Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1922 — Page 4

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JuMana Saita ctimra INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 2-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone—MA in 3500. (MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. i w York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. - Advertising offices \ Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. IT DOES SEEM that the county commissioners might have selected someone other than a professional politician for the clerk's office! LETS SEE. Didn’t Frank Childers figure rather prominently in an affair which was commonly known as the Haag case a few years ago? ANYHOW, it is quite certain that the bank bandits drove away from the scene of the robbery and they might as well have gone to Cincinnati as any other place. * * Adjusted Compensation' Why is there such determination in bonus circles to call the bonus by some other name? Why do those who are demanding a bonus for former service mer/protesl: against calling it a “bonus” or “gratuity;” punctiliously referring to it themselves as “adjusted compensation” and insisting that it shall be referred to in no other way? “Adjusted compensation.” Why adjusted compensation? “Adjusted to what?” asks Senator Bqrah. "To what Standard. To a stable boy? The unfortunate woman, circumscribed by .race and conditions and environment, who scnabs the floors of our Capitol, receives more money than you propose to pay as compensation to the boys who were willing to imperil their lives, i would infinitely rather call it a bonus, a gratuity, from the hearts of the American people, than to insult an American soldier by telling him that he was worth no more than the charwoman upon our Capitol steps.” „ v The claimants of “adjusted compensation” .claim It on the ground that it is a debt due them. Os course no such claim can be made without assuming that the man who served in the American expeditionary forces was hired to serve and that he has n<3t been paid the hire that he is entitled to. • But how many Americans who served in those forces are willing to put their services on that plane? How many of them are willing to say they went into the Army for the money there was In it? Even thdugh drafted, how many of them are willing to say that they served for wages, and that they could be paid for their sendee in wages of a dollar a day, or ten dollars a day, or a hundred dollars a day? It is Hessians who fight for pay. The only Hessians Americans know axe those hired by the British and licked by the in the revolution We whip Hessians; we do not grow them. And yet “compensation” is what Hessians get for their service. If they do not get all they were promised they are entitled to adjusted compensation. "Compensation” is defined by the dictionary as “that which is given or received as an equivalent, as for services.” There is not money enough in the world to represent the equivalent of the American Army’s value in the war. There is not money enough in the United States to represent the equivalent of the value of one division of that Army. Who could estimate in dollars and cents the services of those Americans who fell on the fields of France? How could we compensate in dollars and cents those who returned from field and camp maimed in body and broken in health? A grateful Nation must do all that can be done with dollars and cents to restore them to health and efficiency, but it can never "compensate" them for their glorious sacrifices for their country. Better think it over, boys, and stop talking about "adjusted compensation.” If you ever get what you call adjusted compensation it will be by scaring politicians into raiding the Treasury for you In the hope of themselves receiving compensation in your votes. If you ever get a “bonus,” a “gratuity," it will be a freewill offering of your countrymen out of the fullness of their hearts, in gratitude for your patriotic sendees, not as compensation for thfem. —Louisville Courier-Journal.

High Paving Costs Bids of four dollars and ten cents a yard for the same kind of asphalt paving in Indianapolis that Louisville is getting for |2.15 furnishes undisputed evidence that the cost of paving to property owners in this city is too high. * Neither the members of the board of works nor the city engineer can reconcile the letting of contracts on this basis with an unquestioned desire to protect the interests of the persons who must pay for this paving. There should be, and we believe there is, a unanimous agreement on this point in the ranks of the Shank administration. Evidently, however, there is a difference of opinion between the city engineer and members of the board of works as to a proper manner of forcing lower prices on paving. The engineer suggests that asphalt paving be grouped into one large contract and outside contractors be asked to bid on it. He also suggests that concrete be laid on streets that are not subject to heavy traffic under specifications that would make the paving possible at low costs. The board of works has not concurred in either suggestion and has flatly rejected that regarding concrete paving by ordering that hereafter only wood block, asphalt, bituminous concrete and brick shall be specified in paving resolutions. , No definite action on the plan of grouping a large number of paving jobs and calling in outside contractors has been taken. In the meanwhile, soma very good reas&ns have been disclosed, from a political standpoint, as to why the board should not be interested in Mr. Elliott’s suggestions. It is hardly likely that political advantages will be permitted to force asphalt paving on Indianapolis property owners at $4.10 when Louisville gets the same kind of paving at $2.15. Such a program Is not at all in keeping with Samuel Lewis Shank’s pledges or his inclinations. What is indicated in the premises is a lower price for asphalt and if Mr. Elliott’s suggestions for getting that lower price are not satisfactory to the board of works, it is to be presumed that some other method of achieving the same end will be brought forth by the board-members. * Doubtless Mr. Sf?&nk will be loath to allow Mr. Elliott’s zeal in the interests of the property owners to be'-the basis for his withdrawal from the city's employ. No doubt the mayor would be reluctant to have his board of works disrupted. The resignation of neither board members nor Mr. Elliott is desirable at this time. There ought to b# some method of ironing out this difficulty and at the same time protecting the property owners against excessive paving costs. _ * There is no reason, except the high cost of maintaining a political * organization, for high paving costs and the public is not now so enamored of political machines as to be willing to pay for their upkeep through paving contracts. England's Provinces It appears that England- has come to realize that her foreign possessions can be handled much more satisfactorily by allowing them to have some form of home rule. Her ultimate decision regarding Ireland and Egypt would so indicate. No doubt, India will eventually be given the same privilege. % ) \ It means a load of trouble off the hands of the mother country when she tells her provinces to "work out their own salvation”—while she carefully'keeps an eye on their doings. It is no easy matter for EngWnd to know and cater to the desires of the many different races of people who constitute the British Empire. In many instances the provinces do not realize that it is a hard thing for the inexperienced to handle governmental affairs and they come across a great many problems resulting in civil wars. The ability to manage great masses of people a satisfactory mannery is an asset which is acquired only by years of experience along that line. Russia is a sad example of bad rule and in such cases the people have to suffer. Canada has long been an example of a well governed province of England and while it.is not what is called a free country, the people living there believe they have a better form of government than the United States ancKwould not be willing to exchange. The mother country realizes that its province is like a child growing into manhood —he wants to exercise his own free will to some extent, but he is not really willing to give up the privilege of seeking advice from older heads when he fpels he has hit a snag; yet he likes to feel that he is doing as he pleases. Perhaps the world i3 a little skeptical about England’s willingness to do as it has done regarding its possessions, but Washington diplomats say this is to buttress the British Empire.

WANTS TO MAKE OLD ENGLAND. ‘MERRIE’AGAIN Chesterton Says Britbin If, Befogged With Stupidity. LONDON, March B—Gilbert K. Chjfterton has adopted lately the practice- ofc Having his brightest thoughts for small private gatherings. It was at a private house in London the other day that he held forth on the necessity for a “merrie England." and he made light also of the alleged stupidity of the English people. “In the middle ages." said Chesterton, "th*b English people had the reputation of being very eheerful and very artistic —hence ‘Merrie England,’ a phrase that still unaccountably lingers. “What we have to do is to make England ‘merrie’ once more and not to be obliged to Journey to what is known as ‘Gay Paree’ in search of enjoyment. “English people have got into the habit,'' complained Chesterton, “of going about with a snigger and saying ‘We are a stupid people.’ Now verj few people can afford—and l am not one of them —to make themselves more stupid than they really tfre. Yet there still exists a qurloiis idolatry of stupidity and of ugliness, which is in reality a phase of the industrial era which is passing away. “What England needs is to return to tbe England of Chaucer, of Shakespeare, find of all the great artists before the London fog of ugliness descended on Britain. • “All life is really a recovery of the past. Although we take off our clothes at night we don’t say that we have done with clothes. You don't say farewell to your waiscoa—however dandified it happens to be. "If you put on your clothes—as in my case is exceedingly probable—and find you have them on wrong and discover in your absent-mindedness you are wearing -your coat with the tails in front, you don't say: ‘This is destiny; such is my fate.’ On the contrary, you make an effort at reconstruction —to recover the past. That Is what is known as a reversion to the ‘faorma;. • “There never has been a movement with any kick in it that was not really antiquarian. There has never been a revolution that was not really reactionary. England needs is to make the present as normal as most of 'the past.” LITERACY TEST DOES NOT PROVE SUCCESSFUL

Immigration Law Tends? to Keep Sturdy Foreigners Away. WASHINGTON. March 3—The literacy test in American immigration laws is a failure, Bnd operates to keep out of the United States the more sturdy industrious classes of European laborers, acordlcg to Dr. John J. Constas, Washington surgeon, who returned here recently from a four months' tour of Europe in n survey of immigration problem* for the Government. Dr. Constas made a special study of conditions, affecting Immigration in Southern European countries, though his , his observations covered many other countries in Central and Western Europe. N A vigorous stand* by the United States to force the adoption by other countries of higher medical standards to govern those who seek passage on ships bound for the United States is recommended by Dr. Constas, in a report which he will submit to Secretary of Labor Davis. MODIFICATIONS NEEDED. Secretary Davis invited Dr. Constas, for many, years a close student of itn-. migration and Americanization questions, to suggest modifications in present immigration rules and regulations on the bests of his Investigations abroad. Dr. Constas asserted today that the health of America's immigrant population can only be assured, and in turn the Health of American communities safeguarded by Imposing severe medical tests abroad. He believes the United State®, by joint action with foreign powers, efin so tighten the inspection rules at foreign ports that transportation of mental or physical defectives out of those countries to the United States can be stopped. __ The suggestions of Dr. Constas may later be laid before President Harding. Before ys departure for Europe. Dr. Constas discussed with the President the object of his Aission abroad, and the latter expressttj a desire so learn the results of the survey both of labor and Immigration conditions as they now exist. EUROPE NEEDS LABOR. Europe, noV struggling industrially, needs practically all of her surplus labor to help In rehabilitation. Dr. Constas declared. In some few of the Countries of southern Europe, including Italy, wherein the large population do not permit of much expansion, there is a surplus of la. borers who'might make useful citizens in this country if they wore admitted, he declared. While in Europe, Dr. Constas, by fecial request of the Greeik government, introduced American methods into the Greek hospital system and supervised the setting up of new Red Cross units upon the American plan. For this service he received the thanks of <he Greek gov-” ernment and was the recipient of honors from its highest officials. Beware Elyria, Bo! ELYRIA, Ohio, March 3. —Local municipal officials are considering the proposal that the old stonepile, within a stockade, and the custom of making prisoners work oa the streets, inaugurated by Mayor Reefy here twenty years ngo, be revived in nn effort to cheek the tramp evil. Transients boycotted Elyria as long as the “work gang” existed.

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Harry N. Fields, held by police in Detroit, declares that William. D. Taylor, noted film director, was murdered by a Chinese member of a party of four drug addicts with whom Fields drove to the Tayior bungalow at Los Angeles. Following his “confession,” Los Angeles detectives immediately instituted a search for a revolver Fields said was hidden by Taylor’s assassin. The Chinaman accused of murder has not been found.

GIRL PREACHER HAS NO USE FOR LITTLE FLAPPER MIAMI, Okla., March ft. —A slangy world calls her the “flapper preacher,” but she is not that at all. Just a slip of a girl Is Miss Orietta Stoddard, still in grade school, but already an ordained minister of the gospel. The district conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church In recent session at Tulsa admitted her to the ministry and thereby made her the youugest ordained preacher in the United States. She was voted in by acclamation, after having passed every test successfully. Miss Stoddard has no use for the butterfly life of the modern “flapper” just lu her teens. Jazz music's most syncopated moans and whines fall to entten her, for she has given up all social activities. Including dancing. “Cake-eaters” in flaring bell-bottom trousers, a fashion epidemic now raging in Oklahoma, fail to amuse her, Although she is one of the most popular girls in school. “My work is more Important than sitly love affairs,” she said. “I have been called by my God and I intend to make the ministry my life's work.” Miss Stoddard made her pulpit debut in her home town, Miami, where she now is in the seventh grade at school. iShe first attracted widespread attention as a preacher of the gospel, however, when she delivered a sermon to the congregation of the First Methodist Church at Baxter Springs, Kan., at an evening service. The Rev. O. B. Morris, district su perintondent, declared she led more young people to the gospel on that occasion that had the regular minister during any previoua meeting. Two years ago the girl preacher, after joining the church, flrat began her religious work. Under the direction of her pastor, the Rev. Q. A. Klelnstelper, of Miami, she prepared her - first sermon, which was delivered from the Rev. Klein stetper’s pulpit. She later presided regularly at the old folks’ homo at Miahal and then filled a temporary vacancy at Pilcher, Okla., for two services. Miss Stoddard plans to complete hes high school education at Miami and will attend the Oklahoma City Methodist College to finish her gospel training. During the approaching school vacation, however, she will be assigned to regular preaching throughout the district, according to Mr. Morris.

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Highways arid By-Ways of LiF OF New York (Copyright, 1922, by the Public Ledger Company.) By RAYMOND CARROLL.

NEW YORK, March 3.—The latest Rockefeller gift of §8,000,000 to Johns Ijopkins University, Baltimore, for endowment and buildings* of the school of hygiene and public health, again lifts the curtain upon the past benefactions of America’s richest father and soa. To date, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., have divested themselves of more than $500,000,000, a sum greater than was expended by the United Sta'tes In the purchase of Alaska, Louisiana, l Philippine Islands and Florida and/ the construction of the Panama Canal. The Johns Hopkins University gift comes ont of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the four mediums provided foi the distribution of Rockefeller wealth. The other Uhree are the General Educational Board, the Laura Stillman Memorial and the Rockefeller Institute, each being handsomely endowed and Independent of (tie other as to (plan and scope. The huge gifts to Chicago University antedated the creation ot those four colossal “hand-cut” agencies. Funds of "’the Rockefeller Foundation alone now aggregate between $170,000,000 and $180,000,000, which yield about SB,000,000 interest annually. But as was the ca*e twice during the war, the si*e of the gift to Johns Hopkins University will necessitate dipping into the principal. Edwin R. Embree, secrefary of the Rockefeller Foundation, is of the opinion that the appropriation for the new school of

CHAPLIN'S FORMER WIFE BOOKED , To Appear at Keith's Next Week in Playlet

At B. F. Keith's next week, the head line attraction will be Mildred Harrla the former wife of Charlie Chaplin, the movie comedian. Miss Harris, who is a movie actress, will appear in person in a one-act playlet written nround her former successes. In the support of Miss Harris will be found 8 Miller Kent, a distinguished actor, wfto hnils from Brookston. Ind. Mr. Kent hae long been a big favorite both on the legitimate stage and in vaudeville. Another act of ‘headline caliber that will bid for popular approbation will be Karyl Norman, known ns “The Creole Fashion Plate.’* An array of beautiful gowns is a feature of the act. -|- -I- -I----ON STAGE AND SCREEN. The following attractions are on view today: Leo Dltrichsteln in "The Great Lover,” at the Murat: Thurston, a magician, at English's; Eddie Leonard, at B F. Keith's; “Pardon Me,” at the Lyric. “Loudon Belles," at the Tark; /'A Connecticut Yankoe in King Arthur's Court, at Loews State: "The Swamp." at the Alhambra; “The Four Horsemen of. the Apocalypse,” at the Ohio; “Penrod." at Mayor Calls Sleds Pleasure Vehicles CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 8. —Despite the ruling of a New York magistrate to the contrary, sleds are pleasure vehicles and will be considered so by police officials of Cincinnati, Mayor George Carroll declared after reading of the suspended senteuce given to a man because ho insisted upon pulling a sled, on which his child, was riding, through a park where nil but pletasure vehicles were barred. ''Kids get more pleasure out of their *%d ‘ban thir parents do out of their automol/’es," the mayor said. “I look back over my coasting days with the greatest pleasure."

hygiene and public health is the largest ever made in America at one time by one organization to another organization.''”' Since its organization nine years ago, the Rockefeller Foundation has made the following gilts: Red Cross, $5,000,000; j other war work, $5,500,000; medical edu-j cation in Canada. $5,000,000; Pekin Union i Medical College, $0,000,000; spent through: the International Health Board in j world-wide propositions of public health, ; concentrating In the control of hook j worm, yeliow fever and malaria, ST,O(AI - j 000); Harvard school of public health $2,250,000, and Medical School of Colum- j bia University, sl,ooo*ooo. Dr. Vernon L. Keljogg, zoologist, and i John W. Davis, formerly American am- j bassador to the court of St. Jamesy are \ the last elected trustees of the Rocke-! feller foundation of which Dr. George E. Vincent is president and John D. Rocke- I feller, Jr., is chaliman of the board. i A schedule of the securities of the i Rockefeller Foundation show’s that about $34,000,000 is invested in bonds and $145,000,000 in stocks. The bonds are largely gilt-edge railroad securities. As for the stocks in the list xye find twenty oil ; stocks paying dividends from 6 per cent up to 30 per cent. It was estimated at 28 Broadway, where the various Rocke- , feller enterprises oenter, that in the. ncighborhaad of five hundred individuals ! -hre connected with the administration of j the four great charitable agencies estab- i ' llshed and sustained by the Rockefellers.

Mister Smith’s, and “Over the Hill,” at tne Isis. On Monday night, Frank McGlynn, in “Abraham Lincoln,” will a week’s engagement at English’s. Monday afternoon at the Murat, Shubert vaulevllle will be presented for the first time in this city. The engagement is tot a week.

By GEORGE McMANTTS.

Paris Finds Way to End Auto Slaughter PARIS, March 3.—The Prefect of Police of Paris, Robert Loullier, has found a radical means of obliging drivers of motor vehicles in the streets to be more 'careful. So many accidents to pedestrians have occurred through carelessness that M. Loullier has issued instructions that in the future when any motor vehicle runs down a pedestrian or is In any way responsible for serious collisions

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the car shall be confiscated and pat under seal and the driver sent-to prison. Should the driver be found guilty ha shall serve of imprisonment and his car will be sold. If left free be shall be allowed to regain possession of hla cat and only receive a severe reprimand. These instructions have taught motor drivers in Paris to be extremely caatloua, eo BOTTLES •TELL STORY. LONDON, March 3.—When Mrs. Gladys 'M. Hussey was found dead here thera were lying by her side seventeen empty whisky and twelve empty beer bottles.

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