Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1920 — Page 6

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INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 26-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-Ssl MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Offices—Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, O. Logan Payne'Co. Entered as second-class matter at the postofilce at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act es March 8, 1879, Subscription Ratos—By carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12e. By mail, 50c a month, $1.23 for three months, s2.f>o for six months, or $5.00 a year. WHAT DIFFERENCE does It make whether Hoover is a candidate far president or not? PAID YOUR TAXES, YET? Just take a sum equivalent to all you paid last year and if you are lucky It will be enough to meet the first Instalment, ’ - IT APPEARS now that the captain of tho German submarine did nett sink the Lusitania because it was the Lusitania, but merely because It appeared In the regular order of business, THE MYSTERY has been solved. Admiral Sims was advised, informally, by Admiral Benson, '‘not to let the British pull the wool over his eyes.’’ And it took a congressional Inquiry months to uncover that. THE SUPERINTENDENT of the penal farm says there are not enough prisoners there to maintain the place. We know a lot of fellows "who would now be helping if Jim Goodrich had not paroled them. THE NEGRO GAMBLERS continue to gamble In the poolrooms Just pa they did before Mayor Jewett talked about revoking licenses and refused to permit Chief Kinney to station a policeman in Hufe Page’s place. MARION COUNTY COMMISSIONERS say the deplorable conditions of eur roads are due to the inactivity of the road superintendents. Thus Is the buck passed to Dame Nature, who eventually will dry out the mudholes. The League Issue The condition In which the republican congress left the league of nations covenant may be somewhat embarrassing to the democratic party in the coming campaign, but it bids fair to be a sunken reef In the channel of republican affairs. Senator Johnson, candidate for the republican nomination for president, takes credit unto himself for the final defeat of the league covenent He Is proud of the Job and he announces that he proposes to ask the republican convention at Chicago to Indorse his attitude on It Senator Poindexter Is Just as badly puffed up over the defeat of the Wilson offering and lie, too, Is going to insist that the republican party indorse the position of the irreconcilables. y Thus b the line of cleavage well defined. The progressive element of the republican party will insist on making the treaty issue for the campaign a stand by the republicans against any sort of a league of nations. Will Hays* national committee is in favor of the league "with reservations.” The Haye committee reflects the views of the old reactionary crowd In the republican party. Consequently, when the league of nations is the subject of discussion in the Chicago convention, there is going to be a real fight. As the Evansville Courier remarks, there is Just as much prospect of a split in tho republican ranks in 1920 as there was In 1914. The Issues of the next campaign hare yet to be closed, but it appears most likely that tho position of the democratic .party will be one of active approval of tho league of nati. sand the position of the republican party Will be one of opposition to It without strangling reservations or opposition to it la any form. If Johnson wins out the republicans will be recorded as opposing the modern Idea of peace among nations. If Johnson loses, the party will be In the position of giving partial approval to the league covenant and being divided itself as to how far that approval should be extended. The democrats have only to submit the question of the league of nations or no league of nations to the voters to have an Issue on which the whole country can be swept by a fighting candidate.

Old Ways or Modern? Several months ago, before it was definitely determined that the irreoeacilables in the republican senate would block the peace treaty, William G, McAdoo, in discussing the carrying of the treaty to the people at the next election said: , “It would boa shame to delay action on the treaty for all those months,” * In the New York Globe, in an article copyrighted by Bruce Bllven, Mr. McAdoo tells what prompted this remark. He says: '‘The world must get back on a basis of peace and security before we ean hope to havo production bcJauce consumption again and thereby restore normal conditions and prices. We must practice economy, also, in ©ur private and business affairs, thereby* relieving the pressure on supply. This will help the situation immeasurably—but it is difficult to get people to do It now that the war stimulus i. gone. "I believe that the delay in signing the peace treaty and bringing the league of nations into active operation is one of the chief contributing pauses to world chaos. The people win not —and, indeed, can nob—go to • wort; until they are guaranteed not only peace but security, m Europe today these conditions are only possible if the league of nations can exerufse not merely a strong material power but a great spiritual Influence. There are those who say that the treaty is too harsh in its terms; that ft prevents the restoration of normal industrial activity in the central empires. This may bo true; If It is, the league of nations can and ought to modify the treaty terms to whatever extent is necessary. This is the first time in the history of tho world thajt a great war has been followed by a treaty which Is flexible in its terms, and provides the moans for modification at any future time if that modification seems Just. I regard this flexibility as a great step forward from the barbarisms of the past,” Now that it has been demonstrated that the republican senate prefers the “barbarisms of the past" to a treaty that Is flexible in its operation, what is to he done about it? Are wo to abandon the effort to bring to the world a more enlightened policy of government than prevailed when other wars ended, and turn back to the democracy that nover faced such Issues for guidance, or are we to carry on the fight, believing now, as we did when Wilson returned from Paris, that a modern world can only be governed by modern methods? Only a Soldier! Republicans generally arc displaying their utter lack of sympathy with the desire of veterans of the world’s war to participate In the affairs of the government they served so well In Franco. Plans to provide a permanent home for the American legion tn Indiana are halted by the repudiation of a promise to call the legislature, made by a republican governor. No veteran of the world’s war has been supported as a candidate for state office on the republican ticket. In Marion county, two captains in the world’s war are candidates for the republican nomination for prosecutor and the republican machine has brought out another man, who was once barred from practice In the police court, to oppose them. Republican papers are showing tholr resentment at every effort of exsoldiers to take a part in the primaries, Thts Is well illustrated in the maimer in Which they have handled the candidacy of W, S. Wakofleld of Bloomfield, who wishes the demoovatio nomination frr congress in his district Tho republican press asks “who Is this man Wakefield who has offered himself for the sacrifice-?” The Bloomington Star answers: '•Walter J> Wakefield was with the American expeditionary forces in France, and was on the firing line for several months. A bullet passed through his body, and ho was left for dead. He was captured by the enerny, and was in a German prison camp for months, hovering between life and death. After the armistice was signed he was released and returned to his Indiana home, physically weak, but strong in 100 per cent Americanism. This Is the kind of a man who is offering himself as a candidate for congress. But probably he f* unworthy because he votes the democratic ticket" ‘

Newberry's Conviction None will rejoice that Senator Nowberry, the republican senator from Michigan, and sixteen other human beings have been convicted of a crime and sentenced to imprisonment, but there will be general satisfaction Over the Verdict' because it will at least for tho time being deal a death blow at a custom of buying seats in the senate of tho United States. There will bo general sympathy for the men and their families because they stand in the eyes of the world violators of the law, for no matter what the final outcomo their reputations have been blasted by their conviction on a charge of felony by a Jury of theii peers. In tho scheme of life Individuals amount to very little, after all. It just happens that Senator Newberry and his associates were caught In a net through which violators In the past have escaped because of the indifferent attitude ot citizens or the poteaj Influence of money. In Michigan, a corrupted and contented commonwealth has started to clean house. - There was never any doubt In the winds of the public that Senator Nowberry had purchased his seat in tho senate. In common with others we refrained from expressing an opinion on his Innocence or guilt, for that was a matter lor the Jury to decide. He actually violated the law’, but whether technically it could be so construed was a question to be decided by the courts. The defense admitted the expenditure of more money than the law permitted, but denied that Senator Newberry had knowledge of the fact. A sensible Michigan jury believes he did have knowledge the details of his campaign, and bis conviction followed. Fresh In our minds is a verdict of another Jury—the one which sat in the Henry Ford-Chicago Tribune case. The Chicago newspaper editorially said that Ford was an anarchist. He sued for libel, asking for damages in a large sum. The proceedings in the case are still fresh in the minds of the public. The Judge sitting at Mt. Clemens was not the kind of a jurist that Judge Sessions, who presided at the Newberry trial, proved to bo, for there was more irrelevant testimony admitted at the Ford trial than during any trial in the history of the country. Judge Sesslsons made It very plain that Henry Ford was not on trial at Gram! Rapids, but that Senator Newberry and his co-defendants were. But we doubt whether any testimony that might have been adduced, no matter bow Irrelevant, could hare changed the minds of the second .Michigan jury which showed a marked Intelligence In separating the Wheat of facts from the chaff of Irrelevancy. None but a fool could contend that Newberry's case was an exceptional one. His seat In the senate is but one that was bought In the same way, and the dollar mark would not have been pasted all over It—legally and in the eyes of all the world -If there was In power a department of justice In sympathy with such methods or a political party In power that condones such acts as best exemplified by the cheers which recently came from the republican side In the senate when the Michigan senator took his seat for the first time after him Indictment. The action of the senate on his next appearance—for he still Is a member of the senate until that body acts on the Ford charges—will reflect still furthr the attitude of that great legislative body on tile custom of corrupting electorates by the Wholesale use of money. Newberry for yenra has been an arfjjrr republican leader in Michigan. An nr,*, tocrat, a man of great wealth, he has been nn angel of the party workers. His own and his family's money have pumped oxygen Into the republican party In Michigan and kept It alive. It was the Newberry idea of government, tho delegation of old families to seats of power and the perpetuation of special privilege through delegated government Such a thing as a corrupt practices act to a man cf Newberry’s training and trend of thought was simply a moral sop to appease the demands of idealists. He could not see the practicability of tt; his vision fell far short of the time when he might boa victim of such a thing. Ho never dreamed that laws were made to bo obeyed or that courts were Incorruptible

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The Young Lady Across the Way Tho young lady across the way says soma people never seem to realize the danger of writing letters and she notices that in almost every divorce sutt a correspondent Is mentioned.—(Copyright, 1020). • because in the past money had bought for him everything. The gods had smiled on him through the accident of birth, Theodore Roosevelt honored him by an appointment as secretary of the navy in his cabinet. Wealth and position was his portion In life and his perspective was warped. But Senator Newberry Is not a rnrn avis. He Is but one of a number of his kind and they are today In the vnujjtianl of the republican party tightiug for control of the governmental machinery through a return to power of the party which Newberry helped to grease for years. Newberry was a major general In the party of epeclal privilege, a party which formerly operated from Wall street and which Is moving back again to its old quarters.—Charleston Gazette.

The Indicted Tobin The arrest of W. H. VoMn, a coal operator, on the charge of conspiracy against the national government takes on an added Interest because of the intimacy of his business relations with Gov. Goodrich tha ’’business governor” of Indiana. The Indianapolis Times has traced out a very striking relationship between the Indicted operator an(L the chief executive of the state. One of the organizers of the Globe Mining Company, in which Gov. Goodrich was given <>mo stock “for service;’’ secretary and treasurer of the Consumers Coal Com pany, which lia-1 a Juicy contract to furnish the state with coa* until the discovery was made that tho brother of the governor was a director of the company; connected with the company to which tho governor assigned stato convicts for labor, Mr. Tobin comes vary close to the governor In many ways There may he merely a sueceaelon of coincidents, but they are so striking that whin the extra session of the legislature Is called tt seems due the governor as well as the state and the Glob© Mining Company that there should be a thor otigh Investigation of the facta. It Is something now In Indiana history for tho governor of the state to he placed In such a peculiar position end most unformnate to put It mildly.-Ft Wayne Journal-Gazette.

‘GOING BACK’ The Rockville Tribune reproduces In full the editorial from The Times, entitled "Democracy Is Always Ahead,” with the following comment: "At a time when most metropolitan papers are disseminating a propaganda, the purpose of which Is to poison the I people against the so-called 'socialism’ of the Wilson administration; when democrats themselves aro talking about a ‘return to old-fashioned democracy’ In a manner that Indicates a reactionary instead of a progressive spirit; at a time when it would be impossible to ‘go back' even if so inclined, we welcome In Indiana such sentiments. “What do these democrats who are; ■prating about a ‘return to Jeffersonian ; principles and policies mean? They surely have a very Inadequate idea of the way Jefferson lilmself met the duties nnd responsibilities devolving on him when be was called to the high station of chief executive. Instead of the destructive poflley which was expected of him by hla enemies he put in practice constructive measures that were comparatively ns great as those of tho Wilson administration. From the very beginning of the federal government the United States faced so serious a j problem in the control of the navigation j of the Mississippi that It threatened the existence of this country. For twelve years Spain controlled the mouth of the river, and during the three administrations preceding that of Jefferson nothing was done to mitigate tho constant trouble arising fra m a situation so serious. Jefferson solved the problem by purchas- j lng not only the Mississippi and Its mouth. Including the important port of New Orleans, but a territory equal to that of the whole United States cast of the great river, which had been our western boundary! The reactionary bowlings of today against Wilson are but a feebie echo of the loud and long denunciation of Jefferson. New England, then the stronghold of opposition to Jcfferaonfan democracy, threatened to second from the union. “In Albert Gallatin, Jefferson’s secretary of the treasury, we have a prototype of William G. MeAdoo. He not only met the pledge of his party to reduce taxation but at the same time be provided the funds for the purchase of Louisiana, paying the public debt. Inaugurating a system of internal Improvements, Including the construction of canals -and highways, appropriated money for the purchase of Florida, and did many things that very ranch resembled tho latter day 'socialism' of Wilson. Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to the TaclUe, and Zebulon M. Pike to the source of tho Mississippi and to the southwestern Rockies. If ever a man demonstrated that the application of his political philosophy to government meant progress and not retrogression it was Thomas Jefferson. "Nor was the charge that the president controlled congress nnd made hi* colleagues mere rubber stamps, lacking In those days That Jefferson heard pretty much the same things that have been said of Wilson U Indicated by the following extract from a letter to Duane: “If we recommend manure* In a public message, it may ba said that members are not sent hen* to register the edicts of a sovereign. If we extfpress opinions In conversation, we have ©nr Charles Jenklnsous and back-door councillors. If we say nothing ’we have no opinions nnd no cabinet.’ in truth, it is the fable of the old man, his sun, and the ass, over again." “Democracy went forward, not backward, la day. It must always go forward. Can anybody imagine that the man 'Who purchased i/oulslana In spite of bis belief that the act was unconstitutional, and who did not hesitate to do new and untried things when the publie welfare demanded it, would. If he wore alive today, fall to turn aside all old and sinister forms under which evils have grown up in government, and adopt ‘new guards for our future security?’ “We are tired of hearing reactionaries cant about a ’return to Jeffersonian principles.’ What have we had under Wilson, if not the best exemplification of truly demo ratio government since the daya of Thomas Jefferson? And what’s the matter with It? Nothing exce, : that ,

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It displeases the same kind of people who la his day reviled the father of democracy, the most prominent of whom were the blue light predecessors of Henry Cabot Lodge.” PRICE REGULATION John F. White, a member of the committee appointed by Major Jewett to Investigate the local market, exprereed the view that the city could establish a “testing market" iu which, by regular purchases it could ’’test" the niarxet prices and uueover such profiteering ns might be otherwise undetected. The plan has been undertaken and operated with success in Houston, where the project took on the form of a municipal store. It* object is not to absorb sny large amount of the business of food dealers, but simply to set the pace In price# for the commodities It bandies. The municipal store pays the same rent n other stores of like size, it pay* good salaries to clerks, charges to itself taxe* nnd other overhead expenses the average store would have. Then It buys Its merchandise in the same market other stores buy theirs and adds on

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enough to make a liberal return on the Investment. Result: It soon uncovered the fact a lot of profiteering was going on. It cut prices of vegetables and all farm produce 25 per cent and was then making too much profit. Other stores handling vegetables and farm produce cut prices, but not a single one has gone out of business. A municipal meat market, as a price regulator, will be started shortly as a result of the success of this first store. "Yon can’t regulate prices successfully without getting into the business yourself nud learning its Ins and outs and twisfa,” says Mayor A. E. Amerman. “We don’t want any merchant's business. Day by day we notify them what fair prices are and, if they won’t meet them, w© will do th© selling. We haven't had to do any great amount of It.” A DELUSION The tremendous valhes of exports and Imports reported by the departm-nt of commerce for the year 1019 have led to the assumption that America was exporting and importing more commodities than ever before. The fact Is, however,

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thut America 19 under a delusion. It true that the total valua of export* ISI9 was almost eight billion, a* coifl pared with a Taiue of only five and onH half billions in 1910. But In 1816 tifl United States exported more good* thafl in 1919. The total commodities export*! in 1918 amounted to fifty-three mUliol net toue, while the total In lfilfi va flfty-one- million ton*. Imports show the same. The tooß value of imports In 1919 was almost tool billions, at tonnage watC forty-*lx millions; whereas in ISIS, al-l though the total value of imports war only two billion, the total tonnage was fifty-one million. This resuits from counting in 00-cent dollars. It takes twice as many dollar* to move the same amount of tonnage. Our exporta end Imports hare actually fallen off tn Tolnme as compared with 15*16. America Is rich In money, but not so rich In commodities. That’s one rea-i son why prices are so high. j Inside Information XKW YOF.K. March 21—A camera small enough to be swallowed and photograph the interior of a stomach is the invention of a Danish surgeon.