Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1921 — Page 6
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Jafctana Daila STirnea INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS CF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising offices ( Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, U. Logan Payne Cos. I New iorK. Boston, Payne, Burns A- Smith. Inc. BUT if we had a municipal warehouse, how many White trucks would we have to stock it completely? JUST THINK how many tardy motorists hustled down to tell it to the captain when it was not at all necessary? IF ENOUGH Indiana cities will invite the Legislature to visit them there will be little time left for the passage of a lot of unnecessary laws. MAYBE POP LEPPERT thought he could "compromise” the judgment with Judge Pritchard as he did those forfeited bonds with Claris Adams. WHILE we are talking about a gasoline tax to support our State parks why not page the man who said the State departments were all self-sus-taining? JUDGE MOLL is right in not extending sympathy to a man who has failed to pay support money into court for the children of two unsuccessful marriages. Seems like the man never will learn. DR. THOMAS BEASLEY is efidently not one of those physicians who believes it his duty to help his patients gather up free whisky. That is why he objects to the unauthorized use of his name l)y Mr. Orbison. To Jerry From Charles The revelation in the Times yesterday that while Charles J. Orbison has presumably been seeking the enforcement of national prohibition, he has also been extending to certain favored Individuals the privilege and the means of defeating prohibition is all the more startling because Mr. Orbison admits that his action has been without authority of law and actually in contravention of the Indiana prohibition law. In its final analysis the practice of Mr. Orbison cf ordering the Indianapolis police to give liquor to designated individuals constitutes nothing more or less than a method of suspending the very statutes that Mr. Orbison is presumed to be upholding. It Is nothing more or less than a transparent scheme by which certain individuals have been enabled. Illegally, to obtain whisky to which they had no right, without the payment of money and at no great inconvenience to themselves. Mr. Orbison's defense, that the whisky was dispensed only in emergency cases at either the direction or solicitation of physicians, is proved in several cases to be without merit or foundation in facts. Mr. Orbison is a lawyer who served as a judge of an Indiana court. If he possessed any fitness whatsoever to occupy the position to which he was appointed by the Democratic administration that fitness was due to his knowledge of the law. His appointment certainly does not appear to be traceable to any particular desire to uphold the prohibition laws, for he has been disclosed In the very act of defeating the purposes for which the laws were enacted and for which he was appointed director. Shortly after he Mas appointed to the Federal position, Mr. Orbison announced that out of respect for the Indiana prohibition law which forbids the prescription of any other Intoxicant than grain alcohol, he would not issue permits to Indiana druggists to sell whisky on physicians’ prescriptions. Very shortly after that It appears that Mr. Orbison relegated to iim‘self the privilege of acting as both physician and druggist and, in effect, carrying out the very method of providing whisky for individuals which he announced would not be provided "out of respect for the Indiana prohibition law.” There seems to be something about the very proximity to whisky .hat causes those persons who deal with It to lose both their good judgment and the point of view of the prohibition officer. Mr. Orbison should have been the last person in the State of Indiana to give assistance to any one in the procuring of whisky. Instead of opposing the demands of individuals who sought whisky, Mr. Orbison evolved an illegal method by which he might accede to their demands under cloak of the authority that attaches to his office only when it is properly exercised. And when he is caught, with scores of instances to explain, he admits that he caused whisky to 5e given to individuals without any authority whatsoever derived from his position as Federal prohibition director. Mr. Orbison did not tell the police when ho sent them orders for the dispensation of whisky that he had no authority as prohibition director to issue such orders. On the contrary, he signed the orders as Federal prohibition agent, and he attempted thereby to create the impression that in ordering the j giving away of the liquor he was exercising an authority vested in him ! by the United States of America. The deceit practiced on the police is no less than the deceit practiced on the general public. V Mr. Orbison has taken advantage of his position as Federal prohibition j director in Indiana to circumvent the laws of the State of Indiana which ; be is bound to respect as well as the Federal prohibition law which he is presumed to be upholding The fact that he is a Democrat, appointed by a Democratic adminis- j tration and mentioned as a prospective Democratic candidate for mayor i of Indianapolis, does not afford any reason why his conduct should be con- j doned by advocates of real prohibition. What Indiana needs, and must have, is prohibition officers who- enforce I Instead of circumvent prohibition.
Goodrich’s Defense The official record of the grand orgy of executive clemency that marked the James P. Goodrich administration has at last been laid before the Legislature, and there is now no possible basis on which the people of Indiana can assert Goodrich was traduced by his critics. More than two years ago the Times voiced the first public protest against the indiscriminate release of convicts by Governor Goodrich. It was many months before others in the State realized the enormity of this abase of a statutory privilege. But today there is practically no one who is willing to say that Goodrioh was not the greatest friend of the felons that ever sat in the Governor's chair. Ex-Governor Goodrich's defense of his indefensible parole and pardon, record is as weak as he showed himself to be while he was handing out executive clemency. , * He says that fifty-five out of 771 persons were let out for the purpose of working out their fines, thus admitting that no such good purpose prevailed in 716 cases. He asserts that 506 persons were released in order to contribute to the support of their families, but he cannot tell how many of these did actually contribute to the support of their families, -nor by what means they obtained the wherewithal to contribute. He says that clemency was recommended in 676 cases by judges, prosecutors and the superintendents of the various institutions, but this fact is hardly a plea for extenuation in regard to a total of 1,345 cases. He attempts to find solace in the records of his predecessors relative to State prison convicts without explaining that his favorite method of releasing convicts was first to transfer them to the penal farm and then to parole or pardon them from the penal farm. The argument that In only 3 per cent of the cases has it been necessary to revoke paroles is foolish, because every one knows that paroled prisoners have beep convicted after parole and no revocation of the first parole took place. In fact, there are Instances where a second parole was granted. fn the conclusion of his defense, Goodrich says: “The fact that the law does not seem to bear with equal weight cn everybody tends more to bring about a disregard for the law than extending clemency to those who have already suffered a penalty.” He might well have added that for four years the fact that a pardoning governor could generally be relied upon to free a convict did more'than anything else to prove that the law doea not bear with equal weight on pvetybodjt.
American Revolt Against Great Britain Brought Prominence to Australian Continent
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Dl K WEST I*o decrees from Indianapolis, or half-way round the world, then uue south nearly 100 degrees, reaches to the south end of New Zealand, or u distance of more thun two-thirds the circumference of the etirili. This is where W. D. Boyce, owner of the Daily Times, is taking an expedition in search of new material for travel articles and stories of 11ction. The title of his article*, soon to appesr in the Times, is “Wet by Southwest.” While awaiting the arrival of these articles, the fleet of which is on the way. information is being published on this p.igo concerning the place* to be visited by the expedition.
WHRN the United States revolted against British rule and won her freedom it marked the turning point for Australia. L'p to that time little was known of this continent In the South Pacific. It had been visited, of course, liy early day explorers and rediscovered by Captain Cook In 1770, but the reports brought back pictured Australia as a bleak and deaolate place, inhabited by a race of Ravage*, formidable and cruel, and the British government naturally was apathetic toward this far-away land. Then those people In America who had tieen loyal to the crown were compelled to find new homes and the prisons In England were overflowing, so the government decided on n double-stroke, to colonize Australia and at the same time use It as a jdace to which English criminals might be deported, with a view not only to having a prison for them, but also to offer them a place in which they might redeem themselves after they had obtained their freedom. The first few years after the plan was put Into effect In 1787 were marked by trouble and dissension. Many escapes were made by the convict*, who speedily became outlaws, and between them and the hostile blacks the authorities had their hands full. But, at least, the fact that Australia was being taken in hand by white men attracted explorers and resulted in the opening up of many new parts of the country which hitherto had not been visited.
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| Finally came commissioners who ha 1 the interests of the land under them at heart and who had no desire to continue administrations of which unbridled license were the features. They prevailed upon the authorities at homo to undertake to send free men to Australia as colonists and pointed out that as a prison ft had been a failure. lu a little while the new districts of New South IV a lea opened up by the explorers began to get settlers, but nil of those years were marked by the reign of crime instituted by the former convicts. The history of Australia is punctuated by the exploits of these outlaws and criminals, whose '• reign of terror finally brought about the j
WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life
CHAPTER CXXIII. “Salt water oil,” replied Jim complacently, “is the pet name a crowd of fe'lows down in the Street gave to an oil stock they wanted to sell short. I’m buying It on very good margin.’' “Buying—-when the men down in the Street are selling?’' I asked a lilt nerv- . ously. [ If .Tim's deal went wrong, wc faced n j double loss—the collapse of our chance j at wealth, and the hideous grind to pay back the money he had. borrowed. I felt panic-stricken at the very thought. And Jim's laugh the reckless, oversure laugh of the born gambler—did not reassure me at all. For it opened the door to a I long vista. I found myself staring down a road such as I had known in my youth —tho road my mother had traveled s the wife of a gaiuiler--rose-colored plush hotel suites, alternating with dlugy, drab, fourth-floor back boarding house rooms. j “Are you llatenlng?'' Jim demanded. “Os course, deer, I’m listening. You just Rnld that the men on the Street were selling,” I replied, tinkering cozlly with Jim's neoktte. “I said that about hajf an hour ago. Anjfe, I wish you’d get out of the way 1 of planning your next spring suit when I’m talking to you. You hare a good enough itiind when you choose to use it
j organization of the famous trooper poj lice, who rank high in the annals of such I organizations as tho Northwest royal | mounted police of Cauodn and the Texas i rangers. Tho story of bushrangers and j their hunters Is as thrilling as those conj ctived by the authors of the dime novels of our young days. It was from such a rough beginning that the present Australian Federation was born. It was only in 1901 that the five provinces of the colony united under a constitution which Is to a large extent modeled after that of the United States, in that it is based upon the principle that all powers not delegated specifically to the central government re-
aud pay a little attention to -worth while thiugg.” „ “Yes, Jim.” I replied, meekly enough. "But I’m very stupid about stocks end corporations ami -and bulls and bears. The only way I can ever think which is which Is to stop and remember thut a bull tosses people up on his horns. And then I'm likely to get mixed and think of the bull’s characteristics as being to stamp people down with his hoofs.” Tlin didn’t laugh as I had intended. Instead, he stared at rua with hostile eyes and ejaculated: “Well, of ull the rubbish! I can't understand women. I tell you my fortune's at stake, and you stand there making fool Jokes.” “I'm sorry. I though it would do your nerves good to laugh M me.” I replied. "Now—if you'll explain a bit about your Jim ceased pacing up and down the floor Mnd sank into a chair In the old. fnnilllnr position, with his knees rrossed and his fingers encircling his lame ankle. “It's like this,” he began. "The Colonaru Company starts boosting Colonnra oil n sow mouths ago, when they advertise a gusher, an oil well that runs bo,ood barrels a month. Can you Imagine how tht-lr stock climbs?"—Copyright. 1921. (To bo continued.)
main with the States. The principal things controlled by the government are the railroads, the telegraph and telephones. It has, a Governor General named by the' British King, but whose powers are limited by a Senate and House of Representatives elected by the people. From this parliament the Governor General selects a Cabinet of seven ministers. Australia has a Supreme Court which is the last word in affairs in the commonwealth and which, unlike a similar court of Canada, cannot be reversed by the British Privy Council. In other words, although Australia is under British rule, it virtually is a country to itself. / Australia is rich In mineral resources •and agricultural products. Some idea of the latter may be gained from the fact that last year she suffered a wheat failure, but recient cables estimate her crop this winter at 132,000.000 bushels, of which her own needs amount to only 80,000,000 bushels, leaving more than 100,000,000 bushels available for Europe.
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[Any reader can get the answer to ar y question by writing The Indiana Daily Times Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin Director, YVash- | lngton, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau cannot give advice on leg-il. medical and financial matters, it does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address ond enclose 2 cents In stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the Inquirer.] HOW TIPPING BEGAN. Q. What is the origin of the aoun “tip,” meaning a fee for service? E. B. J. A, The custom of tipping originated la a coffee house in London. In this tßTern there was a box into which patrons desiring special service put a certain amount of money. On the box were the words "To Insure Prompt Service." The initial letters of this phrase developed into the noun “tips." OLD-TIME “QUAKER HATS.” Q. How long have Quakers worn "Quaker hats?" W. A. A. The plain Quaker hat, with the broad brim and low crown dates fTom the origin of the sect in the. middle of the seventeenth century. LEXINE AND TROTSKY. Q. What are. the real names of Lenin and Trotuki a. F. A. Lenin’s name Is Vladmis Pnlynnoff and Trotski's name is Leber Dron stein. Different authorities spell these names with slight variations. CHARACTER OF THE GORILLA. Q. Is the gorilla a very ferocious animal? ~ K. Y. A. The stories told of the ferocity of the gorilla are exaggerated; it is an extremely dangerous animal only when brou gbt to bay. It is shy, and even timid, usually retreating from man. and is rarely seen, even by the silent and stealthy native* of the forest, except by accident. When surprised, the gorilla will run away screaming with fright, but If wounded or cornered, makes a terrible fight, using much the tactics or a bear, rearing up and endeavoring to
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CIRCUS GIRL DROP S FROM BALLOON On to the Roof of Young Parson’s Home
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MISS EMMA CUNNINGHAM. In the cast which will present "Nightie Night” at the Murat beginning next Tuesday night for five nights, Miss Emma Cunningham will tie one of the important players. This farce concerns the adventures of a rather untruthful young husband, who. through being unable to tell the truth even about the most trivial things, gets himself into all kinds of trouble. Bruce Llmore has the role of the untruthful husband.
seize and pull the enemy near enough to tear it with its teeth. “SOUP HOUSE" HISTORY. Q. Please give information on the so-called soup houses, when we had them, where, and who was President at the time. C. A. W. A. The so-called “soup houses" came into public notice during the panic or 1593, in Cleveland’s second _ administration! when this method was taken by charitable organizations in New York and elsewhere- to supply tho suffering poor with food. THE NEEDLE’S EYE. Q. What is meant by “the eye of a needle" referred to in the New Testament? J- *• A. Commentators ilifier, but the usual interpretation is that it means a small gate in the wall of Jerusalem,''designed to admit foot passengers after nightfall at which time the great gates were closed.
Take a pretty young woman of the circus, clad only In a suit of ailk-M tights and place her in the home of a young minister, who happens to be a bachelor and surround them by a community of straight laced. Puritanicalminded men and women and you are bound to have a situation that is interesting to say the least. That is what occurs in "Pink Tights.” the comedy drama adapted from J. <J. Giesy's story, which is shown at the Alhambra today and for the rest of the week. The girl arrives via parachute, dropping from a balloon. She lands with a thud on top of the parsonage, just in time to interrupt the minister in the midst of a sermon he is composing against circuses and circus people. Strangely enough, his sermon is never completed. He rescues the girl from the roof of his house, and then, because it might cause a scandal should she be seen emerging from his home, hides her until nightfall. Despite his precautions her presence is discovered and the scandal breaks. “Pink Tights” contains the mance and fascination of the small circus which travels by wagon and exhibits in the backwoods towns, as well as an element of comedy drama that adds spice to its atmosphere. Gladys Walton and Jack Perrin am to lie seen in the leading roles. Monte Banks in a farce. “The Kidnapper’s Revenge” and the Fox News Weekly are on the bill. -!-/ ENGAGEMENT OVENS/ “A Night in Honolulu,’! announced ns a musical Hawaiian play, opens at the Murat tonight for a three-day engagement. Dancers and singers from Hawaii are said to be in the company. -I- -|. ALSO ON VIEW. Other attractions on view today include Tom Patricola, known as “The i*ancicg Fool," at B. F. Keith's; “Girls From Joylnnd,” at the Park; “The Lincoln Highwayman," at the Lyric: popular vaudeville at the Broadway; musical comedy at the Rialto; “Heliotrope,” at the Isis; “The, Sin That Was Ills,” at the Colonial; "The Juctlins,” at Mister Smith’s; “My Lady’s Latchkey,” at the Circle, and “Tho U. P. Trail," at the P.egent.
In some places the opening was so low that the pedestrian had to proceed on his hands and knees. The passage was not straight, adding to the difficulty of advancing. LENGTH OF PANAMA CANAL. Q. How long is the Panama Canal and how long is the Panama railroad? F. H. A. The length of the canal, deep water to deep water, is 43.84 nautical miles. The Panama railroad from Colon to Panama is 47.(51 miles long. The air distance is about thirty-four miles. DON QUIXOTE’S NOBLE STEED. Q. Wiio was Rosinante? D. C. D. A. This was the name of Don Quixote’s steed, raw. bony and full of but regarded by his master as incomparable. ’Rosianate” is a play on the Spanish word “roein," meaning a jaded l.orse. a hack —and ante, meaning before.
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