Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1920 — Page 4

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Juliana Uailg Slimes INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street, Telephones —Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. (Chicago, Detroit. St tools, G. Logan Payne & Cos. Advertising Offices j w York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, lne. —“THIS IS THE YEAR”— M’CRAY and Goodrich agree on the tax law —as they have heretofore agreed in business ventures. DOC WILEY S DENUNCIATION of bootlegging physicians is right, even if it was long delayed. v EIGHT NEW FACES on the democratic state committee ought to be sufficient to make some radical changes. WATSON may relinquish control once too often. The rank and file follow a leader without courage only a limited time. A Demand for Law Violation The question of whether the Indiana delegation to the republican convention at Chicago shall be instructed or not instructed seems to resolve itself into a question of whether or not Gen. Wood’s supporters in this state have sufficient influence to Induce the republican state convention to violate the primary law of the state. Among other things the primary law says: “In case of a preferential vote for candidates for any of such offices and no candidate for such office receives such majority, such preferential vote shall be disregarded.” There was a preferential vote for president in Indiana With the rapport of the Indianapolis News, the Indianapolis Star and a number of “me too” newspapers in Indiana, together with the most lavish use of money that ever marked a primary in Indiana Gen. Wood failed utterly to obtain a majority of the votes cast at the primary. Not even the crooking of the election returns of Marion county sufficed to give him more than a crooked plurality. Today, his hired henchmen and his discredited newspaper supporters are yelping that “justice to Wood” requires that because he got a crooked plurality in the primary the delegates should be instructed to Y°te for him in the Chicago convention. There is no justice in this propaganda because it is propaganda intended to promote an absolute violation of the law of the state. The republican state convention can not instruct the delegates to vote for Wood without openly violating the law. The law reads, “such preferential vote shall be disregarded.” There ought to be some limit beyond which the proponents of Gen. Wood will not go. It was not sufficient that they should pay $2.50 for testimonials for the general. ( It was not sufficient that they should claim Marion county on the face of returns that show the Wood vote was padded by at least 4,000 phantom votes. * These selfish promoters of the Gen. Wood boom for president are now openly importuning and even demanding that the whole republican state convention, collectively, violate the law of the state and instruct Indiana’s delegates to vote for Wood. An instruction given in violation of the laws of the state is binding on no one. t The delegates to the Chicago convention will be free, legally and morally, to vote for whom they please for president, for they can not legally be instructed to vote for any one. The insistence of Wood’s Indiana managers that the law be violated in order to help nominate a man who is ranting about the enforcement of law in nearly every campaign speech shows that the Wood campaign is not nearly as pure as the soap manufactured by its heaviest backer.

False Economy in the Judiciary Whatever may be said of the expenses of the criminal court of Marion county, which for 1919 were three times the cost of the circuit, it can hardly be disputed that the sum paid the judge of such an important court is wholly inadequate. Employers generally have awakened to the fact that in the purchase of brains and ability they get about as much of each as they are willing to pay for. It is a well-known fact that men of the type that should occupy criminal benches are capable of earning much more than the meager $5,000 a year or less that the county pays a criminal court judge. In fact, it is universally recognized that no lawyer of ability can afford to occupy a bench that pays no more than $5,000, in view of the fact that the duties of the bench are presumed to preclude any other remunerative services. In this position, as in a great many others in civil government, the community gets the kind of service for which it pays and no more. Twelve thousand dollars a year would not be an exorbitant salary for a judge of the criminal court. Were thac sum offered it is likely that the community could obtain the services of a judge who would not only reflect credit on the court by his* occupancy of the bench, but would be above the petty influences that so often are seen or imagined by the public that watches the court. Filling the judiciary tickets with men of real ability and good character is at present a difficult task. Too often the places are sought and filled by lawyers of the type known as “jacklegs," who, through political pull, have become more familiar with court practices than with law. Occasionally a bench falls under the control of a man who has made a failure of undertakings in other communities and has moved to ti more remote neighborhood, where by diligent fawning on the powers that be he succeeds In deceiving the voters into believing him a man of both ability and honor. In such cases the scene of his elevation to the bench is usually so remote from the scene of his-earlier misadventures that even absconders have been knrwn to rise to important judicial positions where they are not infrequently called to pass judgment on men whose character is far less blemished than their own. In the case of the Marion criminal court we have the peculiarity of a judge whose sole recompense for his services is less than $5,000 a year, directly controlling a court whose direct expenditures for the year are nearly six times his own salary. This sum. of course, is only a trifle of the indirect cost to the taxpayers of the institution. For the court requires besides its bailiffs, and a page, a prosecutor and a sheriff, a place in which to sit and a number of janitors. The point we wish to emphasize is that the judiciary should be better paid. High pay would attract high grade jurists and the higher the grade of judges the less the expenses of maintaining the court, the more satisfactory the administration of justice and the less possibility of mistakes in filling the positions on the bench. Lodge on a Separate Peace Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, the man who declared the treaty of Versailles was too hard on Germany, is a candidate for the republican nomination for the presidency. He is also |he author of the “peace resolution,’* by which the republican senate hopes to sidestep the league of nations covenant It is perhaps silly to waste time in denunciation of this “separate peace" resolution. Senator Lodge has said nearly If not quite all that is necessary in reference to it and since Senator Lodge is the leader of the republican senate his words may be taken as authority. Writing in the Forum magazine in December, 1918, Senator Lodge said: “The president who delivered the war message and the congress who voted for war would be guilty of the blackest crime if they were willing to make a peace on the status quo ante bellum, and recreate the situation which existed before the war. “If we send our armies and our young men abroad to be killed and wounded in northern France and Flanders with no result but this, our entrance into war with such an intention was a crime which nothing can justify. “The intent of congress and the intent of the president was that there could be no peace until we could create a situation where no such war as this could recur. ‘We can not make peace except in company with our allies. “It would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring ruin to us also if we undertook to make a separate peace.”

MRS. DREW CHANGES HER MIND Keith’s Extends Season—Bill Russell Due

Mrs. Sidney Drew declared at the time of her husband's death that she would never again act in the movies. Although she decided never ta act again she consented to direct and produce pictures. But movleal America, composed of the fans who so enjoyed the Drews on the screen, flooded her mail each day with requests to “please act some more.” Mrs. Drew has bowed to the great majority and will be seen soon in “The Emotional Miss Vaughn.” -I- -I- -IBILL AGAIN. , Bill Russell comes Thursday to the Alhambra in “The Valley of Tomorrow." Russell is seen as Dabney Morgan, a young mountaineer, who finds great truths in nature and the mountains. -I- -I- -I----“BIG TIME” SEASON EXTENDED. The “big season at B. F. Keith’s has been extended one week. The present season will close May 22 with the summer season opening May 23. Amelia Stone is appearing in “A Song Romance’' this week. -1- -I- -INOW WITH US. CIRCLE —Constance Talmadge In “The Love Expert” and a snappy Mack Senneit comedy, “The Gingham Girl.” OHlO—William Farnum is doing some of the best movie work of his career in “Les Miserables.” COLONlAL—Nazimova in “The Heart of a Child” again has a chance to dominate everything with her striking personality. ENGLISH’S—Mae Murray has a dancing as well as a tragic time of it in “On With the Dance.” LTRIC —“The Destruction of Rheirns” Is the featured act. Others Include Verna Mersereau and company. The Puppets, A1 Conrad and company, and others. PARK—Frank “Rags” Murphy with “The Monte Carlo Girls,” In which Rags attempts to sell some good and bad cigars. RIALTO —George Walsh In a Kentucky feud movie, “The Dead Line,” Is the featured offering. BROAD WAV—"AII Aboard for Cuba,” a condensed musical comedy, is the chief offering in addition to other vaudeville and .Tack Dempsey in pictures. REGENT —Four movies make up the current bill.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1920.

I ‘NO’ AND ‘YES’ \ * J MBS. SIDNEY DREW. Here is Mrs. Sidney Drew, the movie actress. Following her husband’s death she Raid “No” to movie directors who attempted to induce her to return to the screen. She now says “Yes.” ISlS—Hondinl tn “Terror Island” is in its final showings today to make way Thursday for Enid Bennett in “The False Road.” ALHAMBRA—Enid Bennett In “The False Road” is featured. Enid is a girl-crook In this movie. -I- -i- -I--BEASON TO CLOSE. The road show season at the Murat will close Saturday night. The final attra(vlon will be “The Smarter Set,” a colored show, with Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer 'Putt. The show Is in two acts and is called “The Children of the Sun.” -I- -I- -IMISTF.R SMITH’S. While Constance Talmage is hanging up a popularity record at the Circle,

Sister Nonna is appearing in the movie, “The Woman Gives,” at Mister Smith’s. One of the main characters becomes a dope fiend and Norma saves him from himself.

Wood Not Affected by Living Costs Editor The Times —I have been wondering why Gen. Wood does not devote more time in his addresses to the high cost of living. I know now. So far as Gen. Wood is concerned there “hain’t no such animal” as the high cost of living. Army officers are paid good salaries and pay all their own expenses; but the government permits them to buy their supplies at the government stores. In my work as a salesman t’ have been in the homes of several army officers living in Indianapolis. Today I was shown the latest price list issued at Ft. Harrison, and here are some of the items per pound; Coffee, 20 cents; sugar, 9 cents; prunes, 13 cents; raisins, 9 cents; rice, 5 cents; Ivory soap, 5 cents per cake. No wander a major general receiving about S4O per day and furnished supplies b; the government at one-fourth what tb-s laboring man pays, thinks there ought not to be any unrest. All other supplies are in about the same proportion. It Is plain why there is no unrest among major generals, when the wife of one of these officers mentioned sugar at 9 cents a pound, I asked her if she could get sugar now, and she said she had fifteen pounds. Gen. Wood’s campaign manager makes Boap and sells it to the government and the government sells it to Gen. Wood for 0 cents per cake, but the laboring man has to pay twice that for the same soap. Gen. Wood’s managers may buy the nomination with the aid of a corrupt press, like some in Indiana, but it’s a long time till election, and during the four months that the spotlight of publicity is turned on, the republican party may find it is carrying a dead weight like the democrats had in 1901, if they nominate Wood. Yes, we need a nan of firmness, but he should be also a man with a genuine sympathy.for the laboring man and the common peopleone who has lived among and been one of those people, and nor, one belonging to a privileged class. In dealing with unrest an ounce of prevention is better than many pounds of cure. X have voted for every republican candidate for president since Ben Harrison. GRANT GOSSETT. 10G North New Jersey street, city.

Tired of This! Editor The Times—l believe there are a few men that are tired of seeing such reports as the following coming from onr courts of Justice. “The jury was dismissed after the state

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and defense had agreed on a compromise, with a suspended sentence. The criminal plead guilty to the charge as found m the indictment and the judge assessed a fine on the recommendation of the prosecutor.” I hope we may choose a few Judges at least, that will not permit the lawyer and prosecutor to lower the dignity of

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