Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1923 — Page 4

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WHAT tt-S your government worth $96.1G a year to YOU you? That is the amount, according to the PAY FOR National budget committee, paid for government in the United States for each man, woman and child in the country. This amount is divided into $35.47 for Federal Government, $9.46 for State government, $6.91 for county government, and $44.32 for city government. If there were no school to which your child could be sent how much would you pay for that privilege? The average Indianapolis citizen, according to the figures, pays $8.43 annually for schools. For police protection the average citizen in this city pays $2.37 a year and for fire protection he pays $2.67 a year. If police and fire protection should be suddenly cut off, what would you pay for this protection? You certainly would pay considerably more than you do now. Putting taxes on a basis of service rendered for money paid leads to interesting speculation. Supposing we were without government. What would you not pay for protection and service rendered by government? Government operates on a large scale and therefore the unit cost is comparatively low, just as it is in the case of manufacturing or production on a large scale. Os course, none of us wishes to pay more than is necessary for the advantages of government, no more than is necessary for any of the other necessities of life. Certainly various kinds of governments, which are our servants, frequently spend money uselessly and this is not to be commended. Nevertheless, a consideration of the things we receive for what we spend is a mighty good argument for government. WAR AND w at figures in the Federal treasury THE TAX have calculated again in terms of simple DOLLAR 1 A cents where the taxpayers’ money is going after it has been turned over to Congress for expenditure in the public interest. Here’s where: 1— For interest on the public debt 26.6 c 2 For the sinking fund to reduce the debt :11c. 3 For care of World War veterans 10c 4 For Civil and Mexican War pensions 7c 5 For maintaining the army establishment 12c 6 For maintaining the navy 12.5 c 7 For tax refunds on Government overcharges.. 2.32 c . B—To pay the shipping board expenses 2.29 c 9—For care of the Indians le 10— For building public roads 2.42 c 11— For other Government activities 12.57 c Note the last two items, road building and running the other Government activities. They arc the expenditures that most directly benefit you. They are most in the public interest. Thev total about 15.29 cents out of your dollar. In other words, hut 15 cents of your dollar produces something tangible and beneficial.

This is not to say that the other 85 cents should not have been spent. National defense is necessary. The wars for which those 85 cents are paying may have been inevitable. Rut war, as a general proposition, is terribly wasteful, and our past wars are playing havoc with every dollar you pay in Federal taxes. The next time we get real enthusiastic about a war. let’s sit down and figure out whether or not we want to increase the 85 cents in our tax dollar to 90 cents before we begin shouting and making the eagle scream. WELCOME.£ “y -T"OKUM’ has arrived It’s now listed in the OH I—l newest dictionaries. That’s just as much a HOKUM JL JL debut for a word as "Who’s Who” is for a person. And, at that, hokum beat ‘“normalcy” to the great goal of words. Useful word, hokum! Invaluable with a great national political campaign coming on. Listen to the speech, mutter “Hokum!” and forget it. Fine for the social stuff—parting guests, pretty speeches, wish they’d go. say “Hokum!” under vour breath. It's a relief Try it on the agents. Try it on the wife. Or hubby, if you're a wifey. Try it when you Ye tempted to believe things that ain’t. Welcome, little word, to our vocabulary. IN 1948 ENERAL PAYOTT, French commander at ON THE I Cologne, boasts that France and Belgium in-V-J tend to run the German railroads on the left bank of the Rhine for at least twenty-five years. This will interest observers who believe that what France really wants is to move her frontier to the Rhine. It is, of course, ridiculous for any one to attempt to prophesy volatile Europe’s course for twenty-five years ahead. The ultimate solution over there can come only through the formation of a T nited States of Europe. Wnit a few centuries.

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Does the moon affect the weather of the earth? United States Weather Bureau officials say there Is no such influence, but the old legend to the contrary persists. What is the origin of April fool day? The custom of sending one upon a bootless errand on AprlJ 1 Is perhaps a travesty of the sending hither and thither of the Savior from Annas to Caiaphas, and from Pilate to Herod: because during the midle ages this scene of Christ’s life was made the subject of a miracle play at Easter, which occurs near April 1. It la possible, however, that it may bo a relic of some old heathen festival. To what are the colors in the geyser basins and hot spring terraces of the Yellowstone National Park due? The colors, says Science Service, are due to low vegetable organisms called algae, which occur in nearly all the pools, springs and running water in the park. Whenever the boiling water cools to about 186 degrees Fahrenheit creamy white algae make their appearance. As the water becomes cooler different species of different colors develop according to the temperature. $

What is the real name of Sax Korhmer? Arthur Sarfleld Ward. What are liie meanings of t lie names ZeJiiia. Jessie and Alma? Zelma, fair; Jessie, wealth; Alma, all good. Is raising game profitable? The Department of Agriculture ■ states it is not, as the demand is not great, and unless one already had a reputation built up, and the time and ! the money to exhibit at various pouli try shows, the department does not : advise one to follow this line. What is Rudolph Valentino’s address? "139 Hollywood Blvd., Dos Angelos. , Cal. How may real diamonds be distinguished from imitation? The diamond is distinguished by its brilliancy, hardness and specific gravity. is the hardest mineral known, j and will scratch any other mineral How many miles did the United States steamship Wyoming travel from May 29, 1917, to .liny 18, 1019? 32,925 miles.

CORRECTION: In answer given recently in this column the words breadth” and "depth” were reversed In giving the dimensions of the Deviathan. The correct dimensions are: Dength, 907.6 feet: Breadth, 100.1 feet; deuth 58.2 feet; tonnage, 54.282.

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Four Noted Birdmen Will Compete for Title of ‘Magellan of the Air ’ in Race Around World

By XKA Service London, April r>. —striving to become the Magellans of the air, four British birdmen will hop off within a few weeks here in a quadrangular race to complete the first flight around the world. It was in 1622 —401 years ago—that a handful of the sailors whp had started out with Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator, landed at Seville and completed the first circumnavigation of the globe after more than three years of cruising. Today these four British expeditions will try with ships of the air to duplicate the achievement of the Margeilan cruise: 1. The expedition of Sir Keith Smith. 2. That headed by Alan J. Cobham. 3. A project in which R. H. McIntosh, Captain Tymms and Captain A. MeCloughry will be associated. 4 An expedition beaded by Captain Norman MacMillan. Aii four contestants plan to start late this month or early next month. Because of the careful preliminary organization work being done by each of the four leaders, aviation experts here believe at least one expedition will reach its goal, if all of them do not. Sii Keith Smith, it will ho remembered, last year planned a flight around the world with his brother, Sir Ross Smith. But when Sir Ross lost his life in an accident, tii ■ project was abandoned. Since that time Sir Keith has made a tour around the world in which he inspected the route lie Intends to follow. He will use a Vickers Viking plane with a Napier "I.ion” engine. <’ohhnm is a famous do Haviland pilot who makes trips in the reg

Wins Chicago Mayor s Race by Landslide

William E. Dever, Democrat, liown hep- was elected mayor of •'hlcapo April 2. <]• feating Arthur C. Duecler, Republican. FESS DECLARES ~ CONGRESS HAS CHANGED GREATLY Powerful Orations Give Way to Committee Room Work. BY SIMEON D. FESS United States Senator-Elect of Ohio Former United States Representative. Procure and theory’ ere far apart in the work of Congress. The citizen who knows Congress from what is told by history, thinks of the body’ as a place where is heard powerful orations delivered by flaming orators upon great occasions. He thinks of Webster’s reply to Hayne when the integrity of the American Union was at stake, or the orations of Clay, Calhoun, Seward, the burning issues of slavery, sound money, and protective tariff. The new member is quickly disillusioned. He soon realizes that the work of legislation is not oratory in the Chamber, but drudgery in committee room. The talking on special occasion is determined by the length of service in the Chamber, rather than fitness or ability to meet the occasion, and reserved to the few who are termed leaders. Consideration of the issue is limited to five-minute stunts not entirely adapted to rounded periods, or fervid oration. This change from the older days is inevitable because of the size of the House which will not admit of waste of time in oratory. The smaller size of the Senate does not operate against the old style of oratory’. But the rule of permitting unlimited speech on subjects foreign to the issue inevitably empties Its seats a fact which is not conducive to perfervid oratory. The five-minute rule in the House is not only a time saver, hut it is a great discipline to compel concentration. and attention to thought rather than words. If some sort of unlimited debate restriction is not adopted in the Senate, the Senate will become an issue before the people within a reasonably short time. Pedestrian Injured Klden E. Tilson, 322 N. East St,, today was recovering from Injuries received Wednesday night when an au tomobile driven by Vern Demaree, 28, of 603 N. La Salle St., struck him at New York and, Delaware Sts.

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MAP SHOWS THE ROUTE ALAN COBH AM, ONE OF THE “MAGELLANS OF THE AIR" WTBL FOLLOW. BELOW, SIB KEITH SMITH (LEFT) AND COBHAM (RIGHT.) ular aii- passenger service between Paris and I/Ondon. He will use a do Haviland 3 with a 240-horsepower Siddeley-Puma engine. Witli him he will tok- Mackenzie Grieve as navigator. Grieve waa witli Hawker in his famous transAtlantic flight. Cohham expects to make the flight in sixty days He will fly from England across central Europe so Constantinople via Vienna, thence via. Aleppo to Bagdad, on to Calcutta, Shanghai, the Aleutian Islands and Vancouver. He will fly across Canada to St. Johns. N. F., and thence across the Atlantic to his starting point. Mclntosh, Tymms and McCloughry will follow almost the same route. They will use i Falrey twin float seaplane witli a RollsRoyce "Candor” engine.

Chicago .Jurist Faces Problem of Placing Monetary Value on lame

r,T ROY GIBBONS NEA Staff Correspondent HICAGO, April 6.—Judges in . damage suits are called upon dully to fix the value of a leg, an arm an ear or an eye when litigants demand compensation for the loss of these members. And it’s not a rare day when a Judge Is asked to tlx the value of a human life- In cases where relatives sue for compensation for the death of one of their kin. But a Chicago Judge *odty faces a problem more subtle and more entangling titan any of these He is asked to put a money valuation on love! This problem has arisen in the suit of Mrs. Edwin Milner No. 1 against Mrs. Edwin Milner No 2. Mrs. Milner No. I, a housewife much like a dozen others you’ll find in your block, alleges Mrs. Milner No. 2. heiress to millions, so dazzled Milner, a barber, by her wealth that “lie stole away Ids love. SIOO.OOO Suggested Wife No. 1 seeks compensation for the lost afection —and suggests SIOO,OOO might be a suitable amount. Here Is her story as she sets it forth In her complaint: Milner and Mrs. Milner No. 1 and their daughter, Charlotte. 13. were getlng ajong as well as they could on Milner's salary of sl6 a week. They were happy. Then came prosperity. Milner got an executive Job with a big haberdashefy concern. There Milner met Harriet Capper dashing debutante daughter of his employer Tb<* heiress and Mr. and Mrs Milner became friends Frequently they went on Jaunts in Miss Capper’s luxurious limousine. Suspects I/Ovo Soon, Mrs. Milner alleges in hor complaint, she began to suspect affection was growing between Miss Capper and her husband. But she didn't mention that when she sued Milner for divorce shortly afterward. She secured a decree on ground of cruelty and began to receive alimony checks for S2O weekly. One year and one day later Miss Capper became Mrs. Milner No. 2. And Milner became vice president of the haberdashery establishment.

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But file judge, sifting the evidence on both sides, is confronted by these new and Irani,- questions: Who* claim has an ex wife on her divorced husband? How mu is that husband's af faction —the amount lie failed to lavish <>n her before h* was allegedly stolen—worth in cash? Is one husband worth more than another? How shill a court of law attempt to judge the points on which his purloined value can lie ass-use-1 ? What 1 - fair price for any husband’s love? The .aso will decide all this, lawyers say. Wh 11 sort of award would von make If you were fho Judge? The Essential By BURTON' BKALEY OH if you writ© a story. a •tory brave and fine (With thrill* fb every chapter and art In ovry line. Still al! !tm sr’ow and clamor will be but fugitive Unl<**4 > i put s-.vnc love in—for Love’a what m&kea it live. ANI> if you eintf i arol with lovely words and tune That ripple like the waters beneath a silver moon. Its ma*rio will not tarry or linger very long Unless you put horia lovu In. for Loves what makes the aong I WHAT If your do*rti% be splendid, what if your fanv* be wide? Theao are but transitory and will not long abide T?o wf*vr-r toil be lauded however fortune smile. If love he hiekjng—they nre not wo-th the while SO if with pen you Libor, or brush or ppade or maid And if you faahion statue*. or towers proud ami tall. Whatever ho the talent or artistry that’s yours. Be sure to put home love in—for Love alone endures. fCnpyrig! t. 193 ft. NEA Service, Inn.) Will Not Demand Jury. No jury trial will be asked in the case of Opal Isloy, 17, set in Juventle ; Court for Friday. Frank A. Hymmes i and Lawrence Shaw, defense attorneys, said today She Is ehnrgod with h-'lng a delinquent child. They j said Monday they might break a ; twenty year precedent in that court I by demanding a jury.

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THERE is something radically wrong with one who is too radical. Phoenix (Ariz.) fishing party claim fisli chased them ashore, and we don’t believe it, either. All of ns know what we would do this spring if we could afford it. A learned professor says college women should not marrj-; but then, of course, he never was one.

The man who bombed Wall Street in 1920 has been caught again. He is rather early this spring. Make your garden all vegetables and a yard wide. A Detroit auto thief, disguised as a girl, was caught by police instead of by pneumonia. * • * What’s worse than the tailor thinking you said “shorter” when what you realty said was “longer?” • • * France may get the gold, but Germany has the brass. They say snakes will not bite in water, and a disgusted fisherman tells us fish will not either. • • * The honeymoon ends when a couple on the sea of matrimony get out beyond the three-mile limit. Blind and Deaf Youngster Is an Intellectual Prodigy

Bit Vs. .1 Sen ice SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. April 5. Tad Chapman, 7, has earned the title of “South Dakota's iittle wonder.” Because Tad. though deaf and blind since he was 3, leads as active a life as any boy of his age—and is far brighter than many of his older fellow-pupils in the State School for the Deaf here. Tad knows ninety commands and can take them in combination and the names of 150 objects. His spoken vocabulary consists of 138 nouns and pronouns, forty-three verbs and eight adjectives, lb- c.in couni to fifty and knows the combinations to ten. He knows twenty question forms and the expressions—" Goodnight,” “how do you do?” “thank you.” “you arc welcome.” and the like. Tad hits made marked progress with the typewriter, using sandpaper letters as a basis. He knows all the keyboard positions and can write sentences like: l hopped. I ran, l fell. I bounced a ball. Tad can dance, too, and in the winter enjoys making a snowman

‘Die Hard’ Railroads Hard Hit by Failure to Settle Strike^

Bu Times Special W J ASHINGTON. April s.—How V/Vt ar some of the "die hard” railroads faring thf-se days—roads that have never yet settled with their striking shopmen who went on etriko July t, last? Two of the biggest and most important roads that settled with their men on the basis of the “Baltimore agreement” early last fall were the Baltimore & Ohio and the Southern. The last statements of earnings and business of these two roads show big increases in operating income and earnings. The rise of B. & O. stock on the New York stock exchange in recent weeks has been sensational. On the other hand, “die hard" roads that still face the problem of broken down engines and cars and an inability to keep up the pre-etrike

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CHICAGO. INDIANAPOLIS & LOUISVILLE RY. “The Hoosier ’ Leaves Indianapolis - - - 7:45 A. M. Leaves Boulevard Station - 8:00 A. M. Arrives Chicago .... 12:45 P. M. “Daylight Limited” Leaves Indianapolis - - • 12:00 Noon Leaves Boulevard Station - 12:15 P. M. Arrives Chicago • • • • 4:55 P. M. “Monon Flyer” Leaves Indianapolis - • • 4:30 P. M. Leaves Boulevard Station - 4:44 P. M. Arrives Chicago - - - - 9:10 P. M. “Mid-Nkght Speciiii” Leaves Indianapolis - - - 1:00 A. M. Leaves Boulevard Station - 1:15 A. M. Arrives Chicago - - - - 7:10 A. M. SU*i>*r ready in Union Station at 9 P. M. All trains arrive Dearborn Station, Chicago, only two blocks from the loop . When you travel on the MONON you are protected by Automatic Signals /US tk& Way Ticket Office: 114 Monument Place, English Hole Block Telephone Circle 4-600 L—JXC3

TOM SIMS SAYS:

I pace in moving trafflo. are finding ! their treasuries hard hit. Pennsylvania’s statement on February business was a shock to investors In Wall Street While it showed a bigger volume of business handled than during February, 1922, yet it | cost the company several million dol | lars more to handle tl e business and { the net result was a financial set- . back. The situation on the New Haven is best shown by a telegram that W. S. Andrews, assistant, rice president of the Southern, sent out the other day to Southern agents and busmpssgetters, explaining that shipments to ; points on the New Haven could not , be accepted because of the, almost | hopeless congestion of traffic on the j latter road.

TAD CHAPMAN on tlm grounds well as the boys that have their sight.