Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1923 — Page 4

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JUDGE- yo 4 AINING a little today and a little tomorrow MADE I and advancing with noiseless step like a thief LAWS v_JT over field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped. • • . ” This is Thomas Jefferson speaking, of the Supreme Court of the United States, immediately after the decision by Marshall in the Marbury case. Marshall had seized for the court on that occasion supreme power over the government and two of the myriad progeny of that move are the minimum wage and child labor decisions of today. The cost of that usurpation by Marshall to the people of this country has been stupendous. • In 1856, for instance, there was the Dred Scott decision, an important step in the court’s drive for more power. It cost the Civil War. Then came the Fletcher versus Peck case, wherein the court held unconstitutional the right of the people of Georgia to protect themselves against fraud by corporation which got some 40,000,000 acres of land by fraudulent contract. Came the Dartmouth College case, wherein the court held that once a.corporation got a franchise—regardless of how it was obtained or whether it corrupted the Legislature or government to get it—the franchise could not he recalled by the people. The cost of this decision and the legalized corporate robbery it inspired can not be estimated. The income tax decision was another. It required sixteen years to get a constitutional amendment enacted that would wipe out that bit of usurpation which declared the first income tax law unconstitutional. The cost in taxes which could not be collected was more than a billion and a half. The Sherman anti-trust law had the word “unreasonable” read into it by the court and monopoly resumed its throne. Now come the child labor case and the minimum wage decisions. These are only a few outstanding cases in our legal history. They show just a little of what the court's usurpation has cost. CLOSING "W 'IOR three years the allies have been dynamitTHE WAR M ing the great fortifications built bv the GerACCOUNT X mans on Helgoland. German scientists “fear” the explosions have so shattered the undeflving rock that the sea will soon entirely annihilate the whole island. Too good to be true. Another echo of the big war from Washington, where it becomesknown that about 1.188 million dollars will be the damages demanded of Germany by Uncle Sam. This covers all government and citizens’ claims, including Lusitania losses. Balancing this against what the war cost us, we’ll realize about five cents on the dollar. And that’s an extravagant estimate. But safety is cheap at any price. STARS FT'SEIE pettiness of ourselves and the so-called AND I troubles that worry us is emphasized by the VANITY _X Harvard astronomers’ report that 850 nebulae are discovered in one photograph of the heavens taken in Peru. Each nebula is a luminous gaseous mass. Many of them are whole solar systems in the making, just as the sun. moon, earth and other planets once swirled together in the form of gas. A single grain of sand, thrown into the Pacific Ocean, is smaller by comparison than our earth in the vast universe. Human vanity is the most ridiculous of all jokes. “O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?” A A MERICANS do not hear the truth about FROM /\ Europe, says Hilaire Belloc, author, traveler EUROPE JL\. and publicist, who is visiting us. So he undertakes to tell us the truth, as he sees it. paying us the compliment of predicting that European governments will have to remodel their governments with some fine American gables built into them. Belloc’s European picture is interesting, and is probably worth about as much as that of any other private in the rear rank of the battalion of European lecturers swarming to our shores with the battle cry of “We come, we talk, we prosper.” But. says Belloc. “I don’t know why it is, hut no American ever comes over to explain to us all about your ideas and difficulties. We really know very little about them.” All aboard for Europe, folks, here's your chance!

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nually. This sum represents new structures, upkeep and maintenance, and. In point of expenditures, becomes the fourth greatest industrial activity in America. What does the State name “Wyoming" mean? “Mountains and valleys alternating,” or, as construed by citizens of that State: “Here God has bent down the backs of His mountains for man to make his habitations." Wliat is King George's full Christian name? George Frederick Ernest Albert. How many possible poker hands are there? There are 2.698,960. How many trees does it take to yield a cord of wood? It is estimated that a northern hardwood tree of any variety 21 inches In diameter 5 feet above the ground, will yield one cord j>f wood. A southern softwood tree 23 inches In diameter will yield a cord. It takes 35 northern and 26 southern hardwood trees 6 inches In diameter 5 feet above the ground to yield one cord. One Traveler By BKRTON BRALEY 1 SPEAK to nobody, nobody, nobody. And nobody speaks to me; For how can you know what kind of folk* These traveling folks may be? They might be barber*, or thieves and crooks Whose business is burglaree So I speak to nobody, nobody, nobody. And nobody speaks to me! THE sociable people I always snub Whenever they speak to me. So I stt and read and smoke and yawn In my own society: A badly nuisance, to run about On trains or on ships at sea. For I speak to nobody, nbbody, nobody. And nobody speaks to me. HO hum. I'm fearfully tired of myself And the scenery that I see, But one must maintain one's proper place In human society. One can't take chances of meeting those Os bumhie or low degree. So I speak to nobody, nobody, nobody. And hobody speaks to me (Copyright, 1828. NEA Service, Inc.l

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HERMIT MILLIONAIRE TELLS WHY HE GAVE AWAY FORTUNE TO CHARITY

Charles Garland Breaks Long Silence for First Time, By EDWARD THTERRY • NEA Service Staff Writer MIDDLEBOKO, Mass., April 16.—Charles Garland, hermit millionaire, has broken his silence. For the first time he has told why he gave away his fortune “for the benefit of mankind”—sßso,ooo tor distribution in gifts anil loans through the American Fund for Public Service. These questions were asked Garland: “Why did you first refuse your inheritance?” ‘How have your views changed since?” “Do you think it justifiable to live on unearned or inherited income?” "What is your general attitude toward private property*?” Garland's answers are made public for the first time exclusively through NEA Service. They come simultaneously with an attack on the Garland Fund by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, charging that the money is being used for the "revolutionary movement in America,” and publication of the first six months' activities of the fund established last July. Here is the personally written story of the one-time millionaire who lives on a barren thirty-acre farm near Middleboro. where he Is establishing a community to carry out his Ideas of socialized property rights: By CHARLES GARLAND IGREW up among those who did not question the justice of private ownership and I went to school and college where the Injustices of the present economic system great wealth beside great poverty—were explained away through the argument that every one has a fair chance to earn a living. I saw from my own observation that this argument was false and that It was put forth by those who wanted to justify their own positions rather than to face the facts honestly. 1 wished to clear myself of all the privileges of wealth and all desire for those privileges that I might be free to see the truth. Waited to Do Good I did not then dispose of the money because I saw no way of doing good with it. The inheritance was u part of the economic system which I wanted to destroy. It was the fruit of the spirit of greed as opposed to the spirit of cooperation for which I felt I must work. Since then I have come to feel that the ownership of simple necessities of life—of food, clothing and tools for working—ln no way conflicts with the spirit of cooperation, provided that one owns things to use them for social purposes and not to deny the- use of them to others. As for living on unearned or inherited income. I believe that only one thing matters—that one strive to do good with what resources one lias. Unearned wealth, like all wealth, should be used so rthe benefit of society as a whole. It is created by society. No individual himself created great wealth.

Reap Others' Labor Those who havo amassed large for tunes have reaped the labor of others. All Income on loaned money Is derived from the labor of others, although the one receiving the income may never come In contact with those who are actually providing the wealth which is turned over to him. Anyone who sincerely wants to use his or her wealth for social purposes will find a way. Where the way Is lacking the will is lacking. And here Is the root of the whole problem. He is working to propitiate the god of the day, ownership. Man will not see that he Is his own master no matter what god he invents to symbolize his own authority. Men are enslaved not by property, not by economic laws, not by material obstacles too great to overcome; but by their own ideas, by their false conception of the forces with which they have to deal. When man becomes conscious of his authority he will no longer be satisfied to seill his birthright—the right to choose his own destiny. He will not do a day's work to “make money.” He will do It because he feels that it Is sensible and useful work —because he is proud of the plan which he himself has conceived and which he is fulfilling with every hour of his work. SOVIET SENTENCES ELEVEN TO DEATH Fmployes of Housing Department Charged With Rribe Plot. Bu United Bret* MOSCOW, April 16.—Eleven persons were sentenced to deatii here today for bribery in connection with the distribution of dwellings. All were employes in the Moscow central housing department and were members of a band of sixty placed on trial for a monster bribe plot. Joy Riders Suspected Three automobiles were on the police missing list today. Owners: George Bailey, Fortville, Ind.; B. R. Moore, Clermont, and Rox Baxter of Shlbyvllle, Ind. Tire Thieves Rusy Tire thieves were busy Sunday night. W. L. Portteus, 231.1 Coyner ' vp„ and A. L. Frankel, 4?.4 E. Ohio St., reported to police spare tires were stolen from their cars.

Where Garland Money Goes •# t KW YORK. April 16.—Gifts totaling $24,985 and loans aggregating f y $17,450 (of which $25,750 was repaid by Jan. li were made during * * tho first six months out of the $850,000 placed by Charles Gar- X^AN^y din the hands of the American Fund for Public Service. v ’ Ms*** Money used was as follows: sA ' "$r rtHTTSI I/IAV

Where Garland Money Goes Hu NEA Service NEW YORK, April 16.—Gifts totaling $24,985 and loans aggregating $17,450 (of which $25,750 was repaid by Jan. li were made during the first six months out of the $850,000 placed by Charles Garland in the hands of the American Fund for Public Service. Money used was as follows:

GIFTS Strike relief $2,000 Education 6,500 Legislative campaigns 3,865 Publicity and publications.. . 3,820 Educational propaganda 7,900 defense work 900

Thyssen Tells Times Man An Early Solution or War Is Future of Ruhr Crisis

EXCESS PROFITS TAX ONLY CURB ON BIG BUSINESS Wisconsin Solon Forecasts Return With Prosperity and High Prices, By JOHN CARSON Timet Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 16.—Pros perity prices and profits forecast the return of the excess profits tax. predicts Representative A. P. Nelson of Wisconsin. Nelson is in charge of the progressive bloc’s affairs, while Senators r Follette and Brookhart are absent from the Capital. Nelson says the anti-trust hw and other regulatory measures have failed to control monopolies. He mentioned the sugar gouge, the high gasoline and coal prices, and suggested that the excess profits tax, would he tho only sure way of controlling avaricious big businesses. Hamuel Untermeyer, the New York trust buster. Is working for the progressive bloc leaders, trying to devise a legul method of getting at price controlling monopolies, Nelson said. "It seems to rne that wo must have a tax on these excessive progrtts," he added. ''YVe're not opposed to giving a man a fair profit, a good profit, but we’re determined that we shall control the desire for.such profits as are now being taken.”

Taxes and Transportation Are Greatest Problems in America

By HERBERT QUICK WHAT bothers you most as a business man? I can guess it In two guesses. It is taxation, or it is transportation. These are the two greatest problems of American business. Let us pass transportation, and mention taxes. American business ridden to death pli with taxes. The business man sees aaT \ It most 'dearly; jjl but the man who CV- Tv. owns not a dollar’s -P Mi worth of property Is In many ways the most dreadfully tax ridden man in K rents high prices. QUICK Listen to the experience of Schuylkill County, Pa. It is In the heart of the anthracite coal region, but for years It has been on the verge of bankruptcy. Its sohools were closing. Its roads were out of repair. Its police and fire departments were cut down below the danger point for lack of funds. Its borrowing power had been strained to the limit.. And then it applied simple common sense to the problem. It began to tax unused lands at something more nearly like their true value. Why not? It was the community which gave value to the land and, argued some of its sane business tr.en. the community ought to take what was right of these values for the community’s uses. Coal lands which used to be assessed at something like $60,000,000 are now assessed at around $600,000,000. The result is that, business Instead of being hurt is being helped. A local capitalist of Pottsville 1b quoted as writing; “The recent tax assessments will force all coal land people to promptly utilize their idle coal land properties. "I know that coal interests are considering tl.e expenditures within the

LOANS Strike relief $25,000 Education 9,000 Publicity and publications.. 54,250 Legal defense work 10,600 Research 7,000 Miscellaneous 1,700

German Steel King Declares People Are Becoming More Bitter Daily, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Special Cable to NEA Service and Indianapolis Times. i y AMBORN. Ruhr, April 16 Early settlement of the Ruhr **■ question and reparations—-or war. That is the view of Fritz Thyssen. son of Germany's Carnegie. In active control over the enormous Thyssen works which employ 70,000 hands. Thyssen is of the Schwab type some what heavy and Inclined to smile rather bitter enlles almost con stantly. “We are accused.” he told me, "of trying to stir up trouble against the French in the Ruhr The contrary is true Every industrialist In the or cv.pied area Is preaching calm. Were It not po, there Is no telling what might happen. Chancellor Cuno him self came here from Berlin to plead with the leaders to keep their men quiet—that that was the way to help the government. He did not come, as was said, to preach resistance. "How much longer we can hold the people down I do not know. They arc getting bitterer dally. And they are still at work. When we are forced to shut down—we can’t keep piling up stock which we are unable to ship past the French customs barblei—and throw scores of thousands of workers Into the streets, jobless, there is a! most sure to he trouble. Empty stom achs are dangerous "I hope America can initiate something. England is afraid France may become the steel boss of Europe. With Ruhr coke and Frencli ore, France would have a 30,000,000-ton output an I

next ten years in the immediate vicinity of ten to twenty million dollars In developing new operations—and \ that Is certain. Pottsville at the next ; census seven years away will show nearer fifty thousand population than the present twenty-five thousand.” You havo no coal land or anything like It in your city? But. you have much unused or partially used land. The trouble Is, you tax people on what they have clone In the way of improvements and let their neglected opportunities for doing things—their lands —largely escape. Don’t tax the fruits of industry. Tax natural oppor ; tunities and forget the improvements. | and you will do everywhere what they j are doing In Schuylkill County. You 1 will make It more profitable for men to do something with land than to, lie around waiting for It to rise In value. CHICAGO TAXI WAR BREAKS OUT AFRESH Men in Checker Cab Fire on Superintendent of Yellow Company. Bu United Brett* CHICAGO, April 16.—Chicago’s taxi- i cab war was believed by police to j have broken out afresh hare today when four men in a Checker taxi fired on J. S. Singer, superintendent j of the Yellow Cab Company. Singer was uninjured. The men in the Checker car fled firing at pur I suing policemen. HELP OF FARMER ASKED Williams Urges Ixnv-Growing Crops at Dangerous Crossroads. Farmers throughout the State are urged to plant low-growing crops on all tracts of land adjacent to crossroads, where frequent automobile accidents occur. In bulletins mailed today to highway field men by John D. Williams, director of the State high way commission. There is only one positive way of reducing tills menace to traffic, Williams said.

CHARLES GARLAND, HERMIT MILLIONAIRE, AND TILE HOUSE MORE THAN A CENTURY OLD WHICH IS THE CENTER OF HIS MASSACHUSETTS FARM COMMUNITY.

itu ally against England's 10,000,000 tons. England knows that and Is alarmed. "America is more disinterested and In a better position to interview. I should like to see President Harding call another conference, similar to the last Washington conference and do lor this part of th<> world what was done for the Pacific and Far East. The world, including the United States, car. never get bacK to normal until real peace comes to Europe. "The alternative, if we Just let things go on, is brim fulj of menace. The future is dark indeed, unless we get help fropi the outside. And America. or America and Britain together, is jfretty nearly the world’s best hope."

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WHISPERING sweet nothings into her ear is better than poking sweet somethings into her mouth. * • • People without enough sense to come in out of the rain have a chance to learn during April. Reason women don't dress sensibly is perfectly them look so foolish.

Friends can be very annoying, but if it were not for them you would be a total stranger. The difference between a bow tie and the regular kind of tie is about fifteen minutes. I • Never doing things by halves is fine, unless you eat grapefruit. • • * About the only way some people can make both ends meet is by putting their toes in their mouth. • * • - The happiest ones are those who are busiest, so this may be why the bootleggers are grinning. • ♦ • Before speaking your mind, be sure you have one. • • • Ignoring troubles makes them feel pretty small. • • • Keeping in touch with people is the only way you can make a touch. • • • Where you start doesn’t matter. It is what you start.

Dollar Gasoline Lies Within Power of Standard Oil Company

By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE United States Senator from Wisconsin anil Chairman Senate Committee Investigating Gasoline Prices. NEITHER interviews on the possihilities of “dollar gasoline" nor any other future contingency should be permitted to divert the public attention from the present dominant fact, established by the sworn testimony in the Senate investigation that: The Standard Oil Companies completely control the oil industry of the United States. They have partitioned the territory of the United States among the member-companies of the Standard group as spoils, and acting In perfect accord they fix the price which the producer of crude oil receives at the well, the price which the refiner receives for gasoline and kerosene and the retail price which is paid by the consumer. Through the control of pipe lines connecting producing fields of the West with the consuming territory of the Middle West and the East, the Standard companies monopolize the

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HEALTH IS VALUABLE

DEFINITION The practice of Chiropractic consists of the adjustment, with the hands, of the movable segments of the spinal colum.n to normal position for the purpose of removing the cause of the disease.

is only the trouble man who removes the obstruction. Chiropractic eliminates the cause of dis-ease —by allowing the body to reach its fullest perfection—is the best measure of prevention. With the life force being properly transmitted to every part of the physical machine, does it not stand to reason that the body is better fitted to cope with the exigencies of our modern mode of life —to ward off those evil conditions that men have learned to call dis ease? Get your machine into adjustment if you expect it to do the work for which it was intended. See your Chiropractor and find out what the Drugless Health Science of Chiropractic can and will do for you and yours. i “Practitioners of Straight Chiropractic.” A New Message Here Every Monday.

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Many things of incalculable value to the individual depend upon good health. Happiness, content, usefulness and prosperity, in their generally accepted meaning, can prevail to the fullest, extent oulv in proportion as good health is experienced. Health is the most valuable, and the least valued, thing in the world. Chiropractic Vertebral Adjustments are a wonderful aid in restoring bodily conditions to Nature’s way of making and keeping the body well. Chiropractic is not based on superstition, but on common sense. The Chiropractor knows that the cure is in the hands of Nature—he

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transportation of oil, nullify the law declaring pipe lines common carriers, render the possibility of effective competition by independent producers and refiners utterly futile and constantly menace their very existence, or cripple and destroy any of the more troublesome of them at will. Standard officials assure the public that there is no danger of dollar gasoline but the reason they give for this assurance is that before gasoline reaches a dollar some substitute for it will be found. And alcohol is the substitute suggested. Until there is some suggestion as to the product out of w r hich the alcohol is to be manufactured in quantities of hundreds of millions and billions of gallons to take the place of motor gasoline, and a reasonable certainty that Standard will not monopolize the patents and processes of the manufacture of alcohol for motor purposes, the suggestion to the motorist that he can use alcohol instead of gasoline as a motor fuel, will not bring much comfort.

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