Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1923 — Page 4

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COURTS '-‘OllOlOlllll the Supreme Court is little short ABOVE I oi' anarchy.” according to Governor RichCRITICS? JL ardson of California Is it? Has he ever read Lincolns condemnation of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case, to which condemnation the country gave its seal of approval in the Civil War? Some twenty years ago Judge Taft said. “The opportunity freely and publicly to criticise judicial action is vastly more important to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice, than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow men.” Nothing will more surely undermine both our Constitution and courts than the idea that the courts are beyond criticism. A republic can never tolerate a doctrine of lese majesty as to any of its officials, judicial or otherwise. We believe in courts. Hut their efficiency and integrity can-be maintained only if their acts are subject to public scrutiny or public criticism. Nothing could better illustrate the antiquated ideas of the present Governor of California than his refusal to accept the invitation of Governor Hart of Washington to consider plans for voicing a protect against the Supreme Court's decision invalidating the minimum wage law for women. AGAIN. NCE more the crack of the bat and the roar PLAY I lof the rooters are heard in the land. Amerball: V/ ica is playing the great American game. And America can play. We do not take anything so seriously we cannot take time off once in a while to go out to the ball park, forget our troubles and root for the home team. The habit of being able to relax and to take a wholesome interest in sport once in a while is a mighty good habit to have. A fellow who can do that can't help looking on the bright side of things.

HE HAS A San economist. Dictator Lenin is mu** having HIS /\ his troubles. The soviet scheme of taking all TROUBLES XJL that the peasant raised, save enough for his seed and personal needs, hasn't worked as expected, so many of the peasants having produced just enough tor their -beds and other needs and th**r. gone * playing golf, pinochle. craps or something else that government cannot be run on. One ot the soviet iundainental policies being d* hang anvhody who has much of anything. Lenin has simply got to put the burden ot taxation on the masses, just as our representative 'orm of government does, only we do it with courtesy and indirectness and not at order of a special dictator. So Lenin is trying to collect from every Russian having an income of SJ7 per month an income tax. and bo s bound to discover a iremendous difference between the Russian and American masses. The former haven't the $'J7. We have jio advice to offer Dictator Lenin further than to say that. a> an economist, hi* i going ahead regardless of “the human equation " and i> headed straight at the Slough of Despond. STRANGE lIOULD a public utility be assessed for taxaTAXATICX tioti at less than the value placed on if for VALUES kJ rate making purposes? This appears to lie almost an invariable practice in Indiana, although the tax board insists it is assessing property for its full cash value. Recently the Indiana Bell Telephone Company was assessed for taxation for $5,000,000 less than the value placed on it for rate-making purposes. Now the board has fixed the taxable value of the Indianapolis Water Company at $4,000,000 less than the rate-making value. Tue public service c<>minis>ion endeavors to fix rates so (inutility involved may make a fair return on Hie value of its prop ertv. At the same time the utility is supposed to pay taxes on devalue, of its property. Why should these values differ? CANNED a shed for the dead are preserved in botTEAR I ties in Persia, according to an educator who COMFORT ,JL is doing some fine writing on the manners and customs of peoples. Preserving tears looks pretty foolish, at first glance, but. really, there’s some utility in it. for it is the life aim of many ' oiks to be deeplv mourned when they pass on. Indeed, we have quit the custom ol speaking of the deceased as a great loss, with little consideration of the hereafter’s or the party’s gain. What an advantage in preserved tears to a man lacking confidence in his being properly mourned He can make a large investment in the sad “preserves and leave orders to a hired man to pull s he cork ot his canned mourning and flood his bier with regrets, however great the public indifference to his departure.

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You can g*t an anaw<— to any au , '- tion of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Time*’ Washington bureau. UJ2 Xnr 1 .Washing ton. IV C.. if cents m stamps Medical. legal, ami love and niarrlaeadvloe cannot be given, nor can extended research oe undertaken, or Bap-rs. speeches. etc., b prepare.!. Ihiaign*.l letters cannot be answered, but ail let tare are confidential, and receive per sonal replies.—KDlTGß. Wlh> was \aiitip|H*? How is (his flame pronounced? Wife of Socrates, pronounced as though spelled Zan-tip-o, with : ho accent on the second syllable. What is the cause of the (rouble in Ireland at the present time? The difficulties in Ireland ari- ■ from the differences in political asp: rations and religions between the Irish Five State party and the Republicans. The Irish Free State party ratilied the treaty with England on Jan. T. li'22. which gave Ireland the <tam< status as the Dominion of Canaila. New Zea land and South Africa. The Republican party, headed by De Valera, re fused to agree to this and De Valera has been elected by his followers as president of the Republic of Ireland. The two parties have waged civil war. which still continues. What is 'toiling point'.’ The temperature :tt which the vapor tension of any liquid equals the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere, causing boiling or ebullition. Th-j boiling point of any liquid of

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definite constitution, therefore, will remain constant so long as the pressure does not vary, but will fall as the pressure is decreased and i is.- as it is increased. Thus, water, which boils at 100 degr n es (' or 212 degrees F.. at normal atmo.-pii: re pressure, boils at 10a degrees ’' (320 degrees F,i when the pres- ! sure is 0.12 atmospheres, and at ! the pressure is .027 atmospheres and it is even possible to reduce the pres I sure so low as to bring the boiling i point, almost to the same value as the j freezing point. How is alcohol made from sawdust? Ry mixing 1 per cent sulphuric acid i and heating with live steam at M 0 pounds pressure. The mass is ex ! tranted with water, neutralized and the sugars produced subjected to fermentation. One ton of sawdust yields twenty gallons of .04 per cent aleo hoi. costing about 2cents a gallon. Is there a flslt known as the soup fish? Yes, It. is common along the eastern ! coast of the United States from Cape | Cod to Georgia. Why are musical compositions marked with Kalian expressions? Because Italy was the cradle of modern music, and all composers accepted this method of marking their compositions. t

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POWER OF ITALIAN PREMIER WANES

Mussolini Declares Dictatorship Is Best Form of Government, By LINCOLN STEFFENS (Copyright, 192 J, bit Vnitid Sciva) INHERE arc signs of the turn of the tide against Mussolini, the dictator of Italy, lie himself understands this. He has been expecting to be assassinated. Whenever he is out among other men, in the street or in the lobby of a hotel, lie looks the crowd over. His sharp black ami white eyes pick ui* one by one tlx- glance of each man that looks his way, and Mussolini looks back. And his look is the defiant look of a fearless tighter Mussolini has courage. And Mussolini lias intelligence and a theory. He says they may kiil him, the dictator, but not the dictatorship. Is Uv right? “Every country in the world has a throne.' ho says, “and every throne in the world is vacant, excepting only the thrones in Russia and ltoiy No matter what the form of government is, he it a monarchy or bo it a republic, there is sovereignty somewhere and a place for the ruler Hut the ruler cannot be electedruler He can ho elected president or pn-naer. for, if he is elected, he cannot rule; not as a dictator. No. the only vay to reach the throne is to sieze it. How? “Russia -derived tie- wav l'he di< tutorship of Ru.-sia was taken by the Bolshevists, an armed i: lnority. and the inajoritv were glad. We Italians saw that, and , ■' * <ii,-tuiorship of Italy wa- seized 1,. rio* Ka-.-isti, a mi ity .tuned with fores, and the majority. the great mar r dm, ' all tie- pt-op:*. of Italv. wet - reli-'Vetj and sat is lied. They did not want to govern t heinselvcs The dictatorship was the first form of government. Then- was the chief and his triN- <*f !; liars There is to day tilt- leader and his gang among hot- And in Aiheri'-an politics tie rThe dii t.itoi - l ,p :s lie- primitive ft. u, of -o\ i -it nt-'o \ the chief l*egins to abuse ins power, mak'-s wars aid favors clique.* and so becomes a i <-nqaeror and a king . :<*s# s power ills son. tile prir -• inhd is tit-- dit-om but not th- king abilits nor tin- sovereign :>•■ ••!-. 0--.. i- • n- i at-t a! (m-fs as nri*-:*-, . out -ilio:- an-- the power and l*-uv- the • twn t.. in■ia And to cheek *i• king, tinO' ' .*-r li.as tin- Legislator. . !h <‘o* <-•••- • the 1 roatn-'a R\ a.rd hv we have < oust it utions. and limited mon areldep. republics Rut. Mussolini says, and he acts on the theory that the throne is still there, it Is .-overed up. but the seat of sovereign power exists and the strong man who can s<-- :t. can take p And Vie says that tin- peep!-- want iiim to. hen the great war broke upon us itnl the job of Cloven,men* became complicated and 1 -I.Utter of life and '■'•Hit. what happened? The Krcneh let (’lenience iu become t.h* dictator of Prance, the English made Lloyd (.cargo the dictator of Ore.it Britain, and we Americans saw Woodrow Wilson seize the dictatorship of the United States--with relief. And this happened everywhere; this happens always In all great national etnerg* mankind goes 1 to—the tl- natural, the ■ • 1 f- it’, of .t. Puzzling, isn't it? It goes against all that a 1 >*-mo, ratio culture has taught us to think we think What is the matter with .Mussolini's reason lng? Maybe it is this: Another thought which he does not express That. If we would, first, remove the causes which corrupt all governments. it would not matter what the form of government is Ts there were no oil and other foreign concessions to tight wars for and no public service and land privileges to get out of a bribed dictator- .Maybe then we could go buck to the fbsi and the l .osi efficient form government. r Maybe, wo say. AS ini .ay you. the inajoritv?

A Few Left By BFRTON BKALEY THK Little Jay Town. says Ed Vance Cook. N only fouprl in t‘c uforv book Mirl vr;, vill.-t*# that U* f is Is M am! (iapper ;uui nr-v , ki >an A lid tit- pet.pi** ,r\ cl m . if \ <p With n an w <”’.*!■;, ’!. 1 .IH * ul wlt.t? 111- iI.TS VI It | Is tripl*ut—Ei - forgotten ~uu ; j* two AS !ri. r HH von slid It. fliD broad highway: 1 h* t'lwns ;trc nmarJ and iht* (ovsdh are Bui lol’ow tfi* hr i*dadß now and then And yo i )l find they are something itua-in. For i .* u :n ti • w here the froe-froßs cad Thu Little Ja.\ Ttwj. am r ton* at all. The li ivdcedg ’Jnser the rul**b are thick And fh* average • iti/en s a hick TIJKKK shall fiial sou wander m Siinpcnclern held v.ith safety pin. The hickory shirt ami the eonsresn boots And thick, old fa-hi'uutl l!a*-U Sunday There does the . 'dlnloid ollat* ahtiie An 51 did !ii the sfihfMiii td hlllOtv nine. And I lie flaunt ! petticoat. holds its own. And silken sfo.’kmus are quite unknown HLjn.'KK "row iiik nioderi: and thal s i fact, VT Ii it here aid th**re you vii' find intact rh'- w P°t where the Little Jay Town survives. Where neopie praeofuHy live their lives. Grow up and marry and Bed tie down — Congenital hleks in a true jay town No riilM* towns left ’ T? Kd will come Alori" with me 1 will show him Homo. * Copyright, 1 fil’d. XRA Service, Inc. I Public Opinion A Bouquet for I s To the I'dit'ir ><! Tin Time* Cm behalf of tic- 1 mlianapolis Real Estate Board I would like to take tills opportunity to thank your paper for the splendid publicity given the Home Complete Show. We feel ihat this show was of live news interest and we are highly gratified to see that your paper had the same feeling about the matter. We doubly appreciate your co-operation be cause it was splendid evidence tha t. jour paper is strong behind ti! civic movements for the betterment of Indianapolis. Very truly yours, INDIANAPOLIS REAL ESTATE BOARD. SCOTT R. BREWER, President.

One of Bravest Men Is Afraid of His Spouse BAN IE! 11 EDWARDS BE INO DECORATED BY MAJOR GENERAL. BULLARD.’ By HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEA Service Stuff Writer

N, EU VORK. April 19. —Daniel R. Edwards has succeed,,l in collecting the finest pair of medals in the whole country—the congressional medal of honor and the distinguished servlet* , TOSS. Os all our war hero*--, he alone of all living men holds the exclusive right to trim up 1■ i- ,-oat with both there me • to,! decora lion - tilt at leasl tht av e.-t man in ill*- country. But h<- doesn't admit it “T,.k S--rg*-unt York - tht re s a r* il h, r,, for you 1,.- exclaimed admiringly 'lb- did a smashing thing." Bur I knew how Edwards got ins congress onal ns-'lal - how he lost bis right arm rind bis right !•• Hie sail.,- day at Sot oris Aft-

TOM SIMS SAYS: An} man can make a success if be has enough chances to practice >n. • • l’he natural meome tux warning is, "Beware the ides of March.” • * • Most of the trouble is caused by trying to dodge trouble. • • • One sign of spring is motorists detouring marble games. • O * Scientists digging u pthe past should let bygones be bygones. You must meet, your expenses if you expect n> m**ef your friends. I here arc about 1 J 0.000.000 people in this country who wish the} were someone else. • * • One sign of spring as when young fellows get so mad at the general perversity of tilings they go and join the navy. • * • Chicago man claims he caught a Mexican lion with his bands. That stuff those Mexicans sell is awful. Vnotlier coup!* that shouldn’t be given ,i divorce is bacon and eggs • • • Spring always visits a few times before coming to stay. • • • Another sure sign of spring is when you wonder if you hear a saw mill or a mosquito.

Tennessee Professor Fired for Disagreeing With School Heads

By HERBERT QUIC K T—> PPUATION of the people in in* and stitutlons supported by the pooplo lias its advantages. Tt also has its drawbacks. It takes a people of very high intelligence and breadth of view to leave its teachers fr.to 7*’*V follow trntli wher>X ever it leads The I®;:-' A*® State University is ejjb.. -A likely in forget that KSfif ,<% truth can never iv lii ascertained by University ■JF can e tie -ought to place In the QUICK hands of his students that very able and well-cousiderod book. “Mind in iln Making,’’ by Robinson In discussing the dismissal with a newspaper man. one of the trustees of the

Harding’s Early Candidacy Is Cause of Much Speculation

Hu Times Special j ARHINGTON, \pril 10, Attorney General Daugherty’s T ” premature announcement of President Harding’s candidacy for renomination by his [ arty has caused a lot of speculation hereabouts on the advisability of renominating Presidents. Not since 1882 has any party in power declined to renominate its leader in the White House. The last President who was not renominated was Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, elected in 1876. when, at the end of the T-Tayos-Tilden electoral college controversy, it was agreed that Mayes would not be i candidate for re-election. Since the; dawn of the party movement. not many Presidents have been refused the chance to run for a second term In office. In 1887 Martin

er his arm had been torn away by a German -hell lie took his automatic in left hand, jumped into the enemy's trench, and killed four men and took four prisoners. While conducting thorn to the rear, ins leg was shattered by a shell. "Are you afraid of anything at all?” f asked. He admitted two suppressed fears “On*- is that f may be* onto the world’s greatest, living prevaricn tor.'' he explained “Telling war stories—you know. ' Just then Mrs. Edwards canto in It seemed sit,- wanted to buy aha Without a protest he dug down for the price. "And ttie other fear?" I pur sued. "Mr- Edwards.' he replied. la ighlngly.

university said: "It (.*• plain that the ideas of Dr. Hprowls are not In har rnony with the authorities. Thnt In itself Is sufficient reason for his dls missal." It seems Incredible that any man prominent, enough, and intelligent enough to he a trustee of a State university could have made such a statement or, if he did. that he will luaintnin such a position after think log the matter over. I >r. Sprawls was placed In his chair became lie knew more of his subjects than the authorities know. Authorities should not la\ fetters on teachers. There ..re many subjects on which the authorities can have no views which are as well founded as those of the specialist on the subject. A state rates Itself high or low lti moral height and in Intellectual power by the attitude of Ps authorities toward freedom in education. To an outsider, Tennessee is in danger of :ating Itself very low indeed, if it allows this decision t•. stand, if indeed 11 is what we hear it to he.

Van Huron of New York was defeated for renomination by the Houth. which did not like bis policies. James K. Polk, of Tennessee, do dined to run for a second term in 184ic President Buchanan, from Pennsylvania. w'as refused renomination in 1860. This completes the Hat of Presidents, four in number, who have been refused the opportunity to run for reelection. In view of this history, the Daugherty announcement of President Harding’s candiducy was regarded here as premature, If not unnecessary. tn some quarters there is a renewal of the agitation for a one-term limit for Presidents, the idea being that the man in the White House would then be more independent politically to handle the Job.

BOOZE QROIffiTS ARE GETTING RICO oy prohi laws Legal Permits to Sell Liquor Jump by Thousands in Year, • By ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON. April 19.—The drug store booze market is booming. Althought. eighteen States do not avail themselves of T’ncle Sam's “liquor by prescription ' privilege, the number of permits entitling the holders to use and sell liquor legally jumped from 10.286 in 1921 to 18.49S in 1922. according to prohibition headquarters here. The giillonage dispensed by this route, officials say. has never been computed New York and Texas are two of the States in which drugstore liquor is dispensed most freely. A recent investigation in Texas was followed by the resignation of the State “pro hi" director. In New York, prohibition oflicials say, a half million counterfeit liquor prescriptions have been found in drug stores in the past five months. More than 2,500 New York drug gists are authorized to fill llnuor prescriptions. and 500 of these drug stores have opened since the Volstead law became effective according to Director Palmer Canfield.

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Why Use the Bean Shooter? • —Another Bedtime Editorial

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SKB the bad. bad burglar! i le's showing a lot of speed for a bird with such a big gizzard. What’s he running for? He's running from the old man with the bean-shooter, who chased him out of the house, after he's swiped the family sugar bowl. Is the bat! burglar scared? Naw! He’s just acting like he is.

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Bean-shooters don't hurt burglars! Who's the noisy little man on the fence, who says to use the gun? Why. that's the little Common-Peo-ple fellow who's sugar bowl it ia. Just as he was coming home front work. at the end of a perfect day (To be continued some other daji

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