Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1923 — Page 4

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PARK PROGRAM FOR YEAR SHE park program for Indianapolis during 1924, as submitted by the city engineer and indorsed by the park board, is one of the most comprehensive plans for civic improvements offered in years. It includes more swimming pools, new parks, open air auditorium. public clubhouse and other recreational features. Indianapolis, already a city that has acquired favorable mention for its streets, parks, municipal golf courses and public buildings, now is reaping many of the benefits of such previous planning. An attractive city attracts. The population of Indianapolis, according to some estimates, is increasing at the rate of approximately 1.000 each month. Not bad, it must be admitted. Recreational advantages then are needed not only for the growing city, but for future population. Undoubtedly many of the swimming pools, the park features and other civic improvements, outlined by the park board, are needed. To fail to make future plans in ? systematic manner is lack of foresight. Let city organizations, clubs and federations discuss the park needs. Let the city invite openly such discussion. Enthusiastic spending of money for city improvements often becomes an orgy. A sane, systematic program, not for one year but for four at the least, is most desired interests of the city and its citizens. NOW IT CAN BE SHOWN % f £ OlfE few years ago the Pennsylvania Railroad Company liJ apologized for poor service by saying the Government owed the road so much money from Federal operation, money it could not collect. Time for settlement came and the Government owed the Pennsylvania nothfhg. The Pennsylvania, on the contrary, paid the Government $90,000,000 because the Government had “overmaintained” the road during the period of Government service. Some few years ago the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, through Danipl Willard, complained bitterly that the Government had not maintained the road properly during the period of Government service. Time for settlement came and the Baltimore & Ohio paid the Government $9,000,000 because the Government had over-main-tained the road. The New York Central settlement is now approved. The New York Central will pay the Government $23,000,000 because of over-maintenance. Fortunately for the New York Central there is no record of wild attacks on the Government from that road because its president was one of the chief Government officers during the period of Government operation. Once the daily announcement of the railroad chiefs was a denunciation of the Government for failing to maintain roads in proper condition. Today the railroad apologists only repeat the statement where they are safe from the facts, because the facts prove the roadbed and equipment, a* a whole, were over-maintained instead of under-maintained. But the public, misinformed by the early railroad propaganda. gets no confession today from the railroads that the propaganda was either consciously or unconsciously false.

VTHY KELLOGG? |^j“jRESIDENT COOLIDGE has provided the public with a [l j mystery. This is it: Why in the world is he appointing the Hon. Ex-Senator Frank Kellogg to be ambassador to Great Britain? For his ability? The public hasn’t discerned any ability. From friendship? There has been no past evidence of friendship. In reward for party services? He was one of tfie close conn selors who guided the Harding band wagon—and its 7.000,000 majority—into the ditch. Asa political move? Well, consider what the effect of this appointment will be upon that section of the United States which has any real interest in the Minneapolis man. Not only did the Republicans of his own great State a few short months ago walk straight out of the party to show what they think of Kellogg, out progressive citizens from all the States of the Northwest crossed over the border to add their voices to the rebuke. Kellogg stands for just exactly what the people of his own section do not want. There is no popular politics served by honoring him. As for “inside politics, ’’ he has the slightest of influence among the leaders. v - No, the public is completely puzzled. One wag suggests that as a golfer. Kellogg is accustomed to short pants. Until the President produces a better reason, that may have to serve. BLUECOATS’ BAND AS ASSET “j t" iT’S a good band,’’ said John Philip Sousa of the IndiariI * 1 apolis Policemen’s and Firemen’s Band. No higher coni pliment could be paid a band. Civic demonstrations and parades are becoming more frequent in Indianapolis, and the bluecoats’ band is taking an active part in these affairs. Such an organization is an asset to the police and fire departments and to the city. The band instills pride in the two departments and to the official nature of such events as receptions to noted visitors. FUNNY that nobody else has ever thought of the bright remark that Henry Ford is the man needed to put the muscle in Muscle Shoals. AN INVENTIVE genius out our way has been adding just a little bit of bromo seltzer to his home-brew. He says it takes cate of the hangover on the morning after. SCIENTIST at the United States bureau of standards has just perfected a most delicate scale that will weigh with ac curacy to one-billionth of a pound. So far, no great demand for such scales has arisen among the coal dealers. USE of animals in making motion pictures is condemned by Ap World Humane Conference on the ground that no animal unless driven by some form of brutality. But there ■p to be compensations. When Tom Mix and his horse, Tony. , injured it was reported from California that “Tom and were being treated at the Presbyterian hospital.”

LABOR TOPS OPPOSITION TO COURT Decisions of U. S. Tribunal Hit Working Class Harder Than Others, This is the ninth article by I.hwell Mellett, of the Times’ Washington Bureau, on the Supremo Court’s rise to power. By LOWELL MELLETT C T IS not strange the laboring 1 class has come to !ea,d the constantly growing opposition to the ekeessive powers exercised by the United States Supreme Court. Free labor naturally opposed the court’s effort, in the Dred Scott decision, to sanctify slave labor. Workers naturally opposed the court's theory, expressed in the Legai Tender case, that . money good enough for themselves was not good enough for the bankers. ■ Men and women of small income naturally opposed the court's declaration in the income tax case that Congress oould not shift a fairer share of the tax, burden from their shoulders to the shoulders of the wealthy. But labor’s opposition probably results less from such decisions as these than from a long line of deel sions directly aimed at labor itself Pastes Liability Act In 1906 Congress passed a Federal Employers’ Liability Act. Within a year a case under this act had reached the Supreme Court and had been found —5 to 4—unconstitutional. Congress presently enacted another employers’ liability act and in 1912 the Supreme Court sustained it. It is impossible to know how many hundreds or thousands of men were killed or maimed during the intervening six years, with no requirement for the relief of their families. An act had (been passed by Congress in 1896 making it a criminal offense for an employer to blacklist a man because of membership in labor union. An employe of the Louisville & Nashville railroad was discharged because he belonged to the Order of Locomotive Firemar. The case reached the Supreme Court, which declared the act of Congress unconstitutional. This was In 190S just after the same court had upheld the conviction of the Danbury hatters on the charge of boycotting, the conviction being obtained under—of all possible stat ures—the Sherman anti-trust law! Personal Liberty Theory The alleged unconstitutionality of the anti-black listing act was . based on the theory it invaded personal liberty and the right of property as guaranteed by the fifth amendment. The opinion written for the majority of the court and the dissenting opinions of the minority, in this case, are interesting for the reason that they sho>w the judges based their views quite as much on their ideas of proper public policy as upon their Interpretation of the law and the Con stitution. They were unwilling to leave to Congress its sole right to express public policy. The next important case wherein the Supreme Court nullified the efforts of Congress to meet a demand of the jieople was the child labor case. This Is so went it still echoes in the press and In popular discussion. Few acts ever have been passed by Congress with more unanimous support of the public than was true of the child labor act of 1916.

National Disgrace The use of children in the mills had become a national disgrace, it baa attracted the attention of foreign writers: “Just think of it,’’ wrote H. C. Wells. “The richest, greatest country the world has ever seen has o\bu 1,700,000 children under 15 years of age toiling in fields, factories. mines and workshops. * • • In the worst days of cotton-milling in Eng iand the conditions were hardl.v worse." By the act V.f 1916, Congress pro hibited the .transportation in interstate commerce of any product of a factory in which children under 14 were m ployed. Suit to test the act was filet, by the father of a child employed in a North Carolina cotton mill. He sued In his own behalf and as "next friend —a legal term containing a certain amount of irony—of the child. The. litigation, of course, 'was financed by the mill owners. When the case reached the Supreme Court the father who so needed his child's wages was represented by very expensive New York attorney*. Invasion States Rights The eourt found the act was not "lawful exertion of Congressional auhorlly over interstate commerce," ■ul was an invasion by Congress of local State rights. As the court as timed to see it, Congress could pre vent the transportation of immoral women under it> control of interstate i-omtnerce but could not prevent in juries to American childhood. The same forces, which after years ,f effort, succeeded in having Congress lake over the protection of children, are now working to obtain a condtitujonal amendment giving Congress specific authority. They will succeed, but., in the meantime, the number o' children used in industry is steadily increasing.

A Thought

Woe to him that bulldeth a town '.ih hloo'i, and establisheth a. city by li'iuity.—Hah. 2:12. * * ■“73K ought never ;o sport with •Vi l dn * nd iis:ress in any of V I • amusements, or treat even ■ if. m;:nest insect with wanton cru—Kicir. Fashion Dame Fashion wields a tremendous power, and in the background one iuis'nesa gains while another loses. Twenty thousand gingham looms are idle in the New England States. King Ttlt’B influence, reaching out over the i enturies, paralyzed gingham sales. Time will bring the ginghams back. Meantime you reflect what a pitiful thing it is. that mighty King Tut’s only Influence on the worH today is i brief change of fashion So passes . - - .. . '’' :

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

&M SIMS I-/- -/- Says

[OLORADO, Nevada and Utah have opened 52,000 acres to war vets, which is turning them out to graze. , Perhaps due to leading an outdoor life, a West Virginia tree 150 years old produces apples. News from Germany. Nests of Communists t>eiug cleaned out because they were hatching plots. They think a bride in West Virginia burned a house. Must be wrong. Steak is what brides burn. When an auto riddled with bullets was found in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., they couldn't answer the riddle. Never let your wife boss you too much, in Denver, they are after a robber who got twenty-two fur coats. Bad news from Paris. Gobelin tapestries stolen. May plan to use them in Halloween parties. War threatened in Philippines. This may be why Philippine prizefighters are coming to America. Coal can’t stay up forever. It will be down in six months. A foolish man seeks the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow while a wise man enjoys the rainbow. Avery successful way of making a husband stay home at night is to stay there with him. The days are so much shorter Just after supper it is dark enough to wear a dirty collar to town. We can't understand how such beautiful complexions come ont of such sloppy vanity cases. *

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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 New York Ave., Washington. D. C., enelosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AH tetters are confidential.— Editor. Can unfenmented grape juice b% made at home? Yes, the grapes should be crushed as soon as possible ifter they are picked and pressing should follow irn mediately. To clarify-, transfer the juice into deep vessels, preferably of wood or enamel ware, and let it stand four to six hours. Then filter or strain it through cheesecloth with out disturbing the sediment formed while standing, and place It In the containers in which it Is to be pasteurized and stored. The top should be placed loosely upon the Jar to prevent entrance of dust." yeasts, and mold spores. Pasteurization Is accomplished by placing the jars in a wash boiler filled with water up to the necks of the Jars, and heating the juice to a temperature of 180 degrees Fahrenheit. Then seal and remove at once. t Are soy beans cultivated to any extent in the United States? Roy beans were grown on 66,000 farms for the first time in 1922. Is the expression, ’’Please ex ruse my glove." correct? No. This is no longer used, nor is it necessary to remove the glove If 4t causes an awkward pause. How many Federal prisons are there within continental United States and where are they? Three, at Atlanta, Georgia; Leavenworth, Kansas, and McNeil Island, Washington, D. O. V Ts It true that photographers can take a. picture of the eye of a murdered person and find therein a picture of the murderer? There Is no scientific, basis for this ■itory. A .Boost BY BERTON BRALEY it's quite the proper thing of late To knock, belabor and berate Our country for its backward state In ways artistic. To Say that dollars are our goal And all we think of is "a roll,” And that our people have a soul Commercialistic. I’m fed up on that sort of stuff. We like the shekels well enough; And so. in spite of all their bluff. Do other nations. But. for the poet’s singing line, For music, painting and design We, too, possess some very fine Appreciations. Commercial? That we can't deny. And that, undoubtedly, Is why These uncommercial people vie • To tap our coffer; And artists, singers, actors come From everywhere in Christendom Because we’ll pay the largest sum For what they offer! T'm sick of supercilious cliques. Who with the masses never mix, And yet who will presume to fix Our state artistic. Get down beneath the surface, find The soul of us, the heart and mind. You’ve got a bunch, fair, generous, kind. Idealistic! Po. though to knock is quite the style. 1 choose to wave the flag awhile! (Copyright. 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

Heard in the Smoking Room

mHE drummer with the new corncob pipe was trying it out and yarning, as is usual with ids kind. “Been down in the Kentucky moonshine-feud section,” he said. "Odd people down there, especially back in the hills where the moonshine’s fair tonight and all the time and the gun Is every ready for th< revenooer. At the store 1 fell to vfSiting with a ?ninl! boy who was

IRRIGATION FAILURE BY INDIVIDUALS ■■■ I Thousands Lost When Private i Firms Are Unable to Supply Water, W. H Porterfield, of this papers Washington bureau, has made a lifelong study of the reclamation question, which has developed again into one of the burning- political issues of the Na tion. This is the second of a senes of articles giving the background of the controversy now raging in Washing-ton By W. H. PORTERFIELD | y- ROBABLY the greatest living authority on the twin sciences 1 ——of irrigation and reclamation Is Dr. Frederick H. Newell, former j director of the United States Recla- : inbation Service, now a resident of VI ashlngton, D. C. Discussing private enterprise in irrigation, which Secretary Work assures us “redeemed tlie West thirty years before Government reclamation began,” Dr. Newell, in the Encyclopedia Americana, writes: “The most notable advances in irrigation development were made possible by the passage of the Reclamation Act of Senator Newlands of Nevada, signed b.v President Roosevelt June 17. Ifid’l. The necessity for this act arose from the condition that a great part of the land to be reclaimed belonged to the na tional government, and also from the fact that investments in privately owned irrigation works had proved unprofitable.” Costly Form Evidently the "redemption" which these private enterprises had given to the West had been a rather costly form of salvation—for the redeemers, i at least. No better proof of the unprofltablep.ess of private enterprise In irrigation • work could be given than a mere re- ] cital of the stories of some of those , enterprises through the two score ! years prior to the adoption of the l Newlands act in 1902. It is a fact “Irrigation securities” ; had fallen into a state truly abysmal by 1900—that Wall Street had repul diated practically all proposed new issues, that it was almost impossible | to enlist capital, even western capital, in Irrigation projects, and of all the various companies organized to sell water, which Work claims had “rei deemed the West,” a very large proportion had gone through re-organiza-tion at enormous loss to prevent outright bankruptcy, while many others had fallen hopelessly by the wayside. See Ranches Itestroyed The result in many cases was that ranchers who were so unfortunate as to own land under these privately owned water systems saw the water lords unable to extend or even keep up their water supply, and as one result were compelled to stand by helplessly and witness the destruction of those homes so carefully and painfully built up through the years. From the Mexican line on the South, to the Canadian border on the North, one might trace a iine'of buried hopes of those hardy pioneers who had come west, invested their “little All” in lands with the right to buy water at a certain figure—the price paid for the land Including what was known as “a water right"—only to see the price of water rise year by year as the need grew greater and the greed of the water lords grew keener, until Anally sill the profits of the farm were going Into the treasuries of the water lords. Demand Price Fixing Then came the demand to have the price of water fixed by law. Boards of supervisors were elected by water users and prices for the priceless commodity fixed on a basis to yield not in excess of 7 per cent on the investment.. This was a distinct step forward in some cases. In others a rate yielding 7 per cent was absurdly high owing to the high cost of the system. Such was the case of the Cuyarnaca water system In southern California, a system costing $2.206,000 In 1889. ard the completion of which enabled the original projectors to sell large quantities of land with "water rights” which subsequently became worthless when the utter inadequacy of the System was tested in a series of dry years Land owners went broke, the system went broke and was sold for an Infinitesimal fraction of its original cost. Met Same Fate Such v i the fate of the larger Sweetwf or system in the same re gfon, w’ ere land was-sold at $350 the acre vth perpetual “water right." The system was compelled to undergo frequent. reorganization to avoid bank mptcy to the continuous loss df prop erty owners dependent, on the reser voir sot their very lives. So it was all over the West until the term “irrigation security” became a by-word and jest and a "perpetual water right”. In a privately owned water company became a thing to j swear a* Instead of swear by. A few of these private enterprises proved “good things” for the holders. These were mostly those concerns which had succeeded in getting mo ■ nopolies of city water supplies where, ! by the aid of complacent city gov- j ernments, they could charge prices I so high for water as to insure a profit | on top of extravagance and incompe- ! lent management. Such, .indeed, was the plight of most! western cities until comparatively re- j cent times. Los Angeles emancipated | herself forever in 1910 11 by com pie-j lion of the magnificent Owens River j aqueduct at a cost of upward of I $40,000,000. San Francisco, is just now emerg ; ing from half a century of serfdom to the Spring Valley -water monopoly by the construction of the monumental Heteh-Hetchy system, the greatest municipal project of the kind ever undertaken, while some few western cities are still paying tribute to private watei monopolies. Perhaps Secretary Work did not .have these city water monopolies in mind when he spoke of private enterprises having “redeemed the .West.”

and the outside world. During the talk I happened to tell him that I had had a brother, but the latter died. "Git shot?’ the boy asked. ‘ ‘No, he v/asn’t shot,’ I replied. “ ’Drink hissejf to death?' the boy ventured inquiringly. “ ‘Sure not,' I answered positively. “ ‘There! T knowed yuh was a liar,' said the boy, in a tone of tmimph. ‘There's on’y them two ways of iaJ ’

Indiana Sunshine

North Manchester claims the credit for starting community Halloween celebrations in Indiana. It was held eighteen years ago and has since been adopted by many other cities and towns. As usual a community celebration is to be held there this year. Rather than be locked up Robert Burns, 22. Ft. Wayne, washed windows for three hours, iseveral young premature Halloween celebrators told police Burns supplied soap they used on neighborhood windows. Then officers informed Burns he could go to jail or get busy. So he had the pleas l ure of cleaning the windows with his own soap.

After Every Meal, I V . - 'i 1 : All the eoodness, the flavor, the quality that goes into WRIGLEY’S 1 at the factory IS KEPT IN IT FOR YOU. The sealed package does that—You break ll fiHB WRIGLEY’S is pure chicle 'BL M and other ingredients of the WKjlPfi iif highest quality obtainable. j -Y It is made under modern ißylli J> sanitary conditions. TH \sjS I WRIGLEY’S aids appetite', keeps m | teeth white and helps digestion. The. -Ffavor Lasts

He Certainly Is a Liberal Cuss

Family Fun

Fixed for Marriage “It wouldn’t be much trouble for us to marry. My father is a minister,, you know." "Well, let’s have a try at it, anyway. My dad’s a lawyer.”—Mass. Tech. Voo Doo. Dad Too Busy “Paw, what’s the law of gravitation?” I dunno. I hain’t got time to keep up with all the fool laws and statoos the durn Legislatur’ passes.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. Daughter’s Latest Gown "Isn’t that rather thin for an apron?” "That’s not an apron: that's my new evening gown.”—Judge.

TUESDAY, OCT. 30,1923

What Editors Are Saying

Incurable (Michigan <’:t\ Evening Dispatch) In spite of all that medical science ha a an. . *io. the man with a sore head seem? to be incurable. Benefit (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Ft. Wayne i? one of the best organized cities in the country, by w'cich we mean that there arc more clubs and organizations here than perhaps in any othej- city of similar size. There’s certainly nothing thev could do that would be of greater benefit (than to get back of the city planning movement.