Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1920 — Page 4

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luhbnia sai!xj crimes INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. (Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis. G. Logan Payne & Cos. Advertising Offices New York, Boston. Payne. Burns £ Smith, Inc. —‘TH/5 IS THE YEAR”— WHILE all this convention talk is in the air, has anyone heard what happened to Mayor Jewett’s coliseum? A REVIVAL in athletic interest is noted among the negro gamblers since Judge Pritchard listened to story of the Indiana avenue raid. GEN. SMITH might take advantage of his occupancy of the governor’s office to pardon Dick Sipe and thereby promote harmony in the republican i‘anks. * THE TELEPHONE HEARING must wait until E. I. Lewis, chairman of the public service commission, completes his “publicity” duties at the republican national convention. THE MOST UNUSUAL THING about that testimony of Fred Joss that none of the Wood workers at the polls were paid for their efforts lies in the fact that it was given under oath. The Cost of Incompetency Peculiarly indicatiye of the high cost to the taxpayers of Marion county of maintaining incompetents in office were the appropriations made yesterday by the county council. The greater number of these appropriations were undoubtedly necessary—made necessary by the gross neglect and utter unfitness of the political ring which controls the county and makes of county government the most expensive luxury the taxpayer has. Foremost in the list of wholly unnecessary actions was the authorization of a $200,000 bond issue for the purpose of refunding courthouse bonds. This action calls to mind that although Marion county’s courthouse is now antiquated and unfit for the purposes to which it is being put, not a dollar of the original cost of erecting it has ever been paid by the county. The interest which the taxpayers have put up on this bonded indebtedness exceeds the principal. In other words, the old courthouse has to be paid for twice simply because county officials failed to do their duty in the levying of a tax that would have wiped out the original debt. The sum of $30,000 has been appropriated for the very urgent repair of the county jail. Most of this sum will be needed to put the plumbing back into sanitary condition. ( The deterioration of this plumbing under the care of Sheriffs Coffin, Dodson and Miller is illustrated by the report of a practical p'umber, who recently visited the jail to find that drinking fountains which had previously been installed there had disappeared. \ The sum of $460.35 was appropriated for a stenographic report of the evidence of the mismanagement and criminal neglect at the county jail which was revealed in the federal court after Judge James A. Colllr.s and Prosecutor Adams had failed and refused to conduct an investigation when their attention was called to the outrages in the Jail. Nothing was continued in this report which either of these salaried officers of the county did not know or could not have ascertained by the mere issuances of subpoenaes for some of their bosom friends and bpon companions. One hundred dollars"was appropriated to cover the expenses of taking testimony in an investigation of the conduct of Chapes W. Rollinson, an attorney who was accused of improper representations to a client. This is merely a second chapter in a scandal which Judge Collins did not, investigate, even though it was testified in police court that a defendant told of being assured by Mayor Jewett that Collins and Jewett would clear him in criminal court, “get his SI,OOO and then get Rollinson." Had Judge Collins not, for some reason best known to himself, chosen to ignore this reflection on his official integrity. Judge Solon Carter would not now be asking the SIOO for the purpose of investigating a similar reflection which he tfudge Carter) did not feel Inclined to suffer in silence. There is also the little matter of $1,900 more for the “expenses” of the criminal court, an Institution that was shown to have cost the taxpayers in 1919 more than four superior courts combined. Doubtless Judge Collins can explain why this $1,900 additional should be appropriated for dispensation by his order in a manner that will fit admirably into his “nationally noted” reputation, but it is safe to say that he will not put any particular stress on the amounts directed to favored attorneys who have been appointed to defend negroes who killed policemen. The total of $72,293, appropriated to meet "additional expenses” in the operation of the county government under the direction of the ring is significant of the methods of the ring. It is wholly Indicative of the price the taxpayers of Marion county are paying for the luxury of having in office the most incompetent set of officials who every drew vouchers on the county treasury.

Why Enforce the Law at All? Gov. James P. Goodrich, in a published statement, declares that he has “no apologies to offer for taking the action I did in this matter,” after James G. Murray disclosed that the enforcement of the workmen’s compensation law had been stopped, "apparently because of the fact that some of our governor’s friends were implicated.” The governor further says: , -“I felt It to be unfair to the small employers of the state to be put to the expense of coming to Marion county to answer to these petty criminal charges until they had at least had a fair notice to comply with the law, the provisions of which were ignorant.” This is an explanation worthy of James P. Goodrich, of whom the Laporte Argus says, "he is about the only public man in America that wears a scandal as though it were a badge of honor.” In the first place, it is the duty of Goodrich’s industrial board to notify delinquents of their violations of the workmen’s compensation law and the industrial board did, for a time, send out such notices to delinquent employers. >s In the second place, under the fee grabbing system used by Prosecutor Claris Adams and his deputies, that provision of criminal law under which defendants are presumed to appear personally in court has long been waived. Emplq/ers were permitted to plead guilty to charges of violating this law by long-distance telephone and were assessed fines and costs amounting to about sl3 each, which were paid by mail and out of which Mr. Adams got his prosecutor’s fee, as usual. The defendants did not have to go to the expense of coming to Marion county to appear. All they had to do was to assure the prosecutor of his fee and the law was waived. , The truth about this disgusting instance of malfeasance in office from the governor on down to the justices of the peace in Marion county is that the methods employed by the "good government” officials became so obnoxious to the public that Gov. Goodrich was compelled to put a stop to the collection of soft money. Rather than stop the very profitable black-jacking by the Marion county officials and insist on proper enforcement of the law, the governor stopped all enforcement of the law. Serving Humanity N , There is no altruistic work being done In Indianapolis today which is more interesting or more humane than the efforts of the Indianapolis Humane society members to care for the stray dogs that come Into the city pound. The workers are giving their time and their money with no other possible reward in sight than that which comes to lovers of dogs through the kind light of the canine eye or the friendly wiggle of the dumb animals* tails. Disposal of dogs through the dog poimd is not a pleasant thing to contemplate. Every dog is some one’s pet. The kindliness of a man for a dog is a manifestation of the best that Is in him and all that tends to encourage such manifestations tends to better mankind. Through the efforts of the members of the Humane society hundreds of dogs have found good homes. Dozens of children have learned to love a lumb animal. Kindness has been instilled and developed. Humanity has been served. * I W

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The young lady across the way says one of the baseball players must be especially cool in an emergency and she noticed tw one point In the game that everyone yelled ice wagon at him.—Copyright, 1920.

An Object Lesson for City Administration Editor The Times—l would like to ask someone In authority to explain why much discrimination is shjwn In the enforcement of certain city ordinance. It appears there is an ordinance prohibiting the placing of any advertisement or banner that can be detached on any vehicle using the city streets. The writer Is a poor man engaged In a legitimate business, and et considerable expense had curtains made that could he attached to the sides and rear of his car, but so closely resembling the body of the car that they could not be distinguished as being detachable except on very close Inspection. These curtains were neatly painted and made to advertise his business, the same as hundreds of other business cars with advertisements painted on them, and were In ... sense objectJouaTtie. it so hap pened that, while attaching them to his cor he was observed'by an officer, who compelled him tp remove them at once under threat of nrTest. An appeal to the higher officers only resulted In being informed that be would be arrested every day it he drove his car with them on. Now if this Is the law I have no ohjectlon to observing it, provided the larger and wealthier corporations who have a ‘‘piiH’’ and Influence are compelled to do likewise. But the very day 1 was compelled to remove these curtains I saw not less than three or four car3 belonging to large concerns with (laming banners stretched over the hoods or attached to the rear of cars and trucks advertising their private business without molestation on the part of the police. Politicians place huge and flaming banners on the rear of cars begging the people to vote for thrn, and 1 have never beard of any of them being arrested for doing so. There are literally hundreds of cars using the’ streets every ’ day with tire covers advertising the different makes of tires and cars, attached to the rear, an>, no they are certainly as conspicuous anr* can be removed as easily as the curtains I attempted to use. If there (g an ordinance prohibiting anything of rflie kind why It Is not enforced against the larger concerns as weil_ as the smaller ones who have no money to fight It, or Influence to he permitted to violate It': X am a law abiding cltlssen and pay licenses and taxes, and am perfectly willing to obev, provided I am not dUertralnated against, but It would sppe.u that I should be allowed the same privilege as others who have more money r.nd Influence. Respectfully, L>. E. O. Indianapolis.

Denies Plea for Exchange of Cars The petition of the Gospel Trumpet Company of Anderson for on order re qulring the Union Traction Company of Indiana and the Big Four railroad to deliver cars to each other for the transfer of freight, has keen denied by the public service commission, on the grouuds of lack of piiDllc necessity. The commission granted the petition of the town of Cambridge City for an lncrense In rates of power, heat and water, supplied by the municipal plant. Authority has been gtven the Indiana Utilities Company of Angola to Issue general mortgage bonds, carrying 6 per cent Interest, maturing In 1932, the pro ceeds of wh>ch are to be used In lnstallng additions and extensions to the company's plant. Brother’s Quarter Kills Soldier Kin WEEHAWKKN', N. J., June 3.—A quartfr-ln-the-slot gas meter was Indirectly responsible for the death of Thomas Nowlckl, thirty years old, a mechanic. at his home. No. 32 West Nineteenth street, Weehawken. Nowlckl saw service overseas with the- Eighty-seventh division and was gassed. Since his return Nowlckl had been sleeping with the gas In his room lighted. He did tats as usual but neglected to see there was a quarter In the meter to keep the gas going. Harry Nowlckl, a brother, who sleeps In the next room, not knowing that the gas had gone out In the other room, put a coin In the meter and lighted the gas in his own room. The gas flowed from the open Jet In hts brother's room and he was found dead in bed.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920.

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GOING, GOING, GOING , GONE! (rSJ WHEN It comes to stlrrftg up trouble no body of men In politics in tWs country seems to have as great a monopoly as the United States senate, and. In fact, the framers of the constitution of the United States intended to place a great deal of. power in the hands of the senators. It now Is quite evident that the republfVnn members of the senate have made up their uitnd* to nominate one of themselves for president of the United States, if they can So long as Gen. Wood did not run for the presidency and they could use lilto to knock President Wilson because Wood was not made commander of the American expeditionary forces in France they did so. But when a few rich men got together and decided to buy the republican nomination for the presidency for Gen. Wood these United States senators showed they never had been with him. Otherwise they would not have killed him off by showing up the amount of money spent in an effort to secure the nomination for him. Politicians In the United States have about corae to the conclusion that tbe United Statea senators have decided the senate should be a stepping stone to the presidency and not the vice presidency, which ts not as good a Job as that of a senator. There was a time when senators were elected by the legislatures of their states Instead of by direct vote of the people, as now. Wealthy men who bought senatorshlps for their friends preferred to keep them In the senate and use them there and picked out other men for the presidency. Now. United States senators having received the popular Totes In their states feel a little more independent unri not so dependent upon the capitalists as they were under the old eonditloi** The half docen senators now seeking the nomination for president admitted at tbe late investigation that the campaign had coat them more than they will receive In salary during their six years of service In the senate. This even Includes Senator Johnson, who has put up the loudest squawk about the amount of money the Wood people are spending. Four weeks ago I stated In a “talk” that Wood and Johnwxn bad practically killed each other off and that the republican nomination would go to either Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois or to a dark horse. There Is no reason today to change that guess. As great an authority as William Jennings Bryan has forecast that Gov. Sproul of Pennsylvania might be that dark horse. Insiders of the republican camp, however, dismiss that idea with the statement that Gov. Sproul Is not acceptable to "Boss” Penrose of Pennsylvania and no doubt that Is the case and will cook the governor's goose. Tbe Wood people started out with the idea that there were 100,000 republican ex-officeholders In the country who needed the money and the first estimate as to the fund required to secure their services- which it was believed would put Gen. Wood over by advertising him like a patent medicine, tho best advertisement being the Indorsement of these ex-officeholders—was one million dollars. They found an angel—or a goat In a Cincinnati soap man by the name of Proctor, who once before had made a substantial contribution to tbe campaign fund of a candidate for governor In Ohio and thereby secured a title so that ho now Is known as Col. Proctor. "Col.” Proctor, like all big business men, believes In advertising nnd frankly states that be thought by using the same methods as he did in getting washer women to use his family soap he could put across a candidate for president. When his $300,000 contribution had been used up he called In some of his rich friends, some of whom—like Wrlgley, the gum man—found themselves in au awkward position because they already had contributed to another man's campaign fund. Wrlgley, however, not wishing to show any partiality, contributed also to the Wood fund. Now It ts stated —and the evidence before the senatorial Investigating committee bears It out —that the touching process In behalf of

Gen. Wood went on to the exteut that the campaign fund, already raised and spent or contracted for, amounts to sbout (2.000; Ott). This is at the rata of SIO,OOO apiece per Wood delegaV- to the national convention and Is without question the highest price delegates have brought so far. George Washington at tbe time "of hi- gleet ion as first president of the United Slates was the richest man in America and paid all his own campaign expense* and everybody admits that he made a mighty good president. The richest candidate for the republican presidential nomination today is Gov. Bowden of Illinois. He. too, has paid all his own campaign expenses and should he he nominated would be under obligations to no one. I am reliably Informed that Lowden never expected to spend a fourth of what, he has been forced to spend as a result of the big fund put up by the Wood backers or he might never have entered the race. While Lowden Is neither stingy nor close, he has a good sense of proportion and if he had not tapped a pretty goodsized barrel there Is little doubt that the \Vood campaign would have been a success. If it costs two mill lon dollars to run a campaign for the presidential nomination and there are only thirteen states in the union which have a direct primary, how much would it cost if all of the states had direct primaries? The Wood people admit spending a quarter of a million dollars in Ohio alone, and about SIOO,OOO In Michigan, while the amount spent in Illinois was over $300,000. if every states In the union had a direct primary law it would be necessary for a candidate for president of the United States to spend at least $5,000,000 or SIOO,OOO per state. In order to make a good showing. Wherever the direct primary Is In use politics has ceased to be a poor man’s game, for the prominent positions at least. The senatorial Investigation into the present presidential primary expenaes has not been limited to the republican side. Outside of a favorite son here and there, only one candidate for the democratic nomination—Attorney General Palmer—tried to get the Indorsement of delegates from scattering states. The democratic members of the senate had a lot"Df fun examining and cross-examining the managers for the different republican candidates. However, they did Dot enjoy so much the examination and cross examination by the republican senators of the manager of Attorney General Palmer's campaign, which disclosed that this manager probably represented the big Chicago packers, who so far have suffered very little at. the hands of the attorney general. It also was disclosed that Mr. Palmer's manager represented people who were connected with the Crucible Steel Company, which had tried to defraud the government out of $9,000,000 in Income taxes and were not prosecuted criminally. All this tended to cook Palmer's goose, too. While the primary object of the Investigation was to kill off certain candidates for president,' the ultimate result will be for good as no doubt It will bring about the enactment of > legislation to limit the expenses In national primary campaigns as now Is done In national election campaigns.—W. D. Boyce in the Saturday Blade, Chicago.

Board Award Upheld by Appellate Court An award by the state Industrial board to Mr. and Mrs. J. Beil of Gibson county for the death of their son Carl, has been upheld by the appellate court. Carl Bell met his death July 12, 1919, while" employed as driver of a water

wagon for Jacob Itemy and John Young, who operated a thrashing outfit. Beil was filling hts water wagon from a large water tank, when he fell Into the tank and was drowned. The parents applied to the Industrial hoard for compensation, and were granted an award, appeal being taken by his employers on the ground that the hoy was subject to epileptic fits and might have met his death in one of his attacks.

JIGGS SIMPLY CAN’T FIND HIS' LUCK.

Child, Hurt in Oil Blast, Gets Verdin GALLATIN. Mo., June 3.—Esther Miller, a 5-year old girl, was awarded damages for $40,000 against the Standard Oil Company here a few days ago. The child was severly burned when a gasoline tank exploded at Hays. Kas.. and a number of persons were killed and injured. LAST NIGHT’S DREAMS —And What They Mean— Old you dream of shoulders? If, upon awaking, all you should be able to remember of your dream is a pair of strong, broad shoulders which you saw in the realm of shadows, then you may account your dream to have been one of fortunate omen—taking the word of the mystics for it, of course. Large shoulders seen in a dream are accounted to be an omen of wealth and fleshy shoulders signify good luck. There Is an exception to this, however. Should the dreamer be In prison at the time the signification Is reversed and a dream of shoulders larger and more plump than common, is an omen to the prisoner of vexations, punishments and sadness. To dream that one's own shoulders are bruised, or have bolls on them, is an omen of a family qusrrel of a temporary nature. Thin, bent shoulders seen In a dream are said to be Indicative of many troubles to be borne and overcome by the dreamer and the same meaning is attached to a dream thap one's own shoulders are In that condition. Either to see a pair of broad, strong shoulders in a dream, or to dream that rour own shoulders are broad and strong, is an excellent omen for good health and long life. To dream of having a dislocated sholjU der, or of seeing another person with one, is accounted a sure sign that you are soon to hear some Important orrery interesting news.—Copyright, 1920.