Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1923 — Page 4

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AS TO PAINTING AUTOS TAXPAYERS of Marion County will be much interested in those bills the State highway commission says it is going to render to Congressman Fred Purnell and Highway Commissioner Earl Crawford for the painting of their private automobiles in the State highway garage. Aside from why the great State of Indiana has to borrow a Congressman’s automobile while he is in Washington, as the commission says was the case with Purnell, the taxpayers very likely would like to know: Is it going to cost Purnell and Crawford as much to have had their cars painted with State materials on State time in a State garage as it does the less fortunate car owner who goes to a private paint shop? ■* Are the bills to include a charge for garage overhead, such as light, heat, rent, bookkeeping, etc.? If the answers are “no” the taxpayers might conclude they are on the losing end of the game. If one official has a right to do' it, so have others. There are a Ist of officials in those seventy-two State departments. THE NEGRO MOVES NORTH EVERY year half a million negroes cross the Mason and Dixon line going north to stay. A certain proportion comes to Indianapolis. Migration of peoples are nothing new. History records many of them. We have had a fair share in our short history. Each has had its underlying political, religious or economic causes. Ard results, too. Not forgetting that, the Government is studying this negro movement north. It finds that the negroes are migrating to the north for the same reasons that sons and daughters of farmers have been leaving the farms for the cities during the past decade. The negro wants life, better wages, amusements, bright lights and more independence than the South has been inclined to grant him. He finds all those" in' northern cities, where many big employers, their supply of cheap labor from Europe cut off by immigration laws, welcome him into the factories. t In some States the negro is a person of some importance politically. His vote may switch a State from one party to another. Politicians are always/trying to do that. So the negro is welcomed to the North by certain Republican district bosses. That is significant. It Republicans from the South, where they cannot be spared, and makes for a more solid Demo : cratic South and a still more preponderantly Republican North. That's politics. Consider the economics of the negro migration. Behind him the negro leaves a deserted farm, in a district where white men generally do not labor with their hands. In some States there are thousands of these farms. Does that mean a lapse in agriculture for the South? Maybe not. It may mean anew land of opportunity for white-settlers, with farm machinery, looking for cheap lands out west. Ultimately. it may mean a yew, modernized rural South, rivaling the great Northwest. Then there is the social problem. As the negro families by train loads pour into northern cities, great city blocks of white families will leave their homes to avoid mingling too closely with folks of another race. Some of those white families may even go South. Yes. the negro may change our whole map with his move north.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS ALIVE PRESIDENT HARDING says “the issue of the League of Nations is as dead as slavery.” Let’s think it over. The trouble with a lot of us is we think of the league idea as something new. We treat it as a political issue begot by ourselves, born at Versailles in 1919 and strangled at Washington in 1920. How silly! The idea was at least 700 years old when Christ was born at Bethlehem. Does anybody really think that an idea so vital that it has a definite place in • history for more than 2,600 years, would shrivel up and die just because a little fellow like Henry Cabot Lodge of Nahant, Mass., doesn’t like it? Micah, the Morashite/writing in the days of Hezekiah, King of Judah, about 725 years before Christ, was a .better judge of what would be going on in our world today than many of us now living. Micah saw a time when “many nations shall come” and unite for peace. “And He shall * * * rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” If that is not a definite promise of peace to the plain men of all the world then it is nothing. And all the Lodges from creation until doomsday could not change a jot of it. SALARlES —Teachers’ salaries in Mexico have doubled in the past ten years. Is it the hazard or progress of civilization ? LECTURERS— EarIy in July, 15,000 lecturers will arrive in this country from England. Gosh! W T hat if all of them turned out to be lecturers? Wouldn’t some of our Indiana Chautauqua speakers have competition? NOlSE —lndianapolis police always are starting some new kind of crusade, but we haven’t heard of them going after noise. New York police are. Probably the thirsty have become boisterous in their protests since Governor A1 Smith has returned from his little jaunt at French Lick Springs with Col. Tom Taggart. PlSTOLS —Recently The Times commented that firearms could be purchased too easily and recommended strict enforcement of a measure requiring issuance of permits. Now we read that Oklahoma had 238 homicides last year, showing that the “baby State” is havilfeg difficulty in getting away from the sanguinary rule of the gun.

LIGHT ON GOUGERS REFUSED Harding Declines to Answer Queries Regarding Sugar Status. CENSUS REPORTS HELD UP Cuban Crop Is Much Larger Than Manipulators’ High Estimate. BY JOHN CARSON. Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. June 28—President Harding declined to reveal the true and complete story of the sugar gouge and gougers before he left Washington. Specific questions asked by the Baltimore Housewives’ League, questions which went right to the vitals of the gouge remain unanswered. They could have been answered with the information the Government investigators have, but they were not. Unless Congress forces a real investigation, the gougers are going to get away clean. T*he Department of Commerce has closed up like a clam, on all discussions of sugar news or the sugar gouge. The department is not even issuing its monthly census reports on sugar. The tariff commission has continued its investigation. The commission sent out a questionnaire of some thousand or more questions. Sugar authorities say it gets nowhere and if answered would only add to the public confusion. Hooted by Gougers When the gougers started they cried "sugar shortage” and announced that the Cuban sugar crop would not be more than 3,700.000 tons. Their estimates were as low as 3.500,000 tons. Although other authorities insisted the crop would be 4.000,000 tons, a considerable increase over last year’s crop, the gougers hooted. Eight centrals In Cuba are still grinding sugar cane. When they complete operations the Cuban crop will be established. But already the crop is beyond the gougers’ estimates. The lowest estimate now fixed is 3,850,000 tons or 160,000 tons more than the highest estimate of the gougers. There are now more than 1,300,000 tons of sugar in ports, more than enough so- any demand in the next three months or until beet sugar arrives on the markets. Instead of a "shortage,” there will be a "surplus” of sugar. "Book Transactions” Charges are now made that a real investigation will show the gougers paid not more than 3 J £ cents a pound foi any sugar they had to purchase from independent growers in Guba. The prices of more than 5 cents quoted for raw sugar are declared to be “book transactions” to justify the high prices charged consumers. If this charge is substantiated, the gougers will have reaped a profiteers’ profit of from 3 to 5 cents on every pound of sugar they sold and their half-billion dollar gouge will have been put over on the consumers.

Straw Wisp Ghewers Are Warned of Their Peril

Bp United Press , SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. June 58. Getting back to first principles is the keynote at sessions of various section of the American Medical Society convention. Rovers of bathing were told that nature’s garb is the best bathing suit —from the standpoint of health. Mothers were told that the nursing bottle was not the means nature intended to be used for the feeding of children. In addition, the world in general—and the upper Mississippi valley in particular was warned against sitting on a cracker box in front of Indiana Sunshine “Come on kids, let's go to the park,” is the shout in Seymour kiddom today. A merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel have just been unloaded at Shields Park. Yes. Actually. Bathers at Delphi were shocked—men and women alike. A lightning bolt struck the water of the Tippecanoe River and was felt slightly by the water fans. A bronze memorial tablet will be erected at Cannelton bearing names of about 200 boys from the city who served in the World W&r. Washington had a molarless burglar. He broke into the window of a dental establishment and took a pair of “store teeth." Police are expecting to hear of a meat market robbery now. Only $3,000 is lacking of the $20,000 goal for the new tuberculosis hospital to be erected in Bloomington. John Doe had better be on his guard. Warrants have been made out for three unidentified men who took a confiscated still away from truckmen hauling it to the police station at Corydon. Cfiprry picking has started at Hartford City. Growers report an un usually good crop.

Heard in Smoking Room

Considerable talk had gone round in the Pullman smoker about the characteristics of great American Presidents, when a gent over in the corner seat, who looked for all the world like Theodore Price, asked If any one had seen that skit about Presidents In Commerce and Finance. It seems, he jvent on, that there at the gate

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rr ‘lndiana Is Driest’ Bu United Press WESTERVILLE, Ohio, June 28. —Indiana is the “driest” State in the Union; New Jersey is the “wettest.” This conclusion was drawn by dry leaders in executive session here after Anti-Saloon League supporters from forty States had reported their local conditions. The Hoosier situation is due largely, it was said, to the efficiency of the Federal Courts. Seaboard rum running as made an oasis of New Jersey.

TOM SIMS SAYS: NATIONAL Dancing Institute has a step, "Prince of Wales.” Easy as falling off a horse. * * • Besides taking a day off for July Fourth, those with fireworks take a few fingers off. • • • These are the days the boss gets mad when he learns things went better while he was away. * * • Terrible news from Turkey. It has gone dry. Just imagine what Turkish bootleggers will sell. •• * ‘ Maybe our world’s champion heavyweight scrapper could even whip a mad railroad conductor. * * * The big picture hats are returning. They fit like parachutes. * * * The movies are popular because actions speak louder than words. ** * h Forecasts of this year’s peach crop indicate it will be a peach. * * * British have launched the X-l, largest submarine. French wonder what the X stands for. * * * A good pedestrian once meant a good" walker. Now it means a good dodger and jumper. * * * It is hard on a girl to marry a man whose mother was a good cook. * * * French helicopter wen?, straight up staying up nine minutes; possibly after hearing of the new German note. * * * Wouldn’t it be great if you could send the baby to the laundry? • • * Bet a locust working only every seventeen years makes an ant mad.

the village store and chewing straws. Dr. H. Marshall Taylor, of Jacksonville, Fla., discussing the advantages of the sort of bathing suit worn by the small boy at the “old swimmln’ hole,” commented: “Bathing suits are not as healthy as nature’s own garb because they prevent the body from drying.” He said if suits must be worn, then they should be washed frequently. Dr. A. H. Sanford of Rochester, Minn., led the attack on the chewers of straw thus: “The man who must chew a straw is daring actinoy-chosis to get him. Lumpy tumors on the mouth and tongue, sometimes followed by Innocuous desuetude are the results. It is especially prevalent in the upper Mis sissippi Valley.” Then came Dr. M. L. Turner of Des Moines, with this onslaught on the nursing bottle: “If dairy men milked their cows as carelessly as some mothers nurse their babies there would be a milk famine within three months.” Reason Enough By BERTON BRALEY Impulsive and capricious, With moods you cannot guess, But whimsical, delicious In her capriciousness; You ask her why she’s flouting All logic, rules and laws. She answers, pertly pouting, “Just because!” One moment she's all laughter, An imp on flying feet, And then the moment after She’s shy, demure and sweet; She’s changeful as a season, Os sun and snow and thaws, With this her only reason. *-• “Just because!” She’ll lead the man she marries A .very hectic life, With all the swift vagaries With which her ways are rife. One can’s be certain of her. She's full of faults and flaws, And yet—and yet I love her, “Just because!” (Copyright 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

of Heaven, and St. Peter immediately asked for their credentials. The first, on being announced, said: ”T am George Washington, father of my country.” The second, Abraham Lincoln, said: “I am the sevlor of my country.” But the third, Theodore Roosevelt, answered St. Peter’s question with a stare and said: “None of your business! Where’s _GodV”

‘LEASING’ ON JOBS IS ISSUE Death of Youth in Florida Cony let Camp Stirs Fight in South, ALABAMA STORM CENTER 'Anti-Slavery 1 Forces Are Opposed by Administration Forces, By E. T. LEECH Editor Birmingham Post BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 28.—The spirit of a Dakota farm boy, who died penniless and a prisoner following a beating In a Florida convict camp, is marching through the South, leading anew battle against slavery. The body of Martin Tabert lies in a swamp-soaked grave in Florida, but the memory of his death, which recently resulted in abolition of convict leasing in Florida, promises to wipe out the system in Alabama, the State where it is most widely practiced. Inspired by the Tabert revelations in Florida, Alabama’s anti-leasing forces have organized a State-wide campaign, with chairmen In every congressional district, in preparation for one of the bitterest legislative fights in the State's history when the assembly reconvenes next month? The anti-leasing forces have the support of the League of Women Voters, the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs and practically every newspaper in the State. Opposed by Administration They are opposed by administration forces led by Governor W. W. Brandon. Behind the scenes will be the power and influence of great coal companies who have reaped tremendous profits, from cheap convict labor. Governor Brandon, in a recent defense of ’ leasing, declared tj?e State could not afford the loss' in revenue which would come from abolishing it—more than $500,000 a year. Opposing Brandon is Ex-Governor Thomas E. Kilby, whose last official act was to send a special message to the Legislature, declaring: "There are 3.000 men and women in the penitentiary: there are two and a half million persons out of it. The suggestion that this half million is dependent upon a handful of unfortunate convicts tb earn the money for the support of their government is an insult to the law-abiding, self-support-ing and self-respecting citizens of the State.” Plea by Governor Four years ago the Legislature passed a bill abolishing leasing in January. 1923. Two years later the Assembly extended the system till 1924, with assurance that It would end then. Believing the question settled, leasing opponents" made no issue of it in the last campaign and were therefore stunned when, as his first official act, Governor Brandon issued a plea for Its continuance and pushed through a bill extending the system to January, 1927. The way legislators are “hopping aboard the band wagon” has caused widespread hope of success of the repeal movement, though the patronage power of the Governor and the influence of the coal companies will be thrown into the fight in an effort to continue penal slavery.

What Editors Are Saying Public Jot) Franklin Evening Star. There isn't a single municipal job in Franklin that any recognized business man would have as far as monetary remuneration Is concerned. Highgrade citizens accept election or appointment. to these posts purely as a matter of civic duty and community pride. Everybody knows this and yet how utterly the community fails in showing deserved appreciation! If we are going to let George do our municipal tasks let's at least be decent enough to tell George when he does a good job of it. -I- -I- -IExperiment (Rushville Republican) Is it not mere chance that two Indiana counties are to be the beneficiaries of $40,000 to be spent by the General Educational Boar-l of New' York in the next two years to improve the methods of rural education? Os course, the work is to be experimental, and accordingly should be watched by every school patron in the State. And that means every taxpayer. for from the experiment may come the lesson of saving money in the schools, and the schools are the big Item of the tax dollar. -I- -I- -IChurches (Sullivan Daily Times) Our friends, the Methodists, should he congratulated upon their decision to launch a bulMlng program that will seek to furnish a place in which the young people can enjoy more fully the social pleasures and recreations that rightfully belong to youth. Churches are stepping cut In the right direction when they go on the theory that the children and young people are their greatest asset, and should be given the advantages that a. modern church organization and plant can furnish. •I- -I- -IPoiitics (Decatur Dally Democrat) Senator Watson and Postmaster General New. representing two distinct. factions of the Republican party in Indiana, are In a clash over the appointment of a postmaster at Huntington and indications are that the midd\e man who up-to-date didn't appear to have a chance may he the lucky guy. There will be some intense Inside politics between now and next May In the old Hoosier State, and if you enjoy the game, get ready to have the best time you ever had in your

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Making the Trip for His Health

BUFFALOES COME CLOSE TO TOURISTS (Special to The Times) YELLOWSTONE PARK, June 28. —Seventeen huge buffalo bulls have just been driven from the Buffalo Ranch in the Lamar Valley to a corral near Mammoth Hot Springs, where they may be conveniently seen by tourists. They were driven over thirty miles of road by “Bob” Lacombe, chief buffalo herder, his assistant, “Jimmy” Dupuis, and “Scotty” Bauman, ranger at Tower Falls. The animals showed no fear of automobiles. The monarch of the corral herd is “Straight Shot,” a magnificent bull whose horns turn up at right angles instead of curving over as with most buffalo. Sticker collecting has become a favorite pastime with the Sage Brushers, as the automobile campers are called here. Some of the cars arriving here have windshields nearly plastered over with the insignia of western rational parks and cities. The red buffalo label of Yellowstone Is added here. "You sing America, Why Not See It?” is a popular slogan. Laughs Foresight Tommy had been forbidden to go swimming and on coming home with his hair wet and with a wet bathing suit under his arm, received a severe scolding. “But I was tempted so badly, mother." the boy protested. “That is all very well.” his mother replied, “but how did you happen to have your bathing suit with you?” “Well, mother, I took my bathing suit with me, thinking I might be tempted.”—Youth’s Companion. Big Brother a Hero Big Brother: “Old Skinflint Pierce fell In his mill pond this morning, and like a fool, I pulled him out.” Mother: “Did he reward you?” t Big Brother: “Oh. yes! Gave me 50 cents and I gave him back 20 cents change.” Sister Edith's Father “Her father Is rather close, isn't he?" “Yes. so darn close. Edith, and 1 have to whisper most of the time.”— Boston Transcript. Mother Sizes Up Father Daughter: “Something seems to b** gnawing on father’s mind.” Mother: "Don't worry, it’ll soon starve.” —Gold and Brown. Pa Names the Baby "What did you name your baby, old man?” “"Why, at first she was so good and quiet we called her ’Serena.” “How do you mean ‘at first?’ ” “Well, since she began crying all night with teething we changed her name to ‘Tuscararora.’ ’’ Boston Transcript. Ma’s Neighbor Lady "My husband Is a man of letters.” “I'll wager that most of them contain bills.” —Ansonia Herald.

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THURSDAY, JURE 28. I

Around The World in Five Minutes

American Movies Abroad Denmark has 299 movie theaters. About 70 per cent of the films are American. France cojnplains that American films predominate in that country. Os 79,800 meters shown in April, about 60.000 meters were made in the U. S. A. In Cuba not only most of the films but some of the theaters are of Yankee origin. Exporting Worm Holes The other day an American Shipped a cargo of oak to a customer overseas. When it arrived it was found to be full of worm holes. Did that mean a loss? Not much! The whole cargo was disposed of to a manufacturer of brand new “antique” grand-, father clocks who at once put in an order for more at premium prices. He| said it saved boring the worm by hand. Alcohol Lights You've heard of alcohol lighting up somebody's nose. They use alcohol to light the streets in Buenos Aires —not all, of course, but some. It's a standing joke down there that alcohol lamps would never do in the United States. Pedestrians wmuld climb the poles and suck the wicks dry. Your Flivver Tires The best rubber for automobile tires comes from British possessions in the Far East. About 200 trees grow to the acre and 600 pounds of rubber per acre per year is a good yield. In British Malaya, Ceylon and Sarawak,, the government restricts exports to I between 400 and 530 pounds per acre. This tends to protect the trees and keep up the price. Erin Go Borrow Ireland's deficit for 1923-24 will be about $100,000,000 as compared with a deficit of some $20,000,000 last year. It is largely the result of her civil war, and will probably be met by borrowing at home. Science [ Latest observations show that the . New Star —one of the recent asJ tronomical wonders—is so far that it takes eighty years for Its light to reach the earth. Light travelers - at the rate of 186,000 miles per second. Distance, time and size are things the mind can grasp only in a limited degree. The earth that appears so large to !ts Inhabitants, is so small that many millions of such earths could be blotted out of the universe and not be missed. The age of this tiny speck In the universe Is so great, as we reckon time, that it Is measured In billions of years. The age of other bodies of the universe is so vastly greater, that the earth is an infant, while the age of matter that slowly formed these bodies is beyond the powers of human Imagination. In rather recent times man had only a vague idea of the immediate planets. He now knows there are three billion suns and he has definite knowedge of many of them.