquarters that the committee would willingly forego making any nomination, but that the interpretations of the law, which it has, make it uncumbent on the committee to do something to avoid a default in the nomination. It is also conceded that If.the committee does not name a candidate to succeed Mr. Taggart there will be a hot fight before the state convention for the nomination and the results of that fight can not be foretold. Politicians express the belief that it the committee were to name Evans Woollen at once he would accept the nomination and make the election light, but that he would not enter a fight for delegates to the state convention. Those who desire Mr. Woollen to become the candidate are anxious to have the committee name the candidate. Friends of other candidates are Just as anxious to have the nomination made in the convention. Among those who have been mentioned for the nomination, are Edward G. Hoffman, democratic national committee-man; Claude G. Bowers, editor of the Journal-Gazette of Ft. Wayne; W. H. Eichhom of Bluffton; Frank Dailey, special assistant attorney general; B. B. Shlveley, former state senator of Marlon; L. Brt Slack, former district attorney; Fred Feick of Garrett, who withdrew before Taggart, and a host of others. The real situation is that the democratic party is unable to get the candidate it,wants and is ready to find fault with any responsible body that tries to make a substitute. Plain Business Sense If the directors of any business corporation in Indianapolis authorized their general manager to buy an automobile and empowered him to pay SSOO for it and found a few months later that he had purchased an automobile at a cost of $4,000, would they retain confidence in him? You know they would not. You know also that if the directors of any business discovered that their general manager had turned this trick not once but five times, they would immediately be casting about for his successor. The board of school’commissioners is the board of directors of the school corporation. The business director Is the general manager of the business. The school board authorized the business director to expend $2,500 remodeling a schoolhouse. He expended $17,292.16. Investigation discloses that this is not the only instance in which, figuratively speaking, the business director has been authorized to buy a Ford and has purchased a Packard. In five particular instances the business director of the school cor- : poration has done the same thing, the only difference being in the amount of the excess expenditure. No private business so conducted would escape bankruptcy long. No i board of directors who tolerated such misconduct on the part of a general manager could look the stockholders of the company In the eye and de- ' elare that they were managing the business in the Interests of the stockholders. The people who live in the school city of Indianapolis and pay taxes for the maintenance of the school system are the stockholders of the school corporation. If the board of directors does not insist on employing a general manager who has the ability and the inclination to conduct the business in accordance with the orders of the directors and in the Interests of the stockholders, then they fit to be in office than sh manager
J Why Wood for President? Editor The Times—Having read the speeches made last week by MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood, as reported In the Indianapolis papers, I confess I was very much Interested in what he had to' say. In many respects he did not remind one of a political candidate for office, ns he did not attempt to point out the failures of the Wllsou administration or say Just what changes he would advocate if he should become president. In fact, he was so careful to steer clear of the flue constructive legislation now upon our statute books that he even forgot to mention the name of Woodrow Wilson, his commander-in-chlef. He seemecd to be familiar with most of our former war presidents, but when he referred to the accomplishments o\ our country in the recent world war for "International fair dealing, for civilization, and for our own protection" he forgot the central world figure in that contest, President Woodrow Wilson, and inserted instead the name of Theodore Roosevelt. In this he showed his intense partisanship and willingness to carry out the plans of his party organization to discredit Woodrow Wilson and his party. The Times is correct in setting out that the things Gen. Wood favors are now upon the statute books, placed there under a democratic administration. So why Gen. Wood for president? Why not MeAdoo, the man who does things? DAVID F. MAISH. Ten Pointers It is a hard Job to behave well theso days with politics, strikes and what-not keeping every one on edge. But back In the second century one Marcus Aurelius Antonlus in browsing around Rome Jotted down pointers for his personal guidance. For : 1— Simplicity in my way of living far removed from habits of the rich. 2To be neither of the green or blue party at the fights or games. B—To8 —To endure labor, want little, work with my own hand., and not meddle. 4 —Not to be led astray to sophistic emulation, nor to writing on speculative matters, nor to hastily give my assent to those who talk overmuch. B—To look to nothing else except reason. 6 To love my kin, truth and Justice. 7To learn self-government and cheerfulness in all circumstances as well as in sickness. 8— Love ft labor end perseverance; firmness in giving to every man according to his deserts. 9 To see things a long way off, and to be a good manager of the expenditure. 10— To do what is set before me without complaining. Old stuff? But Marcus became boss of the Romans.
Quiet, Says Lew Editor The Tlmes—Things sre verr quiet here at the springs. Last week, some fellows held up a gambling house and robbed everybody In the place. Thursdoy another fellow shot and killed a gambler who ran the place. That night Jack Dillon boxed ten rounde at the auditorium and one fellow here at the hotel was robbed of his diamond pin as he wns gotng to the fight. The ■ entrance where the fight was Is next so the mayor’s office and across the hall is the chief of police and he was robbed between the two places, so they say. This is a very quiet year, flne weather and flne water. LEW SHANK, ! Hot Springs, Ark. - ■■■ HIT TM AGAIN. Editor The Times Rnlly for you! I was certainly pleased to see your editorial on the exorbitant prices the I.nunglries have combined to ask. I wrote a j letter to a daily paper a few weeks ago asking If they knew why laundries had raised their prices from 10 to 50 per cent on various articles, but they didn't publish it. Hit ’em again. You know what they say about constant dropping. A HOUSEKEEPER. City. j
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, ’.!! URSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920.
UncleAMD A Column Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue of U. S. Public Health Service. Uncle Sam, M. D.. will answer, either In this column or by mall, questions ot general interest relating only to hygiene, sanitation and the prevention of disease. It will be impossible for him to answer questions of a purely personal nature, or to prescribe for individual diseases. Address : INFORMATION EDITOR, U. S. Public Health Service, WASHINGTON. D. C. TIME TO CLEAN UP. The robins have come, tho poets are beginning to sing of spring, and health officers are planning for a wholesale spring cleaning. There is no better time than the first week of moderate weather to go on a hunt for piles of filth, stable refuse, decaying garbage and vegetables, which are breeding places for fliqs, rats, roaches and vermin. Ono small pile of stable manure will breed enough flies during the first months of spring to harass and menace the health of a whole neighborhood. It .’ill give the little pests such a ‘start that it will take a long war to exterminate them during the summer months by swatting, trapping and screening. So it will be readily seen that the time to clean up is before the disease-carrying insects get a start. All accumulations ot Ulth should be gathered up and removed. IV here it Is not practicable to remove manure pile frequently they should be covered so that flies can not get In to deposit their eggs, or the fly thut is hatched can not get out. Fites do not travel far, seldom more than half a mile, unless carried by the wind, so that any community that cleans up and keeps clean need have little fear of the flies from some other community. But even If they traveled long distances i H'ey would not Belect a clean community, j where fliers are no breeding places uud j but little food to eat. •Tust at this time, in addition to the j cleaning up of breeding places, swatting, trapping and screening may be said to boos real value, because each fly may mean countlesji thousands later, unless he is exterminated. Now is the time to swat and to clean up ond a few days, or hours, of diligent work at this period of the year may save weeks of swatting and \ trapping later In the s?ason, as well as safeguarding tho health of the commu- ! ulty. DISABLED MAN ASKS lIE Ll*. Editor The Times—l wonder if there is anything under the sun that a cripple ran do at home to piece out a sl3 weekly allowance, so that it will ; cover the needs of a family consisting of n wife and four children? Was Injured last November and confined to hospital j three months; am facing a long period i of convalescence before will be able to go to work at my trade. Could furnish a hard luck story that a "sob sister" would make two columns of, but I am [ looking for neither charity, sympathy or publicity, but a chance to make enough "Jack” to enable me to keep my family from want and also enable mo to keep my self-respect. I can do anything that any on® can do sitting down, from repairing shoe* to thumping a typewriter, but have neither the shoe repair outfit nor the typewriter. DISABLED. 1522 Deloss street.
Let the Truth Be Told Editor The Times—l have Just read your able and timely editorial in Mon day’s edition of yonr paper on "Democracy Always Ahead,” and take this early opportunity of expressing mv most l.earty approval of this strong stand you take for the democracy of the pr. sent, and the records of achievement so • paralleled constructive Icglslatli'n under the leadership of President Woodrow Wilson . You have struck the keynote. The rec ords of the democratic party under the Wilson administration are the most brilliant and constructive In nil of Its his lory, and all of the harj'Ctigs, tnrestiga tions and criticisms of those who would feign to go back to the "good old days"
of trusts and lockouts, and coercion, and panics, and saloons, and anti-woman suffrage days to get their inspiration for the needs of the present are not the brand of citizens to lead this country to still greater achievements. The names of the Illustrious founders of our party will continue to be honored in the history of democracy, but should not be used to dim the light and glory of the present. We are nothing short of a bunch of political cowards if we allow the presenc opportunity to pass and not show the people that this campaign of republican promises and efforts to discredit Woodrow Wilson and his party, is a deception and political trick. As in the days prior 1 to the advent of the (Wilson administration, they are a block to progress, and not only falling to enact constructive measures for our own country, but holding back the peace and progress of the entire world by their failure to ratify the Versailles peace pact and league of nations agreement. Let the truth be told. DAVID F. MAISH. Frankfort, Ind. SCHOOL BOARD LAW VIOLATED (Continued From Fage One.) knowledge he had of the existence of the contract. The records show that bids for No. 3 writing paper were opened Dec. 15 and that bids for No. 5 writing paper wore j opened Dec. 29. In both cases the con- j tracts were lot to tho Graham Paper, Company of St. Louis. Tha price ac- | tually paid for No. 3 paper was $9,- j : 259.45 and the price actually paid for j No. 5 paper was $4,200.11, after the de- j ! daction of discounts. SAMPLES OPEN TO PUBLIC INSPECTION. Samples of the paper furnished and samples of the paper on which bids ; were made are In the possession of The Times and may be Inspected by any one who is interested. Theso samples show that while bids were submitted for the furnishing of what is known &g a “rag paper,’’ the aehools were actually supplied with a j‘‘wood-pulp” paper of Inferior quality, and weight, which paper is considerably jlest costly. i In this case the contract was not j only illegally made, but it was kept i secret from the reorganized school board. And It subsequently developed that the school children were not supplied with as good a grade of paper as the school city paid for ami was entitled to receive under the contract. Books In the office of the school board show that during the six months ending March 1, 1920, a total of *2,0<H.003.3fl was expended in fills lax manner. This figure Includes expenditures for improvements on buildings, expenditures for supplies, expenditures for salaries and all other expenditures of every de scrlptton made by the board. The rec orll show* that a large amount of this money was expended without the knowledge of the board as to the various Items for which It was expended, although tho board approved all the ex pendltures in lump sums after they wre made. This does include, however, a total of $205,(H6.50 spent for repairs on contracts which the board actually approved. It includes also a total of $41,235.44 spent for Improve- : raente In violation of the rules of the hoard which limit expenditures for improvements without contracts to $?,000. ! KKPORTB MADE
IN 1.l MP SI MM. The practice of reporting expenditures to the * 1.i.0i board tnc<* Mr. Ilttt hna been director has been to make reports in lump sums. No attempt has been made to Itemize these sums other than tc 11st the expenditures from each of the funds. These sums are put under eight twelve heads according to the ext-snt ot tin* c - pendltures la the various funds.! The st lenient then shows the total of the expenditures since the previous board meeting and concludes with the numbers of the order on xvbteh they were ninde. j It has bean the practice of the board to ! approve expenditures reported to It ini this way without going into detail. The expenditures to which reference has been made h*re were under the direct supervision of George C. Hitt, business director of th<* school board. They do j not by any means represent the extent | to which the law has been ignored in j
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the administration of school board affairs. Mr. Hitt could point to evasions, absolute disregard of the laws and the rules of the board prior to tho time he became head Os the school business iti a defense of his acta if he pleased. The conduct of the school business along these lax and Illegal lines has made possible other and more serious
abuses. The attention of the school board as it is now organised has been called to these abuses. The demand of the present board for a report of all expenditures by the business director was the preliminary movement toward .ending the era of illegal and unauthorized expenditures. This movement is being fought vigor-
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only by certain persona wfeo are eoa-' aected with the school system and psp* tlcularly by one member of the RchcJU hoard whose personal Interest In cdblucting the school business In the It manner In which it has been conducted has been uncovered and will become public property.