Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1920 — Page 4

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Indiana Slimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIAN^.. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street % Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. AAmrttiitnr Offices I Chicago, Detroit,. St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Adrertlslng Offices } New s 0 ’ rk , Boston, Payne, bums & Smith, Inc. WHO KNOW T S but what the News will verify our estimate of Judge Collins, yet? “ARRESTS due in booze scandal,” says a headline. Don’t worry, it aplies to Cleveland. / LAST FRIDAY was a normal day in Indianapolis. “Shiner” Middaugh and Willie Carey were both arrested. IN ASSERTING that if his policies are not right it is up to the highway commission to remove him, Mr. Wright is right and right now is the right time for Wright to be removed. NOTHING would be so foolish asjto believe that the state highway building gang innocently provide themselves with $10,000,000 more for Inferior cement highways and office maintenance.

Humbugging Indianapolis Increased street car fare in Indianapoiis is either a public necessity or a damnable outrage. It ought not to be difficult for the people of Indiana to find out which. They have public officials whose duty it is to know whether increased revenue is necessary to proper service and these officials are charged with executing their judgment on that subject. Judgment and execution should be obtainable without misrepresentation or chicanery. Inconveniencing the public by reducing the present inadequate street car service is wholly unnecessary and little short of criminal. It certainly is a violation of good faith and contractual relations between the people and the street car company. If it is true, which we very much doubt, that the street car company must reduce its service because of lack of revenue to maintain it, then it is a fact that the city and state officials who are in control of the rate of fare in this city are pursuing an exceedingly cowardly course in failing to give the company the right to increased fares. If it is not true that the company must have increased fares in order to maintain its present service then the city and state officials are pursuing pji equally cowardly course in failing to take Immediate steps to force the company to provide the service needed. A policy of doing nothing while the street car company permits equipment to stand idle and the public to experience grave inconvenience is the policy of moral cowards. It is the policy that the Jewett administration has pursued ever since it has been in power in Indianapolis. It Is the policy that is being pursued today while the street car company is either drifting on the rocks of financial ruin or playing an exceedingly smooth game for the purpose of obtaining a sliding scale of fares in the city that will re-establish its wrecked credit and increase the value of the securities it has outstanding. It is very apparent that the city and state officials have, either by collusion or by sufferance, agreed to allow the street car company to reduce its service until the lack of service will be felt by every patron. It is apparent that this is permitted on the eve of an adjustment of fares which every one concedes can only be adjusted by arranging an increased revenue for the street car company. The question is why these officials have not the courage to proceed with an adjustment of street car fares without first causing or permitting an unnecessary wrecking of what inadequate street car service we now have. If its plea is just they should not hesitate to grant the street car company more money. The humbugging of the people of Indianapolis previously to granting sucl an appeal creates a broad suspicion that the plea of the street car company for increased revenue is based on false premises.

Our ‘Censorship* In a desperate effort to “cover up" at least fifteen Irregularities In the conduct of the office of the county auditor, Leo K. Fesler has adopted anew system of handling state board of accounts reports on the condition of Marion county officep. The new method appears to have the sanction of the state board of accounts, as it is constituted by Gov. James P. Goodrich, and the partial accomplishment of the purpose that prompted its origination is indicative of the close alliance that exists between the state administration and the administration of Marion county. Under this new system of allowing the public to learn as little about its government as possible the state board of accounts sends what it terms a “preliminary” report on the Marion county auditor’s office to Mr. Fesler. Mr. Fesler immediately hurries the “preliminary” report to the office of The Indianapolis News, where it is subjected to perusal before it Is made public and a news story of it is written and subjected to the censorship of Dick Smith before it is given to the public. This method has certain advantages that no other heretofore in use has carried with it If the “preliminary” report is not to the liking of Mr. Fesler and Dick Smith the two may, by agreement, suppress it altogether. If It contains such matter as might react to the credit of favored county officials that part of it may be given to the public as constituting the report If the irregularities therein recorded are of a nature that they will Eventually become known anyhow, the versatile 'apologists of The News may be turned loose In the preparation of an “explanation” on behalf ot the official who is “in bad,” and the public may be induced to believe that the report refers only to a “technical error,” when in fact it may" refer to such a flagrant violation of the law as the action of Mr. Fesler in lending himself money from the school funds which the News to date has never had the temerity to mention in its laudations of the “good government” auditor. At any rate it is nice to have the state "hoard of accounts examinations subjected to the censorship of an institution that demonstrated its ability to “cover up” so well in the matter of its ownership. The only question Involved in the whole transaction appears to bE whether the accountants, whose expenses are being paid by the taxpayers of Marion county, are in reality working for the county 'or are merely an adjunct of the political of the News.

Wyckoff, the Versatile The assurances of Stanley Wyckoff, favored market stand owner of the Jewett administration, that there will be no decrease in the price of sugar Boon may or may not be issued for the purpose of keeping the market active and helping the speculators unload their stocks at high prices. But Mr. Wyckoff’s prediction certainly is at variance with the advice of market experts and it certainly is in full accord with the mass of infamous falsehoods that are being circulated by republican campaign speakers who are seeking to blame the Wilson administration for the high cost of sugar. . As fair price commissioner of Marion county Mr. Wyckoff has not often failed to use his position to justify whatever price retailers wished to place on their commodities. He has been quick to agree to interlocking arrangements between competitive concerns for the purpose of reducing expenses and has even undertaken to justify such sanction on the grounds that without the abandonment of competition the dealers would be entitled to even greater increases than he finally designated as fair. Mr. Wyckoff’s relations with the local ice trust, one of whose participants occupies an official position in the Jewett administration, are becoming more interesting than ever since the price of ice was quietly and efflcently increased to 65 cents a hundred in this community where it has been demonstrated time and again that ice can be sold at 40 cents a hundred with a reasonable margin of profit. The public will be greatly interested in knowing whether Mr. Wyckoff’s trip to Cuba is solely in the interest of the department of justice or whether he will carry with him guying orders from local sugar brokers as he is reported to have done on at least one of his numerous trips east on "government sugar business” when the artificially created shortage in Indiana was at its height t

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Where does a flower-gets it^fragrance? "What was the largest fish ever cajight? This department of The Times will tell you. If you have a question to ask send It with a 2-cent stamp to The Indiana Dally Times Information Bureau, IVedtrio J. Haskln, Director, Washington, D, c. The answer will be sent direct to you. largest fish. Q. What was the largest fish ever caught? F. A. H. A. According to scientists of tKe Smltlis9nlan Institution the record flsh was capturecLat Miami, Fla., after a fight lasting thirty-nine hours. Five harpoons and 150 bullets were required to subdue the monster. It was a whale shark and weighed 80,000 pounds, its liver alone weighing 1,700 pounds. SUBSTITUTE FOB GASOLINE. Q. Can liquified hydrogen be used as a substitute for gasoline in running automobiles? B. F. H. A. Tho bureau of standards has recently completed a machine for making liquid hydrogen, and an Italian scientist is said to claim that this material can be used as a motor fuel. However, commercial developments in this direction are far in the future. FRAGRANCE OF FLOWERS. Q. Where does a flower get its smell? B. N. K. A. The fragrance of flowers is due to special essences or oils which the plant produces. These oils are complicated compounds of only two elements, carbon and hydrogen, and are known as volatile oils, since they escape readily into the air.

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PROHIBITION. Q. When did prohibition tom* Into effect? H. P. A. Constitutional prohibition came Into effect in the United States dan. It), 11*20. COST Ol MAKING PENNIES. Q. How much does It coat the United States to coin pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters? A. C. 11. A. It costs the United States about 20 cents per 100 to coin pennies; nickels, about 2t-j cents each; dimes and quarters, about 80 cents per dollar value of the coins. Silver Is not coined free now as it used to be. UMPIRES IN WORLD SERIES. Q. Who were the umpires In the 1019 world series ? R. C. A. Rigley and Quigley of the National league and Evans and Nalllu of the American league. PLAN TO BOMBARD NEW YORK. Q. I have heard It reported that thero was a giant airship built by the Germans during the war to bomb New York. Is this true? M. L. A. The L 72. designed and constructed at the Zeppeiiu works at Lewenthal. was inode for the sole purpose of bombing New York City, according to a report by Col. William Hensley of the balloon and airship division of the air service. This airship.ls 779 feet long,

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95 feet high, has an 89-foot beam, six Maybach engines of 200 horse power, each, a speed of ninety-one miles per hour, a gas capacity of 11,000 gallons, a lifting power of eighty-six tons, hydrogen Capacity of 2,470,000 cubic feet, a cruising distance' of 9,500 miles and carried five and onehalf tons of bombs In addition to the crew. j •The pilot of this machine had successfully bombed London ten times, as well as Dunkirk at the Russian front. Asa reward for these services the pilot was to be given the opportunity of piloting tho airship in Its proposed trip to bomb New York City, the most coveted opportunity in the German air service. THE PASSENGER PIGEON. Q. Is the passenger pigeon extinct? A. L. A. A. The passenger pigeon as a species suddenly disappeared some years ago, but the stale ornithologists of Massachusetts reports that he has been advised by four hunters that they recently saw at close range and positively identified a pair of these birds. ORIGIN OF “JAMES.” Q. What is the origin of the name, “James"? s. M. A. “James” is a variation of the name, "Jacob,” and was originally spelled Jacomb. it comes from the Hebrew word meaning “suppianter.” SPEED OF WAR VESSEL, Q. What Is the highest speed ever attained by an American war vessel? C. S. W. A. The U. S. destroyer “Satterlee" recently i|£t anew speed mark of 38.257 knots, or 44 miles an hour.

You remember in the last story that Puss Junior was In the house of the Three Bears. Well, after supper, they all sat round a table and played tlddledywlnks, and when it was time for bed, tho Great Big Bear said: "You can sleep with me, Puss, if you like.” But' Puss said, “You are so big, I'm afraid you might roll on me.” And this the bear laugh so hard that the leafs rolled down his cheeks. And then the Mlddl!ng-Biz-d Bear said, “You can sleep with mo If you wish.” But, ah, dear me. Pnss thought be was much too big. And then tho Teeny Weeny Llttlest Bear said: “You can sleep with me. Puss Junior.” And so Puss went up with him to hts little and was soon fast asleep.

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“I’m King of This Beautiful Pond,” sold tho Frog. And when morning caiue, they all had breakfast, and after that Puss started out on his travels once more, and after

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CHAPTER LXI (Continued). So far I hadn't helped him at all on the road to finding. his place In the business world. And now. If hts devoted friend, Terry Winston, had a plan to aid my boy—l dared not refuse it a trial. “Capt. Terry I’ll not be a party to the deception of my husband, but If you see a way to help Jim without his knqjving, I'll not stop you,” I said quietly. It was\ vow. “I want more than that—your help. Now listen. Up to the point of saying that this job can’t be handed to Jim as a gift—we agree, don’t we?” “Yes. Now what?” I asked. "Here’s the, next step. Jim has to stumble on this Job for himself—find It, do. us a favor by taking It. That Isn’t stretching the facts too fare, Is It, Norreys?” “I don’t like—stretching facts—at all," replied Norreys slowly—smiling more gravely than ever. "But Tony—you don’t know Jim Harrison,” Terry cried. “Will yon let yonr blooming scruples do him out of a Job? All I want is to stage a little scene from n play—and let Jim have the satisfaction of rescuing us. Are you on?” Anthony Norreys reflected for moment. “Yes—l’m with you, Terry, for the point of all this is that you're devoted to yonr pal, and want him fixed right. Count on me." “That’s a promise?” Terry eagerly demanded. “Y’ou have my word of hon Or. Now tell us your little play.” “It's this. The young brother of yours is an accountant. Isn't he. Mrs. Jimmie? Well tonight when you get Jim Into his

PUSS IN BOOTS JR.

By David Cory.

a while he came to a place that was very marshy, snd right on top of a big mound of earth sat an Immense bullfrog. And ho was sluging away as loud as be could: "Umpty, umpty, upty dumk. I’m king of this beautiful pond; Oh. yes, I am king of every nice thing That Is near and t little beyond." And ns soon as he caw Puss Junior. I he stood up and waved a long bulirush. •'Welcome,' Sir Cat,” he said, and then he made a low bow. And I guess he would have commenced to sing again only Puss asked him wbat was the name of the kingdom over which he ruled: “It Is the kingdom of Sea land," replied the frog. "And not far from hero lives a terrible water snake. He is my greatest enemy.” And then the Frog King looked at Puss as If he were nearly frightened to death Just because be had spoken out loud about this dreadful snake. “Let me help you,” said Puss. “T will take my trusty sword and kill this enemy of yours.” “Oh, you never could," answered tho frog. “Ho Is very strong and wicked.” “Leave that to me." said Puss, “only direct me to him.” So tbs Frog King told Puss which way to go and after n little while Puag came to too place where the terrible Water Snake lived. And wasn’t It lucky, he was at home, and as soon ns he saw Puss, be gave a dreadful hiss and colied himself up in a ring, and If Puss hadn’t hit him Over the head with hts sword, I'm afraid something dreadful would have happened to our little traveler. Well, Puss was about to turn away, when the Snake lifted up bis head and said In a very weak vollk: "Sir Cat, why did you strike me? I never harmed you.” And in the next story you shall hear what Puss replied.—Copyright. 1917.) (To be Continued )

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life

By Ann Lisle

room where he can hear, I’ll phone and ask young Hyland to take on this job. He says he can’t—dt’s a else too big for him. We argue—l’m desperate and insist that I must get a man. Then he suggests that if he showed Jim a bit about figures, probably a man of Jim’s judgment and calibre would be able to take It on. “Os course Jim leaps to the rescue. How can you think of anything simpler, Mrs. Jimmie?” “The truth,” I cried. “The truth 1 1 won’t lie to him.” “But that's the beauty of It —you don’t do a thing except keep still," Insisted Terry. “I don’t like It. I don’t like It,” I

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repeated. “Please, please Mr. Norreys tell Capt.‘ Winston yon won’t be a party to this.” “He can’t,” broke la Terry stubbornly. “He gave his word of honor—And why you want to put obstacles In the way of your husband’s success, I can’t see, Mrs. Jimmie. Will you break Jim’s heart in idleness—or have me torture his pride with assistance that the dear old chap would almost die swallowing Just to save yourself a little white lie? By Jovet I’d lie myself blue In the face to stop Jim from being hurt Aren’t you a pal and helpmate and a good sport as well as a wife?” X turned my eyes from Terry’s compelling ones and caught Anthony Norreys gazing at me with kindly understanding. “Well, Mrs. Jimmie?” Terry’s voice demanded reply. He was an old friend at Jim’s —a devoted friend. Why, instead of relying on his Judgment did 1 want to turn to Anthony

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Norreys for advice?” I walked over to Terry and held out my band. ”I’ll do whatever you think best foe Jim,” I said. “Anne!” called a Toice from the doorway, “Anne.”* / It was Jim. How much had be heard? —Copyright, 1920. (To Be Continued.) V J JURY SERVICE FOR WOMTEN, Q. Are the women of Illinois eligible to Jury service? I. W. N. A. The Illinois constitutional convention has decided that the women of that state are eligible to Jury service, bu: can not be compelled to serve. ENTERTAINING ANGELS. . Q. Where is the expression about en--1 tertaining angels unawares to be round? J. H. K. A. This expression is found in tne Bible, Hebrews XIII, 2: “Be cot forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."

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