Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1923 — Page 4

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HOW DOES y'-v UITE a few millions of us Americans —the THE WIND I 1 number increases daily—are coming to the .BLOW? Vy conclusion that the nation is not to be carried back to “normalcy” on the surge of reaction which lifted Mr. Harding into the White House. Just what ever was meant by normalcy, nobody ever has explained with convincing definiteness; but avowed advocates of so-called normalcy set about doing certain things which gave a close-up idea of what they thought normalcy meant. Little room for doubt is left that to some minds normaley denoted high tariff and big profits and low wages ; a return to the days when a few politicians in convention could have all the say as to who should be Presidents and United States Senators and Governors; back to the days when primaries were unknown; back to the days of undisputed sway of elections by party bosses; back again to the time when a rich gentleman like Truman Newberry might get himself elected to the Senate in any old way and stick ' light to his seat despite frost and breakfast; back to the time when it was considered more or less all right for Senators to be on the secret pay-roll of railroad corporations and when these same railroads had their thumbs notoriously on everj- State Legislature. In face of all that has happened in the past twelve mouths; in face of the attempt now under cover to take from the people of Indiana the nomination of Presidents and Senators and to give it back into the hands of the old guard, who can doubt what “back to normalcy” means to some minds? But—a moment ago—we were speaking of railroads. And in his December address to Congress President Harding also spoke of railroads and referred to the taking over of the railroads by the . Government during the war as ‘supreme folly.” And now comes Senator ('ouzens, who succeeded to the seat that Newberry vacated, and says: “In spite of the fact that I am a Republican, I cannot condone any statement that the taking over of the railroads * * * was supreme folly. “Personally I should prefer that the Government should ; not have to take over the railroads, but we have-not found any effective solution and. therefore, it looks to me as though Govt ernment ownership was the only solution.” Then speaking of the possibility that the Government could ; control—if not operate—the railroads without interference of politicians, Mr. Couzens points to the present time “interference of the bankers, who must get their rakeoff regardless of.the pub- ; lie service or the treatment of the men who operate the rail- • roads.” One more recruit to the growing list of those who believe that normalcy lies in the future and not back in pre-war davs. Wet your finger, hold it up and see how the wind blows. WASTE finHE national fire loss last vear was nearly 411 IN million dollars. It was the greatest ever, ex.FLAMES A ccpt 1906. when the Ban Francisco lire swelled the total. Probably half of these fires were due to carelessness. However, the recorded fire loss was less than $4 for every American man. woman and child. Don't let it lull you into carelessness, or your share may be a lot larger. SOUND XE soun< i es f truths in connection with PRIMARY I I the development of the American GovernTHOLGHT ment and American institutions was uttered by Albert J. Beveridge at the Republican State editorial banquet when he said : “The capital fact in the development of American institutions is the steady advance of the people in their determination to choose for themselves the representatives who conduct the people’s Government for the people.” The right of the people to govern themselves, to choose for themselves their representatives, is the very foundation stone of American Government. Remove this stone and the entire structure ; will crumble. > Surprising as it may seem, considering the fact that the statement was made in a group of office-holders whose occupation is supposedly to uphold the ideals and traditions of the Government, it took unusual courage for Beveridge to utter this truth. He stood surrounded by men who were elected to represent the people, yet who are seeking to take away from the people their right to choose their representatives. Beside him wore men who have been endeavoring by every means at their command to bring about the repeal of the only law which gives the people the power really to choose their public officials, the primary law. While he did not mention the primary, the purpose and purport of Beveridge's words were unmistakable. He is to be congratulated on his attitude, which is the only true American attitude on the‘subject. His efforts should be of aid* to those who are working to save the primary and retain for the people of Indiana the right to government themselves.

Lack of Air Explains Craters Which Pit Surface of Moon

QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can an answer to any question of fart or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave. Wasb:A§rton. D. C., iiiclo6ins 2 cent® in amps. Medical. le*al and love and Carnage advice cannot be given. Unsigned letera cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive persona! replies Although the bureau does not require it. it will assure prompter'replies if readers will confine questions to a single subject, writing more tnan one letter if answers on various subjects are desired. EDITOR What is the explanation of the craters and mountains on the moon? The lack of air on the moon is cor sidered by many to exulain the eno mous craters which pit the moon’s sui face, the theory being that the ab sence of a belt of air to break the shock, causing meteors and meteorites to splash into the still molten mass of the moon. Others think they are gigantic bubbles raise;! in the moon’s skin, when the globe was stilt molten, by volcanic gases from below How are the names Clemenceau and Curxon pronounced? Clemenceau is pronounced “Kle-mafi-so,” with the accent on the first syllable, or “Cle-mon-so,” with the accent on the seoond syllable. Curzon Is “Kur-son,” with the accent on the last syllable. Was Father Hans Schmidt ever executed for the murder of Anna Aumuller? On Sept. 15. 1913, Schmidt _ conthe murder of Anna Aumul-

ler: on Feb. 12, 1914, he was sentenced and taken to Sing Sing prison. Litter he appealed. On Feb. 19, 1916. be was executed. Who i.s the present adjutant general of the Army and what rank does he hold? The adjutant general of the Army is Muj. Gen. Robert C. Davis. Judgment By BERTON BRALEY I -'CE or a time I respected the highbrows, J G.ice 1 was ruled by their cultural-views, breaded the curl of iheir uplifted eyebrows— Now. well. I think more or less as I choose. Faith in the highbrow s omniscience was shakea When this plain fact was revealed to my sight. Highbrows are oftentimes badly mistaken, - Lowbrows are freuuently perfectly right. BACK in the days when Bill Shakespeare was living. Highbrows regarded his drama as low, Viewed all his stuff with a mien unforgiving. Call'd "As You Like It" a "popular show." Shakespeare uas glory that goes on forever. Eroa. which this clear little lesson we cull. Maybe the highbrows arne't always so clever, Maybe the lowbrows aren’t totally dull. DO not be frightened of snobs intellectual. Sneering at stuff with the "popular . .touch.’’ „• Though they aspire to command and direct you all They do not really amount to so much: Cease to regard them with awe and with terror. For though they chatter of “beauty" and "art." Sometimes the highbrows are grossly in error. Sometimes the lowbrows are right from - ■ -Hfj start.-.- -- - (Cm>yright. 1923. NEA Service) V

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CHIEF OF AERIAL i SERVICE PREDICTS TRANSPORT SHIPS Major Westover Says Planes Will Carry Regiment of Infantry. BY ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Nowhere outside the volumes or Jules there an equal for the picture of America’s coming army of the air portrayed before a Congressional committee by Major , Oscar Westover, chief of the lighter- j than-air branch of the Army Air J Service. Westover foresees: 1. Monster dirigibles, each capable ! of carrying a regiment of 6.000 soldiers at one load. 2. Aerial bases or operation, hovering high above land, from which small planes can dart out and scurry back. These are only two of the predie- ' tions with which Major Westover. without batting an eyelid, took the breath away from the astonished committee of ('ongressmen. Release at Will “We confidently feel that the development of the next eight or ten years will make possible the trans portation of a regiment of infantry j in one airship." Westover said, “and ; we will certainly make possible the carrying of airplanes aboard such large, rigid airships—not only the carrying of them blit the release . ' them at will, so we can take a flock of six to eight airplanes, transport them over a long distance withou. j drawing on their strength whatever, and use them for military purposes from an airship base in a foreign field." These great, cruising airships will he gigantic, cigar-shaped dirigibles which cannot ho shot down unless actually torn to pieces, because they will be filled with non -xplosive helium gas in compartment- 1 envelopes, made of anew, self-healing fabric. Will l sr Helium Helium gas is non-inflammable: it chemically smothers flame and its escape would extinguish any blaze that an incendiary bullet started; if the puncture in the bag were too big for the self-healing fabric to close, merely that particular compartment would he emptied and nothing serious would happen. This new helium gas is a romance Within itself. Five years ago it was known only to til*' chemist’s laboratory and it cost j $17,000 a cubic foot; today, the Gov--i ernment’s helium plant at Ft. Worth, Texas, is producing 10.000,000 cubic feet a year at eight cents per foot and expects soon to reduce this to three cents per foot. Capital Jokes By W. J. McCORMICK. Li., ed -ates Representative-at-Large From Montana.

MARGES of corruption and bribery had been bandied about by both sides in a certain election contest, and among the witnesses called by a congressional committee hearing the case was a colored man named, as all colored men in stories are named, Rastus. “Did anybody of-

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McCORMICK for you money for your vote?” asked the chairman. ”Yes, sah, a man give mo $5 and told me to vote for Mistah Robinson, the Republican.” “Did you take it?" “Yes, sah. and then another man give me $lO to vote for Mistah Harris. the Democrat.” “Did you take it?” “Yes. sah.” “You got $lO to vote for the Democrat and $5 to vote for the Republican. How did you vote?” “Well, sah. I figured that the Re publican was the least corrupt of the two, so I vot 'd straight Republican." Stolen Telephones Found Two pay telephones were found today in a shed by William Milton, 7158 W. North St. Police Lieutenant McKee investigated. The telephones were stolen from the Guy Hall drug store, 784 Indiana Ave.

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Wisconsin Governor Tells of Adjusting Tax Burdens

BY JOHN J. BLAINE Governor of Wisconsin Madison, wis., Jan. 29. Taxes should he assessed on the principle that those best able to pay should bear the heaviest burden. When this policy is adopted, people will have a

greater equality of opportunity and the great mass will find greater advantages. We have two systems of taxation in Wisconsin: 1. Th e taxation of tangible property, real estate and personal. This is a tax on land,

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n , ........ one s home, his automobile an and other fixed property. 2. The taxation of incomes, privileges and occupations. The income tax rate is fixed, and therefore any increase in the cost of government is borne entirely by real and personal property. Taxes on real and personal property have reached that point where they have become an undue burden —until those who are least able to pay are required to pay the heaviest burden. Points to Inequalities General property is assessed, re gardless of the fact whether it yields an income. The income tax payer is not assessed a tax unless he makes a net enrn above his "xemption. The real estate ana personal property owner must pay a tax even though it he op crated at a loss. Again with reference to income

Woman’s Rule of Maryland Jail Awaits in Convict Riot

H’i \ t N. > ri re Baltimore, Jan. 2?—Gan a woman rule a men’s prison? One tried it in the Maryland House of Correction. But her attempt ended in a fiasco when the prisoners revolted and were only subdued after eighteen of them had been shot. Tlie nominal head of the institu tion is Warden William A. Lankford. He has been holding this position for twenty years. But his daughter Myrtle seems to have been the actual head. She Is said to have dictated how discipline should he enforced, what the prisoners should have to amuse them, what they should eat She dealt with them through an honor club named after herself. Its members were picked inmates who were granted many privileges. They had meetings, games, sne cial dishes from the kitchen. A prisoner who did not conform was speedily made to see that it was to his bettor interest to join the club and remain In good standing. When the probe of the rtot

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* taxes, there has grown up in the past four years a system of assessing surtaxes on incomes. This is pyramiding an income tax. I feel that the present situation, which permits the levying of what is popularly known as “surtaxes,” either upon real and personal property or incomes, leads to ex travagance and inequalities. I have recommended to the Wisconsin Legislature a few simple laws, which I feel are important. I have urged that all surtaxes on incomes and all mill surtaxes on the general property of the State be repealed. Next I have advised the passage of a law which wifi establish a ratio between incomes and genera! property, and when one tax goes up the other must also. This will make the income tax rates elastic. By this plan both sources of taxes will bear their share of the burdens of government. Matter ol Secrecy Then there is another tax evil. At the present time, all income tax reports are secret. I contend that secrecy in government ishad thing: that taxation is it public and not a private matter: that the returns of those who pay $97,000,000 in general property taxes have no veil of secrecy drawn over them: that no honest tax return need fear publicity: that it is only the return to shut out from public view that which may he a fraud, a cheat, or oven .1 mistake. Under the plan suggested, the taxpayer, either as to income or tangible property, will not he continuously threatened with special forms of taxation. A reasonably fixed policy, in my opinion, is desirable from the standpoint of the State and the taxpayer alike.

started. Warden Lankford was not railed first. His daughter was Bfore Director Emory < oblentz at the offices of the State welfare hoard the day after the riot she denied the fino prisoners were abused or ill fed, despite charges to that effect which have caused six investigations in the last ten years. "We can run this prison." Miss Lankford said “The trouble Is too much outside .nfluence. It comes from persons who are ignorant of prison work." Members of th*- M.vrtl- Honor • 'lut). including Rs prison r presi dent were in the Th charge that the food was wormy, dirty, poorly cooked and scanty; that they were beaten, abused und “disciplined" until they were forced Into open rebellion. They told the welfare hoard that they were chained to corridor bars; kept in dark cells on broad and water for cays as punishment for small offenses, and deprived of all privileges for the slightest irregularity.

IF GERMANY WILL FIGHT, ‘GUERILLA’ WAR 1$ PREDICTED Unprepared Teutons May Be Goaded Into Action by French, BY HARRY HUNT Xh'A Staff Correspondent J ASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—The W Germans, known since the beginning of modern warfare as the world's most orderly and methodI ical fighters, may become the world's j most disorderly fighters. This is the prophecy of experts of the War Plans Division of the United states Army General Staff who have given careful study to the military situation in Germany. The intensively drilled Prussian soldier may become a super-guerilla carrying on irregular fighting of a type hitherto unknown, they say. t’an’t Risk New War “Germany knows she can not match arms with France in anew i war," United States officers agree. “She has no heavy artillery, ’no tanks, no aircraft. “She has an army of 100,000, allowed by the treaty, and guard and police forces that might serve as nuclei for reorganization of a considerable part (,f Hie old army. No Natural Line “Also, beyond the Rhine, there is no natural line of resistance this side of the Kibe. And a stand at the Elbe would leave more than half of German} in French occupation. “With a highly organized and • •quipped army of 800,000, with artillery aircraft and chemical warfare equipment and material in abundance. France could sweep through Germany as Germany swept through Belgium. ' In that event German resistance would doubtless take the form of a super guerilla warfare, with no large concentration of troops, no battles fought to conclusive victories, but constant raids, slashing, jabbing, wearling down of French resistance, necessitating the maximum effort by France to maintain h<-t- occupation." Five Held for Vagrancy Five men arrested in a taxi in the 1 70 block on Indiana Ave. Sunday J were held today an charges of vag- | fancy They gave their names aa } Robert Ford. 743 W. New York st.; 1 John piggett. 717 w. New York S : : Thou.as Bell, 1842 Gent St.; Lon Dillenger 346 Patterson St., and I,ee Harman. 809 Highland Ave.

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INCOME taxes and outgo taxes get our money coming and going. We are not so much interested in what well-dressed men will wear as in what hard-pressed men will wear. • • • Three Florida fishermen drifted eleven days and lived on beer alone, proving wishes do come true. * • * New Hampshire legislator would make eight hours, sleep compulsory. Don’t let it keep you awake. * *

A Kalamazoo (Mich.) man postponed his honeymoon to go to jail, which may fit him for married life. * * * Times are so hard the U. S. bought only $7,618,388 worth of : diamonds from England last year. • * • Clothing designers propose feathers for men’s spring hats. j And men will wear them while laughing at women’s styles. • * • Our idea of a good time is wondering if we would know a *good time if there were no bad times. • * • Iti spite of all the things movie stars have to cry about, they j still use glycerine for tears. Every week has too many days to work on all of them. • • • Only four more income tax payments before Christmas. • • • Kansas City man had two wives in the same house. Bents are entirely too high elsewhere also. • • • Baseball clubs are busy signing np heavy hitters, which shows they already have some heavy thinkers.

Public Opinion Observing Decoration Day To the Editor of The Times As 1 am an ex soldier of the World War. I will say that the people of Indiana and Indianapolis try to boost Indiana and make a greater Indianapolis. but we have a few men who want to throw the keys of prosperity away. 1 surely will shake hands with M. Gen. Robert T. Tyndall for the •stand he takes toward the Speedway races. Ask a few of the men in the Indiana Legislature :f they ever walked behind the national colors, and if so. why should they want to buck the other buddies who followed the flag? T figure this is a free country and a man who has offered his services to his country can spend Memorial day as ho pleases. This is a free country, hut it won t be if a certain class of people get to run it as they pie.. so. RALPH R. FENDER.

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Court Holds Life of U. S. Rail Board By C. C. LYON WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—The very life of the United States Railroad Labor Board is at stake in a case now before the Supreme Court of the United States. Oddly enough, the ease, brought by the Pennsylvania Railroad, is watched equally closely by organized labor leaders, who, though they regard the Pennsylvania as their enemy, hope to see the railroad win, because they think an adverse decision will make the labor board a dead letter. The Pennsylvania contends the labor hoard exceeded its authority in setting aside agreements negotiated between the railroad company and its shop employes “even though those agreements were secured by coercive or deceptive methods."