Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1920 — Page 6

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JuMaita Sato STirnes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 23-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising offices J Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, O. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising oinces } New York, Boston, rayne. Burns & Smith, Inc. WOULD IT NOT be possible for Greentown to extend its limits to take In the Kokomo Country Club? IF THERE IS any organization in the -world that has utter contempt for consistency, it is the Citizens' Gas Company! IF CHIEF KINNEY uncover $312 by shaking up one Btation of the Police Department, might it not be a good time for a general shake-up? UNFORTUNATELY, the public will not know what Gene Williams of Mancie, told the Federal grand jury, but it is a safe bet that It was interesting. * i CURIOSITY over expense accounts In the fire marshal's office is in direct contradiction of the policy pursued in the oil inspection department of the State. a— INCIDENTALLY, an institution that pays county taxes on a lower valuaton than the amount of its dividends, can be expected to approve the admiu’straUon of the State Board of Tax Commissioners. Modesty and Gas! On Aug. 30 Mr. J. D. Forrest, the manager of the Citizens Gas Company, addressed the public service commission as follows: “I will not take your time to go further into our problem of construction and finances except to say that to meet these we will require revenue of at least $500,000 a year more than we can now hope to secure.'’ On Dec. 15 the Citizens Gas Company petitioned the public service commission for an increase of 50 per cent, or 30 cents a thousand cubic feet of gas. In a statement issued with the filing of the petition the Citizens Gas Company reported its sales of gas for the year ending Dec. 1, 1920, as 3,041,327 thousand feet of gas. An increase of 30 cents a thousand feet of gas would mean a theoretical Increase in the revenue of the company of $912,398.10. The difference of more than $400,000 between the sum Mr. Forrest suggested as needed in August and the sum the gas company asked in December is sufficient to pay 10 per cent dividends on $2,000,000 and the significant thing is that $2,000,000 is the amount of the capital stock on which the Citizens Gas Company has consistently paid 10 per cent dividends. Ail of whibh goes to confirm the generally accepted opinion that the "emergency” which the gas company sets up Is more closely related to its dividends than to anything else. Indeed, it would appear that in addition to asking the gas consumers of Indianapolis to pay 10 per cent dividends Immediately on the costs of improvements which it says cannot be completed Tbr three years, the company is modestly asking the consumers to pay an additional 10 per cent on the capital stock on which the consumers have been paying 10 per cent dividends for lo these many years!

What Did They Initiate? In his recent letter to the Times exploiting the law enforcement work \ he represents the Anti-Saloon League as accomplishing in Indiana, Mr. 1 Shumaker says: —> “I will say that the most Important clean-ups which have been made by { the Federal authorities In Indiana are the results of activities Initiated by j the Anti-Saloon League. I need only instance such places as Evansville,' Vermilion County, South Bend and Richmond, where clean-ups have taken place or are now in process.” This is indeed a surprising statement to the people of Indianapolis and will no doubt be a surprise to the residents of Evansville, South Bend and Richmond. If we are not badly mistaken the Federal clean up of Evansville, which happened so long ago that Its effect has been fully discounted, was initiated long before the Anti-Saloon League pretended to be a law enforcement agency. As to Vermilion County, the Federal authorities have already admitted their inability to clean it up either with or without Mr. Shumaker's as sistance. Stories of wholesale Federal action at both South Bend and Richmond 1 have been denied absolutely by Federal authorities and nothing has tran- ] spired recently to show that the Anti-Saloon League “Initiated” any thing In ; this territory, unless it was a drive for funds with which to maintain the league. , - - ------ Misplaced Trust New York is very much surprised that a little boy between 14 and 15 ! named Mfchner, who was employed as an office boy in Philadelphia, recently stole $4,300 from the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and has been riding around and living at choice hotels and spending the money. The surprising part of this matter and the part which Is unexcus&ble ; may not be in the act of the small boy, but it is la the trusting Os large sums of money to immature youths. A boy is a boy until he becomes a man and to hand over large amounts j of money to him and subject him to the temptation of spending it before 1 his ideals are formed, before he is thought capable of voting, is a crime against the boy greater than the boy commits by taking it. Examples of this are multiplied in banks and other places. We have on trial messenger boys from New York who have stolen millions. Cashiers at the age of 19 are found to be defaulters. In the scarcity of labor it is often overlooked that a boy must mature nnd that he is not as strong as a boy physically nor mentally as he is as a man. ‘The sad part cf this is that this should be overlooked by people who have large means to handle. ,

Behind the Times . 4 A dispatch from Vienna tells how four men, posing as state officials, went to a town called Gyula in the Rumanian Province of Transylvania and stole a state railroad. They dismantled the track, took It up, took everything valuable and departed. The funn;. part or this is that these men after they stole the railroad, took it. In America when railroads have been stolen, the public still hac the benefit of them and only the ownership seems to change hands, but over in Europe, either the iron was no •valuable or the railroad so small, that it was necessary to get away with the entire physical property. Os course, we cannot expert Europe to be as far along as America where we have State Public Utility Commissioners and Interstate Com merce Commissions and all kinds of committees to run a railroad. If Europe had been blessed as we have been blessed, there probably would have been no theft of that railroad because one of the commissioners or one of the various committees would have discovered the theft in time to have made a loud noise over it. Again, in this country, where the railroads are being practically subsidized by the Government, it is a big question whether any one would even want to steal one. The tendency of the time seems to be to get away from them. However, the results of war some times are very strange. Whisky and Ships A matter which has been ovex'ooked heretofore seems to have reached the revenue officers in Washington and soon there will be an order prohibiting the sale of liquors on all American ships wherever they may be. To people inland, it would seem a little strange that such an order be issued, but after all it is right and there is no reason why liquor should he sold on American ships when all the rest of America is under prohibition law. An American ship Is to all intents and purposes and must necessarily be, the same as American land. A child born on an American ship Is an American, no matter where the ship is situated, and American laws govern the American ship every place. It could not be otherwise. Therefore, it is not difficult to see why American ships should be as dry as anything else In America. _ i This presents a little peculiarity, for iJftfeAtmerican ship goes to England, where whisky is freely used, or north, it still must be l ’.ry.'and if it goes down to the ermometer never gets a-eiow boiling point, dryness must there is no reason unheaven why it should be so wet abroad, under the

PUSS IN BOOTS JR.

CHAPTER 21. Now. in the lat story we left little Puss Junior and the handsome prince driving away In a coach with four prancing horses. Well, by and by, after a mile, or maybe three, one of the horses iost a shoe, so the driver stopped and got down from his seat and ran back to pick it up. But Just as he stooped over, f. big giant Jumped out of the bushes and swung bis great club, in the air, and that poor driver was so frightened thol he dropped the horseshoe on his toe. and then he raced back to the coach, with the giant after him. And when the handsome prince looked out of the window he grew as pale as a lily. ‘‘Well, here’s another giant,” said little Puss Junior. “I never met so many giants In my life as 1 have lately," and he Jumped out of the coach and said: “Stop, you great big two-legged nuisance." “What’s that,” cried tha giant, and he swung his club at Puss, and If it had hit him I guess this would have been the last of the Puss Junior stories. But Puss Jumped to one side and turned the little magic ring which the Fairy Queen had given him so many stories ago that I've forgotten which one, and

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CHAPTER CXI (Continued.) “Jim, will you let me have twenty dollars?" I asked —bating to break YJVir silence with a request for money. “Haven't It,” he muttered. I turned back to the boy. "We don't Seem to have the money, this morning, son. I’ll have to rush round to the bank and cash a check. Can you come back later?” “Not today. Ma'am. Against the rules. Be back tomorrow. Better have the cash then—cause we only make two stops like tfils,” said the boy, his wizened young face wrinkling Into a worldly wise grin. "I wouldn’t have asked for the money,” I explained cloelng the d"or and turning to Jim with an effort at dignity. ‘’But the Haldane check doesn’t seem to reach as well as It used to and I’ve only a dollar or two left till the fifteenth of the month when the next one is due." Jim laughed In cutting fashion. “Sure, I know,” he twisted out of the side of his mouth. “The minute a man begins to earn a bit of money his women folks blow It In. I suppose yon expect me to make good your bluff to that bid about having a check cashed. Well—l haven't any spare cbenge myself. And eighteen seventy-five for uniforms to wear to that silly canteen is sheer non. sense.” “But what can I do, Jim?" I cried In a sort of panic. Jamming his hat down on his head with a gesture of nervous fierceness, Jim laughed toward the door, crying as he strode past me: “Do anything yon Jolly well like. Only lon’t nag me any more. I can't spare

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BRINGING UP FATHER.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17,1920.

By David Cory.

so have you, and so has the printerman, and up came the little black man, and before that giant could do another thing, he was sprawling on the ground. For the little black man tripped him up as neatly as you please. “Ugh! ugh!” cried the ugly giant, and he tried to get up, but he couldn’t, for the little black man threw a big net over him and the giant was caught Just like a fish. “What shall I do with him, little master?” asked the little black man, turning to Puss.” "Oh, leave him here,” replied Puss, with a grin. By tomorrow morning, or the Fourth of July maybe, he'll untangle himself. And then the little black man disappeared, for Puss didn't need him any longer, you see. And after that Puss jumped Into the' coach and away they want, and the horse who had lost a shoe ran on'three legs, for he didn't want to wear out his stocking, you see, and by and by they came to the castle where the handsome prince lived. And as they drove up the long road that led to the castle steps a pretty white dove flew down to the coach and gave a letter to the prince. And from whom do you suppose It was? Why, It was from the princess, and Inside was

By Ann Llsli

the money, I tell yon. It's Just like a woman to go whimpering around about some fool clothes she doesn't even need when her husband’s all tired out and has his mind full of really Important things.” This Jim who was sanrllng and snapping ut me didn’t seem any one I knew. I gathered myself for an effort to banish him and to bring back my own husband. Forcing myself to forget for the moment our ugly scene of the night before, banishing my own haunting suspicions, I hurried across the room, placed myself between Jim and the door and laid my hand on his coat sleeve. “Jim I'll phone and tell them I don't need the uniforms I can make the one l hnve do by washing It myself between my days of service. Don't go without your breakfast. And don't—dash Into business ventures without consulting your—partner." Jim stared at me for n moment sulkily. Then the old look came Into his eyes. But be smiled, and flung down his overcost, “Yob'iw a pretty good scout, Anne—about some things. Now we'il drink a peace-cup of coffee—and keep off ticklish subjects. I'll put you wise to my business plans In good time—be working on 'em again tonight while you're esnteenlng. Only remember one thing I’ll stand for no gallivanting with Norreys." A lump cams Into my throat. Anth'ony Norreys was coming to the canteen that very day. Must I renew the quarrel I ' had Just glossed over 1 Must I tell Jim? —Copyright, 1820. (To Be Centintied.)

a little pink piece of paper on which was written: I have waited long for you. Handsome prince with eyes of blue; I am made a captive here, In a dungeon cold and dread. If this little snow-white dovs Reaches you whom I so love. Hasten, rescue me I pray— I shall die if you delay. “Faster! faster!" cried the prince, and the driver cracked him whip and the horse who had lost a shoe didn’t care even If he wore a hole In his stocking, but galloped along on four feet, and In lees than 500 short seconds they came to the castle door and the prince jumped out and drew his sword, and next time I’ll tell you what happened after that— Copyright, 1920. (To Be Continued.)

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