Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1923 — Page 4

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HALLOWEEN IN POLITICS OHERE never has been, in the history of polities, such a shivery Halloween. Never so many kinds of jack-o’-lanterns popping up before the windows. Halloween, like a lot of other things, is just what your imagination makes it and that is why this is such a special one. Everybody’s imagination is busy, conjuring up hobgoblins. The political pumpkins are ripe, they come in all shapes. , In the house of the progressive Republicans the folks are most afraid of a big round California pumpkin, adorned with thick glasses. They fear he may be found leading the party parade a year from November, though they’re positive he is pumpkin clear through. Over where the reactionary Republicans live, they see a long, lean face with a wildly waving mustache, a Pennsylvania hobgoblin, who cats little reactionaries, so it has been told, and thy’re inclined to draw down the blind and shut, out the sight. Sinister in its silence, there's another political pumpkin giving folks a deep and protracted chill. The frost seems to be on this one, a heavy New England frost. Possibly picked before it was ripe, it is without features and frightens by its very vagueness. In the Democratic houses across the street, they are seeing quite a different set of faces. A political pumpkin from the South, they see. Polks tell how it means four years’ bad luck and they find no reassurance in its bland Alabama smile. Then there’s the son-in-law face that looks straight down upon the reactionary Democrats, leaving them paralyzed. And an angry-visaged Ohio pumpkin with an editor’s pencil fastened above its ear. It is worrying all the Democrats who fear to race a losing horse twice. Likewise a Hoosier pumpkin, large, round and comfortable, and looking likely to roll off in any direction. But the real terror of the night is yet to be told. It is a marvelous mechanical combination of jack-o’-lantern, tick-tack and that tin-can thing. Well, this blamed machine has been rattling up to the windows of the good party boys on both sides of the street. It seems to be everywhere at once. A lot of the lads are afraid to step out of doors and their mothers make them be good by telling them Henry’ll get ’em if they don’t watch out.

WILL TO STOP SMOKE EVIL MOKE nuisance in Indiana can be remedied and will be when the public demands sincere effort toward abatement. “Experience has shown that the problem is not so much an engineering as a psychological one,” says Osborn Monnett, consulting engineer of the bureau of mines. Monnett has been conducting smoke investigations throughout the country. “Until the public is thoroughly aroused, demands smoke abatement and shows continued interest in it, no permanent improvement is possible. Smoke abatement is not a matter that can be settled overnight and then left to care of itself without attention, but is something that must be watched year in and year out if high standards are to be maintained.” Monnett insists 50 to 75 per cent of the smoke from residence furnaces can be eliminated without change in the equipment. At industrial plants, smoke prevention is a matter of judgment, management and designing skill. Locomotives properly equipped with standardized smoke abatement devices can work without making dense smoke. While residence smoke is probably less than 10 per cent of the total smoke in a city, Monnett insists it is the most objectionable. It flies low and drifts into windows and throughout the residential districts. Asa result of all his investigations, Monnett says the will to stop the smoke nuisance and the appointment of a competent engineer who understands the problem as the administrator of the iaw are most important. The workk of smoke abatement is thoroughly set forth in non-technical language in a booklet published by the Department of the Interior. It can be had on reqnest. TEAPOT DOME FACTS SEAPOT DOME, its oil, and the lease given privately to Harry F. Sinclair by his friend, Albert Bacon Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, have threatened to become one of the scandals of onr National Administration. There is a very evident attempt to appease the* public mind with the statement that Teapot Dome will not produce the oil once predicted. But let us consider the case as it exists. Teapot Dome was a naval oil reserve. It was removed from Jurisdiction of the Navy by the late President Harding and turned over to Albert Fall, as Secretary of the Interior. The public was not informed until later of this move. Fall, without asking for public bids, leased Teapot Dome to lis friend, Harry F. Sinclair. His excuse was that the oil was oeing drained by wells in adjoining fields and that he made the ease to “protect the Government’s interest.” Sinclair later testified he valued the lease at $100,000,000. Fall and Sinclair are now very friendly. They recently returned from a tour of Europe and one report is that Fall is acting as counsel for Sinclair. Before a committee of the Senate, Fall now offers a defense for his act and the defense is as follows: He was a “business man.” He knew public policy and the law ordinarily required bids, but he thought he could serve the Government best by acting privately. At the same time, he felt the law was broad enough to permit him to give his friend Sinclair the lease without public bids. He knew public policy and the law ordinarily required him to ask bids for construction of oil storage tanks, but again he felt the law did not compel him in this case. In other words, he felt there was a loophole in the law and he took advantage of it regardless of public policy or the rights and interest of the public. Without further defense, Fall insists he is “proud of the contract.” It is renfarkable what little is required to make some men proud. That philosophy would permit any Indiana State executive to sell the Capitol privately, and to a friend, providing the sale “within the laW” and providing the State executive could convince himself he was doing “his” a service.

IRRIGATION IS CAUSE OF SHAKE-UP Reclamation Question Becomes Political Issue' and Subject of Controversy. W. H. Porterfield, ol this paper s Washington bureau, has made a study of the reclamation question, which has developed again into one of tho burn lng political issues ol the Nation. This is the first of a series ol articles giving the background of tho controversy now raging in Washington. By W. if. PORTERFIELD -zriECLAMATION in the West $-? ly private enterprise was begun thirty years before the Government began this work and has largely redeemed the West. “Government reclamation should make a comparable showing, relieved as it is from interest charges, which is the basis of calculation In all enterprises employing private capital." —Secretary Hubert Work to the “Fact Finding Commission.’’ "The Nation reaches Its hand into the desert, and lo! private monopoly in water and In land Is scourged from that holiest of temples—the place where men labor and build their homes!'’—William E. Smythe, founder of the National Irrigation Congress, author of “Arid America.” "Ownership—private ownership—of water apart from the land Is an economic crime. The man who owns the water owns the land and the man who tills the land. It is the Nation’s business to redeem the Wests" —Theodore Roosevelt.

Divergent Views Here you have the views of three distinguished Americans on the greatest of all western problems—the ownership and development of water In arid and seml-arld America. Secretary of the Interior Work wants to go back to that mid-Vic-torian era of forty years ago", when private monopoly In water and land existed over most of the scattered puny watered districts throughout that Igreat lmplre lying west of the 97th meridian of longitude. He thinks, honestly no doubt, the work of the United States reclamation service. Just entering upon Its twen-ty-second year, has been pretty much a failure. He has fired that veteran engineer. Arthur P. Davis, who was the soul of reclamation for a generation and more; abolished the office of director of the reclamation service and created the new office of “commissioner,” to which office he has appointed his banker-politician friend. David W. Davis, on the ground that reclamation needs a business man at Its head and not an engineer. He has now appointed an "advisory" or "fact finding committee” to lnvestl- : gate the whole reclamation service and : a majority of the committee, apparently, hold to his views regarding the reclamation service. No Profit Shown “The reclamation service has not shown a profit,” says Work. "Private enterprise redeemed the West long before Government declamation was thought of." But let us consider. Irrigation is coeval with the race—or nearly so. At what hour In the purple, prehistoric era primitive man first came to realize the tallest grasses and most succulent herbs grew by the river’s bank, we do not know. Neither do we know the day on which this dawning consciousness caused him to draw the first forked stick across the fertile alluvium which made up the first garden of the world. In the tenth verse of the second chapter of Genesis we read: "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden.” That was Chaldea. How long ago? A long, long time, you may be sure. In one of the great treasure rooms of the Louvre In Paris —a room given over to priceless relics of antiquity—- ■ the place of honor In the oenter Is occupied by a stele of black dlorlte stone, about eight feet high, curiously carved with cuneiform characters. Code of Hammurabi Here we may look upon the code of Hammurabi, greatest of Babylonian monarchs, who flourished about 2200 B. C. or four hundred years before the time of Abraham’s laws, engraven in stone as were those Jehovah gave to Moses eight centuries i later. Os the seven hundred laws which have been translated upon this block of black stone, no less than thirtyeight are devoted to the subject of Irrigation, reclamation, head gates and ditches. So much for Babylon, 4,200 years ago. In ancient Memphis the hlerogyphlcs on a monument of the time of Seostrls I were deciphered recently and among many other Interesting revelations from out the musty past were found these words: “And I (the Pharaoh) made Just laws for those who needed the waters for their crops, that the head gates should not be opened unjustly, that there should be water for all when it was required In due season.” And this In Egypt, five thousand years ago and more! Yet Secretary Work, A. D. 1923, praises Irrigation and reclamation by private enterprise.

Science

Railroads use on their own tracks for fuel twenty-five per cent of the coal they haul from the mines. According to Stelnmetz, the late great electrical expert. It Is ridiculous to burn coal to create steam for railroad engines. Steam, said Stelnmetz. costs more and does less than electricity. A steam engine must slacken speed on up-grades, while electric locomotives, with unlimited power behind them, can go at top speed all the time. Despite the backwardness of railroads In this respect, there Is nothing in modern science advancing as rapidly as the use of electricity. The most noticeable development of electrical uses. In the last few years, has been the radio. Tet, It Is only twenty years since Marconi jumped the signal 4, 5” lp Morse code across the Atlantic by wireless. The first great electro-magnetic discoveries were made just one hundred 'years ago by Oersted, a Dane: Ampere, [a Frenchman: Faraday, an FngllshVnan, and Joheph Henry, an Amerw. •

THE INDI ANAPOLIiS TIMES

&M SIMS | -!- Says tyii ELL, a St. Louis woman did yy keep cool during a robbery, —J because she was locked in the ice box. * • • Here's the news from Denver. Plumber shot two people. Try to imagine a plumber moving so fast. • * • A prize fighter was barred for roughness in St. Paul, Minn., and should have his wrist slapped. • * • Man in St Cloud, Minn., finds he has two wives. Well, even that is I better than double pneumonia. * * * News from 'Paris. Big balloon j stolen. Bet the thieves think it is | a rich American tourist. • • • Health officials want to stop shaking hands in Kansas, but Kansans are shaking their heads. • • • Doctors removed a needle from a Minnesota woman. Been there seventeen years, like a needle in a haystack. • * Back from America the Prince of Wales will go to Africa. That boy must ride on passes. • * Europeans act like people without a country, America being the country they are without. • • * News from Washington. A squirrel put out the Capitol lights, but the politicians escaped. • • • While Chicago cops are hunting a man named Appel, an Appel every day keeps the cops away.

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Correction In answer to a question as to whether any watches are adjusted to six positions, this column stated that according to the United States National Museum no such watches are made. The museum authorities were misquoted In this instance. They stated merely that no watches ad justed to six positions were known to them. However, such watches are being manufactured In the United States and are guaranteed by the makers to be six-positions watches.

To whom should one make application for a job as prohibition enforcement officer in Indiana. To Bert C. Morgan, Faderal prohl blon director for the State of Indiana, 305 Federal building, Indianapolis. How many negro colleges and universities are there ’ln the United States? The negro Year Book shows slxtyone. Is It true that papaya leaves or a dried powder made from papaya fruit will make meats tender? Experiments conducted by the Department of Agriculture Indicate that while the meat is made tender a very unpleasant taste Is produced. How many dairy cattle are there In the United States? More than 30,000,000. Is the breeding of mules increasing or decreasing? Mules for farm work Increased from 4.209,769 In 1910 to 5,432.391 In 1920, or nearly 30 per cent. How did the *erm “Quaker" orlg lnate as applied to the Society of FYlenda? Asa term of derision of emotional manifestations of contrition on the part of members of this sect. Do large refineries use the blood of cattle or hogs In refining sugar? They do not, but the United States Bureau of Chemistry says blood could be so used. What Is the approximate weight of a full-grown prairie chicken? Two pounds, on an average. Has Greenland been explored? If so, by whom? Greenland has been explored by a number of men, among whom are Ross, Tnglefleld. DeHaven, Kane. Hayes, Hall, Greely, Peary and Nansen. Nansen crossed from sea to sea In 1888, and Peary In 1892, and In 1895 he again crossed the Ice-cap. ascertaining the Insular character of the continent. What were the names of William Wallace's parents? He was the second son of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Eldersble and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Reginald Crowford of Crosby. How many chickens may be raised on one acre of land? About 250. Out of the total number of students entering college, what per cent receive degrees? 32.2 per cent. Which Is the better form “lunch” or "luncheon”? Luncheon Is the more formal; lunch may imply a “sketchy’ meal, although the word in common use for the noon meal.

Heard in the Smoking Room

mHE Oklahomans on the northbound train were automobile men heading for Detroit to look over new models. “The Petroleum Indians are among our best customers,” said one of them, who sells “blooded stock” of the poly-cylinder type. “Sold one recently to a big buck whose quarter section has produced a dozen or more "big wells,” he continued.

INCOME TAX LAW RULING SAVES RICH in 1895 Declared | Statute Unconstitutional — Remained So 20 Years. This is the eighth article on “The j Supreme Court's Rise to Power.” by Lowell Meilett, of The Times Washington Bureau. By LOWELL MELLETT. ,yi ITHOUT an Income tax the I yy Government probably could J not have fought the Civil War to a successful conclusion. J Without an Income tax It Is difficult j to see how the terrific financial drain of the World War could have been borne by the American people. Such taxes were possible and were used during those two wars, so why raise the question? In 1896 the United States Supreme Court decided the Income tax law was | unconstitutional. It had been in use j then for 100 years. Previous decisions of the Supreme Court had found it | perfectly valid, but, voting 6 to 4. the court this time held it unconstitutional. Twenty years of effort thereupon resulted in an amendment to the Constitution precluding—lt Is hoped—the Supreme Court from again wiping out this essential source of income to the Government. Resisted by t'apitalisls The particular statute made occasion for the Supreme Court’s decree In 1895 had been passed in the preceding year. It was resisted by strong financial Interests. John G. Carlisle, secretary of the treasury, said he could not enforce It because his department had no funds for the purpose. (This Is the same Carlisle whose turning over to a syndicate headed by J. Plerpont Morgan of a bond Issue on which It was alleged the syndicate made a profit of $18,000,000, had caused one of the Government scandals of the nineties.) Congress passed an urgent defl cleney bill giving the treasury 250,- ! 000 with which to enforce the new income tax law. Before It passed, so ex-Senator Pettigrew has declared, he was offered $250,000 if he would vote against it and persaude four other Senators of his populist group to do the same. Writ Is Sought Having become a law tho act was reachable only In the courts. The Farmers Loan and Trust Company announced It would pay the income j tax and one of its stockholders thereupon brought suit to enjoin. So the 'case on which the Supreme Court made this momentous decision, affecting the Government and the whole of the people, was a suit to which the j Government was not a party. It rested entirely between members of the Rame concern The Government was permitted to offer argument only j ns a matter of courtesy! Although no improper motive was alleged on his part. Justice Shlras was scored by many newspapers following the court’s decision for having changed his mind over night. With! his vote the act was declared uncon- j stltutlonal. S to 4 The court’s opinion was written by j Justice Field. His language lllus-; tratee the theory that the court too often decides cases on Its conception of public policy (admittedly the sole concern of Congress), rather than on j its conception of the law. "Poor Against Rich" "The present assault upon capital.” wrote Field, “Is but the beginning. It ; will be but the stepping stonp to oth- j ers, larger and more sweeping, until j our political contests will become a whr of the poor against the rich; a war constantly growing In Intensity and bitterness.” Chief Justice Walter Clark of the North Carolina Supreme Court hasj estimated this decision of the United States Supreme Court saved a billion ! a. year for the wealthiest class of this country. A billion a year for twenty years, until the people amended the Constitution and anew Income tax law was passed in 1915.

Family Fun

Hardly Time The vijlage Lady Bountiful met an old farm laborer on his way to work and was surprised that her greeting was wasted. “Jones,” she said, reprovingly, "you might at least raise your hat to me.” “I beg your pardon, m'lady,” said the peasant, “but my poor wife ain't been dead ten days and T ain’t started lookin’ at the wlmmen yet.”—Argonaut. When Dad Usings Pictures Mr. and Mrs. Jenklnton had at last obtained a small apartment and Mr. Jenklnton was hanging the pictures. There was a certain bit which he decided must go up, but which was too small to suspend from the rail. He thereupon got a substantia! nail and hammered it into the wall. There came a knock at the door. “It’s our neighbor.” said the wife. “Your hammering has disturbed him ” When the door was opened Mr. Jenkinton Immediately began to apologize. “Oh. that’s all right," said the neighbor, cheerily. "I only came to ask If I might hang a picture on the other end of the nail.”—Judge. One for the Stenog • ‘‘Pardon me, sir, I have an attach ment for your typewriter.” “Well, don’t bother her during working hours.”—Film Fun. like the Family Dentist “Are you sure you’re pulling the right one?” “Don’t worry, I'll get it if I have to pull ’em all!” —Film Fun.

| "He drove it off down the road, and iin an hour or so came back, drag- : Ring a crippled leg, and said, ‘Gimme one more; that one no good.’ “Os course we asked him what was the matter with the car he had just bought. “ 'No good,’ he insisted. ‘Drive fast. Poles go by. Houses go by. Trees go by like hell. Pretty soon come bridge. Turn out to let bridge go by. wham::::”

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What Editors Are Saying

Punishment (Kokomo Dispatch) Some day, when people have become diffidently enlightened, every town and city will enact ordinances making <lander and vinification punishable by Jail sentences for the protection of the whole community. Meanwhile, a return to the ducking stool of the old Puritan days for the punishment of gossips and slanderers, might not be amiss. -I- -!- -!• Notice! (Logansport Pharos-Tribune) Among the things that coroners have learned In the regular pursuit of their profession an authority gives the following: Toadstools cannot plnch-hlt for mushrooms. The middle of the crossing is no place to argue with a railroad train. Wood alcohol Isn’t as safe to drink as water. Jay walking gets you ride In a hearse. Fools and drunks never make good drivers. Two cars can’t occupy one and the same spot on a road at one and the same time. Getting Into the woods during hunting season makes a man look like a deer. Pulling a gun through a barbed-wire fence after you Is a sure way to cancel all vour debts. T -I IBoosting (Alexandria Times- Tribune) A town without an Industry worth boosting by Its own citizens isn’t much of a town. By the same token, a citizen who failes to see arythlng in his town worth boosting Isn’t much of a citizen. -I- *!* -IMaybe! (Lake County Times) Ten years from today the quality of moonshine turned out in West Hammond may produce a race of pink elephants.

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Why Not Try It on the Bear?

Love or Liver BY BERTON BRALEY (“The seat of the emotions is In the liver”—Some doctor or other.) Gee whiz, how science does advance! Today, It se?ms, by diagnosis Our fever from a lady’s glance May be incipient cirrhosis. The chills and thrills that we receive, "The doubts and qualms that make us quiver, Our doctors teach us to believe They may be love—they may be liver! When Dante, long ago, was led To sing to Beatrice his lyrics (Which are much praised but seldom read) Perhaps some medical empirics Would so have altered Dante’s mood That he’d have ceased to shake and shiver When lovely Beatrice he viewed; What was his ailment, love—or liver? Helen and Paris, Guinevere And Ijauncelot, and all great lovers May have been merely out of gear Inside—as science now discovers! Well, maybe so, but we don’t care Not one scintilla, not a stiver, Romance remains a sweet affair Whether It’s due to love—or liver! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Serviqe, Inc.) A Thought Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. —Ps. 34:19." • • • mHEY. the holy ones and weakly. Who the cross of suffering bore. Folded their pale hands so meekly. Spake with us on earth no more! —Longfellow. The opinion Is growing that the Angel Gabriel will be compelled to use a klaxon In order to get any results when the time comes.

MONDAY, OCT. 29, 1923

Indiana Sunshine

An announcement in a Gary newspaper: Members of Gacy Dune No. 1, Order of Sand Fleas will hold a meeting tomorrow night at the Commercial Club. Most Vicious Sand Flea Verne B. Young will preside. All the fleas probably came ajumpin.’ Checker players of Ft. Wayne. Huntington, Decatur, Portland, Dunkirk, Montpelier, Hartford City and Marion are warming the spots with some interesting practice these days. They are preparing for the district tourney at Bluffton on New Year’s Day. The public sale on the farm of Mrs. John Baker, in Hamilton County was opened by the auctioneer, W. A. Miller, reading from the Bible. The property offered for sale was said to have brought to double the amount expected by Mrs. Baker. Gus Plessinger, Bluffton. likes a joke now and then so when he met a junkman pushing a cart of junk down the street he offered him a quarter for the whole lot. The junk man| knew a bargain and dumped the whole cart load on Gus’ front lawm. Then -.he junk man had a good laugh as he watched Plessenger spend several hours cleaning up the rubbish.

C. DeCroes The Only i 7 rench Restaurant in Town LITTLE BUT GOOD Dinner Lunch From 11 to 2 Supper From 5 to 7 P. M. We make a specialty of pies sad cakea for the huine. Phone your orders the day before you need them 215 East Ohio Phony Circle 390.