Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1921 — Page 4
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Ua% (Times INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. arir’orfiainoffice* ! Übicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan l'ayne Go Advertising umce* j x-ew york, Boston. Pavne. Pern* & Smith, Inc PHILADELPHIA is preparing to celebrate the 150th anniversary ci the signing of the Declaration of Independence, in the year 1926. Here’s copes we will all be there to join in. THE NEW YORK FINANCIER who furnished a-suitable burial for the Wisconsin recluse that shot his dog and then himself rather than go to the poor farm alone showed a heart, even if that kind of a gift is the last be chosen by any man. TAKING PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE to task for Sunday golfing reminds one of Lincoln's desire to send some of the same kind of whisky .o his generals that Grant was accused of using. If golf will clear the European atmosphere, the United States should furnish the sticks and balls. TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS in recent papers should felicitate bachelors. One is that the high cost of dressing continues in spite of the decrease in men's tailor bills. The other is the detail from Tahiti that the various pictures of native women wearing few clothes are correct. They do wear clothes there. The Gas Companies The Citizens Gas Company was organiz*ed for the primary purpose of supplying the citizens of the community with artificial gas for cooking, lighting and heating. It was promoted purely as a cooperative association. based on the experience of the stockholders as owners of stock in its predecease ■, the Consumers' Gas Trust Company. There was no intention originally that the property should ever be mortgaged or bonded, the plan being that all improvements, additions and extensions should be paid for from surplus earnings and by the sale of additional stock. One of the unique features of the franchise contract with the city is a section providing that a mandatory order for extensions shall be made where applicants for connections agree to subscribe at par for cash to an amount of capital stock sufficient to cover the cost of the material and labor of making the extensions. The plan of financing by stock sales was followed until the executive management’s ideas became larger than the original dimensions, when it was urged that the franchise be amended to permit of a bond issue secured by mortgage. This change was made in 1912. From that time forward the plans originally followed in the management of the company’s affairs gradually were lost. In 1913 the company surrendered to an influence that, judging by its operation since, has caused the interests of the owners of the Indianapolis Gas Company to be held paramount to those of the consumers. As indicating this attitude, attention is called to the situation developed by the applications of the Citizens Company for increases in rates. In the lease executed in 1913, under which the Citizens Company took over the property of the larger company, the public service commission fixed the rate for gas at 55 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. It also inserted the provision that should the maximum price of gas be induced to 55 cents, the rental should advance SIO,OOO per annum, and shouid the price of gas be reduced to 45 cents, the rental should be increased $15,000 per year. That Is, if the price of gas went down, the rental would go up. Now, when the company asked for the increase from 55 cents to 60 cents, would it not have been the logical thing to have asked for a corresponding decrease in the rental equal in amount to the increase that would have followed the decrease in the price of gas? And in the present application for a temporary increase of 50 per cent r is not the Citizens Company entitled to a decrease in the rental in the same ratio the rental would have risen had there been that much reduction in the price of gas’ The case presents a phase identical with thi* presented by the case of the local street car company and the interurban companies in the matter of track rentals. In the latter case the track rentals fixed before the war are still in force, while the cost of operating the city lines has greatly increased. In the gas calSe, by the lease of 1913 a rental was fixed in favor of the Indianapolis Gas Company on the basis of the operating costs then controlling. The city in this case must take the same relative position it has taken to the street car case, that is, insist on a reduction in the rental paid the Indianapolis company before an increase is granted in the price of gas.
ijhe Felans' Friends The wholesale paroling and pardoning of convicts by Governor Goodrich and the wholesale release of defendants by Judge Collins may not be without its benefits to the State of Indiana after all. Members of the General Assembly have become interested in the grand orgy of the criminals and give promise of curtailing the ease with which convicts circumvent the law. There are pending before the Legislature now' some bills for the increase of penalties for felonies and some bills designed to make it more difficult for felons to obtain release from court judgments. Both of these objects should be obtained by the Assembly, but particularly should there be a safeguard against the activities of the "pardonbund” that operated so effectively under the Goodrich administration. Governor McCray is not at all likely to followr in the footsteps of his pardoning predecessor, but the machinery through which Goodrich was Induced to extend executive clemency to murderers and felons of all kinds Is intact and until there is some legislative disruption of it, Governor MrCrav will be subjected to much pressure and considerable annoyance by it. When lawyers undertake to sell pardons and paroles as they did in the Goodrich administration, the abuse of the executive power to pardon and parole reaches a point where it should bo stopped. The framers of our constitution were aware of that possibility and they provided for the establishment by the Legislature of a board without whose consent the Governor could not pardon. We think Governor McCray will welcome the establishment of such a board. It certainly will relieve him of the necessity of standing guard against a commercialized method of invoking clemency where no clemency is deserved As to the bill designed to prevent suspended sentences, the Legislature owes that much to Marion County. It would appear that the people of Marion County cannot get rid of Judge James A. Collins for nearly two years and in that time the judge may place sufficient convicts under suspended sentences to control the county election. Already he has made an excellent start. When a community is so unfortunate as to possess officials who will not protect it against law violations, efforts to.control that official by legislative enactment are justified. The identity of the opponents of these two legislative measures will reveal who are the hired friends of Indiana felons. 4 Getting by* in Criminal Court That it is entirely practicable for a man to be sentenced to imprisonment by the Marion Criminal Court and to evade that sentence for more than two years without any attempt being made by the proper authorities to see that he complies with the sentence, was revealed yesterday In the case of Mike Besesi, a blind tiger operator. Besesi was convicted in the Criminal Court Dec. 20, 1918. He asked time in which to perfect an appeal to the Supreme Court and was released pending that appeal, which he failed to perfect. Sixty days is the usual time in which to perfect an appeal and at the end of that time Mike should either have had his appeal before the Supreme Court or have gone to jail in accordance with the judgment. He did neither. And the Criminal Court was so lax that practically two years elapsed before any one called attention to the fact that Mike was evading judgment any legal reason. It is now a well-known fact that there are a large number of cases on the Criminal Court docket that have been in urgent need of attention from the authorities. Mike Besesi’s case was one. How many others there are remain to be uncovered. * The Besesi episode is merely* another instance of the laxity of Judge Collins and the indifference of the much-lauded Claris Adams.
West by Southwest Expedition Sends Back Hawaiian Views
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ABOVE—AT THE STEAMSHIP DOCKS, HONOLULU. Shipping from all lane* of the Pacific Ocean *lt<l** into Honolulu, where a coniblnatlon of funnels and mast*, with the mountain urreen behind, makes a pretty picture. Here mu y be found representatives of every P nettle nation, coming, going, or passing through. BELOW—-SUNSET. HONOLULU. The *un seem* to take more pleasure and care in setting in the harbor of Honolulu than any other place on the globe. These sunsets have given Inspiration to many poets and artists w ho have come here from all parts of the world.
DIE \VJ-IST ISO degree* from Indianapolis, or half-way round ihc world, then due south nearly 10SI degree!!, reaches to the south end of New Zealand, or a distance of more than two-thirds the circumference of the earth. This 1* where IV. 11. ilo.vce, owner of the Dally Times, is taking nn expedition In search of new material for travel articles and stories of fiction. En route the expedition stopped St Honolulu, the pictures In the accompanying article being eent In by Mr. Boyce,
HONOLULU, the capital and principal city of the Hawaiian Island*, is located mi I lie island of Onhtt, and is 2,:;7'2 miles from Vancouver. 11. (”., from which port IV. I). Boyce, owner and publisher o' the Tine s. took passage It Auckland. New Zen’.ind, with hi* West by Southwest Expedition in search of new material for travel ami 11.t.0n ar-
WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life
CHAPTER UXNvi Almost ns soon as I asked my question, I knew the answer to It. The man who had loaned Jim the money for his flyer In “Salt Water Oil" was on his way to our apartment now. It was Tom Mason. Tom Mason! In spite of my fear of him, my dislike of him even in spite ot the ugly scene with him In our own apartment only a fortnight before, Jiui hail borrowed money from iiirn My husband had borrowed $3,000 from the tuan i feared and disliked, the man from whom 1 had begged to be protected. It was Inconceivable. Yet it had happened Something seemed to die In ray heart at the knowledge. But I stood stiff and straight and spoke to him through cold lips “Jim—l'm going into the other room and shut the door. I will not see Mx. Mason. “Don't be nn idiot, Anne. Stay her*. What’ll I tell Tom?" protested Jim. “Tell him anything you like," I replied curtly. "I will not see him. Say I’m out. Say I’m sick. I don’t care what you say—but remember that I will not—will not—see hltn.” Then I marched into the bedroom and slammed the door as Jim had been known to do on occasions. Once alone 1 busied myself feverishly with dressing. I slipped out of my cotton crepe house dress and into u kimono. With the mast elaborate care T arranged tny hair, washed and fell to buffing my finger nails. Rut nt last came the time I dreaded. I was nil hooked into m.v best mulberry satin dinner dress- and had nothing to do but to sit and think -and think. I dared not consider my own problem, so I forced-my mind to go back to the disappearance of our Betty. It seemed weeks since it had happened, and yet it was only last night that Terry had come to the canteen for me—only lust night that Betty had walked out of our lives and our knowledge. In a few hours Terry would be In Washington. By morning we could expect news from hint. Betty, Tom, Doris West, Terry, our netv fortune, Anthony Norrey* tny mind whirled with the ingrained confuslou and the whirl of just mere living. Again I feel the need to a<‘t —to do something—everything. So r got up and rearranged the silver on my bureau.
BRINGING UP FATHER.
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tides. Auckland lies 3,850 miles beyond Honolulu. Mr. Boyce renewed acquaintance with Honolulu and Hawaii when the steamer bearing blin and his expedition to the South Seas put in at “Tim Crossroads of the Pacific." He sent back a number of Inteii sting photographs, two of which are reproduced above. All important Iran*-Pacific traffic lines meet at Honolulu, which a century ago was a little palm fringed village, n collection of a few hundred grass huts sur rounding a coral fort, that fort having been built in 1816 following an unfriendly visit by Russians. In 1820 missionaries came and began layiug the foundation for the civilization of today. The busy modern city now has a population of 80.000 or more and is the inecca for thousands of tourists. Business record*, however, show that it Is more than a tourist resort. Imports into Hawaii from foreign countries and shipments from the Unltod Bta*tes mainland for the year ended March 31. 1920, were $63,283,0*7, while exports for the same period amounted to $104,779,804. Raw sugar is the principal product. Its exporc value for the year ended June 20. 1020. having bean $125,000,1)00. Pineapple growing i* second in importance, the Hnwnllan pinetip pie pack of 1919 having been valued at $12,008,088. Q. fan a man destroy or disfigure hi* own money? tv. 11. W. A The Treasury Depart men t says that a person may do anything he likes to bis own money, but after it has been punctured or defaced In any way It <antnt be placed in cirri’ln tic n again. That is. tin 1 hole rnnuot he filled Jn anil again used as lawful iro>ney.
-By Ann Lisle
When that was finished I fetched out a discarded hat nud fell to ripping it apart and Just a* I had my bed littered with silk and ribbon and canvas. Jim walked in. “Over the sulks?" lie asked. “Is he gone?" I parried, giving my absorbed attention to pulling threads from u piece of blue taffeta. “No he has not" replied Jim. “He's waiting to arrange with me about our dinner to celebrate. We'll make it a bang-up affair and ask Jepnlc and Phoebe and Sheldon. The only draw* back is not having Terry and Betty.”— Copyright, 1921. \ (To be Continued.)
Well, after a while, the swan who wa* carrying little Puss Junior on his back, as told you In the Inst story, came to n beautiful Island In the middle of the sen. So he flew down to rest his tired wings, and Puss looked about him for something to eat. And before very long be found a ilsh In a shallow pool. "We must not linger," Raid the swan “for if the sun goes down before I again reach land misfortune will overtake us.” "Why?" naked Puss. “Because,” replied the swan, "it is written In the Book of Charms that lily feet must he on dry bind at nndbwn, or T shill lose the feathers from my wings, nud then I would indeed bs unable to rescue my sister." So without further delay Puss mounted his back and the bentlfnl swan once more Itrw through the sky, ever on and on, until the sun sank low In the West. “O wonderful sun, sink not too soon In the Western crimson sea; Spare me a Utile more time, I pray, Till the sandy shore and the grassy led Offer a refuge safe for me." This Is the song the bl*BUtiful white swan sang as he hurried through the sky on Ills great strong wings. Well, pretty soon the sun was jso dose io the sea In the crimson Wesy that It was only a question of a few minutes be
STATE SLEEPING ONITSRIGHTS Helps Others in Surveys—Has None at Home. Either consciously or unconsciously Indiana 1* a remarkable philanthropist, and her citizens are coulributlug thousands of dollars annually for the purpose of conducting topographic and geologic surveys in other States and are receiving nothing in return, not even the mental glow which follows an act of generosity, for few of them realize the donation they are making, I>r. W. N. Logan, State geologist for the Depart- ' merit of Conservation, announced today. “In nearly every State in the Union topographic surveys are being conducted, part of the expenses ol' which are being shared by Indiana,’’ Dr. Logan said. “Such surveys are being conducted in the adjoining States of Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan. Ohio has a complete topographic map of her territory ami Indiana assisted In paying the expensetTot the survey. Halles with Indiana to say whether Ohio shall assist in paying the ' es pouses of a topographic survey of InI dinna. “(•'or years Indiana tins slept on her light*. She hat generously contributed toward the expenses of surveys conducted In other Stales, hy reason of the fart she and oil other States ore taxed ' for the general fund to provide nations: geographic surveys, yet she has claimed i nothing from this general fund for in divtndual State development. In lh“ meantime the development of Indiana * natural resources has been retarded for lack of the information which these sur- ' veys would have provided. “The National Research Council -oin posed of some of tile nation* most effeclent scientists, realizing the great Ini porfance of the topographic survey In Its relation to science ami Industry, la urging that a complete topographic survey of the United State* be made by the year 1932. So little topographic mapping has been doDe In Indiana that Immediate action will be required in order to insnn. completion of her part of the program, i “One-half of the expenses of conducting i the topographic survey will be borne by ! the United States Geological Survey ana In addition the expense of printing the : map*. When these ma,.* are completed \ further cooperative work can be secured, I but such cooperative work can not be ' secured until the topographic maps are i available for base maps."
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PUSS IN BOOTS JR.
-By David Cory
fore ho would disappear from sight. "Hurry, hurry!" cried little Puss Junior, and the big swan went even faster than before. You see, he knew what a dreadful thing would happen to him If lie didn't set foot on land beforo the atm went down. And In a few seconds after that, with heating heart and weary wintrs, the beautiful bird landed on the shore Just ns the sun disappeared Into the sea at the western edge of the world. "Xow let us Cud shelter for the night.” said Pusa, and Just then a great big snail, with his house on his back, crawled ucross the sand. "Will you let us sleep in your house for the night?" asked the swan. “Como right In," sold the snail, and he opened a little door in the side of the big shell, and Puss and the swan wen‘ inside, where they found a beautiful room all Inlaid with mother of pearl. And In one corner wer“ two little beds covared with swansdown coverlets, and In loss time than I taktf to tell Puss and the tired swan were sound asleep, while the snail walked slowly up and down the strand under the quiet moonlight. And In the next, story, If Puss and th* swau don’t sleep too late. I’ll tell you how they finally reached the strange country whore the swau maiden was imprisoned.—Copyright, 1921. (To Be Continued.
DOROTHY IS A HIGH FLYING WIFE In Her Latest Movie, 1 Flying Pat J
Husandg, if you want to hold your wives, keep their feet on the ground. That’s the moral, if any. of Dorothy Gish’s new comedy, “Flying Pat,” which is at the Alhambra today, Friday and Saturday. Dorothy scampers in and out of airplanes, crashes out of the sky Into an apple tree and finally is Reconciled to her husband out in the kitchen, where, unknown to him, she has taken a Job as a cook. Miss Gish is the “Pat" of the title. Having married an ex-avlator and being
FREDA LEONARD
Not only is Miss Leonard, who is the featured member of “Syncopation In Toyland," now on view at the Lyric, an authority on the history of the “shlmmey" dance, but she gives a lively demonstration of it with her Jazz band. She has been with several revues on the legitimate stage ind is now making a tour la vaude# vine. told by him that she is to seek a “career," it is natural that she conceives an ambition to be the champion lady airplane tamer. Os course when iiubby mentioned “career” he wasn't thinking about flying and the handsome captain who so kindly offers to teach Pat the finer points of volplaning. There are complications which finally lead the bride to a teay> exodus from her husband's roof. But the world proves
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cold, and so sh© comes back, but not to the parlor. She stops at the kitchen where she supplants a cook who has Just resigned. There she listens in on the consultations which her frantic husband is having with detectives who are searching for her and thus forearmed loses no time in effecting a reconciliation. James Ronnie appears as the husband. Kate Bruce and Morgan Wallace are also in the cast. -1- -I- -|. OTHER ATTRACTIONS. Otis Skinner opens tonight at English's in “At the Villa Rose,” in which he plays the role of a detective. The Murat is offering a lively farce called “Nightie Night.” Other attractions on view today include Florence Roberts in “Blindfold” at B. F. Keith’s; popular vaudeville at the Broadway pud nntbical comedy at the Rialto: “Tittle Tattles" at the Park; “Kismet” at the Circle; “The Furnace” at the Colonial; “Midsummer Madness" at the Ohio; “Heliotrope” at the Isis; “The Branded Woman" at Mister Smith's, and “Two Moons” at the Regent.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
[Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing THE INDIANA DAILY TIMES INFORMATION BUREAU. FREDERIC J. HASKIN, DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON, D. C. This oner applies strictly to Information. The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical anil 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 nud enclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer.] Q. What will remove old varnish from a hardwood floor? E. H. A. Detergents for removing varnish and paints are gasoline, benzine, ether, chloroform and turpentine. Q. How many cubic inches are there In a bushel of grain, legal measure? G. S. A. The question of cubical content does not enter into the legality of a bushel of grain. The law r regulates the -■ eight of a bushel of grain rather thou the cubical content. This legal weight varies In different Stales. Q. When the Government sends home from France the remains of a soldier, when are relatives notified? J. W. D. A. The War Department says the relatives of a deceased soldier whose remains
are to be brought over from France are notified by the cemeterlal branch of the War Department at the time the body France as te the date when it mayj be'expected to arrive in this country.! The cemeterlal branch is notified of all such departures by cable. Q. Who traced out the twelve of the zodiac ? W. ,T. R. A. The Idea of dividing the zodiac twelve signs seems to have originated with the Chaldean astronomers about 2100 B. C., but there is no positive record of this. Q. When was the word brainstorm first used? H. H. & A. This term was first employed at the second trial of Harry K. Thaw la 1908, and was used to Indicate sudden, impulsive Insanity. Q. Who are privileged to exact toils? E. N. A. The right to exact tolls Is almost entirely created by statute, and generally Is granted only to persons who maintain some public convenience, as a ferry, bridge or turnpike. Q. What was the earliest known adding machine? R. A. R. A. The earliest known adding machine or instrument of calculation of any importance is said to be the abacus. The Chinese lay claim to its invention. dotus stated that this machine was used by the Egyptians as early as 460 B. C. Through the Greeks and Romans the use of the machine spread over all Europe.
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline, but do not compel!”
THURSDAY, JAN. 20. This Is tend as nn unfortunate day fn planetary direction, for although early in the morning Neptune is in benefic aspect, later the Sun, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter are all in evil place.. Irascibility and a disposition towaiM fault finding may be evident, especially among persons who wield authority. It is not a lucky day to seek favors of any - sort. Persons who desire appointments or patronage should not make applications when the stars are posited as they are today when both men and women on whom fortune has smiled are likely to be critical and arrogant. Persons whose blrthdate It Is may have rather a trying year, but all will go well if they avoid speculation and attend to business. Children born on this day may be difficult to manage, for they are likely to be self-willed and impatient. Business will not attract them and they should be carefully trained In practical ways.— Copyright, 1921.
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