Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1921 — Page 3
AUTO LICENSE LAW BRINGS TO STATE $500,000 Funds Derived Under New Act to Be Used in War on Car Thieves. Approximately fCOO.OOO trill be the State's profit, exclusive of the work and salaries of the police force, under the new certificate of license law which became effective recently, it was learned today. The State charges the automobile owners $1 for the certificate and the certificate container. The certificates cost the State approximately sl7 a thousand and the holders slightly over thla amount. Title certificates are being issued at the rate of 5.000 a day and at the present rate many people will be without their certificates the first day of September, the last day of grace allotted auto owners by the State license department. The fOOo.OOO the State takes in for certificates and title holders will be used in fighting auto thieves according to Howard McClellan, head of the department. At present Indiana has 314,000 pleasure cars and 300,000 motor trucks. AH the money derived from passenger and truck license at present Is turned over to the State highway commission and is used for the building of new roads and repairs on the roads which are In need. The money derived from sale of certificates and holders also will be used to pay salaries. ILLINOIS DETOUR TOWN HARD PLACE TO FIND There’s a motorist near Kankakee, 111., who is against road signs of every description. especially "Detour" signs. It Isn't because he holds them unsightly. The other day, while en route to Chicago, for the first time, he encountered u pesky detour beacon which directed him to proceed five miles. Later, he was greeted by another sign reading "Detour ten miles." He stopped a passing brother motorist and inquired. "Say, where In the world la this town ‘Detour?* ” AUTO ACCIDENT DEATHS SHOW NEED OF CAUTION Despite safety campaigns and tae efforts of official agencies, mortality figures due to automobile accidents this year will far exceed any registered in former years, according to statistics compiled by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, covering the first four months of 1921. The figures show that even with allowance for normal Increase, the situation during this period was much worse than a year ago. In April, for example, there
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were 113 deaths from automobile accidanst among the company’s industrial policy-holders. This is at the rate of 10.2 perd oo.ooo, about 23 per cent higher than In 1020. The chief causes for the mortality increase probably are the Increasing congestion of city streets and the greater number of drivers, many of them new. The figures Indicate that safety and precautionary measures already applied have not been sufficiently effective, and give evidence in concrete form of the necessity for a concerted effort to reduce the automobile hazard. INDIANA ROADS SEsr. Members of the Tin Can Tourists of the World, an organization of auto camping tourists, who returned from Florida to points in the Middle West report that Indiana roads are in the best shape of any they traveled. The Hoosler State is famous for its gravel roads, which are kept In excellent state of repair. Indiana is adding hundreds of miles of concrete and brick highways.—Goodrich Topics. NOVEL SAEETY SIGNS. San Francisco used a number of signs such as the following in a recent snfety first campaign. “When you are in a morgue it is of little importance to yon whose fault it was.” “Remember, pedestrian —better lose a minute than a leg ” •Remember, motorist—drive with both hands if you expect to live and marry hr.” MAKES EASE FOR DRIVERS. Anew automobile steering gear in which came replace the usual segments, sectors and worms, has been lavented by an Englishman, who claims it will prevent shocks of rough roads and *wisting strains to the steering columns. FACE MASK FOR ALTO DRIVERS. A complete face mask. ,o be buttoned to the cap and equipped with an adjustable eye shield against glaring headlights, has been patented to protect automobile drivers in cold weather. INITLAL9 ON RADIATOR. To make automobiles distinctive a New York inventor has patented a process for AMUSEMENTS.
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The first practical Americana electric automobile was built by Fred Kimball of Boston in 1888. Foreign countries last year averaged more than $1,000,000 per day in money paid to Americaan manufacturers of motor vehicles .tiles and accessories. The maximum length of a horse-drawn R. F. D. route Is fixed by law at thirtysix miles. The minimum length of a motor rural mail route is fifty miles. The Franklin Automobile Company reports that It shipped more automobiles from its plant during the last month than during any previous month in its history. The record-breaking shipment amounted to 1,031 cars. 3D AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR „ . LEGISLATURE (Continued From Page One.) that the Supreme Court was Induced to undertake the perilous task of reviewing “legislative discretion” and substituting j "judicial discretion” for it. The court ran along merrily, knocking out one apportionment after another, until it bumped into a stone wall that forced a change of program. In 1895 the Supreme Court was confronted by the fact that all of the apportionment acts that had been questioned before it were unconstitutional i under the rules laid down by it, and that j the only law that remained was the Demoj cratic apportionment law of 1885, which J was just as plainly a gerrymander, under the court's rulings, as any of the others, and which had been vigorously assailed on that ground in a successful Republican campaign. But if It were held unconrtlI tutlonal, there remained no law under j which a Legislature could be elected, and | so it was declared in force, on the ground that it had not been formally questioned.
The Truth About Indianapolis / AUTO ACCESSORIES INDUSTRY WITH seventy different concerns in Indianapolis manufacturing auto accessories, the annual retail value of their products mounts to nearly $20,000,00*0. Next to the automobile industry itself in this city comes the accessories, which of late years have grown to such large proportions. For those “extras” which make motoring convenient in every detail the autoists spend more than $1,500,000 a month for the Indianapolis-made products. Standard and special accessories are included in the vast line manufactured in this city. Shock absorbers, chains, fans, batteries, special permanent tops, wheels, locks, sun visors, curtains and a hundred other different accessories are made by the 5,500 men and women engaged in the production of these accessories. Nearly every car in use has one or more accessories on it which are made in Indianapolis. Fletcher American National Bank of INDIANAPOLIS Capital and Surplus, $3,000,000.
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(144 Ind. B 03). The only other law prior to 1900 that escaped was that of 1897, and It only because It was not attacked In the courts. FIFTY YEARS’ DEMONSTRATION. All of this wasted much time of the Legislature, the people, and the courts; but worse than that It diverted their attention from material legislation which they should have been considering. Half a-eentury ago. Governor Hendricks and General Harrison made the State echo with their denunciations of gerrymanders of the other party, and we are still at it. You will recall that at the last session of the Legislature some feeling was displayed because the Congressmen wanted to “fix their districts,” and the legislators resented the attempt to interfere with their right to do the fixing. We have had over fifty years of absolute demonstration that the system is bad; and it is as foolish as it is bad. Numerical representation, on the idea of representing individual voteis, Is neither desirable nor practical. Tbe only sane representation is of political omits; and in Indiana the obvious political unit is the county. It is the one in which there is community of interest. Your tax system, land record system, court system, school system and entire local official systems are on a county basis. Other organizations follow the same grouping—bar associations, medical associations, fair associations, charitable associations, and all the rest. Manifestly every county ongnt to have at least one representative in the Legislature; but very frequently small counties are without any representative in either house, on account of our "jo.ntdistrict” system. Os corse the larger counties should have more representation because they pay more taxes, and have greater and more diversified Interests; but the whole basis should be fixed in the constitution, and pat out of the reach of both Legislatures and courts, if the people have hsd enough of the gerrymander. FEWER DISTRICTS LESS TEMPTATION. As to the State Senate, vastly better results could be obtained by dividing the State into fo®Kor five districts and remvoieg the temptation to gerrymander bv providing minority representation. It Is singular that with all the eloquence
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that has been expended in Indiana about ‘‘unrepresented surpluses,” the only Indiana statesman who has called attention to unrepresented minorities was Governor Hendricks, who said in his message of 1873: “I wish to call attention to tha subject of representative reform, which, during the last ten years has been advocated by some of the best minds, both in Europe and in this country, and is now undergoing the test of experience. I desire to make this the more emphatic, because in this State it seems yet to e regarded as right and proper for Uie majority to deny to the minority evei that representation which an apportlc nment based upon population aud contiguity of counties would give. Representative reform rests upon tbe proposition that minorities of constituencies should have a representation as nearly in proportion to numbers as may be practicable. All the citizens contribute to the burdens of government and should yield obedience to the laws, and It Is Just, equal and fair that all should be represented. One of the ablest of English statesmen. In the debate in the House of Lords on the reform bill of 1867 suggested this illustration : Suppose a representative district has 10.000 voters ond 6,000 are of one side in politics and 4,000 of the other, would that district not be better represented If both the 6.000 and the 4,000 were represented than if the votes of either be wholly rejected and without influence or power? He added: I can well understand men who are extremely intolerant and exclusive In politics objecting to give any voice to those whose political views are distasteful to them, but I can not understand such an objection being urged by those who are in favor of having public opinion fairly represented.’ The advantages of this reform are obvious. Political asperities would be modified; local satisfaction would be produced; tbe temptation to corruption and bribery at elections would be greatly re moved, and security and permanency
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would be given to the Influence and power of the minority, thus securing a check upon the majority, should it become arrogant and unscrupulous, so that legislation would proceed more for the people and legs for party.” (House Journal, 1873, p. 80). illustration ln MARION COUNTY. There are other advantages that are equally obvious. We have a parallel In Marion County for the Illustration given by Governor Hendricks. Under the apportionment law of 1915 It was given ten representatives. In the election of 1918, the Republican vote was approximately 30.000, atd the Democratic vote 20,000, the Republican;: electing the ten representatives. Os cou.se this vote was abnormal; and in the swing of the pendulum the Democrats are liable to elect ten. Under minority representation the Republicans, in 1916, would have elected their six highest representatives, and the Democrats four. Assuming that the people vote intelligently, we should always have more capable representation if tbe six best men on one side were returned, and the four best men on the other. Moreover, this would be an approach to real representation. When a committee is formed for any public purpose, no rational person would advocate taking all the members from one oplitical party, one church, one fraternal organization, or anything of that sort. Common sense leads us to seek to represent as many classes and Interests as possible. And such a division would make the Legislature more accessible to ail who take interest in any of its work. The average legislator looks on any one who approaches him concerning legislation as ’’having an ax to grind;” and, if of the opposite party, as having improper motives. It is really a relief to meet a legislator whom you know, and who knows you, to whom you do not have to furnish a certificate of good moral char-
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Hatfield Is offering a reward for information that may lead to her discovery. Before her marriage Mrs. Hatfield wus Miss Ethel Ward and her home was in Lexington, Ky. j SHELBY ATTENDANCE OFFICER. M SHELBYVILLE, Ind., July 20.—J. ill Carlisle of Waldron was re-elected attendance officer of Shelby County at a special meeting of the township trustees of Shelby County. The selection o( Mr. Carlisle was unanimous end was not opposed' by any other candidate. Hq has held the office for more than five years.
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