Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1920 — Page 6

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JnMana Hatty QFiroes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 26-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising office* i Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan I‘ayqe Cos. New York, Boston. Boyne. Borns A- Smith. Inc. NOW is as good a time as any to dispose of that case against Qus Schmidt. THE STREET CAR COMPANY says autos delay its cars. What delayed them before the autos were so numerous? THE RESIGNATION of Carl Mote will go a long way toward reconciling the public to a retention of the public service commission. IT BECOMES MORE EVIDENT every day that McCray’s endorsement of the Goodrich administration was a political expediency! WE SUSPECTED all along that the George V. Coffin influences would eventually be exercised in behalf of Goosie Lee for reasons well known to both. JUDGE PRITCHARD'S REFUSAL to agree that a man has the legal right to beat his wife is doubtless based on the theory that it is against public policy. ABOUT ALL that has yet been done about the gas light situation Is officially to recognize that gas lights are a failure under a contract that is void because it binds no one. Bushy the Omnipotent! More than six years ago, two men employed for the purpose by Dennis J. Bush, then street commissioner of Indianapolis, entered the home of Ralph PJchmar., a deputy fire marshal, early one Sunday evening. One of these thugs held Rlchman s wife helpless while the other brutally assaulted him, leaving him unconscious on the floor of his own home. Then the two thugs drove away in an automobile owned by the keeper of a notorious resort in the center of the city. When Richman recovered he identified his assailant from a Bertillon picture shown him by the police. The assailant was the notorious Bob Walters, stick-up, thief, bootlegger, and employe of the city of Indianapolis. After a two-weeks struggle in which Governor Ralston finally took a hand, Walters was arrested. Eventually Bush was connected with the affair, which was in reality a felony, and was indicted on a felony charge. Two years after the affair at Richman's home, Bush was convicted of a misdemeanor and sentenced to prison for four months. For four years this judgment was held up by the failure of the Supreme Court of Indiana to pass upon it. Eventually the judgment was affirmed, and the decision certified to the Criminal Court a week ago last Friday. Yesterday, Bush appeared in the Criminal Court and on the plea that relatives by marriage were sick, obtained a week's stay of execution of the sentence. In the interval that elapsed between the start of the prosecution of Bush and the latest extension of clemency to him. Bush has made a very good living by gambling in Indianapolis. During his career as a gambler he has had open access to the board of works office, the office of the chief of police, and has been on very friendly terms with Ralph Lemcke, county treasurer, three different sheriffs and the judge of the Criminal Court who kindly dismissed nineteen different indictments brought against him when he confessed looting the treasury of the city of Indianapolis of many thousand dollars. The career of Bush has been a study in how to violate the law and escape punishment. Convicted of assault, convicted of gambling, self-confessed looter of the city treasury, indicted for one felony after another, he has for six years escaped real punishment for his offenses against society. So great is the prestige he has achieved among lawbreakers of Indianapolis that recently a man who has Insisted that his sentence be carried out, was warned of physical danger if he did not cease referring to the monstrous failure of the appointed authorities to do their duty in the Bush case. Yet, the people of Indianapolis wonder why there are open violations of Taw in their community! How can any one fear the penalties prescribed by the statute when a man of such little worth to the community can, with impunity, defy the whole State of Indiana to imprison him—and,get away with It, too! Nuggets and Coal A dispatch from Webster, Massachusetts, sayß that a shoe cobbler found two gold nuggets weighing 14 ounces, each, in his coal bin. In the language of Horace Greeley, this is interesting reading. It calls for serious thought. In the first place, for what was the man hunting In his coal bln? If the hunt was permissible and Really proper, what method was used and how much of a hunt was required to discover over a pound of gold nuggets? Again, if he really did find a couple of'nuggets, should he keep them, as evidently they came from the private Stock of a coal dealer and when the coal was sold to the cobbler, beyond doubt there was no intention to convey nor to deliver nuggets. In other words, would the delivery of thwrong article, through mistake, vest the property In the person who first discovered the error? On the assumption that there were really 28 ounces of gold delivered which belonged to the coal man, it appeals irresistibly to average honesty that the gold should be forthwith returned to its owner. The finder has no right to keep -what he knows belongs to another. The strange part of the transaction is the mixture through mistake of the gold with the black diamonds, evidently by the coal man. A coal dealer who will make such an error and disclose his lax methods of storage, deserves to lose a ton or two of nuggetß a season. Os course, in Indiana some coal dealers cannot well distinguish Indiana coal from Pocohontas, nor indeed, from limestones, but that is probably due to defect of eyesight—certainly not to bad system. The mixture of coal and nuggets is slot justified, however, no matter what the price charged for coal figures. It is probable that the finder will be the keeper, for the coal man will not care to admit his carelessness nor to further disclose where the balance of his nuggets are stored. The Tax Administration The conclusion of the tax law committee appointed by Governor-elect McCray, that it isn’t the tax law but the administration of it that has created such wide-spread dissatisfaction in Indiana is undoubtedly sound, even though it i3 not borne out by the results of the last election. From the beginning of the campaign to the end, the Times maintained the position that the tax laws as amended by the Goodrich administration were, -with two possible exceptions, no different 1 from the laws that had proved satisfactory previously. The two exceptions were the control of bond issues and the fixing of tax levies by the State board. __ x The republican State committee undertook to laud the Goodrich revision of the tax laws as the “greatest achievement of the Republican party since the Civil War.” Then the Goodrich tax board made the law obnoxious by administration of it that was prompted by favoritism and folly. The public reaction was against the law when it should have been wholly against the Goodrich controlled State board of tax commissioners who were not only incompetent to administer the provisions of the law that were not changed but were so unwise as to emphasize the changes made by poor administration. The conclusion of the McCray committee that the dissatisfaction with the tax law is caused by its administration is a substantiation of our Judgment and we sincerely hope that Mr. McCray will adopt It as his own. If no other evidence of the improper manner in which the tax la\ys have been administered were at hand, the attempt of Governor Goodrich to saddle Phil Zoercher on the McCray administration would be conclusive. Mr. McCray will take up the tax question when he becomes Governor under trying conditions. The administration that made it obnoxious will be ousted, but the pliant | tools through which the administration worked will still be functioning. Taxation will be a much less vexing problem when the last influence of ■ the regime is wiped out. i k ij

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Fijiaus going to France to serve on French transports as stevedores. The picture shows them lined up tor review by General Strong, commanding the Hawaiian department 1n Honolulu, where they stopped en route to Vancouver. From there they proceeded to a Canadian port on the eastern coast, across country and then to I’rau‘*e, almost circling the world to get there. It’a a long Journey to take to be of service, but they w-ere determined men ns seen by examining their faces. They are all well built, muscular and with welldeveloped Intelligences. IT TAKES a long time to uproot from the public mind any fixed belief. Some of you who read of the FIJI of Tester day may find it hard to adjust yourselves to the knowledge that the gloomy FIJI of early missionary days la in the long ago, that the “cannibal Isle" of burlesque and vaudeville song has given way to a place where the white man may travel In safety or live with profit The FIJI group now flies the British fl%g, because Thokamhau, one of the Island's bloodiest rulers, had two alternatives—to be conquered by the neighboring Tongas or to give up hls kingdom unconditionally to Great Britain. He chose the latter ronrße In 1X74, retired on a pension, beesme a ChristianIn name, at least—and died a great deal more peacefully than ho deserved some ten years later. The missionaries who had already accomplished a great deal in the way of civilizing Fiji, joined hands with the government officials the British sent over, settlers began to come In. Indians were Imported to do the plantation work which the natives shunned, trade was developed and anew day for FIJI had dawned. With the new qpy, however,

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—Photo the knell began to sound for the Fijian race. Civilization, its customs, Its clothes and its diseases have not been good for the savage end hls extinction seems likely. There might be salvation for him if lie could be aroused to ambition and made to work, but he is wholly indifferent about hls own salvation. PEACEFUL AND GOOD NATI'RED TOIA> The Fijian of today 1* a peaceful, goodnatured fellow, who la too thick-headed to pay much heed to the laws laid down for and considers Jail an Ideal place, even though It means the hated work. The one big Jail of the Islands is at Suva, the capital, and It Is always full. :It Is an Imposing plaeo of dormitories, cell houses, cook bouses and other buildings scattered about a courtyard, but It Is rather of a shock to discover that the huge wall extends about oniy three sides of the prison. The back Is wide open to the hills and the hush there is nothing to prevent the prisoner from taking to them. Only he doesn’t. Sent out during the day to work, entirely without guard, sundown sees the Fijian convict hastening at a dog trot hack to Jail. If he doesn't get there be,fore the hour when the gates are * eked he Is doomed to spend the night outside, supper’ers and bodices, and that to him Is a disgrace and a punishment to he avoided. The Fijian of today Is proud and hn Is vain—proud of hls birth and vain of the shock of hair on top of hls bend. He will spend hours combing It and oiling It and fussing with It, and wears a nightcap over It when ho goes to bed. WEARS CLOTHING NOWADAYS. Whether he lives In the bush or In town he wears whatever clothes be can afford

from Underwood & Underwood, N. V, Usually It Is only a short and a long strip of cloth around hls middle, but. given the opportunity, he will doll up In European garments and is a regular dude. Those natives who do not frequent the towns retain many of the customs of their ancestors. They deftrly love ceremonies and feasta; they use the most primitive of implements; they still dance the old dances, aud they take life exceedingly eaay. Nature provides wonderfully for her children of the South Seas and the Fijian aees no object In working for a living when he can get It for no more than a lltt’e exertion. | The Fijian Is not wholly civilized. He ! lacks the ambition and the thousands , of acres of farming land which he might work If he would, do not appeal to him. Civilization's nearness has robbed him of the Incentive which made him n skillful artisan In other days Canoe building, at which he once excelled, is almost a for gotten art, fur he can gst English boats that save him the trouble of making hls own. He s ill builds the best houses among the natives r>f the South Seas be | cause he has the knack of making them comfortable from hls standpoint and the others have nf. MUST GET LEAVE TO GO VISITING. The Fijian owes allegiance to hls tribal chief, the bull,- and cannot leave the vicinity without the bull's porinlsslon. Just why this la so essential Is hard to tell, but perhsps the bull wants him at hand If be Is needed He will agree with anything you say and he ha* a crude sense of humor Once started, he take# to reading and writing like a duck to water But he lacks initiative and the Fijian race never will

contribute anything to the world’a progress. Suva, the capital and seat of government, is highly civilized and would pass muster with any other community in America or Europe. It Is the center of the sugar, copra, pearl . shell and tobaco trade with New Zealand and exports great quantities of pineapples and bananas. It has become an Important point on the Pacific, but the native Fijian has had little to do with bringing that about. You have now ,a picture of the Fijian of today—so much like nnd yet so different from his forefathers. He may not be as picturesque as he was In cannibal days, but he Is an Interesting fellow, nevertheless. It Is too bad that civilization has doomed him to extinction. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Any render can get the answer to any question by writing the Indiana Bally Times Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau entmot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troublos, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly arid briefly. Give full name and address nnd enclose 2. cents In stamps for return postags. All replies are sent direct to tho inquirer.) FIRST USE OF CHURCH BBLI.S. Q. When were bells first used In connection with religion? p. L. A. Handbells were used In religious

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