Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 314, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1921 — Page 4

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JfaMatta JJathi SFirorfl INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. (Chicago, Detroit, St. Louts, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising omces (New York, Boston, Payne, Burna & Smith, Inc. BUT, 'who cares to ride from Crown Hill to the State fairground? DOUBTLESS, some sinister purpose can also be attributed to the visit to New York of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lewis Shank! MUCH to the chagrin of certain politicians, visits of Shank supporters to the statehouse are likely to be frequent, hereafter! BUT nevertheless, the fact remains that our school .system is operating even without the services of the infallible Mr. Hitt! WHAT has become of that direful prophecy of higher coal prices made as a swan song by Maurice Shelton, the Goodrich purchasing agent? WILL HAYS may not be so acceptable a candidate for President now that he has deserted the local crowd in its antipathy toward the winter of the primaries! Good-by , Mr. Wright! Current events of the last few weeks In Indiana do certainly tend to prove that our public affairs are mending very rapidly from the 6ad rending they received at the hands of James P. Goodrich during his “businessWan’s” administration as Governor. 1 L. H. Wright, the public highway director whose tenure of office did jlore to set back the good roads movement in Indiana than any other one thing could have accomplished, has at last been severed from the affairs winch he so woefully mismanaged. Mr. Wright, in common wlfh a number of others whom Goodrich anointed, retired from public service regretfully, but wholly unwept He is the same Mr. Wright, who, subject to Goodrich’s approval, so organized the personnel of the highway commission that its chief accountant was also the telephone operator for his office. He it was who bllthefully traded a Government loaned truck for a touring car in which to travel the highways. He also was responsible for those delightfully worded specifications under which the cheapest kind of cement concrete highways were matched against the most costly brick construction in order that the administration might build cement highways exclusively under the plea that they were letting the contracts to the lowest bidders. Mr Wright also introduced the innovation of building $70,000 garages without bids for construction. He was the first of Indiana’s officials to establish a “rotary fund" subject to his personal check on the bank of which he was a director and always replenished from the S*ate treasury. It was under his administration that a contractor received a bonus of $19,000 from the highway funds for completing a bridge contract for which he was also paid by a county. Throughout the whole of Indiana Mr. Wright achieved fame for his ability to promise one thing and do another, for his arrogant disregard of pub’ic criticism and his complete Indifference to the earnest pleas of those advocates of good roads who saw confidence in the highway law and the commission fade as the public learned, one by one, of his little Idiosyncrasies. The appointment of Mr. Lawrence Lyons to the place vacated by Mr. Wright does not appear to meet with the approval of certain interests that were never unfriendly to Goodrich, but the public generally will realize that no matter what qualification* Mr. Lyons may have for the position, he cannot, in four years, perform as many feats toward the destruction of ’public confidence as his predecessor did for Goodrich.

Commendable The position assumed by two hundred physicians of this community against the attempted introduction of beer as a medicine is both a recognition of prohibition and a recognition of the lamentable fact that there are in the medical profession men who care more for liquor than for, the standing of their profession. As these local physicians point out, beer has never been regarded as a medicine. It has, however, often been prescribed as a tonic for those persons whose love of dt could not be reconciled with their knowledge that tt is not a temperance drink. More often than not it became the tonic jf the individual who lacked courage to face criticism for its use without t physician’s prescription as a defense. Physicians who courted popularity with their patients prescribed It, more as a favor to the patient than as a therapeutic agent. It is refreshing to find that the physicians of this community do not Sesire such a condition to arise from a mistaken prohibition policy as will irise if the medical profession throws its mantle over the beer guzzlers. The tendency of the times is toward prohibition. The obstructionists are growing fev.er every day. In Indiana the medical fraternity has recognized that it can practice without whisky and without beer. Only a few physicians who see opportunities to enhance their popularity at the expense f their profession are now* insisting on the right to prescribe alcoholic Intoxicants. And it Is good to know thaWthese few do not predominate in Marlon County. Investigate! At the suggestion of Mr. Frank Jordan, who is directing the Chamber of Commerce fire prevention movement, the Lions’ Club has appointed a eommittee to investigate local fire losses, expenditures for the fire department and insurance costs. The committee can do Indianapolis an invaluable service by collaborating some of the facts concerning fire and insurance matters*in Indianapolis. It need go no further than the records of the board of public works to liscover that Indianapolis recently bought $75,000 more fire apparatus than the underwriters regarded as necessary for the lowering of insuran e rates. It need go no farther than the city purchasing agent’s office to ascertain that this fire apparatus was purchased on a second bid, increased approximately $16,000 in the face of a reduction in the market price of motors. It need go no farther than the underwriter’s bureau to discover that under the guise of placing Indianapolis in a higher classification for insurance, the Jewett administration floated an unnecessarily large bond issue and ordered expenditures which did not in any way bring merit marks from the underwriters. Os course, these things were all made public at the time they were done, but along about that time the Jewett administration was so thoroughly entrenched behind its screen of “righteousness" that none of the citizens became interestered in the merits of Its purchases. It is not too late, however, for the Lions’ committee to obtain the facts and make them public. Perhaps some other kind of prevention besides fire prevention will result from a survey of the expenditures made by the administration for our fire department. Creative Ideas Pay To be the master of creative ideas certainly brings handsome returns. Recently the estate of General Lew Wallace was reported as receiving a million dollars for the stage rights of the story of Ben-Hur, while it is a known fact that other authors got large sums for their work, when accepted and popular. This all arises from the ability to coordinate a creative idea with some practical purpose, either by making a literary production or by an application commercially. Nor is it confined to popular authors or playwrights. Large salaries, from $25,000 per year up, are paid to men and women who show special in commercial lines, and even certain ■*iiroad presidents receive more than that sum. Ordinary work brings ordinary pay, excepting as a reward for political activity, when, if all reports be true, true worth goes without recognition and pulls hold jobs for incompetents. It is a life question, however, to get away from the ordinary and to acquire the extraordinary ability so as to command anything out of the usual. Kipling was once the highest paid English author, now H. G. Wells is reported to have become a millinaire while other authors have written themselves into prosperity and comfort. It is recalled that in the darkest hour of financial depression, jobs for big men, who could produce big results were begging the men, while hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers with only fair ability were seeking work. It takes a big man to have a big idea, a big vision and to achieve a big result' 1

DUNEDIN- New Zealand’s farthest South City

DJNEDIN, New Zealand — When Mark Twain was touring New Zealand in 1895 he made quite a hit in Dunedin, fourth largest city of the do<tT Nort\ minion, with a little speech in • >r which he touched upon the Scot(tish element in k;jn.v*rci, a majority of the population. ;o*i “When I was -p* -v passing through the North Island,” he said, “I noticed that on the gates in the fences on each side of the railroad right of way there were signs which read, ‘Flease close this gate’ in the characteristic polite way of the British. But when I crossed into Otago province I noticed that the wording on the signs was different. They read, ‘Any person who fails to close this gate after passing through it will be subject to a fine of five pounds.’ Then I knew that I had arrived where the Scots ruled.” I. too, was told before w started for Dunedin that we would find It typically Scotttlsh. But when I got there 1 began to wonder where all the Scotchmen had gone to. Evidently the same thing had happened to Dunedin which happened to Christchurch, which always has had the reputation of being English rather than British, but whlcn now has an Irish mayor. In both places I found that the old lines had been wiped out and that

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In the frnlt Motion of Central Otago, where irrigation baa made a magnificent eretard country out of what once wa viewed only for Its gold possibilities. It was long after the gold fever had died out before the

the people were now entirely New Zealanders. that they did not care to be called English or Scotch or Irish, but favored the all embracing term of British. Once upon a time the river which divided the province of Canterbury, of which Christchurch is the principal city, and the province of Otago, of which ( Dunedin is the largast city, was the dividing line in other things as well. The story is told of an English carpenter who undertook to settle in Otago and was told frankly that he was not wanted, that, only Scots were welcome and that he should recross the river into Canterbury and stay there with the English. But the carpenter stayed anyhow and because he was a good carpenter and good carpenters were scarce he prospered. It is significant of the change which has taken place that ninny years intet he was sent to Parliament to represent Otago and Its people of Scotch descent. NAME INDICATIVE OF ANCESTRY. Dunedin's very name is Indicative of the ancestry of the people who first settled It. They wanted to call It New Edinburgh, after the big city at their homeland, but there are so many Edinburghs in the world that the proposal to call It Dunedin, which ia the Celtic name for Edinburgh, was quickly adopted. They carried their naming further, too, in that tha streets of the town bear many a name of streets in the original Edinburgh and the little stream which winds ita way ac;oss the north end of the city is called the Water of Leith. Until 1847 the only white men who had •■been attracted to Otago Heads, as

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Dunedin is 46 degrees south of the equator, but just look at the tropical vegetation that flourishes there. Palms, ferns, roses and other delicate flowers which wonld not he

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This is .he km, a parrot which years ago became a meat eater and a killer and ravaged sheep flocks far and near. The birds live mostly In the Southern Alps and are fiercely hunted for tire bounty which

the little settlement was then called, were sealers and whalers, but in that year several vessels arrived bearing colonists, who were sent out by the Free Church of Scotland, so that’ by the end of the year there weree 500 white persons there. This was greatly increased by the discovery of gold In Otago In 1861. and from that moment the prof reas and growth of Dunedin began. Hard times followed the dying out of the

people realised what a mine of another kind they had. Today Otago ia the richest fruit land of all New Zealand and leads In the prod action of apricots, peaches, apples, pears, nuts and berries.

gold fever, but the city never was set so far back that It could not recover. Today, with its suburbs, it has a population 70,000. Peculiarly enough, the very men who were so anxiously tearing up the soil in their hunt for gold in the dry lands of Central Otago did not realize that that same soli would some day make 11a owners well to do, for today that same country, by means of Irrigation, has developed into one of the best froitproduclng parts of all New Zealand. During the early gold rushes and during the later ones, when Chinese followed the Europeans ns the main seekers after gold, four men kept on cxperlpentlng with fruit, firmly believing that the soil was most adaptable for that purpose. To their persistent efforts Is due largely the frnlt industry of Otago today, for others joined them and now there Is raised an abundance of grapes, peaches, nectarines, apricots, pears and several kinds of nuts, because Irrigation makes up for the fact that the rainfall is alight— nn average of fourteen inches a year. For years the worst enemy to the fruitmen were the birds, which destroyed their crops, but the introduction Into New Zealand of the small German owl drove away the birds. The land is rich In potash and phosphoric acid, bnt lime and humtis ar freely applied and raspberry and strawberry growing are being taken up by increasing numbers. It is very rare for the country to be under snow, but the air 1b cold and dry and light, with frosts In June and July, their midwinter months. Dairying is carried on in almost as great a scale as it is in Canterbury anil there is a great deal of sheep and cat-

expected to grow in a climate wnere the nights are sr, cold two or three blankets are necessary on your bed, grow In profusion in and axound Dunedin.

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Is upon them because of their killing tendencies. Their favorite method of attacking sheep Is to light upon the animal’s back and peck through the hide to the kidneys, where it feeds upon the fat.

tie raising In Otago. The methods are almost identical with those employed In Canterbury province although Otago has discovered that it can produce better alfalfa and get four big crops a year off the sane plot of ground. Port Chalmers, seven miles from Dunedin, Is the stopping place for ail vessels of deep draught. From Port Chalmers to Dune-lit itself there is a channel up an est-.ary of the sea. The channel

Interior of the Mosgtel Woollen Mjlls near Dunedin. Tho mill, one Os tho oldest In fhn dominion, grows its own sheep f° r wool and not only make* cloth of It, but .turns out rugs of tho finest

naturally was twelve feet deep and was i dredged out to twenty feet in a day Vken the great ships of today were not dreamed of. So it is only the smaller vessels which get up to Dunedin today. It is proposed to dredge out several feet more or to build locks in order to make the channel sufficiently deep to care for the Mg vessels. This also would again make available the big dock, once tho largest in the dominion. The Union Steamship Company, which controls most of the shipping in Australia, and which started in 1872 with three tiny vessels for New Zealand ports only and which now owns almost 100 vessels, was one of the factors In making Dunedin a city, and in making its name known in the maritime world. The Union company has moat of the mail carrying contracts between Australia and New Zealand. Canada and Australia and virtually all the shipping to and from the Islands of the South sea-. It also carries passengers and virtually all of our sea travel in this part of the world has been over its lines. But Dunedin does not depend upon its marine business alone for its prosperity. Near it are located four out of the nine big woolen mills in New Zealand. It is a conter of Iron and steel manufacturing anil its proximity to the fruit district has made It the logical place fer preserving plants and candy factories. Its suburbs manufacture farming implements, stoves and ranges, it has one of the car building factories of tho dominion railways and only a few miles away is a big mill for the manufacture of wrapping and other heavy papers. There are several large packing houses in the province near Dunedin to take care of the great flocks of sheep on the 9,006,000 acres in Otago, half At which is taken up in sheep runs and farms. Some day Dunedin will he a much greater manufacturing center for, like Christchurch, it is close to many sites capable of developing great, waterpower and even now has the second largest hydro electric plant In the dominion, located at Waiporl Falls. Already otngo province has one seventh of the entire ponulatlop of New Zealand. CITY CENTER OF RABBIT INDUSTRY. Dunedin has one industry which is peculiarly its own in New Zealand, unit it has grown out of wlist have been the greatest menace to agriculture in the South Island—the rabbits who overrun things. Miles after miles of rabbitproof fencing are to be found In Otago and special boards deal with the problem of exterminating the pests. Many persons have found In the rabbits a good source of income and they are slaughtered by the wagon loads in drives in which many hunters take part. Quantities of them aro shipped to other countries in refrigerating ships, a trade which was developed during the war and since has. assumed big proportions. Dunedin has much to show in the educational line. It. is the location of Otago University, one of the four affiliated schools operated by the Dominion government as the University of New Zealand ; of Knox College and Selwyn College, denominational schools; of the only medical school In New Zealand .which Is operated in connection with a hospital; of a dental school and of Two of the finest high schools in five State. Andrew Carnegie has given four public libraries to New Zealand and that of Dunedin, costing $50,000, is the best. 1 found it very much up to date and .the volumes upon its shelves more recent and better, covering subjects than any I have seen in the Dominion, It was built in 1907. Much of the land upon which Dunedin Ss built was once mud flats. Hundreds of acres between the high hills hack of the business section were under water in the early days, but today are populated by some 22,000 persons. The site of the city seems to have been jumbled together by some upheaval of the earth, in the long ago. Its hills are steep and to be reached only by cable cars. The morning after our arrival we were awakened at 5 o’clock by a shaking of oi/fr beds and a rumbling noise which I, ha ting been in a slight* earthquake in Peru

A snapshot of one of the principal corners of Dunedin, the fartherest south big etty of New Zealand. In the center is the starting point of one of the cable cars that carry residents to their homes on the hills. The business section Is laid out on

several years ago, at once identified as a shock. It lasted only a few seconds and did no damage beyond alarming some of the women at our hotel. Residents of DUnedin seemed rather apologetic because the shock had disturbed us and said that they were infrequent now and did not cause any alarm. I was given an opportunity to inspect the Mosgtel woolen mills, employing 300 men and women, fourteen miles from Dunedin, and learned that it is one of

quality. Like ail other mills In New Zealand It manufacture* only for home consumption bccanse the government has forbidden the exportation of woollen goods until the supply In the dominion, depleted during the war. Is built up again.

the largest, as well as one of the oldest, mills iu the dominion. Originally it was a flour mill belonging to a great-nephew of Bobbie Burns, the Scotch poet. Iu 1871 the owner converted It into a woolen mill. Today it raises its own sheep and makes their wool into cloth, including rugs which have no equal anywhere. I wanted to buy some blaulu>ta, but was told that the New Zealand government will not permit any woolen goods manufactured in the dominion to be taken out of the country. During the war all of the woolen mills were worked to full capacity to supply tho military forces with underclothing, socks, uniforms, blankets .and so on, aud as a result the supply for

The freexing works at Bornside packing plant, where much of the mutton grown In Otago province is prepare, i for export. There are about

civilians was depicted. By keeping all woolen at homo tha government hopes to replenish the supply. Although Dunedin is not today the principal port of the dominion from which meat is shipped, it was the one from which the movement was inaugurated, for in 18,82 a sailing vessel, fitted with a freezing machine and insulated chambers, enrried frozen mutton to London from Dunedin and demonstrated that it was possible to make out of sheep New Zealand’s biggest industry. Incidentally, New Zealanders were the first to taste their own frozen mutton, for while the ship was being loaded the crank of the freezing machine broke and

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level ground which once wa mud flats. The style of architecture of Dunedin is elaborate and the bandings are substantial because there seldom are any earth shocks there, although one woke us up at 5 o'clock In the morning.

It became necessary to sell for local use the 1,500 carcasses which already were aboard. In Dunedin I met one of the men who was connected with this venture —Sir John Roberts, probably the most influential citizen of the city today. Born In Scotland, he emigrated to Australia to enter and study the wool business at first hand and himself began at the bottom as a spinner. When he came to

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Two prominent newspaper men of New Zealand with Mr. Boyce In a park In Dunedin. At the left Is Sir George Fen-Ick, publisher of the Otago Daily Times, and at the right the lion. Mark Cohen, member of the

Dunedin in 186S he began the raising of sheep for wool. In the first venture of shipping frozen meat to England he was one of the five sheep raisers who furnished the carcasses. From that first humble shipment of less than 5,000 carcasses has grown the tremendous export business of more than 50,000.000 carcasses a year. Today in place of the one or two agents who were sent along to see that the shipment was properly attended to during the experimental voyage, dominion inspectors constantly watch the meat from the time it reaches the packing houses as live sheep until it has been disposed of in

forty each pocking plants In New Zealand. Sheep Is the principal stock killed, although, a few cattle and still fewer hogs are received there. When the packing plants are working at

England, not only at the wholesalers, but into the very retail shops themselves. Thus Is the excellence of New Zealand mutton kept up to its high standard. In connection with sheep raising In Otago province, I learned the story of a bird, the kea parrot, which in the last quarter of a century has had a extraordinary change in Its habits. Originally the kea was just one of a family of parrots that ate Insects, honey and wild fruits. But with the multiplication of sheep the kea turned Into a bloodthirsty sheep killer whose depredations ravaged flocks far and wide and today makes these birds eagerly bunted

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for the bounties upon them. How the kea became a killer is not definitely known, but it is believed to have acquired the taste for meat during one of the seasons when sheep were so plentiful it was impossible to ship them and they were killed for their hides, which were stretched upon fences to dry. From pecking at the bits of fat which clung to these hides the keas became bolder and attacked living sheep. Their favorite food is the fat surrounding the kidneys and they land upon the back of aa animal and with their sharp beaks peck through the hide into the kidneys. Few animals survive such attacks. FORTUNATE IN FALLING IN WITH MARK COHEN. Coming down to Dunedin on the train from Christchurch, we had the company of Mr. Mark Cohen, whom I had heard called the kindliest man in the dominion. Born in London of Jewish parentage in 1849, his parents brought him to Australia when he was 0 years old and moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, after his education had been accomplished. There he has for many year* identified himself with public work, having served for ten years in the city council, on educational boards, as a deputy inspector of insane asylums foff the dominion government and in other capacities. Today he is a member of the legislative council, the upper house of Parliament. He set a record in New Zealand for longest continuous service on a newspaper, having begun in 1865 as an office boy on the Dunedi Star, from which he retired the first of this year, after being its editor for many years. Mr. Cohen, who later was to be my host at his Dunedin home, proved a veritable mine of information on all subjects connected with the Dominion and during the railroad journey of several hours pointed out to us the many places of interest. He particularly interested ns with stories of the mountains in the range of the Southern Alps, whose snow-covered tops we could see from the train windows. Most famous of them all is Mount Cook, which ' is only 12,349 feet high, but which for 1 years defied all attempts to climb one of its three summits. Sixteen parties have

upper house of the New Zealand Parliament and formerly editor of the Dunedin Star. The two have been friends since boyhood and both began their careers as office boys oa their papers.

climbed one or the other since the first ascent was completed on Christmas day, 1894. It had been our Intention to fly ovor ML Cook In an airplane and take pictures of it at close range, but the same bad weather conditions which makes diming so dangerous prevented. Near Mt. Cook are several famous glaciers, among them Linda Glacier, which now holds in its grasp the bodies of two unfortunate guides v ho were caught in an avalanche several years ago. Scientists recently examined the glacier and estimated that about fifty years from now, at its present rate of progress, it will disgorge the bodies of Its victims.

capacity the sheep are turned Into special fields where turnips or rape have been grown so that they will remain fat until it Is their time In the killing room.

In Dunedin, Mr. Cohan Introduced me to his boyhood friend, now Sir George Fenwick, who, despite his T 4 years, still retains an active grasp on the affairs of the Otago Dally Times of which he became managing director after serving In all capacities from office boy on up. I consider it a remarkable coincidence that two churns should have had such similar careers. Their other tastes are much in common, too, for Sir George has made a hobby of criminology and served on various organizations dealing with prisoners, both before and after their release and has devo'ed himself to working for the common good. They both saw us off at the train and wished us God speed.