Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1921 — Page 6

Jttifcma Hails SFirneo INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 23-351 members of audit bureau of circulations. Advertising office* i Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, O. Logau Payne Cos. ■ &UTer ‘ J sing otnces } Xew y ork| Boston, Piyue, Burns & Smith, Inc. ANYHOW, Mr. Goodrich laid down a big burden to be assumed by his successor! ANNOUNCEMENT of the date of their banquet recalls to mind that there are still a goodly number of Democratic editors left in this state! PERHAPS the Indianapolis News will learn some day that there are men capable of handling the speakership who do not boast of its support! THANKS, Mr. Ritter. You have thrown a very Illuminating light on the alleged necessity of purchasing those two new White trucks for the ash-haulers! ABOUT ALL that is necessary utterly to disgust the public is to establish that the negro who shot Roul E. Cornelius was the recipient of a parole or a suspended sentence! Congratulations , Mr. Evans So remarkably in contrast to the attitude of his predecessor was the position taken yesterday by William P. Evans, prosecutor of Marion County in regard to Dennis J. Bush that it deserves the commendation of every good citizen of Indianapolis. Mr. Evans inherited from his two “good government” predecessors, Alv#h J. Rucker and Claris Adams, the notorious case of Bush, who for six long years has defied the State of Indiana to put him in jail. There was no special urge on Mr. Evans to interest himself in the Bush case. Only his own fine estimate of his duty *to the public that he represents indicated the firm course which he pursued. It was doubtless not pursued without difficulties and dangers, for be it remembered that Bush is the same defendant for whom Judge James A. Collins dismissed nineteen indictments some time ago. At the risk of offending Judge Collins, Evans insisted that Bush be committed to jail to begin serving a sentence imposed in the Criminal Court, sustained by the Supreme Court and evaded by political influence. In this case Mr. Evans has demonstrated that he believes it the duty of the prosecutor to represent the State of Indiana in criminal causes. May we have more such demonstrations! Why the Secrecy? Announcement made on Jan. 5 by Judge James A. Collins that he had, on the last day of 1920, dismissed thirty-five more criminal charges on the motion of Claris Adams, prosecutor, demonstrates the lax method employed by the court in dealing with law violators. The statutes of Indiana require that when criminal causes are dismissed written motions by the prosecutor shall be read in open court before sustained. These thirty-five motions were not read in open court, ro opportunity was given the public to protest and the very plain purpose of the law was defeated. Instead of following the statute in these cases, Judge Collins ostensib y closed his docket for the year 1920 and five days later, by a sort of a nanc pro tunc entry, relieved thirty-five defendants of the necessity of facing the court. The action of the court in dismissing these charges may have been with the proper motive. But if the court was moved by the proper influence in dismissing these cases why did he not have sufficient courage to dismiss them publicly in open court, before, not after, he made public what purported to be a review of his action for the year? Verified! It is the interesting experience of every newspaper as well as every individual that “time at last sets all things right” and regardless of denials the truth will eventually triumph. In the last few months the truth of statements which have appeared in this newspaper only to be doubted or denied by well-meaning but uninformed citizens has been verified with remarkable frequency. Here is a striking instance: On Oct. 18, the Times said, “While State, county and city officials are devoting practically all the time for which taxpayers pay them toward the election of the Republican National, State and county tickets, law enforcement has become a joke in Indianapolis.” On Jan. 4, the Indianapolis Church Federation made the following official statement: “Poolrooms, picture and vaudeville shows and many place of business are open on Sunday contrary to law. “The Eighteenth amendment Is frequently and flagrantly violated. “Gambling in high places as well as low is not uncommon. “The social evil is again seeking to entrench itself in many cities (including our own) from which it was for a time expelled. “These poolrooms are often places of lawlessness and crime and many of them are frequented by minors. The picture shows on the whole are not improving but are rather growing more objectionable and some vaudeville houses are apparently attempting to see how far they can go with suggestiveness and indecency.” The only apparent difference between the results of the investigations made by the church federation and the investigations made by the Times Is in the date. As was to be expected, the complaint of the church federation was not made public until after all danger of influence in the election was passed. And therein lies the real reason why such organizations as the church federation are without appreciable influence on the morals of the city. They are invariably timing their protests to suit the political convenience of the politicians whose laxity they criticise. The Best Children The old question as to whose children are the better behaved has of recent months been asserting itself. The London papers have taken it up and arrived at the conclusion that perhaps English children are as naughty in their way as American children are. Probably the Continental people consider the American youngsters bad beyond comparison. At home the neighbor’s children are always w&rse than our own, have more faults and as far back as memory runs, h/ve been preparing themselves for States prisons, public hanging and instantaneous death by accident, with but one or two exceptions. It would seem with children, as with everything else, that the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof. The finality of whether the child is good or bad is what kind of a man he eventually makes. General Grant was very low in his studies at West Point but it cannot be said his West Point education was a failure. Abraham Lincoln was a rail splitter, restless and ready to argue, yet it is necessary only to mention the word “Lincoln” to have the American heart beat faster. Some discredit may be attached to George Washington’s inability to tell a lie, but he did cut down the cherry tree. The nation is composed of grown-up children and if the Americans should admit that American children are the noisiest, the most disrespectful, the most inconsiderate, all of which is not true, at the same time the American-Nation can state that when the grown-up people over In Europe, where civilization ia old, got to fighting each other in the most savage manner, where absolutely no standard of conduct was binding In the barbarity of the war, the Americans had to assert an ideal and go over and police those “holier-than-thou” people. The American Indians would have been ashamed of the conduct of which those people were guilty. The inevitable conclusion is forced upon the Americans by a logic which cannot bs escaped that the American child is the best; that In him are planted cercain ideas of equality; he is surrounded by the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The democracy of his education gives him a wholesome respect for the other fellow. In the past six years America came clean and men being but grown-up children, the spirit of the child of Europe did not manifest itself in a comparable light

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life

CHAPTER CXX (Continued) “The truth?” I repeated wonderingly. “What do you mean?” "No wonder you ask!" Jim rasped out. “I want to know the truth —and I mean to have it, Anne. You'd better make up your mind to that —for a change.” “But, Jim, I don’t know what this Is all about. I don’t know what you mean.” “Quit playing Innocent. I suppose you don't remember how I took the job because of Norrey's chief assistant wanting to get off into the fighting of the lnt war. i suppose you don't.” “Yes, I remember,” I whispered, fumbling around In my mind for the thing I must do, and wondering if Jim had actually unearthed our friendly conspiracy to find him work he could and that wouldn't strain his crippled ankle and that would still yield him a good living.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR.

|Well, Puss Junior stayed so long In the little toy shop I told you about In tho last story that I was afraid X wouldn’t be able to write anything about him In time for this one. But at last he came out, and what do you suppose he had In a nice box? You’d never guess, so I might as well tell you right away. A toy Puss in Boots Junior. Just think of that! And now what do you suppose again he was going to do with it? You’ll never guess this time, t-itber, so I’m going to tell you without waiting another second. He was going to send It to his dear old father, the famous Puss in Boots, Seneschal to my Lord of Carabas. Well, Puss Junior looked all around for a messenger boy, but there wasn’t any In sight, when, all of r sudden, hit old friend, Goosey Goosey Gander, flew down and said: "What are you looking for, little comrade?" And then Puss told him that he wanted to send a present to his father. “I’ll take it for you," said the goodnatured gander, and he picked up the packages and flew away, over tho houses and over the trees, over the mountains and over the seas, until he enmo to the castle tall where Puss in Boots Senior was Seneschal. And gome day I'll tell you how delighted the old cat was to receive this present from his son, but not Just now, for I can’t leave little Puss Junior another minutes, for tho first thing you know he’ll be leaving Toy Town and we'll lose him, and then what will we do for a story tomorrow? “Heigh, ho ” said Puss. “What next.

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BRINGING UP FATHER.

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By Ann Lisle

"Oli, you do! Well, then, you also remember who told me all that high-falutln’ truck about taking this job to help a friend of Terry's and to release a man for *lhe war—for fighting. A fine yarn yon told me, Anne. I can’t understand your lying to me like that!” Across my mind swept the memory of how I had pleaded with Terry for the truth—and of his reply: “I was afraid Jim would take a stand and refuse to accept the post Just because friends bad found It for him. There’s only one thing he isn’t brave enough to face. He's fair hipped on never being indebted to a pal for a lift in his work. Jim has to stumble on his -Job for himself —find it, do us a favor by taking it. Will you break Jim’s heart In idleness or have me torture his pride with assistance the dear old chap would almost die swallowing—Just to

By David Cory-

I wonder,” and he looked down the street to where a toy regiment of wooden soldiers were marching. And just then an old hand organ began to play: “Oh where are the songs of yesterday, the songs we used to sing. When you and I in the days gone by Danced in the Fairy's Ring?” And then a little monkey dressed in a red coat and cap ran up. to Puss, who gave him a penny, and then the old man who had stopped to set the old organ to another tune, began to play: Over the hills and Jar away, I’ve tramped through life till I am gray, And now with my organ and monkey clown I find myself in little Toy Town. And then the old organ griuder sat down to rest and the little monkey climbed up on his lap. “Are you very tired?” ashed Puss, and he slipped a gold piece into the old man's hand. “Pretty tired,” answered the old man. “All these years I’ve tramped and played, and now I find myself in a town where they make toys for children. But I see no children. Only playthings which I hnve no use for,” and the old man sighed and patted the monkey, and then he closed his eyes and fell asleep. And I guess ho was very, very tired, so Puss slipped away and out of Toy Town where the dwarfs and the fairies, as I told you in the story before this, made all the toys In little workshops, only they had the shades pulled down so that n- body could see them, for they are queer little people and don't like to be watched —Copyright, 1921. (To be Continued.)

save yourself a little white lie. I’d lie myself blue in the face to save Jim from being hurt. Aren’t you a pal and a helpmate and a good sport as well as a wife ?” I remembered in a flash how Terry had convinced me against my will —how he had forced from Anthony Norreys his promise to help put that story plausibly before Jim. He had staged his little play by phoning to plead with Neal to take the Job so Norrey's assistant could be released for fighting. Then there came the thought of how Jim had worked at uncongenial accounting, how he had forced himself back to health so he could “help Terry." And now he was struggling with the humiliating truth that it had all been a hoax, staged to force him to accept assistance from his friend. Could I tell him the whole truth now? Could I exonerate myself at Terry’s expense Just when Terry stood most in need of Jim’s loyalty- and friendship?— Copyright. 1921. (To be continued)

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NUMBER NATIONAL CEMETERIES. Q. How many national cemeteries are there, and how much money does it cost the country to keep them up? 8. C. M. A. The War Department says that there are eigbty-three such cemeteries. The appropriation for their care and maintenance for tha fiscal year 1921 is .$250,000. CONSTITUTION OF BRAZIL. Q. How does the constitution of the Brazilian republic differ from our own? M. D. K. A. The constitution of Brazil was modeled after that of tho United States, but differs from it in tha complete autonomy which it leaves to the individual states. THE BIBLE IN CHINEBE. Q. In what language is tha Bible written, so that the greatest number of people will be able to read it? M. N. M. A. The Mandarin version of the Chtnesa Bible, which has been completed by the American Bible Society, makes the book available to more than 400,000,000 people. This Is a greater number than

that reached by any other translation. The work haa occupied twenty-five years in time, and haa cost several hundred thousand dollars. LIGHT THROUGH VACUUM. Q. Can light and beat be transmitted through a vacuum? N. O. A. T.ae naval observatory says that light can be transmitted through a vacuum, and that it is in this way that heat energy reaches the earth from the sun. MOST NORTHERN RESIDENT CITY. Q. What is the most northern city in which white people live the year round? K. D. A. TJpernavik, a town on the southwestern coast of Greenland, Is the town located farthest north in which white people reside during the entire year. TO SECURE FOREIGN DOMESTIC. Q. How can one secure a domestic servant from the numerous ones who arrive la America from the old country? J. L. A. The Immigration Service maintains an employment agency. If a person desires a domestic, an application should be filed with the Employment Service of

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the Immigration Bureau, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. HAWAIIAN CLIMATE. Q. What kind of climate has Hawaii? ' A. A. C. A. The climate of Hawaii is one of the most equable known. For the last two years the lowest temperature was 02 degrees and the highest S6 degrees. PRESIDENTIAL OFFICES. Q. What offices are within the gift of the President? E. L. G. A. Such offices are too many to enumerate. Among tho Federal offices filled by presidential appointment are: Cabinet officers, assistant secretaries, Treasurer of the United States, Director of the Mint, Comptroller of the Currency, chiefs of bureaus. United States judges, attorneys, ambassadors, ministers, collectors of Federal taxes, employes of Federal Reserve Board, United States Marshals and some classes of postmasters. MADAME OLGA PETROVA. Q. Was Mme. Petrova ever a grand opera singer. P. O. S. A. Mme. Olga Petrova, the movie star, did not sing in grand opera, but was a concert hall singer.

HOROSCOPE "The stars incline, but do not compel 1” FRIDAY, JAN. 7. After the early morning hours kindly stars rule this day, according to astrology. Venus, Mavs and Uranus are all iu benefic aspect. It is a sway most helpful to the aspirations and the activities of women who should push all public affairs and be diligent in business matters. Success In new lines of work is forecast. Girl architects should prosper from this date. Even though it is Friday the seer* declare that no better wedding date could be selected, for prosperity will be linked with harmony. Uranus Is In an aspect that promises congeniality and constancy. Persons whose blrthdate it is should be careful to avoid accidents In the coming year. An active anjl successful year in business is foretold. Travel that will be beneficial is indicated. Children born on this day probably will make a great deal of money and spend it extravagantly.—Copyright, 1921.

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