Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1920 — Page 4

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lu&imra Dailg Slimes INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Office*—Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos. —“THIS IS THE YEAR”— IF GOV. GOODRICH had another term in office the cost of state highways would be equal to their weignt In gold. FROM WHENCE come all the people who help to increase the population of all the towns whose census returns show such growths? PROF. FINK believes tobacco reduces mental efficiency. It does make it harder to think up sometuing to be grouchy about. • ' IT MAY BE REMARKED in passing that Edison in seventy-three years has accomplished more than the race Accomplished in sevdnty-three centuries without him. MILLER says he will not shoulder the whole responsibility for jail conditions. No one expects him to take that part which has already been placed on the other officers who neglected inspections. The Ring Is Responsible The disclosures concerning the conditions under which the Marion county jail have been operated are such that make it apparent the responsibility therefor should not rest on the shoulders of Sheriff Robert Miller alone. It has been shown in federal court that the intolerable conditions were a source of complaint to other officials who had the power, if not the inclination, to right them. From the testimony already offered before Judge Anderson it is apparent that the Inhumane manner in which prisoners were being treated at the Jail was known to other officials besides Miller and in spite of their obligation to the public these officials did nothing. 1. The attention of Gov Goodrich was called to the Jail conditions by a letter on which he did not act. 2. The attention of the state board of charities and corrections was called specifically to a complaint about conditions and it did nothing. 3. The attention of Chief Kinney of the local police force was called to the conditions and he did nothing. A striking illustration of the comity that exists between the various officers of the county, city and state, insofar as political affairs are concerned. is furnished by the testimony of William Wilson, a guard, who resigned at the jail because he could not tolerate the methods used there. He says: "Miller then took me to the city hall where I was offered a Job on an oil wagon which I refused to accept. I was then given a job as a guard of prisoners on the road by the county commissioners.’’ Wilson knew too much. When he left his job Miller got busy at once to see that he was "satisfied." He took Wilson to the city hall, where the pity administration offered him a job. When that failed he got a job from the county commissioners, whose duty it was to inspect the county jail. Later, when he quit that job Wilson was threatened with so many calamities that he actually placed the story of what he knew of Jail conditions in the hands of a newspaper man to be used, "when they job me and try to send me over the road,” as he expressed it. Sheriff Miller is puoted now as having declared that he will not assume the whole responsibility for the jail conditions. Miller should not assume this responsibility. There are others in the ring of republican officeholders that controls the state, the county and the city on whose shoulders the responsibility for this outrage against decency rests as heavily as on the shoulders of "Honest Bob.” “Turn the rascals out."

The State Highways Before the give their assent to the expenditure of any more money for- state highways through the present Goodrich-con-trolled highway commission there should be an Investigation of the tremendous differences in cost between state and county highway paving. The contract figures speak for themselves. They disclose that for some reason which does not now appear the state highway commission is expending from $5,000 to SO,OOO more a mile for the paving of Its highways than Marion county is expending. There must be a reason for this vast difference in prices and it is apparent that the reason does not lie in the type of roads built for the specifications of Marion county roads are much more rigid and the meeting of them requires a great deal more outlay on the part of the contractor than the state specifications. There have been repeafed charges of favoritism and graft in connection with the letting of contracts for state highways. One of the first indications of graft in public building is the excessive :ost to the public of construction work. This indication is too apparent to be overlooked. Ts It is necessary to spend $5,000 to SB,OOO more a mile for road paving under contracts let by the state highway commission than is needed for road paving of a better quality under the commissioners of Marion county, the state should know the reason. There can be no doubt that such expenditure* have been made. In the opinion of competent engineers and business men these expenditures are not necessary. If the state of Indiana Is to be taxed $6,000 a mile for the privilege of having highways laid by a state highway commission, the privilege is entirely too costly. In presenting the differences between the county road costs and the highway commission road costs, The Times wishes to remind the voters of one thing, particularly: When this paper printed an expose of the conditions that existed at the Marlon county jail in August. 1919, the miscreants who controlled the jail felt themselves too well fortified to regard It necessary to pay heed to the protest They are now “explaining" In federal court. Primary Fallacies Indiana voters, who have by this time been convinced of the effort tu debauch the state with money in support of the Wood boom, can readily see the fallacies of the preferential primary as applied to presidential candidates in this state. Wood will probably get a plurality of the votes In the republican primary. But he can not hope to get a majority. Therefore, the republican state convention will not be enjoined by law to instruct the delegates to the Chicago convention to vote for Wood. The managers of the Wood campaign have finally concluded that even with the support of the republican press, they can not hope to win the state for Wood at the primaries. Their efforts are now 'being directed along less noisy channels, toward getting a majority of delegates to the republican state convention. In this effort they run against lines laid down by other candidates, notably those for governor. W T arren T. McCray is the leading candidate for the governorship nomination. He is hardly so optimistic as to expect a majority vote in the primaries, therefore he, too, is interested in the selection of the delegates to the state convention. Only through a combination between McCray and Wood forces can the Wood managers hope to obtain a sufficient number of state delegates to get representation on Indiana’s national delegation. Such a combination is difficult to effect for the reason that McCray needs nothing from Wood’s supporters and, in fact, they have nothing to offer him in exchange for his favor. The result of these circumstances Is bound to be the failure of the primary law to permit the republican voters of Indiana to express their real sentiments. Granting that there is a real Wood sentiment in Indiana, in addition to that which has been manufactured through Harry Hogan’s expenditures, there is no possible method by which it can be expressed. More and more the wisdom of William G. McAdoo in refusing to permit his name to be used in primary contests becomes apparent

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life By ANN L*LE.

Barbara Anne Lee, on the Eve of Her Wedding Day , Marvels at the Miracle Wrought by Love. CHAPTER I. (Copyright, 1920, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Tomorrow at 4 I am going to be married ! Over my blue satin couch ltes a mass of white flufflness —my wedding dress and veil. Tomorrow at 3 Barbara Anne Lee will palpitate and blush her way into this little white tent of girlhood—and at 8 Mrs. James Hunter Harrison will fly up to her room to change all that soft maiden whiteness for the staid blue serge of a honeymoon bride. Tonight I am all terror—terror trem bling on the verge'of happiness. I want to go down on my knees and beg God to let me bo happy—happy, always happy! And I want also to step out Into the moonlight across the dewey grass ami to run far, far away from the mystery of tomorrow! A month ago I did not know the man I am going to marry tomorrow. Even new, while I love him with every racing drop of blood In my shaking body—even now we are strangers! We have talked. Our lips have met, our souls have groped toward each other—but when we come closer, will we be one or still strangers? A month ago I went to a recruiting meeting with Carl Booth—nice, staid old Carl, a big brother person and the best a girl ever had. Everything was peaceful and calm, like a strawberry festival. And then someone Introduced Lieut. James Harrison —"Fearless Jim” —and out on the stage there came a mnn-*-the man—“my” man ’. I knew It suddenly and clearly, though I would have died of shame to acknowledge it even to myself. He was tall and slim. He stooped a bit under the sagging weight of his wide shoulders. He leaned on a cane and dragged his left ankle as If It were Just a little tired. Ho was In the olive drab of the aviation, and on his breast were the spread wings of his wonderful calling The Young Lady Across the Way ’ 1 The young lady across the way says short skirts and deeollette blouses are out of place In a business office and she will say for her father’s stenographer that she dresses In very modest circumstances.

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—i suppose I must have seen all this at a glance. THE REAL MAN. But what I really saw—w-hat caught and held my eyes were his eyes—gray and flashing like Steel behind thick, curtaining black lashes. As he talked, they darkened to smouldering Mack —or became remote and green like the far ocean. He told so simply about his two years in the British flying corps before we entered the war—of his transfer to our own service—about his fall and the Hunnish bullet that shattered the bones of his ankle—of the broken rlb3 that sent him a wireless even now. He was good-na-tured and smiling. But he was as strong as a whole battery sent against Germany. The boys fairly poured up to volunteer.

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Later I met him. Afterward 1 couldn’t keep away from the meetings where he talked I think I fairly ran after him—but he didn't know nor try to run away. Yet that I, Barbara Anne Lse, secretary to the editor of Haldane's Magazine, ambitious young authoress woman-bent-on-a-career, should run after a man was something brand new! I am 26 and for about one-third of my years X have been refusing emotion all admittance to the citadel of my heart and to my consciousness. A career was what I wanted. I had so announced to myself and the world. And now roy “career” Is to be .Tim’s wife! ’ After a week of sneaking to meetings where he was going to talk, a week of skulking—yes, skulking—after Lieut, James Hunter Harrison, he walked right Into this office to see Mr. Haldane about an article he was to do for us. And Mr. Haldane ttirned him over to me. Lieut. Harrison looked at me as If he suddenly saw me.

“Miss Lee and I are old friends —we met a week ago.” When we got to the little cubby-hole office I gasped out my amazement. “You meet so many hundreds of people, how could you remember me?” He laughed. “Your eyes—aUve drab like ou,r uniforms—more like amber perhaps—ofl sunlight through old sherry.” “You have a gift of words.” “You will help me with the articles?” I lunched with him that noon and every noon for the week it took to do his article over in shape for Haldane’s. And then my heart stood still, suppose—but as I placed the last period he ventured: WHAT’S IN A NAME? “Miss Lee—would you come out to dinner tonight to celebrate?”

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