Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1923 — Page 4

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SCHOOL -w —-w A RENTS of school children and other persons HOUSES I * interested in obtaining proper school faciliAGAIN ties for Indianapolis should not fail to attend the meeting of the board of school commissioners next Tuesday night when the building program will be discussed. The school board should be given the assurance that Indianapolis is behind a building program that will result in adequate accommodations for all the children of the city. The building program is now fairly well under way and should be carried out as rapidly as possible and as economically as possible. It is hoped work can be started next June. Meanwhile a bond issue must be floated, necessitating approval of the tax board. The deplorable condition of Indianapolis schools is so well known it is hardly necessary again to call attention to it. Children are still attending schools in poorly heated and poorly ventilated frame buildings and in other makeshift structures. At school No. 70 a number of children are attending classes in the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church, which has been turned over to them during the week by the congregation. In short, the condition is such that it is little short of a disgrace to the city. If you do not wish these conditions to continue, attend the meeting Tuesday night and let the board know you are behind a sane and reasonable program for the construction of new buildings. ‘ TAX A TANGLE which may result disastrously has TANGLE [\ been brought about through technical diffiSERIOUS ±JL culties in connection with the collection of taxes in Marion County and in other Indiana counties. The Supreme Court has ruled collections resulting from horizontal increases in valuations in Marion County made in 1919 were illegal because proper notice of the intended action was not given the taxpayers. Now suits have been filed asking that taxes collected on the increased valuations be refunded. The success of such suits would result in no end of difficulties. It is estimated that in Marion County it would be necessary to refund approximately $3,000,000. The same situation on a lesser scale is understood to exist in numerous other counties. Os course, Marion County does not have the $3,000,000. The money was spent long ago. If it is refunded it must come under any circumstances from the taxpayers. It would, as John C. Ruckelshaus, county attorney, has explained, mean taking money out of one pocket and putting it in another. But this would not be a simple process. It would result in untold confusion and inconvenience. The situation indicates how far-reaching and how serious violation of the letter of the law sometimes mav become.

SUGAR £ £ UGAR gamblers did it,” cries the Republican BOWL IN nat ional committee, anent the high price of POLITICS KJ sugar. ‘‘The tariff is not responsible.” Simultaneously, Democratic national headquarters in Washington is working overtime getting out statements asserting that the tariff is responsible, indirectly if not directly, for the sugar gouge. Thus the sugar bowl becomes a first class political issue. It is a sad day for the consumer when party strategists take up a public grievance Give them a few weeks and the sugar issue will be about as clear as Louisiana molasses. This paper has managed to publish the entire expose of the sugar gamble, giving facts, figures and dates, which are just as available to investigators as they were to our Washington correspondent, without reference to either party. We did this on the theory that Republicans liked fair-priced sugar just as much as did Democrats, per capita, and vice versa, and the gouging by the gamblers hit the housewives of either party equally hard But Washington cannot take that unbiased attitude, apparently. The so-called leaders of both parties are out to steal the sugar bowl for their own particular political holidays, and the housewives can take care of themselves. We said they could do that in the first place—with a sugar boycott. BLUE LAWTir TITH a sob cracking his voice, Indian CnmFOR \j\l missioner Charles H. Burke told a WashRED MEN ff ington correspondent of this paper the other day how his heart was breaking with sympathy for hi3 Indian charges. Almost in the next breath, he issued a warning to the Indians that they must abandon their historical dances on penalty of having strict regulations issued, defining a very special set of rules of conduct for Indians. For instance, they would allow Indians to dance but one day a month, and would permit no Indian under 50 years of age at the dances. In brief, Mr. Burke proposes to so strait-jacket the Indians that few of them would live until the age of ;>0 to even see a dance. Our sympathies are all with those Indian chiefs who petitioned the Great White Father asking why, if the white reformers so object to dancing they do not first abolish the white man’s own dances, infinitely more degrading than the Indian’s.

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Thracians. The manufacture and use of butter as a staple article of food is a comparatively recent custom. What is the largest lake port in the world? Duluth, on Lake Superior In Minnesota, Annual tonnage 46,808,613. When and by whom was the Great Wall of China built? By the Emperor Chi Hwangti of the Tsin dynasty, who reigned from about 246 B. C. until 209 B. C. Where are Minnehaha Falls? On the Minnehaha River near Minneapolis, Minn. What were the Articles of Confederation? An agreement adopted in 1781 between tht American Colonics. They had been a greet slowness and dilflci’lty liunn^^Kd volution as a means of joint .Jr.jQjj&'ii against England. They led by the Constant! un, ad<T^r^tl lade 1 phi.t How much oil i%y>CsTri ed in Kentucky? -j In 1922, 8,981,000 b V £*^*(L Are there any Virgin Islands of

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Statistics Show Dry Law Has Reduced Whiskey Drinking in United States at Least 90 Per Cent

This is tho second ot the series of the series of articles hy C. C; I,yon of The Times's Washington bureau, summarizing the prohibition movement from a national aspect. BY C. C. LYON tpr TASHINGTON, March 30. —Do \\ American families nowadays, under nation-wide prohibition, each each drink an average of 100 gallons of booze a year? If they do, then the .Eighteenth amendment tnd the’Volstead law are rank failures. To what extent has nation-wide prohibition really cut down drinking in the United States? I’ve been going over all sorts of statistics trying to find out. I’ve had intelligent men who are very wet say to me frequently that "there’s almost as much drinking as over in this country,” and I’ve had Ants-Saloon League men insist that "present day drinking doesn’t amount to 4 per cent of what It was before nation-wide prohibition.” 1917 Last Wet Year The United States Census Bureau furnishes figures showing that in 1917, which was in reality the last fully "wet" year, the average consumption of liquor for every man. woman and Child in the United States was 15.95 gallons. This included an average consump tion of 1.6 gallons of whisky, eighteen , gallons of beer, and four-tenths ! gallons of wine. But a big majority of the population j in pre prohibition days were not j drinkers—women and children and millions of "dry” men. If there were 20.090,900 drinkers, then each of them, in 1917, drank 100 gallons of booze. Do these 20,000,000 drinkers each ! drink 100 gallons a year now? Real beer is negligible the#*. days. And only 2.724,363 gallons of “bottled in bond" whisky were withdrawn from Government warehouses during the last fiscal year. This would gie each of the drinkers only a pint of honest-to-goodness pure whisky for the entire year! A total of 167.000,000 gallons of whisky were consumed In the United States in 1917, so the drinkers must | have bought about 165.000,000 gallons of bootleg whisky last year If they equalled their 1917 drinking record. The most ardent wet will not say that more than 16.500 gallons or boot leg whisky were sold in this coup ; try last year. My personal opinion is that even half that arnoun* woutd be high Nearing Danger Point Moreover, the dav will soon be here when the country’s supply of “bottjed In bond" wil,l actually lie reduced to the danger point. There were only 24,826,195 gallons of It left ;n govern mtnt warehouses at the beginning of the present fiscal year, as against approximately 170.000.000 gallons in 1917. A considerable number of people are still "home orewlng” and will con tinue to do so. but I think it is a fair and honest estimate that nationwide prohibition has already reduced the drinking of whisky and other hard liquors as mu.-h as 90 per cent. Driving By BERTON ISRAI.KP WHEN another fellow's tlrtvins. Though I constantly am striving To behave the way i l >-issc:,i;er should do , Still, In spite my imlravor, I discover I am iver Sitting tensely there beside him—driving too AT tho highwav I kee|, jssTing. And my nund is busy steering And I figure every chani-e the driver take# tn a manner highly graphic When he s threading through tho traffic. I keep putting on imaginary brake# | IN his skill and m his science I may fondly place reliance, I may bow to his experience and years. Vet I sit there all aqniver In a Packard or a Flivver While my mind is feeding gaa or ahtfting gears 1 SO wherever I am riding. I am driving, I am guiding— An imaginary wheel is in my hand: With the cios’St application I cond”ct each operation If you ever drove a ear. you'll understand! (Copyright. 1023. NEA Service. Inc.)

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BY MILTON BRON.NEB Special Cable to NEA Service and Indianapolis Times. Copyright, 1923, by NEA Service, Inc. lON DON. March 30.—The problems created by Europe’s 20,000,000 "superfluous” women anil girls will solve themselves, In the opinion advanced today by W. L. George, world-famed “sex specialist.” These 20,000.000 are doomed to die old mails—their normal desire for husbands, homes and children unsatisfied- -because there are not enough men to supply them with mates. George has paid particular attention to the complex problems arising from this situation. Economist, sociologist, essayist and novelist, he has been Interested in every aspect of !he situation, from the biological to the romantic. "The present preponderance of women over inetr in Europe is due more to the losses of men in the war than all other causes put together.” says George "Therefore, it is a temporary situation. "For the time being T think woman is worse off than she was before the war, economically. She seems to have lost much of the ground that she gained during the war. “Morally I think woman Is no worse off- ns a result of the war .and the consequent preponderance of women over nien. That there bus been some hysteria, that t re-re hits been some looseness in thinking, talking and acting no one will gainsay. But 1 do deny that It has been on any such scale as some people charge There are now and always have been In the world three classes of women: “Those who can't be plucked. "Those who may be plucked. “Those who are easily plucked. ”1 don't think the aftermath of the war has appreciably changed the numbers In the three classes of women. Ts you watch the courts you get a pretty definite line on things. "There are three periods when married persons take tlielr troubles to the divorce judge: “In the first year, those who ought never to have been married at all. They were totally incompatible. could never get along, and the break-up comes soon. “In the fifth or sixth year, tho

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Four Indiana Veterans Still Draw Mexican War Pensions

Bv Times Special WASHINGTON. March 30.—Indiana pi ill has four representatives from the Mexican war on the pension rolls. They are: Uriah Gasavvay, 93. Reelsville. private in Company D. Mounted Riflemen. Jason Green. 94. now at Garrett, 111.. Company E. sth Indiana. Samuel Leffler. 93. St. Paul. Ind., Company E. sth Indiana Malachi McCoy. 94. now at Vernal, Utah. 2nd Indiana Infantry. Senator Samuel >1 Ralston has not taken up his duties in Washington as yet, but that makes no difference to the job hunters. Ralston already is being: bombarded with letters from persons wanting jobs or pensions or compensation as a result of the World War. Three days before Ralston's term began—or on March I—Ralston got a telegr.am asking him to vote for a bill

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| then before Congress. One day before • his term began he had several letters requesting jobs. His mail bag has ; been filled with pension claims since j March 4. i The talk in Washington for several weeks has been that Will H. Hays will be back actively in political life l>efore long— at least at the expiration of his j contract with the movie publishers. That Hays will come back for a time during the Harding campaign is ex- , pected. He may do some good also for the Republican candidate as a leading movie influence. A While no one here is capable of dis™ puting the assertion that Hays is of tremendous value to the movies, the thought among the politicians is that the day of such fads is about over and that Hays will be open to another job i from the politicians. Hays was a suc- ; cess in politics, but whenever his work in the picture world is discussed , the first question is, “What has he I done for the movies?"