Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1920 — Page 6

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lutora flmig kitties 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. —"THIS IS THE YEAR”— “SERVICE AT COST” will not he objectionable to Indianapolis if the street car company can only find a way to provide the service. RIDING the mayor and the purchasing agent in the new patrol wagon they just bought was a cruel hoax, considering that the purchasing department is still under investigation by the council. BUT THEN, why shouldn’t jail prisoners be allowed the same privileges that the city administration extends to the negro gamblers in Indiana avenue poolrooms? A STATE RENTAL BOARD might be of great value to both landlords and tenants in this state provided neither Gov. Goodrich nor Stanley Wyckoff had any connection with it. IT IS DIFFICULT to understand why eleven autos were stolen in Indianapolis in a few hours. Only four men convicted of auto thefts avoided sentences on various pretexts last week. THE ONLY PLEDGE a democrat need make to get a seat in the general assembly of Indiana is a pledge to end the ‘‘centralization’’ that brought about the tax law changes and the highway graft. THE “ANTI-JEWETT” organization will please stand up and be labeled a part of “sinister influences” that threaten “good citizenship” as expounded by Sheriff Miller, ex-Prosecutor Rucker, ex-Sheriff Dodson in federal court and ex-Chief Coffin before the board of safety.

More “Good Citizenship” If James E. Collins, judge of the criminal court, and Claris Adams, prosecutor, had any conception of their duty to the people of Marion county who were deluded into electing them to office, they would not permit the misfeasance in office of Sheriff Miller to go unprobed by the Marion county grand jury. Sheriff Miller, heedless of warnings in federal court, in the face of the pleadings of his friends permitted his underlings at the county jail to violate the law with his undoubted knowledge. They starved prisoners, grafted off of them and in exchanges for bribes permitted prisoners to carry the keys of jhe jail and go and come regardless of the sentences of the court. Sworn testimony to this effect has been brought out iR federal court and is available for use both before the grand jury and in a hearing to impeach Mr. Miller. Either the judge of the criminal court or the prosecutor could lay these facts before the Marion county grand jury and that body could and probably would return a bill of impeachment against Miller for his official neglect in the superintendency of the jalL But will they do it? Not unless public sentiment compels them to act. It is far more likely that these two misfits who are now charged with the enforcement of the criminal laws of the state will hold a little conference with other county pap-suckers and decide what they can do to hush the scandal that Judge Anderson loosed. Miller, remember, is a candidate for renoraination on the republican ticket. He is running on his record as a “good citizen” office-holder. He is another of those exponents of “good citizenship and clean government'' who were foisted into public office by the News-controlled gang of political pirates who believe in letting the office-holders get all they can under the cloak of misrepresentation. We hope the republican party nominates Bob Miller for sheriff again. Such a nomination would not only be a measure of the brazen effrontery of the courthouse gang, but it would give the people of Marion county a chance to say at the polls whether they approve gambling, graft and bribery in their county Jail. We can not think that a plurality of the voters cf this county are so indifferent to decency in office that they would vote to indorse the “record” of Sheriff Miller and his gang of petty larcenists who operate the jail. “Eventually, Why Not Now?” Senator Colt of Rhode Island, a republican and a former federal judge, says that the peace treaty recently returned by a maudlin senate to President Wilson “Is only temporarily laid aside as far as the United States is concerned and must eventually be ratified.” The senator’s view is becoming wide spread every day. The leader.-, of his party are beginning to realize that they do not dare go before the public on their record in regard to the peace treaty for the reason that it consists of nothing but obstruction. The republican senate obstructed the league of nations and offered nothing as a substitute. It attempted by reservations and interpretations to amend the peace treaty and it failed for lack of unity among the republicans. It kept this nation in a state of war and commercial chaos for a year and it concluded the spectacle by sending the treaty back to the president without a single recommendation or a single intimation of what it wanted. What is wrong with the Wilson treaty? There are as many answers to that question as there are different kinds of republicans in the senate. Johnson says the whole league of nations theory is wrong. Lodge pretends to endorse the league, but insists the treaty is so worded as to run afoul of our constitution. Taft indorses the league of nations and the treaty with certain reservations. And, as a result of these differences of opinion as to what Is wrong, differences that prevent any constructive measures for the formation of a treaty that is acceptable to the republicans, no treaty has been enacted. 'This nation will not long continue as the only one of the allies that has not concluded peace. A treaty of peace can only be originated by the president. The republican senate must call upon President Wilson for a treaty of peace with Germany and when it does it.must again receive the treaty with the league of nations features. As Senator Colt says: “Peace has to be made. Terms have to be agreed upon. The com-mon-sense thing to do is to stay with our associates and to make with the common enemy the peace they make. “If we permanently stay out of the league of nations, instead of having the bulk of the world with us, we shall have forty-five nations in the league all allied against us. Our Monroe Doctrine will be gone, for the South American countries are going into the league. Our world leadership will be gone.”

Open for the Primaries Enforcement of that part of our criminal laws which Is presumed to prevent open gambling houses In Indiana has become a Joke. With the approach of the primaries the negro craps shooters on whom the organization republicans are depending for the nomination of their candidates are shooting craps on the “avenoo” without fear of molestation and with little interference by the police. One negro who holds an administration job had three craps games in operation Saturday night and Sunday and was not by the police who appear to have confined their attention to the arrest of Sol Caldwell, whom they have been arresting regularly for months. Mayor Jewett has revoked no poolroom licenses in spite of hla expressed willingness to do so. The craps shooting is mostly confined to poolrooms and the licensees thereof pay no attention to city ordinances them. lUP 11 of hich j s ano ther Indication of the approach of the May priKinney can not control fhese gambling joints without stapolicemen in ihem, Mr. Taggart and Mr. McWhirter of the hoard ought to have the courage to insist that he station policemen in whether or not that course meets with the approval of Mayor

THE DEMOCRAT WHO MEETS DIFFICULTIES WITH A SMILE

Photo by International Film Service. WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO. This photo of Mr. McAdoo was taken as he was laying the corner stone of the new Assay building in New York City. It is characteristic of the man that however serious his thoughts he meets life with a smile.

William Gibbs McAdoo has spent twenty-eight years of his fifty-six in New York City. Born In Marietta, Ga., !n 1803, he was educated at the University of Tennessee nnfl admitted to the bar at the ago of 21. He practiced at Chattanooga until he was 28, when he came to New York and continued hla profession for many years. The idea of putting a tunnel under the Hudson river and carrying passengers in it must he cred-

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Ited almost entirely to him. He was president and director of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad company, which in the year 1904, after he had overcome all sorts of extraordinary difficulties, both In engineering and financing, completed the first tunnel. This was followed by three more, and the present system was completed in 1909. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention at Baltimore, which selected Woodrow Wil-

son, and was subsequently vice chairman of the democratic national committee, and acting chairman during much of the campaign. President Wilson made him secretary of the treasury in his first cabinet the following year. Mr. McAdoo has been married twice. His first wife, whose name was Sarah H. Fleming, died in 1912, after a married life of twenty-seven years. In May, 1914, ns every one knows, he married the president’s daughter, Eleanor Wilson. Os Mr. McAdoo’s activities since 1913 and especially those during the war, there is no need for me to speak in detail here. He was put in charge of the railroads, after they were taken over in December, 1917, and operated them throughout the war pe.iod. Mr. McAdoo told me an interesting bit of secret history in connection with this matter. He stated that the roads were taken over largely because the allies were on the edge of starvation through lack of American food, which could not be moved to tidewater in this country. They actually curtailed munitions to get food through. Mr. McAdoo flatly denies that government operation was either inefficient or wastefully expensive. He States that a steady and bitter propaganda to discredit government operation has been conducted, and that it has been successful in misinforming the public mind to an astonishing degree. I might add that he makes the same charge In regard to most of these socalled war scandals. “No war in history was conducted with so little waste and graft ns this one,” he declared. “It Is true that money was spent prodigally, because we had to oritnnize prodigiously, but such expenditures were a true economy In the end. “The best informed statesmen and military experts expected the war to Last at least until the summer of 1910. “When the armistice was signed, the war was costing us $90,000,000 a day. America’s big scale efforts undoubtedly ended the conflict six to nine months earlier than would otherwise have been the case. “By spending as we did we saved to the country the cost of six months’ war, or $10,800,000,000. This is to say nothing of the far mere vital aspect of the matter—the many thousands of additional American lives which were saved by the early termination of the conflict. Who is sordid enough to measure those lives against the dollars which were spent, it Is true, prodigally, hut with the maximum es feet, at a time when such expenditure was needed?” —Copyrighted by Bruce Bliven. Palm for Taximan SEATTLE, March 31.—Give him the poinme de terra, genera!, and another pomme for exceptional bravery. John Mngnusson, taxi cab driver here, has automobile ib-enao No. 131313.

HOOVER’S OUT AS REPUBLICAN ‘Can Not Refuse Service/ He Telegraphs Californians. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 31. Flans for an active nation-wide campaign to secure the republican presidential nomination for Herbert Hoover, were being launched by his friends here today following Hoover’s announcement that he would accept the republican nomination. "While I do not and will not myself seek the nomination, if It is felt the issues necessitate it and it is demanded of mo I can not refuse service,” Hoover declared in a telegram received here by Warren Gregory, president of the Hoover Republican etub of California. “The recent developments over the treaty, stagnation in adjustment of our great economic problems and particularly the many urgent representations that 1 have received a to the situation in my own state, convince me that it is my duty to confirm the action that my republican friends there have already taken without consulting me,” Hoover's telegram declared. A full-fledged Hoover boom is expected to develop in Indiana as a result of the statement of Mr. Hoover that he will accept thp republican nomination

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for the pr ssideney if it is offered to him at the Chi eago convention. Indiana will be represented at a conference to be held in Chicago within the next ten < lays to plan a campaign in an effort to 1 >rlng about the Domination of the formei 1 food administrator. Added t ttempts will be made to turn the forme r food control organization in Indiana ir to a political organization with the nomin ition of Hoover fls its object. Harry 1 I. Barnard, former federal food adminlstr; itor for Indiana, is back of this inovp ment. Some ti me ago he sent letters to all the form- r food administrators asking their support of a movement to bring about thel nomination of Hoover, but the boom apileared to have died out with the continued! reluctance of Mr. Hoover to say whet! ner he would ar<apt the nomination oi even to say wijrn which party he would affiliate. I Conn nission Signed by Three Presidents PORTS MOUTH, N. H., March 31.—Joseph P. Jonnor, who has assumed office as postn aster of the city, possesses the distinct!' nos having come lissious signed by three presidents and th ree postmus.er generals. Mr. Cc nuor, who held the same office from 190 i to 1916, has conn lissions signed by Presi lents Roosevelt, T aft and Wilson and Pos master Generals Von L. Meyer, Hitchco"' i and Burleson.

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DATA ON SI 7,00® SCHOOL JOB < || (Continued from PASO O^H| modeling job was one underta'fcj ; ai:! ’" ri’ .-.a an nuttioJjg (he expenditure <•' SI3OO, iflG''e ! in-"!- ' • ::;-:nVs!7.b®,jJß^' If the list of materials It is declared by t.lose Wt oFM dlMippenri't!. e-.-'.d-T "" of In'. I:* "11 !C (MHndfg th'-;-■v. i '. * ling. HHH| I'l-lu-,'] one affairs city are opera'ed. HHHEj M-'eriai was ought, , thousands of dollars spent ’’■M : t ■i: t any specifications prepared, without any autliori; the scho board for the remod^B| without regard to the law pendlfures and without even the grounds on which the stands. S.^Hj The state board of •onsidorabie difficulty in Oils deals by which this $17,000 i-y the business director of board, and the disappearance portant doe -ments is only a campaign that is under way ••ensure of these responsible tions that have cost the taxpiH Indian a polls thousands of dollar^l