Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1923 — Page 4
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IN THE Jk . ND now President. Harding is reported seri-LAME-DUCK /\ ously considering the claims of Itepresenta-LINE-UP i \ tive Frank Mondell of Wyoming, defeated Honsc leader, and his friends, for appointment as Secretary of the Interior. Let’s hope this report is merely a “trial balloon.” Mondell has been in Congress for twenty-four years. He is a thoroughpaced reactionary of the Smoot-Warren-Phipps school. He took open issue with President Roosevelt on the vital policy of conservation of public resources. We have seen Mr. Mondcll sit tight, without uttering a word of protest, while Secretary Fall engineered in private the deal by which the vast public oil holdings in Wyoming. Mondell's own State, were turned over to the Sinclair interests. A few days ago a close friend of the President said Mr. Harding now recognized that perhaps his most unfortunate Cabinet selection was that of his friend, Albert T. Fall, for Secretary of the Interior. The reason was that public distrust of Fall's policies extended to the whole Harding administration. If Fall’s appointment as Secretary of the Interior was bad, then the choice of Frank Mondell could be but worse. Has any one ever heard Mondell arise in the interests of the people and against special privilege" Not that wc recall. Finally, Mondell is entirely too prominent in the “lame duck” line-up, and that is no place for the President to find his new Secretary of the Interior, if he cares about restoring public opinion. FATTER fTT HE pay envelopes of 400.000 wage earners in WAGES, I t wenty-three industries are checked up by BUT— JL. National Industrial Conference Board, ft finds that the average wage last September was about 4‘J cents an hour. This compares with an average of 24 cents an hour in July, 1914, on the eve of the war. The board makes the point that wages have a trifle more than doubled. What of it? How about cost of living? How much does a man. supporting a family on 49 cents an hour, have left these days after the landlord, grocer, butcher and others get through with him? The pre-war standard is bunk. Some progress forward should be expected in nine years—provided we all produce more.
MIGHT* A * A TALL negro, wearing a gorgeous uniform, SHOWN A calls at the White House to assist Ambassa’EM UP / \ dor Harvey in advising President Harding. The negro says he is the reincarnation of the Prophet Isaiah and that he bears divine revelations. The secret-service escorts him away in a chariot with a clanging bell and steel bars over the windows. Too bad, lie didn't have time to air his views on cancellation of the allied debt and other angles of foreign affairs, just to see how he’d stack up with some of the politicians. MANY A TTEMPTING to get an impartial history of SIDED /\ the World War. the Carnegie Foundation HISTORY XX hires experts on both sides. Six prominent Germans are named on the writing committee, to co-operate with groups from all important countries. This is something unique in history, trying to got conquered and conqueror to agree as to what really happoned. They will not agree, as the news will inform you later. Talkine in your sleep isn’t as bad as sleeping in your talk. The man who said honesty was the best policy never tried telling an ugly girl how she looked. Absence of street cars doesn't make the heart grow any louder. Fashion note: Furnaces are not being worn quite as much this winter. A bird in the bush is worth two..in the hand, if you have no hunting license. How our enemies succeed the devil alone can tell. Perhaps the big onion crop last summer explains why there are not more marriages this winter. That great silence you hear is the kids glad they are back at school. Christmas cigars are made by the thief who was given enough rope. Jazz music will not stop until boiler-making pays better. “After Christmas what?” asks a trade journal. Ask dad. lie knows. Doing nothing is hard to stop.
U. S. Mints Test for Gold and Silver Are Made by Fire Assay
Toil < au sp* ati ;rr to .hit ow? tion of fa- t or Information bT writing to the Indiaritpoiiii Timr?' Washington R ireau, 1.J2!? >fw Tork Avp.. Washirtsr ton. D C.. enclosing 2 rents In stamps. Medical, le.-ai and love and rjnrriar• advice cannot be given Unsigned letters cannot bo answered. but ail letters are I la 1. and rreeive personal replies A!lbouili Ibis bureau does not require it. it uassure prompter repli' j if readers si'' confine questions to a single subject, writing more than one letter if answers on various sib eets are desired. EDITOR. How do the United States mints test for gold and s'lver? By fire assay. What causes a blue spot in the center of a screen rn a •motion picture show? This may bo due either to the chromatic aberration in the condenser lens, or by the blue tiame surrounding the arc. It may be reduced, if not eliminated. by shifting the arc back or forth from the condenser. What Is caviar and how is it prepared? Caviar Is the roe of a sturgeon prepared as a piquant table delicacy, especially in Russia. The process of making caviar Is as follows: The ovaries, having been removed from the fish. tiro beaten to loosen the eggs, which are thn “oparated from the muscular tissue by being pressed through a sieve. The liquor is then pressed out. salt is well mixed in and the whole packed in email kegs. The quality of the result depends upon the care in clearing and drying it. The hureau of fisheries. Washington. D. c.. has a bulletin on preparing this commodity, which may he obtained .free on application to that bureau. What were some of the early <-'• J k contests in the athletic field* Foot races. wrestling. boxing, chariot races, pancratium (combination of boxing and wrestling), contest
of trumpeters and heralds, pentathlon (fivefold competition in running. Jumping, throwing the javelin and discus and wrestling). Is one side of the street safer than the other for pedestrians? Yes. The left sidewalk is slightly safer than the right-hand sidewallfor when crossing the street from the left-hand sidewalk the pedestrian is not required to look over as large an angle for approaching machines as when the right-hand sidewalk Is used. Where did the*ign of mathematical equality come from? According to Science Service, our sign of equality was invented in ir.r.7 by an English algebraist. Robert Records. Before that the relation of equal it y was expressed in words. What i lhe nocro population of the United States? According to the 1920 census, 10,403.131. What will he the number of I lie next. Congress? Tt will he the Sixty-eighth <'otigress. Mow old was Cleopatra when she died? Between 3R and 40—according to some historians. Her exact age is not known. What Is the hDlverry? A epecies of vac'driium. or a relative of th cranberry. There are two species of the bilberry, known as the "bog” and the "dwarf.” The hog bilberry is grown !n the northern part of the United Stales. Maine, mountains of New England. New Tork a'.a the northern part of Michigan and practically all of Canada. The dwarf is grown from Labrador, as far south as tho northern border of states.
KAKLE E. MARTIN. Editor-in-Chief. F. R. PETERS. Editor. ROT W. HOWARD. President, O. F. JOHNSON. Business Manager.
Attempt of Few to Pick Candidate for President Seen in Primary Repeal Plot
Editors Note—K. 1.. Morgan, the writer of the following article, is a well ykuown lawyer ol Bloomington. Tnd.. having served for eight years as county attorney and as city attorney. In politics he is a- Republican of the progressive school aod is a personal friend of Senator Hiram Johnson of California. He was largely responsible for the placing the name of Johnson on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana In 1920 when Johnson ran a close second to T.eonard Wood as the choice of Indiana Republicans for the presidential nomination. By H. 1,. MORGAN There is a well organized crowd of old-line politicians extending from the White House down to our Statehouse, who are going to make a supreme effort to have the Legislature either repeal or amend the primary election law. These gentlemen are not so much concerned about the repeal of the county and district features of the law as they are about the repeal or elimination of the senatorial and presidential preference feature. This crowd wants to see Mr. Harding renominated, and some would like to see our Governor go to the Senate, but they all realize, however, that it would be the height of folly for either of these gentlemen to attempt to run the primary gantlet to get on their party’s ticket. The only possible hope or chance this crowd has to continue In control is to strike down the primary election law and thereby disfranchise and disarm the voters. They are insisting on return to the old repudiated convention system of nominating whereby a few can get together in some high building and name the nominees in advance of the party's caucus or convention, as Mr. Harding was named In 1920, after the people had overwhelmingly expressed their preference for General Wood and Senator Johnson. While the party is still in the process of knitting .and healing itself together these men are proposing to return to the system that split it in 1912.
Any City Can Live Within Its Income Declares Fred Kohler, Cleveland Mayor
By .YF.4 Service CLEVELAND, Jan. 11.—Inhabitants of Cleveland, the Nation's fifth largest city, face a serious threat. It's the tlir< it that the city again this year will live within its income, a feat i' accomplished last year despite politicians, city council and admin Ist rat lon obstructors. Behind that threat is Mayor Fred Kohler. “It’s a threat, not a promise,” says Kohler. "We don’t promisp. Politicians promise.” Then Kohler, a humorous glint in his eyes, told how he had made the dty a financial success—told how any city can do the same thing. He told how he had taken offico early In 1921, with the city SBOO,OOO In debt. And how he reported on New Year day this year the city's books showed a surplus of $958,000! Payroll Cut First “We began by trimming the pay r<dl.“ Kohler exj lame !. "That was our biggest savin-. Put we've made almost large a s tying in elimination of waste in stock and supplies. We've cut down pretty pear the bone but wo can cut even more and we w ill. ”lt takes nerve. We've found It hard with both political organizations against us. We’ve been hardly on speaking terms with the council. ‘‘That's because we've fired their poor relations. And every time we took some one off the payroll and didn't replace him. we found we got l etter service out of llie rest. “There used to be so many men on garbage collection duty there was only room for half of them to work at a time and scarcely any room for garbage on the wagons ” How He l-iooks This exaggeration is typical of Kohler. He is energy and action throughout. More than six feet tall and proportionately built, he shows fight in his make-up. He has a high, well knit brow, firmly set jaw, rather deep set piercing eyes and thin lips that give a hint of a humorous, likable vein. “You know,” lie comments, "many people think a city ought to have a
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corruption in party politics. With the field of the corruptionists narrowed down w r ithin their reach from the great mass of voters to a few delegates the temptation for bribery and corruption would be irresistible, and the dollar would he in control instead %
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K. 1,. MORGAN The return to this old system and tactics means the re-establishment of the long past practice of bribery and of the man If would mean the disfranchisement of the women, for no self respecting womsn would w ant to attend or sit in a caucus or conven-
Hozc Kohler 1 Did It gif Hp- JH Mayor of 'icvela mi 'V 7l ,\ny cit' can live within its It 4 1 come If its people will only 1 ike BHwr | ''•**s, J up their to Throw off your supposed obligatlons to politicians and th-ir !j poor id Fire the ! ifcrs. Get down to business. § * Sm t W$ JH afford to a . x few people dictate to you. JSEH|| K J
good business man for mayor. But it's not so much his business qualifFations that make him a good city executive as his knowledge of his people “And in whatever you do, if you want to do It right, you can’t let any one dictate to you. And I don't." Tins year is Kohler's last as May< n Then a change in Clove land's will place a city manager at its head. But Kohler denies his efficiency is a bid for this new job. He’s through, he says "But while Fm mayor, we’re go Ing to keep on living within our income,” he repeats. “This year our income will be $300,000 less because
tion to be approached by and subjected to political persuasion from the smooth and oily tongue of an unscrupulous politician. If wofnen are to be kept In politics they must be and remain free —free to go to the polls arid express their preference of candidates and principles in secrecy. Should our primary law be- stricken down a,t the hands of this crowd, the people’s only barricade against the rule of the few would be gone; the dollar and the politician would reign supreme; the prevailing unrest would spread/and radicalism would continue to grow, and finally we would wake up to find our beloved country Russianized instead of Americanized. The effort to have the various States repeal their primary election laws is a scheme hatched a* Washington by the old-line Republicans. It Is a movement to head off and strangle to death In convention the growing sentiment for the nomination and election of Senator Hiram W. Johnson to the I presidency in 1924. This crowd feared two men in their party—Senator Johnson and Senator Beveridge. They suc- ; reeded in killing Beveridge at the recent election by voting for Mr. Ral- | ston, and it now remains for them to ! sidetrack Hie “grass root” movement now forming behind our great Golden Gate Senator. They propose .to destroy the primary road over which , the people are preparing to convey I the "Savior of America'' 1o the presidential chair. The ex-soldiers, the farmers, the ■ laboring men, the women and those who believe in remaining out of the ! League of Nations and foreign polii tics, and who believe we sHouM refrain from fanning to a flame the smoldering coals of Europe, are for tills great conservative progressive Republican for president. [.of every honest voter of Indiana sp. ik out against the repeal of our primary election law.
MAYOR FRED KOHLER
of lax reduction. But that doesn't bother un. "We've an extensive street repav •ig j ro” ram before us. We'll open p anew hospital and we've other I>4 things to do. But we won’t issue bonds!” Marriage ala Mode At a Bohemian wedding two slices of hread are given to the bride and hrid-groom, the idea being that so long as the bread Is kept the couple will not want. There is also a superstition that ttie one whose hread first, collects mould will he first to die. The bride always gives to the bridegroom a shirt sewed with gold thread and colored silks, and a wedding ring.
Pension Bill May Not Come to Vote Again
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Civil War veterans and their widows, looking for increased pension checks from Uncle Sam. may as well forget about it. President Ha.rding's veto of the Bursum pension bill has so effectively killed the measure that its friends will not try to revive it. *Maj. Gen. John L. Clem, retired, an active G. A. R. official, today blamed a political feud between Secretary of the Interior Fall and Senator Bursum, his successor from New Mexico, for the veto of the Bursum bill, which would have increased pensions materially. "The President referred the Bursum bill to Secretary Fall for an opinion, as is customary on measures pertaining to any Cabinet department'.” said Clem, “and Fall, because of his in tense dislike for Bursum, found plenty of excuse for an unfavorable report. The pension commissioner, we know, favored our bill. It was Fall who influenced the President.”
Public Opinion
Square Deal Needed To Che rihtor o f ‘I he limes America needs first of ail # spirit in Its people which feels that America is the best country on earth. We don’t want bolshevism with all its attendant horrors. How ca.n these things be Accomplished when a great number of our people are living from hand to mouth and by the aid of relatives' charity in order to clothe and feed their young? Is it not time to call a halt on one to 1.200 per cent dividends of great corporations when many of their pmbiov.'s ar losing their little homes through Inability to meet the payments on them and keep their children f.--d and in school at the same time? 'Vim wc in * and is a little more of a square deal. Let cajiital and brains be duly rewarded and labor have a decent American living Any firm that treats its employes square will have their most hearty cooperation ir. getting rid of tie- loafers? Let a fair day's pay foe a fair day's work 1 o a reality instead of a mere theory. EDWARD JACOBS Newcastle. Tnd. Back To Simple Life I o tin I dt'or of The 'Times \\ hat America does need is for every man, woman and child that is sufficiently possessed of an education to read and understand that grandest of instruments, the good old Constltu tion. Begin with the preamble and read and study it closely. us suppbnyent our reading with the Bible and occasionally allow our thoughts to est on the life of Abraham Lincoln. This at least would guide us to vote Intelligently. Today we are led hither and thither bv every new fangle dangled idea and innovation. We are deceiving ourselves—knowingly deceiving ourselves. We are seemingly selfish, bur we are tint, we are only straining every sinew to keep pace w ith a parade of events, that in our hearts we loathe. We are caught in the ‘‘brainstorm- ’ and it's hard to quit. Our hearts yearn for the simple life. So let's stay more around our own hearths and read. Ivet us do a lot of sane reflecting. BLANCHE .PATTEN, 1301 Sturm Ave.
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ONLY a few more months until the annual scare about sleeping sickness. * • * Everybody hates a mail carrier on the first the month. • • • Dancing develops everything except the brain. ♦ * • Most of us keep an eye on the temptation we pray never to be led into. • • * A doctor is a man who will advise a
rest and make you work your fool head off to paw for the advice. What the average man likes about a girl is her lips and his arms. • * • Hitching your wagon to a star is tine, but don’t let your little boy bitch his to the rear of an auto. * * • Let’s hope that in speaking of the world war a few years from now we will not have to say which world war? Trouble with the horn of plenty is you are always liable to come out at the little end of the horn. The career of many a fine washwoman lias been utterly ruined by her ambition to become a movie star. . . t A successful magazine cover is one that lias very little cover for the irii'h • • • It is estimated very few people saved their income tax as they went along. If the world's problems are not settled soon there will he another shortage of print paper.
8,000 Pueblo Indians Who Own 240,000 A eras of Land A re Starving
BV SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE SANTK FE. X. M . Jan. 11.—Eight thousand Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, who own 24'',000 acres of land, are starving. For years Mexican and American i-q natters have been encroaching upon the Indian In mis until they now have only a fraction of their hind and that part which they have Inst carries with it the water rights which makes tlie remainder practically useless. The Pueblo Indians own their land under a Spanish land grant which was reconfirmed by Congress under President Lincoln. Efforts are being made at Washington to secure the passage of some sort of legislation intended to nullify a decree of the Supreme Court of the United States holding the squatters without title. This legislation lias
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the active support of Secretary Fall s Interior Department. The last election in New Mexico turned on the votes of such of the ten thousand-odd American and Mexican squatters on Pueblo Indian lands who are qualified to vote, while the Pueblo Indians have no vote. The principal proposed legislation, called the Bursum bill, was derailed nst month by Senator Borah in the Senate after a short sharp fight. Joining with District Attorney Craig in his request that the decree of the Supreme Court be held up, was Col. P.alph Twitchell, who has been drawing $8,500 a year since early In 1921, as a special district attorney appointed to prosecute the Indians’ claims to their lands. The squattei-s claim that some of them are occupying Indian lands by ■virtue of possession which has ex-, tended back for several generations.