Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1921 — Page 9

HOOSIER AUTO MEN TO FIGHT * GRAFT GAME Reputed ‘Constable Nuisance’ Will Be Given Careful Attention. Although one of the new laws pnt through the last Legislature at the request of the Hoosler State Automobile Association restricts the activities of constables and Justices of the peace In reference to automobile traffic regulation in all Indiana, citi' oT the first, second and third class, this law is not strdng enough to put an end to the socalled “constable nuisance” In less pop- : ulous communities. From many sections I of the State, according to an annonnceI ment by M. E. Noblet, secretary of the ft automobile association, are coming com- ■ plaiuts of motorists that they hace been ■unjustly arrested and fined on trumpedKp charges. W -“One of the actirltes we have planned [ for this summer,’’ says Mr. Noblet, ’is to extend our legal protection bureau so that members of the Hodsier State Autoh mobile Association may be protected from I unjust arrest. In this connection It may I be stated as a warning to all constables ■ and justices of the peace In the smaller I communities that we propose to have I their actions strictly investigated in all I cases where they have arbitrarily I trumped up more or less fictitious I charges against motorists who pass i through their communities. “In some instances.” continued Mr. NChlet, “we have positive evidence that fines have bet n assessed and collected and the money ‘split’ two or three ways, without ever going into the proper funds as provided for law. In short, in these Instances, it is petty graft and worse — it is malfeasance’ in office, or obtaining money under false pretenses. ’ Such officials are apt to find themselves facing Impeachment proceedings. "We cannot make it too strong that the Hoosier State Auto Astociation is strictly for the enforcement of laws relating to motor traffic. We are recognized as one of the strong ugencies for law enforcement and we are almost solely responsible for most of the laws now on the statute books affecting motor traffic. But, the pest of unjust arrest on trumped up charges by constab'es who split hairs to bring these charges purely for the fees that are in It for them must be brought to a halt. “By the same token, we wish b-rewith to warn all automobile drivers '.nat they

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must proceed slowly when driving through towns and villages. They must close their cut-outs. They must not drive on the left side of the street and they must not pass standing street cars or interurban cars when same -.re taking on or discharging passengers. Arrests on such cases are entirely Justifiable. We wish all our members, however, throughout the State, to report alleged cases of officials who exceed the letter and the spirit of the laws in making uajust arrests.” It Is stated that Attorney General U. S. Lesh has had his attention ceiled to several specific cases of apparent grafting on the part of constables In various sections of Indiana end that he has offered to give assistance to the Hoosier State Auto Association to bring an end to these practices. Getting Rid of Oil Is Mexico’s Worry LONDON,. June 10.—A forty-two gallon barrel of oil, equivalent to a tou of coal, for $1.96 Is an easy proposition, says Mr. Maxim Ford, of the Geological Society of Mexico, now in London on business. Mexico, he declares could supply the whole world with oil for fifty years and banish coal worries from the face of the earth. The trouble Is not to get the oil. but to get rid of It. THIN PEOPLE NEED BITROPHOSPHATE All that most weak, nervous, thin, mentally-depressed people need Is ten grains of pure organic phosphate with each meal for a few weeks. That’s what nerve specialists in London, Paris and New York are prescribing with wonderful results. It Is natural food for nerve and brain cells and is known to such reliable pharmacists as Haag’s drug stores as BltroI’hosphatc. Because of Its power to help create healthy flesh and strengthen weak nerves, much of It is being sold to people who .re lacking In vitality. fAI'TIOX: Although IMtro-Phosphate i'. an excellent aid in relieving weak, nervous conditions, it* use it not advised unless increased weight is desired.—Advertisement.

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EVANS ENTERS SUITS ON BONDS State Seeks to Collect for Forfeitures. Three aults on bonds declared forfeited by the courts, today were filed In the Marion County Clrcr.t Court by Prosecutor William P. Evans in behalf of the State. In one suit the State seeks to recover SIOO which was given as a bond for Lucille Harder, who failed to appear for trial in the Crlmtnal Court on a charge of unlawful possession of an automobile. Louis Brown, Jr., was surety on the bond and was made a party defendant to the suit. The second suit was filed against Richard Ramsey and his surety, Henry Winkler, on a SIOO bond. Ramsey failed to appear for trial on a charge of unlawful possession of an automobile, it is charged. i Judgment of $1,200 is asked against John Barb and his surety, Sam Koby. According to the suit, Barb was fined S2OO and costs In the city court on charges of operating a blind tiger. Barb appealed to’the Criminal Court but failed to appear for trial there, It is charged.

PROBLEMS OF The By-Product Coking Business 12. Why We Do Not Go Into the Retail Coke Business ( Continued ) Again continuing the academic discussion of the wisdom of going into the retail coke, business (which we haven’t the money to go into), we come to the real question of public interest. The average critic of our local coke selling policy lias no interest in the question of investment required and does not care whether we sell much coke or not; what he is interested in is getting his own fuel at the lowest possible price. COULD WE CONDUCT A RETAIL FUEL BUSINESS ON A SMALLER MARGIN THAN THE PRESENT RETAILERS REQUIRE? Our answer to this question must bo. much like our answer to the query whether we could not sell more coke than all of the dealers do. Possibly we could conduct the business on a smaller margin after getting it well established, if we could provide ample capital for the most modern equipment and could run it on a large scale under efficient management. The retail fuel merchants of Indianapolis who have, made a very large investment in the yards and equipment used in their business and who have devoted many years to the development of their business, are not believed to have amassed any large fortunes. Anew concern with a larger investment, the most improved equipment and the best organization it could ge.t, might, in time, be able to make reasonable profits on a narrower margin per ton; but it certainly could not hope to do so until it could build up a large, volume of business. We express no opinion as to the efficiency of the existing organizations or the reasonableness of the present retailers’ margins; but from a general observation of the business we are convinced that a retail coke business established by ourselves would lose money for several years on the same margins. Granting that after rising a large investment and running for a few years at a loss, we. could -finally draw a very large volume of business from our competitors and make a fair return on our investment, what would the “ultimate consumer” profit? The most that he could get would be a small reduction on a ton of coke. He. would certainly be disappointed because he would expect a large reduction in the delivered price of fuel. There could be no reduction in our wholesale prices to our own yards, for we have always kept them as low as possible. The saving in our retail margin could not possibly be great enough to make his fuel seem cheap. Taking into account: (a) The initial losses on the investment, (b) the keen competition of optside coke through all dealers who were not driven out of business by our own competition, (c) the impossibility of ever making our retail margin so narrow as to make a very great regular saving to the consumer and (and) the general disappointment which would be felt because at best we could never make the retail delivered price of fuel materially cheaper for any considerable length of time than it is under present arrangements —-we must admit frankly that the retail fuel business is not a proper side-line for a public utility to take lip. But if we were sure that we could establish a retail business that -would greatly increase the local consumption of our coke and give it to the consumer at a much lower price— still we could not do it because we have not the capital and see no prospect of ever getting it. If public-spirited citizens with ample resources care to establish such a business and can give reasonable assurance that they can increase the local consumption of coke at a narrower retailer’s margin, there is no doubt they could get our business. The field is an open one. The present retail fuel merchants have no monopoly on it. CITIZENS GAS COMPANY

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1921.

‘Scientific’ Test Shows Hooch Results EVANSTON. 111., June 10.—Evanston now knows "what liquor will do to you.’ The scientific effect of illicit imbibing of alcoholic stimulants has been officially recorded through diagnosis of six Evanston citizens who went under the test. Their reports follow: No. I—Beat his inlfe. No. 2—Walked through a plats glass window In mistake for a door. No. 3—lnsisted on sleeping in an alley. No. 4—Tried to water his automobile at a horse trough. No. 6—Sang funeral hymns. No. 6—Held the head of No. 5 while keeping time to the hymns. The six were arraigned before Follee Magistrate Boyer. Three were fined $lO each, while two were sent back to their cells to recover speech and locomotion. The sixth was released. •STIFF WOMEN HAVE STIFF BRAINS.’ LONDON, June *3. —The hockeyplaying girl was unanimously described as a potentially bad mother at a conference held on the "Present Physical Education of Girls.” •'Eighty per cent of women gymnastic Instructors have been more or less In-

capacity for bearing children,” said one of the speakers, “while the little feminine woman of the Victorian era had usually three or four strapping sons.” Miss Redmar, of the School of Physical Development, said she had Invariably found that the stiff muscular woman had a stiff, slov -working brain. Physical training colleges were # preparatory schools for nursing homes for nervous cases. Swedish drill was German propaganda for reducing the population—via Sweden.

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