Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1920 — Page 6

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lutara Uaitg Slimes INDIANAPOLIS, IND. „ .. —■ Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephones—Main 3500, New 23-351 member of audit burf.au of circulations. Advertising Offices —Chicago, New York. Rot-ton. Detroit. G. Logan Payne Cos. —“THIS IS THE YEAR”— WILL the striking asphalt repairmen expect reinstatement with pay after the primaries? HOW MANY TAXPAYERS wish to vote for the members of the last legislature who passed the Goodrich tax law? M’CRAY expected some ugly charges before the end of his campaign and he seems to have had his expectations fulfilled. A VOTE FOR MERRILL MOORES is a vote to hold a job in congress for Charles Jewett when he leaves the mayor’s office. Paying for ‘Efficiency’ Practically everybody in Marion county is today paying higher taxes than a year ago and considerably higher taxes than two years ago, and the other day when a poor woman who owns a little home gave her S6O as a first installment on her taxes to a negress who officiates at Ralph Lemcke’s treasury' office, she complained of the sum and was answered as follows: “You people keep on coming in here howling like this and we will raise it some more this fall.” 1 We are solemnly advised by the state administration that this increase in taxes is due to the higher costs of government and is the premium we are paying for “efficient and businesslike government in the local communities.” May we ask what particular “efficiency” we are receiving for this increased taxes? The string of taxpayers awaiting the pleasure of the negro clerks in Mr. Lemcke's ofTice yesterday extended well out into the corridor of the courthouse. There was no degree of “efficiency” there that prevented men, women and children from standing in line for hours in order to pay the excess taxes. „ A few doors away was the office of Sheriff “Honest Bob” Miller, whose “efficiency" in the conduct of the jail resulted in a federal court investigation that was followed by the indictment of Miller and his deputies on charges showing the jail to have degenerated into a gambling house and hellhole under his “businesslike” direction. Upstairs in the same building Claris Adams, the “good government prosecutor,” has an office where he conducts the “law enforcement” affairs of Marion county In an “efficient” manner —so efficient that when he was forced to prosecute Louis and Julius Haag he choose to prosecute them for perjury and hire Charles S. Wiltsie to help him conduct the case. Wiltsie served as the attorney in the prosecution of the Haags and asked $1,500 for his services. Adams approved the payment of $1,500 to Wiltsie for conducting a prosecution for which be. the prosecutor, was amply paid, and insisted that the $1,500 come out of the taxpayers’ pocket rather than out of the enormous accumulation of fees which Adams by his policy of accepting guilty pleas to gambling against negroes who in shooting craps. This bit of “efficiency 7 ” means $1,500 to the taxpayers. The same 6tate officials who assure us that our excess taxes are the price we pay for “efficiency” in government point out that part of the excess is for good roads, to be built by the state highway commission. Has anyone seen the highway commission building state roads In Marion county? Isn’t it a fact that the highway commission has taken thousands of dollars out of this county for highways and limited its expenditures in this county to such a small amount that it might be regarded as negligible? Where is the "efficiency and businesslike” administration of the courthouse itself? Didn't the state board of accounts find that seventeen janitors at $75 a month each was an extraordinarily large force to keep the courthouse clean and didn’t the wtmtv eAffrmftsioners raise the salaries of these seventeen janitors (most of them negroes! just before the primaries? And is the courthouse kept clean, even the outlay of from $12,000 to $15,000 a year of the taxpayers' money? Isn’t it a fact, Mr. Taxpayer, that the increased taxes you pay are not the premiums on “efficient and businesslike” government, but are in reality the penalty you pay for trusting your government to a ring of inefficient, hypocritical, self-seeking officeholders who have no ability or desire to give you good government? Are you payftig for efficient government and getting little or nothing in return? • Are you going to continue to pay a premium cn the present kind of government or are you going to "turn the rascals out” and save your own money?

A Real Menace Norman Hapgood has written a letter to the New York World in which he points out a real menace confronting the United States at this time. He says: t A serious menace confronts our country, but this menace is not realized with sufficient distinctness. It lies in the possibility of the election of Leonard Wood. Danger exists in two directions: From the bellicose mind in foreign affairs and from the bellicose mind in industrial readjustment. Harding, or frank Old Guardism, is ended. So is Palmer, or stress on suppression of opinion. Nobody believes that Hiram Johnson will be the next president of the United S'a^es Cox is progressive and honest. Lowden is a good business man, a constructive administrator who has refused to have his appointments dictated by the machine and who (as I have private reasons for believing) favors the league of nations more strongly than his public utterances would indicate. There are two men greatly fitted for the presidency, one a democrat and one a republican. Both are geniuses in administration and in finance. Both are sound on foreign policy, although for different reasons. They are, of course. Hoover and McAdoo. I G*m. Wood remains. I do not believe that all danger of his election has passed. If he were elected the following would be the facts: 1. He is virtually committed to a war against Mexico on the earliest pretext 2. Before he was a candidate he spoke of talk about the covenant as "idle twaddle and a dream of mollycoddles.’’ 3. The mood in which he would approach the industrial difficulties that will be with us for many years is shown by his statement that his motto for anybody he might choose to call a red w-ould bes O S, ship or shoot. “I believe we should place them all on a ship of stone with sails •f lead and that their first stopping place should be hell.’’ 4. His administration in Cuba was a success in a Prussian or purely military sense and a failure politically. He left in 1902. We were compelled to intervene in 1906,, and it was after the second Intervention that the Cubans were able to govern themselves. If there is any candidate who can show four things more ominously disqualifying at a time when what we need is constructive conciliation on a world scale, he escapes my notice. Smash the Combination A republican calls the attention of The Times to the fact that in the Second ward six of the eleven republican candidates for delegates to the state convention are officeholders of the present administration and expresses the opinion that this is proof of the fact that the republican voters are “certainly in the halnds of the ward heelers." He points out among the candidates, Leo Fesler, county auditor; D. H. Bynum, assistant corporation counsel; Judge Linn Hay of the superior court; Frank Green, bailiff of the superior court, Frank Symmes, county pauper attorney, and Walter Pritchard, city judge, and says “the people should smash such a combination.’’ Without intending to cast any reflections on the personal character of these men, for there are some excellent citizens among them, we agree with this republican. The people of Indianapolis must smash such combinations or surrender their rights to participate in the government. For when officeholders combine to control conventions of our political parties and succeed they perpetuate themselves As they grow in power they take away from the people the right to express themselves in the government. They become the government themselves. The time is at hand in Marion county when the voters must either agree to turn their government over to a ijit of “professional officeholders’’ or s#iah the ring that now controls the sthte, the county and the city.

MANY CHANGES URGENT IN LAWS (Continued From I’ag:e One.) trnlized and autocratic sjstera growlna out of the Goodrich tax law; good roads made of the very best material at the lowest possible price; an adequate wage so? all labor, especially at -vv jUjgf ' Jjsg v. j v W V EDWARD B. KALB, this time; such legislation as will Increase the salary of the school teacher, who Is greatly underpaid.” Mr. Hack has served as deputy city prosecutor and as deputy prosecuting attorney of the county. He has also served as special Judge in the superior, criminal and probate courts. Mr. Smollinger also is strongly opposed to the present system of paying county officials. “It elected I will favor a law placing all offices In Marlon county on a salary basis, abolishing the fee system,” he said. FAVORS AMENDMENT OF TAX LAW. “I will favor amending the present tax law to the extent of eliminating the present objectionable features such as the concentrated power vested in the state tax board and an Increase of the mortgage exemption to the full amount of Indebtedness, thus avoiding double taxation. •‘I will vote for the repeal of the tax law if necessary to correct these Inequitable provisions. “I am for a law limiting candidates In the primary and election to a reasonable sum for campaign erpenses, thus giving qualified candidates of 11mThe Young Lady Across the Way The young lady across the way says she sees that France Is going to tax all unmarried men over SO and she always did approve the principle of the single tax.

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ited means an equal opportunity with those whose only qualifications are unlimited funds for campaign purposes. “I am also in favor of increasing the salaries of our teachers aud protecting the interests of labor In general.” JOHNSON AND HARDING WINDING UP IN STATE Two republican presidential candidates. Senator Warren G. Harding and Senator Hiram W. Johnson, will wind up their Indiana campaigns with speeches In Indianapolis tomorrow night. Gen. Leonard Wood will conclude his campaign with a speech at Tomlinson hall Monday night. Senator Johnson will spoak in Tomlinson hall and Senator Harding will speak at the Marion club. The four candidates for tha republican! nomination are now in the state traveling from town to town making speeches. Besides the candidates themselves there are corps of spellbinders who are presenting the claims of the candidates. Johnson street corner meetings are being hold in Indianapolis with Shemas O’Shea. John I). Moore, Kdgar D. Atkin and William MacDougall as the speakers. All candidates for the nominations for governor in both parties are making whirlwind campaigns in the state winding up their fights for nomination. BLAMES DUFFEY FOR DEAM BILL ■ Luke W. Duffey, farm salesman, good roads advocate and candidate for republican nomination for congress, is claiming too much credit for hinißelf, Toni Snyder, of the transfer division of the Chamber of Commerce, declared today. “Mr. Dnffey is reported to have said In a speech in Atluutic City that Indiana Industry was saved during the railroad

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Seeks Senatorship JOHN W. HOLTZMAN, strike by motor truck express lines,” Mr. Snyder said. “Yet Mr. Duffey has done more to injure the motor trqck express business than any other man, because he engineered the Deam bill through the last legislature. •'The Deam bill not only Increased the license fee 500 per cent, but it added numerous provisions which Strike a blow at truck transportation.

CAPITOL AVENUE RESIDENTS KICK Steps Proposed for Curbing of Influx of Negroes. An organization recently formed under the name of the Capitol Avenue Protective association will meat tonight at the home of Ira M. Holmes, attorney, 2164 North Capitol avenue. Residents of the avenue are protesting against the Influx of negroes Into homes on the thoroughfare and it is proposed to take steps to curb the movement. "The Methodist hospital and the Nurses’ home, now being constructed, and St. Vincent’s hospital, representing the Investment of a million dollars, deserve a better fate than to become the center of ;• negro community,” said Mr. Holmes today. "The pity Is not only that this beauti-

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ful boulevard is in danger of being depredated and ruined a* a residence street by the location of negro families in the midst of white families, but that there is no security from this intrusion in any locality. "What has happened on Capitol avenue may be the fate of Washington boulevard. "Thifc condition only Increases the race prejudice.” Grant Hays, Gabe Slutsky, M. J- Ford, A. M. Shaneberger, George Sadller, Paul R. John, Joseph A. Minturn, M. P. Woody, W. N. Plcken and Henry Dithmer are some of the other property owners behind the protective movement. Baptists of State Pass Million Mark Th, state fund of the Baptist church, raised thus far In the New World Movement of the church, totals $1,045,000, It was announced today. The quota to be raised by next Sunday night is $3,500,000.

Store Closes Saturday at 6 p. m. Wash, and Alabama Sts., Juat East of Courthouse.

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Other denominations which are ducting campaigns for funds in terchurch World Movement are splendid progress, according to repoiH received at state headquarters. V NEW YORK, April 30— Three mllMofl dollarg as an anonymous gift to the inter! church world movement today broughl the total of the fund above ninety rail-1 Hon dollars, It was announced at camJ palgn headquarters here. Old Labor Temple Damaged by Fire Fire, believed to hate been started by a discarded cigar or cigaret, was discovered last night on the second floor of the building at 138-142 West Washington street, formerly known as the Lsbor temple. It spread to the third floor and a part of the stock of Carlton’s army and navy store, on the ground floor, was damaged by water

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