Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1923 — Page 4

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THAT VETERANS’ BUREAU MUDDLE STIE hopelessly inefficient administration of the United States Veterans’ Bureau from the time of its establishment in ly2l to the spring of 1923 is a part of common knowledge. The unsay.ory details are now coming to light, to a limited extent, through the hearings before the Senate investigation committee. •That “no major scandals need be expected, ' is the verdict of the editor of The Stars and Stripes, an ex-soldiers’ paper. Says this editor of the investigation: H Senator Reed of Pennsylvania; chairman of the committee, is reported to coincide with the plans of Gen. John F. O’Ryan, chief counsel of the committee, for a ‘constructive investigation.’ That is taken to mean that it is his purpose to find out past mistakes only as a guide to future improvements, and for the mere amusement of airing any scandals. • • * As to charges of ipefficiency or graft, O ’Ryan has told various people at various times that if he found adequate evidence of wrongdoing to warrant prosecution he would lay the evidence before the Department of Justice. He has told various interested persons that he is opposed to dragging up charges and allegations for which there is no proof, and which would only make talk, hurt reputations of people probably innocent, and delay the constructive work of the committee.”'* ' “ From the evidence that has come to light it seems evident that incompetency was the major crime of the former head of the bureau. That incompetency led to both graft and waste. Exposure of the graft was the more or less direct cause of several suicides that startled Washington and the country during the past year. Exposure of the incapacity of highly placed officials led to the complete reorganization of the bureau’s administration. That’s the long and short of it. Little men trying to fill big positions resulted in havoc. The death of the President who made the ill-advised appointments and the deaths of several of pointees has removed the whqje matter from the realm of those cases where exact justice may take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Perhaps little more can be hoped for than that the mistakes of the past serve as guides to the future. Apparently the present head of the bureau has improved the situation, but it is well for him to keep in mind that more may rightly be expected of him than that He be astonished from day to day to find how rotten was the former administration. PRAISE WHERE PRAISE IS DUE E* IXTRAORDINARY bravery, which on a battlefield would have merited honorable recognition, was displayed by three members of the Indianapolis police force Tuesday night. To Sergeant O’Connor and Patrolmen Golder and De Barr is due praise from the public for courage in capturing armed bandits who had held up a Los Angeles bank and escaped with $16,000. Hete they held up an oil station. Citizens are too apt to forget the danger which a policeman faces constantly. He serves at nominal pay to guard property and life. Courage, skill and strength are required. These are not ordinary virtues. • Recognition of their service can well be paid by commendation to those who were sent out on duty and who did it well. DON’T TAMPER WITH ZONING LAW mllE zoning law of Indianapolis would be changed by a proposed ordinance to permit an industry to locate in a district that now is residential. The city council has wisely referred the ordinance petitioning the change in behalf of the business interest, to the city planning zone commission. .. What does it meant Tampering with a permanent zoning law to accommodate the plea of one business is dangerous. The decision would set a precedent. Open the gate for one, and every residential district in Indianapolis could logically be invaded by others.

REAL NEIGHBORLY ACT firTffiIGHBORS.OF DORA MYERS OF BLUFFLL2LI ton, having KNOWLEDGE THAT MYERS, THROUGH A RECENT OPERATION, WAS UNABLE TO LOOK AFTER HIS WORK, WENT TO HIS FARM AND CUT FIFTEEN. ACRES OF CORN. THEY THEN WENT TO THE FARM OF DON BLUE, WHO HAS BEEN ILL, AND SHUCKED FIVE ACRES OF HIS CORN. This little item in the day’s news, with its columns of murders, floggings, wail and human woe, probably was overlooked by many readers, but stands out as a beacon light in these days of unrest and strife. This Christian act of neighbors of two sick men in their hour of need is a pointer for all of us. Here is another proof that good old Hoosier hospitality and neighborliness lives under the surface of present-day struggles for material things in life. Here is a sermon for the preacher that shows men have hearts that beat for their fellowmen; who believe in helping others without thought of gain; who believe in the Golden Rule. DEPARTMENT of Commerce trade report says Fiume wants rubber footwear. More gum-shoe stuff in the Balkans. PROHIBITION enforcement office announces it will station 3,000 agents around in breweries to test liquors and spy on bootleggers. Great joy in the pie-hunters’ union I SINCLAIR oil interests now say Teapot Dome naval oil lease doesn’t come up to promises made when Albert B. Fall handed the field on a platter to Sinclair. Now look out for a breach of promise suit against Uncle Sam to collect the profits that weren’t. TREASURY officials say they can dry up the U. S. A. if Congress will give them $20,000,000 with which to Work. Why not try collecting income taxes from bootleggers and put the dry movement on a pay-as-you-dry-up basis T JAPANESE own and operate most of the motion picture theaters in Manchuria. Nothing strange about that Japanese took a Chinese bandit in Manchuria, named Chang Tsi-lin, had Peking make him a generalissimo and set him up as wlr lord of the province. Movie theaters are not all the Japs gdjt out of the deal. Tnere’s some gratitude left in the world. \ ‘‘

DRED SCOTT CASE VETO RAISED CRY Notable Decision Upheld Slavery and Hastened Civil War, This is the sixth article in a series ou the Supreme Court's rise to power, written by Lowell Meilett of the Times Washington Bureau. By LOWELL, MELLETT SN the first eighty years of its history the U. S. Supreme Court only once attempted to assert the power to declare unconstl-, tutional any act of Congress which was of general > application. All other acts or portions of acts invalidated by the court related only to the organization of courts and so drew little public attention. ( The one exception was the famous Dred Scott decision, the decision said by many writers to have precipitated the Civil War. In this case the Supreme Court vetoed an act of Congress. The people then vetoed the action of the court after four years of bloodshed. It was not possible to correct the court at the polls, as could have been done In the case of Congress. Dred Scott was a slave. Ills master moved from Missouri to Illinois and then to Wisconsin Territory, residing • for two years In each of these jurisdictions before returning to Missouri. The claim was set up on the negro’s behalf that residence in Illinois, where slavery was prohibited by the State constitution, and in Wisconsin, free soil under the Missouri compromise act, had made the negro free. The claim wa* sustained by the local court, but reversed by the State Supreme Court and so reached the U. S. Supreme Court. Press Negro’s Case Prominent fneesoll advocates pressed the negro’s case for him. However, it Is doubtful if a decision by the Supreme Court that temporary residence outside his State had not freed Scott would have' caused any serious outcry. But the United States Supreme Court went further. It declared the Missouri Compromise Act Itself unconstitutional. It was unconstitutional, said the court, because it interfered with the natural right of a slave-owner to take his property where he pleased and because It Interfered with the constitutional equality of citizens of different states. Two oF the Judges, dissenting, held the Aot was a rightful exercise of Congress’s power to legislate for the Territories, which had never before befen questioned; and that it did not violate the eqdality of citizens because citizens could only hold slaves in states that permitted It Local Question

It Is related that, recognizing the explosive character of the case, the original Intention of the Supreme Court was simply to uphold the Missouri court’s decision, treating the Issues as local questions with which the Supreme Court should not concern Itself. Nb constitutional questions were to be raised. Frederick Trevor Hill has written this account of what happened; “Before Mr J.uatice Nelson could prepare this opinion, howorer, the active agent* of the slave power Intervened. At (Unnera, receptiona and social functions they waylaid the Judges, adroitly importuning them to changt their plkn, flattering those whose vanity gave the opening, appealing to the ambition of others, and generally emphasizing the opportunity which lay before the court td- flulflil a public and patriotlq " duty by forever quieting a ' lfscuaaion injurious to the Nation's welfare. Declare all restrictions such as the Missouri compromise unconstitutional, it waa urged, and the North Will acqulesoe and the Union will be preserved. All of the Judges were honest and conscientious, but soma of them were far advanced in age, and the pressure which was constantly brought to bear upou them was well calculated to disturb their Judgment.” “I have been urging ail the influences I oould bear upon the Supreme - Court to get them to postpone ncr longer the case on the Missouri restriction before them, but to decide it. take it up today. If they decide, ae I have reason to believe they will, that the restriction is unconstitutional.” etc. Written by Taiiey The opinion finally waa written by Chief Justice Toney, who made it the occasion for an extensive review of the whole elavb question, in the hope of ending the agitation against slavery. The decision denied the existence of negroef as "persons;” It declared them to be merchandise or property and that their condition as Such waa fixed and unchanageable. The announcement of the decision was made two days after President Buchanan was inaugurated. It was openly Charged In the Senate Buchanan had advance knowledge of the decision and that In his Inaugural address he pledged his support to it. Excerption was taken to the court’s attempt to decide matters of public policy, the proper function of the legislative branch. "The Supreme Court," declared Senator Seward of New York, "attempts to cofhmand tho people of the United States to accept the principle that one man can own other men; and that they must guarantee inviolability of that false and pernicious property. The people never can and they never will aocept principles so unconstituional and abhorrent.” The Civil War proved Seward was right. Linoolyt Abused As for the charge of collusion between Chief Justice Taney, President Buch§pan and others, one of the prominent asserters of this was Abraham Lincoln. He was abused unmercifully for daring to criticise the Supreme Court, by Stephen A. Douglas In their famous campaign debates, but in the recently published “Works of James Buchanan” are letters exchanged between President Buchanan and members of the Supreme . Court which appear to sustain Lincoln’s charges completely. Concerning his right to criticise the courts, Lincoln said; "Our judges are- as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others, the. same passions for party, for power, and the privileges of their cosps.” Concerning the powers assumed by the Supreme Court, std sgld: ”... the candid .citizen must confess if the policy of the Government, upon Vita.l questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, Having to. that extent practically resigned their - nto the. hands' of ..that eminent trlhnnal.” -

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(frOM SIMS I | -/- -/- Says News from Paris. American singer arrested. But he was charged with theft, not with singing. • + Cleveland makers sent Coolidge a tub of ice cream, encouraging little boys to be presidents. • * * They only want to divide Germany into three parts and we thought she was drawn and quartered. • * • Lexington (Ky.) golfer’s ball killed a lark. That’s all right. Wasn’t he out for a lark? • • * Stamp makers held a meeting in Denver without deciding to put any flavoring in the glue. • I Coolidge has been given a pet bear ! and probably would like to raise it on congressmen. • • • News from dear old London. Meteorite hit a statue which may have been thinking evil thoughts. • • • Lloyd George Is meeting people in America. This is better than meeting crises in Europe. • * • From the way Lloyd George hops about he must be a Welsh rarebit. * * * Three of a Detroit family were jailed as bootleggers, leaving nobody home to tend the still. - # • * Robbers run great risks. In Oakland, 111., 12 robbers posed as hunters without being shot. • ♦ • Painter is accused of slapping' a Spokane girl, but may have wanted to see If the paint was dry. .* • • St. Louis bookkeeper Is recovering. Monthly total drove him mad. He was almost a total wreck. • t> + Your lock may be bad. It could be worse. In Illinois, a man Is a woman’s fourteenth husband.

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You can vet an answer to any question of fact or information by wrttlos to the Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Are . Wash ington, D. 0., enclosing 3 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marUal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive s personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How many were rejected under the selective draft bocause of heart affections? Approximately 108,000. How can the odor of fish or onions be removed from the hands? Mix salt and corn meal together and rub the hands well with tie mixture: wash with soapy water, and rinse with cold water. How can one dislodge the clinkers which form in the firebox of a coal range without injury to the lining? Burn a lump of lime the size of a walnut or a few oyster shells in the mnge every now and then. This will dislodge the clinker*. * Is there a place In the world where automobiles are excluded by law? * Automobiles are not allowed In the Bermuda Islands. Who was the first woman lawyer In the United States? Probably Myra Brad Well. admitted to the Illinois bar In 1869. Who was the first woman physician In the United States? Elizabeth Blackwell was first to obtain a medical degree. She was graduated with high honors from Geneva Medical College. Geneva, New York. In 1849. Who was the first woman to be ordained to the ministry in the United States? Antoinette Lbulsa Blackwell, graduated from Oberlln College in 1847. She preached In Congregational Churches. Her maiden name was Brown. Whe.t Is the largest Sunday school class In the world? It Is said to he one held at Royal Palms Park, Miami, Florida, with William Jennings Bryan as leader. From 5,600 to 8,000 persons attend. Should a lady wear a hat In dining at a large hotel at a formal dinner? This depends upon circumstances. If the party is very formal, hats need not be worn, but In case of doubt wear a hat.

A Thought

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.— Rom. 12:15. • • • Hr E that sympathizes in all the happiness of others perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness, and he that is warned by all the folly of others has perhaps atta’ned the soundest wisdom —Colton.

Heard in the Smoking Room

HE professor was tolling the I other smokers about college I * I students. “The boys, as a general thing, are very alert in the lecture room. I’ll have to admit that, very often, they are not so much concerned about learning as they are about catching the teacher In error or exaggerated statement Not a few toothers are in deadly fear of lecture Jr.ie, for they are always expecting to hp.ve the laugh turned on them by some keen student. I remember the story of the old Scotch professor who was a vigorous advocate of college athletics. He was always urging his classes to build their muscles. One day he informed the boys that the Roman youth used to swim three times across , the Tiber before breakfiast. Observing a smile on the face of one of the students, the professor asked: “ ‘Mr. Haig, why do you smile? We shqll be gls# to share your amuse; , ment.’ ,

G.O.P. DODGE FORD OFFER ON SHOALS Question Is Certain to Become Political Issue ih Next Congress. To answer the question that every othor person is asking. “Just what is this Muscle Shoals proposition of Henry lord’s that they ara talking about again?” Robert Talley of tins paper*®' Washington staff has written three articles, givin gthe bare facts about the power project. Here is tho last article: By ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Whatever the outcome of Henry Ford’s offer for Muscle Shoals r**ay be, it is certain to be a big political issue at the December session of Congress. Ford's recent charges that Secretary of War Weeks Is preparing to sell the grAat project by piecemeal to the power trusts are sure to find their reflection In speeches of members. For Ford has friends In Congress—many of them. Congress alone can pas# upon his offer, which ha3 been dragging now for nearly two years, and his supporters are sure to try to get it up for an early vote. So far. It has never been put to a vote because the Republican rules committee has o&refully dodged the test. Is Anti-Ford Plainly, the administration has been anti-Ford. Desirous of turning him down ahd yvt reluctant to face the storm of popular disapproval that would arise, the administration has sought to evade the issue by trying to keep it quiet. But with Ford looming up as a possible presidential candidate, election year approaching and the Democrats preparing to use Muscle Shoals as a political weapon, continued evasion may become impractical, if not Impossible. The weighty accusation that •he Republican administration is standing between the fanners and the cheap fertilizer which Ford could produce at Muscle Shoals may have to be answered before election day. Sot Against Project In political pressure lies Ford’s only chance for getting Muscle Shoats end he seems to have recognized this In his recent statement .against Secretary Weeks, which carried a lot of political color. The administration end the big interests that comprise the “invisible government" at Washington are dead set against this great project going to Ford. It remains to be seen whether, in an election-year test,- political expediency will be considered a wiser course than selfish protection of private inerests. The Government's recent sale of the Gorgai steam power plant, which Ford had made a part of his bid. has done much to complicate the situation. It was sold to the Alabama Power Company under what was oonstrued to be a moral, though not a legal, agreement made when it was hurriedly constructed by the army during the war. While Ford specifically stated in his original offer his proposition must be accepted in whole or not at all, he has now, since the sale of Gorges, added a rote of mystery to the situation. He says merely "My offer for Muscle Shoals still stands.” Nothing to Explain Asked, In effect, what about the effect of the sale of Gorgns. he makes the rather puzzling answer that he has nothing to explain. Ford’s Insistence on Gorgas has always been more or less baffling. This steam plant is 90 miles' distant from Muscde Shoals and is so interlocked with a companion plant ’of the Ala bama Power Company that little more than a line painted across the floor divides them. It was built on Alabama Power Company property. Ford’s proffered price and terms have been attacked as low, but the fact remain his offer Is the only one that the government has chosen to think worthy of consideration. Many of his supporters think that the price is of small importance when the great est potential man-made water power project in the world lies idle, awaiting only the touch of brains find energy to make it produce for the public good.

Science

The names of Lobatchewsky, Bolyai and Riemann. practically were unknown until recently. Today scientists and students of higher mathematics are giving them careful consideration. The first named is a Russian, the second Hungarian and the third German. They developed systems of geometry the opposite of those of Euclid and these systems are as logical within themselves as the ordinary and accepted geometry. Their work generally has been regarded as a mathematical freak, interesting from the fact that weird things can be proved by figures. One of the ideas of this geometry is that there is no such thing as a straight line and that space may be curved. If this is true, lines that are called straight in astronomical space may have a curvature unsuspected in Euclidean geometry. A straight line drawn on the earth’s surface in reality becomes a great circle. The earth’s surface is infinite In the sense of being endless, yet It is limited. An idea along that line applies to space, according to the nonEuclidean geometries.

”‘I was Just thinking, sir,’ said young Haig, ‘that, if the Roman youths swam three times across the Tiber of a morning, they mqst have been some puzzled to get their clothes at the end of the swim.’ ’’

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What Editors Are Saying

• Stadium (South Bend News Times) one of the first things that the progressive oitlzens of this community Rhould take up and solve is the building of a stadium at Notre Dame. In mid season the football team or the local university stands as unchallenged champions of the nation. A few leaders, with a little energy and a big vision, could easily work out a program that would result, before next fall, in making this city the football ©inter of the Middle West. Notre Dam© furnishes the team. The country will furnish the crowds. South Bend ought, even as a good merchant of Itself, to furnish the stadium. .* * * Spirit (Marion Leader-Tribune) .When the team Is winning* it Is easy to shout and cry and throw hats in the air and say. “That's our team.” But when the real stuff which is in a man comes out is, when things look blue and the home team is on the wrong side of tho score. It is eaay to be enthusiastic when on the winning side. But the spirit that counts is the spirit which does not admit defeat, but stays blose to the firing line until the last gun is fired, and until the result is known beyond the shadow of a doubt. Help (Daily Clintonian) The man or woman In Clinton who nctmUly attends a church, lending personal support, and who tries to help some individual church function, does much more for the cause of churchgoing and maitalning church Influence than those who stay away and bark. GUARANTEED PAINT For all purposes: all or color*. Per gallon SI.O D National Army Store 457 West Washington Street 1 Doors East of Weet Street Moll Order* Promptly Filled on All Army Goode.

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Halloween Stuff

Os Course Not By BERTON BI.ALEY I would rather sing of laughter than of tears, I would rather sing of hop* than sing of fear*, I would rather sing success Than the troubles and distresses Which we’re certain te encounter with the years. I would rather sing of honor than of shame, I would rather sing high courage all aflame Than to wail of those who quit When they didn’t have the grit Or the strength of soul to finish out the game. I would rather sing of faith than sing of doubt, I would rather sing of triumph than of rout, 1 would rather sing Man’s rise As he struggles to the skies, Than to sing the mud from which he's climbing out I would rather sing the songs that cheer the heart Than to drone of bitter agonies that smart; I am somehow fashion ad so But I cannot help but know That the critics will declare it “isn’t art!"

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Family Fun

Fertilizer Helps The Sunday School teacher had been telling a story of spring, and the miracle of the growth of the Easter lily. “Now, children,” she said, “who can tell me what it is that makes the Uly spring from this little bulb?” "God does it,” said one little boy. Frantically our Bobby raised his hand and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Fertilizer helps!”—Judge. Sister Cans Jack “Mother, lain going to give Jack Wilder his conge.” “I’m glad to hear It. You had no business to take It fiom him In the first place."—Boston Transcript. Home Economy The old farmer was slowly but surely dying. Lying in an apparently unconscious state he suddenly openedfl his eyes, and, addressing his ancient spouse, said, “Mary, that ham smells very (rood. I almost think I could eat some.” Whereat Mary sourly replied, "Thee get on with the dying. That ham is for the funeral.”—Argonaut.