Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1920 — Page 4
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lutara Sail® Wim# INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Dally Except Sunday, 26-2® South Meridian Street Telephones —Main 3500, New 28-351 ■ member of audit bureau of circulations. Ad-ertlstag Offices —Chicago, New York. Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos. —“THIS IS THE YEAR”— OH, WELL! May 3 Is Just as good a time to try Sheriff Miller as any other. WHO said this was going to be a nice, quiet campaign without much enthusiasm? ' „ AND WE UNDERSTAND Just about what went on in the conference between Mayor Jewett and Claris Adams, too. GAS, street car and railroad faculties are curtailed, anyhow, so what’s the use of worrying about a little high water? THE COMMUNITY is much indebted to Senator Johnson for the coining of that very applicable phrase-omental libertines.” APPARENTLY Mayor Jewett overlooked directing Harry Parsons to appear in police court Tuesday afternoon. HASN’T MR. ADAMS been instructed by the criminal court to do something besides manage J. W. Fesler’s campaign in Marion county? KINNEY HIATT denies that story about the loaded dice and the two gfeminent republicans Says “nobody never got nothin' offen them two, nohow.” .- -■ IT IS INDEED INTERESTING to find the News admitting that in the conduct of the Marion county Jail the “goodi government” administration has resolved itself Into “a complete faUure of local self-government.” The State's Failure An excellent demonstration of why buay members of Indianapolis dis like to appear in the city court as attorneys or to sit there as special Judges was staged yesterday when the case of state versus Charles W. Rollinson was continued for lack of preparation. Although Claris Adams, prosecutor, and his deputies knew that this case" was- set for trial before Charles E. Cox, special Judge, no preparations were made for trying it. and the state even neglected it to the extent of failing to summon the prosecuting witness. Asa result a group of lawyers and others whose time was more or less valuable, waited in the courtroom while a policeman sought the prosecuting witness, took him from his work and brought him to the city court. At the expiration of three hours’ delay Judge Cox was compelled to express his regret that the case could not be tried and continued it. Parsons, the prosecuting witness, disclaimed any knowledge that the case had been set for trial although the fact was printed in three newspapers and generally known among, the lawyers of the city. Ralph Spaan, deputy prosecutor, candidly admitted that he did not know who the witnesses were to be and for that reason could not have caused witnesses to be subpoenaed. • The whole affair went to show that although the charge against Rolltnson is a serious one and Rollinson is entitled to a speedy hearing, it was not regarded as sufficiently important by Claris Adams, prosecutor, to merit any preparations on behalf of the state. While the state of Indiana has to depend for representation on such inefficient servants as handled the Rollinson case there is reason to feel sorry for the state. And while such. neglect of duty as failure to subpoena witnesses for trials continues attorneys who really desire to see the city court raised to a high piano of efficiency will be disappointed.
Lift the Lid T* : v , , Serious charges have been made against the management o' the state penal farm at Putnamville which must be thoroughly Investigated, not by politicians and hirelings of the Goodrich administration, but by a committee composed of leading citizens of both political parties who are above the coloring of a report for political purposes.' These charges are backed with statements secured from prisoners. Whether the prisoners who make complaint are of L W. W. tendencies, as charged by the superintendent, is not material. If the charges are true the conditions are scandalous and should not be tolerated in an enlightened commonwealth. It is possible that the charges are not true, and in that case the officials should be exonerated in the only way they can be —by a thorough Investigation. The fact that Goodrich is not impressed, that he has often visited the institution and found all well, is not sufficient There are some rather ugly intimations that the governor of the state has found it possible to authorize the use of the men on the penal farm in the working of the Globe Mining Company which his business associate and very young son are officials. We would not be willing to accept his estimate of right and wrong, therefore, in the treatment of prisoners. The charges may be summed up In the following excerpt from the formal statement: “Prisoners are ondarted and worked ten hours a day at hard labor. M**t Is served once a week, on Sunday; thl* la one slice of fat bacon. Musty meal was used for corn bread three times a week until Putnam county health officers forbid the use of it. Some prisoners are compelled to work on Sundays, and on Sunday five crackers Is the substitute for the dry bread of week days. Some of the paid guards are Insulting and cruel and Inhuman, especially to cripples and weaklings, using a loaded cane to beat them. I was told by a prisoner named Leroy that for a violation of a rule he was handcuffed to a ring lx feet above the floor and compelled to stand in this position for twenty-four hours. I hope these things will be investigated, not only for the sake of these young boys, but that the conditions may be bettered for humanity’s sake.” It will be observed that many of the practices here charged were practiced in the Marion county Jail, and that when Gov. Goodrich's attention was called to the conditions in the jail he took no action. He ma? have been quite as much satisfied with these conditions —and yet the sheriff has now been indicted and forced to withdraw from the race for renomination. And the public is shocked at the revelations which mado no impression on the governor. There is no excuse for the underfeeding of prisoners in the penal institutions of this state. If they may be lightly fed in the county jails where the prisoners do nothing, they can not be lightly fed at the penal farm where prisoners are forced to do hard manual labor. Meat once a week —a piece of fat bacon on Sunday—is scarcely a diet for a farm hand. Crackers and dry bread do not sound well. And such food for men doing work farm for ten hours at a stretch comes within the definition of cruelty. But even this feature of the charges is not so impressive as that of cruelty to prisoners. Beating prisoners with loaded canes belongs to Dickens' jails—not our penal institutions. Handcuffing men In such a position as to compel them to stand with their hands high above their heads for twenty-four hours in monstrous. * , It won’t do to merely dismiss the charges on the ground that they are the emanations of prisoners. They "could hardly come from the officials. Nor are such practices likely to be continued in the presence of visitors. That plea was used successfully for generations to prevent the reforms finally forced in the British prisons. The charges might seem more incredulous but for the fact that the same conditions were found to exist in the Marion county Jail; that the governor of the state had been informed of their existence and took no action; that th% state board of charities was warned and did nothing; and that the scandalous conditions in that Jail would be in existence at this hour but for the exposure brought about in the federal court in Indianapolis; and but for that Miller, the sheriff, would still be a candidate for renomination and would still have the backing of the machine. The Marion county exposure ought to let down the bars to a serious investigation of all similar charges in the state. And when this investigation takes place, if it is permitted by the Goodrich administration, the investigators might go more into detail into the matter of transferring prisonejs from the penal farm to work in mines operated by the governor’s friends, relatives and business associates. The public never has been quite able to reconcile itself to that act. Least of all has labor—and especially the workers of the mines. .Lift the lid even though the stench? be strong—Ft. Wayne. JoumalGaxette. ' i r • -
Stage and Screen MKBI SKMON. The name of Larry Semon among Indianapolis movie fens Is becoming more and more a household word. Semen's movie comedies have a breath of originality which many so-called comedy films lack. Semon'g latest movie, “The Fly Cop," Is at the Lyric this week. -I- -I- -Ienglishs. Elsie Janis and Her Using of former service men will close their engagement at English's with a matinee and a night performance. “See-Saw,” anew Savagj musical comedy opens Thursday for three days at English's with a cast including Dorothy Mackaye, Charles Brown and Frank C. Carter. Booth Tarklngton's "Clarence" opens next Monday night at English's. -I- -I* -ITHE MCBAT. Shubert’s “Gaieties of 1919,” a big show running to many scenes, a large chorns and a bunch of principals, is the current offering at the Murat. t Bertha Kallch comes to the Murat for three days beginning April 29 in "The Riddle Woman.” -I- -I- -I’ A TRAINED ELEPHANT. Capt. Gruber and Mile. Adelina go In for strange animals as their pets. They have a splendidly trained elephant at Keith’s'this week. A real treat for the kiddles. -I- -I- -ICONTINriNG VAUD. "Peaches and Cream," a girl act featuring dances and songs, is the current headliner at the Rialto. The Broadway Is presenting Jackson's Singing Revue as Its feature. At the Park this week wllll be foand Joe Marks and "The Broadway Belles," a mixture of comedy, dancing and singing. Joe L*vlt is presenting the show this season and reporta that business has been good. -1, -!- -J----CONCERNING NEII.AN. Marshall NeUan first gained fame as tha producer of -The River's End,” which was presented at the Circle some weeks ago and Is the current offering at Mr. Smith's. Nelian's latest "Don't Ever Marry” is g t ’be Circle and is a great con-I
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trast In theme and treatment to his first picture. Essentially this movie Is dramatic, but the comedy is obtained through the antics of Wesley Barry, a freckled-faced boy, as a bellhop In a hotel. Charles Ray in "i'he Hick" is in his final showings at the Isis today. The Regent Is offering a melodrama, “Desert Gold,” taken from the story of that name. “The Mystery of the Yellow Room” Is the feature of this week’s bill at the Ohio. The Colonial Is presenting Griffith’s “The Fall of Babylon," whlcH* Is history and a love story woven together Into appetizing screen entertainment. -!- -I- -iIRENE CASTLE. When Irene Castle was a dancing idol on the stage She was noted for the fine clothes she wore. In her latest movie, “The Amateur Wife,” Miss Castlo is first seen as an awkward, grotesquely dressed young miss, just out of a French convent. She is referred to as the “ugly duckling." but when she gets Into society a chance is given this actress to wear some smart duds. Irene's latest movie opened a four-day engagement at the Alhambra today. -I- -!- -IA NEW BRAND. D. W. Griffith personally supervised tho production of "The Tiger Girl/ a drama which will be the attraction ai the Isis tho last half of the week, beginning Thursday. • Lillian Gish Is the star. Her support includes Rozlka Dolly of tho famous Dolly sisters, and Wilfred Lucas. Miss Dolly appears as a siren dancer who wrecks a home, and drives a man to a suicide's grave. The comedy portion of the program will be supplied by Charlie Chaplin In a farce entitled "Busted Hearts.”
RULES IGNORED AT COUNTY JAIL (Continued From Page On*,) though there Is nothing in the rules to compel a prisoner to clean anything except his own cell. Rule No, 10 of the etate board of charities has never been followed In the Marlon county Jail and Is very specific In Its terms. It says*- - ' “Meals shall be served the ertsoners at suitable and regula- hours, THREE times a day." Only two meals are served on Sunday In the Marlon county JnlL WHAT BCTLER SAYS OF RILES. Concerning these rules Mr. Bntlar says: “These rules were adopted by the board years ago as suggestions to county Sheriffs and the courts for the conduct of the Jail. "They were made general In nature so that they would apply to all Jails. "The rules were printed on cardboard for posting In the county Jails and they are posted whenever Inspections are mnde by representatives of the board and are supplied to sheriffs at any other time they might desire them. "The enforcement of these rules Is, of course, governed by conditions at each particular Jail, but sheriffs are urged to enforce them so far as practical. "No new rules governing the conduct of Jails have been put into effect or eysn suggested by the board of charities." Mr. Butler knows now and has known for a long time that no particular effort has ever been made to enforce these rules In the Marlon county Jail. ► It Is a part of bis official duties tc
know that the rules are not now being enforced, even after the Jail expose hnvl the indictment of Sheriff Miller. STATE BOARD’S POWER SHOWN. The state board, of which Mr. Butler Is the head, has long been Intrusted with the enforcement of Its rules and It now has the legal authority to see that the rules are enforced, but the most of Its activities are confined to statistical and publicity work and the attendance, at state expense, of numerous charity conferences. Inquiry at the Jail revealed that those in attendt nee there had no knowledge of the state board’s authority over the Jail, had never met Amos Butler and doubted whether Mr. Butler himself had ever vls'lted tha Jail, In spite of the notoriety the place received following the state board's neglect of it. These rules were not posted at the county Jail Monday, when an inspection of It was made by other than inspectors of the state board of charities, but whether this indicated that the state board had not made an Inspection of it or that Mr. Butler was mistaken in his assertion that “the rules were posted whenever inspections are made by representatives of the board" could not be ascertained.
WOOD SNOWED UNDER IN VOTE (Continued From Page One.) statement he had made to the effect that dollar wheat before the war was profitable. “My grievance Is," he said, “that we have come to a political system where fakers and paid propagandists may peddle such deceit and subject a candidate for high office to ueh cheap falsehoods. “I tell you, I want agriculture abundantly compensated." In referring to Gen. Wood, Senator Harding said: “I know of one candidate who Is wasting his time In Ohio." Senator Hiram Johnson, who was scheduled to apeak at the meeting, canceled his engagement at the last minute. His managers asked If a meeting could he arranged for tonight and they were told it could not be. Candidates for the republican nomination for governor also spoke at the meeting last night HIRAM JOHNSON RAPS MENTAL LIBERTINES Following Senator Hiram W. Johnson’s address at the Colombia club yesterday afternoon, friends of the varioua republican candidates for the presidency
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connection with his discussion of ths passage of a workmen's compensation act in California. "We had newspapers la our state aa disreputable as some In your state,” ho said. “We had one in our atato that enJoyecf perjury as well as one In your city enjoys perjury." This statement was greeted with prolonged applause. “In the eyes of newspapers like one of youirs here It is a reproach to be an American," he said. “Thank God a yeaT of debate has made it respectable to be an American. "I have beard of some editors, and you have some here, who have sowed so much wild oats that they hare become intellectual libertines.”
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In a conversation following the ing Senator Johnson made it clear was the Indianapolis News to which™! referred. EIGHT STATE SPEECHES £1 BY GEN. WOOD MONDAY. tt '$ MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood will mHr eight speeches In Indiana next MondtHl He will leave Indianapolis by eutomSl bile at 8 o’clock Monday morning anfl will return by train Tuesday He will then go directly to Pittsburg, Fa., where be will speak Wednesday night. Later he will return to Indiana. Gen. Wood’s schedule for Monday follows: Danville, 8:46 a. m.; GreencasUe, 9:45 . m.; Brazil, II a. m.; Clinton, 12:10' p. m.; Bullivan, 2:30 p. m.; Vincennes, 3 :45 p. m.; Princeton, sp. m., and Evansville, 8 p..
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