Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1923 — Page 4

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A SERIOUS Tk ■yUMEROUS so-called professional bondsmen COURT \l again have been barred from signing bonds PROBLEM X 1 in City court. Such orders have been frequent, but little lias been accomplished in the way of correcting the bondsman evil. The difficulty has been one largely of determining who is a professional bondsman and who is not. The most recent actiou was taken following the conviction of a man who swore he had property in order to sign a bond and who, according to evidence, had no property. There are indications that other bondsmen have signed bonds the total amount of which is far in excess of the total value of tlieir property. Whether a professional bondsman has a place in the penal system is a matter of dispute. Most judges have expressed the opinion he has not. From the point of view of the prisoner, the situation is a little different. If a man with influence or with friends who have property or money is placed in jail he usually is released on bond immediately. On the other hand, a stranger to the city or a prisoner without influential friends may, unless he can secure the services of a professional bondsman, stay in jail for days awaiting trial. Is it reasonable to punish a man who may be innocent merely because he has no friend to come to his assistance? On the other hand, there is no question that the bonding privilege is being abused. There are individuals whose sole means of support is the selling of bonds. Many of them have signed the bonds of scores of prisoners at the same time, running the total for which they are liable many thousands of dollars more than could be collected if the bonds should be defaulted. The bonding question will remain a serious one until some system is devised whereby the rich man and the poor man. the man with friends and the man without, will have an equal opportunity to obtain their liberty while awaiting trial.

UNCLE SAM ESIDES being a dead-beat, Uncle Sam is a BEAT AND I—bully, fie is a dead-beat because the mass BULL'! .I. 3 meeting called Congress gets itself all balled up when it passes appropriation bills intended to cover lawful and proper claims and charges. These bills, in the end, are put together by back-scratching, trading and logrolling rather than by any rule of reason or justice. L ncle Sam is a bully largely because the Department of Justice is run on a formula that is a combination of strong-arm private detective business and third degree police station stuff. A case in point: One of the unlamented Burleson’s boners was the deprivation of the mailing privilege (or right) from the \ew York Call. The New York Call is a Socialist newspaper, hnt that has nothing to do with the fact that it is a newspaper. It had a right to be printed and right to be mailed. Other papers in the eountrv, notably the New York World, Baltimore Sun and such like, and even we ourselves, voluntarily contributed to a fund of money for the defense of the Call, not because it was ihe Call and not because it was Socialist, but because it was a newspaper, and we thought that if Burleson could keep one newspaper out, of the mails, he or his successors could keep any newspaper out of the mails. So the defense fund was contributed. The case was prepared. The Call went into court. The ease was fought up to the ■upreme Court of the United States. The newspapers were about a decision which would tell a bullying Postmaster General Bel a pair of bullying attorney generals where to get off. And then the Department of Justice got the case dismissed jfcphe ground that it is a moot question and that the Call’s right |R?ahe mails has been restored to it. The question of the right and wrong of the action is thus dodged by Uncle Sam through his lawyer. The whole transaction makes Uncle Sam out to be once more, a bully. NATURE fp TIE new vaccine for flu. tried out at the Army KEEPS US I Medical School in Washington, “seents esFIGHTIN’ JL fective. ” Preliminary results look good. though it’s too early in the game to warrant any enthusiasm. However, a serum or some other cure and preventive for flu eventually will be discovered by scientists. Then nature will send anew disease. Always she keeps a certain amount of competition that we must fight. Tt’s part, of the survival of the fittest, also building up our strength bv making us struggle for existence.

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Toil can get art answer to any question of fact or information bv writing •o The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 132" New York Ave.. Washington, D. C.. ineiosnig 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and love amt marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc.. l>e pr- oared! Lnsignd letters cannot be answered, but all letters arc confidential and receive personal replies.—Editor. \\ hat is the size of Esthonia? What is its population? What form of government lias ii. and who is the head of it? Esthonia has an area of 28,000 square miles. Its population Is 1,760,000. The capital Is Reval (known as Tallinn by the Esthonians). It has a republican form of government, and the president is Konstantlne Paets. What is a : ‘continuum?” A continuum is a total that is continuous and uninterrupted; that which has perfect continuity, as the continuum of 6pace. A universal conWrong Address Readers; The Postoffice Department has returned to our Washington Bureau mail for the following readers, because of deficient or incorrect address. If the readers for whom this mail was intended will write our Washington Bureau, 1822 N. Y. Ave., Washington, D. C., giving the correct address, the mall will be promptly forwarded to them: MR. JACK M’GINNIS, Indianapolis. Ind. MRS. C. A. BROOKS, 743 Elm St.. Indianapolis, Ind. MR. ISAAC MACON, 1631 Broadway SL, . Indianapolis, Ind.

tinuum appears in space where progression is uninterrupted in all directions. Time is a one-dimensioned continuum capable of geometrical representation by a line. What is the negro population of the I'niled States? According to the 1920 census it is 10,463.131. Has any member of the present Spanish royal family ever visited the United States? No. Who has the reputation for having made the best violins? The masters of the school of Cremona produced the finest instruments. Andrea Amati (1750-80 set up a shop in Cremona, and thus became the founder of the famous school, Andrea’s sons, Antonio and Geronimo, and grandson, Nlccoio, carried on his work. We find among the pupils of tills school Stradivari, Stainer. Albani, Grencino and O. B. and F. Ituggen. The greatest of all individual violin makers was Stradivari. What is the specific gravity of a pint of milk? According to the United States Bureau of Standards it is 1.032. Has there ever been bom a calf with a human head? No, such a monstrosity has never existed. There have, however, been many clever fakes which have successfully fooled the more credulous part of the public. Was the l>ody of the French ace, Guynemer, shot down near the village of Poelcapelle, ever found? According to the miltary attache of the French embassy, the body of Quyaemer was not found.

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Injunction Saves Man From Gibbet Although Sentence Had Been Passed

P.y GENE COHN * NEA Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO. March 26. What will be the future of capital punishment cases now that life has been placed on a property basis? This question soon will be echoing about the Nation as the result of a legal decision that has no parallel in world history. Stripped of technical wording, it has been decided by Judge James M. Troutt that 1. A man’s life is his most important possession. 2. That a man can go into a court of equity to fight for his pig or his barn or some other possession, so why can he not fight for life, his rarest possession, in a court of equity? 3. If this attitude is taken, a man sentenced to die may be saved by means of the injunction involved as in other property actions. Hindu’s IJfe Saved And by this decision the gallows at San Quentin prison were cheated of the neck of Ullqh Mohammed, a Hindu. All criminal courts had been appealed to. It had been shown fraud had been practiced by witnesses. The Governor was appealed to. lie refused to reprieve. But a few days remained before the noose would choke an innocent man. Then Attorney William Grant de cided upon an eleventh-hour appeal in a court of equity to have the death sentence set aside on the ground of fraudulent testimony. Hindu Shown Innocent This was the story that developed: .Mohammed. with several companions. had hern attending a feast at which one Ali Akbar, an Afghan, was slain. Mohammed knew nothing of the English language. The two men who committed the crime did. They convinced Mohammed they all would get into trouble and that, because they could speak English, lie had best let them handle the affair.

WINS [ indsey’s Fight Brings State Aid for Motherhood,

/;/ V/'i Service DENVER. March 26. —Score one more humanitarian victory for; Juvenile Judge Ben Lindsey. | ! After two yeais of hard, determined j fighting, he has placed on the statute books of Colorado the first law of Its | wr kind ever enacted * Ik in the United States. 1? It is a measure j \ ; t providing that rnun ties of the State shall provide for the , J.. maintenance of in j | mothers six . months before and | 3|'- v Jjjjy Jet six months after j |Ba jffif Three others he JHg has also chantI Wk jfsl aBSa pionod in two leglsJiMi&J lative sessions have ! also passet. One LINDSEY provides that pat on s can be held re ; sponsible in juvenile court for the delinquency of their children. Another gives juvenile courts Jurisdiction over i adults computing crimes against chil jdren. A third raises the age of delinquency from 16 to 18 years. The measures caused bitter fights two years ago. They were all do jfeated. Renewing the battle, Lindsey ! and his friends went through just as j bitter a battle this year—but they won. Practically every woman’s organ--1 ization in Colorado supported Lindsey j in his fight—but two of three women | members of the Legislature fought the \ bin*. HE ACTED LIKE CORPSE | Emergency Squad Finds “Dead Man” Has Strong Breath. When the police emergency squad arrived at Capitol Ave. and Walnut gt. in response to a. call that, a man was dead the police were directed to the Goodyear Tire Company building. A man was very much under the influence of liquor, but nothing else could be found resembling a dead man, police said.

Meetings Here Tuesday Purchasing Agents—Luncheon, C. of C. St. Mihiel Loer Post, American Legion—Luncheon, C. of C. Peoria Life Insurance Company—Meetings, Claypool. Railway Accountant Officers Association —National Convention, Claypool. American Legion, Post 84— Luncheon, Board of Trade. Allied Motor Comme rc e Luncheon, Spink-Arms. Rotary Club —Luncheon, Clay pool. I. A. A. U.—Luncheon. C. of C. Paint, Oil and Varnish Club — Luncheon, C. of C. Grace Presbyterian Men — Luncheon, C. of C. Gyro Club—Lunoheon, Lincoln. Mercator Club —Lunoheon, Spink-Arms. Estimators’ Club—Dinner, Spink-Arms. American Chemical Society— Luncheon, C. of C. B. P. O. E. No. 13 —Lodge meeting, Denison. University of Michigan Alumni —Luncheon, Lincoln. American Legion—Luncheon, Severin.

It* ** % \' /jjjf ( j ■ • \ \ * / JUDGES JAMES M. TROUTT (ABOVE) AND IT,LAD MOHAMMED (BELOW). They allowed Mohammed to be arrested. They retained a lawyer for him and told the attorney Mohammed was guilty, outlining a case. The Hindu went to trial and was THE HERMIT By BERTON BRAKEV THE hermit *at in his* lonesome care, Behaving as hermits should!* t behave, For he spoLo up loud ami ho yelled it clear. “Oh. Koeh-a’mighty, it's lonesome here! ill HAD a tr>ubl* I had a woe, I My heart was broke and my spirits low. Ar-i I feti <;> <lo££<uio had r That I went and I came out here to hide T ffosh-amighty. Urn teilin I \J (It empty air he was Hpeakmjr to? “Although Id U’d from IK* h oru, I found my trouble had come along! ||IT *at at the table, it shared my I*n! I It filled my heart ur-d i: fti el my head! I ll tell the universe life is bum When trouble ih all that you ve got for chum. ■ I ft'- way out her ein t; • lonesome spot W I’ve come to tl -t a ruy has cot To two h'* trouble---for •*ome what may. It’s wholly useless to run away hi *M goingr back to the place f < 1 To fight my ba’t’o an play the cams. .Jest like the other*, who. I opine. Has t their troubles the same as mine! N maybe I’ll find some friend who’ll be Wi.bru: to listen at times to me \Vh*n I np* 11 my trouble Into h * ear. For fcvmh .Vmirhhv. it s lonesome here!" • Copyright. ID!*:; NF V Servioo, Inc) SUICIDE ATTEMPT FAILS laittio Ichlo Trli-s to End Own Life Twice in One Week. Lottie Loohle, 35, living in the 4300 block E. Twenty-Firm St., is in a serious condition at the city hospital today. Police, called late Saturday, said they found she had tried for the second time within a week to take her own life When discovered by her sister, Mrs. Emily Kramer, who lives nex! door, she was hanging from a rafter In the basement, police said. The sister out her down and called Dr. .1. L. Jackson, 311") E. Tenth St., who administered firs! aid. She was taken to the city hospital. It is said she was in 111 health

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What Judge Says Here are some of the views of Judge Troutt: Courts continuously are battling out questions of property rights. Equity courts daily hear thousands of cases. Yet man’s life is his most sacred and most vajued property and the equity courts have been closed to argument concerning it. I felt this case was of great importance, not only because a life was in peril but because an extraordinary question of law was Involved that concerned the power and jurisdiction of courts of equity. It seems to mo in this progressive. humane country of ours, a man whose guilt Is so doubtful and whose innocence is so probable. should have an opportunity for anew trial.

convicted without knowing what it had all been about. Meanwhile the slayers had jumped out. ft seemed nothing could be done— Until the mans “property right” to liis life was argued. Never in legal history has a judge saved a life in an equity court. And now that the precedent is established the same point is expected to bo raised in a dozen different ways for men who face the death penalty. PRINTED CREPES Printed crepes are never more effective for the young and slender than when made with simple, loose basques, full skirts and with quaint Priscilla collars of white organdie or crepe. This type of frock has been very popular at winter r-sorts and will continue throughout the season. Jrcllolusliip ot Thui’cv Daily J.cntrn labic reading anil meditation prepared for Commlaalon <m ia ,nL-efi*in <•( Federal Council of Churches. The Power of Evil “The Son of Man Is betrayed. Mark 14:41. Read Mark 14:40-50. “It Is Impossible to know sin . until we see it ill the light of Oeth.semano and Golgotha MEDITATION: Jesus did i.ot attempt to solve the problem of evil for us, but he did show-us the way to overcome evil through the higher power of love HYMN: Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer t> thee! Ecu though it be a cross that ralseth me. Still all my song shall be Nearer, my God, to thee. Nearer to thee! PRAYER: Steer thou the vessel of our life toward thyself, thou tranquil haven of all storm-tossed souls. Amen. Soloists l’or I'oncert Mrs, Glenn O. Priori mod, contralto. and Miss Audrey Pull, violinist, will be the soloists at ihe concert to be given Wednesday evening in Caleb Mills ILall by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra is directed by P. Mailnua Paulsen, C. G. Schmidt Is concertraaster and Miss Florene Keepers, pianist.

POLITICAL SLAVERY DECLARED CORSE CF D. S. CONGRESS Senator Norris Plans Amendments to Constitution to End Patronage, BY JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 26. -• Political slavery is the curse of Congress. That is the disease, according to Senator Norris of Nebraska, one of the leaders in the fight which ended C'annonism. Norris also has a remedy which he sets forth as follows: Get a Congress of free men by ending dictation by the President. Get rid of the lame-ducks and the temptation of jobs which now induces political slavery. Get rid of the “short session” of Congress so that Congress will not have to end on March 4 and so that members will not be able to kill measures by simply delaying them in anticipation of tle ending of a session. “This Congress was just about like some of those during the Wilson adminisiration,” said Senator Norris. ”Tt did the tilings the President wanted done and killed off some good things that he did riot want. "The system of course is bad, but we <an inak* some changes in the .‘•'stem thru will mean improvement. And if 1 live until next December, I am gi'ing to introduce two amendmeants to the < 'onstitution again. One will provide that Congress shall meet in January and that the term of the President shall begin in January. The other Mill prevent members of Concress front taking jobs from an administration under which they had srrw and in Congress." PURSE WITH sl3 SEIZED Police Seek Negro Who Robbed Mrs. Paul Wysong. Poli< >- arc searching for a man who seized a purse belonging to Mrs. Paul | V, > song, 132 4 N. Illinois St., Saturj day night. Mrs. W ysong told officers | that as she was unlocking her front ; door a m-gro rushed up. took her purse containing sl3 and ran. Diamond Ring Missing , Detectives are investigating today I ihe mysterious disappearance of a diamoti i ■■lag from the Jockfi of .Mrs. Hattie \\ ill a ms. 414 X. Delaware St on lie fourth floor of the Hotel Severin. white slm is employed.

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PEOPLE generally save a few cuss words for a rainy day. So many relics of ancient days are being dug- up. It must be the fishermen hunting bait. • • • People who won’t stop at anything should never drive autos. • ♦ • If Burbank produces many more seedless things we can do away with the seed catalogue entirely.

At the rate things are going the freight hills are pretty high. • 4 * \\ hen a woman goes in and asks for powder these days the clerk says, “Face, baking or gun?” • • • Permanent waves are tine in hair, hut not so good in streets. • • • The meanest boy in our neighborhood is using his mother’s mothballs for marbles. • • • Fashion note: The longer skirts will be shorter, but we will have the shorter skirts no longer. /* * * One way to learn what’s what is by learning what isn’t what. • • * During a raid in Cleveland a man poured a bottle of it in the sink. A sink of iniquity. • • • Gardens cut down expenses, but you have to dig for your money. • * • (Sugar situation is reported more strained. Coffee should be.

Mystery Letter Worries Two Governments in Long Travels

By SKA Service PLANT CITY. Fla. March 26. A carelessly addressed letter, sent by one resident of this city to another, has TRAVELED a distance equal to twice across the North American continent. CAUSED worry to the postal authorities of two governments. BROUGHT three postal clerks under police surveillance. REACHED finally its destination —a point a few blocks from the spot where it was posted! It all started when Mrs. Sally Japes posted a letter to her milkman, Fred Fischer, inclosing a $5 bill in payment of her milk account. Fischer failed to receive the letter and remittance. Mrs. Japes considered it a plain case of theft. She complained to the postmaster. The postmaster eyed his staff of clerks. One was on his honeymoon. The other two were now employed —"green hands.” All three were placed under the

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eye of detectives. Their goings arid comings’ were checked up and all were relieved of suspicion. Meanwhile here’s -what had happened: Mrs. Japes firmly believed she’d addressed her letter “Fred Fischer, Plant City, Fla., U. S. A.” Eut, as a matter of fact, she’d addressed it, “Fred Fischer, .Milk Man.” Postal clerks thought the “Man” meant Manitoba and sent it to that Canadian province. But there’s no such Manitoba, city as "Milk” so the letter found its way to Milk River, Man. But there’s no Fred Fischer there, so the letter was consigned to the dead letter office at Ottawa. From Ottawa it was sent back to Plant City and found its way into tie hands of the milkman to whom it originally was sent. Fis< her has his $ ■ and everybody’s I happy. “And I’ll be more careful in the future,” says Mrs. Japes.

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