Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1920 — Page 6

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INDIANABOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephones—Main 3500, New 28*351. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. __ I Chicago, Detroit. St. Lonla, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising Offices (j,- ew York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. STILL, an automobile should not run over a man with a straw hat on him for a couple of weeks. The season has not closed completely. THERE ARE RATS in the basement and bats in the belfry of the courthouse for the construction of which the citizens of Marlon county still have to pay. PAVE YOU NOTICED how well the circle is being policed now that the administration’s attention has been called to the necessity of protecting pedestrians? ' FOUR-MEN escaped from the Baltimore city jail Sunday. Baltimore has 733,826 population by the last census. Indianapolis has only 314,194, but it showed six times more pep than Baltimore, when It let go twentyfour inmates one night. The Difference No matter how great an interest may be aroused in Indiana over the national issues this campaign, there should not be overlooked the fact that the voters must record either their approval or their disapproval of the principles of centralized state government as exemplified by the administration of James P. Goodrich. Mr. Goodrich went into office nearly four years ago as a result of a campaign based on the theory that the governor of Indiana should control the affairs of the state, from the appointment of the attorney general down to the selection of the last addition to the janitorial force of the statehouse. His campaign was summed up in one hysterical cry: “I want the power; you hold me responsible.” Mr. Goodrich got the power. / And out of this exercise of “the power” we have today taxes higher than they ever were in the history of Indiana. We have a highway commission spending millions of dollars in its maintenance and contraQts and producing with those millions a few miles of disjointed cement concrete highways at a cost of $6,000 a mile in excess of what Marion county paid for better roads. We have a penal farm to which we send convicts without any assurance that they will be there the next day after their arrival and from whose ranks favored employers were permitted to recruit laborers for service in peonage in competition with free men who are dependent on their efforts for their daily bread. * We have a “school” for the deaf where the school is closed because under the “businesslike” administration there Is no money available to hire teachers. We have a state board of charities and corrections whose supervision! of jails is so lax that it is “surprised” when it is disclosed that rotten food is fed to prisoners by jailers who conduct poker games in '.he jail and amuse themselves by burning the feet of an insane prisoner. We have a legislature that requires three meetings in which to accomplish what has generally been done in one. "We have a public utility commission that is not content with raising the rates to consumers for all the utilities that ask increased rates, but actually goes to the trouble of calling in the officials of one utility and asking them to make “suggestions” for higher rates. We have a record of pardoned and paroled convicts that has never been equaled in the annals of the state and is a disgrace to any law abiding community^ We have the spectacle of a governor admittedly interested in the coal mining business sitting on a commission of his own creation with power to compel his business rivals to submit to him the cost sheets of production and all other information he may desire. We have a statehouse remodeled at an expense of more than $5,000 a room. *■- A We have a state debt that has grown by leaps and bounds since a democratic administration wiped it out. In short we have the general results of entrusting to one man over whom we have no control the public business for private manipulation. Comes now Warren T. McCray cn a platform Indorsing all these things and asks us again to entrust “the power” to him for another "businesslike administration.” A vote for McCray is a vote for a continuation of Goodrichism. A vote for McCulloch is a vote to restore to the people of Indiana the control of their state affairs, under a platform that pledges home rule and decency in government. The Real Colored People The national Baptist foreign mission convention, with its 7,000 colored delegates attracts unusual attention in Indianapolis just now. Representatives from all the states of the union are present. Those here represent missionary interests in Africa. Some of the officers of the society under whose auspif the convention is held have been with it since its organization. Some of its officers were born in slavery. A convention of this number is remarkable; doubly so in a state where the colored people do not form a large percentage of the population. It is well worth note as being an expression of the higher ideals of a peculiar people within the United States. Years ago, almost passed passed the memory of man, some of thA churches professed that a negro did not possess a soul. The supreme court of the United States held, in the Dred Scott case, that he had no civil rights that a white man was bound to respect. Then came the Civil war, all over the status of the colored man’s civil and industrial rights. When white statesmen could not agree and resorted to war, what of the unhappy cause of it all, away from his native Africa, without rights and without a soul? 1 Naturally his lot was not the happiest. Life presented many complex problems to his untutored mind —for it was an offense to teach him to read—that even astute statesmen of a race boasting of centuries of civilization could not solve. Now, the time is here when this same race is sending out missionaries and here its representatives meet, from all over the union, in convention, in the name of Christ, Savior of all men. Verily times do change. Here is a demonstration of the sayings of that great negro erfheator, Booker Washington, that if a man is useful and law abiding, there is very little color problem to be solved. , $500,000 More The real Ethiopian in the woodpile of the Citizens' Gas Company, which is now being exposed to public gaze, appears to have been indicated by J. D. Forrest in <fne paragraph of his statement before the public service commission Aug. 30, in which he discusses the condition of the company’s plants and says: "Within two or three years from the present time there will be danger of breakdowns of a very serious cnaracter at very frequent intervals. This, however, has only a minor bearing on the problem of the coming winter and I will not take your time to go further into our problem of construction and finance, except to say that to meet these we will require revenues of at least $500,000 per year more than we can now hope to secure.” , The reason Mr. Forrest does not "now hope to secure” this half million a year additional is because the price of gas in Indianapolis is fixed at 60 cents by statute. This statutory limitation can, however, be set aside as an “emergency relief measure” by the public service commission. Every effort is apparently being made by the commission undr the direction of Mr. E. I. Lewis to establish the "emergency” under giiae of which the law can be abrogated and the $600,000 per year more than Mr. J-'orrest can “now hope to secure” be presented to the company without so as a request on its part. 1 puzzles the people of Indianapolis is why the commission's fchalr--60 -<tous about the welfare of the gas company. \

In its report of May 2<5, 1919, the state board of accounts states: “We made a personal Inspection of the reconstructed road from TvVgt Newton (beginning in front of County Commissioner Lewis W. George's store) to Valley Mills, less than three miles in length. This grade had been widened to eighteen feet and covered to the full width with broken limestone to a depth of several Inches. We are informed that it is planned to cover this with a coat of tarTla or some similar binder, the work to be done early this season. “The reconstruction of this piece of road seems to have cost in the neighborhood of $34,000, being in excess of sll,000 per mile. Considering that the grading was all done, bridges and culverts all in, an excellent foundation already there, repairs costing more than SII,OOO per mile certainly seems to be an extremely

A DAY ON HARDING’S FRONT PORCH Publicity men attached to Senator Harding, unlike those traveling with Gov. Cox, are hard put to It for “copy” and at times must rely on a stretch of the Imagination. Just how difficult their front porch assignments are has been conceived by the Huntington (led.) Press In the following: “Senator Harding last night slept with his heed on a pillow, a’ custom he has followed since early childhood. He had breakfast about 9:30, eating oat meal and cream, two eggs, a small piece of bacon and drinking one aDd a half cups of coffee. After breakfast he went to his study and read In the Dally Tellum that Hay* had told another one. He Immediately called a messenger boy and sent a telegram to Hays congratulating him .adding that he hoped Hays would keep on telling it because ha had not the time because he was so busy sitting on the front porch. “At luncheon today he had as his guest Lemuel Smellum, a representative of Wall street, and Percy Leon Twinkle. Mr. Twinkle had Just finished reading a book on the sttuatlon In France, and he called to inform Mr. narding that France was for him, basing his conclusions on two or three sentences in the book. After luncheon he Issued a statement, saying Harding would win because Lloyd George Is for him. The luneneon was eateu with knives and forks, three spoon/ and napkins. “After luncheon Senator Harding took a nap. He slept with his eyes closed, a peculiarity of the republican candidate. He often closes his eyes. When be sleeps he breathes deeply and regularly. In this respect his many admiring friends have often compared him to Lincoln and George Waghtffgton, who, It Is recorded in history, often slept In exactly tho same manner. “After his slumber he awoke much refreshed and at 7:30 he ate again. This time he began with a soup and fish, ate a large portion of steak, htid some warm apple pie with Ice cream and drank

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lavish expenditure. Just who is responsible for this free-hand spending of the public funds. In such enormous sums, without any contract, without competitive bidding and with entire disregard of law and good business Judgment, Is yet to be determined. When It is considered, too, that this short stretch of road Is still unfinished, that some of the work may have been done by prison labor, it is then, only, that one begins to be appalled by the magnitude of the cost of repairs of one little stretch of county highway less than three mlies in length.” Tho county officials have no right to pay out any money for any purpose which is not in strict compliance with our statutes, and if I am elected prosecuting attorney, the ceunty commissioners will not be exempt from prosecution for making illegal appropriations of tho taxpayers* money. FAUX G. DAVIS.

another cup of coffee. He retired about 10 o'clock, after fanning himself for some time on bis front porch. “The strenuous life of the candidate is beginning to tell seriously on his reserve strength, but his friends assert that he Is In good fo/n and with retain his full vigor especially if he continues to sleep like Lincoln. After the November ejection It Is confldentlv predicted he will take a long and oblivious nap.”

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