Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Editor in-Chtef ROT W. HOWARD. President. FRED ROMER PETERS. Editor. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspapers * * * Client of the United Press, United News, United Financial and NEA Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. Bureau of Circulations. f Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 25-29 S Meridian Street. Indianapolis. * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • * • PHONE—MAIN 3500. PUBLIC fTT'ihlE school board may not be making a misHAS RIGHT take in its wholesale transfer of grade TO KNOW jL school principals, but it certainly is making a mistake in not taking the public into its confidence. The public would like to know why it was necessary to transfer so many principals. The mere statement that the transfer was necessary does not suffice. The school board has been much maligned by individuals who sought to control it and in many respects it has done good work in the. face of opposition. But there is too much activity in the dark in connection with the transfer and dismissal of school principals, and in working in the dark the board leaves the way open for criticism by its enemies and doubt on the part of its friends. To cite an instance, it may have been necessary to transfer Miss Elsa Huebner from school No. 9to a smaller school. But the necessity was not apparent and if it existed it should have been made known. The demonstration by pupils against the transfer may have been inspired by persons who have been working constantly in opposition to the school board and in opposition to the provision of adequate school facilities in Indianapolis, bur there must have been some spark of feeling preseut. or it could uot have been staged. The method used by the board in discharging three principals, each of whom has given most of her life to school work at inadequate pay. was almost brutal and is deserving of condemnation. The time may have come for these principals to retire, but it was not necessary to dismiss them peremptorily. They could have been allowed to resign quietly and to have ended their school careers amid happy circumstances. As it is, they have been placed in the same position as employes discharged for inefficiency or for other impleasant causes. ANSWERS "Ti yi'TXIOTPAL ownership has been advanced bv TO KNOTTY 1/1 Ta vlor E. Groninger, city corporation counPROBLEM lfX sel. as a solution of the utility rate problem. Certainly something must be done to stop the everlasting demand for higher rates being made by utilities all over the country. There is no reason why a necessity of life should be controlled by a monopoly for the purpose of making profits, and utilities by their very nature are monopolies. Water is as necessary as streets and, all other things being equal, should be controlled and operated by the city just as streets and sewers. Os course, there are arguments on the other side of the municipal ownership question, but such ownership could not be worse than private monopoly regulated by a board that frequently is able to hear only one side of a ease, that of the utility. As long as utilities are privately owned the theory that they should be allowed to make only a reasonable return on the value of their property is a correct one'. But no agreement has ever been reached as to what is a fair valuation. Recent Supreme Court decisions on the subject have only muddied the waters. One thing is certain, and that is that utilities should not be allowed to apply the proceeds of their business to capita! ex-, penditures. The Indianapolis Water Company is planning to make extensive extensions and as a preliminary is asking for higher rates. More rates are necessary to obtain more credit, it is explained. Maybe so, but it is going to be mighty hard to make the public understand why water should cost more at this j time. LASKER'S HAIR MAX LASKER of the shipping board, LEVIATHAN f in a lengthv statement given out for publiJOY RIDE Vy cation Friday, attempts to justify the tax burdening Leviathan six-day trial joy ride on these grounds: 1. That such trial trips are necessary and customary. 2. That the contract for reconditioning the Leviathan, which contained the provision for the trial trip, was unanimously approved by the shipping board, including the three Democratic members. 3. That of the $120,000, which he says the trial trip will cost, j only $13,000 will be spent for the entertainment of the 400 or 500! guests. The answer to the first was contained in a London cable this paper that the Majestic, a similar ship was successfully put | into commission by the White Star lino about eighteen months | ago without any trial trip and that thp reconditioned Berengeria was successfully put into commission by the C'unard line at about the same time after a trial trip of only 500 miles. The answer to the second is that the waste of public funds' is no less indefensible because participated in by Democrats The answer to the third is that whether it will cost $13,000 j or $130,000 or sl3 to entertain the 400 to 500 invited guests, every i penny of it is an improper use of taxpayers’ money.

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y. Avenue. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. Whore Is the geographic center of continental United States? In the eastern part of Smith County, Kan., latitude 39 degree-s. 50 minutes, longititude 98 degrees 35 minutes. Smith County is one of the northern tier of Kansas counties, bordering on Nebraska and is about midway between the eastern and western boundaries of the State. It is not far from the town of Lebanon, a station on the Rock Island Railroad. How is salt obtained? The simplest method of extracting salt is t by the evaporation of sea water, but this is seldom practiced except in those countries or regions that lack subterranean brines, or rock-salt deposits, or cheap supplies. Rock salt is sometimes obtained by mining, but in most regions the salt ta obtained from subterranean sources

jby wells. With these the natural brine is either drawn to the surface or else, as in the case of rock salt, water is forced down a well tube, the salt taken Into solution, and the artificial brine taken to the surface. What do the letters F. P. E. after a man’s name mean? Forest Products Engineer. What will help maJee hair soft and silky? Put a teaspoonful of lemon juice in ! the last rinsing water after washing ! the hair. Is marriage between an uncle and niece permitted? No. When, where and how was the t\ 8. S. Diego sunk? July 19. 1918. off the coast of Ix>ng Island, by striking a German mine. { How much has the use of auto mobiles increased during the last fen years? In the United States there were one i million automobiles in use on Nov. 1, 1913; in 1922 there were 10,505.660.

Lowden Ex-Governor of Illinois Delares Taxes Dangerously Near Confiscation. BUREAUCRATS SCORED Speaker Also Hits Public Agencies Having Power to Levy Tribute. Bv I'nited Press ATLANTA, Ga., June 16. Government extravagance threatens to undermine the national structure, ex-Governor Frank O, Lowden, Illinois, told the National Association of Credit Men's convention Friday. He declared taxation is increasing faster than wealth. Quoting the constitution at the outset of his speech. Lowden, charged in spite of the limits imposed in the document, the national wealth was being absorbed by taxation, and pre dieted the downfall of Government If reckless expenditures were not curtailed. ‘ A prolific cause of the rapidly in creasing cost of Government," Lowden said, “is the number of public agencies having the power to levy taxes. When all of these taxes are totalled they dangerously approach the line of confiscation." To check this "growing ex travaganre on the part of the Government." Ixvwden urged municipalities and States provide for their own reeds and leave the Government the task of caring for genuinely National | needs. “Encroachment upon the authority iof State officials by the horde of ; bureaucrats —an outgrowth of Governmental extravagance threatens a I break down in the local self govern ment of America." he declared. "If the present tendency of St.’tes to seek Federal aid and to mend the j Constitution is left unchecked. States will soon become mere satraps with all their powers issuing from Wah--1 ington.”

HARDING IS LOSING HIS GENIALITY By JOHN CARSON. Times Mos Correspondent wtt 7 ASHINGTON. June 16 President Harding is becoming just a little bit crabbed When the President was elected, one of bis most intimate friends said the country wanted a "good old rocking chair in go to sleep in for four years, at least." and that the country had gotten its wish. But. the old rocking chair has begun to show some sharp edges under the wear and rear of two years in the Whi*e House. Mr. Harding is not the kindly unruffled, smooth fern pered. easy-going soul he was when he took his oath of office. Every one in Washington who has come into contact with the President has recognized that fact His answers are just a little briefer, his voice is just a little gruff ho does not hesi ’ate when h thinks It Impossible to please, h indicates that he has a will of his own. And with it all. the President's face is showing that de velopment also. There is a note of sternness now which was not there before. Three times recently the President has differed with his strongest politi <a! advisers within his Cabinet. His differences with Republican Senators have been almost constant in the last ten months. The warm political friends he once satisfied are showing their dissatisfaction He faces an Insurrection within his party nrga.niza tion and more than a little evidence of a political revolution among the voters not hound by organized ties. This condition is not peculiar to Mr. Harding, as President, alone. Invariably, about this lime in each Ad mlnstration, the President begins to feel the warp of the dissatisfied, the cry of the opposition. And invariably he begins to show it.

Fools By BERTON BRALEY The wise men said. "Why. the world is flat! Our fathers' fathers have taught us that; And all experience goes to show That, what our fathers have said is so. It's only fools who would dare allege That one could sail o’er the ocean's edge." But the fools —the fools! —let the toxin sound It.— Sailed to the blue sky’s edge—and 'round it. The wise men said, "It is all a dream. That anything can be done with steam." The wise men said “He's a fool for fair. Who thinks we ever shall ride the air.” But the fools believed, and the fools held true To their foolishness, till they saw it through; And a fool must follow' his natural bent— So now we swoop through the firmament. The fools, the fools! how they loom in sight, Gallileo, Columbus, Wright, Watts and Stephenson—pioneers Conquering nature, charting spheres! And ever the wise men—learning naught, In the teeth of all of the creeds and schools, Man is led to the heights—by Fools! _ (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service. Tnc.)

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Warns Extravagance Is Threatening Nation

‘Statesmen’ Become Boys and Girls Once More As ‘Pan-American Conference’ Comes to Close

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TOP ROW. LEFT TO RIGHT—MA RGARKT JOLLY BILLY PETERS, MARJORIE FOGAS. DICK WOODARD (PRESIDENT HARDING), BETTY SC HI NK E AND 808 M’CULLO UGH.. BOTTOM ROW MARY LOUISE BRIBES. STUART BUCK, PAULINE GRANT. MERRILL BARTH, CLARIBEL DAVIDSON AND JOHN DAVID MILLETT.

LLOYD GEORGE INSISTS ALLIES MUST AGREE ON REPARATIONS SESSIONS (Continued From Page 1)

It proceeds to suggest that all further discussion on the subjects at issue between the parties should take place at a conference rather than by interchange of notes. How can any unprejudiced person refuse to recognize the essential reasonableness of this part of the offer? What annuity can Germany pay? And when will she he in a position to pay? Is it unreasonable to propose that this question, which involves most searching examination info (> rman assets, should he referred to a tribunal capable of giving it rami and judicial consideration? Vn-1 wb.it objection can there he to discussing the matter at a conference wnere Germany as well as all the allies would be represented? What are the objections to an acceptance formulated by the French press'’ The first is that the French Govern ment will discuss no proposals emanating from Germany until the latter withdraws Its passive resistance to the French and Belgian ex ploitation of the Ruhr. What dnc this exactly mean? It is imports—as a preliminary condition to a con ference or consideration of terms—an acquiescence by Germany in the oc cupation and exploitation by France ant! Belgium >f the Ruhr Valley until reparations are fully paid, then the position is hopeless. Assent Impossible A German government may sub mit to such an occupation because it has no farce at its command to offer resistance. Rut no German government can give assent to such an invasion of its territories A peace signed on such terms would bo inevitably repudiated at the first favorable opportunity. Meanwhile, there wottld he constant trouble and friction In the Ruhr. Unless tho terms are mutually acenmmodating. I surmise that the German government will experiereo insurmountable difficulty in persuading the stubborn miners and railway op eratlves of the Ruhr to assist in furnishing to France the products of

their labor which are denied to their own fellow countrymen. It is one of the indirect cons* quellecs of great disaster that the deore sos Wilhelm Htrasse no longer command the r.-epo t which was attat her) to them in prewar days. Still, a conference it which all the interests concerned were represented would experience no difficulty in fixing up slip illations which would moke it possible for France to enter a eonferenco on reparations without any suspicion being attached to her ministers that they had lowered the national flag In entering the room.

\nnuitles Must Be Fixed Should this preliminary point of honor he disposed of. then what r j mains The fixation of annuities and guarantees for their payment. What ire the objections to accepting the I method put forward in the German ! note for these two questions It Is nor the German method—it is the American method adopted by the Ger man governmenta conference with an Impartial tribunal. If the conference fails. I know of no other way except to resort to blind force. It is objected that the treaty of Versailles has already provided such a tribunal in the reparations commission for the specific purpose of ad judicatlng upon German's liability and Germany's capacity, and that to set up another for exactly the same purpose would bo to supersede that treaty. There are two answers to this contention. The first is that the reparations commission as at present constituted is not tile body to which Germany agreed to refer these questions so vital to her existence. It Is tho body which Britain and the other allies contemplated. The withdrawal of American from the commission—after Germany had already signed tho treaty—has completely changed the balance, and therefore the character, of this tribunal. The only disinterested power has retired from the commission. Germany Has Rights Germany has the right under the treaty to present her case. The whole question of capacity could then he gono into in the fight of experience acquired during the last four years, and a settlement could thus ho effected on a sound basis Such a settlement would have a much hotter chance of being workable, and therefore more durable, than terms im posed by force on people who only accept under duress. But whatever the French view may he of the suggested annuities or guarantees, or of an Impartial commission. It is inconceivable that they should reject, a conference.

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"Mr. President! Mr. President!" Delegates to the “Pan-American Conference," at the Henry P. Coburn School. No. 66, forgot the dignity befitting their positions in their eagerness to display their knowledge of the subject under discussion. Hand? were waved vigorously, just as if the place were just a schoolroom, not the conference hall. Memories of this conference will he carried in the minds of 6-R pupils throughout the summer. After two weeks of earnest discussion on problems of South America, the conference closed Friday, with the close of school. The conference was the result of an ingenious idea of Mrs. Adelia Brier. 6-B teacher. South America was studied a>l term. For the conference each of the forty-five pupils chose the country

he wished to represent When the conference ended each had made a speech about his country. "T should like for each of you to sign this cablegram, assuring the United States of our friendship." John David Miilett. 11. of 4192 Carrollton Ave.. pardon us. Dr. Eugene J Gomez, a gold miner of Colombia. S A. was speaking John David, by the way, got his name from a Spaniard who attended the Speedway race. Dick Woodard. 11. of 3335 N. Pennsylvania St., presided over the conference, ns President Harding. Marjorie Fogas. 11. of 3334 College Ave., was Senor Mario De Lima, of Peru, an explorer, secretary of the conference. Dr. Alburque. an Inca explorer of Peru, (sometimes known as Billy Peters, 11. of 637 Highland Dr ), told the conference of an Incan diary he discovered. Betty Scliinke, 10. of 4126 Park Ave . going under the jaw-break-ing name of Dr. Ta Pitia Vne Da Motto Bernados, of Argentina, described leprosy cures he the doctor, of course-—has helped investigate. An honored guest was Royal President Da Siloa of Brazil, otherwise Bob McCullough, 11. Pollyanna apartments. Margaret Jolly. 12, of 3734 Carrollton Ave.. was Senor Rolio. a Colombian coffee merchant. Mary Lou se Briles, 11, of 3709 Central Ave Senor Briles. a school teacher of Ecuador. Stuart Buck, 10, of 3629 Coliseum Ave., Senor Mario De La Gnsa of Chile. Pauline Grant, 12, of 526 Highland pr., Senor Janro of Paraguay. Merrill Barth, 11. of 4008 College Ave., SPnor Merrill De Bartha, an Argentine ranch owner. Claribel Davidson. 10, of 3925 Broadway, Senor K. Kappa, Argentine diamond merchant. Perhaps some of the finer points of parliamentary law were not oh- j served. But the spirit was there. And geography has taken rank among the conference delegates at j least, as a most interesting study.

I TOM SIMS SAYS: "VAX T OMEN can vote in Italy now. They should come out for * * shorter spaghetti and less /•* The sun didn't go to collegp or Sun- 1 day school, but it seems to have about Ruhr isn’t the only place Frenchmen are out of luck. Pe’oxide blonds are increasing in Paris. ** * * * When you see a tree, torn down these days you never know if it was lightning or an auto. Hornsby, St. Louis ball player, may be sued for divorce, inj dieating he can't make a home run. _ . . It* Scientists are digging up the missing links, but New York j is digging up the missing drinks. “What a Grass Widow Knows” is anew book. The thing must have about ten million pages. • • • Three Gape May (N. J.) men may have caught 1.590 pounds of fish. Anyway, they swear they did. Sam Lloyd is a famous puzzle maker. Sam. we often think, designs wedding gifts also. Senator Smoot predicts taxes will not be lowered. Also, we predict it will not snow this July. A family at odds soon comes to odds and ends. • * It only takes two to mjke a quarrel, but others always help. PUTTING THE GOOD SHIP LEVIATHAN ON FREE LIST

By H. I. PHILLIPS (Repr;nted by pe-mission from the New York Evening World i The Leviathan Is to he given a trial trip to see what condition the American taxpayers are in. She is to sail June 19. according to present plans, with a decided freelist to starboard. Formerly the Vaterland, she was taken over by Uncle Samuel during the war. rechristened the Leviathan and remodelled as a houseboat for Albert D. Lasker, chairman of the shipping board. Mr. Lasker has invited six hundred guests to take a trip with him to Cuba on the craft. There will he jazz orchestras, bands, vaudeville acts 'nd everything. The arrangements make the Leviathan the largest ship in the world now operating exclusively for entertainment purposes. She is the biggest houseboat party afloat. She has multiple expense vouchers, twis-six I. O. I'.’s. self-deceiving cash registers, hot and cold liabilities and : cash-burning engines. Everything is \ “on the house." She is guaranteed to make 25 knots an hour on any ocean and from 40 to 50 knots a minute in any taxpayer. ; Mr. Lasker says the purpose of the junket is to give the ship a shakedown. That goes for the general public, too. All invited guests will report at the ship on the morning of June 19, ready to put none and take all. Everything will be free If you \ don’t see what you want, ask for it. Daily progiam: 8 A. M. —Guests will rise and sing “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. He Always Sets ’Em Up.” 8:30 A. M. —Breakfast, using the $50,000 gold plate. Address of wel- j come by Mr. Lasker. Topic: “The | Sky's the Limit.” 9 A. M.—Public censure of engineer for not burning more oil 9:15 A. M. —Distribution of souvenir j binoculars with shipping board's compliments. 9:30 A. M. —Setting-up exercises by Uncle Sam. Encores. 10 A. M. —Radio address by President Harding. Topic: “Economy and Thrift." 10:15 A. M. to Noon—Golf, tennis,

“The Next Great World Event” CLINTON N. HOWARD The Little Giant of Rochester, New York, Will Speak Clinton N Horn -d. chairman of the World Peace Commission. is scheduled for throe addresses on Sunday. He has devoted thirty years to the platform as an advocate of Civic Riphteonsness, Social Justice. Law Enforcement. World Peace, Equal Rights and Prohibition He is a prophet of Social Salvation. He has been a convention and Chautauqua headliner for many years, speaking in every state and almost every city and town in the nation. He is now chairman of the World Peace Commission and is promoting the Fourth World's Christian Citizenship Conference, to be held in this country in July. 1924. under the auspices of the Nations! Reform Association Among: the notable gatherings addressed by Mr. Howard, was the National Conference for Limitation of Armament at Washington, where his address made a profound impression. The World Peace Commission, of which he is now chairman, represents 41 nations who have joined in the call for the next World Conference, whose supreme object, is to abolish war and make Nations Christian in their relations with one another. Mr Howard will address a Union Service 1n the Woodruff Place Baptist Church, corner Walcott and East Michigan Streets, at two thirty in the afternoon on the topic. "The Next Great World Event.” He will also speak in the morning in the River Avenue Baptist Church, and in the evening in the Second Baptist. Church. Everyone invited. River Ave. Baptist Church, Sunday 10:45 A. M. Woodruff Place Baptist Church, Sunday 2:30 P. M. Second Baptist Church, Sunday 7:45 P. M. EVERY ONE INVITED

EVOLUTION and RELIGION Can One Bea Christian and an Evolutionist? A popular address on this timely subject by Rev. F. S. C. WICKS Minister All Souls Unitarian Church ODD FELLOW HALL Pennsylvania and Washington Streets Sunday Evening, June 17th 8:00 o’Clock ADMISSION FREE ALL ARE INVITED

SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1923

poker. mah jong. chess, squash, danc.ng, concerts, etcz:ls P M.—Lunch. Roast bird of pa-adise. Three birds to a person. Using the SIOO/40 White House platinum service. 1 P. M.—Wireless greetings to taxpayers: “Having a wonderful time. Glad you're not here.” 2 to 4 P M.—Vaudeville show and circus regardless of expense. 4:30 P. M —Distribution of souvenir gold watches autographed by A. D. Lasker. 5 P. M. —Song fest, “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here." 5:30 P. M. —Recitation by Mr. Lasker. "From First Cabin to President.” 6:30 P. M—Dinner. Fricassee of peacock, with puree of silver fox. 8 P. M. —Meeting of committee on ways and means to devise scheme to make trip more expensive. 8:30 P. M.—Hawaiian dancing and ukulele concert. 9 P. M.—Song by entire passenger list, “Six Hundred Men on a Taxpayer’s Chest: Yo Ho and a Bottle of Rum!" etc. (Copyright. 1923. Press Publishing Cos.) . -—I Editor s Mail To the Editor o* The Times American prohibition could not be impressed upon foreign nations in a better way than through the latest application to foreign shipping within United States harbors. The discourteous. raw. unscrupulous highwayman practices of its adherents could not he better illustrated and advertised amongst the nations of the world. It will serve to further isolate the I’nited States from rational thinkers and legislators everywhere over the seas. With a man like Bryan, famed for his rejection of evolution, and seeking to legislate us out of progressive thinking, a leader In the American prohibtilon movement, is it to be wondered at if foreign nations doubt our “normalcy” in intelligence? Surely there is a great representative class in the United States which is neither wet nor dry. who wish to see the prohibition farce ended and the great burden of expenditure put to more practical use, and a condition permitting the drys to be dry and the wets wet. if they wish, without either encroaching on the free dom of the other. J. ROBERTS.